Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-08-30


in the Territory.
Many Cinnamon have left Spokane
Falls since the fire.
The Hoquiam Hotel company has
filed articles OF incorporation.
The grain yield in Walla Walla
county is better than was expected.
Whatcom is to have daily mail be-
tween the Sound cities and that town.
The Walla Walla City Council has
purchased team Of horses for their
fire engines.
The business men of the town of
Slaughter will soon erect 5000
opera house.
Whitman county crops are damaged
to the extent Of nearly $l,OOO,0OO by
the late rains.
The business of the postoffice at FL
lensburg has increased thirty per cent.
since the fire.
A new fish-canning establishment is
to be erected at Gloucester, adjoining
Port Townsend.
Edward Bolin, OF Seattle, has been
declared insane and taken to the asy-
lum at Steilacoom.
A farmer OF Chehalis claims to have
harvested field of barley averaging
l0I bushels to the acre.
Assessed valuation of property in
Jefferson county has increased to
$9O0,O 600 in the past year.
Electric street lights were burning
in Seattle on the evening of tbs 24th,
for the first time since the fire.
There will be 16I delegates to the
Democratic Territorial convention at
Eliensburg, on September 9th.
The assessed value of property in
Klickitat county for 1889 is ST 800, $50,
an increase over last year of $179,3S2.
Unusually fine specimens of lime
stone have been found in the Tieton
hason about thirty miles from North
Yakima.
Four gambling places were raided in
Seattle one light last week, and fines
to the amount of $425 imposed on the
prisoners.
Captain Ben Russell, of Port Town
send, recently discharged from the In
sane Asylum, has been returned to
that institution.
The forest fires are driving wild
game from the Cascade mountains into
the valleys. Bears, mountain lions,
etc, are also fired out.
Tacoma is making efforts to secure
the location Of a factory for the manu-.
facture of lathe, which it is claimed
will do the work of 5000 men.
The scarcity of flour on account oi
the dry season east of the mountains
is beginning to be felt in the local mar.
ket, and stocks are very close.
The steamer Walla Walla, Just ar
rived in Puget Sound, brought up g.
600 tons of freight from San Fran
cisco, the largest cargo on record.
The Whatcom postotfice employs
three clerks constantly and receives
and sends out from ten to twenty
sacks of mail on every mail boat.
The residence of Mr.. Mary Giddings
on the line of the Olympia & Chehalis
railroad, was burned to the ground
Wednesday, and all its contents de-
stroyed.
The latest reported venture in jour-
nalism, is the starting of first-class
Democratic journal at Seattle-the
plant Of the Morning Journal to be
used in the new enterprise.
Colonel Clenden, the commander of
the corps at Fort Walla Walla, has
recommended the abandoning of the
post because of the trouble connected
with securing water for the troops.
A recent visitor at Lake Clelan says
that five nsen including himself fished
for one day in those waters. and caught
eighty pounds of speckled trout. The
largest was twenty-five inches long,
and the smallest weighed a pound and
a half.
John B. Carson, ex-Inspector of tim
Der lands, and who is now located at
Seattle, has expressed it as his opinion
that the difficulties of the settlers with
regard to the titles to their lands, will
shortly be adjusted in a manner salts
factory to all.
1t is the intention of the Port Blake
ly mill company, which is building the
road to Montesano, to construct a
steamer about the size of
the I. j. Potter, to run between Seat
tie and Kamilchie, taking in Tacoma,
SteilacOOm, ETC., en- route.
The prospects OF a rate war between
the Northern Pacific railroad and Ore
gon Railway & Navigation company
has tendency to make grain men
hold off about making purchases.
Threshing is about finished, and within
the next week it is expected the crop
will begin to move.
Hon. Alf. ID. Bowen, well known in
this section as the former editor of the
Pacific Journal, and also the Vidette, is
showing the good work of which he is
capable on the astoria Pioneer, of
which he is now one of the proprietors.
The paper has much improved since
his connection with it.
Centralia News: An experienced
miner from the Wellington mine, Van
couver, has contract to get out 300
tons of coal from the Bijou mine, and
will probably have much larger con-
tract when this one is completed. A
fine vein is being opened and the ap-
proaches are being put in shape.
George Day, a gentleman OF extern
sive experience in the coal and oil
fields of the East, recently discovered
within few miles of Aberdeen. what
he considers indisputable evidence of
coal gas. which always indicates the
presence of large bodies of coal. So
marked is the presence OF this gas,
that when match is touched to it, it
burns freely.
Railroad Record: There is no rea-
son for alarm among the residents of
the North Pacific country at the pros
poets of an early destruction of our
timber supply. Puget Sound has L.
500 miles of shore land, and all along
this line, miles and miles further than
the eye can reach, is one vast and al
most unbroken forest of enormous
trees. The forests are so vast that, al
though the sawmills have been rip
ping 5OO,OOO,OO0 feet OF lumber out of
them every year for the past ten years,
the openings SO made are mere garden
patches. 1t has been estimated that
at the present rate OF consumption
there ia cnOuyh tn last q. fhousapd