Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-03-22
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.

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Smallpox is said to be raging among
the Indians on the Snohomish reser
vat.on.
Elk and deer are reported to be
plentiful in the neighborhood of Port
Angeles.
Thirty five bales Of hops have bee
shipped from Puyallup 20 New York
this week.
Sumner shipfed 5,437 bales of hops
during the past season, and but little
remains unsCld.
The Bapti>ts will erect and operate
a school at Centralia, to be kcoyn as
the Grace Seminary.
The Latah Times, in Spokane coun-
ty, is the latest addition to Washing
tons journalistic field.
The Territorial Encampmen OF the
&. A. r., and the W. X. c., will be
held at Spokane Falls, beginning
April 9th.
Three libel suits, brought by the
Territory, against II. f. Radebaugh,
OF the Ledger, were dismi.s ed ~ the
grand jury.
Work on the N. p. elevator at Walla
Walla, is being pushed. The building
will have capacity of 10000 bush
els of wheat.
Owing to the increase in business
the four banks, in Spokane Falls, have
added over half n million dollars 10
Their capital stock.
Day;on's council has passed an o.
dinanca cius ng minors to be at
home at 8 o'clock, and keep away
from saloons at all hours.
A brewery wagon collidel with a
train at Seattle yesterday, and the
result was disastrous to the wagon and
its concentrated load of meanne.s.
The Ro>lyn mines are again turning
out coal, after the enforce idleness
OF the winter, which has lest to Kitti-
tas county not less than $4,000.
Tha cor1ner's jury in the McElhany
case, i'll Port Town send, have returned
a verdict, exonorating all parties who
were charged with causing the death
OF their two children.
John Kennev, deck hand on the
Premier, while un.o lding heavy
piece OF machinery at Tacoma this
week met with s-rious accident.
Three men were handling the piece
when it fell, catching Kenney under
meath it and c,ushed his leg almost to
pulp.
The City of Destiny is enjoying a
perfect cloudburst Of babies. The birth
OF twenty baby boys and dainty girls
is reported from every quarter of the
city. This is our spring bsby boom.
Give us the babies and Olympia can
have the capita! and Oyster beds
Tacoma NeUs.
The agent of the Swinowish ag. ncy
says that deaths have been very nu-
merous on the reserva ion, this win.
ter, especially among the young. Last
summer there we're POI Siwashes be.
longing on the reservation. During
the past three months there have been
twelve or fifteen deaths.
Considerable excitement exists in
Eastern Washington over reports from
the Methow valley about specimens
OF gold quartz, assaying 81 800 per ton
Methow is new district abont thirty.
Six miles from Conconully, in which
several valuable finds have been made
recently, but none so rich as this last
On Tuesday last, the infant diueh.
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Harmon
ct Dayton, was playing about stove
when she fell toward it. She threw
her hands before her and the right
hand Was terribly buried. Skin and
flesh tore from the hand and remained.
fast to the stove when the father
ucaght up the poor child.
Capt. AMI Mrs. H. I. Beccher, have
returned to the Sound country from
California. Ar. Bcechcr states iha,
both himself ard Mrs. Bee cher, are
glad to get back. He expresses the
opinion that the climate of Puget
Sound is more saiubrious than that OF
California, and he is also thoroughly
convinced that it is more agr, cable.
Tho auction sale OF the Northern
Pacific Railroad Its, at Ellenburg. OF,
the second, attracted large numb
OF strangers. Bidding was lively and
animated, The company realizing fully
fifty per cent. more for the lots Than
the appri,e ell value two months ago,
There were l04 lots sold at figures
ranging from $500 to $500 per lot,
making total Of $4,000.
The first printing Office on the Pa
ciiic Coast was built by the two mis-
sionaries, Whitman and Spaulding,
who settled on Lapwai creek branch
OF the Clearwater, and twelve miles
above Lewiston, Idaho. The house
still sanding was originally two
story building, though ouly the grouud
floor remains, and WAS made OF logs
and shakes. 1t is now used by the
Indians for a stable. In this building
the first printing office west of the
mountains on the Pacific Coast was
established The material was origin
ally sent by the american board of
foreign missions in Boston, in 1904, to
The Sandwich Islands, and in 1915
was presented by the First Native
Church of Hawaii to the Lapwai mis-
sion. E. o. Hall CINE along with it
to set the type. The press is no v in
the State library at Salem, Ogn.
Cowlitz county has 1000 popu-
lation.
Chehalis h is ia children ate ding
school.
Tie Bulletin viii soon b, issued at
X ii ma.
A large snowy owl was XII led near
Blaine recently.
Sehome citizens are bitterly CON-
planning tf lack of mail facilities.
Even Walll Walla is complaining
OF lack of hotel accommodation.
Deale-s in agricultural implements
report unprecedented sales this spring.
Work on the Ship H,rbor railload
on Fidalgo Island will begin in very
short VIII lie.
The remains OF E. V. Kimball, the
Orting suicide, were inferred yester-
day in Tacoma.
Lincoln county farmer, are suffer
ing greatly from the ravages of mill
ions Of squirrels.
The Walll Walla creamery is now
in fir. t class order ard its product is
eagerly sought after.
Reriah Rromp T. 90 Gt.:.. 49,