Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-10-11
Port Townsend will obtain her NC

Ter supply from Mount Constance,
some twenty miles away"
Rains have caused rise in the
Skaglt river, upon which 100000
feet OF logs have been run down to
Puget Sound.
The Ellensburgh Localizer SAYS that
1t learns that over thousand bushels
OF peaches and large quantitie. of
plums are going to waste in the We
natchie valley this season, which is
said to be one OF the finest fruit re-
glons in Washington.
The new State OF Washington con-
tains $685. square miles; 1852 miles
OF navigable rivers; 100000 acres of
magnificent timber which will last at
the present rate at which it is being
cut, goo years; 100000 acres of
prairie and plain; 100000 acres of
rich alluvial bottom land.
Monday afternoon Joseph Snow,
SenatOr-elect for the counties OF Doug
las and Yakima, while travelling by
stage from Ellensburgh to the Column
bia river landing. became alarmed at
the conduct of the horses, and in at
tempting to jump out fell and badly
fractured the bone of his leg.
Mr.. J. NJ. Ogle, of Puyallup entered
the contest for the american 1gricul
turist $500 prize for the greatest yield
of potatoes from a single acre of
ground. The ground he chose was
near Slaughter, King county. The
tubers were dug Tuesday night, and
weighed q ,6l94 pounds, or AGO bushels
1oa pounds, equal to over II tons.
The crop OF cranberries from the
cranberry marsh near Long Beach,
owned by the California Company,
will probably amount to 5000 bushels
this season. This company has over
eighty acres of vines which has cost
over $4,000. The company are high
ly pleased with the Washington
product, both as to superior quality
and quantity
William Church, who has his farm a
short distance southeast of Yakima,
has gathered for the seventeenth con-
crop of whick the following is sam
pie. From sixty acres of oats he had
400 bushels weighing forty pounds
to the bushel. The cash income from
this crop at forty cents per bushel was
81 $50, or over $31 per acre. Such
farming pays and always bring sure
results in Washington.
1t may not be generally known,
says joaquin Miller, that the Column
bia river and the Sacramento river
were once one and the same stream.
But such is the fact. The link of con-
nection is easily traced by the chain of
lakes reaching from the head waters of
the Sacramento to point where the
Columbia burst through the Cascade
mountains and made its way to the
Pacific ocean near where Astoria now
stands, instead of flowing on down by
Mt. Shasta and out of the Golden
Gate.-Erery Sunday.
Thomas Ewing, w. E. Barley, Thorn
as Burke, John Leary, Amos Brown
and Bailey Gatzert are projectors of
new opera house scheme at Seattle.
The site has been purchased, at the
corner of Second and University
streets, convenient to the business and
residence portion of the city. Plans
are maturing, and it is intended to
make the structure the finest on the
Northwest Coast, without any eXcep-
ton. Competitive plans will be adver-
tised for, and when selection is made
work will begin and be pushed through
this winter.
A hot skirmish occurred, near Mount
Vernon, Skagit county, Sunday night,
that resulted in the death of one In
dian and the serious wounding of
another. The occurrence was on the
farm of Harry Kimble, who, with
George Lester, was one of the parties
to the ARRAY. About P. NJ. an Indian
met young son of Kimble, who was
takir- to market half dozen pleas
ant, The Indian attacked the boy
and iaok the pheasants away from
him. The cries of the boy where heard
by his father, who came to the rescue
and gave the Indian a sound thrash
ing. The Indian then left, but re-
turned about midnight with party of
Indians. They Immediately opened
fire on Kimble's house. Kimble, with
his friend Lester, so we'll defended his
place that one Indian was killed and
another wounded. The other Indians
are now under arrest.
Hip! Hip! Hurrah! We are thank
full that the campaign fight on paper
is now at an end. If anyone thinks it
is funny business to edit a country
paper during an election campaign,
let him come forward at the next one
and he can have the honor and the
spOils. The editor is "cussed" if he
advocates Republicanism; he is
cussed" if he advocates Democracy !;
he is !" cussed" if he does neither. AS
matter of fact we concluded to be
"cussed" all round and have no doubt
succeeded admirably. We acknowl-
edged our Republican principles ut the
start, but opened the columns to all.
We published the Democratic ticket
and all the Democratic literature we
were requested to, believing our DEM
|ocrstic friends as much entitled to
their opinions as the Republicans, for
AL Of which we have been told we arc
to lose lots of subscribers. We have
endeayored to cut out of our CORE
spondence personal abuse. which we
are sorry to say was very prevalent,
and for doing which we have the ever
lasting enmity of the writer's, and who
are even at this time circulating a
paper for the purpose of starting op-
position, and to injure us. And now
If any one feels aggrieved at our col
umns to the extent of stopping their
subscription, or any inclination to
abuse US for our course, it is their