Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-06-07
TERRITORIAL HAPPENINGS.

l. he "A. ". u. w. Orucr Is increasing
at Port Townsend.
The old lock swindle was played in
Seattle last Tuesday
The first city election was held in
Tacoma June Sth, 1874.
1t is reported that Col. Steele is
about to establish glue factory at Ia
| coma.
The Walla Walla millers have set
the wholesale price of flour at $3.50 a
barrel.
There are now 161 convicts in the
penitentiary, the largest number yet
confined.
The government proposes to stock
| the streams of Walla Walla valley with
| Eastern trout.
Plans are being prepared for hotel
to contain $50 rooms to be built at
Port Townsend.
-Four Indians were fined 81 each and
costs at Port Townsend, last Friday, for
being drunk and disorderly.
The Seattle municipal delinquent
tax list fills eight closely printed
columns of the Intelligencer.
Last Sunday, man was drowned in
Lake Whatcom, and a rancher was
killed near Whatcom by falling tree.
One night last week fire burned up
a small Indian house at Hoquiam and
with it perished an old broken-down
Indian.
Work on the Port Townsend South
ern railroad has begun in earnest, over
lOO men being engaged in grading the
roadbed.
The Spokane Savings Bank opened
for business Monday, with capital of
100000. The deposits of the day
footed up $l9,6OS.
Mr.. Mckee is just appointed Deputy
Collector of Customs at Port Town.
send. Mr.. Mckee is brother OF the
Presidents son-in-law.
Beginning June 4th and lasting
three days, there will be a grand G. A.
r. camp fire at Waitsburg. An inter-
esting programme has been arranged.
Saturday, on Eureka fiat, near Wal
Ia Walla, Samuel Smith was thrown
from gang plow, which passed over
him, resulting in broken cheek bone
and bad bruises on the head and body.
Shipments of strawberries from Wal
Ia Walla in three days the past week
have been over fifteen tons. When
peaches are ripe it is estimated that
the daily shipments will amount to fif-
ty tons.
An agreement was signed Tuesday
by which six hardware establishments
of Seattle agree to close their doors at
6 p. M, each day, except Saturdays,
from June 1st, and continuing in-
definitely.
A number of saloonkeepers at Walla
Walla met in body and passed reso-
lutions condemning the practice OF
other prominent saloon men in dis
pensing imported beer, advocating the
fosteringOf home industry.
The new county road built near
Port Townsend from KEYNES to Wood
mans on Port Discovery Bay, is open
for travel, and is good road excepting
at two or three points where more
money should be expended.
Gray's Harbor was discovered in
1852. In 1857 party of eight. of
whom John r. James, now at Centra-
liza, and one or two others are the only
ones alive, visited it, going up the Che
halls river in a large tiat-bottomed
boat.
Spring races will be held at Walla
Walla the Goth, 2lst and 22d of June.
One and one-fifth fares will be made
on all railroads. Horses going to the
Spokane or Montana races will be al
lowed to switch off at Wallula at one
fare for the round trip. Liberal purses
are offered.
Officer Bixler saved little Willie
Smith from drowning, on Saturday
evening, at Tacoma. The boy is about
8 years old. He fell from log, on
which he had been playing, into a
pond of water, at the foot of Fifteenth
street. Officer Bixler plunged in and
rescued him.
At Pullman, Whitman county, an
artesian we'll OF six-inch bore was start.
ed couple of weeks ago with steam
drill. At depth of Is feet vein Of
water was struck, which flows from the
well at the rate OF 80 gallons II minute
The contractor says the water can be
raised at least thirty feet by piping the
well.
Colonel Edward Jay Allen, an old
time resident of Olympia now OF Pitts
burg, is about to revisit the scene o
his series OF letters entitled "The Ore
gon Trail" written from Puget SOun(
away back in the early fifties. Th'
fresh, new life, with the vast possibili
ties Of the then undeveloped countr,
Qnow having such a wonderful boom
which these letters described, will b
remembered pleasantly by many ol(
Icitizens.