Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-01-31
per month. The occasion for this ac-
ton is scarcity of lumber tonnage.

per month. The occasion for this ac-
ton is scarcity of lumber tonnage.
The Tacoma Ledger is authority for
the statement that company of Eng
iish capitalists are seeking to pur-
chase all the sawmills on Puget Sound.
The syndicate is credited with having
a capital of s5O,OOO,OOo, which they
are anxious to invest.
Mrs. Edward Foster is seriously i'll
at Walla Walla, her husband refusing
to allow her to take medicine pre-
scribed. He believes in faith cure
Proceedings will be instituted then
to test his sanity. People are indig-
nant at his conduct.
Saturday night burglars entered the
barber-shop of Joseph Anton, at Ia
coma, and robbed the shop of q mum.
Der of razors and other BARRIERS sup
plies The men effected an entrance
through a back window by breaking
the glass. There is no clue to the
burglars.
The population OF Castle Rock in
creased from $50 to 700 during 1889,
and besides the erection of a new
shingle mill and numerous dwellings
they now have, public hall, twelve
stores, two saw and four shingle mills,
three hotels and several other business
establishments.
Congressman Wilson, of Washing
ton, is working to secure a through
postal route, with continuous service
along the Northern Pacific road from
st. Paul to Tacoma, thereby creating
the longest postal route in the world,
and Fastening the delivery of mails in
the cities of Washington.
Henry Clarke, of Spokane Falls,
whose claim for surveying the Yakima
Indian Reservation has been pigeon
holed for many years in the Interior
Department, has received information
that through the efforts of Congressman
Wilson, a draft of over 81 500 has
been sent to Mr.. Clarke in settlement.
Steele barges, such as are in use on
the great lakes, will probably be in
troduced into the waters of Puget
Sound in the near future. A party of
steamboat and bargemeu arrived
at Tacoma a few days ago, and
will investigate the advisability of
placing line of these barges upon the
Sound.
1t is rumored that parties residing
on Shoalwater bay and interested in
property there, have offered to pay
one-half the expenses of running a
preliminary survey from Centralia
over eas> proposed route to that=szlaoa.
This route will run twenty miles along
Lincoln creek, and is a most practical
scheme.
Only once before since the Caucas.
ians commenced to settle in Eastern
Washington can they remember
when the snow was drifted SO high,
and that is said To have been ten
years ago. On the prairie south of
Rockford the drifts are said to be
from six to ten feet deep and blown
hard enough to bury a horse.
William Holtzstein, drunken car
penter, shot and killed James B. Ogles-
by, colored waiter, at Colville, on the
22d inst. Oglesby tiled to cheat Holtz-
stein out OF 80 cents in making change.
The latter left the restaurant and re-
turned in few minutes with a rifle,
which he lost no time in using. The
murderer was arrested.
Some time ago a proposition was
broached to form new county out Of
Pierce and King, with Buckley as the
capital seat. There are already
some mammoth sawmills in operation
in the district, and it has some of the
finest regions of timber in all Wash
ingtOn Immense coal mines are he
ing worked and the ground is rich in
coal yet undeveloped.
Half dozen woman made a beg
ging tour through the bay cities OF
Whatcom county last week. They
were all middle-aged and buxom look.
ing, and each carried a wheezy baby
and little book containing their har.
rowing tale of woe printed in four
languages. The books were well
thumbed as though they had often
told their story. Beggary is becoming
a prosperous enterprise on Puget
Sound.
DR.. J. P. Guthrie, a young ph ysic.
ian who received considerable motor
iety recently through a pool game
with Captain Mallaby at the Rainier
hotel, Seattle. has disappeared from
that city. His disappearance is due
to the fact Of several swindles which
he has prepetrated on friends who
trusted implicitly to his honor. He
operated by having his friends indorst
drafts on his father, an EN- inent at
torney, and also by procuring none,
with bogus checks ON several promi
nent banks of that city. The money
procured in this manner amounts tc
81 600, as far as known.
Oregonian: The last private Secre
tary to Senator Squire and Representa-
tive Wilson, has returned to Spokane
Falls from the capital. He stated tina,
absolute harmony prevailed in the del
egation. This verdant young mar
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