Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-04-18

tanam, Yakima county, with A. ].
Chambers for Postmaster, and one at
Wallace, Snohomish county, to be in
charge of John +. Stretch, as Post
master.
The assessment roll of Colfax foots
up $693, 1850, an increase over 1889
of $53, ,G62G0. The assessment is made
at the ratio of not more than one
third the value of the property, which
would place the real value repre-
sented in COlfax property, personal
and real estate, at over $2,OOO,000.
The tax levy is 10 mills on the dollar.
The sloop ALASKA, seized from An
drew A. Holt, the smuggler, will be
used by the Government as a cruiser
out from Port Townsend and around
the San Juan Islands on the lookout
for both opium and Chinese. Inspec-
tor Mathson will command her and
will have 4 crew of three seamen to
manage her. She will go into service
Immediately.
The Sheltons, and several of the
holders OF acre property adjoining
Shelton, are preparing to plat and
place it on sale. Most of the original
townsite of Shelton has been sold, and
now building must be carried on on
the high ground on both sides of the
town. A Seattle firm, having recently
purchased 900 acres adjoining, will
plat, and rustic to dispose of it.
The Walla Walla Statesman re-
marks: From reliable sources it is
learned that four or five train-loads of
railroad iron, consigned to G. w.
Hunt, are side-tracked at Ainsworth,
Pasco and other points between Spo-
kane Falls and Wallula. If there is
anything in appearances, it seems GER
tain that work will soon be COM
menced in earnest on the Portland
Wallula road.
A corporation is on foot at Port
Townsend, under the title of the Port
Townsend Bay Oyster Company, the
purpose of which il to develop in the
bay of Por. Townsend the propagation
of oysters. Individual members of the
company have filed oyster claims on
about ITO acres of the bay for this
purpose, as prescribed by the State
laws, and they are going ahead with
the planting and development of these
claims.
The Steilacoom Asylum was opened
August 10, 1871, with twenty-one pa
tients, who were removed from Monti-
cello, where they had been kept for
some time. Since then nearly 1,2OO
patients have been admitted. There
are now over 800 patients in the insti-
tuition. The hospital owns $50 acres,
most of which was formerly used as a
military reservation, but after its aban-
donment by the Government was Sc
cured by the Territory.
The annual meeting of the Puget
Sound Presbytery was held at Port
Townsend on the 10th. Rev. ID. NJ,
Davenport of Sumner was elected
moderator, Rev. B. +. Parsons clerk
and Rev. James A. Laurie reporting
clerk. Delegates to the General AS.
sembly, which meets at Saratoga, N
Y, in May, arc Rev. George F. Whit
worth and Mr.. A. w. Bash, with Rev
James A. Laurie and Mr.. L. w. Ballard
as alternates.
The Common Council Of Seattle
have awarded the contract for build
ing the fire-boat for the city of Seattle
to the Seattle Drydock and Shipbuild
ing Company for $3S,475. The con
tract for fire pump for the boat wa.
awarded to a Cincinnati firm for $11,
600, making the total cost of the boa,
$49, ATS. The boat will be ready fol
service in about four months. 1t will
be similar to the new boat now build
ing for New York City.
DIR. N. G. Blalock states that the
new steam plow which he has beer
testing on his 5000 acre farm neal
Blalocks has worked SO far to charm
and that he is fully convinced that il
will reduce the cost of plowing At least
one-half. The apparatus complete
cost him $1,000. and as he has been
paying two dollars an acre for piowing
it will be seen that if the cost is re.
duced one-half the total cost will he
saved i'll one season on that farm.
Mart Manson and Sig johnson, two
Swedes, while unloading a barge OF
lumber ON the banks of the Duwamisl
river, eight miles from Seattle, Sun
day afternoon, were drowned, and their
bodies have not yet been recovered.
Manson sell into the water accidentlv,
and Johnson heroically plunged in to
save him. The swift current carried
both away from the barge, and they
sank i'll full sight of dozen workmen.
Neither of the drowned men had been
in this country very long, and were
unmarried.
1t must be understood that Wash
ington was not ruined by the theft of
tide lands, says the Spokane Falls Re
riew. The resources of this State are
inexhaustible and more varied than
those of any other State in the Union.
1t will continue to grow and prosper
as before, and is destined soon to take
its place as the greatest of all the
States in the sisterhood. Neverthe-
less, it would have acquired that posi-
ton much earlier had not the Legisla-
ture given away $50,OOO,OOO worth of
lands at one stroke.
The Pacific Mill Company, of Taco.