Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-05-30

All uHuSuully ldTSc aCEcdSC VI Potd-
toes will be planted in Washington
this year, and as the season promises
to be favorable, and no country can
beat this for potatoes, you may expect
surprising results next fall.
Recently a sturgeon was caught in
the Columbia river at kalama by Levi
Summers which weighed $50 pounds
and was eleven feet long. ltattracted
much attention, says the Advocate.
Both the Northern Pacific and the
Hunt railroad have large forces of
men at work near Centralia, and the
object seems to be to see which will
reach the Gray's Harbor country first
The Leader, at Port Townsend, has
passed from the control of w. L. Jones,
into the hands of company who will
make Republican paper of it. The
price paid is said to have been $751;
600.
The Seattle Press says that the firm
of Sutton & Co.. 80 South street, New
York, propose to put on a regular
freight line to Puget Sound, if the
merchants give them proper encour-
agement.
| The Walla Walla creamery has been
started up again after having been idle
for long time. The proprietors ex-
pect- to make 600 pounds of gilt-edged
butter day before the end of the sea-
| son.
Alonzo Leland, aged IL, OF Seattle.
was catching rides on wagons. In
jumping from one he fell under the
wheels, which passed over his back. 1t
is not thought the injury will prove
permanent.
1t is said that Geo. 7. Allen, of
Cathlamet, Wahkiakum county, is
! the oldest living white man in this
State. He came to Vancouver in
1929, when Washington was part of
Oregon.
The Odd Fellows of Seattle will erect
q fve.story brick building, covering
ground surface of 40xl20 feet, this
summer. The lower iloor will be used
for business houses and the four others
for various branches of the order.
Hundreds and even thousands of
sawlogs and drift logs have been seen
going down the Columbia for the past
two weeks. It is a pity that river
people are not prepared to catch this
bountiful harvest of valuable timber.
A new discovery of an iron mine
has been made on the Umprannum
creek, Kittitas county, about ten or
twelve miles from Ellensburg. 1t is
said to be an excellent quality of ore,
and yields GO per cent. of pure metal.
James Rafferty,, a cripple bootblack
80 years of age, has been found guilty
of assault to commit rape upon an
eight-year old daughter of Robert
Woodmarcy, who lives near Stella
COON, by the Superior Court, now in
session at Tacoma.
Mrs. Toombs was burned nearly to
death at Whatcom, while using coal
oil to kindle fire Monday. Her
daughter, Kittie, was slightly burned
in putting out the fire. The house
was saved by men working near. Mrs.
Toombs is probably fatally burned.
Governor Ferry has appointed as
Commissioners from the State to the
Worlds Fair at Chicago, the Column
bian Exposition: Clarence B. Bagley,
Of Seattle; VIM. Bingham, of Cheney;
Henry Drum, Senator. from Pierce,
and Charles B. Hopkins, of Whitman.
The price OF brick has fallen to 50
per thousand at Seattle, whereas FORM
erly it was $l4. The decline is owing,
the Post-Inteiiigencer says, to an enor-
nous increase of production, there be-
ing now over fifty brickyards in that
city.
The following changes have been
made in Postmasters in Washington:
G. s. McWilliams, at Oaksdale, Whit
man county, vice Mrs. B. J. Walsh, re-
signed; J. E. Vangordon. at Pasco,
Franklin county, vice Mrs. NJ. H.
Johnson, resigned.
All the mills of Aberdeen, five in
number, and large ones, are now run
ming on full time. Many schooners
are loading with lumber every day for
Southern cities. The population of
Aberdeen is LAO, and the town is now
incorporated as city of the third
class.
The first session of the newly organ
lied district Y. NJ. C. A. of western
Washington has just been held at Port
Townsend. The new district COM
prises the cities of Centralia, Seattle,
Tacoma, Olympia, Port Townsend,
Fairhaven, Whatcem and Port An
geles.
A man named Morrison committed
suicide at Port Townsend, Tuesday, by
swallowing a decoction he had made
from tobacco. He was doubtless in
sane. He told some one that he had
betrayed just one word of Masonic
secret, and had ever since lived in
dread of vengeance.
Ex-Governor Moody, of Oregon, has
taken from the Columbia his new
steamer Wasco, a propeller, built for
the Upper Columbia trade, for use on
the Puget Sound route. 1t is not yet
settled, but it will probably ply between
Port Townsend and Seattle. The
steamer cost $4,000, and is licensed
to carry $50 passengers.
Ed. NJ. KelE,i of Seattle. died of
paralysis, Monday night, at his moth
er's residence in that city. He had
been subject to this affection for sever.