Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-04-11

A pail and tub factory is to be estab-
iShed at Des MOines


ished at Des Moines.
An English syndicate has been try
ing to purchase the mills of the Gray's
Harbor company.
The First National Bank of Seatco
has filed articles of incorporation, with
a capital of $4,000.
A fund of $575 per month has been
raised at Walla Walla for the purpose
OF advertising the city.
The Tacoma street railway company
has decided not to build the lines for
which it has franchise.
The Centralia merchants are con-
sidering the proposition of spending
vi 800 to advertise their city.
Over 81 100000 worth Of logs were
swept down the Columbia river and
out to sea during late flood.
Sixty tons of ice were put up by the
Walla Walla Creamery Company, for
their own use, the past winter.
Kittitas county is to have fine ir-
rigating ditch sixty miles in length.
1t will be built by private enterprise.
The Walla Walla county fruit grow
ers have organized produce shipping
company with Z capital stock of $780,
600
1t is reported that coyotes are dig
ging up the bodies OF soldiers buried
in the military cemetery near Fort
Colville.
The house for the reception of i'm
migrants at North Yakima is to be
96x24 feet, and will contain rooms for
eight families.
A late industry developed at Ia
coma is pressed beef factory. 1t is
located on the Puyallup few miles
from the city.
A steam tug christened the Wander
er, was launched at Port Blakeley,
Saturday afternoon, from the Hall
Brothers ship-yard.
A reporter of the Puyallup Citizen
says that some of the Summer farmers
are ploughing up their hop fields and
putting in strawberries.
]. w. Walker, drayman, fell dead
while handling freight, at Spokane
Falls. last Friday. He was 80 years
of age, and leaves a family.
Mrs. Lewis White, of Lewis county,
has been adjudged insane and sent to
the Asylum at Fort Steilacoom. Her
mania is Of the violent order.
By the present tax assessment,
valuation Of all property in Seattle ID
placed at $11, ,542. .49O, and the special
assessment is 19.l5-1O0 mills on the
dollar.
The people OF Anacortes paid the
Oregonian $1,000 for the privilege of
publishing its news boom dispatches
in that paper for period, OF three
months
Alice Kasson, FIVE years of age, was
burned to death, last Saturday, while
lplaying with her companions, near a
burning brush-heap, in the suburbs ol
Tacoma.
i The President has signed the bill
authorizing the Washington and
Oregon Bridge Company to build Q
bridge across the Columbia river q,
La Camas.
| So far there has been no injury to
the Yakima fruit, and even the apri'
cots, the most delicate Of fruit buds
are unharmed. Walla Walla fruit has
been badly injured.
| Chico Saska, the old Indian OF
Entiet, says that he can remember
back fifty years, and that the snow
has remained longer this winter thar
ever before.
| Postofiices have been established at
Ahtanum, Yakima county, with A. J
Chambers. Postmaster, and at Wallace
Snohomish county, with John F
Stretch, Postmaster.
There are seventy-six lodges 1. o. o
F. within this State, and four moro Z
be instituted before the meeting o
the Grand Lodge. Twenty lodge!
have been organized since January l
1890.
| Slaughter is to have q shoe factory
with 125 men employed, and 81, ,OO(
bank building. It already has the
Sun, shining weekly for all, whether i,
rains or shines. Naturally the town
grows.
/ Yakima farmers are anticipating
large crops this year with little or nc
irrigation, as there has never been 9
time when there was SO much mois
ture and so deep in the ground as al
present.
The catching of fish at the Sound
cities, and indeed at all the cities on
this Coast, is done by Italians, and
the fish found in the Tacoma markets
are almost exclusively caught by this
class Of foreigners.
Jack Cleman, one OF tho cattle
kings of the Wenas, Is shipping corn
from Nebraska to fatten cattle for the
early spring market. He bought $50
head of cattle, says the Yakima
Herald, of James Taylor, Yelm Prairie,
which will be fatted for the Sound
market.
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