Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-07-04

about twenty-five acres of grain per
day, and is operated by from twenty
five to thirty horses. 1t is the first
one of the kind brought to this State.
Walla Walla farmers are highly
elated over the prospects for the wheat
crop. Good reports are coming in
from all sides. Spring wheat will
make full crop. Fall wheat has
headed nicely and most of the heads
are filled with plump grain. There
will be no flour famine next summer,
and the railroads will have rich haul
to market
The Cheney Roller Mills are max
lug preparations for the storage of
100000 bushels of grain the coming
fall. This company and the Northern
Pacific Elevator Company will furnish
a profitable ond convenient market
for neighboring farms thus keeping
money at home and furnishing that
essential requisite by which cities are
made-a home market.
The specifications for the Northern
Pacific car and machine shows in
Ellensburg have been received. They
are to be completed October 18th and
will cost 100000. The round-house
will have fifteen stalls; the machine
shops are to be 62x1I2 feet; the en-
gine-hOuse for machine-shops, 23x4O
feet; the blacksmith shop will be 39x
40 feet, and coal storehouse will also
be erected.
The regular" physicians OF the
State are wild with rage and the cpl
thets hurled at Governor Ferry are
anything but complimentary to that
official. The trouble is this: In APP
pointing the medical examining board,
the Governor wholly failed to recog-
nize the regulars" in the proportion
which they stand with the "irregu-
lars" which is about seven to one, and
of the nine members constituting the
board, five were selected from the hom-
eopaths, physio-medico and eclectic
physicians, giving this combination a
majority of one on the board, and thus
destroying the intent of the medical
law passed by the late Legislature
much to the dissatisfaction of the reg.
ular practitioners. The fight aroused
promises to be bitter one.-Commoner
Manager Mcneil, of the Port
Townsend Southern Railway, says
that the first twenty-mile section OF
the road will be completed by Satur-
day next. The ride promised citizens
on the Fourth will be given them, &C,
cording to Manager McNeilPs state
ment, ain fine coaches, driven by a
new engine, on which will he in
scribed the words Port Townsend
Southern The rapidity with which
the first twenty-mile section of this
system has been constructed fully re-
deems the record earned by the con-
tractors rs lightning railroad builders.
The work is being performed in a
solid, substantial and workmanlike
manner, and meets with the approval
of the management of the road
Port Townsend CALI
The steam barge J. C. Britain was
chartered some time ago by the Sc
attic e. Northern Railroad Company
to transport railroad iron to Anacortes
from Seattle and Tacoma. IL is al
legged by the company that the cap
tain OF the Britain, instead of deliver
ing the iron, which was valued at
$4,000, dumped the whole cargo into
the Sound. The captain claims that
the contract contained Il clause provid-
ing that the bridge at that point
should not be completed until the de-
livery of the iron had been made by
the Britain, as she could not make
her landing. Finding his way oh.
structed and being caught in a bad
place, he proceeded TO relieve himself
of the cargo above mentioned. The
company recently libeled the Britain
and had her tied up Mt Tacoma, but
she has since been paroled by the
libellant to enable der to fill a con-
tract with the Port Townsend South
ern.