Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-06-05
WHOLE NUMBER 1,64O.

fair to presume that the work will be
in the hands Of contractors before tho
end OF the present year.
There were one hundred and twen-
ty-five horses entered for the races at
Kent.
The Washington Temperance Maga-
zine is the name OF new monthly pc
riodical published in Seattle and de-
voted to the advancement OF the tenn.
perance cause in the State OF Washing
ton.
Extensive stock yards are 20 be
built ut Meeker, which will be among
the largest in the country. Fifty
acres OF land have been purchased by
members of the Puget Sound Dressed
Beef Company, and work on the yard
will soon commence.
Fresser Brothers, OF Port Townsend.
will soon erect sawmill at the new
townsite Of Clallam bay, with ca
pacity OF $4,000 feet OF lumber per
day. A l5-foot vein of coal has been
discovered near the place, and claims
are being rapidly taken up.
DIR. V. r. Bissell, mayor of Slaughter,
says: "The hops are showing well
this year, although a good many are
fearing that the louise will commit ex-
tensive ravages. Some say that no lice
have yet appeared, while others claim
to have seen the insect in unusual
numbers. As yet it is too early to pre-.
dict anything definite"
A Yakima dispatch to the Spokane
Reriew says: "A real estate swwindle
has developed to-day by the filing OF
the plat of National Park City, which
is located twelve miles from North
Yakima on a basaltic mountain. The
land was assessed to the Northern
Pacific Railroad at $50, and the lots
have a frontage of only twenty-five
feet"
Mcdonald Simmons, who lives in
the vicinity OF Shelton, has in bis pos
session two South American llamas.
They were brought TO the State by a
schooner engaged in transporting lum.
Der for the Port Blakely Mill Company.
MIR. Simmons has also three fishers, a
small animal of the weasel family
They were captured in the hills back
of Shelton. The skins OF these animals
are quite valuable, bringing in the mar
ket from $l2 to SIS.
AS the season advances affair
among the hop men grow livelier
The vines are well up on the pole,
but yet it is only a matter Of spccula
ton as 10 the crop. Evidences OF the
louise are to be seen in many yards
especially in the White river valley
The acreage Of the season will show
!, quite an increase over that .of lasl
year. While il has not been increased
to any extent between here and Ia
coma, in the northern counties q
Skagit, Whatcom and Snohomish and
in some of the southwestern countie.
there has been . marked increase
No estimate Of the additional acreage
has yet been made.
Miss Teresa l. Balch was drowned
on the 29th ult., while crossing the Quill
layute river on horse. She WA
thrown from the horse and got separ
ated from it. She was . good swim
mer and would have reached th,
shore, but was taken with cram,
and sank. Mrs. James Haggardcrr
saw her, but was powerless 70 hell
her. She blew her dinner horn, which
drew her husband and some men iron
the field. They found Miss Balch II
three feet of water with her face down
, 30 minutes after. All means wers
used to restore her, but in vain. sh,
leaves widowed mother, with whom
she lived, to mourn her loss, ais,
four sisters on the Sound and on.
brother in the Quillsyute Valley. Mis-
Balch was % years old, and was lovet
and respected by all. She was burie.
by the side of her brother, Gussey
Balch, who was drowned in the same
manner and in the same river, thougl
not at the same crossing in Novem
Der, 1878.