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Show TIIE TERRITORIES. The artesian well at Fort Russcl, Wy., is down nine hundred feet, and no rock yet. In a few weeks the .gas works in Seattle, W. T., will be in full operation. oper-ation. Already the pipes have been introduced into twelve houses. Typhoid fever is prevalent in Washington Wash-ington Territory along the Columbia. There have been, -some few deaths from this .disease,, although none on the high, grounds back, from thei river. . -( .-, f . - A man who once owned most of the land on which stands ;to-day the the best portion of the city of Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, now owns and cultivates a farm of 100 acres near Bush Prairie in Thurston's county, W. T.; His name Ls John A. Engstrom, familiarly called "Tuinwatcr Jack." .' Some wags at" Tacoma, W.-T., undertook un-dertook to hold funeral services over the body of a man who was only deiI drunk, but) they were so noisy about putting in the improvised cofiin that they frightened the horse attached to the wagon used as a hearse. The i result was a bill of $-10 for repairs, and the drunken man is still above ground. |