Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1875-10-23
NEWS FROM PORT TOWNSEND.
From our Regular Correspondent. !

The schooner Cygnet, Capt. M. NJ.
Kimberly, left here Sunday morning
for cruise south for sea otter.
The tug haste towed the ship Rerere
to sea, Sunday evening, from Port Dis.
covery, bound for San Francisco.
The tug Blakely went to Bellingham
Bay Saturday morning, to tow q boom
of logs containing 100000 feet to Ia
coma.
The barkentine Constitution, Capt.
Peter Bishop, sailed Saturday for San
Francisco from Utsalady, with 275 cords
of stave bolts.
The bark AAanta, from San Francis
CO, was lowed to Port Gamble by the
steamer Cyrus Walker, to load lumber,
Saturday morning.
A steam saw mill will be built on
Skunk Island, at the head of Port Town
send Bay, which will compete with any
mill on the Sound at an early date.
The banks Forest Queen and Tde,te
arrived Monday morning from San
Francisco. The former lands at Port
Ludlow, the later at Port Madison.
Capt. G. M. Scammons has been de-
tached from..the Revenue Cutter, Olirer
WalcoN, and is waiting orders from the
Department, First Lieut.. Harwood be-
ing now in command.
J. J. Hunt, of the Cosmopolitan Ho-
tel, has been on a grand hunt at Squim,
the past week. He sent to this city, by
Mr.. George Gerrish, an elk which he
shot, weighing 217 pounds.
Last Tuesday, the steamship Pacific,
steamers North Pacific, Alida, Cyrus
Walker, Blakely and Phantom were al
the wharf at one time, and it was q
poor day for steamers, too.
The steamship Salvador, Capt. Jones,
arrived here on Friday morning from
San Francisco, Ella Victoria, with SO
tons of freight, thirty of which were for
this city, and ten passengers.
CO. Bartlett, Esq, who has been
absent from this city buying goods in
San Francisco for the fall and winter
trade, arrived by the Salvador with 300
packages goods measuring 81 tons.
The steamer Fayorie has again hauled
off the route between here and Olympia,
and has gone around to Utsalady to
have her upperworks taken off and put
in proper shape for towing purposes.
The schooner William L. BeeJe sailed
for San Francisco, Tuesday morning,
from Port Ludlow, lumber-laden, on
her first voyage. She was built at Port
Ludlow, and is 29Gf tons measurement.
The steamship Pacific arrived from
Tacoma, Thursday evening, on her way
to San Francisco. Her cargo consisted
of 260 bales of hops, so cords of stave
bolts and 20 tons of general merchan,
disc. She also took go passengers
from the Sound.
The Barney Brothers, the renowned
ventriloquists, jugglers and musicians,
gave an entertainment in Good TEN.
pler's Hall Saturday evening to q full
house and everyone present expressed
themselves fully satisfied with the even.
ing's entertainment.
The Costa Rican ship Hermann or
rived Monday evening, 46 day. from
Callao, consigned to E. S. Fowler &
Co. She brought as passengers Paul
Armand, wife and three children. She
proceeded to Port Blakely, to load lum-
Der for South America.
The steamship PacJf' arrived from
San Francisco Tuesday noon. She
brought 125 tons of freight for the
Sound, 80 of which she landed ct this
port. There were las passengers for
Sound ports. She was detained ten
hours by dense fog in the Straits.
The steamship City of Panama, in
going into Victoria Harbor, last Mon
day, struck between two rocks and
grounded. She discharged portion
of her cargo into lighters and foated
off with very little damage sustained,
although it will be necessary to dock
her on her arrival at San Francisco.
DIED.-Iu this city, Oct. 16, of bilious
remittent fever, Henry Hummer, ma
tive of Reading, Mass, aged 81 years.
His remains were taken in charge by
the independent Order of Good Tenn
plars and huriad from THAR hall S,,p