, 1876-11-24
PACIFIC SLOPE NEWS.
WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

Diptheria has again appeared in
Seattle.
Two contracts on the Puyallup
railroad have been let. They COM
prise those nearest Tacoma, and have
be en- taken by Messrs. Meeker and
Mann.
The names of the prisoners who
recently escaped from the Kitsap
County Jail are All Tuck, aud Thos.
Mclean, both Territorial prisoners,
for whose capture the sheriff offers a
reward of $50 each; A. Duckworth
and James Alden, King County pris-
opers for whom $25 each is offered,
and Mike Sweeney and one Finne,
gan, Kitsap County prisoners, for
whom also $25 each is offered.
Gen. George Stark spent few
weeks on the Sound, and, in his re-
port to the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company, speaks of it as follows:
The steamer ON which l took pas
sage having freight to discharge at
Victoria, Port Townsend and Seattle,
was two days in getting up the Sound
and | was thus afforded a favorable
opportunity to study this famed water
approach to our road, and to see
something of the towns growing up
upon it. i can best express the i'm
preston made upon me by quoting
the words Of Commodore Wilkes, of
the U. S. Exploring Expedition of
lS42. They seem to me an eminent
" ct description Of this magnificent
inland sea. He says: " Nothing can
exceed the beauty of these waters,
and their safety; not a shoal exists
within the Straits of Juan de Fuca,
Admiralty Inlet, Puget Sound, or
Hoods Canal, that can in any way
interrupt their navigation by sew
enty-four gunship. l venture MOTH
ing in saying there is no country in
the world that possesses waters equal
. to these"
OREGON.
The handsomest girl in Portland
is to receive prize at the St. Vim.
cents Fair soon to come off. There
will be 500 competitors.
OF the $1,000 stolen from the
county treasurer Of Coos county, be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 have been
recovered from the thieves, who are
Cinnamon. They told where they
had buried it,and said they had gam
bled away the balance.
The Blue Mountain University is
ina hourishing condition. The av-
eFage attendance is seventy-6ve,
which number is being increased by
the arrival Of young ladies' and gem
tlemen from far and near.
Articles ofincorporation were fled
with the County clerk in Portland
last week, by a proposed corporation
. be known as the "Oregon Bonan-
a." The business in which the COM
pany will engage is to mine for gold
and silver and other precious metals
~ the State of Oregon. Its princi-
Pal ofice and place of business will
ee located in Portland; capital stock
nxed at $500,000; amount of each
share 81.
BRITISH COLUMBIA.
According to a recent survey a
uyke OF three miles in one place and
snother of mile and half will pre-
'ent the overflow of the Frazer river.
The Alexander is the name given
= the new steamer built at Port Es-
shgton by the McAllister Bros,
rnlch was launched lately and since
sseught down by the Otter to Vic
una. una. She is 170 feet long, ~ feet
ssam, Is calculated to measure 600
sons, to run Is miles an hour, and to
Z one of the most powerful boats
qn the coast.
a destructive fire took place at
sost Sl' Esslngton on the night of the
.s ~ ut. The steam saw-mill which
~ 3een erected by the McAllisters
sne construction OF their steamer
~ ~ nre and burned to the ground.
- sslis, blocks, tackle, ,etc., imported
great eost,were entirely consumed.