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GUEMES ISLAND.

This island comprises one Of the
San Juan Group, it contains about
IL sections of land, and is being rap
idly reclaimed. Mr.. H. P. Bryant, a
resident Of the island for ten wears,
called on us this week and through
his kindness we have learned items
OF interest
This island has favorable location
for all the fisheries of the Straits and
the Gulf Of Georgia, and it is thought
the situation Of this island and it's
neighbor, Fidalgo, will eventually
command the trade and be the out
let for the Samish, Swinomish and a
great portion of the Skagit valley.
There has been town site laid out
on the north side Of Fidalgo, by
Amos Bowman, Esq, and has a start
OF three houses completed and good
wharf in the course of construction
They are clearing the timber off the
site and improving the streets, with
the confidence that the town will
grow rapidly. We did not learn the
name OF the new town, but will, for
the present, call it Bowman CITY. We
wish 1t success. The harbor is said
to be sheltered from all winds ex.
cept westerly. As an evidence oI
the security Of the harbor, our in
iormant says he has had 4 ton boat
lying on the beach for the last four
years, and has never been damaged
IN the least. Many vessels passing
through RoSaro Straits, run into the
channel between Guemes and Fidal.
go islands for shelter during a storm
Guemes island has a population Of
about 90, and there are some 20 re,i.
dent farmers, who are rapidly i'm.
proving their farms. Mr.. William
Whaley, this season, ditched, fenced
and plowed over 30 acres, and is now
sewing it with winter grain. Jane,
Mcintosh has also ditched and seed
ed with timothy some 16 acres, tbi
season. We could mention other
who are doing their share.
The land on the island is nearl,
all agricultural, and is Of the bessiI
the Territory. The soil is of dafI
sandy loan, with a clay sub-soil: b,,
a growth Of small alder and w;iIo-
and is quite easily cleared. Tn,
product Of the Island is varied; the,
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can grow superior vegetables, aud
large crops Of grain. The billy por-
tion ofthe land produces huneh-gras,
aud Wild clover. The farmers all
claim superior advantages in the
production of all kinds " fruit, and
expect TO devote particular attention
70 this branch Of farming.
As an evidence Of what they claim
is true, We are able 10 give a few
facts. Mr. Bryant has been on the
Island 10 years and has 9-year old
apple trees that are 10 inches in di.
ameter, and quite 20 feet in height,
and produce in proportion to their
size; aud pears seem 10 have found
this element. Cherries are not
"nipped in the bud" by frost, aud
green tomatoes are still growing and
will not be cut with frost till some.
time late in December. This advan.
tage is attributed TO the water, and
the sheltered location of the Island.
There are many who contemplate in
creasing the number of their fruit
trees this fall, and Mr.. Bryant for one
will add 500 trees more to his or
chard.
We have been shown some speci-
mems Of silver bearing quartz, also
specimens of gold, "copper" lead,
nickle, cobalt and iron, and no donbt
there will be other minerals found,
A company has just been or.
ganized, styled the Gumes Island
Copper Mining Company, for the pur
pose of extracting silver, copper and
other metals from ores on the islands.
The organizers of the company feel
confident that the ores are rich and
will commence work in n few weeks.
The copper ore has assayed as high
as $50 to the ton. The mines are To-
Gated about 500 yards from the
Guemes Island post office, and about
the same distance from salt water.
How extensive the mines are, has not
yet been definitely ascer;ained.
There are three or four lodges, one of
which is parity developed, shaft
having been sunk 40 feet showing
well-defned ledge OF 4 feet s inches.
In conclusion we would like to inn
press upon the minds of the bust,
ness men Of this place that other To-
cal tiles on the Sound are coarting the
business of these lower islands. Our
people should take immediate steps
in bringing the trader this way. Port
Townsend is the natural outlet and
if we do not make an effort in our
own behalf we cannot blame the peo.
pie of the islands in sending their
products to British Columbia and
elsewhere. Why not start the ball
rolling by having a semi weekly boat
plying between the San Juan Group
and this city, it would bring thou
sands of dollars to our town. This
group of islands shipped over 30,-
900 pounds of wool this year, and
nearly all was sent up the Sound,
for shipment to San Francisco.
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EMULATIoN.-How strangely and
fortunately prone we are to profit by
the good examples of those around
US. To the toinking man who will
watch the course of events in a farm
ing community in any one Of our
rural districts, this fact will be m made
especially impressive. Let neighbor
B. depart from the beaten track, in
which all have travelled for years,
and get himself a fine wagon, fine
fran, fine farm stock OF any kind, or
erect better buildings, and his ex-
ample is immediately followed by
those who are not disposed to be
left ,behind'-even though they
might otherwise have considered
themselves too poor to warrant the
change. Enterprising men always
accomplish more good for the coun-
try bo their example the immediate
results of their labors.
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PUGET SOUND ARGUS.
nur Au,hor,red Agcnl-.
Get Up Clubs

In or,.sr to extend the circulation of the
ApgTs ain more. and Ia place IL where u
cught to he Al every firrsida- We have de-
ridpd to make the following utl'i~.
To anS one posiot'se addrS- wewill mail.
post-raid, iiNc copies Oi the uup'r one Year for
o. ~ each. To club ot ten new subscribers
We will make \ reduction uf nftS cents on
each, thus enabling them to Se,ure the lgrg-
est weekly puhlicau ton Of ucading rnatteH In
he Territory year for i25ocach: a-o tu the
getter up ola club of ten We Will send one
copy ous year FREE To any address.
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THE steam tug Blak ley, after undergo
ing repairs to the amount ofabout $25, 900,
is again at work, and is pronounced as
good as new. Our townsman Frank
Bowers did the painting.
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Notice Of Sheriff'S Sale
OF REAL ESTATE.

DY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION JssIrrn
I'D out Of the District Court of the Third ~,
dicial District of Warrington Territory. hold.
ing terms at Port Townsend, I'm the snit or
Geo, Barthrop and Emma Barthrop, plnintitf.
against Seudus Gartieldc, defendant dnit az
tesled anu to me directed me 18th day OF Sept.
Interest of the said selucius GarffeIde in and and
TO that certain tract OF land situated in d,hinn.
a9um, Jefferson County, w. T., desiynntnh
according to the official plats of the snrver ,gr,
OF the lind, as the east half Of the east half or
the southeast quarter of section 3, townshin
acres. w
Notice is hereby given that on Monday tbe
oth dhy OF November, 1917, at IL O'Clock noon
at the court house In said Jefferson con,,t', ~
Port Townsend, W. T., will sell all the rHGibdt"
title and Interest OF the snid Selucins GortIihc
In and to the said above described nrnn8r,o s8Sp,uo
to the highest bidder for cash Iawf,ii Inbnny,
oi lhe uhlted states. h. g. MILLER.
Sheriff jefferson county
ID. w. SMITH, Atty for plaintlH
Dated Oct, ), 1871
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To 5oil'ass IIa~s-um. D.sSua..,

IN thr name ~ ths T'nIt,.f SIT. -,
tea, yuu atF hffgIry r..fu.r..f ~, " Au'sr-
ln an m'tiun hrusighf sarnius, ~ -llsaf
,",r, ',S ~. L''5,9 ~, IAe.nitr IN ths nisrrs,
Territory Cf Washington. hoisi,,. ,.a "a tee
fhFt l"N "Nu-rnl, Ia Jeflrr-sr CouTt, t ,.a az
,i, oonnti', "i Jefferson tlalanl, Island. We
enih anu Han Juan IN said TprrIfor, ''., y, i,a-
answer the complaint fed they,sty' ~. 10
twenty days cNclusiye Of the tay 81 s,'-,,An ,9,nAn
AFTER "" service on yon OF thls -nun',.,l ''e
oS,hIo Whit, ,n,h ms COUNTY; or. II served ON,
bsttict, within thirty days; or m sor,J ~. "a.
ol salu District, then within sixty d,,,. 'it @
lhlsmcnt, hy dcfnnlt, will he taken s,stnl.
Sou o''oruihg 10 the prayer Of said complaint
The said action Is brought In reco,... -
the defendant the sum OF seven hnnsssaai rom n
hity-two dollars and - 100 dollars gnid aAiu anu
upon the following causes of action tol,,,i,, Ill,
,nrch sci non n, an account for goods, wares and
py phintill, between the lGth dav of Nnyn,nS
Der 4: ID. 1876, and the l4th day OF AugnSt
~. ~. ~, altogether of the reasonable yalno a,
hye hunureu ana one and FslOO dollars s,oit
coin. Second. Upon an order drawn mn,, S9i,i 5
tendant and accepted by him, by one bi Uari.- Ic.
Baseie, iSs on or about the 25th day of July A, ID
Hnr &c i0f t, tne sum Of fifty dollars gold coin in fa
Vor Oh uhis piaintlit and accepted by the defend
ant. miro. Upon an order drawn bv defpnHl
NM IN on ms plaintiff in favor of one Augustus
harrison M lor the sum of fifty-two and 81 loo dol
lars gold coin, dated on or about the ilth dov
OF August. A. ID. 1877, which order was forfT-
with presented and accepted and paid bv ot this
plalntin Fourth. Upon an account for II i-5
TONS OF nay, or thereabouts purchased by de-
ienuant OF one Edward McAipine, on or about
sme month OF April A. d., 1877, for which dc :
lenuant agreed to pay said McAlpine the sun
olone hundred and forty-eight dollars gold
coin, which account was by McAlpine sold and
assigned to this plaintiff and this plaintifT be.
ing now the owner and holder of said account
ana Tor interest on said amonnt of seven hun.
ared ana hfty-two and l2'l00 dollars gold coin,
rom TINS uate, and for costs and disbursements
IN this suit All of which viii more fully an.
pear by the complaint filed herein, q coDy OF
winch VIII accompany this summons And
you are hereby notified, that If YOU fnil TO an
pear and answer said complaint as above re-
qulred, the plaintiff will take judgmen against
you, as prayed for In said complaint
Witness the Hon. j. II. LEWIS, Judga
- of said District Court, and the seal
Z SEAL of sud Court, this 25th day of August.
49, A. ID. 1877, $3.50 p. NJ. >'
32'6t JAMES SEAVEY, Clerk.
BRADSHAW & INMAN, Attys for Plaintitf
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important matter seems to have been neg
lected. The life-saving stations along the
Jersey coast are not manned until November
10, and experience proves that many severe
storms occur in October and early in No
vember. No life-saving car or mortar is
ready for use, and the fishing boats, which
alone are available at this time, would have
been valueless in a storm like that OF Fri
day. Had vessel gone ashore in the recent
gale there would have been but very
meagre probability Of saving single life.
into full working order by the. first week in
October
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Secret Nexotin tions.

A singular report comes from Washington
anxiety to defeat Mr.. Hayes nominations,
are intriguing with democratic Senators
with the object OF getting enough Of these to
join them to assure the success Of this plot.
1t is an open secret in political circles
that such scheme was tried last March to
defeat the new Presidents Cabinet nomina-
TONS 1t failed then. Will it fail again
We should suppose SO were it not Tor n
rnmor, which one of our Washington CORE
spondents reports, that Messrs. Spofford and
Eustis, the democratic Senators from Louis
lana, now asking for the seats to which
they are undoubtedly entitled, have been
made to understand that they can be seated
at once by the action and votes Of republican
Senators opposed to the President if they
can bring enough democratic votes over to
these to defeat the Presidents nominations.
Our correspondent sends this only as ru-
NOR, but we should think it not unlikely to
be we'll founded. The administration re-
publicans have not 80 far shown any desire
or intention to seat Messrs. Spofford and
Eustis they have remained silent, and. so
far as is known, are ready to vote for Mr..
Kellogg rather than Mr.. Spoiford. 1t would
not be unnatural, under the circumstances,
if the louisiana democratic Senators should
listen to propositions from the opponents
of the President, and the Presidents friends
in the Senate would have only themselves
to blame if they should wake up some
morning in executive session and find that
coalition had been formed against them
strong enough to defeat them.
We do not advise any democrats to join
such coalition on the contrary, we trust
the democratic Senators will take the true
and honest ground, that all nominations of
proper character ought to be confirmed.
But If the administration should meet with
singing defeat in the Senate we must say
that its friends there Will have only them
selves to blame. Why have they not seated
Messrs. Spoford and Eustis2
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Perils OF the Coast.

On Friday last Long Branch had one of
those annual visitations, 1.-THE severest
storm that mas been known on tho Jersey
coast in many years., each succeeding tenn
pest having invariably that peculiar quality.
Of course q great amount of damage has
been done to the bluffs at Long Branch,
where there is very little protection against
the destroying force of the waves when they
are driven in by o southeasterly gale from
the broad bosom of the Atlantic. 1t is a
little surprising, considering the value of
the land along the Long Branch shore,
that no efficient protection against
tho inroads of the sea has been Sc
cured. Year after year propositions for
such safeguard have been agitated, but
the discussion has led to no practical re-
suits, and the cliffs have been bitten of
mouthful by mouthful, until the fine drive
from the East End to the West End Hotel is
in danger of destruction. But q for more
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The silver Swindle.

The project to resurrect 'the dollar Of
our daddies" and make it full legal tender
for tho discharge OF all private debts and
medium for paying principal and interest of
the national bonds is little too steep. Silver,
rs q commodity, has fiuctuatcd in value to
the enormous extent Of twenty-one per cent
within the last three years. Until it shall
have recovered settled value and main
tanned it for period Of at least five years
1t would be flight Of financial lunacy
to confer upon it the legal attributes
sought to be given it by the silver cham
pions in Congress. The fundamental requi-
site for standard of value is that 1t shall
be stable, but there is hardlya commodity
which has been bought and sold in the mar
kets Of the world for the last three years
that has undergone such extreme mutations
in price as silver. It's price began to decline
in 1874, but it was not till May, 1875, that
the change became 30 marked as to attract
general attention. For forty years previous
to 1874 the average price of silver in London
was cod. per ounce, never rising more than
Sd. above that average nor falling more than
lid. below it. But in July, 1876, its price
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had declined to AID. per ounce The price

had declined to AID. per ounce The price
of silver has since risen, but the "dollar Of
our daddies" is still below the value Of .
gold dollar. 1t may sink again when that
"big bonanza, the Comstock lode, is worked
to its full capacity of production. Its owners
have the strongest of possible motives for
holding back and not flooding the silver
market while their powerful lobby is in
triguing to get dishonest silver bill passed
through Congress. They are in search Of a
vast market, and will do nothing meanwhile
to forfeit the gigantic stake for which they
are playing. A commodity which has fuc-
tuated to the enormous extent of twenty-one
per cent within the last three years cannot
honestly be made medium for the dis
charge Of debts, either public or private.
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The districts of Northern New York
and the States of Vermont New Hamp-
SHIRE Massachusetts, and Connecticut and
through the st. Lawrence Valley were
severely shaken by an earthquake
on yesterday morning Accounts from
various points along the line of dis
turbance agree as to its occurrence
about two o'clock, but the places af-
fected seem to have experienced the shock
in lesser degree in proportion to their dis
lance to the southwark of line generally
parallel to the St Lawrence River. or
course it is difficult to define the line
of greatest disturbance, on account of
the absence of accurate data and the ten
dency Of observers to exaggerate their ex-
periences; but enough is known to indi-
cate that the earthquake wave passed
from west to east over considerable
area of territory with extraordinary
rapidity. Terrestrial disturbances of this
character are happily rare in these
Northern latitudes. They are more fire.
quent in countries where volcanic noun
tain systems represent the points of outlet
for the subterranean pressures that cause
what are known as earthquakes. We are
satisfied that investigation will prove that oil
earthquake shocks follow lines connecting
points on the earths surface marked by
volcanoes. And further, that the severity
of the shocks increases in proportion as tho
surface indications such as volcanoes repre-
sent give evidence of a high or low
degree Of permanent disturbance. We
can easily imagine the existence of great
subterranean assures connecting volcanic
centres, and that the axes of these
are the lines of disturbance. Now, tracing
line through the st. Lawrence Valley, its
prolongation at either end would lead to a
volcanic region. Southwesterly it would
terminate at the northern end of the Mexi-
can volcanic range Northeasterly it would
terminate at Mount Hecla in Iceland, o noted
volcano. 1t will be remembered that
when the news Of the arrival Of earth
quake waves on the west coast Of
this continent was announced recently
we stated that the course Of tho dis
turbance was from Japan through the
Sandwich Islands to the South American
coast. Later reports from these regions have
verified our surmise. There is no doubt
that this latest shaking of the earth is due
to causes similar to those that produced tho
great disturbance that traversed the Pacific
Ocean and ruined several South American
cities.
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The French Ministry.

Announcement is made in Paris Of the
names of the men who are to succeed the
present Ministry on Tuesday next; but the
have perhaps been permitted to become
public in order to feel little the pressure
Of public opinion. There may therefore
be some changes Of names ere the critical
hour arrives but the same wrong-headed
obstinacy that has made this Ministry that
has prevented an honest acceptance of the
decision of the country-will also prevent
any change likely to be regarded as satisfac-
tory to the majority. There is not a name
in the new Ministry that can be regarded
otherwise than as an impertinence in the
circumstances. There are two functionaries
of the present government, two Senators Of
the Right and o former Minister scarcely
less hostile to the policy of the republican
party than the men now in power. It is o
makeshift Ministry, that will serve to get
the present Ministers out Of Office, but will
not stand an hour before the Chamber.
These Ministers have not assailed the Re
public as have those whose places they
take, anu Will only not exclte inc
same sentiment of acrimony on that ac-
count. But their appointment in view Of
the result Of the elections is an insult, an
expression Of contempt for the popular ver-
dict, and will be resented as such. For
what reason is . change Of Ministry neces-
sary? Because the country has declared
against the purposes and policy of the
Ministry of the 18th Of May. Change is
necessary, therefore, to harmonic the
Ministry with the organs of the known
national opinion. 1t is absurd, then, to
make any change that does not accomplish
this. Yet that is the sort Of change actually
made. This is change that again palters
with the vital principle Of free government.
1t pretends to accept the national decision
by the retirement of those who were OPP
posed to the party that has the majority of
voices, yet does not honestly accept that
decision, because it appoints in their places
men Of the Same or nearly the same con-
yictiOng.
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An uncommonly full and free expression
will be found in another column OF the
views of the Spanish Minister of State on
the several topics that are of common inter-
est between his country and ours. These
opinions are given in conversation with
HERALD correspondent who had waited on
the Minister to got some light on the en-
tanglement of our relations with Spain in
regard to tonnage duties. BY section 4,219
of the Laws of the United States it is pro-
vided that q duty OF thirty cents per
ton shall be collected on the vessels OF
friendly nations with whom our people
trade, provided that the President of the
United States shall be satisfied that the
discriminating or countervailing duties OF
any foreign nation to which such vessels
belong, so far as they operate to the disad-
vantage Of the United States, have been
abolished" Otherwise the duty is eighty
cents per ton instead of thirty. In the case
of Spain, as the public is now informed.
the President was not thus satisfied, and
this retaliatory possibility Of the law was
brought out all of which was due to the
negligence of the Spanish authorities. This
has, no doubt, been made clear ut Madrid
ere this, and the money collected
on Spanish commerce in the necessary
discharge of legal formality will
be refunded. The incident emphasizes
the point to which our correspondent refer
red-the importance of having the trade be-
tween two such countries regulated by
commercial treaty. It is, for instance,
especially provided in the above section OF
the laws that their operation in this respect
shall not impair any treaty rights or privi-
leges. 1t is urged by the Spanish Minister
that the great obstacle to the formation Of
commercial treaty is a Spanish prejudice
the notion, namely, that the treaty would
lead to great increase of commercial trans
actions between the United States and
Cuba, and that this increased intercourse
would induce on either side an aspiration
for the abolition of oil obstacles to COM
merce-in short, to the annexation of the
island to this country. This may be true
but if Cuba can only be preserved to Spain
by policy which moves directly toward the
Gripping and destruction Of trade with that
island of what value will it ultimately be
to preserve til