, 1877-10-20

Tue BLAKELY.-The repairs to the
tug Blakely being completed, she
was to-day at the wharf for the pur.
pose of having her boilers tested
In the language of inspector Bullene,
"She is all 0. K" There have
been in the neighborhood of $4,000
expended on her in repairs, includ
ing a fine new cabin, elegantly
painted. The work on her machin-
cry was superintended by Geo. W .
Bullene. of our city, who has the
happy faculty of shaping iron into
any desired form; the boilers, smoke
stack, ETC., we're manufactured by
Messrs. Foster 4 King, who do
about all the work in their line there
is done on the Sound. The work
on the Blakely is all first-class, and
to use the expression of the people
who we're at the wharf admiring her
to-day, "she is as good as new"
THE NEAH BAY TROUBLES Rev.
G. A. Huntington, the deposed In
dian agent at Neah Bay, came down
from Olympia last night, and will
shortly proceed to Washington to
vindicate himself in the matter of
the alleged "crookedness" at the
agency, which he states is without
any foundation whatever, but was
merely Matched up against him by
designing enemies; and that instead
of illegally appropriating govern
ment funds, he has paid out con-
siderable sum of his own funds to
sustain the school at the agency.
FINE Wool. AT the wharf are two
Spanish Merino ewes and buck,
consigned to Col. C. II. Larrabee,
from California. This is the second
lot of fine wooled sheep the colonel
has purchased for his WILDLY Is
land farm; the former lot proved to
be of an inferior grade, but the lot
now on the wharf have every mark
of the genuine. The enterprise of
the colonel is commendable; but if
there is profit in keeping ordinary
sheep for their wool, there certainly
is profit in producing the silk-like
coat of the Spanish Merino.
GOES TO WASHINGTON. J. J.
McGilvra leaves on the Aida to day
en- route for Washington, to labor
for the reversion of government
lands illegally withheld from settle
ment by the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company. We trust his efforts
will be successful.
A MAN from one of the Sound mill
ports last evening assaulted a Sec
ond street grocer aud succeeded in
escaping from the city before a war
rant could be sworn ont for his ar
rest.
MKTKoPoLITAN--the appearance of
our wharfs to-day. lined with ship
ping, including the Pacific Mail
steamship Alaska, of 4 500 tons bur-
den, and our warehouses crowded
with merchandise.
C. N. PRING, who was here recent
ly as agent of the Richings- Bernard
company, has retired from that po-
sition. and opened the White House.
near Portland.
The services OF the Pacific Cornet
Band have been secured to furnish
music at the festival to be given by
the ladies of the NJ. T.. Church at
Iesler's Hall next Friday evening
Robert GkEENLAw, of Port Dis
covery, Oh the 7th inst, shot and
killed bear which weighed when
dressed-7l1 Tbs.
A LARGE number Of articles that
were on exhibition at the Terrific
rial Fair at Olympia. came down
on the Messenger this afternoon.
THE sawmills of Sonoma county,
California, saw annually $1,000, 600
feet of lumber.
The Zephyr will not run to Sno-
homish any more but will continue
on the Olympia route.
A trip around the world
is not an undertaking Of the
magnitude it was in the days of
Capt. Cook. is becoming an
OccIrrancp The tour