, 1878-12-12
PUGET SOUND ARGUS.
Local and News Items.

THE city Of New York pays her police
forre $4,000 600 annually.
PROF. Thomas NJ. Catch has been chos-
en- Mayor Of Salem. Oregon.
TITS ,umor,d that the English ParIia-
p,ent will be dissolved AFTER briet session.
THE Secretary of the Treasury is now
purchasing about $5OO,0OO OF silver per
month.
Hon. n. I. Cation had the misfortune
10 lose his daughter b rtha. aged 10, from
typhod fever. on Nov. 10Th.
A LATE official enumeration OF all the
so-,:ll-,l Federal ollice-hoIders in the Uni
ted States places the number at $4,000.
A NEW gold discovery is once more all
the rage. This time, the rich aurittrous
deposits ale found about thirty miles east
of Tacoma.
THE Willamette Valley and Coast Rail
road Is one of the new things in Oregon.
The valley terminus of the road is to be
located at Corvallis,
THE Olympia "Experiment" is having
lots OF fun telling its patrons it will sus-
pend. and then publishing long accounts
of their sighs and groans.
THE ruling wages for coasting seamen
has been fixed by San Francisco ship
owners at $35 per month, the result OF
strike among the sailors.
FORTY years ago on Sunday. November
24th, Vicar General F. N. Blanchet and
Rev. Modesto Demers, arrived from Can
ada at Fort Vancouver to found Catholic
Mission in Oregon.
WIN. Ryan, well known as marine
architect, died at Seattle last week. He
built the barks Northwest and Tidal Wave
at Port Madison, and was n man of good
ability in his business.
YHE wrecked barkentinc Free Trade,
lying at Madison, has been surveyed by
the underwriters and condemned. She
will soon be sold. Her insurance amount
I'd to $4,000.
TRADE dollars are being imported to
New York from China via London. The
importers make profit OF 6 cents on the
dollar. Congress will be asked to pass a
bill for their redemption.
In Marion county, Oregon, John d.
Whitney was recently sentenced. by Judge
Harding, to be hanged OH the 18th Of Jan
unIy, 1879 The crime was that of the
murder of Oliver Hilbert.
Ina communication with tie Lewiston
Teller" l.. b. Andrews, of Seattle, ad-
vocates the selection OF Yakima City Tor
the site Of the capital OF the new State Of
Washington, when it requires one.
ID, w. HiGGINs, editor of the Victoria
"Colonist." recently passed through
lengthy trial for asssaulting one Holloway,
reporter for the standard" Of that
city. Higgins was flued five shillings
only.
The Puyallup Indians have subscribed
800 reward the erection Of Presbyter-
Ian church; also, they have subscribed and
raised portion of $3.50, with which to
pay the Iterpreter for the Church. Jas.
Lewis.
MR. r. ii. Hewitt, formery Of Olym-
pia, who for two years past has been en-
gagged on the Los Angeles "EIerald." has
purchased mn interest in the Republican,
of that city, and viii hereafter be Its man
agcr.
The vote OH the constitution in Wash
ington Territory, as far MS heard from,
has Il majority OF about 1000 in favor OF
its adoption, aud in all probability this
number will be largely increased when the
official returns are pnbIished.
The official returns show that G.. II.
Montgomery, OF Fort Colville. was beat
Ell for Councilman from the district conf
posed OF Stevens, Whitman and Column
bin cotnties, by l.. NJ. Ringer. OF Almota.
by 3 majority.
The kew York Sun urges that one of
the first duties of the national House Of
Representatives should be 10 inquire into
the authenticity of the cipher telegramS
published OH the eve Of recent elections,
and the smeans by which they were OBJ
tanned.
PRATT. a prisoner confined at McNeil
Island. WAS taken to Olympia for trial,
and while being conducted into the court
room made sudden dash for liberty and