, 1878-04-19
CONDENSED ITEMS.


have presented Capt. W. II. Taylor with a
tilie watch.
Slr. A. S. Mercer is lecturing in New
York on the resources of Oregon and
Washington Territory.
We learn that j. ii. Long Is making
preparation for q cheese factory in Claqlla-
to, and expects to have the altcle in mark
ct soon.
Col. Larrabee shipped last week to
his farm on WILDLY Island, three fine
young Berkshire pigs. They were pur-
chased IN California.
The I.iberian Exodus Association of
South Carolina report that 100000 coored
persons have signitled their willingness to
emigrate to Liberia.
Judge Lewis and family are expected to
leave Seattle in few days for Il tour
through Walla Walla County. They will
be absent about weeks.
They say Vancouver is the Grtna Green
of Oregon, and is gaining II wide rcputa-
tiOn with those who flee there to inter.
view the accommodating j. Z.
Some 40 men are now employed OH the
Olympia a-Terino railroad, and the work is
progressing rapidly. Success to them is
the earnest wish of the lower Sound peO-
pie.
Rev. Father ChirOuse, who has been Ia
boring among the Indians on the Sound, is
expected soon to move to British Coum-
bia.
Jesse Shepherd was brought before the
recorder at Eugene city, last week. and
fined ten dollars and costs Tor giving q
private performance without paying Ii
CenSe.
Some 1900 gnarled and twisted sticks
We're shipped by the Dakota, from O!ym-
pia. They are intended for sale in San
Francisco for manufacture into walking
canes.
TERRITORIAL VOTE.--At the last eec-
ton for Congressional Delegate, Nov
1876, our Territory pOlled about 10000
votes; Dakota. S.Gl2; Montana, G,S01; and
Wyoming, 1924.
The farmers of Kittitas Valley fear n
return of the squirrel plague. And in pOis-
oning squirrels in Wam WaIla County,
il is at the expense of thousands Of prarie
chickens, rs the latter are also killed.
A sawmill will be erected at Deception
Pass, between WILDLY and Fidalgo Isl
mlds. The machinery for the new mill will
shortly be constructed at Nation 5 foundry
and machine shop in this city, where IA
large gear wheel for the new mill will
soon be cast, The current at Deception
Pass is unusually swift, and it Is probable
a tide mill will he erected at that point
" intelligenccr.'
Tie Odd Fellow celebration at Seattle,
on the 2Gth OF April. promises to be the
biggest thing OF the kind ever seen in the
Territory. There will be u full regalia
procession In the day, an Grafton by Hon.
Francis Henry, Of Olympia, band music,
etc, and a.ball, sociAbe illumination and
gloritiCatiOn. The new hotel will be uSel
in the evening. Sixty or seventy Olym-
plans have sent word of their intention to
participate. Tacoma, Newcastle, Snoho-
mish, Port Gamble and other leading
towns on the Sound will be strongly rep
resented OH this occasion.
FOOD by MAIL.-Dr. McElroy received,
Yesterday, through the mail. two cases
containing samples of dried clans, and
what seemed to he dried sardmes, products
of the Puget Sound fisheries of tar of
Washington Territory. They were sent
to him by his brother, 4. +. McEIroy, a
long resident of Olympia. the present seat
of government OF the Territory, who thinks
there is no other place so desirable on the
globe as Wash. rerr. Canned salmon
are Justly esteemed dclicacy from the
Columbia river, and now we may have
through ordinary commercial channels,
these two articles OF diet luXurieS before
long. The dried CLANS will make the
famous New England "Chowder' direc-
tions for the preparations of which ac-
company each package. They are taste
fully put up in cedar wood boxes, and look
very inviting.
The aboye,is coupled from the Ianes
vile, Ohio, Courier" of March 2lst
yhe clans and fish were dried by Mrs. X.
n. Howard. in her Pummer Fruit Dayer
which Is now steadily employed in drying
clans and all kinds OF fish. We are
pleased to learn that they are meeting
win ready sale wherever they are sent.
Thl, week several cases were sent to wal
Ia Nallaand Oregon, and regular ship
mems aIe made to San Francisco. Olym-
pia Transcript"