, 1878-04-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

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mand for tine ARGUS.
Mr.. VI. W. Ball. the recently APP.
pointed Collector Of Customs for
AIasla. is expected to ret there
about the middle of next month.
Bva private letter dated at Fort
Wmugc', Alaska, on the l?th inst.
we learn that the miners had all gone
from that place up the Stikine river,
The revenue cutter Wolcott left
Nanaimo. b. c., for Alaska, on the
18th. Mai. VIM. G.. Morris, special
anent of the L. 5. Treasury Depart
mcnt, went up ON her to make inves.
tigations preparatory to reporting on
Alaska matters in general.
On the last trip Of the steamer Cal.
iiornia to Alaska, a Miss Kellogg
went to Sitka, where she will assist
missionary Brady in establishing a
mission and school among the In
dians at that place. Mr. Brady is
reported to be live man and thor
ough worker. Great and good re-
suits are expected from this move
ment.
Mr. s. G.. Reed, vice president OF
the O. S. n. Co., is out in letter
published in the Vancouver "lndc.
pendent" defending his corporation
against the charge of being a grind
ing monopoly" 1t will require a
great many such letters to cover up
the fact that the said company is
using every means to delay the build
ing of the n. p, railroad.
The "P. c. Advocate" tells Of a
revival in temperance work, brought
about by a few bar room roughs who
held mock Methodist class meetings
in saloon until one fellow sobered
down and told his real experience
which so affected the listeners that
total abstinence society was formed.
At last accounts there were about
LOO signers. "He maketh the
wrath Of man to praise Him."
Mr.. Hunter, representing the Gut
ting Packing Company, having paid
Alaska visit, has returned and re-
ports favorable impression in his
mind regarding the country and pros
poets of business up there. He ex-
poets to go up again on the nexttrip
of the California, when he will prob
ably take with him the necessary ma
terial and machinery for starting a
packing establishment in the neigh
horhood of Sitka. No use talking;
Alaska is bound to prosper.
The canning establishment at Cla-
wauk, Alaska, we learn by private
letter, is turning out about 5000
cans per day. Salmon at that point
will commence running about the
first of next month. Our informant
further states that the weather at
Wrangel has been so fine that he
commenced planting in his garden
on the 9th of March, and that at the
time of writing (April 12th) he had
radishes, lettuce, turnips and peas
up and looking well; "cold snap"
lust at that time, however, was en-
dangering them to some extent. Do
not these facts prove that Alaska
has some redeeming qualities, in
stead Of being eft only for polar
bears to dwell in ?"
BY private letter from Prof. E. F
Kubel, president of the Academy of
Sciences located at Olympia, to
Judge ]. &. Swan, of this place,
kindly handed Us for perusal, we
learn of the progress and pros
poets of that institution from which
the people of our territory may rea-
sonably expect so much in the fu
ture. 1t is confidently assumed that
the society will soon be far enough
advanced in its workings to have its
proceedings and all its valuable es.
says printed. The writer greatly de.
plores the tendency, on the part OF
non residents of Olympia, to regard
the institution as merely local al
fair. He very properly thinks its
immediate benefits and usefulness
can and will be made territorial at
least, and cordially invites the at
tention of all scientific persons
throughout the territory in bringing
about this much desired result. The
Academy of sciences was organized
in Olympia because that place, be.
ing the capital OF the territory, was
considered most appropriate for its