, 1879-06-26
Local and News Items.

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HILL Harmon Is east of tho noun tains
looking over the country and examining
business prospects.
SAM. CRAWFORD, of the Seattle ''lntell-
gencer," has been up to Olympia, and has
written up the place and some of its lead
ing citizens.
On Sunday the schooner Orcas arrived
from Lopez Island, having about forty
sheep OH board.
Agentleman from La Conner says that
encouraging news has been received there
from the Skagit gold mines.
The Presbyterian church building on
San Juan is in course of erection, Mr..
Glasscock being busy with the carpenter
work.
a FIERCE opposition among the local
traders in Victoria recently brought the
price Of butter down to lG22 cents per
pound, at retail.
ACCORDING to the late meeting of the
Board Of the Pacific Coast Engineers, in
San Francisco. Trinidad il ahead Of all
Others tor the harbor OF refuge.
VIZ learn. by a private party, that
Messrs. Jennings and Baxter, both mer-
chants Of Seattle, have recently made an
assignment to their creditors. The Seat
tie papers are strangely (.J quiet about the
matter.
L. Il. Wilson, A. b., practical survey
or and civil engineer. and late principal
OF the preparatory department of Black
burn University, Carinyilie, Illinois, has
been added to the faculty OF the Universi-
ty Of Washington Territory.
TIE wife and infant son of Rev. L. j.
WecAcs, of San Juan. were passengers to
this place on the Dispacl, last week. Mrs.
W. lett again on Monday Of i;lst week, en-
route for Forest Grove, Ogn., 10 visit rcla.
tves and friends there. She will he absent
about six weeks.
NEW PAPER.-Accordihg to the Stan.
dard, Jay Could intends .tartlug Re
publican newspaper in Portland He is a
large stoCk-holder in the New York "Tri.
buuc', aud wishes to have another at the
western terminus on scale similar tc
that of the 'Tribune.'
! LIVELY TRADE. Mr.. Jas. McCurdy,
proprietor Of the San Suan lime kiln,
called on us few days since. He has
recently shipped cargo of several hund
red barrels Of lime 10 Portland, and will
soon ship another lot. He assures us that
he has all the custom lie can attend TO-
The large number OF houses being built in
Portland is one cause oil increased sales.
WE received pleasant call last week
from Mr. L. Sanuels. editor OF the wv es
Shore Of Portland, Oregon. Mr. S. i.
'.doing the Sound in his cid, energeti,
way, as a canvasser and business manager
for his journal. His pluck, enterprise
and business qualities are marvel, ever
in this age Of euterprising journalism
We need not predict tor him ''abundan
s,lpcess," for he already has it. May hi
CONTINUE unweared in well doing
IT is rumored now that the property o
the Oregon Steam Navigation Company
will positively be transferred to Jay Goult
his agents in Portland, next month. Tn,
price paid is saiG to have been $2,700. O0l
A HEAVY gold ''cab!e chain" was re
Gently presented to Capt. Ii. &. Morse, o
the steamer Dakota, by the San Francisco
pilots, to be worn in connection with thI
magnificent gold watch presented him by
his friends ut Seattle and Port Townsend
The directors of the WasAingtor Indus
trial ASSOCIATION at Olympia are making
extensive preparations for their next an
nual Territorial Fair. The buildings OF
the grounds are being enlarged and i'm
proved, and new ones are being erected
Agents have been appointed in every
county to superintend the transportation
OF articles intended for exhibition. and at
tend to such other matters relative to thu
coming Fair as may be necessary in hi,
county. The exact date of holding tn,
exhibition has not yet been made public
but the directors will doubtless soon all
vertse that, in connection with other mat
ters, through few Of the leading paper
OF the Territory. -"Intelligeucer."
ADvICES from Washington announce
that the Department OF the Interior In,