The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-08-06

coming crop, delivered a. Tacoma.
This Is good paying price. but grow
ers are cautious about accepting the Of
fer. Some few have contracted a part
Of their crop a: tia. figure. bu: the ma
jority seem disposed 10 hold for some
thing better. The general opinion
among them being ,ha. hops will
bring big price TINS fall" One grow
er reports having contracted go bales
st 20 cents delivered in San Francisco
So the farmers are jubilant over the
prospect of being able to retrieve their
lost fortunes. Il would take big
price to bring most of them out even
with the business. The yield this year
Is light. 1t is thought by May tina:
there will not be halfcrop. This is
owing mostly 10 the lack Of cultiva-
ton Last spring many of the farmers
were too much discouraged to give
their yards proper attention, besides the
land was too wet to cultivate properly.
On many yards nothing has been done
except the setting of the poles OF
course these will prodcce comparative
~ nothing 1t is thought there will
be Indian pickers sufficient 10 gather
the crop this season without employ
ing Cinnamon. The price generally
paid is about ) cents per bushel. A
large number of Indians are expected
TO come from east Of the mountains,
Mr.. I. W. Sherman. an old pioneer,
and respected citizen OF this valley,
i. now lying at the point Of death At
bis home near Elhi. DR.. Spinning is
attending him. with but little hope of
his recovery Mr. Sherman's wife died
several years ago, after being long an
invalid, since which time, he and his
son Arthur have kept lonely bacbel
or's hall" 1t seems SD that he should
have no tender hand to care for him in
his last hours.
The District Court convenes at
Steilacoom next Monday. Aug. 4th.
There is heavy docket, as the cases of
two terms are to dispose Of. The
Puyallup Valley furnishes its full quota
of the business, as about one-half the
cases are represented by our citizens in
one way or snother-the result Of our
lucrative (s) hop business.
The farmers are taking advantage of
the fine haylng weather, aud the crop
is being saved in good condition. The
yield is heavy. and the farmers are
ready to ask pardon tor the curses they
hurled at the "clerk of the weather
last spring for his impudence. The
only thing that troubles them now is to
find market for their product.
The young ladies and spinsters and
widows. etc. have organized very Sc
cret. and very select society at Sum-
ner. As to their aims and aspirations.
that is entirely past finding out. They
announce i'll bold terms that theirs is
an exclusive. feminine organization"
and beyond that they are as silent as
the grave. Wild conjectures have been
made on the outside. but Of these it is
needless to speak. Everybody knows
that woman can keep a secret; then
what is the use to suppose they have
"blowed' anything. o. course nobody
but themselves know anything about
it. They refuse to have anything to do
with the "male gender" in any man.
ner, share, or form. For that reas IN
married ladies are excluded. They
might tell their husbands, you know.
They met in solemn conclave for the
first time last Friday, at the house of
Mrs. +. P. Spinning. She is married
woman, but you know she knows how
to manage her husband; that makes q
difference. All such are welcome.
What they then and there did for two
mortal hours. no outsider of course
can tell to certainty, but the general
oupposition is that they drank "tea"
and gossipped about the neighbors-I
say this is what most everyone thinks,
but who can tell 1t is to be hoped
they didn't, though what else could
they do? Altogether it looks sus.
picious. They must be plotting some
daring scheme or other. At any rate
they seemed in jolly spirits after the
adjournment. Something must have
taken place. Perhaps the thing will
leak out sometime. l will Try and
keen Won posted.