, 1881-10-07

{ out OF New Tacoma, some lew days a@
for uub,comiug remarks about our lat
President. returned on Thursday OF la>
week and getting into 4 dispute with an
other sewing machine agent named De
witt. and being twittcd by the latter o
his dcfamat0ry remarks against Garfield
80 enragcd Spencer That he drew his piS
tol aud shot Dewitt down. The pcopl,
ST The town were terribly excited, auC
should Dewitt die the authorities coulo
not save Spencer from violence. Tht
latter is i'll Jail.
TIE Supreme Court OF the [: State:
win convene in October with two mem
Ocrs short. The vacancy of Judge Ciif
lords place has not yet been filled owing
| TO The prO~tratiOn of the President and
Justice Hunt Will be uuable 20 attend
owing TO sickness. The work of Tie
court is much in arrears.
1t is estimated thqt 2j0,0Oo people Were
on the streets in Cleveland Ohio, on the
day OF the Presidents funeral, and that
from 100000 to I50,U30 OF these people
were strangers. Some of the adjacent
towns were nearly depopulatrd.
Mr.. \. McNcmce, who now lives in
East Portland, happening to remember
that his father had Il claim argued before
the Secretary of the interior at Washing
ton, d. c., looked over his Old paperS and
iouu.. that his fathers attorneys were
James y. Garfield and James G.. Blaine.
This was - years ago, and McNemee's
father was plaintiff ana lie city OF Port
land defendant in Il suit that involved the
title to Il large portion of the present city.
How little did those two then cOmpara-
lively unknown lawyers. thinI, what re-
latious they would afterwards sustain to
each other and to the world in twenty
five years,
TIE MoRMONs.-In Harper's "Maga-
zine for October, C. c. Goodwin writes of
the Mormon question. lie says that the
fist colony that went 10 Utah was com
posed OF only a few hundred people. now
the church cllims that it rues some
one hundred thousand followers in tie
Terri tory. The first lonCrs had large
percentage of Amefic2ns, who We're
drawn inro the tolls before the full enOr-
mites Of the institution wpce divulgcd.
but Of those who have connected them
selves with the Mormon church during the
past thirty years quite MAE tenths have
been from Europe, and from the veIy
lowest classes Of European society.
a WnALE.-A correspondent OF the
Seattle "Inteliigencer, s2y'. the Indians
At QuiIleute recently captured Il whale in
The Bay of that place, by spear ng him.
'>Ie proved to be Is feet long, 10 feet
across the lukcs and Is feet across the
back. lie lock ii to Us all like noun
tain, and everybody made it a point :
climb on top OF him. We fried some OF
tie meat and found it tender and GOO !.
and quite like elk. 1t would almoft melt
in ones mouth. 1t WAS amusing to see
The Indians cut him up. They waIiOwc9
in the meat AMI grease like pigs. and
worked indeilti%aLIy cutting, carrying
and frying it out. This Is All experience
long-to be emembe,ed."
TRAVELLING by railway in Russia is
claimed TO be more comfortable anI more
enjoyable than in any other part of the
world. From St. Petersburg to Moscow
the d'st .uce OF 403 miles, and the night
irlin travels over it in fifteen hours. The
carriages are roomy and lofty, and fitted
with all eonvenienees for travellers. There
are iegullr halts at convenient interval;
the finest stations, the best supplied and
chez pest observation-disclosures, and every
thing is done to protect the traveller from
the winter cold or summer heat.
WEST PoINTERs.-Of the Wast Point
graduates from Oregon, says the Seattle
''Intelligencer," Lieut. Fred Schwalka i
the fourth in number. A son of the late
Joseph Lane was the first, and lie fought
In the rebel army, and now lives an oh
seure life in Oregon; the second was
young Adair, who left for Victoria on the
breaking ont OF the rebellion and bought
a commission in the English Army. lie
is now in the fishing business i'll British
Columbia. The third was Lieutenant NJ.
Crawford, oldest son OF Captain Medorum
Crawford of Oregon. He is at present
Professor OF Military Tactics in one Of
the Eastern State Military Academies;
and the fourth and last is Lieutenant
Schwatka, who will soon visit Seattle
and probably tell our people some inter
esting facts concerning Il recent Arctic ex-
ploring expedition of which he was ahead.
These graduates split even. The fist two
flattened ont, while the second two stand
high in the service, and are on the road
to distinction and success. Washington
Territory has turned out but one West
Pointer, Lieutenant BTant, who is now
in the regular army OF the United States.
\ CHICAGO journal contains an inter
view with President Sidney Dillon, eff
the Uliou Pacific Railway Company in
the West. NJ. Dillon said that the con-
struction OF the Oregon Short Line, pro-
jected from Granger, so mites west of
Omaha, TO Portland. Oregon, is being
pushed with energy and despatch. The
road l. graded for distance of 100 miles
ana the track is in position for twenty
five miles. One hundred miles of tra, K
will be laid this sea son and trIck-laying =