, 1881-03-04
NEWS ITEMS.


daily.
THE Seattle Fin Back" is now issued
tri-weekly, aud appears as a neat 5-col-
umn paper.
THE Supreme Court of Kansas has sus-
tanned the cOnstitutionality OF the prohtb-
iIion amendment.
THE British Columbia government has
resolved to offer bonus for wooden mill
to be erected in the province.
CONSUMPTION Of pig iron in the United
States iS At the rate OF four million tons,
annually. Our production is nearly ole
million less.
THE papers on the Sound are generally
regaiing their readers with delicious news
i'll the shape OF delinquent tax notices.
The ''Intelligenccr" has good sized srist
running.
A. j. Burr. OF Olympia. is sending out
circulars announcing his readiness to sell
eastern cranberry vines at the following
i"IS~' S~fO io' o'OOO WINS go ioT iO'oOo,
or $40 tor LOCO.
WITH the compliments of Francis IL
Cook. proprietor of the Spokan Times, -
we have received neat little map giving
the location OF that section and the pro-
posed railroad routes through it.
SECRETARY Owings Will arrive in San
Francisco about the 2ith of March. which
will make his return home to Olympia
about the last of the month. We wish
him safe anu pleasant jourAey.-..Cour-
ier,''
On the 2lst ult. prisoner at McNeirs
Island, named Chase. wrrnched the bars
to his cell apart with stick of wood. and
escaped from the pemitentiary, and taking
the only boat made good his effort for lib
erty.
N p LAND Substituting the past
month OF January. the officers OF the
Northern Pacific Railroad in Co.iax sold
1858 acres OF land valued at S2i 1877. The
total sales 10 the 1St of February amount
TO S64O,4S4.
CHARLES Russell. who committed per-
jury in the endeaYor TO save his brother
in-law, Thomas, from the gallowS, at
Waila Walla. has been sentenced TO five
years Imprisonment in the Seatco Peni-
trntiary.
THE secretary of war has submitted to
congress special estimate Tor building.
equipping and running a snag boat for
u-e on the Skagir, Nootsack, Sti!aguam-
ish Shohomish, aud Otlfer rivers in Wash
ingtOn Territory. S26.O00
REV. John Ricd. of Victoria, father of
the Presbyterian pastor in this place. has
received telegram announcing rnani-
nous call TO return to his former pastorate
IN Lanca-hire, England. 1t Isl flittering
testimonial from those who have tried
him. yet he is unsettled as to what course
lie will take.
THE olympia people are not yet on re-
cOrd as believing themselves the .-salt of
the earth. Yet they are preparing to bore
an artrsian well into supposed led OF
salt underneath their town site. This. in
The absence OF a railroad terminus, oper-
ates in lieu OF whistling to keep up their
courage while going IL alone"
TIE Chicago and Northwestern Com
Isany is reported Is have let contracts for
r.l.Ii ,i1 ~ L..
Missouri river. This length will take the
road through the Black Hills, and give it
a guod start for Puget Sound. A new
town is 10 be located upon the west bank
OF the Missouri, on lands lately purchase,.
of the Indians.
POSTMASTER AT SITKA.-Alonzo c.
Austin. Esq. Il resident of Sitka, has re-
certify been appointed postmaster at tina,
place. Mr.. Austin Is native OF New
York and settled ia Sitka with his family
about year since. Two of his daughters
are engaged in teaching-one the Russian
chool At Sitka, whilst the other Is attach
ell TO the Presbyterian Board of Home
Missions.
THE .'Intel igencer. OF Feb. Goth, says:
Mr.. James McNanght received a telegram
from Delegate Brents last evening annOun-
cing the passage by the House of Repre-
sentatives of bill apprOpriating $1,000
for the cOdification OF the laws oil Wash
ingtOn Territory Ii is thought that it
will not be difficult to secure the passage
by the Senate OF the same bill. This is
good news to lawyers, courts and cliunt-.
HURRAu:- The order OF Good Tenn
plars in this jurisdiction received very
marked impetus the other day when Hon.
w. r. Dunbar. of Geldendlle, or
ganized a lodge at that place
with ninety-eight charter members
w. r. Dunbar was member OF the Ter
rirorial Cosncil of 1879, and was conspic-
uous in advocating temperance measures.
A petition is also out for the organization
of lodge AT Klichitat Landing.
WRITER in Frank Leslie's Weekly. -
OF Feb. 10th. makes the astounding reve-
latiOn that SAW logs on Puget Sound are
usually from to II feet la diameter and
200 feet long. This will indeed be news
to our people. The same person describes
the old stump used for a bell tower for the