, 1881-06-24
NEWS ITEMS.

amounts TO $500, 600 year.
TIE Mcpherson colony, it is stated
will finally settle in Whateom County.
TIE Anti-Treating Law of Wisconsir
has been declared to be imperative and
void.
SPOKAN Falls is to have another news
paper tile Chronicle" and hotel OF l 5C
rooms.
The NJ. z. Conference, will meet i'll
East Portland, Oregon, OH the 18th OF
August.
WALLA Walla will have gas in houses
and streets September lst. A $50, 600 cor
poration is organized.
THE ''North Pacific Coast" gives items
of improvement in Seattle for the month
Of June, amounting to $4,000.
j. E. Burns is building dwelling 22x
II, and in many ways improving his ad-
| dition to the town OF New Tacoma.
THE editor of the WalIa Walla Estates
man" has been reading the Bible since its
revision. He finds lots of news in it.
NEW jersey is not only out of debt,
but its revenue is sufficient to sustain the
State government without any tax levy.
The indications are that our Port Dis
covery friends will have as many visitors
on The Fourth as they will want to take
care of.
Mr.. Hank, the gentlemanly clerk OH the
Neah Bay reservation, who resigned sew
eral months ago, was relieved only few
days ago.
The Territorial Temperance Alliance
will meet in Olympia July ID. All tenn
perance organizations are requested to
send delegates.
Hon. p. B. Cheney, after whom the
town OF Cheney was named, has donated
$4,000 to be expen led in erecting an
academy building in that place.
MIR. VIM. Balch, of Quileute, Informs
lis that crops i'll that section look quite
well, although the spring has been very
backward owing TO cold nights.
iT may be interesting to temperance
people 10 know that the General Assem-
bly, of the Presbyterian Church has ap-
pointed 4 temperance committee.
THE walla Walla papers are not far
wrong when they pronounce it disgrace
that butter must be imported thither from
California to supply the local demand.
THE wool crop of Western Washington
this season is estimated at 800. 600 pounds,
an increase Of 10000 pounds over last
year. The average clip per head about
tour pounds.
Mr.. E. J. Davis. head steward ON the
Geo. f. Starr, has just assumed the duties
of his position, having until recently been
employed on the steamer Harvest Queen,
on the Columbia river,
The Oregon Railway and Navigation
company are nc work on the steamer Isa-
bel. She will be quite thoroughly repair
ed, receiving new ana larger wheels, her
machinery will be oyerhauied, and she
will have new cabins, etc., SO that when
she comes out again she will travel with
increased speed and be pleasant and COM
Portable to the travelling public.
GEO. III. Williams, ex-senator and at
torney general OF the United States, las
returned to Portland TO resume the prao-
tice of law. He is thought to have An
eye on the next senatorship. He made a
good record in that position, before, and
will be strong candidate. 1t is thought
that ). n. Dolph, Of Portland, has per-
haps the best chances for success, but J.
II. Mitchell Richard Williams and others
will also be In the field and lively con-
test may be expected. -..Courier."
The survey of the Green river pass has
demonstrated, among other things, that a
better and shorter wagon road can be had
from Puget Sound to Ellensburg and the
Kittitas valley than from The Dalles. At
the present the only way of reaching
Ellensburg is by way of The Dalles, over
road l4O miles in length, road which is
practically over continuation OF hills.
A much superior route may be had from
South Prairie, on the completed portion
of the Cascade division, twenty miles from
Tacoma. From that point TO EllenS burg.
by way of the Tacoma pass, the distance
is only 100 miles, on 40 of which, from
Ellensburg to Thorp's cabin, there Is al
ready good wagon road.