, 1881-05-13
NEWS ITEMS.

THE'us Ma-tick towel boom of logs
around To Port Di-coycry OH "Wednesday.
TIE Seattle Post" seems Ia bc trying
To annihi'2lc IEe Angus by stealing our
items.
THE bark Henry Buck is iSqnarantine'l at
Victoria, smallpox having broken out on
board.
THE steamer Empire arrived from San
Francisco at an early hour yesterday
morning.
The order OF Odd Fellows is now the
largest aud most powerful secular society
ia the world.
lr is said that Blaine ia suffering from
Bright'S disease Of the kidneys, aud will
never be = well man.
! CHARLESTON. South Carolina, expects
! 10 srmd IA million quartz OF Strawberries
10 New York this season.
JOHN ID. Merryman ~as confirmed by
the u. =. Senate. an tlr 5Ih inst, Is Col
iectOr of tlir District of Oregon.
The Spokin ..rimes'' complains that
! Indians in That vicinity are becoming
saucy and vicious TO u degree unbearab e.
Nix. Willard annoum,rs that the railroad
fiom UmatiilN To- Baker City will BE-. built
Is fast as men AMI money will accomplish
il.
i The Queeu's birthday il 10 be ceirbrat
Ell az Victoria. on the coming 2lth. and
many aIe expected 10 20 over there from
the Sound.
a telephone las been invented In Paris
that can be used as cable under water.
Tile Inventor says it can be used across
the Atlantic.
LARGE LOG.-The Port BlAkcly mill.
last week, cut log Ill feet long. and
which produced Is, 900 feet of clear Ium-
| bcr.-"Post."
! GEo. c. Gorham is receiving unfavora-
ble criticisms from all sides, and il is very
probable that he cannot be elected Secre.
tary of The Senate.
The la Conner telegraph office hither-
to the repeating office for all dispatches to
and from British Columbia, has been re-
duced to way-station.
| On Sunday last .;Beacon" Lodge. l. o.
G. T., Dingeness, WAS reorganizeL by
Allen Weir. Il. W. c.. after it had been
Inactive about six months.
Ms. Garfield speaks German and
French flucntly. and is the first Presidents
wife able 10 talk with foreign diplomats
in the colirt language of Europe.
The Colf.x Gazette" asserts that
| regularly organized banG Of horse thieves
exit in Whitman county, aud strongly
iavors lynching as the best way 10 deal
with them.
THE editor of the Coliax Gazette" has
been out to see the sights. ani says that
there is plenty OF sionry. prosperity aud
employment for AbOrers over in the Pa
louise country.
WE understand that there is scarcity
"f hands among the Ioggers of the Ska
git. the wages being from $40 upwards.
ilarl work in logging camps. but COED
pay.-P. D. Mail"
ID. ii. STEARNs. formerly p,Iblishrr of
the Portland '.Bulleiin.' Is now issuing
real meat l6-pag- agricultural monthly AZ
that place. called the Northwestern
Farmer and Dairyman.'' Terms nf sub |
Scription. 10 cents yer am UNI.
rHg Star route mail service continues |
10 attract n great deal OF attention ami
,ll.. eaSteim press are severe Oh Brady. |
who Is chaEg, with having been the lead
er of a ring who have d,.irauded the gov |
rrnment Of millions OF dollars in the past |
few years.
OK Sunday evening last the bark Anti
och was lowed ont of Pert Discovery Bay
by the tug PolirL"isky. lumber baden. for
san Franciscn. The brig Dearon and the
Columbia w.rr ly ng at the wharf at Port
Discovery an that day. the former being
nearly loaded.
THE jury In the Carlton murder case.
SAN lose. Cal. on the 9Th inst. TAI ed
te agree. standing four for acQuital and
eight for convictin The case will be re-
hleinbered as Grn. Carlton. formerly Of
Olympia, being tried for the Staying of
BFuininet Last year.
ENGLAND's representative In the None
tary Ca:,'-r-nee attend. merely rs iOOk-
sr-on. taking notes for report to t1;, gov
ernment, He does not wish 10 say any
thing that might be taken tn apply acqui-
escence in the principles Of :he cOuVOkers
of the Conference.
Ms. Jas. Dickinson. Of Dungeness. took
passage on Monday last oil the Dakota.
enroute for his former home in England
where he and his brother John have the |
snug little sam Of n thousand dollars each |
left TO them. .'.Iimmy" will return in
two or three months.
THE barque Henry Buck arrived a, Vic
toria last Wednesday with \ load Of Chin
cse nearly all down with smallpox. re- |
quiring the vessel TO be quaraitined. This
has created no little CONSERVATION. as it is |
feared the TELL disease may spread 10 Vic
toria and the Sound. These Chinese were |
probably intended for work on the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad.
CONSIDERABLE interest is still mani |