, 1882-11-03
CLIPPINGS.

4
cents pound. according to quality.
Reeds Opera House and hotel, in Sa'
lem, We're burned to the extent OF 3d.
Coo by fire last Thursday.
1t is reported thethGt Southern Pacific
route from San Francisco to New Or,
leans will be III active operation by No
vembcr lst.
Two steamers a week will hereafter ar
rive at Portland from san Francisco,
and two will depart each week for San
Francisco. The Oregon, Columbia State
of California and the Queen of the Pa
cific are expected to perform this ser
vice.
The Umatilla Indians expect to put
under cultivation next year 10000 acres
of their reservation. They have saw
and -four mill, threshers, headers, and in
fact everything they need. The more in
thy.
The largest locomotive ever built has
Just been completed at Paterson y. j.,
! for tine Central Pacific Road, and twen-
| ty-fOur more will be constructed. Their
weight will be sixty-two tons each, and
they nave eight driving wheels.
FoR CHEHALIs-G Governor Newell
will, in day or two, pay an extended
visit to ChehaIis County and afterwards
visit Pacific and Wahkiakum, going via
| ShOalwater Bay and the Columbia. He
will return to Olympia via Kalama.
Judges and inspectors of elections
| should take note that the old law i'll re-
gard to the numbering Of tickets is re-
peaied, and that it will be misdemeanor
! to number or in any way mark the bal
lots presented by voters.
ANOTHER SAW MILL--A. j. Perry, of
| Semiahmoo, is at present in San Fran
cisco, negotiating for the purchase of a
large saw mill, which he intends to put
in operation near Semiahmoo. 1t will
cut at the start about 25,09O feet per day
and will cost, engine included, in the
neighborhood of $1,000. Mr.. Perry will
leave for home or the 3Uth inst, The
mill will probably be in operation by
June next-Eaterprise,
In urging the voters to I'll cast their
ballots at the coming election the Post
IRtelLjgcncer. admonishes Puget Sound
ers that n local question is pending
which is of as much importance as any
ever before them. 1t says: "A new ap-
portionment of Councilmen and Repre-
sentatives will doubtless be made at the
next session OF the Territorial Legisla-
ture. The apportiorment will be made
upon The basis OF the number OF votes
cast, not upon the population of coun-
ties as disclosed by Federal or other
census officers.
The steamer North Pacific will do all
the work ON the route to Port Townsend
during the coming week, She will
leave hero Mt each morning for that
place, aud return in the evening of the
same day. The Isabel will complete the
run to Victoria on Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday mornings. This arrange
ment will continue until the Emma
Hayward is ready to go on the route to
Olympia, relieving the Geo. f. Starr
there, which will take her old route, and
the North Pacific go on to Victoria as
before. The Otter has been laid up
for the winter.-Post- -InteHigencer.
When the House adjourned Tuesday
after hearing the presidents veto read,
members fingered and excitedly discuss
ed ,he bill. Horr OF Michigan stamped
angrily about from group to group as
sailing the president in language loud
and INDIGENOUS. This Horr is the buff
oon of the House, coarse and selfish. The
next Congress is threatened with two OF
them, but all the family could be spared.
--Springfeid Repabl icdn.
Ifhe other one spoken OF was elected
to stay at home in Ohio recently.-ED.l
THs season H. E. Levy, Of this city,
will ship two hundred barrels of Pu-
get Sound salmon to London, and also
a small lot of Puget Sound hops.
Both these shipments will be made as
experiments, and if they prove sue.
cessful, permanent trade will prob
ably be built up.--Post-InteltGenc