, 1882-06-30
CLIPPINGS.

The CaribOO (B. c. wagon road was
damgaed 10y the recent overflow of the
trale river To the amount of 100000.
L, NJ WALSH, a Puget Sound printer,
has gone into the newspaper business,
taking an interest in the AnaCortes En-
tcrprjSc, with Alf, ID, Bowen.
Ir is claimed that the new fusion of
independents and republicans in South
Carolina will result III the election of a
republican senator over Ransom present
incumbent.
MANY of the eastern iron working
mills and other factories are resuming
work without employing the strikers,
who are being left without employment
by the thousand.
The PUGET SOUND ARGUS is printing
an experimental daily. 1t is prudent
for Mr. Weir to feel his way in so risky
an enterprise. The Ledger sends him
greeting with good wishes and hopes for
his success. New Tacoma Ledger
INDEPENDENCE, June 22-A very de-
structive wind storm visited this place
this afternoon. The railroad depot build
ing was destroyed and in the city large
number of residences and business
houses were unroofed, and some demol-
ished.
A New DAIhY.-The Daily ARGUS, of
Port Townsend, has been received at
this office. Its publication is an evidence
of enterprise ON the part of the publisher,
and should be sustained by liberal
patronage. Success to the Daily Argus.
Seattle Chronicle.
MORE CHINEsE.-Th bark Martha
which arrived at Esquimalt on Tuesday
last, 80 days from Hong Kong, had on
board ass Cinnamon and 2l5 tons of Chi
nese merchandise. The bark Agate, which
made the trip in 40 days, brought 2Sl
Chinese and 220 tons of freight.-Victoria
Standard.
No remedy ever discovered possesses
the wonderful efficacy of Syrup of Figs
The certainty with which it expels all
impurities from the system. at the same
time giving tone to the liver, stomach
and bowels, places it ahead of all other
remedies, to say nothing of its being
more easily taken. 1t is selling very
rapidly. N. d. Hill & Son, agents.
The semi-centennial of Methodism on
the Pacific coast will be celebrated in
1884 1t was in 1884 that Jason Lee and
Daniel Lee, with Cyrus Shepard and p.
l.. Edwards, opened the mission Of
Methodism, and with it of civilization,
on the Pacific coast. No doubt the
Methodists of Oregon and this Territory
will properly commemorate the great an
niversary.
A PARTY of hunters Just in from Shoal-
water Bay inform the Pierce County
Ne,cs that they found a valley between
the same and Cape Flattery. 1t is about
five miles wide and seventeen miles long
and is without settlement, or even the
appearance that white man had ever
been there. There are 0,000 acres of
fine farming lands, open to those hunt
ing homes.
LAND OFFICE RULING.-Commissio
Mcfarland, pursuant to the directions Of
the secretary of the interior in his letter
of June 9TH, has sent a circular letter to
registers and receivers of public lands
that no further selections of land under
the grant to the Northern Pacific railway
company be recognized until the cost Of
surveying certain lands patented to said
company in 1873 are paid, and they are
instructed to decline to receive such
selections, il they are presented, until
further orders.
PASSENGER rates over the western
railroads have been advanced as fol-
lows: Chicago to Kansas City $3.50,
Chicago to st. Louis $3.50. 1t was pro-
vided that outstanding unlimited tickets
should be honored by all parties to the
contract. 1t is estimated that something
less than 1900 of these are now out in
the hands of ticket scalpers and specula-
tors. The passenger rate war, of which
this is the end, began a year ago last
December, since which time fares have
ruled about as follows: Chicago to Kan
sas City s., and Chicago to st Louis
S4.75.
The following is the compulsory re-
tirement clause OF the army appropria-
ton bill as it finally passed the House:
"rhat on and after the passage of this
act, when an officer has served thirty
five years either as officer or soldier, in
the regular or volunteer service, he shall,
il he make application therefor to the
President, be retired from active service
and placed on the retired list; and when
an officer or soldier is "a years Of age he
shall be retired from actual service and
placed on the retired list, and no act
now in force shall be so construed as to
limit or restrict retirement as herein pro-
vided for"
RAILROAD BUILDING.-In the year 1850,
when California was admitted as State,
the whole mileage of railroads in the