, 1882-09-08
From Mondays Daily.
COURT week.

HATTIE Moore comic opera company
day after tomorrow Wednesday, eve
ming. One night only. This entertain
mcnt is spoken very highly of by the
press elsewhere, and is a success, Tickets
for sale at Bartlctt's.
\ FLEET of canoes arrived here this
noon from Dungoncss and Jamestown
with Indians bound to the hop fields of
Puyallup. Hop picking was to bcgin
today. The producers are happy in an
tcipGtion OF such prices as were never
before realized,
REv. SPATGLTR, wife ami son, Of San
duslly Co., Ohio, are passengers ON the
Elder to arrive here this evening. These
people are the pprant5 of Mrs, Bash,
wife OF our Collector Of Customs. We
hope they will like the country well
enough to remain.
4 FRIEND writes from Port Discovery
that McSsrs. JAS. A. Smith, W. II. Price
and f. b. Nastick were elected to attend
the republican county convention as del
egates from that precinct, He also adds
that they were instructed to vote for
Capt. Calhoun for sheriff.
The schooner Tc0ser, Capt. Quinn, ar
rived in orr harbor early this morning,
from Quicute, bound for Seattle, having
made the round trip in a remarkably
short time, She had on board Capt.
Willoughby's furniture from Neah Bay,
anl that gentleman with his family will
b, here ON the Dispatch Wednesday.
A ROW occurred here yesterday, in
which Scott Evans beat and severely in
jurcd an old man named David Hender-
son. The former attempted to escape
but was captured and brought before
Justice Van Bokkelen for trial. His hear
ing was had this morning when he was
promptly fined seyGnty-iiVe dollars and
costs In default, he was committed to
Jail,
OEE Of our sly politicians remarked at
his boarding table a few days since, that
he was sorry lie was not born rascal
This unexpected speech drought down
the house with roar of unanimous
laughter. The politician, whose cheeks
we're pale with suppressed emotion, asked
the cause of this unseemly mirth. The
truth.tellcr of the party replied thus: "If
you were not born a rascal you have i'm
proved your faculties with Jealous de-
termination for business, and now fill
the bill to dot.
New ORCHARD PEsrs Mr.. John Ben
nett, the well known nurseyman and
florist, of Whatcom, W. T., writes to a
friend in this city that he has lost several
thousand young apple trees from the raw
ages of small green fly which lit in
countless swarms on the tops of the
young trees, and by singing or biting
the buds prevented their termination,
The first lot Mr.. Bennett destroyed by a
solution of carbolic soap dissolved in
boiling water one ounce and Il half Of
soap TO n gallon of water. This, he says,
will kill them and not harm the tree.
But in three or four days afterward, an
other and larger swarm OF these green
flies appeared, which covered the tops Of
every tree in his orchard, making it i'm
possible 90 apply the oarJoiic soap solu-
ton. The result has been that not only
the thousands o1 yoJmG seeding trees
were destroyed, but his entire crop of ap-
pies, pears, peachc, and pIums, some Of
which suffered from tine long, wet spring,
but the greatest damage wGs the green
hy. Mr. Bennett writes that he has tried
everything hC can think OF without avail.
1t would have been Il good plan if hr'
Bennett had sent some Of those green
flies to the Entomologist Of the AGricul-
tural Department at Washington, so as
to have the species determined, Mr.
Bennelt writes tAat b" has had great
success with new varieties Of apples and
pears which ho has received from En-
gland and Scotland, They seem pccu-
liarly adapted to the humid climate of
Puget Sound and thrive we'll, as our eli.
mate is very similar to that OF the west
Of England and Scotland, Varieties
that will do nothing in the states east Of
the Rocky mountains seem 20 thrive here
as well a. in their native soils. Mr. Bon
nett thinks it will be a good thing il
some one would write a fruit book adapt
Ell to the climate AMI country Of the Pa
ciiic slope, from British Columbia to
Southern California. We fully agree
with Mr. Bennett Nothing OF the kind
has yet been doaa and We think il our
friend, Dr. Egears, Of Olympi0, woull
give the subject his careful attention. he