, 1882-04-28
NEWS ITEMS.

Will meet IN Nalla Walla, May lOtn'
We learn that Mr.. o. H. Holcombe will
attend from this place as a delegate
from Mount Baker Lodge.
Hon. W. r. Dunbar, of Goldendale,
has been elected Mayor of that city, at
the head of temperance ticket which
was triumphantly elected. The issue
Was: License or no license"
IT has been decided by the Executive
Committee of the Grand Lodge, l. o. G.
Il. of Washington Territory and British
Columbia to hold the next annual ses-
sion of the Grand Lodge at Goldendale
on June 9th.
The story of the discovery Of new
mammoth cave in Kentucky was hoax.
The story was started bya man who saw
Governor Blackburn's mouth when he
was shooting profanity therefrom at an
offending newspaper reporter.
GOVERNOR Newell has appointed and
commissioned Gen. John w. Sprague
an Adjutant- General for Washington
Territory, to fill vacancy occasioned by
the resignation of M. r. Hathaway,
who has removed from the Territory.
OLYMPIANs telegraphed numerously
signed petition to Delegate Brents last
week, for the retention of J. Il. Brown
as Register of the land Office there, Mr.
Brown is justly regarded as an official
the public can lily afford to lose.
SEATTLE has Chamber of Commerce
headed by Judges Lewis, Jacobs and
Burke, George Harris, Esq, and others
of similar standing as business men.
1t promises to be of immense benefit to
the commercial interests of our sister
town, if not the whole Sound.
Mr.. Newton H. Crittenden, late of
Brooklyn, New York, passed through
Port Townsend last Saturday, on tour
of examination of the resources of the
Puget Sound region, for his forthcom-
ing work upon Oregon and Washington
which he will publish at Portland in
July next.
ASTORIA is having a little fun with
some of its rough characters who while
away the time between drinks by shang-
heing sailors, gambling, &c. Evident
" the time is not far distant when it
will be more lively than funny for such
festive citizens. Portlanders, too, are
cllling for increased vigilance against
low characters OF all kinds.
Our LaConner correspondent sends
a brief note saying that the new mill
at that point is sure thing, and that
the people there can have their -four
ground at home by fall; that Mr..
Valentine is about opening tin shop
in the place, he being a. thorough
mechanic; that Messrs. Caches new
warehouse will soon be completed; in
short, that LaConner is booming"
Thus saith Sophus Joergensen.
PICKED UP,-Some time since seal
ing canoe containing two Indians was
lost from the schooner Mary Taylor, off
Cape Flattery, during gale, and they
were supposed to be lost. A letter, how
ever, received here few days ago by
Master Rufus Calhoun, from his father,
Capt. Calhoun, of the bark Buena Wis
ia, states that the captain picked up the
Indians far out at sea, while on his way
to the Sandwich Islands. They were
carried down to the Islands, and will
be safely returned.
The Milne Bros, three Scotchmen
late from Oregon, have landed at La
Conner, the machinery and lumber for
their oat meal mill, and have knocked
up board shanty for their own accom-
m ,dation. They moved into it We'd
neslay night, and on Thursday went to
work on the foundation. They have en-
gagged several tons of oats; have an en-
gine coming, and will have things run
ming before harvest Location of mill.
$50 feet north of Davis blacksmith
shop, four lots.-"Enterprise."
We noticed Messrs. Richard Delanty
and William Payne, of Port Discovery,
in town this week. They are each en-
gagged in extensive logging enterprises
near the head OF Port Discovery Bay
The time has already arrived when it
pays to incur the expense of building
railroads. long shutes, &c, to reach logs
situated back few miles from salt wa
ter. When mills have to suspend oper-
ations for want of logs while they are
paving 81 per thousand feet for lumber