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politics. We wish it all the splendid
success it deserves.
THE Columbia river is very high and
still rising.
A DAILY Chinese newspaper is about
to be issued in Hong Kong, the first Of
its kind.
The people Of New Tacoma will vote
upon special school tax of $4,000 on the
26th inst.
For eleven months ending May 3lst
the shipment of wheat from San Francisco
amounted to 2l,00O,00O centals
The Grand Lodge Of United Workmen
for Oregon, Washington and British Co.
lumbia will meet in Olympia on the sec
ond Wednesday in July.
BISHOP PADDOCK has purchased the
old brewery property in Tacoma near
the hospital, and will put it in repair
and remodel it for use as home for
aged people.
The cut of the sawmill at Utsalady is
increased from $4,000 to 100000 per day.
Not long since the largest cut on record
was made, consisting of 1US,000 feet of
marketable lumber.
The Port Townsend ARGUS appeared
last week in an entire new dress The
ARGUS is q good paper, and we are
gratified to note this new evidence of
prosperity.-Seattle Chronicle.
GooD WoRK.-The Blakely saw mill
cut 4,800,0o0 feet of lumber during the
month of May. During this time ten
vessels were loaded with lumber from
Port Blakely for foreign ports.
Two surveying parties of the Northern
Pacific will go into the field on this side of
the mountains. One under ID. d. Clarke,
will run up the Stuck, and the other,
under Il. Sheets, will locate on one of
the Green river passes.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars
of Washington Territory and British
Columbia, will meet in Goldendale, on
Friday the Both inst. A reduction of 40
per cent has been allowed on the regular
steamboat and railroad fares.
BEST TIME ON RECORD State OF
California, on her last trip. to Portland,
made the best time on record, having
made the run from dock to dock in fifty
hours and forty minutes beating the Col
umbia's best time one hour and five min
utes.
VISIT TO ALAsKA.--At The last meeting
of the house of Bishops, o. resolution
was passed, requesting Bishop Paddock
to visit Alaska, in the interest of the
missionary board of the Episcopal church.
The Bishop will sail about the first Of
July.
CAPT. w, II. SMALLwooD, formerly reg
lister Of the land office at Vancouver, and
more recently of the Klickitat Sentinel,
has obtained the necessary number Of
subscriptions and will start paper at
Sprague, w. T., to be called the
"Sprague Herald"
AN excursion trip to Alaska will TAX
place in August, during which pleasure
seekers will have grand chance Of Wis
iting one Of the most wonderful coun-
tries in the world. The round trip rates
have been fixed at S84, and it is thought
that many will avail themselves OF this
unusual privilege.
The Laconner Mail estimates the
damage to the farmers of the submerged
district at 100000. The cultivated
lands covered with water amounted to
$500 acres. The crop damage it places
at $50 per acre, or $4,000 in the aggre-
gate, while the damage to the dykes,
fences, logging camps, stock etc., will
amount to S25,00O or more.
Mrs. RECTOR, who was shot by her
husband, Thos. Rector, at Tacoma on
Sunday, May 28th, died there from the
wound on Sunday night last, having
lived two weeks. Deceased was the
daughter OF A Walters, the Tacoma
postmaster and she leaves three chill
dren. Her husband was a clerk in the
store OF the Tacoma Mill Company, who
after shooting his wife killed himself.
PERsoNAL.-Capt1 James NJ. Selden
joined his family in this city last evening,
having secured leave Of absence from
his post at Pensacola, Florida, where he
Commands the United States revenue
cutter Crawford. Capt Selden command
ed similar vessels on the Sound for
twenty years, the last one being the
Oliver Wolcott. A large circle of friends
viii be glad to learn OF his presence in
th1ir midst again. Capt. Selden made
th3 trip from San Francisco TO Seattle in
81 hours and 50 minutes, by far the
gu ckest time ever made between the
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