, 1883-04-05
Weekly Argus.
OFFICIAL PAPER or pORl TOWNSEND.
pRIEF LOCAL ITEMS
Fro,n THURSDAYS Daily.

EOuIti 'i V"'s'
JouN Robinson's new wharf at Coupe
Vile is already making quite showing
Ne Thos. II. Lee, the stirring lime
kiln proprietor, of Friday Harbor is in
town.
THE steamship Elder took on board
175 tons of pig iron at lrondale today,
for San Francisco
MISS Helen A. Meagher, OF Port An
roles, was a passenger on the outgoing
Elder today, en- route for San Francisco.
THE proposed NJ. Il. Church building
at La Conner is likely to be fairly under
way soon, and it is under energetic man
asement.
MAJOR Wasson. Special Treasury Agt.
and Mr.. Geo. Ii. Jones, Of the law firm of
Bradshaw a. Jones, have been visiting
OLYMPIA. They returned to this place
yesterday.
CAPT j. NJ. Cushing late of the firm
Off. W. deLion & Co., has withdrawn
from that firm to establish himself at
Port Moody, b. c. in the business of dis
charging railroad iron from incoming
vessels.
Mr.. Bartlett is Offering lumber from
the cargo of the wrecked G. l.. Taylor
at the very low figure of SS per thousand
feet Now is your chance to invest in
that article Read his advertisement
elsewhere.
Mr. Bartlett is offering lumber from
the cargo OF the wrecked c. l.. Taylor at
the very low figure of SIS per thousand
feet Now is your chance to invest in
that article. Read his advertisement
elsewhere.
HOME again. We feel like giving the
editorial wheel good vigorous twist, af
ter few days recreation in 'tramping
it, through the country. Subscribers
mint as hard to find as they used to be.
Times are better.
CAPT G. w. Morse, Of the schooner
Granger, arrived yesterday from Oak
Harbor. He will at once enter the car
rying trade for the p. S. Iron Co., and
will start in on lime stone from the Scurr
Bros quarry on the north side of San
Juan Island. This stone is used in large
quantities in smelling iron at the fur
mace.
A LAW suit of some local iutereat was
decided in Justices court at Coupeville
on Tuesday. Col. Haller sued Il. B.
Jayne for forcible detainer of land at
tempted to be held under Il lease. A
jury trial was had resulting in verdict
for plaintiff. Justice Straub presided.
q. NJ. Haller, OF Seattle, appeared for
plaintiff and d. w. Smith. Of this place,
fought the case determinedly for de-
fendant
IT is rumored that the o. Il. & n Co.
is about to buy offthe opposition line be-
tween Seattle and Whatcom. Ii they
succeed, OF course fares will 10 up again
to the old figure. For some time past
fifty cents and one dollar have been the
uniform fares between the points named,
Now thatthe semi-weekly mail is to be
extended clear through to Whatcom, the
route becomes still more valuable, and
the likelihood is that il this opposition
is bought off it will be succeeded by
another.
That CANAL.-Along with other talk
about progress and commercial develop
ment on Puget Sound is proposed can
al separating WILDLY Island ut the head
pf Penn's Cove. 1t had been discussed
moGe or less seriously and with business
calculation for some time, but now the
proposition seems to be assuming tangi-
ble form. If capital is successfully en-
listed in it, as now seems probable, the
work can be accomplished If the scheme
is successful, it will probably result in
Coupevillc becoming shipping point
for large proportion of tue farm pro-
duce of the Skagit valley and vicinity,
OAK HARBoR. Oak Harbor is pro-
gressirg. The corporation who have
undertaken to develop that locality by
public improvements is neither dead nor
dying by any means. AS proof of this,
the new wharf, extending from the old
one, nov covers something over three
hundred feet in length and is covered
with good planking. 1t will have to be
extended about twelve hundred feet in
length before it will reach point that
can be reached by steamers at all stages
Of the tides. but the stockholders are de-
termined to apply the earnings OF the
wharf in extending it until the desired