, 1883-10-11
With Our EXCHANGES.

Olympia has a Temperance Alliance.
Walter Moss minstrels will play in
Tacoma on the 18th and 18th.
The Starr took 765 head of sheep to
Victoria this week-from The Dalles.
The population of Chehalis county is
now between 1000 and 1000, and rapid
ly increasing.
The Medical Lake Press is about to be
sold at auction. Another journalistic
wreck.
1t will cost the government $4,000 to
issue copies of all the records destroyed
in tie Olympia land Office by the recent
fire.
The Seattle Chronicle has succeeded
in getting an investigation into the of
fetal character and acts of Justice Cam,
of that city, ordered by the council.
And now comes Wilson, of Missouri,
and vouches for Miss Althea Hills re-
spectacle standing and high connection
in that state How that is to initiate in
her favor in her disgraceful escapade
with Senator Sharon is difficult to under
stand.
1t takes S2S0S60 to pay the mileage of
the members Of the Legislature this year
all of which goes to show that the
railroad and steamboat companies forgot
to issue free passes this year, or else that
the members forgot to use them; so an
exchange thinks.
1t is reported that Mr.. James Nc
Naught, OF Seattle, a few months ago,
bought 6400 acres of land near Gray's
Harbor, at the government price of Sl,25
per acre, and sold it month afterwards
for $33, 200 clearing about S26, 600, by the
transaction.
The directors of the Northern Pacific,
elected at New York on the Doth of Sep
tember, were as follows: Frederick Bill
lings, Ashbel II. Barney, John W. Ellis,
Roosevelt G.. Rolston, Robert Harris,
Thomas f. Oakes, j. Pierpont, Henry
Willard, New York; J l.. Staekpool,
Benjamin p. Cheney, Boston; John Z
Bullitt, Philadelphia; Henry E. John
ston, Baltimore.
The discovery of an aboriginal pit in
the Forest Home Cemetery, at Chicago,
containing Indian arrow heads, tiints,
stone scalpers, wooden ladies, and cop
per kettle, has followed with almost
comicai speed upon the finding of a cave
in q ST. Louis street enriched with SINH
lar relics The Missouri metropolis will
have to set its Illinois rival harder task
than the production of a cavity lined with
fragments of old bones, pots and stones.
DR.. Paddock, Missionary Bishop of
Washington Territory, stated at the
Episcopal conference in Philadelphia
this week that it is country of vast and
inexhaustible nature, with population
constantly increasing, and where pagan
ism. Ingersollism and Mormonism are
seeking to obtain a foothold. The
churches have increased from SIX to
seven. Bishop Paddock has labored
with untiring zeal for his Church and
the cause of Christianity since he was
sent to this Territory.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax. whose visit to
the Pacifs coast when he was vice preSl-
dent of the United States left such a
pleasant memory in the minds OF those
who met him, is again coming WESTWARD,
his destination being Puget Sound. Tins
is the third trip that he has made to the
Pacific coast, about an equal number or
years intervening between each visit.
His opportunity TO note the develop
ment of the country in the period en-
braced by these visits will be excellent,
and his observations upon the same IN
teresting. The journey this time Is be-
ing made by way of the Northern Pacific
from st. Paul direct
Councilman Power, of Whatcom coun-
ty, has introduced a Bill to divide that
county, and one to provide for organic
ing the southern half into Skaglt coun-
ty. The latter was accompanied by
petition which was signed by over 4OO
residents of Whatcom county, and set
forth that the county was now over 5O by
100 miles in size, and the routes of travel
were such that it was great source OF
bother and expense for many of the peo-
pie to reach the county seat to transact
their business; also that the county is
out of debt, has taxable property to the
amount of about Sl,000,0O0, and popu-
lation of 5000 The petition asks that
the dividing line be drawn between
sections sc and 81, or, in other words,
that the ChuckanUt range of mountains
be the dividing line. This bill promises
to bring on a lively fight; but as there
seems to be justice in the request for a
division, and as large petitions are ar
irving asking for it, and as both mem
bers from that county favor division, 1t
looks very strongly as though the dlvls-
ion would be made.