, 1883-02-09
RRIEF LOCAL ITEMS.
From Saturdays Daily.

about two weeks.
FAIRHAvEN is the name OF new town
site, with great expectations, laid oil
near Whatcom by Daniel Harris.
THEsteamer Hope met with an acci-
dent to her machinery, and was towed
back to Union wharf today by the IDis
patch.
The schooner Maria Il. Smith, load
ed with 246 thousand feet of lumber
from Utsalady, bound for Honolulu,
leaves for sea tonight.
BY change in the p. G. Cos adver-
tisement it will be seen that Mr.. George
Johnson is ticket agent at Seattle, in
stead OF W. H. Pmphrey
The valuable ring advertised in
last evenings ARGUS was found by Mr..
+. w. Peitygrove who reported at this
Office today Nothing like Advertising
LAST evening the Good Templars' lodge
at this place was augmented by the re-
ception of three new members from the
crew OF the ship Daniel Barnes now ly-
ing in our horbor.
Mrs. DR. Potts is taking Seattle by
storm. Her lectures at that place are
given at YeslCr'5 Hall, large and com
modious building, yet crowds are nightly
turned away for want of room. Read heI
advertisement elsewhere.
IF any one wants to recover lost or
stolen boat, Jim Furloag is the man to
employ. Hearing Of one being smuggled
in from British Columbia some tim,
ago, he has b,en on "still hunt for it
A few days ago he got clew, and soon
started to secure the prize which he did
finding it sacretal in barn below Dun.
gennss. twas probably stolen from the
British side by runaway sailors,
An exchange notes a report from the
Victoria COionist, that a vessel is ash ore
between Neah Bay and Cape Flattery
on the American side, and that the
Wolcott went to the rescue OF the wreck
supposed to be the ship Theobald
We learn that the report is false one
and that no vessel is ashore at or neal
the point indicated. Besides, the VOL
colt went on cruise among the San
Juan islands, on other business.
The oss of the steamship Tacoma was
as complete surprise to everybody AZ
anything could well be. No foggy OF
otherwise unfavorabe weather had inter.
vened to render her voyage petilous
one, and she was commanded by vet
eran sailor, an accomplished navigator
who had served with distinction in the
U. S. coast survey service. Certainly he
was as well acquainted with the route as
any officer on the coast. The disaster
can only be accounted for on the theory
OF defective instruments. The loss is a
serious one outside OF its financial bear
ing on the G. p. r. Il. Co. 1t is a sad
blow to the growing commerce OF Puget
Sound. The Tacoma was the finest
steamship ever coming to these waters
she was bran new, and had just taken her
first cargo, consisting OF $500 tons Of coal
from the O. p. R. r. Co.'S mine back OF
New Tacoma The total loss will be not
far from quarter OF million dollars.
THE NEAH BAY MAIL Ro1rE.--The
Post-InteHigencer is rather severe on the
mail contractors on the route betweeu
Port Townsend and Neah Bay and says
tn / they have received several COM
plants from patrons in Clalam county
about the great irregularity of delivering
mails. We are no advocate or apOlOgist
for old, worn out plugs of steamers of
which Seattle has the largest proportion
of any place on the Sound. But in the
instance of the Dispatch tho Mail steam
er to Neah Bay; she has just been thor
oughly repaired, has new boiler and is
in better condition now than she has
been since she was first built. The great
and vexatious delays to which the own
ers have been subjected during her re-
pairs at Seattle have been the sole cause
which has prevented the Dispatch being
on the route month since. Now that
she is in running condition again we pre-
dict that she will carry the mails with
regularity, promptness and dispatch. If
however her owners fail in these require.
ments, then the public will take the mat
ter in hand, and see that suitable steam.
or gets the contract. 1t will be an illus
tration of the survival of the tittest."
Now that the Post Inteifgercer has
started this steamboat theme we hope it
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