, 1883-07-26


Tacoma Nr,rs: .'lIany of the readers
OF TIE Ec5"a douhlI.-s remember Jobr
4. kimball, who for some months II
1880 served as rout, agent between this
city AND Port Towu.auI. kinbag was
superseded III the position b. Il gentle
man named Moran, AMI soon after wa.
given the position of route postal agent
on the Central Pac!a.. road. between
Ogden and Reno. Subsequently, he
accepted the same position on the Utah
Northern, and having been detected in
robbing letters OF their valuable con-
tents was tried, convicted AMI sentenced
t. years imprisonment in the Utah
penitentiary, but the influence of his
father Gen Nathan KimbaH. postmaster
at Ogden, procured his pardon. Young
himhali then driftad to San Francisco,
and not ! * since was arrested for
stealing letter from the Russ House.
obtaining therefrom IA draft for S7Ga
payable to a Mrs. White. He procured
the assistance of a female. who person
ated Mrs. White, and drew the money
from the Bank of California. For this
crime he has recently been tried, con-
victed and sentenced for several years
at San Quentin"
THE OREGON SHORT LINE.-Mr. Mos
cript, says the Boise StafemaR, civil
engineer of the Oregon Short Line Rail
way, surveying line down Snake river
from the mouth of Burnt river to Lew
iston, left on Saturday night for Oma-
ha to report to the Oregon Short Line
Company in person. He says the route
is feasible, but there will be pretty heavy
work most of the way. He calculates the
road Will cost $4,000 per mile all the
way. but says 1t can be built in year.
The distance is IS7ll2 miles. The heav-
lest grade will not De more than fifteen
feet to the mile. This viii be through
the canyon below the old Brownlee ferry.
The canyon commences fifteen miles be-
low this ferry, and extends for a distance
of thirty miles. The line he surveyed
crosses the river from this side to TIE
Oregon side Is you enter the canyon, and
crosses back 10 this side soon after you
pass the canyon, and runs ali the rest of
the way down on this side of the river
and crosses the mouth of the Clearwater
!
below Lewiston about 100 miles, and
says it is practical route for raj ilroad,
but he did not survey below Lewiston.
GoyERSoR NEwELL's TRIP Governor
Newell has returned from tour through
the Pacific coast country. He states that
many new comers settling on new lands
III Pacific and Chehalis counties, on the
river bottoms and on Shoalwater Bay and
Gray's Harbor fats, and are very much
encourage with the prdspeets. Oysters
of superior quality are becoming abund-
ant in Shoalwater Bay. Commerce is
largely on the increase ON the Chehalis
river in lumber and general mere handise.
Montesano is fiourisning, new buildings
are being constantly erected, bat re-
strained for want of mechanics and lum-
Der. Elma is very prosperous. Four
teen new buildings are under contract,
in addition to as many more recently
completed. The new saw mill of Mr.
GOodell runs with relays ot hands eight
cen hours Il day without integmis5ion,
with more orders than he can ill ahead.
All people look anxiously for railroad
connection between the Harbor and the
Sound. Transcript.
CALIFORNIA WaEAT AND BARLEY. The
Committee on Information and Statistics,
appointed by the San Francisco Grain
Exchange, and to whom was referred the
compilation of the acreage seeded to
wheat and barley, and probably, yield
for the present year in this State, report
the following: Wheat 1882, acres
seeded, 2,939. .139; actual yield in centals,
q, ,5O7'S72. 1888, acres seeded, 3,145,026;
probable yield, estimated III centals,
81 $4,000. Barley-lSS2, "o:-s seeded,
679,0O6; actual yield in centals, 7,1H, ,14O.
1888, acres seeded, 9O2,5l1; probable
yield, estimated in cenl4.s, C,.'@.lS0.
Iowa reioices in absolute .lsedom
from debt as a State. The State Treas
urer has just paid the last dollar of the
State war debt and there is no other in
of any kind not covered by
funds in the treasury. Iowa is a good
Republican State, and does honor to
her politics.
Commencing on the first day of Octo-
ber, letter postage in the United States
will be reduced one third-two cent
stamps taking the place of the present
three cent postage.