, 1883-10-04
With nnr EEchanses.

merchant at jacksonville, skipped with
another man taking $1,000.
The first through freight over the
Northern Pacific railroad has arrIFeI,
addressed To John Dean, Tacoma,
\ man 100 wears old recently filed on
d claim at the Huron Office. lie says he
came west to grow up with the country.
The Dalrymple fam, on the Northern
Pacific Railroad, III Dakota, has 26~D
acres i'll wheat, and 1000 acres IN oa.s
and barley.
At the Snohomish term, the gra2d
jury found four indictments tor gam
bling, one for attempted murder and
one for keeping house Of prosItu-
ton,
The strike at Departure Ray AMONGST
the miners at the South and North Wei
lington coal mines is over, the men 20
ing back to work under terms mutual to
to the employers and employees.
The printers of New Tacoma have
organized typographical union. Ap-
plIcation Will be made at once for 4
charter from the international Typo
graphical Union al Washington, ID. C.
The foot-race between Lee Plaster
of Ferndale AMI Wm. Cain of Semi
ahmoo, for 500 a side, viii come off
at Ferndale on Monday, the 10Th of
October, between the hours of 10 and
ii \. N. Distance 10 yards.
An Indian who passed through town
this week, says the Coifax Gazette, stated
that he had won two hundred ponies
and three squaws by bettinEon the CGuer
d AIene horse races. His human prop
erty was exhibited with considerable
pride.
Bark Oregon, which sailed from Port
Discovery lumber laden last June for
Coquimbo, was lost at sea August 18th.
The captain was drowned, but the crew
saved, and picked up by the British ship
Leicester castle and taken 20 San Fran
cisco.
Blackleg, that most fatal of all cattle
diseases, has made its appearance near
Heppner, Or. At prescntit IS only trOub-
ling calves six or eight months old. but
unless the scourge Is stopped it will at
tack the larger cattle, and perhaps
spread all over the country.
\ blast charged with 1900 pounds Of
gunpowder was recently discharged on
the kalama branch, which demolished
the whole side of perpendicular rock
bluff Pieces OF solid rock that III all
probability reached In weight 1900 tons,
went crashing down, making the earth
tremble with their fall
FoR WEST PoIEF. The examination
of candidates for the West Point Mill
tdry Cadetship will take place at 8 A NJ.
on Saturday next, IN room y of Central
school building, under the direction of
Prof o. S. Jones' Col. G.. o. Hallcr and
DR.. T. T. Minor. We trust there will
be large class of candidates.-P-L
A telegram from Astoria says: The
British bark Cairnsmorc, which went
ashore near Point Adams, was by order
of Capt. Gibbs sold at auction here to-
day, by Z. G. Holden. She was pur-
chased by Brown & McCabe, of Portland,
for 1925. Her cargo of cement was pur-
chased by the same parties FOR S25.
Three boats belonging TO the bark were
purchased by w. WEIGH for 800.
SALMON IN THE SoUND.-Mr H. L.
Levy states that salmon are now being
caught in large numbers. One of his
Indian crews caught 23IS large fish at one
haul of the seine yesterday afternoon. 1t
has only been during the past few days
that salmon came in from the deep
water so.{they could be taken. 1t is
more than likely the packers from this
time on to the close Of the season Will
have more fish than they can care for.
A curious well III Nissoula County,
Mont, contains but eighteen inches of
water, which never lowers an inch
though water is CONSTANT pumped from
it to supply steam boiler. AT depth
of thirty feet solid ice forms around the
pipe in the hottest weather. As strong
draft of air comes up from the bottom,
the well is supposed to tap a subterra-
mean channel.
The city of st. Paul, Mimi, has grown
in the space of a single generation from
an obscure point in the wilderness on the
upper Mississippi to a city of 100000
people, with Il wholesale trade of S66.-
100000 annually, and a banking bust
ness of S116,000,000. Nine great rail
roads enter the city and five more knock
ing for entrance. One hundred and
tifty-five railroad trains now run into
and out of the city daily. Four thouI
sand new buildings will be erected In
1888, at a cost of $l0,000,000, and among
them brick blocks with a frontage of
more than mile, costing over 5000, 600
NINNEAPoLIs FLOUR MLLs-A CON
servative estimate made by the North
1ceStern Miller put the daily capacity of
the Minneapolis mills at 26,660 barrels.
A year ago at this date the capacity was
estimated at 2l,250 barrels The years
increase therefore is $40. 1t is claimed
that these amounts more nearly repre-
sent the real working figures than is
usually the case with statements of this
kind. A study Of these figures gives
some interesting results. The number
of bushels of wheat that are required to
make the 1850 barrels of flour per dav
would be $4,000, the transportation OF
which would take 266 cars, or a solid
train of a mile and three-quarters in
length. Beside the flour, the daily pro
duct of miilstuff would be 400 tons, to
haul both of which would require 32S
cars and l6 locomotives, or more than
two miles of solid train Union.