, 1883-10-18
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Delegate Brents is in Olympia.
Schr. Champion left for Dungeness to-
day.
Zamloch went from here to Port Dis
covery.
Did you hear the band: Wasn't it
splendid:
Don't fail to hear Miss Bessie Louise
King tonight.
Hon. r. G. Kerr has introduced Coun-
ell Bill, No. %, to create the Office of
port warden at Port Townsend.
Difficulties with miners at the Wei
lington colliery seem no nearer a solution
than they were two weeks ago, and the
strike still continues.
Mr.. Kuhn has introduced Bill in the
Legislature TO grant Quimper Manufac-
turing Company franchise to cree: a
wharf at Port Townsend.
Messrs. Weymouth Il Moiatt have a
large sign on the outer end of their
blacksmith and machine shop adjoining
the sash and door factory.
A Bill has been introd uced to prohibit
the killing or destroying OF rinGnecz
Chinese pheasants for four years they
having been but recently introduced
here.
So many other attractions have been
in town this week that Clinger's auction
store has been partially eclipsed-
then we have it, like the poor, always
with us.
Bktne. W. II. Meyer is loaded and
about ready for sea with the first cargo
coastwise from the Port Townsend saw
mill. She has on board 100000 feet of
lumber, for San Francisco.
Miss NJ. Foster, who so successfully
taught the intermediate department OF
our public school three years ago, is now
interested in millinery and fancy goods
store in McAiinnville, Ogn.
Mr.. G. w. O'Brien, who has been en-
ployed for some time as clerk and tally
man in the Port Townsend saw mill, left
this morning TO seek fame and fortune
elsewhere. Mr.. O'Brien is a worthy
young man, and while expressing our re
gret at losing him from the place, We
cannot refrain from saying We hope he
may be prosperous.
Capt. Christopher Williams has moved
his family back to Port Discovery, lie
having taken command of the tug Mas
tick again Capt. Williams is interested
in hardware store here, and has bought
residence on the hill, yet he finds it
difficult to keep away from the salt water;
in fact his services seemed to be so valu-
able to the Discovery Mill Co. as mas
ter of their tug boat that they offered him
a big inducement to return We hope
Port Townsend will not lose the vii =
iams family permanently.
Settlers who have to make second
pilgrimages TO Olympia to make out
their papers, in Consequence of the burn
the racket" 1t really seems as though
they could have beeu spared the enor-
nous expense consequent upon such
trips, where the originals of the notices
could be had. However, our citizens can
now appreciate the necessity of land
office at Port Townsend. This thing of
people having to travel from one to two
hundred miles to the land office and re-
turn, and then repeat the dose in the
bargain, gets monotonous.
Some of the best specimens ot carving
we have seen for many a day were
brought from the north by Judge Swan
on his recent return. Hehad two walk
ing canes, each carved from crabapple
wood, each with a large snake coiled
round it, carved as natural as life. Both
canes had finely carved heads made ont
OF ivory from walrus tusks, one repre-
senting human hand grasping writh
ing snake in the act of swallowing a frog
the other being an elephants head,
taken from picture of Barnum's Jumbo
We are sure these will be highly priced
specimens of Indian carvings at the
Smithsonian whittier they are to be
sent; indeed they would do credit to any
person.
- A New ExERCIsE.-Probably the next
excitement here will be bicycle contest;
at least from the feats witnessed in q
back yard the other day we should judge
some one was practicing with view to a
public exhibition in the future. Three
of our prominent citizens were the actors.
The two-wheeled vehicle was an inno-
cent-lOoking thing; in fact it was too
meek to look you In the face. No. 1, a
merchant and Alaska speculator, mount
ed the Misunderstanding thing Just to
see how it worked. He soon found out
that next to wheelbarrow bicycle is one of
the handiest things TO fall over ever seen.
No. 2, who carries mountain of flesh
around for his hotel sign, imagined he
could hold the ''tarnal thing" down by
sheer force, so he sat down ON it. But
the sad-eyed bicycle was equal to the
occasion. 1t just caromed on a gate
post and slammed that human jumbo up
against the wash house and stood him on
his head. After retiring to a corner to
chuckle and wink at itself, it was again
called into requisition by No. 3, festive
webfooter, who didn't propose to let a
dog-goned double-ender wheelbarrow
get the start of him, even if it did fun
muY a couple of plebian clam-eaters.
Well, he hitched up his pants and sailed
in; but the critter had got its blood up
by this time, and there wasn't any fool