, 1883-08-30
Clippings,
Seattle wants street railways.


at Seattle to receive Gen. Sherman.
4 calculation made at the Post office
Department shows that only one regis
tered letter in every 1900 is lost.
Governor Newelrs name has been sug-
gested by Monmouth, N. j. paper
for the next republican nominee for
President.
The eastern and western ends of the
Northern Pacific Railroad met at P NJ,
August 22d, at point 7O1 miles east
of Portland.
The duration of kiss has been found
to be from one second to one and Il
quarter minutes, according to whether
you are kissing Your wife or the hired
girl.
Gen. US. Grant, Secretary Robert
Lincoln, Hon. VIM. Evarts, and others
hardly less distinguished, Will come
west with Mr.. Henry Willard, to witness
the driving of that famous last spike
Colfax. ". T., is to have Il First
National Bank" with $4,000 capital.
Levi Ankeny, NJ. S. Burren, d. p. Thomp-
son, W. V. Spencer, J. H. BeIbnger and
others are its main owners.
The Treasury Department has made a
ruling that Canadian tugs cannot tow an
American vessels from Canadian waters
into American waters beyond the first
American port at which they make an
entry.
The steamship WaiIa Walla is lying
with her stern ballasted down on st.
Helen's bar, below Portland, stirring up
the mud with her propeller, to make
temporary channel so that light draft
vessels may pass up the creek to the
metropolis of Oregon.
An old citizen in country village
being asked for a subscription toward
repairing the fence of the graveyard, de-
clined, saying, II subscribed toward i'm
provir' that buryin' ground nigh unto
forty years ago, and my family hain't
had no benefit from it yeti"
Land Office statistics for Oregon show
an increase of cash sales during the past
year from 52,319 acres at $SS, $50, to 56,-
666 acres at Sl23, SOB; homestead entries
have fallen off in the same time from
l53, ,532 acres to ILL., ,476 acres, and tim
Der culture entries more than half. In
Washington Territory the increase has
been remarkable in all departments, that
in homestead entries being I55, GAG acres
in the last year.
Down in Sacramento they have the
cleaning-up mania badly. The doctors
and the health officers, accompanied by
the police and reporters have been visit
ing the Chinese quarters and the pub
lished reports are so vivid as to almost
turn the stomach of the reader. One
agent, who rents and collects of Chinese
tenants, has been arrested and convicted
of maintaining nuisance. 1t is serious
ly proposed to make the Chinese move
out of town.
Gustavus johnson, who resides on the
Stringham place, halfway between Sc
attic and Lake Union, met with instant
death, Saturday. johnson was engaged
IN telling a cedar tree, which lodged
against another tree. When the second
tree fell it struck johnson on the head,
driving him into the soft ground nearly
TO his hips and killing him instantly
The deceased was shoemaker by trade,
and leaves a family to mourn his un-
timely and violent death
An exchange remarks that the growth
of the Grand Army of the Republic
speaks well for the cohesive power of
patriotic memories and historic associa-
tions. Paul Vandervoort, commander
in-chief of the order, in his current re-
port shows that during the first six
months of his administration up to
December 31st, 1882, there was Il gain of
1850 posts-50,00O membres; and since
February 1902 posts have been chartered
in Kansas, Nebraska, Michigan, Illinois
New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The Commissioner of the Gereral Land
| Office has issued circular to Registers.
Receivers and special agents, call their
attention to the unlawful enclosure of
public lands, and directing them to
promptly report the number and extent
of all such cases, with necessary corrob-
Grating evidence, that they may be
transmitted to the Department of Jus.
tice. The circular concludes as follows:
This Department has no authority to
prosecute such trespassers, and when the
cases have been referred to the Depart
ment of Justice for appropriate action,
the duty of this department. is perfected
and its jurisdiction ceases"
CHoKED TO DEATH.-Rev Geo. Sheath,
well known on the Sound, was taken
sick at Snonomish City some two weeks
ago, and has been stopping at the resi-
dence ofJohn Harvey, where Dr. Rainey
has been attending him. On Monday
morning the sick man got up, dressed
himself, and appeared to feel quite well,
the only trouble being swelling in his
throat, of which he complained. The
doctor gave him a powder, which he
took, and as he swallowed it commenced
to choke, and before he could be relieved
he died, while stand ing in his tracks.
Every effort was made to resuscitate him,
but to no avail. POSt-Inlelligencer.
Ten or twelve years ago the Swinomish
tide flats were a waste of unreclaimed
marsh; today they blossom as the rose, ,"
and the magnitude offarming operations
IN that locality is amply illustrated in
the following from the La Conner JIaR:
1.-The harvest is now in full blast in these
parts The click of the self-binder is
heard in all directions, and in a week OF
two the steam threshers will be footing
their horns AT present the rival ma
ehlnery men are active in extoiling the