, 1883-09-13
From FRIDAY RaEiy.

cisco.
Central Hotel: Robt. I. Hall, Port
land. II. L. Flood, :. F, Thos, J. Powers
city, J, G. HeIse;h. Stanwood
An Office for the saw mill talIyman ha
been built ana il nearly finished, on tn,
shore end of the whays
Robinson's wharf at Cout4ville is com
pleted excepting the covering. The Pill,
driver Is low at work on Blower, !
Parsons wharf.
The accident" to the Queen of the
Pacific Will about drive the last spike
for the Columbia river bar. as far a.
commerce - concerned.
Most of the farmers are just as well
pleased to have court session put off till
later in the season. Their harvesting
and threshinG are IN full blast. and
they viii have chance to do fall pIow-
ing before November 10th.
Messrs. G. G.. Bartlett u Co. have had
large sign painted on the end of their
large stone building, next to the bay.
Port Townsend bristles with signs rs
well as new buildings, and to the incom-
ing visitor it looks quite attractive from
the water.
a pleasant time was had at the ball
given at the Charles Hotel last evening.
About seventy numbers were sold. Mr..
Seidel conducted the evenings pleasure
III such manner as to retain his well
earned reputation as painstaking
host.
At the farewell reception rendered the
Rev. W. S. Harrington, by the members
of the NJ. E. church, of Seattle, who he
so faithfully served the past two years,
he was presented with a handsome gold
watch, as a token of the high respect and
regard with which he was held by his
Island county farmers are harvesting
and threshing fair average grain crop.
Steam threshers putting away in the
fields indicate rushing business. This
years crop of potatoes is being bought
up by traders at Coupeville at fifty cents
per bushel, sacks furnished.
During the foggy, smoky weather of
the past few weeks, it has been quite
difficult for steamers to find their way
from one port to another. The North
Pacific, however, has continued to de-
serve her title of "oId reliable" She
comes in ON time almost as regularly as
during the pleasantest weather
GONE TO Boston. - Judge Greene,
Chief Justice of Washington Territory,
started for Boston the other day, via the
Northern Pacific railroad, to consult a
very celebrated occulist about his eyes,
which have been troubling him for some
years past. He expects to return about
the first of October.
Mr.. Robt. F. Hall, of the well known
firm of Dayton, Hall & Lamberson, deal
ers in hardware, &c, at Portland, Or.
est of his business. Although having
no intention of moving his business
from Portland, he thinks the Sound has
a very bright future, and knows of no
reason why the Sound should not con-
duct Portland's ocean trade. lie
was very favorably impressed with our
elegant stone buildings, completed and
in course of construction; and many
other permanent and important improve
ments made since his visit here few
months ago.
Barkentine John Smith, Capt. Kustel,
arrived from San Francisco. She loads
a cargo of lumber at Port Blakely for
Australia. The Chilian bark
Ausonia arrived from Antofugasta, to
load lumber for Valparaiso. Tug Holy
oke returned from the straits this morn
ing with the bktne. Wrestler and schr.
Queen in tow, having blown out one of
her Aues. Both vessels proceeded to sea
under sail this afternoon. French bark
Emile cleared for Valparaiso today, and
will sail from Port Discovery on Mon
day next.
FIRE.-On Wednesday evening about
dark an accidental fire consumed large
barn on John Gould's farm near Ebey's
Landing in Island county, rented and
worked by the Jenne brothers. Thresh-
ing was going on in the fields, and the
hands were sleeping in the hay in the
barn. 1t seems lantern hung up for
their convenience fell down from some
cause, and the confagration ensued SO
quickly that there was barely time to get
the horses out of the stable. fortunately
the granary was in a separate building,
and, as the grain was all threshed in the
field, there was not much in the barn
but hay. Some horse feed, including
125 bushels of oats, was in the barn and
was consumed; also, few agricultural
implements. The harness was saved, in
damaged condition. Insurance men
from New Tacoma had recently visited
the island and taken risks on most all
the farm buildings, but had not called
on the Jenne boys, it is said, because the
property they occupied was rented. They
are hard working, deserving young men
and their loss is much regretted.
From Sntursday's Daily.
Big bitches for irrigation purposes
are to be built in Kittitas by companies
composed of settlers.
The railroad from Portland to a point
on the Columbia opposite Kalama vii
be in operation by the 18th inst.
Colfax, W. T., has a water company