, 1883-08-09
F-ouT I.oU,Eas , Daily

Brig S3ti1a. lori"i A. Port Discovery
with lumber for =. f.. was towed to sea
tins morning.
The steamer ". L Ncrwm has been
engaged ly the Suohomish Base Bal
Club for an excursion to Port Townsend
next Sunday.
The Dakota brought - passengers TO
Victoria, II t" Port Townsend. - for
Seattle, 30 for Tacoma and 10 for OIym-
pia- 900 altogether
Waterman X Katz have always been
known to sell cheaper than any house
here, and are lowest in prices even now
during large competition.
The saw mill and shipyard company
who are TO start at the head of the bay
are having their bonds for deeds to the
lands made ont today.
The ship Valley Forge is loading with
lumber at Port Discovery for San Fran
cisco. Bark Mary Glover will be towed
up the Sound from Discovery to load
with piles.
The Snohomish Eye man walls out in
anguish: why is tso much easier to
tell Il lie than the TRUTH Better stop it,
brother, and maybe it won't seem so
much easier.
A merry crowd of pleasure seekers
went to Dungeness today on the Dis
patch, consisting of Mr.. and Mrs. w. o.
Chapman, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hastings.
and Mrs Kinds.
Capt. Gilmore advertises the steamer
Hope for general freight, passenger and
towing business. The Hope is a staunch
craft, and Capt. Gilmore can be relied
upon for thorough service.
Townsend Iron Works have felt the
necessity Of enlarging their advertise
ment. They are doing a rushing bust
ness and want the world to know it.
Drop in and see them as you go by.
Most everybody listened to the music
when the Starr came IN from up the
Sound this morning. 1t was made by
the Nickle-Plate Circus band. They will
play here on their return from Victoria.
Miss Carel Grouse, who sang with such
telling effect. "For GODDESS sake don't
say that 1 told you," has gone to Alaska
as special correspondent of the Portland
NetrS. She called on Us before starting,
but for goodness sake
Silver salmon are running off Dun
geness ins quantities greater than has
been known before for a long time
Indians there are taking them by the
canoe load. Mr.. Dean, of the Sequim
cannery is buying them for 10cts. apiece
INDIAN TROUBLE In ALAsKA.-Mr. P.
Corcoran wrote to Mr.. Eisenbeis, of this
place, under date of July 30th: 1--WE
are having trouble with the Indians
They killed three white men, and the
end is not yet. We caught one of the
murderers and hung him. We are ex-
pecting the war ship Adams every hour"
Mr.. John Appleton's stock of ready
made boots and shoes has arrived, and
he advertises in today's ARGus his readi-
ness to accommodate the public. He has
fitted up his shop neatly with shelves, &c,
freshe ming it with paint,a moving his
workshop into the back room. If you
want good bargain call on him.
SNoHoMIsH CoAL.--A party of pros
pectors, consisting of chief engineer
Chapman, of the Mastick, chief engineer
Duane, of the Blakely, and Mr.. F. Wat
kinds have just returned to Port Discov-
cry from a prospecting tour in the Sno-
homish valley, few miles above the
mouth of the river. They brought down
two or three canoe loads of coal, one
load of which they lost by the canoe cap
sizing. OF this coal couple of sac ks
were brought to Port Townsend today
on the He 'en to be tried. We were in
formed by one of the party that the coal
was discovered in almost unlimited
quantity, and that the originators of the
enterprise, Messrs. j. E. Pugh, E. B.
Mastick and ]. Chapman, of Port Dis
covery. will go ahead with the develop
ment of their promising find. The coal
brought in looks to be of the very best
quality.
Mr.. d. G. Wickham, of San Francisco,
one of Port Townsend's former residents,
is here looking around and renewing his
old acauaintances. de is remembered
by many of our citizens as the gentle
man who played such roaring practi-
cal joke on the boys once, feigning him
self as wounded seriously and getting
all sorts of attention, Hunt can tell you
all about it,. Well, Mr.. Wickham has
been patron of the ARGUS, and has
kept himself posted about US during
all these years that he has been away,
and now he says he will bring his wife
up in few months and if she likes it as
well as he does he will drive peg here
ana tie to 1t. lie looks hale and hearty,
and if he comes to reside, as he probably
will, he may be counted on for good
many years service in carrying on a
local manufacturing ind ustry.
CARRY THE News TO HoRR.-Last
night two men named John Branchcr
and J. G.. Stroud were arrested near the
wreck of the bark Hoadley below Point
Wilson, by Collector Bash and his force,
for alleged violation of the Chinese Re
striction law. They had large white,
open boat that has been seen several
times just before the sudden appearance
of strange Cinnamon. On this occasion
they were noticed by Mr.. Kelley who
quietly went down to the beach with his
dnnr uhan sauan or ainht Cinnamon