, 1883-06-07

assessed atS1,25 per acre.
Rev. Geo. ". Sloan, Presbyterian
minister, makes charges against the man.
agemert of the Territorial Insane asylum
at Steilacoom, for cruelty.
At the Masonic Grand Lodge session
III Seattle about a hundred delegates
and officers are present There are thirty
seven lodges in the Jurisdiction.
1t is roughly estimated that this years |
acreage of grain in Spokane county Will
reach 5000, and it is safe to say that
over 100000 bushels VIII be harvested.
The miller's national association esti- |
mates the wheat cIcp of the entire wheat
belt of the country, for this year at 273,-
000.000 bushels, California leading with
45,O00,O00 bushels
The population of Island county shows
an increase of from 70 to 100 over the
census of 1880. The assessment roll is a
little over S45A,0D0, or an increase over
last year of nearly 100000.
Yellow fever has already appeared in
Havana, and a spread of the scourge in
this country is feared. OF course all pre-
cautions to prevent this Will be taken,
let US hope with success.
Deeorat ion day was not formally OBJ
served IN Port Townsend, but it wasap-
preciated and our citizens heartily sym
4l,o nICn-
where in honor of that occasion.
BY the new customs regulations of
Canada no boats under fifteen tons
burthen shall carry any goods from Il
foreign country, which are liable to
duty, under pain of seizure, after the 3Gth
of June.
The Yakima Record says that in no
| instance has farming land III that vicini-
| ty sold for less than $50 per acre. Mr..
Heaton, living about five miles from
Yakima City, recently refused $500 for
his farm, which was at the rate of $50
per acre.
A terrible catastrophe occurred on
Brooklyn bridge, n. Y, yesterday occas-
stoned by fooiishly circulated report
that the bridge was giving way. A pan
ic ensued in which the immense crowd of
surging humanity on it forgot their
senses entirely, and men, WON and
children were remorselessly trampled un-
der foot. Many lives were lost and hun
IroI- ,vara r,,.ir,aJ
INADEQUATE ACCoHMoRATECN.-W When
the steamship Dakota Jeff San FraHci5-
co last Friday, over one hunderd pas
sengers ior the Sound were refused pas.
sage on her, as already great many
more tickets had been sold than there
were Accommodations for. 4 large num-
her of those who were refused passage on
her sailed the next day for Portland by
the steamship Oregon and arrived on the
Starr last evening. Many, who would
have come to the Sound if possible, were
induced to remain in Oregon.-Post-
IntelHgsncer.
A new process for treating wood, in
order to protect it from the destruc-
tive teredo, has been invented, and a
piece of the wood so protected will be
placed in the waters of Puget Sound, by
! the agent to test the value of the dis
covery. 1t is claimed that by boiling
timber in certain fluid it will preserve
it from dry rot, and it is probable
that it may also make it unpalatable for
the teredo. a submersion of the timbers
treated in the Sound for two months will
test the matter. The prepared timber is
expected at the office of the o. r. & n.
Co, in this city in few day Tacoma
Meas.
THE BQNITA,-This vessel is described
by the Victoria Post as follows: She is
of 356 tons burthen, and is commanded
BY Capt. H. d. Leland, the purser being
Mr.. Warren Stealy. The Bonita was
built in San Francisco about twelve
years ago by Messrs. Dickey Bros. for
Messrs. Goodall, Perkins & Co., for
| pleasure yacht, but the firm subsequent
ly decided to put her in the trade. She
is a fast boat, making eleven and a half
knots when laden, and well furnished
in every respect.
The total area of Ireland is only 3d.
424 square miles, less than one-half of
the size of Washington Territory. Three
fourths Of its area is arabic land, one
twentieth is covered with lake and for
est, and about one-fifth is bog OF noun
tain, unfit for cultivation. Its present
population is less than 100000, though
| it has been upwards of 100000 If Ire
land were the mistress of her own des-
TIMES, and could introduce manufac-
lures and have a commerce of her own,
she could readily support twice the pop
ulation.