, 1883-05-24
Irrorla iriSEnN's NnilY.

MT, NtLcf MlTOy, Oh Olympla, Is III
town.
Seattle is nearing the street railway
period of municipal growth.
The steam tug Holyoke arrived yes
terday from San Francisco.
The Townsend Iron Co.'S new building
Is being carried forward to rapid COM
| pletion.
Hurry up and get that planning ma
chine at work. Flooring and rustic are
in demand.
Mr.. and Mrs, J. G. Horr are expected
here every day from San Francisco. They
came by way of Portland.
Capt ii. Roeder, of Whatcom, is in
town, and is suffering from a disagreea-
bic cough, though he is improving
Mrs. Frank Bartlett leaves on the
Elder tonight to join her husband in San
Francisco, the latter. having left on the
steamer of the llth,
Mr. Powers, Of Protection Island,
complains Of having to re-seed his
potato land, the seed planted having
rDtted in the ground.
The British Columbia Provincial
Parliament has been prorogued and
politics will be quiet again across the
waters For while.
Mrs. Shakespeare, of Victoria, wife of
the M. Z. at Ottawa, has gone East to
meet her husband, They will pay
visit to the "old folks" in England be-
fore returning home.
The Presbyterian Sunday school is
rehearsing for one Of those "Song Ser
vices" that will be rendered shortly, of
which due notice will be given.
Mr.. NJ. ]. Carkeek, the stone cutter
and contractor, was in town yesterday,
but we learn was an unsuccessful bidder
for the contract to erect the new bank
building He returned to Seattle today.
The British bark Kate Irving, par
TALLY loaded with redwood from Cali
fornia, arrived this morning. She will
finish her cargo with lumber on the Sound
and go to Port Adelaide, Australia.
Whatcom has its telegraph Office re-
established at last. We were urging this
matter some weeks since, and are glad
that Supt. Lamb, OF the Western Union
inei has acceedcd to the wishes of the
Whatcom folks in reference thereto.
We are authorized to state that the
steamship Victoria will leave this port
for Alaska On or about the 2lst. Ship
pers would do well TO get as much of
their freight on board of her as possible,
as the June trip will be devoted more to
eXCursionists.
"Hol" Wayson killed a fine back bear
last night, near his fathers residence,
about three miles from town. His bear
ship had come for piclings around
where butchering bad been done, when
a leaden messenger put stop to his
fun.
An educational meeting is to be held
this evening at Olympia, to be addressed
by Judge Lewis and President Powell,
OF the Territorial University. The object
is to perfect plans for founding a high
school under the auspices OF the NJ. E.
Church. 1t is thought that Olympiawill
be selected ag the location of the school.
One of our correspondents says that
the steamer GazrlIe wNs sunk in about
eleven feet depth OF water where she
went down in the NookSacG river, and
that the steamer may prove total loss,
as the stream is higher than it was. She
had no cargo on beard and there were
no lives lost. Get that suag boat at
work ara clear the river Of distractions
atonce, and such losses as this would not
| occur.
While in Victoria the other day we
| noticed the new COiOHi8 brick building
to be well under way. It isa handsome,
connections and substantial structure,
two stories hifh, and will be one OF the
finest newspaper Offices on the coast,
Mr.. Higgins deserves great creditor the
enterprise and energy manifested in
building up his fine business. He IS
now largely engaged in lithograph label
printing, and this with the government
printing gives him large amount OF
work aside from that on his newspaper
The question of restricting Chinese
immigration 20 British Columbia has
lccn vigorously debated in the Ottawa
! Iouse Of Commons, but no decisive