, 1883-10-25
Fro.n satur,..r.s Daily.
Foggy weather again.

FOggy weather again.
Capt. Dalgardno is having an observa-
tory erected on the roof of his hotel
building.
Capt. S. d. Libby, of the steam tug
Goliah, Is reported very i'll with lung
fever at Port Gamble.
We have received sample copy of the
Penman'S Art Journal, an able and use
full publication, issued monthly at 205,
Broadway, n. Y, at 81 per year.
The Medical Lake Press Is now issued
by the Medical Lake Mfg. Co, aided by
one typo. 1t has no editor and looks like
a sick patent medicine poster struck by a
cyclone.
Usual service in the Presbyterian
church tomorrow, the paster having re-
turned from Victoria,and recovered from
the severe cold that interfered with his
work last Sabbath.
Major w. IL. H Wasson, special q.
S. Treasury agent, arrived again from
Washington yesterday. Major Wasson's
many friends were glad to see his genial
c9untenance again.
Evidently the warehouse room on
Union wharf is inadequate to meet re-
quirements. 1t has been found necessary
to enclose shed room adjoining one of
the warehouses, 12x50 feet.
The mother of Joaquin Miller "the
poet of the Sierras," was married in
Portland last Thursday. The bride is 60
years of age; her husband, whose name
Is Allison, is %.
At the Louisville exposition Governor
Berry of Arkansas was presented with a
suit of clothes made of Arkansas cotton,
within forty-eight hours of the time it
was picked in the field.
Mr.. J. C. Heath has returned after a
brief visit TO his former home in Kansas.
Mr.. Heath looks well after his trip which
was made in remarkably quick time, and
says he will now become permanent
resident of Port Townsend.
Councilman Cation, from Walla Waila
county, intends to introduce ajoint reso-
luton providing for the appointment of
territorial commission which will pro-
ceed to Washington to convince con-
gress that the territory should be ad-
mitted as a state at once. He will ask
an appropriation, and feels confident
that his fellow Legislators will see the Use
and urgency of his scheme. The reso-
luton will probably be submitted next
week.
FIRE AT New TACoMA.-A fire broke
out yesterday afternoon on Pacific Ave
nue. in New Tacoma, and in a short time
had caused much loss. 1t originated in
the drug store of Mr.. st. Clair, and from
it attacked the block of E. n. Ouimette
and the residence of Mr.. Peterson. The
loss OF Mr.. Ouimette consists of a two
story house of 65 feet front and almost
the same depth, with household furni-
ture and dry goods and clothing store;
| altogether within the neighborhood oi
$4,000. The Peterson dwelling was
worth probably a thousand or twelve
hundred dollars, and the drug store
twice as much. The postoflice alongside,
and the store of Holt & Pendegast in the
same room were quickly cleaned out, but
much loss and damage done in the hasty
removal. 1t is said that Holt & Pende-
gast and Ouimette were partially insured
but of the others we could not learn
New Tacoma is perhaps the least pro
tected against fire OF any town of its pop
ulation in the country, and that it has
not before been all but destroyed has
been miracle. .-POstIItte
THE CATTLE RANGE.-The fall round.
up" of cattle on the range lying between
the Yakima and Columbia was brought
to a close this week. From Nicholas
Mccoy, one of the leading cattle men OF
this section, We learn that notwithstand
ing the fact that there has been no rain
during the summer, the grass is still
green-so much so as TO attract the at
tention of stock men as something very