, 1883-03-08
From Sa tnrday's Daily.

Mr.. S. Baxter, of Seattle, is in town
today.
FRUIT trees are budding out nicely
in the gardens on the hill.
Coal shipments from Seattle during
the month of February vas l2,465 tons.
Mr.. Geo. Barthrop has partitioned of
the hall formerly used by the Red Men,
and intends fitting up bed rooms.
WE are informed that the price of
board has been raised in the hotels of
this place from % to so cents a meal
SURVEYORS are Aept busy laying of
building lots, great activity being dis
played among real estate men here.
Foreign immigration is credited with
fetching $l0,O00,000 of money into Win
nipeg, beside bones, muscle and brains
in one year.
New shelves and counters have been
placed in the new addition to Eisenbes'
stone building, and we understand dry
goods store will soon be started there.
The suit for $25,OO0 damages begun
against the Oregonidn by Jim. Turk, the
notorious boarding house master of
Portland, for defamation of character
was decided in favor of the paper.
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The wife of Mr.. Gus. Moll who re-.
sides near Tukeys landing dropped
dead yesterday, it is supposed from
heart disease. Mrs. Moll came here last
summer from Germany, and was mar
ried soon after arrival.
Mr.. Waterman, of the firm of Water
man & Katz goes to San Francisco on
the Goth for a new Spring stock. This
firm intends closing out the goods now
on hand to make room for the immense
stock to come, and will sell goods at cost
from the Doth on.
JUDGING from appearances Spring has
arrived, coming in with a grand bounce.
We met frog on the sidewalk yesterday,
and it told us Spring had come sure.
We thought it was trying to fool us, but
the animal swore twas fact just as sure
as it was an overgrown tadpole.
HE coal brought from Alaska came
from Admiralty Island, and is the proper
ty of G. G. Bartlett of this place, he hav-
ing purchased the mine. The coal was
tested here last night with splendid re-
suits. A sample was taken to Irondale
to be tested for coking. We hope this
mine will prove success.
A TELEGRAM received here today by
| G. NJ. Bradshaw, Pros. Attorney, from
Acting Governor Owings, at Olympia,
states that the Warrant of Bxtradition"
from the Canadian government in the
case of Dixon and Wise has arrived, and
has been forwarded to Mr.. Bradshaw.
1t will doubtless arrive by Mondays
mail, and the parties be taken to Seattle
the place of their crime, Tuesday next.
WE have received copy of the p. M.
4. Semi annual published at Peekskill,
n. Y, by students OF the Military Acade
my. 1t is a very well gotten up little
paper, full of school news and the doings
of the scholars. Theo. N. Haller, well
known in this town, is a student in the
Academy. We notice Theod'y appears
in the paper as follows:
In the prize fight between Haller and
Eddie Poey, the former was knocked out
of time in four rounds.
TIE organization Of the new bank will
probably be completed next week, and
business will be commenced as soon as
the me- assary authority arrives from
Washington. 1t will be called the First
National Bank of Port Townsend" We
are informed that the originators in
tend putting mp bank building i'm
meliately. AS the promoters OF the en-
terprise are all solid business men, with
reputation for honesty ana ability
already we'll established, we have no
doubt the bank will be a success from
the start, and will go far tie prove the
stability Of Port Townsend as business
center.
In the coast and geodctic service the
government has % vessels in all Ten
are steamers-l stern-wheeler and y
screws and Of them 8 are in the Allan
tic and Gulf service and in the Pacific,
the screw steamers Hassler, built in 1871 |
and 2l3 tons burden, and the McArthur |
built five years later and registering ll2
tons. OF sailing vessels, II schooners
and one sloop the Steadfast OF 30 tons,
are all in service in the Atlantic and /