, 1883-11-01
Clippings

SIPplASS-
II Is alleged that Postmaster Genera
/ Gresh ham will incorporate i'll his annual
| report Il recommendation for the estab-
lishment by the Government of postal
saving banks.
Governor Newell says that the report
that he was about to resign on account
Of unpopularity was a gross ana malIci-
ous false hood, c0ncocted Icy few Of his
enemies for the purpose of injuring him.
Tie St. Paul PiOHreF-i2 2re~s notes that
Montana's ambition for statehood is
breaking out i'll the county conventions
10 elect delegates to the Territorial con
veHtion called by the legislature tO meet
at Helena next January. This conyen-
ton is likely TO embrace the leading bus
incsS and professional men i'll the Terri
tory, and its deliberations, it is believed
beforehand, will be in the line of state
organization on something like the Da-
kota plan.
The hill of Mr.. Powers, To organize the
county of Skagit, WAS defeated, owing to
the friends of the bill insisting upon It's
going to vote before a certain amend
ment, giving the old court house to the
old county absolutely, could be inserted.
Several members who voted against the
passage of the bill now say they will
vote to call it up again for recommit-
meHt in order that the objection may be
removed, when they will vote for ii. \
very strong lobby has been working here
/ for several days to defeat the measure.
+. \. Shulze, an Arizona miner ald
Indian scout lately returned from Sonora,
Mex, says Of the result of Gen. Crooks
campaign that Indians have never gone
on the San Carlos reservation, but have
remained at CaSas Janos, 20 miles from
the nearest military post. The people of
Sonora disapprove of Gen. Crooks Indian
tactics and claim that it was he who put
the Apache5 in fighting trim; Gen.
Crooks policy is equally unpopular in
arizona, it being acknowledged that they
were before it. Mr.. Shulze estimates
that about 1000 bucks are still IN the
mountains ready to go on the war-path
ON the slightest provocation-
The University appropriation bill
PASSED the lower House of the leg;s,a.
ture on Friday, by vote of 10 to 9,
as follows: Ayes: Brooks, Clark, Fos-
Ter, GOodell, Kuhn, Landrum, Lloyd,
Martin, Miles, Shaw, Shoudy, Stitsel,
Turpin, Young, Ferguson; noes: Bar
low, Blackwell, Besserer, Brining, Cop
ley. llungate, kincaid, Ping, Warner.
Its passage by the Council, where it
originated, was recorded last week.
Doubtless it has been approved by the
Governor ere this. The bill gives $4,000
per year to the University each year for
the next two years. Much hard work was
done in behalf of this bill, and its friends
are correspondingly jubilant.
The OregOnidn says: 1T is stated
that an agent has been sent from Walla
Walla to Olympia to procure the
repeal of the Sunday law. The
effort is being made at the instance of
the Walla Walla whisky ring, with whose
; funds the agent is no doubt provided;
days enough on which this crime-produc-
ing and pauper-making business can be
, pursued throughout Washington Terri
tory, without adding Sunday to the list
, Ne 1rl- oil IoE L., I,
cense act, of Which we give summary
this morning, is much to be desired by
those who represent the sobriety, intelii-
! gence and decency of Washington Terri.
, tory"
, The Yakima Signal says that large ad.
ditions are constantly being made to the
resident population of its part of the Ter
ritory. Numbers of the new corners ar,
rive in their own conveyances, and the
stages are crowed with people seeking
| land and homes there. Freight teams
of the merchants line the road, zone firm
alone having forty tons on the way
Every person able and willing to work
can find employment there. All this
shows that the eastern part of the Terri.
: tory is rapidly filling up, and this will be
glad news to the people of Puget Sound
| who all desire an early completion of the
: Cascade division of the Northern Pacific
= Railroad, in order to establish personal
and business relations with the Yakima
country, and the region beyond the
Columbia, which shall be agreeable anC
profitable to both parties.
; NAMES GREATEST John r. Kel,
ley, the largest ship ever built in Maine
was launched at Bath, October 3, with
great flourish of baZoos. The ship
yard OF Gross & Sawyer, the builders, was
crowded with people, chiefly ladies, and
the river was full of boats and yachts
Spectators came from miles away to see
the free Jumbo. The ship was registered
. as follows: Length, 256 feet; breadth
40 feet; depth, 81. She had three mast<
: and three decks. Her gross tonnage is
2254 tons, and the registered net ton.
= mage is 225i. The frame of the vessel
was brought from the South. Every bolt
between decks is driven from the out.
: side and clinched. The vessel will be
: provided with steel masts, which affords
) lightness and strength at increased ex.
pense. The three lower masts cost S36O0
} and weigh one-third less than wood,
| The estimated cost of the vessel is SI2O,
600.