, 1883-05-24
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The republican state committee, OF IL
linois, has adopted resolutions strongly
endorsing prohibition
Mr.. NJ T. Goodell is about to establish
a sawmill at Elma, of sufficient power to
cut 10000 feet per day.
An addition to the female ward will be
bnilt this month, at the hospital for the
insane at Steilacoom, to accommodate
twenty patients more.
The blossoms of the early fruit in the
Willamette valley have been killed by
the cold April rains, There is every
prospect that fair prices will prevail for
all the fruit raised on the Sound this
year.
1t costs from S25,0000 to $4,000 a
year to keep Windsor castle in repair.
This is exclusive of new furniture, or OF
gas, or fuel, or of servants. 1t includes
simply the money spent on carpentry and
painting.
Judge Wingard holds that the city OF
Walla Wala has no jurisdiction in the
Chinese opium smoking cases, but that
the offense comes under the territorial
law. The city will appeal to the su-
preme court.
The census Just completed gives Spo-
kane Falls population as follows:
White males, 60S; white females, 423;
colored males, Al; colored females, q;
total, 1859. Male citizens of the United
States Of 81 years and upwards, AIS.
The first Masonic lodge instituted on
the Pacific coast was Multnomah No. l.,
at Oregon City, the second was at the
Sandwich Islands, the third atSacramen-
to, the fourth at San Francisco, the fifth
at Marysyille and the sixth at Sacramen-
to.
The little propeller Lucy, recently
built in Lakes shipyard, in North Seat
tie, made her trial trip day or two since
and was found to run spendidly. She is
50 feet over all, IL feet beam aud ~ 1t.
depth of hold, and belongs to i. Cooling
and II. l.. Theron.
1t is suggested, says the National Re
publican, that to relieve the Chinese on
the Pacific coast from distress they be
shipped to London at the expense OF the
government. Their places can than be
supplied by the poor Irish now being ex-
ported to this country at English ex-
pense,
The spruce trees in some portions of
Maine are dying at fearful rate. No
satisfactory explanation has been given
Of the cause. In one district in the lum-
ber regions of Arostook, where 100000
were expected only $4,000 feet of sound
timber could be found, Great alarm
very naturally exists among the owners
of timber land.
John H. Parnell, brother OF the
famous Irish leader of that name, owns
one of the largest peach farms in the
world. 1t is situated about four miles
below West Point. Ga. There are 125,O00
peach trees on it, besides q large num-
ber OF other kinds of fruit trees, They
cover over 700 acres. Mr.. Parnell has
planted 500 acres OF young trees this
year, and reports his business paying
one.
The terrible cyclones during the past
month in the southern and eastern states
have devasted and laid waste long regions
of country, to say nothing of hundreds
OF lives lost. These occurrences are so
frequent that they hardly draw attention
here, and but few OF the newspapers ev-
er give an account Of them. We are SO
pleasantly situated, cut off from those
regions of terrible disaster, as well as
from those OF pestilence, famine or drouth
that we hardly appreciate the paradise
we live in and enjoy.
THE BRANCH RoAD.-The latest Ore
gon and Washington map, said by the
publishers to be correct, represents the
Cascade branch as DETECTING from the
main lipe OF the Northern Pacific at
Palouse junction, in Whitman county,
fifteen miles east OF the Columbia river
and something over thirty miles north
Of Ainsworth. 1t runs thence west as
straight and direct line as the topo-
graphy of the country will permit. 1t
passes through Yakima City, about fif-
teen or twenty miles south of Kittitas
end Ellensburg, and then through an
unnamed pass ofthe Cascades down to
Carbonate, and thence down the Puy-
allup and White river valleys. From