, 1883-03-22
From Saturdays Daily.

customed place on the Star again.
New Tacoma needs a new and larger
school building, and must have it-so
the News says.
MEssRs. Plummer & Terry received
large lot of "Our Favorite" tea by the
last ocean steamer.
Mr.. S. Hancock, of Island Co., is in
town today. He says this fine weather
just suits the farmers over there,
IT will require one and a-half million
of brick to put up the proposed new
building at Spokan Falls this summer.
LAND jumping is what seems to aftlct
Seattle people just now. Somebody is
going to get into trouble about it yet.
Town property Is said to be going up
in Snohomish City; lots are being sold
and the place already has symptoms of Il
"boom"
Mr.. A. Il. Hawley, for some months
past editorially connected with the Sc
attic Chronicle, has severed his connec-
ton with that journal.
Mr.. Weymouth istemporarily disabled
by having one of his arms hurt. Mr..
VIM. Laubach, of Port Discovery is
sw nging the sledge now.
DR.. Il. Stevenson, of Walla Walla, in
a recent published card says: there is
not nor has there ever been, case of
hydrophobia on the Pacific coast"
MosT of our citizens who have resi-
dence property here are doing garden
work about their premises, and ere long
the town will present a decidedly pleas
ing and attractive aspect.
Mr.. Samuel HaddlOck is building a
large scow near the saw mill, on which
will be placed his steam pile driver.
When completed this will be one of the
best pile drivers on the Sound.
JOHN II. Bowman auditor of San Juan
county, has sold piece of property, in
Gliding a valuable water power, on Or
cas- island, to parties who contemplate
erecting stave factory, to supply the
lime kilns with barrels.
According to the records of the Brit
ish Board of Trade, during the year 1882,
there were 1000 collisions of sailing
vessels. OF these IT'S were sunk and 957
damaged. OF steamers there were S92
collisions, of which 81 were sunk and
3S9 damaged.
THE Chehalis Vidette mentions that
cedar tree was recently CT ut coun
ty which measured thirty
ter, ninety feet in circ'
which, when manufacture .~-.,
and sold at $25 per thous; Juld be
worth S400.
GRAND Master Childs and Recorder
Newcomb, of the A. o, U. W., expressed
themselves highly pleased and grattied
with their visit to Puget Sound and
Victoria They returned from the lat
ter city this morning and passed up the
Sound on the North Pacific.
THAT whistle makes Weymouth &
Moffats blacksmith shop seem like
young factory. Its schreeches at 7, A.
NJ, II, NJ, l, P, NJ, and 6, P. NJ, have
decidedly business-like sound. Inside,
the little Baxter engine drives fans for
two furnaces, and furnishes power for a
steel drill, turning lathe, &c.
The number of vessels belonging to
or bound to or from ports in the United
States reported totally lost and missing
during February is 3S. OF this list, Is
were wrecked, 10 abandoned, 3 missing
4 burned, 2 foundered and one capsized.
Among the list are the wrecked steamer
Tacoma, ship II. s. Gregory, British
bark Glaramara, and the barkentine g.
L. Taylor, all in the Pacific coast and
foreign trade.
SEAL fishing bids fair to be paying
business off Cape Flattery this year, as
the run is large and the number OF
schooners in that trade is limited. The
largest catch 50 far this winter for sin
gle trip ives made by the schooner Mist,
Capt. VIM .Bogert- ty-nine seals in a
day and half with but two canoes.
Bogert to this place or Wednes
day, sick. He informs us that he will
probably leave for the sealing grounds
again next week.
Mr.. O. II. Holcombe finished his log
ging business last Saturday, hauling all
the logs and piles on the land mt his DIS
posal He has sold his OK team and part
of his horses. The Brockways, Of Pyscht,
bought two yoke of the oxen. Mr.. Hol-
onn,ba c+iIl hos n mir pf horena fnr which