, 1883-08-16

established their business IN San Fran
cisco in 1852. We are assured their as
Sortment i very complete. their prices
low, and they will deal squarely by their
! customers. We advise the Trade to
call on them, or write to them for prices
OF such articles as they may wish to buy.
before purchasing elsewhere. This will
cost nothing and may prove very bene-
fetal
Next Sunday will be Rev. S. II. Todd's
last Sunday here during the present
conference year. 1t is expected that his
farewell sermon on that day will be the
occasion for crowded house at the NJ
Z. church. Mr.. Todd has labored here
assiduously land protitably. as far as the
intellectual wants of the people are con-
cerned.) We hope to see some kind of
an effort to raise the amount due on his
salary; he has certainly earned it. He
will start next week for Conference
meeting, which will be held III Yancou-
yer, commencing Aug. 22d.
While at CoupevilIe we noticed that
John Robinson's wharf extension was
being rapidly completed to deep water
The county building at that point has
been raised also, and a substantial
foundation put under it; new steps have
taken the place of the old ones at the
front. and comfortable, commodious
offices have been fitted up for Sheriff
| Power, Treasurer Libby aud Probate
Judge Blowers. Robinson's store build
ing is being enlarged by an addition
Messrs Leach and Dyer are having
neat cottage residences built in the edge
of town upon lots recently surveyed and
plated. Coupeville bears evidence of
having modest share in the general
prosperity OF the Sound. Its two saloons
two stores and two hotels are evidently
making Il comfortable living and some
thing beside. 1t is situated on such
pleasant cove that people who want to
enjoy quiet summer leisure where sur
roundings are pleasant are turning their
attention thither.
SO far the results reaped from the re-
cent strike by the Western Union Tele-
| graph Company have been all but salts
! factory. 1t is stated from a well authen-
| ticated source that offices that cost the
| company $3.50 for running expenses be
| fore the strike now cost them $500, and
| that the services rendered are very IN
efficient, and that not half of the busi-
ness is done through these Offices that
was done before the strike. 1t is further
stated that the company are actually
paying out more by one third TO their
present small and incapable force, than
was demanded by the strikers. The
present incompetency of the company
is the most severely felt III the Eastern
States, where the railroad facilities are
so great and the system so complete,
that nothing but the Iighthing-speed of
the telegraph can convey with more rapid
transit the tidinGs of news from one
point to another. For instance if
message be sent by telegraph by gen
tlemen from Boston to New York, and
be delayed a few hours in the telegraph
Office from whence it is sent, the train
would arrive in New York before the
message; hence a great many eastern
business men consider the mail more
reliable than the telegraph is in its
present imperfect working system. How
long this state of affairs will continue it
.,,r,r-,I,I, - 4,ll l.,
the company and strikers Will have to
arrive at a compromise, and it seems
strange that they do not do it at once,
and then carry the business on with the
same energy and skill that they did be-
fore the strike.
LOST MAIL.-Last Saturday lot of
mouth of the Nooksacll river by an
Indian swoman named Mary Phillips
(the same who was tried here for shoot
ing her husband on Orcas Island.) The
mail consisted mostly of newspapers,
some eastern and some local, bearing
dates from March to June of this year.
1t was found in tub made by saving
barrel in two. The squaw first took it to
the residence of Mr.. Clark near the
mouth of the river, and told Mrs. Clark
and Mrs. Capt. FuZzer who were there
that she found it long way off on the
beach and there weTeots of letters. She
had one letter among the lot and an I'M
sealed letter enclosing printed cIrcu-
lar. The ladies were 9th to touch the
letters and papers, knowing it n be U. |
s. mail. Subsequently Mr.. McDonough, |
post master at Lummi, about III. nile |
distant, learned of the lind AZ; went !
and took charge of the whole budget, |
since which time the squaw maintains |
that she found it III the river just above
the Indian houses on the reservation, !
and that there were no letters except the |
unsealed one. We saw the mail at Nc
Donough's store, and the papers looked
as though they had been III the water |
but short time. Evidently, however,
the squaws story is not the same as the
tale she at first told. The mail is car
ried from Whatcom to Lummi, ferndale
and Lynden on the same route, and was
bid in at a very low rate of compensation
by a man who farmed it out to siwash
carriers in order TO make little out of
it The mail picked up was nearly all
for Ferndale. Complaints have been
made before about mail matter going
astray, and it looks rs though there was
ii chance now for the postal agent to
look after Whatcom county mails IN the
interest of the people. Our government
is abundantly able to pay living price
for carrying the mails to its most remote
settlements, and it should be demanded
that competent and reliable white men
should be entrusted with such carrying.
We have no means of knowing how the
/, -, EIis incfapna he lost