, 1883-08-09

i'S'tIdllN tlIciSt UPON tit ioHonolliSI
route. 1t is said she Will reduce the
passage and freight rates from S3 to 81.
! SnohomiSh City is just now indulging
in building boon that makes the ''old
est inhabitant'' smile in his sleeve. The
two mills running to their fullest capac
ity are unable to promptly fill the orders
received
At the the recent special election il
Whitman county, to choose a successor
to Jacob Hoover. as member of the Ter.
ritorial House, sos votes were cast, OF
which Sweet (Rep.) got 81 and Warner
Dem.) 567.
james Morey, gambler, was shot
and instantly killed, in den in Port
land, Tuesday night, by Wm. Acock
another sport, III Il dispute over a game
OF cards. As usual, whisky was the in
citing cause.
The Vancouver Register says the sal
mon run on the Columbia has been larg-
er this month than for any month since
1879. At the beginning Of the season 80
cents per fish was paid, but now they
only command 30 cents.
John Shea, a stevedore engaged in
loading the ship Gilchrist with lumbe
at Tacoma, dropped dead last Wednes-
day. The verdict of the coroner's jury
was that he died from heart disease in
dueed by hard drinking.
The Canadian Pacific Railroad is
being pushed ahead with unexampled
rapidity. 4 dispatch from New York
states that on Saturday, June 7th, rails
! were laid on six miles of the main track
and iii one week ending that day, no less
| than % 6S-1G0 miles, exclusive of sidings,
were completed. The company is run
ming telegraph wires to Port Moody,
and ii is alleged intends to extend the
system by cable TO Japan.
Idaho viii soon he well supplied with
railroad facilities. Already she has the
/ Union Pacific into the heart of her mag
nilicent Wood river mining and grazing
country; the Utah & Northern is run
ming into the outskirts from four to six
/ trains per day through the eastern side
of the territory, while the Oregon Short
Line viii soon be completed across the
southern and central portion of her,
and the Northern Pacific is running her
trains across the northern part
1t is said that since 1917 the national
debt of Great Britain has been reduced
from fS40.GOO,OOO to e709,O00,00O. In
other words, S650.090000 of it have been
paid in 60 years, or an average of Sl0,-
OOO,0OO per annum. Stirred by the ex-
ample of the United States, this slow
rate of reduction no longer suits the
| people, and an effort is making on the
part of certain tinaneiers, supported by
the Gladstone Governme Mt, to increase
the reduction to $4O,O00,000 per annum.
LAID UP.-lhe tug Goliah has been
laid up at Port Gamble to receive nee
essary repairs to her boilers. She will
be out of service about two months
The Favorite has just been overhauled,
and with the aid of the Yakima, will
do the cumpany's work.. The Cyrus
service by this time, but the iron of
which her new boilers were built, was
discovered by the inspectors to be six
teenth of an inch thicker than the law
prescribes, and they had to be taken
ont, ane new steel boilers are being
built for her.
for dull season this fall The pros
poets for the English and Continental
crop are very favorable. Should the
weather hold good the English GRO vii
be larger than ever before. Prominent
dealers in England estimate the crop at
100000 centals, though 100000 centals
would probably be more accurate es-
Inmates. As the consumption in Eng
land does not amount to more than
from 100000 to $4,000 centals, England's
surplus will help to knock the bottom
out of our market. England's produc-
ton last year amounted to 10000 cen
tails. England's consumption formerly
reached 100000 centals, but has been re-
duced $4,000 to 100000 centals through
the efforts of the Salvation Army. The
San Francisco market is badly broken,
and recent sale of extra choice was
made at 20 cents per pound. There are
at present 1900 bales on store, of which
about two-thirds are of medium and
inferior quality and unfit for shipping.
SHORT FRUIT CROPS IN CALIFORNIA
Prominent dealers in fruit say that
their reports from Sonoma, Napa, Sac
ramento, Alameda and Santa Clara
counties, the principal fruit growing
sections of California, show that the
fruit yield of the state will this year be
almost a total failure. Apricots have
been very seriously damaged by some
disease, and In conse equence the market
has seen none but inferior lots. Pears,
raised principally in the bottom lands
of Sonoma county, have been blown
from the trees in large numbers, and the
product will be short. The plum crop,
Just beginning to come in, is of poor
quality. At this time last year the mar
ket was flooded, tons upon tons having
| to be thrown into the bay. The cherry
season just passed was the most misera-
BILE ever know in California. Apples
| have been blown from the trees, and
what few remain have been affected by
the cobling moth to such degree that
they will be almost worthless. Black
! berries last year sold for 81 per chest
Today they are bringing $500 and So
per chest, with but few offers. The peach
crop is not good, and cantaloupes are
far behind in season. The yield of both
viii be exceedingly small. The only
! fruit that will be in excess this year will