, 1885-12-24
From EriuaY,s DaiIY,

The public schools closed today till
after the holidays.
Mr.. Geo. Atkinson, of Tacoma mill,
was III town yesterday.
See the drop in the price of the block
offered by 4. l.. Teelc. He says it must
be sold by Jan. 1st, and invites bona
Gle offer.
\ fine sideJoard, brand new, is up for
rafiiing at ]. B. Croke's saloon, ard
whoever gets it will get bonanza, for
it is worth $40 if anything.
Judge Greene VIII be in Port Town
send next Monday TO hold a special term
OF court. lie expects to get through in
time to return home by Christmas.
The lime kiln at Port Langdon, on
! Orcas Island, San Juan county, which
recently changed hands, will be i'll active
! operation about the 18th of January.
Mrs. Julia A. Green, the Seattle
miliner, is in town in the interest Of her
business, and will remain over tomorrow.
| OIiC 10 luG EhbSt vi Atli'. l. iOih D' LIN" AZ
Perhaps many of our citizens are not
aware OF it, but il nevertheless is a fact
that Col Oliver Wood is United States
Commissioner, "ali samee" editor of the
ARGUS and Judge Swan.
Mr. Griffith is fitting mp an office in
the Eisenbeis stone building, which will
be in charge of Captain Crosby, an
experienced ship master, while Mr..
Griffith will continue with headquarters
at Tacoma.
The new fence around the school house
is great improvement and is a monu-
ment to the industry and faithful efforts
of Mrs. Phillips, one Of the board OF
trustees, to whom we understand much
of the work should be credited.
Mr.. d. J. Zent is getting about ready
to open his new meat market in the old
Waterman & Katz' store building, and
wants his friends to bear it in mind IL
laying in their Christmas turkeys, etc
With three meat markets there ought
to be tender cuts.
There are now in Port Townsend the
following ship brokers and agents: d.
G. II. Rothschild & Co., @. q. Bartlett 6
Co., r. W. deLion & Co., L. B. Libby 6
Co, and Waterman & Katz. SureS
siiipmasre- and owners will find plenty
assistance when arriving at the Port ol
Entry.
Peter Saunstrom, one of the parties
discharged by Commissioner Swan Oh
Tuesday, was rearrested today and
bound over to appear at the next term OF
the district court, in the sum of $500
The man might have gone away had he
wanted to, but hung around and talked
until he compromised himself.
If about 800 Cinnamon would leave
would take their place it would work
general good. 1t would seem TO the
average Port Townsend citizen that
unless some check is given in this direc'
ton the few remaining white laborerE
and girl cooks will have to seek work
some where else.
/ A telegram from Port Discovery this
afternoon states that the body OF Walter
Rose, the hoy supposed to have i;een los
! in the woods, was found today near his
home in Leland, shot through the yitals
He was out hunting and carried Bal
l lard rifle, and it is thought that in jump
, ing from one log to another his foot
5 slipped and he fell and the gun was dis
, charged, the wound causing instant
death.
| The man who fell over the bluff by tn,
} Marine Hospital and received sligh
/ Injuries for which he claimed $500i
damages of the city, appears to have
3 been in questionable business when he
received his fall 1t is currently reported
that he had just landed drove OK China
, men from Victoria and was leading the
; way into town, when he, by mistakine
, the place for a rsadway tumbled ovel
the bluff lie is now soiourning il
Victoria snd it is not certain that be
ipt.nas TO return this winter.