, 1886-07-22
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The city council of Spokane Falls has
ordered the closing Of saloons and places
Of business IN that city of the Sabbath.
Harris, president of the n. P. Il. R
says the road will be completed over the
Cascade mountains to Puget Sound by
January Isl. 1887.
Tacoma News: The hop crop OF
Washington Territory this year is esti
mated at 1000 bales. which at S32 4
bale will bring S4SO,0O0.
The Canadian Pacific has awarded the
contract FOR getting out timber for use in
the construction of snow sheds i'll the
SeIkirk range. They will be some twelve
miles in length, and will contain IA ,OOO,-
600 feet of timber.
A company has been formed and incor-
porated, to run a railroad from Gray S
Harbor to Centralia. This is one of the
most needed routes III the Territory, and
can be built for very little money, as the
greater part OF the route is over prairie
Six hundred and forty-two cargoes
were exported from Puget Sound ports
to foreign and domestic ports, during the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1886. -Four
hundred and fifty-seven were lumber
cargoes, Isl coal cargoes and three wheat
cargoes. Eighty eight cargoes of lumber
were shipped from Tacoma, 96 from Port
Blakely, 73 from Port Gamble, 20 from
Port Madison. 81 from | Utsalady, 40 from
Seabeck, 43 from Port Ludlow, 81 from
Port Discovery and five from Seattle.
The whole amount of coal exported from
the Sound for the year is 3i5,54S tons,
valued at 81, ,204,4 400. Lumber 265, las, 900
feet, valued at S3,590,ll
The following special from Washington
to the Detroit Free Press Is decidedly
interesting: "The Senate Commerce
Committee has reported unfavorably the
nomination of Captain H. +. Beecher,
son of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, to
be Collector of the Port at Port Town
send, W. +. The principal charge
against Mr.. Beecher is that he appro-
priated to his own use funds intrus.ed to
him for others. The evidence against
him was so strong that the comnittee
were compelled to report adversely in
his case. Nearly all the Pacific Slope
members in both Houses furnished evi-
dence against Capt. Beecher. He seems
to be very unpopular with the people of
that section. One of the witnesses
before the committee explained that his
principal objections to Beecher lay in
the fact that he was dudish in dress and
too airy in manner TO suit the Jeffersonian
simplicity of Port Townsend He hoped
Beecher would be rejected, and said the
people of Washington Territory never
wanted TO see him again.
THE CASCADE DIvIsIoN.-Mr. Burns,
of the firm of Burns & Chapman, the
two heaviest contractors on the Cascade
division OF the Northern Pacific. arrived
in Seattle last evening, and is today
eudeavoring to get gang OF men
together to 60 up on Green river and
clear away heavy slide, which occurred
last winter on a completed section of the
road. He leaves for the scene of opera
tions tomorrow, and will take all those
who desire to work with him. Quite
number of laborers had engaged to go
by o'clock this afternoon, and were
furnished tickets. Mr.. Burns informs
us that at present he has about 1000 men
at work on the 62 miles contracted for by
his firm, and that they wanted 1000
Immediately i'll order to push the work to
completion. The contract calls for the
laying of the last rail on May /, 1887,
but 1t is the desire of all contractors to
have the road in running shape before
that time. For this reason they are
advertising in eastern papers for laborers,
and the first, gang OF eighty, arrived
from st. Paul yesterday and were sent
to the front. The principal trouble. Mr..
Burns states, with getting men from the
East is the fact that they have their fare
paid out here and then, after working
day or two, jump the job. All along the
line of the work there are as many men
with their blankets on their backs walk
ing East and West, as there are throwing
dirt. They came out to look mt the
country and get their fare paid. Seven
tunnels are to be driven on the road over
which the Burns & Chapman contract
extends, and there are ten tunnels
altogether on the division.