, 1886-08-26
From Yesterdays Daily
The game law will be out Sept 1st.

Bktne. Katie Flickenger arrived a
Astoria Sunday.
The Edna was in Seattle yesterday
having work done on her boiler.
Capt. Powell, Indian Agent at Neal
Bay arrived yesterday on the Rustler
A great deal of mischief is made among
political friends by tale-bearing and
duplicity.
The familiar sound Of the public school
bell makes street urehins quicken thei,
pace when late.
The bark Ceylon. Capt. r. Calhoun
lumber laden from Port B'akely fol
Honolulu, is in the bay and about ready
for sea.
r. B. Holbrook, Jerome Ely and G. ].
Noyes were elected to represent Island
county in the territorial republican con.
vention.
Mr.. A. U. Davis OF Dungeness will
start next week to Salem, Ogn., to place
his son George in the Willamette
University.
A tremendous forest fire is raging
back of the first range of hills south OF
Dungeness, near the head Of the McDon-
nell creek.
Mr.. G. Fl. Sweetzer, of Tacoma, agent
for number of literary works, among
which is John Lords Beacon Lights of
History" is in town.
Any single gentleman, or married
couple, desiring rooms with or without
board, would do we'll to apply at this
office. We can direct such to an excellent
opportunity.
Rev. Sheldon Jackson, Presbyterian
missionary to Alaska, is in town today.
He goes to Seattle to charter a vessel
with which to carry teachers to the
Alaska missions.
Schr. Susie arrived yesterday from
Coupeville with 800 sacks of wheat and
tons of hay-this years crop-for
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also arrived from San Juan with a load
of potatoes, oats, skins and oil for ". L
K. The Perkins proceeded to Coupe
vile to get load OF hay for the same
firm.
The charge hereafter for admission on
an accident policy in the Great Western
Mutual Aid Association of Denver,
Colorado, will be S5. AS agent of the
company we may say that we have found
it fully reliable and honorable, and we
can recommend it to everybody wishing
cheap and safe insurance, either accident
or life.
We notice our genial friend VIVA. Me-
Clure Mitchell, that prince of hotel
managers, back at the Cosmopolitan. II
you have occasion to board with Uncle
Jerry Hunt you will be sure recipient
of Mr. Mitchelrs unremitting attention
to guests of that house. We hope he
may be continued long in his present
capacity. The public need him in their
business.
On the Rustler yesterday from Clalam
were a number Of passengers, among
whom were Messrs. G. W. Thompson,
Chas. Morse aHd M. Fleming; also, Rev.
D. S. Lougheed, from Dungeness, on
his way home in Chehalis county to
spend vacation, and Mr.. F. j. Hart OF
Port Angeles. accompanied by his
brother who had been visiting himself
and family from the east.
The Myers Brothers, who are running
a logging camp near Dungeness, had
the misfortune t. have their boom OF
logs break the other day, releasing about
100000 feet OF logs. Fortunately ths
weather was calm. and with the crew and
the aid of about a dozen Indians the
whole boom was collected upon the fats
and saved except dozen or SO Of the
logs. The steamers Rustler and Virginia
towed a small boom from there to Port
Discovery subsequently.
Our local gardener and fruit raiser, Mr..
James Smith, can not only beat the
world Oh fruit raising, but he can lay
the California fruit so FAR in the shade
that there is absolutely no comparison.
lie complimented the ARGUS today with
a box of peaches. plums and Red Astrac-
kan apples. They we're too luscious to
last long in this office. Tie peaches
we're far superior in flavor to the Cali
forpia article that has TO be picked green
aud allowed to wilt ripe while going to
market. The plums were dark red,
about the size OF hen eggs, and sweet
enough to tempt IN epicure. Such fruit
ought TO command an extra price in our
markets any day
EpUcATIoNAL-Prof. ]. L. Henderson,
principal OF the Olympia Collegiate
Institute. says he will have fifteen
students ready for the University at Port
Townsend as soon as they can be
The Olympia Institute
will be a preparatory school or feeder
from which the University here Will
derive much of its support. The former
has primary department, first and
second year grammar department, first,
second and third year academic depart
ment, q first, second and third year
normal course, and first and second
year business course. 1t is under the
special patronage of the NJ. e. Church,
but is entirely free from sectariap infiu-
ence or bias, as will be our University.
1t is well worthy OF patronage, and
under It's present energetic management
is bound to succeed.
There is q growing dissatisfaction IN
town over the reduction OF our police
force to but one man. OF course the
reduction ia understood to be but tenn
porary, and to be in the interest OF
economy, &C., but we have made inquiry
and find that Marshal Finn is composed
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