, 1886-03-25
From Saturdays Daily.


Well, the scizzors got home this morn
ing.
Don't forget the board of trade meeting
on Tuesday evening Iaxt.
Mr.. ]. E. Murine, the Semiahmoo
trader. logger, elc., was in town Thursday
and left for home on the Rustler.
Mr.. Israel Katz, of the firm Of Water
man & Katz, will go east and to Europe
soon, to be absent several months.
Strangers coming to town are con-
stantly expressing surprise at our fine
and substantial business buildings
The Seattle Daily Call has been
enlarged to ix-columE paper, and 1t
gives undoubted evidence of journalistic
virility.
DR.. Hall, q. s. Army stationed here,
purchased yesterday from Capt. Loring
Hastings two lots in block 65, on Wash
ington street for 500.
The auction sale today of articles
saved from the wreck of the RoseDfeld
created quite little excitement. Many
articles brought a comparatively high
price.
Next Monday We are to have the
judicial mill started grinding upon
miscellaneous docket. There are evident
Iy but few criminal causes to be heard,
and most of the civil causes will
probably be disposed of in short order
Altogether the prospect is favorable for
q short session.
Messrs. Morgan & Hastings are having
a blower engine built at their machine
shop to be used in connection with the
engine of the steamer Dispatch, to create
draft to the furnaces, and thus keep
steam better. This device, it is thought,
will increase the steamers speed.
Among the passengers for this place
on tho Dispatch from Clall8m county
last night were: Sheriff Saml. G. Morse,
of Port Angeles; G. W. Thompson and
Thos. Il. Evans, grand jurors, from
Dungeness; Allen Weir and Mr.. Davis,
and Henry Cline, from Dungeness, and
others. There was also some freight,
including cows and calf. The steamer
proceeded to Seattle.
No one need ever cry hard times in
tins town. Should collections be difficult
to make at times, so as to lead one to
suppose that money is scarce. let them
step into an auction sale and see for
| themselves how readily our citizens are
TO bid on articles offe2ed under the ham,
ner. The sale of ships furniture which
took place today at Union wharf was well
attended and good prices were obtained
for everything sold.
Mr.. A. Loomer, of Elkwha, who arrived
on the Dispatch last night, says that
people in his neighborhood are moving
20 secure a post Office With weekly service
by land from Port Angeles, some seven
miles distant. Quite large numter of
settlers would be accommodated with
mail facilities by such an arrangements,
and. as the service could be performed
ut nominal cosE-say, 500 q year-it
would seem that the Department ought
to grant the request without hesitancy.
Surveyor-General McMlcken, of this
Territory, is said to be in pretty pickle.
His federal term of office expired on the
10Th of last month, and he was appointed
and confirmed as Territorial treasurer.
His successor in the surveyor generals
office has not yet been named, however,
by President Cleveland. He will have
to assume the duties of his new office on
the first OF next month, and unless
relieved of the duties of the old one by
that time he will hardly know what to
do. 1t is rare thing in these days to
find a man with more fat offices than he
knows what to do with.
While in Clallam county yesterday We
had business with the auditor there, and
incidentally had the privilege OF looking
through the records of the Office, which
We were gratified to find in such admir-
able condition. Upon the death of the
late VIM. King, of that county, shortly
after mis- last reelection. the county COM
missioners appointed NJ. W. G. Garfield
to fill the vacancy. The latter, it seems,
set about procuring large fire-proof
safe for the preservation of records
against possible destruction, and also a
full set of new and suitable county
record books in which he opened the
records in due form and procedure as
required by law, including proper index
} ing and numbering OF the books into
sets, etc. These books We inspected,
) and must say that their condition would
DE ereditable to any county. The COM
5 missioners of Clallam of course had to
r authorize a necessarily heavy expense to
procure the outfit, but as compared with