, 1886-02-04
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FROM THursIIaY - Daily.
Col. !. !. Lyaus went t. Victoria to
day.
An ice blockade IN the Columbia rive
his stopped navigation between Portland
al The pa!,s.
Mectius of the \. O. |. VI. lodge thi.
evening. Important bu i.sss. All Iaam
be-s requested specially To- attend.
Mr.. Brocawny, OF Pysht, Will move
with his family TO Port Townsend. w
understand that ha las reutei the house
adjoining that occupied by DR.. Hill.
One glance al our tabular statement
OF vessels on tlia Sound viii tell every
ship master a-rivin. here, JUS where
every vessel is Ioading, and each oIe's
destination.
There VIII be no meeting Of tie Good
TempIars tomorrow evening, on which
occasion everybody Is invited TO attend
the lecture 10y Miss Narcissa White at
the Presbyterian church.
Capt c. f King arrived this morning
from Victoria, having piIoted the barl,
Doyenby, Capt. Steele, up the Straits
laden with merchandise for Victoria
Capt. King left on the Dispatch Oh his
return to Cape Flattery.
The pursar Of the Idaho arrived from
Victoria this morning with that steamers
malIg from Alaska. He states that tie
Idaho was injured by running on a rock
on her last trip, and she was left in Es-
quimalt where a diver WI examine her
bottom.
The steamer Enterprise. Capt Hast
ings, went TO Seattle yesterday with 10
tons Of pig iron from Iro.dale for ALI
mond ( Phillips. She will bring back
IS tons Of Black Diamond coal for the
Hastings Produce and Commission
House.
The Olympian has forced The ice in
the Columbia river to Bonneville, thus
getting around the blockade What
beautiful Illustration the recent cold
snap affords of the advantages % Of the
mighty Columbia as a highway of com
merce compared with Puget Sound!
Capt H. E. Morgan, who has been
away several weeks looking for a suitable
steamer for the Treadwell Mining Co. in
Alaska, returned today with the little
steamer Lucy, Is tons measurement,
which lie purchased at Seattle for $3.50
The craft will be used in local carrying
trade III Alaskan waters.
A second paper has been started in
Alaska little one for bit. issued
monthly from the Tlinkit Indian training
school at Wraugel. 1t contains about as
much reading matter as an ordinary
iourneyman printer would set in day
and is called the Glacier. Owing 20 its
dimunitive size, We suggest that the name
be changed to the Icicle.
The convenience OF our telephone sys-
tenn is such that at 8 a. m, yesterday
when the bark Mary Glover, Capt. Con
ner. sailed into the entrance Of Port
Discovery bay she was spoken by the
steamer Dispatch, whose polite master
caused a message to be sent direct to
Mrs. Conner, who lives in the western
part of town, notifying her Of her hus-
bands arrival.
The members of the Episcopal church
gave an enjoyable sociable at the house
of Mrs. Webster last evening. Among
those present were the Rev. ]. B. Alexan-
der, Prot and Mrs. Swan, Mr, and Mrs.
Frank Hastings, Mr.. and Mrs. f. w.
Pettygrove, ir., Lient. and Mrs. futile,
Mr.. and Mrs Doyle, Mr.. and Mrs. Biondi,
Mr. and Mrs Korter, Mr.. and Mrs Jones,
Mr.. and Mrs. Teele, Mr.. and Mrs. Ger
rish, Madame Gerrish, DR.. and Mrs.
Lyall, Mr.. and Mrs. Pink. Mr.. Wood,
Mrs. Lake, Mrs. Calhoun, Miss McCurdy,
Mrs. Dyer, Miss Rothschild, Miss Cora
Bash and Miss Eva Bash.
The steamer Evangel looked as natural
as life this morning when she steamed
into port from Seattle. Capt. James f.
Tarte is in command, and he informed
an ARGUS reporter that he would run
Semiahmoo and way ports, leaving here
on Mondays and Thursdays. On the
Monday trips he will &C through to New
Westminster. The steamer seems to he
in good condition, and. as she is much
superior to the Rustler, will probably
get the lions share of business. Capt.
Tsrte is we'll known on the route and has
many friends who will remember him in
substantial manner.
UNwHoLEsoME FIsH.-Our attention
has been called to the fact that fishermen
ais in the practice of offering large fish
for sale without having first properly
cleaned them by opening and removing
the Intestines. Cod and halibut in par
ticular are rendered unhealthy by having
the offal remain in them for twenty foul
hours. No one would think of Offering
deer, sheep, pigs or bullccks for sale un'
less their intestines, liver, heart, etc., was
first removed. What is true OF meat /:
equally applicable to fish; the entralls
and curry of fish should be removed as
soon as possible after the fish has beeI
caught. And yet for the sake OF gair
OF few pounds weight, cur fishermen
are permitted to offer fish for sale in this
unclean and reprehensible manner. Wa
hope the city council will pass an ordi
nance prohibiting the sale of fish which
has not been properly cleaned.
Ne Criminal Deception ia Ours.
We received today four copies of the