, 1886-06-03
WriG Car Exchanges

HI; county anticipates the largest
straw! seIy ield ever known there.
/ Tie Eha:com county delinquent tax
list fills i've coium Is OF tie RersiIe
I The lir4; l.aes, train of the season over
SroquaInie PISS leaves Seattle June 1st
Since The fzss Of January 10 new
buildings have been built at El!ensburs
: The average attendance at the Terri,
/ toria: University has been l40 She past
year.
Nine pounds of strawberries were sold
III Garoma Tuesday for 30 cents Pei
pounds,
Miss Na-cissa White Is announced to
lecture Ill e"stern Washington early in
/ June.
a party nj New York and Boston
tourists viii reach Puget Sound next
month.
Tie Pierce county oil company is
about TO 1esu7ne work on It's well at
Sumner.
William Miller has been ordered to be
taken from Seattle to the insane asylum
ut fi.eilacCom.
1t Is thought that the Columbia river
will be higher this jV--l than it has been
Tor several years.
1t is said that the Quern of the Pacific
received $1,000 for towing the disabled
Y
Empire into Astoria.
The Victoria Y. n. @. A. has had a
substantial donation from some Wash
ington Territory resident.
1t is said that the appearance of cherry,
plum and pear tr ees in the vicinity of
Tacoma indicate small crop.
4 so hour "Trip from Montreal to Van
couver is being planned for the members
of the Dominion parliament.
The mayor of Tacoma recommends the
closing on Decoration Day of all business
houses from a. nj. until p. N.
The canadian Pacific management say
that unless some unforeseen accident oc.
ours through trains will be running
| about July let.
The Cheney Sentinel declares that the
seven valleys tributary to that town grow
more wheat to the acre than any other
valley in the world
The Congregational church at Colfax
| is the second of this denomin ton in the
| territory to announce itself self-support-
ing. The first was at Seattle.
The completion of the Canadian Paci-
fic has started anew the talk among the
Russians of q railway to the Pacific,
across Siberia 10 Viadivostock.
Tacoma NetcS of Wednesday: "SIr.
L. r. Brown today started for Port Town
send On business connected with Browns
Wharf and Navigation company"
The Tacoma Commerce says of the
grumblers and boomers, ''bounce them
both. Neither class is IA necessity in a
healthy commercial city like Tacoma"
Hall Bros, shIpbuilders at Port Blake
| ly, have not yet secured a new site for
their shipyard. They have been en-
deavoring to purchase land at Seattle.
The Northwest for June is devoted
almost exclusively to Duluth, Mimi,
with portrait OF Jay Cooke, its founder
once the Willard of the Northern Pacific
Railroad.
Lightning, an almost unknown ele-
ment in these parts, struck two trees
| near Hylak's mill few days ago. The
trees were badly shattered. A man pass
ing by was knocked down but not hurt
seriously.-Chehais Bee.
The Seattle Press says: "a gentleman
who came to Seattle from Tacoma last
Saturday informs us that in conversation
with the leading business men of that
CITY they told him there was not an
establishment in Tacoma that was
paying expenses; that they never had
paid expenses, and the proprietors were
only living in hope-looking to the fu-
ture."
: WE GET THEM ALL.-By the Sound
steamer which arrived last Monday were
! sent two Ghinamen who were detected
/ travelling by steamer from Port Town
send to Tacoma, dressed in female attire.
The marshal at once concluded that they
had come from British Columbia and
sent them here in accordance with his
wishes If not his convictions. Until,
however, he can make our customs
officials think the same way as himself,
they hold the sum of $1,000 deposited by
him for the entry or re-entry as the event
may prove.-Colonist.
| Governor W. @. Squire has just COM
pleted the finest milk house III the Ter
ritory, on one OF his dairy farms, near
Renton. The house is tworstorie5 high,
I'd furnished with all the latest modern
il. Drovements and patent devices for
kee ping milk pure aud sweet. In few
days 10 will commence the construction
of new stable, large enough 10 accom-
modate sixty head CT stock. He intends
shortly to stock one CT his farms with
| Holstein-Friesian cattle, and viii make a
start in that direction ut oEce. The
Governor has one OF the finest dairy
farms oa Puget Sound, and intends put
ting it in condition 10 yield him hacd
some reVenue.-P.-L