, 1886-09-23
With Our Exchanges

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The Chehalis Bee states that liquors is
still icing sold in that town. contrary tc
the local option law adopted in that pre-
cinct.
Work on the penitentiary building at
/ Walla WaIla is progressing rapidly. The
st 1ckade, IN some places, has reached
fifteen feet.
kittitas Loealizer: He Bradshaw is
said tu be strong man, and his nomin,
alton gives great satisfaction to the Re,
RuhIicans of Kiitit;.s.
The complete retnrus in Vermont gave
the Republican candidate for governor
81, 7,6SI, the Democratic candidate 1901
end the prohibition candidate l l,Ss2.
The Pomeroy Times says: Hon. C. NJ
Bradshaw, the Republican nominee fol
delegate, Is brother of Postmaster
Bradshaw, of Mayview. Garfield county.
Ex-Gov. Newell, the peoples party
candidate for delegate to congress, will
open bis campaign this week at Boise.
fort, Lewis county, w. t. Next week he
will speak at Puyallup.
During the fiscal year the city indebt.
edness of Seattle was reduced $660S. II
is now about $4,000, or less than dol.
lar head. A two milI tax on the as,
sessed property in the city would wipe il
all out
! Old man Taylor and three of his sons
are running. for governor in Tennessee
There are two more strapping young
TaylOrs waiting for nominations. There
does not seem to be parties enough to
give them all u chance.
Seattle Chronicle: The snag boat
| Skagit, which has been undergoing fix.
ing up for business, steamed up today
alongside of Yesler's wharf, preparatory
to starting for actual work in the lower
Sound, clearing out the snags and drifts
Neil Henly, the only survivor of the
Inflated steamship Pacific, and for some
time on OF the guards at McNeil's isl
and. is now captain of the schooner G.
L. Taylor, 800 tons register, at Victoria
engaged in carrying railroad material
around the inlet for the Island road.
The Republicans of Garfield county
made the following selections: G. H.
Debow, auditor; Fl. FL. Wise, sheriff
Benjamin Butler probate Judge; Gilbert
Dickson, treasurer; 1. N. Julian, asses
sor; F. Beckwith, school superintendent
Hayden Gearheart, surveyor; G. w
Black, coroner.
Senator Voorhees, announces that he
does not want the vice presidential hom.
ination, and doesn't think be is the man
for the place. The unanimity upon this
question is something remarkable in the
present disturbed state of our politics
Thefe are n:arly sixty millions of peo-
plefn hearty accord with the senator.
The editor of the Milwaukee Sunday
Telegraph puts a truth in this form
ITO brother Anarchist OF all European
countlies-Don't come to America
The id Yankees have buzz saw. We
\ have monkeyed with it, August Spies
Louis LingG, Michael Schwab, Adolph
Fischer, Samuel Fielden, A. X. Parsons
Louis Enffei."
1t is stated in Montreal, says an ex.
change, thatJ. ". Mackay, the principal
owner of the Bennett Mackay CONNER
cial cable to New York, is forming among
capitalists 10 England and on the Euro.
pean continent company to lay series
of cables from Australia to Vancouver
Island via the Fiji islands and the Sand
wich islands. 1t is believed that the
directors of the Canadian Pacific are
supporters of the enterprise.
Victoria Times: We learn that an
arrangement has been perfected, or is
on the eve OF consummation, between
the Canadian Pacific railroad company
and the holders of the franchise for the
railway from Seattle to the boundary
line, known as the Whatcom, BelliDg.
ham and Seattle railway, whereby the
franchise passes into the hands OF the
Canadian Pacific. The extension to
Puget Sound will be undertaken almost
Immediately by the Canadian Pacific.
The work of erecting poles for the new
electric light system at Tacoma has al
ready begun. Orders for the necessary
machinery, consisting of turbine water
wheel and three wire dynamo, were
sent east some time since, and they are
expected to be on hand before the wires
are strung. The system will embrace
three complete circuits, one for the use
o; saloons and hotels, which are open TO
a late hour, one for the use OF stores
and the third for street purposes.
Seattle Press: Mr.. John s. Ander-
son, manager of the Yesler sawmill,
! learning that parties were putting in o
! collecting boom for saw logs at the
IN nth of the Skagit river, went down
thee and found they were trespassing
upon his land. He at once proceed to
enjoin their operations and is thinking
II that important enterprise holds out
such fiat;ering inducements for others,
1t will be an equally profitable undertak-
inr for him. He is determined TO put IN
the boom there himself il he can get his
property cleared.
The Vest Shore for September is a
specially fine number, both in its illus
trations and literature. 1t contains a
splendid double page engraving of One
outa gorge, rs well as attractive views OF
Snoqualmine pass, Ross Island, indian
bridge. Mt. Pitt, Eliot glacier OF Mt.
Hood, and Tillamook light The special
, literary features are an interesting dq-
/ scription OF the glaciers Of Mt. Hood, d
! review OF the C9nr d'Alene miues, n
legend on the mines OF Northern Cali
!, tornia euus:->a The Lost Cabin and