, 1888-12-06
PICKINGS.


was lost in Hecate Sound. it is suppo@
ed, where the idaho had such a narrow
escape.
The Port Angeles Commonwealth
says: Sub lots II and Ii have been
subdlvided into town lots by Henry
Landes Of Port Townsend
! he Premier passengers are now ex-
imiDed at Vancouver before they are
allowed TO lana, because of the prevail
ence of small poX jn some OF the cities
on the Sound
Yesterday the associat ed press matter
| for the CCiOniS was received at Victoria
from New York over $500 miles of wire
without single break This was the
first time press kilograms were thus re-
ceived IN Victoria.
A Portland special or Nov. 29sh says:
Exc Collector of Customs Quincy A.
Brooks arrived in this city to-day. An
intimate friend of Mr.. Brooks states that
Mr.. Brooks credits Mr.. II F. Beecher
with causing his removal.
Wednesday, the jury at Auburn, New
York, brought in against Gardner n
verdict of guilty on six of the nine in-
dictments. Full sentence on each
would give bim 80 years in the pesiten-
tiary. Let like transgressors beware,
and mend their ways.
At the head of one of the columns
of the Port Angeles Commonwealth
there now appears the following: On
October 18th, 1888, this paper was
leased by the present management
from the Puget Sound Cooperative Col
ony. \ certain amount of space is re-
served for their use in each issue. We
are not responsible for any matter ap-
pearing over the signature OF the Secre-
tary OF said Colony; nor is the Colony
Company responsible for matter appear
ing elsewhere in said paper.
United States Attorney White filed in
the district court at Seattle Wednesday,
an action against the steamer j. b. Jib-
by. Non compliance with the statutory
requirements for vessels of more than
100 tons net burden was alleged. YES
sells of this burden are required to carry
regularly authorized pilot, a master,
mate, engineer and crew OF two. The
Libby is little above the 100 tons bur
den, and tie complaint AYERS that be-
tween April 1st and 27 of this year tie
steamer, tnen on the Port Townsend
Whatcom route, was run by an unli-
censed person. Thesteamer then belong
ed by Capt j. C.. Britain, of whom she
was purchased by the Port Townsend
Transportation Company. The penalty
for violation OF the law in this matter is
$500.
The general passenger and ticket
agent of the Oregon Railway Il Naviga'
ton company says that in arranging
the recent time card there was no inten-
ton of discriminating against any place.
To the editor of the Tacoma Globe he
says: TIE Victoria route is part of a
through line from the south and east
ana it has to be accommodated in order
to enable this travel, which might 9th
erwise go through Canada or by the
ocean, to pass through Tacoma. The
company has only two boats on the
Sound adapted to this route and as the
trains now run the present arrange
ment is the only practicable one by
which direct connections can be made
at Tacoma for Port Townsend and Vic
toria business Aud for local travel it
furnishes an opportunity on the return
passage for seeing the Sound.
An Ottawa, Canada, special says: An
officer OF customs, who recently visited
the Pacific coast in connection with
Chimes @ matters, says that the demand
for Chinese labor to any extent is at an
end in British Columbia, and that those
now arriving are only destined to stay a
short time in Canada, their object be.
ing to watch an opportunity to smuggle
across the line into the United States.
In this, he says they have no difficulty.
A regular business is made of smuggling
them across. Parties engaged in It
know every action of the US. custom
officials, and, when the coast is clear,
run them N loads into Washington
Territory without any difficulty. Some
firms are largely engaged in smuggling
the products of the thirteen opium fac
tories in operation in Victoria across
the liue.
1t is said to be the purpose of the
Northern Pacific to secure soon by char
ter or otherwise. line of passenger
steamers to run between the Sound and
Yokaboma, Hong Kong and other Asia
tic ports. This arrangement will place
the n. p. and Sound cities in cumpeti-
ton with tile Central and Southern Pa
cific aud San Francisco for the travel
aud traffic westward across the Pacific.
The Tacoma Journal says: 'This is sure
TO come; first, because there will he more
iranscontinental lines of railroad termin-
aiiug on Puget Sound than at San Fran
cisco; and second, because of such fact,
and because of the vast section of the
Northwestern portion of the American
continent that will contribute its large
and varied commerce to Puget Sound
over these lines and there seek ocean
shipment TO foreign markets. Besides.
Puget Sound as whole constitutes one
grand harbor, equal to the shipping
fleets of the world, and will admit the
largest steamers to its cities without
towage or hindrance."