, 1888-06-07

lowns=nd people a second time, by fail.
ing to appear As advertised
We are III receipt of an Invitation 10
attend Dominion Day celebration at
Vancouver, Is. G, July u and 81.
The ARGUS job rooms are turning out
work for San Juan county. and for
Olympia. Its range for business Is wide.
The business interests of Port Towns
end will receive such an airing Monday
evening as they have not had fer long
time.
Those Quincy street steps leading up
the hill are to be repaired-by order of
the city council. They certainly need
it.
Ben Pettygrove offers for sale either a
span of heavy horses, or, a span of driv-
ing horses. Consult him il you want
equine flesh.
7. NJ. Hammond, Sr., announces that
To is selling his four-acTe blocks at 5000
each, Notwithstanding Interpretations
that pass current.
Tue California Associated Press, with
headquarters at San Francisco, have
severed all correction with the New
York Associated Press
Peter Kirke, the great iron manLfac-
tuFer, is reported to have leased the
Denny iron mine il King county-and
great results are expected.
The sawmill at Port Discovery has
been shat down for ten days, to enable
Mr. Penny, with q crew of boiler makers
TO do some much needed work.
Tacoma papers are making much ado
because more tea ships are coming.
Wait till the Port Townsend Southern"
is built, and see where those tea ships
will unload.
1t is understood that one of Port
Tuwnsend's most estimable young ladies
NJ is5 VILLA Rose-is to 80 soon ta Cal
itornia, the wife OF a youas gentleman
in the golden state.
Our real estate transfers for Jefferson
county during the past thirty days foot
up 10 fully 0,000-cuuDting several
large transactions in which the full con-
sideratiou is not recorded. The present
month bids fair to keep up the lick.
Richard Delanty, the Discovery log
ger, returned home yesterday. Delanty
& ,uuroe's camp puts in from twenty
to thirty thousand feet OF fire saw logs
every day-and has timber enough
ahead for several seasons work.
Hon. Jno. Y. Ostrauder, Register of
the Land office at Seattle, has resigned
to enter law practice. He will make
speciality of land matters. Instances of
designations among Office holders are
not common.
Tug Pioneer towed the bark Silverdale
to Victoria, where the mutinous ere of
the latter were put in prison. Coming
out of Victoria haTbor the Pioneer ran op
reef, aud was still aground when the
Olympian passed out this morning. A
couple of scows were alongside, keeping
the tug righted.
Following are passengers for Port
Townsend from San Francisco. per str.
Mexico, due here Monday: II. Mendel,
MRS. FL. Dealton and SOD, B. F. Norvell,
T. Conner and wife, Miss Fl. Cooper,
Miss Hogan, e. 5. Reed, F. @. Hill and
son, j. W. Jones, l.. f. Baker and wife.
The importance and superiority of
Port Townsend as shipping centre is
fairly illustrated by the fact that when
the irm of Griffith, Bridges & stetsou
first located on Puget Sound they made
their headquarters at Tacoma, with
branch Office at Port Townsend. Their
principle place OF business is Port
Townsend, and their branch Office is in
Tacoma. Ledger please copy.l
The Port Angeles Commonwealth is
having aonuiptiou fit because the AR
gus has seen proper to discuss the
Clalam county special election on eoun-
ty seat. 1t imagines tdat Port Town
send is jealous of Port Angeles; at least
it gives that as an argument" in favor
OF the legality of the act OF the commits
sioners. Such begging OF the question
is quite common among those who have
q weak cause to sustain. In the first
place, il there is any jealousy toward
Port Angeles on the part of Port Town
send, it has never yet manifested itself.
But il there were, what earthly bearing
could il have on the county seat ques-
ton is more than we can understand.
The "heathen, childlike and bland"
niDny OF the Angeles paper may make
himself rediulous, but that will not ef-
feet the county seat election one whit.
When the ARGUS has to refrain from
free discussion of public matters in
which its readers are interested it will
on ont of husinasa