, 1888-11-22
Fron, weJness.as's DaiIs

We regret to learn that Mrs. Albert
Briggs is very i'll.
Henry Bash has bought Decker
piano of W. J. Melville.
Judge Van Bokkeleu went to Seattle
yesterday tc spend few days.
| Work will begin on the Normal Col
lege as soon as material can be procured.
The Premier took 45O boxes OF Oicas
island apples to British Columbia this
| morning.
Captain Hastings is having the Wild
| wood overhauied aud repainted for the
| winter work.
Captain and Mrs Williams took the
| steamer Olympian yesterday, for up
Sound points.
Contraband opium worth $500 was
found Oh the Umatilla upon its recent
arrival at San Francisco.
At Seattle, tomorrow, the oath of Of
fee will be administered to Chief JUS
tiee Boyle, by Gov Semple.
w. J. Melville will occupy the resi-
deDce of Mr.. aud Mrs. Frank Hastings
during their absence in California.
Ouf COnIElSSlOu IDefCDdUt5 Utfc uOt
supplied the demand for hay, and many
people have been greatly inconvenienced.
Hon. d. T. Denny OF Seattle, was in
the city this morning enroute to Orcas
leland to look after his farming interests.
Mr. Curtis of the Charles Hotel, pur-
chased yesterday, through the agency OF
Latimer & Co., very nice buggy for
family use.
II. l.. Mead and wife of Tacoma, who
have been visiting for several days with
the family of DIR. Minkler, went up
Sound yesterday.
United States steamer Thetis will
leave Victoria for San Francisco today.
The Thetis has been in mort bern waters
since April. She carries go men.
u.s.. Latimer & Co. charteI ed the steam
er Dispatch for trip to Nanaimo, for
load of coal. J. $. Latimer went along
with cargo of 80 boxes of apples.
The funeral OF the late Sallie II. Hill
will be preached at the Methodist Epis.
copal Church on Sunday morning, Nov.
%, 1889, the pastor, Rev. j. IN. .Denison
officiating.
The Queen OF the Pacific will run for
| time between San Francisco and San
Diego. She is now at the Union Iron
Works in San Francisco having her pro-
peIler repaired.
| Mr.. Morrison sold an inside lot in the
Kuhn ranch yesterday to Chas. O'Brien
of DunReness for $3.50. Mr.. O'Brien
| will build house and stable at once,
| and will engage IN teaming.
The surveying work still continues on
the railroad. The grading VIII here
after be done by contract. A wharf will
be built on the Ensembles addition for
| receiving the iron that will be needed
in the spring.
An Ottawa dispatch says: The Marine
! Department is advised Today that the
two vessels for the Japan trade with
Vancouver as the terminus. are in course
of construction, and will be IN the ser
| vice within ten months.
Sbipowuers at San Francisco are hold
| ing out for higher rates of freight for
coal. Several vessels heretofore engaged
IN the British Columbia and Soan- coal
lfreightage have been chartered to load
| iumbsr for Australia, thus causing = Do
ticiency in tonnage.
| Mrs. Jacobs VINO was arrested here,
i last Saturday on authority of instruc
lions from Portland. for felony, was re-
leased yesterday. No charges were re-
ceiyed in due time, and the woman was
therefore released. She went on TO Vic
| toria.
Mrs. Harding, so favorably remember
ed by many OF our citizens wien on her
way to Alaska about two years ago, has
returned, and will give some account of
her labors in establishing hospital 10
Sitka, and in conducting other Christian
work there, at the prayer meeting in the
Presbyterian church on tomorrow,
Thursday evening, at O'Clock. The
public are invited to attend.
Henry Bash has leased the CONNER
cial wharf for three years to Messrs. j. w,
Kinds, T. s. Kinds, late of California,
and o. Lewis, recently from Council
Bluffs, Iowa. These gentlemen are men
OF capital and business experience. and
will carry on a general commission sup
: ply business. They will represent in
this Territory. two OF the large fruit
packing houses of California. This en-
: terprise is q valuable addition to Port
Townsend interests, aud tue ARGUS
welcomes these gentlemen to place IL
> our prosperous and promising clty. Pos
session will be given Dec. /.
. The lots decided TO NJ. Moody b1
; Chester Terry have beet decided To Jude'
Greene, who will hold thsm until spring
2 thipking tFat they will double N value
. by that time. DR.. Moody does no
/ nix that Terry will come back to the
: U. {. To P.-I- reporter he sDUke al
witn..z. TOO quick. On, they would b,
liust leo glad to get hold of him. The,
, lTouEl i.y 10 make him inform on all til,
! | other fellows. That's what the prose
= cutting attorney said he ought to nav;
! ! done in the first place. but told him i
was my fault, that told Mr.. Terry T.
stand where ne was. l think MAJ
would be mighty mean man to ge
, mixed up with other men ia a swindlIn.
!, scheme and after he had placed himsel
in .le way @: being prosecuted tC tCrI
lround ard tell all about the ott ,: q
+ Ilowf lcL': y-n? However if t;iN !,
Ii tfelioWs bother him too much, lie LIS tol
!. them that he would tell them all
:, knows; he has given them a good warn
y ing. He is fine, good man, very wei
a liked. It's too bad you newspaper me
,f abused him so much. It iCst stoppe
Z the whole thing. But for Lat woul
d have lad the .hcie business clGEueI on
ID bat it's pretty veil cleaned ou: ~ i5 is
= don't think Ir. Terry thought " wa
= he Vas doing; he was drawn into II.
=, great many people think it's nu harm
p SwiDdle the government, yUn know
e There are more thao he ma ~ rest!Sr
ID tiOn. There are nlen right In Isiis Tow
ii making restitution" Mr.. 1"ody ga.
~ that he always keeps such information
a. secret; that 1t Is rot for him to prOsecu
le Itransgressors. but to help them to g
ksp tbe tight track.