, 1888-12-20

I Is IN the city. Mr.. \. was here a few
| weeks ago and was well pleased with the
! country. He went home to vote for
Harrison and HOvey, and has now Ie-
turned with the intention Of locating
some place on the Scnnd.
J. II. Peterson has bought about an
acre OF land on Hastings avenue where
| the avenue joins the county road. lie
| VIII proceed at once to,thc erection OF Il
! house, building the kitchen part now.
and adding the main part in the early
! spring.
In his report, just issued, Gov Semple
| says: After reading the interesting ac-
| count Of the Makah Indians furnished me
last year hy Hon. Jas. G Swan, Of Port
Townsend, | formed the design OF visit
lnT them during the summer Just past .
but official duties prevented me. They
are at present in 4 much more highly civ
lllzcd state than any other tribe on this
coast, ami If they We're no better than
other Indians 1T the start, the methods
that enabled them to reach their present
advanced condition are worthy OF study
and imitation. This is all the more i'm
portant because the only alternative that
has ever been presented 10 an inferior
race by the Anglo Saxons has been
adaptations or determination"
Judge WbittIesey went up the Sound
yesterday.
Capt. de Lion arrived home from San
Francisco yesterday,
A large lot ofspassengers arrived from
Clalam this morning.
Mr. Jas L. Davis OF Lopez, and his
son Herbert are'in town.
Grand opening of the Olympic Hotel
(new CiapP building) tonight.
The middle of December! Aud our
Workingmen engaged in out door work
with their coats Off.
The extensive and reliable seed house
OF ID. NJ. Terry & Co., Detroit, Mich,
has something to say to our readers IL
this IssHe.
The Tacoma NecS says that all Cali
fornia Is aroused, and that "the greatest
rush to the Sound over witnessed will
be made from the Gelden State in the
spring"
Usual services at the Y. NJ. G. A rooms
tomorrow afternoon at $50, conducted
by W. w Ferrier. All men are cordial
ly invited.
Ten passengers on the Walla WaIla
enroute for Port Townsend, as follows
A. NJ. Eistou, 4. Hart, +. w. Midget
and wife, w. }. McGlew, j. Griffith,
Sarah Warrell, Miss Creand and j. +.
Wnrne and wife.
Five vagrauts working out their fines
Oh the streets escaped to parts unknown
Thursday. The City Marshal thinks
them dear at dollar head, but is will.
ing to give that for their return. 1t is
not likely, however, that he W II arouse
the whole county t. search for them.
Their absence Is more desirable than
their presence.
Service on the Port Townsend What
com steamboat route is very unsatisfact-
ory to the public, and detrimental to
public interest. The Libby is laid up
for repairs. For the last trip the Dis
patch was chartered, but got only part
way over and had to turn back. This
morning the tug Queen City was secur-
ed to carry the mail, but has nc license
to carry passengers. The telegraph line
to Seattle is down, and the company
cannot telegraph for a permit to carry
passengers-aDd SO, there is dead lock.
There is dozen or fifteen passengers
waiting here this morning, We learn,
anxious to go over, some or them having
important business. and all more or less
auxIous aud more or less disappointed.
OF course the company Is simply unfor-
tunate in having the Libby laid up SO
much OF the time, but that does not do
away with the fact, nor lessen public in
convenience. A movement is on foot
among the islands, to have daily mail
service connecting them with Seattle on
the inside route. II they should sue
ceed it would leave Port Townsend at g
decided disadvantage.
\ new way OF evading the Chinese
restriction law was discovered Wednes-
day at Tacoma TWo Chinese women
were caught in the guise OF klootchmen.
They had come in from British Column
bia. They were taken to Seattle before
Commissioner Emory, but the case was
postponed until Saturday. The Times
gives the following: Their presence ap-
peared TO be a rare treat for Seattle
Cinnamon. They watched the two girls
with bulging eyes and stream of the
celestials poured up and down the stair
way continually. This evinced the fact
that the arrest of the two women had
created commotion i'll Chinatown.
Evidently their attempt TO evade the law
was well known among the Chinese
population. The women were arrested
by Inspector Geo. w. Poor at Tacoma,
Seattle-Portiand train. They are sup
posed to have reached Port Townsend
| from Victoria, and smuggled themselves
to this city, from whence they were
making their way to Portland They
| were disguised as klootchmen, and very
droll and ridiculous klootchmen they
looked. One of them was dressed in a
blue calico dress with a broad tuck, six
| inches wide, midway in the skirt, i'll or
| der to make it conform to her diminutiy9
| height. The other wore a linsoy-woolsey
| mother-hubbard, with similar broad
tuck as her friend. Both wore second
| hand millinery and over their shoulders
| were thrown light blue woolen shawls
| both alike. Black wells completed this
| disguise.