, 1888-01-12

terta!ameIt ~ Semitic last saturday
evening. at which be illustrated bis
rapid mode of caricaturinE 70 the andi-
ence. He gave Harie ier's Weekly lis
popular fame.
From VVcu-csCaE's Daily.
! Mrs. Cougill is moving into her new
store.
j. Stichnoth is baiIding a residence in
Kuhu's Ranch.
Steamer Edna is laid UP at Union
wharf repairing her boiler.
British ship PLasis was toved TO Port
Ludlow yesterday by tug Go.iah.
Mrs. Evans and Mrs. John Robinson
werS over from the IsIaud yesterday.
Mr and Mrs. JAS Davis, of Lopez Is
land, arrived this morning on the Phar-
tom.
Mr =. Holman is in town, in the in
teFests Of Whittier Fuller d Co, San
Francisco.
The Union says that fourteen divorces
were granted in WaIla ALA couuty
during the year 1887.
a. ). Pinkstone, general travelling
agent of the San Francisco Call is IL
town sud made the ARGUJ Office call
yesterday.
The construction of the new Mckee
bridge over the Yakima river. at North
Yakima, is progressing rlPidIy aud will
be completed next month,
Nelson Bennett, the great tunnel
bore (er), has 400 men employed at
Stampede tunnel, to whom ho gave
Christmas dinner CT good things at
which all were made glad.
An Elensburg exchange says that the
iron mines in the CieaiGm region will he
extensively worked the present year;
that an erder for 1000 tons for blast
purposes has been made.
Cbicago's wholesale business for 1887
IS stated bg The Tribune at S49,0010J0.
That of our city in Portland exceeded
S50,000,000, or ninth rs much; and
Portland Is not more than one bali of
one-Dinth as large as Chicago.
Au exchange officially announces that
the knights of Labor have largely de
creased within the past two years. attri-
butiDg the cause mainly to politics and
quarrels within the order as the cause.
q. S. Marshall Hamilton was in town
on Monday to conduct the custom
house sales of opium. etc. He left for
Olympia to attend the Supreme Court.
He thinks the capital will go to Yakima
when moved.
Friedrich, the man who murdered bis
companion, Scherbring, in Seattle about
year ago, has been sentenced by Judge
Jones to be hanged by the neck until
dead in the jail yard of King county. aud
the 23d day OF March is tho date set for
the execution.
The sndden long and loud whistle of
the steamer Olympian yesterday noon
as a signal for 'all aboard so startled
three young buxom British Columbia
squaws on the wharf, that they ran up
town for life, evidently strangers to
such racksts.
The Argus is in receipt OF a bright
little paper called the North Star started
at Sitka, Alaska, by DR.. Sheldon jack
son AID others. 1t is devoted to educa-
tional matters in which Mr. Jackson has
been prominently devoted for several
years. Civilization seems to be pro-
crossing in that Northermost section of
the American continent.
The hop crop of the Pacific coast for
'S7 is estimated at San Francisco at a.
2l9 bales. or this total California is
credited with Sc, 424 bales, Oregon with
10,303 bales and Washington territory
with y, 400 bales. and British Columbia
with 90 bales. The number of acres in
hops set down at IL ,297, of which 2013
we're in Oregon aud 1927 in Washington.
MIR. Jas. Jones has been appointed
ticket agent in this city from the 10 low
ing lines of steamers: Allen and Do
miniop, the winter service from Halifux;
White Star, from New York; Inmau,
New York or Boston; Guion and Anchor,
from New York. Parties desiring to
send for friends or relatives from any
part of Europe can purchase ticket or
ders from him. In event of death or ac-
cident, and ticket is not used, the
price will be refunded less $40 on first
class. aud S5 on second-class tickets.
SHIPPING SAIuoRs.-The stock of sailors
at Port Townsend has been exhausted
and one sea captain sent word to this
city for an order to-day. Geo. W. Crane,
of Crane & Dickey's employment bu-
Faau. skirmished around among the
sailors here and secured crew OF fif-
teen to go to Townsend and ship on the
British bark Heleasea, lumber laden for
Australia. The rate paid is $25. The
steamer Violet was chartered aud the
sailors were taken to the port of entry
this afternoon. The bark sails Monday.
Seattle Times.
At Spokane falls it is reported on
good authority that Jim Hill of the Man
toba system, has signed bonds to com
plete the construction of that road from
Helena to Puget Sound as fast as men
and money can do the work It is also
reported that the route probably to be
taken is via Sprague, and by a low pass
in the Cascades to Bellingham Bay
The Northern Pacific is said to have en-
gineers in tine field with the object oi
securing the eligible passes, hoping
thus to keep the new road out. The
same thing was attempted at Helena
but without avail