, 1888-10-04

The Canadian government will put a
| fOg-horn on Discovery Island, opposite
San Juan ISLAND.
ARoDan Irish Bishop has issued an
edIct not TO allow the collectien of the
Parnell fund al tchapeis of the church.
At Victoria Sec. Charnock of the Y.
| Vi. 9. 4. was rendered reception on his
reEur@hume from the annual convention.
A new newspaper venture has materi-
| allied III Seattle called The Telegram,
edited by r. T. Stephens and II. F.
Scott 1t will be Democratic,
J. Il. Pord of New York writes the
editor of the ARGUS that Bill Nye aud
James Whitcomb Riley will visit Port
Townsend next sprlng, or death.
Our Office is in receipt of a new ex-
change published 1T Kelso, Cowlitz Co.,
and called the KeIso Courier, with Ar
thur Gum rs editor and proprietor.
The restoration to their owners of the
British sealers seized in Alaskan waters
by the United States, is specimen of the
marsh retailatory course pursued by MIR.
Cleveland.
y murderous Apachee who has am
pushed and shot seven men, has been
arrested. He was supplied with whis-
key and so taken ali5e. 4 reward of
S2,eOO was standing against him.
Members OF the Territorial Press lsso-
citation will be carried with their wives
free over the n. z. II. L. to and from
the association meeting at Spokane Falls.
special car will leave Tacoma on the
9Th
The viceroy of Canton issues au i'm
peria' petition to His Majesty Emperor
OF China, for aid in expelling as hide
ons foe to China, American kerosene.
He claims that it originates nine-tenths
of all the fires of China and that it is
worse than opium in its Influence and
effects.
Hon. Jas. G. Blaine is in great de-
mand as a campaign speaker He is
now In Michigan, and will soon be IN
Indiana. Had he 4 thousand tongues
be could use them all until election
day. Everywhere the greatest enthu-
siasm prevails when he speaks.
The Indictment of Capt Haines, who
was counsel for Gardiner in the opium
smuggling case, as colleague of Garii-
tLStf 1SOaA-S W cS f''aIbINui
Haines Is wonderfully eloquent speak
er end dealt Charley some hard blows
last campaign. He must be kept out
of the field now, even if the courts
have to be controlled.
Tacoma Addition, adjoining Irving
Park, in Sec. 81, and Terry's Addition
in Sec. 8 were surveyed by Isa Leskeard.
The Weymouth & Dyer Addition to
Port Townsend, between Ensembles Ad-
dition (the Wilson tract) and the Hussy
Addition. has been surveyed and plated.
Glenwood Addition lpart of the Ham,
mond tract has been surveyed, and is
on the market. The proprietors expect
the proposed motor line to Irving Park
to run through this addition,
Iron rods are driven down at the cor
ners OF the blocks in Ensembles Addition,
and several blocks are already cleared.
The proprietoIs are having the timber
felled in some of their principal streets.
On 18th street view of the bay can he
had from the Point where the street in
tersects The Discovery road.
Genuine Canada thistles are claimed
to have been found in Oregon.
Hopsgrowers in Puyallup valley are
paying as high as SIPS per box for pick
ing.
Wickershan, the disgraced probate
judge of Pierce county, was one of the
Tacoma connubiators who figured prom
inently in the attempt to swindle Port
Townsend out of that University.
A gentleman recently from Orcas island
says they are making some valuable dis
coveries of iron ore, coal, marble and
limestone on that island. 1t bids fair to
turn out immensely rich in these natural
productions.
Hon. 7. G. Nicklin of the Whatcon
ReUeille prints very kind aud compli-
mentary notice, referring to the editor
hereof-but his conclusions as to what
politician must do to achieve success are
decide dly overdrawp.
The King County jail is so crowded
that the authorities are transferring the
prisoners to McNeil's Island. Uncle
Sam will board them and of course charge
King County fancy prices. This is
nice dodge on the part of the government,
as they can make the cook-house pay its
way, and at the same time save the SAL
ary of judge for time.
The confirmation OF Charles Z. Boyle,
as Chief Justice of Washington Terri
tory, was reached and coDsummated on
the 1st inst. Judge Boyle will come West
as soon as he can, and yet he may not be
able to reach here until the holidays.
In that event we shall have no court for
some months. The Department of JUS
tice may copy after the Postal Service