, 1888-03-22

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Ca3iforuia's population has been
estimated at l,I0U,Gy0 persons
Tho po=eofiee at Gurlev. Spokane
county, viii be discontinued after
the 29th inst
Tho date of the national Prohibi-
ton convention has been changed
from JGne 9Th to May 30th-
Public printer Cayanaugh thinks
he will have the laws, passed by the
Legislature, ready for delivery by
April 1st.
viii tho president issue q civil
service order against federal employ
os participating in political work
this year.
Tho nomination of Edwin EelIs as
as Indian agent at the Puyalluy res
eivation has been withdrawn from
The United States senate by Presi
dent Cleveland,
TIE Seattle, Lake Shore & East
ern railroad company have ordered
eighty miles OF steel rails, the first
consignment of which will arrive
ABOUT April 1st.
The organ of the New York color
ed people has come out openly for
Roscoe Conkling for president, be-
cause, it says, he is tho ablest, the
purest and the most aggressive states
man Of tho east"
The prohibitionists Of Oregon, imi-
tating their brethren in New York
and elsewhere are taking steps to
turn that state over to the democracy.
To This end a state convention has
been called to meet at Portland on
Wednesday, March 2Sth, whea q full
state ticket viii be nominated. \
lot of foreign speakers are to be im-
ported, including st. John.
Tacoma Netcs; A gentleman of
great Intelligence and wide observa-
ton, who has jusG made his first visit
to Puget Sound, informs us that he
was surprised at the resources of
coal, iron and timber, all contiguous
TO each other on the shores of the
Sound, which must bring capital and
| labor here for the manufacture OF
various articles OF wood and iron.
He says there is no place in the world
with equal natural faculties for Il
navy yard and the manufacture of
ordinance. There will be a great
manufacturing and commercial city,
he says, somewhere on the Sound.
Franklin Kennedy, one of the
pioneers of Tnugston and Mason
counties. died at his home IN kamil-
che yesterday, aged rs years.
judge Kennedy came to Olympia in
1852, and kept hotel for some time.
Afterwards he removed 10 Mason
county, where lie has since residided.
! For many years WAS probate judge
| OF Mason couniy-Ex. Judge Ken
nedy was widely known as q temper
perance man, having served some
years ago as dresiding officer of the
Grand Lodge, I. o. g. T., Ct this
Territory and British Columbia. He
succeeded Hon. n. Shakespeare OF
Victoria in that Office, and was tn
turn succeeded by DIR. n. D. Hill
and then by Allen Weir Of this city.
The death of Henry Bergh re-
moves a man who has played a prom
inent role as Il reformer. With
many crotches, he has done substan-
tial service in reducing cruelty to an
imals, especially to working horses in
the large cities, and he has encour
| aged the sentiment of mercy to
brutes in most parts OF the country
What Bergh is chiefly to bo praised
for is the gallant fight that he car
ried on for several years against
popular prejudice. 1t takes real he-
roism to champion causes that is in
disrepute and to lift it to position
of public respect. 1t is more to his
credit that he hid this work from no
other motive than that of principle,
as no was very wealthy and never de-
rived any profit from his movement
in favor of animals.
The Spokane Falls & Idaho rail-
road company has organized and
elected officers; also, the Spokane x
&alouse railroad company. Spokane
Falls is booming in earnest.
Colonel Elliott L. Shepard, form
erly president of the New York State
Bar Association, has purchased from
Cyrus w. Field the Mail and Er-
press newspaper. The paper will
continue to be republican and favor
protection to American industries.
Col. Shepard married a daughter of
the late w. H. Vanderbilt.
Chin Kit speculative Chinese
merchant of San Francisco, has failed
for $4,000 liabilities. Thirty thou
sand was money borrowed by rather
crooked methods. Among his by
pothecated assets was a booked item
of nearly six thousand dollars, al
legged as lost when the Chinese were
driven out of Seattle, and others of
the same kind. His ninety creditors
are mourning.
The Chinese diplomatic minister at
Washington, Chang Yen Hon, insists
upon the insertion in the new treaty
between the United States and China,
now under consideration by congress,
of q provision for the payment by the
Union government of S30O,O0O, al
legged losses sustained by Chinese
residents in the disturbances at Ia
coma. Seattle and other places in 1885
and 1856.
Hammond Bros and Fortman & Ham
mond want debtors 70 come forward and
settle. 7