, 1888-04-05

today for 4 trip over The Li5by's rout
from hers 20 Whatcom and back.
| The boom Is ION" at Angelo.
again, and of at Crescent Bay, 81
says rumor.
John W. Troy returned bone TO Dun
genes to-day, after having etteule,
school here since last fall
The Hastingses are having quite
strip of land surveyed AID plated UI
tie western side Of their donation claim
\. ". Bash arrived Saturday from
! Whidby islaud, with baud of fine mt
ton sheep f.on his Oak Harbor farm, foI
Coleman & Co.
Sheriff SheehaD left this morning Witl
three pris, ners for Walla WaIIa, where
they VIII be confined IN the new terri
torial penitehtiary.
Captain L,rentsen OF Sequim came tc
town few days ago to purchase lumber
for a dwelling house which he a4d
Captain Andrew Abernethy are about tC
erect there.
Pettygroye < Co. received per steamer
Dispatch this morning, from the east
one car load (250 cGses) of coal oil, max
five car load. Of coal oil which that firm
has handled in elsven months.
Messrs. Waterman & Katz are adver
tisiug their first stock of this spring
goods direEt from the east. The senior
member OF the firm Is purchasing L
nIamm th stack, and Will have the same
speedily on tie market here. including
man: novelties aud unusual attractions.
The Women's Auxiliary to the y M.
! q. a. have decided TO get up an oyster
supper for the benefit of that institution
to raise funds for lis current expenses.
The supper will be given at the hail Oh
Friday evening next. No admission fee
will be charged. bat oysters will be sold
at % cents ii plate.
Frank Clapp received a dispatch this
morning from Capt. Hansen in com.
maud of bis schooner Granger, saying
the sealing fleet had arrived at Neah
! Bay with the catch for their fret cruise.
| The Granger had 19J skins. being ever
| double tie Dumber taken by any other
SCHOONER. The Granger IS entitled to
| the broom.
| Rev. j. n. DenisOn announced at the
Methodist church last evening that on
next Sabbath morning he wonld begin d
series OF sermons on "The evidences
Of Christianity" Ii is expected that
these sermons will be specially interest
iug-comiUg from guch an able, careful
and highly educated pulpit orator.
Both the Methodist and Presbyterian
| cAurche5 we're crowded full last evening
these being special Easier services al
each. Both we're tastefully decorated
aud tho programmes Wore quite inter
estiug. Grand anthems sWelIed upon
the evening air, and the sermons were
not only appropriate 10 the occasion but
| inspiring.
/
fool joke that has agaitated the rIsibIes
of Port Townsend for years. In its
| Saturday issue there was a flaming ae'
coun. Of party of distinguished visitors
including several senators, President
Hill of the Manitoba r. II. Co., and
Dan. Lamont, President CieYeland's
| private secretary, who had arrived in Sc.
attic, and would visit Port Townsend
yesterday. A number of prominent
democratic office-holders and politicians
| including the chairman of the county
committee. The sheriff, customs officials
aDd others, hurried around to make dr.
reDgements for q reception. After q
| time someone remarked about the 1st OF
| April, when there was q good deal OF
| protesting that they knew il vas q joke
all the time.
German bark Melusiue arrived yesier-
| day morning, and proceeded to Tacoma
| to load lumber.
Bark Canada arrived this morning, In
| tug Tacoma, from Frisco. Loads lum-
Der at Tacoma.
Captain Ellis has sold his little steam
er Helen to Captain j. 7. Pratt, of the
geodetic survey, for the goverEmt ut, TO
take the place Of the launch, Fuca,
which was swamped and lost last fall.
Captain Ellis received $1,000 for the
Helen.
Hall Brothers, OF Port BIakely, are
completing and will launch in a few
days schooner of the same dimensions
of the recently launched Fred E. Sander.
The new schooner is being built for the
Shoal Water Bay mill company, and will
be christened the james M. Colman.
On tho Dispatch to-day were a
large number of passengers for Cla-
lam-including Sheriff Morse, S.
Troy, M. Fleming, Jno. Brown, jr,
j w. Troy, Capt, Lorensen, and
several others