, 1888-12-06
From TUESDAYS DaiIx.

From EuesdaY'5 Daily
Considerable lumber is being brought
! in these days from the Hadlock mill.
J. R. Mason as. purchased one of the
fine blocks in the Eisen beis addition.
Capt. DeLion started yesterday for
San Francisco. He will be gone about
ten days.
Prof. Thompson has accepted the
/ principalship OF the Renton schools, at
salary of S75 per month.
Mr.. Fox, foreman of the Port Town
send machine shops, went to Seattle to-
day with the steamer Furdy-
Ex-Gcv. Squire said in New York
SATURDAY. that Washington would be a
state within one year from Jan. 1st.
! W. T. Whiteway will move his office
to the room occupied by G. G. McNam-
afa in front OF the post-ofIfce.
The foundations of some of the build
ings on Water street, rs well as the sea
wall. are getting some heavy and dan
Rerous bumps from logs.
About 25 tons of freight were taken
on the Premier this morning by the
customs officials, because the papers
"cic bOe PiOPSA's H-uAO OO''
The f. W. Purdy went to Seattle to-
day for inspection. This steamer be-
longs to E. w. Purdy and Capt. Merwin.
She is in greater part O Port Townsend
production.
We have it from headquarters that
railroad prospects are growing brighter.
The management expects TO be in posi-
ton to push things rapidly toward com
pIetion by the 1st of February.
1t is thought that it will require
about two months tc get the Idaho IN
good running order again. The new
boilers and machinery that were put
into that steamer few months ago cost
$4,000.
The Walla Walla made a very quick
trip up from San Francisco this time.
Her second voyage was made in "a
hours less than the first; and the first
was the quickest by several hours of
any made for long time.
The Seattle Times says that it begins
to look as if we would have 8 repetition
of last yeas's experience in regard TO
coal. Ia San Francisco local dealers
advanced the price 80 ton. short
age is also reported at Portland,
The schooner Oceania Vance, launch
ed recently at Port Blakeley, is the last
vessel to be built here this reason. Di-
meusions are as follows: Length, l4S.5
tonnage, AIS, %. She is three masted,
single deck, with an elliptic stern.
The steamer Libby, against which
suit was brought on Wednesday last at
Seattle for alleged violation of the law
as regards necessary officers, was per
mitted to sail on Saturday after giving
bonds to the amount of $1,000. Capt. |
Britain and r. Moran are suEeties on
the bond.
Elsewhere in this issue will be found
notice OF the marriage of Mr.. William
Wright Of East Sound, and Miss Eliza
beth Hourie OF this place. This gentle
man is one of the prominent and we'll
to-do citizens OF Orcas island, and Mr..
and Mrs. Wright will make that their
future home, departing thence tomor-
row.
A man named J. SheurmaD was ar
rested at New Westminster on Friday
on charge of smuggling cigarettes and
playing cards from the United States.
The prisoner has been IN the smuggling
business for some years and is reported
to have amassed large fortune by con
cealing opium in barrels of cran6erries
and shipping the barrels to the United
States. Property in Portland owned by
the prisoner is valued at $4,000. he
was brought before tho magistrate at
New Westminster and remanded for
eight. days. Sbeurman is ont on 5000
bail. Victoria Times.
An exchange, in answer to the queS-
ton, what makes one town grow into a
city while the others remain villages,
says: 1t is because in one case there
are men OF push and energy, who are
ey to boom their wB. They erect sub.
stantial buildings. organize stock COM
panies and establish factories and Sc
cure railroads, work for public improve
ments and use every means in their
power to induce people to locate in
their town. They send their local paper
| to acquaintanccs they think can be iu
duced to locate in their town. When
strangers arrive the attractions are
shown to them and they are treated
with so much kindness that they fail 10
love with the town at once. A place
only succeeds when it begins to work
| for itself.
| The new street car system proposed at
Port Townsend can hardly be over
| estimated in its Importance as factor
| among its local advantages. Mr.. Dooly,
the gentleman who Is here representing
the company proposing to put in the
system, is earnestly pushing the enter
| prise. There is abundant reason to
know that bis company is acting in good
faith. one pointer being the fact that
| they are not asking for any donation or
bonus to ibe turned over to them until
the road is completed and in successful
operation. They propose to have this
OF property that will be mostly benefited
by the car line. Let such persons come
promptly forward with donations in
proportion to the financial benefits they
are to receive. and there will be dallying
no longer.