, 1888-12-06
From srocdaX,s Daily.


Coupville is to have sawmill.
The Dispatch went to Neah Bay to
day in place OF the Evaugel which is a
Seattle.
During his recent visit to Centralia
DIR. Minkler sold his residence there tC
the editor of the Ne,rs for 5000.
Sketch plans for the enlargement OF
the custom house building have been
received for the approval Of Superin
tendent DevOe.
| A leakage in the sea wall near the
bonded warehouse has resulted in quite
wasbout on the street, and the aceum
uiatiun OF = large amount OF water.
Messrs. Clark & Howard are arraDg.
ing for descriptive articles OF Port Town
send in snch eastern papers as the New
York Independent and Ohio Farmer.
The city surveyor made Investigations
| of the Taylor street sidewalk, and decid
ed ot once that proper material was be-
ing used. 1t seems that there was no
ground for the complaint.
FL. Cook, prominent real estate
man of Tacoma, is in the city. Mr..
Cook is also interested in mines in the
Okanogan country with F. s. Kinds OF
the Commercial Wharf Company.
DR.. MinkIer informs us that tue coal
fields around Centralia are very extensive.
Thirty thousand acres have been tested,
and thick veins found. The coal is said
| to be superior to the CarbonadO.
Mr.. Samuel l.. Hobbs, of Denver Col
orado, who for the past several days has
| been sojOurning IN our city, left this
morning for Port Townsend. Mr.. Hobbs
is an assaver by profession and is in the
employ of the Carbinado Mining Com
pany.-Seattie Press.
1t is reported that the steamer Wash
ington will be extensively repaired and
altered at Port Ludlow. Her hull
will be made lighter, her boilers enlarg-
ed and her cylinders bored out one-fourth
of an inch larger. This will increase her
speed materially, and when she is COM
pleted in the spring she will be one of
the fastest boats on the Sound.-EG.
Mr.. A. II. S. Davenport, Whatcom
county's representative at Port Town
send, is again in jail After his father
secured his release on bail, Davenport
went back to drinking, which caused his
bondsmen to turn him over for safe keep
ing Therefore We shall expect to see
Davenport back to Whatcom TO stand
trial in a few months for shooting at Ar
thur Celene. He and his kind should be
taught lesson that will stand as warn
ing to those who are eternally saddling
heavy bills of cost on our county.-What-
com ReUeiiIe.
David Denny, whose beautiful home
on the shore OF Lake Washington was
an cut t.of- town country seat two or til rec
years ogo, is already surrounded by the
latter growth of Seattle. Most OF his or,
iginnl donation claim has been sold of
and cut up into town lots, on which two
or three ordinary fortunes have been
| realized. He has enough land to spare
yet for twenty-six blocks. and has been
ofFeredlover hundred Thousand dollars
for it. Very few homest8aders or dona-
ton claimants. even on Puget Sound
have realized SO handsomely on theil
holdings.
KIrsAP Co. VoTE--Followipg is The
official vote OF Kitsnp county, for terri
torial and district officers, Just received
Allen. 498; VOORHEES,, 220; Aliens major
ity, 27S; Curry's majority over Hunt foI
Brig. Gen., 279. OIirien's majority
over Butler for Adj't Gen, 2s3. New
Inns majority over Blaine for Pros
Atty. 204. Weir's majority over Dono
van for joint councilman, 225. Hinck
ley's majority over Payne for joint re
preventative, 22l.
The Coast Seamen's Union Of SaI
Francisco deny the report that there hal
been any reduction in wages which hal
been countenanced by their organiza-
| ton. They claim that the Shipowner'
Association lowered the wages on thei
own vessels about four months since
but no union sailors have as yet accept
ed their terms. The unions wages q
present are $45 month to outside ports
by which is meant where the.vessel mus
anchor to buoy in the absence Of
wharf; $40 to Puget Sound and $35 I,
the Sandwich Islands, Central America,
ports and the like
Seattle has been splendidly written u
and illustrated in the San Francisc,
Journal of Commerce, aud is also to b
the subject OF a special edition OF th
Oregonidn this month. In addition
real estate agents are sending ou
pamphlets and printed matter in all di
rections constantly. They have learnet
that during the fall and winter month
is the time to advertise in order to rea
La benefit the following year. Por
Townsend might take a valuable hin
from this. We not only want our ful
share of the incoming population. bu
ourselves alone will be to blame il W
Ido not get it.
II Rev. I. D. Driver, D. D., OF Oregon
has been delivering some very interest
ling and profitable lectures in Seattle
under the auspices of the local Y. M. c
, A., aud for their benefit. DIR. Drive
prefers to labor in the Pacific northwes
, even for one-third the salary he coul
command in the East. He is an enthr
siastic believer in the great future befor
: this part OF the country, is greatly iute
! ested in the training and developmar
OF young men, and lectures for them al
solutely without charge. He thinks "
, have the most vigorous Young men
the world-intellectually as well {
pbysically-RDd believes their moral d,
! Lvelopment to be the grandest publ
, swork of the age.
The Argus is in receipt of letter frol
North Brookfield, Mass, as follow
"Please send me sample copies OF Po
Townsend ARGUS, and rates, Daily an
, Weekly. l expect to come TO Seattl
Tacoma or Port Townsend, and from a
have heard much prefer Port Tow
, send. Expect somewhat of party wi
l come in the early spring. Would lik
to find out all can in regard to Pug,
1 Sound district and particularly Pc
: Townsend" Once more the -ARGI
would advise its readers to send the
copies OF the ARGUS frequently to a
7 tauaintances East. IL you know of
reading room. send an occasional col
of the Weekly to it. It will pay Sea
= tie and Tacoma are far better hnoN
! East than Port Townsend is. Let
' make every possible effort to place or
, superior location and resources befo
: the people. When the Walls OF Jerus
n lem Nere rebuilt in the time of Jeremii
!. Ievery man had a mind to work, al
: builded before his own house.
: Bk Theobald sailed. lumber lade
oil German bk. Henrietta arrived ye
ltardRy from San PadrO 10 load Wha