, 1888-12-20

St Paul has for several years had
Ter ice palaces. Now Salt Lake
'ity IS arranging for a salt palace.
some Puget Sound city might get
n timber palace. There would be
sUme solid sense in the latter.
Tie Whatcom Democrat is candid |
enough TO admit that a railroad from |
eastern Washington to western,
mountains by Skagit pass, |
might seek its terminus at Ship Har-
Dor rather than ut Whatcom.
Apple trees Of the Red Davis |
kind are blossoming or Puget Sound
in the middle of the month of De
cember. \ Tacoma man owns the
treas: and the same man says: I
picked raspberrres and strawberries
Il few lays ago"
\ few years ago a young farmer
came from the East and located on a
farm across from Port Townsend, on
Scow bay. He went in debt $500
for his land; but paid every dollar
of the Indebtedness i'll two years,
from the sale of butter and eggs.
The Astoria Pioneer gives the
Portland post office scoring, and
concludes with the general observa-
ton: "One thing is certain, that the
government has had the poorest
mail service the past two years ever
known in the history of the country"
There will be a strong pull from
a half dozen or more places on the
Sound for the naval station, but the
advantages of Port Townsend are SO
far superior to all others that there
ought to be no great trouble for the
commission to make decision in our
favor.
If the Union Pacific railway COM
pany should get controlling interest
in line of road from Spokane Falls
to Admiralty head, opposite Port
Townsend, and IN one from Portland
to this place, it would be master of
the situation ON Puget Sound and the
straits of Fuca.
Delegate Voorhees, attributes his
defeat this year to the failure of the
democratic House of Congress to
pass an admission bill for the Terri-
tory. If he had forced them to a
vote upon it, as his constituents h ad
right to expect, the issue would
have affected him but slightly.
The JOurnd! of Peoria, Illinois.
expresses the opinion that there will
be great rush to Alaska in the
spring. 1t seems that the persons
who are planning the fine excursion
steamers to run from the Sound to
Alaska have similar opinion. Such
Inen always know what they are
about in their financial ventures
The BARRIERS of Walla Walia have
entered into an agreement TO close
their shops on Sunday after Jan. Ist.
1889. 1t is good move. All per-
sons need one day in every seven for
a rest day. Statistics show that
botn man and beast can de better
work and more of it by laboring only
Elk days ont CT the seven. No work
ingman can afford to be deprived of
this day as rest day.
The death OF Chief Justice Boyle.
just as ke had entered upon the duS
ties of his office in this Territory, is
sad one, He had already made a
most favorable impression upon our
people as man of fine character
and as an able jurist. Pneumonia
was the cause of his death. All
treatment proving unavailing be
cause of complication with previ-
Gus heart and kidney trouble.
The Mail says that the time has
now come when LaConner must
awake frGm her Iethargy if she
would retain the name of the most
prosperous town on the Sound. The
Mail calls attention to the fact that
there is a standing offer of a good
site for saw mill The citizens of
i.aConner are On the right track. No
town should expect manufacturing
establishments to be located within
its borders unless there is some sol
I'd encouragement given the proiec-
tors of such enterprises.
Farm and fruit lands on our is
lands ara growing IN value every
day. though prices are not yet ad-
vaacing with the prices of lands
near our growing towns and cities.
Goodfa lands on Whidby and 9TH
er islands, partly improved, can be
bought to-day for prices varying
from SO to SIC an acre that Will in
less than decade be worth from $50
to Si5 an acre. WILDLY, it should
be remembered. when you are Iur-
n'shing information to your farmer
friends East, is separated f~um FL
aa'go by only a narrow pass; ard
the latter from the mainIand by only
a little slough. We are not given to
prophecy, bnt cant help making the |
one that there will Ia n ,,ii,..,., / a.,