, 1888-03-01
TEREIIORsAL MEMS.

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Vancouver. ". T.. the bore being
down 3lG feet, with iOO feet OF water
in It. standing at the Tiyar level 1t
took him eleven months to bore it,
and during the last five months only
forty feet was made. The difficulties
surnounted were greater than ever
before experienced III like work.
1Ir-. Libby, wife Of Jos. 3 Libbr
# Coupeviiie died at that place last
Friday, Of consumption.
The mate Of the schooner Courser
has varioloid-so says Dr. Minkler
ife applied for admission to the ma
rine hospital. bat was refused, the
surgeon in charge deoming him not
sick but merely afflicted with slight
eruption ON the face something like
eczema \ certificate was given,
Int the Fuan still complained, and
was finally takon to the health officer
VINO sent him 10 the pest house.
Apples are selling at frCm $L25 TO
%l59 per box, aud as the demand Is
not large at these rates the market
Is pretty well supplied. Eggs have
come down to 20 cents wholesale, and
as dealers are able to clear thom of
at that rate they are not likely to &c
lower at present. Butter still holds
up good, good article being %
cents per roll and the best So cents
Iowa butter dropped in price and Is
about cut of the market. SO we shall
have to depend upon California till
the grass grows.-OregoHian.
WadaIns and Elliott, OF Portland,
Oregon. have sent man to Friday
HuTbor for the purpose of opening
the Eureka limo works near that
place. Robert Scurr, of Victoria,
will probably manage the works.
This new industry will not only bene-
lit the lower Sound, but will have a
tendency to reduce the price of lime,
which on account of the Tacoma
Lime Comrany,s works hes had
heretofore almost the exclusive trade.
Day Bros, who now have $4,000
WOE h of logs in Skagit river, have
pu chased large body of timber
near Sq1ak slough. along the line of
the Seattle, Lake Shore IL Eastern
railway, and are putting in camp
capable Of turning out about 10000
feet Of lumber per day This camp
VIII increase the earnings of the road
about SO per day. This is only one
of the many camps going in along
the line OF the road. One Of the
officials stated the other day that the
company would soon be receiving
$500 per day from the freight on logs
alone.-P. L.
Some Indians camo in from Sno-
qualmie and reported to Harry, the
cOuLt interpreter, that some days ago
the Indians who had been doing
some clearing along the right of way
| Of the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern
Railway, were paid off and invested
some of their hard earnings in bad
whisky. That night they got into a
drunken brawl and d free fight en-
sued. Several Indians were badly
cut, and one named George was
killed. The case Will probably be
investigated by the grand jury.
Those who sell liquor to Indians are
the ones who sould be the most Sc
yerely punished p. l.
A bill to apply the severalty'
principle to the great Sioux Indian
reservation in Dakota has been ap-
proved by the house committee on
Indian affairs, and is expected to be
passed at the present session. This
principle has practically been adopt
ed as the policy Of the government.
1t cannot be long before it Is applied
to the Nez Pierce, Yakima, Colville,
CGur d'Alene and other reservations
III the Northwest; and when it is
applied much valuable land will be
made accessible for settlement.
Chehalis Vidette: Would it not
be we'll to take some steps to avoid
repetition OF the terrible calamity
that occurred on the North Beach
last week by which twenty-four hu-
man beings met watery grave? A
lighthouse at Damon's and the ship
and her crew would not have been
lost. \ life saving station Oh the
North Beach, and every life wonld
have been saved, although the ship
might have been lost Why do we
not have one OF both these things?
Is 1t not because we do not make an
effort to get them? We believe that
should the business men of the har-
hor take the matter III hand the light
house will be built, and money ap-
propriated to maintain life saving
station.
The call for the assembling of the
republican territorial committee will
be made during the week by the
chairman, S. Baxter, of Seattle. This
committee will make arrangements
for the holding of a convention fer
the election of delegates to the re-
publican national nominating con-
yention, which meets in Chicago in
June. The territorial convention
will probably be held III Yakima.
The members Of the committee are:
Q. w. Wheeler, Waitsburg WaIla
Naila county, first district; L. Scott,
PomerOy, Garfield county, second
district; A. A. Wilson, Falouse City,
" hltman county, third district; +. A.
Bettis, Spokane Falls, Spokane coun-
bi9IiISIS - IL 1lOlIO1,
North Yakima, Yakima county. fifth
district: N. III. Bloomfield, Vancouver.
Clarke county, sixth district; j. 81.
Long, Chehalis, Lewis county,
seventh district; William McMicken,
Olympia, Thurston county, eight
district; S f. Sahm, Tacoma, Pierce
county, ninth district; S. Baxter, Sc.
attic, King county, eleventh district:
e. V. Calhoun, Laconner, Skagit
county; Il d. Attridge, Port Lud-
low, jefferson county; o. G.. White,
Columbia county, at large. r. D.
Attridge is the secretary of the com-
mittee.
A correspondent in Rome has fur
nished an interesting description of
the gifts to Pope Leo on the occas-
ion of his jubilee He says the gifts
have come in rapidly; that two ad-
ditions have already been made to