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, 1888-02-16
HalIer's Trip to Washington.

i reporter for the Seattle p L, IN
terviewed lLr. q. NJ. Haller the other
day, with the following result
Reporter-It is reported at Port
Townsend, Mr.. Hal er, that on your
recent eastern trip you went to
Washington City chiefly foF the pur-
pose OF trying TO remove the Gus
tom house from Port Townsend Is
there any truth in that report?
Mr.. Haller-No, there /, not; there
is absolutely no truth Ill it was IN
y ashington but very few days, and
l not only did nothing, aud said
nJthing about tie custom house in
Port Townsend, hut the matter never
occurred to me az ali. the fact IS |
have always been OF tie opinion. and
AN now OF the opinion that the
proper place for the custom house on
Pnret Sound Is at Port Townsend,
and | have time and again so ex~
pressed myself Port Townsend, by
virtue OF It's excellent situation, It's
proximity to the ocean, must continue
to he taa principai port Of entry of
Puget Soaud; nature long ago set
tied that question; and so far from
seeking to have the custom house re-
moved from Port Townsend to Seat
tie, or 10 auy other point, L should be
among the first. should such a move
be SET on foot, TO oppose it, and the
great majority of the people of Seat
tie view the matter in the same light
think, however, that the necessities
OF commerce now require the max
ing Seattle port of entry, with a
deputy collector stationed here.
This would bo doing no more for
Seattle than has been done at Roche
harbor, San Juan island, and [ am
satisfied that the business men of
Port Townsend would concede this
much to Seattle. [ have no sympathy
with tho narrow policy which is an~
noyed and takes alarm at the pros
perity Of any community outside of
the one person lives in. The PROS
perity OF any one place on Puget
sound means the prosperity, to Ger
tain extent, Of the whole of Puget
sound.
Reporter-Do you think that the
additional sum of money viii be ap-
propriated for the completion OF the
custom house at Port Townsend?
Mr.. Hailer-I think so. 1t Ger
tainly ought to be done, and the Seat
tie chamber of commerce did the
proper thing in passing resolutions
for such an appropriation. That
custom house at Port Townsend
ought to be completed, it Is very
much needed.
Reporter-Do you think Seattle
and Tacoma will be made ports Of
entry. with deputy collectors, as you
speak Of?
Mr.. Haller-It seems to me so. The
demands of commerce require it. As
these institutions are made for the
purpose of aiding sand promoting
commerce, there is no reason in the
world why these two places should
not be made ports of entry, with dep
uty collectors.
, 1888-02-16

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, 1888-02-16
Rand0.n Mention,

Pendleton, Or, has the measles
pretty badly
Senator Dolph is making a siren
uous effort to have the Indian War
claims of 1S55-56 paid.
Clatsop Co., Or, is to have a fine
new Court house at Astoria 1t will
cost away up and will be built of
stone.
The Astors are said to own 5000
buildings in New York city, and it is
estimated that their combined wealth
is fully S4O0.000,000-
Tne find of rich vein of copper
in King Go. only help prove that
Wash. Ty. is one of the richest min
eral sections of the nation. Millions
upon millions are hidden away in
our mountains.
Boise City, Idaho, is the center of
a large mining district. a report be-
fore the Board of Trade of that city
shows that a great amount of the
precious metals in being taken out
from that section even in the winter
time.
The Western Camel Goods asso-
citation at its annual meeting in st.
Louis decided to prepare a memorial
to congress for the removal of i'm
port duty on tin plate, thus placing
camel goods. in the reach of all
classes of people.
, 1888-02-16

In tho District Court, holding terms at Port
Townsend, ashinglon Territory.
CHARLES NJ. BRADSHAW, Plaintiff
9, j. SEwELJ, executor OF the es-
tate of John Y. Sewell, deceased
ct al, defendants
Under and by virtue OF an execution and de-
cree of foreclosure issued out of the District
Court of the Third Judicial District holding
February. 1883. il the above entitled action
wherein Cha les NJ Bradshaw the above named
plaintiff obtained judgment and decTes against
g. j. Sewell executor of the estate OF John Y.
SeWell deceased, the 7th day OF February
1888 l am commanded 10 sell all that certain
piece or parcel of s nd lying and being al or near
Penn's Cove, in The County Of Island. Wsshiks-
ton Territory, and containing one hundred and
sixty acres of land the same being the donation
claim patented by the Government cf the
United States, to ClaTissa Hathaway. wife of
Eli Hathaway, and bounded on The North by
lands belonging TO school- on the East by lands
of j. b. Montgomery, on The South by lauds of
Aimon Hancock. and on the Wet by school
lands and other lands, together with Gil and sim
gRltr the tenements, hereditamentS and appur-
tenances thereunto belonging, or in anywise
apperiaining.
Notice is hereby given that on Friday, the
10th day OF March, lSSS. Mt 10 O'Clock n IN. of
town Of Ceupville, in TIE county of Island
Territory of Washington, | will in obediance to
sad execution and decree OF for tlOsufe sell the
above drScF bed property. or so much thereof
may be necessary 10 satisfy plaintiffs JUDGMENT
with interest thereon and costs and incr- ased
COSTS, TO the highest bidder for cash AZ public
auction. G.. POWER
Sheriff of Island County. Washington Territory.
BRADSHAW q SACHS, Attiys for Plaintiff.
February Is, fSSS-td
, 1888-02-16

Capt. Nelson has res gned the mas
tership of the schooner Eclipse, ana the
mate, Martensen, Is his successor.
Geo. NJ. Loyde has been appointed
railway mail clerk between Helena and
Portland, to succeed Doso Temple, re-
signed.
Complaint comes from La Camas
there IS no money in the place, The
paper and sawmill are three months be-
hind IN paying their hands. 1t is to be
hoped that these companies are not ser
iously embarrassed.
No other spring medicine has won for
itself such universal confidence as Ayers
Sarsaprilla. 1t is the most powerful
combination OF vegetable alternatives
ever offered 10 the public, aud is ack-
nowiedged by the medical profession TO
be the best blood purifier.
Captain Ross has resigned the master
ship of the steamer Ferndale, in San
Francisco, and was succeeded by Capt
Hughes. The former master is superin-
tending the construction of q new steam
schooner that will have n speed Of twelve
knots an hour and cost $4,000.
Oregonian: BY all means there
should be a lighthouse at Damon's
point where the Abercorn was wrecked
aud a life saving station some where
north of Gray's hsTbor. Within the
past ten years there have been nine
wrecks on the twenty-five miles OF coast
north and south OF the harbor.
, 1888-02-16
CONDENSED TELEGRkMS.

Fifty or sixty families OF negroes
Will soon leave North Carolina for
the Pacific Coast, to supplant that
many Chinese laberers.
Hon J. Quinn Thornton of Salem,
Or, a pioneer Of '46 in that state,
died this week He was n promi-
nent citizen.
The high wafer on the Nooksack at
Lynden washed out a bridge one
hundred and eighty feet long across
an arm of the river. The bridge was
private one and belonged to r. e.
Hawley and Mr. Mitchell.
The sum OF SLAP, 500 has been
spent by the government on the
Cascade locks, and it viii take a
million and a half more to complete
them.
, 1888-02-16
University Commission


All tue members of the local committee
were present. A motion was made by
DR.. Dillon as follows:
WHEREAS, there is a serious business
conflict between the Board of Trade of
Port Townsend and the Puget Sound
animal conference, concerning locating
the University at that place, therefore
ResolUed, that We are not prepared to
vote on the bids presented to us for loca-
tion of said university, butt that we do
hereby recommend that the difficulty be
settled by arbitration in the manner
prescribed by the discipline of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
DR.. Dillon AMI Few. 10y voted for this
resolution; Rev's Devore and LeSourd
against it. The chairman then called
for votes on the propositions from Port
Townsend aud Tacoma. The vote was
then taken, DR.. Dillon and Rev. 10y
voting for Port Townsend; Devore and
LeSourd for Tacoma.
These proceedings Of the local COM
mittee are to be forwarded immediately
to Bishops Fowler, Foss and Warren,
whose concurrent votes, whether for ar
bitration or location, will decide the
questions involved.
, 1888-02-16

Stephen Girard's fortune amounted
to about 81 100000, and of this he
left S6,000,000 to his university. He
gave nearly all of his property to the
public, and out of his whole fortune
his relalatives received only $40, 600.
The papers of the northwest are
quite generally noticing with pleas
ure the fact that Mrs. Molloy is ex
onerated by the Missouri courts.
The OregOnian might make an
''aBlende honorable" in good taste.
Tacoma is to have a business col
lege.
Many underwriters of this city
have given the British bark Glenoven
up as lost. She sailed from Astoria.
Oregon, on August 9th for Livep-
pool, and was spoken off Falkland
Is ands, by the ship Scottish Wizard
Three days afterward the Wizard
barely escaped being wrecked in a
terrible storm, and the bark is sup
posed to have gone down.
While on the surface there seems
to be but little interest taken in the
appointments which the governor
held over when the legislature ads
jouaned, as matter of fact there is
IA great deal of 'figurin' going on.
The figuring hasn't so much relation
to the selection Of competent men as
to the adjustment of the wheels of
the complicated machine which Gov
ernor Semple hes been trying to get
into working order. The attorney
general struggle has left more un-
swept-up political birthstone lying
around than ali the rest of the ap-
pointments put together Itrequires
an immense amount of soothing
syrup to keep the infants still.
, 1888-02-16
She2'iT's Sale.

Notice is hereby given that will sell at public
auction, to the highest bidder or bidders for
cash, on Saturday, February 1sih, 1883, at ~
O'Clock n. IN, of that day the premises
known as the Little field farm on the Port Ifis-
covery road, near Port Townsend, the same
lately occupied by Thomas Bishop as augh-
ter house, the following described and named
property, to-wit: About 80 head of cattle,
about 50 head of sheep, about 81 hogs, horses,
] calf, ahd other live stock, etc.
This sale is made under and by virtue of an
order of court, mad6 in the care OF ClRpp q
Fuerhach against Thomas Bishop, In the Dis
trict Court, holding terms G Port Townsend,
and in persuanoe OF a stipulation on file in said
Court. JOHN +, SHEEHAN,
Sheriff OF Jefferson County, w t.
Dated Port Townsend, feb. II, 1855.
, 1888-02-16
4 Mistake.

ED. ARGUs:-I noticed In the Cal,
of the 18th inst. the assertion that
the NJ e. conference took away the
university from Port Townsend and
put it up to the highest bidder.
This is serious mistake or mis-
statement as to the action of the
conference. It he'd no power what
ever to take away the university from
Port Townsend. IT did not even
try TO do so It did refuse to COM
plete arrangements with its own
hoard of trustees. 1t did declare
itself rs morally and leg lily free from
Port Townsend. 1t did not put the
matter up to the highest bidder. 1t
simply created commission to
whom it referred the whole matter of
university and transferred that COM
mission its own power in full. Hence
the commission is in university mat
ters. the conference The local part
OF the commission is tie on the
claims of Port Townsend. Port
Townsend's bid has not been changed
or modified in the least. If 1t was
desirable to cope in amount with Ta~
coma's $4,000 we could do il, as rise
in values has fully made up the diff
ference between $4,000 in July and
$4,000 now. We are endeavoring to
show the nonresident Bishops that
the claims of Port Townsend, rest on
the moral obligation of the confer
ence to Port Townsend, rather than
on any competitive valuation of the
bonus. Nothing is decided as yet.
No location is made at any other
point, while Port Townsend has her
University duly incorporated and
ready TO begin operations. Shall we
surrender before we are defeated?
[ hazard nothing in saying that the
University movement has already
paid Port Townsend property hold
ers more than the $4,000 subscribed
and yet, not ten men have paid
cent toward the enterprise. If COM
pleted it will pay ten times its cost in
rise OF values in three years. One
piece of property valued by its
owner at $500 one year ago, has just
sold for $4,000 The sale was direct
ly due to the university movement.
The movement has caused an adj
vance of probably not less than %
per cent in all real estate values on
Quimper Peninsula. So soon as the
buildings shall be rooted, values will
have gone up not less than 80 per
cent. higher. The institution when
builded and manned will bring in to
this community not less than $780,
600 annually. Very truly, etc,
JouN n DPNrsoN
, 1888-02-16
This Month

is The time to take Ayers sarsaparilIa.
\. f. Willard, Rogers building, Boston,
Mass, says: 81 know of no remedy OF
equal efficacy with Ayers sarsaparilla In
cases OF debility. and as spring medi-
cine" Rich'd II. Lawrence, VI. D., Balti-
more. Nd, writes: 1T affords me pleasure
to testify 10 the success which Ayer's
Sarslparil!a has had in the treatment Of
cU,aneoas and other diseases, arising from
Z yiiia;ed condition of the blood. Were It
necessary, might give you the names Of
fifty individuals who have been cured OF
Iong-standing complaints, by the use Of
Ayers Sarsaparilla. 1t is n specific for
the most obstinate cases. Ayers Sar-
, 1888-02-16

- = c.n its weight in gold," Is a
common expression But, while the
value of gold is easily affected, the worth
of Ayers Sarsapariila, az blood purI-
fer, never depreciates. 1t will eradicate
scrofula from tue system when every
thing else fails.
, 1888-02-16
Palitsea, Pointers.

Attorney General Garland has
published letter contradicting the
report that he intends becoming Il
candidate fer the United States sen
ate.
Chicago Inter Ocean: Senator
Voorhees, wants to make another
tariff speech He has already ar
gued for both sides; perhaps he
wants to split the difference.
The national democratic committee
will meet at Washington, Feb, %, to
name the time and place for holding
the national convention of that party
Dan Lamont, the presidents pri-
vate secretary, has an itching to be
governor of New York, and is said 10
be laying pipe to secure the demo
cratic nomination.
Boston Globe: Let us burn the
reminiscent rags of unhappy past,
forget all abont the war, and 90 into
it a good, square up and up fight on
the tariff, and may the best side win.
Philadelphia Press: All attempts
to commit the farmers to the presi-
dents free-trade policy have failed
dismally- The discovery that farm
ers are not fools has been a painful
surprise to the tariff tinkers.
The New York Times is moved to
remark that Gov Hill, as an aspirant
for the presidential nomination, sis
simply too ridiculous to be taken
seriously" The present occupant of
the White-house is an illustration to
the contrary.
Chattanooga Times Oem.): Sher-
mans speech is one of the ablest
presentations of the protective argu
ment yet published 1t is worth
reading without reference to what
the opinion of the reader may be of
Mr.. Sherman as man and citizen.
Cleveland Leader: The republi-
can policy is the best one; abolish
the entire internal revenue tax on
tobacco, and devote a part of the re-
manning surplus to establishing one
cent postage. What remains of the
surplus after that will not be dam
gerous.
Some of the republican opponents
Of Blaine are very confident that an
important communication has been
eceivei from him by those who are
regarded as his chief friends and
managers in this country. One of
the statements is that William Wal
ter Phelps has letter from Blaine
which authorizes Phelps to announce
that he (BlaineJ will not be 4 candi
date before the republican conyen
ton.
, 1888-02-16
I AXE it

during the spring and summer months.
The peculiar taint of scrofula turks in the
constitutions of nultituties of men, bat
can be expelled by the use Of Ayers
Sarsaparila. NJ. j. Conway, 33I Hicks
st., Brooklyn, \. Y, writes: . Two years
ago 1 was examined, ut the Long Island
Hospital, in This city, and my case was
declared to be Salt Rhcum. Large scales
covered my legs, and were constantly
dropping Off; my eyes, also, were badly
affected. Ny only relief was in warm salt
water baths. was unable 10 remain in a
warm room, and could only sleep under
very light bed-cIothes, as the heat increased
the burning and itching. The use Of
, 1888-02-16
A ROOF CAVES IN.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.--The roof of
the ordnance building at the WASH
ington navy yard fell in this morning
being unable to support heavy weight
of snow upon it. The damage is
estimated at $50 600.
, 1888-02-16

Our recent legislature will go down
10 history as the most extravagant in
the history of Washington territory
Il has reached down INTO the treasury
deep enough to leave deficit of
four or five hundred thousand dol
lars. There are but two ways out of
the diiemma-ei-her to borrow mons
ey and issue bonds, or issue warrants
to be discounted. Either course will
saddle large load of Interest upon
the taxpayers. Probably we shall
have 20 return for time to the old
system of deprecated warrants.
Bankers and spectators will make
money by it-uuless they decline
handling paper bearing only eight
per cent. interest. 1t is probable
that they will offset the low interest
rate by insisting upon discounting
heavily from the face of warrants.
As result, people who perform serv-
ices for the territory will charge ex-
orbitant prices wherever possible.
and officers with salaries will be
tempted to "even up" by question:
able methods. II was thought that
this sort of regime mad been ended
years ago when, under Governor Fer
ry's administration, the last of our
territorial debt was wiped out; but it
seems that we are to be saddled
again. Whether the advantages to
be gained viii be anyway near COM
mensnrate with the price paid for so
much Legislative grandeur or not, re-
mains to be seen. AT present writing,
however, it locks very much like
case of being governed too much.
, 1888-02-16
The Port Townsend Southern.


Few people realize what valuable
franchise this road can secure il It
viii push irS business and secure its
right Of aay. There Is room for but
one road down the west side OF Hoods
canal. There Is need Of but one
roai through LELAND and Quilcene
valley, and vet there IS no other
route lay which Il road can reach the
Straits Of Fuca. \ representative Of
The ARaUs recently Interviewed a
prominent official Of the Seattle &
Eastern rs to the business done by
that road on lis tc-s thirty miles.
He was assured that tLc business
was very naucA more than the COM
pany hal contemplated, and that it
was p god paying investment from
the start. So viii the Port Town
send Southern he. rs it runs through
good agricultural and a most ex-
cailant timber section OF the country.
Forward gentlemen; and there are
fortunes ahead for you in this most
valuable franchise. But if you are
not active another will take the
prize.
, 1888-02-16

san FRANcIsco, Feb. 13.-The trial
of John A. Dnnning, accused of the
murder of Henry Benhayon, was
commenced in Judge Murphy's court
TO-DAY.
, 1888-02-16
MILITARY TELEGRApH.

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA. = Senator
Mitchell introduced bill in the
senate vest erday, to provide for the
construction of military telegraph
line along the Oregon coast, connect
ing Yaquina bay, Coos bay, Sinslow
bay and Gardner on the Umpgua
river
BLACK SAND.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Lieutenant
Commander Newell, of the U. S.
steamship Pinta, reports from Sitka
January 25th the discovery of gold
bearing sand, known as black sand,
in the western portion of Alaska.
SCHOONER ASHORE.
SAN FRANcIsco, Feb. IA dis
patch to the Merchants exchange
says: Schooner I'll. Bendei, seventy
three tons burden. lumber laden,
went ashore at 4 o'clock this morn
ing. The crew are saved and the
vessel is resting easy.
, 1888-02-16

The steamer Alaskan, which was
originally built to run between Taco
ma and Victoria in connection with
the Olynpian, will be brought around
in few days and will shortly after
watds be put OF the route This
action of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation comp2np has been forcad
upon them by the necessities of busi-
ness on the Sound and by loss of
business they have sustained while
running the Olympian alone.-Led-
ger
Great Indignation has been caused
in army circles over petition filed
by the friends of Gen. N A Miles,
asking for his promotion to major
general in place of Gen. a. II. Terry,
who is now in Florida on a sick leave
Gen. Miles is now commanding the
departmenl of Arizona and the peti-
ton which asks for his promotion IS
signed by all the senators and rep
resentatives of congress from the
Pacific coast. He is the only briga-
der general and the one he desires to
suppiant is the only major general
who is not graduate of West Point
academy. Gen Miles begun his
military career as captain in the
Twenty second Massachusetts in
faRtry, and for gallant aud meritor-
GUS services became colonel Of the
Fortieth infantry, and was the
youngest regimental commander in
the service. He has great influence
in military, social and political cir
cies, not only from his standing as g
fighter, but from the fact that he is
nephew of Gen. w. L. Sherman.
, 1888-02-16

Senator Mitchell, OF Oregon, sug-
gests the aeduction Of duty on opium
from so to s. per pound, as n rem-
edy to prevent so much smuggling of
the drug across the border
, 1888-02-16

The CdH imagines that anything
said for the university is wasted. 1t
would be really too bad il this little
misrepresentation sheet should fail
to defeat the enterprise. Already
the university movement has been
worth Il hundred thousand dollars Mt
least to Port Townsend in the ad-
vertising it has given US abroad, and
the way in which it has braced up
real estate values. It's too progress
siye by far; must kill it off, you
know.
, 1888-02-16

Mr. Blaine has precipitated anoth-
CT political sensation by declining the
presidential nomination in advance.
Ii is already limited, however, that he
may be renominated in spite of his
protests. In fact, the publication of
his letter of declination may only
serve TO increase the furore in his IA
vor. About the best thing the repub-
lican party can DO now will be to
concentrate on John Sherman.
, 1888-02-16
REMAINS OF THE RX-PREMIER.

SAN Francisco, Feb. 10. The re
mains of Walter Murry Gibson, late
ex-Premier of the Hawaiian King
dom, were placed on the steamer
Zealandia today The steamer
sailed for Honolulu a few hours later,
and the body will be buried On the
islaud of Lanai.
, 1888-02-16
SheYin's Sale.

In tho District Court, holding terms at Port
Townsend, VI ashington Territory.
CHARLES NJ. BRADSHAW, Plaintiff