, 1888-11-15
PICKINGS.
Smallpox in Portland, Or.

MIS- Jay oOtiu Is Sdlu " DS uy my,
Republican walk over everywhere.
Chairman Barnum was reported
dead yesterday.
The death of Mrs. Jay Gould is
expected hourly.
Weir's majority is also climbing.
1t will be near 500.
A bee tree in Whatcom county
yielded so gallons of honey.
The republican victory in Montana
is called an overwhelming one.
Republicans will contest four con-
eressional districts in Alabama
Republican majority in Wyoming
twice as large as ever given before.
From the mine at Pittsburg, Kan
sas, 81 dead bodies have been taken.
One farmer near Walla Walla
raised 10000 bushels of wheat this
year.
The 0. r. L n. steamer Bonanza
sunk near Oswego with $50 tons of
wheat.
Harrison and Morton are both kept
busy reading congratulatory tele~
grams.
Nearly all towns on the Sound are
complaining of the wretched mail
service.
Republican majority in the next
house of congress now estimated at
twenty.
1t cost 100000 10 care fol the hop
crop of Pierce and King counties
this year.
Senator German has visited Cleve-
land to rub sore spots and administer
consolation.
Cleveland has given Horace
Greeley's advice to Lord Sackqille
West. ''Go, West.''
The Pcget Sound canneries have
put up this season 24,400 cases and
200 barrels of salmon.
The acreage Of hops will be Iarge-
ly increased because of the good
crop and prices this year.
No cold weather yet in Florida,
There is great despondency because
OF the yellow fever siege
In Garfield and Kitsap counties
the female school teachers receive
higher wages than the male.
The tea trains on the Canada.
facltlc have the right of way over
everything, and run 35 miles an hour.
Tea direct from China may be had
of Chinese merchants on the Sound
at prices varying from 40 cents to So.
School district No. of king coun-
ty. feels the need of $150,00O for
school buildings. A tax will proba-
bly, be voted.
Dakota is delighted over the cleo
ton of Harrison, and the states of
both North and South Dakota leom
up prominently.
Anarchists met last Saturday in
st. Louis, Pittsbnrg and New York
IN memory of Spies. The meetings
were tame affairs.
Gloria Mundi apples weighing two
pounds We're grown on the Sound
THIS years and Bellfowers weighing
pound and half.
There are 926 school houses in
this territory; 1850 school districts,
and l2S5 teachers; number of schol-
ars enrolled. 36,673.
The Canadian Pacific railroad com
pany will soon put on fast trains
that will shorten the transeontinen-
tai trip twenty hours
Land near Ferndale that had been
IN cultivation Is years produced 40
bushels of wheat to the acre this
year. 1t was cloversod and was not
manured.
The San Francisco Chronicle
urges Harrison to call special ses-
sion for the purpose of admitting
Washington and Dakota into the
union of states.
At the Whatcom fair there was
exhibited limb from pear tree, % |
inches long and one,half inch in di-
ameter, on which we're "a pears
weighing Is pounds.
The supply of coal for consump-
ton at San Francisco for October |
was III, ,322 tons. OF this amount |
1852 tons We're from Tacoma and |
Seattle; 30, 73S from British Oolum.
bia.
Senator German fakes the defeat
but he was never an
admirer Of Cleveland. He is a 2ro-
tectIonist. and has been stubbornIy
opposed to the presidents policy
from the beginning.