, 1889-01-24
From aIo=GlaA's DailS

The Ha llock saw mill is cnsed for
ten days.
Judge Strive, of Seattle, was il town
Saturday.
Chas. Grillo and F. f. Jngo are in
California.
p, B. Mastick Of Port Angeles was in
town Saturday.
Mayor Learned arrived home Satnr-
day morning from trip up Sound.
Frank CEilds. the Union wharf rust
Ter, has gone to California for a visit.
Considerable OF insurance has been
placed on property since the recent fire.
Captain Parker. of the T. j. Potter, is
very i'll at Seattle During his sickness
Captain Davis commands
Mr.. Angus Mcintosh, prominent Sc.
attle business man and capitalist, was in
town Saturday.
Dobbs Bros will erect four thonsand
dollar residence building for Frank
Pettygrove, ON Maple Avenue.
While in town last week, Mrs. Capt.
| Nickels Invested in some Port Town
send real estate-acre property as well
as lots.
Supt. Ira p Smith, late of Port Dis
covery, but at present of the Blanchard
logging works on the Saamish river, was
in town Saturday,
Herman Trapeur has purchased Wm.
! Donoyan's interest in the Palace Chop
House-and will be the inspiration of
that establishment hereafter.
| A - ,T..,,,-
favor of Port Townsend, is the uuanimi-
ty with which persons who remove from
here always return to reside again.
MIR. VIM. Hamilton, formerly in the
employ of the shipping firm now known
as Gritfitbs, Meyer & Stetson, and who
went east last summer, has returned.
Eastern readers. especially in Dakota
and Mime sofa, Will be surprised TO learn
that we have had no snow here this win
ter, and no cessation of outdoor work.
W. S. Bowen, who was on the Susie at
tho time she blew up, is able to move
around again on crutcbes, His many
friends will be glad to hear of his Fecov-
cry.
That water company franchise grant
ed by the city council last Friday even
ing bespeaks day of larger things and
better accommodations for Port Town
send.
MIR. G.. Il. Lotzgesell OF Durgeness is
IN town on business. His daughter died
in Tacoma few days ago of pneumonia.
The body was taken home to Dungeness
for burial.
The crew OF the s. S. Premier are
complaining of sore and swollen arms III
consequence OF the vaccination which
they underwent when they last entered
! Vancouver.
The promised change in the steamer
schedule on the Seattle-Victoria route
has occurred. Boats arrive here now
from Seattle about l p. m. From Vic
toria about 1870.
Parties in town looking for "a permaB-
ent location, allege, after having inyesti'
gated Seattle. Tacoma and other points,
that they are much better pleased with
our location than with any other.
Ben Pettygrove offers twenty acres OF
land in the valIey-cleared and in fine
condition-streets on two sides OF it
for twenty thousand dollars. The man
who gets it at that price can double his
money within a year.
While in town Saturday, Mr.. Mackin-
tosh paid the duty (some S25.000) on a
! cargo of steel rails for the Seattle, Lake
, Shore & Eastern X. r. Go. These rails
will be used to lay track to common
point Of connection with the Northern
Pacific-and, when thus laid, common
= terminal facilities will be asked.
Warren Hastings purchase OF the
Riley eighty-acre tract of land is the
: largest transaction that has been con
: summated locally since the transfer ot
the Blinn poperty. 1t is generally re-
garded as fortunate speculation for Mr.
( Hastings, who has excellent judgment
: of land values in and about the "keJ
: city" With our brilliant prospects, rea
estate hereabouts is sure 10 grow rapid!
, in value for the next few years, at leRst
e The man who buys acre property now a
g reasonable figures. and handles it Ju
IdIeiousiy cannot fail to coin men0y.