, 1889-02-07

The Seattle, Lake Shore and East
ern road is now built sixty miles east
from Seattle and forty miles west
from spokane Falls. A stop has
been made for more funds. 1t is *
pected that with the backing OF the
.. Il. Il n. Co. the Seattle road will
be enabled TO go ahead and complete
a transcontinental line through some
pass of the Cascade mountains.
E. n. Fuller, an old time upwspa-
per man, makes the announcement
that early in February he viii begin
the publication of newspaper TO be
called the Weekly Budget. The of
fee will be located in the First
Ward, Old Tacoma. The object of
the paper will be to quicken the in
terests of the county and Territory,
but more especially the Old Town.
Anton CIabbe, residing on the up
per Skagit, while hunting pheasants
with a companion about two miles
above the Sauk, met with an acci-
dent resulting IN his death. In
crossing a log he slipped, and by
some means accidentally discharged
both barrels of his gun the entire
contents of which took effect in his
right temple, blowing off the top of
his head.
4 syndicate of eastern and Port
Townsend capitalists have purchased
the site of Union City AID large
tract adjacent on Hoods canal. The
purchase is very important, as the
line of the Port Townsend railway
Will pass Union City, and the sur.
rounding country is splendidly
adapted for farming purposes. Uns
ion City is booming, and a weekly
paper is to be established by II. +.
Sheels, formerly of the Pitsburg
Daily TimeS.-Seattle Times special.
Lillian with concealed disdain) -
And did you really mean this lovely
work bag for me? Ethel with vir-
tuous complacency)-Yes. dear. Tm
SO glad if you like it. 1t was such
pleasure to make it when [ thought
it would be for you. Lillian (who
has seen the same thing ON Cashboy
Il Cheaply's fifty-cent bargain count
er)-O, my dear darling, it was too
good of you to take SO much trouble
Just for me. But isn't it funny, our
coachman gave the cook one just like
it?
1t is hardly a settled matter yet
whether the Bennett railroad will go
to Skagit river via Samish lake or
Whatcom lake At least land hold
ers along said routes don't know
whether to let go or hold on a while.
1t does look reasonable that one rail
road from Bellingham Bay south to
Seattle via Skagit coal mines ought
to be enough for short time at
least One railroad cannot run over
two routes. Que company will hari-
ly build and operate two roads over
the same territory-ReUeiH
The Walla Walla Union. by its
publication of 4 number of letters
written to a supposed member OF the
prison reform association by convicts
in the territorial penitentiary at that
place, has attracted the attention of
the press and the people throughout
tue COuuIiy- Inc lelieIS were III oil
swer to a circular sent to the prison
by Mr.. John W. Dickinson, "a cler-
ical looking gentleman of about sixty
years of age" The object of the
scheme was to learn what brought
the men to their present situation
and the answers show that whiskey,
gambling and women are the direct
causes of most of the men falling
from society The most remarkable
answer was from man by the name
of Jones. an American, 46 years old,
sent up from Sprague for grand lar
ceny. He wrote:
81 am in pore health at present i
will let you now how am fixt at
present l came here in mistake,
it was a mother man don it it was
could Grand Larcney My trade is a
finisher My Teaching was Cathlic
wen to Public Scools in Boston
Mass My Down fall was did not go
to bed in time and youst to go to
all the fers in the City and it made
me a bad Boy am going East wen /
get cut of hear"