, 1889-01-31
From Fridays Daily.

Capt. Geo. H. Jones is in Seattle.
Rev. q. V. Rice was in town yesterday.
Streets and roads are unusually mud
dy.
Carpenters and contractors are all
busy.
Id. McArdle is in town again from
Quilcine.
A. 81. Wintrode and E. D. Howard
are in Seattle.
DR.. Stewart, late of California, is
about to locate here.
Mr. W. w. Ferr1er arrived home
yesterday from Tacoma.
Hon c. NJ. Bradshaw is confined to
his home with a heavy cold.
Get your order in for our special edi-
ton to be issued next week.
Engineer J.B. Hogg o, the PIT. T.
Southern r. r. Is in Seattle.
A syndicate is about to purchase a
large amount of land on Scow Bay.
James Stookand, who has been seri-
ously indisrosed, is getting around
again.
Bk. Jas. Cheston sailed from Port
Gamble yesterday-ouiward bound.
lumber laden.
@. W. Thompson returned &c Cialam
yesterday, accompanied by his daughter,
Miss Minnie.
An unusual amount of descriptive
matter pertaining to Port Townsend Is
getting into the ARGUS these days.
Gen. Ihrie will remain in Portland
until the naval commission arrives
there. Allen Weir will join him early
next week.
DIR. Filkins, OF Emporia, Kansas, a
banker, has arrived here to look the city
overland has decided to locate here
Yesterday he telegraphed his partner to
come.
A large dry goods store is to be open
ed Feb. 1st in the new Kuhn building,
next to the deLion & BarthFop Co, by
Messrs Neis & Smith, late OF the Dalles,
Oregon.
d.. Minkler arrived home last night
on the Libby, from trip to Lopez IS
land. While there he took a mineral
claim covering part OF the Davis lode
of iron ore recently discovered.
The ARGUS special edition will be is
sued next Monday or Tuesday. Il will
contain more descriptive matter, and in
a larger number of copies, than ever
we're sent from Port Townsend before
Mr.. John Seibeubaum is preparing to
reopen his saloon in the basement OF
the Eisenbeis stone building, corner of
Water and Quincy streets. He was
burned out in the fire, it will be remem-
bered.
An ARGUS reporter took stroll through
the western part of town yesterday, and
counted twenty-seyen houses in course
OF construction. This is saying nothing
about the building going on in other
parts OF town-and the extensive i'm.
Provements being made in the business
locality. - '-'e
Capt. Sawyer quotes Commander
Glass, U. S. Navy, as saying positively
and unreservedly that Port Townsend
Bay IS, par excellence, the place for the
naval station. Commander Glass is EN-,
inent authority on this subect-and Ger.
tanly has no personal motive for making
such recommendation
Ship Edward O'Brien loaded at Ia
coma with wheat for Great Britain ar
flVed yesterday, outward bound
Suit was begun in the Seattle distric
court yesterday afternoon by the United
s!ates to legally coudemn a 800 sIool
captured by the revenue cutter Olive
moieott at Dnngeness with six contra
band Celestiais on board Tbe sIoon i
the George Z. Wilton. She was j,
charge OF Charles Miller and ii. Larsan
and was used as smuggler.
TN The British iron ship Francis E
!horPe, some time overdue, has arrivet
Ii the straits IRON the United Kingdom
seat,io ntJIoiay y; AFTERNOON, and will proceed 1
Seattle TO unload part OF her cargo {
general merchandise, bringina the r.
mainder to Tacoma, where she loads
return cargo OF wheat for the PnTtlan
shipping Company. Her cargo is con
signed to Balfour, Guthrie & e.