, 1889-01-03
Tacoma has % churches.

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ington gave Allen a majority.
Major Hilton is conducting sue
cessful gospel temperance meetings
in Seattle.
The Seattle Y. NC. A. will erect
its proposed fine new building dur
ing the coming year.
Puyallup has been decided plot
of ground by L. NJ. Meeker, which
will be known as Pioneer Park.
In Washington Territory there are
$50 postoffices; in Idaho 21l; in Ore
gon 55S; British Columbia 120: total
I24S.
S. r. Frazier, the we'll known
newspaper correspondent, will es-
tablish Sunday newspaper in Sc
attle.
The burned steamer Erickson had
on board double the number of pas
sengers she was allowed by law to
carry, when the fire occurred
The steamer City of Quincy has
been temporarily doing duty in place
of the Edith while the latter has been
laid up for new crank pin which
she broke on Christmas day.
The recent fire in the office of the
Tacoma Ledger is now said to have
had incendiary origin, and a reward
of 81 800 has been offered for the ar
rest and conviction of the offender.
t, A. Palmer, formerly post trader
at Neah Bay, has sued Messrs. s.
Baxter. ". A. Harrington, j. b. Me-
Dougall and B. Gatzert of Seattle,
for $4,000 damages for alleged con-
spiracy to have him arrested for vi
olating .. 5. laws
All the cattle that Gov. Semple
could get track of in this territory
for his annual report to the secreta,
ry of the interior was, 53,373. We
know of a single cattle firm that
owns nearly that many.-Washing-
| ton Farmer
During the past year settlers have
entered at the U. S. Land offices of
tins territory nearly seven hundred
thousand acres of government land
and 1649 persons have bought of the
\. Z. Il. II. Co., 26S, 701 acres at an
average of Sl.73 per acre.
Coal was discovered in this local
ity four years ago, and the first mine
was opened last December. Coal is
being sold in Cent? ALA at $3.50 per
ton. 1t is a brown Ignite. and is
equal in Equality to the best now bs-
ing mined in the territory.-Gen-
tralia NelUS.
In July last Mr. Bucey. of the
Washington Horticultural society,
cut four small limbs from two cherry
trees at Tacoma on which limbs the
cherries weighed 81 pounds. The
largest limb was 13 inches long; the
others 10; each being from ! to !
inch in diameter. The largest bunch
of cherries was seven inches in di-
ameter and weighed four pounds.
The following are some of the di-
mensions of some of the products in
the Yakima valley: Onions, I6 in
ches in circumference; apples, Ii in-
ches in circumference; pears. weighs
ing one pound; potatoes
II to 16 inches in circumference;
Snowflake, 10 inches long and 16 in
circumference; egg plant 8, inches
long and II inches in circumference;
carrots 2l inches in circumference.
Considerable dissatisfaction is
manifested at the actions of the Pu.
get Sound pilot commissioners, ap-
pointed last spring. Each of the
coll Lmissioners reside in Seattle, Ia
coma and Po1t Townsend. and not
withstanding the repeated calls of
the president they will not convene.
No pilots can secure licenses and the
business Is totally neglected. Peti-
tons will probably be drafted asking
for the removal of the present COM
missioners.-Port Townsend corr.
Seattle Times
Tacoma never forgets to loom her
self. After vainly trying to steal the
grandest mountain in the Cascade
range and set it up as an ADVERTISE
ment, she is still trying to foist her
name upon the new state of Wash
ington. We are among the great |
majority of Washington Territory |
people who believe that the name of |
the father of his country is abund-
antly good enough for the grand
est young state of the Union. When
a railroad company, or land COM
pany tries to steal the name away
from sovereign state and substitute
that will boom their town
lots, they are going entirely too far.
In a letter to Pacific coast sena-
tor Collector Hager of the port of
San Francisco makes some sugges
tons regarding the abuse of opium
and sets forth the manner
in which he thinks they may be cor
rected. He says: "The smuggling of
opium into the United
States will be continued, in spite of
The vigilance, as long as this duty of
SO per pound exists as temptation.
Under the present tariff. crude opium