, 1889-01-17

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King county this week seems to fur
nish an occasion where prompt and
vigorous mob law only could do the
subject justice.
In the case of the Northern Paci>
fic VS. William f. Yantis, involving a
tract of land in the Olympia land
district, Washington territory, Sec
retary Villas has affirmed the deci.
sion of the Land Commissioner that
the tract don't come within the grant
to said company and directs that
Yantis be allowed to fulfill his addi-
tional homestead entry upon it.
| Or A. w. Calder and Geo. Suth-
erland have Invented a very ingen
ious contrivance to keep pipes from
bursting, no matter how much the
water freezes therein. The in en-
ton is simple and inexpensive, and
will be tested in several houses this
winter. From what we have seen
of it, we are free to pronounce it a
success. A patent has been applied
for-W ala Nalla journal:
At one of the log slides near Stock
port recently COW walked aci oss
the mouth of the slide Just as log
started down. The log didn't have
time to wait for the COW, but went
straight on through into the river.
The peculiar thing of the accident
was that it didn't carry the animal
along or just knock her down, but
punched d hole right through her
just the size of the log. These logs
certainly attain terrific speed-KeI-
so Courier.
A gentleman of Olympia. who
owns improved property in this place
which he two weeks ago offered for
two thousand dollars, half down and
balance on long time, a couple of
} days ago in answer to a request to
say what he would take for the prop
erty said: Three thousand dollars
is the least l will take and DO not
care to sell at that, am in posi>
ton to know that a railroad will
: reach Montesano sometime during
. the coming summer, and you will
have regular Los Angeles boom
then. Vidette.
The Tacoma Nelcs has discovered
a whole lot of political jobbery in the
fact that the Wilson brothers and
Hyde brothers came from Spokane
Falls to Puget Sound few days ago.
1t says they met few of our leading
S republican politicians and put up a
( job on Delegate Allen, and that a
small sized syndicate is to control
, Washington Territory politics under
l the new administration. The Nelcs
is uncommonly peart these days. 1t
seems to have bought ''Saref's" viv
? id imagination and hitched it to a
3 Tacoma real estate boomers vigor-
!. Gus carcass.
Z The first efforts to grow trees be-
8 tween the Cascades and the Rocky
mountains were by Missionaries
Spaulding on the Clearwater river
and Whitman at his residence on the
l Walla Waiia river; both these at
tempts were made in the spring oil
1887, when seeds were sown. In
this connection Mr.. Philip Ritz, the
g oldest resident tree grower says: Il
It remember seeing some of the apple
S trees about the year 1866 and they
run over foot in diameter and near
ly thirty feet high. Some of the
. fruit was of very good flavor; these ]
= believe were the first apple trees to
, come into bearing on the Pacific
coast and known and spoken of from
t Victoria to San DIego."-Walll
S Walla Union.
: President Eugene Garfield and
Manager G. NJ. Sheafe of the Bel
i lipgham Bay Railway & Navigation
n Co, deny, on their return from
Is Whatcom, the rumor that their COM
pany had been sold to the Northern
Pacific. Speaking of the progress
. of the road. Mr.. Sheafe said: 1--WE
. will be ready for bids for the con.
% struction of the road from Whatcom
seventeen miles north to the bound
= ary, in about ten days. The clearing
o along the route from New Westmin.
W ster south to the line is about two.
thirds dcne, and Contractor Leamy
=, will start force of men on the grad
% ing about February 1st. We expect
= everything but the track laying to b.
= ready July 1st The total length O.
the road will be A miles"
Tacoma correspondence in Oregon
I ian: "Who will get the navy yart
= does not seem to be as important |
= question at present as who will win,
and dine on the commission in tn,
most recherche style when it arrive!
o from the East. Seattle is not NOV
g ing any faster in this important mat
Q ter than Tacoma or Port Townsend
p If the members of the commission
only knew what was in store fol
~ their stomachs they would lay up il
: ordinary for few weeks and become
. copper. fastened. Tt is intimateG
y here that at the appointed time wine
will flow like water, and terrapin viii
be as plentiful as Pacific avenue
g mud. The Tacoma people are moi
J. quite satisfied yet as to where the
l. best site for navy yard is located
n whether it is Gig harbor, Quarter
masters harbor or Steilacoom. But
. the mayor and some of the chamber
of commerce people are going to take
q a steamboat ride tomorrow to lool
into the matter"
: The enthusiastic editor of the
Ritzville Times, gives vent to the
, following etfusion on Eastern Wash
= lington: "The side hills are all that
!. could be asked for vinyards, orchards
= or dwelling places. The grape grows
: on these slopes to perfection, and il
the careful attention of an Italian
icould be given it, it would only be a
r question of a few years until Adams
J., county alone could furnish the en-
:. tire Northwest with the best varie-
! ties grown. Farms free, railroad
t land at only a few dollars per acre,
3 and one of the finest climates in the
world. Fruit trees of all kinds do
| well here. Don't it sound we'll and
look good in prirt? Adams county
Fruit for sale.' Don't it inspire the
rancher to put out small orchard.