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grocers close consideration for the revival meetings. A good many logging camps are starting up in the Gray's Harbor country. The South Bend tannin works are several carloads behind orders with their output. One hundred men are nightly given free lodging in the People's Tabernacle at Spokane. Martin Holman, of Elma, has a contract for furnishing 4,000 piles for shipment to Honolulu. Tacoma will purchase a new 2,000 light dynamo to increase the capacity of the electric light plant. They think nothing on the Salmon river of breaking a path to a dance through three feet of snow. It took six men to hold Jesse Holman, a hackdriver of Colfax, who went violently insane last Saturday. Seventeen feet 81 inches of snow fallen SO far at Monte Cristo, and not a very good winter for snow either. The Northern Pacific's station at Pullman was broken into, but the booty secured did not amount to much. George Williams, a 14-year-old boy from Douglas county, Or., has been committed to the reform school from Colfax. At Fairfield they dry their wheat in a reyolving cylinder 16 feet long, through which steam pipes are conducted. George Parker, suspected of the Pullman hotel murder last October, is still in the Colfax jail and frets at his imprisonment. J. D. McLeod & Co.'s shingle mill at Edmionds cut 3,126,000 shingles in 25 days during January, with a doubleblock Challoner. The grandest ball ever given on the Columbia river is the event with which Cathlamet proposes to celebrate Washington's birthday. A St. Paul syndicate will soon begin active mining operations along the Wenatchee river with new and improved machinery. On Washington's birthday the children of the State School for Defective Youth at Vancouver are to give a pantomime entertainment. A hundred tons of iron ore will be sent by the Tacoma smelting and refining works to Everett, which will enable the Everett smelter to reopen. The news from Riparia is that fruit is uninjured by the frost and that fair wages are being made by washing fine gold from bars in the Snake river. The retrenchment committee of the Tacoma council has outlined a policy for cutting down salaries among municipal employes, amounting to $12,825. The Wallace brothers, of Kalama, have gone to the Fraser river, in British Columbia, with a force of hands and sturgeon gear,and will go to packing there. C. G. Anderson, who formerly operated a shingle mill at Cedarville, has departed for Sweden, leaving creditors who mourn to the extent of about $1,000. There are rumorsof an arrangement under which Edmiston will be discharged and the Walla Walla Savings bank reopened, to the deep disgust of the Statesman. A large flywheel in the Port Town send nail works burst last week, dis abling a considerable amount of machinery and necessitating & shutdown of a week or two. " Dr. Chase, the dentist," exclaims the Cathlamet Gazette, is in town. See his bills!" That must be a new order of dentist whose bills do not attrat attention without contributive aid. It hurts some of the hard-working people of Cathlamet to go to the jail and see the prisoners supplied with a carpet on the floor, a comfortable fire, their beds made up and an air of comfort. About 600 tons of Slocum ore were stored at the Kelso wharf during January. The gross amount of ore mined, from 15 different properties during the month will reach 1,590 tons, worth $225,000. It is reported that $25,000 worth of bonds to build a logging road from Buckley into the logging camps have been taken in the East. Defaulting Banker Hart was one of the projectors of the logging road. Boundary City now has a population of 200 people, principally miners. It is located at the confluence of Pend d'Oreille and Columbia rivers, on unsurveyed government land, and the outlook for activity in the many mines adjacent is good. Among other educational topics asked the Tacoma teachers at their recent examination was, " What caused the panic of 1893?" And yet, on second thought, probably the teachers' stock of ignorance on the subject is not larger than that aired in the columns of that esteemed contemporary, the Congressional Record. One of the most effectual news papers " scoops" which has come to light in modern times was achieved by the Everett Heraid last week. Having been awarded the city printing con-
