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Show THE TKttRIXOKIES. Tacomans consume 100 dozen eggs per day. The Ore-Cash lode, ou Gold Hill, according to the Boulder (Montana) News, has struck as fine'.tellurium as has ever been found in the district. It is estimated that the residents of Boulder Co., Mont., owe $250,000 for borrowed money. The average interest in-terest is two per cent, per month, making the annual interest $60,000. Town lota in Xacomo are changing hands with amaning rapidity. Almost Al-most Jevery lot on Pacific avenue, from the verge of the hill to the edge of the timber, has been disposed of, and not o small number on tho back slroct. A monster white swan was recently recent-ly shot in Montana, measuring eight feet six inches fiom tip to tip, of wings, and five feet two inches from bill to tail. Butter readily brings fifty cents a pound at Walla Walla. Hydah Indians, near Seattle, have been performing the religious rites peculiar to their customs, by burning the bodies of their vanquished vanquish-ed braves. A railroad ia to be built irorn Bitr-rard Bitr-rard Inlet to Puget Sound, to intersect inter-sect the Northern Pacific Railroad, at or uear Tenino. The work will commence com-mence as soon as the President signs the bill authorizing the County Commissioners Com-missioners of Thurston County, Washington Wash-ington Territory, to issue bonds for that purpose. It is estimated that the increase in taxable property in Pierce County, W. T., this year, is fifty por cont. over that ef last. Mr. C. Braunhounsgcschawglwe-asto, Braunhounsgcschawglwe-asto, a German gentleman from New York, arrived at the Railroad Hotel in Tacoma, one day last week. |