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Show THE TERttlTORIES. Committees from the Grangers haye been in Olympia during the past week, visiting the business men to arrange tho trade of the Patrons. Bacon sells by the lot at 12 cents a pound in Olympia. Clarke county, Washington Territory, Terri-tory, covers about twenty townships, or 400,800 acres. At Seattle, railroad, coal mincs.elc., enterprises arc assuming shape giving promise of a good time soon coming. rn.. C3 il, Wollf The Spring races on the Walla Walla race course aro announced to take place on the last day of April and the first and second days in May. Major Egleston, U. S. A. Paymaster, Pay-master, took passage from Taconia on the steamer last Sunday night to liquidate Unelc Sam's indebtedness on the bulwarks of liberty on San Juan Island. The Transcript learns on good authority that a party of Directors of the Northern Pacific R. R.wiil arrive on the Sound about tho 10th of next month, lor the purpose of laying out road work, if any is done, during the coming Summer. The auction sale of Government clothing, etc., at Vancouver, brought out a fair number of bidders, and most of tho articles sold wont off at satisfactory rates prices being in excess ex-cess of similar sales made at San Francisco. The aggregate amount realized is between $4,000 and 5,000. |