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NORTHWEST NEWS. The Commercial bank, of Conconully, which suspended last summer, has resumed business. Cle-Elum river bottom lands are overrun with deer driven from the mountains by snow and hunger. The dry goods store of Leopold Loewenson, Portland, has been closed by attachments aggregating $12,000. Five stowaway Japs were landed at Vietoria by the Mogul on her last trip. The provincial court will deal with them. It is stated that the quarrymen of Oregon and Washington have formed a trust and will maintain stiff prices for stone. Hereafter applicants for admission to the Washington Soldiers' Home shall only be admitted on a certificate of the surgeon in charge of the home, of a disability sufficient to entitle them to admission. Capt. Voss and Mate Svenson, late of the schooner Emerald, which has gained considerable notoriety lately, are the new proprietors of the Empire restaurant on Johnson street. They assumed the ownership of this cosy little eating place about a week ago, and are well satisfied with their venture. If not as profitable as their former enterprises it is much safer, and though the United States customs authorities have offered them every inducement to return to San Fran isco and give evidence against their former partners, it is understood that they prefer to remain beneath the British flag.-Victoria Colonist.