, 1877-10-27

the sum of 5000.
"THE fog last night could be cut
with knife and hung up on a nail
to dry out. -Coionist of the 21st
inst.
VICTORIA base ballists are now
anxious to meet picked nine from
the U. S. steamer Lackawanna.
THE steamship Dakota arrived
from San Francisco about 3 o'clock
this afternoon.
The U. S. sloop of war Lackawan-
ma will visit Seattle in few days.
From the Daily Of Thursday.
WAS HE SMUGGLER ?-Last week
a well-dressed Frenchman was in
our city offering for sale silk shawls,
dress patterns, and other expensive
articles. At one place he offered
very fine shawl, probably worth $75
or $50. for about half its real value,
representing that he had just arriv-
ed from San Francisco, expecting
to find a brother in this city; the
shawl was intended as a present for
his brothers wife. Not finding his
brother in Seattle, and being short
of money, he would sell the shawl
for just what it would bring. That
sold, another article would be taken
to some other house, and similar
story, suited to the occasion, told.
In this way he visited a number
of the better class of residences in
our city. and disposed of quite an
amount of goods. In other locali-
ties he would sell small articles, al
ways making it appear that he was
sacrificing the articles to obtain
money for the purpose of leaving
town. Last Thursday afternoon this
peddler sold a set of spoons, pur-
porting to be silver. to Ole Hagen
son, the man who was murnered. as
is supposed, tha+ same night, Haa-
genson changing $40 gold piece
to pay for the spoons. Since that
time no one is known to have seen
the peddler. although dilligent
search was made for him at the time
of the coroner's inquest oyer the
murdered man. Now who is the
peddler? and how did he obtain the
valuable goods he was selling SO
cheap? The prevailing impression
seems to be that he is a smuggler,
and that the goods we're smuggled
into the Territory, while some think
the goods were stolen, and the ped
dler is disposing of them in this way
to avoid detection. There are even
surmises that he is connected with
gang, who break into stores and
ste al valuables, retailing them in
this way. The man has disappear
ed, and the one fact of his selling
goods for less than theirlreal value,
alone remains. All else is surmise.
WIDE-AwAKE.-It is a subject of
remark among people arriving in
our city from Oregon that the peo
pie of Seattle are the most wide
awake and intelligent, as a class, of
any they have seen on the coast.
Sharpers who weary of their easy
victories over unsuspecting VIC
tins in other places, and who come
to the Sound to see the country and
play their profession, are at once
struck with this difference. and
usually turn about at once unless
"broke," in which case they resort
to desperate means to get enough
money to leave US with. This in
part accounts for the horrible traS-
edies enacted in our midst from
time to time; desperate characters
come to Seattle, and finding our
people too sharp to be gulled by
their little practices, resort to ex-
treme measures to raise the means
with which to reach more favorable
fields of operations. Mcdonald,
who is said to be the sharpest ope-
rator on the coast, did not find
Seattle a good place to remain in,
but during the three or four weeks
which have elapsed since his release
from our county Jail he has victim
lied the people of Oregon to the ex-
tent of thousands of dollars, and is
still finding victims at games that
utterly failed in Seattle. It is est;-
mated that between 800 and 400
people were victimized by sharpers
at the Oregon State Fair alone.
The Alaska had 1000 tons oi
| freight on her return to San Fran.
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