The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-10-04

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built it by days work. 1t was built,
finished and furnished in twenty-seven
days from the day he concluded to build
it. l. has twenty five rooms.
Richard Kennedy is a thrifty farmer
near here and is now on bis way TO
? Olympus to pay for more land.
W. c. Hank is the city marshal and
was formerly deputy sheriff. He i. the
one who. while deputy sheriff here, was
shot at five or six times by the prison
crs who had secured revolver in some
way, but lie brought them all in, how
ever. some of them the worse for his
good aim.
John Downey, the county treasur-
er, is very popular and deservedly So
The county funds are safe with Mr..
Downey. as his ability and honesty are
beyond question.
n. II. Orr has the only carriage and
wagon shop in the place, does all kinds
OF repairing, has horse power for turn
ing and is doing well.
Rogers & McCaw hava a nice store.
DIR. A; NJ. Ballard has his Office in
the Harmon House The Doctor is a
graduate of Harvard, has been practis-
ing three years and is almost sdored by
his patients. His ability is unouestion.
ed, and his kindness and anxiety for
bis patients sends him ont in weather
that Siwash conld not be induced to
go out in. He is a great favorite and
a first class physician.
Geo B Kendall is the county aud.
itor. The best proof Of his ability and
honesty is that lie has bsen elected
three terms. He has lived in the place
10 years
NJ. Hughes has hotel here, but it
Is closed for the present. 1t was the
first hotel on the Sound and was built
In 1851. The owner got out the lum-
Der himself, as there was no mill on the
Sound at the time. Old man Bills
helped him build the house.
Mrs. Goodtime has nice store we'll
stocked with general merchandise.
She has done business here II years.
Harvey Weitman has beer saloon
and a restaurant, the only one in the
place which is well kept. Meals and
beds % cents.
+. A. Gardiner har the only barber
shop in the place. H.. was in the Eng
lish navy nine years.
| start for the Insane Asylum, locat-
ed here. and in charge of Dr. Rufus
Willard, graduate of the University
of New York, and licentiats of the
world-tamed great Royal College of
Surgeons, of Edinburgh. He has been
in charge about six months, and is most
certainly fully competent. I have vis-
tied the insane asylums of Stockton and
Napa. in California, the Nevada
Asylum kept at Woodbridge. California,
and Others. and DR.. Willard's ideas of
the treatment and management of the
insane. is precisely that Of Doctor
Shurtleff. Of California, and DR.. Lang
dren. who has charge of the insane
patients of the Nevada Asylum. The
place is exceptionally clean and well
kept; the patients are all dressed com
fortably. and the system at present in
vogue of taking care of the patients is
the only true one, and the only one
that can possibly do Justice to the poor
unfortunates deprived of the power of
taking care OF themselves. trust that
neither chicanery or double dealing
will deprive them of the first class
treatment they are receiving under the
present management. l say this be-
cause | claim to know something Of the
treatment of the insane in other places
The Territory is more apt to do these
unfortunates, delegated to US rs trus
tees in trust. justice. than any thriving
contractor; give them the benefit of the
doubt and keep them as they are is the
only correct management of the insanc,
and everything about the place denotes
the most careful care
visited the United States peniten-
tiary on McNeils Island. and as the
Annie Stewart leaves here in an hour.
| will have description of it for my
next. ID.