, 1877-01-13
Local News.
From the Daily Of Wednesday.


Gil should pass an ordinance prohib-
ltlng vessels from running lines
athwart the slips, even if it is blow
ing roughly. Yesterday evening
the bark -- had line stretched
across the slip from Yesler's wharf
to Crawford & Harrington's. Capt.
Wright blew the whistle and sung
out "Let go that liner" till his boat
struck it with her mast and parted
it. No damage was done to any of
the bystanders, as good luck would
have it. These slips are occupied
by the steamers J. B. Libby, Ze-
phyr, Nellie, Messenger and Sue
cess, and no master of any vessel
has the right to stretch line across
such slip, unless he puts some
man to watch and slack it down
when desired. The wharves are
open to all vessels that pay dockage,
and if such practices are allowed to
be continued, somebody will get
hurt. In the absence of State
Board of Harbor Commissioners.
such as exists in San Francisco, we
believe that the City Council has
full power so to legislate as to pre-
vent the recurrence of such affairs
in the future.
RAILROAD TRUsrEEs.-The cleo
ton of Trustees by the stockholders
of the Seattle & Walla Walla Rail-
road Co., on Monday night, result
ed in the choice of A. A. Denny, F.
Matthias, J. M. Colman, Bailey Cat
zert, VIM. Renton, James Mcknight,
John Collins, A. Macintosh, H. l..
Yesler. VIM. N. Bell, J.W. George.
g. b. Shattuck and John Leary.
These gentlemen are among>our
most public-spirited citizen. and will
labor diligently for the speedy com
pletion of the road. AS soon as the
cars begin to bring in coal from the
Renton and Talbot mines, change
will come over this town for divid-
ends will soon recompense many of
the above named gentlemen for
heavy outlays of money and what
they receive in that way, will all be
invested here. Mr.. CoIman has
hitherto loaned at low rates of in
terest, all the profits of his mill;
these moneys he has lately been in
vesting in the building of the Seat
tie & Walla Walla road. The road
will be built and its profits will be
spent to enrich and adorn Seattle.
''THE RIGHT MAN, &c" IF there
is one man more than another to
whom the people of Seattle should
be grateful, it is DR.. G. A. Weed,
our worthy Mayor, to whose good
judgment in sanitary matters las
well as in police regulations our
city owes the prompt suppression of
the smallpox. The danger is over.
The Indian women are both dead,
and the degraded white man who
brought them hither, has fed to a
less sultry cline. We can now
breathe free and thank Mayor Weed
and his co-adjutors for it. To-day
the guards will be discharged and
the quarantine removed. Gentle
men. we thank you, in behalf of
many others.
A SUGGESTION concentration
of Russian fleet in San Francisco,
BODIES no good to Victoria, in the
event of an Auglo-Russian war. As
there are probably two million of
English money in the banks at Vic
toria, the safety of which would be
jeopardized by such war, would
it not be a good idea for those banks
to start branches in this Territory
and loan their money here---where
there is no lack of investments---till
after the dangers of war are over {?
SQUA1LY. - From Rocky Point
down to Alki, yesterday afternoon,
the Sound was unusually "lumpy'"
and the game little Zephyr bobbed
around like a cork as Capt. Tom
Wright guided her through the
yeasty swells and over the white
capped rollers. No sooner had she
gained the lee of Alki than the water
was smooth and the bay between
here and Freeport as calm as in mid
summer.
DEATH OF A RACER.-The noted
running mare Nell Flaherty died
near Victoria last week. She was
bred by Willis Hull, of Tehama,
CAL, and got by Riheman out Of
Jenny Hull by Belmont. Nell had
run more hard races than any horse
ever foaled on the Pacific coast and