, 1878-03-09

to be used IN blowing her up are
three water-tight wedge-shaped box
es, or torpedoes, each containing
200 pounds of blasting powder, and
these when placed in position are to
be connected by wires with battery
placed at safe distance ON the
beach. This operation was success
fully performed, but while eudeav
oring to get the torpedoes in place
as far under the keel of the vessel as
possible, the dam was broken by the
force of the surf. the angry breakers
rushed in through the opening and
almost drowned two of the workmen,
who were finally rescued by their
comrades. All further efforts for
the blowing up Of the King Philip
we're then abandoned, and the event
is now indefinitely postponed. 1t is
expected that when the explosion
does take place. some 40 tons of iron
and $4,000 worth of copper and
brass may be saved from the bark.
The wood is not considered Of much
value, but will probably drift upon
the shore and be broken up.
RoBBERY.--Some thief entered the
Office of the Mtelligenee'' few days
ago and got away with forty pounds
of nonpariel figures and capitals.
That paper, in noticing the circum-
stance saws sit was such type as is
used in setting up tax lists" etc.
As we are the official organ o: the
city Of Seattle and King county,
and therefore the only paper author
lied to do such work, the inference
is plain. But when it is known that
the Mtelligencer Office does not con-
tain thirty pounds of the kind of
tvpe mentioned, and that it is a
mathematical impossibility to take
forty from thirty, the inference is
also PLAN. The thief, whoever he
was. must have been a heartless
vagabond indeed, for he must have
known that the loss of so much val
liable material in the present de-
pressed financial condition of that
office, might prove faIal. But what
docs a thief care about the conse-
quences of his crime? Not red
cent!
STILL OUT.-The steamer Ancon
has not yet arrived at Portland, and
the wires between there and Astoria
being down, they have no imme-
diate or late news of her where
abouts. The Portland papers say
that the captain of schooner which
arrived from Astoria. reports that
cen outside the bar yester-
bon, was unable to cross
1t it was generally thought
he had gone to Neah Bay, in
rritory, for shelter from the
&c storm which she encounter
"a The idea of the Ancon going
intoSNeah Bay is absurd. Having
been seen off the bar, she certainly
would not go back to Neah Bay.
over $50 miles distant. for shelter.
She must have put into some Of the
more accessible, and less dangerous
harbors along the coast.
In DOUBT. The man G. e. Wheeler
who was murdered in Oregon. re
Gently, is well remembered as having
been in Seattle some months ago ac-
companied by another man, and en-
gagged in selling Howe sewing ma
chimes. The murderers have not yet
been captured. The man Ellington,
arrested and charged with the crime
has been discharged from custody.
Testimony had been introduced
which threw some doubt as to
whether murder had been commit
ted at all claiming his death was
caused by an overdose of morphine.
One of the coroner's jurors in con-
versation with a well-known gentle
man expressed grave doubts as to
the man being murdered and further
said he considered it doubtful as to
whether he had been tied to q tree.
AccIDENr.-Last Wednesday even
ing as Mr.. Frank Sidell, Of Belltown,
was returning to his home late in the
evening, he stepped from the SIDE
walk about opposite the residence Of
Moses Ksiser. breaking both bones
Of the leg below the knee. Forum
ately some persons came along Just
after TIE accident and conveyed the
sufferer to his home, and called Or.
Bagley. who set the limb. Mr.. 81
dell is now doing as well as can be
expected. though suffering great
pain.
The right to the Plnmmer fruit
dryer for Whatcom county, was sold
this week. We did not ascertain
the name Of the purchaser nor the
amount paid.
The law Office of j. ]. McGilvfa has
been removed TO the building adjoining
the Office Of McNaught & Leasy, On
Commercial stree.
SoLD.-The effects of Thos. Os-
good. convicted in the District
Court some time since for keeping a
squaw brothel. were sold by Sheriff
Wyckoff this morning, to satisfy
OscOod's bondsmen who levied on