, 1878-09-07
THE CITY
,Irom the Daily of Saturday.
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS,

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Mayor Brown in the chair.
Councilmen present. -Messrs. Den
ny, Murphy, Miller, Chilberg. Alb
rams, and Clancy.
Minutes of previous meeting read
and approved.
Bill of DISPATCH read and referr-
ed to finance committee.
Communication of Mr.. Stacy for
sale of safe referred to finance COM
mittee.
Report of city surveyor on pro-
posed improvement of Commercial
street. read and placed on file.
On motion. the city attorney was
instructed to draw an ordinance for
making an assessment district from
sixty feet south of Washington st.
to King st, and to provide for the
improvement of Commercial street
within the limits of the same.
On motion, the city surveyor was
instructed to make the necessary
surveys and estimates for said i'm
provements.
On motion, Messrs. Murphy, Den
ny and Miller were appointed COM
mittee to inquire into the matter of
a.powder magazine.
On motion. the Chief of Police
was instructed to enforce the ordin-
ance to prohibit the running at large
of horses. mules and other animals.
On motion the Council adjourned.
E. S. OSBORNE. City Clerk.
HEALTHY AMUSEMENT. At the
closing hour of Schwabacher Bros
& Co., last evening, two of the clerks
employed in that establishment,
matched themselves for so yard
foot race on Commercial street. They
supposed, of course, that they would
have the street to themselves at that
time of night, but the boys" got
wind of it and a large crowd assem-
bled to see the fun. They were very
evenly matched and the first heat
was tie. The second heat was won
by the larger of the two bv six inch
es. As this race was so close, we
presume there will be another trial
shortly.
BOILER Work. Mr.. ". E. Will
liams, who is repairing the Wolcott's S
boiler, has done all that can be done
until the tubes arrive. He is doing
a fine job ON the boiler intended for
the Smith Il Moss new steamer. On
overhauling the same he finds it in
much better condition than at first
supposed. Messrs. Foster Il King
have the new boiler for the steamer
Success we'll underway. 1t will
have all the modern improvements.
CONTRACT LETT. n. Page Of
this city, has secured the contract
for doing the cribbing on the new
line of railroad around the beach
and Wa Chong & Co. took the con-
tract for the grading. The amount
of the contracts will be about S.
900. The contract for the piling
and trestle work on the same line
has not been let. A short piece of
trestle in from the old slaughter
house, half way up the beach, and
from the brick yard to connect with
the present wharf. The work is to
commence at once and be completed
by Dec. l, 1878.
MAR1NE.-The Harvest Home and
Tam O'Shanter will finish loading
coal to, night, and one, if not both,
will be towed to sea during the
night. The ship Otago and barken-
tine Quickstep were towed cut from
Blakely yesterday. leaving only the
barkentine r. X. Ham, In port. The
schooner D. S. Williams. arrived
here this afternoon to load coal.
Coal SHIPMENT. - The Seattle
Coal Company have shipped during
the month ending to-day. 16,Oo5
tons, the largest amount ever ship
ped from this port during any one
month.
Rev. H. W. Brown will give a
bible reading at the Y. NJ. G. A.
Hail tomorrow at 8 A. NJ, which
will be of interest to all who attend.
Also the meeting at 4 o'clock, p. NJ,
at the Presbyterian Church and not
at Yesler's Hall, will be conducted
by him.
Preaching at the Baptist Church
tomorrow at II, A. NJ, by Rev. D.
T, Huff. Sabbath School at 1880,
p. NJ. No service in the evening
The church and congregation will
unite in the services at the Presby
terian church at 7:30 O'Clock, con
Quoted by H. w. Brown.
Rev. Jas. White will preach al
the Presbyterian Church tomorrow
at II, A. N.
ACCIDENT. Geo. Mcdonald, who
has been employed in dumping the
coal cars to the chutes. had two O
his f;noers badly crushed yesterday