The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-06-04
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.


Gen. James Shields died at Otum :.
wa, Iowa, on the 1st of June.
Steamship Dakota will leave for the
upper Sound at o'clock this morning.
Oar thanks are due to the Purser of
the steamship Dakota for late San Fran
cisco papers.
The Dakota will return from Olym-
pia and leave here for San Francisco on
Saturday morning at ) O'Clock.
Capt. Z. s. Marshall arrived on the
Dakota, and the Celilo Was in waiting
to escort him to Milton.
George Ridge and man named
Beaver are to run q foot race at Ma
naimo Oh the 4th Of July for purse.
Barkentine Emma Augusta will take
a cargo of lumber from Humboldt Bay
to Melbourne and get E3 l5s. per
thousand feet for doing %.
Frank Clark. ESQ, has sold bis fns
residence and grounds, in New Tacoms.
to Gen. j. w. Sprague. Mr.. Clark
says that he will Guild again in the
same town.
The report, published some weeks
since, that Mr. l. A. Navarro. formerly
of this city. had married Miss Irving. Of
British Columbia. was premature. Mr..
N. is still Benedict.
Among the Dskotas passengers sre
a party Of nine San Francisco ladies
and gentlemen, who are making the
round trip On her Doubtless they will
much enjoy the fortnight consumed by
the trip.
The tslsgraphsd report thu. the
British war steamer Osprey would visit
Port Townsend and Seattle 10 now
authoritatively denied. She will leave
Esquimalt for the South Pacific next
Saturday.
The libel suit of ex-Premier A. G.
Elliott against the proprietor of the
Standard. both parties being Of Victoria
3. c.. has been withdrawn on the pub
LEGATION by the latter of satisfactory
letter of apology.
Steamer Olympia, according to u tel
egrsm received by Jack Levy. left
Victoria yesterday for Wrangel. having
on board ono hundred passengers. She
also had forty Canadian Pacific Rail-
road surveyors on board. bound for
Sksena river.
We received pleasant call yesterday
from our genial friend Joseph Snow,
who has been at work on Fraser river
for the past fourteen months. Mr.. 8.
will remain in town several days. He
looks hale and hearty.
Capt. w. G. Squires. son in law Of Z.
Remington and . member Of the firm
of Remington & Son. Of Illion, N. Y,
is among tho passengers on the Dakota.
The firm own . large amount Of real
estate in this city and vicinity. Capt.
8. comes on q tour. Of observation a.
we'll as pleasure.
The steamer Olympia. one day last
week. towsd the bark Brierlsy Hill
from Victoria five miles outside Of
Cape Flattery in seven and half
hours and returned in four and half.
Twelve hours from tho time of her
leaving the dock to tho timo Of her re-
turn is thought to be pretty good for
such job.
The steamship State of California,
Autographed and colored. aud framed,
is depicted beautiful as life in the show
window of W. II. Humphrey. Her
builders, owners aud dimensions arc
all printed on the margin below. AL.
togsther 1t makes very pretty adver-
tisement for The adornment OF offices
Of the Company's agents.
No more pleasant place than smiths
Garden, at Renton, can be found for
spending the coming Fourth Of July.
Going there will bs quite - cheap -
going anywhere else, and IL hes astfsc-
tions that NO other place on Puget
Sound at present can offer. It will also
BIO good place to 60 with your, Ore
gon friends when they como over three
weeks hence. ve
Two parties Of RAILROAD surveyors left
Victoria on the steamer Olympia ysater-
day fog Skeena river, there 50 commence
the work Of 'locAtiag line for the
Canadian Pacific Company. One party
consisted Of thirty Ave men the other
was much smaller in numbers. They
will examine the Skeens river route end
the Peace and Pine river passes.
The vegetable display Of Mr.. Reach.
OF the Q. o. ID. store. IL glad sight to
look upon these fine June mornings.
Onions, lettuce, radishes, turnips, cauli.
flowers. celery. aud all the other home
grown vegetables are there TO be found,
besides imported fruits. butter, eggs.
chickens, SC. Mr.. X. makes - hand
some . showing in this respect - Il u
possible for anyone to do, and further
moro and more important to him he
makes IL nav.