The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-01-09
Friday. January 8, 1880
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

Ten inches 81 srov lay on the street.
Of Victoria las. Tuesday
The average citizen Of Seattle walks
nowadays IS though hs were drunk.
We shall have TO admit hereafter that
snow occasionally does fall in this coun-
try.
The .now depth at Ludlow. We un-
derstsnd. is four and q half feet, and
At S.abeck five feet.
Victoria has her irst telephone: it
having arrived on the City Of Chester,
last week, ard being Intended for Mr..
Jsffree.
Geo. C. Gorham. as Washington cor
respondent If the San Francisco CAron.
ie!e eets salary Of five thvusand year.
We'd have taken it for thousand less
Steamers Zephyr, Josephine and J B
Libby oil 60 out this morning. The
first named is bonnd for Olympia. the
recond for Mount Vernon. and the last
for LAconner.
Laconner lawyers are said to be
doing . good business. Mr.. Andrews
is building a residence. aud Mr. Eng.e
has been engaged fitting up his office
in handsome furniture.
Captain Clancy wishes US to inform
the public that III, North Pacific will
run regularly between Seattle aud Port
Townsend every day - long as tho
snow aud tad weather continues. The
Aida will run between Tacoma and
Seattle.
The steamer Nellie towed . taft con
tanning about 100. 900 feet OF cedar logs
from Bnohomish up as far as Five Mile
Point. where il was anchored, aud the
Addie brought It to this city yesterday
afteYncoa, and fastened il 10 Ssetson 81
Posts wharf
Luckily enough we have no personal
mishsps whatever to record. II is
strangely providential that We have 80
generally come through the storm all
right in limb and lte As far ss known
DO one has been hurt in any way in
consequence Of the snow.
On Wednesday morning the bark
Whistler was sunk just twelve inches
by the snow that hid fallen upon her
IT,. night before. One foot With the
Whistler indicates weight Of one
hundred tons. This will give III idea
Of the quan.ity Of snow that fell at this
pint on that memorable OCCASION.
The deserted black smith shop Of the
Seattle Coal Company. situated at the
foot of Pike street. WAS ore Of the
buildings demolished yesterday by the
weigh. If snow upon Is root. II will
he surprising il tho old bunkers ard
what j. lcf, If the wharf there doesn't
come down before the disappearance Of
this snow.
Mr. McCrohan and Miss Dougla
who have been advertised in our col
umns during the past week. by stern
and angry parent. made their escape
across the Straits in a plunger. The
master Of tic little craft married them
on the way over. but to make doubly
sure. hey were married again on land
ing at Nsnaimo
The work Of keeping all right the
steamers in our barbor has been quite
considerable Of late. During the cold
weather Of a fortnight ago their fires
had TO bs keps going to prevent freez.
ing Of water in tubes, and in the last
week there has been y heap of work
shoveliug of snow. to keep them from
injury, u not from actual sinking.
Mr.. Thomas Bann came down from
Merritt's place. on Duwamish river. ia
n small boat yesterday evening. aud
states that fully two. thirds Of the barns
and cattle sheds in the White river val.
ley have been crushed 10 the ground.
killing hundreds Of cattle and horses.
On the lower Duwamish. he states.
Merritfs. Conkling's, wyckoifs and
Wadieigh's barns were broken down,
Report came to town yesterday that
the camp Of wood cutter nsmtd Dave
Sullivan. near town. had caved in
under tho weight Of snow that had
fallen on it. aud ~ Sullivan has not
been ssea Tor . few days past. his
friends fear he was sleeping when the
crash came. aud was buried mp In the
ruins. A man started last evening
~ find out about il. but before getting
half way there his horse gave out aud
he had tn return. The affair will he
investigated today.