The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-01-31
LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

arc agalu upen rs. 80
The revenue cutter Thomas Corwin
coaled here yesterday.
Next Monday will be monthly coiiec-
ton day-for January debts.
WIN. Cross f0tmerly OF 6eattle. has
set up . barber shop IA PortTown.
send.
Mr. q + Raymond. Of Seabeck. 10
again in this city. on brief visit Of
pleasure and business.
JscoS Hoover and G q Liuuins.on
are abept To put rp the fint b:ick
building in tlIo town Of Coifax.
The lower part Of the Hammond
ship ways is being renewed. the teredo
having pretty we'll destroyed the old
rart.
The State Of Iowa has Q debt OF
only e545 435. 1t will become due on
the LIST Of Jnly. 1881. when every dol
lar Of 1t win doubtless be paid.
Joe Kuhn, 81 Port Townsend, will
star, mex. week on a three months
tsnr. to Colorado. Missouri. Arkansas.
Pennsy lvania aud other portions Of the
East
Tha cylinders fcr the sAreiper Cbeha-
Ia ann the new boat ut Betltown were
successfully cast by White & Tenny
yesterday afternoon. Quite . number
Il Cur citizens were present on the
Ccea.ion.
The Republican Central Committee
for the Territory will me.t as o. mc is
next Wednesday. when the time aud
place for tho holding Of the biennial
Convention will be determined. We
suggest Seattle ss the plsce.
On the lst Of July. 1879, the city
treasury Of Walls Wallis contained
$!,18G.3i, and the receipts during the
six month foilowing were a 473 So
total. $685. so. The disbursements
for the same period were s. 246 23 and
the cssl, OF hand Dec. 3ist. 1887 "a.
The Court calendar 81 Columbia
county exhibits seven cases where
divorces ara sued for. and six Of the
number are instituted by the better
halves. II 10 highly probable that
Columbia will be tho banner county OF
the Territory in this business.
At Snoqualmie. 90 A was the reading
Of Captain Seymore's barometer on tho
9th inst. With ono exception and that
was in the case Of typhoon on the
Pacific Ocean. when tho reading was
% 85, this was tho lowest ever seen by
the Captain. The snow. he also re-
ports, was ut no time. deeper than As
inches ut bis place. f
Mr. Still. the taxidermist. shot several
mountain birds OF the waxen wing
variety on his grounds at Lake Union
yesterday. They are a. pretty to Look
upon. 10 shape and color. as bird can
be. and. being also very rare. Mr. Still
isquite elated at his luck in getting
them. One Of tho handsnU hs will
prepare and send TO England.
Every one Of the twenty four wards
of the city Of New York shows an in
crease in It's tax roll for 1880 over that
for 1879. The smallest increase was
In the Thirteeath, aud amounted to
$4,000. The largest increase was 10
the Nineteenth. and amounted to CO.
3iS.5 $50. The whole increase amounted
to over twenty eight millions. and the
whole assessment exceeds nine hundred
and forty millions. This assessment
and increase includes the real estate Of
the city only--its taxable lands and
buildings alone.
Mr Rogers. edit.r Of tho V,ctnria
Standard. las brought suit against d
Higgins. editor OF the Colonist. for libel.
The alleged libel consists OF . pub
lished insinuation that BY the official
neglect OF Rogers (who hslds . pcsition
as prison keeper) jaiibird reosntly
made his escape. The Victorians are .
little touchy on the question Of libel
their newspapers being continually an
noyed by prosecutions based upon trivial
complaints. II tho same condition Of
things existed on this side of the line,
i wouldn't be thirty days before the
INrELLIoEEoER would b. the only pa.
per on the Sound
An Oregon Journal says that Seattle
papers are busily engaged In getting up
boom" for the 6ksgit gold miuss.
This statement does0't exactly repre-
sent the facts. The boom" is already
in active operation. requires no help
from the papers of Seattle. aud will
speedily astonish our friends Of the
Willamette Valley metropolis. who By
It will probably lose . thousand men
now idly wintering in their CITY. The
thing is beginning 70 boil. and Seattle
papers are merely watching It. report
ing its increased heat. aud making
themselves comfortable BY tho genial
fire
In Port Townsend paper vs see the
statement made that Port Towusend 70
a. much entitled TO tho benefits 70 be
derived from tho trade 81 the SkARit
gold mines rs Seattle or amy other place.
To BE- sure it Il aud !: tho people there
are 40 enterprising ~ the people OF
Seattle. they will 90 for their share for
oil they are worth. People here expect
them 70 do this. and il they doa't DO il
that place will b. peg further 6aok .
year hence than Il is today. TIE PORT
Townsend papers are pablishing the
contemplated existence By and By Of .
trail from Sehome into the uines. Gun.
tsnplMfed roads ara OF NO value % any
one. Let them open that trail and put
on steamboats, to 6shome and compete
with Seattle IN proper and manly
way. Don't attempt to deceive The
miner Tor the sake Of makins I dollar
out OF him. II your route - On paper
only. don't tell him that il IL Open aud
good and better than that sf your
neighbor. Seattle has way already.
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