The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-06-23


Pinkham store for q saloon.
Five applications for divorce are
pending in the court ct Dayton.
We received pleasant call from III
Lyons, of Island county, last evening.
Bark Harvest Home will take her
next cargo from Nansimo-coal for
MazatIsn.
Samuel Prauenthal has gone 10 San
Francisco to buy goods for the house
represented by him in this city.
Bark Lizzie Marshall and schooner
Excelsior are to take railroad material
TO Gusymss for their next cargoes.
The talk Of Hill Harmon taking the
New England Hotel is all off. The
terms could not be arranged TO the
satisfaction OF both sides
Nine porpoises were caught in q sal
mon net near Astoria last week. They
couldn't get out. and finally died. and.
with the net. hoated ashore.
The boat race mentioned yesterday
morning. which was tn have been rowed
next Monday. bet seen Messrs Hantord
and Ebersold. will not take place.
Capt Geo A Pease. g pioneer steam
boat captain on the Oregon rivers,
passed through Cheney last week. to
take command of the steamer on the
Pen d'Ofeille Lake.
A conductor and three colored por.
ters for the new Pullman sleepefs have
arrived at The Daliss They were
sent fr. m the east to take charge OF
the cars on this road.
After an old bum had been refused
drink in Que OF our barrooms. last
night, he went off muttering: Wouldn't
drink your blamed whiskey anyway;
too many fights in it.
II would DO fine thing to scrApe the
earth off the Mill stree; planking.in the
middle of which it is now two inches
deep. The earth is not needed there.
In. is needed somewhere else.
A notice is posted up at The Dalles
calling for 200 men 10 work on the
Dayton extension OF the o X i " Co.'s
Rad. Wages 80 80 per day. Men
enough cannot be obtained To push the
work ahead as rapidly rs desired.
The Dgiies Nountaineer meations q
rumor heard in its town TO the effect
that as soon ss the railroad between
Kalama and Portland is completed the
steamships of the U X Il N Co will
run to Puget Sound instead oil 10 Port
land.
The largest salmon ever taken, or
known 10 DO taken, in Snake river. was
caught last week. the weight Of which
was 81 pounds How the big fellow
ever got up there. past 400 miles of
nets aud 1000 fishermen. is . hard
question to solve.
They have as good sswmill. east as
they do here. The mill Of the Menom.
inee River LAUNDERING TO-. Meneksune.
Wis. which ruLs two circulars and q
gang. cut for the week ending May 21st
1900 900 feet OF lumber, 227. 900 feet
of which was turned out in single
day. This is regarded as remarkable
work. Timber there IL not half 60 big
as IL 10 here. either.
We were shown yesterday a fine
specimen of anthracite cool. which we
are informed comes from veins within
the limits of King County. 1t Is said
that the depo its from which this coal
came are finely placed for working,
and. considering the near vicinage OF
veins of iron ore, IL Is not hard 10 fore
see tho important part this new field
will have in building up our city.
To those going to Olympia for the
Fourth Of July, Capt Parker offers the
svsIa 81 2afx Las ha ~
ss well as on Sunday the 3D.. and the
further privilege OF returning on any
trip after the Fourth rs late as Friday,
the Sth of July. This arrangement
will enable those who wish TO 20 in
advance OF the crowd and TO return at
their leisure. II is also an arrange
ment favorable to women and children.
The frost aud cold of May did con
siderable damage to fruit In this SEQ
ton. 1t lessened the strawberry yield
percepitbly. Tree fruit was affected
in various manners. Some growers
lost all their plums, others halt. and
still others lost none at all. Pesches
were pretty generally destroyed; cher
ries are = short crop; apples and pears
were affected about % 10 said OF plnms
in tho foregoing. The whole produc-
tion will amount 10 . two third ord
nary crop.
According to the latest figures Of the
census Of 1880, walls Wslla bad 3.5sS
inhabitants and Seattle 1888. Three
or four hundred persons living
near Lake Union aud the barrel facso-
ry, were left out OF the Seattle
count. though they as much belong TO
the town a. the people OF any othes
quarter. Including thera the popula-
tion OF Seattle must have besu last
year nearly four thousand. which mum
Der must be iucreAsnd 10 nearly forty
five hundred this year.
The Dayton Meas saith: We have
noticed in nearly oil OF our exchanges
II the past month. . general item 90
the effect that the Dayton Wooden Mills
did not pay expenses. and we're for sale.
This 10 not true. We are informed by
parties that have operated the factory
that there 10 z. Cd money in ID. For
several years it has been run on very
limited capital, and its capacity for
making money has not been fully tested.
But Notwithstanding this difficulty. Ii
has yielded handsome net revenue 10
those operating Il
The schooner ii l. Tisrnan arrived at
South Bend mills, ShoAl water Rsy. on
Wednesday last. She briggs date from
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