The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-08-21

A McKinnie. of insurance fame bas
gone to San Francisco.
Judge Deady Of Oregon is at Port
Orchard.
Rev w Sliwoo1 has declined the
call received from Oregon City pa,ish.
and will remain in E.s; Portland.
Rev A Cruzan and wife of Portland
have gone to Honolulu 10 assist MIR
Hallenbeck in revival meetings there.
A small comet can be seen in the
western heavens duri0g q clear night.
1t seems TO he spproa hing uear the
earth.
The whitening Of the bay with the
sails Of Buildings i,oats adds 10 the
life and beauty OF orr magnificent bay
immeasurably.
Service IN Trinity Church at 1l.l5 q.
IN; Sunday school at 10 a. m. No
evening service, as the Rev Mr. Fair
will be at Port Blakeiy.
DIR N w Lane. of Port Gamble. will
preach in the Protestant Methodist
Church at the usual morning and even
ing hours today. Sunday School at the
regular time The public are invited.
The Star Touring mills at Vallejo
employ seventy five men on an aver
age throughout the year. IL IL easy to
estimate the amount Of money which
such an industry keeps atlost in q com-
munIty
No tidings have been received Of
the two prisoners who e4oaped from
the County jail last week. Another
prisoner was detected in 4ttempting to
dig out. and put in irons bv Sheriff
Wyckoff
Spokan county paid last week 1886
Tor bringing an insane man 10 the asy-
lum. If II had been private job. in-
stead of = public one. 800 would have
paid the bills. That's the way the peo-
pies money goes.
T A Sutherland. OF Portland. and
Miss Sallie Chattin were married ia
San Francisco last Thursday. He is
editor OF the Standard, and she il the
daughter Of w G Chattin. a clergyman
we'll known III Oregon aud Washington.
There are twenty two sawmills in
Humboldt county. California. and they
we're never more busy than this year.
The ether timber counties are also
busy The great demand for railroad
ties is ono OF the chief causes of the
activity.
Master Warren I Hasting, lett here
yesterday for Seattle. where he will
attend the University. Mrs Lincoln
Hastings will make her home in Sc
attic during the coming winter. to
keep house for her son Warren while
he wrestlss with book knowledge in Its
perplexlng forms. argus.
The oyster season is about rcopening.
The almost entire failure of the Shoal-
water bay beds has the effect Of trans.
ferring that traffic to the Sound. where
it will be greatly increased during tho
ensuing year. The oyster business will
pay big hereafter, and lbere is no limit
to its expansion. Let the beds be
planted and business undertaken at
every available point.
The Maynard lot on Commercial
street has taken its place in the march
of improvement with its neighbors. 1t
has new owner. who evidently thinks
1t too valuable longer to lie idle. He
has removed the old house, fence and
brush. aud next week will have the
lot cut down about two feet. 10 the
grade. What will be done with it
after that caunot yet be said The old
house taken off was one OF the early
,andmarks Its first use was rs u
bowling alley. 1t was long occupied
by DIR Maynard and wife rs q family
residence and hospital. The doctors
death and her going east OF the noun
tains left the building without an oe-
cupant, and 1t has remained in o de-
serted condition the greater pHft VI tho
past five years. II was the last piece
of property left there of the $50 acres
taken nearly thirty years ago.