Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-06-21
DAILY Observation-Disclosures
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UAlLI OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
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These are the longest days Of the
year.
Seattle has . new telegraph operator |
in the person of Mr.. Eddy.
Steamer Idaho left at this morning. |
intending to 60 to San Juan this even
ing for load Of lime.
The city vote cast in Portland last
Monday numbered 800. an increase OF
rs over the vote Of 1851.
Ths temperature. yss.erday wes way
6oWn, which, added 70 tne cioees sno
foan. made K ssem IKE . winter DAY.
The Episcopal Convocetion win b.
Gin n eessions today. Bishop Paddock
snd ether clsrgymsn are already here.
The pupils Of the Academy Of Holy
Names will give an entertainment IN
their exhibition hall ON the evening OF
June 18th.
Ground il breaking ON Yeslsrs wharf
for still another building, this time on
the north side, al0n2side French q
Company.
A. ]. Brigham, formerly Of Seattle,
has settled down in Dufur, Oregon,
where be has bought q house ana VIII
make his home.
The Northern Pacific Company wants
twenty log drivers for work on Yakima
river. and it will pay them the hand
some wages Of IS per day.
The old Collegiate school building IN
Victoria, belonging TO the En9ilsn
Church, was burned few days ago.
The buildiug was erected IN 1853.
C.P. Stone d Co. make fine display
NJ dacs and fireworks in their store IN
SuIIivan's block, which attracts atten-
zion and admiration from all passers-
by.
The steamer Idaho left here for the
lower Sound at 2 o'clock this morning,
and before her return, she Will 60 over
TO San Juan and there take on . LOAD OF
lime.
Goss & Sawyer of Bath, Me-, launched
NAY 9Th, the ship Henry Failing. ohs
il owned BY W. H. Bcsse and others,
and will be- commanded by Capt. Jacob
Nerrien.
The second number of the Port Town
send daily Argus, after . weeks rest
since the first number, came out on
Monday last. 1t presents good ap-
pearanUe.
Yesterday Toby D. Reed builders and
contractors, and indeed worthy citizens,
left for Seattle, their future home. sue
cess attend them. wherever they may
Q0.-WGtchm0n.
Four times in the last week has the
Oreoonian failed to come to hand. We
belicve it started from Portland, but
that In transit 1t was stolen. we don
want this 70 happen again.
The new theater building being built
by Thomas Clancy on washington
street has been leased by J. ". Smith >
and vill be opened by a troupe Of eleven
people from San Francisco on the oven
ing Of July LIST.
Il now turns ont that the sch
sesn bottom side up of Cape Flattery q
fortnight since was the st. George, OF
San Erancisco, which, loaded with ium-
Der and bound for Kodiak, met disaster
with ell on board.
Several thousand words OF press re-
ports, for papers over the coast and IN
New York, passed over the Puget Sound
and Western Union lines from Port
Townsend and Seattle yesterday, con-
corning the Rodgers party OF Arctic Ok
pl0rers.
Mr.. Collins will commence work on
the foundation Of his proposed new
hotel as soon as q sufficient quantity OF
stone arrives. One schooner load has
already been placed on the ground, and
two more loads ere expected within the
next ton days.
Schooner II. L. Herman has been
thoroughly repaired and recently sailed
from San Francisco tor Ounaiaska, nav
ing on board q suaall s.ernwheel steam
or to be used on the Yukon river by
gold prospecting party, who Intend stay
ing there four years.
Alexander Dunsmuir, senior member
Of the trim of Dunsmuir. Diggle d Co.,
owners Of tho Wellington coal mine,
came to Vancouver Island in 1913, and
his son Alexander, now resident part
Nor in San Francisco, il said to have
been the first white child born ON that
island.
The Messenger in appearance is I'm
proved more on her cabin deck than any
whore else. Her guard WAS extended n
foot On either side, and tho cabin roof
vas extended 70 cover 1t. She has new
broad covered promenadcs, like thOee
ON the Welcome, which add AS much ~
the comfort of those on board ~ they do
10 tho appearance Of the boat itself.
Tho numerous bones Of animals seen
near Spokane bridge are the romans Ut
925 horses killed in 1858 by order OF
Col. Wright. They were captured FROM
the hostiles AZ they were entering the
mountains from the upper end OF Spo-
kane prairie; IL took two whole days to
kill them, and BY their loss the back
bone Of the Indians was broksn.-Wdiio
Walia Unisn.
Ernest InRersoll, ono Of the Hdper's
Aayaxime corps, who has been spending
the past fortnight in Oregon and WASH
iuQtOn, with view to tho preparation
of an article for that publication, is.n0w
In this city, and will remain until the
close Of tho week. He will be joined in
Q few days by A. c. Redwood, an artist,
now down the Sound, whose sketches
will accompany Mr.. lngersoll's article.
The editor Of tho Dallcs 4ouNtGineer
has had ok months experience. and IL
has not Ill bean h0neyed sweetness We
JU0&0Uy tvooob eStAOa0s ~ wusou "n1Vuk
other true and sensible things he says:
The fact u men want you ~ say what
they are afraid 70 say themselves. II
you cay what they tell you, believing II
20 b true, and II turns out TO b false,
or they are uisinformed, then they
quietly Stand from under. and wonder
hat you are - iujudioious.
Tn 6u1vEm.- Three parties Of
Northern Pacific surveyors are nov in
the field. Wards party il ON the east
srn slops Of the Cascades, locating down
the Yakima river, and continuing the
work done by @. A. White; Sheets party
II in the Green river region, working
east; Clark began in the Puyallup, and
IL tracing out the old survey Of ten
xaarp Ann LEADING into SnafflA ThA