Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-08-06


The largest yield b - bushsls 70 the
lcrs In Carver county, and II bushels h
he lowest estimate. Coodhue county
.ill yield over 5000. 000,0 900 bushels, Or
~ Tail nearly 100000 bushels, and
aalf . dozen yield over I, 10000. There
. some rust and ohinch bugs, but TO
TO note. The gross pro-
loot Of tho State and Dakota Territory
Is estimated at from 100000 to Co.
10000 bushels. Wheat commission
msn are moro conservative. but all agree
he yield will greatly exceed Last years,
and soospt 100000 for the State as
, moderate and fair estimate. AL re-
ports concur that there ID even yet
fair show for corn. The entire product
Of wheat along the Northern Pacific
Railroad last year was 6, III 900 bushels.
This year it will not be less than l2,-
OW, 900 bushels.
A Just Pualshmess.
MnwAUxKs, Aug. 6.-August Blan-
theatrical manager, recently az
rested here for forgery, pleaded guilty
in the Criminal Court here this morn
ing, and was sentenced to three years
in the House of Correo-
ton.
Worse shaa smallpox.
LAREDO, (Texas) August 5.-The pre-
vailing fever at MatamOras lis reported
increasing. Seven deaths occurred to-
day. There il no exact account of the
total number Of cases. but they are re-
ported between 800 and 400 in number.
The disease prevails among the higher
classes, a. we'll al among the lower.
There have been q number of deaths
among the farmers. Many stores are
only open part of the day. which gives
the city very desolate appearance. Last
night Manana Flores, a Mexican drug
gist, the first victim Of the fever in
Brownsville, died. He was taken in a
cart to the grave yard, and buried this
A case in the garrison at
Fort Brown died this morning. His
name was Busting, and he belonged to
the United States Infantry Band. The
physicians say the. case was not yellow
fever, but psrnicious by congestive
hemorrhaRe caused by malarial fever.
There are now reported in all thirty
GASES Of fever in Brownsville. and all
doing we'll. A man named Chamberlin,
is sick at Kings Ranch, 40 miles from
Laredo, with bad fever, The American
mail carrier from there says he has the
black vomit. Doctors have been sent
from Corpus Christi to examine the
case. The Mayor of Laredo is to take
active measures tomorrow toward a
strict quarantine against the infected
places, and the attempt will be made to
induce Nsava Laredo to do the same,
that communication between the two
places may not be interrupted. The
Texas and Mexican railway officials say
IL the fever gets to Corpus Christi they
viii stop running all trains. Everything
% quiet at Bio Grande City. A strict
is to be kept up until tho dan
ger il over. The citizens of Saldiago
have held meeting and autographed to
the Governor protesting against the con
removal Of the troops from
Brownsville 70 the old post ct that place.
ncesia& u Templars.
The circular Of invitation TO Knights
Templars to visit San Francisco in Aug
ust 1883, 10 issued BY prominent knight
Tsmplars, who stats that it is desired 20
make the programme memorial one.
4 bad see.
Tho Reading family, consisting of .
mother and two sons. two daughters and
three adopted girls. all of tender years,
wers recently arrested for. hop-lifting,
and have turned out to be tho nucleus
Of . very had crowd. who, through their
confessions have been unearthed, and
appear TO have stolen extensively from
al over the city. Mrs. Reading 10 q do
PRAYED specimen Of the femals fagin,
and was rapidly becoming rioh from the
offering OF her brood.
BRIDGE Burned.
LOWELL, August 5.--The central bridge
across the Merrimac river was burned
this morning. the loss il 81, 900. While
working on the are four fremen we're
in to the river and serious
y injured.
freight 9eaactaen.
CmcAoo. August ga general freight
,ircular Of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad announces . reduc-
lion of Ave oents on the hundred ON
freight from the Missouri river to Fl
Paso and points on the Southern Psci6c
Railroad between Deming ard Yuma, to
axe eject at once. This il said 70 BE-
he nrst step in rstaliation.for The action
It other roads running 70 Missouri river
points. making Council Bluffs and Kan
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