Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-08-06
nl1LY pOSf-MfELlagICER.
LOCAL L.
,rex. Of Port Gamble has re-

n q Drew, Of Port Gamble has re-
Turned from California.
The Transcript is out unqualifisdiy
for Mr.. Bscnts's reelection.
Weatman's Ciycus Company nave
folded their tent and silently stolen
away.
The steamship Idaho will leavs Tor
San Francisco at / O'Clock ns1' WV
nesdsy.
The tho Of women beRRafs. one being
n ieoiees creature, arc doing the ei'S VI
Portland st present.
Chas. Coppin, Of this city, 70 superb
,~n6ino TIE construction OF some heSsy
frnme vork ct Newcastle.
The Territorial Supreme Court has
.dionrned 20 the 24th inst. NO oeca-
sicus have yet been rendered.
George ". Harris returned last even,
inc. having gone to Portland only. ana
not 20 San Francisco, a. hrst repofsso'
Thu store of J. ". Lyon las started
ON ito travels. from Front street 70 lover
Mill, next door 70 the Seattle hss'ao'
rant.
Thu Office Of the Puget Sound Tsle'
c,enh Comnauv ia 20 be found tempora-
rily in that of the Western Union S0"'
pany.
The Dakota vent down 70 Victoria
yesterday. and today will 90 on to De-
1arture Bay for GOAL. and thence to
Alaska.
The Evening Chronicle Is 10 %
changed 70 a morning paper. MAKING us
first appearance under tho new arrange
ment tomorrow.
Stoveli Il Co., druggists and apoth-
COATES. have q snug little establishment
on Commercial street, opposite the NOW
England Hotel.
II was six lots in tho Central addition
that p. J. Lair bought Tor $oOu, ana no'
two lots, az has been erroue0nsly report
in one Of the city papers.
Miss A. L. Dimick, Of Portland, came
ovsr vesterday. and 10 ataying at the res
idsnoe of Mr.. and Mrs. Vim. Hammond.
6he viii remain two Or three weeks.
An upper country paper declares that
tina Summer season ~ upon ns, hno Sefi-
Il a mans shirt stioketh closer than his
.unt's. and so do his stockings aud his
pants.
-Four Port Gamble boys are now IN
attendance at QUO school In ban DlHtoo,
California, and three girls from tue
same place are in Nills's Seminary At
oakland.
Eshelmsn, Stillwell d TO. have some
cheap property near Lake Union for
sale. in q new tract known as Collins
addition The lots RANGE IN price from
&2J 70 500 apiece.
sTvould seem a. though some of the
toughs who we're fired out or seattle =
short time ago, had dropped down THIS
way. Seattle u q good place ~ Initiate
In some things. Asforian.
The Oregon State Fair At Salem and
the Mechanics Fair at Portland VIII
clash in time Of holding. the State Fair
cl 1sing Sept. I'D, while tho Mechanics
Fair will open Sept. 2ist.
The Evangel made fine ruu0f four
hours TO Port Townsend, the other day,
an followed il up with an equally tine
run to NanaimO yesterday. IL she keeps
up her lick she will beat the Dakota
t1is trip.
Miss Nellie Swan, the young lady who
el0ped from Portland with J. a. Law
renee, q married man, last winter, is
now on her way back. Lawrence,
meanwhile, Is in Jail ut Astoria, await
ing his trial for bigamy.
In San Francisco the Catholics have
IL churches; the Presbyterian 10; the
Nethodists Ii; EpiscopAis IL; Baptists
y; Congregational Tin all, " churches;
10 chapels, and synagoQues, for pop
ulati0n of about 2UO,0O.
Gen. Wood, agent in charge Of the
consolidated reservations of Quinalt,
Neah Bay, Puyallup, Nisqually, Squax-
on and Cnehalis, is ID town. The Gen.
oral has heretofore dwelt on tho Quinalt
reservation. but will hereafter make his
homo ut Neah Bay.
80 great il the call upon labor In this
CITY that much work Offering romans
undone because there Is no one to do 1t.
This IL the case with the excavation OF
the lots on the corner OF Mill and Front
streets, where several hundred carloads
Of earth are to no removed, but for
which not tender has yet been re-
caived.
Mr.. A. Finlays0u, living in klickitat
county, w. r., sheared 1900 sheep, the
average being 10 pounds to the fleece.
A Spanish Merino buck sheared AZ
pounds, and tho Champion buck i'm
ported by MIR. q. w. WaldrOn from Mr..
Hammond's band of Vermont produced
the unprecedented amount OF IS pounds
Of wool this clip.
The annual hogira is taking place and
the fishermen are leaving by the hun
drod. Tho Portland boats take up
good many, who want to secure their
passage to San Francisco. Some % to
tho Sound; others. though very few, 90
to the front to ttriks a job on the raul
road; others get berths on vessels. being
a. anxious to get on now as they were
to get away last April; the greater part
Of them, however, 60 to San Francisco.
--Asforidn.
Manager Stechhan has gone below to
aeeuee new attractions with which to On
terrain the people Of the North Pacific
Coast. He expects to have Lawrence
Barrett and strong support here early
In the fall. Mr.. Stechhan has made q
proposition to Col. Squire looking TO
alease for A)protracted tsrm Of the Opera
House here. In which, il he 10 gratihed,
- Will make many and marked changes
and improvements at an early day.
David II. Webster, of White River,
has been in town for several days past.
de reports the farmers much pleased
with their prospects. HIPS, potatoes,
bay, fruit and vegetables are turning
out grandly. and, II the season con-
cludes properly and the demand md
prices continue, the farmore will do bet
TOR than in any previous year. Alto
Rether they have cause for good feeling,
and they are already showing their sat-
isfaotion in numberless ways, az in i'm
provsments, extensions. DC.
The great cry throughout Eastern
Warrington now is for moro laborers.
Farmers arc In search of harvest hands
and stand ready to pay wages In pro-
portion TO the increased price Of wheat.
OArpentsra, bricklayers, aud merchants
of every description are wanted In every
city, town and hamlet. Projected Inn
prOvemonte are awaiting moro help.
Railroad building il giving employment
10 thousands Of men who otherwise
would be scattered throughout the coun-
try 10 meet the general demand. No
ono Of either sex, who really wishes
work, need DO idle.
Capt. B. b. Tuttle. Of the postal SER
yice, has returned from Port Townsend.
He saga he really had nothing 70 do
With refusing the Alaska mail to the
Evn0Oal frha ncv,a vxv,au& ~acu:.~l