Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-08-12
naILY Observation-Disclosures.
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Collector Bash is expected to return
from the East in few days.
Gov. Newell has been detained East
bv some sickness in his immediate tam
Il IL.
Samuel Howell, Walla Walla saloon
keeper, was fined $25 last week, Tor vio-
lating the Sunday Law.
Mira. Charles Mcdonald has gone 70
California. 70 try the springs thsrs Tor
the benefit Of her hsalth.
DR.. Smiths announcement snooid oe
read and needed by all psTsons inoeo'ea
10 the firm Of Smith q willard.
The Portland telegraph man sends
dianatch to Seattle about the Selmao
stesmship Gen. Milss.-Assorid".
I'M. Hayes has been relieved at Port
Biakeiy BIZ John Haley, and today VIII
90 back TO Olympia on the steamer
Messenger.
The juvenile operatta on Nrs. onyoef
and the thirty children nnder her tram
inc will be gwen on the evenings o. Aug
ust 2lst and I'D.
Dr. Boatman Is about to leave tort
RiakeIy. and will take passage In DAY
or two on one Of the sail vessels At
that place for California.
DEL. Smith and family vii! leave
for California on the steamer OF oesr
tember 9th, 70 be gone several months.
The Doctor wants 70 try southern c'i
mate for the benefit of his health.
The Statesman il urging upon the nu-.
nioipality of Walla Waiia, the necessity
for = public park. We need one here,
too. and orr authorities cannot proceed
too soon to get hold OF the ground nee
essary.
A fiue piece Of carving hss just been
completed by Lovej,,, on Stuart Street.
Il isa full length woman f2ure-neaa
10. the new bark now building at foft
Blakcly, by the Hall Bros. which Is 70
be named thu Hesper.-Aiia.
The new officers OF Port Townsend are
IN. Van Boxxeleu. Committing haeis-
trate: K. &. Hill, Clerk: {. NJ. bradshaw
Attorney; u. Il. Hill, Treasurer; r. w
James. Surveyor; &. II. Jones, HarbsT
master. and ID. Ii. Hill, Assessor.
The earnings Of the Northern Pacihc
railway for June, 1872. on IDS miles
were $;il, 342; June, 1881, on lot miles
t412,Oz3.70; increase, x!i3,ais.a 70,
the year from July, 1881, TO July. 49,
1908, 1922: last year, *2,59a,'io.s w III
GREASE, $3.3li.6l2A.
Il ia rumored in Yakima that three
staunch Democrats vi b one go-as- yol'
please Republican are about 10 start
newspsper i'm Yatima CITY. ana the
editor in-chief will be a we'll known
writer in former political campaign
and now Federal oiticeholder.
A Dalles paper in speakingof an acct
dent that befel lady of that place, nsed
the delicate language following; We
could not ascertain the particulars, bu!
understand that her arm and limb were
broken, and other injuries received
from a fell, mt her residence
An Improvement has been mado IL
the general delivery boxes at the loo ii
postOffice. by having the letter boxes ar
ranged alphabetically for both initials
sur names. The rack III which these
boxes are placed swings on pivot, and
can be turned ut will. The new arrange
msnt expedites matters at the postoffioe
very materially.
II is said a change in departments IL
contemplated for the Tenth and Twenty
Il rat regiments of u. Is. Infantry. The
Tenth will, in October or November,
come west over the Northern Pacific
route, and the Twenty first will go easl
over the same. They will go by rail as
far as possible, and will march the four
hundred miles remaining. They will
probably meet ON the march.
Our last WEEKLY contains matter Of
interest to the people in the East, IN the
shape of information Concerning this
Territory, and it is a paper that will tell
in inducing immigration. We are doing
all We can TO spread abroad intelligence
concerning our chosen home, not q
month passing without the appearance
in our columns Of more descriptive mat
ter than can be found In any other or
binary immigration pamphlet.
v. Quimby, formerly resident of
Seattle, who moved from here about
four years ago, stopped in town for an
hour yesterday while on his way up the
Sound. He was much surprised ut the
progress Seattle had made during his
absence. Since lie left hero no has
been more or less connected with rail
reading, and he declares that Seattle
will ultimately be the terminus Of more
than one road across the Cascade Noun
tains.
Christian Brownfield, who is Just
down FROM Upper Cedar River tells US
that he found the Duwamish at Steel's
very muddy; IA yellow "a soapstono.
The settlers say il has been so for only
three or four days past. Mr.. Cavan-
agh's theory about it is that tho snow
and ice that have covered the chalk
bluffs have thawed out and that this is
tina wateY from than II thickona and
muddies the river until It Is worse than
tho Missouri, and Mr.. Brownfield imag-
lined he could smell it long way of.
Dr.. J. M. Kollock has been appointed
by DR.. John Moore, Medical Director Of
this Department, to take charge of the
medical branch Of the expedition about
going into the olympic or coast range
Of mountains. The expedition referred
to will b commanded by Col. Cham
bsrs, and it will leave Fort Townsend
next week. Its route will be via Port
Discovery Ray. One endeavor will be
made to find the headwaters Of Dun
geness river, and another to find an i'm
niense plateau said to be situated some
whore IN that region. and which has
never been trod by the foot of the white
man. Thirty or forty men will comprise
the party, and from thirty 10 sixty days
viii be consumed in the expedition. Col.
Chambers will make his own topogrsph-
ioal report, while DR.. Kollock will at.
tend to matters botanical, minevalosi-
csl and meteorological, ~ we'll as med
ieal.
FREloHr RArrs.-The Cheney Sentinel
figuring on possible freight rates altar