Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-04-25
DAILY Observation-Disclosures
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The steamer Welcome will leave Sc
attic for SehOme, and all points on the
way, at 9 O'Clock today.
The Welcome came down from Ia
coma yesterday evening and will leave
for Wnatcom at 3 o'clock this morning.
Capt. Chas. Thorne. long Master of
the steamer California, and who gave up
the sea about a year ago, is now travel
ing for New York cigar house.
The steamer Geo. w. Elder arrived
at San Francisco yesterday morning at
10 o'clock after stormy passage. All
well on board, so private dispatch III
formed Us last evening.
The Mississippi met the Walla Walia.
bound for Portland with n. naino coal.
After discharging there. she will come
coal for San Francisco.
Andrew Mabie, once of Olympia,
where he was comparatively well of.
but of late years hackInan in Portland.
Is said to have fallen heir to $4,000 By
the death Of an uncle in Buffalo, New
York.
We hear good reports from the scow
steamer Alki, on the Snohomish and
Snoqualmie rivers. She runs quite reg
ularly, climbs the rifles admirably, and
plsases the people greatly. She has had
all she could do 80 far, and will I'M
doubleday continue in the enjoyment of
a fine traffic, which her enterprising
owners deserve.
C.M. Bradshaw, Of Port Townsend.
has published an open letter to AloaZo
Leland, editor Of the Lewiston Teller.
explaining matters connected with the
Constitutional Convention, and defend
ing himself against aspersiOns OF an un-
pleasant character on the part Of Le-
land. Mr.. Bradshaw, in two columns
Of the Argus, makes out a very good
case.
A general relief will be experienced
nike by the public and Court officers
when the new court house, now 30 near
ly completed, is ready for occupancy,
Il il painfully disagreeabls to be com
PEELED TO sit in the quarters where the
Court il holding its present session, and
only be able to hear part Of a SEN
tence now and then, in consequence of
tho acoustic deficiencies Of the bnilding
Ii il impossible to understand anything
said, either by the Court or Attorneys.
at distance of ten feet. Those who
would gladly remain III Court, if 1t was
possible to understand the proceedings,
generally leave in disgust. 1t would be
we'll for the attorneys who desire their
eloquence to be appreciated TO talk loud
enough for all to hear.
II is said that hereafter trains from
Olympia and Tacoma will start one
hour earlier, to enable them to get their
passengers into Kalama by IL o'clock SO
as to catch the fast boats from Astoria
to Portland. This is good arrange
mont, and one different from the
wretched condition of steamboat man
agement on this end of the route. Be-
tween here and Tacoma all manner of
vexation and delay are experienced, it
usually taking as long to come that
twenty-five miles, including the unnec-
essary detention there, AS it does to
come the one hundred and fifty miles
between Portland and Tacoma, while
double the time is consumed in going
from here to Tacoma, also including the
unnecessary detention there, that il re-
quired to make tho distance, six times
as great, from there to Portland. No
place of like size and importance on the
coast Is moro grossly abused in the mat
ter OF its mail and passenger facilities
then is Seattle, the leading town of the
Territory.