Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-11-08


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Z. B. Curry. formerly Wells, Fargo q
Co.'S agent in this city, has been reap
pointed Deputy City Auditor and Clerk
Of Portland.
Tho steamship Willamette, which
aaiIed for San Francisco last Saturday
arrived last night. She will take her
furu 1t the coal sheds, following the
Geo. w. Elder.
Politics are hot in Spokane county,
and the newspapers are wading In head
over heels. The Tribune sslutes Mont
Qomery a. liar and the Sentinel calls
Kellogg an old sl0bber mouth.
So far as our knowledge extends,
nothing has AZ vet been done TO fix and
define the fire limits of this city. De-
Laws are dangerous, and the sooner this
matter il attended to the better.
The tower on the new city hall is up.
II looks we'll from some points OF view,
bat when opposite the building. IN go
ing MP Mill street, has q squafty appear
anoe. The base of the tower should
have been at least three feet higher.
Some people, We may remark, are very
hard to please.
During the month of October the fol
lowing entries were made In the Walla
WaIla Land Office: Homesteads, 1884
ssres; pre- emptions, 300 acres; cash
entries. 5ll8 acres; final hOmesteads,
1891 acres; timber cultures, 24o3 acres
making a grand total of 1866 acres,
represented by LII entries.
The buildings on the hop ranch of G.
v. BrOckaway. near Sacramento, were
destroyed by fire last Friday night; also
276 bales of hops in one Of the buildings
belonging to Herman d Co., Of San
Francisco. The loss on the buildings il
about 5000; insured for $500. The
loes on the hops Ia over xO,OUO.
Ths w. w. Grape is loading cargo
of suars at Seattle for Boston. These
epafs will come back to the Pacific
Coast ON vessels built at Bath and Other
dovu east safeguards. The moral OF
hi 3 little story 10. why not have the
ships built at Puget Sound and send
than ON their initial trips with wheat
IS. r.. Chronicls.
We are assured by reliable parties
that the comet was distinctly visible
and presented a magnificent appear
ance on Tuesday morning. This splen-
did celestial visitor seems 10th to leave
IT. present position in the regions OF
space. Thoee who have not seen il
have miased the grandest vision of the
kind which living eyes have ever looked
upon.
When Mill street is raised to the grade
- fixed by the Yesler- Leary building,
and the old frames on the street are torn
down, and replaced by handsome brick
structures and good, substantial side
wrlks are built, there will be marked
change for tho better in this thorough
fare, and the first impressions of the
visitor who steps of the steamer at Yes
ler's wharf and comes up town will be
better than at present.
There il one comfort about Seattle
mud. Il does not take it long to dry
MP. A few hours Of sunshine does the
business for it. The clayey portions Of
North Front street are exempted from
this feeble benediction. And yet there
II NO reason why, with the drainage ia
cilities We have and the rock and gravel
easily accessible, We should not have
good streets-nO reason whatever except
the failure Of our citizens to demand
their rights Of thu City Fathers. Per-
haps. oh. Conscript Fathers, 1--WE do not
propose TO waste the night in words, }
You are little to blame yourselves.
Don't it2
The intelligent oompositor is on his
rounds again, and has reached this Office.
We wrote day befOrs yesterday ave
will show You sweet peas, mignonetts,
0uAD- dYaQOu0 etc.. in blOom." and the
!. Q. had Il, "sweet peas, mignonette,
asparagus, etc." Asparagus, forsooth!
Why mot boneset, hsllebore, jimpson
weed, dog-fennel or persimmon bios
SONS? Yea, verify, why not2 Oh,
eaxthl oh, heaven! and shall We couple
but, como to think. we won't.
But " take our asparagus when the
spring time comes, gentle Annie. Per-
haps, however, this is new variety, in
tended to keep company with the
ehrysantheum. II 30. please send us a
few ssttinRs, oh, nest miraculous and
admirable |. Q.