Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-04-11
DAILY Posf-IIfBLIIaEHCER
LOCAL.


Sound before 3 o'clock this morning.
The vessels now in port at Biakely
are the Prussia, Makah, Otago and
CourSef.
A. McKinnie, of the Pacific Mutual
Life Insurance Company, came over
from Portland yesterday.
The newly surveyed townships %
range 8, and n range 7. have been
placed on the large county maps on file
In the auditors Office.
Bsriah Brown, who has resided on
Coppin's hill in this city for several
years past, started for Oregon yesterday.
He viii probably get situation at the
East Portland insane asylum. His fam
lily accompanied him.
We learn from the Alta Of the LIST that
tho steamship Oregon has recently come
of the dry dock, where she has been
undsrgoin9 repairs, and that the State
Of California went on Immediately after
Tor the Same purpose.
The hrst instalment of the code con-
tanning the civil practise act Of the Ter
ritory will b ready for delivery today,
on application 10 the Territorial printer
ut Olympia. Il is UNDERWOOD that the
prios Will be fifty cents per copy.
Mr.. Nelson, of the firm of Nelson &;
Phinney. suffered the loss of his little
SON Freddie, by congestion Of the brain,
on Sunday. The funeral took place yes
tsrdsy. The bereaved parents have the
sympathy Of large number Of friends.
The foundation for the sawmiII on
Lake Union is now all driven and cap
psd. The mill will be LEO feet long and
two stories high. Work will be pushed
ahead as vigorously as possible, 80 as to
get 70 turning ont lumber during the
present season.
The names on all the Northern Paci-
6c locomotive engines are being done
away with az fast as the monsters are
taken to tho paint shop. They will
hereafter be marked like the cars, num-
bored from one up. and marked simply
with the initials Of tho company.
On Sunday one Of our reporters visit
ed Milton together with several other
gentlemen, and found the place almost
deserted. The interior Of the mill, and
in fact, all tho property, is kept in the
best Of order, in readiness, We presume,
70 start mp at a moments notice, should
such contingency arise.
Olympia held city election on Monday
last, which resulted in the choice of the
following: DIR. N. Ostrandsr, Mayor;
Councilman, Messrs. A.. II. Chambers,
II. 6abin, Il. Osseno, Il. g. O'Brien. w.
Yeager and ]. 3. Dobbins. The new
Board was sworn on Wednesday even
ing.
Quite number Of ex-Seattleitss are
ct present in Portland; among the num-
Der being.J. g. Fox, tho machiniat; j.
L. JAMESON, Merrill Blanchard, A. An
dsgson, brother Of L. Anderson, the
Front street painter, and a number of
others. Mr.. Anderson, though. expects
70 return to Seattle in tho course Of q
few days.
The following fs the list Of passengers
Of the steamship Idaho which sailed
Sunday at / O'Clock .. M: Mrs. s.
Swant0u, D. NJ. Crane, Mrs. H. H.
Pease, Mira. Il. Harmon and child, w.
n. He'll, wife and daughter, Mrs.. Lizzie
Snyder, Mrs. G. w. Lawton, II. A.
Smith, Miss Smith, ]. Summerhorn, H.
Abbott, @. X. Jennsr, wife and son, and
four In tho Storage.
The steamship Idaho sailed on Sun
day at 10 o'clock pm. with the follow
ing freight list: Tacoma -68 green
hides, bales pelts, - bales wool,
boxes merchandise, ED tons coal. Seat
tls-578 sacks oates, l4,Ec0 feet lumber,
"a hides, bundle salt hides, bale furs,
3 bales seal skins, IL packages merchan-
disc. Port Townsend-75 tons pig iron,
70 barrels salt salmon.
There can be found at the Postof1ice
q petition praying the President to par
don Sergeant Mason, who was found
guilty Of attempting the life of tho mis-
cradle assassin Guiteau. 1t is being
signed by large number Of our citi-
xens, and it is hoped that mono will miss
the opportunity OF demonstrating their
affection for our murdered President
by lending their influence to secure par
don for the man who sought to avcnge
his death.
We clip the following from the San
Francisco Chronicle Of March oath:
"Colonel Chambcrs will leave Fort
Townsend, w. T., some time next
and \ pack train, to proceed via Cape
pia range, and thence around the south
8B0V VI 1QU00 Ah1VQ0bUkkxb tnIVUku tu0
Quillehute valley to Hoods canal, for
tho purpose Of making a military recon-
noiasance and mapping out the section
Of country to be explored. The sxplor-
ing expedition will be the means Of OBJ
tnining authentic information about q
region rich In agricultural lands, valu-
able timber and perhaps minerals.
The steamboats, on the Columbia
arc ran now 10 accommodate the pas
sengsrs. and tho people enjoy the change
immensely. For instance, the Bonita,
In leaving Portland yesterday morning,
went back 70 the wharf twico, after cast
ing Oh, to take on board tardy individu-
els again. Not . pound Of freight il
now taken by the passenger carriers,
which touch only At the landing and
then are OF like = shot, at some putting
ont neither line nor plank, all hurrying
through 10 their places Of destination at
the top Of their speed. Freight boats
70 along moro lsisuroly. The Emma
Hayward and Eastwood, both fast fly-
en-, race along ude BY side day after
day; getting into Astoria ct half past ~
q 1 o'clock, and into Portland about =.
A night boat from Portland 70 Astoria
u contemplated By the o. X. 4 N. Co.,
upon which tho charge for passage will
Is only - oents.