Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-07-23
many Posf-HfELIIaEICER
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Georce Cantieni is said to have lost
$3.50 in coin in the recent Mukliteo
brewery hre.
For reserved seats to the Calender
Minstrel performances 60 70 Pun
phrey 4 Lowman.
Professor 6tsinle, the piano teacher.
4 taking Q three weeks vacation, N the
anoQua1mis country.
TIE steamer Zephyr will leave Seattle
for Olympia and way ports Moooay
morning Is z O'Clock.
n 0eo. ". Elders PASSENGER list
- ~ ~ come, owing 50 the tsle-
- vtsn being down.
r. schoousr Courser arrived at Sea-
beok. on The 18th inst, and on ths lSth
tho bark Columbia sailed.
The continued prostrstion Of the wires
aanin prevents our having teleRrnpnic
~ oehse than that received by mail.
In The Calender Minstrel crowd Is a
bese bali club. We believe our boys
can put them through racket they VIII
long remember.
Il d said thu. Charles Evans has been
soappoinsed postmaster OF New Tacoma.
and hat his appointment has been con-
Afmed By the Senate.
In Willamette University during the
last school year were $50 students, IL oil
whom were in the collegiate depart
msnt, and ono graduate.
The German picnic which takes place
today will NO doubt be enjoyed by those
Who attend. The Zephyr will tow the
barge Of picnicksrs ~ Alki Point and
buok.
4 linz Of piling has boon driven along
tina vatef front from the barrel factory
moth % Smiths cove. Who IL putting
M the money for this work remains a
mystery.
Elder 8. G. Espey will conduct ths
services ut tho Y. 81. @. A. hall this 1T
tssn0on at 4 O'Clock. Al, are cordial,
invited to attend, but especially thu
young men.
The people OF vaahon Island are NOV
ING in the matter of u tri-wG1kly or d Ill,
mail 60 New Tacoma aud Seattle, al.
are preparing q petition setting forth
their Yoouirsmeuts. Our people Car
Yell afford TO aid them in this matter.
The Salmon Bay land Of H. A. Smith
will b offered for sale ut auction t0mor
rov. L II cleared land, and fortlle ane
20 ,ossibls, and ought TO be worth easily
enough q hundred dollars an acre. Tnoss
Who bay Il for lsss tomorrow will d.
veil.
II you want 10 BE- beautiful aud hand
some, and live three or four hundred
years and find ten dollar gold piece III
Your vest pocket every time yon ge'
lizard up." You buy ticket for Callen
der's Ninstrsls. which are coming Leit
soon.
A new wooden mill At Salem il assured
The building will 10 6ve-st0r, bri,x
~ fest long and IS ct wide, vita tst
wings each 60 feet long That Is the
kind Of . factory We wan here, m b ~
sueh an enterprise hers would SGT Is al
aRoing.
The hll in the street. at the wet enc
Of the Occidental hotel will be niue set
6uch Q All there will make mate -ial
difference In tho Climbs up Mil
and James streets. Earth in plenty
viii b obtained from the excavation t0
make the Gil referred to.
The work Of taking he names for the
city directory will DO completed by
Wednesday. II tho canvassers have
failed 70 oct the rosideuo - aud bu ii
neos address Of any of our citizens, IL
would b favor II such Per sons would
= we their names place OF bu ,iness etc.
q Hanford's printing Office, or AZ the
Arlington.
The contract has been let for the new
Vancouver school house, the price being
9l6y694. With sch0olh0use like that
money will build, and With new $26,-
90 courthouse, Vancouver will do very
We'll this year In the matter Of public
buildings, and with the orphan asylum,
The military station, etc.. it will lie ~
we'll provided with public buildings as
perhaps any other town in the oouatry
Of 2000 inhabitants.
During the past ten days Sidney
PaQet, . young English gentleman en-
gagged In stockraisinR on Tongue river,
Montana, has becn in this region buying
horses 70 take back with him. SO far be
has purchased of McGillvray d Delany
II head, 1T Mark A. Evans 80 head, OF
James Driver 20 head and of Joe Forest
30 head, and 10 still buying. Hs pays
caah Tor all he buys. His purchases So
f.s amount to about $25,UU0.-W. W.
UsioW.
Hereafter, says the Nees, all sidewalks
laid Ia New Tacoma must he of the fol-
lowing dimensions: On streets lou feet
Wisle. sixteen fest In width; ~ feet wide.
twelve test. On l6 foot sidewalks there
muet b four stills, and ON those twelve
feet wide three sills, these timbe to bs
III inches. The planking used must DO
eWo inches thick and not more than ono
fooe wide. These will mako very good
WALKS, but costly ones, nd on of streets
tho people will not be able to afford
ehem. Until there are more people in
he town, and moro value to the prop
oety, they had better content themselves
With narrower and cheaper walks, and
hAvo greater length Of them.
0uor u Hn BnorHxR.-Dr. Bostwick.