Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-05-03
DAILY Observation-Disclosures
10 CA l..

4 full moon now adds delight TO the |
nights.
The steamer Willamette will 60 to |
sea today.
Look out for A change III the I'D. Of |
Toklas & Singerman tomorrow.
The British steamer Susz sailed from
Hongkeng for Victoria April 18th, hav
ing on board load Of Chinese coolies.
The lighthouse tender Shubriek. Capt.
Gregory, while.doing the Sound, called
in here yesterday. and afterwards vent
ON to Tacoma.
Tho ship Canada. on her last trip
from Tacoma. took lumber for 2 nav
steamer and a three n3sted schooner,
TO bs built at San Francisco.
The wires went down last night in the
Puyallup country just IA our news re-
port was one-tbird received. This Is
aggravating. but unavoidable.
The steamships Umatilla and Waila
Walla are both expected TO arrive here
either today or tomorrow. They both
came up TO Portland with freight.
The whole day WAS taken up yesier
day in the District Court III trying T.
A. Thorndike for assault and battery.
The case will probably 60 to the jury
today about noon.
The steamer Dakota has about COM
plsted her repairs, and will be ready TO
20 into service again on the 10Th OF
May. She and the Geo. w. Elder will
run on the route 10 Victoria and this
city.
The real estate market is again liven
ing mp, rs will be demonstrated by the
list Of transfers which have been re-
corded during the past two days, found
elsewhere in this issue. Considerable
property in the southern end of the
town il changing hands ut moderately
low figures.
II now takes two days time, with
close connection, and costs SIP, TO
come from New Westminster to Seattle,
by tho Victoria route. By direct
route between the two places the dis
tance could easily be travorsed III sin-
gle day, ct cost Of about 81. Viii no
one make tho effort necessary 10 inau-
gurate direct trade between the two
places?
The new steam whaIer BowiIsad, Just
built at San Francisco, has gone north
to enter uponstho war on the leviathans
Of the deep. She il good vessel, and
Is rated by tho Bureau Veritas the high
est rate ever given any vessel--known as
>. 3, l., 1, 1, for Ii years. She carries
81 seamen and - officers and others.
She was built and Is Owned and sailed
by San Francisco capital.
A contract has just boen closed by
Dunsmuir, Diggle Il Co. OF San Fran cis
co for the construction III Eagiand of Il
first-class steam collier for their coal
carriage between Departure Bay and
that port. According To the contract
she il TO carry 200 tons of coal and
will have tanks for 100 or so tons of
water ballast. She will have all the lat
est appliances for loading and dischar.
ing and will cost $4,000. Her speed
is to DO ii knots.
The new time table of tho .. r.. 4 n.
Co. sends the up river boat out of Port
land at half past 8 in the morning. Al
Bonneville it connects with tho train
leaving at 3:25 in the afternoon, which
arrives in Walla Waiia at 5:l3 next
morning, and in Dayton at $40. The
trains the other way leave Dayton at
3:l2 in the afternoon. Walia WalIa at
6:32, and townsville at $40 next morn
ing; the boats arriving NJ Portland ear
ly in the afternoon.
The Seattle |. q. &: 4. Installed tn c
following officers for the ensuing quarter
q. A. johnson, W. G. T.; Miss Lizzo
Ward, w. V. T.; WIN. Lindsey, w. s.:
w. A. Carr, w. +. S.: Il. J.. Jones. w.
r.; John Webster, w. c.; James Price
w. NJ; Miss Cora Gormlcy, W. |. e.;
Geo. Gibson, w. O. g.; Miss Lille Grove,
w. A. s.; Lottie Steinway, w. ID. NJ;
Clara Wilson, W. II. III. S.; Miss q. Yo-
cum, w. l.. ii. S.; w. l.. Wilson, T.. W.
g. L. Messrs. ID. Is. Ward and VIM T..
Lindsey were selected as tho ropresen-
tativss of the Lodge to the Grand
Lodge, which meets at Goldendale on
June ed.
A. M. McCorkle, driving for the
Smith brothors, has just arrived with n
drove of beef cattle for Yakima county.
He came by way of The Dalles, and he
brought 162 head, las for Seattle and
II for Astoria. This is II long and OK
pensive route, requiring upwards Of
hundred miles of driving, railroading
from The DalleS to tho Lower Cascades,
6teAmboating to Portland. steaipboating
20 Kalama, railroading to Tacoma and
ateamboating here. notwithstanding
oil travel--about 400 miles roundabout
TO come less than 1C1 direct charges
aggregate less than 81 per head, or iess
than II cost fifteen years ago to carry
cattle from tho Sound to Victoria. Mr..
McCarkle reports preparations begun to
clear the Snoqualmis road, 80 a. to DO
dt for travel, and he says George Smith
will como over it with drove OF two
hundred head Of beeves early during
the ensuing month.