Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-23

i tanned DIV those wanting Al the nfW5
stand OF Major Jack Stratnan, on Mill
street.
/ The British Columbian of the 18th
came 10 hand by mail yesterday. ten
DAYS from New Westminster, 100 miles
distant.
| The sale of the land Of DR.. H. A..
Smith, 10 have been made at auction
| yesterday. WAS POSTPONED until October
9Th, 1883, at II a. m.
Snohomish City il singulariy prosper
Gus. New residences are sprineing mp
on all sides, and the whole place wears
an air of thrift and prosperity.
| Two pairs Of dayits were placed upon
ths hurricane deck of the steamer Wash
ington yesterday. to enable the crew
| more easily to raise and lower the
boats.
| An immense bonfire was made last
night on the University grounds of the
| fir brush, odd pieces of board and rub
bish left after the railroad celebration
last week.
w. II. Hull, who was arrested and ex-
amin. d before Justice Cam on a charge
| of keeping house of i'll fame. has been
held in the sum of SEQ for his appear
ance before the Grand Jury.
The Mai saws that q Coupeville ma
chine last week threshsd 1000 bushels of
grain in ten hours, of which S01 bushels
were threshed IN two hours and forty
minutes. Good work, that. Who can
beat il +!
The first lot of stone for the new opera
house came in ON the Idaho from Bel
/ ts,< re- R1r 1outap1axT and
during the day was hauled ~ to the
lots upon which this elegant structure
will be built.
Gustave Hartnagel, son of the late
Mr.. Hartnaeel of the Driard House, of
Victoria, passed through the city Friday
evening on his way to Victoria, where
he will probably assume the business of
his father.
Invitations are out to the marriage of
Mr.. Frank Kimball and Miss Geneveive
HYDE, at Trinity Church, on Thursday
evening, September 9th, and to SUBJ
sequent reception at the residence of
| the young lady's parents, on the corner
of Third and Marion streets.
| It has 80 far looked as though the
passenger and freight traffic over the
Northern Pacific was a new and addi
| tioual trade, for il has by no means di-
minished the travel and trade of our
people with and through California.
| Steamers continue to come and go as
heavily loaded as before.
Mrs. I. N. Bigelow and daughter were
out driving last evening, when their
horse took fright and ran away. He
ran down Front street, colliding with the
sidewalk at Captain Britain's, where the
| top of the buggy was broken of and the
occupants thrown out, Mrs. Bigelow be-
ing painfully hurt.
The new postal note may not be
pretty, and may net be good for as
much as a money order or U. 3. bond,
but they are pretty enough for the pay
ment Of newspaper subscriptions and,
so rendered, will readily pass at their
full value in the Office Of the Posi- INTEL
LIaENCER.
ID. w. Higgins, editor of the Coionist.
came over from Victoria !. yesterday.
His object in coming was to meet his
wife and daughter, who. retaining from
| a protracted visit TO the Eastern Prov
| inces and States, arrived here last night.
They are at the Arlington, but will leave
! for their home in Victoria On the outgo-
| ing boat.
Messrs. Allen d Brasep, shipwrights,
have got their ship yard in the north
end of town ready for use. and are pre-
pared to haul out and repair anything
| In the war of vessel from the North
| Pacific down. Such an enterprise a.
this was much needed here, and the
owners of Puget Sound craft will re-
joice at their Inauguration of it.
At high tide yesterday the tug j. B.
Libby towed the bark Forest Queen off
the sand point on which she drifted sew
| eral days ago. The vessel was unin-
jured. She had her deck load removed
and made into raft, which was dashed
along side of her and towed back to Ia
coma. where II will he re- loaded and the
ship will again set sail for sea.
Friday evening the trains on the Co
lumbia and Puget Sound Railroad were
delayed for several hours by the falling
OF An immense tree. seven feet in diam
eter, directly across the track. about six
miles south Of this city. Fortunately
there were a couple of experienced
woodsmen on the train. who assisted
in clearing the track of its immense in
cubus.
Steamer Dispatch came in yesterday
from San Juan Island. bringing 200 bar
rels lime to Carkeek, 200 barrels to
Schwabacher Bros. Il Co., and 30 barrels
for Il. Frost, Of Olympia. Later in the
day she took on board 1000 barrels from
the factory for the San Juan Lime Kiln.
TO which place she will 90 today. from
there running over To Poit Townsend
with 100 barrels lime for Waterman q
katz.
The kindergarten School ia In -four
ishing condition. The attendance has
gained of late. and promises to GA q
more from this on. The little ones are
delighted with il, and, once get them
going 10 II, they can hardly be kept
from IL. They learn astonishingly, too
while visitors to the school are highly
entertained by their exercises. Mrs
Blaine can hardly he improved upon AZ
the head Of school Of the kindergas teu
character.
A friend Just in from White river in
forms us that the new hops are Welding
much better than WAS expected month
AGO. The rain helped them amazingly,
and the crop from being a poor one as
was tho1ght probable, will really turn
ont fair average. The old vines are
also doing better than they promised
before picking began. Several growers
have got from the same acreage good
average yields, though the yield on ole
vines il generally just little short, ow
ing 10 the long drought, dense smoke
aud continued fog.
PaorosKp NKw Ccux-rrs.-The pa.
pers and people Of Whatcom. Yakims
and Spokane counties are all wranglinG
over the question OF division and the
formation VI new counties. In What.
com the feeling in favor Of division ID
general, the troublc being over the line
10 be determined between the tw CON.
ties. In Yakima the kissitas valley
people are united in favor of a new
county, while these elsewhere are only
slightly opposed. In Spokane there il
q general difference of opinion and a
grand squabble. There are Cd many
towns there each ambitious for the
honors OF the county seat, each for it
salt and against every other place. thai
IL seems impossible 10 settle the diseen-
slon short Of county for each town.
There 10 also some talk of division of
whitman county. These counties are