Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-16

The Woodbury. brothers, from Spo-
kane Falls, have gone into Chehaiis
valley TO live.
The ladies' soliciting for the neg
Episcopal hospital have about $suVo
promised thsia-
Engine No. ! will b taken down 70
the Columbia sfrse. incline this evening
and given Little exercise.
E. Meyer 10 among the Seattle ner-
chants nov In San Francisco purcnas-
ing goods for the summer and fall trade.
Vim. II. Tirslott, formerly OF sno-
homiss City, was admitted {, practise
IN the courts 1t ban Francisco Las;
week.
Garfield county, W. T.. Contains 6ss,-
100 acres Of land, and Of this number
cipsiIy in grain.
Vice President Oakes, of the North
ern Pacific Company. Is Coming by way
Of San Francisco instead Of Spokane, as
previously supposed.
Capt. Reed. Of the Spartan, now In
our Earbor, has coDpiesed a trip 10 TIE
East, and Is nov n. San francisco await
irg the return Of his ship.
A street car driver pot q lady passen-
ger of car at Sacramento last week be-
causs she refused to take change for q
50-ceni piece Ia tickets.
The new steamship Mariposs, built at
| Phiisdelphis for the Houolulu-San
Francisco trade, made l5Ii knots an
hour On her trial trip
Astoria ia next 10 be- illustrated IL the
| West Shore. Seattle invested $40 last
year ia the New York Eraps,c and
1900 In the IFest Shore, and the town
Is now get ing the money back hun
dred times over.
The steamship Geo. w. Elcer will
leave bete for Tacoma this morning ct
| 8 O'Clock, and will rstarn Thursday.
TO 10 loaded with barrel material, and
| III sail for San Francisco at o clocs
| Ffiday afternoon.
Jack Mallory, fall-bloodci Piute
| Indian. has filed homestead claim at
| Bodie To an eighty-acre ranch III Round
| valley. Mono county. Jack has o wife
Iud -four children, and has cultivated
his land for seven years.
The cost Of the Virginia, Nevada
| fre' department. during the year euded
| April Goth last, WAS 81, 6Z2i7. There
were forty-two alarms and ten iiros
during tho year, and the losses aggre-
gated $3.50; $I2,o3o.5O was covered
DY insurance.
The Gonna ls sioner IL smoothing over
Front street. Instead of using ali parts
| Of The ktreet, horsefnen, slnguiarly
enough, ell drive III thu same paths,
futs and fnudnoles, ard u Strengthening
oat of tue worn places becomes au all
nual necessity.
The mother of Henry Cownoyer, an
Aurora, Nevada, boy, h;d shotgun to
prevent her boys going hunting. The
Joy found the gun ooners,Iod la closet
and Ia drawing 1t Out by this muzzle the
weapon was discharged and seriously
wounded bin.
| Last week 800 lots in Miss0uia, Mon
tana, were transferred 10 the Northern
Pacific Railroad, the consideration be-
| ing that she company would build pass
epger and freight uepots IN Missouia,
and to not build town near enough ~
Missoala to damage II.
| A new double ended steamer il buiid.
ing at San Francisco for the Donahue
roats. Sho will be- 240 feet long, "a feel
beam, mouldsd, and 10 feet depth oil
hold. Sine will have powerful engines,
constructed ON the latest Improved plan
aud will be very fast craft.
NJ. A. Baker, of Dayton, w. r., in
drawing q pitcher Of water from his
we'll last week caught slxinch trout.
He says no fish were ever placed III TIE
well, and accounts for its presence by
the theory that II got there by means oi
an underground passage from the
Touchet river.
The san Diego Union says: Nv. G.
0reenlsaf, of Jamul, is u much CON
VI atuiated man. On Tuesday a sou
was born to nina fino l2pound boy
his COW had twin calves; "a SOW Uttered
eight pigs; u turkey Matched fifteen
eggs, and hen brought ten chicks of
the nest"
One Of the largest institutions in
Eastern Washington is A. M. Cannon's
saw mill at Spokane Falls. 1t has a
capacity Of 10, 00O feet per day of l1in-
ber, and can also manufacture 1900
lath and 600 plckets. During 1852 il
consumed 5000, OO0 feet OF logs, and 70,
the present season 100000 feet have
been provided.
A Norwegian family living in the
northern part of town lost two children
by measles last Monday night, and both
were buried yesterday. They came
here few weeks since from the East
bringing the disease with them, and
they have not been able to get rid Of it
The family have five children left, all
sick with the same malady. They need
sympathy aud help.
They are laying out an addition "a
the small town Of Montesano, in Che
halls county, but nro doing IL on q
broad scale, the streets running one
way having q width Of SO feet, and thoss
running the other way width of l0(
feet, the blocks all being 2i0xs00 feet
It's a real pity tina. tovn site owners
hereaboat were not all possessed Of the
Same broad and generous ideas as those
Of Mon;esano.
The Carson New appeal ssys there
Is n saloon keeper in that city who hai
two exponsively ornamented liquor
bottles which he passes over the com
ter 10 his customers. Upon one Is past.
ed q certificate Of 500 shares OF Orc
mining stock. and on the other 500
share certificate Of Albion mining stock
the aggregate cost % him Of the tive
certificates being over $500.
| Dynamite Is abou. to be shrown into
tho shade. An ingenious citizen o.
Paris. thu appropriate home OF such
discoveries, haa produced new co n.
pound which ho calls panclas.ito. Pan,
elastic consists Ut hypoazotic acid
which IL ono OF the numerous cosu.
pounds OF oxygen and axo,e. or nitro
gen, mixed either with essencs Of petro
lean or s,lphuret Of carbon. The de
gree Ut explosive force is said TO depend
upon which of the last named ingred;,
ents Is used.
Marie vicuerard, a resident Of Stock
ton. aged II year,. about Two yeara ago
decided some $i6W worth OF real and
personal property 10 a married d.ueh,
ter in con sidcration that she woald ears
for and support her thu rest of her life
4 few months subsequently, tbs old
lady wns stricken with paralysis and the
loving daughter aud her husband senl
her to the county hospital. whore she re-
fnained for over a year. Adsughter re
siding at Las Angeles then had be,
mother removed 10 her home in thai
city, and the old lady Is now fakinl
sscps to recover possession OF her pro