Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-14

The Supreme Court Is in session at
Olympia.
The steamer Yosemite started from
San Francisco for Victoria on Thursday,
the I2th inst.
Schooner Teaser with full load of
merchandise. will leave for Neah Bay
and Quiieute today.
The bark Henry Buck has been char
tered to load barrel material at the Bar
rel Factory for San Francisco.
The wires owing to fires are still work
ing badly, and our telegraph news SUM-
mary is diminished IN consequences.
The directors OF the Seattle Driving
Park Association held meeting last
night, bat no business of importance
was transacted.
Oregon yesterday, to attend to the right
of way matter for the railroad through
the Duwamish Valley farm.
Five eonvicts have recently escaped
from the Territorial penitentiary at Sc
atco, none of them, hswsyer, having
been sent mp from Seattle.
The steamship Willamette sailed for
San Francisco Thursday evening with
25e5 tons of Seattle coal. The NalIa
Walla and ship City of Brooklyn are
| now under the shutes loading.
The gas company should not presume
| upon the light of the moon these smoky
| nights 10 turn OF the gas on the uptown
| streets, for the moon gives no light that
can be seen, and the nights are as dark
az in midvinter.
The Portland Standard suggests TO
the people of Astoria to send their
"touRhs'' to Seattle or to Missoula. We
are not selfish in this matter, ueighbor,
| and are resigned to Missoula receiving
the benefit of the whole immigration.
| Two granite slabs, consigned to ..
Rauke, but intended for the new Stone
building, came from San Francisco on a
recent steamer. One slab Ia for the
main entrance to the store, and the
other is for the front doorway leading
to the staircase to the upper story.
Mrs Clara d. Packard met with graft
flying success yesterday in her efforts to
interest the people in the ground plan
and pictorial map of Seattle. 1t Is a
| needed work, one of value, and one that
commends itself in moments ex-
PLANTATION. The tunes are ripe for Just
1
Douglass & Poole have opened boat
house on Lake Union. They have six
boats of sizes varying from IA to Is
feet length, adapted to propulsion by
both sail and oars. which they will let
at low rates to the custom of the town.
No boating Is safer or prettier than that
on Lake Union.
i A cable to 4. Meeker d Co., July 5,
reports English hop crop looking we'll
and market declining. New York tele-
grams of July 6 report crop prospects
not 50 good as last year at that date and
market tirmer. In the Puyallup valley
the dry weather will doubtless shorten
the crop to some extent.
A lady, an entire stranger at that
stepped into the postOffice the other day
and told the delivery clelk in tones I'M.
mistakably in earnest that she wanted
no more of her letters opened in the
office, and that hereafter they mus,
come to her unopened or there would be
trouble. What it was all about the
alarmed and bewildered clerk had nc
idea.
John Andrew, alias Bowsen, recently
sent to Seatco for robbing the till in tho
Auditors Office has been promoted Il
.. first assistant to the cook at that estab
lishment. He wrote to Sheriff MoGrav
yesterday that he liked the job, bu
would Lire to have Second Reader, az
he had concluded to make an educated
man out of himself.
Gen. ]. w. Sprague, Capt. j. G. Aims
worth and Geo. j. Ainsworth returned
from Victoria yesterday, where they
had bean IN formally oruapiza fbl
KootenaD Railroad Company, in con
junction with E. w. Blasdell and othe
capitalists of the Province. The stool
was fixed at $4,000 600, of which $1,000,
600 was subscribed on the spot. Th,
company has grant of 10000 acres o
land IN aid OF their enterprise, and the,
already have at work upon it consider
able force of men. The koOtenay Rail
way will be of much benefit to British
Columbia, and not a little to Washing
ton Territory.