Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-13

R8EvII1ES-
There is a bad break in the sidewalk
on Front street near Pike. 1t should
be attended to Immediately.
The taxable property of Marion coun-
ty. Oregon, for 1888 is 30, So, 14y, an In
crease of nearly g, 0O, 900 over last year.
Miss Ella Lawlor of East Portland,
who has been visiting Mrs. Albert II.
Kellogg. returned home yesterday
morning.
Moss's Minstrels tonight promise to
be favored with fine patronage. Seats
have been we'll taken, and the attends
ance will be great, no doabt.
Fire Engine No. |, which has been
lately fitted with a complete set OF new
valves, Was tested yesterday afternoon
and worked very satisfactorily.
At Cape Disappointment Capt. Al.
Harris has full life saving crew, and
will keep it until next April. There Is
no place on the coast where such sta
ton is more needed.
Capt. VIM. Selby has gone from the
command of the Aastick to place as
Master on the Blakely. Capt. Chris.
Williams has retaken the Mastick, and
Capt. E. A. Nichols is now Master of
the Holyoke.
Everybody is invited to call early this
morning at the New England Hotel to
see the new process of cooking BY steam,
which II. r. Martin will illustrate by
the use of John H. Linney's moist and
dry heat steam cooker.
Four-horse teams are required to haul
81 he nd 70 ha
which the Sisters new school will be
built, owing to the unfinished, soft con-
dition of the streets. They take up two
tons to the load, though.
Among advertised letters in the Vic
toria postoffice, detained for postage,
are one each for g. Kellogg and George
W. Harris. The envelopes we're proba-
bly, adorned with United States stamps
instead of stamps of the Dominion of
Canada.
The young people of North Seattle
are beginning to think about forming
another singing school. The evenings
are now long enough, and musical and
literary societies should be formed in
different parts Of the city. They will
do an immense amount of good.
When built few years ago, Wa
Chong's brick building was placed four
feet above the level of the street,on the
presumption that the grade would be
raised to about that hight. The recent
work puts the main floor of that build
ing below the street level, while the es-
tablished grade is four feet higher.
Our Little Ones for October is a charm
ing juvenile publication, truly. Its con-
tents are varied, pure and refreshing, its
illustrations attractive and beautiful. A
better and cheaper monthly for the tod
oilers cannot BIZ obtained in any land.
Published by the Russell Company. IS
Broomtield street, Boston, at $3.50 a
year.
Something is very wrong about our
post office. No postal cards. or 10, &c,
&c, or DC stamps are to be had. A few
Scent stamps and 2-cent newspaper
wrappers are still on hand, but it is to
be presumed that when these run out
the citizens of Seattle will be cut off
from all postal communication with the
outside world.
The saw mill at Knappton, w. r., on
the Columbia River, is said to have av-
eraged daily cut of 81, 600 feet of lum-
Der this season. Five years ago such q
cut as that would have entitled the mill
to q place in the front rank. Now there
are SO many mills cutting over 100000
feet day as to make the Knappton mill
seem like second or third rate con-
Germ.
Surber is putting a section of wharf
at the front of Washington street, 80 as
to make accessible the new wharf of the
railroad company, and without which
the latter could not be reached. Il is
pleasant to notice that the new wharf is
on higher level than the old wbarves,
doing away with the needless desoents at
the foot of streets Heretofore seen. No
little change is u greater improvement
than this.
Over in Victoria it is a constant fight
to prevent property owners enorOaching
on the streets, which they are cOntinu-
ally seizing upon, fencing in and build
ing over. Here different line of ac-
ton is pursued. and leading property
owners are giving slices off the front of
their lots to the streets. These slices
are in various places five, eight, ten and
as high as fourteen feet in width. So
far FROM losing by their generosity in
this matter, the diminished lots are in
variably regarded as of more value than
they were before cutting down.
We call the attention of the proprie-
tors of the livery stable across from the
Arlington Hotel, on Commercial street,
to the dangerous practice of driving
from the stable through the alley and
across the sidewalk at a rapid gait.
Many narrow escapes from being run
over are mentioned, and there is GEN
eral complaint. Evening before last
gentleman and his wife, while walking
by the entrance to the stable, were near
ly trampled upon by team which was
being driven rapidly out from the sta
BILE. 1t is impossible for a pedestrian to
see and avoid team which is coming
through the alley until it appears on the
sidewalk. No team should cross that
sidewalk faster than walk.