Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-03-13
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Hav briuc, Gao = ton At Lrconn

Hay brings go a ton at Lrconner.
Our thanks are due to Parser McComb
of the Empire for tue Usual fAvors.
The store of j. NJ. Lyon was moved
Yesterday from lover Mill street 10
Front. in the GAsch building.
At Olympia Capt. Percivai ia having
his property on the west side surveyed
into town lots. and will soon put them
upon the market.
Geo. Fl. Foster. of Olympia, the
Tro.scrsps says, has ssut six Large rafrs
70 lover Sound saSmiliS, the LOGS in
each and all OF which avUeage4 over
1900 fee: apiece.
The Poet reports that the little steam
Or Sardonyx IL sbois TO be replaces on
tho roats between San Francisco and
Victoria She has been rsdtsed since
shs went below last fall.
rhs telegraph wires vent down last
night jos. after operator Power got
fairly started IN our report, AMI as =
necessary consequences we are short
this moruiuK in thsf department 10 es-
serstisl % a daily newspaper.
Another addition Is being made to
Whatcom or n new toxnsite Plated.
whichever il may be. The two hundred
people nov at and near Whstcom have
town laid out stretching along the bay
fully three miles, and back an average
width OF half - mile.
Some twenty more slabs Of granite
were broaght TO town for use IN the
new Yesler-Leiry building. They will
be the first granite used in building
here, sandstone having been q ed III
preference heretofore. and as an inno-
vation they will be attractive.
We nnderstand that weekly news
paper il contemplated at wha,com by
twO young gentleman long OF the POST
laTELLroESCER mechanical force. They
are competent, worthy yonag men, and
If they make the effort We trus: 1t will
be crowned with entire success.
From PORT Townsend We learn that a
man named Patrick K,ne was drown d
At tho head Of the bay last Sunday. His
body was recovered and buried on
Monday. Being Mason, a Workman
aud Rsdmsn his funeral was under
the united auspices of these orders.
One-eiahth Of the brig North Star was
sold to J. II. Morehoas of San Fran
CISCO. last meek for 5000. J. NJ. Grif.
fith, about this sumo time. purchased
,ne-eighth OF the bark Amethyst on
private terms. No two vessels on the
coast arc more generally familiar to its
ports than these two craft.
Among the recent lumber charters at
the Bay CITY are Theses: British bark
,yai For. 593 tons, lnmbsr, from Pu-
get Sound for Sydney. private; brig
North Star. 3SJ tons. lumber, from Port
| iSl kelly for Gusymss, private; schooner
Parallel, l42 tons. lumber, from Gu tiala
to Honolulu; British ship Straun, lum-
Der from Puget Sound to Australia.
The Pacific Coast is to be honore1
with an unusual number of distin-
are promised Henry Ward Beecher.
Miss Frances Willard, Senlt r. Sner-
man and E1munds, ex Senator David
Davis, W. II. Vanderbilt, Henry Willard.
Cnas. Dana, Simon Cameron, Gen. W.
+. Sherman, and many others little lss5
prominent than they.
The recent importation and use of
such Immense Quantities OF earthan
sewer pipe is one OF the best signs We
have yes had of the transition from the
village e. the city. A sail vessel landed
here au immeas, "a unity of this pine
of u foDt IN ditneter last week, and IL
will SOU find its way unaer ground and
into tas use for watch Its makers in-
tendeI 1t.
The determination of the city to
build the new engine house of brick in
stead Of lumber, will irset the approba-
tiou of ii iZsns generally. We have
more than enough board houses down
town owned by private individuals,
without the CITY adding another to the
nupl,er. Besides. the cts should lead
rather than follow In n mstter Ut this
kind. and II brick buildings ara better
than wooden ones, II should build of
brick in preferences.
In certain growing western city
every man who lays out An addition IL
required 10 ied G .te one fifth uf its en-
tire area to parks. This is An exeellent
rule, and it would he we'll il it were in
to diminish wildcat speculation in
town lots" niles out In the COUNTRY,
and makes a system of parks scattered
here aud there over the growing city of
which its residents with reason arr
proud.
E. kim, Of Falls City, is running a
water-p,wer sawmill that cnts 5000 feet
If lumber n dsy. The Development Of
the neiehboring country is bel ping him
materially aud makes demand for all
the lumber hs ON turn out; the Seattle
Hop Growers Association alone taking
from him enough ia,nber to keep his
mill going louy time. Mr.. kim has
broom handle machinery also, which he
will use another year. For the making
Of broom handles n years seasoning Is
necessary. Cottonwood is the timber
used in their manufacture.
The Messenger and Emma Hayward
had little spurt together yesterday at
ternoon. The Hayward chased the