Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-07

January amounted to {i37 This vas
sufficiently moderate for town OF that
sir, out we'll warrant they didA't have
half rs many lights on the strests as
this city has.
The funeral OF the late George Thor
man, killed At Renton On Monday, Will
be a. Ssorey's undertaking roons, Front
street, at ii today.
The missing page (2) of the Houghton
school report has come to hand. and the
entire report now finds space IN our col
umra.
The discomfort caused by lack OF
water here is intense, and cannot Be
mitigated q day too soon for the plea
sure and health of the community.
The Vancouver Register said last week
that the backbone of winter was broken.
The editor has probably changed his
mind since, and perhaps thinks now
that the whole body of winter never was
50 live and vigorous as at present.
The water broke loose in few places
Yesterday, to the intense satisfaction OF
those whose necessities we're thus re-
Iieved. Some other people. to the num-
Der of several hundred, will be looking
eagerly for the same species OF relief To-
day.
Miss May Thornton went to Portland
on Monday, to be absent a month or
more. visiting relatives and friends In
that city.
Bark J. n. Griffith, lumber laden,
sailed from Seabeck for San Francisco
on the 5th.
Steamer Gem. Capt. VIM. Williamson,
came around from Union City yester-
day, and will return today. She reports
good deal of ice in Hoods Canal.
In these days of cold weather it is
common to hear old settlers recall the
weather of long time ago-ffteen, TWEEN
ty and thirty years since. One such
told US yesterday that he saw Hoods
Canal frozen SO hard twenty-one years
ago that oxen, with loaded sleighs, we're
driven over it, from Seabeck to camps
in the vicinity. The same winter the
Willamette River, at Portland, was
ON the ice daily, and the place was shut
in as effectually as st. Petersburg Is at
present.
The Emma Hayward was again sew
eral hours behind time in arrival FROM
the upper Sound yesterday. II the
Messenger or Zephyr should lay back at
Tacoma for the train the Hayward
weuld be little more smart and regular
in her arrival here.
A telegram to Pumphry & LOwman,
ticket agents for the q. II. d N. Co., in
forms them that the Columbia River ia
closed below the mouth of the William
cite, and that the boats today will
neither come down no. go up. The
boats of yesterday made it, but they
were the last until the thaw comes.
We have received from the Enterprise
Office copy of the new map got up by
A. Bowman, G. E.. and printed and cir
culated IA a premium to that paper. 1t
il in some respects an excellent map,
and gives expression to Q vast amount
of information concerning tho railroad
country, in which we are all interested.
1t shows the entire routes of the Cana
dian Pacific and Northern Pacific roads
ton of British Columbia, to a point be-
yond Burrard Inlet and NanaimO, and
It also has several side maps, of Victoria
and Esquimalt harbors, Anacortes
the North Pole, etc. All roads are made
W toHu lOWdfuS AItCOItco, WulCll, M
terminal point, is represented as beating
Portland, Tacoma and Seattle all hol-
low. 1t is pretty good map for the
| money, though.
The J. Y. Creighton whose death in
Los Angeles is reported in our tele-
graphic news. is tho man who about a
year ago married Miss Parthsnia keach
In this city, and who afterwards went
from here to Oregon. He came here
from British Columbia, where he was in
the employment of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad. He was a pleasant gentle.
man, without great force of character,
and his untimeiy death will be heard
here with regret.
No mail came from Portland yester-
day, the river being closed by ice and
the boats unable to run.
The Chinese celebrated their New
Year yesterday by beating gongs. firing
crackers and making other hideOus
noises. Some of them were arrested for
violation of the ordinance prohibiting
the burning of fire crackers without
permission from the Council.