Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-21

Merchants will take notice OF the com
ing Of the schooner W. L. Beebe.
Tho steamer Gazsi,e 10 pov lying At
". d. Scott d Co.'S wharf, undergoing
some needed repaiA
Dr.. C. L. Miller Il building for his
own occupancy Q small two story house
on Cherry street, near Front.
The finishing work is nov being pot
upon the new Schvabacber building,
which will be ready for occupancy q
month heuce.
Some of oar merchants are quite pa.
out Who shipped freight BY the Walla
Walls, expecting her TO come direct -
Seattle, e advertised, instead of which
she went mp to Portland
Our Tacoma contemporary, the
Ledger, needs new mall clerk. We
sometimes get three papers in single
day, frequently none, and sometimes
only three or four week.
Captain Morse of the Dakota will
take command of Claus Spreckles' new
Francisco. Il il rumored that the Da-
kota will be Withdrawn from the route,
and the Oregon pat on in her stead.
The steamship Dakota got in from
San Francisco early yesterday morning.
stayed all day discharginR, and In the
evening went on to Tacoma, there TO
complete her unloading prior 70 return
ing here and sailing for San Francisco.
II. l.. Yesler ia building another ware
house on the south side Of his wharf,
near the west end. of Is by 10 feet d.
mansions He will very soon have 70
stop boildihg warehouses for lack Of
room, or else will have to extend his
wharf.
BY a new arrangement made. the
local postoffice IL closed nov nights
about q o'clock, sr as soon after the dis
tribntlon Of the Emma Hayward's mail
as possible. The later corners, those
who put off until ii or II O'Clock going
for their mail, nov find themselves
locked out.
Rev. Chas. j. Breaton, late of Emer-
son, Manitoba, but recently assigned to
duty at New Westminster under the
Bishop of British Columbia, is at pres
ent in this city, en ronte TO his new
field Of labor, accompanied by his wife
and children, and will remain several
days. They are at the residence of g..
G. Phinny, the brother Of Mrs. Breuton.
The Bijoa Theater transparency took
fire last night as il was being carried
through the streets by small hoy. As
the yOupg follow had been hired to
march through tho streets With the sign
for certain length Of time, he did not
stop, but kept right on, with the oharred
frame held high in air, for half an hour
after the fire.
The ship City Of Brooklyn is disoharc-
ing rock ballast upon Yesier's wharf,
and IL Ia being used as filling there,
being dumCed upon the ballast of other
ships in holes where 1t had settled
down. A very few more lots Of ballast
are required TO make the middle of the
wharf sufficiently solid for the building
upon il of brick and stone houses.
Threc new heavy farm wagons stand
on Cherry street together. The only
thing remarkable about them is the diff
ference in the width of their tires, one
being two inches, one three and one
four. Otherwise the vehicles are alike.
The four inch tiDd wagon 10 undOubted-
" the best for our soft roads, cutting
them less and enabling the horses haul
ing them to draw bigger loads with the
same effort.
The Dakota brought from San Fran
CISCO this last trip passengers and tons
Of freight as follows: