Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-07


The steamship Dakota sails at one
O'Clock to-day.
A meeting of Lawson ConsistoFy viii
| be held this evening.
Hon. T. II. Brents and family are re-
javenatine At Medical lake
The steamship Walla walla, coal
laden, went to sea yesterday evening.
Spokane Falls is to hzveja new Bap-
tist minister in the person Of Rev. j. Z.
Baker.
Mcdonald Il Reitze's nsv nav mill, in
South Seattle, viii start up for the first
time today.
The members of Seattle Comet Band
report having bad jolly time On their
excursion to Port Gamble.
The Nellie brought IN smother big lot
of salmon yesterday, which found quick
favor among the fishermen.
"Brick" In the short, hard name given
ons of the little propslleFs reosntiy built
here. and nov plying upon the bay.
The first news reaches "a from the
Lille Vsnp camps1- They were at Port
Gamble taking in supply OF vster and
the town
The Union labon andsr tbs mistaken
notion that Wsila Walla can and will,
one of thsss days, supply Puget Sound
with potatoes.
The steamer Whitelaw with her
vrecking crew Are getting chains under
the hulk Of the Mississippi, preparatory
to raising her.
The steamship Idaho left Port Town
send early Sunday morning, having on
board full freight and . good list Of
passengers fer Alaska.
L. Samusls, publisher of the West
Shore, accompanied by his wife came
over from Portland yesterday and will
spend few days IN Seattle.
The four large sail vessels at anchor
in Smiths Cove gave the water front OF
the north end business-like, handsome
appearance last Sunday afternoon.
The w. Z. Mervin was sent to the re-
lief Of the steamer Warrington, last
Snohomish in place Of the Merwin.
The showers Of last week, contrary to
the common hope, did not extinguish
the forest fires, and the smoke arising
therefrom il almost "a dense nov IS 1t
was before.
Mr.. Il. w. Parker has in employ three
men. They are manufacturing furni-
ture and this pushing aspect speaks very
we'll for Third and Union streets -
business center.
Coming up, the San Francisco steam
ers leave this month on the 9th, 10th,
18th, 10Th, 9th, and 90th, and going
down leave here on the I'd. It'll, Eth,
18th, 22d, and 9th.
The new NJ. P. Church will be dsdi-
GATED Sunday, August 18th, the service
being conducted by Bishop Cassels Of
Oregon. Mr.. G. II. johnson will have
charge of the music.
Water pipe laying by the Spring Hill
Water Company 10 progressing with in.
prscsdented rapidity. Commercial
street has besn laid with ten-inoh pipe,
and the work Is well under way up Front
street.
A correspondent Of the Sprague Her
aid, writing from Stevens. says that Mr..
]. s. Crosier has been offered SIS 900 for
his ranch, one mile from that place, on
which coal mine il alleged to have
been discovered.
The steamer WILMINGTON came in
Sunday morning from San Francisco,
and, after landing passengers and dis
charging freight here, left again in the
afternoon for Nanaimo, there to get
return cargo of coal.
BY the late census showing, Just COM
pleted by VIM. Hardness, Walla Walla
ooonty has population Of 1900. The
last census report gave population of
5000, which shows gain Of at least
1000 in little oyer two years.
The spreading Of gravel upon lower
Mill street has nov ended, the material
being exhausted. The street now has a
most excellent winter topping, which it
seems too bad to cover with sswdust,
chips, hay, aud home sweepings.
II. w. Fairwsather. late Superintend-
ent of the Pend d'Oreille division of the
N. r. Il. B., has accepted the position of
. Deputy Collector of the Internal Rev
enus. The Office will be removed from
Dayton TO SpragHe, Washington Terri
tory.
The James street grade gets on allow
ly. Only small number Of men can
work, and they are now engaged on q
full Ont Of 20 feet, in which il 10 all but
impossible tn observe THAR daily prog
ress, and not easy to mark the work of
Q whole week.
The hotel building Of w. N. Bell, on
Front street, 10 now we'll under way, the
men being at work ON the third floor.
Il will b Q dne looking, oapacious
house, will b credit to irs builder, and
will assist materially in building up the
north end of town.
Officer Manning dropped into this
Office about l O'Clock this morning and
showed the reporter the knife used In
the cutting ARRAY last night. II 10
dangerous and uRly-lookinQ weapon,
and was covered with the blood from
the wounded man.
The present protracted dry summer
season has been Just the thing for
peaches, which have grown a. large and
ripened % beautifully as the finest fruit
in the famous state Of California. We
have seen some splendid specimens Of
home grown peaches this year.
The STANDARD says that the PROPOSE
ton for setting ont shrubtery ON the
Arbors, and otherwise beautifying the
grounds, receives considerable fAsor,
and In few days the people will he
aaked to vote on the subject by placing
their names TO subscription paper.
Wells. Fargo 4 Co. are now employ
ing mail agents between Portland and
Tacoma, and all mail SAINT through their
ofiios 70 points ON the Sound 10 also in
charge Of Q special mail agent. This
has been oOmpelled BY the great increase
Of business, and Is one more among the
thousand straws which indicate the
Pnuid OroWkh NJ hnainnna Nara
Ezra Nssker, the Puysllup hop grow.
es, used TO be printer, and his brother
John V. 4eeker, onos published and
edited Q paper in Iowa. which Was print
ed on the press 0noe thrown into the
Mississippi BY the mob that DESTROYED
Owen Lovejoys printing once q Gain