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

season.
New houses are looming up in al
parts of town.
Plans for the new schoolhouse are
about completed.
There 10 no prospect Of an overflow
of the Skagit river this year.
Capt. Samuel Jackson ia now master
of the fine steamer Washington
A bath house has been started on the
beach at the foot Of University street.
The first trick for the new Schva-
hacher building we're delivered yester-
day. Their laying viii begin tomor-
row.
The drought il said by the Naa TO be
seriously affecting the hay and grain
crops of the lower Sound, which viii be
materially reduced in consequence
Fires in the timber of Snshomish
county are said TO be doing great deal
OF injury, filing the air with a dense
smoke, and alarming the people very
much
Major Jack Stratman's news stand on
Mil stree. Ia Just such business enter
prise as has long been wanted here, and
II ID to be hoped he will make II pay
sbandanfly.
Owing to the scant supply Of water
the mills of the Commercial and Lum-
bering Company has been compelled to
suspend work; also the Stetson d Post
mill and factory.
The addition making to the New
England Hotel would in any other place
than this be considered very fair
sized hotel itself. II viii add accom-
modations for forty more persons.
James Burston, an old pioneer who
came TO this country In ls4l, died at his
home IN Oregon on the 9Th. he was -
years of age, and was O member of the
Puget Sound Agricultural Society.
Mining contractors will find some
thing of interest to them by reference
TO the advertisement Of James F. Jones,
Engineer and Superintendent of the
Oregon Improvement Company's mines.
In consequence of the fires destroying
tie wires, our late tslegraphic news re-
port is abridged this morning. The
abundance of original matter in the
paper will, however, make the absence
of Geographic news little felt.
The steamer City of Quincy came in
on one leg yesterday, having met with
slight accident to her machinery on the
up trip, which, however, was discovered
Nv the engineer before serious harm to
the engines resulted therefrom.
The tug Goliah came into this port
Yesterday, on her way up to Skookum
Bay, for raft. Capt. Libby states that
in the straits on Friday, he spoke the
ship Two Brothers, and also saw several
other vessels bound in. He also says
the smoke in the lower Sound is much
more dense than around here.
One hundred acres in the immediate
vicinity of town will be thoroughly
cleared this year, and one hundred
acres in odd and scattering tracts be-
yond. As usually peoPled, these 200
acres will furnish abundant room for
400 families composed of two thousand
persons.
II. A. Judson has laid ont new town
on Nooksack river. Three towns
Lynden, Ferndale, and Nooksack-were
there before. The Nooksack, in the
matter of towns, is about on level
now with the Puyallup and the Skagit,
and the three are in this matter far
ahead Of other rivers emptying into the
Sound.
Mrs. C. A. Blaine has opened her kin
dergarten school in the north school
house. win far prospects of success.
Her little pupils range from to 6 years
of age, tbs period N life when they
shosld be lifted for entry into other
schools. The parents of small children
should visit Mrs. Blaine's school. and
see for themselves the manner with
which il is conducted.
Several ladies went up the Sound
yesterday ON the Messenger, to be gone
each protracted time. Mrs. Chas.
Hopkins went to Olympia to stay three
weeks; Mrs. l.. Reinig and three chill
dren are going to Chehalis Valley to be
gone month; and Mrs. Thos. w.
Prosch and two children, to stay
month in Tacoma.
Messrs. Donovan & Meaney are Just
completing plans for $1,000 residence
to be erected by John Keenan, this sea-
son, in the southern part Of town. L.
A. Turner will at once commence the
construction of fine residence for
himself in the same locality, and several
other similar structures are contem-
plated in that immediate locality, but
the writer Is not at liberty to mention
them further at this time.
A painful accident happened TO Mrs.
BENZ. Vincent, yesterday. While draw
ing the baby in a carriage across the
porch fronting her dwelling, she mad
vertantly stepped off backwards and fell
a distance of about FIVE feet, sustaining
very severe injuries. 1t is thought that
n rib was broken. The carriage like
wise fell and was broken 10 sieces, but
strange 10 relate, the baby escaped in
jury.--Oiympia Standard.
goes right along rs fast as strong force
of stone-cutters and masons can make
il. The steamer Gypsy arrived yester-
day, bringing another lot of two hum
dred tons stone from Bellingham Bay
for this building. In all LOO tons will
be required in the construction OF the
basement. Five piers to be built will
alone require LEO tons. The rear has
been carried back to the south line of
the old building, which will thereby be
extended twenty feet further west.
When the two buildings are joined and
made one, they viii be in the shape of
capital l.. the longer arm reaching from
Commercial street 10 feet. and the
shorter arm 80 feet from Mill street,
three floors and a 12-foot basement
an immense establishment, truly, the
like of which is to be found in few Oh
ties of less than 10000 people. The
including its four floors, will be over
1000 feet.