Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-17

Any one wishing TO rent nice room
in the Post Baildlng can learn Of one BY
applying to John Leary.
Pete Wilson, q half breed. was arrest
cd YESTERDAY charged with robbery. his
trial vas continued
Isaac Ellis il running tvo logging
camps near Olympia, using four railroad
cars and working sixty rnsu-
M. PsarImsn, aoc.ionssr. sold yes
terday the old Sixth street schoolho1se
20 J. d. Lovman, for SI3z, and tbs Old
Central school building to Mr.. Stacy for
1915.
DR.. r. r. Minor has leased the resi-
dense property belonging 70 Capt D. d,
Marshall, on Fourth street, and Will
there make his home until be builds on
his lots On Broadway street.
Between those excsvstin2, p7nping
and laying stone, sixteen men were az
work Yesterday On the Foundation OF the
new Schvabacher building. Push ID the
controlling word on that building.
The steamer Ruby, which has been
here for several days getting ready for
her new owners, left Yesterday for VIC
toris. Report has II she - 70 go INTO
service On the Yukon river, in Alaska.
The sale Of the steamer Mississippi
attracts more and more attention as the
time draws near when the hulk will be
auc,loned of. It will take big money
10 buy, raise and fit up this burned
craft.
Apples. pears, cherries and plans Will
be scarce this year. The early warm
weather, followed by a cold spell, ruined
the largest part of them. Berries, how
ever, both wild and tame, will be IN
abundance.-Tyanseript.
An Italian assaulted J. r. T. Mitchell
on Mill street yesterday, for which ne
was arrested and fined IS and costs
fhs difference arose over a settlement
and the Italian took the law into biz
own hands and had 20 pay for 1t.
We are requested by Capt. Roeder, Of
Whatcom, 10 say that the Peabody land
trouble near his place affects only the
Peabody homestead claim back OF town,
and in no wise concerns the Roedes
and Peabody donation claims on the
front.
Reretle is the name selected for the new
Whatcom paper by its publishers. Jen-
kias & SickiIn. The first issue is before
as. Ii il paper the size of or DAILY,
is handsome geographically, edited
carefully, and is well worthy the gsHer-
ous support Of the people among whom
its lot will be cast.
The Townsend Iron Works are now
faiiy ready for business and announce
elsewhere that they can do anything In
their line that can be done in any othei
like establishment in this reg on. Port
Townsend has long needed such an in
dnstry. The people there should en-
courage them by the bestowal Of all
patronage within their control.
Capt. A. j. Belmont, formerly of Port
Madison and Seattle. and master of the
steamer Ruby for number Of years, IL
spending few days among old friends
here, after an absence of five years.
During that time he has been in Europe
bat has principally been on the Column
bia. at Astoria and Portland. He is
now first officer of the D. X. d n. Co.'S
steamer y. q. Reed.
II will be of interest to the many
friends OF Mrs. J. 4. Ellis TO know that
she arrived with her two children in
Chicago the 9Th inst, six and a hall
days from San Francisco and eleven
days from Seattle. They all stood the
trip we'll and were feeling finely. She
spent the Ssh and 9th with her brother
in Chicago. and ON the evening of the
9th took traIa for Oberlin, Ohio. heI
mothers home.
Mount Rainier, viewed from the On
trance Of the bay, yesterday doomed uI
grandly. The atmosphere was excep
tionalIy clear. and the snowy sides oil
the grand old mountain glistened like
silver in the bright sunlight. Mount
Rainier Is undoubtedly an extinct vol
cano and still emits vapor from its
crater. Yesterday, at intervals jets OF
white steam like that from an exhaust
pipe would shoot up quite above the
summit Of the mountain and float in
heecy clouds away 10 the eastward.