Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-20
HEEyITiEs.

The Nal thinks there will BIO no
overflow Of the Skagit this summer.
Tho Arion Club hold an important
meeting Monday evening ut 8 O'Clock.
Those in want of book keeper. col
le9.or, etc, are referred to an ad. in
this mornings paper.
The new Astoria National Bank will
begin operating within thirty days. It's
manager will be I. w. Case.
The first lot of stone having arrived,
work will begin this week upon the new
building of @. L. Some K Go.
Mr.. A. A. Plumner, a pioneer citizen Of
Port Townsend, died at that place at 3
o'clock yesterday morning. He leaves
q family. Mr.. Plumner was highly re-
spected.
The Government seems determined 10
enroll Gardner Kelly, druggist of this
city. in the postal service. flo was not
long sincc-to his snrprise-appolntod
postmaster at Vashon, and ia ROW as
sistant postmaster at Laconner.
Pike, Union and Pine streets, between
Third and Ninth, n little district long
the most dead in the city, has bustis d
u year honco to be tho most densely
populated residence quarter Of the city.
One OF our contemporaries ia out of
It'd reckoning In asserting that the pre-
sent years hop crop of ttlis county
will amount to 2.50O,0c0 pounds. II
will probably not exeesd one-fourth
that quantity.
The Laconaer HaH is after J. s.
Conner with sharp stick. 1t accuses
him OF attempting 10 collect illegal
wharf charges, OF Sinking taxation,
and trying to bleed the county 10 the
amount of $500 for damages never in
Cured.
StacSpool, jackson a ca. have a new
announcement for the public in today's
Issue OF the osr-lSTELIfGEScsg. They
offer goods ~ per cent. cheaper than
they can be- bought III any other house
IN the trade. No ono will be Injured by
testing the truth of their assertion.
The first Masonic Lodge instituted on
the Pacific Coast Was Multnomah No.
l. at Oregon City, the second Was al the
Saniwic Islands, tho third nj Sanra-
mento, the fourth at San Francisco,
the fifth ut Marysyille aud the sixth one
was at Sacramento.
The funeral of the late chief engineer
OF the Mississippi, Charles Knapp, will
take place at tho Methodist church at
80 y. IN, Mr.. Harrington, officiating,
under the auspices of tho Marine Enai.
neers of Puget Sound. All members of
the craft are Invited to attend.
john l.. Brown, a representative of
the Department Of Agriculture, arrived
In this city night before Inst. He Will
remain on tho Sound about a month,
making his headquarters here, aud
Waiting Hoods Canal. the Skagit, Sno-
homish, Olympia and other parts, ex.
anhning our timber, agricultural re-
sources. eto.
Messrs- Hodgson Il Carr advertise
That they are duly authorized 10 mum.
Der the houses Of Seattle. This is an
important matter, and. ~ an ordinance
mas been passed specifying how the
wosk should be done. il will doubtless
ee performed satisfactorily. The par.
Ties WHO have tho matter in hand are
propafedto put illuminated numbers on
housss where iksy are desired.
Captain Colvin. of the Bri.isl, steam
oaaA.la sststio, anu hts mate, Mr.
Marshall, viii he ilemeGiateiy trans
fssred to che Hylton Castle and Will
take her TO England via Callao, where
u Is probable she will bs abs 10 get a
cargo OF nitrate. The Captain and
mate Of the Hylton Will be- placed in Tie
vacant places on the Barnard, and viii
continue in her In the coal trade to De-
psfsare bay. r. Alta.
Among the passengers coming ND ON
tie Dakota Is Mrs. Sawtelle. III, b.. a
resid.nt OF this city ten years rco, bat
sinns living in San Francisco. Her OBJ
lec' IN coming now IL Of a. business
She viii remain two weeks,
ssiisering course Of lectures, several
u which will be private ones 10 the la
dies alone. DIR. Sawte.le has been edi
Cor Of the 4Aeiseo Literary ycnnai for a
number OF years past, and is one of the
pess known physicians of the city.