Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-25

MA - - - A0AS oA
BREvHTlKs.
The school children Of Dayton num-
Der 800 this yeok against 5Os last year.
Binkley & Taylor, lawyers. have
moved from Port Townsend TO Spokane
Fails.
Mrs. J. w. Anderson, of San Fran
cisco. 10 at present yiatIng friends IN
Seattle.
According 10 the figures of the county
asseesor, TIE popoissisn Of Columbia
Attention u called to the advertise
msut Of the Palace ClothjnR House, on
the Arss page.
Rev. Cushing Eslls has purchased .
750-pound bell and presented II TO the
Congregational Church ct Dayton, W.T..
The earnings Of the U. r. 4 n. Co.
for the eleven months ending May 3lss-
amounted 10 $4,642, go, an increase Of
t4l2,As.
The steamship Walla walla ID in berth
At San Francisco for Seattle, to sail day
after tomorrow. Orders BY telegraph
viii catch hR.
James AcPhsrson and Ezra SuodsrIy,
murders of Cummings, viii be hung ct
Dayton, W. T., August It'll, between 10
am. and 2 pm.
Prof. A. j. Anderson, wife and fam
lily, arrived in Seattle last evening 70 TO
main . few weeks visiting friends IN
this community.
The Roman Catholics are about to
build o college at Spokane Falls. II
will b Of brick, 50 fest wide. 100 fest
long and three stories high.
One of tbs bet homes in town is Of
fered to let through the medium Of our
columns this morning. Those inter-
ssted will plsase take notice.
Mcpherson and Snodsrly have been
chained to the jail door, TO await the
day Of execution. Snoderly completely
broke down at the act Of the sheriff.
There are nov in Kliokitat county
719 dwellings,. 753 families, 4042 inhab-
itants; being 2286 males and l758 to
males; 8 pairs of twins are reported in
the county.
At the Sol. Smith Russell entertain
ment tonight there will be, We are re-
quested to state, an entire change of
programme. which will afford no less
entertainment than did that Of last
night.
Thsre are ct the present time LA petit
tons on the dockets Ut the district
courts throughout Oregon praying for a
dissolution Of the bonds Of matrimony,
and out of that number 100 of the libel
lanto are wives.
Mr.. Goodrich, Who spent Last winter
and spring here, u spoken of in late
Issue Of the San Francisco Ckrosicle a.
civilian w. Goodrich. an architect,
recently from New York"
Mr.. White, late book keeper for
MeesEs. Ballard 4 Hatfield, has accept
ed position a. book keeper and store
keeper for the Seattle Hop Growers As
ISOLATION, ct Snoqualmie, and will start
for that place in . few days.
James n. Colman and family we're
| in Switzerland on Jnly LIST, from which
place they wrote to friends in Seattle,
stating that they would sail for New
York on September 18th. and proceed
home a. rapidly a. possible.
Capt. Hatfield recovered his cockatoo
after an absence Of ono night. Il was
captured by lady residing on the cor
ner Of Fifth and Cherry streets. The
Captain was Rlad TO pay the reward Of
fered for the recovery Of his bird.
John A. Cray, formerly a lawyer of
ship with Judge I. II. Hall, and later q
Baptist clergyman at Portland and The
Dalles, has gone back to the Law. and is
now engaged in practising at Empire
City, Or.
We understand that Gen. Dorr, in the
interest of the o. II. d N. Co., 10 neRo-
tiating with Gen. Hazen of the signal
service bureau for the purchase of the
military telegraph between Dayton and
Colfax with the design of extending il
to Moscow.
II IL said that Major ]. A. Simms has
resigned the charge Of the Colville In
dian Agency, to take effect September
LIST. He hae been agent there for nearly
twenty years, and was appointed to an.
other four-yeaf term during the present
calendar year.
DR.. g. II. ATKINSON. ID. D., and Rev
G. Eells have bean ordered back East "a
collect subscriptions for Whitman col.
lege in Massachusetts,, Maine, Vermont
and New HAmphGre. BY the American
College and Education Society, Of which
Whitman College 10 part.
Geo. Z. Cole, formerly Delegate "a
1 Congress from Washington Territory
later Governor of the Territory, ane
more recently postmaster at Portland
has bought store in the town Of Fair
weather, W. T.. and has entered tn
general msrchandise business.
| The Washington Improvement Com
pany we're advertising in Portland last
week for 200 men and 80 teams 10 worl
on the canals back Of this oi,y. Nine
teams and wagons, With considerable
number Of men, arrived here Last Satur
day, from Oregon, TO engage in th,
work referred 10.
The Fallon Brothers, near Walls
Walla, have commenced harvesting
their 100 asre wheat neld. Juse 10 ri
an idea Of the probable yield they ran
the product Of twenty acres through ths
threahsr and - result obtained Ill
sacks, equal to forty-five bushels POI
acre.
The Rev. J. G. Fair will leave on thu
steamship Mexico at 10 this forenoon
an route Tor the East. He viii Be Rons
two years ct least, in attendance at thu
West Philadslphia Divinity School
after which b hopes 10 return to thin
city, whore he has successfully con
Quoted charge during the Last two and
half years.
II A man in Virginia writing to Harry
Chapman 4 Co, real estate dealers u
! this city, asks them for information re-
gardinQ this country. In olo4ing hii
letter 30 eays: II want to purchasl
land about 800 feet from your Main
street and am willing b pay a. high n
SO an scre for It." We guess when the
fellow gets Harry Paxton's reply b
won't want 10 mako vsEy extensive land
pursAaesa.-Usios.
i A gentleman called In the ONCE last
evening and requested n TO call the at-
teutiOn Of the street commissioner 20
the dangerous condition Of the Sidewalk
on South Second street., at the intersec-
tion Of Warrington street.. The vail
brsaks o. abruptly ana unless . railing
ID pot no there some one Nill walk o6,
and the city viii have big bill Of dam
aees TO pay for . broken arm OF dislo-
Gated neck.