Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-19
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The roursy Com uaiskioners viii finish
up teeir work and scjoorn today.
Testimony ia the Challenger 1ases IL
nov being taken by James r. Ludlow,
Esq.
John Collins and wife we're among tie
passengers vho left on the Elder yes
,eFday for San Francisco.
The base ball boys will have a game
on the Univsrsity ground q: O'Clock
this afternoon Lss ali turn cat and
play good game.
Eootblack stands are being set up
here, there and everywhere. IN multi
iudinous manner most surprising 70 old
settlers.
The steamer Wilmington broke her
screw shaft while at .l4s wharf 81 De-
partare Bay. Her shaft will have - be
ssut TO ran Francisco and ste viii be
detained three weeks
Dr. vansant will move his family
from this city to Whatcorn next week.
The Doctor has great faith IN the fn-
ture of whsscom, and Ia investing his
money in that kcsii'y.
James Evans, a tinsmith Of Snoho-
Bists Cts, MAS found dead n his room
at that place yesterday morning, and 1t
il supposed he died during the light
previous of appopleIy. He vas about
- years 81 age, and leaves no KnoSn
family.
They are still investigating the Crap
DER disaster a. Victoria, and have been
for several weeks past, and will be for a
week TO come. Ii seems 20 be longer
drawn out than necessary, considering
that no particular mystery u involved.
I: looks at distance as II II were a
strained effor. to get hold Of fees.
The school election occurs this after
noon At tus Central building, between
and ). The vote will decide the ques-
ton of selling that property. Lees Than
year and half ago We voted upon the
same question. the amount named then
az condition of selling being 5000.
Now it is go, 0)0 or more. Quite diff
ference the reader will note. The sale
WAS voted dawn. Ii will be carried to-
day. II will not be surprising If nearer
$1,000 can be obtained for the prop
srty. With this moaey in hand Il vii!
be no difficult task for the Directors to
get better site of twelve lots, and pu.
up another and better school building
than ih6 one Just completed.
We are requested by Capt. Hayward
% the steamship Geo. w. Elder. to ex-
plain and partially contradict the state
| meDt published la the Chronicle Of the
narrow escape from burning Of his ship
on her last t-ip. The man who claimed
70 bs an eye witness Of the affair knew
| nothing OF 1t TIL il Was all over: instead
| Of twenty carhoys of acid burning there
! we're bu. two, and they we're pitched III
! 10 the sea ia moment, and instead OF
ths individual having several horses on
board he had but one. He made a
mount ain out Of 4 molehill. The Cap
| tain would have taken no notice of the
story had IT NOS been published imme-
diateiy after the burning Of the Missis
siopi. whom IL was certain Ia have a bed
effect on the travelling public end tie
business Of the ship.
A man was engaged yesterday in cut
ting out and caftirg away the earth on
the sidewalk edges of Commercial
street. What the object of his labor
| and this expense WAS could not be AIT
isfaetorily explained. There Is certain
ly nons too much earth there now, and
We may say there just IA certainly Is
not enough. The whole street will have
to be raised and will probably come up
four feet at that Very point. Every
dollar spent in moving OF earth there
IL txo dollars wasted, for the expend:
tire of the second dollar will be made
necessary by the ultimate replacement
Of the same earth or other earth in its
piece. II would be good deal better
to continue gradually raising the grade
by dumping in beach gravel, than to
engage in this pottering work of doing
and undoing. of which We see so much.