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


| cAS EkASClsco. July 6.-The sailjno
OF Tue steamer Elder for Victoria an1
SOUND ports this afternoon was after a.
90 WITH considerable excitement. In
wnicn tbs Len. Grover Comedy Com.
Pmy Inquired prominently. The com.
pany; numbering sixteen people. en-
kA9eo 70 appear in plays written by the
manager, had been provided with tick.
81, incioolng George Osborne and wife.
VOC we're TO take leading parts. A dis
puse between Osborne and Len. Grsyer
arose, JUST before the SAILING of the
steamer, as to the disposition made Of
zoe iaoies. The former insisted that
Ss ais VIE vas subject TO seasickness
nc should De allowed a staferoom with
uer, 70 which proposition the manager
violently demurred, assigning a. n
reason that the ladies were pIaced
IN the same rooms, the others being re-
served for the sterner sex. Osborne re-
fused 10 be reoonciled. and made hi.
departure for the north conditional
upon the manager accedinp TO his de.
mands. He was told TO exercise the al
Tentative, and he thereupon rushed an
the plank, bringing his wife and traps
ON shore. Making his way to the big.
gage master he secured his trunks, and
delivered up the parts which himself
and wife were TO have studied. While
both were Watching the crowd on the
steamer, Len. Grover, stepped up.
closely followed by the governor. and
AFTER An exchange of compliments he
dealt Osborne blow in the face with
his fist. while the wrathful governor at
tempted to belabor him with his cane.
Meanwhile Mrs. Osborne raised the
cry, towards. You are two to one r'
A crowd closed in upon the histrionic
belligerents, while an intelligent police
officer seized Osborne, and endeavored
to convince him that he was the az
greasor. When the order was given by |
the captain to DR. Nv the plank, young |
Grover ran aboard with bisscted coat, |
and evidently the worse for his encoun-
ter. Osborne applied for a warrant for |
his arrest. but the steamer sailed before |
1t could be served.
steamer Talk.
SAN Francisco, July 6.-The depart
Mexican ports, rs substitute for the |
steamer Mexico, has revived the report |
that the latter will shortly be placed on |
the Sound route. The reasons formerly |
assigned for this change of route still |
bold good and were strengthened this |
afternoon by the statement of the ayen. |
of the California and Mexican Steam |
ship Company, that arrangements are |
being made to run a vessel north. The |
Newborn sailed in command of the first |
officer Of the Mexico, while Captain |
Huntington of the latter has been kept |
IN port az her master instead of being |
run ont into stream until such time as |
Mexican trade grows better and which |
does not give much promise. As the |
Newbern Ia a much smaller vessel she |
went of with half cargo. The Mexico |
has been brought up to the dock TO be |
The Fire at spFague.
SPRAaUE, July 5.-This morning about |
"a O'Clock fire was discovered in a |
small building in the rear of the Willard |
Hotel. The fire spread rapidly, and in |
n few minutes the Willard Hotel was a |
sheet Of flame. The firemen worked |
with will TO stop the progress of the |
fire. but Notwithstanding their efforts |
the entire block, with the exception of |
the store of c. kinnear d Co., was burn
ed to the ground. The fire crossed the |
Sprague Hotel, which are also p total |
A. l.. Newman d Co., building and
stock. $1,000, insured for 5000, com
panies not known; Dodge Bros, un-
finished building, $500, no insurance;
Brewer * Layton, Sprague Hotel. pr
TALLY insured; 4. NJ. Kinusar Il Co.,
Willard House. 5000. insured for 5000
in the Metropole of Paris; Charles
Casch, Sprague beer hall, $500, in
sured for $1,000 in the New Orleans
Fire Insurance Company: p. Comasky,
building, $1,000. insured for $500 in the
London Il Northwestern; William Per-
kins, restaurant, $500. no insurance.;
William q. kopke. $3.50. fully insured
in the Watertown Insurance Company.
Several guests Of the Willard House were
more or less injured by burns and in
jumping from windows into the street,
but mono fatally. The locomotive Of
the up passenger train, while passing |
the fire, caught the telegraph wire,
which had fallen down, tearing the |
headlight from the engine and throwing |
several persons TO the ground. Fortu-
nately none we're seriously injured. The |
origin Of the fire is unknown.