Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-23

The Willamette arrived Sunday with
out freight and proceeded Immediately
to the coal wharf.
County Treasurer Hill has 81, 900 in
hand with which to pay warrants OF
King county outstanding prior to Nov.
l, ISL.
A. B. Stewart & Co., retail and job
bine druggists, are agents for Washing
ton Territory of DIR. Horne's Electric
Belt.
Two individuals of the class known as
drunk and disorderlies' relieved the
mouotony of the Police Court yester-
day.
A new crossing was laid over Com
mercial street Yesterday, from the Is
mond corner to the Horton & Denny
bank building.
Yesterday Vas one of the many fine
days so common in this country at this
period of the year, the sun shining glo-
riously all day long.
Steamer Eliza Anderson came down
from Olympia on Sunday, bringing
about twenty passengers. She did not
continue on to Victoria, but lay MP here.
Two fine safes manufactured by the
Mosler Company, of Cincinnati, are at
the railroad wharf. One is for NJ. d X.
Gotts,ein, and the other for Geo. ID.
Chick d Co.
No Eastern mail was received at the
| Postoffice from Friday evening until
Yesterday. The immense amount re-
ceived last night, however, compensates
for the delay.
Geo. II. Chick Il Go. call attention in
cur advertising columns to their imme-
date need of competent engineer. A
good man can find steady employment
at ruling wages
"a little nonsense now and then is
/ relished by the best of men," The Mai
SON Dore last night was crowded. Ar
cher, as 1.-The Dutch Serenader," is IL
resistibly ludierous.
c. ". Lawton. the nurseryman, has
Strawberries in bud, in blossom, in green
fruit, and in ripe. What Lawton hasn't
got in his line that is worth having in
this country is hard to imagine.
Small fruits are very plenty in the re-
tail markets, considering that it is the
latter part of October. A large amount
of game of all kinds is also daily thrown
on the markets, much to the delight of
epicures.
The Oregon Short Line has Just in
creased the capital stock of its compa-
ny from $5.0O0,000 to 81, 100000. Il is
| a matter of interest out this way to
know what ia to be done with the ST.
100000 new capital.
/ Several of the visiting members of
"a 4 n FA ~ In a b.
ly yesterday to take look at one of the
largest, most complete, and best lumber
manufactures to be found anywhere
on the surface of the globe.
Thomas Wren, Peter Gore and John
OBrien, the men arrested for stealing
whisky from the Emma Hayward, were
discharged yesterday at the instance of
the prosecuting witness, there being no
evidence on which to hold them.
A note from Robert Abrams, written
at Los Angeles, Oct. 18th, informs ne
that he was about to leave that place
for Oshkosh, Winnebago county, Wis
consin. He says he will be home in
January. Business is booming in Los
Angeles.
Steamer Gypsy, Capt. Hall, came in
yesterday from BellinRham Bay, bring
ing $50 tons stone, the first let for the
foundation of the new four-story build
ing Of the Gordon Hardware Company
Hauling the stone began at once to the
site of the new proposed building.
ledge of the Independent Order of
Bnai Birth will be instituted next Sun
day evening at Odd Fellows Hall. The
Grand Vice President of the order will
arrive from San Francisco next Satur-
day for the purpose of installing Off
GERS, etc. The new lodge will be
known as the Queen City Lodge.
The 'longshoremen who inaugurated
the strike at the railroad wharf the
other day, are still idle and likely to re-
main 50, so far as that wharf is con-
cerned. A number of them were hang
ing arouad while the Umatilla was be-
ing unloaded yesterday, and all who
would not go to work were ordered of
the dock.
The Post building will shortly become
a regular newspaper headquarters. In
it is now the PosT- INTELLIGENCER Office,
and the Hanford job printing establish
ment, in which is done the Herald press
work. The new temperance paper will
also be published and printed in the
building, and the Sunday paper like
| wise.
Three tons newspaper mail may not
be much to one of the great journals of
New York and other leading cities of
the Union, but it is an Immense lot in a
town like Seattle. Yet that is the guam
tity-Or, $3.50 pounds, to be more exact
upon which We paid postage yesterday.
1t was equivalent to about 90, 600 papers,
all sent outside the county.
The king bolt of loaded lumber
wagon came ont on Commercial street
yesterday afternoon, causing the hind
wheels, wagon box, and load to come to
a sudden halt. The Juggling animals
thus suddenly relieved of their load,
were startled, and dashed ahead at a
full run, enoumbered only by the
tongue and forewheels. At the turn in
front of the Yesler- Leary building one
of the horses fell, and both were there
caught and stopped without doing fur
Their injury.