Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-19

DRxvRYm.
Seven prisoners escaped from the Jail
st Silver City, n. u. last week.
Schooner C. C. Perkins 10 at YssIer's
wharf, taking on board cargo Of lum-
Der Tor San Juan Island
Hops are selling in New York and San
Francisco at 20 and Is cents a poand,
and in London at II cents.
Schooner Excelsior il under charter
to take q cargo Of lumbar from one Of
the Sound mills to Australia.
The steamship Dakota has lately
been supplied with rafts for escape from
the ship In case Of storm or shipvreck.
Oliver p. Anderson of this city has &C
cepted the position Of book-kseper in
the mill Of Capt. E. l. Marshall ss Nil
ton.
]. 8. Wallace, q farmer of Lsconner,
returned from San Francisco on the
Dakota, after an absence below Of two
months.
The pile of brick In front of our Office
has become 80 huge that unless soon
removed 1t may properiytbe declared .
nuisance.
w. D. Scott ID fitting up his dwelling
house on Front street, between Seneca
and Union, for the occupancy Of his
own family.
The first and only rain Of the past
two months came last night in the shape
OF sprinkle, amounting to the smallest
fraction Of an inch.
James Virgin has sold his Mill street
saloon and business to q newcomer, and
has retired to the hot weather comforts
of his seaside home.
A 16-inch cherry limb, with %
ounces OF fruit upon it, was brought to
this Office by u. H. Pease yesterday.
The variety was the Oxheart.
The fires along the Sound are terrific,
beating anything of the kind seen here
for number of years past. The damage
doing every day is immense.
The Dakota arrived ffom San Fran
cisco yesterday morning, Lay here all
day, and at 10 last night sailed for Ia
coma, intending to return tonight.
w. b. Bancroft of the printing de-
partment of A. L. Bancroft d Co. is do
ing the northern country in the inter-
ests of his house, and at present ia in
this city.
H. p. Squire of the Oakland Evening
Tribune, came mp ON the Dakota. He
will spend q few days on the Sound,
and then return to California by the
overland route.
"Black Bart" the mach sought stage
| robber, was seen in Oakdale, Cal, last
week Wells, Fargo d Co.'S detectives
were teleRraphed for but got there too
late to capture the man.
Joshua Porter, a clerk of General
Crooks during the late Indian cam
| paien, attempted to steal 5000 pounds
Of barley left at the supply station at
Silver Creek. He is in jail.
OF the 248 passengers on board the
steamship Dakota ON her last trip from
San Francisco, 6 were for Victoria, IS
for Port Townsend, ITO for Seattle, Is
for Tacoma and 8 for Olympia
w. D. Scott & Co., of this city. have
contracted with I. P. II. Whitelaw, the
San Francisco wrecker, to raise the
sunken Mississippi, Whitelav agreeing
to complete the work within Is days.
Major Jack Stratman's news stand ia
one of the popular institutions of the
city. and is in the constant enjoyment
of grand run of custom. The Major
has lately added a fruit stand to his
business.
Louis. Schwabacher, of the firm of
Schwabacher Bros. & Co., is spending a
few days in this city. visiting relatives
and looking at the immense business
and property in which he is here inter
ested.
The Deer Lodge IN. To- Ne,o North
,cest of last week says: "fhe intense heat
| so expanded the rails at the Mullan
siding and Blackfeot switches that they
could not be worked with the levers and
had to be driven over with sledges, after
bending the rails"
The American ship Mercury arrived
at Victoria from HongkonQ, last Sun.
day. She brought l2O Chinese. passen.
gers aud 400 tons of freight. She will
load of lumber from the Tacoma saw.
mill for Sydney, Australia.
The new wharf Of the railroad Gem.
pany progresses outward as rapidly
as Surber's piledrivers and men can
make 1t. The frst section building i
the south pier or side, between which
and the old wharf will be slip seventy
feet wide for the use of boats.
The new game Law in Idaho in yery
strict. No buffalo, deer, elk, antelop(
mountain sheep are to be killed be.
tween the LIST of January and the LIST OF
September of each year and at no Other
time IL killed to obtain their hides or e
ship their carcassss out of the Territory
The preservation of natural flowers il
an art which lovers OF the beautiful
ox ,"u n = .,s O vol rot ~ ssu1. ~. .S
e..snt;on ~ nav Thu "' u rary ;ns
ssrnc.;o,, can he ntt.;~.S - E..yyl ~ :
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w. IS D.' ',' 0"a i""'''0o
A fiute lndian Killed MS squaw in
Butte valley, white Pine county, New.
last week, and the tribe lvnched him
NOT aiter the American plan, but aftel
style OF tnelf own: Iney Iaasoed him
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