Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-27
nlILY POST IEfELIIGEIOgR.
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Office.
Henry Jones of this city, is the guest
of John Keneith, at COupeviile.
steamahip Umatilla sailed from San
looked for here today.
Steamship Tacoma, with 200 tons
Carbon Hill coal ON board, Will sail TO-
day for San Francisco.
Thetug Goliah towed the ship Henry
Failing TO this port yesterday evening"
30 load Renton coal at Seattle.
Cant. j. G. Parker il now able 70 be
mn and around, but AZ yet has not re-
ahmed command of the Messenger.
The average speed of tho passenger
trains on the Pen d'Oreille division OF
the Northern Pacific railroad ID ~ miles
per hour.
Col. Brown, of Magic Doll fame, got
nm : hi0 drunk in San Francisco and
shinped ON board whaler while IN
semi conscious state.
Chas. H. Wells, the well-known ship.
ping agent Of San Francisco, Will spend
TODAY in Port Townsend, and leave there
on the steamship Tacoma for San FRAN
cisco.
Colonel e. d. Baker, whose sudden
death at Vancouver was tslegraphed 70
this journal on Friday evening, was the
only brother of Mrs. G. b. Hopkins OF
this city.
Mis- Bessie Louise King, late Of the
MaQic Doll Company, begins her series
of sacred concerts at the New. Market
Theater next SUNDAY evening. She Will
introduce the new and popular selections
OF the day.
Andrews 4 Stockwell, theatrical man
apers and lessees Of the Grand Opera
House, San Francisco, have suddenly
disappeared for unknown parts, leaving
their companies and host OF creditors
in the lurch.
Between head winds and having TO 60
into Port Blakely with freight, the
steamer Emma Hayward did not arrive
here till nearly o'clock this morning
from MP Sound. She should have been
here at last night.
A man who lately travelled from Ba-
ker City TO Pendlston says that, In bis
opinion, II all the horses and mules
used in freighting between these places
were placed In line they would reach
from one city to the other.
The Oregon Iron and Steel Company
furnace at Oswego turned ont last week
in seven days, 163 tons of pig iron. beine
an average Of 23X tons per day OF y
hours, almost one ton per hour. This u
the best work ever done by this furnace
A carpenter from one Of the reserva
tions came 10 Seattle. and being unable
20 get accommodations at any Of fhs
hotels, took room at Thorndike's lodg
ING house, and during the night wal
robbed Of gu and some jewelry. HI
has placed the matter in tho hands oil
the police.
The committee appointed TO solicit
subscriptions for the sufferers by the
lato floods in Germany we're out yester-
day and in short time succeeded in
raising 800 to be added to the German
relief fund of America. They will con-
tinue their labors today, and expect ia
raise $1,000 before their rounds are CON-
pletsd.
A correspondent writing to the Walla
Walla Democrat from North Powder,
Union county, says the Short Line en-
gineers are surveying in their peighbOr-
hood, with view to running down
Ladd canyon, about FIVE miles from
Union. Il IL claimed pass has been
discovered that does away with 600 feet
Of grade.
Umatilla County, Oregon, is nearly A
large as the State of Massachusetts.
IT. total assessment rolls foot up q valu-
alton Of e3,O64, 729, which is estimated
10 be about one-fourth Of the actual
value Of property. Its population, ac-
cording TO the census Of 1880, was 1851:
but il believed to have increased 20 Per
cent. since that date. Agricultural lands
range in value from IS to $26 Per acre.
The versin Arion have arranged for
Q grand masquerade ball in Yesler's
Hall ON the 9Th proximo, at which three
prizes will be given ~ per ad. elsewhere.
This will b the hrst masquerade Of the
year, and the only ono Of the past year
excepting that Of the skating rink last
simmer. Il will be an invitation ball,
and invitations will not be transferable.
To make Il dne affair will b the effert
Of the society.