Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-01-21

roo steel KEYS. joined by wire, were
..;.sad mn ON the stree and left at this
Office for the owner.
The temperature moderated all day
Yesterday, and thawing and sprinkiing
began in the evening.
The steamer Libby is expected to ar.
rive here this morning with the wreckoi
the Josephine in tow.
At Walla Walla the thermometer reg
iatered IL degrees below zero on tne
morning of the 18th, and at Lewiston
IA degrees.
The Methodist Episcopal Missionafy
Board has made special approplialioh
OF 1900 in aid of the work recen'is ia
auQurated in this city.
Chief WooIery has been confined 10
h;s home for the past few days by
spell of sickness. he WAS ieeiinR !" "'
tie easier last evening.
The thriving village OF Cheney vas
f3rst known as Crunk's springs; tnen As
Depot Springs; then as Billings, and
finally its present name was adopted.
Mr.. Birmingham has purchased
M Longs interest in the White River
Cheese factory, and will hereafter carry
on that establishment On his own &C
count.
The Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company's steamer idaho will not leave
for Seh0me ard way ports ON MONDAY,
but will make one trip during the WEEK
If the weather moderates.
The Emma Hayward on her up trip
last evening landed her passengers ana
freight ut the Oregon improvement
Company's wharf, being the first steam
or TO arrive after the order TO that effect
went into force.
There has evidently been consider
able importation of 5-cent nickels lately,
n large number bearing date 1882 hay
ING come into circulation. 1t II very
handy coin, and the importation refer
red TO will be quite useful in trade.
A petition of property holders ia pre-
pairing for presentation TO the City
Council, asking that the district bound
cd by Pine street on the north, Miil
street on the south, Broadway on the
east, and Seventh on the west, be- grad
cd. It is being nunsrously signed.
From and after this date Yesler's
wharf ia to know the steamers Of the u
RIM Co. no more. At least, that II
the tenor of recent order, which make;
tho dock OF the Columbia and Puget
Sound Railroad Company the sole land
ing place hereafter. The dock Of the
latter will hardly do, though, for not
withstanding its enormous surface, its
landing room ia entirely ieadequate; it
shape preventing more than two Oh
three vessels using IL at the same time
That wharf will have to be enlarged ri
n very early day, or return made ia
the more roomy Yssler wharf.
January 18th was the twenty first an.
niversary Of the perishing of Messrs
Jaeger, Mulksy and Brown, as also the
freezing Of the feet of Moore, so as to
require amputation Of the limbs. all of
whom were loaded down with old Sal
mon river gold dust, who endeavored To
reach The Dalles by stage and on foot
but persisted on the way by reason OF
tho cold and sncw. Some Of the IN
fortunate men had their well filled
sacks on their persons when frozen
Tha party failed to reach Walla Walla
in time for the last boat, and a. q last
resort attempted the trip overland by
stage, which was abandoned on the
way at or near the John Day river.
Their death created an intense sensa-
ton in Portland Mt the time, they being
we'll known citizens, returning from the
mines under such otherwise favorable
circumstances.