Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-05
PACIFIC COAST.


PACIFIC COAST.
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foRf rowNg1ND, Oct 4.-Postmaster
Learned received q telegram this morn
ing from secoad Assistant Postmaster
General Allen instructing him to deliver
the Alaska mail TO steamer leaving San
Francisco October S.
The bark Henry Buch, from San Fran
CISCO. vas hauled in to the Quincy
street wharf this afternoon. where abe
VIII discharge freight She brought a
nansome steam launch from the San
francisco Board of Marine Undervriters
for Captain McAiIep's use.
Z. n. Gerrish's hardware and general
merchandise store has been closed few
days by an attachment Of San Francis
90 creditors. We do not know whether
Mr.. Gerrish will be able to resune bust
mess OF not.
Aessrs. Rothschild Il Co., agents of
the brig, w. H. Myers, 2j6 tons. which
arrived here on the LIST from Honolulu.
chartered this vessel today to the Port
Townsend Mill Company TO take a cargo
OF lumber from their mill to San Fran.
ciscO. This is the first cargo of lumber
TO g abroad from this Townsend mill.
San Francisco Dry Deck.
SAN FRAsCsco. Oct l.-The proposal
by some London capitalists to build
dry dock here meets With much encour
agement. The English syndicate ask
the South San Francisco Dock Com
pany to give them sixteen acres of land
bordering on the water front, and in
return it will construct two dry docks by
cutting into the granite formation OF
the shores, using the excavated rocks
for masonry. II il stated that English
capitalists would in this way expend
sum OF nearly three times as great
value as that Of the whole tract belong
ing to the South San Francisco Dock.
II is asserted that the present rates have
driven business away. from this city. II
costs from two to three Thousand dol
lars TO dock and overhaul a ship here.
while in England the same work is done
for from two to three hundred dollars.
the new English company intended the
erection of large wsrks, and will build
double stone decks and dock vessels at
a rate which will pay from 3 to 5 per
cent. on the money invested.
The Yellow Fever.
SAN Francisco, Got. 4.-Letters now
being received from Guaymas and other
points in Mexico show that not half the
truth has been told of the r.vishes of
the yellow fever in those unfortunate
cities. Oae received today from George
Treat. q we'll known California pioneer.
better known a. the owner of the ia.
nous race horse Thad Stevens, dated
Mazattan, says: In order to give some
idea OF the virulence of the soourQe in
this city, out of an opera company num-
bering 81 persons II died, including the
prima donna Peralta. in less than
three weeks. Within two weeks more
only five OF tho original troupe
we're left living. The medical men were
all sick, and two of them had died. The
victims were buried hastily and unoof-
fined. Three hours was the usual in
terval betweea death and burial. For
the past week the deaths averaged more
than 70 per day. The disease ia, how
eyer, sweeping the interior towns like
wildfire. The courts are all clnsed. The
Judges fed beyond the Jurisdiction of
the Yellow Jack. The spread of the
disease he believes to be largely due to
the ignorance displayed by physicians
as to the character of the fever.
smusgled Opiam.
SAN Francisco, Oct. 3.-rhe most des-
perats efforts continue to be made to
smuRgle opium into this port. Fifty
six cases. libeled today by District At
torney Hilburn. are alleged to have been
fraudulently imported on the last trip
of the Oceanic.
The sharon Case.
SAN Francisco, Oct. 4.-Miss Hill. in
answer to Senator SharOn's suit, filed
against her yesterday in the United
States Circuit Court, replies through her
attorney, Nelson, as published in the
daily evening Reporter, that she will
Immediately start proceedings against
the Senator in the Superior Court, and
await decision in the Federal Court,
her attorneys alleging that is a move
ment to tie mp litigation for four or five
ye ara. She nays that Sharon only gains
access to that court as Q citizen OF Ne
vada, and that the records Of this city
and county have been searched, and It
was found that on ffty-four different
occasions, within the last three years,
the Senator has sworn that he is q citi-
zen of the State of California. An off,
oial of the United States courts
stated today that Miss Hill could not
be found to serve papers on her, nor did
any one Of her friends seem to know
where she had gone.
The Pest.Hiddem shin.
SAN Francisco, OCT. 4.-IrvinR John
son, one of the five yellow fever patients
aboard the stsam er Newburn, died to-
day. Quarantine officers took of to the
vessel y metallic casket filled with char
GOAL. The body will be placed in it,
Theoretically sealed and .uried in an
unfrequented part Outsidr of the city
limits. The second officer has also
taken bad tur; d0abts of his recovery
are entertained. The remaining three
are still doing we'll, and new
cases have developed on board the
steamer, nor has any sign Of the dis
ease made its appearance ON land.
Quarantine officers have taken every
preCauti0n. IL the weather continues
cold. as at present, there il no danger of
fever getting f00thold in the city.
Net Guilty.
SAN FRANClsCO, Got. THE second
trial of DR.. n. A. A. Wolf, upon the
charge Of having caused the death of
Benedicta SwensOn through malprac-
tioe, was concluded yesterday. The
Jury returned q verdict Of mot guilty."
The defendant 10 held in custody on
minor charges.
Important GaserDrise.
SAN FRANcIsco, Dot. 4.-One of the
most important enterprises ever estab-
lished on the Pacific Coast was incor-
porated today under the name Ut the
Pacific Steam Agricultural Company,