Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-21

Tie box sheex for the Sol Smith Rus
all company VIII open at Prmphrey q
LermAnfs bookstore this morning at 10
O'Clock
Se<Sssn 4 Pcs. Who are nov running
nsCnfs. a. vel as DAYS, vii pat 10
aSA4 electric machine N their saw Ezlu
nsxs week
The Srsf cargo Of stone. consisting Of
80 tanS. fo- the new Yesier mansion,
arrived yesterday oc The steamer G.psy.
az3 vAs landed upon the wharf. Ha1i-
icS and building viii begin AZ occs-
The Skaeit river ID very loo, owing 70
the light fall Of snow II the mountains
last winter, and the continued dry
weather. The stream 10 lower than al
any similar period for several years
past
Mcdonald, the b1nko sharper Who
served one term in the penitentiary, has
beea up TO his tricks again. and robbed
a man at The Dalles of SIS. Il Will be
q happy day" when the scoundrei 10
feoaged.
Benton county, Oregon, contains lilo
square miles, q population OF abonf
500, aud q valu alton of taxable prop
erty exclusive of Indebtedness. accord
ing to the assessment roll Of 1872, OF
t2357, sN
A 900 pound porker Was brought over
from Port Blakely yesterday, this in
tsresting event being facilitated by
eleven excited Cinnamon, Who went
over for that purpose and who returned
With the meat.
A sparring match took place the other
evening at the Eclipse saloon, between
VIM. NJ. Davis, the ex-champion. and
Big Jack Hampton, resulting IN an easy
victory for Davis, who knocked bus an
taQonist out too soon.
Owing TO the illness OF A. b. Young.
the committee soliciting subscriptions
for the Snoqualmie Wagon Road have
not been around for few days past.
They hope TO resume their work next
week and TO complete 1t At an early day.
Painters are work putting the finish
ing touches on the new Office and hall
Of the Hotel brunswick. Messrs. Alden
d Fiske are making this house popu-
lar resort, and their additional facilities
will add greatly 70 the comfort and at
traction Of the hotel.
At the little town of Ferndale consid-
cradle is doing. Mr.. Robinson is build
ing hotel, several dwelling houses are
being erected, also another wharf.
Town lots are selling rapidly and easily
at 500 and tl50 each. The location OF
the postofbce has recently been changed
70 what is known as West Ferndale.
The harbor was full of steamers yes
terday and last night, the number IN
Guiding the Dakota, Umstilla. Gypsy,
North Pacific, Emma Hayward, Wei
come, Washington, Eliza Anderson.
Messenger, Nellie, James McNau2ht,
Cello, Addie, Yakima, Gazelle, Edna,
Success, Seattle, Hope, Lone Fisher
man. City Of Quincy, Zephyr and Glide.
Mr.. J. T. Martin. who taught school
here and IN Puyallup Valley four OF i've
year, ago, bat who has been East three
years, has returned with the intention
Of remaining among us. During his
absence, Mr.. Martin took the course In
medicine at the Michigan University,
and il now doctor in the fullest sense
Of the word.
The Walla Walla Statesman says that
H. w. Fairwsather has decided to re-
main at Sprague, and will accordingly
remove his family from kalama TO the
former place. Also, that J. T. Curtis,
late master mechanic Of the Pen
d'Oreille division Of the Northern Pa
ci6c, il about to embark In the real es-
tate bu sineas in Seattle.
Tho schooner George G. Perkins sailed
yesterday morning, bound for Seabeck,
and when of Boiinas the cook, Peter
schultz, aged 81, native of GERMANY.
jumped overheard in an attack of de-
lirium tremens, and was drowned. A
beat was lowered and every effort made
TO save the unfortunate man, but with
out success, and the vessel returned to
port.-Aita.
Gianini, the miserable idiot who muir
dered the Hebrew peddier in Eastern
Washington last spring, escaped from
night, the 18th instant. He loosened
window of his cell, when his escape was
easy. Scouts were sent out in all direc-
tions. He Ia small man of repulsive
appearance.
In San Francisco last week Alexander
Duckworth pleaded guilty 10 the theft
Of gold watch and chain from the psr-
son Of j. r. InfYrom, on the 30th of last
April, and was sentenced 10 Folsom
State Prison for q term of seven years.
This n, We suppose, the same Alexander
Duokworth who vas tried in this eity in
1876, for some crime committed on the
bark Osmyn, and was sent to the Terri
toriA Penitentiary.
At Tacoma, one J. ]. Mclaughlin vas
arrested On the complaint of Mr.. Geo.
Fuller for cruel treatment to cub bear,
In kicking and abusing it. Justice
Campbell fued the offender g and
costs, amounting TO el7.75, and Mo-
lAuQhlin Ii nov engaged in working
out the hne on the streets at the rate Of
81 per day. A similar course ought TO
able 70 pay their fines.
The United Workmen will meet in
Grand Lodge In Portland again next
year. The Grand Lodge has % far met
In salem. Astoria, Olympia and Port
land, and there was talk of its meeting
in Seattle next year. TWAS considered,
though, that here, or at any other place
not moro than one fourth the delegates
in the Jurisdiction could reach the
Grand Lodge without passing through
Portland, and IL three fourths of the
whole number had TO pass through that
city anyhow, the Grand Lodge miRhy
better b Eeld there, at least better on
the grounds of general convenience and
economy.
HOTEL kKKPEs SKIPPED. - Several
months ago q tall. pleasant appearing