Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-05-24

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home by shs Dakoes yesterday.
Mra Captain II, L. Tsbbais and hse
danehser. Mias Mile. are q present %
ioornine h Seattle.
The North Pacific, leaving hers NJ 10
O'Clock Last evening. took fun lsa Of
exenrssonists 20 Victoria
An invisasioa has been sxtendea 20
hogpemen of British Columbia TO join
in the July races Of the Seattle Driving
Association
Tho melancholy sssne proeeuee4 by
the buyned hull az ths stssnef Fanny
Lake vs viewed yesterday By hundreds
Of sownsfoik.
The Evaneel. with the Quesn City
Band on boGyd, and party Of eXeur-
sionisss. iefs Seattle for Victoria yester-
day morning at o'csoeki
ANY passenger On the DAKOTA having
90. hold OF the wrong vaIIse can get
their own by returning the one they
have TO the Nev England Hotel.
Is il enough 70 kills Neg Tsc1ms to
have inflicted upon is the LedserY daily
hocvash abouS Portland and Seattle
ard the papers Of those cities
&c. Horr. special agent Of the tress-
ury department., IL at present IN this
city. on his return from = four months
official vint 70 San Francisco.
On the 10Th of July meeting Of stock
holders OF the Washington Improve
nens will be held TO take steps looking
TO an increase of the capital stock 70
10000.
The CITY assessment Of Astoria
a,nosnted in iss2 TO 81. l36 ,972, and IN
lsS3 amounts 70 81 .6a3,577. A gain of
- per cent. In q single tveivemonth u
a pretty solid. indispotabls fact Of she
growth Of this country.
The examination of candidates for
the naval cadesship will occur at 8
O'Clock this morning Al the University.
This h . last chance for the boys. A.
only ono such chance comes 70 boy
during his life. and il 10 an opportunity
not 70 Be sighted.
Capt. 4andberR. Who VA Washed
overheard from the bark Newsboy and
drowned, tefs an estate valued at about
5000. bot no known heirs. Capt. Sand
berg Is remembered BY mahy persons
here. whose acquaintance he formed
during bis several trips 70 the Sound.
The Oregon improvement Company
last week completed the sale Of $50
scree Of land in Whitman county, near
Endieo44. to w. S. Smoos, Of Oneida
county. New York. The price paid vas
t3i.l9O 10. Mr.. Smoss proposes to
bring colony from central Nov York
10 occupy the lands
The steamship Willamette Is nov dis
charging 100 tons of steel rails for the
first section Of the Cascade branch Of
the Northern Pacific Railroad from Sc
attic 10 Eastern Washington. on the
coal wharf OF tho Columbus and Puget
Sound Railroad company. Tho rails
are placed on dst cars and taken to
E1nton. from which place they viii be
distributed along the line Of the pro-
posed road up the Cedar river valley.
The c,osssf reports .'that l50 Of Sc
attlc's immigrants returned home ON
the Geo. w. Elder. They were dissatis-
fed" The Geo. W. Elder did not bring
here i5O passengers all told. and ~ far |
an is known here not \ single ono that
she brought returned With her. Her
whole passenger list, including those !
from Tacoma. Seattle, Port Townsend, |
Olympia and Victoria, did not number |
l50. and only about one third the whole |
number we're from this place.
The Helens tOreeonl Nat says there |
are about twenty logging camps between |
that town and Astoria on this side of |
the river. and they employ an an aver-
age ten men each. and cus about l6 GOO
feet . day In each camp. Some idea Of |
tbs vaatness of the lumber interests On
the Columbia may BE- cleaned from the
above when 10 10 understood that the
WaAhingtoa Territory aide Of the river, |
With iss tributaries. hes fully double the
numbsr Of oAmpa-
Dayton u 10 Lave . city hall, tvo-
s1ogy brick buildiug Of Sd by Id fe6k.
The front part Of the lover story viii
coaaiss Of two ronms, one 20 b oocu- !
pied by the Dayton library and the |
other a. q business room: the upper |
story n hall for the various esoret 90 |
cietiea: the rear Will b made first |
GLASS tasaser. With stage, gallery. etc,
and vill present depsh Of about thirty
feet. DAytooe example IN this matter
may veil DO followed By Seattle.
The Dakota hroaahs passengers and
FREIGHT n the ports on her route - b.
low tndicnend.