Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-17
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Wheaf mas reached 81 per ousEei AZ
Salem
There will be soiree a. The dancing
academy in Yesler's Hall tonight
The Fraser river Is 30 full sof floating
ice that cattle have great trouble II
swimming across ID.
Rev. Mr.. Bird. of Seattle. and Rev.
Mr. Gamble, of Victoria. Will exchange
pulpits tomorrow.
The East 0ssgonian says that butchers
have paid from - To <15 per head for
beef cattle. and s. for sheep.
The Bishop cheese factory at China
cam, Jefferson county. made 80
pounds Of cheese last season.
The steamer Geo. w. Elder will arrive
here AZ six O'Clock this morning, aud
take on few hundred tons Of coal.
They had = land slide at Maple Ridge,
b. C., last week, IN which four CHINA
Inenwere killed and one ere'y.lnJGred.
+. Z. Cannon, " no was killed By the
Josephine disaster, was formerly msr-
chant at Canyon City, 50 an Oregon pa
per asserts.
The Golden Rule Bazaar II IN receipt
of large quantity of new goods, which
are being opened and displayed IN their
store on Front street.
Rev. II. Eeils, missionary among the
Indians. goes today 20 his home on
SkokomIsh reservation. after short
respite in Pierce and King counties.
Henry Savage. living six miles south
of Salem, has lost his last horse by
death from the blind staggers. He has
lost seven horses IN few years
1.-The Weston, Oregon, Leader says that
Mr. Seabring died at the pest house
Monday week, Of smallpox, and his wife
and child have since taken the disease.
February. 1853, should be recorded as
the finest winter month yet seen on the
North Pacific coast, Virgins great
storm to the contrary Notwithstanding.
John Piunell died alone in his bed at
Ellensburgh. He turned in at Ill the
afternoon, apparently all right. but at
8, when some one went to call him, was
dead.
Asher Sargent, a pioneer of the Ter
ritory, died III Olympia last week. he
was IN the neighborhood of Is years of
age, and leaves wife and several soas
and daughters.
The Canadian Pacific terminus har-
Dor of Port Moody kas been locked up
BY ice for two weeks. 1t being impossi-
BILE for any craft to either get III or out
during that time.
The steamship Eureka has again gone
north. taking scote of passengers and
fair freight. She had considerable
trouble getting out of the Columbia riv-
ar on account nf thu
Mr. Peter Fairweather, brother of II =.
w. Fairweather, Esq, Superintendent
Of the Pend d Oreille division. n. p. Il.
L., has taken place at Yale, b. c., on
the Canadian Pacific railroad.
As L. Raisbeck has not again come to
light, we are compelled TO believe that
the boys who reported meeting him on
the ice last Sunday were mistaken.
No one else is known to have seen him
since the burning of the Gem, whore he
is reported to have drowned.
J. w. Blakeslee, of Port Townsend,
has been appointed industrial teacher
on Snehomish Indian reservation, vice A.
+. Burnell resigned. This is the place
Z. e. Vickery who was lost from the
steamer Gem. was on his way to take al
the time of meeting his death.
An effort is making on the part of the
British ship Lauderdale to settle with
the ship Oriental for damage done the
latter June 18th, but with small pros
pect of success unless they come NJ
| with the amount of money claimed
when settlement viii follow immediate.
ly.
l.. l.. Bales, who lived here last spring
and summer, and did business AZ al
auotioneer, tried TO commit suicide al
| Walla Walla last week. It was love
affair that drove him to the rash act
Bales is a romantic individual anyhow
and is noted for an elopement from
Walla Waila with colored girl, and
their subsequent marriage in a small
boat on the bay fronting this city. Mrs
Bales has now quit him. and another
maid whom Bales was sparkling gave
him the bounce. Hence. his recen,
taking of morphine and opening up q
blood vessel in his arm.