Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-12-02


No police business yesterday morn
ing.
The new county building is under
roof.
A Masonic lodge is about to be in
stitu,ed at WhatcOm.
DR.. +. I. Minor and family returned
from Portland last evening.
The Sisters of Charity Melted S20oS p
at fair held by them IN Vancouver last
week.
By paying gas bills toraorrQw pen
atty OF 33 per cent. will be saved by
consumers.
4 1000 feet \ day saw mill is about
10 be erected on Nasel River, near Oys-
:erv.Ile, W. T., by Robert Miller.
Tho Liberal League will NEE. as U.s.
ual in iesIer's Hall on Sunday evening.
December "a. at $50 sharp. All are Ia
vited.
An Ilwaco subscriber tells tie historian
of a mother that gave birth TO nine BIT
tie ones last week. She Is said to be a
first rate mouser. too.
Eshelman. Llewellyn Il Co. have 1879
acres for sale ON SALMON Bay. which, at
so an acre. is said to be 4 bargain of
the choicest description.
Stachpeol, jackson & Co. have some
thing new and interesting to say il their
line of trade through the medium of
our columns this n srning.
The Welcome brought in large num-
Der of passengers last evening. They
must have been somewhat crowded Oh
the HaywarG's smaller substitute.
The police do not slacken the r efforts
to rid TIE city o; Migrants. Every
morning the boat takes out a number,
| w.o prefer to go rather than to be pros
ecuted.
, The Hon. l.. p. Smith has been so i'll
as to be confined to his hons ever since
his return from his trip to the Atlantic
State. He ID slowly convalescing.
though.
An addition is being built to the store
of n. Densmore. The upper part is
| for rooms while the lower part Is for a
warehouse. Business is rapidly ealarg
ing in that part of town.
| Judge Cam hands over to the city the
sum of $l29 40, the proceeds of fines
assessed during November. Besides
this large amount of street work was
done in working out fines.
A young man named Ewing. son Of
Hon. Thomas Ewing, the Ohio states
M IN. is, with partner, about to start a
weekly newspaper at Mount Veraon, in
the new county of Skaglt.
As fine stock Of goods for the holt
day trade as ever came into this market
| is that now in the store of j. ID. Low
man. Before buying tOwnsfolA will do
we'll to look in at LOwman's.
| No action has yet been taken to secure
the release of the contraband China
men, and it is probable that these two
heathens will soon again breathe the
invigoratirg air of British Columbia.
J. C. Nixon, a we'll known citizen of
Seattle, was paid yesterday by W. II.
Taylor Il Co., agents of the Travellers
Insurance Company, S2j3 Cor injuries
received some time since. Ask Nixon if
it pays to insure against accidents III the
Travellers.
The first copy of the Walla Walla
| Daily Statesman receive BY US in three
weeks ca.ne to hand yesterday, and yet
We believe the paper has been mailed to
Us from that office ssv .nteen times dur
ing that period. What has become of
the other sixteen copies
The i$torian thinks there are about
| 10000 Cases of salmon on the river.
Since tho 1ss of last April 50l,2 cases
have gone across the bar; this lncludes
foreign and domestic shipments; some
where Ill the neighborhood of 5000
cases went East via N. p. Il. Il.
The bushes So of the Land Office at
Spokane Falls has not decreased any
since Its removal. On the contrary it
seems to be growing larger every week.
The cash receipts for October were
$l6,62S 30, and the money taken o Yer
the counter Tuesday of this week to-
tailed up to the neat sum OF $500.
The Goldendale Gazette says: Good
horses are worth from $75 to $50, hogs
alwys command from four to five cents
on foot, mich COWS bring from $35 to
$50 and other cattle in proportion, and
sheep range in Value between 81 and
81 80. Wild grass il now most abund-
ant, but different taIae grasses are be-
ing introduced.
The rush still continues at the San
Francisco Store. and i: is all but impos-
sible for their clerks to unpack and get
in the goods before their customers Gar
~ them off. 1t requires 10 gift of
prophesy to fOresee the time when a
larger blilding will be required for the
immense and daily growing business Of
the San Francisco Store.
The editor Of the East O,rGoniGH We
hemently denies the report thai no has
lost IS, OOO.CUO in Wall street. ii, I,vs
he views with alarm the tendency ot ne
| Il tn. Ia ha
tho day. He bought one chip in a faro
game, put 1t on the ace and lost, and
that is all the foundation there is for the
Sian 'erou5 statement concerning him
and his fortune.
| A man by the name of L. IL. Bates,
who has been hanging about the capital
city for the past two months, had some
trouble with another man named W.
| w. Holoom5 ut Olympia on Friday
night. 1t seems that Ho!comb got the
best of his opDoaeut, who started Oft to
find a Justice of the Peace, and before
his return fell off the sidewalk into u
ditch and dislOcated his shoulder bone.
1t il gratifying to all loyal sons and
daughters Of Washington Territory to
witness the killing reception given the
uncalled for, unwelcome DIVISION me-
| moral OF Dig i Johnson. NO paper,
other than his own. had a single word
to say in its favor, while Ill condemned
it and him in severe and unmeasured
terms. Probably no measure was ever
brought forward more Opprobrious than
this, tho time chosen for which was
most inopportune, AS well as its Ian
guage most unhappy. The thing was
simply kicked to death, as it should
have been, and it is to be hoped will
never again be heard from.
| In the amendments to tho Seattle city
charter, recently passed by the Legisla-
ture, John Keenan, is appointed to rep
resent the First ward, and b. l.. NOrthup
the Third ward until an election takes
place. thus making nine Councilmen in
stead Of seven. Tho appointment of
Mr.. Keenan, does not seem to give very
general satisfaction, as he WAS defeated