Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-05
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The Port Townsend term Of the Dis
trict Csurt has bean postponed 70 No
vember.
Ship Daniel J. Teuney 10 alongside
the Yesles wharf dischaxginR her bal
last, preparatory TO taking coal.
A smart shover of rain fell at victo-
MA few days ago, and another down
the Straits of Fucz On the American
side.
The steamer Emma Hayward vastvo
bours behind time yesterday, owing 20
the dense fog and smoke on the upper
Sound
A stranger whose name the writer
soold NOT learn bad hls leg broken yes
tardsy at New Castle by being run over
by the incline cage.
Col. Chambers, at Port Tovnsend, has
Q span of carriage h0rses and Q two
seated wagon which il wanted here, and
which be ofiers for sale.
Two bunches Of keys picked mp and
left at this Office, may be obtained by
their owners calling for the same as
this Office, proving property and paying
costa
The dense fog and smoke of the past
month has pretty efectually done up
boating On the bay, which under the
circumstances il neither pleasant nor
safe.
The firm Of Scur.y 4 Snow, civil en-
gineers, has been dissolved, and Mr..
SNOW has taken Mr.. Robert MUNICH IN as
| q partner, 50 that the firm 10 nov Snow
4 Munich.
| There has been q noticeable change
Of the Temperature during the past fev
days, the fo9s becoming denser and
more moist, and the degree of heat par
oeptibly less.
TheWKKKLY PosT- IsIELLIGEScKa fresh
| from the press, may be obi tiEed today
at 10 cents q copy at the oIhce Of put
location, or at the news stand of Major
| Jack Stratman.
foundation of the new North School
Gipsy from Bellingham Bay. and was
landed upon the Yesler wharf.
A new building is being put up on
Yesler's wharf fer the Washington
Steam Transportation COMPANY, the
lower hsor Of which will be used for a
shop and the upper for storage.
That the liquor sold by wholesalers
here is not home made, one has only TO
step into the stores and warehouses OF
our leading dealers to see. The average
quantity In store LOw must be few
hundred thousand dollars worth all the
time.
w. w. Holcomb, the Washington
street lawyer, has gone. no one seems tc
know where. He Is leech on any com
munity where be hangs out, and she
sincere hope prevails that he never vii
return to Seattle, as he is q worker OF
evil, and both his example and inf1u-
ence are bad.
The timber land entry business hai
pretty efectuAlly run its course In mhny
localities. In Northern California tht
grab has diminished 50 per cent. and il
some parts of Washington Territory NJ
less 80. In other parts, though, and no
tably in Chehalis valley, the quest is al
eeasr and the grab as rapacious as it hal
yet been in any part of tie country.
| The alley back of the Schwabache
building is receiving a filing of earth
bringing a part of it up q hight o
twenty or more feet from the origina
tide-washed beach to the level Of TIN
street. The same alley has also beel
raised alongside the pOstOface building
And 80 the filling in on the water frOn
goes on, a little here and little there
but little all the time, until hundret
houses ia the city now stand on mad
ground over sites where twenty year
ago the sea rose and fell every day.
/ The steamship Dakota brought from
San Francisco to the several ports Of
her route passengers and freight as be
low atafed.