Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-11-15

BgEvITlKs.
No business at the Police Court yes
terday.
The Elder departed on her up-Soond
trip yesterday afternoon
The warehouse at the city dock pre-
sented busy scene yesterday.
The Royal Arch Masous will hold q
convocatson in Masonic Hall this even
ing.
An experienced jointsr can End sm-
plcJmen. by applying at once 1t The
shingie factory.
H. Mitchell and 9. u. Haller came
from Port Townsend on the North Pa
ciic yesterday afternoon.
The Evsneei brought down q guam
tity Of nsa and produce yesterday, TO-
Rether with large number Of hogs
A chance for the ladies to learn book
keeping 10 offered BY Mr.. A. w. Young.
At his scho.l IN the Marshall building.
The bark Hose and the schooner
Qoeen sailed froln Honolulu fer Puget
sound October Is, and the barkentine
Amelia October u.
The remains of the late J. z. Mar
shall arrived on the North Pacific yes
terday afternoon and were received At
the city dock by the Odd Fellows.
The fogs of the past week have been
for this season of she year remarkably
heavy, and have by no means added 70
the pleasures of steamboat navigation.
A drunken negress raised quite q dis
IN q, rr.f ba easnAp NJ ( <mrnaRcfal
and Washington streets last evening,
bat Policeman Lind finally persuaded
her to restrain her exuberance.
Some beautiful specimens of quartz
and other minerals from the Monday
mine, Lookout Mountain, Wood River,
Idaho, are TO be seen in the window Of
A. b. Stewards drag store.
The steamship Geo. w. Elder brought
this trip 706 tons Of freight, consigned
III tons for Victoria, " for Port Town
send. 334 for Seattle, 10 for Tacoma,
IS for Olympia and for Steilaoom.
Seven tickets were sold by Agent Car
ney in this city yesterday forenoon for
Chicago, the buyers taking the Northern
Pacific route 70 St. Paul and the Chica-
q, Milwaukee and st. Paul the re-
n sindsr of the way.
A good job was done by the Street
Commissioner yesterday in the alley
west of the Schwabscher building. 1t
was replanked for forty feet, full width,
and a new and raised crossing built.
Several other alleys down town need
similar work.
Amos Bonman and wife of Anacortss,
leave today for the East, to spend the
INDEPENDENTLY ut Ottawa. For two
years past Mr.. Bonman has been in the
Dominion service, employed in British
Columbia along the line Of the Cana
dian Pacific.
Among the residents of this city il a
gentleman who joined the Order of
Good Templars two years before John
Webster, whose thirty years member
ship We alluded to few days ago. The
individual We mean joined IN 1851. He,
however, unlike Mr.. Webster, quit the
Order long time ago.
The Colonist reports that E. l.. Derby,
late of the Sumas dyking scheme,
cleaned up $4,000 at Winnipeg. He
had taken big contract, and owed his
workmen. The firm for whom he was
operating paid him $4,000. and E. l..
D. skipped across the lise, leaving bis
creditors unsatisfed.
At the recent municipal election in
Vancouver 1872 votes were cast. DR.. J..
X. Smith was elected mayor; George p.
Sears. Treasurer. and d. j. Schells,
Matt Brown, John Jaggy, J. ID. GeoRhe-
gan, David Wall, A. 3. Nicholson, and
George Hubert Daniels, members Of TIE
City Council.
The tabulated statement of the Epis-
cOpal Church in the missionary juridic-
ton Of Washington Territory shows .
total of 407 communicates, of GO pupils
In parish schools, of Sc, 600 in churches,
$50, 600 of which 10 in one church. There
we're ~ combinations in the iurisdic-
lion during the year.
Warrington Territory has ~ brewe-
ries, and made during the fiscal year
1852 3. 269 barrels of beer, or 20 quarts
per head 70 1900 of population per the
census of 1890. We know of q number
Of people who did not drink drop Of
beer last year; hence some people got
more than their share.
The people of Vancouver wanted
81, eco school house. The contract was
let for its construction at nineteen
thousand and some odd dollors, and the
ground cost $l20O. They are now told
the whole cost was 1000, and they
want bill Of items with q view to look
ing up several thousand dollars not sat
isfactorily accounted for.
A municipal requirement that tires Of
vehicles be of greater width, would
have great effect in saving the streets.
Wheels four or four and half inches
wide would not cut the streets at all,
but on the contrary would act AZ rollers,
tending to save and improve them. They
have such regulations elsewhere. Why
not also here
Latest estimates Of the population OF
Duluth, made mp on the basis Of the city
directory, Just issued, make the total
population 1908. The United States
census Of 1880 gave the population %
34S7. There il nothing like directory
to raise the population OF On ordinary
village to that of Q city. With well
worked mp directory. Seattle might be
carried mp to 10000 inhabitants.
Travel-on the Sound CONTINUES large;
boats coming and going regularly TO
and from Victoria, the upper Sound,
Whatcom and the rivers, crowded with
passengers. The travel now represents
that impelled by business alone, O. poo-
pie 60 nov only because obliged to, and
not for pleasure or sightseeing. or b.
cause they can 90 cheaply Or comfort
ably.
men SOUND PAsseNGERs.