Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-20

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The Columbia street drain, near Front
street, has been In process Of renovation
the pass fes dsya
Smith Brothers are nov on their way
IN Seattle VIA Snoqualmie Pass with q
large band of beef cattle.
The funeral service of the late VIM.
Montgomery will be held at the Epis-
copal church at 81 this evening.
Until the Spring Hill Water Company
get their works IN operation, too much
caution cannot Be used in prsventipa
fires.
The ship City Of Brooklyn. Captain
Swan. loaded with 900 tons Rsnton
coal. win 90 20 sea today IN TOW Of the
tug Richard Holyoke.
The steamer Fanny Lake vas
launched from Mitchelrs vays yessef-
day, and the Title will 20 Oh Saturday,
leaving the yard clear Of vessels.
A private note from n. B. Colt, ex-
press agent, nov in San Francisco,
states that be feels much improved By
the trlp, and viii sail for bone on Tues
day.
Serious charges we're fled against DR..
Q. g. Bullock at q recent meeting of the
Eastern Washington Medical Associa-
ton, the nature of which has not been
made pablic.
Schooner Excelsior viii be the next
vessel In the Wells line. She viii sail
July 3oth, bringing all freight Offering.
There u yet time TO order goods BY
mail, to come on the Excelsior.
EiRhty-fve thousand cases of salmon
have been shipped to San Francisco
from this port this season; about fifty
three thousand had been shipped in the
same period last year.-Astorian.
The Walla Walla Courthouse was re-
fused to Miss Frances z. Willard on the
occasion of her recent visit to that
place. The building can be used only
Tor county purposes and public political
meetings.
Eight drug stores can now be counted
in our city. Five years ago there were
but two, four years ago bat three, and
three years ago bat -four. The four lat
est have been started during the past
eighteen months.
The professional card of C. A. Hoyt,
Esq. will be found in another column D.
Mr.. Hoyt is an old lawyer, having prac-
ticed in both California and Nevada
He came to Seattle to remain, bringing
his family with him.
The Astoridn is authority for the as.
sertion that Me6srs. Simpson d Bros. are
having survey made from Hampton
opposite Astoria, to Shoalwater bay
With the intention of constructing q
railroad from the waters of the COlum.
bia northward.
Geo. H. Chick 4 Co. have this day
sold oat their real estate business to A
c. Hoyt, Esq. Mr.. Chick will engage
In the manufacturing business perman.
entity, and can always be found at the
shinsle mil, just above the kellogg 4
Williamson Foundry, Front street.
w. Fl. Marshall has been appointed
travelling passenger agent for the Chica
90, Milwaukee d st. Paul, with head
quarters at Portland, Or. Mr.. Marshal
is under the direct charge Of Genera
Northwestern Passenger Agent w. II
Dixon. He will oonfine himself to thu
duties of travelling agent. and have moth
ing to do with the sale of tickets east
ward, that being in the hands of thu
Northern Pacific.
This week the track of the Palous,
branch Of the o. Il. 4 N. Co. reached ,
point 2S miles east Of Palouse junction
where 1t intersects the Northern Pacific
The line will be vigorously pushed 80 a
to reach Moscow, il possible, befor'
January 1st. It has been decided Il
build the main line through C0lfax, pro
vided the engineering difficulties of get
ting down and up the natural hollow
in which Colfax is situated are not to,
great.-Union.
Drake and Garfon, who escaped from
the Union county (Or.) jail last fall
both being under sentence TO serv,
terms in the penitentiary, were capture.
two weeks ago near COlfax, w. T. The,
were arrested there for horse stealing
and after examination were committe,
to Jail in default of $500 bail each. The,
had been travelling under the names o
Bassett and Hutchinson, but examination
developed the fact that they were Drak
and Garron.
From Superintendent Moorhouse, O
the Prospect Wheat Farm, Umatili,
county, Oregon, it is learned that har
vestine has been going on down Their
for the past two weeks. He is runnin,
three headers and a steam thresher, AM
employs 10 me1; still with all these mel
and machinery, 30 large is the farm. b.
will scarcely get through with the worl
by the first of next month. He board
the hands in the field, having a board
ing house on wheels, % that there is q,
time lost in going to and from meals
and, in fact, system is shown in the en-
tire management of the business. Grain
10 turning ont 30 bushels to the acre, ant
the whole crop will amount to from
1900 70 $1,000 bushels. The Prospec
Farm il success.