Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-06


r. Scott & Son. Mill street real estate
dealers, have i2coacre farm for sale
near this city.
Recent showers have made the alb
sence of the street sprinkler less notice
able than during the dusty days OF last
week.
The ship Detroit has left upon Yes
Ier's wharf f50 tens of ballast, which
will be used in filing in and solidifyine
that composite structure.
The water Of the Sound, at high tide,
flows into the excavation made for the
Schwabacher building. Twenty years
ago il daily flowed oyer the whole site.
We notice the arrival Of quite a num-
Der of the Peck family in the passenger
list of the Dakota. Il will be a source
of real pleasure to chronicle the arrival
of "Peck's bad boy" but we don't find
his name in the list.
The play last night was witnessed by
hall as full of people as could be ac-
commodated. "Whims" pleased them
immensely. The play, with new local
hits, will be repeated tonight.
II il stated on good authority that
the new ship Mexico, recently purchased
By the Willard people, will be placed ON
the San Francisco and Puget Sound
route during the Dakota's excursion
trip to Alaska.
G. p. Stone, Esq, who has been so
iourning in California for some weeks
past, returned to his home In Seattle
last evening, coming by way Of Port
land, owing to the overcrowded condi-
ton of the Sound steamer.
The excavation for tie new Schwa-
| bacher building made necessary slight
change in the direction OF the Mil
street sewer, which accounts for the
great pile of sand, old sawdust, etc.,
| thrown into that highway.
The rush of people to the Olympia
land office is simply amazing. Large
numbers of people flock there from
| every direction IN quest OF land, and
| the Register and Receiver and their EN-
| ployees have more than they can at
| tend to.
| Another temperance meeting was held
| last night, when twenty new recruits
were enrolled in the temperance army.
Ii was resolved to hold a other meet
| ing tonight, at which an effort will be
made to perfect the organization of a
Blue Ribbon Club.
The lime and stone carrying steamer
Gipsy came into port yesterday, and lay
alongside the dock of the q. q z. 3. T.
X. Co. Between the above commodl-
ties, towing, etc., the Gypsy easily gets
all she wants TO do, and she has already
proved herself an invaluable acquisition
to the trade of the Sound.
The ceasaless throngs Of men and
women on the down town streets last
evening must have been revelation to
the strangers in our city. They have
heard of the rush and the boom here
but they have not realized it, and nov
that they see It it strikes them almost al
if they had not before heard or thought
of it.
| DIR. T. T. Minor has taken An Office il
the Marshall building and has made
beginning in the practice of his profes'
: sion. The Doctor is one of the mos
experienced and skillful physicians on
the Sound, and his immediate entry
upon large and lucrative practice car
not be doubted.
. j. H. Martin, the ashanti Michigan
wrestler, is in town, and is ready for an
business In his line Offering. Mr.. Mar
tin is good man in his way, and Il
ready to meet Donald Dinnie, William
Muldoon or any of the other sO-callet
champions. 1t would not be bad ide'
!, to get up a contest between some o
these giants in this city.
The removal of the grocery store o
, Sutherland a. Co. from the Squir
: building will enable Messrs. Alden 4
, Fiske to enlarge the Brunswick Hotel,
task they have long been eager to ente
> upon, and which they have already be
: gun. The additional room thus OBJ
!, tanned will greatly add to the convs
; nience and capacity OF the house.
As the little iron steamer Everil wa
crossing Lake Washington the day be
fore yesterday the propeller came of
: IL was revolving with such rapidity tina
it went spinning along the top of tn
water for several yards. Engineer Jas
; Fairburn jumped in, caught hold of
before it sank and was fished out by
I rope, together with the detached screw
1t was found necessary to raise tn
lower part of the new sidewalk in from
Of the Yesler-Leary block, and the con
crete was torn up and broken on Mon
day last. The hight of the lower par
of the street, down on the wharf, /
: gradually being raised, and from Their
, on up to Fourth street the ascent will b
easy enough. When the lower part O
town is raised few feet more, as i
J will BIO year or two hence, and as i
being done all the time, the approach
TO the summit Of the hill will be attend
ed with comparatively small difficulty
The dock OF the Oregon Railway
Navigation Company presented an ami
mated scene last evening. The arriva
of the Dakota was quickly followed b,
that OF the Hayward, and there wer,
fully 200 people jostling and crowdin,
each other and good naturedly passin,
jokes on the new arrivals. The street,
later were unusually full of people anc
OF hustle and activity. A stranger in
: CURED. what do you do with them all p
We gave il up, save to answer that the,
were quickly absorbed and domiciled il
this city and other points around the
Sound, and that there is still room fo
moro.
The new truck of Bob Russell il
ahead of anything of the kind hereto
, fore seen IN this city, and we doubt i
II has an equal, certainly not a superior
| th = tAtAseuHs ~ 10 u uSdNys atIOuk N6ul
Gle. weighing over a ton, and having
carrying strength warranted equal Il
ten tons. II is Just the thing for NOV
ing safes, aud rolled of the other day
with one tNaher'sl weighing five ton,
without giving creak. Ii is immense
too, and If buildings were not too bic
would be adapted TO the business q
house moving. II has wide tires, q
that six or eight tons on il will no NOR,
cut the street than enc ton will on an
ordinary truck.
Il The railroad company has recentl,
been extending it's wharf in the southern
part of town IN the neighborhood of th,
depot and sawmill, giving it a space fol
shops, cars. lumber, do, covering man,
acres, and still the work of wharf ex
tension il by no means done, but an in
crease of the area piled over of 50 pei
cent. will be made before the year il
gone. 1t is amusing TO read occasion
ally of the big wharves at other places
claimed by local journals 20 DO til,
largest ON the Sound, when we know
that the wharf room Of the railroad
here is alone greater than all the
wharves combined in any other plac,
north Of the Columbia river. Nhe,
the company's dock system is completes
here il will be an immense affair truly
| ha vine, a ni.~x,s. 80 s.x..~ a.. =.