Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-06

lie OsoolscS VII pay mere SVo
nighfs instead Of one. OF On Monday and
Tuesday lext
Henry Wizard was to lay the corner
stone of the nev CaPatol Of Dakota at
Bismarck yesterday.
Saw-logs are selling q; IS thousand
On Lake Washington and g. and up
wards on the Soard-
Schooner Teaser, Capt. Quinn, AZ
rived yesterday from Victoria bringing
300 gallons of fish oil for 5 Baxter Il
Co. Of tins city.
Geo. 7. Myers il perfecsing arrange
nsents to open his cannery At Milton
de expects 70 get under way by the
middle Of next week
y. c. Hawks, the type and press
dealer of long time Paesac Coast fame,
il making a shorf business VISIT TO the
Sosnd. and Was N the city yesterday.
Ship Katie Davenport VIII have to get
mighty tine wheat charter 10 pay her
for lost time, As she has bern waiting
that description of cargo at Tacoma
four months
John jackson, y years of age. Vas
run over and killed by span of horses
and wagon In Victoria last Tuesday,
be sas at the time trying to stop the
runaway animals
Framework for the arches across the
most prominent streets Is being erected.
Oar city promises 10 presen; a very
handsome appearance on the arrival OF
Willard and party.
Pat Murphy. claiming 10 be from
Seattle, was arrested IN Victoria the
other day on a ckarae Of robbing the
Commercial Hotel of that pi .ce. The
TIL vas taken With 81.
The bark Sonoma is repairing at San
Francisco. Some big Puget Sound
sticks, LA feet long and 1Oxl6 inch 8.
are being put in her. and will add
greatly to her strength
Clarence Hanford, proprietor of the
Posi- lsTELLIGKSCER JOB Office, met with
painful accident by MASKING one of
his fingers yesterday while working
about the presses in his Office.
The house occupied BY j. w. Hunts
family on Marion street was placed on
rollers yesterday, and will be moved of
today, TO make room for the foundation
of Fryes new brick opera house.
Peter Craonelli, a California '49er, a
Cariborite of '62. and Victoria store
keeper for fourteen years past, was
found dead in his bed last Monday,
where he had evidently laid in that con-
dition for two DAVIS
Some weeks ago this journal men
toned that Stetson x Pests mill was
soon to be lighted by electricity. Since
that the machine has arrived and been
put III working order, SO that hereafter
dOgfsh oil IN that institution will be
discarded.
Street numbering is gratifying sue
cess IN this city. The system adopted
was plain one, and it works to a
charm, avoiding the confusion that is
to be found in Portland. The highest
number We have yet noticed is 20l6, on
the Bell block, in the northern part of
town.
1t looks like big business. sure enough,
to see At the same moment three two
horse delivery wagons standing in front
loading then up to their utmost ca
pacity. horses, wagons and store all be-
longing to the same man. Yet this
scene is witnessed daily on Front street
at the store of c. p. Stone.
The question of the practicability of
applying electricity to light house illu-
mination in the lighthouse establish
ment of the United States is being
tested by the erection of an electric
laboratory at the Lighthouse Depot at
New York, which will be furnished with
all the necessary electrical apparatus.
An experimental tower to be used for the
availability of the electric light in light
houses will also be erected shortly at
that depot.
Spreading On the streets Japan gravel
brought here by the ship Abner Coburn
is fairly under way. The suggestion
heae made that it he put on in a rather
thin layer, 80 that it may be made to go
az far as possible. Commercial street
should DO covered from end to end.
Front street north 10 Seneca; while
few cart loads should be put here and
there on other streets, and the western
ends of Jackson, Main and Washington
streets. A very excellent street, at a
very opportuhe moment, can be made
with this six hundred tons of gravel.
The steamer Emma HAYWARD mar
rowly escaped serious disaster atNthe
New Tacoma wharf the other morning,
Is was very smoky and foggy, and as
she Was gliding into her accustomed
berth she found herself suddenly almost
afoul of the ship Two Brothers, which
unconcerne1ly lay in the way without
giving the least signal of warning to the
approaching steamer. 1t was q narrow
esc-pe for the Hayward and all on
board, for nothing could have saved the
steiner had she struck the ship, and
with her would beyond doubt have been
lost majority Of those ON board. In
tense indignation was aroused among
| those on the stea mer at the carelessness
and disregard of those on board by the
ship.
The Ordnance Bureau of the Navy
Department is experimenting to find a
steel wire suitable for the purpose of
| winding the "wire-wound" six-inch
| euus which are to be made for the ar
mament or the proposed steel cruiser
Chicago. One of these guns which
has recently been tested, proves to be a
powerful engine of war, and TO possess
wonderful penetrating force. Lieuten-
ant Vesy, Of the Advisory Board, the
designer of the wire wound" and
strap hoop" guns, is sanguine OF the
success o the former. He says he ia
willing TO load one Of these guns TO the
mnzzle, wedge in the shot aad fire il
himself. The cruisers Boston and At.
lanta will be equipped With fifteen of
the strap hoop" guns, which are nov
4 in he sS,r, go Of rx,r,s