Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-06-23

adv.
Mrs. Fureasson has some rooms to |
let. See notice.
Mrs w. T. Forrest has gone on a
visit to the East.
Hon. D. Jacobs is TO deliver the 9Th of /
July Grafton at Snohomish.
Oranges are retailing at the fruit |
stands at 20 and . cents dozen.
The Stetson 4 Post savmiIl IL again |
shut down on account Of lack of water. |
Farmers, gardeners, carriage drivers, |
and pedestrians are all signing for rain. !
Steamer Yakima made q visit to our
harbor yesterday, staying u few hours
and going of again.
The steamship Empire. which sailed
from San Francisco last Tuesday, il ex-
pscted to arrive here today or tenor-
row.
The iron casing and door front for
vault came from Raymond d Wiltshire
70 ohm Collins, on the last trip of the
Dakota.
Six men are at work on the beach at
the foot Of Jackson street, coppering
piles for the new wharf Of the railroad
company.
Capt. Hiram OIney has built another
steanboat-a small twin propeller craft
which he will have out and running
in few days.
According to the Eye, the Snohomish
base ball boys have challenged the So
attic club for game at that place be-
fore the Fourth Of July.
Steamer North Pacific is again on the
nd hc epox hi ia
onoe moro breathes freely at the pros
pect Of trip over her route.
The District Court, which commenced
at Olympia some two weeks ago, ad-
journed Thursday, having finished mp
oil the business on the docket.
Phillip Ritz, q prominent citizen Of
Walla Walla county. is at present So
iourning ON the Sound. He reports
fourishing condition of affairs in his
section.
The Lake Washington Mill Company
| is BY no means dead. On the contrary,
it is now engaged in building hotel,
putting up house for a store and in
Producing water.
FL. Hatch, Of Portland, has q s'srn-
wheel steamboat for sale, just such q
boat "a is wanted for service on Puget
Sound. Some one will 20 for that boat
| within week We will warrant.
In burning q nest of yellow jackets"
below Portland last week, 200 cords Of
wood belonging TO J. Delay were de-
stroyed: People ehoud be cautious
about starting dres in the timber these
through their careleemeoo others are in
jured, as above mentioned.
The local mills are feeling the benefit
of railroad construction up the White
river valley. Stetson i Post, Milton
and the Commercial mills-all three
have 5O0,O00-feet contracts to ill, and
the work Of filling them is already be-
gun by two, with the MiltonI mill TO be-
gin next week.
DR.. J. 8. Houghton, formerly of Port
Gamble, bat latterly of Goldendale, w.
T., arrived here with his family on
Thursday evening, having come with
the intention of staying and making
this his future home. For a time he
will live on Stuart street, between Front
and Second, in house belonging to j.
D. Smith.
The piles have been driven for q new
branch Of the railroad, to connect the
coal wharf with the freight and passen-
ger wharf. 1t defects from the coal
incline about half way mp that struc-
ture, at hight sufficient to permit the
construction of bunkers beneath for the
town trade, when the retail yard will be
established there.
In riding to Renton q few days ago,
the team driven by G. G. Phinney be-
came fractions at the Black river bridge,
and, while they did not run away, break
anything or do any damage, Mrs. Phin-
ney was so alarmed that she jumped
ont Of the carriage, falling down the
bank and in;uiing her spine. She has
since been confined to bed, but is now
thought to be better.
The Soldiers Home estate at Wash
ington covers 502 acres. There ore 500
inmates, with LEO out-pensioners, who
get $8 . month. The revenues about
100000 a year, derived in part from
| 100000 levied by Gen. Scott on the city
Of MEXICO for having permitted gueril-
las to fire on American troops, and from
q fec of 1211 cents month deducted
from the pav-rolls Of all soldiers in the
army.
g. @. Phinney yesterday purchased
from A. McKinnie IS feet water front
On Commercial street, next to the Stet-
son d Post mill, reaching to deep water.
The wharf there Of 65xl60 will be en-
larged - a. to give the Lake Washing
ton Mill, of which Mr.. Phinney il the
principal owner, room for a lumber
yard, il being his intention on the con-
pletion of the canal to ship by barge
through Lake onion to tho wharf IN
the southern part of the city. The
price paid was $4,000.
Trinity Parish School closed to-day
for the summer vacation. Quite q nam
Der Of the patrons of the institution
listened to the elocutionary exercises,
which were quite cfeditable to all the
pupils. A committee Of ladies, with
considerable difficulty, decided that
Ralph Chick deserved the prize offered
for the best speaker among the older
scholars, and Lea Harrison among the
younger. The school takes its annual
picnic ct Lake Warrington to-day, and
viii reopen early in September under
the successful management Of Miss
L,oudsfback. its present teacher.
The Seattle Lumber 4 Commercial
Company are doing considerable filing
on the mud fat about their mill. Slabs
and sawdust have been piled in there
until they are a. high a. the original
wharf. and the hight will undoubtedly
be raised still further. About an acre
has been reclaimed in this manner. The
filling there added TO that Of the Yealer
wharf. and the building Of other
vharvss and places Of business along
the front, will soon make an imperative
call for the opening Of West street, from
the Stctson & Post mill ON 70 the north
efn limit Of the city.
Clark county il doing something in
the way Of growth, a. well a. spokane,
Columbia, Pierce. King, Whatcom, and
other paTts Of the Territory, a. in evil
denced by the Territorial census Of the
present year and few Of the past years,
As fellows:
Years. Population.
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In 1882 the census was not taken. An
increase Of 30 per cent. in Ave years
70 per cent. in three years would Be
considered wonderful anywhere else
than in tina Nnrfhavu pansAn ncuukp~