Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-08-03

18th.
The hor.-haired gentry must suffer
in these days from tickling, sticky, pes
tiferous flies.
The ship Detroit arrived yesterday,
and will load Seattle coal She is at an
Choir near the barrel factory.
Mis- O'Neill, of this city, has engaged
70 teach the school IN the Eagle Harbor
district. across the Sound.
Our fellow tovnsnan Waiter Graham
viii start for California on the 10th
inst, for the purpose of visiting the
Paso RobIes Springs. HesvIl probably
BE- absent about two months.
4 card appears elsewhere from w. Il.
Taylor d Co., the James street insur-
anoe agents. Taylor d Co. represent as
heavy insurance interests as any agents
in the Territory, and they probably do
a. big business
Mr.. Willard has given orders along the
line that in places where the railroad
cannot be completed by the middle Of
September, to build the road around, so
that he can ride through ON the 18th OF
September, and ii is to be done.
This 10 the last day Of grace TO gas
consumers. All who have not paid their
July bills before the close of business
today will have to pay at the old rate
"a per thousand feet. Call around &c
the company's Office and save that dol
lar.
They fine violators Of the Sunday Law
in Walla Walla, and one hundred and
twenty Ave dollars in the treasury was
the result of last Sundays breaches. A
case in New Tacoma last week also
ended in fine TO the law breaker. The
law does not seem 80 wholly dead after
all.
J. r. Mcdonald, of Ellensburg, is
making the trip over the Saoquaimie
Pass road in bis own vehicle TO this
city. It win be disappointing if hls
example il not followed by twenty 9th
ers inside of thirty days. Forty men
are working on the road. and forty men
can cut a wagon road pretty fast.
The schooner Reporter, in the Wells
line of sail packets, arrived from San
Francisco yesterday morning. bringing
full load, or about 400 tons, miscella-
neous merchandise for oOnsiRnees in
this CITY. She went in alongside the
Harrington d Smith wharf TO discharge
there the goods she brought for the
firm owning that structure.
The steamer Eliza Anderson returned
Yesterday from Port Townsend, with
Captains Tom Wright and Charley
Thorn in charge. Owing to lack of
ureparstious and a little hitch in the
arYaneements, she did not go over to
San Juan and Semiahmoo. as intended,
but the steamer Dispatch went instead.
She again occupies her old berth along
side the Yesler wharf.
The despised pennies are at last COM
inc into circulation in San Francisco.
They have been kept ont for thirty five
years, but are now making their way.
and in few years will be in general
circulation. Bake shops and confec-
TONERS are now Supplied with them,
children being the leading agency in
the circulation Of this diminutive old
oein.
i On Saturday next Prof. E. S. Ingram
at the head of q party Of about twenty
ladies and gentlemen will leave Seattle
for a trip TO Lake Cushman and the
Lillewaup Fails. They will 60 by
steamer up Hoods Canal and then pro-
Deed to the lake and falls, spending a
week in fishing, hunting, sight seeing
and having good time generally.
The Oregon Improvement Company's
buoy, attached by u heavy chain to an
enormous anchor, in our harbor, be.
came water logged and sunk week OF
90 ago. The steamer Whitelaw has been
employed to drag for and recover the
cable and anchor. The buoy consisted
of three or four cedar logs fastened to-
Rether, and has been in use for about
three years.
Dick Jeffs, one of the pioneers OF
King county. tells US that the present
season Ia almost identical with that oil
| 1857. Then IL did not rain q drop from
the LIST Of May to the LIST OF October
The fires burned in the dried brush AND
timber terribly. and the air was filleC
With smoke 80 dense that 1t Was impos-
sible mt MONDAY to zee more than
hundred yards, and sometimes not ever
60 far az that. The season of 1868 wal
another dry and smoky one, the smoke
then being quite an dense for weeks at Q
time A Il il at present.
Seattle coal sells in Eastern Wash
ingtou at $3.50 ton at retail, ane
e12.5O by the car load. With the bet
ter connections We are shortly to have
prices are expected TO fall TO about 81
and tl2 per ton by the car load ane
single ton respectively, and at thes,
prices a very considerable trade should
spring MP. Coal would then unques
tionably be q cheaper fuel than wood
which sells by the cord at from $6 4
$40, according to quality and place
The building Of the Cascades road vii
make q further reduction undoubted
IL. and Il will not be strange to see Goa
retailing at $8pa ton in Eastern Wash
ington five years hence.
Says the S. r. Alta: President Vii
lard 10 going into the erection OF RraiI
elevators at Portland, Walla Walla, anC
Puget Sound. He appears TO thinl
that We are very backward on the Pa
cific coast and need to be supplied with
Eastern ideas In the grain business; bul
Il II possible he may find his elevator
speculation q failure. Ship MASTER
and owners do not believe that grain
can DO safely shipped in bulk around
Cape Horn, and. unless il can, there b
NO call for elevators. Nearly hfteer
years ago an elevator was erected a
Vallejo, but il stood unused, except fol
tho storage Of q little wheat, until il
rotted and fell down. Il was never 70.
built, because the investment had beer
q losing one, experiment showing that
there was no demand for such q struc-
ture."