Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-15
LOCAL gRgyITIEs.

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San Francisco I25i tons of freight. -
of which we're for Olympia, ~ for Port
Townsend. 81 for Tacoma, IA for VIC
toria and 472 for Seattle.
Seed tine has again come and With It
the annual preparation Of Kellogg q
SNYDER. They have great quantity OF
field and garden seeds and are already
selling enormously Of them.
A card from Orcas island informs Us
that the boom has struck that section at
last. Lots of new settlers are going IN
there, money is plenty. and all feel good
at the bright prospect before them.
Eichty-three cabin and 123 steeraoe
passengers came up On the steamship
George w. Elder. The number OF up
bound passengers il yisibly increasing
each succeeding trip, and two months
hence will be higher than ever before.
A. w. Piper has received three dozen
German carp from the Fish Commits
sioner At Washington. and intends
stocking a pond near this city with
them, after which they will be intro
duced in lakes Washington and Union.
TIE Madison Square Company are
announced to play IN Astoria next Sat
urtlay night. and will play in Portland
all next week. Their piece Is 'Esmer-
aida" II will be presented one night in
Tacoma. one night here and one night
in Victoria.
The steamer Lily, Capt. Dave Web
ster, will gene out OF the mechanic S
hands this wee X in good condition for
work, better than ever before. She will
have brand new boiler and new
cabin. and will be able to carry more
passengers and carry them faster than
before. She will go up White river on
Monday and probably return the same
day.
The pbanton party given at w. d.
Jones' on Cherry street. under the
auspices Of the I. y. q. r., was sue
cess. The crowd gathered at the house
st o'clock. There were about twenty
five masked, and quite number who
wore no masks. At half-past s the
masks were taken off, and the rest of
the evening was spent In singing, play
ing games, etc. At III O'Clock all depart
ed, having had good time.
George Smith, who starts for his
home in Eastern Washington today, via
the Snolualmie Pass, will return to
Seattle over the same route about March
1t with twelve head of work oxen, ten
or fifteen head of saddle horses, a nun
Der Of work horses and 80 head of stall
led beef cattle. The saddle horses will
| % used in carrying passengers across
the mountains, and the other animals
will he sold on their arrival here.
Pat Gull, who lived here long ago,
has lust returned from residence of
several years at the Cascade Locks,
Middle Columbia river, and has located
At Snohomish City. Mr.. Gull, while
| riding on railroad velocipede a year
ago, had a terrible fall, and at first was
| aid To be- dead. A man that was with
| him was killed. but Mr.. Gull recovered
| aud il now as vigorous and we'll looking
man AZ one is likely to meet in a days
travel.
| Montesanc, in Chehalis county, &C
| cordng to the Tidefte, has two hotels
| two school houses, one church, ssyera
stores and many residences. II also
has doctor, a dentist and newspaper
| office. II il on 'tae mighty Chehalis
| river" at u point where stages, mails
steamboats,, travel and trade intersect
| IL was laid out as a town in 1870, and
was made the seat of tho county. Ii
has grown slowly, but will experience d
rapid change from this on.
| 1t is recalled to mind that the steamer
| Elizabeth Irving, lost on Fraser
| river in 1881, experienced fate good
| deal like that of the Gem. She was
loaded with hay, in which the fire caugh,
near the boiler. She was mass OF
| flames in q moment, and nothing could be
| done TO save her or her cargo. In fact
she burned so fast that four persons or
board were unable to escape. and lost
their lives in consequence. The Eliza
beth Irving was a new boat, almost rs
large as tho Emma Hayward, and was
worth $4,000.
A new weekly paper ia to be estab
lished in Portland, to be called tn
| Commercial Herald. Its prospectus
| gives its advertising rates. 1t viii
charge 81 an inch per single month. s.
for three months and Sl5for six. Thes,
are about fair and right. and will en-
| able the paper to live. Such rates were
never heard of here, though, and the
| advertiser would DO shocked beyond de.
scription by the newspaper asking
them. We fancy our -cents-an- inch.
per-month contemporaries paralyZine
| a local dealer with a demand for 81
But the men behind the projected Port.
land paper mean To conduct it as a legi
innate business enterprise, To fill M
actual want and To make money on
of il, and not for glory.
| Tho hight of the food Mt Cincinnati
may be imagined by comparisons here
IL is reported there ~ 65 feet high
| There is good deal of hill in Seattle
vet IS feet of water added to the water
of Az ordinary high tide, would food
one-half the town site. and would bury
ont of sight every brick building in the
| place. New Tacoma would be little
| more protected. but the wharves there,
| the Blackwell hotel. ssw-mill. and all
below the great bank would be covered
| fiity feet deep or iloated of. Three
f1urths of Olympia would be- submerg.
ed. Every sawmill and wharf ON the
Sound would be sunk or destroyed
Ships could float over the site of Por,
Townsend under the hill. with not y
house To obstruct their movements. In
Victoria hardly anything, in any part OF
| the town, would be left out of water
| while the greater part of the city would
he invisible beneath the wave. Sixty.
| five feet of water. added to what we al
ready have, would drown one half the
Puget Sound coustry.