Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-08

The Wa1lA WallA vent 70 - 00nony.
Tvo dsunk vseo Aned ct h Pobee
Coart yesterday moGninG.
The Wind yesterday made the Bay
quite ruuah for shsft time.
Ship India has taken The plass It ths
Walla Walla st ~ eoal dock.
Serest iopeovsmsnts in Portland las
year cost t3l7 ,5e7, against e964,0S6 IN
Our thanks are due 70 ]. r. AoComb,
puYSse Of The steamship Empire. for
oourtesies IN his line.
The hrst term Of the nev Distriet
Court aS Whatoom will Be held this
veek. beginning today.
Those wanting freight frum below q
cheap rates can rot It BY ordsring EMP
ments made on the City Of Brooklyn. 70
Ail January 20sh.
Mn. Dodge, sister Of Ars Malson,
living on the corner Of Ninth and James
Streets, has looe two ohildreu nom
diphthsria during the past week.
Steamship Empire viii leave about 8
this forenoon for East Wellington,
tnsre Discharge eosds for the coal com
pany and to load coal for return cargo.
Steamer Messenger brought down Q
Qoodiy number Of passengers yesterday.
The laying up Of the Zephyr By no
means decreases the business of the
Messenger.
The Argus says thar in Port Town
send thivty-f0ur rew houses were built
in 1883, which number was greater than
that Of any previous year in the history
of the town.
The Mccarthy combination 1t the
Naisou Dore theater last evening drev
q large audience. The company are
superior artists, and give an enjoyable
entertainment.
| The Executive Committee of the
Atheneum have selected Monday and
Tuesday evenings Of each week for gen
eral practice, when all members are ex-
peoted TO be present.
There will be Q meeting Of Fire Com
pany No. IN the hall Of the new engine
hOu0e on Columbia street, this evening
The cid Company are nov very comfort
ably housed in the new building.
White river 10 nov bank full, and il
some places the country about 10 Hood.
cd. In fact, the water 10 % high thai
the mail agent has to abandon his hOr0t
and travel by rail or BY steamer. Nc
damage from the high water les 20 fal
BEEN reported.
John l.. Jameson, Who for severn
wears previous to 1877 was one Of thu
most popular young men in Seattle, anC
Who sinOe that date has been travelling
about through Eastern Washington
Oregon and Nevada. has returned 4
Puget Sound and expects to again 10
cate in Seattle.
/ The charges for d0eka9e ct Yesler'l
wharf, mentioned by us last week, hat
reference only 70 craft coming to tn
wharf without bringing u business, y
tug boats and the like. There will b
NO charge to the freiRhters, who will b
~ welcome a. before. without an!
charge whatever.
| Wald d Campbell do quite . business
ON Yeoler's wharf, where they keep I
warehouse full Of wagons, carriages
trucks, agricultural Implements. tools
esc. Their Front street store 10 an i'm
mense establishment, but, when supple
mented by the warehouse, il made Il
appear much greater.
/ A telegram received here yesterda,
brings word that Nrs. Reach left Sal
Francisco for this city on the las
steamer, being called here by the dealt
Of her son. She wanted the body KEEP
until after her arrival, but the dispatol
came too late for compliance with tina
request. Il il understood that her tw'
daughters accompany her.
i In closing up it, accounts prior 4
consolidation With Tacoma, New Taco
ma Was found to have Q total debt o
~, l76.24, against (which there was a
OFFSET in the way Of assets amounting {.
tlO,l2727; leaving the actual debt ia,
O64.N. The entire expenditures Of th
Corporation since it, formation wer
&60,2l2. and it, income 81, 457.
About tho deepest mud in town 10 tina
on the Yesler wharf. The slabs an
sawd1ss forming the Foundation settl
continually, keeping the earth above j
q loosenin9 condition, which by th
heavy rain and the enormous trafic
worked up into the softeat, deepest nud
Il will take at least four fest moro roo
and gravel 70 make halfway dry stree
Of it.