Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-30

The steamship Elder will arrive to-
day.
The Coantv Commissioners will con-
clude their lsbors this afternoon.
Commissioner Colman is again able
to attend the meeting of the Board.
George Smith is is town. raising a
gang of mea 70 work on the Snoquaimle
wagon road
Mr.. A. Kuhn. of Port Townsend,
ia in this city seeing his friends and at
tending TO biz.
Work of repairing the Ocean Dock,
which the Queen of the Pacific tore up
is progressing rapidly.
A lost locket is wanted at this office,
where proper reward will be given 10
the finder for its return.
The ship City of Brooklyn will take
900 tons Of coal, and sail for San Fran
cisco Saturday evening.
Among other things burned in the re-
cent fire at Olympia were the horse and
phaeton of Marshal Hopkins.
The schooner d. ). Williams arrived
Yesterday, and will load lumber at
Stetson d Posts mill for California.
Undelivered kilograms remain in the
Office for j. +. Hoaghton, john Corkish,
Lewis shelton, Mike Gib5en and j. ID.
May.
John Burns, the White River hop
raiser, has gone to San Francisco,
where his wife is sojourning, and where
his children are attending school.
The Olympia Daily Courier is dead,
l. A - 10 Doom I~r-f n
aKScER from its exchange list Not
single copy has come to hand for over
week.
The fine weather continues, and Is
rendered the more agreeable by the
clearness of the atmosphere, the late
rains having extinguished the fires and
delivered rs of smoke.
John Roach & Son launched on May
18th the iron steamer City of Topeka,
for the Topeka d santa Fe Railroad
COMPANY, The vessel is 21S11 feet
long, 35 feet beam aud Is feet hold.
1t will be well for those who wish to
enjoy, themselves to attend the social
festival to be given by the young ladies
of the Congregational Church this
evening, in the basement of the church.
The Neios says there is general COM
plant among Tacoma merchants at the
delay in forwarding freight from Port
land. Ii sometimes takes nine or ten
DAYS for merchandise to arrive after
shipment.
Ed. NJ. Smithers, accompanied by his
mother, left for Spokane Falls yester-
day. Mr.. Smithers expects to locate at
that place permanently. After short
visit his mother will return to her home
at Renton.
The steamer Meteor, which was built
TO cross the Atlantic ia five days, has
| been taken from Boston to Bath, and it
is said that the Goss Marine Iron
Works will try to make her engine work
at the latter place.
The Argus reports rumor that the
combination OF towboats will soon be
broken. Cuts in rates have bsen fire.
quently made of late, and when that il
done by the members of a pool it al
ways leads to trouble.
The Both day of May is recognized by
the United States Government as a
legal holiday, and all public offices will
be closed. The Post Office will close al
| 10 O'Clock a. M, and will not be again
opened until Saturday morning.
Strawberries are imported by Tacoma
dealers from Southern Oregon and sold
at thirty-fiye cents a pound. Freshel
and better ones could have been goI
here ut l21a. Possibly they were afraid
Seattle berries would make them sick
Goss & Sawyer and Goss. Sawyer
Packard. the we'll known shipbuiIders
of Bath, have consolidated their inter
ests and now carry on their extensive
business under the name and title oil
the New England Shipbuilding Com
pany.
Lila McDougall. daughter of James
| W. MoDougaii, a former United State.
Senator from California, is to be mar
ried at st. lgnatius Church, New Yorl
City. on the evening of June 3D., TO Mr.
John William Boothby, prominen
lawyer OF the great metropolis.
General Stone has completed tn,
foundation on Bedloe's Island for tn,
Bartholdi statue of liberty. The foun
dation Is ninety-one feet square at TIA
base, sixty seven feet square at the tor
and fifty-two feet and ten inches high
and is described as the largest artificia
stone ever msde.
"A decree of absolute divorce WI,
granted by Judge Donohue in the New
York York Supreme Court the other da,
10 Charles Hee SIM, a promisent mem
Der of the Chinese community. Hi
wife, Emma, an English woman, 4
whom be was married in 1876, becam
enamored of Fon Que and left him il
1880.
Another change is to be made in the
Northern Pacific time schedule between
Portland and Tacoma, by which tn
tram will arrive at Tacoma an hou
earlier IN the evening and leave al
hour earlier. Tho abominable nigh
schedule Is done away with coming thu
way, but going that way 1t will be
wearisome all night ride.
Steamer Bob Irving mas been sold &,
L. X. Brown. racoma merchant, and
Captain thomas Grant, and she Wi
hereafter be run on the upper Sound
from Tacoma To Nashon Island, Stella
COON, Olympia, Henderson's Bay arc
points la Mason County. Captain
Grant VIII command her. Captain l.
Green has succeeded Captaih Grant OF
the steamer Emma Hayward.
The tifty cents aud one dollar rates tc
Whatcom aid Victoria have ruined tn,
steamboat excursion business this year
Ii is a constant excursion as far as rate,
are concerned on a half dozen of th,
finest boat, plying these waters, and the
people get all the stea mboat riding the,
want for less money than they woulC
have TO pay on any excursion boat.
Tomorrow Saturday morning tn,
Seattle keds will lie We at half past al,
O'Clock On tho steamer Nellie for Sno
homish 10 contest the championship oil
the Territory With the Pacitics Of tha
place. An opportunity Is offered al
who desire to make q trip to that lively
burg up tue prestless river Ia the coun
| try az much less than the usual cost
The Nellie will return on Sunday.