Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-28
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New houses are being built IN all por-
tons of the city. not notwithstanding tie
strineency of the money market.
The steamship Queen Of the Pacific
will sail for San Francisco At O'Clock
this afternoon. Her cargo will be prin-
cipally Seattle coal.
The rains OF the past week have dene
away with the necessity for the street
sprinkler, which has, In sequence,
temporarily retired.
The ship Memnon will be the next
vessel 81 come up the coast in the line
of Charles Ii. Wells. Shs Will sail
about tue middie of next week.
.. w. Jasper, stor-keeper for the G.
add p. ;. Railroad Company. IN this
cIty, and Is advertising his household
effects for sale at puoiic auction.
Hon. James Power, of Skagit county,
who mas been doing Victoria and seat
tie during tins past week or so, left for
dis home by the steamer w. K. Merwin
last night.
The ship City of Brooklyn, now under
| the Gal shutes, will be loaded before
the arrival of the Willamette. thus CIV
ing that steamship an opportunity to get
| quick dispatch.
The force at Newcastle mines has
been somewhat cut down of late. owing
to the light demand for coal IN San
Francisco. A full crew will be put on as
soon as the market Will justify.
| The vexed question of selecting a
suitable site for d pest house, Is now be-
tore the City Council. some favor To-
eating In one place, and some another,
but no definite location has as yet been
selected.
Commissioner Colman Is still confined
to his house by sickness. de received
another attack yesterday, and Ii Is
thought now that he Will not again be-
able u attend the SESSIONS Of the board
this term.
Mrs. Martha Z. White will give a
choice Evolutionary entertainment at
the PresbS terrain Church on Friday
evening, Juue OH. Music, both Vocal
and Instrumental, viii also be fur
nIshed by some of the Test talent of
the city.
Those who do not consider it exceed
ing dangerous to pluck liiies at this sea.
ION of the year, sheuld ask our friend
John Barns the hop ralser, about 1t.
john Is u judge of sucn III alters, as we'll
AZ of hop culture, aud farming gene
rally.
sixty thousand brick have been re-
ceived by ons OF tue dealers since the
beginning of the week, aud the market
thereby partially relieved. TIE several
yards about town / ave been as busy as
shey could be tor "a month past, and
from this on, the prospsct Is, tnere will
Dc no lack. the brIcA Ii ,de here dur
ing tue past year have been of good
quality, aud the quality Is not exl ecte :.
~ deteriorase during the year to come.
The K. of +. picnic, on the 18th inst,
PROMISES to be grand success, pruvid-
cd the weather remains pleasant. Many
persons at different points ON the Sound
| nave slgulted their lntsntiou OF visiting
Seattle On that OCCASION, and very AT
| rdngement IS being made to render
the.r stay pleasant and agreeable. Ihe
picnic Will DO held ~ SMITH, beautiful
grounds at Renton. aud excursion trains
| will ruu back aud forth tor the accom-
modatiou of tue pueils.
Elijah Smith, the new President of
the Oregon Improvement, the Oregon
aud 1ranscontInentala and tue Columbia
and Puget Sound companies, Is a man
WITH twenty years railroad experience,
and Is about forty-fivs years of age.
he built the burning ton anu southwest
ern Railway, loo miles In length, and
sold 1t about a year ago to the Burling-
ton. Cedar Rapids and Northern Rail
way. DE also built about sixty miles
of railway in Mexico, whiea he sold to
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railway. He has at different times
been receiver of several roads in the
West, and is considered III railroad cir.
Giles TO be man of considerable wealth,