Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-10

Ii q The hunkefs.

D08vH1IuD.
Ths Unasilla h ss The hunkeeA
Rfsd b. Sparkling left for Washing
tan Last Tuesday.
Capt. J. +. Brown, of Olympia, has
gone 70 Warrington City.
The bark Ella 8. Thaysr il dischaER-
ing ballast ~ the Ocean Dock.
4. AcKinnie and wife Of Portland,
are registered at the Arlington.
The sidewalk along the north side of
Washington street between Commercial
and Second u completed.
Steamer Wilmington ID advertised 10
sAil for San Francisco on the l3th inst.
she 10 nov at the shutes reoeiving her
cargo Of csaL
r. Toklas, head member Of the hrm
OF Toklas & HingeFman, arrived here
from San Francisco last evening. 70 re-
main about three weeks
Ons-half Of the steamer Rip Van
Wrinkle, formerly beloaGinR 20 u. H.
Smith, has besn sid 10 VIM. Harkins.
The other half belongs 70 Capt. Jensen.
Mr.. T. B. Merry, the popular newspa-
per man. nov Of the Orsgonian stat,
will 20 home TO Portland TODAY, after =
few days On the Sound and IN Victoria.
H. G. Hale has resigned his position
a roadmaster on this divisien, se,s the
SpraGue Herald. He accepts position
ct once.
Mr.. d. Harms, of the Arion Club, vas
36 years cid yesterday. The Club met
at their hall in the PssT building last
night, and celebrated the event in .
hearty manner.
Wasc0 county, Oregon, owns 5000
horses assessed at $4,000. In the same
county there are 1875 head of cattle.
valued at &253, 726. There are IL, ll9
sheep assessed at e306, 25S.
A. b. Ensign, who has been conduct
ing the Rogers House At Whatc0m for
the past month for Captain Rogers, Who
went East, closed up the hotel tho other
day, and returned to Seattle.
A Nsah Bay correspondent writes %
that the MAkah Indians caught an 80
foot whale that vas driven ashore in
the gale last week, and was stranded
four miles from Cape Flattsry.
The papers Of the Rip Van Wrinkle
will be changed in the Custom House
today. The price paid 70 Mr.. Smith, by
Mr.. Harkins for half interest ia her Is
said to 30 three thousand dollars.
We understand, says the Spokane
Falls ChySSiele, the N. p. Co. 10 sooe
0y000 in debt to our lumber dealers in
this city, and that the company 10 tedi-
ously tardy in making payments.
Endioott, W. T.. 10 reported 70 be
growing rapidly aud numerous lots
have been sold there lately. Lumber
for five new dwelling houses has been
ordered. Every house in town - occu-
pied.
The people Of Hnohomish will soon be
going on wheels. Mr.. Blackman and
Isaac Deerin9 are each building Q skat-
ing rink at that place; and tho young
folks are chuckling over the prospect Of
cheap skating IN consequence Ut the
oppositi0n.
During the past year there were shin
ped to Portland from the country east
Of tho Cascade mountains, 8O6, Ol9 hun
dred weight Of wheat; lh3,ll7 barrels
Of 6our; 1850 hundred weight Of bran;
6l28 hundred weight Of nillstuff; SOS.
2l0 pounds Of hides; 7,z39,925 pounds
Of wool. aud 70.648 pounds Of hsps.
Professor Rsicker, Of the Washington
College, has taken Q lease Of the Eplor
half block and buildings ON Second
street, and 10 fitting them mn for hia
school. The Sisters, who occupied them
before, have temporarily moved int l..
b. Andrew house, on Fourth street,
where they will probably stay until
their own new building il completed.
The resent terrible disaster in the
Catholic school ct Belleyllle, Ill, ahould
be taken a. ono more warning by the
buiiders Of boarding schools. Entirely
too much risk Of human life 10 involved
in the putting of Q lot Of young 2irls "a
sleep Just under the roof of four q,
five story wooden building, and the lav
itself should interfere TO prevent the
construction Of such fearful traps.
The first number Of the Port Of Entr,
Times. nav semi-weekly Newspaper a
Port Townsend, was received BY % lest
evening. The Ttsses ID q four-pece 2,
BY ~ inch sheet, issued BY Parkinson q
Glenn, At the rate Of ~ per annum. It,
irst issue 10 full Of news, and il fol.
lowed mp BY subsequsnt Issues Of az
good character, will be a welcome
guest 70 the homes Of Puget Sound.
W. II. Marshall, the Port land agent
| of the Chicago. Miivnnkss and ~ FsnI
Company. nov in this oitv. viii o. ON
10 Victoria today. in the interest," OF the
great company represented BY him
This COMPANY owns and operates about
500O miles Of railroad, and has an in.
come averaging S2.U0O,OUO per month.
Its service 10 unsurpassed b. that Of
any other road in the county.
"Che oomuarativs rainfall A s...2,.
and PORT Tovnesnd I'M vins~, ~ n
n the former soaine4 - al ~ 49,, I,
| In mak,no ~ forscoino st.s~-,srs -.
PORT Tovnsand Tines Sas hs.r r,,s vu,s
| formed - IA Seaftla. INA reirS.iI ..d
melted NOV M in Dssso,h ,s' 1s;sS
Was 7,86 inches. in Janusrv. ira & II
inches; and February, 2.A6 inches; total
rainfall and molfod nnov. TX N innhen