Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-07-20
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The Willamette sailed for San Fran
cisco yesterday evenisg.
The schooner John q. North. lumber
laden, sailed from Stetsou i Posts
wharf yesterday afternoon.
Schooner John +. Miller will be the
next vessel IN tie line of Charles h.
Wells To Sail for the Sound.
The Oregon Improvement Company
has a large qusutlIy of lunber for sale
at ITS yard III the south eud of town.
Ssv ladies' were conirme d in the
Episcopal Church at Olympia lasl
Thursday evening, by Bishop Paddock.
A brass key was found on Front
street yesterday, aud left at tnIs office.
which the owner can recover by calling
for and proving property.
ZMr. David Ross Is now delivering the
nrst volume of Blaine's twenty
Years of Congress- 1861 to 1881" Ii Is
a magnificent work, and should be In
every library.
Mr.. j. W. George has received his
commission as United States Marshal
for the Territory, has given an approved
bona, and was Yesterday swora III by
Chief Justice Greene.
Mr.. Il. w. Little, ex-chief of the
night patrol of the Safe Deposit OF san
Francisco, has gone to New York to
visit his mother. On his return he will
open a saloon III this city.
To w. d. Wood, the stenographsr,
this Journal and its readers are lndebt-
ed for the full and excellent report of
the speeches last Thursday az the
Chamber of Commerce, of President
Harris. Judge Lewis, Judge Burke and
John Leary.
Stackpool, jackson i Co. will begin a
great liquidation sale tomorrow, with a
View of uisposlng OF their entire stock
within sixty days. Parasels, gloves,
silks, veivets, fancy goods, ali and
every thing III their immense stock, will
oe closed out very cheap.
Tue Oregon improvement Company
earned dafIng the sIX months ending
May 3lst the gross sum of Sl,6l3, $50,
and the net SUN of T343 ol1. Inc
gross earnings were seven per cent less
taan those Of the year before, and the
net eaIhinAs thirty per cent less.
A wordy war between two Jackson
street women led TO disgusting trial Ia
the Police Court yesterday mUrHIsg.
One Of the parties Was tiued IS aud
costs for using abusive ltAsCaSe. Size
at hrst went 10 jail, but after wards gave
security for the payment of fine aud
costs and was released.
Stevens Post of the Grand Army of
the Republic, of Seattle, will, on THURS
day neAt, visit Custer Post, OF Tacoma,
AccOmp panied by the LADIES' Relief
Corps. They. To the number of seventy
or eighty persons, Will 20 by train. lcav-
icy here At ? O'Clock IN the afternoon,
anu getting back at ) III tie mCrnIsg.
Captain U. b. Scott. owner of the
steamer Fleetwood, on the Columbia
river, has contracted at Portland Alth
Joseph PacQust tor the hull, and with
the Willamette Iron " oFks for the ma
chin ~, of II steamer IT, be built forth
with. she Is to be Il sternwheyl boat, a
little larger thtn tue Emma Hayward,
AMI Is IL be built for speed, II being thS
int ntion Ia make her tue fastest boat
ON the river. She will ply between
Portland ana Astoria.
The work on tho Ashland (Wlsoon-
sim division Of the Northern Pacific.
which has been suspended since last
November, Is 10 be resumed at once
Contractors Darby and kicaardsou
have received instructions 10 get ready
tor work and complete 10 IS soon IS
possible. Inc Duluth people are far
troun pleased At this move on tie part
of the company, which takes from their
place the fame OF being iha roads
T. stern terminus.