Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-30

The brig Tanner b lying IN Port
Townsend hsxbos, swaitin9 charter.
Schooner Una, from Santa Barbara,
arrived st Port Biakely last Monday
night
The steamer Lone Fisherman reports
boom Of logs adrift near the north
end of vaAhon Island
The greater part Of yesterday in JOS
tice Cams court, vas taken up with an
insignificant civil action.
Services will be held at the Presby-
terrain church this evening, subject,
Christ knocking at the Heart"
G. n. Andsrson has retired from the
business Of Surveying and clvil enQineer-
ing. Francis G. Tucker taking his ofh0e
and place.
Union Revival Services of the n. z.
and n. p. Churches, are being held at
Methodist Episcopal Church each day
this week, to when all are cordially in
vited.
Two cases at the Police Court yester-
day; one, that of vaR, and the other
that of youth, who bad been loafln9
around the jail fer several days. and a.
. change, was pot In.
On Thursdsy night next . concert
will be given In the iesler Hall, BY Mias
Maggie Webb and the Colored Jubilee
Band, which, If expectations are real
lied, will be one of the finest entertain
ments Of its kind yet given in the city.
Mrs. Martha E. White, an able elocu-
ZIONIST, viii give an entertainment at
the Court House on Thursday evening
under the auspices of Trinity Churc. {.
The admission will DO 80 cents chill
dren half price.
Oficer Lind last evening arrested .
very drunk and very belliRerent siwash,
| who was running things IN very much
his own way In the further corner Of
| south Seattle. After quite tussle the
aborieine was landed in the CITY Jail,
where he 10 nov SOLDERING up.
Yesterday afternoon the U. X. Il N.
Co.'S diver donned bis hidious looking
mask and leaden soled shoes, and went
on an exploring expedition on the bot
tom of the bay, under he City Dock, 70
devise the BEST means Of recovering the
submerged spikes. Quite . large crowd
gathered around to $50 the performance,
which was quite interesting. He will
get to work in earnest today, when
those Who desire oan visit the wharf
and witness the workings of the diver.
Mr.. G. +. Tucker, the civil engineer
Who has bought out the business of C..
M. Anderson d Co., of this city, comes
highly recommended az q sklllful and
| experienced workman in his line. He
has fine letters of endorsement from K.
W. Henck, President of the south
Florida Railroad Company; J. r.
Dodge, DIVISION Engineer Of the Rocky
Mountain DIVISION of the N =. Il. H. /;
T. L. Appleton, Chief Engineer of the
LeavenWOrth, Topeka d Southwestern
Railway; Thomas W. Davis, City Sur
| veyor boston, Mass; and many others.
Mr.. Tucker is q very pleasant gentle
man, and NO doubt will soon work into
good business.
There seems to be no ground what
ever for the assertion of our morning
contemporary that the appointment Of
John Muir as manager of the oregon
improvement Company, displaced or
retired John L. Howard. The wish in
that case was undoubtedly father to the
thought. Mr.. Muir takes the place of
q. II. Prescott, in Portland. Mr.. How
ARD has beeu In title assistant manager,
with residence in San Franeisco, and %
he is likely 70 remain. Mr.. Muir 10 q
most excellent man for the place to
which he has been appointed, and the
only regret here expressed is that he il
not to make his headquarters in Seattle,
where the oornpany's interests are
greatest.