Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-06-20
BREvHrrEs.

Washington. a Makah Indian boy.
from Neah Bay, % in Seattle to buy q
wagon.
The Seattle Cornet Band will give its
fourth annual picnic 70 Aiki Point on
Sunday next.
II il understood that the bazaar to be
given for the benes.t of Grace Hospital
has been postponed.
No one has yet proven property y
in the ease of that found breastpin. Il
is worth money, and the owner will d.
well TO recover il.
E.G. Ames, head book-kseper at Port
Gamble, accompanied by Aessrs. Pope
and Talbot of San Francisco. were 10
Seattle yesterday.
The ship Annie II. Smith has gone 20
Tacoma 10 load coal, and the ship L. 4.
Cakes has come from Tacoma TO Seat
tie for the same purpose.
There il a strong suspicion abroad
that registration after this week will be
illegal and void. To avoid any risk on
this score, people generally are avsiline
themselves of their privilege during the
present week.
Clayton II. Packard, publisher of the
Snohomish Eye, who has been confined
in Providence Hospital for the past two
weeks with typhoid fever has so far
recovered as 70 be able TO return to his
home today.
Celestin Sc. Uprey. the Italian who
attempted to commit suicide in Vic.
toris a few days ago, has retained to
Seattle. He states that he WAS crazy
for two days and did not know what hs
was doing. He declares he will newell
20 crazy again.
An Eastern Washington paper car
see no good whatever In woman suf.
| frage. Where the wife votes with the
husband il il the same only "a giving
| the husband two votes, and where she
votes against him it ~ the same q.
neither voting, for one offsets the other
The Victoria Coloaist says the steamer
Yosemite recently made the run from
New Westminster to Victoria in
hours and a. minutes. Taxing her two
| stoppages into account, this IL travel
ing as the rate of 1874 miles an hour
IL Was the quickest trip ever made be-
tween the two ports
A. w. Bash, Collector of Customs, ac-
companied by his wife, is spending a
few days in Seattle. Mrs. Bash il del
egate TO the Woman's Christian Ten.
perance Union, and during her soi0urn
| here Mr.. Bash is looking after some
business matters connected with the
Collectors office.
| Mr.. James Buzby, of WILDLY Island
will today take to his farm new style
| of fruit dryer. Mr.. BuZby last veal
raised and sold here 600 pounds oil
dried prunes. This year he will have
| 10000 pounds The dealers here, be
says, pay him two cents a pound more
for his prunes than they have to pay
for Eastern prunes.
The store formerly owned by Simon
Il Brownstone has been purchased by j
Strauss, of the firm OF Louis d Strauss
OF Portland, and II. 5. Simon, of the
old firm, and will be opened again today
under the firm of J. Strauss d Co. The
new firm start out with bright prospects
and we predict for them n prosperous
future. Their announcement will ap
pear in tomorrow's issue.
| Ii has been said that a large number
| of workmen would be debarred from
registering as voters because they could
not get away from their places o: EN-
ployment during the hours set apart BY
law for registration purposes. This
assertion has no foundation in fact
The Registrar puts in tea hours day
at his office, during which he will en-
roll all voters who present themselves
| These hours cover the the time frem |
in the morning TO noon, from l in the
afternoon to 5, and from to 3 in th,
| evening.
Messrs. Cakes and Bullitt, the North
ern Pacific Directors, who have JUS
completed ride by rail from st. Pau
TO Seattle, have learned one thing OF
which, perhaps, they before had little
idea. That one thing is that the finest
section Of country along the entire
route travelled by them-the most beauti
full to look upon. the most highly Guilt
waited and the most prosperous agricul
turaily-is that along the line of tn,
roaJ between Seattle and Tacoma. Ii
they give their company truthful re
port of IL, some of the directors, wht
evidently believe there is nothing good
IN or about Seattle. will DO astounded
and may be eager enough to operate the
section of road running through it.