Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-29
RREvITIEs.
# 2. picnic today.

X. of p. picnic today.
A new moon has made its appearance.
The following undelivered kilograms
ire at the office in this city: Clinton
Wentworth and j. S. Jones.
John G. Haines, Esq. Of this city, has
accepted an invitation to deliver
the Grafton at Tacoma on Decoration
Day.
The ship Harvester, 1923 tons, has
been chartered by Jshn Rosenfeid, to
load coal for San Francisco from Ma
naimo.
Court adj urned at Tacoma yester-
day, and Judge Greene and several at
torneys came home by the Messenger
last evening.
The steamers Eliz, Anderson and
George +. Starr leave for Victoria at
o'clock this morning. Both boats carry
passengers at reduced rates.
large number of seats are being re-
served for the Hidden Hand" per-
formanoe Friday evening. The play is
most highly spoken of by the press.
The steamer Anderson brought back
the Seattle race horses, three in num-
Der, IN II took the cake" in the races
at Victoria. About twenty-five passen.
gers also returned by that craft.
The auction of the Jasper furniture
will occar today, and will afford our
readers Fore opportunity to buy ele-
CANT articles at possibly ruiuously low
rates. The interested ones should at
tend.
The Snoqualmie road is to be made a
toll road, and all the moneys collected
are to be applied IL Improving and MAX
ing 1t more passaDle. A light toll will
be charged ON stock driven over the i'm
proved poitions o. that thoroughfare.
The new dwelling house of MIR. John
Seavey. ON the corner of Second and
Pike streets, the construction of which
has been somewhat delay sd, is now we'll
under way, and will be- pushed on TO
completion as fast as circumstances will
permit.
The unfortunate man who was in
jured III Tue BlAkely mill a few DAYS
ago. by being struok IN the head with q
piece oT saw, aua orod2ht to the hos
pital la this oity Cannot recover. The
physicians have gwen him up and
think he cann.t i've through the day.
All ye people, boths younge and olde,
who desire to take p,rte In " Ye Oide
Folk IS Concerto" will hereby take NO.
tlce aud remember that Father OLee,
who dothe acte tue pate of time-beater,
{, qaests pr.mpte attendance In the
lotte of the Universltie at the houre of
$40 clock thls evening.
Tue Coiosisf says that the streets of
Vt - g.
width, while many are forty. and few
As narrow even as twenty. The streets
of Seattle are none tVo wide, but we can
make a considerably better report than
this of our Victoria contemporary. No
s1reet IN this civ Is less than sixty feet
In width. the great majority being six
~ SIX, while stre< Is here aud there are
seventy. eighty and ninety feet wide.
@. b. Whiting for the past ten years
connected VITA the United States Signal
Service, asd for the past year assistant
To Sergeant Nelson Gorom, in charge Of
the Signal Service office at san Francis
co. has retired from the service to en-
gage IN private business, sad Charles
Stewart, lately connected with the Sig
nal office on fato,,sh Island, W. T., has
been transferred TO the Signal Office in
that city.
The Seattle Reds have received a
challenge frvfn the Portland Baseball
CLAD Ia play a m ,toh game In the latter
city at soune date TO DO fixed in tue
nsaE future. The challenge Is nov un-
der consideration, with fair chances of
Its acceptance. Our boys have had lit
tie or no pra ,sice, and will find that in
Portland they will get a hard game.
We would sugsrsg that they consider
tails MISTER veli. and find out il every
desirable player can xs before they ac-
eept ths caaiieage.