Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-01-13
PACIFIC COAST.


PERI u 9oeSy Jsstin9s.
PoRr TowNsKSD, Jan. I'D. W.
Smith Is establishing . collection bust
ness for Puget Sound.
Captain T. d. Bolles, for a long time
IN command of the United States sur
veyinR schooner Earnest. has been or
dered to join the Adams. He will be
here, however. for a month or 90.
Governor Newell and his son, 0r.
William A. Newell. Jr., arrived from
Olympia this morning.
+. W. Hastings has entered the real
estate business.
proposition has been ,nade BY
Captain Sinsiov to exchange a hsok
and ladder outfit for the HAND engine,
hose, etc., belonging TO the city.
Mount Baker Lodge, l. @. U. E., is in
noorishing condition. Il has pur-
chased two lots adjoining the II. e.
Church, upon which q hall will be
erected, and has a balance of over $500
IN tire treasury.
Relief FanA-The Chinese Cases.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 12-The Mexi-
can yellow fever sufferers Relief CON-
mittee report havin collected $500, of
which there has been sent TO Maxatlan
$3.50. to Guaymas $3.50, to La Paz $500,
to San Bias $3.50, to Manzanill0 $500
+ In the United States District Court
yesterday Judge Hoffman remanded
four Chinese habeas corpus Gases in or
der, he said, to give the United States
Attorney an opportunity to have the
Chinese arrested for being unlawfully
Ia the country. This forenoon Judges
Sawyer, Hoffman and Sabin will sit as
committing magistrates in the case of
those remanded, Who have been arrest
ed for being uniawfullv in this country.
Murderer Insane.
SAN Francisco, Jan. l2.-Joseph jeff
Colt, who was convicted of the murder
of Henry Davis, eeineer of Woodward's
Gardens, has been pronounced insane
and will be ssnt to Napa asylum. When
discharged as cured he will be returned
to Court and sentenced.
billiard Challenge.
A H. Morris of this city, who PLAYED
in the championship game at Chicago
last March With Vignaux, Schaefer and
Stratton. and who carried of one of the
prizes, has issued q challenge to any
player in the United States, barring
Schaefer and SlOsson, for series of
three games for $1,000 side, best two
in three, 400 straight billiards, 1000
points championship game and 800
points bake line. A forfeit of $500 has |
been deposited.
Catherine Them n.
Tucson, Ariz., Jan II. - Detective |
Len Harris has received intelligence of |
the capture of Frank Taegert, one of |
the party who wrecked Southern |
Pacific train near Gage last November.
George Cleveland, another of the party,
WAS jailed in Silver City, and the other |
two are in New Mexico. A posse is
close ON their trail. The whereabouts
of Delany, the only one of the Bisbee
murdersrs at large, has been discovered
in Sonora and the officers have gone
after him. His capture is certain.
Geld Rxclseaent.
TUCSON, Jan. 1.-THE rush to the
QuiiotOa mines is undated. Water is
scarce and selling at q dollar a barrel.
Many new discoveries are reported, but
the excitement is 30 great that the re-
ports are not all considered reliable.
Oisappearanee Of . Well Known cit.
SAN Francisco, Jan. 12.-H. Z. Brooks,
who fer many years was partner in the
firm of I. G. Cockerill d Co., and who
has for the past five years been in the
employ of William Ward l. Co., whole
sale liquor merchants of this city, ia re-
ported as missing since December 9th.
He ia aged about 40 years, is five feet
eight inches in hight, has dark hair and
with the index finger miss
ing from his right hand. He was we'll
known in this city, and his disappear
ance is a mystery.
Miains Stocks.
SAN FRANcIsco, Jan. 12.-Alpha Sl.50.
Best 4 Belcher $3.50, Bodie Consoli-
dated $4.45, Bullion Zoe, Ch0llar $2.45,
Virginia 800, Eureka Con-
solidated $3.50, ExcheQuer 500, Gould
& Curry $3.50, Grand Prize 15c. Hale d
Norcross sos, Mexican $l.95, Ophir
1878, Overman 200, Potosi $50, Savage
81, Sierra Nevada $3.50, Union t2.66.
Yellow jacket sass.
shlpplag lnselliGenee.
SAN FRANcIsco, Jan. 12.-Afrived-
Steamer San Pedro and ship Alice u.
Cooper, from Tacoma.
Cleared-Steamer Walla Walla, for
Port Townsend, and British ship Valley
Forge and bark Enoch Talbot, for Ma
nAimo.
Sailed-British ship Howard D. Troop,
for Port Townsend.
PoRr MADISON. Jan. 12.-Arrived-I
Banks Vidette and Northwest.
Sailed-Bark Oakland.
PoRr LUDLOW, Jan. l2.-Arrived-
Sycamore.
PoRT BLAKsLY, Jan. 12.-Arrived-
Whitmose.
PoRr TOWNSEND, Jan. 12.-Arrived-
w. H. Starbuck, Sycamore and Queen.
Sailed-Bark Arcturus.