Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-04-11

Today is Good Friday


The Elder sails at o'clock today.
The market ID we'll supplied with Cal
ifornia vegetables and fruit.
Captain Frank Worth and wife will
remain a week or ten days In Seattle.
A. Hines and r. H. Hackett will find
kilograms awaiting them at the Western
Union office.
VIM. Walker, Esq. of Port Gamble,
vas IN Seattle yesterday looking after
hIs interests here.
Captain Holmes, formerly in COM
mand Of the IN fated Mississippi, IS
nos master Of tug in San Francisco
bay.
A good job ia being done on Front
street IN the way of smoothing. mending.
ain-cleaninR, hole filling and hum
mock-removing.
The Wilmington has finished taking
coal, and sails tor San Francisco direc,
this morning at 10 o'clock. Her berth
is at fesIers wharf.
Captain Frank Smith. Of Port Blake
ly. has been suffering with rheumatism
for several days. he came over yester-
| day. and is now under DIR. Smith care.
Tue weather permitting. there will be
| a match game of base bali played on
the North Seattle grounds this after
noon by tbs Alkl' nine and the " Sc
| attic keds.
The steamer W. X. Merwin arrived
| from Whatcom yesterday, having made
remarkably good run up the sound
| She brought a large list or passengers
and a fair freight.
Considerable preparation Is being
made for the Arion masked ball to take
| place on the l4th instant. A number OF
prizes, to be Civ II to the deserving
[ ones, nave already been selected.
| MIR. +. s. Chadborns 3, the we'll knows
furniture dealer of the Pacific Coast
IS at present in Seattle. He il q large
stockholder in the Hall, Paulson Fur
niture Manufacturing Company of this
city.
A man, whose name we could not
learn. was brought over from Balm
bridge Island yesterday and taken to
the hospital. He hai a fearful Rasn In
his leg, inflicted by his axe while work
ing In the woods.
Schwabacher Bros.6 Co, at their NAM
moth establishment IN this city. nave
| Just received a large lot of choice ladies'
goods direct IRON New York, which
those Interested in will do we'll to see
and buy at an early day.
The hundreds of persons going tC
Bellingham Bay are referred to the ad
vertisement of the BelliuRham Hotel
the leading house in the city, where
clean beds. good board, baths and pleas
ure boats can be obtained.
The City Council meets again this
evening. Among the business coming
before that body will be the cOnsldsra-
ton of the compilat on of city ordinan-
ces recently made by George Venable
Smith, and the proposed new ordinance
re-establIshing the fire department OF
the city.
The result of Spokane Falls, W. T..
city election on Tuesday last was tota
vote of 81. j. N. Glover received fol
Mayor $50, +. b. Hyde for Marshal 35l
and +. Nj. Thompson Is; G. K. Crelin
for Clerk, 32S; Ii. G.. Hayward fol
Treasurer, 35S Willard L. Harrison fol
Attorney, 81, and G. Il. Bradshaw, 81
At the town election at Chehalis, w
T., on Monday last, s. f. iullis wal
elected Mayor and William UrQuhart
II. j. Brooks, L. l.. Holloway, Charles
Maynard +. q. Beaufort, William West
and, j. s. Herndon, Councilman. Gu,
of ~ votes cast % were by women. Mrs
Rachel Roudebush was the first woman
TO vote In Lewis county.
The Oregonian says: "Our trade with
the Sound Ia larger than at this time
last year. Merchants complain of the
slow movement given freight for Seat
tie, as much of that recently sent re
CURED six days for delivery. 1t is to bs
hoped that this delay ia only Temporary
"a II Is due TO u three days rest at Ia
coma.
The expenses of Trinity Church in
this city during the past church veal
were $3.50, and the income $2l9l.2
leaving a shortage of $l90S7. The de
ficleney, 1t Is thought. will be overcome
III the collections of Easter Sunday
these figures are for the church alone
and have nothing To do with the large
amount Of money given during the veal
for the proposed hospital.
United States District Attorney Wat
5ou, of Oregon, has commenced suit In
the United States Circuit Court agalns,
the Northern Pacific laundering Com
pany to recover 5000 for government,
timber cut and carried away by the de-
PENDANT during last spring and summer
The timber, amounting to 100000 feet
vas taken from Lewis river, and is val
ned at xl5 per thousand. 1t is hoped
the government will recover damages
rs The Northern Pacific Company have
40 more right to plumber the public
lands of the United States than any pri-
vate individual has.
IMPORTANT LAND DECISION. $3.50 The