Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-08-12

IDS AstEy NO2ECiA VII Bose = ASS@4
DssttnR this ssenina.
CounssInsn J. J. Post n sss3i oouened
70 his bed With typkoid fever.
Cnris Miller, tie vtayf bzfster- has
Essarped 70 Seattle, sfssT years a.
senee-
The Iettinc Of the contract for the
hafldiuR of Gxass Haspitai has b<en
postponed antii Th1rsday evening
Mr.. Porter Moore and kss daughter
May, OF C@lisornsA, ars At present. visit
iss ths family Of Dr. X L. eDish- Mrs-
Moore and MEs szisn are sasterA
Mss Ella White, ths elocatiosist. hss
Applied 70 the Port Townsend school
directors, for the use Of the school
building IN which n tsssh . class.
Mr.. A. B. Merrill. after al sItrsordi-
nary sti.ezk Of bad lack, has e9ncl1ded
70 quit the trusk and drsy business.
aad hss sold oos the little be had lsfs
Ia il.
Altar disshArRing her freight here the
Qsisen lefs for up Sound 81 an cary
ssour THIS morning.. She Will rstorn
and sail for san Prancisco nexs Friday
&fternOon-
The Orato1io Soeisty holds neheaTsais
every day. AID sselaa determine d - give
the SsaiEis psopIs an agreeable surpKlse
"a the occasion Of It's fxss coucHrs,
Thursday rsHt.
Mis- Van Bokksien, Of P0gt Town
ses,d. wths has been vlsitikK Miss Goa
d0u at her summer residences near Lake
Union, tes1rued 70 her home at the pert
Of entry yesterday.
Extra preesuiio1s shoald be taken
against .6ss daring this extremely dry
weather. A little care and attention
rsay save thousanda Of dollars worth Of
property from destruction
Harvsstine has begun on the lower
Goand. Oat eating y nader way on
WhidbT Island and 10 Skagit valley and
elisswhsirs. The grain u ripe about
three see ks earlier than usual.
The extent Of the fruit trade may
b. inferred when sc state that on the
| Queen Of the Pacific arriving yesterday
| ever 601 boxes came to consigness here,
the varieties intending melons, pears,
bananas, grapes, apples, etc.
Judge W. B. Sabiu, of Nevada, who
was q member Of the Alaska party
| which Jailed on the Aneon, was taken
sa6dsnIy III ai Port Townaend ytster-
iay. lie VAS removed TO this eits and
u new lying at the Occidental Hotel.
Five or six young men Of Olympia
left the Capital City yesterday morning
| for Seattle, in sailing yacht. They
wili teach az HteilacoOm, where b. q.
woodruff is expected 70 join them.
They will be given hearty welcome on
thsir arrival here.
l The kmity base ballists, Of Vietoria,
90 20 Portland this week, 70 play the re-
turn match game with the Portlsnds
whom they defeated on Beacon Hill
some six weeks ago. The y. Il. Il N
Company has made them an excursion
rats Of $40 each, for the round trip.
The county Jail 10 filing up % rapidly
thas the authorities have concluded u
set the inmates Of that establishment q
! work clearing the brush from the Couri
House block, ON the hill. IL Is thought
thas when 10 becomes known that IN,
mates Of the county Jail are compelled
10 perterz hard labor, thsrs will b
fever parsons sent thsre.
L. N. Wilooxan, for several year.
, pAss agent Of tbs Interior Department
for the Investigation of frauds In timbei
lands, gas suspended from the seTvics
on the sist Of July. No one has beer
named 20 take his place, bot il Is sup
posed j. w. III. Harris or John q
Thompson will be. The oisice Ia wortt
! Si4O0 year. travelling expenses. and 8;
day, when away from home on duty
! equivalent to q net compensation Of
about 1890 q year. Mr.. Wilcoxen vii
resume the practise of Law, in partner
ship With d. p. Ballard. Fer nine year.
J be praetised lav in New York. and
nine years in Colorado.
Warrants have been issued in Pierce
county for the arrest Of Frank W. Han.
con, who 10 serving Gus sentsnee here
for stealing drugs from the store of O.
kellogg a Co. His fret sentence In this
city will NOS expire until the 22d inst
and as There are other. charges against
him here on which he will be tried
J when ARain at liberty, 10 will probably
be some time before the Pierce county
authorities can get hold OF him. The
Deputy Sheriff came down yesterday
wigh a warrant, bat when informed By
sheriff ne0faw of the true state OF AT.
fsirs. be concluded 10 return to Tacoma
without bis man. There seems to be no
doubt that Hanson 10 q petty larceny
saief Of the first water.
Professor Fred Nitschke arrived here
from Olympia last evening. and viii re.
man for couple Of weeks, daring
shiloh time he will be pleased 10 receive
orders for piano WORK OF all kinds, in
neutrality-suspicious., regulating and tua-
ing. Tel those citigens, who have net
made the Professors acquaintance, We
will state that be spent three years at
ErArd's. In London, in the grand action
department Of thai great factory, and
for ave pears IN New York worked for
both stein seys and OhickeriaQ. as ragu-
later, tone hnisher and tuner, and he %
q master Of his profession.
Ths dsnss clouds OF SNAKE from the
forest hrss. which hover over the Sound.
render navigation quite difficult, e.
| pecaaily In the night tinie, and u Ia sur
pfising with what regularity the steam
srs get about. II would mos take Cap
tain Wihlon'a place, ~ master Of the
| Olympian for $1,000 q month, and /
have followed SITES xnboatinq all my
life, said an old sale yesterday. ale
has 60 make she round trio from Seattle
10 Victoria and back every twenty -foar
hours, with that great big ocean steam
er, touching az Madison. Gamble, Ind
loo and rosnsand, each way, and at
least one half Of this WORK Il done In
the night time. A man might a. well
be blindfelded, 90 far ~ being able &c, zee
10 concerned, and ID u q great wonder