Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-04-09

The steamer Esanesi arrived hsfs yes
/ teHtiay from tie loser syaBd with 30
barrels II lane and Gu sacks Of posa-
toes.
Ths lecture, by ksV. L. A. Banks,
Shs0h Sas to have been delivered last
evening. tas been postponed uhtil fur
Ibsr notice.
The skip sDuthsrs Chief will eomplete
Der cargo Of lumber at Blaksly next
Saturday and go 20 sea 10 con mand OF
har owner, Captain Rose.
Oar correspondent. collector, solicitor
and live man on the outside viii call
upoa oar down Sound and British Co
lunbIs patrons during the week.
The yestrymen Of Trinity Parish
elected +. g. DImock, Secretary; W. A.
Joanin0s, Treasurer A. 81. brookes,
Churca Warden II. Burnett, Keetor's
Warden
The steamer idaho got ashore IN fog
the other day ia the lower Sound, and
remained there tor twelve heuTs, winch
aeco1ats for arriving here 81 much be
hind time.
The London Tea Store Is building up
a very handsome trade, and we'll il MAJ
to ths advantage Of ths public, for the
honse IL one VI the most square dealing
IN the Territory.
PIoft sser IngTaham, superintendent
Of the public schools Of Seattle, re-
quests IA TO state that the schools viii
not be closed until the usual time, July
lat. ~ there 10 ample funds IN the treas
ury to run them through ths full school
year.
Owing 10 the free use OF jack knives,
by IDLE and thOughtlsss citizens, sOme
OF the telephone poles on the principal
streets w5To 80 weakened by being cut
away that they became dangerous, and
have had TO be replaced by new poles,
shieh are sheatbed With tin, 70 prevent
thsm also from bel0R whitfield down.
Ga Monday Stetson & Post eommsn e-
ed cutting 20 MI an order for half
million feet Of lumber. 10 be shipped 20
San Francisco on some vessel yet to be
chartered. 1 be lumber Is carried from
the mil 20 the end of the shipping
wharf over the cattle road recently CON
pletsd. and watch works spiendldly, one
Isan being able TO do the work hereto
fore performed Oy three or four.
TIE temperature ia noticeably,wermsr
- Cedar snd Green river valleys than It
- 10 Seattle. The traveller by rsiI dis
covers that a cool here day 10 pleasant
ene there, shIls a warm day here 10 hot,
almost to an oppressive. deRr,e, there.
This fact leads 10 the belief that
peaches, melons and like fruit will ma
ture with greater certainty aud more
perfectly in the valleys than in town.
Captain Hanson, 6rst ofiicer of the
Queen, who was badly ilmmed up by
having a coal shute fall on him, haa i'm
proved greatly vnen The steamer left; 80
mash 50. la fact, shat he was able TO
walk out on the deck, bul not stF0ue
eGsuRh to perform hts duties. Captain
DE W off, isbe master Of the MAlia Wal
Ia, sili act a. mate Of ths Qlsen until
Mr.. Hanson Is IN a cnndi AGA 90 resume
hiss station.
Superintendent Miner OF the c. Il p.
). II. Il. Co, Is Thu k,ng Of putting ex-
earhioa trains on ths road to Black Dsa-
ncnd and franklin. IL IL thought that
by making obe day each ueek-Satuf-
day, Tor Instsncs-an excursion day,
taking people ap and back tor dollar,
and giving thstu thres or four hours At
the otter end of ibe road, thai a very
c0HHldera6le treth5 can be worked or.
The tdsa Is good one.
The Columbia and Puget Sound Rail.
road Go. eontesnplslss laying u third
raj 90 the standard gage Road from sc.
attic to Stuck June lou, and fitting !,
for HE use of iIs narrow gage rollIag
stock, with view to the use OF the road,
IL n Thought the local traffic alone viii
pay Tor Tis operation, and that with
proIer Development 10 can he increased
aud made qa,te profitable. We trust
the experiment will be- made at an early
day.
The Merchants National Bank has
lts qaAftors from tbs Colman
brick building ~ the new bFiek and
stone building belonging 10 the bank il
seif. there the Merchants - Quartered
most elegantly, with ample ROOFS fos the
OF more business than
q done by any bank on the |
toast outside OF San Francisco. The
Merchants 10 eyideRtiy looking forward
10 the time when Seattle will have lOo.- |
No inhabitants, and when banks with |
'epirais OF millions will BE- required.