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

The steamship Mexico arrived az her
/ dock In this city a. 2 o'clock this morn
ing.
There are said 10 be three clearly de-
fined cases OF varioloid N Columbia
coonty. w T.
I RX. MeArthur, . young Tacousn, 10
[ here InfFoc 1eInS prsctioal sham hold
er invented and Manufactured By him.
The directors of School District No.
T / held q Getting yesterday, 81 winch
tie usual &Doant of general business
vas transacted
/ The basement Of the Congregational
( Church . being repaired and entirely
renovated. Ihe SaSdsy school ro~ms
have been enlarged and made more
T comfortable.
J. E. Willis. editor Of the Chshslis
I .ysggsf, has been II our city tie past
800 d ,ys, bat vii 90 home today. The
Nsgyst ander hIs management appears
to ioarlsh and constantly Improve.
The h fiss have secured Browns pa
Z when. OF the skating riCk, for use as
al armory. They will occupy it one
night each week. and on other sights
tie pavilion VIII lie Used for other p1r
/ poses
three new descriptive catalogues OF
7 fruit trees, etc, have iast oesn compile
F tee By John Rock, Of San jose. CAL, aud
I fruiI growers shoald not fail to send for
I a copy Of them. See advertisement In
another column.
/ Homer b. Ssrague, one Of the most
noted educators Of the country. nov head
/ Of n Ills Seminary IL California. will de-
/ liver lecture here on the evening OF
/ The 18th, for the benent of the Central
/ school library fand.
C.B. Shattuck, L. H. Henderson. John
/ w. Stewart. +. 4. Shsarer and u. h. Nc
I Council organized the Spanish Gold
Mining G ,mpany at San Francisco last
week, with 10, 100 shares OF stock OF
/ $40 nominal value each.
The cable laid by the Dominion Gov
ernment across the Straits OF Foca does
not work we'll. The Western Union
Company will keep Its line via " hat
CON to british Columbia until the sue
cess Of the cable Is assured.
The Young Mems Christian Assoeis-
ton of Victoria Is celebrating the FIRST
anniversary of its organization. Rev.
Clark ID. DAVIS, Of this city, aided IN
the organization. and is new IN that
city helping IN the anniversary exer-
cises.
W. 8. Ladd, of Portland. has been
trying to get water from an artesian
we'll. After going down AGO feet what
| appears TO be an endless quantity OF
| quicksand was struck, and it Is feared
tue work will have to stop. The expense
has been $4,000 50 far.
The 50 tons Of coal that went from
here 10 Port Iovnseld last week On the
G. G. Perkins we're from the famous
Fransha mine operated by the Oregon
Improvement Company. There Is no
better house coal than the Franklin,
and 1t will sell in competition with the
best on the coast.
Articles of incorporation were fled at
| San Francisco last week by the Cosmop-
oils Mil and Mining Company, who pro-
| D, % TO buy, sell and lease timber lands
| q Washington Territory. Capital stock,
10000. Dsrectors-C. +. Leavenworth,
J. N Riley, NJ q. Loher. J. J. Serivnsr
anu JOHN l.. Boone.
Tie Olympia Transcript and Courier
oreulat.ons, business and goodwill
having been purchased by L. d. Cava-
nagn, nave been merged In new pub
iicatIon called the Partisan, the first
number Of which was lssaed on the 9th
INST. The paper promises ~ be exactly
what It's name Indicates.
The entire weight Of newspaper ar d
p n dloal matter carried during the
las year, not estimating the free eircu-
q Ia allowed within the county of pub
IL ii III, was in round numbers 80 SO
Il ms, on which postage to the amount OF
f2v< 1853 70 was esllecIed, more by
Si5i ,567 IL. or nearly per cent, than
auriuR tie previous year.
Wells, Fargo 4 90. have established a
m-ney order syste u, and put II int use
,hroag hout the States aud Territories
west of the Mississippi nver. The
charges are remarkably low: 5 cents
paying for the seLdIbg Of g. IL cents
So, ~ cents $50. lhey viii do this
business at many places where the
United States money order system has
lot been introduced.
The case of The United States vs. Sam,
Wiley IN the matter of the Lone FISH
ermau smuggling charge, will be CON-
tnenceG again today. This Is the third
trial Of tie case. At the October term
of 1884, a week was consumed in trying
1t, aud at the April ter1 Of 1885. an
other week was wasted IN a second trial,
both ti,pes the iiry failing to agree. q.
ii. haniord prvsscutes for the United
states, while SIrave, Haines & McMick-
TN defend.
TteOiegon Pacific Railroad is cutting
into the other Willamette Valley trans
portatlon companies. Over It's road
from Corvallis TO Yaquina BAY. and
thence by steamer to San Francisco. il
saves about one-h half tue distance com
cared with the route via Portland and
Astoria. IL has reduced rates on wheat
from & ton to 81 30. IL has all its
steamer can carry AZ that price, but IN
fortunately for the people its steamer
can carry precious little.
Carol Grouse is member OF the JEFF
freys- Lewis Company. Miss Grouse is
veil knosn here. she is the lady Who
introduced on this coast and popular
ICED the song For Goodness Sake DoE't
Say | Fold You Sue 10 O writer for
the press Of rare excslleace her CON-
trioutions being real gems 10 their way,
and being found In many OF the leading
journals of the country. She spent sew
erai months of last year at Suohomish.
IS enc result Of which she has prepared
for publication q number of legends of
the Puget Sound Indians.