Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-12-22
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Mil street. h being pIsnksa
Work vas begun yesterday % the
Union street. sewer.
Baby Harrington, which has been very
siek, 10 much improved
IfB.H. Dixon will eall at the New
| EneIard Hotel. Seattle, be VIII meet az
old friend.
The shortest days Of the year have
been reached, and the welcome length
ening Of daylight will nov begin
IL estimated that there are now In
Arizona GO, oOe head Of cattle, or an IN
crease since last year Of over . per
ospt-
The hghthsoss tsader Shubrick cane
into port yesterday for coal. Shs Will
leAve for Portland today, II the weather
will permit
The tvo boys tried at New Westmin-
stsr. Il. c., for killing . Chinsman. by
hitting him on the head With stone,
we're acquitted By the jury.
Ths steamer Dispatch vas In port ell
day yesterday. receivise some needed
repairs 20 her boiises- The work vas
done by Messrs. Perry d Kelly.
John Pennington, eonvietea stage
robber, was killed recertiy while on DIS
vay 20 the Arizona penitentiafy. he
Jumped from q train going at full speed
Spokane Falls, not to be outdone, Is
10 have a Sunday Star a. well as Seattle.
Il il to be devoted TO the drama and So
siety, and will be published by ID. r.
Palm erstcp-
y.w. Turner. On Orovilie (Cal.), law
ger, has flied placer mining claims upon
the site Of chat tswn, and the Mercury
advises the citizens 10 give Turner TWEEN
ty-four hours in which 10 leave town.
John N. Edsall vas arrested yester-
day on q charge Of insanity. IL seems
his hobby 10 electricity, and be rode u
till 10 drove him crazy. JadKe wood
ordered him committed 10 the hospital
| at Stsiiacoom yesterday afternoon.
Ed. Smi.hers and wife. Of Rentsn,
lsft for east Of the mountains yesterday
Afternoon, to be absent a year. This
change OF location vas made necessary
by MI. Smithers' health. He 10 troubled
With asthma, and finds relief IN the dry
atmosphere of Eastern Washington.
Oar reporter left the mas meeting
Saturday evening before Judge Cam
who vas the last speaker, was called
apon, and therefore failed TO give q
SYNOPSIS OF his speech. which 10 said ID
have been 20 the point. The Judge il 9
pretty good talker and mighty good
| fighter"
A Colusa (Oal.), farmer recently Ro'
married in this singular way: He vret.
TO lady, giving her q schedule OF hi
assets and liabilities, and telling hel
that IL he did not hear from her b,
should conclude that she wanted Il
marry him, and should visit her hom,
in company With clergyman, on . Ger
tain day. He vent, and the cleriea
gentleman tied the knot.
Messrs. kllan 4 Nelson have received
the contract for driving the piles OF
xhich will be erected q new reun(
house for the Columbia q Puget Sount
Railroad Company, adjoining the OLE
round house, whish il too small :,
house the locomotives nov used by th,
company. The new structure will b
100 feet long. 80 feet vide. and will b
completed by the LIST Of February.
| Building q road over the mud fiat
| from Jackson street 10 the neao OF IN
bay IL contemplated by the City Coan
ell. An estimate has been obtained o
twenty thousand dollars for roa,
~ feet vide and $500 feet long
built on piles, planked and fenced. Ho,
long such road would last 10 hard 4
say. but judging by the experience o
the narrow gage railroad. not more thai
fsur or i've years; that road havin
been bnilt three times In the las
nine years, and being in need Of re
pairs nov on its last construction.
The Psget Sound Navigation Com
pany has Withdrawn the steamer Me-
senger from the Olympia Seattle route
There 10 only badness en- that route 70
one steamer dav. and when the U. r
N. 90. placed the Idaho on TO alter
nate With the Emma Hayward. :
divided the business up 20 that Their
vas nothing IN IL for either boat. an,
nos Assifine 10 ran their boat At loss
the company owning the Messenee
sithdfew her altogether. after an al
most uninterrupted occupancy Of tn
| route for more than ten years.