Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-10-28
SHIPPING SerEs AND PERSONALS.
PosT ToxSsUD, October 18th

PoaZ IoESsKSD. OcSoorl -oeo-
Rsveuue cutter Oliver Woloott. left
here Saturday morning With Collector
Bescner and General SPslIdins .speeiai
Treasury Agent, fer Seattle, and return
ed in the evening.
Schooner Ruby arrived here from Sc
attic with a cargo OF empty barrels. 70
clear for Point Roberts, b. Z.
Inspector Gardner arrived last even
ing from Seattle on the steamer mexico
Bark Fresno. Captain Lewis Win
cargo of lumber taken on board Al
Port Gamble, passed down IN tos OF the
steamer Cyrus Walker, on her way TO
San Francisco.
Schooner Hueneme, Captain Elliott,
passed dovB With q cargo OF lomoer
from Port Gamble, on her way to San
Francisco.
Tug Holyoke toved 10 Port Blsksly
the ship India. She loads lumber at
that port for sydney.
lug Tscem. tovsd from here on Sat
urday tie ship Brown Brothers to Port
Blakely, where she receives a new miz-
zsnuast and other spars.
Chester Terry, Inspector Of Customs.
has changed bis duties from the steamer
OIyDpian to the Geo. Z. Starr. which
change affords him an opportunity to
spend Saturday and Sunday Of every
week in tewn With his family.
Inspector of Customs Svazsy las re-
turned from Semiahmoo. where be has
been stationed for some time past.
The Norwegian bark Empsrator, Cap
tain Hoye, which sailed from here Aug.
I'd with a cargo of lumber taken OF
board at Tacoma, arrived At sydney
previous to Dot. 18th.
Brig Tanner, Captain Simonson, ar
rived this afternoon from San Pedro,
making the passage in "a days.
Captain Jordan, formerly Of the Bel
videre, loading coal at Departure Bay
for San Francisco, has been appointed
master of the ship Commodore at San
Francisco.
John A. Briggs, the well-known ship
owner, died at his residence in Free
port, Maine, on the 18th inst. Besides
the ship John A. Briggs, employed
taking coal from Departure Bay to San
Francisco, he was large owner of ship
property employed in the California
wheat trade.
The revenue cutter Bear, commanded
by Captain Alfred b. Davis, which left
New York for this coast. was ordered to
proceed to Puget Sound.
Ship Astoria, Captain Anderson,
which sailed from San Francisco Sep
tember 18th, arrived of Port Angeles
last night, and awaits tug boat to tow
her to Nanaimo. The reports in British
Columbia papers that she had arrived
some time ago at Royal Roads were
erroneous.
Schooner Joseph Russ. Captain Henry,
which sailed from San Francisco Octo-
Der l4th, is reported in the Straits by the
tug Tyee, on her way to this port.
British bark Won Meltke was spoken
by the tug boat Tyee today of Race
Books, SIS days from Shanghai, on her
way to Victoria.
Another instance of the necessity of
making Port Angeles port Of call was
noticed today in maritime circles here.
The tug Tyee spoke the ship Astoria off
Port Angeles, wanting to be towed to
Nanaimo, but as the Tyee had to come
here for clearance from the Custom
House. she could not take hold of the
ship. American vessels bound from San
Francisco to British Columbia are often
obliged to put into Royal Roads and
employ British tugs, when they would
prefer to patrenize American tugs.
Bark Mary Glover, loading lumber at
Port Discovery for San Francisco, will
be ready to sail Wednesday.
Bark Hope sailed from Honolulu for
the Sound October 9Th.