, 1886-09-23
The at'eeklp Areas.
Ero,u Tbursdas,s Daily.

From ThurSdaS'S DAILY.
AIR. Z. Chapman is telegraph operator
., Hadlock.
Mrs Braeich II Irondale Is about to
l.sve for San Francisco To join her has
band.
British bark MADEIRA was up to Ia
coma by the Mugul last light +" load
lumber.
henry Rothschild las been appointed
ssent for the Pacific Coast Shipowners'
Association.
George Carter, secretary of the Y. NJ.
CA, Of Seattle, is in town and paid us
a pie sant call today,
The wife OF Assistant Surgeon q. s.
Kilburne, Vancouver Barracks, is slowly
conyalesciug from a very serious illness.
Special Agent Ayers, Of the treasury
department, is in town examining the
hooks, etc, OF the customs department
here.
There will be an auction sale OF house
hold goods on Union wharf tomorrow
friday at II a N. W. Il. II. Learned,
cuctioneer.
Mr. Curtis, the Hadlock mill superir-
tendent, who was injured some time since
BY pile OF lumber falling on him, is
slowly recovering.
One of the little children of Ed. Pitcher
died here yesterday at the. residence Of
i.s grandmother, Mrs. Thornton, from
soms disease Of the brain.
Alaska wants navy yard on the Pa
cife coast, and thinks it ought to be at
or near Sitka. That probably would
make good place, as expense might be
saved by cutting a floating dock out of
sn iceberg.
The city authorities should see that
the side walks in some portions of the
town are put in repairs. In the neigh
boshood OF the old Washington hotel it
is really unsafe, owing to loose boards
and nail heads sticking up above the
surface, in some cases over an inch.
The French bark Delphine Melaine
finished loading at Hadlock yesterday,
and hauled out. The German bark
Heinrich Ramien takes her place at the
birth. There are some 80 men at work
on the mill spit, and the mill is kept
steadily running and turns out large
cut.
On Saturday evening the Port Town
send Histrionie Club, an amateur society
lately organized here among the young
people for the purpose Of sociability and
amusement, will give the play entitled
'Ten Nights in Bar ROOM" at Learn
eds Opera House, in this city. Good
music will be furnished, and every en-
dsaYer made to make this entertainment
q success. Everyone should attend, as
the money earned by this club will be
used for charity or other laudabIe pur-
poses. Tickets. so and IS cents, at
Bartlettfs.
The Neah Bay Indians have purchased
from San Francisco parties the sealing
schooner Sierra, for the sum of 1880.
She will be used by the Indians in seal
ing and 6shing off the Cape. These In
dians are now the owners of three seal
ing schooners, the others being the Let
lie and Lottie, ard yet poor Lo draws
rations. from the government all the
same, and salt their coin down in some
whits mans discarded SOCK We would
not be surprised to hear of these Indians
building large 4stoFy brick here yet
and renting il TO the government for q
customs building.
ARRESTED FOR SMUGGLING, - Clara
Murdoch was arrested the other night
ioE smuggling opium. She came here
from Victoria on the Mexico, and on the
passage F. B. BoarmRn, customs in
spsctor, found five pounds OF opium in a
mail yalise in he: possession. Further
Investigation showed that she had 80
pounds concealed in her clothing. She
bad an ingenious arrangement under
neash her skirt in which the opium was
hid The woman has been running back
And forth on the boats for some time,
snd it is thought that she has been ex-
snsigely engaged in smuggling. She
vas taken to Seattle for trial, and yes
setday plead guilty. when the Judge
sentenced her to Sl30 and costs.