Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-01-07
BREvITIEs.

schooner Aurora, nov on the way TO
a..ttle. will take q cargo OF lumber TO
Gasymas-
~. willamette left fer Portland yes
...S,y. and the Umstilia has taken her
.s.oe under the shutes-
Ths ting Mastiek having besn laid up,
v, +. Gshney, her chief engineer, has
i.;osd bis family IN this city.
Miss Lon Boot Of this city, who is en-
- in teaching school near Olympia,
IN rs.nra home February lst.
Tbs Thompson Opera Company will
.,resy at Prye's Opera House IN Seattle
~ Sfridsy and Saturday evenings.
Miss May Macarthur Of Tacoma, who
,.s heeu visiting friends 10 Seattle since
nrstmss, Will return home today.
no. Fulmer, City Marshal Of Taco
"a vas IN Seattle yesterday on busi-
-. he reports all quiet at the ter
minus.
lodge OF Knights Of Pythias, with
1. shartsr members, Is about 10 be Or
ssnizsd in the promising town OF Mount
Vernon.
Moran Brothers have commenced
vork on an engine TO fu,nish the motive
oovsr for Anthony Hslnes' little iron
steamer.
esm Rosenberg, manager OF sne star
Clothing House, has been confined TO
IL room BY o severe attack Of fever for
several days past.
The weather appears 70 have taken a
L. r4 n IN
a clearer atmosphere and frost. Ihe
change is an agreeable one.
In the case of Henrietta NJ. Haller
N. Nam d Winchester, a judgment has
been granted the plaintiff for $35I7.33
md costs in the District Court.
Tvo residents Of Alaska, nov in Seat
lie, have engaged variety troupe,
which will be taken north on the Idaho,
and open IN juneau, about the lst of
Nay.
The militia of Washington Terri
tory consists Of 81 commissioned ofh-
eers, 81 non n-commissioned officers, IL
musicians and 39l privates-3So men,
oil told.
The examination Of w. 3. Barnes, Of
Oseeols, charged with shooting neigh
Dor named Cote, a few days since, will
take place In Justice Lyons Court this
morning.
TN. Alvord, the well known White
River farmer, received 100 head Of
steers from Oregon by the Shore road
yesterday, which he will stall feed for
the seattle N irket.
Don't forget the great auction sale of
furniture a. the Puget Sound Fsrnitore
Oompasy's warerooms, wnicn com
nences today. Every article must be
sold without reserve.
WI. Mitchell and X. Hopkins have
opsued an office in the building occu-
pied BY Wells, Fargo d Co.. wnere they
will carry on q gene e'sl bookkeeping
and collection business
S.W. Barns has 30 far been unable TO
secure $40 bonds, and consequently
lsngaishes. He Is the party held 80 an
swer before the Grand Jury for assault
ing Ernst Esoaiet with hatchet.
Mount Vernon Postoffiee will be
raised 10 the money order grade on the
lst Of July next. So Delegate Voorhees,
Is sssared by q. 4. Macdonald, super
intsndent Of she money order system.
James Power, of Laoonner arrived
here yesterday on his way TO the Terri
tofial capital 10 enter his protest against
the rem wal of the Court from Lsson
ner TO some point on the Skagit river.
Mr.. s. 4. Hoskinson was installed as
Chaplain of Stevens Post, of the Grand
Army, on Tuesday night last, but by
accident his name was left out of oar
hoa fsf M s.fHN IN ia "a la
Toe American ship Harvey Miils, OF
977 tons, will take cargo of lamber
from the sound TO Santa RosalIa,
Mexico. She will return from Mexico
for cargo of coal TO take 10 San
Francisco.
Orion Byrd, formerly conductor en-
the Seattle and walia Railroad, who
has been IN the employ Of the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company for the past
i've or SIX years east of the mountains,
has returned TO Seattle, where he sx-
poets 20 locate permanently.
The new incline ID ready for use and
ships can be loaded from 10 jast as soon
u the steel rails for the track arrive.
sts, bot the coal will bs sent direct
By means OF shates arranged at oonvo-
nlent distances.
]. NJ. Z. Atkinson, agent of the Ore
goa Improvement Company st Newcas-
lie, was In Seattle yesterday. de says
that within q week the mine will have
an output Of almost any desired quan-
hty OF coal. just at present the output
is very small, owing 10 the workings on
the big vein not being thoroughly open
cd out.
"a. Turner has sold his Berkshire
bear, Gift" and will ship him TO the
new owner today. Between his fancy
fowls, dogs and other animals, Mr.. L.
10 doing considerable business, despite
The dull times and scarcity of money.
Turner 10 enterprising and a rustler.
and II there Is anything at all TO be
done, he will do 10.
The total number of vessels EN-,
ployed 10 the coastine trade and fisher
lee on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts,
iacludine tue western rivers and all
inland navigation, excepting the north
ern lakes, on June 30. 1885, was 1873,
ana their tonnage 2,&55, 10. OF this
hamber lB,s62 we're sailing vessels,
sili steam vessels. 25S canal boats and
sH barRes. Ihs total number Of ves-
ssls engaged In the coas,ine trade, in
eiudlnR those engaged in the fisheries
and upon the northern lakes and west
ern rivers, Is l6,9ls and their ton
nAge L. 2.00l ,967.
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