Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-03-03
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noon by Cal Wagner. Ministries.
Dr. Halls eI8minstion on a charge of
nos oas been postponed for the pre@eHt
Letters viii be taken up At Wells,
r4t8o Co.'S hereafter promptly at 3
O'Clock pm.
Ark G. Ward left for yictoris this
morning, OF business. He Expects to
return home tomorrow.
Tue steamer Messenger il expected
rom Olympia today. she has been Of
tue roo'e for several months.
Mr.. o. Sehiilestad. the undertaken,
vii hereafter b. found at the store of
Plimsn i Wright, N Cherry street.
theodore Z. Peiser has recovered
from hls late illness. and IL again at the
photograph gallery waiting fer business.
Cry Clerk W. Il. Forrest left bv the
Mexico yesterday, on a business trip to
san Francisco, 70 be absent about one
month.
Judge Heacock. vha has represented
tDe Cornwall interests at Whstcom for
several years past, is about 10 return to
California.
III. FIpkelstein, the tailor, has fitted
himself very comfortably IN the Denny
block, In the store room formerly occu-
pied by the PuZst Sound Earuiturs 20.
Persons having stock running st large
about the city lad better take them In
ost of the cold, as the cops will arrest
horses and cattle as veil as the genus
homo.
The Spokane Sunday Star has ceased
20 shine. 1t shoRe for Enrse weeks only ,
The Publisher concluded that gold miu
ing would pay better than publishing a
poor Sunday paper. and accordingly
deserted the one ana fed TO the other.
The nsw whaling steamer Grampus.
built at san Francisco by Dick-y Bros
for the Pacific Steam Whaling Com
pshy, has been officially measured, as
follows Length, 1876 feet breadth.
Il 80 feet; depth, 1850 feet; tonnage,
20. 26 tons.
This evening Cal. Wagner's Minstrels
will appear, for one time only, at Frye's
Opera House. A gentleman Who at
tended their performance in Olympia
writes: They are fine lot of feiio~s
aud give good show" Ihe box sheet
is now open at LowmaR & Hanford's.
The success of the Shoemaker White
italy evidenced by the advertisement
headed, " Victory is Ours" in another
| column. Most of the manufacturers
there employ white isbor only. and they
are getting the trade 10 consequence.
Hyram Doncaster has been employed
by Mr.. Adams, owner of the steamer
Louise. to repair the damage done to
| the steamer Gold Dust ky the Louise col
idiRg With her a few nights since. Mr..
UonoasteT says he can repair the dam
age In five days.
The steamer Shubrick il to be sold at
Portland on the 18th of March. The
| steamer Mastick is for sale at Por. Dis
! covery. these ats. with proper nix
ing, could be made TO do good service
on the Straits of FHca or Gulf Of Geor-
Ella, in the Neah Bay, Coal Hsrbor, Vic
torIa, or even Alaska trade.
The steamer Josephine brought over
three prisoners on Monday in charge of
Deputy Sheriff Mulheru, OF kitsap
county. who we're sentenced to fourteen
days each for petit larceny. The men
belonged to the ship Fanny Tucker, and
stole the captains dinner. They will
serve cut their sentences here.
The difference in cost of running
steamers at different rates of speed was
foreibly shevn ON the United States
steamer Wampanoag Number of years
ago. Rsnbiue 10 miles an hour she
could carry coal enough TO put her over
a distance OF 200 miles. The same
coal Vould carry her $40 miles at 10
miles an hour. and 500 miles at 8 miles
an hour.
On Sunday night the steamer louisa
attempted to land alongside the steamer
Gold Dust at Tacoma. The wide guards
of the Louisa were higher than those of
the Gold Dust, and. when the steamers
came together, the guards Of the Louisa
crushed in the house on the Gold Dust
Its entire length. The damage is not
serious. bat several days will be required
in which to repair it.
The Hall Brothers, shipbuilders at
Port Blskely, have contracted to build
another steamer for the Hawaiian Isl
and trade. She will be of about 400
tons measurement, and IS intended to
succeed the steamer Planter, recently
wrecked. The Planters engines and
boilers will be saved. and boat built
by the Halls to put them in. The
Planter was built by them three years
ago.
Allen G. Mason has taken entire
charge Of the Tacoma Ne,cs. That pa
per, under Epperson. Lawson and Com
erford, was hot and striking. bit evi-
IDENTIFY vas not profitable. Ii made
| agitation, strife and hatred the rule of
it's conduct and in the local reaction it
suffered. Mr.. Mason promises to re.
form II, and II he does so it will be
better paper and more profitable bust
ness enterprise.
W. II. Hughes. late CLERK Of the Leg
! islatare, has published in pamphlet
form the revenue lay of the Territory,
ss amended by the late Legislature ana
a. It nos stands. The pamphlet con-
tsins ~ pages, and wall be sold by Mr.
Hayes AT - cents copy. TRe new Law
IL invaluable to cpunty officials, and its
publication months before the issuance
of tbs Territorial statutes should insure
its ready sale.
TIE steamer Fanny Lake, on Jan. oath,
while navigating Dodge's Slough, Just
this side Of Lseenner. was blown ashore
| by Q strong westerly wind. during one
of the highest spring tides. She stuck
aud the tide left her. and daily the re-
cediug tide has left her mere and more,
until nov she Is said TO be thirty feet
from water at high tide. A large trench
\ or canal IL being dug from the slough
10 the steamer in order to float her back
into the briny deer.
A. Hsrker. of the Rod and Gun Club.
has waived his right to challenge VIM.
| II. McDona aid for the Smith champion
ship trophy. The next IN order Is VIM.
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