The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-03-05

also have repair shops and Office
rooass attached Is is rumore1 here
tonight that the scheme to build y
railway froa Saip Haraor through
I the skagit or Csdyss pass has fallen
through and tina. the proposed coal
road from Ship H2rhor 10 Skagis
mines. a part of which has been
Graded, is 10 be abandoned.
The opposition ticket 10 be pus in
[ the field Tor the Chamber OF Commerce
officers a. tomorrow : election viii be
mate M as follows. President, Nal
soa bennett: first vice president. l..
/ G. Smith: second vice president. +. r..
Odds; treasurer. +. NJ. Wade; execu-
tice committee. SzmT Coiiysr, Alex
BAILEY, ). III. Nolan. JEo. Aacready.
Willard w. Pratt
Three of the chaiD-g2ng employed
in cleaning tine streets OF mud to-day
refused 10 work The suspension OF
an iron ball and chain from the neck
and shoulders. with their shoyels
strapped TO their backs, brought one
OF them around. but the others two
remained obstinate and were taken TO
jail, where they viii feast on bread and
water till they Indicate a willingness 10
earn their board
One OF the last acts of retiring Sheriff
Wilt was the closing of the notorious
Star lodging house, st 1870 &. street.
BIZ order OF the district court. and
placing deputy sheriff IN charge 10
see that il Is kept closed.
Frank Wollmer. a farmer on Vashon
island, was in the city to-day making
inquiries as to the whereabouts Of his
l5-year-old son. Henry Wollmer. Sat
urday morning be was sent ID old town
for supplies, as mas been the custom,
in q row boat, which he pur-
chased and placed in the
boat, left tied 70 the Tacoma
Mil Company wharf. When last
seen. Sunday noon. he was on the rail-
road track going toward new town.
and since then nothing has been seen
of him. Owing 10 repeated efforts
having been inside IN the past TO in
duce the boy to ship on vessels. Mr..
been shanghaied. This Is the
has lest, an elder son falling in the
drowning about four months ago.
The missing boy is described as of
light complexion, wearing a brown
-
particular bright and suffering badly
Sheriff Price was sworn in to-da Y at
o'clock. and at once took charge of
the Office. vice Sheriff Wit, retiring.
Fhe new sheriff has appointed Dan
Stuhi day guard at the Jail and III.
Stoke night guard, and J. NJ. Hicks
and Hiram Daggett deputies.
George Bruce, OF Scotland, John
Call ..f IralanH Nfo~frr E~ochia, anH
Charles Holtz, OF Norway. applied for
naturalization papers to Clerk of Court
Ayers to-day.
Kate DIR applied for letters OF adj
nlinistration on the estate of Chas. G.
DIR, deceased, to-day before Probate
Judge Beverly.
James Price, sheriff-elect OF Pierce
county, denies in toto the statement
from Port Townsend to the effect that
be was q candidate for the collector
ship OF that port OF entry.
John Beverly was sworn in as pro-
bate judge OF Pierce county to-day,
vice Wickersham who has moved to
Gig harbor.
The canvassing for the city directory
is now complete. and the publishers
are at work classifying. 1t is expected
the new book will be ready for distri.
button about April [.
Another attempt was made Sunday
night TO break Jail by several of the
inmates. but before much Roadway
had been made, Jailor Jones appeared
on the scene, and transferred the anx-
ions ones TO stronger cells.
SHIPPING NOTES.
The steamer San Pedro left Sunday
morning with 4 cargo of Carbon Hill
coal for San Francisco.
The bark Seminole is diseharging
ballast to-day, and will commence
loading with South Prairie coal to-
morrow
The ship Palestine is loading with
Carbon Hill coal
The bark Estrelia is loading with
lumber at the Tacoma mill for San
Francisco.
The ship Sintram will take a cargo
OF lumber from the Tacoma mill for
Valparaiso.
The Umatilla and Premier are due
tomorrow.
The bark Eugene is loading lumber
at Gig harbOr