The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-10-30
AT PORT TOWNSEND.
Preparing to Harvest the Fruit
of the Ocean.
RECORD or DISTRICT. COURT.
General Thrie's Dismissal Approved
Seattle and Port Angeles Boat
Large Cargo Of Lumber.

Posr TOWNSEND. Oct. a9-The Puget
Sound Fish Preserving Company yester-
day fled with the auditor arFzcies oil IN
corporation signed by Christian kayn, n
r. MORGAN and James q. swan. The cap
ital stock is so .ooe The purpose OF the
corporation Is the preserving. curing and
canning Of fish and other marine pToduets-
| The company viii sooa erect large ware
house ON the Tyler-street whaTf. while its
canning works viii be 81 EastpoTt or scow
bav. The company viii introduce what
wiz be known as the Ravn pronounced
Rawnl process Of preserving fish. the in
yension of Christian Rayn, OF PASSPORT,
one of the incorporatorS. By il all kinds
of FISH and shell fish can be kept for long
period perfectly fresh and wholesome,
without change of flavor or n0tr11ve prop
critics. The undeveloped principle of the
process has been employed for some time
in Great Britain IN transporting fish to
London, out has never before been per
fected. Mr. Ravn has embodied in his IN
vention the discoveries of his uncle, pro-
fessor in a German university, who has
given to it years of study. The process IS
very simple. A cylindrical iron tank With
an air pump is filed with fresh fish, and
the manhole closed alright. The air Is
then pumped ont until an SO-per cent. vac
uum is obtained, and salt water, to which
has been added a preservative chemical, IS
then forced into the tank.
By this means the abundant and varied
food products of Puget sound can be trans
ported fresh to any part of the world. This
promises to greatly widen the market and
develop the wealth of our fisheries.
The company proposes to prepare for
market many of the fish and she'll FISH
Astounding here which have not heretofore
been collected for shipment, such rs
shrimps and crabs, which by the Ravn pro-
cess can be served in ST. Louis or Chicago
in their native freshness without the aid OF
expensive rapid transportation in reirigera.
tor cars. Another of our marine products
is the sea slug, or Beche de Mer, OF COM
merce, which Judge Swan has vainly tried
for years to get fishermen here 10 prepare
for market. When cured, this brings ready
sale in any quantity in Canton, China, at
$500 and 800 per ton, and is IN demand by
Chinese merchants here. The company
proposes TO make a market for this prod
uct.
WATER FROM MOUNT OLYMPUS.
The Mount Olympus Water Company
has party of ten men under Engineer K.
f. Andrews pushing the preliminary sur
vey for their new SYSTEM The party IS
encamped in the Olympic hills. A heavy
assessment has already been made, and the
work will be crowded rapidly heneeforth.
The company expects TO have water into
this city through its new plant next fall.
In the meantime the company viii supply
the city by the old plant of the Port Town
send Company. The capital stock of the
company is $4,000. Mr.. Henry Lundes.
owing to the pressures of his numerous
other affairs. has resigned the presidency
Of the company, and A. w. Bash has sue
ceeded him.
Robert Edgar Ryan, of Leland. superin-
tendent of schools of Jefferson county, and
Mrs. Clara Randall Simpson, of Vancouver,
Wash, were married in that city today.
Both are well-known educators.
Judge Hanford yesterday made citizens
of the following: Mikel Hansen. Norway;
Peter PaulSen, Sweden: John Z. Fuges,
Wales; James McDermott and Patrick
Cole, Ireland.
THE cLALLAM ROAD INJUNCTION.
The temporary restraining order in the
Clallam county road case against the
county commissioners, auditor and treas
urer and Contractor Williams came up in
the district cour. this afternoon. The order
restrained the treasurer from paying about
81 900 OF notes issued for work on the
Clallam and Jefferson county road. Judge
Hanford today modified the order, allow
ing the payment of $500 of the notes for
work already done. This viii stop build
ing of the road.
OPIUM sMUGGLEgs SEN FENCEp.
-Four opium smugglers were sentenced
today to the penitentiary by Judge Han
ford. Alfred Bodley and Richard Miller.
who were recently caught with thirty
pounds of opium on the Point Discovery
road, were given ten months each. jacob
Fitz and NJ. Maggie. employees OF the steam
ship Idaho, arrested last June, received
six months each. All pleaded guilty.
GENERAL HIRES DISMISSAL APPROVED.
Collector Bradshaw today received let
ter from the treasury department convey
ing the intelligence that his dismissal of
General Ihrie from the service last month
had been approved,
SHIPPING NEWS.
The steamship Ferndale. which has been
employed in transporting ore from Texada
To Groudale il heaehed Tor repairs. and it
is reported that she will be soon p'asz,d on
the Port Angeles and Seattle route, run
ming three days per week.
The British ship City of Yarmouth