The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-29
THE WATER FRONT.

Tug Mystic goes to Everett today after Q pile
driver.
Tug Biz will be taken from the marine ways
today.
Steamer Michigan left for Portland yesterday
with cargo of coal
Schooner Viking locked at Smiths cove bunk
ers yesterday TO begin loading lumber.
Schooner Bartlett will finish loading lumber
at stimsons yard for san Francisco today.
Steam collier willamette arrived in port yes
terday to load cargo OF coal for San Francisco.
Tug Mystic locked the schooner Vesta at
Smiths cove to load lumber from the Snoqual
ME MILL
s@Steaner Delta is bringing quite a number of
deer in from Hood canal She brings In three
to five every trip.
Steamship City of Topeka sails for Alaska at
o'clock this morning She will have q fair
cargo of freight out of Seattle.
Ship Ivanhoe finished loading 1900 tons OF
coal at the Black Diamond bunkers last night
and viii sail for San Francisco this morning.
Tug Discovery towed the barkentine Modoc to
sea yesterday lumber laden for San Francisco.
She loaded at Smiths cove for the Western Mill
Company.
Captain McAllep's statement of the cost of
keeping up the freboat shows that her fuel bills
for the three months beginning October /,
amounted to s3Si5o This is much less than is
ordinarily supposed.
Captain Smith, of the steamer ". F. Munroe,
says that In the fifteen years he has spent steam
boating on the Sound he has never experienced
such heavy wind as he did Saturday night off
the point at Mukilteo
The following dispatch was received from the
weather bureau at San Francisco last evening:
"fIoist information signal; southeast storm ap-
preaching Western Washington" Following is
the weather forecast for twenty-four hours r I'm
Sgfa fna- los Tphf Pain.
ture on coast.
Steamer Bailey Gatzert has failed so far to
keep up the Flyers schedule of time She was
al hour late yesterday getting out on the after
noon trip. Ii is claimed that some of her cop
per is loose on the bottom and checks her speed.
The Eyer will probably be ready to resume her
run in a few days.
The wreck of the tug Virgil Price was landed
on the beach on the west side yesterday. Her
bow was completely cut of, but beyond this
the injury was only slight. bulkhcad will be
built around her forward portion as to float
her survey will then be held and the loss
adjusted either by payment or repairing the
damage
some uneasiness is felt regarding the steamer
lola which is rumored left Tacoma Saturday
with twelve passengers and has not been seen
since. The steamer always made daily trips but
has not been in Seattle since Friday II. W. Baker
at whose wharf she lands, said last night that
her wheel was loose when she In last and
he thought she probably slipped it ana had to
tie up. He had no apprehension regarding her
safety.
Steamer Clara Brown took out Is tons of
freight on the Olympia route Sarah NJ Renton
had 10 tons for Port Biakeley; the Angeles
brought in 100000 shingles from Port Angeles;
the w. F. Munroe brought in p tons of hay and
other produce from Skagit river, and left with
30 tons of general freight; tho State of Wash
ington took 20 tons out on the Lowell route; the
Multnomah had 10 tons out on the Olympia
route; the Henry Bailey brought in 25 tons of
hay from skagit river for the Washington
Produce Company, aud left with Is tons of gen
eral freight, and the l. J. Perry brought in 80
tons of oats from la Conner for Baxter & Co.