The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-16
THE PASSING THRONG.

John Rigby. OF Port Townsend, a member of
the wel.-known firm OF contractors. Rlgby &
Evans, Is az the Grand hote. He was one OF
the bidders for the contract 10 ouI.d the govern
meat dry cock az the Puget sounf naval sta
ton. in regard 10 that wogk he said: There
was no trouble about determining the cost Of
the material and the labor N the construction
OF The dcek Itself, that was easy enough, but,
nevertheless, there was q large element OF u1-
certainty. You see the dock would have TO be
Kept pumped dry dur. the whole three years
occupied IN the construction. Now the amount
OF water that could gel in was Largely guess.
Much depended on the condition OF soil and the
formation OF the various LAYERS OF gravel and
other material. The cost OF the necessary
pumping Plant would probably be s20,01o 81 The
lessI Mr.. Evans is now il Chicago preparing
the ground for the Washington state building
81 the Worlds fair, for which We have the con-
tract We shall soon begin tbs shipment of
materials"
S. Schmidt, the head OF the firm OF s Schmidt
q Co, Ash packers az Portland, was in the city
yesterday. Mr.. schmidt is spending short vs.
cation on the Sound. His firm is one OF the
heaviest packers of sturgeon in the country, that
being their principal business Their head
office is in New YORK and they freeze the fish al
Portland and ship them East IN refrigerator
cars. Last year they shipped between 70o, coo
and 90,Qcl The sturgeon season Is in the
winter, when the lake fish and salmon season Is
over, and they find good market in
the East. Nr. Schmidt said: "Thers are piles
OF sturgeon in the Columbia river. all the way
up TO The Dslles Its quite an amount OF work to
put them up, as they al have to be skinned, but
nearly every particle OF the fish Is put to some
USE The ar olad1ers used for isiuglass,
and the Chinese clean the bones and use them
tor food. as they become glutiuous when boiled.
They ship large quantities OF the bone TO China"
Bishop T. A. Jaggar, OF Cincinnati, arrived at
the Rainier hote! last evening on his way home
from Alaska The bis3op, who Is one OF the
well-known men of the Protestant Episcopal
church, is a native of New YORK city, where he
was born in IsSa. While engaged in business
he began course OF preparation for the minis
Try. In 1860 he was graduated from the General
Theological Seminary. and was made deacon. he
began his work assistant minister at st
Georges church, Flushing, y. Y. Then he was
successfully rector OF Trinity church, Bergen
Point, n. j.; Anthem Memorial church, New
York city; St Johns at Ionkers, y. Y, and
Holy Trinity, Philadelphia At Yonkers be
founded ST. Johns Riverside hospital. In 1875
he was consecrated bisnop of Southern OHIO,
but he has since retired He has published oc-
casional sermons and addresses.
G. P. Perley, of Blaine. is at the Arlington
hotel Mr.. Perley came to California from Maine
a
dence IL Redlands, moved 70 Blaine some three
years since. He is one of the principal stock
holders in the Clark Investment Company there
and he Is also building single mill. short
time ago he bought the mill plant and logging
outfit belonging to the Slaughter Milling Com
pany, and he intends TO move the whole con-
Germ TO Blaine. sour town." said he yesterday,
us beginning orun on sound business basis.
We have now mills and fish packing establish
ment which are doing business OF $4,000 or
$4,000 q month, and that means q solid income
for the town"
Frank Kriete, graduate of the Northwestern
university OF law, at Cnicago. arrived in this
city yesterday and will make his home here
His brothers E. c., Henry and George Kriete
have been here some time. E. c. kriets. W no is
also a lawyer, graduated from the Union law
school. of Chicago, is quite well known in Sc
attle. He was the first OF the boys to leave his
home In the Illinois metropolis, but was soon
followed West by TWO OF his brothers. and now
that they are all here, they will soon form law
partnership and begin practice.
l. Phipps and N. ". Reeves, of wslla walla,
are at the Rainier hotei. Mr.. Phipps is the as
sistant manager of the Wala Walla Savings
bank, and Mr.. Reeves has been in the insurance
business there. Yesterday Mr.. Phipps said: ~
am afraid that the wheat crop around Walla
Nalla viii be very light know that in a large
part OF the country around Us the wheat has
been badly burned. The extent OF the loss il is
hard at present to estimate"
A. II. Sroufe, editor Of the Sidney Pioneer. WAS
in the city yesterday. He says the Sidney coun-
Gil granted electric light franchise AZ its last
meeting; that a big sawnlll and sash and door
factory is going TO be established there right
away and the electric light plant will be run by
the power from the factory. Mr.. Sroute says he
feels confident that Kitsap county will so Re-
publican by good majority.
NJ. E. Downs, the pre- ident of the Blue Canyo
Coal Company, OF Fairhaven, is at the Rainier
hotel with his wife. "In about fifteen days"
said he, I'VE shall be ready TO put the coal on
the market The bunkers 81 the water front are
completed, and our road is finished. The only
thing now to be done is 10 complete the tram
way at the mines"