The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-05

Captain Troup had to come 500 miles to Port
| Townsend in order to straighten up some GUS
| toms business. All OF his other steamers, run
| ming on the lakes and Columbia and KoofenM
rivers, are Canadian vessels, and are entered IN
the New Westminster customs district. Cap
| tain Troup will return TO Seattle In a few days
| on hih way back to the Koofenai district
Lieutenant A. B. Wyckoff. of the Puget sound
naval station, Is at the Rainier hotel The lieu
tenant has many friends in Seattle well as
elsewhere, who will be pleased to learn of the
| honor done him in making him commander of
| the Nipsic, which Is now attached to the sta
ton. He is the only first lieutenant in the navy
in command of q vessel of the Nipsic's class.
NJ. F. Sheehan is in the city with some sam
pies of ore from the -Four Brothers mine in the
Silver Creek district 81 have found gold there"
said he yesterday. "The specimens of ore
brou ght down assay from 81! to $40 a ton In
gold, and from 81 to si8 In silver. On half a
dozen pieces the average assay was s97 ton In
gold"
R. A. Nicol and G. n Sampson, who arrived
at the Grand hotel from the Monte Cristo min.
ing district day or two ago. say that there is
still considerable snow among. the mountains.
and as yet comparatively few prospectors have
gone into that region. The Monte Cristo wagon
road is now nearly completed.
An excursion was at the Northern hotel yes
terday containing the following members: Mr..
and Mrs. Roman Clarke and Miss Emma Craw-
ford, Of Tyrone, Pa; Miss Eleanor Isett, of
Spruce Creek, Pa; Mrs. Hagerty, OF Tacoma,
and Mr.. aud Mrs. Crawford Irwin, Of Holidays
burg, Pa.
At the Rainier hotel yesterday was party OF
well-known people from Troy, ". Y. The men,
bers were Mr.. and Mrs G. B. CIuett and Mrs
Edmund Cluett. Mr.. Cluett Is extensive
manufacturer of collars and cuffs, and Mrs. Ed
mund Cluett is the wife OF q prominent music
dealer.
John T. Boyd, OF Erie, Pa, a member OF the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, is
spending few days at the Rainier hotel He Is
superintendent of the Stearns Manufacturing
Company, which makes large portion of the
machinery used in the Puget sound sawmills.
Clarence L. Reid and william f. Davis, of
New York city, are stopping at the Grand hotel
on their way to Alaska Mr.. Reid is q graduate
of Yale, In the class OF 1877, and a successful
young lawyer The present trip is wholly for
pleasure.
J. K. Ray, of Whatcom, we'll known as one of
the tallest men on Puget sound, Is staying at the
Diller hotel. He has just opened a new logging
camp on Lake Whatcom, and he says that there
is fairly active demand for good logs.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Fl. Wiley, Miss Sarah R.
Wiley and Miss Helen o. Wiley, of New York
city. are at the Rainier hotel. Mr.. Wiley Is a
well-known New York publisher now on a
pleasure trip with his family.
Dr. and Mrs. J. 8. Ballard. of San Francisco,
are at the Rainier hotel. DR.. Ballard says that
he was in Southern California a few weeks ago,
and the dry weather there was doing consider
able injury to the wheat
Morgan Morgans, superintendent of the Black
Diamond coal mine, Is at the Diller hotel. He
says that the mine is now running regularly,
though not on full time.
Aparty from Portland, consisting Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Robertson and Mr.. and Mrs. J. T. Kingston,
Is stopping at the Arlington hotel.