The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-26

tIe prDCSbo Is Quib5 s4uipir- ibu
buy the coloring matter, a tasteless thick,
brown liquid, a little OF which will give tho
right tint - good deal of water or alcohol.
In addition to this color, the whisky is made up
OF alcohol, glycerine. and perhaps little
curacao TO improve the flavor. You can make
it right ia the shop. and no time at all is re-
CURED to age 1t. The cost, should jduge, Is
about 81 gallon; the dealer gets say $50 for 1t,
and the Indians pay $40. The business is profit
able. At the mining camps this kind OF
whisky is sometimes sold If man only keeps
the ingredients on hand he can make it up for
himself and save money"
Probably the angriest man in town last even
Ing was w. W. Stewart. a lawyer. Stewart had
been retained to defend a man named Hogan,
who Is in the city Jail upon a serious charge.
and yesterday afternoon about 2:20 O'Clock
Jailer Noble admitted him to his clients lonely
cell Alter interviewing the prisoner for about
haif an hour stewart concluded he would hurry
around and hunt up some moro cases.
but, 10 and behold, the jail doors were
barred and double bo.ted The angry
lawyer shouted aud smo,e the iron doors;
but in vain. The jailer had forgotten all about
MIN and, when 8 O'Clock arrived, had turned
the Keys over to Jailer Townsend. About
O'Clock The night ialer heard sounds coming
from Hogan's cell and opened the door for the
purpose OF telling the prisoner if he didn't make
less noise he would put him in the "star cham
iue uOofs new open ana SteWart HlaICDeu
out before the astonished jailer, quite the
angriest man that ever graced police head
quarters.
Tho clevercst smuggler will get caught in
the long rum" said Customs Inspector Samuel
X. Johnson yesterday. Gle may escape the first
tline ana the second, but by and by his time
comes. Trapping a smuggler is harder than
trapping thief, because smuggling is not a di-
rect injury to any man who will bring charge
such as is brought by one who is robbed Snug
gilng Is not crime by the very nature OF things.
but by statute, and many sympathize with
smuggler, and those will shield him who would
gladly help bring thief to justice. l could go
Tor my breakfast to some particular restaurant
here In town every day for a week, and if took
pains to avoid showing myself, my friends
might never know of my visits. But il l kept
on somebody would mark me and find out who
was. 1t fs the same way with the smugger.
The first few times he is unnoticed, then his
race becomes familiar to the officers, and they
begin to inquire who he is and what his bust
ness may be- Then 1t is up with him."
B. Austin, Of whatcom, is at the DIller Mr.
Austin, who has been resident OF the Puget
Sound country for the last eleven years, has
been connected with number of govern
ment and railroad surveys-among the lat
ter that for the Bellingham Bay &
British Columbia railroad. In speaking OF the
said: "The whole northwestern part of What
com county Is fairly level, but Is heavily tim
pereu, except Tor stretches OF prairie here and
there But where the timb Der grows it is very
dense. The land, when cleared, makes fine
farms, being exceedingly rich and fertile. /
suppose that In the whole region there il not a
quarter section unoccupied: so you see the
county is becoming fairly well settled"
"The palmy days of street railroading in Seat
tle' said l. Ii. Griffith yesterday, "were when
we first put in electric cars. We had four cars
aud they earned 500 day each. If all the cars
on any road in Seattle did as well as that, we
should all be making fortunes. In those times
the cars were so lew that they were jammed
full at morning and night, carrying from eighty
to hundred passengers each. We had the only
line in the city, and all the money spent for car
fares was spent on u.s.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Mawhiney, OF Oil City,
are stopping at the Grand hotel. Mr.. Mawhiney
Is one of the oldest oil operators in the state of
pennsylvania, for he and his brother, since
dead, embarked in the business in 1861 Both
OF them made fortunes, and Mr.. Mawhiney is
now one OF the richest men in Oil City. year
or two ago he came to the Coast to examine the
Oil wells in Southern California, but his present
trip Is purely for pleasure.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. French, of Pittsburg, arrived
president OF the A. French Spring Company, a
large concern which manufacturers spr ngs for
railroad trucks, wagons and all other purposes.
lie has number of acquaintance in Seattle
among them Wesley Wilson, manager OF the
Seattle Coal g. Iron Company
Postoftice Inspector II. p Thrall, of San Fran
cisco, is at the Occidental hotel He is prepar-
Ing to go TO Sitka with the chief of his divi.
sion, George L. seybot, of San Francisco
They will sail on May 80. Mr. Thrall will go no
further than sitka, but Mr.. Seybolt will make
the trip to Unalaska.
Mr.. and Mrs. Levi FISHER, OF Pittsburg, are
stopping at the Arlington hotel. He is a mem
Der OF one OF the large firms OF coal operators on
the Monongahela river. They own several
steamers, and ship coal extensively to Cincin.
natl, Louisville and New Orleans
Mr.. and Mrs. W. P. Logan, of PHILADELPHIA
arrived at the Northern hotel last night Mr.
Logan is retired merchant who is travelling
for pleasure. He and his wife will make the
fr. IN AlG- E.yth