The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-31

extent In Seattle, Suspended some months
ago, and the court put 1t into the
hands of Mr.. Griffith as receiver
'our policy" said be last night, sis to liquidate
as rapidly az possible When was first APP
pointed receiver went East aud consulted
with the stockholders, and they voted to raise
100000 BY an assessment, and thus straighfen
matters out so that we could make more ad-
vantageous settlements. But the first call Tor
money under this assessment brought US in
only between $4,000 and $4,000, 30 it became
evident that nothing could be done by that
method. Accordingly we decided upon
the next best course liquidation,
which, however rapidly carried out,
must take some time This company has had .
good many adverse circumstances TO contend
with. Farming propartes in Kansas ana Ne
brsska have greatly deprecated in value, and
in some instances the owners of property have
utterly abandoned them to go to Oklahoma or
some other new place. The company has several
houses here in seattle, perhaps halt dozenor
so and owes some $4,000 to the Seattle National
Bank Building Company. My business here ID
to settle the company's affairs If possible and
sell its property here
A. B. Ford, who is at the head OF the Boston
Fishing and Trading Company's salmon can
merry at Yes bay, arrived from Alaska yesterday
by the steamer Mexico, and he Is now at the
Grand hotel. He says that over twenty can
but five in Southeastern Alaska are out--the
Chilkat Canning Company, the Baranoff Pack
ing Company, the Klawak cannery, the Mission
airy cannery at Metiakatla, aud that OF the
Boston Fishing and Trading Company.
"The output OF these independent canneries,
said he, twill be between 5000 and $1,000 cases
of forty eight cans each. The outlook as re-
CARDS prices is somewhat better than last year,
when 1t fell to a dollar for Q dozen cans. The
combine has brought the price to $l.l0 dozen,
difference OF 40 cents a case. We independents
Gamers do not intend to cut prices. For my
part, simply wish to manage my own business.
Our fishermen are both Indians and whites.
The Indians drink all the whisky they can get,
but, fortunately. we are little out of the track
OF the whisky smugglers. Now and then one OF
them appears on the scene but we drive him OF
In short order. There is, however, plenty OF
smuggling going on around Juneau"
"When John Wiley, of Wiley, Hale Il Scott,
first came to Seattle he was indeed a striking
figure" said Attorney Park Henderson yester-
day afternoon. zone of the first cases he ever
had in the city was one which came up before
John +. Miller, who was then justice OF the
peace. Some fellow had brought suit to recover
certain amount OF money from another man,
and the opposing counsel was p. J. Walker, ex-
attorney general Of Texas, at ono time well
known In this city. Walker, In his argument.
was profuse in giving Latin quotations, making
use OF nearly all of Broom's legal maxims
When he sat down, Wiley slowly arose. His long,
white coat, which had been bieached coloriess by
Nebraska sun beans, extended below his knees
and made him appear nearly eight feet tall. He
waited second, and then pointing his long, In
dex finger towards the justice, solemnly said:
If your honor, please; sic sempter tdrdntnldrs:
psursbus onions; ct ptserinctum!' Then he slowly
sat down. The justice, with a very broad smile
overspreading his face. decided in favor Of
Wiley's client"
w. 8. Jameson, OF Port Gamble, IL at the Ar
lington hotel. "Seattle had a good procession
this morning." said he, "but can remember
hall century ago, when our Fourth of July and
other professions were always headed by the
eight or ten surviving Revolutionary soldiers of
the neighborhood. But now the soldiers are all
dead. and OF those who married late In life only
nineteen widows survive-according to the
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES" Mr.. Jameson says that
man living near Port Gamble recently set
steel trap for q bear which had been annoying
him somewhat, and when he went to look at the
trap few mornings ago. he found the toes of q
bears forefoot in the trap. Sometimes" said
Mr. Jameson, "a bear, In order to get away, will
gnaw foot of, leaving the member In the trap,
but In this instance the bear evidently wrenched
its toes of" The closing of the Port Ludlow
mill and the moving OF the force there to Port
Gamble will. Mr.. Jameson thinks, have the
activity.
John Hopp returned to the city yesterday
afternoon from Snohonish and he is now at the
Arlington hotel. He says the snohomish, Sky
komish and Pilchuck rivers are very high,
higher than oven the oldest settlers have seen
them. The rains OF last week which were very
severe here were heavier there and now the
bottom lands Of the rivers are overaowed.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. X. Crosby, Of Wilmington, az
rived at the Rainier hotel yesterday. Mr.. Crosby,
who is a dry goods merchant, has been attend.
ing the general assembly OF the Presbyterian
church at Portland. He will spend day or two
in Seattle. then go to Victoria, and sail from
there for Alaska.
W. l. Shepard, of Villisca, Ia, IS at the Ar
lington hotel with his wife and family. He has
for many years been a prominent merchant of
Villisca, but he Is now looking for q new loca-
ton in the Pacific Northwest.