The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-12
THE WATER FRONT.

Schooner c. C. Funk arrived from San Fran.
cisco to load lumber at Salmon bay.
The little schooner Never Mind came in from
the straits yesterday with 5000 pounds OF
halibut.
Steamer Mexico sailed for Alaska yesterday
with full list of passengers and about thirty
tons OF freight.
Repairs on the steamer Idaho were completed
yesterday, and she will probably lie taken from
the ways today.
Tug Rainier lowed the schooners Fanny Adele
and Challenger to Tacoma yesterday to load
lumber for San Francisco.
Steamer j. R. Mcdonald returned from Van
couver yesterday, after delivering 2D0 tons OF
hay there from this side of the line.
The ship British Isles. now loading at Port
Blakeley, has a gross tonnage of 2-40o, carries
100000 feet OF lumber aud has q crew OF forty
men.
J. II. Griffith has now got the management OF
the tug Mogul in addition to the Coils, and the
two are working in harmony IL opposing the
combination tugs.
The four-mast British ship Sumatr finished
taking on her cargo OF wheat at the elevator
yesterday and sailed for the United Kingdom.
She took 1000 tons of wheat from here and the
balance OF her cargo from Tacoma
Captain Oliver, of the steamer Delta, has a
fish story. He says that the steamer. on her last
trip. brought down from Hazel Point to Port
Gamble halibut that measured seven feet in
length. four feet In width and weighed $40
pounds. Next
When tug Wasp was coming in yesterday from
Chuckanut with a scow of stone she passed the
steamer Wasco on the beach at Fidalgo. The
steamer lost the key out OF her wheel coming in
Friday and had to go on the beach to fasten it.
She expected to arrive in last night.
Steamship Umatills arrived in port from San
Francisco time yesterday. She had very
pleasant weathe. all the way up. and brought a
full cargo of freight, 1882 TONS OF this 500 tons
was for Seattle She had los cabin and fifty
steerage passengers out OF San Francisco, of
which 62 were for Seattle.
Cruiser Baltimore returned from Fairhaven
yesterday and, though no coal was being loaded
or any other apparent reason for refusing to ad-
NIT visitors, no one was allowed on board 1t is
probable that this unreasonable rule will not be
inforced today. The vessel will begin taking on
supply OF franklin coal tomorrow.
Schooner Oceanica Vance, Captain Anderson,
arrived in port yesterday from San Francisco to
load a return cargo of lumber at Smiths cove
from the Western mill Captain Anderson re-
ports the death of his mate, J. E. Anderson, on
the trip up. He was native OF Sweden, and
death resulted from throat disease. The re-
mains were buried at sea-
steamer San Juan had ten tons OF freight ont
yesterday on the FORT OrcndfQ route; the w IL
mington came in from Vancouver with eighty
tons of Chinese and Japanese freight: the An
gees took q logging outfit to Dungeness; the
Hassslo had forty tons out on the Everett route;
and the Henry Bailey had thirty five tons of
hay and general freight in from Skagit river.
The tug Queen City lost twelve sections OF
skagit river logs, valued at $780, in last weeks
gale. They were destined for the Skagit Mill
Company and were cut adrift after the tug had
gone through Deception pass into the open
waters of the straits. The captain il criticised
for not remaining in sheltered waters. The tug
Wasp, with barge load OF stone from Chucka-
nut quarry, was also caught in the storm and
about two-thirds of the stone was lost over
board.-Ld Conner Mail.
Steamship Walla Walla sailed for San Fran
cisco at 5 o'clock last evening. She had l 100
tons of coal and sixty tons of general freight
On her cabin list of passengers were the follow
ing names from Seattle: Miss F. Genosci, Miss
Boardman, Mrs. Mary Burton, j. F. Murphy. w.
II. Day, b. C. Harrison, T. F. Chapman and wife,
Mrs. A. Eikish, C. G. Smith and wife, 8. Swynn,
r. W. Wood, T. Keeie, J. +. Bakeman, G. G.
Chandler, T. NJ. Daulton, Mrs. J. Nicholas and
baby, E. II. Raymond wife, g. Pohl and Chas.
Bergman. There were about twenty five pass
engers in the steerage.