The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-02

fog covered the field and his capton walked
with him and several others right into the lines
OF New York regiment The result was that
he and his comrades ware released. while the
rebels were IN turn taken prisoner. Mr.. Young
has been in the logging business during most
OF his residence on the sound, but several yeaEs
ago he was interested in the boom at the mouth
OF the skagit river. He II now managing the
boom 1t the mouth Of the sttllaguAmish Yss-
tsrday he said: ssAt the price OF IS cents
thousand. allowed BY the stats law. Is 10 hard TO
make booming par on the skasit, because %
much drift comes down the river, and good
part Of the PROFITS II eaten up in getting RID OF
this drift"
"You can never get man to believe that his
warehouse or mill 10 IN any great danger Of
destruction from dre," said D. A. Spencer -.
terday. II recall rather striking instances Of
that fact One day man asked me why The II.
surance RATES on lumber mills were 20 high, and
Iexplainsd 70 him that every lumber mill was
finder box. Tho place was filled with DUST
shavings and wood; slight drs would set the
whole thing aolase and complete destruction Of
the property would almost inevitably follow.
He replied that while my theory might hold in
many instances, Jet II was hardly possible for
his mill to burn down. The workmsn used the
greatest care. every precaution was taken
against the accumulation OF shavtngs and ether
infammables. and during nights and sundays
Trustworthy Watchman was constantly going
the rounda Now the curious part OF this story
Is that at the very moment We were talking
that mans mill was burning, and had We looked
In the right direction. W might have sen the
smoke itself"
A number Of the militfamen who arrived
with their friends last night from Camp Murray
are stopping at the various hotels. Eight or ten
are At the Arlington. Captain George H. Jones,
Charles B. Wood, and N. 9. Snyder, Of Port
Townsend, are at the Grand. At tho Northern
are General A. r. Curry, Lieutenant G r. Lake
and Captain B. +. Freeman, OF spokane; Colonel
q w. scott, Of Seattle; Lieutenant W. A. Kim.
ball, Of Port Townsend-an officer Of the regular
army; Sergeant and Mrs.. King Lieutenant aud
Mrs. J. T. Becker, Lieutenant J. f.. Armstrong,
Sergeant aud MrA Steinman and Miss Bochin,
OF Ellensburg, and Mrs. Elsensohn, OF Pomeroy.
party OF ten Seattle men will spend their
Fourth of July In canoes ON the SnoQualmie
river. A. w. Engle, H. H. Lewis. Abram Barker,
Josiah Collins, Bernard Pelly, George Atkinson,
IT,. H. McMicken, W. Fl. Gorham and Henry
Story leave by train this morning for Fall City.
There they will launch their canoes in the aft
ernoon, and Sunday and Monday will be spent
They expect to reach Everett Monday afternoon
or evening, and return from there to Seattle BY
train.
Mr. and Mrs. John Colahan, Of Cleveland, are
stopping at the Northern hotel on their way to
Victoria. Mr.. Colahan, who il . dealer in rail-
road, river and manufacturing property, repre-
sents considerable Eastern capital, including
the estates of Courtlandt Palmer, OF New York,
and c. r. Williams. of Connecticut
George A. Black, OF Fairhaven, was at the
Northern hotel yesterday, homeward bound
from an Eastern trip. Mr.. Black attended the
Republican convention at Minneapolis, and
since that time he has been visiting various
points OF interest He spent . few days at Salt
Lake City.
Mr. and Mrs. B. L Holmes, Of Kalama, arrived
al the Arlington hotel last night. Mr.. Holmes
is the sheriff OF Cowlits county. His latest piece
of important work was the hanging Of the muir.
derer. Bob Day, few weeks ago.
Judge and Mrs. H. g. Strive leave for Alaska
today. They will be accompanied BY their
daughter. Mrs. A. E MacCulsky. They viii go
by the Islander, the Canadian Pacific boat, from
Victoria.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles E. 9. Burch, Of Wenat.
chez, are among the guests at the Grand hotel
Mr. Burch has come to Seattle to buy machinery
for steamer now being built to navigate Lake
Chelan.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvah Hovey, of Newton, Mas. !,
and Mr. and Mrs. D. G. Eaton, of Brooklyn, are
among the guests at the Northern.