The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-19

sne has since written . number of interesting
articles which were published in San Francisco
and Eastern 1esspspers- Among The sequAlnt-
ances Mrs. starr made while n Seattle were
Nj and Mrs. Crsxfor5, and tie acquaintance
ripened into warn friendship Among the
relics in Mrs stars possession vas tigers
claw taken from tiger Which vas killed hve
years ago IN Central India The hunter, who
was friend OF Mrs.. Stars. presented tae cav
TO her, and before leaving this city Mrs starr
had the claw mounted a. 3 watch charm and
presented it 70 NJ. Crawford
Among the guests az the Grand are Captain
and MIRA Owen Doyle, OF Chicago, who naye
Just returned from Aaska. Captain DOYLE, who
has been resident Of Chicago tor about thirty
Eve years, was for long ams engaged IL boat
ing on the great lakes. I've used 10 TDa sailing
vessels from Chicago" said he, 80 any point
where We could make freight But the olg
steamers have now crowded the sailing ves-
sels of Tor the steamers are able TO DO
the carrying more chesply. The scaooners and
other sailing vessels nov run only into the
small ports where the steamers do not care 10
touch, and even in this smaller WORK steam
bsrgss are beginning TO De largely used. some
Of the steamers on the lakes are noE $50 feet
long, but they have 10 carry their freight on q
fifteen foot draft The lakes seam 10 be shoal-
Ing n place>-nesr the head or Lake Erie, Tor
example, and in Lake 81 Clair. ats o. deep
orais VIII get aground now, even in the Middle
OF s. Clair"
7. ]. Bass. president OF the Bass-Hueser Paint
Company of san Francisco. is az the Diller
hotel with his wife and son. They havo jnst re-
turned from Alaska Mr.. Bass himself has
visited Seattle number OF times before and he
has nephew here, D. ". Bass. Mr.. Bass. of
san Francisco, IS en- Old resident OF the Coast,
having come 10 California in 1854 During
The LAST twenty years he has been
in tie paint business and has built up
large trade ave fnd," said he. shat
since the com pietion of the transcontinentai
lin Is 70 Puget sound, Portland and Los Angeles
has given those places the same terminal rates
that san Francisco enio-s, San Francisco is be
coming less and less q distrib uting paint for
goods manufactured IN the East Merchants
here order directly from. the East instead OF
paying the added freight from San Francisco
Percy W. Rochester snd family, z. W. Lester
and family. and E Hsacock went out fishing
saturday up By Snoqualmie fsllA The story
thai NJ. Lester tells, and he swears with his
hand upon his heart that il is true, 10 that the
party brought back 2a4 trout and thss bsiore
leaving they supplied the hotel az the falls with
enough TO feed is guests for one meal He says
that sixty OF the hsh weighed over one pound
each and that NJ. Heacock took one that
weighed two and one-half pounds, ana that
ne took one tina: weighed fully two pounds
There 70 no doubt of one thing, and that 10, Mr..
Lester certainly presented several OF his friends
with nice messes of fish an; .for that reason
alone. his word should be regarded true when
he tells so remarkable story.
". 81. Spencer, q well-knovn lawyer of San
Luis Obispo. is at the Northern hotel, On his
way home from Alaska Mr.. spencer has not
been IN Seattle since IsSs. year before the fire.