On a certain May afternoon, Tom Jessop, assigned to "cover" the Seattle waterfront for his paper, the _Seattle Post-Intelligencer_, had his curiosity aroused by a craft that lay at the Spring Street dock. The vessel was newly painted, trim and trig in appearance and was seemingly of about two thousand tons register. Amidships was a single yellow funnel. From the aftermost of the two masts fluttered a blue flag with a square of white in the center. The reporter knew that this was the "Blue Peter," flown in token that the steamer was about to sail. But the steamer, which bore the name of _Northerner_, flew no house flag to indicate the line she belonged to, nor in the shipping news of the day…
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