The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1876-09-16
General News.


ing themselves Cobbltcs, down in
kcnsctt, Arkansas, have been MUIR
dering people and 'cutting up Jack"
generally. They imagine that one
Cobb, who is their leader, is the SUI
prcme Being, and can absolvc them
from all wrong doing. They have
all, except Cobb, been apprchcndcd
and confined in Jail.
Yellow fever continues unabated
in Savannah.
Grasshoppcrs ale doing damage in
Kansas again this fall. This plague
is directing the attention of many to-
ward Washington Territory and Or
cgon.
Hon. Elwood Evans, Centennial
Commissioner fnom Washington
Territory, delivered an address in
Pacific Centennial Hall, Philadcl-
phia, Saturday, September I'd, on
the Growth and Resources of WASH
ington Territory. After referring
to the wealth of timber land, rich al
luvial bottom lands and prairie of
good agricultural capacity, and well
adapted to wheat culture and stock
raising, the speaker went on to re-
view the early discovery and subsc-
quent history of the Territory, in
cluding the recent settlement OF the
disp; tc for its possession between
Great Britain and the United States.
The great timber, coal and mineral
resources of Western Washington,
her unsurpassed fisheries, established
school system, and her future pros
poets in general, were scvcrally dis
cussed.
Gov. Hendricks, Democratic cam
didate for Vice President. made a
lengthy speech in SEclbyville, Indi.
ana, on the ed, inst; un or twelve
'no's""" persons w =" present.
One hundred and twenty -four
clerks have been discharged out of
the 500 employed in the War De
partmcnt and its various bureaus
pursuant to the recent Congressional
reductions.
AS the weather cools of, the cash
admissions ut the Centennial are on
the increase.
The war of races continues una
bated throughout the Southern
States. The national political cam
paign is an agrivatng cause. AL
most every days dispatches report
boodshcd IN some section of the
South. Attorney General Taft has
issued Il circular letter to u. S. Mar
shals, concerning the protection of
voters at the coming election. The
letter notifies the marshals that they
will be held responsible for breaches
of the peace of the United States
which diligence on their part might
have prevented, and for the arrest Of
violatcrs of the peace. 1t asks that
Marshals be personally present, or
by deputy, at all places ofrcgistration
or election where they may suspect
the peace is threatened. The letter
advises that each deputy, general and
special have the right to summon
the assistance, for quclling disorders,
of every person in the district above
* years of age, whether civilians, or
not, including militia, soldiers and
marines, all of whom arc bound to
obey. 1t receives unqualified COM
mcndation and there is no disposition
to find fault with it. The necessity
for such instructions is fully shown
by the number of letters received
from Republicans throughout the
Southern country declaring that un-
less the administration shows more
tirnncss, the election in the South
will simply be farce, as the Demo-
Gratis are rcsovcd not to allow the
negroes to vote. The effect of the
letter throughout the South will be
to encourage the negroes to 60 to
the polls and vote without fear, and
to avert violence.
AS usual San Francisco continues
in the suicide business. Every day
the tclcgraphic dispatches announce
another unfortunate.
Edwin RoOth the errcot actor boc