The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1879-03-27
Echoes From the Sound.
PUGET SOUND, March,

EDITOR INDEPENDENT:
See Paris and die-see Puget Sound and
lve-on clams fish and Oregon flour and
Whatcom county potatoes, and feast your
eyes looking at the shipping.
As we write the Sound is as calm as a
looking g-glass, while but few hours ago it
was lashed into fury, and the record of the
doings of the angry waves is fearful one
Most of the ship masters of the coal fleet re-
port terrific storms at sea from Frisco up.
Capt Hawes of the bark Gem of the Ocean,
however, escaped, while the Don Nicholas
was towed into Port Angeles by the tug
Tacoma sails all carried away and her top
gallant mast was gone. The ''Great West
ern, of the old Black Ball line from New
York to Liverpool in the days that are gone,
went to sea to-day with 3, 100 tons of Seat
tie coal. She is a mighty ship, the one
which the Great Eastern was built to beat
1t is said that over 100 men have been
killed in different ways aboard this ship
since it was put afoat. The little steamers
Zypher, Capt. Ballard, and Messenger, Capt.
Parker, plying between Olympiaand Seattle.
have braved every Storm and never missed
a trip: while the North Pacific and Aida,
running from Port Townsend to Tacoma,
daily carrying U. s. mails, have missed no
trips, but the Aida has been behind time in
awful seas, which she never ought to be
permitted to encounter by the Post Office
Department while it carries L. S. mails
1t is too weak and old for so dangerous
route, and the same may be said of some
others carrying the mails. Loud, long and
deep will be the blighting curses headed
upon some of our steamboat inspectors, &c.
some of these days when some of these rot
human freight. | am cooked and primed
for a first class gatling gun article devoted
| especially to telling the people how some of
these crafts are built and permitted to run
in the face OF protest-not official protest,
but the common every day condemnation,
and in strong language. On the What
com route the safe little steamer Fanny Lake
mastered by its owner, Capt. J. S. Hill,
now makes weekly trips touching at Fidalgo
and Guemes' Islands, much to the pleasure
and great convenience of the settlers who
ance, and it sam come
Court is in session at Seattle now, and
most all the leading lawyers of the Sound
are here, and giving our new Chief Justice,
Greene, plenty to do. For the first time
we listened to legal argument to-day by
our ex-Chief Justice Lewis from his place
among the members of the bar, and he is not
as much at home there, as yet, as when on
the bench We noticed sitting beside Judge
Greene ex-Gov. John F. Hoyt, now Judge
of the Second Judicial District who opens
March 18th. The Judge you will like. He
is fine looking man, well balanced head;
pleasant and affable, and calculated to hold
things Just about level. Give him an old
fashioned shake as starter, and il You
don't like him it will be because he gives
you justice-the very thing some don't
want.
We endorse your last words in your edi-
torial on the veto by President Hayes of
the Chinese bill. Yes; any party that sus-
tains this infamy will go down before the
people of this Coast in the next election.
A local artist, A. w. Piper, has made his
name immortal, so far as possible, among
the anti Chinese of this coast by his splen-
did pictures on Hayes veto, and one just
about finished years after the veto;"
as it is not complete will not give you any
idea of it at present, only that it is possible
to see that state of afiairs-then we will
need England to turn in and help us put
down insurrection at home instead of Alaska.
Don't you feel seasick when you think of
the dastardly meanness of this Government
under Hayes and the last Congress? Sharpen
that faberl LOOKOUT.