The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1880-11-14
LOCAL HTS,
BIT PoREE

Yes sir observed one Of onr leading
men. This town is bound 70 90 ahead.
Nothing short of al earthquake can
prevent us from having . population Of
$4,000 peop!e inside of two years. Every
way you turn prosperity starss you In
the lace That we are on the verge Of
prosperity Is a. sure as death and taxes,
aud You NAV scratch that down in your
note book. ami see me later for proof Of
what l say
We thought il might not be conve.
nient for Us to drop round two years
hence. and we thought We might Is
well corner the old man now and ge,
whatever proof he might have or baud
What Is theie in sight at present that
justifes you ia your great expectations?
we asked.
Young man, I would have given you
credit, judging from your appearances.
such . question. None but fool. or the
reporter OF QUO Of our morning papers.
who wrote up the review Of Puck's Car.
toon, in which he pictures Grant as q
Democratic owl.swould ask such Q gol
darned question as that You are
mere boy, SIR. yet. and it cant be ex-
pected that you can see 30 far ahead as
a man of go. ] tell you. sir. that there
IS going TO be real. genuine. come to
stay business boom here shortly, and
that assertion from q man of my years
and standing in this intelligent comWu
nay should be Q sufficient answer to a
mere boy like you.
Yes. but yoa must not forget that
children and fools are very skeptical.
aud generally demand proof of any as
sertion that one may make.
Very true. I'll endeavor to convince
you. As proof Of 3 real estate boom. !
will say that our leading mao in this
particular line of b siness would not
stop to shake hands just now with his
own father. unless he paid him 30 cents
shake Why. he is so busy that he
has to carry his lunch in his pocket and
wait for an opportunity to reach in his
pocket for 9 mouthfull. That's fact.
Well. what next!
Nothing less than Q street railroad,
and canal. What do you think of
that A year ago our most energetic
business men combined together for the
purpose os building o street railroad
from Occidental Square TO Belltovn;
likewise to construct canal connecting
lake Union with Washington. They
have been pushing those Enterprises GU
to completion vigorously, and they in
tend to continue pushing until their Ct
forts are crowned with success, and
We interrupted him here to remark
that II they made as much progress in
the future as they bad in the past.
we would gee him safely planted before
the road was built or the canal dug.
We are sorry to admit that our in
quisitivs nature has made for as Q life
long enemy Of one of our Leading
men,.
We wish to give notice. and it may be
considered official and final, to the
young man who puts himself 10 the
trouble to walk from the barrel factory
to the nei2hborhood where we are sup
posed to live in peace and comfort, that
II he persists III the course that he has
been following for the las. week, he
will become the central attraction at a
trst class funeral 1t has been his Gus.
tom the past week to settle himself OPP
poeits our place of abnde. and q block
from the residence of some simple
minded girl that be calls his and
grind out If broken concertina: I'm
waiting. my darling. for thee You will
wait for your darling one of those fine
evenings just long enough to give US
time to draw bead on Yen with
double shot gun. and then
you will be gathered TO your fathers.