, 1881-05-14
EsTEP's PETARD.
A Fatal Explosion of the
EIectrO-pOlaric Machine.
The Power of the Snake
River Bridge.
OPINIONS OF THE PRESS
A Stolen idea Brings. an Obscs- :
Engineer to the Front. Etc.

Our readers Will remainder that some
weeks since the STATESMAN published de-
tailed account of wonderful bridge which
Was proposed to b. baiit by the Northern
Pacific Company across the Columbia river
at Ainsworth. The STArEsMASs article was
published far and wide and many were the
enconiums lav;shed upon the head OF the de-
signer and protector. He was hailed as tie
eeming man in engineering science for which
the world had waited so long. Stevenson,
Brunei, Fades, De Leeseps, Anies and Cor
r;nge and Others whose names Will decend to
posterlsy paled before the Sisantic intellect
who dared Il wrest power aad gen:as from
the
GODS THEMSELVES
Te further his designs. The London i'ae'
in CONNIE ting on the description as publish
Ell in the STATESMAN said Of the engineer.
"He i, Cod like IN conception, Titanic in
ideas and is the coming man." The New
York RsrcH in leading editorial described
him as ''the engineering star Of the Western
horizon, rapidly ascending to the clear hea'
rcns at large, for the bcnetit Of mankind;'
wb,le She R,rue des Desr MoRdss, published
in France says. la srisnce f;dt des pro5'r'
e,srcordinairr. II. Esep. de WaHa Waita
dans h Terre,oire de . Washington .;rnt de
deconrrir un pouuoir eleotro-potcursc ma5aet,
nj; rorrr ,lpe reroiutioa daas t. mOn,te Sciea-
tfyue R.sc aaeun doafe de oe que III Escp,
n ,.,Ie sez mans Fas Rssse- A m. ricdn nonf ".
CEnrkiSpsEi." All This combined refi,ct' on
the SrArssMaS. /. was the first ne~spaper
and only daily III the Northu est VIII ii
pIuckr,l from its ohscur;ty what 1t !oad'y
thought WIS a child of genus, bat our
-. -e been rndeiy da~h.'i hy an ;.rti-
Gle which r,cenu, appeared N TIE Nrw
York Iapers describing tho aea'n OF S'''
but
OBSCURE INVENTOR
Who was killed by his own device Ills
mon was discovered dead IN his room in tie
city Of Washington and is tins described:
The inventor WAS mysterious man, and
he had hired this little house on the outskirts
of the Capital in order to be safer from in
teruption. He was presumably of Polish
origin, the name he went by being Clarkisin-
sky. He had evidently met his death by an
explosion of tie electro-pclaric machine, but
exactly how the machine did explode. will
probably remain mystery. He had promis-
ell to cause Ole Of his ma,ne.s to make GOO
t. 700 revolutions per minute, and it is rro-
bable that III his eagerness he drove it t.
even greater speed, and so, by inducing too
powerful an exchange of polarity. sealed his
own doom and delayed the perfection of one
mest brilliant ct discoveries by
COUNTLESS AGES"
Among his effert; were discovered papers
and plans which proved beyond peradven-
ture that the unfortunate man MAS the de-
sisner and inventor "f the wonderful raj r,I.'l
bridge across the Columbia river at Ans
worth in Washington Territory, full ae-
ccuat of which, recently published in the
STATESMAN of Wal!a Walla, attracted the
attention OF the civilized world. The STATES.
MAN was hasely Imposed upon by an obscure
engineer named II. +. Esteiss who stole the
thunlers of J"ve III palIning off as the child
of his own brain that of the unfortunate
whose lamentabIy death We chrsnicle above.
-~--~Os-
THE DiCkEN's FESrIvAL--rha Dicken' $
festival Oh Thursday night at the Olympic
II II, " - "a rly a tended and after the Ice
wes "rol:ei a'.A people warme.l up every one
started III to ENJOY themselves The char,
AZ ers looked rs if they had walked out Oi
Dickens moves AMI showed that great care
hal been taken - arrive n Proper concep
ton OF the characters which were taken by
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