Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-15
4 Predetermined Surprise.

Eastern exchanges, Is seasonable,
and though we cannot vouch for its
literal accuracy, is good enough to
be true in detail:
An Idaho mining camp, intending
to celebrate the glorious Fourth,
ordered heap of fire works to be
sent to them. 4 whole wagon load
was forwarded, and while Oh its way
was captured one night by a band OF
Indians. They did not exactly know
what sort of property they had got
hold of, aud proceeded to investi.
gate.
The chief thought the common
crackers were cigars, and the little
onts cigarettes, which articles he
! had seen in use ut various camps he
had visited, and he distributed lot
around, and they all lighted up fo1
smoke, and i'll Il moment q more
surprised and puzzled set of Indians
never got together.
The chief had a cannon cracker,
and after the explosion it was three
minutes before lie could get breath
enough to yell, and then the wild
shrek he gave could be heard mile
away. That ended the smoking.
Another brave Tell off the top OF
the wagon with big box of giant
torpedoes, and the crash that greet
ed him as he alighted scared him SO
that he got up and ran off at break.
neck speed.
a squaw contrived to get pin
wheel afire, and rs she dropped it
on the ground the natural tendency
of the thing to whirl around made it
so over the ground like q wheel OF
fire, sending out a shower of sparks,
and causing the affrighted lady to
scud away from it, with her eyes as
big as saucers" with terror.
The pin-wheel got under the wag.
on and ignited it, and the Indians
at first tried to extinguish the flames
but pretty soon Roman candle
went off, and before the man who
was hit by the first ball On the nose
could clap his hand Oh the injured
members another bail was thrown
there, and then q third.
Then the rockets began to go off,
and take the braves in the legs and
ribs, and the different colored fires
throw first a red and then o blue
light upon the scene.
More pin-wheels got loose, and
when brave jumped to avoid a pin.
wheel he got into the air just in time
to be hit by rocket, and almost
every red man was more or less
burned; and liz about five minutes O
crowd of the worst scared and most
frantic Indians over seen was sour.
rying off in the darkness across the
prairie, believing with pain and
fear. And the next load of fire
works sent through the region won,
DO meddled with by those Indians.
GEN. j. B. Steadman, of Toledo
Ohio, is reported to have said, i'm.
mediately after the attempted as
sassination of President Garfield
"Hy God, Arthur shall never be
President of the United States. He
is an unnaturalized foreigner. We
looked it up once thoroughly, and
We know, and we will unite to man
Republicans and Democrats, to see
that he is not President. There
being no President, the Vice-Presi
dent being ineligible, there being nc
President pro tenn of the Senate and
no Speaker of the House, We will
carry out the constitutional provis
ions and make Chief-Justice Waite
acting President until a new. election
can be ordered. Under the pro
visions of 1903 no man can become
President who directly or indirectly
in the remotest degree, is morally
responsible for the assassination
that places the Presidency in his
power. General Sherwood, pro
minent Greenbacker, who stood by,
said: "We will join in that ALSO"
A STATEMENT of failures on the
Pacific Coast, prepared by Dunn
Co., shows that in Oregon there were
the past year, 80 failures, the liabil.
aties of which were S1S2,S12 and
the assets ISL ,3G7. In our Territory
there were IL failures, with a liabil.
ity of $53 400, and assets to meet the
same S24 $50.
THOSE who have not had the sep.
izotic" laugh at those who are afflict.
ed with the distressing complaint,
and later on, when they themselves
get a touch of it they marvel q,
"man's inhumanity to man." Thus
doeth heaven adjust all earthly cop,.