Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-01-14

we have no reciprocal trade East of
the Rocky mountains, whereby any
portion of it will be brought back to
us. Let us keep what we have un-
der close strings until, at least,
the financial horizon blightens in
the Northwest.
A FLYING MAcHINE.-It appears
that the lamentalle experience of
Darius Green has not deferred mod
ern inventors from persistent effort
to solve the problem of aerial navi-
cation. But unlike this sanguine
individual, whose only reward was
an ignominious failure, n pilot,
named Barnes, living at Victoria,
B. c., has at last constructed a ma
chine which is partial success.
The dispatches state that he, the
other day, took it down to Cape
Flattery and tested its capabilities.
A heavy weight was attached and
rose like a bird in the air. Next
pig was tied and he squirmed
through the atmosphere like an en-
chanted horse floating on pinions.
An Indian was next fitted with the
apparatus and he scared several
hundred feet nearer the blue ether
ear than he probably will again get,
living or dead. All the experiments
were satisfactory, and the inventor
claims that he will be able to direct
the movement of tho machine in the
currents of DIR as easily as he now
pilots vessel in and out of Victoria
harbor. The inventor was probably
quite familiar with the history of
the former attempt, and he, there
fore, very considerably yielded to
the porcine and aboriginal families
all the glory of a first ascent.
Mr.. Swan, the autocrat of the
county ring seems to have devel.
oped remarkable talent for hair
splitting. He occupies over a col
umn in the last Courier in this d.
vsrting amusement. He endeavors
to show the precise difference be-
tween tweedledum and tweedledee;
and succeeds about as we'll as he has
the past thirty years in managing
his own and other peoples business.
The fact is, Mr.. Swan has so long
focused his eyes on small things,
that it is impossible for him to OBJ
tain correct view of any object of
ordinary magnitude. He is the
counterpart of the inhabitants of
Philosophers Island, who became
so absorbed in scientific research
that they had to be aroused to per-
form the simplest functions of life.
Somebody has awakened him just
now, and he endeavors to patch up
his official record, just as Mr.. Shoe
craft is patching up the apology for
an assessment roll. His letter is
the veriest sophistry from beginning
to end, and where he processes to
give an official document, it is pre-
sented in garbled form. Public
records are his play-things. They
are given in full, in part, or are sup
pressed altogether, as suits his ideas
of expediency; and the facts still
stare us in the face that the county
has lost many thousand dollars the
past two years through mismanage-
ment. Is it not evident by this time
that to rely upon a judgment almost
inevitably at fault is a suicidal pol
icy? II Mr.. Swan is not aware that
ho has been weighed in the balance
OF popular opinion and found to be
a light weight, it is because his
fappers have not done their duty.
The choice for Prosecuting Attor-
| ney of the Third Judicial District
has fallen upon Hon. Elwood Evans,
of Tacoma. Gov. Newell, very pro-
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