Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-22

mer6us (?) subscribers in Tacoma.
Because l am powerless to change
my mail schedule, and put steamer
on to carry this paper to Tacoma
before the O'egonian reaches the
Sound, and in revenge for my de-
clining to be surety on said law
editors bond, l have for the past
three weeks been subjected daily to
abuse by said law editor, fraudulent
ly pretending to be correspondent
to said newspaper. I own no news
paper, as does my legal enemy. I
have no time for controversy. 1
wish, once for all, to contradict
certain false statements and repre-.
sentations of said Daily Post, pub
lished to injure and annoy me,
which, were l to remain silent, might
be deemed to be admitted by me. I
own certain steamboats,, which, long
before the said law-editor of the Sc.
attic Daily Post left Chicago, were
engaged in honorable business on
Puget Sound, running pursuant to
law. I have no fear that he or his
associates can confscate them, as
threatened. am not to be driven
from the pursuit of my business by
his threats, nor do I fear his vast
legal erudition. Neither his gratif-
cation of revenge nor his hope Of
5lackmail will affect my course or
change my programme of business.
l am a native-born citizen of the
United States, transacting business
within the Territory of Washington
in the United States. My property,
my vessels, my real estate, my Office
are at Tacoma, where I pay large
amount of taxes. In this Territory
1 have been for ten years, and am
now engaged in lawfully and honor
ably carrying on business. I own
not foot OF real estate in Victoria.
All my interests are centersd in this
Territory. My business includes
carrying U. S. and British mails,
via Puget Sound potts, between Ia.
coma aud Victoria, B. c., and in
carrying passengers and freight on
the same route. Its successful pros
ecution requires the presence at Vic
toria of myself or an agent, while
my business headquarters are at Ia
coma, where I may bs found a large
portion of the>-time. Still I am at
Victoria, Portland or San Francisco
when business compels. Conve-
nience, and consulting the health of
my family, has justified me in adopt
ing Victoria for the present as o
place of sojourn for my family,
while my own time is about equally
divided between both ends of the
route, and in travelling upon the
steamers. Considerable time has
been passed by me at Seattle, where
l have built one steamer (the Geo. E.
Starr and where my other boats
have been laid up when repairs were
necessary. The registers for my
vessels have not been fradulently
procured. I am the survivor of the
late firm of Starr Bros. who traded
also in the name of the Puget Sound
Steam Navigation Company. We
followed the carrying trade within
the United States, our principal
place of business being Tacoma.
That business required the pres
ence of an agent, or partner, at Vic
toria. My deceased brother acted
on the United States end of the
route. I managed the business at
Victoria, and solely for that purpose
was my presence in Victoria ac-
tuated. This was and is expressly
authorized in section Al ,339 of the
revised Statutes of the United States.
Since the death of my brother I
have become sole manager of the
business. My family have not aDan-
doned their Victoria home. At Ts
coma, when l am not present, which
is quite half of my time, am repre-
sented by an agent. 1 also attend
to my business in person at Victoria.
l have forfeited no right of Ameri-
can citizenship. l have done no
act which justities this daily hound
ing by the Seattle Daily Post. If
the lawyer-editor of the Daily Post
thinks that under section 4 ,1S9 of
the revised statutes of the United
States they can confscate my steam
boats or other property and outlaw
me as a citizen of the United States,
the Courts are open. My steam
boats are daily at the wharf ut Sc
attic. l.. Nj. STARR,
U. S. Mail Contractor, &c.
New TACOMA, April ID, 1881.
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