Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1882-08-18
Arbitrary Democrats.

Arbitrary Democrats.
LITTLE Rock, Aug. 1.-THE Repub-
licans ( Phillips county haye fifteen
hundred majority. but bulldozers pre-
vent the negroes from voting, and now
refuse to allow them to compromise or
III any way put ticket III the field
threatening to run the leaders out of
town. In the back towns they are al
ready inti,nidating the negroes. Gov
ernor Churchill says he will stop this
work, if he has 20 declare mart al law.
He has already taken steps to prevent
outrages, and is thoroughly in .arn ,st.
senator Hears Reasons.
Hoar has addres ,ed a letter to the po0
pie Of Massachusetts giving his reasons
Tor voting for the river and haIbOr bill.
He states the bill passed honestly and
fearlessiy. and TINT appropriations vi
this sort are among the superintendoncy
of the Board of Engineers honestly. He
SAYS it Is absurd to say these harbOrs
and bays and great rivers are not to be
accessible to districts. towns or factories
in their vicinity, or that 1t is not pro-
per to exercise national authority to do
so. You might as we'll say while the
be 60 dredged that ships could go 20 its
You might as we'll in building the B0s-
refuse to have side tracks at towns and
cities because they are local. There is
one respect in which this river and har-
Dor money is the lest sdent Of all public
appropriations, savo only pensions.
| in ANn N > ~
where the United States Government
the character Of conquerOr or tax
catherer. II is good that they should
see this great and beneaccns power IN
its character of benefactor; but it is
also we'll that people in those sections
Of the country who have been educated
for half a century to look on tho Ma
sionM Government with jealousy and
dislike, and who have felt its terrible
power in war, in wasted fields and desc
lated homes, should learn to associate
ITS Image with beneficent works which
Join them with the great system OF ma
t,onal commerce., and on which their
prosperity and wealth are hereafter TO
depend. Whether the policy of this bill
is TO be popular in Massachusetts this
afternoon, or this week. or this year,
do not know. but one thing do know,
il il in the line of all her traditions and
is sooner or later to command her sup
port.
ulWsaile lnA1ans
Tucson. Aug. 1.-THE Stars Mexican
advices from Magdalena, Sonora, Of tbs
18th. say the Apaches continue their
raids in the vicinity Of Urea 4 band
of - TO 100 In now raidinR SonOma Riv-
er Valley. Don velasco. OF the Cuer-
beses ranch, and a number OF Others IN
the valley, were killed last week. Over
100 people have been killed In the vicn-
ify OF Ores within tho lass month.
smaxsless DrswaeA.
A Star special from Bowie, Arizona,
saws a party of SIX smuggiers. with forty
mack animals, enca,nped for the alRhi
In 4 CANYON in the Swishelm Aountaine,
we're ali, save one, drowned BY cloud
burst last week. Their bodies wcrs
| found scattered along the canyon the
next morning.
Black Battle,
CarsrLrxr, Ohio, Aug. H.-POster and
Scott, oolored men. fought under tne
Marquis Of Queensbury's rules hero %
day. The former knocked his antaRO
INST out Of time in the fourth round.
Deash % . rsess1 Asa.
CHrcAoo, Aug. l7.-Alfred @. Guthrie
a res.dent OF this city since lSsa d,ed
today ecek II. He WAS the 30 OF 6Am-
uel Guthrie, discoverer Of chloroform
and pefcussion powder. He planned
come Important public works OF thla
city. and was for many years enGineez
| Of the Illinois aud Michigan Canal.
Hs drafted the United States Steam
boat Inspection lav. and was in.ssn'
mental ia securing it, passaRe " loci,
and Wa Supervising Inspsoeog Y ~
Lake disesSss for eight yoasA - ~
nmo a ~ doaAh - - enG1Qoa q
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