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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-01

The SKAoIr MAIL SERVICE.
mail service will be pat on the Skagit
river, commencing Monday next. This
il service that has been needed for
several years past, and the people living
along the route may consider themselves
under obligations to that indefatigabie
worker, Mr.. Edward Mcraggart, for the
final contamination Of the project. In
the month of September last. Mo Tag
gart drew mp petition praying for
semi-weekIy mail service from Mul1ilteo
In Snohomish county, via Stanwood,
Utsalady, Fir, Skagit City and Mt. Yer
non in Whatcom county, giving a state
ment of the farming and numbering
products Of the Skagit valley and the
east shore Of the piainland between and
tributary to the points indicated, to.
Qsther with an estimate of the populs-
ton along the proposed route. This pc
tition was numerously signed by the set
tiers along the proposed route. Mr.. Nc
raggart then drew \ map or chart of
the Puget Sound country, showing the
Seattle and Whatc0m route, with the
postoffic.s therein traced out in red ink,
and the proposed route from Mukilteo
to Mt. Vernon traced in blue. The pc
tition and plat thus prepared we're for
warded by Mr.. Mofaeeart to the Post.
master General in March last, and the
prayer Of the petition was granted a,
once. and the postmasters Mt Mukilteo
and Mt. Vernon were instruc ed to ad.
vertise for sealed proposals for carrying
the mails as petitioned for. beginning
July lst. Hence, Mr.. Mcraggart's un.
tiring energies have succeeded in ac-
complaining an object long sought for
--Rev,iie.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-01
TnE DIFFERENCE.

The steamship Arizona arrived at
Sandy Hook at 6 a. M. one day about
two weeks ago, aud could not cross the
bar until after "a hours detention.
When she arrived it was too fopgy.
When in an hour or two the fog had
cleared away it was low tide and the
ship could not enter, although drawing
only 20 feet forward and 2311 aft. When
the tide rose in the evening the fog came
M with it, and thus the ship, after hav-
ing made very quick passage across
the ocean, had to lie with her 500 impi-
t:cnt passengers almost in sight of New
York for "a hours, because OF the bar
that blocks mp her harbor at low tide
against vessels of q or "a feet draft.
When steamship is detained for a few
hours at the month of the Columbia the
whole country with its swarms of enc
mics of the Northwest il aware of the
fact. Detention at Sandy Hook ia q
much more common thing than at AS
toris.-I'0laris.
There is no detention caused by diff
Guilty OF entrance to Pa9et Sound.
Steamers from the Pacific keep on their
course till they are moored at the
wharves Of Seattle or safely anchored
In Elliott Bay.
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waArcex cocxrY.

A vein of coal, fifteen feet thick, o,
supefiof quality, has been found on on
or the branches Of the Nooksaek.
The Surveying party lately at work IL
townships ", S and 50, range east, II
"hascom county, report the entire dis.
trict surveyed around Whatcom Lake
as mineral land. consequently NUMBER
who have located and already made
improvements will have to relinquish
their claims, or buy the land at SO Dol
acre.-Enferprise.
The measles is prevalent in some
parts OF the county.
The Master Masons Of Whatcom held
basket picnic on Sunday, June 24th
tSe. Johns Day.. at which time prelim-
mary Arrangements were made for the
founding Of lodge at that placs.
Mr.; E19ene Shelby, representative
OF Wells, Fargo d Co.'s Express. has
been visiting Laconner and WhatcOm
this week with view to establishing
branch agencies. Mr.. Shelby appeared
favoFabiy Impressed by his visit, and il
is quite probable that branch Offices will
shortly be opensd both here and at
WhatcOm.
There still appears to be no diminu-
ton of the town site fever, and verify
they continue TO increase and multiply
with considerable muchness. We know
of no other county in the Territory that
has given birth to greater number of
towns IN so short a space Of time
than Whatcom county. Within the
past SIX months at least seven new town
sites have been located. viz: Fairhaven,
Bellingham, Atlanta, Bancroft, Samish,
Lnmmi and Guemes-the latter now
being surveyed and laid ont in town
lots for Messrs. Mangan and Brawley.
A considerable portion of tho new
wharf being built for the colony at
Whatcom has already been completed,
and the work is being pushed with all
possible yigor. The delay hitherto ex-
perienced in the building OF this struc-
ture was occasioned partly by the diff
Guilty in obtaining piles and partly by
the trouble experienced in getting
steamers tn do towing. The wharf will
be something less than three-quarters
of mile in length, beginning at a
point nearly opposite SehOme. continu
ing in straight line towards Whatcom,
to interseot with Steinweg's pier. and
thence across the creek to the mill
Nail.
Charley O'Harra of Seattle has found
a bonanza in the shape of 80 acres of
the rich Swinomish fats, situated in
the extreme northwest corner of that
handsome body of land. This 90-acre
tract borders on the slough, and has re-
manned vacant until quite recently. The
land is worth probably $40 per acre.
OHarra has built cabin. donned
suit of ducking, and is now baohing on
the land.
One million feet of lumber have bees
sawed by the colony mill since January
l, 1888, and orders for $4,000 feet are
yet on file. Every foot Of this vast
amount of lumber has been use in
Whatcom. Add to this the sever i car
goes shipped from Seattle, together with
the 10000 feet brought In from Port
Madison last week, and some idea NAV
be had of the building boom that has
prevailed in Whatoom. The material
used in the new wharf ia included in
the above estimats.-RereilIe.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-01

Of late years the employment Of wo.
men as clerks has greatly increased. not
only in England, but in France AZ we'll,
and in both countries il is generally
agreed that the system upon the whole
works very satisfactorily. At the bank
of Franco there are now no fewer than
10O female clerks, who receive three
francs a day to commence with. and
whose annual salary. after a year or
two's service. rises to 1900 francs. and at
the Paris Offices of the Credit Foncier,
where also there is q large staff of vo-
men, the remuneration, beginning on a
small scale. rises in some cases to AZ
much as 1000 francs, or $500 year. In
both establishments the hours of at
tendance are from 8 to on six days of
the week, and the male and female
clerks sit in different rooms-the women
being superintended by officials OF their
own sex, and thus enjoying the greates ct
possible privacy.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-01

The Loo SCALING LAw.-From the La
conner Mail: The scaling law received
IA black eye at the recent term of Court
at Olympia, at the hands of Judge
Hoyt, he deciding that an indictment
under that Law cannot be maintained,
Here is a conflict Of opinion between
Judge Hoyt and Judge Greene, for the
latter decided at Lac0nner Q year AGO.
in his charge to the Grand Jury, that
the remedy was by Indictment, where
upon several indictments were found.
which are not yet disposed of, having
been postponed from term to term, and
still stand continued. But as the de-
fendanta here are determiued d on vieor
ously contestinQ the law, With the aid
of the abiest counsel in the Territory.
there is no certainty that Judge Greene
will stand by his charge to the Grand
Jury, hold to the indictments, and let
the cases 20 to trial. Should It 90
against the defendants here, they viii
undoubtedly take it to the Supreme
Court, and with conflict of opinion be-
tween Judges Greene and Hoyt, Judge
Wingard will have the deciding of the
case. In the meantime the logQers will
probably pay very little attention 70 the
law. and it will doubtless eventually 90
by the board.
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are neartyearninRs never eppeesed by
collars ana cents. Certainly the sad
lace turned toward the rising sun on
the oust surInountin2 the monument.
reminds as Of "love's labor lost
In private letter to Mr.. Corcoran. a
gentleman who witnessed the disin,er-
inent In Tunis says: "a fine PEPPER
tree, planted by an English FREUD at
tfe head of the authors grave. had
reached rootlets downward, and loving
laid tendril across the forehead !"
30 he was removed none too soon, ac-
cording 70 similar cases on old records.
Roger Williams grave was opened
some years ago for removal of bones.
and the strange discovery made that a
nourishing cherry tree near by had set
ITS roots over and into the decayins
coffin, and mo remains were found
save metal buttons and other trim
miuRs."
Appreciative boys had from year TO
year absorbed the luscious red-ripe
cherries, and the question was put by
our narrator, "Who ate poor Roger
Wiliiams?,
In = New England village where the
old CentennarIan church had ootiived
itself, they built new one. The favor
ite old pastor. lying in the old church,
yard only personally remembered by
the "oldest inhabitant," must be To-
moved to the modern cemetery. On
opening the grave the coffin WAS found
decayed and large root of mulbsrry
tree growing at its head had licked up
the entire body, and had. in a freak Of
nature. grown in the shape of its pre-
cious food. Why, then, may We not
say that the battle field may have fur
nished food for sweetest flowers and
ripeuing grain?
Death is great mystery-no more SO
than life itself-but the resurrection is
a greater; and death is swallowed mp
in that great victory. What matters it,
then. if We are food for nature! All
things are possible with God, and
something within assures that the hu-
man soul stops not here.
ELvIRA.
Washington, June Il, 1888.
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LEARNED THE BESEFITs.-IuT Thursday
mornings 0regoaiaa, J. NJ. Dunn OF
Seattle inserted n five-line advertise
ment under New Today" asking for
men and teams 10 90 10 Seattle to work
on the proposed canals between Lake
Washington and Lake Union. and be-
tween Salmon Bay and Lake Union
Toward evening he met reporter of
this paper at the Hoiton House and
said: II never knew the power of nd
vertisipg until today, and / wonld not
have believed until saw il demon
strated how generally advertisements
are read. Iput in the shortest kind of
a notice this morning and expected two
or three answers. But have been lit
orally overrun with applicants. They
kept mo busy from o'clock in the
morning until the afternoon, and
had 10 leave the hotel from sheer ex-
haustion." He secured good psrt OF
the labor he desired, aud will meet the
men this afternoon at ? O'Clock at the
hotel 10 furpish ransportation.--0 Ore.
gosiaa.
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HoxE ON vIsrr.--On Thursday last
about twenty OF the Indian pupils az
Forest Grove--all except three or four
Of them girls, accompanied by lady
tsacher-passed mp the Columbia on q
visit 20 their home ON the Warm Spring
Reservation. Their schoo. has taken
vacation, and the pupils have avsiled
themselves Of the opportunity TO rejoin
for short period their friends and rela
tives. On the steamer these Indian
children treated the passengers to a
specimen Of their vocal powers, singing
Ia excellent style half a dozen hymns Il
they have attained an equal proficiency
In other branches. they viii astonish
their red brethren aud create a seasa-
ton at their home. Ali seemed ex-
tremely happy, and will no doubt b.,
glad TO return TO school at the end OF
their vacation.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-01

CLosTSo Quo. b. Littell il closing
out his entire stock of Qoods, consisting
IT boots and shoes, notions and gents
furnishing goods, for the purpose of
changing his business. You will Get
bargains by calling on him at No. IS
Front street, Denny's block. les
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FOR WEEKLY:

Professional cards ~ per month for one
,,eh and 81. 50per month for one-half inch.
locals 10 cents line for one insertion.
and q cents q line per month.
commercial advertising. 81 per inch for
-. ;nsertlop. and 81 per month.
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Chss. Goldst~in has engaged the ser
vices OF Mr.. Frank Lsvere, Of San
Francisco, a practical halter, and IL
now prepared 10 dn all kinds OF repair
iHg, cleaning, and blocking.
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Ladies', 90 to O. B. Listell's for your
ribbons and embroid sries and all other
goods in the notion line. He is closing
ont, and will give you bargains. No. IS
Front street. ,e5
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This one fact 10 being brought before
the minds Of the people Of the United
States. Kenda'rs SPAWN Cure u not
ekcelled as liniment. Read advertise
ment.
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ADVERTISING RATES
OF THE
posT-INTELLIG
FOR DAILY

p,o,s.sional cards. % per month for one
,..h and % per month for onshalf inch
locals, 10 cents line for one insertion.
= oen,s a line for six insertions, and 10
cents line per month.
commercial advertisements, 80 cents IN
...h one insertion. sl.50 an inch for six
,n,sr,ions, Q? an inch for two weeks. $50
,hres weeks. and 50 per month.
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Decorated and plain dianer and tsa
sets. very cheap, ~ the Golden Rule Ba-
xaar, Front street. 2S-6
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Depot OF all novelties and Of fancy
goods at the Golden Rule Bazaar, Front
street. SO
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II. G. Mclaughlin, Opeician, Fruot
street, Masonic building. A At quar-
ausoed.
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The nev Model Drug Store. corner
Third and Onion. viii opsa up full
blast Monday nAyt. n
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The Salt Lake Tribs#e is of the opin-
lon that thcre 10 compact between the
Democracy and the Aornons. 20 the
effect that the Democracy vii pledge
itself TO make Utah State IL the church
will put mp q handsome sum Of money
10 Be used where 10 will do the most
good, aud asserts that il has positive
knowledge that such an agreement Was
made with Hancock and would bs re-
ratified next year. That the Mormons
are naturally Democratic 10 evident.
and it Is also evident that they are
anxious 10 have Utah become = Stats.
because under State Government they
would b much freer from interference.
Hxn-n}nnnoa loe Al nimhha "A Iiffln
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Pebble spsosaclss and ys-Rianss q
wm- H. Finck's, opposite the New
England Hoesl. d3f
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The celebrated Grown Oylindes, Jour
nsl and othsr lubrioasinR oils as Wald
B CAmpbsllsa
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ANNOUNCEMENT OF ArporxTxENr.--
John Muir, Superintendent Of Traffic,
makes the announcement following un-
der date of Portland. jane 18th: By
authority of the management of the
lines named (she N. p. u. r. & NJ. U.
& G., and r. @. &. 81. Mr.. Z. r. Rogers
il appointed General Agent, Passenger
Department, with Office at Portland,
Oregon.
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Ask for . Tho Bristol" q Philips
Brothsrs. 50 Front stssst, near Ma1i.
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u.rLY AND WEEKLY:

Professional cards, 81 per month for one
inch and IS per month for one-half inch.
Locais. g cents line for one week. and
"a cents line per month.
commercial advertising. 81 an inch for
.ns veek. and 81 an inch per month.
= The above rates will be strictly adhered
N with all new advertisements. and with
AID Advertisements II continued upon the
expiration Of present contracts.
the posT.INTEllICENcER PUB. co.
Seattle. June 10. 1883.
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connvs Rlaanss fos myopiA q Lia1a
NAcsA
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Kye-slasss Tor I'll sishfs . Lisfla
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STEAMBOATS, FOR SALE
Challenge.

TyHE NEWCAsTLE BASEBALL
j nlne herces challenges The Univevsity
B-se-hnu ninA o. any ofher nine In King
county, 70 paaya s.aschgame of hepe halL
JxTEs 7AiRihIAiSM, III
je30 Capsasn n. II &C.
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WASHINGTON LErTEx.

seattle. June 10. 1883.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-19
A Postmaster Assassinated.
DEs MONIES, Ia., July ls

DES MONIES, Ia., July IL.
Tuesday evening, as X. L. Clingan, the
Postmaster at Polk City, was closing his
store, two unknown men came to the door,
and said: "Good evening"" drew revolvers
and one of them fired at Clingan. The ball
struck him in the breast, passed through
the body and lodged on the sheIv-
ing. Clingan fell dead instantly.
The villains Immediately fled, making no
attempt to enter the store. There is no clew
to the perpetrators. Two strangers were
seen short time before it occurred, by per-
SONS going home from the Odd Fellows
Lodge. 1t being quite dark, no accurate de-
scription can be given of the murderers.
DR.. ID. c. Hanger, who was standing be-
side Clingan, probably escaped a similar fate
by quickly dropping behind the counter.
Over thirty murders have been committed
in this county in fifteen years, and but one
murderer has been hanged and very few
convicted.
The whole county adjacent to Polk City
was aroused, and squads of men on horse
back spent the night securing that whole
region. There is report that the pur-
suers are close on the track of the murder
ers, two horses that they had stolen and
ridden nearly to death having been found
abandoned, and two more horses stolen
there.
1t is generally supposed that this is the
second chapter of the mysterious murder of
Stubbs, the Mayor of the place, last year,
who was shot dead by masked men, who
! entered his bedroom. Clingan and he were
great friends, and Clingan has been taking
an active part in ferreting out his murder
| ers.
The entire population Is wrought up to a
remarkably high pitch of excitement. Every
man is armed. There are scouts out OH
horseback armed with shot-guns. The sub
stantial rifle and the respectable army mus
ket-everything that has any shooting ca
pacity-have been drafted into service. In
the towns of Sheldahl and Polk City not a
saddle-horse or conveyance of any kind
could be procured. Everything was out.
| Work on the farms is suspended for the
more exhilarating business of man-hunting.
| There can be no doubt of the victims fate
when caught The excited populace make
no effort to conceal their intentions. They
will bring them to Polk City and hang them
| to a tree which overshadows the stors
where Clingan was shot down.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-19
The Artful Dodgers Little Joke.

In kindly suggesting platform for
the Democrats Of Ohio the New York
Tribune submitted the following resolu-
ton:
RESOLVED, That public offices ought to be
bv be to Ra
Government. Those who are most jealous
and effective in the work of that party should
be placed I'm office as a means of giving the
party greater strength.
This resolution sets forth with un-
usual simplicity and clearness the policy
of the Republican party during the
twenty years that it has been in power.
1t has been the greediest party in our
annals. The swarming of office-seekers
about Washington in the spring of 1861,
when the very existence of the Nation
seemed insecure, was a scandal, and
after the Democrats were all turned out
of public positions the hunger for Office
was so great that politicians who could
not otherwise be provided for were
made Generals; and as the appetite
grew by what it fed on, new functions
were devised for the Federal Govern
ment and new offices created. No party
with so many gifts in its bestowal
ever gave SO few of them to political
opponents. No party ever had in its
control so large body of official de-
pendents, and no party ever made such
effective use of official dependents. Its
office holders were regularly assessed to
raise corruption fund to carry cleo
lions. Its last President wrote with his
swn hand request that one Of the Star
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-19
route thieves should give him help, and

erged nm Law A Hnbbell to sGneeze
%anev nggu on ont of off The denartments at wash
inot.ts, ] He promised an office to MIR.
Morton, now Minister to France, in COM
pensation for a liberal contribution to
the camnaipn fund. and he p1edsed him.
self TO coneede a Judgeship to a great
railway maonate in return for a SUBJ
scription of 500, 600 said to have been
Maid through the editor of the
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1883-07-19
LATEST NEWS.

THE New York Sun in a recent issue
charges General Garfield with having
promised Jay Gould in writing to appoint
a member of the Supreme Court who would
be friendly to certain great corporations.
Gould upon the strength of this promise is
said to have contributed $150,000 for cam.
paign purpose.
ONE of the officers in charge of the cor
don which surrounds Damietta, died of the
cholera. Thereupon the Colonel in COM
mand and his staff fled in fright. They
have been arrested, and British officer
placed in charge.
ELIJAH HAYES and Ruff Mcconnell,
young men living near Paris, Tenn, quar-
relied while in swimming on the 10Th, and
Mcconnell fatally shot Hayes. He then
started home, but fell dead on the way
from excitement and remorse.
PROF. ELLIOTT CoUEs, the Washington
naturalist, says it is now too late to rid the
country of the English sparrows. An ef-
fort to exterminate rats or cockroaches, he
thinks, would be just as effective. The
rate of increase is limitless.
DENNIS KEARNEY appeared at the meet
ing of the Central Labor Union in New
York, on the 14th, but was refused permis-
sion to speak by a vote of 3S to u. He then
held an indignation meeting on the side
walk, and succeeded in raising money
enough to hire hall, where he made his
speech.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred near Pesth,
in Hungary, on the 10Th. Eight corpses
have been taken from the ruins, and there
are twenty people missing.
GENERAL Tom THUMB died in Middle
boro, Mass, on the 10Th, of apoplexy. He
was in his forty-sixth year. He Joined
Barnum in 1852, and was married in 1868.
MRS. GENERAL PHELPS, Mrs. Walter
Phelps and a child, while crossing, in a
carriage, the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railway, at Leroy, N. Y, were
struck by an express train and all of them
killed.
CHOLERA has appeared in London. The
British Government has tried to suppress
the information, but it finds semi official
confirmation. The only question at issue
seems to be whether it is the genuine
Asiatic disease that has appeared. The
best medical authorities have advised the
Government to take East London at once
under the most stringent control. British
vessels bound for all ports of the world
have been allowed to pass through the
Suez Canal, and there is no telling where
they may not have carried the scourge.
A MALIGNANT type of measles has broken
out in st. Mary's Industrial School, Balti-
more, occupied by four hundred and fifty
boys.
The Cincinnat I'll detectives have arrested
dealer in counterfeit money who goes
by the name of J. w. Broyles. He has
been sending circulars through the mail
Offering to exchange $40 for 81