Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-09-02
EASTERN NEWS.
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPArcaEs.

EASTERN NEWS.
AssocIATED PRESS DlsPArcaks.
a Desermiued Foe 10 Land Grants
WASHINGTON, August 3l.-JudGe Pay
am. representative from the Eighth ii.
iinois district, is here, and spent the
dav at the Interior Department in stndy.
inc M the literature connected with the
nronoeed transfer of the Texas Pacific
land grant to the Southern Pacific
RAILROAD. The Judge is determined
enemy of land grants, .wherever they
offer a fair object for attack. In spite
of his exertions the Northern Pacific
road has been completed without for
fixture of the land granted by act OF
Congress, bat the Texas Pacific land
Grant 10 still within reach, and the
Judae will do his best this winter "a
prevent the transfer, and to restore
Granted lands to the public domain. Ii
is anticipated, however, that the Demo
cratic house will not be in haste to an
taoonize an important s Juthern interest,
though many of the members OF the
next house were loud in their demands in
the last Congress that the grant of the
Northern Pacific should be forfeited.
willard aud HIS Cuesss.
CHICAGO, August 31.-The German and
American guests of President Willard, of
the Northern Pacific excursion party,
are assigned to Chicago and Moth
western for transportation out of Chi
caRo. The German delegation leaves
today on special train of ten sleepers,
and the American section will at least
REQUIRE az many coaches. In this soc-
ten will be President Willard, General
Grant and Jay Cooke. The total ex.
peuse of this excursion to and over the
Northern Pacific, every item Of expense
of ocean travel being borne by the COM
pany, will necessarily be immense. In
deed, a railroad man yesterday casually
set il down at half a million dollars.
Every provision is made for luxurious
treatment Of the invited guests. The
company even sends its own dining cars
for the use of tho travellers between
Chicago and st. Louis.
Eaglish Dead Beats.
New YORK, Aug. pa special to the
Star saws: Hatoh's hotel, in the yell
lowstone Park, is all excitement, and
UUCl6 xbuku6 kAhtC1 - 4hNi1k III Cno VI
trouble with his English guests. At
dinner every day they run huge wine
bills against him, and they actually had
him charged to the amount Of $3 be-
fore they had been in the hotel half an
hour. One man alone has cost him
$40 since he left England. Uncle Ru-
fus tears his hair, crashes his teeth, and
has actually offered Ashley Cole, his
secretary, the park privileges for ten
years to bring down a few cowboys and
Indians and kill of few OF his i'm
ported sight soers. One of the guests
today found fault with his linen. He il
wealthy, but nevertheless he today Wis
tied the only store in the Park, pur-
chased pair of drawers, and told the
proprietors to charge the same to Uncle
Rufus. The manner in which some of
these gaests got into the party il al
legged TO be astounding. Hatch invited
the head of great family, which boasts
Of possessing lord high chancellor
ship. The said head wrote TO know
IL he could send substitute.
Permission being granted, said head
asked If he could not ring In a compan-
ION. Uncle Rufus replied to the re-
quest, and said head then wrote that
two could not come unless mutual
chum, who had been invited TO spend
the summer with Thorn, could also come,
and Uncle Rufus finally let in the third.
Then the aforesaid head wrote about q
brother, who was inseparable, and
Uncle Rufus speedily saw that it was
the whole hog or none. In desperation
be gave his consent, and a party OF six
In al came, with the one idea that this
IL free country, and they have used
Hatch's pocket to the tune Of $40, 600 al
ready. They have snubbed all the rest
Of the party, demanded best and first
places, and. with consummate assurance,
hnve overlooked the existence Of other
mAmbers of the excursion. Lord Head
", Z peer in Parliament, Ia scandalized,
and sthers, in modification, have paid
svery bin OF theirs they could keep
away from Hatch. Uncle Rufus Ia re-
ported TO haye said il he gets out OF
this scrape with enough money to keep
his family through the winter. he will
never do Il again.
THE Gums Were Loaded.
HHRLBYvIILx, Ind, August 30.-Liv-
inR near here Is widow named Ruth
Huntin 1ton, who has patch Of water.
melons and four sons. For n joke the
latter arranged with four other lads to
entiCe two of their friends 70 the melon
patch at night, when, at a given signal,
the Huntington boys, from o concealed
position, would fire blank charges with
3hejr guns. The joke worked well UP to
the mOmens Of firing. The gums had
bsen loaded by some unknown person
With shot. and in place Of pointing up
ward the Huntingtons aimed low
enough 10 make u tragedy Of the scheme.
John Bates WAS struck in the head by q
dozen Ahot and badly wounded. Frank
Holden received almost an entire
charge in his back and il perhaps ia
tally injured. William Folio got q
handful of shot in his right side and
arm, and lies In dangerous condition.
~ the boys were the best Of frieds there
10 no reason to believe the shooting Was
Intentionally done. The HuntingtOns
declare they thought they held the guns
tho high 10 hurt any one, besides be-
hevina the weapons to DO only charged
with powder.
The Postal telegraph.
NEW YoRx. Aug. 3l.--Contracts to the
amount Of 81, b00, 600 for the completion
q new liues have been awarded to the
board Of trustees of the Postal Tele-
graph company. Maokay, the presi-
deut, will leave here for California In q
few days, but he will see the work fairly
under way before he leaves.
Net Anxious - have their Bends
Redeemed.
WAmuaoToN, Aug. 31.--Assistant SEQ
Rotary Of the Treasury French. In an in
tsrview, sAid he was surprised that only
81 100000 In 81 per oents were presens-
Cd for rsdsmpsion last Wednesday,
againsl e6,O00.O0O Wednesday proceed
Inc. This u partly due. he thinks, to
the fast that . large amount Of those
securities are held In Europe, and there
b no inclination on the part Of banks
70 withdraw and convert their bonds,
nov deposited a security. for spsoula-
ton. He believed they would rather
1T them b without interest Ia the hops
Of getting per cents at better rates.
DlA0WAsuED n9R LEE AWAY.
The quiet fidelity with which woman
viii dishwash her life away for her has-
band and children 10 q marvel of sndur-
ana. Here 10 the servitude Of woman
heavieet-n0 sooner IL her work done