, 1883-11-29

/ The sad news was received here yes
/ terday of the death of DR.. Starkey, who
was removed few weeks ago to the in
sane Asylum at SteiIacoom. Softening
/ Of the brain was the proximate cause Of
. his death, as It was of his hopeless de
mentia. Dr. Starkey was for many years
a practicing phycician in this city, and
possessed the respect and esteem cf the
entire community. His body Will he
/ brought here this evening for interment.
Seattle Chronicle
! Daniel Webster said in congress that
/ all of America west of the Rocky noun
/ tains was worthless, and could never be
utilized for any purpose Other orators
branded the scheme of 4 transcontinen-
/ tai railway as visionary and impractical
/ Bile SagGciOuS newspaper writers in
! 1892 asserted that it was the hight of
/ folly to suggest that railways could be
/ built west Of the Mississippi river for
! two hundred years to come, if ever. he
cause the country was barren. and IT.
dams were thick.
! Mill RUNNIEG.-The new sawmilI at
! Port Ludlow is now running, and has
| been for fortnight or SO past, cutting
/ the first lumber cut there for five years.
| Only about half the machinery intended
| for this mill has been put in, and its ca
pacity is not, therefore, as great as most
persons thought 1t would be. The ship
Sycamore has already been loaded from
lumber cut in this mill. and the bark
Hope is now loading. The wharf and
mill are all lit mp after dark by electric
lights. \ new attachment of this mill is
what is called a nigger.' and consists
of heavy timber armed with spikes,
which, at a given signal rises under the
carriage and seizes the log upon the car
riage and turns it over, a job done in
other mills by means of chain. Old
lumbermen are loud in their praise of
Port Ludlow as mill site, and also of
the mill there as lumber factory.
CANApIAN PACIFIC DoINGS. A special
meeting of stockholders was held in
Montreal, November 9Th, for the purpose
indicated in the following circular: "To
authorize the company 10 sell to the On
tario and Quebec Railway Company a
portion ofShe railway lying between
Perth and Smiths Falls; also, to lease
the several railways of the Credit Valley
Railway Company and the Ontario and
Quebec Railway Company, together with
the lines leased by these companies re-
spectively. and the appurtenances of
thes3 railways; and to lease the lines of
any amalgamated company into which
the several companies, or any of them,
shall merge ;and i'll respect of such lease,
and of the assumption or guarantee OF
the payment of the interest, dividends
or coupons upon the securities issued by
the several companies, to exercise the
powers conferred upon the company by
the statute of the Dominion Parliament,
entitled IAN act respecting the Canadian
Pacific Railway Company" The meet !
iig, in which the stock was largely rep |
resented by proxy, was unanimous in
authorizing the directors to carry out
these projects. The meeting then ad-
journed till November 18th.
4 Tucson jury recently found a man
who had killed his wife and another
woman in the presence of his two little
children guilty of simple manslaughter.
The sense of justice in Judge Selden, be-
fore whom the case was tried, was SO
outraged by the verdict that he bestowed
a wholesome reprimand upon the jury,
concluding as follows: "Such verdicts,
gentlemen, are mockery of law and a
travesty upon justice, and viii render
trials by jury a farce. By such verdicts,
g9ntlemen,you assume the responsibility
for the terrible condition of affairs
which exists today in Graham county,
making it, as it is, foul blot upon the
map of Arizona, and disgrace to the
civilization OF the age. You, by this
verdict, have deprived every man of the
constitutional right of protection. You
have sanctioned disorder, and have vel
coined anarchy, and were it not for the
press of business before the court, and
the great expense which would be III
CURED by the impaneling of a new jury,
L would Immediately dismiss you from
further consideration of any matters be-
fore the court Gentlemen of the jury,
you are discharged, and L only regret
that L cannot discharge you for the
term" The righteous wrath of Judge
Selden, though voicing scathing re-
buke, did not extend quite so far as that
of a Victoria judge in case tried before
him some two months ago, in which the
prisoner, stout young man, had struck
with a sand bag, and killed, feeble old
man and was acquitted by the jury. The
judge, after expressing his sastonishment,
discharged the prisoner with the advice
to go out and sand bag the jury" line
of advice. which if followed, would, it
may be, have wholesome effect nfixing
the degree of guilt in criminal cases, in
which sympathy or more sordid consid-
Grafton too frequently blind full JUS
| tice.