Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1885-01-23

llthtlS VIII tiit NuiNdoo, AAiN0uhCC
and St. Paul Railway, which con-
meets with the North Pacific OF the
Union Depot in the latter city, and
with the Pennsylvania system in Chi
cago, without a transfer of passen-
gers and baggage TO distant part
of tie city, rs trip by any other
of The numerous routes would zen
der necessary. The Chicago, Nil
waukee and St. Paul Railway, be-
sides possessing the shortest lines be-
tween tie terminal cities, affords a
choice of three distinct routes, all
of which pass through delightful
sections of county The Pensylva-
nia system Of railroads, from Chica
80 East are unsurpassed in roadbed
ana equipment. Double tracks rem
der danger of collision impossible,
and a wide choice OF route is afford
ed bs nstwork of rri's which pass
through the Middle It'd Western
States and terminate at all the large
cities on the Atlantic seuboard.
The San Francicco Examiner calls
attention 20 the curious coincidence
that in 1865 Grant was made Presi-
dent 10y 2l4 ele";or ! votes, and in
1850 Garfield WAS excited by the
same number, while in 1892 Jackson
was elected President by 2l9 elccto-
raj votes, and 1854 Cleveland got 2l9
electors also. Garfield, in his way,
was as good a Republican as Grant
was in his. 1t follows logically,
therefore, that Cleveland will make
as good Il President as Old Hickory
Another curious coincidence is the
fact that Cleveland was elected to
| his fourth office on the 4th of No
vembe, 1884, and will be inauSu-
rated on the 4th of March.
The Pruirif Farmer, Chicago, the
organ of the farmers, combats wig
orously the proposition that reduc-
ton of railroad freishts on grain
would help the agriculturist 1t
SAYS that if the reads were to carry
grain to Chicago free of charge it
would make matters worse for the
producers, and wants the roads to
put up the price for hauling, SO that
no grain can be moved. The eli
tors reasoning is this: The eleva-
tors are all full and the market is
overstocked; prices will not improve
until tue demand of consumers has
unIoaded the supply in the hands Of
dealers, when the farmers can come
in and get paying rates for their
grain.
THE pioneer printing press, which
was used in publishing the Alta, the
Orcgonian, and the Coiumbian, the
first newspaper in this Territory,
now owned by the htfliyncer COM
pany, has again been brought out
for parade duty, and all the news
papers are passing it around" 1t
might be well to have its history
stereo.yped and blocks laid away in
each banque-drawer, ready for the
annual airing.
The Seattle Mtfiligcnccr now pro-
poses to bankrupt the Northern
Pacific Railroad Co. by patronizins
the Canadian Pacific. If tho traffic
of the "Queen City" is to be wholly
given to this foreign corporation, the
American line may just as we'll close
the throttle. 1t is hoped, however,
TINT our enterprising neighbors will
allow the Northern Pacific to live
until its northern rival is completed.
TIE House of Representatives has
passed bill regulating appeals from
the Supreme Courts Of Territories.
1t provides that no appeal OF writ OF
error shall hereafter he allowed from
any judgment or decree in any suit
at law or in equity in the Supreme
Court in any of the Territories, un.
less the matter in dispute exceeds
live thousand dollars, exclusive OF
costs.
The City Council of Seattle, have
decided to call their new cemetery
Washelli," which is interpreted to
mean "home of the hereafter" 1,
was scarcely necessary, however, to
have indicated the precise location
of the home as has been done in the
spelling of the name, when it is sc
we'll known that its occupants will
mainly come from Seattle.
AS an indication of the remarka
BILE favor with which tho new Seattle
paper, the Bulletin. will be received
it is only necessary to state that tn.
material was an object of attach
ment, Immediately on its arrival, ant
before it had crossed the wharf.
A LETTER dated Ellensburg, 13tl
inst. says that snow was two fee
deep in that district of country, and
the thermometer standing at 3 deg
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