, 1886-04-08
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bA. y NL't4 it'i~r0 tJlL-- rom 't!i
own observations we think that most
of them are trying to climb into the
WAGON.
1t is said that Senator Call, Of
Florida, Is 50 unappreciative of 4 joke
that when one Is offered 10 him he
requires Z written plan and speciti
cations.
The cold fact is talegraphed from
Washington that John Sherman viii
suub Senator Morrill,. \ frozen snub
Ike that Will get into the Ndtcrj0
Nadjcu as remedy for nose bleed.
Apostle Cannon. Of Utah, has
jumped his bail The original Apos-
ties used to stand up to the rack and
thumbscrew without wincing. We
fear that Cannon is a sort OF pop gun
in the Apostle business.
Cleveland Lcader: The democrats
in congress viii probably use the
floods in the Missouri valley as a new
and powerful argument against the
admission Of Dakota Such logic is
about equal to the mental caliber of
the party.
The cause of the wrecking of the
Atlantic steamship Oregon, which
occurred on March Il, is shrouded in
mystery. 1t was first thought that
she was run down by 4 schooner, but
1t is now said that tie cause was a
dynamite torpedo.
New York World: Senator Logan
has proclaimed himself in favor OF
open and above board business in the
senate. In this action Logan voices
the sentiment ofthe American people.
In republic all business shonld be
transacted under the public eye.
Mr.. Pulitzer, of the New York
World, endorses the Republican
Senators in their demands on the
President. If Mr.. Pulitzer had re-
manned in Hungary it is probable this
country would be in the hands of a
receiver, for lack of somebody to hold
1t by the tail.
Since Edison's marriage. domestic
people are looking for series of in
yentions that Will mitigate the mid
night horrors of matrimony. This
expectation will be satisfied with
nothing short of an electrical spank
er. bottle holder, floor-walker and
adjuster of the triangular flag of in
fancy.
Bound FoR ALAsKA.-Among the
passengers on the schooner Leo which
sailed early yesterday morning for
Alaska, We're the members of brass
band who were ''bound for Alaska, or
bust" They were a happy crowd
of men, full ofhope. Gathered on the
deck, just before sailing, they began
to sing, and some of them were dane
ing to music from a piccolo well
played by one of the band. Good
bye, Barney. Take care of yourself"
Yes, you bet 1 will, and 1 will come
back here in twelve months and hit
you Seattleites right in the eye with
a big chunk of gold" The purser,
standing near, said, "Yes, they can
make lots of money. The people of
Sitka Will go wild over the first brass
band in Alaska. The natives won't
know what to make of so much
music" The people of Sitka and
Juneau are preparing for big immi-
grafton during the next few months.
Prospecting excursions are being or
ganlzed already, and boom il an
ticipated in the mining interests
P.L OF April Ist
The encampmento of the veterans of
the late war, which will take place in
San Francisco next August, viii be
probably, the grandest affair of the
kind ever seen in that city The
knight Templar demonstration was
imposing, but to be a Sir Knight it is
necessary to have a very large pro-
portion of the worlds goods-the
membership is consequently limited.
But no such considerations avail in
the Grand Army of the Republic.
Every man who fought in the Union
army in the late war is eligible, con
sequently, the organization numbers
its rank and file by the hundred
thousand. And the coming demon
stratlon, the twentieth of its kind,
will bring host of comrades hither.
The number is placed all the way
from twenty thousand to forty thous
and. We believe that the latter mum
Der will not more than cover the total
including frisnds, families, etc. Be
sides those crossing the Rocky noun
tanned to view the far famed land of
California, and San Francisco, the
Queen City of the West, enough will
gather here from the Pacific States
and California itself to make San
trancisco's guests during August
perllously near hundred thousand.
But making Il very great discount on
these tiE ures, we will be invaded by
mighty host of sight-seers, and of
friends of those who helped to make
of us 4 united country-ono and in
divisible.
Tacoma NeIcs: Col. w. f. Pros
ser, in recent article, calls attention
to the fact that a considerable mum
Der of the railroad lines of the coun
try are reaching out, either with their
trunk lines or main branches. toward
Puget Sound. The Northern Paci-
iic and Canadian Pacific Will soon be
completed and in operation to their
terminii; the Union Pacific, with It's
Shortline, will eventually reach the
Sound, as was plainly intimatei by
Mr.. Adams when here. The Central
and Southern Pacific lines are seek
ing connection with this point also,
through the California and Oregon
road, of which they have secured con
troll. The Chicago and Northwestern
load Is also aXtandinrr In fbiG 1;ron
ton, and Is expected eventually to
terminate at these waters. Thus, it
will be seen that, as in olden times all
roads led to Rome, so in our day all
transconhnental railroad lines will
converge at Puget Sound. So too it
will be with the trans Pacific steamer
lines from all the ports of the occi-
dent. There Is a meaning in these
movements which bears upon the fu-
ture of this Puget Sound conntry