Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-02-19
Cabinet Disseusion.
PACIFIC COAST.
Letter from Vice President Van
Horne.

SAN FRAScrsco. Feb. lS.-rbe follow
ing letter has been received by q promi-
neut merchant OF this city from W Q.
Van Horne. Woe President OF the Can
sdian Pacific Railway Company; As
the quickest means of providing suit
able connection with San Fransisco, We
have made arrangements with Goodsli,
Perkins i Go. % place two first class
and fast steamers in servios between
our terminus and San Francisco.
saw il stated in the papers that it will
be impossible for the Canadian Pacific
to compete with the more soathern lines
on account OF the difficulties of winter
operations. On this point | wish to
assure yon that the Canadian Pacific
will be operated with certainty every
diy in the year. The company bss ex
pended very large amount of msney
with this particular object in view. and
on our main line fron Quebeo to Can
more, in the Rocky Mountains, which
IL ~ far ~ We have been operating the
line this winter. q distance of $50
miles. we bsve not been obliged 10 can
Gel a single train on account Of snow.
| or for any other reason, while nearly
sll of the railways in tbs southern and
Middle States have had serious diff
Guilty, And some OF the important lines
have been blocked for days together"
Large Ds.ation
Charles Crooker has donated 800
60 the Boys and Girls Aid Society, for
ciety's two lots near Golden Gate Park.
Relieved -Dte<-Arrtved.
Posr townsend. Feb. SO. Z. Bot
Ter, Siguai Observer, has been trans
ferred from Lewiston. Idaho Territory,
10 rstoosh Island, w. T.. relieving X.
l.. Sebastian, Who has been ordered 10
take charge Of the signal station Al Red
Bluff, Cal.
A telegram from San Francisco tsday
announces the death 1T tina, place this
morning Of J. J. Chapman. formerly
osief engineer Of the tuR Tacoma.
The steamer Gold Dust arrived from
Astoria last nigh,. and is nov lying In
this harbor.
a Chinese Expuisisn.
LNcoLx (Cal.). Feb. ls.-Advices by
telegraph from NIeolous (Cal.l state
that at , o'clock this morning q mob Of
twenty or more masked men drove the
Chinese, forty foor in number. from
their quarters in shat town. They alec
toek possession of the steamer ID. Z
Knight, No. .. and pat the Chinese and
their baggage aboard. warning them
not 20 return. The captain Of the boat
refused 10 take them away, bat finally
be saw that all the odds we're Again 81
him. He steamed down the river
toward Sacramento, bat intimatsd that
be would pot the Chinese OF st the
FIRST landing. No violence Was resort
ed to.
New Is the rtme 90 Go East.
SAS FRAscIsco, Feb. ls.--As a result
Of the dissolution Of the Trsnseonti-
mental Association orders we're received
al the Central Pacific office today 10
reduce fares on their line. The reduc-
ton applies 20 all classes OF fare, aud
ranges from tlS TO kS& On each fare.
IL is believed ether roads will follow the
action Of the Oentrai Pacific. and gen
eral var in rates Is anticipated.
rHx INDUCTION rsox oSI-rHiRp TO
oSE-HALp.
NEW Iosx. Feb. ls.-rbe Twas says
All the warning railroad men sent long
kilograms 10 their colleagues in The
West a. soon - they came 10 them
speedy sdlournm.nt yesterday after
nesn- For the most part thew ordered
/ or advised Immediate cuts In passenger
fares Of frcn IS 10 50 per cent on the