, 1886-03-25
PiCkin

The Pre=iient has approved the
bill to increase the pension of wild
ows and dependent relatives OF de
ceased soldiers and sailors
The sub committee of tine house
committee on ways and means, nav
ing charge of the Hawaiian treaty
qestIon. have submitted its report to
the full committee, recommending
the abrogation of the treaty.
i man living in Los Angeles
county, who was bothered by tramps,
decided to have the beggar5 dig Il
cellar for him, and accordingly to
every applicant for victuals he pro
posed to charge an hours work for
square meal. At the end OF a week
he found that he had ninety seven
applications and had secured three
hours work
The Oreg0nGR was accused Of cry
wolf when there was no wolf, over
the anti Chinese agitation in Port
land, but time has proved that the
program of lawlessness which it
prognosticated is being carried out to
the letter in and about the city. The
Tacoma, Seattle, Newcastle and Puy-
allup outrages have already been
gleatly exceeded in Portland.
Thomos A Edison has Just given to
the public an account of his new sys-
TEN of biography, by induction, be
tween moving trains and the usual
fixed stations, which makes it posi-
bic TO send messages through the air
without attaching any wire to the
cars or to the trask. He relates that
in the course of some researches
which he had undertaken for another
purpose, involving the use of the in
duction coil, he found that he could
throw very strong electric current
fifty feet through the air from one
conductor to another; by means of a
simple primary coil which gave no
spark in the air. This opened a new
field for the practical use of induced
electricity in telegraphing between
points at which 4 wire connection
would not be practicable It was, he
declares, like finding q new volume in
the endless library of electrical won
ders. Beginning with leap of the
current through fifty feet of air, be
now able to send it five hundred and
eighty. The result of work by Edi-
son and his associate, Gilliland, since
this discovery. in inventing, perfect
ing and adapting apparatus, is that a
circuit can now be established be-
tween any train and the terminus oi
the road; or between the trains and
any station on the route. A circuit
is also established between any one
train and all other trains on tbs same
road.
Blaine Journal: The Port Town
send ARGUS has been giving the resi-
dents of the port OF entry some hard
sense in its editorials on the Chinese
question since the trouble at Seattle
and finally published a pledge to
boycott the Celestials which the edi-
tor had prepared, with the sugges
ton that it be circulated for sigma,
lures, and that the names of the
signers be published. The columns
of the paper were freely rendered for
the purpose, and for any one refus,
ing to sign to publish his reason
therefor shonld he choose to do so
The paper stated that there was no
use trying to deny the fact that the
Chinese were increasing in numbers
in Port Townsend, and that it is
highly improbable that such a state
of affairs can be permitted and the
city escape purging after the Ia
coma and Seattle methods; that the
grievances of the workingmen are
real, and the object for which they
are contending a just one, whatever
We may say of the methods they have
adopted to attain it, and that if Port
Townsend would avoid repetition
Of Seattle's experience it is time foG
those of her citiZens-Chinese EN-
ployers and others are opposed
to forcible expulsion, but favor boy
cotting to prove their honesty and
the sincerity of their professions.
For this purpose the plan is proposed
that those who are ''sincere IN their
profesced desire to have the Chinese
go' may ''come out and show their
colors-" In arguing tie necessity
for some such action the ARGUS
says that the Chinese ''are apparently
disposed to remain, although warned
in friendly way that for their own
good it would be better for them to
go, and it is also true that in the main
they are still patronized" This Is a
new move, and one that seems to US
should meet the hearty endorsement
of every individual who honestly de-
sires the coolies to leave-particular
ly of the "boycotting only" frater
nifty. And yet, while THIS has been
the position of the ARGUS all through
the agitation, in this move its action
is opposed by Il want the -Chinese-to
so the-right-way" residents of the
city. even to the extent of charging
the editor with "becoming an agitator
and favoring lawlessness." But for
the best interests OF the port of entry
1t Is to be hoped that this class of her
self boosted lawful method" citizens
is small, that the most of her resi-
dents have been honest in their pro
fessed desire that the Chinese should
not stay, and that they will now prove
themselves by employing the weapon
they have been recommended to
others. We await for further devel-
opments.