, 1886-06-17
The Party Whip.

Seattle PToSS.I
It may not be out of place for both
the republican and the democratic
wheel horses of Washington Terri
tory to be reminded that the Oregon
election showed that the ''indepen-
dent scratcher" is abroad in the
land
The last election in this Territory
proved also that the people Of Wash
ington cannot be dragooned into vot-
ing the party ticket from top to bot
tow against their wishes. Many
things have occurred since that cleo
ton to make the party yoke rest
lightly upon the neck of the indopen-
dent voter The old party war cry
has not great weight here when il
conflicts with local and Rpg3gSs IiErritorial
+, i9sltsatRess 50 aissatffiet asaffi and important be
tween the two great parties that will
prevent the Independent voter from
supporting for local and territorial
Offices those men whose opinions and
actions the most nearly conform to
his views on issues PECULIAR to the
Pacific Coast, or which apply espec-
tally to his own locality.
The party whip has no great terror
here. The people are doing their
Own thinking and are liable to smash
any party slate that does not repre-
sent their interests.
PUGET SOUND Mail BoATs.-On the
lst of July, says an exchange, quite
a change will take place in steam
boat affairs on the Sound. The Ore
gon Railway and Navigation Co. viii
place a steamer on the " WhatcGm
route, to carry the mail between
Seattle and Whatcom. The Esr.siil=-
inSton steamboat company on that
day Will withdraw the Washington
from that route, substituting the ".
h Merwin in her place. The Oregon
Railway and Navigation company
Will cease to carry the mails on the
route between Tacoma and Port
Townsend, that service being per
formed by the steamers Edith and
Washington, at a yearly contract of
S24.5OO. The Washington is as fast
is the North Pacific, and the Edith
will be fally as fast as the Geo. E..
Starr, or faster. She averaged on
her trip from San Francisco TO Puget
Sound eleven miles an hour and
burned less than twenty tons of coal
in going the 500 miles. She has
been fitted up in first-class shape and
Will be elegaotly furnished, the com
pany having sent east for opera chairs
for her cabins.
The HOP CRoP.-In conversation
with one of the Puyallup valley hop
growers today the following develop
ed, that the sunshine and rain had
divided things up just right this year
Tor the hop crop; i'll other words that
the weather had been all that could
be desired and that an immense yield
might be looked forward to; that lice
having appeared in the New York
yards Ii WAS safe to presume that the
large crop IL that section would be a
partial failure, and as a matter of
course the demand for the crop here
would be stimulated, that hop grow
ers look on the prohibition movement
as stroke at their business; that a
prominent hop buyer had today of
fered 10 cents = pound for the grow
ing crop, that it had been refused;
also that the above offer was the
highest yet made this season.-Taco-|
ma Ledger.
A New York dispatch of June lIth
says: "Tammany paid its tribute to-
night to It's dead chieftain, John
Kelly. Outside and within the oid
WiSwam was draped with black,
Every seat was filled, and in the gal.
lery many ladies sat. On the pIat-
form We're nearly fifty prominent
members of the Tammany organiza-
ton and many citizens. Among !he
prominent personHges present were.
ftecorder Smyth, Mayor Edison
Gen. fitz-,iohn Porter. ". B,urka
ochrane, Gen. Y. Z. tBalay) Smith:
hon. Charles i. Dana and Gov. Leon
NJ Abbott, Of New Jersey. Ex-,JUdga
A B- iappan presided. Letters OF
regret from Hon. Samuel J. Tjidan.
ioy; Hill, Judge Noah Davis, White |
aw Reid and others were read.