, 1889-07-18
CAPITAL CHAT.
a Cosby ana Newsy Letter From
Olympia.

Olympia.
OLYMPIA, July II, Corrcspondencc.-
Have you ever been to Olympiu? II Is
u quaint, old.iashioned town, one that
you would expect to sec way down IN
Virginia, on the banks of "thc jim"
but not In progressive Washington, with
the tides from Puget sound washing its
piers. The very air is redundant with
peace and qnictude. You can't be in
hurry If you would. Everybody moves
slowly, sedatcly and withall contcntcd-
ly. No one who has lived here fora year
or two Is discontcntcd, As u promi-
nent territorial official said TO me
to-day, 81 make n living, ] eat three
meals day, sleep comfortably at night
and manage to pay my bills; what more
could wish ior?" They are talking, it's
true, of new railroad to Gray's Harbor,
and IL will probably be built, but it will
hardly give Olympia boom, in the
sense that we understand that much
abused word in Spokane Falls. The
constitutional convention has crowded
the streets with strangers. For u day or
two the natives looked at them cut
riously; now they have ceased to won
der ut the circus or TO take much inter
est in the conventions proceedings FUR
ther than to watch that IL does not at
tempt to take the capital from here,
and of that there does not seem to be
much chance. Those of the delegates
have talked to on the SuhieCt--and they
number more than half of the Conven-
tiun--havc expressed the opinion that
the capital question will be left to future
legislatures to wrcstle with.
THE ELLENsBuRG
boomers, so much talked of before tho
convention met, have not matcrialized,
and the only Ellcnsburgcrs present are
the three delegates from that fire
stricken city. y far more important sub
jcct than thc capital question, however, Is
what shall be done with the tide lands?
The whole Sound country Is wild over
this issue and have been looking for
General Bailey of Spokane, to join our
already extensive lobby, that We may
know what "occurs to his thought
about his tide land claims Mt Seattle
which he so nohly defended with a
Gatling gun II year or two ago, This
tide land matter, however, will undoubt-
edly be settled by the government To-
tanning possession of them and leasing
them for term of years to steamboat
ations. The school lands interest
us much more than tide lands
at Spokane, and the gentlemen who
are looking for promising new adj
ditions will he glad to learn that the sec
tions adjoining Spokane Falls and all
over the territory will undoubtedly he
sold by auction and the money turned
into the school fund.
THE TERRITORIAL SCHOOL BOARD,
which Is in session here, endorsed this
| plan to-day, and II meets with general
| favor, The lquor--or rather the anti
| liuuur--propogandi and the woman
| their respective measures Independently
| They will not be made parts Oi
| the Constitution. That is certain.
| Petitions and propositions as they
are called, against railroads and corpora
| tons are ~ numerous as the bluCkbcr-
| ricS in the woods around here. Every
| body hits them crack. Tom Griiiitts
our own Tom-gayc them the first
whirl, yesterday, by introducing ~
proposition to forbid tho granting oi
subsidies. Grifitts also made II strong
speech indorsing n resolution offered 10y
Rinnear of Seattle against trusts. II
may prove interesting to your readers tc
know that
MIR. GGfFfirrs Is \ CANDIDATE
for the United States senate. lie has
already been mentioned for the
office by several democratic pa.
pers on the Sound, and ho is
actively at work making the necessary
combinations. He has steadily opposed
Judge Turner ON every proposition, al
though left them few minutes ugc
seated ON the sidewalk in front of the
Carleton House hobnobbing together.
| don't think there is Il supiect that ha'
come up for diScussion--.hpm the order
ing of ice for the COnvCntion--it is no
diCnto ito the pulling of the tail u
monop0lics, upon which the HOnorabl,
Thomas has not spoken
THEIR SEATS.
lie sits directly opposite tn,
chairman with post be
tween him and Goldman, VIII,
occupies the lower table, Turner has Il
rather poor scat to the right of the chail
behind u post near Browne and Sucks
dorf, who sit together in next to the las
row. Moore, the colonel, has the frs
scat mex to the presidential throne, with
l.ilhs of Tacoma, who is the dude of tn,
convention. Frank Dallam and II, Fair
weather sit together near thu
Gho2r ho ,GSi exactly opposite na in .,t,, tn
Travis sits behind Suksdorf il
the seat Waltman occupied for thre
days. by the way, Wnltman behave,
very well in his contest with Travi,
As soon as he found he was beat h
resigned and moved that Travis be ad
mitted in his place. The members O
the convention, and especially the Spo
kane delegation, were very sorry to Sc
him leave, as they considered him
bright and promising delegate
Our Spokane delegates have done yer
withstanding his democracy, has a chail
manship, and SO has Turner, who's
; committee, the judiciary, is on
of the most important, and on
for which he is well qualified Colon,
Moore, who. as temporary ,presidin
officer, won the good will Of all the del,
gates, has the legislative committed
three important committees each.
find the best of feeling prevailing tc
,, wards the Spokane Falls delegation
: and their fellow delegates consider ther
able men, well qualified to fulfill tn
,, trust imposed ON them. The banker
, who hold the bonds of Spokane Fal
have petitioned the convention stain
/, that fact and asking that the city be nc
,, allowed to increase its il
: its assessed valuation. ca
: attention to this, because it might /
wise for the city fathers to pause in the
consideration Of the location of electri
7. railway poles or the letting of
STREET GRADING CONTRACTS
to determine If Spokane Falls has M
!; some interests to be attended to i'm con
mon with the other municipalities {
4 the new state before this convention
! Judge Buck is among the Spokane visi
Z ors now in town. John l.. Wilson WI
(, lhere for day or two, but he has gon
= Ex-Sheriff Glispin is spending the sun
: mer under the Olympian cherr
y trees and says he is gettin
0 fatter and healthier with each revolutio
$ of the sun. Prof. w. B. Turner, wit
y book under his arm and smile on h
face, accompanied by his sister, is in a