Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-11-15

OF the legislature. but did hot take hi.
seat on account OF the passage of tn,
enabling act for the admission of the
State. Last June was elected to the
Constitutional Convention from the
twentieth district to assist in framing
a constitution for the new State anc
took an active part in framing that in
strument. Was chairman of the
Committee on Corporations and among
other important measures he secured
the insertion of clause in the con.
stitution prohibiting all manner oI
trusts and n further clause forbiddine
any person or corporation from sup
porting armed bodies of men in the
State for any purpose. Made a closl
race for first Governor, was backed by
the entire thirty-five delegates from
King county and received l3O votes in
the Republican State convention.
W. H. KNEELAND.
The Senator from Mason county, is
the son of a New England farmer, was
born in Lincoln, Maine, December IL,
lS4S. His father died in the army in
1862. Shortly after this he left home
to go to school and working nights
and mornings for his board. After at
tending school a year in this way he
obtained a position as teacher. For
four years he taught school and at
tended school alternately. In 1860 he
went to Pennsylvania and engaged in
the lumber business until 1876, and
then went to the oil districts of Penn
sylvania and engaged in the produc.
ton of petroleum. About 1880 some
heavy gas wells were found at the
northern end of the oil belt in the
State of New York and in 1881 he
conceived the idea of turning that gas to
practical use, and to this end organized
a company with capital stock of hall
a million, and built what is known as
the Empire Gas Line. This line
contained over 100 miles of pipe, had
about 5000 patrons, and was q financial
success. In 1882 he sold his stock in
the Empire Gas Line and his oil
property in Pennsylvania and came
to Washington Territory and engaged
in the lumber business in Mason
county, where he has been ever since
In the first two years of his experience
there he lost every dollar he had, hut
believing in the old saying, that
"where you loss it was the place to
find it," he stuck by the old wreck
and has to some extent verified the
saying.
HENRY LANDES.
Colonel Henry Landes, the joint
Senator from jefferson, Clallam and
San Juan, is q native of Germany, 46
years of age. His parents emigrated
to Kentucky in 1847, in which State
he was raised. Breaking away from
the restraints OF school in the latter
'pLrt OF 1901. ne enlisted IN a Ken.
lucky Uni ~ regiment at the age OF
eighteen years and served through the
war, participating in nearly all the
battles from shiloh to Atlanta. After
the war he came to the Pacific coast
thence to the gold fields of British Co
lumbia. Returning to Washington
Territory, in 1870 he was appointed
Indian trader at Neah Bay reservation
which position he held for nearly six
years. In 1876 he returned with his
family to Port Townsend and estab-
lished himself in business. He has
been city councilman, acting mayor
city treasurer, member of the school
board, member of the board of com.
missiOners to locate the new Terrific
rial Penitentiary, member of the board
of commissioners to locate Port Town
sends present government buildings,
assistant adjutant general with the
rank of lieutenant-colonel on the
Governors staff, commissioner to Sc
lect suitable site for the deaf mute,
blind and feeble-minded youth of the
territory. He founded the First Ma
tional bank OF Port Townsend in 1883
and is its president, was one of the
originatOrs, is director and treasurer
of the Port Townsend & Southern Rail.
road Company, is president of the
Olympus Water Company, and quar-
general of the N. G. w.
Colonel Landes is of commanding
presence, over six feet in height, and
weighs 22O pounds.
JOHN C. LAWRENCE.
Another young Senator, is an Ohio
man, born at Mount Gilead, Morrow
county, in 1861. His father died
when he was nine years of age. He
came with his mother to Whitman
county in November 1873, served as
county superintendent of schools of
the county, one term rs a member of
the Territorial Board of Education
and one term rs superintendent of
public instruction. Is now engaged
in the real estate business.
J. H. LONG.
Lewis county, the oldest in the new
State, is to be represented by an ac-
tive. energetic business man who has
been a resident of the county for near
Iva quarter of a century. Mr.. Long
was born ON farm near Columbus,
Ohio, November 18th, 1S45, immigrated
to Iowa in 1860 with his parents, drove
an OK team across the plains for his
board in 1864 to Boise City, Idaho,
and left for Lewis county, Washington,
in 1885, was elected county assessor in
1869, county treasurer in 1873, to the
legislature in 1877, and joint council
man of Lewis and Thurston counties
in 1881, resided on the farm he now
occupies near Chehalis since 1866, first
as farm hand, next as tenant and now
as owner; been engaged in the manu-
facture of cheese in different parts of
the territory with William Birming-
ham, of Tacoma, for eleven years; also
in milling, president of the Chehalis
FIGURING Mill Company for three
years, and is engaged principally in
farming and stock raising. Mr.. Long
married a daughter of Stephen Hodg-
den, 49er, in 1868. His daughter is
the wife of Banker William B. Allen,
of Tacoma.
F. H. LUCE.
The joint Senator from Lincoln,
OkanOgan, Adams and Franklin cOun
ties, is one of the young, pushing and
energetic men of the great Northwest
who are engaged in building up in a
substantial manner this wonderful
empire. Mr.. Luce is a native of Wis
consin, born May %, 1859. He is a
physician by profession, and came
from Illinois to Washington two years
ago. He is engaged in the banking
and real estate business in the thriv.
ing town of Davenport, Lincoln county
one of the firm of May & Luce. He
is well educated gentleman, and il