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, 1889-02-28
WE SHOULD CELEBRATE.

Port Townsend should break away
from town lot speculation long
enough to make arrangements for
celebrating the signing of the Onni-
bus bill by the president. Other cit.
iss ON the Sound are celebrating in a
becoming manner and our citizens
should not be behind the times. We
have waited far too long for the pass
age and signing OF the bin, but it is
none the less appreciated for coming
this late. People must know that
such actions, We mean the celebra-
ton of such event, are telegraped all
over the length aud breadth OF the
American continent. and when the
people of the Atlantic seaboard hear
that tie city of Port Townsend has
had a jolifcation in honor of the
event they will realize that our city
is not entirely made up of Inossbacks
and baruacles, and they will want 10
come and live among rs. There are
plenty of patriotic people here who
will start the bail rolling Let May
or Learnard call : mass uee,ing and
have committees appointed who VIII
get the matter IL proper shape Fog
AZ
, 1889-02-28
ANOTHER BOAT NEEDED

The ARGUS received q letter yester-
day from a gentleman who neglect
ed to sign his name, bearing on the
Whatcom trade. The writer of the
letter states thai Port Townsend
cannot expect to get the trade of the
islands or of Whatcom until job
bing house is established here, and
the proprietors will be satisfied TO
sell their goods at q reasonable profit,
and until our dealers are willing to
pay market rates for produce" Up
on inquiry of several of our largest
merchants we learn that the people
of the island demand about 20 per
cent. more than the market rates for
their produce, and to pay the price
demanded the finms here would, of
course, sustain a loss. 1t is doubtful
if our merchants charge, as stated in
the letter, from 10 to 20 per cent
more for their goods than Seattle
merchants" We are informed that
the outside profit on groceries. taken
all around, is not above 10 per cent.
We are of the opinion that our IN
known correspondent has been mis-
informed regarding the direct cause
OF the trade of Whatcom and the
islands going away from Port Town
send. We believe that the trade of
those places Is worth catering for and
We think that the first step 10 be tax
en- i TO increase the number Of boats
by putting on an additional one, thus
establishing daily service between
those points and Port Townsend.
The Libby is to-day paying, and
with the increased travel during the
summer there is no reason it should
not pay a handsome dividend on
the investment. For time the gen
temen who organized the company
controlling the line met with tInan-
cial loss, but they stuck 10 the pro
iect with determination that is com
mendable- 1t now remains for & few
of our millionaires who have the in
terests of Port Townsend at heart 10
subscribe to the stock of the conpa-
ny and thereby enable them to pur,
chase and run another steamer
, 1889-02-28
STILL ANOTHER.

From a personal letter received
from Walla Walla yesterday we
learn that that town is experiencing
a genuine boom. After we had read
that much of the letter we paused,
and during the pause softly wonder
ed what the people of that staid old
home nf the pilgrims would do if they
had such thing on their hands, how
they would distribute it, and which
of the "oldest inhabitants" would be
placed in charge during its sojourn,
We remember q few weeks ago of
meeting gentleman On the street in
that city and OF being told that the
building industry had taken a spurt
and the city would soon double in
population" Upon inquiry, howev-
er, We discovered that ore o. the cit
liens had concluded to put a new
roof on his old house, and that Ger
tain we'll known business man was
going to build the brick block that
he had been promising to build dur
ing every season for the last four or
i've years, and 1t yet remains un-
built This was the extent of the
building squirt. Of course, when We
read in our letter of the boom, the
recollection of the previous report
flashed across our mind, and we felt
certain that it was merely the same
cid story in new cover On read
ing further, however, wa found
that the writer OF it had ju. cause
for making use Of tie ori boom,
but not in connection W the build
ing industry. The car-e of the e1-
eitement in the city OF dust and poor
electric lights, IS & ten round glove
fight between two of the local pugi-
lists. Visions of Mayor Thompson
speaking to the multitude in honor
o: the boom; of many thousand vari-
colored Chinese lanterns; of music
by the famous ~ Blue Mountain and
Elite bands, have disappeared; we
regret it. But lest boom strike the
city of Walla Walla, and the relies OF
forgotten days, in the way of old
cabins, be swept away as villages be-
fore a Texas cyclone, and that the
people of that quiet town may know
what boom is really like, We sug-
gest that 4 committee of their most
prominent citizens come over to Port
Townsend and gaze at the one we
are now enjoying.
, 1889-02-28
SIDEW ALk S.

Unless there is a gutter placed on
the Washington street grade we are
going to have washout on that hill
that will cost a good many thousand
dollars to repair. There are few cit
les OF so much push as Port Town
send where the sidewalks and cross
ings are in such deplorable condition,
and some one is 10 blame. We are
told that 1t Is the fault of the street
commissioner, but we are 10th to be
ieve that man of Mr.. Hammond's
push and Intelligence would, daily,
see such evils without making an eff
fort to remedy them. That such n
state of affairs should exist in q city
like this is disgrace which only
prompt action can wipe ont. Take
for instance the condition of the
street at the foot of Taylor street
stairs; rough and rugged, No light Of
any kind; and nothing but the ut
most caution upon the part Of people
who know the ground, prevents a
very serious accident happening any
night. There seems TO be a vast
amount of inconsistency IN the man =
agement Of the street affairs here.
When an ordinance is passed that
such and such thing is to be done,
the property owner must do 1t and at
once; and should he fail to act
promptly, the city takes the matter
in hand and does the work at the
owners expense Not SO, however,
with the streets, they are dug up and
left until such time as it suits the
proper officials to finish the work. We
know that there has been nothing
done on Taylor street for three weeks
and there does not appear to be any
immediste prospect of work being
done for as many more; In the means
time We are to stumble and fall over
anything and everything that hap
pens in the way If the city is not
prepared to give US decent ap-
proaoh to the stairway it might not
be amiss to put lamp of some de-
scription there that would enable be-
lated pedestrians to reach the stair
way in safety, Let the proper Off
cial get to work on this matter with>
out delay, or visitors will go away
impressed with the idea that he is
too slow for q town with the energy
of Port Townsend.
, 1889-02-28
OLD sETrLER'S YARNS.
sITkL LISISEST.

Sometime, about 1859, Col. Morris
II. Frost then collector of customs,
built the two story brick building
now owned and occupied by n. d.
Hill & Sons at the corner of water
and Quincy streets The upper story
was occupied by Col Frost as a GUS
tom house for the District of Puget
Sound, and the lower part as drug
store by DR.. Staunton, fsther.in-
law of z. N. OBrien who was sur
geon of the C. s Marine Hospital
The drug store was sold and oc-
cupied by DR.. Calhoun who succeed
ed DR.. 0'Brien and Mr.. James N.
Harmed, druggist. AT the time of the
purchase of Alaska, the nostrom VEN
ders, eager for new names, invented
the "Sitka Liniment," which was
largely advertised in the newspapers
of the Pacific coast as a sovereign
panacea for rheumatism, wrenches,
sprains, eontrections of the cords,
cuts, bruises and burns. Harmed was
an energetic nan, up with the times
and ready to furnish any required
on the shortest notice.
One day. a man named Jimmy
Pnesmsn who was suffering from
came into the drug store
and inquired for Sitka Liniment.
was very busy with other
customers and told Priesman to
,ome again in half an hour, which
he did. and seeing a bottle on the
counter which he supposed was for
lin, he took il and went home. He
ubbed the hniment on his chest and
rms and after putting his under |
lothiIg went 10 bed and to sleep.
The next morning he felt much bet |
er and thought he would give him
elf another rub, and took the re- |
aainder of the Imminent but he soon
ound his clothes stuck fast TO his |
kin and he felt Ike he was enclosed |
D a coat Of armor- He walked to |
be drug store to inquire what kind |
I medicine this Sitka Linimsnt was
of. He was met at the
oor by Mr.. Harmed who asked:
, 1889-02-28
The Letters at Last

The testimony before the Parnell
commission so far, in regard to the
alleged forged Parnell letters, reveals
two very curious statements-ths
childlike simplicity and singular
want of curiosity OF Mr.. Sosmes, the
Tines solicitor, and the disinterest-
ed generosity of Mr.. Henry Labouch-
er in his alleged dealings with the too
honest Piggott-
Il is simply incredible thst Mr..
Soames should have been engaged
for six months in dealing with men
like Houston and Piggott, aud test
ing the genuineness OF the letters
that the Times bought from them,
without it occurring to him to inquire
where and how these letters were OBJ
tained by the men who were Offering
them for sale. Is it possible to be-
lIeve a witness, however respectable,
who makes such an astounding states
ment? In ascertaining the genuine
ness of the letters the source from
which they were obtained was the
first question that would suggest it.
self to the ordinary inquirer. It is
evident that the genuineness of the
letters was a matter that did not con-
Germ either the Times manager or
solicitor. What they cared to know
was whether the forgeries could be
proved genuine by expert testimony.
ana to make sure of this vas. the
manner in which they went about
s'testing the letters"
As to Mr.. Labouchere's generosity,
it is simply unparalleled. That the
coy. the cautious, the cunning La
bouchere should try 10 throw away
one thousand pounds on an Irish in
former without any apparent motive
and in a manner SO awkward that
even the child like and simple-mind-
Soames found him out is something
SO extraordinary that it taxes human
eredulity TO the utmost. It isn't like
Labby. Dow. is it? And that he
should have been assisted in his i'm.
becility and folly by Mr.. George
Lewis, the sharpest lawyer at the
English bar. adds to the wonderment
and befuddlement of the ordinary
minds in trying to understand the
testimony OF Soames and Piggott
And all the while Labouchere 10
serene and smiling, and tells the
world to wait till he takes the Hitnsss
stand. 1t is evident that he has
something very Interesting to tell,
and it can not be that he really vss
as big fool as Sosmes took him 10
be. 1t may turn out that Soames was
an innocent" like Detective Moser.
As the matter now stands the
Tines expects to prove the genuine
ness of the letters by expert sesti-
mony. This, as all the world knows,
is the least trustworthy Of evidence.
But the character of Piggott Is real
element in the case and the indies.
tions now are that there are going to
be some interesting reyelstions when
the other side is heard. Now that
the letters have been reached at last
the world may soon expect to know
whether the Times has any case.
, 1889-02-28

Advertising for bids for construc-
ton on the Port Townsend Southern
railroad looks like business to afford
a fresh impetus to immigration.
When work is resumed on the public
building for the expenditure of that
other two hundred thousand dollars
appropriated for it, and when active
operations shall have been started
on our motor line of street railroad
and on the jefferson street grade and
the sewers, there will be hustle and
activity enough to make new comers
think they have struck bee hive il
clover season.
, 1889-02-28

General Horace Porter says that
President Lincoln wasn't much of d
champagne drinker. Once, after a
journey to City Point, Mr.. Lincoln
was Suffering from the gsstronomic
disturbances incident TO sailing on
rough water, 4 young staff officer,
very previous he wHs. grabbed a
bottle of champagne and thrust it to-
ward Mr.. Lincoln, saying that that
was the very thing he needed. NO.
young man." Afr. Lincoln said, II
have seen too many fellows seasick
ashore from drinking that very ar
, 1889-02-28

As Port Townsend Increases in p,p-
ulation so L uust the number of our
institutions OF learning increase
Ncr Will it do for Us to wait until
the schools ara oyercrowded before
steps are taken to provide the neces>
sary quarters Port Townsend now,
is large enough TO support college
that would accommodate not only
the children OF our residents but
children throughout the length and
breadth of the territory. 4 properly
conducted boarding school would
briaS people here who would no
doubt remain and make this place
their home. Boarding schools gen.
orally aIe not the best places for
young ladies but We can see no rea-
son why, with a proper supervision.
the young ladies graduating from
such an institution should not be as
free from guile, and We may paral-
add gall, as those who are
,-1,Sas4 f.DfYar THAR Ynakhssrs rl-oS
, 1889-02-28

Colonel Fred Grant ana his win
some wife are visiting friends at the
national capital Mrs Grant has
lost none Of that remarkable beauty
which with her other winsome ousli>
ties, made her q general favorits when
she went to Washington Is bride.
The Colonel himself grows daily
more and more like his honored
father IN appearance He has the
same thick-set figure, the same
square face with the hkenes. en-
hauced by the elose-eropped brown
beard, the same eyes and nose and
many gestures exactly resembling
those which the silent chieftain fre-
quently employed in lieu of words 4
warm friendship exists between the
Colonel and the president and their
, 1889-02-28
STATEHOOD.

The house of representatives on
Wednesday adopted the report Of
the committee as adopted by the
senate, by which North and South
Dakota, Washington and Montana
will be able to join the sisterhood of
states within the year 1889. Presi-
dent Cleveland has refused to sign
bills OF almost equal Importance
as this, bat we will not permit our
selves to think that he would court
damnation from the entire western
country by declining to sign this bill
and thus keep the territories longer
ont of the Union.
On the 7th of May next, should the
president sign the bill, there will be
an election of members of the con-
yention which will meet on the 4th of
July to prepare a state constitution
If the delegates complete their la
bors IN time, the constitution will be
submitted to the peoples vote in Oc-
tober; then if it be approved the ter
ritory viii be admitted by the presi-
dents proclamation. But we have
heard OF constitutional conventions,
Ohio for instance, where it COM
sumed year before the state consti-
ton was completed, there is a bare
chance then that the people of this
territory may not have the pleasure
OF including the acquisition of state
hood among the many other blessings
for which they are to give thanks on
next thanksgiving day.
1t the people are deprived of it
they have only the Democratic con-
gress to censure, and when that par
ty met with such an overwhelming
defeat in November last their first
thought was to try and have the ter
ritories admitted and thereby gain
little glory. We know that in this
territory there were Democratic
workers who journeyed to Washing
ton with no other purpose in view
than to stick pins into delegate Voor
hees and try to work him into doing
something. Their first cry was to
get the territory admitted SO as to
rob the Republican party of the cred
it which would surely be theirs in
the next congress. We question
even now, whether the Democrats
should be given the honor of passing
the bill; it was done simply through
pique. and the credit belongs only to
the party who, on March 4th, will
take the reins of the administration in
their hands
1t is q burning shame and q dis
grace that political reasons should be
brought up where the admission of
a territory as u state is concerned.
The action Oh the part of the Dem-
oeratic congress has deprived thou
sands of people of the full rights OF
citizenship; and why? simply because
the party who has just been relega~
ted to the list of "outs" thought
that it would give their opponents
too much power IN the future elec-
tious. The matter has been already
DELAYED too long, aud had it not been
for the Republican victory at the last
election it is doubtful if the bill |
would have been passed even now.
, 1889-02-28
From /. Diary of To-day.

Jan. 10, 1SS9-Sat outdoors OF the
front steps until midnight in my
shirt sleeves Mosquitoes SO bad !
couldn't sleep.
Jan. 11-Went skating. Two de-
grees below zero.
Jan. 12-Hsd ice cream for lunch.
and hired boy to fan me- all day, il
was so hot
Jan 13-Had 8 charming sleigh
ride, but the weather is bitterly cold
tIn strange hand-writing)
Jan 1.-THE writer of the above
died today from a sun stroke-
Judge
, 1889-02-28
Outrageous Conduct.

Minister (deiectedly to wifsl-I
am sorry, my dear. but / have soEns
bad news for YOU. Wife (slarmedl-
Heavens, William, what is it, AinF
ister-The Terwilliger marriage and
also the Van Courtlandt wedding
have been postponed indefinitely.
Xife-Oh. we'll. William. 1 wouldnt
be down-hesrted at that; this wurid
is full Of disappointmeats- Minister
Yes, dear, but I'm afraid it viii n
terters with your new suit that you
hsye been tsiking so much sbcuI
Wife mildly furious.-Well, de-
clare, the way some people behave y
, 1889-02-28
Forgotten How.

1t was time OF immense public
excitement and thestreets were filed
with people discussing the latest
news of the strike. First citizen
There! (triumphsntly handing the
paper to his neighbor.) That's the
way the Morning FishbalI looks at
It What do you think. Second
Citizen (gloomilyl-I don't think.
I'm a professional iuror.-Puck.
, 1889-02-28

Now that the Dooley ordinance has
been satisfactorily amended and
Mayor Learned has seen the wisdom
of signing the franchise, we trust
that Mr.. Dooley will push the work
and keep his promise to give us a
ride behind his steam Stamboul on
next May day. We have been in
formed that arrangements for cars
and motors al already made but that
work on them had been stopped,
pending the action of the mayor. II
such is the case We trust AIR, Dooley
did not neglect the opportunity to
send night message to the build
ers telling them to go ahead with the
work
, 1889-02-28
No Painful Contrasts.

Rosalie-Did you have q nice time
at Mrs Ferguson's the other even
ing! Mabol-Oh, delightful But
such swfully homely girls as there
were there. Rosalie-So Mr.. Sum-
merly was telling me; he said there
wasn't decent-looking one in the
room.-Csicago Nens.
, 1889-02-28
Results of Cash P.ymsas..

Alarmed Mother-Why. my dauRh-
ter, weepingi What's the mattsrf
Daughter bride of month)-I-I
have been shopping. or trying to.
Alarmed Mother-Wslf1 Daughter
I find my husband has always paid
cash and hasn't any credit anywhere
Time
, 1889-02-28
The First Step.

Snaggs see q Chicago minister
preached last Sunday on What can I
do to be saved! Jaggs-Seems to
me one of the first moves would be
to get out of Chicago.-Draks,s Nag
dzine.
, 1889-02-28

There can be NO better evidence of
the weakness of Cleveland's admins
tration than his manipulation OF the
Samoan trouble. Thank heavens We
viii have. in 4 few days, man at the
helm who will see that americans
ana their rights are protected
, 1889-02-28

There is such a 6earth of local
matters in the city that the coll
u,nas of the ARGUS this morning are
not only dry but dusty. We saw two
very badly brought~up cows openly
violating the COW ordinance by leis-
urely walking up Water street yes
to-day afternoon, and we hoped that
the person in charge OF ANIMALS that
are lost strayed or stolen" would
have gathered them in, but were dis
appointed. The peace OF our city Is
such that We DO not often gel d
chance TO write up even q plain
druDk. Whether it is because the
whisky Is like good old Irish poteen.
''d.yil & fight in a barrel of IT." or
not, we are unprepared to say, There
is certainly something constitution
ally wrong, there Is not wickedness
enough in the town to support Sal
vation Army. There are no idlers,
everyone is at work, aud prosperous,
consequently there are no brawls.
We enjoy seeing things this way but
We must have something for an
item.
, 1889-02-28

There seems to be considerable
doubt concerning the published re-
port of the confirmation of Collector
Cullom- Before the report was pub
lished by this paper the editor of the
AgaUs called on Mr.. Cullom and
while in his office he was shown the
telegram signed by John S. Mccall
mont, announcing the fact and stat
ing that a blank bond would be for
wsrded at once. Whether the tele-
gram was the result of nightmare
on the part of Mr. McCalmont the
ARGUS is not prepared to say, but we
certainly read the telegram, notWith-
standing the fact that several of our
citizens have been using the most Sc
ductiye measures to convince us that
We were dreaming.
, 1889-02-28
we were dreaming.

We are informed that MIR. Spauld-
ing, one of the officers of the alleged
electric light company, is in the city
making an effort to place some of the
stock of his company among the cap,
italists of Port Townsend There has
always been certain amount of ieal-
ousy shown in the matter simply be-
cause it is an outside corporation.
On this principle We presume that in
al of the stock of the three proposed
railways was to be held by outside
people, the citizens would not pat
ronize the cars. There is Just this
much about it, If there is enough
stock sold here to warrant it, the
plant will be so enlarged that We will
have more and better lights, but if
the men of means of this city do not
encourage the company, then We are
to wait until the gas works are COM
p!eted before we may expect any help
out of the present diffic ulty.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1889-02-28

lating place of suit in case OF damages
from attachments and levys, was hnally
passes.
Senator Armistead's bill for procuring
agricultural and farm statistics was
passed.
Senator Lanes bill, giving mechanics
laborers and operatives on railroads lien
against the railroad companies for money
due them from sub contractors, was
passed.
Senator Pope's bill, fixing penalty for
setting or drawing seine above tide WATER
passed.
Senate bill 253-Regulating the opening
and closing of roads across state lands
surrounding public institutions was
psssed-21 to 6.
Pending a consideration of the bill
validating the sales of the land board, the
senate at ITO adjourned to 10 o'clock to-
day.