The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-10-11
THE BIG BEND
Settlers Have to Ride Forty
Niles for Nail.
a DAYS JOURNEY TO THE POLLS
Posssnes Facilities WitAhefA. - In
County Gees Repabliean.

wArEsyrrIx, Oct io-The DIG Bend Is
still very remote from the World at large,
as evidenced by the time o takes us to
learn anything either Of ous eva county
election or Of the state. Alfnough nearly
aweek has passed. our FIRST knowledge OF
the general result Vas only obtained Sum
day night. through the FIRST edition of the
Posr-lsrxLLIsEycER which Was Issued IT
5o'esock on the morning after the election.
The postal clerks on the Northern Pacific
cars still persist in sending our Sound mail
away around Spokane Fails. instead Of
dropping it of at Eliensburg. and We thus
receive our Seattle papers four days later
than we should.
The vote this year is By no means full
one, - many of our citizens in the neigh
borhood OF the Columbia river and Foster
creek live from twenty to thirty miles
away from the nearest polling places, and
vote TO them means loss OF two days
time The county is equally behind the
times IN the matter of postal facilities.
numbers OF families living from
twenty to forty miles distant
from their possoffices. II was
hoped that this condition Of affairs would
be remedied when the new administration
took charge, as it Was confidently believed
that the Republicans would not pursue the
same niggardly policy toward Us that the
Democrats had. bat relief, it seems, comes
all too slowly even now. 4 new route had
been established between Waterville and
Ruby City. TO take effect on the LIST OF
August, but some interested party repre-
sented to the department that two lines
would parallel for six miles. and SO knocked
the whole seventy-five mile contract out,
and deprived between 500 and 600 people of
mail facilities. The suspended line would
have supplied six proposed Offices in the
neighborhood of the Methow. Lake Chelan,
Foster creek and other important points
along the Big Bend Of the Columbia
The Big Bend country longs for direct
line Of rail TO Seattle. The lines approach
ing us from the East will not do us much
good, as our supplies must come from the
Sound and our produce find shipment
there. If the Seattle, Lake Shore 4 East
ern had spent as much money building in
from Seattle as they have from Spokane
Falls, then life would have been infused
into this whole country. and Seattle herself
would have felt the strongest kind Of . new
business impulse. Our unanimous cry is
give us a railroad from the West, We can
afford TO wait the approach of the tracks
from the East" Seattle is our nearest and
most natural outlet.
The river is getting so low that steam
boat travel between Rock Island and Cas-
sino Is about to suspend. and the people of
Ruby City and Conconully will be obliged
to freight by wagon. either from Ellens-
burg or Spokane Falls, at a cost of to
cents pound.
The Fourth Of July mine. at Ruby City,
has recently shipped 500 tons of ore. which
assays at $50 per ton. The rock is shipped
in canvas bags holding 50 pounds each.
PACIFIC RAILROAD COMMITTEE.
Senators VIII Include Portland and the
Oregon short Line in Their Trip.
SAX Francisco, Oct. Ex-senator Stan
ford, A. n. Towne, Greed Raymond and l..
T.. Clement leave for Ogden Saturday to
meet the United States Senate committee
on Pacific railroads. The committee con-
sists of Senator'S Frye Of Maine, chairman,
Dawes Of Massachusetts,. Hscock of New
York, Davis of Minnesota, Butler of South
Carolina, Morgan of Alabama and
Hearst of California. The COM
mittee will reach Ogden Mon
day, travelling over the Union Pacific
by special train. A trip over the central
Pacific will also be IN ade by special train.
After visiting this city the committee will
return East, going TO Portland over the
Shasta road and from Portland to Ogden
via the Oregon Short line
The trip of this committee is for the pur-
pose of examining the Union and Central
Pacific railroads, with q view OF recon-
mending to congress just measures for the
payment by these two roads of their in
debtedness to the government.
To Raise the Columbia Blockade.
PORTLAND, Oct l0.-The Columbia
waterway convention met today and me-
morialized the legislature to build portage
between The Daiies and Cello, and congress
To continue the government improvements
in the Northwest. The following officers
were elected: President. J. T. Hailoran.
Astoria. viee-presidents. L. ID. Mckee,
Portland: Y. +. Moody, The Dalles: j. O,
A. Bowlby. Astoria: H. Parker. Walla
Walla; L. J.. Candy. Vancouver: secre-
tary, j. z. Shaw, Oregon City; treasurer,
Louis Sohns. Vancouver
Adrift and Starving In the Arctic,
San Francisco. Oct lo-Some months
ago the schooner Mary Ellis reported in
the Arctic that her cook. George Roberts.
and steward, +. Pierce. were lost. having
left the vessel in small boat on a fishing
excursion and not having returned. Today
the schooner san Diego arrived from the
north with the missing men on board.
she had picked them up after they had
spent four days of starvation in their boat.
California Fruitgrowers' Meeting.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. I0.-The state board
of horticulture today issued a formal circu-
lar, stating that the twelfth state conven.
ton OF fruitrrowers will convene at Fresno
Tuesday. November 5. and will continue in
session tour days An exhibition of fruits
and flowers will he had. and many valuable
essays on subjects pertaining To horticul-
tire viii he presented.
Millionaire Biythe's Wife.
SAS Francisco, Oct. i0.-In the Rlvthe
will case today Fred A Martin testified
that in ISL he met Alice Edith Dickson
one Of the parties now contesting the will
and tina; Blythe introduced her 70 wines.
As INV wife. Mrs. blythe" 4 motion To
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