The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-06-08

him called once in a paper, threw away
the spool and casting asids all reserve
told each and every one TO nominate his
taTorite method Of Quspching his thirst.
and SO the day passed pleasantly and al
too soon with this merry band
Washington is TO be more greatly bene-
flied by her admission to the Union, per.
haps, than any other Of the new states.
will state ny reasons. Ever since the or
| ganization Of ozr republican form Of gov
ernment in this country the doubtful
state has been the recipient Of all federal
| fsvers, and to live in q doubtful state
and have little influence have meant
immunity from hunger and the still more
painful calamity known as compulsory
| perspiration. To live IN territory at
| such a time has ever meant to he, to do
and to suffer. The fostering care of con-
| gress and the executive was and is con-
tinuauy side tracked on the way, and
while waiting for orders is generally
broken into and ri1ed by the ever hun
CRY and abnormally thirsty doubtful
state A poor boy at a frolic, or nerv-
Gus Anarchist strolling OVER Satan's coun-
try seat with his overcoat pockets full Of
percussion bombs, IS happy compared
with a little soiled nosed territory look
ing hungrily through the picllets of Co
luDabia's apartment house yard, where
the great tournament for cold victuals is
going on among the October states.
But now Washington is q full fledged,
grown up member Of the family, and,
wearing susPenders, the young state does
not ask, but requests. what, as a voteless,
voiceless territory, she could not even
petition for with any comfort. Port Town
send viii be especially benefited, l be-
Eeve, and at once, by the new statehood
and its attendant blessings. Many mill
ions may be proftably spent there by the
government IL harbor improvements and
public buildings, to say nothing of sub
stancial assistance and encouragement for
agriculture ,luIn boring and mining, which
would yield early and rich results.
Port Townsend IS protected from for
eign foes By means Of fort, the name
Of which has escaped my memory. This
fort Is situated across an arm or bay of
the main sound proper. so that the rude
street boys ef the public schools Of Port
Townsend cannot pick on the troops.
The school boys Of Townsend are not bad
boys at all, but they are full Of spirits,
and it is all the police can do to keep
them sometimes from being rude and
saucy to the garrison and his wife.
1n TO
the harbor and an armed foe could not
enter under the guns of this fortifcation
without stirring up III feeling, unless he
entered after shutdown, at which time
the garrison seeks his couch.
Most every one IN Port Townsend feels
perfectly secure, except when the forest
fires are raging. Once a forest fire burned
down one panel of TIE foTtifcations, and
hostile cows got ii. It IS said, and ate up
the supplies Friendly Indians got in
once wln.e the garrison was taking
bath and stole his clothes. And still you
viii find people al over this country who
think that the Indian may be humanized
and Chrisuanizad, if properly treated.
The United States, so far. has not sur
veyed the country. it Is said, the width
OF a township back from the water front
in the counties Of jefferson and Clallan,
except IN the immediate neichborhood
Of Port Townsend So here in this rich
agricultural. mineral and numbering
region, where two railroads are coming
in this summer. connecting Townsend
with Portland and the east; where the
entries are only equaled as to
number by those Of New York, and where |
more money and immigration are daily
going in than elsewhere in the United
States, the country is not even surveyed, |
because it is SO far away from where tbs
American eagle does his incubating.
used to think that Silcott was very
mean and coarse man to take the wages |
Of sin and go away % Canada with them,
but the more | think Of it the more /
.enient | feel toward him.
Everybody has heard Of the cheapness /
Of living on the coast, and ever since my /
5oyhyoI | have been impressed with this |
tact, and Yet l was but poorly prepared .
or the quotations l met with at the .
Poodle Dog, IN San Francisco. 1t is a
good e7ti2s place and Invent there as the /
guest CT L.. Samuel Post Davis, of Car
.Oll, counoisseGr, an epicure and bon
-ivant from the San Francisco Annex,
Known to The east as Nevada.