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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29
A BIT OF HISTORY.
SEATTLE. June 2s. 1900.

SEATTLE, June Is, 1890
To The EDITOR: In your edition of yesterday
appeared an editorial note TO the effect that
there is sentiment growing up In favor of re-
peal Of the tide-land law, passed by the legisla-
ture, or sucn mod fication thereof as to take
the preference OF purchase given by that act to
the shore owner and that an effort in that di.
rection may possibly be successful. There was
in the article no expression. suggestion or in
timation of an opinion as to the propriety OF
such measure, or any wish on the subject.
1t wss a surprise. therefore, to read your lead
ing edit rial this morning in which IL was
stated that the article referred to had found its
way into the editorial notes by an error or mis-
take in the mechanical department. OF the paper
that il was a communication written by tue I'M
dersigne 1, and that the opinion therein ex-
pressed was not the opinion of the Posr INTEL.
LIGENcEg. The surprise was TO me very great,
because no opinion or wi sh OF any kind was ex-
pressed or iptimated.
The history of the article and OF its appear.
ance is this: Some :ew days ago / received in
formation that q movement such as was stated
in the rticle was being talked up. Having no
personal concern in the matter, but having
some friends whose interests would be be con.
sideraoly affected by it, / made inquiry
and found that my information was reliable /
dictated short article substantially the
same. though not in all respects identical in
language with the editorial note above referred
TO, and had il transcribed by the stenographer
and carried to the PosT-TSTELIlGENCEg Office
Inquiriny for the editor, men Der of the local
edtorisl staff Informed me that MIR Holman.
the editor. was absent from Seattle | then
showed the article TO him, saying il
might be well that those interested in the
tide lands had notice OF what was going on
He read the article and asked II il should go
as an editorial note. / replied in substance
that II was matter OF indifference TO me how
it was published. or whether it was published
ST al, as had mentioned 1t only as smatter
OF news. Next morning it did appear editcrially.
care nothing for the paternity of the
article, as its statement is fact, and write this
only because il is the exact truth
Yours very respectfully.
W Lab HILL
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29
MATRIsIoNY.

Lawyer-on what ground do you seek d.
vorce? Female Client My husband is an anna
teur photographer. and - Lawyer-That
will do. Well havs no trouble about 10 My
wife has the crszs, too, aud I've been taking
my meals at q restaurant for tive weeks
Norristotcn Herald.
''You are accused. said judge in Paris. "of
having attempted to poison your husband with
phosphorus" What have you to fay?" II desire
that the doctors make an autopsy" replied the
woman, as she looked at hsr husband.-New
Orleans PicdyunRc.
Let me congratulate you on your recent mar
riags, old fe low; you have got a number one
wife. Fellows tof Chicago)-You are wrong I've
got wife No. 6.-The Epoch.
Suppose your wife cease TO love you" sug-
gested the cynic. 'Well," said the young law
yer, 81 would get out writ Of attachment
Neto York SUM-
There's ons thing never liked about many
beautiful women" "And that?' "A husband"
Philadelphia Press.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29
THE CENSUS FARCE.

There seems to be throughout the coun-
census has been q lamentable failure.
Whether it is because the appropriations
were inadequate for properly carrying out
the work or because the census bureau in
endeavoring to secure too much informa-
ton overreached itself and secured too
little. it is certain that there is everywhere
prevalent feeling that the enumeration
was poorly made. and that the population
of the United States will be officially de-
clared to be smaller by several millions
than it really is.
OF course, a certain amount of dissatis-
faction might have been expected in ambi-
tious cities whose pretensions to greatness
might disappear in the light of official
facts. but so general, SO widespread is the
dissatisfaction in this instance that there
can be little room for doubt that some
thing is radically wrong with the taking of
the census. 1t is probable that the main
fault is to be found in the effort to compel
citizens to answer a long list of unprece-
dented questions. Whether this or some
other cause is responsible for the failure,
however, it is certain that the ponderous
machinery of the census bureau has
worked most unsatisfactory. There are
few American cities whose population as
fixed by the government will even approx
innate the correct figures.
While the figures are not yet at hand, it
is safe to assume that the cities of Wash
ington have suffered like those of other
states. The causes which have operated in
st. Paul, in San Francisco, in Portland and
in SO many other growing cities, have oper-
ated with equal force in Seattle, in Tacoma
and Spokane Falls. 1t is probable, there
fore, that the inadequate populations ac-
corded to the former cities will find coun-
terpart in inadequate populations accorded
to the cities of Washington. The failure TO
enumerate properly the people OF the
United States appears to have been a gen.
eral one and is not in any sense local.
Ii the enumeration is not satisfactory to
the people of SEATTLE or of Tacoma, they
can console themselves with the thought
that their dissatisfaction is shared by the
people of hundred other cities. After all
that has been said and done. tue census
has apparently been farce.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29
A Ouiniault Trip.
Hoouiam washingtonian


Messrs. Hiscock. Gilbert, Gilman, Duncan and
others, who spent ten days In the Qainiauls
country, returned a few days ago after en-
eventful trip. They had camera along with
them and took numetcus views, which have
been sent TO New YcEx for development. They
were two days in polling up the river to the
lake, and but six hoars floating down, inc'ud-
ing stops for views along the shore. They
caught trout in urofusion, got view of an Old
burial place after wadlng TO their necks in the
swamp and brush, and returned wetter and
wiser BIZ the extent of knowledge gained from
their trip among the aborigines. In the return
they were obliged TO c oss the mouth of a
stream on the ocean. beach when the tide was
too full for safety. No harm was done save to
the Indian Official who had on his United States
uniform for the first time, and it went 70 soak
On the initial trip. The wagon foa.ed and the
ponies had two-mile run before overtaken.
but our gay Adventures got along in safety,
well satisfied with their Trip
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29

II anybody has doubted that this is the era Of
high wages for skilled labor, any such person
must have been put TO shame by the recent re-
port that BOD graduates OF polytechnic school
have offered to work as electricians in Chicago
for 50 cents day each. At that rate, even ii
they should double up annually, they would be
of the Methusaleh order in respect to age before
they could hope to reach John d. Rockafeller's
reported income OF $3.50 an hour. But stanford,
Huntington & Co., when they started the Cen.
trail Pacific. would have been eager to build 1t
on guarantee of Thousand Q month each for
life out of its proceeds
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29
THE DOOM OF TACOMA.
PsYcHo's PROPHECY.


North Pacific has cut the throat
or D, zen Towns. Nobody knows
What kind of crop "Vil,ayd Ring" sows
Or where connects Railway or Boat!
Religion has been used TO Boom
WAL Streets Teuton Bunco Steer"
To Boom Tacoma into Tomb
With "Hypocrisy's Canting Leer"
Everywhere Fraud Serpent" Shines
Everywhere Town ont in Cold
Death bl nd IA Bat Old Volt in Fold
Surrounded by haH-dozen lines!
Colossal swindle nf Fraud Age
"God and Devil" I'm Name of Lord
No wonder no one saw Hell Fraud
f"By Grace OF God" on "Demoa Stacey
When oldest Friends 60 back on me
Good Bye Getty Of Destiny"o
But even now will we The Town
If Commerce Chamber comes to Time
To Time as In the Aald Lang Syne!
II not The Town will soon go down
land lose its Destiny RenownD
George Francis Train
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pious people, armed with pistols, bludgeons,
and other weapons, guarded the sacred
premises, with occasional changes, proba-
bly, in order that all might. at one time or
another during the day. take part in the
Sabbath devotions. 1t was understood
that. thus spiritually fortified, they would
be ready for a renewal OF the combat on
Monday with added zeal. in which case it
was intimated the unsanctified, and there
fore unsympaihetic. government would
resist them with its military arm.
Why the military were not called out in
the first instance appears inexplicabie.
There was no justification or excuse for
allowing one of those work men TO have
his life endangered, or for permitting that
they should be subject to maltreatment or
molestation in their lawful labors. Ii one
of them had been killed after reasonable
time had elapsed for the authorities to in-
terfere effectually in their behalf, those au-
thorities would have been morally sharers
in their crime. 1t is biasphemous to hint
that there was any Christian sentiment
actuating the courJe of the rioters. Ii
the acts which they resisted were not law
full, or ii there were any legal remedies for
their prevention, they had plain. peaceful
recourse. Otherwise they should have
haye made peaceful. amicable appeal to
the company to abstain from doing that
which it had no legal right to do. This
failing. like all other good citizens. and es-
pecially as professors of the Christian re-
ligion. it was their duty to submit. BY
pursuing the other and a malignant, crimi-
nal course, they did what has been done
quite too often during the Christian era,
and under pretense of religious zeal
brought reproach upon their church and
profession of religion.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29

On the 9th Of May the Richmond, Va. Times
published a photographic paee, which exhibited
the Lee monument, the Stonewall Jackson
memorial. portion of the monument to pri-
Yates in the Confederate service, now in process
of erection at Richmond. and the portraits of
Lee, Jackson, Johnston, Hill and Stuart A copy
of this pic ture, on heavy peper, has been fur
nished by request, to be handsomely framed and
suspended in the gallery of Wilcox Post G. A.
r., at Springfield, Mass. This is about the
longest stride toward mingling 'the blue and
the grey" that has yet been recorded.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29

Only one of her predecessors, Henry ILL.,,
occupied the English throne as long as has
Queen Victoria, who recently completed the
ffty-third year Of her reign. George III. held
the title Cor sixty years. but there were regen.
cies during large portion Of that time, while
the king was non compus mentis. Not even
Henry. however. was able to equal Queen
Victory in surviving progeny at the close Of his
reign. 1t must be trying TO her memory to re-
call the names of all her children, grand.
children. etc
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29

The adoption of high license has been finan-
cial success in the city OF Baltimore. and has
improved the character of the saloons, whether
il has reduced the amount of intemperance or
not. More than thousand saloons have been
forced 70 close, and yet the city's revenues from
that source have been increased to the extent of
346o,00O per annum. 1t would be in order to re-
port the fact, IL prohibition has achieved equal
net advantages in any city, state or section.
Drinking on the sly diminishes revenue with
out a corresponding effect on the number OF
drinking places or on the prevalence of intern
perance.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29

San Francisco Star

One thing may be said OF Stephen NJ. White:
If he should be elected TO the United States SEN
ate he viii not "represent' the people by pass
ing his time in brothels or In pubiis ~ dancing
q jig in front of the principal hotel IN Washing
ton, as we are reliably informed one. at least Of
CALIFORNIA; representatives has one.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29

The career o! Alvin Adams, founder of the
express company which bears his name. affords
q fine illustration OF the opportunities offered
in this country 70 q young man OF industry.
energy aad brains TWAS just fifty years ago.
on the ooth OF this month of jane. that young
Adams commenced carrying parcels in q carpet
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29
SILVER COINAGE
HAS GIVEN Us VERY LITTLE ANNOYANCE,

For we find no fault in anything that our Congress
may do, for what they do IS for the best interests
Of ALL We will admit that certain measures would
HELM a few states, but might do injury to many
and as we are all one we hope tfeJ will do what
is for the universal good So that they protect the
Iaborer, the banker, the merchant and the seafarer
in other words, protect all.
We would like 10 see large appropriation for
a government building for Seattle. 4 large aplre
priatiOn for improving navigation and many Other
ways.
We would like TO seq the government help OUT
state. We are young as state, but we have q
future second to none. Just think Of our resources
Now on top of all of which we thought was 50
great here comes the most encouraging account Of
a country that has never been developed, but just
recently explored, beyond the O|ympcs and the De.
veIogments show all that we can ask or wish for.
Minerals Of all description, valleys and timber
We ourselves are making every calculation for a
successful year and are manufacturing more and
finer clothing than ever before Our line this tau
shall surpass any display ever made here OHrIns
of such goods as you may need now is also CON-
pete as we expect a great demand before the
the glorious Fourth
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29

TWAS in the year 1871 that O'Donovan Rosa
was banished for twenty years from his native
land. 1t is said that he is already making
preparations to return when his term of expa-
tfiation shall expire next year. II is to be pre-.
sumed that his return viii be celebrated by
strengthening OF the force at Scotland Yard. and
perhaps by the employment of an extra man in
the Irish constabulary. There have been no
signs of any diminution OF his detestation of
.perfidious Albion" There are long odds that
he will continue to agitate
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29
Highest Mountain in America.

The Frank Leslie and Seton-Ksrr expedition
parties now engaged in exploring the Copper
river country, purpose forcing q trail from the
the coast to Mount wrange believed 70 be the
highest mountain in North America
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29

1t is said that the trip of Robert Louis Steven.
son to Samoa, for the purpose of obtaining ma.
terial for a novel, has SO charmed him with
those islands that when he returns to England
he will sell his household effects, then wind up
his affairs in Scotland and return to spend the
remainder OF his life in those deli ghtful islands
over which King Malieatoa holds sway, with
Mataafa and Tamssess In the background 1t
may be well enough to warn the public, how
ever, that this report may be simply an iDgeni-
Gus puff OF the forthcoming novel.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29
The March of Cho,era.

Britis~ Medical Journal
When some months ago the Turkish au;hori.
ties asserted the extinction or non-existence of
ehcieE- - e--'- While Russian consular agents
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29

A saloonkeeper in the town of Utica, Neb., in
serts this advertisement in the local papers: ITO
whom 1t may concern: Know ye that. by the
payment of sl527. 40, am permitted to retail in
toxicating liquors at my saloon in this city. To
the wife who has drunkerd for husband, or a
friend who is unfortunately dissipsted, say.
emphstically: Give me notice OF such cases in
which you are interested, and all such will be
excluded from my place. Let mothers. fathers.
sisters. brothers, uncles aud annts 90 likewise,
and their requests will be re -srded." Notwith-
standing the nsisrious traffic in which he is en-
gagged, this ssioonkeepe. must be pretty square
sort of a man
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29

No more quinine. Aoore's Revealed Remedy
Ia taking the place.
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25,. FIGURED INDIA SILKS
To close line, sc. yard Chester Cleary.
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bag between Boston and New York In shor.
II became notable that he got his express matter
through ia the shortest possible time, and never
failed to execute a commission punctually and
faithfully. In short time he required a coach.
then several. and from that time to this the
business which he founded has continued to
grow, until now IL employs fully twenty thou
sand men. 5000 horses, two thousand wagons.
covers 25oo0 miles Of railroad and hiss capital
OF twelve million dollars. Which shows that all
carpet baggefs" are not to be sneezed at Jay
Gould and his patent mouse-trap Is another
illustration in the same line. but II has been
worn threadbare, and there are some scepfical
people who are so uncharitable as to hint that
the mouse-trap is a myth. or one of Jay Goulds
jokes for Ii is well known that Jay is joker
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29
NATIONAL CONGRATULATIONS.

Year in Seattle Worth o thousand In
Cathay.
New York Sun.
A national congratulation Is due to Seattle.
which on June Celebrated the first anniver-
sary OF comparatively the most devouring FIRE
that ever visited city. During the year since
that late, out of the si2s00,CoO. worth of
buildings destroyed, nearly $1,000. 600 have been
rebuilt. and the town is again prosperous A
year in Washington in worth . thousand in
9Th
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29

The enemies of silver have been trying to ex-
cite alarm in timid circles By heraldng the fact
that recent long lease. with privilege Of pur-
chase, on Pixies operahouse, Cincinnati, con-
tanned q stipulation that payments must be
made in gold coin. Nobody can object to such
contracts, or 20 their enforcement nor to q co1-
tract for payne nt In kind of wheat tobacco, cot
ton or any other species OF property. Certainly
such stipulations would have no tendency to
drive out Of the country the products thus
contracted for delivery. Nor is il aay more evil
dent that gifts or distribution, spread out over
year, of one silver dollar to each man, woman
and child in the United States, could materially
interfere with the circulation Of gold. The gold
monomctalists indulge Ia a great deal Of raw
head and-bloody- bones bosh on this silver ques-
ton. With all the money Of all kinds now in
circulation. this country can absorb fifty -four
millions year and ii will never cause ripple
on the surface OF affairs financial.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-29

Mild, mellow and delicious. Queen" brand
hans and bacon. home smoked. never covered.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-19
fterred to kill her and himself rather than
be separated from her.
The Sugar Trust Reorganization.

New YORK, Aug. 1s.--Another step was
taken today in organization the Sugar
trust. The Central Trust company, which
has been waiting for thepreliminary agree
ment under which it received deposit GER
tlficates is now in possession of that docu-
ment and to day announced it was ready TO
exchange its engraved certificates OF de-
posts in exchange for the certificates of
the Sugar trust. The agreement is between
these parties: S. v. White, Kempardt &
Co., Cord Meyer, ir., S. 7. Weicners,
Gusta Gosler, Nash, Spaulding s. Co.,
Siias Pierce, and all the other certificate
holders who sigued the engagement being the
first party. The reorganization committee
is the second party and the Central Trust
company the third party. Byit full power
is given to the reorganization committee to
wind up the trust, and reorganize it &C
cording TO law The agreemint will be
effective when approved by majority of
the certified holders, and the committee is
gwen power to vote on all certificates de-
posted. The Central Trust company will
receive all dividends on Sugar trust Ger
tlticates deposited and pay them over to
the holders of engraved certificates
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-19
Affairs in Guatemala.


SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 1S.-A letter from
Guatemala states that a proclamation has
been issued that all men who are not ready
for military duty would be shot. Nearly
all men who first went to the front have
been killedin battles with the Salvadorians.
eff Ezeta marches to the city," the letter
says, she will probably sack the town.
Americans are safe, for they receive pro
lection at the legation. Every servant,
even those on the coffee plantations, has
been drafted into the war, and there are
not enough leftto supply food. Provisions
bring enormous prices, business is at
standstill and the city is under martial law.
Twenty Americans and as many Germans
and French offered their services to Baril-
las, but they were refused. About twenty
five thousand soldiers have already left the
city for the frontier. The men are attracted
to public entertainments and are then
seized by the police and drafted into the
army.
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Honor TO Ericsson.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1S.-The acting secre-
tary OF the navy sent the following
instructions to the commandment of the
navy yard at New York to-day: upon
occasion OF the embarkation of the remains
OF Captain Ericsson, it is the desire of the
President to give solemn expression to the
cordial and fraternal feeling that unites us
with Kindred people, the parent source of
large body of our most valued citizens,
whom the late inventor, Scandinavian by
birth, and American by adoption, was
most illustlious example. In recognition
OF this feeling and of the debt we
owe to Sweden for the gift of Ericsson,
whose genius rendered us the highest SER
vice in moment of grave peril and anxiety,
it is directed that at this other moment
when we give back his body to the native
country, the flag of Sweden shall be saluted
by the squadron. The department there
fore issued the following instructions:
The colors OF the squadron will be half mast
during the embarkation; minute guns will
be fired from the Monitor and Nantucket
during the passage of the body from the
shore TO the Baltimore. AS the Baltimore
gets under way and passes the vessels of
the squadron, each vessel will masthead
her colors, display the Swedish ensign and
lire national salute of twenty one
guns. when the Baltimore will Immediately
proceed to sea y