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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-01

Besides many n0sfnESS houses. residences
and other buildings Of lesser value. in an
in iSs9. over eighty residences. twenty
business houses and many other valuable
buildings have been constructed. The total
value 81 whieh Is about slAl0Da Last
year. that IS. N ISIS the chief item in ina
pFoyements was she railroad. This wear,
IN lisa Is Is the development OF local man.
uiaetares IN lSS3 The local improvements
esIaaied ali done in tSss. sith the railroad
improvements Included. Excluding raj
rosa improvements. the total local i'm
proyeme0ts in 1879 more than douhsed
those OF ISIS
1t IS expected that = number Of brick
blocks Niil be baiit tn ISa. also several
hundred houses 20 accommodate the large
wotkins population that VIII then fad
EMPLOY nent here. Probably the euilding
improvements al Saetlom3sh IN &SU wl.l
considerably exceet so $50
Al tAe Above development ant business
has hesa In addition 10, nos taken from
pTN-ex3ssims Industries Ia 40 previoas
wear have as many sawlows been put IN tire
wataE in SnoaoalIsh county. Never before
has more land bren cleared disesl. i'm
proved ar bscuxht uaaeT cultivation "a any
use year Never has there been As GOOD
nlaFEea tor al kinds q produce from the
sArnss. and never have the merchants done
80 large and successful business ~ thls
year
Whise SaohaHsisk has progressed, she
has net haa a mushroom growtA SAs has
growa some faster. bat al the ret of Sno-
hoaisA cesnty has grown wsfh her
grawta Marysv1lie. s&anaood Esozencs.
Eamaads. ezeh ard 81 have lad 4 hoozn.
Great improvements have taksa Place with
a. a Ihesn Each ore has hacal stsana
avail and each are gulmg ssghs ahead
Ssaawossi. Ia EaFsiulGr a0es an Immense
trade. ooatrols tie b0SsGess * 2Aa northern
part % snehoa5sA csanty. and heF psoEAe
are sAngaias as 70 her future.
kpEteSE Ness.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-01

Probably. when fully completed, Black
man Bros mill will cost nearly $50 600
including machinery and everything
Smiths mill will cost from one-half 10 two
thirds as much. Probably in connection
with these mills and otherg now running
or that may be started al Marysville or az
faekwood's landing, on Ebey's slough.
one or more shipyards will be established
for building two and three-masted schoon-
ers, suitable for running on Snohomish
river and on the ocean also. so that the
prodaet OF these mills. II necessary,
can he shipped TO an ocean mar
ket without necessity af reshipment
elsewhere. Vessels drawing from ten to
twelve feet and from COO 10 500 tons bur-
den can be built here that win he safe
ocean vessels. and yet can navigate the
lower SnohomiSh with no great trouhle by
coming and going on the tide. Slight river
improvements viii allow shis river 10 be
navigated by q much larger class OF vessels
without difficulty.
oTHnR sSoHoMisH IMPROVEMENTS.
In iSe9. besides the above, other i'm
provementS have been made in the town of
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-01

We have IA prospect 3 50 90 hoses, seT-
sral lAEEe hriek business bloeks ana a. sm~
Essass structure 20 be used - . wheat
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
BUSINESS is BOOMING.
Trade Is Healthy in the Pacific
Carrying Trade.

Trade Is Healthy in the Pacific
Carrying Trade.
PANAMA, March 23.-Bnsiness seems
to be improving steadily and rapidly all
along the coast from San Francisco to
the straits, the steamer lines hav-
ing been obliged to augment
their facilities. Not long ago a
new line of steamers was put
on between Panama and the Southern
ports, and they are doing well, while to
no very remarkable extent injuring the
interests of the English con papy that
had the monopoly for fifty years-up to
1888. In fact, the latter company finds
it necessary to utilize the ocean
steamers that make the voyage
through the straits to come On up
as far as Guayaquil for cargoes. and
with the prospect shortly OF their COM
ing on to this port with the duplicate
line. This shows considerable activity,
and in the northern ports the same in
dications are not wanting. The Pacific
Mail is beginning to think of improving
its line, which holds practical moDop-
oily, so as to meet the increased demands.
In Central American ports partic-
ularly trade seems to be having a boom
owing to the heavy crops and CORE
spending imports. AT Puntarenas, in
Costa Rica, for example, the streets and
thoroughfareS were blocked up with
merchandise. for which neither storage
nor transportation could be obtained.
Caravans of carts had to be resorted to,
the railroad being inadequate to bring
to port the enormous output of produce.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
He Mashed a Hat.

New YORK sun.
Along ABOUT the middle of the coach
was young lady, not beautiful girl,
but just ordinary, although she had a
very jaunty hat and sealskin sacque.
A Young man got on at CASTLE, who
stood at the door and looked the pasSen-
gers over for minute or two, and he
then walked deliberately down the aisle
and pumped himself down beside the
girl. AS he did so there was crash and
a crush land he sprang up to discover
that he had sat down upon a bandbOX
and mashed it fiat.
'I'm so sorry-so Sorry!' he Stammer-
ed as he turned all sorts of colors.
"Mister mani" she replied as she in
spected the ruin, shave you got Sl2 in
cash about you9"
"W-what! l really beg your pardon.
Indeed, didn't"
'sFork over!' she interrupted, holding
out her hand.
"Twelve dollarS!'
"ExactIy. You have mashed a s12
bonnet and want the money"
"But. misS-but-"
ssMy brother Bill is forward in the
smoking car and if yon don't pay I'll call
him! There's nothing cheap about Bill.
He'll knock $50 worth of jaw off your
chin before he gets through with you."
"I'll pay, miss"
"That's business. Fifteen dollars. eh?
Twelve from fifteen leaves three, and
here's the change and the hat. Next
time you go to kerplunk down beside
anybody look out for breakers"
81 beg to apologize, MISS" he replied.
"Oh, you needn't; you got off cheap.
If YOU hadn't smashed the hat I'd have
pulled S25 worth of hair out of your. head
anyhow"
Everybody felt sorry for the man.
He got into seat at the end of the car,
closed himself up like jack knife. and
every time the door opened what we
could see of him turned pale for fear it
was her brother Bill.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
Bismarck Expected Emperor
William to Reconsider
His Resignation.
The Iron Prince Reported
Much Bowed Down Over
the Situation.
He Accepts the Colonel GEN
eralship, but Declines the
DukedOm.
Servian Militia RepulSed in
an Attempt to Capture a
Bosnian Village.

BERLIN, March 2S.--The 'Ordenfest"
was observed to-day with the usual
ceremonies. The Prince of Wales, En-
press Frederick and Chancellor Won
Caprivi were present at the services in
the chapel and afterwards at the state
banquet. The Hanover Courier says it
is reported that Gen. Won WalderSee
will be appointed to the command of
the Tenth army corps. This command
was made vacant by the elevation of
Gen. Won Caprivi to the chancellorship.
Prince Regent Luitpold, of Bavaria,
sent complimentary autograph letter
to Prince Bismarck, on the occasion
of the latter's retirement from Of
fee. Decorations were conferred
upon Herren HelIdorff. .Hammacher and
Stoecker. The Berlin papers, referring
to the North German Gazette's revela-
tiOnS regarding the causes Of Bismarck'S
resignation, condemn the statements of
that paper as unedifying to unlocking
nations. The Vossische Zeitung re-
peats the story that Bismarck rose from
his bed to answer the emperOr'S demand
for an explanation of the interview with
WindthOrSt. Bismarck, it is said, insist
ing that he should not be controlled, told
the emperor that he was quite ready to
resign if his retention of the Office was
irksOme; that he only retained it to full
fill his promise to Emperor William L.
The Hamburger Nachrichten declares
that Bismarck was deeply affected and
expected to the last that the emperor
would ask him to reconsider his resigna-
tion.
The London Standards Berlin cor
respondent says: ut is reported that
i h.
eralship, but declined the dukedOm and
letter, to the effect that it was not in
harmony with his principles to accept a
grant, in view of the increasing bur
dens of the taxpayers. Herr Won
Radowitz has declined to succeed
Count Herbert Bismarck" The grant
which Bismarck declined was an
offer to continue his salary and official
residence. 1t is rumOred that Bismarck
has not seen the emperor in week.
Chancellor Won CapriVi has addressed
note to the German ambassadors abroad
in which he intimateS that he will con-
tinue the policy of Prince Bismarck. 1t
is reported that Gen. Caprivi, Count
kalnoky and Premier Crispi will have
meeting at an early date. The London
Herald'S Berlin correspondent gives
au account OF an interview with DR..
Windthorst, the leader of the Center
party in Germany. Dr.. Windthorst
said that his party did not propose to
enter into any permanent coalitions,
but expected to make certain comblna-
tions from time to time. The CsntristS,
he said, would offer no systematic opp =
sition to the government and would
support Emperor Williams measures
for social reform. 1t is stated that En-
peror William has privately minated
to King HumberJ and Emperor Francis
Joseph that there will be no change in
the Germany policy as regards the triple
alliance,
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
LARGE BRITISH FEET.
Short skirts That Would Refute
Calumny.

a Caiumny.
Pail Mall Gazette.
ltwas delightfully."- funny. writes o
correspondent Nine. Goldschmidt's
saying to your representative that short
skirts would ''enable English women
to get rid of the idea in
the minds of foreigners that the
English have big feetl" This speech
reminds me Of the reason Bismarck al
legged for refusing to further the change
from German to Latin letters in the
printing of German books. he said
Latin letters would be more harmful to
the eyesight! More harmful than the
Grabbed characters in vogue in the
Fatherland! Sublime assurancei
Max O'Rell somewhere declares that
every British human foot istwelve good
inches long. The English traveller in
France comments on the smallness Of
the local foot. What means this-read
backward-but that the British feet are
big? Some South Americans had q
house in fashionable London street,
and the ladies of the family
said 1t was pleasure enough
for them to sit at the lower windows
and watch "the enormous English feet"
pass byi The feet of the father of the
family were perhaps eight inches long.
The points OF his boots only just
showed beyond the hem OF his
trousers. Let any doubter look az
upper-class Russian feet, and then
say are English feet abnormally
big or not. Why not fairly face the
fact. English feet are exceedingly long,
As rule, they are low in the instep. Ii
they have good insteps, ten 10 one
their owner has Norman blood in his
veins. But big, fat feet only become
supremely ugly when deformed by
squeezing. English feet, il left alone,
are very useful, though not ornamental
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
sTILLWATER NEWS.
Rev. Albright Resigns as Pastor
of the First Presbyterian

Rev. Albright Resigns as Pastor
of the First Presbyterian
Church,
At the close of the morning service at
the First Presbyterian church yesterday
Rev. w. II. Albright announced his
conclusion to resign the paStOrate in
order to accept the Boston call. He
will remain here five Sundays more as
pastor, and will start East the first OF
May. His new church has rendered
him vacation during the months OF
June, July and August, in order that he
may revisit his native England.
Contrary to expectation, Chief of Po-
lice Shortall has as yet received no tele-
gram from Edward Rutherford as to the
latter'S mission at Cincinnati, where he
went Friday with requisition papers for
George Irons Skiles and wife, the al
legged patent right swindlers.
Mrs. JIG. Hening, with her two sons,
is al Minneapolis on two weeks visit
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. ID. ID.
Moore.
Fred Scott returns to-day to Duluth,
where he is likely to remain through
out the summer in Order to fully estab-
llsh his new drug store enterprise at
that place.
DR.. o. A. Waiter started last even
ing for Chicago. where he will remain
two weeks iu attendance at the poly
clinic.
Members of the Maennerchor gave a
pleasing musical entertainment at
Music hall last evening, the chief feat
ure being one-act operetta, "The En-
peror and the Mountain-GOat Hunter"
The Republican city convention will
be held at the city hall this evening, at
which time the ward delegations will
also meet and nominate candidates for
aldermen. The Democratic nomina
tionS of Nethaway and Manwaring for
judge and special judge respectively of
the municipal court will undoubtedly
be ratified by to-night's convention.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
Objects to Whole Ones.

ArkanSaW Irayeier. iaf
An old negro came tumbling QUOT az
cabin, and just as he fell into the road a
short distance away brick thrown
from the house struck him Oh the head.
He lay there for several moments, and
then getting up, turned to white man
who happened to be passing, and, as
he wiped the blood off his head, re-
marked:
"Dat's jes' zactly whut makes me say
whut does say"
"And what do you say"' the white
man asked.
.'W'y. dat dis marryin dat de white
folks talk so much erbout is er failure
sho 'nuff. Now, dar's dat lady in de
house" (again wIping off the blood ''dat
l has thought er good ZEAL o.. But now
look at me. Is fitten ter go in s'ciety
wild sich er lady fur er wife? Long ez
she didn' fling nothin' but brickbats,
WY she'd sorter do an 1 could go in
s'ciety wild her, but now dat she is tuck
ter f1ingin' whole bricks wy / kain't
put up wild it. Look out for desc ladies'
dat fling whole bricks
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24

tional league had evidently determined
to conflict with us as much as possible.
That suits me so long as the National
league goes on record as the
party forcing the conflict. If it
gets the worst of the battle
it cannot ask for public sympathy.
Not one of our teams has any reason to
fear such conflict. Each has its old
public favorites and public opinion with
1t, and will, L believe, draw an average
of two people to one attending the Ma
iional league games. AS the season
goes along and we prove our superiority
to the National league in caring for the
public, and giving it better base ball
than it has ever seen before, this aver
age attendance in our favor will in
CreaSeN
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
OLD DAYS In CALIFORNIA.
Gen. Sherman Relates Two Epi-
sodes Of His Residence There.

Gen. Sherman Relates Two Epf-
sodes of His Residence There.
At a reunion of California pioneers
the other evening Gen. Sherman related
several interesting episodes apropos
of his residence as department COM
mander in California during the years
intervening between the close of the
Mexican war and the days of the gold
fever in 1S49, says q writer in the New
York Herald. The first incident was
the life and death of "Jim Crow" Smith,
q miner whose acquaintance he made at
Suffers ''fort," and who subsequently
took passage on the same vessel with
him for home after making fortune in
the vicinity of American" river.
"'Jim Crow said he had struck it
heavy and was on his way home when
l saw him. One day on the vessel in
quired where he was going.
"'I'm goin' down to South Carolina to
hunt up my poor old MOTHER said he,
'and fix her comfortable for the rest of
her life. Then -, I'm gOin' to NJ
York an show them Fasteners how to
live
81 left the vessel next day and saw no
more of jim for several months. and had
almost forgotten him, when one day
saw a large crowd gathered around
the entrance of the old Washing
ton headquarters building, then at
No. l Broadway. 1 elbowed my
way through the crowd, and
to my surprise saw an elegant coach,
with four horses, coachman and foot
man in full livery, and leaning up
against tie door sill was Jim Crow
Smith. He was too intoxicated to walk,
and the coachman lifted him into the
carriage and drove away. The red
shirt, boots and sombrero had been re-
placed by expensive clothes and JIM
was showing them Fasteners how to
live.' | saw him several times after
that, always drunk and throwing money
right and left. He soon went through
his fortune and went back to California
to make another, but this time he did
not succeed. He struggled along for
year and then shot himself in bar
room in the village occupying the site
where Suffers fort once stood.
"Many fortunes were made," said the
general, 'by the sale of provisions to
the miners that | remember. but there
was one incident of this kind that rather
surprised me. When the gold fever
broke out the whole United States army
engaged with Mexico was stationed in
and around Monterey. When the news
of gold being discovered first circulated
among the troops they began to desert
by whole companies, and in a few weeks
the army was reduced to about half its
original size. A large quantity of army
stores had just been received, and,
there being no one to use them, they
soon began to spoil. 1t was finally de-
cided to sell them by auction, and they
were put up for sale. The bidding was
not very active, and three men, among
them an army chaplain, bought the
whole lot for 5000. They arranged to
have the goods sent up to the mining
camps by giving the men who took them
up one-thrd of the profits. They were
sold to the miners, and when the ac-
counts had been settled it was found
that each man had made $4,000 clear of
expenses"
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
CoRRALLED TIE CHICAGos.
The Cleveland brotherhood Team
Hits Young Barston.

NEW ORLEANS, March 25.-Ted Lar
kin arrived this morning and took
charge of the Cleveland brotherhood
team. He was anxious to down the
great Chicagos. He put new life into
the team, and Barston, the Chicago
pitcher, was unable to stem the tide.
Stricken, Twitchell, Tebeau, Larllin,
and everybody but Browning hit the
ball, and the fielding was almost fault
less. The ChicagOs put up an equally
fine game, and a throw by Duffy from
center field to the plate was a feature,
but the big batters could not get onto
Bakely hard enough to overcome the
other sides batting. Duffy and Pfeffer
led the hitting for their team. The
two clubs leave tomorrow for Mem
phis, Cairo and st. Louis. Score by in
nings:
Cleveland. ...>s o o 3Io1 o-s
Chicago go......4 o 90 0 0-6
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
RRUNELL'S BAZOO,
He May Kill the Brotherhood
With His Yawp.

CHICAGO, March 2S.-Secretary Bru-
nell tonight in an interview said:
''The National league schedule was
evidently made up on the lines
laid down by the Players National
league. The first National league
schedule for ten clubs was issued
as l believe, for the purpose of drawing
our fire and MOTTO stand. This was un-
derstood at our Cleveland meeting, but
we considered that the official notice,
showing our club changes during the
playing season, was a sufficient guide
TO the National league, if it
chose to change its policy of
crush and let others live as we'll
as itself. The public wanted our sched-
ule and got it. l have no idea that it
will be changed. 1t suits our clubs, the
prizes in it are well distributed, and it
was adopted unanimously. The Ma
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
Won by Gaudaur.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March 23.-
Hamm, Gaudaur, Ten Eyck and Hos
mer rowed race this afternoon on the
st. Johns river at Mandarin, sixteen
miles above this city. Gaudaur was
handicapped three boat-lengths on ac~
count of his recent victories. He won
the race easily, Hamm second, Ten
Eyck third, Hosmer last. Hosm tr is
not yet wholly recovered from his re-
cent severe illness. A thousand people
witnessed the race.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
A Minneapolis Blaze.

Atabout 1880 last evening an alarm
was turned in from the box at Thir-
teenth avenue and Seventh street south
east. Minneapolis. The fire proved to be
in a two-story brick veneer and frame
house On the corner of Como and Twen-
tieth avenue southeast, occupied by F.
III. Taylor as dwelling. The house
and contents were a complete loss,
amounting to about $1,000. The fire
started while the family were at church.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
JOHN WILL FIGHT.
Chinese Laundrymeni in New York
Somewhat Agitated.

Chinese Laundrymeni in New York
Somewhat Agitated.
New YORK, March 23.-China town is
much excited to-day over the fight
inaugurated against the Chinese
laundrymen by the American Master
Laundrymen's association. China
men from all over New York
and vicinity were to-day congre-
gated on Mott street and Whereabouts
discussing the question. No meeting
as far as could be learned was held.
Henry M. Heymann, the lawyer who
does a large part of the Chinese law
business in this city, said the laundry
men. of whom there are $500 in this
city, would fight. They were only
awaiting the initiative from the other
side.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
Paper From spider Webs.

st. Louis Republic.
George West, of Ballston, is in possess
sion of curiosity in paper, sent him by
friend in Hong Kong, China. 1t is o
sheet IL by IA inches, made from the
web of the "sacred white spider" of
the Flowery Kingdom. 1t is as light
as air and almost as transparent,
but is also beautifully printed, contain
ing about two columns of matter. giving
in English the story of how "Midship-
man Coplestone was Presented at the
Court at Pekin." Americans know
much about paper-making. but it is safe
to say that there is not spider web
paper factory outside the almOnd-eyed
kingdom
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24

rarest of treats, as Shakespeare is one
of the few subjects of which the famous
agnostlc never tires. At the theater he
keeps up steady fire of criticism, OBJ
servatlOn and wit, quite as interesting
to those with him as the play itself.
Mrs. Frank Leslie and Ella Wheeler
Wilcox are vivacious and interesting as
well as interested spectators. The lat
ter becomes especially enthusiastic over
clever touch or a thrilling climax.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
DOWN THEY GO.
Further Generalization of Rates
in the West,

III CHo w cSCs
DENVER, Col. March 23.-The first
class passenger rates of $3.50 applying
between Missouri river points and
Pueblo, announced by the Missouri
Pacific on yesterday. and effective to-
morrow, was. after long confer
ence to-day between General Agent
P. j. Flynn, of the Missouri
Pacific, and General Passenger. Agent
Hooper, of the Rio Grande, extended so
as to include Denver. Colorado Springs
and Pueblo, and making the same rate
from these points east to Kansas City,
Atchison, st. Joe and intermediate
points. This action Of the Missouri Pa
cific resulted in the posting tonight of
notices by the Santa Fe and Rock Isl
and meeting the rates named. The
Union Pacific and Burlington have not
yet met the $3.50 rate.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
May Be in a Madhouse.

PARIS, March ga sensation has
been caused by the disappearance of
Saint-Saens, the composer. He failed
to attend the first performance of his
new opera, "Aocanlo," on Friday last,
and has not since been seen. A rumor
of his death was current tonight, and
another report was that he had been
placed in a madhouse.
St. Paul daily globe., 1890-03-24
A STOVE USED AS A BED.
The Peculiar Resting Place o.
Travellers in North China.

New York Morning journal.
In the North of China the climate is
quite cold, and there are no stoves or
tireplaces in the wayside inns. In some
of the general rooms are small charcoal
braziers. but the bedrooms, which are
very scantily furnished, contain neither
stove nor bed. In their place is brick
platform, long enough for man to
stretch himself at full length upon and
raised foot or two from the floor, with
an opening in the side.
Into this aperture the servant pushes
a pan of burning Goals, and when the
bricks are thoroughly heated the travel
er spreads out upon them the bedding
he has brought with him and lies down
to rest ON his stove.