The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-21

Denver, Col, signed by the governor OF the
territory, to be forwarded on to New York
and addressed TO Paris. The dispatch had
to be sent from New York TO Newfound-
land by steamer and was there cabled.
This dispatch read:
DENVER. Col. Aug. 4, 1866
To Louis Napoleon BoHdpdrte, Emperor, Tuiuer-
ses, Paris, Froace. Please leave Bohemia alone.
No interference viii be tolerated by this terri
tory
(sigaed) john GILPIs, Governor.
when received the message, contin-
ue1 Mr. Rosewater, II looked upon it as
an EXPENSIVE Joke of Mr.. Gilpin's and |
forwarded il to New York. The message
came to me about , o'clock, and about
received message from New York stating
that the price of the cable was $147 in gold.
/ sent this message on TO Denver, but the
operator there refused TO believe that the
message had been sent. and upon my tell
ing him that he had better stop it, he said
couldn't scare him, and let it 90. The
result was that II was sent 10 Newfound-
land and telegraphed, and though / have
it, have no doubt but that he received it.
About six months later the treasurer
of the company, Mr.. 0. Fl. Palmer, wrote
me, telling me he thought | ought
TO divide the expense of the message with
Is. h. Woodward, the manager of the Dem
yer office, and that inasmuch as each of us
had had our little Joke, we should each pay
our little bills. | stated the case as have
given it to you, and the Denver Office had
70 pay the whole. Whether Governor Gill
pin paid it or not l do not know. | asked
him about it one time, but he seemed bored
and was very reticent. NY idea is that he
came into the Office, and upon being told
hat fta II. L.. 4
dashed of this message and handed it
over, never supposing that it would be
sent. The probability is that when he
found 1t was SENT he paid the bill. I"
Editor RoSewater was one of the most
remarkable telegraph operators in the
country. He was in the South at the time
the war broke out, and was afterwards en-
ployed here at the war department under
General Tom Eckert. While in the South
he reported one of Jefferson Davis
speeches which ne delivered At Stephen
son, Ala, while he was on his way to be
inaugurated as president of the Southern
oonfederacy. In this speech Davis set
the country on fire by saying that he
intended to carry the war into the
North. Davis afterwards accused Rose
water of being Northern spy in referring
TO It. He also reported speech of Howell
Cobb's which was made the night after
President Lincoln was inaugurated, in
which Cobb said: eff our wives and
daughters cannot whip the Yankees with
hroomsticks want this generation discon-
tlnued. At the time that the war was
over Mr.. Rosewater made an offer to the
brazilian government TO erect telegraph
lines and Il system of cables for their en-
pire. Baron Lisboa, who was then the
minister of Brazil at Washington, sub
united his proposition, but the reply was
that there were only five miles of railway
IN Brazil, and these ran from the city of
Rio Janlero 10 Dom Pedro's palace, and the
country had no use for telegraphs.
Two years after that time Brazil had
war with Paraguay, and it had to import
cable and Geographic material from Eu-
rope at an immense expense, and To con-
struct hnes under the greatest diSadvan-
tages. There are now about 1000 miles of
telegraph lines in Brazil, and there are
nearly TWO hundred telegraph offices. 1t
cost the country more than Sl,000.0oo TO
build these lines, and the government
might have saved fortune if il had taken
Rosewaters offer, which was TO build the
lines and oversee the whole for salary of
$500 year in gold.
l met John 7. Game, the Mormon dele
gate 10 congress, and Mr.. 5. F. Richards.
who IS the principal lawyer of the Mormon
church, last night Mr.. Richards has lust
made an argument before the supreme
court, in which he told the Judges that
be resuscitated, and both Game and Rich
ards said the same thing TO me- The peo-
pie are thoroughly in earnest about the
matter" said Mr.. Richards, .'and there
has not been polygamous marriage in
Utah for more than two wears.
II is contrary TO the. rule of the church
from now on, and the people are we'll sat
1sned with the change. For myself |
think il has improved the condition of the
territory, and T think il will be 10 our in
terest In business and other ways. 1t will
make the territory more desirable to i'm
migrants, and it certainly ought 10 remove
all objections that the people of the United
States have to the Mormon church.
viii Utah apply again for State
hood - | asked
. No il viii not" emphatically answered
the Hon. John t. Game when the
Democratic party was in power we held q
convention, announced our intention of
ABIDING by the laws of the land. passed
constitution which provided that
polygamy should be done away with and
hedged ourselves around with such
provisions that it was impossible for us 10
continue in polygamy or TO act otherwise
than In perfect accord with the principles
ana government of the United
everything, and said that we had done ev-
erything that could be done, but congress
would not admit rs. The late Sam Cox
said that IN the adoption of such measure
the Mormon church would be the nv in
the ointment of the Democratic party.
spoke 10 the other Democrats regarding
this later on. and suggested to them that
they have now neither the iy nor the
ointment. Utah viii never ask for state
hood again without the United States
gives decided intimation that they desire
TO receive II into the Union. As TO ponu-
latlon We have more than three times
sas gives to eV The new Ss ' State 'S Of
Wyoming. We have more citizens
in salt Lake City than there are people in
Nevada, and we can show the best record
aS 20 financial integrity and average good
morality that YOU viii ind in the country.
We have never had thing from the gov
eminent, and our territorial debt is only
$4,000. We have had neither govern
meut buildings nor government appropri-
atoms, and we are the only part of the
United States which bears its fair share of
the taxes ana gets only kicks and cuffs for
its pains"
| found Senator Teller at home last
night, lie Is not whit grayer than when
be was in the interior department under
President Arthur. He has been reelected
10 the Senate, and has come back with
the determination 10 pass n free coinage
silver bill. said he: u have no doubt
bat that such bill Will pass this session
or next, and II would put silver UP 10 Ia.
Ii would give US plenty OF money for the
business OF the country, and II would
MAKE tunes easier and the country more
p~aSraprsN1rS I told fhA s,rsaSs .Fes,~ Aasr Y,,..