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, 1890-07-10
METAL QUOTATIONS.
THE S1fELrER.

Tho work Of building a smelter In
Spokane Falls has given q decided
impetus to development Of the min
erai RESOURCES surrounding this city.
The manager OF the works Is daily
In receipt Of offers of ore and In
quiries from mIne-owners. There Is
no longer my uncertainty about the
orc supply. 1t will be at least 100
tons daily when the smelter Is
opened for opention, and gives
every promise OF increasing rapidly
aud surely. Mr.. Burbridge, the
manager, thinks that Colviile alone
will be able to supply all the wet
orcs required In the beginning.
Perhaps the beginning Of no other
industry In this city would be at
tended with greater interest than
has tho work OF building this smell
ter. This interest 10 not confined to
Spokane Falls. II IL livelicst among
the mine owners, who are looking
forward to day when they will
fnd market for thousands of tons
Of low grade ores that can not be
proiitably treated at n distance. BY
selling their ores TO q Spokane smell
ter the nine-owners will be enabled
to receive their pay within three or
four days, whereas at present they
must wait several weeks. A decided
saving will also be effected by rea-
son Of their being able to ship their
ores In bulk direct 10 the snelter.
AT present every ton OF orc produced
an this section must be sacked before
It can bc sent TO market.
But the most hopeful sign that
has followed the beginning of work
upon the smclier Is the interest that
has been stimulated In every min
ing camp In the Northwest. The
rampling works are crowded with
samples of ore for treatment, afford
ing fresh surprises regarding the
wonderful extent of the mineral re-
sources of Washington and Idaho.
Ores Of much promise arc received
from sources that hitherto were un-
known as mineral districts.
We know that the mineral re-
sources of the Northwest are as yet
in the dawn OF their development.
The success Of the Spokane smeltcr
will do more TO establish their value
and to give this city standing as n
mining center than has been accom-
plished by all of the discoveries of
the past.
, 1890-07-10

FEoM Wapakoneta, Ohio, the REVIEW
receives printed postal card that is in
teresting. II is sent by man seeking
q situation. He seems to be wonder
fully versatile cuss Here is his modest
statement Of his numerous abilities: 81
desire Il position, VIII make you val
liable man. Would make you q good
reporter, solicitor, collector. bookkcepcr,
editorial writer, compositor, or job
printer. What ! want Is good posi-
ton or opening OF some sort, and mu {
hayeit. am n hustler--young, active,
''2s years of age. Married, sober, indus
tyious; habits correct. Can furnish
references entirely satisfactory, and give
bonds In any reasonable sum required. /"
Anybody desiring the services Of this re-
smarkablo multum in pDrvo sort oil n
man can obtain his address by calling at
the REVIEW.
, 1890-07-10
7.KE COZ VILLE REsERHE.


At the next session of congress an
effort will bc made to bring about
the opening to settlement OF the
ColvIlle Indian reservation. EN-
braced within the limits of this re-
servo are $500, 900 acres of land,
owned by 700 Indians, the remnants 5
of numler of tribes, but mainly
Colviiles.
When one stops to figure out that
every one OF these Indians---men,
squaws and children--is heir to
1000 acres OF land, that altogether
they are not cultivating a thousand
acres, and when he reflects that the
progress of civilization, that mag
niiicent wave that started upon the
steppes of Asia thousands of years
ago, and now finding itself OBJ
structed by the Pacific ocean and
these large reservations, must
pause in Its magnificent des-
tiny unless this handful OF
vanishing race shall be no longer
permitted to stand as a barrier
against everything that Is progress
i've and useful to mankind-when
one thus reflects he Is deeply im-
pressed with the necessity, the jus
tice, of giving these Indians land In
severalty, paying them fair price
for the remainder, and opening IL to
settlement and improvement. The
Indians themselves are not avcrse
To such n step. They do not cult
tivate any oi the land, but hang
around the border between the res
ervation and the settlements aud de-
rive a precarious existence 10y draw
ing government ratlons, hunting
and fishing and begging from the
whites. They would gladly avail
themselves of an opportunity TO
sell this land, for even IL Il brought
only 81 an acre they would all be-
come comparatively wealthy.
II should not be forgotten that
whatever value attaches to these
lands is derived from their proxlmi-
" 20 the outposts of civilization.
Tho masses have toiled to make the
Indian lands valuable, aud IL Is n
, 1890-07-10
PARCELLNG OUT 7IfESPOILS

Doubtless the public Is not forget
ful of the fact that the tide-land
law passed by the recent session of
the legislature was so designed as to
limit the beneflciarles TO people liv-
ing on Puget sound. In the grand
distribution of the states heritage
the people living east of the Cascade
mountains were shut out rs com
plctely as though they were living
la France or Germany. The richest
prize that was ever voted away In
the West was legislated into the
hands of a cotcrie of conspirators.
But the hearts of tho grabbers
softened when they realized
that they had captured the entire
cake, and in the fullness of their lib
erality they determined to invite
two or three prominent gentlemen
residing east OF the mountains to
come over and parcel out the prizes,
and see, perhaps, that the bcnelici-
aries Were prevented from disputing
among themselves, and thereby en-
dangering the contamination OF the
grab. The gentlemen 30 invited
were not 10 reap any personal nd
vantage. That would have been
dishonorablo. But they were to be
entrusted with the delightful task OF
consummating tho grab.
But with u pervcrsity that Is ap-
plauded in Eastern Washington,
these gentlemen have concluded
that since Western Washington has
gobbled all tho tide lands, she might
MS well keep the empty privilege of
dividing them among the bcne-
ticiaries. Ex-Governor Miles G.
Moore has declined to act as one of
the commissioners, and now
Hon. A.. NJ. Cannon and Judge
George Turner, Of this city, decline
to have anything to do with the
work of distribution. The governor
will probably experience consider
able difficulty In finding three repro
sentative republicans from Eastern
Washington TO take the places de-
clinod by Messrs. Moore and Turner.
~~-s-
, 1890-07-10
HAPPY COMPRoMIsE.

i
Now let congress ratlfy the action
OF Its conferrccs and pass the silver
BILL that they have agreed upon.
IL is an excellent compromise, al
most as advantageous as free coin
age, and really marked advance in
that direction. II Is generally un-
derstood that the administration
will approve this measure. IL can
not afford to do otherwise. The re-
publican party could desire no more
Advantageous position than that
given IL by united vote upon the
conference bill. Then let the DEM
ocnts oppose ii II they dare, and
follow that up by nominating Gro
yer Cleveland for the presidency,
and the campaign of 1902 will come
near being n walkover.
In this bill the REVIEW can not
detect n single Objectionable feature.
1t absorbs the entire output of Amer
lean mines, continues the coinage of
at least 81, 600, 900 monthly, provides
for the Issuance of safe amount Of
treasury certificates, redccmable In
coin and TO be a full legal tender, and
gives the country mn increased clrcu.
lnting medium that oven Wall
street can not question. Readers Of
this paper who have followed It's
utterances from tho day that the
Window bill was made public will
observe that the conference measure
has been freed of every Objectionable
feature that we nave from time 10
time pointed out. Silver IL not re-
duced to the level ot commodity,
Its coinage is not discontinued, tho
treasury certificates aro not redeem
able In bullion, and they are clothed
with all the powers OF full legal
tender.
There is no need Of further con.
tentlon. Let the republican party
pass this hill and the silver question
Will be taken out of our politics. It's
passage will inspire fresh confidence
In all lines OF business, new blood
will be infused into the channels of
finance, and our financial policy
Will be further divorced from that
OF Great Britain, just ns our COM
mercial policy was divorced with
the adoption OF the principle of pro-
lection.
The bill Is a happy compromise.
IL viii be acceptable In every partic-
ular TO the silver interests, and at
the same time IL offers no reasonable
grounds of objection To that ultra.
, 1890-07-10

Colorado, by burning red Are upon
the summit Of the mountain Is fai
from being unique, and u New Jer.
sey man was not tho originator OF
tho Idea. That honor belongs tc
George Breck, a Portland druggist,
who died two years ago under tragic
circumstances that pointed to death
by suicide.
For years 1t had been tho custom
to carry along a handful of redfire
upon the occasion Of moonlight ex.
cursions on the Columbia and Wi.
lamette and burn II beneath some OF
the waterfalls along the rivers. Mr..
Brock manufactured q great deal OF
this redflre, and one day IL occurred
to him that the burning of IL large
quantity of the powder upon one OF
the snow peaks of the Cascade range
would produce "a novel and brilliant
effect. Although Mr.. Breck was
lame, always walking with a
crutch, he was fond of AL
pine climbing, and had made the
ascent Of more snow peaks than per-
hnps any other man in the
Northwest. He spoke of the propo-
sition to a few of his young friends,
and early In July, 1886, they climbed
to the snowy summit of Mount
Hood, and arranged twenty pounds
OF rediire with the expectation that
at midnight on the night of the
fourth the clockwork alongside 1t
would spill q small vial of sulphurlc
acid. and thereby the powder would
be fired. The experiment was a
failure. The clock got ahead of time
and the powder was burned on the
afternoon OF the third.
The following year a party OF
seven young men, including the
writer, assembled the mountain after
great difficulty, carrying with them
one hundred pounds Of rediire.
Two of the men remained on the
mountain to burn the redfire, but
the others descended TO Gov.
ernment Camp. Promptly ut
III o'clock on the night of the
fourth the mountain was brilliantly
illuminated. The view at the base
of the elevation, nine miles from the
summit, was inconceivably beauti.
ful. The snowy mountain and the
surrounding country were bathed In
a rosy radiance lasting for one min
ute. Then the black shadows of
night again fell over all. The fire
was seen In all parts of Oregon and
far into Washington, everywhere,
in fact within a radius of 100 miles.
The following year the illumination
was repeated with even greater sue
cess.
Reports OF these novel fireworks
were telegraphed at the time TO all
the leading papers in the East. and
the novelty was illustrated in
American and English periodicals.
The Colorado people will have to
cudgel their brains again II they
hope to surprise the Pacific North
west with anything new or start
ling,
, 1890-07-10

IT must be n1oying to those
people living along the frontiers OF
European countries to bc compelled to
shift their nationality as they would a
new suit of clothes according to the traf-
fcking OF diplomats and the fortunes OF
war. In Alsace. Lorraine the people
hardly know what country they belong
to. Now Lord Salisbury has issued a
fiat making Germans of the Engllshmen
living upon the island OF Heligoland.
One Of these days the powers of Europe
muy plat their doninions into lots and
blocks, and fall to spcculating among
themselves, thereby workingup the live
Hest sort OF an international boom.
What would he the result IT the United
States government should attempt to
swap a county or two in Texas or Cali
fornia to tho Mexican government? A
row would ensuc that would shake the
whole country. We do these things diff
ierently in the United States.
, 1890-07-10
SPOKANE rs ALL RI0HT.


opohane' Oh an 'ne cities Oh tne
No'nwes'' WIZ come OUT o' the ecu
sus pun. WIN hying coion, 4"
tne o,o Guy mnii.s we snaii SNOW u
poPu'a.,on s''en''y IN eAcass o' ~
w, anu tne new limits VIII inciuue
oo'l,ewiiere - n'N IN 'ne neienoorhooo "a
,o" people. lere.o'ole conservs-
uve es"n'aoes oi gu. cit1ens naVe
Pih.ea .ne Popu'a.ion nl, 20 oi tne ci'y
an" i's SUBURBS a, s-'Wv, ana hot
one man III hundred thought o,
cihiining over So'ooo. AS mat'er OF
Iscl 'ne o',lo'ni count VIII give US
mort thah mas ever peeh cia'iiieo ny
our own people.
ms rs signincan.' ana u WIN not
oe wI.nou, an enec' upon .ne nome.
ecker ana INTENDING investor ~
WIN inspife connaenoe IA the iut
uie "Ss,I'iohs .. .ne peop.e oi tne
G'y. SHOWS 'nn' ABOUT .he won.
ecriui srown anu Prosperi.y o'
npokane rm's s, mere Is NO. .he 'a'h.. :,
~ wv. " ,,. no'vn ',,, i'e. M, !. ~ -
slIIe"S AZ nm WIN IN, 'no cry n's.
sos a"' paa, .5aS.,,a n a'y T,s
N.Y. , nese. " pra ',', ueo1'svu' ins
Ivy S'sm'n ,ias ,n'ai'ap,y - S pass.u
s,a,a ~. s1S ,,,a,a !, 80, =, az d,.ana,an, 'e
, 1890-07-10

TnE Louisiana Lottery Company will,
in all probability, succeed in dcbauchIng
the legislature and getting n new lease
of life for quarter OF q century, Tho
infamy is too great, the prize too tempt
ing, to be defeated. some one has said
that every man has his price. The lot
terry company will pay that price, for
success means millions OF dollars, and
defeat means death. In all the Union
there Is but one state willing to descend
to tho depths of licensing lottery.
That state is Louisiana. Her sisters do
not envy her the distinction. They can
perpetuato their governments by leyies
upon their own resources, whereas
Louisiana chooses to appeal to the
weakness Of human nature.
, 1890-07-10
LESSONS or THE FIRE.

only the fascination OF danger car
explain the recklessness with which
communities toll for years in tn,
great task of building towns, erect
ing storehouses and filing them
with great stocks Of articles useful
aud essential to man, and at the
same time neglect to take adequate
protection against fire, a foe that is
IA common visitor. 1t would be re.
markable II n city should go on for
years and escape immunity from
flame. Yet scores of prosperous
towns in the Northwest are proceed
ing in utter disregard Of the proba-
bility Of destruction by fire, trusting
to luck, tickle friend at best, to
bring them through all danger with
out loss. Still more surprising is
the fact that some of these towns
have suffered terribly in the past.
Tho repeated burning Of Pullman
can only be explained by the theory
that communities, like individuals,
rather enjoy the peculiar fascination
OF peril. 1t can not be urged against
the people of Pullman that they
lack public spirit, because their
town enjoys the reputation of being
more energetic even than many
other townsi in this energetic section.
Then, again, they have had pre-
vious experience In the way OF fire,
and one would think that they
would not have permitted them.
solves to be stricken twice by the
same foe.
1t may seem harsh to dwell upon
this subject NJ a time when the peo.
Pile of Pullman are recllng from Il
terrible blow, They realize clearly
what might have been, and nothing
that eau NOW bu said or done can
bring back one dollar of the wealth
that has gone up Ia smoke. But
there an scores of other towns
throughout the Northwest that ARE
still iiyingin the face of danger, and
II Is not to late for them to take
those precautions that Pullinan has
neglected, la her sorrow. The RE-
VIEW should feel itself remiss la its
duty were IL to permit this disaster
to pass In silence, and fail to speak
Of the Lesson that ii teaches. Right
here In Spokane Falls there is APP
parent disposition to trust too
much 10 luck. Yet here one would
naturally expect the livelIest interest
In everything pertaining to the i'm
provement OF the fire service.
The quality of hope is undoubt-
edly responsible for much of this
carelessness, or rocklessncss, or
whatever 1t should be termed, the
same illogical quality that leads n
man to buy n lottery ticket, and
then live In false belief that with
100000 chances ngains. him he Is
going to win the capital prize. That
spirit is often displayed In more
exalted manner. 1t is the spirit
that has made the Northwest what
we find II to-day. Tho merchant
who goes into business with supreme
In his ability to succeed
never counts on the probability Of
defeat. On the same line Of reason-
Ing he proceeds on the assumption
that he is not going to be burned
out. Time often brings a severe
awakening. The laws of nature are
no respccter of enterprise and en-
ergy. Every man and every city
must take measures for their own
protection or suffer the conse-
fltiencps
, 1890-07-10

EVERYBODY in the Pacific Northwest
either knows or has heard Of Phil
o. Rourke, one Of tho discoveries and
owners of the Bunker Hill and sullivan
mine in the Cnlr d Alenos. TIP in this
country everybody declares that Phil
has heart In him bigger than n
grizllys. He is a man of powerful con
victions and strong friendships, and he
swears by his fayorites. whether they
are men, mines or newspapers. He
thinks the REVIEW is one OF the greatest
newspapers IN the West, and this belief
camo near involving him in row the
other day. lie met some one who had
stopped the paper and who was scoring
IL up hill and down. declaring that he
would never tako ii again. "Iou d-d
chump,' exclaimed Phil, who couldn't
allow anybody to abuse q friend In his
presence, even though 1t were a newt
paper, without entering protest, you
internal chump what do you think the
REVIEW people care for that? You're
only one man, and they've got about
5000 readers They'll miss YOU about
as much ss we miss n ton or two of orc
out OF the Bunker IiilL You tako the
REVIEW o while ami you'll know more"
o. ltoufke has habit OF paying for his
paper two years in advance, on the prin-
clple that it's pity TO break a twenty
dollar piece.
, 1890-07-10
Tho Governor WIN Not interiors.

PORTLAND Or, July .. Edward u
Gallagher who is to be executed I"
vancouver next Friday for the murder
OF Louis Mar last November, Is believed
to be insane by tho people Of that Guy
and Efforts ara being made to save hisIl,
Governor Ferry has been asked to .faIs
OF getting expert testimony as 70 ~
sanity, but the governor says ho viii ~
interfere. At tho time Of the mifrt
Gallagher was accompanied by Il man
VINO was implicated In the crime. NV
aeconplice has never been found Any
Gallagher studiously refuses 10 give ~"
name.
, 1890-07-10

A PRIVATE telegram from Congress
man John l.. Wilson indicates that
without doubt the conference silver bill
will be passed by congress and approved
by tho president. Tho measure, Mr.
Wilson says, is satisfactory to all. In
this connection ii should be stated that
Mr., Wilson, In voting with tho admins
tration was really desirous OF better leg
islation than that embodied in the
house bill, Ifho had voted with the
leaders of the silver movement he would
thereby have sacrificed a number OF
Washington interests and gained moth
lug Mr.. Wilson has made 1t win In
this case, but the policy of voting for n
measure that one can notapprove, trust
ing to the other house to doctor II up, is
responsible Tor a great deal Of mischiev-
Gus legislation.
, 1890-07-10

taken must conform to the settlement oi
the West. There are hundreds OF men
in the West who could take n map of the
United States and In half an hour mark
ont q more intelligent withdrawal ol
arid lands than that prepared by Major
Powell. lfnobody lived in the West
and Major Powell were given $1,000, 900
600 or SO, 600, 0co, COO he could irrigaie the
arid regions to fine advant age, As mat
tcrs stand, however, the majors broad
gauge plans will probably have to give
way for system more adapted to the
rapid settlement OF the West.
, 1890-07-10

average slzed Eastern state. And
as Tor tho Imaginary congestion In
.ne cities, hundreds OF men In addi-
ton to those already hero could
gain employment within u week.
blessed are they who don't expect
TOO much, for they shall not be dis
appointed. Although tho census
mas necessarily missed large num-
Ger OF spokane's people, the cnumcr-
ntors have found as many or more
.han We had claimed. Spokane
never inisropresents.
, 1890-07-10

CoLosEL PATRICK IIESRY wIssroy
delivered an eloquent Grafton ut Fair.
haven on the evening VI July 4, the
special features OF which were the adyo
cacy of silver coinage and the anne IA.
tion OF British Columbia. On the latter
subject he said; ITO the north of Us
there lies an immense empire whose re-
sources arc as boundless as our own.
whose inhabitants arc brave, Intelligent
and progressive. They and we are of
common origin, speaking common
language, but between their form OF gov
eminent and ours there is an eyer.irro.
prcssiye conflict. The time must come
sooner or later, when the Dominion OF
Canada will absorb into the British en-.
pirc the United States, or else the Brit.
ish American colonies will become
American states, a part of the American
Union. believe the time has come To
proclaim tho doctrine Of our manifest
destiny, the doctrine that tho ultimate
contamination of American civilization
will include all the soil from tho Gulf of
Mexico to tho Arctic ocean,"
, 1890-07-10
TEN THO USAND GRABBERS.

One OF the most earnest advocates
of the tide land bill that became a
law June 26, was the Seattle Even
ing Press. II maintained, with n
considerable show of Indignation,
that the measure was fair In all re-
spects, and was not In the nature OF
grab OF II conspiracy, as charged
by the REVIEW.
a recent number of the Press
throws a ray Of light upon this sub.
ject that goes a lsng way toward ex-
, 1890-07-10

Tnr fight against Major Powell has
grown 80 hot that tho gallant irrlgator
is losing much of his congresssonal sup
port, nnd will prpbably have to abandon
his original plans or retire from the
management OF the governments work.
The difficulty with Major Powell lies ia,
his apparent inability to grasp
tho fuct that the needs and
convcniences OF the people OF
the West must be considered. and
whatever irrigation plans may be under.
, 1890-07-10
--------7-------
WHO WAS RIGHTg

Calhoun has monument, Cen
crrll Lee has monument, Hen
drlcks has monument, and Jefjer-
son Davis will soon have one. Gem
eral ". s. Grant, who led the loyal
armies 10 victory, stamped out seces-
sion and preserved the republic Of
, 1890-07-10

THOSE Pacific coast millionaircs who
have an idea that they can pay from
8 900 to $4,000 and buy their way into
history greatly mistake the temper of
tho world. True, they can hire a sh rewd
publisher to place their portrait and
several pages OF fulsomo praise In an
elegant and imposing publication. but
that is not history, no more than gold
washed jeweiry is solid gold. When The
true and undying history OF the West IN
written not ono sentence will be dIo,n,ed
by wealth. The men whose intlueno,
upon the West has been for all timo
who have left their stamp upon It's civil
ization and Its laws, will become the oh
jects Of the historians pen, and whether
they were wealthy or poor will eut mo-
figure at all. Wealth has never swnyed
the HISTORIANS pen In the past nor viii
IL In tho future. True, many wcalthv
, 1890-07-10

men have taken a place in the history Of
this country, But, without exception
they were men whose influence was fcl.
aside from their wealth, mon who found
ed cities and states, whose cnterpti,i
and daring led to tho construction ot
transportation links or whose wcaltlr
was employed ih tho founding OF insu.
tutions Of learning and charity. IN,
men who grew rich simply by acqmrin,
real estate, or conducting banks are moi
going into any history that the word
will care to read.
, 1890-07-10

FARMERs in the Palouse report the
heaviest dewfalls this summer that
have ever been observed in the history
of thecountry. The only fear that has
boon expressed among the farmers In
tins section has been about the danger of
the earth receiving too much moisture.
Yet Major Powell places the Palouse
country in his ARID blldriC.
, 1890-07-10

CAIN, NJ. T., who resigned his seat to
test the feeling Of ms constituency, has
succeeded in testing it. lie stays at
home, and Gladstoninn takes his seat.
But the world can not avoid admiring
the example set by Mr.. Cain. There Is
one British custom that might be trans
planted with advantage to the United
States,