Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1890-05-02

make the experiment, and it can not
get ready to make it too soon. A
movement should be set on foot whose
ramifications should extend into every
township in the State looking toward
a complete organization.
The Eastern Washington w. C. T.
U. convention held at Colfax, ad-
journed Saturday after three days
session. Mrs. Lucy B. Switzer, of
Cheney, was reelected President; Mrs.
E. c. Graves, of Spokane, Correspond.
ing Secretary; Mrs. ]. C. Alter, of Col
fax, Recording Secretary, Mrs. Hamb-
lin, OF Spokane, Assistant Recording
Secretary, and Mrs. J. A. Macarthur, of
Davenport, was reelected Treasurer.
Resolutions strong for prohibition and
woman suffrage were adopted.
The contract to carry the mail be-
tween Seattle and Port Townsend has
been let to the Puget Sound and
Alaska Steamship Company for S., ,995
per annum. This route includes Port
Madison, Port Gamble and other way
ports between Seattle and Port Town
send. The route between Seattle and
Whatcom was let to the Union Pacific
for 5000 year. The Island route
was awarded to Captain Morgan OF
Port Townsend at $1,000 year. This
route is between Port Townsend and
various points in the San Juan archi-
pelago. Messrs. Cassc & Clarke, own
ers of the steamer Cascade, secured
the Skagit river route at compensa-
ton of 50, 500 a year.
1t appears by statement made by
Hon. J. A. Kuhn to the Port Town
send Leader, that the holding of an ex-
ira session of the Legislature next fall
for the purpose of passing legislative
apportionment bills, will depend upon
the opinion of the majority as to its
necessity in order to render the next
Legislature legal body. Governor
Ferry holds that such a law is neces-
sary in order to elect Constitutional
Legislature next November, but SEN
ator Kuhn's idea is that the law now
in force will continue so until it is al
tered or repealed, and it is understood
that other members agree with him in
this construction. 1t is doubtful,
therefore, whether the present Legis-
lature will ever meet again.
Harry Morgan, the well-known
sporting man and politician of Taco
ma, died suddenly in that city Satur-
day morning at 10 o'clock. He was
the founder of the Tacoma Morning
Globe, which journal he started for the
purpose of having an organ in which
to reply to the personal attacks which
Editor Radabaugll, of the Ledger, was
continually making against him. His
personal popularity was very great,
and his heart as large as the amount
of experience he had had ON the west
ern frontier. He leaves a wife and a
daughter about five years old. His es-
tate is valued at 100000. His news
paper venture lost him considerable
money, which he however recovered
by the sale of the Globe to its present
owners.
Judge Hanford, of the United States
District Court, sitting at Seattle, has
rendered decision in the case of the
United States vs.. the schooner James
G. Swan. The schooner was owned
by Neah Bay Indians and was com.
manded and manned by them. This
was made the main point OH which
the case was decided. The attorney
Tor the Indians claimed that the ves-
sells owners and crew, being wards of
the United States and under its pro-
lection, they were not as q matter of
law subject to the same restrictions
and laws as were other vessels, either
American or foreign. A bill OF DANA
ges to the vessel, etc, has been sent to
the Treasury Department already, and
in view Of this decision of the United
States Court it is expected that a de-
cisiOn i'll relation to this claim will be
made favorable to the Indians.