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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-05
THE DEBT REDUCED
Annual Statement Of King
County Finances.
4 vEeY GRATIFYING SHOWING.
Increased Cost OF Courfs-Large Amounts
Expended on County Eesds-Aa
Economic Administrations

The ri atenent of the finances OF King
county for the year ending July 81, 1880. i
published below. The condition Of the
counsy'e money matters Is gratifying alike
TO the officers OF the county and 70 the
taxpayers. In passing. IL is in place to
note fhst TIE county treasnrer's books
have balanced TO q centateyery settlement.
Deputy County Auditor Twichell said yes
terday that an examination Of the state
meat would reveal several points Of inter-
est On the frst day of August, 1889. this
county was se42,000 In debt, and Of that
sum about $50 90 had been added during
the preceding year. During the twelve
months Just closed, however. although the
county expenses have been very heavy. the
debt has been reduced between 1900 and
$500.
The causes Of this change In the financial
standing Of the county are several In
isss the assessed value of the county's
property was $l6.oo0. 90; and during the
year for which the statement is given IL
was SO 10000. The tax rate was practi-
caIiy the same, and that gave the county
larger income. The assessed value for
this year is $3s O00, O00 but the taxes col
lected under this valuation will not appear
tall the next statement.
The statement for August 1. 1889, which
showed such large increase Of debt. was
affected in several ways. The expenses Of
the county had been enlarged by some
$4,000 in improvements TO the county
buildings. including an addition to the
coui thouse and the fixing up Of the county
farm
Dur ing the year ending August 1, 1890.
the Goa of the courts has been exception
ally bea w. In the year before the courts
we're IN . ession only a short time. on &C.
count Of the Illness and death of two
Judges; and accordingly the cases were
crowded in TO the following year, running
the e1pen6i lures for district and justices
courts up to $1,000. or about one-half of
the current C. iunty charges. Large amounts
have also been spent on roads and bridges;
indeed, during the two years ending Au-
gust /, 1880, the roads and bridges of the
county took up $4,000.
During the last year the county expenses
have been watched very carefully and cut
at every possible point The county poor
and the prisoners as WEI have cost less
than usual. though this economy has been
partly offset by ext payments for
records.
1T is an unfortunate thing" said Mr..
Twicheli, that the stat ement covers the
last half of the terms of the old county
commissioners, and the first half of the
new term, and so no one board is response
bic for the whole year. as presented in the
statement. In closing. you may mention
the fact that the comfy scrip is at par.
and ali taken up 10 last November; and
the county finances under your Republi-
can administration are in most excellent
condition"
Following Is the offici al statement:
STATEMENT on YIsANcEs KING COUNTY, WASH
Ixeros. FoE YEAR ENDING JULY 81, 800.
Tdyss dzsexssf for 1855
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-05
Back ut His Desk.

Register Reed, of the United States land
office. has returned from his twenty days
vacation. and though somewhat tanned
and sunburnt. he looks much improved
physically. He took in the Big Bend ooun,
try, visited Ellensburg and Waterville, and
angled for the evasive trout and hunted
game in the mountains of Douglas county
he says he Is now resigned for another
long grind at his desk in the Office.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-05
PASSENGER LISTS.

HORSE PLArss, Mont. Sept 4-Passen-
gers on Northern Pacific train No. 1, west
bound:
George Clement, 2. r Clement, McDougsl,
Miss Poram, J. H. Tragoe, II. D. HILL E
A Hill. J. W shuliz ard wife, T. E. loose and
wife. J. wardsr and wife, and thirty-dve second
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TWO THRouGH TRAINS

The Northern Pscihe win on and after June
18th inst, run two through trains 10 and from
the Eas-. leaving Seattle a. $40 & u. and 2
.. n. Time shortened twelve hours. l. A
Nadeau. general agent: z Ionkin. depot ticket
agent. Seattle A. Chiloerg city ticket agents
7le second street. Boston block
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Hyams Pauson Il Cos store will be closed
TO pubic inspection.
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Free reclin X chaI; cars run through from
Portland 10 Chicago without change via the
Union Pacific. C. Martin. city ticket agent
20 second street. boston block &. Z. Bald
IN, agent. city DOCK.
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The tile flooring in the ye.tibaIe of Hyams
PeEson & Co. will contain IS silver dollars
aud will be feature of their opening Friday
evening
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koore's Revealed Remedy VIII give yoa
strength.
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New eloaks. wraps capes and jackets just in.
Chester CieaFy.
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OPEN AIR CONCERT.
The Peoples Regular Free Musical
Treat.

The Peoples Regular Free Musical
Treat.
The following programme will be rem
dered this evening by the First Regiment
band on the university grounds, COM
mencing al 30. Among the numbers will
be found "Reeollections of the War;" as
played by all the leading bands, and the
famous military fantasia The Spanish
Review" Professor Wagner will also rem
der Hartmann's celebrated cornet solo
"Facilita." The band viii wear their new
uniforms
March-lne bailie ..-.--.--.- Dalbey
oyertHre-"The Rambler" .......... Moses
Waitz-"Mein ThuriDgen" .-.-..... Kiesler
Serenade-"The Soldiers Dream" Ripley
Comet solo-"Faeilits" .-.--.-.... Hartmann
Military Fantssia-"The Spanish Review
..-.-.--.-...--+-# --..--..-..-.-.... Bindiag
THE band is heard gradually approaching. II
arrives or the parade ground followed by a fife
and drum corps LAS Sevillanas' is then per.
formed with castinet accompaniment An
other military band is then heard approaching.
and on its arrival (after two rolls with the
drums) the troops march in review, the COM
bined bands playing the spanish national
march, '.E Bilboa," after which, headed by the
fife and drum. they march OF and gradually dis
appear
Moroccan eharscteristic-'s Simplicity" Jobaui
Grand NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF the War" Bever
(Drummers call. reville, grand march, .sFor
God and Liberty" Marching Along" assembly.
Flag of Columbia" attention, prayer, COM
mence firing. the battle. Star spangled Ban.
ner," 1.-The Vacant Chair" Marching Through
Georgia" Tramp, Tramp" "Giory Hallelujah. y
"Battle Cry OF Freedom" Kingdom Coming. ~
Finale
Gakop-'d Zen convention .....-.......... Pettee
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sweetbresds saute with mushrooms. 20 can't.
on lunch bill at the Brighton today,
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cTATE OF WASHfSGToS.F -
COUNTY OF KING,
/, W. z Forrest. auditor Of King county,
hereby certify the above and foregoing to be
true. correct and complete exhibit of the inan-
cisl condition OF King county, as shown By the
books OF said county on the 3lst day of July,
1850. and slso q true and complete statement of
receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year be-
ginning August /. 1889. and ending July q, 1890
IN witness whereof I have hereunio set my
hand aud official seal this fourth day of septem-
Der, 1920. w. R. FORREST
lSEALl County Auditor.
By Y. A. TwrCHELL Deputy
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cost my entire stock of watches disn0nds
leweiry, clocks, silyerwsre. etc. Albert Hanssn
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The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-10-16

There was another cause though,
for the development OF active compe-
tition between husband and wife. The
ambition of the daughter as it was the
ambition of the father, was to see the
chief justice president of the United
States. Sprague started i'll to help
along this ambition and ended by
developing one of his own. In other
words he thought he could make just
as good president as Chase himself.
1t thus became matter of not too
much mother-in-law, but too mnch
father-in-law. The result here hap
pened as happens in all cases where
the marriage consists of three persons
one must be crowded out and as ever
happens in like contip gencies here
again it was the son-in-law. Instead
OF the lady being known, therefore, as
the wife of Senator Sprague, she con-
tinued and still continues to be-
known as the daughter of Chief JUS
tice Chase. The ambition OF neither
as is we'll known, was ever fulfilled, as
Sprague entered the divorce court
and Chase the grave.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-10-16
JUSTICE SAMUEL F. MILLER.

Another seat is vacant on the SUI
preme bench of the United States-a
distinguished justice has paid the last
debt to nature. Twenty-eight years
what lifetime's work and in what an
important sphere! He was appointed
an associate justice Of the supreme
court in 1862, and has, because of his
magnificent constitution, been in con.
slant attendance upon its sittings
until the very day last week when he
was stricken down by the sickness
that ended his life. He has been
upon that bench when it pronounced
some of the most vitality import
ant decisions in our nations history
He was Kentucky born but left that
state and espoused the Union cause
his vote on the bench was in later
years along the liue of opinion at that
time formed. Who can estimate the
effect his views have had upon the
laws of our country during the last
twenty-eight years? Is it not a mighty
power that is confded to those nine
men, sitting as the court of final re
sort in all this great union of statesi
He was a man of short stature butpow
erful frame. He was a genial com
panion, and a favorite among hi'
brother justices. He was a master
mind in that court and his counse
will be much missed. He died full O.
years and honor-another great lega
light has gone out forever.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-10-16
Piso's Remedy for Catarrh is the
Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest
XSia4l
Sold by druggists or sent by mail.
soc. E. 7. Hazeltine, Warren, Pa.

they are just the men I want
to reach. They know only two crops
corn and cotton-and have for sc
many years raised the same crop on
the same piece of land that to talk tc
them OF laying plans for next year is
something like describing the beauties
OF nature to anyone that has beer
born blind.
10 such now preach the doctrine
OF rotation of crops, peradventur
they may see the error of their ways
and be saved.
will not insult the intelligence o.
my readers by going into minute
analysis of the soil or trouble them
with labored treatise on the way
plants grow. Every farmer knows
that plants require food or they will
not grow. They also know that what
is essent ial to the development of one
plant is not needed by another, and
that these elements must exist natur.
ally or otherwise in the soil or said
plants cannot live. These facts are
we'll known to every farmer but are
ignored by many, indeed by the ma
)rity.
The habits OF plants vary as much as
their appetites.. Some are surface
feeders, like wheat, oats and corn,
others derive much of their sustenance
from a great distance below the sur
face like cotton and clover. Now, ii
does not take much reflection to see
that if one crop be cultivated for a
long time on the same piece of land
it will exhaust the elements of plant
food essential to that particular crop
and unless these elements are replaced
said crop will "grow small by degrees
and beautifully less" till it reaches a
point where it won't pay.
This is especially true with regard
to surface feeders as their field of food
supply is more limited than that OF
deep roofing plants.
Our black lands are naturally so
rich that this one crop system may be
pursued for many years without much
perceptible diminution in the yield,
but it is surely and steadily robbing
The soil of elements essential to that
crop, and without which there will be
no crop.
Now, by judicious and mole or
less frequent change Of crop the fer
tility of the soil may be continued al
most indefinitely. Let cotton be fol
lowed by small grain and that by corn
at short intervals, and there will soon
be marked improvement in yield
over the one crop plan. I don't
mean that small grain should al
ways follow cotton, anything will
do well after cotton, but what l want
understood is, that deeprooting crop
should follow a surface feeder as often
as possible.
l know the temptation to continue
cotton in the same field for long sue
cession of years. 1t is so much easier
to cultivate, being freer from weeds
than when crops are rotated, but after
giving due value to that point there
still remains balance in favor of the
system l recommend.
If anyone thinks otherwise let me
hear from them.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-10-16
WHY DO IT?

torcibly the reasons political, private
and in a national business sense, why
an extra session of congress should
not be called TO pass the force bill.
The point he makes that Harrison
fears if he calls an extra session that
he himself, and not congress, may be
held responsible for the i'll effects of
that bill, gives us most hope no extra
session will be called. For, however
much the grandson of his grand
father may love his party, he loves
himself far more; and he is not bent
on imperiling any chances he may
think he has for denomination to
the presidency.
But as pointed out in the Wash
ington letter wherefore the occasion of
such haste in the matter? On the
contrary, does not every principle OF
BUSINESS prudence point the wisdom
of leaving we'll enough alone? When
congress adjourned the other week
what sigh of relief went up all over
the nation 1t was admitted that
for time being at least there would
be no tampering with the laws. They
would be certain and fixed, and under
the present state of affairs the bust
ness interests OF the Nation would
know what to expect, and could freely
and fearlessly act accordingly.
But now let congress again
step in and get to work
and what will be the result?
Uncertainty and suspense will
again be begotten. And this will be
especially true because of the gravity
of the subject to the sole considera-
ton of which congress will be sum-
moned to convene. For the force bill
is not measure calculated solely to
arrange balance between political
parties. In that very arrangement it
must of necessity create conflicting
business relations. 1t will engender
enmities not only between Democrats
and Republicans, but between the
business men of the. North and South.
And it is in this aspect the question is
one of such Importance to the nation,
and especially to us OF the South.
We are on the eve of such reign Of
prosperity as never was known before.
Southern merchants are buying more
goods in the North, while also
more Northern money is pouring
into the South for investment. While
this is true, what excuse under
heaven can be made for ruthlessly
trying to break into this most ex-
cellent order OF things, other than an
inordinate partisan greed? And shall
a nations material welfare be sacrificed
upon such an unworthy altar? Ii
there was any such exigency in mat
ters political as to warrant such
heroic rer,edy, the case might be
different. But this is not 80. The
Republicans have the president, they
are bound to have the senate for years
to come, and suppose the Democrats
gain the house, no particular harm
can come to the Republicans. OF all
times in the nations history an extra
session of congress for such purpose
would be most costly and it is ardently
hoped Harrison if not for his country's
sake then for his own, will refuse to
call it.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-10-16

NEW faces are scanned with inter
est, new business ventures are closely
scrutinized. When THE STATESMAN
introduced to Austin new afternoon
paper, it did so with confidence born
of personal and most agreeable ac-
quaintance with the young men who
were to edit that paper. That the
Capitolian has more than answered
the expectations of our citizens is
admitted on all sides; that it has
measured up to the hopes The STATES
MAN had for it, is most agreeable to
announce. To say that it is the best
evening paper Austin ever had, is not
sufficient praise. 1t is an A No. l
evening shetland long life and still
greater prosperity and influence to
Vanderhurst, Bowers and Hunter.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-10-16

WHY stop half way the work? The
brainiest man in the house, indeed
Let not your protection blindness
cause you to pass by Tom Reed and
fasten on to Mckinley as the "brain-
lest man in the house of represen.
tatives." No, this is rank
heresy in the Express: "Mr.
Blaine has decided to make two
speeches in Mr.. McKinley's district,
but it will not do any good. The
ingenious Democratic legislators Of
Ohio have so gerrymandered it that
the brainiest man in the house of
representatives will be relegated to
the shades of private ife."
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-10-16
FARM NOTES.
ANOTHER LEARNED ARTICLE ON I'THE
sTLvERY MOON AND THE
GOLDEN GRAIN"
An Earnest Plea for Rotation of Crops-1t
Being Scientific Farming.

This column is edited by Mr.. John {
Edgar of Duyal, to whom all communities
ons should be addressed.l
To the Agricultural Editor of The States
man:
In the late issue of THE STATEsMAS
there is discussion of the influence
of the moon upon the weather and
vegetation, by Mr.. O. H. Cullen, an
"Old Cotton Raiser" Although l am
no moonologist in the sense Mr.. c.
puts it, / do believe that the moon
has some influence on both, but only
while in conjunction and opposition
to the sun, or in other words, new
moons and full moons. We know
that there is a fux and refux Of the
sea in the space of twelve hours and
fifty minutes, which is exactly the
time OF lunar day. Whenever she
is in the meridian over any part OF
the sea the waters gather to that part
and make what we call tide. This
influence we attribute to attraction.
Now if the moon possesses the power
of lifting and heaping up the waters
of the sea Immediately under, why
should it not possess the same attrac-
tive power in some degree upon water
suspended in our atmosphere and
soil? This [ assume to be fact, but
subject to a varying and unknown
condition of the atmosphere which
renders uncertain our prognosis as to
the effect it may have upon
the weather, although from
memorandum kept of the rainfall
the past two years I find that less rain
has fallen during the full of the moon
than at any other time.
Nitrogen forms necessary element
of the organic matter of plants. All
purifying organic manures afford this
supply in the form of ammonia.
Now, it is we'll known fact that
light from full moon has the prop
erty of fastening decomposition in
fish and meat when exposed to its
rays. Why should not the same mys-
FERROUS principle of moonlight affect all
other decomposing organic substances
and consequently affect an increase OF
some one or more of the constituents
that yield to plants the elements OF
their growth?
The chemistryof vegetable life is of
a high mysterious order, and the
glimpses we occasionally obtain OF its
general nature are few and rare, and
in fact, all sciences involving cosmic
principle, can be summed up in few
facts accidentally discovered, upon
which has been based accepted the
cries OF the time.
n
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-10-16
A Lynching Bee.

1t was current about town last
night that mild lynching bee was
INDUCED in few miles below town
Monday night. Some twenty or thir'
ty men took out a suspect and cheer
fully strung him up to bangle until
the life was well nigh choked out o.
him.
The process was gone through with
several times, and when the party
finally left, the victim ia white man)
was more dead than alive.
The punishment it is alleged was
inflicted to extort confession o.
some sort, but it did not succeed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-10-16

The members of stranded variety
troupe are living in cottage at Reed
City, Mich. The male members are
saving wood and the female members
are telling fortunes. The company
finds the new business lucrative.