Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-06-04

such time has ever meant to be, to do
and to suffer The fostering care of con-
gress and the executive was and is con-
tinually side tracked ON the way, and
while waiting for orders is generally
broken into and rified by the ever hun
CRY and abnormally thirsty doubtful
state. A poor boy at frolic, or nerv-
GUS Anarchist strollng over Satan's coun-
try seat with his overcoat pockets full OF
percussion bombs, is happy compared
with little soiled nosed territory look
ing hungrily through the pickets of Co
lumbia's apartment house yard, where
the great tournament for cold victuals is
going on among the October states.
But now Washington is full fiedged,
grown up member of the family, and,
wearing suspenders, the young state does
not ask, but requests, what, as avoteless,
voiceless territory, she could not even
petition for with any comfort. Port Town
send will be especially benefited, be-
heve, and at once, by the new statehood
and its attendant blessings. Many mill
ions may be proftably spent there by the
government in harbor improvements and
public buildings, to say nothing of sub
stantial assistance and encouragement for
agriculture numbering and mining, which
would yield early and rich results.
Port Townsend is protected from for
eigR foes by means of a fort, the name
of which has escaped my memory. This
fort Is situated across an arm kor bay OF
the main sound proper, so that the rude
street boys of the public schools of Port
Townsend cannot pick on the troops.
The school boys of Townsend are not bad
boys at all, but they are full of spirits,
and it is all the police can do to keep
them sometimes from being rude and
saucy to the garrison and his wife.
The fort commands the entrance to
the harbor and an armed foe could not
enter under the guns of this fortihcation
without stirring up i'll feeling, unless he
entered after shutdown, at which time
the garrison seeks his couch.
Most every one in Port Townsend feels
perfectly secure, except when the forest
fires are raging. Once forest fire burned
down one panel of the Notifications, and
hostile cows got in, it is said, and ate up
the supplies. Friendly Indians got in
once while the garrison was taking a
bath and stole his clothes. And still you
will find people all over this country who
think that the Indian may be humanized
and Christianized, if properly treated.
The United States, so far, has not sur
veyed the country, it is said, the width
of township back from the water front
in the counties of Jefferson and Clallam
except in the immediate neighborhood
of Port Townsend. SO here in this rich
agricultural, mineral and numbering
region, where two railroads are coming
in this summer, connecting Townsend
with Portland and the east; where the
shipping entries are only equaled as &c
number by those of New York, and where
more money and immigration are daily
going in than elsewhere in the United
States, the country is not even surveyed
because it is so far away from where the
American eagle does his incubating.
used to think that Silcott was very
mean and coarse man to take the wages
of sin and go away TO Canada with them
but the more / think of it the more
lenient feel toward him.
Everybody has heard of the cheapness
of living on the coast, and ever since my
boyhood 1 have been impressed with this
fact, and yet was but poorly prepared
for the quotations | met with at the
Poodle Dog, in San Francisco. 1t is a
good eating place and l went there as the
guest of Mr.. Samuel Post Davis, of Car
son, a connoisseur, an epicure and bon
vivant from the San Francisco Annex,
known to the east as Nevada.