The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-19
OAK HARB0R NAILS.
A Seeming Effort to Change
the PostofIice.
OFFERING 4 STRONG PROTEST
The reeris 81 Oak Harbor WIN BE
mich uueonxesf~a~~d N the Pro-
posed Change IL Made.
OAK HArsos. April IS. 1880.

fttK hAEbG&s aFfA stf Sper~s
To YHE EDfroEs This community 70
threatened with one OF the greatest wrongs
possible for the governments 10 innsct on
any MISUNDERSTANDING less than taking
from ns our postoiiics and leaving re a. se
were twenty years ago, ~ far - our nasii
privileges are concerned. A mail agent
vas On board the Hassalo this morning
when she came in. and he said there was
talk OF taking the Office from us and put
ssng it on MiIIcr's point Every one nafn-
rally asks the question, why Inc
only Why II that il would be cheaper for
the steamboat company To ignore the
wants Of the people and actual settlers OF a
large farming community II II takes little
from their expense and helps lev specu-.
iatorx.
III the government wants 70 give port
Office to the few who live near Miller
point. Oak Harbor Is willing: but Why
wrong large number Of people to help
few What good would q pos;offiee Al
Mllier's point do the people here and those
that live vests of here 20 the Straits OF
Fuea and north to DsgulIa bay and on
again 10 the straits Who is 10 that Is at
the bottom OF this piece OF imposition
II il evidently the same forces At work
that want 10 leave La Conner out In the
cold In order that the boats may sc, 70
Bellingham bag a little sooner. IL doesn't
seem to be any matter how much whole
community may lose or suffer by not get
ting their mail II the boats that carry u
can only have 1t little easier and make
few more dollars. The people used 70 be-
lieye that mail boats were established for
their benefit, but ii looks now as iftha. was
a mistake. they are only for the benefit OF
the companies that get the contracts To
carry them.
II the people along this mail route do
not conriaiu of the way our mail Is car
RED, or has been for the last few years, the
government and the boat company ought
10 keep still. They are the last ones that
ought 10 say word in fault finding. The
agent said a steamer could land any time
on Miliers point. Let him try it some
time during some OF our southeast gales
and see where he would fetch up. There
has never been a tide so low since the first
white man hreathed on WILDLY island
that any boat that ever carried the mail on
this route could not come into this harbor
and deliver the mail.
This morning the mail agent was on the
Hassalo and they came feeling their way
in with poles for more than mile. and
running under slow bell. What was IL
for' Evidently TO convince the agent that
there was no water here. The tide was no
higher when the sehome made her lasttrip,
get Captain Green came In under good
hesdway and landed at the wharf. At the
same time they were making such a fuss
with the Hassaio, Green could have come
i'm with the North Pacific
II the Hassalo had been here on the
mail time, 5 O'Clock a. m, there would
have been plenty Of water. even II she had
not been in the channel all the time. Why
did not the agent discharge her for being five
hours behind time? We bear with patience
the irregularities OF the present mail service
ard pray for better one in the future, bat
We don't want 20 keep stiii and be quiet
while We are being robbed OF the Office we
fought so long to get.
osw THAR GKrs Hrs MAIL no. II.