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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02

water it and cultive it under orders from
his workmen.
When capital clearly wrongs labor pub
lie opinion is prompt to side against CAPT
tai, but when labor gets lawless and
extortionate its tyranny is as odious and
even more dangerous and oppressive than
that Of capital. In any event the surest
way to defeat for labor is through re-
course to mob law; public opinion will
not endure that, for whether the reign
of mob law is long or short the people are
taxed to pay the bill for the cost of restor-
ing order, and for the damages caused by
riot. The miners must work out their own
salvation strictly under law or they viii
surely and justly forfeit all sympathy or
respect from the people.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02

The Farmers' Alliance proposes a accumulation
OF all wheat producers, for the purpose of with
holding this years crop from the market until
they can get sl.35 a bushsl. In other words, the
Farmers' Alliance thinks IL Is wicked thing
for elevator owners or spectators, who are not
farmers, to lock up stores OF wheat for rise,
but righteous act when done by farmers. The
country is to be treated to q vast wheat trust.
formed by members of an association whose
creed includes declaration of war against all
II usts and mononolies
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02
Funeral at 4 p. m, July 80.

Friends are requested to be In attendance at
the wake, p. m, July %, at the residence OF the
deceased.
What God has given he is pleased to take
away, and the ways of Satan are the same. This
title is in dispute.
In commenting on this notice Mr.. Fl. R. Allen,
now in the auditors Office OF the Oregon I'm
provement Company, but formerly resident OF
Wallace, said: "Bill Stoll--everybody called
him sBill'-was in his way an swfully good fell
low, and he will be moarned all through the
Caur dAlene country. He was bright law
yorktown as THE Blackstonisn Tamaraek OF
the Coeur d'Alenes.' You see the tamarack Is
the great tree in the Ceur d'Alenes, and so the
title was compliment. Bill Stoil would have
made good-sized tree, for he was six feet six
inches tall. He had greater faculty than any
one ever knew for talking good deal and say
ing nothing in particular. You would see him
melt jury to tears, and yet when he got
through you couldn't remember anything that
be had said.
sPoor BlIll'
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02
AT AUNTY's HOUSE.

One time when ives at auuty's house
Way in the eountry-where
They's ist but woods, an pigs and cows,
An all out doors an air!
An orchurd swing, an ehnrry trees,
An ehurries in emil Yes, an these
Here red head birds steal all they please
An fetch EN- eff you dsrei
Wy wunst, one time when we Wuz tnere
We eft out on the porch!
Wife where the cellar-door wuz smut
The table WIZ; an |
Let aunty set by me an cut
Ny whites up-an' pie
Tug awful funnyl / could see
The red-heads in the churry tree;
An beenives, where you got 10 DO
so keerful goin' by
An eomp'ny there an all! and we
We ct out on the porchi
An ist ct p'surves an things
Al ma don't low me to-
An cbickun giZZurds ldon IKE wings
Like paruuts does, do you1
An al the time the wind bowed tnere
An could feel IL in my hair,
An IL smell clover ever wherel
An q old red head dew
Purt' nigh wife over my high chair,
When we ct cut on the porch!
jonas WhitooHs5 Riley,
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02
A QUESTION IN DIVORCE.

To The EDITOR: Will you kindly inform Q
reader OF your paper. Ii marriage is legal, en-
te; ed into in this state between q man and
woman who were divorced one month before
in another state. READER.
There Is a law that when q divorce is granted
In this state, the parties shall not contract .
marriage within six months. This law would
probably not apply were the divorce granted in
another state. The laws of the state in which
the divorce is obtained affect the question. In
some places the decree is not binding until six
months after the date of the decree.l
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02

Mayor Smith, of st. Paul, is lunkhsad enough
to justify the presence OF prizehght as help
ing to advertise" or "boom" the city. Why
doesn't the mayor advocate the establishment OF
q splendid open gambling hell and gin palace,
with bagnio attached, ON the same ground? Il
would be hardly q "moral show" but quite
moral enough to satisfy the mayor and immoral
enough to boom and advertise his city.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02
THE FOLLY OF LAwLEssSEsS

superintendent Corey, Of the Franklin
Mines, recently visited Wilkeson on an
errand of business. Certain miners waited
upon him at his hotel. reused him from
sleep, ordered him to leave town and
forced him by threats and superior num-
hers to depart. This was as utterly law
less an act as il would be for a number of
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02
sorIcE TO THE PUBLIC.

The public is hereby warned not to pay
any money to parties representing 70 be
agents Of the Seattle PosT-INrELLIeEscER,
except the following, who are the only
authorized travelling agents Of the Posi-
IsTELLreENcER, viz: J. A Mcclellan. L.
G. Branson, T. A Davies and ]. II. Willett.
7his does not apply to resident agents OF
this paper, who are located in various
cities and towns of the Northwest, nor to
postmasters, who are in all cases author
lied to take subscriptions for the Daily,
Sunday and Weekly Posr-TsTELLIeEScER.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02

DR.. Leslie Keeley's cure for drunkenness Is re-
garded by the Chicago Globe ss one OF the great
est discoveries of modern times, and 1t Is sug-
gested that cities and states take hold and ad-
minister the cure to criminals, most of whom
are victims of the drink habit, and thus abolish
crime. Meantime one of DR.. Keeley's most con-
spicuous patients discharged as cured, Rev. L
l. Norton, of Missouri, has killed himself, hav-
Ing gone mad.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02

When guilty woman is asked very leading
or embarrassing question, she generally takes
refuge in tears, which, like suicide, is confess
ion. The Canadian chief engineer Of the public
works goes clear beyond the female practice, for
when he is asked question that il embarrass-
ing he faints.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02

God in heaven has bereft US:
Taken from US Willie, dear;
Sad and solemn he has left Us.
Pause here, stranger, drop tear;
Midst the melancholic weeping
OF the friends left here below,
Through the pearIy gates he's creeping
On to the throne upon tiptoe;
A crown of glory he is handed,
Anthems sweet and heavenly sings;
Among the angels he is stranded,
He now peram bulates with wings.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02
Drovr.d an the CowIitz.

Martin Durfer, who owned farm at Silver
lake, was drowned July . in the Cowlitz river.
near Castle Rock. wnile bathing, being seized by
cramps Three men have lost their lives in the
Cowli,z river near the place where Mr.. Dnrtier
WA drowned.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02
A NEW KIND OF INSURANCE.

For % cents you can insure yourself and
family against any bad results from an attack
of bowel complaint during the summer
One or two doses of Chamberlain Collie,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy will cure any
ordinary case. II never fails and is pleasant
and safe to take. No one can afford to travel
Without it. For sale at Is cents per bottle by
ali druggists and medicine dealers.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02

The sanctimonious swindler in Louisville, KY,
who robbed his trust of $4,000 was pillar in
Sunday -school and the church, which IL not cal.
culated to hurt the church In the least unless
they initiate the Brooklyn church that MAIN
tanned its church relations with man who had
robbed his friends OF $4,000 without remorss
for ten years, and was convicted and sentenced
to Sing Sing. The fall and unmasking OF q
swindling hypocrits never hurts the church, If
the church does not try to whitewash the
aeouudrel
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02

Unique Death Notice From the Cuur
d'Alene Mines.
A unique specimen of mining camp literature
was received in this city yesterday from Wal
lace, Idaho On q small sheet of paper, sur
rounded by heavy black border, was the fol-
lowing:
EIED.
VIM. Thurman Stoll
July 20, 1891.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02

See the sea lions al Leschi Park today. Yssler
avenue cars leave Pioneer Place every four
F~.fv MT
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02

See the sea lions at Leschi Park today. Yesler
avenue cars leave Pioneer Place every four
minutes
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02

Sea lions and tight rope performance at Lesch
Park tais afternoon.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02

wALLA wALLA ADDITION,
On James street ear line. Brewer & Huugste
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Union Ice Company. Telephone l5s.
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Friends are requested to be In attendance at
he wake, p. m, July %, at the residence OF the
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-05
QUEER AIISHAPS.

The san Francisco is lying in the harbor,
with men and stores on board, and the Ad-
miral expects to receive orders TO sail to
Valparaiso this week. 1t is to be hoped
that She will acquIt herself cTedItably. 1t
Is not likely that she will be called upon to
Try conclusions with the Chilean navy. nor
even to test the range Of her guns; but it
may he hoped that he will prove that she
Is seawo1thy and can steam more swiftly
than the Charleston did on her recent cruise
to Honolulu.
We DO not seem to have very good luck
with some of cur new men-of-war. 1t ap-
pears fl, IL the Eastern dispatches that three
Of the crack new ships on the Atlantic have
been running aground, and have damaged
their bottoms to such an extent that they
require to be sent into tie dry-dock at Nor
folk. ! mere landsman wonders how these
fine vessels, which cost SO much money and
are oficered by the flower Of the American
Navy, managed to run aground That is
not common occur renee with steamers
which carry a iun crew and are handled by
competent sal ors. In time Of war ships are
often forced to run aground, but in time Of
peace such accidents imply something
wrong some where.
1t seems to be the forte Of the American
navy to blend lis glorious record with ludi-
crous incidents. Not many wears ago one
Of the finest Of the new sloops of war IN
dertook to convey the Secretary of the Navy
to Newport, but on the way was run into by
a coal barge and went inc ontinently TO the
bottom. Some years before that disaster,
in tie days when slavery ruled the dag at
Washin -ton, an uproa ar was created by news
that pestilent British guuboat named the
Styx was boarding American vessels off the
coast of Cuba on suspicion that they were en-
gagged i'll the slave-trade. The national gorge
rose at the outrage on the flag and ship Of
war was speedily dispatched from the
Brooklyn Navy-yard TO give the Styx les
son she would remember. The war-shp had
no sooner cleared Sandy II ook than her ma
chinery broke down and she had to lay to
for repairs. These completed she pursued
her voyage, out off Cape Hatteras she
sprung a leak and had trouble in stopping
it. A little further on her engines broke
down again and more delay ensued. Final
", just as the coast Of Cuba came into view,
her shaft broke aud she fell off into the
trough Of the sea. She was now in peril
aus position. Happily, as she was rolling
her top hamper off, steamer was sighted
on the horizon and the American captain
hoisted a signal of distress. The strange
craft steamed up and proved TO he the Styx
herself. Leaning of the accident which
had occurred her captain POLITELY gave our
man-rt-war a hawser and towed her Into the
harbor Of Havana.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-05
ANOTHER FAILURE.

The International American Monetary
Commission has closed its labors about at
the point where it began. The commission
adopted preamble reciting that the fixing
OF the ratio between gold and silver and the
adoption of q e. mmon monetary unit do not
seem al present practical. This conclusion
leaves the United States 10 deal with the
silver question alone. Silver nations will be
ready 10 reap whatever advantage there
may be in rise in silver, but do not see
their way TO help to lift the white metal to
its old ratio with gold. Under these condi-
tons the free-coinage advocates will posi-
bly, be content to wait tie outcome of the
present policy. The United States is con-
vertisg 100000 ounces Of silver bullion
into money each month. 1t will take time
to see if the silver market will improve IN
der these purchases If in two or three
years it should be found that silver has per-
manently gained in market value We may
then consider the chances of raising it to
parity with gold by free coinage Meantime
the purchase of 100000 ounces monthly
will add something more than S50,OO00C0 a
year 10 our metallic money without threat
ening change in our money standard.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-05
THE WAR OVER.

81 far as danger of actual war is con-
Cerned it may be considered past The
Italian Government did not mean all its
words implied. 1t discovered in short
time that it had no real cause of offcnse and
that it had no means of making its protests
effective if it had cause Of offense. Making
war at long range is costly work. The
Italians have some powerful war vessels IN
their own waters, but the most powerful Of
them would hardly he sent across the ATTAIN
tic. But the little glimpse of war we have
been treated to will revive cur national feel
ing The telegram Of the eX-Confederate
Social and benevolent Association Of Kan
sas City is only one Of a thousand similar
responses that would have reached Wash
iugton if the waT-ciOud had become little
DARKER. While uopart Of the country wants
war there is little doubt but that the rising
generation in the Southern States would
eagerly improve an opportunity to fight for
the Union. The AmeIirsnism of both par
Ties will he toned up. Tie rights offoreign-
born citizens will not be abridged, but in
the future the genuineness Of their VOWS Of
allegiance will be submitted to practical
tests. Tie Italian-Americans who appealed
to their native country have taught the
American people the value Of caution.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-05
scHooL-TEAcHERs' SALARIES.

The Troy New York Board of Education
recently adopted a new schedule of salaries
in accord with the demands of teachers.
While allowing the rates the teachers had
asked fer the board stipulated that il the
money at their disposal was insufficient TO
keep the schools open the entire year the
teachers should have no claim to employ
ment for the portion OF the year the schools
might remain closed. 1t is a question if the
teachers will be materially benefited by such
an arrangement. A 10 per cent advance of
salaries with 10 per cent off the school year
improves the condition OF the teacher only
By allowing her a vacation which in most
cases cannot be turned to pecuniary advan-
tage. The schedule of salaries as adopted
range from S35 TO $50 month, according to
the number OF years the teacher has taught.
Principals in the intermediate and primary
departments range from SIS to $50. The
greater number of the teachers are included
in the S35 TO $50 grade of salaries, with an
excellent prospect of an idle month or two.
San Francisco is much more liberal with its
school-teaehers than Troy.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-05
THE SEAL QUESTION.

The roorback about tie shooting of seals
on the seal rocks by Italian fishermen has
had the effect Of revlyng the discussion
over tie law mich protects these animals
On one side, fishermen and parties inter-
ested in the fish industry demand their eX-
termination, on the ground that they eat
the salmon that enter The bay TO spawn
on the other. the public generally regard the
seal rocks with their inhabitants, as one OF
the many attractions of the city, and MAIN
tain that it would be piece OF vandalism to
drive The seals away.
The disputants are not agreed upon the
facts Fish Commissioner ReGding eSti-
mates the number Of seals which haunt the
entrance to the bay at three hundred, and
reckons that each seal eats twenty pounds
of salmon per day, which would make
daily waste of SIX thousand pounds OF sal
mon-say six hundred fish. On the other
hand. Mr.. AdOlph Sutro, who has made
close study of the seals, says that they do
not eat over five or six pounds OF fish per
day, and that salmon IS so much swltter
in the water than a seal that the denzenS of
tie seal r. cks must work hard 10 get even
that allowance. The fishermen declare that
their calling is rendered needlessiy precari-
Gus by the damage done to their nets by the
seals; they fail to remember that the de-
structiOn of nets By large sea fish-whether
porpOises. sharks or seals-is one of the or
binary risks Of the business, which they
naturally take into account when they en-
bark IN it.
If the salmon fishing industry in the Sac
ramento were in a fourlshing condition,
anything which threatened its prosperity
would be a nuisance demanding abatement.
But fer many years that industry from
various causes has been decaying. All over
the world the progress of settlement and
traffic is fatal 10 fishing grounds. When
man takes possession OF rivers, salmon de-
part from them. The catch on the Sacra-
mento is declining year by year, and the
quality Of the fish is deteriorating. This is
not altogether the work Of the seals, though
they may contribute to the result, 1t is
more largely due 10 tile operation of other
causes, which the depOpulation Of the seal
rocks would not arrest.
On the other hand there can be DO doubt
but the seal rocks are one of the chief at
fractions which the city contains There IS
nothing like them anywhere in the word.
In such far eff cities as Rome and Vienna
and St. Petersburg, to say nothing of Paris
and London. children learn with amaze
ment that in tie open air, within gunshot
Of the park in San Francisco. vast numbers
Of hot8 ale 10 be seen gamboling, per
forming their amlhlbious capeTs, ana lead
ing primitive lives in an aquarium con-
stTucted by nature without help from man :;
they long for The time when they can come
to san Francisco merely 10 enjoy that won
derful sight Mr.. Joe Redding regards this
as sentimental business" II he reflects he
may discover that it has practical side as
well. He probably regards the admiration
of Niagara Falls as more sentimental bust
ness" The people Of Niagara County, New
York. could give him a point on that ques-
tiou
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-05
a COMING coNrERENoE.

There is said to be great rejoicing in Ca
madam Government circles over the pros
pect that a Canadian reciprocity PROPOSE
ton has been formulated which will be salts
factory TO Mr.. Blaine. The new PROPOSE
ton will not propose radical departure
from the present policy of protection, but
will be based on mutual concessions. OF
course the Canadian Ministers understand
that MIR. Blaine does not make reciprocity
treaties without the consent Of the Senate,
and of tho House when an appropriation is
needed to carry it into effect The so-called
treaty with Brazil was simply an agree
ment by Brezn TO conform TO certain condi-
tious laid down in the Mckinley tariff.
When Brazil agreed to these conditions it
only remained to proclaim the fact. But
Canada cannot come 10 any agreement that
will meet the conditions of the Mckinley
act If Sir Charles Upper and Mr.. Blaine
fix on a reciprocity treaty it will have to
90 before Congress. With the Canadian
Pacific taking a mean advantage OF the
bonding privilege to take traffic from Amer
lean roads. the American people are not
eager for more reciprocity with Canada,
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-04-05
HEAVY DECLINE IN LUMBER.

Pine lumber has declined to figures m
precedented. In the jargon Of the traders
the bottom has fallen out of the market.
Boards have scld at SO 30 per thousand, as
against former average of SIS The at
LempIs of the lumber-dealerS to organize q
lumber trust that would stick constitute an
interesting chapter in commercial history.
Our dealers and saw-mil men have over
and over again formed cast-iTOn compacts
which embraced nearly every person in the
trade in This State. Three years ago they
had got things so well fixed that permanent
high prices seemed inevitable. Luckily for
the public, who felt the pressure, the unex-
pected came TO their relief. The boom in
Southern California collapsed, the demand
for lumber in that section fell off and the
trust found Itself loaded with a vast stock
of unstable merchandise. as always hap
pens III such cases, some of the members of
the trust began TO cut rates, the others found
il out and followed suit, and prices fell,
possibly, as far below the cost Of produc-
ton as they had formerly been above il.
The profits of tie Ombine were gradually
swept away and the lumbeTmen found
themselves worse off than they would have
been had they never organized their trust.
i feeble attempt to set the trust on its
legs again was made some months ago under
the auspices Of the Pacific Pine Company,
and the price was lifted TO $40 per 1000.
But it was found impossible to get all the
mills into the arrangement, and the trust
was forced, in self-protection, to make war
upon the recalcitTantS who stayed out, and
upon dealers who traded with them. The
advantage was with the trust so long as the
demand was in excess of the supply; but
the moment equilibrium was established,
and the supply began to exceed the demand,
the outsiders became masters Of the sltua-
tion. being free to meet the market; cut fol-
lowed cut; lumber was offered in Oakland
considerably below the San Francisco price
Mendocno made a price which Humboldt
could not follow, and the end has come in
the Shape of a sauye qUi peut. Lumber is
worth Just what consumers will pay for it.
There is said to be 10000 eco feet of pine in
the yards, besides as much redwood; before
that supply is exhausted it may he POSSIBLE
to build a house or barn at a low figure.
Combinations among producers are some
times successful. We see instances in the
sugar and oil market But they cannot sue
eeed where the producers are too numerous
to be gathered into one fold, or where the
trust lacks the means to buy out the small
men. Tie reduction Of lumber requires so
little capital, and may be undertaken in so
many places that it is a work of untold diff
Guilty 70 establish monopoly Of the indus