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THE PUGET SOUND NATIONAL BANK. OF
Seattle
Paid up capital $500 600
surplus. ............................ 10000
'Buy and sell foreign and domestic exchange;
transfer money by telegraph 10 all cities In the
United States and Europe; receive deposits OF
money and issue pass books or certificates there
tor. Our facilities for making collections are com
plete and viii receive prompt attention
DIRECTORS:
fresluent
~, - =. !" AM Ice PRESIDENT
j. fOhl ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Cashier
CORRESPONDENTS:
London. N. N. Rohschld & Sons: Paris. De
Rothschi.d Freres: Frankfort A. NJ, l. Won
sfeiger d Co.; New York agency of Bank of Cali
fornia; Chicago. Commercial National Bank:
Boston, Suffolk National Bank: san Francisco.
The Bank OF California; Portland. The First
National Bank.
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Gottsiein building corner Front and Coumb a
STEAM CRS.
pACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY
Dispatch steamers from Seattle as follows:
For San Francisco via Port Townsend and Vic
terra: At q p m. passengers received on board ~
bp MI August IL, Is, Il, &c and 81.
For Alaska August 10, 81
From San Francisco for Victoria and Puget
Sound ports: At - m. August ), s, Is. Is, 20
and rs.
Tickets may be obtained at the Office Of the COM
paEy a. Ocean dock, Seattle.
GooDAL. PERKINS a Co,
General Agents, san Francisco
ii. MCCLELLAN. Superintendent, Seattle.
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RANK OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
- Established on Pacific Coast 1857,

DANK OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
ID Established ON Pacific Coast 1851
Aefas1A PAu 5000. 090
lover 70 increase TO- 10000 O00
LOCO. 600
Interest paid on time deposits general banking
and sold: drafts and telegraphc transfers soss5 IN
the banks branches also in New York Chicasn
Canada and Hong .ong Deposits received suo.
Jet 70 check.
Notes issued by our British Columbia branches
redeemed 1t par.
BRANCHES:
San Francisco Cal, Portland Or Taeor,.
Wash. Victoria, Vancouver, New Westministrrr
Nanaimo and kamloops, b. @.
r. LEA BARNES. ............ Man.,.,
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WALLA wALLA ADDITION.
Brewer & Hungats, co second street.
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LANpINes-Seattle, CommercfaI wharf, between
Marion and Madison streets: Tacoma p r. r.
wharf; Olympia, Perceivals wharf On and
after July l viii leave Commercial wharf be-
tween Marion and Madison streets
MEALS ON BOARD. Only boat making round
trip Sunday Carries Northwestern and Wells
Fargo express and fast freight
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TAILORING.

uAvE YOUR TROUSERS MADE BY COON
III trousers maker. We make nothing else Tn
Gottsiein building corner Front and Coiumb q.
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COLUMBIA RIVER AND PUGET SOUND
~ Navigation Company. commencing Saturday
March z.
PASSENGER STEAMER BAILEY aATzERr
z. J. HATCH, Master
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For Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia
soINe.
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Leave Seattle daily e1cep. Monday
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20
NEWS BY MESSAGE.

One does not expect to find much in
the perfnnctory annual delivery of the
president to congress that should come
under the head of news. But that must
be the classification when it is asserted
that the MCKINLEY act has created
new Industries that will in due time
give employment to some hundreds of
thousands of people. The information
would be more satisfactory if specific.
The data in sight are too limited for the
imagination to get start from. If it
were known that he had been reading
the writings of ELI PERKINS it might
be supposed that reference was had to
tin Possibly he was thinking of the in
crease of shOddy in place of WOODEN man
ufactures. The only new industry
created by the MCKINLEY system that
can be distinctly identified is the pearl
button concern, protected from 700 20
1900 per cent, and alleged by protee-
tiOnists to be a trifiing affair. A great
number of manufactures have ceased
entirely or partially to operate, and
others have reduced the wages of the
operatives. Gov. CAMPBELL'S challenge
to show an instance where wages have
been increased by virtue of the new
tariff has met no response. On a great
many of the necessaries of life the peo-
pie are paying duties raised from 45 to
60 per cent. That is what they are get
ting out of the thing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20
THE BUSINESS SITUATION.

The holiday season means usually a
rich harvest TO the retailer, and period
of comparative cessation in wholesale
trade, where there is balancing of books
and taking of stocks against another
year. Last winter at Christmas time the
entire country was shrouded in gloom,
and everybody had the same sad story
TO tell of tight money and unfayOrable
prospects. Now the shops are filled
with customers; the banks have reserves
much in excess of the legal require
ments and their desires, and a general
feeling of buoyancy and hopefulness
pervades this community, as we'll as all
the other business centerS of the coun-
try.
In Wall street, too. the year is closing
with bulliSh tone. There has pre-
vailed during the past week an active
demand for investment bonds and divi-
dend-paying stocks which is indicative
of easy times and surplus funds. The
influx of gold from abroad has contin-
ued, and about one-half of cur ship
ments during the spring has now been
restored to us. Speculative securities
have been left, as has been the case for
some time, to professional operators;
but even in them the movement has been
upward, with the exception of Northern
Pacific and some of the Gould roads,
whose reports are not up to the general
standard.
The price of breadstuffs has been low
again. but the volume offered enormous.
During four months beginning Aug. L,
two and half times as much wheat was
sold at the chief American points of eX-
change as was marketed in the previous
year, and the bank clearances for St.
Paul for the six days ending Friday
were so per cent greater than in the cor
responding week OF 1890. Even with
the low figures prevailing for their
produce, the income of the farmers of
the United States must aggregate nearly
500, 100000 more this year than it has
in many long season. When all the
records are in and the totals compiled,
this fall will be a banner fall in the
country's history, the like of which has
never been known before.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20
WHAT AFFECTS 1T.

A prominent Western physician is
quoted as attributing the grippe to the
fact that the climate has been under
going change the past few years. be-
coming more like that of England, and
the effusionS Of volcanoes have affected
the atmosphere. After the people are
Injured to the new conditions, there will
be no more grippe. There are serious
difficulties in adjusting that theory TO
the conditions, as the grippe seems to be
strictly impartial in its viSitationS, going
into any climate on either side of the
water. Possibly there may be weather
more conducive to its work than other
varieties, but it is. not remembered that
any has afforded entire immunity. The
toning down of the more frigid c0ndi-
tons the four past winters has not been
confined to the Northwest, although
perhaps more marked there than in the
North and Northeast generally. The
present winter is apparently to be added
to the number. 1t is mild in Boston, as
well as St. Paul. The fact is that what
the learned do not know about the
meandering penchant of the grippe is
quite as much as the unlettered are not
masters of. Nor is it quite prudent to
stake much yet on the theory that there
has been a permanent change in the
northern climate. Even four or five
winters in succession are not conclusive.
As near this vicinity as there are records,
there were in the early part of the cent
ury three winters in succession mider
than any OF the recent ones. The prec-
edent, however, WAS not followed
closely.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20
LIFE CHEAPENEn

A man was hung in North Corolina
Friday for stealing a hypodermic syr-
inge. At least, that is all he got away
with. He entered dwelling one night
in October and took this useful utensil
of the medical vocation. Possibly lie
was in pursuit of the means of inject
ing into his system a dose of bichlOride
of gold Oh the KELLEY plan, to cure a
perverSe appetite. He was not lynched,
but hanged by due process of law, and
in pursuance of the verdict of a jury.
No violence or attempt TO take life was
shown. One has to look at an almanac
to be sure this is the nineteenth century
when man is hung for stealing a
syringe. The law in North Carolina
prescribes capital punishment for
burglariOusly entering a dwelling or
any room occupied as a sleeping apart
ment. 1t is the evident presumption
that in such cases there is the purpose
to take life if resisted. Still, it looks
like severe penalty; but if it is justi-
liable to shoot the burglar caught in the
act, why not hang him by law? But it's
serious matter to put a person to
death, and ii may be questioned whether
more than one crime should meet that
penalty. 1t cheapens life to take it
away too freely, and the old experience
was that the death penalty for numer-
Gus offenSes did not deter from crime.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20

such connection, and no need for de-
molishing men of straw too unstable to
maintain their own equilibrium.
1t is impossible TO hold national con
vention in a city too small for its accom-
mediation. This eliminates Omaha, Des
Moines and Ind annapolis from the con
test. 1t also diScredits the ambition of
Milwaukee, with its one or two hotels.
and Detroit, with scarcely better facili-
ties. 1t Will not be wise to hold the
convention where the climate promises
physical discomfort for all who attend.
This eliminates Cincinnatian and st. Louis
from the contest. 1t will not be good
politics to hold the convention where
there is much depth of feeling for or
against the aspirations of the prOmi-
nent presidential candidates. This elm
mates New York from consideration.
The place for the Democratic national
convention is city where balmy breezes
blow to cool the hot summer sun; where
there are MOTEL accommodations for ALI
army of guests: where there will be a
brand new auditorium capable of seat
Ing 10000 people; where a guarantee
fund of 100000 has beer secured al
ready to cover the necessary expenses;
where every candidate has friends, and
no candidate the preponderanee of pop
uiar favor. The place for the national
Democratic convention is the chief and
most progressive city of the new North
west, which is freedoms battle ground
as is no other section in the Union,
ready to rally under the Democracy's
banner if invited and sought for. st.
Paul, the other twin. is the place for the
national Democratic convention. Please
don't forget it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20
ABOUT THE CONVENTION

The Chicago Evening Post in a recent
issue discusses in some detail the loca-
ton of the coming Democratic national
convention. As one might readily guess.
it finds that every argument favorS
Chicago first of all, and it repeats them
with much convincing force. But Chi
cagO, it admits, is not now candidate,
and until the end of the contest may
continue to play the part of the modest
maiden, as it did before the Republican
committee. After Chicago it names
New York as formidable competitor,
though with certain tone of conde-
scension, as BELTS paper.published in
the worlds metropolis. But New York
has Jared so ill of late in her contests
for public distinctions that the Post
doubts whether she will seriously enter
the race at all, lest one more defeat
should strip her of her remaining pres
tige.
OF the other cities st. Paul cores
next, and OF her the Post says:
st. Paul is working very hard and is kick
Ing up great deal of dust. And for her dis
play of energy she is receiving no little credit.
ton year is enoug h for The Twin Cities just
at present st. Paul could take care of the
convention as well as Minneapolis Each is
dependent or the other. 1t won't be that
that will prevent the convention going to
her, but simply a belief that the honor should
be passed around, and that Omaha, ST. LOUIS.
Detroit or one Of the smaller cities should
have it.
All this is important Information, and
contains the one argument which it
seems possible 20 cOnjure up against
US. We have every positive claim for
the convention, but this section has re-
ceiyed glory enough for one season, and
the rest of the land is entitled to some
consideration. If influences of this
kind were to determine the result. our
! efforts would be as uncertain of effect
! iveness as campaign to be decided by
the shifting caprices of woman's
fancy. But fortunately hard-headed
men have this question in hand, and. if
we are defeated. it will be for weightier
reasons than Minneapolis success.
The absurdity of the Posts position
is disclosed by the review which it after
wards attempts Of the advantages other
sites have to offer. 1t proposes DeS
Moines because iowa is doubtful state,
or indianapolis because something will
DE needed 10 Offset HAREISoN's per
sonal prowesS in his native state should
he receive his party's nomination. Ii
| points like these are worthy of discus
sion, why not select Helena, that Mon
| taEa may be assured to the Democracy.
or Cheyenne in the hope of winning
| Wyoming to the Democratic column:
! Bnt there is really nothing to debate in
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20
SHES AT SHERMAN.

The pOetical silversmiths of Ohio are
still yelling great John Sherman" like
their prototype of Ephesus-To Blade
(Dem.)
1t is presumed that Mr.. Foraker would be
well pleased should John Sherman become
a presidential candidate. Washington Post
(Ind).
Senator sherman will be returned to the
senate. The people have so declared, and
the people must be obeyed. Cleveland
Leader (Rep).
John Sherman is coming down the course
an easy winner of the Ohio senatorial sweep
stakes. Foraker isn't i'll it. according to
present appearances.-Boston Herald.
Senator Sherman is said to be full
fledged presidential candidate While there
is no reason able doubt of Mr.. Shermans re-
election to the United States senate, it would.
we think, be well enough to restrain the
presidential bee New York Advertiser
(Rep).
1t is said that John sherman has re-entered
the race for the presidency in order to save
the country from financial lunacy. The old
man has tried to save the country on three
occasions already, but with singular indiffer-
ence to its peril the country has each time
played Emin to his Staniey.-St Lois Post
Dispatch (DemJ.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20
QUACKS ABOUT QUAY.

Senator Quay will and he won't be can
didate for reelection. That is just about as
satisfactory as his utterances usually are
Pittsburg Post.
Pennsylvania apparent Endorsement of
Quayism must have been only on the sur
face. The boss announces that he will prob
ably not seek reelection to the senate. but
he has steel cable hitched onto his an
nouncement-Kansas City Times
Senator Quay has offered a resolution to
inquire into the feasibility of purchasing the
Mexican states of Sonora, chihuahua and
Coahuila. Is this a scheme to break the
solid South? Before these states are an
nexed we move they adopt civilized names.
-Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
A Pittsburg jury has found true bills in
some of Senator Quay's newspaper libel
suits, and it is just possible that he may re-
cover as much as II cents from some OF his
wicked uaducers after year or two.-Boston
Herald.
1t would seem that Senator Quay is so anx-
ious to beat Harrison's denomination that he
is willing to sacrifice his own ambition to
succeed himself in the senate. His taking
himself out of the race is probably the con-
dition of his recent reconciliation with Chris
Magee.-St Louis Republic.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20
A GUARDIANSHIP PROBLEM.

The reason advanced by Speaker
CRISP for naming Northern men as
chalrmen of the committees on ways
and means and appropriations is emf
nently sound. 1t is generally admitted
that the Northern states contain large
preponderance of the financial sinews
of trade and commerce. AS against the
South, even with her grand results of
increased prosperity since the close OF
the war, the North eOnfesSedly holds
far greater financial interests and pays
much larger proportion of that indi-
rect tax which masquerades under the
name of High Tariff" 1t is true that
the Southern states are making mighty
strides i'll the roadway leading to a mag
nlfcent industrial and agricultural
future. But the Fifty-second con-
greSS is a thing of the present,
and the existing conditions of the
present really suggest appropriately
the appointment of Northern men at
the heads of these two important COM
mittees. The South has elected the
speaker. BY the North that prominent
office, virtually the second in the ad-
ministratiOn, has been cheerfully con-
ceded to the South. And it is not only
wise, but a graceful act in Speaker
CRISP to make his selection from
Northern congressman for these two
chairmanships. Had Mr.. MILLS been
elected, the same ''logic of the situa-
ton" would no doubt have led him to a
like conclusion as that reached by
Speaker CRISP.
1t is this peculiar situation of affairs
in the house which has provoked so
much political gossip, not to say bellig-
erent recrimination. during the past
ten days. The correspondence pub
llshed elsewhere between Speaker CRISP
and Mr.. MILLS throws considerable light
upon the question. by this correspond
ence is shown the delicate position in
which the speaker from a Southern
state is placed in his relation to his most
active competitor. Mr.. Mills. In the
Fiftieth congress Mr.. MILLS was chair
man of the committee on ways and
means. But that precedent cannot be
advanced in the present situation. The
cases are not analogous, because Mr..
CARLISLE, speaker of the last Demo-
cratic house, and resident of Ken
lucky, border state, is not so distinct
lively a Southern man as is Speaker
CRISP. 1t will hardly be claimed by the
most radical that, under the existing
circumstances, any slight is put upon
Mr.. MILLS by naming a Northern man
as chairman of the committee on ways
and means. To give both this position
and the speakership to the South would
not sustain the equilibrium between the
financial interests of the North and
South
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20
THE WORLD OVER.

Fire at Croton Landing. n. Y, yesterday
burned eleven houses to the ground. Total
loss, SIS, 900.
The last spike in the Roanoke & Souther n
railway, between Roanoke and Winston, was
driven yesterday.
A telegram from Cairo, says that Osman
Digna, at the head of the Mandists, Will at
tempt to re conquer Tocar.
Six professors OF the University of Vienna,
including the eminent surgeon Billroth, have
been stricken with influenza
Charles Albert Benson, the Kansas MUIR
derer who is to hang Feb 5 has made his
second unsuccessful attempt to commit sui
eide.
Anton Rubensteiu. the Russian pianist has
accepted an offer of S125 ,00) Tor a series of
fifty concerts to be given in the United
States.
Rear Admiral Thomas Patterson, [. S. N,
died suddenly at New Brighton, s. l., Thurs
day night His death was entirely unex-
pected.
Two men were killed and several injured
bY an explosion in the blast furnaces of the
Illinois Steel company at Bay View, near
Milwaukee yesterday
Maj Mckinley is much improved, and is
now on the road to recovery. Yesterday he
was able to take drive i'll the city, accom-
paniee by Mrs. Mckinley.
Z. N. Field is still locked up in Ludlow
street jail. In all probability many indict-
ments are yet to be found against him. He
cannot now be released from jail on bail.
Word has been received that the Cherokee
council and the United States commission
have agreed upon the sale and purchase of
the Cherokee strip for a consideration of
IS, $50, 1876
The monitor Miantonomah, which is to be
the finest ship in the navy, will pe floated
out of the dry dock of the Brooklyn navy
yard next Wednesday. She will go on her
trial trip to Gardeners bay.
DR.. Conrad Fischer, of Munich has been
forced TO resign from the reichstag and from
his official positions, owing to his name be-
ing connected with the swindling operations
of the banker. Graf, of that city.
The amount of 412 per cent bonds re-
deemed yesterday was $4,000. making the
total redemptions to date So, 342, $50 and
leaving outstanding So, 169, $50.
1t has been officially announced that Fan
zibar will be a free port after February 1
next except as regards alcohol and NUM-
tons OF war. No duties will be collected on
any articles except those commodities.
Several South German deputies declare that
the zollverein will pauperize the South Ger
man farming population and drive them into
the arms of the socialists. Herr BeDel, the
socialist leader, appears TO be of the same
opinion.
1t is stated that the negotiations for the
modification of the French concordat will
result in the creation of an under secretary
of state for worship, thus virtually severing
the worship from the justice department.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20
A CHAINED SKELETONS
CHASTITY Relic OF an Old-Time
Break for Liberty.

GAINESVILLE. Tex, Dec. 19.-Near
TishomingO, yesterday. a strange dis
covery was made by some woodchop-
pers who were working in the mills
west of that place. They brought to
town a skeleton and the section of
tree that bears evidence of the truth
fuinesS of their story. They cut
down Il large oak tree, which
was partly hollow, but the
entrance to the followed portion had al
most entirely grown over, leaving only
a narrow slit in the outside of the tree.
When the tree fell to the ground it was
split open by the shock, and there. lying
in the center of the broken wood, was
the skeleton of man. On one ankle
of the skeleton was q band of iron at
tached TO a piece of chain, evidently
from the manacles worn when
he sought refuge in the hol-
low tree. From all indications
the skeleton has been entOm5ed Tor
many years, for the tree had grown suf-
ficiently to almost cover the opening
through which he crawled to hide. Two
OF the RIBS were broken in such man
ner as 10 lead to the belief that it was
done 10y bullet. The superstition is
that the man. escaped from SOME prison
and had fled with a portion 81 his man
acleS. ana bein< Shot ami hard pressed
had sought refuge in the tree and tlers
died.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20
SHORT AND CRISP.

The bartender should be a man of good
spirits. Bepulican.
Every misery old bachelor in the country
ought to be fined for contempt of court
Oil City Blizzard
The man who tore down the schoolhouse
flag at Sharpstown, Ind, should be kicked on
the spot-Columbus Post.
Jagson says he knows man who Is so thin
that he can't distinguish an attack of lum
bago from as.omach-ache--Elmira Gazette.
deer is one of the swiftest animals
Even when killed and served as venisOn you
will notice that it goes very fast.-Yonkers
Statesman.
Billiards has been suggested to boom
church attendance in New York, but the min
listers are slow to take the cue.-Philadelphia
Record
The advocate of anarchistic principles
seems TO think he has taken the truth out of
a nutshell and put it in a bombshell.-Wash
ington Star.
Professor about to have his hair CUT
DOnnerwetter, how cold it is, You viii allow
me to keep lay hat On, won't yous-Hinkende
Bote Kalender