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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03
The Decay OF San Francisco.

L. Hulsch IN san Francisco Examiner
Let us so back ten years and eornpare husi
ness OF that period with our commerce. of tnsav
Ten years ago San Francisco was sunnlying
Oregon, Washington, British Columbia. south
ern California, Arizona, Idaho, New MEXICO
Nevada and Utah almost exclusively with their
wants. Merchants were happy. and II was,
comparatively speaking, an easy matter to make
fortune, or at leSst comfortable living The
cities OF San Diego, Los Angeles, Portland. Ia
coma, Seattle, Port Townsend and Vaneonve,
were almost unknown quantities from a COM
mereial point. We were dreaming a hanpv
dream, laughing at the efforts OF some of the
above ports TO become San Franchises rival
We were paving high freights for our Eastern
importations, but we were selling at high nroFts
and the Central Pacific railroad did onIy What
any other monopoly would do under simiIar
circumstances, exseting all we could nav and
all they could get. but never Charging ms snch
rates as to make business Improbable although
at times they took the Lions share . W.T.
has been the consequence of such actions on
their part and lethsrgy on our part7 Railroads
have found their way TO British Columbia. the
sound, Oregon and Southern California Wa
have almost Lost these territories, ami san Fan.
cisco, once the distributing center OF this Coast
has dwindled down 10 a large retail city. How
many wholesale houses have been established
within the lSst ten years, and how may
merchants OF ~ have gone out OF buSins.s for
want OF patronage? ASK our merchants of 70
day about the natural growth of their trade and
they must suhstantiate my statements
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03

This item, the accuracy of which there can be
no reason 10 doubt, appeared in the San Fran
Cisco Chronicle Of recent date: "There is in this
market, and offered for sale, shipment of
American tin, consisting of POI bars of pig tin,
weighing about Sc pounds each, which, with
the quantity previously sent to this city for ex-
hioition, makes about seven tons on hand. This
tin comes from the Temescsl mines, in the state
OF California, and is the first American tin ever
offered 20 commerce" The Chronicle gives the
further assurance that the owners of these
mines estimate that their product of block tin.
twelve months hence, will be at the rate of 900
tons year. This is substantial and healthy
beginning, and directly due to the protective
policy. But this bright prospect for a new in
dustry that will furnish profitable employment
to'tens of thousands of American laborers, only
adds to the dissatisfaction and misery in Demo-
cratic and Mugwump circles.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03

Frenchman, Victor Beranger, of
Worcester, Mass, editor of lie Courier de
Worcester, has invented and applied for
patents in this and four other of the
leading nations for one-wheel cycle
which he claims will be the wonder of the
age and will work positive revolution in
the matter of locomotion.
II seems that two years ago Mr.. Beranrer
saw and admired at fair the exploits of
bicycle trick rider on one wheel. why"
said he TO himself, cannot a one-wheel
cycle be made practicable for ordinary
use9" And forthwith he brought his in
ventive talent to bear on the evolvement Of
q contirmatory solution of his own
question.
And he claims 10 have solved Il hv the
invention of a one-wheel cycle eight feet
high, which anybody can learn TO ride in
minute, and then write his name in the
dust with 1t in fifteen feet Of snace. and
which wiz have a speed capacity of two
miles minute on good track Recently
i'm Montreal, his brother rode one OF these
cycles IS miles in one hour on an ordinary
highway. Beranger, the inventor. has
made wager of SlO0 that he viii leave
Worcester simultaneously with the new
"Chicago liver" of the Boston & Albany
railroad. aud travelling e miles by the
highway. while the train will travel bat
a by rail, win arrive in Boston ahead Of
the train by st least Is minutes,
This new vehicle. which is 10 enable a
man 10 outranA the fastest railroad train,
consists of large wheel, about eight feet
IN diameter at the outer and about six feet
at the inner circumference, the two being
held together by common wire spokss
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03

Already the disintegration of the Conservative
party in Canada, which was predicted as a re-
suit OF the death of their great leader. Sir John
Macdonald, has begun. The Montreal star.
heretofore Conservative in its leanings and a
supporter of Sir Johns administration, has in
augurated a campaign of open and bitter hos
tiiity to the Abbott administration. "The cabi.
net is weak" says the Star, "and the new leader
inspires no confidence" Ii makes no bones
about declaring that the party will fall to
pieces, and no one can be found to take the old
chieftsin's place" And the Star and other
journals of like opinions have a following
and support that are creating serious con-
Germ in government circles Revolutions of
this kind seldom go backward The hand.
writing is on the wall Conservatism in Canads
Ia doomed
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03

For the first four months of 1891 the importa-
tons OF foreign wool into the United States
amounted TO SS,274000 pounds, against IS 657 600
pounds in the same months OF 1880. an increase of
9,6l7,0O pounds, or very nearly 50 per cent
This is most significant and an entirely con
elusive answer TO the claim OF the free traders
that the new tariff is prohibitive. Perhaps
they viii now claim tina: the higher the
duty the larger will be the importations.
ana that the only way to shut out foreign wool
Is 10 ADMIT 1t free. That is about of piece with
the general run of their tariff logic. But the
people generally viii agree with the doctrine
lald down In the Ohio Republican platform,
that I'VE demand protection for the wool in
dustry equal to that accorded to the most fa.
vored manufacturer of wooden goods, so that in
due time America wool-growers will supply all
wool of every kind required for consumption in
the United States"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03

An editorial writer on an Eastern contempt
rsry wrote the word injured" which the
deadly compositor converted into 'phazed,"
which caused commotion in interested circles.
The manner OF making the mistake was ex-
planned. with the addendum that "resemblanc
between the two caused the blunder" And, by
way of further excavation. it is explained that
the writer whose injured" could not be dis
tinguished from ''phazed" is "a college pro-
lessor, graduate of Amherst, Columbia and
Leips.c." and who knows more about the En-
glish language than the editor of any dictionary.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03

In India. where English schools in anaxing
numbers are completing and extending British
conqussts, while In the French colonies of North
Africa. in Egypt and In Finland recent school
systems, eliminating in the academy or the
university, are psopsrsting modern culture. In
Southern and Eastern Russia and even in ST.
IBERIA, where q new university has just been
opened in Tomsk, in moss of the South Amer
lean states, led by the Argentine Republic and
by Chile, advances no less than amazing have
been made within recent years" From which
President Hall dsduces the encouraging con-
clusicn that education is the one thing In
which men of all sects. parties, ranks or races
now agree"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03

There was an exciting scene at a meeting
Baptist ministers in Boston June - One min
lister, at the request Of the conference. was dis
cussing the influence of secret societies upon
the church, in the course of which he inveighed
bitterly against Masonry, declaring that in be-
coming Mason one must swear allegiance to
code antagonistic TO God. Rev. Mr.. cleveland,
OF Aelrose, who was in the audience, with great
emotion protested, and raised the point of
order that the abuse of Masons was unjust and
inadmissible. On sustaining the point of order
the vote stood ayes and 50 hayes. Instantly
Mr.. cleveland aroseand requested that his name
De dropped from the roll of the conference He
claims 10 be Christian as well as Mason be
heves that the two professions are not ineonsis-
tent, and was unwilling to remain in an sssoci-
alton that stigmatized either. Self-respect and
loyalty TO his order were at one against the harsh
view OF the conference.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

The public is hereby warned not 70 pay
any money to parties representing to be
agents of the Seattle Posr-IsTELLIGEscER,
except the following, who are the only
authorized travelling agents of the Posr-
IsrELLIsEscER, viz: j. A. Mcclellan. L.
C. Branson, T. A. Davies and j. H. Willett.
This does not apply to resident agents of
this paper, who are located in various
effies and towns Of the Northwest, nor to
s50ptmasters, who are in all cases author
- 20 take subscriptions for the Daily,
hday and Weekly Posr-IETELLIeEScER.
8EATTLE, FRIDAY. JULY 3.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03
The Water ousel,s Nas,

George Mitchell in Portland oregonian.
Being out on prospecting tour in the mount.
aims and having some knowledge OF birds and
beasts N theif native haunts, was on the alert
for anything could see. one dav uhiis -
were wadlng mountain stream in skamanis
county, Wash. a water ouseI lesvs .
waterfall some twenty feet above tbs strasr, We
were IN. By helping my companion 10 rue roess
he was enabled to reach the place yshere ths
eird had seIt and was rewarded by fud;px the
nest, asp!endid waterproof ness, bull, iu a crew
ice OF Tie rocks where the water was pouring
over ana parity oato the lore part OF the nest |
now have il and one egE al home il, Vsr-o,,vs-
Wash, as a relic OF cur trip
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03

Among the contributors to next SUM-
the famous North Carolina farmer, who
writes to Jerry Rusk for assistance; Frank
G. Carpenter, who describes the celebra-
ton of the Mexican Fourth of July;
Charles Howard shinn, editor of the Oter-
land Monthly, who traces the evolution of
a California ranch, and Mrs. John Sher-
wood, who discusses dainties for dessert.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03

On the 18th of July the bids viii be opened
and the contracts awarded for the 100 steel guns
provided for by the last congress, for which an
appropriation of about four million dollars wa,
made. of these, 50 are to be 1o-inch, 25 Will b
s-inoh and IS l2-inch. AL are 10 be breeeh.
loading, singe-ehsrge steel guns Bidders
must be citizens OF the United States and all the
materials American. The S-ineh guns will each
weigh liis tons, and viii be "A feet long; charge
OF powder $50 pounds and weight of proieetils
so pounds. The loinch guns viii weigh eo
tons, aud viii be so feet long, 80 pounds of
powder aud SIS pounds proieetile The la-inch
will weigh IS tons, 81 feet long, 40 pounds
powder and l,ooo pounds projeetile
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03
Stocking an Eastern Washington Lake.


James GLASGOW and james Young returned
from Hayden lake, Wednesday evening. with
about -,Veo fish. principally trout, making in all
100 front that have been put into silver lake
tais season CUR readers will remember that
last fali Mr.. Laughbon placed in the sams I.l, a
lot of bass, channel catfish. and Mississinni val
low catfish, all OF which took to the water as
naturally a. to that whsncs they were brought
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03

statement that viii surprise most people
VAS made by President Hall. of Clark Cniver.
sity. in an address delivered before Brown
University = fen days ago. He says that "eoua.
pFshsnsivs systsEas OF education have been
Lately inAagurassd il Madagascar. In Australia.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03
Excursion to snooun,n,.

An excursion win be given to snoousl,,sa
Fails, North Bend, and old Mount 81 IN Js,I,
Round trip tickets, s. Train leaves toot n
Coaafaoiz street at s.45 a. m: returning a. s.IG
allowing six hours 81 the ialls Tiesats Tor -,
~ Stewart & Holmes drug store. 'A-s
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03
In a recent leiter secretarv Rnsk 60

In areceni letter Secretary Rusk SAYS. az am
utterly opposed 20 the government undertaking
any grand scheme for the construction OF frrisa.
ton works the cost Of which shall be psid ont
OF the national treasury He's in favor Of oh
tanning Al government expense all possible in.
formation IS 20 the location, character and CON.
dision Of irrigahe lands, and the best methods
Of retaining them, and then advises that the
lands be eeded to the states wherein they lie
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-03

In hislstter accompanying a gift of 81. 600 mn
70 Colgate university, James B. Colgate az.
presses al earnest desire that at least once .
week the attention OF the students. a, all stages
OF their course. may Re called 70 the TEACHINGS
OF our savior as recorded in the gospels. a, Dis.
tiuguished from the Interpretation Of tbeSs
teachings by men. rs embodied in creeds, cate.
ehisIGs, articles Of faith and denominstiop.l
aoernas
The Newtown bee., 1891-12-04

Little Harry Friewald, a boy of nine
years, was so shockingly mangled at the
Beaver Brook cider mill of George Nor
gan that he afterward died at Danbury's
hospital. The News gives this account
of the horrible tragedy: a piece of per-
pendicular shafting excited young Erie
wald's inquisitiveness. There was no
one looking at him and, boylike, he wrap
ped the end of his coat around the re-
volving shaft to feel the sensation of the
steel bar turning around in his hand, the
flesh being protected from the steel by
the cloth of his coat. Somehow the cloth
got caught and his coat was being wound
up on the piece of shafting with fatal
rapidity. The swiftly turning bar caught
up all the boys coat and then picked up
the poor lad himself, whirling him around
swiftly in a circle which meant death.
The lads legs being free were battered
against wooden post near by, crushing
and tearing the right leg completely off
below the knee. His left leg was broken
in many places, being fractured at the
ankle and also sustaining compound
fracture at the thigh. When the cries of
poor Friewald brought the mill hands to
the scene, the machinery was stopped,
but it took them some time to extricate
him. The blood and the pieces of flesh
at the foot of the shafting made the task
of unwinding him almost sickly.
The Newtown bee., 1891-12-04

The troubles in China are not alone
based on the anti-foreign feeling enter
tanned by some of the natives. This is
but one phase of the situation. The un-
DERIVING reason for the discomfort which
pervades many districts of China is the
fact that the natives of the country be-
lieve that the time is ripe to overthrow
the Manchu dynasty and to establish
again the native dynasty, which was
overthrown in 1914. The movement has
far wider and more significant object in
view-no less than the driving of the
present emperor from power and placing
native Chinese ruler on the throne.
The Times correspondent says that the
rebels have already captured the town of
Chaoyang, in the province of Leao-Tong
or Smuggling, in Manchooria. They are
rapidly gaining accessions to their ranks
and have quite formidable army. They
are marching on to the capital, Pekin.
The imperial forces are preparing to
meet them and it is believed that a des-
perate battle will soon be fought. The
intelligence that the rebels are marching
to the attack of Pekin has caused the
greatest excitement in that city.
The Newtown bee., 1891-12-04
Bridgeport, Friday, November 81.


/ am selling women's good
dongola-kid button boots at
SO so; TIE kid is soft, soles light
and flexible; five stylish shapes
to select from.
Another good quality at So SO,
a little stouter kid and soles
than those at So so; two styles.
But the shoes that hold their
own and draw from the others
are my So shoes; five or six styles
in as many shapes, light, medium
and heavy kid. The Piccadilly
shape, with patent leather tips,
low heels, Goodyear sewing, is
the great favorite Of all. No
such shoes sold anywere else to
my knowledge at So.
This Goodyear welt sewing is
making a revolution in shoe
making, it looks and for all
practical purposes is like hand
work.
John G.. Rowland.
The Newtown bee., 1891-12-04
BETHEL.

j. Lyman johnson, who was so badly
crushed under horse car on the 10th,
died at the Danbury hospital, last week
Thursday and his funeral was conducted
with Masonic honors, Sunday afternoon,
from his home on Grassy Plain street.
Mr. johnson was Al years old.
Edward Farrell and wife found their
turkey in Ridgefield and Thanksgiving
lured here Eugene Schoonmaker and
wife of Ansonia, Oliver Shepard of New
York, David /. squires and wife Of Nor
walk.
Rev Mr. Langlois preached the
Thanksgiving sermon at the union ser
vices at the Congregational church.
Eureka s masquerade ball at Nichols's
opera house, this week Friday evening
Will f. Sherman and Miss Jennie Tn
dcrwood, 4 New York kindergarten
teacher, have been here.
The Newtown bee., 1891-12-04
GAINESVILLE.

At the Friends meeting house, Thanks
giving night, there was to be an enter
tainment and lecture by Rev E. F. At
wood for the benefit of the Union Sum-
day school. Subject, "Pilgrims and Pr
oneers of Connecticut with stcrOpticon
views.
Burton Northrop has recovered from
an attack of typhoid fever.
Mr. and Mrs Charles butcher visit her
home in Mt. kisco, n. Y.
Charles Lewis is out with new spin
die.
Mrs Birdseye and Mrs Charles Lewis
are under the care of DIR Dickinson of
Bridgeport.
William Cults of Stevenson, who has
lately returned from the Adirondacks,
has visited friends in this place.
The Hill and Plain and GAINESVILLE
schools closed, last Friday.
Mrs Gaylord Odell and Ambrose Burr
and wife spent Thanksgiving at Amanda
Camps and Ira Hamlin and family and
John Hamlin and wife of Roxbury and
George and Will Hamin of Bridgeport
at Lewis Hamlin's.
The Newtown bee., 1891-12-04

The people at the Worlds
Dispensary of Buffalo, \. Y,
l.avc a stock-taking time once
a year and what do you think
they do Count the number
OF bottles ti1at've been re-
turned BY the men and women
who say that Dr.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery or
Dr.. Pierce's Favorite Prescrlp-
ton didn't do what they said
it would do.
And how many do you
think they have to count.
One in ten Not oze IN fse
kNnared 4
Here are two remedies ~
one the Golden Medical Dis
covery, for regulating and in
vigorating the liver and purify
ing the blood the other, the
hope Of weakly womanhood,
and they've been sold for
years, sold by the million bot
ties; sold under a boszla0e
guarantee, and not one in five
hundred can say:
1t was not the medicine for
me !"
And lis there any reason
why you should be the one !
Andsupposing you are what
do you lose + AbsolAtely
nothing Z
The Newtown bee., 1891-12-04
A Leader.

Since its first Introduction, Electric Bitters
has gained rapidly in popular favor, until
now it is clearly in the lead among pure
medicinal tonics and Notwithstanding
nothing which permits its use as beverage
or intoxicant, it is recognized as the best and
purest medicine for ali ailments OF stomach,
liver or kidney. It will cure sick headache,
indigestion. constipation, ana drive malaria
frona the system. satisfaction guaranteed
wifi, each bottle or the money will be refund
ed. Price only soc. per bottle. Sold by b +.
Hawley.
The Newtown bee., 1891-12-04
NUMBER 40.

Thomas III. Stroud was again arrested,
last week, and made the defendant in a
liquor case. He was charged with five
counts of actual sale, the dates being
August 8, u, ID and IA, and one of rep
utation, the persons reputed to have pur
chased liquor being Frank Ginty, Frank
Morgan and Patrick Lynch. o. H. Hib-
bard of Bethel served the papers and
Stroud gave bonds to appear at the Town
hall, Monday morning at 8. At that
time, all persons in interest appeared, in
Guiding Liquor Agent Seeley of Bethel,
his lawyer, Attorney Bates of Danbury,
and Justice Shaw of Redding, but, on
their arrival, they were refused admit
tadce unless they wished to rent it and
have it heated. This Agent Seeley did
not care to do. Judge Bradley refused
the use of the probate court room. the
town clerks office was occupied by the
assessors and Landlord Leonard finally
allowed the use of his Office, but, by that
time, the witnesses had become so scat
tered that it was deemed advisable to ad-
journ court to another day and Thursday,
at 10 m, was the day and time appoint
ed, the place being Henry FairchiId's
house in Taunton.
The Newtown bee., 1891-12-04

Gambling is gambling, whether in
stocks or breadstufts or dice or race track
betting. Exhilaration at the start, and a
raving brain, and shattered nervous
system, and a sacrificed property, and a
destroyed soul at the last. Young man,
buy no lottery tickets, purchase no prize
packages, bet on no baseball games or
yacht racing, have no faith in luck, an
swer no mysterious circulars proposing
great income for small investment, shoe
away the buzzards that hover around our
hotels trying to entrap strangers. Go
out and make an honest living. Have
God on your side. and be candidate for
heaven.-[Dr Talmage.
The Newtown bee., 1891-12-04
Building the Congregational Church.

The present Congregational church,
placed On the site of that moved from
the middle of the Street, was built in
1909 during the pastorate of Rev Jehu
Clark. Joseph B. Wheeler was clerk of
the society at that time, Judge Edmond
treasurer, Capt Moss X. Botsford, Capt
Lamson Burch, Joseph B. Wheeler soci-
ety's committee, David Peck, Judge
Edmond, Maj Timothy Shepard, Capt
Silas Fairchild. Capt Moss K. Botsford,
Samuel Beardslee, Reuben Turrill build
ing committee. From subscription list
of those guaranteeing $240 year in 1903
annually to the salary of Mr. Clark, we
learn the names of the members of the
society:
The Newtown bee., 1891-12-04
King Frost.

The frost king is coming, he'snow on his way
The sound of his heralds, we hear them each
day.
The sharp, biting winds and fallen, dry leaves
Tell us, in his sharp reign, We'll get no re-
prieve.
All Nature turns pale at the ominous sound
And the flowers lie dead on the cold, frozen
ground,
Except the plucky chrysanthemum, which
still mods i'll the breeze
And bids bold defiance to his sharp singing
freeze.
The ponds and the brooks will soon be frozen
up tight,
Then, boys, don your skates, it's the young
sters' delight.
Some morn Wen awaken and look with sur.
prise,
On the change things have taken, since we
last shut our eyes.
All unsightly places are covered up quite
With the new fallen snow that has come in
the night.
Il PlattSvjlle.