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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-06
CUTTING THE RATES.
Steamboats, Said to Be Taking Business
ut All Prfcea.

ut All Prices.
1t 10 evident that there ID more or less rate
cutting going on between the various lines of
steamers on the Sound, even those lines which
formerly belonged to the association making
special rates for heavy shippers. Just to what
as shippers spoken to on the question have but
little to say beyond the fact that there has been
ar improvement in rates.
Alter the association was formed and the
rates fixed at $3.50 the steamers J. R Mcdonald
and Wasco cut to SL50. Then the association
cut to 81, and finally to $l50. But the opposi-
ton boats, the J. r. Mcdonald especially, had
already secured grip on the trade, and now,
in order to get 1t back, 1t 10 claimed
that some OF the lines bestow favors
on shippers by granting passes, and cut rates to
II on large shipments. The State of Washing
ton has been added to the list OF opposition
boats, making three In all SO classed, and 1t Ia
probable that some Of the larger companies are
trying to drive them Off A representative of
one OF the opposition boats declared to q Posi-
1NTELLIGKNcRR reporter the other day that the
association lines had reduced the tariff on beer
to point at which 1t would not pay his boat to
carry that commodity at all.
G. d. Stevens, of the Puget Sound & Alaska
Steamship Company, said, when asked IL his
company had been cutting rates or granting any
special favors to shippers;
No, sir. Rates are low enough for Us. None
OF the companies are making any too much
money, as far as know, and don't think any
OF them are doing any cutting. We make no
special rates under any consideration lower
than 81. 90 straight, nor has our company ever
granted any passes to shippers or resorted to
any device for lowering rates. II any OF the
other companies that were in the association
are doing so, know nothing about 1t.
A representative Of a firm which does q large
amount Of shipping from Seattle was asked
about the matter and simply replied!
Well, II a man has ten or twenty tons of
freight to ship and goes to any OF those steam
boats for rates, nons OF them will refuse TO
carry 1t for 81 per ton, or may be less.
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CITY PARK SYSTEM,
First Annual Report Of the
Commissioners
SUGGESTIONS FOR NEXT YEAn.
rnadequsoy OF the Powers Possessed
Under the Present Charter
Beau.ifyIng the Streets

The board Of park commissioners yesterday
filed their annual report with the mayor, a. re-
quired BY the charter. It begins with the cres-
ton of the board, October. $780, and extends to
the close OF November, she time at which the
law requires il shall be made
II premises with the statement that the areas
OF the Seattle parks are: City park 40 acres,
kinnear park, 1898 acres; Denny park, as
acres.
The following In the financial rtatarnent,
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,,nan.s. 70 the Eastern oregon's Crew.

The crew of the burned steamer Eastern Ore
1ou desire to return thanks to the people of
OLYMPIA for the kindness shown them in their
distress. The citizens Furnished food. clothes
and lodging to the men, who lost everything
thax had By the fire.
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por, Townsend Harbor Lines.

Mr.. Alfred Martin, OF Olym pia. secretary Of the
stats harbor line commission, passed through
the city yesterday on his way home from Fort
Townsend. He had been there 10 file the map
of ,hs Port Townsend lines.
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WASHINGTON GRAIN LANDS.
The Profits of Whitman County Farm
for One Season.
Palouse City News


george speake, who owns q ranch on the Mos
COW road, two miles south OF Pslouse City, has
Just completed harvesting and hauling to the
warehouse the wheat from liz acres. The yield
was 5,l47 bushels, nearly forty-six bushels TO
the acre. The yield as 1t appears above, is not
an extra large one but good. The yield would
have been an extra large one If all the wheat
could have been gathered At the very lowest
estimates placed on it, there was loss of at
least 20 per cent. There are acres OF 1t that not
head was gathered, as the header could not
reach 1t, from the fact that Ii was SO heavy that
1t fell down and IL spelling on the
ground. Mr.. Speake feared this result last
spring, and to tighten the straw growth turned
into the field 800 head OF horses and kept them
there for about ten days. The wheat was the
very best quality and sold for 721z cents per
bushel Mr.. Speake bought the place Of lls
acres year ago last April. for which he paid
$500
To show that farming in the Palouss country
pays, the cost of purchase price, Improvements,
labor, taxes etc., are given below, together with
the receipts OF I12 acres, the remaining seven
acres of the ll9 being used for other purposes,
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n rsich Wash

Are you going East this fall or win.srf II 80,
take the Northern Pacific Are your friends
coming West 10 visit, Then suggest 70 them
that they take the Northern Pacific, - IL Ii the
only direct line 70 Puget sound and Warrington
points No change Of cars or reehecking Of bag
gage Be sure your ucket reads via the NORTH
ern Pacific railroad
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"Heas ~ IA ceHts PEI DusHtI. .*o,9oI OF
Leaving a surplus of $36S.57 after paying for
the land and all Improvements, or a profit of
g. 4SS 81, after charging 10 per cent interest on
the $500 investment Besides this, from the
lie acres Mr.. speake will receive at least 500
for pasturing horses before the fall blowing.
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Tn. Cruiser Montgomery Launched

BALrIxoRE, Dec 6-United States cruiser No.
O. named the Montgomery, was launched ~ the
Columbia Iron Works AZ II 80 this morning.
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CTTY NOTICES.

/yrTY TREASURFR'S NOTICE.-THE FOL
| J having city warrants will be paid on pres.n-
tr,son At the CITY treasurer's office. Interest on
.aid warrants Will cease al the expiration of az.
tsen days from he first publication OF this notice:
sslarv fund warrants Nos. 3 .30l to 1870 inclu-
sve WILLIS l.. AMES, City Treasurer
Nv IL KsoFF. Deputy.
I,ated this 5th day 81 December 1891.
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COUNTY TREASURER'S TAX NOTICE
y Notice Is herehv given that on the I'd day OF
December, 1891 volumes one aud two Of the 1891
Tax books Of King county Washington, embracing
al implanted lands of said county, and The tax
book containing the assessment of all personal
turned over TO me by the county auditor tor the
ceileeiian Of the taxes thereon
To all payers OF taxes who shall pay the same
within the year for which they are assessed there
viii be an allowance al rebate OF three per cent. "
paid on or before o'clock p. III, January i,
lses. aud ( not paid on or before q O'clock D. m,
March |, 1892, said taxes viii then become de-
un4nrnt, ana penalty of ten per ceutnm VIII
iheTeupOn be added and from The said first day Of
March, 1892. ali such unpaid taxes and penalty
VIII bear Interest at the rate Of twenty t2ol per
cent per annum until paid.
Taxes are payable nj the county treasurers Of
nee, seattle, King county. " ashgngton. from
o'clock a M. till o'elock p. m
By n PHELPS.
tountv Treasurer.
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BooK BTyDERY.

n ANTHONY'S BISDERY, BLANK BOOK
manufacturers, Washington street. corner
Commercial, rooms and Terry block. Seattle
wash
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COESTY NOTICES.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS-SEAL BIDS
IN will be received by the board of county COM
nsssners Of King county, at the Office OF the audi
Tor OF saiG county. until Wednesday, December 8,
ltei, q. 2 p M. for he furnishing and driving of
100 pi IS, more or less. along the bank of White
river at or near William Cochrane's place, and for
the plan king OF said piles with 3-inch sheathing
pisni; plies TO be SO ieet long. placed feet apart
and driven to a soldid foundation.
Bids for pillng 10 be by the iineal foot bids for
sheathng to be by the 900 feet board measure.
Aildriving viii be done from the water.
cheek of 500 must accompany each bid as .
guarantee of good faith. The board reserves the
right TO reject any or al bids.
+. A. TWlCHELI. County Auditor
Dated al Seattle December 4, 1891.
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FLORISTS.

III tons and dinner parties furnished BY the
woodland Park Floral Company, Ola second
street
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MANICURE.
MASSAGE.

4 LICE NJ AIKEN. EXPERIENCED MANI
"A cure End eieotrologlst hairdressing pariors %
snd 30 Hoiyoke block. Front and Spring streets
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AIRS. e. II. BUTTERFIED - MASSAGE
al treatment; ladies only. Room 1908 Seneca
street. seattle, Wash.
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raoP SEE AMENDMENT NO. lS-A PROP
ssI,on 10 anne I'd section 1--we o. OF article XIII.
s1ss 81 The frseholGerz charter adopted October l.
Telegram-herald., 1891-06-08

his head He not only took TO drink,
but had other bad habits which forced
dear Miriam TO obtain divorce from
him
''Shs was then free to marry Frank
Leslie, whose real name was Henry
Carter, and who was an Englishman.
All the world knows about her since
those days. what society leader she was
and how on one occasion she appeared
at reception to Governor Tilden,
made more beautiful than she always
has been, with some seventy thousand
dollars worth of diamonds on her.
Now she is a widow again and is going
10 marry the dear marquis. What a
love Of a man he is! He is poet and
landscape painter. Why it almost re-
minds me OF Tennyson's Lord OF Bur
leigh:
.Re was but landscape paintep
And sn American widow She"
The writer's informant then went on.
81 first met the marquis at recep tion
ut his rooms at IS East Twenty-ninth
street. He is very beau ideal of
heightened English noble. but his title
is French one, dating from the reign
Of Louis XIV. He was chaperoned
that evening by Lady Duffus Hardy.
the widow of the deputy keeper of the
records of Great Bgitain. lie recited
some poetry from his volume Entire
Nous.' which he had illustrated with
his own pen and ink sketches. That
night. however, he exhibited number
81 water color landscapes painted by
himself At that reception aud others
~ which he entertained as, used TO
meet William A. Croffut. the journalist.
MunlSittrick, the poet: O'Donovsn. the
sculptor, and other nice people. There
were Colonel Fuller, the lawyer who
used % hurlesque Lord Dundreary:
Zelie De Lussan. the splendid soprano;
Mrs fmoCene Brown. grand oratcrio
singer: Paulding. the tragedian, and
other professionals who used 10 enter
tain ~. lie was always favorite of
the ladies' and Jennie June Of Sorosis,
Mrs Erminie Smith ~ the Fsthetic
society. Mrs john Birelow. Mrs. seli4-
man. Mrs. Robert P. Roosevelt. then
Marion Chichester Fortesatse and
Ms Bs+tner. as veil as other Knic<-
erboc<er creme de Ia creme people
fairly wor~hiped him. not simply be-
rause he was a nobierran. but on sc-
count Of his poetical and artistic gifts.
eyes. Il VIII all be csbled over IL
r~ctlv. lt'sa great secret. but they viii
~. married twice over First. AZ the
Rr-,np.rn 0~aforv where Cardinal Nan
Ming viii unite the loving couple. and
s~ain 81 Westminster Abbev where the
marquis hopes h~ can prevail assea tn>
archbishop of Canterbury - re sh-
,rpsial knot II j. al fxed aad The
~s.sd.nr bslis VII soop b ringing Sov-
Telegram-herald., 1891-06-08

faI1y for my beautiful TREND. Miriam
Leslie, who wiz De bride for the fourth
time. Bless her"
There are envlo1s people, however,
who do lot think Mrs. Frank Leslie has
made - great catch as her admirers
would have the world believe. Some
even 20 so far as 70 say that De Leu
vile Is not a marquis at all Among
these was one Of the leading members
OF the New York Genealogical and
Biographical society. who stated that
an inquiry had been set on foot, about
the time that Mrs. Leslle's future hus-
bsod hzd IN alteration u the Acado-
Telegram-herald., 1891-06-08

fcoSrEIGaL 1911
>IsnT Il too sweet for anything; my
dear old friend and school-fellow has
gsas 10 England 20 be married.
sand Miriam wl1 .sd tns marquis,
lssd Of sish dspee.~
The speaker VAS friend Of Mrs.
Frank Leslie. AID she thus announced
- the writer the approaching wedding
Of that distinguished literary lady 10
the uaost noble, the Marquis dc Leu
vile. Then shs proceeded:
She deserves good husband IL any
woman ever did We first became ac-
quainted at fashionable boarding
school as long ago as ls45. often used
70 visit her father and mother, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Foliin. at their home on
Bieecker street during the holidays. as
our people were wei acquainted with
them Then later knew her brother,
who became the agent Of Lola Montez
IN San Frsneisco and accompanied her
on her tour TO Australia. Poor fellowi no
committed suicide by throwing himself
overheard from the vessel upon which
the Lola Montez troupe had returned
L.
had left school Of the sad interview be-
tween her mother and the famous
actress, and how she threw herself at
Mrs Follin's feet, saying: 'Ihave killed
Jour sonl have killed your SOM
This was about the time. yes it was
In 1854 when Mrs. Leslie married her
first husband. Mr.. David Charles Pea
cock. but he treated her very badly and
q divorce was obtained in the supreme
court of New York. by Judge James
Roosevelt. Yes, the marriage was de-
clared null and void in 1885. Her dear
friend, Lola Montez. then obtained per-
mission from Miriam's mother 70 per-
NIT her to go upon the stage, for which
she declared Miriam had a natural apti-
tude. They travelled together as sis
tiers. and remember seeing in an illus
trated paper an engraving of Lola Mon
ter and Miriam crossing the Hudson at
Albany, in the midst of ice, in q small
boat 20 keep their engagement in that
city.
But the best Of friends must part"
she continued, land il was well for my
friend that it was SO, for no theater
was ever good enough for her. She was
too great genius and heroine, and the
world of society and letters was her
stage. She married again, and this
time to Hon. Ephraim George Squier,
he celebrated author, whom she ac-
eoupanied To Central America at the
time he was United States minister and
negotiated treaties with Nicaragua,
Honduras and San Salvador. You know
he wrote quite a number of books, very
learned ones, and he was the editor OF
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper. They
wcre married IN 1855, at Providence, II.
l.. and then he was well of, be-
cause besides being a great diplomat
and author. he was also president Of
railroad with large income. Squier,
however. struck bad times and it turned
Telegram-herald., 1891-06-08

In one respect we grow more English
every year. The amount of betting that
is done on horse racing in and about New
York is something positively amazing.
Poolrooms are open in the city, under the
pretext of executing commissions to be
delivered on the track. Upon the chief
tracks anywhere from 5000 to 30, 900 peo-
pie may be present, and nearly every one
is financially interested in the result.
Women bet perhaps tenth part as much
as men, and with quite as much skill,
usually. Women usually back the
favorite, and display no liking for short
horses"
have not yet come upon the parallel
Of the English sporting parson in New
York, but a member of surpliced choir
who looks very much like a parson on
Sundays told me the other day about the
'sure system" By which he picked up
several hundred dollars last year.
Telegram-herald., 1891-06-08
Not a Marriage for Money.

Father (sternlyt-Do you expect my
daughter TO be party to a marriage
for money, sir?
Suitor (bashfully)-Nno. sir-but il
can't be. sir. really haven't cent
Daily Continent.
Telegram-herald., 1891-06-08
TO BIZ A Warehouses
NrA Leslie Deoerrntnss 20 Wed TIE
Marquis Do Leuv1ia

IL Marriage t. Re Twice Csissssssd n
t.sA~aa Ms Lssiis's Former Has,
ssaas-rhs oene2foxy Of the Noble
M>rqsks-nls Ascsaa pizSA meats.
Telegram-herald., 1891-06-08

fcosrEIsaI 1911
>IsnV Il too sweet for anything; my
lar old friend and school-fellow has
sae TO England 20 be married!
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BIG ESTATES IN NAPA.
Not 50 Numerous as in Tehama and
Yolo Counties.

-NOb 50 iIflSEOuS as III ISnarla ana
Yolo Counties.
[Napa Daily Register, October 23d
| The Sacramento RECORD UNION has of
late devoted considerable time and space
to a statistical study Of large land hold
ings in Colusa and Tehama counties. 1t
has found that between the years 1889
and 1890 individual farmers have greatly
| increased their acreage and that there has
! been tendency to absorption by the
! few to the great detriment Of the many.
| For our own information. and that of our
readers, we to-day went through the AS
SCISSORS books to see what kind of story
| the figures would tell for Napa County in
| this particular.
! We took for test the nineteen largest
| landholders in 1880, the acreage assessed
to each and the valuation placed opposite.
In the aggregate we found charged
| against these nineteen TO- 743 acreS-2 23O
less than the quantity of land held by
one man in Tehama County in 1885. The
assessed valuation footed up $S17, ,146 The
largest landholder of the nineteen held
10, 746 acres, the smallest $50.
During the ten years that followed 1880
there was general shifting Of lines and
only eight OF the original nineteen were
! to be counted among the nineteen largest
real estate owners in 1890. In that time
| many of the most valuable though not
! the largest OF these estates were divided,
subdiyided and sold to new and old set
tiers.
In 1890 the nineteen largest land owners
| held 1S, ,346 acres-932 less than the num-
Der Of acres owned by one man in Te-
hama County in the same year-at a
valuation of S65l, ,3Sl. The owner stand
ing lowest had ! ,537 acres. valued at ST. :
| 0S0. While the last nineteen held in the
! aggregate 1903 acres more than the first
nineteen, the total value of their holdings
/ fell short Sl65, ,705. We account for this
| decrease in value of greater acreage in
! this way: Those lands held in large
tracts and most valuable in 1880 were in
the ten years following cut up and added
| TO the small farm acreage, and the acquir-
| ing OF larger tracts affected chiefly the
cheaper mountain ranges now used in
| remote parts of the county for stock
/ ranches. For instance, where one man
| in 1880 controlled 4,33i unbroken acres
! land that was convenient to market, well
watered and susceptible to q high state
/ OF tlllage-tWenty-siX families are now
! established in comfortable homes,
marked by well fenced grain fields, fruit
| ful orchards and thrifty vineyards
There has been no going backward as
| in Colusa and Tehama. Our population
increased in ten years from Is, 235 to l6,-
! Ill and the footings of our asseSSable
wealth jumped from 50, ,6Gl II in 1880
| TO Sl4, ,SS7, ,S.7 in 1890. There seems to be a
/ cheerful willingness on the part of our
! heavy owners to carve up their large
estates, and conditions generally are as
! favorable to small as to large investors.
! The rate of taxation, State and county
/ in Napa County in 1880. was 81 so on the
| $780, In 1890 it was 81 90. This year it
| is 81 50. The debt of the county in 1880
| was S42G, 900; it is now $4,000.
/
The record-union., 1891-11-04
AN ELOQUENT TRIBUTE.
The German Emperor as an After
Dinner speaker.


AS an after-dinner speaker the German
Emperor has no superior in GERMANY
He speaks readily without notes, ex-
presses himself with vigor, never de-
ScendS to conventional commonplaces
and, above all, gives the very best assur-
ance that his words are not prepared for
him. | have heard conspicuous speakers
IN England and in our own country, and
If comparisons in the case are not invid-
ious, l should say that the German En-
peror need not fear to meet such an audi
ence as even New England society din
ner assem- bles. One OF the preEtiast
speeches / have listened to was delivered
by the Emperor in answering the toast to
his wife in the province where she was
born. 1t was during the great combined
military and naval maneuvers of 1890. at
which the United States was represented
by Commander Ward, and Great Britain
by Admiral Hornby.
The Emperor'S words were: ST de-
sire to express to you, my dearest sir. the
gratitude felt by the Empress and my
self for the kind words we have lust
heard; at the same time our thanks to
the whole for the day we have passed and
for the reception which the province has
prepared for us. This, day was, however.
not needed in order to assure us of the
warm friendship we have found here.
The bond that unites me to this province
and chains me to her in manner differ
ent from all others Of my empire is the
jewel that sparkles at my side, her
majesty the Empress. Sprung from this
soil, the type of the various virtues Of a
The record-union., 1891-11-04
Poison i'm the Kitchen.

NO article entering so generally into the food of every
household is generally vlanously aduered as bak
ing powder These aduerated powders showed upon
the public with the greatest persistency
Throbbing advertisements in newspapers c1arn;no +hs
brand or that IS absolutely pure backed by analyses
cates and yet they aduterated with ammonia or a1n,
It is to be hoped the take hold of these erciless
manufacturers and punish them destroying the soach
of the unsuspecting consumer.
Amid all this fraud and deceit DR. Prices Cream Rat
ing Powder stands almost alone battling for pure and
continues to furnish cream OF tartar powder
the same cost to the people the ammonia and alum pow
ders sold at yet it costs much manufacture
Dr. Prices Cream Baking Powder is of the highest
strength 1t produces the largest of leavening power
attainabe in pure baking powder. It is free from ammo
MIA other adulteraton No powder does such work
Housewives who have tested all use DR.. Prices only.
The record-union., 1891-11-04

San Francisco, in the matter of railroad
traffic, Will inure to the advantage Of the
whole State, but it serves notice on the
interior that it would have been unwise
for the Traffic Association to have taken
the whole State into partnership" These
statements do not correspond well. The
promise is not consistent with the de-
tense OF the associations action in max
ing It's executive body consist of about
eight San Franciscans to one representa-
tive of the interior. IF the association
succeed in inducing the Santa Fe or
any other company to build a COM
peting railroad to San Francisco it will
do good work, and will have due credit
for 1T. Until it shows a more liberal
spirit toward the interior it cannot COM
plain if the whole State does not rush into
its arms.