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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-27

twelve acres NorE: The ground in this vlein-
ity is almost entirely covered with various
species OF snakes. They were knot:ed together
in heaps upon the fallen timber and hung
dangling from the lower limbs of small trcea
Many were observed deyouring or disgo-ging
other snakes Of lesser sire Those necessarily
crushed beneath our feet filed the air with
nauseous stencil.
The latest entry in the records was
made in 1882, and Surveyor-General Will
lam McMicken makes affidavit on the hy
leaf that .'the transcript of the field notes
is correctly copied from the original
notes on file in my Office" Consequently
the responsibility of the story rests with
the surveyors.
A copying clerk, who has . vein of
humor in his makeup, exhibited his re-
luctance TO give the story credence by
writing in pencil on the margin of the en-
try: The survey had 'em bad"
Oid-timers say that in the sixties q mix
ture termed s'kill-'em-quick" was sent out
from the East in great quantities, and was
bought by the settlers, who would sell the
liquor TO the Indians. One drink was
enough TO make siwash SO raving crazy
that he would sell everything he possessed,
from his cattle to his wives, for another
drink, and it usually took six weeks for
the royal red man TO sober up. The same
quantity of the liquor imbibed by white
man would not only drive him wild, but
make him see almost anything; it would
easily turn the verdant forests into
myriads of squlrming reptiles. One case Is
cited where white man, who, while hunt
ing on the shores of Lake Dawmawish,
took drink of the mixture and he inn
mediately saw regiment OF fighting
Arabs, mounted on Asiatic elephants, bear
ing down upon him, the Arabs bowling and
the elephants trumpeting in their eager
ness for his blood. The man sprang into
the lake TO save his life, and the warriors
in their rage not seeing the waters, fol-
lowed him, and warriors and elephants
persisted in the lake.
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CLALLAM BAY, Aug. 2e.--[Special. THE
Pacific Tanning Extract Company, Of this
place, has chartered the steamer Enter.
prise, of Port Townsend, and several
scows, which are to be used In transport
ing bark from various points on the straits
20 the factory.
A new town Ii springing up at the east
end of the bay, to be known as East Clal-
lam. A hotel and other buildings are now
being erected.
A new wagon road leading from the bay
west to the Hobo river was viewed and
surveyed on Monday. The road will
eventually be continued to the Ozette
country, twenty miles south of Neah bay.
The finding of gold in the sands of the
sea shore between Cape Flattery and the
Quillayute river has started number of
prospectors out in that direction. Gold
has been found sure enough, but not in
sufficient quantities to warrant a rush of
people. 1t 10 simply speeks or grains of
the mineral in oceans of black sand, which
has to be extracted by laborious process.
Work began this week on Burlingame's
big contract, the building of the county
road from Clallam bay to the Quillayute
valley.
Settlers on what is known here as the
"two-mile strip" a tract of land two
miles wide and six miles long, which was
surveyed in February last, are anxiously
awaiting the acceptance of the govern
ment survey. which would open the tract
to entry. Rapid improvement will follow
its opening by the government.
A new building for the Clallam Bay
Record the pioneer newspaper of this sec
ton, is now being constructed.
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The Color Line Amonr Pntriots

PHILApELPHIA, Aug. 26.-The question
of admitting colored members into the
Patriotic Order of Sons of America occu-
pied most of the days session. All the
ballots resulted the same-59 for and 81
against Most of the opposition 10 elinin-
ating the word white" from the constitu-
ton. comes from Illinois and Ohio dele
gates, who voted as q unit against il.
The sentiment OF the convention
was strongly in favor of adj
mission, the Pennsylvania delegation
being unanimous in the colored mans
favor, but the arbitrary clause in the con-
stitution requiring four-ffths vote TO
change the constitution, enabled their op-
ponents 10 defeat the measure. Some of
the friends of the measure changed their
votes so as to move a reconsideration. and
the question will be called up again.
Probably George Z. Smith will be nomi-
mated tor national president.
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liberal and human spirit the citizens M
are engaged in dispensing it, There in
just reason why postoffice clerks and ofhs1
filling minor positions, should be wofkei
early and late for. small pay while senators
and members of congress play at go a
you please" on fat salaries.
We who believe in good mail seryica
cheap postage. and in cheap transports,
ton, fuel, telegraph, express, light and
water rates for the public, regard Nr
ingalls, as ''singularly unfortunate" IN not
being able TO comprehend that which be
tries to discuss. But that is his besettns
infirmity and to deviate from ii would b,
for him, new, if not an impossible
departure. Still / am glad he is willing 10
admit that 'the government is the worst
served of all employers, for in bis own
case and that of many others of his class,
who are doing wretched work for large
pay, the proposition is notoriousIy and
shockingly true. JAMES @. CLARK.
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THE POISON IvY.
4 kitsap County Observer Disagrees
with Edmund Collins.

MADgoso, Wash, Aug. Is, 1891.
To THE EDITOR: In a recent number of
your excellent journal appeared an article
on poisonous vines and shrubs. That
such exist admits of no denial, yet there
seem TO be grave doubts respecting the
manner in which the poison is communi-
Gated. If by "bacilli," as asserted by the
writer of the article in question, here is
little from the experience of your humble
servant. He has handled the three-leaved
''Rus toxico dendron" hundred of times
with perfect safety, never having exper-
fenced the slightest infection from it;
neither did any one else with whom he
afterwards came in contact. At one time,
when his mother wanted to color some
material black, he went to the woods and
gathered an arm load oft, carried ii home,
cut it in pieces. put it IN large iron ket-
tie. filled up with water, built fire under
and caused it 10 boil. A sister, who was
easily poisoned. happened to pass through
the smoke and steam and was thereby
fearfuIly poisoned. Now, if this poisoning
resulted from "bacilli," were they driven
off by the escaping steam.
Again, several members of the writer's
family have been repeatedly severely
poisoned by the Rus" but not in a single
instance was it communicated to any other
member of the family.
At one time my daughter, then living in
California, was poisoned nearly TO death
and during her illness nursed her young
child and it never showed single pimple.
In some of the Eastern states there
grows plant called st. Johns weed that
will severely poison the white legs and
white noses of horses and not cause q
pimple to appear on any part that is not
white. If this Is caused by bacilli why do
they thus discriminate? These are facts
easily proved and given to arouse further
investigation. r. NJ. HosKISsoS.
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The Hop Situation.
slaughter sun.


We have but little change in the hop sit
uation TO note this week. In most yards
the burrs are growing finely, and the lice
do not seem to trouble them very much as
yet, although it is feared they may do so
before the picking season is over. The
most strenuous efforts are being made by
growers to secure all the available help
possible, and the work of picking. after be-
ing once commenced, viii be pushed for
ward with all possible speed: A large
number of growers report that If nothing
happens to prevent them so doing, they
viii commence picking on the 18th.
John T. Glenn, near Lake Tapps, Pierce
county, has nine acres of hops that will be
simply immense. There are scarcely anv
lice on them. while the burrs hang 10 the
poles in immense clusters. Mr.. Glenn
will commence picking about the 18th, and
estimates the yield at ton and three
quarters per acre.
If growers commence picking on the
18th il will be at least two weeks earlier
than In former years.
IL is said the dashing rain that visited
this section Monday evening DESTROYED
millions OF lice.
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A whitman County Fruit Farm.

Referring TO one Of the many fine
orchards in the southern section of Whit
man county, the Johnson Netcs says of the
J. b. Holt ranch, located on Snake river.
ten miles from Johnson: Mr.. Holt has
been living on his farm for eight summers.
He employs four men constantly, from the
first of March, and increases the number
by the first of July to twelve; then he is
obliged to employ as high as thirty five
men. His dry house. for drying fruit. has
been running for over two weeks and has A
drying capacity of five tons every twenty
four hours. The building is 80 feet long by
y feet wide. Mr.. Hollis packing house Is
Is feet by 90 feet. His orchard contains
about seventy acres and produces in the
neighborhood of Il, 600 boxes of fruit every
season, which he finds ready sale for.
From one ofthe plum trees on this ranch
branch measuring three and one-half feet
in length was plucked. 1t contained 378
fine plums and weighed SIX pounds and
eight ounces.
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FRENCH SHIPS TOSS.
A Furious Storm Beats Upon
the British Coast.
VESSELS AND CROPS DAMAGED.
me Treaty With America Unpopular In
spafn--An English Eieetion--Ths
Russian Grain Export.

LoEDoE, Aug. B.--A terrible storm ragged
on the British coast last night, and It 10
feared there may have been considerable
loss Of life. The telegraph wires are down
"A many sections where wrecks are likely
so occur, and no definite information has
been received. A large number of yachts
~ the Clyde are known to have been driven
ashore.
PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 28.-The proposed
Dali and other festivities on board the
French vessels prior to the departure OF
the feet had to be abandoned last night on
account Of the bad weather.
This morning the British officers and
sheir ladies, who were compelled by the
storm to stay ell night on board the steam
ers OF the French squadron, returned to
shore when the wind had abated. The
ladies' described the night they passed on
board the French wershfps as terrible in
She extreme. The French feet weighed
enchor this morning and sailed away.
zhe British vessels saluted.
DuDLrx, Aug. OLA violent thunder
storm passed over Cbsrleville, county Of
Cork. yesterday. The rain was the heav-
1est seen In that district In the last thirty
years. Corn and hay crops are rotting in
the fields, and It Is feared that potatoes
will prove A failure
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Yakima watermelons.


The watermelon season is now in full
blast, and Yakima is revealing in these
Injuries. while she is shipping carload
after carload of this succulent fruit TO less
favored regions. II is well known that the
watermelon crop, like the peach crop, has
its little vicissitudes. A watermelon crop
that wasn't killed off by the drouth or the
frost, Or the telegraph dispatches, two or
three times in the early spring season,
would have occasion to be ashamed OF it
self for its irregular and unorthodox be-
havior. The Yakima watermelon crop has
been no exception. 1t has been ruined so
many times this season that the markets
are teeming with them, and the small boy
can now cultivate a large case OF the
cramps without any inconvenience. Never
in our history as the garden spot of the
Northwest has the embonpoint OF this de-
Iclous fruit been so pronounced. Never
have the juices of its Utmost heart been so
fragrant and refreshing as they are this
year. This is great good news. 1t IS good
for Yakima growers and it is good for the
people OF Montana, Idaho and Sound
cities who have penchant for this fruit,
and who recognize that in Yakima this
luxury Is produced in all its luxurlousness.
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shipping Intelligence.

TAroosH, Aug. 8.-(special. CLOUDY;
fresh northeast wind; Coils in at D. m
PoRr ANGELES, Aug. 26.--[special. l.
Cloudy; light east wind; str Angeles in
port.
SAN Francisco, Aug. @.-Arrived-str
Point Iona. for Cosmopolis. Cleared
Str Columbia, for Astoria; str Eureka, for
Wilmington. Sailed-Bk Germania, for
Seattle; bark Northwest, for Port Madi-
ION.
] LoSpoN, Aug. 26.--The ship Exporter,
rom Vancouver, b. c., June Z, for Mel
bourne, has arrived at Sydney, \. s. W,
81 damaged condition. She reports that
k<he encountered a heavy gale, during
which she was compelled 10 jettison her
Weefload.
\ LONDON. Aug. e6.-The Norwegian coll
Der Frey has burned To the waters edge,
&nd eight of her crew have been drowned.
Arrived-Bk Aureols, Departure bay /;
Dir Queen, Nanaimo; bk Tidal Wave,
Port Madison; Br bk Robert ). Bernard,
Nanaimo
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Enemies OF the Hop Louse.
Puyallup Commerce,

There are two species of insects now
working against the hop lice One has
perfectly transparent body with bill on
him like sand-hill crane. lie labs his
bill into hop louise and in = second sucks
him dry, leaving the shell to dry up and
blow away. Another foe To the hop louise.
aud one that is doing good work, is a Kind
o. small beetle with pair Of horns on
hlm like pointed scissors. He marches up
To touse and without hurting his feelings
by hrst insulting him, he clips him square
IN Two with his horns and then passes
right along TO the next louise and Gins him
IL halves,
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A SNAKE STORY UNDER OATH
A Government Surveyor Puts His EN-
perience on Record,

A snake story that certainly has no prec-
edent appears in the government field
notes taken September q, 1864. which are
now on record in the county auditors
office and matter Of history. The sur.
veyors at that time were working their
way through township - north. range g
east, and when they entered Snake valley
the following record was made at the close
of the day:
Snake valley. The land is level and grsyeIlv:
timber straight and scattering withou. under
growth; point about I've chains north from the
northHest shore Of Tradition lake. Area about
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wife. The couple are hardly more than
boy and girl and have been married less
than year. For some time Alfred has
had reason TO suspect his wife of infdelity,
but within the last few days the matter
has been made SO plain TO him as TO leave
no further room for doubt.
Today has been the hottest Of the sea-
son, the mercury this afternoon registering
So in the shade in protected locality.
Many Of our citizens who returned from
Peterson's point were wishing themselves
back today.
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Music as an Elevator.
Chicago Tribune.

Music" said the eminent pianist. as
the reporter to whom he had kindly ac-
corded an interview ran his pencil rapidly
over the paper, lis the most elevatiny OF
sciences. 1t moves the deeps of ones nat
ure, reines the sensibilities. and enlarces
the heart It-what were you about to
ask?"
Il should like TO know, sir, how Won re-
gard the distinguished virtuoso. Professor
Won Bergstine. as a musician"
:. he is nothing. sir, but a cheap. vile i'm
itator-a base counterteit-a tenth-rate
keyboard hanger, sirl" exclaimed ths EN-
inent musician, Sowing 6ercslx
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big Yield of California vineyards.

FRESNO, Cal, Aug. 28.-The wine season
has opened In this county. Thousands OF
men have started to work in the vineyards,
and the wineries also have begun opera
lions. The yield Of wine grapes Is enor-
nous, and the sweet wine product will be
the greatest in the history of the county.
The wine men will this year make wine
vinegar, heretofore imported almost
wholly from Germany.
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gNptraiia News

CESTRAIIA, Aug. Especial. i The
city council last evening instructed the
city attorney to draw up new ordinance
lowering the saloon license from 5000 TO
$500.
The sawnnl men report more orders
coming IN now than at any time since last
spring.
The Centralia City band last evening
gave delightful open air concert in the
city park, which attracted large number
Of people.
An action for divorce was brought this
morning BY Thomas Alfred against his
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Grow All the Wheat You Can.


How about the next wheat crop7 1t
will take several years of abundant crops
20 give the world another big surplus
Grow all the wheat you can. Don't nut
all your farm into wheat; don't increase
your acreage; but put III every acre so that
u viii do the best il is capable of doing
Use extra culture, extra seed and all the
fertilizers the crop needs. 1t will all come
back TO you. You are planning for a safe
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Fort Crescent News.

PoEr CRESCENT. Aug. 2G-lSpecial. The
steamer Michigan called here yesterday
and took large shipment of cedar lumber
from the Port Crescent mill for Portland.
The Solduek valley is attracting the at
tention OF home-soekers. Numbers OF fne
claims can be had yet without any ex-
pense. The government surveys will not
be delayed.
Dr..E 4. Gleason returned 10 Port Towns
end this morning. after a pleasant vaea-
fion AZ Lake Crrscent
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shin E.ilwsr scheme Fails.

MorrREAL, Aug. 2e.-It is announced by
3hc conservatives here In effect that work
On the Chicgnecto ship railway ceased
after SO, 800, 900 had been spent, and it is
also limited that unless the imperial and
United States governments come TO the
rescue the scheme may fail, which practi-
cally means another bubble burst and that
English capitalists have been once more
deluded into investing their money in q
Numerical undertaking.
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An English Election.

LospoS. Aug. 26.-yohn Penn, Conser-
yative, has been elected TO parliament at
Lewisham to succeed Viscount Lewisham,
promoted TO the house of lords by the death
of his father. Earl of Dartmouth. Penn
had majority Of LOO votes over his Lib
eral antagonist.
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you go You are reasonably sure 70 see or hss
something about Hoods sarsaparila No msdE
cine before the public has VOL snch popularity
or been 50 much talked about and praiseA All
over the country. Hoods sar apariisa- fscaix
10 Itself, 100 Doses one Dollar. are familiar hosee
hold words. Hoods Sarsaparilla has won unlfn-
tied praise by It's wonderful power IN mAkiB
scrofulOus AMI impure blood rich and para. .
the satisfaction a. meals experienced BY thx ~
mer dyspepiic. In the happiness Of thoss
has cured OF malaria and cafarrh. In nuoyz1ey
spirits and good appetite II has impaired 70 d.
recently weak. tired and run down
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Dpain.s MonopoDisss Object to New Treaty

MADRID, Aug. 29.--The Barcelona Cham
Der of Commerce has reported that it will
send a formal protest TO the government
and the cortes against the new treaty with
the United States on the ground that the
treaty infiicts grave injury on the trade of
Gpain with the Spanish West Indies. The
protest represents mainly the grievances
Of the Catalonian monopolists.
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International Conrres. of G.o1ori.t.

WASHINGTON CRY, Aug. 26.-The first
session of the fifth international congress
of biologists was held today, many emf
nent biologists from all parts OF the world
being present, including representatives of
nearly all the great scientific institutions
OF Europe and America. The secretary of
the interior made an address of welcome
on behalf OF his department, which has
under its jurisdiction the geological sur
vey. A number of addresses were made in
reSpOnse
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Fatally stabbed I'm . Bar-Room.

CoLYAx, Aug. 26.-[Special. michael
Kett and Steve Gourman, lsborers on the
Livingstone Kuhn block, quarreled today
in a barroom under the Collins house.
Gourman, who was drunk, stabbed Kett
IN the stomach. inflicting fatal wound.
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Band Of Prisoners Arrested.

vienna, Aug. 26.-Four women have
been arrested at szentamas, Hungary, on
She charge of poisoning their husband and
selling poisons 10 other women for similar
proposes. Orders have been issued to ex-
hume the bodies Of many of the supposed
victims.
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Todar,s Weather.

San FRANCISCO, Aug. 26.-Forecast till 8
.. m. Thursday, for Washington: Fair
weather and warmer; also continuation Of
the warm wave, fog and clouds on the
Washington coast.
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the pepsacoIa Unfit for sea.

Ban FRAFcIsco, Aug. 26.-Four sailors
deserted from the United States ship PEN
sacola yesterday. and twenty-four more
today. The men do not want to go to
China In the Pensacola, as they think she
in unseaWorthy
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whitman County wheat Yields.

The first wheat thrashed this season in
this neighborhood was thrashed yesterday
on the farm of Mr.. George Clark, aboat
eight miles from Johnson. The first ftcu-
sand bushels averaged from forty seveab
fifty bushels per acre.
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Russia May Prohibit Corn rxpor..

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 26-Reports from
Odessa say there Is talk there of prohibi-
ton of the expectation of maize.