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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-07
THE BONDS ARE INVALID.

The superior court refused yesterday TO
issue an order 10 Mayor White, compell-
ing him to sign the street grade scrip re-
demption bonds. These bonds were or
dered to be issued by virtue of an ordi-
nance passed by the City Council last Feb
ruary. The intention was TO issue bonds
payable within i've years and bearing
per cent. interest, payable semi-annually,
to take up floating scrip at 10 per
cent. issued for the grading of
streets and payable out of local improve
ment funds created for the purpose. Upon
manly of these streets there is large de-
hciency due to the delinquency Of prop
erty-owners who, for various reasons, have
failed TO pay their assessments, and the in
terest is not payable until the warrants are
called in. For that reason the scrip-hoiders
desired the issue of redemption bonds
which would allow them payment OF the
interest at reliable intervals and insure
payment of the principal at the end of the
five years. The argument in favor of this
provision was that If at the end Of the
i've years the city had not then collected
the assessments il would be guilty of
negligence such rs would entitle the
hold6s to recovery of the amount by
ordinary process of law.
Mayor White vetoed the ordnance on
the ground that the Council had no author
ity 10 issue bonds over one and one-half
per cent. of the property valuation without
submitting the question TO a vote Of the
people. and that the practical effect of the
ordinance was TO issue hve-year bonds and
give the purchasers the assessments IS col
lateral security.
The Council passed the ordinance over
the veto and the bonds were duly prepared
and signed by the comptroller and treas
urer, cut the Mayor refused TO sign them.
and suit was accordingly brought to COM
pei him by mandamus 20 complete the
authorization for their Issue
Judge Humes takes the view that thes.
arc bords creating an Indebtedness such
ss Is contemplated by the constitution
and the charter and must be submitted
10 vote of the people in order 70 be valid.
he, therefore, refused TO make the neces-
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A GOOD WORD FOR SEATTLE.

On the 2sth of July the initial step was
taken in the construction of the first line
of electric railway in California. Accord
ing to the public announcement the line is
planned to run from the heart of San
Francisco south to Redwood City, dis
lance of about thirty miles, but applica-
ton has been made for franchise further
south TO San Jose; and it is an open secret
that the purpose Of the promoters is TO use
this local line as the entering wedge of a
future railroad competition in California.
Up to the present time the Southern Pa
ciic has maintained an absolute monopoly,
and all efforts to break it have failed. The
new electric enterprise, with its broader
purpose of a general railroad system, owes
its existence to ne public spirit and persist
ency of Mr.. William NJ. Bunker, editor of
the Daily Report. In Mr.. Bunker the
Southern Pacific has found an opponent
who can neither be bought off nor fright
ened of. After many delays and defeats
in his effort to secure competition against
the great California cormorant, he now
seems on the road TO success.
In an address delivered on the occasion
of the driving of the first spike of the new
electric road, Mr.. Bunker took accession to
speak as follows of Seattle:
What will the electric road do? What will it
not do? is a fair Yankee answer. See what it
has done FOR Seattle, the Chicago of the new
Northwest the brisk business city that domi.
mates Puget sound, and whose brilliant DESTINY
no sane man will deny. All, l see that city now,
spreading over the tree-crowned hills that com
mand Its noble bay, rearing structures OF metro
politan proportions, sending electric cars over
sixty miles OF radiating tracks, throbbing with
Legitimate enterprise, aud smiling at every fate.
This tribute to Seattle is the result of a
recent visit here for the purpose of study
ing our street car system. Like every
other visitor, Mr.. Bunker became enam-
ored with the energy, beauty and prospects
of Seattle.
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Indian Whaling or Cape FIattery.

Fort townsend GALL
Last Friday as the schooner Robert LEVERS,
Captain PenhalIow, from Honolulu, was enter
ing Fuca strait, she passed five canoes filed
with Indians who were attacking a whale in
their primitive STYLE The harpoons are fitted
with q socket, into which the harpoon staff of
solid yew is inserted. lanyard about five
fathoms long has one end fastened to the har-
poon head and the other end secured to buoy
made of q hair seal skin taken off whole with the
hair side in. The holes made by the flippers
and neck are closed up air tight except that the
neck has a hollow wooden plug through which
the Indian blows up the skin while fresh and
soft, till it is full of air, and when dried il il
as tight as drum and as bouyant as a bladder.
In attacking O whale the harpoon 10 driven
into the blubber with great force, and the staff
OF the harpoon comes out of the socket, leaving
the barbed head firmly fixed in the whales car
cass with the skin buoy floating at the other
end of the lanyard. The Indians get as many
harpoons into the whale as they can. and the
buoys prevent his sinking. The Indians then
kill the whale with their long lauces, and when
dead he is towed ashore and the blubber and
meat taken off and divided. The Indians were
whooping and yelling, and finally the whale
headed for the schooner, and passed directly
under her bottom, buoys and all, giving those
on board fine chance to see the circus When
the whale again came up the Indians were
ready with their lances and soon the water was
dyed with its blood, and before the Levers had
got out of sight they had killed their huge game
and all the canoes were last TO IT, towing IL
ashore, with songs and shouts of victory. Tho
Indian whaling business at Cape Flattery Is one
of the fishing industries OF this state, and full
and complete set of their whaling outfit will
make q very attractive addition to the Worlds
Columbian exhibit at Chicago of the fisheries of
the state of Washington. The Indians killed
six other whales this season.
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THE STATE PRESS.

South Bend Journal: ssThe state of Washing
ton il TO have q geological survey, and the gen.
eral government is going to do il. The previous
sentence summarizes the letter directed to Sec
rotary Dodge, of the Seattle Chamber OF Com
merce, by Major Powell, director OF the United
States geological survey. This welcome news
establishes better than ever the wisdom OF Gov
ernor Ferrys vigorous measures 10 suppress the
fake state survey scheme of Charley Laughton
and de gang This action delivered US not
only from q geological report, which would
have been regarded simply as . boom .pampniet
BY outsiders but also from another egotlsticaf
effusion from the pen OF Geologist "a Bsthune,
whom the state printer still remembers As .ns
man who made him spend all his spare sheckes
for extra capital SIS for that wildly humorous
sFirst Annual Report on the Mines and Minerals
of Washington.
whatcom Rereiue: "Free silver, free trade and
an income tax is that which the Ohio Democrats
declare for. If they are showed under py Re-
publican majority of 5000, these notions VIII
have proved the cloud that held the snownakes.
There is about as much sense in free SILVER as
free saw logs or fat money. While gold is not
perfect medium of exchange, its constant yet
limited production makes it the most available
The silver producing capacity OF American
mines is practically unlimited; ana the earth
outside our boundaries is full OF this white
metal"
Feirhayen Herald: aft the calamity shrek.
ers, Jerry simpson, Senator PETER ct al, could
only lear of the threatened hop ice In this
country, they would feel better. Grasshoppers
that devastste, cyclones that Destroy uroughts
that kill crops and all such things as those are
nuts for the calamity shriekers, ana their
bowls are chestnuts' to sensible people"
Tacoma Globe: sin attempting to form pool
to raise the price of wheatthe Farmers Alliance
men in Minnesota find themselves amenable to
the very law against pools passed by their own
members in the last legislature. AS long as
loud-mouthed politicians are allowed to control
the farmers movement for their personal benefit,
SO long will it prove weak fasco."
Mount Vernon Chronicle: Lieutenant Cover
nor Laughton has an imminent instinct that he
is somebody, but this fact seems to have been
quite generally overlooked. 1t is now said that
Charlie is going to start newspaper over in
the wilds of Okanogan in order to advertise the
fact of his existence on earth.
Mount Vernon Necs: "The editorials of the
PosT-INTELLIaENcER should be read by every
citizen of the state of Washington"
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CARD FROM MIR. HAYS.
SEATTLE. Aug. 6. 1891

SEATTLE, Aug. 6, 1891.
To THE EDITOR: viii you please publish the
following, which / desire to make public, in
justice to my wife and children?
In your publication of the divorce suit OF Mrs.
KeIkow against her husband she is made TO say,
son one occasion she saw her husband come
out OF the house where Mrs. Hays was living
at o'clock in the morning" This statement 1
desire TO pronounce absolutely false, as knew
OF her accusation at the time and fully
investigated her charges and know them
to be utterly without foundation. This can
be proven at any time. And as to one other
allegation, viz: cat other times he spent the
night in the same house with Mrs. Hays while
her husband was out OF town." verify believe
to be false from the fact that during the last six
months my wife has had a respectable woman
a companion who was always with her dur
ing my absence, and at my wife's particular re-
quest. While have applied for divorce from
my wife ii is not on the ground of adultry, be-
cause OF this act. / do not believe her guilty.
JAMES NJ HAYS,
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wHArcox, Aug. 5-lspecisi "A large num-
Ter OF teachers from all sections of the county
are IN attendance at the teachers institute in
session here.
There seems 70 be very little interest manifest
concerning the Farmers Alliance meeting to be
held here August Is The alliance is not 40
strong here As esst OF the mountains
Rough lumber is selling IRON s. to IS per
thousand, and frst-cisss flooring and rustic
from SIS 20 SIC in retail quantities First-cIass
cedar shingles are delivered for slao
Ii Is estimated that the Blaine cannery will
make from S-oo00 20 $500 this season on
salmon The run at Point Roberts has been
very good, while very few fish have been
taken IN Fraser river. This and the tariff will
cause other canueriss 10 remove from British
Columbia 70 the American side.
The haroor line comm lssioneFs are AT Blaine
and expect % ole maps OF Bellingham bav and
prayton hsrhor about August rs. Its expected
that whateom county tide lands viii be hrst
10 80 upon the market in the state There
seems t. be general disposition 20 expedite
the location OF harbOr lines and the settlement
of tide land titles
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KETTLE FALLS, Aug. 5.-tSpeciaL IA short
time ago a series Of resolutions were published
in one of the local papers Of Stevens county pur-
porting to voice the sentiments of the Cluxon
creek miners in regard 10 their feelings toward
Governor Ferry for stopping the geological sur
vev." To one not knowing the facts these reso-
buttons would indicate that the miners were un-
animously opposed 20 the governors action,
while 10 fact the reverse is true. During the
past week have been up Cluxon creek as far az
the settlement extends, and have asked every
man that have seen: "WhAt 10 your opinion
In regard 10 Governor Ferry's action in stopping
the suryey4" The answer was unanimous:
ale did right" | have failed 10 ind "Cluxon
creek MINER who knows anything about those
resolut ons, and am OF the opinion that they
were concocied in Cosyille for political effect
T. J. MeAuley, practical miner, says: Miners
generally approve Ferry's action. We would
like q survey for the benefit of the state, but not
for the benefit of those making the survey"
James Allen, a rancher, says: "Those resolu-
tons do not voice the sentiments of the people
on Cluxou creek"
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MIR. BLAISE.s HEALTH.

The following interesting letter appears In the
Detroit Free Press of July ..
AUGUSTA, Maine, July %. 1891
William A. Garrett Detroit, Mich: / am In receipt
OF your letter OF the fstn inst.
Mr. Blaine found himself in May last, as q re-
suit OF overwork aud great grief, caused by the
death Of his two children. completely tired out
and Frustrated by nervous exhaustion. He has
10 organic disease whatever. All he needed
was rest. He is gaining rapidly, so much so,
that it does not seem now "a if he had ever been
sick He will GO back to Washington this fall,
a much more vigorous and healthy man than he
has been for years. Have no fears about Mr..
BiSines health
OF course what he will do about the presi-
deney know not. know this, he can not be
candidate aud you would not have him. II the
Republican party wants him, il should make it
manifest and nominate him l do not believe
he would decline this call. | think this is all
that ought to De said. Sincerely yours.
j. H. MANLEY.
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THE FORsAKEN FARMHOUSE.

Against the wooded hills il stands.
Ghost of II dead home, staring through
Its broken lights on wasted lands
Where old-time haryests grew.
Unploughed, unsowed, by scythe unshorn,
The poor forsaken farm-felds lie,
Once rich and rife with golden corn
And pale-greeu brsadths OF rye.
OF healthful herb and flower bereft,
The garden plot no housewife keeps;
Through weeds and tangie only left
The snake, its tenant, creeps.
lilac spray, once blossom clad,
Sways bare before the empty rooms,
Beside the roofiess porch sad,
Pathetic red rose blooms.
His track in mold and dust OF drouth,
On floor and hearth the squirrel leaves,
And in the fireless chimney's mouth
His web the spider weayes.
The leaning barn about TO fall
Resounds no more on husking ewes;
No cattle low in yard or stall,
No thresher beats his sheaves.
So sad, SO dresrl It seems almost
Some haunting presence makes its sign;
That down yon shadowY lane some ghost
Might drive his spectral kline!
John @. Whittier.
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E.,., accident To n Pioneer.

The Mount Vernon Nelrs OF August gives
particulars of the accident which resulted in the
death of K. Z. Whitney, the skagit pioneer On
Wednesday, July %, while driving to his ros-
deuce from Anacortes, the buggy in which he
was riding was overturned, throwing him vio-
lently to the ground. breaking his hip and other
wise injuring him. He fingered in great pain
until sunday, when death put an end to his sut-
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It's a concentrated vegetable ex-
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sary order; and, unless an appeal be taken
to the supreme court. the bonds cannot be
issued, and the scrip-holders must either
wait till property-owners pay their assess
ments or judgment be obtained against
the city. The latter alternative opens up
a very wide field for legal speculation.
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WHAT CURED YOU !?

Mr.. B. p McAllister, of Harrisburg,
Ky., writes: "Haying been terrible
sufferer from catarrh, and being now
sound and well, the question often put
to me is, What cured yous" In answerto
this often put question feel it my duty
to state that Swift's Specific Is. S. s. is
the medicine. 1 am such true believer
in theeficacy of Swift's Specific Is. s. So
that can honestly and conscientiously
recommend it to any one suffering from
catarrh. Have recommended it to
many. and am happy to say that those
whom I have induced to use it can bear
me out in this statement. / also believe
that it win cure any case of catarrh if
taken according to directions"
Book on Blood and Skin Diseases Free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, Ga
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GROWING scEPTICAL ABOUT FREE
TRADE.

That free trade without discrimination
Is not an unmixed blessing is the growing
opinion Of number of intelligent English
men, intending Howard Vincent, Mp,
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Argentine Rshahllitatinr Ii. rin.nee.

BUzNos AYRES. Aug. "a committee OF the
sensts has approved the bill introduced by the
government authorizing the provincial issue of
s"uoo,ooo and the establishment OF the Argeu-
the National bank, which will take chsrge OF
and liquiGAts the affairs OF the present national
bank.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-04
BARRUNDIA's WIDOW,
She Sues the United States for
$1,OOO,OOO Damages.

WASHINGTON, March 3.-Transito
Hurtarte, widow of Gen. j. Martin Bar
rundia, in her own name, and as the
representative of her six minor daught-
erS, and Ramon BengOechea as the rem
resentative of his wife, Teresa Barrun-
dia de Bengoechea, have fled with the
secretary of state, claim against the
United States for S1,000OO0 for having
surrendered Gen. Barrundia to the G1a-
temal an authorities, at whose hands he
lost his life. The claim, the petition
els say, is based on the explicit
and precise declarations of the
president of the United States in his
last annual message to congress that
Minister Miner, in issuing the order
for the surrender of Barrundia, exceed
ed the bounds of his authority and acted
in violation of the precedents estab-
lished in similar cases, for which reason
the United States government dis
avowed his act and recalled him from
his post. The petitioners argue that
'Mr. Miner acted in everything he did
as the United States minister and as the
legal representative of his nation. and
it seems evident, according to the unan-
imouS opinion of all authors, that if he
Is responsible TO his government. that
government is responsible to us in that
it is bound to indemnify us for that in
jury which was caused to us by its rem
resentative through his violation in the
person of Gen. Barrundia of the guar
antees furnished in such cases bv inter
national law, and even by the principles
OF humanity" In closing the petition
ers say:
1--WE ask that the sum of S1,0O0OO0 be paid
to US, which we hope will be granted. so that
the United States government may act con.
slstently with the declarations made in the
presidents message to which we have re-
ferred, and may repair so far as possible the
injury that has been caused to us bv its rem
resentative for whose acts it is responsible
There is defect in this claim. which
IN the opinion of the state Department
officials, will prove fatal to it, and that
is the fact that it is made by citizens of
foreign country without the kn0wI-
edge and consent of that country. If is
SAID at the department that it is we'll
established principle in this country. as
we'll as nearly all others, that claims of
the citizens of one country against an
other are recognized only when IRE
sented in the name of the country of
which the claimant is a citizen.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-04
The Spirit OF Last November
Still Hovers in the Po-
litical Air.
Illinois Farmers Disguised at
Republican Dilatory
Tactics.
Black River Falls, Wis, Turns
Down a Republican Can
didate.

CHICAGO, March s. Further reports
from the municipal elections held
throughout iowa yesterday show that
at Iowa City the Democrats made a
clean sweep of all the Offices except one
trustee. Their mayor had 800 majority.
At Fort Madison, the Democrats were
successful. The city council will stand
eight Democrats to two Republicans.
At Ottumwa the Democrats elect
mayor by 400 majority. ana make a gain
of four in the council, which body will
stand eight Democrats and four Repub-
licans. The Democrats elect all other
city officers over the Republican and
Citizen tickets. At Creston, the
Democrats elect a mayor and three
out of five aldermen. At Burlington
only one Republican candidate ran in
the city election and he was defeated by
a small majority in the Fourth ward.
The other candidates were Democrats.
At Mason City the citizens ticket was
elected almost unanimously. At Wa
terloo, ). j. HOOt was reelected mayor
by vote of $50 to 500. Two years ago
Hoot was working on 4 cobbler's bencn
when he was elected mayor. largely
through the votes of the Knights of La
Dor. The entire general city ticket
elected is Democratic except the treas
urer. The council, however, is largely
Republican. At Cedar Fails, Repub-
lIcan mayor was elected. At Laporte
City, straight Republican ticket was
elected.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-04

Touring mills. Senator La Due
promptly moved that the rules be sus-
pended and the bills passed. Senator
Crandall objected, saying that the bills
were plainly unconstitutional. Senator
LA Due argued that the people of JAS
per were very anxious in regard to the
matter, and he would like to have the
measures passed if possible. 1t was
then announced that the governor had
already vetoed 4 similar bill relating 10
the village of Carver. Senator La Due
finally had the bill referred back for the
purpose of giving him time to consult
the people most Interested.
ESiUs Passed.
H. +. No 3l4-Amending special laws of
1850. relating TO school districts in Rock
county.
$ F. No. 35a-Amending act Incorporating
village Of Cologne. Carver county.
). f. a65-Aulhorizing village of Norwood.
Carver county, 10 lease certain ground for
constructing race course.
II. F. No. 412-AuthOrizing Wheaton 10
issue bonds for water supply
5. +. No. 314-Amending act establishing u
municipal court III the city of -Ano&a.
II. L. No 420-AuthOrizing county commits
sloners OF Traverse county TO issue bonds for
court house.
II. +. No. -Legalizmg acts of officers of
village of Wheaton
II II. 4. NO 4lU-heIaIng 10 school districts IN
Traverse county.
S F.. No. 343-Fixing time for holding court
i'll Wadena county.
S. F. No. 304-Relating 10 bridge over Min
nesota river between fienncpin and Scott
counties
H. +. No. 3s4-Fixing compensation Of
county commissioners of st. Louis county.
II. +. No 3S5--Regulating salaries of audi
tor and treasurer of 1t. Louis county.
III. f. No 213-AuthOrizing school district
III Crow Wing county to settle Indebtedness
The senate then adjourned for the day.