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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-04-10

At one point, ii must be admitted. the
Republican majority in the Fifty-tirst
congress responded to the outcry from
certain quarters in favor of reform of
the tariff on the line of reduction" And
this was applied TO the one item which,
more than any other, was prolific of
revenue. Foreign sugar was put upon
the free list and bounty Of two cents a
pound TO home producers was provided
Tor.
Thus the revenues Of the general govern
ment were at one stroke cut down to the
tune of sixty millions year, 10 that
extent the frightfal ogre of surplus"
was guarded against, and as further
safeguard against the same evil an
increase of several millions year in the
shape Of sugar bounties was added 10 the
necessary expenditures.
With what result? Leading commercial
papers of the Atlantic states accept it as a
settled fact that as to his great new re-
finery Mt Philadelphia Spreckels has
entered into combination with the great
New York sugar trust. and that this CON-
lination viii effeetuaiiy control the sugar
output aud supply of the country In
that event the benefit to accrue to con-
sumers from the change will be subject 10
the tender mercies, the philanthropic i'm.
pulses OF this combination. Ii is hardly
necessary 10 remark that philanthropy is
not the controlling principle in the forma-
ton of such combinations.
Ii. as IL is reasonable TO expect, this loss
OF sixty millions in revenue and increase
OF several millions in expenditures is to
yield all Of its eompensating advantages
TO combination of refners. and little or
meme to consumers. the Republican party
will be found equal to the emergency,
capable of retracing this particular step,
sad Of going into the next campaign with
tha ropeal II thnt poyt{cplg piece q leeis-
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Eli Naples Damage Suit.


Yesterday Eli B. Maple by his attorney, s. ".
Mccsslin, began suit in the Jackson county cir
cult court against Herbert 8. Worcester for $25,-
900 damages. The plaintiff In his petition al
leges that he 10 now and for thirty eight years
PAST has been citizen and resident OF the city
of Seattle, King county, Washington, and Is en-
gagged in business in that city, and has always
been person of good character and borne .
good reputation for honesty, integrity and NOR
ality, and that on the 18th day OF March, is91,
at Kansas City, the defendant, maliciously in
tending to injure the plaintiff in his good repu-
fation and to extort money from him wrong
fully and unlawfully, appeared before F. w.
shannon esq, justice OF the peace OF said city,
ana without any probable cause whatsoever,
charged the plaintiff with having ON March II,
1s9l, unlawfulIy, iewdly and lasciviously cohab-
tied and abiced with one Catherine Worcester,
Q married woman, and the wife of the
defendant. and maliciously and without
probable cause procured the justice to is
sue warran: for the arrest OF the
plaintiff upon the charge. That the justice
issued the warrant accordingly, and he was
arrested and Imprisoned under the same for six
days, and was Obliged to and actually did give
Dali In the sum Of $500. That on April, 1891, the
plaintiff having been examined aud tried upon
the charge before the said justice for the sup
posed crime, the justice adjudged him not guilty
and fully acquitted him of the same: and that
since that time the defendant has not further
prosecuted the complaint, but has abandoned
the same. That the said charge and arrest of
the plaintiff there under it and his imprison.
ment were extensively published in several Of
the public newspapers OF large circulation,
among others the observation-disclosures, of seat
tie, Wash, the home OF this plaintiff; the Kan
sas City Morning Globe, the Kansas City Times,
Kansas City Journal, and Star, all published in
Kansas City, all OF which publication as plaintiff
believes was through the procurement of the
defendant.
That by means of tho premises the plaintiff
was injured in his person, character and reputa-
ton, and prevented from attending to his bust
ness aud was compelled to pay $500 expenses and
counsel fees In defending himself, and suffered
great mental anguish and humiliation, all to the
plaintiffs damage.
Wherefore plaintiff demands Judgment for
$4,000 and costs
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II is gratifying 10 observe the activity
with which The opening OF spring is greet
ed in the residence portion of the city by
the laying out and Improvements of lawns
and by other similar methods adjoining
and beautiiying homes. Massive strucs.
ures, the encouragement of manufactures.
hurry of business. the constant cominrs
and gosngs OF railroad trains and water
craft are all we'll enough and admirable in
their way, but IN many respects these
manifestations in the residence section are
more colnmenaahle aud desirable.
A handsome. well-kept lawn, fair dis
PLAY of ornamental trees and shruhbery,
with tasteful sloyer-plats and hedges, give
Gxity and tangible exercssion 10 the ex-
cellenee Of our marvellous climate. More
than this. il in a practical, convincing way
tcstifies that our people are here, not for
purposes Of speculation. o. as merely a
good temporary business arrangement, but
that they are here TO stay and enjoy the
f0!lness Of life's pleasures, and 10 make
permanent, delightful homes for them
selves and their posterity.
From this point Of view this admirable
tendency Is one of the most telling and
effective advertisements of the city that il
were possible 10 devise Ii is aa iayalu-
able object Lesson, with which the hipno-
droming OF city or state ION wheels is
not 70 be compared. II shows. right at
home. what the climate viii accomplish,
wv - Hnon1o IN fcfermlnad "a
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THE STATE PRESS.

snohomish San. FARMERS are putting in big
ger crops than ever before. Slashing, burning
and clearing are going on 1t surprising rate
Additions are being made 70 dwellings, and OUT
buildings are being erected. New farm improve
mcnts can be seen on all sides In fact he says
there Is manifest everywhere Improvements Of .
most solid and substantial character, indicating
that the farmers Of snohomish county are pros
pcring beyond measure"
walla wa1la Uaion: aHe who has managed
with success . large property, and earned the
confidence Of associates and antagonists in the
business relations Of . lifetime, has given surer
proof of his character and of his fitness for high
public trust than the tonguey demagogue who
has never done anything except 70 make plaus-
ible and captivating speeches"
Olympia Tribune. "One of the sure signs that
Olympia is increasing in population 10 TO see the
new residences growing up in al portions OF the
city. In coming up the inlet on steamboat
there is visible perfect panorama OF new
houses"
Olympia 0iympion: "Roads VIC must have.
Without wagon roads we are without country.
A wooded country can't develop IL there are no
roads or ii they are poor roads"
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latson as distinct and necessarily win

lst:on a. a distinct and necessarily win
ming Issue.
The course that seems imminent in this
is confirmatory Of the Republican conten-
ton in regard to all such matters. The
sixty millions distracted from the public
cxchequer Is just 50 much added to the
capital with which great combinations and
trusts can be formed to crush competition
and fleece consumers. The sixty millions
that would be required for the payment Of
duties upon imported sugars are turned
into these channels and tend to create
and foster monopolies.
II may be that this great sugar monop-
oily may consider it wise policy to grant .
slight reduction in one or another line Of
their product, but we may rest assured
that they viii seize the lions share of the
benefits, and will cunningly minimize the
benefits to be granted the consumers.
Sixty odd millions year in . very few
years would build for the United States
the finest navy in the world and impreg-
nably fortify our entire sea coast That it
were better to accomplish these or some
other equally desirable results, rather than
forego them in order to add to the heaped-
up millions of the Havemeyers and
Spreckelses, Is question upon which the
American people most probably would not
entertain any serious differences of opin-
ion.
And that is precisely the shape that the
sugar question seems destined to take. To
the subtraction of sixty millions from the
revenue and from needed public improve
ments there must be full Offset IN re-
duetion of at least sixty millions in the
cost of sugar-to the consumer!-all along
the line, and with no resort to fanciful ad-
justments of reduction in one class and
enhancement in another. Either that or
the people will demand the reason why.
Either that or the Republican party viii
lead crusade for the restoration of the
tariff and the appropriation of the pro-
ceeds to better use than 1.-THE enrich
ment of the few al the expense of the
many"
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From q Census Bulletin.
On the western shore of Baranof island is To-
Gated Sitka, the present capital OF the territory
Salmon salteries are located at several points on
Peril strait, which divides Baranof from Chi.
chagof island, and at the head of Silver bay,
near Sitka, small salmon cannery is in opera
ton, in connection with which limited
quantity OF halibut Is salted. Baranof island is
sbundantly supplied with timber, and furnishes
an almost inexhaustible supply to the natives.
The forests and mountains ere full OF deer,
while the surrounding waters fairly throng with
halibut. herring, and fish OF the salmon species.
In the Silver bay district, within twelve miles
of Sitka, number OF quartz lodes have been To-
Gated and operated in rather desultory manner
for many years, but the shipments of bullion
from these iodes have been small. One OF the
most remuneratiye industries OF the native pop-
ulation OF Sitka consists in the manufacture of
so-ealled curios, for which there is a steady de-
mand from the large number OF tourists who
annually visit this section of Alaska
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SEEDS OF LAUGHTER.

"That's little hint give my landlady once
In q WHILE" said Mr.. A. Starborder, and as he
spoke he deposited on the floor the advertising
sheet of the Whirled, from which half a dozen OF
the "Boarders Wanted advertisements had
been cut out-Pack
"what led you to break Of your engagement
with Miss Craik?'' 81 was afraid Of her. One
evening In the parlor q mouse ran across the
floor. She never moved q muscle, but said:
soh, what pretty little creature? "-Nev York
Sun.
Merchant-Where is that messenger boy hired
yesterday? Cierk-He asked to be excused to
attend the John street prayer-meeting. Mer-
chant--Just step around to the Bowery thcater
and tell him want to see him.-Nese York Sun.
Cumso tresdingl-A ship which recently sailed
for Africa had ON board seven missionaries and
5000 barrels of whisky. Mrs Cumso dndig-
uantlyl-well, do think they ought to send
missionaries who don't drink--Nee York Sun.
"By Jovet" said the museum man turning
pale. .Whats the matter, Rupert" asked his
wife. 81 forgot to send the dog faced boy any
supper. and he is locked up in the same cage
with the ossified man."-Nes York Sun
The Old Man-Hers, here. you kissing my
daughter The Young Mani trust 30, sir:
should be greatly disappointed If were mis-
taken and had kissed your cook!-PucS
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of level country, and are filed with many va
fieties OF salmon, chiefly those used for the
subsistence of the Indians The timber In this
region consists OF spruce, with some hemlock of
large size, and the forests are well stocked with
fur-bearing animals, such as bears, land offers,
foxes and martens. Midway between Etuya
and Yakutat bay few miners are washing
the auriferous sands OF the beach.
making fair wages during . few months
OF the year, and at Yakutat the
beach sands have at times been utilized
in similar manner, but with no satisfactory re-
suit. Quartz veins have been discovered by is
olated prospectors in the mountain ranges, but
have not been developed The sea adjoining
this coast line was long ago named the Fair
weather whaling ground, and was reported a.
quite prolific in the past. Of late, however,
only two or three whale ships visit the ground
every third or fourth year. Between Yakutst
bay and the mouth of Copper river sea offers are
still found and hunted by the natives of Yakutat
and Comptroller bays Near the western ex-
tre1nity of this coast line, in the vicinity of Cape
Sucking, there are several Indian villages, the
natives of which furnish all the labor for the
salmon cannery located at the mouth of Copper
river. The furs procured from this section con-
sist chiefly of sea otter, bear and land otter.
The vast valley OF the Copper river, which has
been explored at various times by military ex-
petitions and private individuals, is known to
abound in copper ore, which, however, is
too far removed from shipping facilities
to be of any value at present.
The few scattered tribes of Indians that are
settled on Copper river and its tributaries an
nually descend to the sea and dispose OF such
furs ~ they can obtain, the most valuable
among them being the black fox, which is here
found in its highest perfection. But short dis
lance westward from the mouth of Copper river,
and connected Herewith by series OF lakes and
channels, is the settlement of odiak or Ighiak,
where two large canning establishment are To-
Gated, the annual output being about 40 600 cases
OF an excellent quality OF canned salmon. The
whole coast line of Prince William sound con-
sists of an interrupted series of deeply indented
fords and bays, sheltered by groups OF small
islands and overhung by the towering peaks of
a continuation of the Alpine chain of Saint
Elias, and in nearly every bay and ford there
are several large glaciers.
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ONCE UPON A TIME.

When l was young, and long before
The Muse came tapping at my door,
used to often sit aud think
OF things which now I've put in ink.
What curious things used to dreaml
How very true they all did seem!
And when came to bed at night
] begged my mother to recite
The Tales of OHce Upon Time,
All written down in simple rhymA
How eagerly listened, and
How far went in Fairy-land.
And these same songs she sang to me-
Still murmur in my memory.
For she made the world anew
A jewel of each drop of dew:
The autumn leaves of golden tint
We're coins come freshly from the mint;
The birds were poets all who sang;
The flowers were bells the fairies rang;
And everything saw became
Another, with another name.
So, little folk, my verses are
Like beads from childhood's calendar
For you to string on Fancy's line,
To be your Joy as they were mine.
Perchenee for you they shall repeat
The same old stories, strangely sweet,
Which filed my days and nights with 10y
When was but little boy:
And YOU shall start where begans
To learn to be happy man.
l wish you al the JOY had
To make my childhood bright and glad,
-Fronk Dem pstsr Sherman
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avail themselves Of the fall benefits Of
their climate and surroundings
Moreover, il Is wise in . sanitary sense,
and for its refining influence on the young
people and for its influence in cultivating
their love and admiration for their homes.
Abundantly supplied as this city now IL
with water, there is no excuse for any
residence being without these identifying
and in every sense beneficial adjuncts.
They are profitable as an investment.
They betoken alike private thrift and
public spirit They are profitable in
sanitary sense They are superlatively
profitable in their refining influences and
in their generation OF the home-loving inn
pulse. Let the good work go on, and be
come all-embracing.
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Mind-cure and the Regular Practice.


II IL very old observation that a do,nins,,
idea is valuable in controlling the human being
and whether 1t be in the bearing OF pain or in
the devotion which leads the Turk to die con.
tentedly before the Russian bullets. neiief ia .
factor that may be turned to great ADVANTAGES
Indirectly, Christian Science may prove an aid
TO medical sciezce. The intelligent physician
OF today could receive no greater aid in the
scientific practice OF his profession than IN he
eTnaneipated by his patients from the ohlira-
ton invar ably TO prescribe drug When neo.
rle are wiling to employ physicians 10 orx,e,
their lives thai they may live in health the
custom which binds the physician to preserihs
something for his patient will be unnecessary
As we have become more civilized this sta,a -
affairs is gradually coming into place: but there
still fingers the expectation that the doetor,.
visit means drugs. Christian Science ana Fa,.h-
cure more refined than the spiritnalistie heIiaf.
which have preceded them, form an interesting
study in mental pathology, and mark an sa'
vance from the gTosser stage of table-tipnin,
and magnetic doctors TO recognition al the
fact that among the weapons efnpioyed nv tina
scientific physician OF today an appeal 10 a eia.
termined purpose to overcome pain is worshvSos
place beside snsiseptics and anotynes and
S-A
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Woodward sloRgh, and after drifting one tide
prepared to haul in the net and stow away the
captured salmon. The net was raised without
difficulty for time, but soon churning was
observed in the water net lar from the boat, and
as the net was hauled in the commotiou came
nearer. Nelson soon found from the weight
that he had captured something big, but wheth-
er q whale, an immense sturgeon or q seal, he
could not tell Whatever it was, it could not be
landed in the boat, 30 making the net fast, Nell
son and his partner rowed ashore, determined to
land their game. 1t was soon discovered that q
large seal had got tangled in the meshes, and,
although the animal made desperate fight and
snapped and snarled as viciously as mad dog,
il was finally landed alive and boxed up for
shipment to Mr.. vianen. The net was badly
torn in the struggle, consequently the capture
Of the seal viii not be all profit.
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The Dffnculty In Newfoundland.
Harper's Weekly

The only permanent solution of the Newfound-
land difficulty, however, lies in the extinction
OF the French rights. The great interest of New
foundland is its fisheries, and it would seem to
be impracticable that a foreign power should
continue to have exclusive control for fishery
purposes of an important part OF the coast II is
one of the questions which, when they arise. can
be wisely settled in one way only. The present
feeling on the island recalls our own colonial ex
element before the Revolution. The action OF
England is denounced as harsh, and there ia
even talk of possible separation. The situation
is naturally trying. A British COLONY can
hardly see with equanimity the British
navy maintaining against British subjects
French right to exclusive privileges in the col.
ony. Should the difference be irreconcilahle.
parliament would doubtless acquiesee in ser-
ious proposition of separation if it were eyi.
IDENTITY supported by the sentiment of the island.
The colonial system in the old sense is yan,sh
ing. Military and naval stations which are e.
sentiai TO the British belt around the globe will
be undoubtedly maintained But although
England fought hard and long TO retain her old
American colonies. she would probably nart
with Newfoundland without struggle If New.
foundland really wished TO 60
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This is the way the new Topeka CONNER
cal Advertiser puts the Italio-American
situation: Italy has great navy, but
cannot raise the money to send it to sea.
Tie United States has plenty of ready
money. but no tremendous navy to spend
it upon" And then it suggests that Mr..
Blaine and Signor Rudini make trade,
We. taking half their navy and giving them
an equivalent from our surplus. Perhaps
it would be better still to hire the navy to
deport to their native land the Malta and
their sympathizers. And then proceed to
build a navy according to our own ideas
and models, and with our own labor.
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In criticism of the Nebraska legislation fixing
. maximum of railroad freight rates, the Fia0s-
ciol Carosics makes a showing of reductions
made up to February, 1880, as compared with
the highest previous rates. The showing in
cludes through rates per 100 pounds on less than
carload lots from Chicago to Lincoln, Beatrice
and York. Neb. The rate to Lincoln, on first
class freight, had fallen from ia to IS: on Sec
ond-class from 81 to 55; on thirdclass from IS to
SO, ana on fourth-class from IS to .. These fig
ures, which are taken from official sources,
would indicate healthy downward tendency
that hardly justified resort to extremes of hos
tile legislation
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Buffalo Skull Dug Up ut spokane.

While workmen in the employ of Mr. Francis
Ell. Cook were excavating q small mound in
feet. what was at first mistaken for a piece of
decayed root Mr.. Cook saw that it was a bone.
and digging around found another piece. On
examination the bones were found to be TIE
SKULL OF q buffalo. There was probably a great
least when some mighty Indian warrior slew
the giant. after chasing him up Riverside ave-
nue. and out the motor line to Cooks addition
oldest inhabitant got here, and this buffalo must
have been whopping old bull, big -boned and
thick, bis skull remaining long after those Of
his smaller brethren had crumbled into
dust Last summer Mr.. Cook found a buffalo
horn on the Lite Spokane river, and about
twelve years ago the frame of gigantic masto-
don was unearthed about thirty-fiye miles from
this city on the banks OF Hangman creek.
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The Big Dog Was . Cougar.
Cathiamet Gazette.

Just the other night as Constable James A.
Benson was traversing the John Howard claim
on his way home he saw what appeared 10 him
to be his brown dog sitting on q log. The sup
posed dog was sitting bolt upright on log
about twenty feet away. He spoke 70 the dog
but no sign OF recognition could be observed
save the bright gieam of pair of cougar eyes
instantly reflected amid the shadows of the COM
ing night upon his countenance Alone, IN
armed, in the dark and within twenty feet Of q
cougar. He stopped instinctively to see what
next would happen, when the animal with
measured step walked leisnrely along the log
and disappeared in the brush Mr.. Benson says
few of these experiences in lifetime b all he
wants. Cougars have been vey plentiful In this
vicinity this season owing TO the fact Of the
heavy snow in the mountains