The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-01

Ms Attack ON Fslrhaven and Its PeopIe
Not Juatinable.
FAIRHAvEN, Feb. q. Especial. l-Colonel
(. E. Tarbel, who, after the sinking of his
sun here quite recently, skipped by the
light of the moon to British Columbia To
avoid arrest to answer charges of arson
forgery and theft, seems to be quite sue.
cessful in getting himself interviewed
across the line. The attention of the Posr.
INrELLlGxNCER correspondent has Just been
called to quite lengthy airing of TarbeI's
grievances in the Seattle Press Times of the
zotn inst. under gnise of 'sstaff CORE.
spondence" interview at Vancouver The
screed In general merits no particular at.
IGNITION, and none would be given it except
ior rs concluding paragraph, which reads
The matter, when first published in the Posi-
!NTELLlGENcER, was placed in its worst possible
light The management OF the Posr-INrELLr-
GENcER has always been very courteous and fair
NJ me- put It's tSe At
pany, ana OF course must jump when the string
= pulled: A mortgage on the average mans
business 10 virtually cinch on his soul.
With reference to the above it is proper
TO state few points briefly. In the first
place, the Posr-INTELIIGENcER's cor
respondent has no personal acquaintance
with Mr.. Tarbel, and doesn't desire any.
To know him by reputation is enough. In
the second place, the regular correspondent
left here on the 7th inst. to 60 to San Fran
cisco and did not return until the ed,
and knew nothing whatever of the doughty
coloneI's difficulties here and his fight
from justice until he read the PosT-INrEI-
LiGENcER of Sunday while en- route from
Fort Townsend TO this city on the Eastern
Oregon. The dispatches from here con-
corning Tarbel's fight and the charges
against him were sent by a gentleman who
kindly acted for the regular correspondent
during his absence, and who could not
have the slightest interest in misrepre-
senting any Of the facts in the case. As
near as the writer can ascertain from in
vestigating the matter since his return,
Tarbel was very mildly treated in the dis
patches complained Of. In the third place,
the land company has no strings on your
correspondent. He does not owe the CON-
pany dollar and never did, and, further,
there Is not and never has been, as the fell
ness with which the correspondent is con-
nected.
In the Pres Times interview Tarbel is
quoted as saying: First and foremost,
that his plant was not insured; that an ap
plication had been filed, but it would not
have gone INTO effect until the following
Monday. That is pntrue, as the agent
San Francisco for approval and registry
has just told your correspondent. The
agent cancelled the policy when he found
that the insurance had been obtained by
Tarbel under false pretenses, another party
holding bill of sale covering the whole
outfit, ostensibly to secure small obliga-
ton, but really. it is said, to prevent a levy
upon the plant by the firm from whom It
had been purchased on open account. Mr..
Bacon, of Whatcom, also has claim of
$3.50 against it,
In his Press Times wall the only correct
statement made by Tarbel is one in refer
ence to the attempted incendiarism, as fol-
lows: at happened that the whole dia-
bolical plot was discovered just in the nick
Of time--just at the moment when the can
die was about to set fire to the oil-to pre-
vent the confiagration. And it is because
of this discovery, ''just in the nick of
time" that Tarbel fed to British Columbia
in accordance, as he admits, with the adj
vice of his attorney. 1t really seems to have
been good advice. If Tarbel is q much
prosecuted man and an injured innocent,
the question which puzzles the people here
is why did he not remain and face his
accusers instead Of fleeing like a common
thief? Should he return, as he says he
will, "when his attorney gives the word, -
he will not find the parties especially in
terested in him unprepared for his recep-
tion