The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-21
THE STATE PRESS.

officer TO take man into custody Tor whom Ne
has 9 proper warrant but there should be de-
cency even in that, as all men are
considered innocent until proven guilty.
There was no excuse for dragging Aibertson
out of the county in the manner attempted or
of maltreating bis friend: Albertson could not
run away If he desired 10, and expressed himself
as ready 70 go on any proper warrant 10 any
court that wanted him. But that would not
have suited such creature as sullivan ne
desired TO show how great, how much above
law and Justice and personal freedom he was;
he cared more for making reputation as
great and powerful detective than he did Tor the
law or the punishment of the criminal ms
every act was in accord with that hne OF
thought. The preliminary hearing OF Aioertson
brought out the fact that for some time previous
the Fidelity Trust Company had determined on
his arrest, aud, therefore they had ample time
to do il lawfully and easily without recourse 10
the employment OF such eontemptible creatures
as this Sullivan, but they gave wav 10 MS ue'
sire for notoriety and allowed the arrest TO De
made N an outrageous and disgraceiu! manner.
IT is time the people put an everlasting quietus
On this private detective business The law
might be invoked, but the law alone won
do it. The man who EMPLOYS such
creatures must be made 10 bear tne
odium of the act. The American people are
law-abiding enough to despise the spy, 10 con-
demn the man who enters that detested field LOT
a livelihood. Let them extend their detestation
to the employer OF spies, to hold him up TO ths
public opprobrium and resent in every way the
imputation that the spy is in any way necessary
to commercial existence. Sullivan is notorious
as blackmailer. He is unquestionahly as DIS
honest and corrupt as men ever are; he is I'M
Trustworthy TO the fullest degree and assoeia-
tion with him Is pollution ITSELF Whatever
criminal hunters are needed should be chosen
by the people aud by the people held respon-
sible"
Nooksack Reporter: "As in the sporting world
there is but one sullivan, so in this great state
OF Washington, with its multiform largeness OF
all createdness, there is but Que Sullivan. 1t Is
true We have preachers, eobblers, doctors, law
yers, scallawags, and even printers, who are
known by this patronymic among us, but all
these count as nothing when We have the PFC
ture OF the One and Only Sullivan before u.s.
He is detective, this. our sulli-
van; open to any service that Will
bring his price. as was Judas lscariot
in Jerusalem. He is a champion OF corpora
tions because their purse IS fun OF the gold he
worships; and delights in pursuing the poor,
whose bread is jeopardized by corporate greed.
He is a skulker, stabbing in the dark; thug
who strikes a death blow from an unseen hand,
and smiles at the red currents which flow from
the hearts his weapons have pierced. he Is
spy to steal in and uncover the sanctities OF the
domestic hearth, and blister and scorch every
sacred thing his paid energies can debauch.
Purchasable, INSCRIPTIONS, cunning as a fox,
sneaky his blows are menace to orderly gov
eminent, and his habits an insult 70
the liberation that permits him to live This is
the man that the Reporter hoped had been dis
missed from the public eye when the states SOL
diery had disarmed his hireling gang at the
franklin mine troubles in the summer, who
now turns up one of the kidnapers of Albert
son and Bailey in Seattle this week, and as he
has stirred the blood of the metropolis of Wash
f,.|. s,,Na, No. sa1 z<1.
son TO believe that Sullivan, our only Sullivan,
will soon spend some time in enforced medita-
tion behind the bars of the states prison. And
let us, as a state and nation, work for the ex-
tirpation of every private detective agency in
the land, making all detectives outlaws, unless
they directly employed by and under the
control OF the departments of justice, whose
officers are always amenable TO the people"
Avon Record: "When Judge Dunbar read the
item about the big potato in last weeks Record
he smiled CONTEMPORARY and said: Pooh!
That's nothing. Why, shortly after first came
to Skagit county raised potato that was the
terror OF the whole neighborhood. 1t pushed
down the fence on my ranch and grew clean
across the county road, blockading that thor
oughfare so that teams had to make circuit of
half mile through the neighbors'
fields in order to get around IT.
Finally the neighbors threatened to indict
me for maintaining nuisance and so we made
bee and after considerable labor and patience
dug il up. Then we had a picnic. My family
and hired help, twelve of us in ALL lived off the
potato for three weeks and then had enough
left TO warm over for Sunday The judge then
left with glance OF supreme disdain at our
puny murphy, and his listeners were so aston
ished by the apparent truthfuIness of his story,
that for while they almost forgot to breathe"
Kettle Falls Pioneer: ''One year ago the
Pioneer, struggling infant in Journalism. came
to the then little settlement at the falls for the
purpose of helping to build up city and advo-
eating to the world at large what glorious
country we had, what productive soil, what
mountains of mineral, and, above all, what a
healthy and delightful climate surrounded U.S.
Al that time but few hsbitations, the old log
cabin of the sturdy pioneer could be seen, and,
as Mrs. General Custer remarked as she waited
for the first copy OF this paper, that it was the
first time she had ever heard of a newspaper
following in the wake OF the civil engineer driv-
ing his stakes for a TOWNSHIP
KalaIna Bulletin. whats the matter with
Uncle jeremiah Rusk? Uncle Sam was fortu-
nate in securing his services boss of the farm
ing department. Jerry has placed Uncle Sans
hogs in the German market, and now sends the
farmers rain whenever they order it. He is
about as important as the man who invented
sleep"
Sumner Herald: "The 'shelahr game which
was to have been held by w. c. Kincaid's Indian
hop pickers last night failed TO 'shelahP for the
reason that all the 'shelahlers' got too drunk to
'shelahL' large number of persons went out
from town to witness the game, but were
doomed to disappointment"
Edmunds Chronicle: "a large number of
Eastern newspaper writers are needIessly ieop-
ardizing their prospects of heaven by lying long
and loud about the extent OF business depres-
sion on this Coast. Washington people will be
wearing diamonds when many OF these folks
are sewing buttons on their last years clothes"
Anacortes American: ait is the old story of an
inflated head consequent upon prosperity. Long
ago the Bible said, 'Jeshurun waxed fat and
Kicked hence his downfall, and history has re-
peated itself In the case OF Ihncea SnIliuan