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, 1892-04-02
STATE POLITICAL POINTERS.

Seattle Press-Times: The Portland Tel
egram says: "Mr. Hunt, the reputed
millionaire owner of the Post-Inteliigen-
Ger" wants cabinet position under the
next administration. The Portland paper
is misinformed. Nothing less than the
vice presidency for Mr., Hunt will satisfy
the people of Seattle. No paltry cabinet
position for us. The voice Of the people is
unanimous on that point-more or less.
Still it must be confessed that Mr.. HUNTS
boom has developed a tendency to wobble.
Hoquiam Washingtonian: Squire,
square yourself with the duty before you,
and let Allen align himself thereto and
see if justice, or something akin, may not
be done though tardily from Washington
and humanity-or you may neverneed pol
itical einfooence" later own. The people
want dollars for coast protection; YOU want
votes. You secure the dollars we'll do
the rest.
For myself, 1 think thegovernor should
come from east of the mountains. Senator
Eugene T. Wilson has a great many warm
friends, but have no idea whether our
county will send delegation for him or
not. Personally, my choice for governor
would be Nelson Bennett Of Tacoma if he
could be prevailed upon to accept the nom
nation interview with John b. Geoghe-
gan in Vancouver independents
, 1892-04-02
FARMER BUSH TALKS.
He Nails a FaIsehOod Of the Weekly
Capital and Talks About the CrOps

Farmer w. o. Bush, of Bush's Prairie.
was in the city this morning. He said he
had been too busy at work to think Of Dol
itics, and yet some Of his friends in the
county wanted him to run for the senate
in the fall, and if his election would help
along the cause Of Thurston county in the
worlds fair exhibit at Chicago, hecertainIv
would be a candidate. He had taken al
active interest in the Centennial exhibit in
1873 and this county had carried off the
prize for the best wheat.
Have you seen the statement made bv
the Weekly Capital to day that it was an
open secret that you had been promised
the senatorship by Judge Robinson,' = was
asked.
'No, [ have not seen it, - he replied. "but
1t is a downright falsehood l have not
talked politics to the Judge"
Glow are things looking out in the
"Splendidly. There are every indications
OF line crops. The spring was early, but /
have seen many of them just as early. In
fact, it is not spring, it is these mild win
ters we have in this fine country. If this
cool rain does not turn into frost and hurt
the early fruit we will be all right. There
is as much snow in the Black Hills now as
there has been at any time during the win
ter, and we may get heavy frost, but I
, 1892-04-02
Indians with tha Grin.

Deopold Kirchberg, who has returned
from Alaska, where he has been buying In
dian curios for the worlds fair, tells the
Astorian that the grip has reached the In
dians throughout Alaska again, and this
year with redoubled viruIence. In every
tribe he visited there were eight or nine
deaths every day. The natives, instead of
taking any steps to check the spread of the
epidemic, imagine that it is a seourge sent
by their god, and that it is their duty to ac-
cept and encourage it, SO whenever. one of
them is attacked he Immediately goes and
lies naked on the beach, in the snow or the
wet sand, and remains without food until
he dies either from hunger or exposure.
The use of all herbs and other medicines is
strictly prohibited among many tribes, and
the kakoul root that proved SO wonderfully
eficacious last year in checking the spread
of the disease has been torn up and burned
wherever it has been found. All of the In
dians about Juneau, Wrangel and Chilcat
are in a state of terror, and at all the camps
and villages "Isarkat" (the body devir)
holes have been dug, into which the dead
Indians are uncermoniously thrown.
, 1892-04-02
Thought Sne Killad Him.

Fraulein Elizabeth BarnEwitz, young
Polish telephone girl Of great beauty, ran
into Mehles' shop for firearms and asked
for loaded revolver. Herr Mehles sus-
pected that something was wrong, and
loaded the revolver that he sold her with
blank cartridges. She went directly to the
rooms of her lover, with whom she had
quarreled, but he was out. She crawled
under the bed and there fell asleep. When
she awoke her lover was asleep in bed.
She craWled out, put the revolver close to
his breast, and fired three times. BeIiev-
ing that she had killed him, she ran away
leaving the revolver on the bed. When her
lover recovered from the shock he made a
complaint which led to her arrest. At her
trial Herr Mehles appeared unexpectedly
and told the story of the blank cartridges
which was borne out by the fall chambers
of the revolver which the girl left on the
bed. She was discharged from custody by
the police justice, after having promised to
make up her quarrel with her lover
, 1892-04-02
He is a Happy Boy at Times.

There is at least one boy in New York,
according to the New York Sun, who is
overioyed by the news of every funeral the
services of which are to be held in the
church to which he is attached. He is
only 8 years old and very poor lad, the
child of needy parents. He sings in the
church choir, and whenever the choir is
called upon to sing at a funeral he is paid
the sum of 81 for his services in it. Yes
terday forenoon he rushed home to tell his
mamma that there were to be two funerals
in the afternoon. He laughed beyond
measure as he shouted, Good news, nam
two funeralsW He danced and was filled
with bliss over the prospect. He had moi
sung at funeral for nearly a week, and
had been disconsolate. His mother too
was happy over the news, for she needed
money and her husband was out of work
When the lad returned home with 50 aftel
the funerals, the household was cheered III
and the family got a good dinner
, 1892-04-02
WHEN MACKAY WENT HUNGRY.
An Incident in a Bonanza Kings Early
DAYS of Poverty.

San Francisco Newsletter: John w.
Mackay once worked a claim that turned
eil'.~o - 80 y-l''O - i-ee'
ouO q tailure ne nao scarcely any sup
Plies left. He sat In his lonely cabin one
rainy night supperless reading bv his last
he had borrowed from a lonely and sur
prised engineer. Above the noise of the
storm came knock at the door. ANDY
Hepworth, keeper of the All Souls, saloon
at Thompson's bar, staggered in. His
stagger was caused by several things. One
of them was lot of his own Whiskey,
which was under his skin: the other were
two sides of bacon and a sack Of flour,
which weighed his shoulders and hands.
"John, " he said, f'you never spent a dol
lar over my bar or any other bar at the
camp, and that shows your good sense.
But the boys tell me YOU are in hard luck.
and know man when L see one. Here's
something to keep you going.,' And he
threw on the rough floor the sack. of flour
and two sides of bacon. He retained the
whiskey.
1t was good many wears later, when
Mackay had become a rich man that he
again met Hepworth, gone in health.
crushed in spirit, lounging among the
crowd of hopeless ones who hang like flies
| around the bunghole of the stockmarket,
sugarless for them.
"Hullo, Andy" cried John, delighted.
''You don't mean to say you remember
me?" said the broken man.
"Remembe youp laughed the million
aire. "You bet do, ana that -four and
bacon, too. Broke r"
"Flat."
t'I'll carry you hundred Of Con. Vir-
ginia.
''Good enough, John. You've rescued
me from hell. When shall I selI?''
'fWhen i tell YOU.
Buthe wouldn't sell when he was told.
and Mackay had to pay the loss.
This thing happened three times.
Then the millionaire put his arm through
, 1892-04-02
Mr.. LIncoLn,s Strong Points.

New York Advertiser: If the republican
party neglects its second opportunity and
declines to nominate Mr.. Blaine for presl-
dent, it will do singularly unwise thing if
it fails to confer the nomination upon Rob
ert e, Lincoln. AS youth in the White
House Mr.. Lincoln bore himself with dig
nifty. He was always something more than
"the shadow of a great name.n To be a
presidents son is to be heavily weighted,
and few young men are equal to it. AS a
member of the bar Mr.. Lincoln has cred
liable record. He was an efficient secre-
tary of war, and he has won the good will
Of everybody who has come in CON
tact with him as minister to the court
Of st. James. While thoroughly Amer
lean, he has nevertheless ingratiated him
self with the English people. Always dig
nlfed, he has been at all times atfabIe and
accessible. Having inherited much of his
fathers wisdom and sound judgment, he
has no fads. He is in splendid health and
III the very prime Of life -forty-eight years
Of age. He halls from the west, and that
is where the republican party must look
for its renewed strength. Never bitter
partisan, he has made no antagonisms
and there is reason to believe that he
could carry one or two southern states.
His name would inspire the founders Of
the republican party, and the memories
which his candidacy would arouse would
sweep him to certain victory
, 1892-04-02
Whv TheH Smile.

Washington Post: Two fne-looking,
well-preserved gentlemen may be seen on.
Pennsylvania avenue these days with the
first flush of dawning smile playing upon
their features. For the next six weeks the
smile will deepen and broaden and wax
brighter until it illumines their faces with
the radiance of unalloyed happiness. The
two gentlemen are Col. Hallet Kilbourn
and Col. 10 McKibben. The smile now be-
cause the first shipments of the sweet and
boneful shad are reaching this market
from the Carolinas and Florida, and be-
cause the first tiny spears of mint are pro-
truding their green tips above the earth
down at Col. McKicben's farm on
the Potomac. They will smile
more in few weeks, for
then the unrivalled, the peerless Potomac
shad will be toasting ON a plank at Mar
shall Hall and mingling it's odors with the
fragrance Of the punches of mint that crowd
their bed in the garden and load the mild
spring air with the perfumes of Araby.
Colonel Kilbourn and Colonel McKibben
were pioneers together in '49 across the
/ plains to California and saw hard times
and troubles. Yet there is no trace of age
in the erect and stalwart frames Of these
hardy men, and one cannot say that
trouble has laid very heavy hand upon
their brows, but on the contrary time seems
to smooth them with caressing touch.
, 1892-04-02
FRESH STATE NE WS.
Vancouver is to have match factory

I VdHCOuV6T ~ 70 HIVE . IlIaGCH IaCIUIy.
SC. 900. = -
NJ c,aI-.,,o alta. ;z,a..to7
Iii r. o oP9hae @ sileltef = Fel'ofSeC solu ana
q. ssrrhe gor idiaas,, Il 1lss : tba naa e aau
dne ssl.l 1lolllgs is Is. ghe name OF new
Pa2gI gT ioullSlso a. 4hofheoil' gLe new town
- =. " ultnian county
] The Post-Intelligencer was eurtailed to
seven columns this morning. The Ledger
more news.
Wallace Bros. of Kalama. have alread y
packed during this. season. / 400 900 ponnds
Of sturgeon. This has been shipned to
, 1892-04-02
The Ffghters in ,Frisco,

SAN FRANCISCO, April 2.-Dal Hawkins,
who whipped ''spider" Gallagher, is look
ing about for victim. Yesterday jim
Neal, his manager, telegraphed to Began,
of Portland, offering fight for the largest
purse that can be procured, and a side bet
Of 81 000a side. He has not received a re-
ply and the general belief is that Began
will fail to accept. Hawkins is willing to
sign to fight the Oregonian at any weight
from 116 to 119 pounds.
The California Club directors have de-
cided that Hawkins is above an average
man in his class and are discussing whom
to put up against him. Billy Murphy, the
Australian, is expected here in few days
from the Antipodes, and it is possible they
will SIGN him to meet Hawkins
, 1892-04-02
An Old Time Leader.

New York Advertiser; A striking illus
tration Of the manner in which prominent
men go out Of sight and out Of mind when
they leave public life is to be found in the
case Of General Thomas r. Brady, who was
Oliver r. Morton's right-hand man during
the lifetime Of that distinguished republi-
can leader. General Brady was very much
on view when he was third assistant post
master general under President Garfield
and the Star Route troubles came upon
him. After his acquittal from the charge
Of completely in those frauds he REL
tired to plantation at Colo
nial Beach, few miles below
Washington, on the banks Of the Poto-
mac. On bis plantation General Brady
leads the life Of a country gentleman
That IT agrees with him his ruddy counte
nance, well-rounded figure and firm step
aabundantly- testify. His especial pride Is
his splendid kennels of collie dogs, which
excite admiration in community where
connoisseurs of dogs abound. Notwith-
standing his PASTORAL pursuits, however,
the general watches closely with his keen
practlced eye the drift of current political
events, On one of his occasional visits to
this city few days ago he gave utterance
to his belief that Harrison had made an
excellent president and that he will be re-
nominated
, 1892-04-02
AnriI FooI Party.

Miss Rena Cavanaugh gave an April
fool party last evening in honor of her
cousin, Miss Anna Wilson. Whist, music
and a medley Of games were enjoyed. The
guests were Judge and Mrs. M. A. Root,
Mr.. and Mrs. G. d. Garfield, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. 7. Cayanaugh, Mr.. and Mrs w, A.
son, Miss Emma Reed, Miss Helen Cowles,
Miss Jennie Young, Miss Mamie Rain
water, Miss Bessie Lee, Miss Blanche
Lamont, M. 3. Reed. @. I. Whitney, Il. M.
Convey, Harry Cowles, DR.. G. P. Jento, S.
@. Woodruff. Robert Blankenship, Geo. G..
Mills, Gus Harris, H. r. Franklin, Dr. G.
w. Ingham, Q. A. Burr and A. NJ. Evans.
, 1892-04-02
a silly Story disposed Of.

Secretary Fosters indignant denial makes
an end Of some silly stories about remarks
ascribed to him while abroad. Concerning
the yarn attributing to him words natural
ly offensive to Irish-American citizens the
secretary unequiyocally says: II never
made use of any such terms as have been
imputed to me, nor have / ever at any
time, either in an interview or i'll private
conversation, used any words derogatory
to the Irish character There was no such
interview whatever" This nails that lie
to the counter!
, 1892-04-02
HIM FOUL.
A Wholesale Thief Confronted
With Tell Tale Proofs.
How A. j. Beck swIndied his Part
ner in business, and how CIev-
eriy He was Caught at the Thea-
ter While Enjoying Himself.

SACRAMENTO, April "a. J. Beck, for
merly drummer for Steinberger, Kalisper
& Co., San Francisco, has been arrsted on
a charge Of grand larceny, preferred against
him by W. 1. Orth, dealer in fancy goods,
here. Orth and Beck had ssbeen friends for
several years. During the time the latter
was drummer for San Francisco mouse he
sold 0rth a large bill of goods. Finally
Beck persuaded Orth that Sacramento was
was too small field for him, and after sew
eral conferences they decided to go into
business in San Francisco. They proposed
to start i'll as wholesale importers. Of
course the Sacramento store had to be sold
out first and Beck agreed to assist. Forthe
past to months they have been clearing out
stock rapidly. He investigated and be-
came convinced somebody was carrying off
goods by the wholesale. He continued his
Investigations until he fastened it on Beck.
He then procured a search warrant and
with Officers Rider and Shook, searched
Beek's apartments in the Golden Eagle
hotel where he had been living in lordly
style. A quantity of valuable lace, bearing
Orth's private marks was found, and one
OF the officers went to the theatre where
Beck was enjoying himself and placed him
under arrest. Beck was brought back to
the hotel and confronted with the goods.
At first he claimed them as all his own,
but later acknowledged they were Orth S,
but claimed Orth owed him money. He
was locked up in the city prison. Gloves,
handkerchiefs, laces, ETC., which would
nearly fill wagon, were found in the
room. Orth says there was over $500 worth
of goods in one pile. He says considerable
money was missing. He claims to have
discovered that some gloves which Beck
recently got him to purchase from an
imaginary friend of Beck were his (Orth's)
own goods,
, 1892-04-02

COMPANY AS EXCURSION.


April 18th has been fixed as the date of
Company AS excursion to Tacoma on the
steamer Multnomah. The steamer will
leave Olympia at 6:15, and return from Ta-
coma at a seasonable hour. The return
trip will cost 81. The Capital city band
will accompany the excursion and the
trip both ways will be made enjoyable BY
interesting features al the next drill night
and during all drills up to the time Of the
excursion, every member 0f the company
is requested to be in attendance. Those
who do not attend will not be permitted to-
take part in the drill at Tacoma. The
public is invited to participate in the ex-
n1rSiop
, 1892-04-02
GREAT NORTHERN.
viii Not be Completed Until Next
Year.
what President Oakes, of the
Northern Pacific, Says About 1t
"A Suit with the Union Pacific
The only Point of TCompetLtion.

Northern Pacific, Says About 1t
"A Suit with the Union Pacific
The only Point of COmpe titiOn.
New YORK, April president Cakes
has returned from his tour Of inspection.
He says in regard to the disquieting ru-
mors about the Northern Pacific which
have been floating about Wall street:
The contest for some 100000 between
the Northern Pacific and the Union Pacific
is in the courts now. We have taken the
initiative and sued the Union Pacific for
an accounting. The dispute arises from
differences in the Interpretation of con-
tract.
1t is not possible for the Great Northern
company to build its Pacific coast extern
sion before November 1, but itmay be com
pleted in twelve months from April 1.
The country through which the line is pro-
iected is hitherto inaccessible territory,
with no population and no business. In
other words, the Great Northern will haye
to pursue the course originally pursued by
the Northern Pacific and build up its own
territory. The only new competition be-
tween the two lines will be at Spokane Falls
and Seattle We are satisfied that the in
crease of business at both places will more
than compensate the Northern Pacific for
business than the Great Northern will Sc
cure. This has been the experience of the
Northern Pacific at Helena and elsewhere
where the two lines have met in competi-
tion.
1t is evident that the extension of it's
lines to the Pacific coast was a necessity
for the Great Northern. Its undertaking is
fho hocf 10 Il s.F
, 1892-04-02
Harbor Plans SatIsfactorv.

Col. G. H, Mendell Of San francisco,
Captain Thomas w. symons and Major
Thomas H. Hamburg, of Portland, com
mittee. appointed by the secretary of war,
met with the harbor line commission today
and considered the work of the commission
on the harbor lines Of Olympia, Belling-
ham Bay and Vancouver. The committee
signlfied its intention to recommend to the
and work of the harbor line commission.
, 1892-04-02
Great Men.

New York Recorder: George Wash
ington was Commander-in-Chief of
the army at the age of 43; Crom-
well entered upon his remarkable career at
90; Napoleon conquered Italy before he
ment at %; Macaulay began his literary
career at 20; Columbus started out on his
voyage of discovery at SO; Frederick the
Great began the Thirty Years War at the
age Of 80, and Blackstone had finished his
Commentaries before he was 35.
, 1892-04-02
A story Of Rich Mr.. Potter Palmer.

Chicago News; Mrs. Palmer tells Of a
time when Potter and she we're driving
down State street in the dilapidated family
buggy, for Potter was very hard up then.
AS they were driving along Marshall Field
rolled by them in his carriage. Mrs.
Palmer eyed them with proper feminine
{coyetousness.
Potter" said she, ''if ever i marry again
I'll marry rich man''
mo, my deal replied Potter, dryly,
don't do it; you know you did it once
and made a failure of it"
, 1892-04-02

New York Press: II hear that the sew
ing circle i'll your town has disbanded." /"
Eyes" "What was the matter 2" Every
woman in town Joined it," II should
think that would have been a good reason
for keeping it together" THAT killed it.
You see, when they met there was nobody
to talk about"
, 1892-04-02
FOUR ASSASSINS.
One Of Them Killed His Mother
and His Aunt.

Another Shot a REam TWice and E'VvG
Others AssassInated "a Harmless
ColOred Man-AIl This Butchery
Occurs tm the south.
Houston, Texas, April 2.-Y yesterday
Walter E. Shaw, who was arrested charged
with the murder of his. mother, Mrs. Anna
Shaw, and Aunt, Mrs. johnson, was toIo
by the sheriff that a man was looking into
the window of the house and saw him Kill
them. He replied that if that was the case
there was no longer any use of him deny
ing it, and confessed that he had killed
them both by cutting their throats with q
razor. 1t was for $40 that he needed to get
to Continue spree. Shaw will have a
hearing before the lower courts and it is
believed he will plead guilty.
CONFESSED IN A PRAYER MEETING.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, April News was
received here of shooting in Elmore
county between Peter Crock and Rufe Pc.
sey. Posey runs store and has been
burglarized several times recently. In the
haul $40 in stamps were stolen. AT a
prayer meeting on Tuesday evening Crock
confessed to the theft. Thursday, while
having his preliminary examination, some
one left a rifle within his reach. He seized
it and tried to leave, when Posey followed /;
he turned and fired on Posey, shooting
him through the lower part of the abdo-
men. He fired again, shooting him
through the arm Crock was carried to
Wetumpka and lodged in Jail.
HUNTING DOWN AssAssINs.
LITTLE Rock, April 2.-The assassina-
ton of Chas Austin, a negro near Edo
rado, Union county, Tuesday, has resulted
in a pursuit. Deputy Sheriff Henry VIM
pie and posse, who were sent in search OF
Evans and Heiman, the two whites charged
with the crime, overlook them and de-
manded their surrender. They answered
the demand with volley. One shot
struck Wimple just above the left hip joint,
inficting a very painful wound. The
sheriff with a posse from this place has
started for the scene, and it is expected
that fully hundred men, well armed. are
IL.
, 1892-04-02
Afternoon Whist.

Mrr. P. 9. Hale very agreeably enter
tanned party OF ladies at whist yesterday
in her parlors in the Hale block. The
guests were Mesdames Barnes, Anders,
Barton, Gilbert, Fitch, Horr, Stork, Case
Church, Briggs, Hopkirk and Miss Smith.
, 1892-04-02
His Face Was Good .

The late Ex-Governor George L. Woods,
of Oregon. once landed in Cleveland o.,
without cent in his pocket. He was re-
turning home from New York and pick
pocket relieved him of his purse on the
train. Nothing daunted, he registered at
the hest hotel and Cleveland, and, after
"togging up," went to the hotel Office and
asked the chief clerk who was considered
the most amiable and benevolent banker
in the city, Being told, he went to the
bank and requested an interview. A man
who would do that now would be sus-
pected as bombthrower.
What can / do for you ?' asked the bank
president when the governor had been
seated,
e'Perrnit me to give you my name first, F."
George L, Woods, and l am the governor of
Oregon, and want 5000 to pay my way
home"
"Any security, sir2'
~ do not know soul in the city," re-
piled the governor. "a pickpocket robbed
me of $168, all the money 1 had, and here l
am in a strange city without even enough
money to get my shoes shined. Now if
you will give me 5000 it will take me home,
and will remit the moment 1 reach Port
land. I must have the money"
"This is indeed a singular case, - replied
the banker, gazing steadily into the COVER
nor's face. 'fHoWeyer, you do not look
like man who would tell falsehood fol
5000, and will trust you for that amount
Here it is
Governor Woods thanked his benefactol
and remitted the amount the moment he
reached home, and received in answer g
very complimentary letter from the bank
president. The governor told this story
on himself several months before his death