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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
The Wellington Mine.


There are in England several coal and metalli-
ferrous mines which extend and are worked at a
considerable distance out to sea. But perhaps
the most remarkable submarine coal mine is
that al Nanaimo, on Departure bay, beyond
Victoria, b. C. This mine Is known AZ the Wei
hngton, aud its galleries are situated eco feet
below the surface of the ocean, which here en-
closes an archipelago of islands very similar TO
the Thousand islands at the head OF the st.
Lawrence river. The gall cries OF this pitt which
are continually developing, extend at present a
length OF six miles under the bottom of the
waters of the Pacific oeesn. Nearly the whole
population of the town OF Naaaiulo, sTno hitting
TO nearly 1900, is engaged in the mines OF The
pace. the average daily wages per head being
from is 10 2Ss. Liberal as the payment appears
TO be, the cost of living in that inhospitable
region is so high that the miners can after all
only just make both ends meet great disai-
vantage OF the Nanaimo mines Is the excessive
amount of combustible gases present, by ex-
plosion OF which three years ago 100 miners
lost their lives But Notwithstanding this
draw back II seems that the coal mines in Brit
ISL Columbia. as in Alaska. are moTe profit
able than the gold mines. Tor the simple
reason that they can be worked the whole year
round, while the aGriferous deposits can only
be exploited four months in the year. The
gold miners have, therefore, to live in idleness
during the remaining eight months. and in
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
BUILDING ITS TRACKS SOUTH.
Great Northern Will Cross Yesler
Avenuc-Buiidingt to he Moved.

The Great Northern railroad is hurry
ing through the trestle for its third and
fourth tracks from Marion street south
The piles and Gaping are now finished
beyond Columbia street, and ties are now
being placed. All four tracks will be ex-
tended south across Iesler avenue "a soon
as possible, but il Will he necessary to
clear some buildings Off Railroad avenue
south of Yeser before work can proceed
there. The corrugated iron building, which
stands iurthest east in the Puget Sound
Machinery Depot's property, will have its
west end cut oil To make way for the trestle.
This building was one of the first nut up
on the water front after the fire. aud is
occupied by the pipe plant of the COM
pany. While the ruins were still smoking
business was done in a boathouse in the
harbor. to which access WAS obtained over
a gangplank. The pipe plant will be re-
moved 10 some other building in the
neignhOrhOod
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
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distance of ten feet Higgins was bruised
about the face and his right eye was torn
out. Burk was also injured about the
head and suffered wound of the right
eve, which may result in the loss of his
sight.
The two injured men rode forty-five
miles on horseback to Sultan City. from
which place they went down the Skyko-
mish river in canoe to Snohomish and
reached Seattle finally by rail.
Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, six hours
after Burk and Higgins were injured.
Henry Bird, employed on the day shift.
was wounded in another explosion. Bird
was ''springing" blast hole and the fric-
ton caused the powder to explode. Sand
and rock were blown into Birds face, ter
ribly decorating his head aud shoulders
and destroying the sight of both eyes.
His left hand was also blown off. When
Burk and Higgins lett Martin Creek town
Bird was not in condition 10 be moved,
and it was thought he would die.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18

country which cannot produce the necessar;e.
OF life. Provisions and other commodities are
generally imported from the United States, and
are consequently burdened with heavy trans
port chsrges. As the miners cannot be lett to
starvation during these eight months the
pgoprietors of the mines have to incur such an
enormous running expense that the ore has to
De OF very high grade TO render work remuner-
alive, so that low grade ores are not touched I'm.
less there are compromising advantages, such As
are manifest in the case of the Treadwell mine
On Douglas island, which il situated near the
shore, where water is convenient, and for which
the owners ask fi0o0,o0o. A small mine, the
Bear, situated on the same island, was sold re-
Gently Tor 100000, while the Mexico mine is SC
profitable that il is mot for sale at any price"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
THE ONE-aRMED SECRETARY.
How Central Labor Union Got New
Ohicer-His Predecessor.

w. II. Middleton has assumed his du-
ties as secretary of the Western Central
Labor Union, and promises to be very
capable man for the position. The fact
that he had lost one Of his arms by an ac-
cident while engaged at his trade of brick
layer about a year ago, and was incapaci-
tated from working at it any more, was
the principal consideration that led to his
election. His ability to fill the place was
beyond question, but his union, the
bricklayers, was not represented in
the Western Central, and this made him
ineligible To get around this the Brick
layers Union was requested to send dele
gates, and did SO, electing Mr.. Middleton
as one of them, and on his entering the
Central at the last meeting he was imme-
diately elected.
Martin Johnson, who had just resigned
the position, after filling it to the entire
satisfaction of the union for several months
past, is going to leave the city. He will
start for Cleveland. o., in few days, and
may stop off at Chicago for a time to see
if there are any special advantages for Sc
curing employment there.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
Lonrshoremen,s New onicers.

Al the meeting of the Longshoremen's
Union Monday last the following officers
were elected for the ensuing six months:
President, III. p. Nelson; recording secre-
taro, George Moore; financial secretary,
George Comax, and treasurer. J. White
Mr.. Moore has been the president the past
six months and is well thought of by the
members of the union. They report work
very good last week, as the vessels from
San Francisco bringing heavy cargoes
gave them more work discharging than
they have had for any week in some time.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
A TRAMP'S BASE INGEATITUDE,
He kobs Mr.. rontius, After Being Fed
and Clothed by Him.

f. 4. Pontius lost two suits of clothes
from his residence several days ago, they
having been stolen by man whom he
gave employment and took in out OF pity.
Mr.. Pontius has notified the police and
dispatches have been sent to the various
chiefs of police on the coast 10 arrest and
hold the thief.
Mr. Pontius does not feel the loss of his
clothes as much as he does the base ingrat-
itude of the man who stole them. He met
the fellow on the street and, finding him
pennies and out OF work, he not only fed
him and gave him employment about his
house. but bought him suit of new
clothes. In the face of all this kindness
the fellow deliberately robbed him.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
Snohomish County Lakes.
Mining News.


All the maps OF Snohomish county are grossly
incorrect Rivers and valleys are represented
where mountains should be and vice versa, and
two lakes of considerable size are not repre-.
sented at all One of these is beautiful ex.
panse OF water az tn, head OF Pritchard river,
about two miles aud half in length, and con-
tanning about go acres, and is surrounded on
all sides bya beautiful grassy country, where
10000 sheep could find abundant pasture during
the summer months. The other lake is at the
head OF the Sultan river. Ii is over mile in
length and hall mile in width aud is remark
able for is color which is a beautiful copper
green 1t is situated in an enormous crater.
and is on all sides, except at its outlet,
surrounded by almost PERPENDICULAR rocky
precipices from loo TO 2,o0o feet along its sur
face. There IS. think, good reason for believ
ing that no mortal eye had ever gazsd upon its
surface until from rocky he ight looked upon
il on the 18th day of June last year / have
lately been told by Old settlers in the lower
sultan basin that Indians had told them OF a
green lake somewhere in the mountains and
that the fish caught in il could not be eaten on
account OF being poisonous. Whether this ia
tradition or whether this is the lake referred TO
is quite uncertain. What causes its peculiar
green color is a matter Of considerable speeuia-
tion by those who have since seen It, but am
we'll satihed that the true cause has not vet
been discovered. Whatever the coiorinc matter
may be, IL is evident that il comes from beneath
en- enormous glacier at its southwestern end.
The other lake at the head OF the Pill
chuck shows no evidence of any kind that
any human being had ever been in its neigh Dor.
hood except myself There were some elk. .
few deer and many mountain goats In the coun.
try around 1t, which looked like old deserted
farms or immense sheep ranch that had haao
lately occupied. The reason why country
not more than fifty miles from civilization, and
possessing much mineral wealth and good ayri
cultural land, should remain as completely I'm.
known as it would be in the heart OF the Afri
can continent does not readily appear, but all
sufficient reasons would soon have presented
themselves TO any person who would have un-
taken the journey two years ago through the
dense untrseked wilds tina, then existed
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
TERRIBLY HURT BY EXPLOSIONS
Three Great Northern Railroad Labor
ers Injured While Blastinr

Thomas Burk and Thomas Higgins
laborers who have been employed on the
Great Northern line in the northeastern
part Of this county, are at Providence
hospital. both having been injured in an
explosion at Martin Greek town. They
bring news of the probable killing At Mar
TN Creek OF another laborer named Henry
Bird
The accident in which Burk and His.
gins were injured occurred last Sunday
morning At O'Clock. A night and day
shift are employed at blasting. These two
men were ''springing" drill hole about
two feet deep, when the drop fuse ignited
ana . premature explosion followed. Both
men were blown away from the hole q
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18

The New York Journal IF Finance saws:
Friends Of the Northern Pacific are much
encouraged by the showing now being
made by the road. The Northern Pacific
earnings for June showed gain OF
N'S@'s. or about S'& per cent as compared
With last year. and the Wisconsin Central
earnings increased SIS AS or about - per
cent These increases are an indication
that the iong-awasted revival of business
along the lines If the road has again come.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
Charleston oficers a. the Falls.

The officers of the cruiser Charleston
and a number of Seattle gentlemen went
on a special train over the Lake Shore
road to Snoaualmie Falls Wednesday, as the
guests of A. F. Burleigh. The train left
here about 10 O'Clock in the morning and
returned about in the evening. The
party spent about three hours in viewing
the falls and their beautiful surroundings
and took lunch at the Snoqualmie Falls
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
BOYS CONFESS A CRIME.
Hugh Goedfeliow's Accusers Acknowl-
edge Siaurhtering Hansen's Chickens

Charlie and Walter Myers, aged Is ana Q
years respectively. who charged Hugh
Goodfellow, l4-year-old boy, with burg
larizing the house of IL. J. Hansen. on
Queen Anne hill. andkilling sixty chick,
ems. have confessed that they themselves
committed the crime Charley Myers is
in the city Jail and today he will be sent To
the state reform school az CAehalis. Wal.
ter Myers was turned over 10 his mother,
who also lives on Queen Anne hill, and
she promised 10 reform him.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
A. Ii. L. Messenger Rates.

From our Office, Il6 Cherry street. II blocks or
less, cents; IL blocks. 10 ceatsi is blocks. Is
cents - blocks or over. n cents; answer. scents
extra: by tae hour, - cents: circulars aao A.
NeFt4s1UE matter distributed 81 $50 per Gay !:
csEds, Invitations, etc, delivered al S. - per
aaS, HsDe tae A II, I. cali box Only Tor seattle
fFsasles Ie5arany's hacks. EGrnsys and express
wagons fSclae Postal Telegraph Cable Com
pany kilograms. Telephone "a
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
THE WATER FRONT.

The steamer Ellis blew out her cyIinder-head
on the way over from Sidney yesterday and will
be laid up for about q week for repairs.
Tied up at Yesier wharf yesterday were the
steamers Michigan, Idaho, Chiikat. Mabel. City
of Quincy. American Ranger, J. r. Mcdonald
Ia md
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18

kat on July 6, and met with beautiful
weather both going and returning. Little
Or no wind prevailed and the sea was like
mirror, while the scenery. the view of
which was unrestricted by clouds. fogs or
mists. was grand. Many OF the Eastern
tourists stopped off at Seattle and the
vessel left at 80 o'clock for Tacoma. The
steamer did not make stop at Victoria,
owing To the smalluox endemic
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
NOTES OF THE TRADES.

Walter Mcclure, the delegate from the se-
attic Typographical Union to the meeting OF the
International union, is on his way back.
Agent Thiel, of the Sailors Union, says he
has eighty men on shore now, and no prospects
of any immediate improvement IN the shipping
line. He received about thirty men in one
bunch last week
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
rnllnr In Nerthsrn r,r,nn rrs.n..

TACOMA. July l7.-gspecial. Two of the
foriy-four ;rcs;les - be filed in on the
Cascade and Pacific divisions cf the North
ern Pacific are ON the Seattle branch. six
teen are on the PaciEc division and twenty
SIX on the Cascade division. Nearly 40. 900
cubic yards OF earth viii have 20 be filed
in. Bids are now being offered here.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18

The heavy rams OF the last few days have
swollen the Warrior river, Aiahsps. until II ia
now torty-seven feet above low water MARI
At Tuscaloosa n large area of cotton ana corn
land is under water. Crops were in q flourish.
ing condition, and cultivation was almost eo,.
Guided. The damage will % very great. and !.
already estimated g. $4,000.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18

Pogr TOWNSEND. July I.-fSpeciai. +
China steamer Loo Sock, from the Orient,
is reported in the straits tonight She
will call at the Royal Roads for pilot and
arrive here at 10 O'Clock tomorrow.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
The Queen Arrives From Alaska.

The steamship Queen. from Alaska. ar
rived in the harbor yesterday afternoon
n; O'Clock with i7s passengers. most OF
whom are Eastern and Calilorn,a tourists.
The Queen lels Seattle for Sitka and Chill
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
PASSENGER LISTS.

ELLIsroS. Mont, July T.-Tspeeial North
ern Pacific train No has these passengers:
NJ. l. B. Pease, Mr.. and Mrs. Darlington, FL.
Simore. NJ c. Walters, Fl. NJ. Wilson, George
Weliett, Miss Z. NJ. Luck. Miss Grasscup. Mr. B.
5. Grasscup, II. J. Haskell, J. J. DAILY. wife and
son, and twenty second class passengers.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
BODY Sent Home for Burial.

The body of Grant Penwright, the ne
gro butcher. who met with such a horri-
Die death Friday night by falling into a
vat of hot water at Masel & Sons slaugh-
ter-house, was sent last evening to Mrs.
Mary Ann Hall, the dead mans mother,
who lives at Stockton. Cal.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18

The track Oft the Everett & Monte Cris.o
railroad-that part which vas formerly
called the Three S"-has been completed
{ the steel barge works NJ Everett and
Will be laid 20 a connection with the Great
Northera tomorrow or next day.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
Excursions to Snoauaimie FaIIs

& for round trip on Sundays. limited TO date
OF sale. s25o for round trip, three-day tickets
TO be fold on Saturdays. specia, rates for par.
ties made on application to me. Fine trou, fish-
ing: delightful resort; good hotel A. Ma.
deau. General Agent
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-18
THINKS HE Is HYPNoTIzED.
Laborer Terrified by a Fremont Girls
STRANGER POKER.

Stranger Power.
john Workford, a laborer, was arrested
yesterday and locked up in the city Jail.
No charge has yet been preferred against
him, but it is thought he is insane. He
claims that girl at Fremont, whose name
he does not dare repeat. has hypnotized
him and has him completely in her power,
no matter how far away from her he may
be. He was very anxious TO be locked up
in steel tank. where the girl could not
reach him, and his wish was gratified.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-10-05
Foreign.

Advices from Rio Grande do Sui, Brazil
say str ong party has been formed in that
state for the purpose of proclaiming Dom
Pedro's grandson emperor. Governor Mar
tins is SAID to be more or less favorable to
to advocate it.
ACCORDING to advices from Alden the
slave trade in Africa continues on large
scale. Owing to the demand for slaves and
the big prices offered for them, slave cara
vans are arriving on the east coast daily.
In exchange for the slaves the traders ac-
cept nothing but firearms and ammunition,
The mortality among the. slaves while en-
route to the coast from the interior is
seventy per cent. Raids on a still larger
scale are expected during the winter in the
region of the Congo State and German and
English East Africa.
The steamship Caracas from Venezuela,
arrived at her dock in Brooklyn last week
Her officers report an exciting experience
with the authorities of Venezuela. When
the steamship reached La Guayra the Gus
toms officers refused to allow her to land
her cargo because she touched at Puerto
Cabollo. The United States cruiser Con-
cord was in the harbor of La Guayra un-
der command of Captain White. AS soon
as he learned of the action of the customs
authorities he put guard of marines on
board the Caracas, ana he then turned his
guns on the city and threatened TO bonn
bard it unless the Caracas was allowed To
proceed without interference. The Gus
toms authorities then came to terms and
allowed the steamship to be entered.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-10-05
Confessions OF an Alcohol Slave.

inherited from my mothers father a
periodical thirst for liquor. wasreared
in community where about every per-
son kept liquor and drank it, l never
did and never could drink moderately
was never tippler. l cannot remem-
Der the time when the taste of liquor
did not set me wild. At first, and when
very young, would become wildly in
toxicated for a day, and after time
two days, and my thirst grew as time
went on, until / would grow for days
and weeks, and then for time l would
loathe and detest the taste or even smell
of liquor. drank for the effects.
l never did like the taste of liquor
At the beginning the emotions were
pleasant. The heart beat more solidly
and the blood rushed to the brain and |
went upon the mount of TRANSPORTATION.
/ was on the delectable heights. In my
wild and vivid imagination l clothed
myself, as it were, with the sun, moon
and stars. The depression each time
was in proportion to the exhilaration.
The time came at last when the nerves
were shattered and out of jingle. For
years | have not had one pleasurable
emotion from drinking. After abstain
ing from the use of stimulants for
months, on first yielding, it would thrill
the domain of life for moment and
then leave me like the blasted trunk of
the dead forest tree upon which the red
lightnings of the storm cloud had ex-
pended their rage.
Ny appetite for liquor comes on every
three months and lasts about fifteen
days. l can feel its coming for days
each day it increases until my blood
feels as thick as sand and as hot as fire
have felt as if every drop of blood in
my body was an open mouth begging
and pleading for drink. have had a
million dumb voices rise up within me
and cry and plead for drink. l have
walked many times, night after night
in the woods and fields trying to exist
and overcome this thirst for liquor.
Voice.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1892-10-05
Temperance.
The Ruin 1t Works.

Twenty-Five hundred millions of dol
lars, directly and indirectly spent, lost.
wasted annually in this country in
drink Call it $2,000,000,0 1000. What
does the nation get in return for this
enormous sum? Nothing, absolutely
nothing. It is all a dead loss to the
country, as it is to those who spend it.
There is no return for it except poverty,
pauperism, crime, ignorance, degrade
ton, brutality, jails full of prisoners,
insane asylums full of lunatics, work.
houses full of paupers, hospitals full of
the sick and manned, 100000 homes
with misery, violence, wretchedness and
ruin, which but for liquor would be
peaceful, prosperous, thrifty, happy,
with children growing up under good
influences to be good citizens, pillars of
the state, and not under bad influences
to swell in after life the ranks of oilers,
tramps, beggars, thieves, burglars, in
cendiaries dynamitory anarchists.