The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-17

Nevada viii not cut much figure In the election.
They realise that the worst ther can do is to
throw the election to Cleveland. sho is sound
on the money question. and Waiver has no
chance, even In Nevada, for that reason. had
talk with Senator FELTON, and he does not
seem 70 lear any bolt A great deal Of good Will
result In this state from the holding oil the con-
vention on the Pacific coast a. many
OF the members have never been a. lar
west al California or Washington and
many came through Washington 70 California
The expression of those who came here has been
one OF surprise at the growth OF this country.
and. the interest taken by these people in the
reason for our growth and the nature OF our re-
sources must be beneficial to US Il will aid us
In getting the Nicaragua canal appropriation
from the government The San Francisco peo-
pie have the utmost confidence in Washington
ana are . little Jealous because We have taken
little OF their trade. assured tnem that we
nave hardly begun and will take1t all unless
they wake up. The next convention will be
held At either Chicago or Milwaukee. Many
seem to favor Milwaukee on account OF the fact
that Chicago will be crowded next year with
visitors to the Worlds fair, and Milwaukee il so
near that the members could 90 over from
there Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey Gstzers arrived in
San Francisco last Wednesday and will remain
there till the last Of September, wAen they will
return to Seattle"
X H. Baliinger. of Port Townsend, is q guest
OF the Occidental Speaking Of politics, he
said: "The Democrats are blowing great deal
about going to carry Jefferson County, but you
JUST marx me down ~ saying that IL will 20
Republican by loo majority. AZ for the Peoples
party they are like bell. The smpsier they are
the greater sound they make. As for business
II 10 dull up our way, but since the rediscovery
OF coal at Bellingham bay We are more than
ever convinced that We have coal st our place,
and We are going to get it, too. Experts from
NQQaim0 hal fhn atin in
borhood il exactly the same a. THAT up there
ana We expect to have the very same kind OF
coal We have made all arrangements for Dor
Ing LOCO feet in two or three places. The money
has been subscribed and the owners of the land
where the tests will be made have sgreed to re-
pay the public e for 81 subscribed If coal is
found II We do get 1t, of which There il no
doubt, We will kill the American trade in Ma
naimo coal, much of which 10 used BY Ameri-
can men-of-war."
James Irvine. of San Francisco, who Is stop
ping at the Rainier. leaves today TO whip the
trout streams up the SnoQualmie Speaking
OF sport, though" said he, ssdown in
Southern California we have great fun
coyote chasing with hounds, although It 10
somewhat dangerous on account of she squirrel
holes In the fields. The ground squirrel is our
worst pest down there. It is no exagEefation to
say they have destroyed this yssr 500 tons
of grain. On my ranch we have spent this year
5000 poisoning them. l bought forty pounds
OF strychnine and boiled it into six tons of
wheat, and have had twelve men two months
engaged In scattering it where II would
do the most good. The result 10 that, although
the country il swarming with bezzards, the
stencil il something awful
Capt. Gilman H. Parker recently presented
his father. Capt John G. Parker, of Tacoma,
one OF the pioneer steamboat men OF Puget
wit int ~aly to
cane made from piece of planking from the
Beaver, which was the first steamboat to como
around Cape Horn to the Pacific coast. The
boat belonged to the Hudson Bay Company, and
was sent around the Horn in 1884 She was at
first propeller, and was afterward changed to
q side-wheeler. Years ago the Beaver went
aground in the narrows near Vancouver, and at
low tide the remnants of her timbers could still
be seen there, until she broke up short time
ago. seafafing man recently secured piece
OF planking and presented 1t to the younger
Capt. Parker, who had Q cane made from il and
presented it to his father.
J. p. sprunt and c. A. Mosman, capitalists
from Ogden, Utah, are in the city Or business
connected with real estate They sag that the
agricultural lands around that city are fast set
thing up, especially those under the Great Bear
lake canal Ogden is ambitious to become q
manufacturing center, for which her railway
shipping facilities win fit her, and fer this pur-
pose the citizens are spending . great deal of
money In the effort to obtain . strong flow of
natural gas. They have the fluid, but not in
large enough supply, and the effert to sink
larger and deeper wells has been FINGERED by a
chapter OF serious accidents. But that they will
obtain an abundant flow the gentlemen think
there 10 no room to doubt.
Z. G. Locke, the prospector, tells one OF the
greatest fish stories of the season. He says he
was travelling along one of the small tributaries
OF the Skagit with half-breed, when his pro.
visions gave out and hunger drove them to hunt
food His companion asked him for o pin, bent
1t, pulled threads out Of gunny aack In which
they carried samples, and made a line of them.
He put red huckleberry, which resembled a
salmon egg, on the pin and went to fishing. Mr.
Locke says. seriously, that in less than an hour
that half-breed took over $50 trout with that
primitive outfit.