The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-16

man officers have long been proverbial for their
"irechheit," as the Germans express it do
nos talnk there 10 al eXset equivalent for this
WORD in English. though combination OF
Anso!ence" aud freshness" in the slang sease
*ould about convey il / believe that this
oVeroehring insoiencs is getting worse # any
.aIns' IL IL much worse ~ Berlin than st
vienna, for instance. We did not 20 20 Ru ssia.
anu IN this connection / am reminded OF en-
episode which occurred while we were in Paris.
lou know that it has been denied that Russia
PeEsecuied large class OF her citizens. that
many were starving to death, etc In fact every
tllbg ths; has ever been said OF Russia has
oeen denied But tie Paris edition OF the New
ioFk Herald made an attempt 20 whitewssh
'alhgs IN the ears domains. and with that in
view, sent reporter or correspondent 10 Odessa
ID write IL up. The gen LEHMAN on landing
waited on by al Official, who ssked him his
whoie story, his nationality. his occupation,
MS parentage, his religion, and everything OF
the most personal nature touching himself.
Why do you ask my religion? said the CORE
spondent. Because II tae answer were not sat
lstaetory We would not permit you TO enter
Rus' ia, was the answer. One thing I noticed
Win surprising quickness and that was the
great extent to which English had come into
general use as compared to my visit made in
1874 Everywhere the attempt is made TO have
some one on hand who can speak English III
hoteis, stores, banks. everywhere Often
they try to furnish il, ali the same. French is
suu the general tongue, however. on the Con-
unent Whenever the residents perceive one is
as'ranger, or foreigner, they seek 70 address
him first OF all in French. Yet English is max
ing tremendous strides"
ait Is true" said Assistant Postmaster vii.
liam J. Colkett yesterday, "that our mails are
delayed somewhere in the East: but the postal
service Is such that We never know till We get
mail when 1t will come. Take the case of the
great delay during the winter Of l89c-9l Our
lar East mail comes over the Union Pacific 10
San Francisco and thence by rail TO this place.
On the occasion in question one consignment
OF the mall was started over the Oregon & Cali
fornla railroad This was blocked by snow.
Another consignment started over the Oregon
short Line, the Oregon Railroad d Navigation
Company and was also blocked Another lot
was then started over the Utah te Northern TO
Helena. and this came through all right TO seat
tie over the Northern Pacific. The other two
consignments, started some of them over
week before, were returned TO San Francisco.
then sent by steamer TO Portland, and thence by
rail TO this place. 1t is said the extra service
required cost the government $4,000 We were
two weeks without far Eastern mail. The
Northern Pacific only brings mail from Chicago
and points north and west of IL, in Minnesota,
the Dakotas, Montana and the like. At the
same time the above episode occurred the
Union Pacific was blocked, and this was what
contributed so largely to the utter absence OF
Eastern mail. The office here was sight when
the delayed consignmeuts did come. We had
pile OF second, third and fourth class stuff
nearly waist high and about sixty feet long. In
the mail service, that is done which seems
called for by the exigeucies of the moment and
II weather turns against US then, we can't help
ourselves Even when mails do come they may
come In driblets from various sections, and ut
without tCtar-
mining what is there till we open it."
B. D. Croker, of Walla Walla, is guest OF
the Oiler. He represents the interests of the
Oregon Improvement Company east of the
mountains "This is off year in Eastern
Washington" said he. "We have about 80 per
cent. OF Il crop ana the quality is not quite up
to the average. The farmers are getting from
IS to co cents a bushel for wheat, and the aver
age yield will be in the neighborhood of twenty
three bushels TO the acre. Yes, great many
new settlers are coming into our section. There
has been a greater demand for land the past
year than Tor many years past. Wild land is
worth all the way from s. TO $50 per acre, de-
pending upon character and location. No,
don't think so too high for good land well To-
cated because when broke and fenced 1t can be
sold for s35 an acre. There IS great deal OF
talk about farming not paying. and in great
many cases, on account of poor management, II
doesn't pay. Now 1t costs $50 an acre to break
land, 81 an acre to harrow, s50 for seed. 81 for
heading and say 81 for threshing and interest on
the value OF the land. or $40 an represents
the total cost OF raising a crop OF wheat, in
Guiding the farmers time. He viii get OH all
average thirty bushels to the acre. which he can
sell for say IS cents a bushel, or his crop will
bring SIG an acre, leaving him IS an acre net
profit, or $500 on quarter section. Now you
can see from this whether land over there is
worth SIS au acre or not We have been selling
n n tha Pc
country this year, and this is in direct competi-
ton with the Rosyn and Rock Springs product.
The Great Northern will no doubt build
branches into our section, because the amount
OF business to be obtained by a railroad will
grow larger every year as the country settles
up
Henry Doyle, of San Francisco, accompanied
by his daughter Miss Minnie, is guest of the
Northern. He In q merchandise broker, and is
on his way TO Victoria. Speaking of the cause
of the extreme dullness and depression In San
Francisco, he said: 81 think Ii is due to too
much railroad. We have too much railroad
talk and too much railroad influence in San
Francisco. Now, it's my opinion that half n
dozen railroads won't help us very much, be-
cause they would all pool and rates wouldn't be-
lowered to any extent. The trouble is interior
towns get lower rates from the East than Coast
cities. As a result the merchants in these
towns buy their goods in the East and
The wholesale tthde OF the Coast cities,
far the Interior Is concerned, is killed
The effect OF this is in the fact that there
are not oae-hat as many Wholesale dry goods
and notion houses in San Francisco now as
there was twenty five years ago. Ten years ago
there were three dry goods jobbers in Portland
Today there is only one. II wOuld be far
better for the Pacific coast cities If there wero
no transconiinentai lines ut all II We had a
canal, either the Panama or the Nicaragua,
then could get goods laid down here as low
rs in Chicago, ana the trade OF this Coast would
extend far east Denver Then railroads
would De operated from this end eastward and
The commerce OF the entire Rocky mountain
region would pour westward instead of east
ward What this Coast wants above everything
else in the world is d canal"
George Lycurgus, commission man of Homo
lulu, who has been in the city for few DAYS
for the purpose OF securing line OF fruit steam
ers TO run between Hawaii and Seattle returned
Yesterday from Victoria and is stopping Ut the
Northern.
STATE LAND SELECTIONS.
SEATTLE, Oct Ii. 1902
ToTHE EDITOR: There i. some complaint DO.
ing made by settlers "A, the action of the author-
IN ~ IL nd So erffaus