The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-28
STATE PRESS OPINION.

Friday 10 the day set apart by Gov. McGfaw
for the Observance OF Arbor Gay. II 10 . duty
every citizen Of Eastern Washington owes to
his contemporaries and to his posterity to carry
out the Recommendations OF the governors
proclamation. Set out trees and shrubs, add TO
your orchards and vineyards and beautfy your
homes and grounds With shrubs and trees. 1t is
to be hoped that all schools, Sunday schools.
societies viii in some fitting manner OBSERVE the
day.-Wa1o Wa2o UatoA
A couple OF vie and dirty sheets published in
Seattle have been refused admission into Cam
ada by the provincial authorities at Vancouver
and Victoria The papers in question are OF the
most DEPRIVED and obscene character and should
very properly b shut out OF the United States
mails for that reason. Such class OF literature,
however, would not b printed were 1t not to
cater to public demand for such stuff. and the
people who buy and read their sheets are
equally guilty with the publisherA-Hois<. City
TINA
The Tacoma Ledger should not be in too much
OF hurry to find iault with the new board Of
regents for not taking interest In the agricultu-
raj college. There Is no new board ~ yet. Five
gentlemen have been appointed. but we have
not heard that they have received their commits.
sions. The governor will set . day for the first
meeting OF the board, which he has not yet
dora Keep Of. Brother LEDGE. till the board
meets and organizes and We see what 1t viii do.
-Woua Wdlid &dtesmon
1t 10 asserted that the people Of the state Of
Washington expend annually nearly million
OF dollars for eggs which are imported from
abroad. and that they are worth In the markets
about q cents dossn during the entire year.
And Jet this 10 . good country for chickens
and all varieties OF poultry. There are Ger.
tsinly large profits in poultry raising If
properly managed. The required capital il not
large. and returns come quickly. there being .
ready cash market for anything produced ON q
poultry farm.-Colsille Standard
The transcontinsn,al roads have agreed on the
price Of 6rst-class ticket to the Worlds from
Puget sound at $3.50 Allowing . passenger
sleeper aud two meals Q day, his expenses en-
route and returning viii be $l38. which win
check travel amazingly. The people each with
$3.50 to expend In witnessing this international
exposition viii find themselves confronted BY
proposition 20 travel in the steerage. live on
caackers and cheese, OF else to cut their trip
short to such an extent - to render IL hardly
worth taking.-WAatcem RevauA
The Worlds fair round-trip rate provided by
the several big transcontinentai railroads be.
tween tho Pacific coast and Chicago II not .
Worlds fair rate at all What to term 1t would
be hard to say. The general public will, how.
ever, probably call It highway robbery. What
object the big corporations interested can have
In thus throwing their combined strength into
the teeth of the general public cannot be easily
guessed. 1t may be that the faro has been
placed at the high Fate of $3.50 for the express
purpose OF bringing on general disahsction OF
the companies themselves, to the end that .
general cut may place the figures for the round
trip whore 1t properly belongs II this 10 not
the result, then there will not b one-third the
travel to the expedition which up to . few days
ago was expected, and for which preparations
have been made-Port T0wnscnd Leader.