The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-04
THE PASSING THRONG.

J. Fl. Johnston, Of Suohomish, writes 20 the
PosT-INrELLI6HNcER that be intends to walk
from Seattle to the Worlds fair at Chicago,
leaving here about April ! ana arriving about
July He says he will take wheelbarrow
with him and kindly offers to take anything the
Posr-INTELLIoRNCER wishes u send to Chi
cago, promising to carefully deliver it The
Posr-INrILLIoENcER regrets to have to CRATE
fully decline Mr.. Johnston's offer. A freight
train may Be- slow, but 1t 10 likely to prove some.
what faster than his wheebarrow express; II IL
should not be quito fast enough. express trains
are available, which will deliver freight in Chi.
cago within five or six days. Further.
more, Mr.. Johnston's wheelbarrow express
IL not - sure 20 get there as
a freight train. 1t might BE- held up b. . bear
or band Of coyotes aud robbed, or Mr.. John.
ston might grow weary Of wheeling 1t and aban-
don it by the roadside. Any number Of things
might happen to 1t which are not likely to hap
pen to . freight train. No. thank you; 1t may
be romantic to have ones goods and chattels
taken across the continent by . solitary way
farer with . wheelbarrow, but there 10 . consol.
ing certainty about freight train which u de.
cidsdly preferable.
John c. Galbreath. of Fort Wrangel, Is guest
OF the Occidental 1--WE have had very severe
winter up on the Skeena, but we had very little
snow. have been . salmon Gamer. but last
spring my caunery burned, and now am run.
ming steamboat up the Skeena. 1t 10 fearful
river to navigate. but We can get up about $50
there are a couple of stores. Ten miles below 10
Glcnora. where . British Columbia custom
house Is located, with ono store From Tele-
graph creek We have pack trains which 90 a. far
~ Dease lake, one Of the heads OF the Mckenzie
river. seventy-two miles away. Tho Csssiar
placers are in this region, and quite number
OF miners are working up there, and there 10 q
considerable fur trade up there also. The
placsrs are very extensive, but they are not very
rich and the best of them are thought 20 DO
worked out, although new ones may be discov.
cred. There have been some good silver quarts
Lodges pros pected up there. but they have not
been developed. The valleys are broad and the
soil good ana very productive. The winters are
severe. but they only last from November to
March, and good crops can be raised wherever
the land can be irrigated, which 10 necessary.
John de- There, editor OF the New Whatcom
Erpress, is guest at the Arlington. "The Corn.
wall peopie are preparing to open up the coal
beds underlying the city at an early day" said
he; ''new single mills are going up in different
parts of the county. tho Columbia National
bank 10 going to erect q six-st0ry building, the
Blue Canyon mine people are building q road OF
their own to haul their coal to the bay and W
expect the Northern Pacific to build into the
cities this season. So everything II looking
UrlSOt IOf our emo OF the SOUND.
A dispatch received from Port Townsend yes.
terday says it 10 rumored in army circles there
from apparently reliable sources that Lieut. w.
2. Goodwin, who has been in charge of the re-
cruiting office here for nearly a year, will be
ordered to report for duty at Fort Townsend to
relieve Lieut. W. A. Kimball. who has been de-
tailed as aide on Gen. Miles staf at Chicago
Mr. Goodwin hid received orders to report at
Vancouver barracks, but they were counter.
manded at the last moment
Jay Comstock, of Helena, Mont, stopping at
the Arlington. said last night in regard to the
action OF the Montana legislature: "Marcus
Daily has cut his nose of to spite his face In
order to defeat Clark, his old-time enemy, he
has killed all chances of the town Of Anaconda,
which he owns getting the state capital, and
the choice OF Helena Tor that honor Is now az.
sured beyond doubt
Judge George Turner came over from Olympia
yesterday aud is stopping At the Occidental.