The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-21
A DAMAGED TICKET.
Populists Drop the Burglar
Surveyor Bostian.
THEY SAID NE WAS SO HONEST.
The Man Csaahs Kebhing His Friends
seeking Bonds-Eioxrsphy From
Pop Standpoint


candidate for county surveyor, Who was
arrested night before las; by Detective
Charles Phillips in the act of burglarizing
ths ofsce of W. C. Rittsnhoass. in the
Hinckiey block. vas unable to make an
active canvass for votes yesterday, owing
20 his confinement in tie city Jail he
has placed himself and his party in such
. peculiar position that no one wonders
from the ticket
Mr. Rsttenhouse swore 10 the complaint
charging his friend" with burglary yes
terday morning, and Bostlan was brought
into the municipal court Immediately. DE
looked very neat in y hGte shirt, collar and
necktie, bat his downcast face showed that
inwardly be felt the disgrace he had
brought upon himself After Deputy
Prosecuting Attorney Bass read the COM
plant TO the prisoner, an attorney named
Spear arose and stated that he appeared
for the defense. Judge Glasgow allowed
him few moments conversation with
Bos;ian. The attorney then asked for
continuance to October "a, which was
granted. Bostisn was taken back 10 jail,
and at the time of going 10 press had not
secured bondsmen. although his friends
lowered around police headquarters
Bostian's previous record, or at least
what purporss TO be it, was printed in the
Peoples Call of October Is, together with
comments. The article reads as follows:
FOR SURVEYOR
Harry 7. Bostian. our next King county
surveyor, vas born of German parentagc
at Milton. Pa, October 7, 1858, and was
the oldest OF seven children. He attended
school until Ii years old. when his father,
who had heen successfully engaged IN
large furniture and undertaking business
Tor twelve years, sold out and concluded
TO move to Texas, which was being adver-
tised as the Garden of Eden. In the
spring of 1877 be moved his family TO
Mckinney. the county seat of Collin
county, Texas, but, though the spring
was delightful, the summer turned out to
be very dry and hot. In the fall of the
same year he moved his family to Lyon
county, Kansas, where he had previously
bought eighty acres of bottom land in the
Neosho valley. Here his son Harry spent
Eve years following the plow in the sum-
mer and going to school in the winter.
His father had been reading a good deal
about Oregon, but did not decide to move
until the summer OF 1883, when be was
blown out by cyclone. In the following
October he sold out and moved TO Port
land, Or. Leaving his family here he
spent the winter looking over the country
and finally moved bis family the following
spring 10 Orcas island, where he had
bought leo acres, and built q house.
Having exhausted most of his money his
son Harry volunteered TO strike out and
find work to help support the family.
Taxing the first thing that came along be
went to work for the Puget Mill Com
pany at Port Ladlow, where he worked
nearly a year tallying. and afterward
II rk par
pany. IL was while working at the saw
mills be joined the Bryant d Strntton
Correspondence Business college. taking
the course of engineering and It's branches.
After supper he would 20 to bed early and
at 3 to O'Clock in the morning would get
MP and study till the whistle blew Tor
breakfast. Having been brought up by
Christian parents who were active mem
bers of the NJ. +. church, ne was free from
the vices of drinking aud gambling that
were so common in mills and was there
fore left to himself to study to his hearts
content.
In the summer of 1857 be came TO Seat
tie aud went TO work IN the engineering
department Of the Seattle, Lake Shore &
Eastern railway, where he worked for two
years. Since then he has worked for one
firm of engineers in Seattle; has been
deputy county surveyor two years, and
has done work In every part of the county,
making frlends Wherever ne mas been, Tor
his work has been honestly and carefully
done. No better recommendation can be
had than the favorable reports of those for
whom he has done work.
lie has had experience in the most diff
cult forms of sectional subdivision, is an
advocate OF better road system and is
fully competent TO handle all the prob
lens of county engineering.
Mr.. Bostfan IL man of family, having
one child; Is honest. upright and temper
ate good peighbor. loving husband and
father; true citizen. able and capable 10
I'll the Office TO which he has been NOM
mated. Mr.. Bostian has been an earnest
Populist for years. was q delegate from the
Seventh ward in our city convention last
spring and in the delegate convention.
The Peoples party is 10 be congratulated
in having selected so able. efficient and
honorable a representative for this impor-
tant Office.