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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20
THE STATE PRESS.

Port Townsend Leader has improved
wonderfully within the past re" weeks
Il looks well for the town
Pullman Herald: TIE fail Of IS viii be
q debs-payins one in the Palouse country.
With a magnificent wheat yield ana 1air
prices the Palouse farmer will have no
cause for complaint.
Spokane Tribune a Populist paper,
builds up a political ghost story on the
basis that Cowen Is state land commits
ssoner. OF course he isn't: but that fact
is not permitted 10 stand in the way
Spokane Tribune: Mrs Cleveland once
remarked: There was but one Washing
ton and one Jefferson. and there VIII be
but one Cleveland Evidently Mrs. Cleve-
land knew what she was talking about
sprague Independents Our commission
ers have no axes 10 grind and are working
solely for the good OF the county-and the
man who believes the Pop. central COM
mittee is formed on those lines is chump-
Imperial City News: AS rule the news
paper is more slow to unwarrantaoiy at
tack a persons character than are per-
sons outside OF the public prints, always
noting. however. the exception 10 the rule
Spokane Chronicle: AS class news
paper men, perhaps. are the closest OBJ
servers one can find. Thy turn every stone
10 see II there isn't new truth under II;
they climb every hill that promises
broader vision: they investigate every
theory TO discover a new phase. and II Is
this ceaseless, untiring quest for discov-
cries which makes the opinions OF the
newspaper man valuable.
Garfield Enterprise: With this issue the
Enterprise starts upon its ninth year.
Standing upon the divide where experience
and future prospects meet, and straining
our eyes toward either horizon. there is
marked absence of rainbow tints. Instead
there appears in big black letters that blot
out the fair landscape the word -arrear-
ages''-arrearages in the first person ana,
my dear reader. arrearages In the second
person, the latter the cause and the for
mer the effect What big, wide, weary.
blankety blank world this Is anyway!
You will think so yourself when you get
your statement OF account from the En-
terprise this week.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20
NATIONAL GUARD GROWTH.

The reorganization now going on in the
National Guard under the new law OF
this state brings TO mind the fact that IL
is nearly twenty years since a revival oc-
CURED in the National Guard ranks all
over the country and the organization be-
gan to be remodeIed and built up as IN
important factor in the defense OF the
state and natio1-
Prior TO 1877, the year OF the great rail-
road riots. the militia seemed TO be main
tanned principally for show. There was
some spasmodlc drilling. but membership
In the organization was sought because
of opportunities offered for sporting
bright uniforms and participating in So
cial and holiday festivities. The idea OF
being called In defense OF the state never
occurred to the young recruit; it.was play
he was after.
The riots of 1877. however. demon
strated that occasions may arise when
ordinary police power Is inadequate to
preserve the peace. and reorganization
OF the National Guard Of the different
states was brought about which has COM
pletely altered the personnel, character
and purposes OF our volunteer military
forces. Formerly II was popular because
of the fun in 1t; now there is system,
discipline. sacrifice OF personal COM
forts and even the risking of life In de-
Tense OF the commonwealth.
That the National Guard has become a
necessary institution is evidenced by the
fact that It has been repeatedly called
out to queil dis, urbances, and in many
states is kept thoroughly equipped and
always IN a highly efficient condition.
summary of the active duty performed In
1894 shows in what demand their services
may be. They were called out not only
in this state. but also in Arkansas. Cali
fornla, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Mary
land, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Utah,
Iowa, Montana. North Carolina, twice in
Illinois and eleven times In Ohio.
A resent bulletin of the war department
shows the number of enrolled men In the
militia OF the different states to be Ih,146.
The largest annual appropriation is $780,
600. made by New York; the smallest
81 600 made by New Mexico. Washington
appropriated last winter $4,000 for two
years. Pennsylvania appropriated ss2o, 900;
Massachusetts,, s2l5. 900; California, slS0, 600;
Illinois, $40 200; Rhode Island. 100000;
Wisconsin, 100000.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20
NOTABLE PEOPLE.

A San Francisco paper recently claimed
to have found the original of Rudyard
Kipling's Private Mulvaney In one VIII
lam McManus, OF that city. kiphng says
he never heard OF the fellow before.
Mrs. Henry Clews. wife of the Wall
Street man. rides a bicycle at Newport
this year and looks well on a wheel. she
wears an effective tabernacle costume
and brown leggings. Her daughter. Elsie,
one of the buds Of Newport, IS not so
good rider as her mother saVe Ia
merei
eighteen years the Rev. Osbert Mordaunt,
an Anglican clergyman, has been the pro-
prietor. of the public house at Hampton
Lucy, IN Warwlckshire. When entering
his parish, he had to decide between onepf
two courses. either TO abolish the public
house altogether, and thus leave the par,
ishioners to procure indifferent or bad
drink at the nearest point or through the
grocer. or to try personally the expert
ment of supplying the community with
good. wholesome beer at properly con-
claimed, have thoroughly justified the ex-
pertinent. The inhabitants of Hampton
Lucy obtain good and reasonably prioSd
beer. drunkenness is prevented. ana Ine
parish benefited by the proceeds OF the
undertaking.
IL the lord mayors private secretary
ever wore all his decorations, his breast
would blaze as brilliantly as that of une
cNleI magistrate HIDstll- MAJ. CONISDss
who has just received from the mikado
the Order of the Rising Sun, already pos
sesses the blue ribbon of the Legion of
Honor to say nothing of the orders of
Francis Joseph OF austria, the Humane
Redemption OF Liberia and a Servian and
Greek decoration to boot The genial
permanent secretary of the Mansion
house, who has assisted twenty-one lord
MAYORS to preserve some continuity OF
civic government, was appropriately born
I'm a cockney family. and educated at the
City of London school. While still in his
teens he began to read for the bar. was
pernitted by the Inns and Immediately
received the appointment which he has
filled with distinction ever since. He is 43
wears OF age.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20

vices. National banks are as safe. 50 Tar
as seysositors are CONCERNED. as any hui
man institution. Stockholders sometimes
suffer. bus deposftors. who, after all, are
the people the government should protect
first. seldom lose their money, even IN
the comparatively rare case Of national
banks failure.
OF course ,h. greater stability In the
older countries OF property values Is an
advantage which can only be attained in
time. but the absence OF bank failures and
OF panics In Scotland If strong recon-
nendation Of the system. This only COW
ers one branch Of the subject, however.
and does not reach the evils most COM
planned OF Just now.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20

The American Shipbuilder states that
the last of the great wooden ships was
launched on July Is. 1898. and that there
are today no wooden sailing ships on the
ways OF any yard in either this country
or Canada. In the narrow and technical
sense of the word ship" as applied TO the
manner in which a vessel Is rugged, this
may be true. AT the same time there are
still numbers of sailing vessels building OF
wood, and some OF them are OF size
which a generation ago would have been
considered enormous for any rig. The
building OF wooden vessels may cease some
time In the future, Blu. the business Is far
from being extinct. and. indeed. It is likely
TO increase in magnitude In this section of
country at least.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20
THE SECOND COMING OF ARTHUR.

a certain Past adapted 10 a possible
FuEurel
Twas rollog and the mlnim potes
Did mime and mimhle IN the cafe,
All footly we're the phileroteSs
And DaSCayuongs outsiTAfe.
Beware the Yallerbock, my son,
The aims that rlle. the art that racks,
Bese are the AubAub Bird. and shun
The ~ uausous Bee Feognax.
lie took ENralfbur IN hand:
Long time the canxorne foe he sought
50 resf Al Ae by Joubul tree.
Ana stood IA hile in thought
oae. swo' one. two! And through and
through
EXC8llpur went sU1ck er-S1ack.
lie 5ook Us dead and ooGless head
And n eat Iocundtug back
Ard hast 5hoa slain the NallerbockT
Come - my arms. ny squesmisn boy.
60, oFlgssi ~ous pace Fs3rAeE; Fughcsi
s. yaw ole-d IN his Joy.
prom TIA london World. VIA the Chap
Beck
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20

Ex-United States Senator James Har-
Ian, the leading candidate for the Republi-
can nomination for governor OF Iowa, IS
one OF the few survivors of the statesmen
who date from the era before the war.
lie was elected to the Unitd States senate
IN 1855 and again in 1861, and was appointed
by Lincoln secretary of the interior in
March, 1865. He did not take the position
at once, however. and the assassination OF
Lincoln followed. Johnson confirmed the
appointment made by Lincoln. and Har-
Ian resigned his seat as senator to enter
the cabinet in May, 1866 He was reelected
20 the senate for the term commencing
in 1867. and resigned his cabinet Office to
re-enter the senate.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20

Another American citizen is lying In JAIL
1t is true he is only naturalized citizen,
but he was travelling on an American pass
port-a document which seems to have
lost all its virtue. Rev. Isaac Adams is a
Persian. but was naturalized In Illinois.
He has brothers living In Grand Rapids
and Kalamazoo. Mich. On May 30 he
started from Umri, Persia, to visit Mar
shimouri. patriarch OF the HISTORIANS. at
Kochanes. in Asiatic Turkey. a distance
OF 200 miles. When he entered Turkish
territory he was seized. his passport taken
from him and he was imprisoned as spy.
His friends appealed to the British consul
general, but they were referred to the
American minister at Teheran.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.

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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20

The Durango Herald. OF Colorado. pub
lished in the heart Of the silver region.
has publicly announced that II is satisfied
the free and unlimited coinage OF silver
would ba disastrous 20 the country. and
the mischief out OF all proportion 70 the
benefit silver miners woold derive. The
thinker" - great institution.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20

Charles A. Reynolds. editor Of the
GAINESVILLE, o. Daily Courier. has con-
ceived the idea OF the Republican editors
OF that state calling in a body on Gen.
Bushnell. the Republican candidate for
governor. ana the various members of the
press viii soon meet in Columbus and
proceed 20 the generals home az Spring
field 70 discuss the coming campaign.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20

The Spanish minister in this country
says Spain VIII take part In the next in
ternatonal monetary conference His
country uses both gold and silver, and is
greatly interested In the question Of BIZ
inetalllsm. Two OF the Spanish colonies
Porto Rico and the PHILIPPINE islands. use
silver exclusively. and the mother country
Is favorable 20 larger use OF both metals
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20
A GUARANTEE.

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tees its advertisers a bona fide paid cir
culation. Daily Weekly and Sunday, dou-
BILE that OF any other newspaper pub
Iished in the State OF Washington. Ad-
vertising contracts will be made subject
10 this guarantee.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20

The Canadian Pacific railroad recently
purchased a lot Of steel rails In this coun-
try. because they are cheaper here than
IN England. As a result bill has been in
trodueed into the Canadian parliament to
prohibit such dealings with aliens.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20

Russell a. Alger. J. s. Clarkson and
Samuel Fessenden met in conference in
New York recently 10 discuss Allison's
presidential chances. They tried to call
in Platt, but failed. he being for Reed IL
Morton has no show TO win. AT the same
time John c. New is moving about rapidly.
trying TO convince his friends that HART
son IS by all odds the most available man
mentioned
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-20
TO READERS GOING OUT OF TOWN

Readers OF the Post-Inteiligencer going
out OF town can have the paper mailed 10
them for 81 per month. and the address
changed as often as desired.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-21

Thomas j, Lane of pittsburE. until
recently a conductor on n cable car,
but IN war time first sergeant OF cont
pany NJ, Seventh Pennsylvania cavalry,
hag always maintained that he was the
first Union soldier 10 lay hands ON JEFF
fcrson Davis after his Night from
Richmond. An II certain General Harm
den, who ptOfcsscd to he the officer
who captured Davis, has hcon denying
that the Confederate president was dis
gulsed In womnu's attire ut the time,
Mr.. Lane has Just told the story afrcsh
to a plusburE Dispatch man. lie says
nobody by the name OF llarndcn was
there, Davis wore a common sun or
poke bonnet which was tightly fastened
to conceal his face. He did not wear u
huopBkirt or a shawl, but had lunE
smoking or dressing gown, which Naa
Topped around and looked much like a
Woman'R skirt Mrs. Davis led I'm
along and said, "Thls old woman h.
sick and must 10 TO the spring. Wn
You let us pnssY' Lane was ntnnding
by the guard ana they lot the pair GO
by. but as the old woman with the poke
hJ rnct approached the spring she
slipped ana displayed cavalry boot.
The guard exclaimed That's DaVlF,"
ran toward him, raised hia gun, ANA
shouted. Davis, halt" Davis turnp I.
pulled Ills gown open, and answered.
"SNOot me, XIII me- Lane ran 10
placed his hand on his shoulder. and
assured him that he would rot be
harmed. Davis thanked him, and add.
ed; Your men are killing each otap~;
stop that nrlng; | have no men Vita
me. - This incident had occurred white
sllrmlah was going ON, and II 10Y
turned out that the Pennsylvania
troops were firing on some men Of die
Fourth Michigan cavalry. who wrrn
also hunting for Davis. Lame
searched his captive, who
gave up small thrce.cor-
nored paper containing tho countcralIyn
"Tyboe." which enabled DnVla to OK.
cape through the UiSon limos Davis
told him II had been stolen from the
hondquarcrs or Colonel Williams. COM
mnndng the Thlrty-frst Pennsylvania
Volunteers, Lane atlll hns this paper
and n small picture OF Mrs. Davis.
which he obtained from hor daughter.
lie never got any Of the reward offered
and says he believes II went to the Mich.
lgnn men. lie pays a tribute 10 DRyis
courtesy, unfnvornbla as wero the cir
cumstanccs for it's dlsplay.--Dumalo
Courier.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-21
SAFETY IN A CROWD.
Some Considerations Of the Ease with
Which Murderer May Avoid De.
lection.

Waterbury American.
a good many readers OF the American
may have learned or read an interest.
ing story OF the pru-horse-cnr daya,
whom lines OF buses were the principal
means OF transportation between lower
and upper New York The story Is IL
Illustrative OF well authenticated event
In New Yorks current history.
one evening n gentleman and his
wife. after leaving the theater, got into
Il bus to 40 home. There were In the
bus, besides themselves only n party
of three. a drunken man and two COM
pnlnions. who were caring for him. This
drunken man was very drunk Every
time tho bus bumped he lurched, and
II took all his companions care TO keep
him straight on his seat Finally
Forty-second street was reached One
OF the drunken mans companions
pulled the strap and stopped the bus
They holstercd the drunken man up In
n corner and told him to "brare up."
and to remember to get out when the
bus reached the end OF the line. ns.
surfing him that his home was "only
just around the corner" md that he
could get there without trouble. To
all Of this the drunken man returned
only stupid stare. The bus started
on, and at the first lurch the drunken
man fell prone upon the floor. The
gentleman, moved by pity. got up and
went over 10 him, to help him back
upon hin scat Having accomplished
this he pulled the strap aud motioned
10 his wife 20 get out. although thoy
We're yet some blocks from their dealt
nation. when they had alightcd the
gentleman asked his wife what she
thought was the matter with the man.
She said: VERY drunk, | suppose"
mo" he replied, that mans throat
has been cut from ear 10 ear"
II is assorted that this Is true story;
that tho murdcrers took this unusual
and daring way Of dlsposing OF their
Victims body, and that the murder was
ever afterwards a mystery, no clue
ever tracking II 10 the murdercrs.
Many persons regard the tale as en-
tirely improbable. They do not believe
that any men could take a corpse IN
bus IN such fashion undotocted. Yet
New York today parallels that case. In
the early evening the negro murderer.
Caesar. takes bundle containing the
mutilated romans OF his victim on the
front platform OF Sixth avenue horse
car and drops II over an area railing
by mistake. without arouslng a single
suspicion In the mind Of any one COM
posing tho big crowd that Is constantly
Jostllng him.
Some may claim that the presence OF
the crowd was his safety. and that
later in the evening, the time Of the
story above told, he would have been
In great danger OF detection. This
may or may not be so. The only pur-
pose here Is 20 call attentlon TO the
fact. so often Illustrated. that what
pass for the improbabilltics OF fiction
are often ouriously parnlleld IN the nc.
tual experiences OF real life.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-21

On ihe ~, Denis cannl. France. same
trials NJ towing by electricity on The Royet
system have been made with barge nttcI
NJ ono end with an electric mOl0r. con.
munlcntlng lis rotary motion hy gear 10 tho
towing wheel, which gives magnetic ndhe.
sion 10 the towing rope. The current wna
taken by u trolley from on an overhead
line on the bank portion serving for mug.
nothing the clutch md towing chain. 4
distances OF about 3p ynrla IN said TO have
been accomplished In eight minutes, CORR.
apnnllnF with speed of Ia miles per hour,
which " about double TINT obtained hr or
binary lowagh A. 10 whether, on the
whole the system was regarded ns a sue
ccss Is not stated. Hoston Herald.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-21
rMg .sv. LAwnNNcn.
Il May BE Turned SO as TO Run
Again Into Lake chnmplain

Il May BE Turned SO as TO Run
Again Into Lake chnmplain.
II Is geographical fact that all the
waters OF the ST. Lawrence at one time
poured down through Lake Cham
plain and were discharged into the
Atlantic at Now York, and Mi.
Chaunccy n. Dutton of New York, the
engineer who has worked out the prob.
lem OF the new water way, says they
could be turned back into that channel
" money enough were expended upon
the work. His plan. however, does
not contemplate anything which would
destroy the commerce Of Montreal or
make Qucbec's water front a sandy
plain. The great river can spare
enough water for the ship canal and
not appear TO have lost drop,
II Is the foremost OF rivers In It's
uniform discharge. of which the mean
amount w 21s0l5 cubic feet per Sec
ond at ogdenHhurg. The lowest dis
charge OF the Mississippi Ia $4,000
cubic feet per second, and It's maximum
ia fully eight times that amount.
The work required TO complete the
project u not 80 great as may be Int
agined II Will he necessary to build n
new aqucduct over the Chippewa river
on the WellRnd canal, also eight nilloa
OF new canal from near Thorold, Ont.
TO near Queenstown, with two locks, u
lock at Cornwall. n lock near Valley
Field. Quebec; u canal from Lake St
Francis In the St Lawrence, at point
opposite Grand Island. TO the Richollcu
river. and. lastly. canal from Lake
Chnmplain to the Hudson river This
last viii be the most difficult part OF
the whole undertaking.
The proposed canal viii connect
South bay, Lake Champlain, with the
Hudson Ut Fort Miller, although an
effort Will be made to connect with tho
river at point higher up. Below
CoNSacklc the Hudson will Rfford n
clear. unubstructed waterway To New
York. The lock at this end OF the
route win be at Waterford
The depth OF water necessary In the
canals to be constructed win conform
to that on 1.lmrklln Crossing IN tho
Detroit river. This route will be eE-
scutinlly FOR freight vessels, and II
will be dccpcncd from time 10 time to
conform with the depth maintained by
the government In the Detroit river
Albany journal.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-21

Montgomery. Ala.
Birmingham, Ala.
Atlanta. Ca.
Macon, Ca.
Savannah. Ca.
Nashville. Tenn.
Charleston. 5. G.
Columbia. ). G.
Charlotte. N. c.
Lynchburg, Va.
louisville. n.y.
Cincinnati. o.
Indianapolis, Ind.
Chicago. ~.
Detroit, Mich.
Cleveland, o.
Buffalo, N. Y.
Plttsburg, Pa.
Philadelphia. Pa.
Washington, ID. C..
Baltimore. Md.
New York, N. v.
And nllPolnts
North and East