The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-02-26
A PoSTOFFICE BOSS.
How Hugh Wallace Is Regarded
In Washington City.
BITTER EsEMIEs At HIS HEELS.
Georre HAxzard and James Hamilton
Lewis After Him Wallace Got Moth
fnx for Brinker or Himself

wash.nxton City. FEB. ss.-spscsai--
Hugh Wallace 10 hers. and fousfA-esass
possnassers ard others who are looking
for appointments may well frsmpss ihA
she.r shoes. II IL something 70 be
son-sr~iaw OF the chief 5Isitre OF 1ss
United States. for the very name o. AZ
lace IL an open sesame At the various ae-
partmenss and when Wallace crooks ms
finger the clerks all Jump. The heals OF
the departments ard the chiefs OF we
bureaus are rot quite so subserTient. ZOE
Wallace doesn't have much to 90 wsth
them, but II is generally UNDERSTOOD ny
aII the snhorf.na.es that Wallace y 70
have everything he wants. and al BOOKS
ard letter files are spread open before
him at hIy mere request. without even sne
formaiify Of an order from the sefFe-
fary. wallace has been here before. ara
that Is why the under clerks all how Down
ard worship, with his smooth lace era
siIk hat he IL the ver.tabIe modern Ma
poleon Of politics. Woe unto the iuckiess
aspirans In the Democratic ranks IN
Washington who may have Thought ne
coeid get along without Walaces M
fneDre and may have incidentally written
his private opinion about the CHIEF JUS
tiee.s son-sn-Iaw. perhaps to the post
master general or 20 the secretary OF
the interior. He has been wondering all
this time Why his appointment has been
held up. He did not know that wallace
wrote To Messrs. Cleveland, Carlisle. BIS
sell. Hoke Smith. ct al. that he would
be Ia washington City this month. and
would then tell thesn who we're the Dem
oerats who could be trusted. His method
yszr
ali the papers on fle. and II any one has
said anything defogatory 10 Mr. Waiiaee's
fair fame. the desamer Is turned down.
Those who think Nr. Wallace great
man are elevated. And the beauty of II all
IN the system has SO far continued 10 work
10 charm.
One Instance of this is the postmaster
az oIney. King county Mr.. Wallace had
recommended the appointment OF Henry
Hunter TO succeed q. A. Bushman. re-
moved for partiaansfsip. and the appoint
naent had already been announced before
wailaae's arrival Something in the pa
pers here on file Induced Wallace to wsth-
draw his recommendation. and as the COM
mission. had not vet been issued the mat
ter IL hung up for the present. Ikis I'M
dersiood one Newton now stands In line
for the place.
While the general impression produced
by Mr. WaIiaee's appearance In Wash
tngton City IL as outlined above. there
are always the exceptions that prove the
genera rule. A high official In the treas
ury department. when he heard of Wal
laee.s arrival. said: well. l don't think
air. Wallace will do me the honor TO pay
me visit The Last time We met IL was
ait ssso \ faE
Wallace Ia good deal OF q chump; ard
whats more, I can prove ii!''
George Hazard and Col. James Ham
ilton Lewis viii arrive here in a few days.
They are botn enemies of Wallace. and
may make trouble for him. When Wal
lace left Tacoma for the capital he cx-
pectsd 10 get the new circuit tudgeship
for his business partner District AttoY-
ney Brinker. and Nicaragua canal d.
rec,orship for himself, But the president
gave the judgeship To California man.
AMI the Nicaragua canal bill ~ hung up
In the house
The residents OF Puget island on the
Columbia river. whose nearest pcstofiicc
IL Clifton. Or, cn the one side, three
and half miles away. and Skamoka va,
are Also -seaIroas Of having pcsiotiice
located on the lower end OF the island.
at the salmon eannery OF John oster-
void. who would also be postmaster.
There are about forty-fsve settlers on the
island. and fully thirty families make tt
their home all the year around Tho
Office can he served by the @. II. a ".
steamers down the river from Portland 70
Astoria without any increase of ais-
lance. A favorable Recommendation has
been made. and the Office will probably
he established, after the customary
amount OF time aud red tape has been
used UP.
new Ipestafiee has been established
al Belmore. six miles from Olympia, with
a. W. w!snsr as postmaster. whose
commission only awahx the nlin~ of his
required bonds.
The following appointments OF post
masters have been announced. Edward
Poke. a. clearnreok. wna;com county.
vice ]. c. Nattrass: +. A. wssen. Collins.
Clallam county. vice A. c. Collins: ].
II. Gillette. az Stevenson. Skanania coun.
ty. vice j. NJ. Stevenson. O.. w. Jer-
y. u
4. Fauhsoa. removed A large plumber
of appointments may he expected now
within short time as a result OF Mr..
waiiace's coming.
The following new appontees have
filed their bands which have been ac-
septei ard shssr commissions issued: .ioha
Cprst. Anderson. John II. Young. nol.
ilagse ayta: William IL Cline. sunny
ssie. Andy T. Cope. Clyde. Charles c.
Beers, Riverside, Mary Gsorge. rngle-
wOoa.
site changed Hss@elssae. iAocola coua-
~. moved two snd a quarter miles north
west. ami Thomas II. Sesson appointed
postmaster a. the new location.
Star service changes Tacoma 20 Allyn.
reduce service 30 shree times week !;
caspfsuis 10 uoqutasss, after Msrch J.
seare~sse service 20 taFvs times a week
Fer, Orchard - Rse8vltte Tuesdays ani
Saturdays: Mssnge CriS,a 60 Orient once
n week. on Wednesdays, PovS Williams
- Belyu, dsiiy except sunday. wajevios
- Daisy. Tuesdays scSs fridays. North
Yakima 70 Tamrlec. Tuesdays. Thurs
days ani Saturiays
Use oftlee AZ AgeRuak Alaska. wisi re
discontinued fsaFsaTy =. as also the
special service 10 che togas srom san
Fraselsea.
Forty sstus~s Of Chrlsafis cossnty. isv.
iHg w sNe river Aesve csee;s, have Pc
tsaaa8 Toe pssssafssce department IA e..
miles above oaeets. 70 30 known as