The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-10-29
SITUATION AT CHENEY.


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Spokane County.
". r. Gay. who has been making Wig
orous campaign for the Republican ticket
and who. at the request of Spokane coun-
~. was sent by the state committee over
there for few nights. returned yester-
day. having been called home on a tele-
gram owing to the sickness of his broth
er. Monday night Mr. Gay made speech
at Cheney He said yesterday:
II had quite a successful meeting at
Cheney. everything considered 1t seems
TO be understood that Cheney is . hard
town III which 70 get an audience. owing
10 local dissensions of one kind or an
otner II appears that the friends Of
fusion as Well as our own speakers, have
had small audiences. and was told that
l would De very fortunate II had an au-
dience of twenty people I have ALWAYS
been great admirer OF the location and
appearance of Cheney, seeing il as
passed through on the train in my vari-
Gus trips East and to Spokane. I had no
personal acquaintance there. and when
reached there / was taken in hand by
Mr Hubbard. merchant, and by Mr.
stewart the editor of the local paper.
ana other citizens. who put forth an eff
Tort 10 get me a meeting. They succeed
ed beyond expectation. and the hall was
CROWDED was given most ffattering
reception, and my address was apparent
ly well received. In no meeting which
nave held this campaign have I had bet
ter attention OF been treated more cour-
OnSneX.
"A peculiar incident occurred at my
meeting at Cheney, which feel like men,
tioning- One Of my auditors was gen.
ueinan ABOUT - or 10 years OF age. who
me. and some way or other felt that
had seen him before, but could not tell
wnen or where. The next morning I was
called on by numerous citizens OF the
place before leaving, and among Others
TINS gentleman, who proved to be Mr.
Joseph Mount. In the course of CONVEX
saton ne informed me that he had for
merry travelled for Sprague. Warner q
Co., OF Chicago. I asked him Ii he had
ever travelled in Missouri. He said he had
not | then asked him il he ever came
INTO Missouri to attend to the collection
OF bad claims. He replied that he mad
on one or two occasions only. l then
asked him IL he had not seventeen years
ago come into the small town of Bur-
nngton junction for the purpose of coll
iecting claim against falling firm.
come into the law office of young law
yer, whose office consisted of one room,
ana OF whom he had some doubt as to his
ability to take care of the business He
readily recollected il. l then said: Il am
the Fellow that you called upon at that
over; and said he hardly recognized me.
| told him that l weighed seventy-five
pounds more now than then, but other
Mise Was Just as young as then. Immedi-
ateiy the recognition was mutual. Curl
DUSTY, It turned out that one of my audi
ence or the night before was a centie-
,iidii WHO Hdu given me one of my first
law suits when | first began practice in
missouri, almost a generation ago.
was also conducted through the nor
mai school at Cheney If this state ever
received value from any appropriation,
1t is received out of the building of the
normal school at Cheney. The appropria-
ton was $4,000 for building and equip
ments. They have a building already
erected. which If I had been told cost
$4,000 would not have surprised me- 1t
Is certainly one OF the most complete nor
NAL schools / have ever visited, and. be-
Ing an old normal school pupil and hav-
Ing visited normal schools In other states.
1 think | am somewhat qualified to mass
an opinion. 1t is also finely furnished
having all the modern equipments and
furniture. 1t Is not yet quite completed.
out, as | understand. is to be completed
within the appropriation. unless IL be in
the third or upper story. and possibly re-
CURING small appropriation for the
beautifying and further laying out of the
GROUNDS The normal school is admirably
located on an eminence in one of the best
towns In this state, and / now predict
VIII soon rank as one of the first class
educational institutions OF the West n
seems to be We'll disciplined. and the
many friends of Prof Sutton speak in fhe
highest terms of his executive ahilitv
Lhey have already about It's pupils for
prosperous NN''iS