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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-12

It will soon be in order for ex-Coliector
Saunders to explain his version OF the
Chinese affair.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-12

weyler has been asked for an explana-
ton oy the Spanish government He can
not do that as easily as he can describe
victory over the Cubans.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-12

The opposition co the ordinance may re-
srs IN the defeat OF o1e OF he best meas
ures ever taken 70 enforce a greater re-
spec- for the Sabbath.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-12

Total TOT SIX pIOAuIlSss- % SNsS0&' 49,
Nearly two billions of dollars Tor SIX
staple crops, What would the total De
II we could add all the other crops? Inc
watermelon crop alone. or the turrhp
crop, or the hay crop. or the product OF
eggs. cucumbers. tomatoes. or fruits, on
any one OF a dozen other things woulo
put the klondike or any other gold heio
to shame.
The sureSt way to get gold out of the
earth is TO cultivate the soil.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-12

In other words Seattle. which transact
ed over 5000 more business than Tacoma
in August. 1896, did over q. 900 600 more
business last month II should be appar-
ent to any one. unless. perhaps. to Mr..
Perkins. which OF the two cities IL doing
the larger Alaska business, as that natur-
ally would show in the clearing house re-
turns. Very truly yours,
ERASTUS BRAINERD.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-12
A GUARANTEES.

The Poxt-InfeIIfGeneer hereoy
guarantees ~. advertisers bona
ads paid circulation Daily, weekly
aud sunday, double that OF any
other Newspaper published In the
state of Washington Advertising
contracts will be made subject 10
shfs sna rantee.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-12
"sAMMY- PERKINS IMAGINATION

Seattle, Sept. II. 1897
To the Editor: In his interviews pub
lished In the New York Mail and Express.
and the Washington, y. c.. Star.
Mr.. s. II. Perkins. of Tacoma. at present
private secretary 10 Senator Hanna. main
tains that Tacoma has done the bulk of
the Alaska business
The secretary of the clearing house re-
ports clearing house returns TO me as fol-
lows for the month OF August. 1895 and
1897:
Seattle Tacoma
1896 ............S2 %. TBS IS 81 $50 coo nS
1897 ............ 3,si2.953 81 2Z7. 706 %
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-12
Greater Than the kiondike.
Na~x- work World

What IS the klondike-what are score
OF Klendkes--to the productive soil oil
country like this? Here are some sam
pie statistics OF this years crop:
w.. x, COO r,na r,sba1s ar Ks $4,000 900
Co.., ~ 100 i..s sn ar ss.s sao 600 90
0s,s an 90 60 ~, ar s,r-. aDeoo zoe
Par5s,~ a 80 a., ~, al fsls 54na0 900
pa 4, assa ass0 ~, a. s7c.. l7ieo 600
Cotton, s0o0 90 bales at sc
pound. or $40 q hale............ s1oo",w"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-12
rig POST INTELLIGENCE.
TERMS or SUBSCRIPTIONS:

1EHAE OE 6L2Z >~&--~
Deliveries " City carrier
Daily and sunday. PER no,.a .-----ss
Daily and Sunday six uoiatns II sNa a On
pailg aad ssnday enc year II raid In :.
asawarcR ...... 1880. *s-.---..--- .+>--
Sunday edition per north --------.--.-- a
Eursay edition one year 80 : =.
Persons desiring The Post-fntsl e -
served az their homes Or etsasl8e .. d.. 49,
cry can secure II By rogia. c@f- 49,.
or order through telephone Nan = wesn
delivery a. irregular please snake friros-
Gixfe complaint TO this cHsce-
BY MAIL. PAYABLE IN ADFASLE-.
Daily and Sunday. per montn .----.-. a.
Daily and Sunday SIX fnoefSs --.---s.- =
Daily and Sunday ore year .-..----+-- SS
Sunday edition. one month ..-.--'''''-- *
Sunday edition. SIX months --s--s--. n
Sunday edition ere year .-.-.-.--s----- x
Sunday ard weekly. one year .---.--'- ~
Weekly edition, che year ..-..-.---.+-- III
Weekly edition. six months .-s..--'"'"'-
OFFICES.
eeattis, Second avenue and Cheyfy 49,, -.
New York Rooms e. "a u fribnne DA1s-
chicago. az Chamber Of ConahS
Tacoma. I2e3 Pacific avenue.
Give possoHce address IN full fneindins
Remit By express. money order. draft or
fn regisf~red letter. al our rihk. Mt >
Telephones. business Ontces SAa4A o.
Editorial Rooms. Main. 81.
Address an communications ara IT'LL es1ar 70
fanees 70 the pOST-fNT EjtIfS E<NNEAs
PUBLISHING CO. Seattle. WASH.
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OFFICES:

eeattis Second avenue and Cheyry 81, 1Iss
sew York Rooms n IA Is Tribune bs1S
Chicago az Chamber Of Commerce.
Tacoma l3es Pacific avenue.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-12

A Croker will take the place in New York
of the calamity bowler.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-12
Coats, CapeS, MackintosheS.

We want you to see them for yourself;
tits the quality, the style. the finish, the gene
We submit to you, however the fact that o
extent of variety 10 town tw Ice Seattles 5
5000 each will demand the car eful buyers
Children's Jackets. some handsome style,
vast quantity Will soon arrive. See our corr
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TAX PAYER"
HAS A FEW WORDS TO SAY IN
 REPLY TO FAIR PLAY"
The Mayor Violating the Law for His Gain and Continues to Do So," Says Our Cores
 pondent.
To the Editor of the GRArHro.--

To the Editor of the GRApHIC:-- Fair Play" seems to fall out with me for objecting to the monies paid Mayor Goldsmith that he is entitled to by virtue of the eity's ordinances That is not so We are not falling out with MT. Goldsmith for taking what he is legally entitled to, but we do complain at his securing what he has no right in law or justice to receive.
 The salary account is all right, be- cause he is lawfully entitled to that amount. Attention was only called to the figures to show that he was better paid than any of his prede- .cessors and that he ought to be con tent with these amounts and let rent and supplies, to which he has no lawful right to make any claim alone.
 The Mayor is the executive officer of the city government, and it is his duty to enforce the laws of the city, but with us the opposite seems to be the rule, se., the Mayor begins Dby violating the law for his own per- sonal gam and benefit, and continues so to do throughout his entire ad- ministration, and when confronted with the facts, doesn't deny that he has deliberately and knowingly violated the law, but says the city has not lost anything by the trans action; therefore, is not to blame.
 I made an error in stating the ac- count of the Hon. D. c. Bell in my last article. Bell received, as rent, for the first year of his time, $120; for the second year of his term he received $240, making a total of rent for his term, $360. 1 had it $480, and it appears as in this, like every thing else, Goldsmith has raised the boys a little bit.
 The history of the account for supplies, as revealed by the city's record, is an interesting one, and I shall in my next give you the vari- ous amounts, to whom allowed, and draw some comparisons.
 "Fair Plays" allusion to Gen. H. King White might be answered by the same plea made by Flair Play in a certain lawsuit in which L. L.. Thompson was plaintiff and "Fair Play" or some one near of kin to him, is defendant. That is, the Statute of Limitation.
 TAXPAYER.
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The "Cheap John Printer.

While in Chilcothe few weeks ago we overheard "Cheap John" printer trying to secure Q job of printing from a prominent business man. The c. J. had informed him that he would print a certain lot of stationery cheaper than he was pay ing for it to the homo printers, when he received this rebuke: "I do not care if you can, you could not print it for me if you did it for noth- ing Our newspapers are the best friends our city has, and they can do my printing as long as 1 have any to do." If the business men of Breckinridge adopt the same prin- ciple, 1t would not be long until we could put in new press and enlarge and make better the paper that is an advertisement of our town every week. Send me a copy of your paper is tho request received almost every week from parties of whom we. have never heard, located any, where from California to Massachu- setts. -Breckinridge Bulletin.
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On s.LoolSing Pleasant"

Amability and eyonness of temper are among the most essential quali- ties of a sane character but no man need simper continually to demon strate his sweetness.
 Ruskin says that allgreat generals have been serious men, and Emerson affirms the same or ali greatOrators. Tue distinguished Tom Marshall, one of the wittiest men who ever lived, bade his son observe that the public monuments are always erected to the solemn men; and Dr. Austin Phelps remarEe "Two classes Of men are r.se eans-very great men ans very good men"
 generally safe to leave the ex- l,ia.s. ion of ones face to take care of itself, and to devvte ones efforts mainly to the formation of charac- ter. If a man really busies himself with weighty affairs, reads tte funny papers" only in moderation and as a sort of intellectual desert, avoids the journals which treat flip panty of public questions and great national and moralmoyements, and tries ihce sanity to find truth and pursue 1t, he will usually have an ex- pression which, matches his character hut the eminently social and kindly man, though he may be good at heart and not silly in mind, must be on his guard lest people despise, not his youth, like Timothy's, but his whole mental and moral endow- ment. if he wears an habitual smilC for the conclusion of the old poet voices the instinctive feeling of al man kind:
 Eternal smiles butemptiness betrag As shallow streams run dimpling al
 the way ''-Leslie's Weekly.
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TIE MEXICAN MISSION
One Of the Most Profitable Appointments
 wIthIn the Gtit af the PresIaeut.

One Of the Most Profitable Appointments
 Within the Gtft aF the President
 
 The Washington correspondent of the Memphis Commercial-Appeal writes that paper IS sfollows.
 The Mexican Mission. which is con eeded to Gen Powell Clayton, of Arkansas, is the most profitable ap- pointmeHt within the gift Of the President, and the report that Gen. Clayton declined something better in order to secure it must be taken with a great deal of salt. There is probably more distinction attached to the English OF the French mission, bat not one carries such q possibility ofproft. The salary, $17, 7,500 is as large as any paid by theGuvernment with the exception af the Presidents remuneration. Messrs. Bayard, in Great Britain, Eustis in France, Uh ih Germany and Breckenridge in Russia, receive q similar income, but in every case their expenses are far greater. Aside from the proximity of Mexico and consequently smaller trayeilfg expenses, if costs just about half as much to live there as it does in this country. Ex-senator Ransom, now onr minister there in a conversation with Senator Berry upon the occasion of recent visit to Washington, made this plain when he said that prices of necessities in Mexico in Mexican money were prae- tically the same as in the United States, and since the Minister is paid in American dollars, which are twice as valuable as the Mexican dollars in that country, it is easy to appreciate the desirability of the mission from q financial standpoint.
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HON. H. A. HAssLock.
He wln Probably Get Van Folks Place as
 Consul to Calcutta

Hon. H. A. Hasslock, ex-President of the Tennessee Press Association, and one of the cleverest Republicans within the confines of this or any other State, will almost certainly get Van Folks place as Consul to Calcutta.
 To use a street phrase, MT. Hass- lock practically has ''sinch" on the job, if all reports are true.
 The rumor that MT. Hasslock is to leave HIS for. the far-away East Indian land, became noised about yesterday, and many were the con gratulations received by the genial Nashyillian. That he is in every way qualified for the responsible place of Consul goes without saying, and, while "The American and MT. Hass- lock have never agreed. in a politi- cal way, it joins ill hoping for his early appointment and prompt con- firmatioii.
 MT. Hasslock was seen by an "American" reporter last night, and questioned about the rumor, but s.he declined to either deny or affirm it. Nashville American.
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Master Workman Tate,

Of the Ancient Order of United Workman, arrived in Pine Bluff, and will, tonight, deliver a lecture in the Circuit Court room. The public is cordially invited to come and hear this distinguished gentle man. He is an eloquent speaker and is the head of the A. o. U. w., which has a membership of over 360, 900 iE America. The lecture will begin about 8 o'clock. This after noon the visitor is being shown many courtesies by prominent mem bers of the order in Pine Bluff.
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AN ACCIDENT AT BISON.
II Brkeman Emmett Has an Arm and Hand Crushed Under the Wheels of an
 Enpfpa.

Fred Emmett, a Cotton Belt brakeman, met with misfortune at Rison Tuesday night that will maim him for life. He was riding on the pilot of an engine while the engine was switching some cars to side track, when in some manner the un- fortunate man was thrown or fell, and the wheels of the engine crushed one of his arms and hands in a hor- rible manner The wounded map was brought to this city las night and given surgical attention. The sur geons did not amputate Emmett's arm, and they have slight hope of saving it.
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1 DISASTROUS WRECK AN AWFUL CATASTROPHE CAUs- ED BY AN BEREAVEMENT GIVING WAY IN
 INDIANA.
MANY PERSONS KILLED.
It Is Impossible to Get the Names of the Unfortunates as They Are shll Buried in
 Water.

EVANSVILLE, IND., March Il, ls97.- The most disastrous wreck that has ever occurred on the Terre Haute railroad happened yesterday morn ing between F and o'clock as the train known as the Midnight Gam non Ball from Chicago was coming south over the road.
 Recent rains have had terrible ef- feet on the road bed and the entire service of the road has been engaged since last Friday in getting the road in shape for travel t was pro- nounced safe last night. and the train service resumed. All tfains had orders to proceed cautiously OF slow time for safety, and the train that was wrecked was coming on under these orders At q point three quarters of mile north of Hazleton the embankment suddenly gave way and the engine, baggage cur and part of the smoker went down. The engine turned over but the baggage car remained upright. The smoker hung over the abyss. Engineer Me eutcheon escaped death, but his fire man, Joe Boleman, waskilled. Con ductor Sears. of Terre Haute, who was in the smoker. was also killed
 It is reported there were fifteen passengers in the smoker All of these were killed. 1t is Impossible to get their names, as they are still in the wreck shortly after the train went down the ereyasse spread, and it is now loo feet wide.
 The baggage car and smoker which contains the ill-fated passen- gers, floated off into field.
 Where the accident occurred there was long stretch of embanltment upon which the track was laid sur rounded by the backwater from White river
 It is supposed ground hogs had burrowed under the embankment to get away from the flood and the wa ter followed, making the accident possible.
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ADJOURNED,
THE LEGISLATURE ADJOURNED
 SINE DIE AT NOON.
Not Single Appropriation Bill Passed, and an Extra Session
 Will Be Called.
Special to the Graphic:

Special to the Graphic:
 LITTLE RooK, March 1.-The State Legislature adjourned at noon today, after session of sixty days, which brought to close the biggest farce that ever attracted public at tention at the State Capital, for not single bill of any particular i'm portance was passed and the appro priation bills which made provision for the conduct of the State Govern ment and charitable institutions anu several important bills that had passed ono branch but not tho other, were allowed to die on the calendar. This will necessitate call on the part of the Governor of an extra session, at an increased cost of mileage to the State, and thereby make this Legislature the most ex- pensive that has been held in the State since the adoption of the pres ent Constitution.
 The Senate caucus to nominate Q Lieutenant-Governor last night was a miserable iasco, and resulted in no selection being made. This morn ing at II o'clock Senator Quarrels got the floor and held it until time of adjournment in order to prevent the Senate from electlpg President pro tenn. The failure of the Senate to select will result in President Moose holding the position until the expiration of his term in 1898.
 In the House this morning Repre- sentative Andrews held the floor from an early hour until the time of adjournment in a discussion of the Worthen bill for the purhcase of a county convict farm, and prevented the passage of that measure.
 Just before the Senate adjourned Pres. Moose was presented with Q handsome gold-headed cane as a testimonial of the respect and esteem of his fellow Senator's.
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OUR NEIGHB0RS.
DALLAS COUNTY NEWS. aFrom the FordYce Chroniele.l


 Mir Hugh Fox was down from Pine Bluff Monday.
 Rev George Richardson has tied the nuptial knots for eight happy pairs during the past season.
 We are sorry to learn that Mir. W. A. Bryant, one of Fordyee's first set tiers, is dangerously i'll.
 Mr. Wiley J. Bunn's short hand school opened Monday night with q fair attendance and is starting off nicely.
 Presiding Elder, J R. Moore, preached an interesting sermon tt the Methodis Church to 8 large audience Sunday.
 Mir. E. A. Acruman is having his vast domains south of Fordyce set in bermuda grass, and will convert them into a stock rancho.
 Key. J. M. Brown left last night for Warren by way of Pine Bluff, where he will stop to hear Dr. Pear son. the noted evangelist, who is conducting an interesting revival in the last named city.
 The Governor has pardoned Frank Gray for carrying q pistol Christ mas, at which time he got into seri- ous difficulty. The petetion for par don was signed by many of the best citizens of Calhoun County and Cam den.
 Rev ]. NJ. Brown returned recently from the drouth stricken district of this county. He says that the white people live after style, but that the negroes are actually suffering. i Thomas Smith says he put in six acres of oats in one day with his disc plow, which is six times as much as lie could have put in with one horse blow, and the work was done a great deal better.
 Mr. Clark, of the Bell Telephone Company, has been in town several days negotiating for the right ol way for thir new line from Pine Bluff to Camden. Tie work ofputting up the poles and wires, we are told. is under headway, and the line will soon be completed to Fordyce.
 Mir E. L. Hodges, a well.known Jeweler of misplace, and Miss Fannie Barnett, the beautiful daughter oi Mr. Wm. Barnett, of Kinrsland, were united in marriage in that place las: Sunday. Mr. and Mrs Hodges ar- rived on the South-bound passenger Monday, and will make Fordyce their home. MT. Hodges is an en- ergetic young gentleman, and has 1 done q good business and made many friends since he has been 1T Fordyce, while his bride, though still in her teens, is accomplished and comes from one of the oldest and best families in the State.
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WAKING THEM UP.
Rev. Plorson Arouslng sinners and Chris
 tlana to the Consequences of Sin.


 Rev. Plerson Arousing sinners and Chris tians to the Consequences of Sin. That the services being conducted at the First Presbyterian Church will result in much good, there is no question. The Rev. Pierson, who is conducting these services, in an earnest, impressive and forcible manner, is showing up the evil effects of sin, and urging his hearers, in the name of his Master, to purer and better lives; and his words are going home to hearts of the people. There is no resisting them. His words are clear-eut and his reason ing is so logical and true that the most skeptical is forced to believe.
 His congregations can not grow larger, because the seating capacity of the church will not admit of it.
 On last night every seat in the church was occupied. The able divines subject was, Coming to Jesus, taken from 9th chapter and 39th verse of John. It was ably handled, and the impression for good made upon the hearers will be abiding.
 The ser vices being over, glori- ous after meeting was held, at which several came forward and confessed Christ, and a large number of church members reconsecrated themselves to him.
 The church was also full this morn ing (Friday) at II o'clock services. pr. Pierson gave an expositorY ser. mon on the 10th chapter of John and first thirty verses.
 The subject for tonight's sermon will be, Christ Reeeiveth Sinners, and it is earnestly desired and hoped that every sinner in the city that can possibly do so will go and hear it, especially those who desire to become Christians. Go early in order to get a seat and avoid con- fusion.
 The music rendered at these ser vices is exceptionally fine. The grand pipe organ is one of the best made, and it is presided over by a musician who has few superiors as a performer upon the organ, and the sweet notes which issue in heavenly strains from the grand musical instrument are in themselves a sermon which appeals to the heart for good and carries with them the blessings of peace and purer and better thoughts. The choir is com pose of the sweetest voices and the best musical talent in the city.