The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-07-21
|TaE PASSING THRONG.

49,
1910 to govern and Coy. Franklin WHO
...~essded ex-lov. Hughes about q year
go ,.s- .,,ougt,.
- ,4soza? e. he queriec- oh. yee, We ar
.-t,fng along finely. The heavy rains oa
- season made the ranges good, the c'~-
= ,ss fat and the cattiemen are making
=, II money. We ere 10 have ne* set
rssr,sterial judges pretty sooa. but Gov.
rvzak;in Is YET holding 20 the state
go. Ihavs been travelling out OF the
.s,ystory for & number OF years. bus
~netiues wait 70 gGs back 10 mining
sss.n. Ia the old days | was connected
- the Consolidated California and Viz
-. mines liz California, and this CloT-
~. excitement rather puts some OF the
Htfe-
A. some sparring. Mr.. Ford was
Id back &c Arizona. Now. at Bis
I've are doing g ggcaS deal OF work
me is lively; they are both copper
4ps. bu, the Globe, ella Valley &
frzneyn railway. which Is bound for
ssmsnce and Globe. other mining towns. is
: = xssnastln al present. This does not
.eeet either OF tie Two towns, however.
q they are booming in great fashion.
r. Atchlson. Topeka IL Santa Fe people
slg soon build from Phoenix into Flor
snee and that toxin, near which Is tho
"a ard famous Silver King. Is &aiting
o1ly tor that To start on an unprecedsat-
a boom Jerome Is progressing. and The
eynsrs are putting In new machinery.
psarce mine. in Cochisc county. which was
prrchased about year ago by w. X.
rsssbanks. Marshall Field aud Others
sroru Chicago for ST.. 900. is now one Of
,hs most valuable mines in the territory.
fxS months ago the purchasers refused
sM5uD which was offered by q French
sxoaicata. But, suppose, since the cloa-
sxxe strike foreign capital viii not care
for Arizona again wes sir. Ford steer
ed back 10 Arizona, this tine with more
sisrcuity, The La Fortuna. down tn
Yuma county, owned by Charles ID. Lane,
OF Angels Camp, Cal, the man who con-
tribetes 30 largely to the Bryan fund In
the last campaign. Is doing well. Recent
w. they struck IL rich again. They have
never been out of ore. but IA they so
down II is becoming richer. Near Yuma.
too two men have found another mine
IN the s. IT,. mountains. II Is only ten
fee, deep. but they refused 81, 10000 for II.
Az the same time I think that the Clon-
dyke Is even richer than But IL wa
too much The next moment Mr.. Fore
was talking 10 The eircumambient es-
gence OF souls agone.
II NJ Tidhaii, Of Lincoln. Neb., the
hcrns Of William Jennings Bryan, was at
the Hotel Dil,er yesterday. Mr.. Tidbail
T. a prominent lumber merchant of Lin
coin. and has ;:;=t completed n trip
through the Northwest. The result OF IT
r. that he will hereafter buy his lumber
through Seattle. Until recently he has
been doing business with Gray's Harhor
raarchats. Mr.. Ttdball saw Bryan at
Sacramento.
We think a good deal of him IN our
town." he said but IL is a matter OF
civic pride. We all think he will he u
candidate again. bu, very few of us think
re viii be elected. am very
favosahly impressed with Washington.
Seattle TO me il town witt. future.
I did not like California. Everything
seems dead and San Francisco. I think,
Is losing her grip. business conditions
here are much iiveIier. and even the veye-
,ation IL greener. This town. 7 believe,
Is destined to be a second New York. II
sl take time, OF course, but every man
10 here looks as IL he had enough 10 tide
over the waiting period. This Is my
FIRST visit to the Coast, and things may
lsok nyeiier to me: indeed she recent
rold strike may have someshlHg 10 do"
Firmly but politely Mr. Tidbalt was
s.esred of and asked about the Omaha
syposition. why. the national. state.
county and municipal appropriations ag-
Srssate $nn(co and we are bound ~ have
great show there. Congressman Mer-
Ger Il working like beaver. and ar
fragments are progressing finely In
sscs Nebraska IS In better shape tn DO
yzh things than she has been for long
eas Times are better. crops are better
rs all Nehraskans feel encauTag q.
IL JpAp.sffsrw..
zssed Weir. the Populist. lincoln, TOO.
IA better town OF course we have no
rsoa--' But MIR. TidbaH was alone.
Tsere may or there may not hc a great
deal In what Mime. Blavatsky and other
disciples OF the Nahatmas cal, thought
.ransferance, but most people who 80
through life with their eyes open know
shat any event Of great public Interest
has strange way Of impressing itself up
or the minds OF those who come within
the thought radius. Never a word may
Ne said Of the one important subject: 10
nay not he preached In any manner. but
sooner or later If the conversation extend
ever sny great length 81 tirne the Tx
sill veer and the subject pop up as dry
cork I'm a tub Of water. let 81 scandal stir
10 its depths some orderly community:
let sfma popular man die and the town,
Village or city talks about r.. not because
Ill Of them want 10 or because other
subjects lack interest. but because Of the
habit such things have OF in,rg6ing them
selves
TIE ciendyke gold strike is an example.
Yesterday the man who u1ingies with the
passing throng ala hts best To keep some
other subject unnormoS'. But despite his
Efforts ,he hest he could 10 was 20 fold
his notebook ana 30 away while they
commenced 20 talk of the place with the
name az dsae~entiai orthography.
Like 'R'rer Rabbit, which was good
roas'ea biiea Erred . any way yousc a
min ter cook 'tw" Def4 Harbsugh the
goniai manager II BE Rafnier-tSrans "a
telly good fellow under all circgm-
stances aaa ~ sil times But for a mo-
cent Yesterday - permitted The suave
Ans summerv smile - leave his dlmp}cd
thesks- ard during that one fleeing RIO
went he actually xzia damn" Not Il
lNed- excessive damn" hut fuss apiain
title insignificant ''tamn." They way ~
! VAS this: When the last batch ~ ex-
SafSiontst> cafne s1 Mr. Harbau9h haa
eat sixteen reofas. lie counted noses and
i.upt seventeen peop'e. And every ona
" ihegn had - have A separate room.
mars easy satS Mr.. FIarbaugh.
How" sska3 STRIKER she clerk
Wen yoa've heard az the cid woman
haven, yoae"
Striker saiG ~"
wei she hao thirteen people e. pu.
80 twelve Toofns she rut tao i5 NJ. :.
- sAe Pa ihe CARA p NJ Q she fourth
- ana So on Gown uatu she rut
- '@eit@ IN NJ r. when she found
- Sc had ere yo n lett over 50 shN