The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-28
nc PASSING THR0NG.

1HE YANOItU lunUNU.
-, Eissefi. o. tie Oregon Rail
Navigation Company. has received
~ trarn ". H. Huribart. general
60 ard ticket agent, Announcing
-, Portland 10 Salt Lake Cisy,
~. arsirous Of attending the Trans
~ - - commercial congress. which
a. tne Mormon capital july II.
Ss'e.. has been gfyen as 80 70 for The
y -, Ard the sale Will be made on
49, 49,. .ygv TIE linfe being until July q
g .a~sr. Mayor Wood and President
~ s-,yss OF the Chamber OF Conn
80 been zxked 70 name dele
-. haas OF representation being
ps.. &c 5e appointed b. the gov
-, on< delegate 70 tne c''y' 70 DC
~ - err mayor. with an additional
sxises - -, es,ch 500 inhabitants. which
p xf.e Seattle fourteen rsayoraltY
100. and the CHAMBER OF corr
= siia,red a representative for
- .>n members. The governor ana
-.rs.rs Of congress are ex-of'Icio men,
ks .a.. - che congress-
~,e secure such national legislation
calculated 20 promote the business
$50. and development Of the states
- territories west of the Mississippi
-. 10 Increase reciprocal trade among
I.s a. d,scsass such questions as are
..,srsj,y suggested by It's objects: to
800 acquaintance. fraternai fesling
-. - sssrty cooperation among tie vari-
- commercial bodies represented.
=, f:rayss stated yesterday that nc
- :. GET named no delegates. and IL
-. s,.s stated that Mayor wood rad
.. n ~ not likely that Gov Rogers
- sl.az the OPPORTUNITY 10 pass. as ".
+ s-yan Il 10 preside.
ra,se the policy o. the congress is
.xsx4.ily opposed - the discussion Of
.ssase.s tbs. are purely local or political
: ssss, nature. it seems hardly possible
-, sas soar days 10 be devoted to bust
- ssss,ons car pass without the intro
Ss.son o. the silver question ia some
Msr.
fp Hoffman, an iiinerant photogra-
.syr vho Is al present tn this city. has
ssa,a the Chamber Of Commerce to APP
,sss committee 10 investigate a lying
r.fAins that be claims 20 have invented.
4, Hcsran says that his experiments
aass been carried on AT lSes.reDworth. on
~ LIE o. the Great Northern, where he
La beer taking some vSsws. The prgn-
,snss Eson which hs haa worked IS that
4 the aeropiane The theories involved be-
H. taexe which tbs people Of the Smith
snssn Institution have made practical. Be-
sSs bis system OF aeroplanes. SIR. Hoff-
ssn claims 10 have overcome the difficulty
a starting hy employing a motor charged
ssh compressed air. After an ascent has
No made the fans are kept in motion by
1 sssysng not unlike that OF the bicycle,
ne p.0pelling force being from tre9dles.
Re sssopanes are manipulated by lines
sgly operated by the rider. a rudder of
asssn.onai form directs the course OF tho
Machine. which Mr.. Hoffman says runs s
esaly with the wind as against Il.
lie Bel. OF the Bell Lumber Company,
II Everett. has prevailed upon the local
n5nssttee Of the iumSermen's excursion
sgn the East TO give the excursion Sew
So hours al the 'Smokeatack city" The
sis Of The Bell company. the paper
ssla 81 lowell and some OF the other in
krsxts u Everett Will be shown to the
sEiafs az examples Of the industries Of
I city that only few years ago was an
Eaanoxn factor in the development OF the
rSt Northwest. The local committee
sas decided to change a part of the pro-
efsmme after the excursion reaches the
essrd hy cutting out the steamboat ride
som Whateom 10 Seattle giving tia
tsdef tine TO an investigation of the tim
kf, lumber and manufacturing interests
IL the Sound country From rernrfz al.
saty received from Minneapolis. the ex-
sassoa unless for SOME unforeseen con-
tastncy. will hiring out between 300 and
" t1eufssonists.
TIE lumber and shingle car load ship
sssu frnn' Washington To points outside
ias state for the mo,-fh OF May wer. as
'o'losa: Lumber 7ls cars; shingles. ,s0s
7's very material increase over the
hns month last year