The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-21
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49,
s6Sen. Tor Seattle Is growing 30 important
~ me IL dividing the honoTs."
41fu expresses the nrst impressions Of
u - Henry c. Keller, who has recently
Il 1erea from Leavenwofth. KanaaS to San
Tsaneisco. where he succeeded d. A. 1pen-
~. foxmeriy Of Seattle. ~ general agent
-, the Pacific coast Of the Wes,chester
FIrx Insurance Company. He is now at
- B.tler in the course Of q tour CT his
s~rrftory. and yesterday fell In with Col.
= 4. Hamilton, who was an old friend
. = IeayeuWortiT but whom he had not
6 - for % years. The subject o1 con-
& s~enatton naturally changed to Kan
~ and Mr.. Keller said:
aeuch people as Mrs. Lease. who In the
elermy petrol Of western politics. succeed
e il esecting a full retinue OF Populist
ssaf1 officers once. At the next election
~ Republicans beat them and We
shousl,t the PopulissS were buried deep,
nj last fall by q combination with the
Teuocrats and Silver Republicans under
Rrvau's free silver banner. they got in
- eaddie again. But Popuiism 10 the only
fhlnr that Is the matter with Kansas. The
eroducsions this year viii be over s1o.-
MAD ard we have paid on $5o.0oo,00o Of
mortsages The banks have become SO
eiutted with money that number Of them
wrots to Bank Examiner Bradshaw ASK
& fns II they could refuse deposits. The high
0rice for all cereals surprised the farmers
Ths GrSt thing they did was to pay Off
thsir mortgages and they win probably
- the surplus Ia buying stock and i'm
{ 1foying and charging their farms."
.yrill they keep out Of debtg' asked Col.
{ HAMILTON.
will they?" answered Mr.. Keller. "The
average farmer viii get up at midnight
q sign note for something" Then he
! ecnitnued: Kansas City. under the
slmuIus Of the great crop. IL growing and
thriving and nearly every town in Kansas
proesesDua"
Although II would hardly be fair to say
TINT they came West on the crest of the
8 Xlopdike wave. Gen. and Mrs. John r.
Lewis OF Washington City. are now tenn
s peg1ry II not permanent residents OF WASH
ineton state. and Of the city OF Seattle
primarily because they are interested In
ihe gold discoveries in the far north. Their
3 son, Harold r. Lewis, a promising young
msH. h preparing to go to the KIondike.
q are also Gen. Lewis nephews. Edwin l..
Preach and W. G. Bolton. The Lewises
aEe living In the Thomas home In West
eeattle. and are greatly delighted with this
city. Gen. Lewis was colonel In command
u the Fifth Vermont regiment at the
battle Of the Wilderness in May. 1854. A
Sebel's bullet took on his left arm, and the
colonel laid OF for while I'LL his arm.
or what was left OF IL. got we'll Then he
was ordered to other duty In the service
: Of his country. and later saw the grand re-
view o. the Union army at Washington.
He was afterward sent South on duty as
m army officer and relieved Gen. Fisk at
NASHVILLE. Gen. Lewis lived nearly thirty
years In the South. but now calls Washing
Ion City his home. He Il on the retired
list.
Mrs. Lewis liz one OF the Vice presidents
s.H&t al rf A. -
other vice presidents being the wife OF ex-
j yire President Stevenson and Mrs. Hearst,
& widow of the late senator from California.
She h greatly interested In the work.
Harold Lewis and party expect to 20
over chiIkoot pass to the klondfke early
In February. Messrs. Watson and Rooms.
Of West Seattle. Will be members of the
Lsxis party.
Al ono Of the advance guard OF some
80 miners and mining men from Cripple
Creek. Colorado bound for the klondike.
i Nj G. 8. Deshon arrived here a few days
ago. He win stay In Seattle for the
winter and with his wife will 60 to paw-
son In the spring. He says every one who
can get away from the great gold camp
Of Colorado will pass through and OUTFIT
here for the northern gold fields in the
spring
NJ. Dcshon Is the owner OF claims I. 2.
J. 4 and on the gold belt OF Cripple
creek, adjoining the famous Independence
mine owned by the great mining niagnate.
w. 6. Stratton. He says many hundreds
Of thousands OF dollars will be invested
In the Yukon country by Colorado mining
men. Seattle. ne says. will be their
starting and QUILTING point. Mr.. Deshon
: believes Seattle Is lucky town for him.
ana that II he can carry the luck that he
nae had here into the Klondike country
ne viii get one OF the richest claims In
me district. He dropped nickel In a
not machine and rung Up royal flush,
emitting him 10 SO for his nickel. ''fli
stay with a town that gives me such luck"
said he. Mr.. Deshon II gentleman Of
hs1e means and expects TO outfit thirty
Eea here for the Klondike n the spring.
Labor Is rather scarce, although we
can get along all right his year. SAID W.
A. Miller. OF ST. Paul. labor contractor for
the Northern Pacific railroad. who In AT the
stevens with his Wife and two children.
hui next year you VIII not ind enough
70 supply the West. We cannot get good
white labor. for the men will not stick, so
nave put In 80 Italians on the Northern
faeiilc. great deal OF labor has been
drawn or 10 the harvest fields and TO the
eouth, where considerable railroad work is
xong on. The best men we can get arc
I'a'ans. Swedes. Firms and Poles. The
e~edes viii not stick and the best men are
.he finns They are hig. husky men and
10 good work. When they begin drinking
snes VIII rot quit til their money In gone.
oat When they start work they stay at IL.
.1isn iaeof Is played out. except little In
the South"
PERSONAL.
,Gcorgs l.. Rice. Of Juneau. Is At ths
Northern
,.Mr. A, u. Warner. OF Everett. Is visiting
H'enis in the city,
Harvey l.. Dickinson. Of whatccm. Is
an arrival az the Rutler
~ Pladnek. Of Langley Is. c.. is among
me arrivals nj the Diier.
~. y. Harrison the newspaper man OF
s'uuhs Vernon. Is at The Diiicr.
MARX 7. kady, an insurance man from
rnFfiand. Ia At the Rainier-Grand.
Mr. and Mrs r w Baker, OF Fair
hsVen. are guests at the Stevens
~ y Psige. Of Yokohama. arrived In
we CITY yesterday and Is at the Diller
MS c. ". Cary and Mrs. c Carlson.
!. ramonds are in town. eglstered at
TIE stevens.
r, q. EastNgck, the engineer. came to
,.'sn from Admiralty Head yesterday and
y al tie Stevens.
Mrs Radcliffe Triton, CT Tacoma, was
= as"h yesterday and registered az the
sunderland.
ac seattle Coal Il iron Company al iSss-
ssaa . N town. guest a, the Stevens
Mis-: Mss L. NJ. Williams and Miss NJ N
sn,,Whs, or New York, are al the Rain
cen "s "''"V i'"'" ""aA-