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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-27
THE PASSING IHRONe.

@. +. Bailey. Boston business man. ar
rived IN Seattle yesterday on a Kiondike
mission. the nature OF which he refuses al
this time 10 d!yuige. Mr.. Bailey. who ap-
pears TO be bright, up-to-date business
man. is guest At the Butler hotel Al
though he has been in the city less than
twenty-four hours, he is enthusiastic In
his admiration for Seattle. He said last
night:
Seattle Is held TO be the only real start
Ing point for the Klondike and Alaska
gold mines By the people OF Boston and the
New England states 1t is no exag-
gsration TO say that nine-tenths OF those
who start for the new Eldorado will come
10 Seattle TO purchase their outfits and Will
board the steamers sailing for the north
from this port The route most favorably
talked OF In Boston 10 that via Seattle and
the Chiikoot pass. although hundreds Will
prefer the easier route by way OF St
Michael and the Yukon river.
Il have heard IL estimated that 10000
people win pass through Seattle next year
on their way TO the klondike gold mines.
! am thoroughly and firmly convinced,
from personal observations I have made
In the Eastern and New England states.
that this estimate IN too small rather than
TOO large. II ID not taking into caicula-
ton the great number that will come from
Europe. South Africa and Australia. 10 say
uotnin8 OF the West ana the fac1Hc coast.
l cannot see how there viii possibly be
steamer accommodation for the thousands
who VIII seek passage to the gold fields.
On this account, / am inclined 10 believe
that many people who contemplate going
10 the mines will stop In Seattle and other
places in Washington and engage in bush
ness.
When left Boston. ten days ago. the
Alaska excitement was at its height. Com
panies were being formed daily and the
chief Item OF news was the Klondike. You
know that New England is always about
SO far behind New York and the rest of
the country. The people of the whole of
the New England states are adame with
the fever. 1t Is not a temporary rage with
them. but a firm determination cherished
by thousands OF New England men to go
In search of gold in the placer fields Of the
north.
Millions of capital In New York and
Boston IL seeking investment in the new
gold-producing territory, In transportation.
supply and trading companies, and in all
sorts Of enterprises tributary to these. The
representative of large and wealthy syn
dicates are now here In the West and they
will arrive here constantly from now on.
1T II predicted by well posted men In
the East with whom / have talked that
the Pacific coast, and Seattle in particu-
lar. will be the center OF great business
movement and enterprise during the next
ten to twenty years."
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A Missouri man aged 100 has taken unto
himself blushing bride OF II. Love is
never too old in Missouri to gum It.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-20

particular matter is that the ha'Sas N"'
police authorities disproved the charge
that oaicc-holdcrs are universally VI"
grateful and forge;ful Of favors ihese
authorities were pnt In Office. parity al
least. by women's votes. ana they were
very quick 10 acknowledge their ooliga-
tion TO the female constituency by eN-
tending the scope Of woman's rights 10
the extent Of their power.
IL IL true that in the Cast day or TWO
,his ocfion Of the Kansas city authori-
Ties has been rcsclnded But. In JUS
tlce TO Kanslan progress. and as
merlted rebuke TO the traducers OF the
state. the facts in the case ought to oe
given widespread publication. The kan
sas city progressionists and indicators
OF onice-holdcrs from the charge OF IN
gratitude were only little ahead OF me
woman's rights procession. That's all
we are free TO confess that down mere
I'm the South we are so old fogy that we
would not give any woman, no matter
how bad she might be. the privilege Oh
breaking rock on an equality with men,
and wearing overalls Yet. candor com
pels us TO recognize that the latest Phase
of equal rights Of men and women as IL
was sought to be developed in Kansas
city. was entirely I'm line with the logi-
cal trend Of a movement that would un-
sex woman
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-20

quiites attached thereto, good men -. 49,,
not be found, TO hold the ONCE ine
Office Of sheriff in Virginia, with f'w -
ceptons. Is not worth having; ana -.
us see II the city Of Richmond Is no'
benefited by the S6erifrs visits. me
writer has seen several sherins oil this
state IN We olden time who broush'
prisoners TO the city, here to remain lo'
several days making purchases for theT
relghbOrs; and on one occasion ihe
bundles and packages the sheriff carrieu
away from Richmond would have ilileh
an ordinary wagon. Ana this was gen
erallv the case. Every good man or
woman that visits the city helps anu
every dollar or even nickel spent Tor
s,reet-car ride f. Ike the Little drops
Of water. little grains OF sand, make the
mighty ocean and the beauteous lana.
Let the law be changed whether
started by II or 1900 Also change the
Iaw taking from the attorneys for the
commonwealth their fees. An honest
davis pay for an honest days work IS
The proper and best doctrine. There are
other laws enacted by the last Lfglsia-
ture equally unjust and obnoxious; laws
that trample down the rights OF the pe"~
ole and should b repealed. ] mean no
tersonal attack on any one, but merely
desire TO express my views on this SUD
iect which / think. when fully eX-
ulaincd. will be- endorsed by 20 per
cent. of the Democratic voters Of YIN
glnia. Respectfully. ,rrcr,
WM. II. BENERIDGE.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-20
rho Warm Strings valley.

WARM SPRINGS. BATH COUNTY,
VA. July l9.-(SpcciaL)-An important
movement towards permanent road I'M
provement has been instituted in TINS
county through the action OF the VIZ
ginia Hot Springs Company. This com
pany. by its president. Mr. Decatur AK
tel. appeared before the Board OF super
visors and said there were some roads
around the Springs which the company
wanted kept up well. as pleasure drives.
and they offered TO take these roads ana
spend $50 a mile on them towards I'M
proving them. Twenty-Five dollars or
this is to be given by the company ana
the other twenty-five to be furnished Dy
the county. The company agrees TO spend
every cent contributed on the roads The
amount expended will be about N,Jp
This expenditure. made under the Ju-
dicious supervision which Will be given
the work. will turn the present bad roads
into splendid highways. and when the
farmers see the benefits accruing 10
them from well kept roads II VIII be an
object lesson which VIII have more
effect than all the mathematical calcutta
tione and rhetorical descriptions In print
Friday night white man was brought
here charged with an attempt at out
raccous assault near MillbOro'
Sheriff G. +. Revercomb who for nine
teen years has held that office for Bath
county. resigned AT the last term or the
County Court. His son. \. G. ReYer-
comb, was appointed in his stead
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-20
srcAK AND TnE TARIFF.

Many newspapers are giving Speaker
Reed credit for causing the Senates
sugar schedule to be altered and i'm
uroved I'm the Committee Of Conference.
From what we have heard, we have
no doubt that it was he who furnished
The backbone TO weak members to in
duce them TO resist the Senate's eX&c-
lions. But for him Aldrich and his
crowd would in all probability have forced
The Senate rate through without the cross
ing OF a or the dotting Of an /. But
as IT was. the sugar senators were
soueozed into a compromise, but it is an
omen question II the trust hasn't got as
good terms in the compromise as II
had I'm the Senate amendment. Already
It IS being said that Reed has been
euchered by Aldrich!
IL is given out that the new schedule
is not so favorable to the trust as was
that Of the Senate nor so much tother
way as was that Of the House; but, all
the same, it is satisfactory to the trust.
In proof OF this fact, Sugar certificates
rose very high on Wall street yesterday.
Whether this was a bona fde rise or
was an exultant movement of the mil
uonaire holders, designed TO show their
contempt for Reed and the country gene
vally, we do not know.
The Democratic members Of the Con
ference Committee have been treated
very contemptuously throughout Nd
chance was given them to read the Con-
ference Committees report carefully.
The Republicans took all the time they
cared to have to settle their own diff
ferences. and when they had been sue
cessful in that they rushed the report
I'm TO the House and demanded immediate
notion. The excuse for all this haste
IS that on account Of the heavy importa-
tions now being made the government
is losing 100000 per day.
II this be a good reason, the Republi-
cans should have applied it to them
selves when they were wasting time. in
stead of applying it to the Democrats
Of the House. who only asked that the
debate might extend over two days.
However, the country will not be in
consolidate because the bill is soon to be-
come a law. Even the Senate is tired of
The discussion, and we suppose will not
care to debate the report very long when
its turn comes to act upon it.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-20
KANSIAN PROGRESS.

II is the habit of irreverent para
graphers and such like, who cumber the
fair and dienined field of Journalism, to
make all sorts of fun Of Kansas. which
they delight to represent as a wild woody
block Of semiSbarbarous territory with an
indefinite situation. and inhabited by
mossbacks and Bourbons.
Now all this warrants the presumption
of either malice or Boetian stupidity, or
Ignorance on the part of the cumberers
aforesaid. The facts are that Kansas
is one of the most progressive States in
the Union. and is the prolific mother
OF geniuses. not TO say freaks. in the way
OF statesmen and stateswomen.
Moreover, the tendency OF Kansian pro-
gress Is to so the full length. Kansas
is the stronghold of woman's rights. Not
only are women allowed to vote in NUM-
clpal elections in the State but Kansas
has been making constant advances in
the direction OF according the fair sex
all the other rights and privileges that
men enjoy.
Most readers may not know IT, but
there Is q Kansas Nlly III hdnsds, as
well as Kansas City in slow-going Mis-
souri,. and from the former one Of the
latest and most distinct of the advances
referred 10 was recently reported. The
police authorities Of Kansas City decided
that female prisoners who failed TO pay
fines imposed on them in the Police Court
should be sent to the rock pile. where,
under compulslon. they would have the
privilege heretofore confined to male de-
linquent prisoners. OF breaking rock for
use in ipacadamzing roads. Nor is this
all. The police authorities of Kansas
City. in their observation-disclosures. went a
step further. They also decreed that
while engaged In breaking rock. the
female prisoners should, under compul-
sion, have the privilege OF wearing that
part OF male attire which we are justified
in supposing a great many Kansas wo-
men wear at home, and which the decree
termed overalls.
still another evidence OF Kansian pro-
eress noticeable in connection with this
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-20
brave Men.

GTenry Walker I'm the oklahoma Annal)
Hraye men are they who push ana cllInD
Beyond old formulas, ... ,t,
While the ploddng ranks that serve Old
Time
Pull back for Times old ways; ...
strong mon are they who hold their OWN
on the outposts Of the new.
Til the world hath TO their stature
grown
And seen the false was true.
Hopoful were men who cast their lot
I'm the heart of a wilderness.
And-homesick-in their toll forgot
An old homes blessedUess.
Great faith had those Of an endless quest
Who marched tin the years were done
Then lifted their eyes 20 the gOldesJ west
And died in the setting sun.
How strong were these on the weary
road
How brave I'm the silent landi
What smiles bestowed 10 tighten inc
load $500,
That could never a teardrop stand!
What hopes saw they through drought
and flood?
Did they look i'm the future wide,
When their threats We're parched ana
their fevered blood
Ebbed fast with the ilnal tidef
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-20
LET TIE RAn ADVISE.

The PAPER Of the Hon. j. G. Parker OF
southampton. on the Virginia judiciary
system. which is to be presented TO the
next meeting Of the Virginia Bar Associa-
ton. ana which was published in fun in
the Dispatch Of Sunday, will. we believe
attract much attention.
For our part. we are disposed TO look
upon II as the first gun in campaign
which is to determine If Virginia is to
retain her present judiciary system, or
not
Mr.. Parker proposes that the county
courts shall be abolished, and that the
circuit courts (Which he would call dis
tlict COURTS. be increased in number, and
that. instead Of having Common
wealths Attorney for each city and
county. as at present, there shall be
one such attorney for each district
Many other changes he proposes, to
adapt the new system to our needs and
IN give us better courts and Common
wealth's attorneys than We have now.
And under the changes that he suggests
he figures out a net saving of tax
payers money of $4,000 per annum.
II the facts and figures produced by
Mr.. Parker are not successfully attacked
he will have in them strong popular
argument in favor of the scheme that he
fathers. As we have more than once
said. tho question is largely financial in
IFS bearings. If more than 100000 per
annum can be saved the taxpayers, and
our judiciary system can be improved
rather than injured, by the change, Mr.
Parker's plan ought TO be adopted. But
his plan is yet to run the gauntlet OF
criticism. and IT may be found that he
has been too sanguine in his calcua-
tions.
If would be well for the state Bar AS
sociation to examine the question thor
oughly and express its opinion candldly'
OF course members would not be free
from embarrassment in doing so. but
II would seem to be their bounden duty
TO advise the Legislature as to the best
course to pursue.
Virgina's situation is just this; We
must reduce expenses in order to pay .
per cent. interest upon our Century
bonds" SO far from an increase Of taxa
ton being possible, the people are de-
handing reduction Of taxation The
general belief is that our judiciary system
and our administration of criminal justice
are too costly. and it is quite certain that
at the next meeting of the Legislature
the matter of retrenchment VIII be
earnestly considered Quite possibly
constitutional amendments will be pro-
posed. so as TO throw upon the people
the responsibility of deciding for them
selves what changes should be made.
Thus many legislators who would not
favor the abolition Of our county court
system would be unwilling TO deny the
people the right to vote upon that ques-
ton.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-20

Richmond. Va July Il. 1897.
To the Editor of the Dispatch:
In your issue of the 10th, under the
heading, Attack on the Law" you give
Major Lynns views also. the views Of
the Roanoke World as to the law regu-
lating the removals Of convicts, etc. If
not asking too much Of your space, /
think l can show that Major Lynn is
mistaken IN his views as 10 the saving
TO the State and the policy of the law.
and further, that 1t is not 10 the interest
of Richmond and vicinity, and against
public policy that the present law
should stand. 1t is claimed that the
State saves 5000 per annum by the con-
victs being sent for by the penitentiary
guards. Well. let us see: II requires at
least two guards to do this work, the
pay Of each being at least S45 per month
Did Major Lynn add this i'm his cacula-
ton? i hear not because ne says that
it does not require more guards now
than it did before the law passed. II
this is so. then he either had too many
guards, or has not enough now. Another
item in cost follows from the fact that
when a person is convicted now. the
clerk has TO make up the record and for
ward the same to the penitentary, and
then the prisoner is sent for during
which time the State has to pay board
for the prisoner at the rate of - to -
cents per diem.
y circumstance showing that the law
is not the best Is easily demonstrated
from Charles City county: During the
June or May term of the County Court
one Ellis, a negro. was convicted and
sentenced TO six years in the peniten-
tiary. The Sheriff Immediately informed
Major Lynn. and stated 10 him that the
Charles city Jail was not safe. The
record had 10 be- prepared. and the prs-
oner remanded 10 jail. The next night
Ellis escaped. and the Board of Superyi-
sors have offered a reward of S25 for his
apr hension. in which reward the Gov
ernor joins with So additional. So to
get Ellis. the state pays an extra $2j
whilst this criminal is roaming at large,
depredating on the citizens. If caught,
he will perhaps BE- put bach in Jail 10
await the coming Of the guard and may
again escape. Had the Old law been in
effect. the Sheriff would have imme-
diately taken Ellis 10 the penitentiary,
and this much would have been saved.
Again is tn law wrong because If We
take from the office Of sheriff the per-
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-20
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Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-20

The New York Sun. noticing the COM
pleteness Of a new hotel, which recently
has been built in that city says that
it yet lacks one feature that has of late
been included in some Of the leading
London hotels. The London hotels IN
question now have women's smoking
rooms. and they were provided to meet
the demand that came from the daily
increasing number of English women
who smoke. 1t is recalled that several
Of the women's clubs in London were
recently very much disturbed over the
question as TO whether or not it was
best for the interests of the organiza-
lions to have smoking-rooms for the
members In some of the clubs they
were abolished, but in the majority they
were retained. The London hotels that
established smoking-rooms for women
and they are of the highest class-haG
TO choose whether the women guests
should be allowed to smoke in the
ties. or in the Railways. ana it was de-
cded that the smoking-room was the
only solution Of the question, as many
of the guests hesitated about indulging
themselves in a public part Of the hotel
Men are admitted with women but they
are not allowed to come in alone. As
another instance of the growth OF cigar
cite smoking among women in England
the Sun cites the case Of the titled
Austrian at the Duchess of Devonshire's
recent ban, who smoked a cigarette in
the diningroom after supper.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-20
BEAUTIFUL LAKESIDE PARE.

Richmonds charming suburban i'
Take comfortable electr.c-car at t
and Broad streets. through "..+
change In q minutes 70 Lakeside.
Reached also by the superb Brook
pike. the best road FOR riding of'
and Cycling. Rowing and fishing '2
lake. The casino can be engaged i'f '''
yate dancing parties day or evening
A r6gulatlon-slze Bowling Alley %
large herd OF tame deer. ana very '-''
collection Of waterfowl. domestic '
foreign.
The Menagerie includes many pm,
cimens OF animals a cage OF moiN'''
please children. r.-
Admission. cents; children u'
free. No charge for admission 80.
T.. NJ. No colored persons. eAee"
and coachmen. admitted. .,.,.
The Lakeside Inn ana Gaze. VIZ. 80.
nl.te and nrst-class service. Tor I,'' ND.
ments. az city prices. Parties serN,1
oreoAAS~-ba- '1l'S'''V'''' j. 9-tsei
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-07-20

The friends of General Fitzhugh Lee
say that when he returns from Cuba he
Will enter into active work preparatory
TO making the race for the United States
Senate against Senator Daniel Lee has
become very popular in his State since
he has waved the American flag with
such ferocity in the face of Weyier His
course there has been a popular one
throughout the country, but whether 1t
has been of sufficient popularity within
his own State TO enable him 10 defeat
Senator Daniel is exceedingly problemat-
ical. There is disposition on the part
Of all Virginians to let him remain in the
Senate just as long as he desires.-Wash-
ington correspondence of tho Atlanta
Journal.
The writer of the foregoing paragraph
IS mistaken. Lee viii not be a candidate
against Daniel; nor will any other
Democrat be. 1t is conceded that Daniel
win receive the unanimous vote of his
party for reelection.