The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-16
THE PASSING IHR0Ie.

0ueA eommen1 hAs beea made annne
ponuctaMs ovW the present contest Sbr
gosefnce ef Ors9pR betveen . lawyer
Foonlsst and . Repnh1lean farmer. A.
TORY YIN ~ 0fl1pse, Of the Pfoneer
bu163nx. te1lu the xoz1oWtny story On Hen.
Z. Z. Gser. the Repubsican nominee, to
iiI01fx1te hts axrArian habits: "While .
sfudent At 0oGmouth many years ara.
] necali that our cla0 decided to hnvo
Hen. I. Z. Ger. then known - IL
young A3e Of the waldo h1is.' address
~ - the lead1ng orator Of the day duK5ng
ceMnence1ent week \ committee oe -
cen Vas app0dnted u meet him - the
depot AT that time Mr.. Geer was at TIE
heaght Of hi legislative career. and No ~
AOnmouth. who were not accustomed TO
the attire Of Salem sosons. expected in
Geer to nn& . conbinattcn silk hat-Pr.nce-
Albert orator. The train arrived. but with
out Geer. Student hopes were crushed
have 10 b Cancelled. While returning 70
tha campus with detected locks the com
Miatee 0et tan bony-loehing pleasant
fzced man with light mOustache. He Waa
clad tn gray ara wore 4 soft, brown fed-
ora hat A he approached with his
sWiAGfng fFee-and-easy stride he was re-
oGrissd BY oa5enite ~ our much needed
orator. Tbs 6Act Was Farmer Geer had
unhitched hia old brown mare from his
plew on his Waldo farm and had
ridden Over to MonmOush. some twenty o.
thirty miles distant The GRAFTON vas
excellent. ably delivered and enthusiast
ca1ly received b. all present
"Ar. Geer. although . farmer by occu-
patton II we'll known throughout Oregon
Is Iawmaker. an orator and forcefui
thinker and = writer on economic queo.
ttonA lbeaievs Ae wfll ~ elected govern
or az Oregon IN June By q solid majority,
ana l hope the students present on that
memorable occasion viii earnestly sup
port him In his campaign His name II an
earnest Of success for the entire ticket"
Deputy County Clerk J. p. Crawford
has received an interesting letter dated
March II from his son. J. n. Crawford,
who has been at Dawson for over a year,
In which the latter describes the scenes
which followed the arrival Of the long de-
iayed mails in Dawson early last month
The mail bags Crawford writes. were
taken into large building which had
been used for saloon and opened and the
letters sorted our alphabetically. Then
the locked doors were thrown open and
Al those Of the waiting crowd whose
names commenced With the letter A were
called upon to enter ana allowed TO look
over the package OF mail matter. When
they had claimed all their mail they were
unceremonioussy hustled out of the hack
~N~>S
Mr.. Crawford states that men stood n
line for hours waiting their turn to go into
the exfemportxed postoflce and that he
was uncertain when his turn would coma
to 60 In and look for letters from home.
as the system OF allowing each man to be
Ms own postmaster was slow one
The painted faced Individual. wearing n
straw nat and carrying miniature para.
soL who mas been riding an old ia shjoned
hixh-wheei bicycle and having a placard
/ on his back for advertising purposes
about the city for the past two months.
Is pronounced tn his belief that the pub
ns - tar from being sympathetic. On
ffoneer seuars yesterday afternoon. az
ne was giving an exhibition OF fancy rid
ing with one leg resting on tho handle
bar. he collided with a safety bike and
was thrown from his high position 10 the
pavement The younx man struck the
pavement with great force. with the re-
suit that hts face wore an expression OF
Intense pain from the bruises he sustain
ed. large crowd soon collected and Il
seemed that every person whose attention
was attracted by the accident gave vent
70 very Joyous demonstration. much 20
the very apparent disgust OF the victim OF
the accident. The lady who was riding the
safety escaped without injury.
Sheriff Esterbrook. Of whateo.p caun-
". was IN the city yesterday on the wsy
TO chehalA with boy. who had been
sentenced to the reform school. The
sheriff states that business in whaseon =
exceptionally good. and the prospects for
prosperous year are decidedly hr:rht.
Many new houses are being erected. ana
confidence seems to have been fully re-
stored
1T II foregone conclusion in DAVIS
that recorders oflices and police uosts
will be established NJ the mouth OF stew
art river. Little Salmon river and pe,iv
river" said W. A. I.anguiIIe. OF Portland.
who returned Sunday from Dawson
People In the interior are confident thar
those rivers will show up wei, ana n thew
do these Offices will be absolutely neces-
sary."
John Conrad. wei known saipbuiIdsr
from Milwaukee. has twenty-ore ship car
pensers ST work at Ballard on a steam
boat for Milwaukee gold dredxe mining
company. Secretary W. n Dean r~rorts
that the boat viii he completed hy May 4
CA0ToRIA
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