The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-02-28
Illinois Farmers Come to Wash
lngton to Locate.
TIRED OF TAXES BACK EAST
First Car of Northern Pacific fmmi =
grants tn Arrive Under the New
schedule at Rates-Nin Go to
Nhateon Goanfx-afher Parties
Coming in the Near Future
All af Them Want to farm.

TIE first - sfse Ssa.ciai irus1lsFag.l tour
TT sscgrsisas from tae East Arri.e4 v31
the Northern Pacific yexsesaay- The eaar
a 'oufssc Sleeper. Contained thirty people.
.raen. wognFa and children who cuaae fran
Georgetown, III. and are baand Tor " hat
Cos0. near which pace Trey slI settle,
taking ~ land or settling GA land alreaty
acquired
THIS IS the psareer party Of farmers sor
tFse Northwest brought out auieT the sRs-
En4gra si0n rates lately uaaae BY fhe West
ern roads Today and ieneTroW RIVE ad-
clilosasi parties viii arrive enc 81 twenty
six peepse srom Indiana, who VIII scattss
over the state from this point ard an
Other party Of seventeen fvcn Qcincy
aa shsch VII 80 10 WhAteom and there
separate.
The pioneer party Is in charge of J. W
Richardson, HE vas seen last nght in
the car wher. the immigrants. ssgre-
gated into families. were slowed away as
comfortably as the traditional bag III a
rug"
We have had pleasant. safe and quick
Journey said Mr. Richardson, and nil
members OF our party are well. We c0gne
20 the Northwest 10 farm Mes; OF Us
aase frienGs here IN Washington. and we
are al. either land owners nov or lnter-
ested IN the holdings II people who are
settled here
II asnuses US 10 have people commiser-
ale us on account OF the bad weather. Why
This weather Is q revelation 10 is. We see
the grass growing. pis working IN their
gardens and fields, wsen back home where
We come froin rfe s9i Is frozen six inches
deep and not "a spTtz o3 anything green
60 be seen. We don't ca,l warm rain like
this bad weather, and besides Il ASn't rain
ing very hard. II this IS your worst
weather otYt here IN February. " are more
than satsf with Il. Wig. we've beeg
so hot In ihe ear tonight Ne have put cut
Tie Ere in tsls Etoge
Why did come Wess2 Well chiefly
because farming 80 longer pays in Illinois.
Indiana and other states IL the Ohio ani
MISSISSIPPI valleys Crops age usually
poor. prices bad ana taxes high All our
party are working people. TheY have nos
come West expecting 10 ana J lana Of milk
4nd honey waere no man need work Trey
have enc and al came prepared 10 Dig
living oa' OF the soil bat they believe II
viii be easter work here AID pay better
thsn hack East.
We banded together and paid j uniform
rate Of 81 eash for our psssaes. This ear
was furnished ~ without bedding. ans we
h,fe3 i Up 70 sail ourselves. For food we
brought almost everything for a week
Journey already cooked. bat We have
and coffee AMI cooked various Thugs as
We wanted them. The plan Under winch We
Travelled cat here Is as excellent one, ard
We are well satisfied
We met with one delay only coming uyi
and that 9as ghgn CUR engine ran isfo a
sork. The brakeman had 10 walk eight
miles 10 Sot a mex engine. and ~ers
delayed three hours iGst long enaMgh 20
make ~ miss nNr connection ia Seattle Sat
NE haven't minded gbe Decay AT al We
got IN al noon eEd t1.S afternoon and even
Ing the majority ~ the party took a look
around Seattle
You certainly have busy town here
very busy. il seems to us. of course
we can only guess AZ how we are going
f.s ffsEs E1tff hfakf fsrf-
pacialions are realized there Will be hzIas-
dreds follow In our footsteps. THE whole
uf the Ohio valley ~ ready 10 imm5grate.
providing they can make a good living
oat here bgt thf cautious ones ar@ bold
ing back 10 how Ne folks do before
they give up ana come out here 80 make
usw homes
Another thing that DELAYS tmnisra~
tion Is the Ina aiitY % people "a dispose
OF their property or their interest under
the mortgage, LEA their property at any
clean up back tAere-tast is the hrr3-
working snail taFmers~tkey wll come
west The proposition offered IS 10 bun-
ko business. We kuuw that for We AsNe
had people look into things before we
started.
u believe there Will ~ 4 large colony
az Eastern farmers settle ~ Washington.
We know nothing a.sol3t mirliiA ausl. oat-
side ~ fow IF the yottaH@tef~. q 3nr of
So expect 70 pick 0p u fortune ~Xoep, ~
ii,lfng she sell That Is wss0s we tsn*
west for end IL avsTN tAin< tnrns cat as
weN as the prospect ~ Uisi ~ more tran
satisfied with ihe shanre"
The Richardson peEty ~ia leave for
WhafC0rn this fnofnar&