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The Washington bee., 1899-05-13

of missionaries to Asia and Africa
But is there not here a vast mission
field for effort and influence?
ALITTLE RECENT IMPROVEMENT
IN SOME STATES
The State of Mississi pi, Arkansas
and the CarolinaS, all need great re.
forms in this matter; out especially
| Florida and Georgia. Their forest
terpentine works and their phosphate
mines are often awfal spots, morally
and physically. louisiana is making
/ some special efforts at improvement.
| Alabama and Texas are perhaps bet.
| ter than formerly Yet prison chap
lain in Texas writes to Howard Asso-
citation (IS9S.) practically there has
been no advance in the lease system
of our convicts. 1t can only be an
evil.
GENERAL OPPRESSION OF
THE CoLoRED RACE.
The Howard Association has also
received, in connection with these sad
accounts of southern camps and chain
gangs, much information showing that
they form but one portion or still a
vaster system OF oppres ion of the
colored race generally in the South
ern States. The Voice Of Missions,
Atlanta, December, 1898 contains
long and terrible indictment of the
white race for the treatment of the
colored people since 1865.
Ii saws: 1.-The Cuban War and its
results and the American maSsacreS
are nothing when compared with the
the thirty wears of 'whitecapping,
chasing bv blooohounds, numbering,
burning at the stake, lynching, flaying
swindling, robbing, defamation of
character, injustice, false imprison-
ment and oppression, which the color
ed people of America have passed
through, and are still undergoing"
"This year 800 have been lynched and
murdered by our white Christian
friends and no voice but our own weak
cry has been raised in protest"
Many negroes were shot by the white
democrats in North and South Car
olina during the November elections of
1898 Re emily also, many unoffending
colored people have been driven away
from their homes and farms in the
South by violent and covetous white
neighbors.
The same journal complains of the
silence of the pulpit, both North and
South, respecting these evils, and re-
marked that even the United >tates
Supreme Court at Washington has
always turned scale against the color
ed race. Also that several of the
Southern States have disfranchised
the negroes by wholesale, III violation
of the Federal Constitution, whilst re-
turning them all as voters for the
purpose of their own proportionate
representation in Congress. 1t is
known that some prominent politician
and Legislators at Washington have
made large fortunes as convict con-
tractors.
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WHO WILL HELP.

The Voice Of Missions mournfully
remarks:-" here are no advocates of
human rights in the United States to-
day. Charles Sumner is dead, Abra
ham Lincoln is gone, Wendell Phillips,
Nm. Lloyd Garrison, Frederick DOu
glaS and Harriet Beecher Stowe have
all passed away; and with them went
the last great advocates of human
rights" This complaint is, however,
too pessimiStic.
Yet even the Society of Friends
(Quakers) in America, once the fore
most champions of the negro, through
their ]. q. Whittier, Thomas Garrett,
Isaac b. Hopper, Levi Coffin, Francis
L. King and other good men, have of
late years, become strangely silent
and apparently apathetic, as to the
oppressed race.
SELF HELP.
However, a people of twelve million
ought no longer to be mainly depend
ent upon or looking to others for their
own protection. They must now chief
ly turn to schemes of selfhelp-or re
main oppressed
THE PROBLEM.
An American correspondent of the
Howard Association wires (ISoo):-
he negro trouble has become so
great that, | fear, the difficulty can
never be settled but with blood"
The problem is indeed vast one.
and of pressing import to the United
States, both North and South. Is the
IhnStIanity of that great nation to re-
main lmpotent for the solution? Are
The colo rd people to be driven to what
now appears to be their only means of
rellef-by self-help, through imitat-
ing the methods of their adversaries
In the formation of Secret Societies
md powerful and compact, Organized
Unions, for defence and offence? 1t
Is only thus, that they can make them
selves what they must be, somehow
respected and feared as race ? But
what else are they to do. unless the
white race bestirs itself for other ef-
.ortS than continuing oppression
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BRUTAL CAPTAINS. "

Fearful brutalities are perpetrated
by these captains" in the lonely, re
mote places where many OF the gangs
are located, as in forests and mines
Sometimes oonvicts have been flaved
alive T! On one prisoners corpse forty
injury were found. He had been
literally beaten to pieces. Another
had been disgustingly dismembered
by kicks, and there was a great hole
gaping in his side. A young white girl
OF seventeen wears, after being repeat
edly outraged by the officers of the
camp, fled to the woods. She was
overtaken by bloodhounds. her
clothes stripped of, and she was then
fiogged in the presence of ieering
men. Another poor girl, similar treat,
ed, gave birth TO a child, but bo,b
mother and offspring were speedily
relieved by death. Women and girls
are habitually subjected to the gross.
est lndecenCies and exposures In
one camp was found woman who
had had seven children whilst there
and another had had six there And
such cases are legion
Christian America sends hundreds
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Second Ave. and James q.

has secured IN option on n body os ~
acres & timber north Of Pe-Eai.
I>1sd1nxnaua Bros. OF Pe-Eu. commersc-
q saving with their new mill this week.
New machinery they have adAed repairs.
&C. &C. give them capacity daily Of ae0i
George Mccoy. the Magazine mi. man
mas Just purchased powerful DONKEY en-.
4sne Tor use In logging near his miil
august Myer 4 Co, OF Pe-En. have
strsco a contract 10 put In 3.00e cords Of
place. $500
The Doernbecaer Manufacturing Com
panJ y putting tn boom In the CowIitx
Lver. Just above Toledo. 10 hold the ioxH
ihat are being cut fer the future factory
mere w the Cowiiiz. The company VIII pus
"a portable mill near the tSoom and cut
u2 the lumber Tor shipment 10 Chshaiis
Z. j. Russell has gone down on the Co
iumbia river. where he will do some lor
Efng with A. II. Roei. the cowlitz county
logger. near Astoria. Mr. Russell Is ore
Of Lewis ccuriy's mos. successful and ex-
perienced icsgerr. Mr.. Root has q con-
tract 10 furnish the Oregon City NJ Ger
mills with = quantity of cottonwood. spruce
and other timber.
II. l. Goodwin who recently returned
ftre from wisconsin after an ABSENCE OF
Two or three years. has purchased the
La .ssr mill, near Teiedo Mr.. Goodwin
VIII repair the plant ard increase lis ca
K city. lie VIII cut hardwood fer The
portland market and also, manufacture
cyclone building lumber for the Eastern
sdpmsnt. The latter lumber Is 4 pa.en, Of
Mr.. Goodwin's father, and this IN the first
factory on this coast for its manufacture.
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WASHINGTON. May l2--Capt- Ray.
who will be placed in command OF mill
tary district In Alaska. has been busy
about the war department getting every
thing in readiness for his departure, which
will take place In July. He viii sail from
San Francisco or Seattle with supplies Tor
the camp for one year. He expects to
establish his headquarters on the Yukon
at Mission creek which is near the bound
airy line There he will build regular
military station for the accommodation OF
his troops and supplies
Capt Ray VIII take two sawmfiis with
him to manufacture the lumber which will
be necessary for the new station, He Will
go by boat ty way of the mouth of the
Yukon river and will have ali his sup
plies taken in by that route.
Capt. Ray expresses no doubt as To the
practicabiiity OF the Copper river route.
which Assistant Secretary Melkietohn has
ordered established. and which viii be ex-
amined by Capt. Abercrombe. Capt. Ray
has a plan for the establishment OF sta
tons along this route. twenty miles apart.
placed In charge OF natives. BY this sys-
TEN he believes !; viii be- possible TO reach
the Yukon country a. all seasons OF the
year.
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IN THE STATE SUPREME COURT.


OLYMPIA. May l2-In the case OF the
Puyaliup Light. Heat and Power Com
pany, plaintiff and appellant. vs.. James
PENDANTS and respondents. the supreme
court made an order requiring appellant
To furnish new and additional appeal
bond.
The mandamus proceeding agalns, Au-
diior Cheetham 10 compel the issuance OF
warrants In payment Of the additional
salary for senate employees granted them
the last night Of the legislative session.
was today argued before the supreme
appearing IN defense Of Auditor Cheetham's
position that these salaries should not be
raised BY the senate after the labor had
been performed for a fixed price and as
James A. Haighi argued for the plain
sifs.
The record I'm the case OF State w.
George Webster the Spokane county muir
aerer. reached here today. and J. r.
Fenon. wehster's attorney. will file pc
ttton for rehearinE-
These eases wer. heard before the SUI
preme court today:
George NJ. fieiiar vs.. G. w. Young, IA
state treasurer. The case was brought
by Heiiar To compel Treasurer Young 10
return certain state warrants on the gen
eral fund marked mot paid fer want Of
funds: instead Of saying them. and -
intended "a test the constsiutionaltv OF
the law Of last winter transferring funds
.rufn the general school fund 20 the gen
erai fund 81 the state
The case ~ Winston vs. Rogers, as gov.
ernnr TO restrain the issuance Of s. 80
worth Of state bonds. the question eesng
az 20 whether such issuance does not ex-
eeed legal debt limit CT state.
otto HrinSxeid We. Burns 81 al. city
comm sSisnsrF az spokane.
ksnnear vs. Robert Bridges. THIS casa
lrvoive. ,'tls - large area Of tide lands
in trent 81 Seattle
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IN THE GOULD NURSERY.
jay GOuld's Grandchildren
CHARMING Little FOuka.

They are delightfully."- interesting chill.
dren. these little ones Of George J. Gould
An afternoon spent In their playrooms In
Georgian court, Lakewood the winter
home " the family. has left the happles:
sort OF impression on my mind.
To he sure. there was rather n formula
bic array Of governesees and white aprone,i
nurses In evidence. and the exquisite dain-
tinese OF the little girls frocks and boots
made childish frolic quite an innposs bilsfy
Yet they are gracious. anectionate little
hodies and must surely develop into wo
men OF charm and beauty. They have ffe
came dark. glorious eyes and hair tina,
their mother has. and q grace OF move
ment one rarely sees In children.
Such playroome an they have. The enc
tire floor Of one wing is given over TO
them. and shsre Is no end TO the pretty,
childish things that go 20 make Il a per
feet fatryiand. Little Marjory and Vivian
have dolls quite the sire Of real babies.
They were born on Christmas eve they
told ne, and have just recently been pat
into short clothes Then there is Lady
Washington, with a most elaborate white
couture and long trailing robes. besides n
dozen or more interesting specimens ~
doll nature both boys and girls. There
are The dasnfies. Of canopled cradles FOR
them TO Ise In and exquisite carriages 10
take the air In
Mariery II tu~ years old and Vivian
& They rnd giving horne matirees about
AZ mitch Gin anything. This to how
they arrange them; The goyerness plays
the plano while they dance IN ard out,
between chairs and drarer4es, Sometimes
ther. Is an audience. sometimes there -
rot-~shoa,xh the entire family Of dolls i'm
variassiY occupies the orchestra chairs or
s<rniEss Down from the tier % boxes 81.
ranged atop the piano ard over the Win
6nw iefge.
Young George. 3r.. whose third birthday
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PORT ANGELES EASTERN.



specia! Dispatch to the Pos,-Intelligeneer.
contract for grading on the Port Anse.es
railroad was finished today /, was under
contract 10 John y. Mcqueen and extends
from Francis street To point Just beyond
Ennis creek, distance OF 1900 feet Mr..
Mcqueen also has the contract for all
grading to q poin; beyond Morse creek.
which amounts 20 about two and a half
miles. which. including ali piilng and trest,e
work. viii represent seven miles OF road
bed.
The Van Norman Bridge Company has
been making nne progress during the past
week on the water front work In add
f!on 70 the contract for the 1000 fee. OF
piiing on RAiiyoad avenue. tnis company
has secured two other valuable contracts
One b for the construction Of a huikhead
and tressle near Francis street guch
feet. and the other IL for building 2eoo
feet o. cribbinG east OF Ennis creek Mr.
Van Norman states that 1000 piles Wi
approximately be required TO complete his
contracts. large raft Of them arrived
here the fore part Of the week from Sc
attic. and the company has now on hand
al that viii be required In hiling the con-
tracts
Vice President and General Manager At
the East Monday for the purpose OF buy
ing rolling stock for the road. He expects
TO return in about four weeks
Superintendent OF Construction Martell
left early In the week with force o!
engineers for the purpose Of investigating
pass through q mountain near the head
af Discovery bay. Should he be success
cbviate fouY-miie loop around the noun
tain4.
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has just gone by, has . playroom fun Of
imported animals and choo-choo carr: q
real engine pulls half q dozen coaches.
and trolley car fitted with gong ana con.
ductor's bell bowls gayly along when M
chubby finger touches the button. He
does not like TO have his picture taken.
and ran from our camera like . fright
ened rabbit.
Kingdom and Jay are II and 10. They
are ont OF doors from early I'LL late. play
ing marbles. ehinny and baseball. They
are quite clever at polo and have some
handsome mounts.
All the children are fond OF books and
music. their evenings being spent In lie.
tenlnE to French and German stories read
by their governess.
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| SEES PROSPERITY.
1x AMONG THE NEW INsTI-
rUTIONs TO OPEN.
nAlons for the P1sh1ng Sea-
Commence On = Larger Scale
$3.50 Any Previous Year. ana the
- Premises 10 He very Heavy.

~, plspatch ,e the Post -InteIl;gencer-
&zfNE MAY 12-There Is considerable
.ssreneni 10 be noted ali over whatcom
~ BIa.ne, as well az Whatcom and
Ssven. coming In for a share II Ii
seltattveiy stated that DR.. l.. W. Gund-
q wells. Mimi, who wAs here few
n sxo locking over the city with =
= investing. VII arrive cary next
- q open bank T, vii. be a private
NTH o capital OF $s0.0eG. He has
~ rpon In the Pike building and
~ some very fine fixtures. The bank
= upeneI before the 1st Of July.
a e3ectrfc iighr plant has arrived here
- MI be set up in the Monarch mill
n eperatec for general lighting In the
~ Young r. Williams cannery. sold At
80 sale last Saturday. Will be opsr-
n lis season. as will tia International
4 he latter Ii now the property Of
Observation-Disclosures bank. OF Seat
y Alaska Packsrs' Association has CON-
some additional buildings, which will
SnsteriaIiy to the value OF their already
Eoant
worth 4 Dunn are getting their traps
- viii be prepared 10 handle a big
BEGINNING with the spring salmon.
- viii soon start running, and contipu-
Enroueh the run Of the fall salmon.
ysax viii really be a prosperous one,
- reason that the coming season will
Suuch longer than usual. all canneries
glng to handle the spring. sockeye.
hack and cohoe runs.
Of tho most noteworthy improve
- n the Blaine canner!es this season
ffng made In the plant OF the Pacific
Enusst Packing Company. which In de-
= 10 Increase the capacity OF the can
4 10 400 cases per day. Blaine can. II
eosne. easily handle 1000 cases every
E1tng day. and In rush 400 cases could
f116od
ne additional building beng erected By
&1nmpany Ii intended for cooling room
aval be l30xl00 feet. To make room for
r. Chinese house has been moved back
= The Miller wharf.
~ Lindsey block, now the property OF
70 PIKE. the well known iishtrap man, ID
= covered with coat OF cement 10 pre-
- the brick. This building was erect
lm4nS the summer and fall or 1880 by
III Lindsey at q cost OF over t1O(G II
in fmposing three-stery building. Last
= \ vas bought by Mr.. Pike, ~ tho
= q series OF investments BY which
, demonstrating hts faith in Whatcom
~. His latest purchase 10 that of the
IGnrhAm Bay bank block. In New What
= tot which he paid $4,000 cash down.
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NEW RAILROAD EXTENSIONS.


Specisl Dispatch 10 the prss-IntelliEencer.
DAYTON. May i7.-GradinS on the Q. r.
q n. extension II ecgnples ed ten miles be-
yond Dayton and all the grading tools and
scrapers are being brought to the city for
shipment TO other camps. Track laying II
gosrg On In the city and during next week
q construction train viii be put on. which
will hasten the work.
Northern Pacific surveyors are stili at
work In the vicinity OF Covello Their line
Is located from Clyde station on Eureka
Nat np Wheis.cnc hollow TO CoveiIo and
taps large portion Of the best grain land
in the county. Grading has not commenced
on the Northern Pacific line but contract
ors are expecting 10 be notified TO go 10
work In short time The Northern Pa
rife has sufficient time to construct this
line 10 roveio in order 10 secure this sea
sons crer should grading comsnenee within
three weeks. For several years past tina
Northern Pacific has secnred the bulk OF
the grain frssn this county. and II their
road is run 20 Covello. ~ the survey now
Indicates, shaT will sstll handle the lion .
share Of the grain traffic. Just what the
o. r. h n people are going To do about II
10 An interesting problem.
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STOCK RAISING IN ALASKA.
Large Possibilities Afforded ~ H.
lands Of the Aleuaian tsroup.

Special Dispatch 20 the Pcst-InteiHgenc~r
TACOMA. May IA. r. Ernest a Port
land RAN. passed through Tacoma this
morning on his way home from 81 Mich
sel Mr. Ernest spent three years In Alas
ka and has visited most OF the islands Of
the Aleutian chain. studying the agricui-
turi and live stock disabilities OF the
coast section.
III in ole 81 tho most iuxurtant hay
producing countries l have ever visited 81
he said Several Of the islands lying be-
tween ka.iiak and CnalaAka are capable
o. supporting herds OF thousands OF head
These islands are warmed By the Fapan
current. ard IL Is strange that their pos.i-
btisies for steck-raisanE have e~en neg
iec'et so long. because. In NY Judgment
they can ne made TO supply ali the sea
coast ard interior camps IN Alaska.
Ar Ernest said he inteus.e. 10 return
10 the Al,titlan islands with a herd ~.
stock and expects that In a few years he
will be reaping an income as great as thai
OF n kioastike millionaire
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Local Capitalists 1nterested In .
Recent Rich Discovery.

Special Dispatch to the Possln,siiigencer.
DAYTON May fslnterest In the
Tukanon mines continues to grow as pres
yectIng and development work goes on
The latest discovery In the camp IL a ledge
Of aecoYnpae~d quartz aasaytng SIS in
gold A rarity CONSISTING Of j. ID. Israel.
William Ayrea William Long. Joe Turner,
H. n Day and Charles Waterman went
10 the mine today TO investigate. II Il:
proves 10 he satisfactory to the visitors IL
will he incorporated into the Big Four"
company and aeyeioprteu. work viii Gem
monce At once. The ledge also carries
rhodtusr,. mineral oe considerable value
Tn. discovery created considerable excite
ment in .he usually anie; city II Dayton.
Tn. interest taken in the IND by men Of
capital Who have now gone 30 inspect tho
claim II sufficient guarantee that X viii
h- developed. rrospsrters xonx 10 Bus
falc Hump are RAISING by bigger" game
right IN Columbia county than they will
ind IN the mountains Of Idaho.
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Special Dispatch 70 the Post-InteIi.gencer.
CGENE. Or. May tz.-Ciande
Branton. the young murderer of
John 4. Linn. was hanged here
this morning He Was neryy to the last
walking without aid to the scafYoid and
requested the spectators and other people
TO bear no iil-wiH TO his relatives by rea-
SON OF his crime. The body was cut down
hfteen minutes after the trap was sprung
The crime for which Branton paid the
penalty OF death was that OF taking the
life OF John A. Linn. u stockman Of Con-
don. Gillian county Or. In April 1895.
Branfon and CORTLAND Green. who is now
serving life sentence In the pcniteatiary
for completely In the crime. left their
MONIES near Waitervilie. Lane county to
go TO Eastern Oregon TO work Branton
had received from Linn proposition to
work for him. herding a band of horses.
While working in Eastern Oregon, Bran
ton and Green laid plans TO murder Linn
and get the horses, and also consfdcra bic
money. which they believed him 10 have
They induced him TO cross the mountains
with them. representing TO him thar on
arriving at Branton's home. at Walter
VILE. Branton would trade him piece OF
land for an interest In the horses. Before
starting he was told that Branton and
Green had planned 10 get away with him,
but he did not believe II.
On the night OF June Is Linn rolled I'D
In his blankets near the fire and went to
sleep. After he had been asleep for some
time Branton shot him two or three times
with revolver. and then. assisted BY
Green. placed the body on the camp fire.
They remained up ali night and freauent-
iy replenished the Ere with rails until the
body was entirely consumed Then they
raked the small pieces OF bones from the
ashes. tied them In sack and md .hem.
HIS Pal Turned states Evidence.
Green, who turned states evidence and
pleaded guilty to an indictment of murder
In the first degree. for which he afterward
received life sentence was the principal
witness against Branton at the iatter's
trial. When on the stand he told the fol-
lowing story.
Mr. Linn retired about . O clock. Claude
and built a FIRE and got supper and Mr.
Linn. after eating. laid down. Claude
then said to me. DO you feel very stout?
DO you want 20 do thfs7' I said No He
said II had to ne carried through I sat
down at the foet of the bed. He pulled out
the gun and shook my head and he put
Up his gun. being at the head Of the bed
Shortly he took out his gun again, but I
shook my head, A few moments after
when was not looking be shot Mr. Linn
In the head and rose up and shot him
again.
II then helped place Linn or the Are. al
though I knew IL was wrong. We then
carried wood and piled II on the fire and
continued doing this all night.
I'm the morning we took out Of the fire
the larger bones and placed them on a
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s,>rt.lHt rNA<.ssrh - the fn%'-frtest'gsncer,
OLYMPIA MAY i1-AH enthusiastic
ruNfi- meeting was h~SG IN th!s c:sy to-
rsgne r. was SesgaeS - ~v&ct a. The sssEa
CAPITAL a sneSRT@tl; % he 1es. soldiers
s~s saste-s seD, Srora iris ssats wso tSss
.tes~ ase~s ~ she vsr wita Snasa ard In
she Pa frcsrses ard Ire as& q TIE state
AZ large xs1i D. sasFste1 In re w@Tk.
A committee ~As appointed - saAEss
ssasss witA J Oh Se2eNy 40 cha THAR
ara s~afsss~ssss9 - Ssf~T prominent citizens
ard ssAxsrrs- srsn . axe che matter ~
nara On s1e casaraisses acre rsEsFe>egis a.
ttyss e-osss Ire c. A. r. sans 81 Veterans.
the W X G.. the ses.e militia. ". e. T