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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-24
SURVEY WORK N ALASKA.
REPORT or COAST AND GiuoDETIc
SURVEY UPON 1T.
A GREAT Deal Dome Durins the Year
TO Facilitate Navigation -
Northern Waters, and Mako safe
the Passage 20 the Cold Fields.

WASHINGTON Dec. 2s.--The annual
report Of the coast ana geodetic survey
for the fiscal year ending June 30. 1893.
has Just been submitted to congress. The
report says:
s'The work In Alaska was divided among
several parties and extended from the
head of Lynn canal and Porcupine gold
districts to the. delta OF the Yukon and
the soon 90 be famous gold fields OF Cape
Nome. It was largely the result Of these
topographic surveys In the region about
the Lynn canal and Porcupine districts
that enabled the International arbitration
commission to arrive at decision of q
provisional boundary between Alaska and
Canada at these disputed points.
"Mr. o. III. Tittman, assistant superin-
tendent OF the coast and geodetic sur
vey, has been designated by the United
States government to officially mark the
line OF the provisional boundary as set
tied by the modus vivendi Of October 20.
THE enormous Increase of vessels ply
ing to Alaskan ports has made neces-
sary the immediate survey OF q coast
line OF 10000 miles In extent and the pub
LEGATION OF new charts.
Tho many dangers Of this coast, includ-
ing the prevalence Of fog. have caused the
loss Of large number OF vessels in the
last few years, q fact that calls for expe-
ditious work. and the survey has exhaust
ed every EFFORT during the past season to
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-24

- HID antics Of the chain gang, which
had been recently employed in cleaning
conglomerats mass Of mud and blue
clay of Yesler way, so that pedestri-
ans may pass without getting their gar
ments besmeared, has caused much COM
ment. and many people who have to walk
along Yesler way do not hesitate to assert
that the chain gang is worse than the
mud.
Ladies', In particular, have reason to COM
plain of the actions Of the city prisoners.
Many OF them have declared that In pass
ing the chain gang at work they have
been wantonly insulted by members there
Of. The particular method adopted by the
prisoners is said to be to make a sound
as of kissing while ladies are passing.
Many complaints OF this sort Of thing have
been made.
Ladies', however. are not the only per-
sons who have kick coming" The 9TH
er day an express wagon, In passing the
prisoners, splashed some mud upon one Of
the involuntary toilers. 1t may be that
the driver did not take particular pains to
keep the wheels of his dray from throwing
mud on the prisoner and it Is certain that
a few splashes of mud more or less would
not perceptibly deteriorate the appearance
OF the man 1t was splashed upon; but the
prisoner considered that he had been
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-24

Cos Cob to Congamond, telling them to
make haste 10 become neat and well polish
ed.
with the order are explicit directions
how to become neat and we'll polished.
Nothing giddy is to be allowed In the way
of shirts or crayats. collars or cuffs.
Formerly a red-headed brakeman could
not only fix his blue eyes on green
landscape, but he could also add variety to
the scenery along the route by wearing
yellow shoes and a carmine cravat and
lavender polka cuffs.
All these Kaleidoscope effects must now
60.
Every uniformed employee must wear
black shoes, we'll polished. He must keep
his coat buttoned and his cap on straight
Nothing rakish in the set Of the cap will
be tolerated.
The uniformed employees must wear white
shirts, white collars and black neckties.
The black neckties must either be Of the
shape and size known as the Club bow"
In polite society, or 1t must be a small
"four-in- hand
Baggage-masters and .brakemen, when
engaged in rough work mot smashing
trunks or yelling at passengers) may, II
they earnestly wish to do SO. wear jump
ers or overalls II made OF small blue and
white checked gingham. such as is COM
monty USED Tor aprons py oiu fudlus. lhere
must be no bizarre patterns In overalls or
Jumpers, or the jumpers will be Jumped
on
IT hope to goodness our nice new lay
outs will not put the young lady passen-
gers to sleep and make them forget their
stations" said one of the brakemen to a
World reporter yesterday at the Grand
Central station.
1T feel like q Baptist deacon already
nd ha 40 ty a
and looked cross-eyed in vain attempt
to see his little black club bow, that nes-
tied under his large. square-jawed face
New York World.
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grossly insulted, and this view was shared
by his prisoners. Consequently, ac-
cording to the statement of an eye-wit-
ness. the entire chain gang paused In its
work, while the members showered curses
upon the luckless driver until he was out
of sight.
People who have watched the operations
of the gang say that the guards do not
enforce strict application to duty upon the
part of their charges. The gang, 1t is
claimed. is conducted in a sort of go-as-
you-please fashion, and the prisoners are
given wide opportunity either to escape or
to fling epithets upon passersby.
Not all Of the men In the chain gang
are hobos, by any means. Some Of them
are well-dressed, well-groomed children Of
luxury, who have been arrested in the
Tenderloin and convicted Of having no ls-
climate means Of support. To these gen.
try the chain gang Is particularly distaxte-
full and It is said that they have been the
ringleaders In the matter OF insulting wom-
en- and other pedestrians. being actuated
by sheer viciousness.
1t Is altogether likely that in case any
more people are insulted. the offender will
be placed In the steel cage at police head
quarters, where the wind blows through at
the rate Of twenty knots an hour, and d.
rectly in front of which is an open door
giving free ingress to the weather.
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The Australasian Secret.

The secret of the democratic effiores-
cence Of Australasia is the same as that
Of the new vfgor shown there by Euro
pean plants and animals. says Henry d.
Lloyd in the December Atlantic The se-
cret is the same as that of the long step
ahead of the mother country taken by
New England, with it's Puritans and Pill
grims. The wonderful propagative power
of democratic ideas in Australasia Is a
fact of the Same order as the miraculous
multiplication of the European sweetbrier
and rabbits introduced there. The old
ideas and institutions. given a new chance
in a new country, gain new vigor. 1t
is their new world. Hopes and purposes,
which had fossilized in the old country,
live again. When the hold-back of Gus
toms, laws and old families is removed,
there IL a leap forward as from leash.
What Australasia has been doing is only
what England and the older countries
have been slowly attempting to do Par
adoxically, too. this renaissance of de-
mocracy In Australasia Is not the fruit
of colonization by religious enthusiasts,
or social reformers, or patriots choosing
exile. but of colonization by plain, every
day. niatter-of-fact Englishnsu. thinking
emily sf making = bsttsr living.
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MEN OF mraHrY FEET.
II Not Giants, They Were UncOmmon.
" Large on the Ground.

II Not Giants, They Were Uncommon.
IL Large ON the Ground.
was the great West inhabited By race
Of giants in prehistoric daysf n B. Laird
claims to have evidence that 1t was. He
Is New England geolosist who has spent
many months in making Investigations in
the canyons table lands and gorges Of
Arizona.
Mr.. Laird makes no boast at having had
q hand in the investigation, but says the
discoveries were made by guide who has
been a resident Of Williams, Arts, for
many years, and who has been In every
nook and Granny Of the mountains in that
district.
The claim that there existed in prehis-
toric times a race Of giants II old, but
proofs are not found every day. In this
case they were found in the shape Of Inn
mense footprints, which have become
hardened in the limestone formations Of the
district.
To substantiate his statements. Mr.. Laird
carries with him several photographs,
showing by comparison with the foot Of a
miner the relative size of the giants foot.
Some idea of its great size can be gained
when 1t IL seen that the depression in the
rock strata caused by the great toe Ia
more than twice as large as the miners
foot.
The fact that animals In prehistoric peri
eds were of such immense she IL advanced
as an argument that man was also abnor-
mally large.--Kansas City Journal.
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Preserved love In carload lots will soon
be travelling like refrigerated beef UP ana
down the mair line and branches Of the
New York. New Haven = Hartford rail-
road. Every brakeman can get It by sp-
plying to General Manager Chamberlain at
his once in Boston
Mr.. Chamberlain has just issued an order
to all uniformed employees Of the system
from woodlawn to Woonsocket, and from
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meet this unexpected demand as rapidly
and as fully as possible, and probably in
no single year in the history Of the service
has more important work been performed
than was accomplished at the mouth of the
Yukon, Golovin bay, Port Safety and Cape
Nome. The coming season will doubtless
see whole fleets Of vessels from every
Western port reaching toward this mod
ern Golconda. 1t Is estimated that no less
than 5000 persons will reach this .desolate
coast next summer in the rush for gold.
The entire front Of the Yukon delta has
been mapped, as we'll as Cape Nome,
which will to large degree lessen the
dangers. to be encountered and prevent
many disasters incident to an unknown
coast Port Safety. long bay with mar
row inlet, making a safe refuge for storm
tossed vessels, was discovered about twelve
miles east Of Cape Nome. Golovin bay
was also found to be navigable for ocean
going vessels. The vital Importance of this
work will be appreciated during next sea-
son.
1.-THE issue OF charts has been increased
over so per cent. about 10000 being pub
lished. Notices to mariners, giving In de-
tail any change In lights or buoys and
calling attention to any new danger that
may have arisen, are published monthly,
and tend. In a measure to overcome many
Of the difficulties In coast navigation"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-24
THE FTFTY-sIxTH CONGRESS-.
Repfetc With Opportunities, and
What May He Expected of 1t.
Amos ]. Cumming Letter.

Amos j. Cumming Letter
The F1fty-sixth congress Is replete with
opportunities, and one OF great possibility
and esponstbility. Champ Clark may flIl
the air with quaint utterances and De Ar
mond mesmerize the house with logical
sequences The sophistry and close argu-
ment OF Joseph w, Bailey will again come
Ia play. The leonine Lentz may shake
his Aaiie, and that human magic lantern,
William p. Hepburn, throw exquisite pic
lures upon the wet sheet OF party politics.
Joseph @. Cannon Will undoubtedly con-
tlnue his gracious lessons In the art Of
statesmanship. and the gentle Grosvenor
play with zigxag lightning. The efflores-
cent Serene Payne will act as the speak
er's lieutenant and at times the-sash Of
officer of the day may girdle the waist
and run over the shoulder of John Dali
zell. Nor should bluff James 8. Sherman
be missed from the list. nor plaus, Ole
James d. Richardson. The piquart romi-
ntsccnces Of John Allen will not become a
thing OF tho past. The eloquent Deliver
Will twang the strings of his oratorical
Tyre TO the mandolin accompaniment Of
Robert q. Cousins, while bizarre Romulus
Y. Linney, of North Carolina, furnishes a
banjo prelude
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NORTHWESTERN NEWS NOTES.

Fire at Blue Canyon recently destroyed a store
building containing stock Of merchandise and
the postoiice and also dwelling house adjacent
to the store.
The cities and towns OF the province Of British
Columbia having 1000 population and over are
given as follows In the British Columbia Guide: Co
mox.. 100; Cranbrook. 1000; Cumberland. 1000;
Fernie. 1,e00; Greenwood. 1000; kanloops 1 500:
Ksslo. 1850; Nsnaimo. 500; Nelson. 800; New
Westminster. 600; North Bend. l.6Go Revelstoke
1000: Rossland, 5000 sandon. 2.Ooo Trail, 100;
Vancouver. 5000; Victoria. 2sooc Wellington. $500
A group Of historical personases has been pho
togrAphsd in Astoria The group was composed Of
the following persons The Great-srandson Of Chief
Conoomy. and hereditary ruler Of the Chinook tribe
OF Indians. whose name h Louis Ducheney Of PHI
lar Rock; the sIandson Of codaway. chief Of the
Clatsops, and friend Of the explorers Lewis and
Clark. silss B. Smith: the granddaughter Of Con.
comfy. daughter OF Margaret Concomiy. and mother
Of Louis Ducheney. widow woman, now named
Mrs: Mary Kelly; granddaughter Of Con
comfy, sister Of Louis Ducheuey, Mrs Sophia En-
yart These people arc the chief representatives Of
the Chinook and C1atsop tribes. in whose favor l
bin Is now pending before congress to pay them
for the Indian title Of an the land on the "a.
iumbis river from tho Cascades TO tho mouth.
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CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

The cruiser New Orleans has arrived 1t Manila,
Just two months out from New York
Gen. Maxine Conner has assured Csu. Wood that
~ % . .ua MN nr q CUBA for
pendencs.
The smallpox camp which has existed for sew.
srsl wses. 1t the Prssidio has bssn broken W. y
20 about tAsr duties.
The DUKE Of wsstminster, who died recently,
showed keen interest IN public Affairs during bis
army in ' Ssu. a. AFRICA id'A'1 y ~ ~
Thomas Hnl, the California artist, who hes been
with party q friends in MEXICO. satherns ma
terisl for & picture from Mexican subjects, has
been stricken With paralysis.
Ths large dry goods house Of John NJ. Ccnhlin
Son. OF Brooklyn, has made q general assign
ment. No statement Of assets and liabilities nor
any reason for the assignment 10 given
A convict in Folsom penitentiary whose time has
expired refuses to pay the hne also imposed upon
him Or to taas tne paupes ossh and me , h
Sol Smith Russell will retire from the stage for
q year or more at the concluson Of his inter
ruptsd ensasenent At ths Grand opera house. Chi
cago. All his engagements for the entire season
will be cancelled.
Tho Notifications at Fort point. on tne southern
side Of the Golden este, are rapidly nearing COM
position the early part Of January. The harbor will
then become one Of the most strongly protected
ports In the country.
w. II. Gilbert. bankrupt hardware merchant,
from Winston, N. g.. has formally declared to
United States Commissioner Peacock. at San Fran
cisco, that he will longer resist the legal effort
TO send him to North Carolina for trial on the
indictment charging him with having concealed
portion d his assets with the intent to defraud his
creditors.
Capt B. w. Bjornsted, formerly Of the thirteenth
Minnesota volunteers, who has been appointed cap
tain Of the Forty second infantry now In the
Philippines, has reported at the Presdio to await
transportation. to his regiment Capt .Biornsted
served with the Minnesota regiment. and was Sc
verely wounded. He reported dead and funeral
services In his honor were held at his home in
St. Paul
Division Chaplain Pierce, Of the United States
army, will establish philAnthropic societies at Ma
nils, ~ approved by Bishop Henry c. Potter. An
Episcopal church, o school for girls and q college
win be endowed. Chaplain PIERCE who will re-
turn to the United States within a week. has been
requested by Mrs LAwton to conduct the funeral
services at the burial Of her husband in Arlington
cemetery
Official advices have been received from Venezuela
that the government troops in that republic com.
pletely defeated the rebel forces under Gen. Her.
nandez on December IA. Gen. Hernandez fed II
Is believed that many prisoners were taken and
that q large quantity Of ammunition was seized
Port Marcaibo has been officially declared open to
commerce, and the Venezuelan revolution Is con-
sidered at an end
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Extinction of the Maoris.

Judging from the recent report of the
registrar general of New Zealand, that
fine martial race, the Maoris, is going
the way Of all aborigines whose country
has been colonized by the whites. They
may not become absolutely extinct for
a few more decades. but their doom is
sealed. Among the causes officially as
signed for the thinning of their num-
bers are the high infantile mortality re-
sulting from improper food, exposure and
the want of ordinary care, constitutions
debilitated by past debauchery, the belief
In native doctors and neglect OF the sick.
and the adoption of European habits and
costumes, leading to diseases of the res
piratory organs. A Maori M. A., Mr..
Ngata, in addressing a recent conference
of his countrymen, said that drink was
pauperizing them and sapping their We
tality.-London Chronicle.
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bryan Caters In Vain.

There are few. II any. Of these who
would now vote for silver under any cir
cumstances, but still Bryan's catering to
the Populists will certainly lose him more
Votes than II viii win for him. there are
too many men OF his own party who have
determined to have nothing 70 do with
populism IN the future
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Tho hgh rates on our ocean freights
are q great loss to our farmers, and as
this loss Is caused by the want OF an Amer
loan nnariAe, 1t should stimulate the farm
ing cox7munity to increase their demands
upan AqRsreas 10 encourage the building
oHArIGtfSau sr61Be1A
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GERMAN CRITICS Of WAR.
CONSIDER ENGLAND no LONGER 4
MILITARY SowEn.
Russian Government Circles Serb
ously Csnsiaerins an Asiatic Al
vance-0ermany, However, VIII
Remain ~ nefere, strictly Neutral


S4 1y ASsv. " sn a. nsrsmorv ~
the unwilling Of the monument to Eiector
q which the correspondent Of the Assoc
claxed Press was present, the emperor
looked hale and hearty with rudoy
cheeks.
The ceremony was BRIEF. There were
no speeches, but the occasion was rem
asra6 vrAmorshla ~ his majesty at the
ueu eoaa v s..S,, - tsarr TSirschner'
ctose stepp.nk Dlszy pa.,,r srar,ry
tho chick burgomaster 2. berHn' snas,ns
him his iong-expected confirmation As
~t,Ief hureorna ster consisting Of docu-
msst. with biw seals attached. The EN-
psror congratulated the bursomastsr an. and
said ne wished him many years OF sue
cessfsi administration Of Berlin. adding
a. 49,, 80 ,,h,ch SeeI sreat afsection
and sntsrtain the highest hopes. which I
know you VIII help me TO reahse
Thus ends happily this matter which
FOR IS long a time has kept the emperor
ana Beflin on quasi war footing.
osla weather for christna..
prevails here. 1'he Spree Is frozen solid,
he Big Muesgelsee is alive with skaters.
end everysooy - Dusy WIN ple I,a,, On
TOR Christmas. Business Disk. ana
many novelties are exhibited In the stores:
Unfortunately there is a scarcity or
Christmas trees owing to the deep snow
- tha Hartx vno,Intafna and everywhere.
rru - 1870 n.s.s.r
1919
Of Great Britain. which was referred to
II INA Aasoriafed Press dispatches from
D..,.ss rss,Ss- -s~s,t cnrtsr,,ss Trvar ths
6ornn cIloay nIs.lI IN r.en W
hamburger Nacnflcntcn, whIcH hi.nerto
has been intensely Anglophobe, prints
Communication today from d Hamburg
merchant protesting against blind An.
~lcnhnhis. y
Tho papers are full OF communications
from literary writer's on the subject of
the war. The Neuste Nachrichten today
contains an article pointing out that the
success of the Beers, numbering quar-
ter OF d million, against a nation which
II home alone numbers thirty millions. II
With the best modern rifles, and know
how to use them. The British, the writer
Adds underyalued their adversary and
failed to appear on the seat OF war with
2 numerical superiority, while their STRAIT.
e0 was largely ordered IN London.
A9aans ne points out that all the britien
genernis negiected reoonnoitering, ana
swro Tenaent IN tne OF NEG serv-
tScx. whiye the Mar,ser sun has briliianfIv
nttod tha test az this Campaign.
ON thh other hand n military critic in
4 fha Roarsen Courier yr1sintajns that M
modern war has been SO devoid Of inter.
eatine f"sy,,rss ~ the theoretical ana
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Foreign ships Take the Lions Share

bIdfIit JUurH9I.
1t Is time to rouse up to the Importance
Of better merchant marine. II is a dis.
grace to the United States that per cent.
Of our foreign trade u al that r. carried
II Americas vSeselA
Arizona republican., 1899-07-18
SPAIN IN NEED or SUGAR
She Nay Reduce The Tariff and Lei
Some Come in.

Consular Agent Mertens at Vafen-
cia. Spain, in a report to the state de-
partment says Since the loss of her
colonies SPANS sugar factories, with
a yearly production of about $4,000
tons. are unable to satisfy the public
demand, which amounts in all SPAN
70 about 100000 tons of sugar during
the year. A high prohibitive duty OF
1921 per cent on foreign sugar pro
tects the home industry and stands IN
the way of sugar dealers and con-
sumers For this reason a union OF
tradespeople and merchants of the
different cities of Spain has petitioned
the Spanish COVER msnt to reduce the
import duty to so per cent, which
would afford a fair protection for the
refneries and at the same lime permit
the import of sufficient sugar to sup
ply the demand.
while this petition meets with
great opposition from the refneries.
still in view of the need of sugar and
the small chance of increasing either
the number of factories of their out
put in the near future, the Spanish
government viii probably reduce the
duty. more especially as this will add
to the customs income of ths country
and do away with the incentive for
smuggling.
LAS soon as this reduction becomes
a law our dealers in refined sugar
should be ready with samples to secure
contracts before the competition with
other countries too keen. - Washing
ton Letter.