The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-08
MUST FOREGO RIVALRY.
PUGET SOUND CITIES WILL HAVE
TO WORK TOGETHER.
Delegation I'm Congress Reaches nm
Agreement to Make Demands ms
Pertaining to Rights of Sound
Olympic Reserve to he Reduced.

reached mutual agreement as TO the
position they will take In regard to the
constant rivalry of the elites OF Seattle
and Tacoma. The delegation will urge
everything asked for by either city, upon
whatever department 1t pertains to. as
as request from or right OF Puget
sound. Whatever rivalry may exist be-
tween the two cities during the life of
the present congress must be ignored II
anything for the Puget sound section
drilled into the members of the delega-
ton pretty extensively since their arrival
In this city.
Representative Jones has had several
interviews with Quartermaster Gen. Lud-
ington upon the question of sending
more transports by the northern route,
and has received assurances that another
vessel will soon be sent from there The
old order OF Secretary Root will hold. so
1t Is stated. and the two cities will have
to be sa+isfeassith alternating ships.
Using the vfct0ria's Mishap.
As was to have been expected, the mis-
fortune that overlook the transport Vic
toria just outside the Strait of Juan de
Fuca has placed club in the hands of
those officials in the quartermaster gen.
erals department who are not altogether
friendly to the northern route.
Even Gen. Ludington, commenting up
on the persistency with which representa-
tives from both Seattle and Tacoma have
urged the superiority of the northern
route over the one starting from San
Francisco, and quoted disparagingly to
the latter the dangers of the typhoon
belt, said the other day: when these
people bother me about the typhoon belt
can ask them what about the storms
of Cape Flattery?'
not unfriendly to the northern route, and
does what he can to bring about the de-
parture Of transports from Its cities
Warning TO Hay Dealers.
In conversation with Representative
Jones he stated that the government was
able to purchase hay and grain cheaper
there than at any point on the Coast.
How long this will continue. he added.
would be hard to say. as 1t had been
discovered that the dealers had been
putting up the prices when they found
out the government was purchasing.
One other point to which Gen. Luding-
ton called attention and which the hay
shippers of Puget sound would do well
to note. is that hay baled in the East
by the new power processes occupies
only about one-half the space per ton
on the transports that the hay baled on
Puget sound does. This saving of space
enables the government to ship hay from
San Francisco in competition with the
hay purchased on the Sound at lower
prices.
Olympic and Rainier Reserves.
Mr.. Jones has accompanied Mr.. Cush-
man several times to the interior depart
ment to get the commissioner of the gen.
eral land office to take up the matter of
the desired reduction of the Olympic
forest reserve. This matter is now hang
ing fire, waiting for report from Special
Agent Sbellar, of Tacoma, who received
very full instructions regarding this mat
ter.
Commissioner Hermann told Mr. Jones
that he was very anxious to attend to
this matter at the earliest possible mo-
ment. for he believed the settlers who
were petitioning for a reduction of the
reserve were in the right, and that II
was only question of time when the
smaller limits would be established salts
tory to the people Of that section.
A proposition to increase the Rainier
forest reserve by the addition of an ex-
tensive strip OF land in Cowlitz county
will be fought energetically by both con-
gressmen, In response to many warm pro-
testations which they have received from
the people most interested.
Another important matter, which the
interior department has promised Repre-
sentative Jones will be taken up prompt
ly, is the question of ownership of a por-
ton of the townsite of North Yakima.
The officers of the town, acting as
trustees, are endeayoring to have pat
ent which was issued to the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company. set aside and
a patent issued to the town.
Indian Reservation Matters.
The Indian bureau Is waiting anxiously
for report of a special survey which
has been ordered to determine the exact
location of the boundary line of the Col
Vile Indian reserve, which was disputed
by the Indians. This matter also, Mr..
Jones has been promised will be taken
up Immediately upon receipt of the re-
port of the survey.
From present Indications 1t does not
seem likely that the commission now en-
gagged in trying to negotiate a treaty
with the Indians of the Yakima reserve
will be able to complete its work prior
to April 1 next which is the limit of the
existence of the commission, as fixed In
the last Indian appropriation act. Mr.
Jones will therefore endeavor to secure
the insertion of a paragraph in the urs-
ency deficiency bill continuing the life
of the commission for so long time as
It may need to accomplish the work laid
out for it.
senator Turner's Secretary.
Senator Turner, of Washington. was
In the city about ten days prior to the
opening of congress and has also inter-
ested himself in the matters mentioned
above. Inc senator brings 10 NaSnlfiS-
ton with him this year as his private
secretary Col. j. Kennedy Stout. of Spo-
kane. whose two hobbies are the collec-
ton of postage stamps and ancestors.
The colonel has already become ia
yorite on Newspaper Row and ought to
be excessively happy In this city, where
are owned some of the most valuable
stamp collections and where he may find
in the library of congress an unexceled
collection of genealogical and heraldic
hooks Mrs. Stout accompanies the
colonel and they are pleasantly quartered
In that quiet, old Southern hosiery, the
Varnum, not far from the capitol, whose
broad piazzas afford a lovely panoramic
view of the Potomac and the distant Vir-
ginia hills.
Mr.. Cushman's Intentions.
Representative Cushman, In an interview
With the acknowledgements correspondent
TO-DAY on the legislation desired by his
constituents, said: I'm the first place I