The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-21

out. and that II they. the financiers. allied
themselves with us they would simply be
buying an interminable lawsuit
Ihcse particular financiers however
were not to be frightened by such threats,
finish.
These petitioners have also. by deceiv-
Ing the editors thereof, recently secured
the publication in the Seattle papers ar
tlcles that are grossly erroneous. For
instance. they deceived one paper into
making the charge that my company was
bankrupt concern, and had failed owing
$1,000 to its laboring men. The inference
was intended that the men had lost that
large sum OF money. The fact is that
the money mentioned was due to the men
by the Bowers Dredging Company; that
my company was not involved in any way
Whatever, and that instead of having lost
their money the men brought suit in the
United States court through their attor-
ney, Hon. Thomas Burke, and collected
every cent OF their overdue wages, with
interest to date of payment.
These incidents are only two out OF
many that go to negative the ideas of
fairness or bone hdes on the part of the
leaders in this obstructive movement
Their object is not to try any issue on
us merits, but to arouse the prejudices OF
the people by slanderous statements in
the papers, to alarm the officers of the
state by hue and cry, and to discourage
investors who are ready to evince their
faith In the future of Seattle by furnish
Ing three millions of dollars to be expend-
ed therein.
IF they can induce the commissioner to
recognize them In any way so as to give
them standing In court, they will en-
deavor to hold us up as they have threat
ened to prevent the expenditure OF three
millions of dollars which my company has
secured for the purpose of giving to Sc
attic the most magnificent harbor In the
world, and to cause my company to for
felt the $4,000 bona that II has given for
the performance of its contracts with the
state.
II will furnish you with a copy of the pc
ttion heretofore filed with the commits
sioner of public lands. and upon which
that officer acted In granting an extension
of time. | may remark here, as the record
shows, that the commissioner required
complete demonstration Of our ability to
go ahead before he would extend the
time. and he then attached severe con-
ditions as to time of commencement"
The petition asking an extension is as
follows:
To the Honorable Robert Bridges Connis-
sioner Of Public Lands of the State of Wash
inetcn:
Your petitioner, the Seattle and Lake Wash.
ington Waterway Company. would respectfully
show that at all the times hereinafter men
toned IT and now Ia cooperation duly
organized and doing business under and by viz
tue Of the laws of the state Of Washington.
Tha. it Is party, 70 those four certain
Of washington the first two as assignee Of
Eugene Semplel. for the excavation Of water
Ways and filing Of tide lands At the city Of
the legislature of the state OF Washington ap-
proved March O. 1888. entitled An act pre-
sCribing the ways In which waterways for the
of navigation may be excavated by pr
ysto contract providing for liens upon tide
and shore lands belonging To the state grant
ing rights of'way across lands belonging to the
state
Your petitioner would further show that
der said contracts it has expended the sum OF
$2Ts s92 IS; that seventy acres Of land have been
raised hy IL above high tide. and 5000 feet OF
na,igablc waterway excayated, in carrying out
the provisions Of said contracts
time limit fixed for the completion Of said
work under said contracts numbered and z
contract ; on the 2Sd dsy Of February 1901. and
Contract 4 on the 10th day OF April. 1901. and
there il not sufficient time remaining TO com
pIete the work necessary under said contracts
before the expiration thereof
Your petitioner would further show that it has
used due diligence in the execution Of the said
contracts and assigns the following eSnlana-
ton Of the delay and reasons for extending the
time for the completion Of said work;
II was not considered by the contractor Al the
time q signing Of the contracts that the time
smcwed therein for The completion u the work
was reasonable one. in vie" q the mssni-
fme Of the project alo4e LEAVING ou l, nnan
to the demands Of the governor on account @
in case he Kept coed faith On his part
Nine months after date q co r.. n were Lost 81
preliminary engineering operations necessary
thereto. , a., TO-,
contests uoncyed men refusing 20 provide iunds
untn every pending legal question had been
TI,cn much time was consumed in engineering
and other preliminary Investigations made hY
the mouoyrd men through their own ehAhne'
and by their experts.
tho purchasers o. the lands re,",lgs Nv ~ , o
3ntrre.t when due. thus compelling TIE c0nttRft-