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•BATTI.F:. WKIMUCSHtT. OCT. S<«.
TUB VIRTtB Or HI STLIX6.
It 1* all vanity and of the
flesh for Ran Francisco and Portland
to ery out that Seattle is getting the
Alaska trade away from them. Seattle
already has the trade, and they will
not get it back, for very excellent and
invincible reasons. Portland and San
Francisco prospered for year# under a
moss back policy of sitting supinely
down and suffering trade to come to
them. They did not know th" magic
valu* of "hustling." If they did, they
were wanting in energy to apply their
\ knowledge. Alaska and other trade
went to them because there were no
other places. Seattle saw its oppor
tunities, and, during the hardest kind
I of hard times, began to build up com
merce with Alaska. Local Jobbers of
fered better Inducements than Portland
or San Francisco. Freights were cheap-
er, and freight service more expeditious
and certain. Orders could be filled
more quickly. Prices were as cheap or
cheaper. Quality of goods was of the
beat. The Jobbers of Seattle were
active, prompt, honeat, hospitable and
generous. Why should not Alaska
trade cone to Seattle?
Neither Portland, nor San Francisco,
n<»r any other place, will regain Its hold
on Ataskx, unless the Seattle business
community goes to sleep a miracle of
non-action and negligence that has
never yet happened. They fostered and
built up the Alaska trade when the ob
*uc'»*s mere very great. When the
Klondike excitement broke out, they
were in position to benefit by It. They
Lave allowed very little to get away
from them. There has been a natural
and customary "slop-over," which has
g.;E* to Tacoma. Portland and San
Fram tMO. These cities will In future
be more or lea* benefited by their pro-
pinquity to the great main channel of
commerce and travel between the
1 nited States and Alaska, but they will
be only Incidental beneficiaries.
Aside from locality and convenience,
the determining reason why the Alaska
trade has come to Seattle Is cheaper
freights. A steamer line from Port
land to Alaska must coal on Puget
nound, or must secure Its fuel from
here. Portland cannot overcome this
handicap; nor can San Francisco,
w here It exists in similar degree, and
where remoteness is an added draw
back.
Th«* two southern cities misrht ns
well give* Jt up. Hysterical newspaper
appeals for the business communities
lo wake up will not avail. What can
they do if they arc awake?
»T%TR IM» UIT>N I W I.KVT.
It Is rery satisfactory to the tax
payer to have a reduction iti the le\y.
As the property lncroa-.es in valuation
this will ho still further reduced, be
caufr the principal expenses have now
been incurred and a much larger busi
ness c ild b transacted in ail depart
ment* of the county with a compara
tively inrreoe in CXJH i ea. A
very conquerable part of the bus::
transacted during the past year or >
has b**cn made »*ore expensive be
cause of the ai;s M litjr of people to pay
their ta*e« and meet their obligations.
This will di- appear and be succeeded
l>y auoth- r sort of demand upon the
officials.
There l »s been a tendency to econ
omy on ts- part iif all local govern
ments, and the pre- nt board of coun
ty comral- -■ners hi H kept fnith in this
respect, At -t two t'f them have
bad consi era? le experience in ! cal af
fairs, and that belj Terr much In
planning to '. . m> may be prac
ticed without Ira* airtt g efficiency.
The law has a » t > th- aI of
the county otr ;.. 1 - - • . «>-,
extent that wa» - ,
sums are wastes ir. w't; f,, . a*, i
jurors" fees which • , . \
year ago, most of th < ty irsd
school district officials :r,. t aftei
pißht in the city hall lev to
keep the expenses down a
very genera! agreement a
suggestions made were -
then ascertained that the ir.
expenses had grown up u:. *
meaning bat impractical Ja*#. :
far as the officials could secure
prorement by submitting #ieas:ir
aiu.i Hfying accounts, they did to t
instance of folly was the regnlst'on re
quiring the tax !ery to be apportioned
over every separate piece of property,
so that If a town lot—ana there Art
hundreds of tb^m -w»r* at.
nay. '65 cents It should be divided
Into ten irregular decimal frac
tions. For example, the books would
have to show what proportion of t£
rent* was apportioned to the 2.0494 lery
for general perpoeee. what proportion
to th" 2.7035 for general school pur
poses; what to the 0 J231 for county in
terest, and no forth down the list.
Some of the saving has been lost by
the necessity of dividing the year's
taxes into two installments, and mak-
ing out statements and receipt* twice
Instead of once a year, with all the in.
ridents of bookkeeping but this is l***
» mbersome that the oi<! plan ofluij
diviaion.
feome of the items will, nevertheless,
bear scanning It will surprise most
taxpayers that its costs nearly >4,5u0
for the care of infiig»-nt aoldiers and
sailora, or slmoet half the amount re
quired for all outside poor. The cost
of the poor farm and hospital is only
»10.600 s year for all tht county's own
chargas.
The estimate nl.no furnishes an op
portunity for comparison of the bills
for previous years, and whatever econ
omy the present administration is en
titled to credit for it should receive.
lUF. IUMIAU St UOOI. KIJCt Tlt»
An election will be held within a
meek or so of a member of the school
board. No announcements have been
made and before any names appear it
may be as well for electors to consider
the matter without regard to individ
uals.
The disturbance* at the university
hare provoked to anger all who are in
terested In the efficiency of the state
educational institutions, and, indepen
dent entirely of the merits of the con
troversy, the discipline of the estab
lishment must have suffered. Immun
ity for the school system from such dis
turbances tan only be had by return
ing men who will have no particular
ends to serve, no candidate for office,
be under obligation to none, and have
no experiments in pedagogy to further
at the expense of a normal curriculum.
All things being equal, it is for the
good of the school that a candidate for
membership of the board should neither
b<- pledged in advance to the interest of
any employe, nor IK> interested In se
curing employment for a relative or
intimate frieud. Human nature can
not be eliminated from a school elec
tion. and it is probably not unnatural
that teachers should feel a deep inter
est in the personnel of the board, be
anxious to s<»e in office one who would
not be unfriendly and be not unwilling
to help into office one who might be
frieudly. If not carried to an extreme
there can be no harm in this; but it
certainly la carried to an extreme if
the campaign be modeled on that of the
state library of California. There, for
years, candidates for the office of state
librarian have usually selected the
trustees who would agree in advance to
appoint them, and then the candidates
have sought to secure the appointment
of their ticket by the governor. No at
tention was paid to the names of those
on the ticket; the trustees were only
known as John Doe's ticket or Richard
lloe's ticket, and as such they were
fought for or against.
There Is no suspicion of any such
electioneering In Seattle, of course, and
especially in connection with the school
board; and the state library is only al
luded to as an illustration of what
might be under less fortuitous circum
stances.
It Is quite possible to select more
than one candidate, who shall have at
heart the Interests of the public
schools, and be perfectly Just to all
who have had experience in their
management, without being too con
spicuously pushed forward because of
their known espousal of any man's or
any woman's cause among the teach
ers.
The public schools of this city have
been peculiarly free from scandals af
fet ting the efficiency of the teachers, and
even the last reform movement, which
included a female member of the board,
di l not result in disclosing any neglect
of their duties by teachers, or any
faults in the system inimical to the effi
cient tuition of the students This good
record can best be maintained by hav
ing on the school ho.ird Intelligent and
independent members, who will neither
be too subservient nor too arbitrary,
IT rt>\or BK noxi:.
The failure of the United States
r. netary commission has at last been
n* ie manifest. The delay has been
i entirely by the unwilling
r.i of of the members of the
1 . h government to give up all hope
of :s, conference. The vague hope en
t ■ ~ ned that in spite of ail past ex
periet-.-# and present J idgment, some
thing ulght be done for sliver, is only
dispelled because it is impossible to
make the wrtrld silver at any
other price than that which It car. make
for it>eif in the markets of the world.
It is Idle now to repeat the
kno»a arguments on b*-th sides of the
Question; the frt-atest commercial na
tion has had the courage to take the
stand that legislation can no more
raise the price of Mlver to that of g <1 J.
than it could last year hare raised the
1 re of wheat to what It is this y?ar.
riet.!ifulo«M of wheat all over the
w. :!d kept the price down; an abun
dance of silver has lowered ita vabae.
A i* arcity of wheat has raised its
price; if should become scarce It
wv : i mcrcafC In price In the KUSC
«TIT.
};ut this reel not concern us. Gold
*vaa r.e\er cheaper in the history of the
w :id than it is today, notwithstanding
the cheapness of silver. The output of
gold ts much greater per capita than It
ha* ever been, and the prospect is that
in the n®xt few years it will be greater
tham ev*r.
Th» failure of the commission need
not worry us asrain. because every sil
ver dollar in this country is equal to
every gold dollar. Not one dollar that
has ever been coined in all the years
of our Independence as a cation —
notwithstanding the immense quanti
ties of silver bought by the govern
ment—bat is on a per with gold. Coun
tries which have depended entirely up
on silver, and neglected to fortify it
with the credit of the nation, will suf
fer—a* they haTe already suffered—
from the decline in silver value, which
ha« been going on for a quarter of a
century: but the United States, Eng
land, Germany and France, will never
realise that there is any disparity be
tween gold and silver so long as they
limit the coinage of the discredited
m*tal to an amount which arouses no
fear of the nation's power to redeem.
The fart that England will not
adopt a fictitious ratio should be an ex
ample and a warning to us. If this
rountry should ever have another spell
of mental aberration and should suc
ceed in an attempt to force the price of
silver up by unlimited coinage, the
consequences would fall upon our
selves. The general wreck of our busi
ness would probably affect some Brit
ish investors, but the loss to them
would only be comparatively small
and the embarrassment only temporary,
while the people of this country would
not recover from the shock and conse
quent retardation for twenty, and pos
sibly fifty, years.
If the present promising conditions
hold out for two or three years, as
there is every indication they will, we
will never hear another word about
free silver as a lever with which to
rais" the price of wheat or uplift pros
perity.
If Rev. William J. Keller, murderer, is
In Seattle, will he kindly make his where
abouts known to the Jefferson county au
thority"? And will ho also k:r.dly furn
ish them with amply guaranty that he will
do them no harm when they attempt to
arrest him? When Keller klled poor
Luckey. the local constable, with rare
judgment, kept out of the reach of his
rifle and gladly accepted the hom ed * s
assurance that he was going to Port Town
send and would give himseif up. KePer
for soma unaccountable reason failed to
keep his word, greatly to the disappoint
ment of the expectant officer*. Another
singular l feature of this case is that the
body of the murdered man w is allowed to
lie for hours In the road. It seems very
strange that the common humanity of ths
good people of IJrinnon did not come to tha
rescue of their Ignorance and fears that
they would thus violate some foolish law.
The position of the corpse had nothing
whatever to do with the proof of the mur
der.
Is t' c Rev. Clark Davis who before elec
tion gave a quasi indorsement to the
Christian character of John R, Rogers, the
same Rev. Clark Davis who noy de
noun. es him as an ingrate and a Juria*
Iscariot? It appears Incredible. Th»
present Rev. Clark Davis, ex-regent and
registrar and librarian of the university
through the audacious pro-ess of
bocstlng, is making the hills and dales
fairly vocal with hie lamentations, and
we are led to believe that he is righteous
ly offended at the governor's want of re
gard for the cloth. The former Rev. Ciark
Davis failed to see in Rog. revolting
char.ictf ruation of ministers of the Gos
pel as "pimps and prostitutes" aught but
l evidence of his high character, sound mor
ality and entire friendliness to the church
and all Its disciples and traching«. It is
different now. Of such is the klngdsm of
demagogy.
The Debs Social Democracy is now
credited with the formulation of a bril
liant scheme to capture the schools ar.d
colleges of Kansas, so that when the
graduates go out Into the world as teach
ers they may be fitt-d to inculcate the
new socialistic doctrine. If Debs has
projected any such fool Idea, he is, per
haps. Justified in selecting the statu
which produced Mrs I,e»*>e and Jerry
Simpson, and kindred wind-Jammers, as
the place where it might propagate. Kan
f.i? has produced m r r© hare-brained
cranks and enacted more lunatic legis
lation, and altogether thrown to the sur
face more political flim-flam and balder
dash than any state in the Union. There*
Is where Debs and his lazy following be
long
The Bryanite* are disposed to hold Mr.
Hanna responsible because he does not
re-establish dollar wheat. They were
bitter against him a year since when.
Just before election, the market took a
sudden urward Jump, and they declared
I the advance was fictitious and would
soon collapse. The election is over and
this j ar dollar wheat was actually
1 Now that the price has sub
si ied s m»>what. It seems to be agreed
that Mr Hanra !» Just the man for the
emergency. It would be interesting to
knew Just what the Hon. W. C. Jcnes—
he of the map—has to say in this trying
emergency.
It is worthy of emphasis that gold
is cftm'r* '~to the country lr. larsre Quan
tities at New York. S.in Francisco and
oth r ports, and the gold In circu
lation : uf-j the pa-t year f<as increased
over P* W.tiOt Th'.a is one dollar
I capita. The heavy wheat crop and the
! Increase of exports have charged tfce
current w w, rh vp ts a *»ar since, was
running strorg'y against the United
S?<*!e* If prosperity is here only on
rr> lS *tton, ss tome persons think, it has
en abu- lant evidence of its good faltfc.
| It usfd to be Tacoma's ambition to ex
cel e sttle. N-w it is rr. ak'r.g srrenuoas
ef rts to be esteemed cn aa e<jual foot
ing w-.th Seattle That a very laud
able des.re. hewever 1" ope leas.
T e r. v- 1 that the Seattle street car
c."rr.r>a-«"»s sre csrrr'fg hesrVr tn*- is
tw cf?:d. p. ople wak less and ride more.
THE SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGEXCEF. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBFR 20. l<w»7.
and there are more people to ride. The
only possible sufferer* are the boot
makers, but their iocs is the public's
gain, and the public's rain is their gain.
The fusion county oflleals are naturally
quite happy cvr the fart that couny
warrant* are new quoted at a fraction
above par. We are having good time? in
spile of our handicaps and we are drag
ging the spectacular fusion happy fami'.y
along with us.
§3l APS HOTS BT THE WAT.
Bryan won't lecture nowadays, except
for caah. Money talk*.
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Miss C!*nero* ha* no horse on the gen
eral. W tyier got away. too.
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Tom Watson, of Georgia, say* he Is
"out of politic* forever." Goodby, Tom;
take k«r of yerseif.
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F.*-Regent Fay threaten* a two-column
article on the university embroglio. Is
Prof. McEwen In the audience?
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The long outing of the Luetgert Jury
gives rise to the suspicion that both
aides stuffed the panel with expert*.
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Tacoma matche* the Ford case with
the Bartow case. There are some things
in which Tacoma Is real enterprising.
J. J. X
It is to be hoped that the new board
of regent* will allow a few of the ap
pointments to go outside the family.
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There is one pleasant thing about the
escape of Miss Cianeros. It is over, and
we won't have another eruption of yellow
Journalism for some days.
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Just as soon as the board of regents*
row subsides the fusion happy family
newspapers will resume spelling harmony
with a big H.
While we are not authorized to speak
for him, we feel justified In stating that
th« Rev. Clark Davis will decline the gov
ernor's very kind offer to supply a text
for him. This year isn't last year, gover
nor, and last year Isn't this year. Come
around some other year.
ITS >OSE IS OIT OK JOIST.
Saa Francisco I.unieata. But It Csa't
"What San Francisco or any other com
mercial city needs. Is cheap ingress ar.d
egress," said a business man who Is at
the head of one of the largest shipping
firms in the city. I can tell you in a very
few words facts that will show the over
shadowing importance of immediate a tlon
on "the part of San Francis *o merchants
to secure for itself the trade with Alaska
next spring. A man from the East said
to me the other day: 'What on earth are
you San Francisco merchants thinking of?
Do you know thai at least CO 000 p. opla
are going into Alaska neat sprine? Do
you not know that in the East San Fran
cisco is not known In the matter; that
everywhere you go in the Eastern StaUs
you hear of nothing but Seattle? It is
Seattle this and Seattle that, and n-vt-r a
■ward about San Francisco. Tie result Is
that unless the San Francisco people be
stir themselves, and that very so n. Seat
tle will catch every bit of the trade. What
you should do Is provide yourselves with
transportation from S.*n Fran b»co to Alas
ka as cheap as the Seattle people can off« r
It, and then let the entire East know that
this Is the best port to sail from. So far
ax the distance is concerned, the different e
is trifling. You could transport passengers
and freight practically as cneaply, »md be
ing a much larger, more attractive and Im
portant place than Seattle, most people
would prefer to come here.' That is all
true, and it is the whole situation In a
nutshell, so far as Alaska is concerned.
Everything has tended to bring Seattle to
the fore. The eagerness for news from
the north led the Alaska Commercial Com
pany to make its steamers put in at Seat
tle. so as to reach the first port having
facilities. This saved several
days and was very necessary, because the
season was far advanced and time wan
valuable. The consequence was that all
the news from the gold regions was sent
broadcast throughout the country from Se
attle. and people have come to regard that
port as the natural starting point and out
fitting - place for all who desire to rush
into the gold-producing country."
V Compliment for Seattle.
Port Townsend Leader.
There Is a broad spirit of liberality man
ifested in the foregoing (a recent refer
ence by tiie 1' >at-lnteli:geneer to Port
1 Townwnd'i activity), that mark® a wise
change In the attitude of the leading city
of the state, and in the policy of its lead
ing newspaper, that will certainly be ap
pr« iated In Port Townsend. at least. If
it !•« followed up, as of course It will be.
c. >n< the same lines toward other looall
t s, St will result in miking Seattle and
I the Po*t-Inteli!|f»ncer even greater than
I they are. and will cause citizens of other
localities to take pleasure in givinjr them
credit for their generosity and worth. Se
attle can now afford to be magnanimous
toward her nc ghbors and even her rivals,
and the Post-Intelligf-ncer will reap the
benefit by leading the procession, as it
a disposition to do.
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Innocent BnkiillnK.
Chicago Times-Herald.
Senator Murphy, of New York, gays:
"Talk never hurts the Democratic parry."
This sounds l:ke a note of defiance to
W:':utn J. Bryan and an invitation for
him to do his worst.
TIIF !»T\TE PHl>*.
Olympian: A car<"*jl rex*lew »he ifma
I . f appropriation that constitute the work
i- < funds of the administration will de
monstrate that the Populists have saved
the people nothing in money wnile they
: »ve lowered the of 'h» state's
• in«t!tur'.->'-« «-d Its standing to a
• most disgraceful point.
Per: Townsend leader: Considering that
the Ohio Democrats made free coinage the
I chief fraturc of their platform, they are
y quiet on that point since
the opening of Use campaign.
i Whatcom Blade- It is not at all to the
i credit of the state agricultural college
aad school of science recent# that that
institution is crippled by deAden-lea With
a I'r.ired States g -vernment land grant of
l* 1 00 acres. an annual Federal contribu
tion cf sls •*> :n caah f;r agricultural and
scientific investigation, a graduated Fed
erj! allowance amounting to £11.090 in
c*-«h a yw. and to be |i T . a year after
15tf* o :ght to be stiff-lent fo k*ep the
. ciy.ves from the portals of that misguid
ed ranch of prof*** rshlps.
OCTOHKH.
When a h*:s' inJ g-e« a-hi;-.'lr.g
Then hi# lovuig wif« infers
She * 1 have a two days" jncnie
With hi* corduroys a;.d burs.
I lov« Oct ier'» br; ,vant lesv«s.
Whioh Daphne brings jr. gorgeous
i For while ane s dc ;ng that with zest
' My aor.st's ro#e« get a r *t.
—Chicago R cord.
Grt tlatba Trade.
San Francisco Bulletin. Oct. 15.
THE PASSING THRONG*
Dr. Char!®? E. Cummin*!, who formerly
lived in Pittsburg, but w:io came to
tie about a year ago. is just back from a
prosper tin sc trip to Moapt Raker, as a re
sult of which he :s enthusiastic over the
outlook for that section. He was aocotn
par.lt 4 by Alexander M. Watt, of Port
Angeles.
"We left here abo'it the last of Septem
ber." said Dr. Cuir.mir.gs last night, "go
!ng by the S attl* £ International railroad
to Deming. There we took the w.tgon road
to Loop's. Thence we took the trail to a
point between the ten and eleven-mile
posts, from which we bore directly over
the mountain. We kept along the top of
the range till we came within about four
miles of Post's claim. Then we went down
to Swamp which we ascended. We
packed our own stuff going in. of course,
very light, w:th not more than forty or
fifty pounds apiece. We had nails in our
ehoes, as a matter of course. They are in
dispensable. We did not find any part of
the trail very difficult, but you must bear
In m.nJ that both of us were in the very
best of possible training and condition,
having bet« prospecting all the summer.
"I think the district In general can be
made fairly accessible. A good wagon
road can be built at small expense frm
the fourteen-mile post to Johmson's camp,
at the foot of the dry gulch. From that
point the various claims would have to be
reached by a pony trail.
"It is naturally difficult to speak with
certainty as to the outlook when you re
member the fact that as yet no develop
ment work has been done. The greater
part of the country has not yet been
touched. Men hava simply passed about
over it and staked claims wherever they
saw white quartz. But in my judgment
every Indication points to rich returns.
The district is easy to prospect. The In
dications he on the surface and the gulche*
are not hard to get up.
"There ha* been some placer mining,
and the men who have panned in the
■tream* have found promising colors; but
the gulches are narrow, and we saw only
one or two places on Swamp creek that
could be utilized.
"We located ten claims on a continuation
of the range on which Church mountain
lies, about a mile south of Tomohoi mount
ain. I talked with an aasayer who had
handled a good many specimens from the
district, and while speaking very con
servatively. he assured me that he believed
many of the properties would be very
valuable."
The Pacific Lumber Trade Journal has
sent out. under date of October IS, the fol
lowing circular:
"To the Shingte Manufacturers of the
Pacific Northwest: We have been request
ed by a number of leading shingle manu
facturers to ur„e the closing of the mills
during the winter months. The demand is
falling off rapidly now. and already there
are signs of a weakening In prices. The
demand from November 1 to February 1
is always more or le*s speculative. There
Is no building to speak of during that pe
riod. and the shingles purchased- as a ruls
at low prices -will be held as a club to
force prices down in the spring.
"Tha capacity is now larger than the
demand, and unless a concerted effort i*
made to curtail production, red cedar
shingles will bo sold at $1 per I,iXW before
the spring trade begins.
"Kindly advise us if you expect to shut
down the coming winter."
In response to the inquiry Mr. Beck
man has received many letters, nearly all
of which state that the mills will close
during the winter. Mr. Beckman fctates
a move will be to the distinct
advantage cf the shingle cutters, as a
demoralization in prices will not follow
upon a winter's work during which East
ern buyers are getting the product of the
mills' off season cut and keeping down
prices for the spring output.
General Agent Dudley has appointed
W. R. Forrest assistant general agent
of the Alaska Transportation and De
velopment Company, with headquarters
In the Haller building. The new com
pany. backed by heavy Eastern capital,
proposes to enter into tho Alaska trans
portation business on a large scale, and
to that end has selected Seattle as its
American terminus and actual head
quarters.
By the selection of Mr. Forrest to rep
rr«» nt it In a respon«ible capacity, tho
concern has done much to identify itself
closely with the interests of this city.
Mr. Forrest is one of the best and most
favorably known men in the state. He
was city clerk of Seattle and auditor of
King county for a number of years, and
was afterwards state senator In the Sec
ond and Third legislatures. Much of the
important legislation of these sessions
is his handiwork. Mr. Forrest has been
prominently identified with the activities
of Seattle for a long time, and his selec
tion altogether is one of the best the
Alaska company could have made.
A distlneuished party of visitors rea^het
the city Monday by a private car of the
Southern Pacific. The vis'tors were: Henry
Scott, president of the Union Iron works,
of San Francisco, and one of the executors
of the will of the late Col. Cro.-ker: J. W.
Green, another exe utor of Col. Crocker's
last testament; Alexander Morrison, their
attorney. Dr. K. J. Depue. state prison di
rector of California, and Mr. ZaSl.e, a well
kr.own citizen of San Fran i«co.
The party wn« shewn throusrh the cpy
by Austin Claiborne. manager of the Arc
tic Oil works. They expressed grt'it adm'r
atlon for Seattle and wer.> thoroughly
plf-.ised with all they ?aw here. They left
ye«ter<lay for the Carbonado m.nes, In
which the Crocker estate has large hold
ings.
O. It. Culver, of Whatcom, has been
tendered by Collector of Customs Hetis
tis. an>i has a* < cpted, the appointment of
1 r •
in a few short months
the sweet babe follows
her to the cemetery.
If xr-vrrsen tHII only lorn, and teach thfir
daughters, the supreme importance of
keeping the distinctly feminine organism
in a perfectly vigorous and healthv condi
tion, this ever recurring traredy will soon
be a story of the pa«t. If women who suf
fer from weakne-s and disease of the«e del
icate organs will write to I>r. R V. Pierce
at Buffalo, >». Y., they will learn that ia
order to recover ami maintain their health
in this respect, it is not generally necessary
to submit to the humiliating examinations
and local applications insisted upon by
physicians. In wrttir;* contidentiallv to
Dr. Pierce, a woman places her case, with
out charge, in the hands of an eminent and
skillful specialist, for thirty vears chief con
suiting phvsician to the Invalids' Hotel and
Surgical Institute at BuSulo, N Y.—one of
tbe leading medical institutions in the
world, with a staff of nearly a score of emi
nent practitioners. Dr. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription cures all weakness and d sease
ol the organs distinctly f* mir.tne Honest
dragsnsts recommend it instead of urging a
substitute for a little extra proht.
** I have liter, a irreat *u from female dia-
Maes, writes Mrs. C. C CUrk. of New K at,
f.oyi Co.. Ga. " I was coo fined to try be-! three
years. Nine bottl-so< Ur. Pierce S Favorite Pre
scrtpuoa cuaaplneiy cured tae."
Dr. Pierce s
Sfld fceaJth 1* tafge'e s matter „.f hea lhv
srti»ity of the bowel* t>r Pierre » Fiaawat
pellets cure constipation T'. ry ire »a.c. *«» re
aad speedy. aad oa-e taken do not h»Te to t*
takers alwava. Cse lit?.- ** Pe'.iet is a reai'.e
laaalive ao4 two a •*: 1 a | . ®
cathartic. T'oey nwr MPi |P| C
gripe- sell latsa. ■ VllvWi
deputy collector at Rwhe Hirbor. San
J.:an county. Mr Cuhvr " n co
respondent and agent of the I os.-Intel-
at Whatcom and Fa.rha\ en f»
a number of year?. He is a newspaper
man nf wide experience and recogn.rea
efficiency, and his service to the Fo*t-
InteUicncer has been satisfactory in al
respects. not on!v to this paper. but to
the people of Whatcom county, irrespec
tive of politics. He is well equipped to
discharge his new duties. and no
doubt he will make a very valuable and
acceptable official. He will assume office
November 1.
J W. Casey travel!-? passenger and
freight agent >f the Chicago. M'waukeo
* St. Paul railroad was in town yester
day. Mr. Casey is the gentleman who dis
tributed the 'round-the-world map that
showed Portland as the shortest way to
get from Chicago to Alaska. He is now
repentant, and i* showing a map published
by a tobacco Arm in the East that shows
the Northern Pacific coming into Seattle
over the Great Northern track* from Ev
erett. "There are other sinners." said
Mr. Casey, in defense of the Chicago, Mil
waukee .i St. Paul mnp. then two
wrongs don't make a right."
Fred E. Sander is back from a trip to
Eossland and Trail and remark* upon the
improved condition of thing* in those
camps. He ascribes the better feeling
to an extensive development thst is
now going on, and thinks that Rowland
will turn out to be a large town. The
floating population in both Ro*s>iand and
Trail was drawn off in the excitement of
the exodu* to the North when the Klon
dike excitement first broke out. Thia
was to the advantage of the camps, a*
it left those who had invested to carry
on the work that was commenced early
in the summer.
Superintendent Joseph McCabe, of the
Northern Pacific, has notified the freight
department of the Seattle & International
that, owing to the inability of the Bur
lington road to furnish cars for delivery
at Billings, the Northern Pacific would
be compelled to discontinue the furnish
ing of box cars to the Seattle A Inter
national for lumber and shingle business.
Superintendent Kline says that there
will undoubtedly be a car shortage.
E. E- Ellis yesterday received a telegram
from W. H. Hurlburt. general passenger
agent of the Oregon Railroad & Naviga
tion Company, Instructing him to resume
the sale of tickets via the Union Pacific
under the same conditions as were effect
ive prior to September 23.
Among the late Federal appointments is
that of B. C. Van Houten as deputy
United States marshal. He will serv j
in this qity under Marshal Ide. He has
filed his oath of office with Federal Clerls
Hopkins.
R. C. Stevens, general Western passen
ger agent of the Great Northern, went ta
Portland yesterday morning for a short
bualnts* trip, expecting to return today.
Mrs. Svlvester Scovell. wife of the New
Tork World's famous correspondent, who
is now in Cuba, leaves this morning over
the Canadian Pacific for New York city.
Hope for
Consumptives.
I am prepared to treat consumption and
bronchial trouble* by methods which are
the best and surest known to the medical
world. My new Invention and treatment
by medicated air kills all germs and acts
directly upon the lungs and blood. Con
sumption can positively be cured by this
treatment. The public Is Invited to in
spect my laboratory and treatment rooms.
DR. A. M. BURNS,
Masonio Temple. Seattle.
ii MM HOUSE.
1431-1433 SECOND AVE.
Near Pike.
MACKINTOSH
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Men's All-Wool Hlark Tricot
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S4~«aeh Hf«»r All-Wool Astra khan, for «»»«• ** 4
91.3 ft yard. W H«,
Fralt of the Loom Blrirhrd V 1 unlln, W lorhr"
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Mill Kemnanta of Mackinaw Twill* and
only T'jo.
25 plffi-» Farnltart Calico, mil fable ' of f#B
only 3ij« yard.
WE CLOSE AT 6:30 P. *