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CASUAL Uvi‘r‘fliji-SIONE
THE “CITY OF DES'LINY—" ‘
Election Results— Bright Prospecls. I
Klimt“: 4-:: 1» . i E
"it tt.'t‘.. \’ 1.1 l
The "City nl’ lh-~1.i~.j..' . an in. !
broken ft-rwt. :_:. ';:.~i;-li:l}' hill. ::ltl
unpoeticnl \Viblt‘ of mull tint. lln‘!
hoineuf that nun) in ,: ::zt-l - f ti»!
Wiltl bll‘tls. llilfi [ti-whi "fill-2:1 ilwfilli
unto life," in :; 'ti'.-iia-~~ taint f.l
View. Flirt. it “in l.~'l':.ltlt'tll;\ ti v!
“termiinh.” and law-l» lunglwl mi
its pretensiaim tiivn. lltt' lwl‘u—f lltx‘l
ed away an-l tln- fitk't‘ wt" .\::xllil~' i
came a Coinbinati-m «ti mu lily strwt~
and wooden building. 'l'iit-n, lllt‘
capitalists ('ziliw “111 l llivit' iittlu Hit‘lh
and unloaded Fli"l{“i‘ in [‘11) lilt'lll fur
corner lots at fabuln-ie prim-x and tin
wise men >11!)th tlivir lit'iialru ::znl
mumbled "raft lii>l2 lmltntu lmlllitl
to fall out." Then timgnitit-r-nt liticlt‘
buildings, majmtic lill‘lllt‘fix ltlm'lx’~
with beetling bay \Vintluws anti itn~
posing (‘Ul'lllL‘U “'rl‘t‘ I'Vt'lh'tl IL3 ”:0
flowers of >pring aluxu a garbage‘
heap, and yt-t 1--- pin \t'uggt-Ii tlivii‘
heads and nmaim‘t uvt-r tlm f-n;li~li
ness of ailventnrn I'<. lml :.~tr::y by tln-
Tacoma Land (Mini-any and the vi:-
ergetic real mum- agvnt who'gct
teth there with [‘4th fin-t." I‘o.de
Tacoma is a prowl. bustling city of
ten thousand inhabitants—acity lu
which the great, ambitious North—
west can point its 0110 of her pro
ducts. I l‘x‘illt‘lllllt'l‘, l\\i-l\'o yeah
ago, when Francis H. Cook. then an
Olympian publiahcr, wanted nu: to
go to Tacoma to take charge of a
small daily newspaper “bitch he in—
tended to start. It wasdemnml by
many simply one of Cook‘s specially
visionary crankisms. 'l‘o-day the
newspapers of Tacoma rank “‘vll
with those of Portland and Minot-zip
olis.
rm: Issue GONE run noon.
Free trade. (or, tarifiller-revenue
only, which is merely the seedling on
which free trade was intended to be
grafted,) will be dead for at least a
quarter of a century to come. Lead
ing lights in Cleveland's administra
tion left their duties in \Vltslllllginli
to preach the beauties of free trfltll‘
in their respective states. The result
was increased republican gains whc-r
ever they did so. if Glen-land had
sent out more of them the republican
Victory would have been more aw cup
ing than it was. In Washington
Territory the free trade orators. such
as E. K. Hannah, W. R. Andrews, J.
'l‘. Ronald, Judge Burke and others,
assisted greatly in swelling the ma
jority for Hon. John B. Allen. The
only way they could possibly have
done more for the republican cause
would have been to send out more
just such speakers. A man, called
upon for an expression of opinion as
to a certain newspaper, said the only
way it could possibly be rendered
more inferior would be to enlarge it.
So with regard to the “soft- suwder,”
free trade, eloquent humbuggery ful
minated with nasal cadence by the
democratic campaign speakers. Frcm
Voorhees down they were simply aid
ing the republican cause. They’re
awfully sorry now, of course. If
they had only known that the free
trade gun was loaded no amount of
whipping in by the democratic man—
agers could have induced them to
monkey with it The American peo
ple do a large amount of thinking for
themselves. When they get a chance
to vote they do considerable voting—
oocasionally. Cleveland wouldn’t do
it again himself, if he only had an—
other chance. He is not the first
would-be statesman. however, who
‘underrated the intelligence of the
Mpla
Everywhere people are iubilant and
joyful ovur the result of the election.
All over Washington Territory the
feeling is one of unalloycd gratifica
tion. Laborers are rejoicing because
their wages are to be kept up by the
protective tarifl'. Business men are
glad because they know now that thei
certainty of statehood will greatly"
stimulate immigration and thereby
benefit all kinds of business. Demo
crate are for the most part as heartily
glad of the result as are republicans.
It has just begun to dawn upon them
in forceful reality that this election
means more for the Territory than
anything that has over yet occurred.
Itis safe to predict that our immi—
gration will be twice as large next
you as it would havu been under
democratic SUCCESS. with statehood
still in the dim future. Why should
not the people rejoice? Their mate:
rial interests hava been in the politi~
cal balance, and they havo won!
rm: POLITICAL nonusmm. l
Statehood prospects are stimulat—
ing active minds on the question of
ofices. With statehood next year
will come the selection of s. gum-mun
secretary, auditor, treasure-r, super
intendent of public instruction, snp~
reme court judges, circuit judges.
senators, congressman —and many
other servants of the “dear people.”
Among the senatorial timber we find
ex-Gov Elisha P. Ferry, ex-Guv.
Watson C. Squire, erChicf Justice
J. R. Lewis. ex-Cbicf Justice Orange?
Jacobs, Gen. J. \V. Sgruguv, Dr. T.‘
'l‘. Minor, Delegate elect J no. 15.
Allen, ex—Delegute TllOs. 11. Brooks,
Hon. H. G. Struve, Judge Turner—
Ind my others. For Congress»
man mun- :n‘o: ”an. 1:. 0. Dunbar.‘
Hun. J. I: I'nmp vu. Dr. (L V. (Tul—
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”x . T \Viih .\' -r_\‘ -:‘.'ln- t-rvuh-(lE
Ii»). . 1".» :n “Madame of 11133‘
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13m Hm 2mm question nf state»
hmnl H :1: km actually Solved; The
pony-iv {owl mu] knuw this. It duo-s
rm: er- {=l 1w writn-u on tho strm‘f
(TV-1‘11"!" Hr urgund imu thu muhimde
wHwy mm! [5110!” if. Thn republi
can party is plmlgml m 1110 measure:
the rvpuldicau party nnw has powor
tn carry out its pL-ngs—aud the rp
pnl-l’m I party “in: nm‘o!‘ known
‘horn-tufurn to fail in In-opihg its
pr-lmgnq “Lu-u (h‘nYOl‘ (flvvc-laml
fpret-ip tamed tho- tariff issue he lmild~
Eel Nth-r than 1w knew -» fur Wash
‘ ingtnn 'l‘vrritory. ()ur pmplo should
foul kin-11y tnwzml his memory for
making ropnlflicau success pnssible.
ALLEX WEIR.
Items in General.
l’un'l‘xnxxl». Or., Nov. 11".. 1838.
iii t- 1‘..: ‘ ~71: M» :.-i.-: t.
It is said that the president will
recommend on the titritl' question. in
his 11:0“:130 to congress this winter.
precisely as he revommentletl before.
l’r--.~uumhly this course will be fer
lxravatlo: in fact. to show that he
means it regardless of the Votes ol'
the people. It \\'Ulllll l‘e just like
(iron-r (lievolantl to “Hill“ that sort
of a jaeka-s~ of him<elf alter the over
whelming; \‘t-nliLt of the people.
The taritl‘ has been in issue; it ha~
l‘eon fully (liscmsetl. and the people,
who are the real sovereigns, have» ro—
-Icorded their jlltlgllll‘Lt “ith no no
ieertain Solllltl. In View of this, what
folly for congress to attempt to carry
out the (int-den Club policy recoln~
mended by Cleveland and attempted
to be forced upon the nation by the
deu‘ocratic party in congress! What
do the wishes of the pooplo Count for
with our high and mighty president ?
If it Would he misrepresentation of
the people to try to enact the Mills
bill into a law after the seal of tlisap
proval has been set, upon it by the
voters of tho nation, what shall We
say of tho man, even though an oc~
cupant of the presidential chair. who
sets himself up as dictator? l'o.r
populi ror Dci.’
‘ It is now asserted that Charley
lV'oorhees will exert. himself stronu~
‘ously to secure an early passage of
the Washington Territory statehood
lliill. Yen—a-s! Awfully clever in
'him. isn’t it? after he has heard from
the voters some eight thousand
strung! About. time he were stirring
himself to do sanwlhing! Death—
bed repentance is sometimes better
than none. In this case it don't
count for much.
Democrats who are through pay
ing election best are in some cases
unable to pay their business obliga
tions. The amount of money that.
has changed hands is simply enor
mous.
Col. Frank Parker, of the Walla
Walla Statesman. is here. Col. Par~
ker is the man who went home from
Portland atew weeks ago, having
forgotten his night shirt. 0n send
ing back after the article he was sent
a parcel which he turned over to his
wife. who, upon opening it. found
that it had ruflles and lace upon it.
Col. Parker has been explaining ever
since Low that lady’s apparel got in
to his bedroom. He has distinguish
ed himself, however. as chairman of
the Washington Territory board of
penitentiary commissioners. Find
ing that the objects of the law, if car
ried out, would result very detrimen
tally to public interests. the board
changed the proposed jute factory
into a brickynrd, with very satisfac
tory results.
Collector Brooks‘ summary dismis~
531 by the president is believed to be
brutal and unjust in the extreme—
morely serving the petty spite of sub
ordinates, who are actuated by greed
for the spoil; of cflice.
, That history, {or which Mr. Ashley
. Bancroft and others have been taking
, orders throughout the Northwest,
, will be issued uccm'ding to original
, plans. It has merely been delayed
. on account of unforeseen difficulties.
, While in Portland we called at head
, quarters, and found the matter to be
i all right. Great injustice has been
done by the publication of articles
reflecting upon the reliability of the
company and its agents. The illus
trations of Port Townsend, and de
scriptive article contracted for, will
soon be submitted for approval. The
character of the general historical
description of the northwest may be
judged from the fact that Judge Eb
wood Evans, of Tacoma, has been en
gaged to superintend it.
Everybody over here is inquiring
about the Port Townsend railroad.
l ALLEN WEIR. ‘
NOTES BY THE WAY.
Evluuriul Cur;vsptnidL-Lw. ‘
I’uIITLANI), Or., Nov. 19, 1888. ‘
l’urtl .nd’s big hotel is no longer a
distillgllixht‘d ruin. a crumbling relic
of graziumssrbut its majestic walls
are (owning heamuward in solid
uutliuu ’ur just the imposing struc
tum it was intended by Villurd to be.
You c:-.n tell 1:. Portland republican
clear around the corner. Ho is gem
crally clad in a smile and a new hat.
1 The Oregouiun has just issued one
of the finest editions that ever came
from its great intellectual and me-
Ehunica} laboratory. Its publishers
have done so much in this line that
lno achievement of theirs is any
longer looked upon with wonder. i
Thn whole .\‘ortnwest naturally looks "
h: t'..:i.1.1‘-!H consent to this greati
j '..:':m'. in ::rw i ferns wi' journalism. '
i‘~ ; w'n 1’ an] :nl'im-nce are growing
li-- .~- rapi'i‘y than i 4 iii-e VESUI'OUDI
152;. fiivflzit'h it 3:11 done so ”meal:
.15.: ‘ruit. liver-iiitor. is -=i.e of the
barf-. 2: Working men in the whoiv
'l'-'l_\‘- The amount of literary
“'Ul‘k he can and does accomplish is
simply inrredilile. Austere and
habitually pre-v ccupied as he is. his
social nature. s found to be most
genial wienone gets to know him
well. Wealthy as ho is. and strong
financially as is the company that
owns and opi-rams the great newa
paper plant. Mr. Sentt hardly takes
time to rest once in five years. He
has one all~absorbing ambition—to
make his newspaper the very best in
the iieid. 'lO say that it is a power
in tl.e. domain of commerl’t. politics
and linratnre. is: to merely concede
what eierybody knows. Harvey
Scott will take his plaCe in the his
tory of the great Pacific Northwest as
one of the master spirits of the age.
‘ rEnsosAL NOTES.
3 Hamilton l’latt, formerly of the
Port Townsend custom service, is still
working in the Oregonian composing
mom. He owns a farm in the Wil~
lamette valley now. and his many
friends Will be glad to know that he
is doing well.
Hiram Parrish, so well known in
Port Townsend, is running a livery
stable at La Camus, W. T., and is
prosperous. He has a family and
his father also lives there.
One of the old-time characters we
met in l’oatlaml was E. 0. Norton,
well knoun on Puget Sound~parti
eularly about Port Townsend and
Discovery. Mn Norton has been ens
gag-ed in the newspaper business in
Oregon for many years—principally
in Salem. He used to be a corres
pondent for ihe Alums in 1872. when
Al. l’ettygrove was its publisher.
His queries about oldstitno friends
were legion,
Judge Chas. E. Boyle. the new
Chlt'f jnstioo for Washington 'l‘orri
tory, has arrived from Pennsylvanian
and is at tho Esmond—n very pleas
ant gentleman.
Chas. W. l’hiibrirk. formerly pub
li~'lmr or the Annus, well known of
conrsv in Port l'ownsond, is again in
tho newspaper business, having pnr~
(‘llufit‘d tho News at La Unmas, W. ’l‘.
Ho wishes ho had remained in Port
l‘ownsond.
ALLEN \\ 2m.
Editorial Notes.
Douhtluss Ohio is claiming that an
Ohio man is to be President again.
General Harrison was born in Ohio.
The indications now are that. the
Prohibition party will go the way of
the Graenback party. The people
will find that they have no use for it.
In Whitman county, the home of
Voo'rheee, Allen has a majority of 244.
Two years ago Voorhees had in that
county 150 majority.
Tacoma papers seem to bo fond of
speaking of that city as “The City of
Destiny.” Pray, tell us. deatined to
what? Sodom and Gomorrah were
cities of destiny.
Astoria has bright prospects of a
railroad or twot The oldest town in
the Pacific North—west has for a long
time taken a back sent. But the in
dicutions now are that she is soon to
move rapidly forward, and become a
rival of the city on the Willamette.
We belioVe that all calculations as
to Harrison’s cabinet that give no
place to the Pacific coast will fail.
We had it on good authority a: the
national convention that the Pacific
coast would be represented in the
cabinet if Harrison received the no~
mination and secured an election.
Without regard to party the re
quest will go up t 0 President Harri
son for 11 new postmaster at Walla
Walla. All that the people want is
n man who will attend to his duties
of the office in the interest 0! the pea
plu. Thore is a chance yet for Cleve
land to cover himself with glory in
the estimation of Walla \anla citi
zens.
It may be that the official returns
will show that West Virginia is not
11 republican state. But if not now
it will be soon. A majority of several
thousand a few years ago has been
reduced year by year until now the
probabilities are that it has vanished
entirely. The old Dominion is also
sweeping on toward the Republican
side. “The solid south must go."
There will be a lame immigration
to this part of the Pacific coast. in the
spring. A representative of the Ore
gon board of immigration who has
been east says that the people will
come here then at the rate of 15.000
11 month. Our territory because of
its superior udvzmlages always gets
n good share of the immigration from
the east. If we had a board of im~
migration very many more would
come here.
(fur Eastern Washington exchanges
come straggling in from one to two
Weeks lute. Such postal service is of
no sorvica at all. There were in the
railway mail service a few years ago
a large number of experienced and
oflicient clerks. By meir removal
the service “ as demoralized through
out the country. Let us have them
buck agam as soon as possible. not
because there is to be a new admiuis »
(ration, but because the interests of I
the people demand it. i
I
The Tacoma Morning Glob; is one 1
of the neatest and most promisingi
dailies published in the Territory.
It seems t 7) have found a good field
In: a second morning paper in Taco
c. ma. and is. filling in a way that
cannot help proving satisfactory to
tile people. ‘
'1 he Post Intelligencer is a news- 1
paper of which the people of W. T.
may be proud. By the energy and
intellect of its managers it has been
made {or \V . T. what the Oregonian
in to Oregon. It is filling the
Territorial field and the Urngmz
inn. is being nearly everywhere
crowded out. The Evangelist
Moody spoke to the present writer in
a very complimentary way of the 1’
I.
‘ Thin work "JG persons left Wichita
Kansas, fer Tacoma. Wichita has
become one of the doomed boomed
towns. The exodus began last sum
mer. and continues yet. “'ichiia will
doubtless make a fair sized inland
city, but it will require several years
for it to reeovcr from the disasters
of a collapsed boom, A boomed city
is always a doomed city. It is a law
of nature.
Yesterday the Angus contained an
article concerning a railroad from
this coast acrous Alaska and Berhing
Straits. It is not nocccasarv to any
that such a road will be built within
ten years. Congress has already
considered a bill appropriating 3100,-
00!) for the survey of a line from this
Territory to Alaska. This or a sim-i
lar innasuru will come up again and
the appropriation will be mad».
The proplu of Olympia have hopes
of retaining the capital. One of the
arguments used in part of the elect
ion of the Republican candidat‘s for
legislature was that he was a resi
dent. of Thurston county, and would
be for the retention of the capital at
Olympia. Ellensburghis preparing
to press her claims With more Vigor
than ever before. and Yakima will
not by any means take a back seat.
Free trade is not squelched. The
Work to secure the triumph of free
trade principles goes on. Severn]
cullegt‘s In the East lane been ofi'er
ed SSOO each by the Cobden club of
England if they would agree to
propagate free trade doctrines. It
was not intended that the-99 pmposi=
lions should be knuWn to the public,
but they are known nevertheless, and
men of unquestioned veracity have
disclosed them.
We are in receipt 0‘ Gov. Semple’s
Thanks-giving proclamation. The
Governor is desirjous that all people
should have every reason for giving
thanks on that day, and clones (15
follows: “If any homeless ones be
seen standing by the way-side on
that Jay, I trust that those who are
more fortunate will care for them,
that they may see the silver lining of
the clouds and feel the sunshine of
kindness, for a. moment. and so not
despair of human nature. Such
bread wull return, in blessed form, to
those who cast it upon the waters.”
The Non-_them Pafiific railroad com‘
pany Would better subset-vs the in
terests of the traveling public if it
would order baggage checks to the
wharf at Tacoma. Passengers are
landed there so that they may take
boats for down sound pomta; Then,
why not 19am their baggage there
also? Many pbrsous who have come
from the east lately have been delay
ed and greatly inconvenienced be
cause this has not been done. The
opinion is quxte prevalent hereabouts
that the Northern Pacific company is
not as accommodating as the Guns
dian Pacific.
One of the most disappointed men
‘in the Democratic camp this year is
Chairman Brice. He had opened
his barrel, thinking that. it. would
only be casting bread on the waters
that, would return not many days
hence. Brice has prowed not so suc
cesaful in polities as: in railroad busi
ness. Afew years ago he was a
third rate lawyer at Lima, Ohio.
Along with two or three others he
projected the Nickel Plate railroad
from Chicago to Bufi'alo. The plan
was to parallel the Lake Shore, and
sell out to Vanderbilt. It worked
like a charm, and Brice became a
millionaire
Two years ago we met at Spokane
Falls a. gentleman who had invested
and staked his all on the'tuture of
1 that little city. He had lived at
I Omaha and Denver and missed mak—
ing u fortune there by a failure to
jinvest. He was confident that the
history of Kansas City, Denver.
Minneapolis and other rapidly grow
ing cities would be repeated in Spo
kane Falls. The present indicates
that the man was correct in his
judgment. The indications arej
that Spokane Falls will, within a half ‘
dozen years, have three trunk lines
of railwnv. and a population of 50,~
000 or 75,000.
The Olympia Standard, published
by that staunch democrat. J no. Miller
Murphy. now comes out. flat footed,
with an acknowledgement, as follows:
“The decided majorities for the Re
publicans have been cast. in the Ter—
‘ ritories, and it is not at all surpris
ing. These “wards of the Govern~
men!” have but very little to thank
ihe present Administration for. ‘
Their rights have been ignored in}
many ways. The home-rfle plank
in the Democratic platform has been
annulled;theland service has been}
administrated in a way that he.
honored and delayed the bona fidel
settler, without materially checking
the frauds of rapacious corporations;
the postai service has become a by
ward of reproach. and m this Terri}
tory ihe smuggling rings have held
high carnival.”
A New Railroad
Articles of incorporation of the
Seattle A". Northern railway were
filed in King county yeéterda‘y. ‘lt
is tin-{05:6 by the company to build
a road north across tha Skagit river
to Blaizw; and an intersecting line
from some point near the river in a
westerly direction via Fidnlgo island
and, Deception p 915. to Admiralty
11933 on “15312; island. Provision
is also made for a line across the
Cascades to Spokane Ealls.
The names of the moors orators
are familliar in financial and rail~
road circles in Europe and America.
They lead 011‘ with the name of Eli—
jah Smith. )resident of the Oregon
Railway 8: havigation company, and
then follows W. H. Holcomb, the
well known general manager of that.
com may, James H. Benedict, Chas.
F. ’llugg. John S. Tilneg. Prosper W.
Smith. E. L., Frank an E. S. Hoo—i
ley, all of New York. save Mr. Holui
comb, who is from Oregon. Seattle?
is represented by T. J. Milner, sun
perintendent of the local coal roads;
running out of the city to the south,‘
Col._J. O. Haines and Harry Tib- ‘
balls. Jr.
It is said that no work will he
done on the Seattle line for a few
months. but work will be pushed on
the Fidalgo line. Several hundred
men have been working near Ana
cortes for some time. The company
owns on Fidalgo island 3,000 acres
of land.
THE WHALING FLEET.
San Francisco. Nor. lib—Tho whal
ing curtains in this port are of the
opinion that the bark Ohio, which is
now overdue. is lest. One of the
captains states that she was last seen
at the tail end of the fleet. ofi' Capo
Lisburne, in the Arctic ocean.
Another statement is made that she
WAS seen near Matthew’s island, in
the Behring sea. It the former
statement is correct there is a ground
for belief that the bark is lost, and
if the latter story is true she may
still be on her way down.
Senator Kitchen en the Admission of
Washington.
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, has
been a good friend to Washington
territory, doing much to ttd'va‘nce her
interests. A lortland News report
er has interviewed him as follows:
“Don’t you think. senator. that
Washington territory will be the first
‘ admitted to statehood 1”
“It will be one of the first. lfnot the
first. Had the republican part)‘ been
in stowan Washington territory
1 won d have been admitted three
i years ago. as it has now not only the
requisite population, but all the in
i stitutiona necessary to make it a
} prosVerons state.”
‘4 ’ill you make it your business to
do all in your potter to secure the
early admission of Washington ter
. ritory as a state?”
"While 1 have not the honor of
being a member of the senate com~
mittee on territorles, I intend to do
everything in my power to bring the
lsubject o! the speedy admission of
I Washington territory to the atten
} tion of that committee and o! the
L senate. and to aid the early passage
i of_ ,such a measure with all my pow
‘ er.
Value of the World‘s Ram-cad:
The railroads of the world are to—
day worth from twenty-five to thirty
thousand million dollars. This
probably represents one-tenth of the
total Wealth of civilised nations. and
one quarter, if not one-third; of their
invested capital. It i doubtful
whether the aggregate plant used in
all manufacturing industries equals
It in value. The en ital engaged in
banking is but a trige beside it. The
World’s whole stock of money of
every kind—gold. silver and paper
would sun-chase only a third of its
railron s.
Yet these facts by no means
measure the whole importance of the
railroad in the modern industrial
system The bnsxness methods of
today are in no sense the direct re
sult of improved means of transpor
tation. The railroad enables the
large establishment to reach the mar
kets of the world with products; it en
ables the large city to receive its food
supplies, if necessar , from a dis
tance of hundreds bly thousands of
miles. And while it thus favors the
concentration ofeapital. it is in it
self an extensive type of this con
centration. Almost every distinctive
feature of modern business, whether
good or bad, finds in railroad history
at once its chief cause and its fullest
development. ‘
Territorial Growth.
The Astoria Pioneer. casting its
wistful eye in this direction, says:
“The people have wondered at the
marvelous growth of Washington
Territory. here is not one city in
Oregon during the past year that
has increased materially in popula
tion. yet during that time the cities
of Seattle, Tacoma. Ellensburg, Spo
kane, \Vhaticom and Port Townsend,‘
have nearly doubled their popula
tion. Eastern capital and manufac—
teries, instead of locating in Oregon.
have gone to some of the cities and
towns above mentioned and invest
ed. Is it because they have better
natural resources than Oregon, or
are better located for commerce and
shipping? Certainly not. We have
had eastern capital come to Oregon
with aview to, investing and have
seen it 20 over to the Sound or Spo~
kane Falls and invest there. There
must be some cause for this. Wash
ington Territory to-day has a larger
} population than Oregon. The whole
‘ trouble in a nutshell is this: The
system of assessment and taxation in
Oregon driVes capital away. We
believe that if the true facts were
known and the reasons given by cap~
italists for their choice of location
between Oregon and Washington
territory, that it would be that taxes :
are too high inOregon.” ‘
The Baldwm Locomotive works
has received an order from the
Northern Pacific railway for eight -
two new locomotives. one of tie
largust single. orders, if not. the
largest, which has ever been placed
by aroad in operation. The com~
pany has also ordered 1,500 freight
oars. I
The New Homestead Law. 3
A new land hill of importance to
persons who have heretofore ex
hausted their rights under the home‘-
stead and pro-emption laws has pass;
ed the Sonate and with important
amendments has been adopted by
the House of Representatives and
returned to the Senate for concur
;rance in the amendments.
‘ The bill as passed by the Senate
permits all persons who ha‘e filed
under pre-edption or homestead law,
but who for any reason have failed
to acquire title to lands, to again file
under the homestead law and acquirel
title to not more than one quarter
section of public land.
The first amendment added births
House of Representatifiés authorizes
rv‘gi'zt'ora and rereivers to grant
leaves of absences to those who have
made entries and who "by reason of‘
drouth, whole or partial destruction
of crops, sickness. or other unavoid- ‘
able casualty,” are unable to “secure
a support for himself, herself or
those depending upon them," such
absence not to exceed one year at
any onetime, though the period of
such absence shall not be counted as
residence upon the land in making
proof and perfecting title.
The second amendment provides
that ipersons who have made home
steat entries for less than one quar—
ter section may make additional
entry for land contiguous to the or
iginal entry. 160 acres, or if the entry
man elect they may relinquish the
original entries and make new ones
the same as though they never made
entries, except that no fees, commis~
sions, shall be extracted from the
entryman for such additional or new
entries. The residence Which has
been made upon the original "entry
will count as residence upon the ad
ditional or new entry in making final
proof. and where satisfactory final
proof has already been made on the
original entry no proof on the addi
_tional or new entry ivill be reluiired,
é but patent may fs-fue.
5 'l‘liis will he glorious news to
Ithousands of persons anxious to ac
quire homes but deharred from doing
so under existing laws. There is
little doubt that the bill will pass the
Senate as amended.
Copies of the bill may be had by
addressing members of Congress.
A Bailmad Across Behring Straits.
John W. Weber, a traveler,
trader and miner. whose present res
idence is Kodiak, Alaska, is in San
Francisco. He predicts confidently
the Construction before many years
of a railroad from Vancouver to
Behring Straits, the bridging of the
straits and construction of connect
iinfi rail lines to l’ckin, China. and
‘lr utslr. “Just as sure as the world
moves that road will be built,” he‘
says. “Snow is never a great ob-i
‘stacle along the Alaskan coast. owing
;to the influence of the Japan current,
and the many islands in Behring
IStraits would make bridging per
-Ifectly feasible. I hate been in Si
‘beria a good deal, and am only five
‘months tom there. I arrived here
a week ago. This road is a perfect
‘ ly feasible thing. and it will be built.
The Russians are now constructing
.a road to Irkutsk, Siberia. and it is
the intention to extend it to connect
with a line from East Cape. on the
Atlantic side of Behring Straits.
‘This would make a distance of 1,000
.miles. The snow on the Alaska side
is not bad. It does not get very deep
‘ along the coast at any season of the
gear. The Japan currents fix that,
as {fit We] known. The wdlflem at
‘Bit a. Fort Wranale and 1 along
there are very mil As for Behring
Straits, they are but thirty miles
wide, and fcr a good deal of the year
boats could eatsgj run, but as the
straits are dot with islands, track
can be laid upon them, and the in
tervening points bridged. The
depth of water at no point is over
twenty tathoms, and this presents no
difficulty that cannot be overcome.
From Cape Prince of Wales to Pe:
iliing is but six hundred miles. I
‘ a've been Several times at Pe
‘ ’ng and Yeddo, through which the
‘ nueapolis parties now projecting
this ehtergrise intend to run. I
have also eon down the Himilaya
mountains throngh what is kuot‘vn as
the most froz'on and desolate regions
of Siberia, and I can safely assert
that the products 0! the country will
abundantly justify the cost. 0! the
resources to be developed the world
is skeptical, but just as sure as the
world moves that road will be built,
and it will carry thousands of pang
sengers and millions of tons of i
freight, and it will pay. Ten years
will see it completed.’
The Pemtentiary.
l The , genitcntiary commissioners
report t e following receipts and
r expenditures for six months from
; April Ist, as follows: Amount ex
, pended for maintenance of peni
, tentiary for six months from date of
. our taking charge April lst, is
. 322509.52. The unexpended bal
, ance remaining to the credit of the
maintenance fund is $32,290.43}
' Amounts expended up to date up-I
on improvements are as follows:
Electric light and steam heating,
$1,769.50; new cell wing, $5,369.90:
warden and guard’s quarters, $3,022,-
62 Amount expended on account of
deficienc in appropriation, under
it? late firank Paine, Esq.,is $1,970.-
Amounts of the contracts awarded
are as follows' Electric light, s 9,
330; steam heating, $9.250; barn and
stable, $2.488; basement for steam
beating, 32,123; new cell wing, $29,-
945, and warden and guard's quar
ters, $7,157. V
The earnings of this institution so
far have been -mall, amounting on
ly to $125,000, yet if you take into
consideration the sum saved to the
Territory on account of the brick
made and used in the general im
provements. the income is quite
large. The number of brick used in
the improvement was 730,000 and the
ruling price 58 per thousand, a sav
ing has been made, which also rep—
resents an earning of that amount.
‘ The number of convicts confined
in the penitentiary up to date. 116.
Number of convicts received during
the past six months is 34, and num
ber discharged during the same
rind on account of commutation of
sentence is 29; number dying, 2.
Bradstreet’e mercantile agency
reports twelve failures in the Pacific
coast states and territories for the
{WB9li ended November 2d as com‘
pared wlth twelve for the previous
week and thirteen for the cams...
ponding week of 1887. The failures
for the past week are divided among 3
the trades as follows: Four saloons. ‘
tgvo hotels, two general merchans
(1188, one planing mill. one grocer, ‘
one cigars and tobacco, and one brick
Ipannhcturer. 1
2 KORE MGIA'HONB.
Hon. Chas F. Huntley Resin: and
n Eta-appointed.
‘ The latest. sensation, if such it may
‘ hecalled, is the resignation of Mr.
Chas F. Munday, assistant U. S. at
- tornoy for the district of Washing‘
' ton territory. Mr. )lunday,howe'ver,
was immediately rig-appointed by di
v ‘rect. telegraph instructions from
l Washington. _
i The cause leading to the resigns
lition of Mr. .\lunday was the lack of!
”appropriations suflicient to pay for;
3 his retention in oflice, and he accord
-' ingly sent in his resignation, Day
before yesterday MM»- )Itnday re
) tieii‘ed a dispatch from Washington
S're-appointing him to the position,
E and giving special instructions to as
) sist the newly appointed Collecter
E of Customs at Port Town:.end in the
1 business of the custom house. Mr.
- Munday interpreted the dispatch to
3 mean to assist by legal advice and
r council. Mr. Munday is at Port
1 Townsend in compliance with the or.
t ders received from Grover Cleve
f land,l)ut will return to Seattle to
! night. _ _ . ‘
The above facts, while not coming
directly from the United States at~
torney‘s office, are from what are
thought to be reliable sources.
In another place will be found a
local regarding the resignation of
Herbert F. Beecher, son of the late
Henry Ward Beecher, from the spe
cial treasury agency of Puget Sound.
In connection With this. today, a
prominent democrat of this city said
that the reported resignation was a
fact, and further that Beecher re
signed by reason of a direct demand
froni the president.
BEECHER RELXE\E'D—A nzronr um rm:
SPECIAL AGENT Is our or A 1613. ‘
A Pestal Telegraplg Cois: dispatch
datedAVashington, .uv, 19th, states
that H. F. Beecher; special agent of
the treasury at Port Townsend, has
been relievud at his oivn request,
from further duty in . Washington
terrltory, and has been ordered to
San Francisco.
It is known that. Mr. Beecher has
been in San Francisco for two weeks
or more, but it was understood that
ho was there on a thirty-day leave of
absence.-—Seatlle Times.
The Fishing Schoqner_ Oscar and
Haitie. 11: Alaska
The Alaskan, noting the arrival of
the fishing schooner Oscar and Hat
tie, and the loading of ice at Glacier
Bay, continues: “The bay was
found to be covered with fragments
of iCe and icebergs and the schooner
under the influence of the currents
drifted around for forty-eight hours,
anchorage being impossible, the
depth being from 150 to 300 fathoms.
‘Snow and rain fell heavily. Bad
weather which set in three weeks
iago and drove the schooner as far
north as 59 de? 15 sec. into the ocean
(one of the ga es carrying away the
main b 00111), compelled the captain
to put to Sitka for regains. The
wind was mostly from t e south
east, reaching a hurricane at times.
In an interview Captain lohanson
said that since May last he had made
three successful trips in Alaskan
waters, coming as far north as Dix
on Entrance, unng which he caught
some 300 tons of halibut. The fish
was shipped in both a fresh and
salted state to Boston, where it met
with a rapid sale, the flavor being
conceded by consumers to be as
good. if not better. than that osp
tured in the Atlantic; The en tam
says that when he first moomip the
idea of shipping fresh fish eFrom the
Pacific to the tlaatic th eastern
fishermen thought theidea a vision
ary one, but the success of the scheme
is now too well assured to leave any
doubt as to the business becoming a
permanent one and capable of grow—
-193 year bgrz'ear. The Oscar & Hat—
tie is the t fishing schooner which
has gene so far nort as Glacier bay
for ice in which to pack halibut pre
paratory to shippinJg it in refrigera
tor cars. Captain chanson returns
south immediately with the inten
tion of catching ahother cargo and
utilizing the ice aboard—worth fully
slooo—for packing the fish. Cep
tain J chanson is greatly pleased
‘ with Sitka and the surroundings and
‘has no doubt but it will be an impor
jtant fishing station in the near fu
‘ ture. He intends during his brief
stay here, to render himself familiar
with its opportunities for the taking
of halibut and to make further ex--
periments on the fishing grounds.”
TERRITORIAL-
Seven cases of small-pox in Taco
» ma.
1 Chebalis is to have $20,000 water
Works. '
Auction houses pay a license of $75
‘ in Walla \Valla.
North Yakima will have electric
lights by January.
Mason County vote was democratic
except on delegate.
Five ships of tea have come to the
Sound this season.
Tacoma will have cable railway in
operation in the spring.
Washington Territoré shingles are
finding a good market ast.
The new court house in Mason
county wili be finished soon.
The Kitsap county court is called
at Port Madison next Monday. 1
The new code is completed. It is i
said to follow closely that of Ohio.
l’alousc City has more than doubl~
ed in population during we‘lust year.
The Chehalis Nugget says “Voor
hees is defeated but not vanquish
ed."
Gov. Sample suggests that a port
of entry be estab ished at Gray's
Harbor.
Five railroads on the west side of
the Sound are headed toward Gray’s
' Harbor.
; The Ledger expects to credit Taco
ma with 30,0000 inhabitants by Jan.
let, 1889.
’ Whatcom instead of Sehome is now
theterminus of the Port Townsend
mail route.
Cornwall predicts 50,000 is
within ten years for a city onp‘fifil
ingham Bay.
_On the Chehalis reservation 24 In—
dxans voted the republican ticket; 2
the democratic.
An Olympia man raised 370 gal—
lons of cranberries on a piece of
ground 50:150.
Yakima county has bonded its in
debtedness of SBO,OOO to Judge J. B.
Lem at 6 per cent.
A sweet potato weighing 12 pounds
was grown in the Paloma country.
Mr. Moody will go to Spokane
Falls the last of next month.
Washington leads every other out.
and territory in the average produc
tion of wheat per anre. -
Noel Joel's, traveling seeretlry for
the Y. 81. C. A. of \Vashington and
Oregon. has begun work
An exchange says that the timber
land now selling for $lO an acre will
‘be worth SIOO in ten years ,
\ County warrants to the amotint of
SI2OO belonging to Hugh Eldridge
have myeteriously dieappenrod '
The railroad work on Fidalgo
island is under the euperintendency
of Milner, of the O R. 8.: N. Co.
The Secretary of the Territory has
received rmcial notice that there will
be no session of the legislature this
winter.
Charles Francis Adams, of the
Union Pacific, has purchased a
large tract of land adjoining Spo
kane Falls.
The Moscow Mirror favors the
annexation to Washington of the
four counties in Idaho lying in 111.
valley of the Columbia.
Several hundred acres of: land on
Fidalgo island are to be eeded to
the editor of the Washington Far.-
iner if hc‘ moves his paper to the
island:
About sixty men are now employed
on the jetty at the mouth of the
Columbia river. The work goes
right along and material progres
is being made _
, The boring in the attempt to ob?
tain natural gas at Uleeluni has
reached a depth of 600 feet. No gas
has yet been found, but plenty of
lcoal has been encountered.
The l’itr‘ville Time; 5a,“ ,to [the
young women cf the East; Good
girls are in demand. “'8 will take i.
eat load and dispose of them in
thirty days to young "bacheg," who
will devote the remainder of their
lives to malnug them happy.
The growth of Puget Sound cams
merce since the completion of the
Northern Pacific rai road presents a
business aspect that is full of prom»
ise and insures a degree of develop
ment such as is rarely met within a
new country.—Ellensburg Localizer.
0n the Colville Indian reservation
in Stevens county there are less than
1.000 Indians. The reservation is
about lOO‘miles square and is very
rich in minerals. The people of
eastern Washington are anxious that
the reserVation be opened for mining
purposes.
A Spokane councilman recently
said of a gambling den in thatcity:
“I have traveled extensively over the
United States, I lived 13 years in
New York, and I have visited the
slums of that city, but I never saw
any den Worse than Fred Wickwire’s
establishment in thinl city.
A year hence. and perhaps less. the
people of Washington will be called
upon to choose a permanent location
for the State caplital, and an Ellen
burg is now int 9 lead, it 'n neat-a
ry that its citizens should see that
the position is maintained. _ Eternal
vigi ance is the price of the flute
Capital of Washington .
Washington territory now ranks
sixteenth among the coal alandmine
states and territories, an ' {at her
coal has barely been tone ed; At
Cheelurn alone vast meantime oi deal
exist, and within two mi! of the
mvasttflilnouniains legion of the
' 'ty are e' ;
and iron than Pennsylvania has
within the same area, and shena
vastly more territory than the Key
stone state—Oregonian.
An immense wheat and stock
growinieiiountry lies onward of the
timber tof the Northracifiooalt
that is bound to be 9% and thus
the demand-forlnmber y be gen
larged; Northern lumbermen s 1»
pear to look upon the Puget Sound
region as the more promising west
ern field of investment and operatin.
and it is doubtless been. they“
that it lies contiguous to an sapandi
in field for distribution. TW
-115 spread of cultivation in for—
nia by irrigation will also develop
the umber requirement, but it 18
likelyto be less rapid than inOre-t
gen and Washington territory.—
Northwest Lumberman. . _
A cigar dealer in Mmheim, PL,
has n rooster which can untie shoe
strings.
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Notice for Publication.
Uxmu Suns. L‘s!) UIIICI. l
Sui-11.x. Nov. 15. 135.5;
Notice is hereby given that in COluplm
with the giroviolons of the act on may!!!“
Juno 3. 1 TH. entitled "An ct for the uh 0’
timber Inuds in the States otCnliforuia, 010(00-
Nevada and Washington TerriLnry.“ Edward
Kelly, of PO3 Townsend, county of Jew.
Territory of Washington. has lhls day filed In
this omen his sworn summon 50. at): (or up.
purchase of the lotsu and 4 of section No. 5. m
loyaahip Nor tawny-of range No. 3 out. on}
Will omit proo! to show that the land nought II
more valuablo (or its timber or some than [_ot
agricultural purposes. Ind w ambush hil- chin
to End lurid before me Rogi-uer and Receiver 01'
this Mike ..t Seattle, “I. T., on Tuesday the 30!!!
day of July. 1&9.
He sums. as witnesses. Capt. J. Flint 0! I»-
i go: I-lond. W. T., J”. Smith of Irondnlo. W- T
\ .E. Burton of Pen Townsend, .lolm Edwudl
‘ 0! Port Townsend.
Any find all perm-s claiming advorsalym
whom doucribod lands an: requested to file all!
jelaimo in this once on or before uld 80th JD!
‘0! July. 1889. _ -
‘ . JOHN Y. OSTRANDRB.Roguur
i In publication luv. 82, 1888.