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One Yea S*-J®
S*x Month j
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TACOMA should wake up
I (i! : i s t" -a »i*o it cut t ing un
A
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tl,.r h !‘ai - ' :» margin over
s n which her
j, v, , mis.' pay- rhert* is no
arr.cieo «*< n»*rehamiise which
t !, Tacoma 10 or lo
}H-| . - i cheap. ' m Seattle.
, . e* un
'pi , ,, - p.c .-at importance to
is tu tin c inuta’ ion on hauls of
pH’ .» •_'»H > E! is, !u the case of S* w
:m* atMt Valde the twenty-eight rail©
j-;; ^ v*' i >«*ivi use the Sea Hu*
Si Ca; y otv r.Yt* ballast totln
*p u < 1 Min-l'a I They travel just as
far.is a Taeot steamer vvotthl have
t o ,»».
Sat. Prune me* > ami Portland. ai great
«’ '..uvantag ' » ce ami time, are
figuring <»: A aska. ti-de. Even little
Hi- .ngham t ii: < at*'ps to try for it if
she c.m g. I a railroad through from
Spokaii-. ! * t j>*- n is heard from
Tacoma, the city which was almost as
largo as sour d- " hen Seattle in the
clutch ot bankruptcy reached out and
grasp.-tt almost the entire trail© of
Alaska. In i«" than nine years since
tit. iMoiuiike discovery was reported
S» at tie has tr. died in population and
Tacoma has grown some because the
growth of ih< whole Northwest lias
dragged it upward.
It looks as th , :gh 'Tacoma is satisfied
to live on the payrolls of the Northern
Pacific am. the St. Paul I.umberfom
|Mn> and its ample spare time
bet w, i ny lis g " WatchTaeoma grow."
and tiuarrelirg with the rest of the
Horld h< Cu i r< n.si-s to call Mount
Kainier Mount Tacoma.
Watch Tacoma vegetate.
ABOUT THE SALMON TAX
Alaska «Ioe> not seem to be worry
ing al*out '.!.»* >. 4 e -tits a ease on
■>,i . 'ii pa.ke A.a-xa ®'ii Pi the
\voi ■ • 1 : \* - Si, l* .-aneiseo ask
Cot*-' *ss , | !e >*. e in theit jilt *t*est.
(}n • , e* ... ■ ''-'il disjMsi: **u
.seems mV \ le-nt among the
Alaska ii ■ ,s|»■ - I * in insist that a re*
l ie a! «»: t!i *' sv*mlei h* a donation
tO !' * e id. t '•
The peeking . isprv s of no value
ty Alaska ' ' ! '"ell tie* stutis*
lies of i;' U:i' " A large majority
Of the packing s me by a San Fran
eisi e•. a;* . «;, no d »* s n it spend
a do, it* in A.iskt. It transports its
men anal pi e« n the summer di
ree: from Sai Fr. arisen and when the
I
duet and lb** upon its boats and
carries then: back to San Francisco.
1: does n even pay its men while
they at* V iska so that they can
bpend a fe*• irs in the north.
The salmon packing business of
Ala>ka a o\v conducted simply
means tl ir:*\ g away of a valuable
native p n1 a*' without leaving any
thing in com!* mat ion. Every busi
ness man of v ska pays an occupation
tax for the ,>nvi ege of selling goods.
Every opvatod railroad pays a stiff
lax for the j> *vi 1 • ge of running trains,
although it develops the country,
while all the -.Anton packers do for
the territory :.a\ be expressed by a
cipher with the rim knocked off.
A well-known Seward man covered
live case a> .. majority of Alaskans look
at it when lu* said a few days ago
tlxat instead of removing the 4-cent
tax Congress would favor the territory
more by raising the tax to 50 cents
anti devoting the proceeds to building
roads and school houses.
If the Northwestern Steamship Com
pany puts the Nome City on the Sew
ard run this port will accept it with
the statemen t hat even small steam
boats, like other small favors are thank
fully received
With famine spreading through a
large part of the islands it begins to
look as if Japan was saved considerable
trouble herself by the treaty which the
rabble of her cities made such a fuss
about.
The Canadian government seems to
have heard that the coast of Vancouver
island is dangerous in foggy nights.
Numerous unoffiicial persons heard of
it a long time ago.
The steady slaughter of missionaries
in China ought to be good for vast
trade concessions in the final adjudi
cation.
DISAPPOINTMENT SOON KILLS
David Henderson is dead at the
■ age of («♦>. Four years ago ho was up*
parent 1\ n rugged health with a long
i: hefore him. A few mouths later
In declined renomination for t’ongross !
; because the insurgent rebellion against |
: his rule of t he I louse of ! lepresen’at i ves .
made his :f-tilivlion as speaker doubt-[
fa), in a few months more he became [
j a chronic invalid.
Public men m\urly always die when j
! thwarted it; a great ambition. Pol. j
Heuo *r>i ■ might !.u ■ remained in
• Congress r loiiuilelv hip he was dis-j
appoint* ‘cause he failt l to rule the .
11,, >, u 'hotn ts 15 He* I had done. !
ill. tailed va se there " a > only one
jj . (, im i;i’ ere *"i’ Oil. Ihvd died
’ hceau-e tli **i tea.1 pa ty put much j
-mailer men *vor .:ds h ae.
.he 1 stl, t ai e tiTit o' disappoint
*1 a fev. : n hs ,i:'ti r he tailed it I -
in'ly to del • toe r.-unmination of'
r , -idem H i .Sim a hmni that he !
s t.i fv ait ; r i v.u'ii i i tlii* IJepublicau
.a:!, whieii e mv r could bridge. j
t hatme-v \|. Dcpcw is sinking into i
iMtv-is hi cause til,* insurance revel-1
at ions !:a\e discredited Itis character, j
.!e!u A. Met’ail is dead from the same i
ca -e. Datdel Webster d I a few
: months after the Whigs refus m mm ai
;u ei: iKtt ion for the i'resiliency whieii
knew was h s last chance. Stephen
\. Douglas died when tlie Democratic '
■»;,11\ split over Ins nomination for the
i’residency and h ill of it went into
secession, ( lu ster A. Arthur survived
[only two years after the Republican)
party failed to reward with a renotn
inutton the skill with which he reunited
i party yvhich his predecessor had split
| in twain. Cancer ended the life of IT. j
S. i.d-ant but its progress was doubtless j
i i-waicd b> the failure of the illustrious
soldier to succeed as a tiuaneier. .John !
It. Mitchell died six months after hisj
conviction of a petty offense.
Disappointment seetus often to he
more fatal than disease.
If Sir Francis tiopi n..s.my gratitude
he will cotue to the rescue of Captain
Putman Bradley Strong as a return for
the Captain's services in taking May
Yone off his hands. The Captain is in
jail in Shanghai with a financial cloud
hanging over him.
If Bishop Turner, tin* frothy colored
divine, is correct in his assertion that
hell is a better country for Kthiopans
than the Tinted States the colored
gentlemen who have been lynched in
the South are now in a lumpier clime.
If the ordinary Cnristian missionaries 1
in China can't tame the Boxers thej
Christian Scientists might go over and j
make a few hypnotic passes at the ;
heathen warriors and see how it would
come out. ^__
It is reported that tin* Chinese are
gutting sore at the Japanese because j
t he islanders are swarming into!
Manchuria and other northern prov-;
i;;ces just as if the mikado owned,
the countrv.
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The [landman crowd is slid to have
U,ught the control of the Tactile Coast I
Cuinpany, which naturally includes the!
Valencia and its consequent ills. Jim
Hdl unloaded about the right time.
Fred Date, a mail carrier, traveled
from Fort Gibbon to Fairbanks in the
cold' st weather of January with 4iH)
pounds of mail. He was on the road
t welve day s.
In a short while the scrub woman
will l»e attending to the grease spot
where t’astro stood.
Johann Hoch was forcibly taken from
us but at least he is safe from his sur- j
viving wives. *
[f Bat Nelson stopped a runaway j
horse maybe he can stop Joe Clans.
Testimony before the federal com
mission which is investigating the Val
encia wreck shows that James P. Pharo,
general agent of the Pacific Coast \
Steamship Compauy, gave the orders
| on board the City of Topeka which
prevented that vessel from doing any
I thing, and that it was he who sent the
Queen away. Mr. Pharo resigned a
few daysafterthe wreck but his friends
worked the newspapers to say that he
was going to quit anyhow.
Now is the time to engage contract
1 ors to dismantle old mills at- low cost.
This work should he in great demand,
as a report is going the rounds of the
daily press to the effect that certain
contractors who were dismantling an
old mill near Albuquerque, New Mex
ico. discovered a $200,000 gold brick
under the floor. Newspapers often sell
gold bricks.—Mining and Scientific
Press._
Ocean Vessels Long Overdue
In a list of boats on the Pacific long
overdue the Seattle Times does not
classify the bark Nicholas Thayer,
which was thirty-seven days out of
Cape Flattery on the day the list was
published, -February 16. The vessels
listed were the British bark Pass of
Balmora. 166 days out from Montevideo
to Salinas Cruz; reinsurance 25 per
cent; British bark Dumcraig, Astoria
to Manila, 146 days, 90 per cent;
schooner Nellie Coleman, from Ungato
Seattle, ninety-eight days. The Times
also includes the Dora, then fifty-four
days out.
PREPARES EOR
WAR IN CHINA
(iovernment Shins Seven Carloads
of Ammunition to Fleet
at Manila
Oy Ca'olo to The Daily Gateway.
Portsmouth, N. II. Feb. L!7 Seven
ear loads of cartridges, the largest
shipment of ammunition ever made
from tie government arsenal Imre
left I:i -1 night for San Francisco. Tim
consignment will he shipped from
Mare island to the Asiatic licet sta
tioned in thi> Philippines. The arsen
al i> working day and night upon
other hurry orders for ammunition.
The orders are due to the fear enter
tained in ollieial circles that an out
break may occur in China at am time
which will involve the Cniteil States
in war with that power.
Six Missionar cx Killed
Shanghai. Feb. l!7 The latest re
ported trouble in China is the murder
of six missionaries anil the wounding
n! one child in a riot at Nan < hung.
According to Chinese report the out
bre tk was the result of a lawsuit. The
Chinese say that a Catholic priest
gave a banquet to which be invited
the local Chinese magistrate. At the
mission the priest tried to force the
ollieial to sign a judgment allowing a
large indemnity for a prior destruction
of mission property.
The magistrate is dead and some
say that lie committed suicide rather
than sign the judgment. Others
assert that he was killed by the priest
because of his refusal. A meeting of
Chinese was called which was followed
by a riot and the murder of the mis
sionaries.
Threaten Trouble in Pekin
Pekin, Feb. L*7 Warning of a pro
posed attack upon the imperial palace
by revolutionists was received here
yesterday. The foreign residents are
panic-stricken and police guards have
been doubled. An American gunboat
is proceeding up the river to the city
from the coast at full speed.
The empress yesterday degraded her
chief eunuch. Li, because of the revel
ation that he had been levying tribute
upon merchants who were doing busi
ness with the palace.
Says Boycott Hill Continue
Seattle. March 1 Chan Cheng, a
leading member of the Chinese imper
ial commission which arrived here
yesterday on the steamship Dakota,
stated in answer to questions today
t hat he believed t he boycott of American
goods in that country will continue un
til the Cnited States modifies the ex
clusion law. The commissioner stated
also that he believed that within two
years China will have a new form of
government with a constitution patt
erned after American and Kuropean
models, and that thisehange in govern
ment would have an important effect
upon Chinese foreign relations.
Gun Boats Mead for Nan Chung
I’ekin, March 1 American. ISnglish
and German gunboats are sailing up
the river to the scene of the Nan Chung
outrages against foreign missions.
The government has already taken
steps for the execution of the men who
actually committed the murders. Many
of the native population of Nan Chung
are fleeing from the district, dreading
the armed forces which are approach
ing. _
Fears for German kesldents
Berlin, March 1—Admiral Von
Tirpitz stated yesterday in the reich
stag that he believed the German resi
dents of China were in great danger
from the threatened uprising. Qe an
nounced that the German warships at
the Asiatic station were being over
hauled and placed in readiness for war,
in the belief that tin armed conlliet
might begin at any time.
Chinese Reported Warlike
Victoria, B. C., March 2—The steam
ship Empress of India brings the latest
advices from China by mail. The
newspapers from the Orient state that
in the Chinese province of Honan ban
ners are living inscribed “Advance,
China! Destroy foreigners!” The re
port is also brought that the Christian
ized Celestials of the province are or
ganizing independently to oust the
foreigners.
Seattle Post Office Overworked
The Seattle post office is continually
clogged up with mail and clerks work
nearly all the time. First-class mail is
often held up one or two days because
it cannot be sorted sooner, and paper
mail is held up indefinitely. The post
master has been shouting for more help
for years and the department regularly
supplies it al»out two years behind. It
seems that the department cannot be
made to understand that Seattle handles
as much mail as any other city of twice
its size in the United States because of
the Alaska business.
The Seattle democrats failed to
nominate a city ticket because they in
tend to support the municipal owner
ship ticket headed by Judge Moore. It
was useless to nominate the candidates
because the names could not appear
l more than once on the official ballot.
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Whole Wheat. Graham, Rye
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