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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1890)
801 WEST SHORE. Who is building the Pacific Short Line, from Sioux hope that in the future San Francisco will not give City to Ogden, is a question that puzzles every one. them such abundant cause to be ashamed of her. Here is a road being constructed at a rapid rate, at the cost of millions of dollars, and no one can say in It is something of a reflection upon the state of Ore- whose interest or who is furnishing the money. The gon that her young, but prosperous, neighbor should president of the Illinois Central, generally credited have a better equipped national guard than she. The with it, strenuously denies that either his company or national guard of Washington, consisting of two full himself has a cent invested in the enterprise, and ofii- regiments, is now in a brigade encampment of ten cials of other roads are cqaully explicit in their de- days' duration, on the shore of American lake, near nials of ownership. As the road will cost less than Tacoma. These regiments are fully equipped for field half the debt of the Union Pacific to the government, service and have both fatigue and dress uniforms. Ore- as it practically parallels the latter road and would gon not only has no field equipments, no overcoats bo a most dangerous and expensive rival to it, and no dress uniforms and no money for an encampment' as the officials of the Union Pacific do not seem to that most essential part of practical military instruc- worry much about it, there are many who believe that tion, but its appropriation is now exhausted for the it is being built by the Union Pacific, which will turn year, and the national guard must get along the best its present l.ne over to the government for its debt, it can without state help for the next six months If I his is not a novel idea by any means, since it is a the legislature at its next session would make a special matter o public knowledge that the oflicials of the appropriation to cover the expenses of these six months Central I acific have done just that thing, except the the tax for next year would yield money enough for an fina act of let ng the government take possession of encampment. The trouble arose in the legislature o old and almost useless line through Nevada and which passed the national guard law, by which th the mountains of California. It may be that the gov- law went into effect the first of July, 1 8 f aid the P crnment will b. compelled to go into the railroad bus- propriation did not become incss earlier than the nationalists even hoped for, by 1888, leaving the guard half a year in arr ars S JJ ... , a to it aa a MliM, pol- JSEHftf and the tax payers expect. Thoso papers that have joined West Siioke in its Wall strepf Am,u , strong condemnation of "athletic clubs," and hav and 11 7 f pointed the finger of scorn at San Franci co and CaT T ?, J ? K7 mCQ wh never 8aw WaU forniaasthe aradise of prize t 2? tle thoroughfare will late themselves that they have at last aroused the nTt Y. 7 J' the general senti" . .lomfarlng spark of pride and respe Zi h som Z i PPSed t0 mUSt of the officials of that state, Governor Water! SHS Hi, T" has instructed the attorney general to have prize firht 17 ! Engll8h Parllament b ects to stopped, and'as the latter omcial has d'la'Thinfse " f" the 'W" u heartily in sympathy with the movement it is mo, fZTZ t VIT f tlian probable that the San Francisco bull pens will 2 ? r , ln the West is far the bo closed. It is no credit, however, to the people of San Francisco that they permitted these brutal fights Now is iU u r 7 , to continue until the murder of a man in the ring led sissinni v 1 Z f the CycIone in the Mis" the state authorities to do what the local officers should thl ? 7 ! ?Y & 80 frequent and deadly that have long since done. To bo sure, Mayor Pond re- ation u T the Census enumer" Awed to approve an ordinance licensing "athletic ,k. 7, Those who escaPe them and are not clubs," on the grounds that these contests were con- If? 7 maDgled in a railroad accide ave rea- trary to law, but it turned out later that there was 8elf congratulation. good reason for the milk in that cocoanut, as the Now tW a mayor made no effort to stop the fights, and the only hu.Z . 9X9 comPetinS companies seeking a result of the veto was to save the clubs the license fee a y f "! Louieiana' there is nttle dbt that which appears to have been the sole object of that o.Ja i glVen' since the 8ura fit offered was worthy official. The people of the Pacific coast have Z?r t0 bUy the State' and the hi8h bida become tired of nlogizing for their chief city, and irrcBi8tible Ut b ComPetition must prove