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FLOODS ALL AROUND THKRE.
r.t. of Life and Damma to Froprrijr
Kverywlu-re The Klrere are Grad
ually Kluiug- ami Further Damage
ID Threatened.
Sioux Cm , Iowa, May lit According
to the latest telegram the Hood is more
disastrous than at first anticipated.
The estimate aa to the loss
of life vanes from 60 to 10J.
No list of the dead can be given. In
fact the terrorized people sought refuge
in so many quarters that it is impossible
to exactly judge what number is on the
def th roil.
There were some heroic scenes wit
nessed it attempts to save the vie lms
at Omaha bridge, where the West fam
ily met with disaster. Mrs. West
and her 5-year-ol 1 girl were unable to get
away from the Hood in time. The father
and two children were safe and the
rescuing party returning for
Mrs. West and child, found the
waves had swept . ho house away.
Thev floated down with the roaring
current until the bridge was reached.
An engineer succeeded in saving the
woman, her strength failed her and she
was compelled to relinquish her hold on
the child. With a despa ring cry of
"mamma" the child disappeared be
neath the waves.
At a suburb of Leeds directly in the
valley, nine persons are known to have
drowned, four were drowned at Sprirg
dale just below Leeds. An observer on
a high bridge counted 15 bodies
swept under it. Ono of the men
attempted to wado out carrying
two children, but was struck by
a floating timber and so hurt
that ho dropped one of them.
Matt Koe, an old sailor, saved
the lives of 23 persons. A young woman
managed to wade to a i ox car, anil was
their siezed with labor pains an 1 gave
birth to a child, and two hours later
was saved.
Sioux City, May 111 The Floy I river
was almost back in its banks at noon.
Hundreds are returning to their aban
doned homes. Scores of houses were
swept from their foundations, and others
w ere washed away. The damage to mova
bles in the houBes not flontod off is large
Fifty or s xty retail stocks on tho low
ground were deilroyed or badly dam
aged. The river cut aero s tlio bend
anil scooped out a gr at channel, start
ing about Eighth street. All the houses
hi that vicinity, except u few, were ut
terly wiped out.
The lues to tho railroad is estimated
at lf200,000. The citizens' relief com
mittee is hard at work. All the refu
gees were sheltered last night. Sean-I:
ing parties to look lor the dead
began work early this morning. At
noon they had recovered only three
bodies, viz: I'eter Anderson, an engi
neer in a loundry nnd Mrs. Frank Hen
derson and her child of Leeds.
Din Moinkh, May 111 The Dus Moines
river has risen 10 inches since this morn
ing and is still rising. All the lowlands
are under water. Hundreds of houses
are abandoned north of the city.
The river here is several miles
wide, sweeping through farms and resi
dences with terrilic force. Central
Place, South lies Moines, the packing
house district, is all under water, lhe
railroad tracks and bridges are in
great danger. Tho sewers are lilled
with backivater; tho collars and the
business portion of tho city are full
of water. The damage will be enor
mous. Already from the country come
reports ol stock dm w nod and planted
lields ruined. The indications are that
the river will riso much higher; some
predict two feet more. This will Hood
the lower business portion of the city.
No loss of life hi! io.
Kkoki k, Iowu, May l'.l The Fgyp
tiim levee which protects a vast area
of bottom hinds broke this morn
ing at 5 o'clock. The. waters
of the Hes Moines river Hooded the
entire district. The high wind prevail
ing will cause inestimable damage. The
wholo town of Alexandria, .Mo., is com
pletely Biibmergod.
St. Loi'ih, May 1!) The Noddorhut
warehouses entirely collapsed today.
They were Idled with thousands
of dollais worth of tobacco,
sugar, malt and other goods, all of
which went into the river and are a total
loss.
Chk'aoo, May 1! Advices to the As
sociated Press from many points west
show a dreadful statu of affairs in the
Hooded districts. St. Louis reports in
addition to a prospective coal famine
there is threatened a milk famine, the
water on the Illinois side having cut oil'
the dairymen from the city. The de
serted dwellings in the Hooded districts
are systematically robbed of thoir con
tents including furniture. The stealing
is said to have amounted to ovur tlOO,
000. At Sioux City, among other things,
tho stock yards, with animals in them,
the corncribs and all buildings were car
ried away by tho Hood.
At Clariisville, Ark , tho Hood in tho
Arkansas river lea to mo drowning on
five people.
At St. Joe, Mo., the river has .risen ,
nearly two feet, and is now ut the high
est point.
At Murysvillo, Kits., tho river, which
has been tailing, is atriiiu rising, The
city is cut oil' from railroad communi
cation, At Texarkanii, Ark., the lied river
flood weakened all the railroad bridges,
so no trains were run over them. There
has hern no mail sinco Saturdav.
At Peri yville, Mo., the men employed
on the liois llrulo levee have returned
and report the water breaking over
all along. The bottoms w ill be flooded.
At Minneapolis a few more inches of
water will cut the log booms loose,
causing gre t loss.
Cincinnati reports tho rain all to be
nearly two inches in the Ohio v.illoy.
A tornado passed over the southwestern
part of Hamilton county yoat rday after
noon plowing a furrow ot destruction
nearly three miles long. A number of
dwelling houses and barns were de
stroyed and several peMons injured.
At Dos Moines the Ies Moines river
rose three leet dur.ng the night and is
still rising. The city water works are
surrounded and there is great danger of
the water supply being cut oil'. At Dun-
comb, live miles soutli, tho suicco mills !
are flooded, and the occupants are flee- orhood. Thev are doing all they can to
ing for their Iivjs. Tho reports trom the ; rid themselves of the company oi Dr
copntry are contradicloiy but enough is Toed and his fair disciples.
known to say the loss of live stock and
other property is enormous. The iudi- Solid for Cleveland,
cations are thai many persons are Aixanta, tia., May 18 The Denio
drowned. The sitnai ion in Litile Sioux ' cratic State convention met ut noon to
valley is very serious but not eo bat as Iday. Chairman AlkiiiBon, ot the State
that in Floyd valley. Reports from central committee, in calling the body
there place the loss oi life at 25 to 100, to order, made a speech in which he
and 65 lives wore lost in Sioux City, isaid the Democracy could carry the
At Lincoln, Nob., the waters are sub- State for either Cleveland or Hill.
siding and communication was opened
with Omaha last night over the Bur
lington road. The Rock Island is cut
off iro u hero. The Union Pacific can
start no trains. Its loss in grades and
bridges is very heavy. The electric
light and gas pla ts are flooded and the
city was in darkness last night. The
damaze to bus ness is very heavy and
the city is caring for four hundred
people driven from their homes.
At Kansas City the river is rising
again. The Kaw rose three feet and
Argentine and Aruiourdale are two to
seven feet under water, it is still ruing
and will pro' ably go two feet higher.
The packing houses have suspended.
Chicago, May 19 The bicylists ( arry
ing General Sides' message to New
York, made a fine showi g on the first
part of the trip despite the bad weather
and muddy roads. They were
composed of crack riders from
tho various Chicago cycling
clubs and carried the document through
South Bend, Ind., half an hour ahead
of the schedule, thereafter, however,
conditions grew even worse and time
was lost.
Toledo, Ohio, May 1!) F. II. Tuttie,
the bicycler bearing General Miles' dis
patch, came in on foot at 11 this morn
ing five hours late, completely ex
hausted. He traveled through the mud
six inches to a foot deep and broke a pedal
Bolliiieyer took up the journey to Wau-
seou along the railroad, as the wagon
roads are utterly impassable. Route
and Young, of Chicsgo, and Perrin, of
Toledo, will take a relay to Perrysburg.
The business portion of Sioux City is
situated on a flat bounded upon one side
by the Missouri river, upon the other by
the Floyd river and another by Perry
creel;. A range of hills almost entirely
encircles the business portion of the city
and access to the country beyond the
IhIIh is had through the narrow valleys
of the river and the creek. The hills
rise to a great height on either side and
terminate in high table lands upon
which the residence portion of the city
is located. Near the confluence of the
Floyd with the Missouri are located all
the large packing houses, s'ock yards
and manufacturing industries.
lhe rloyd river flows Irom the north
east and Perry creek from the north
through the city. On the low land ad
jacent to the confluence of the Floyd and
Missouri are located the stockyards,
packing houses and manufactories.
Along the banks of the Missouri high
bluffs terminato in precipices and it is
from the brow ol an immense hill
within 3UI) feet of the Floyd river that
the approach to the great steel bridge
crossing the Missouri is had, the graded
roadbed leading thereto passing within
an ea-y stone's throw ol the largest
packing houses. All along the bulks of
the Floyd are situated the plants of the
various manufacturing industries, the
railway cur shops, mills, etc. The land
rises gradually irom the Flovd to the
Perry where it. is 10 or 12 feet higher,
beyond the Perry it rises abruptly on a
ten or 10 per cent, grade.
Tho supposition is that a cloud burst
in tho narrow valley of the Floyd river
some distance from the city caused the
narrow valley to fill suddenly with
water, and hurst the several small mill
dams at intervals along the stream,
each adding its volume to the flood until
by the time tho water reached the open
ing in the hills at the Sioux City fiats
it became a veritable wall of water.
Reaching this opening tho water spread
rapidly over the lower portions ot the
city giving no time lor escape to tho
thousands employed in the munulactur
ing districts and inundating tho homes
of the poorer people who dwelt on the
low lands. The better class of resi
deucs and the most valuable business
property have not suffered by the flood,
being above tho limit oi possible danger.
SALti 1
HiHuliuttli'rA of Oregon TaeUlo
r ail Auouptiho Agreement.
Micw York, May 10 The bondholders
of tho Oregon Pacific Railroad Company
liehl a special meeting yesterday to taKe
acti n on the decree granted by the
Circuit Court ot ihu t inted States for
tho district of Oregon against the com
pany. Tho Biiit wat brought lor a pro
visional injunction to prevent the sale
of $l,OO0,00D worth of railroad property
and it was grunted.
Seepiin Job purchased the property.
and it was agreed to refrain from other
oris to set aside tho sale, provided no
Other litigation was begun by the bond
holders or other interested parties. The
committee, being given ten days to ac
cept the stipuhiMoii, callod a meeting of
the boiulholilers. 1 tie report ot the
committee favored the acceptance of tho
proposition anil suggested a clause ex
onerating tho complainants from any
blame lor bringing suit.
The clause gave rise to a heated dis
cussion and alter an unavailing effort by
tho adherents ol Colonel Hogg to have
it stricken out. tit other side got unan
imous consent to have the protest re-
orded. Tho recommendations oi the
committee were adopted and the agree
ment was indorsed by the bondholders
bv a vote of l),t21 to 1,505.
Ilia
Unwelcome 1'reneiioe
ol-. d by 1. 1 w-
tu he Kxor
('mourn, May 18 lr. Cvrus Teed has
had an opportunity of explaining his
principles to a couiinilteo appointed to
inqi iro into them recently. He was ex
,,,l at . ln..ili hist i,i..hi and i .,,.
era ,i0eIHl,.,i hie conduct, lienvinif that
hu ul , Hiivtliinir but worthy motives in
starting ins homo. tonight a mass
meeting wilt he held to denounce him.
There is also talk of taking legal steps
which will lead to the ejection of him
self and followers.
Dr. Teed is the Messiah of a new reli
gion the chief outward feature of which
is tho gathering together of the believ
ers to live in one building which the
Doctor calls "Heaven." He was anx
ious to secure a large private residence
in a fashionable quarter of Chicago, but
the price asked f; 15,000 was too much
tor the means of the new associa
tion. Dr. iced thorofore made a
pilgrimage to Caliiornia where he
giuhertd together a number of new con
verts. Twonty-tlveot thesewero brought
to Chicago on his return, tho remainder
being left to spread the light in the
Uoldon Slate. As private property is
not permitted ill Dr. feed's heaven the
twenty-live young women, Bonie of
whom were well oil, contributed their
money to the cause, and the cause was
sullicie itly advanced to enable Dr. Teed
to secure the much coveted residence
lor his "Heaven." The neighbors are
unsympathetic however, and even allude
to the society aa a scandal to the neiwh-
NORSELAND NEWS.
A New Pbaae In Sweden of the Univer.
Ity f-xtenaloo etchemn.
In learned circles in Sweden the ques
tion has been raised, and is eagerly be
ing discussed, whether there is hot a
node of spreading enlightenment and
devoting the thoughts of the general
populace of the land, and which would
not cost the state a cent. It is pro
posed that the students of the universi
ties of Upsala and Lund, numbering
some 3,000, during the long Bummer va
tion should give popular free lectures to
the laraiers, mecnanics and laborers in
their various places of sojourn. A vast
deal of good may be looked for as a re
sult from such a great number of young
and enthusiastic teachers in their sever
al branches, and the promoters may be
congratulated upon striking a happy
medium, the Eureka between the drivel
ings of fanatical cranks and the ravings
of anarchial ditto, which at present en
gross the attention of the comparatively
illiterate multitude. It is already pro
posed to induce a few of the wealthier
students to visit their equally menially
obmscated countrymen in America,
which would be a welcome antidote for
many p oplo, whodo notyet understand
enough Fnglish to benefit by lectures
and instructions so liberally suppled in
this free and enlightened country.
Fifty-four young conscripts have been
imprisoned in the city of Stockholm
alone during the first three months of
the year for having neglected to present
themselves for temporary enlistment.
The lady teachers in the schools of
Schlessoiz have been forbidden to marry
by the Prussian minister on public in
struction. Should they do bo, however,
they will have lo leave their positions at
the end of the year.
Two hundred and fifty men working
at the deepening of the harbor of Copen
hagen have struck and the entire num
ber at i be Freehaven threaten to follow
suit. Hie dravinen who transport bricks
have struck and all building is at a
standstill. Four hundred diggers and
two hundred carmen and a great num
ber of bricklayers are without woi k in
consequence of the lockout. The ma
jority demand a raise in wages ot ten
marks. They, however, declare them
selves displeased with their socialistic
ring-leaders.
The governor of Gothenburg has is
sued a circular to the bailiffs of his dis
trict asking how long a time it would take
to mobilize the conscripts of the district.
One of the bailiffs answered that "it
would titko 21 hours, but that if the
matter regarded Norway, they would be
ready in 12 hours."
The elections to the Danish F'olhe
thing resulted in a great victory for the
government. The new Folkething con
sists oi 102 members. The Radicals
have hitherto been in the ascendant,
but this time lost eleven because of the
union that had been agreed upon be
tween the Conservatives and the modor-
to Liberals. Among the defeated Radi
cals were Air. llicrnp, the editor-in-chief
of tho Pohtiken and nis colleages, Rev.
llenniug .lensen and Mr. Bing. Hut
1'Mward lirandes, the author, was
elected. Tho outcome of the election
wns the greatest victory the present
cabinet has scored nnd the government
will now for a long time be able to carry
siKcosslully its reactionary measures.
King Oscar has loft Stockholm for
Hiarruz. lie is expected to return in
the latter-part of Juno. The latter part
oi the Bummer lie intends to spend in
tho south of Sweden and in Norway.
The queen has gone to Germany and is
liv ug near Bonn, where she will be
visited by her sister the Dowager Prin
cess of Wied. She returns to the
Chateau of Sophiero in the south of
Sweden about midsummer after which
she goes for a month to Norway. The
Democratic Prineo Engen will visit
California shortly to make st.idies for u
grand sylvan picture which he intends
to exhibit at the Chicago World's Fair.
A terrible accident occurred the other
day at Uainvik, in the northern part of
Norway. I.arly in the morning, when
the fishermen just had pushed their
boats oil' the shore, a Hidden storm
commenced to rage, causing many of
tho small crafts to cupsize. As lar as is
known at least twelve people were
drowned.
The third general assemblage in favor
of general suffrage in Sweden has met
at Stockholm. Seventy delegates and
thirty members were present. A reso
lution was passed to assemble a411.11
next year before October 1 if at least
20,000 people, half of whom were to be
farmers, would unite in electing dele
gates. More than 6,000 people emigrated
from Sweden during tho first three
months of this year, the majority of
whom wont to America. Also 800 peo
ple, mostly Irom Finland and Russia,
joined the Swedish emigrants for our
shores.
Five American students, of whom two
are from Philadelphia, two from Wash
ington City anil one from Boston, have
arrived at Stockholm, with the intention
of botanizing during the summer in tho
northern parts of Sweden and Norway.
Uddgron is the name of a Swedish
journalist and venturesome sportsman.
He lately crossed the North sea in an
open rowing boat. At present he is giv
ing popular lectures to the tislieriuen on
tho west coast, lie is ulso an excellent
horseman and intends to ride across the
American prairies next summer and
spend most of his time on horseback
until the Chicago fair, when he will
write special articles for several Scandi
navian newspapers. After that he
plans to make a row ing detour among
the Grecian archipelago, where smooth
water lavors such an undertaking.
Receipt for a Good Town.
Grit.
Vim.
Push.
Snap.
Energy.
Schools.
Morality,
I larmonv.
Cordiuli .
Advertising.
Talk about it.
Write about it.
Cheap property.
Speak we I for it.'
Help to improve it.
Advertise in its papers.
Good country tributary.
Patronize its merchants.
Fleet good men to otiice.
Help all public enterprises.
Honest competition in prices.
Make the atmosphere healthy.
Faith exhibited by good works.
Fire all loafers, croakers and dead beats.
Let your object be the welfare, growth
and promotion of your town and its peo
ple. Speak well of tue public spirited
men and also he one yourself. Mans
field Item.
VISSCHER ON EVERETT.
Many Facts and Some
Prophecy.
THE NEW SOUND CITY.
The Eloquent and Witty Colonel Obey
Onlera and Telia "the Truth" About
the City In VI hi oh Henry Hewitt In
8o Largely Interested.
JTacoma Dally News. 1
He is indeed a man of limited vision
who, knowing anything whatever of the
Puget Sound region, cannot see the
probability of at least a dozen great
cities within the next two or three de
cades along the shores of this beautiful
and resourceful inland sea. He who
hoots at the mighty possibilities of
Western Washington generally pro
claims himself an owl, and the owl,
though he has a wise look and large
eyes, is the biggest fool of all birds and
he can Bee less than any of them.
In the Puget Sound region are gath
ered more opulent resources than in any
other country of the same area on the
iace of the earth, and it has tributary
resources that aie incalculable in value.
Besides, it is blessed in other advanta
geous ways ways that will bring hithe
in the future, as it has within the past
few years, the best kinds of people (or
uie upouuuing oi ine Mate, lue ae
ughtlul climate, the excellent water.
the grandeur of scenery, the salubrity
of the atmosphere, ail of which assist
in the cultivation of health, content
ment and good taste, are ours, and these
are necessary also to the advancement,
prosperity and happiness of any popu
lation.
Concerning climate, i
hero seems to be in order.
comparison
A short time
ago, beginning on the 6th day of Janu
ary oi this year, this writer was on a
trip to the Fast and south until the 16th
of March. He left Tacoma ono bright
morning when the sun was shining, the
grass green, flowers blooming and birds
singing. Fourdays afterward he stepped
out of a Pullman car and its comfortable
temperature at St. Paul, where the mer
cury stood 19 degrees below zero. Thence
through a series of blizzards, snow
storms, sleet and all the chilling dis
comforts of winter he went on to Ken
tucky and Tennessee, some four weeks
on the way, and not until he had
reached middle Alabama and Florida
d d he find any abatement of miserable
winter, and there he found continuous
and unpleasant rains. Yet through all
this ho was asked by acquaintances
whom he met all along: "it rains all
the time in Washington, doesn't it?"
The question became exasperating and
suggested the reply of the parrot vendor
who, when asked by a stammering
stranger, "O c c can that b b bird
t t talk?" he indignantly exclaimeJ,
"Supposin' he no talker so besser as
you zen I kill um, quick I"
The fact is that when wo are having
our winter wet on Puget Sound they of
the Fast are having rain, snow, sleet,
ice, wind and every kind of bad weather
that ever vexed humanity.
Here we have the last of the best
countries in the world to be settled.
Here withiu the next ten years we will
have a vast population, the present
probably quadrupled or sextupled, and
here will be many greater cities than
even the greatest of those we have now.
Among the great cities will be Everett,
on the peninsula at the mouth of the
Snohomish river and on Kverett harbor,
an arm of Puget Sound, 35 miles north
of Seattle.
Having some other business there,
this writer was requested by the editor
of the News to write the truth about
Everett. The writer went to the p ace
prejudiced against it for several reasons,
among them because he had only Been
that portion of it through which the
railroad runs; because he had been
frequently told that it was simply "a
boom," and because in its start it had
enticed away from the young city he
was deeply interested in seeing advance
Fairhaven on llcllingham bay a
very large part of its business popula
tion, lie was, however, astonished,
impressed, even delighted with the
things he saw there, and which had lor
thor effect the entire eradication of his
prejudices. Riding in a cab from the
dock on the bayside, over a broad and
substantial street, to East Everett, on
the river Bide of the peninsula, a vigor
ous and well-built town of perhaps 3,000
population came in view. All along the
route laborers and mechanics, by the
hundred, were excavating for the found
ations of great buildings, erecting
others, completing others, and yet ten
months ago a gentleman, who was then
in the same cab, had, with a party of
friends, been lost in the woods on the
same ground occupied now by these
graded and paved streets that are mar
gined by homes and business houses,
and where sewer and water and gas
systems are being placed underneath,
and telegraph, telephone and other elec
tric wires are suspended and being sus
pended above, and over which, on every
hand, the spirits of Energy and Enter
prise are stalking and planting, and
w here with the besom of progress the
forests have been swept away.
Kverett is a many-sided place. Its
location, aside from Iwing a beautiful
and convenient one, is remarkably well
adapted to the building of a great city,
and it must be that, in a comparatively
short time, else every indication must
be an unnatural and far-fetched lailure.
At present there are four separate and
distinct settlements within the purview
of the proposition. The first Been bv
the visitor is the comparatively small
town at the docks, on the bay side.
where the present railway station of the
Great Northern is located and where
are also the nail works, a bank, some
general business houses and on the hill
above the handsome new hotel, "The
Colby." East Fverett is the largest
settlement. That is on the river side of
the peninsula as before remarked, a
busy place with all the accessories of a
live city and rapidly increasing them in
every direction. Further east and south
about two miles up the river, is Lowell,
where the great paper and pulp mills
are being completed, and at the north
end of the peninsula lie the docks and
works of the Pacific Coast Steel Barge
Company. On the area lying between
the paper mills, the nail works and the
barge works lies the projected and rapid
ly building city of Everett, of which all
these great works are part and parcel,
while many other and almost as import
ant enterprises, respectively, are com
ing. Among the latter is a great
smelter, the material for which bas
been purchased, and will be erected at
an expense of two millions oi dollars.
This smelter is being constructed by
the parties in interest at the Monte
Cristo mines to which great treas
ury of precious metals a railway,
called the Everett and Monte Cristo
Railroad, is now in course of con
struction. To these mining enter
prises more than any other one thing
the people of Everett look for material
advancement, and with good warrant.
The writer visited the town of Lowell
and made a thorough examination of
the vast concern called the paper and
pulp works, and when told that some
antagonistic person had said that the
works were simply an r,vereiv wijeuu
for a boom and that tne maoumery ns
simply a lot of second-hand refuse, etc.,
he knew at once that any one saying
such a thing could not have seen the
works or was else a wiuui nar or law
ful tool. Having been engaged at one
time for neadv a year for the sole pur
pose of writing up the manufactories of
Indianapolis, th greatest manufactur
ing centre in the Mississippi valley out
side of St. Louis and Chicago, and
having been brought up about a ma
chine shop, the writer claims to have
some knowledge of such things, and he
aeserts that the paper mills at Lowell,
or South Everett, are positively be
wildering in their vastness, and every
part of the machinery from belts to
boilers are of the very newest and best
improved pattern and make, and the
works are the largest in the United
States and moit probablv in the entire
world. The ereat buildings are over 500
feet in length with an average width ol
perhaps 100 leet, of brick and stone as
to the superstructure, and altogether it
is an enterprise that will reflect credit
udoi. the State and the nation. Already
many thousand cords of wood have
been cut that are to be use! for pulp,
and the processes will be such that fir
and other resinous woods will be used
for that material as well as cottonwood
and other deciduous woods. The com
pany have, even now, standing orders
for the product of these mills from Aus
tralia that will work them to almost
their best capacity for years nnd absorb
a large part of their output.
Even greater as an employing factor
will be the works of the Steel Barge
Company, the whaleback vessels which
will shortly be concerned in the com
merce of every sea.
The nailworks incorporated under the
style and name of The Puget Sound
Wire Nail and Steel Company has a
working capital of $300,000, and its
officers are A. R. Whitney, president;
Henry Hewitt, Jr., vice-president, and
A. R. Whitney, Jr., general manager.
The main building at these works is
450 feet long by 100 feet wide, with a
nrick boiler house 42 by 30. There are
also buildings 100 feet square, the clean
ing house and a coopering establishment
connected with the works, 40 by 90 feet,
beside large warehouses and an immense
dock and wharf. This is the only nail
factory on the Pacific coast except a
small affair at San Francisco.
These are a few of the fixed facts con
cerning Everett and the certain enter
prises projected will make it a mighty
manufacturing center. There really is
nothing of a boom nature connected
with this place. It is simply a great be
ginning of a great thing. The land com
pany there is grading and paving streets
without expense to real estate owners,
other than the company itself. The
water and light systems a e being put
in in the same way. The people are ac
tive, energetic and one-minded, here
being no local jealousies but all working
together to one end. The place has an
intelligent, patriotic and enterprising
population, and advantages in the mat
ters of topographic and geographic situ
ation, as well as picturesqueness that
are admirable and valuable in a remark
able degree, and if this article shall be
read in a few years from now the reader
will find it was prophetic at the time of
its indilement. Moreover, it is noi
written as an advertisement or with any
hope of pay, but simply as a follow, ng
out of the editor'a adjuration "to tell
tne truth about Everett." All of the
very favorable truths cannot be crowded
into tne space allowed.
Will L. Vissoiif.r.
POLITICAL PAillCIIAPilS.
Cleveland still continues to get dele
gates. Hill's name is scarcely ever
mentioned in the Democratic State con
vention as a probable candidate. Port
Angeles Tribune-Times.
a
Senator Long is being referred to in
the State papers as a man who knows
all about politics that is worth knowing.
The Centralia News seems to be respon
sible tor all this. It has taken a mean
advantage of tne Senator, and not even
the Nugget can uphold it. The Senator
knows absolutely nothing a! out politics
and thinks he is too old to learn. Che
halis Nugget.
.
A nickname has made many a man.
James Hamilton Lewis may be "Dude,"
and he also may be the next governor of
the state ot Washington. ' lie is very
taking with the people. Aberdeen
Herald.
.
The Democratic indorsement of John
Collins for the position of delegate to
the Chicago convention ought to have
been given more gracefully. Mr. Col
lins has been a faithful worker lor the
Democratic party in King county lor
many years, and certainly did as much
as any other man to keep it alive when
it apparently had little to live for. His
modest ambition to go to Chicago should
have met wiih no opposition from his
brethren in the faith. Seattle Tele
graph. a.
The country is getting as full of can
didates as a colt gets full cf ticks and
cockleburrs in a Missouri pasture. This
county has ber full quota and several
precincts to bear from. The candidates
who desire otiice most are the ones who
say iu a crowd that they are not in the
field, and that the otiice must seek the
man. It has ever been thus "since
childhood's happy hours." Pomeroy
Independent.
Allen Weir has abandoned for the
time being bis ambition to put M. C.
after his name, and will now be content
with being continued in the office of
secretary of state, it is to be feared
that Alien will be disappointed even in
this modest desire and that he will be
given an opportunity to obtain in pri
vate life the laurels which he cannot
win in public life. Seattle Spectator.
Fred Grant will not be a candidate
for the lieutenant governorship, but he
aspires to be a member of the national
committee lor the State of Washington.
Seattle Spectator.
Fred R. Reed is strongly talked of for
lieutenant governor. Reed would make
an excellent run. He is popular, ener
getic, and just the typo of man to suc
ceed in capturing the office. He would
run welt in Central Washington. He is
identified with the upbuilding of Cen
tral Washington, and has helped to
make it what it is, and is a good man,
too. Ellensburgh Localizer.
Oloud-Burat at ttiojx City.
Omaha, May 18 It is reported here
that many live) have been lost in a
cloud-burst at Sioux City, Iowa, Tne
wires are down and particulars are unobtainable.
HIE PRESBYTERIANS.
Opening Day of
Conference.
the
BRIGCb' case to come it.
Ur. Green Auient ou Aeooulit of Illneea
aiul Ilia Sermon Read fur Illiu A
K view of the Urla Csie An Im
portant Conference.
Portland, Or., May 19 The one hun
dred and fourth session of the Presby
terian general assembly opened today
with an invocation by Dr. John U.
Riheldoffer, of Redwood Falls, Minn.,
the oldest clerical commissioner pres ;nt,
because of the absence of Dr. Green, of
Princeton, the moderato-, on account of
illness. Dr. Rulus S. Green, of Orange,
N. J., followed with a scripture reading.
A prayer was then delivered by John
M. C. Holmes, of Albany, N. Y. The
sermon of the retiring moderator was
read by -tilted clerk. Dr. Roberts.
Following is a synopsis of the sermon :
Isaiah xlv :15 "Verily thou art a God
that hiilest thyself, O, God of Israel, the
Savior." The doctor said the Hebrew
prophets were men of faith. God did
not interpose to rescue them from their
present foes and from the troubles that
then threatened them. He himselt was
hidden from their sight. The mystery
of his ways they were unable to lathom,
but that he was, nevertheless, pervad
ing, directing, controlling all, they
never for one moment doubted. Their
faith was that to which Isaiah gives
utterance in the text. The laitli thus
commended in a God unseen is de
manded of u , of all, and in every situa
tion. Faith refuses to admit that the
corporeal senses are the sole test of
truth, or that the invisible ana intangi
ble is therefore non-existent and unreal.
The religious life is onlv maintained by
constant exercise of taith in the unseen,
If some palpable result invariably and
promptly followed which we could
trace to God's immediate agency and
associate it with our act ot wor
ship it would be an unspeakable relief.
lint it our 1 a i tli is thus maintained,
what is there to test the reality and
strength of our faith in God's ward,
where that word stands timple and
alone? He demands our implicit, un
reserved unreasoning faith. This abso
lute submission of ourselves is a funda
mental requisite of true discipleship.
Hence it is that God hides himself. God
hides himself likewise in his providen
tial dispensations. The unequal distrib
ution of good and evil in the world is
one of the inexplicable mysteries con
nected with his moral government. But
the Most High gives no account to us ol
his sovereign dealings.
This, however, answers an important
end in moral training and the discipline
of men. But it is peihaps in the afflictive
dispensation of God'a providence thai
the most distress is felt and the most
perplexity created by His hiding llim
sell as lie does. One thing, however, ib
evident: We cannot divine the issue
of the various paths that open beiore us.
Our wisdom is to commit all into His
hands for the present and for the future,
content with the assurance that what
we know not now we shall know here
after. The Lord further hides Himsell
in his relations to His church, wnich is
its mystical body and He is its invisible,
though ever-present head. But when
we turn Irom the ideal cluire.i to the
church as it actually is and has been,
how strange the contrast. la it strange
that the world fails to see it in its true
light? Yet the church is the Lord's,
oniy He hides Himself from natural
sight. And it is with each member ol the
church us with the church at large. 11
has the promise of the Lord's presence
with Him. Nevertheless He sees nolruit
or little fruit from long and faithiul
labor. Where is his promised helper?
God has hidden Himself again. He has
not forsaken his Bervant. God is thus
training you to walk by faith but God
still hides Himself even when He makes
the amplest disclosures and confers the
largest benefits. To whatever extent
He makes Himself known the revelation
is but partial and far more is kept in re
serve than is shown forth. All that we
have ever discovered or can discover is
as nothing to that which lies beyond.
The Infinite must be ever i lfinite and
incomprehensible, must remain incom
prehensible. And forever and forever
more the confession of the heavenly
hosts will re-echo the universal experi
ence of this lower world. Verily, Thou
art a God that hidest Thyself. O, God
of Israel, the Saviour.
After the sermon the assembly was
constituted with a prayer by Dr.- Rihel
doffer, the temporary moderator. Dr.
Brown, of Portland, Or., then presented
the report of the committee on arrange
ments. The report provides for sessions
to be held from 9 iu the morning until
noon and from 2 in tho afternoon until
5, and in the evening, popular meeting
at 7:45; for the sacrament tonight
served by Dr. C. Parsons, Nichols and
Dr. Herman D. Jenkins, and lor subjects
of popular meeting in the evenings as
follows.
Friday, Sabbath school work ; Mon
day, freedmen; Tuesday, home mis
sions; Wednesday, foreign missions;
Thursday, higher education; Friday,
temperance. The report also includes
invitations for a trip up the Columbia
river on Saturday next and down the
river to Astoria on Saturday week and
the other side trips at the convenience
of the commissioners. The morning
session closed with prayer. The first
business of the afternoon session will be
the election of moderator.
Probably no general assembly of the
Presbyterian church in the United
States was ever more fateful to the
church at large, or excited more interest
than this.
Aside from the great interest taken
in the revision of the confession of faith,
the celebrated Briggs case, as it is called
the question, substantially, whether
Dr. Briggs is orthodox or unorthodox in
his teachings as professor of systematic
theology in the Union Theological Sem
inary, aa judged by his writings will
also come beiore the assembly ; and on
the decision or determination reached
by the general assembly in that case de
pends, according to the very general be
lief, wheth r there shall be another
division in the church, a division be
tween the old and the new school and
the consequent creation or organization
of another church.
The Briggs case cannot very well coma
up in the general assembly until the 23d
nst , and it is more than likely it will
not be reached until the end of the
month. The only way in which it can
come before the assembly is on the ap
peal of the prosecuting committee of the
New York Presbytery against the de
cision of that body dismissing the case,
that appeal will probably in the first in
stance be referred to the judicial com
mittee when appointed. The general
assembly, however, may .decline to en
tertain the appeal. In any event it will
be very difficult for the tieneral assem
bly to prevent a discussion to some ex
tent on the merits of the case, even on
the question whether the appeal shall
be entertained or not. It is believed
that the committee of prosecution will
find themselves checkmated at the gen
eral assembly by the complaint to the
Synod of Dr. Briggs and his friends
against the ruling of the Presbytery last
fall when the case against him was dis
missed. It will be remembered that after the
case was dismissed a motion was made
to dismiss the committee. The mod
erator declared the motion out of order
on t e ground that the committee was
a committee of prosecution, represent
ing the Presbyterian church in the
nnv. dr. HHiaas.
United States of America, and there
lore an original party independent of
tho presbytery. On an appeal being
made to the house against that ruling.
the moderator was sustained by a vote
of 64 to 57. Against that decision Dr.
Brown and others gave notice of a com
plaint to the synod. That body meets
next autumn. According to the law of
the church, the general assembly must.
in obedience to its own laws, reject the
appeal of the committee against the de
cision of the Presbytery, while the
question is sub judice before the synod.
and, in the langunge of one divine
friendly to Dr. Briggs, "pack the com
mittee of prosecution off home again."
The complaint of Dr. Briggs and his
friends to the Synod against the ruling
of the Presbytery has been regularly
made. It shows clearly the strength of
Dr. Briggs's position, and also the inter
esting fact that the Presbytery has al
ready practically reversed its own judg
ment iu the matter. According to sec
tion 85 of the Book of Discipline, "when
ever a complaint, in cases non-judicial,
is entered against a decision of a judi
catory, signed by at least one-third of
the members recorded as present when
the action was taken, the execution of
such decision shall be stayed until the
final issue of the case by the superior
judicatory." The complaint of Dr.
Br ggs and his friends against the ruling
referred to has teen regularly taken, all
the forms accordin i to the Book of Dis
cipline have been complied with, and it
is believed that it will prevent the Gen
eral Assembly entertaining the appeal
of the committee of prosecution, espe
cially as that committee has itself also a
complaint before the Synod in the same
matter, and are thus appealing on the
same matter to two different bodies at
the same time. They are supposed to
have taken that course so that if they
fail before one judicatory, they can fall
back on the other.
The most interesting thing, however,
in the complaint of the Rev. Dr. Briggs
and his friends against the ruling of the
New York Presbytery on the question
whether the Committee of Prosecution
was au original party or not is the fact
that it is signed by 114 members of the
l'reabytery, many more thau the re
quired number. The Moderator's rul
ing, it will be remembered, was sus
tained by 04 votes to 57, the total num
ber of those voting being therefore 121.
Of these 121 members of the Presbytery
06 have actually signed Dr. Briggs' com
plaint, thereby patctically reversing the
Presbytery's ruling, and consequently
overruling the Moderator by 06 votes to
55. From this it is clear that nine men
who voted on the question of sustaining
the decision of the chair have changed
their minds, presumably because they
did not understand the question. The
question, Shull the Chair be sustained?
is always decided without debate.
Among the 114 signatures to the com
plaint are those of the Rev. Dr. Francis
Brown, the Rev. Dr. Thomas S. Hast
ings, the Rev. Dr. John R. Paxton, the
Rev. Dr. Henry van Dyke, the Rev. Dr.
Charles L. Thompson, the Rev. Dr. C.
H. Parkhurstj the Rev. Dr. John H.
Mcllvaine, the Rev. Dr. George Alex
ander, Stealy B. Rossiter, C. P. Leggett,
William E. Dodge, D. Willis James,
John Crosby Brown, Cleveland H.
Dodge, William A. Ewing, W. W. Atter
bury, Henry 13. Chapin, Theron G.
Strong, Charles H. Woodbury, Robert
Jalfray and others.
THE CIRCULAR A FRAUD.
Sau Frauclsea la Not In Need of Labor
era From the Sound.
San Francisco, May 19 A circular
calling for 3,000 men to come to San
i'rancisco for work on the cable road
has been distributed at Seattle on
steamers sailing to this. port. It has
created a good deal of curiosity in the
Sound city, so much bo, indeed, that a
resident of that p. ace has made inquiries
regarding it. The circulars read as
follows:
"Help Wanted Three thousand
men wanted to work on a new cable
road. Apply at office, International
hotel, San Francisco."
One of the hotel proprietors was
shown the paper last night. He said he
knew nothing about it, but believed it
was the work of an enemy named Swan
Lewis, who keeps a lodging house at
Seatt e. So far there have been no ap
plications in reply to tho call, which is
thought to be either a practical joke or
a vengeful trick. It is certainly a fraud.
rue Miners at Koslyn Uluer
Widely iu Their Oplntoua.
Vary
Roslvn, Wash., Mav 18 At the cor
oner's inquest yesterday the testimony
adduced did not tend to satisfactorily
explain the origin oi the explosion. The
miners wno nave investigated claim
that the explosion originated in the
seventh east level, at the very bottom
of the mine or on the fourth east near
the top. The management and experts
insist upon their original theory that a
uiast was nrea at tne sixth east by
Wright and Deuster,
Inveatlg-atiugr the Landing
Chinese in Mexloit,
San Dieqo, Cal., May 18 Three
United States officials arrived here Sun
day and took a boat lor a trip of two or
three weeks down the coast. The offi
cials appeared to be on a secret mission,
for the object of the trip wag not di-
vuigeu vu any one. 11 is believed that
the landing of Chinese at Mexican ports
is to be investigated.