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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (April 27, 1901)
12 THE' COURIER' f Ijitebreast . TRY THB- GfegVEfcAND NUT offio loasotiitii Telephone 884 GOOD NIGHTS EMILY (JUIWITS. c For The Courier.! 'Goodnight! Goodnight! The twy.ckv-a past, ' And darknm alk upon The world at kit. Goodnight! Goodnight! If only Joy Has been thy lot today, Then will thine happy heart Reluctant say Goodnight! Goodnight! If sorrow sent The tear drop to thine eye, ' Tk then thine aching heart 01 gladly cry Good night ! Good night I Good night I .Goodnight! 'Whatc'cr thy let may be, May sweet sleep come alike To thee and me. Good night I Jood night! - ARRING CITIES. Rome add Carthage-, St. Louis and Chicago, New York .and -Philadelphia, Minneapolis and St. Paul were never in more bitter rivalry than Tacoma and Seattle, of the state of Washington. The people of either town throv hand springe at the merest mention of the other. 'The papers of the respective towns belittle the rival in all sorts of ways. The business community of one is. always looking out to get trade away from the business community of the other. At the present time Tacoma is in transports of delight, while Seattle is in doleful dumps and thinking seriously of 6ecediog from the United States be cause of bad treatment. One finds in the Lincoln Courier the one really ex cellent weekly published in that town a brief explanation of Tacoma's joy and Seattle's woe. It seems that the Klon dike excitement gave Seattle a large ad vantage)ver her rival, and' the Great "Northern and the line of immense freight steamers which Mr. J. J. Hill k building for the Pacific carrying trade 'Have made it an important commercial port The,Nor Ckertf Pacific road wanted better tenMd fjcttitiea than it had, and appJMKl to Seattle for them. The application' was refused. Then there arose the question of-' having- govern ment warehouses and docks on Puget Sound. The two cities brought all their -forces to bear on the matterand fora' long time tbe struggle was nip and tuck. 'Recently; however, alter Iookisg 'over the skipping facilities aad railroad con-, sectioaa, the quartemaater's aepart ineot decided upon Tacoma. Seattle is .inclined to think-the Northern Pacific's" influence finally turned the result .agaiast thetown, out of revenge for the 'city's refaaal to grant the road the facil ities it asked for. Seattle citizens are hah isfclined to lynch the people who defeatedHlie road's Intentions and they realize with deen sadness that all the local trade whteh grows out of the com ing and going of the government trans ports will now go to Tacoma. The town of Tacoma is bo flushed with victory that it proposes doing eueh things to Seattle as will drive the Seattleites into the Sound in sheer rage. A charming young lady, in the Visitation Convent . at Tacoma, has written me a clever let ter asking that I assist, editorially, in the support of measures whereby Seat tle, like Carthage of old, musl be de stroyed. She wants tbe Mirror to call attention to the fact that Seattle haa been trying to steal a mountain. The mountain used to be called Mount Ta coma, until the jealousy of Seattle was excited by hearing the Eastern people admire it under that name. They, the Seattleites, wanted to call the peak Mount Seattle, but they couldn't find' any excuse for that, so they looked up the name of the first white man who saw it and then began calling it Mount Rain ier. Tacoma insists that the peak should retajnits old Indian name. It regards the change as a sacrilege. It is going to memoralize congrees, or whatever de partment has charge of such things, to have the Indian name of the mountain restored. The Tacomans want the moun tain to be an "ad" for their town and they surely are setting about the thing systematically when the patriotic con vent girls of tbe town enter enthusias tically upon the propaganda for the change. The Mirror, of course, dares not endanger its Seattle circulation by' too earnestly espousing the cause of Tacoma, and it can not endanger the Tacoma circulation by a support of the superiority of Seattle, but the Mirror believes that, wherever possible', the In dian names of the great natural features of the western country should be re tained.. It is too. bad that the matter, can not be arbitrated in some way, but it is unfortunately true that the people of neither city will listen to a suggestion to call tbe peak Tacoattle or Seattloma. The struggle is one to the knife and the knife to the hilt. It is feared that gov ernment trcops will have to be called out, unless the cooler heads of Tacoma succeed in convincing the others that the dock and warehouse victory should satiate the grudge against Seattle. It is excellent, 0 Tacoma, to have a giant's strength, but 'tis "tyrannous to use it like a giant The St. Louis Mirror. Announcement By Legislative enactment, the Ne braska State Fair is permanently locat ed at Lincoln. The late Legislature appropriated money to purchase Fair Grounds and equip them with all mod ern improvements. All live stock will be provided for in new commodious barns. From the city, Fair Grounds are .reached by both steam railway and electric motor car line, making tbe run in fiveminutes. Rail road conveniences and accomodations are complete. Lin coln is a western rail road centre. All western roads centre here. For general information concerning the Fair, apply to the secretary, Robert W. Furnas, Brown ville, Nebr. 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