One other item of business will be delayed - the election of Public Printer. That business will apparently be used as a bargaining chip in discussion of the issue about whether to relocate the capitol and/or the penitentiary to Walla Walla.]]> ]]> The Legislature has only accomplished the following: elected G.A. Barnes, proprietor of the Washington Standard as Public Printer; postponed decision on the removal of the Capitol to Vancouver; charters and franchises for ferries and other utilities were granted; recognized Elwood Evans as Secretary of the Territory but L.J.S. Turney continues to contest it.
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Reference is made to William H. Wallace, who has been the Washington Territorial Delegate to Congress and has been appointed to be the governor of the new Territory of Idaho. The Commissioners who plan to arrange the treaty are awaiting his arrival and leadership. (He is called "Colonel Wallace" here because, prior to entering politics, he served a brief stint with the Iowa state troops.)

This article mentions Perrin Whitman, a nephew of the missionary Marcus Whitman, who lived among the Nez Perce as a youth and became their most trusted interpreter with the Euro-Americans.

In conclusion, the author warns that, unless the residents around Puget Sound take action to encourage settlers to cross the Cascades, "you will find in another year that the Star of Empire has turned Eastward." This referred to a symbol for the idea of Manifest Destiny. “Westward the Star of Empire takes its Way—the star of the empire of liberty and law, of commerce and communication, of social order and the Gospel of our Lord—the star of the empire of the civilization of the world. Westward that star of empire takes its course. And to-day it illumines our path of duty across the Pacific into the islands and lands where Providence has called us." - Alfred J. Beveridge, September 25, 1900, in The American Nation: Primary Sources, Bruce Frohnen, ed. (2008)]]>
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The editor was a loyalist from Tennessee who wouldn't fight for the union, but came west, he said, "to watch copperheads." Editor's verdict: "The Evening Tribune has proven the most complete newspaper fizzle on record."]]>

The persistent attachment of the adjective "black" is interesting - it has moved from Black Republican to Black Abolition. ]]>

In fun, he speculates that Ned McGowan might join Gwin and Lane sailing for California and that the state's many disappointed federal office-seekers will prove "fit subjects" of their "coming kingdom."

Since the head of the Pacific Army command, then about to be replaced, was Albert Sidney Johnston, the fears that army officers might join the plotters were understandable. Johnston was approached by but refused to cooperate with secessionist plotters. Ned McGowan was a notorious politician and filibusterer who had previously been run out of San Francisco and British Columbia. ]]>
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