Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1914 — Christie Vick Writes From Seattle,. Washington. [ARTICLE]

Christie Vick Writes From Seattle,. Washington.

Christie Vick, formerly of Rensselaer but for the past few years a resident of Seattle, Wash., writes The Democrat under date of Jan. 7, as follows: Editor Democrat: I enclose a clipping ” Piracy on High Seas” cut out of a Seattle evening paper, also one cut out of the Seattle morning paper, and you will notice, by the small clipping, that the accomplice in tlhe crime gives his name as Joseph Laramie, and his home as Shelby, Ind. Do you know of any one by that name at Shelby? The evening paper has his name as Joe Lorain. The small clipping is as follows: San I* ranciseo, January 2. —A. sea rover and Arctic trader turned pirate, Andrew It. Nelson, himself a master mariner and one-time owner of the schooner Hera was brought into port today in irons, locked In the brig of the steam lumber schooner Willamette, and turned over to the federal authorities, who held him tnslo,ooo bail on a charge of assaulting Capt. Reiner on the high seas with intent to murder. With him was brought Joseph Igiramle, a bricklayer, who says he is from Shelby, Ind., charged with being an accomplice in the crime- lie was held In the same bail. Neither man will admit that he knows the other Roth say they are Masons, laramio gave Ix>dge No. 369 at' Shelby as authority for his membership. Nelson would not tell what lodge, if any, he belongs to. The weather here is very warm and it. hue been raining quite a good cfeal lately. From Saturday noon until this morning, it rained 5 11-100 inches. We are all well and feeling fine. Work is *rery quiet at present. They publish in the papers back east about the wonderful advantages of the northwest and Pacific, coast. They make you believe that the streets are lined with gold at»d that money grows on bushes. But it is a mistake, for when one gets here he will find that thev will charge from S2OO to SSOO an acre for stump land that will cost you $l5O an acre to clear; lots 40x110, 0 miles from the postoffice, with no streets graded, no sidewalks or sewers in, sell for S6OO. Then comies high taxes, and the grading, sewers, sidewalks, etc., SSOO more ar lose your lot. Bacon is 35c a pound;'eggs, 50c a dozen: butter, 40c a pound; turkeys, $5 to $6 eaoh; ducks. 25c a pound; chickens about $1.25 each; potatoes, $1.50 per 100 pounds. So you see it costs to live here. The climate is fine but a man gets terrible\ hungry living on climate alone. The water is the best on earth, but. as a man said the other day "a teakettle sings when it is full of water, but who in h— wants to be a teakettle?” With best wishes to yourself and family for a happy and prosperous New Year, etc. C. H. VICK.