Show ex senator wilsons Wil sons joke on 01 new york 0 ASHINGTON D C former senator W washington john L wilson of th estate or of washington was ono one of the most peppery members of congress that aver ever sat in either cither house mr wilsons Wll Wil sons reputation extends over both sides of the capitol ho he having served in the fifty first congress in the house as the first representative from the then now new state of washington bigton and in he was elected p b the senate where relie h served hiie term mr wilson is now the avner of the seattle post intelli bencer and at the same time is heavily interested in washington stafean state industries dus tries and real estate while in ih washington recently mr wilson delivered himself of 0 some astounding facts with respect to the resources of the state of washington and the general attitude altitude of its people toward the question of conservation Thois the issue suo of conservation with us Is merely the question of the removal of friction between the national government ern ment and the state said mr wilson when gov hughes of now new york came out to see our fair at seattle he ha made a speech in which he said that thai we of tho west would probably be surprised to know that the state of new york had set aside acres 0 of land for a forest reserve it fell to me to reply to the speech of the governor and I 1 told him that wo we were indeed surprised that anybody in tile the state of now new york would let that much get away from him then I 1 told the governor that if the forest reserves of the state ol 01 washington were placed side by side in one bone contingent body of land the entire empire state of now new york could not only bo be put down in the middle of it but a man could walk around the boundaries of the forest reserve and still be unable to see the boundary of the state of new york |