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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

DEMOCRATIC ERA.-This is the name
of large and handsomely printed weekly
paper, the publication of which has just
been commenced at East Portland by u.
E. Hicks aud s. W. Raveley; U. F..
Hicks, Editor. AS party organ the Era
will be terror to its friends and a formi.
dable rival to the Herald in the affections
Of the Democracy of Multnomah county.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29
Odd Fellows Celebration.

Wednesday last was gala day in Olym.
pia, on account of the public celebration,
by the Order of Odd Fellows of the SD
Anniversary Of the introduction of the
Order in America. The Olympia arrived
on Tuesday evening with large number
of brethren from Seattle and other places
down the Sound, and on Wednesday morn.
ing there were many arrivals of members
from the country. About 2 o'clock,
procession was formed under the direction
of the Marshal, Pcterfeld Turpin, the
members appearing in full rcgalia, and pre-.
ccded by the Olympia Brass Band, march.
ed through several of the principal streets
to Columbia Hall. Judge Hewitt presi-
ding, the order of exercises we're: Music
by the band; Singing by the Order !;
Prayer by Rev. \. Fairchill, and Grafton
by Chief Justice o. Jacobs.
In the Grafton, Judge Jacobs fully sus.
tanned his previous reputation rs forcibIe
and eloquent writer and public speaker.
lie briefly related the traditionary origin
of the Order, its written history, and its
rise and progress in the United States !;
he then eloquently illustrated its moral
aspects and practical benefits in social life,
in prosperity and in adversely, in health
and in sickness, to the helpless and infirm,
the widow and orphan, and was listened to
with wrapped attention by pleased and
apprcciative audience, only Interrupted by
occasional spontaneous bursts of applause
The festivities of the day were continued
in the evening by ball and supper, parti-
cipated in by large assemblagc. The
ball is represented by all who participated
as very enjoyable occasion; the supper
as simply exocrable, which is generally the
case with collations got up by contract.
We learned of no other circumstance cal.
culatcd to mar the pleasures of the occa.
sion, except that one of the Seattle girls is
said to have carried off the heart of one of
our most promising young men, and he is
determined to get even with her.
On the whole, it was great day for
Olympia. To those who have been accus.
toned to metropolitan display on similar
occasions, we would say: "Mock not our
simple joys"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

WASHINGTON NEws.-Congre.s adj
journed on the 10Th inst The Ku-klux
bill was passed by both branches and signed
by the President. On its final passage in
the Senate, Schurz and Spraguc voted
with the Democrats, in the negative.
Trumbull for the negative, paired off with
Rice for the affirmative.
An extra session is to be called to con-
slider the report of the Joint High Com.
mission on the settlement of the differences
with the British Government. The full
details Of the treaty agreed upon are yet
unknown, but it is said the British Com
missioners have received dispatches from
their Government approving the settlement
of the alabama claims question, and that
the Emperor of Brazil! is to be the arbitra-
tor. The treaty in general is said to be
very favorable to the United States.
In consequence Of the extra session,
President Grant has postponed his visit to
the Pacific Coast until the first of Septem-
Der. In the meantime he has his cottage
at Long Branch fitted up for his summer
residence,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

PERSONALS. l.. Maxwell Esq, pub
Usher and proprietor of the Seattle Intel
Hgencer, visited this place last Wedues-
day, TO attend the Odd Fellows celebra.
ton. 1t is seldom that friend Maxwell
strays so far from home, and he was ac-
cordingly much surprised at the growth
of this place and Tumwater. We expect
that he will be completely bewildered by
our progress by the time he makes another
visit, unless he comes oftcner than he has
heretofore.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

CLARK's ADDITION TO PoRT Town
sEND.-The Message Indignantly replies
to our criticism of it's notice of "Clark'
Addition" re flirming its statements that
it is scheme to deceive the public, and
threatening some dreadful exposures of oul
informant if we dare to renew the subject
AS our informant is one of the Oldest and
most responsible business men on the
Sound, whose character for veracity has
never been openly assailed, we are not
much frightened at this threat, and dare
to refer to the subject again because the
protestations Of the Message bear internal
evidence Of the truth of our structures
After representing this addition as miles
away from Port Townsend, on high bluff
in dense forest, and nowhere near any
probable line of the Northern Pacific Rail
road, the Message state the following as
its chief objection to the scheme: awe
caution every one who really wishes the
railroad to terminate at this point not to
sell another foot of land in small lots. Keep
your lands as they are till the committee Of
directors come here, or if you must sell
sell by the quantity; and, above all things
don't be deludcd into the fallacy Of laying
out cities, or additions" aud offering
them for sale, or you will certainly pre-
vent our chances of negotiating with the
road"
As general proposition this point is
we'll taken; but in applying it to "Clark's
Addition" the editor completely refutes
the previous statements that that plat Of
ground is entirely outside of any probabil.
tiles of an approximate relation to rail.
road line. The editor is certainly in the
line of duty when he opposes the oppropri.
alton Of lands by spectators which would
be likely to interfere with the railroad ter
minus at that point; but in doing this it is
not necessary to assail gentlemen by mis-.
representation of facts. BY referring to
the map we find that the plat of ground
alluded to has the advantage Of the present
business portion Of the town of Port Town.
send for the railroad terminus to the full
extent of the distance between the two,
and we are assured by disinterested gentle
men we'll acquainted with the premises,
that the advantage Of the former is still
greater in point Of eligibility.
We have no other interest in this mat.
ter than to voluntarily defend the charac-
ter Of gentlemen of unblemished reputa-
ton against charges which placed them up.
on level with common swindlers
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29
Railroad Subscriptions.

In running the line Of the Oregon and
California Railroad up the Willamette Val.
ley, it was found that the cheapest aud
mos, direct route would leave the villages
of Eugene and Harrisburg some distance
from the line. Mr.. Holiday proposed to
the citizens of those towns that for subsi.
dy of sixty thousand dollars, forty thou
sand to be raised by Eugene and twenty
thousand by Harrisburg, he would give
them each a depot A few days subsc-
qucn'ly he was telcgraphed that fifty
thousand dollars of the amount had been
subscribed and the balance would be forth.
coming.
The people who so promptly responded
to this call but exhibited common thrift
without which success in business affairs is
never mcrited and seldom achieved. This
sum of sixty thousand dollars was contri-
buted and guaranteed in cash, by two
small country villages, only to secure way
stations on a railroad line Now what has
Olympia done to secure far more import
ant consideration, no less than the point Of
railroad connection with ocean commerce
After three months of almost perpetual
drumming and liberal subscriptions on the
part Of few philosophical citizens the
whole amount subscribed, up to this time,
would not bring ten thousand dollars if
offered at public sale, and the whole amount
of subscriptions required, without the rail.
road would not be worth twenty thousand
dollars within the next ten years. The
probabilities now are that Olympia will
loose the railroad, and its property holders
will consequently lose millions of dollars in
value which might be acquired by the ex-
penditure of hundreds. Thus graspiug
greed will over-reach itself and involve all
around it in common ruin. A single
incident will illustrate this fact. An in
dividua owning land upon the bay of the
estimated value of four thousand dollars,
was applied to by the soliciting committee
to ccde one half upon the condition that
the railroad be built to this place, and re-
fused. The committee, who are among
our most responsible citizens, then propos-
ed the further condition, to buy tho half
to be retained for fifteen thousand dollars
if the road was built to this place, and that
proposition was declined; though it en-
braced positive guarantee of over three
hundred per cent. profit in gold upon an
investment of unproductive real estate for
the public benefit. Such propcrty-holders
are a curse to any community, clog to all
public improvement and nightmare up
on enterprise Like the brute beast they
burrow in the ground and fattcn upon the
fruits of others toll
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

p9- Mr.. NJ. Jones has furnished us
a caulifower aud some lettuce, of this year s
growth, full and large as usually exhibited
in midsummer. We do think that Mr.. j.
is little ahead Of anybody else in horti-
culture.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29
HSThe Tribune saws that DR. Stealo

eTThe Tribune says that DR.. Steele,
the Chairman of the Board of Health, sis
about to peep into the back yards and Sc.
cret places of the town, to find out where
the filth is which offends the olfactories
and threatens the health Of our citizens"
This is "the right man in the right place"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

PAINFUL RUMOR.-The Port Townsend
Message gives credit and publicity to the
rumor that Alaska Murphy is about to
make a void in the editorial fraternity
which we fear cannot be filled by any man
now known in literary circles. The Times,
under his management, was sui generis ];
"nonc but itself could be its parallel; ;"
it combined the poetic genius of the Van
couver Register, the elephantine playful
ness of the Tribune, and the Sumnerian
research Of the Message, and excellcd in
all. 1t is said, and we hope it is true, that
what the press loses the drama will gain
by this change.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

GOLD THE Message says that gold
bearing quartz, of very rich nature, has
been found near the Snohomish. A party
of men are now engaged blasting out rock
for shipment to San Francisco. The gold
is plainly visible to the naked eye. Specl-
mems can be seen at the telegraph Office at
that place.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

The OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Secretary OF
Treasury has appointed Mr.. W. +. Boone,
of this place, Superinte ndent Of Construc-
ton of the Penitentiary for this Territory,
to be erected at SteilacOom.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29
AGENTS FOR THE STANDARD.
San Ernaei.co Agency.

L.P. FIsHrR, 20 and 81 New Mechanics EN.
change, is our only authorized agent in San
Francisco. For Eastern advertising. Mr..
Fisher is represented by ;. /. Feiiineiii y
Co.. of New York and Boston.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29
Agents Tn the Atlantic states.

HrpsoN 4 MrxEr, are the only Eastern Adver
Using Agents. with whom we do bu>ineS
direct in the Atlantic States. ONCE.
Park Row, Times Building, New York City
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

A LUMBER CONFERENCE.-The cores
pendent Of the British Colon;st, writing
from San Francisco, says: -" You may be
interested in knowing that combination
has been formed among the lumber dealers
of San Francisco to enhance the value of
lumber, and that the millmen of Puget
Sound have joined the movement. The
latter have agreed to lay up a certain num-
Der of their vessels and to ship no more
lumber to this port than is required for the
actual demand. The cargo prices fixed by
the combination are: For dressed red.
wood, s2S per thousand feet; rough, sl4.
Retail prices for dressed redwood, $50
rough, $50. Puget Sound flooring and
stripping, s32 to s35. Street plank, SIG.
Assorted scantling and other building ma
tcrial, slS; fencing, SIS to $40"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

- The sugar crop in Jamaica this
year will be unusually large, and is esti-
mated at 10000 hogsheads. Last year u
was but 81 900 hogsheads.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

PoRT GAMBLE-Therc arrived at this
port on the 10th inst. the ship E. Kimb's
from San Francisco, and the bark Victor
from Honolulu. On the 18th, the bark
Eiwood Cooper sailed for Callao.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

gD- A convict named Smith, condemned
for murder, lately made his escape from
the Jail at Steiacoom.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

CHURCH PApER-On or about the 18th
of May, Hines g. Bachelor, of Portland,
will commence the publication Of the Ore
gon Chairman. The paper will be pub
lished monthly, quarto Of eight pages,
81 by II inches. 1t will be specially de-
voted to the interests of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the Missionary Juris-
diction of Oregon and Washington, and be
under the supervision of Bishop Morris,
assisted by the Episcopal Clergymen Of the
Diocese. Subscription price$l so year !;
four copies to one address SIS.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

V A letter from our Puyallup CORES
pondept is crowded out of this issue.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

a bill for an hour. The law abiding mind
and conscience of every citizen would sus-
tain the Constitution and the principles of
free government against the usurpaticn.
And this rev rebellion against the Union,
though expressed in an act of Congress
ard sustained by an Administration at
Washington, would be put down as rcso-
lutely as was the last.
Let the Republican party in Congress
take warning before it is too late. The
election of YESTERDAY in New Hampshire is
believed by the Democrats to indicate that
their time is coming. 1fthis bill is passed
it will come with the certainty of the doom
that always falls on madness in power.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

THE LAST RAILROAD MEETING.-The
Railroad Committee made their last public
appeal to the citizens of Olympia, through
a meeting at Columbia Hall, last evening.
The meeting was numerously attended ;
Gov. Solomon, Ex,Gov. Evans and Gen.
Hazard Stevens, made eloquent speeches,
urging cessions of lands as the only means
by which railroad connection could be
secured, and arguing the importance of
the road to the future of the town, aud
the immense profits which would accrue to
those who gave; but with slight effect
upon the class of sordid obstructionists who
curse the community in which they live
by their selfishness and unhallowed greed.
II this town loses the road, as it most GER
tainly will unless these cormorants relent,
the most miserable outcast in community
will have no cause to envy their position.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1871-04-29

GRAYs HARBoR.-Mr. Hoffman, who we
mentioned two weeks since as in search of
lands upon which to settle large number of
families from Wisconsin and other portions of
the old Northwest, organized a company of
eight men in this town, and at our suggc ton
proceeded down the valley of the Chehalis river
to its confluence with the ocean, examing as
far as practical the intermediate country. From
Gray's llarbor the party proceeded north, ex-
ploring the country to near the southern base
OF the Olympic range of mountains. Mr.. Hoff-
man returned to this place on Wednesday eve
what he had seen. lie has made locatio
upon which he will Immediately enter with his
family, upon one of the several rivers tributary
to Gray's Ilarbor, which take their rise in the
Olympic range, and nearly hll of which are
navigable, like the Chehalis, the greater por-
ton of their length from the ocean, for such
steamboats, as ply on the Willamette River
The surrounding country is chiefly unsurvey-
ed and all open to presumption under the
homestead act. Mr.. Hoffman says that thon-
sand families could find homestea of lGO
acres each, in that section, equal in soil to the
best in Wisconsin or Iowa, consisting of prai-
RE, openings, river bottoms, an abundance of
valuable timber, and water, all convenient to
navigable waters connecting with the ocean on
one hand and with the Northern Pacific Rail.
roal, where it crosses the Chehalis, on the
other, and the health of the settler assured by
the ocean breezes on one side and the snow
capped mountains on the other.
Mr.. Hoffman intends to procure a lat-boat
on which to remove his family and goods,
from thence up another river to the landing on
his own claim. He will be the first settler in
that region, but will have an abundance of
neighbors in very short time.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-02-23
The Antiquities of the Guanape Islands.

In removing the guano from the North
ern Islands of Guanape, says the Panama
Star and Herald, some curious objects have
been found buried in some places forty feet
deep. Those of most interest are the hui
man figure, rudely cut of very hard wood.
They, evidently, were idols or household
gods of the ancient Peruvian Indians,
who must have frequented the islands hum
dreds of years ago. On the North Island,
after removing some forty feet of glano, a
cavity was come upon, which, on taking
out the guano, was found to be cave lead
ing downward as many more feet. From
the bottom an entrance was found leading
toward the sea. In this also many objects
were found. The guano seems to be of a
highlypreservative nature. Birds, Lizards,
sea-fowl eggs of various sizes, from goose
to pigeon egg, are found petrified as it
were into guano. The eggs retain their
shape and the shell in many cases its color.
The cracks and assures in the walls of the
caves were filled with solicited ammonia
cal salts. According to Peruvian paper
the objects brought from the Island OF
Macabi were two pieces of earthenware
vases, each having on the outside the figure
of an armed Indian, also two gold ear
rings and bundles of medicinal herbs tied
up in curiously woven cloth.
Some curiosities from the same quarter
were shown us. "A dark clay-colored earth.
enware vessel was an exact imitation OF
the soursop, but the carved-wooden images
which the guano had so well preserved
were of very rude form, indicative of 9
much lower state of civilization than al
the time of the conquest.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-02-23
Travel Pay Of Officers.

Mr.. A. ]. johnson, of this city, hands
us the following, from the Grand Army
Journal, as likely to be of interest to re-
signed army officers:
"The fifteenth section of the act of jan
uary 90, 1913, provided that whenever an
officer or soldier shall be discharged from
the service, except in the way of punish
ment, he shall be allowed his pay and ra-
tions, or an equivalent in money, for such
time as may be sufficient for him to travel
from the place of discharge to the place of
his residence, computing at the rate of
twenty miles day.
The War Department and the account
ing officers have always held that dis
charge, to carry travel and pay, must be
on the motion of the Government, and
that officers who went out by resignation
were not entitled to it. The Court of
Claims, in the case of Lieutenant J. w.
Price, a resigned officer, overruled this
construction, and gave Judgment in favor
of the officer, which, on appeal to the Su-
preme Court, was affirmed by an equally
divided Court. Controller Broadhead has
decided that the judgment applies only to
the case ON which it was given, and it is
understood that similar claims will be re-
jected as heretofore, until majority of the
Supreme Court shall give judgment on the
principle involved
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-02-23

In spite of his lumbago, the Emperor
William will make Sunday visit to the
Tuileries in different character from that
in which he was received there at the
Great Exposition. With a consideration
for the fastidious Partisan taste in the mat
ter of dress, the troops have been furnished
with new clothes, and in place of the war
worn veterans who have been tramping
through snow and ice about the provinces,
a set of new and fresh soldiers have been
brought on from Germany to give an all
of elegance to the triumphal procession
past the palace where the Emperor will
lunch with his staff and invited friends.
1t is, however, strictly German enter.
tainment, those of the troops that can
be spared from active participation in the
show being placed in the houses along the
route, with nota single window reserved for
unappreciative Frenchmen. No doubt il
will be gratifying. and need only the sign
ing of treaty with the diamond-studded
gold pen sent to Bismark, to be complete.
Thegay new uniforms will show no spot of
blood, and the fresh landwher will tramp
over the asphalte with no hint of the thou.
sands, clad in the same colors, who yet lie
unburied and stiff where they fell on the
plains of France, that the Kaiser might
enjoy this scene.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1871-02-23
THE CUBAN MURDER CASE.



The Memphis papers, during the pro-
gress of the above case, have kept their
readers thoroughly posted. The following
is from the Avalanche, of Tuesday:
"The Criminal Court was crowded with
interested spectators, yesterday morning,
to listen to the verdict of the jury in the
case Of Frank Graves and Samuel Poston,
indicted for the murder of John w. Scho-
field, at Cuba, on the 14th of July last.
Seldom, if ever before, has any trial ex-
cited so much interest in this city, and the
Cuban murder trial will take its place
among the causes ceJe6res of Memphis. 1t
was currently reported on Sunday that
the jury had agreed upon their verdict,
and when the defendants, Graves and Pos
ton, were brought into Court at 8 o'clock
yesterday morning, and Judge Flippin
took his seat on the bench, the excitement
among the spectators was at fever heat. ]"
Samuel Poston and Frank Graves were
found guilty of murder in the first degree,
as charged in the indictment, but were re-
commended to the mercy of the Court.
Gen. Sale, the prisoners counsel, entered
a motion for new trial and arrest of judg-
ment, which motion was entered.
The crowd slowly retired from the Court
room, and the action of the jury was the
theme of general discussion on the streets
the entire day. The verdict seemed to
give general satisfaction.