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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22
A Telegraph War.

There is some prospect of It lively
telegraph war before the yearis end
ed. The Western Union Telegraph
Company, says the Boston Globe,
will virtually control the telegraph
business of the world by the COM
pletion of the two new ocean cables
which are about leid. The Anglo
American Company. it is reported
has endeavored to form some con-
nection with the Western Union
but it is thought that the latter will
abrogate the contract which the
former had with the American Union
Telegraph Company, (now merged
into the Western Union) in order to
monopolize the whole business. If
this is done it is said grand tele-
graphic scheme is being mapped out,
which will be put in operation this
Summer, for the carrying out of
which $25, 900 900 is already said
to have been subscribed by such
capitalists as Samuel J. Tilden,
William H. Vanderbilt, Cyrus W.
Field and others at the West, who
have concluded that a system OF
telegraphy can be erected through
out the United States from San
Francisco to Calais and from Rio
Grande to the lakes, and all not to
cost over $40. 900, 900, the remaining
S., 900 900 to be held for working
expenses. Should the Western I'm
ion break with the Anglo-American
Company it is believed that this new
company could connect with that
and thus cable tariff from New
York to London of six cents per
word, and q land tariff from New
York to any part of this continent
of ten cents per word could be es.
tablished. This has been Mr.. Field 8
scheme for years.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22
the various uses to which this vo a.,

the various uses to which this wast q
lumber is to be put. These, how.
ever, will readily suggest themselva.
to the practical mechanic WHO, if h.
will only stop to consider, will a.
in your article the germ of man,
profitable industries. 1t is none to-
soon to commence. With the com
pletion of the Northern Pacific Rs;L
road. putting Puget Sound in clo,a
connection with the food-tide of ia.
migration. rounlation will increase
so rapidly thai the products of the
lumber mil, of this region will be Is
demand to an extent thardly dreamed
OF at present. II in Humboldt coun.
ty, with territorial area of 1000
square miles and shore line of less
than one hundred, it has been found
advisable, nay, necessary to begin to
economic, it may reasonably be OK.
pected that Puget Sound with its
1000 miles of shore-line and vast
area. susceptible of cultivation and
of the support of tens of thousands
will soon be found in the same cate.
CORY. l write this merely to second
your admirable suggestion, and to
urge you and the gentlemen of the
press on the Sound to press the sui
ject home to your readers until thu
work is accomplished.
A. T. HAwLEY.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22
News Brevities.

The weather is intensely hot
throughout Europe. -
Salmon run in British Columbia 4 ]
unprecedently large.
The Austrian harvest promises e
be fully up to the average.
Senator ConkIing left his card Al
the White House on the 14th.
There is every reasonable prospect
of the Presidents recovery.
The cutter Corpin was at Ployer
Bay, Siberia, on the 18th ult. q
Lon. Collin is to marry Victoris
Woodruff Blood's daughter, Ger
trude Blood, in London.
The country around Marsballtovn.
Ohio, is afioat and damage cannot
even be estimated.
Merrill, of Boston, easily defeated
his English contestants in the mile
walking match at Leeds.
King Kalakaua is said to be trsy-s
cling in Europe for the purpose q
selling his Kingdom.
The Chinese school established M
the Chinese government at Hartford.
Conn, will be discontinued.
1t is reported that the Khediye q
Egypt will shortly decree total ab-
clifton of slavery throughout hia'
dominions.
Mrs. Van Colt, the Evangelist.
who barely knows Guitteau, is sup
posed to be the wealthy widow be
says be could marry.
The Columbia Chronicle SAYS: Kill
every water snake found along the;
streams, for they are said to destroy
more trout than all the rest of the
many enemies of this finny favorite.
Hundreds of cords of wood are
being stored in Walla Walla for use
the coming winter. The supply was
short last year, very Indifferent,
wood selling for weeks at SIG per
cord.
Allen Rutherford, lately employsd
in the City stables, Toronto, has
been informed by letter from Ire-
land that he is the Earl of Teirat.
and master of a rent roll of eco, coo
per annum.
The township in the immediate vi.
cinity OF Fairfield postofice, MINI,
was visited by terrific windstorm.
which did great damage to property,
and which resulted in the death Of
two people.
Cotton returns to the agricultural
department to July 18th show an i'm
provement in the condition of cotton
since the reports of June. The
average condition is IS against 100
at the same time last year.
A bunch of pie plant raised on the
farm of Eugene White on Fourth
Plain was lately shown in Van
couver, the stalks of which measured
on an average, % inches in lengtk.
The largest measured 81 inches.
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Administrators Sale
Territory Of Washington, | O.
County of Thnrpf0n 8

ASsOA Va w dSHIORLOn,
County of Thurston. S.
In the Probate Court OF said Comfy
In the Natter Of the Estate of Martha Grsinr
ger, Deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given that by WITT
N OF an order of sale made by The nj
Court, IN said cause, on the 14th day 6
July, A. d. 1881, and to me delivered. ~
undersigned Administrator of the estat6(
Martha Granger deceased will,
On Saturday, August 9Th. 1851.
at the hour of one o'clock in the
noon at the Court House of said o. u
IN olympia, sell at public auction. -
highest bidder, the following desc ~
real estate belonging to said estate. ~.
Inc hve acre tract in the form of q s0onDes
in the North West corner of the 6ouAh
half OF the North West quarter OF Sactlon
Eighteen u.s. township Eighteen 1sl
North of Range one ~ West, being the
land conveyed by John F. Deyore aud
wife to Charles Granger, and situated 10
Thurston County, Washington TERRITORY.
The terms Of the sale will be cash.
Dated Olympia w. T., July 10th, 1881.
CHARLES GRANGER,
administrator of the estate of Marthl
Granger deceased.
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tnNptic Eanatici$m.

i, IL MAJ. If considerable sur
l!:.c that IL .i.l.c 'i'ea hers Of Ore
goa. WHO .nci Ill Portland Il few
de-. aEe, loull hay adopted = res
o'rtiOa accommodating the Immediate
u7e il their schools OF the following
changes i'll spelling sanctioned by
tie " Pathological Association, - viz:
NJ for are, hay for have, liz fOT
live, and civ, loinit, intinit, gard,
catalo5, tho, thru and wisht, fol the
standard ortloSraphy OF those
words.
Precisely how they are to bring
About the proposed reform does not
anpcar. 1t is one thing 20 resolve
and another to execute, and there
aro many troublesome conservatives
in the world whose special mission
seems to be to put stumbling blocks
III the way of the car of progress,
even when it carries Il better load
than mere rubbish. The school di-
rectors will probably interpose some
objection to this attempt 20 murder
the language, and even if they should
be remiss in a duty which conflicts
with such august authority, the peo-
pie will be very apt to put decided
veto upon scheme which would be
productive only if in calculable harm.
If there existed any necessity fol
changing the usage sanctioned b.
our best-educated writer's, system
of photography which embodies the
whole literature of the language, ex-
ccpt such questionable contributions
as have been made by Josh Billings
and Nasty, the innovation should al
least, be uniform, and make the
spelling of every word to conform
70 the rigid rules of fonetic analysis
The selection of eleven words. tC
constitute the vanguard of reform
and leaving all others of similar ana
dissimilar form to stand as they are
with their silent letters retained
would confuse the pupil still more
than now in acquiring the rudiments
of written language.
The OreJonian, it is gratifying tc
note, has taken decided stanf
against the fonctic filosophers,
who have mado Z" fules" OF them
selves by their precipitate advocacy
of a system which does not stant
the ghost of chance for genera
| adoption.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22
Scientific Miscellany.

In many marshy, fever-plagued
districts of Europe and Africa the
experiment of planting in large num-
bers the Eucalyptus, or feve"tree,
has beer tried for some years, and a
late report shows that the result is
the almost total Punishment of fevers
from these regions.
Teeth are destroyed either by the
action of acids or the development
OF vegetable parasite. The for
mer is the much more fro uent cause
of decay. 1t has been demonstrated
by actual experiment that even very
weak acids may suffice to decompose
the teeth substances. In forty eight
hours the juice of grapes will rem
der the enamel of chalky consist
ence. Most vegetable substances
are inert until fermentation takes
place and acetic acid is formed. An
! imal substances exert no deleterious
Influence until petrefaction is far
advanced.
Tie severity of the past winter in
France caused great injury to trees
and vines. The damage sustained
by the Paris parks is indicated by
the fact that in the Bots de BoulOgne
81 900 evergIeens, 10000 frs, and
10000 deciduous trees are required
to fill up gaps, while in the Champs
Elysees 5000 trees were killed.
The total loss to Paris alone in the
Parks, avenues and nurseries is es-
timated at a million francs. To Sc
cure valuable hints for agriculturists
and others, the French Minister OF
Agriculture has instructed the pre-
fects to report what kind of pines,
fruit trees and vines suffered most
from the cold.
An experiment made in the port of
Kiel proves that heavy weights may
be readily lifted from the bottom of
the sea by means of a balloon. The
balloon is made of canvass and metal
plates, with an attached cistern con-
tanning carbonic acid gas compressed
to a liquid state. When made fast
to o sunken object, the communica-
between the cistern and the balloon
is opened; initiation takes place; the
sunken vessel, or whatever else it
may be, is lifted, and can be towyJ
away at pleasure. In the expert.
ment at Kiel, an anchor-stone weigh
ing fifteen tons was lifted from a
depth of thirty-two feet. The lifting
power of balloon ten feet in iii.
ameter is said to he more than one
hundred tons.
At the exhibition of fishing appli-
ances which recently took place in
Berlin, an electrical fishing apparatus
attracted considerable attention.
This consisted Of a Ind of small
boat, worked by a scrt W, and capa-
BILE of being directed to ny required
point in the water. Ga arriving al
this point the boat anchors itself
and at the same moment q hook and
line are projected. The boat con-
tains battery and an electro-mag-
netic apparatus which is set in action
by the closing of the circuit, this
being effected by the slightest pres.
sure upon the hook produced by the
fish in the act of taking the bait.
The circuit being thus closed, the
fish is instantly hauled into the boat,
a bell being rung at the same mo.
ment to signify that capture has
been made. The boat is then drawn
to shore by means OF q cord con-
Meeting it with the bank.
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Two or More Surgeons

OF the Pacifc Surgical Institute, 3O5
kearney Street, San Francisco, viii
be at the New England Hotel, Olym-
pia, Aug. 18th and 14th, at the New
England Hotel, Seattle, Aug. 18th,
18th and 18th. and at the Central
Hotel, Port Townsend. Aug. Goth,
2lst and 22d, fully prepared 70 treat
all cases Of Spinal Disease, Knee and
Hip Disease, Club Foot, Crooksa
Limbs, Paralysis, and all Chronic.
and Surgical Diseases. As ~ IN
stltutlon is unequaled in fIh6N
Tor the treatment of these affoeiion
all who are interested should -
fail to see these surgeons.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

VERMONT is the only State that has
not a sigle Chinaman. North Car
DINA and Delaware have each one,
and Alabama has four. The largest
number in any Southern State is
48S, and Louisiana is the State.
Sugar growing has brought them
there. The other States an1 Terri
tories in which they are most numer-
Gus are: Pennsylvania, 100; Illinois,
2l4; Utah, SIS; Arizona, 632
New York, 942; Montana, 1874
Idaho, 3,37S; Nevada, 5,423; Ore
gop, 9,515, and California, 1922.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

A Counting ScENE.-George-Oh
Angelina, x of my being, angel OF
my SOULS existence! Oh! alb!
=? ! ! Angelina-Oh, dearest! ali
Oh! --!o-! How nice
=! just one more - -. -
Old Nan Enters-??? p l. 81
+ rattle-te.bang! (Oh pa, don't.)
But he did,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

If people who are troubled with
colds would make use of Ayers
Cherry Pectoral before ATTENDING
church or public lectures, they would
avoid coughing, and the comfort Of
hearers and speaker would be greatly
promoted. The Pectoral enables
public speakers to speak clearly and
without fatigue, having an immsdi-
ate and wonderful effect in increas.
ing the power and fexibility Of the
voice.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

Mr.. A W. Bash, the newly ap.
pointed Collector of Customs of this
District, arrived at Port Townsend
q few days ago. accompanied by two
gentlemen who will aid him in filling
the arduous duties of the office.
The public cannot help admiring the
fore sight of the gentleman in i'm.
porting talent to this benighted
region, and will expect correspond.
ing improvement in the service.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

A PUBLIC installation of officers OF
Mt. Baker Lodge I. O. o. F., of
Port Townsend, took place on the
evening of the 18th instant, DR..
Lane d. D. G. NJ. presiding as in.
stalling officer. The following are
the officers for the ensuing term
II. Landes; N. G.; Fred. Rees, V
G.; N. D. Hill, S.; Carl Sidel
T.; o. H. Holcomb, P. G..
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

Now DR.. Bliss telegraphs all over
the United States how he scratches
the Presidents back! If those doc
tors haven't struck bonanza of re-
nown, it will not be the fault OF
brass and electricity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

In the Supreme Court the follow
ing cases have been determined since
our last report: Baxter VS.. Scol-
and, judgment of the lower court
affirmed. Mcintosh VS.. Renton,
Holmes Co., continued. Wheeler
VS.. Port Blakely Mill Co. and Nc
Load VS.. same, judgment affirmed.
Waddell & Miles VS.. Steamer DAISY,
judgment of lower court reversed
and case dismissed. p. S. Com
mercial Co. VS.. B arkentine C. l..
Taylor, continued. Mr.. Thomas Nj.
Reed, Jr., was admitted to practice
as an attorney at law.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

WARNER Miller was, on the 10th
inst, elected by the New York Leg,
islature to fill the vacant seat in the
U. S. Senate occasioned by the res.
iguation of Thomas G. Platt.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

The rumor that the Northern Pa
cific Railroad land Office wonld soon
be removed from New Tacoma to
Portland is pronounced false.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

Mr.. G. z. Mason, the first driver
on our local railroad, who has been
the past two years superintendent of
the Columbia Iron Works, Portland,
is in town.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

The Kansas colony has determined
its location at Whatcom, purchasing
eight hundred acres of land, includ-
ing the TOWNSHIP, water power and
district adjoining.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

MIR. Eaton's farm, in this county
recently sold for $4,000.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

AND DoN'T YOU FORGET Ir,-To try the
extra quality of brown-bread flour for
making hot cakes. Put up expressly for
fanny use, by ID. j. Chambers, Tum'
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

TIE steamer North Pacific is un-
dergoing thorough repairs at Victor.
ia.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

The salmon catch on the Colum-
bia river this season will not be
much more than half as large as u.s.
ual.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

DIR. Minor was unanimously elect
ed Mayor of Port Townsend, on the
18th instant.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

The telegraph is now completed
to Cheney, W. T.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

The comet is a god-send to the
Liver Pad Observatory at Rochester.
which now sends out weekly bulle-
tins to the press.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

PRESIDENT Garfield is now consid-
ered out of danger, and will be able
to leave his bed in o week or two
more, it the favorable conditions ore
not interrupted.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

Mr.. Hallenback, the revivalist,
has returned to San Francisco.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22
Timber Waste.
EDITOR STANDARD:

EDITOR STANDARD:
l read your article on the Waste
of Timber, published in your issue
of the 18th inst, with great deal of
interest. Your view of the case is
the correct one, and ought to at
tract the attention of all interested
alike i'll the preservation of the vast
forests of the Northwest and the
utilization of the g,ea' resources of
this section of country. 4 little more
than two years ago, l wrote series
of letters to the San Francisco But
letia, describing the resources of
Humboldt county, Cal, the region,
par excellence, of vast redwood for
ests. Iquote the following from one
of my letters:
"In former letter I stated that
an intelligent gentleman had as
serted that he saw from the summit
of hill in Humboldt county enough
undeveloped wealth to pay the
national debt. Let us figure on the
subject little. 1t is a common
complaint that the country is being
denuded of it's forests and that the
supply of lumber bids fair to be ex-
haustcd on the eastern slope of the
continent. Apropos of this, prom
inent mill-owner of Eureka told me,
the other day, that when he left his
home in Maine, few years ago, the
loggers were then cutting trees for
milling purposes, of which it inquired
six to make q thousand feet of lum-
Der. Now said he, they are
cutting trees of which it requires
twenty to produce thousand feet
of lumber Such trees as these
would hardly answer a Eureka
lumbelman for poles to push red
wood logs WITH
You will see by the matter just
quoted that you were not at all out
of the way in your statements about
the timber interests in the East.
In this connection, and apropos
to your article above referred to,
quote further from the same letter
from which the foregoing extract is
taken:
" l will merely state for the in
formation of Eastern lumbermen,
that taking redwood trees on an
average they may be considered good
for from 3 Nj. to 10 NJ, feet of lum.
Der each, the former where the land
on which the trees are felled is rough
and broken. There are many trees
on Mad river which will yield 100
NJ. feet clear lumber each. But this
is a depression. The statement
about paying the National debt with
the undeveloped wealth of Humboldt
county may not be so far wrong
after all.
I present an estimate of the acre
age of redwood timber in Hum
boldt county. I have submitted it
to number of gentlemen we'll in
formed in the premises. My original
informant refers the skeptical, if any
there be, to the maps on file in the
Land Office. Look, then, on these
figures:
! Acrea1a IN Vumholdt hav 100 non
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

The escaping prisoners, Charles
Lord and Wesley Stevens, were re-
captured at Tacoma just after they
had hired an Indian to take them to
Victoria in q canoe.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

The Presidential doctors had q
quarrel few days ago as to whose
names should be attached to the Off
cial bulletins announcing the condi-
ton of the state patient. The mat
ter appears to have been definitely
settled, for now the cleaning capt.
tails, "BLIss, BARNES, WOODWARD
and RYBURN," stare at us continually
from the turgid stream of bombast
which flows through the columns OF
the daily newspapers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22
true. Witness the following:

at seems rather odd that the only
prayer for the recovery of the President
recorded as having been uttered by WISH
tors to the White House, came from the
as known not clergyman has knelt ut
the Presidents bedside. The fat is, we
have not heard Of any minister being adj
mitted there ut all, nor more singular
still OF any minister calling to ask admit.
lance. When it is noted in addition that
amid all the courageous remarks, the
playful remarks, the philosophical re-
marks and the remarks concerning bust
ness matters attributed to Mr.. Garfield
himself, no religious remarks have been
published, it is calculated to make one
wonder as to what kind of atmosphere
they have III the White House anyhow
Now it may be barely possible that
Mr.. Garfield is just as over-howing
with pious devotion as our good
friend of the Baptist faith would
have US believe, but we submit, in
all reverence, that the knowledge
possessed by the Great Author of
the Universe on this matter is abso.
lutte, while that of any mortal is just
as likely to be founded upon error
as upon a correct hypothesis. 1t
seems, therefore, as much ont of
place to engage in fulsome laudation
of man in n petition to the Most
High, as to cut upon tombstones
glowing tributes to the possibly
mythical virtues of the departed.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

THE Baptist ministerial gentleman
who, in his prayer at the opening of
the Blue Ribbon League a few Sun
days ago, took occasion to eulogize
President Garfield as our noble
Christian President, must havo let
his political sympathies get the best
of him, if what that bible of Repub-
licanism the Orcg0nian - says is
true. Witness tho follOwino.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22

ANOTHER count of the ballots cast
in Portland fortnight ago again
reverses the total for Mayor, and
gives Simon n majority. But there
is some doubt as TO the legality of
one vote, and it was proposed to
shift the responsibility of q decision
upon Chief Justice Lord, but he has
declined to assume duties assigned
by the charter to the Councilmen.
Probably, under the circumstances,
q deleg alton of this authority would
have been acceptable, in as much as
definite charges of attempts at bri-
berry have been made, and high fig.
ures have been named to accure the
requisite number to count in" ST.
mon. The Oregonian cflirms that
$4,000 cash and $40, 900 in "jobs"
were offered one of the Councilmen
for his vote for this purpose. 1t is
difficult to see how an investigation
can be avoided which may place
some prominent politicians in hot
water.