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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04
Concerning the Future.

A hale old gentleman from Missis-
sippi has recently been relating some
of his "reminiscences of New York,
Chicago and other places, says Elec-
tricity. Early in this century he went
from Buffalo to New York by stage
and water, paying fare of $25. The
rate of speed at which stages travelled
in those days was ten miles an hour.
1t is somewhat remarkable to think
that men are still among us who have
witnessed from their very beginning
the marvellous changes that modern
engineering and electrical science
have wrought in our way of living.
When we who are now young have de-
veloped into hale old gentlemen, shall
we have witnessed progress and
changes corresponding to those which
this octogenarian has seen? Shall we
then see distant objects by electricity
as easily rs we now hear distant
voices? Shall we travel to all dis
tances and at all speeds by the aid of
the electric motor? And shall we
navigate the air with the same uncon-
Germ that we now feel in undertaking
a voyage on the sea? Truly these are
difficult questions to answer. 1t would
be almost as rash to say ave shall
not" as to say ave shall"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04
How to Sleep on a Car.

The majority of travellers will tell
you that they do not sleep soundly on
sleeping cars, that they never feel rest
ed in the morning, and that night
railroad trains are an abomination.
This may be all true, but if they do not
sleep well it is often their own fault.
Very few people know how to sleep
in the sleeping car. The secret is this
Sleep with your head toward the en-
gine. BY SO doing you will not wake
up with headache or spend restless
night. When the feet arc toward the
engine the motion OF the train causes
the blood to settle in the head, and
rest is then out of the question.
The porters know this, but only on
a few lines will they bother to change
ends while making up births. Insist
upon their doing it and you will pass q
comfortable night, that is, if you have
good health and clear conscience.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

-, total slu, 90 the iarm animals
iu tl.r l'nii,i states la lSDI was t2.-
~ Tnr Ogs
Tho total wheat crop ia 1890 was
rHi i'A 0n bushels. aud thc home
,sla, Was tilI75lG7l The total
shrst 'mp in ls'n ~ 1n .2GG 900
hu.htl. tui the homc value wa-
flltfT1t5i The total wheat crop
tlis trsf Be- uut absolutely nud nccur-
at,i, obtained hut it - probable that
a B. UiuHsp. .,u,o lu-hcl- aud its home
,tlur will BE- no' lc.. than 5000 .nuo,
ouu ihis would give to the farmers
$3.50 otsa"lo more iur their wheat
~. year than they obtained last.
The total corn crop ~ 1880 was
gD g., u,fn bushels. aud the humc
value was fT5l i32 iil. being not
quite a. ceni- per hu-hcl A. In the
razp oi wheat and accurate estimates
~ ,l'e total corn crup has not been
male. bat II certainly amounts tu
go oo,, ,"uu ard thi- - Gnn 600 .oo
hnslai. mnfe than u was lnst wear. and
she hume value will be- $500 900 900
r,tfs nn ,hese two items alone the
fifm,fs have piWluccd this year not less
than ftao,ooo.oo more than last year
the value ~ thr farms hy the last
crnsus has not tet been gwen out. but
There u nn doubt ut the fact that 1t is
large incrvasc over any previous
yeaf
Il will t,r observed that between
$50 aud iSso the number oi sheep
a' ,s<e1rassascl l,y something over 9.-
WW This increase was the larg-
est ~ Nae Western states aud Terri
t'Hie- The number increased IN
these States from ln,5o3.ooO to y,
aia. .eoo. ln New England there was
sliTlri falling un 10 the number OF
sheep aud IN the Middle States in.
cludir 4 Maryland and West Virginia
the falling on amounted 30 ,2oo,ooo
in south Atlantic States there was a
isllinT ofi oi Goo,ooo. the gain being
made to entirely IN the Northwestern
aud Pacific siaics and the Territories
These are figures that the farmers
ought to know.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04
The Presidents Bad Break.

MIR. Harrison is usually very careful
OF the language he uses in public
speeches, but he made break in his
speech of welcome to Senor Montt,
the new Gillian minister, that will be
snickered at in diplomatic circles all
over the civilized world. After telling
the minister how glad he was to see
him he told him Of the policy of this
government in dealing with its neigh
bors unfortunate enough to suffer
from internal dissensions and civil
war. Said he: 1t is our policy to
preserve an honorable and strict neu-
trality, as was done during the late
war in Chill. Tempting commercial
and political advantages may be Of
fered for our aid or influence by one or
the other of the contending parties,
but this we have not deemed to be
consistent with the obligations Of in
ternational honor and good will" 1t
certainly must have been difficult for
Senior Montt TO keep his face straight
while listening to this high-aown talk,
in view of the very short time since
the newspapers of the entire world
were ringing with charges of bad faith
made by this government against Hi
polyte, the present president of Hayti,
because of his refusal to cede the Mole
st. Nicholas to the United States, in
keeping with the promise he had made
to obtain the support of this govern
ment to aid him in driving President
Legitime out of Hayti, and in assum-
ing the presidency thereof himself.
That was an odd sort of honorable
neutrality, wasn't it? And Senior
MOntt must have wondered if Mr..
Harrison considered his bargain with
insurgent Hipolyte consistent with
the obligations Of international honor
and good will" Even Mr.. Harrison s
friends admit that he made mistake
in the phrasing of this speech, short
as it was.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04
What q Modern Gun Can DO.
Boston Traveller.


Unless one is actually brought into
business relations with the great sci
ence OF modern warfare, it is difficult
to conceive of the terrible power of the
latest and largest guns. These en-
gines of destruction, weighing ITO tons,
hurl the projectile of solid steel, six
teen inches in diameter and nearly
fourteen feet long, at a velocity of 2, ;
O79 feet u second. When tested re-
Gently one of these guns sent shot
through twenty inches of steel armor,
eight inches of iron, twenty feet of oak,
3 feet Of granite, eleven feet of con.
crete and three feet OF brick. Com
paratively, locomotive weighing 5oo,.
900 pounds would have to spin along
the tracks at the rate of 135 miles an
hour to strike blow equal to the pro.
jectile. Think of the damage wrought
in a railroad collision where the train
speeds along at the rate of thirty miles
an hour, and one may calculate the de-
structiveness of modern ordnance.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04
Ex-CHIEF JUSTICE BURKE.
He Tells n Reporter How the Demo
Gratis Will Capture this State.

Judge Thomas Burke, of Seattle,
Na-h who was Chief Justice Of the
l,rritury under President Cleveland,
w. at the Grand Pacific Yesterday en-
route to Europe. says the Chicago Her
ahi He is an alternate Worlds Fair
cummi--iuuCr from Washington. He
-iy- The new Evergreen State is
enthusiastic over the Fair. The Legis-
hturo has made an appropriation of
tiOO.OD ior an exhibit, and it is the
intention to send comprehensive dig
play that will fully represent all our
varied resources The people of Wash
lngton recognize the value OF such an
adScrtiso for the state"
Judge Burk" is an enthusiastic Dem
ucrht. and said that his party would
likely obtain control of the State Leg
islaturc tina: il to be elected soon in
Washington. The Farmers Alliance
WAS strong east of the mountains in
the great farming sections Of the State,
aud it was believed Il large number of
Alliance men would be sent to the leg
islaturc The Democrats and the AL
hhncc members will form coalition,
aud IN that way wonld defeat the Re-
publican candidate for United States
senator. \ deal might be fixed up to
give the Alliance men the next governor
OF the State and To send Democrat to
the United States Senate. J. J.
Browne Of Spokane, G. H. Warner of
CulfaV, who were members of the con-
-titutional convention Of the State,
and Henry Drum, n banker OF Tacoma,
and Charles Voorhees, OF Spokane, the
son of United States Senator Daniel
W. Voorhees, of Indiana, are talked OF
for the Democratic nominee for United
States Senator. But Browne or War
ncr stands the best show Of being the
nominee Of the Observation-Disclosures
cnuCus
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04
Subjects for Thought.

Truth walks slowly, and even then
some people can't keep up with it.
Some widows look a great deal
blacker than they feel.
It's bad enough to. bite off more
than you can chew, but it's worse to
try to chew it.
Love without sacrifice is largely
ornamental.
The power to conquer temptation
increases by the square OF the distance
after the first victory.
Age knows what is ahead; youth
seeks it.
We sometimes forget in the ashes
the glow and the warmth that pre-
ceded them.
Friendship lasts longer than love
and is more reliable.
If man empties his purse into
his head, no man can take it from
him. An investment in knowledge
always pays the best interest.
Our opinions are not our own, but
in power OF sympathy. If a person
tells us a palpable falsehood, we not
only dare not contradict him, but we
dare barely disbelieve him to his face.
A lie boldly uttered has the effect Ct
truth for the instant.
1t is not question how much a
man knows, but what use he can
make of what he knows; not a aues-
tion of what he knows; not question
OF what he has acquired, and how he
has been trained, but OF what he is,
and what he can do.
All true manliness grows around
core of divineness.
Destruction is the consequence,
never the object, of a great mind.
Mirth is the sweet wine of human
life. 1t should be offered sparkling
with Zestful life INTO God
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04
Photographing the Moon.

A Boston dispatch of the 10Th ult.,
says: The eclipse of the moon last
night was observed under the most
favorable circumstances in this city,
as the sky was eloudless. At Harvard
photographs were taken, the plates
being exposed for five minutes, one at
the time OF the greatest totality being
exposed for ten minutes. The plates
were Immediately developed and ex-
amined, the principal object of the
observation being to determine if pos
sible, if the moon has a satellite. No
sign of such body was discovered.
Harvard has also established an oh.
servatory in Arequipa, Peru, where
the search for a satellite is also to be
made.
Observations were also taken at
Harvard of the eclipse OF one OF the
satellites of Jupiter. This eclipse be.
gan at 5 20 and lasted three minutes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

The people of Wenatchee are greatly
elated over the result OF the soundings
taken by the Great Northern engineers
in the liver east of that town. 1t has
been found that the greatest depth in
the Columbia there is but seventeen
feet, which is the shallowest water
found for long distance either to the
north or south of that point. This
they think will insure the railroad
crossing the river near that town
The engineers, however, have rs We
made no report on the matter.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04
HE HAD COLD FEET,
And in Trying to Cure Them Found
Out He Was Rain Maker.

| NhicdSo inter ocean.
A clearinghouse on Cottage Grov,
avenue, near Thirty-sixth street, wa.
the theater of a very unpleasant Incl
dent a few evenings ago.
One OF the boarders-a Young man
about 27-is confirmed hypochondri.
ac. Among his multitudinous ills he
is martyr-at least so he says-to
cold feet at bedtime.
A certain DIR. Hall told him that
people so affected should, before going
to bed, bend over and smartly slap the
calves Of their legs for about five min
utes.
This struck the young man to be
about as sensible a of advice as
he had ever heard S66eput it to the
test after disrobing himself on Satur-
day night. He bent over and pounded
away at himself, and all the time made
a noise with his mouth, like the hiss of
escaping steam.
This noise attracted the attention of
one OF the boarders, and he told the
landlady that there must be fire in
that room, because he could hear it siz.
and could hear swapping and popping
going on up there. The landlady did
not pause to argue. She caught up a
pail and plunged for the place at once.
The boarder followed with a gigantic
broom. Both Of them preciI itated
themselves into the room together.
The advent was so sudden that the
boarder, who was warming himself,
had no chance to dodge, and there was
too much momentum on the landlady
and the other boarder to permit them
to recover themselves in time. So
there was collision. The landlady
saw it coming, and instinctively held
the pail in front of her.
But the disciple of Hall did not see
it, as his back was to the door and his
head nearly to the floor, and before he
could look up, on hearing the door fly
open. the visitors were on him, and the
contents of the pail over him, and the
three, with pail and dclothes-brush, came
down in a crash together. How the
landlady extricated herself and got out
OF the room as quickly as she did will
always remain mystery to the two
men who stood and glared at each
other for some fifteen minutes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04
Our Million Dollar Legislature.

Our Million Dollar Legislature.
The following is of interest to the
taxpayers Of the State of Washington
in 80 much as il gives an outside, or
birds eye view, of what becomes OF the
money they pay for taxes. The items
can bc found on pages 2lS to 225 of
the session laws of 1891. 1t does not
include the cost of the legislature OF
$40 900. ar the one-ffth mill militia
which anunnts To abou. $65, COO year
or Sl30000 f"r two years, or 900
interest ou State bonds, or several
other items.
There are appropriations as follows
Governors salary. $1,000 per year
5000
Private secretary, 81 500 per year,
5000
Stcnographer, 81 200, - 400.
Messenger, $3.50 per year, $500.
Office rent, $50 per month. 81 200.
Fuel, light, telegraphy, postage, mis-
cellancous and incidental expenses for
Governors Office, 81 ,0G0 per year, 3d.
600.
For fuel, 500.
Making a grand total for Governor
office of $lS,GGO.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
For salary, 81 900 per year, 1000.
Rent of office, 5000 per year. 5000.
Expenses OF maintaining Office, 1925
per year, $3.50.
Furniture for Office, 5000.
Total for term, $3,O50.
SECRETARY OF STATE.
For salary, 50 800 per year, 5000.
For salary, chief clerk, ST 800 per
year, 81 GOO.
For salary, recording clerk, $1,000
per year, $4,000. Additional clerk
hire, 5000 per year, 81 200.
Rent of office, 81, 200.
Fuel, light, water and janitor, 81 ,O00
Postage, $500 per year, 5000.
Incidental expenses, $500 per year
5000.
Travelling expenses of insurance
clerk 800 per year, $500.
Distributing session laws, $500.
Salary of clerk Of insurance depart
mcnt, 81 500 per year, $4,000.
Total, $4,000.
STATE AUDITOR.
For salary, $4,000 per year, $4 900.
Deputy, 81 800 per year, $4,000.
Clerk, Fl 600 per year, $1,000.
Rem, of Office, 1920.
Clerical assistance when necessary
$4,000.
Messenger and janitor, 1920.
Fuel. light, telegraphy and incident
al. 81 200.
Furniture, $500.
Expenses distributing session form
$1,000.
Postage, 1920.
Total, $lG,26O.
STATE TREASURER.
Salary, - 600 per year, 81 900.
Clerk, I'll 800 per year, $4,000.
Clerical assistance, 5000.
Rent, postage and incidentals, 5000.
Total, $S, 800.
PUBLIC PRINTING.
For public printing, binding pape
and material used for public printing
$50 600.
srrERINIENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUC
Salary, - 500 per year, $1,000.
Clerk, $500 per year, 81 900.
Travelling expenses, $500 per yeal
81 600.
Rent, $500 per year, $720.
, Fuel, lights, janitor.
Record books and stationery. 1900.
Postage and express charges, 81 ,OOt
Incidental expenses, $3.50.
| Total, $lO,3lO.
! STATE LAND COMMISSIONER,
Salary, $4,000 per year, $1,000.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

WV \-NOb oSSN.B
Total, $4,000.
FISH COMMISSION.
Salary, $1,000 per year, 81 600.
Deputies, $l 500
Travelling expenses, commission and
deputies, $500.
Total, $4,000.
SUPERIOR JUDGES.
Salary for two years. $4,000.
For travelling expenses for judges
when holding court in more than one
county, $4,000.
Total, $4,000.
TO defray expenses OF commission to
locate agricultural college and school
of science, 81 I,OOO.
STATE LIBRARY.
Watchman for two years, 81 ,440.
Salary librarian, $1,000.
Assistant, 81 40.
Furniture, $400.
Fuel, lights. postage, carriage, ex-
pressage and stationery, $500.
Total, $3.50.
SOLDIERS HOME.
Maintenance, 81 500.
Expenses of transporting insane per-
sons OF State hospital, $4,000.
For expenses of transporting con-
victs to penitentiary, $4,000.
For cost bills for conviction of felony
before the superior court, $685. 900.
Extradition expenses, s., 800.
Official proclamation of the govern
or, 81, 800.
1ndexing house journal, $500.
Indexing session laws 81, $500.
Maintainance OF hospital for insane,
$4,000.
Water supply and fire service, $l3,-
600.
Brick wing for male patients; for
furniture for the same, for remodeling
boiler and laundry; building of an ex-
ira boiler, painting and other expenses,
100000.
For maintenance of State peniten-
tiary from January 1st, 1891 to March
3Ist, 1891, $l3,5OO.
From April 1st, 1891, to March 31st,
1892, $4,000.
From April 1st, 1891, to March 31st,
1893, 100000.
For two years, $25o.0O0.
Board, 81 600.
Total, $251,6O)
SCHOOL FOR DEFECTIVE YOUTH.
Maintenance from April /, 1892, to
March 81, 1892, $lS,ll0; from April l,
1892, to March 81, 1893, $21,33
Support of Cheney normal school,
$1S,300.
Support of Ellensburgh school, $12,-
600.
INSANE AT MEDICAL LAKE.
Expense of hospital, 100000.
Construction of barns, ETC., $685. 900.
Purchase of lands, $4,000.
Organ and carpets, $16,lS9.
Iron guards for railway, $500.
The trustees are allowed five dollars
per day when actually employed in the
service OF the State, and five cents pei
mile for distance travelled.
Salary OF two coal mine experts, 81 ).
800 each per year for two years, 5000
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

A GIGANTIC scheme to reclaim 10000
acres OF the arid lands in the Yakima
valley and close 90 the line Of the Nor.
thern Pacific railroad has been pu, In
active operation. The projec. Is to
construct a canal sixty miles Ia length.
including branches. through which the
water will be supplied by the Yakima
river. Seventeen miles OF canal is al.
ready complete. The cost Of con.
structing this inland waterway 10 placed
at $6OO 900, but the advantages to lie
derived are stated TO be of incalculs.
BILE benefit, and will open 10 cultiya
ton 100000 acres which are nov bar
rem wastes. A mcond canal $50 feet
higher is purposed 10 he bail, 10 sup.
ply the Columbia river slope. The
water will be taken for thi. canal from
Lake Cle-Elum. The work IL under
tie supervision OF Engineer e. II. Hock.
wood, of Tacoma. and has the supper,
Of the Northern Pacific Rsllroad Com
pany and the Yakima and kittitas
Land and Irrigation Company.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

c. r. lockwood, engineer in charge
of the Yakima and Klickitat irriga-
tion canal states that seventeen miles
OF the canal has been finished, and
water will be turned on late in De-
cember. The canal is projected to be
sixty miles long, and will irrigate TO-
600 acres at cost OF 100000.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

SHEPARD, Henry & Co., have con-
tract for building the Great Northern
from the Sound to the summit of the
Cascades.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

stSAtoh squire was suddenly called
Fast. last Monday. by dispatch
stating h,s mother was seriously i'll
AZ her home in clyde, Ohio.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

The assignee for William Z. Best &
Co., of Tacoma, reports that a total of
$4,000 claims has been filed against
the firm.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

THE largest railway depot in the
world is at Birmingham, England. 1t
covers eleven acres.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

THE Nasional Democratic Commit.
tee will meet in Washington City in
January.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

~ no state election held this year
has there been more thorough test
~ party strength than in Iowa. The
vote lollrd wa. the largest ever east
la the State aud comes within few
thousands ~ the vote which might
have ieen expected had this been u
Presidential year
Iowa. total vote on Presidential
slrciof. Ia 1854 was 9Gj.0 .032. In 1888
u was lol.l That IL IA say. the
annual increment of the vote of the
state letwccn 1881 anI 1888 WAS a
little over T,ooo. To bring the vote Of
this year un to the Presidential stand
aFd would have required total OF
l11 ,oou in round numbers The actu-
81 total vas tl0 lJg Crcditing all
shs missinR vote to the Republicans
wo,sld sliil leave Uov. Boics with a
plurality over hi. opponent.
uos iio,.as percentage OF the
~hulc vote h this year - 10. against
400 in lNsD Hut the percentage
obtained J., the Republican candidate
lnF uo,efnnf has also decreased from
a. 81 in 1850 to 81 90 IN 1891. Tn,
Allanc" candilate's vote 81 II, l,52I
~onld thus seem to have been drawn
sumewh hat more largely from Rcpubli
caus than Democrats This has NOR,
than wiIr,i uu, the gain made hy the
i,epuhllesn- from the virtual disap
i.rafance oi the Prohibition vote
~h,ch this year !. only 9G2
The vote ol Iowa next year car
harily sscerd i12.ooo. II the side
{ tisEet. tab, un their usual average -
ia..-i the party that polls II | 900 vii
have the electoral vote Of the state
tiu, noi.s has come within 3.5oo %
that ihis year Tho Republicans ar
atoS ~ utsr short II H.
\ ftar ia the Boston Exchang
90. suil tm sa2W0 last week |
81
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

The steamer Clara Brown will be
sold at Tacoma to satisfy liens.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

\ ss,r ia thc Boston Exchange
was snil fui fa2WD last week. IL
wuuid sr,m from this that seats in the
s,ust e..hsnge aud the L =. Senate
average up quite high. but there are
msn ~ho can aliurl 10 buy them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

mfn irut tnaf gvupi
jBllN MiiltH MURPHY.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1891-12-04

Rent, 81 600.
Furniture, $500.
Incidental expenses, $500.
Postage, 500.
Fuel, light, water and janitor, 5000.
Total, $l2,700.
STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
Expenses, 81 900 per year, $1,000.
ATTORNEY GENERAL.
Salary, 81 900 per year, $4,000.
Assistant clerk, $4,000. -
Travelling expenses, $1,000.
Rent, $1,000. -,
Postage and stationery, $4OO. 4
Stationery and printing brief, - ,O0Us
Total, $l3,400. e
Assistance to protect interest OF
State in cases before the local land Of
fees and superior courts not to exceed
5000 per year, and no money shall be
for this purpose unless ap.
proved by the attorney general.
SALARY OF SUPREME JUDGES.
Salary of ) supreme judges at $4,000
each year, $4,000.
CLERK SUPREME COURT.
Salary, - 900 per year, $4,000.
Contingent expenses OF supreme
court at $1,000 per year, $4,000.
The purchase of books for State IL
brary for the year ending March 81,
1892, $4,000 For the year ending
March 81, 1893, $4,000.
Reporter supreme court, $4,000.
Total, $27 00O
STATE GEoLOGIsT.
Salary, 81 200 per year, 81, 400.
Chemicals, $500.
Contingent travelling expenses, $2,-
600.
Rent, 81 POO.
Cabinet for mining bureau, $500.
Travelling and incidental expenses,
$4,000.
Making geological and mineralogic-
al treasuary OF State; making and pub
fishing maps and report OF same. $780,
600. (Not used)
Total, 800 900.