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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14


The advance in the wages OF factory
operatives in the manufacturing cen.
ters OF the country is a magnificent in
dex of the favorable turn in the ti1e OF
commercial activity. The advance in
wages began with the mills and fac
tories of New England and is now ex-
tending to the glass and iron industry
in Pennsylvania and Ohio. 1t is i'm
possible to interpret these advances
IS other than evidences OF improve
ment in business. In some instances
the increase in wages has been
brought about as q concession to Or
ganized labor; in others it has been
made by reason OF improved conditions
in trade and rising prices Of commodi-
ties. Whatever the reason assigned
the fact that the earnings OF the work.
ingmen have been increased and their
ability to increase their consumption
OF the necessaries OF life cannot fail to
have a stimulating tendency in trade
circles. The gradual rise in wages in
the manufacturing centers is bound to
have it's salutary effect also upon the
American producer OF the raw mater
ials, and will in due time make itself
felt in the agricultural States west Of
the Mississippi. The only thing that
retards prosperity in this section is
the lack of something to sell. Ne
braska's farm products in an average
year arc equal to $75,OOO.O0O. Her
corn crop alone at 25 cents bushel
will yield $40,O00,OOO, or about double
tho value OF the annual silver output
Of Colorado. One good crop at fair
prices will place Nebraska in as good
condition for business as any State
west of the Missouri.
Unless all signs fail, three months
will witness very decided change for
the better in every branch Of business
in this State, and that includes the
city of Omaha, whose mainstay must
always be the agricultural producers
of Nebraska.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14
FIRST WOMAN so hONORED.
Miss Beswell, 81 New York, q Dele.
gate - . Political Convention.

Miss Doswell, ef New York, q Dele.
gate - . Political Convention.
Upon Miss Helen Varick Boswell,
of New York, is conferred the honor
of being the fret woman chosen as q
delegate to q National Republican
League Convention. The gathering
to which she has been elected takes
place in Cleveland, juno 19.
Miss Boswell's political experience
began in 1888, when she became as
sociated in the work of the Republi.
can party with Mrs. J. Ellen Foster,
the President of the National Repub-
lican Woman's Association. As her
assistant Miss Boswell has taken an
active interest in politics, and has
been engaged in work intended to
advance the cause of the Republican
party among the women of New York
and in Washington, d. c. She is
well known as an active worker in the
crusade against Tammany last fall.
In her personal appearance Miss Bos.
we'll is prepossessing. She is small
but has sufficient dignity to make her
q successful presiding officer. She ia
tactful and witty and has a keen
sense of the ludicrous. To q piquant
face is addedathe charm OF a Southern
manner, so that the members of the
convention need not fear the advent
OF hard visaged, ill-aivised woman.
Her age is by no means uncertain,
for Miss Boswell will not be 80 for
some years to come.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14
WHOLE NUMBER 1.848.

only enough to satisfy the thirst. Ex-
pelling surplus water from the system
merely adds to the work of the organ
without affording any real COM
pensating advantages. Dumb animals
even know better than to do such
things. But then, they do not have
any doctor but old Mother Nature,
who prescribes by instinct. As to the
false teeth, however, it is stated by Sir
Richard Owen that they help mastica-
ton, as Of course they do. and there
fore assist digestion and assimilation.
Lord Brogham, who died at SO, and
Lord Lyndhurst, who lived to tire age
of 81, both agree with Sir Richard
against Sir Henry. Three to one and
the three not theorizing, but speaking
from experience. Therefore in the
great question, false teeth or false
theory, the point must be decided in
favor of the former.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14
STATE NEWS.

Wenatchee has lowered her liquor
license from $40O to $500 per annum.
E. Eugene Alton. who for several
years edited the Cotton Newsletter, il
dead.
There are 76,3O9 sheep in Yakims
county this year. In 1894 there were
61,377.
The Free Methodists will hold Q
camp meeting at Colville, to continue
from June % to July
The residence of l.. C. Irving, neal
Pennington, was burned Wednesday
The loss is q 600 and ins urance 500
A drove of 60 hogs belonging to b
F. O'Neil, near Latah, have gone wild
They kill each other and devour q
good-sized hog in five minutes.
I. F. Carlson, of Kittitas county
killed $50 squirrels on his farm last
week with his dog, making over 5000
he has killed in that way this season.
A majority of tho property-owners
along Pacific avenue, in Tacoma, have
petitioned the city council to pave the
avenue with fir blocks on q concrete
foundation.
Rye flour is getting to be quite .
source of revenue at Ellensburg. Two
tons were shipped by one man last
week. Considerable rye will be sown
another year.
The charge of petit larceny against
Mrs. Mollie E. Claus, q prominent
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
worker of Coifax, has been dismissed
for lack of evidence.
The Skamania County Pioneer pub
fishes the following: "Wanted-Five
hundred good-looking schoolmarms
who are looking for homes, to mate
with the bachelors of Skamania
county,"
The Centennial Mill Company, OF
Spokane, has $50 carloads Of wheat in
the Northern Pacific yards for which
it paid % cents bushel. The COM
pany has been offered A cents for the
same wheat,
From the returns Of the city asses
sor the assessed valuation of real es-
tate in Walla Walla is given at 81, $685.
315; personal property, $1O93, ,957 !;
total, ,763,272, or nearly $75O,OOO
less than last year.
Tom Trent, of George creek, in
Asotin county, says his sorghum cane
is up and growing. He has about IL
acres planted and thinks that with
anything like favorable season this
amount of cane should produce over
1,50O gallons of sorghum.
P. G. Eastwick, OF Portland, arrived
in Wenatchee Sunday, and left by the
steamer Ellcnsburg Monday morning
to take charge of the government,
work on the Columbia river. He wal
appointed to take the position Of the
late engineer, G. F. B. Haskett, who
was drowned.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14

that the entire female population of
the United States is given and only
the number of grown women in the
different countries OF Europe. AS q
matter of fact, in proportion to its
population this country has fewer wo-
men than most OF the Others men,
toned.
The proportion OF women to men in
the United States is greatest in New
England, where the women are in tx
cess. 1t is least in the far West,
where the number of men exceeds
that of the women. Wyoming has
the smallest female population, 2l,-
1862; New York the largest, 5000, 800 /;
while it is said that one factory in
New England employs $4,000 women.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14
SMART TRICK OF A REPORTER,
Row a Legislative Newsgatherer
Baked n Piifsring Rival in ".Ye
Olden Days.

Several veteran journalists gathered
in hotel lobby lately one afternoon
and regaled themselves and few at
tentive auditors with stories of news
paper life in the early days OF Oregon's
Statehood. Some old "reminiscences
were laid upon the table, but the tale
OF a gray haired scribe from valley
town met with better fate.
Let me see," he began, meditative-
ly, 81 believe it was about % or 80
years ago that the Oregonian aud
another paper-I think it was the
Herald-had the Portland field to
themselves. The Legislature was
about to meet, and the Herald made
what was then considered great prepa-
rations to cover the session. A scholar
ly reporter named Malone, who could
write Irish as we'll as English, was
sent TO Salem. A long-established
Portland paper sent man OF inferior
newsgathering qualities and less apti-
tude for such work as its representa-
tive. Things ran along smoothly for
a day or two, when Malone discovered
the loss OF batch OF his notes. The
matter appeared in the next mornings
issue of his rivals paper. The coinci-
dence struck Malone as peculiar, but
he let the matter drop until his notes
were again stolen. Suspecting the
pliferer, Malone set about devising
means TO rebuke and hit upon the
happy scheme of writing his notes in
the Irish Language. When his rival
again purloined the notes, he found
only lot OF strange characters, with.
out meaning to him. So he returned
them with note to Malone, who had
absented himself in order to give bis
rival chance to take the bait. When
Malone returned he found the missive.
II read something like this:
"DEAR MALONE Here are your
notes with my apologies for meddling
with the jottings of an idiot. A ID
fool who has no more brotherly feeling
than to make pen and ink skyrockets
stand for anything in order to prevent
me from stealing scoops, should not
claim allegiance to the newspaper
fraternity
"The note was not signed, but Ma
lone had no difficulty in discovering
its origin. Thereafter, the men never
spoke. In passing, Malone always
wore pleasant smile, while his rivals
countenance displayed the look of
man who tished for q speckled beauty
and caught one-legged frog"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14
A WORK OF ART.
THE STATUE so NOTED At THE
WORLDS FAIR.

The Form Of Ada Rehan In the Vir-
GIN Metal Of Montana-On Exhi-
bition at the Peoples Store, Ta-
coma From the 18th Till the End
Of the Month.
Undoubtedly one of the finest works
of art on exhibition at the Worlds
Fair was the statue of Justice, mould
ed from the metal which is now 80
popular, and placed upon its pedestal
by the miners. of Montana. That
etatue is to be exhibited at Tacoma by
the enterprising firm known as the
Peoples Store Co., for the term of two
weeks. beginning on the 18th inst.
The exhibition will be free to all, and
we learn that Mr.. Garretson, manager
of the Olympia branch house, will
probably organize an excursion party
for the children by steamboat, some
time during the exhibit.
The Pacific Coast Trade, in CON-
menting upon this matter says:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14

The review of the fruit conditions oil
the country for the calendar year 1894
by the pomologist of the Agricultural
Department il printed for the first
time in the year book, now almost
completed. 1t characterizes the sea-
son as q peculiarly disastrous and un-
profitable one in most lines OF fruit
culture. In the South the result was
largely due to the unfavorsble climatic
conditions that prevailed during the
late winter and early spring months.
Fair fruit crops were harvested, how
ever, in the New England, Middle At
lantic and Lake States. and in portions
OF Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska.
West OF the Rocky mountains there
was an abundant yield, but losses due
to the paralysis Of the freight traffic
during the railroad strikes in June
and July, together with the low prices
caused by the prevailing industrial de-
preston, ended in very low net re-
turns to the growers and shippers ol
that region. The year was character
ICED by exceptional extremes OF heat
and cold, drouth and moisture in diff.
ferent sections. The average value
of apples per bushel exported was
about 20 per cent. less than in 1893
and exports of dried apples showed an
increase Of but per cent. over those
in 1898, in which year the exports
were smaller than during any year
since 1878. Peaches were almost 9
total failure in the commercial peach
districts of the South, except in
Florida and Texas,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14

A PORTLAND lawyer, trying to con-
sole widow client the other day, said {:
You will get your third out of the
estate, madam" 90" she replied,
" how can you suggest that, and my
second hardly cold in his grave yet"
Portland Welcome,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14

has wrought many wonderful cures and has given
s!rengtn 70 many. We know this 10 be true nom
70 furnish abundant proof. 1t II worth your While
To- e1amine the evidence. which you can do hy
MnuHns 70 as We Will send you, free Of charge,
ana records Of surprising cures Of Asthne. Brun,
Sslas, Gatarrh, Consumption. Neuralgia. Nervous
ease and debility ''"' W o~
Home treatment 10 seat szs By eSprers. tn he
uscd q home. Our great succe5s - eiyen ,iss
COMPOUND OXYGEN. avoid dissppointmens
and loss Of money By sending TO
Dhs. sTARkEX q PALEN, l529 Arch street,
Canada, .S"s
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14
Female Population of the World.
New York Telegram,

According to the most reliable esti-
mates the world to-day contains $780,
100000 grown women. Among civil
lized nations the United States has
actually the largest share, its feminine
population being 30.554,370. Russia
comes next with an adult feminine
population of 100000. Then a
long way after comes the German
empire with 1O,930. 600; Austria, with
9,68O,OOO; Great Britain, with $780,.
600; France, with S,5S6,OOO, and
Italy. with 6,65O,OOO. Spain comes
next on the list with 4,l3O,OOO ol
the fair sex, and she is followed BY
Belgium, with 100000; Roumania
with 100000; Sweden, with 1,I7O,.
600; Portugal. with 1,OSO,OOO, and
Holland, with 100000. The coun.
tries whose adult population does no,
reach .O0O. 600 are Switzerland, which
has only, $4,000; Norway, which ha.
465 600, and Greece and Denmark,
which are tied at 10000.
In this estimate it will be noted
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14

WORD has reached Spokane Of the
death of James Mcmahon, at the hos
pital for the insane at Medical Lake.
He was q bachelor rancher on Five
Mile prairie, and was sent to the insti-
tuition about a month ago. He had
$3.50 in cash and notes, besides a ranch
and deeds to city property. No rela-
tives appearing, W. H. Wiscombe was
appointed guardian. He will apply to
the Spokane county court for instruc-
tons.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14

The dead body of an unknown man
was found Monday in ravine between
Everett and Lowell. The man was ap-
parently 40 years Of age, six feet tall,
weighed 1856 pounds, had . sandy
mustache, and wore black suit, with
overalls.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14

The Light House" the chief hote
at Steilacoom, burned on the 7th inst,
causing loss of 1900, with but lit
tie insurance. A defective fue was
the cause. This was the first hotel
built in Washington Territory, having
been erected in the sos. 1t was the
scene of many notable Territorial
gatherings before the war, when there
was large military post there and
Steilscoom was the chief town on the
Sound. Generals Sheridan, McClel-
Ian and Grant had stopped at the ho-
tel while on duty at Steilacoom.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14

In an article entitled, Why Should
Not Men Be Beautiful" Miss Frances
E. Willard takes the ground that men
have set a high standard Of beauty
and morality for women, and they
have had so much power to insist on
this standard that women are pre-.
eminent in these respects. To my
mind" she says, "the key and core
OF the woman question consist in this :
That when, without taking away mems
power, women are in possession of the
same power over them that men have
over women (Which is what should
like to see, no more and no less), then
with the growth OF centuries women
will set such a standard for men that
they will become as beautiful as wo-
men, and rs pure, to the incalculable
increase of mans happiness and well
being and OF woman's joy and peace"
A RAHcHER from Ritzville created
considerable excitement in Sprague
the other day by eating several hand
fuls OF poisoned wheat intended for
squirrels. He WAS dosed and seemed
TO be none the worse for his food.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14

Two years ago the Worlds Fair was
in active progress at Chicago, and in
the hight Of its glory. Its triumphs
have been sung, and its attractions
exploited, but there was one chapter
that was never written. In every
great exposition there must needs be
some one great crowning feature that
is always remembered and becomes a
part of the history OF the fair. 1t is
generally conceded that at the Gen.
tennial at Philadelphia the greatest
novelty was q woman modelling faces
in butter, and the great Corliss engine
came in for the greatest praise as q
mechanical wonder. At Paris the
Eiffel tower led all other attractions
and is yet preserved as a monument
to the Exposition and its time.
The two things which will of all
others at the Columbian Exposition
be thought of as peculiar and monu-
mental to il are the Montana silver
statue and the great Ferris wheel.
Both OF these were conceived in an &C.
cidental manner. Ferris drew the
first sketch OF the mammoth wheel on
the back OF q bill Of fare at a chop
house, while he was waiting for lunch
con. Higbee got up one night with
the idea of a silver statue, sketched it,
and went back to bed, and forgot all
about it until his wife found the
sketch days afterwafd and carelessly
asked il it was OF any value before
throwing it away. The silver statue
probably had more newspaper atten-
ton than any other one thing at the
fair. Since the fair it has been on q
q tour of exhibit of the United States,
and through the enterprise OF The
Peoples Store Co., of Tacoma, the peo-
pie OF Washington and adjacent States
may be able to see this wonderful and
valuable work OF art free of charge,
containing in value $4,000 in silver,
and the gold pedestal containing 1924
600 in gold. This statue will not be
exhibited anywhere elee in the State
and travelling eastward will be on ex-
hibition in Paris, France, early in the
fall. This is your opportunity to see
the greatest relic of the Worlds Fair.
Superintendent of schools and Sum
day schools could give the children no
pleasanter or more instructive excur.
sion than a trip to Tacoma and visit
to The Peoples Store TO see the Mon
tana silver statue. Special low rates
will be made by all steamboat and
railroad lines. See your agent. Don't
forget the date-June 17th to 30th-at
The Peoples Store, Tacoma, Wash.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14

Ex-MAYoR Nodine, OF Ocosta, 10 su-
ing 40 of the citizens of that place,
and F. d. Heustis, E. H. Heustis, &.
ID. Heustis, J. ID. Williamson and H.
L. Votaw, of Tacoma, for $40, 900 dam
ages, because of an alleged libel pub
lished in the Ocosta Pioneer. The
suit is on trial in Tacoma.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14
EFFICACY OF PRAYER.


To he Tested ON Two Free Think-
ers for Three Months.
A Dallas, Texas, dispatch Of the 9th
states that q test of the efficacy OF
prayer is to be made, that will be
watched with considerable interest by
the public. It seems that John r.
Charlesworth, an infidel lecturer spoke
to a large audience in that city the
previous evening, and it resulted in
one of the most unique challenges on.
record.
The lecture was entitled Is There
. GodY" The speaker claimed that
while there might be one there was no
actual evidence to prove it. He went
over the ground from the early histo-
ries and records to the present day,
and claimed that in the economy OF
nature there was no necessity for o
God.
At the conclusion of the lecture
Mrs. Sweeney, president Of the Dallas
w. c. T. u, arose and asked the lee.
turer if he would give her his name,
that she might pray for him, and if he
felt his heart touched he was to make
q public admission of the fact, as he
had of his unbelief in Q Deity.
Secretary Pagst. of the Free Think
ers Society, arose and asked Mrs.
Sweeney If she would accept his name
that he, like the lecturer, doubted
the existence of God. All he stipu-
lated was a time limit. He did not
want to wait till he was dead, as they
might say he made q death-bed recan-
tation. The time limit was set at
three months.
Mr.. Psget further stipulated that if
at the end of three months he and
Mr.. Charlesworth or either of them
had not made . public confession,
Mrs. Sweeney is to admit that there
is no efficacy in prayer, that God is =
failure and does not exist. To this
Mrs. Sweeney agreed and the lecturer
and secretary signed this very ex-
traordinary challenge.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14


In the United States court ct Seattle,
Friday, Lawrence P. Butler, sailor,
fled libel suit for SIC, ,0W against the
steamer City of Kingston. Butler
took passage from Seattle for Port
Townsend March d, and just before
going ashore at the latter place stepped
on q grating over . coal hole. He al.
leges that the grating, being insecure,
turned under him, and that he was
thereby thrown astride of it and per-
manently injured. He is q years
old. The owners of the steamer. fur
nished q $4,000 bond, with Jacob
Furth and A. B. Stewart as sureties.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-06-14
THE
PURE WINES 9LIQuoRS.
PARTIAL PRICE LISr.

All other California wines at the very lowest
prices. sample room and beer hall attached.
Goods delivered 10 any part Of the city free Of
charge. ]. PJJiIEs
July 1894 Hsnsv,r
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DAILY TINE CARD.
OLYMPIA, TACOMA and SEATTLE ROUTE
STEAMER MuLTN0mAH.

s. WILEY NAVIGATION CO.'S
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THE SICK HEALED,
TIE Weak uads sIT0lg!
COMPOUND OXYGEN

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CITY OF ABERDEEN

che, ~"~ han'i-
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THE OTHER SIDE.
THE NEBRASKA SUFFERERS"
HAVE BEEN IN CLOVER.

The Nation Gave SO Literally the
Cars Could Hardly be UniOaded
The Poor Living ON the Fat Of
the Land and Wearing Kid
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Special attention paid to Collections. Tel
e&raphic transfers of lnonax
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-05-01
COAL MIN sRS' STRIKE.
Secretary McBrydc Points Ont q way 70
SETTLE the Trouble in the Pittsburg Dis

Secretary McBrydc Points Ont way 70
settle the Trouble in the Pittsburg DIS
trict.
PITTsBuRG, April 97.-Patrick Nc
Bryde. national secretary OF the Mine
Workers union, has written letter in
which he points out way for settling
the coal miners strike here. He says
The competition that the Pennsylvania
operators complain of is caused from
coal mined along the Wheeling & Lake
Erie. Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling
railroads and the principal mines are
owned by the railroad companies. They
bring ore from the lakes and carry back
coal 1t is in tine interests of the roads
to do so even if they sold coal at loss,
But while they lose money at the mines
they gain ST1% cents per ton for freight
The claim is made BY the Pittsburg
operators that this coal sets the price
for Pittsburg. We ask the Pittsburg
operators to come to an interstate
meeting and prove their claims. II
they are in the right we will shut down
the mines on the roads named untilthey
pay the sixty-nine-cent rate. There are
only about 1000 miners on those roads
and much as we may deplore strikes, i
is much better to have one in the sec
ton named than that the miners o
PENNSYLVANIA. Ohio, Indiana and Hi
nois should suffer reduction.