davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The San Francisco call., 1897-11-14

The Rev. H. R. Haweis, who has many Ameri-
can friends and is specially known in litera-
ture as the author of ''Music and Morals" is
now writing volume on "Old Vioiins'' Tor
George Redway's series of books Tor collectors.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

A GIRL LEADS THEM.-A handsome
young woman is the chief of gang OF
robbers, in the staid old Nutmeg
State" whose field of operations Is near
Bridgeport. She is described as being
a dashing woman of Is, with large
brown eyes, arched eyebrows, thin ears
and a wealth of brown hair, (which
usually hangs in a disheveled condi.
ton, in keeping with her wild methods
of life." 1t has been the habit of the
gang to ransack larders, principally
and hold midnight banquets, at which
the girl presided as queen of the revel
She planned the movements OF the
gang, who lived in the woods, and on
the night OF an expedition would steal
from her home, meet her followers and
assume command. While the main
losses have been of provisions, her gang
have added to their stores money
clothing, and anything else useful that
came in their way, but no large
amounts have yet been appropriated
nor large schemes undertaken. The
officers have at last captured the chief
Miss Minnie Brotherton, but have not
placed her behind the bars, hoping to
Use her as a decoy for capture of her
confederates. She is at her parents
home, but kept under strict surveil.
lance.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24
A Victory for Labor.

That is what NJ. d. Ratchford
President of the United Mine Work.
ers of America, declared, last Monday
in Washington, has been the result OF
the struggle just ended. He was in
attendance at special meeting OF
the Miners Federation of Labor. This
is what he gives to the Associated
Press for publication:
"To-day will see about $4,000 miners
resume work in the bituminous coal
fields of the Central States. The strike
generally ends to-day. The mining
situation is not likely to become dis
turbed again until the beginning of next
year. at which time we hope to be able
to settle the wage difficulty amicably
and without the necessity of strike.
"Of course the victory is not alto
gether one of the miners. They have
done the striking, and the trades unions
and organized bodies have supplied the
necessaries without which the miners
could not possibly have succeeded. 1t
is victory for organized labor and not
for any particular trade and we want
our friends who have helped US to feel
that it is their victory as well as ours"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

EDISON has taken up the study OF
air ships. He says inventors have
hitherto started on a wrong basis in
their efforts to solve the problem OF
aerial navigation. Some mechanical
principle must be applied, operated by
higher power than can be produced
now except by machinery that is too
heavy and cumbersome to be used in
an airship, and the files of the STAND
ARD will show that that is just the
opinion it has expressed many times
in the discussion of this question.
Some new principle must be discov.
cred for suspension of attraction Of
gravitation, when the remainder oil
the device for aerial navigation will be
a mere modification of existing meth.
DDS for navigation of denser element
waterf Is it expecting too much, in
view of the progress already made in
scientific discovery, that some new
principle may at any moment be an.
nounced to solve the problem?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24
Windus Scores Rogers.

Windus and Powell, regents of the
Pullman College, have sent theil
designations to his accidency, because
they have been accused of conspiracy
and contumacious conduct by the
Governor. The former gentleman
gives his reasons in the following
terse and scathing language:
Gov. JOHN r. ROGERS, OLYMPIA:
| Sir: just six monts ago you appointed
me regent of the Agricultural College and
School OF Science. Up to the present
time my course upon the board on every
important question has been either urged
or approved by you, as letter in nv
possession will show.
On the very day upon which we &C.
complished the chief reform for which
you have been agitatng, viz: reduction
OF salaries, you caused to be published
in the press a slanderous, false and ma
licious attack upon me, imputing to me
selfish and sinister motives for the very
action you had urged and approved.
Under the cover of what you had been
told, but which you knew, or should have
known, to be false, you give vent, through
me, to your spleen against friend of
mine under whose we'll merited lash YOU
were smarting but for whose utterances
l am in no way responsible.
You insinuate that have been in a
conspiracy, of some sort. The only con-
spiracy that l have been in has been
with DR.. Powell to hide from the people
OF the State of Washington the dilator-
mess and incompetency of.their Cover
nor. For nearly five months you have
had before you the facts which have re-
Gently been made public, but you cared
nothing Tor extravaganza, deficits or
frauds, as long as knowledge of them
could be kept from the public. Then,
when at last aroused by the press to
which you are fond of appealing, you pro-
pose to the other members of the board,
whom you had been so long shielding.
that they fitch from the United States
enough to make up the deficit in the
State fund created by them.
IL give you credit for never having
mentioned this disgraceful and imbecile
scheme to either DIR. Powell or me. I'm
der these circumstances you can no long
er desire my services on the board of re-
gents and must certainly decline to be
longer connected in any way with an ad-
minlstration so vacilating, incompetent
and untruthful. therefore tender you
my resignation rs Regent of the Agricul-
tural College and School of Science and
have no doubt of your prompt accept
ance.
" l have been i'll for several days, or
you wou d have heard me before.
every respectfully,
"W. V. WINDus."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

RELIEF FOR KLoNDIKE. - Secretary
Bliss has directed that the reindeer
now at Teller station, Alaska, eight in
number, be sent at once to st.
Michaels, to be used in forwarding
supplies to the Klondike country
should emergency arise. There are
eight of these animals at Teller, and
they are the ideal means for transpor.
tation in that region, for the reason
that they can travel faster and draw
more than dogs, and live ON the for.
rage the country produces. The ami.
mails can carry a weight of 800 pounds
if necessary, and travel 100 miles q
day. They are to be sent to St.
Michaels because of the available
stores at that point.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

LAKE Chelan, in the Cascade range
of this State, is said to be the third
deepest body of water in the world, ex-
cepting the oceans. 1t is certainly
the deepest body of water on this
continent. This fact is establis he'd
by w. G. Steel, of the U. s. geological
survey, who while making an examine
ton of the Washington Forest Reserve,
dropped a steel line 1850 feet long
without finding bottom, and has Or
dered more wire to make a final
measurement. He gives the following
soundings of bodies of water noted for
depth: Baikal, in Siberia, 1000 feet;
Caspian Sea, 5000 feet, Lake Chelan,
1850 plus what may yet be deter
mined.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24
Does Johnny Want Another BastingP

Our English neighbors seem to have
an exceedingly short memory. The
Globe of Monday, in an editorial on
Futility of arbitration with a power
which disregards alike legal proceed
ings and the ordinary courtesies OF
civilized nations" says:
Lord Salisbury has treated the Unit
ed States with kindness il does not de-
serve, always wearing silken glove, un.
til America has forgotten the existence
OF the iron hand beneath.
1.-THE idea of our being afraid of a
fourth-rate power like the United States
could only have occurred to sufferers
from q severe attack of swelled head.
and has forgotten that she plays only a
minor role in the affairs of the world.
We hope our relations with America will
hereafter be distinguished by a firmer
tone, as the only way to avert trouble
is to make her plainly understand that
we are determined not to be secuted out
of our rights"
Well, we'll; "upon what meat has
this, our Caesar fed, that he is grown
so great" Is that proportion" the
Globe alludes to, essentially different
from what prevailed when Uncle
Sam licked Johnny Bull out of his
boots and wrested independence from
the mother country? Is it different
from that which existed when the
iron hand" was shown in an attempt
to establish the right of search of
American merchantmen, and was
" secuted" and paralyzed by an ir-
resistible manifestation of Yankee
prowess by land and sea?
1t seems strange that representa-
tive newspaper of nation which has
twice been downed by another nation
within century, is not more careful
in its expressions OF opprobrium which,
in consideration with past history,
only belittle its own people, and their
efforts to conquer a nation which it
asserts, after years of progress and de-
velopment, "plays only minor part
in the affairs OF the world"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

CHILCOoT PASS CLosING.-The steam
er Queen, which arrived at Victoria
Wednesday, brought down so miners
who report that winter has set in in
earnest in the klondike region.
White and Chilcoot passes are covered
i'll some places by four feet of snow
and ice is forming on the smaller
streams. Those who 90 over now
have to go by dog train, as horses are
no longer of any use, and animals for
which men refused $500 and 500
few weeks ago can be bought for So.
A large number of men are going to
to Juneau to winter, but many will
come South and make fresh starts in
the spring.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24
Wonders Of Science.

The Boston dip" is the next new
dance to be introduced into Olympia
1t is said to be cross between the
waltz and the schottisch. This beau,
tiful figure has been evolved by the
Boston terpsichorean professors in
order to do away with the hugging
propensity of those who delight in the
round dances. The partners face
each other with their right and left
hands clasped, but their unutilized
arms are no longer permitted to en-
circle each others waists as in the
good old days before Boston people OF
culture rebelled against the profanity
of the close communion waltz.
All the motions of this dance may
be reduced to series of clippings and
slidings; the head gently nodding
while the left foot protrudes. at an
angle OF about thirty degrees to the
ecliptic, and by happy commingling
of swirls it is as impossible for Jim to
tread on Terminals train as for whirl-
ing dog to catch the end OF his tail.
One of the principal rules of this po-
lite device is couched in the following
iron-clad terms: "The bodies of
partners must not come into nearer
juxtaposition than a handbreadth."
This regulation, of course, takes away
from the lady the privilege of resting
her chin upon her partners shoulder
it allows, however, greater freedom to
her inferior maxillary Boston lingo
for lower jaw in exercising the fac
ulty of gum-chswing. Many disciples
of the far.famed Terpsichore, both old
and young, are practicing this new
tangled movement in amateur rehear-
sails within closed doors and the Bos-
ton dip will doubtless be formally intro.
duced in the Capital City during the
coming holidays.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

ATTORNEY General McKenny, says
a Washington dispatch of the 22d,
holds that the former law is not re-
pealed by section % of the tarifflaw and
does not impose discriminating duties
upon goods brought into the United
States through contiguous countries,
under consular seal, or upon goods
imported through ocean ports in for
eign vessels which are not specially
exempt by treaty. The decision favors
the Canadian roads. The tariff bill
provided that goods from a foreign
country intended for the United
States brought to Canada in foreign
ships should pay an extra duty. The
Supreme Court will be governed by
the Attorney Generals opinion. This
shuts out competition by American
vessels.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

WILL Nor BE SIDE-TRAcKED.-An
attempt was lately made by the Port
land ring politicians to side-track T.
T. Geer, of Salem, who has had de.
cided "pull" for the collectorship OF
customs at Portland, by recommend.
ing him for Register of the Land OF.
fee at Oregon City. Mr.. G. won't
have it that way, however, and has
written. a letter to the Oregon Con-
gressional delegation declining the
bird in the hand and expressing a
strong desire for the one in the bush.
It generally results, when man is so
particular, that he gets nothing.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

HE Eugene's passengers, who start
ed for Klondike by that steamer when
she was lowed to sea by the steamship
Bristol last month and became dis.
abled on the way. SO as to be compelled
to abandon the trip, are now suing the
Portland and Alaska Trading and
Transportation Co. for a return of
their passage money. Suit was
brought in Portland this week for
claims aggregating $1,000 which had
been paid for transportation through
to Dawson City.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

The DAMAGE L1GHT.-The reported
damage to the wheat crops of East
ern Washington by the late rains has
been greatly over-rated, and Tacoma
grain-buyer who has just returned
from an extended tour of the wheat
district, extending from Riparia on
the north to Spokane on the south,
says that it will not exceed five per
cent. Where the rainfall was largest
he reports the grain bleached, but hav-
ing been thoroughly dried will grade
very high. The only important loss
was OF about 80 tons in sacks, stacked
on Snake river, awaiting transporta-
tion. Much of this was ruined.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

ANOTHER Klondike has been discov-
cred in the British Dominion, on the
northern coast of Lake Superior.
Quartz has been found containing free
gold in scales as big as grains of wheat
and in unlimited quantity. The coun.
try where the discoveries have been
made has never been opened for settle
ment, and its only inhabitants have
been q few Indians.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

NOTWITHSTANDING the Great Mogul
has asserted that farmers of this and
other States have not been enabled to
pay off mortgages by the profits real.
lied from appreciation of the price Of
wheat, the Spokesman-Revie is en-.
abled to report from official records OF
the County Auditor of Spokane, fig.
ures that show SAC, 9S9. SO to have been
paid for releases this year, against
81 COZ for like period in 1896.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

A CRANK by the name of Joseph
Jackson, has been looking for Presi.
dent Mckinley, with pistol, the past
few days in Washington. The police
believe that by arrestipg him they
have saved the Presidents life. lie i
now in an insane asylum.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

A COMPANY has been formed to build
a narrow-gauge railroad from Skasuay
over White Pass to Lake Bennett, com.
posed OF New York and Seattle men.
wsth Watson C. Squire at their head
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

LATE cablegrams report destructive
floods in northern Italy. In the
province of Lecce villages have been
wiped out and score or more of lives
are reported lost. The usual attend.
ants OF restitution and suffering also
prevail.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

1T is seldom that the staid old Ore
gonidn INDUCES in levity, but when
it does its witicism is a "lulu," as wit
ness the following:
Judging from the amount Of whisky
shipped into the Klondike, there seems
TO be more money in pints than in
quartz.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

The Republican managers have put
a cork in the neck of Sherman, and he
will not stump" Ohio. His talk as
Secretary is too cratic and uncertain
to trust him to speak in important
campaign matters.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

MCKINLEY stopped off in Adams,
Mass, Tuesday, and millionaire
Plunkett royalty entertained the party
that was off Cha a junket, as in duty
bound.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

YELLOW JACK" is still creating
havoc in the South. The people are
panic-stricken over the futility of their
endeavors to establish adequate guar
antine regulations.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

THE fact that James J. Corbett's
side won a game of baseball at Mil.
wadkee, Monday. mas been flashed
over the world by telegraph.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

E. NJ. VAN SLICK, of Baker CITY,
Oregon, has been appointed Deputy
Collector of Customs, at st. Mary's
Island, Alaska.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

THE Tacoma News states that IT,.
ooo tons OF wheat will be loaded into
ocean ships this week.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

Land Mortgage Rank of North
western America, Limited,
Ia Corporation) and William
ID. Wood, Trustee, Plaintiffs,
Edward 7. Young, Josephine
Young, Thomas Burke,
Thomas N. Allen as Trus
tee. Edison General Electric
Company. Henry NJ. Lam
bertOn and Margaret Z. Lam
berIon rs co-partners, doing
business under the name
and style of Winona Deposit
Bank, A. Ii. Chambers and
X. Frost and c. J. Lord as
Executors of Alexander Far
quar-, deceased, Ellen NJ.
Farquar, Mark A. Shannon,
Mary A. Shannon rs sole Ex-
ecutrix of Geo. ID. Shannon,
deceased, Robert Frost, Mary
l.. Frost, A. II. Chambers,
Mary A. Chambers,
nr1ru1optg
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

n the Superior Court of the State of Washing.
ton, in and for Thurston county.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1897-09-24

NO.
; Summons for
Publication.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-10
ExTIcT1oN OF BIRD SPECIES.

1t is given out by the authorities of
the Smithsonian Institution that the
passenger pigeon of America has be-
come an extinct species. Half a CEN
fury ago these birds were SO numerous
that when in fight they would shut
out the light of the sun; so dense We're
they that they could only be compared
with the flights of locusts. Audubon
calculated, and he had seen some hun
dreds of millions of them. And now
they are all become extinct, destroyed
by man. the enemy of all animated ma
ture. One can very readily understand
how such a rare and curious bird as
the dodo should become extinct soon
after its discovery. for it could neither
fly nor run fast, while its habitat was
small and confined area. But it
seems impossible that birds that We're
once to be seen by the millions and
millions. and that within the memory
of men still living, should have become
extinct The buffalo are almost extinct,
though perhaps enough remain to con-
tinue the Species if they are carefully
looked after and reserved solely for
breeding purposes; otherwise they will
soon be a thing of the past.
But the annihilation of the passenger
pigeons how shall that be accounted
for? It seems impossible that they
should all have been destroyed by man,
yet what other agency could have
worked their destruction? The fact
that they are now extinct shows the
necessity there is for protecting our ma
tive birds. In our own state, as in
others, they have been regarded as
things to be destroyed whenever oppor-
tunity offered, and opportunity has
offered but too freely. The people are
becoming more and more educated as
to the beauty and usefulness of our
birds of all kinds. and hold them in
higher esteem than they used to- This
is encouraging and should eventually
result in all our native birds being
held in the same regard as the gulls
are. May it never be said of any other
American bird as it is said of the pas
senger pigeon-it has become extinct.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-11-10
LEE GOES BACK TO CUBA.

President Mckinley has sent General
Fitzhugh Lee back to Cuba as consul
general. This shows wisdom on the
part of the administration. for Lee is
undoubtedly the best informed man on
Cuban matters that there is in the
whole country. The post he occupies
IS an important one, and the matters
with which he has to do when filing it
have seemingly about reached a crisis
though they have seemed to reach a
crisis before on one or two occasions
OF course the going back to Cuba of
Lee is a compliment to him, as it shows
great confidence in his tact and ability
But what else does it mean? President
Mckinley has practically pursued the
same policy towards Cuba that Mr.
Cleveland did, though not long before
he retired as president the latter gave
some ominous warnings to Spain in the
message he sent to congress; he clearly
and distinctly intimated that this coun-
try might have to intervene in Cuba
Major Mckinley has not given forth
any utterance as to what will be his
Cuban policy, but things have reached
that point where he can hardly delay
announcing it much longer; the coun-
try viii expect it in his forthcoming
message to congress, and it will expect
something positive and definite. some
thing that viii let the whole world
know that this government will either
intervene in Cuba and put a stop to the
war there, or that it will take no posi-
ton other than that of letting Spain
and Cuba fight the matter out in their
own barbaric way. The people are
tired of the waiting policy that has
predominated in the past, the policy
which seems to have been guided by
the fair promises of the Madrid govern
ment.
It is said that General Lee only con-
scented to go back to Cuba on condition
that he was not merely to go back to
witness the continued cruelties prac-
ticed by the Spanish soldiers and the
continued injustice and insults to
American citizens. 1t is also said that
he goes back assured that such steps