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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-08-26

The inaugural message OF Gov. Rogers
laid before the Legislature at It's opening
in January, 1897 was the first gun in the
campaign Of good government after the
elections. That message shaped the poll
CIV Of the Legislature and was the source
OF inspiration which resulted In the splen-
did work done. He dwelt upon the magni-
ficent resources of the state but pointed
out that all was not well with us.
Speaking OF the general hard times and
one of the principal causes that produced
unhappy conditions. he said:
mo honest man can say that labor re-
ceives the full measure Of Just return for
its performance. Times are hard wa
saw. and property has deprecated below
the value 1t should justly hold Men
yainly seek employment, which, II found.
Is not adequately remunerative Anxious
wives and mothers look with fear to the
daily diminishing family stores Mort
cages cover much OF the rearsestate. and
the hearts OF strong, brave men sink with
in them as they view with moistened eyes
the needs of helpless children for whom
they are called to provide. No one doubts.
no one denies. the existence Of want and
involuntary poverty among us, poverty,
too. not the result of wastefulness or lack
Of Industry, but forced by the constantly
appreciating value OF money consequent
upon the decentralization OF silver and the
establishment of the gold standard"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-08-26
FUSION LEGISLATURE OF 1897.
Good Legislation and Economical
Appropriations as Compared With
RepubIfcan Bodies.

The Legislature Of 1897 was the first In
the history of the state not controlled by
the Republicans. 1t was the result OF the
Ellensburg fusion compact formed for the
purpose Of breaking down Republican ring
power. and instituting in Its place gov
eminent Of the people.
1t convened on January II. 1897 and ad-
5ourned Just sixty days thereafter. incur
ring an expense of only $4,000 against q
cost Of SCI. 342.1 10 for the Republican Legis-
lature of 1895. 1t did as much work In the
same time as its predecessor, and of a
far more beneficial character and saved
to the state the sum of s10,342.
1t is noted therefore that the new gov
eminent began the work OF economy at
the very start. This principle was carried
through all the appropriations made dur
ing the session. The same rule, as will
be seen, applies to the work Of adminis-
tration of all the state officers since they
took charge of their departments in the
executive branch of the government.
Daily camera., 1898-02-04
Tracked by a Thumb mark.

An extraordinary example of the eff
cacy of the thumb impression method
of Identification has happened in Ben
gal. Some months ago the manager
of tea garden in the Docars was bru-
tally murdered, the murderer getting
clean away, as the crime was not dis
covered until some time after its com
mission. For some time the police were
at fault until it was discovered that the
murderer, in rnmmaging among some
papers of the deceased, had smudged
Bengali atlas with his thumb. The
atlas was forwarded to the bureau,
where the thumb impressions of Grim
inals are kept, when it was discovered
that the thumb impression of the att
las corresponded with the thumb re-
corded of noted criminal then at large.
The man was arrested on this evidence,
and other evidence subsequently accu-
mulAted to connect him with the crime.
N. Y. Journal
Daily camera., 1898-02-04
Trees md Tides.

A very curious theory lately revived
IS that the sap of living tree GIBBS and
flows in some way in sympathy with the
tides of the ocean. This idea comes
from Italy, where grower OF vines
and other fruit trees, who is also a
chemist, has been experimenting in this
direction. He says that no tree should
he Topped or pruned except during the
hours of ebb tide. He has taken Il
years to come to this conclusion, and
now always acts upon it. The result
is his trees and vines here developed
beautiful foliage, bear splendid crops.
and are quite free from the attacks Of
the insects which devAstate surround
ing Bits.
Daily camera., 1898-02-04
DIVERSIONS OF DAWSON CITY
L lmshop Pays Better in Winter Than
Placer Claim.

Placer C1ul".
Mr.. Robert Anderson, of London,
England. has recently returned from
the klondike, and is here. says an Otta-
wa (Ont) exchange, to obtain ease OF
a tract of land in the Klondike region,
which it is impossible to work by the
methods now employed there, and If
this is secured will mine the tract by
hydraulic process. Speaking OF the
K,ondike, he said: Il remained there
Just so days. There were 5000 or 5000
people at Dawson then. The best of
order prevailed. In fact, it is the most
orderly frontier camp l ever visited.
There are a large number Of saloons
and dance halls at Dawson City, and
they are doing flourishing business.
These afford the only means of diver
sion for the miners, and about all their
spare time is spent there. a rum shop
pays better than placer claim. Dur
ing the time l was in the district [ in
spected about all of the principa,
claims. The richness of some of them
is simply marvellous. 1 do not think
that the newspaper reports have exag-
gerated matters much. Numbers of
men have struck good claims. and made
an immense amount of money in a
short time. | met several who were
poverty-stricken when they reached
the K,ondike, but who are now wealthy.
There were 200 men exploring the
Stewart river when l left, and wonder
full finds are expected to be made in that
district"
Daily camera., 1898-02-04
THE CRETAN FLAG.
DIg Black Cross ON n White and Little
White Cross on a Blue Ground.

White Cross on a Blue Ground.
The number of countries having
national flags, their number is now
more than 1O0-is to be added Crete,
the patriotic Cretans believing that the
selection of flag should precede rath-
er than follow autonomy. The formal
acceptance of the Cretan flag was made
at the Monastery of Arkadi, on the
scene of the stand made by the pa
triotic Cretans against the Turkish sol
diery in the revolt of 1866.
The Cretan flag is to show black
cross upon white ground, symbolic
''of the mourning of Crete for the con-
tinued postponement of her national as
pirations." White and black on a flag
is not an approved combination, except
among pirates, and for that reason the
Cretan flag. at some sacrifice of sym
metry, has been further embellished
by a second and smaller cross in the
left-hand upper corner, a white cross
on blue ground, the Greek colors.
The portion of the flag occupied by the
Greek colors is symbolic of the hope Of
ultimate consolidation of Crete with
Greece
Daily camera., 1898-02-04
"WISHT HE HAD A MUDDER" :"
The One Desire of Il Sick Lad Down In
the Slums.

The One Desire of Il Sick Lad Down In
the Slums.
They were children of the slums, and
t}:eir conversation was overheard by a
visitor from charitable society, who
was taking them some substantals. 1t
was half-grown lad who asked his
little sister what she was reading in
a scrap of paper, says the Chicago
Tmes-Herald.
"Suthin' about poppin' corn" an
swered the child.
Kin you read out loud?"
''AIou bet I kin. It's about some folks
that was settin' roun' nicethot fire.
"Oh, my! Wisht it was u.s." inter
rnpted the boy. -
AN thef mother, she put some corn
in de pepper an shocked it over de hot
Goals, and it popped out white, jest like
dey was flowers. Den dey eat it all up
and dere mother told 'em nice stories.
'tMy, don't l wisht for some popcorn
to eat dis very minnit,' said the boy.
"Wese amt got emmy popper,' walled
shivering infant of stunted growth.
''Nor no corn"
''Nor mo fire"
8 Then sick child lying on bed o1
dleary rags in the corner opened his
eyes and said, peevishly:
81 don't keer for de pepper, nor dc
corn, nor de fre-not much-but
wisht I had mudder-oh, golly, l do.
Daily camera., 1898-02-04
lcEc,L RHODES BURIAL PLACE.
In the Mntoppo Hills of South Africa
and Commands Il 'WorId's view"


and Commands Il "WorId's View"
While some Of the newspapers have
been busy of late in killing MIR. Rhodes
ne find from the Cape papers that Mr..
Rhodes himself has selected his burial
place, reports the London News. 1t
is in the Matoppo hills, in the neigh
borhood of his farm, that Mr.. Rhodes
desires sin the fullness of time" to be
buried in THE solid rock. A special cor
respondent, who calls the spot Words s
View" thus describes the scenery:
Al length we came to halt and were
led through the bushes up enormous
slopes of solid granite on to the roof
of rocky etminence. Here the worlds
view lay unfolded like panorama be-
fore our gladdened eyes. There were
many Travelled members in our party,
but not one Of them could say that he
had ever seen anything like it. Here,
surely, we were gazing down upon one
of natures battle fields, the discorded
scene of some tremendous conwulsion,
in which Titanic forces had lifted the
biggest powders the minacan conceive
and tossed them to and fro Like peb-
bles. AS far as the eye could reach
stretched an ocean Of granite moun-
.ains, extending range beyond range
to the horizon. Few people realize the
immensity of the Matoppos or the
beauty of the hillsides and valleys,
where euphorbia, mahogany and mo-
pana trees and al sorts of tropical
bushes flourish in glorious confusion,
and certainly no one can have any con-
caption of the awe-inspiring grandeur
or the scenic splendor of this wondrous
natural panorama.
Daily camera., 1898-02-04
Japanc.e Fuel.

The dust of charcoal is gathered up
and mixed with the chafi from wheat
barley and other grains, and with
chopped straw in Japan. 1t is then
moistened into paste, rolled into balls
about as big as billiard ball, and makes
excellent fuel.
Daily camera., 1898-02-04
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Pintsch gas
makes it
easy to read

on the Burlipgton's "VestibuIed Flver." "
A splendid light-brilliant, SOFT steady.
A splendid train-fast, safe. comfort
able. .l4.
Leaves Denver $50 p. n. Arrives
Omaha four next afternoon; Chicago
$40 following morning. Equally fas,
equally good service to Kansas
City and St. Louis. Tickets at Offices Of
connecting lines.
G.. w. Va!!erv, General Agent,
1899 18TH ST., Denver.
The Independent., 1898-09-16
James Appreciated.

The only transport from which
no complaints were made by the
soldiers was the Scandis, and the
officers and men who arrived by
her showed their appreciation OF
the invaluable steward, Tom James,
by giving him a rousing send-off
when the steamer left for Manila,
leaving behind, to the regret OF all,
the genial James, who had been or
dered to return to San Francisco by
his physician.
Tom James is well-known in
Honolulu, and his numerous friends
are not surprised over the praise
and compliments, which the New
York volunteers fairly showered on
him.
James was laid up here for week
with a touch OF pleurisy. he re.
turned to San Francisco by the
Alameda and will probably visit
Honolulu as soon as he has fully re-
covered to look after his interests
here.
The Independent., 1898-09-16
A Clever Company.

The Rosa Comedy Company made
its first bow to Honolulu audience
at the Irwin Opera House, and
scored grand success,
The house was not crowded;
Honolulu people have been disap-
pointed so often that they are like
the burned child who fears the fire,
and rumors, reports and law pro-
ceedipgs in regard to the company
led number Of people to stay at,
home who otherwise would gladly.
have taken in the jolly show
The performance last night was
hailed with we'll deserved applause.
Messrs. Post aud Gardner are com
edians who will be received with
pleasure in any community. Their
"taking- off" of an Iiishman and a
Dutchman in the U and l farce was
highly amusing and beat anything
ever seen on Honolulu stage, and
our critics here are very particular
indeed.
Little Rosa is gem. She is grace
full, pretty and clever, and, consider
ing the annoyance and insults that
she has been submitted to on board
the City of Columbia aud in the
courts of Honolulu she, carried out
her parts in manner which de-
serves great credit. The young
actress suffered from bad cold but
hopes to be o. X. tomorrow even
ing when large audience will greet
her.
The show was clean in every way
and the rumors started by the
enemies OF the young girls company
were absolutely without foundation.
Honolulu, however, is no longer a
missionary" town and no audience
nowadays will seriously object to a
little high kicking variety.
Mr.. Ellis possesses magnificent
high baritone voice which is very
we'll trained. His songs illustrated
by pictures were received in a most
fattering manner.
All the members OF the Rosa Com
pany deserves the highest compli-
ments for their first appearance,
but don't forget that Honolulu is
the jolliest of all jolly shows. Let
the Rats and Erratics remain in
Hilo, as suggested by an actor last
'evening.
In the audience last night were
Samuel Parker, Judges Stanley and
Perry, Attorney Humphreys, DIR,
Murray, O. M. White and number
OF other prominent citizens.
The Independent., 1898-09-16
The following remarks also are
quite pertinent to the question:

The following remarks also are
quite pertinent to the question:
Gas to some people doing we'll and
some doing badly / can quite under
stand that. Don't we have just the
same thing here at home? Let me
give case in point: Two young fell
lows, brothers, went out at the same
time l did, aud we went up country
together. | left both of them at
work for farmers in small town on
the prairie. l went further west,
and was away about IL days. When
/ got back to the place where l left
them | found that everybody for
miles round knew what had already
guessed, that the young one would be
a success but the old one would be
failure, simply because the one would
work and liked it, and the other
would not work because he did not
like it, and it would have been just
the same if they had remained in
England"
"The only place dropped into
where l found there was demand
for carpenters, bricklayers, masons,
etc, was Vancouver, and in that city
there is just at present quite boom
in the building line. A carpenter
who travelled up from Winnipeg in
the same train l did got job at the
first place he tried. Three dollars
(12s. 6d.) per day of ten hours, and
he could get good board and lodg-
ing for four dollars (l6s. Sd.) per
week, which would leave him Ia dol
lars clear every week, or 5Ss. in Eng
lish money. So he was all right, be-
cause in Vancouver carpenters, etc.,
can work all the year round, as there
is scarcely any frost or snow in the
winter"
The Independent., 1898-09-16
FRIDAY, SEPT. 16, 1898.
LABOR PROBLEMS.

The nomadic character of work.
ingmen is one of the peculiar feat
ures of civilization. Restless and
adventuresome, they have fertile
lands and apparently excellent op-
portunities in their environments in
the search of something better which
too frequently alas turns out to be
uuattainable.
The Independent., 1898-09-16

last two years it had been "a cents
(3s. 6d.) per bushel. This leaves the
farmer profit Of 81 cents Us. 2d)
per bushel, or f2 Ids. I'd. per acre.
OF course this would not be much
in England where the rent and taxes
would, in some cases, come to more
than that, but in Canada it is that
much clear profit because there is
neither rent nor taxes to pay"
The Independent., 1898-09-16
Palama School Bids.

The following bids have been re-
ceived by the educational depart.
ment for the building of the Pa
lama school, exclusive OF the found
alton: G. Fl. Patzig, $1S,700; Arthur
Harrison, $1S,764; j. II. Craig,
$l9,047; III. l.. Kerr g. Co., $19,050
VIM. Wagner, $4,000; John Ouder.
kirk, $19,307; Fred Harrison, $22,
400.
The Independent., 1898-09-16

She had just been stating her
reasons for refusing his hand. 81
hope," she said, "that | have made
myself perfectly plain" "No, l
cannot say that you have" he re-
piled. CT think nature had some
thing to do with it," He exits.
The Independent., 1898-09-16

But, OF course, were it not for this
nomadic class, the pioneers of pro-
gress, there would be no upbuild-
ing OF new states in foreign lands,
aud the flags of Christianity and
civilization, and the heroism OF the
more stalwart and stubborn Of the
white races would not complete the
destinies apparently allotted to them
by the Supreme Providence.
The Independent., 1898-09-16

The night school under Professor
Lightfoot is making an excellent
showing this term. Very many sue
oessful men owe their advancement
in life to education received at these
schools.
The Independent., 1898-09-16

Baron Henri de Rothschild has
passed his final examination as doc.
tor of medicine.
The Independent., 1898-09-16

The Y. M. Q. A. gave a very hearty
reception last evening to Mr.. and
Mrs. Alfred T. Brock, and an ex-
cellent program was most success
fully presented.
The Independent., 1898-09-16

About six thousand tons OF coal
are on the way from Newcastle, N.
S. W., and about 1900 tons booked
from other quarters. Honolulu will
soon be an immense coaling station
for the feet of the United States.
The Independent., 1898-09-16

The Commissioners had another
very pleasant picnic yesterday, but
undoubtedly acquired much prac-
tical and valuable information in
regard to this Paradise for rich
men.
The Independent., 1898-09-16

The other day an English tourist
while riding through Ireland, came
to steep hill. Expecting to see
caution board he looked about for
it, but could not find it till he had
reached the bottom. There he found
the board, "This hill is dangerous
to cyclists"
The Independent., 1898-09-16

Dr. W. j. Russell, F. r. s., has now
proceeded 80 far with his discovery
of method of photographing OBJ
jects without the aid of light, that
he is hopeful of publishing a paper
upon the subject before the Royal
Society at an early date. He has
succeeded in taking no fewer than
1000 pictures entirely in darkness.
The Independent., 1898-09-16

The curiosity of it is, however,
that while there are millions upon
millions OF broad and fertile, we'll
timbered or mineral bearing acres,
still unoccupied on the vast con-
tinent of America, and Offering un-
told wealth as the reward of in
telligent labor under the protection
OF the two tricolors OF the United
States and Great Britain, men will
forego those chances to rush into
funny little fy-speck of country
like Hawaii absolutely uninformed
as to it's conditions, to compete
either with men we'll established, or
themselves in severe competition
with the cheapest kind Of labor,
when even Chinese in the United
States are in sections receiving the
same wages as the Portuguese and
some Of the white men do here, and
all this apart from the conditions
at present surrounding plantation
labor.
The Independent., 1898-09-16

These reflections were peculiarly
urged upon US in reading the follow
ing extracts from letter from
Canada, published in the London
People by a well-known economic
writer who for years has adopted
the pseudonymn of "Will Work
man." He says:
"Nor will he (the English immi-
grant) have to go very far west of
Winnipeg before finding free land
right close alongside the railway,
and there are thousands OF sections
not yet taken up within mile of a
grain elevator, where, at the current
rate for wheat, barley, oats, ETC., he
can sell all he can grow. This
brings me to another very import
ant question, or rather a series
OF questions asked by the same
correspondent. He wants to know
how much wheat on an average a
farmer can grow on this land; how
much per bushel it costs him to
grow it; and how much he can sell
il for.
''Now all the time was in Mani
toba and Assiniboa, the great wheat
growing districts, l got as much iu-
formation as l possibly could on the
above questions, not only officially
but privately, from the superintend-
ents of Government farms, from
wheat dealers as we'll as from wheat
growers. The highest estimate [
heard as to the yield OF wheat per
acre was 30 bushels, and the lowest
20 bushels; or il we average it, 25
bushels per acre we shall not be far
out. There was very little difference
in the estimate OF the cost Of raising
and marketing, which is about 81
cents. u.s. 4d.) per bushel.
"The average selling price, Of
course, it is easy to get at; for the
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-03
The OrIof Diamond.

At the beginning OF the eighteenth
century soldier belonging to one of
the French gafrisons In India became
enamored of the eyes of Brahma In the
temple of Serringham. These eyes We're
diamonds. more brilliant than ever
shone under the eyebrows of Crapaud's
European divinlties. Their lustre cap
tivuted his soul. He haunted the temple,
and, yielding to the might Of the god
became convert to his worship. At
least so he persuaded the priests, who
went so far as to admit him TO some
care Of the temple, doubtless trusting
Brahma to protect his own. But on Il
stormy night the convert disappeared
and with him one of the idol eyes. the
other having resisted all his efforts to
dlslodge II. So Brnhmn was left
squirting, and the periidious French
man sold his prize to a captain In the
English navy for about ten thousand
dollars. Later 1t was bought by the Ar
menian merchant Schaffras for more
than five times this sum. and shown
by him to Catharine of Russia, who
offered for IL about four hundred thou
sand dollars. life-pension of eighteen
thousand, and patent of nobility.
Schaffras refused this offer. and sub
seluently sold the diamond to Gregory
Orloff for the same sum- without the
patent of nobility. Orloff. part author
OF Carathines greatness, and raised
by her to the steps of the throne, for
whom she struck medals, raised tri-
umphal arches. and dedicated palaces
par lamltie reconnaissance" to whom
she offered secret marriage and whom
In another caprice she banlshed-Count
Gregory, being relnstated In favor Of
fered his Imperial mistress two tokens
OF reconciliation. the St Petersburg
arsenal and the orlof diamond.-March
Lipplncott's.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-03
TRUSTEES SALE,

Notice is hereby given that on Fri
day, the 18th day of March, 1898, at
100 O'Clock p. m. of said day, at No.
223 South Main Street, in Salt Lake
City, Salt Lake County. State of
Utah, by virtue of a power vested in
mortgage executed and delivered on
the 18th day of February, 1898, by Mar
tin Lannan to w. S. Mccormick doing
business as Mccormick & Co. and filed
in the office of the County Recorder of
Salt Lake County. Utah, transferring
and selling to said Mccormick, by way
of ohattel mortgage, the goods. chattels
and merchandise hereinafter described.
to secure the payment of note due
him from said Lannan, dated February
1eth, 1898, for ss70.62 and interest from
date at one per cent per month, to-
gether with $4,000 attorneys fees, no
part of which has been paid; and at
the request of said w. S. Mccormick,
mortgagee, the undersigned. w. j. Bar
rette, Trustee named in said mortgage,
will sell TO the highest and best bidder
for cash In hand, all the personal prop
erty therein described, and situate at
and in the store-room and meat
market at No. 233 South Main Street,
in the City. County and State aforesaid,
known as "Lannan's Market" and more
particularly described as follows:
All the fixtures. blocks. benches,
tools, scales, sausage-chopper, electric
motor, ice-box. knives, grind stone.
cash register, safe, stove, two boilers.
and all other articles used in the man
agement of said business at said place.
Also one bay horse, two sets harness,
one cart, one delivery wagon, one
sleigh, used in connection with said
business. Also one male elk. Also all
books and book accounts owing to said
mortgagor, and all notes held by him
or now in his possession.
Further notice Is hereby given that
the said property will be open for in
spection on Thursday the 10th day of
March, 1898. during the usual business
hours. and opportunity will be given
on said days for the examination there's
of.
Said property will be sold in separate
parcels or en- mnsse, as seems most ad-
vantageous at the time of the sale. to
be determined by the Trustee.
Dated Salt Lake City, Utah. Febru-
airy 93rd, 1928.
w. ]. BARRETTE. Trustee.
First publication Feb'y 20. 1898.