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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30
Creditors Notice.

Estate of Columbus White. deceased.
Notice is hereby given that letters Testament
tary on the estate of Columbus White deceased
were granted to the undersigned, on the DIST day
Of December, lS9s. by the Superior Court of
Thurston county, State of Washington.
All persons having claims against said estate
are required To exhibit them, with the necessary
vouchers, To us for allowance, at IL West Fourth
street, III the city of Olympia, that being the
place for transaction of the business of said e.
tate. within twelve months after the date of this
notice, or they Shall be forever barred
This :Oh day OF December, 1898
II. B. MCELROY,
JAMES BREWER.
Date of first publication, Dec. 70, lsgs.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30

PIES are said to attain enormous
size-army pies-in the Philippines.
1t is a pie filled with rice, meat and
potatoes, something out of the ordi-
nary line, however, but none the less
relished ON that account. And 1.-THE
pie referred to-so far as is known, was
SUI generis, the only one of its kind,
and intended to commemorate a meet
of the Thirteenth Regiment and the
Commercial Club of Luzon. 1t was
four feet long, two and n half feet
wide and six inches deep, and is said
to have been browning comfort, a
smoking aureole to feast, long to be
remembered by all who participated.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30

BEGINNING with January l, the
Great Northern railway will put on a
fast mail train, which will bring the
mail and passengers from Chicago to
Seattle IL hours less time than
they come now. This train will leave
st. Paul daily at 9 o'clock in the morn
ing and arrive at 9 p. NJ. the third day
instead at 7 o'clock of the morning of
the fourth day, as at present.
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-04

ion of the intelligent Southern man, when I say that the white race will not be controlled and ruled by the negroes in the South
 In the splendid State of South Caro- lima there are 100000 more negroes than white people. In many portions of the South this proportion continues. I re- peat most solemnly that the question in the South is not question of who shall be the political rulers, or whether ne- groeS shall have the right to vote, but 1t is question of life and death to the Southern people. This is above all statutory enactments There are 6,000,- 900 of negroes in the South; an inferior race; standing menace to peace, law and order. We have spent millions of dollars to raise them in enlightenment, and yet to-day we are confronted in many portions of the South by an alien race-ignorant, different in color differ ent in education and refinement abso- lutely dominating and controlling the fairest sections on the face of the earth.
 1 have seen the assessors placing val uation on land when none of them ever owned a cents worth of property, negro policemen enforcing the law, clerks making up the sacred and solemn rec ords when the clerk himself could not sign his name to the record and had to have 1t done by other men. This continued for. long years Justice was bought and scld as a farmer buys a field. Taxation in three years was in- creased tenfold. Murder and riot were everyday occurrences, and the Judge himself before an argument was con- cluded was taken off the bench and gave his decision. to the highest bid- der. Let me ask you one thing. How
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long would the people of New York City or Boston stand that situation of affairs? Broadway would be aflame in week and riot would reign rampant up Fifth avenue.
 Let me give you some other plain facts. In two years the negro govern ment increased the State debt from $6, 900 900 to $25, ,000, 900, and I was there when negro soldiers twice marched into the State House and took the Speaker away from his desk and broke up the Assembly and turned the members out of doors. In four years they spent $100, ,000,00O The taxable properties or the State went down nearly two-thirds. In ten years the negro rule of Louisiana squandered $150,000000, and not one single public improvement was left to show for it. In three years in the State of Mississippi taxes were raised four teenfold and the State debt in the same proportion. The whisky bill of one Leg islature was $350,00 The bar was opened to members and their friends in committee room within the sound of the Speakers gavel. The public printing in less than eight years amounted to S1,500,000, when it had years to $500, 0,O00 The Governors per- sonal expenses In his election amounted to nearly $400,00 and it was paid out of the public funds.
 Will my brethren of the North con- sider for one moment the effect of the dominance of the negro in Southern politics? Do you not see that the con trol by the negroes of Southern affairs as demanded by some fanatics will mean the absolute dominance of the National Legislature by the negro
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WE THE RACE PROBLEM TN THE SOUTH


vote? It will give to them at least fifty votes in the House of Representatives, and at least five or six Senators. The balance of power will be absolutely in the control of the negro vote. He would entirely dominate the House and the Senate of the present Congress. Are you willing to pay the price? Would he be a safe arbiter of the vast inter ests of this nation? I think not.
 Another point of interest to my Northern friend You are to-day regen- thousands of miles of railroads. You are pouring millions of dollars into our coal and iron mines. You are erecting vast manufactories. Public improve ment, the result of millions of Northern money, is showered on every side, Within ten years In my own State you have placed more than S20, ,000 900. Your sons are coming to live with us and are honored as our best citizens. Are you willing to have all this vast interest at the beck and nod of venal Legisla- ture, or under the control of ignorant negroes?
 This brings up the question, what are we going to do? The two races are side by side, mingled and intermingled in every imaginable way but not in the old relation of master and servant and having none of the old sympathy. It is question which God in his mercy will work out for these people, but it is a. momentous question to the country to- day. The only hope of a settlement of the problem is in the gradual en- lightenment of the colored race. Nine teen-twentieths of the money expended for the education of the negro race if the South is raised from the whites. and one-twentieth from the negroas
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good people of the city, without regard to politics, determined that no longer would they be under the control of the most brutal rule that has ever cursed the country outside of Hayti and San Domingo, and they have joined to- gether in common bond of public in- terest I speak plainly. It is not a question of politics. Democrats were not the only ones in the trouble, but a Republican paying $500 week exclu- sively to negro laborers, and one of the most important men of the city, has been the head and front of the league for defense of the public safety.
 These men, without regard to poli- tics, determined that this negro rule should then and there cease They mo- tified the negroes plainly that they should not continue this state of affairs. Bad blood was engendered, as it natur- ally would be; and when they attempt ed, by strong hand. it is true, to do away with this anarchy, a personal conflict was brought about, the first shot being fired by the negroes, and things were done which were never contemplated It was regretted and de- plored by every honest Southern man that blood was shed. I speak as a friend of the negroes AS lawyer, I have defended as many negroes as any man in the South, without thought of reward When I was Governor of my State every legal voter, white or black. when he approached the ballot box, was allowed to vote. I speak with a full sympathy for the colored race, but. nevertheless, speak with most earn est determination. expressing the opin-
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Falconry is pre-eminently the sport for the people of the leisure class who have the means to indulge in 1t. It has been so from time immemorial Kings, princes and nobles considered their ed ucation unfinished until they had learned well the falconer's art. The gentler sex, too, were taught the mys- teries of the news and how to fly a hawk, as well as how to rein a steed.
 The post of grand falconer to the court of England yet belongs to the ducal house of St. Albans, and is not the least esteemed of it's mIny proud honors.
 Falconry or hawking is also the most ancient and probably the most widely practiced of all the field sports that have survived to the present day. Sir A. Layard, In his work on "Nineveh and Babylon" gives an account of a "bas relief found in the ruins of Khor- sabad which shows a falconer with a hawk on his wrist in about the same fashion as they are to be seen carried in the present day.
 In India, China and other parts of Asia, as well as in the islands of Japan, the sport has come down from the ear Hest to the present times, and is much more generally in vogue than in the more stirring and changing Western
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In England popularity of hawking was probably greatest in Elizabeth s time. Her chief falconer was Sir John Sadler (for a time the custodian of Mary Queen of Scots), and the place which he selected for training and fly ing her Majesty's falcons was Everly, in Wiltshire, in the old manor house of which still hangs a portrait of Sir John in his court dress, with a falcon on his hand wearing a jeweled hood. In an ancient hostelry near by the "Old Hawking Club has for many years made it's headquarters, showing how little the character of the country has changed in the three hundred years.
 In Valkinswaard, near Eindhoum, in North Brabant, Holland, reside families of men who from generation to genera tion, as far back as history and tradi- tion tell, have been falconers and catch CTS of falcons. A hundred or so years ago a large number of huts were built out on the water every season, and numbers of hawks were taken. After the annual migration of birds was over sort of fair was held which was at tended by the chief falconers of vari- ous noblemen and princes of every court in Europe. Rare prices were paid for birds under such competition. Then came a decline until three hutS alone
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were sufficient to supply the languish- ing demand, which came principally from England, France and Holland.
 Within the last ten or fifteen years, however, the business of this unique little town has seen a great improve ment in the hawking business. A score or more of men found good remunera- tion as of yore in the taking and train ing of hawks.
 In California along in the middle fif- ties hawking parties of ladies and gen. tlemen were frequently seen af1eld en- toying the sport furnished by teams of well-trained and well-handled birds. The officers of the Presidio garrison. with their wives and daughters and friends from the city, found it a most enjoyable way of willing away the time that the rather idle routine of gar rison life left hanging on their hands.
 There are many people yet here in San Francisco who remember these parties and some who took part in the hunts.
 It is said that the first team of train- ed hawks was brought here by the off, cers of a British man-of-war which lay in the bay for some time during the fall of '53 or 54. Some fine hunt ing was done in company with officers from the PreSidio who became very
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mites. where for many reasons it for

counties, where for many reasons it for time fell into general desuetude.
 It has not. however been extinct for an hour in England, nor indeed in France or the How countries" From the time of Alfred down to James and even to the commonwealth it was the chief sport of the English aristoc- racy. Works on the subject were among the first that were turned out from the newly invented printing press. In 1486 Dame Juliana Breners, abbess of Sap we'll, wrote and published the "Boke of St. Albans," which contained valuable treatises on Hawking, Hunting and Cote Armour" Shortly after came the "Booke of Falconrie," by George Tu- berville, Gentleman, followed by others. In 1915 Simon Latham published "The Falcons Lull and Call" which was long the standard work, and lastly "Fal- conry," by Hon. Gerald Lascelles, in the Badminton Library series of vol umes on English sports, published in 1892, being the history of the sport down to the present day. These are all in the English language. There are works on falconry also in French, Ger man, Italian. Swedish. Russian, Hin- dustani and Japanese: indeed, in al- most every tongue that has existed since the days of the Tower of Babel
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TRAINED HANKS ON THE BLocKS.

land and Holland as a start, and steps have been taken to keep up the supply of birds from captures of young wild hawks either from the nests in the mountains of West Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. Also the adult pass age birds, which are to be seen in sea son about the great flocks of migratory birds which in spring and fall cover the marshes and swamp lands in nearly every State of the Mississippi Valley. While good fields for the sport are within comparatively easy reach of any of the several cities mentioned, Balti- more and Chicago have large advan- tages in the matter of nearness to those most abounding in game birds and heron. A few hours run from the former city carries the hunters to the lower part of the peninsula, between the Potomac River and the ocean, where myriads of ducks of all kinds woodcock, snipe, grouse, quail. in fact almost every kind of game birds, as well as the stately heron, are to be found in season.
 short run in almost any direction from Chicago will take a hawking party to the open country full of grouse and quail, and in the upper counties of Indiana and Illinois, about the lower end of Lake Michigan and along the Kankakee, St. Josephs and other rivers, are vast tracts of open country inter- spersed with marsh lands, which in spring and fall are literally covered with wild fowl and heron.
 But with all these advantage neither of these cities, nor indeed both to- gether, can compare with San Fran cisco not only in being within touch of a greater abundance of all kinds of hawking game but also in being wi hin close reach of good supply of all kinds of hawks from which falconries may be established and maintained
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"HAT most royal and fascinating
 of all field sports, hunting with
 hawks, is coming into wide and
 general favor. Not only abroad
 in the United Kingdom, France and Holland, with other countries of Europe, where it has been more or less alive for the last hundred years or so hut also in. certain sections of the East ern part of the United States and right here in California, where the fields and facilities for following it are second to those of no other locality.
 In the older countries new clubs are being added to those already in exist ence, leases are being made for long terms of years of the hunting privileges over large tracts of suitable land, and numbers of men are again turning their attention to falconry, an occupation and means of livelihood that was once honorable almost to the dignity of profession and almost as widely fol- lowed as any other peaceful pursuit in- cident to country life.
 In the United States the sport prom ises to become, if anything, more popu- lar than abroad for reason of the larger felds"and better facilities for following 1t in all it's best forms.
 In most of the Eastern cities one or more hawking clubs have been formed. The Plymouth Falconry Club of Boston and the Knickerbocker Hawking Club of New York, the Eagle Club of Cleve- land. the Hawking Club of Balti- more and the Kankakee Falconry Club of Chicago being the pioneers of the movement in their respective localities. Teams of falcons and experienced falconers have been brought from Eng
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According to the British Medical Jour nal, Raseri, who has analysed 25,474 cases of death and 96 515 of birth, where the ex- act time of day was noted, finds that the maximum number of deaths occur in the early afternoon e to ' D. m), and the night while the maximum number of births occur in the early hours of the morning, and the minimum in the early hours of the afternoon. AS regards the cause of this he points out that the hours of the maximum number of deaths are precisely those when the pulse rate and temperature are at their highest in health, and when there is a febrile exa- cerhation in illness.
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enthusiastic over the sport. A cast of hawks being given them the hunting was kept up after the Englishmen left and the next season native hawks were taken and trained by a man brought from England specially for the purpose.
 Change in the troops of the garrison, however, caused an abandonment of the hawking parties.
 The next year will probably see a. change in affairs, however. and 'jesses, cadges, brails, bills, hoods; lures and other implements of the falconer's art, will be seen in the windows of the sporting goods shops.
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too much store by politics. In too many cases he has sought the shadow rather than the substance.
 The negro all over this country must become a large taxpayer own prop erty, possess high degree of industry, skill and substantial character.
 We must get our young people off the streets, keep them out of barrooms and dens of crime. The great bulk of our people in the South are still in dense ignorance; ignorance leads to idleness and idleness to crime.
 The time has come when the best white people and the best colored peo- pie in the South should get together for counsel. advice and sympathy. The negro must not feel that the white man who is his next-door neighbor is his enemy simply because he Is Southern | white man.
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the ability to acquire intelligence or property or both
 The feeling is very strong in the South that since the negro pays such a small proportion of the tax to sup port Government that he should have little or no control in the Government
 The feeling also exists in some sec tions that the negro wants to control the white man. This is not true of the black race as a whole. Unless the ne- gro gets into the hands of bad white men he does not seek to control any one except himself, and he has pretty hard task often to do that.
 To my mind the way to remedy the present evils Is for the negro not to get discouraged. In the past l fear he set
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By Booker ]. Washington.

TT was unfortunate that my people
 permitted themselves at the close
 of the civil war to be led in such
 wholesale manner into politics. In
 many cases responsibilities were accepted by us which we were not equal to because of lack of education and experience.
 I do not believe that 1t Is wise for the Government nor just to the people sought to be helped to confer unlimited suffrage upon any ignorant. poverty stricken, inexperienced people. would let the right to vote be interwoven with
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continent, but ignorant, brutal negroes control all the public offices. About fifty justices positions within the Will
 mington district are held practically by negroes and a few white people. At least forty of these negroes can neither read nor write. Ruin, political. finan- cial and moral stares the land and property owning people of the city in the face. Under the circumstances the
The San Francisco call., 1898-12-04
By Ex-Governor McCorkle.

EFT us look at the melting cause of the recent trouble. Whining
 ton is very beautiful town, in- / habited by the best and most
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-05
NEW COMMANDER.

Of the Connecticut Naval Battalion
 Hartford, Nov. 1.-The election of of ficers of the Connecticut Naval battal- ion was held last evening at the Colo nial club on Prospect street. Felton Parker, the commander of the Hartford division, declined positively the nomi- nation for commander of the battalion, and the meeting nominated F. V. Ray holds of New Haven, the navigator. Daniel H. Goodrich was then nominat- ed navigator, and F. s. Cornwall was nominated commander of the New Ha- ven division. MT. Cornwall was exec utive officer on the converted yacht FL freda during the late war. The nomi- nations were all by ballot. They will probably be confirmed by the adju- tant general.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-11-05
WAS THE UNANIMOUS CHOICE

Of the Republican Convention of the
 Town of Orange.
 1t has been asserted by some resi- dents of the town of Orange that the nomination of Frank Woodruff for rep resentative was not unanimous nor was he wanted by the majority, and that he was instrumental in raising the tax from ten mills to twelve mills. MT. Woodruff does not deny that he urged an increase of the tax levy, but he did so for the very good reason that there was insufficiency in the revenue deriv- ed from ten-mill levy to pay the town bills. His friends claim that he was the unanimous choice of the republican voters of Orange Center and of the greater majority of the republican vot- CTS of the borough of West Haven, and that it is only a few of the disgruntled who are complaining.