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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-04-22

night performance, or the people
would have had an opportunity for
forming an opinion of his wonderful
powers and been present Satur-
day night in numbers that his
entertainment justly merits. "The
Beggar's Dream" in which he APP
parently burns the woman in rags
whom he transforms into beautifully
dressed vision of loneliness, and then
apparently burns quite as palpably MS
" She" was consumed by flames in Hag-
CARDS renowned novel, was not the least
mystifying act performed. Dante
is young man, and we predict that
before the lapse of many years he will
attain fame that will place him at
the head Of the famous magicians of
modern times.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-04-22
BUCODA BREVITlES.

Special Correspondence of the Standard
AL. Rabeck was in Bucoda last week.
Mrs. Garland has returned from the
East.
Many Bucodites are making garden
this lovely weather.
John Utter is still very i'll, hardly
able to leave his bed.
Dan DOotson is able to be out again
after an attack of In grippe.
VIM. Ogle was called home from
Everett on account of sickness in his
family.
Theo. Young, of Olympia, made a
trip to Bucoda on his wheel a few
days ago.
The band boys are praoticing to
play for the ball that is to he given by
the Odd Fellows, on the Goth.
Mr.. Cook, the photographer from
Centralia took picture of the mill
and all its employees last week.
School has closed for u few days
because majority of the pupils are
unable to attend on accou mt of the
measles.
Dame Rumor says Archie Utter is
about to become Il benedict. 1t Ger
tainly looks that way, if one can Judge
from appearances.
Archie Utter is becoming quite an
expert at photography. He took ten
negatives in one day which speaks well
for a new beginner.
A very interesting exhibition of the
Magniscope, accompanied by the
Zonophone, was held at the opera
house, recently, by Prof. G. W. Dut-
ton.
The measles are still raging. There
has been about one hundred cases so
far, and more taken down every day
Some people rs soon as they can get
out go peddling them all round town.
The hens went on a strike around
here just before Easter, at least il
looked that way, as the majority OF
the farmers did not bring eggs to town
Saturday, as usual, consequently a
great many children were disappointed
Sunday morning, when they went to
hunt for Easter eggs.
SPOOPENDYKE.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-04-22
STATE NEWS

An order has been placed with the
Tacoma Mill Company to deliver 81
600 feet of fir lumber, to be used in
decking government vessels. The ma.
terial must be delivered in Philadel.
phia within 30 days. The lumber will
fill seven cars, and each piece will be
more than 30 feet long.
The shingle mill and dry kiln
owned by c. A. Day, at Sumas, in
Whatcom county, were burned to the
ground about noon, last Friday.
There were $4,000 shingles in the
dry kiln; the mill had capacity OF
10000. There was an insurance OF
81 800 on the property. The fire
started from a flying spark.
Robert Hall, who is in Jail ut New
Whatcom, pending trial on charge
! of raising VI certificates, attempted to
commit suicide last Saturday by
climbing up close to the gas burner
and turning on the gas. He inhaled
the gas through paper tube that he
put over the burner. When found, he
was nearly dead, but was, after much
effort, revived.
Charles-N who lives near Gold
endale in Klickitat county, in order to
kill the iieas and bugs on one of his
calves, covered it with coal oil and
grease. He also concluded to brand
it ut the same time. When the red
hot iron was applied for that purpose,
the oil and grease caught fire, and be-
fore the flames could be extinguished
the animal was almost destitute of
hair. The calf still lives, however,
but is not nearly so frisky as OF yore.
Allen Bagley was examined as to
his sanity in the Superior Court, Mon
day, at Montesano. Bagley is held for
trial for the burning of the Ocosta
schoolhousc and for shooting at Mr..
Austin. During his examination he
admitted that he was forced to leave
Arkansas on account of being guilty
of attempted murder. Judge Hodgdon
adjudged Bagley to be perfectly sane,
and he will have to face the conse-
1uence of his Ocosta outbreak at this
term of court.
A serious cutting affray occurred in
the clubhouse of the Kent Lumber
Company's mill, at Kent, Saturday, in
which John Reed, a German laborer,
was seriously and probably fatally
stabbed by Alfred Gschwend. The
row was brought on by Reed telling
Gschwend to go and get his hair cut
and take bath. Gschwend resented
this and told Reed to attend to his
own business; that he (Recd) had al
ready interfered with him enough, and
he did not propose to stand any more.
Reed continued, however, and finally
Gschwend rushed on him and cut
him twice in the left arm between the
shoulder and elbow.
Two masked-mcn entered grocery
store at Spokane, just after dark,
Saturday night, and covered the two
proprietors with their revolvers. The
command was given cup hands" and
the order was at first obeyed, but one
of the proprietors saw a chance for de-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-04-22

fensive operations and quickly sprang
behind partition where revolver
was secured, and obtaining possession
of the gun fusilade began began be-
gan between him and the would-be
robbers. A dozen or more shots were
fired but strange to say, so far as is
known, nobody was hurt. This was
the second attempt at a hold-up in
Spokane that week, and both attempts
were unsuccessful.
A rather interesting complication
has arisen in Tacoma, rs q result of
the suicide there last February of P.
F. Mcmahon, a nightwatchman, who
was supposed to have been a single
man. The suicide left his property,
worth several thousand dollars, to his
mother, in Ireland. Now comes Mary
Mcmahon, a resident of Chicago, with
petition, in which she alleges she is
the widow of the dead man, and the
mother of his children. She asks that
the estate be set aside for her and her
minor child. She alleges she and Nc
Mahon were married in Chicago July
4, 1881; that two children were born
to them, one of whom died in infancy;
that all the property left by Mcmahon
is community property, and that she
was his lawful wife up to the time of
his death. The petition is verified
and sworn to before Chicago justice.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-04-22
Notice Of Sale of Timber
ON SCHOOL LAND.

NOTICE is hereby given that on the 7th day
~ OF May. 1898. at the hour of two O'Clock In
the afternoon of said day. at the door Of the Court
timber on the following described school land
Will be sold at public auction to the highest
bidder therefor, tO-wit: Sc = of the Sc :. See
acre deducted ON acct. County rOad.)
Said timber on said land wi II be sold for not
less than the appraised value as appraised by
manner provided by law "A statement of W hch il
now ON file in the Office Of the Auditor of said
county.
day of sale.
The timber on the above described lands are
offered for sale by virtue Of an order of the
the 4th day of April, 1898. duly certified aud on
file In the office ofsaid County Auditor.
X. A. GRAHAM,
County Auditor.
Dated at Olympia. Washington, this 5th day
Of April, A. D., lsyS.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-04-22
Death Of Two Pioneers.

The almost simultaneous death o
Benz. Harmed and DIR. Lansdale, at m
early hour Tuesday morning, recall,
many incidents of pioneer life in
which both gentlemen were prominent
actors. Mr.. Lansdale came to Olym.
pia in 1851, and Mr.. Harmed in 1853
but the advent of the latter to the
Territory and settlement at Vancouver
is recorded a year farther up on the
pioneers roll of honor.
Mr.. Harmed was born at Long Is.
land, N. V, Feb. 9Th, 1922, making
him rs years of age at death. He
moved to Niles, Michigan, in 1889,
where he resided till 1852. 1t was
here that he married Miss Eliza Will
lard in 1S43, who remained his
life-companion till about three years
ago, when she joined the silent ma
jority in the land of promise beyond
the grave.
Deceased has been lifelong men,
Der OF the Masonic fraternity, he hav-
ing become member of st. Joseph
Valley Lodge at Niles. in 1850, retain.
ing his membership there till he be.
came a member of Olympia Lodge in
1856. He assisted in organizing the
Grand Lodge of this jurisdiction and
filled the office of Grand Treasurer of
that body for over 80 years. He was
likewise Treasurer of the Territory of
Washington several terms.
Mr.. Harmed was carpenter by
trade and for several years after his
arrival in this place worked at that
calling. He afterwards for several
years followed the business of under
taker, but of late years he has fol-
lowed no active employment.
Deceased was attended in his last
illness by his daughter, Mrs. Turpin,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-04-22

IT is said that Spain will make pri-
watering conspicuous phase in the
present campaign.
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sive.
DIR. Il. H. Lansdalc was 81 years OF
age and doubtless the iniirmitics incl
dent to prolonged life were the cause
of his demise. He was q native of
Maryland. At the age of ten he be-
came an orphan and was thrown upon
his own resources. He found a home
with DIR. Sabin, of Troy, Ohio, who
gave him liberal education and took
him under his own tutelage in ac-
quiring knowledge of medicine. In
1884 he went to Indiana and helped
to found the town of Warsaw. In
1888 the doctor was united in mar
rage to q Miss Culberton, of Troy,
but she died in 1S4l. In 1916, the
[, doctor put into execution resolve
he had long entertained of coming to
the Pacific Coast, and he joined a
party destined for California, which
crossed the plains with OK teams. On
reaching the destination of the party,
he at once took passage on ship for
Oregon, which he reached in October.
In the succeeding January he plated
the town of Vancouver, began the
practice of medicine and was appointed
Postmaster, the first office north Of
the Columbia river. One year later
he came to the Sound, and took up
donation claim on WILDLY Island, and
founded the town of Covedale, after
wards known as Coupville. In 1884
he was appointed Indian Agent, which
office he held six years.
After brief residence at The Dalles,
at Dayton and in Tacoma, in 1873 he
was appointed physician to the Sno-
homish Indians, which service he
performed three years and then came
to Olympia where he had since re
sided except while serving as physi-
clan to the Quinault Indians in 1879.
DIR. Lansdale married his second
wife in Oregon City, a Miss Mary
Pope, in 1860, who became the
mother of four children, three OF
whom survive, Mary P. Aldrich of Ia
coma, Annie +. Root OF Seattle, and
Chas. Il. Lansdale OF this city.
The funeral rites of DIR. Lansdale
teok place Yesterday afternoon in the
M. f. Church. He had been an ac-
tive member of that organization all
his life. The attendance, especially
of the remaining old settlers, was
quite large.
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with whom his last years have been
passed. She is the only surviving
member of the family.
The funeral rites of deceased were
held yesterday, at IL o'clock, at Mrs.
Turpin's residence, on Main street,
Rev. Henry Badger officiating as
Grand Chaplain for the Masonic fra.
ternity, under whose auspices he was
consigned to earth. The attendance
was large and the ceremonies impress
sive.
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-27
GAGE AND NEFF TO
 VISIT OAKLAND
REPUBLICANS TO HAVE AN EN-
 THUsIASTIC TIME.
Supervisor Talcott Warmly Received in His District-Deaf Mutes
 Organize.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,


 sos Broadway, Oct. 26. Next Saturday evening will be notable in the Alameda County campaign because on that occasion Hon. Henry T. Gage and Hon. Jacob Neff will appear at the Ex- position building.
 The meeting will be preceded by pa- rade, and the Republican organizations are preparing for a great political demon stration. Every Republican club is in vited to participate. The Army and Navy League (Dewev Camp, Union League Drill Corps of San Francisco Republican Alliance of Oakland, Young Mems Re- publican League Drill Corps and various ward clubs have already signified their intention of being in line. Marston Camp bell has been appointed grand marshal of the parade
 The Republican Alliance has arranged for a Metcalf and Perkins meeting to be held on November 5.
 Next Friday evening the Oakland AL liance will go to San Francisco to take part in the parade prior to the meeting in be the guests of the Union League Club at banquet.
 A number of deaf-mutes have organized a political club, and it is said to be the was preliminary to the organization of a State campaign club in San Francisco next Saturday night. The addresses made on the fingers were to the effect that the deaf-muteS should take as much interest in politics as those who are more The Union party held a meeting to- night at Germania Hall. The chief speech was made by John R. Glascoek.
 A Republican rally was held last night in Supervisor Talcotts district, and he was loudly cheered when he made speech.
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-27
COLONEL JOHN p. IRISH SCORES DECADENT DEMOCRATS

earn 1t by labor or take it in exchange tor other values: Here is S20 gold piece from the United States Mint. The Gov ernment certifies that 1t is $2O, or ..516 grains of that form of property called gold It passes for s20 only as long as 1t weighs 5l6 grains, When it loses in Welgnt II passes for what it's weight is worth, Statute law has given it no value. US value Is derived solely from human SsslFe e9a r, When of full weight t is worth SZO III London, Paris or St Petersburg, Tn Stamboul, Teheran or far Bombay. Our fleets and our flag do2not follow 1t 10 make people take It. An act of Con- gress cannot follow ii beyond our own shoEes, but the natural law of value originating in desire goes with 1t around the world Every dollar in silver and paper issued by the laws of this republic are made redeemable in 1t. and. therefore, carry the same purchasing power over con cfomrmodities It Is worth no more in a palm. It is an honest standard and a true measure of value. and, therefore. the national Democracy, standing. for equal fends that standard.
 I am here tonight because an advo- cate of the fusion in this State sneal<fn, from this platform last week, said 1t was the purpose of that fusion to drive the gold standard into the sea He proposed to do this by free coinage of silver af IS to l: and by the unlimited issue of ire which propose this invoke the hallowed names of Jefferson and Jackson
 But Jefferson declared that the ratio between gold and silver is a commercial matter entirely, determined by their re- spective values in the market Tn inc market to-day sixteen ounces of silver are not worth an ounce in gold. It takes about thirty-two ounces of silver to buy one ounce in gold. so the JefTersonian ratio would be g to
 We point to the progress of the country under the gold standard since 1886: to the States founded. the fields titled, the homes built, Tn no other land on earth do as many laborers sleep under their own roofs. Nowhere else are their tables as bountifully spread, their children as well educated, their rights as safe in the keeping of the law.
 The fusion platform denies the right of the laborer to make a contract for the payment of his wages in gold. We stand by that right, which is his only means to protect himself against that decline in the purchasing power of his wages which les sens the food on his table and the fire on his hearth.
 Therefore we submit to misunderstood ing and often abuse. believing that those who stand by the laws of nature and the rights of the people are vindicated by their motives.
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-27

fer ballots. He did not lift his voice for any candidate nor indulge in eu- logy He was there to tell why the Dcmocracy of old still clings to and votes for the tenets of it's creed and why the Democracy of Bryan and of Mcguire does not; why the votes of Jefferson's followers will be cast Re publican and why the votes of the tri- angular union of which Mcguire is the temporary leader will be used as a club to beat down the influences and break LID revered institutions that have dem onstrated their sounGness in hundred years of life.
 For the purnose of his antithesis Col onel Irish held the financial problem paramount and argued from it. Said he:
 The advocates of sound money are the friends Of the people who earn wages and who produce and buy and sell the neces- saries of life
 The statement is often made that gold is the rich mans money while silver is the poor mans money. This Is country of equal political and personal rights, and 1t has never been explained why; under our Government, poor man should have poor money. AS the law has but one standard of right for all men, so for all there Is but one standard of money and
 
 cially Is it true of those men who are classed as poor, meaning thereby not the indigent, but those who are still depend ent on daily work for daily bread, and whose toll is frightened by the prospect of independence to be won by thrift and economy.
 The monetary policy of nation con cerns all of its people Its Wage-earners have in that policy the greatest interest.
 At the beginning of our Government this was perfectly understood by it's founders. When our people began to di- vide on party lines, under the leadership respectively of Hamilton and Jefferson, those two leaders and political philoso- phers were agreed upon one subject While they differed as to the extent to which power should be given to the peo- pie and were at war upon the construction of the Federal constitution, they both be- leved and agreed that money was to be treated from a purely scientific stand point, and that the principles governing inc selection and circulation of money. be- ing derived from natural law are fixed and therefore cannot properly be made the subject of party division and dispute
 There has arisen in California com bination of men. under various party
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-27
REPUD|ATES
 THE PRINCIPLES
 OF FUSION H. L. Loucks Returns to RepubliCanism. WAS A PROMINENT POPULIST REFERS TO DEMOCRATS AS HUNGRY WOLVES"
WAS A PROMINENT POPULIST
Opinions of a Man Who Is Well Known and Highly Respected Throughout the United
 States.

Nearly every Populist in California knows or has heard of Hon. H. L.. I,oucks of South Dakota. He was the father of the Populist party in that State. and for many years. through poverty and abuse and universal de- nunciation, he stood by the principles of the Omaha platform. and was chairman of the National Convention at Omaha July 4, 1892. The Democrats were unfitted to appreciate so great and noble a nature, and so they used their surplus energies in crushing him. They have driven him back into his old marty He recently addressed letter to a Republican county convention, in his home county, of which the following is the substance:
 After discussing the peculiar and un- usual political situation confronting the growth of the Populist party, MT. Loucks bitfer.ly denounced the Democratic party and the system of fusion The Popullst party has become, he sald, the vlcIm +9d .9a Wolves. Democrats had enacted a higher tariff than the Mckinley law, ana had given the country the existing gold pol icy. It was incapable of progress In the South it had debauched the ballot box and in the North 1t seduced the reform voters. The fusion party in South Da-
  most perfect machine in the Northwest. All other machines were as nothing. The true midroaders could not be traded off for office.
 Of State issues MT. Loucks said: iAs for free coinage of silver, it will be very embarrassing to discuss it, and the fu- sionist speaker who attempts 1t at this time has my sympathy.
 .sI have not principle in common with the Democratic party. as at present con- stituted " declared the writer. "and I cannot follow my party into the unholy union which has been consummated Prior to 1890 I claimed to be a Lincoln Renublican I did not leave you because of any personal grievance or disappoint- ment I was not an office seeker, and several times declined preferment offered me I have not the courage to build up n second party, now that my original one has turned from it's course and been neryerted to Democratic use; to remain neutral is to be called an assistant Re publican and to have my motives fm- pugned. which has been repeatedly done by the chief organ of the Democratic party of this State. I desire, therefore, to align myself in this campaign with the Republican party. The remedy for private monopoly Is public monopoly. I believe in the protection of American in- dustries and interests;~a free ballot and fair count, and in the extension of Amert
The San Francisco call., 1898-10-27

pHrnes, standing for an assault upon the national standard of value. This com bination demands the free coinage of sil-
 yer at the artificial ratio Of 16 to l, and
 also the issue of paper currency by the Government, without stated limitation or reoeemability. The same combination 1 exists In many States and its plans are ! urged with persistency and very remark ! able energy. AS long as 1t exists the ad- vocates of sound money must use some organization sufficiently powerful to pro-
 tect our people by protecting the stan s,a,a tradon President Cleveland, under cir
 cunBtRnces of peril and difficulty never before surrounding President in time oI peace, maintained the sound standard or value and successfully defended the na- tional honor and credit.
 President Mckinley has scrupulously
 kept faith with the people, and has not only maintained the standard of value
 and the public credit, but has done all
 that lies in his office to promote further legislation that will forever adjust our
 financial troubles and give the country that monetary stability which Is the foundation of all prosperity.
 In our recent war of a hundred days, men of all parties met in the ranks to ef- feet a common purpose. When 1t is ac- complished they divide again as to those things they do not hold in common.
 In the same sense the sound money men combine upon a purpose of the highest interest. and when that issue reaches the angle of repose, they will divide again.
 What is money? It is form of prop erty having value and of such universal desirability that 1t Is exchangeable for all other forms of property. When I speak of money l mean form of property that has greater stability of value than any other form, and is, therefore, the stand ard of all values and the measure of the medium of exchange. check is not money, nor is a draft, letter of credit or bill of exchange or paper note. They are titles to money only, and have no value except as titles to that form of property called money. They are redeem able in money.
 Now what has Government to do with that form of personal property called money? It can only by statute confirm the kind of. property which is the natural selection of the people.
 AnX man here who has property to sell wants value for it, because 1t represents value to him. He wants that value in such form that he can conveniently ex- change il for other values which he may desire. The Government, for his con venience takes into it's hints that kind of property, brings 1t to a uniform quality and puts on it stamp which merely cer- tifles it's quality and quantity. IL is then returned to the owner who has earned 1t, and passes from him to others who