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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11
ALASKAN NUGGETS.

Dogs are worth from 800 to $3.50
at Dawson.
Flour ut Dawson, at last accounts
sold for $3.50 Il sack, and candles $l.JU
each.
The steamer Pasadena will carry
100000 feet of lumber to Skagway
when she sails from Portland, in a
! few days
Bruce Milroy says that he was
"robbed" of $3.50 by the custom
house authorities ut Six-miIe river, on
the Skaguay trail. he and his party
had no money to pay, so it was taken
out Of their supplies.
Bruce Milroy, in letter to the
Yakima Hcraid, says that he saw IL
horse actually commit suicide, bv
jumping over prccipicc while climb
ing and scrambling over the almost
impossible trail from Skaguay.
Bruce MilrOy says one may imagine,
but cannot realize, the harIships en-
countcred on the trails leading to the
klondike mines. He says: al I'M
packed one horse. which was down in
mud hole, and stood nearly to nv
waist in mud and water while doing it,
in pitch darkness" This is but one
of string of similar incidents. Then
when he got into camp he unpacked
his horses, and jumped into his
blankets too tired to eat and too cold
to build fire.
Bruce Milroy's narrative of suffer-
ings on the Skagway trail is likely to
cause a halt Ofeven some people who are
slow to count the cost of personal en-
deavor when the rainbow of promise
sheds in halo of brightness at one of
its ends. When he relates that he
carried pack on his back of hun
dred pounds with we'll developed
Jobs comfiter"-a bolton the back
of his neck, and with a stiff knee,
swollen by rheumatism, which could
only be swung along like a wooden
leg, and that he was deprived of sleep
many nights by the pain of neck and
leg, one may imagine some of the
horrors which attend an invasion of
the inhospitable land of gold.
Every day, in the gray of the early
morning, says the Aberdeen Herald,
a man may be seen trudging down the
plank road with great and heavy
pack upon his back, like Christian
with his load of sins. Retracing his
footsteps, he climbs the long and
winding stairway ut the schoolhousc,
descends again to his home, unstraps
his pack and sits him down to break
fast. Who is he? A prospective
KlOndiker, training for the task of
scaling Skagway's pass with tons of
provisions. Beginning with small
pack and gradually increasing, he now
straps on full hundred pounds of po-
tatoes and marches to his morning
tramp like giant of old. Soon he
will speed north to the land of gold.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11
To Hon. MILLENIUM MURPHY.

ARISTOCRATIC CHURCHES.-Not long
ago New York minister, Rev. Henry
Frank, made tour of certain wealthy
churches in New York in company
with reporter, to determine whether
men poorly dressed were excluded.
Mr.. Frank was plainly dressed in the
Sunday garments of wage-earner,
the reporter as an ordinary man of
wealth, with silk hat, black frock coat,
creased trousers and patent leather
shoes. They went to five of the most
fashionable churches in the city, and
only once did the minister succeed i'll
gaining admission; that was when he
exchanged his plain clothes for the
silk hat, eyeglasses, frock coat and
white necktie worn by the reporter,
which was done in the carriage used
by them for making the test. At the
same church the reporter was refused
q scat.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11
A Characteristic Letter.

The former editor of Puyallup Cone
merce, Mr.. Rclington, in letter on
business to the writer, adds this post
script, which is >eli-cxplanatory:
Having started out trying tn run Il Re-
pub paper in Il Pop county and had my
head ate off 10y Xurlltant taxes, there
now seems to be nothing lett but To ="
to klondike and arrange To dig or thaw
out enough To meet the next dun Tor
taxes. 50 il | can get a grub-stake,
good bye, and wish yon were with me.
1t is Il tut trip, but You remember that
we survived that tuif trip crossing the
Alps with Napoleon, and know that
you would again cheer us up on the icy
way.
If you can come, | can swipe from
this house quite few ictaS that we
must have on the trail-such as bath
tub, cord OF napkins and hand-paintcd
doillies, several oil-paintings of snow
scenes, > Wellsbach lamps, gas fixtures
and meter, dozen Gala lilies and tube
roses in pots, nickel spittoon, cabinet
organ, Il sofa cushions, glass card case,
hall hat-rark, ctr could steal all
tIitHc tiiiliSS stS So''i 'tS tlitst hioohiiSIiC
night are over, and suppose you could
swipe dozen opera chairs from your
own theater. Ii We could reach the
hills we would soon be beyond pursuit.
Think of these things, and how neces-
sary it is that we should have them, and
that | have no money to buy them.
Then conclude to come. II you don't,
and go, and if strike stake, consider
me good for 20-year cash-n-advance
subscription to the STANDARD, for it has
always been a good paper and stood up
like man against the old 0 from Spuy-
allup when it had taken his proper
measure V. t. V. f.,
j. WINDBRoKEN K.
tn IInS MIrIpNII-v NrRpJy
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

THE Tacoma Ne,us, in commenting
upon the probabilities of Fusion of
the three parties which SO triumphant
ly carried the State in 1896, says that
continuance of that policy seems to
be virtually agreed upon in this State.
The committees OF the several parties
will meet at the same time and place
to arrange for three simultaneous
State conventions, as were held at FL
lensburg, for the same object that was
then so successfully inaugurated.
That journal notes, however, that
while the Democrats and Silver Re-
publicans are unanimously for united
effort, the Populists will probably di.
vide, and one faction will join the al.
lies while the other will take the mid
dle-of.-the-road. It is said that there
is Republican money in sight to pro-
mote the object of the latter faction to
encompass the defeat of the Fusion
lists.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

THE reply of u. S. Senator Lindsay
to the request of the Kentucky Legis.
lature that he resign, for the reason
that he is not representative of Dem
ocratic principle on the currency
question, has met with an emphatic
and impertinent refusal. That is as
might have been expected. A man
who misrepresents his constituency is
an egotist as well as an migrate,
and wholly mistakes the sphere Of
representative duty. Our lawmakers
are elected, theoretically at least, as
the embodiment of certain ideas that
it is desirable so crystalize into law,
and when the representative changes
his views OH q leading issue he would
vote in accordance with public senti-
ment that placed him in power or
resign it to those who conferred it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

AS Watson's term of office as Sur.
veyor General expired on the 7th inst.
and he is still in possession and likely
to remain so until his successor can be
installed, it is difficult to see what he
is so grumpy" about. He has re.
ceived the full pay for his apostacy,
and what more does he want? He
must serve probationary period in
the 6. o. p. before being received into
full fellowship.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11
About Wormy Aplles.

The cause of so many wormy ap-
pies is because the moth that pro
duccs the worms find SO many places
to deposit their eggs in the moss and
rough bark. This may be prevented
by the timely use of wash or spray
of caustic potash. Make strong So
luton and apply with brush or spray
which removes the moss and increases
the growth of the tree, kills all vermin
and fungus growth. When used us a
spray, apply before the leaves start; as
a wash it may be used at any time.
Red Seal Lye is tie only pure potash
in the market, as it contains neither
salt nor soda,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11
A Moral Lesson.

1t l. a. easy to make mistakes rs 10
slide down hill, and Mrs.. Tom Watson,
the c>trangcd daughter Of millionaire
Claus Sprccklcs will probably assent
t. the truth of this statement before
many months 1t will hc remembered
that when She married against her
fathers Will, about year ago, she
decided back t" him tw" million
dollars worth Of productive real estate
in the Sanuwir! i~,and, which she
had held in her own right since 4
Young girl. This WAS done us she
herself stated, to show to her -ra-png
father that the man oi her choice
WAS not a !ortunr-hunter, Il he had
been classified by old man SprcckleS.
Mrs. Watson further explained that
She had consulted with her husband
and they had decided it would be better
To- take The chances of married life
together without i dollar "i her
fathers millions. When this novel
action was published to the world,
Mrs. Watson was proclaimed Il noble,
riyht-minded woman, and her husband
was also the recipient of no small
amount of praise and admiration.
But there has been miserable
turning of the tables. Since COM
plotting their wedding tour i'll trip
around the world, the supposedly
model wife has conceived her old
hankering after Mammon, and has
instituted legal proceedings against
her father for the recovery of the
fortune she now affects to acknowledge
she frittered away. In taking this
ignoblc and unwisc step, she has
forfeited at one stroke her worldwide
reputation as paragon daughter,
wife and woman, and those who were
her warmcst friends and sincerest adj
mirers are eagerly wishing to hear that
she has lost her case and widened the
breach between her father and herself.
The ground upon which she bases
her power and right to recover her
lost fortune is the fact that her husband
did not sign the deeds which conveyed
the property to the paternal estate.
Her attorneys hold that, by the laws
of Hawaii, the deeds as they now
stand recorded are valueless and can
not hold for an instant the vast
they specify, describe
and convey. 1t was the generally
acknowledged belief that her first
noble act would, in due course, have
sOftened the heart of her stern parent
and all things would have been only
too lovely in the fullness of time.
But, from a human point of view, this
is now improbable, if not quite i'm
possible. Old man Speckles find his
daughter is not the noble feminine
creature she assumed herself to be, and
now he is going to contest his Hawaiian
rights to the fullest extent
the case can be carried by his millions,
lawyers of San Francisco
and the Supreme court of the United
States.
Yes, Mrs. Tom Watson has made a
and as our text asserts, it is
as easy to make mistakes as to tumble
down hill.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

IT is the Republican party which
has narrowed the national issue down
to merely gold against gold and silver.
The speech of the President at the
Manufacturers banquet and the &C.
ton of the House in voting down the
Teller resolution on a purely partisan
vote, eliminates all doubt of the intent
OF the party to stand unreservedly for
Wall street, and shows that interna-
tional agreement to given ratio be-
tween silver and gold was only the
" string" attached for emergencies in
which the party provides for revi-
sion, if not reversion, of judgment.
The cord is cut, and the party is now
unreservedly and unqualifiedly for the
gold standard, although it stands little
Oily and nearly all its party friends on
their heads.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

FOUR lives were lost at Oregon City,
Tuesday morning, by o boat passing
over the falls, in which five persons
were passing from Canemah to the
west side, where they were employed
in the several manufactures. The
party consisted of George Freeman,
ST., George, James and Harry Free.
man, his sons, and L. J. Shannon.
Harry Freeman is the only survivor OF
the fearful experience, and he says
that the fatality was owing to a dense
fog, which caused the party to lose
their bearings.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11
DR.. A. ID. Richmond, Op,ician.

Has located in Olympia and desires
to solicit the people of Thurston coun-
ty in the news columns, both daily
and weekly, that people having defee-
tive eye-sight should at the first on
portunity consult him ut ut his Office.
Room 5, Williams Block, Olympia.
Wash.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

The attempt Of Rev." c. o. Brown
to pose as q martyr, after confession
OF his crime, is the most remarkable
phaze of his disgusting exhibition OF
gall. 1t is gratifying to note that
the support of a few of his sympathizers
at Debuque, Iowa, has not prevented
the removal of Browns portrait from
the church parlors, a course that the
trustees had unanimously agreed
upon.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11
A Trend Of the Times.

1t is not surprising that the estab.
lishment of q Goldocracy should be
attended by an effort to entrench it
behind bayonets, for no free govern
ment can quietly sanction the alb
sorption of popular rights without a
protest that must in time result in a
merited and vigorous resort to the
means sanctioned to end long-con-
tinued oppression.
The first step of the gold power has
been taken in the effort to increase
the standing army. There can be only
one object in this-to weld the letters
that have been forged for the limbs of
labor. There is no more need of a
large army now than ever before in
our national history, except to crush
rebellion. Then it was shown that
whenever the necessity was presented
for an army for defense of our liberties
and our institutions, it would be
promptly on hand, and large enough to
meet oil such demands and drive back
any force that dare invade our soil.
This was illustrated on the 9Th day OF
January, 1915, at New Orleans, and it
will be repeated whenever and wher-
ever the occasion requires.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

AT the Manufacturers banquet,
lately held in New York, at which Nc
Kinley got down from the fence on
the currency question, admitting that
" international agreement" had been
but subterfuge to hold the party to-
gether until it could be persuaded to
swallow the Wall street dose, it is said
that the layout cost 800 per plate
and the guests represented over n
billion dollars. That cost was, how
ever, to them but Us nickel to the
average laboring man, whose earthly
possessions have shrunk as the capital.
lists have grown, by the infamous leg
islation, deliberately enacted, to make
a corner on gold.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

LEUTGERT, the big Chicago sausage.
maker, on a second trial for murder of
his wife, was, Wednesday, found guilty
and sentenced to Imprisonment for
life. The jury were out three hours,
but the larger portion of the time was
consumed in fixing the degree of pun.
ishment. Leutgert's lawyers, have, as
usual, applied for a new trial.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

The Oregon Humane Society have
taken steps TO prevent the crowding
OF live stock on Alaskan steamers.
Enlarged quarters and padded stalls
will be provided on all vessels carrying
live stock which hereafter leave Port
land.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

THE submarine boat Argonaut, pro-
posed by Prof. Riedel, of Baltimore,
and endorsed lately by DIR. Nansen for
reaching the North Pole, is now seri.
ously considered. The boat is to be
launched in Canada or Spitbergen.
When the mir tanks are exhausted the
boat will rise and by use OF powerful
screw or dynamite, break hole in the
ice. Ricdel believes there is an open
sea at the poles. The magnetic and
other instruments will locate the ex-
plorer's whereabouts. Who will say,
after this, that Jules Verne is dream
er, or that anything that may be sug-
gested is not worthy of investigation,
however improbable it may appear!
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

The rush to Alaska has brought to
Seattle a very undesirable element,
and reports of pocket-picking and
robberies are becoming very frequent.
Last Saturday burglars entered the
room of j. A. Lundstrom and Victor
Anderson and stole $500 in cash and
checks. Simon Angus had his pocket
picked of $40. Eighty dollars was
stolen from cash register in res
taurant, and S. E. Fermondes, a we'll
known contractor, had his pocket
picked of 5000 at the entrance to the
Puget Sound National bank. Sunday
four persons while waiting for their
mail at the postoffice, had their
pockets picked of small sums.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

The Port Susan Logging Co. has
completed contract for what is said
to be the largest cargo of spar timbers
ever sent out of Puget Sound. 1t con.
sists of $40 spars, from 80 to 116 feet
long, and varying from II inches
diameter at the butt to Is inches at
the top, the logs being squared for
one-eighth of their lengths from the
butt end.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11
Not Analogous

The Portland authorities have de-
creed that the high hat shall come oil
at thcaters, and now the 1eiCqrum
c>poulSco the cause of the ladies who
wear them, assuming that they will
refuse to comply with the very rea
sonablc eXaction, and aflirms that the
man who annoys others in going out
between acts is just as much of nui-
sance and should be suppressed. \
little reflection will enable the Ttif-
gram to discover that the acts are
scarcely analogous. The hat can be
disposed of, by the ladies' aid, without
difficulty, but it must not bc assumed
that evcrytime Il patron of the drama
leaves his seat he does so to visit some
contiguous saloon and imbibe a draft
of the elixir of life. This is very far
from the truth, and leads to very
general selection Of aisle" seats. even
by " temperance" people. "Thrre are
times when one wants to be alone
when one neither drinks, chews nor
swears, and to restrict this privilege
would be to impair Il natural right
sustained Ivy constitutional guaranty.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

THE rainfall, this winter, at Port
land, has been only 1856 in excess Of
the average, Notwithstanding the
heavy precipitation OF November and
January. Nobody can reasonably
complain of climatic conditions on
the northwestern coast when they are
subjected to fair judgment.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

AN EXPEDITION OF TACOMA WOMEN.
Mrs. Slaughter, of Tacoma, is Or
ganizing party of ladies prominent
in social life, of that city, to go to the
northern mines as means of demon
strating woman's courage and power
of endurance. She believes that wo-
men should exert themselves gently
but persistently, in compelling recog-
milton Of their ability to maintain a
place in the battle of life.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

TOLEDO LEADS THE VAN.-The Sum
day-closing mania has run wild at To-
ledo, Ohio. An order has been made
closing all saloons at IL o'clock Satur-
day night and that they shall remain
closed all day Sunday. Milk dealers
were notified to stop serving their Gus.
toners, and the news-stands were Or
dered to discontinue selling papers.
Druggists were warned if they sold
anything except upon prescription
from physician they would be ar
rested. Candy stores and cigar coun-
tiers were were closed. 1t is probable
that a radical measure like this will
lead to a better common sense under.
standing of individual rights and the
well-being of society.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

SOME of the work of the late company
was so well performed, however, that
had not kick" went up at Seattle
and Tacoma, the scales would probably
not have fallen from the critics. eyes in
classic old Olympia. - WAsnINGTo.
STANDARD.
Shades of Lindley Murray! And this
from Murphy. the city oracle .--Olym-
plan.
If our contemporary will kindly
point out to us wherein the laws of
rhetoric or the rules of syntax have
been violated, in the above paragraph
or why Old Lindley should kick"
at anything we have said-although
We seldom appear on the defensive. We
will endeavor to prove to our friend
that strict proprieties have been main
tanned in the wording of the sentence
that has caused him to indulge in
such a heroic rhapsody.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

TROOPS FOR ALASKA. - There is
some trouble in getting transportation
for the four companies of troops Or
dered to Immediately proceed to
Alaska. When the order reached
Col. Anderson, at Fort Vancouver, he
found that the full passenger capacity
of the steamship Oregon had been
sold. While, of course, the Govern
ment rights supersede all others in
the emergency which seems to exist, it
was proposed to order the steamship
Australia now fitting out at San
Francisco for Alaska, to the Co
lumbia river, to carry the troops.
The companies will be taken from
the Fourteenth Infantry, and be
accompanied by band. 1t is said
that reported lawlessness at Skagway
and Dyea has caused this prec ipitate
order of the Government.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

MINISTER De LONE, of Spain, has
got himself into Il difficulty by cx-
pressing rather free opinion of the
Washington Administration in his
correspondence with leading Spanish
journal. Referring to the Presidents
message, the letter as translated ex-
presses the conviction that Mckinley
is weak, and catering to the rabble,
and is besides, Il low politician who de-
sires to leave the door well open to
himself and stand well with the
jingoes of his party" 1t is evident
that De LONE had not the incidents
of the Sackvillc-West episode we'll in
mind when he penned the epistle. 1t
is said that the minister virtually ac-
knowledged its authenticity to Assist
ant Secretary Day, and has cabled his
resignation to the home government,
to avert the alternative of dismissal.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

PRESIDENT Mckinley was So years
old this month.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11
For N0le or Rent.

"A good farm on most reasonable
terms, five miles from Olympia. APP.
ply to Mrs. ANNA F. MAcLEAY, Olym.
pia, Wash.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

A coasting accident occurred at
Rosalia, last week, in which q little
son of {. Shura, Il prominent resident
OF that town, was fatally injured.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

THE STANDARD never expected that
little Oily would be safe umpire in
any contest which mightarise between
it and any other antagonist. and was
not surprised therefore that he should
decide its tilt with the NoOksack Re
porter as lost. When Oily gets through
scratching his lacerated shoulders
from the merited castigation of the
STANDARD it will be time enough to
ask his opinion on any subject in
which this paper is interested.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-02-11

SOLD HIS DAUGHTERS. A story
comes from Toledo, Ohio, which re-
minds one of the days of colonization
of this country when wives were inn
ported from the old country at SO
much per head, to be paid in tobacco,
which was then the cunt of value"
Joseph Folk arrived year or more
ago from Poland, to seek his fortune
in America, leaving two daughters in
the old country. Not amassing enough
money to send for them, he borrowed
$50 each from Peter Mile and Joseph
Hidock who were earning more money
than he, to pay their passage across
the ocean. A short time ago they
arrived. But the money loaned by
Mile and Hidock was due and Folk
could not pay it. They pressed him,
and finally the old man said he was
afraid he could never pay it, but to
satisfy the debt he would give one of
his daughters to each as wife, and
this proposition was accepted. Mary
Folk, aged 16, was chosen by Hidock,
and Annie Folk, the younger, by Mile,
and the marriages took place without
unnecessary DELAY,