Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-04-05

matter, but when the agent insisted
upon tirst-class prices of admission,
Tl.oO Tor parquette seats, and an I'M
reasonable percentage for the COM
pany, negotiations had to close. The
next attraction is "Widow Bedott,"
on the 18th.
+. q. Kahn was brought before Jus
tice Shomber this afternoon, on a
charge OF violation OF Ordinance No.
$50, which is intended to prohibit the
sale OF secondhand, bankrupt, REM
nant, damaged stocks of goods or jew
elry, by non-residents, without first
producing license therefor, costing
$40 per day. Mr.. Israel appeared for
defendant and asked that the trial be
postponed till tomorrow al 2 p. NJ,
which request was granted. Mr.. L.
| expects to take the case into the Su-
perior Court and show that the Ordi-
nance under which the action is
brought Is unconstitutional, as we'll as
that the stock on sale has been regu-
larry listed with the County Assessor
Tor purposes of taxation.
The work of moving the old Gold
Bar restaurant building, the place of
meeting of the first Washington Ter
ritorial Legislature, has begun. The
rear section, an annex of comparative
ly modern days, has been torn down,
and the consecrated" building placed
"on wheels" for removal to the foot of
Washington street, just opposite the
STANDARD Office. Within q hundred
feet of the new site is the building
once occupied by Gen. Mcclellan as
his temporary abiding place, and near
it the site of the long since departed
building where the first number of the
Columbian, the first Territorial news
paper was printed-the "Poe" build
ing, which stood on the precise spot
of the present Lynch residence.
Some means should be devised by
our local authorities to restrain the
sale of bankrupt stocks of goods in
competition with the local trade,
without some compensation is paid in
the way of taxes or license. Our
merchants are compelled to pay a
heavy annual tax for the privilege of
doing business in the community, be-
sides maintaining considerable ex-
penditure for clerk hire, lent and
many other expenses, the year round,
and it seems eminently unjust for a
hy-by-night" concern to come in
and by low prices for shoddy goods
paralyze trade and carry off the spare
change that, kept at home, would pay
many debts an indefinite number of
times. 1t seems to us that redsond-
BILE license could be imposed and col
lected, and our merchants are entitled
to at least that protection.
Chas. Smith and Ed. Shinke were
the principals in brutal prize-fight,
Wednesday night, in a building on
Westside, which was witnessed by q
score or more of the heavy-jawed fra
ternity. The secret of the meeting
was carefully kept, and all the rules Of
the prize ring were observed, except
that bare knuckles were used instead
OF gloves and choking was not barred,
and that method of downing an op-
ponent closed the final round in favor
of Shinke. How can man find any
satisfaction in possession of the quail
ity for which the bulldog excels, or
his fellows Amusement in seeing two
men deliberately lacerate and mangle
the form said to be created in Gods
own image? Leave such sports" to
Tacoma or Seattle which are now en-
ulating Vanity Fair in wickedness.