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The Imperial press., 1904-11-12
ESTABLISH NEUTRAL ZONE
Buildings on Mexican Side oi Inter
 national Line Mni be Moved

Gov. Vega oi Lower California, who har been in Mcxicali for several days. rrnments of Mexico and the United states have requested that in all from tier cities Q neutral zone of 300 metre. or approximately ,OOO feet, be estab- lished on each side. The previous limit had been lOO metres.
 The Mexican government will carry this plan into effect on the southern sid,, of the border and all buildings erected within tle limit must bc moved. This will include the new International lin- tel. Owners oi buildings and lots will receive a satisfactory settlement.
 lt has not yet hcen determined what the United States government will do about it's side oi the boundary.
The Imperial press., 1904-11-12
|HoLTVILLE Bnch From the Ekctnc Hub
 oi the lmvenal Naley

Nv. \. Henderson has bought S9O acres oi land southeast oi lloltvillc.
 Mr.. Niles has arrived and will iu the future make Ter home here with her sou.
 Work on the railroad ' has lccn re. sumcd aud is rapidly being pushed to completion.
 l. W. Gleason is preparing lGO acres for crop ou the line of the HoltviIlc lntrrurbau railroad.
 Thc young people ot the town enjoyed a ride to Imperial Saturday night. Next Sa,ur,ay there will bc dance at MT. Grays.
 King l.. kendlr's new store building is rapidly approaching completion, the windows and part ot the shelves being in place and the front painted.
 \. II Heber. Willis George Emerson and F. C. Pauln were in town Thurs day looking over the improvements and taking trip tn No. | heading. lt was MT Emersou's first trip to the town. The gentlemen were very fav"rlbly i'm. pressed with the new hotel anal the prospects of the country.
The Imperial press., 1904-11-12
New Billiard Hall

W. \. Bennett will establish billiard and pool hall in C. J. Shenck's new adob. building opposite the new hotel. He intends to open about the first of January On Thursday he left for Los Angeles to purchase his equipment. Mrs Bennett. who is coming from llli- nOis, will return with him.
The Imperial press., 1904-11-12
Big Thanksgiving Dinner

\ typical Thanksgiving dinner will be given in the new hotel on the day New England has made famous. Mir. Harris furnishes the turkeys and cranberry sauce and the town people will supply the remainder of the feast. Needles, to say 1t Till be happy and proPitious oc- caSlun.
The Imperial press., 1904-11-12
Neuralgia Pains

Rheumatism, lumbago and sciatic pains yield ro the penetrating influence oi Bal lard'- Snow Eminent. lt penetrates to the nerves and hone and being absorbed into the blood. it's healing properties are conveyed to every part of the b"dy, and effect some wonderful cures. 25c, J0c, q.
 For sale by Imperial Drug Co. Dr. T.. <. Anderson Propr. Phone ~
The Imperial press., 1904-11-12

Bring your job printing to the PRrss.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16
IN FAIR OLYMPIA.

Rev. Genevra Lake, who is to give 8
discourse in Olympia Theater. next Sun
day at 4 P. NJ, is author OF the following
poem, which originally appeared in Food
Home and Garden, a Philadelphia publ
cation
The balmy air, the brilliant sun,
The peace profound that all must feel
The /gold-red sky, when day is done;
The thousand glories nights reveal;
The winsome chirping of the birds,
The gentle zephyrs, cooling low
More sweet, sometimes, than human
words
More potent to allay Earth's woe.
These may be found, profusely spread,
In soft Olympia's wales and de.ls;
All, much, Pm sure is sung and said,
Yet, still unknown its magic spells,
Speed hther, toll worn, care-cursed soul
lmbruted by the greed for gain;
Sit silently, where soft waves roll
Lulled into rest by sky and main.
Some other bard more deft than
May dream, and paint thy beauties
clear;
But none thy charms of Earth and sky
Shall ever feel more truly dear.
| wonder not historic name
Was given by those who sought thy
shade;
Beside thee, eastern lands seem tame,
And wide Atlantic pillows fade.
Farewell, New England's sea.girt coast,
Thy frowning crags, thy meadows gay
This now my song, this now my boast
dwell in fair Olympia.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

THE ISSUE FAIRLY AND SQrARELY
MADE. - 1t may not be generally
known that George Turner, when a
member of the State Constitutional
Convention, wrote, suggested and Sc
cured insertion OF the provision now
found in the fundamental law, author.
ling the Legislature to create rail-
way commission and fix freight and
fare rates upon railroads. He drafted
the railway commission bill, in 1897
but it was defeated in the Senate by q
bare majority, there being sixteen
holdover Republican members who
voted as unit against the measure
and two or three recreant members Of
the fusion forces voted with them.
The Democratic members were by no
means responsible for its defect, and
there has been no principle more
clearly defined between the party
leaders OF the State, than favor of a
railway commission by the Demo-
cratic and opposition to it by the
Republicans. The last convention Of
the latter party by deliberate defeat of
resolution to create railway COM
nilsson, finally showed their hand.
1t met with strenuous, united, I'M
compromising opposition, indicating
thorough organization of advocates OF
that leading issue. All attempt to
evade the consequences only betray
the fear of results at the polls.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

CELEBRATES PARTY SEMI -CENTEN-
NIAL.-A semi.centennial celebration
of the formation of the Republican
party was held at Saratoga, N. Y,
Wednesday, at which Fairbanks, the
candidate for Vice President, delivered
an address. Rain fell in torrents, and
although the party hooters" say it
did not dampen the ardor of the meet
ing, it cannot but be regarded as
Ominous Of results in November. The
meeting was planned by surviving
members of the convention which
nominated Fremont, in 1854, held at
Saratoga Aug. 10th of that year. On
the platform were 125 white. haired
veterans who voted for the "Path.
Finder" The presiding officer was
Frederick w. Seward, son of William
II. Seward, "the noblest Roman of
them all" of American statesmen, who
was Secretary OF State under President
Lincoln.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

A RUSSIAN paper, in q long leading
article, becomes prophet and fore.
tells that Japan will ultimately at.
tempt to wrest from Great Britain her
East Indian possessions. 1t may be-
however, the result of the conflict al
home that has made veritable giant
OF the Mikado's empire. but he cite,
the fact that England fought two
years a country one twenty-fifth the
size OF Japan, without any of her
statesmen foreseeing the time. money
and lives the war would cost. He
holds that the present contest with
Russia is OF even more serious concern
to Great Britain than defeat of the
Beers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16
NEWS OF THE STATE.

A triple tragedy took place at Aber-
deem, yesterday. "Jim Miles, a black
jack dealer in saloon, shot and killed
a woman named " Swede" Helen and
her paramount, named Thompson.
Half an hour later he blew out his
own brains. Jealousy is said to have
prompted the deed.
Harry Ebbon, OF Tacoma, commit.
ted suicide by shooting, at North Yak
ina, Sunday night. He was camped
in grove near the fair grounds, by
advice of his physician for relief from
consumption, and had told his wife
preparing his meal he shot himself
that he felt better, but while she was
absent, with pistol.
Stuck in the mud waist-deep and in
Shiny waters far enough to cover his
shoulders, with the water rising grad
ually as the tide came in, VIM. Tolan,
An aged man, was found in the mud
flats near Seattle, Tuesday morning,
after imprisonment for six or eight
hours. Tolan was unable to move.
Had he remained there an hour longer
he would probably have been drowned.
Dunbar and Irvine Pickney, Virgil
Stapp and George McWhinney were
taken into custody last week, at Aber-
deem, upon complaint Of VIM. Prem
tice, whose little five-year-old daugh.
ter is the alleged victim of criminal
assault by the boys on September I'd.
The girl was playing with her brother
three years old, near their home when
it is claimed the boys seized them,
and dragged them into the bushes
nearby, lifting them over fence on
the way. and all committed felonious
assault upon the girl, first tying the
boy SO that he could not give An alarm.
The boys were placed under $500 bail
each by Judge Pearson to appear for
preliminary examination. The boys
range from 10 to ii years of age, and
while much sympathy is felt for their
parents, the opinion prevails that If
the charged is fastened upon them.
they should be dealt with to the full
extent of the law.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

MORE ADJUDICATION OF MILK,-It
seems that Spokane dairymen have
been charged with serving milk that
had been treated with soda and
formaldehyde. as preservatives, and
complaints will be lodged against the
Oakland and Arlington dairies for us.
ing soda, and the Montana dairy
for using formaldehyde. The Deputy
State Food Commissioner enjoins
cleanliness as the primary essential
for keeping milk. II cooled immed.
lately after milking, in q clean place
milk will keep twenty.four hours,
without the use OF any other preserva.
tives.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

A BEDFAsT CRIPPLE FOR LIFE.-The
doctors seem to taink that the little
girl, Ida Alsop, who, known as Fra
VIOLA" was so seriously injured in
" Looping the-Loop," 1T the Tacoma
Mardi Gras Festival, a lew weeks ago,
she will never leave bed of pain alive.
She lies at Fannie Paddock Hospital,
pitiable wreck, completely ralyzed.
suffering intense pain, and unable to
move a muscle. Her home is in San
Francisco. where she is anxious to 20,
and where she will be sent soon as her
condition will admit of removal. She
met with the accident while enclosed
in q wooden ball which was rolled with
great speed down an incline, the mo.
mentum becoming so great as to follow
an upright circle at the bottom OF the
track. The ball left the incline and
fell, almost killing the child. She re.
ceived the promise OF So for each oil
these hazardous trips. The law should
regulate, when common sense and
common humanity fail to prescribe
limits, in such matters.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

SEEKS Two DIVORCES AT ONE Pro
cEEDING.-A man at Spokane, Nor
man B. Roberts by name, certainly
caps the climax for audacity by asking
for divorce from two wives in ont
complaint. He says he was married
to his first wife in Michigan, in 1896
She deserted him two years later ant
telling him she had secured a divorce
introduced him to her then ALLEGED
husband. In June, 1902, Roberts
married his second wife, at Missoula
Montana, but she deserted him il
seven weeks and is now in Juneau
Alaska-practically out of the world
He seems to think that he is justified
in asking the court to relieve him O
both wives.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

THE British cruiser Grafton has
been ordered to Esquimalt from gun.
practice at Comox to look after British
interests, which are by some twist OF
international law, supposed to be
jeopardized by the presence of the
poor crippled Russian transport in
American waters. 1t is only on the
lesson taught by the Wolf and Lamb
fable that England may hold the Lena
responsible for acts she never has in
tended to commit and intercept her, il
driven forth from Golden Gate, ant
sink her off the California coast. Ur
Gle Sam will not be so unmerciful, W.
think, as to send the founding fortf
to destruction between two fires-o
Japan and England.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

QUEER WAYS OF TRAVEL TO THE
WORLDS FAIR.-A New York paper
accredits the arrival of Worlds Fair
visitor from this State in hollow log.
1t is John P. Morgan, who left Aber.
ceen some time ago, in the section OF
sn immense tree that formed q recep.
ton room, office and animal den, in
which besides himself q cougar and
other wild animals were domiciled for
the $500 mile trip. Another venture.
some visitor, John Mccartney, made
the trip from Keokuk, Iowa, on q log,
with an American flag flying from the
front or bow end.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

A THREE. MAsTED Alaskan canoe, the
Tilikum, is attempting to make Al,
OOO.mil zigzag voyage, through many
seas, from Vancouver to England. l,
will probably result like the attempt
of man and his lride to perform q
trans-ocean voyage in a small sail boat
. few years ago, who started out from
An Eastern port on their wedding day
amid the plaudits of a throng on the
dock, in a voyage whose destination
has doubtless been the other world, al
the daring navigator and his trusting
companion have never been heard from
since their sensational departure.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16
A STEAMSHIP SINKS AT HER DOCK

A STEAMSHIP SINKS AT HER DOCK
A strange accident, if it may be called
by that term, happened to the steam.
ship City Of Topeka at her Seattle
dock, Monday, and only her smoke.
stack protruded from the water after
the plunge. 1t took about forty min.
utes for her to sink, affording ample
time for all on board to escape, and
opportunity for congrega.ing Of large
crowd to view the sensational proceed.
ing. It is said that nobody knows the
cause of the disaster, which seems
strange, when there must have been o
great inpour Of water to sink ship of
her size within that time. If there
was hole in her bottom, it appears
almost impossible that it could have
been made without anybody knowing,
or at least surmising, how it was done.
1t is said the loss to tho Pacific Coast
Steamship Co., her owner, will amount
to about 100000.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

HOO.HOOs TO MEET IN PORTLAND IN
19O5.-The next grand concatenation
OF Hoo. Hoos, or order of the Black
Cat, will meet in Portland in 1905, as
was decided by the feline tribe at st.
Louis, last week. The following off,
GERS were elected: C. B. Rourke, OF
Petersburg, ILL.,, Shark OF the Universe,
and A. H. Potter, of Portland, Grand
Jaberwock.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

A CHANGE OF PROGRAMME SUGGEST.
ED.-There is some talk in the East
OF superseding Committee Chairman
Taggart and Executive Chairman
Sheehan, with Senator German, and
shifting the Democratic campaign
headquarters to the Middle West. 1t
is also suggested that Judge Parker &c
on the stump to respond personally to
the queries raised by Roosevelts letter
OF acceptance. These statements are
made on authority of National Com
mitteeman ]. G. Johnson, of Kansas.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

FIRES IN THE TIMBER OF CALIFoR
NIA.--Forest fires are raging in Cali
lorna. An area Of $4,000 acres, in
Marin county, was fortunately checked
last week by the determined labor Of
many men. Four fires are still ablaze
In the redwood district in the SAINTS
Cruz mountains. The situation il
serious in the extreme. Many ranches
have been DESTROYED.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

A GOOD MOVE If GENERALLY ADOPT.
ED.-Whitman county has adopted a
somewhat novel method to secure q
uniform assessment for taxation. The
Assessor has made a small lis ting OF
personal property and placed low
rating on realty, while holding up the
valuation on railroad property, to
make the burden of equal weight upon
the farmers and railroad corporations.
While securing this desirable result,
however, it seems that an equally i'm.
portant matter has been lost sight Of,
and that is that the principle ofequal-
ity, which is the essence of all tax
levies, is violated in disturbing an
even line Of values on each class OF
property between Whitman and the
other counties.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

AN UNMERITTD HoNoR.-It is an.
nounced that statue OF Gov. Rogers,
which is nearing completion, will be
ready for placing on capitol square in
December, in front of the dinky CAPT
toll substituted by him for the magni
ficent building designed for and by the
people on Capitol Hill. 1t seems ex'
ceedingly inappropriate that our peo
pie should be thus eternally reminded
OF one whose principal official &C,
should have resulted so disastrously te
our city, the veto of the capitol bill
after the people had sanctioned con
struction and the Legislature had di
rected its erection.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

Miss FOla La Toilette, daughter oil
Wisconsin's Governor, has gon, to
New York to seek an engagement on
the dramatic stage. She has had
some experience in lighter parts, and
with the social prestige she has en-.
joyed, a finished university education
and tour Of her State with the Pyre
company composed OF university stu.
dents. in which her work demon
strated possession OF high order OF
talent, her friends predict a brilliant
future.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

Gov. LaFollette has opened vigor.
Gus campaign in his State, Wisconsin,
In which he ably controverts the fig.
ures OF Corral d. Wright, as to wages
and cost OF living which are being
used as campaign materisl by the Re.
publican National Committee. The
Governor said in a speech made on
Labor Day a year ago, that the cost OF
living had increased 81 per cent. while
wages had increased trifie over ten
per cent.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

The Republicans of Maine, Monday
elected their ticket by about the ma.
Jority cast fonr years ago. A slight
gain Is accorded the Democrats in the
Legislature, but not enough to affect
results.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

The rank and file OF the two great
parties are not overly pleased at the
delay in issuing the letters of accept.
snce," by Roosevelt and Parker. The
campaign is now more than half over
and it seems like the play OF a game
when either side is known to have
leading cards up the sleeve waiting for
an opportune time to play them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

A HUSBAND GOES AT $l0O-Two
wives in Chicago lately had a scrap
over husband. One had been married
to him ten years, named Katharine !;
the other had been as many months
and her name was Jennie. After a
war Of words and some hair. pulling,
an armistice was arranged, when set.
Element was arrived At by Jennie max
ing payment to Katharine of 500 in
full REIMBURSEMENT of all claims.
Then Jennie bailed him out of Jail
where he had been placed on her COM
plant. They have queer ways of
settlement OF such matters in the
older States. In New York, under
certain conditions, q man may have
two or more legal wives. or wife sew.
eral husbands, you know.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

IT seems that nobody believes Dave
B. Hills statement that he will retire
from politics the first of next year.
So it appears that even q prominent
politician may become 30 utterly un-
reliable in his conduct that nobody
will believe him. When this happens,
it is indeed time for him to retire and
remain in retirement.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

AND now the Republican newspapers
are engaged in the task OF villifyiup'
George Stevenson. He was prince Of
good fellows and q model of virtue and
propriety, while engaged in manage.
ment OF Republican campaigns in the
State and lobbying in the last Legis-
iature for Ankeny's election as U. S.
Senator.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

THE Republicans seem to doubt Mr..
Mead's oratorical powers, and SO far
have showed him around as piece of
statuary to be admired for his physical
beauty. But even then be does not
match the Adonis on the Democratic
ticket, bis competitor.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16
A Race Conflict.

1t seems that the Presidents atti-
tude on the race question has brought
about very unpleasant slate OF al
fairs at Oyster Bay, where negroes
have lecn in the habit Of holding
their picnics, ever since the Presi-
dent let down the bars of social
custom at the White House. These
parties have been tolerated through
Difference to the President, but now
that it is believed to be but part of a
deliberate scheme to influence the
black race to become cats paws in the
general election, a different sentiment
has arisen and systematic boycott
has been inaugurated against the
aggressively persistent race for recog-
milton. Practically everything was
closed to them at their last picnic,
this month. There were about 500
negro men and women in it. They
found hotels, restaurants, bathing
houses, saloons, boats, carriages, and
everything else, denied to them. Even
the waiting room of the Oyster Bay
railway station, hitherto a favorite
lounging.place of the unwelcome visit
ors, was boarded up, under the pretext
OF making repairs.
Southern militiamen at the late
Bull Run maneuvers showed a de-
cided disposition to refuse drill with
the Connections negro militia, and
went so far as to declare that they
would only be too glad to load with
ball cartridges instead of blanks for
the vollies fired in mimic warfare.
The Judge Advocate has ruled that
they cannot be punished for this in
fraction of rules, as the militia is
merely cooperating with the regulars
for instruction. 1t is for the respec.
tive States to take cognizance of such
offenses if they are deemed of such inn
portance as to require investigation,
with a view to punishment. In this
connection it may be noted that the
executive of one State, Georgia, lately
said in discussing the refusal of
soldier of that State to salute a negro
officer. THAT is what l call pure
Georgia grit. He is made of tie
proper stuff The futility of State
interference is thus demonstrated.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

DowIE, the conceited evangelist, who
imagines himself an Elijah, has de-
clared in favor of miscegenation. an
er-marriage of the white and black
races. He was set off on this tangent
by the refusal of President Clarke, of
the Christian Endeavor Society, to al
low Brown Wilson, negro, and one
of Dowie's followers, lodgings at the
Christian Endeavor Hotel, at the
Worlds Fair in st. Louis. "What
Zion wants." he declared, ais inter.
marriage Of all people," and he gave
President Clarke just one week to
fright the wrong" done Wilson.
What he will do in the matter, except
to hurl billingsgate, is a matter of
conjecture. for there is no probability
that the Endeavorers will be in the
least intimidated at the threat.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-09-16

The LADIES SETTLED THE MATTER.
The ladies can institute heroic
measures, at times, without sugges-
ton from the sterner sex, and that is
what the Civic Improvement Club did
when it asked permission to NOW the
&" whiokers" off OF Capitol Park. 1t
will be remembered that the Com
mission, after carefully figuring up
salaries of all employees till January,
decided that there would not be
enough money left to keep the capitol
grounds in respectable condition and
those guardians of the public veal, the
press, suggested that a subscription
be taken to hire a man day or two
each month to NOW the lawn and drag
leaves out of the fish-pond. But 10
and behold! The ladies realized the
opportunity for usefulness, and at
once proposed to keep down the char
ity petition, by having the work done
at their own expense. When permits
sion was asked, however, Mr.. Garrison,
the Secretary of the Commission, de-
clined to give it, but set men to work
clearing up the debris and cutting out
the weeds of the beautiful little plot
of ground fronting the capitol, which
is delight to the eye when kept in
order.