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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

VERDICT WILL GUST AN u. S. SENA.
ToR.-Senator Joseph r. Burton, of
Kansas, was convicted in the U. S.
District Court in st. Louis, Monday,
OF having accepted compensation to
protect the interests of the Rialto
Grain q Securities Co., of that city,
before the Postoffice Department. The
jury was out Al hours. A motion for
new trial was Immediately made, but
that it is said will not change his
status officially. An ex-Justice of the
Kansas Supreme Court says: GA
Judgment against man in a case of
this kind is regarded by the courts as
a conviction in the meaning of the
statutes, even though an appeal may
be taken aud the decision of the lower
court subsequently reversed. 1t will
require, however, a formal act of the
Senate to vacate the seat, and that
will not be done till the court OF last
resort passes upon the case. The
Senator's successor, it is said, has al.
ready been selected, and that he will
be either Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow, or Cyrus Leland,
former National Committeeman from
Kansas.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

No Room FOR PROFESSIONAL AGI.
TATORs.-ColOrado has taken steps to
drive visiting labor agitators out of the
State. Mother Jones" is one of the
so-called leaders who will have to 20.
The coal companies claim that if these
persons leave the district that two.
thirds the strikers will return. The
Governor has ordered that q special
train be employed and that "Mother
JONES'" w. r. Farley of Alabama,
VIM. Ward Jones of Iowa, Girls.
Evans of Indiana and Edward De-
morlie Of Utah, be taken without the
limits OF the State, as disturbers of
the peace. President Meyer of the
Federation of Miners, has been ar.
rested on q charge of desecrating the
flag and was placed in Jail at Tullu-
ride.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

SEEDLEss APPLES ON FLowERLEss
TREEs.-Some genius in the Middle
West, after ten years OF persistent
study and experiment, has succeeded
in propagating seedless apple, but it
has not yet been shown that it DOS
sesses any merits over the plain old
apple which was doubtless the "for.
hidden fruit" that caused the fall OF
our first parents. And there is one
defect that far overshadows the nov.
city of having no seeds and conse-
quently no cores. The trees which
produce the seedless variety are said
to be totally destitute of the beautiful
flowers which are about the first
greeting OF early springtime. Proba-
bly, no orchard tree, unless it be the
peach, produces a more bewitching
foliage OF leaf and flower, and to be
deprived of tho beautiful bloom will
doubtless doom the seedless apple to q
place far in the rear.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

A HAPPY FAMILY Re .UNIoN.-Jos.
eph H. Smith, President of the Nor
mon Church, was welcomed back to
his homo in Utah, by family as large
as it was enthusiastic in it's greetings.
His FIVE wives and 80 of his As child.
rem met him at the depot. He kissed
Juliana fondly, but it was noted that
his embrace of Edna s., his " second"
sister Of Juliana, lasted just four min
utes by the watch. Then he greeted
his other wives fondly, but none other
with the Ada Rehan kiss" He then
kissed a few of his younger children.
For about three hours there was .
private family gathering in the Bee
Hive House from which oil were OK.
cluded but the Apostle and his mum.
erous family. In the meantime, the
Twelve Apostles and the Council oil
Seventy were patiently waiting Smiths
pleasure on important business.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

FASHIONS vary in journalism, as in
anything else. The Recorder intro.
duced the big-head display with
decolette dressing to accompany it.
Oily adopted the picture-frame plan oil
emphasizing trifling matters, which,
however, only bear a slight resent b.
lance to chromos and that only from
the position its author is enabled to
observe it. Then the use OF black.
faced letter gives the front page a
funereal aspect, in accord with the
tragic drama that is being played by
the contestants, and now Oly has Wild.
ened bis editorial columns, discarded
syndicate paragraphs, and seems in.
tent on conducting that department,
at least. on broad gauge principles.
And next we are patiently waiting to
see what stunt Rec will adopt for a
novelty.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

THE New York World truly says, in
concluding an article of comment on
Roosevelt's contempt for law when it
stands in his way, and specially refer
ring to his late order in enacting" q
service pension law-that "If Andrew
Johnson had committed breach of
the Constitution one-tenth as fragrant
as that just perpetrated by his success
sor in the accidental occupancy of the
White House in his mad hunt for del
egstes, his impeachment would never
have failed by one vote in the Senate.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

A NEW use is made Of the telephone
on some of the Western roads, when
the telegraph stations are widely
separated. Each train is equipped
with a device corresponding to the
ordinary telephone and it is easily
connected by bamboo.jointed rod
with wire core, to the ordinary tele.
graph line by means OF a snap at its
farther end. 1t is then connected
with the portable telephone, and any
station along the line may be "called
up" fSom the train. Four cells of dry
battery are sufficient to furnish the
current, and the telegraphic use of
the wire is not in the least interrupted
by its use as a telephone conductor.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01
Well see what we'll see.

The ELECTRoGRAPH.-T is q new
device for recording telephone mes
sage in the absence of the person
called. 1t is a mechanism that when
" switched on" is in condition to set in
motion a phonOgraph, and which is
doneby simply unlocking the receiver,
when the sound vibrations are in.
dented on the record cylinder, which
automatically stops when the receiver
is replaced on its hook. Thus all
the patron has to do when he re.
returns is to place his producer in
position and receive the message
which may have been vocalized over
the wire hours or days before. This
will be q great convenience when
adopted, and will probably be the first
practical use the phonograph has
been adapted to aside from exhibition
OF tho wonderful display of the prin ci-
pie involved in the sound-wave theory.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01
The Country Suffers From Floods

The rivers of Southern Indiana
overhowed about 100000 acres of rich
bottom land, near Terre Haute, when
the levee broke. White river is flood.
ing the coal mines around Petersburg.
Cities at the head OF the Wabash
and the White river have only mud
and slime lett by the receding waters.
White river reached 15I feet above
low water. In indianapolis I,2OO
families were driven from their homes.
The authorities have issued bonds for
SlOO,OOO loan to repair damages, but it
is expected the loss will be quite dou.
BILE that, and the loss in Marion county
will reach over two millions of dollars,
and in the whole State over five mil.
lions. The Pokota river is three miles
wide for 40 miles of its length and the
White river in places IL miles wide.
Saginaw valley and Grand Rapids in
the valley of Grand river, seem to be
the flood center in Michigan. At
Grand Rapids, Monday, 1000 people
were in distress. On the Sbiawasase
river, near Chesaning, twenty-five
families were rescued from their
homes on sugarbeet farm, just be-
fore their houses became wholly sub.
merged. Train service has been
wholly suspended between Windsor
and London. The extent OF the in
undation may be estimated from the
fact that in Missouri and adjacent
States several towns were practically
wiped from the face of the Earth bv
the resistless current. So far as re-
ported eight lives have been lost.
Nor is the Middle West the only
sufferer from flood. At Plattsburg, in
New York, ice gorges and floods are
Causing great damage. At Champlain,
the Chayez river rose ten feet in as
many minutes, flooding stores and
residences. Merchants had no time
to remove goods.
In the Mohawk valley dynamite has
been used to remove ice from the
tracks.
A second flood is devastating the
lowlands in California.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01
The Pot Bolls in Seattle.

1t seems that Seattle has now con-
centrated much of its hitherto irwin
chile stenuosity on Piles for Senator,
and it is even said that he will be able
to dictate who shall 60 to the State
Convention and who shall constitute
the members of the Legislative delega-
ton from King county. As old Chief
Seattle once said to Gov. Stevens, W hen
he was making a speech to the red.
men and had repeated with great en-
phasis, am your father" Ugh, hy-
as skOokum yaka sheHah" Ugh!
what wonderful man he isD
But it will be observed that Seattle
did precisely the same thing a couple
of years ago, whe n Preston was showed
forward as the " business mems candi-
date" The legislative candidates made
the pledges fast enough, but how did
they keep them, The sequel amply
shows.
The fact is that King county labors
under the disadvantage of being the
big frog in the political puddle. She
is weak in politics from her own pom
derosity. She is the big croaker
against which all the little toads wage
a common warfare. Her own unity on
local matters makes her a common OBJ
Ject Of attack from without, and it is
not likely that conditions of the past
will be reversed.
1t is a well.knOwn fact that all the
fistes of a neighborhood sometimes
unite to down the mastiff, before set
thing grievances Of their own. So it is
with the Republican party manage
ment, in regard to Seattle and King
county. The very fact that the con-
vention is held in Tacoma, is in re-
spouse to this latest intent to keep
that enterprising community, as the
sPortsmen say, ain the mid"
There will be a decided contest,
however, before Piles will be forced to
retirement. The scheme involves the
sacrifice of Will E. Humphrey, and he
has many friends who will say nay.
1t is likewise planned to eliminate DR..
j. J. Smith from his gubernatorial
aspirations. He likewise has friends,
and if he unites with the Wilson influ.
ence, as is possible, there may be
enough dissension to eliminate the
Piles boom.
1t is said that Piles has gone so far
as to adopt the Ankeny.Sullivan-Co Cor
bett dodge of hiring q trainer and that
he has selected Frank A. Twitchell
as campaign manager. But then
the DuMaurien distinction between
peaches and apples is observed in COM
parison of Twitchell with George Stew
enson. Peaches are a rarity in this
climate and in this season, and there
are few peaches anywhere like George
Stevenson.
Well see what we'll see.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

WHILE the Taxpayer congratulates
the people that the current expenses
OF the county have been met by war
rants paid on presentation, it should
suggest some means for payment of
warrants ten years old, which are still
drawing interest with an accumula.
ton of nearly their face value to add,
if paid now. Give us some practical
suggestion, neighbor.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

STATE PATENTS. - The following
patents were granted last week: w.
E. Everette, Tacoma, making cyanids
and nitrates; II. Fesenfeld, Hoquiam,
barrel.tap; r. G. Riley, Seattle, SUBJ
marine dredging and sluicing device !;
A. j. West, Aberdeen, fitting bin and
sample display device. For copy Of
any of above patents send ten cents in
postage stamps with date of this paper
to c. A. Snow & Co., Washington, D..
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

THE evening Screamitsheadof shows
quite an adaptability for writing up
the local unpleasantness in the Far.
East dialect. 1t has General Scobiski
and Admiral Madgeovich bottled up
in Port Despair, while its own little
Jap guard the entrance as Ito, with
pevey and pikepole.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

The Taxpayer tries to make it ap.
pear that the true issue between 1.-The
gang" and" the boxers" is possession
Of the Offices. While that may be
true, are there not other "outs" who
are quite as persistent in their efforts
to get "in," on any old issue, or plaus-
able pretense for one? Are the gang
or the boxers any more insistent upon
foisting their "claims," than others
who stand aloof from all organization
to see just where the political mama
may fall? Are there not others who
hitch their chariot to q star oblivious
OF the fact that elevation only discloses
more plainly the same aspect present.
ed by the monkey climbing the pole?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

PRESIDENT Elliot of Harvard, and
eight other college presidents, have
organized Philippine Independence
Committee" Now they had better
send one of their number over the
seas to see where they are at" They
will probably find that they know
about as much regarding conditions,
as the Eastern people do of the coolie
curse
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

ONE may scan the Congressional ap.
preparations in vain for any sum de.
voted to Olympia harbor improve.
ment'. Seattle, Tacoma. Spokane,
Portland and Sitka all figure, how.
ever, in amounts ranging from $4,000
to $4,000 for public buildings.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

Oily says it is Tom Ismay who
wrote the letter that appears in poster
type in the Recorder Wednesday night,
in which he threatens everything but
suicide if the Scobey- gang prevail. 1t
was a pity to puncture a bubble that
was intended to soar as q boom, before
it had raised from the pipe-bowl
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

THE paper that reaches the home is
the one that brings results to the ad.
vertiser. The STANDARD is pre-emi-
nently the home paper OF Thurston
county, and that is why it leads in cir.
culation and 10 the best medium for
profitable publicity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

JAMES BRITT, of California, was
given the decision for lightweight
championship, in a 20-round contest
last Friday with "Corbett," of Colo.
RADIO, whose real name is William
Rothwell.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

Oily now Classics Jesse Mills as
"chief of the Mcbride push" We
don't believe it. 1t seems improbable
that a man the ring gave nine hun.
dred majority, at the last election,
should have sold out soul and body
to the opposition faction. We don't
believe the assertion m ade, and re.
iterated, by an ex.State Senator, that
"every man has his price," much less
man we have respected so highly as
Jesse.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

THURsToN and Mason counties will
hold their judicial convention at she
same time and place as the State Con-
vention, and place . candidate in the
field for Superior Judge. 1t will be
handler, you see, for trading purposes
to have such conventions close to.
gether,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

THE Oregonian of Tuesday notes a
very material reduction in the price OF
lumber in the local market, besides .
rebate to builders who pay promptly
on the 10th of each month, or whose
orders are large. One outside firm 10
said to accord bonus OF seven per
cent. on such orders.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

1T does seem, as suggested by the
Taxpayer, that the County Attorney
might get along without typewriter
at $40 der month, with the amount of
public business he is called upon to
perform.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

The Taxpayer advises the people to
be careful of selection of county Of
ficers, and then puts its little ear close
to the ground and listens for the call
Come forth, Thomss!"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

THE RAISE SEEMS JUSTIFIED.-The
Taxpayer seems to be worried over the
fact that county officers, whose salaries
are based upon the classification by
population, now receive pay under q
higher classification than made on
the government enumeration four
years ago. The raise from the 10th to
the 18th amounts is only about $50
on each of the principal salaries, while
the increase of population would JUS
tify much higher ratio, for the GEN.
sus was taken at time OF great de-
preston and when our population had
been much depleted from various
causes, notably the rush to the North.
ern mines, and the closing of several
leading industries Just at the time
when the enumeration was made. 1t
is safe to say that the present popula.
ton is at least third larger than in
1900. The classification scale only
affects q few of the county officers,
and as said only about $50 each, but
that don't count for anything with
the doughty little champion who is
under his big job.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

1T is said that the "Smart Set" of
New York. who perform such silly
acts to get in print, utterly repudiate
and turn up the nose at the 4" 400
delegated by Tammany to represent
Gotham at the st. Louis Fair. That
is the most absurd act they have yet
done.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

IT is now thought that only one OF
the national military camps OF in.
struction will be assigned to the Pa.
ci6c Coast, and the selection OF q site
Tor one in California will Illustrate all
hope of location on q much better
place at American Lake.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

EX-SENATOR TURNER will be in
Walls Walla, on the l4th inst, and
guest OF honor at the Jefferson ban.
quet to be given by the Democrats of
that city.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

The Oregonian's "Note and Com.
ment," and the STANDARDS "Chips
and Rags" seem to be-. off the Same
bolt of fustian. "Lue Y" and "Wex
j." use the same color OF pencil, and
seem to think alike and act alike.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

SENATOR 10. Blackburn's definition
OF carpetbsgger is the best We remem.
Der to have seen. It 10 as follows
A carpetbagger is q tidbit politician,
who lives one day of the week on
chicken and the other six on feathers.
When he wants to move, all he has to
do is to put out the fire, call the dogs
and git"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

Ex.LIEUT. GOVERNOR Jas. H. Till.
man, who killed editor Gonzales OF
Columbia, S. D.. and was acquitted by
jury, is candidate for Congress to
succeed Col. Croft, lately deceased.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

SUICIDE OF CLERK AT THE WHITE
HoUsE.-Charles G. Foster, a clerk in
the Executive Office at the White
House, Washington, shot and killed
himself and his wife, in Kensington,
Maryland. Monday. Foster was
brother of Rudolph Foster, one OF the
Assistant Secretaries to President
Roosevelt. He had been in service at
the White House four years, and had
formerly been a sailor. Dependency
from illness OF his wife and financial
trouble, are said to have caused the
rash act.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

Four crops of alfalfa have been
grown in year, off the same ground,
In Eastern Washington. and asparagus,
watermelons and turnips have fol-
lowed in like succession on other tracts.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

DowIE, the new Prophet Elijah, has
been banished from Australia, for
abuse OF King Edward. When will
that man learn to put a bride on his
unruly member?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

JURORS BEIBED IN BoTKIN CASE
The second trial Of Cordelia Botkin,
on charge of having caused the death
of Mrs. J. 7. Dunning by poisoned
candy, came to an abrupt termination
Wednesday afternoon, it having been
ascertained that four Of the Jurors had
been bribed to bring in IA verdict of ac-
quittal. The exposure came when an
attempt was made to corrupt fifth
juror, who informed Judge Cook that
the man who had offered the bride
had told him he had already secured
A later dispatch states that Judge Cook
had dedided to proceed with the pres.
ent jury, which cast doubt on report.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

THE history Of the capitol annex,
plainly stated. without the slightest
embellishments, would make a most
delightfully."- amusing COMEDY OF Err.
rors."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

IT is now confidently expected that
the legislative halls of the capitol an.
mex will be ready for service by time
the Legislature meets.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

1T is said that the Boxers contemp.
late nominating (if they carry the
primaries) ]. T. Thacker for State
Senator. That's q corker."
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

REPUBLICANS seem to fear Hearst as
much as they did Bryan few months
ago. The best assurance OF probable
tiles is in this admission OF POSSIBLE
iioa
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

CORBETT HAS A CLOSE CALL.-Jas.
J. Corbett, the former champion in
pugilism, had narrow escape from
death by street car, at Buffalo, Sun
day. He was alighting from car
riage at the Lehigh station when a
trolley car came along. AS it went
whirling past, his coat caught in the
rear platform railing and he was
dragged about 30 feet, and although
severely bruised, and white as a sheet
from.the terrible ordeal, rose to his feet
smiling. 1t was, however, much
closer call than he ever received in the
prize-ring.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-04-01

cite and Columbia during that period
We recall the Mountain Buck, the Ore
gon Belle, the Multnomah (not the
boat now on the Olympia-Seattle
route. but a side-wheeler, that ran be-
tween Portland and Monticello) com.
manded 10y Capt. Richard Hoyt, Sr
and the Vancouver, built by Capt.
1urnbull and his son-in-law, VIM. ii
Troup, which piled between Portlan d
and Vancouver. The two first named
boats were owned by the Oregon Steam
Navigation Co, as were several other
craft the names OF which we cannot
now remember.
The o. :. \. Co., as it was then
konwn, was organized under the laws
of Washington Territory and incor-
porated at Vancouver, Dec. %, 1850,
with 542 shares of stock, subscribed as
follows: l.. w. Coe GO, r. X. Thomp-
sor l20, J. C. Ainsworth 40, T. W.
Tyler Is; a. H. Barker 80, Josiah Ny
rick II, c. w. Pope 4, Jacob Kamm
81, J. NJ. Gilman +, George W. Hoyt 3,
Ladd & Tilton so, J. w. Ladd 4, S. G.
Reed 26, Benz. Stark 10 and Richard
Williams 7. Two years later the COM
pany was reincorporated with capital
OF 100000, of 1000 shares, of which
Bradford & Co., took 1853. Bradford &
Co., was composed, it is thought of
three brothers-Putnam F., Daniel +.
and Allen G.-with a brother in.law,
B. b. Bishop.
An interesting fact about the Brad
fords is that they can trace their
lineage to the eighth generation, d.
rectly to Gov. William Bradford, who
came over in the Mayfower, in 1920.
They we're the first to navigate the
middle Columbia river, between The
Cascades and The Dalles, by steam.
Their boat was the James B. Flint,
built in 1851.
These facts, though presented in de.
sultory and incomplete shape, bring
the early history of Oregon steamers
down to about where Capt. Parker left
the Puget Sound history. Those who
take up its continuation will be able
to write much more connected his
tory from having their facts more near
at hand.