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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

ANOTHER DAYLIGHT ROBBERY, OF
COURSE IN SEATTLE.-Another day.
light robbery of safe happened in
Seattle, Monday afternoon, in an office
in the Mutual Life Building. when
valuables valued at $3.50 were taken
Let US see; this is about the dozenth
time sucha thing has happened in the
strenuous city, if We remember them
all, beginning with the carrying out Of
large safe from the crack hotel-the
Washington-and breaking it open
within the sight of a score OF people
Seattle never does things by halves
This last time the thief took every.
thing the safe held.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

LIKE A" LONG SWEET SONG. IF the
Olympia day test at the Portland fair
is to be applied, by indirection, to
speecb.making, it detracts very much
from the lauded power of oratory.
There has been scarcely compliment
paid to the exercises of that day but
has praised the almost exclusively
musical exercises as zone long sweet
song" and with the congratulation
for the management that no "set
speeches" were introduced. The omis-
sion. it is said, brought crowds OF peo-
10 to the Washington building every
day, which. By the same inverse system
of reasoning, is anything but COM
pliment to the metal and string har-
mony. Time was when the passions
were swayed to ecstacy-even weeping
and shouting-by movement of that
grand old harp of a thousand strings
whose diapason was the human voice.
Car it be that the Websters, the Clays,
the Ingersols, the Beechers, legitimate
followers Of Demosthenes and Cicero,
have no successors in the present age
and generation? Have we no one
who, with the theme of Washington
and the inspiration of our glorious eli
mate and wonderful products to give
wings to thought, could have relieved
the ear for brief time of the clash OF
harmony and have delighted the fancy
by visions of the land of picturesque
beauty and unrivaled resources? If it
be indeed true that the orator can be
relegated to the rear, on such an occa-
sion, how much more improbable
must be the campaign orator, who
holds his auditors "spell bound" proba-
ably by q sense Of party duty and q
promise of things to come!
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

Tom Lawson has been sued for $1,000.
600 for dealing some mining stock of
the bottom OF the deck.-Ledger.
Alb, indeed! Immaculate Tom, who
has been turning his patricisn nos,
up so persistently against frenzied'
methods, caught Well, we'll; we al
ways knew it took a rogue to catch
catch rogues.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

C1vILITY AS MUNICIPAL PoLICY.-
Every city of enterprise should have q
committee OF just one person to see
that all worthy strangers within the
gates" be accorded q welcome and
shown such general attractions as the
community possesses. It is this feel
ing of comradeship which makes the
world akin, and often an angel in dis.
guise has appeared only to find heart,
turned inward, with no responsive
beat 70 the kindly feeling that but
needs the spark of cordial recognition
to burst into flame. More generally
the counterpart OF this, disposition
to profit by any means, fair or unfair,
from the hapless visitors presence, is
manifested, and whether successful OF
not, he departs with a feeling that il
anything but cordial for the treatmen,
he has received. It pays to be polite
and attentive. It never pays, in the
long run, to be selfish, autocratic OF
boorish.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

LENGTH OF SKIRT FIXES TIE LEGAL
AGE.-That at least is the presump.
ton, if the circumstances attending
issue OF a marriage license, in King
county, the other day, is to be taken
as precedent. When application for
the important paper was made, the
childlike appearance OF pretty little
Esther Derouise, aged 16, in short
skirts, made it to appear to the license
officer that his permission to wed
could not be given. The groom Harry
Bell, 81 years of age, declared in vain
that it was all right, the short clothes
remained in evidence. So they went
to a lodging house, and the fair young
bride to-be set about making a ward.
robe OF conventional length. She was
aided by friends (and when are friends
wanting in case Of true love?) and
after due time, attired in a dress of
regulation length, she again appeared
in evidence and the license was
granted. 1t is said, however, that her
irate father appeared on tho scene,
and deciding to endure what he could
cure, had consented to the proceed
ing.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25
No Subserviency at Portsmouth.

1t seems that the hotel managemen Mt
at Portsmouth has been singularly free
from the snobbery in this country that
accords to anybody from abroad who
is noted or titled. that ohselniency
that has brought our nation at time.
In contempt 10y the ones they were en-
dea>Orlns 10 serve. 1t is said that the
Russian ENJOYS, who are in the habit
OF drinking tea at odd times, have
been much inconvenience by Icing
unable to obtain their fayorite bever
age, except at certain hours. III one
OF the ENJOYS works at night till after
closing hours aud wishes some refresh
ment, he is unable to obtain it, unless
provided before midnight. Mr.. Witte
was compelled to leave the public din.
ing room because he wanted to smoke
while drinking his coffee, and the Rus
sian suite were crowded into small
room on the second floor; the Japan.
e-e preferring to foreGo their luxury OF
cigarette with their coffee to sweltcr-
ing in the warm room assigned for
smoking. One Of the principal men,
bers OF the Russian party has TO occupy
a room without a bath, and both
Witte and Takahira have suffered
from the intense heat, without any of
the we'll known methods of reducing
temperature boing employed, and the
formers pet aversion is mosquitoes and
no nets have been provided.
The other evening, while the dis.
tinguished diplomats we're INDUCING in
cooling drinks on the verands, one of
the hotel employees, without word of
explanation or warning, turned off the
lights. To an indignant protest, bis
only reply was, Lights must be out
at 1890" It was just one minute
past that time. This was too much
to be borne, and one of the party found
the key and turned the lights on
again. It was, of course, an "extra"
in the bill.
1t should be explained, however, to
these foreign visitors that such pro.
vincial rules do not prevail in the
larger cities. There they can obtain
anything they want, at any time, and
served in any manner suggested. In
the city they could smoke in the din
ing room or parlor, and other people
could 60 elsewhere; but, OF course, it
would all be charged up in the bill.
Then they could have any room &C.
lected turned into q refrigerator, or
the mosquitoes put out OF existence, but
it would all have to cost money. II lie
safe to say that there lie no end to
American achievements, if there 10
cash in sight; and although the Yam.
kee may bow to the foreign potentate,
it is with an eye kept steadily on the
pocket.book of the titled lobster.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

IT seems that the Gear has no diff.
Guilty in seeing through the subterfuge
of paying Indemnity" in shape Of
purchase money for Sakhalin. Pros.
pect for peace is very poor at present;
but the optomistic quotes the maxim,
d" Darkest hour just before dawn" and
asks the public to wait patiently till
Saturday.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

THE BENNINGTON ScAPEcoAT Is
FoUND.-A Washington dispatch OF
Monday states that Secretary Bonapart
has made public the findings of the
court of inquiry into the Bennington
disaster, and that the explosion was
due to sthe closing of a valve connect.
ing the steam-gauge with the boiler.
This valve WAS closed by order OF the
oiler, who with other subordinates in
immediate charge, were all killed by
the explosion. The court of inquiry
recommends that Ensign Wade, who
had general supervision Of the engi-
neering work at the time, be brought
to trial before a court.martial. Thus
is q scape.goat found and the depart
ment comes out scathless from the
charge OF maintaining a floating coffin
in the naval service.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25
Soldiers Home Heating Contract,

The State Board OF Control Monday,
awarded the contract for heating At
the Soldiers Home to the Tacoma
Plumbing and Heating Co. Follow ing
are the bids:
Kaufman Plumbing & Heating Co.
$4,36l.
G. A. Richardson. Tacoma, $6,425.
w. d. Allen, Seattle, 81, 1856.
Ben Olson, Tacoma, $,595.
G. Fl. Brown & Co., Seattle, $3.50.
Seattle Heating & Plumbing Co., 4,
095.
Tacoma Plumbing & Heating Co.. 50,
700.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

EXPECTS TO ESCAPE THROUGH THE
LACHEs OF LAw.-Ex-Senator Thurs.
ton, counsel for Senator Mitchell,
while admitting guilt of his client, ex.
presses the hope that he will be
able to clear him on technicalities
Among these he says is that the in.
dictment specifies no particular crime
and another ia the statute of limita.
lions, the alleged crime being outlawed
before the Indictment was returned.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

A YAKIMA man who returned from the
Portland fair the other day says that he
found seat on the crowded train by the
side of a lady from the City of Destiny
who had with her one of the finest two
weeks old boys he ever saw anywhere,
and who wore handsome badge with
the words, "Watch Tacoma Grow u
Seattle citizens who observe such mani
festations of the Tacom spirit may well
be struck with terror.-Ydkima Republic.
Come, wake up, Seattle! Your rep
utation is at stake.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

SOME men are unreasonable. Alex.
ander Lester, of Tacoma, in his appli
cation for divorce, alleges that his
wife, among other things, poured hot
tea down his neck" Now what more
proper place could be found for pour.
ing hot tea, and royalty, hot, too; hot
enough to kick when it goes DOWN.
"Cold tea" is only tolerated in the
Congressional lobby.room, or the
gossiping old.maid's sanctuary, but
enough is known to classify it as
harmless, if not tasteless, and it is ut.
terly worthless as a mirth. provoker or
" blue devil" catcher.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

WARDEN KEGS may not hold the
keys much longer if he don't mind his
ps and qs in addressing a superior Of.
ficer. When it is formally announced
that the incident " is closed" and the
book is shut with bang, it means
something-and that suthin' is about
to happen.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

THREE cases of yellow fever have
been transferred to Missouri by allow.
ing infected Italians to slip through
the quarantine lines. Two have died.
The people of Gregory, q lumber camp
on the Mississippi fifteen miles from
Keokuk, Iowa, are much excited over
the spread of infection to their com.
munity,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

DEPARTED GLORY OF THE KING OF
THUGs.-The great John L" Ono use
for the word Sullivan to go with that
appellation) arrived at Portland Satur.
day night, unheralded and unsung,"
as the papers announce. Time was
when thousands would have gathered
at the depot to look At the train that
carried him. but that has passed with
the fleeing glamour of earthly honor..
He is now "on bis uppers," as the
quaint-tongued would express it, but
still had enough of mans best FRIEND
-money-to enable him to bunk at
the Portland, while his d" co.adjutators''
stopped at any old place, not even
known to the great embodiment oil
past fame as "plugger"; al least he
said so. This will probably be abso.
lutely the last appearance of the. at
one time, best man in the world.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

A PARTY of the railroad commits.
sioners OF twenty States, representing
roads from Maine to Texas and from
Washington to Florida, numbering
125 persons, including their families
are making tour of the west. They
have had a trip by boat on Puget
Sound and are now at the Portland
Fair. They will resume to-day their
route which lies through Oregon and
California.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

A DRUNKEN husband at Chicago whose
wife told him to 60 out and drown him.
self went Immediately and jumped into
the lake.-Er.
There was doubtless q method in
his madness. He probably weighed
the difference between the certainty
of purgatory in tho land of the living,
and the chances of hell hereafter.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

THE Olympiam of Wednesday has an
account of a tomato fifteen inches in
diameter, and that its grower, ALDER,
Mckay, of South Bay, declares that in
few days he will have box of them
to ship to Portland. He will probably
use a piano box. The only use we Can
see for such monstrosities is to mount
them on pinions for use as emery.
wheels.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

THE Olympian points out that we may
not always have Mead in the Cover
nor's chair. Still, we'll always have
somebody there. The chair will he kept
warm.-Republic.
Yes; but there's difference. We
had Governor once who "hatched"
much trouble for the people of our
town and betrayed the interests of the
whole State through spite.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

THE doors of the Western National
Bank OF Louisville, KY, were closed
by order of the Comptroller OF Cur.
rency, Monday. Its capital has been
seriously impaired by losses, and the
action was taken to place all depositors
on the same footing.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

IT is said that Seattle is holding out
her spoon for the next Worlds fair.
1t is safe to say, however, that she will
like. poor Oliver, receive treacle and
birthstone" instead OF mush.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

The Importance of Sakhalin a. a
strategic point is said to make it's re.
tention by Russia of even greater i'm.
portance than the indemnity demand
ed OF billion dollars.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

THE Sultan has been asked by
France to pay $4,000 for arrest OF q
Franco.Algerian citizen, and 500 daily
until the prisoner is released. He will
probably pay as he did the demand oil
the United States for missionary in
demnity-by promise. But 10 Frances
demand. it is reasonable to expect tina,
a"lick" will follow the promise if it il
not kept.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

ANOTHER Senator has come to grief
1t is now Lord" Burton, of Kansas
whose itching palm has been soothed
by douceur of $4,000 for pressing
Indian claims. Vale, Mitchell; vale,
Burton. Next.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

ST. LOUIS was visited by three dis.
tinct shocks of an earthquake Monday
about IL A. NJ. They were accompan.
led by the usual rumbling noise, and
extended as far south as Paducah, KY,
and north as Springfield, Ill.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

A TORNADO that swept over Mime.
sofa, Sunday, destroyed many crops
and other property. Two persons
were killed, at Lansboro and Rush.
ford.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

THE Sultan Of Sulu at q reception
held at Jolo to Secretary Taft and
Miss Roosevelt, made the distinguished
visitors many presents, not the least oil
which was bis hand in marriage to
the latter, promising to make her Sui.
tana OF the Zulu archipelago, saying
that his people desired her to remain
with them. The proposition, to say
tho least, was $50 unexpected" that
the young lady had to decline the high
honor.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

NAN Patterson seems disposed to
verify the title of an old.time comedy
by acting the title role OF "Nan, the
Good. for Nothing"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

THIsTLEs AND THE METHOD FOR
KILLING THEM.-Mr. Langridge, q
farmer residing few miles from our
city, says that the vicious plant in
Testing some of the unoccupied lots in
town, as we'll as fence corners in the
country, is not the much dreaded
thistle-either Canada or Russiap-but
simply burdock, an indigenous plant.
but quite as prolific and pestilential.
1t is thus described by the Standard
American Encyclopedia: "The heads
OF the flower are globose, or nearly 80 :;
and each Of the scales of the involucre
runs out into long rigid prickle.
which is hooked at the point. By
means of these hooks, the flower head
popularity called bur, readily lays
hold OF the clothes of passer-by, the
wool OF sheep, or the like, and thus
the seeds are transported from one
place to another" Burdock should be
extirpated, same as its foreign kindred,
and by similar means. Capt. Parker
says that if the bur is cut off before its
seeds ripen and is destroyed, all that is
needed to kill the stub of the plant, is
the application of few grains of salt.
1t may be we'll for some people who
are 80 credulous as to insinuate that it
parallels the use OF that article for
catching birds, to try it before con-
demning what they do not understand.
All knowledge of plant-life is not con.
fined to the few who gather much
information from experience, nor is it
strange that sometimes the laity may
instruct the ordained (by practice) pro.
lessor in any given pursuit.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

WARDEN Kees has come over to sci
his political watch by the Governors
chronometer. It seems that he went
off at half-cock when he declared that
the would.be reporters" should be
retained in their places as guards
When he had, however, measured the
full length of the gubernatorial pole
he came down from his perch and Wis
tied Mecca to ascertain just where he
stands. 1t is safe to say that he is
like the wicked, standing 10 q slippery
nlaca.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

HAD the high conspirators at Ports.
mouth smoked the real pipe of peace,
instead of the vicious cigarette, the
result might have been different.
Small things sometimes control the
destiny OF nations. Nicotine uudoubt.
eddy soothes the savage breast, but
the opiate dulls the sensibilities and
generally produces a lethargy such as
has, we think, been manifest at the
Peace conference. Neither party
seemed disposed to yield or compromise
the material objects OF conten ton, Sax.
alin and indemnity. While it may be
true that it is difficult for Russia to
yield either, she should realize that
the same basis for peace may be pre-
sented after much farther loss of
treasure and life. The Japs would
gain something by display of mag
nanimity that very few believe they
possess, just as matter of policy and
fnesse, to win approval of other ma
tons. They hold the beam of justice,
which is wavering in the difficult en-
deavor to accord even justice to all.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

THE Presidents suggestion that Rus.
STA recognize Japan's demand for re.
imbursement by paying large price
for that governments release of Sax.
halin, reminds US very much of the
way temperance people sometimes find
An excuse for drinking cider by calling
it apple.juice, and Russia may find
salve for bruises in the statement that
she yielded no indemnity nor an inch
of territory! The Lord High Execu
toner will, however, have q sack o.
Reimbursement" long as his smoker.
snee.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

UNION TO FIGHT THE BEEF Trust
The wholesale butchers of the west
have united and opened three packing
houses in Chicago, aud begun an at.
tack on the beef trust with plants in
20 other cities. It seems that the new
combine was secretly organizing, while
the old one was intent upon warding
off the attacks of the Interstate Com
mission as to private car lines and the
Federal grand jury, as to combina.
lions and manner of conduct of their
business, and OF the wholesale butch.
ers, hotel men and other large con.
sumers of meats. The railroads prom.
Use aid, and it may result in final over.
throw OF the trust.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25
Better Not to Have Been Said.


IL 80 OuF-ti : IL ilntfh ht' IL
= "y-hlv. Crittenden Of Missouri,
state executive QoSl-j) had been a
little more considerate in expression
OF hi opinion OF the leading citizens
OF Portland because he and hi. com.
panionS were not received with brass
band, and had carefully concealed the
ohagrin he must have felt when he
said Portland would be better off had
there been n number Of first class fu.
nerals o: prominent citizens before the
world came west Ia see them, we would
not now have to acknowledge that the
man with stamina enough to pioneer
the west is apt to turn the small end
OF the telescope towards the East,
in sizing up its public men, and it
may be that the rcdoubtable Governor
OF PIke-land WAS scarcely distinguish.
able among the many eminent men
who now visit, for the first time, the
wilderness which it has taken half a
century to reclaim. The alleged slight
was not intended; the gruff, coarse crit
icism OF the host was made apparently
with malice prepense, by guest who
in the midst OF the confusion of a
worlds fair, had received only the
formal courtesies extended to all. 1t
was, to say the least, undignified, I'M.
refined, and in execrable taste, and
serves only to stir up a rancor where
only the best Of feeling existed and
should have been maintained.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

Nan Patterson has again broken int
public notoriety through her penchan
for married men, with a roll. The for
mer chorus girl was masqueradinl
under an assumed name at Brighton
Beach, N. ", when she met Duluth
lumberman of means who becam,
snsmored of the beautiful but fickl,
girl and began squandering a fortune
on her. When called by a sister.in
law Of the man, armed with a cowhide
Nan fed the State.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

A California hop-grower estimates
the yield this year in that State at
10000 bales, $1,000 in Oregon and
only 10000 in this State. He esti.
mates the New York crop from opin-
ions of nine farm papers of that State
at $4,000 bales. He says that it is yet
too early to forecast English crops, but
that il it is no more than average there
may be no apprehension, OF unremuu.
nerative prices for this years crop.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-08-25

Prophet Dewey is like the Mormons
at least in one method of government,
and that is by revelation. He now
announces the edict that each mar.
ried couple shall present for baptism
at least one child each year, to aid in
the upbuilding and glory of the true
faith; and to keep his people within
the pale of the church, that all mar
riages shall be solemnized by the
Dowie ritual and that all rites of mar.
riages performed by civil officers shall
be considered void; furthermore, that
all hugging and kissing between young
folks till married, be prohibited.