Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-02-02
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A movement is on foot to establish
a large college for deaf mutes at Car
ney, Kansas.
The Kentucky Historical Society
have suggested the names Of Abraham
Lincoln and Jefferson Davis for the
kentuckys two war Presidents, rs en-
titled to places in the National Hall of
Fame.
Mayor Dunno, of Chicago, obtained
an affirmative vote Of the City Council,
81 to IS, after al alI-day session on the
18th inst, for municipal ownership of
street railways. 1t apparently now
remains only for two thirds vote OF
the people to sanction the proposition
and make it effective.
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L. N. Hardness, Standard Oil mag
nate, is purchasing much land about
Pasadena, Cal, to make it q place for
erection of winter residences for the
millionaires associated with Mr.. Rock
efeller. A few weeks ago he purchased
Carmileta, one OF the finest residence
properties in Southern California.
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Stricken with blindness at sea, Capt.
Sanberg, of the schooner Falcon, bound
from Ventura to Gray's Harbor, stood
by the wheel and safely steered his
vessel into San Francisco, last week
He had petty officer to take the OBJ
servations, from which he gave orders
to the helmsmen.
The jamestown tricentennial Expo
sition bill asks for an appropriation OF
81 100000 for Government buildings
aud the coinage of 100000 silver
pieces, valued at 50, at the cost of the
metal, thus realizing profit OF about
so per cent, or we'll on to another
million dollars.
The total peanut product OF South
ern fields, gardens and orchards, in
1905, aggregated $l,S0O,O0O0OO in
value. The estimated value of the
corn product OF the South was only
$3.50, 600, 900, and cotton reached but
| 500, 100000. So the little gober
was really king Of that extensive do.
main.
Frederick Power, the actor, who,
six weeks ago, had the tongue and a
large part of the roof OF his mouth
removed BY the surgeons knife, finds
that he can tell stories and sing songs
minus that hitherto considered essen
tial organ of articulation. He expects,
in q month more, to be atle TO resume
his profession.
The Manufacturers Railway Co.,
controlled by the Anheuser- Busch
Brewing Co., are about to open tun.
mel under the Mississippi river, in Or
der to connect its terminals in St.
Louis with its terminals at Chicago
Either the tunnel will be bored or a
bridge constructed for that purpose, at
at cost of $3,OOO,OOO.
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Mrs. Antonette Tolla, who killed q
man for invasion Of her home at
Trenton, N. j.. and had criminally as.
saulted her in the presence of her
children. has been granted a stay OF
execution on the plea OF newly dis.
covered evidence which will relieve
her OF generalization and malice. She
was to have been executed last Friday
Eighty large volumes, containing
the signatures of American women
protesting against Shoots continued
occupation OF q seat in the U. s. Sem
ate, have been filed with that body
They ask his expulsion, on the ground
that he has pledged his first allegiance
to the Mormon Hierarchy, instead oil
the u. s. Government. The names
have been secured by the National
League OF Women's organizations.
And now it is reported that the Japs
have expressed their desire to accept
Christianity. At least that is the in
timation OF the American Tract So.
ciety. Isn't that foxy. The willy lit.
tie fraud is playing that ss . winning
card for conditions that may enable
him to perform the service of the
wooden horse at Troy. He is as de.
ceitful as he is skillful and industrious
and plays the game of life ss he would
a continuous game OF legerdemain.
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At Calumet, Michigan. the Tam.
marick copper mine is on fire. This.
at first thought, will seem almost i'm.
probable as underground fires are as
ISOLATED, almost exclusively, with coal
mines. But the mine contains several
million feet of timber. largely Of pine,
affording ample fuel for q scorcher.
Unless access Of air was shut off from
the lower chambers, three fourths OF q
mile from the surface, the property
will be damaged to the extent of many
millions OF dollars. Several lives were
lost.
1t used to be saying that d" Money
makes the mare CO." but it is now
under denomination that il takes
wealth to make the auto 60 to the top
notch. Alfred G. Vanderbilt is the
manufacturer of the largest and most
powerful automobile in the world.
Theoretically it will be the fastest
one ever built. It's rated power is
$50 horse, and its calculated speed is
more than two and one-half miles in
one minute. Should theory and cal.
culation be borne out by performance,
the Vanderbilt creation will be the
most rapid continuance ever put to.
gether by man.
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A strange marital incident comes
under a date line from Kansas City
wherein it is stated that zone wo.
man did another we'd" John Allaiue
Whitman married Miss Marietta
Jelly, last week, at Independence. 1,
was afterwards ascertaiued that John
was woman, and she was arrested for
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