Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-04-20
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON: FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 90 1905

""u peSan practlclng there.
Wish Clarence Bagley or Tom Proscl
could find in their searchings anon
the old records what his first law cas-
was. The first dollar he ever earne
in Washington was for framing tn
tlmbers for the old Ward sawmill il
Iumwater. Mr.. Wards partner, R
NJ. Walker and his wife were oil
friends, and they besought father t
stay in Olympia few weeks and hel
them out, rs they could get no one t
frame the mill-and father was q prae
tical mill man, be had built his ow
sawmill in Wisconsin in the earl
days-they gave him $5 a day, bi
money then. Father was not a car
penter, as has been often said, but jus
handy with tools and liked to us
them. think aside from his lay
practice he did more surveying thar
anything else.
Two months before his death, from
the west window of his room, w
watched the mill burn down and b.
told US how he helped build it, ant
how he found in Mrs. Ward almos
one of his own people. They hat
lived in the same neighborhood il
New York. Old DIR. Stacy had beer
the family doctor of both families
Mrs. Ward knew his brother ant
many OF his friends. Meeting so ia
away from them all, you can imagine
how they talked. Many times die
Mr.. and Mrs. Ward sit by his bedside
and 60 over the early days together. ]
wish l had realized that every WORD
would be valuable and the ones who
could tell Of those times were fast
passing away; how much would have
stored up in my own memory. Father
never forgot anything but names
dates, faces and incidents never es.
capped him. 1 can remember he and
Mrs. Judge McFadden sitting before
the fire with big dish OF apples be-
tween them, eating and talking. She
too had wonderful memory. Mrs.
McFadden would begin, "Judge, you
remember such year, on such q day,
something had occurred" and he
would answer, Eyes, and that winter
it began to snow on such day, and
tlay on tho ground three weeks" No
one ever interrupted them, for all
were glad to listen to the old.time
stories and jokes they would recount
by the hour, often laughing until the
tears would roll down sheir cheeks.
Although q Lawyer, father used to
say " keep out OF lawsuits" and told
how once in Wisconsin . man owed
him $3.50. Asking tho man to pay, be
got wratho-how history does repeat
itself-and refused to pay at all. II
was twenty below zero, the nearest
justice seventeen miles away. Father
walked both ways, sued the man and
got his money. Later he brought suit
against another man who had built q
dam above his that injured his water.
power. That time he won 81 500. and
Il enjoyed beating the FIRST man fal
mOre." he would say. How often ]
have heard him tell that story to some
belligereut person who was going &c
sue q man "before night" then he
would argue the question with hin,
try and cool him down, tell him it wal
very easy to get into law but hard to
get out, 60 and see the other man in
the case, and usually settled it between
them. / have known him to survey
land that was in dispute, and preven
long tedious litigation, and both par
ties would abide by his decisition. The
lawyers used often to tell him he in'
teriered with the business and they
would have to suppress him; but his
motto was, IF you think OF going to
law, don't"
When my father first came here
he crossed the plains with mules
When they reached the Grand Ronde
Valley his partner, L. F. Thompson
felt that he must help his sister and
her husband with his team, so fathe,
took two mules, packed one and rode
the other. The mules were in good
condition, and he pushed on oil alone
for six hundred miles to the Columbis
river, hoping to send help back to the
train, if they did not get through be
fore the snow fell. They came al
right, for they were . we'll equipped
party. have often heard him tell d
the joyous meeting with them in Port
land. Their anxiety for fathers safety
had been as great as WAS their graft
tude to him for undertaking such &
perilous trip in their behalf. One day
while on his way from the Crane
Ronde, he met old Pe.Pe Mox.Mox
The old chief told him what grea
man he was, and how the horses as fal
as they could see were his own. Faith
er thought there were three thousant
of them, and taking . little telescope
he looked at them. OF course th'
chief wanted to look too. His wonder
and admiration were boundless and ir
the sign language he made father un
derstand he wanted to buy the glass
He did not wish to part with it, so h'
said ten dollars. The old chief pulled
out ten dollar gold piece and handel
it to father, who used to say. "WhI
did 1 not charge him twentyf"
concluded next week.
THERE are 1000 OF the Philippine
islands.