Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1906-04-13
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Miss Hagner is Mrs. Roosevelt's
private Secretary and her duties cor.
respond, in a social way, to Secretary
Loeb's function in public matters
affecting the President. A sensation
has been created by the discovery tha,
Miss Hagner is on the official payroll.
Some people OF old-fashioned ideas,
seem to think that she should be paid
from the Roosevelt purse instead Of
the public treasury.
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Recent charges against the St.
Louis police have led to an investiga.
ton and it has been found that Ollie
Roberts, a woman as beautiful as she
is wicked, was the main instigator of
much of the corruption. Her deeds
have landed 1.-THE Queen of the Bad.
lands" as she was called. and she is
now engaged in in showing up the
completely Of the police which enabled
her to rob people indiscrimin ately.
But the most astounding feature of
the matter is that although the Queen
is confessedly guilty of the crimes
that has placed ber behind the bars,
that prominent and hitherto respected
citizens by the score are now making
strenuous efforts to secure her release.
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Secretary Hitchcock last week ap.
proved the Tieton irrigation project
in Yakima valley, and set aside out oi
the general reclamation fund $1,75O,.
600 to become Immediately available.
The work will commence as soon az
the department can prepare plans and
specifications for the project. Repre-.
sentative Jones, who has been particu.
larly active in securing approval ol
this project with Senator Ankeny and
other members OF the delegation, in
discussing Secretary Hitchcock's &C.
ton, said: "The definite approval oI
this project is the greatest event fol
our State since its admission. II
means more for our material growth
and development than any other ont
thing that could have happened. I,
is great in itself, but possibly greater
in what will naturally result from il.
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As illustrating the truism that man
kind are, after all. only children ol
mature growth, the telegraph give.
the details of law suit over q little
bantam chick, which is still on, .,
Danville, Illinois. 1t appears that q
man named Bates was . bird .fanciel
to the extent Of importing a setting o
Bantam eggs from the South, som,
time ago. the result Of which was (
specially "cute" little flock of chicks
in which he took great pride. severa
seasons had elapsed when one OF BIZ
hens wandered into the barn of hi
neighbor, McDaniels, and laid an egg
This fact was unknown to the owner
until in the course OF time he discov
cred . bantam scratching and GROWING
in the adjoining yard. It was 90 lik'
his own brood as to fix its identity
In . spirit Of uncomfortable rage
Bates caught the unoffending fowl
wrung its neck and buried it in th,
barnyard. Soon, however, the fact be
came known to the owner of the barn
through some meddlesome witness o
the deed. who Immediately began ,
suit for damages, claiming that al
eggs laid on his premises belonged 4
him, no less than the process which
called the chick into life, and now 81
the amusingly ponderous processes o
the law are being employed to de
termine the relative interests OF th,
contestants. The mother hen ant
her consort were labeled exhibits 4
and B, and the corpus delecti G, ant
strange to relate, exhibit A, laid al
egg in open court exhibit D) afford
ing what the lawyers claim is an i'm
portant circumstance as proving th'
relation of hen and chick. All thi
was too much for the Justice to de
termiue, and he held Bates unde
bond to answer in the higher court
As showing the retsliatory spirit, de
vsloping into possible feud, Bate
has had McDaniel's father.in-law sr
rested for keeping q red.bird in CAD
tivity, which is an infringement o