Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-07-05
The City Council. at its last meet

>. The City Council, at its last meet
-, inr passed an ordinance creating
:. = park commission. lcvying special
, tax of one mill and appropriat
: inr ten per cent. of all fines and IL
: c,r>,.> for park support. ltprovidr>
that the members of the commission
shall serve without pay.
W. K. WhitcSidr. President of the
, Washington UndcrtakcrS .ASsocia.
ton. returned Monday from Port
. land. where he had been i'll attend
ancc at the Oregon State Funeral
Directors Convention. held last week
Tie Washington convention will bt
held al Tacoma. beginning Aug. 1lth
Miss Ncrna Alice Kennedy. daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. c. Kennedy of
this city. and Blaine Edward Me
kcnna, also of Olympia, were mar
ried Tuesday afternoon. The wedding
took place. at Tacoma. After IA sew
eral days bridal trip to lower-Sound
points they will go to housekeeping
here. The STANDARD joins with
many friends of the joyous young
couple in wishing them happiness
and smooth sailing ON their voyage
through life.
1t would seem that our City Coun-
ell is not disposed to make further
concessions in the matter of old
street assessments, on which there
are outstanding warrants. payable
out of special funds. believing that
such reductions might make the city
liable for the balance due on this out
standing paper, claiming that this
method of compromise is in violation
of constitutional law in that the obi
CATION of the contracts cannot be
impaired.
In the case of Geo. y. hoffman VS..
Anna Macleay, tried in the Superior
Court last Saturday, the court in
structed the jury to bring in YER
diet for the plaintiff. The suit was
over a strip of land, lying contiguous
to property claimed by plaintiff and
defendant, forming q part of Four
teenth street. This disposal of the
matter will be declaration that the
street is a public thoroughfare. Mr.
Troy represented Mr. hoffman, and
Major Pelleticr, Mrs. Macleay.
The last Legislature refused to re-
peal the law of 1903, requiring brOk-
ers' contracts for the sale of real
estate to be executed by the owners
| thereof, in writing. ACQUISITION has
arisen whether County Auditor is
authorized to record such agreements
without acknowledgment before
notary public or other officer en-
powered to act in that behalf. 1t is
claimed in numerous instances own
ers hesitate about entering into such
contracts, think the broker ought
to be willing to take their verbal
statements, and act thereon while
the agents claim they should have
some measure of protection for adj
vertising, finding purchasers and
negotiating sales.
Judges T. n. Allen and Byron
Millctt, ThurstOn County Jury Com
missioners, expect to begin work
next week preparing the jury list of
the Superior Court for the year 1907.
Names are taken from the poll lists,
then written on separate pieces of
pastebOard, placed in Il box under
lock and key, and then deposited
with the clerk in open court. The
clerk is required to enter the names
of all eligible jurors furnished by the
Commissioners on the court journal.
Whenever panel is ordered by the
court, the clerk, being blindfolded,
draws the requisite number from the
box, in the presence of the Judge
and Commissioners in the court
room, in full view of the members of
the bar and bystanders.
The law is supreme, and great is
the man who holds the baton of au-
thority. And this thought runs up
against the proposition of the poet,
when he says
But man. proud man,
Drest in little brief authority,
Is oft more ignorant of what he's mos {
assured"
All cities, presumably, have Ordi
nances in restraint of placing adver-
tisements on the telegraph or light
poles that adorn the street corners,
and it is to prevent overgrown boys
from making veritable totem poles
of these very essential uphOlders
o, public utilities, that any restric-
tion is made. Not SO, thought our
ever-vigilant and over-zcalous Chief
of Police who, one day last week,
industriOusly sought out and de-
stroyed the few placards that had
been displayed on boards placed on
the street corners announcing a cele-
bratiOn of the Fourth at q neighbOr-
ing town. Of course these placards
were placed in ''open violation of the
law, and the law is surely supreme,
when represented by the mighty
Chief arrayed in war-paint, with
scalping-knife drawn against imagi
nary foes. 1t is with some gratifiea-
ton it is noted, however, that like
spirit has never been shown by our
sister cities when q like courtesy was
asked for announcing celebration of
our Nations Great Holiday.