Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-10-11

Leopold SchmidtS lawyers. recent,
Y met with Il severe injury in street
| ear accident at his home city. which
Y was the occasion of postponing tn,
I consideration of some important lit
CATION in which Mr. Schmidt is in
trr'>t''l before the Superior Court o
E this county Judge Pipe expects t,
. h" on hand during the last week o
the present month.
\ fire broke out in the boiler room
OF the I. W. Lake. ON her trip her,
Monday with IA cargo of pis-iron
which for time seriously menaceC
the life of the crew After the most
desperate fight with the flames. they
were subdued. and the lives as wei
as steamer and cargo. were saved
To add to the danger there were
3o0 cases of gasoline and coal oil
stored on the deck
The City Council. Monday evening.
did its share towards giving an i'm
petuS to the making of tOwn-lotS at
the head of EastSide inlet of the bay.
and dredging an east channel by the
same process. 1t expressed Sympa-
thy for the efforts being made and
appointed Il committee consisting of
Gordon Mackay. c. ]. Swayne and
{. ID. King. to ascertain the cost
of the different items. the best way
of making the improvements and
how the same shall be paid for. "
Aye, there is the rub! Advice is
cheap, but the bare suggestion of an
easy way of digging up is ex-
ceedingly hard.
Boston Harbor town-lOt sale opened
last Sunday, and it is said Il fair sale
of lots was made. The trouble is.
however, in the exploiting of such
enterprises, to ascertain just how
many of these sales are Jonn f,k and
the proportion that is announced for
boosting purposes. a Sunday ex-
cursion may serve to excite the con-
fidence i'll baseball fans but surely
the dissertation of the Sabbath for
launching tOwn-lot bOomS does not
afford the most convincing assurance
of success. 1t is reported that two
or three Olympia doubtcrs were
threatened with expulsion from the
grounds for pcrSisting in lifting the
lid far enough to see what was within.
The Green Stamp Company seem
to he making superhuman efforts to
get retrial of their suit against the
hoffman Mercantile Company of
this city. for libel. One of the
charges they urge of unfairncss is
that the jury were guests of Mr.. Mott
man at Savoy theater performance,
after they had rendered their verdict.
Why should they not have been? 1t
was but a very natural impulse of
clvllity to extend some courtesy I'M
der the circumstances. In fact il
would have been violation of social
amenities not to have shown the men
so intimately connected with the
lengthy case in which he was inter-
eSted some manifestation of graft
tude.
The case of Charles Vietzen against
John L. Otis and wife, suit to quiet
title to valuable real estate situated
at the corner of Franklin and Fifth
streets, came up for hearing this
week on the renittitur from the SUI
preme Court. before Judge Linn
The lower court is directed to enter
judgment in favor of Mr.. Vietzen
quieting title, on condition he re-
fund Otis and wife the amount of
money with interest that they have
paid in taxes. There is, however, a
question whether defendants (Otis
and wife) will be subrOgated in place
OF the county for the full amount of
delinquent taxes, Or IL will simply
be limited to the amounts actually
paid The lawyers may have the
opportunity of arguing the PROPOSE
ton of subrOgatiOn.
The Supreme Court, Tuesday, sus-
tanned the Governor in revokiug
conditional pardon of Spencer,
Spokane man, serving term of
thirteen years for murder in the
second degree, in killing waitress
named Mundt. 1t was represented
to the State Executive that Spencer
was in dying condition. 1t turned
out, however, that the prisoner
illness was not serious as report
cd, whereupOn the Governor re-
vOked the pardon, rs was stipulated
in the document as reserve power,
and Spencer was arrested and
placed in prison to serve out the
term. Spencer brought habeas corpus
proceedings to evade this act. The
Supreme Court was divided upon the
point, however, the opinion sustain
ing Judge Brents and denying the
writ being signed by Judges Mount,
Hadley, Crow and Root. and those
dissenting were Judges Rudkin, Full
lerton and Dunbar, who hold that
the respondent failed to show any
violation of the conditions upon
which the pardon was granted.
The local physicians have formed u
combine and increased all their
former rates about % per cent.
People will have to eschew that bad
habit of getting sick, especially if
they live at Yelm, Rainier or TeninO,
when twenty-dollar gold piece will
have to be cOughed up before the
prescription is swallowed, and if you
live at BucOda the cost will be $25.
Confinement cases bear minimum
charge of $25 (what the maximum
may be is not stated to inaugurate
the preliminary responsibility of &c.
600 to be expended in costs till ma
turity of the offspring. Night visits
in the city must bear (the Ners is
our authority 81 per tinkle of the
dOor-bell, and if the applicant resides
at Tumwater, IS per tinkle of the
telephone bell. At least that is the
surmise, as an instance is recorded
wherein q son of Esculapius refused
to stir from his bed unless q fee of
SIS was guaranteed. 1t is not our
intent to give full list of prices. for
the doctors have decreed, by formal
resolution, that it does not pay to
advertise in newspapers. 1t seems,
however, from evidences, that the
former rates have been by no means
unremunerative.