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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27
Ocean 0reyhounds.

The largest and finest specimen of
marine architecture has Just com
pl,lrd her first trip to New York.
but without lowering the record
which her trial trip and the splendid
start on her voyage seemed To justi
fv. The Lu>itania is 16O feet in
length. which is 80 feet more than
the Great Eastern: - feet breadth.
five, feet more than the first big ship;
eight feet more draft and II 900 tons
more displacement In the indicated
horse power. however. the difference
il much more remarkable The Lu-
sitania POSSESSES 6S.0Oo horsepower.
while the Great Eastern had only
800. and the speed attained is equal
ly marked, standing as 25.5 knots for
the new ship to H. for the old. The
Kaiser Wilhelm der Gross was 62j
feet long, 66 IT, breadth, - feet
draft. ~. $50 displacement. 30, 000 in
Dictated horse power and her speed %
knots on her trial trip: the Dcutsch-
land CO. feet length. 81 feet breadth.
% feet draft. 1850 displacement,
81. 900 horsepower. and her speed
30; the kronprinz Wilhelm. 663
feet long, e. feet broad, 90 feet draft
36, 600 horse power. and speed 23.5;
the Kaiser Wilhelm I.67S length. -
breadth. % draft. $4,000 displace-
men, 5000 horsepower, and speed
23.5. Another record breaker was
the Campania. the first modern ship
to reach GOO feet between perpendic-
ulars. of Is, 900 tons displacement and
30, Gao horse power. She maintained
2l.Ol crossing the Atlantic. Follow
ing are the main features of the large
class of ships since the Great Eastern:
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27
Commission Give Terminal Rates 4 Twist.

Hereafter Gray's HarbOr and Will
lapa will receive Seattle terminal
rates on shipments of hay, oats and
mill feed, if the order of the State
Railroad Commission is obeyed. 1t
likewise recommends that the rate
for wheat and potatoes from all
points on the Spokane and Inland
Railroad, to Seattle, be carried under
a iOint-rate of that and the Great
Northern. for 1911 cents per hundred,
and from the same places by the same
companies to Tacoma, for 1911 cents
per hundred, plus 81 for switching to
the Northern Pacific Railway.
The Commission likewise recon-
mends that in place of the present
rates charged by theO. r. N. to Spo-
pane and the local rate on the Great
Northern or the Northern Pacific
from Spokane to Puget Sound, that
On order be given that no other or
greater charge be made for wheat or
produce shipped from points on the
o. r. N. destined for Seattle, than
are charged from the same zone or
territory by the Northern Pacific
Railway.
1t is expected that the railroads will
appeal to the Federal court, but they
may allow the recommendations to
go into effect, as a petition for re-
hearing may be filed within six
months after the order goes into
effect.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27
GATHERINGS BY THE WAYSIDE


The bar of North Yakima have
unanimously endorsed f.. b. Preble.
Democrat. to succeed II. Il. Riggs.
rs Judge of the Superior Court of
that district
Lillian s., wife of State Senator
George L. Piper. was granted di-
vorce from her husband, this week,
by the Superior Court of King cOun-
ty. 1t was not opposed and legal
separation was effected quietly
Elmer Camden, II years of age.
son of James Camden, of this city,
was injured by Il Northern Pacific
train near Puyallup, Sunday morn
ing, about IL o'clock, and soon after
wards died in the county hospital at
Tacoma.
BY almost unanimous vote the
New York Yacht Club have declined
Liptons challenge for the interna-
tional cup. His proposition embraced
compliance with new rules regarding
dimensions and that the idea of be-
ing mere racing machines be elimi-
mated and competitors should be
cruisers as well as racers.
A prize-fight between f.. Ross of
CentraIia and Perry Query, of Sc
attic was pulled off, Gas the Oiym-
pi"n used to say Sunday afternoon,
in Lewis county, in which the Cen
tralia man knocked out the Seattle
thug on the 10Th round. The mill
was to have been fought at Grand
Mound, but our cvcr-watchful Sher-
if, Thomas Connolly, put a stop to it.
Senator Piles and Congressman
Humphrey were last Monday, pre-
scnted with protest from the deaf
and dumb of Seattle, against late
ruling of the U. S. Civil Service
Commission excluding them from the
list of eligibles for Federal employ.
They maintain that while having
ears they hear not" that they have
eyes and see, and brains and UNDER
stand. They have the promise of
these gentlemen that they will en-
deavor to have the rule excluding
them modified if not rescinded.
A remarkable instance of divine
retribution is shown by the judg-
ment passed upon an ATHEIST and
scotfer, last Sunday, at Ada, Idaho.
Amos Clark had just declared in the
presence of his family and several
neighbors, There is no God" and
thereafter defied the Supreme Being
to punish him. No sooner was this
defiance uttered than he was stricken
and died few minutes later. His
family is composed of Christian boys
and girls, who have been secretly in
structed and trained by their mother.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27
The Destructive Toredo.

1t appears that the torcdo. or ship
worm. has created great havoc with
logs that have been allowed to Law in
salt water an unusually long time.
The operation of these pests is as
interesting as it is wonderful They
bore passages through the logs about
thrcc-cighthS of an inch in diameter
which are sometimes 50 numerous
that the wood resembles an enlarged
piece of sponge and though there
may he hundreds of worms at work
in one log, their passageways never
intcr>cct, but sometimes two Dor
ings are found SO near together as to
he separated by Il mere film The
laborS of this disastrous foe may he
heard at times i'll newly driven piles
by placing the ear against the top
of the pile. The crunch, crunch, of
the sharp cutter of the worm is car
ried distinctly by the vibration of
the wood. rs yet no means have
been discovered to check this deprc-
dator. Soaking piles in coaltar and
saturating the fiber with crcosote
have been tried and serve for while
to protect the wood. Encasing piles
in boiler iron makes them last till the
iron disappears. but that form of pro
lection is too expensive for general
use in building wharves.
1t is reported that in the ClayNIuOt
lumber district, British Columbia.
operations have entirely ceased ow-
ing to the ravages of the toredo.
The worms have ruined all the years
cut of timber in the water. and the
Sutton company report a loss of over
Is, 900. 900 feet.
The Department of Agriculture,
which has been experimenting upon
some method of preventing the raw
ages of the tOredO, have thus far made
no appreciate progress, although
the Forestry Bureau have been ex-
perimcnting for several years. The
annual destruction from this worm
seems to be growing continually
larger
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

History REPEATED. Il is an
nOunced that John ID. Rockefeller is
about to build q sixteen story
church, in Cleveland, Ohio. 1t is
to occupy the site of the Euclid Ave
nue. Baptist church, the Rockefeller
place of warship, and he institutional
in its nature, having gymnasiums,
lecture rooms, club rooms, for both
men and women, childrens' rooms,
training schools for missionaries,
servants and artisans and Il hospital.
This will be outside the present work
of the church which will be continued
as now. The only other lofty build
ing erected with the avowed purpose
of scaling heaven by earthly device,
is related in Chap. XII. of Genesis,
when the tower of Babel was built
on the plain in the land of Shinar.
The scope of the new church is quite
as comprehensive, it will be observed,
and embraces many secular objects
that may lead to q confusion of
tongues, if not in losing sight of
the great object of incubation of the
Divine Spirit. If" Rockey" intends
to scale heaven by that dodge, there
is, we surmise, no more hope of sue
cess for him than for the sons of
Shem, when they rejected the rain
bow of promise Gen. TX, IL, II, Is,
Is, I'D and endeavored to render it
unnecessary by their own earthly
device.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

The Lusitania and the Mauretania
were built for the express purpose of
winning back the blue ribbon of the
Atlantic, wrested from the British
lines by the above named ocean grey
hounds. The British Admiralty ad-
vanced 5000, 900 for construction
of the two ships, and guaranty of
payment Of "a subsidy for mail service,
in consideration of their embracing
such features as would render them
speedily convertible into warships in
the event of war. The turbine en-
CINE seems to be specially adapted to
vessels of this high class.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

PAsTEURIZATION A SHIELD INSTEAD
OF A SAFEGUARD.-Henry l. Colt, of
Newark, N. j., President of the
American Milk Commission, is op-
posed to the compulsory pasteuriza.
ton of milk, as a means of effective
ly improving the supply; that to en-
ploy that means as anything more
than temporary expedient, he
holds, would be undesirable, because
it would relieve the incentive for the
public to compel producers to ac-
cOmplish an Improvement. He says
that To resort to the compulsory
paSteurization of the milk supply in
large cities as protection against
tuberculosis, instead of taking more
radical measures for its eradication
from milk herds: would be protecting
only those who live in the cities and
would expose all who live in the
rural districts. The only real safe
guard lies in the complete eradication
of bovine tuberculosis"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27
M'ashington Standard
OLYMPIA, WASH.
fElDiI MORNING, SEPTEMBER q. 1907.
The Incoming Pest.

1t Seems that the foreign yellow
brown and black pests are receiving
cons ldcrah" cold comfort almost
everywhere. being regarded as the
most DANGEROUS lnyl4dcc that white
labor and AMERICAN citizenship have
YET encountered 1t i tim" that it
were 50 Too long have they been
allowed To- place Themselves in Il posi-
tlun to >ubvert the fact that in this
country the trur sovereign is the in
vidual citizen when enabled to cXcr-
cisc mental and physical control
through the ballot box To build up
Il healthy body. 10y Il reasonable wag"-
rate. is tn" first requisite for Il vi"or-
Gus, discriminating brain. that will
he abb. 10 maintain the cardinal
principles of free government. De-
str"y sclf-reSpcct and pride Of
achievement and the first condition
of S"rfduni is established Our cOun-
try. let il be understood. is IL refuge
for the oppressed of other lands.
only So far as they bring with them
the qualities for assimilation and the
requisite knowledge and incentive,
for free. government.
The issue made by the impcrialists,
who dominate the present Admins
tration. even so far rs the Executive
head was mpcllcd to sanction. by
special message to Congress. the
admission of the Japs to the privi-
lcgrs of citizt n>hip. which would ul-
timately include all political rights.
even to voting. is now upon us for
determination. If the inferior races
are admitted to the ballot it will con-
stitute Il leverage in the hands of the
dominant party. through the trusts
and bosses, to control balance of
power which may end all possibility
of obtaining free expression of the
popular will by the ballot. 1t would
indeed prove 4 travesty on free gov
eminent, leaving only the name,
without the substance, and it would
require only one step farther to place
our governmental system upon the
plane of the old world, with all its
feudalism md caste distinctions.
There are enough inevitable class
differences that have already sprung
into existence, despite their danger,
to cause the true citizen to be alert
in the endeavOr to subvert further
conditions that can have but that eff
feet. The utmost endeavOrs have
been made to place the soldier infiu-
ence under partisan control, nOtwith-
standing our army was composed of
veterans from all parties, and of
many sects. The dominant party
claimed to own the negro vote and
ruled it with rod of iron until it be-
came sufficiently intelligent to dis
tinguish the utter falsity of the
claim. The negroes were, however,
Americans, and had no other nation
to dispute their allegiance or to i'm
pair love and respect for our nation
and its institutions.
1t is, therefore, with satisfaction
that we find the American citizen,
whose welfare depends upon the abil-
ity to sway public policy by power of
his individual vote, united with T.
of Others of like independence, .rt
upon the danger of this pliable ele-
ment getting a fOothold when it can
be shaped like clay to the potter's
design, by those clothed with influ-
ence or supported by wealth.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

Ex-Mayor Schmitz, of San Fran
cisco, has been sentenced by Judge
Dunno, to five years Imprisonment
for extOrtion. The refractory crimi-
nal protested again against the
humiliation heaped upon him by the
Judge in reviewing the crime before
prOnOuncing sentence. AS if such
an unmitigated scoundrel could be hui.
inflated by anything done to secure
his punishment!
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27
Murder OF a Young Woman.

Another Seattle horror is added to
the strenuous developments of that
awfully alive city. The nude body of
a young woman was found in n trunk
on the beach at South Alki. Eaole
Harbor, Sunday, which proved to he
that of Mrs. Agnes Covington. II
years of age, who had been stran-
gled and afterwards placed in the
trunk with some of her bedding and
her clothing, and anchored in the
bay with stones evidently picked up
on the beach. She was the wife of
Frank COvington, for several months
employed in Il liquor house, from
which he is missing. The body had
been in the water several DAYS.
Among the means of Identification
were a sheet found in the trunk with
the letters " a. S." done in red silk
stitching, and Il letter to Frank Gov
lngton, from his sister Edith. in St.
Paul, written on a letter sheet of ].
Is, Covington, Il hay and grain dealer
OF that city. Mrs. Covington was
the daughter of Truman McCombs.
of Vernon. b. c. The police are in
search of Frank Covington, for fur
thcr explanation of the mystery, and
also of Charles Burison, who suisse
quent events connect with the muir
der. 1t appears from circumstantial
evidence, since gathered by the po-
lice, that the crime was committed
between Tuesday afternoon, the 3D.,
and Friday morning, the 9Th, insts.;
that BurilsOn aided the murderer in
the Keswick lodging house and in the
secretion of the body in the waters
Eagle HarbOr; that the motive was
the refusal of the wife to comply with
the husbands demand that she con-
sort with BurilsOn. The prayers of
all righteous people accompany the
officers in their strenuous search for
these iends.
A later dispatch asserts that the
childwife had cOnfided to a friend
that she was more in love with Buril-
son than her husband, and states
that this was the probable cause of
her murder by Covington, through
jealousy, but the improbablity of
such story being true is evident
from the fact quite well established
that the two men were CO. partners in
the crime of murder.
King county has offered 4 reward
of $500 for apprehension of the fugi-
tives, and it is expected the State
will likewise authorize a reward. A
late announcement is that the Seat
tie police have a clue as to their pos
sible whereabouts.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27
President Denies Ordering Cocktails.

1t seems that the Fairbanks cock
tail story does not pass from the
memory by the lapse of time, and
we now find that no less parsonage
than the President of the United
States has deemed it necessary to
make formal statement through
Secretary Loeb, that Bishop Berry,
Of Detroit, is mistaken when he at
tempts to clear Fairbanks by assert
ing that President Roosevelt, noting
the absence of the" American" drink,
supplemented the order for luncheon
by one for cocktails. The disclaimer
of Secretary Loeb is as follows:
THE statement is too absurd to be
given credence. Neither the President
nor his Secretary. either directly or
indirectly. ordered things OF any kind at
the luncheon in question or any other
luncheon where they were guests"
1t is not denied, however, th.t IL
cocktails were served to that number
OF guests of Mr.. Fairbanks, at the
famous luncheon, and the only rea-
sonable explanation of the matter is
that the host realizing the necessity
for a departure from his fixed prin-
ciple for enough to conform to social
usage, was justified by the fact that
he was a candidate for the Prcsidcn-
tial nomination.
But it seems that for some cause or
other, Mr.. Roosevelt is not willing
to take upon his shoulders such
trivial responsibility as ordering the
drinks, even to relieve his frigid
friend, whose vicious appet ite ex-
tends no further than buttermilk,
from the political ostracism of the
Water Saints. The incident Illus
trates the sly, diplomatic nature of
the President, as well as his indefati-
gable industry in allowing no Incl
dent to slip which may probably,
though even remotely, enter into
future political trends.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

SENATOR-ELECT BOrah, of Idaho.
has been caught in the same net that
probably brought Senator Mitchell to
an untimely death. He has been in
dicted for subornation of perjury in
promoting frauds in land entries, and
it seems the evidence may sustain the
charge. If so, he may never don the
Senatorial toga, and the newspapers
would be more correct in referring
to him as Senator-elect, than Us they
have done by giving him the " Ken
lucky Colonel compliment that
would lead to the belief that he has
been full-fedsed Senator.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

Both San Francisco and Seattle
have passed ordinances for extermi.
nation OF rats, of the four-legged
kind. 1t seems that both cities are
undermined by them as completely
as Frisco" was by the Chinese.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

FEDERAL Judge Lands has granted
complete immunity to the Chicago
and Alton railroad people from pros
ecution for rebates, in consideration
of their having turned States evil
dence for conviction of the Standard
Oil Co. He has also ordered Presi-
dent Moffatt, of that company in In
diana, to appear before him and JUS
tify his statement that for fifteen
years other companies had been ship.
ping freight under the same circum-
stances as for which his company had
been held responsible. The Judge
announced that if this be true, he will
Immediately have indicted all officials
found implicated.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

ADVANCE IN PRICES OF FOOD.-The
beef trust, whose headquarters are at
Chicago, has served notice on whole
sale meat dealers that all meats, ex-
cept pork, will be advanced three or
four cents pound. This increase
comes on top of succession of ad-
vances made during the present year.
The present price of beef is said to
be the highest in the memory of
man; POrter-house steak sells at
from % to 80 cents pound; lamb
the same, and mutton % cents.
Canned goods have also advanced
from four to six cents, on each can,
and this spirit of unrest has even
assailed the "pie-counter," and is
shown by cutting the ration to each
customer from a fourth to sixth of
the circular depositary of CASTRO
nOmic sweets.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

A TEST OF METHODS OF RENEWING
FOREST GROwTH.-It is the intention
OF the Forest Service, Department,
of Agriculture, Washington, to col
lect 80, 600, 900 seeds of forest trees,
this season, to be used for broadcast
sowing and planting in the Forestry
Service nurseries. They began this
collection the LIST of this month and
will continue it during October. 1t
is to be made specially in Montana,
Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Cali
fOrnia, Oregon and this State. The
broadcast sowing will be expert
mental, to test the extent to which
this method of renewing the forests
may be used on the denuded lands
in the West. Fir, spruce, larch,
cedar and yellow pine, are the varie-
ties most needed. One method of
gathering the seeds is said to be by
rObbing the squirrels nests.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

SIX survivors of the crew of the
American bark Prussia, wrecked
on a barren rock near Cape Horn,
several months ago, bound for Port
Townsend, have arrived in New
York. They had spent over q month
on Staten Island, a long bleak row
OF mountains that rise abruptly out
OF the Atlantic ocean, some miles
east of Cape Horn. Four of the ten
members of the crew were lost by
drowning and starvation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

THE trial of Dell, at Bellingham,
last week, for alleged killing of Miss
Addie Roper, in Blaine, last Janu-
airy, resulted in verdict of murder
in the second degree, after q con-
sideration of 48 hours. The verdict
was, of course, a compromise, owing
to doubt of the defendant being the
guilty party, and is wrong in princi-
pie. If he is guilty, the punishment
is too light; if not guilty, it is an
objectionable sin to punish him at
all
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

ANTI-AsIATIC feeling is said to be
stronger in British Columbia than
anywhere else on this Coast. The
only restraint that seems to be felt,
is towards the Hindus, and that is
out of Difference to the home govern
ment, which will not protect other
heather aliens.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

TIE Standard Oil attorneys are
trying to "liquidate" the twenty
nine million rebate fine imposed by
Judge Lands on the immunity plea.
Doubtless Hockey will resort to
any baby act' to save his millions.
although they are so many he does
not know what to do with them.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

A MAN named Charles w. Funk, q
carpenter at Tacoma, had $500 stolen
from a baking-powder can, last Tues
day. A failure of bank in which he
had q deposit in 1902, induced him to
adopt this apparently safe means of
boarding his wealth.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

A LATE San Francisco dispatch
seems to think that the mobilizing
of the American fleet in Pacific
waters is for floating protest against
Japan's contemplated seizure of
China. 1t seems far more probable
that the Philippines is the coveted
prize, which might justify the move
ment of the fleet, as does not the
championship of the yellow against
the brown race. To :avOid all en-
tangling alliances" used to be good
political doctrine before imperialism
become an object of the dominant
party.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

SEATTLE has made the discovery
that while prize-fights are prohibited
by State law, that wrestling matches
are not and-thereby may hang a
tale, as time passes on.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-09-27

The local Secretary of Japanese
Korean Exclusion League of Belling-
ham has become a raving maniac and
been committed to the asylum at
Fort SteilacOOm.