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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-10
COUNCIL DODGES
I FURTHER BLAME
Refuses to Approve New Con-
tract Form Which Deprives
Contractors of Easy Money.
BOARD ORDERS BLANKS
LEGAL TESTS DELAY WORK.
WILL STEM TREASURY DRAIN.

The contract form devised by the city
attorney to comply with the law regu-
hating special improvements passed by TIE
last legislature, has been ordered printed
by the board OF public works. nOtwith-
standing the fact that it has not been
approved by the council. The necessity of
having some sort of form ready for con-
tractors when bids for new work are re-
eeived July Is Is, however. evident and
the board could hardly have done other
wise, as the council has delayed approval
hntiI too late
The squabbie over the form is by no
means ended, however, and IT seems that
before any contracts are awarded there
will be enough pickering to prevent any
of the work being done this year. The
pickering in this instance Will serve two
purposes; IL will prevent 10 some extent
the further depletion of the treasury and
Will place the onus Of doing the work on
The next administration.
May Lose Much easy Money"
As has already been indicated the new
form Of contract is not liked by the cOun-
til because Ii contains a provision which
will compel the city and not the property
owners to pay all bills for extras. In the
past such favored contractors as p. J,
Moran and others have been allowed
large extra" accounts and have flour
ished because OF it Now all this velvet
must be paid out Of the city's strong box,
weak box il might now more appropriate
~ be called, and the abutting property
owners will be relieved. This feature has
made the form drawn by the attorney de-
tidedly unpopular and no doubt some ac-
tiou will be taken to hold up any con-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-10
Sixty Years Experience of an Old
Nurse,

Mrs Winsiows Soothing Syrup is the
prescription of one of the best female
physicians and nurses in the United
States and has been used for sixty years
with never-failing success by millions of
mothers for their children. During the
process of teething its value is incalcu-
liable. IT relieves the child from pain
cures diarrhoes, gripping in the bowels
and wind collie. BY giving health TO the
child it rests the mother. Price, % cents
a bottle.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-10

Ask for that NEW BREAD at your
grocery. Vienna Walnut Bread.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-10
STEEL TIES BEING USED.
Street Railway Company Will Ex-
pertinent with One Mile Of Them.

The street railway company has decided
to experiment with the use of steel ties
here. One mile Of track on lower Main
and State streets are TO be laid with the
heavy ties at once and the effect of the
heat and cold and of the soil on them
noted. If the ties prove satisfactory it is
probable that several hundred thousand
will be ordered for use on local and sub
urban lines.
1t is contended that the steel ties excel
the wooden ties in practically every way.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-10
PECK VISITS THIS CITY.
General Passenger Agent of Salt Lake
Route Arrives.

Thomas Peck, general passenger agent
of the Salt Lake route. arrived here yes
terday after a six weeks visit in the
east where he attended the meeting of
the officials of the great passenger lines
of the country.
Mr.. Peck will remain here until Gen
eTal Traffic Manager Wann joins him
Thursday, coming from Chicago.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-10

Ask your grocer to send you Royal
Bread The crown label is on every
loaf.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-10

tracts awarded until this phase of the
matter can be settled to the satisfaction
of the favored contractors.
The worst trouble has been experienced
because Of the provision of the contract
which compels all bidders to insert the
amount estimated by the engineer for ad-
vertisinS, engineering and other incidental
expenses. Thus if q contractor intends TO
bid $4,000 on job and the engineer says
it will cost $1.OO0 for incidentals the bid
must be for S1l.00O When the contractor
is paid the $3.50 will be deducted from
the amount he is to receive
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-10
Will Decrease Advertising Cost.

The greatest trouble is that if any
property owner wishes to contest il will
undoubtedly mean that bids for advertis-
ing must be solicited, which viii mean
that the administration organ will be un-
able to charge the present extOrtiOnate
rates, which the property owners must
pay. The cost of advertising is made an
integral part of the new contract. The
law requires that In all contracts for pub
lie work bids must be solicited. In this
instance bids are only solicited for the
actual construction and the advertising
and engineering expenses are arbitrarily
inserted. the advertising being whatever
the administration organ wishes to charge
the already overburdened taxpayers.
II is doubtful whether any court will
hold that such an arrangement is good
and it is feared by the 'reformers'' that
# the contract Is approved in It's present
form that their organ will suffer serious
Iy- Such a division of a contract. part be
ing open to competition and the other pa TT
being determined by the prices which an
administration organ may deem fitting.
has heretofore been generally froWHed on
by courts, and there does not seem to be
any reason why. If a contest should be
started. the present scheme would not
meet the same fate. The 'TefOTmers
appreciate the situation, too and as a re
suit there have been two secret meetings
held by the faithful to consult over the
matter. The action of the board of
works in ordering the contracts printed
so as TO be ready when bids come in, has
upset some calculations, and il seems evi-
dent that the council will resent this
"haSty and iii advised" action on the part
Of the board. "Hasty' because it has
given the "reforners' in the council no
time for cogitatiOn. and ill advised" be
cause It seems liable to deal a body blow
a their organ.
The result will probably be that either
the time for the reception of bids will be
again postponed OF the bids when received
will be held up until some more favora-
II a
combined ingenuity of the administra-
ton. The latter course will probably be
pursued, as 1t Will not look well to again
postpone the consideration Of bids
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-10
Il Is a Good Time Now

To see us about that wall paper and
painting. W. a. DUVALL,
Both phones. ITO w. I'd So.
Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
STATE UNIVERSITYLETTFR
The State University Secures Some
Valuable Historical Records

SEATTLE, Dec. 16. Professor 4.
S. Meany of the University of Wash
ington, who is compiling the historical
data of the Northwest and of Alaska,
has been presented by Maj. Gen. A.
W. Greedy with all the published
reports of former commanders of the
Department of tn, Columbia.
the records cover all military
activities in the Northwest and in
Alaska since 1778, and include reports
of the Nez Perez campaign of that
year, the Bannuck war of 1879, the
Chinese riots on Puget Sound in 1886,
and the mining troubles in the Occur
d'Alene's in 1892.
Among the commandments who
made the reports are Nelson A. Miles
in 1884, than Brigadier General.
Brig. Cen. E. S. Otis. of PHILIPPINE
fame, was in command in the North=
west during 1896. Maj. Gen. Win.
A. Shafter, who conducted the Santiago
campaign, was in charge in 1899 and
1900 and Bri. Cen. Frederick Funston,
the man who captured Aguinaldo,
commanded the Department of the
Columbia in 19O3-O4. The reports of
these men are of great historically value.
Gen Greedy has also granted per-
mission to the Washington State His
torical Society to copy all the manu-
scripts and records kept at Vancouver
Barracks. These records date back to
the founding of the post in the early
fifties, when U. s. Grant was q
lieutenant and assistant quartermaster
there.
The old English style Of staging the
drama will be revived the last Of
December at the Univsrsity Of WASH
ington, by tie Sophomore students Of
Shakespeare under direction Of Dr.. F.
n. Padelfocd.
Twelfth Night" and "As Yoa
Like IT, will Be given. Following tie
old custom no scenery or stage settings
will Be used. All changes Of sasnes
an1 sets viii Be Indicated By card
signs hung On tie stage.
The womsn's symnasium will b
altered to represent Tie Hall Il he
Ai6dls Temple where Twelfth Night
was 1rst stagsd. Ths east q Twelfth
Night q mined. bee IN A Yeu Like
Il, wsosn stuasnes will Assume bsth
Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL

"Thc Gift of Gifts" will be the
subject of the morning sermon at the
First Congregational Church. The
girls choir will sing several beautiful
Christmas Carols. 1.-THE Nativity"
Adams Geibel's splendid Christmas
Cantata will be rendered in the even
ing by "a chorus choir of twenty voices.
There will be solos by Mr.. Sapp. Miss
Mcintyre and Miss Harer, between
parts one and two Rev. w. M.
Proctor will give reading from lie W
Wallace's Ben Hur. entitled "The
Shepherd and the Angels. The Sum
day before Christmas is one of the
annual occasions when everyone
ought to attend a church service some
where. We give you cordial invit-
ton to worship with us this year.
Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
male and female characters.
Denny Field, where the chan

/
Denny Field. where the champion.
ship football games of the University
of Washington are played, will hardly
be recognized by old students. A
high board fence has been built around
the field, and the big north bleachers
rooted and converted into grand
stand by squads of students. On the
south, the old bleachers have been
extended westward to make room for
more rooters.
"The Knight of the BurningPestle"
an old English drama will be given
by the members of the Senior Class at
the University some time in February.
This will be the first time this play
has ever been produced on the Pacific
Coast and will be given with the old
Elizabethan staging.
A gallery will be constructed in the
University library during the Christ
mas holidays in order to make room
for Is, 900 books which are now kept
in the basement. This will double
the shelving capacity of the library
and give students free access to all
the books.
By the completion of a wireless
telegraph station on the campus of the
University of Washington, Seattle
becomes link in a chain of wireless
stations which will encircle the earth.
The erection of the massive 200 foot
pole with the bungalow at its base
was completed the first of the week
and Supt. Cooper is now installing
the instruments and apparatus.
The station here is the last in a
system extending from Panama along
the Pacific Coast to Alaska, thence to
Russia and ultimately betting the
world.
The new addition to the campus will
serve both practical and theoretical
purposes. BeAides keeping the North,
west in touch with the world and
aiding TIE maritime industry, It will
be open 70 study by students Of the
University.
In the bungalow containing the In.
stEuments and operatoe's room will Be
. compartment psFtitiooed ~ BY.
glass for tie use Of visitors.
Ths buildsss sxpect 70 have lie
keys in operation within . week.
Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
Christmas Gift Giving

Shall we abolish Christmas? The
day Of hallowed joy is becoming day
of sordid expenditure and dread, we
are told by the eastern writers, and
the active powers that are on the trail
of all our extravagant taxation may
fairly consider whittier are we tend
ing. OF course, our Puritan ancestors
foresaw this. The pagan tendency, as
the pagan origin of the day was duly
considered by them and its grand
festivities held ever in allegiance to
the thanksgiving celebration, which
they more securely fathered. More
over. that society would effectually
take the day out of their hands and,
with forms and edicts more binding
than the laws of the Modes and Per-
SLAMS, determine the nature Of its
observance they ~shrewdly OWNED.
So now the expected has happened,
and a nation like the Greeks, "bear-
ing gifts, presents itself as the main
spectacle for the Christmas festival /;
only, unlike the wise and happy
Greeks the gifts are SO i'll proportional
or perfunctory that the very end of
giving is lost in them. Wherefore a
day of rejoicing is turned to day of
taxation and dread and social victims
are sending appeals to public writers
and speakers to help them out of the
net of conventions and obligations
in which they have become entangled.
On general principles and to an OBJ
server from the outside, this cutlery
against expenditures and costly gifts
that are at the seeming option of the
individual, wears curious complec-
ton. 1t is not strange to find voice
from the broad, free west declaring
that "no one but compound lnnatic"
need be caught in the folly of the
gift that "disjoins the purse; but
clearly, that nice matter of wiping
out obligations in the house of mirth
which selfrespecting souls are called
upon to face, is not taken into the
reckoning.
Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
festival in more vital manner than
the stern Puritan. ever intended.
PRELIMINARY SYMPTOMS.

PRELIMINARY SYMPTOMS.
1.-The air of mystery mother wears
these days when you come around is
not to be taken as evidence of hidden
guilt; she just has the preliminary
symptoms of Christmas, bless her,"
says one lingering believer in the
good old fashiond Christmas, and
the saving hope, indeed, is that while
there are mothers and children left to
our troubled earth, the holy mother and
her wonderous babe will not lack
hearts to celebrate the Bethlehem mys-
terry. No society cutlery against Christ
mas shams and follies of it's own devils
ing can blur the hope and splendor of
that hour in the trembling mother
heart. nor kill the awe and tenderness
Weakened in the child's pure soul by
the wondrous story. The real end of
the social revolt will be but to gather
the Yuletide jewellers more securely
in fireside hooks and ancestral halls,
where, perhaps, the better spirit of the
Christmas festival may return to
them.
Trust the little ones, too, who
gather about that altar, to resolve the
problem of the Christmas gift. "Val-
ues are in the mind alone" says a
very sage philosopher, eff trinket
please you, you are wise in exchang-
ing for word that annoys you," but
it is in the child world alone that
the sterling worth of the reflection
shines forth. Observe the petted darl
ing, turning from the costly gifts
world of rich relatives can lavish upon
her to hug some plaster dog or mooney
ed doll in ecstacy to her bosom. The
thing that pleases you, whether as
baby or man, is the thing of value, and
a season that brings carloads to annoy
you, is season gone mad and waiting
only some god to redeem or destroy
it. That help should come from the
world, for the divine child's festival.
seems not Inappropriate, and to/get
back to the simplicity and honesty of
the little child in this question of
Christmas gifts and celebrations would
certainly do away with the "dread"
so loudly expressed, and let little of
the old-time light and gladness in.
1t seems curious that this Christmas
trouble should spring from the more
prosperous ranks of life; but, perhaps,
like the complication of things which
gave the colored brother his Christmas
chicken, because the possum ate the
chicken and he caught the possum,
the Christmas lost in the palace may
be found in the cot, and the season
of hope and gladness when "the bird
of dawning singeth all night long"
not quite torn from US, after>all.
Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
SOME FOOLISH GIFTS.

On the dressing case of the fashion
able hostess young lady, rather new
to the ways of society, noticed most
superb jewel case, presented by lady
quite unlike and unrelated to her re-
cipent, and as she paused to admire it,
the hostess said, with an air Of an. .oy-
ance, Handsome yes; came Christ
mas. Mrs. likes to exchange
gifts" AS the young lady was a
daughter of the hostess school friend,
she received the remark rather in con-
fidence, but the meaning of it colored
her social obligations for months to
come and spoiled the nice little re-
membranes that her first Christmas
: in society brought her.
Neither art nor grace remains to
save such customs, and to keep peace
with the little Japs and study some
of their nice arts of giving, as the
travellers report them,j would be worth
while, if no nearer help is at hand.
"Giving is passion, an exhileration,
an art with the Japanese, says re-
cent recipiene of their hospitality, and
in glowing terms she sets forth the
fine tact and thoughtfulness with which
the gift is offered. But when you
search for the secret of it you find the
warm and loving heart at it's core
still so, after, all, one might stay at
home and cultivate the graces of low
ing and giving, even as the delightful
orientals declare them.
Moreover, whether it be true or not,
as the gentle Thomas Haywood has it,
that "he loves me best that calls me
love-" a few lawful privileges in that
direction would certainly make superb
jewel cases and the like more graceful
from any donor.
One thing is certain in the whole
problem, and that is, that, resolved 10
its true and sane character, the joy
Of giving is one Of the redeeming
glories of human life, which the
angels themselves might envy man.
When all other pleasures Of time pale
in the declining years. the joy Of
making others happy. Of giving good
gifts to men can illumine tie sky with
. CLEAN that takes hold Of eternity.
That It should shine for both old and
young in Tie Christmas Ky. which u
radiant with the everlasting light Of
tie heavenly gift 10 indisputable. and
to peTvert or forbid the o6erings Of
love end good will upon some aitar.
however hanble. which Tie day In.
spires, 10 to striks. at. ths. CArisEnss
Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
Biq Wheat Ranch Sold

Last Thursdays Chronicle contained
the following item of interest to our
readers in. the"pa handle" of Adams
County:
One of the largest farm deals that
has been consummated in the Palouse
country recently was closed yesterday,
when A. d. Miller, a newcomer from
Minnesota, bought 800 acres of land,
three miles east of Othello, in Adams
county, for $4,000. The land was
bought from w. F. and J H. Riemen-
schneider.
All of the land is in cultivation,
except 80 acres, and this is to be
broken by the new owner. There are
800 acres of fall wheat and 40 acres
ready for spring sowing. The crop
this year consisted of 400 acres, which
was "stubbled in," that is, sown in
the stubble with a drill without the
land having been plowed, and the yield
was "a bushels an acre.
All Of the land il fenced. The buyer
will make it his home. There il only
4 threeroom house on the place. The
new owner will build good, modern
house. . large barn, outbuiAings,
sink . we'll, put up . windmill and
plant orchard, expanding about 5000
in making the place . thoroughly i'm
proved farm. The deal was made by
Barker Upton.
Reimenschneider Bros. were pFomin.
ent real .estate men Of Lind who form.
eriy fssmed big wheat ranch in the
Othello district. only recently moving
to Spokane where they now reside.
W. F. Riemensshneider will be Ne
membesed - tie ressbaican candidate
foe County Clerk in tie 1904 campaign.
Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
CHURCH NOTES.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
CATHOLIC SERVICE.

Father Cunningham, of Sprague, APP
pointed by the Bishop for this parish,
will hold services in Ritzville on the
third Sunday in each month. Instruc-
ton for children in the forenoon.
Washington State journal. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-19
ODESSA NOTES.
(From the Record.)

Rev. Hoffman was visitor at Spo-
kane Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Black were
visitors at Spokane yesterday.
F. J. Hoagland was a visitor at
Spokane over Sunday
c. M. Smith was visitor in the
city Wednesday from Quincy.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. F. Logsdon on Saturday
Dec. Z.
Andrew Wagner and wife were
visitors in the city Tuesday from
north of Krupp.
John Weisgerber and wife of Harr-
ington Sundayed in the city, the guests
of relatives.
DR.. Gauson reports the birth of a
son to Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Lightbody,
on Saturday, Dec. Z.
David Quasmann and wife expect to
leave today for their former home in
South Dakota to spend the holidays.
Anton German and PHILIPPINE Hawk
were married at Spokane last week,
returning to Odessa Saturday. The
groom has ranch southeast of town,
where they will make their home.
John Reimann left Odessa Monday
for Bismarck and other points in
North Dakota. He will be gone about
two months.
Rev. Rieke and family arrived last
Saturday from Puyalup and are again
dcmiciled in their former home on the
hill near the school house.
W. l.. kellum was visitor in the
city yesterday from Spokane. He
reports his family all we'll and city
life certainly seems to agree with him
as we never saw him looking better.
A son of Henry H. Becker, ranch
err living south of town, had his leg
broken Wednesday by having it
caught in one of the revolving wheels
of the wagon on which he was riding.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Schmidt, who live southwest of
town, died Monday. its life was of
short duration. being born only about
ten days previous.
William Schmauder and Lizzie Har-
dong were united in marriage at the
German Lutheran church Sunday by
Rev. Rieke. The bride is daughter
of Jacob HARDING, we'll known ranch
er living south of town and the groom
has ranch in the same vicinity, where
they will make their home.
l.. C. Weik has purchased small
acetylene gas plant for lighting his
house and the same was installed this
week. II. G. Phillips is also prepared
to install gas light in his house, ex-
pecting to connect the same with Mr..
Weik's plant.
A.A. Leslie returned Monday even
ing from n deer hunting expedition
down the river from Newport. He
says the weather was not favorable to
good hunting as heavy fog hung
over the woods during most Of his stay
and the absence of snow made it hard
to track the game. Snow began falling
just before he left and the other
members of the party. Levi Schoon-
over and James Dillon, decided to re-
main behind in the anticipation of bet
ter hunting.
Wright & Holmes are laying floor
this week in the basement under the
new annex at the school house, which
is used by the children as play
room. 1t was thought at the time
the annex was built that this would
not be necessary but the sand and grit
the children accumulate on their feet
there is carried to all parts of the
building and has been scuffed about
until it has nearly ruined the floors
and stair steps.
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BAPTIST.

Services mel It Sabbath as follows
s. School At 10 q. m; Preaching al
II q. m; Subject, The First Advent.
Junior Society at 8 P. N. Organising
the Kingdom. Bible reading. Willie
Stops. Lesson Story, Emma Bruce.
All children are invited to join in
the Study Of the life Of Christ. There
will be 4 Christmas Cantata given BY
tie s. School. The time and Program
will b announced Sabbath next. b.
Y. P. U. society will meet Sabbath
at 8 % pm. Preaching 1t Z % pm.
Subject Clonds Without Rain. All ars
Cordially invited, T. J. Collins.
The subject for tie service at tie
Esb rssideaee Dee. e, at 3 O'Clock,
will be, Tia Christian Race. 'Cottags
prayer nssting Il Is hsnst q c. ".
Hammond. Tuesday evening. Dec.
3>eh. All sre cordially invited.