Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-03-08

three wears. for tmbeZzlement. Elk.
ceptionally good conduct is the cause
for executive clemency. He has like
wise committed the sentence of Eric
Johnson. sentenced for one year for
an attempted rape, by the Whatcom
county court. whereby the sentence
is shortened one-third. on the ground
that the assumed victim married an
other man the day after the alleged
assault. Wherein that constitutes a
palliation is not clear to the average
mind.
Miss Olive Davis. whose home is
on Eastside, met with severe acct
dent from a runaway team, on Cham
bers Prairie, Tuesday afternoon. She
was returning from the Manner resi-
dence where she had been visiting a
week. and while driving, the pole
broke and the team ran away The
wagon was thrown against Il tree and
overturned, and Miss Davis had IN
ankle broken and her shoulder badly
bruised. She tainted when the team
began to run. and was thrown under
the wagon and dragged about &C
yards. The wonder is that she was
not more seriously injured.
The attention of the Street Com
missioner is called to the condition
of a little piece of sidewalk on Bound
AIRY street near Fourth, on Eastside.
This walk has been in much dilapi-
dated predicament for some time.
Not long ago a lady came very near
ly receiving injuries at this point.
There are other defective sidewalks
in the same neighborhood, which in
the event of injury to pedestrians,
may occasion trouble and expense to
the city and abutting property own
ers. On these ungraded streets,
neither the city nor the owners are
bound to lay walks, but permitting
the same to be laid and get out of
repair might cause trouble. An
ounce of prevention is worth pound
of cure.
A prominent citizen of Olympia
remarked a few days ago, that 25
cars loaded with lumber had re-
manned on the side-tracks at Wood
land, this county, for more than a
month. Unless relief shall soon
come to the situation, it may become
something more than a political
question. The business interests of
the country when once aroused, will
seek a remedy more potent than po-
litical commissions, whose members
draw salaries and prove unable or
unwilling to accomplish any benefit
for the parties interested. Our rail-
way magnates seem to be a success
in one particular; they are able to
show what farce Railroad Commits
sion laws really are.
There appears to be desire on the
part of some of the members of the
Legislature to withhold appropria-
tiOns for the payment of certain en-
plOyes of the State; but this course
will not prevent them from drawing
their compensation fixed by law Gre
ating the Office and providing the
salary to be paid therefore, unless
the office shall also be abolished.
The State had some experience in
this particular in the cases of Eugene
Kreider and B. M. Price. The Leg
islature of 1897, cut down the ap-
preparations for salaries of Supreme
Court reporter and the Assistant Lii
brarian, but left the salary features
in the original law creating the Of
fees untouched. The courts held the
State liable for the difference.
Judge C. H. Hanford of the U. S.
Federal Court, in a recent decision
in the case of Plummer Us. the N. p.
Railway Co., for the recovery of
compensation for personal injuries
sustained while he was an employee
of the company, held the Congress
sional act of 1906, known as the
railway employers liability act, con-
stitutional, as a legitimate exercise
of power under the interstate clause
in the Federal Constitution. The
plaintiff had sustained serious injur-
les, the trial jury rendered a verdict
for s., 900 damages in his favor, I'M
der the charge of the court interpret
ing this new law. The company
filed its petition for a new trial;
claimed the enactment unconstitu-
tional, especially in the matter under
consideration, as the accident &C.
Cured before the law was passed.
The court Overruled the motion and
entered judgment on the verdict.
Two U. S. Judges had Heretofore
ruled that the law is invalid.
At St. Johns Episcopal Church on
last Sunday morning, the rector,
Rev. G.. Taylor Griffith, delivered a
sermon bristling with points on
church-membership. He said there
are many easy-going Episcopalians
who are not consistent members of
the Church of Christ. Episcopalians
here in Olympia play cards and at
tend theaters during Lent. There is
no harm in dancing and card playing
at the proper time, under suitable
circumstances, but such amusements
are altogether wrong in Lenten sea-
son, which is in commemoration of
the fasting of our Saviour for forty
days in the wilderness. Episcopal
ians ought to live up to the tenets of
their church. He thought there was
a woeful ignorance among members
as to the doctrines for which the
church stood. There needs to be an
awakening such as there was in Eng
land thirty-eight years ago. In the
course of his remarks the reverend