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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-12-09
PROMISE PORTUGUESE
ELECTIONS IN APRIL
Government Declares Condition OF
Country Warrants Earl1 End OF
Dictatorship.

Lisbon. Dec. N-The government
IN lts organ. Diaro fiiustrado. prom
Uses o. terminate 20. die ttorship an I
hold the elections ln April if the pres
ent calm in the pulltitdl atm isi,lrrs
is maintained. The Irm attitude OF
Premier Franco has caused Cd come
plete breaking up Of the coalition ol
the opposition parties.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1907-12-09
"EDGREN.
'FI,ENSBUI

The succession to the throne of
Sweden now passes TO Oscar GustaVe
Adolphe, Duke Of Verland. the oldest
son of the late king At a meeting OF
the council Of state this afternoon the
new king took the oath Of allegiance
under the titlc Of Gustave V end
adopted the motto, "wth the people,
for the fatherland." The princess
then took the oath of allegiance and
the new monarch accepted homage
of the state officials.
The death of King Oscar is not eN-
pected to be followed by any serious
disturbances of Swedens political
condition. The venerable monarch
has been slowly failing for many
months past. and last January he eN-
perienced an Illness that at the time
was expected TO end fatally. All pre-
cautions have been taken for the or
derly passage Of power TO the hands
OF his able son and successor Oscar
GustaVe Adolphe. Duke OF Nerland,
who will doubtless take the title Of
King GustaVc.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

THE law providing for the sale
of shore-lands contiguous to the
waters of Lakes Washington and
Union, enacted for the purpose OF
raising funds with which to promote
the Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition
project, is likely to cause much feel
ing among certain mill and lumber
interests that have utilized these
waters for years. While it is true,
the courts have pretty gen orally
held that no statute of limitations
can be legally invoked against the
State, it seems hard that men of
moderate means who have enter
prise and push in embarking in these
industries, thereby promoting the
welfare of this young State, should
be brought into competition with rich
men in bidding at the sale of these
lands, who have never done any
thing to develop our interests, but
embrace the opportunity to make
profits to the detriment of men who
have spent their time, money and
efforts to advance the general good
of the State, at much risk to their
own interests, and now must move
on because they have not sufficient
means to outbid plutocratic compel
itors. Such policy is calculated to
make these middle-class interests
dissatisfied and disconnected. The
parties affected therein are made to
feel the pressure comes from above
instead of from below on the part OF
NOR peODle.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15
Trend Of Legislation.

With the Gray'S llarbor jun ket
and HOLIDAYS. several more days have
been lost by the Legislature, and the
session is now over half gone, with
the table piled with measures, very
few GOOD. many bad, and others in
different. While there has not been
much doing in the StatehouSe the
nast week. there has been consider
able wire pulling and discussion OF
pending legislation.
The Insurgcnt forces, with il ma
iority that, under ordinary clrcllm-
stances. would seem impregnable.
have been diligently strengthening
their fences by the most strenuous
methods and stitfening the back
bone of its members by persistent
cracking of the whip. 1t is urged
! that, having taken the bull by the
horns, they are responsible for the
bovine's actions and if anybody is
gorcd, all alike will be punished I'M
der the popular verdict. There must,
however, have been some cause for
apprehension discovered in the mein
of the opposition, who have been
patiently saving wood and saying
nothing the whole term. The Sen
ate Insurgents have resolved to hold
nightly caucuses from this on, at
which their course for each day will
be ''cut and dried under the most
arbitrary conditions.
The Library Committee have in
contemplation bill that will separ-
ate the law-books from the general
library, and place them under the
control of the Supreme Court. The
State Library is to be placed under
the care of a member of the Board of
Control, two practical librarians, one
member of the Women's Club Or
ganizatiOn of the State and one other
person, all to be appointed by the
Governor. Now the State and Law
libraries are under the control of the
Supreme Court, the Attorney Gen
eral and the Governor.
The Congressional AppOrtionment
committee have been all at sea re-
garding their recommendation for
State assignment. It may, however,
be left to adjustment by the respec-
tive houses, when the bill comes up.
1t is thought that it will result in
two districts and a Congressman at
Large. A Senate bill makes three
districts by direct apportionment.
Canyons bill Oh. B. 50 appropri-
ating $50, 900 for repairs to the CAPT.
toll and improvement of the grounds
may pass, having been approved by
the House and received a favorable
report from the Senate Appropria-
tions committee,
Rice's bill providing that the State
Board of Control have financial man.
agement of the State University,
State College at Pullman, and the
three State Normal schools, will be
amended, it is said, so as to reduce
their authority to simply checking
accounts of those institutions once a
year and prescribing the system by
which they are to be kept, so as to
promote uniformity and facility of
adjustment. That body has, how
ever, under the bill, full control of
the StatehOuse and capitol grounds.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

WALKING ON THE WATER.-AmOng
the apparently foolish bets was one
lately won by Capt. Chas. w. Old
driey, for walking on water from
Cincinnati to New Orleans, a dis
lance of 1000 miles. The feat was
accomplished by use of something
like snow-shoes, made from wood,
but much larger. He began the trip
Jan. 1st, and was under stipulation
to reach destination in forty days for
winning a bet of 5000. He finished
the task in just As minutes less than
the time agreed upon. He met with
an accident, however, that nearly en-
comprised his defeat. Just before
he reached the goal, the big shoes
suddenly slid out from under him,
and he turned turtle" He was
rescued by his wife, who accompanied
him in a row-boat. The bet may not
appear so foolish, however, to him,
when he handles the coin.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

IT is reported that foods in What
com county have done over mil
lion dollars in damage to property,
and for two days practically shut off
BeIIingham from communication with
the surrounding country.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

AND now the attempt is being
made to show that Thaw is q para
neic, an incurable form of mental
unsoundness, which involves only a
difference between prison and asy.
lum, if public safety is guarded.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

YOUNG people especially will rejoice
that the Presidents emasculated spell
ling has come to grief. He is the
only man who has ever had the temer-
ity to abbreviate kissing into kisst.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

ANOTHER ocean disaster happened
Tuesday to the steamer Larchmont,
off Rock Island, in her run from Bos-
ton to New York, in which only 10
out of from $50 to 200 persons on
board were saved.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15
The Impending Peril.

Is it utterly impossible to awaken
the Eastern people to a realization of
the blight caused by the admission of
Chinese to this country? 1t seems not,
when such men as Frank p. Sargent.
u. S. Commissioner of Immigration,
advocates letting down the bars. He
says they come Notwithstanding the
exclusion treaty. Yes, since our
noble President gave instructions for
inspectors not to go behind the re-
turns" which the willy barbarian
and jOss-worshiper is always ready
to present when occasion requires, to
show that he is Il gentleman of leiS-
urc, Il student" or Il merchant, )"
Notwithstanding his hand is cal
lOused and resembles a birds claw
from incessant serf-labOr. Sargent
lately said, in lecture in New York,
that, 1T will be only a few years
before increasing civilization and the
awakening spirit of the Chinese peo-
pie, will compel us to open our doors
freely" Out upon such absurdity!
Let Uncle Sam dispose of his colo
MES and line up to the Monroe doc
trine and no power on Earth can
compel him to submit to any domina-
ton from abroad. The trouble is
that Eastern people have no concep-
ton of the blighting influence of the
Asiatic idOlatrous races. Wherever
they infest city, the district be-
comes, in a short time, as debased,
polluted, decayed, depraved, corrod-
ed, dismantled effete, worn and
crumbling, as if in under some ma
lign plague, and all the senses of
civilized man are assailed on crossing
the well-dcfined boundary line.
The philanthropists form their
opinion from an occasional educated
Chinaman, who has undergone the
so-called "Christianizing" process of
petting and pampering by fanatical
zealots, who deem it possible to con-
vert four hundred and eighty mil
lions of heathens into Christians, and
expect the purifying influence to
change nature inbred by four thou
sand years of rapacity and greed!
They are just as credulous as are
those benevolent fanatics who form
their opinion of the dirty sirosh from
the noble redman' teachings OF
James Fillmore Cooper. No nation
ever has, and never can, assimulate
another mighty people without par
taking in some degree of the nature
of the counter force.
Can these reformers not see that
the people of the Pacific Coast are
practically unanimous in their judg-
ment in this matter? Are they not
at least equal in intellect and probity
with like number from the older
States? Have they not had ample
means for forming an accurate opin-
ion of the adaptability of Oriental
nature? Have they not already been
thrown into competition with the
rice-eaters who live in holes under
ground, packed like sardines in o
hnx? There is practically no differ
ence in opinion here, on this subject.
1t breaks down party ties and SUBJ
ordinates all differences in creed.
It is the one all-absorbing question
founded upon the highest Of all in
centives, Self-preservation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

LONDON Smoke" is the latest color
that has become fad of the Smart
Set in the East. Probably it will be
succeeded by a lighter shade, and
known as London mist"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15
Country Girls and City Husba nds.

The Spokesman-Rerie,o has been
offering prizes weekly to contestants
for best answers to the question
Shall the Country Girls Choose
City Husbands?" Many good rea-
sons have been given on both sides
of the proposition, and the matter
has been reduced to simply a con-
sideration of conditions and personal
adaptation. The matter is so COM
pick in it's relations, that we may see
it decided pro and con every time the
letters in reply are submitted. The
first consideration should be, of
course, love, which may hide q multi
tude of defects should they exist, in
husband or wife, and the possession
of enough tact to adapt ones life to
the changed environments and varied
social duties. These are not likely to
be similar in the smallest number of
cases, and it follows that the deci-
sions may 60 on interminably without
a decisive judgment.
Here is reply in the negative
from one of the correspondents, who
has "courted the muse" to add poign-
ancy and point to his form of evil
IDENTIFY heartfelt expression. He
writes from Amboy, this State:
Will you, country lassie,
With your freckles and tan.
Select as your husband
Some fine city man?
am bound to confess
1t is quite plain to me,
That a union like this
Really not ought to be.
The act of becoming
Some city chaps wife
| Will make you the loser
of much joy in life;
The ducks, chickens and geese!
Omy! What pity;
How much you will miss them,
When once in the city.
There's the frogs in the pond,
| And the bats out at night,
With the birds of the day
These should give you delight;
There is peace and quiet
In the country so fair.
Which you never will know
In the city mans care.
The brooks, fields of grain,
The orchard with fruit
} In exchange for man?
You should have something to boot
An acre Of garden,
A house that is roomy,
Will give more real comfort
Than man that is spoony.
This fine city fellow,
Though he be quite polite,
You will find as q rule,
Will be out late at night;
Being often alone,
In your cottage 30 small,
You will surely regret
That you married at all.
If you take my advice,
You will make . firm stand
? With some country fellow
Who has plenty of land;
The room indoors and out,
r am sure will surpass
. A house in the city,
Though it be made Of glass.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

IT is stated on good authority by
parties who have watched the move
ments of the Japanese in California
that they are anxious to become
merchants and manufacturers. They
do not seem satisfied to be common
laborers like the Chinese. This ap-
pears to explain why there are so
many middle-class men against the
invasion of the Japs into this coast
country. Their cheap manner of
living and economical habits will en-
able them to manufacture and sell
commodities much cheaper than the
average American citizen. 1t is
well to take time by the forelock,
that we Americans may guard
against threatened assaults upon in
terests of the laboring and produc-
ing classes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

EVEN now, an exchange says, the
question of keeping the A.-Y.-P. ex-
hibition open Sundays is being dis
cussed. Better wait until the faint
ed money is all subscribed before
confirming the donations to Sunday
school pennies.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15
EXPLOSION OF WooLwIcH ARSENAL

EXPLOSION OF WOOLwIcH ARSENAL.
The explosion of the WOOlwich ar
senal, Sunday, in Sagadahoc county,
Me-, was felt in towns forty miles
away, and threw the whole country
in panic, the supposition being that
it was an earthquake. Fortunately
the explosion happened on Sunday,
or the loss of life would have been
fearful. A huge hole in the ground
is all that marks the site Of the chem
ical research department of Woolwich
arsenal and the cordite magazine.
Woolwich is a town of about 1900
inhabitants.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

CHANGES in the harbor of Kingston
have been discovered which are plain
ly due to subterranean upheaval be-
fore the general quake which de-
stroyed that city. 1t will be remem-
bered the neutrality-suspicious. steam
ship Princessin Victoria Luise was
wrecked upon q reef which her COM
mander declared did not exist on the
chart, and when this was discredited
committed suicide from modification
over his alleged mistake. 1t seems
from this discovery that he was right,
and no blame whatever could attach
to anybody for loss of his ship.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

THE population Of New York city
was, on Jan. lst this year, 4, 152, 800.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

REV. Mrs. Lake may be seen after.
moons, at 200 Fifth street. Meetings
Friday and Sunday evenings.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

WRECK OF THE STEAMER MARGUER-
ETTE.-The passenger steamer Mar
guerette, plying on Lake Whatcom,
struck rock off Langtry Point,
Saturday night, while running at
full speed during a dense fog. In
answer to distress signals the steam
er ElsinOre went to the rescue and
took off all passengers just as the
Marguerite sank.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

PACIFIC OCEAN EXPOSITION.
ifornia Solons have inaugurated q
movement for San Francisco worlds
fair in 1918, the 4O0th anniversary of
the discovery of the Pacific ocean,
and it is announced that they intend
to make it surpass all former efforts
in the way of international exposi-
tions. The Legislature will, it is
thought, appropriate 50, 600, 900, Con-
gress like amount and the people of
California still larger sum to make
it the success they intend it to be.
Now to cultivate a spirit of reciproc-
ity, if nothing more, they should drop
at least half a million into the A.-Y.-
p. contribution box.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

INDECENT JOURNALIsM.-Such teSti-
mony as was given by Evelyn Nesbit
Thaw, in the daily newspapers"
one day last week, should be debarred
the mails, if no other way is open to
keep the people from being deluged
by the ribald slush that is used to
mitigate, or palliate, the killing of
Stanford White, in New York some
months ago. Such indecent revela-
tions, if necessary at all, of which
there is much doubt, should be held
behind closed doors, and never, new
or, placed in print to degrade and
demoralize the rising generation, who
are altogether too prone to adopt
whatever is not condemned by those
who are supposed to have arrived at
years of discretion. The Ledger, we
note, under the somewhat suggestive
heading, Lays Bare Her Souls Sc
crets," gives five-column account
presumably true-of Thaw's wife's
narration of her own debauching by
White, to account for the murderous
impulse that actuated her husband in
his apparently cold-blOoded murder
of the betrayer. But we were still
more surprised to find that the staid,
dignified and hitherto chaste and de-
corous Oregonian published the same
salacious details. The infection of
such callOw confessions is scarcely
excusable, even to the jury trying
the case, and is of a class of evidence
that is at best subject to doubt, un-
less indeed Prosecutor Jerome dis
sects it in the manner he did the tes-
timony of expert alienist, DIR. Wiley.
Since the above was written we as
certion that the Canadian authorities
have closed the mails to American
newspapers publishing this indecent
matter and that President Roosevelt
has called Postmaster General Cor.
telyou's attention to the infamous
publication to make inquiry as to the
feasibility of like action on the par
of our government.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

IT is stated on reliable authority
from both Pierce and King counties,
that before the judicial proceedings
against Chester Thompson will have
ended, King county will be mulcted
in costs to the tune of at least $685.
600. A spoiled child, the exploita-
ton of the emotional insanity plea,
and last but not least, sympathetic
jury, come high as factors in Wash
ingtOn Jurisprudence. This case fur
nishes q good object lesson to the
Legislature, now in session, to i'm
prove the opportunity and safeguard
the interests of the State and coun-
ties in the matter of taxing costs in
criminal cases. Otherwise some of
our less wealthy counties may have
bitter experiences in this respect.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

Stability, Integrity, Reliability, and
the sum of these-Success! Young man,
save part of your earnings that you may
become a financial power some day in
the future. Remember the old adage-
Economy is Wealth." Put by some
thing for q rainy day, though you are
Just as likely to need it on a fine day.
The question of savings is one for you,
and for us. We will gladly talk the
mattor over with YOU and show you how
to open an account with US.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15
,ad commenced TO edit q revised edi-

had commenced to edit q revised edi-
ton of the Constitution called THE
Unwritten Constitution. "
The President is the prophet of
this new creed, the Messiah of this
strange hallucination," he said, but
one thing he has no right to do, and
that is to use the vast public patron
age at his disposal to compel obedi-
ence to his views Another thing he
has no right to do, and that is to
make compacts with the Speaker of
the House of Representatives or its
committees, to accomplish the legis
lation that he desires, or prevent
legislation. And still another thing
he has no right to do, and that is to
interfere with legislation and to force
Congress either to adopt his recon-
mendatiOns or if it rejects them to
bring about a breach between the
Legislative and Executive depart
ments that is detrimental to the best
interests of the country. That con-
stitutes an assumption of dictatOrial
power which the people of this repub-
lie, in the course of time, will not
submit to, l care not how great the
achievement or how much it may
conduce to their progress and well
fare, or what benefit, advantage or
prosperity we may derive from its
accomplishment.
81 believe that if the Democratic
party would take up as its battle-cry
the reserved rights of the States and
the inviOlate constitutional diStinc-
ton of the Legislative, the Judicial
and the Executive Departments we
could rally around the doctrine the
intelligent suffrages of our country
men.
How GERMANY LOOKS AT IT.-A
very high official in the Foreign De-
partment of Germany has expressed
this opinion, among other things, of
the Japs demands of our country, to
an American visitor; ut is a real
misfortune that a great nation like
yours should be forced, by circum-
stances, to give in to those Japanese
upstairs, who will now grow more
conceited than ever. 1t is evident
that Japan is trying to pick aquarrel
with the United States, and that a
conflict is bound to come, for it is
the purpose of that government to
drive every white man out of the Far
East, and they want Hawaii and the
Philippines. These yellow devils,
whose civilization is of the most SUI
perficial nature, will never cease to
cause trouble until they have been
taught severe lesson with the
sword" He goes on to say that
Germany has important interests in
the Orient, and will hasten the build
ing of mighty navy to be able, at
any time, to curb the defiant attitude
of Japan shown on many occasions,
since Russia's unexpected defeat so
enormously enlarged the bump of
conceit OF the Mikadoan skull.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-02-15

OF the Governor was commended in
the carrying out of the death SEN
tence against Charles L. Tucker.
Il never know communication of
this sort to be sent by a President to
the Governor of a State since the
foundation of the Republic" said Mr..
Rayner, land I deeply regret and
deplore the occurrence"
He contended that it was q prac-
tical announcement that the acts of
State officials were subject to the ap-
proval or displeasure of the Federal
Government. The turbulent times
in the Senate attendant on the pas
sage of the Railroad Rate bill were
next alluded to by Mr.. Rayner.
I'VE realize, he said, THAT no fight
is thoroughly equipped upon this
floor, unless the President is in it.
He longs for q fight as the heart
panteth after the water brooks. II
was match to the finish between
the senior Senator from Rhode Island
(Aldrich) and the President"
The Schley case was reviewed BY
Mr.. Rayner and he predicted that il
would yet be reopened, just as {
similar case had recently been ir
another land.
Admiral Schley shall be heard,
he announced, living or dead, hi:
cause shall be heard"
The Presidents cons truction of hi.
prerogatives, Mr.. Rayner said, hat
raised Q new school of scribes whs