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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

PREVAILING EPIDEMICs.- is graf
flying to announce that the dreadful
disease spinal meningitis is gradually
receding-at least that is the report
coming from all northwestern cities
of our State. There has been q de-
cline of virulence noted as well as the
extent of prevalence, since the first
of the year. The average of deaths
in Seattle, which has been 81 per
month, during the first half of the
present month only two deaths are
reported. Typhoid fever has, how
ever, increased. June only six cases
were reported in that city, in July
80, and this far in August 63 cases
are noted, although there have been
few fatalities from that disease.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

OBJECT TO CALLING THEIR CITY
" FRISCO. San Francisco'S 400, I"
with Mrs. G. w. Skinner, Chairman
of the Anti-FriscO Committee of the
Outdoor League at their head, have
entered upon campaign of persua-
sion, education, or whatever it may
be called, to stop the abbreviation of
the beautiful name of their city to
Frisco" The Outdoor League has
q firm connection that this habit has
arisen more from inadvertance than
design, and the request will meet
with immediate and very general rec
ognition.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

MAMMOTH HOTEL AT TACOMA
permit has been granted for q "a.
story hotel at Tacoma, to cost &c.
900, 900 and contain 1000 rooms. 1t
is probable, however, that the esti-
mated cost is about as inflated as the
size of the promised building. Seat
tie has not yet attained a higher de-
velopment than IA stories, and it is
quite evident that Tacoma s coupe de
main by eight stories may be taken
with q few grains of salt.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

SUDDEN Loss OF SIGHT. - Last
week an Idaho youth, Ora l.. Duthie,
while handling fruit-boxes in his
fathers warehouse at Troy, was
stricken with blindness. A special
list. after a thorough examination
pronounced the case incurable. While
not entirely blind he can barely dis.
tinguish large objects or see his way
along the street. 1t is hoped that
this partial vision may be retained
and the efforts of occulists is to make
that condition of sight permanent.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

1T seems that young girls are
achieving q splendid reputation as
savers of life from drowning, and we
now have the pleasure of recording
the fact that Miss Johnson, the hero
inc of the Inflated Columbia, finds a
worthy competitor in Miss Jessie
Headley, 15-year-old girl, who last
week saved Mrs. Rose Hickey from
drowning, when the two had been
thrown into the Willamette from o
small boat. Jessie supported her
fellow-victim, swimming strongly
and bravely until a launch put out
from shore and rescued the twain
from almost certain death.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

THE price of hay, as well as coal,
seems in a way of indefinite expan-
sion. At Tacoma, iobbers are buy
ing all that offers, but at no fixed
price, and the producers here, and in
the Eastern part of the State, are
holding for an anticipated high price
in winter. The general hay crop is
reported large and Of excellent quail
ity, but the alfalfa yield has not
turned out so well.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

EVERETT has been added to the list
OF closed towns, both rs regards
gambling at any time and opening of
saloons on Sunday are concerned. A
man at Lowell was arrested for VIC
lation of the Sunday law, plead guilty
and urged in justification that he had
received no money for drinks, but
the cruel arm of the law went down
in his pocket to the extent of $50,
despite this plea.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

PORTLAND SURPRISES TRUsTs. -
The city of Portland has passed an
ordinance prohibiting all combina-
tions of trade for the purpose of linn
ting the production of any article or
to increase or reduce its prices, to
interfere with unrestricted COMPETE
ton, to preclude the sale of any COM
modify to the consumer or merchants,
or to rebate any part of the price of
any article. A fine of from $50 to
$500, and imprisonment not to ex-
coed six months, is provided for vio-
latiOn of the ordinance.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

THAT Seattle policeman who, the
other day, shot himself after riddling
the photograph of his sweetheart
with pistol balls, deserves credit for
his consideration of the one he loved,
for she was present and just as easy
a mark for his pistol-practice. And
when he turned the weapon on him.
self, it was probably not his fault
that he is not now twanging q golden
harp or clanking the chains of eternal
damnation.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

ORGANIZED bands of cattle thieves
infest parts Of Idaho, and the report
comes that last week a band of 100
were driven from the ranges south
OF Salmon river. This Is the second
drive Of the past month, the former
bunch" numbering 1876 head.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

THIS State, Oregon and California
are now engaged in a strenuous effort
to compel transcontinental railroads
to make rate for lumber and shin
giles that will afford reasonable
margin of profit for the mills. At a
meeting of the Oregon and Washing
ton Lumbermen's Club at Portland
Saturday night, a determined fight
was agreed upon against the adj
vanced rates. An appeal will be
taken to the Interstate Commerce
Commission if necessary for contin-
uance of the present rates.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

Ex-PREsIDENT Cleveland has been
seriously i'll at his Princeton home,
the past fortnight. While his condi-
ton has not been believed to be seri-
Gus, it is admitted that he has been
quite i'll and has not yet entirely re.
covered.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

Put SOMEBODY'S SWEETHEART OFF
THE TRA1N-It was hardly necessary
for another exhibition of heartless.
ness of the Northern Pacific people,
to fix their place as the most noted
of sOullesS corporations, but it is
afforded by the eviction of prospec-
tive bride from the train at Cheney,
who had been robbed of her purse
containing her ticket for Tacoma,
where she was to have met her afli-
anced. 1t seems to most people that
the cOmpany's orders must be ex-
ceedingly strict, when the word of a
young maiden would not be taken
under such circumstances. If there
ever was a generous impulse that has
controlled the N. F., under any cir
cumstanccs, it has not been noted.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

HETTY Green, the New York mil
liOnairess, says girls are too gay,
nowadays. Doubtless to one of the
age and experience of Mrs. G.. But
then, Hetty, it is an infection that is
not catching, you know.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

THE Supreme Court of California
has decided that the removal of Mayor
Schmitz and the appointment of May
or Taylor are legal acts. Let us
hope that the deposed Mayor will
now "be still"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

THE author of that heart-thrilling
song Write Me q Letter From
Home" w. S. Hays, died at his
home in Louisville, KY, last month,
aged 20 years. 1t is one of the most
popular ballads written in this coun-
try and has become during the pas t
age as household words in thousands
of homes.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

HOOD RIVER, Oregon, is to spend
$4,000 in booming her apples this
season. The plan is to distribute
literature" and place exhibits where
they will do the most good. Hood
River has carried off the best reputa-
ton for Strawberries, and it may be
within possibility to capture still
other high honors for a progressive
commonwealth.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

FAIRS AND CONVENTIONS IN THE
STATE.-COunty fairs will be held in
this State as follows: At Everett,
Sept. 2 tot; Riverside, Sept. 10 to II;
Centralia, Sept. 9 to IA; Prosser, Sept.
% to q; Colville, Sept. 10 to 81; Spo-
kane, Sept. % to Oct. 5; Colfax,
Oct. z to II; North Yakima, Sept.
% to29; Wilbur, Oct. Is to Is, and
Walla Walla, Oct. II to 10. The
North Pacific Sangerfest will meet
at Spokane and will be in session
from Aug. 31st to Sept. lst; the
Northwestern Union Veterans, at
Chewaiah Sept. 3 to Z; Columbia
River Methodist Conference, at Spo-
kane from Sept. 1 to I, and the
Washington Retail Grocers, at Sc
attic, Sept. 10 to 10.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

a New YORK dispatch of a late
date states that Mrs. Stanford White.
widow of the famous architect killed
by Harry Thaw, will soon marry her
late husbands partner, Charles Fol-
len McKim.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

THAT dreadful disease, the bubonic
plague, has made its appearance in
San Francisco. Four or five victims
have died. Active measures have
been taken to prevent its spread.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

SLIGHT DISTINCTIONS WITH A BROAD
DIFFERENCE. "A landlord of a hotel
at CosmOpOlis was tried, last Mon
day, in justice court of that city
and fined $35 and costs for selling
cigars on Sunday. Had he included
them with the candies, nuts, fruits
and other condiments of the dining
table, doubtless they would have
come under the exemption of the
hotel proviso. Reagan, the defend
ant contendcd, that his stand was at
his hotel Office, but the Tgis claimed
was not large enough to shield him
from the penalty. He managed his
own case, it was so clear to him,
which but verifies the adage that
" A man who is his own lawyer has
a fool for client,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

Our good old Uncle Samuel has
replaced two $50 notes charred by
fire, held by Mrs. Spencer, of North
Yakima. He is always ready to do
the fair thing if convinced of what
is fair. He is, however, no Easy
Mark"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23
SENATOR Jones has had q resolution

SENATOR Jones has had q resolution
passed by Congress to have the upper
Columbia river surveyed from Bridge
port to Kettle Falls. The matter
has the recommendation likewise of
Maj. Chittenden of the War Depart
ment and is up to the Secretary of
War for final action, which will
doubtless be favorable. This survey
will be an important factor in devel-
opment of the Upper Columbia coun-
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23
MATRIMONIAL MIXCPS ADVOCATED

>A.h Rl-hoNl.tl- AhlLN -hDN W
DR.. Angelo Rappoport. in Il lecture
in London before the New Fra Socio-
logical Society, declares, in his advo-
cacy of the well-knOwn theory that
oppositcs should wed, his willingness
to carry it to still farther extremes
than has hitherto been advocated.
Physical Opposites have mainly been
the desirable attributes of develop
ment of improved, or ideally perfect,
children, but the doctor applies his
theory more forcibly to mental attri-
butes. Mental consequently, he says,
Is as dangerous as physical consan-
guilty, and the man who lives in Park
Lane should marry u woman if not
from the Strand, at point at least
midway between the upper ten and
the lower five, the top and bottom
strata of the social realm. Men and
women who have breathed the same
atmosphere. probably for Il life time,
who have been surrounded by the
same environments and bound by the
same social rules, produce Il men
tai stagnation that does not tend to
develop brain power or strengthen
the innate moral impulses of human
ity. In other words. it is Il PROPOSE
ton to wed Aristocracy with Dcmoc-
racy, a meeting halfway rs it were,
in which due proportion of the
pride of ancestry may be merged
with that spirit of progress that sees
in the future far greater achieve
ments than the triumphs of the past.
The doctors suggestions were well
received by the society that is max
ing such problems a profound study.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23
Is 1t Progress or PeditionP

There are very few who viii dis
pute the statement that President
Roosevelt : popularity has been large
IL accorded hv those Democrats who
always place principle before party.
regarding tlr latter simply H. the
best means afforded for promoting
measures they believe to be based
upon tl.r trin. ut,j"ct> al free, govern
iucnt Their >"nsc of fairness and
honesty OF purloSc lmpcl them to
close their eyes 10 the inherent in
tirmities of human nature, and To- ac
ccpt in it's entirety any measure ad-
vocatcd that seems to line with their
prrconcrivcd ideas of Justice and
right.
1t was this spirit which impcllcd
the impetuous Senator from South
Carolina Brnjanin X. Tillnlan. to
support Mr. Roosevelt in his railroad
rebate warfare. 1t was simply be-
cause it was right. and he succeeded
in massing his party in solid phalanx
in support of the President S wishes.
In his StcadfaSt honesty of purpose.
h never thought that the Demo
cratic contingent was being used rs
ca; s-paw, and after Mr.. Roosevelt
had, by that means, brought his party
friends to compromise, Mr.. Tillman
found that the President had no fur
Their use for him or his followers.
1t was breach of faith that. had it
been perpetrated by anybody but the
President would have been charac-
terized as base and dishonorable
violation of principle.
So it follows that those who have
kept close tab on Mr.. Roosevelt's
acts, large and small, have but little
faith in either his honesty of purpose
or steadfastness of conduct. They
are not surprised, this week, there
fore, to find that Mr.. Roosevelt has
wholly abandoned his fight against
the trusts, that he has announced it
as his purpose to rest the fight at
the stage L. has reached, in the belief
that the purpose for which it was
started has been ACCOMPLISHED.
This announcement, be it noted,
was first made to Wall street, stimuli
taneously with the opening speech of
William H. Taft at Columbus, in his
campaign for the Presidency; man,
who is the factOtum of Roosevelt in
oil that appertains to the future pol
icy OF the government. Under these
circumstances, it cannot be regarded
as anything else than a deliberate
bid for support of the moneyed power
on Wall street, and through them
the corporations that now, if this
deal is completed, will show that
they own and control the govern
ment. AS result it is said that
Wall street was jubilant, and that
many stocks rapidly appreciated in
value, the usual way money-sharps
have of showing approval.
If Mr.. Roosevelt is successful in
placing Mr.. Taft in the Presidential
chair, with the full and determined
object of making the Government su-
preme in all public matters, it then
logically follows there is some truth in
the lately exposed plans of the third
termers to re-elect Roosevelt and
establish for him, by quadrennial
election or by constitutional amend
ment, life tenure as President.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

AND now Chicago professor has
discovered that seagulls can talk. If
that be true we will probably have
some revelation of the secrets of the
deen.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

TAFTs itinerary to the Philip
pines embraces Yellowstone Park
where he will be from Sept. 1st to
the 3D.; thence going to Portland,
Olympia, Tacoma and Seattle, sail
ing for the Philippines on the 10th
He will be here on the afternoon of
Saturday, Sept. 9TH. at |: 80 o'clock
in the afternoon, and make brief
address.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

The sales OF sacks made by convict
labor this year aggregates nearly
half a million dollars in value, or in
exact figures As, 761.3O.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

KENT is to have tin-can factory
employing $50 persons, to make cans
for the five factories of the Pacific
Coast Condensed Milk Co. in the
Northwest.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

THE telegraphers' strike has ex-
tended to Canada and Toronto oper-
ators are out on Sympathetic"
strike.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

DURING the month of July in Ia
coma, forty-three men and only eigh-
teen women died. In the matter of
births, the fair sex also have an ad-
vantage, there being only five boy
babies to tifty-eight girls.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

RICHARD MANSFIELD. the great az
tor, has been lying at De ath door,
at Lyon Mountain, New York, but
is now in a far way of recovery.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

THB Oregon Trust and Savings
Bank, in Portland. Oregon, has
failed, alleging impossibility of real
izing on its securities. 1t turns out,
however, that the cashier had been
specializing in some wireless Home
Telephone" stock that had about the
support usually accorded to the
baseless fabric of a dream" The
other bnaks, when these Easy Mark
methods became known, refused to
put up the paltry $40, 600 necessary
to keep it from passing over the
brink. AS showing the delusive
character of some of these financial
institutions, this bank claimed to
carry about $4,000, 900, with liabili-
ties amounting to about half q mil
lion less.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-08-23

ACTIVE VOLCANIC ACTION IN Nip
OCEAN.-It is said that submarine
volcanic eruptions are exceedingly
active, just now, in the latitude of
the Tonga, or Friendly group of
Islands, in the Southern Pacific
ocean. Several have occurred within
an area of couple of miles of Tonga
talu. They were accompanied by 4
continuous roaring noise and fire.
quent explosions. Black pumice
stones were thrown distance of
thirty miles 1t is said that new
island is forming. May not the late
submcrSiOn of one of the Hawaiian
group be controlled by n continual
'tiOn of this same seismic effect that
caused the cOmmotiOn at the Tonga
Islands?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-18
FOR STOMACH SUFFERERS,
Don't Use Any Remedy That Keeps It:
Formula a Secret.

People who are troubled with stom-
ach weakness cannot afford to use any
remedy unless they know what it con-
tainS.
Mi-o-na is not a mere digestive Civ
ing only temporary relief, but a
specific for all disorders of the diges-
tive organs, and so effects a permanent
cure for stomach troubles.
Your physician will tell you that
nothing is better than a combination
of chemically pure bismuth, Subgal-
late to allay any inflammation of the
stomach and bowels: cerium oxalate,
to strengthen the stomach nerves;
sodium bi-carbOnate, which neutraliZeS
the poisonous acids that are present in
stomach troubles; and nux vomica,
which will restore vigOr to the diges-
tive organs and tone the whole nervous
system.
This combination is found only in
Mi-o-na stomach tablets, and it so
rarely fails to strengthen the digestive
system and cure all forms of stomach
disorders. that Bowditch, Webster &
Co, Of Augusta and Geo. w. Dorr of
Waterville Me. sell the remedy under
a guarantee to refund the money I'M
less it cures.
If you suffer from Indigestion, dis
tress after eating. specks before the
eyes, headaches, pains in the back and
side, emaciation, bloating, nervous
ness, sleeplessness. or any of the other
symptoms of stomach troubles, being
the use of Mi-o-na stomach tablets at
once. Bowditch. Webster & Co, of
Augusta and Geo. w. Dorr of Water
vile, Me-. sell them in SOC. boxes with
a guarantee to refund money unless
they cure.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-18

A Democratic editor out in Missouri
complains that a dollar will not go as
far now as it would 10 years ago. He
might have added that a dollar would
not go as far 10 years ago as it would
in the days when tradition says that
George Washington threw one across
the Potomac But there are more dol
lars to throw away and more people
throwing them away now than in
Washington's time. and there are more
dollars to spend now than there were
10 years ago.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-18

One of the labor problems that great
ly puzzles Maine is the scarcity of men
for woods work, Notwithstanding the
advantage offered. Woodsmen are now
getting higher wages than everi before
in this State, and the conditions at
tending the work, and the manner of
living are far more favorable than at
any other time in the history of the
industry. In the good old times, So
called, men worked in the woods for
S12 to SIS a month, ate pork and beans
Il times a week, worked as long as
they could see a tree, tramped most of
the way to and from the scene of OPP
erations and were glad of the chance.
Now the crews are carried most of the
way by rail or steamboat, have COM
Portable camps, are fed, literally, on
the fat of the land, have improved i'm
plements and methods in logging. and
are paid all the way from S24 to $50
a month-cash ION the nall when they
reach Bangor. About 10000 men are
required to gather Names annual har-
vest of 100000, 600 feet of logs. and of
these about 5000 are employed on Pen
obscot waters.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-18
Personal Notes,

Daniel Osiris, the Partisan philan-
thropist, is dead. In 1900 he presented
to the French people Malmaison, the
residence Of the Empress Josephine.
which he had purchased several years
before, and had it restored at great en-
pense. 1t has been used as a Napoleonic
museum.
The order of Knight of Jerusalem has
been bestowed by the Kaiser on DIR!
George Post, an American missionary.
of Beirut, who is now in Berlin. The
Kaiser sent Count Won Wedel to the
American church on Sunday to repre-
sent him when the Rev. DR.. Post
preached.
Joseph Lee of Boston gives annual
ly $4,000 year in charity among Bos-
ton children. Since his graduation from
the Harvard Law School as q young
man, his hobby has been that of spend
ing mis- money and doing good in the
many ways in which only a devotee to
the cause Of public philanthropy can.
Sir f. H. Egerton, the British Am
bassador. has interested the Italian
government in favor Of the plan of
Charles Waldstein. professor of fine
the excavation of the ancient city of
Herculaneum, and has received assur-
ance that the plan is being examined.
1t is reported that Harry A Garfield.
professor of American politics at
Princeton, will succeed DR.. Pritchett as
president of the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology. Mr.. Garfield has
been in Boston last week addressing
the Williams College Alumni Associa-
ton. and consulted with several of the
Technology officials.
John Barrett, new director of the
International Bureau of American Re
publics, announces that DR.. Will
liam r. Shepherd. professor of history
in Columbia University, will make a
trip as a representative of Columbia
University to the leading South Amer
lean commercial and political capitals
during the coming summer.
Italia Campanini, who a quarter of
century ago used to be the operate
idol of New York, is buried in Parma
and his grave lies between those of
Paganini and Bottesini. Every year a
New York woman, who was a stock
holder in the old Academy of Music in
the golden days of the tenor's career
makes pilgrimage to Parma to lay a
wreath on the grave.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-02-18

Professor Barrett Wendell was the
first representative of Harvard sent to
lecture before the Sorbonne and other
French Universities. He will begin in
the March Scribner a series of I'm
pressions of Contemporary France"
his first paper describing the life and
system of "The Universities a phase
of French intellectual life little under
stood in this country