Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-10-18

Complaint is nale by officials ant
lawyers concerning the poor index @
the volume of session laws for 1907
It was supposed to have been mad.
+ 10y Il competent party. but no refer
rncc is made in the index re"a,qlin.
the sections of Tia" code and the SIS
sion laws amended or repealed. which
makes it annoying to consulting
parties Their" seems to he too much
politics in this kind of business.
Til" Farmers Institute will hold
meetings in the X. of r. Hall, on
Monday and Tuesday. the 2lst and
I'D insts. III | \. VI. and 100 Z. NJ.
Speakers. f.. f.. Elliott, Professor OF
Agriculture: ". II. Lawrence, Botan-
list: II. +. Rau. Poultryman, and l..
W. Manson. Deputy Dairy Food
Commissioner. will be present. Top
les discussed will be Soils. Crops,
l4iv" Stock. Dairying. Poultry and
Orchard Problems. conducted 10y the
State College of Washington. All
farmers and everybody else invited
to attend.
1t seems that the owners of the
officially declared tirc-traps in Olym-
pia absolutely refuse to make the
provisions stipulated by law for
preservation of human life of occu-
pants of their buildings The thirty
day notice has expired. and action
only awaits the meeting of the Coun-
ell. Monday night. to receive report
of the committee and order the
next step to take the matter into
court. There should be no halt of
the public officers in this respect. 1t
is no time for parlry or further de
lay. Let the law b.. vigorously and
impartally enforced.
John II. Saunders has withdrawn
his application for exemptions in the
rcccivership proceedings started by
him in the Superior Court. Labor
claims and personal taxes may en-
barraSS him in this respect. Doubt
less Hon. Robt. A. Aver, as receiver.
is experiencing more complications
than he expected. Man is born
unto trouble, as the sparks fly up
ward. This may not fit Mr. Aver $
case. as he is letting the lawyers and
creditors do the cOntcSting. which is
assuming many queer phases. In
the meantime the labor claimants
are becoming anxious about their
pay.
1t has been asccrtained that J. f.
Goldsmith, proprietor of the DOanc
restaurant, of this city, has been exer-
cising the privilege of ballot the
past thirty years without legal right
to do so. He came to this country
with his father from England when
three years of age. His father took
out papers at Detroit, Michigan.
The final papers were taken out in
some Eastern city, the name of
which he does not remember. and
the papers have been lost, and hav-
ing no means of proving his citizen
ship, to avoid Il challenge or question
of his right to vote he has deter
mined to take out papers for himself
John S. Hayes, of Rainier, has
filed petition in the Superior Court
praying for letters OF administration
on the estate of his deceased mother,
Susan $. Hayes. who died on the
18th day of last September, leaving
us her children John S. and Mart
Hayes, Hottie NJ. Morgan, Ella A.
Rathbun and Emma b. Garstang, all
residents of ThurStOn county. 1t
will be remembered that John S.
Hayes In tho fall of 1906, was the
Socialist nominee for County Attor-
ney. His father was q lawyer in
Iowa, and John became Il member of
the bar before his arrival here.
Since he came to this State he has
followed the calling OF q surveyor,
The constitutionality of the Direct
Primary law is to he tested, In as far
at least, as the requirement to pay a
fee for filing declarations of candidacy
is concerned. A mandamus proceed
ing has been commenced against
Clerk Dever by H. L. Parr, for re-
fusal to accept his declaration of
candidacy for City Attorney, on the
Citizens ticket. Judge Linn has
set the 29th inst, at 2 P. NJ, as the
date for hearing the alternative man.
date. So far there has been moth
ing but disfavor expressed for tho
new law. 1t does not seem In the
least to comport with that free and
untrammeled use of the sovereign
will that was promised. 1t may be
that there are faults with the con-
ventiOn system, but it does not seem
that they will be overcome by forms
that harrass, delay and to some de-
gree at least stifle that free express
sion at the ballot box which is the
sacred privilege of citizenship. Fhe
idea that a citizen should pay for the
privilege of being candidate, or q
voter limited in expressing q prefer
ence ON final ballot, is not American
in spirit nor just to the individual.