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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14
THE TIMBER SUPPLY.
Three Times - Mech Timber Used Esch
Year n The EoseaA Gen,.ea

Three Times - Mech Timber Used Esch
Year - the Forest Grows.
Every person in the United States
is using over six times as much wood
as he would use if he were in Europe.
The country as a whole consumes
every year between three and four
times more wood than all of the for
ests of the United States grow in the
meantime. The average acre Of for
est lays up o store of only 10 Gu
bic feet annually, whereas it ought
to be laying up at least 30 cubic feet
in order to furnish the products
taken out Of it. Since 1880, more
than 1000, 600, 600 feet of timber
have been cut for lumber alone, in
Guiding $4,000, 600, 900 feet of con-
ferrous stumpage estimate of the cen
sus in 1880.
These are some of the remarkable
statements made in circular 81 of
the Forest Service, which deals with
the timber supply of the United
States and reviews the stumpage
estimates made by all the important
authorities. A study of the circular
must lead directly to the conclusion
that the rate at which forest products
in the United States have been and
are being consumed is far too lavish,
and that only one result can follow
unless steps are promptly taken to
prevent waste in use and to increase
the growth-rate of every acre of for
est in the Inited States. This result
is q timber famine. This country is
today in the same position with re-
gard to forest resources as was Ger
many $50 years ago. During this
period of $50 years such German
states as Saxony and Prussia, par
ticularly tho latter, have applied o
policy of government control and re-
gulation which has immensely in
creased the productivity of their
forests. The same policy will achieve
even better results in the United
States; because we have the advan-
tage of all the lessons which Europe
has learned and paid for in the course
of century Of theory and practice.
Lest it might be assumed that the
rapid and gaining depletion of Amer
lean forest resources is sufficiently
accounted for by the increase of pop
ulation, it is pointed out in the cir
cular that the increase in population
since 1880 is barely more than half
the increase in lumber cut in the
same period. Two areas supplying
timber have already reached and
passed their maximum production
the Northeastern States in 1870 and
the Lake States in 1890. To-day the
Southern States, which cut yellow
pine amounting to one-third the total
annual lumber cut of the country, are
undoubtedly near their maximum.
The Pacific States will soon take the
ascendancy. The State of Washing
ton within few years has come to |
the front and now ranks first of all
individual States in volume of cut.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14

Mr.. Shellar, government forestry
supervisor. visited LeavenwOrth last
week on his way to the Cascade tun-
mel, it is stated for the purpose of
cruising the timber on the right of way
over which the Great Northern de-
sires to place wiring from Leaven-
worth to the tunnel. 1t is intended
to supplant steam with electricity for
hauling through the tunnel, and thus
obviate the great discomfort and risk
of steam and gas to the travelling
public. Mr.. Shellar will inspect the
Wenatchee river at the location de-
cided on by the Great Northern for
dams, embracing the whole width
of the river, thus impounding the
water at these points, some 1000
horsepower, which will be used prin-
cipally at the Cascade tunnel.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14
Flies Sneead Disease.

The common house-fy, it seems, is
not only an enemy to domestic com.
fort and cleanliness; it is Q positive
danger to health.
1t is now known that many cases
of typhoid fever are directly due to
disease germs carried by flies. A
notable proof of their activity in this
direction is seen in q photograph
made by scientist, showing the
tracks of q fly across glass Of beet
jelly. Thousands of white spots ap.
peared, marking the fly's footprints,
and each spot was found to represent
Q colony of disease germs.
The housefy finds its most con-
genial habitat in filth it breeds
largely in stable refuse. The disease
germs which abound in such places
adhere to the insects legs and body,
and are carried into human dwell
ings and there deposited.
It is well, therefore, to carry on q
campaign against flies. Among 9TH
er methods an effective means OF sup.
pressing them is the burning OF
pyrethrum powder in the house.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14
THAT SETTLES 1T.
THERE NOW, Mr. PRESIDENT
WON'T you BE STILL7

Frank Mossman. the Well-Known Hunter
Does Not Place the President in the Ana
MAS Club. but Simply Attributes His
censure Of Longs Book on Habits of Wild
Animals to Ifnorance-Had He Traversed
the Wilds Of the West. He Would Ger.
tainly Know Enough About Wolves to
Have Restrained Him From committinl
an EfreEious Blunder. Is the Opinion oI
Frank.
Tacoma News.
President Roosevelt is a hunter
of big game and must be presumed
to know something of the ways of
wild animals, but no hunter knows,
it all"
This is the comment of Frank Moss
man, formerly Deputy State Game
Warden for Thurston county, on
the controversy the President has
aroused by his criticism of Nature
Fakirs." Mossman is one of the best
known hunters of the northwest. He
has tracked the deer, the wolf, the
bear and the cougar through the for
ests of Washington, British Columbia,
and the wilds of Alaska. He stands
decidedly with the Rev. w. J. Long,
whom the President most severely
criticised.
Long says that a wolf killed a
caribou fawn by bite through the
heart" observed Mossman. The
President says that that that is
a mathematical impossibility. The
President doesn't know. The lower
part of deer's chest narrows to a
wedge shape. When the shoulder.
blades slide backward and forward,
as they do when deer is walking,
running or leaping, this narrow part
is exposed. The heart is just be-
meath. The few tender bones or soft
cartilage there afford no protection.
1t would be easy and natural for a
wolf to bite there, and especially if
the fawn were leaping in its en-
deavor to escape. The President
says that to do this the wolf would
have to turn a sumersault or else
get his head upside down under the
fore legs of the fawn. Not if the deer
was bounding along in great jumps,
as it does in its fight from pursuer.
1 am free to admit that have
never seen q deer killed in this way,
and have seen scores of them killed,
The death wound is, as the President
says, usually in the throat, and the
crippling bite in the ham or flank.
But deer could be killed in the man.
nar Mr.. Long describes, and that
without any reversal of nature.
The Presidents hunting has not
carried him far enough afield. He
should try the forests of this State
or of British Columbia, or track ami
mails in Alaska. If he did, he would
certainly add to his knowledge of
wolves. He seems to be as much
mistaken in this matter as he is in
his conclusions on the cougar"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE A. 1907

administer governments outside of
and in conflict with the principles of
the constitution of the United States.
Thirteenth-As might be inferred
from the foregoing, the Democratic
party is opposed to swollen fortunes,
and it would relieve the country of
the menace of such fortunes by with
drawing the special privileges which
have enabled these fabulous fortunes
to be accumulated in so short time
1t would restore in society Gods law
OF rewards, so far as government is
able to do so. Gods law, as shown
in nature, suits the reward to the
contribution one makes in energy.
industry and intelligence. 4f~the
government would cease to permit a
few to mOnOpOlize that which belongs
to all, there would be no fortunes so
swollen as to vex the country.
The club also asks what issue will
be paramount. No one can speak
with accuracy so far ahead, but it
seems evident that the trust question
will occupy prominent place, and
as it is more intimately connected
with the tariff question and the rail-
road question, it can hardly fail to
attract q large share of public atten-
tion next year. The contest between
predatory wealth on the one side and
the unorganized masses on the other
cannot be put off, although it is i'm
possible to say in just what form the
issue will present itself.
The young man who is seeking to
use his influence for the promotion
of the welfare of the common people
will find the Democratic party the
best organization through which to
act. 1t is not perfect in its person
mel, but perfection is not to be ex-
pected among men. 1t may not go
as far as all reformers wish, but it is
going in the right direction. 1t may
be more radical than some conserva-
tives would like to have it, but a rea-
sOnable radicalism is necessary if
more extreme radicaliSm is to be
avoided. The indications are that in
1908 the party will be able to add to
those who have supported it a large
number who recognize the necessity
of remedial legislation fashioned ac-
cording to Democratic principles. 1t
is not the party of any class or Sec
tion of the country. 1t appeals to
rich and poor alike and promises to
secure as far as it can justice to all.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14
SOME ROUGH EXPERIENCE.
What Our wide-Awake Correspondent Saw
and Experienced in His Trip South.
Orr THE CoAsT OF NORTH CAROLINA,
ATLANTIC OCEAN.
Nav 25, 1907.

May 20, A5O1.
Ed. STANDARD:
Some of your readers perhaps will
be interested, through curiosity if
nothing else, in a short sketch of my
trip so far. / left Los Angeles on
Sunday, the 10Th, at 8 A. NJ, for New
Orleans and travelled all day and
night and the next day, or rather
rode, through the most desolate coun-
try ever saw extending through
Arizona, New Mexico and western
Texas, a distance of not less than q
thousand miles. l know of no better
way of describing it than by using
an expression of r. G. Ingersoll in
describing the land of Canaan. I'm
agine an ocean of lava, torn by storm
and vexed by tempest, suddenly
gazed upon by Gorgon and turned
a stone" A jack-rabbit would have
to hustle to live in such q country;
hardly q sign of vegetation to greet
the eye and as torrid as Sahara; not
a solitary oasis in that vast expanse
to relieve the monotony till we
reached San Antonio. From there on
we rode over beautiful plain, cov-
cred with q beautiful green carpet of
grass, interspersed with excellent
farms and fine herds of cattle and
hors ses, and embellished with pretty
good residences, suggestive of thrift
and comfort, till we reached the low
lands of Louisiana, approaching New
Orleans. Instead of fine undulating
plains, we find low, fat country,
with scarcely q mole-hill to break the
mononotonous evenness of the sur
face, and for the most part covered
with Shiny Ooze suggestive of ma
laria, yellow fever and cholera.
We arrived at New Orleans on the
22d, and am bound to say that /
was greatly disappointed in the city.
OF all the dirty, filthy, disagreeable
places have ever seen, this takes
the cake" The streets are very
narrow and crooked and dirty beyond
my ability to describe. One has to
hold his nose to keep his stomach
from turning topsy-turvey. They
tell me they have one fine street but
! AoAAOA w SCC ~ % VIC uS10 w AuS tkC
from the train to the landing to
catch the steamer Comus, bound for
New York, and such o ride as we
had! Cobble-stones galore, and we
on the hard side of the board in the
cab and the stencil pouring in from
both sides. They are talking OF sew
ering the city, but l don't see where
they are going to put the sewage, as
the city is lower than the sea. Well
we finally reached the wharf, after a
cObble-stone ride of over q mile,
and found our steamer, the Comus,
waiting for us. 1t is q fine specimen
of ocean craft and manned by an ex-
cellent crew and officers. The ac-
commodations are first-class and the
grub hard to beat. Our passenger
list comprises some very nice, socia-
BILE ladies and gentlemen, and we are
enjoying the trip immensely.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14

THE STANDARD is the best advertis-
ing medium in ThurstOn county.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14

Up to the present time, we have
had beautiful weather and very lit
tie seasickness. 1 haven't missed a
meal yet. We expect to arrive in
New York on the 9th. In the mean
time we have nothing to do but eat,
drink, sleep and enjoy ourselves, talk
ing politics, religion, playing cards,
etc., etc. J. G.. CONNIE.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14
SINCE THE GAMBLERS HAD TO HIKE
How the Big Club Gunnisonized the Sports
at juneau.

At juneau.
1t seems that it takes a new country
and the freedom always found in those
wilds of civilization to unearth the
rough nuggets of humor and philosophy
which have given fame and Immortality
to such impressible geniuses as Brete
Harte and Samuel L. Clemens. The
pure air Of the West. and freedom from
the environments of social forms. seem
to develop a talent for observation and
force of thought that is akin to Nature.
By the way, it may be well to note
that it was doubtless these conditions
and surroundings that enabled the late
Francis Henry, one of the brightest wits
of our State, to achieve a popularity
from his poem "The Old Settler" that
is only limited by the number who have
heard its quaint humor that had been
set to the rollicking melody "Old Rosin
the Beau"
And now beams from the Northland
where Aurora has hitherto danced the
merry hours away, genius known as
Mike Rice, once of Phoenix, Arizona,
(anOther place that tended to pevelop
genius) and resident of this coast the
pastthirty years, who has been impelled
to write the following stanzas, under q
no less infection than "Teddy's big
club" which traverses space and an
initiates conditions to make it's Masters
sovereign will effective. 1t seems that
Mr.. Roosevelt, in order to keep his club
in practice. determined to suppress
gambling in the Willis of Juneau, where
it is presumed there was very little else
to do after the mining season had closed.
The order was executed through a Fed
eral Judge named Gunnison, hence the
"We're Gunnisonized and
will have to hike" The poem has had
an immense popularity at Juneau and
all over Alaska:
There's something sort of missing
In our winsome atmosphere
The breeze is inst as cooling
And the Arctic sun as clear,
But the gang is broken-hearted-
They're sort of lonesome like
Since the ball has stopped rolling
And the gamblers had to hike.
They NOPE round sort OF listless,
And they say, " Howdy pard?"
And the floozies" heads are dropping,
For they also take it hard;
And the dives are dead and empty
Who ever saw the likei
Since the ball has stopped q rolling
And the gamblers had to hike.
I amt . saying, partner. that
It amt all for the best;
Though some of US feel lonesome
Without aces in our vest;
But for life" Juneau ain't in it
With the graveyard up the pike,
Since the ball has stopped a rolling
And the gamblers had to hike.
We are now engaged in pastimes
Like "Old Maid'' and House Crokay"
And the virgins in the dance halls
Are learning 10 "Croshay,"
And the boosters hunt their blankets
When they hear the curfew strike
Since the ball stopped rolling
And the gamblers had to hike.
The town awoke one morning
And sadly was surprised,
When they heard the edict issued
That they were Gunnisonixed."
They held . rump convention
To hear from Three-Card Ike
That the ball had stopped rolling
And the gamblers had to hike.
Mike Rice, Of Juneau, erst,ohile
PAoeni1, arizona, and erery other min
ing camp on the Pacific Coast IN the
past thirty years.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14
cOBBLER'S FUEL SECRET IS OUT.
A Secret for Which It Was Reported 1t,
Owner Was Offered q Million Dollars.

An Altoona, Pa. dispatch to the
New York World says: The re-
markable secret for burning ashes
with coal discovered by John Elmore,
an Altoona cobbler, and which has
excited attention almost the world
over, is out. Almost every house
holder in Altoona is now using it
with great saving in coal bills. Sew
eral well-known chemists Immediate
ly after it was announced that FL
more had solved the problem of OBJ
tanning heat from ashes, set to work
to try to discover its formula. They
were successful, and here it is: Com
mon salt, one pound; oxalic acid, two
ounces; water, one gallon. Mix and
moisten a mixture containing one
part coal and three parts ashes and .
better fuel than pure coal is obtained
The ashes OF anthracite coal burn as
readily as do those of bituminous.
This mixture will, upon being placed
upon q burning fire, fuse into q coke
like mass and deposit but little resi-
due. The chemical action of this
compound is thus explained: When
an aqueous solution of an alkaline
salt, upon such as common salt, is
mixed with coal ash the result is
that a mild lye is formed which,
when mixed with any combustible
material, such as coal, and upon the
application of heat gives off oxygen
gas thus enabling rapid combustion.
The addition of oxalic acid caused o
chemical change of greater value
than the first, for the reason that it
results in the formation Of a carbide,
which in turn gives off acetylene gas,
this adding to the intensity of the
heat and facilitating complete COM
bustion. 1t is possible upon mois-
tening q small quantity of ashes
without the addition of coal, to really
detect the odor of acetylene gas, and
If the treated ashes are placed upon
lighted fire they will fuse and burn
to a fine powder. The compound is
now being used in many large in
dustrial and mercantile places here,
and it is claimed for it that it has re-
duced the fuel item more than half.
1t has eliminated almost entirely
the question of disposition Of ashes,
which has been considerable where
great quantities of coal are consumed.
Elmore, who discovered the secret
and focused attention upon the pos
sibilities that lurked in ashes, claims
that his patent will protect him in
his secret. He says that he has re-
ceived an offer from the British gov
ernment. provided he can demon
strate the practicability of his COM
pound. While it is everywhere con-
ceded that Elmore has conferred a
great boon upon humanity. it is
feared that he will not derive any
tangible benefits from his discovery,
in view of the facts that hundreds of
others have secured the same results.
following his lead"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14
TRUE DEMOCRACY.
IT EMBRACES THE ESSENCE OF
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.

1t Is the Party Of Jefferson. the Author oi
the Declaration Of Independence Democ-
racy SAFEGUARDS Individual Rights and Is
the Champion Of Local Self-Government-
1t Favors Such Improvements in the
Methods Of Government as Will Make the
Federal Government More Responsive to
the Will Of the People-Is the Foe Of
Special PRIVILEGES and Private Monopoly.
and Holds That Corporations Should Be
Tractable to Law-Favors the Laborinf
Man in His Fight Against Corporate Greed
Opposes Imperialism and Colonial Gov
ernment Which Is in Conflict With the
National Constitution.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14

Cholmondely-You and your sister
are twins, are you not?
Marjoribanks-We were when we
were children. Now, however, she
is five years younger than l am.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-06-14

A pretty play,
A little lunch,
Olympia beer,
A jolly bunch,
But, Oh, next day,
"Geel I'm sick"
"It's all in life"
Grins devil Nick.
A spruce young man isn't ever
reen.
The Washington times., 1907-12-29
MARINE CORPS FILLED,
MONEY FAMINE DOES It

Tie recent industrial depression Is
attributed by General Elliott. command
ant Of the Marine Corps, as the cause
% his being able 70 recruit the corps up
10 the full allotted strength.
July l last the Marine Corps was
short 100 enlisted men. For a year or
more previous to that the corps had
ranged from 200 to $50 snort of the au-
thorized strength, and at the ems OF the
last fiscal year the situation seemed al
most hopeless.
Advertising on all binbOards was re-
sorted 10. bu1 without the desired sue
cess. New recruiting stations were
opened IN different parts Of the coun-
try. but apparently there was A lack or
interest in that branch Of the service.
The Marine Corps Is usually more at
tractive 20 recruits for naval service
than the navy proper, for the reason
that the men are sent over the world az
much as sailors. but are not confined TO
snip duty so extensively.
When preparations were made 20 send
the Atlantic fleet to the Pacific efforts
were at once put forth 20 obtain re-
cruits in order 70 have a fun compile
menu Of marines aboard each OF the
ships. At the last moment this was
not Only accomplished but the officials
were able 70 put about 200 additional on
board in order 10 send them around 10
San Francisco Tor duty with the Pacific
feet
General Elliott notified Secretary Met
calf today that al last the corps had
been completely filed, and he hoped 20
maintain Il heneeforth at fun strength
The billboard advertising has been dis
continued.
The Washington times., 1907-12-29
SHANGHAIED BOY
RETURNING HOME
Frisco Lad Free After
Being British Prisoner
Two Years.

PITrSBURG, Pa. Dec. 2S.-Howari
Ray fifteen-year-old boy on his way
TO San Francisco, hoping to find his
home and parents whom he left before
the earthquake In April, 1906. told a sen
sational story OF adventure as a sailor,
Of being shangnaied BIZ the crew of a
British ship. and Of being mistreated by
United States consul in Brazil, TO
whom no applied for relief. when he
asked for lodging in the police station
here.
When thirteen years old. he said, he
shipped as cabin boy at San Francisco
on the steamship Chill. bound for Cape
Town. As cabin boy and as ordinary
seaman, often performing the @ull du-
ties Of a grown man, he worked his
way on different ships 20 Sydney. Mel
bourne, and many other points, finally
landing at Rio Janeiro, where he was
seized with a desire 70 return home.
He shipped on a boat bound for Nor
folk. Va. and reached that port with
out adventure, and got his pay for the
voyage and his discharge
Walking through the streets Of Nor
folk he says, he vas suddenly seized
by sailors from the British coal steamer
Titania. and carried aboard, where he
was kept prisoner for several days until
the ship sailed Then he was released
and put 10 work as a sailor. The ship
was short OF men, and ne was forcibly
taken on as a recruit.
In course Of time he was again in
Rio de Janelro, where he complained %
the United States consul That official.
the lad AYERS gave him curt treatment.
hushed up the fact Of his having been
shangnaled. after several conferences
with the British consul. and finally re-
fused 20 assist him 20 get back 20 the
United States. because he could not
produce proof that he was an American
citizen.
The British consul. the lad says. found
him a chance 70 work his way 10 New
York. where no arrived a few days ago.
He stole MS way to Altoona, Pa, or
freight trains, he says. and the au-
thorities al the latter place gave him
transportation 20 Pittsburg. He hopes
10 get help here, and az other points
that Will take hira 10 San Francisco.
Whether he viii find his parents there
ne does not know. He Eas heard moth
ing from them since the earthquake.