Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-01-24


The Civ Council. Monday night,
( took summary action against certain
property owners who have neglected
10 build cement walks that had been
ordered in replacing worn out plank
walks. Mr. IiaWurth. who owns tine
confectionery ~tur" opposite th"
town haiI j one of these. and as the
ten days final notice has expired, the
/ City Engineer WAS directed TO set
stakes immediately for building tn"
walk ordered. and the walk will b"
! built and the cost assessed against
the property. Mrs. Turpin : prop
rrtv ON Sixth and Main streets. is in
The. same condition. and the walk
has been ordered torn up and Il
temporary plank walk built until
bids for construction of Il cement
walk can he obtained.
And now the .NrS and the Oiym-
p'"n are quarrrlinG over what Bank
rr Lord has done in resumption of
specie payments. 1t seems the form
rr paper had what it considered Il
scoop. but Slipped up little i'll
making it known to its readers.
Then Oig published u revised version.
in which it claimed that the banks
had been on cash basis since the
new year began. and in reply the
N.~S gets both bank Presidents to
deny that this is true. and in fact
| that there is a string still on deposits
should occasion demand, and that
| they reserve the right for payment
of any large amount in certificates.
So it seems the impressive ceremony
of burning certificates was performed
before they had all been redeemed.
And there the matter rests.
Mr.. Troy, very properly we think.
refuses to prosecute the criminal
charges preferred by James Crowley
against several parties for gambling
in 1903, growing out of civil cases in
which Crowley secured Judgment,
from which an appeal was taken to
the Supreme Court, which is still
pending. The cases came to Mr.
Troy as Il heritage from the HOratio
Alling term as Public Prosecutor,
and he refused to have anythin. to
do with them, unless new indict-
mcntS were secured. Subsequent
grand juries have. however, ignored
the matter. The cases had been
tried as misdemeanOrs, by Prose
cutor Alling in the Superior Court
and a fine of $50 imposed Mr..
Crowley's attempt is to secure pros
cution under the felony act. 1t
looks as if the course is prompted
more by malice than sense of JUS
tice.
The Holy Rollers met with Il very
unpalatable experience Sunday even
ing, after their meeting was dis
missed. A band of what they prob
ably very properly consider outside
barbarians, entered their place of
worship" in Union Block, and re-
moving the stove, benches. chairs
and Other adjuncts of the skydoOdlc
cult cast them into the bay. Mon
day the folsom, consisting of the
benches and chairs were carefully
gathered in from the mudfatS, while
the jetsOn, in the shape of an old
stove, that had Outlived its days of
usefulness before making a fruitless
endcavOr to infuse a little warmth in
the Rollers hall, was allowed to
quietly repOSe in the clammy depths
OF the East waterway. The benches
were removed to the old Baptist
Church, on Eighth and Adams
streets, now said to be owned by
some son of Belial, who, for a con-
sideration of the peters-pence, seems
willing to risk damage to property
from tho tumultuous conduct Of the
auditory of this sensational method
of SO-called worship.
The Holy Rollers are now filling
columns of those vehicles of sensa-
tiOnal drift, the Olympia dailics,
with other details of their efforts to
pose in the lime-light. Their latest
is an effort to heal by laying on of
hands. A woman in tho last stages
of consumption was secured for trial
of their faith and was kept under the
so-called hypnotic spell several hours,
and indeed until it was a question
whether she was dead or alive, from
their rough manipulations. 1t is
published in the Ncrs that Prophet
Pearson tried to drive the devil
from the woman's body by twisting
her head" and in this respect at
least must partaken considerable of
the nature of the Indian tomanawus,
which if it did not cure was sure to
kill. The Holy Roller victims name,
as given by the same veracious sheet,
is Mrs. p. H. Mcclure, the mother of
five children, who is a full-hedged
member OF the fanatical band, and
may die from the effects of their
rough proceedings. Let these ia
natics alone, and their foolish profess
sions and silly acts will die from
want of incentiye-notoriet