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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

EMPEROR William of Germany. a
few years ago. selected five eminent
iurists to revise and codify the laws
of the Empire. 1t was stated that
Notwithstanding the care and caution
exercised by German lawmakers, two
thirds of the legislation had become
obsolete and unnecessary. This ex-
ample might be followed with profit
in our young State. where we find
that our statutes have become ex-
ceedingly pondcrous and contradic-
tory, and that even Judges and law
yerS are embarrassed in aSccrtaining
the status Of our legislation on given
subjects. Moreover the worst fea-
ture seems to be the imperfect and
careless phraseology employed in
framing laws. Two years ago, Mr.
j. Nj. Hit, the State Librarian, pro-
posed that the legislature appoint a
committee of competent men author
lied to look over carefully all pro
posed legislative enactmcntS and cor
rect errors. Somehow the project
never matured, and the record is thus
kept up in making mistakes and en-
plOying involved verbiage.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

THE Eagle HarbOr company that is
engaged in supplying wooden blocks
for the payment on Fourth street,
met with serious loss on Tuesday of
last week, by the dropping of 100
barrels of cresote into the bay. The
company imports that product from
England, and it was while unloading
it from a British ship on scow used
fer Tightening that it turned turtle, "
dumping the entire lot into the bay
which is 100 feet deep at that point.
1t is thought impossible to recover
the casks, and serious bill of dam
ages will have to be sustained by
either the ship owners or the block
company. Fortunately, however, the
full supply of blocks had been deliv-
cred for the work here, and it may
only somewhat delay the contem-
plated improvements next spring. un-
less the other product of vitralized
brick is substituted.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04
The Weather for November.

The report Of Weather Observer
VI. 'ConnOr for the month of Nov
cmbcr shows that the average tenn
= ratute for the month was 30 de
rrccs above the average for the last
Il years since the establishment of
the weather bureau here The rain
fall was not mp To the average either
The deficiency during the past month
was , 20 inches. only 60 inches fal-
ling during the month.
The summary follows:
Mean maximum temperature. 30.
%; mean minimum temperature. 40
60; mean temperatures, 41.3i. Maxi
mum, 13 degrees Nov. 3: minimum
- degrees. Nov. H. IL and %
Greatest daily range. -
There were no clear days. six partly
cloudy days and - cloudy days
There were II days on which more
than .0l of an inch of rain fell. The
total rain fall. s - inches; average
for November for 30 years, 3 %; de
ticiencv, 220. Total rainfall sine,
January |. 1908, y SO; average, 1867
deficiency. 2.11. Total rainfall sine,
September, the commencement of the
rainy season, ll20 inches; average
1911 deficiency. 49,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

FINE FRUIT FOR ROYALTY.-It has
been planned to send twenty boxes
of the choicest prize winning apples
at the joint display of the Fruit
Growers Association and the Hor-
ticultural Society, in this month,
to King Edward of England and
the German Emperor William. They
will while en- route be exhibited
in the window of Department
store in New York. The terri
tory represented in this exhibit will
be Washington, Oregon, Idaho and
British Columbia.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

HAVE our socialists friends studied
the government Of the lncaS at the
time OF the Spanish conquest? They
may find by reading Prescott S Con-
quest of Peru, the form and substance
Of the most dcspotic government that
ever existed on this earth, whereby
the minutest details of each house
hold was subjected to governmental
insp ection and regulation. Such
form of government finds no counter
part in modern times. Perhaps its
nearest approach may appear in
Japan, where an attempt is about to
be made to manage private indus
tries by the ruling powers, with a
view of competing American and
European nations out of business re-
garding commerce with the Orient.
1t is now about time we Americans
should give more attention to the
development of the resources of this
great country, fraught with so many
and great opportunities, than to be
chasing after markets in heather
and s? If the welfare of our people
shall be promoted, their purchasing
power will be likewise augmented,
in order that our products and COM
modities may find markets and glad
den the hearts of our consumers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04
BUSINESS OPENING.

The proprietor having other bust
ness offers for sale the entire " Home
Drug Store" stock of Drugs. Medi-
cines. Stationery. Sundries and store
fixtures. This is an unusually good
chance to get into an established
business. Apply on the premises,
corner Eastside and Fifth streets, or
to EDWIN 4. HENDERSON, agent, 325
Fourth street.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

OLD-TME METHODS OF TIE ROAD.
The demand of MONDAY prayer
meeting seem to be growing in ne
cessity in Seattle when adult citizens
have been kidnapped for an evident
intent of holding for ransom. 7. A.
Atwood, 4 dealer in wall paper, was
called over phone to the suburbs,
Monday evening, to confer with an
unknown party regarding some prop
erty on Lake Washington. He was
met and assaulted by stranger,
soon as he had entered the room,
with poker, and two shots were
fired from a revolver, one striking
MIR. Atwood in the right knee. He
finally succeeded, however, in escap-
ing. 1t is the theory of both him.
Self and the police that he had been
enticed to the house with the inten-
ton of OBTAINING him for ransom.
Mr.. A. Is highly respected citizen,
well-to-do and about 46 years of age.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

On last Saturday, the 2Sth ult., at
his Office in Portland, Ralph B. Fish
or, young lawyer, was assassinated
in cold-blood, by another attorney
named j. A. Finch, who had been
disbarred at the instance of the for
mer, representing the Oregon bar
association.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

MORAL anaesthesia is the name of a
new disease. or rather of conditions
which have been ascribed to Miss
May d. Otis. when the hearing of
a case in which she is charged with an
attempt to murder her mother. Mrs.
Sarah Otis. Judge Gemlll, held that
while there was no statute covering
the offensc that no crime had been
committed; that Miss Otis while
under this mental control seems to
not live up to her own moral stand
ard, but seem perfectly subjective to
outside suggestion.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

A FEW days ago Christian workers
in Seattle arranged for all street
cars to come to a stop at noon for
two minutes, at the blowing of the
steam whistles, and engage in silent
prayer. And this plan will also be
observed during prayer week preced-
ing Christmas, or the first week in
January, in the hope that it may i'm
pei the wicked city to pause in it's
headlong career to perdition.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04
Law and Common Sense

complaints are heard from en-
blowers Of labor with regard TO the
amount uf costs and attorneys fees
allowed in l1@c"r-licn suits. In
stance, ar. by no means rare in such
case, where the costs amount to
nearly a., much and sometimes more.
than the Indebtedness sought 10 be
collected. 1t may bc said the en-
pIoycr> >hould pay their lubnrrr>
without compelling them to 20 TO
Court in order to get their money.
While this i true. there are cases
wherein there are honest differences
ON both side. Lawyers who handle
this kind Of business assert that the
labor connected herewith is consid-
cradle. One attorney III Olympia.
recently remarked he would rather
handle three mortgage foreclosure
cases than one lien suit from the
standpoint of the work involved:
therefore he hesitatcd about bringing
such suits and would rather let some
other lawyer do the business. After
the actions have been commenced,
the laborcrs being anxious to get
their money keep after their at
torneys to push matters, while they
may be doing everything possible tc
be done while the opposing parties
are doing all in their power for delay
Such conditions call for a speedy
correction of the law to which ouI
Legislature would do WEI to respond
at an early date. 1t would be less
expensive, if the lienor after having
filed the notice of his claim in tn,
County Auditors office were permit
ted to file the original or Il certified
copy of his lien claim in the clerk
Office of the Superior Court, where
upon summons shall issue requiring
adverse parties to appear in twent!
days; service to be personal or b,
publication in some local newspaper
Thereafter the controversy thall pro
coed without written plcadingS, shall
he determined expeditiously, and vii
result to the advantage of either side
if the differences are honest. If other
wise, the party fighting for time o
to annoy his adversary is entitled tt
small considerations ut the hands o
| the law. EoluminOuS written plead
ingS are wholly unnecessary in sutl
controversies 1t is a safe genera
proposition to maintain that the en-
ployerS know more about their Ia
borerS accounts than they do them
selves; why should the latter be he
Quired to advise the former Il
to their demands in proliX verbiage
When similar legislation was frs
enacted in other States, objection
came from So-callcd constit utiOna
attorneys which are frequently raiSe'
whenever law possesses merit, bu
were ovcrruled by the courts. Lat
years, this class of legislation ha
been approved by numerous ruling
of the highest courts in the land.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

THE Irish tenants demand an APP
preparation of nine hundred million
dollars with which to relieve the
pressure of Irish landlOrdism. The
British government confronts two
other serious problems: the millions
of unemployed and the unrest in
India. New York high tinanciers
are worried, fearing there may be a
large liquidation of American securi-
ties held by English capitalists, and
a consequent deportation of gold.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

TIE Western Pacific Railroad com.
pany has completed the cut of the
Flower Lake tunnel, in Nevada, un-
der the Peqrop mountains, in Nye
county, which is 1851 feet long.
Nearly the whole distance is through
solid limestone. The work of drill.
ing has been in progress nearly two
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

IT is announced that work will i'm
mediately begin on the Union Pacific
old grade between Gray's Harbor
and Tacoma, and in 80 days will be-
gin on the Portland line south of
Centralia, on which the right-of-
way over the old Hunt road Is
miles out of Centralia will be used.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

THE State Department at Wash.
ington has made public reaffirma-
ton to an old agreement between
Takahira and Mr.. Root expressing
the belief that frank avOwal of the
aims, policy and intentions of the
two countries in the Pacific, will
strengthen the relations between the
nations, and will contribute mater
tally to their general peace and
friendship.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

IT is estimated that the actual cash
valuation of real and personal prop
crty in this State, at the present
time. amounts to nearly a billion and
Il half dollars. This has been re-
duccd for purposes of assessment by
the State Board of Equalization to
S74S, 593, 942, yieldinga State revenue
of 81, 597 $50. OF this amount, our
county will have to pay $40, S3S, on a
valuation of $1l .424 ,592.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

ALL five the Taft electors from
this State want to 90 on East
to carry the returns to Washing
ton. 1t is astonishing with what
avidity they grasp upon every crumb
that drops from the table.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

MUCH suffering exists among stock
on the ranges of Colorado from severe
weather and want of food. Feed of
all kinds sells at almost prohibitive
prices, hay commanding at from
SO ~ ~. IN temperature has
ranged below zero.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

RACE-TRACK gambling is doomed
in California, enough of the Legisla-
ture having announced their inten-
ton of support of the measure to
ensure its early passage. New York
led off, and many other States have
fallen in line and now August Bel
mont one of the other largest owners,
is planning to take his strings"
abroad next year.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

Mrs Russell Sage, of New York
has given $4,000 toward the estab-
lisnment of college for colored youth
in Kentucky, to be a branch of Berea
college, modelled after Tuskegee In
Stitute.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 1st
contains the announcement that
Cannon is assured of reelection to
the Speakership of the House.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

THE Milwaukee railroad has only
% miles to lay of its strip of road 456
miles long connecting Seattle with
the tunnel in the Bitter Root noun
tainS.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

JUDGE Hadley. when he leaves the
Supreme bench, it is said will form
a law partnership with Charles w,
Dorr of San Francisco. and open an
Office in Seattle.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

A TOXIC dispatch of the 30.h ult.,
states that two Japanese steamships
were in collision off Chefoo, and that
200 persons were drowned.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

THE vote of the late State cleo
ton shows a total of 1854 $40 votes.
of which LOG, 062 were cast for the
Republican ticket and SO, 1873 for the
Democratic. Debs received 14,I77,
Chaffin LOO and Hisgen 249. Cos
grove ran 4, 12S ahead of Taft. The
Total vote cast in the State in 1904
was 145. 151.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

LUTHER Burbank. the worlds great
naturalist, promises to visit Port
land in connection with the official
planting day in Portland, Feb.
ODD
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

THEODORE Burton. of Cleveland,
Ohio, has been offered the portfolio
OF Secretary of the Treasury. by Mr..
Taft.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

THE State electors will meet in
this city the second Monday in jan
uary, to cast the vote for President.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

ARE nuts fruit? Yes. the word is
used without much discrim nation
In certain sense corn, wheat and
oats are fruit.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

IT is hardly probably there could
be SO much smoke if there was no
fire in the Root smudge.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

LIFE on MARS. Prof. Wood, who
occupies the chair of experimental
philosopher in John Hopkins Uni
versity at Baltimore, has invented.
it is said. mercury telescope, by
which he hopes to discover animated
life on Mars, if it exists. He has re
ported his discovery to the Nationa
Academy of Sciences. 1t will con
sist of a mirror Is or 20 feet in di
ameter, mounted in the tropics, a
the bottom of deep pit, that vii
enable the observer to discover de
tails on Mars or other planets, which
cannot be seen by smaller inStru
| mpntS.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

AN elopement at Carlisle, Pa,
Tuesday night, of an Indian maiden,
Wahoo, and her dusky brave, Joseph
Twin, by automobile, is among the
latest society events. 1t seems that
To- is ambitions and able to stand
the expense that many of his poorer
white brothers are unable to bear.
1t really seems that it is better to be
a ward of the government and
apportioned lands in severalty' or
tide-lands in perpetuity. rather than
rustic for a living without the sus-
tanning hand of our beneficent Uncle
Sam.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

SOME of the milling statistics at
Anacortes are astounding. Four
teen timber-product establishments
employ $50 men; the daily capacity
fills a train of sixteen large freight
cars, and the outputof a 26-day month
will load q train four miles long.
The mills run all the year round.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-12-04

AN Oregon City girl. u years of
age. was arrested in Plaza park. Port
land. the other night. for violation
Of the " anti-mashcr - ordinance, that
prohibits whitepcoplr from flirting
much less an Amcricanizcd japanese
who occupy about the relative
value of plated ware TO sterling sill
yer. 1t does seem strange that a
Yankee girl. and Il years of age, can
! fall so low as to conSort with the low
lousy. leprous idolators from the far
east. and had made the tri p to Port
land to see her slant-cycd. inamorlta
and spent the night in Jail, while
Nanki Poo prevailed upon his en-
ployer to deposit cash bail for his
own rclcasc-hmSelf first it will be
noted. Probablya little of this prcc-
cdencc will open the eyes of the girl.
if nothing else will.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-09
Arcadia College
KNDlECHD
OF THE
...UrSuline Sisters.

The system of education pursued in
this institution is designed to develop the
moral, intellectual and physical powers
of the pupils; to make them refined, ac-
anpoY 1ishol md ,,sof,,1 -, ao,hora ~ ,ooiotr
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-09

CA - III @ ER ia.
Boara the n The Kind YO9 Have Always Bought
S's, 4 NMNzNM
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-09
RI. ZVY. COLLINS
AND FEED STABLE
IRONTON MO

NOTICE to Pitnicers and Excursiouist-
~ Hacks, Spring Wagons, Single and
Double Buggies, Three-Seated Carriages,
Two-Seated Carriages, with competent
drivers; also, the best Of Saddle Horses for
Ladies and Gentlemen can be had at
REASONABLE RATR,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-09
PARTNERSHIP ESTATE.

-- LI4 -
Notice is hereby given that letters Of ad-
ministration upon the estate Of Kizzie
Ruble, late Of Iron county, deceased, have
been granted to the undersigned, Walter
Ruble, who as Administrator has taken
possession of the partnership estate Of
Kizzie Ruble, deceased, and Daniel
Lewis. All persons having claims against
said partnership estate are required to
exhibit them to me for allowance, and file
said claims with the Probate Court Of Iron
County, Missouri, within one year after the
filing Of said Administrators Bond, or they
will be forever barred. Said bond was
fed in the office of the Probate Court on the
18th day Of February, 1908.
March 10, 1908.
WALTER RUBLE,
Administrator.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-09

FOR SALE-The best Swift &
Co.'s Fertilizers and Poultry Bone,
also Northern Seed Rye, at Iron
ton Manufacturing Co.'s Flour
Mill.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-09
DR.. w. J.. SMITH,
Graduate American School Of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Mo.

CONSULTATION FREE. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Board,
Room and Treatment, $40 to SIS per week. Special Rates to parties de-
string Board Without Treatment
This Institution is designed and constructed for the comfort and accommodation Of
who sek relief aud recuperaion and the recovery of lost health. Its location is
for this purpose It's n the Iron Mountain Railway, SO miles south of St
Louis and go feta above that city. Nestled at the footof Shepherd Mountain, embow.
cred among majestic rees,u Just off the main street. and fcefr from its noEe Int dust, anc
alongside, and connected with, the famed Emerson Park with its shady walks and drive
Sylvan Lake and Grant Spring, and their attractive surroundings, no more eauhfa
or reHulr retreat for the invalid and convalecent or the weary and careworn, AN be
found lin all America.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1908-04-09

Pupils OF all denominations ire equally recceived-al interference with their
convictions being carefully avoided. TERMS:-Board, Washing of Clothes,
Tuition in English, and all kinds Of Useful and Ornamental Needle Work, per
Session of Five Months, are 90,00-payable in advance. Terms for instruc-
ton in Music, Foreign Language, Drawing and Painting can be had by apply
ing as below. Attached to the Convent and totally separated from the board
ingschool, is SELECT DAY SCHOOL, in which the usual branches of sound
and practical education are carefully impaired. Terms in the Day School will
be, for the present. One Dollar per Month. Information may be had by ap
plying in person O by letter, to MOTHER SUPERIOR,
Of the Convent Of the Ursulne Sisters, Arcadia, Iron county, Mo.
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-05-24
Indians Receive $215,-
 900 From Uncle Sam

Clerk of the Court Geo. B. Wilcox and Court Reporter John Walker re- turned last evening from Oouglss where they were officially called to attest the negotiations Of the United States government with the Riekapoo Indians which were concluded yester- day al the Slaughter ranch where the Indians are encamped. The Indians, l57 in all. received q total of s2l5.o GOO from the government or about Si,3 Q each.
 Seventy-three Of tue Indians were from Mexico and eighty-iour from Ok lshoms. The Mexican Indians will use the money which they have re. ceived toward the purchase of res eryatior. What is left them after this is done will be invested in United states government bonds.
Tombstone epitaph., 1908-05-24
Still Continues to
 Go the Rounds

Chief of Police Bravin has received a letter from Durham, \. C., where red hot prohibition fight is nov being waged and is to be decided by sn cleo ton on the 18th inst. The cores pendent encloses a printed slip pur porting to be an sdvertisemento "An Honest Saloon Keeper," who runs "The Temple Bar Saloon" in Tomb stone, and makes inquiry of the truth or falsity of the alleged adver- isement. The story of the prohibi- tionist proprietor of the Temple Bar Saloon Tn Tombstone is purely A myth. which doubtless had its source in the imaginative brain isome space writer. as neither such a saloon ever existed in Tombstone, or the so-cslled creed promulgated here. The story
 has repeatedly been pronounced ss a myth.