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Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-10-08
Prosecuting Attorney,
Aberdeen, Washington.

Dear Sir
Your favor of October 6 is received.
You state that you would like to have
an opinion from this office on the
following propositions, viz:
May a political party through its
county organization fill vacancies:
i. e., name candidates for county Of
fees and have the names of such
candidates certified to the County
Auditor and placed upon the official
election ballot for the general cleo
ton in November, where no candidate
for such office filed his declaration
for the primary election or was a
candidate at the recent primary elc-
ton: i. e., where there was no candi-
date at all voted for. for said offices
for said political party at the said
primaries, the said political party
having the requisite number of votes
to entite it. under the primary law,
to participate in the primary cleo
tons
Without going into a detailed dis
cussion of the matter. will say brief
ly that it is my opinion that your
inquiry may be answered in the af-
firmative that is, the county or
ganization may fill such vacancies,
if it so desires, and have the names
of such candidates certified to the
County Auditor to be placed upon
the official election ballot for the gen.
eral election.
Yours very truly,
JAMES A. ATKINSON,
IDA. Attorney General.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-10-08
DEMOCRATS WERE RIGHT.
Attorney General Decides Nomina-
lions Made by Democratic Com
mittee Will Go on Ballot.

There being some question as to
the legality of the action Of the
Democratic County Central Commit
tee, in filling vacancies on the coun-
ty ticket, County Attorney Boner
asked the opinion of the attorney
general on the question, and that Of
fetal says they are perfectly legal.
The following is the letter of Attor-
ney General Atkinson:
Hon f.. f.. BOner,
Prosecuting Attorney,
1,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-31

Didn't the rest of it pan out accord
in to the chrOmO?" said the House De-
-tectiYe.
well, not so as to cause any CRATE
full guest to rush away and make an
affidavit said the Hotel Clerk. ANY
young gentleman who sat on the green
sward in front of that hotel, in a pair
of duck pants, couldn't play the man
dolin with any degree of satisfaction.
He'd have to play grind organ, SOS
he could have one hand 20 skirmish
for the red ants. That hotel may have
been shy in some regards. but she ex-
celled in ants. Persistent little crea-
lures they were They'd play mystic
maze in and out of a peek -a-bOo waist
until they got dizzy and fell down the
back of some passing neck. I got
enough red ants in the two weeks I was
there 70 last me through the fall and
well into the winter"
How bout the gal with the canoe?''
asked the House Detective. "Didn I
they have her, neither?"
"Oh, yes, indeed, she was there" said
the Hotel Clerk But she didn't sport
many lOw-neck princess gowns. not
while l was around, She was shaped
like model tenement, and she didn 1
wear any shoes, and she had those
large, dark red, self-reliant feet. and
she lived down by the river in "A tent
with her husband. who was a husky
party, with thumb nails like a couple OF
Brazil nuts. and they had seven chill
dren, all the same age. They sold the
hotel its fresh fish.
The assemblage on the Veranda was
also a disappointment in some respects,
Larry. Most of the time il was clOgged
up with stout ladies that came down in
the morning with so many diamonds Oil
that they looked like bunch of crys-
tai wedding celebrations. When they i
worked through the breakfast card as
far as the date line and union label al
the bottom. they'd come out on the
porch and sit in row and be exclusive.
A lady with two stOmachers and a
tiara wouldn't speak to a lady with
only one dinky little stomacher and no
tiara at all. and the poor. fOrlorn lady
who only had pair of diamond ear
rings would sit there alone with 'elu
hanging down on each side of her un-
happy cOuntenance like quotation
marks enclosing a harsh word, and
she'd have to talk to herself.
II was one Of those establishments
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where everybody dressed for dinner,
and then tried to look like they were
used to doing it every night at home.
Their attire was SO correct it was pain
full An elderly gentleman would come
tOdd<ng downstairs in his dinner coat
and his lingerie vest, accompanied by
his lady wife, all in white, with three
kinds of jewelry. He'd be looking like
one of those foolish birds they call a
penguin, and she'd be a cross between
floating island and a memorial win
dow. But they couldn't keep from re-
verting to form when they began to
eat He needed a lap robe and a pair
of OvershOes when he tried to invade a
grape fruit, and when she went to the
cOnsOmme, the general effect was some
thing like draining the bass tuba after
hard street parade. But after dinner
they'd go out on the Veranda, and when
the band wasn't playing they'd have a
strictly private discussion in a loud,
clear tone of voice about whether
they'd buy another touring car right
away, or try to struggle along a month
or so with the four or five they had.
You know how il is, Larry. After
awhile grandeur pals on you. But I've
always been very proud of the fact that
once paid eight dollars a day for a
Il think il was the year before | went
to the seashore. But l didn't care for
the waiter I had. 1t was a warm sum-
mer, and he was so open pOred. That's
my luck at a summer hotel. | always
catch a barber that's having a tooth
treated, and a waiter that suffers from
the extreme weather. l seemed to no.
tice the open pores in my waiter the
first day, and after that l asked him to
bring me mine in a covered dish. He
did, and then it reminded me of rain
on a tin roof.
$50 | didn't think SO much of him.
If / went out on the beach after dinner,
| butted into one of those life-of- the
party boys telling back-page humOr To
Maggie Giggle and her cousin. Name
Gurgle Or else a flock of mosquitoes
the size of homing pigeons came out of
the marsh and tried To undress me. If
| stuck to the porch. | missed the child
comedian. but l always got wedged
into a corner by some stout old party
who went To sleep with his mouth ajar,
so he looked like a general delivery
window in the face and made noises
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-31

later gets strength enough to turn and
bite back. I've paid so cents for the
summer hotel portion of mushrooms on
toast, consisting of a scOrched slice of
bread, under a glass DOME with a shirt
waist set strewed carelessly over it,
only when ! looked closer l saw they
were not moss agate studs, but mush-
rooms. have given up as much as
two bones for the far-famed shore din
ner, composed of three burglar-prOOf
clans, part Of a sineWy fried eel, and a
fine tooth comb with a skin wrapped
around it, called a planked shad I've
gone to the seaside to, take the morn
ing refreshing dip in the salt water,
and forgotten to take any of the dips
because IL was busy pining for the
mountain scenery. Then I've gone To
the mountains, but couldn't enjoy the
scenery because l longed with a great
passionate longing for the sound of the
surf rolling up in majestic splendor and
splashing against the foundations of
the bathing pavilion, the tintype gal
lery, and the moving picture show. And
I've stopped at places where they
charge an invalid corkage on his hot
water bottle"
Where wuz it you went last year?''
inquired the House Detective.
u went to one of the face card
places, said the Hotel Clerk. Nothing
below a ten spot could get in. BY bor-
rowing several diamonds from friends
of mine, l managed to look enough like
big casino to slip by
What made you fall for a joint like
that?" said the House Detective.
Il became enamored of the picture
on the back of a circular they sent
out" explained the Hotel Clerk. 1T
was a work of art. II showed regu-
lar Howard Chandler Christy boy sit
ting on the green sward dressed up in a
ye-heave ye-hoe necktie. and pair OF
those non-Creasable duck pants like
you see in a clothing ad, playing a
mandolin for a lovely Autograph in a
ball room costume, who was padding
a brand new birchbark canoe up a
creek an inch and a half wide. In the
background the silvery moon was ris-
ing over noble verandah full of
beauty and chivalry, the same as the
grand stand of southern fair the dsy
they have the country trOt- Underneath
was a line saying rooms would be five
a day and up. But when | got there
they didn't have anything Left hat UPS
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-31
THE HOTEL CLERK ON VACATIONS

Coin somewhere on your vaca-
tiOn?" asked the House Detective of
the st. Reckless.
Il believe it's customary" said the
Hotel Clerk. AT this season it is gen
orally expected that a couple who've
been perfectly happy and satisfied all
winter in a OOm-and-a-BOstOn-
bull-terrier fat will feel il incumbent
upon themselves to go off and spend all
the money they've been able TO save
up since this time last year, for two
weeks of something that's not near as
comfortable as what they get every
day at home"
Where do you think you'll gO?"
asked the House Detective.
We'll / don't know" said the Hotel
Clerk. It's a matter that a careful
man ought to give a lot of thought to.
If your system is all run down-and
every man who's working on a salary
develops that kind of a system. l no
tice, along about this time-you ought
to be very careful about picking out
the place where you go to recuperate
or you'll be coming home a complete
wreck 1t takes a strong and hardy
nature TO endure the rigors of the
average vacation. A business trip is
all very well, but when you're en-
barking on a pleasure exertiOn, as the
poet says, you should safeguard your
health"
They say the Thousand Islands is
purity fine" suggested the House De-
tective.
Yes, they do So" said the Hotel
Clerk. But after you've closely ex-
amined three hundred and thirty-three
and a third of them, all looking just
alike, you begin 10 sort of lose interest
in the other six hundred and siXty-siX
islands and two-thirds of an island.
Well" said the House Detective,
there's plenty of other places you
could go / just thought maybe
could help you out"
Much obliged" said the Hotel Clerk,
But when you come right down TO the
hemstitches. Larry, there's not such a
wide range to choose from. I've tried
'em all, from the classy resort having
all the latest convenienees such as the
automatic stopcockroach and the fold
ing bedbug to the dear old farmhouse
up i'm the mountains. where the butter
runs during the early part of the sea-
son, on being stabbed with the moist,
warm blade of a kitchen knife. but
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-31
BY IRWIN S. COBB.

with his laTnyx like a sea lion coming
up to breathe in Puget sound"
We'll there's them country farm
houses where they have home coOkin'.
and everything" put in the House De
tective.
i've taken that course at the sum
mer normal, likewise" said the Hotel
Clerk. You lay awake in your snug
little bedroom upstairs over the kitchen
refereeing a smelling contest between
a coal oil lamp, bouquet of wax tow
ers in the parlor, and the afterglow of
the fried cabbage. A pinching bug d
little larger than a Philadelphia roast
ing chicken comes in and tries to butt
his brains out against the ceiling, and
can't make it, and gets Disguised and
falls in your eye and wants to settle
| there and make his home. A dog that
ate something for dinner that didn't
agree with him gets under your win
dow and refers to the matter. And so
you lay there thinking of the close,
stuffy city where the lights are all lit
on Broadway, and where the roof gar
/ dens are going, and where the electric
fans are buzzing, and where everything
must be miserable. and then along
about daylight when you're just drift
| ing off, all the ROSTERS in the county
tice one o. Victor HeTbeTt's pieces, and
you have a perfectly grand time. Or
else you walk three miles through the
dust to road house and crowd into a
box stall and drink meadow lark booze.
| You know the meadow lark brand-the
kind that makes you want to sit i'm the
damp grass and sing to yourself? And
you order soft boiled eggs of morning
and when they come, you're sorry YOU
didn't make it dropped eggs. because
the best thing you can do with that
| kind of an egg is to drop it hurriedly
and step aside and leave it. And you
go out in the woods, and the poison ivy
gets you. Leastwise, it always gets
me. Poison ivy will skip right on by
| fully twenty young teething babies, all
with a predispOstion toward nettle
rash. I'm order to touch me up with red
spots until l feel like a Studebaker
wagon"
1T does look like you're kind of linn
ited, said the House Detective. What
dye reckon you'll do?''
Il think maybe I'll stay in town and
haze. real vacation" said the Clerk
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-31
ONE ON THE CITY MAN.
Chicago News

1t was in the country grocery.
When / was fishing in the mountain
pool said the nature faker on the her
ring keg. u dropped my watch over
board and big trout gulped it down on
the spot
That's queer" spoke up the unsOphis-
ticated city man. Il thought that trout
we've fond of insects2"
so they are, mister
We'll why did this one swallow the
watch?'
Wall. I don't know for certain. but
reckon he was after the ticks. That
one on YOU. stranger"
And the unsophisticated city man had
to "set up the cider for the crowd
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-31
eR'ER WILLIAMS IN A BLIZZARD

Hit look LAX a blizzard" said Brother
Williams as the wind sent his hat flying
over the Broad street bridge; and then as
a switch engine ran over it-"Dar, now.
Look how de kiver OF the righteous Is drug
off-leavin' i'm bar headed in de col
worl De win want my coat. too; but
hits so raggedy hit can't make no head
way wild il, fer BLOWN thoO de holes.
wonders how come a blizzard ter hit de
country de las er ApeTl2 But ] hearn a
man say yistiddy de devil is i'm de weather.
an dat ben' de case. hits my opinion dis
is one day Wen he hoped inter blizzard
ter cool off"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-31

one of the women, that 1 figures out
must be the daughter.
stop i'm! Stop 'im!" yells the 9TH
er. She looked like one of the maids.
I'm no backstOp," thinks I to my
self. Besides, this is a family affair. "
I'd have hated to have blocked that
run, too, for it was dom me a lot Of
good. just watchin' il, and thinkin' OF
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back again he'd grabbed the valet and
damned him head first into the green
cart But where he was goin' with
him was more'n / could guess. Any
way, it was somewhere that he was in
a hurry to get to, for the old boy was
rushin' the outfit across the front yard
for ali he was worth.
"Oh, stop him, stop him." screams
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-31

runnin across the lawn. Pretty soon
what they was chasin' comes into view
II was the Commodore. He was push
in the tea wagon in front of him, and
in the top of that, with just his legs
and arms sticl1in' out, was Rabbit.
I knew what was up in a minute
He'd lost his temper just as he was
afraid he would, and before he'd got it
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1908-12-11

crowd of men, said to have been sympathizers with
saloon men recently put out of business attempted
saut Evangelist Billy'' Sunday his arrival in Mus
catine Ia The evangelist declares he has revolver
ready to shoot anyone who attacks him.
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1908-12-11
THE ILLINOIS ISSUE

Law Reigns in Galesburg
Galesburg anti-saoon people have been sorely per-
picked the persistent violation of the local option
law in that city, While Rockford and Decatur and Bel
videre and Jacksonville have all put the blind pigs
Of business in such way that they not likely to
start up again. Gaesburg has somehow been unable to
administer crushing blow to the traffic.
But patience and pluck and perseverance winning
the day and Thursday of last week Gaesbug scored
it's most signal victory in the way of law enforcement.
The accused liquor seller T. E. McCarty. The jury,
after hoty contested trial. returned it's verdict Thurs
day evening" finding McCarty guilty five of the ten
counts in the Indictment
Almost Immediately following the jury retirement in
the against McCary the work Of securing another
jury for the trial Of Ed Soper of the most conpicu
GUS of the soft drink fraternity was begun.
Guilty on Eight Counts
This case was also fought vigorously. The evidence
and arguments were concluded late Friday afternoon
and the jury retired at six o'clock in the evening.
At o'clock that night the verdict returned into
court, finding the defendant guilty eight counts,
for illegally selling liquor and for maintain
ing nuisance.
The conviction Of Soper is distinct victory for the
law enforcement people Of the city and by securing such
results from the first two they prepared to
go at the remainder of the much encouraged.
Soper's place located the northeast corner of
Simmons street and Boone and is regarded by
the members Of the league of the places in the city
where the law has been most fagrany violated for the
past few months
The case of John Hutchinson and L. G. Hyer came
next on the docket.
Get What Is Coming
On Tuesday morning of this week Judge Grier passed
sentence McCarty and Soper Twenty dollars per
for v md for
maintaining nuisance the standard which the
set in the matter Of fnes and fifteen days Jail each
illegal liquor selling count and twenty days in Jail for
maintaining the nuisance the standard for the jail
sentence
McCarty was convicted five counts for selling liquor
and the $50 for maintaining nuisance made his total
fine $3.50 Five counts at fifteen days each made his jail
sentence seventy five days, and added to this is the
twenty days for maintaining nuisance which made
hosts
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1908-12-11

proceedings and will serving their sentences
at
'Do you wish argue these motions for trial?
asked Judge Grer of Attorney R. Robinson when
convened
''No, sir was the attorney reply.
Judge Grier then made formal order overrulng the
motion and proceeded:
''NIr McCarty the jury have found you guilty the
first fourth fifth sixth and seventh of the in
dicment for the illegal sale Of intoxicating liquors in
antsaloon territory and also the eleventh for
maintaining nuisance, that is to say keeping open
place where liquor is sold.
Gambled on Chance
''The verdict Of the jury is amply justified by the
evidence That is, the jury could have found you guilty
the entire Of the indictment without any
miscarriage of justice There no mitigating circum-
stances There pretense of any defense
offered by you evidence. You have simply gambled
the chance Of not being caught and of course you
are bound to suffer the consequences"
The court then imposed sentence upon McCarty.
In taking the Soper the court stated that what
he had said to McCarty applied equally to this The
fine imposed Soper and sentence also somewhat
heavier than the other account of the additional
two counts which the jury found him guilty.
Judge Grier had the power to impose fine of 500
each count, and make the jail sentence each count
larger by the process The sentence, including the
fines means period Of three four months for the
two men in the county Jail. The imposing Of both the
fine and Jail sentence rested entirely in his discretion
under the statute.
Two Others Plead
After the first two defendants sentenced, John
Hutchinson and L. c. Hiyer decided to enter plea of
guilty and ask for enency. In conference between
the states attorney the Law Enforcement League at
torneys and the attorneys for the two defendants
agreed the part of the defendants that they would
sign written statement acknowledging that they had
been engaged in the business at No. &c Public Square,
together with pledge that they would discontinue the
business They offered to plead guilty to five counts of
the indictment and take their chances leniency from
the court This finally agreed to and Judge Grier
imposed fine Of 500 per count five counts without
any Jail sentence.
crowd of men, said to have been sympathzers with
New-York tribune., 1908-01-13
NO REST FOR FIREUEN.
Big Blaze on Upper East Side Giues
Them Stubborn Fight.

fire on the upper East Side early yesterday
morning which almost wiped out an entire block
of factory buildings and sent more than forty
families out in the cold would have done stn
greater damage had not the frenen had good
water pressure with which 20 fight the blaze, ac-
cording to Acting Fire Chief 6inns- -Four alarms
were sent in, he explained because OF the variable
winds the flames spreading in all directions and
for several hours threatening TO destroy all the
houses from q3d to 94th in First avenue I'd
10 Second avenue and back again 70 SD street
But with more than a score of streams from the
various engines and at least a dozen more from
the freboats playing the fire it was kept con-
fined three buildings on First avenue. the to'ai
damage being estimated at 100000
It was one of the most spectacular fires seen IN
the CITY in long time and the police of the East
sstn street. East 1o4th. East 126th East s7th and
East 51st street stations had their hasds full keep
ing order.
The fire was discovered by Frank Haas.
saIoonkeeper at 93d street and First avenue he
turned in alarm, which brought Chief Dough
erty with several pieces of fire apparatus BY tnls
time the five story factory building at No S5 First
avenue of which three stories were occupied oy
Julius Grossman. a shoe manufactured, was enVel-
oped in smoke and the chief sent in a second
alarm This brought the hreboat ZOphar Mills and
Acting Chief Binns Because Of the tnfaurnaols
nature of the burning buildings and the surround
ing tenement houses Chief Binns sent IN another
alarm That this wise move was shown oJ
the length of time required to get the nlaze unoeE
control
Soon after the fourth alarm was turned IN Deputy
Commissioner Bugher arrived on the scene as did
Fire Commissioner Lantry- The latter, however,
had some difficulty in getting within the nre INES
He did not have his fire shield placed conspicuousy
and a patrolnan asked him 10 show II before 10
would admit him. When he finally got IN Inspector
Dillon asked Commissioner Lantry IL The patrol
man had insulted him IN any way
Not bit OF it, replied the Commissioner MS
did his duty and I consider him a very efficient
policeman The Police Department would be PETER
off If there were more men like him in IL
Acting Chief Binns said that the reason his men
were not able 10 get the fire under control sooner
was that there double walls in the ertirs
building and no iron shutters to the windows