Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-08-20
4 "Reminiscences.

first engineer on the OlympiaTenino
railroad built by the people through
the Thureton County Construction
company. for which a special act of
CONGRESS was obtained authorizing
the county to issue SO. 900 bonds for
the PURPOSE Among the first direct
or> we're Gen. McKennv, George y.
BIrnr~. Hazard Stevens the writer
OF ,hi> article. and number Of other
prominent citizens Of that day. The
railroad WAS i p.aything for the di-
rcctor~. and being their first venture
IN that line of business, the cars sell
dom left the depot without some Of
It's mrmbcrs going out with II to
handle freight. collect fare from out
/ Sidrr>l help stoke and perform
other duties. The only railroad man
was Mr.. Buchanan. the engineer.
/ 50 unaccuStomed We're some of these
trustees that one of them. Mr. Patti
son. an old gentleman who owned .
much stock in the venture, refused to
trust himself to the cars, declaring |
that he could not open an Eastern |
paper without finding accounts of
disasters by rail.
The trustees held stated meetings. |
of course, as other similar organiza
tionS did, but they were almost sole
~ devoted to talk of the great things
the road was expected to do in the
way of development OF the country.
At one Of these as n matter of de-
tail. the custom of train departure
without sufficient warning was dis
cusscd and some of the directors
suggested that our engineer be in
structed to give three blasts Of the
whistle half an hour before depar-
ture, and two and on G blasts at stat
ed periods thereafter, as usual with
steamboats, before departure. The
board at once fell in with the
idea. and engineer Buchanan was i'm
mediately called for instruction.
Imagine the CONSERVATION of these
: amateur railroad men when Mr.. Il.
Immediately rendered his resigna-
ton, declaring +" want you to I'M
4 dcrstand | am not running an old
S rattleshack steamboat engine. Why
the Northern Pacific engineers
n would boot at me = SO a motion to
e Immediately recall the order was
VI carried. and the directors were glad
/. that they escaped thus easily and
l. retained their engineer.
a PLAN FOR EVASION Or A POPULAR
, DEMAND. Senator Aldrich admits
II that he accepted the corporation in
o come tax as the sureSt if not the
only way to defeat the peoples de-
q mand for an income tax, pure and
simple, after such exemption as re-
s moves all possibility of its being a
o hardship to anybody. The corpora
ton tax leaves simply to the trusts
. to decide how much income they
!. may be willing to pay tax upon
The admission is significant. and
demonstrates the artistic accuracy
s with which capital may invent de-
a vices for subverting the will of the
: people whenever their protests be-
e come so insiStent as to be Overwhelm-
). ing on plain and fairly presented
e position.
y He is ALREADY TOP-HEAvY.-PO-
monia Grange, of this county. cannot
+ be deceived by the Smooth Eph''
e airs of Senator" A. S. Ruth. AT
9 their last meeting they adopted Wig
J. orous resolutions, unanimously, in
d condemnation of his course in shield
IL ing notorious State malefactors, and
J. voting to place the judicial ermine
= again IN the filthy pool of politics.
). Ruth was all very well until his pO-
:. litical pin-feathers began to prick
& him, when he attempted flight in
IL which Icarus failed. The tripod he
has mounted, is SO high that there is
danger of the suns rays melting the
s wax by which his wings are cement
ed to his gasbag political form, and
# he ingloriously fall into the Egian
Sea-
a The Perky papers marvels that
l. Boss Mackay very magnanimonsly
e announced, on assuming the chair
l. manship of the Council in the ab-
It sence of the Mayor, that the ap-
i pointments under the new ordinances
y would not be made till return of
! his honor" A crowd attended
: Mondays meeting and expected to
It see the fir fly when the loaded blum
d derbuss was pointed, but he, in gar
n comic lanpuapa "fOolod 'op, IL -,