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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-12-03
HORRIBLE TRAGEDY.
A Result Of the Unparalleled Storms Upon
Railroad Tracks.

HE late protracted storms ana re-
sulting land-Slidcs are responsible for
a hcart-rending accident on the
steep grade track and curve near
Pcrcival creek, on the south ives tern
entrance of the Northern Pacific to
this city. Monday night, in which
the engineer. John Wyant. of Taco
ma, and Fireman Herbert Whitta-
ker, of Worcester, Mass, were in
stantly killed
John Rolman. who discovered the
undermined track, but having no
means of procuring a warning signal,
FASTENED to this city and gave the
alarm, when a party equipped with
lanterns. flags. torpedoeS. fuses. etc.
started on a run for the place of dan
ger. In the meantime Telegraph
Operator W f. Weyland and Andy
Conant, an express wagon driver. in
formed of the menace, made a valli-
ant rush for the washout and were
only 200 yards distant from the scene
of disaster. with danger signals when
the crash came. All efforts to avert
disaster were too late by only u few
moments. \ fearful sight met their
vision as they rounded curve. The
engine seemed partially obscured by
escaping steam. Beside it were the
victims covered by the slide, from
which the engineers body was
dragged after about half an hour $
labor. and his lifelcSs form taken to
the baggage car. 1t took nearly
twenty four hours to eXtricate the
fireman S body. it being held so firm
ly under the tire-boX. So great was
the momentum of the engine and cars
that when they struck the disjointcd
rails one of these was forced through
the pilot and clear through the boiler
into the cab. The baggage and mail
car as it rushed by the engine land
ing ahead and beside it tore great
sheets Of iron from the boiler.
| The removal of the debriS from the
track and right If way was difficult
and protracted. requiring the use of
the usually ample resources of the
wrecking crew at Tacoma, but in
this instance it required several days
uticTUlilltu ldDOT W TcIllONt Tue DTO-
ken mass of iron and steel and re
store the track to its usual cOndi-
ton. But it is matter of consider.
able conjecture and inquiry why il
was found necessary to allow a hu-
man body to lie under the mass OF
iron and mud twenty-four hours be
fore it was extracted and steps were
taken for Christian burial If the
company was dilatory in this matter
it does seem that the Coroner should
have full authority in emergencies.
Engineer Wyant nearly lost his
life in wreck in the Olympia yards,
last spring, a short distance east o
ike place of the last disaster He
was for time held captive by his
capsized engine, and owed his life tc
the soft nature of the mud flats in
which he was embedded and absence
of the tide at the time of the disas
ter. He was the same engineer who
held the throttle of the Roosevelt
train when he passed through this
city to Tacoma few years ago.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-12-03

BURKE FOR u. S. SENATOR. is
reported that Senator S. II. Piles
will not be a candidate for re-elec
ton. and has offered his toga to
Thomas Burke, a lawyer of Seattle,
who deserted the Democrats in 1896,
on the monetary question. and has
ever since made his home in the Re
publican ranks. He has retired from
law practice. Senator Piles says
that his unimproved city property
requires his personal attention, and
this has impelled him to decline re-.
nomination for a second term.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-12-03


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OTIS B.4t>tlr.l If New York. made
record Saturday OF lo3 words Il
minute on a typewriter beating the
Rose |, Fritz las, September. in
New York
BEWARE % the smooth-tongucd
>uphiSt. do not for a moment forget
that Your worst enemies on earth are
those who craftily and ciOqucntly
tiattrr You, that they may win your
! -.-
THREE lives were lost on the 2ith
uIt.. at the lower bridge across the
Yakima river, at F.llenSburg They
attempted To cross while the bridge
was under water from flood, missed
their footing and fcll into the rush
( ing waters and were drowned.
TIE latest i, the Tcl-Tcl trust.
whereby it is proposed Ia create u
merger OF all means Of speedy com
munication 10y wire The Wireless
j, not included, however, and doubt
less bases It's Independence upon the
claim that the "Wholc boundlcSs
universe i, ours.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-12-03

The lgc HraH (Ala): The United
States geological survey has station
in Pittsburg. and this station claims
to have found a workable solution of
the smoke nuisance. It's plant in
that city is operating absolutely with
out smoke, in spite of the fact that
it is using coal considered refuse by
the trade and costing only IS cents u
ton delivered at the station. The
secret of the success lies in perfect
combustion before the gases strike
the chilling surface of the boiler and
this perfect combustion depends up
on the use of mechanical stokers.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-12-03

A WOMAN HIGH-FLYER. Mrs. II.
a. Arnold. Of Florida, has contracted
for 81, 800 aeroplane, to be delivered
at an early date so that its owner
may learn to fly this winter. An cx-
pert at the factory will instruct Mrs.
Arnold how to operate the airship.
This is said to be the first purchase
of wings by woman, and it is
sincerely hoped that it may not pre-
cipitately end in her wearing a halo,
though it be one of glory. un the
other side of the Great Divide.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-12-03

THE American Telegraph and Tclc-
phone company has absorbed the
Western Union, and is preparing to
swallow the Postal service. This
will probably presage the taking this
service into our postal system, as has
been done by other nations. A pro-
lection to the general public certain
ly juStitieS this course, as the secrecy
of dispatches is quite as important
and confidential as the carrying of
letters, and to make the innovation
popular cheapness of transmission is
also essential.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-12-03

TIE latest is the "Tcl-Tcl' trust.
whereby il is proposed Ia create a
merger OF all means of speedy com
munication toy wire. The Wireless
i not included, however, and doubt
less bases lis independence upon the
claim that the Whole boundleSS
universe i ours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
The "pen'' is mightier than the county
Jail.
Too many men who have good IDEAS are
unable to make good
For every gold brick on the market
there is a purchaser born.
Would your name on a note for 500, 1000
remove the goods from the shelf?
When a man chews tobacco he always
says he does it to prevent toothache.
The man who was born to be hanged
may escape by way of the electric chair.
A business mans idea of tough luck is
to be compelled to attend social func-
ton.
What men are pleased to call q clean
profit is often the proceeds of dirty
transaction.
Never Judge a mans worth by the
amount he is asked to pay in breach-of-
promise suit.
Somehow a man doesn't like the idea of
looking into pair of glasses when he is
engaged in making love-
Many people believe that street cars
are run for the benefit of the public in
stead of for the benefit of the stockhold-
erS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.

EFrom the Philadelphia Record.]
Some people never crack joke
without damaging it.
Lots of our good intentions die from
lack of nourishment.
Silence is golden, when 1t is purchas-
ed with hush money.
Many a man has gone to the bad try
ing to be a good fellow.
You can nail lie, but even that won't
always keep it down.
Where a spring opening is announced
the women will always drop in.
The emergencies that We are pre-
pared for are generally those that don't
turn up.
Hoax-"when is the best season for
ballooning?" Joax-'1n fly time, l
suppose
Blobbs-"wigwag has about fifty
clocks" Slobbs-''Yes, everything goes
in the Wigwag household"
When a girl speaks of fellow as
a perfect bear, it's pretty good sign
that he has been hugging her.
ct have Just been calling on Miss
Oldgirl," said the doctor. she mas
quite a collection of porcelain" Yes,
it's too bad her uppers and lowers don't
meet better replied the dentist
They were being escorted through
the insane asylum. You seem to be
very popular with your patients" re-
marked one of the visitors. Yes" re-
piled the superintendent, "all the in
mates seem TO be just crazy about me-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10
Immense Fish Catch.

Fishermen of this place found her.
ring SO plentiful in the fall that they
were obliged to release them from the
weirs and let them go out with the
tides.
Just above Castine, at the entrance
Of the Baggaduce river, are six weirs,
constructed of poles, spruce boughs,
and birch limbs. In these weirs there
have been caught thousands Of bushels
Of small herring, which have been con-
verted into sardines.
The Tapley brothers, of West Brooks
vile, secured 10000 bushels of fish in
October and November. There are not
less than one thousand fish in bushel,
and this one weir must have taken co.
000,0 900 fish; the owners received pay 4or
20 tons.
Most of the fish were taken on small
steamers to Brooklyn and Lubec, where
they were sold to the sardine factories.
As a result of the falling Off in prices,
the packers at these places have been
storing heavily, and every available
storehouse has been filled. The pack in
1908, however, was % per cent less than
the amount expected.-Castine (Me.)
dispatch to New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10
INDIVIDUAL, DRINKING CUPS.

What one railroad can do in the
way of providing service and accom-
modations for passengers. 1t is reason
able to assume that all railroads can
do. 1t is particularly interesting to
learn, therefore, in view of the right
eous agitation which has been started
by the Kansas state board of health
for the abolition of public drinking
cups on railroad trains and in railway
stations, that one of the prominent
railroad systems of the east has de-
cided to provide it's passengers with
Individual drinking cups. This is told
of in a no less reliable newspaper
than the Journal of Commerce of New
York, as follows:
1.-THE individual paper drinking cup
which DR.. Darlington, commissioner
of health of New York city. has been
testing this winter at department
headquarters, has been adopted by
the Lsackawanna railroad. Passengers
on the I.ackawanna limited have COM
mented on a small nickel plated de-
vice adjacent to the water cooler.
Closely nestled within a tube are a
hundred or more dainty white drink
ing cups, which once drawn forth and
used, can not be replaced but must be
discarded or carried away These
cups, which are in the exact form of a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10
AYHAWKER JOTy

The story is told that the owner of
a big Wichita factory was asked how
many people worked in his estab-
lishmen.. He replied: "Oh, L should
say about wo-thirds of them, on a
rough guess
A wag wants to know what would
happen If we got up some morning
and found the sun was an hour late.
I'VE know" says the editor of the
Baldwin Republican. I'VE would go
back to bed again!''
A travelling man was in a Downs
establishment the other day looking
over post cards. relates the Downs
the Central branch you might like"
said the dealer. mo, thank you"
said the travelling man. 'T ride on
the Central Branch every day and
have my own views of it,
A Kansas man. says Bill Kercher,
took some time off recently and waded
through a woman's magazine, and
from his work he deduced the follow
ing: "a man who reads the woman's
magazine begins to think he was
who cannot make fine furniture out of
boxes and cook first class meals with
nothing"
After reading notices in other
papers about Ambassador James
Bryce having passed through their
towns the Cimarron Jacksonian arises
and remarks: considering the direc-
ton in which the worthy gentleman
was headed, we feel justified in stating
to the public that the distinguished
visitor was in Cimarron for three
quarters of second, or the time re-
quired for No. 8 to pass through the
town. There Is scarcely a shadow of
a doubt that he took a searching,
earnest glance at Ri1e Fishers harness
shop and the Jacksonian Office as the
train hit the high places"
A. p. Riddle of the Minneapolis
Messenger finds fault with the story
that is going the rounds of the papers
about a wagon load of alfalfa seed
that netted farmer near Garden City
$4,000. The highest price ever paid
for alfalfa seed is $40 bushel. 1t
generally sells for from 81 to So. At
$40 that load must have contained 800
bushels. The seed weighs sixty pounds
to the bushel, which would make that
load weigh $4,000 pounds, or nine
| tons. Mr.. Riddle concludes: THAT
must have been mighty fine wagon
and a good span of mules that took
excellent liar behind the story"
The Mulberry News tells of school
teacher who reproved a refractory
girl pupil for not learning her
| geography lesson. The next day the
child's mother appeared on the scene
| and let go of this lecture: I guess
you don't know it all I send my lit
tie girl here to school so that she gets
through. want her to get through go
she gets a man. You never mind about
/ geography. I don't care, just so she
gets through. want her to get
! through My other daughter, she
/ didn't know geography and she got
| through, and she got man all right.
Lots Of girls they don't know geog-
| raphy, and they get men. But you
YOU (and she pointed her finger d.
rectly at the teacher) you amt got no
man at all and can't git gone. What's
| this geography for, anyhow? Just see
nv daughter gets through school and
| I'll learn geography to her"
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he told the girl, smiling, you can
wrap it with bit of string"
Through the still forest sounded
the deep tones of the bishops splen-
did voice. And all through that SER
vice there was look of triumph on
the bishops face. and that look was
directed at the wondering Judge and
the equally astonished banker
= y
The bishop. the judge and the bank
er, in the order named. had each
kissed the bride. The canoe, with
the young man bending to the paddle
and the girl in the bow, had departed
down stream, bombarded by pine nee
dies which the Judge and the banker
threw prodigally in lieu of rice.
1t was only when Pierre, the head
shoulder and declared they must GER
tainly be starting If they wished to
get down stream that night, that the
three men filed silently toward their
forgotten canoes
WELL" laughed the bishop. "for a
sanity, clustered out-of-touch-w with
the world dreamer. I seem to have
romance business. Who's behind the
procession, Will? Just tell me that.
IL you please"
The banker grunted.
"Buck up, Baptiste." urged the
Judge to the guide in his canoe. II
suppose I must admit that romance
got somewhat Of lease of life just
irate parents that will be on its trail"
mot bad idea to keep in the dark
for bit," the bishop chuckled, and
added to the guide: "a little more
steam, Jean."-(Copyrighted 1909, by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10

drinking glass, are stiffened by coat
ing of paraffine and, being manufac-
tured automatically are untouched by
hands until they reach those of the
drinker."
When the Kansas board of health's
order placing public drinking cups
under the ban becomes effective, per-
haps the state railroad commissioners
can find way to use their distin-
guished power SO as to compel rail-
roads to provide individual drinking
cups similar to those furnished by the
Lackawanna for the convenience of
the passengers. But probably such an
exhibition OF courage on the part of
the railroad commissioners will not be
needed. because. in all Likelihood. the
railroads will be quite willing to fur
nish these cups without any urging.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10

Wroten ad Loofe Linkenfusser, vich
ISIS elder in Chawcawgo er Soud-
america Postmaster bleas frontvards:
Greetings, Looie: You remember
vonce times wroten ad you concern
ing Misder Castoro Oilio, uf Soud-
america und Paree. Dot vas aboud
der time he vas unbuttoned fer
apediskitis. und hat bot i'd und hiss
chob remoofed. vas sorry fer him
den, but dot vas only a incidence. Vot
he iss oopagensd now ISIS circum-
stances. Id ISIS like dis. Looie; alder
he was repaired, he decited to go home
und rails war. War in hiss country
meanss a lot uf loud yelling, liddle
smoke und stampede fer der brush
by voteffer bunch gets der feirst start
brush-vartis. Id ISIS a whole lod duff
ferendt from der kind uf var Misder
Sherman vas linking aboudt ven he
comes der hard luck in 1arch pack
ages. Misder Castoria stardts fer
home, und some uf hiss enemies starts
fer der chungles, und den dey links
uf besser scheme. Dey tellyfones to
der Powers. vich iss compositioned uf
butchers, Franchers und oder FUR
rinerss, und sayss by dem: "Bleas,
Misder Powers dondt let Misder Cas-
carets came beck home. Dere aindt
room fer him, und some uf us viii haf
to moot oudt." Und der Powers, be-
ing tender hearted. sayss "all right.
keep your pajammys on. und don'dt
gedt egcite.''
Und den, Looie, Misder Castorine
gedts i'd He iss unloated on Won
small islandt, und den der Powers
Says ad him: Checkers. i'd fss your
moot und dey push him ouf. He
vendts Offer to a noder fslandt, und
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Persons generally do not display
much courtesy in bowling to the
inevitable.
n ~
The average person lets his wife do
Just as she pleases because he can't
do otherwise.
1t is easy enough for a man to dis
tinguish his foes but it is next to i'm
possible for him to discover his real
friends.
Novelists and playwrights are not
the only ones who have vivid
imaginations. There are the real es-
tate dealers, for instance.
n 4
After man has tried each and
every hair restorer he falls back on
the only reliable way Of covering his
bald spot-parting his hair lower
down on the side.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10
THE EARLY CALL

THE EARLY CALL.
Oh. de wind drift down from de sunshine
sky.
Singin' de whisperin' song;
II done hesh up wifi dat mo'nfu1 cry
1t was maxim SO deep an strong.
De redbird whistle an de bluetay scold,
An de crow come a-laughin' loud an
bold
reckon it's bout what de breeze done
told,
singin' dat whisperin' song.
De buds come peekin' around to see
Who singin' dat whisperin' song.
De wind say: 'Heshi Dis is only me.
An don mean muffin wrong.
I mus have q care bout de noise make,
To tell de arbutus it's time to wake;
might rouse de roses by mistake
So rs singin' dat whisperin' song
washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
tFrom the Atchison Globe.

Iron the Atchison G1obe.1
An automobile is all right before it
becomes yours.
As a rule, we prefer that a man do
not wear a heavy. gristly moustache.
At every election. a thousand differ
ent men claim that the victory was
due to their personal efforts.
When a woman speaks to a man on
the streets, and his smile indicates that
he is pleased to see her. seven times in
ten he is thinking, Nov, who is that
woman anyway"
If a husband should tell a wife. in
ante-marriage style, that he would
give up his life for her. she would re-
call how often he has refused to give
up the rocking chair. and sniff.
A town man can make more fuss
over spading a two by four garden
than a farmer does over blowing an
50 acre field. And, If he does it him
self, the town man can put in about as
much time on the job.
In a certain Atchison family, there
were ten girls. Nine of them married.
One of them remained Spin. The
Spin is better or today than any of her
sisters, and has lived a more comfor-
table, easy and successful life. We do
not know that this proves anything,
the fact that most girls believe it is a
disgrace to be Spin.
A certain Atchison man is very in
dustrious, and has made money. Peo-
pie generally abuse him, and say he
squeezes every dollar until the eagle
on it screams. Another Atchison man
is idle, and a disgrace to his family.
People abuse him, and say he should
be ashamed of his shiftlessness. So 1t
seems men are abused. whether they
are Industrious or idle. But the in
dustrious man, who has saved his
money, is better on than the idle man
who has nothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10

tentions. such rate will be discrimi-
natory. He would seem to be on the
right track for as the papers in the case
allege the railroads charge the three
cent rate on some tickets, two and one
half cents a mile on others and even
two cents mile on a different class Of
tickets
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10

AS might have been expected it is a
professor OF the Chicago university
who argues that Americans are the
most unhappy people that have ever
lived on the face OF the earth, because
we are the most prosperous people; be-
cause we are the freest people;N and be-
cause we are the most highly educated.
However. there is a little consolation in
his further conclusion. that Americans
should not despair. He thinks there is
vet hope for them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10
Big Men in Congress.

The Hon. ICY" Sulloway, of New
Hampshire. brother to the mountains.
is rated as the biggest man in the
house. The Hon. Charles Blakeslee
Law, of New York. makes a strong
showing for the distinction of being
the smallest. They were seen together
on the street. according to a current
story.
There goes to the two politest men
in congress-" said an officer of the
house.
Flows that?"
Because they're both polite clear
to the limit The other day they were
riding together on a street car and a
At the next corner two ladies got in,
and SulIoway got up and gave them
both seats. Each did all he could
Boston Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-10

der Early Spring liar ISIS abroad, NIT
der vol1uf, eagle, fish und hoop snake
stories. Der black-snake vot milluks
q sook-cow will come later in der
season.
Glad tidings from Washington. Der
new tariff law hat Balm uf Gilead on
der free list. Beets ISIS taxed ad rs per
cents ad valorum, vot effer dot ISIS, but
dot ISIS fer life vons. Dead vons ISIS
on der free list uf course. A tax on
dead vons would stobp der importa-
ton uf near-nobilities vot ISIS looking
fer Goot Ting.
Uf Crazy Snakes doesndt die NIT
delicious trimmings err oldt aich
nitin der negst sefendy-fife years.,
dey will catch him uf he dondt look
oudt, maybe.
Der suspected increase in der De
Sagan family ISIS considered a hard
bump fer Boni. but he can consolation
hisselluf NIT der thought dot he
dondt hat to hang aroundt und hear
i'd skvawk.
Moo York sassiety note: Abe
Hummel. vot hat peen Visiting
friends ad Blackvel1s summer re-
sort, ISIS returning to der SIXTY
Gufferner Hughes of Moo York ISIS
conducting a anti-boxer moofmeudt
VI he dondt hat any besser luck dot
der Impress Ut Chiny. he ISIS loser.