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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

A PLAGUE OF VERMIN. Spokane
dispatch of the 18th states that the
Ministerial Association of that city
have been appealed to for provision
of plan for relief in the matter of
DISCRIMINATING the vermin that is
injecting the tabernacle in which re-
vival services are held, conducted by
Billy" Sunday. 1t seems his field
OF labor is among the lowly, and that
hundreds of homeless men have been
occupying the rooms as sleeping
quarters. AS the building is swarm
ing with lice, and some Of the most
sanctified church members have had
their religious zeal modified consider
ably by a plague resembling some
what Jobs bOils. They have not been
able to manifest Jobs patience, how
ever, and have called upon the police
to make some other arrangement for
holding the meetings. This seems to
be natural result of an effort to
entertain rs well as instruct and care
for, a class that have no homes and
are driven to other places for shelter
and warmth. 1t may be, however,
that the affection has spread for
want of proper sanitary regulations
and budding together many who
should be subject to shower bath
and few applications of sapolio
before approaching the sanitary.
Cleanliness is said to be next to
gOdlineSs.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

SEVERAL hundred stalled passen-
gers on the O. r. N, trains at HOOD
River and The Dalles, Saturday.
crossed the Columbia river on the
ice to take north bank road for Port
land. Trains on that road were like
wise delayed by snow slides and un-
favorable conditions resulting from
the thaw.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

The L. S. Senate is discussing q
proposition to increase the Presi-
dents salary to 100000 per year;
and the Vice Presidents and Speak
er's salaries to $4,000, with Sc, OOO
additional for carriages and coach.
man for the two latter, and the sal
aries of the Federal Judiciary to an
increase aggregating 1923, 900. II
precipitated lively discussion. The
objections seemed to be more directed
to details of the manner of increase
than opposition to the policy of its
being made.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

A REVENUE Collector for the district
OF Alaska was in Tacoma last week
and reports that the mercury fell low
as 90 degrees below zero on the trail
between Fairbanks and the Coast
the first part of the month, and that
the weather has been severe from the
beginning of winter and q number OF
miners have frozen to death. a fuel
famine has prevailed over a wide
scope of country.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

PENsIONING PROLIFIC PARENTS
A man named Cavanaugh p. H.
Cavanaugh, of Alameda, Cal.-the
father of twelve children, is prepar-
ing bill for introduction in the
State Assembly providing a pension
for fathers or mothers of more than
a dozen of offspring, at the rate of
s25 per month. Cavanaugh says he
has letter from President ROose-
welt endorsing the scheme. OF
course.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

THE Oregon Legislature is con-
sidering bill making it a INSIDE
meanor for any Republican to pledge
himself while candidate for Office
to vote for Democratic Senator, as
was done in thelast general election.
Imprisonment is penalty provided,
of from six months to a year and
fine of from $500 to $1,000. Too
bad the party has to resort to law to
keep its adherents in line.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

THE State of Texas will be in
funds soon, when the Waters-P Pierce
Oil Company pays it's fine of 81 ,623, :
200, which has been ousted from the
State and fined that amount for vio-
latiOn of the antitrust laws. 1t is
announced that the company will
pay in silver dollars, amounting to
about fifty tons of coin, which it will
take an army OF clerks several
months to count.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

ANOTHER furry of snow fell this
morning Congratulations had been
exchanged that that cold visitant had
passed on for the season.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

A BERNIER RESORT FOR LAKE
WASHINGTON CANAL. county's
plan of making the State A.-Y.-P.
funds pay the cost of the Lake Wash
ington ship canal, that has been the
only project the irrepressible Seattle
spirit has ever failed to handle, re-
minds one of the hackneyed, high
flying, Oft-quoted metaphor of hitch
ing a car "a smile for any exalted
ambition) to a star. and soar away in
space, like meteor, or possibly a
comet. There is very little assur-
ance OF stability, however, in the
latter figure, for the comet is mainly
a nebulous tail and there is not
much evidence that the head pos
sesses enough solidity to create any
great disturbance in the planetary
system.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22
THE EARTHQUAKES PREDICTED

TIE EARTHQUAKES PREDICTED
Willis +. Everettc, one of the
most distinguished scientists and
q member of the bar in the
Supreme Court of the United
States, who had just returned from
Alaska, last October, predicted a
violent seismic upheaval in the then
near future. The terrible earth
quake in Italy and the occasional
shakes, though moderate in this
northwestern coast, afford sufficient
reminder to verify the belief that his
judgment Was founded upon a scien-
tific basis. A Judgment on such
mighty forces is not necessarily con-
fined to near or approximate phe-
nomena, for if the theory be true
that its origin is due to an internal
sea of fire, its action might, and
doubtless would be, manifested all
over the weak places on the earth S
surface simultaneously. His view
affords some comfort in the assur-
ance that our position on the shell is
more stable and firm than that of
poor Italy, which from time imme-
mortal has been subject to violent
upheavals.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

DISASTERS by land and sea, are
unparalleled. If one were inclined to
superstition he might think that at
last Mother Symptoms vagaries were
coming true.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

CHARLES G. HUGHES, Jr, DEM,
was elected U. S. Senator, Tuesday,
by the State Legislature of Colorado.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22


Rev. y. 4. Mathews. pas tor ci the
Frs, Presbyterian Church at Seat
tie. IN recent address delivered at
tie cry Of Tacoua. took an antago-
nis;ic position on Woman Suffrage
claiming wuiuan'~ sphere was in the
hoiur. in Which SIC i queen mandG-
iu2 hcr household affairs. and "durat
ing her children ia become useful cit
,z.u~ ui ;hi~ republic.
Was this reverend -cntl man aware
that in "a million Of homes in this
country. owing TO tn" presence Of
economic conditions. women are driv-
~ from their homes into factories
and sweat shops in order to assist in
making u living for their families?
How can those women become queens
in their homes? For the most part
married women would prefer to re
main al their homes. attend to their
domestic duties. rather tDan leave
them and work ten and twelve hours
a day for less wages than their hus-
bands. brothers and sons will consent
TO work for. or labor for such wages
that their families only exc out a
wrctchcd existence. If it shall be
said the men ought not to permit
their wives to 60 to work for wages,
that they should perform the Office
of bread winners; but suppose the
owners of factories and proprietors
of sweat shops refuse to employ the
men in their service; feeling they
can I'm greater profits out of the
blood and bones of the female sex,
than from the male employees?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22
A Bitter EXcOriatiOn.

Representative Willett Of New
York, has new name for President
Roosevelt. He characterizes him as
a Gargoyle, and "a pigmy descend
ant of Dutch trades-people." 1t is
one of the most keen excavations
that has appeared since the removal
of the embargo on free speech es-
tablished by our vitriOlic Presi-
dent while firmly mounted on his
high horse. 1t is unsurpassed in
satire by Byron's English Bards and
Scotch Reviewers though the latter
has the charm of poetic meter, while
Mr.. Willett's structures have to de-
pend solely upon the honest and ex-
pressive Anglo Saxon, without frills
or ornament.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

AN exceedingly high tide occurred
on Gray's Harbor, Tuesday, aggra-
waited by strong west wind that
had been blowing "a hours. Water
ran over east side dyke and into the
city. The basement of the New
GraypOrt hotel was flooded and the
laundry shut down. Water in the
fire-boxes of Coats and the North
western mill has compelled them to
close, while other plants have sus-
pended. The rainfall on the harbor
that night was, as here, exception
ally heavy.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

Hazel Harris is quite i'll of fever.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

THE LANDMARK MUST GO.-The
City Council have done wise thing
in ordering the old historic" build
ing on Block y, removed to some
other location, or torn down. 1t was
saved from the latter fate, three
years ago. by Gov. Mead, who asked
the city to restrain the destroyin g
hand and afford time for the State to
provide place for the old building
on Capital Hill, that the State site
was at that time the subject of
litigation by the Sylvester heirs, and
only a little time was wanted until it
could be settled. In the course of q
few months all doubt was removed
by decision of the courts, approved
by the Department at Washington,
and everything seemed clear for the
Governor to redeem his promise. But
it was never done, and the old build
ing continued to be the rendezvous
of hObOes and the playhouse of child
rem, until the late fire in the New
England demonstrated how easily it
might become the origin or spread OF
fire to much property on the whole
block. The building is a mere shell,
minus windows, one end gone, and a
very poor reminder of the fact that
it once sheltered the first Territorial
Legislature, when it consisted of
only thirty-nine members-nine in
the " Council" as the Senate was
then called, and thirty in the House.
The Council will notify the prop er
State authorities that they must at
once provide some means for abating
the nuisance as well as q grave men,
ace.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

CHAMBERLAIN, Dem, was elected
U. S. Senator, by the Oregon Legis-
lature, Tuesday, by vote of 10 in
the Senate and 81 in the House.
Five votes in the House were given
him under protest, for the alleged
reason that they were not exercising
their constitutional free choice. 1t
is hardly probable that the U. S.
Senate will deem it their duty to
consider questions of constitution
atty when they are given full right
to consider the qualifications of their
own members.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

Here Is THE Why; WHERE Is THE
WHEREFORE?-Do you know why a
petit jury must consist of twelve
men? Lord Cooke an English jurist,
informs us that it was because there
were twelve tribes of Israel and
twelve Apostles. Some more modern
legal light might have given as an
additional reason, that Solomon had
twelve brazen oxen; or an astronomer
might say, that the best reason is
that there are twelve months in the
year. Now there are thirteen moons
in each year, and the Judge is some.
times called the thirteenth Juror.
There you have a good analogy on
which to base precedent. One more
instance: Christianity became a part
of the English common law, which
doctrine has prevailed in many of the
States of the Union, because an old
English Judge, Lord Mansfield, mis-
translated two words used by some
unknown person in the fifteenth CEN
fury: ancien scripture" Norman
French, meaning ancient writing:
translated by Latin scholar, be-
comes holy Scripture ("
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

Two local option bills were intro
duced in the House, Monday, one by
McMasters of King, known as the
anti-saloOn league bill, which denies
the right of deciding by vote the
separate wards or precincts the ques-
See Page Three
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

COtterill introduced Judge Frater's
bill providing for the care of delin-
quent children under the age of 10
years and for punishment of parents
who contribute to the delinquency
of their offspring. The latter are to
be fined or impriSOned. or both
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

The four bills vetoed oy Gov. Mead
last session failed in the House yes
terday. One of these was for pro-
lection of owners and lessees of sec
ond class tide lands, known as the
Clam-bill. 1t received a majority
vote, but not the requisite two thirds
70 pass.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

Another concession to the A.-Y.-
p. fund increases the interest on the
$4OO, 900 series b warrants, to be
paid from the receipts of shore lands,
to six per cent. guaranteed by the
State, and extends the appropriation
to May. 1911.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

A concurrent resolution was
passed creating commission of
eight members to confer with like
committee from the Oregon Lcgis-
lature on the fishing laws controlling
the Columbia river fisheries.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

The Joint Railroad committee are
planning for an increase of appropri-
alton to 49,, 900 for the State Rail
road Commission to continue its
work. 1t has been $7S, 600. 1t wants
an expert accountant at 81, 800 year
and an attorney with q salary big
enough to keep him from being
stolen" from the services of the
State by tempting offers of bigger
pay by the railroads.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

Another controversy ensued re.
garding an intimation that sus.
piciOn existed that an effort was be-
ing made todefeat certain legislation
by burying those measures in
technical pigeon-holes. The com.
mittee to whom moral legislation
was referred stood 4 to4. 1t was in.
creased to IL and when sized up stood
Z to 4On this policy. Lieut.. Governor
Hay asked consent to increase the
committee to Is. This was consent
ed to. but Ruth afterwards declared
that his consent was without due
consideration, and it was here tina,
the charge was made that an ATTEMPT
was apparent to pack the com
mittee on certain legislation and a
motion then carried to restore the
committee to its original number
i the eight lawyers of the Senate.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

Representative Client has intro
duced bill making it unlawful to
exact more than eight hours labor
per day from girls employed in
mercantile or mechanical establish
ments, including laundries, hotels
and restaurants. Employers are
obliged to furnish seats and permit
their use while their dependents are
not busy at their duty.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

The Senate has defeated the resO-
luton of Brown of WhatcOm, to
limit the legislative session to 40
days. A precedent has never been es-
tablished fora Republican legislator or
any other pap-sucker of that party,
to voluntarily relinquish a hold on
such tactical supply. Only six Sen
atOrs voted for the resolution.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

Potts had a measure to issue to
hotels license to sell liquor to bona
dde guests on Sunday, providing no
drinks are served over the bar and
no one is allowed to become intOxi-
Gated. Metcalf has bill which re-
fuses to permit saloons to sell liquor
to minors who have an order from
parents and raises the fine for con-
victiOn on such Offense to $500.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

The Senate has been in a Quanda-
ry over the long-term follower State
officers. The tenure of some OF these
is four or six years; some who were
appointed by Mcbride and others by
Mead. That body doubtless did the
proper thing in passing the matter
OF confirmation of these holdovers
up to Gov. COsgrove. Their term
being fixed, an appointment of sue
cessor is the only way of affecting an
custer till the term expires. The law
certainly contemplates approval of
executive, to ensure harmony of the
administration in all its parts, and
the duty, from this point of view, APP
pears plain.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-01-22

Aliens bill provides for State
health commission, who has numer-
Gus duties and is to be paid 50, 900 a
year and serve five years.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-06-18
SHORT NEWS NOTES.



Lumber production in the United
States WIS less In the calendar year
1908 than the preceding year. The
decrease amounted to 17.3 per cent.
Sovereign Camp, Woodnen OF the
World. has appropriated s75O,0O0 TO
be used for the erection of head
quarters building at Omaha.
Organization of the Sen Sen Chicle
Company. with n capital of $1,000
600, which will take over the bu5i-
ness of six of the largest chewing
gum factories in the United States
and Canada, has been completed in
New York.
Two hundred pounds of dynamite
mysteriOhsly exploded at Fredericks-
burg, Iowa, wrecking the business
district of the town and injuring
score of persons. The shock was
felt II miles away.
During the year 1905 the steam
and electric railroads of the United
States purchased more than 49,
100000 cross ties. costing at the
point of purchase. over $50. 200, 900.
The call for the forty-first annual
convention of the National American
Women's Suffrage Association has
been issued. The convention will be
held at the A.-Y.-P. Exposition at
Seattle on July 7.
Edward Everett Hale, chaplain OF
the United States senate for many
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-06-18
TAX EARNINGS OF
CORPORATIONS
TAFT SENDS SPECIAL MESSAGE
SUGGESTING PLAN.
ALSO FAvORS INCOME TAX
Tariff Leaders Asked to Attend 20
Corporation Tax, and States
Will Act ON Incomes.

Washington, June 16.-President
Taft today sent TO congress a mes
sage urging the passage of an
amendment to the tariff imposing
a tax of per cent upon the undis-
tributed net earnings of corpora
tions, and the adoption of resolu-
tion submitting to the several states
an amendment TO the constitution
giving congress the power to impose
a tax on incomes.
This understanding was reached
at a session OF the Cabinet Tuesday
and was approved by Republican
senate leaders. who conferred with
the President.
The President favors an amend
ment providing for a tax on the net
earnings Of corporations, not only
because Of the added revenue 1t
would produce. but also because he
believes II would throw a healthy
light of publicity upon the affairs Of
corporations.
II has been estimated that 2
per cent tax on the earnings Of cor
porations available for dividends
would yield approximately 100000
900 a year. while at the same rate
a tax on all incomes would yield
from $70.OOO.O 900 to $780, 900.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-06-18
LEADERS Of Jap
STRIKE ARE HELD
RIOT CHARGE AGAINST IL, MUIR
DER FOR THREE.
ABUNDANT EVIDENCE FOUND
Strikers Had Planned Campaign of
Intimidation and Violence TO
Control Sugar Industry.

Honolulu, June 15.-Fifteen of
the japanese strike leaders arrested
upon indictments returned by the
grand jury were given a preliminary
hearing. District Judge w. l.. Whit
ney held ~ of them for trial on
charges of conspiring to riot and
three for conspiracy to murder.
The authorities declare the evil
dence adduced before the grand jury
and the papers seized Friday, when
the Offices Of tine Jill. japanese
newspaper. and those OF the Japan
ese Higher Wage Association were
raided. furnish abundant grounds
for believing the strikers intended
from the beginning to resort to in
timidation and violence In their ef-
fort to control the sugar industry
and eventually the internal affairs Of
the territory.
Strong efforts are being made by
the strikers 10 get the Japanese gov
ernment to make an international
incident of the forcible entry into
the Office of the Japanese news
paper and the seizure of papers by
the sheriff. Leaders in the strike
have appealed to Ambassador Taxa
hira at Washington by cable and de-
manded an immediate investigation
of the alleged violation Of the treaty
right.
Senichi Uyeno, the Japanese con-
sul-general, has advised his country
men against the men who led the
strike movement from the beginning
OF the agitation. He expresses ap-
proval of their arrest and prosecu-
ton.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-06-18
Market Their Own Grain.

Lewiston, Idaho, June 15.-Farm-
ers of the Inland Empire are rapidly
freeing themselves from the grain
companies and subsidiary organiza-
tions which have brought immense
wealth to many concerns. The work
is being effected through the agen-
cies of the Farmers Educational
and Cooperative Union, an organi-
zation introduced about two years
ago, and which now enjoys a men,
bership of approximately 10000
farmers in the Inland Empire.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-06-18
CASH STOLEN BY EMPL0YE
Los Angeles Robbery Reveals Seri-
Gus Defects I'm System.

Los Angeles, June 14.-Theft by
postofiice employees and not an err
ror in routing was responsible for
the loss of registered packages con-
tanning $4,000 in currency mailed
by the First National Bank of Los
Angeles to the Bank of Bisbee. Ariz..
last week. To a sudden u9roar in
the postoflce following tie discov-
cry is attributed the failure to ap-
prehend the thief. who made away
with two packages containing $751;
600. This alarm is believed TO be
responsible for the recovery Of the
other two packages. which were
found in the registry division of the
main postoface.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-06-18
TO HUNT DOWN MUTlNEERS
Examples to BE Made of Men of Con.
stabulary Who Seized Post.

Manila, June 15.-Brigadier-Gen-
eral Bandholtz. chief Of theS Philip
pine Constabulary, who is at pres
ent on a tour of inspection In the
island OF Jolo, will at once proceed
to Davao, Mindano island. the scene
OF the mutiny of the second company
OF Constabulary on June 6. The in
sular government is determined to
make an example of the mutinous
men who fed to the mountain with
their rifles and equipments, and the
pursuit will be pressed with the ut
most vigor until the last one Of the
mutineers has been captured.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-06-18
Negro shoots Traffic Men.

Shaniko, Or. June 16.-B. II.
Trumbull. commercial agent of the
Illinois Central, and J. S. McLaugh-
lin, travelling freight agent for the
same road, with headquarters in
Portland. were shot and seriously
wounded early this morning by a
drunken negro car porter.
The Echo register. (Echo, Umatilla County, Or.) 190?-1909, 1909-06-18
Famous Women In Session

Toronto. June 15.-More than T..
OOO. 900 women. living In all parts
of the world. are represented at the
fourth quinquennial meeting OF the
International Council Of Women,
which began its sessions In this city
today. The council will remain in
session two weeks.