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

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Olympia is entitled to holiday,
when Gov. Mead steps down and out
of the Governors chair. Lord. let it
be soon
Customer: Waiter, this steaks
very small.
Waiter: Yes; bat it will take
you long time to eat it,
Mayor Miller of Seattle has ccnclud-
ed to keep Ward as chief of police.
This should tickle Ward. Some rob-
Der might have kidnapped him.
One of Jay Gould's former part
nerS has just died in an almshousn.
About everybody that got mixed up
with Jay went broke. That was his
specially.
y Baltimore man claims to have
the original death warrant of Charles
|, of England It's time now for Bos-
ton to claim the club that Cain used
to kill his brother Able.
Some Sioux City policemen are
on the carpet charged with kiss
ing female prisoners They must
have been driven to that extreme by
the servant girls of the city aiming
at higher game.
\ Berlin correspondent Of the
New York Hcrold, says the Kaiser's
hair is rapidly turning gray. This
may be more satisfactory to his
majesty than to have it turn rapidly
red, or pea green.
The Mayor of Seattle, doesn't
think a red-light district is neces-
Sary in his city. so has closed it up
Now the sporting WOMEN are scat
h tered over all the city, and the citi-
zens don't like it bit.
I Lord harrington is tending bar in
q St. Louis saloon. Here we have q
! noteworthy exception to the general
! rule. The majority of the foreign
noblemen in our midst are BARRIERS,
: or walters in restaurants.
). The name of the corresponding
secretary of the National Kindergar-
r ten union is Fanniebelle Curtis.
o This may prove starter for Il per-
\ feet flood of such names as Maryann
I Smith, Pollyjane Jones, and SO on
i A Columbus, Ohio, man has lust
$ paid an election bet by getting mar
Il ried. This would show other cranks
the great perils sometimes involved
n in the freak bet. But for his insane.
e bull-headedness in sidewalk political
s discussions, he might yet be single
: and happy.
l. That was real mean in Spokane
:. boosting Yakima to the skies. then
!. dropping it into the depths of des-
: pair in awarding the apple prize.
!, !, Still, in this case Yakima's loss was
u Wenatchee's gain. Yakima should
-. remember the old-time poem:
, 6" Ii at first you don't succeed; try, try
. again"
e Rev. NJ. A. Matthews, of Seattle.
: proposes that that city erect monu-
= ment to James ]. Hill. If the un-
Ir dertaking is successful, Matthews
=. wants to use horse and not in
IS vite the lumbermen of Puget Sound
l. to write the inscription for the
l. statue. 1t might cause Jim" tC
= blush when reading it; that is il
d James J. Hill can blush.
Ii there were smiles for sale
At some fair market where
. The rich. the poor. the low, the high
e Might hurry with their change to buy
r Wrat crowds would gather there.
's Yet there are smiles enough
n And each might have his share,
ell Ii everyone would do or say
W One. Just one. kind thing each day,
To lit another's care.
Wouldn't it be embarrassing to
\. Editor Brainerd of the P-L and
- Col" Blethen of the Times, if they
. . both meet in Heaven and were com
" PEELED to sit beside each other, twang
- .. their golden harps, smile and lool
:. :. pleasant? | say, wouldn't it be en-
- barrassing?
:. :. 1t is more than probable that they
:. will never be subjected to such ;
- strenuous trial from the want of gate
money. .-ED.
n Prize fights are pulled off, il
d Aberdeen and Olympia; gambling
ut places raided in Seattle, yet the law
,e declares there shall be none of this
n Men will gamble, one way or anoth
D, er, in secret. if not otherwise, long a.
ar life shall last | sometimes wonder
Mt Notwithstanding the great odd:
IN against me, if to license gambling
e. would not be far better on the whole
. then the city or town would receiv,
revenue; as it is now, no revenue i:
TX received, and gambling goes on a
d steadily as the ebb and flow of tn
le tide.
The Seattle police raided the form
" er red-light district the other night
to and arrested fifty-seven individual:
as disorderly persons. Chief Ward
speaking of the raid, said We de
sire to keep the lower end of tn
Is city clear of not only the women an'
IS men ordered cut, but of disorderl.
persons, fighters and the like. From
It reports, Chief Ward should raid tn
at upper end of Seattle-say First. Sec
ond and Third avenues, north O
Yesler Way to Pike; Pike, betweel
a First and Eighth Avenues, he nigh
lat bag" a few disorderly people il
that district, too.