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The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11

Capetown. Nov. 2.-The Duke OF
Connaught this morning received an
address from the Freemasons OF
South Africa. Later in the day his
royal highness was present at the
opening of the South African Medi.
cal Congress.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11
MASSACHUSETTS, CIVIC
CONFERENCE.

Boston. Mass, Nov. 2.-Social cen
tors and home and school gardens
are the chief subjects slated for dis
.cussion at the third Massachusetts,
civic conference, which opened in
this city today under the auspices Of
the Massachusetts, Civic League. The
proceedings will continue over to-
morrow.
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11
NATIONAL FOREST FIRE DAM
AGE IN MONTANA AND IDAHO

upon the National Forest in Montana
and northern Idaho, upon which the
forest officers of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture have been en-
gagged since the fires were put out,
puts the total amount of timber kill
ed or destroyed in this one district at
over six billion board feet, while the
area burned over is put at over one
and one-fourth million acres.
The heaviest losses were in two
Idaho forests, the Occur d'Alene, in
which over three million board feet
of timber are reported killed or de-
stroyed, and over $50 thousand acres
burned over, and the Clearwater,
where ! billion feet of timber were
killed or destroyed and 800 thous-
and acres burned over On the Hell
ena National Forest, in Montana, the
loss in timber is believed to have
been 500 million feet, on the Cabinet
forest 400 million feet, and on the
Lolo forest 800 million feet.
A large part of the forest fire
losses on the Occur d'Alene, Clear
water, and Lolo were due to what
became practically one great fire. The
burn is shown on the Forest Service
maps as extending in a northwestern
)y and southeasterly direction from
north of Wallace. Idaho, to point
80 miles southwest of Missoula.
Mont, or nearly 100 miles. At it's
widest point this burn has width Of
about 40 miles, but its shape is very
irregular.
It was really a union of number
of separate fires, driven to fury by
the fierce hurricane of August 26, To
the west of the Idaho-Montana boun-
Diary in the region Of this fire lies
a very inaccessible mountainous
| country into which, on account of
the absence of trails and of forage,
! it was almost impossible for forces
of fire fighters to penetrate. When
the hurricane arose it drove the fires
upon the parties which were hewing
way towards them, forced these
parties to seek refuge wherever it
could be found, and swept down up
NO the forests where the fires were up
to that time generally well In hand.
The extensive losses are ascribed to
the combination of hurricane and the
lack of means to get to the fires and
put them out before the storm came.
On the forests which were best equip
ped for handling the fires, there will
be found to be considerable areas OF
living timber within the regions
now mapped as entirely burned over
Iof necessity. the figures given are
tentative. for it has been impossible
Ito examine all the burned areas
Thoroughly. AS fast as possible. how.
lever. the forest officers are locating
and estimating the bodies of timbe,
killed. but capable of being numbered
II taken in time.
i There will be an enormous quan
tity of fire-killed timber, both OF
the National forest and on privat,
lands. to be disposed of as soon al
possible. since If not marketed yer.
soon will not be worth cutting a
all.
The Department Of Agriculture
will push vigorously to dispose o
this fire killed timber. AS with al
other National Forest timber, it will
) kbe sold on the stump, to mill-mel
who will lumber the land. paying
The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-11

Many run after felicity like q man
nuating his hat; while it rs on his
head.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

GOoD Roads,. C. Lawrance,
President of the Good Roads Associa-
ton says that more and better road
work will be done in this State thap
in any former year. and that at the
end of the year Washington will have
over twice as great u milage of State
Railroads to its credit as it had at the
end Of 1909. There seems to have
been a general awaking through the
State" said MIR. Lawrence lately,
Not only is the State itself engaged
in making big improvements but the
counties are turning their attention
to the building up of the country
highways. They are building them
On better grades than ever before
and there is more OF the character OF
permanency about them than there
has been in the past. For instance,
when l was in Spokane county last
week l noticed that a new road that
seemed to be wide enough for q
double tracked railroad right of way
was being opened. At first glance
one would think a new railroad was
being constructed. l was somewhat
surprised to learn that it was coun-
ty road.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

GERMANY CARRYING A CHIP ON
HER SHOULDER.-There seems to be
a "speck O. war" arising above the
horizon in the direction of our swell
beer cousins. 1t is reported in the
dispatches that Germany refuses to
recognize any right on the part of
the United States to supervise her
diplomatic relations with other coun-
tries in Central and South America,
and with Nicaragua in particular.
and to emphasize the matter still
farther it is maintained that Scr
many's recognition of President
Madriz is a matter concerning her
self and Nicaragua and concerning
no third person or no third power
whatever"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15
PRIDE GOES BEFORE A FALL.

PRIDE GOES BEFORE A FALL.-A
case of death from compression of q
corset was announced in Chicago
last week. The poor woman was af-
fected by the heat and experiencing
considerable difficulty in breathing,
made her exit unassisted and her
way to drug store, where she fell
to the floor dead while relating her
trouble. A post m0rtem examination
showed that her death was due to
compression from her corset. She
had never been sick a day in her life,
but had been taking on flesh too
rapidly to suit her and she had
adopted this method of preserving
her figure.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

TIE " Hobble Skirt, Now it is
the Hobble Skirt" that is distract.
ing the feminine mind. 1t is worn
extensively abroad and to consider
able extent in this country, accord
ing to Mrs. James A. Stevenson, q
New York society woman, who has
just returned from Paris, who says
the latest skirt takes but a yard of
cloth where an ordinary skirt takes
four yards. The result is the wearer
cannot walk. but hobbies, and in en-
tering a carriage must lift the skirt
above the knee. Mrs. Stevenson SAYS
the extreme style is much favored by
American woman now in Europe.
Certainly it is The more ridiculous
fashion can be- the better. The
illustration plate shows these skirts
to be straight sheaths,-very slightly
compressed-with a girdle just above
the knee.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

GEORGIA boasts of having two
million dollars worth of peaches this
year, and some one nonchalently re-
marks that they grow on trees
and come very high. Almost
every other State has a fair supply
of peaches" that may be had for
the asking by the right persons, and
they are not Dragging about it
either.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

A CONNECTICUT pastor plans 10 use q
moving picture machine to attract peo-
pie to his church.-Ez.
That depends largely on when,
how and under what circumstances
the pictures are taken. and how
strong q light is thrown upon the
parts.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15
Where the Responsibility for Hard Times
YELM, Wash, July 9, 1910.

YELM, Wash, July ., 1910.
Ed. STANDARD:
The Republican party have always
been fond of uttering the damnable
falsehood that a Republican tariff has
always been followed by business
prosperity and that the Democrats
always produced a panic. and these
Internal lies have, to a great extent
been believed to the detriment OF the
Democratic party. Now panics are
not a sign of prosperity to my way
of thinking, and | propose to prove
that all the panics we have had in the
past 80 years have been under high
protection. under Republican admin
istrations. The Republican party
has been in power since '6l with the
exception OF two terms under Cleve-
land. Now what panics have we
had We had one in SO, another in
%, another in '79. another in '84,
another in 80. another in '93 and an
other in 1907, every one of them
under a high protective policy and
under Republican administration ex-
cept the panic of '93, and that COM
menced under the Harrison admins
tration a year before Cleveland was
elected the second time. and the
Wilson tariff didn't go into effect till
August '94, nearly two years after
Cleveland was elected, and his prede-
cessor, or rather the Secretary of the
Treasury, had the plates struck to
issue over $500, OOO, 900 in bonds on
account of the stringency coming on
and actually started, for Wall street
to negotiate a sale for the bonds,
when Harrison called him back and
said he would leave that stigma for
Democratic administration and the
stigma still rests on the Democratic
party as predicted by Harrison. l
want to call the attention of the
people to few facts concerning the
late panic of 1907, as stated by Re-
publicans, and authority of that kind
ought to be good.
Mr.. Shaw, Secretary of the Treas
ury under Roosevelt. said, in a public
address: 1.-THE stringency of 1907 is
generally conceded to have been the
severest the world has ever wit
messed" Is a Republican tariff al
ways followed by business prosper
ity? l guess some one has lied.
Mr.. Aldrich in his speech on the AID
rich Currency Bill in the Senate, only
last winter, said: MIR. President,
the financial crisis from which the
country has just emerged, which cul-
minated in a serious panic in OctO-
Der, was the most acute and destruc-
tive in its consequences Of any that
has occurred in the history of the
country. Nothing but the heroic
measures taken by the representa-
tives of the grea: business and finan-
cial institutions of the country. acting
in cooperation with the Secretary of
the Treasury. prevented total COL
lapse of private credit and disas-
trous destruction of all values. "
Evidently some one has lied, but it
is nothing unusual; they have to do
it to hold their "yob."
How long, oh Lord, how long will
tho people allow themselves to be
dupes of lying politicians =? Talk to
me about the intelligence of people
who love to be rode
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

The high hand-shake, on line with
the shoulder. imported lover the
Rhine" has gone into disuse at New
port, and instead, to be in form, one
must expect slight grasp of the
hand for brief period at the waist
line, but it is noted that patricians
use the ordinary hand-shake with
people out of their set.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

IT seems that many people are ac-
quiring excellent sites for home-life
in purchasing small islands along the
water front on the Sound and in
Washington and Union lakes, that
have been overlooked from their d.
minutive size, and are had salable for
the prove4bial Song" when Uncle
Sam is besought for a transfer of own
ership. Some of these islands are
said to have been sold for ten dol
lars, that would have brought many
hundreds in q competitive market.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

GOVERNMENT BY MONEY. - The
more we experience OF the Direct
Primary. the more the impression
obtains that it is by no means as sat-
isfactory as the system it displaces.
1t invites corruption of the most de-
moralizing kind; corruption of bosses
is bad enough but when the electOr-
ate is itself debauched, by making
candidates abandon all self-respect
and enter the hustings for self-lauda-
ton and in direct purchase of votes.
where is there a shadow of improve
ment over time honored, though
acknowledged imperfect system
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

THAT people in Chicago are in
earnest with regard to the meat
boycott, is shown by the report that
horse-steaks have come in as a regu-
lar article of diet in the Windy
City" That shows that the domi-
nation of Mind over Stomach is abso-
lutely as it should be.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

AT Campbellton, N. B.. the largest
Single manufacturing center in
Eastern America. Tuesday, fire
burned about 1000 buildings. made
5000 people homeless and caused a
financial loss of about g, 900, 900.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

CHARLES Rolls, the millionaire avi-
ator. who lately made round-trip
fight from Dover to France over the
English channel, was killed Tuesday,
falling from his aeroplane at Bourne
mouth, Hampshire, England.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

A COLLEGE professor has discov-
cred that skunks are good to eat,
and is Dragging about it in print.
The only comment we have that fits
the circumstance is that of q cynic
who replied to o similar assurance:
That depends entirely on how a per-
son is brought up"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

ATTORNEY GENERAL BELL has de-
cided it to be the law that it is not
necessary for the Governor to auth
orize by proclamation for the primary
election, but it is only necessary to
give effect to general elections.
What an aid it is to have this act to
straighten out the sinuosities o; the
laWl
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

IT is probable that Reno will con-
tinue to be the mecca of sporting
men" for pulling off, Jeffries.J John
son and Gowan-Johnson stunts, as
Nevada is the only State that will
tolerate such beastly exhibitions.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

CHARLES S. Wiley. a prominent cap
italist and contractor, and his wife,
of Seattle, were drowned while fish
ing in Jarvis Inlet, B. c., Monday.
They were on a pleasure trip with
q party on the yacht Davy Jones,
cruising in British Columbia.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

Buys large quantities of dried Brewers grains
from the United States breweries and they are
fed to the horses. Exhaustive tests showed
their high feeding value, so you can be sure
that Dried Brewers Grains is not only cheap
but also a beneficial feed stuff. For sale at
he Brewery.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

IT is said that there are several
cases Of the hook worm in the State
and county building-and they have
got it so bad that much of their time
is spent in yachts and autos for re.
lief.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

ROOSEVELT tried to force the Di-
rect Primary bill through the New
York Legislature. but failed. A
State Senator, one of the supporters
of the measure, in the debate OBJ
served, the Republican party is now
dancing on its coffin-lid. Doubtless
he may soon find out he will be fol-
lowing the hearse and coffin to the
final resting place.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

JOSEPH THOMAS, inventor of the
hoop-skirt SO popular with the
women half a century ago, is said to
be dying from disabilityof age, at
his home in Hoboken. N. Y. He
was the author of numerous other
He is said to have made
$50, 900 from the hOop-skirt idea.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

A PIrrsBURG court has been compelled
to provide fat man with two chairs be.
fore he could sit on jury.-Et.
While such juror could not we'll
have divided opinion, it has passed
into proverb as q truism. Between
two chairs we come to the ground"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

OTTO Moore, the second baseman
OF the Montesano team of the Wash
ington State League lies at the point
of death, as tie result of being struck
by pitched ball during the Sunday
game at that place. Moore lives in
Portland.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

MANY deaths have occurred in
Eastern cities from prostration by
the extreme heat. Sunday was the
hot" day. The temperature was
quoted in New York, Boston and
Washington, d. c., at go; Portland,
Ogn., 81; Dayton, this State, 104;
Spokane, So; Jacksonville, Florida,
80; Chicago, Is; San Francisco, 60,
and Olympia 81. So it will be seen
that while there was quite a varia-
ton, from locality, none of the high
err points attained severe limits.
The writer remembers that in the
Summer of 1884, while on a sojourn
East, the mercury stood at 1O8 in
the shade in New York, Philadelphia
and Washington, for several weeks,
with scarcely any appreciable fall at
night time. But that was a little
later on in the season. about the
latter part Of July or the LIST oil
August, and we may have a few
such scorchers" yet, without break
fng the record.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

GARRY HERMAN, of Cincinnati, was
elected Grand Exalted Ruler of the
Elks by reclamation, at Detroit.
Tuesday. He ran for the same Office
last year and was defeated.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

THE CameraphOne. or talking pic
lures, is the next fad that will rage.
1t is already on exhibition at Puyal-
lup, and is among the ten-cent
shows.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

The mill and factory of the Springs.
ton Lumber Company, at Spokane,
burned Sunday night, entailing a
loss OF $87. 900, covered by insurance
Of $50, $50. The loss includes that of
$50. 900 feet of lumber and eight
residence buildings.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

IT is said that the larger munich
palities are now engaged in redis-
tricting the State. so that the next
Legislature will give them additional
representation and take it from the
smaller districts. 1t is, however.
only another exemplification of the
system of hog" that is permeating
all business and social aims, the
world over. Everybody and every
thing is engaged in boosting self-in-
terest. and Grasp for all and rustic
for more" seems to be the keynote
for action.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

THINK OF THE RISK Our PEOPLE
WERE COMPELLED TO AssUME.--A sin
gle fre-cracker led to q loss of $780,
900 at Bloomsbury, Pa, on the 4th.
and this is but single incident of The
long list of casualties that the Coun-
ell left for the Mayor to abate by for
bidding the use OF fireworks on that
day and night. 1t must be that His
Honor Ooh myD regarded the unusu-
al concession of authority, on reflec-
ton, as a deliberately laid trap of
boss Mackay, to get him into trouble
with the fire-cracker merchants, who
had counted upon just such o condi-
tior arising, the placing of this weak
kneed. slender-spined city executive
between Scylla and Charybdis. the
devil and the deep blue sea. So he
chose an expedient of the crawfish and
let pandemonium reign at the risk of
the property Of the whole town.
Now what is to prevent stocking
up" again next year, with the same
plant tools, if o farce is still enacted
in the choice of city officers. How
long, Oh how long, will the people
permit a lot of bosses to subordinate
all official acts to their own personal
schemes for perpetuating a little
brief authority that has already
bankrupted the town.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

THE owners of the Vitagraph mo-
tion-films of the Jeffries- johnson pic
tures have announced their determi-
nation not to let the same be dis
played at public places of amuse-
ment. They have refused large Of
fers, but have decided that the
younger generation shall not be al
lowed to see the brutal exhibition.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

AT a convention of about 1000
four-makers Of the United States at
Minneapolis, in three-days' session,
w. C. Brown, President of the New
York Central railroad, addressed the
convention on The Cause, and Rem
edy of High Cost of Living" and ut
tered the following words OF proph-
ecy: The high price of fOOdstuffs
and the blind cutlery and protest
which we have heard during the last
two years is but the preliminary
breath of the storm which will be-
come a hurricane unless a remedy is
found T"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

The present fine long days that
prevail will have to be made up
for by the short rainy ones Uf winter.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

The way to avoid falls on the
journey of life is to shun banana
peels.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-07-15

MORE women marry between the
ages of 20 and % than any other time
of life.