Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-08-26
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You'll like Tacoma" no doubt,
but how do you like her-gas A.?
The Clipper is the name of weekly
newspaper published at La Crosse,
Washington.
The Wallula Gatew0y runs the fol-
lowing on its editorial page: No
subscriptions to the Goteuay will be
booked unless paid for.
Harpoon is the name of weekly
newspaper published in Walla Walla.
1t is printed on yellow paper. and
runs the following on its editorial
page: We stand for labor. Our
field unlimited We favor temper
ance, but oppose Prohibition.
President Taft has announced that he
will "quit talking politics." - Seattle
Times.
If President Taft had annoul ed
he would fire" Secretary Ballinger.
it would have shown he possessed
something that spells back bone, at
least, instead of the regular large
quantity OF goose-Hesh.
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The most silly, disgusting, and
would-be humorous (sickly imitation
of the BingriHe Bugle) bit of news
paper junk ever palmed off on the
public of this State by any news
paper, is undoubtedly the page in the
Sunday P-I, of Seattle, labeled:
Metropolitan Page" 1t needs
quick lime.
Although editor of the great Re-
publican newspaper the Oregonian,
Harvey w. Scott. always insisted
during his life. that "free trade was
the only safe and logical fiscal sys-
tenn" and he never ceased to advo-
cate the principle OF tariff for rev.
enue only" Both the true blue,
incased in steel, maxims and princi-
Piles of the Democratic party.
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A fifteen-year-old boy of Ballard
recently confessed to robbing six
houses in that city. The police ar
rested the boy. and sweated the
confession from him. 1t really seems
heartless and cruel indeed, on the
part of the Ballard police to nip
in the bud," as it were, such q prom
ising and brilliant Captain Kidd
future. as the boy undoubtedly pos
sesses.
Two men were fighting in Boise,
Idaho. when one drew a revolver. A
woman who saw the men fighting
tainted. The men stopped fighting
and tried to revive the woman, but
could not. In twenty minutes she
was dead. 1t is claimed the sight of
the revolver caused the woman S
death, hence the man who drew the
revolver has been arrested on a
charge OF manslaughter.
A Mrs. Clara Braden, of Indian.
apolis, pasted flypaper over her
mother-in-law's mouth, in order to
have q few minutes rest and relay
from hearing her mother-in-law crit
icising her hair. dress, and so on.
But the flies will never forgive Clara,
and at first opportunity will carry
disease germs to her home, to play
even. Clara should have, at least,
some respect for the fiypaper. if
none for the poor suffering flies.
Cruel, heartless, Clara!
The Canadian Pacific steamship
Princess May. which struck the
north reef of Sentinel island, while
en- route from Skagway, Alaska, to
Vancouver, B.. c., August 4th, last,
was known at different times in her
career as the Cass. Hating. Ninge-
how and Arthur, before being the
Princess May. The mean hussy
Masquerading in mems clothes at
times, so to speak She had some
sensational adventures during her
escapades on the "high seas. "
Chief of Police, Father Neptune. was
no doubt watching for her and
"nabbed" her and now the Princess
May is confined in Davy Jones
locker.
The night of August Z, 1910, in
Seattle, in raiding q gambling den
gambling is felony in Washington
State. you know)-twelve distinct
natiOnalities were arrested. They
gave their native places as America.
China. Japan, Philippine Islands.
Germany, Finland, Sweden, Chill,
Norway, Austria, Canada aud Ire
land. People will gamble long as
life itself lasts. Gambling should be
licensed, at a high rate. and the
money used for city purposes, for as
it is, gambling is going on in priv
! ate in oil towns and cities and not a
cent is derived from the same. The
law OF felony, or one of the gallows,
will never cause men to cease gam