Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1910-05-20


Western Washington district. The
final contest will be held in Seattle in
the near future. The victor will
meet the winner of a contest in one OF
the Seattle high schools and who has
defeated the several orators repre-
senting the many Seattle schools.
The Good Roads Association have
given notice that at the next regular
meeting, to be held on the second
Saturday in August, the matter OF
submission OF "A new law regarding
road building and repairs of public
highways. The plan seemed to be
favored at the discussion. Saturday,
to make owners of automobiles, haul
ers of cordwood. shingle- bolts and
logs, over the roads, pay special
tax prepOrtioned upon the wear and
tear from that use.
Former Oil Inspector +. A. Clark.
has turned over S727.37 of the ST.
1863. 63 he owes the State, and has
been granted further time by the
Board of AccOuntancy to show by
his complex system of figuring wheth-
or even the official tweezers will be
able TO extract any more of the $6a33,
rs still due from his tenacious
clutches. AS the balance due is
based upon figures from amounts
paid Clark, as taken from the oil
company s books. it is presumed to
be correct, and that he will be
obliged to pay.
The Supreme Court has decided
that the inheritance tax levied upon
the estate of Peter G.. Stixrud de-
ceased, Norwegian, who died in
this city little more than couple
Of years ago is an illegal claim. De-
ceased left his property, considerable
in value, to his brother and sister, of
Norway. These heirs contested the
levy of 20 per cent. Inheritance tax
which had been accorded by a judg-
ment in the Superior Court of this
county. 1t is ruled as unlawful I'M
der the terms of treaty between this
country and Norway and Sweden.
1t is announced in the ssssiety'
columns of the country daily papers
that Gov. and Mrs. Hay have gone
East to visit the schools which their
children are attending. 1t is won
der they did not send them across
the water to get their educashun"
and thus add tone by using an i'm
ported article. Our people are taxed
heavily enough here to afford all the
requisite knowledge and brain power
for the intermediate branches, and
it looks decidedly snobbish tina. our
imported Governor" should not
deem them worthy of being instruc-
tors of the "gubernatorial kids"
The alarm of fire from Box %,
Saturday morning. resulted from an
effort OF q woman to put letter in a
fire alarm box. Thinking that any
thing attached to a post was to facil-
itate Uncle Sam method of handling
letters, she opened the box and clutch
ing the cover to turn back the lid
to the interior, turned on the alarm
which brought out the Department
on the double-quick gait. When the
fireman arrived she was still stOrming
at the postal authorities for using
such "contraption" for gathering
letters but still intent upon getting
her letter into the box some way, for
she wanted it to go" at once.
Harry Turner was arrested Mon
day evening on charge of petty
larceny, filed by John Blass, his
benefactor as we'll as employer,
and the prisoner has several other
more serious charges it is said
resting oyer him. Turner had been
working for Blass in his livery stable
and has made collections he has not
paid his employer. Years ago he
served term for forgery. His good
conduct in the pen earned him an
early parole. and while on leave it
is said his conduct was exemplary
and he was pardoned. But it seems
that the spirit of Old Nick was born
in him and he has again fallen into
his old ways.
Billy Sunday" the jumping
jack Prohibition Pulpetier, it is said
has declined to come to Olympia
and conduct one of his sensational
performances, giving as a reason
that the city is too small for a man
of his caliber, big head ard large
mouth, resembling for all the world
that of Billy Kersands the minstrel,
who when his mouth was open looked
like boundless cavern. A bet.
ter and more truthful reason proba-
bly, is that after taking his measure
at sample of his entertainments"
neither judgment of his hearers or
the panhandle results came up to
the expectation of the would-he pop
ular man from his grotesque antics,
such as mounting tables and walking
over pianos during his discourse.
Olympia may not be able to reach
five figures in population, but it is
big enough to extend frost over all
such Bombastic Furiosos as Billy
Sunday.
After several hours graphing Mon
dayf the body of George Holmes, the
musician, who fell from Richardson s
launch while it was returning from
Oyster Bay Sunday night during
stroke of apoplexy, was recovered
from the bay, near the spot where
he fell near the lower channel light.
The search was prosecuted contin-
uously the remainder OF Sunday night
and several hours the next day be-
fore it was found covered with about
three feet of water. Mr.. Richard
son who is an expert swimmer spent
nearly an hour in the water immed-
lately after the mishap, but was I'M
able to lind the slightest trace of the
missing man, and it was only after
this thorough search that the slow
process of trailing graphing irons
was resorted to. and that required
many hours of persistent labor.
Holmes leaves wife and boy about
four years old. Tho mother of de-
ceased, as we'll as the mother of his
wife, came up from Seattle, on re-
ceipt of the news of the sad event.