Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1911-05-12


Dewey and J. NJ. Lahue were guests
Of honor.
Committees of the City Council
and Chamber of Commerce and West
side citizens generally, at a meeting
held Monday at which it was agreed
to recommend that an improvement
district be formed and that it be
aided by general subscription from
The public to enable it to take adj
vantage of the appropriation of S43, :
900. u balance available in compliance
with the condition of erecting bulk
heads. The places for dumping the
excavations. a matter that has Gre
ated much discussion for some time.
have been selected and recommend
ed by the Joint committee.
Sible Wolfe has been pardoned by
Gov. Hay who was sentenced to a
term of from six months to fifteen
years in the penitentiary, from Van
cOuver The girl when arrested
waived trial and confessed to robbery
of her employers home. While in
Jail waiting to be taken to prison,
she was delivered of child, though
nobody suspected her condition
The crime of theft was no doubt due
to her distress at the time. The
pardon is conditional that she go to
the Louise Home, Portland, and re-
main there long Us is necessary, and
when she finds employment, she is TO
report once month to the Superin-
| tendent Of that institution.
The matter of the eight-foot fence
with which the Door Company has
correlled about eight acres of val
liable city lots including streets, has
! since the STANDARDS expose, en-
gagged very general attention and the
demand unquestiOnably is for the
public authorities to rise up and ex-
plain why they are sleeping on the
city's rights when such an aggres-
Slve act shows an intent of grasping
thorOughfares conveyed to the gen.
eral public half a century ago in
perpetuity. by Edmund Sylvester,
the original owner The company
should be made to show its hand
now, when it has obtained use of the
land under such an explicit promise of
restitution.
One Of the most lamentable hap
peningS in church service of this
city has been the resignation of Rev.
DR.. r. NJ. Hayes. as pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church. The
progress of this congregation has
6een wonderful, under his sugges.
ton and guidance. 1t has the finest
church and best organ, involving
a cost of about $50, 900. all paid for,
and the attendance is and has been
quite large. united and harmonious,
but the pastor is in need of rest. He
is hOw acting as temporary pastor of
the flock he has so long and success
fully led in the ways Of Righteousness.
No man leaves more evidence of
earnest and steadfast endeavor BY
works. and none will be followed by
more heartfelt prayer for continued
power for good.
The Attorney General has been
asked to put on his thinking cap and
decide whether a half-breed Indian
may legally keep a saloon, and sell as
well as buy liquor, especially and
specifically prohibited by law. A
case is presented at Bucoda, and the
case is up for immediate decision.
The question is not as easy of ad-
justment as the one presen ted to
King Solomon of ownership Of child,
for there is no maternal instinct to
interpose the tie OF affection. The
American half-breed may not care q
continental what becomes of the In
dian if the judicial knot is cut by the
official cleaver. The case is one of
interest and will doubtless present
an amusing aspect in presen tation OF
some original phases of adroit lodges
in Interpretation or construction of
the law.
Attorney General Tanner is to
start suit in this county, it is said,
to force the County Auditor to pay
certain high-priced experts" for
overhauling the public accounts for
the city to discover any possible dis
crepancies. The proceeding has par
taken of the nature of graft, from
the simple fact that the price charged
of eight dollars per day for each
OF the two accountants, was deemed
excessive. This is case in which
the city has raised the question
of quo ,odrranto, that although it
has been tacitly admitted the State
bureau may have authority to i'm
pose the cost of that service upon
the counties. no such right exists to
impose the tax upon cities. 1t is to
determine the validity of the act in
this particular that the suit will be
instituted.
1t seems that Mr.. George C. Israel
has been eminently successful in
maintaining his lead in the breeding
of fine dogs. South End Sombrero,
year-old bull-terrier pup, from his
kennels near Tumwater, was the SEN
sation of the show held at Seattle
last month, winning five firsts and
three cups. SOmbrerv also won out
in San Francisco, recently. He is
pronounced by experts to be the
finest dog ever bred on this coast, or
possibly in the United States. He
took first prize in the puppy class,
novice class, the limit class. the
American bred class and the open
class. He was the winner In the
winners class and took cups for be-
ing the best bull-terrier, for being
| the best terrier of anv breed and
the best puppy OF any breed. Mr..
Israel is very properly elated over
his success, and after exhibiting
S0mbrer, at several shows on the
Coast. has made arrangements to
take him to New York, for exhibit
ton at the international show, June
18th, where it is expected he will
maintain his record.
1t seems that the dredger people
tired of waiting upon the city, its
contractors, or its engineer. for tax