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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-02-01
Governor Listers Message

state IS office.
He would abolish the board of
managers of the reformatory and put
that institution directly under the
board Of control.
He would make all money collected
by the different boards payable into
the state treasurer's office and only
allow the money to be spent except
by warrants drawn by the state audi
tor.
He recommends the adjustment of
the bureau of inspection and supervi-
sion of public offices. He says that
this board cost more than it is worth
and the taxpayer does not want it.
He sees bright future for the in.
dustrial commissioner and would not
amend the law governing that COM
mission until the present laws had
been tried out.
He would abolish the dairy and
food commissioner along with that Of
horticulture, veterinarian and oil in
spectors and put all of them under
one head along with the grain in
spector to be known as a commits
sioner of agriculture.
He recommends an inspector of
commission houses.
Speaking of highways, he would not
issue bonds or increase the tax levies
for two years but would spend the
money now in hand on good roads.
He finds that the fisheries of Wash
ington have grown into a larger bust
ness than was expected and he recon-
mends that the laws be revised and a
greater tax be levied for the work.
An architect for the state is another
recommendation and the new COVER
nor believes that the state would save
a lot of money by establishing such
an office.
On public printing he would leave
the law as it is but do away with a
lot of useless printing that the state
officers are now getting out.
He would have a committee of the
legislature look into the useless legisla-
ton that comes before the supreme
court and have them devise some way
of getting rid of lot of unimportant
things before that body.
He recommends a better drainage
law.
He would have committee pass
on laws before they were passed, in
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-02-01

opportunity comes to a boy on the
farm as often as to boy in the city;
that life is larger and freer and hap
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-02-01
THE PHONE AND THE HYMN.

An admiring parishioner of a young
divine had a telephone installed in
the clergyman's house. The good
man was delighted with the con-
venience and used it Immediately be-
fore going to church.
When the time came for him to an
nounce the first hymn he read the
first lines with his usual impressive
ness and concluded with:
'Let us all unite in hymn seven o
three. "-Lippincott's.
To remove ink from white cotton
fabric rub with lard we'll, then wash
in soap suds strong enough to remove
the grease, then rinse.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-02-01

tiOn is state paper which deserves
to be read by every taxpayer of the
state of Washington. Below we are
publishing resume of the leading
recommendation made by the COVER
nor:
He recommends first, presidential
primary and follows with a recon-
mendation that the legislature pass a
resolution. endorsing a federal amend
ment to the constitution for the cleo
ton of United States senators by the
direct vote of the people.
For counties, he recommends non
partisan election of all officials. He
advocates the abolition of the straight
ticket. He would not have party
circle at the head of the tickets but
would have the voter choose his can
didates by placing Ky opposite each
man for whom he wishes to vote.
On elections, he recommends that
the booths be so lighted that the
voter can see what he is doing inside
the election booths. He says that
many of the voting precincts are so
dark that voter has no chance to
see how to mark the ballot. He finds
fault with the present blanket ballot.
He recommends that the constitu-
tional amendments for referendum,
recall and initiative be put into vogue
at once.
He recommends that the state be
re-districted into legislative and con-
gressional districts.
He recommends that the Cheney
Normal school be abolished and that
the state cut out instead of increasing
the normal and other schools and use
them only to make the schools more
efficient He says that the school
houses should be free for the use of
the people for any Legitimate meet
ing that does not interfere with the
schools
He takes some of the board of con-
trolls recommendations but does not
believe with the board as to appro-
priations. He says that the board OF
control should be capable of estimat
ing the cost of all institutions and he
recommends that all appropriations
be provided and set forth for such in
situations. He does not believe in
Jumping appropriations. The board
of control would have the apprOpria-
tions made in lump sum.
The training school, at present,
contains both boys and girls. The
new governor recommends that a
separate school be provided. He
points out that it is not good to have
both sexes in the same school.
He recommends that the state
prisoners in the reformatory be used
on state highway work. He also
recommends that the prisoners at
Walla Walla should be used in build
ing roads and the state training
school manufacture shoes for the in
mates of other institutions.
He would allow the patients of the
insane asylums to clear the lands
owned by the state and develop the
farms around such institutions. He
commends the public service com
mission and says that it is doing
good work.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1913-02-01
Get My
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-14

to the Italian government the case
viii first go to a special court, whose
judges have much the same function
as grand jury in this country.
Their indictment of Charlton will
be followed by his trial before a jury.
The jury, in it's verdict, may report
extenuating circumstances, but the
sentence is left entirely to the judge.
The maximum penalty for murder
such as Charlton committed is soil
tary confinement in a dark cell, with
only bread and water. It is a medic
val punishment, and prisoners rarely
survive the ten-year ordeal, many of
them considering death by suicide
far preferable. Charlton, in addi-
ton, is said to have tuberculosis.
Those who know declare that
emotional insanity" viii be Charl-
tons plea when he is brought to
trial
Insanity, as a defense in murder
cases, is as common in Italy as Amer
lea. If Charlton is adiudged insane
Italian officials declare that, in their
opinion, he will not be returned to
this country, but will be confined in
an asylum in Italy.
RENNHRo
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-06-14

tiful scenery that Europe has to of
fer, they found villa.
But they quaTreled. Her temper
could not be governed; foul names,
oaths and the talk of sailors poured
from her lips, many times each day.
About her past Porter Charlton had
known little; now he found her more
worldly wise and bespotted than any
man, perhaps, that he had ever met,
At least they quarreled many times
each day.
9 They had few visitors and seemed
to care little about associating with
others. An exception, however, was
made in the case of Constantine IspO-
latoff, a handsome Russian who was
a frequent guest at the villa. The
Italian police say that the Russian
was one of Mrs. Charlton's closest
friends, and hint at more,
On the night of June 8 the Charl-
tons quarreled again, For Charlton
tho limit of his endurance was
II. cled; she was sitting on the edge
of her bed. He, with statuette
cd Love-" struck her on the
head. After three blows she was
senseless. He thrust her body into
a trunk and dragged the trunk out
doors and down to the shore of the
world-famous lake. He threw it from
the pier into the water.
Within three days he had taken a
steamer back to the United States,
full of terror, but thinking that the
murder was a secret. On the very
same steamer on which he rode were
photographs of the scene of the muir
der being rushed to American news
papers, for fishermen had found the
trunk. When Porter Charlton alight-
ed in Hoboken, across the river from |
New York, detectives were waiting |
for him.
He was blindly faithful to his YAM |
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-18
Opinion of High Court
Hits Everyday Citizen

No matter how much loss a person
suffers because letter carrier delays
delivery of mail, policeman fails to
walk his beat, fireman neglects an
alarm or water company omits to in
stall fire plugs, the sufferer cannot re-
cover damages.
Such is the statement of Justice La
mar of the Supreme court in an Off
cial opinion filed the other day among
the records of the court.
This utterance was made in arriv-
ing at the conclusion that an individ-
ual inhabitant of city cannot sue a
water company for failure to install
plugs and mains 1t had contracted
with a city to install. The case arose
in Spartansburg, S. C. The opinion is
contrary to the law in Kentucky,
North Carolina and Florida, but up
holds decisions in numerous other
states.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-18
Foreigners Are Interested
In American Education

Canadian educators are impresse.
with the facilities for educational in
formation in the United States. DR..
David Soloan, principal of the Nova
Scotia Normal school, considers the
federal bureau of education at Wash
ington one of the best and readiest
scources of information about the
schools of Canada.
DR.. Soloan is not the first educator
who has paid tribute to the wisdom
of congress in providing a central bu-
reau for the diffusion of educational
, information, but as an expert on ed
ucation his opinion deserves to be
quoted. After speaking of the history
of education in the United States as
"illustrious" and describing the part
the government, through it's bureau or
education, has played. he says: 1t
has saved uncalculated millions to ed
ucational effort merely through its
punctual record of each and every
educational enterprise, every attempt
| ed reform, every individual initiative.
1t has prevented duplication of eX-
pertinent. reported educational prog
| ress in foreign countries, sifted sta
tistics, and from conflicting reports
gathered the facts the leaders of ed
ucation in America needed to be GER
titled Of
Education is international. No mat
ter how local and national certain of
its problems may be, the funda-
mentals of education are identical in
all civilized countries; and it is sure
ly worth knowing that in this inter
national exchange of ideas the United
| States bears no small part.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-18

only make up elementary deficiencies,
but also receive practical training in
specific phases of commerce and in
dustry.
Vocational guidance forms another
feature of the Hammond plan. The
schools furnish information about the
various industries in the community,
the salaries paid In different lines OF
work, the opportunities for advance
ment, hours of labor, permanency OF
employment, and all the details that
are of value in determining a choice
of employment. AS early as the sixth
grade the teacher tests the child's
interest and ability in various forms
of elementary Industrial work, so thai
he may come to have some idea of
future vocation. The school authori
ties also maintain an employment bu
reau, where present and former pu
pills are registered and their qualifica
tions carefully investigated.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-18
FIGHT WAY TO SLAVE GIRLS
Immigrant Inspectors Find Four In
Old Gambling House at San
Francisco, Cal.

San Francisco, Cal.-After thread
ing q labyrinth of dark passageways,
battering down two heavy doors, and
finding thsemselves blocked by an i'm
passable steel barrier, Capt. Frank
Ainsworth and a squad of United
States immigration inspectors found
four Chinese slave girls immured in
an improvised prison, formerly used
for a gambling house. The raiders
were brought to a standstill by a steel
door, but found a passageway enter
ing through two secret panels, which
led them to the room where the girls
were concealed. ~
10y Yee, a Chinese of local proml-
nence. was arrested on charge of
having harbored the women. 10y Yee
is leader of the Lui Don ting,
which recently had trouble with the
Hop Sings, and the police believe the
girls We're being concealed not only
from the inspectors, but from the
watchmen of the rival tong. To pre-
vent threatened tong outbreak the
Chinese district is being policed with
unusual vigilance.
1t was learned that since the re-
cent raids the price of slave girls
has risen. and that the price as high
as $4,000 apiece is being offered for
women
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-18
WORKED AS A MAN
Sex of English "Longshoreman"
Is Disclosed by Accident.
"Rather a Quiet Lad" Say Fellow
Workers of James Palmer" Toll
Ing With Them as Lighter
man-Husband Tells Story.

Newcastle-on-Tyne, Rather a
quiet lad" This was the description
given the other day by the employers
of James Palmer" the victim of an
accident that resulted in the astound-
ing discovery that "he" is a woman.
She underwent an operation at New
castle infirmary and afterwards was
visited by her husband, sailor. from
whom she had been separated.
For six months the woman, whose
name is Margaret Nielsen, has worked
on the Tyneside as a man that she
might support herself and two chill
dren.
During summer it Is known she
of other boats-working during the
days as lighterman.
1t was while she was helping to
load a wherry with steel plates that
one OF the plates fell on her, causing
severe injuries. Then she had to re-
veal her secret and told the doctor
that her husband was a German sailor.
whom she had left.
Both the employers and fellow
workers of James" express the great
est surprise at the startling disclosure
of her sex. They said James" kept
much to himself"
Where the woman lived is still I'M
known, as she declines to give any
further account of herself and the po-
lice have been unable to find the chill
dren she mentioned.
After identifying his wife, Nielsen
gave some astonishing details of her
life He said he had not seen her
since February last.
This" he remarked, "is not the
first time she has figured as boy
For some time, years ago, she was
liftboy' at one of the big houses
in the West End of London"
Nielsen stated that he met his wife
while he was a steward on Tyne
side boat running between London
and Newcastle, and they married nine
years ago. He became chef and
she linen maid at a temperance hotel
but owing to financial difficulties they
decided to return to Newcastle.
Then they quarreled and his wife
summoned him for persistent cruelty
The charge was dismissed, but on
later occasion she obtained an order
and since then, he said, his wife had
had him arrested for maintenance ar
rears.
He added that he was German
subject, and his wife became German
on her marriage. He had sued in the
German high court for restitution OF
conjugal rights and obtained an order
for his wife to pay costs, which she
had not done. nor had she obeyed the
order.
In February last he met her casual
ly, and. as she refused to return, he
instituted divorce proceedings. These
were to have come up on the day be
fore the accident. The children were
being looked after by his wife's peo
pie.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-18
ROBBERS PASS BY DOGS
They Stop Chase and Meant Well, but
CANNES Attack Wrong Persons
In Excitement.

Chicago.-Two dogs frustrated the
capture the other night of three rob-
bers, who added the latest crime to
the long list of recent months, and
probably prevented the obtaining of
information which might have led
to the apprehension of the band,
which is thought to be organized for
depredations in Chicago.
The dogs, instead of capturing the
thieves, as brave CANNES in the
movies" are shown to do, allowed
the robbers to pass them unmolested
and turned their attack on the pur-
suers.
The robbery occurred in a jewelry
store in West Twenty-sixth street,
when display window was broken
and gold rings valued at $500 taken.
Two passengers Oh a Twenty-sixth
street car leaped to the pavement
and gave chase to the robbers, only to
be stopped within a few feet by the
onslaught of the dogs. The CANNES
are owned by Peter Dreyje.
The pursuers were forced to turn
back and were chased for more than
a block before Dreyje called his dogs
off.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-18
Work for Money but
Stay in School

They do not allow working to inter
fere with going TO school in Ham
mond, Ind. Special arrangements are
made whereby boys and girls may
work half day in certain commercial
establishments and attend school the
balance of the day. Hammond is a
manufacturing community, where the
temptation to boys and girls is strong
to leave school and earn a living.
Superintendent McDaniel's plan makes
is possible for boys and girls to earn
money, remain in school, and also
make themselves more efficient indus
trially.
The plan at Hammond is based on
full realization of modern social and
industrial conditions. Superintendent
Mcdaniel proceeds on the theory that.
while there are certain general prin-
ciples underlying all education. each
community has its own special prob
lens that are too often disregarded
in the making of the schools. Besides
the cooperative school and shop ar
rangement, Hammond maintains
night school with an attendance OF
700. where boys and girls may not
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-18
ASKS NEW TAX SYSTEM.
New Mexico's Governor Wants Prop
ertY Assessed on Cash Value.

Santa Fe, n. MA new system of
taxation for the state whereby all
property will be assessed at it's cash
value" and a law to enforce such as
sessments alike against the large cor
porations and the small property own
ers, is the most important recommend
alton in Governor McDonalds message
to the Legislature.
"Thus will it be possible" says the
governor, "to increase the assessed
valuation of the property in the state
from $73,OOO,OOO, the present figure, to
$500 100000 and thereby reduce the
state tax levy from IS mills to 3 mills"
Immediate ratification of the income
tax amendment to the United States
constitution is also urged, together
with an inheritance tax law. The sub
iects of gambling and prizefighting, the
governor treats collectively, declaring
that if the Legislators will pass laws
prohibiting prizefighting and gambling
they will give the new state the best
advertising it can possibly have.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-18
MAKE PLEA FOR
DUTY ON SUGAR
THROWING BEET INDUSTRY AS
BONE TO HUNGRY DOGS!"
GARY TELLS HOUSE.
NEED TARIFF ON WINE
CALIFORNIA GROWERS DECLARE
BUSINESS IN DEPLoRABLE
CONDITION ON COAST.
weslern Nemspaper UnIon News servLce.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Washington.-"Thr beet sugar
like bone to hungry dogs!" is what
Francis X. Cary, vice president of the
National Sugar Company of Colorado,
called the Democratic policy of sugar
tariff reduction before the ways and
means committee of the House.
Several Colorado mon argued against
the proposed reduction on the ground
that it would ruin one of the great IN
dustries of the state.
Among those before the committee
were: w. ]. Powell from the Chamber
Of Commerce at Sterling, d. C. Dono-
van of Longmont, Charles Boettcher
of Denver, Aaron Cove of Denver, Earl
Of Loveland, McCue of Fort Collins,
Couch of Fort Morgan and Tew of
Greeley.
Mineral water importers and others
descended in force upon the commit
tee, against tariff reduction.
The California wine trade was pic
tured as in a deplorable condition
when the committee took up Schedule
II, wines, spirits and other beverages.
Former Commissioner of Internal
Revenue John w. Yerkes contended
that whiskey was a necessity, but that
imported wines were a luxury and
therefore should bear the burden of
tariff taxation.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-18
Increase in Canal
Zone Stamp Sale

The canal zone government has
turned into the United States treas
ury a sum of ss7 7,550.21 revenue re-
ceived from the sale of stamps and
post cards during theofiscal year end
ing June /, 1912. This is an increase
of $4,000 over last year.
During the past year 1858 regis
tered letters were handled by the
postoffice there. Forty-seven per cent.
of the registered mail was sent under
official stamp; 43,S23 registered letters
were sent to foreign countries.
There were 227,6S0 money orders
issued during the year. representing
a value of S4,915,077.29.
On February last 16 postal savings
banks we're established on the canal
zone. carrying total deposits of 1885,
e47. There were 2.402 depositors.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-18
CART ONLY HOTEL FROM TOWN
County Attorney Asks Santa Fe Resi-
dents to Shelter Jurors Frosty
Sleeping Outside.

Santa Fe, Kan.-Because of a muir
der trial that opened here the other
day in the district court and the fact
that the only hotel in Santa Fe was
carted away on trucks to Sublette, a
new town, last month. many villagers
prepared to sleep in the postof1ic ce
and livery stable.
The following notice was posted in
the public square:
People who have spare beds are re-
quested to report to the county at
torney in order that the Jurors, at
torneys and others interested in the
Rnrtley trial, may be taken care of.
We have no hotel now, and 1t is a lit
tie frosty sleeping on the buffalo
grass"
The trial was that of B. F. Hartley.
a wealthy cattleman. charged with
killing e. o. Balla. another cattle
dealer.
The Colorado statesman., 1913-01-18
Rich Rhode Islander
Elected to Congress

There comes to the new house OF
representatives Peter Goelet Gerry,
.one of the richest young men in the
country. He is the son of the late
Peter Gerry of New York, but him
self lives in the Second Rhode Island
district. He was married two or
three years ago to Miss Mathilde
Townsend, of this city. one of the
very wealthy young debutantes of a
very few years ago. The Townsend
home is one of the most spacious and
magnificent in Washington, and the
young couple will make their home
with Mrs. Gerry's mother, so some
splendid entertaining is promised for
the new Democratic administrator
Mr.. Gerry has filed his statement of
campaign expenses, and they were
within SIS of being $4,000. He also
gave $500 to the Republican state
committee of Rhode Island. 1t is
said that Mrs. Gerry herself from her
own private fortune gave a goodly
sum.