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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-03-06

. Ii' GIL. once elected on an open
town" platform, then recalled in a
bitter campaign two years ago again
candidate out defeated, was last
Tuesday elected mayor OF Seattle By
a majority of - tic votes, the larg
est on record in the history of the
city. defeating j. y. Trenholme, the
business mems candidate. Gill,
throughout the campaign, maintained
hc had reformed and would admins
ter The city on CLOSED town" basis,
# elected.
Praising Priest Point park and de-
claring the city park board should
have 10000 Il year to spend on it
instead of $4,000, Howard +. Weed
of Portland gave an interesting lee
tur. on Landscape gardening at the
Congregational church last Tuesday
evening.
An oil expert named Veach, says
Centralia dispatch, who claims to
have / 5 oil rigs at work in Oklahoma
and is reported to have considerable
capital behind him, spent some time
recently looking over the Thurston
county field and is reported to be en-
deavoring to obtain leases in the vi
entity of Grand Mound. If he Sc
cures sufficient leases he will put up
a rig and make a test, the dispatch
says, adding that he declares he has
been in oil fields all over the world
but that he has never seen better sur
face indications for an oil field than
this section presents.
Every pupil who has been a regu-
lar attendant at grammar school in
Thurston county for three months
prior to the meet is eligible to enter
the 1914 grade school track meet
which will be held in this city either
May or May 16, depending on the
late of the Southwest Washington
track meet which may take place
here May 8, but any pupil who uses
tobacco after March Is will not be
permitted to enter. Only one entry
will be allowed in each event from
each school and no student will be
allowed to enter more than two field
and two track events. The committee
in charge has discontinued the 100
yard dash and substituted one for 40
yards, and also the potato race for
girls. believing these events too
strenuous. while the 440-yard race
for seniors has been cut to 22O yards,
the 220-yard dash for juniors to $50
yards, and 75-yard dash for SEN
Tors and juniors has been added. The
names OF entries must be fled in the
county superintendent's Office week
before the meet.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-03-06
ROCHESTER PEOPLE
ENDORSE SPINNING
Continued from page 1)
Railroads Refuse Agents
nmiss.oner Frank X. Spinning.

Railroads Refuse Agents
Third, that both railroads have
refused utterly to maintain separate
agencies at this place.
Fourth, that the present passen-
ger depot of the Northern Pacific
railway is Of such inadequate size and
poor appearance that it is uniformly
regarded as a detriment and a draw
back to the whole community.
Fifth, that the receipts of both
railroads at this place are such that
separate agencies cannot be demand
ed; but that both railways have
agreed to the construction and MAIN
tenance of an adequate union depot,
affording the facilities of two passen-
ger Offices, two telegraph stations and
two express offices whereby the whole
community will be creditably served.
Move Depot 12O Rods
Sixth, that the removal of the
present Northern Pacific depot mat
, Ter of about 100 rods and to a more
central position than that in which
1t is now located will not cause a de-
terioration in value of any property,
but the added efficiency and appear
ance will be an uplift to the whole
community.
Seventh, that 314 citizens have
petitioned in favor of union depot
as opposed to % final petitioners
against it.
BE it therefore resolved, that the
citizens here assembled unite in de-
precating the statement published in
recent newspaper and in finding as
wilfully false any statements i'm
peaching the official action or mo-
tives of Commissioner Frank R. Spin
ming, knowing that he followed the
only possible course for the better
ment of the public service of the
town.
'"Be 1t further resolved, that we re-
flute and resent the statement that
l.. L. Hunter entered into any collu-
sion with any person in this matter,
or that he secretly or in and dishonest
manner, attempted injury to any per-
SON or persons to the end of his own
financial gain.
"And be it further resolved, that
the fullest Investigation be invited
by all persons concerned in the mat
ter and that copy Of these resolu-
tions be sent to Commissioner F. r.
Spinning and Governor Ernest Lister
and made public to the press of the
state"
Propose Another Meeting
A further resolution was adopted
inviting Governor Lister, Commits
sioner Spinning and any other inter-
ested persons to meet in a mass meet
ing with the people Of Rochester.
Meanwhile members of the East
Rochester Improvement club say they
are prepared for fight to the finish.
They say that q complete organize
ton has been formed and funds
pledged to work both for the removal
Of Commissioner Spinning and to pre-
vent the abandonment Of the present
depot. In their original resolution
they charged that Commissioner
Spinning was working In COLLISION
with L. L. Hunter, Rochester mer-
chant. and several others who are
planning to boost property values.
and open general store near the
proposed junction. ~
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-03-06
CONTEST IN THIRD WEEK
CONTINUED from page H.
New Special Offer

NOW OPCCA0A OACI
This weeks special offer Is very
good one. Do all that you can to get
the bonus votes that come with these
clubs for they will help your vote
total and may be the cause OF your
winning one of the big prizes. The
vote special for this week is 10000
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-03-06

votes for each club of SIC in sub
scriptions. Each candidate will be
allowed two clubs for the bonus
votes. BY special request we will
give the bonus votes for the next
period on all relatives subscriptions,
$500 votes to be given on each one,
so make every effort at your com
mand to get these extra votes. If
there is anything that you do not UNI
derstand, call up the contest manager
and he will be glad to explain any
thing that you want to know.
Few Active Candidates
There is about the same number of
contestants in each district though
district No. has the advantage in
the number of candidates that are ac-
tive, eight candidates having shown
activity in this district up to the time
of going to press while only three &C
tive candidates have been developed
in district No. 2. Remember that we
have Ii prizes for each district an
nOunced so far. We have II more
prizes then active contestants.
Quite number of nominees have
received votes from their friends.
Quite a number of the old subscribers
to the Standard have been into the
Office since the contest opened and re-
newed their subscriptions to the pap
er. They show keen interest in the
contest and nearly always want their
votes to go to one or another on the
list of nominees that has been print
ed in the paper. That will account
for some of the nominees receiving
votes that. they have not sent in them
selves.
Standing of Contestants
1t behooves those who are being
helped by their friends to do some
thing that will further their own
campaign. The candidates in the two
districts are:
l.N'f nsS<.3rk NJ
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-03-06


Governor LrDest lister Mil ne,
Moueav March g. with the orEanIsa-
.ou rrmwittee of the new Northwest
l....unss rvu.t PIJ-rc.tyc a+co. .a-
t.0N. winch pans to organize the ipuI
northwest states.
Supreme Court judge Morris deliv-
cred q stirring address IL the March
meeting Of the Mems club OF ST
lohr's Fpiscon2I church Tuesda, cy~
ening when Ms subject was a Good
Name IS Rather 10 be- Chosen than
Great Riches and he cited the ca
re-r of Abraham Lincoln as an OK
Ceorra Turner Of srakane who
came to Washington in 1884 in terri
torfal DAYS as federal iudga under
an,,intmept of President Arthur and
who was elected to the United sta1es
senate in 1897. made formal an
pourcement last Tuesday Of his can
didacv for United States senator at
the primaries next se,tember.
.
uDon the renresentations Of Il l.
Barnes of Seattle. repregent4ng the
American DISTRICT Steam Heating
be hhanced ana pushed TO compile
non' the city council this week post
poned until March IL action looking
to the forfeiture OF the bonds given
to guarantee the repairing OF the
streets TON up for the laying 0: the
steam mains.
-i
Charles McCIeary. proprietor of
the Westside Mill this week an
nounced he would start the mill with
a small crew the last of next week or
the first of the week following and
that a full crew would be added as
soon as The machinery gets into good
working order The oneration of
this mil, means the, addition NJ a suh.
stant;a, navrol, to olvmn;a and the
announcement has been anxiouslv ex-
pected ever since the property was
taken over by the McClearys last
summer.
walking suddenly from the kitch-
- an where ha had baen talkine With
his wife while she washed the break
fast dishes into the narlor and clos
inr the aoor vA,onzo Haines shot
himself "Wednesday morning and was
found living dead on the t,oor bx/h;s
wife The funeral will take Mace TO-
dav under tho ansn,ces 81 the local
lodge Of Eagles. Haines had not
been living A. home for a few DAYS
exnecting Il 60 to work II 4 logging
ca,nn hut had gone home that morn
ine shortly after his little daughter
had gone tn school Monday he nQWn.
ed his watch and Tuesday learned
over the telephone that the family Of
An Earle Who committed suicide
wo,a,ld receive ~ : .r,,aerp,ar ,6dpa hama
Ats. He was As years old. had lived
n Olympia 70 years, and is survived
~ 'ne "iuow anu 'nIee cn'luren'
Ine clty omciais q oiymp'a are
!, ,n.,ss,.,cn q -arort ,yst Ala
with the attorney general for failing
to make proper provision for the re-
tirement 81 the Indebtedness which
.ne lepo!. sass .ow sleaus eAceeus
aesctS ~ tn0 city ~ SnS AISs u tno
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-03-06

Local alumni and former students
OF the Pullman State College highly
enjoyed banquet at the y. NJ. c. a.
Tuesday evening, when rank T. Bar
nsrd, registrar of the college, was the
guest of honor.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-03-06

George Turner of Spakane. who
came TO Washington in 1884 in terri
torial days as federal Judge under
appointment of President Arthur, and
who was elected to the United States
senate in 1897, made formal an
nouEcement last Tuesday of his can
d.dacy for United States senator at
the primaries next September.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-03-06

Upon the representations Of Il. l..
American District Steam Heating
company, that the local plant would
be financed and pushed to compile
ton, the city council this week post
poned until March IL action looking
to the forfeiture of the bonds given
streets tom up for the laying o. the
steam mains.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-03-06

Rev. Father Maily ofhciated at the
funeral Wednesday of Henry c.
Chandler, the 15-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. j. 6. Chandler, who died
of meningitis the fore part of the
week.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-03-06

Sheriff McCorkie was elected presi-
association at the annual meeting and
banquet last Tuesday W. Fl. Yeager,
vice president; Andrew Austin, sec
retary-treasurer, end NJ. J. Mellon,
William Countryman, Harley Post
and Charles A. Burr, trustees.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1914-03-06

Fred Conyery expects II 60 to San
Francisco next week on three
weeks business trip
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-20

take his medicine, but that he, too,
hoped to some day lift the stain from
the boy baby The correspondence
continued. Cora sought help, and
finally her grandfather, who prese-
cuted the case against Kinney, pre-
sented a petition to the state board
of pardons, asking that Convict A915
be freed or paroled.
The pardon board was plainly puZ-
zled. The problem of whether Baby
Vallie needed a father more than the
state of Illinois needed Convict A915's
services and needed to satisfy the de-
mands of justice was so weighty that
the board pondered for several
months.
A syndicate of seventy powerful
newspapers took up the case of Baby
Vallie in every section of the coun-
try and the collective sentiment of its
readers was made known to the par
don board and to Gov. Dunno. The
governor acted upon his return from
Scranton, Pa, yesterday.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-20
MERELY COMMENT

A movie film showed U. S. officer
as a drunkard and coward.
MAZE Punkhouser, censor, SUBJ
mitted it to a special committee of
U. S. officers.
They pronounced it immoral and
Objectionable.
AspeciaI committee of pickpockets
would probably reject film showing
pickpocket at work. Giving away
trade secrets, y'know.
The U. S. officers might better have
censored out that traitor part of it
and left their brother officer drunk.
Army officers are seldom traitors,
but they are often drunk some of
them.
Gee whiz, whaddaya think of that
Senator Smoot, Utah Mormon,
voted for suffrage.
But then maybe those Mormons
figure that they can increase their
voting strength by marrying more
wives.
Having tried nearly everything
else, including the state militia and
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-20

imported gunner, Rockefeller's Col
orado coal trust will now sue them
for money.
1t isn't money or your life with the
coal trust, but money and your life.
The oatmeal trust is now on trial.
That ought to mean heavy news
paper advertising campaign for
Quaker Oats.
1t worked for JeIke so far as quiet
ing publicity was concerned, but it
didn't save him.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-03-20

paper advertising campaign for
Quaker Oats.
1t worked for JeIke so far as quiet
ing publicity was concerned, but it
didn't save him.
CONTRACT LABOR SYSTEM is, ON
ITS LAST LEGS
Aid. Merriam's fight to toss the
contract labor system from the
Bridewell will result in victory. 1t
was announced yesterday that the
game will stop May 1.
This will be a serious blow to sew
eral contractors who have grown
rich and fat through paying 35 to 40
cents day for a prisoners labor.
The companies who prof1ted most
ly from the game were the Chicago
Leather & Mercantile Co., of which
Billy Cooke, Republican politician, is
president; the Chicago Broom Co.
and the Inland Purse Co.
It's been fine for them. Not only
did they get the labor dirt cheap, but
they got heat, light and factory space
Iu1O"u III. L uC CIlICdSO DIOOlu W.
we're allowed the use of $500 square
feet, while the Chicago Leather &
Mercantile Co. paid only SIS for $500
square feet.
The Bridewell also furnished labor
free to unload cars of material.
AID Merriam first brought the mat
ter befoer the council in December
and an investigation was begun. The
Bridewen board Immediately warned
Sup't John L. Whitman to refuse to
give any information.
The Bridewell board is composed
of DR.. M. A. Weiskopf, A. A. Burger
and Matthias Aller Mayor Harrison
got after the board and they finally
came through.
Corporation Counsel Sexton has
decided the contract labor system is
illegal
Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-12-15

hand--better than any other nation
can boast. There may be financial
difficulties, but there is always some
way for a nation flushed with victory
to meet these for a time.
This country was never in a better
condition to wage war than at the
end Of our civil struggle. We then had
the largest body Of seasoned soldiers
in the world and probably the most
powerful navy, not excepting even
England's. When we told Europe 20
leave Mexico alone we We're in bet
ter position to enforce the command
than we had ever been before.
At the end of the present struggle
in Europe practically every man will
be a trained soldier. The victor will
thus have an army at his disposal
such as was never known in history.
And he may have fleet vastly moro
efficient than at the beginning of the
war--sincc in war due attention is
paid to upbuilding of the navy.
This is said in no alarmist vein. We
have no idea that any European ma
ton is going to attack us at the end
of the war or for years thereafter. 1t
is said in the interests of accuracy
and common sense. When we are
considering the situation we might as
we'll stick to the facts.
Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-12-15
BEING PREPARED TO FIGHT.

There is always, in some quarters,
anxiety concerning the alleged in
ability Of the United States to defend
itself and. incidentally, to attack 9TH
err people. but the European war has
stimulated interest in the subject, and
a good deal of cloquence has been
! turned loose on it in congress. 1t is
necessary of course, to recognize the
conditions in which we live. but that
! is exactly what is not done by those
who regard the constant building of
armament and perpetual preparation
for war as things to which to look
forward forever; who believe that
each nation must always live in fear
of being attacked unless it maintains
such strong armed force that at
tack would be hopeless. The present
, conditions, and the conditions which
will doubtless exist for some time,
, necessitate some preparation for the
use of force, but the history of civil
lization demonstrates that these con-
ditions are but temporary, and that
they soon be outgrown.
There has been 81 regular and or
derly progress from the time when
every individual had to look to his
own defense and to the present, when
few individuals give u thought to
such q thing. The protection of the
individual in his person and his prop
erty has been passed on to the state,
and the ability Of a man to fight has
practically no influence on his safety
There are millions of men who, in all
their lives, since the boyish scrambies
of their schooldays, have never had
occasion to strike blow or make a
defensive movement That condition
has been reached by gradual progress
from the individualistic ages Of loAg
ago.
So 1t will prove in the history Of ma
tions. The present war to the con-
trary notwithstanding. the time is ar-
preaching when the nation will be as
secure from attack as the individual
is now, and common security will be
reached through the common action
of the peoples of the world.
Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-12-15
SOUTH AMERICAN FRUITS.

A. we'll known newspaper corre-
spondent, Frank G. Carpenter, writ
ing from Santiago, Chile. deals in an
interesting manner of the possible de-
velopment of one branch of trade with
South America as a result Of the open
ing of the Panama canal, the trade TN
fresh fruits in winter. AS he points
out, our winter season is the South
American summer season. When the
time for our northern fresh fruits is
past. the time for southern fruit De-
gins. And considerable attention is
being given to this work in the south
in anticipation of the development of
a considerable trade with the United
States as soon as transportation pos
sibilities are right.
The fruits which Mr.. Carpenter
thinks will be handled in this way
are not the citrus fruits, of which we
are large producers ourselves, but
such things as peaches. plums, and
others of that class. When our sea-
son for these fruits is over the Chile
an season is just beginning. From
Santiago to New York, via the canal,
the trip will consume two weeks, and
with modern methods of cooling the
fruit, properly packed, can be kept in
prime condition. The chances appear
to be good for the building up OF a
large trade in this one item.
Grand Forks daily herald., 1914-12-15
DOUBLE TAXATION.

Under our present system Of tax
alton much of our property Is COM
PEELED to bear a double share Of tax
alton, or would be If the laws were
enforced.
A piece of land is assessed at the
prevailing rate of valuation. and a tax
is imposed on that basis. It makes
no difference whether the land is free
from encunnbrance or not. 1t is as
sessed at SO much per acre. and the
man in whose name the title stands
is expected to pay the tax. The prop
erty may be mortgaged for half or
two-thirds Of its value. That makes
no difference. 1t is not the owners
equity, but the value of the land which
is taxed.
The man who holds the mortgage
ts expected to list 1t for taxation.
Rather, he Is required Ivy law to do 80
nobody expects that he is going to
do 1t. II he does this almost unheard-
Of thing, ne will pay Il tax on the sum
which he has invested in the property
One piece OF property, therefore. is
thus taxed twice. for there is but one
value represented.
Again. man may have around him
q lot Of personal property. 1t is as
ssessed and he is taxed He may have
borrowed all the money with which
he has bought this property, and he
may not have paid any Of 1t. Still. he
is taxed just as if he had no indeht-
edness. Then the man who holds his
notes is required to list them as cred
its, and to pay tax on the amount.
There is but single value, but two
taxes are paid.
Either credits. including real estate
mortgages, ought not to be taxed, or
there should be subtracted from the
value Of the property which one lists
for taxation the amount of his In
debtedness. The same property
should not be compelled to pay taxes
twice.
When the thing finally adjusts it,
self. the burden of nearly all this
double taxation falls on the man who
uses the actual property The owner
of real estate. of course, does not nav
directly the tax levied against the
mortgage on his property. That is
done. when it is done at all. by the
holder of the mortgage. But the
farmer pays the tax indirectly, In tho
form OF interest. Money goes where
1t will bring its owner the best re.
turns. When the earnings in one
field are better than in another, money
seeks investment there, and because
of the scarcity thus created in the
other. Fields. the men interested in
them must bid higher in order to &c,
money. If man cannot get as much
FOR his thousand dollars. on a farm
mortgage as on something else, he
will buy something else. That which
tends to diminish the desirability o,
farm mortgage to the investor tend.
to advance the rate of interest: Hence
where farm mortgages are taxed, tn.
farmer pays. first, the tax on his land
and then most Of the tax on the mort
gage running against that land. Il
is SO with all sorts Of credit taxa.
tion. The man who must have tn.
money must pay price which viii
make It worth the while Of lende,
to. let him have 1t.