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OLYMPIA WASHINGTON
FRIDAY, JUNE 7. 1912.
Whiit Does the Flag Express?
A discussion regarding the pro
priety of half-masting flags on Decor
ation Day. was the matter of con
siderable discussion this year, some
contending that it was properly a
day of mourning for the veterans
who lost their lives on the battle
field, and others that it should be a
day of rejoicing over the culmination
of their efforts to preserve the Un
ion as well as of congratulation to
veterans who still live, and that the
day should be one of rejoicing and
joy, attested by the flag flying at
full-mast.
Some one fully posted, spoke up
with the explanation that the mili
tary posts are ordered to place the
flag at half-mast until noon on Dec
oration Day, as a token of sympathy
for the dead while loving hands are
placing flowers over each grave with
similar intent, but this observance
closes at noon, and the remainder cf
the day should be one of rejoicing, as
noted, when Old Glory should be
raised on high. All military posts
are supplied with the staff on which
this can be easily done, while in civic
decorations flags are sometimes sus
pended from windows or fronting
walls, in which it would be difficult
to determine which is up or down
and what might be considered half
mast, to comply with technical ideas
of military discipline.
There is no more necessity to dis
play sorrow by outward token, than
for the widow to sit up all night to
prepare her weeds to be worn at her
husband's funeral, and the best
course therefore to pursue, is to al
low such matters to be controlled by
reason instead of arbitrary rule that
has no higher sanction than custom.
A HIOH-TONBD SNUB.— John D,
Rockefeller's daughter, Mrs. Harold
McCormick, has been taken at her
word, and her effort to suppress the
use of liquors in mixed clubs, includ
ing the Saddle and Cycle Club, one
of the most exclusive clubs in Chicago,
has led to placing a ban on herself,
and at its formal opening last Satur
day afternoon, Mrs. McCormick was
missed from among the eight society
leaders chosen to welcome the guests.
Nothing daunted, Mrs. M. expresses
plainly her belief about the use of
liquors in clubs of which both men
and woman are members. At the
same time sbe also made public this
opinion, though her Secretary:
" I do not exclude the Saddle and Cy
cle Glob, of which lam n member. If
I had my way. there wonld be no public
drinking by women. I do not approve of
it at all. In a borne it ia not so bad. I
would not aay that anything actually
improper baa been indulged in at any
of the cinb dances and parties, bat I
think s few of the conventionalities have
been forgotten."
PHIL PAHHALBK fell 100 feet with
his aeroplane, at North Yakima, on
the Ist Inst. and was instantly killed.
His airship was overturned by a puff
of air from an adverse direction than
that in which he was sailing. He
landed with such force that he was
literally crashed Into the ground by
the machine Calling on him. Several
of these disasters have been reported
from over the whole country this
week. A remarkable climax to this
accident has been the ill-luck that
has attended the Wright team ql
which Psrmalee and Turpin, who
came to this State from British Co
lumbia, a few days?ago, to make a
number of ascents. In Seattle Tor
pin's machine ran into the grand
stand killing two, with possibly a
third and injuring twenty and the
aviator himself. In Blaine, the* big
machine was wrecked, while in Bel-!
liagham, bad weather prevented the
men from fulfilling their contract,
To add to this, the death of their
chief, Wilbur Wright, occurred in his
home at Dayton, Obio.
AROTHO 810 SHlP.—Germany has
just launched the Hamburg-Ameri
can liner, the Imperator, in the build
ing of which speed end luxury gave
way to safety. She is 898 feet long,
95 wide and 108 feet high. From the
Captain's bridge to the water-line
thedistanoe is 81 feet. The topmost
of bar eleven decks hi as high as a
five-story house. She has a tonnage
of 85,900 end accommodations for
0,000 passengers. There will be life
boats and life-saving apparatus for
every passenger on board. She has
a double bottom extending her whole
length, and coal-bunkers at the sides
thus practically giving her a double
skin and rendering her a ship within
a ship. She is also equipped with
many transverse bulkheads whose
doors are controlled by hydraulic
power from the bridge, that can be
closed immediately by touching a
lever.
LATH Fax IN PIXBCI COUNTY. —
The damage is estimated at from
0150,000 to 9200,000 resulting from
the late fire east of Taooma, in prop
erty alone, including destruction of
two mills at National, the general
store there and about 20 homes, and
10 cars belonging' to the Taooma-
Eastern railroad. It occupied an
area six miles by four.
A PRACTICAL realization of Du
Maurier's fanciful conception of "Tril
by," is said to have been realized in
Boston by T the American Ly ran ge
ological Society, from a hypnotic In
fluence manifested through a young
woman employed in the office of a
physician.
SOOTH DAKOTA elected a solid dele
gation for Boosevelt.
Cilv Attorney ihc Whole Thins:
City Attorney Claypool is either
omnipotent or has become a stool
pigeon for "his honab," the Mayor,
if we must form an opinion from "the
surprise" the 011/MJ>!"" says he pre
cipitated upon the City Council by
announcing that he had been con
vinced by the attorneys of the Inde
pendent Asphalt Company that the
contractors have a valid contract
and that there is no restraint to their
beginning at once the paving of
Third and the lower part of Main
streets. *\V hile speaking, he noticed
that a member of the company, was
present, and he called upon him to
substantiate his statement of the
intent, but Mr. Durkie, the gentle
man referred to, said that he had not
been informed of the intention of the
company in the matter. To say the
least, the action of Attorney Clay
pool is unusual, and most attorneys
would be exceedingly careful in "fix
ing up" an agreement with opposing
attorneys, with a suit already pend
ing in court regarding the validity of
the proceedings, In Initio, as the
lawyers say. No legal adviser of the
Council has the authority to act as
judge and jury in this arbitrary man
ner and contravene an action that
bad already been decided upon by
that body to cure defects that have
not been passed upon by any court.
CULTIVATION FOB 810 TREES.— The
Forest Service is raising several acres
of Bigtree seedlings on the Tahoe
National Forest in California, at a
more northerly point than any natur
al Bigtree grove. While the giant
sequoias are found in the forests of
the Sierras at various points through
out a total range of some 250 miles,
in the northern two-thirds of this
range there is practically no natural
reproduction. It has consequently
been a question whether the species
would not actually disapper from
this region when the present mature
trees die. The most northern exist
ing grove of Bigtrees is on the Tahoe
Forest, but about 34 miles southeast
of the site selected for planting.
This site is on a moist flat, not far
from Nevada City, and is about 2,700
feet above sea level The first seed
ing was done in the fall of 1910, with
very successful results, and last fall
an additional area was seeded. The
method.used in plontng the seed was
that known to foresters as " the seed
spot method." Spots about 6 feet
apart each way were prepared by
pulverizing the earth with a garden
hoe. Seeds were then dropped on
these spots and lightly pressed in the
soil with the foot. The flourishing
condition of the young seedlings gives
good reason to expect a future
growth of Bigtrees at this point.
With protection of forests from fire,
there seems to be no reason why the
Bigtrees should disappear, even
though scientists regard them as
survivals from a past age, botanically
speaking.
"MAIN STRENGTH AND AWKWARD
NESS" MAT WIN.—A desperate effort
is now to be made by Tart to win
the Chicago Convention by machine
methods. Senator Boot has been
chosen to wMd the gavel, as tempo
rary chairman, and the appointment
is confirmed by Chairman Harry S.
New off the National Committee.
Roosevelt delegates have been re
fused recognition In the primary oi
ganixation and even admission to the
ball as detegaten A bin inTimini on
rentrol of a convention ia afforded
vention. ■
TIB find is a Chinese woman,
tiioiifll native born, in San Fran-
wbolmH. the honor of being
tory of the world to exercise the
elective franchise. She is 21 years
of age End cm read and write Eng
lish, and it familiar with the political
issues Involved in the primary Presi
dential election. In the matter of
political and social progress she is
net behind her American sisters born
of American parents.
Bsoovsss HON SNAKE-BITE.— Dr.
Waugh, of Hood Biver, Ogn., was
bitten by a vicious rattle-snake,
while in the hills alone, near White
Salmon. The reptile's fangs after
sinking into the flesh of bis arm,
still held ia the sleeve of his coat,
and the victim had to seize the rep
tile with bis free band and hurl it
| from htm. After cutting the wound
and allowing it to bleed, he started
on horse-back for White Salmon,
where his wound was properly eared
for.
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IT is now claimed that a bolt at
Chicago is certain, if the Tsft men
attempt unfair methods. Boosevelt
supporters will not sit idly by and
see robbery by any political organiza
tion, by obsolete customs that have
acquired precedent from merely tacit
acquiescence. They never had any
moral support and have been followed
simply to save time in organization
of the Convention.
AT Lewiston, Idaho, on the 2d inst.,
Mrs. May Tripper and her two sons,
Otto and James, aged 12 and Ift, were
drowned in a swimming pool. James
was caught with a cramp, and his
brother went to his rescue. A little
girl ran to the mother with thestart
linar news, and the mother plunged
into the watsr to save them, when all
three sank to rise no more.
Now it is packing bouses that have
instituted a "trust," and it is said
Congress is about to investigate the
cause of the advanced price of meats.
AND now the waiters are on a
strike in some of the Eastern cities.
It's All In a Name.
Yakima Republic
i The editors of the Tacoina Ledger and
i Seattle Poet-Intelligencer come about as
| near being plumb idiots as any two
I smart men with whom weareacquained.
! Both of them insist that the goeduck is
ja geoduck. lhey say that fie gets his
' name from *Bome alleged Greek root
! meaning "earth" and they assert that to
] this some educated Siwash of the past
| has added the English word "duck,"
' making the pride of Olvmpia an "earth
i duck." One of these editors tells usthe
Siwash people think they are connected
to ths Asiatics, and therefore it is quite
reasonable to think they once used the
Greek language to some extent. We
cannot wonder that the people have so
little respect for for the newspapers
when they find so much bosh of this
sort in our great dailies. It is a geoduck,
and it lias no Greek root and it not a
bird. It was named, not by a Siwash,
but by John Miller Murphy, the first
white child in America. The word, like
many of the strongest and best in our
language, is a "natural." Col. Murphy
has often told us how he came to think
of it. The story is as simple as falling
off of a log. The colonel had wandered
for 72 hours on the Olympia tideflats
with nothing to eat. He shot one of
these things just when he thought it was
all off with him, roasted it and ate it.
He called it what it tasted and' sounded
like when he began to masticate it.
That's all there is to the origin of the
name. Col. Murphy, who still flourishes
at Olympia, will be glad to verify this
story, and if there is then any lingering
suspicion that Greeks and Siwashes had
anything to do with the name he will
point out that this incident occurred
about the time the Greeks were wiped
off the earth by Hannibal Hamlin, and
long before the Siwashes came to the
country.
Certainly we are glad to "verify"
almost anything Col. Robertson as
serts, especially as he was an eye
witness of the feast we both had off
the geoduck we had shot with a
spade, and it is no harm to state
that he, as a representative of his
nationality—the Asiatics—fresh from
the Orient, suggested the "root"
applied to a product that the 1 wint
have so endlessly and continuously
" verified" as a " bird" by columns
of reiteration in their accounts of the
geoduck feast lately held.
IT may be questionable whether
women should take an active part in
strike-breaking, but there can be
none that policeman should not turn
their guns upon tbem when tbey at
tempt going to work for manufac
turers who are under ban. Their sex
should protect them from deadly as
suit under all circumstances. It is
said the strikers have decided to
practice sabotage and work as strike
breakers to enable tbem to do dam
age. Such acts would, of course,
cause tbem to lose all the sympathy of
fair-minded people.
IN the course of a speech before the
Ohio Convention. William J. Bryan
advanced the proposition that men
elected to office who failed or refused
to abide by the platforms on which
they were chosen should be subjected
to criminal prosecution. If such a
law had been in effect the past few
years, it might have prevented some
Republicans from riding into office
on the avowal of Democratic princi
ples if threats of the penitentiary
failed to hold them to their party
ties.
A WOMAN " JUDOS" IN CALIFOSNIA
Miss Clara Alice Jess has been
appointed Recorder of Daly City, Cal M
the first woman to be appointed to a
judicial position in the State, the
duties resembling those discharged
by the San Francisco police judges.
There is no salary, however, attached
to the office, the fee system being
in vogue in all municipalities the she
of Daly City. Miss Jess has worked
as stenographer in law offices and
h familiar with legal practice anji
has some knowledge of Blaekstoae.
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A PRETTT little Italian girl and a
Chinaman were married in Vancou
ver, this State, after making a pil
grimage from California to secure A
license. No sufficient reason tm
this departure from established £&
iqy can be Seen in the fact that the
girl was Italian by birth—sbe waS
■white, and living ia this country, and
the door should bave remained cloeed,
as it was in California.
THE uawritten law existing in
some Eastern cities that shop-girls
aod clerics should not eat onions, is
said to bave been abolished hoes the
depressing effect it has had upon the
vegetable trade of Nebraska, Michi
gan and Texas, and other States of
which the odoriferous vegetable con
stituted a principle part of the ship
ments.
IT is said that the orgiaal Astor, to
whom some moneyed aristocrats de
light to trace their ancestry, started
out a German peasant boy to make
his future in peddling musical instru
ments. That may account for the
adherence to the echo* from n past
ago for ancestral prestige.
OHIO is soon to vote on a Con
stitutional amendment for "Votes
for Women." The Constitutional
Convention has submitted an amend
ment by a vote of 74 to 37. It is
provided that the matter be voted on
at the general election instead of by
special vote.
THUS acres of fine young apple
trees were ruined by a band of sheep
which broke into John E. Langdon's
60-acre orchard at Walla Walla, on
the 4th inst. The tract ruined em
braces about three acres and its
owner estimates the damage at sl,-
500.
A BTRIKI of London tailors is said
to hare caused a shortage in trousers.
No wonder if it was headed like the
once ob a time protest of the three
tailors of Threadneedle street, "We,
the commonwealth of England."
SAH FRANCISCO, on the 8d inst
reports the highest temperature for
years, when a visiting Knight Temp
lar, in drill, dropped dead.
Respect for the Sabbath
It is really surprising bow many
people do not seem to know —or is it
care—for the fact that they are law
breakers, when tfcey engage in labor
on the Sabbath day ? Especially is
this true when in employment of a
public work, such as engineer in set
ting compass to determine street
bounds, or of a house-mover to spend
Sunday in tinkering with the fire
bell he was employed to move to the
new City hall belfry. Then there are
other hammers going—in front of.us
and back of us, one of them engaged
in & no less job than building a
wooden house, so near the fire limits
as to materially increase the risk of
inhabitants of Block 22.
Sunday should be a day of rest to
the community, if not a season of
prayer for the religiously iuclined.
It is and should be guaranteed-as
such by those intrusted with execu
tion of the law. The sounds of a
hammer and saw are seldom heard on
the Lord's day outside of mining
camps, where men are isolated from
female society, and churches and
schools are unknown, and men knock
about with unshaven faces, unclean
clothing and apply vulgar and pro
fane language to all matters requir
ing speech. It indicates a degrada
tion that is the natural accompani
ment of the life of man when he
abandons the restraints imposed by
civilized custom. It is the duty of
those having charge of the public
service to see that the common sense
obligations of man to man, enjoined -
and stipulated by law, should be en
forced in each community, for the
benefit of all.
Great Adaptation of Arid Land.
One of the largest power plants in
the world is to be built at Thompson
Falls, Montana, to supply current
for the irrigation of the Spokane
valley and development of manufac
turing in Spokane, by J. A. Coram of
Boston, and his associates. They
have obtained all the neoessary water
rights on the Clark's fork of the
Columbia, and have begun work on
an immense dam at Thompson Fails.
One hundred thousand horse-power
is to be developed, and it is planned
to afford an inexhaustible supply of
water which lies under the 81,000
acres of land in the Spokane valley,
just east of the city, at a depth of
less than 100 feet. This land is ex
ceedingly fertile, and all that it
needs, as has been demonstrated on
a limited soale, is the life-giving
moisture that will be thus supplied
by pumping the water to the surface
for irrigation.
That this immense scheme is in a
fair way of development is shown by
the fact that the Thompson Falls
Development Company has already
ordered the machinery neoessary to
build an auxiliary plant where about
1,000 horse-power will be developed
to drive the machinery necessary for
erection of the big dam. The small
plant will be in operation this sum
mer.
Why Net Prescribe a Uniform?
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has undertaken the ticklish task
of regulating the wearing apparel of
its .girl, employes. Low necks and
bare arms are placed under ban, and
in the New York offloe, affecting 125
or more girls/ the following notioe
was posted:
AH office girls employed by the West
ern Union Telegraph Company me re
quired to wenr plain shirtwaists with
moderate high adjustable collars sod
sleeves that extend below the elbows.
This announeemsat, of course,
caused much excitement among the
girls, as the custom of wearing
" Dutch necks" and sleeves thai
ftbpat the elbows hsd been growing
lately assong the girls, and there is
Indignation at what they regard as
an invasion of their rights.
The District Traffic Superintend
ent, who posted the notioe, denies all
responsibility for it, olaimtng it was
by order of • higher cOser. Finally
a manager of the press department
gave out that it was ordered for
"sanitary" reasons, that it was
thought employes' health would be
safe-guarded by the enforcement of
this' rule. The end is not yet, and
it it predicted the girls will win.
ComuMsxAH Warburton has tele
graphed Secretary Watson that the
Supervising Architect of the Treas
ury Department baa approved the ac
tion of the Department awarding the
oontraot for erection of the Olympia
Federal building to the King Lumber
company of CbarlotevQle; Va., for
the sum of 197,700. The contract
wQI be submitted to the Treasury
Department for approval of the bonds,
and if favorable, work will begin im
mediately and the building will be
completed by July Ist, 1918. He also
states that Washington stone will
be used for the building.
THE Secretary of the Treasury
has transmitted to Congress an esti
mate of $14,000 to be appropriated to
defray the expense of bringing the
electoral rote on. President and Vice
President to Washington at the be
ginning of the nest session of Con-
Oaaoos is said bare a tract of land
fifteen acres in extent that produces
ss,ooo a year in onions. It is not
admitted, however, that the income
has so rank-scented an odor as to de
bar it from general circulation.
AH extensive ledge of pure tin has
been discovered in Hot Springs dis
trict, Alaska.
Mas. SCSAH WisSLxa, a widow,
was lately elected Mayor of Dayton,
Colorado.
jKICK
If you dou't get
Atherton Bourbon
On sale at
THE OXFORD
GEORGE TAYLOR, Prop.
161 Fourth St. Olvmpia, Wash
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I than good. t*
I <JA trass that wont slay in its
I place ander al conditions you can
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B. L. HILL DRUG CO.
The Kexall Store.
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| Beer in white bottles may look nice, but you don't buy
beer to look mt. Let the snn shine on a white bottle for a
| little while—then taste the beer. You will then know
, B— why we have always insisted that the amber-colored bottle
was the one for facer. The detrimental light rays, which -B
k cause the obnoxious taste, have a hard time getting through
that amber color. If yon insist on white bottles, we can
( fnrnish them, but if yon knew beer as we do, yon would
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GOODS DELIVERED PROMPTLY
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C. B. and Q. Ry. &
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EXCURSION TICKETS TO THE EAST $
Now on sale for nnmerous dates to September 30th. £
Stopover privileges and liberal time limits. ft
Annual Born Festival, Portland, Jane 10-15 ft
Montamers Pesto, Tacoma, June 80-Joiy 4
Grand Lodge Order of Elks, Portland, Jnly 913
Golden Potlatch Carnival, Seattle, Jnly 15-20 V
Mt. Baker Marathon, Bellingham, Jnly 23-25 £1
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is not limited toa few designs if
you come here. We hare a book of
nearly a thousand designs, any of
which we are ready to execute for
you.
Ths Mas it the Msnsapat
doesn't moke it tasteful or artistic.
We ean execute and erect a really
beautiful memorial for a very mod
est sum. . *
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