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f'tautod oi.v.ni'iA, WISH. rillll.W EVEMMi. DECEMBER 26. 1902 Shaw Says a Good Word for Silver. It is said that Secretary Shaw hail his annual report, lately submitted to bound in an exquisite creation in morocco, with gilt filegrce work and gold edges.

Tlio volume was tied with beautiful red ribbon in the loveliest kind of bow-knots. While this is a wide departure from the Jaeksonian si mplicity upon which the boast has been our government was based, their may be something in sugar-coating the boluses which a tax and taritl" ridden people have to swallow. Isy the way, Secretary Shaw does not seem to be very deeply impressed with the stability of our financial system. He has announced that the hanks cannot rely upon the Treasury for any more reserve funds, to ward off threatened stringency of the moneymarket. and he advocates making gold and silver exchangeable by law.

He thinks that any dispostion to hoard the finer metal would be removed by removing all doubt of the status of silver already coined. While no doubt exists as to the ability of the government fulfilling its promises, the doubt which has attached to unexpressed policies has caused more than one crisis. Should it be deemed wise to provide for the exchangeability of gold and silver, suggests the Secretary, the national bank notes might be made payable in gold, and this would shift to the banks tbe greater burden of iurnishing gold for domestic use and export, and this in the event of an unfavorable balance of trade, might be of great advantage to the government. This partial rehabilitation of silver may be regarded as a concession of some points claimed for the white metal and just as vigorously denied by the monometalists. It is a recognition that fiat idea may be acceptedand here we recur to the bolus ideain broken doses.

Civil Government for the Northwest. Next September will mark the semicentennial anniversary of tlu establishment of what was then the northwest bounds of American civilization. The act was by proclamation of Gov. Stevens, made Sept. 24, 1853.

The suggestion of Gen. Hazard Stevens, bis sou, now a resident of Boston, but still with heart bound by business and social ties, as well as pride of ancestry, with our early history, will doubtless meet with ready response in the hearts of all old-settlers. The matter should be brought to the attention of the Legislature soon to meet, for such action as may seem appropriate. BOSTON, Dec. 13, 1902.

ED. STANDARD: Let me suggest that you write up the idea of suitably celebrating the semicentennial anniversary of the inauguration of civil government in your State. This event took place on September 24, 1853, when Governor Stevens on the summit of the Rocky Mountains at Cadotte's Pass, issued his first proclamation declaring that civil government was established and extended over the Territory of Washington. It seems to me that the Pioneer Society and all old settlers, the Native Sons, the Historical Society, and many others interested in the early history of Washington would favor such a commemoration. The Legislature might be induced to create a commission ana make an appropriation this winter, and the affair be carried out with great success.

We old settlers have not received too much -attention from the later comers (except in the way of taxation) and this affords a proper occasion to secure some recognition for the men who opened the road for them. Very truly yours, HAZARD STEVENS. LET THE TRUTH BE TOLD. it seems doaen't like the alleged miaaing chapters in the conspiracy for assiwsination of our good President Lincoln, and inelegantly calls the story, as told by Samuel F. Arnold, in some of the leading journals, A Traitor's Bellyache." Whether the revelations be true or not, we decidedly object to the statement of our neighbor that Mr.

Arnold was "pardoned by Andrew Jackson," aud that that was, "in itself, a suspicious eircumstance." Such an accusation, with the more than implied censure, is enough to make Old Hickory" turn in his grave, at the Hermitage, a spot hitherto revered from being the resting-place of a great and good man. ADVOCATES OF MERCY SHOULD PROTEST is seriously to be feared that the amendment recently passed by the House of Representatives, increasing the length of' time cattle may be deprived of water, food aud rest in transit from 28 to 40 hours, may become a law by the concurrence of the Senate therewith, unless the friends of animal life throughout the country protest and individually and collectively request their Senators to defeat the amendment. MONEY TO young man by the name of Feyton Mandel (or H.J. Richards, as he calls himself) lately became notorious, if not famous, by blowing in" in a single night's spree, at Lincoln. Neb.

Fsbaw! that's nothing. It is said that "Coal-Oil Tommy," many years ago, set the pace swiftness by lighting his cigars with thousand dollar treasury notes. OVER seven hundred pouches of mail containing many Christmas presents for Western people and soldiers in the Phillippines, were destroyed by fire just after the traio had started out from the East on the New York Central road, Monday. THE Mayor of Denver (Colo.) and eleven aldermen have been sentenced to four months' imprisonment for contempt of court in passing a street railway franchise notwithstanding an injunction by the court. National of Society of Equity.

A new farmers'organization for mutual benefit was incorporated at Indianapolis, yesteeday, with the following officers: President, J. A. Everitt, of Indianapolis; Vice President, S. R. Williams, of Fort Worth, Texas; Secretary, A.

I). McKinnev, of Indianapolis, and Treasurer, Sid. Conger, of Shelbyville, Ind. The organization can hardly be called a trust, although its second object is stated to be to obtain profitable price? for agricultural products. The steel trust would doubtless use equally diplomatic language.

So many other objects, social and educational, are named, however, that the inference is drawn that no intent is embraced in the proposition to regulate prices of agricultural products so as to form a gigantic monopoly and ask the government to protect it as an "infant industry." President Everitt says in explanation of that object: "Knowing the amount of crops produced, and the consumption from past experiences, an equitable minimum price will be fixed by the directors of the national body and reported afterward to all parts of the country. Once fixed, the price will rule on that crop for that year." The fifteen objects of the organization are stated as follows: promote and encourage organization and co-operation among farmers, stockmen, horticulturists, gardeners and men of kindred vocations, by the establishment of a national society with such branch and local societies as may be necessary to carry out such objects. obtain profitable prices for all products of farm and garden and orchard. encourage the building and maintenance of elevators, cold storage houses and warehouses in the principal market cities, or all the localities where necessary, so that farm products may be held for advantageous prices. encourage prohibition of the adulteration of food and the marketing of the same.

To secure legislation in the interest of agriculture, horticulture, stock raising and gardening. Sixth-To secure stable rates of transportation. open up new markets and enlarge old ones. secure new seeds, grain, fruit, vegetables, from other countrise and disseminate the same with a view to improving crops and giving a greater variety. "Ninth-To report crops and conditions and make the reports in this and foreign countries, so thai farmers may operate intelligently in planting and marketing.

encourage the establishment of institutions of learning so that farmers and their sons and daughters may be educated in scientific farming and for the general advancement of agriculture. encourage the Improvement of higbwaya. eucourage the irrigation of land. promote social intercourse. encourage the settlement of disputes without recourse to law.

establish similar societies in foreign countries." It is expected to extend the organization everywhere, in this country, and to number its membership by the million, and it will be seen by the Fifteenth declaration that its contemplated beneficent work is to be extended beyond the seas. NOBODY SUITED WITH LEGISLATIVE QUARTERS. Ferguson, of Arliogton, Snohomish county, in the of Tuesday, declares that the Farqubar building is wholly uusuited for a legislative session. His opinion is based upon personal inspection, for he came over the other day to look over his surrounding for sixty days, soon to begin. He ia firmly of the opinion that the old capitol building should have been used for the coming session, and declares that none of the members of the legislature will approve of the preparations that have been made for the coming session.

Aside from the unfitness of the present quarters, Mr. Ferguson criticises the action of the last Legislature in deciding to remodel the court-house and convert it into a capitol building. He believes the old foundation should have been used and a magnificent State house built at the original site. LEASE OF THE UNIVERSITY GROUNDS. old University Grounds at Seattle have been leased to a local syndicate for a term of thirty years, to be nsed as a site for bnsiness blocks and modern flats.

The State.is to receive a rental of ffI.OOO a year the first five years, and 19,000 afterwards, the buildings to belong to the State at expiration of the contract. It is estimated that the property with improvements will be worth a million and a half, at least, on expiration of lease. THE faculty of the University of Chicago have interdicted use of the word "stunt," in publications of that institution, where it is used in the form of a noun, indicating a task, or part in an arranged programme. The word is only sanctioned as a verb, signifying to check in growth, when its meaning is almost synonymous with stint, which may be used as both noun and verb. THE strike of the telephone girls in Des Moines, lowa, which has been in progress the past six months, has ended in a complete victory for the em ployes.

The girls are to be paid 15 per cent, in excess of the union scale and all are to be taken back. THAT second-thought is best is shown by the result of the late special election in Lewis county of member of the lower branch of the Legislature. Austin Zenker, Democrat, has been elected Representative over H. M. Ingiaham, Republican nominee.

THEY have now applied the bicycle principle to coasting sleds on Lake George. The new sled is called a "jumper" and has a single runner, fashioned somewhat after the form of the skate-iron. AND now we find a hero in the bumdrum life of an elevator boy. He kept bis cage running while the building was on fire thereby saving scores of lives. TEDDY has restored to the White House a picture that was removed by a former President at the request of a woman's organization.

Public Land Frauds. Our old "Uncle Sani" must have been asleep these many years in not making discovery till recently, of the the frauds perpetrated on him in securing title under the timber land sales. It was a common question a quarter of a century ago, Have you sold your timber right?" When a conscientious man made the inquiry as to how an applicant could make the required affidavit that he had not, directly or indirectly, agreed to a disposal of the land, he received in reply the assurance that the oath was merely a formality. The mill companies in the 70s became possessed of immense holdings of timber lands through this las system of land office service, the officers closing their eyes to the fraud which must have been as palpable to them ns to the general public. Commissioner Herman refers with pride in his report to the rapidity with which the public lands are passing under private control, but to others it only seems that the land thieves are more active than usual.

A paragraph is goiug the rounds that a trainload of 300 war widowa" were lately shipped into Nebraska, to locate upon the public domain in tbe the interest of a wealthy syndicate. Whether this be true, or an exaggeration, there seems to be little question but that it has some groundwork in fact. Ia any event, Secretary Hitchcock has deemed the evidence of fraud so palpable that he has ordered a thorough investigation, and he expresses the intention of prosecuting every case of fraud discovered, to the full extent of the law. A SCANDAL IN HIGH LIFE. late disappearance of the Crown Princess of Saxony, and the strenuous search that had been made the past fortnight for her, has at last been explained and it turns out to be an ordinary case of elopement, just the same as of ordinary mortals under similar circumstances.

It seems that the Princess was jealous of her royal consort, who doted on actresses, and very naturally played the same game by falling in love with her children's tutor, Prof. Andre Giron, a Frenchman of the idealistic type. There seems to be no doubt of the main facts, as it is alleged the Princess has written a full confession and relinquished all claim to her rank. Bhe will apply for a divorce, on the ground of cruelty, and hereafter reside at Mentone, France. This disturbance in what is generally considered a higher walk of life, shows that human nature is the same the world over; that there are skeletons in many closets, as is shown occasionally when the door's ajar; and that in every grade of life, the true measure of happiness is gauged by the sunrays that enter the heart.

Wise people are they who open up ways to the golden gleam, and repel the icicles with which rebellious nature persistently stabs the human heart. How EAGLE CITY SOARED The building of cities, as if by magic, bas not been infrequenti in the progress of our great west, and another instance was afforded by Eagle City, Oklahoma, the site of which was on the night of the 3d insU, corn-fields and raw prairie, and on the morning of the 4th a bustling little city of 2,000 inhabitants, with a complete municipal organization, a bank, a daily newspaper, a hotel, four restaurants, at least a score of mercantile establishments and no end of saloons, gambling houses, and all kinds of places of resort. The residence portion did not spring up, so much like Jack's beanstock, but there were a fair proportion of families camped in tents, which constituted nearly all the buildings of mushroom growth. The lot drawing began at daylight. Each boomer paid in $25 which entitled him to a 25-foot business, or a 50-foot residence lot.

When the choice sites were drawn, the bidding became lively and several sales were made before 9 o'clock at from SSOO to each. THEY ARE AFRAID TO MEDDLE WITH IT. the anthracite tariff rate was smuggled into the bill which became a law, it is predicted that no Republican will have courage enough to move that it be repealed. Nioe-tentbs of the party know that protection," so-called, is a baldheaded fraud, but they handle it whenever thrust upon them like a stick of dynamite with the cap and fuse attached ready for explosion. ANDREW Carnegie baa been elected an honorary member ol the American Inatitnte of Architecta allesame" aa Rooaevelt baa been admitted to be an honorary member of the Society Locomotive Firemen.

Theae honors" are bestowed somewhat after the manner of honorary college degrees upon such men aa Grover Cleveland et al. HAVING placed half a million dollars in Attorney General Knox' pocket, to enable him to prosecute the trusts, Congress should now take some means for injecting a little resolution into his heart and intelligence into bis brain to enable him to make a successful fight. THE Republicans after professing to favor Statehood for our prosperous Territories, now recede from their promise in the national platform for fear they may increase the Democratic vote in Congress and the Electoral College. THE Military reorganization bill, is but another covert method for increasing the limit of the standing army of the United States. A PROPOSITION is on foot to merge the flour mills of Washington, Oregon and California.

Will We Have an Active Lobby. One of the most interesting queries, as the date for the Legislative session approaches is, as to how Gov. is going to suppress the railroad lobby. There are ways by which he may, to some degree, thwart its efforts; but to another matter. He may, of course, veto such measures as it may approve; but there is nothing it wants in the way of legislation, except to be let alone.

He may intimidate members who have axes to grind (and who has not?) by having the impression to spread that the oilicial cleaver will fall on pet measures of those who, figuratively speaking, ride on railroad passes. It is hardly probable it can be true, however, he has authorized the statement, he intends to veto the appropriations for State institutions, unless the representatives from Walla Walla, Spokane, Lewis, King, Pierce, Whatcom and other counties, toe the mark on the railroad commission bill. Then there will be the Senatorial lobby, which will be still harder to down. It is always backed with the most effective sinews of war," iu well-filled sacks, and the Governor will find it extremely difficult to down such palpable facts with wind. There is, of course, some patronage in the way of office at bis command, but that is not in all respects available for active service in the halls of legislation.

The way the friends of the Governor put the matter of appropriations, as a leverage of power, is, that while the executive does not threaten to veto bills for support of State institutions, be will take good care that lobbyists shall not secure their allowances through a legislative vote, by trade for railroad favor. It looks as if there will be a hot time in the old town soon as those positive forces come together, and those who have choice seats in the gallery will find them at a premium before the show closes. The Situation Xeans Fight. A Washington dispatch of the 22d inst. gives the opinion of Senator Bacon, of Georgia, a member of the Committee on Foreign Relations, that the Venezuela embroglio has reached a stage where the Monroe doctrine must be abandoned or modified by this government, or we must fight to maintain it.

He thinks Germany and Great Britain have had an ulterior purpose in their attack upon Venezuela, and that it means an infringement upon the Monroe Doctrine, with the view of seeing how far the United States will allow them to go. While the present difficulty may not result in war, when the time comes for the next step of a similar character, the European powers will be more aggressive and will infringe upon the Monroe Doctrine to a still greater extsnt, and then force the United' States to act. The Georgia Senator adds. I am satisfied that Senators generally, regardless of political opinions, have restrained themselves from expressions upon this question because they recognize that it is grave, and that they have not wished to add to the difficulties of the situation by any intemperate speech. This silence, per haps, has been misunderstood abroad.

Our silence has not been by any means in the nature of acquiescence. Every one recognises the right of a government to collect its debts from another government, but in this case it appears to me that Great Britain and Germany have gone too far." NEW WAY OF PAYIKG OLD DEBTS. seems that Seattle has not yet paid her subscription of several thousand dollars made for benefit of the sufferers by the forest fires last summer, and a refusal to pay a few days ago was baaed upon a delay of the City Counsel in deciding whether the corporation could legally make the appropriation. Buch an outlay to prove of any service must of course be available at the time of need, and it is probable that by the time it is decided that authority is vested the appropriation will be no longer necessary. If this plan works, it will establish a precedent of some value, if dollars and cents are the primary consideration, in future emergencies.

A BUILDING occupied as a pool-room, at Hot Springs, was demolished by an explosion of gasoline, while the place was full of people betting on the afternoon, by which thirty persons were injured, sixteen of whom are in a serious condition. It seems that the driver of the gasoline wagon, while filling the tank in the cellar, let several gallons escape on the floor and the opening of A door where cigars Were lighted communicated flames to the fumes from the volatile liquid. One of the victims has died. The stakes, consisting of $55,000, were blown away, but the larger part has been recovered. THE LOGGERS WILL woodsmen predict good price for logs next Summer.

While there will be en increase of supply from the necessity of marketing the timber on the burnt district of last year, there will be a demand commensurate with it. One support of this belief is the extraordinary large orders already placed, running up to 000 feet in a single order. SEATTLE thugs play it low down when two of them hold up a boy 15 years of age and rob him of 25 cents. But then Seattle plays the limit at any game she takes a hand in. MARCONI is now flashing wireless messages across the Atlantic, and the Hearst papers claim that they received the first paid message ever transmitted by the wireless system.

IT is stated that about 5,000 persons perished from a recent earthquake at Andijon, Russia. HE IS NOT PLEASED. HANNA'S CHOICE TURNED DOWN FOR A LIGHTWEIGHT. The Negro Question Is Giving Roosevelt Some "Lily Whites" Dockage Bill Defeated The Territorial Bill French Reciprocity of Tariff Charges Proposed. (from our regular correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Dec.

11, 1902. There is lit tie doubt in the minds of those in a position to know, that the President has made a grave error in connection with the Japanese ministry, he having announced that he would appoint Mr. John Barrett, now Minister to Siam, to succeed Minister Buck, resigned. The appointment meets with no favor from the Japanese Minister in Washington who has been led to believe that Mr. Barrett is a very lightweight statesman and the appointment has incurred the enmity of Senator Hanna whose candidate for the position was Mr.

Lloyd C.Griscom, now Minister to Persia. Mr. Hanna's close intimacy with the Griscoms is well known and this affront from the White House which also involves his nearest friends and supporters will not be easily forgiven by the Senator from Ohio. The President's recent letter, in which he stated his determination to consider the fact that a man was a negro is no bar to his holding office, is already making him trouble and Mr. Roosevelt is face to face with a very unpleasant dilemma.

He has been put in his present position by Senator Petichard of North Carolina, high priest" of the Lily White" movement. The question of reappointing one 8. H. Vick, a negro, as Postmaster at Wilson, N. baa come to the President for decision and Senator Pritchard has filed an emphatic protest.

His grounds are two-fold, that Vick bitterly opposed the Senator's plansin the State Convention and that his appointment would be unwelcome to a majority of the patrons of the postoffice. Vick frankly admits bis opposition to the Senator's plans, which he says contemplated the exclusion of the negro from North Carolina politics, and says that the argument that the majority of the white patrons of the office would prefer a white Postmaster would prove equally true of every public office in the Southern States. The President has asked time to think the matter over and the politicians are interestedly awaiting his decision. Tha Shipping Syndicate, of which Mr. J.

Pierpont Morgan is the head, is claimed to have shown its teeth for the first time this week when the London Dock bill was defeated on the floor of the House. It has long been the custom of the dockowners of London to charge a toll of 42 cents per ton on all freight unloaded at that port which was shipped from the United States. With a view to ending this discrimination, Parliament enacted a law forbidding the collection of the toll and the dock owners got around the law by having the charge embodied in the bill-of-lading negotiated on American soil. The bill just defeated prohibited the making of the charge in bills-of-lading made in the United States. At first, the milling, lumber and packing industries cordially supported the measure, but for some mysterious reason the support of the two latter industries was withdrawn this week and, as a result, the measure failed.

It is now intimated that an arrangement has been effected between the shipping combine and the larger shippers by virtue of which the latter will share in the tolls exacted from the smaller shippers and that the Morgan lobby in Washington is responsible for the defeat of the bill. For bitter charge and acrimonioua invective the territorial fight, which waa opened up iu the Senate yesterday by the taking up of the territorial bill, and which haa been waged for a week in lobby and committee room, promisee to aurpaaa anything which haa lately taken place in the Senate. Senator Quay, who is determined to preaa the bill and aecure the admission to Statehood of Oklahoma, Arizona and New Mexico, is being charged by bis Republican colleagues with "commercialism" and self-interest and ugly stories are being circulated in regard to the ownership of an Arizona mine by Senator Penrose's brother. Senator Quay is also charged with owning railroad properties which would be enhanced in value by the admission of the Territories and be ad raits-the authorship of a letter stating that it would be better for the Territories to "go Democratic" in the last election in order that the Democratic minority in the Senate might be preserved solid for admission. In connection with the Territorial fight it is claimed by the Democrats that the Republicans would be glad to have the Territorial bill occupy so much time in the Senate as to render impossible the consideration of any anti-trust legislation at this session and that they are urging on both sides to the controversy.

The opposition to the President's policy of modifying the tariff by the negotiation of reciprocity treaties, in accordance with the original intention of the framers of the Dingley law, found expression yesterday when Senator Cullom gave notice in executive session of his intention to ask consideration of the French reciprocity treaty. Senator Hoar, Aldrich, Lodge and Depew gave notice of their objections to such a course and expressed the wish that thft treaty be referred to the Finance Committee for further consideration, it being well known that reference to the Finance Committee would mean that the treaty would never again be beard of in the Senate. Senator Cullom adhered to his intention, saying that he was acting in accordance with his own convictions and the wishes of the President. DKM. DON'T WANT ROOSEVELT TO There is a strong sentiment among our public men and citizens generally, tbat President Roosevelt should decline act as arbitrator in adjusting the allies' claims against Venezuela.

The fear is entertained that some embarrassing contingency may arise which might seriously involve onr government, and that it is better to maintain the spirit of the Monroe doctrine in its entirety and avoid all tangling alliances." THE thermometer bos recorded 32 degrees below zero in the DskoUs, Minnesota and Kentucky. Severe weather is likewise reported in Michigan. A HORRIBLE MURDER. Judge J. A.

Lewis and Wife Beaten to Death, in Eastern Washington, for the Object of Robbery. One of the most atrocious murders in the history of the State was committed near Almira, Lincoln county, on or about the 19th inst. Judge J. A. Lewis and wife, wealthy and wellknown pioneers oi the county, had their heads crushed in by an axe.

The tragedy was not known until Sunday as the aged couple lived alone and visitors to their home were infrequent. The double murder appears to have been most deliberately planned and executed and the object was undoubtedly robbery. Judge Lewis lived on a ranch four miles southeast of Govan, and was 76 years of age, his wife being 60. They had accumulated a fortune of from 125,000 or 130,000, a large part of which was in cash. A bank account was kept at both Wilbur and Almira, but it was the habit of the Judge to withdraw cash, sometimes as much as $2,000 at a time and carry it home, where he loaned it out on'mortgage security.

In the house was a safe, the combination of which could only be worked by Mrs. Lewis, owing to the aged and palsied condition of the Judge. It was standing open and had not been forced. The body of Lewis was found lying on the floor of the bouse with the head crushed. That of Mrs.

Lewis was found near the barn, which with some other buildings, stands about a quarter of a mile from the dwelling, the path to it being down a gulch. The struggle here had evidently commenced at the door of the barn, as blood was found there, and the deadly work was finished around at the side of the building, about thirty feet from the door. The fence on one side and the barn on the other, were spattered with blood, and the snow saturated with it. A small stick, such as Mrs. Lewis had been seen to carry, was found near her body, shivered to pieces and bloodstained.

She had evidently used this in her resistance. After finishing his victim, the murderer partially covered the body with snow, and threw loose hay over that again, and a casual observer would have noticed nothing out of the common in the appearance of the heap. The populace are thoroughly excited, and if the murderers are discovered there is but little doubt that lynch law will settle the score. On searching the premises $925 in gold was found in a rag fastened with a pin on a window sill in the parlor. Dr.

Lewis, brother of Judge Lewis, has offered a reward of SSOO for apprehension of the murderer or murderers, and it is thought an additional reward will be offered by county and State. An unsigned will, in which the wife bequeathes ber worldly possessions to the Judge, was found among the papers. An important question will arise in award of the property to the heirs as to who died first in the terrible tragedy. SHALL THE U. S.

BECOME VENEZUELA'S The Thric-a- Week World is authority for the statement that Seligman New York bankers, are ready to float the bonds of Venezuela for funds to settle all claims held against that country. They asked, however, that the United States give some assurance that they be paid, which the government at first promptly declined to do, or even to extend its efforts for redemption, which would be virtually assuming the position of the allies to enforce collection at some future time. It is said that this declination was subsequently somewhat modified, and this government agrees to take an active interest in the bonds, and exert every friendly means to secure payment, and if necessary adopt means similar to those being exerted by the allied powers for collection, if necessary. It is difficult to account for this vacillation, unless it be deemed expedient to make some sacrifice to secure a better time for settlement of the important central question involved. His SERVICES WORTH SSOO PER DAY Lorenz, the bloodless surgeon who came over from Germany to set the hip joint of a young daughter of one of our millionaires, says that he received $30,000 for the operation, and that he has made in the past four months he has been in this country, in fees, $30,000 more.

He makes this statement to remove the impression that he has made money" by the trip. He says he could have made as much at home. That may be true, but that any ftiortal man's services should be worth $15,000 per month rather staggers the belief of the ordinary wage THE SITUATION STILL The Venezulean arbitration has been submitted to the Hague tribunal. President Castro bases his acquiesence, however, upon raising the blockade and restoration of ships seised by the allies. The Germans now admit that President Roosevelt was that government's choice for arbitrator to fix responsibility upon our government.

Germany likewise excludes from the scope of arbitration 1,700,000 bolivers which must be paid before arbitration begins. THE Secretary of the Treasury, this week, appointed eleven additional immigrant inspectors, for the Vancouver District of British Columbia, to guard the northern border of this State from entry of aliens debarred by law. THE schoolma'ms at Winnipeg, hare gone on a strike for better wages and they have the support of the leading people of that city. OABTORXA. IMTII Kiad HIM Atop BtuM Probate Notice.

Estate of Thomas Porter, deceased. Notice le hereby given that letters of administration on the estate of Thomas Porter, deceased, were granted to the nnderalgned, on the twelfth (13th) day of December, 1903, by the Superior Court of Thurston county. All persons having claims against said estate are required to exhibit them to me for allowance, at my place of business No. 430 Main street, Olympic, within twelve (It) months after the date of this notice, or.they shall be forever barred. This 19th day of December.

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