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Official
City ami County
Paper.
VOL. LIV. NO. 47
FIFTH WEEK MUCH
BUSIER FOR SOLONS
MORE DESIRE TO DO REAL WORK
DISPLAYED —IMPORTANT
ACTS COMING.
More of an intention to get down
to the real business of the session has
been apparent during this, the fifth
week, and while no bills of great im
p'ortance aside from whatever impor
tance may be attached to the McArdle
tax board bills, have gone the route
through both houses, a mass of less
important measures have been acted
upon in either the house or senate,
paving the way for final action in the
other.
This means of course that the next
three weeks, the last three of the ses
sion, will have to be mighty busy ones
for the legislature that made the as
tounding record of just three bills
passed in the first half of the session.
It is the really important bills, from
the angle of politics or from general
state interest, that have to be acted
upon, too, in these last three weeks,
for so far the legislature has really
done nothing of importance.
During the first three weeks of the
session the jockeying among members
for places of vantage in the organiza
tion, amounting in fact to the perfect
ing of the Republican organization,
and the preliminary phases of the
liquor question absorbed most of the
attention, while in the fourth week
the development of the partisan fight
with Governor Lister over the Mc-
Ardle tax board bills in the house
made partisan politics the issue to the
exclusion of other business.
Liquor Issue Not Dead.
The liquor issue is by no means a
dead one in this session, however, if
all the reports can be credited, and
though several newspapers last Sun
day carried stories to the effect that
a new liquor bill is being prepared for
introduction this week, it has not yet
made its appearance. This report
carried no surprise to those who had
studied the peculiarities of the resolu
tion adopted during the fore,part of
the session, a resolution which, ac
cording to the discussion at the time
and the general acceptance of it,
pledged the legislature not to meddle
with liquor legislation in this session,
but which as a matter of fact merely
precluded calling a special election on
Initiative No. 18 or "anything in con
nection therewith." It was a neat
little "Joker," introduced by a "wet"
senator, yet it worked for a time.
This reported new "wet" bill pro
poses to get around the economy plea
—the principal argument earlier ad
vanced against a special election this
year—by levying a heavy excise tax
upon all malt or spirituous liquors
manufactured or sold in the state, the
tax to be sufficient to ratoe, before
next November, enough money to
meet all expenses of a special election.
This bill, which probably will be
some sort of an anti-saloon measure,
though permitting the manufacture
and restricted sale of certain liquors,
Is based on the assumption that the
vote by which this state adopted Ini
tiative No. 3 last November was an
anti-saloon vote and not really an
anti-liquor vote. Therefore It is be
lieved, by this alement of the "wets"
that any measure that would have a
chance for success must he based on
the elimination of the open saloon as
It at present exists, and it will be the
aim of the proposed bill to do that.
"Steam Roller" Congress.
National politics and national legis
lation came in for a little more of the
limelight this week when the Repub
lican house control set out to apply
the "steam roller" to a Democratic
congress by adopting, by a vote of 74
to 20-, a memorial demanding'the re
peal of the Underwood tariff law and
passage in its stead of a high tariff,
averring that the Underwood measure
had played havoc with Washington
industries. Six Republicans, three
Progressives and all the Democrats
voted against the memorial.
For some reason or other the house
control is still smothering the various
other departmental consolidations,
based on the same theory as the Mc-
Ardle tax board *bills: the removal of
further patronage from the governor,
though it was reported a week or two
ago that these blllß were then under
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ESTABLISHED NOV. 17, 18&).
"POTLATCH" AT SAN DIEGO.
Annual Indian Celebration to lie Ob
served at Washington State
Building.
SAN DIEGO, Cal., Feb. 12.—From
time immemorial, the Indians of the
state of Washington have set aside
one day each year for the holding of
a ceremony known as "Potlatch,"
from the Red Man's word meaning
"to give." On this day it is the cus
tom of the tribe to meet in a great
feast, when the more fortunate mem
bers of the tribe distribute to their
less fortunate brethren their surplus
of worldly goods, such as blankets,
beads, moccaßins, and even ponies.
At the Exposition here, "Potlatch"
will be celebaretd at the Washington
State Building on February 22, when
all visitors at the San Diego fair will
be given a taste of the good things
Which are produced by the state in
the extreme northwestern corner of
the country. Gwin Hicks, who is in
charge of the Washington Building,
has arranged to have on hand a large
supply of Washington apples, Wash
ington cider, Washington "cherry
sundaes," and various other delica
cies for which his state is famous.
RAILROAD ORDERS
TOTAL $30,000,000
MUCH NEW EQUIPMENT BOUGHT
—985,000,000 MORE IS
PENDING.
Nearly 130,000,00 worth of orders
have been placed by American rail
roads with makers of equipment dur
ing the last 30 days, according to
a Chicago dlßpatch. Besides these
big contracts, the Russian and
French governments have ordered
enough rolling stock from domestic
producers to insure activity In loco
motive works and factories for the
next six months.
A partial list of orders pending
and confirmed by American and for
eign lines Is announced as follows:
Russian government —'Fifteen
thousand cars from builders, deliv
ered at Seattle, 112,000,000; 7,600
tons of rails from United States Steel
Products company.
French government—Baldwin lo
comotives, $200,000.
Chilean government Two hun
dred and fifty cars from a Pittsburg
maker, $260,000; 10,000 tons of rails
from United States Steel Products
company.
Big Car Orders Placed.
Pennsylvania railroad Fifteen
thousand cars, $12,000,000.
Burlington railroad —Fifty loco
motives, 1,600 cars and 30,000 tons
of steel rails, $3,000,000.
Illinois Central railroad One
thousand refrigerator cars from the
American Car ft Foundry company
and 75 locomotives from the Ameri
can Locomotive company, $1,750,-
,000.
' Erie railroad —Twenty-two thou
j sand tons of steel rails from Carne
' gie Steel company, 6,000 from Illi
nois Steel company and 2,000 tons
from several small concerns, $1,000,-
000.
Southern Pacific railroad —Thirty
thousand tons of steel rails from the
Tennessee Coal ft Iron company,
$900,000.
Pennsylvania Tank Car company
I—One 1 —One hundred tank cars from the
Omaha Car Works, SBOO,OOO.
hfuch Other Equipment Needed.
Chicago ft Milwaukee Electric
railway—Fifteen passenger coaches.
Swift ft Co. —Five hundred and
fifty cars from Haskell ft Barker,
$500,000.
Mather Stockcar company Five
hundred cattle cars from Haskell ft
Barker, $500,000.
Chicago ft Northwestern railroad
—Twenty-seven thousand tons of
steel rails, SBOO,OOO.
Boston ft Maine railroad —Fifteen
thousand tons of steel rails from the
Lackawanna Steel company, $450,-
000.
Baltimore ft Ohio railroad —Sev-
enty-five thousand tons of steel rails
from Carnegie, 50,000 from the Chi
cago Mills Steel corporation and 12,-
000 from others, $725,000.
Servian government —Seven loco
motives from the American Car &
Foundry company, $200,000.
The Siamese government is con-
"Hew to the Line, Let the Chips Fall Where they May."
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12,1915 PRICE FIVE CENTS.
MAY RESUME NEXT WEEK
Crescent's New Deal Is Practically
Closed—Drilling to Start. Again.
Negotiations between the directors
of the Crescent Oil company and
John C. Slater and associates of Se
attle, for the further financing of
the company, are practically closed,
according to statements made by the
directors Thursday, and it is expect
ed that early next week drilling will
be resumed at the well.
No work has been done at the well
for the last two weeks, pending the
completion of these negotiations,
which were first announced last Fri
day. By them Slater and associates
buy an interest in the company, sup
plying several thousand dollars of
new capital, sufficient to take up the
present indebtedness against the
company and to permit it to proceed
with its work. They also furnish a
new field superintendent to take
charge of operations at the well.
Control of the company remains
with the old directors, they say, with
Emery-C. Williamson still retained
as secretary-treasurer. Some 60 or
70 feet of the wfell remains to be
cleaned out, it is stated and it is
expected that this can be done within
a few days after drilling is resumed.,
PREPARE FOR FIESTA
Work Starts This Week on Buildings
for Elks' Big Carnival.
A crew of men started work this
week arranging the Lobby for the
Elks' Fiesta which opens February
I
23. Guided by the experiences of
two years ago, the arrangements
will be such as to give greater space
to certain of the attractions and to
relocate them at more convenient
points.
All of the buildings that caused
such favorable comment at the last
Fiesta will be improved on in design
and the street scene given a more
natural and at the same time more
elaborate appearance so that patrons
may be assured that they will see
nothing just like it was before. The
further assurance is given by the
committee that the making of money
will be a secondary consideration,
the prime object being to give an en
tertainment the like of which was
never before offered to the people
of Olympia.
C. E. Allen, who will manage the
side show, left this week for San
Francisco in the interest of the Fi
esta and will wire the Fiesta com
mittee the result of his inspection of
some strange freaks just being
brought into this country on a tramp
sailing vessel which has been in far
southern waters for a number of
years. He proposes to have the first
choice of anything worth while and
the distinction of having it first ap
pear in Olympia.
The Fiesta buttons are meeting
with a ready sale, the popularity of
the Dodge Brothers car that is to be
given away in connection with the
sale of the buttons, continuing to
grow the more the car Is inspected.
LUMBER MILLS RE-OPEN.
The Maytown Lumber company's
mill at Maytown has resumed opera
tions. while the Little Rock Lumber
company will start up again soon,
according to Manager Clarence May
nard. The N. ft M. Lumber company
at Rochester will resume operations
between February 15 and March 1,
as will also Wilson Bros., who are
among the largest logging camp op
erators in the Northwest. The
Mumby mill, located in the Black
hills, six miles northwest of Roches
ter, started up again last week after
having been closed down since the
holidays. *
Nellie Beach was awarded by Supe
rior Judge Wright this week a judg
ment of $1,236.67 in her suit against
George Marvin Savage and others to
recover on a note.
tracting for American cars.
The Santa Fe, New York Central,
New Haven, Chattanooga, Nashville
& St. Louis and other roads are said
to have placed orders aggregating
$25,000,000.
WHEAT PRICE OOUBLES
Six Monchs of War Adds 100 Per
Cent to Cereal's Market Value.
In the six months since the war
began the price of wheat has about
doubled on the Chicago board of
trade. The high point for cash grain
last summer was around 87 centß. In
the last week the price has varied be
tween $1.55 and $1.70.
Not all the wheat has brought the
top price. Millions of bushels were
shipped to Europe months ago, more
millions were ground into flour, and
that process has gone steadily on
while the price of the grain has
moved upward.
fetill there are many millions of
bushels left and wheat in the bin to
day is worth almost twice what it
was six months ago. The rise from
87 cents has enriched a great many.
Who has made all the money?
The best informed men at the Chi
cago board of trade say the American
farmer has reaped the richest profit.
Some of the farmers assert that the
"gamblers at the board of trade"
have benefited most, and there are
wild stories afloat about the fabulous
winnings of a lot of Wall street
speculators who have been active in
the Chicago market.
PIONEERS TO MEET SOON
Annual Reunion and Dinner of Local
Society to Take Place March 8.
The annual reunion and dinner of
the Thurston County Pioneer and
Historical society, to take place at
noon on Tuesday, March 2, at the
Woman's club rooms at Washington
and Eleventh streets, will be the
next, or one of the next, events of
looal interest in Olympia.
Charles D. King is to deliver
the annual address, his subject being
"The Trail Blasers." One of the
numbers on the program will be an
original poem to be read by Mrs. W.
Scott Shaser, entitled "The Good
Old Pioneer Days." Inasmuch as
Mrs. Bhaser was in an immigrant
train that crossed the plains from
the Middle West and experienced the
vicissitudes of frontier life with all
its discomforts and actual trials, her
poem will naturally breathe the
genuine pioneer spirit.
The success of the Womans* club
heretofcfte in handling similar affairs
is ample guarantee that this reunion
will be no exception to the uniform
acceptability of the event. A number
of interesting features of the oc
casion are being planned, but most
Important of all will be the Jolly,
whole-souled spirit that always
makes these gatherings so success
ful. The report of Secretary Allen
Weir will contain a review of the
happenings of the year past of spe
'cial interest to ploneerß, including
the long list of pioneer dead that
have passed away during 1914, and
plans recommended for the future
of the society.
"The dinner will be a popular af
fair," says Secretary Weir, "the
price having been fixed at 60 cents
per plate, and the public will be in
vited to "participate. Klonas hyu
ankutty tilllcum yaka chaco pe iskum
muckamuck, pe quanisum mamook
hyu klosh wa wa kopa ankutty sun.
The old timers are expected to at
tend, as a matter of course, as their
opportunities for attending such
gatherings are diminishing with each
succeeding year. It you miss it this
year it will be your loss."
Wbat promises to be one of the
most pretentious affairs of the season
is the colonial ball to be given at the
Masonic Temple on the evening of
Washington's birthday by Sacajawea
chapter. D. A. R.. when the dancing
of a minuet by 16 girls and interpret
ive dancing by Miss Katherine Drain
will be the chief features of the even
ing. The reception committee con
sists of Governor and Mrs. Ernest
Lister, Judge and Mrs. S. J. Chad
wick. Miss Mildred Stanford. Judge
and Mrs. O. G. Ellis. Mr. and Mrs. T.
M. Vance, Prof, and Mrs. C. E. Beach,
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Davis and Mr. and
Mrs. Merwyn Williams. W. V. Tan
ner, George G. Mills and W. J. Coyle
constitute the floor committee and
Mrs. George Aetzel, Miss Helen
Cowles and Mrs. S. F. Davis the com
mittee on decorations.
"BIRD-MAN" VISITS CIT* .
Stromer With His Hydro-aeroplane
Spends Week in Olympia.
Various Olympians and quite a
number of the legislators have been
having a lot of fun this week "galli
vanting through the air" one at a
time as passengers of G. W. Stromer,
he Tacoina birdman, in his hydro
aeroplane, the purpose of his visits
here this week ostensibly being to
demonstrate to the members of the
legislature the necessity of establish
ing a department of aviation in con
nection with the state militia.
Stromer arrived in Olympia first
last Sunday afternoon, with H. B. La
Monte, a senate employe, as passen
ger. En route from Tacoma Stromer
lost his way, taking the wrong turn
after passing McNeil's island and
landing first at Vaughn. Since Sun
day, Stromer has made the trip back
and forth from Tacoma every day,
following the Sound each way, and
while hefre has done quite a lucrative
business in piloting passengers
through the air.
FARMERS EXCHANGE
NOW SELLING STOCK
DIRECTORS TAKE SI,OOO WORTH
—STEVENS PRESIDENT, H. P.
BRIGGS MANAGER.
Stock subscriptions of SI,OOO were
made by the organisers and direct
ors oi ipe Farmers' Co-Operative Ex
ohange at the meeting in this city
last Saturday, when the organization
was perfected and H. P. Briggs was
| chosen treasurer and 'general man
| ager. Offices were opened" this week
j*t Carlyon's real estate office, 423
Main Street, where all persons inter
ested are urged to go for inspection
of the by-laws of the Exchange and
explanation of its objects, and to
subscribe for stock.
General Hazard Stevens, through
whose initiative the Exchange was
organized, was elected president, at
last Saturday's meeting; A. L. Brown,
proprietor of the big ranch at Sher
lock, vice president, and Charles R.
Carr of South Bay secretary. These,
County Commissioner T. Ives Dodge
and Joseph Wickie, constitute the
board of trustees of the Exchange,
which is capitalised at $25,000.
Notices setting forth the final or
ganization of the Exchange, similar
to the advertisement on another page
of this issue, are being sent to far
mers throughout the county, urging
them to join the Exchange and to
subscribe for at least one share of
stock pf a par-value of SIOO. No one
person can buy more than five shares.
It is expected that next week active
•ollcitlng of stock subscriptions will
be undertaken. Both President
Stevens and Manager Briggs report
great Interest among the farmers and
considerable inquiry concerning the
new Exchange and it is expected that
the initial stock subscription of $lO,-
000. to provide the working capital
desired, will be obtained without
undue delay.
H. P. Briggs, manager of the Ex
change, is master of the Thurston
County Pomona Grange and his se
lection has ben generally approved.
"He Is an experienced man," Presi
dent Stevens says, "and I am sure he
will serve the organization with the
best there Is In him." Besides having
been a farmer himself and having
joined with others in the purchase of
supplies in the paßt, Manager Briggs
has also had experience in the mar
keting end of the business, having
conducted a commission house him
self here last summer and fall.
If the Tumwater city council pro
ceeds to construct a new steel and
concreto bridge over the Des Chutes
river the county likely will bear a
portion of the expense, according to
statements made after a joint meet
ing of the commissioners with the
Tumwater councilmen Tuesday after
noon. The council has already taken
initial steps for the construction of
the bridge, to cost about SIO,OOO, and
when the plans are completed the
division of the cost between the town
and county will be definitely deter
mined.
WHOLE NUMBER 2838
TWO MIDDLE BILLS
DOW DP TD LISTER
TEMPORARY DEADLOCK ON ONE
PATCHED UP—SENATE CON
FIRMS DARWIN.
Temporary deadlock between the
house and senate Thursday morning
over that one of the McArdle tax
board bills designating the member
ship of the state board of equallsa
tion was amicably settled during the
noon recess by the conferees appoint
ed by each house when they selected
a member of the public service com
mission instead of a member of the
board of control, as the governor**
representative on the board.
The difference of opinion between
the two houses brought the MoArdle
bills into prominence again for a
short time this week, but the sum
mary handling of two of them by the
"steam roller" pushed them forward
through the legislative mill with less
of a rumpus than when they first ap
peared in the house. The house biir
did not give the governor any repre
sentation on the board of equalisa
tion, but the senate decided he waa
entitled to it and finally compelled
the house leaders to come to the
same conclusion, though the repre
sentative was switched from one
board to another. This bill, together
with the other one re-organising the>
state land board, now go to the gov
ernor.
Peculiarly, the essential bill of the
trio, that concerning the tax commis
sion itself, has not yet been reported
out to the senate, though that body
did act Wednesday on the two oona
panlon bills covering the membership,
of the state land board and the stater
board of equalisation. This action
was not taken, however, until the
Democratic members of the upper
hoqse, led by Senator MeOulre, reg
istered strenuous opposition to the
measures, opposition In which their
were Joined by several Republican
senators.
Both bills, with their amendments,
passed the senate, however, by large
majorities. Thf amendment to the
land board bill consisted in tacking
on an emergency clause, admittedly
for the sole purpose of providing •
slippery way .of evading the' referen
dum; that to the board of equalisa
tion measure changed its member
ship as proposed by the house by re
placing the state treasurer with a
member of the board of control, an
appointee of the governor, on the
plea of Senator Sharpstein, the Re
publican floor leader, that the gover
nor was entitled to representation on:
so important a board.
By a viva voce vote the house-,
Wednesday afternoon, concurred In
the senate's amendment to the land"
board bill but refused to concur in
the membership change in the other
and asked the senate to recede from
its position. On motion of Senator
Sharpstein, Thursday morning, the"
ienate refused to do so and Senator*
Sharpstein, Jones and Carlyon were
apnointed as conferees. When this
action was reported to the house that
body authorized the appointment of
three conferees, on McArdle's mo
tion, and McArdle, Guy E. Kelley and
Victor Zednick were named.
At the noon recess Thursday these
conferees hit upon a member of the
nubile service commission, also a
gubernatorial appointee, as a com
promise to "save the faces" of both
houses, and the bill so drawn went
through swimmingly.
Senate Confirms Darwin.
The maneuvering over these bills,
together with the confirmation by
the senate Tuesday of Leslie H. Dar
win's appointment as state fish com
missioner, held up for several weeks,
were the big events of the week in
the legislative halls. All of Gover
nor Lister's appointees have now
been confirmed. Both the Whatcom
county senators, Senator Jones of
Pierce and Senator French of Clarke,
voted against Darwin's confirmation.
No charges were made against Dar
win, the opposition resolving Itself
merely into the reading into the rec
ords of a statement by Senator Cleary
of Whatcom, placing the responsibil
ity for the appointment on the gov
ernor.
The boomerang for State Auditor
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