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VOL. LVIII. NO. 3.
HffiS MEETIIIBIO
BE HELD APRIL 21
PERMANENT GOOD ROADS ASSO
CIATION TO BE ORGANIZED—
SEEK 800 MEMBERS.
Permanent organization of the
Thurston County Good Koads Asso
ciation, temporarily formed the fore
part of last week to campaign for
the $600,000 road bond issue, will be
effected at a big mass meeting to be
held in this city Saturday afternoon,
April 20, the members of the tempo
rary organization decided at a meet
ing at the Chamber of Commerce
"Wednesday evening.
In the meantime a campaign to
obtain at least 500 members through
out the county, by the assistance of
workers in every precinct, will be
carried on. The Association has as
its chief object a campaign for a
complete system "of good roads in
every district of the county, lateral
as well ae main highways, and with
this In view proposes to keep in
touch with the road work and to co
operate with the county commission
ers.
Published reports that the associa
tion would seek to have the route of
the Pacific highway from Olympia to
Centralia changed so that, instead of
going through Tenino, it would fol
low the "middle highway" direct to
Grand Mound, because Tenino voted
so strongly against the bonds In
Tuesday's election, were denounced
by the members of the association as
ridiculous and preposterous. It was
pointed out that this route was fixed
by the 1913 legislature because it
would be the route of greatest travel
and serve the most people, and In
fluential members of the association
said that it had no idea of seeking a
change.
Mayor Mills, members of tho city
council and workers in every pre
cinct in the city will conduct the
campaign for members in Olympia,
while the following were appointed
in the county precincts:
Molntosh—Walter, Neylon.
Yelm —Lee Conine and J. P. Mar
tin.
Woodland—Gordon Foy.
Tono—J. W. Brooks.
South Union—Fred Lewis.
South Bay—George Parse.
Rochester —Robert Pa ton.
Rainier—Robert Pettit.
Puget—Harvey Chambers.
Peninsula —N. C. Christensen.
Mud Bay—Jake Morrow.
McLane —George
Maytown—D. E. Servis.
Maxfield —William Hartman.
Little Rock—Frank Kotlck.
Hunter's Point—lra Noble.
Gull Harbor—William Hannah.
Grand Mound—William James.
Gate —A. J. Gaisell.
Chambers' Prairie—H. M. Fuller.
Bordeaux—Jennings Johnson.
Black Lake—M. J. Neylon.
Bucoda—Sam Gibson, mayor and
town council. „
Tenino, First precinct Mayor
Peterson and council.
Tenino, Second precinct—D. D.
Aztelle.
Turn water, First preetnet—Ross
Chllson, mayor and council.
Tumwater, Second precinct—Frank
<Cook.
ASKS BOARD TO PROBE LOCAL
HOUSING SITUATION.
■Chamber of Commerce Keeps After
Appropriation for Shipyard Work
ers' Homes.
Formal request that Meyer Bloom
field, special representative of the
United States shipping board seat to
the Northwest to investigate housing
conditions for shipyard workers, be
Instructed to come to Olympla and
Inquire Into the local situation, has
been forwarded to Willam Pigott of
Seattle, of wooden Bhip con
struction In this district.
The chamber recently sent a for
mal request and brief to the ship
ping board, asking for tbe allotment
of $250,000 to Olympla for the con
struction of new houBM here, to ac
comodate shipyard workers. It has
supplemented this by submitting to
Plgott a further argument in •sup
port of the request, setting forth
actual housing conditions and* empha
sizing the need for new homes.
Rainier Forms Thrift Club.
County Organizer H. P. CJiles and
Attorney Geo. P. Yantls, of the local
Pour-Minute Men, went out to Ra
nier one evening the latter part of
last week, and as a result of their
visit a War Savings Society with 65
members was organized, with B. H.
Eddy as president and L. S. Davis
secretary.
Washington Stun Mr
ESTABLISHED NOV. 17, 1860.
OSBORNE, HDRTIIIITO
ACCIDENT. RECWEOIK
Pleasant Glade Rancher, Injured Last
Saturday, Still Confined
to Bed.
Lou W. Osborne of Pleasant Glade,
who was painfully injured in an au
tomobile accident on East Fourth
street last Saturday morning, when
the wagon he was driving was struck
by a machine driven by C. N. Allen,
is reported to be recovering from his
injuries, but not yet able to sit up.
The horse attached to Osborne's
wagon became frightened at the col
lision, which took place at the top of
the hill as Osborne was coming to
town, and bolted and ran, throwing
Osborne and a little girl who was
with him, Crystal Robbins, to the
street. Osborne was badly shaken
up and bruised, and his lip was cut
and four upper teeth knocked out.
The girl, who Is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. R. Robbins of Pleasant
Glade, was oitly slightly injured.
Osborne was attended by Dr. H.
W. Partlow, being taken first to St.
Peter's hospital for treatment, as he
was unconscious for a time, and later
removed to his home.
WORK ON CAPITOL
NOT CALLED OF
ONLY PROHIBITIVELY HIGH
PRICES WILL PREVENT NEW
BUILDING, GOVERNOR SAYS
Bids submitted to the board of
control for the construction of a new
bulldihg at Medical Lake hospital,
the lowest of 'which was $87,000,
when the appropriation for two build
ings there was only SBO,OOO, led to
rumors locally that all plans for fur
ther capltol construction had been
called off.
These stories were emphatically
denied by Governor Lister Wednes
day, who said that only a day or two
before he had gone over the esti
mates and specifications for the pro
posed now office building with Archi
tect Julius Zittel of Spokane, that the
plans would be completed In a short
time and bids called for.
"The only possible thing that will
hold up the construction of that
building at this time is that the cost
wilt be absolutely prohibitive," the
governor said. "We hope it will not
be—we are trying to arrange It so
that it will not be—and we will go
ahead with the office building unless
the prices are prohibitive."
In the meantime work is going for
ward on the completion of the exte
rior of the Temple of Justice, con
tract for whi<*h was let last Decem
ber, the governor saying that the
cutting of the stone Is all being (lone
in the quarries and stone yards and
that the work here will be started as
soon as the stone is prepared.
Referring to the work to be done
on the,lnterior of the building, the
governor said that the capitol com
mission hn not yet received from
Architects Wilder ft White of New
York the plans for that work, con
cerning which they sent a representa
tive here last December, and which
the commission expected to receive
by the first of the year.
When these plans are submitted
and approved, bids will be called for
on this work and the governor ex
pressed the opinion that there sftotfld
be no interference with It on account
of high prices.
TO LICENSE RESTAURANTS
Congress Expected to Paw Bill to
Control Public Eating Places.
SPOKANE. March 29.—Every pub
lic eating place in Washington, in
common with those of every state of
the Union, will be placed under the
licensing system soon, according to
Charles Hebberd, food adminis
trator. A bill providing for this step
Is before congress and is expected to
become a law In a few weeks.
Preparing for this step and for a
general tightening of the wheat sav
ing regulations, Mr. Hebberd has an
nounced the appointment of Hazen J.
Titus of Seattle as state restaurant
committee chairman. Mr. Titus was
for years in charge of the Northern
Pacific dining car system.
The county commissioners this
week approved the appointment of
Frank Hartman as registration offi
cer in the Maxfleld precinct, succeed
ing the late P. H. Koenig. and L. E.
Sturdevant in the Black Lake pre
cinct, succeeding Mr. Meyer, re
moved.
New Registration Officers.
HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY."
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1918.
TO LAUNCH VESSEL
EVERY THREE WEEKS
NEW SLOAN YARD MANAGEMENT
HOPES TO SPEED UP SHIP
CONSTRUCTION.
A completed hull will be launched
every three weeks if the new man
agement of the Sloan Shipyards suc
ceeds in working out its plans, Man
ager L. O. Waldo said the other day
in discussing plans for speeding up
construction of wooden vessels at
the big yard.
To this end the crew is being con
stantly enlarged until there are now
some 900 men on the payroll; the
means of obtaining material sup
plies is being steadily improved;
night crews are being put, to work
where they can be handled to ad
vantage, and additional machinery to
facilitate the work is being installed.
As the result of the speeding up
process, by which great Improvement
already has ben noted in the yard.
The payroll at the big plant Is now
running close to $30,000 a week or
some $120,000 a month, and stead
ily increasing as more men are em
ployed. The crew will be increased
as rapidly as material supplies war
rant, Manager Waldo said.
New keels are laid in the berths
vacated by the two vessels launched
in the past month, and the frame
work of the first of these is now vir
tually installed, while more rapid
progress Is being made on the other
six vessels on the ways.
Flag Raising at Union Mills.
Attorney P. M. Troy, president of
the Chamber of Commerce and the
Olympla National bank, delivered the
chief address at the flag raising
at Union Mills Sunday morning, un
d r the auspices of the branch of the
Loyal Legion at the Union Lumber
company. C. A. Anderson, secretary
of the Legion, gave a short talk and
various patriotic airs were sung. Oarl
Nommensen leading on the cornet.
PERKINS PAPERS' PUN TO PUNISH
TENINO IS ROUNDLY SCORED
"CHILD'S PLAY" IS MOST FREQUENT COMMENT AMONG PROMI.
NENT OLYMPIANS WHO CRITICISED IT SO SEVERELY
THAT DAILIES HAD TO» "BACK TRACK"—
MOTTMAN GIVES HIS VIEWS.
Strong exceptions are being taken
by leading Olympia business and pro
fessional men to the proposal of the
Perkins press to punish Tenino for
its failure to vote for the >600,000
road bond issue, by having the route
of the Pacific highway changed so
that it would follow the "middle
highway" direct to Grand Mound in
stead of going through Tenino, and
as the result of this severe criticism
the local dailies, th« only sponsors or
the proposal, have had to "back
track" and eat "humble pie."
"It's the most ridiculous thing I
ever heard of," was the comment of
Senator P. H. Carlyon. chief promoter
of the bond issue and organiser of
the Good Roads Association upon
which the Perkins dailies attempted
to hang the proposal. "The route
was flxed through Tenino and it will
stay through Tenino. if I've got any
thing to say about it, and I'll be in
the next legislature."
Tenino Resident* Irate.
The same sentiment was expressed
by alt the local men who attended the
special meeting of the association
Wednesday evening, when plans were
laid for the big massmeeting here
next month to perfect a permanent
organization. The most frequent
comment was that the proposal was
the merest "child's play." And res
idents of Tenino, who visited Olym
pia Thursday, among them Joe Tay
lor, expressed their opinion of It very
vigorously and pointedly, until con
vinced that the published articles
were not indicative of the sentiment
of Olympians.
An emphatic statement regarding
it was given to the press Thursday
by Geo. A. Mottman, who called it
"un-democratic and un-American,"
and also expressed the opinion that a
mistake had been made by the state
highway board when it fixed the
route from Tenino to Centralia
through Grand Mound instead of via
Bucoda. His letter says:
"I, for one, regret exceedingly this
talk in the newspapers ajul on the
OLYMPIA DOY IN
FRANCE WOUNDED
W. W. ROGERS IS REPORTED
SLIGHTLY HURT—LETTERS
FROM OTHER LOCAL MEN.
Official notice has bean received
from the war department by Mrs. Ed
Rogers that her son, W. W. Rogers,
former employe of the local Are de
partment, now a sergeant in the
161 st infantry in France, has been
■lightly wounded. This is the first
casualty reported among the numer
ous local boys in Uncle Sam's service.
His name appeared in the casualty
list issued last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Matt Twohy of Mud
Bay received a letter Wednesday
from their son Lester, who was res
cued from the Tuscania, saying that
he is in a hospital in England, suf
fering from the mumps. Lou Duval
has also received word from his son
Richard, who belongs to another
company of the same regiment of for
estry engineers as young Twohy but
Who left for "over there" about two
weeks ahead of him, saying that he
is well but that it is quite cold in the
fcectlon of France where he is sta
tioned.
Mrs. Peter McKenzie also received
a letter Wednesday from her son
Cylde, a member of the same com
pany of the 161 st infantry as Rog
ers, saying that the weather is beau
tiful where his regiment is billeted
and remarking that he would like to
tell what they are doing, but dared
jot. The letter was Hated February
27 th.
Henry McCool, another well-known
local boy with the 161 st, who was
employed as a printer by The Wash
ington Standard prior to hiß enlist
ment, has been transferred to the
government printing office in France,
according to word received by friends
this week. Henry—"Mutt," as he
,waa known in his "devil" days—
served his apprenticeship in this of
fice.
streets of wanting to punish Tenino,
Bucoda, etc., for not voting for the
bonds by diverting the highway some
other way and leave Tenino on the
side track.
Time To Stand Together.
"Two wrongs never make one
right and all the people who voted
against the bonds had a legal, consti
tutional right to do so and it is up
democratic and un-American to want
to take revenge on those who may
differ with us. If ever there was a
time for the people of Thurston
county and Olympia to stand to
gether and stick together, that time
is now.
"Do not forget that all the taxpay
ers will have to pay for the proposed
paved highways and that these high
ways should be located and built
to serve the greatest number of res
ident taxpayers along the highways.
"Do not forget that highways are
not solely for the 'transients.' the
tourist or the joyriders. The resident
taxpayers who have to build and to
maintain the roads should at least
have a look-in.
"Do not forget that it is more im
portant to the material interest of
Thurston county that our highways
should be constructed with a view of
diverting the trade of the farms and
mills to our trade centers, big and
little, than to have it said that they
were built like a railroad, to serve
outsiders and that the only interest
Thurston county people have In them
is to pay for them.
Favors Bucoda Route.
"Do not forget that a serious mis
take was made when the highway
was diverted from Tenino to Grand
Mound instead of leaving it by way
of Bucoda to Centralia. The Bucoda
route is five miles shorter to the
county line and would save the
Thurston county taxpayers $75,000
in construction and would serve 100
times more people.
"Do not forget that Olympia can
obtain no route from' Rocky Prairie
or Grand Mound, but that the people
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
FIRST QUOTA ON SECOND
DRAFT IS OFF TO CAMP
Ten Buys Gather at Courthouse Fri
day—Two Alternates Go
Thurston county's first contingent
on the second draft call, 10 young
men, gathered at the courthouse at
9 o'clock Friday morning and, after
being "checked in," were taken to
Camp Lewis in automobiles.
Two of the ten first called, Ivan
Dale Goldsby of Tumwater and Rich
ard B. T. Morris of Jtelm, were no t
with the contingent and their places
were taken by Theron Mell and John
Blake of this city, the first two of the
alternates called. Goldsby, since the
call was issued, has been transferred
from class 1 to class 4, because of de
pendency, and Morris is sick at home
with the mumps.
Theodore Nelson, another class 1
boy, who would probably have been
in the next contingent, has recently
been inducted into the service, join
ing the 31st Engineers at Fort Leav
enworth.
DISPUTE OVER RANCH
RESULTS IN ARREST
RUSSIAN', WHO CHASED DEPUTY
WITH PITCHFORK, 18 ARREST
ED BY SHERIFF.
Charged with flourishing an axe at
C. A. Whalen of Tcnino and threat
ening to kill him John Morasch, a
Russian, renter of the old Ticknor
place In the Skookumchuck valley
about six miles from Tenino, was
taken into custody Thursday after
noon by Sheriff Jack Gilford and
lodged in the county Jail, after Dep
uty Wert Yantls of Tenino had at
tempted ts arrest him that, morning,
and failed, being chased off the farm
with a pitchfork.
The difficulty arose through a dis
pute over possession of the Tlcknor
ranch, whltih Morasch has rented for
the past couple of years. It has re
cently been sold, but Morasch re
fused to give up possession on the
basis of settlement proposed, and
when Whalen, the husband of one of
the Tlcknor girls, went dut to aefc
him Wednesday, chased him off the
farm, flourishing an axe.
Whaien returned to Tenino and
swore out a warrant against Morasch
and Deputy Sheriff Yantls went out
Thursday morning to serve it on him.
Morasch resisted and, grabbing a
pitchfork, started after the deputy.
The latter shot at him, but the bullet
just grazed his right leg.. Yantls
then returned to Tenino and called
out Sheriff Gifford.
The latter reports he had no
trouble with Morasch, though he re
fused to come voluntarily and had to
be handcuffed. The Russian is quite
well known in that section of the
county, having worked at Tono for
years before he rented the Tlcknor
ranch.
Bucoda Rebekaha BsMrtais.
Mrs. Maud Davies, president of the
Rebekah assembly of Washington,
was entertained by the Bucoda Re
beckahs Tuesday night on the occa
sion of an official visit to the lodge.
A banquet was served at the close
of the evening's entertainment.
Bucoda Mill Operating.
The Bucoda Shingle company has
resumed operations at Its plant In
Bucoda after a brief shutdown, dur
ing which new machinery was in
stalled.
of Tenino. Bucoda, Tono and the
Skookumchuck valley will come to
Olympta to trade with just treatment
and good roads to encourage them.
"Do not forget that paved high
ways will do more to develop the
county and encourage trade with the
trade centers than any other agency
and we should have a paved high
way from Olympla to Yelm and RaU
nler and one to Little Rock and be
yond.
"Pulling together will mean pros
perity for all the people, whereas
selfishness will get us no place.
"Very respectfully,
"GEO. MOTTMAN."
The "humble pie" eaten by the
dailies appeared In a first page edi
torial Thursday evening, in which,
after a few vague pleasantries, ap
peared the following paragraph:
"It is not probable that the Idea
of diverting the Pacific highway from
Tenino was ever given much serious
thought and at present the advocates
of such a move are few. If any."
WHOLE NUMBER 3006
BOND' ISSUE WINS
BY 700 MAJORITY
25 PRECINCTS VOTE IN FAVOR
OF *IOO,OOO PLAN AT TUES
DAY'S ELECTION.
Every precinct in Olympia but one,
the First of the First ward, and the
Tumwater, Black Lake, Bordeaux,
Grand Mound, McLane, South Bay,
Tono, South Union, Schneider's Prai
rie, Mud Bay, Mclnosh, Mnxfleld,
Hunter's Point and Peninsula pre
cincts gave a majority in favor of the
$600,000. road bond issue at the spe
cial election last Tuesday, with the
result that it was carried by a mar
gin of some 65 votes above the nec
essary three-fifths majority.
Chief opposition to the Issue was
registered at Yelm, Rainier and Ten
lno. Yelm roting 157 to 8 against the
bonds. Rainier 107 to 10 and Teniao
144 to 43. No votes wqre cast
against it At Black Lake and Mcin
tosh, only one at Peninsula and two
at Tono, while the Westside (the
Sixth ward) and the Schneiders
Prairie, McLane and Mud Bay pre
cincts rolled up big majorttlos in ts
favor.
Totals 1,781 for, 1,080 Against.
An unofficial report has been re
ceived from all the precincts, and
this give* a total of 1,781 In favor of
the issue and 1,080 opposed. The
issue carried Olympia by- a vote of
1,126 to 178, while the votf til the
county precincts stood, for and
an even 902 against. An latjeersting
reature 1b that 165 votes were cast
in Telm precinct, compared to 127
at the last presidential election.
The vote cannot be officially can
vassed by the commissioners for 10
days and plans for expenditure of
any of the sum authorised will bo
held in abeyance until the official re-
sult is. wtH be takaa by
the commissioners immediately after
that, however, toward awarding the
contract for completing the paving of
the Pacific highway between Union
Mills and ftisqually, toward which
the government is advancing $25,-
000, so that the worh can be com
pleted by the time the new bridge at
Nlsqually is ready and the whole now
stretch then opened for traffic. This
will probably be the only work un
dertaken this year.
Westsiders, who were among the
most active advocates of the bond
issue, rejoiced over the'result of the
election, feeling that it assured Anal
ly the settlement of the problem that
has perplexed them for some years,
the construction of the new viaduct
over the Des Chutes river.
The Vote by Precincts.
The unofficial count In the
ent precincts Is:
Tumwater— For Against
First precinct 25 14
Second precinct 52 28
Tenlno—
First precinct 82 85
Second precinct - 11 59
Black Lake 22 •
Bordeaux - 12 9
Gate 11 2S
Grand Mound 87 10
UtUe Hock - IS «S
May town 8 J*
McLane 28 8
Rochester 21 *54
South Bay 19 17
Topo ._ 49 • 2 •
Chambers' Prairie . 22 88
South Union 54 23
Schneider's Prairie 20 S
Yelm 8 1«7
ltainier 10 107
LftCey 42 58
Mud Bay x. 28 S
Mcintosh 8 0
Bucoda 7 92
Maxfield 11 4
Peninsula 41 1
Gull Hatbor 12 18
Puget ...*.l 11 1»
Hunter's Point 11 2
Totsls 658 902
City Precincts.
First ward— « For Against
First precinct 10 12
Becond precinct j. 90 19
Second ward 50 10
Third ward—
First precinct 86 20
Second precinct ... 62 >l3
Fourth ward—?
First precinct 83 20
Second precinct 87 84
Fifth ward—
First precinct 111 7
Second precinct 83 IK
Third precinct 100 21
Bixth ward—
First precinct 220 2
Second precinct ...101 5
Totals. .1188 178
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