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VOL. LIX. NO. 16.
WILSON TO OPPOSE
ANY TREATY CHANGE
PRESIDENT WILL ASK SENATE
TO JtATIFY OR REJECT DOC-
UMENT AS IT STANDS
President Wilson will ask the sen
ate to ratify or reject the peace
treaty, including the league of na
tions covenant. Just as it .stands,
Washington dispatches say.
Reservations or amendments by
the senate will be opposed. Mr. Wil
son will oppose any changes in the
treaty pact in his address to the sen
ate when he lays the treaty and the
league of nations covenant before
that body.
He will then go to the people of
the country direct in a speaking tour
to explain the treaty and rouse pop
ular support for ratification of the
terms of peace exactly as accepted by
the powers of the world whose rep
resentatives will sign the fateful doc
ument thisoveek.
In this manner the issue raised by
the opponents of the treaty in the
senate, who now say important res
ervations must be made as the price
of ratification, 'will be joined
President Wilson will be back in
this country Abe latter part of next
week and immediately plunge into
the task of influencing through the
power of public opinion the ratifica
tion of. the treaty. The president
will return fixed in the determination
that the United Btateß should either
come into the League of Nations as
agreed in Paris or stay out.
This judgment will be expressed
the more emphatically because of the
latest developments in the senate,
where the opponents to the treaty as
It stands, after finding themselves in
an awkward position in connection
with the Knox resolution to separate
the league of nations from the peace
treaty, hit upon the proposition of
making numerous reservations be
fore consenting to Ratification, the
attitude of the American peace dele
gation and the attitude President
Wilson will take before the senate
and the country la that the reserva
tions proposed by Republican! in the
senate, under the guidance of Kllhu
Root, would be no bad as the defeat
qf the treaty. The unreserved view-
Is taken that raservatlons, ir they are
to be effective, moat be written Into
the senate ratification resolution.
If this is done, in the view of the
president and tho members of thb
American peaoe delegation the reser
vations will bp tantamount to amend
ing the peaeo treaty. Such procedure
will be opposed by the president every
step of the way. It is the view of the
president, us it will be developed be
fore the country, thht by adopting
the treaty Ameriea has the opportu
nity to become the leader among the
nations of the world, a leadership, it
is to bo<explained, that, in addition
to opportunities for great service
means great-commercial advantages.
With a full knowledge of Che vpry
latest devetapmdhtjl among those op
posing the tftaty 1 , Including the text
of the Root lettiir gtven out by Ben-
Conttausdpo'Tags Twelve.
OEMCMtS PUN ID SEE
CURINGS IN TACOMA
National (hainsas and Party Due
Nfcxt Ttmrsday—Banquet
* In jßvcoing.
Attorney P. M. Troy. Democratic
state committeeman for this county,
and GballWan R. M. Fuller of the
county central committee, are get
ting together a delegation of local
Democrats to go over to Tacoma next
Thursday afternoon, July 3. and meet
Homer S. Cummings, chairman of the
national committee, and his party.
Democratic leaders plan to
confer with Chairman Cummings at
a meeting at the Tacoma Commercial
club Thursday afternoon, and to at
tend a banquet at the club In his
honol at 7 o'clock that evening. In
the party, besides Chairman Cum
mings, are Mrs. George Bass, chair
man of the Women's Bureau; J.
Bruce Kremer, vice chairman of the
national committee; W. D. Jamieson,
director of finance; W. J. Cochran,
publicity director; W. R. Holllster.
executive secretary, and Chas. F. Ma
guire, private secretary to Chairman
Cummings.
The party will visit Seattle
Wedneeday, Tacoma Thursday and
Spokane Saturday, on its tour of the
Northwest- * N
fltoshintjton Btantiarir
ESTABLISHED NOV. 17, 1860.
STAYS ON CAPITOL COMMISSION
Reed Comes to Olympia to Decline to
Serve but Changes Mind.
Mark E. Reed came over to Olym
pia the fore part of the week to per
sonally decline to consider Acting
Governor Louis F. Hart's plea that
Mr. Reed withdraw his resignation
from the state capitol commission.
He talked with the acting governor
for awhile and then said he had de
cided to remain on the commission
for the two years left of his appoint
ed term at least.
Acting Governor Hart declined to
repeat the line of argument he used
to overcome Mr. Reed's determina
tion to leave the commission on ac
count of private business pressure.
"He said so much there was noth
ing else to do but stay," is how Mr.
Reed described what happened.
Knowledge of timber land values
makes Mr. Reed particularly valu
able to the commission in disposing
of the state's capitol land grants to
the besj^dvantage.
CHAUTAUQUA PROGRAM
IS ILL BALANCED
GOOD MI'SIC, WHOLESOME EN-
TERTAINMENT AND NOTABLE
LECTURERS PROMISED
The program for the Olyntpia Chau
tauqua, July 12-18, has an abundance
of good music, clean, wholesome en
tertainment and a notable list of lec
turers. among whom is W. J. Bryan,
the noted orator, who will • discuss
"Foreign and Domestic Problems."
Another is Ida M. Tarbell, w ho comes
on the fourth evening. Miss Tarbell
is a national figure and for several
months she has been in Paris report
ing event* at the peace table for a
syndicate of metropolitan dailies. At
the Chautauqua she will tell of the
peace conference as she has observed
it.
Edward F. Trefz, formerly field
secretary of the U. S. Chamber of
Commerce and assistant to Herbert
'Hoover ir. food administration work,
is unquestionably one of the biggest
men on the program. Private Peat
is the headllner on the sixth night.
; This little Canadian is fa-
I mous because of his book. "Private
l Peat," his magazine articles and his
i moving picture. Other prominent
lecturers are Dr. Joseph Clare, the
"Pastor of Petrograd," who tells the
thrilling story of the Russianjevotu
tion as he saw it in the capital city;
Dr. A. D. Carpenter, with a lecture
of absorbing interest on "Celestial
Mechanics"; Dr. Elliott A. Boyl, with
an inspirational address; W. L. Mel-
Ilnger, throwing new light on the
Mexican situation: Mrs. R. C. Mc-
Credie and Miss R. Louise Fitch,
speaking on reconstruction problems
as they affect womankind, and Henry
Warren Poor, with an Underwood |
Underwood illustrated lecture on tb*
closing days of the war and the dawn
, of peace overseas.
The big musio feature of the pro
gram is the Szecho-Slovak band under
the direction of Jaroslav Cimera.
Other musical events of first impor
tance are two concerts by the Lewis
Military Quartet, four voices picked
from 40,000 at Camp Lewis; Mary
Adel Hays, the widely known New
York coloratura soprano and her
company of recital artists; the Fii
lion Concert Party, featuring Ferdl
nan Fliiion, the French, violinist, and
Fern Qoltra, of Chicago opera fame;
the McDonough-Eagleston company,
two girls in a snappy first night pro
gram; the Regulars, talented musical
entertainers, and the Apollo Concert
company', one of the big musical or
ganizations of the lyceum and Chau
tauqua world./
A big entertainment feature is pro
vided in "Turn to the Right." by Ed
win Whitney of Boston, on the third
night, one of the events of first im
portance during the week. Another
entertainer who will make a host of
friends is Elsie Mae Gordon, the
prominent and talented artist from
the Hoosier state. Her negro. Italian
and child sketches have won an en
during name for her on the Ameri
can platform.
Killed In Auto Accident
Mrs. Thomas Maloney was recently ;
killed in an auto accident in Pa<(o|
Robles, Cal., according to word re*i
ceived in Olytnpia this week. Her
husband was a leading member of the
Rogers administration and the family
was well known here. They have
made their home in Arizona for the
past 16 years and were on their way
to Puget Sound to spend the summer,
when the accident happened.
"HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY."
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1919
FARMERS TO VISIT
PUYALLUP JULY 17
DATE FOR ANNUAL EXCURSION
TO EXPERIMENT STATION
IS ARRANGED
By County Agent C. H. Bergstroui.
The 1919 farmers' excursion from
Thurston county to the experiment
station, Puyallup, \vill take place
Thursday, Juiy 17. The farmers
and their families always have an
enjoyable and profitable time on
these excursions. The members of
the experiment station staff show'the
visitors through the different depart
ments and over the farm, and may be
consulted by any of the visitors con
cerning special problems.
The experiment station farm crops,
truck and fruit crops will be in ex
cellent condition for study during
the excursion period. Extensive
tests are made of different varieties
of farm crops, instructive experiments
are being carried on with fertilizers,
and hay and pasture demonstrations
are being conducted. These and
many other features of the crop work
at the station can be studied with
much profit.
The poultry buildings''and equip
ment at the experiment station are
accepted as the best model for West
ern Washington, and anyone inter
ested in poultry will profit a great
deal by visiting the experiment sta
tion. looking over the poultry plant
and consulting with the poulffry spe
cialists.
Mr. Karl . B. Musser, - extension
dairy specialist, will be at the expe
riment station to consult with farm
ers who are specially interested in
dairying. !
It is expected that Mr. J. P. Fair
bank, head of the agricultural engi
neering department of the State Col
lege. will be present to discuss with
farmers concerning farm machinery
and other farm equipment.
Dr. ,W. T. Johnson, experiment sta
tion veterinarian, will be available
for conference concerning the dis
eases of livestock and poultry.
The Puyallup summer school, un
der the direction of the State Col
lege of Washington, is In session dur
ing the time of the farmers' excur
sions. Principal Kreager will ar
range for demonstrations in domestic
science and domestic arts, and for
exhibits of labor-saving devices for
the home which will be of special in
terest to farm women.
Everyone Vho can possibly make
the arrangements is urged to joih
this excursion. Keep in touch with
your experiment station's wdrk. Get
acquainted with the men who are
trying to solve your problems. No
better way is afforded than by these
annual excursions.
The experiment station will pro
vide noon lunch. Those going
should plan on arriving at the sta
tion by 10:30 a. m.
This will be the third year for
these excursions. The first year
about 150 Thurston county farmers
attended. Last year the number in-
Creased to 250. This year there
ought to be a still larger crowd.
HUNTAMER FINED $73.
Police Court Jury- Finds Hiiu Guilty
of "Jumping" Hotel Bill.
J. V. Huntamer, a former resident
of Lacey, the head of a horse show
troupe, was fined $75 and costs in
Police Judge Crosby's court Tues
day afternoon for jumping his bill
at the Kneeland hotel. jury com
posed of Frank G. Ulakeslee and
James, Martin, prominent hardware
dealers; John Pierce, one of the
managers of the Mitchell hotel, and
M. H. Flinn. real estate dealer, com
posed the jury which found Hunta
mer guilty.
Huntamer and the members of his
troupe finished lip a horse show on
the harbor last week and came to
Olynipia for a week's stay. {5. W.
Hutson. manager of the Kneeland
hotel, claimed that Huntamer and
his crowd of people owed the hotel
S4B for a room and hoard bill. Hun
tamer said that he had certain goods
which the hotel people could seize
and that he had intended to pay the
bill. He appealed the case to the
superior court.
Kicliard Pickering Is llend
j Richard Pickering. 89 years of age.
died in Boston, Mass., June 17. ac
cording to word received in Seattle
by his daughters. Mrs. H J. Phillips
and Mrs. William S. Mayfield. Mr.
Pickering was the last son of William
Pickering, territorial governor of
| Washington during Lincoln's admin
istration
TO ORGANIZE FARM
BUREAU SATURDAY
FINAL ACTION TO BE TAKEN AT
ALL-DAY MEETING AT
EAGLES' HALL
Final organization of the Thurston
County Farm Bureau, which has been
promoted (luring the past month, will
be effected at a mass meeting to be
held at Eagles' hall, Third and Wash
ington streets, starting at 10 o'clock
Saturday morning.
J. A. Donnelly of Chambers' Prairie,
chairman of the organization com
mittee, will preside at the meeting.
In the morning the reports will be
heard from this committee, the pro
gram of work committee and the com
mittee on constitution and by-laws.
Permanent officers are to be elect
ed at the afternoon meeting and other
business matters attended to. At
this time also Dr. E. O. Holland,
president of the Washington State
College, or a personal representative,
will be present to addresß the meet
ing. Mrs. Harriet Stowe of Vancou
ver, Wash., home demonstration
agent in Clarke county, w ill also de
liver'a talk and several musical num
bers are being arranged.
Opportunity will be given during
the afternoon for all who may desire,
to join the Bureau. According to the
organization committee's plan, mem
berships taken out now will run until
January 1. 1921, at the regular an
nual fee.
Branches of the county bureau
have been organized in 12 of the 13
communities of the county during the
past month, under the leadership of
County Agent C. H. Bergstrom. Th.ey
are> McLane. including Delphi, But
ler's Cove, Schneider's Prairie and
Hunter's Point: South Bay, Including
(Pleasant Glade and Puget; Lacey, in
cluding Nisqually flats; Little Rock;
Brighton Park, Including South
Union; Hayes, including Boulevard;
Spurgion Creek; Rochester, Includ
ing Gate and Independence; Yelm;
Rainier; Des Chutes, and Tenino, in
cluding Bucoda. Grand Mound is to
be organized next Wednesday even
ing.
The Bureau Is a recognized govern
ment agency for more direct co-oper
ation between the farmers and the
State College and federal government
agricultural workers. The tempo
rary officers of the local -organization
ate:
J. A. Donnelly, chairman, organiza
tion committee; A. J. Johnston* Little
Rock, chairman, program of work
committee; Commissioner M. J. Ney
lon, Delphi, chairman, constitution
and by-laws committee; Mrs. A. E,
Smith. Little Rock, chairman, pub
licity committee committee; H. CroW
ell, Puget, secretary; and A. S. Caton.
Olympia, chairman, membership com
mittee.
AWARD PAVING CONTRACT
Work to Start Promptly on Pacific
Highway South of City.
Contract was let by the state high
way commission this week and work
is to be started promptly on the pav
ing of seven miles of the Pacific high
way south from Olympia. starting
from the city limits. This will leave
12 miles of paving to connect with
the paving from Centralia at Grand
Mound. This work is to be done
next year.
Albertson. Cornell & Simpson, Ta
coina contractors, were awarded the
job on a bid of $189,200, a close fig
ure to the official estimate of $186,-
921. Other contracts let by the com
mission this week for highway work
in all parts of the state total $1,000,-
000. •
Oldest Indian Dies
William Choke, the oldest Indian
on the Chehalis reservation at Oak
ville. died Sunday evening He was
120 years of age. In early days
Choke fought with the whites against
his own tribe
.j. 4. 4.
01/YMPIA (JETS CANNON
A cannon captured l»> Ameri
can soldiers in France will be
*!* set up in the capttol ground.-, v
❖ here within the next 10 days.
+ The cannon was awarded Wash- v
❖ Ington because the state exceed
•> ed every other state til the 13tli
federal reserve district in over- *■>
«F subscribing to tlie Victory Fib- ❖
«F erty baui. ❖
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
START ON ELKS' TEMPLE.
Workmen Ruling Old House—Bids
Will Be <»|>eu«d July 7.
Bids on the new Elks' Temple, to
be erected 011 Main street opposite
capitol park, at a cost of approxi
mately $75,000 exclusive of furnish
ings. will be opened July 7. Plans
for the new building, which is to be
a 3-story structure, have been drawn
by Architect Jos. H. Wohleb.
In preparation for the construction
of the temple, workmen this week
have been engaged in tearing down
the old house that has occupied the
site for years. Work on the new
building will be started as early a
possible next month.
NEW STATE BANK
ORGANIZED HERE
INSTITUTION WILL OPKIt AT K
UNDER GUARANTY FUND SYS-
TRM—OPENS AUGUST I
Olympia is to have a new state
bank, organized under the state guar
anty fund by five well-known resi
dents of the city, Millard Lemon, A.
G. Cook,' Frank P. McKinney, W. P.
Wotton and B. R. McClelland, the in
corporation papers for which were
filed with the county auditor and sec
retary of state last Saturday.
The new institution, capitalized at
$50,000. with a paid-in surplus of
$5,000, expects to open for business
about August 1, in the Safe Deposit
building at Fourth and Franklin
streets, in the corner room now oc-'
cupied by Simensou's jewelry store.'
Charter for the new bank will-be
issued next week, having been de
layed through the fact tyat State
Bank Examiner Moore is in the East.
The bank is organized under the
stringent requirements of the state
guaranty fund law by which its depos
its will be guaranteed by the state.
It will be the only bank in the county
operating under the guaranty sys
tem. *
The incorporators of the new bank
are all substantial and favorably
known business men of the city. Mil
lard Lemon, who will be its president,
was stockholder and director in the
Olympia National bank for a number
of years, and with his father-in-law.
A. G. Cook, a capitalist of Long
Beach, Calif., owns approximately
half a million dollars' local
business property, and is recognized
as one of the city's miost influential
and progressive business men.
W. P. Wotton. who will be vice
president, is one of the younger busi
ness men of tlje city and Is the pro
prietor of a garage at Sixth and
Washington streets. He conducted
an auto accessory store here for sev
eral years.
Frank P. McKinnqy, who will be
cashier-dind active manager of the
bank, has made his home in Olympia
for 22 years. For,four years he was
connected with the Capital National
bank and for the last 15 years has
been assistant cashier of the Olympia
National bank. He has a host of
friends and acquaintances through
out the city and county and is thor
oughly familiar with the banking
business and conditions in this dis
trict.
B. R. McClelland has been an in
structor ih the local high school for
years and is well known throughout
the county. ,
Verne Lawrence, another well
known young man of the city who has
been connected with the Olympia Na
tional bank for several years, lately
as an assistant cashier, will be assist
ant cashier of the new institution.
Announcement of the organization
of a new state bank here did not
come as a surprise, for it has been
common talk around the city this
spring that spveral groups of local
people were working toward the es
tablishment of such an Institution,
the feeling being that a state bank,
operating in the field of real estate
and Other loans from which national
banks are restricted, would have a
stimulating effect on local commercial
and industrial activity and likewise
bring to the city the transaction of
considerable business now going else
where.
The new bank's location is in the
busy section of East Fourth street.
It will have control of the safe de
posit vaults for which the building is
named and besides conducting a gen
eral banking business expects to de
velop this department.
The fact that its deposits will be
guaranteed by the state system, giv
ing absolute protection to depositors,
is expected to bring to it as deposits
large sums of money not now depos
ited in any bauk in the county.
WHO £ NUMBER 3056
IVELDOME HOME DM
BBIIOGS HUGE CROWD
THOUSANDS THRONG ( ITV J)UR-
l\(i IUGGKST UK UK BRAT ION
IN ITS HISTORY «
Thousands ot' people fiorn alt
parts of the county crowded' Olympia
Thursday on the occasion of the
county's Welcome Home celebration
to its returned service men, and,
though the day started off with a
drizzly rain in the early morning,
along about 10:30 the weatherman
got himself straightened out and the
rest of the day""was fairly nice, the
sun breaking through the clouds once
in a while. '
The big feature of the morning,
the parade, acclaimed by old-timers
the biggest stunt the city had ever
witnessed, passed through the busi
ness section, starting about 11
o'clock. An hopr was consumed in
its passing, with its soldiers and
sailors in uniform; its three bands;
its many floats and decorated auto
mobiles, and the downtown streets
were packed all along the line ot
march from Fourth and Jefferson to
Eleventh and Main.
Short services were then conduct
ed in front of capitol park in honor
ot the memory ot those "who will
come no more"; then the crofctf pro
ceeded to Priest Point park, the city
playground, for the big barbecue and
picnic dinner at noon, and the after
noon program of speaking, music and
sports.
At Fourth and Main streets the
parade passed under a huge Victory
Arch, covering the whole intersec
tion and being Interwoven with flags
and cedar boughs and hung with
electric ligMts and welcome hone
banners, while all through the down
town section the business housps
were brightly decorated with patriotic
colors and emblems. >
The day was a holiday for the city
and county, by proclamation of Mayor
Jesse T. Mills and the county com
missioners, and almost every busi
ness house was closed," together with
the city gad county offices. v
Heading the parade were three
local service men on horses; thgtt
came an autq bearing Major General
William H. Johnson, commander of
the 91st division la Franca and now
commanding general of Camp Lewis,
and the heads of the celebration com
mittee; then the ranks of the service
men themselves, and the'floats ot the
varloqs social and fraternal organi
sations, business houses and garages.
Following is tjbe personnel of the
paradp:: Car containing General
Jobnsoh and party. First Infantry
band from Camp Vewis. World War
service men; Renati club float. W*n
rish American War Veterans, Veter
ans of Civil War In automobiles, w.
R. C. float. Ladles of the G. A. It.'ln
carriages. Camp Lewis delegation.
Red Cross floats. Red Cross auxiliary
iof the statehouse women, employ#.
Sons and Daughters of the American
' Continued on Pa# T4rtiipC
AUTQ THIEF 6ETS JUL /
TERM 'UNDER NEW I*
Local Court Renders Tint Sentence
I'nder Act of but Legls
i
lature.
,If William La Duke of Tacoma had
stolen an automobile last month Or
any time before the 13th ot this
month he would no doubt have re
ceived a line and perhaps a jail sen
tence. But he committed the crime
later and Tuesdag he was sentenced
by Superior Judge John M. Wilson
to serve two years in the Monroe re
formatory. The new session laws
that went into effect June 13 make
the stealing of an automobile a fel
ony and a penitentiary offense rather
than a misdemeanor, carrying a Jail
sentence or a fine with it.
Prosecuting Attorney Thomas L.
O'Leary said that La Duke was the
first person to be sent to the peniten
tiary under this new law in this coun
ty and be believes the first to be sen
tenced under the new law in this
state. La Duke is only 19, so ho
was sent to Monroe. He was* former
ly confined in the state training
school for boys at Chehalis.
Edward Brown, also 19 years old
and also from Tacoma. who Was
charged with the same crime as La
Duke and aided La Duke in the theft
of the automobile, wilt be placed on
trial Monday. I.a Duke stated that
he had stolen about 13 other auto
mobiles.
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