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VOL. LIX. NO. 24
FAIR PRICE PROBE
IS HELD UP HERE
BUSINESS MEN RESIGN FROM
COMMITTEE—ISSUE STATE-
I
MENT TELLING WHY.
If Olynipia is to have a "fair price"
investigation and list, in conformity
with the proposal of United States
Attorney General Palmer, the ap
pointment of a new chairman and
almost an entire new committee by
the attorney general or the state food
administrator will be necessary, as
ounty Adniinstrator Joe lteder and
other business men members of the
original committee tendered their
resignations this week and isstted a
statement explaining their reasons.
This action was taken the fore
part of the week and a telegram em
bodying the views of the local men
was immediately sent to the state ad
ministrator. So far this has brought
no response from that official and it
is assumed that he has taken the sit
uation up with Attorney General
Palmer. Inasmuch be other business
men approve the attitude taken by
those named on the original commit
tee here, the chances are that it will
be impossible to organize a commit
tee In accordance with the attorney
generates suggestions.
In tendering their resignations.
County Food Administrator Reader
and the committee issued this public
statement:
A few days ago there came to me
a request from former Food Adminis
trator for the State of Washington,
Charles Hebberd, to assume again the
duties of the office I held as f jod ad
ministrator for Thurston county, and
under his instructions to formulate
fair price committees and to make
investigations into the prices that
were being charged for food, clothing,
fuel and other commodities in this
community. This committee was to
have no legal power, but was to inves
tigate and turn over to the United
States attorney general any instances
of hoarding or other violations of fed
eral acts which may have resulted in
increasing the cost of living.
In accordance with these instruc
tions I called a meeting of the com
mittee of men and women consisting
of a grocer, a dry goods merchant, a
shoe denier, two representatives of la
bor and one of the public in general,
and one of the farmers.
At this meeting it was decided that
the only thing this committee could
do under the powers given it was to
call before it the diffetont business
men of the city and ascertain if in
their belief the prices they were
charging were too high.
Since Hint time, however, the mem
bers of tie committee who are mer
chants, have been informed through
various channels that an investigation
carried on mainly by the merchants
themselves would be unsatisfactory to
the general public.
Desiring only to serve the best in
terests of all concerned and assuring
any committee that will undertake the
task of conducting the investigation
in Thurston county that they will
willingly give them such information
as they may desire, the following
merchants and representatives of the
commercial interests of the city, join
with me in sending the following tel
egram to Mr. Hebberd:
"Believing it to be to the best in
terests of investigation that you ap
point no merchants as members of
board. si«ce much criticism is result
ing from this action. You will there
fore accept my resignation as the head
of the board in Thurston county. This
sentiment is shared in by the mer
chant members of the board."
' JOS. REDEB. Chairman.
H. B. FULTSS. Secretary.
The merchant members of the
board who sign, are as follows:
M. Harris, dry goods: C. H. Bowen.
grocer: Glenn A. T. Powell, shoe
dealer.
MANY GRANGERS AT PICNIC.
Rig Crowd Attends Annual Gathering
at Priest Point Park
Some 300 Grangers, representing
every subordinate in the county, with
their families and with a good delega
tion from Mason county, participated
in the annual county picnic at Priest
Point park Thursday.
The big picnic dinner was served at
noon and, following a short speaking
program, an athletic and sports pro
gram was carried out. The speakers
Included R. I Case, who explained
the grange warehouse plan: O. J.
Olson of Minneapolis, who discussed
the Triple Alliance, and J. W. Binns
of Mason county, who expounded
grange principles.
Uittstowton Stan&flrii
ESTABLISHED NOV. 17, 1860.
MAN'V ELKS (iO TO YAKIMA
Olympia Sends liig Delegation
to State Convention.
More than 200 Olympia Elks left
Olympia hy automobile and train
Wednesday to attend the state con
vention of tlie Elks at Yakima.
Twentv-ftve automobiles left early In
the morning for the convention,
while a large number of delegates
left by train this afternoon. Many
of the Elks weft? accompanied by
their families.
Included in the Olympia delegation
was the team which will put on the
ritual work at the convention, the
local Elks band, which is the official
band of the convention, and the goli
team which will enter the tourna
ment at Yakima.
GAME WARDENS NAB
MORE DEER HUNTERS
CONFISCATE CANNED VENISON
AND HIDES AT MUD BAY
INDIAN'S HOME.
Another group of hunting law vio
lators were, nabbed by County Game
Warden King and Deputy Morgan at
Mud Bay this week, and some 45
quarts of canned venison and a big
pile of deer hides were confiscated, in
a raid conducted Monday at the home
of James Tobin. an Indian. The coun
ty Is richer by $142.70, with more
fines in prospect, and respect for the
law has been instilled in some who
heretofore have not paid much atten
tion to it, Warden King asys.
For the past year reports of illegal
hunting in the Mud Bay district have
reached the wardens and Monday they
got out a search warrant and went
out to the Tobin place. There was
nobody home when they arrived, so
"they carefully searched all the out
buildings.
Soon Mrs. Tobin. a daughter, Mrs.
Barney Lee. a son, a white woman and
another squaw and two children,
showed up. The old squaw protested
vigorously for a time against the war
dens entering the house, but finally
Warden King lined the whole bunch
up in front of the place, while Deputy
Morgan began a systematic search of
the house.
On the second floor he found a big
stack of deer hides, two of
which were "green," King says, and
also a pair of horns "in the velvet,"
while in the cellar the 45 quarts of
canned venison were found. Most of
it had spoiled and gave off a putrid
odor.
King and Morgan confiscated the
hides and venison and brought them
to the police station In this city, and
then hastened to the Mud Bay Log
ging company's camp and at midnight
arrested Barney Lee, husband of the
Tobin girl. He pleaded guilty to hav
ing killed two deer about July 8. when
arraigned before Police Judge Crosby
Tuesday, and was lined SSO for each
deer, and $25 for hunting without a
license, while $17.50 costs were as
sessed against him.
Tuesday Warden King arrested
James Tobin, Lee's Indian father-in
law, who was also working at the Mud
Bay Logging company's camp, and he
pleaded guilty to having venison in
his possession out of season. Sen
tence will be passed on him next
Tuesday by Judge Crosby.
STREET CAR STRIKE AVERTED
Company and Men Itcacli Agreement
—City to Have Onc-Man Cars.
i The street cur men of Olympia will
!not go on a strike. Olympia will
soon have one-man cars and as soon
as these are ready for operation the
car men will receive an increase in
wages, under an agreement reached
this week with the Olympta Light &
Power Company.
After the electrical workers walked
out the car men threatened a strike,
asking that they be allowed a higher
'scale than front 33 to 43 cents an
hour.
L. B. Faulkner, manager of the
lOlympia Light a Power Company,
announces that one of the one-man
cars had been completed and that the
other six will be ready for operation
within 60 days. All the cars of the
company are being converted into
I one-man cars, automatically equip
ped. The new wage scale will run
from 52 to 60 cents an hour.
A fine of $25 and costs, making a
total otj S6O, was assessed by Police
Judge Crosby Wednesday against
.Trjos" Ouval a'ter his conviction for
stealing a tricycle and doll buggy
,from the home of Porsecuting Attor
,ney O'Leary.
"HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY."
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1919. PRICE FIVE CENTS.
TEACHER PROBLEM
SERIOUS IN COUNTY
TWELVE DISTRICTS STII.L HAVE
NO INSTRUCTORS FOR TERM
STARTING NEXT MONTH
Is the lure of the little red school
house nnd the training of young
minds last losing its hold?
County Superintendent of schools,
Fred Brown reports that this county
is still short 12 teachers. Many of
the teachers are turning down posi
tions which offer SIOO a month to
teach a one-room schoolhouse for the
commercial and industrial fields have
been opened up to them during the
war and they have failed to return to
the teaching profession.
There are 170 teachers employed
in Thurston county. Of this number
51 are on the staff of the Olympia
teaching force. City Superintendent
of Schools C. E. Beach says that they
still lack a couple of teachers for the
Olympia schools. The schools in
Olympia and Thurston county open
September 2. According to Superin
tendent Brown in foimer years the
teachers were all signed up' f<y the
fall term of school by June.
Many of the districts in this county
are taxed up to the very limit and
can not levy a special assessment to
raise funds with which to pay the
teachers higher salaries. One of the
solutions to the shortage of school
teachers problem has been offered by
Plainvlew, which is a district about
six miles west of Olympia, at Mud
Bay. Plainview simply closed up its
schoolhouse. made a contract with a
man to transport the children to and
from school in an auto bus and will
send its children to the Olympia
schools.
The apportionment money from the
Plainview district will be turned over
to the Olympia district, while the
school money will be used to pay for
the transportation of the students.
Many of the schools all over the state
are following out this consolidation
plan as a solution to the scarcity of
teachers.
'TELLS BEST WAY TO
I TAKE CARE OF BABY
Anti-
Tuberculosis CLINIC
(iIVKS DEMONSTRATION OX j
CARE OF INFANTS.
1 I
"Keep the babies away from the
movies: they ought to- be in bed;
asleep." This was the admonition of
Miss E. E. Farrar, who lectured on
"Infant Welfare" at the Y. M. C. A.;
before a group of interested Olympia
women. The lecture was a feature of:
the traveling anti-tuberculosis clinic
which was in Olympia Tuesday.
.Miss Farrar spoke on the care of
the baby, bathing the baby, sensible;
clothing for the infant, and the en-;
vironment. She urged the mothers j
not to overdress the babies. She;
also explained to them that by en
i vironment she meant quiet for the
| baby while it is asleep, good ventil.i-
1 1ion. and disturbing atmospheres such
[as movies, big celebrations, and the
| like until the children are past the
baby stage.
Mrs. Elizabeth Soule of Seattle and
! Dr. Raymond Carey also accompanied
j the clinic to Olympia. Dr. Carey
[spoke at the Y. M. C. A. His lecture
j was accompanied by motion pictures
relative to the fight against tubercu
losis. It is the only traveling clinic
in the United States outside of the
one in Chicago which is a city clinic.
This one is a state clinic and is pat
terned after the traveling clinics of
France.
Later an attempt will be made to
establish a permanent clinic in Olym
pia and have a public health nurse
for Thurston county. There were
1,000 men in the state of Washing
ton rejected (luring the recent war on
account of tuberculosis. Of this
number eight men came from Thurs
ton county.
\ Among the exhibits displayed by
the clinic was a map showing the
number of men rejected on this ac
count from each county. The exhibit
also included a complete layette for a
baby, and various posters showing the
correct care of babies, open air schools
and various means of combating this
disease.
The annual meeting of the Wash
ington Tuberculosis association was
held in Tacoma Wednesday and
Continued on Page Seven.
SOLONS NOT FIXED
ON EXTRA SESSION
LEGISLATURE COULD TAKE UP
OTHER QUESTIONS AS WELL
AS SUFFRAGE
-
Governor Louis F. Hart prbfesses
to have had no understanding with
members of the legislature that the
extraordinary session he announced
Monday will be called to ratify the
national suffrage amendment will
limit itself to that business, which
would require about 15 minutes,
j There is considerable surmise that
the governor is merely acting at this
[time for the influence it will have on
the conference of governors now as
sembled at Salt Lake City, without
expectation that the Washington leg
islature will actually have to assem
ble. If the federal amendment is
ratified in time to permit the women
of the nation to vote in 1920, the gov
ernor will be released from his prom
ise to the national and state suffrage
organizations, which is to the effect
that the Washington ratification will
be forthcoming if it is needed to
make national suffrage effective next
year.
Once assembled the Washington
legislature becomes a law to itself so
far as the scope of business or length
of the special session is concerned.
Whether there might be a revival of
the Lamping relief bill, additional
highway paving provisions and mat
ters of that sort would depend upon
how the legislature felt when it got
together. Various members are un
derstood to be not opposed to an
opportunity to remedy several mat
ters they consider oversights of the
last regular session.
[-.-■-No date is yet set for the special
session, if it is actually called, but
the governor intimated that it would
be about January 12, the second Mon
day in the month, instead of the
first, on which the regular biennial
sessions convene.
BUY MILROY PLAGE
FOR NEW HOSPITAL
SISTERS OF CHARITY NOW OWN
HISTORIC PROPERTY—PRES
ENT SITE GOES TO STATE.
Anticipating the purchase of their
present property by the state capitol
commission to complete the new cap
itol grounds, the Sisters of Charity of
Providence, who conduct St. Peter's
hospital, this week concluded the
purchase of the entire block on the
east side of Main street between Elev
enth and Twelfth, familiarly known
as the "old Milroy place." The con
sideration totalled $12,300.
The north half of the block was
bought August 5 from the Ferry
Leary Land company of Seattle and
the south half from Celia M. and
Marie Pix of Seattle, the negotiations
for the latter being closed Tuesday.
The property is centrally located and
two blocks east from the site the hos
pital has occupied for years.
While no plans have yet been made
for the erection of the new hospital
building, it is expected that it will be
under construction within the next
year, giving the city a first class hos
pital with all modern facilities. In
dications that the capitol commission
would want th-> present hospital site
were given at the time of the pur
chase of the Stevens property at
Eleventh and -Main streets.
The "old Milroy place" was named
for General Robert Houston Milroy
of Civil war fame, who came to Olym
pia with his wife in 1869 to become
superintendent of Indian affairs for
the Territory, one of the then impor
tant positions. He served in that ca
pacity until 187 4. maintaining head
quarters in this city, and constructed
the house at Eleventh and Main
streets, in which he lived until his
death in 1890.
Two of the general's sons, County
Clerk V. A. Milroy and his deputy.
Walter J.. lived in this city. A third
son. Robert llruce Milroy. is also liv
ing.
Miss Maude llopp of Bridgeport,
Wash., is the guest of her aunt. Mrs
John llopp. Miss Hopp is making a
tour of Western Washington After
visiting here she will leave for Ta
coma.
RED CROSS MOVES AGAIN.
County Chapter Combines Ollires
With Home Service Section.
Headquarters of the Thurston
County lied Cross chapter have been
moved agair, this time fiotn the Gas
company's office to the rooms occu
pied by the Home Service section on
hte second floor of the Byrne block
at Fourth and Main streets.
These offices have recently been
re-papered, re-painted and re-fur
nished and present a pleasing appear
ance, with soft gray wall paper, ivory
woodwork and oak furniture. The
committee requests that all finished
knitting be brought to the new office.
FIGHT OVER BILLS
ENDANGERS ROADS
ALLEN THREATENS TO STOP
WORK, BIT COMMISSIONERS
FINALLY AGREE.
Dissension among the county com
missioners which threatened for a
time to hold up all the federal aid
road work in the county and brought
forth from State Highway Commis
sioner James Allen the emphatic
statement that "Thurston" county
won't get another cent if that's the
way you're going to act," was
smoothed out Wednesday afternoon
when Commissioner S. W. Bennett,
whose refusal to approve several
bills submitted by Allen started the
rumpus, changed his attitude and
agreed to allow them.
Before the matter was settled,
however, the commissioners got real
{personal among themselves and Com
: missioner Allen was likewise pointed
iin his remarks. Involved in the mix
jup were three bills, one for $129.03
as Thurston county's portion of Dis
trict Engineer W. H. Yeager's salary
|of $250 a month; one for $142 for
Isome tents, and one for $84.68 as the
county's share of the salary of an in
spector required by the government
to be stationed at the cement plant.
Commissioner Bennett refused to
i approve these bills, and when Com
missioner Sams noted that fact, he
too, bucked up. Sams, who was wil
ling to approve the bills, contended
that as all three of them had signed
! the resolution by which the county
authoribed the state highway com
i missioner to handle the road work in
order to get an equal amount of fed
eral money, each commissioner was
obligated to sign the bills as submit
ted with the o.k. of the state high
,way commissioner.
Bennett's particular objection was
the payment of $250 a month to
Yeager, which aroused Allen's ire to
the extent that he not only jumped to
Yeager's defense but declared, "no
body is going to office as long
as I am in it but myself."
With respect to the tents, Bennett
said the county "never will get
them." and Sams came back with the
assertion that "it's our fault if the
county doesn't." while Allen wanted
to know If Bennett expected the crew
to "take to the bushes." Bennett did
not seem to think an inspector at the
cement plant was necessary, but Allen
pointed out that this was a govern
ment requirement and "we've got to
do it."
"It isn't up to von to say whether
it's necessary or not," Allen declared.
"You told us to go ahead with the
work, but if vou don't pay those bills
the work will stop, and Thurston
county will never get another cent of
federal money on my recommenda
tion- -not another cnt."
Bennett wanted County Engineer
Mannes to handle the work, but Allen
said he would not employ him Com
missioner Nevlon declared he was not
competent and Commissioner Sams
'•aid Mannes couldn't keen up with
the other eountv work, let alone
tackling this. Bennett's contention
was that the county would get more
road if Yeager's salary was not so
high and he decalred that the engi
neering on the Pacific highway pav
ing south of Olympia was costing the
county SI,OOO a month, to which the
other commissioners and Allen re
olied that Bennett "didn't know what
he was talking about."
Commissioner Neylon suggested
•hat there would be "some wool fly
ing around Thurston county when the
neonle hear that this road work is
'ied uti and the county has lost the
federal money." and threatened to
bring a mandamus suit to compel
Sams and Bennett to sign the bills.
Neylon also declared that "if we're
going to sit bere and hinder things
like this we'd better resign."
'T never saw a man before who
was so suspl :h>us of everybody and
everything as you are," Sams hotly
WHC.J3 NUMBER 3036
COUNCIL TO CALL
SPECIAL ELECTION
WANTS AUTHORITY TO ISSUE
$25,000 KONDS FOR WEST-
SIDE BRIDGE
Residents of Olympia will vote at
a special election, probably Novem
ber 4, on the question of issuing
125,000 bonds or "such sum as may
be necessary" to make the sew West
Fourth street bridge an all-concrete
structure, instead of having a wooden
approach on the west end as provided
in the plan ou which the county qom
missioners opened bids this week.
If the bond issue fails, the city will
advance to the county $8,750 toward
the cost of constructing the bridge
with a wooden approach, the county
having only $124,000 available
while the only bid received was
$132,750.
A resolution setting forth these
i alternative proposals was adopted by
| the ctiy council at its regular meet
jing Tuesday evening. The quentton
|at issue is whether the city wHI
spend $8,750 and get only a wooden
{approach, or whether it will spend
$25,000 and get an all-concrete
{structure.
Councilman Foretell, chairman of
; the street committee, is backing the
all-concrete plan and in a statement
Thursday said:
"It was the thought of the mem
bers of thp city council that this wood
structure would be expensive to Ul®
city, in that the deckir? Would tiiftfe
to be renewed about every three or
four years and at the end of about 15
years a new structure built."
The bridge as flret designed by the
commissioners was to be concrete
throughout, but the flret bids opentd
! last May for this kind of a structure
: boosted the cost of it to about sl7 0.-
000. Aftejr. juggling plans several
different ways and calling for bidik
twice, the commissioners Anally de
termined upon a Luten design brides
with a wooden approach on the west
end, as the only design cheap enough
to be built within the $124,000 avail
able.
The bid of $132,750 submitted this
week came from Contractor Charles
G. Huber of Seattle, who built tho
new Tumwater bridge. While the
contract has notAeen closed, it is ex
pected it will be Monday when Huber
is due to co'me to Oiympia, as the
commissioners and council are agreed
as to policy.
The special election will not delay
construction of the bridge, as the con
tractor will not be ready to begin
work on the approach until next
April, Commissioner Sams says, the
main portion of the bridge across the
waterway being started flret. If thp
bond issue carries, the contract will
be revised to provide for a concrete
approach.
told Bennett, and a little later on,
while explaining that he would re
fuse to sign the bills as long as Ben
nett did, Samß said, speaking to Ben
nett: "I know the sole purpose df
your refusal—you want to stwnd
around on the street corner and
peddle this sort of stuff to everybody
that comes along, and I won't stand
for it. You are just as much
gated to approve those bills as I am."
Things were pretty warm when the
commissioners adjourned for the noon
recess, but during that time Commis
sioner Bennett consulted an attorney,
who advtsed him that, inasmuch as
all three of the commissioners signed
the resolution authorizing the state
highway commissioner to handle the
paving work, each commissioner was
obligated to approve the bills.
Consequently, when they recon
vened for the afternoon session, Ben
nett changed his position and the dif
ficulty was settled.
Hotel WORK IS Resumed
Kloctrlcal Workers' Strike Suspend*
Construction—Agreement Reached.
Work on Olynipia's new $300,000
hotel, which has been suspended since
Monday, this time on account of thd
electrical workers' strike, was par
tially resumed Thursday and will he
going full tilt Friday, the contractor*
having accepted the new $7.50 a day
scale.
The strike, affecting one man on
the hotel and two employed by the
Olympia Light & Power company, has
been in progress for two Weeks, hot
progress of the hotel construction was
not affected until Monday. The Olym
pia Light & Power company has not
accepted the new scale as applied to
its two wiremen. though it is expect
ed this will be adjusted, shortly. It
did not dispute the new scale for line
men.
Punished
Cf iuously
Years