VOLUME XXVII
LEASE TRANSFER
CLOSES STAR THEATRE
g. M. Beck and George Stephenson
t form Partnership for Theatre
/-';• and Baseball Concern
The Star theatre, which has oper
ated under various ownerships for
fc.lx years, closed its doors to the pub
lic Monday evening as a result of
I the transfer of the lease on the
f building which housed the theatre to
H. M. Beck and George Stephenson.
Messrs. Beck and Stephenson,
£ through their agent, Thos. Joyce of
? Spokane, paid Mr. Emmick, propri
etor of the Star, $2000 for the trans
fer of his lease, which had a full
year yet to run, and at once execut
ed with M. D. Henry,' owner of the
building, an extended lease, covering
a 10-year period. Messrs. Beck and
Stephenson have formed a partner
ship which Includes the Beck
theatre, now the only motion picture
, show In Pullman, and the building
• which is being vacated by Mr. Em
mick, in which they will Install an
| automatic baseball pitching appar
atus. ■;[
The partners plan to Incorporate
the Beck theatre under the name
"Theatorlum," and will at once
make extensive additions and lm-
provements in the theatre, which
will include the raising of the roof
■ and the Installation of a new front.
They will retain E. M. Helmund as
manager of the Improved "movie"
house. The new partnership does
net Include the City Club, which is
owned by Mr. Stephenson, nor the
' Model Bakery, owned by Mr. Beck,
and each of the gentlemen will con
tinue to give his personal attention
Ito his own business. Mr. Helmund
8 will have charge of the affairs of
the theatre and a manager will be
, • secured for the baseball enterprise.
: The entire deal marks an ex
penditure of close to $5000 on the
1 "part of Messrs. Beck and Stephen
| son, Including the price paid for the
lease, $2000, the $1000 necessary
i; to Install the baseball apparatus
tod nearly $1500 which will be ex-
I pended on Improvements at the
"Theatorium."
While Mr. Emmick has not yet
■ decided definitely upon his future
• ' coarse, he will store his theatre fix
tures and plans to again go into
business in Pullman. If present ne
. gotlatlons materialize he will soon
£ lawi constructed a new building and
7 will'lnstall an up-to-date theatre,
•hooking the best companies on the
- road as well as operating a moving
Picture house.
MAYOR JACKSON
BUYS PROPERTY
-
Phases Site of Old Palace Hotel
9mm C. W. Nessly and Will
•.. - Improve It This Summer
m Last Saturday morning Mayor
J*ckaon strolled down to the corner
J Main and Pine streets with the
owner, c. W. Nessly, to talk over the
removal of the outbuildings from
otß 1 and 2 in block 9, where the
:*W Palace hotel used to stand. He
.had no idea in his mind except to
»r°tect the health and beauty, of the
ty, but, before be came away he
(g Purchased the property for a
Wasideratlon of $3000.
_ Having acquired this valuable
Jtttoei. site at a bargain the mayor
with if tFylng t0 deCide What t0 : do
•ton til &nd haS reached the conclu
oncfl U must be In»proved at
*hichwinh° CCUp,ed by a bUildlng
has «, be a Credit to the city. He
sido..!I eral pr°POßltlons under con
-2°, n' One is to erect a mod
'hotel building, another is to con-
HaOther i 6 Bt°re buUd,n « and btlll
theatre' « t0 bUUd an u P--date
b 0 _ .♦'„,,' h,s flnal decision will
the'" 11 i n doubt bit he- says thai
Proved rty wl» Positive-- be Un
real k ay which will be of
Wit to Pui,_ an .
ta<j ■■» noporty is 100 feet square
**i »trneet 01 the beßt *" ,PU on
huataeat ' wb,cb Is available for
Utt«»J.eat purpoeea.
The Pullman Herald
Devoted to the beat interest, of Pullman and the best farming community in Ihe Northwest surrounding it.
BASEBALL SEASON
OPENS NEXT WEEK
O. A. C. Team and Spokane Indians
\ Will Be Seen in Action on
Rogers Field
The baseball season at the State
College will open next week with a
series of three games. Coach Bon
der's crew will meet the O. A. C.
diamond men Monday and Tuesday
in two conference games, and on Fri
day the Spokane Indians will invade
Pullman for a game with tho local
ball tossers. Thursday the team will
go to Spokane to meet the Indians.
All three of the home games will bo
called at 3:45 sharp, and the admis
sion will be 50 cents, season passes
admitting.
Hartman, the star left hander, will
work in at least one of the games,
and Scott, the Freshman from Che
halls, will pitch another. "Norm
Moss, probably the premier pitcher
of the team, will start one of the
games if his pitching arm gains suf
ficient strength by that time to stand
the strain. Moss has been out all
season with a sprained wrist, the re
sult of a basket ball mlxup, but
turned out for practice this week.
GUN WIELDER FINED
IN SUPERIOR COURT
Samuel Taylor Celebrates With
Whiskey and Slx-Shoter and Is
Serving Time in County Jail
Samuel Taylor, who has been em
ployed on the R. W. Gwinn farm for
several months, came to Pullman last
Thursday, proceeded to fill up on
imported fire water, and caused the
city marshal more trouble for a few
hours than he had experienced since
he was delegated by Mayor Jackson
as the official peace custodian. Tay
lor secured a room at the Pullman
lodging house and at once occupied
it, presumably to sleep of the ef
fects of his inebriation. The other
occupants were soon startled by the
discharge of firearms in Taylor's
room, and City Marshal Stivers was
called to stop the disturbance. The
officer was met at the head of the
stairs by Taylor himself," who was
brandishing his gun and is alleged
to have threatened dire disaster to
anyone who attempted to take him
in charge. He soon cooled down,
however, and asked permission to re
turn to his room and sleep off the ef
fects of the whiskey. His request
was granted, but he later appeared
on the streets with a conspicuous
bulge In his hip pocket, and was
taken ln charge by Marshal Stivers,
who relieved him of his gun and at
once took him to Colfax to answer
to the superior court. Taylor, upon
a plea of guilty to discharging fire
arms in the city limits, was fined
$56, which, in lieu of cash, he will
serve out on the county chain gang.
SUCCUMBS AFTER
Mrs. I. J. Lee died at her home in
the Clinton neighborhood, five miles
northwest of Pullman, Wednesday
morning at 9 o'clock, death being
caused by hepatrie cirrhosis, from
which she had suffered for several
years. Mrs. Lee was a daughter of
Mrs. Theodore .H. Wiley of Johnson,
and besides her mother and husband
leaves two children, a boy and a girl,
eight and 10 years of age, three
brothers and one sister. Deceased
was 33 years of age and had resided
in Whitman county nearly all her
life.
Funeral services will be held this
morning (Friday) at 10 o'clock, at
Clinton Grange hall, and will be in
charge of the Rev. Harley Jackson of
the First Christian church. Inter
ment will be in Clinton cemetery.
PROF. MONROE LEAVES
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Prof. C. L. Monroe, who has re
signed bis position as assistant ani
mal husbandman at the college, ex
pects to leave Monday to assume the
duties of his new position as agri
culturist for Chehalis county. This
is one of the leading dairying and
live stock counties of the state, and
he is especially well qualified to
solve the problems of the farmers
of that section of the state. He and
Mrs. Monroe leave a large circle of
friends In Pullman who deeply re
gret their departure
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DIETZ, CARLISLE INDIAN, TO
COACH AI STATE COLLEGE
State College Regents Accept Appli
cation of Carlisle Star to Coach
FoocbaU and Baseball
William H. Dietz, one of Carlisle's
greatest football players, and since
graduation in 1912 first assistant
football coach to Head Coach Glen
Warner of the famous Indian team,
will next year guide the destinies of
the State College football and base
ball teams, he having been selected
as coach from a field of 37 candi
dates for the position by the board
of regents in session Wednesday of
this week. Dletz is an Indian, whose
tribal name was Lonestar, and under
that name his record as a player
may be found in the football guides.
Accompanying the application of the
Carlisle man was a series of recom
mendations from Head Coach War
ner, football authorities, Carlisle
football men and numerous others,
who spoke glowing words of praise
and commendation for Dletz. Head
Coach Warner, who has been in
charge of the Carlisle eleven for the
past 10 years, was especially profuse
in his praises of the applicant, and
endorsed him strongly from every
standpoint, not only as a player and
coach of unquestioned ability, but as
a natural leader of men, an excellent
disciplinarian, and every inch a man,
physically, mentally and morally.
Dietz has been groomed for the
past year as a successor to Head
Coach Warner when the latter re
tires, but in his letters to college of
ficials he stated that he would much
rather get into a new field, and was
especially anxious to come West,,
where greater opportunities might
■ present themselves In many lines.
Dietz is said to be possessed of
considerable wealth, and is an im
porter and breeder of stag hounds.
Since graduation he has been in
charge of the manual training de
partment at Carlisle, and aside from
his other duties has been the disci
plinarian for the Institution, and ha 3
attracted much favorable comment
by the efficient manner in which he
has discharged his duties in that
capacity.
During his college career Dietz
Inspector's Discharge Causes Big Rumpus
Motion to Reinstate Dee Gaddis as
Inspector of Street Paving Opera
tions Fails After Heated
Debate
Many citizens, by curiosity bent,
who Tuesday evening attended the
meeting of the council in anticipation
of a wrangle over municipal affairs,
were well entertained, and witnessed
one of the liveliest forensic mix-ups
ever staged in the councilmanic
A LONG ILLNESS
chambers. The curtain was raised
when Council J. N. Scott offered for
consideration a motion to the effect
that Dee Gaddis be reinstated as in
spector of street paving operations.
The motion was supported by Coun
cilman Swain, and the fight was on.
Gaddis, who was employed by City
Engineer Edwards as inspector for
the West Main street paving which
was done last summer by the W. G.
Mulligan company, and other im
provements, was discharged by En
gineer Edwards in sympathy with
numerous complaints which had been
registered by property owners who
were not satisfied with the quality
of the work done. Edwards em
ployed W. S. Hurd to succeed Mr.
Gaddis, and the dissatisfaction of
some of the councilmen in regard
to the change was responsible for the
motion to reinstate the latter.
In response to questions put by
councilmen, Engineer Edwards stat
ed that in his opinion Mr. Gaddis bad
given entire satisfaction, and that
his action was the result of the pro
tests of disgruntled property owners,
he also Intimating that some of the
councilmen had voiced their dissatis
faction at the work of Gaddis. Mr.
Edwards stated that several men had
been recommended to him as suc
cessors to Mr. Gaddis, but that he
selected a man who had not been
mentioned as he believed him the
best Qualified for the position. He
PULLMAN. WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, APRIL 9. 1915
played a backfiold position, but at
times was shitted to the line. At all
times he played a heady, consistent
game, and made a deep study of the
fundamentals and intricacies of the
sport. Previous to going to Carlisle
he had considerable high school and
preparatory school experience. His
baseball experience is almost as ex
tensive as his gridiron work, and in
that game also he was a star of the
first magnitude.
The salary to be paid the Carlisle
man for his services has not been
made public, and probably will not
be definitely decided until the re
gents decide whether or not they will
use him as an instructor in the man
ual training department. It is stat
ed on good authority, however, that
his salary as coach will be exceeded
by that of only one other coach in
the Northwest conference. Oilmour
Dobie. The choice of the regents
meets with popular approval among
players, students, townspeople and
friends of the college, and it only
remains for everyone concerned to
give the new man an opportunity to
make good.
WILL ESTABLISH GRADES
A special committee of the city
council, consisting of Councilman
Kruegel, Wagner and Scott, has
been appointed by Mayor Jackson to
confer with the city engineer In re
gard to the establishment of per
manent sidewalk grades in College
Park addition and other parts of Col
lege hill where the grade is not al
ready established.
DELEGATES ELECTED
H. H. George and Boy A. Neill will
represent Evening Star Lodge, No.
26, at the grand lodge sessions of the
K. of P. lodge to be held In Seattle
the latter part of May. L. E. Wen
ham and Karl P. Allen are alternates.
SCOTT BASEBALL MANAGER
J. N. Scott was Tuesday evening
named by the Chambor of Commerce
as manager of the Pullman baseball
team for the present season. Man
ager Scott, always a loyal baseball
fan, will take Immediate steps to
ward the organization of a team.
stated further that hereafter he
would refuse to take any action on
recommendations of individual coun
cilmen or councilmanic committees
unless the recommendations or in
structions were in writing and signed
by a majority of the council, assur
ing him that the council would back
him up in his action.
Following the discussion the mo
tion was put to a vote, Councilmon
Watt, Scott and Swain voting to re
instate Gaddis and Councilmen Nye,
Kruegel,, Burnett and Wagner voic
ing their disapproval of such action.
The position of inspector carries with
it a salary of $75 per month.
LOVEJOY AND SANGER
FORM PARTNERSHIP
Attorney G. R. Lovejoy, recently
from Spokane, this week formed a
partnership with Frank E. Sanger for
the practice of law, and the firm
name will be Lovejoy & Sanger. Mr.
Lovejoy is an attorney of consider
l able reputation and will undoubtedly
prove a valuable addition to Pull
man's legal fraternity. He was ad
mitted to the bar in California in
1900 and in 1906 located in Spokane,
where he has practiced since. Dur
ing the years 1911 and 1912 he was
in the prosecuting attorney's office in
Spokane, where he made a creditable
record. Attorney Lovejoy has been
a prominent member of the National
Guard ln Spokane, and takes a keen
interest In military matters. Mrs.
Lovejoy will come to Pullman In a
few days to Join her husband.
MORE ASPHALT IN PAVING
City Engineer Edwards has recom
mended to the city council that more
asphalt be used ln the street paving
now under contract than is called for
ln the specifications. He suggests
that enough asphalt be added to In
crease the cost approximately nine
cents per square yard.
SCHOLARSHIP HONORS
TO TWENTY' STUDENTS
Five Seniors, Four Juniors, Three
Sophomores and Eight Freshmen
Get High Honors for First
Semester at High School
Twenty students of the Pullman
high school were granted scholastic
honors for the first semester's work.
The requirements for honors are that
the student must maintain an aver
age scholarship for the entire semes
ter of 90 per cent or above, and that
his deportment must not fall below
that mark for any stated period. The
students who were granted honors by
I'iinicpal E. L. Breckner were as fol
lows:
Seniorslvan Price, Lelah Bur
gess, Doretha Guthrie, Grace Doug
las, Lenore Emerson.
Juniors — Melcher, Doris
Stephenson, Jervis Fulmer, Laura
Clark.
Sophomores—Ruth Leuty, Mary
Dawson, Wave Woodward.
Freshmen—Winifred Barclay, Al
ice Swartz, Florence Melvin, Etta
Kumpen, Mac Roberts, Charles Car
penter, Joyce Steele, Merle Ellis.
COMAH HEADS REGENTS
OF STATE COLLEGE
Board Adjourns to Puyallup, Where
They Will Meet With Governor
Ernest Lister
E. T. Coman, president of the Ex
change National bank, Spokane, was
yesterday elected president of the
board of regents of Washington
State College, and W. A. Rltz of
Walla Walla was chosen vice presi
dent. Both of these men are new
members of the board and the honor
bestowed upon them is a signal ono.
Edward Meath, state treasurer, was
elected treasurer for the board, and
President Enoch A. Bryan Is secre
tary ex-offlcio.
The board adjourned at three
o'clock yesterday without completing
its deliberations, and will reconvene
In Puyallup this morning, where the
members will meet with Governor
Ernest Lister.
Plans and specifications'* for the
tunnel to connect the heating plant
with the two new buildings were ap
proved and bids will be asked for the
work.
C. A. Magoon, assistant professor
of botany, was added to the experi
ment station staff as botanist.
Miss Florence Ward of the State
Teachers' College, Cedar Falls, lowa,
was elected assistant director of boys
and girls club work, which is in
charge of T. J. Newblll.
President Bryan was authorized to
investigate the feasibility of install
ing a dictaphone system to facilitate
the handling of the vast amount of
correspondence of the college.
J. Fred Bohler, physical director
for men, was given the title of phys
ical and athletic director, and will
have charge of all athletic activities
of the college.
The board authorized the holding
of the annual encampment of the ca
det corps at San Francisco, June 1 to
10, provided that 200 cadets will go.
The expense of the trip would be
about $30, which must be borne by
the individual students.
The board of regents was visited
yesterday morning by a delegation
from the Spokane Chamber of Com
merce, consisting of Robert Insinger.
J. K. McCornack, R. R. Rogers, W.
T. Day and C. T. Hansen, and an ex
tended discussrbn of the needs of the
work ln the dry belt and the ques
tion of Improving methods of farm
ing there was held, although no ac
tion was taken. Another meeting
with the Spokane committee will be
held, probably within the next
month, when the dry belt will be vis
ited and a definite plan of improv
ing conditions there workel out.
CLEAN-UP DAY f
THURSDAY, APRIL 15
Thursday, April 15, has been des
ignated by Mayor Harley Jackson
and the city council as clean-up day
and on that date all the property
owners are urged to give their prop
erty a general house cleaning. The
two following days, Friday and Sat
urday, the city will provide teams
and wagons free of charge to haul
the rubbish to the dumping ground.
NUMBER 27
CHAMBER INTERESTED
IN INTERSCHOLASTIC
May Invite Other Inland Empire
Booster Clubs to Pullman for Big
Occasion
All the Commercial Clubs of the
Inland Empire may be Invited to
Bend representatives to Pullman on
the occasion of the big interschol
astlc track meet to be held on Rogers
field, Friday, May 14. Harry B.
Tweed, chairman of the general com
mittee which has charge of the ar
rangements for the big meet, ap
peared before the chamber Tuesday
vening and solicited the co-opera
tion of that body in making the
meet a success. Mr. Tweed pointed
out the benefits that would result
from the carrying out of such a plan
and the valuable advertising which
would accrue to the city as well as
the college. His argument was strong
and concise and appealed so favor
ably to the business men that a com
mittee was at once appointed to con
fer with the college committee. This
committee consists of E. C. Forrest,
W. O. Straight and W. M. Porter.
That the Spokane schools will Bend
teams to Pullman for the big lnter
scholastic track meet and that they
are already making arrangements for
a special train to bring the fans down
to see the meet was the word
brought back from Spokane Sunday
by Henry Tweed, chairman of the Ih
terscholastlc Track Meet committee,
who spent the Spring vacation in
Spokane arousing interest in the
meet. This is the only out of town
meet that the Spokane schools will
get into and they will bring down a
large bunch of rooters with their
team.
While In Spokane Mr. Tweed made
arrangements with one of the large
moving picture concerns to have a
machine here during the two days
covered by the meet, Campus Day,
and the Whitman baseball game and
track meet the next day. These pic
tures will be shown all over the
Northwest, and will prove especially
interesting as they will not only show
the athletes in action but will In
clude scenes of Campus Day and col
lege life.
The Western Union Life Insurance
Company, through their representa
tive, Chas. Timblin, have put up a
$25 relay cup. Other donations for
medals have been made by Pullman
business houses.
The Bacheller Auto Co. sold this
week to Mr. H. W. Sampson, assist
ant postmaster, a new Studebaker
1915 touring car.
ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT
FOR PULLMAN, JUNE
Hon. Wesley L. Jones Invited to De
liver Principal Address to Old
Soldiers '
Hon. Wesley L. Jones, United
States senator, has been Invited to
deliver the principal address to the
veterans of the Civil war at the nine
teenth annual encampment of the
Veterans' Association of Whitman
and Latah counties, which will be
held here next June. While the ex
act dates for the encampment have
not yet been selected, preliminary
arrangments for the annual meeting
of old soldiers are now under way,
and the definite dates will be an
nounced within a few days. The en
campment, as in former years, will
cover a period of three days, Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, and will
again be featured by the martial
music dispensed by the fife and
drum corps composed of veterans
from Reno post of Spokane.
The encampment this year, as last,
will be in direct charge of local sons
of veterans, who will, rowever, cater
entirely to the desires of the vet
erans in all matters of Importance.
At the meeting of veterans and sons
of veterans held Friday evening, the
matter of choosing the principal
speaker was left to a vote of the old
soldiers, who were unanimous in ex
tending that courtesy to Senator 1
Jones, himself a son of a veteran,
and a life-long champion of the : old
soldiers.