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VOLUME XXX
BULMAN, LECTURER
SUES THEATRE MAN
\nti-Calh<!i< Lecturer, Refused The
.'_.'■- aire, Sues on Contract—
Demands ("Wot
George Stephenson, as proprietor
of the Grand theatre, is made de
fendant in a suit Instituted in the
superior court late last week by A.
P. Bulman, anti-Catholic lecturer of
Pendleton, Ore., who attempts to re- ,
rover $"'.Ol <in a contract alleged to
have been executed by Mr. Stephen
son when Bulman arranged dates for
a series of lectures. Not knowing
the nature of the lectures proposed
to be delivered by liulniail Air. Ste
phenson granted him the use of the
theatre for three nights last week,
contracting for Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday evenings. Later,
when complaint was made against the
appearance of the lecturer, Mr. Ste
phenson investigated the case fully.
He conferred with city authorities,
who voiced their opposition, and a
telegram was sent to Bulman stating
that the city council had refused to
permit the opening of the theatre to
the lecturer,
The lecturer appeared in Pullman
as per schedule Tuesday of last week,
however, and demanded the priv
ilege of delivering bis series of talks.
Upon being refused he at once stated
his purpose of suing on the contract
and sought legal counsel. Several
attorneys flatly refused to become
connected with the case in the in
terests of Hillman.
""The contract, Bulman alleges, pro
vides I'm- the payment of $1110 by
Stephenson for each or all of the
three nights thai the lecturer was not
permitted to use the theatre, and he
seeks to recover the $100 forfeit for
each of the three nights, as well as
'1 paid by him to bind the bargain.
The circulation o! advertising mat
ter relating to the proposed lectures
caused a furore here and a campaign
to prevent the appearance of the lec
turer was started, Mr. Stephenson
states that he finally refused the
theatre to Bulman upon advice from
the city authorities, and that he can
not be held responsible on the con
tract because of this fact.
Bulman had advertised for three
lectures, his advertising carrying in
huge letters at the top, "Romanism
Exposed." The subjects advertised
for the three nights were "The Pub
lic School System and the Pope's At
titude Toward the War," "A Mes
sage to Masons and Odd Fellows,"
"The Convent System," and "Secret
Theology of Rome."
Bulman was attacked and beaten
in a hotel in Walla Walla some
months ago after delivering lectuees
criticizing the Catholic church. He
"wore out a warrant against three
residents of Walla Walla and also
brought a civil suit for damages
"gainst them. None of the suits has
come to trial.
IH'OKLEV BABY LAID TO REST
Funeral services for Maurice
Buckley, two-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. I. A. Buckley, were held Sun
day afternoon. Short services were
De'd at the home of G. F. Johnson,
« which the Rev. R. C. Sargent
Poke words of comfort to the sor
rowing parents and other relatives,
*hile music was furnished by the
X' of p. quartet, including A. R.
Metz, E, W. Thorpe, C. L. Hix and
°- P. Campbell. The funeral cor
tege proceeded to the Onecho church,
15 miles west of Pullman, where
.services were conducted by the Rev.
M. Laws of Colfax. Both services
*ere largely attended and the floral
offerings were profuse and beauti-
W. The little body was laid to rest
In Onecho cemetery, one of the old
-681 cemeteries in Whitman county.
Here tho remains of the little tot's
it-reat-G rand father Johnson were la*
terred over 40 years ago.
K-Liri' CHIEF
GETS SALARY RAISED
1 Chief of Police A. R. Boyd will
■Sreafter draw a monthly salary of
.■-'OO instead of $80, through action
of the city council Tuesday night.
•.•»*> city attorney was requested to
-Wt an amendment (to the ordi
nance concerning the chief of police
•hieh will provide for the added
••'ary.
The Pullman Herald
Devoted to the beet interests of Pullman and tbe beat farming community in the Northwest surrounding it.
L.MAX AGAIN
"GOES OVER TIIE TOP"
The city of Pullman, the State Col
lege of Washington and the Pullman
high school have all -gone over the
'"''" in their V. M, C A. war relief
campaign. The city, with a quota of
*-'""". has already exceeded that
sum by a substantial margin, with
many subscriptions yet to come in,
With a quota of $4000 to raise at
the college an oversubscription is re
ported, while the students of the
high school, called upon to contrib
ute I '■ 80 to the cause, have doubled
their quota. A feature of the cam
paign to raise the $2000 city quota
was the willingness with which Her
man citizens and farmers subscribed
to the fund. One German farmer
who had purchased Liberty Bonds
to the extent of $500 subscribed $.".0
to the V M, C. A. work, the largest
single subscription recorded during
the campaign,
AUTO RACES AT MOSCOW
An automobile race meet will be
held Saturday afternoon at Moscow,
with cars of all makes and descrip
tions entered in the competition.
The meet will be held at the fair
grounds.
PULLMAN SOLDIERS
NOW AT CAMP MILLS
Henry Roys Report That All Are
.Making Good and Are in Fine
Spirits
Mr. and Mrs. M. 1). Henry this
week resolved the following letter
from their son, Harold, who. to
get her with another son, Ernes!. if
at Camp Mills. X. Y. A large num
ber of Pull man bo* no at (' imp
Mills are mentioned In the letter:
" I lear Father and Mother:
"Ernest and 1 received your letters
today, also the helmets and mils
They are certainly fine and we will
sure make good use of them.
"Guess who we have with us now!
Zook Fulkerth and Hank Barclay
came in with the draft today. They
are assigned to our company.
"Claude Baucum is top sergeant
and is one of the busiest fellows in
the ramp. He is certainly a very ef
ficient officer. Ernest is to get a
sergeant's commission very soon; al
so Carson Walker is to gel the same.
At present i hey are Instructing out
draft quota, getting them in shape
so we can absorb them into our com
pany without much confusion. Roy
Puller is a corporal and is making
good. II" is very Jjell liked, consid
ering his position, as it is not an un
common occurrence for the hoys tc
dislike a corporal as he is a buffer
between officers and privates. Guy
Pratt is our cook and is very hard tc
beat in his line. Finstad is stable
orderly for the company. It is ru
mored that he may be transferred tc
headquarters. Corporal Aumac, a
W. S. C. man. is a ranking corporal
Charlie Wenham is kept busy as a
humorist and certainly succeeds in
his endeavors. . Bardwell, another
W. S. C. boy, is making good as a
splendid soldier. Jack Brown is or
derly for our officers. He will per
haps be transferred to brigade head
quarters, l am a mounted orderly at
brigade headquarters, but until w«
cross the pond I will be dismounted.
'Shorty' Williams is getting along
fine and is a good soldier. Nelson
Vaughn is all O. K. and likes the
place. Zook Fulkerth and Hank Bar
clay are with us to stay. They cer
tainly were fortunate in being as
signed to this company with so many
Pullman boys. As a whole, the Pull
man boys are all making good, and
conducting themselves in a manner
which we hope will be a credit to our
relatives, friends and country."
PULLMAN WOMEN*
MOURN MOTHER
Telegrams were received Wednes
day announcing the death at New
Wilmington, Pa„ of Mrs. John
Wright, mother of Mrs. William
Porter and Mrs. K. E. Wegner ol
Pullman, and of Thomas Wright ol
Moscow. Mrs. Wegner had been at
her mother's bedside for several days
when death came. Deceased was 68
years of age. She visited her daugh
ters in Pullman three years ago and
will be remembered by many Pull
man ladles.
PULLMAN. WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1917
NOTED AGRICULTURAL LEADER "
ADDED TO COLLEGE FACULTY
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i i
Professor XV. ,i. Spillinaii, Govern*
ment Fxpert, Accepts Deansliip
of College of Agriculture
Prof, W. .1. Spillman, chief of the
office of farm markets of the United
ties department of agriculture, has
accepted the position of dean of the
college of agriculture of the State
College of Washington, according to
Information contained in a telegram
received by college officials from
Piesident tt. O. Holland, who is now
in the national capital. The tele
gram, which contains all the infor
mation mi the subject which is pos
sessed by persons connected with the
college, reads as folio-* .
"Prof. W. .1. Spillman, chief of the
office of farm markets, has accepted
the position of dean of the college of
agriculture ol the state College of
Washington. Prof, Spillman is as
signed to make a survey of the farm
labor program for the entire coun
try and therefore will he unable to
undertake his duties at Pullman un
til the first of next April."
Under the reorganization of the
departments of the State College,
perfected by the regents last Juno,
the college of agriculture Includes
the agricultural experiment station,
the department of agriculture, the
department of horticulture and the
department of forestry ', the dean of
the college of agriculture to have
direct supervision over the work in
all these divisions. Prof. George
Severance is at present acting dean
of the college of agriculture and act
ing director of the experiment sta
tion.
At the time of the retirement of
Dr. Ira I). Cardiff as director of the
slate experiment station last April,
the position was offered hy the re
gents to Prof. Spillman, who, after
some deliberation, refused to accept,
not being inclined to give up his
work tor the depart of agricul
ture. Dr. Holland, mi his visit to
Washington, has evidently been able
to Influence Prof Spillman to recon
sider the oiler and to accept the
deansliip.
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Prof, spillman is recognized as one
of the greatest agricultural scientists
in the world today. He served as
head of the department, of agrfcul-
PR. GOLDER TO AID
NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
.
Man Who Witnessed Events Which
Led l'p to Overthow of Czar
Called to Washington
,
Dr. F. A. Colder of the history
faculty of the State College Friday
received a telegram calling him to
national headquarters for the dura
tion of the war. in just what capac
ity Dr. Colder will serve his govern
ment is not fully known. He re
cently returned from Russia, where
he observed at close range the events
which led up to the overthrow of the
czar and the establishment of a re
public. His information concerning
Russia, as well as other parts of
Europe, may prove of great benefit
to the government in its war work,
while his extensive knowledge of
European history and events of im
portance in the old world may also
be of avail to the federal govern
ment.
Dr, Colder made his trip to Rus
sia, which extended over a period of
several months, in the interests of
the Carnegie Institute of Washing
ton, and made a comprehensive
search of the Russian historical ar
chives. The results of his study have
just recently been published in book
form by the Carnegie Institute,
under the title, "A Guide for Amer
ican History in the Russian Ar
chives."
While in Russia Dr. Golder became
personally acquainted with Keren
sky and other notables and secured a
reliable and comprehensive insight
into Russian affairs.
He left fur Washington early this
week.
lure of the State College during the
early years of President. 10. A
Bryan's administration, but resigned
in 1902 to accept a position with the
United States department of agricul
ture.
As an expert with the United
States department of agriculture*.
Prof. Spillman has proved highly ef
ficient and his work has attracted j
wide attention. lie is recognized as
the father of the national movement
for county agricultural agents and
supplementary work and is the au
thor of two accepted text books on
agricultural subjects, "Farm Man
agement" and "Farm Grasses of the
United States."
Professor Spillman is one of the
three re-discoverers of .Mendel's law
of heredity, on which all of the work
of plant breeding and live stock
breeding for improved strains is
based. The law was first discovered
by the monk, Mendel, who went to
his grave without contributing his
findings to science. Later the law of
agricultural heredity was discovered
almost simultaneously by an Eng
lish scientist, a Holland scientist, and
Prof. Spillman, each of whom worked
out the law entirely unknown to the
other.
W. .1. ROBERTA VISITS
IV PULLMAN
W. .1. Roberts, who came to Pull
man 22 years ago to become a mem
ber of the engineering faculty at the
State College, serving in that capac
ity until eight years ago, visited
Pullman friends this week. After
leaving Pullman Mr. Roberta spent
several years at Medford, Oregon,
later locating on the Washington
coast. He was in charge of the
gigantic task of engineering the
sewer and water system at Camp
Lewis, his remarkable efficiency in
that capacity attracting wide atten
tion. Mr. Roberts is now located at
Tacoma.
State Library Publicity Director
W. W. Foote left last Wednesday
for Seattle to meet Miss Edith Hiier
rler, head of the library section of j
the food conservation division sta
tioned at Washington, I). C. Meet- 1
ings will be arranged throughout the
state by Mr. Foote while on this trip
PROSECUTOR HINTS;
CITY GETS BUSY
city Dumping Ground Will Re Made
Sanitary as Result <>! Warning !
by Prosecutor Clegg
1 .
After Prosecuting Attorney ('legg
1 had appeared before the city council
Tuesday night to sound a warning
that unless the city dumping ground
is put in a more sanitary condition
immediately the state would be
forced to take a hand in the affair,
the city fathers voted extensive im
provements in the dumping ground.
All of the present refuse will be
buried and trenches excavated to re
ceive future refuse. A bridge will
be constructed leading to the
grounds. Two days each week dur
ing the summer months will be desig
nated as "dumping" days, and on
these days the city will have a man
in charge of the grounds to direct
the dumping of refuse. One day
each week will be set aside for dump
ing during the winter.
The dumping ground question has
been a bone of contention in the city
council for several years, with resi
dents In the locality where the
grounds are located protesting vig
orously against the alleged unsani
tary condition of the place and cit
izens claiming that it is an eyesore
for the community. On numerous
occasions remedies lor the evil have
been proposed by the council, but in
each case the plans have been
thwarted.
Mrs. Harriet Haynes and daughter
left this week for Long Beach, Cal..
where they will spend the winter
WILL AUCTION VEAL
.1. c. Clark has donated a veal
rail' to the local Red Cross and V.
M. C. A. organizations, The calf:
will be auctioned oil tomorrow . No
(-ember 24, at 3:00 o'clock p. m. Nt
the First National bank corner. The !
calf was killed yesterday by (' Moid
horst, manager of the College mar
ket, and the carcass will he on ex j
hibition in he market window until
lhe time of Ihe sale, hen it will be
cut up in the presence of the crowd
and the various cuts auctioned off
by 1 he pound by Norman Cairns. The
proceeds ill be divided equally be
tween the Led Cross and the V, M.
C, A. war work fund, Mr, Mordhorst
will kill and cut up the calf free of
charge.
TEKOA FORI ins (SAME
Keen disappointment as evi
deuced in high school circles Satur
day hen he management of the
Tekoa Inch school football team can
celled the game scheduled for Satur
day afternoon with ihe Pullman high
school count) champions. A serious
injury to one player in practice the
previous night and the illness of an
other with typhoid fever caused Te
koa to forfeit the game to the locals.
CITY TO FRAME"
NEW TRAFFIC LAWS
Wide Discussions of Legality of Re
cent Auto Arrests Results in New
Ordinance Clarifying Point
A full digest of the state and mu
nicipal laws concerning automobile
traffic by City Attorney D, C. Dow
featured tne meeting of the chamber
of commerce Tuesday. The discus
sion resulted from the complaint of
several business men al the last
meeting thai automobile owners
were being arrested tor offences not
enumerated in either the state or
city laws, and thai contention, to a
large extent. was borne out by ihe
digest of the laws presented by the
city attorney, The principal point ai
issue was whether or not an automo
bile owner violates a law when he
leaves his machine standing on a
lighted street after dark without his
lights burning, it being charged that
several citizens and farmers had
been arrested and fined on this
charge hy city officials.
City Attorney How discussed the
state law concerning lights on motor
vehicles after dark and relating to
requirements of the law.
"While the law is very specific as
to the number of lights required and
their penetrating power, and while
the statute does not specify that the
cars must he in motion without
lights to constitute an Infraction of
the law, the application of the
'reasonable construction' rule, to be
applied when there is doubt as to
the real intent of the law, certainly
would not hold an owner liable to
arrest because of violation of this
provision when his machine was
standing in his garage, Neither, I
believe, did the law makers intend
to make ii an offence to leave a
machine standing on well lighted
street without lights burning/!
As a result of the discussion aris
ing from the arrests here of automo
bile owners who lett their machine's
on the principal business streets
without lights, and to clarify the
Situation so far as the indefinite 5
meaning of the state law is con
cerned. City Attorney Dow has pre
pared a new city traffic ordinance for
consideration by the council. While
the proposed city law will not con
flict with the provisions of the state
law in any manner and will not touch
on the matter of speed limits, regu
lated entirely by the slate laws, it
will hold as legal the absence of
lights on machines left standing 1
within a certain distance of a light- '
ed street lamp.
The new ordinance passed its first
reading before the city council Tues
day night and was placed in the
hands of the streets and highways 1
committee* for additions and alter
ations. The council manic commit- i
tee will confer with the streets and 1
highways committee of the chamber |
of commerce with a view to present- i
ing an ordinance at 'he second read- I
Ing that will meet with favor at tbe I
hands of both city organizations and 1
the people. j'
NUMBER 5
ARMERS WONDER
WHERE SCREENINGS 60
If Mill Men Retain Refuse From
Graded Wheat They Ask to Re
Reimbursed
Hal becomes of the screenings
'i "in wheat, cm which Inland Empire
farmers have this year been docked
from one to six per cent, was a much
lißcussed question at the meeting of
Whitman County Pomona Orange,
No. 2, held in Pullman Friday after
noon. Complaint was made at the
session thai while all wheat is in
•pected by He- government inspector
m federal grades, the farmers so far
have received no return from the
screenings, for which full dockage
has been made at the mills. If these
screenings are kept by the mills the
farmers maintain that they should
Dither be reimbursed to the extent of
lie Value of the screenings tor chick
en feed or the dockage reduced In
proportion to the value of the screen
ing".
Attention was called to tho fact
thai because of the almost entire ab
sence of smut this year the screen
ings should he valuable and that tho
farmer should not he called upon to
give the broken kernels and other
screenings resulting from grading to
the mills or whoever gels them with
out due compensation,
Some of the farmers who partici
pated in the discussion advocated the
Cleaning of all wheat, before it is
shipped, thus insuring No. 1 grade
and leaving the farmer in possession
of the now valuable screenings. Ob
jection was raised to this method as
i wholesale undertaking on the
ground that the farmers of any small
community are not in a position to
market the screenings to good ad
ventage, the objectors advocating a
(dan which includes the Bale of the
icreeningß at the terminals and the
reimbursement of the farmers who
were forced to pay freight on the
ow grade product.
A committee was named by the
convention to take the matter up
with Director Asher Hobson of the
Itate office of farm markets with a
flew to clearing the situation. «,
The meeting was attended by Stale
Lecturer 1.. L. Snow, who outlined
he work that is being done by the
l£ange In all parts of the state. R.
I' Coglon, state leader of county ag
ricultural agents, also addressed the
'Jrangers' dealing with the accom
plishments of lie- county agents. The
Pomona reiterated Its endorsement
if the county agricultural agent
movement, the members favoring the
employment of an agent in eVery
-ounty of tii** state.
The co-operative work of the
'range was discussed by W. J. Lang
lon of Sumner, in charge of that
phase of the Grange work in the
state.
Pomona officers were elected as
follows:
Master—James Emert, College
..range, Pullman.
Overseer— M. Farley, Ewartsville.
Steward -Chas. H. Oderlin, Pa
ouse.
Assistant Steward —W. C. Kamer
*er, Ewartsville.
Lecturer- Mrs. 11. W. Hodges,
Ewartsville.
Chaplain—Mrs. James Emert, Col
ege Grange.
Secretary —F. A. Hodges, Ewarts
,ille.
TreasurerW. T. Clark, Whelan.
Lady Assistant Steward— Madge
S'elll, Ewartsville.
Gatekeeper — Thomas Pritchard,
A'le-lan.
Pomona Mrs. W. T. Clark, Whe
an.
Ceres Cora Hodges, Kwartsvllle.
Flora- Mrs. M. Farley, Ewarta
ille.
Resolutions calling attention . to
he great work of the late C. B. Keg
.y. state master, in the Interests of
he farmers, were adopted by the
'omona.
F. C. Forrest, who has been ap
,ointed as fuel administrator for
'ullman and vicinity, states that the
uel dealers will he required to make
nonthly instead of semi-monthly re
iorts. If there is any shortage of
oa! or any complaint from dealers
hat they can not get coal the matter
hould be reported to him at once,
o that he can take it up with the
ounty fuel administration.