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July 29, 1921     Shelton Mason County Journal
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TRIAL OF PUTNAM AS ONE OF FOUR I LOCAL FINE AFTER TO CRITICISHS OF FARM CASE DENIED 00tee, ,,-o. 00ome th,,00t, are GOV. ARHY CAHPS[ FOUR MONTH TERHP'oo' out at" ACTS AND OF' CODE, U2AM:D pointed out that the associiil SIAc'ES)BI?R[SSOCRT:R!cAEI!:OEFNT mated several months ago its willing- il  'LAKE CUSHMAN GIVEN BY FAIR TRIAL Before Judge Wright in the Su- :perior Court on Monday was argued • he motion for a new trial filed against the award by the jury of $66,000 to W. T. Putnam in satisfac- tion for the proposed taking of his big farm on Lake Cushman for the purpose of overflowing by the Ta- coma power project. Attorneys on both sides argued the -points involved, but Judge Wright "held that a fair trial had been given in which the rights of all parties "had received due consideration and lenied the motion. This was the largest award made in the series of condemnation cases and probably the ,only one in which either the Tilden ,or Tacoma attorneys care to make any great objection. They still have the recourse of appealing to the su- preme court. Later before Judge Wilson will be heard the several motions on both sides against awards made by juries in the earlier proceedings in the cases, and whether any of the cases reach the higher court will probably be determined after such hearing. REMAINS OF FORMER COUNTY RESIDENT ARE BURIED HERE SUNDAY -MR MARY J. SOASH, WHOSE DEATH OCCURRED AT SEAT- TLE, GIVEN FINAL REST- ING PLACE The remains of Mrs. Mary J. .'Soash, :a former resident of Mason County living on a farm at Lost Prairie, were brought from Seattle and interred in the Shelton cemetery Sunday after-noon, July 17th. Mrs. Soash and her family left the -farm some ten years ago, following the death of her husband, and has since lived in the city. •Until recent- ly she has been in good health, but lately afflicted with arteria sclerosis, hich r.esltod :in her death. The hearse attended by family and 'friends came by way of the Bremer- ton ferry, and although but short otice was given hee a number of county friends joined in the service, which was conducted by Rev. W. H. "rhomas. Deceased leaves two sons and two daughters living in Seattle, :her husband and one sonbeing buried in the cemetery here. ,,HOWARD BINNS GETS HIGHEST LAW DEGREE FROM OXFORD COLLEGE LOCAL BOY NOW ON WAY TO TACOMA WHERE HE W}LL PRACTICE LAW Bearing distinguished educational honors never before attained in a like length of time by an American, John H. Binns, Rhodes scholar, was scheduled to arri4e in New York last Saturday from England, and is now believed to be speeding withhis fam- ily on his way to Tacoma. Binns, who is the son of Frank Binns of this city, and son-in-law of United States Commissioner T. W. Hammond of Tacoma, will ractice law and make his home in Tacoma with his wife and three-months-old daughter, Margaret Jean. They will reside temporarily with the Ham- mond family. Copies of the London Times reach- ing Tacoma Saturday, show that Binns is listed in Class 1 of the Ox- ford B. C. L. (bachelor of civil law) degree, the highest degree in law given by that amous old university. In all the years since the founda- tion of the Rhodes scholarship, only four other Americalis have obtained this degree, and the had all enjoyed previous trainimr in law, and took ±hree years to accomplish what this Washlngten boy has done in two. Young Binns was graduated from the Washington State College at Pullman several years ago, and, un- dergoing a competitive examination, as awarded a Rhodes scholarship ut Oxford. He entered the university shortly/ before the outbreak of the -war and when war was declared by he United States he returned to "Washington and won a commission i t army. He was. stationed at C'am''Lewis and posts in California and West Virginia. With the war ended, the Oxford au- thorities invited Binns.to re. rn, .d if married, to bring his wie wire him. Binns comvlied with both tn- vitatlons, and took back as his bride Miss Carrie Hammond, daughter of Commlslsoner Hamomnd, who was a classmate at Pullman. When Mr. and Mrs. Binns reach Tacoma there will be another Shelton • oy on the platfomu to greet hm, owa Ta'coma after- "Fred Metzger, n .... hey, whose educational acmevemenzs almost parallel those of Binns, i Metzger is also i a Rliodes scholar nd a former Ibcal boy. ' On eom' nlethlg h|s education in this state, he qudified for the coveted scholar- ship. and after ending hie studies tn England.t(:to  Tahmto:.praetiCe work planned is completed. The crew is made up of trainmen who are thus kept busy while the logging camps DONED, SAYS OFFICIAL are closed. ANNOUNCEMENT MISSIONARY Camp Lewis is to be one of the S,,. ,., ..... ,. [four permanent army cantonments UIDVhY HOOL IN to be maintained in peace times ac- ' , r a  , : I cording to an announcement made OUTLYING DISTRICTS Tuesday by Secretary of War Weeks. Abandonment of Camps Devens, Mass., Sherman, O.; Grant, Ill.; Pike, LIVELY.ORGANIZATIONS Ark.; Meade, Md.; Jackson, S. C.; LAUNCHED AT HARSTINE, and Bragg, N. C., was also announc- GRANT AND OAKLAND BAY ed by him. ' TO TAKE UP BIBLE WORK John E. Crymes, missionary of the American Sunday School Union, is doing considerable work in Mason County at this time. Last Sunday morning he established a Union Sun- day school at Jarrell's Cove on Har- stine Island. This is perhaps the first Sunday school ever organized on this Island. J. H. Haskell was chosen superintendent. Sunday afternoon Mr. Crymes started a Bible school at Grant school house, of which Mrs. J. ,W. Clark is superintendent and Mrs. A. T. Munro secretary. The people in this neigh- borhood formerly had a Sunday school but there has been none for several years past. The people of Oakland Bay district 'held an enthusiastic meetinq in the school house last Monday mght and a Sunday school was launched. Mrs. R. Sundstrom was elected superin- tendent, while Miss Mabel Doak will act'as secretary. For more than a hundred years the American Sunday School Union has been sending Christian workers into otherwise uureached districts, or- ganizing Sunday schools, distributing bibles and other books and doing a general  religious work in rural com- munities. This society now has about 225 missionaries in the field, seven of whom work in his state. FARMERS VISff STATE EXPERIMENT STATION ACCOMPANY COUNTY AGENT ON ANNUAL TRIP FO LEARN METHODS AT PUYALLUP STATION Mason County farmers accompanied County Agent H. E. Drew to the State Experiment Station for the an- nual Summer Excursion last Thursday for intensive one day course in agri- culture. The day was specially set aside as Thurston and Mason County Day. Owing to .the fact that the highway is closed and the long detour nec- essary and that many were in the midst of haying, there was not so large an attendance as usual, al- though Mason county was very well represented. Of special interest to the farmers of this county this year were the berry fields where the most approved methods of trellissing and,. handling were demonstrated. I Mr. and Mrs. Shoup gave veryI[ interestingtacs on poultry culture [[ and Mr.-McNott, the station dairy I[ expert gave practical talks on judg-II ing and handling cattle. Mr. Johnson, the station veterinar- ian and Mr. Stahl, the horticulturist, and others gave educational talks of interest. The demonstration and fer- tilizer plots were actual demonstra- tions of what can be dons with dif- ferent varieties of fertilizers in this section. Lunch was served by the Station. Have you named your farm and placed the sign up over the qate? That is one of the best ways o£ cre- ating a reputation for your produce. Other camps to be retained ar Dix, N. J.; Travis, Tex.; and Knox Ky., Weeks said. Under the order the First Divisio at Camp Dix will remain at tha place, and the Second Division wil Camp Travis, while the Third Divis ion, stationed at Camp Pike, will be moved to Camp Lewis. Headquarters of the Eighth Bri- gade at Camp Lewis will be trans- ferred to Vancouver Barracks, Wash.; headquarters of the Twelfth Brigade at Camp Grant, to Fort D. A. Rus- sell, Wyo. The Fourth Division at Camp Lew- is is placed on the inactive list. Its command will be reduced to a bri- gade and transferred to Vancouver Barracks. The Sixth Division at Camp Grant will be reduced to a bri- gade and stationed at Fort D. A. Russell. Inactive Cavalry Units Cavalry untis placed on the inac- tive list and for which parent or- ganizations are designated include the Fifteenth Cavalry, at D. A. Rus- sell, for which the Fifth, at Marfa, is made sponsor, and the Seventeenth Cavalry, in Hawaii, for which the Eleventh, at Monterey, is made spon- sor. The war secretary said that in the case of camps to be abandoned all troops would be removed and the greater part of the buildings sal- vaged, but that the land and 'certain permanent improvements would be retained for use in event of a future appropriation permitting their utiliz- ation as citizens' military training camps. CASCARA BUSINESS SMALL THIS YEAR GLUTTED MARKET :AND THE LOW PRICE HAVE DISCOUR- ATGED MOST PEELERS Two years ago mor"----' than 500 tons of cascara bark was sold in Monte- sano and shipped out by local buyers. This year if the total reaches 50 tons receipts will have to increase great- ly, local dealers say. A glutted market with the conse- quent decline in price is given as the rason for the small amount of bark handled. Picketing Brothers, who handled the bulk of the bark in Mon- tesano in 19t9 and t920; are not buy- ing this year, and report 6 to 7 tons still in their warehouse. George Sell, "king of the cascara bark world," has most of the bark here this year, and he has bought so far only 15 tons. The price this week is only" $95 a ton, as compared with $250 in 1919 and about $220 last year. Two years ago Montesano estab- lished the reputation of selling more cascara bark than any other three towns in Washington and Oregon combined, If she maintains that su- premacy this year it will be because other localities are handling prop_or- tionately small amounts, of bark.:The price this  is so low that, those out of work or on a vacation are in most instances the only ones who axe peeling bark. Most of the bark re ,:celved here :ts Id, b: dealem hi 'New York.-.Monso"!idtte; :::/: PLEADS GUILTY LOCAL CHARGE. Louis Prinorach, the Austrian who has been held in local custody, was taken before Justice Ward Saturday, and chose to plead guilty to having liquor in his possession as the easier way to freedom. After serving four months on the federal count Prinorach's ruddy com- lexion had taken on a bleached hue ue to confinement. He was given" a fine and costs in the local court amounting to $184.95, which friends from Aberdeen promptly yoduced and Prinorach secured his hberty. It will be ecalled that the prisoner owned several high-powered cars and claimed to have made $15,000 from his operations in contraband booze. If money came so ewsily it is strange that he would prefer a month in jail, rather than pay a $500 fine. Prinorach was met in Tacoma by Sheriff Potts after serving four months in the federal cell of the city jail there and escorted here to an- swer the local 'charge. He was nab- bed several months ago on the Cris- man ranch near Matlock with liquor in his possession and a costly still was taken at the same time. He stowed the three months term of the federal sentence and added another month to cover the fine which he claimed he was unable to pay. He first planned to fight the case and secured an Aberdeen attorney to represent him btu later decided that he had had enough, pleaded guilty and paid the fine. SHERIFF ROUNDING UP POLL TAX DODGERS Sheriff Potts and his deputies are rounding up a lot of delinquent poll tax money over Mason County and have reduced the delinquent list to under 200. In Grays Harbor county there are over 5,000 delinquents who are being hunted by the sheriff, and a little later some penalty in the form of property seizure will be ex- acted from dodgers. CAPTIOUS PUBLIC SENTIMENT It must be agreed, from a casual survey of the state field, that Governor Hart has gotten himself "in bad" with state newspapers, most of which are of his own party and responsible for placing him in power,--and possibly he doesn't care, at least just now. Considering the great variety of opinion and the many shades of political belief represented by the state press it would appear that no one thing but a combination of "breaks" must be responsible for the spontaniety of criticism directed at the state ad- ministration. That all of these editors are piqued because they asked for a job and failed to get it, seems unlikely, and a fair explanation would be that they supported Gov. Hart under some protest as not the best timber in the state, that they feel more strongly their duty to the people, and will not be slow in pointing out wherein they believe mistakes have been made that they may hold the public confidence. The esteemed Post-InteUigencer points out that it is the only newspaper which has made definite charges of irregularities in the conduct of state af- affairs, and that assurances have been given that the things complained of have been corrected or will not again occur; It urges that the more recent and nois- ier complaints against the governor, whatever may be the justification for any of them, are certainly not definite or specific. It is quite likely that the worst has been done, and that the administration will be mindful of the fact that its errors of omission and commission will hereafter be checked by a watchful press, quite able to distinguish between real news and propoganda. Enough has been said to warn the governor and his cabinet that they are on probation and hold no life- lease on power in Washington, that the Republican party is also on probation in both state and nation, and the voters who placed them in power are more concerned in getting esults along economy lines than in having officials play favorites with legislators or pay their political obligations at the expense of the public treasury. . _ " There is no denand for recall, and no thought of flying to ills the public knows not of. The new state code is an experiment but it will work out all right if fairly and honestly administered, and it is the function of the newspapers to see that it is. It is too much to expect much saving at the outset, or even marked results within two years, but with a little pruning in places where practice indicates the good results will come. _ It ought to be clear that the majority of the slate Republican press is not looking for trouble, nor desirous of aggravating the.. troubles of the state.ad- mtrativn, :butthey are Voicing a rather captious public sentiment that bids e Governor heed, wake up and stick close to the big job he :has undertaken. ness to give relief. NEW BUILDINGS NEAR COMPLETION; WOODS IN NEW STOREROOM BELL, SHICK, HECKMAN AND SCHUMACHER B U I L D I N GS READY FOR OCCUPANCY IN ANOTHER WEEK Contractor Mallory is putting on the finishing touches at the Ben Schumacher building and this week is laying the concrete sidewalking, ready for occupancy. Ben's Restaur- ant will be located in the corner store room next week: The Bell building is plastered, its glass front placed amt another week will be ready for tenants. Contractor Dan Anderson has com- pleted the Woods store room and the Woods jeweh'v store is now located in its new hone. The Heckman and Shick stores are plastered and their glass fronts are now being placed, and in another week will be ready for occupancy by the photography and millinery shops of the owners. FOUR REFERENDUM PETITIONS WIN OUT ACTS OF LAST .LEGISLATURE HELD UP UNTIL NEXT ELECTION Olympia, July 27.Official canvass of the last of the four referendums filed against acts of the 1921 legis- lature was completed by J. Grant Hinkle, secretary of state yesterday. All four referendums are sustained by heavy margins in number of pe- titioners above the required statutory total of 24,000 legal voters' names on each, as a result of which all four laws are suspended to be voted up'on in the ]922 election. The referendum verified yesrday HASTY PASSAGE At the annual meeting of the Washington State Bar Association in Olympia last week, President Otto Be Rupp, of Seattle, endorsed the con- solidation plan of the civil adminis- trative code ua.sed by the last legis- lature and asked a fair trial of the plan in this state, but sharply criti- cised the hasty method by which the act was passed and the adding of the emergency clause which prevented its submission to the people it is design- submission to the people it is designed to govem. After reviewing the speed with which the code plan was put through the legislature Pres. Rupp said: "Here was a statute which aboli£h- ed 70 commissions and offices, created new departments and committees, giving them extensive powers and in fact changed to a great degree the system under which this state had operated for 32 years. It is beyond dispute that legislation of this kind should be enacted only after careful deliberation and full discussion. To say that this act was so passed by the House would be to assert an ab- surdity. Attacks Stret Report. One detail of the act has been gen- erally )verlooked. Shortly stated, it provides that the director of effi- 'ciency shall make certain confidential reports to the governor. Why confi- dential reports? The officers of the state do not own the state. Public af- fairs are not their private affairs, but the affairs of the people. It would seem that a condition worthy of re- report ought to be made public. "Moreover we want no spy system in this commonwealth. That age- long instment of tyranny and op- pression must not be employed in a free republic. "The. overwhelming objection to the act, however, is that it continues the policy of enlarged governmental activity and in consequence the .grant- ing to administrative boards and offic- ers powers, legislative, executive and udicial. For this no blame can be mputed to the framers of the act and but little to the le¢islature itself. The fault rests with the people. "n one breath they inveigh bitter- is No. 15 against Chapter 176 of the session laws uroviding for party con- ly against the outrageous increase in ventions of delegates elected in prim- taxes an!..in .the next clamor for ar es Petitions in sum)ort of it ear-I some ao(nmnm .uncmn o oe per- ,\\;, "' " €,.," f .''io d;,,. ,formed bv the state. Another maxhu of expectance s that you can not rhe other acts i'eferred and previous-i : - . : .... nave yore cae ane ea  . SUP ly canvassed are Chapter 177, prow  ! ,.., :, ..-, . : • ," stanum reoucuon m taxes c m pray iding for registration of party affllia- . • .....  , "  . tion for direct primary votlng:; Chap- come trom a suDsanml re(tucmn m ter 175, excluding chihb'en from reed- governmental interferen'ce with busi- ical examination in schools for con- tagious disease on written objection of parents, and Chapter 59, extendinl the 'certificate of convenience and necessity regulation over all public utilities. It is now exercised only over auto stage stansportation lines under a separate act. Referendums against the party con- vention and party affiliation registra- tion acts were filed hy the executive committee of the national non-par- tisan league, including Bouck, recent- 1,v deposed head of the Washington State Grange. FREE PICRIC ACID COSTS TOO MUCH TO CLEAR LAND The offer of the federal govern- ment to donate 12,500 pounds of pie- ric acid for the use of farmers in ness." Governor Takes Issue Coming from a source which could hardly be overlooked Governor Ha took advantage of the opportunity afforded to addres the assembly later and make his promised reply to the criticism of his acts and of the code as well which has been appearing in the stte newspapers. Speaking dir- ectly on the Code administration he. said: ' "The Tmramount problem before the State of Washington is taxation. The burden lies heavy on all and must be lightened. To that end this admin- istration has devoted its energy and will ontinue to do so despite all ob- stacles. So effectively have we worked that a total of more than $1,700,000 has been saved the taxpayers thus ar and the deficit of $2,750,000 will e wiped out before the end of the biennnium . Needless to say, I have no apology to make for this con- dition. clearing land is hardly the good thing that it looked to be, according to the state agricultural department. The department has made inquiry into the matter and this is what develops. The picric acid is tored at Sparta,, Wis., and at Fort Wingate. The cheapest freight charges are from parta to Spokane, 4.83 cents per pbund and from Fort Wingate to Seattle, 4.61 cents a pound. In addition there is a charge of six cents a pound for 'cartridging and packing and one cent "contingent charge" making the ac- tual cost of the explosive, laid down in Seattle or Spokane nearly 12 cents a pound. The stuff has to be shipped in car- load lots. It is claimed to be slight- ly superior to dynamite for blowing stumps, but it requires heavy No. 8 caps, not carried in stock by ordinary dealers, in order to explode it.- Olympian. HARDING CAMPS WITH FORD AND EDISON Peetonvflle, Md., July 23,Presi- dent Harding arrived at his week-end camping place here in time to take off his coat, get a busines-like grip on an ax and cut enough wood to cook lunch for the whdle party. .He found saddle horses waiting at the camp and planned to do the first horseback work he has done in many .ears duing the afternoon, following it up With a night in the woods, un- der canvas. The president's car was met at Funst0wn, Md., on its way up from Washington by a machine occuuted by Harvey S. 'Firestone, Henry Ford and Thomas A. 'Edison, hosts of the chief executive on his brief vacation "This saving 'can be attributed in large measure to the enactment of the State Administrative Code. Some eighteen months ago I outline{t before the Spokane Bar Association my idea of this Code, and I am glad to lay before the State Bar Association at this time a brief review of four (Continued on page 8) r FROMME TIES RED STRING ON FINGERS ; AS FOREST WARNING STORES IN DANGER ZONE ALSO ISE RED TWINE : , R. L. Fromme, supervisor of the Olympia forest, has anew idea for fire prevention in the forest area. The plan :odnated in his office and. has beel widely aopted in the North- west. A oSter, originally designed by W. J. Paeth, forest examiner of the ,Olympics, with a drawing by Mrs. C. M. Dowling of Portland, is  being sent to stores in and near the bloh down area of the Olympic for- est. This poster advocates fire pre- vention and explains the reason fox' the usage of red twine in the stores. • Proprietors of stores in this dis- trict have 'agreed to use only red twine on packages throughout the fire season. The poster shows a hand with a red string tied around the one finger, using the old idea of a string around the finger to atimulate the memory This unique method of fire prevention has been accepted by several stores in the Lake Quinaulu trip. ' district. ....... '-- The stores at Humptulips, Netlton Every woman likes to think ,her [ and Olson were the first to adopt the_ nerves unusually sensitive ,and every plan and otherstores at QIc_ee ajd man likes to thi.;-his bearcl unusual-[ttoodsport have accepted t also. o [ly tough.'Providnce Journal i only lfi the,Olympics will the idea be l[ , " . " ]used :but 'alSo,!i2 other National I A you ashamed :of your back] parks and forest of Washington, Idao |Jyard, ff so, let's have a cleaning, bee.] he, and Montana.--Olympilm. : - i i ¸/i