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h / VOLUME XXXV. NEAR DEATH FROM AX BLOW; BROTHER LODGED IN JAIL 'CHARLES BURFMAN, BLFAIR LOGGER, BROUGHT HERE BY SHERIFF, CLAIMS HE ST{UCK IN SELF DE- FENCE As the result of an affray at Bel- fair Monday morning between two brothers, Emmett Burfman lies in the hospital at Bremerton in serious ondition and Charles Burfman is in the county jail, brought here by Sheriff R. W. Points Wednesday. The injured man was struck twice on the head with an axe and his brain exposed through the loven skull, but at last acCount was likely to recover. In a few conscious mo- ments he is said to have admitted being at fault, and the brother here laims the blows were given in self- (lefence. Mr. and Mrs. Frank May- hew and John Murray were witnesses o the affray and their statements oineide. The brothers were oggurs and have been employed in nearby camps hut ,the victim, the older of the two, had not been working for some time. Both have been living in a cabin at Belfair, and have been under sus- picion for "moonshining," and their cabin has been the scene of several drunken frays of late. According to Belfair people the younger brother has taken little part in these affairs and made some effort to keep the lder straight. Pursned with Long Knife On the morning o£ the fray Charles remonstrated with Emmett or not rising, to his feet on the ar- rival of the visitors and the latter e'cmne angry and picking up a long butcher knife began chasing his bro- ther around and through the house. After several rounds Charles picked up an axe and struck Emmett twice, one blow striking his shoulder and! he next cutting his head open. The i visitors were getting away from the scene as fast as lossible but were in view of the climsx Help was se- cured and in an hour Emmett was in the hospital at Bremerton on the operating table . Although the fray occurred in Ma-! son County Bremerton is the nearest point, and little was known of it here until Wednesday. Being in an- other county officials there had taken ao action. Charles Burfman was -waiting at Be]falr for the arrival of 'Sheriff Ports and gave himself expressing regret at his part in le affair but asserting that his using the axe was the only way to stop lis crazed brother. Claimed Both Were Sober While the house had been the scene )f several Sunday drinking bouts, it 'was denied that either of the bro- thers was drunk or that any liquor was in evidence in the fray between the brothers, but that other troubles were responsible for the older bro- ther's rage. The Burfmans 'came from Port Orchard. where their mother lives, and their father is in Alaska, where le is known as "Skagit Jim." No complaint has _vet been filed against Charles Burfman. He will be held in custody in the jail here awaiting he result of his brother,s injuries. The prisoner bears a wound on his arm from a shot fired atkhim by ]is brother two weeks before whi'ch seems to bear out his story that he was in fear of his life. It is encouraging to farmers to note that eggs and butter are going up in advance of feed in- creases.. Eggs now retail at 85 cents and bring the producer 82 cents. LEVI OSTRANDER DIES IN SEATTLE UCCUMBS TO STROKE SUFFER- FERED EARLY IN JU, LY News comes from Seattle of .the death of Levi Wells Ostrander Tues- (lay as the result of a paralytic troke suffered several weeks ago, on his return home from a visit to Yriends in Shelton. He was 80 years ld, having been born at Aztelan, "Wis., April 0, 1841. Fnvera! ser- ,ce, were held in Seatt!e and the remains brought to Olympia for in- "torment Thursday, a number of old .helton friends being in attendance. Soon after the outbreak of the Civ- il War the deceased voluteered as a private and served with the 29th Viisconsin Infantry, rising to the rank of a filet lieutenant. After the war he settled at Lake Mills, Wis, engaging in merchandising, and was there married to Hettle S. Far- go, who died at Olympia, August 5, 1894. They moved to Olympia in 1883, and Mr. Ostrander became as- sociated with the old First National Bank. His later years were spent in bankinm logging and other enter- prises, an for several years he servr SHELTON, MASON COUNTY, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1921 NO. 34 BLOODED HO,LSTEINS COUNTY PROPERTY OFFICIALS SEEK PLAN sPRUCE ROAD TO BE BRING GOOD PRICES co.,Mo00 GIRL DROWNS IN SHOWS DECREASE IN TO CONTINUE PAVING Washington, 00u,y VIEW OF MOTHER VALUE ON TAX ROLLS ON OLYMPIA HIGHWAY ted States Spruce Production Corpor- ation sells he goverumen railway At the dispersal sale of Holsteins at the Brady farm near Satsop on July 22nd, about sixty head of high grade and registered animals, young and old, were sold bringing the own- ers, the Hamilton brotlmrs, $16,000. The best price was brought by a two- year-old heifer, Chimacum Lutske Marie, $735 paid by William Bishop the Chimacum breeder from whom some of the original stock came. It it not noted that any Mason County farmers took advantage of the op- portunity to improve their stock. J.ames Carstairs of Upper Satsop, made the following purchases: Daisy Palmyra, Shady Grove female, born August 16, 1917, $180; Ida de Kol Cornu R0eelia, female, born April 1, 1917, $210; an unnamed heifer, born June 23, 1921, $110. TAXPAYERS MUST MAKE UP TAXES FORMER.LY FROM TA- COMA LANDS The County Board of Equalization was in session Monday to pass on the tax rolls for 1921 completed by Assessor Shelton, and were open to hear complaints but the taxpayers seemed to be unconcerned, at least none appeared to criticise assess- monte. An0ther session will b9 held next Monday. The total valuation figures show a decrease under 1920 of $242,401, of which $213,000 is accounted for in the decreased value of timbered lands and a considerable sum cut from the rolls by going into the possession of the city of Tacoma on its power pro- Ject. The value of improvements on real COMMISSION CUTS HUN00NG rolliNG SEASON, FOR property increased $16,000, ond of I,VUlll I persona] property $60,000, a good part of the latter due to the timber ISSUES ORDER FOR CLOSE SEA- on Tacoma lands being retained by SON THIS YEAR ON GROUSE the Phoenix Logging company and being now assessed as personal prop- erty. TOTA - 0' :RO-S :O:R 1921 Real Property Acres ValuaHon Imnroved ........ 7.367.67... 159,145 Unimproved ..... 250,354.65,.. 935,355 Timberland ..... :[43,242.49...3,229,410 Oysterland ...... 3.358,07... :109,900 404,322:88...4,433.1 Improvements (l]ulldlngs) .... 132,1 5 4,566,105 Platted Property: Land ....................... 97,025 Improvements (Buildings) .... 121,860 218,85 Personal Property ......... 756,095 WOULD COMI*LETE CONNECTION asin the spruce belt Ofhas been authorizedChdlam CountY,by the war WHILE BATHING WHILE CONTRACTORS ON JOB department, the contract for sale will CAN DO WORK AT DE. contain a proviso that the road must "--" CIDED SAVING .... be operated as a common carrier for ELDERS MAKE _ FRANTIC EF- freight and passenger service, which FORTS BUT DAUGHTER will protect the public in the matter SINKE BEFORE BOAT M. E. Reed, with Commissioners of fares and rates and running sched- Daniels, Hunter and Blanton visited ules. REACHES HER McCleary Monday evening to meet Senator Wesley L. Jones and Rep- with Gov. Hart and the State high- resentative Lindley H. Hadley have Lucinda, the 15-year-old daughte way officials in an endeavor to work introduced joint reolutions incmpor - of Mr. and Mrs: Walter S. Allen, was out some 01an of continuing the pay- ating such a proYiso. It was dis- drowned in Little Skookum bay in in.g work between Shelton and Olym- covered that the spa"dee corporation, front of her home on the old Hud- pro. which was organized during the war Good progress is being made on to expedite airplane construction, did son place Tuesday afternoon in the both projects and the contractors not possess legal authority to write sight of her mother, aunt and grand- having their machinery and neces- such a clause in a contract of sale mother, whose efforts to reach her asry equipment at hand, are anxious and that a special' act of congress were fruitless. to have their contracts extended on the section between the tvo jobs and would be necessary. are offering figures which wouht The young girl had recently learn- ed to swim and was in bathing witk mean much saving if the stot0 could LEGION TO GATHER others of the family, when she was continue the work. caught in an eddy and whirled te- A considerable sum remains of the FOR FUNERAL LAST ward the middle of the bay. It is orilinal appropriation for this under- thought that she became frightened taking, but not enough to complete the connection, and the state board OVERSEAS VETERAN and fainted, as she remained floating on the surface for several minutes has been hoping for federM aid but failed to respond to calls. which could be applied. This is daily LOCA,L POST TO DO FINAL HeN- When the elders realized that she more doubtful for this year and funds must come from other sources ORS AT OLYMPIA SUNDAY was helpless and drowning a frantic rush was made for a boat but much if further contract is let. FOR LAST COUNTY SON time was lost and just before the It is hoped that surplus can be WHO DIED IN FRANCE girl was reached she wen down for taken from other projects to aid in the last time and the mother fainted. making up the shortage, in order that the paving may be completed this The remains of Allen Forest Mal The aunt who was als0 in the boat season. In Shelton as well as all pass. the fifth and last of Mason could not row and whatever chance along the highway travel and busi- County's sons who died in the ser- there may have been to locate the -- hess has been greatly shortened on vice of their country in Frame dur- drowning girl was lost. Help was soon at hand but the tide account' of the long detour required ng the late war, have reached Olym- and the public is hopeful that another fia and will receive fitting burial was high and dragging failed to season will not be spoiled for them. with military honors at that city bring the body to the surface. At on Sunday afternoon at 2 p. m. The low tide Wednesday morning it was WINS HONOR funeral will be held from the Jesse found a few yards from the spot Mills undertaking parlors under aus- whore the girl was last seen. FOR ATTENDANCE pices of the local post American Le- The funeral was held from the glen, assisted by the Olympia Le- Catholic church Thursday morning, glen. Roy. Harry S. Templeton, of Bellingham will conduct the service, interment in the cemetery, here. The SCHOOL SHOWS HIGHEST AVER- AGE FOR MASON COUNTY 5,541,075 WASHINGTON CROP IS LARGE Olympia, July 27.--The Monthly Crop Repoxer for July, issued by the federal department of agriculture shows that the apple crop of the whole United States, prommes to be considerably less than half that of last year and hardly half the average crop for a term of ten years. In contrast with that the figures for County Superinter}dent M r s. Knight has completed her annual re- port from data furnished by the County School Districts, and on the following showing of per centage for the highest average attendance dur- the state of Washington show a ng the hast school year Tahuya large inclease. ] This year Washington will have[ tgain, leads and is entitled to hold :he' handsome oennant awarded to an apple 'crop nearly twice as large[ hat district last year. as that of New York, the leading" competitor of Washington in apple production. The apple crop of the AND OTHER UPLAND BIRDS The Mason County Game Commis- sion has issued an order shortening i the season for hunting in this county and closing it altogether against the slaughter of grouse and upland birds. This is intended to allow the birds to get another start and to give less excuse for hunters and poachers to enter the woods with their guns duringany but the short season open for the killing of deer. The following is the game schedule now 'in force in Mason County, which will be of interest to sportsmen: The season is open for trout had game fish, including bass 'and Cat: fish, between April 15th and No- vember 30th, with a bag limit of 25 fish, or ten pounds and one fish in one day, and 20 pounds and one fish in a single week. The season of grouse and upland birds will not be open at all this year, and it may not be open for several years to follow, although the local game commission has power to make such regulations as it may see fit at the opening of each season. Deer may be killed in Mason County between October 10 and 31st, both dates inclusive, with the bag limit of two of either sex only to a single hunter in one season. Bear may be killed from September 1st to May 1st. All persons are notified that any person violating any, of the rules and regulations of the cbunty game com- mission, as approved by the Director of Game and Fisheries, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. MARINE STRIKE BY UNION VOTE IS CALLED OFF state of Washington this year will be thirty per cent of the entire crop for the United States. In short Wash- ington will have to sell this year nearly one-third of all of the apples which will reach thq markets of the" country and there will be consid- ably less than half of the usual num- ber of apples on the market. District Per cent School 20 98.7 Tahuya 47 98.3 Potlatch 42 98.71 Southside 2 97.7 Hnad of the Bay 307 97.7 Isabella Valley 45 97.5 Belfair ,204 97.1 Clouallum .205  97.1 Camp 1 and Rediska • 09 97.0 Shelton ]8 96.9 Allyn WITH SEATTLE UNIONS, EXCEPT ONE, OPPOSED, PORTLAND AND SAN FRANCISCO CARRY VOTES Seattle, August 1.While the Se- attle branches of the different ma- rine unions on strike since May 1 were not unanimous either for or against returning to work under the new scale and working conditions, the action of the Portland and San Fran- cisco branches in voting over- whelmingly to accept the new scale and 'conditions, the marine strike can be said to be at an end both as con- coming the United States shipping board and the private companies. Among the Seattle unions the Ma- rine Cooks and Stewards by a vote of 150 to 114 on Friday, favored return- ing to work, and many of the mere, bers at once applied for their old ositions, and in spite of the rejec' on of the scale by the local branch of the Sailors Union of the Pacific it was understood last night that they had been ordered by Andrew Furnseth to reconsider their action following the result of the vote on the uestion at San Francisco and Port- and. The !local bran'ch of the Marine Firemen and Oilers on the question was a tie, which indicates a likeli- hood of favorable ction now that the branches of Portland and San Francisco have so, emphatically de- clared against a continuation of the strike. CIVI, L SERVICE TESTS FOR P. M.'s Washington, D. C., July 27.--Ta- coma is one of the Washington titles at which civil service examinations are to be given August 27 for 30 post-offices of the third class in that state. The offices to be filled as a re- sult of the examinations and the sal- aries they pay follows:, Buckley, $1,- 700; Carson, $1,200; Coulee City, $1,- 700; Endicott, $1,400; Edmonds, $1,- 700; Everson, $1,500; Fairfield, $1,- 400; Friday Harbor, $1,800; Gig Har' bor, $1,200; Granger, $1,600; Lacrosse ed as assistant cashier of the State $1,800; Longbeach, $1,300; Marcus Bank of Shelton. $1,500; Marysville, $1,700; Napavine, He leaves a son Harry, a promin- -€1 o0O. eo,o]o  Rnn. ot- w.. ent shi in man of Seattle, and is ,bor" ' "n'n''t''1"on'n'u-'O°'r " PP g , ........... , v ..... , ...... , also tonnected ith the .MeMiekl " 1 $1,600i 'Quincy, $1,400; Rockford, $1,- xamilies. A man of recogn.me a "[600; Roy, $1a,200; Soap Lake, $1,400; itl and integrity, he was .higmy 1 [ Sultan, $1,800, Tekoa, $2,100; Tenino, yarded by all who knew_ him. -]$1,700! Tonasket, $1,800; Washtuena, turning from the Grand Army re- [ $1,B00, ,Wilbur, $2,000; Zllah, $1,600. uon in July Mr.0stVanaer .was[ , . . ... . meng his old friends in Shexzon, ]. mproyemen. wmcn nave een n- nd 'in apparent good health, vieLg[ aer way or me past two months with his old friend Archie LeRoy, lat the Mathewson home have been who is a year older, as to who was[completed and after carrying iS, age beak .................. J e.on# 0f I THE WILL TO WORK All wealth, all prosperity, goes back to human effort. There is mighty little luck or chance about it. Take England, perhaps the richest country per capita in the world. It is a small land, of no great resources. Its wealth has been gained largely abroad. It has made money in foreign trade and in foreign enterprise. It has imported raw materials and food and it has exported its products. All this has meant work. " ' Take New England, the richest sechon of t e United States. It has had small natural resources-- poor soil and practically no minerals. It has had lmrdly anything but men and women., willing to work. New England became a hive of industry and an abode of wealth. The natural poverty of the sec- tion, far from discouraging its inhabitants, was an incentive to work. Many a fat land, and many a fat section of the United States is less prosperous than New England and other sections lacking this natural heritage, sim- ply because it has never buckled down to work in earnest. There is, indeed, always the danger that ease of production will make men easily, contented, resulting in sloth and self-indulgence that bring pov- erty where there ought to be riches. The American people as a whole became rich and powerful notso much because of the natural re- sources of the country, g%atas these were, as be- cause of their will to ge as. Lately that will seems to have weakened some- what. It was too easy, perhaps, to "make money" during the war and immediate|y afterward• People forgot that what really matters is "making goods." The nation became slack. The national will grew a bitweak ad soft. Other nations, facing harder situ- ations, kept everlastingly at it. As a result, other nations have forged ahead of us lately in reconstruc- tmn, and in spite of their far greater handicaps, they may get on their feet industrially and commercially before we do. The present business slump is due to this same softnes as much as to any natural conditions, and possibly moe so. o Effort--that is what America needs today. Ef- fort, along with confidence. That is what created America, and that, rather than blind economic forces, or a gracious Providence, is what will pull it out of the present Slough of Despond.--Tacoma News Trib- une. And the Northwest, most favored of all, needs only the will to work to cure its ills. with services by Father John, and Plans are being made for the local deceased was the eldest child and Legion to attend in a body. leaves four hrothcrs and sisters to llen Forest Malpass was born at mourn with the distracted parents. Arcadia, Washington, July 27, 1890 She was a student of the Shelton and spent his early boyhood days schools in the seventh grade, and a and grew to manhood, where he on- favorite with her schoolmates. The deared himself to all who knew him Allens have been resident of the by his quiet, gentle kindly manner, county for the past two years and He was sent to Camp Lewis on have the sympathy of all their neigh- October 3, 1917, and remained there bors in their bereavement. until October 29, when he was sent Camp Mills, N. Y. and placed in Co. B., 161st Infantry. He remained at SUPT. LOOP SUBMITS Camp Mills until December 10th and then was sent to France. When he COMPARATIVE REPORT arrived in France he was taken from ship ,rod tra.s00e,00e,, by mistake SCHOOL ATTENDANCE to a l, reneh hospital instead of an American, where he was confined for SHOWS BASIS UPON WHICtt 72 days, suffering with scarlet fever. When he was able to join his STATE MONEY IS APPORTION- Company he was put in Co. K 18th ED TO LOCAL SCHOOLS Infautry, in the automatic rifle squad. He was sent to the front about June Superintendent Loop hasueompleted 1st, and from then until he lost his his annugl report ()f the Shelton life on the night of October 2nd in school to the county superintendent he Meuse-Arffonne Forest defense and has suhmitted the following tab- he was at the front constantly, ex- ulation of past years' reports for cept for short intervals of rest. His compm'ison. Victory Medal bears four stripes. He calls attention to the last col- He leaves his father and mother umn, "Basic of Apportionment,"whicb2 of Arcadia, three brothers, Earl, is the basis by which all state and Will, Frank and two sisters, Mrs. county moneys are apportioned to Francis H. Thompson of Los An- the district. This column differs frmvL geles, Cal., and Mrs. Claud Wolf of the "Actual Attendance" because of Olympia. consolidations and other bonuses. The per cent of attendance this year was 97. There were 32 pupils TAX ADJUSTERS neither absent nor tardy. 00arents should understand that regular at- BELITTLE LOSS teodance increases tho col.mn."B.00is of Apportionment" which ,ives us. IN DOWN TREES our money to maintain our schols: Actual Basis of Enroll- Attend- Appor- DAMAGE FROM JANUARY STORM Year Census ment ance tionment PUT AT 18 PER CENq AS 1.915-16 391 346 49754 65346 CLALLAM BOARD 1916-17 387 358 47599 66551 MEETS 1917-18 350 325 44388 56303' 1918-19 346 313 38862 63578 1919-20 431 369 47294 69044 Port Angeles, Aug. 2.--That the 1920-21 468 374 50076 69451 total blowndown average of Clallam County timber in a big storm of last ry will not reach eighteen per PRESIDENT SPEAKS cent and that it will take less than $500,000 in valuation, or $20,000 in AT PLYMOUTH R0CK taxes, fro m the county rolls, were statements made today by members of the Clallam County board of equ- SEES ,LIFTING OF WAR CLOUD aiization, meet!ng with represents- ON HUMANITY tines of timber nwners. A Lacey timber plat filed with the Plymouth, Mass., August l.Pres- board shows an average blowdown ident Harding passing here enroute approximately eighteen per cent. to €he 'country home of Secretary Milwaukee Land Company plat Weeks for ten days vacation, landed shows average down timber of eight- on historic Plymouth Rock, and re-, een per cent. County cruisers con- viewed an extensive pageant portray- firmed these plats. In township ing the arrival of the Pilgrims and twenty-eight, north range fourteen, the history of New England begin- or in the Vicinity of Quillayute nin with the landing of old NorSe Prairie the timber loss was almost Vilungs, President Harding delivered complete, being ninety-four per cent a short address discussing develop- down in places. Light loss in other ment of the American. people since parts is expected to balance this. that early day. The Conewaga Uumber Company rep- America stands today with 'new resentative filed a plat of down tim- hope" at the door of a new era which ber. promises to bring the nation and the According to best authority there world "to the state which God must were fourteen billion feet of private- have meant for the created in his ly owned timber in the county before own image," President Harding de- the blowdown. It is believed that aclared in his address at the Pilgrim careful check will show that approx- tercentenary celebration today. imately two billion feet Of this was "Our faith is firmer that war lost. causes may be minimized and over- Taxpayers of the county, especial- burdening armament may be largely ly Eastela Clallam, have expressed diminished, without the surrender of fear that the timber companies would good conscience which has defended, claim much heavier losses. Forma- nationality which has inspired, or he declared. tion of a County Taxpayers' League was attempted with no results, al- "International prospect is more though East Enders in the farm area "International prospect is more are functioning as a league.. The promising and distress and deprs- taxpayers were of the epitaph taat a sion at home ae symtomatic of early large deficiency in timber taxes recovery of solvent and finaciaUy would result in higher general taxes, sound economics---these the Untied but as a member of the board said States will carry on." today that there would be no in- "A community of free peoples of crease in taxes and that .when the our race has won recognition,' ha spruce railroad and holdings went asserted. "None' question either its upon the tax roll Clallarn County's]place or right of leadership." tax moneys would be more than[ The president called upon the ha- enough .to take £are of any deficit [ tion to follow the example of courag and independence ,set by Pilgrim causal by timber.P.-I. . /Fathers. ....... .... ' What appears to be the essence|| Time heals, every 'l'ief arid :early of wisdom to one person may seem  love affairs:--R.' 1,0ms Globe Demo, th rankest of folly to another, eraK ............. z,. ,..... • .........