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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-09-26
s58,644 IN BUILDINGS
80 Permits Issued in city This Year
Nearly All for New Residences.

Fifty-nine building permits, practi-
cally all of them for new residences
though some few are merely for re-
pairs, have been issued by City Clerk
|. n. Holmes since the first of last
been issued so far this month.
The largest permit is for $4,000. is
sued TO Joseph r. Speckart for the new
home he is constructing at 26th and
Main streets, now nearing completion
The next largest was for $4,000 issued
to j. +. Jeffers for the new studio
building he Is now using, while three
were for $4,000, three for $4,000, and
the balance for l,S00 or less.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-09-26
BOARD CONDEMNS
PRATHER BRIDGE
Commissioners Order New Steel
Structure Across Chehalis River
Near Grand Mound.

Because the wooden bridge across
the Chehalis river near Grand Mound,
known as the Prather bridge, is in
very dangerous condition, the county
commissioners this week ordered the
old structure condemned, declared an
emergency and let contract for the
construction of new steel bridge for
$15,600, to be finished within the next
80 days.
The action followed the presentation
of petition by 40 residents of the
southern part of the county asking
that the bridge be renewed. County
Engineer w. H. Yeager, Jr., had pre-
viously inspected the bridge and re-
ported it to be in very dangerous con
dition and urging that it be condemned
at once. The bridge. wooden struc-
ture, was built in 1897 by Savage &
Scofeld, and has 240-foot wooden
span. The outside of the timbers ap-
peared to be in good condition, but a
little boring with an auger indicated
they had rotted on the inside.
The new bridge will have a 240-foot
steel span and carrying capacity OF
20 tons. 1t will be erected on four steeI
and concrete piers, five feet in diam
eter, and work will be begun imme
diately.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-09-26
HAY SCALES FIRST
TO Be TESTED BY
THE COUNTY SEALER
New Department Will Begin Ac-
tive Work Throughout County
Next Week.
TO INSPECT EVERY DEVICE.
Law Gives Unlimited Authority
Most Storekeepers Welcome
Official Tests.

After weeks study of the methods
employed by the sealer's department
of the city of Seattle, l.. l.. Bowers,
county sealer of weights and measures
for Thurston and Mason counties, ex-
poets to begin active work in proving
the scales and measures of this city
and county, next week.
Among the first things to which he
will devote his attention are the hay
and wagon scales scattered all over
the county, upon which some COM
plants have already been received.
Mr.. Bowers plans to complete his in
spectiOn of these scales before the wet
weather sets in, though he is hamper
ed a little in starting because of lack
of information as to their exact loca-
ton.
After this work is done, Mr.. Bowers
will take up in detail his inspection of
the weights and measures in all of the
, stores fthe county, which the law re-
quires him to make twice year. In
this inspection will be included every
form of scale or measuring device used
in selling goods or supplies, so that
after it is completed any device which
does not bear the official seal will be
illegally used.
He may have little difficulty at
first. He expects it. He says he has
, found two classes Of storekeepers in
the county: those who are anxious to
have their scales tested and approved
and they are the majority-and
those who are Indifferent. Some of
them seem to think I'm agent for
some scales company and want to sell
them new scales" he says, but l soon
show them I'm not"
He has all the authority he needs to
carry out his work, for he is a special
policeman and authorized and en-
powered to arrest, without formal war.
rant, any violator of the statutes with
relation to weights and measures and
to seize, for use as evidence, and with
out formal warrant, any false weight
measure or weighing or measuring de
vice or package or amounts of com
modities found to be used, retained OF
offered or exposed for sale, or sold in
violation of the law"
His authority extends further thar
what is commonly accepted in the
term weights and measures" and
gives him the power and directs him
to weigh or measure packages OF
amounts of commodities of whatso
ever kind kept for the purpose OF sale
offered for sale, or sold, or in tht
process of delivery, in order to deter
mine whether the same contain thu
amount represented and whether the!
are being offered for sale or sold in
manner in accordance with law" Ap
parently there is nothing he cannot do
, He spent week with the Seattl
, city sealer to get acquainted with al
the "ins and outs" of the business ant
he says it was profitable week. Th
. official weights and measures, pur
chased by the secretary OF state TO
, many of the counties, were received
by Mr.. Bowers this week and wer
used to test some scales brought t.
: the auditors Office by local dealers TO
-. approval.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-09-26
REPUBLICANS BOOST
STATE TAX LEVY TO
HIGHER THAN EVER
Extravaganza of Last Legislature
Responsible for 8.81 Mill
Rate.
REVENUE S3,118,O76 MORE
Thurston County Must Pay $124,.
O27-Solons Would Not Heed
Listers Advice.

The extravaganza of the last Re
this week when the state board of
equalization fixed the state tax levy for
this year at S.S1 mills, the highest in
the states history and 3.02 mills high
er than last year. Even this levy will
fall $635,00 short of producing the
required revenue, according to State
Auditor Claussen, and would have
been several mills higher if Governor
Lister had not vetoed appropriations
of several million dollars.
This higher levy is made necessary
in spite of the fact that the assessed
valuation of both real and personal
property in the state is $9,38S,776
higher than last year. The general
state levy is placed at the limit, 3
mills, where it was 1928 last year,
while the permanent highway fund is
u mill higher and the public high
way fund is increased y of mill. The
increased levy means that the legisla-
ture has forced the taxpayers of the
state to pay into the treasury $3,11S,-
O76 more in state taxes than during
1912.
Here in Thurston county the ratio
of the assessed to the actual value of
real and personal property remains
the same-4343 per cent.--but q. the
higher state tax for 1918 will boost the
amount to be paid from $S1,263 in 1912
to $124,O27 in 1918, jump of $42,764,
or an increase of 50 per cent. This is
the first time that Thurston county
will be compelled to pay more than
$1OO 900 into the state treasury. Over
in Mason county there Is an increase
of 81 per cent, as it will pay $4,000
into the state treasury this year as
against $34,924 last year.
To meet the extravaganza of the
last legislature the taxpayers of the
state must pay into the treasury under
this levy a grand total of $8,937 ,525 az
against $5,S19,449. AS stated above
this will fall about 100000 short Of
the required amount for state genera
fund, hence the wisdom of the policy
inaugurated by Governor Lister wheI
he took the executive position: tina
the state departments handle thei
business as cheaply as possible ant
endeavor to return to the state treas
ury at the end of the biennial perio'
as much of their appropriations a
they can. This the departments vii
be compelled to do If the state Is t
avoid further increases in its over
draft.
If the legislature had seen fit to fol
low Governor Listers urgent admin
tions as to economy, had not passe'
several vetoed appropriations over hi
head and had enacted the series o
consultations of state departments h
proposed, this large increase in tn
state tax levy would have been en-
tirely unnecessary and the bushes
of the state could have been handle'
not only more efficiently but far NOR
economically. However, this same es
travagance gives the governor his bes
argument for the election next yea
of a Democratic legislature in hal
mony with his policies of economy an
efficiency.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-09-26
PACKERS PREDICT
MEAT FAMINE IN
NEXT FEW YEARS
Place Responsibility for Averting
it upon Small Farmers of
the Nation.
TO STIMULATE INDUSTRY.
Beef Trust to Spend $50O,OOO in
Five Years to Encourage
Cattle Raising.
TO STIMULATE INDUSTRY.

The meat packers of the United
States are agitated.
They see a present shortage of meat
which they declare will take on pro-
portions of a famine within eight or
ten years.
They propose to spend 100000 a
year for five years to stimulate the
cattle industry.
They place on the small farmers of
the United States-the ranchers of
Thurston county just as much as any
where else-the responsibility of avert
ing he meat famine they declare this
country is facing.
This all happened during the eighth
annual convention Of the American
Meat Packers association in Chicago
this week, whose big annual banquet
is estimated to have cost $125,000.
They are serious about this meat
famine, however. Not packer OBJ
jected to the assertions that the coun-
try Is facing it, but on the other hand
they all agreed that if the decrease In
meat production of the last ten years
is not stopped, the question of the
meat supply for the people Of the Unit
ed States will be most serious.
Among the remedies suggested by
the speakers are:
Every small farmer should raise at
least two beef steers year to offset
the decreased production of the great
ranches of the West. The remaining
ranges should be cut up in farms to
put all farmers on an equal footing.
Development of the hills of New
England, with their bountiful springs
and prevailing shade, as beef produc-
ing country.
Substitution OF corn for cotton in
the Southern states and the conse-
auent development of the hog and cat
tie production.
Our population is growing at its
normal rate" says the report OF
special committee, but we have pass
ed the point where demand has over
taken production, and we are now on a
basis which shows that demand ex
ceeds the supply of meat food prod
ucts to such an extent that we have
abnormally high prices for meat food
products"
Among other causes for the shortage
of meat, the report pointed out, were
the loss of meat food animals through
preventable diseases and the unthink
ing slaughter of calves, and especially
heifer calves.
One Of the packers, A. M. Dublin OF
New York, suggested a rather start
ling means of averting the famine
when he declared it is the duty Of the
federal government to stock its land:
in the West with cattle, put the arm,
cavalry to work as cowboys, and sup
ply the packers with this beef at cost
so that the price will be lowered to thu
people.
The American housewife was takel
to task by the packers for wastin,
meat the assertion being made that
fourth part of all meat killed for thu
table Is wasted.
Chief of Police Vance is spending
his vacation down in Skamania county
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-09-26
AMONG THE FARMERS OF THURSTON COUNTY
Little About Your Friends and Neighbors
Picked up in Personal Visits by the STANDARDS
Special Representative.
ON THE LOG CABIN ROAD.

tion to tho raising of chickens with {
leaning toward the Buff OrpingtonS.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-09-26

Residents of the section will meet
at the county superintendent office
next Friday afternoon in support OF
their petition to create new school
district out of a part of the present
Teuino and Rocky Prairie districts.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-09-26

Chief of Police Vance Is spending
his vacation down In Skamania county.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14

CALUMET, MlCh.-Arrests for al
eyed violation Of The injunction pro
libiting intimidation of worknen III
lie copper strike district was in
rcascd by $50. The militia made
lie arrests.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14
COURT NEWS.
Deeds Fled.


Deeds were filed yesterday witt
the county clerk for record as fol
lows:
S. u. Gault and wife ct al. to The
county Court OF Marion county, t
Darcel of land on Plum run in Lin
elm district; consideration. SIPS.
Ada G. Holland and wife to Clyd.
Holland. a parcel Of land in the Popl
md Jacobs addition to the city Of
Fairmont; consideration, $500.
y. a. Clayton and wife to T. i
layton, Il onc-half interest In a par
eel of land in FairmOnt district; cor
.idcrution, 81 and other valuabl
Alice darlington and husband +
j. l.. MiChaclS. a l-G interest in I
parcel Of land on Dunkard Mill mi
in Lincoln district; consideration, 81
and other valuable consideration.
{. r. Michael to ]. l.. Michael, {
parcel of land on Danl;ard Mill rur
IN l.lncolu district. consideration. !
md other valuable consideration.
Charles W. Ice and wife to Molll
Duncan, a parcel Ct land on BpaGH
rccf in ManninEton district; conStd
mtiCn, $500.
j. T.. Kendall and wife 10 lsaa
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14
EAT LESS MEAT
IF BACK HURTS
TAKE A GLASS OF SALTS TO
FLUSH KIDNEYS IF BLAD-
DER B0THERS YOU.

Eating meat regularly eventually
PRODUCES kidney trouble in some
form or other. says well-known
authority, because the uric acid IN
meat excites the kidneys, they be-
come overworked; get sluggish;
clog up and cause all sorts OF dis
tress, particularly backache and mis-
cry in the kidney region; rheumatic
rtnges, severe headaches, acid
stomach, constipation, torpid liver
sleeil essness, bladder and urinary r.
ritation.
The moment your back hurts OF
kidneys aren't acting right, or II
bladder bothers you, get about -four
ounces of Jad Salts from any good
pharmacy: take tablespoonful In
glass Of water before breakfast for
a few days and your kidneys will
then act fine. This famous salts Is
made from the acid Of grapes and
lemon Juice, combined with ltthia
and has been used for generations tC
flush clogged kidneys and stimulate
them to normal activity; also to neu'
tralizc the acids in the urine so Il
no longer irritatCs, thus ending blad'
der disorders.
Jad Salts cannot injure anyone;
makes Il delightful cffercescent lith'
H. water drink which millions Of
men and women take now and then
to keep the kidneys and urinary or
cans clean, thus avoiding serious
Kidney disease.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14

ST. LOUIS-Dan S. FisheIl, theat-
rical manager and pioneer in west
crn and southwestern summer gar
dens. died here.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14
Thanksgiving Day
THURSDAY,
November 9th

Come on in BOYS and order your
Thanksgiving SUIT or 0VERC0AT
right now. DON'T DELAY = Or.
DER NOW and you won't be disap-
pointed.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14

Stockney a parcel OF land on Buffalo
creek in Warrington district; coli
sideration. 81 and other valuable COLI
sideration.
ArIena Lawliss ct al, to Nancy e.
Moore, parcel Of land on Buffalo
.rcck in Warrington district; coll
,ideration, 81 and other valuable
consideration.
j. NJ. Taught and wife to the Coun-
ty Court Of Marion county, parcel
Of land on Plum run in Lincoln dis
trict: consideration, $2G2.5O.
Birth Certificates.
DR.. L. NJ. Cox yesterday flI@d
twelve birth certificates with the
county clerk for record.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14

Are Returned
SIX FOR FELONIEs ARE HANDED
DOWN BY THE GRAND
JURY.

The grand jury at the end Of It's
session last evening presented is fell
ony indictments. Two were for mur-
der. The indictments read by Clerk
W. S. Black were as follows:
Mason Wright, stealing q bicycle
Of Clyde Mason.
a. c. Galloway, stabbing James
Ollie.
William Facenbaker, robbing John
| L. Morgan of $50.
John Benz, stealing SEQ from Fred
Naumnik.
Frank Blazenajt stabbing Mary
Ningo.
Albert Farmer, murder of Charles
Patterson.
Charles johnson, murder Of Ma
ME Johnson.
Curtis Smith, forging name Of
James Smith to check for $14.49.
Il. J. Floyd. defrauding W. H.
Smith Of $500.
Edward jerome Brown, rObbing b.
4 o. depot at GlOver's Gap.
w. NJ. Manning, defrauding Char
ley E. Smith Of $500.
James jenkins, forging check for
1880.
John Fallon, robbing car barn.
Ed. Savage, robbing store or Isaac
McIntire.
Fred Walters, robbtng store Of
Isaac Mclntire.
Evans Bailey. robbing Paul Schte'
vone, of $500.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14
June &c, was awarded TO Toledo, g..
bv the executive council.

CHICAGO-Thc gold medal Of the
american Academy Of Arts and Let
ters, which will be awarded to dra-
matist this year will be given to eth
er Augustus Thomas or Percy Mack
ay, it was unofficially made known
here on the eve of the academy'3 an
nuAl meeting.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14

WORCESTER, Mass.-A verdict Of
guilty was returned in superior Grim
vol court against Joseph NJ. Cald-
we'll, one of the strike leaders In the
aDur troubles here last spring. He
vas found guilty Of assault on Jules
4arant, an cmploye Of the Draper
ompany, in making the attack.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14

CHATTANOOGA - Operations of
the giant HaIcs bar hydro-clcctrlc
power plant, for constructing whicn
| company headed by the late An
thony N. Brady is said to have en-
pended $lO,0OO,OOO, was begun. The
7lant-largest in the sOuth--has a
generating capacity Of $4,000 horse
power.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14

MANILA-Governor General Fran
lis Burton Harrison on his arrival in
amp Overton, MindanaO, was greet
ed by 70 Moro chieftains, who petit
toned him TO maintain in office the
district governor, Major Henry Oils
heuSer.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14

]. P. Mcpherson will give his fa.
nous lecture, Victory Over the
Grave" at Grand Opera house Sum
day at p. H. Seats free. No collec.
tion. Don't fail to hear him. ct
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14

TALKS ON BIO0D-Aided by chart
and researches he had made, DR.. c. b
Davenport gave lecture to the Acad
envy of Arts and Science in Cdtnceh
lecture hall last night on Great
American Blood Strains and the Part
They Have Played in Our History.
The lecture was Illustrated with Ian
tern slides.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14

ST. LOUIS-The Standard Oil com
oany OF Indiana, fired the first gu
n 4 war on the Pierce OF! corpora
ion, successors to the Waters-Pierc
III Co., cutting tie price Of coal Of
rom s to cents gallon and gaSt
inc from l7I9 to l41s cents Il ga'
on. These prices wer" met by III
.icrce Oil corporation.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14

Observation-Disclosures Com
handler Fred Kinds, governor o
sunm, cablcd that Hospital Stewart
Nicholson. reported drowned In TIL
eccnt typhoon, had been found aliN
md is expected to recover.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14

SEATTLE--The American FEEDER
,tion OF Labor was in session less
han an hour. No committee was
,cady to report and the convention
adjourned until Friday.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-11-14

ROCK ISLAND, III. - The 1914
national convention of the Modern
Woodmen Of America, beginning
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-04-12
Grand Jury Report.

To the Hon. Thomas M. Milling,
Judge of the 23rd Judicial
District Court of the State OF
Louisiana.
We, your Grand Jury, sele cted
to serve a term of five months be.
ginning April 7th, 1918, beg leave
to submit the following report:
We have passed upon and dis
posed of all business of a crimi.
nal nature submitted to US.
In the following cases we find
"a true bill":
State of Louisiana VS.. Anderson
Kirt, Indictment" having carnal
knowledge of unmarried female with
her consent.
State of Louisiana VS.. James Borel,
"indictment' hunting without a Ii.
cense.
State of Louisiana VS.. James Nc.
Cullogh, indictment "hunting with.
out a license.
State of Louisiana vs.. Chris. Navar.
70, indictment" violating the Sunday
law.
State OF Louisiana VS.. Walter Tale
man, indictment" carrying a con-
cealed weapon.
State of Louisiana VS.. Walter Tale
man, indictment" shooting with in
tent to kill.
State of Louisiana VS., Sophie Haw.
kins, indictment" infiicting a wound
less than Mayhem.
State of Louisiana VS.. Walter
North, "indictment" murder.
State of Louisiana VS.. John C..
Kramer, indictment" violating the
Sunday Law.
State of Louisiana VS.. John C.
Kramer, Indictment selling LIQUOR
to minor.
State of Louisiana VS.. Chris. Navar-
70, indictment" violating the Sunday
Law.
In the following cases we find
"not q true BILL"
State of Louisiana VS. Robert Gar
ret, Indictment obtaining money
under false pretenses.
State of Louisiana VS.. Rayfield Ed
wards, indictment cutting and
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-04-12
wounding with intent to kill.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

We have inspected the Parish
Jail and we find the sanitary con.
dition good and the prisoners well
cared for.
We have inspected the Parish
Court House and the Franklin
High School and find both in q
good condition, but we recon.
mend that the old high school
building be used for manual train.
ing. domestic science, etc.
PUBLIC ROADS
We beg to report that in our opin-
ion that the Public Roads are in
better condition than ever before,
but think we should have a model
road, which in our opinion can be
procured by accepting the special
tax voted for the Atchafalaya Bay
Ship Channel. which was tender
ed the Police Jury, but not accept
ed because the Police Jury want.
ed the authority to use this tax
money for any purpose it might
see ut. We recommend that this
tax money be accepted by the
Police Jury and appropriated for
this use and together with the
money due by the State for model
road building, model road can
be built at a very little expense to
the Parish.
PUBLIC OFFICERS,
We have examined into the
books of the following officers:
Parish Treasurer. Sheriff. Tax
Collector, Clerk of Court, Assessor.
Secretary of the Police Jury and
Supt. of Public Education. and we
find all Of the books in balance
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1913-04-12
It shows
the wish is
Eght. It is not
wrote it, knows
Paragraph was writ.
Tor political effect, and
ecial purpose of injuring

kOr p0lltlcai effect, anC
Iecial purpose of injurinf
Tor Of this paper. It is con.
= to- the ethics Of upright jour.
!alism to publish az true tina
which the publisher knows not K
be true, with the intent to injure-
aye, it is contrary to law, and the
editor of the Outlook stands con.
victed of this offense by the facts
The parish printer Of the Par.
ish of st. Mary is not paid fol
publishing the proceedings of the
Police Jury by the SQUARE OF ONE
HUNDRED WORDS. He is paid
twenty-five dollars per month,
and no matter whether the pub.
lished proceedings of the Jury
take up fifteen lines or fifteen
columns of his paper, he is paid no
more or no less.
Al the first meeting of the Po-
lice Jury held in July, 1912, we
made contract with that body
to publish all of it's proceedings,
all jury venires and all notices
from the Board of Supervisors of
Election or any other notices that
the Parish has to pay for, for the
price above named. The contract
will expire in a short time, and
the position will be filled by the
Police Jury in accordance with
the law. We are publishing them
now. and hold the position OF
Secretary of that body, and in
performing the duties Of both DO.
sitions, we are acting under the
of the law, and are not q
dual ofice.holdor,