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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26

John Traux is a candidate for judge.
We believe he ought to be elected. We
wish to endorse him without reserve
for this high Office. In our Judgment
he combines in a rare degree the es-
sential qualities of a Judge. He is well
equipped Intellectually for the office.
He is graduate of the law depart
ment of the University Of Michigan,
an institution whose law faculty has
for years been one Of the most dis
tinguished of any school in the coun-
try and whose students have won I'M
usual honors in all branches of the
profession. Besides thorough legal
knowledge, he has a broad general
education. He was for several years
a teacher and the interest in things in
tellectual which that profession more
than any other stimulates, has con-
tinued with him. His outlook upon
life is broad without being vague; his
mind is quick, yet possesses stability.
To thorough preparation he adds
the knowledge gained from many
years. experience. For 10 years he has
practiced law in this city. He has
handled all kinds Of cases, civil suits,
probate cases, criminal cases, etc. He
was for four years prosecuting attor-
ney for the county and made an ex-
cellent record in administering that
Office. AS a lawyer he has steadily
progressed in his profession, develop
ing great ability in his preparation
and handling Of cases at bar. He is a
hard and consistent worker, system
attic in his methods OF work. As re-
suit of his diligence and his ability
he has built up large practice.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26
RED LEAVES

Watch your trees in the fall Of the
year for red leaves. It is distress
sigal that the tree is holding out, and
calling on you for aid. Sometimes it
is one or more limbs, and then again
it is the whole tree that shows the
red leaves.
These limbs or trees should be
marked with a red rag. Then later on
investigate the trouble. Thee might
be blight in the tree, or collar-rot, or
some injury, or they may have been
allowed to get too wet or too dry this
summer or fall.
Give this matter your immediate
attention-it will save you much grief
and expense in the future.
Luke Powell, Dist. Hort. Insp.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26
paid ADVERTISEMENT
paid ADVERTISEMENT
John | ruax is Man of
Superior Qualifications

The personal character and private
life of Mr.. Truax will stand the closest
scrutiny. He is a man clean in his
living and honorable and upright in
his dealings. He is man Of intev.
rity and high ideals. He is neither
opionated nor dogmatic, yet he has
convictions and the courage to az.
press them. The fact that he has
served as member of the Legislature
from the county and is now SERVING
as a member of the city council of
Ritzville indicates the esteem in which
he is held.
But besides character, learning and
experience, a person to succeed as a
Judge must have a well poised mind
He must have the ability to weigh
cases, to reserve conclusions until tn.
evidence is all in. And it is because
Mr.. Truax possesses that conserva.
tiveness of judgment, that balance
whereby reason checks impulse, that
clearness of thinking which penetrates
trivial or extraneous facts to the
heart of an issue, that the Journal
Times endorses him heartily for the
position of judge.
The man whom We elect judge must
decide the rights of persons to pro-
perty and liberty. He holds in his
hands the dispensing of justice among
men and women. No one should be
elected judge unless he is qualified to
deal honestly and justly. We en-
dorse Mr.. Truax because we believe
him pre-eminently qualified to dis
charge the duties of the Office to which
he Observation-Disclosures State Jour.
nal-Times, Ritzville, August IL, 1915
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26
HIGH LINE DATA
IS BEING CHECKED
Reclamation Service is Making
Careful Survey of Northern
Pacific Surveys

Data which has been gathered in
the past as to the so-called high line
canal is being checked up by the re-
clamation service. Ferd Bonsted, for
merly project engineer on the Okan-
ogan project, is now in North Yakima
engaged in the work. The high line
has never been a reclamation project
and technically the Washington peo-
pie know nothing about it. Right at
this time, however, the authorities OF
the service at Washington are inter-
ested in the Yakima Valley and this
project he's made reputation, which
is pure capital, for repayment to the
service as the money expended. This
being the case Project Manager Tiff
fanny is anxious to sift out the high
line so that when money is available
for further construction he will have
good reason for asking for it here.
Mr.. Bonsted will go into all the data
available on the subject. The statistics
of the Northcn Pacific railway as to
the high line, the company having
made very exhaustive survey, have
all been PLACID at the disposal of the
reclamation people and in addition to
unit prices, general plans, etc., the
land classification will be closely scru-
tinized as the quality of the land is Of
prime importance.
Estimates will be made by the re-
clamation service of alternative plans
for the irrigation of $4,000 acres near
Kennewick, either thru some high line
canal or by the enlargement and ex-
tension of the Sunnside canal.
The proposed Northern Pacific high
line, says the Herald, was planned to
take water from the Yakima river at
Rosa and run back above any present
irrigation thru the Mckee, down past
Parker and into the lower valley,
swinging across the divide and irri-
eating considerable slope on the CO.
lumbia river side and away down thru
the valley. The area to be watered
would run somewhere between 1885,
600 and 10000 acres. Under the high
canal, which the reclamation service
will try to figure out, the acreage to
be made susceptible of irrigation is in
excess of the figures just stated.
Development in this valley in the
opinion of Mr.. Tiffany, possible thru
the stored waters is such as to make
the Yakima the greatest Of all the
reclamation projects. What the future
holds in store is over whelming COM
pared with the present development.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26
BOOTLEGGING IN SEATTLE

Sensational Charges of Illicit Traffic
Being Made in States Metropolis
Seattle Bootlegging seems to be
about the principal industry of Seat
tt. The air is full of rumors of graft
in high and low places, and the boot
leggers are blamed for everything that
is amiss in official circles. That some
liquor that was supposed to have been
destroyed after seizure by Sheriff
Hodge of King county, was sold to a
drug store by Seattle policeman, is
the charge of an attorney for the Mil
waukee Railway, and grand jury
will probably look into it. That a
bootlegging syndicate was organized
by people in the Seattle police depart
ment, is another Charge, that has not
yet been denied-and there are scores
of other charges equally sensational.
Reduced to dollars and cents the
liquor traffic is facinatingly huge.
During the month of September there
were enough permits issued in King.
county to allow the importation Of
%, 40 gallons of hard liquor. Dilut-
ing the alcohol to the beverage state
would provide 1895 gallons as the
grand total Of the legally imported
liquor. The dry squad Of the police
department says only half the liquor
brought in comes legally. . If that is
SO, King county provided against
hard winter by laying in $500 gal
Ions during September. A bartender
with nothing much else to do figured
out that meant 2, 428, 100 drinks, or
twenty drinks per month for every
man, woman and child in Seattle.
At retail over bar 1925, ITO would
have to be spent to purchase the
seven million odd drinks.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26

Drunkenness in public became more
frequent.
More arrests were made.
More crime of all kinds was report
ed to the authorities.
Long lines of citizens waited in the
auditors Office to obtain permits.
Boot leggers became increasingly
active, extortionate and insolent.
From the peacefulness and good or
der of the first sixty days of 1916, dur
ing which the use of intoxicants was
ABSOLUTELY CONTROLLED IN
THE HOMES, conditions have gone
rapidly from bad to worse.
A general idea of what the situa-
ton is at the present time has recent
ly been given by disclosures in the
newspapers. The unfailing tendency
of these newspapers is to make the
best possible showing of conditions. In
Justice to themselves and to their
readers they could no longer keep 81
lent. But even yet they have not told
all there is to tell.
The illicit traffic has grown to huge
proportions.
The bootleg traffic is reported to be
controlled by separate syndicates or
"rings," of which it is said there are
at least three operating in Seattle
alone, and probably more.
Many of the occasional "raids," and
attendant destruction Of illicit sup
plies, result from the "tip" of one RI
val bootleg syndicate in an effort to
cripple another of it's kind.
Morally, the course has been down.
ward ever since the moderate home
supplies were exhausted.
It is still downward.
The workings Of the dry law since
January LIST, 1916, are an open book.
Present conditions, the gradual and
unvarying downward tendency, are al
most wholly accounted for by the in
ability of citizens to procure, in legal
and orderly fashion, the moderate sup
plies of alcoholic beverages required
for use AT HOME.
The facts of record prove that the
people Of this state, during the early
part of the year, did not abuse the
privilege of having liquor in their own
homes.
Why should it be assumed that they
would abuse that privilege now-or
ever?
The opportunity is now before the
people of this state to re-establish the
conditions that existed in January and
February of this year. It is presented
in Initiative Measure No. "a, which
seeks only to give the people the right
to purchase, in limited quantities and
for private use in THEN, homes, mild
and pure beer:
Tracing the workings of the dry law
from the first of the year to the pres
emit time, the existing and growing
evils, must, in large part, be attrib-
uted to the effort to prohibit, by law,
the ages-old and widely practiied So
rial custom, enjoyed privately in the
home.
The results speak for themselves.
The time has come for turn toward
the better civic conditions that pre-
vailed in this state in the early part
Of the year, and the adoption by the
people Of Initiative Measure No. "a
unquestionably will restore peace and
order in the community.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-10-26
paid ADVERTISEMENT
The Truth About
Liquor in the | lone
paid ADVERTISEMENT

During the early part Of the year
1916 the new dry law of the State of
Washington, put into effect January
LIST, apparently gave general satisfac-
ton.
The saloons were abolished.
There was less drunkenness.
There were few arrests.
There was little crime of any kind.
Few permits to import intoxicants
were issued. a-
There was not activity among the
boot-leggers.
Conditions produced by the dry law
were such as to please its most ardent
advocates. A. ~
And yet
On January LIST, 1916, there was
more Intoxicating liquor IN THE
HOMES of Seattle and turnout the
state than at any previous time in
their history.
During the latter part of 1915, and
especially after the state supreme
court had upheld the dry law, the
stocks Of alcoholic liquors and bever-
ages were transferred by sale in enor.
nous quantities from the wholesale
and retail liquor houses to the homes
Of purchasers.
In Seattle. alone the sales Of intox-
icants during the last month of 1916
were estimated to exceed $500, 900.
All Of this went into the homes.
For a period Of about sixty days
there was peace thruout the State of
Washington. Various lines of bust
ness seemed to be quietly adjusting
themselves to the changes effected by
the closing of the saloon doors. The
newspapers proclaimed that the law
was working well, and the news to
that effect was scattered broadcast.
But, meanwhile
Citizens accustomed, from child
hood or thru many years, to mod
crate use of alcoholic beverages, were
making steady inroads into the sup
plies stored in their homes before
January LIST.
Gradually these supplies were ex-
hausted, except in the cases of the
comparatively few who had been abba
to invest hundreds of dollars in large
stocks, stored away for future use.
Along in March the first results of
the depletion of home supplies were
noted.
The county auditors Office began to
be besieged for permits to import in
toxicants.
There was an ominous increase in
the number of "drug stores"
The word began slipping about as
to where blind-pigs were to be found.
The boot-legger began to get busy.
These things didn't just merely
happen.
The issuance Of permits increased
and the activities of the illicit dealers
became more vigorous in direct re-
spouse to the demand Of those who,
in the earlier part of the year, had
been content with what they had pro-
vided for themselves in their homes
The boot-legger, with pro o u n d
knowledge of the workings Of human
nature, had been content to wait,
knowing that the demand would come
and prepared to satisfy it, on his own
terms, when it came.
The number of blind-pigs increased
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-26
YOUNG MEMS SACRIFICE.

This Mexican war is going to be
fought by boys just as the civil war
and the Spanish American war was
fought. A bill has been amended in
the United States senate providing for
the discharge of militiamen who have
dependent families. This will leave
only the unattached men of the guard
or the boys under % years of age
mostly There are at least four or
five million young men in the United
States between the ages of IS and %,
hence the argument for universal mill
tary training which will always keep
the country prepared with its young
men trained for defense. AS fast as
one class passes into the reserve an
other takes its place. If the govern
ment would offer free college edu-
cation to every young man who en-
lists for four years of military train
ing there would be a quid pro quo for
the hazard he runs of having to sac
rnice himself in war.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-26
Gu11es,RepubQ(1lu
Published Daily By The
TIMES PRINTING CO.
TERMS.
ROOSEVELT SUPPORTS HUGHES.

! The expected has happened in that
! Theodore Roosevelt has announced his
intention of supporting Hughes for
president. The deal was made while
the conventions were in progress il
Chicago and so generally understood
by the delegates altho nobody has ever
explained or understood the purpose of
the Roosevelt letter proposing Lodge.
The question now is can ne deliver the
progressives?
Roosevelt as a practical progress
sive has found himself between the
devil and the deep blue sea in this
campaign. Both the republican and
( democratic parties have gone progress
sive so far as their platforms are con-
! cerEed and it has been evident for
months that either the republican or
democratic candidate would be elected.
1t has also been evident that a third
party ticket OF any consequence would
accomplish the same result which i.
accomplished four years ago; the cleo
ton of Wilson and nothing more.
In this war crisis Wilson represents
the antithesis of what Roosevelt be-
lieves. In trying TO express his con-
tempt for Wilson's Americanism
Roosevelt says that his administration
has been weaker than that of Bu-
chanan hence il has become politically
Impossible for him to do anything
election.
All progressives may not agree with
Roosevelt that Hughes is far superior
TO Wilson out ali can agree that either
Hughes or Wilson will be elected anu
the voter must take one or the other.
Upon this hypothesis progressives can
make their own selection. If they be-
lieye that Hughes is the better quail
fed for president they should go with
Roosevelt out if they prefer Wilson
they should support the democratic
ticket.
The progressive third party has
served its usefulness and it was USE
ful while il lived. 1t destroyed Taft
and shot fear into the hearts of re-
publican bosses. 1t elected Wilson. it
is true, but there had to be a cleaning
before the republican bosses would lis
ten TO public opinion. This year the
principles OF the progressive party
dominate the thought and purposes Of
both leading parties and the issue has
been reduced TO the one problem in
practical politics; which Of these two
candidates will come the nearer to
! progressive ideals? Roosevelt has
picked Hughes because he despises
Wilson.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-26
Masonic Meetings.
Visitors always welcome.

SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
shall lodge No. 10s, A F. & A. NJ. Work
in first degree Friday, June %, T;3o p.
m John w. Wells, secretary; G. o.
Frazey, W. NJ.
sIGNET CHAPTER. No. So. r. A. NJ.
Special convocation Monday evening
June IS. Work in the Mark Masters
Degree. Carl Schaffner, H. P; John
w. Wells, secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo
mon Council No. 20. r. & S. NJ. Mon
dsy, June 10, regular business. !. L
day, July II. regular business. l. l.
Forces Recorder. George Gregory, !. NJ.
SPECIAL coNCLAVE. st. Aldemar
commandery No. 80. h. T.. Tuesday,
June %. 5 p. m. for work. l. L.
Forces. eRcorder; H. c. Mueller, Com
mander.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. O. e.
ESPECIAL Meeting Wednesday, June
%, school OF instruction al $50 p. m.
Dinner at s 30, work at S. p. m. Eliza
8. Bartin. secretary; Cora NJ. Mellow
ell, ". NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-26

system of liberalization Of all railroad
regulation as to rates and conditions
Of service. Republicans put strong
plank in their national platform this
year on this matter, even calling for
amendment of the constitution, if that
be necessary in attaining the end.
Democratic leaders of the northern
states are with them in this. More
than one big railroad man says he sees
government ownership ahead, and he
says it complacently. in the meantime
hailing as an urgent need action that
will result in centering control Of the
common carriers in one head, whose
rulings and instructions will run from
terminus to terminus and know no
state lines. Much might be written on
the crescent decay of state rights and
the cause therefor. The movement for
liberalization of many things is a sign
too of the newer nationalism.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-26
POLITICS..
IS End seak6 U5X e cabba6es-l WIS

Politics is a flourishing industry
which provides employment for
thousands OF American citizens who
otherwise would face want.
1t was the intention of the found
ers of this republic that every man
should be aspolitician and help sweep
out the Augean Stables once in every
four years. but the sweeping is now
largely confined TO professionals. IL
it were not for the professional poll
tician there would be no primary elec-
tons or secondary congressman. and
the country might have to submit to
being run by a king. This would do
away with lot of fourth assistant at
torney generals and empty the public
trough Of a large number of feet, but
it would entail untold hardship upon a
great many worthy citizens who are
not Injured to labor and compel them to
learn some disagreeable trade, like pill
ing up dress goods or working in the
garden.
The two principal brands of poll
tics in use are labeled republican
and democratic. and both are used
from time to time as rudder for the
ship of state. Whenever the people
rise up and change rudders vast
hordes of civil service employees pre-
pare to return to the quiet life of the
farm, while in every hamler, town
and city can be heard the sof:, sibi-
liant footsteps and labored breathing
of the hopeful office seeker Many a
man who has sacrifice good gem
eral merchandise business to run for
the postoffice has found nota:ng in
politics but disappointment, mental
anguish and the noiseless, reversible
action of the double cross, and yet
there are always enough candidates
to fill the largest church In town.
Men enter politics forstwo reasons
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-26
A COURAGEOUS WOMAN.


In these martial days. when national
guardsmen are entraining for duty on
the Mexican border and by straining
we can almost hear thu boom of the
AZ -centimeter guns across the water.
we think of courage as 4 purely mas
culine attribute. But an incident oc-
Cured in the police court right here in
Council Bluffs the other day which
proves that women as well as men can
do their duty under disagreeable cir
cumStanceS-and1 just as bravery as tho
they wore uniform.
A woman had been the unwilling wit
ness while walking a path between her
home and the neighborhood grocery. at
one of those moral degenerates who in
sisted upon disgusting and indecent
exposure Of his person. The simplest
and most satisfactory course for this
woman to have pursued would have
been to forget it; she might, II her
husband were somewhat athletically in
clined, have had the man given ply
steal beating that possibly would have
made him more circumspect, II not
more moral, in his future actions.
But this particular woman, with a
sense Of her real responsibility to the
community at large. caused the arrest
Of the man she believed tn he the one
who annoyed her, and filed formal
complaint in court against him. Il dis
like the notoriety." she explained in fill
ing the complaint, but feel the man
should be prosecuted. / would not want
him to go now, and then later repeat the
offense with daughter of mine as his
victim"
There have been cases which have
come to the unofficial notice of police
officers and of newspaper men right
here in Council Bluffs where similar ac-
tions have gone unpublished because OF
the dread of publicity and the fear of
linsinuating cross examination at the
hands Of attorneys who seemingly
sometimes have more regard for the
| $40 police court. fee from their clients
than for the honor and dignity of wom-
anhood. And 1t must be. said, to the
shame of the bar of Pottawattamie
county. that this woman, doing her duty
as she saw it and without a shadow OF
blemish on her reputation, was subject
ed to just this sort OF improper cross
examination. 1t is, by the way. just
this point of public embarrassment to
their women upon which southerncrs
Justify their not infrequent recourse to
| lynch law instead of letting the law
take it's course.
| II is no easy task for a right minded
woman to make public formal COM
plant in case Of this kind. And
when she does, she should be given
every possible consideration consonant
with the real and material rights of the
man charged with the offense. Every
NEWSPAPER man in Council Bluffs, in al
probability, knew this woman's name
but it was not published in any paper
until her actual appearance on the wit.
ness stand.
Improper, examination by attorneys
lii cases Of this sort seldom IL exel
results in freeing a man charged with
the offense, but it does have the direc'
results in freeing the man charged
with complaint and of freeing future
! transgressors from the possibility o.
court charges.
All honor to Mrs. Florence Jordan ant
other women Of her kind.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-26
DON'T WORRY.


At the outset. should the Iowa SOL
diers be moved to the border. they will
encounter little danger being employed
for patrol duty. releasing some thirty
eight thousand regulars now doing that
service.
1t would therefore seem wise for the
friends and relatives of the keokuk
mllitiamen. and ali others in the state
to refrain from worry over possible i'm
mediate danger to the citizen soldiers.
Don't grieve: don't worry, No matter
should there be a war a conflict with
the poorly armed and undisciplined half
savages OF Mexico has no parallel in
danger and horror with the European
struggle. Enjoying every advantage of
equipment. training and intelligence,
the soldiers of the United States have
comparatively little to fear from con-
fiict in which every advantage is with
them