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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-08
SHORT SESSION OF
c0NGREs S. STARTS
RAILROAD REFORMS AND FOOD
PRICES CONSTITUTE NEW
ISSUES THIS WINTER.

Congress reconvened Monday for a
three months session, with . calendar
overcrowded with general legislation,
facing railroad reforms and the high
cost of living as new issues, and con-
fronted with unprecedented estimates
aggregating $1,S54,81S,654 to meet
expenditures on the government for
the next fiscal year.
Estimates of the expenses OF all
branches of the government for the
fiscal year 1918, upon which congress
will base its appropriations, total
1884. This sum is exclu-
sive of $325,355,820 to be appropri-
ated for the postal service. which is
expected to be returned to the treas
ury by postal revenue, and sinking
fund appropriation Of $6O,74S.000 to-
ward the public debt.
Increase Is $S4, 100000.
The total appropriations for the
fiscal year 1917 ending next June, ex-
elusive of these two items, were ST.
|1S4.157,517. The increase Of some
$S4,OOO.O0O represents the general
trend of the constantly increased cost
of government as we'll as the in
creased cost of living
Increases in compensation and IN
number Of employees are to be found
in the estimates Of all branches of the
government and to meet this tendency
administration officials have attempt
ed a policy of pairing down all pro-
posals for new projects with the ex-
ception of national defense, expendi-
lures to meet the growth of the coun-
try and the many burdens thrust upon
the United States by the war.
The estimates laid before congress
by the treasury department follow:
Legislative, s15,524.47s.
Executive, $688,37O.
State department, $6,315,S47.
Treasury department, $165,6S1,-
2s3.
Independent Offices, $8,13O,724.
District of Columbia, $17,sS5,026.
War department. $421,3bI,441.
Panama canal, $25, ,14b,620.
Navy department, $3S2,4S7'oS1.
Interior department, $210,161.412.
Postoffice department, $1,76o'1oo'
Department Of agriculture, $43'-
331,907.
Department Of commerce, $lo'737''
1853.
Department OF labor, $4,69o,of'.
Department of justice, $11.555,696
Total. s1,268,715,s34.
Gents omitted.
The greatest increases are Oh
course. in the estimates for carrying
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-08
Business Continues Active

Continued favorable business con-
ditions throughout the country. with
all markets extremely active. prices
going up in many lines and high lev
els of production set in others. are
noted in the federal reserve boards
monthly tabulation Of reports from
reserve agents. made public this
week. Serious car shortage was re-
ported from nearly every section.
however, during the last month. and
1t was said to be the chief impedf-
ment to further increase OF CONNER
cial and Industrial activity.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-08
Former Local Barber Arrested.

Former Local Barber Arrested.
Reports received in Olympia tell
Of the arrest in Seattle the other day
on a charge Of wife desertion of H.
r. Frederickson, former proprietor OF
local barbershop, on complaint OF
his wife, who has made her home
with her parents in Ritzville since
last June. Frederickson left here to-
ward the last of November. saying he
was going to Montana. He was
found in a house in Seattle where
Mrs. 8. A. La Barre. who left Olym-
pia about the same time, was also
living, Mrs. La Barre telling the Sc
attic police that Frederickson was a
boarder. Mr.. La Barre has brought
suit for divorce on statutory grounds.
Fredericton was taken to Ritzville.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-08
MILWAUKEE OPENS OFFICES.
J. Il. Norton Comes to Olympia ~
City Passenger Agent.

The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad, which has not been repre-
sented with a city ticket office here
for some months. this week opened
ofices In the new building at Fifth
and Main streets with J. l.. Norton,
formerly connected with the Seattle
Offices, in charge.
Mr.. Norton will be city passenger
agent, the freight business still being
handled by ]. c. Percival at the dock.
Mr.. Norton is an experienced railroad
man, genial and accommodating, and
proposes to devote his time to devel-
oping business for the Milwaukee In
this territory.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-08
NORTHWEST WINS FIGHT
AGAINST DISCRIMINATION
Federal Board Knocks Out $3.50
DiRerentials in Round Trip
Fares.

The fight of Northwest states
against an arbitrary charge of $3.50
to tourists wishing to visit the Pacific
coast by way of the Northwest was
won in a decision announced this
week by the interstate commerce
The case was that filed by Charles
A. Reynolds as chairman of the state
public service commission, and which
Mr. Reynolds argued before the COM
mission during October last in Wash
ington, D. c., after he had retired as
chairman of the public service COM
mission.
For ten years the Northwest has
been Disseminated against by the
railroads in favor of the southern
routes to and from California by a
regulation which allowed a trip to
and from California for the same fare
over the Southern routes, but which
finally added an extra charge OF
$3.50 to the face of those wishing
either to come or return through the
Northwest.
Complete readjustment, however
of passenger fares between Eastern
gateways and the Pacific Coast may
be necessary in view of the decision
Traffic officials are OF the opinion that
passenger fares between all Coast
points and Chicago would be raised
sufficiently to absorb the d1nerential
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-08
HOW PRIZE
CORN WAS GROWN
G. \. HARTSUCK EXPLAINS CUL.
TIVATION OF CROP THAT
WON OVER NORTHWEST.

When announcement was made
that Charles A. Hartsuck, of this
county, had on corn grown on his
farm near Tumwater won first prize
over all entries in the Northwestern
Corn Show at Walla Walla last month
under the auspices of the O.-W. r. r.
& N. company, not only was there
much surprise and great interest, but
there came one inquiry after another,
all of the same burden-"How did he
do it,"
Western Washington generally has
a reputation Of being a very poor
corn country. albeit the campaigns
conducted in recent years by the
O.-W. and other railroads and agen-
cies have done a lot to overcome the
former skepticism regarding the
adaptability of that grain to the cli-
matte conditions of this section. But
now that Thurston county grown
corn has won out in contest with
corn from the favored sections of all
parts of the Northwest, 1t is held that
suficient demonstration has been
given that corn, and good corn, can
be successfully matured here.
Mr.. Hartsuck's prize was won on
Yellow Estacada Dent corn, and
when asked to tell of the manner in
which it was raised, he said:
II plowed the ground last fall, let
ting it lay in furrow over winter. In
the spring disced and plowed it
again, then again disced 1t after
plowing, until the seedbed was well
fined.
II planted 1t May 18th, in rows AZ
inches apart and with hills SO inches
apart, with from three to five kernels
in each hill, planting two and half
inches deep.
II cultivated it six times and hoed
i It three times. keeping the top well
stirred and all weeds down. The soil
is sandy loan.
From the half acre planted five
tons were cut and fed green, and hav-
ing left the best ears. harvested 600
we'll developed ears, gathered from
240 hills. OF these 800 are good,
first-class seed corn. The seed was
not gathered until after the frost.
The greater part was husked and
dried in a warm room, but some was
left in the husk on the stalk and left
in shelter, out Of the wet, and ripened
up in good shape"
This corn is as solid as though
grown in what is known as a corn
country. The ears are small. but the
stalk is of a good size and would
make fine silage.
Mr.. Hartsuck is a firm believer in
the possibilities for corn growing in
this part Of Washington II acclimat-
ed seed IL used and proper care is
given.
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Continued on Page Eight.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-08
Delinouent Taxes Unusually Low

The smallest number OF delinquent
c,es in wears is reported by County
Treasurer Fred W. Stocking regard
ing the second installment OF real es-
tate taxes, the collection OF which
closed the last Of November. only
% property owners failed to pay up
he says, and the total amount OF
taxes delinquent is less than $500.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-08
SPECULATE AS TO
MILLS APPO|NTEES
OF REPUBLICAN CITY
TICKET PROMPTS GOSSIP
AS TO NEW OFFICIALS.

Election of Jesse T. Mills as mayor
and the entire Republican city ticket
except City Clerk w. A. Hoage, the
Citizens candidate, who was unop-
posed, and J. c. Masemore, the Cfti-
ems candidate for councilman in the
Fourth ward, has produced lot of
questioning and wondering since the
city election last Tuesday as to the
men whom the mayor-elect would ap-
point as chief of police, city engineer,
fire chief and street and waterworks
superintendent, to name the more Inn
portant appointive offices at his op-
tion.
And SO far Mayor-elect Mills hasn't
taken the public into his confidence
as to the personnel of his appointees.
albeit some of his erstwhile friends
are talking quite freely. They say,
for instance, that w. H. Yeager,
whose term as county engineer ex-
pires this month, or the present as
sistant, Ray Wood, or Ernest l..
Wolf is to be city engineer; that
Harry Cusack or Fred w. McCorkle.
whose term as sheriff expires this
month, or Ed Rogers or Jack Berk-
shire or Garry Hodge or one of half
q dozen others, is to be chief of police.
Weddell and Cation to Go.
The chief speculation is over en-
gineer and chief Of police, the uni
versal and natural presumption being
that Weddell and Cation are to retire
with the Mottman administration.
Their successors, 1t is expected, will
not be announced until the mayor
elect delivers his first message to the
new council at the first meeting in
January, when he is also expected to
announce the chief details of his ad-
ministration policy.
The election of the Republican city
ticket followed an unusually quiet
campaign. The majorities ranged
from 2SS for City Attorney Bigelow
over R. F. Sturdevant, to Mills ma
jority of 665 over George N. Talcott,
the Citizens nominee for mayor.
The vote was as follows: Mayor.
Mills, R., 1852; Talcott, c., 5S7;
attorney, Bigelow. R., 1,04S; Sturde-
want, c., 757; treasurer, Iona Smith,
R., 1884; clerk, Hoage, c., 1878;
councilman-at-large, McCleary. R.,
1923; Bolster, c., $50; councilman,
Second ward, Forstell, R., 81; Ru-
dolph, c., 80; Fourth ward, Norrie,
R., 11s, Masemore, c., 244; Sixth
ward, Knox, R., 118, Work, c., 100.
First Under New Law.
The mayor, attorney, clerk, treas
urer and councilman-at-large were
elected for two-year terms and the
ward councilmen for four years, the
election being the first to be held un-
der the biennial election law for
third.class cities, passed by the last
legislature.
The only announcement made by
the mayor-elect is that immediate
steps will be taken to improve condi-
tions on West Fourth street.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-08

Tenino elected the entire Peoples
ticket in a quiet election last Tues
day, the opposition being offered by
the Socialists. H. c. Barclay was
chosen mayor, Crikker and Axton
councilmen, Claude Vanderslice clerk
and Grace X. Gibbons treasurer.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-08
SCHOOL
TO CLOSE SATURDAY
SPECIAL DAIRY PROGRAM IN Az
TERNOON-EVENING MEET.
ING AT SOUTH UNION.

The all-important question of land
clearing-the subject that is produc-
ing more discussion, comment, inves-
tigation and study each year in West
ern Washington-was discussed at
the Friday morning session of the
Agricultural Extension school by Pro-
fessor l. D. Charlton, agricultural en-
gineer of the Western Washington ex-
pertinent station at Puyallup.
Other subjects scheduled for con-
sideration during the day are "Util-
izing the By-Products of the Dairy"
by J. N. Price; and in the afternoon
a further discussion of the poultry
business by Mrs. George R. Shoup
and Better Livestock and Why" by
Mr.. Price.
Program for Saturday.
Saturday morning Mr.. Price will
talk on New Things in Agriculture"
and Mrs. E. Jones, assistant state
leader of the work of the Boys and
Girls clubs, will make a short ad-
dress. Saturday afternoon special
Dairy Day program will be carried
out, Mr.. Price being assisted by s. C.
Gibson, of the Puyallup experiment
station, head of the cow-testing work
in the state, all phases of the discuss
sion being designed to be of particu-
lar interest 20 dairymen, who are es-
pecially urged to attend.
Friday night the Extension school
work will be carried direct to the
farmers, in meetings at Schneiders'
Prairie and Lacey, while Saturday
night what is expected to be the
largest meeting of the week ia to be
held at South Union.
| Attenaance at the school has been
good this week. Though not quite
as large as had been expected, It has
been larger than at the last course
given here, while the interest and at
tention have been particularly strong,
exciting the approval Of the State
College instructors conducting the
school. A striking feature Of the
daily attendance at the lectures at
the Chamber of Commerce, in fact.
has been that those who started with
the first sessions of the course last
Monday have been attending prac-
tically every day since.
Evening Meetings Largo.
The evening meetings in different
communities throughout the county
have been more largely attended.
The first was held at Grand Mound
Tuesday night; Wednesday night the
instructors went to Rainier and the
McKenna school House; and Thurs-
day night to Little Rock, the meeting
previously arranged for South Bay
that evening having been called on.
The classes in Home Economies,
conducted by Miss M. e. Sutherland
in the basement Of the Y. M. G. A.
building, have likewise drawn large
attendance of women from the city
and nearby sections OF the county.
The program for Friday afternoon
calls for q discussion Of "Salads and
Desserts, while Saturday afternoon
the subject will be "Diets for School
Children"
The daily programs az announced
last week for the Agricultural Exten-
sion school and the Home Economics
course have been carried out each
day without change.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday OF
next week the Extension Service OF
the State college will conduct school
at Yelm, speakers from the college
and the experiment station at Puy-
allup appearing on the program.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-12-08
MAY LOCATE HUGE
ARMY POST NEARBY
GOVERNMENT PLANS BIG CAMP
ON TRACT BETWEEN OLYM.
PA AND TACOMA,

Establishment of an army division
post of $1,000 men on 10000 acres
of land on Nisqually plains neag
American lake, about halfway be-
tween Olympia and Tacoma, carry
ing with it an immediate expenditure
by the war department CT $4,O0O,O0O
in preparing the site and an annual
maintenance expenditure - payro.i.
food and forage bill - of more than
$7,OOO,00O, has been formally author
ICED by the war department, provldin;
Pierce county buys and donates the
site to the government. Offic;a! an
nouncement of the agreement was
made the fore part of this week.
Acting upon the agreement. the
Pierce county commissioners have set
January 6 next as the date when
voters of that county will be asked
to authorize 100000 bond issue
to carry out its part of the bargain.
The commissioners action was based
upon petition presented by $50 tax
payers, and it is said by those bebild
the plan that the amount asked may
not be necessary, but that sum will
cover every contingency. The North
ern Pacific owns 1887 acres of land.
which Thomas Cooper, of the COM
pany's lanj department. has offered
to sell 70 the government for $3.50 an
acre.
VIII Foil Spectators.
Assurance that spectators will not
have shance to grab the profits is
shown by the fact that the land will
be purchased through condemnation
proceedings, and every block Of acre
age will be appraised by competent
board.
The subject has been under consid-
GRAFTON for several months. 1t has
been engineered by Stephen Appleby,
q banker, who, with a committee, re-
Gently visited the secretary Of war in
Washington City and obtained from
him a written pledge to establish a
division post at this point II the
people will donate the land.
President Wilson has taken the
matter up rs an administration policy
and a number of prominent army
officers, including Maj. Gen. J. Frank.
lin Bell, of the Western department
headquarters in San Francisco, are
giving it their support.
Site Is Desirable.
The desirability of acquiring this
site has been emphasized in a number
of reports to the war department
within the last dozen years.
The agreement with the secretary
of war calls for the location at this
post of an army division, or about
$40 officers and $1,000 men. and II
will be the largest permanent mill.
tary encampment in America. The
government is prepared at once to
expend about $4,00O,000 in making
the site ready, in a temporary way
for the troops, and then will proceed
to permanent construction, involving
the expenditure Of many millions OF
dollars. The annual pay roll and
food and forage bill will be about
$7,OO0,000.
The post is designed to become the
maneuver ground for state troops OF
the Northwest as far east as the Da'
kotas, and the authorities say that
at times the total number Of troops
here will be 100000.
The area embraces the land once
held by the Hudson Bay company
and its western boundary is only 9
short distance from Fort Steilacoom
an important early day post.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-19
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY Stories

And every story a good ONE.
They are entertaining. but that is
not all you can say about them.
You know there is hardly a per-
iodical published that is not full of
time-wasting stories, but not a
single story in The Yonth's Com
panion is a time waster. Take the
stories of G. A. Stephens. 1t would
be hard to pick out one from which
you cannot learn something useful
and yet entertaining.
Some of the Companion stories
refresh your knowledge of geog
raphy; some tell you the mysteries
OF chemistry; some reveal the Sc
crets of forestry and of general
farming. They cover a wide ran
ge. They are chosen with an eve
to the possible likings of every
member of a Companion family
stories of vigorous action and stir
ring adventure for boys, stories of
colledge life and domestic vicissi-
tudes for girls, stories that RANGE
all the way from sheer d%roIlery to
deep seriousness for men and
women. There are no stories
quite like those in The Companion
and you get $50 of them, and a lot
Decides, forS2. 90.
If you are not familiar with The
Companion as it is today, let us
send you sample copies and the
Forecast" for 1916.
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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-19
ABBREVIATED
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo Comcau were

Mr.. and Mrs. Geo Gomcau were
in town Sunday
Harvey Gates made a trip TO tbs
countyseat remaining over night
Dick Dunn and wife came NJ
from their ranch Monday ON bu /
ness, remaining over night
Ed. Sutton has been endorsed hy
the Democrats of Sully co as a
candidate for the legislature
Emery Lyman of EaIes passed
thru town the other day on his
way to Laurel to purchase some
sheep
Brooks George and wife of Get
tyshurg, with three lady friends,
we're over for a Joy ride the first
of the week
Mr.. and Mrs. j. +. WhitIock
were over from Gettysburg Tor a
short visit, Sunday, accompanied
by Miss Violet Hughes
Mabc! Merrill cot her elbow
injured while playing at school
this afternoon. and was taken over
to see DR.. I.ahcn ut the Agency
Mr.. BohnhoM, the Gettysburg
butcher and a representative of
Strange Brothers of Sioux City
were i'm town to-day enroutc to the
Agency to attend an auction sale
of hides
Mrs. j. p. Brehl is the guest of
Mrs. l.. Oliver. expecting to re
main a week or two longer, when
she expects to 90 to reside with
her daughter Mrs. Annie Mellon
aid. in Montana.
Geo Comcau and Duncan Mckay
returned from st. Paul last Friday
bringing with them a couple a
loads of young cattle, with which
to stock their pastures. They have
been selling some of them to others
hereabouts, lncluding K. b. Ellit,
and Harry Oliver
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-19
AGENCY RIFLES

DIR. Fleurv. govt.-yet., is here
on professional duties
Chas Claymore and wife were in
Monday from their allotment
Mrs. Duncan left for Indaip-
apolis last Saturday to visit her
brother
Miss Lavinia Bulinger has &C
copied a position at Hotel de Con-
gdon as helper
Mr.. Ben Baokus of Winner SD.
arrived a few days ago to visit his
brother John j.
DR.. Laben aud wife left for a
trip out on the reservation q few
days ago, via LaPlant
Miss Lahr a trained nurse from
New York has arrived to fill the
position at the hospital
Mr.. and Mrs. L. johnson who
went to Rochester, are back again.
accompanied by their sister
The White Swan took forty head
of cattle across the river Tuesday
for +. B. Congdon who expects to
Craze them on the hills around
Forest City
The White Swan made a trip To
the Island Thursday last to get a
supply of trees for Arbor Dav.
Most of them we're planted on the
school grounds
II. n. Clark left for Mitchell.
South Dakota, Tuesday. called
there by the death of a
nephew. He will meet his brother
in Mitchell, and thought he might
make a visit to Oklahoma before
returning
Mrs. Cole, a trained nurse. who
is a graduate of a New York in
stition, arrived a. few DAYS ago
to fill II position at the hospital
here. She is "a South Dakota lady
with her children residing at Cur
ley, Stanley-co. for which place
she left Saturday to make them a
visit, having obtained a week )
leaye of absence.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-19

NonWald Offered the following
resolution and moved its adoption:
Resolved that the Register of
Deeds be and is hereby authorized
to employ a deputy in his office at
a wage not exceeding $500 per
day, the total wage of said deputy
from April list 1916 to january LIST
1917 not to exceed 10 per cent oil
the total fees paid into his said Of
flee in eNcess of 500 per month
during such time. Motion was sec
onded by Rausch. On motion being
put each member present voted
YES.
Motion was declared carried by
chairman.
There being no further business
to come before the board at this
time and having received notice
from G. n. Henry chairman of the
State Tax Commission that he
would be In Gettysburg on April
2sth to meet with the board and
the assessors OF Potter County. 1t
was moved TO adjourn to 10 o'clock
a. m. April 2Sth 1916.
Motion was declared carried by
chairman.
A. G.. Williams
Attest: Chairman
Ed. B. Toomey. Co. Auditor.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-04-19
WATCH cHILD's COUGH

Colds, running of nose, continu-
ed irritation of the mucous membrane il
neglected may mean catarrh later. Don't
take the chances-do something for YOUR
child. Children will not take every med
icine. but they will take DIR. Kings New
Discovery and without bribing and teas
ing. Its ii sweet pleasant tar syrup and
so effective. just laxative enough to- elm
dose helps. Always prepared. no mixing or
lusslng. Just ask your druggist for DR.
Kings New Discovery. 1t will safeguard
your child against serious ailments result
ing from colds