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Weekly journal-miner., 1917-06-27
ATTORNEYS HOLD
 SECOND BANQUET
CErom Fridays Dsi!-.

The second banquet of the Prescott Bar Association was held at the Nav- apai Club last night. with a dozen members present. An attempt IS be- ing made 10 get the attorneys to- gcthcr moro often for these little social meetings.
 There was general discussion oi words. after the discussion of food had been ended. \ number of witty talks were made James l.. Coleman, the new partner of the firm of An- dcrsou. Coleman & Nilsson was wei comcd. and in a short speech. dcScrIb- cd inc machinery Of the courts of his home community. Chicago and the Middle East
 The lawyers resolved to close their officers at noon on Saturdays through out the Summer.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-06-27

Journal-Miner :or job Work.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-06-27
THE WOOD SHIPS PROGRAM

There Is growing suspicion that things get ting along efficiently Washington If Germany wins this will be through the work of the submarines The critical in the struggle vclal Great Britain France Italy in spite of these undcrsca pirates will is agreed December So well that recognized British commissioners that they ship
 It the immediate needs ships that ship program adopted by the federal shipping small boats shown could be cheaply and quickly built and by their low visibility and numbers would baifc the sub marines and get of oodsu safely
 about be let shpyardS many of which had from the shipping board made extensive preparations undertake them General Goctas made chief of the emergency fleet building corporation with absolute authority in all
 Now General Goctta doesn't like ships the wood ship program. He prefers steel He enough dry timber of suitable quality the country build the wooden ships decided
 General Goethals i dcScvcdy held in high and Chairman Dcnman oi the shipping board small cab probably little fitted for the very responsible position he holds as official life. But the opinion grows that Goetas has made great mistake pushing both wooden and steel construction to the highest possible speed We every ship the wooden boat builders than precious months and been given the signal o of getting ships Nor should Chairman who has done enough demonstrate that he utterly unfed for the position he holds
 Turkey also will agree peace without but
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-06-27

William Is having another squirt of telling what Me und Gott' about to do
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-06-27

Ordinarily extremes meet. Now meats arc extreme
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-06-27
TO STUDY ROOT ROT
 AT PHOENIX PLANT
(From Fridays DsiIy.)

The bureau of plant industry, of the United States department of agricul- turc, has notified the Navapai Counv ty Chamber of Commerce that lab oratory for bio-phySical inveStiga- tionS has been established at Phoenix. One of the problems upon which the new bureau is now working is that of the root-rot disease of alfalfa, cotton. fruit and ornamental trees. A survey of the infected areas has been made. Any ono interested in this matter or having crops infected are requested to communicate with (. J. King, as sistant in plant nutrition, Phoo ni2, Arizona.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-06-27

Turkey also will agree peace without there isn't going be enough Turkey to annex anything
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-06-27

Alexander the Great ruled Greece but Alexander son of Constantine, will do what the allies tell him.
Weekly journal-miner., 1917-06-27

England and France held their ncompctcn long time after tic began get rid at the outset
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06

The employment agency thrivcs ON the
dislOcation Of labor and ON casual employ
ment, and is as much Interested In Great
ing unemployment as in alternating il.
For all this there was the most ample
evidence.
The United States bureau of labor re-
ported that the nature of their business
is such as to make possible most iniqui-
tous practices" The commission ON in
fnIstrial relations, appointed by President
Wilson, found that ''the business as a
whole reeks with fraud, extortion, and
fragrant abuses of every kind
Regulation of these abuses had failed.
A careful student of the problem wrote,
in 1914, that ''2I states and the District
of Columbia have attempted to regulate
private employment agencies, and have
made miserable failure of it,
The commission ON industrial relations
concluded that the abuses were inherent,
and could not he remedied by regulation.
The American Association of Public Em-
ployment Agencies recommended the abo-
lition of private agencies.
The state of Washington itself had tried
indirect regulation, by establishing public
employment agencies, successfully con-
Quoted at a cost of cents per position
filled, as compared with the normal pri-
vate agency charge of 81 to 81. Yet the
private agency, with its swindling prac-
tees continued to exact its tribute.
In 1914, Washington applied an organic
remedy. BY n large majority, an initiative
measure was adopted by popular vote,
making il unlawful for a private employ
ment agency to charge fee to any per-
son seeking employment.
The state declared its deliberate policy
that the cost of bringing together men
and jobs must be borne by the employers,
or by the community, and that IL should
not be eXacted as tribute from the class
least able TO pay it,
The measure was the outcome of years
of bitter experience, in a state in which
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
Our u. S. Supreme Court Unsafe!

"A Reactionary Decision is the heading
over the following scorching comment
made in this weeks issue of The New Re-
public on a subject of deep interest to
Southwest Washington workers. The New
Republic, tho a comparatively young peri
odical, is recognized as being one of the
most able, Independent and influential in
the CONTEMPLATION.
Public attention has been SO completely
absorbed i'm the war that one OF the most
important decisions rendered by the
supreme court this year has passed almost
unnoticed. On June II, the court held
unconstitutional law of the state of
Washington. making il unlawful for pri-
vate employment agencies TO charge fees
to workmen.
The decision was by five to four vote,
the majority condemning the law as "arbi-
trary and oppressive" and unduly restrit-
i've of the ''liberty" guaranteed by the
fourteenth amendment.
To grasp the full gravity of this reac-
tionary decision, the social background Of
the law. must be vizualized. IL is sketched
with detailed thOrOughness in Mr.. Justice
Brandeis' dissenting opinion.
The private employment agency has
for years been recognized one of the
sore points of irritation I'm the industrial
machine. Ii preys on the ignorant and
the unskilIed, eXacting its tribute when
the stress of unemployment renders them
defenseless. 1t charges extortionate fees,
and performs services which are often
illusOry.
The evidence produced by Mr.. Justice
Brandeis' opinion is overwhelming that
they are subject to the grOssest frauds
and dishonesties. Workmen sent
long trips to jobs which prove to be nom
existent. COllusive arrangements with
employers are frequent, by which work
men are employed for few days, and
then discharged, that the agency can
find them new jobs and exact new tributes.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06

cry reason to believe she was not
his wife.
Mccain is alleged to have lived
with woman other than his wife
in a middle western state.
A Photographic copy of New
York hotel register page was In
troduced showing the signature,
Henry Mccain and wife,
Mccain put on the defense de-
clares that it was his wife with
whom he made the eastern trip,
and introduced a deposition from
her to that effect.
Begins Hunt for Her.
Then Wilson began a hunt for
Mrs. Mccain. She was nowhere
to be found.
Friends and relatives scattered
thruout western Oregon denied
that they knew where she was.
Wilson hopes to find her so that
Lawyer may identify her as not
the woman he met. Mccain is
also alleged to have lived with
this woman in Kansas City
Wilson introduced today depo-
sitions from two University of
Oregon professors today showing
that Mrs. Mccain was attending
the university during McCain's
trip east.
The hearing, resembling a
grand Jury investigation, will
probably not end before tomor-
row.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
No Welded Bliss On
$14 a Week, She Says

Fourteen dollars a week isn't
enough to finance married life, &C
cording to the testimony of Myrel
Denny, young Tacoma mother,
who was granted a divorce from
Frank Denny by Judge Clifford
Thursday.
A sick baby, doctors bills, pay
ment on furniture and other ex-
penses were too much for the
family pocketbook, she said, al
though her husband turned over
to her nearly all he made.
They were married Sept. -,
1914. Since April of this year
she and her 1S-monthe-old baby
have been living with her par
ents.
She claimed her husband never
paid any attention to the baby,
saying he wished II never had
been BORN"
In his reply to her complaint,
the husband claimed she knew OF
his finances before they were
married and that he suggested
postponement of the wedding, but
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06

the problem was exceptionally acute, and
il was considered, as Mr.. Justice Brandcis
says, "A necessary preliminary to the
establishment of ~ constructive policy for
dealing with the subject of uncmpIoy-
mcnt, "-"Pcrhaps the gravest and most
difficult problem of modern industry"
This measure the supreme court has
now nuIlified. What are the reasons for
the decision?
Mir. Justice McReynolds gives them
very briefly: but we think IL plain that
there is nothing inherently immoral Or
dangerous to public welfare In acting as
paid representative of another 10 find "a
position in which he can earn an honest
living. On the contrary, such service IN
useful, commendable, and In great de-
mand."
A few pIatitudes from state courts are
cited to support this opinion; no other
evidence is produced. The mass of ire
sistibIc testimony adduced by MIR. Justice
Brandeis is ignored, or dismissed with the
statement that all professions and most
businesses offer opportunities for abuse,
and that "skillfully directed agitation
might also bring about apparent condemn
alton OF any one of them by the public"
Some generalities about liberty and prop
erty complete the opinion.
Decisions of this sort emphasize a stu
alton that is fast becoming intolerable.
The AdamsOn law was sustained by a
five to four decision; the minimum wage
law by four to four; the vote i'm the
worlSmen's insurance law case was five
to four, and in the ten-hour law case, five
to three. These laws were barely saved
but until last week II seemed still possible
that the liberal element in the supreme
court, led by Justice Holmes and Brandeis
might prevail The present decision
dashes those hopes to the ground.
IL the employment agencies law is con-
trary to due process, no new social Iegis-
lation can be considered safe In the
hands Of the supreme court.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06

the suicide note" to prove 1t.
But a handwriting expert now
swears no woman about to take
her life would have shown so
steady a hand.
Investigation into the life of the
husband then brought to light the
fact that George II. keyes was
New England Don Juan. Here,
right in the midst of Brook lines
blue-blooded families a man had
been living a double life,
On reconsideration, too. 1t
was decided Mrs. Reyes could
not have fired the two shots
through her hand into her
temple.
Who, then, fired the fatal shots?
A mysterious woman" had
been seen by neighbors prowling
around the Keyes home a few days
before the murder.
Then Reyes was closely quizzed.
He finally betrayed Miss Harriet
A. Varney, hospital nurse, who
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06

| that she and her parents insisted
on the marriage.
He claimed she knew nothing of
cooking or housekeeping, and that
1t was impossible for her to live
away from her parents. He tried
to establish home for her but
1t didn't work, he said.
He moved to Seattle in May to
take another position, he claimed,
and she refused to go with him.
The wife was given the custody
of the baby and permission was
granted the husband to see the
child whenever he wished.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
Children of Israel
HadNothing OnHer,
Saws Mabel Abbott

sistant Secretary Carl Holmes. who
had taken me across on the launch
that is now the only way of reach
ing the plant.
To Lay Keel Soon.
We were looking down into the
ways.
All saw was a pair of mules,
philosophically dra gging a load of
lumber up from the waters edge.
But Holmes eyes seemed to see
something else there; something
400 feet long, and growing like a
live thing till it loomed high above
us.
I'VE hope to lay the first keel in
August" he said.
No, the children of Israel
had nothing on me. | too have
seen a miracle-the miracle
that a great industry can per-
form when il IL hurrying to
serve its country's needs.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06

quit her job at ) a. m. the day
after the murder.
Miss Varney for six years has
also posed as Mrs. Reyes" Keyes
used to visit her two or three
times a week. Reyes took the po-
lice to her sisters home at West
Upton. Miss Varney was arrested
and put In Jail.
Miss Varney's alibi is that she
arrived in Boston from North
Grafton at 1915 about the time
the murder was committed and
lunched later in a Boston cafe
with Keyes. In a letter she sent
her sister that day she said Reyes
couldn't eat.
When inquiries were made of
Reyes he produced dentist who
said he was in his surgery at the
time of the murder.
This is the matrimonial career
of Reyes:
Married Helen =. Provan in
1893. In 1910 she left him. In
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06

PORTLAND, Ore, July g.
Mystery was added to the sensa-
ton today in the ecclesiastical
grand jury probe of the charges
and counter charges exchanged by
DR.. Clarence True Wilson, ma
tional executive secretary of the
thodist Temperance society and
Henry Mccain of Salem, Ore, ex-
minister.
All efforts today to learn the
whereabouts of Mrs. Roxana Nc
Cain, wife of Henry Mccain, have
failed. 1t is intimated that she
has dropped from sight to keep
from being forced to give testi-
mony which, it is said, would be
damaging to her husband.
Wilson, originally accused by
Mccain of lying, defamation of
character and violation OF law,
turned the tables on Mccain at
the first day of the hearing yes
terday, and today Mccain is de-
Tending himself from charges
more serious than those he made
against Wilson.
Another Woman in Case.
Rev. F. d. Lawyer, pastor OF
the First Methodist church at
Syracuse, N. ", crossed the con-
tinent to testify that Mccain ono
time introduced q woman to him
as his wife. altho Lawyer has ev-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
PUZZLES STATE
BONE DRY OR NOT?

Is the bone dry law in effect
today? And is all booze in drug
stores liable to seizure?
The law makes ii mandatory on
Secretary of State Howell to an
nounce the results of check on a
referendum petition 30 days after
the petition Is filed.
These 80 days have elapsed in
the case of the bone dry referen-
DUN, leaving city and county Of
ficials in a quandry.
"All booze in Seattle drug stores
has got to go, Via the AK route, IL
necessary, > is the attitude OF May
or Gill of Seattle. who declares
that II Corporation Consul Cald-
well finds the bone dry law now
in force, he will instruct the police
to raid every drug store in the city
and eonfiscate the liquor stocks.
Go Slower Here.
That no booze will be seized in
Tacoma drug stores until 10 days
after the results of the referen-
dunn are announced by the secre-
tary of state. was indicated by the
opinion of Prosecuting Attorney
Remain Of Pierce county Thurs
day.
While the law says the secretary
of state must announce the results
within 80 days, Remain said he
was unable to find any provision
by which failure to do so would
automatically make the bone dry
law effective.
Since the filing of the referen-
DUN petition suspended the OPP
Grafton of the bone dry law, and
since there has been no act to
make it effective. it would seem
unreasonable to hold drug stores
liable for alcohol in their posses
sion," he explained.
Court Takes Its Time.
Remains opinion was that the
10 days time given the druggists
under the bone dry law, to ship
out of the state any liquor they
may have, would begin with the
announcement of the secretary OF
state that the referendum petit
tons had failed.
| This announcement apparently
is being held up by the Thurston
county superior court which is de
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
j. s. NAVY
TN CHASE!

lean submarine, according to inti-
nations at the department.
The official report followed
press reports last night which said
two incoming ships sighted a peri
scope five miles off Fortress Mon
roe in the bay.
II is believed the report said the
periscope was sighted within
Chesapeake bay.
The report had added signifi-
canoe from the fact that German
u-boats are known to he operat-
ing farther from their home bases
than previously.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
BOSTON MURDER DEEP MYSTERY
High Society Stirred By
Tragedy; Try to Hush 1t

1914 he obtained a divorce.
In the meantime he had be-
come interested In Pauline Biesen-
bach, his stenographer, who was
to become the Inflated wife
No. g."
Also, II is said, within this time
he became friendly with Helen
Varney, hospital nurse and pho
tographer's model.
In August. 1915. Keyes, in
New York, married Miss Blesen-
bach, 26 years old, and y years
his junior.
These are the highiights
I'm this complicated murder
mystery that has besmirched
Brooklinc's moral charac-
ter"-highlights that have
leaked ont in spite of the
secret manner of conducting
the inquest I'm this ultra eN-
elusive community, and the
almost cOmical deaf and
dumb attitude of the police
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
By Mabel Abbott

The children of Israel
walked dry-shOd on the bot
tom of the Red sea.
But they have nothing on
me. i walked on the bot
tom of Commencement bay
Thursday.
To be sure, the bottom of the
bay had been brought to the sur
face and spread thru and over a
mattress of woven brush and
trees, and bordered by a picket
fence of piles: but it seemed to me
hardly less miracle than the one
of old, when at the Todd ship
building plant | sauntered across
acres of dry, firm land, with great
buildings rising upon it, where
only five months ago the waves
danced above IS feet of green
water.
A Centipede.
Seen from the city side of the
bay, flattened by distance, the
plant seems to lie on the beach at
the foot of the bluff but it is
really an island, separated from
the mainland on the farther side
by the width of Hylebos waterway,
and still far from connection with
the 18th street extension, which is
creeping slowly across the bay
like a giant centipede on its thou
sands of new pilings.
The island Is hardly half fin
lshed yet; but even as it grows to
the southwark, where the dredgers
are still sucking up the bottom OF
the sea and pouring 1t out to dry,
the ways are being floored and
sloped to the northward, ready for
the ships.
800 Men ut Work.
The island has a daily popula-
ton of 500 workmen, in two
shifts.
The general shop building is now
practically finished and partly oc-
cupied; and the tremendous tim
hers of the steel shed are being
framed and bolted together like
the trusses of a bridge, to carry
the weight OF metal.
This building is $50 by 324 feet
at present, and will be extended
TO 700 feet ultimately.
The piles have been driven for
the foundation Of the power
house; and two sections of the
enormous drydock are already in
place, and their hollow sides are
full of workmen fitting the pumps
that will admit and expel the
water.
when do you expect to begin
actual shipbuilding?" I asked As
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
EXPECT GRAND JURY
WILL INDICT 100

SAN FRANCISCO, July Elm
dictments charging 100 persons
with completely in plots to foment
revolution in British India are
expected tomorrow from the fed
eral grand jury. The names of
former German Consul Franz
Bopp, Vice Consul Won Setback,
Lieut.. William Won Bricken and
Charles Latendorf of the consulate
staff, are reported involved.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06

Especial TO The Times)
BROOKIINE, Mass, July
6.-Self-satisfied, aristocratic
and stand-offish BrOOkline,
the richest town I'm the
world" has a full-sized, un-
solved murder mystery to
cope with, the principals OF
which are man of many love
affairs whose Young and
handsome wife was found
shot, and his wife's young
and beautiful rival.
This Boston suburb of private
parks and mansions, ruled by
three very select selectmen, strict
ly representative of its silk stock
ing millionaire towns men, tried
hard to censor all news of develop
ments in the sensational and sor-
did tragedy, but in vain.
When Pauline Biesenbach Reyes
was found dead In her home, 70
kenwood street, Brookline bum
bledom said suicide" There was
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
SAMMIES GETTING
BATTLE EDUCATION

PARIS, July 6--Bsses for train
ing of aviation, artillery, infantry
and medical units were opened to-
day and started at once the educa-
ton of portions OF Pershing's Sam
mics for the front.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
(United Press rensed Wire.)

WASHINGTON, July 6.-That
an American navy vessel had
sighted what was apparently the
periscope of submarine close 10
Hampton Roads was reported to
the navy department today.
Other navy ships at once took
up the search for the submarine
and Secretary Daniels ordered that
the most thoro investigation pro
ceed.
If the object seen was Il peris-
cope, It was not that of an Amer
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
LUMBERJACKS DRY, TOO
Omitted Press Lensed re-,

SEATTLE, July 6.-Ninety per
cent Of the lumberjacks in the big
timber of the Northwest now favor
prohibition, and morality stand
ards are higher than ever before,
according to III. S. Whaler, lum-
berjack missionary, who reached
Seattle from the woods today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06

iermining the legality Of 800
names.
I'm not going To fool
around and twiddie my
thumbs while the drug stores
sell booze and II court In an
other county hens and haws
about the legality Of 800
names on n referendum pett-
ton" was the statement u
Mayor GIN today.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
BAKERS WILL AID
ANTIWASTE FIGHT

SEATTLE, July 6. 49, Seattle
master bakers, at the request OF
Herbert Hoover, last night voted
to discontinue taking back waste
bread. People will be expected to
eat it. Thousands of loaves have
been going to city garbage plants
daily.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
PREPARE CAMP FOR
NATIONAL GUARDS

Omitted Press Leased Wire.l
PAIIO ALTO, Cal, July 6.-The
fourth and ninth coast artillery
companies, Capt. Russell COM
manding. are encamped on the
new national guard camp site
here today, preparing the camp
for the coming Of the national
guardsmen,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
is TOO LATE NOW
TO JOIN ENLISTED
RESERVE CORPS

It's too late to enlist in the en-
listed mems reserve corps. Tele-
graphic orders from Washington
today directed that from now on
all enlistments must be in the ma
tional army.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-07-06
KILL CALIFORNIAN:
ESCAPE LYNCHuNG
Omitted Press LEASED wire.)

TRACY, Cal, July 6.-Having
escaped lynching only thru timely
action by Sheriff Kicks of San
Joaquin county. three Mexicans
accused of killing Superintendent
N. X. Anderson of the Mineral
Produce Co., are safe in the Stock
ton jail today.