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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-01-18
QUALITY PRODUCTS

WHATEVER may have been
Wv the ups and downs of farm
ing in this Valley there is no
denying the fact that almost
without exception the Valleys
products have made good in the
markets. There have been sea-
sons when the prices received
were unsatisfactory but the rule
has been that when the farmer
has really applied himself to pro-
duclng a superior product and
when proper marketing methods
have been adopted, the Kenne-
WICK product has topped the mar
ket.
Today there is scarcely a
in the Northwest
that is not familiar with the
Observation-Disclosures strawberry
winch sells at top prices when
berries from other districts are
a drug on the market. The same
thing is true of asparagus. The
name "Kennewick" on an aspar-
aguS crate has become svnoni-
nous for quality and the local
product sells from 3 to 5 cents
above the market. Kennewick
cherr les likewise have become
know in the markets as an ex-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-01-18


whether the county seat is to be
permanently located at Prosser
or whether this county needs a
court house or not, but whether
the taxpayers are to be mulcted
out of $15O,OOO by the supreme
recklessness of two commission
erS.
Viewed from this standpoint,
the present fight becomes any,
thing but Kennewick's fight. 1t
is a fight that should enlist the
support Of every taxpayer in the
county, and it is interesting to
know that it has enlisted the
support of taxpayers from every
part of the county. On the SUBJ
scription list by which funds
were raised to start the litigation
appears the names of men who
are for Prosser first, last and all
the time, when it comes to a
question of county seat. In fact
some of Prosser's heaviest tax
payers and most prominent men
are contributors to the fund.
In passing it might be said
that these Prosser men who are
willing to give their moral and
financial support to thwarting
the conspiracy of two predatory
commissioners, will be held in
much higher esteem in the coun-
ty and in their own community
than will E. c. Houston. who had
it within his power to have
checkmated the deal. The hon
orable thing for him to have done
on Dec. 4 was to have taken his
seat as commissioner and ac-
quainted himself with the facts.
If the transaction was one that
he could conscientiously endorse
he could have cast his vote in
favor of it. If he could not be-
come a party to a deal which sad
died a needless expenditure of
$15O,OOO upon the people who
had voted him into office, he
could have put an end to it all.
The only honorable thing for Mr..
Houston to have done on Janu-
ary 8 was to have taken his seat, |
as he pledged himself in writing
to do, and to have co-operated
with the other two members of |
the board to the end that the in
terests of the taxpayers might
be protected. These are the very
things which Mr.. Houston didn't
do and today the name of A. G.
McNeill, in the east end of the
county at least, is held in higher
esteem than is the name of Z.
c. Houston.
~ ..s. .s- 4 4 4 4 II - - -
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-01-18


This stamping, of course, o.
tails not a little extra work h.,
it is not improbable labor 90 !,
has solved the marketing opa,
ton. **~****&
ONLY A BULLDOG
lad it not been for the fin.
i i ly interference of a faitbt,
bulldog at the home of Joe Sm.,
ley last week, human life miaI'
have been a sacrifice to the co. -
lessness of somebody in carrvi',
out the mandate of the state y
ricultural department which l.,
ordered that all dogs be muzvIas
An house dog, turned demon L.
hydrophobia, appeared at tbs
Smalley home and in all n,Sa' e
ability would have bitten Mrs
Smalley had he not been pounoas
upon by the family bulIdo.
which gave his life in saving h.
mistress.
The rampage of the mad Aire-
dale last Thursday should prov.
an eye-opener to some of the dos
owners who have looked h.,
lightly upon the rabies SCARF
Too many dog masters have ~
garded the state orders as a non.
sensical precaution and have
decorated their canine with anv
kind of a CONTINUANCE which
could qualify as a muzzle with
never a thought as to the serious.
ness of the situation or the safe.
ty of the public.
Thus far the community has
been indeed fortunate in that
human life has not fallen within
the path of a rabid dog. At diff.
ferent places in the Valley, how.
ever, domestic animals have
come within the path and have
died in the fortunes of hydro.
phobia. Unless the affliction can
be stamped out the penalty is 20.
ing to be measured in human life
The victim of the mad Aire-
dale was only a bulldog, it is true
but had Fate's cast been other
wise the victim might have been
somebody's bright-faced little
boy or girl-somebody's loved
one. So far Chance has protect
ed the community, but Chance
offers no guarantee for the fu-
ture. Where safety can be had
for the price of a stout chain or
a good muzzle it is criminal to
trust to luck.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-01-18
QUESTION OF DOLLARS;
NOT TOWNS

ton, the present fight over the
building of a court house in this
county, is regarded as just
another chapter in the old coun-
ty seat controversy in which
Prosser is pitted against Kenne-
wick. While it is true that the
building of a court house does
have a bearing on the county seat
question and would probably set
tie for all time this controversy,
the real issue at stake is not
where the county seat is to be
located but whether the taxpay-
ers of this county are to be
mulcted out of thousands of dol
lars or whether their rights are
to be protected.
It is true that the citizens of
Prosser, in general, would like
to see a court house built in their
town. It is likewise true that
the citizens of Kennewick, as a
whole, are opposed to building a
court house in Prosser in the
hope that some day the county
seat may be moved to Kenne-
wick. But let us admit, for the
sake of argument, that the coun-
ty seat is definitely and perma-
nently located at Prosser and
that the citizens of the county
in general are in favor of build
ing a court house at this time.
Let us divorce the present con-
troversy absolutely from the
county seat fight, and consider it
fairly and squarely from stand
point of good business and hon
est dealing. .s~. u
To begin with, we do not be-
lieve there is a taxpayer in the
county who can honesty and con-
scientiously say that SIS, 900
building would not have been
sufficient to meet the needs of
the county for many years to
come. The Kennewick High
School building, site, furnishings
and all cost only 100000 and
such structure would be a
credit to the county as a court
house. a
The difference between $685.
600, the amount of the proposed
bond issue, and $4,000, rea-
sonable expenditure, is $50, 900.
On this needless expenditure of
$4,000 the county is obligated
to pay interest for 20 years at
the rate of SO per cent per an
mum. This interest charge for
the 20 years amounts to $55, 900.
Had bids been called for on
the bond sale, there is no doubt
but that they would have been
sold at a a per cent rate instead
of SO percent, a difference of
III per cent. The interest on
SIS, 900 for 20 years at ~ per
cent amounts to $2O,5OO.
The totals of these three items
of wasted expenditure is the
rather staggering sum of $685.
600. Nor is this all. Before 60
ing out of office the old board of
commissioners had contracted
for the expenditure of $123,63S
of the $125, 900, leaving the new
commissioners 1882 with which
to pay for the plumbing, lighting,
heating and furnishing of the
proposed building. If the acts
of the former commissioners are
validated by the courts and the
new commissioners are obligated
to finish the job it is going to re-
quire at least $4,000 more to do
it. Without figuring interest on
this additional expenditure the
total wasted expenditure is
brought up to more than $780,
900.
The issue that is before the
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-01-18

Have another client with two good
houses in Portland within the 2-mile
circle. Will trade one or both houses,
a car and some cash for % to 80 acres
OF partly improved alfalfa land and
want to get onto it this spring.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-01-18
IN PORTLAND, ORE.

Good Groom house and four 40x100
lots, small barn, concrete floor, some
berries; price $4,000. Clear.
10 acres near the city with 500 cord
Of wood on it, well located. Price is
$500. Clear.
Groom house, lot 50x100, nice lawn.
well located, close in; price s4500.0o.
Mortgage $500.
Prefer to exchange the first two or
will include the other one for good al
falfa land near here.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1917-01-18

bear the date that it was laia
This stamping, Of course, a.
tails not a little extra work h.,
it is not improbable labor 90 !,
has solved the marketing mo'
ton. 1888
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-03-09
WHY CRIMINAL SYNDICALISM'
MUST BE REFRESHED.

Spokesman Review 1t is not hard
to see why the state senate should
have become first revolted and then
hotly angry at hearing read the
shrieking blasphemes of the |. w.
W. travesty of Onward Christian
Soldiers. - Had the state senators
listened to other selections from the
l. w. W. pamphlets their anger prob
ably would have increased and with
it their anxiety to curb by all avail
able legal means the offensive tactics
of an organization whose goal is a
goth century jacguerie, the exaltation
of ignorance and failure, the placing
of the itinerant unskilled laborer in
the saddle.
The enactment of a law such as
that proposed in the Legislature max
ing felon the |. W. w. manifest
alton of criminal syndicalism =
seems to be proper use of authority
against the practice of terrorism adj
vocated by the organization Of
workers. = This law would make
punishable by penitentiary sentence
the open advocacy of sabotage, a
practice upon which the |. w. W.,
according to its own literature, is
coming to place its chief reliance.
Sabotage means, to quote from an
|. W. w. pamphlet, "either to
slacken up and interfere with the
quantity, or to botch in your skill and
interfere with the quality of work
being produced. Sabotage includes
the deliberate wreckirg of threshing
machine by harvest hands, the DELHI
crate running of costly fabrics by tex
tile workers. the dropping overheard
purposely of valuable packages by
deckhands or ship laborers. 1t pro-
ceeds by stealth and under false pre-
lenses and recognizes as its major
premise the right of any dissatisfied
person - resort to violence and de-
struction Of property out of resent
ment and revenge.
The l. w. w. can depend upon it
that its policy Of shouting coarseness
and blasphemy will draw more quickly
than would otherwise be the case the
attention of the public to the organi-
cation S nihilistic doctrines and will
result in stern regulation and repres-
sion from one end of the country to
the other. The American people are
VIGOROUSLY tolerant, but there is a
limit
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-03-09

Modern housekeeping has certainly
changed some from what it was in
the days of yore. Our wives may
cook like mother did, but they don t
if they can get modern appliances.
Today we iron and wash and sweep
al dust, but not in the good old
way. Today we have the electric
washer, electric irons, electric hair
curriers', electric vacuum sweepers
and busters and cleaners, and, if we
can afford it, electric cookers and
toatsers and coffee percolators, and
even electric sewing machines. The
nice part of it all is that electric APP
pliances are not expensive, either to
purchase or to operate. Another
feature is the saving in time, for
turn the switch and Immediately YOU
have the desired heat or power, and
no waiting. Again, these modern
household appliances relieve the
housewife of the drudgery of house
keeping. They save backache, tenn
per, and nervous energy. They pro-
long life and sweeten the home.
They are no longer a luxury, but a
necessity since the vacuum sweeper
takes the dirt up and raises no dust,
while the broom stirs up the dust and
spreads disease
AS one woman puts it, "A vacuum
cleaner beats a hired girl. - And it
is because vacuum cleaners are always
on the job, draw no salary. never
| complain, never go on a strike, never
shirk, never half do their work,
never talk back, sulk or kick over
the traces.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-03-09
LIBERTY AND LICENSE.

There is vast difference between
liberty and license. There are some
things no man has right to say un-
der the guse of free sp. ech. > For
example, one has a right to oppose
woman suffrage but what if a man
opposed to votes for women, !"
should say to a married man: "a
woman who will vote will go out on
the public street and solicit immoral
business to support her husband. - A
man would resent that insult, even
tho it were necessary to use something
besides ones fists, and it would be
perfectly proper that he should resent
such an insult to the women of his
state.
One may differ as to how to do GER
tain things having to do with govern
me4t, but no one has the right to
insult our Flag, to advocate the de-
struction of our government, to preach
sedition, to advocate anarchy under
the pretext of reform, and it is
perfectly right that good citizens re-
sent such insults.
Only few days ago fellow, to
show his contempt for the United
States, took an American flag and
wiped his hands on it. Leo. H. LUX
SIGH, of the United States Coast
Guard, resented the insult and knock
ed the fellow down. The young
guardsman was officially commended
and promoted, and also presented
with gold medal at the annual din,
ner of the Sons of the Revolution il
New York.
No American citizen need b,
ashamed of his country. Rather
should he feel proud of this nation
and honor its flag. Nor should any
citizen stand and hear, without pro
test, any man insult the American
flag. It's the grandest flag eve
kissed by the breeze. It's ever.
thread has been made sacred by tn
sacrifice of men and women who hav
consecrated their lives on the altar o
human liberty. justice and righteous
ness. 1t is the flag of Besty Ross, o
Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln
! the same old flag that United State
soldiers and sailors flung to the breez
! in Cuba when Spanish cruelty wa
! driven from that unhappy island.
is the flag that has stood always fc
! liberty, and whose silken folds hav
ever been beacon of hope for tn
oppressed of every land.
Q Old Glory! Your flag and mine
o Emblem of purity, flag of the free
p honor and cherish it, love and embe
;. lish it, with all your energy, MAJ
hood and might.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-03-09

1t must make all true American
citizens burn with indignation to see
United States senators, a mere hand
full of them, stand out and oppose the
president of the United States during
time when the country ought to be
united and determined. President
Wilson asked for only that which the
great mass of the American people
believe is right and just and proper.
Senator LaFollette led this hlibuster
in which eleven other senators joined,
and the twelve ought to have their
names craven in American history as
traitors to their country. We are
glad that Idaho senators stood by
President Wilson in this crisis. We
are glad the whole country is with
President Wilson, or rather, that
President Wilson is truly and pat
POLITICALLY representing the sentiment
of the American people.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-03-09

Payrolls are of more Importance to
Orofino than any other one thing.
What this community needs is some
thing for people to do. Even good
roads cannot bring prosperity of them
selves. People cant eat highways.
They can't enjoy them unless they
can exist in community. There
fore. let us work to develope our in
dustries, anything that will employ
people in Orofno. Fatroaize Orotino
industry. We are helping when Ne
buy bread made in an Orotino bakery.
We are helping vi en- we get our
laundry done in an Orotino laundry.
We are helping when we consume fuel
made by Orofino labor. We are help
ing when we eat produce produced in
this part of Idaho. We are helping
when we have our printing done at
home. We are helping to employ
home labor whenever we do anything
or buy anything that helps to employ
somebody in our home town, or our
home county, or our home state. 1t
is helping when we buy our merchan-
disc at home, for we are helping to
employ home labor. 1t is employing
home labor when we get sand for paw
ing here at home, but when we ship
in our sand we are employing orrtside
labor that spends its wages in an
other community, and all Orotino
gets is the sand If we use home
product we have both the sand and
the money left in Orotno.
BE loyal to your home community
because it pays you.
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-03-09
Notice to Creditors.

In the Probate Court of the County
of Clearwater, State of Idaho. In
the matter of the Estate of Celtic A.
White, Deceased. Notice is hereby
given by the undersigned administra-
tor of the estate of Celtic A. White,
deceased, to the creditors of, and all
persons having CLAIMS against the
said deceased, to exhibit them with
the necessary vouchers, within four
months after the first publication of
this notice, to the said administrator
at his residence, Orotino, the same
being the place for the transaction of
the business of said estate, in The
County of Clearwater, State of Idaho.
Signed and dated at Orofino, Idaho,
this 2Sth. day of February A. ID. 1917.
FRANK WHITE,
Administrator of the E@tate of
Celtic A. White, Deceased.
F. E. Smith, Attorney for Admin
istrator
First publication March 9th.
Last publication March
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-03-09
Careless With Mail.

The annual report of the first as
sistant postmaster general shows that
10, S39, 800 letters and parcels got into
the dead letter office because they
were not addressed at all, or improp-
erly addressed so that delivery was
impossible. This collection of dead
letter mail contained over $2,25o, 900
in checks. drafts. money orders and
other valuables
There were GIT, 700 letters misdi-
rected, ll5, 760 with no address at all,
and 22S, 700 letters held for postage,
which shows how many people are not
careful.
The department attempts to get
the letters to the proper parties, anc
such of the money sent in returned,
and the rest coniscated by the post
Office because the rightful owners arr
unknown. When you post letter
be sure the envelope bears the name
and address, and your own up in thu
left-hand corner also. Sign you
name and address to all business cor
respondence. Stamp the envelope
: One cent?
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-03-09
BOOZE AND CHRISTIANS.

We are told that Christian has no
right to butt in and interfere with the
rights of those who want to drink
booze. But we suppose it is alright
for the outsiders, the boozers, to butt
in and impose their cursed business
on a community; to conduct business
that ruins its thousands of boys and
girls; to demoraize men and to
haunt this business in the face of
Christian people! If a wild beast
stands at your gate waiting to destroy
your child YOU must not protest !!
That is the theory on which the
boozers base their assertions that
Christians must not fight booze, and
oppose the saloon. Many railroad
wreck has been caused by booze.
Many an innocent passenger has been
manned and crushed and made to
suffer because trusted employee of
the road drank. Many laboring
man has been killed, and thousands
of others crippled for life because
another employee drank booze. And
how many patient wives have suffered
the torrents of the damned; have
had their homes ruined, their fami lies
broken and destroyed because of
booze? How many children, inno-
cent and helpless, have been denied
their rights to decent birth, and
been consigned to He'll on earth be-
cause their fathers, sometimes both
parents, drank booze? How many
murders have been committed solely
because men boozed? How many
crimes can be charged directly tt
booze? How many inmates of oui
penitentiaries are there right now
because of booze?
+ And then some fellow who want:
to drink this accursed stuff will rise
up and defend it, and say that Chris
tians have no right to impose prohib
ition or the world We would rattle
say that booze has too long imposed
itself on the world, and that the won
der is that the world has so long tol
Grated such cursed thing to exist
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-03-09

If Orotino did not have a local pa
per every business man in the town
would be out with IA bonus and adver-
Using patronage in an effort to induce
some man to establish a local paper
here. But after a paper is estab-
lished lot of business men accept it
as matter of fact and do not help
support it. They want their local
paper to boost their town, to work
for the upbuilding of their commun-
ity, and do it on its private funds.
They want the local paper to work
for their interests, to advertise their
section of the state, and bear the cost
of the work. But is it square deal?
Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1917-03-09
THE |. w, w.

The |. w. w. openly advocates the
destruction OF property in every
cowardly way its members can de
wise. If one of them works for far
mer he watches his opportunity and
does his employer all the dirt he can,
from putting matches in bound grain
to the GRIPPING or laundering of
stock. They deliberately break up
machinery, do what they can to cause
accidents and wrecks, and try their
best to make their employer lose
money. They are criminals, the
avowed enemy Of society, breeders of
discomfort, honest labor's worst en-
envy, and should never be employed.
Better no help than hire those who
take your money and work against
their employers. The farmers ought
to organize vigilance committees and
hang one or two of these buns. That
would at least make them steer clear
of that community, ard put whole
some fear into Others, Unless the
people crush this thing with an iron
hand, and do it now, the day will
come when it is going to require civil
war to cope with this element.
Some may insist that vigorous
methods are not WARRANTED that the
|. W. W. should be treated decently,
and with all due respect; that the
people should wait till they can prove
some otfense and then let the law take
its course. But what does one of
these buns care for fines and ia SEN
fences? Not one thing They
rather glory in laying in Jail, fore
ing society to feed them.
The |. w. W. call their program
of destruction Sabotage - Their
program of violence, of cowardly
lawlessness, they Justify on the
theory that no man has a right to
make any profit from the labor of an
other, insisting that after a farmer,
for instance, has acquired a piece of
land, and has accumulated mach merry
and livestock and improved it by his
own hands and rigid economy, he is
a robber of labor, and that all this
property, produced by the farmer S
labor, belongs to the buns and rffraff
and hobos who tour the country; that
4 these transient loafers are entitled to
free U.S. of the farmers property, and
should have the gross returns of their
labor. In other words is it Just for
an /. w. W. to make d profit from
the use of capital he never did q
thing to create or produce, but wrong
for farmer to make a profit from
his own land and stock and equipment
in the hands of a man he may employ
to assist him. That is logic for you
that shows how much brains these fel
lows have.