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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-07
DRAFT PLANS FOR
RICHLAND BRIDGE
State Engineer Meets Here with
Commissioners and County
Engineer

The county commissioners anG
the county engineer met here to
| day to confer with Mr.. Stratton
bridge engineer Of the state high.
way department, concerning the
rebuilding Of the Richlano
bridge.
After inspecting the bridge
the board decided to have Mr.,
lStratton prepare plans and spec
iifications for a steel and a Howe
truss bridge, it being the inten-
tion of calling for bids for both
types of construction.
1t is impossible to say when
the permanent bridge will be
built, as the county board and
the state highway department
must first reach some under
standing as to how it is to be
paid for. No state money will
be available for the purpose un-
TIL next year and it is probable
that the county will have to put
up the bridge and be reimbursed
later by the state.
Putting in a temporary bridge
is proving a much larger job than
was expected. The high water
deepened the channel approx
mately ten feet and it was found
that the piling ordered for the
job were far too short. The
strong current undermined the
middle concrete pier and render
ed it useless. This made neces-
sary the driving of piling under
the south span to keep it from
going down. The span is now
resting on a piling foundation
and the work of driving piling
across the north half of the
stream has started.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-07
DEDICATE SERVICE FLAG
knights of Pythias will Honor Men,
bers in the War Service

At an open meeting next Mon
DAY evening members of the To-
cal lodge Knights of Pythias will
dedicate a service flag with eight
stars. The families and friends
of the lodgemen in service are es-
pecially invited to be present.
The eight members of the lodge
who have answered their coun-
try's call are: Lieut.. F. r. JEFF
frey and Sgt. Fred Berg, 146th
field artillery, Frank Driscoll, 18
Ry. engineers, p. L. Mooney, 161
infantry, Chas. Leitch, 1876 aero
squadron, Frank Morain, navy,
S. H. Whitehorn, Canadian en-
gineers, and DR.. L. G. Spaulding,
reserve corps. With the
exception of DR.. Spaulding, who
has not yet been called, and Mr..
Whitehorn, who is in Canada, ali
of these men are either overseas
or on the seas.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-07
PRODUCE COMPANY
ENTERS PASCO FIELD
Will Operate Retail Implement
Store in Connection with P-O
Wholesale Business

At a meeting of the board OF
directors Friday, The Produce
company voted to enter the Pas.
co field as retailers of omple-
ments and other farm machin-
cry. The company has taken a
long term lease on the large
building of the Parlin- Orendorff
Plow company and will become
their distributing agents for a
large inland territory served by
the Pasco branch.
When asked if the company in
tended to engage in other lines
of retail business in the Pasco
field, General Manager e. M. Sly
replied that while the company
might eventually establish a
general retail store in Pasco the
present deal contemplated only
the handling of implements.
In the wholesale business the
Produce company will act as
agents of the P-O. Company, but
the retail business will be their
own.
In speaking Of the prospects
for the wholesale business Mr..
Sly said: 'The recent ruling of
the Interstate Commerce Com
mission ordering a higher freight
rate to the coast than to interior
points means the rapid growth
of the wholesale business in the
interior. If the ruling sticks it
means that in the future the in
land country will be supplied
with goods distributed from in
land points.
"The new tariffs which are to
become effective March Is, 1913,
will make the freight rate from
the east from 5 to Is cents per
hundred pounds higher to Port
land and Seattle than to Kenne-
wick. 1t is certain then that the
big wholesale houses are not go
ing to ship their stocks to the
coast terminals and then back to
the interior. 1t means that they
must distribute from some CEN
trail interior point. 1t seems to
me that the ruling opens great
possibilities for building up a
wholesale business in Kennewick
and Pasco."
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-07
MAY HAVE PLOTTED
TO BLOW UP DAMS
Three Men Arrested at Yakima
Had Photographs of the
Irrigation Works

Federal officers made three i'm.
portant captures in Yakima last
week and disclosures indicate
that the arrests may prove to be
among the most notable made in
this state for some time.
The men are Fred II. Bohn
and D. F. Costello, upon whom
were found I w. w. membership
cards, and James H. Bowling, al.
so believed to be a "Wobbly."
In their shack at the rear of
the ST. Paul Lodging house on
North Front street, where the
three were found, were six cam
eras, pictures of government
dams, headgates, the sugar fac
tory, Libby, McNeill & Libby's
cannery, other industrial estab-
lishments, irrigation fumes and
other works, the injury to or des-
truction of which would serious
ly injure the industries of the
Yakima valley.
More important than these, in
the eyes of the officers, at least,
was found a number of late
works on bacteriology, germs,
poisons, etc., and an up-to-date
microscope with all accessories,
together with supply of acids.
The officers concerned call at
tention to recent reports of the
scattering of poisons in Oklaho-
ma and elsewhere in this coun-
try for the destruction of stock
and to the fact that but recently
a dairyman near Pateros, Wash.
lost several animals in a manner
which indicated they had been
poisoned.
Poisoning of food and even of
the water consumed in this city
is believed to have been within
the range of the nefarious plans.
The shack, which appears to
have been the domicile of Bohn,.
is heated and lighted by electric
ity and was apparently the head
quarters Of the gang. In it was
found also a quantity of l. w. w.
and correspondence
with 1. w. w. officers. A letter
found indicated that Bohn had
been secretary of the 1. w. w. at
Yakima, but had recently resign
ed. The identity of his success
or was not indicated in the letter
but he is known to the officers.
Bohn, the officers say, is vio-
lently pro-German in his SYM
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-07
1912 Are Saved

Washington, Feb. 6lThe Gun
ard liner Tuscania, carrying 217e
American soldiers, has been tor.
pedoed and sunk off the Irish
coast, but official reports late to.
night said 1912 of the officers
and men had been saved and in.
dicated that the list of rescued
might prove even larger. The
troops, composed chiefly of de.
tachments of Michigan and Wis.
consin guardsmen, were travel
ing on the Tuscania, a British
vessel, under convoy of British
warships.
A brief dispatch to the war de-
partment from London early this
morning announced the disaster
and reported the landing of only
100 survivors. This was made
public shortly after 10 o'clock
and for more than two hours it
was feared that probably 14OO
men, including members of the
liners crew, had gone down.
When message came to the
state department from the en-
bassy at London saying, at II
o'clock tonight, 1912 of the
Americans had been accounted
Tor, the joy of officials almost
swept away the stress occasion
ed by the earlier news.
Because of the nature of the
military organizations carried by
the ship,t he war department an
nounced that it would be impos-
sible to say definitely what troops
were aboard until the list of sur
vlvors was received. Later, how
ever, the adjutant generals Of
lice made the list public. It fol-
lows: - -
: Headquarters detachment and
companies d, E, and F, of the
10th engineers.
1O7th engineers train. ..G..
lO7th engineers train.
p 1O7th military police.
10th supply train.
n Number 100, aero squadron.
| l58th aero squadron.
2l3th aero squadron.
Replacement detachment num-
1ers l and 2 of the 32nd division.
F1fty-one casual officers. .
The thirty-second division is
composed of national guardsmen
from Michigan and Wisconsin.
The division trained at Camp
Macarthur, Texas.
The 107th engineers was COM
posed of the first battalion of
Michigan engineers, the 1O7th
military police was made up of
the 4th and 9Th Wisconsin in
iantry and the 107th supply
Train from the 4th, 5th and 9Th
Wisconsin infantry.
Thus, all the soldiers are for
mer Wisconsin and Michigan
guardsmen except those in the
aero squadron, who probably
were recruited from all parts of
the country.
Neither the dispatch to the
' war department nor that to the
state department, referred to the
aate OF the members of the Tus-
'ahla's crew. Undoubtedly many
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-07
SEED TALK

DR.. Pickett, of the botany de-
partment of the State College,
will lecture to the farmers at the
Valley club house Friday eve
ming. The subject of the lecture
will be "seeds." DR.. Pickett will
lecture Saturday afternoon at
the open meeting of the Pomona
grange at Benton City.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-07
TRANSPORT IS
SINK WITH us.
TROOPS ABOARD
Latest Reports Say that 1912 of
Total of 2179 Have Been
Tiki. Accounted For
SOME ARE CAMP LEWIS MEN
British Liner Conveyed by British
Warships is Torpedoed Off
the Irish Coast

Tacoma, Feb. 6-Of the men
aboard the Tuscania, there is a
probability that some were from
Camp Lewis. How many is not
known. Captain M. D. Welty,
aide to Brigadier General Fred
erick S. Foltz, in command at
Camp Lewis, tonight stated that
!, Camp Lewis had sent a number
of men from the 166th depot
brigade to fill out the Goth en-
gineers. How many had been
sent he could not state tonight.
He said he did not know of any
Camp Lewis men being in the
other detachments on the sunk
en- transport.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-07

of them were saved, and when all
reports are in officials hope that
the loss of life will be remarkably
small. The liner, which is not a
regular transport, was under con-
voy and the warships apparently
were quickly alongside for rescue
work when the torpedo struck.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Beamer
and children left Sunday for Sc
attic, where the children will re-
main with relatives, while Mr..
Beamer accompanies Mrs. Beam
er east for an operation on her
throat.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-07

Mrs. E. Y. Hawley was hostess
Tuesday afternoon to the P. N.
G.. club. The next meeting will
be the first Tuesday in March at
the home of Mrs. r. E. Reed.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1918-02-07
BEE KEEPERS MEETING

BEE KEEPERS MEETING
Ward H. Foster, special field
representative from the u. S. de-
partment of agriculture, will Wis
it the local bee keepers Saturday,
February 9. A special meeting
will be held in the Commercial
club rooms at 2::3O and all bee
keepers are urged to be present.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-11
VIII Deliver the Founders Day Al
dress.

Charlottesville, Va, April IL
James Watson Gerard, former Amoas-
sador and Minister Plcnipotentiary !"
Germany, will deliver the Founders
Day address at The University OF VIZ
ginia on April IS. He states that MS
theme will be determined in accord
with current events at the moment ot
speaking. On the same day VIII ba
presented the memorial tablet 20
James Rogers Mcconnell by the
French Republic.
Ambassador Gerard recently publish
ed his "Four Years in Germany anc
"Face to Face with kaiserlstn," both
of which have been accorded hlgh
praise. IN the light Of his long eSpe-
rience at the German capitol ne = eE-
pected to treat most interestingly Of
recent developments on the Western
front.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-11
THE CASE OF IRELAND.

Just at the moment when Prussian-
ism is contesting with US for. s.:the mas
terry of the world with unparalleled
ferceness, fury and foIce; when the
fate of this country and of every other
IN which human rights havc super
seeded the rights of kings is hanging
in the balance; when what is to hap
pen after the war depends essentially
on what happens in the next few
months, the Irish question comes 10
the front again as a menace to the
United States quite as well as to Great
Britain and France.
The Baltimore Sun in its comments
upon present conditions in the EN-
erald Isle, says: This is not the time
10 apportion the blame with exactness,
to measure the responsibility, but it IS
impossible to shut our eyes 10 the fact
that ireland is not helping US to win
the war. Worse than that, she is
virtually helping the kaiser. She is
NOT even neutral. She is standing be-
tween us and our enemy She Is
striking at us, her best friend, over
the shoulder of Great Britain.
We are not uttcring sweeping con-
demnation of the Irish people. They
have been more sinned against than
SHINING.
But all the wrongs which Ireland
has suffered in the past cannot justify
her either as matter of self-interest
or as a matter of morality in stand
ing coIdly aloof or in an attitude of
virtual hostility while the people of
the United States, France and Great
Britain are fighting to the death fol
the things for which Ireland has al
ways longcd and which >snc can ge'
only through allied triumph. Irelant
has always Been the land Of the brave
but her last hope Of being also Ian:
Of the free will disappear if Prisslan
ism wins. :
In an hour such as this, when Grc2.
Britain needs every available man L
make her future SAFE, she has a lpgh
to expect Ireland to give the same
aid that England, Scotland, Wales
Canada and Australia are giving.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-11
WILSON MAY MAKE PEACE.
Moderate in Speech at Baltimore,
Says Vienna Press.

Zurich, Switzerland, April LINE
tone of President Wilson's speech az
Baltimore is deplored n AUSTRIA says
a Vienna dispatch to the Neue ZURICH
er Zeitung, although under the cir
cumstances it is regarded as intelligl-
BILE. The essential point IS CONSIDERED
to be the Presidents readiness, under
the conditions indicated, to conclude
peace even now. The situation, there
fore, is looked upon as unchanged.
The Vienna pras in general, the
dispatch says, regards the speech as
very moderate.
Amsterdam, April 1.-THE koel-
nische Volks Zeitung, in commenting
upon Presidents Baltimore speech,
says:
at is beginning to dawn upon
Americans that they have backed the
wrong horse, >as witness the raging
speech of the President whose neil
tai equilibrium seems badly upset Al!
Americas achievements in the first
war year amount to casualty list OF
more than three thousand
Copenhagen, April 11.-Presiden'
Wilson'S speech presents very Sc
rious situation Tor Germany; the peo-
pie must still endure great sciferlngs
the Berlin socialist newspaper Vor-
waerts declared.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-11
OF SURRENDER

Almost on the ifty-third annivers-
airy of the day General Robert Ed
ward Lee laid down his arms in "thc
lace of overwhelming numbers and
resources at Appomattox, the United
States observed the first anniversary
of the world war, in wh;ch> civilization
is seeking to strange and eliminate
the autccracy of the self-annoirted
Prpssian regime.
As he Richmond Journal observes,
there are many who recall that ia
nous day which marked the death of
":he storm-cradled nation that fell"
On the fields which had been made
red with the blood Of the men of the
South and the North. there has arisen
new country-strong viriie, united
prosperous. Where then there was
division. now there is loyalty that
is reflected in the touching of elbows
of the men from Maine and Virginia,
South Carolina and Michigan, Kan
saS and Georgia. Mississippi and Yer
mont, Florida and Ohio, Texas and
New York.
Today they have common foe
PrussianisM. The young men arc
making The sacrifice; the older men of
this ccuasry are backing them with
food, money, supplies, medical attcn-
ton and the prayers for their SUE
cess and return to their homes. There
are men in Alexandria today Who
stood Will, General Lee at Appomst-
tex when he babe farewell to the old
sr.4y. The so.diers-ragged hungry,
tjre;s--cried as they said goodbye,
Brcl1en il, everything save that in
dcr2;;ttahls spirit that made them.
sk':sS@ia ts,- world over, the men were
~radg,S$c stand tosthc last and to fight
H7r rhe nrinc;nles which had been
IL L, 81 r ssaisf for four! long years.
Toiav there is an appeal 70 tie
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-11
PASS THE SEDITION BILL.
Senator's Engage in Hot Debate Be-
fore Sending il 20 Conference.

Senators Engage in Hot Debate Be-
fore Sending il 20 Conference.
The sed!tion bill, prohibiting under
penalties of twenty years imprison-
ment and $4,000 fire language or acts
OF disloyalty or obstruction of the
army draft and liberty loans. was
passed yesterday By the Senate with
out record vote. 1t now goes to con-
ference between the House AMI Sen
ate, and final enactment is expected
sooni
FTutracted and bitter debate mark
ed consideration CT the measure, the
passage CT which has been strongly
urged by administration officials.
Though modified to meet the obiec-
tons Of senators who claimed inc
original draft would curb legitimate
freedom Ct speech, the bill retains
the broad Inhibition Of words CT act:
which Support Or favor the cause o.
the German empire Or It's allies or op.
pose the cause CT the United States
It also would punish willful and dis
legal. profaDe, scurrilOus, c0ntemptu-
Gus or abusive" language about the
American form Of government, Con-
stitItion, military or naval forces, flag
or uniform and wilful utterance:;
designed 10 curtail production CT es-
Sential val materials.
The Senate adopted an amendment
by Senator Jones, o. New Mexico, pro-
v:ding for dismissal Of FEDERAL execu-
tive employees making ti.loyal state
ments.
Senator Lodge, after he anil other
senators had denounced alleged dis
loyal publications in the German
American press, withdrew lis amend
ment prohibiting German language
publication unless paralleled by Eng
fish translations. Senator Nelson OPP
posed the amendment, declaring it an
"insu!t' 10 loyal Americans Of Ger
man blood. Senator Borah did not
press an amendment he had offered TO
repeal The Postmaster Generals
press censorship.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-11

people of the country to support the
government. Money is needed to de-
feat the Huns; the country is asking
that the people make sacrifices and
lend the money to Uncle Sam, with
the knowledge that in a few years
the loan will be more than repaid.
The money means more men for the
army, more clothing for the men, a
quicker ending of the strife, and the
further fact that the world will then
be safe from repetition of the effort
to subordinate all to that form OF
'kultur," which means murder, arson
and slavery.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-11
MAY WITHDRAW TROOPS.
Japan Intimates That FladivostGsi
Will Soon Be Free Of Nipp0nese.

Moscow, April 11.-Early withdraw
al of Japanese troops from Vlad!-
vostok was foreshadowed, by impli-
cation, in a statement given out here
by the Japanese diplomatic mission
which assures the people of Russia
that the landing was not in the nature
of an Occupation" or an expedition"
but had a purely local object. This
object, the statement adds, is expect
cd to be attained shortly.
The statement comes at a moment
when intense excitement prevails
throughout Russia over the action Of
Japan and Great Britain in landing
forces at Russia's great Asiatic port.
Protest has been filed by Foreign
Minister Tchitcherin to the allied Dip
lomats.
Petrograd, April ia diplomatic
inquiry has been dispatched to the al
lied governments with regard 10 thu
action of Japan and Great Britain in
landing troops at Vladivostok. Rus
sia asks the allies to state their posi-
ton toward this action.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-11
COL. LEWIS PaRALYIED.
Well-Known Virginian Unconscious at
Home in Fauquier County.

Charlottesville, Va, April 11-Col.
Henry NJ. Lewis, of this city, widely
known throughout the state, especial
II or the horse show circuit, has
been paralyzed At the home of rela-
tive IN Fauquier county. His whole
right side is affected. and ne is Uncon-
scious the greater part of the time.
His only daughter, Mrs. J. Z. Shep-
herd, Of this city, has gone to his bed
side. His wife died less than six
months ago in an Alexandria, Va, hos
pital. Col. Lewis was member Of
former Gov. Montague's staff.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-11
THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR.

Dispatches from Europe show that
the "Big Business" in Germany is pull
ing hard for settlement of the war.
Germany went into this war with Wis
ions Of commercial aggrandizemcnt-
new markets in the Balkans and the
Far East; the SCATTERING of the Brit
ish sea supremacy and the consequent
extension of German trade in the far
corners of the world.
But Germany overshot her mark
She can't win. The entente allies arc
too strong for her. Her foreign trade
is ruined. The British navy is as
strong as ever.
Furthermore, Germany knows thai
every day she prolongs the war, that
much harder will it be for her when
peace is finally concluded to resume
friendly relations with her present:
enemies and enter into commercial in
tercourse with them.
IN Great Britain societies have been
formed whose members take an oath
never to have business dealings with
4 German a%ain--never to eat, wear
OF use anything that comes from
Germany
France is being piacarded from one
end to the other with posters preach
ing commercial hatred Of Germany
after the war.
They show two pictures, one OF 4
bloodthirsty Hun numbering French
women and children during the war,
and the other showing this same
Hun, after the war, dressed in the
civilian attire of travelling salesman.
Sinking and smiling and trying 10
sell German-made goods to Fren.h
merchants.
And word comes that business in
tcrests in the United States are also
threatening the central powers with
commercial boycotts if they don't
come to their senses!
When the war ends Germany must
begin instanter to rehabilitate her in
dustries--opcn factories long closed
and find employment for the millions
of men who have been in her trenches
for more than three years.
II practically the whole civilized
world stays banded against her in
commercial boycott pacts. where will
she be for raw materials for her fac
tories; and where can she find mark
cts outside her own borders for ans
surplus products she, have in the
future? t Es
Take it as a safe bet that the Al
mighty Dollar is beginning to talk in
the Fatherland.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-04-11
Talked Peace, Says Vienna.

Copenhagen, April 11.-Prof. An
derson, of Washington, negotiated
with Counts Andrassy and Tisza, in
Vienna and Budapest, regarding the
possibility of a separate peace be-
tween Austria Hungary and the Unit
cd States, according 10 a dispatch to
the Berlin Tageblatt from its Vienna
correspondent.
The correspondent said the Aus
train foreign Office had admitted this
together with the admission that Aus
tria- Hungary has initiated various
peace negotiations. Many of thosc
negotiations were said to have been
conducted by Emperor Carl with nun.
erous persons OF international conse-
euence.