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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10
PLAN FOR MEMORIAL
GETTING UNDER way
COUNTY TO HONOR BOYS WHO
ENTERED SERVICE DURING
THE WAR.

Plans for the erection Of suitable
memorial to the soldier and sailor
sons of Thurston county who parti-
cipated in the great war were con-
sidered at a meeting of some 20 or
26 representatives OF different organ
izations Of the city and county, at
the Chamber Of Commerce Tuesday
evening.
Enthusiastic endorsement of the
memorial idea was given and in order
to proceed with It a temporary organ
isation was perfected, special COM
mittee to receive suggestions was au-
thorixed. an invitation was extended
to every organization and the resi-
dents OF every community or voting
precinct in the county to name rep
4rssentstises and arrangements made
for another general meeting to be
held in two or three weeks, when q
permanent organization is to be ef-
fected and further consideration CIV
en- to suggestions as to the nature of
the memorial.
The meeting was called on the in
itiative OF ]. M. Hit, &. =. Beacn ana
J. e. Kelley, members Of the special
memorial committee recently author
lied by the directors Of the local Y.
M. C. A.. to get the movement start
ed. In making the temporary organ
ixation, Mr.. Hit was named presi-
dent, and L. r. Mcintosh, represent
Ing the Elks' lodge, secretary.
{ In presenting the proposition to
the meeting. President HIT empha-
sized the fact that the memorial 10
q county project. and that the advice,
suggestion and help of the people OF
the whole county Is desired. He
pointed out that Of the approximately
1000 boys who entered the different
branches of the service from this
county, two-thirds of them were from
the districts outside Olympia.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10
STATE GIVES $4,000 MEN
|. TU HELP WIN WORLD WAR
OF These 02o Made Supreme Sacrifice
1900 Are Wounded or
Missing.

Washington state men to the num-
Der Of 929 made the supreme sacri-
fice in the world war, and the total
may be higher when final figures are
in, according to official and unofficial
estimates announced this week.
The deaths are divided as follows:
Killed in action, 392; died of wounds,
LAG: died Of disease. S27; died from
other causes, 81.
Approximately $1,000 Washington
men volunteered for service in some
one of the allied or American armies
or were drafted in the American mil
itary or naval service. Washington
men wounded or missing in action
number upward of 1900,
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10
BUCODA BOY WOUNDED.


Private Premo Zanotto, q Bucoda
boy, who was recently reported miss
ing In action. was severely wounded,
but has recovered and returned to
duty. according to a letter just re-
ceived from him. The soldier was
wounded on October 4 in the fighting
at Argonne wood.
Frank R. Hedwall. Bucoda boy,in
the navy. has returned to the United
States from Scotland. where he had
ben stationed for several months past
on the U. s. s. Roanoke. He expects
to be In Bucoda soon on a furlough.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10
SPECIAL ELECTION JAN. IS.
Vote on Black River Ditch
Project.

The county commissioners Monday
fixed January 20 as the date for the
special election to be held at Vim
cents hall, Little Rock, on the Black
river ditch project. Frank Kotick
was named inspector and Messrs. Sui
livan and Nelson judges.
The project came before the board
for hearing Monday. No protests
were made and the board therefore
accepted the engineers report that
the improvement would be benefit
to the property owners in the dis
trict.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10
THREE OLYMPIANs INDICTED.
Federal Grand Jury Charges Local
Men With BOotlegging.

The government reached out and
picked up three Olympians on boot
logging" charges this week. through
indictments returned by the federal
grand jury in Tacoma.
Frank Stone, who was found guilty
of conspiracy in the Jack Gillies case.
and served a term in the state peni-
tentiary several years ago, was in
dicted on a charge of illegally retail
ing liquor. Stone is out on parole
and is said to be in Seattle dying of
tuberculosis.
W. D. Clark, Clarence Welsh and
Jerry Millsack, also residents of
Olympia, were indicted on the same
charge.
M. D. Abbott. publisher of the
Olympia Chronicle, was member. of
the jury.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10
OLYMPIA IS READY FOR
LEGISLATURE next week
MOST OF sOLONs ALREADY HEREFORIAL RECEPTION
OFF ON ACCOUNT OF "FLU"-RECONsTRUC;TION TO BE BIG
PROBLEM OF sEssION-LOTs OF TALK ABOUT SEVERAL BIG
PROJECTS NO DEFINITE PROGRAM APPEARs--CARLY0N
PRESIDENT SENATE
FIGHT BREWING sYNDICALIsr

Olympia Is all ready for the bien-
nial legislative session which starts
next Monday. and most Of the legis-
lators are here and ready, too. Those
who are not already on the scene Of
their two months activities are ex-
pected Saturday or Sunday.
For the first time in the history Of
the territory and state there will be
no formal reception and ball welcom-
ing the legislators-Olymp Is in the
throes of limited "fu" ban, and Sc
attic reports say the city authorities
here acted upon instructions from DR..
T. D. Tuttle, state, heal.s., son,Esss.
IssssaAS5 as wsii as upon the recon-
mendation of the local health author
tiles and the consensus Of opinion Of
various state officials. Other social
affairs planned for the. legislators
throughout the session are also ''up
in the air" now, but epidemic condi-
tions may SO improve that the gaiety
of former years will express itself be-
fore the city's guests go home.
From present indications recon
struction will run riot through the
1919 session. No definite single pro-
gram of reconstructive work has yet
become apparent, but the greatest
array of measures calling for huge ex-
penditures ever presented the state is
lining up support and clamortig for
action. Most Of them claim the merit
Of furnishing means of employment
for returned soldiers.
Chief among them in magnitude Is
the Columbia river basin irrigation
project. which proposes to tap the
Pend d'Reille river north of Spokane
in the vicinity Of Newport. or else at
the lower end of Lake Pend d'Oreille
in Idaho, lead it down through Spo-
kane and distribute 1t throus hout
Central Washington largely, includ-
ing the Quincy project. There Is no
known estimate on the cost. but it is
approximated at from $25O,000,0OO
to $3OO,OOO,O0O.
BY this project 1t is calculated that
100000 or more acres Of land can
be put under irrigation. Governor
Litser has gone on record in favor of
the project and probably will deal
with 1t to considerable extent in his
message to the legislature. Mayor
Ole Hanson, Of Seattle, is also strong
for it. and the Washington State Land
Settlement association has approved
1t.
Another agricultural development
plan that probably will be given con-
siderable legislative attention is the
reclamation of logged-off lands in
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10
FATHER IS CHARGED
WITH TRIPLE MURDER
WEEK SEES MELODRAMATIC DE
vELOPMENTs IN sENsA-
TIONAL CASE.

Apparently happy and carefree.
Norman E. Burnett. former shipyard
worker who was formally charged
this week with the murder Of his wife
and two little boys, sits singing and
joking in his cell In the county jail.
while Prosecuting Attorney O'Leary
and Chief of Police Cusack are hur-
rying to San Francisco IN order to
obtsin further information regarding
him and his family.
Burnett's arrest late last Saturday
evening a. he was returning from !
visit with q young woman at Gull
Harbor. his subsequent interroga-
tion, his variety Of stories and ex-
plantations and the continued devel-
opment of further clues, following the
discovery of the bodies Of two
little children in shallow graves on
Hawks prairie near where the body
Of . woman was found last week.
these have been melodramatic incf-
dents In the local murder case.' one o.
the most sensational In local history.
The bodies Of the children were
discovered by Coroner Mills, Chief
Cusack. Sheriff Clifford and Attorney
O'Leary last Saturday morning. when
they returned to the Hawks prairie
charnel spot In the hope Of obtaining
further clews AZ to the identity OF
the woman whose body had been
found earlier in the week.
The bodies Of all three Of the VIC
Tins were badly decompOeed, but
from hats. shoes and cIothfnt neigh
bors Of the Burnett family when they
lived in small building b6c4 Of the
Arlington hotel. ieapsssg6 tie VIC
.tI,zss ~ .MTs. Burnett and their two
little boys, one three or four years
old and the other six or seven. Bur
nett's arrest followed.
While questioning Burnett. the au-
thorities telegraphed Mrs. Burnett's
mother In San Francisco. From her
they learned that Burnett hKd gone
to that city In March last year. had
been reconcilsd with his wife. from
whom he had been separated for
three years. and brought them back to
Olympia to live.
Burnett, in reply to questions.
claims his wife and children left him
some time between May and Septem-
Der. Local papers bearing date Of
May 5 were found with the bodies OF
the children. He told several stories
about how they left, but finally ad-
mitted he had gone with them to
Hawks prairie on picnic one SUM-
day early in May. asserting that, af-
ter a quarrel, his wife left him there,
and he does not know now where
she Is.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10

The war department notified Ar
thur Shaw, 1903 Langridge avenue.
this week that Its former notice that
his son, William Henry, was missing
in action, was mistake. and that
he has returned TO duty.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10
BOYS IN DIST TO
BE HOME BY MARCH

General Pershing has des-
ignated the Ninety-flrst divi-
sion for early return to the
United States, and those at
Washington, D. c., in touch
with the transport Of troops
think the Coast boys will be
on their way home by the first
of March. The 91st was one
of three divisions that oper-
ated with the British troops
in Flanders during the closing
days of the war and 1t had
previously been expected that
1t would be retained In Eu-
rope for some months. Many
Thurston county boys belong
to it.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10

Western Washington. N. B. Coffman,
Of Chehalis, president Of, the State
Good Roads association. Is prominent
in this enterprise and explained 1t at
Q recent luncheon Of the local Cham
ber Of Commerce.
The plans SO far discussed are mod
eled after the Lane land settlement
scheme Of having the state handle the
land and the federal government CO.
operate in improving it. Estimates
Of the cost are not yet availabIef but
the project contemplates the clearing
and making. -eaes sar saaayaf1on or
of thousands of acres Of
land once covered by heavy fir and
cedar forests.
Into the same hopper the public
service commission is busily pouring
a plan to incorporate King, Pierce
and Snohomish counties into q single
railroad terminal district, which shall
handle the distribution of all rail
trafiic brought to Puget Sound. This
is another matter of millions-sO
many that they haven't been stated,
although elaborate plans have been
prepared end submitted to civic bod
les of Seattle, Tacoma and Everett.
Mingling with these is what is
known as the Carlyon plan to capi-
talize the auto license revenue and
bond 1t for $30,00O,000 to run 20
years. using the proceeds to pave
state highways. doing the work in five
years instead of using the money only
es 1t comes in from road taxation and
auto license sales. Senator Carlyon.
of Olympia, is behind this plan. and
1t Is being received with considerable
favor In various parts of the state.
although Governor Listers admins
tration is against It, The bonding
scheme also would double auto
license rates. bringing the average up
to SIS per machine.
The plan Governor Lister and State
Highway Commissioner James Allen
favor is designed to save the state
the payment of the several million
dollars in interest the Carlyon bond
plan requires. They propose to ele-
vate auto license fees, though per-
haps not as high as Carylon, and to
continue the road taxation policy OF
the past six years. and assert that
these revenues, together with funds
that will be made available by the
national government, will give the
state all the money 1t can possibly
spend each year in highway paving.
practically equal in the long run to
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10
NEW PAVEMENT TO BE
OPENED NEXT FRIDAY

:. The new pavement on the Pa
!. cific highway east of Olympia
! and the new bridge over the
!. Nisqually river will be opened
!: to the public not later than
!. Friday of next week. and per-
: haps a few days sooner, county
;: authorities said this week. 1t
!. had been planned to open the
+ road Saturday of this week. but
+ the freezing weather the fore
!. part Of this week made a weeks
+ delay necessary. officials say.
i
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10
GAME WAROEuS NAB
OESERTER G0LDSBY
CATCH FUGITIVE IN CABIN IN
WOODS NEAR SUMMIT
LAKE.

Mrs. John Goldsby of Black Lake. a
draft deserter and fugitive since
June, 1917, was captured Tuesday in
q cabin hidden in a swamp just be-
yond Summit lake by County GamI
Warden Ben D. King and Chief Dep
uty Morgan. With him at the time
was his cousin, the son of Yves Colds
by of Black Lake.
The fugitive was brought to Olym-
pia and lodged in the county jail until
Thursday, when he was taken to
Camp Lewis by Warden King ana
turned over to the military authori-
ties. He told the county officials he
expected a sentence of 20 years ana
the military authorities expressed the
opinion he would not be disappointed.
Young Goldsby did not have much
to say about himself and his hiding,
except 70 remark that he had never
been very far away and that he had
''lots of friends who had helped him
while he was hiding. Warden King
reports that Goldsby had enough pro-
visions in the cabin to last him
through the winter, and that they had
been taken to him In an automobile.
the tracks being plainly visible ~ far
a q machine could get through the
woods.
The cabin had been built about q
month ago, of shakes cut from the
timber round about, and the deserter
had evidently had help in its con-
struction. He had planned to spend
the winter there and had put out =
long trap line, King says. ~
For some days before his capture
the county wardsns had heard reports
OF mysterious trapper. on Kennedy
creek in the Summit lake neighbor-
hood. Two days before the actual
capture Deputy Morgan and woods
man located the cabin, hidden In .
swamp.
When confronted by the wardens,
Goldsby and his cousin we're working
on the trap line. The former would
not admit his identity, claiming he
was Ivan Goldsby. his brother. He
produced Ivan's registration card.
Ivan's hunting license, and also a
trapping license taken out by his
father, John Goldsby, last week. He
failed to convince the wardens. how
ever and admitted his identity when
turned over to Sheriff Clifford. HE
cousin. who is about 10 years old.
was not taken into custody.
John Goldsby. the boys father, who
is q strong Socialist. always insisted
he had no knowledge Of where his
boy was. Sheriff clifford made sew
eral Investigations, the Home Guards
searched the Goldsby farm at Black
Lake one morning about year ago.
and federal oficers also investigated
last summer, when reports kept COM
ting IN that he was h2asnyl aTouEd
home, but they failed to find any
trace.
Young Goldsby told the wardens
that when his name was published.
in June. 1917. as one of those who
had failed to report for physical ex-
animation, he was scared to death"
and iran and hid" He also said he
was not religious objector. bur
thought the government got the peo-
pie into the war against their will.
But when he got out to Camp Lewis
Thursday and saw some soldiers drill
ing. he was greatly surprised. War
den King says. stated that things
looked fine and that he believed he
had made a serious mistake.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10
H Gill Is Deed.

After brief illness, Hiram Charles
Gil. 62 years old, three times mayor
Of Seattle and one Of the best known
political figures In the state. died
Tuesday afternoon at his home in Sc.
atle. Pneumonia resulting from an
attack Of influenza was the cause Of
death.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10
Brother Killed in Actaon,

Notice that his brother, Hugh I.
Williams, had been killed In actiea
in France October -. was received
Thursday by w. H. Williams, pro-
prietor of the Pantorium Dye works.
from the war department. HI
brother enlisted IN Montana IN CON-
panyr X. 163rd regiment, 41st diyt-
sion.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10
GOVERNOR FAVORs
SENSIBLE PROGRAM
ADVOCATES RESUMPTION or ALL
ACTIVITIES DELAYED DUR
ING WAR PERIOD.

Development Of large scale road
program, authorization of investiga-
tions of various irrigation projects
for cooperation with the federal gov
ernment, resumption Of building act
ivities by the state and private per-
sons and operations plans to do
now by everybody the constructions
work that has been delayed for the
past two years--these are tho hign
points in the policy which Governor
Lister proposes for the reconstruction
period In the state Of Warrington.
Generally speaking, Governor Lis
ter views the after-the-war period,
', not from the standpoint of any pas-
ticular faddist or reform specialize
who has some pet scheme to take
care Of the boys but from the angle
that II the state, private individuals
and corporations proceed promptly
with the constructive work that needs
to be done. work that was put on
uuAAAS tuo WeA Roatvu, s10A n y -
plenty for everybody to do and the
situation VIII consequently take care
Of itself.
And he emphasises the part thse
private individuals and corporations
must tene II these activities, and ~
sists that while the state should ~ 4
its share. It should not be expected - 4
do Il, Al. He stroneff favors -
road-building programs; he 4 equany /
- anxIOue TOR the state to uu4GYtqxq &
various building pto1ects at the ~ 4
ferent instituticns thnt have been -
layed for the pest two yenTss n orloof
10 Dfihg tho6o fnstitutfons up to datos:s
and he - lust ~ emph4tic A hig utnte-
ment that private /, tndividua11 an0 \
corporations should undertakesa IT,
liar program lsss U
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10
The State Council Of Defense

The State Council Of Defense for
mally concluded its work this week.
ct . meeting In Governor Lister's
once Thursday and recommended
that all county and local councils
complete their work and close their
affairs. The Councils work 10 TO be
continued by other organisations.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-01-10

Continued on Page Fight
The Irish standard., 1919-03-15
ADVERTISE IN THE STANDARD.

Business retrenchments during the war period
have occasioned serious losses in many lines of
trade and industry. These were necesstated bv the
exigencies of the national government for the pro-
duction of the necessary supplies for our fighting
forces Many manufacturing concerns were obliged
to sit tight for the want of raw materials until the
storm blew over. Their activities were practically
suspended result of the communicating of the
material and labor resources of the nation in the
gigantic struggle to civilization from the can
nibal philosophy OF the Teutons. Wholesaling
houses not engaged in the distribution of essential
products we're obliged to curta their trade to
very important extent and retailing businesses
similarly affected by the universal cessation of nor
NAL purchasing by the public.
The industries and concerns that were engaged
in the production and distribution of commodities
necessary for the carrying of the war enjoyed a
period of super-normal activity and the consequent
expansion of profits in their trade. Speaking in
broad sense these fortunate lines of business were
Situated in the east, and very small proportion of
the commercial advantages of the war trade per-
colated into the western and northwestern states
In the advertising field this curtailment of the
The Irish standard., 1919-03-15
IRELAND'S RIGHT TO sELF-DErER-
MINATION.

1T is the relation of Ireland to the British En-
pre, not the relation of Ireland to Ulster, that has
been given pre-eminence by the doctrine of self-de
termination Should the doctrine of self-determina-
ton apply to Ireland? That is the question which
the victory OF Sim Fem, based on the moral prin
ciple proclaimed by Mr.. Wilson, brings home to
Americans Morally the case of the Irish people is
nvlncble. Their right to self-determinaton their
right to separate from England or to make an ar
range1nent with England on some other basis than
the tn Act OF Union, cannot be disguised or denied
Inc Irish people are not secessionists The ma
ofty OF them had no part in the corrupt and ntoer-
able measure that united their government to Fno-
lands. Rightly or wrongly, they ascrbe to it the
long record OF misery, persecution, Illustration and
humiliation that has been the large part of their
modern history Under the Act of Union they have
have never accepted the Union and it is their mani
test will, with pedigree of perfect clearness, to
have the full freedom to determine their own gov
ernment"
The Irish standard., 1919-03-15

ramifications should prove strong drive for
Amerlcanism 1t should constitute powerfully
educative experince for all who may be called unon
to register their electoral judgments upon the anv
issues involved 1t puts up to the voter some inter-
rogatories that he has hitherto never confronted
on his ballot, and demands categorical answer
thereto in the shape of a cross-mark and it nav he
assumed that the men and women of America will
soon qualify themselves to pass intelligently and
consc1entously upon the weighty issues involved.
At this stage of the great debate it is quite clear
that some kind OF a measure for the future peace
OF the world will be formulated and adopted at the
world conference None of the opponents of the
constitution as it now stands go so far as to saw
that no agreement whatever should be devised and
established. All concur in the desirabty of such
plan, covenant or court under form or another
here has been no fiat refusal on the part of any
OF our statesmen to consider such proposal They
do, however seek its amendment along several inn
portant lines, so that the el<nown aphorism, quot
ed by lord Coke, of famous jurist becomes peril
nent, Blessed be not the complaining tongue but
the amending hand'
The Irish standard., 1919-03-15
AN IRISH RESOLUTION IN THE MINNIE
sofa STATE LEGISLATURE NOT?

Would it not be timely and gracious act on the
part OF the Minnesota State Legislature in SEES
sion, following the example of many Of the legisla-
lures of sister states in the Union, to pass resou-
tons OF sympathy with the Irish people in their
struggle for sefdetermination of their sovereignty
at the world Peace Conference. The national House
OF Representatives adopted measure of this char
acter by vote that was practically unanimous.
Many of the legislatures of the states have taken
Similar action, and with the same preponderance
Of favorable sentiment in regard to it, So far as we
have observed no state body in which such resolu-
ton has been introduced has refused to place on
record its approval thereof
The only argument that has been urged against
such action is that the subject is extraneous to the
jurisdiction or outside the sphere of authority of
true for such action have direct bearing upon
the action of the delegates assembled at Paris to ar
range for the future peace Of the world. But in
directly our delegates in that Conference may be
profoundly influenced by such expression of the
will of the people as voiced in the actions of their
elected representatives in the law-1naking bodies