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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-06
BEST PROSPECT
HE EVER SAW
Veteran Oil Man Says Benton
County Oil Field is Certain
To Be a Producer

"The best oil prospect have ever
seen." This is the report which ID.
E. Hiner, veteran oil man, brought
back to Kennewick after two-days'
inspection tour of the Benton county
field.
/. Mr.. Hiner has grown gray in the
oil production business and has worked
in the oil fields of Ohio, Kansas, In
diana, Wyoming, Oklahoma and Cal
ifornia. On his trip over the local
field he visited the two gas wells and
all other wells now in course of drill
ing. "I have never seen a more per-
fectly defined anticline and dome than
this one," said Mr.. Hiner. ''The for
nation is unbroken, the dome is a
large one and there will be few if any
dry holes drilled anywhere in the field.
The oil is here. The great flow of gas
proves it. This gas can come Only
from oil and if I am correctly inform
ed regarding its analysis the oil can't
be very far away. The gas is wet and
wet gas hasn't come very far since it
left the oil. The development-of this
field is only a question of punching a
hole down to the oil and ! don't think
that hole will have to be deeper than
1900 feet. My business is taking care
of wells after they have been brought
in. i am going to>stay right here be-
cause there is going to. be work in my
line"
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-06
GAME WITH PASCO
FAST AND FURIOUS
Scorekeepers Record Tie and Re
suit of Game is Still in Doubt
Girls Lose

One of the fastest and hardest
fought athletic contests in the history
of the Kennewick high school was the
basketball game Friday evening be-
tween the local and the Pasco high
school teams. In fact the game was
so hotly contested that its result is
still in doubt. When the whistle blew
at the end of the game the books of
the two scorekeepers read 20 to 20
and start was made to play off the
tie when Referee Stranwold, of Pros
ser, awarded the Pasco team a ref
eree's point which he claimed should
have been recorded during the game.
Superintendent Hoffman, of the local
school,, however, refused to concede
the point.
The following day Pasco waived the
referees point and furnished affidavits
to prove that one field basket made
by Pasco had not been recorded by the
scorekeepers. The question is still in
controversy, but regardless of what
the final decision may be a third game
will undoubtedly be played by the two
teams. If the game is awarded to
Pasco, each of the schools will have
won one game.
In the first half of the game the
Kennewick boys easily outplayed their
opponents and finished with a. score of
IA to 2. Altho their team work was
good their basket shooting was far
below par. The ball was in their pos
session most of the time and with
their normal accuracy in throwing
baskets their score at the close of the
half would have been more than
doubled.
In the second half the basket-aim
of the home boys became even worse
and they were clearly outplayed by the
Pasco five, who showed the best class
they have this season.
The game was clean and gentleman
ly thruout and furnished real enjoy
ment to the large crowd in attendance.
The boys game was preceded by a
contest between the Kennewick and
Pasco girls which resulted in de-
cisive victory for the visitors.
Friday evening the boys will meet
Sunnyside for the second game of the
season and the girls will play the
Prosser girls.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-06
NEW FRUIT HOUSE
TO BE ERECTED
Work Starts on Davis House and
Three Others will be Built
This Year

Excavation was stated this week for
the H. II. Davis company's new fruit
packing and storage warehouse on
Front street adjoining the company's
present house on Front street. The
new house will be of two stories and
full basement, 5Ox90 feet. The struc-
ture will be modelled after some of
the best fruit handling houses in Yaki-
ma and will be thoroly and modernly
equipped.
This building is only one Of several
which will be erected here this year
to handle the rapidly increasing fruit
tonnage. The Kennewick Fruitgrow-
,ers' association expects to soon begin
work on their second warehouse. This
will be erected just east of the pres
ent house and will be of two stories
and basement. Work will begin as
soon as plans for the new building
have been adopted. The association
will also double the capacity of its Wis
ia house.
Altho no definite announcement has
yet been made it is understood that
both Pennington & Company and the
Wenatchee Fruit Exchange will build
houses north of the N. p. tracks be-
tween the Kennewick Richland and
the Big Y houses. The business of the
Pennington company, thru the local
management of E. A. Mouda, has been
steadily increasing and has now reach
ed volume where it can no longer
be satisfactorily handled without ad-
ditional warehouse facilities.
The Wenatchee Exchange entered
this territory for the first time this
year and results were so satisfactory
that they intend to establish branch
here. Head officials of the Exchange
were here last week looking over the
territory. They are particularly de-
sirous of obtaining considerable ton
mage of early fruits and are looking
to the Kennewick and Hanford dis
tricts to supply that tonnage.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-06
ANOTHER 146TH FIELD
ARTILLERY BOY HOME
Earl Bennett Left the Outfit Two Days
Before it Went to the Front
in France

Earl Bennett, who returned to his
home near Finley Saturday is the Sc
cond one of the Kennewick boys who
enlisted in Battery E, 146th Field Ar
tillery to return from overseas. Warde
Hendricks, who was left behind in a
hospital when the battery sailed, but
later went to France, returned to his
home here several days ago.
Altho Bennett was with the battery
much longer than Hendricks he did
not get to go to the front with it. He
was sent to a base hospital July 5
and two days later The battery was or
dered to the front. After leaving the
hospital he was assigned to casual
detachment and put on guard duty.
He got close enough to the front to see
the flash of the big guns at night, but
didn't get into action. He returned to
the United States in November and
was mustered out at Camp Grant. He
wears two gold stripes for years
service overseas and a gold star for
voluntary enlistment.
According to a letter from Col. P.
Weyrauch, commanding the 146th reg
iment, the outfit is now stationed Is
miles on the other side of the Rhine
and are a part of the third army and
no longer part of the 41st division
which is scheduled for an early return
home
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-06
FARMERS ARE
LEARNING TO
FIX ENGINES
Forty-Three TiIIers of the Soil
are Studying Insides of a
Gas Engine
SCHOOL is A BIG SUCCESS
Information Gained from State Col
lege Instructors viii be of
Great Value

They teach 'em everything but the
swear words, (those can be acquired
only by long practice) down at the
gas engine school which is being con-
ducted-here this week by experts from
the engineering department Of the
State College.
According to the instructors in
charge the school here is one Of the
most largely attended and altogether
successful ones they have yet held.
When the instructors arrived Satur-
day and learned that all arrangements
had been so we'll made by County
Agent Lee M. Lampson, assisted by
S. HI. Sudler, they lifted the enroll
ment restrictions which limited the
number of shop workers to 20 and
made it free-for-alI. As result 48
men are taking the entire course, while
there has been an average attendance
of rs at the lectures, both morning
and afternoon.
1t is difficult to estimate the value
Of the course to the farmers who are
taking it. Some Of the most simple
things which they viii learn this week
may save them an expensive repair
bill and much lost time on the farm
at the very busiest seasons of the year.
When the representative Of the Cour-
ier-Reporter visited the work shop in
the Mattecheek Garage, he found Pat
Murphy industriously pushing a file
across a bearing (guess it was bear
ing) in real expert fashion. s'You
bet I'm studying this stuff" said Pat
between strokes. sIt stands me in
hands to learn something about a gas
engine, for have two spray machines,
a truck and an automobile
Mr.. Murphy's case is only one Of
many. the gas engine becomes such
an essential part of modern farm equip
ment that cit stands the farmer in
hands" to know something about Civ
ing first aid to sick engine as pro-
tracted illness may prove fatal to his
crops and likewise his pockctbook.
For that reason farmers Of. small and
large, dry and irrigated acrcages, and
from all parts of the county are taking
the course.
And you should see the patients they
are working on! Spray engines, pump
engines, auto engines, tractor en-
gines of various makes, sizes and ages.
One old boy of six cylinders, like one
Noah cranked up when he started out
on his worlds cruise. A whole bunch
of willing pupils" were prying into
the old fellows rusty vitals fully con-
fident that by the end of the week
they will have him, if not fully recov-
cred, at least convalescent. When the
school was out this evening six badly
incapacitated engines had been put
back into commission and by the end
of the week it is expected that at least
eight more will be in running order.
The lectures, which have covered
the most essential subjects. are being
held in the Knights Of Pythias hall.
Most of tomorrow and Saturday will
be devoted to instruction and demon
tration in trouble finding.
E. J. Stinerman, /. S. Jones and
E. w. Farr, are the instructors in
charge of the school. They viii go
from here to Ritzville.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-06

Lon Boyle handed in his resignation
as prosecuting attorney to the county
commissioners the first of the week.
The resignation was accepted and the
office was rendered to Judge Bert Linn
who, as yet, has not accepted the ap-
pointment. Mr.. Boyle has given up
the practice of law to engage in the
banking business.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-06

Jim McKain were here for the funeral.
Mr.. Durbin and the two brothers have
left for their homes but Mrs. Durbin
will remain with her mother for some
time. w. H. McClaskey, of Seattle,
formerly of this city and Mrs. J. B.
Rose, of Ellensburg, were also here for
the funeral.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-06
GO-TO-CHURCH SUNDAY

Sunday evening, Feb. 9, is the an
nual Go-to- Church Sunday for the Boy
Scouts. All parents and boys inter-
ested in the Boy Scout movement are
cordially invited to attend the service.
The service will be union meeting
of the Congregational, Methodist and
Baptist at the Baptist church. in
charge of Rev. Adams.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-06

r. L. Banta has purchased the build-
ing at Second and Pacific streets,
which is under lease to the city as
city hall and central fire station. The
change of ownership does not abrogate
the city's lease which does not expire
for four years.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-06

Mr.. and Mrs. F. F. Beste and Mr..
and Mrs. w. L. Craver spent the week
end in Walla Walla. The Bestes re-
turned in a 7-passenger Paige and the
Cravers left their old Maxwell in Wal
la Walla and motored back in an Ell
gin touring car.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-06
PASTOR is I'LL

Owing to the fact that Rev. II. j.
Wood, new pastor Of the Methodist
church, is confined to his home with a
severe cold, the public reception to
have been given in his honor Friday
evening, has been postponed until Fri
day evening, February 81.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-06

C. w. Iffert, who has been farming
the Williams tract on the Highlands
leaves this week for California where
he will engage in the hog raising busi-
ness. He will be accompanied by his
niece, Mrs. E. Wagner.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1919-02-06
TO THROW OPEN
GAS AND OIL LAND
Congress to Enact Legislation to
Provide for System of Leas-
ing Government Lands

Legislation winch Will open TO gas
and oil filing several thousand Of acres
in the Benton county field, is expected
to be enacted at this session of the
national congress. Regarding it a
Washington, D. c., news dispatch says:
Long existing controversies in con-
gress over a policy looking to the op-
ening and development of oil, gas and
coal lands in wesern states and Alaska
were adjusted today with the reaching
of a final agreement by house and sem
ate confreres upon the oil leasing bill.
Under it's provisions more than 50,-
100000 acres of OIL gas and 123
100000 acres sof oil, gas, coal, phos-
pilates and sodium public lands may
be opened for prospecting under a
leasing and patent system which, ac-
cording to Senator Pittman, chairman
of the senate managers, will also bring
about settlements of the dispute over
the California and Wyoming naval oil
reserves.
The principles involved in the bill
have been under discussion in congress
for four years and have been the sub
ject of constant disagreement between
the house and senate and representa-
tives of the various executive depart
ments who would be called upon to adj
minister the act.
Under the agreement the secretary
of the interior would have authority
to grant a prospecting permit for land
outside the naval reserves to an appli-
cant for $40 acres located within 10
miles of any producing oil or gas field,
or 1850 acres beyond that distance.
Upon discovery Of oil the prospector
would be permitted to obtain lease
upon one-fourth Of this land with a
preferential right to lease the remain
ing unpatented lands embraced within
the limits of his permit. In each case
he would pay the governme norat
he would pay the government royal
ty of not less than one-eighth OF the
gross value of the oil or gas produced.
Prior to obtaining a lease, the pros
pector would be required to pay roy
atty of 20 per cent. The lease would
be for 20 years at rental OF 81 per
acre.
The house provision affecting naval
oil reserves was adopted by the con-
freres. Under its provisions upon the
surrender of claim of title to land with
in these areas, the claimant would be
given lease. This provision has been
one of the bones of contention In the
bill, naval department officials oppos-
ing Legislation that would permit the
opening of the naval oil reserves.
It is thought this bill when enacted
will clear up the existing doubt as to
the status of the government land in
the Benton county field. Much of this
land has already been filed upon under
the placer mining law, but the interior
department has held that such filings
are not valid because the lands in this
county have been withdrawn from all
entry under the reclamation act. In
/ opposition to this ruling it is claimed
that the reclamation act is purely an
, agricultural one and consequently any
Withdrawals made under it do not run
against mineral filings.
C. w. Iffert, who has been farming
the Williams tract on the Highlands
IL. .1. e., NoJ;forn;o xuboyn
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-10
KEW-VETAL
Quiet Wedding at Home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifford Turner.

Quiet Wedding at Home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Clifford Turner.
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Turner in the Lyons district was the
scene Of a quiet but pretty wedding
Thursday afternoon at o'clock when
Miss Grace e. Vetal of Schenectady
and William Kew of Granville were
united in marriage by Rev. George S.
Mills
The young people were attended by
Mr., and Mrs. Turner The bride was
attractively gowned in hand embroid-
cred white handkerchief linen and car
ried pink carnations. Mrs. Turner
wore old rose poplin and carried
White carnations.
Mrs. Kew is cousin of Mrs. Tur-
ner and has been stopping in town for
several weeks. Since her stay here
she has acquired many friends who
are unanimous in extending their best
wishes.
Mr.. and Mrs Kew left on the even
ing train north for brief Wedding
trip.
Among the out of town guests at
the wedding were: Mrs. Carrie
Welch of Watertown, Mass. Mrs.
Frank Johns of Freeport, L. l., and
Mrs. John McCurdy,
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-10
CONDITIONS IN SIBERIA
ALMOST UNIMAGINABLE
Advance Of BoIsheVik Army and EVac-
uation of Vast Territory Result
ed in Intense Suffering

Omsk, Aug. 10, via Vladivostok, Sept
-(Correspondence of The Associate
ed Press almost unimaginable suf
fering, illness and great loss of life has
attended the hurried evacuation OF
vast territory west of Omsk owing to
the recent advance of the Bolshevik
armies. Refugees from the territory
mehaced by Bolshevik invasion were
herded into boxcars with the wounded
and ill from the fighting front and
started eastward into Siberia with a
pitiful lack of doctors and nurses.
Conditions prevailing at Koufomz-
ino, a station across the river from
Omsk probably are typical of dozens
of other places along the Siberian rail
road as far east as Krasnoyarsk.
3 In this auxiliary freight yard at
Koulomzino, The Associated Press
correspondent. saw trainloads of i'll
and wounded men wasted with dysen-
tary, typhus and TYPHOID, lying on bare
plank floors under filthy overcoats
or blankets, too weak to move. There
were men with wounds that had not
been dressed for days and whose bod
les were so shrunken from disease and
lack of food that they resembled living
skeletons or rather dying skeletons.
In some instances the dead had lain
for days in the midst of the living and
dying who were so dulled by suffer
ing as not to know or care.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-10
.L0NCSHOREMEN N
ON STRIKE AGAIN
IN NE VI YORK
Port Is Entirely Tied Up with
100000 Idle
TONS OF FOOD ON PIERS
Strike Is Engineered BY the !. w. W..
Working with Radical
Elements
TONS OF FOOD ON PIERS

New York, Oct. 10.-With 10000
their ildeness keeping some $4,000 9th
longshoremen reported out on strike,
ers from work, shipping in New York
harbor yesterday was tied up almost
completely.
Thousands of tons of freight, much
CT it foodstuffs awaiting transportation
to Europe and to coast ports in the
United States, as we'll as shipments
about the harbor, lay on piers, the
empty ships swinging idly alongside.
Because of the situation the Railway
Administration announced that sys-
TEN similar to the wartime embargo
would have TO be enforced. Only ship
on arrival will be permitted to trans
port it,
Union officials who have veen ig-
nored by the men declared the strike
was engineered by the |. w. W., work
ing with radical elements in the Inter
national Longshoremen's Union. They
expressed confidence that in short
time the men would return TO work as
precipitately as they had quit.
On the other hand, the strikers as
serted they were in the strike to win,
and would not permit the employers to
put it over on them" as they de-
clared had been done when the Ma
tional Adjustment Commission of the
Shipping Board awarded them only a
small part of the pay increase demand
ed at the last strike. T. " O'Connor,
President of the Longshoremen's
union, was criticised for not giving
official sanction to the strike and he
and other union officials were asked to
resign.
The strike, according to the men
was a spontaneous expression of dis
with the Adjustment Com
decision. Under the award
they received a wage of 10 cents an
hor and 81 and S1.10 for overtime. The
demands called for 80 cents an hour
with $3.50 for overtime and 50 for
work on Sundays.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-10
CAPITAL SENDS
ITS SPR|NC|PLES
To CONF ERENCE
Opposed to Sympathetic Strikes,
Black Lists and Boycotts
THEY ARE UNDEFENSIBLE
Proposals of All Three Groups Have
Been Presented and Committee
Will Begin Work
THEY ARE UNDEFENSIBLE

Washington, Oct. 10.-Oppositior
to collective bargaining and the clos
ed shop were among the twelve fun
damental principles outlined by the
group representing capital and pre-
sented today to the industrial con
ference. Sympathetic strikes, black
lists and boycots were declared "in
Idefensible, anti-social and immoral
While deploring strikes and lockouts
the principles set forth that the right
of strike or lockout Should not be
denied as the ultimate resort after
all possible means of adjustment
have been exhausted This right,
however, should apply only to private
industry.
In public utility service it was pro
posed that the state impose such
regulations as would assure continu-
Gus operation, coincidentally provid-
ing adequate means of prompt hear
ing and adjustment of complaints.
Opposition to strikes of government
employees are also expressed, the
principles stating the right of such
employees to be heard and to secure
just redress should be amply safe
guarded for the settlement of dis
putes in private industry.
1t was proposed that each establish
ment be regarded as an industrial unit
with adequate machinery for adjust
ment of misunderstanding between
employers and employees. Other OF
the principles dealt with conditions
and hours of work, wages and right
to associate, and it was declared that
every association, whether of employ
ees or employers, must be equally
subject to public authority and legal
ly answerable for its own conduct or
that OF it's agents"
Proposals Of all three groups, CAPT
tai, labor and public, have now been
and tsa committee Of fif-
teen will now be able to begin work.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-10
SECOND MASONIC DISTRICT
Annual Meeting to Be Held Here on
Wednesday, Oct. IS.

The annual meeting OF the second
Masonic district will be held here at
the Masonic temple on the afternoon
of Wednesday, October 15, with the
following program:
Opening on Master Mason's degree
by Mt Anthony lodge, Karl o. Estes,
worshipful master. Called to refresh
ment Called to labor by Adoniram
Lodge, which will exemplify the first
section of the Master Mason's degree
w. H. Shaw w NJ. Red Mountain
Lodge, will rehearse the first and Bal
ance Rock, the third lectures of the
Master Mason's degree. Review of
work by Worshipful Grand Lecturer,
f. H. Babbitt. Lodge called to refresh
ment.
Banquet in Masonic Hall. Reception
of Grand Officers. Comforting of sec
ond section of Master Mason's degree
by Tucker Lodge, Lynn S. Durfee, w.
NJ. Review of work by Grand Lectur-
er Addresses by Grand officers.
Lodge closed in form.
The lodges composing the district
are Mount Anthony of Bennington,
Adoniram of Manchester Tucker of
North Bennington, Red Mountain of
Arlington and Balance Rock of Reads
boro.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1919-10-10
HOME DEMONSTRATION WORK
Praised Highly BY Women of Benning
ton County.

ton County.
Is home demonstration work worth
while? Here is the answer from one
woman in Bennington County,
Dear Miss Pierpont:-
The home demonstration work has
helped our community and county by
instructing the women during war
times in the use of substitutes, for
sugar, lard, butter, meat and -four
1t has also been invaluable to us
through demonstrations on canning
vegetables, fruit and meat so that
during times of plainly we may con-
serve for times of scarcity. We have
learned to tighten the spring on the
lightning can when it becomes weak
thus reclaiming for us many discard
ed cans.
Through our agent we have learned
to preserve eggs when cheap. so that
we may sell our fresh ones when
they are high The bulletins alon .
which our home demonstration agent
sends us are well worth our member
ship fee
Yours sincerely
(Signed) (Mrs) Marion V. Harwood.
Bennington, VT"
But worth while things are seldom
without expense, and home demonstra
tion work must have financial sup
port. Are. you a member? If not, now
is your chance to pay the membership
fee of one dollar. The executive com
mittee is anxious that the women of
the county support this work so that
the Boys and Girls Club work may
continue as well as the work among
the women.