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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-09-09

day evening. The evening was pleas
antly spent in music, cards and con
versation. A splendid supper wa.
served at midnight. Those presen
besides the honor guest were Mr.. ant
Mrs. Lockwood and sons, Glenn ane
Sam, Mr.. and Mrs. Bozarth, Mrs
Brasch and daughter, Minnie, Edward
Balmert, the host and hostess anc
son Lester.
R. w. and George Lemley, Henry
and Helen Hanson, all of Vader, were
visitors at the Luedecker home this
week
Owing to the fact that the clur
members are laying a splendid new
floor in their clubhouse they have
had no dances for two or three weeks
When the floor is finished and the
clubhouse in order again the clur
members will reopen the clubhouse
and will be glad to welcome all theil
friends and neighbors.
Joe Gotchy, who has ben employed
at Maytown, is home for several days
A number of our young people have
been attending the dances at Black
Lake and report enjoyable times.
Our schoolhouse has been put In
apple pie order, preparatory to the
opening of school next Tuesday morn.
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlson of Olympia
were Sunday visitors at the home OF
Mr. and Mrs. Berg.
Miss Fern Long of Olympia, Mr.
and Mrs. Luedecker and sons. Edwin
and Harold, Miss Helen Hanson and
r. w. Lemley motored to Vader Sun.
day, Miss Hanson and Mr.. Lemley re-
naming at their respective homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ginter and family oil
Mud Bay were Monday visitors in our
neighborhood, looking over their
property.
Miss Viola Berg is spending sew.
eral days with her uncle and aunt
Mr.. and Mrs. Carlson. in Olympia.
lAr. and Mrs. Luedecker and sons
and Helen Hanson visited at the home
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Sheehan, near Plum
Station, Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. e. Lemley Of Tay
lor, Wash.,e visited Tuesday evening
and Wednesday morning at the home
Of the formers sister, Mrs. Luedecker
Mr.. Lemley. who is superintendent
of the Denny-Renton Clay & Coal Co.
of Taylor, is on his vacation and II
driving to Portland.
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PENINSULA

Buffers Cove Improvement club
met at Alert Grange hall Wednesday
and worked on hats for the ladies OF
the club. Considerable progress was
made In the club work and a very
profitable time spent with the home
demonstration agent.
The girls of the neighborhood who
were camping at or near Gull Harbor'
broke camp Monday evenign and re-
turned to their respective homes with
the exception of Miss Alice Whitney
who was called to nurse a case al
the Olympia hospital, and left camp
Sunday evening. They all report
wonderful time.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kingery have pur-
chased the Osmon place and are NOV
ing to the same.
The Misses Sybil, Della, Agnes and
Mabel Julson were Sunday visitors al
the Whitney home.
The Killen fmily are intending to
move to the Bynum Church place.
Z The jitney dance given by the But
ler's Cove Improvement club last Sat
urday night was very successful
affair. The crowd was jolly. refresh
ments good and even the Grab Bag
soon sold out.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stotenberg. Mr.. ana
Mrs. N. C. Christensen. Margaret
Stotenburg and Dorothea Christensen
motored to Ocean Beach Wednesday
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STOLEN FORD CAR
FOUND AT OFFUTS LAKE


A Ford car with q Centralia deal
ers' license on 1t was found yester-
day afternoon at the abandoned
Offut's Lake schoolhouse by G. "A.
Jewell, superintendent Of the Tenino
schools, and J. H. Hopkins. janitor,
who had gone out to the school to
check up on supplies. The car was
stolen Sunday evening At 8 o'clock
from Offut's Lake, accofdtgn to y
report received Sunday by the local
police. The car belonged to the
Titus garage of Centralia but the
name Of the person who had posses
sion Sunday night is not known.
When found yesterday by Mr..
Jewell and Mr.. Hopkins the car was
hidden from the road and was COM
pletely stripped Of all accessories as
we'll as all the wheels. All that was
left was the body.
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COMMISSIONERS GET
COUNTY ROAD RIGHT.OF.WAY

The Thurston county commission
ers yesterday closed deal for an
improved piece of the county road
right-of-way at Bucoda and also a
convenient gravel pit adjoining after
~ years of intermittent negotiations.
The property, consisting of nearly
two acres, was sold by Lee Morgan
for $3.50. He had originally asked
$500 and the county hard started
condemnation proceedings.
BY acquiring the new county road
right-of-way a clear view can be had
of a dangerous railroad crossing for
quarter of mile either way. AT
the present time the track is hidden
until a driver is on the track.
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FAIKvIEW

DR.. Flora Mustard paid a profes
sional cell at the Brasch homo Friday
afternoon to attend Miss Minnie
Brasch, who has been quite Ill with
influenza. At this time Miss Brasch
is able to be up though not fully re-
covered.
Mr.. and Mrs. Max Hammond Of
Olympia were Wednesday afternoon
visitors at the Luedecker home.
The Misses Edith ond Helen Berg
spent last week in Olympia at the
home of their uncle and aunt, Mr,
and Mrs. Carlson.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lockwood and sons,
Glen and Sam, spent the weekend
at aBldi with Victor Lockwood and
family. They motored up and repor;
a splendid trip.
George A. Lemley and Henry Han
son OF Vader. brother end cousin OF
spectively Of Mrs. Luedecker. spent
last weekend at the home of the
latter.
The Sunshine club was entertained
last Wednesday afternoon by Mrs.
Benton at her home.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Glenn and son,
Milburn. visited Tuesday afternoon
at the Luedecker home.
All Improvement club members arc
requested to be present at the quar-
terly business meeting Sunday after
noon, September II, at the clubhouse
Several. things OF interest to the club
members will be taken up, among
them the reopening of the clubhouse.
Henry Berg left Tuesday to go to
Mud Bay camp. where he has employ
ment.
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NISQUALLY VALLEY

Mrs. Daisy Koenig called at the
kaufman home Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Hulda Seifke of Oily .apia spent
several days with the j. A. Andersen
family.
A decrease of thirty-five million
hogs is reported in the world. How
ever, there's no apparent decrease Of
the road hog.
Osborne Gardner left from Seattle
last week with a squad of his class
mates of the U. of w. baseball team
for Japan.
Master Adrian Andersen spent
Tuesday with Masters Lee and Blair
Taylor of Dupont.
Miss Florence Backes spent Satur-
day in Olympia as guest of Miss Leona
Burt.
A young man from one of our
Ineighboring towns attended dance
in our locality and got in touch with
a little moonshine. The next day,
when he remembered how he had
staggered around the hall, he was
greatly Inundated until he was con-
graduated by a lot of his friends
who thought he had invented a new
dance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wixon visited
with Kuhlman's Sunday evening.
Mrs. Elizabth Thompson left for
Chehalis Thursday for permanent
stay with DR.. Feigals and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Watkins returned
home from Randall, where they spent
Ia few weeks with the latter's parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chauncey Barnes are
visiting and sightseeing in Portland
this week.
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From the Washington standard Of
August 80, 1906.

From the Washington Standard of
August 80, 1905.
Painters are now at work putting
the finishing touches on the new
United Presbyterian church.
Capt. T. s. Tew of the steamer
City of Shelton has been quite III
at Shelton during the past week.
Messrs. Robinson and Wilson have
shipped specimen boxes of egg plums
from Capt. Messegee's orchard, and
Bartlett pears from Mr.. Hills prem
ises near the Capitol, for the Eastern
exhibit car. this week.
The rates of fare on the steamship
City Of Topeka for Alaska September
IS from Olympia viii be $40 for the
round trip. Single trip tickets will
be sold for SIS cabin and $3.50 steer
age.
The first wheat ship of the season
arrived in Tacoma Monday.
Gov. McGraw denies the report
which has been going the rounds the
past few weeks that he would retire
from politics as soon as his term of
Office expires.
City Attorney A. ]. Faulkner was
united in marriage Sunday night at
Seattle, to Miss Lolo Fahinstock OF
Covington, Ohio. This was some
what of a surprise to Mr.. F.'s numer'
Gus friends in this city, as few knew
his trip down the Sound had anything
to do with matters outside the musty
tones of the law. The happy couple
will, after short bridal tour, begin
housekeeping on the Eastside.
Mary A. Henry, pretty Indian
maiden, has brought suit in Tacoma
to recover land on which the village
Of Lillawaup Falls, Hoods Canal, Is
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-09-09
From the Washington Standard of
August 81, 1861.

August 81, 1861.
Ex-Gov. Stevens of Washington
TERRITORY, who recently went to
Washington, D. c., and offered his
services to the government. has been
appointed colonel of the 18th regi-
ment Of New York, whose colonel
(Cameron) was killed at Bull Run.
Stevens is a graduate of West Point
and won some distinction in Mexico.
The U. s. district attorney has pro-
duced quite a commotion among the
milling companies of the Sound by
prohibiting them from cutting tim
Der on U. s. land. Several compa-
MES were prosecuted for trespass at
the late court at Port Townsend.
The people of Vancouver has held
meeting to adopt measures to have
the executive office moved to that
place.
We have had delightful showers of
rain during the week.
| Accounts from the South Fork OF
=, Clearwater represent the mines on
that stream as very rich--far sur
passing those Of Orc Elmo, says the
Oregonian. .s
Our town presents lively appear
ance from the large number of Wis
itors here to attend court and the
session of the Grand Lodge of Ma
sons, which convenes next week.
Hon. o. P. Oliphant, associate jus
tice for Washington Territory. and
Hon. j. w. Nesmith left New York
on the North Star. which sailed Aug.
for Aspinwall.
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chicken canning bee at the home of
Mrs. Tibbetts lately. Mrs. Townsend
of Maytown was also of the party.
Mrs. Tibbetts is still on the disabled
list.
Remember, on September 6 we
again play five hundred. Better
practice up. And be sure to reserve
storage space for cake, etc., later.
Committee likes to have it all taken
care Of
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!. FRENCH AND BRITISH
!. MINISTER'S DIVIDE
!. GERMAN PAYMENT

:. LONDON, Sept. 9.-(United
:. Press) Doumer, French
!. minister of finance, today began
!. a series of conferences with Sir
!. Robert Horne, chancellor of the
! exchequer, regarding the divi-
!: sion of the first payment of one
= billion marks received from
: Germany.
< 1t had been agreed that
:. 530,000,000 should be paid to
+ Belgium and that the remain
!. der should be divided after first
= paying the expenses Of the arm
!. les Of occupation.
i. This decision created polit-
:. zeal crisis in France and result
!. ed in Doumer handing BRAND
!. his resignation, which the pre-
:. mier of France refused to ac-
:. cept.
:. !. :. !. ! :. !. !: !. :: !. 1. !. : !. :
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LITTLE ROCK

The K. & X. Lumber Co. mill Il
preparing to resume operations next
week after q long shutdown.
Miss Vera Harris will leave shortly
for Ellensburg, where she will enter
the normal school.
A dance will be given by the base
ball boys next Saturday night for the
benefit of "Hick" Jenkins, who re-
Gently sustained broken arm while
pitching for the local team. A large
attendance is anticipated and good
time promised.
The C. L.. Kotick house Is being
repaired and put in order for occ,l-
pancy by the family Of Hugh Melon
aid, the new principal. In the mean
time Mr.. Mcdonald is making his
home at Clarence Rutledge's, as is
also Miss Lincoln, of the seventh and
eighth grades.
Mrs. Peterson of Seattle is the
guest of Mrs. Somers.
Mrs. j. II. Cole, having enjoyed
her summer vacation in Southern
California, has returned to Los
Angeles to try fall and winter one.
Mr.. Bertrosche, accompanied by
Will Schulz, drove to Spokane on
business.
e. J. Roles has sold his ranch to 2
Mr.. Dale from Tacoma and will be
leaving soon with his family Mr..
Roles has resided here for mere than
% wars
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BABE RUTH HITS NO. IS

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. S.-Babe
Ruth bulletin No. So.
Babe smashed out his 53rd home
run of the season in the fourth inning
Of the Yankee-Philadelphia game this
afternoon. This brought him with
in one home Of his last years record
Of 50. .,.@sK
! There was no one on base. Rom
nell was the pitcher.
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located. Evidence submitted brought
out the fact that her father. white
man, married her squaw mother ac-
cording to Indian customs, by pu.-
chase, giving shotgun for her. The
defense claimed illegality of the mar
riage and the daughter illegitimate.
having no right to the property.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1921-09-09

ROSICLARE, ILL.,, Sept. State
officials, including Adjutant General
Frank S. Dixon, were expected here
late today to make a thorough inves-
tigation into the mine war conditions
in Hardin county.
The planned attack on Rosiclare
and Elizabethtown Of 500 miners,
who were massed about Is miles from
here, had not started today. The
miners were reported disbanding and
returning to their homes. The vigi-
lance of the guard was kept up at
both places, however.
Sheriff Cox, in charge Of deputies
and guards, said he didn't believe
the miners would attack and he had
reports the men had retreated north
toward Equality. Cox requested the
state authorities to send 100 rifles to
be used by his guards in repelline
any advance of the miners.
Local authorities believed Adjt
Gen. Dickson would be able to settle
the difficulties without calling Out
state troops.
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ILLINOIS MINE WAR
OFFENSIVE SHIFTS
Capture Of Union Leaders
Objective Of Sheri6's
Forces.
DOCTOR LEADS REBELS
State Officials Gegin Thorough In
vestigation Of Mine Conditions
In Hardin County

ELIZABETHTOWN, I'LL. Sept. J,
The offensive in the Hardin county
mine war" shifted Friday from the
hands of the union miner forces to
those of the deputy sheriffs guarding
the towns of Elizabethtown and Rosi-
clare.
Sheriff D. N. Cox's forces began TO
carry out plans to capture leaders Of
the union miners. A party of depu-
ties left here before daybreak in an
effort to capture DR.. ]. P. Joiner of
Rosiclare, who abandoned his hons
and practice to lead the union miner
forces.
The sheriff IS posse planned to lay
siege to the house of DR.. Joiner's
father, several miles northeast Of
here, where the union leader was re-
ported to be spending the night.
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FAIRvIEW

Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Benton enter
tanned with a surprise birthday party
on their son. Howard. last Wednes-
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$3.50 ttfVFN EEttE
vas being done ths snA
vvAn III iii 4 Sfsyi 4siSf
-. 80 $3.50 sST
b - y ~ 800 ~ aAHA9ss s1Atf4kS
Z thA ttnse
sM s Weeks: iSSxhe duestton
9. NE queAtion 1esStcSexplAAn that
MaAeAtti6ns An c~pnkoxyniEy With his
statement that he WA4 8trtiAteAs2 or new
stock only ma ShereSlE A8tfaltgfAr OK
tbs Hastinss stock uadef hi nAxaA fn
a 81 W s. ss
3S MI. WeekskN we ob3ectSto this Isl
EaisstaSennemty asstAten1enk assuming
facts netsinnt
MI. LeSuenr Well d1nstSeAre
rap about It's being explained. 1only
to gnsss fair to- Mr.ARoods
MT. Weeks: ThASproposttfon is this,
there tsa no stiowing That Certificate
No.1s0 Was not one ofsthe new car
tificates 81 stock. think thAt ought
70 be established HE'S assuming that
It is An old c~eEtiticate Of stock. and
not 4 new certificate.
Court: Overruie the obJection. The
witness LAY explain II that - fths
case.
q: lust whatever you refnernber
about It.
A. don't remember anything In
partieular about 4.
Didn't Handle Business. Ea
9. Wen. a matter o. fart :
keAcept 70 slSn Up Wnen y wa heces-
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And this talk took place " the
executive committee Of the National
Noapartisan leasus ~ times, not re-
fefrtng o any special bank hut Just
generally OF buying bank?
"A. presume 10 yes
q And,, iii fact, you assisted lin
organizing some Of the banks that
Hastings ana Box organized, ala
you g? Didn't you go with Hast
A Wei, that Is Ayhat 4 wanted 10
explain a hhort time ago.
Makes E~xplaxahon.
@ Well. go ahead and explain 1t.
A:sS3Ihe only bank that I ever was
With Hastings Or he with me was the
Ransom County bank and Lean tell
Just how that happened. Y
@. Well. Just go ahead, I VIII be
glad to have You do 1t.
a. The farmers down In thai W.
,cintty. Mr.. A. Sahun,ski, VAS 4
league, nan. and Berg and others
they were YER anxious to get bank
and this was after these other
banks had been organized by Hast
'ings and the KinnhAlla company and
they had charged ten per cent for
prorsoting a. bank. Well. we thought
that was too much Of 8. proposition
sSsS1A k4sA 4AluS4la OuI O1Ed SO111IluI1-
ty where you could go out and orgAn-
lie a bank in day or two and the
League Exchange took over the or
ganiziI1g to go down and help them.
We charged them, I think. 5000. Just
actual expenses. and Mr.. Hastings
helped do that work.
O. Who paid It?
a The Ransom county people
paid Mr.. Hastings.
Q.NFor the League Exchange?
Al. Well, I don't know that.
@. You said the League Exchange
jorganized the bank?
A. No, under the supervision Of
the League Exchange.
Q. And Hastings was paid for do
ing the work, wasn't he?
A. Yes. or the League Exchange,
anyway there was a check for some
where about $500.
@. Now. was that check from the
League Exchange or those people
out there ? q
A. It was from the Lisbon bank.
@. Now, at that time, as araatter
Of fact, Hastings was employed by
the National No~npafttsan league, waa
he not?.
A. I scarcely think 50. At that
time I think Hastings was vice prest-
OIL LHe Observation-Disclosures
bank
Had Big idea.
@. And was he not on salary from,
the Nonpartisan League at the came
time? sES.
A. No, T don't think he was, be-
cause at that time he had the idea
Of building up a great financial In
stitution.
@. Never r4nd about hts ideas on
that. Z
A. I want to explain why he va.
anxious to organize these banks, OF
course. as correspondents OF the
Observation-Disclosures bank.
g. Now. was the plan OF organiza-
ton of these. banks talked over in
the executive committee?..
A.. I presume SOL couldn't say.
@. Now. Just refresh your mem
DRY. ~ -.~.6s
A. AS far as I was concerned.
was talking about It all the time, -o1
course.
Q. AS a matter Of fact, Mr.. Town
ley went out and helped organize
some banks, did he not, out in the
field?
A. Later, I think. In 1913. I
@. Is it true that this was the
plan OF organizing banks as discussed
by the executive committee, that the
League Exchange would put, ur
money enough. or securities enough
to buy a controlling interest in one
bank; that then the stock that was
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purchased ~ result 50 this rans
action, should M put up IA that bank
atter they had control Big
buy 4 c~ontrolling interest ii AnNthzf
bank and 81 on to the end ofsffthe
string Ycu have heard TINT dis-
cussed, have you not, ~ ths exsnu-
tive COMMITTEES
IA. / beiiave M. IeYnke wa a.
ways opposed to It ~ AsIAaguAplan
can't Just remember. %s
9. But vi WAS talked over BY the
executive COMMITTEES
presume AZ was. ! can't re-
3 Ana ..s4t plan vas followed
because the League E1change mas
not a6cent IN the Ransom County
q. Wen the League Exchanxe
wouldnsteget the stock.
A No Individual Of the executive
committee Sor anyss3of US have any OF
the stock in these banks.
@. Yous know Mr.. Wood. do you
not, that the Hastings stock after the
League Exchange got Ill was used as
collateral nSthe observation-disclosures
[S0A O0llA,SSQOu I you .Na6tEI tHa5 10 G.E@HgN.E
A. Well, II It was necessary to use
1t, I presume 1t was.
g. About everything you could get
hold OF had to he used?
a. think so, I think we used
everything / had. s.
Only aTrustee.
O. Now, / understood you to. say
you were only trustee, Mr.. wood, Of
the. new stock in the scandinavian
American bank: s
"A. think, o
@: And, therefore, I am going to
kive you an Opportunity TO straighten
A. All right.
@. 4 call your attention, to the sig
nature appearing OF the bottom OF
this stock certihcAtes and Askf. sou II
that is your signature as trustee?
A., Yes sir.
Mr.. Lesueur:. The number Of the
stock certificate TO which attention is
called is certificate No. 100 for TWEEN
ty-flve shares, F. B. Wood. trustee, in
Nj. weeks: We reserved the Oh.
lection to this exhibit last night. The
objection is that this matter is wholly
irrelevant and imnaterial and I'M
proper ross examination.
Court: overruled; let it be received
Reads Stnb.
@. Just look at the stub Of that ex
hibtt. I Will read It to you. The stub
reads: Certificate No. 100 for twenty
ave shares, issued to r. 3. Wood
trustee, dated 7~-31-191s, transferred
from J. j. Hastings. No. OF orietna!
certificate 1877 and 1853. number OF
original shares 20 and 5, number OF
shares transferred rs. Received Ger.
tificate No. 100 for Is shares this a1st
day Of July, 1919, F. B. Wood, trus.
tee.
A. The only way 1 can explain that;
| WE'LL presume somebody had to han
die this business, so I did.
@. Well, let me call your attention
to this, on the back Of the certificate
"For value received -. hereby sell
assign and transfer unto the League
Exchange Incorporated. ;. . shares
OF capital stock represented by the
within certificate and do hereby If
revocably constitute and appoint. ~.
to transfer the said stock on the Books
OF the within named company, with
full power Of a substitution in the
premises. Dated Sept. IS, 1919.
In the presence Of
(s,gned r. B. Wood, Trustee.
Now, then, I would like you tt
make any explanation that you cars
to, because this is what this record
shows. and I give you this opportunity
I because I believe you are honest anc
I believe you don't know exactly wha'