n*WENTY-EIGHTH YEAR

IDE SWISS LIKES THIS COUNTRYjfanguard of Swiss Settlers

tfjupect Big Tract of Land?I h Thurston County

fLEASED WITH OUTLOOK

With Colonists SaysThe Soil Excels for

Dairy PurposesV \u25a0

©LYMPIA, March 23.?Expressingtlw opinion that they were more than

with Thurston county as anIflaal section for dairying, many of

- (kt members of the advance guard-it Swiss colonists from Minnesota,who arrived here a few days ago, an-aounced yesterday that they wouldlocate on the Hugh T. Halbert tract,\u25a0mut Olympia. The first inspectionOf the proposed dairying and cheese-Baking community by the colonistsfit unusual in many respects.

Saturday the party was landed onthe ground at Bordeaux, on the Mil-waukee car in which they made thetrip from Minneapolis. Saturdaynight they built a large camp fire.A majority announced that theywould make Thurston county theirfnture home, and plans for clearingthe land and putting in crops were

; discussed.Witt Co-operate in Clearing Land.It was decided to co-operate in

clearing the land. It was also de-tided to carry on diversified farming.After the land is cleared there will beon the ground an expert on grasses,an expert on dairying and an experton poultry to help the settlers placetheir land on a paying basis.

Sunday night religious services\u25a0were conducted at the camp fire byProf. Charles M. Andrist, of the de-partment of languages of the Uni-versity of Minnesota.

Grass Expert Pleases.Martin Heinzelman, recognized as

one of the greatest experts on grassesin Minnesota, and former superintend-ent of Itasca park, at Arago, Minn.,who, with Mrs. Heinzelman, was amember of the party as a sightseer,announced yesterday that he hadchanged his former plans and wouldlocate in this state as a member ofthe new community within two weeks.

"The soil excells anything in theEast and is as good as any in the Mid-dle West," he said. "It should pro-duce wonderful crops. From a dairystandpoint it is ideal. I have neverexamined heartier grasses and theclimate is mild, permitting out-doorgrazing all the year-round. One thingthat attracted my attention wasthe fact that the medium red grass

grows as large as the mamouth in theMiddle West. Tlipre is also an abun-dance of water on all the land.

Newcomers Looking for Stock.Many of the members of the new

colony spent yesterday looking for cat-

tle with which to stock their sections.Today they will visit various tracts

that are being cleared under modernmethods for the purpose of getting in-formation.

"We hope to make this new colony

one of the best dairying communitiesIn the Northwest," said Mr. Halbertyesterday. "The people Interestedare all workers and are well pleasedwith the land. Until the Panamacanal is opened it will be possible to

have colonists come right through

from New York, without change ofcars, which will prove a great induce-

ment during the period of developingthis land.

railroad man to speak

TO ABERDEEN'S MEN'S CLUB

C. P. Bissett, right of way and tax?gent of the Oregon-Washington Rail-Way & Navigation company, has ac-cepted the invitation of the Men'sclub of this city to deliver an addressthe evening of April 10 at the FirstPresbyterian church.

Mr. Bissett stated his topic will be\u25a0either "Abraham Lincoln" or "Fidel-ity.'' His Lincoln address has wonthe railroad man fame, but, it is

his "Fidelity" is just as excel-lent, and it is stated the latter subjectwill be selected. Mr. Bissett is per-haps as forcible speaker as ever ap-peared in this section and he com-bines eloquence and scholarly attain-ments.

militia instructor here

Lieut. H. Adrian McClure, UnitedStates navy, in charge of the hydro-

. Craphic survey for this district, wasthe Harbor last night. He came

town on matters in connection withnaval militia for which he is in-

\u25a0fructor and inspector.

AM the new-H all the time In the Herald.

SIX PAGES

THE COUNCIL ANDTHE FIRE LIMITS

Removal of Building WithinLimits Creates Needless

Discussion

MOVE MAKES FOR SAFETY

Earth for Fill District not inRiver. Street Improve-

ments Protested

The city council was unduly exer-cised Wednesday night over the re-moval of the Fred Matthews framebuilding from one point in the firslimits to another, still within thoselimits. Nothing appears to be oppos-ed to such a removal in the fire limitordinance, nor did it appear that thefire hazzard in the district was in-creased by the removal of thosebuildings. As a matter of fact, theMatthews building was taken from anextra hazardous location to one ofcomparative isolation and is now avery slight menace to its neighbor-hood compared with what It was onG street. Its removal will mean theerection of a concrete building on Gstreet which will create a fire breakin one of the most hazardous firepoints in the city. An attempt to

"abate the nuisance," as was talkedof is liable to involve the city inueedless litigation.

The city attorney reported that thebonding company, which will com-plete the work in Fill District No. 2,had a representative in the city pre-paring to take up the work, and thathe reported there was not sufficientearth available in the Wishkah riverto finish the fill, and that they may

have to sluice earth from TerraceHeights.

A protest against the proposed im-provement of Newell street provok-

ed a sharp discussion, the property

owners claiming they were unable tostand the expense at this time. Thecouncil will visit the street in a bodySunday morning to examine the situ-ation.

The Barber Asphalt Co. recededfrom their former position, and agreed

to accept six per cent warrants, In-stead of eight per cent bonds de-manded.

The removal of earth from Oakstreet was discussed, and the matterlaid over until the next meeting, topermit E. C. Finch to be heard on

the subject.

A petition for a 20-foot concreteroadway on Thornton street betweenSixth and Fifth streets, and a pro-test, were referred.

Liquor licenses were granted to W.H. Pierre, the O'Hare Liquor com-pany and the Aberdeen Brewingcompany, the two latter being whole-sale licenses, and the first issued sincethe new ordinance was adopted.

An ordinrnce was passed fixingTuesday. April 7, as municipal elec-tion day, the voting hours between8 a. m. and 8 p. m. and appointingelection officers. Precincts having

less than 100 voters will not be en-titled to clerks, the judges fillingthese offices.

Councilman Myles announced thatthe street committee would look overthe South Side road Sunday and re-port next .Wednesday night.

An ordinance was introduced andpassed to third reading, licensing

moving picture operators and creat-ing a board of examiners. The an-nual license is fixed at $5 and $2.50for renewals.

The contract for the planking ofHenry street was awarded to John

A. Nordgren at $1.47 for the 16-footelevated roadway.

FATAL ACCIDENT.

Earle E. Sprague, a Logger, MeetsDeath From Falling Tree Near

Elma Tuesday Afternoon.

Earle E. Sprague, a logger 54 years

of age, was crushed to death Tuesday

afternoon at one of the camps of the

Mack Logging Co., near Elma. Spra-

gue, who was a sawyer, walked be-

hind a stump to escape a falling tree,

when the tree struck the stump, the

top struck him, killing him in-

stantly.

Sprague, who was well and favor-

ably known on Grays Harbor had

made his home in Aberdeen for sev-eral years, and was an active member

of the Aberdeen Lodge of Odd Fel-

lows. The body is at Elma, pending

instructions from his sisters, one of

who lives at Plalnwell, Mich., and the

other at San Antonio, Texas, who

have been wired by W. H. Pearson,

secretary of the lodge.

SEMI-WEEKLY

ABERDEEN, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1914.

OH IS FOUNDIN TENINO WELL

Pumping Well is Struck atDepth of 775 Feet, in

Well Near Tenino.

WILL SINK WELL DEEPER

After Drilling Six Weeks,Grand Mound Oil Field is

Practically Proved

OL.YMPIA, March 26.?"There is nolonger any doubt about our well be-ing in a real oil field. We are not

going to stop now, but experienced oilmen who are on the ground say thatif we did stop now and prepare thepresent well for pumping, we wouldhave a well producing from 25 to 100barrels of oil a day."

This is part of a statement madelast night by long distance telephoneby Emery C. Williamson, secretary-

treasurer of the Crescent Oil com-pany, who spent yesterday at the wellnear Tenino.

"The drill has struck and gone!through a second stratum of oil sand.!This was at the 775-foot level, andthe sand stratum is 30 feet through. 1though the first one was only six feetin depth. It seems to those of us who 'took samples of the snml and floating ]oil that this sand contains 25 times ias much oil as did the first stratum, i

"We have a real commercial welljust as soon as we want to put in acharge of nitro-glycerine to tear out

a cave in this sand stratum so thatthe oil can collect, but we believethat farther down there is oil in larg-

er quantities, and we will be surpris-

ed if a gusher is not struck. We willcontinue to drill, and if we exhaustour resources before we strike any-

thing further we can come back atanytime and make a 'pumper' out ofthe well to take the oil from the sandthat we have just passed through."

Secretary Williamson said that af-ter passing through the second sandbed, four feet of lime stone was drill-ed through, and that the drill had

continued about 10 feet into shale

foundation again at about 9 o'clocklast night. Mr. Williamson felt that

there was no basis on which to specu-

late as to the formation next to bestruck.

The Crescent OH company has been

at work since February 12. Lincoln's

birthday. On that date the machin-ery was in shape and the first drilling

done. Up to the present time thecompany has had exceptional luck.

Only three or four times has the drill

got out of true and on each occasion

it was due ot striking of fissures in

the sand stone.

FOOD INSPECTION

NO REST FOR THE WEARY.

J. J. Higgins. state food commis-

sioner; W. H\ Abrams, food inspect-

or, and Miss A. B. Wimple, bakery

inspector, spent several days in the

city this week, inspecting the various

places where food is sold, and com-pleted the work yesterday afternoon.

Mr. Higgins was a former resident

of Elma, and was editor of the Chron-

icle in 1897 and 1898.The Hentltf to the most widely read

paper In Cfceh&lls County. Wise ad-vertiser* know It

'till the twtM-a-w««k HersM te year

iMtlrla* enster* friends.

?Bartholomew in Mtnnoapolie Journal.

Taxpayers' MeetingThe Aberdeen Taxpayers will hold an

adjourned Mass Meeting next Mondaynight, at 8 o'clock, in the city hall, to hearthe report of the committee on permanentorganization.

Every taxpayer in Aberdeen who canpossibly do so, is urged to attend this meet-ting. Ladies are especially invited.

SAW MILLS FILENEW TAX SUITS

Nine MillCompanies Ask Re-duction of Taxes, Alleg-

ing Over Valuation

MONTESANO, March 26.?Ninemills companies on Grays Harborhave filed new suits in the superiorcourt, involving about $16,000 intaxes, alleged to be overcharged byreason of excessive valuation. Thesuits were brought by Bridges &

Bruener and llogan & Graham of Ab-erdeen.

Along with the complaints, in eachcase, is a motion asking that a re-straining order be issued stopping thetreasurer from turning the accountsover to the sheriff for collection andasking that the treasurer be orderedto accept a tender of the amount oftaxes the mill companies concede tobe due during the pending of thistrial. These motions are to be heardSaturday.

The concerns suing the county areassessed on the books a total of $37,-972.36 in taxes, and their combinedtender is $22,002.77. Names of thevarious plaintiffs and the amounteach concedes to be due the county

as taxes on the levy in force, are:National Lumber & Manufacturing

company, $5337; Grays Harbor Com-mercial company, $5047; Federal Millcompany, $1282; Donovan Lumbercompany, $1347; S. E. Slade Lumbercompany, $2772; Aberdeen Lumber &

Shingle company, $1447; WesternLumber company, $602; Bay CityLumber company, $2094.

JEFFERSON DAY

Chehalis County Democrats Will Cele-brate Anniversary of Patron

Saint on Gray* Harbor

The executive committee of the

Democratic party of Chehalis Coun-

ty, and the members of the demo-

cratic county central committee from

Aberdeen and Hoquiam, will meet

next Tuesday night, March 31, at Ho-

tel Washington to plan for the cele-bration of JefTerson Day, which oc-curs next month. The annual meet-

ing of the party organization willbe held and a banquet spread, either

at Aberdeen or Hoquiam, as may bedecided at the meeting Tuesday night.

The by-laws call for the annual meet-ing at Montesano, but the democrats

of the county seat thought a larger

attendance would be secured on theharbor, and waived their right In theInterest of a big time.

HOQUIAM SEEKSWATER SUPPLY

City Commissioner OgdenReceives Imformation as to

Method of Proceedure

HOQUIAM, March 24.?City Com-missioner Ogden, who is working inthe direction of securing a water andpower supply for this city, has re-ceived a letter from Forest Super-visor F'romme of Olympia. Thesupervisor states that the districtsupervisor at Portland will send onthe necessary blanks and instructionsfor making a formal application.

Fromme says that, as the planinvolves the building of dams andreservoirs as well as the location ofa power site and the construction ofa transmission line, it will be neces-sary for the city to do a sufficientamount of engineering work toacquaint the government with thescope of the project. Hoquiam andAberdeen will join in sending a corps

of engineers to the headwaters ofthe Wynooche and the Huniptulipsto make the necessary surveys. Sofar as water rights are concerned,that Is a matter withing the provinceof the state.

Commissioner Ogden figures thatthe work can be done?dams andreservoirs built, a pipe line andtransmission line 30 miles long beconstructed and the water and powerbrought to the Harbor cities?for amillion dollars. Of this sum, Ho-quiam will furnish $400,000 and Ab-erdeen $600,00. One requirementof the government is that the muni-cipalities shall use water, light andpower at actual cost and not attemptto make a profit thereon. It is esti-mated that the rates for these pub-lic necessities will be largely re-duced if the work is completed.

FISHING FOR TROUTIS SET BACK A MONTH

The open season for trout fishingwill not commence this year untilMay 1, instead of April 1, as former-ly, and Game Warden Esses announc-es that he and his deputies will seethat the law of close season in Aprilis rigidly enforced.

POWER LIFE BOAT

N. P. Bryan, secretary of the Cham-ber of Commerce, was notified yes-terday that the national life savingbureau had Bhlpped a power life boatto the station at Weatport. The boatis the result of a request made bythe Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce.

ABERDEEN HERALDCOST OF LIVING

COMING DOWNComparison of Cost of Staple

Food Articles Shows Re-duction in Six Months

TO REFOREST LANDS

State Forester Would Refor-est Cut Lands that are Un-

fit for Cultivation

OLYMPIA, March 22. ?Encourag-

ing indications that the cost of liv-ing, which for the past decade hasbeen constantly soaring skyward, hasstarted to come down, are found by

the state board of control, which forthe past week has been making semi-annual purchases of supplies for the11 state institutions.

As the state secures competitivebids on all supplies and buys bywholesale, lowest possible prices areobtainable. The board of control findsthat the price of practically all foodsupplies has decreased from the lastsemi-annual purchases, made Septem-

ber 15, 1913. In some articles, likebutter, the decreased price is attri-butable to. the coming of the summermonths, but in most cases the de-crease is taken as attributable to oth-er causes than the weather.

Comparison is made of the prices

at which the state bought eight staple

articles of food six months ago andthis month, the prices, in each case,

being for delivery at the western

Washington hospital for the insane:

Sept., 1913. March, 1914Bacon $0.1880 $0.1625

Beans .0580 .0500

Butter 3300 .2675Flour 3.9000 3.8600Ham ... .1800 .1700Rolled oats . .0275 .0266

Rice 0415 .0405Sugar 0475 .0428

That this general decrease in prices

is not confined to Western Washing-

ton is shown by a comparison of the

prices paid for the same articles de-livered at the Eastern Washingtonhospital for the insane;

Sept., 1913. March. 1914Bacon $0.1900 $0.1785Beans .0550 .0550Butter 3550 .2650Flour 3.7500 3.6300Ham 1800 .1650Rolled oats . .0275 .0325Rice 0466 .0400Sugar 0525 .0475

Reforest Logged Lands

Some of the largest owners of log-

ged-off lands in this state have re-ceived letters from State Forester E.\V. Ferris, inviting them to deed to

the state such portions of their hold-ings as will be unfit for cultivation.

Mr. Ferris' object is to reforestthese lands. Private owners cannot

afford to hold them 50 or 60 years andpay taxes on it, while waiting for a

second crop of timber, but as the statepays no taxes, it can afford to carry-

out a reforestation plan that will in-sure the presence of the lumber in-dustry 50 years hence.

Promises of some donations to the

state already have been received. Noland that is suitable for cultivationis sought.

In his letter Forester Ferris says,

in part:"It may seem to some that we arc

exercising a good deal of nerve in put-ting this proposition before you, but

we have the nerve to do anything thatwe believe is for the best interest ofthe state, and it will take nerve, and!lots of it, to get back upon this logged

off worthless land a second crop oftimber to take the place of that whichhas been taken therefrom. This stateshould never be without a goodly sup-

ply of timber, and we are asking theloyal citizens who are the owners oftracts which are suitable only for re-forestation to give to the state at least

a portion of such tract, and start thereforestation ball rolling, which willaccumulate as it travels along, andwhen it arrives at its final resting

place, it will have attained such mag-

nitude as will make the donors proud

of the fact that they had a part in itsmaking. Let us carefully harvest ourpresent crop of timber and when thatis gone may we have seen to it thatanother is ready for the axe and saw."

NEW CLUB FORMED

A new social club te be called theEureka, was organized at A. O. U. Whall Wednesday evening with the foilowing officers: E. M. Smith, presi-dent; William A. Clark, vice-presi-

dent; Carl Springer, secretary-treasur-er. The real launching of the clubIs to be celebrated at a banquet tobe given some evening next week notyet selected.

NUMBER 60

HIGH COST OFGOVERNMENT

Forms Topic of Discussiouby Chamber of Commerce

Last Evening

INCREASE UNREASONABLE

Great Interest Shown in State y

County, City and SchoolExpenditures

The meeting of the Aberdeen Chanbrber of Commerce at Hotel Washlarton last night was one of the bestin several years. About 80 repre-sentative citizens were present, allenjoyed the famous cusine of the '

Washington and were interested inthe informal discussions that follow-ed. A male quartette renderedseveral songs, one of them a skit onCounty Assessor R. A. Wiley andother officials that brought down thehouse.

Tax Rate Was the Topic

The tax rate, the absorbing topicin Chehalis county to-day, was thor-oughly discussed from almost everyangle, and is certain to have accom-plished a good purpose. SecretaryBryan called attention to the state-ments of dues he had mailed, andrequested prompt remittance. Thedues are payable annually in advanceand are but $6.00 a year for indi-viduals and $12.00 for corporations.

President Mumaw appointed the fol-lowing committee to rustle new mem-bers; Phillip A. Bertrand, John W.Huff, Russell Mack, N. A. Burcombeand R. C. Vandervort.

Assessor Wiley explained clearlyand at some length the various Iteoßof expenditures, state, county, roadand school, that totaled about $400,000

for Aberdeen, out of a total of $1.51&.-115.95 for the entire county. He in-vited questions concerning any of thetax matters with which his office hasto do and replied to quite a numberthat shed considerable light on thesubject, concluding with showing

where in his opinion the levy should,

and may be, reduced about $300,000

next year.

The matter of schools expense wastaken up by J. C. Smith, a memberof the board of education, who ex-plained the increased cost of educa-tion of late years. Being questionedas to the increase of over 50 per centin the past six years, he cited themodern methods installed in thatperiod all of which cost money.School expenditures were discussedby Dr. Hopkinson, R. A. Wiley, J. W.Young and J. J. Carney.

President Mumaw quoted tax fig-ures from a number of cities in Ohio,which clearly proved that excessive

i public expenditures were by no meansconfined to the Pacific Coast. InOhio, he stated, the assessed valua-tions were on a 100 per cent basis,and the limit of the tax levy was ISmiles. This it will be remembered tsunder a new constitution but recent-ly adopted, and some municipalities

were experiencing rough sledding ingetting along on this levy, but theyhave to do it.

J. J. Carney took up the matter ofincreased public expenditures, state,county, municipal and school, during,the past six years, showing thatChehalis county was paying $188,480.-09 more state taxes this year than wedid in 1908; that the sum requiredthis year for roads and bridges hadincreased 243 per cent in the pastsix years, and that during that periodthis county had raised by taxation,for roads and bridges the enormoussum of $1,352,746.00. That municipal,taxes had grown in that period from$129,711 to $320,284, and that thetotal taxes had increased 158 percent.

Mr. Carney consluded by calling at-tention to the mass meeting held lastweek for the purpose of organisinga Taxpayer's League, and invited allpresent to attend the meeting nextMonday night, in the city hall, to ef-fect a permanent organization.

A. C. Girard talked on tax levies,and told the meeting how Chehaliscounty was being made the goat bythe state board of equalization,through the failure of the citizens ofthis county to attend the meetings ofthis board and to back up the countyofficials in their efforts for a squaredeal.

John O'Hare suggested that stepsbe taken to have the laws so changedas to permit the cities to use a por-tion of the road and bridge taxespaid by them within city limits.The suggestion was made after As-sessor Wiley had quoted the munpaid Into that fund this year byAberdeen, as about $35,000.

U A. Naudeau, of Seattle, ? 4tr-

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