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The Jasper news., 1907-10-17
PROVIDENCE WAS INIT.
Fortunate Meeting Surely Brought
About by Hand Of Fate.

A farmerish-looking man shared my
seat on the train as was travelling
through Indiana, and after we had
been talking for a couple of hours
very communicating woman got on at
station. I saw the man look very
hard at her, and directly after she had
taken seat he rose up and said:
Excuse me, stranger, but think
used to know that woman, and I'll go
over and see her."
: He was gone about an hour, and
had forgotten all about him when he
returned to say1s. set {s,.- ',4ss
Eyes, ! knew her. Durn my cats II
It didn't turn out TO be my first .wife!"
ut didT
''sure's you live. We was divorced
'leven years ago. and since then I've
been married twice and lost both
women by death. surely believe the
hand Of Providence is in it." ,.-4s. {.
For Just what reason?" .,s "a a.
i, ''Why, I've got nine children that
need a mother, and Hammer is willing
to try It again and see II we can't get.
along betterl"-Exchange. ..s..
The Jasper news., 1907-10-17
PROLIFIC GARDEN
ENcLishMAN's FIRST AND sUc.
cEssFuL ATTEMPTS IN MANI
ToHA--soIL PRODUCES
STRIKING RESULTS.

The Winnipeg (Capada) Free Press
Of q few days since contains account
OF the success that followed the ef-
forts Of William Knowles, an English
man who located near Winnipeg, Man.
itoba. This is but one Of. many let
tiers giving experiences of settlers,
and should be encouraging to those
who are looking about for new
home In which they may better their
conditions. The following is copy
Of the article referred to:
William Knowles. who cultivates
some twelve acres of land Just below
Middlechurch ferry on east side Of the
Red River has probably as fine dis
play of Horticultural products as any
In Manitoba The whole Of his hold
ing is In a high state of cultivation
and literally crowded with splendid
vegetable specimens, which have for.
tunatelysescaped damage by hail., al
though heavy storms have more than
once occurred within @ few miles. The
potatoes are wonderful crop, and he
expects to raise $500 bushels from
his patch Of AZ acres. A half dozen
Of tubers. selected yesterday average
more than a pound each. Adjoining
the potatoes may be seen marvellous
collection Of tomatoes. There are 900
plants, all growing under an enor-
nous weight of fruit. One single
stock picked yesterday contained
eighteen tomatoes and weighed four
pounds This extraordinary example
of. marvellous growth, together with
some Of the potatoes we're sent to the
Free Press Office.
" THIS proprietor was the first in
7 town with several specimens, includ-
ing green corn. The season has been
j favorable for. onions, and one square
patch OF nearly an acre Ia looking re-
markedly healthy. In addition there
are good crops Of cabbages, caulifow-
er, turnips, parsnips, carrots, pump
kins, marrows, cucumbers, celery, peas,
lettuce, rhubarb, etc. The floral de-
partment has not been neglected and
q charming display of all the well
known blooms were shown, including
a specially choice lot of asters.
Mr.. Knowles, who gained most of
his gardening experience In England,
is loud In his praise of Manitoba soil
for vegetable raising, and is gratified
with the result Of his. first attempt at
extensive horticulture.
The Jasper news., 1907-10-17
aiD&y tAlNaf HELP, NEEDED.
Simple Fisherman Had Heard Of the
~. ,,Wonaers-of- Science. ---'s . -

H. a. Wells, the novelist, spoke at a
Boston. club about the wonders Of
modern invention. 80 thick and fast"
he sud- these new inventions come,
life grows rather confusing for plain
and simple folk. There was an old
fisherman rowing'in his boat one day
wien, IAN automobile canoe sprung a
leak near him and Immediately sank.
To the indignation of the canoes &C.
Fcupants, the old man paid no heed to
them, but rowed calmly on his way,
putting an old clay pipe. However. the
wrecked canoeists managed to swim to
him, and as they clambered into his
boat one spluttered angrily: 'Confound
you, why didn't you lend us a hand?
Didn't you see We were sinking? The
old man took his pipe out of his mouth
and stared at them In establishment
'Blest If didn't think we wuz one O.
them new-fangled submarines he
said"
The Jasper news., 1907-10-17

as well as trust and insurance com.
panies throughout the country, had
for long time been getting into
shape by concentrating the money Of
the country for this monster trust.
It was newspaper and news bureau
gossip that Reinhart and his crowd
had bought millions Of shares of the
different stocks involved in the deal,
and 1t was common knowledge that
upon its successful completion Rein.
hart's fortune would be in the neigh
borhood of billion. On October LIST
the certificate of the Anti-People's
Trust, $12 1000, 100000 capital, 100000
900 shares, were listed upon the New
York, London, and Boston Stock Ex-
changes, and the German and French
Bourses, and trading in them started
off fast and furious at 108, The claim
that one billion Of the twelve billions
capital had been set aside to be used
In protecting and manipulating the
stock in the market, had been 80 wide
ly advertised that even the most rdar.
ing plunger did not think Of selling 1t
short
It was evident to all In the stock.
gambling world that this was to bs
the Systems" grand doup, that at
IT. completion the masses would be
rudeiy awakened to a realization that
their savings were invested In the
| combined American industries at vast
| iy inflated values, that tho, few had
l.all the real money, and that anyaat.
tempt upon the peoples part to regu-
l'late and control the new system OF
robbery, would be fraught with I'M
paralleled disaster--not to the "Sys-
tenn" but to the people. y
Since Bob's return from Europe I
had seen him but few times. Up
70 October Let hs had not been near
The Jasper news., 1907-10-17
Extravaganza In Dress.

Very few persons outside Of the
glittering circle of our enormousIy
rich families, who constitute what is
referred to as "the best society,"" can
understand how any young woman in
this or any other country can spend
upon her wardrobe such vast amounts
of money as are expended by the
daughters Of some Of these families
The history Of the world does not
show such reckless extravaganza in
the way Of dress. Nor, for the mat
ter of that, dues the history Of the
world show 10 riotousi use Of money
as that precticed by our very rich In
their strictly social advertisements.
Happy is The lot of the man or won.
an who is not tempted to such foolish
indulgences. which take the edge from
hfe's real Joy!-1s ~ f'+E = - 80 'ss
The Jasper news., 1907-10-17

Shortly after this talk Bob left for
Europe with Beulah. A great Ger
man expert on brain disorders had
held out hope that q six months treat
ment at his sanitarium In Berlin
might aid in restoring her mind They
returned the following August. The
trip had been fruitless. 1t was plain
to me that Bob was the same hope
lessly desperate man as when he left.
more hopeless, more desperate If any
thing than when he warned me of his
determination.
When he left for Europe "the
Street. breathed more freely, and as
time went by and there was no sign
of his misunderstanding influence
in the market, the System" began
to bring out its deferred deals. Times
were ripe for setting up the most
wildly inflated stock Misunderstanding
traps. 1t had been advertised through
out the world that Tom Reinhart, now
notwithstanding millionaire, was to
consolidate his and many other enter
prises into one gigantic trust with
twelve billions of capital. His Union
and Southern Pacific railroads, his
Southern lines, together with his
steamship company and lead, iron,
and copper mines, were to be merged
with the steel, traction, gas, and other
enterprises he owned jointly with
STANDARD OIL" Some of the railroads
owned by Rockefeller and his pals, in
which ReinhsSt had no part, were to
60 in too, and with these was to unite
that mother hog of them all, Stand
ard on itself. The trust was to be
an enormous company. the like, Of
which had until then not even been
dreamed of by the most daring stock
manipulatora The Systems" banks,
The Jasper news., 1907-10-17

pulled-off tricks with bags of loot
blackjack swag-for their end.
Il got away with three hundred mil.
lions when Steel slumped from 105 to
SO and from so to 8, and no one knew
I'd made a dollar. You and the
Street read every morning last year
the guesses' as to who could be
rounding up hundreds of millions on
the slump. The papers and the mar
ket letters one morning said 1t was
Standard Oil; the next, that 1t was
Morgan; then it was Prick, Schwab,
Gates, and so on down through the
list. OF course, none of them denied;
it is capital to all these knights Of the
road to be making millions in the
minds of the world, even though they
never get any of the money. Dick
Turpin and Jonathan Wild never
were fonder Of having the daring
hold.ups that other highwaymen per,
petrated laid to their doors, than are
these modern bandits Of being credit
ed with ruthless deeds, that they did
not commit. But Jim, twas I who
sold Pennsylvania every morning for
year, while the selling was explain
ed by the press as 'Cassatt cutting
down Gould's telegraph poles. Gould
and old man Rockefeller selling Penn.
sylvania to get even Jim Randolph,
have to-day billion dollars, not the
Rockefeller or Carnegie kind, but q
real billion. II had no other power
but the power to call tomorrow for
that billion in cash, It would be SUN.
Client to lay in waste the financial
worles before tomorrow night. You
are welcome, Jim, to any part Of that
billion, and the more you take the
happier you will make me. but when
strike in again, don't attempt TO stay
ma. for 1t will do no good"
The Jasper news., 1907-10-17

the Stock Exchange or nthe Street,
Shortly after the listing Of the "Peo-
pie Be Damned. as "the Street. had
show up at his Office regularly. This
was the condition Of affairs when
Fred BROMLEY called me up on the
telephone, as i related at the begin.
ming Of my story which l did not real.
ize had been SO long in telling.
My thoughts had been chasing each
other with lightning-like rapidity back
over the last five years and the is be-
fore them, and each thought deepened
the black mist over my present men
tai vision. In the midst of my re-
Elections my telephone rang again.
MR.. Randolph, for Heavens sake
have you done nothing yet?" /. was
Fred Brownley's voice. Things are
frightful here. Bob's brokers are sell
ing stocks at five and ten thousand
lot clips. Barry Conant is leading
Remnants forces. 1t is said he has
the POOLS protection order in Anti
Peoples and that 1t is unlimited, but
Bob has the. Reinhart crowd pretty
badly scared. Swan has just finished
giving Conant hundred thousand off
the reel in 10000 lots, and he told
me moment ago he was going to
get Bob himself to face Barry Conant.
They're down 90 points on the aver.
age, although they haven't. let Anti
Peoples. break an eighth yet. They
have itspegged at LOG, but there is an
ugly rimor Just In that Bob, under
cover Ola general attack, is unloading
Anti,People's on to the Reinhart wing
for Rogers and Rockefeller, and the
rumor Is getting in its work. Even
Barry Conant is growing a bit 3-anx-
ieus.; The latest talk is that Reinhart
.is-,borrowing hundreds Of millions On
Anti. Peoples, sand that his loans are
being called in all directions. u Do you
know Reihhart is at his place in vir-
|'ginia. nridc carnot get Here, before to-
morrow night -aIf Bob breaks through
Anti-People,s peg, it will be the worst
crash yet. > -''r''s'' go
cTo BE scoNTINUED1 a4,A,
- Il
The Jasper news., 1907-10-17
Good Enough for the Dog.

Bobby's mother was often distressed
by her small sons lapses from correct
speech, all the more because his re-
ports from. school were always so
good. Bobby" che said. plaintively,
one day, why do you keep telling
Major to set up when You know sit
up is what YOU should say" "oh,
we'll, mother" Bobby answered hasti.
iy, S"of course. i have lots Of grammar,
but don't like to waste 1t on Major
when. he doesn't know the difference.
being a dog."-Youth's Companion .
The Jasper news., 1907-10-17
Good at Figures.

IS A lawyer In q seaport town adver.
tised for an Office boy. A lad applied
for. the situation who had hitherto
been employed in the local fsh mar.
ket. The boy. on being asked II he
was good writer, answered In the
Affirmative. And can. you do men.
tai arithmetic?" sIsthink 40, sir."s
eWell, what would SO pounds OF Aal.'
mon at one-half-cents a pound be3".
bad, sir" was the quick reply.
The Jasper news., 1907-10-17
.rM,alsl aex,er Thus.

: II Thought YOU called up Information
for the, number. said he why did
you, quit and ring, offf' Information
had either dropped dead suddenly or
gone OF, to dinner with friend" she
replied Il waited and waited and
waited. and all ! could hear was some
blooming phonograph playlrs sswsy.'s
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-08-03

Attorney Neill was in Colfax
Tuesday.
-Jno. w. Mathews returned Thurs
day evening from business trip to
Southern Idaho.
No meetings of the Richardson
Art Embroidery Club will be held dur
ing the hot weather.
The free reading room will be
open every Sunday from ten a. m. to
seven-thirty p. m. during harvest.
Miss Rose Peterson, formerly of
this city, was married to Mr.. Cert
Vanderslius, at Seattle, Sunday, July
2Sth.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Campbell are
here from Dalles. Oregon, visiting
Mrs. Campbell's sister, Mrs. J. F.
Hill.
The Union Service Sunday even
ing will be held in the Christian church.
Rev. T. j. Giblett will preach the
sermon.
LOST - Between Congregational
church and Spawr home. gold watch.
.M.G.S. engraved on back. Finder
please leave same at Herald office and
receive reward.
Carpenters are now at work on
j. M. Palmerton's new house on West
Main and State streets. This will be
one of the finest residences in the city,
the architects estimate of the cost
being about $4,000. Mr.. Pamerton is
not letting the contract for the con-
struction of the building as whole,
but is experimenting its erection HIM
self.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-08-03

but to top it all, the German clergy
man had settled into deep. sonorous
snoring. The combination almost drove
the humorist into Mysteries.
Cropping in the darkness for his
shoe, he located the noise of the mouse
as well as possible, and let drive vic
iously. A crashing of glass denoted a
broken mirror and poor aim, but the
German Divine continued snoring
peacefully, and the rodent kept at his
work industriously.
Realizing that sleep was impossible,
Twain rose and paced the room to quiet
his nerves. No light was at hand, and
in the intense darkness he stumbled
over the massive chairs and bumped
into the table. Sense of direction had
been lost in the darkness and when the
table was reached he sought to find his
bearings. Several trips around the
circular table left him more bewildered
than ever. After cruising cautiously
on all fours he finally located his own
bed, and, crawling in, stayed there
until daylight.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-08-03
FIRE HOSE PLUGGED BY
VANDAL.

Recently the city authorities en-
gagged couple of young men to go
over the hose on the hose cart and
clean and oil all the couplings so that
they could be easily worked in case of
an emergency, and while engaged in
this work the young men, Messrs.
Bader and Urich, made a discovery
that had it not been found Just as it
was might have resulted in most SER
ious consequences to Pullman. Be-
tween two sections of the hose about
midway on the hose reel, a circular
piece of heavy leather had been placed
in such a manner that no water could
have found its way through the hose.
Had an attempt been made to use this
hose before the leather obstruction was
found, the firemen would have been at
loss to know why the water would
not come, and precious minutes would
haveg been lost in finding where the
trouble lay.
The discovery of this leather washer
between the sections was made but a
few days before the Alton hotel fire
E9nd there is every reason to believe
nafgs the hotel would have burned to
'ui eoground before the trouble could be
- ssted had the hose been put into use
fwith the obstructing disc Oh leather
unfound. 1t was fortunate chance
! that led to the cleaning of the coupl-
ings at the time, otherwise the Alton
fire would have endangered the entire
north end of town. The object of the
vandal who plugged the hose so effect
ually could either have been to let
some certain fire gain great headway
before water could be gotten on it,
for reasons that the public can easily
surmise, or it may have been that
some one with grudge against the
town thought this would be good way
to settle it. How long the hose re-
mained in its plugged condition can
not of course be known. The hose
house has always remained unlocked.
and anyone could have had access to it
at any time of the day or night. but
at the last fire before the Alton blaze
the hose had been in good condition.
In order that the fire apparatus may
not again be tampered with, the sta
tion will hereafter be kept locked,
although a number of keys will be
provided in public places, and in the
hands of firemen, so that it can be un-
locked without delay when fire alarm
is sounded.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-08-03

Prof. Linklater has returned from
his eastern visit.
&C. M. Waters will manage the
Pullman Auditorium the coming year.
Prof. Carpenter has returned
from Valley, Wash, where he gave
expert advice as constructing engineer
in the installation of an electric plant
for that city.
"A, w. Perley. state inspector of
railroad tracks and equippage. was
in the city the early part of the week
keeping an eye open for any shortcom
ings in the tracks here.
The city marshal is notifying all
the tough appearing gentry that comes
to town to either go to work or move
on. There is no excuse for the man
without job these days in the Pa
louise country.
VIM. Porter has sold his two res
idences on Mechanics hill, one to ] E.
Sheldon, a farmer near town. for
$1,000, and the other to a Mr.. Evans,
of Lewiston. for $1,000. Both Mr..
Sheldon and Mr.. Evans will move to
this city.
-Messrs. Thomle and Maloney were
in the city Thursday from the survey
ing camp. These gentlemen are RUM
ing the preliminary survey for the
Pullman, Lacrosse and Columbia Riv-
er railroad. and now have location
stakes set to within about eight miles
of Pullman. They expect to have the
preliminary survey completed in an
other week.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-08-03
THE COOLING MOTH.

The State College experiment sta
tion is waging war on the codling
moth in the Wenatchee valley and the
Walla Walla country. R. E. Trum-
BILE. in charge of the field work, has
returned from Wenatchee where he
has been spraying for the past week,
and will leave Immediately for Walla
Walla.
Discussing the situation relative to
the moth, Professor A. L. Melander,
of the department of entomology, stat
ed:
"The codling moth has been known
in the valley west of Wenatchee for
the past twenty years and is gradually
encroaching east, so that for the past
eight or ten years they have been in
the Wenatchee valley. In some parts
of the valley, they have been trouble
some for only the past two or three
years.
1t is told that there was formerly
an old post just south of Wenatchee,
and that the people who went up into
the Okanogan district, or to the Ell
lensburg country, stopped off at this
post, leaving there boxes that carried
the codling moth. In this way the
moth was introduced into this section,
probably twenty years ago. Apples
which contain the worms may be
shipped from point to point, and while
in transit the worms will come out
and cocoon" in the corners of the
box
''rhis pest is not prevalent among
west side orchards, though ! do no
know precisely why, as they exist te
some extent in the Hood River valley
and other places similar to the west
side in altitude and climate. On the
east side, however, the pest is exceed
ingly troublesome.
Spraying should be done with arse
nate of lead or Paris green. The first
spray should be applied when the
leaves are falling; the second, ten to
forty days later, according to the
weather. If it is very warm, spray
in ten days, but if cool. wait. AT
the present time we are giving the ex-
perimental farm orchard the third
spraying, which should generally be
done about the end of July. The ex-
act time is four weeks after the first
worms crawl under the burlap bands
around the base of the tree. Give the
fourth spraying three weeks after the
third. The spraying should be done
with force, and it is we'll to remember
that thoroughness counts much more
than correct formula or the exact
date. "
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-08-03
Chas. Ellsworth, labor, /.
John VanKirk, labor.

Chas. Ellsworth, labor, /.
John VanKirk, labor, /.
0. D. Matthews, repair hydrants,
21.SO.
c. Todd, labor, 4.
Geo. Ewing, draying, 2.
c. A. Coston, blacksmithing, s.
Wallace Moss, allowance on con-
tract, 1875.
Wallace Moss, tapping main, 2.
0. A. Amos, labor, 14.35.
j. F. Cochran, labor, 5.25.
Pacific Coast Pipe Co.. pipe, 309. 41
B. Gustad, running pump, 5.
A. B. Drinkwater, blacksmithing
$50.
Stewart-Clure Hdw. Co., supplies
1856.
Hose Co. No. l, service at ware
house fire, 80.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-21
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Steamship Berlin Pounds to Pieces and $50
r. Passengers Meet Their Doom.

ROTTERDAM, Feb. 21.-The Great Eastern Railways
steamer Berlin is aground and breaking up. One hun
dred and sixty passengers and all of the reported
drowned
The Berlin bound from Harwch England, to Rot
terdam and wrecked sand bank outside Rotter-
dam harbor People ashore the vessel strike and
thought she would be able to ride safely until the storm
permitted the boats to go to the
Tremendous washed the vessel and she began
breaking up Immediately. Several Americans re-
ported lost.
The passengers rushed to the deck at the first shock
and the hurled them into the 1t is impossible
for life boats to live in the surf and aid from the land is
cut off,
The full list dead will be known Great East
officials say the passenger list lost with the ship
A German opera company returning from engage
ment in London the drowned vessel
The entrance to the harbor is and the captain
evidently mscacuated the force of the gale The ship
literally blown onto the bank and crashing into
etty broke in two The passengers gathered the after
part, the forepart sinking.
LONDON, Feb 21-The Exchange Telegraph Co. has
been officially informed that 100 passengers and all of
the crew were drowned on the Berlin.
Arthur Herbert the kings messenger, bearing dis
patches from the government to the British embassy at
Berlin is among the lost.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-21
WHISPERING HARRY" AS
CITY'S SUPREME COURT

whispering Harry" Blocker has
declared the Pratt street car or
dnance unconstitutional in that
the state law provided for the train
ing of men for a stated period be-
fore being entrusted with the
handling of street cars. This Is
what he whispered to the council
Tuesday night. A we'll known at
torney said today that the objec-
ton raised by whispering Harry
did not have much merit, as 1t was
the duty of the councilmen to pro-
vide for the safety Of the public,
and the ordinance could be tested
m court. He cited the case of Sc
little vs.. Chintlet In which the SUI
preme court held the city had a
legal right to legislate in cases Of
this nature.
San Francisco has an ordinance
yimilar to the Pratt ordinance, End
Il Is held to be valid and constltu-