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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-11-01

that their industry no longer profitable
"There is no TRUTH" stated Mr.. Frye, in the
allegation that paying northwestern STOCK
men less for beef than the packers of the middle
west. We are paying big prices in California and
Montana and the cattle growers of this section
get the benefit of being nearer the markets.
One would be led to believe from these state
ments that the stockmen of the PACING north
west were getting an even higher price than those
of the middle west, and considerably better price
than our coast meat packers pay in markets
thousand or more miles away from the packing
houses But this is not true, as we have already
demonstrated by testimony from the farmers
themselves. We have had many letters from the
various cattlemen all of them indicating that the
packers were paying them only about half OF
what the farmers in the middle west are getting
for beef, in spite of the fact that meat sells
higher in northwestern cities than it does any
where else in the country. We intend to keep on
publishing those letters which are most TO the
point, as testimony to refute the denlals maze
by the meat packers. This issue we desire to
present the following letter, showing an actual
experience of one of the readers OF Inc Rancn
with we'll known Seattle meat packer:
Editor The Ranch: In your issue of September
18TH you have an editorial about the price that
stock growers of the Pacific northwest are get
ting for stock, also an article from the Seattle
Daily Times where Charles H. Frye said that
"cattle growers in this state and throughout the
northwest are getting the advantage of their
proximity to our market in the prices We have
paid for their stock" Now, the fourth of Sep
TENDER I saw Mr. Frye and offered to sell
him twenty head of three and four-year-old fat
steers and he offered me 81 cents pound, de-
livered at his packing house; and yet he says he
is paying Az cents in California Now II he is
doing that, how is it that all he will pay at his
packing house in Seattle is 81 cents pound?
Yours truly. JAMES DONALDSON.
Quinaut, Wash.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-11-01
GREATER MARKETS FOR OUR FRUITS.

This year will long be remembered among the
fruit growers of the Pacific northwest because
it begins new epoch in the marketing of fancy
fruits Until this year the grower has found 1t
necessary to seek his own markets. The big
commission houses on the coast had their repre-
sentatves in the fruit growing districts to solicit
consignments and make purchases, but the grower
who desired to place his produce in the high
class markets of New York and London was COM
PEELED to open correspondence with an eastern
firm and make arrangements himself for market
ing his fruit in those sections.
This year, however, it has been different, and
so much so that it has been remarkable and
proves conclusivey that Washington and Oregon
fruits rapidly being recognized throughout
the world as the best that be produced
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-11-01

Growers have not had to solicit their own
kets in the east and Europe this year. Their
fruit has been solicited from them by representa-
tives of several large exporting and produce deal
ers of New York and other cities. For instance
W. NJ White of w. N. White & Co., the largest
apple exporters in the United States, has per-
sonally made several trips to the coast and has
interviewed the growers in the various sections
The result has been that he has made number
of very large purchases. The following letter
received by The Ranch under recent date from
Mr.. White tells to some extent of these pur
chases and also contains other interesting infor
nation:
"In your issue of last week, just in, we notice
the matter you put in concerning our firm and
the $4,000 boxes of apples. At the present time
we believe we have from the Taggert & Dickin-
son ranch at Waitsburg and several small lots
at that station about 10000 boxes of apples From
Dayton we hope to get 10000, from Pennington
we expect to get $4,000 boxes, and we also ex-
pect to get lot of boxes from Granger and
North Yakima. We want all the Winesaps we
can get, to be put into cold storage to come out
next spring. When 1 at Wenatchee took
a sample of apple named Winter Banana and
another named Delicious. These two specimens
have been very much admired by everyone who
has seen them and l believe that I could sell
car or two of these apples if here before Christ
mas, at 81. Perhaps for the Winter Banana we
might get more than that.
eve fully believe that apple growers in Wash
ington who send goods to the eastern market
will make very fine prices, higher than they may
expect to get again The crops east are now
known to be very poor and, what is more the
fruit is very small and very poor quality. We
could sell here in New York and also export to
Europe all the apples that are grown in Wash
ington if they sent to care. We also
believe that pears will make very fine prices for
the remainder of the season, as there are very
few pears east, and CALIFORNIA; seem finished"
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-11-01
THE TRANSFORMATION.

l stood, one day, on a prairie height
And looked far out on the misty sea
Of midday grasses lying asleep
AS silent as dim futurity.
Silent, majestic, lone as the sea
Round the Southern pole, the land unmete
Awaited the plowman's stern decree
To laugh mid plenty beneath his feet.
l stood again on the self-same mound
Of swelling turf, three years between,
And 10, the land was album with sound
Of men and reapers as sickles keen
Swept into the drowsy headed wheat
With clatter and rush and jocund song;
While wide as the sea, green, yellow and
brown,
The grain fields endlessly rolled along
-Hamlin Garland.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-11-01
ADVANTAGES OF BEING NEAR MARKET

1--WE are paying Az cents pound for beef in
California, and are buying beef in Montana and
Omaha in competition with the eastern meat
packers" stated Mr.. Charles Frye, of the Frye
Bruhn Company, Seattle, in answer to the charge
made by The Ranch to the effect that the cattle
raisers of the Pacific northwest were getting such
low prices from the northwestern meat packers
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-11-01
wAsHlNeToNs PRODUCT OF AGRICULTURE.

From all indications this will be very pros
porous year among Washington farmers both
from a standpoint of good crops and of good
market prices 1t is too early to obtain any def
mite returns on the value of the crops this year,
as harvesting has not sufficiently progressed to
make this possible. Moreover, there are such
great territories, widely separated to cover, that
it requires months to accomplish any such per-
Torrance.
The Ranch however, desiring to obtain If pos
sible, for it's subscribers preliminary estimate,
recently communicated with the state fruit COM
missioner and grain commissioner. The latter
estimates the grain crop of the state as follows:
Wheat, 40 100000 bushels oats, 100000 bushels
barley, 100000 bushels.
The fruit commissioner states that he does not
deem it advisable to give out any estimates OF
the 1907 fruit production at this time, as it is
too early, and not sufficient number of reports
has been received by him to compile even ap-
proximate figures.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-11-01

1t is undertaking of great magnitude to meet
the approval at all times of the complex organism
of human nature.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-11-01

The public market for agricultural products is
proving of such value in Seattle that public
egg market has also been started, and now they
are talking of public fuel market. Public mar
kets in fact are being so generally urged
remedy for existing commercial evils that it may
bob up political issue
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1907-11-01

successful man has said it was his rule in
life to outline his days work at the end of the
preceding day.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-11-15
WANT COLUMN
**+*++******** = = :

The City Realty Co. for real estate. in
suranee and loans. i6u
Wan,ed:-Piain Sewing. Apply to Ida
Rife. 5o4 n. 10 street. 25-25p
For quick and satisfactory results. list
with the City Realty Co. i6tf
For Ren,:-Fins pasture for limited
number Of horses, Bingham ranch. 3.
L. Calhoun.
For Sale.-Two buggies. ono SO. single
harness. e-mon,h-old calf. two goats and
Winchester rifle. Inquire at zo5 N. Main.
For Sale-k desirable residence. six
rooms. east front, porehes and shade
trees. Small cash payment. balance
monthly. Inquire at this Office. 2ii.
Tho Ladies' Union will hold Rum
mage Sale In tho basemen, Of tho NJ. E.
church on Saturday afternoon from 2 to
s o'clock. go.
Reliable agent wanted In Rocky Ford
for The Williamsburg City Fro lnsur-
anee Co. Address Forester & Co.
1888 krapahoe st, Denver. 1924
wANrED.-cu, hair and eombings.
Ladies wishing anything in tho limo Of
switches. pompsdours. eornet. pulls and
hair rolls call a, Goblin Block after s pm.
Mrs. Edith Simpson.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-11-15

Paul Kennedy returned to the bosom
OF his family this week from Goldfield.
New. via San Francisco. Paul has been
gone for some months and he says that
part Of the time he spen. in the Goldfield
gold camp was full Of interest to q
tsnderfoot- He learned several things
pertaining to the promoters vocation and
experienced some Of the nerve tintilla-
tons that arc incidental to following tho
ups and downs Of the mining stock
market He spsnt only short time in
Frisco but reached the conclusion that it
Is q great city. notwithstanding earth
auakes and official graftsrs. He expects
TO remain at home in Rocky Ford for tho
winter season at least.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-11-15

i w. C. Johnson. son and daughter. oil
Bloomington. Illinois. were visitors at the
home of W. N. Deal last week.
Misses Edwina and Laura Shelton re-
turned home Saturday from visit oi
several weeks in Kansas City and other
points in the east.
The Rocky Ford Brick and Tile Com
pany received shipment OF hne man
tsl and CRATES and tiling this week from
the Denver Mantsl 4 Tile Co.
Garnet Shelton is carrying black eye.
He didn't get II in the ordinary way. but
in truly heroic effort TO stop runaway
horse belonging to Hon. W. B. Ebbsrt-
Tho roller rink fancy has caught on
seemingly in Rocky Ford. and the rink
opened in tho oddielows building by
Wilson & Estes Is doing good business.
3. W. Hopper is preparing TO leave
for Brownsville. Tex. with a carload OF
bees and supplies. He may spend tho
winter down there looking after the new
colony.
Tho Ladies' Aid Society Of the First
Presbyterian church had an attendance
Of about $50 people at their birthday
party last Friday evening and cleared
something over 500.
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt has just come
into her inheritance Of s2i,ooo.ooo.
Now II she will promptly marry tho right
kind o! duke she may do much toward
relieving the s.ringeney of tho financial
situation.
DR.. Stephenson. State Sups. Of tho Bap-
tis, Sunday schools, will occupy tho pull
pi, Of tho Bap,is, church next Sunday
morning and evening and will hold after
noon and evening meetings during tho
coming week.
Mrs. M. l. Ford and daughter Myra
left last evening for New Orleans for a
prolonged stay. Miss Ford. who Is one
Of our mos. promising young voealists.
will enter New Orleans conservatory Of
music for study.
Mrs. Olive Knause Is now making her
residence In Los Angeles and writos to
have hor Enterprise changed TO that ad-
dress. Shc Is delighted with tho winter
climate Of Southern California but still
has somo yearingsn for Colorado and
Rocky Ford.
p. E. vandenburg returned this week
from his dry farming" homo. thirty miles
cas-. Of Denver. He drove TO Rocky Ford.
getting hero Wednesday after rather
cool drive. He is fairly we'll pleased with
his dry farming experience and believes
Il can DO made success wherever tho
Campbell process Is truly followed. He
says however. that few Of tho loea,ors on
tho dry land area have followed tho Camp
bell method. or dono much else but hold
down their claims.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-11-15

G. E. Barrow is spending fow lweeks
in Denver.
Tho Tuesday Reading circle mot with
Mrs. D. w. Barklcy this week.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. Evans on
Monday. Nov. llth.. a daughter.
r. W. English Is building a handsome
ivo room cottage in tho Herdman addi-
ton.
Miss Ella Barrow spent Saturday and
Sunday in Fowler tho guest of Misses
May and Letita Thompson. formerly OF
Rocky Ford.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-11-15
Attention Farmers

J. S. Dunn. State Organizer Of tho
Farmers Union. will lecture in X. Of p.
hall on Saturday evening. All subordinate
lodges are requested To have delegates
presen. to receive tho now work. All
farmers are invited to the open meeting.
which will DO hold at 7:5o. before tho
regular lodge business.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-11-15
Bring Your School Children

To El Captain hotel. whero DR.. X. c.
Sapero. the well known oyc. car. nose
and ,hroa. specialist, will examine your
eyes and theirs free Of charge. Ono day.
Wednesday. Nov. 81. Call early.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-11-15

3 PERSONAL I
3 AND
= LOCAL 8
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Born TO Mr.. and Mrs. waitor Lane.
Nov. 18th son.
Tho Board Of Education has purchased
u modern style mimeograph for uso in tho
Liberty building.
c. J. Tyer has sold his residence on
South 18th street to q now rcsidenter.
Sim. Connor. Of Seymour. Iowa. Sale
price Sl.zoo.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-12-05
EL.MS

Supt. Wheeler was in this section Fri
day visiting schools.
John Harton OF Sault ST. Mary's, Mich.
arrived here Tuesday.
Mrs. Adah Herman and daughter
went to Olympia Wednesday.
Mrs. Walton, OF Hoquiam, came up to
spend Thanksgiving with her parents.
W. Holt and wife left Monday for
Charleston, Wash., to make their future
home.
Mrs. John Rogers returned from the
Harbor Friday after a visit with her
daughter.
Mrs. F. J. Kane and daughter Marian
went to Olympia Thursday. to spend
Thanksgiving with relatives.
j. NJ. Morrow and wife, of Kansas.
who had been been visiting their nephew,
Bert, left for home Tuesday.
While scuffling in the Wakefield liv.
cry barn Friday morning, Everett Smith
sprained one OF his anklesIso severely as
to necessitate the use of crutches.
The decision in the celebrated Inmon
vs. Wood boundary case has been rem.
dered in favor Of Mr.. Inmon, and the
corners thus established are being taken
as the bases for new surveys.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-12-05
IN CHEHALIS COUNTY
HAPPENINGS in ALL PARTS OF
The COUNTY.
Items of Interest From all Sections
Of Chehaiis County, Gathered by
aberdeen Herald Correspondents
and Cleaned From Our County
Exchanges.
MONTEyANO

o. H. Fry, OF Oakvilie. visited friends
in this city Tuesday.
Miss Anna Wampler returned Sunday
to her school in Tacoma.
Hon. J. r. O'Donnell returned to Ell.
ana Thursday, after few hours spent in
this city on business.
Mrs. ]. A. Phillips and daughter, Miss
Margaret, are at Tempo, Arizona, where
they will spend the wint.r.
A. Wilson was at the court house from
Oakville Wednesday, transacting busi-
ness at the auditors office.
Geo. w. Graham was in thescity on his
way to his dairy farm on the Wishkah,
With some new mich cows.
Miss Lillian Fleet has returned to Ia.
coma, where she is attending Whitworth
college, after spending Thanksgiving hol'
i]ays with her parents.
Mrs. II P. Waldron, the popular pro.
psietess of the Essex hotel and cottages
d Cohassett Beach, spent Friday in
Montesano visiting friends.
Attorney Charles w. Smith, who came
here few months ago from Salina, Kan
sas, and who has been assisting w. H.
Abel. has decided to locate permanently
in Foquiam.
Mrs. Guy Cheney and Geo. Lulham,
uho have been quite i'll with threatened
attacks of typhoid fever, are both much
better now and expect to be out again
in a'few days. p
The semi.anuual meeting OF District
No. s, 1. O. o. F., OF Rebekahs of Che
: halls county. met in Montesano Monday.
s. Delegates and others we're in attendance
1ron Elma, Oakville, Satsop. Aberdeen,
Hoquiam, Cosmopolis and Ocosta.
The Wynooche Lumber & Single
company, which filed Its certificate OF
increase OF capital stock from $4,000 to
$4,000, at the Office Of the county audi
tor Saturday, lie making arrangements to
secure large quantity OF cedar logs and
to install additional machinery, 90 as to
be in readiness to make steady run
shen the mill starts up again.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-12-05
1.-THE ROYAL CHEF"
Popular Musical Comedy at the Grand

Popular Musical Comedy at the Grand
Next Sunday.
1.-THE Royal Chef" which comes to the
Grand Theater next Sunday, holds the
record for the number of performances
in the city of Chicago. This musical
cocktail, as it is termed, has a run OF
IT'S performances to its credit also in
New York CITY. 1.-THE Chef" is undoubt.
eddy the most popular musical comedy
ever produced in Chicago. Despite the
fact that it run there $40 performances,
it was reproduced this last summer, and
throughout the excessive heat and strong
opposition, they did capacity business
for four weeks again this season. For
this seasons tour to the coast 1.-THE Chef"
is in excellent shape with new and
beautiful costumes, new scenery and
some new electrical effects have been in.
troduced. This is the only company and
the original one.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-12-05
OAKVILLE

Mrs. Jane Pearson was taken seriously
i'll at the family residence Wednesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Collier, OF Con.
ME, who have been very i'll, are getting
better.
Ernest Shelton, who had been in east.
ern Washington several months, has re-
turned home.
The recent rains have caused consider
able acti witty among the loggers, and
driving logs has been the "order of the
day."
The Rebekah lodge had initiation
Wednesday night. After close of lodge
a chicken supper was served in the din
ing room.
Ed. Oldfeld, Ed. Fitzgerald and Jo-
sephne Quigley, who had been :attend-
ing school on the Sound. returned home
for Thanksgiving.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-12-05
HOQUlAm

Charles Lenfesty is laid up with a bad
felOn on his hand,
Miss Wade has arrived from Oregon
and is visiting friends here.
Mrs. Smith, of Montesano, is visiting
her mother, Mrs Berg, in this city.
Mrs. Fred CHASER and son Freddie, OF
Spokane, are visiting relatives in the
city.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fritz Rebotski left Mon
day for an outing at Green River Hot
Springs.
Mrs. r. w. Hiligosss, OF Aberdeen,
spent Tuesday here, vieiting her sister,
Mrs. Holman.
Mrs. Ralph Philbrick is home from
Green River Hot Springs, where che has
. been the past five weeks.
Mrs. Loren Brewer has returned from
Alameda, Cal, where she went to attend
the wedding of Mics Edith Dent.
Contractors have commenced the erec-
fion Of the new Presbyterian church and
manse buildings in East Hoquiam.
Clarence Leedy left Tuesday for We
natchee, Wash. Mr.. Leedy was called
10 the bedside Of bis sister, who is seri.
onsly i'll.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-12-05

Mr.. and Mrs. w. f. Wamsley have re.
turned from California, after six months
absence. and have gone to housekeeping
in East Hoquiam.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kluckow, jr., en-
tertained their Sunday school classes
Monday evening, at their home on Elk.
lund avenue, in honor of their son >
Howard, it being his 18th birthday.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-12-05

All the news that's at % print Abee.
deem Semi-Weel1y Rssald. 600 Q ysa,.
Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-12-05

Made Her Feel Old.
II suppose l am past what my moth
er calls the FIRST flush Of YOUTH" said
the bachelor girl, "but l think shall
never feel older than l did one sum-
mer evening about five years ago. And
now the girl was in those days seems
absurdly young to the woman l am
now" And she sighed and was ST.
lent moment under the burden of her
years.
1T was that summer at Lake
George" she went on presently, "and
we were at the Greenes' cottage for q
couple Of weeks. Jack Greene was
home from college. and as he was the
only man and the only girl we nat
urally were thrown together constant
~. He was Just at the age to feel
himself vastly superior, somewhere
about nineteen. He had been growing
sentimental in a patronizing sort Of
way, and one evening after a semi
tender passage or two he abruptly ask
ed my age. I told him twenty-three.
He seemed stunned for a moment, and,
looking up. he studied me carefully In
the lamplight, then, shaking his head
sadly, pronounced his verdict:
"'My, but you are well preservedrs
Saturday Evening Post
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
NEW PLANT IN BRUNDIDaE.
waterwOrks And Lights For the
 People.


 Brundidge. Ala, Sept, 10--(Special)- The city of Brundidge will soon have a complete and up-to date system of water works and electric light plant
 The light plant Is completed and the lights were turned on for the first time last Wednesday night.
 For the present, pending the building of a side track to the plant for the delivery of coal. the lights will be on only until 9 o'clock J. A, Stewart, has had charge of the construction or the plant and the installation of the machinery, while the wiring was done by J. J. Denison, proprietor of the local telephone exchange.
 The tank material for the big tower has arrived and was placed on the ground several days ago.
 The stand pipe will be erected on College Hill. an elevation of perhaps forty feet above the city proper, and will be of about seventy thousand gal Ions capacity, affording a pressure of eighty or ninety pounds to the square inch.
 For water supply an artesian we'll has been bored which will afford water of the finest sort in an abundance.
 The two plants have cost the city something like &2O.0O0.
 s. W. Bowden, a sober, truthful, progressive citizen of Pike County. was in the city a few days ago and related his experience in killing forty-four rattle snakes a day or two previous. near his home few miles from Brun- didge. He found a large rattler by hollow log and killed 1t and chopping the log open he found a nest of young ones and killed all of them-forty-th in number
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-09-11
YOUNG PARKER DIES SELMA BOY sUCCUMBS TO TERRI
 BILE INJURIES. Death Due to Injuries Received in an Automobile Accident ln New Jersey several Months
 Ago

Selma. Sept. 10.-(Special.) )--At an in- hrmary today Harry Wright Parker, oldest son of MT. and Mrs. Isaac Par ker, died.
 Young Parker was about 21 years old and his untimely death was due to in juries which he received in an auto mobile accident near Trenton, N. J.. during the early spring. The young man was living near Trenton and one Saturday afternoon three friends and himself went for an automobile ride and to try a new car which one of the young men had just purchased. The merry party had gone only a short dis tance when the automobile went over an embankment throwing the four oc- cupants out The four were more or less injured but MT. Parker fell be- meath the big machine which rolled on him and broke his back besides injur- ing him otherwise.
 The young man was taken to an in- hrmary where he was confined for seV- eral weeks and as soon as he was strong enough his body was encased in plaster and the father started on the long journey from New Jersey bringing his son to his home here In Selma to die. as the best surgeons said he could not live.
 Since reaching Selma the young man has been carefully nursed and attended to in an inhrmary but his suffering, which was intense, has been borne he roically During the last few days he has been sinking rapidly and death which relieved him of his pain was wei eoma0.
 The funeral services of young Parker will take place from the residence of his parents on Washington Street to- morrow afternoon at 4;30 o'clock after which the body will be shipped to Mis- sissippi for interment