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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-27
GETS OPINIONS OF OUR CITIZENS
Pomeroy Minister Visits Pullman and
Interviews Citizens on Booze Question.

Rev. A. A. Doyle, pastor of the
congregational church of Pomeroy,
Washington, spent several days in
Pullman this week, during which
Time he gathered information from
the business men of Pullman concern
ing the prosperity of the town now, as
compared with the prosperity before
tne liquor licenses were revoked by
the city council.
cannot give all the information
'hat have received without betraying
certain amount of confidence that
was extended to me, " said Rev. Doyle
"hen interviewed. However, it seems
" oe the concensus of opinion from
al persons | have conferred with,
n'ose favoring the liquor license and
muse opposed, that the town has in nc
way suffered, nor has the volume of
business leasened.
Pomeroy is town of fifteen hun
tleu, We have there five saloons. AT
e July election we will vote on this
question; Shall the city of Pomeroy
1Oa'ihue -. niue the license system after April
.a .a'' 1902 The voter is required to
say yes or no
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-27
Edifice Now Being Erected will be One
of the Best in Eastern Washington.
CORNERSTONE LAID LAST MONDAY AFTERNOON
Members of Masonic Lodge Assist in Ceremony. Rev
NJ H. Marvin Makes Splendid Address Before
Large Audience

The new Methodist Episcopal church
now under construction in Pullman,
the cornerstone of which was laid last
Monday, will be, when finished, one
of the most splendid edifices of the
kind in eastern Washington. The
contractors in charge Of the building,
Messrs. Glaze and Larson, have been
rushing the building at a commendable
rate during the spring months that
have past, and it is expected that be-
fore snow flies, the new church will
be ready to receive the Methodist con-
gregation.
The stonework is of broken blue
basalt built in the cashier" style,
and the architecture is gothic. The
building will have a large basement,
7Ox70 feet in size. The large lecture
room will be 30x36, and the library
apartment will be 202x0. In addition
to these apartments, there will be four
large Sunday School rooms.
The main floor of the auditorium is
45x50. The arrangement is to be such
that by throwing back large folding
doors, the main audience room can be
connected with the large lecture room
just mentioned On this floor, also,
will be the pastors study, and the
choir loft just back of the pulpit; a
choir room, two classrooms, and a pri-
mary department, making practically
three classrooms. The entrance room
will be spacious one, 12X12 feet.
One of the most commendable fea-
lures of the building is the large num-
ber of exits that could be used in case
Of an emergency. Large doors will be
put in at each of the four corners of
the building. The main entrance in
the south side of the building opens
into a large hall, in which are en-
frances to the class room, the choir
room down in the basement, and to
the auditorium. In the basement is a
kitchen, 24x18, and dining hail. 32X
30. The building will hold from six
to seven hundred persons.
The building will be well lighted
and ventilated. The largest of the
windows will be twelve feet wide, and
fourteen feet nigh. Another large
window will be ten feet high, by twelve
wide. There are a large number of
other windows, all of which are fash
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-27
Horticulture Made Separate Depart
ment With Thornber at Its Head.

There were five graduates from that
department this year, and there are
five candidates for graduation in the
horticultural division next year. This
year there were fifteen graduates from
the combined departments Of agricul-
ture and horticulture. This number
of graduates in proportion to the mem
bers of the institution, is not exceeded
by any other school IN the United
States. Almost five hundred people
have received instruction in one or
another of the agricultural classes dur
ing the present year. In view of
these facts, and the great and increas-
ing Importance of Horticulture in the
state. the Board of Regents deemed it
wise to erect this part of the institu-
tion into distinct department. 1t
may be that this division was hastened
somewhat by the fact that Professor
Thornber, who has now completed four
years of service as college horticultur-
ist, has lately been offered the head
ship of hhet department of horticulture
at the Michigan Agricultural College.
1t was thought that he was too galu-
able a man, in view of the horticul-
tural interests of this state, to lose at
the present time. 1t is believed that
such a division will weaken in no way
the great work that is being done in
the purely agricultural side of the
subject"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-27

81 think that Pomeroy is handling
this question with better judgment
than it has been handled in Pullman,
from what can learn. Here, | be-
lieve, the citizens voted for wet
and dry council. 1t was understood,
if | am not mistaken. that if the
'drys' won. they would refuse to Ii
cense a liquor business, and if they
lost. the business would continue.
"By handling the problem this way
YOU have created distrust between the
rival candidates, and among their re-
spectiye supporters. In this way you
involve all the citizens of the town,
who vote, in a personal broil, which
developes personalities in the same
ratio that the interest in the election
increases. Hence. you are bound to
engender resentment among many
people.
"In Pomeroy, we will vote on the
question, and not for or against any
candidate. In that way we hope to
exclude the element of personal feeling
from the contest to the extent that
find it present in Pullman.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-27

ioned in the attractive gothic style,
and will amply light the large auditor
ium room, the class rooms, and the
other apartments which will be useC
by the congregation.
Viewed from a distance, the church
will have somewhat of the appearance
of the monastic buildings of the "olC
country" in which the high towers
and artistic stonework, and gothic
forms of architecture are so pleasing
There will be a tower one hundred and
twelve feet high, which is barely ex.
ceeded in height by the clock tower OF
the auditorium and library building
of the college.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-27

tween five and six thousand dollars.
This makes $16, 700 for College Park.
On Faculty Hill.
On Faculty Hill, dwellings, and i'm
provements to dwellings, are being
built by Henry Baird, J. A. Folger,
rrofe ssor Solon Shedd, Mr.. Miller, c.
=. Price, II. A. Glaze, Mrs. Clara
all, Mrs r. Yeo, Rev Willard H.
foots, Milton Hooper, w. A. Cave,
srs. Mary f. Wills, Thomas Ellis,
snd j. Brooks. which Will mean an
expenditure of approximately $31, $50.
hen there is to be added to this
,v.aount, $4,000, the approximate cost
X the new student club h0dst =:
Maiden Lane, which is being built by
the Pullman Improvement Company
and S25, 900, which is an estimate of
the total cost of the new Methodist
church. The total improvement in
buildings on Faculty Hill is therefore
about &66, $50.
In the Business District.
On Sunnyside Mrs. H. Stevens is
building a handsome residence, an es-
innate on which is So, 600. On Mill
tary Hill, Mr.. Weir is erecting a
structure, probably costing $500, Or
better. In the business part of Pull
man, Improvements now in progress,
and intended improvements on the
Star and Palace livery barns, the j.
P. Duthie lumber yard, on the Toggery
building by Mr.. RupIy, and the the
Realty Block building will amount to
very little, if any, less than $I2, 300.
On Methodist Hill, J. f. BaymiIler
is erecting an attractive residence at
an expenditure of 50, 900, or there
abouts, and Frank Smith is making
improvements which represent $500 or
a little more. Exact total, $423, $50.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-27

rest of Sam Saxton. Walter Freshney,
Floyd Shafer, Loyal Branham and p.
G. Bickford, all charged with the IL
legal sale of intoXicants within the
city Of Pullman, and the first four
promptly pleaded guilty, Saxton being
flned SIS; Freshney, $50; and Shafer
and Branham SOS each. Bickford en-
tered plea Of not guilty, and at a
hcaring before the police judge. was
found guilty and fined $25. A second
case against Mr. Bickford will be
heard next Tuesday. Mr.. Bickford
offered no testimony in his own behalf,
having filed an affidavit of prejudice,
and asked for a change Of venue, the
change being denied by the justice.
lhe Bickford case has been appealed
10 the superior court.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-27
WELL-KNOWN CITIZEN IS DEAD
Valentine Wilson Passes Away at His
Home in College Park Addition.

couple started for Suisun City, Cali
fornia, via New York. They crossed
the Isthmus of Panama, and from
there went by steamer to San Fran
cisco.
In San Francisco Mr.. and Mrs. Will
son lived for eleven years, during
which time deceased was in the livery
business, and helped install the city
waterworks. In 1880 they moved to
Sonoma county. California, where
they were engaged in farming for
about nine years. In 1880, accom-
panied by Mr.. Walter Davis, who at
present has his home in Pullman, they
jouneyed by wagon to Whitman
county. In 1881 he returned to Cali
fornia, and in the same year returned
north with his family, this time
their bjectiye point being Walla Walla
county. In the Eureka country Mr..
Wilson engaged in farming until 1890,
when he and his wife moved to Waits
burg to educate their children. In
1903 they came to Pullman, and since
then have resided in this town.
Surviving the deceased are his wife,
Eliza Anne Tracy Wilson, of Pull
man; G. B. Wilson, of Suisun, CAL,
A. C. Wilson, l. E. Wilson, V. l..
Wilson, s. G. Wilson, all now living
in San Francisco, CAL, Stella Wilson,
Pullman, and CASTOR Wilson, of st.
Tobn
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-27

A change in the organization of the
agricultural department of the State
College was authorized by the Board
of Regents at their recent meeting,
which in the opinion of the college au-
thorities is made necessary by the rap
idly growing horticultural interests of
the state, and the growth of the horti-
cultural department at the college.
Heretofore horticulture has been di-
vision of the department of agriculture.
Under the new arrangement, the hor-
ticultural division is made a depart
ment separate from the agricultural
department, with Professor w. S.
Thornber as its head. President Bry-
an today discussed the reasons for the
change:
"For many years the attendance
upon the department of horticulture
was extremely small. During the
first ten years of its existence, there
were but few graduates. AS a division
of the department of agriculture, the
horticultural department has grown
most wonderfully. The wonderful de-
velopment of Washington as horti-
cultural state, and the deep interest
that prevails in this important line Of
farm industry, has led to a great in
crease in the horticultural division.
During the past year there were more
than two hundred students studying
horticulture, more than forty Of which
were in the collegiate departments.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-27

Valentine Wilson, a well known
resident of this city, and one of the
earliest pioneers Of eastern Washing
ton. died at his home in College Park
last Wednesday. Deceased had been
suffering for several months from d
complication of i'll health, incurred
chiefly by the physical infrmities of
old age. Death occurred quite unex-
pectedly at 10 20 in the forenoon, in
the presence Of near relatives and
friends. A brief service was held at
the home Of deceased in the afternoon,
and on Thursday morning the remains
were sent to Waitsburg for interment,
accompanied by CASTOR and Stella
Wilson, daughter and son Of the de-
parted, and their bereayed mother,
Mrs. Eliza Wilson.
Valentine Wilson was born October
10th, 1929, in Floyd county, Virginia,
and at the age Of ten, moved to Garth
age, Illinois. There he grew to early
manhood, and when twenty three years
old was engaged in a mercantile busi-
ness in that city.
In 1852 he crossed the plains with
a team Of oxen, his objective point be-
ing Hangtown, California. After
being in the mining district for seven
years, he returned to Carthage in
1859. and on March z8th, of the fol-
lowing year, married Eliza Anne Tracy,
the present widow of deceased. On
the day of their marriage, the welded
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1908-06-27
Friday, July 3.

FRIDAY, July s.
80 a. m. Judging stock awarding
premiums.
10 a.m.-Band selection.
Address Hon. II. M. Boone.
Paper on Rural Telephones.
Address-Hon. Lee A. Johnson.
Recitation-Miss Lorena Peterson.
Band selection.
] 30 p. m. Band selection.
Address Hon. VIM. Goodyear.
Recitation-Mrs. Emma Kellogg.
Address Hon. M. f. Field.
Band selection.
3 3p.m.-Gingham and Calico Dress
contest.
A pm, Pulling match, horses under
1900 pounds John Sanborn, 500.
Girls race, II yrs. or over; 1st,
$l.50: End, 75c.
Boys footrace, 200 yards; 1st,
81. 50; End, $1.25
Saturday, July d.
10 80 a, m. Address.
Recitation Prof. Nolan.
80 pm. Address by Rev. M. H.
Marvin.
Recitacion-Miss Lorena Peterson.
2:30 pm. Baby show.
3 pm. Stock parade
$3.50 pm. Sports.
Boys free for all footrace; 1st, So;
End, 81.
Girls footrace. free for all: 1st, 50;
2nd, 81.
Shoe race, so yds, boys under IS;
lst, Star Bottling Works, case soda
water, $5; End, Star Bottling Works,
case soda water, $3.50.
200 yd dash for boys; 1st, First
National Bank, savings bank with SO;
End, Grange. 81,
200 yd dash for girls; 1st, First
National Bank, savings bank with So;
End, Grange, 81.
Pulling match, horses 1900 pounds
or over; Grange, $25.
Announcing awards in Dairy Con-
test.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-17
LARGEST GAVE PRESERVE.
Graduate OF Vale Is Conducting II on
Scientific Principles.

Chicago. - Blue Mountain park,
which lies in the western part of New
Hampshire, few miles from the
Connecticut river, in Newport, Croy.
don, Grantham, Plainsiield, Cornish
and Claremont townships, is the
largest and most complete game pre-
serve in the world II was founded
by the late Austin Corbin, the New
York banker and railroad president,
who was native Of this place. He
purchased &c farms, with a total of
about $4,000 acres, about 90 years
ago; inclosed the entire territory with
2S miles of nine-foot wire fence, and
stocked II with wild boar Imported
from Germany, American elk, moose,
deer and buffalo and let them run wild
and breed. All OF the animals have
to take care OF themselves the year
round except the buffalo, which num-
Der $50. They arc taken up in the
winter kept in corrals and fed on
hay. II is claimed to be the largest
pure blooded herd of buffalo, except
the Pueblo herd in Montana which
was recently sold to the Canadian
government and numbered about 300.
The preserve is In charge of Blaine
s. Viles, graduate of the Yale for
estry school, who is cutting out the
old timber and planting new and con
Quoting affairs on scientific principles,
thus furnishing an object lesson for
the benefit of other timber owners in
New Hampshire. He has built 80
miles of road, and the pubic are ad-
mitted upon passes furnished to those
who apply at the office Range riders
visit every part of the park daily,
looking after the animals and fences,
and sees that everything Is right No
fires are allowed, and rules have been
adopted for the government of Wis
itors. The park Is intended for the
perpetual pleasure of the public and
for breeding large game. II is intend
ed to be the most extensive and COM
plete game preserve In the world.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-17
DANCE WITH LIVE SNAKES.
An Indian Custom That Is Suppooed
to Ering Good Crops.

Groups of three are now formed
by the snake men, each group con
sisting of carrier priest, an at
tcndant and a gatherer and these
wait their turn in front of the kisi,
where the snakes are handed to the
carrier priest. Soon all the dancers
ARE furnished with reptiles, and,
holding the uquirming snakes in their
teeth, they dance slowly and with
closed eyes around the plaza.
The carrier priest is followed by
the attendant, who holds snake
whip with which he dslracts the
snake and so diverts it's attention
satherer is always ready to snatch
up the snakes when they are dropped
TO the ground.
] have often noticed rattlcsnakes
held closer to the rattles than to the
head, SO they could easily run their
carrier priest. 1t was nervous work
watching them, for IL often appeared
as II nothing could prevent fatal
strike, but the priests never seemed
10 be unnorved or disconnected in the
least, and the programme is never
changed.
After the plaza has been circled
twice with each cnake, it Is dropped
to the ground, the shock of the fall
being violent enough usually to cause
the rattler to coil and shake it's rat
ties. Then the gatherer, with few
strokes of his feather whip, reduces
1t to submission, picks It mp and
hands it to one of the antelope men
to hold.
When all the snakes have been
danced with, each one receiving the
same treatment, the head snake priest
strews meal In a circle at one side
Of the floor, and the snake priests
all gather around it. Then at given
signal, all the snakes arc thrown
within the circle, where they are
sprinkled with sacred meal by num-
bers of Hopi maidens.
Then another signal is given, and
the snake priests swoop down, grab
up as many snakes as they can carry
and rush down the Sides of the steep
mesa to the plains below to release
the snakes in certain sacred places
SO that they may carry the prayers
from the living to the dead, and the
ancestors of the Hopi may intercede
for them with the nature gods that
there may be plenty of rain and no
danger of the crops being destroyed
by drought.-The Craftsman.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-17
BEES SWARM. ON A Can.
lioney-Makers Take a Long Ride With
Load Of Watermelons.

Cincinnati Frank Bowers, con.
ductur on the ST. Louis division of the
Big Four, brought into the Bnghtwood
ya"ds a cargo On No 30 for which
there was no bill Of lading.
On top of a =. e o. box car, picked
up somewhere IN the southwest, and
loaded With watermelonG, was a whole
suarn of bees about the largest
swarm anybody in Brightwood yards
had ever seen.
For two hours w. 3. Screes, 2G22
School street, and Douglas Bills, tried
% coax those bees from the box car,
but they failed. The trouble lay in
their inability to attract the queen
Jea. This lady retreated farther and
farther as they pursuad her. the shy
2sf little lady ever seen, Finally the
top Of tho COR was taken Off Then
.ho queen crawled into tie crack be-
tween the lining ana the outer wall of
tho Ger. The industrious wardmen had
to give up tho han, and allow the car
to carry The bees on to Gallon, o.,
whittier the melons are consigned.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-17
Eyes Are Hereditary.

The British Association is asking
the public to cooperate in hunting
down secret of which some fasci.
mating hints have just been discover
cd. The difficulty of Investigation Is
no more than noting down the color
of the eyes Of the family. In the light
Of science there arc only two sorts
of eyes-blue and not blue. Hence
appears strange law of heredity.
1t Is asserted that where both par.
ents have blue eyes, all the children
have blue eyes; where both parents
have brown eyes, all the children
have brown eyes; but it is where the
parents differ that this alleged law Of
horcdlty is most surprising. In. this
case brown eyes are said to be doml.
nant, and blue eyes reeessiye, so that
the children of mixed parents three
of every four will have brown eyes
and one blue.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-17
LOCAL
EV EN- rs

The Big -Four road will change
Its time table next Sunday. Trains
Ia and II will be annulled.
The Athletic Association of the
Marion High School will hold a
sale of home made baking at the
Charles Turner grovery Saturday
the proceeds to go to the benefit
of the association.
Elizabeth, the little daughter OF
Rev and Mrs. Clarence Hensel, OF
south High street, Is reported as
being very much improved today.
The child isl Ill of chicken pox,
boIdening on pneumonia.
Hon. Charles Il. Llkens' will de-
liver an address in the Martel
school house next Monday night OH
thd subject estate Capitalization
OF CQmmon Schools. >, A general
distussion will follow the lecture.
Everybody ds invited to attend
There will be no collection taken.
Absolutely free.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-17
An Anoadoto Of a Wet Year.

A Belfast tMaine) man recalls tha.
his year is the fortieth anniversary
# the wet summer when Belfast
lcstponed part OF It's big Fourth OF
laly celebration to August Z. Many
a2es in The state had planned foI
demonstrations on the Fourth. but
ain interlered, and some towns had
It on the instalment Ran, Belfast
among the number. The season was
so wet that on low lands on many
arms the hay was cut and stacked on
he driest place that could be found
and hauled off after the ground froze
"a the winter.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-17
Drop DpIeasen to Save Zine.

Philadelphia, = Hereafter the 45o
girl operators OF the Keystone Tele-
phone company win not say please"
to the subscribers who have been re.
quested not to say please" to the op.
orators A. j. Ulrioh, traffic manager,
says the girls in answering calls and
the patrons In making them use the
word 100000 times every "a hours.
Estimating that 1t requires half Sec
ond 10 say the word. 1900 minutes arc
consumed every "a hours. making an
aggregate q i25 hours lost
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-01-17

AGED WOMAN
BADLY BURNED
e sirNo1hy t0.h
81 Fious Accident Results
Il hu Near Agosta.
ClO1uES CATCHES FIRE
Mrs. Benjamin Bickel is Dy-
ing as Result.
The Husband Rushes to the Rescue
and 10 Severely Burned in Efforts
to Smother Flames.

Burned almost to death before
her husband Is eyes was Mrs. Ben
jsmin Bickel, aged 66 of Agosta,
when her clothes became ignted
Friday morning, from the Goals
on the hearth of an old box stove.
She now lies at her home, two
miles northeast OF Agosta, In a
critical condition.
The aged lady had arisen early
ard built roaring fire in a large
box stove, which was used in heating
the Living room. She was busily
engaged in dressing before the
warm fire when the cruel accident
occurred. In building the fire she
had scraped some live Goals out
on the hearth. She stopped over to
pick up one of her shoes when her
shirts fell on the hearth and quick
1, became ignited. Almost hike
flash she was eneloped in flames
MIR. Bickel was just entering the
room when the flames broke out.
He hurried to the assistance of his
aged wife but the flames were so
fierce that they beat him back. He
then secured pail upon pail of
water and dashed it over the
shrieking woman and fiDally sue
ceeded tn extinguishing the fire.
Tie victim was terribly burned
about the lower limbs, arms and
chest. The flesh on her left limb
vas burned to brown crisp as
was also her arms.
DIR. II. o. Ogden of Agosta, was
summoned and everything possible
was: effected to relieve the woman IS
horrible sufferings. Owing to her
advance age and the severe burns,
the physician entertains but very
little hopes for her recovery.
Mr.. Blckeb was also seriously
burned In his efforts to extinguish
tie fire. His long flowing beard
was burned completely Off and his
hair was badly singed. The flesh
on his hands and arms was simply
CT oked.
This Is the second horrible mis-
fortune that has befe, the family
within the past few months. Several
weeks ago a son was killed by
Rig -Four train near LaRue and the
parents had scarcely recovered from
the shock OF his sudden death.
The accident occurred at FIVE
clock Friday morning. AT y
o'clock in the afternoon it was re-
ported that the victim was dying.