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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-04-17
Pacific Northwest Best.

Were it not ssor the fact that
my avocation makes it necessary
for me to reside in the National
capital, " said Frederick J. Haskin.
the famous foreign correspondent
an contributor to forty OF the great
est metropolitan papers in the Unit
ed States, Il would choose the
Pacific Northwest for my home. In
no section Of the world with which
l am familiar is the reward of effort
so sure, life so wholesome and de-
lightful. s.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-04-17
DESERT LAND, FINAL PROOF
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

United States Land Office. Walla
Walla. Wash, March !, 1903
Notice il hereby given that George
+. Zurcher, OF kiona, Washington,
has filed notice Of intention to make
proof on his desert. claim No. 40, for
the SEX Mex, Lots % 4. Sec. IA. II.
10 ~, K. % f., before the Register 4
Receiver at Walla Walla, Wash, on
Friday, the oath day of April. 1908.
He names the following witnesses
to prove the complete irrigation and
reClama ton of said land:
w. A. kelso, of kiOna, Wash,
Rollie NJ. Lythle, of Kiona, WASH,
Selie hanson, Of Richland. Wash.
A. n. Brown, Of PascO, Wash.
A. j. Gillis,
Register.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-04-17

Try tack OF Yakima Best Flour.
Guaranteed the best in the State.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1908-04-17
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Interior. Land
Office at Walla Walla, Wash April
6, 1903.
Notice is hereby given that Charles
kitzman, for the heirs Of Otto
kitzman, deceased, Of kennewick.
WASH, has filed notice OF his
Int emit to make final
five year proof in support of his claim
viz: Homestead Entry No. 1919 made
July II, 1901, for the SWH Section 8,
Township ~, Range 30 f., and that
said proof will he made before the
Register and Receiver ut Walla Wal'a
WASH, on June l, 1908.
He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence up
on, and cultivation of the land, viz:
VIM. SmOlley, Chas. Rand. VIM
Price, G. c. Seal, all of kennewick.
Wash. A. }. Gillis,
Register
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11

trol of the government because the Senate is republican and will remain republican during the next four years. If MT. Taft should be elected he would but continue, to some extent at least, the Roosevelt regime unless indeed the House of Representatives should be controlled by the democrats. when he, too, would lack control of legisla- ton.
 The crops should be the controlling factor in the business world. These are seen now to be neither great nor small. They are of good average size and prices of agricultural products are to be reasonably high. While the crops should alone be con- in the business world yet they will not be- Custom has rendered bus mess men and investors cautious in the closing weeks of political eam' paign, and custom, like history, is in the habit of repeating itself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
Dannded Pine Lands

The cut-over pine lands constitute an interesting problem in this and other southern states. All of these states have vast areas from which the timber has been taken, and these areas are being rapidly increased. The agri- cultural uses to which these areas can be put relate therefore to the prosper ity and development of this section of the country. Large extents of these lands are returned for tax purposes at s1 an acre.
 In Florida, however, they are bring ing the denuded lands to a high degree of productivity, largely through the cultivation of vegetables and of fruits. The experiment station of Mississippi at McNair has shown that the treeless lands can be rendered productive, and a lumber company at Bonami, in Cal casieu parish, Louisiana, is demon- strating on a tract of 406 acres that fruit trees can be profitably grown where pine trees once lowered high in the air This company has placed among the stumps 29,000 fruit trees, and it hopes in 1909 to supplant theory with ascertained facts and figures. Some stumps have been pulled by the lumber company at Bonami, but the fruit trees planted among the stumps are doing as well as are those placed where the stumps had been pulled. It takes about two years of cultivation to get the wild element out of the land, and in that time the stumps are decay ing and in few more years they can easily be removed. They can indeed be left to go back in their own way to the soil
 Our Alabama forestry commission has decided to have map of all tracts covered with standing timber made, and committee consisting of J. A. Wilkinson, J. 5. Powell and John H. Wallace, Jr., has been appointed to confer with owners of denuded lands with a view to inducing them to avail themselves of the exemptions that the forestry law of this state offers to those who will grow trees. All cut over lands and all other lands worth less than S5 an acre may be exempted from taxation for ten years by an agreement on the part of owners to plant trees which are not to be cut in ten years. An owner could in this way cover tract with paper-shell oceans, for example and while they are grow ing to productivity he would be paying no taxes on either land or trees.
 The subject Is one that should con- mand wide attention in this state, for through the advantage of tax exemp- ton way is opened to bring back to use and profit our vast scopes of de- nuded lands. The forestry commission should endeavor to bring the matter before the land owners in every county in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
Great Flights In Two Countries

The wonderful flights of Oryille Wright at Fort Myer, coming simul- taneously with the flights of Leon Dela- grange at Issy, near Paris, absolutely establishes the feasibility of aerial navigation in heavier-than-air ma chimes. The aeroplanes will now be developed, but development will sim ply render assurance doubly sure. The fact that such machines can fly in the air, and can stay in the air consider able periods and that while they are in the air they are under control in good weather at any rate is now fully
 demonstrated, fully assured. The work
 of Orville Wright on Wednesday at
 Fort Myer has brought mankind in close rivalry with the birds. We have
 long been able to compete with the fore the birds have held monopoly Or 
 the atmospheric world five miles deep. Development and improvement are 1 now in order, and each year will no
 doubt bring aerial flights nearer the | commercial stage. The gasbag is prac- tically dismissed as thing alike clumsy and dangerous, and the heavier l than-air machine has come to stay. | Count Zeppelin's experiments with | huge gasbags are outclassed by the aeroplanes that the Wright brothers and Henri Farman and Leon Della grange have brought before the people of America and France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
THE COAL TRADE.

From the Knoxville Journal and Tribune.
 The end of the Birmingham coal strike will divert some of the coal business which has been coming this way during the past few weeks. The greater part of this coal, however, has been that which the Southern railway has required for use in its engines and 1t never has reached an enormous proportion. The Southern has not yet placed orders for it's coal with the Birmingham mines, but it is pre- sumed that during the week such mines as supply coal for the road will be ready to resume contract obligations.
 During recent days, under an impress sion that the Birmingham strike would continue for some time, the coal operators of this section have been working the Birmingham market territory more ac- lively than eyer. but with the announce ment of the end of the strike a majority of these agents have been called into strictly Knoxville territory.
 A steady improvement in the market for coal Is being felt. Domestic coal has been most active and commercial load ings have been picking up slowly. The coal operators are very hopeful concern ing the outlook. They do not expect any great killing in the way of business dur ing the fall, but they do expect a healthy improvement and tone that will be cal culated to make them feel that they are On the upward move and gaining every day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
Permanent Exhibit of HOme-Mads Goods

The state fair of next month will serve the district well if it leads to permanent exhibits of the products, mineral and industrial, of this district. The very fact that exhibitors are to get up exhibits that will remain before the public a whole year will cause them to take universal care in their preparation. This of itself is an assur- ance that the coming fair will outrank all of it's predecessors.
 It is known, too, that the live stock exhibits are to be this year unusually numerous and unusually fine, and that the amusements will be varied and at tractive. Manager Barnes is an ex- pert in gathering exhibits, and he has this year set before himself the task of exceeding all similar effort in this state. President Exum and the directors of the fair are supporting him in every possible way, and The Age Herald feels justified in saying to Its readers that a greater and better fair is promised than has ever before been put before the people of this state.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
THE NEWSPAPER TRADE.

From the Kansas City Times.
 There is a new news editor in the Chi cago office of the Associated Press and some of the facts of his career of prepara- ton for the responsible post he occupies should be of interest to newspaper read CTS The new news editors name is Harry L. Beach and his experience is not extraordinary among those of the picked men of American Journalism, yet it is worth noting because it is suggestive of the energy. resourcefulness and courage that characterize the daily task of pro- yiding the news that the reader receives with as little wonderment as attends his hearing a church bell ring or watching a summer shower.
 MT. Beach was born in Iowa, and he reported for the Chicago News, Tribune, Times and Globe before he joined the staff of the Associated Press in 1892.
 He was one of the Associated Press staff in Cuba during the war with Spain. He witnessed the three days of land fight ing in front of Santiago; and his mar ratives, which were carried by the As sociated Press dispatch boats to the Ja- maican cable, for transmission to New York contributed largely to the reputa- tion gained by the service in covering the main events of the war He witnessed and prepared the report of the land fight ing by the marines at Guantanamo bay, during which engagement he received bullet wound in the face, after pressing unexpectedly upon force of Spanish sol- diers.
 He personally witnessed the burning of the Iroquois theatre at Chicago in Decem- Der, 1903, and entering the burning struc- ture during the panic was able to indicate accurately in an early bulletin the awful death roll. He prepared copy of nearly 14,000 words that night which passed over the Associated Press wires as fast as he wrote it.
 The great flood at Mobile, in September, 19O5 occurred while Mir Beach was re- porting the race riots in Atlanta He took train to Montgomery, and thence by wrecking train to Hurricane, Ala, reaching there at o'clock in the morn- ing. From there into Mobile he walked and waded through the flooded district, distance of p miles, arriving there at ? o'clock In the afternoon. He obtained the Ilrst tull story or the disaster, and taking a train to Meridian, 200 miles north, succeeded finally in reaching a telegraph wire in time 10 handle the story for the morning papers.
 During the national political conventions of 19O0 1904 and 1908 he has been one of the principal writers of the running or sketch report of the proceedings of the conventions.
 There Is another sidelight on the news paper trade in the circumstance by which MT. Beach became news editor in the Chi cago office. Ills predecessor, Gustavus P English, who had held the post for 15 years died one hour after reaching his home from the recent Denver convention. Overwork at the convention had given the finishing stroke to what might otherwise have been an unimportant Illness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
HOTELS OF EUROPE.
With All Their Excellencies They Are
 Behind Those of America.
the Baltimore American.

From the Baltimore American.
 q must confess that I don't like the hotels of continental Europe despite their admitted excellencies.'' said Col E. G. Buckner of Wilmington, Del.
 'I was in Switzerland lately for three weeks, and the hotels of that country are about as good as Europe affords. Nevertheless, I did not get used to them, and don't believe I'd ever really like them. No hotel seems to me as operated on right principles where the porter is about the most important parsonage in the establishment. This is the case in all the Swiss places. After that functionary shows you to room than an elegantly dressed individual in-silk hat and frock coat comes upstairs for a solemn confer ence. He is the clerk. but wise enough looking to be a judge advocate general, and you breathe sigh of relief when he departs
 Another thing I would never get used to is the lack of a lobby. None of the Swiss hotels. except at Lucerne. have one, and if you wish to smoke you gen. orally go outdoors. Their little limitations of breakfast where you get nothing ex- cept rolls and a cup of coffee, didn't suit my American taste either. but it's a stupendous task to make those Swiss caterers provide you with good sub stantial United States breakfast. The cooking is first rate, and prices bit more moderate than in this country.
 The entire system of eating all through Switzerland Is table d'hote. Breakfast is usually 40 cents lunch 50 cents, and dinner s1 20, but at dinner they bring on course after course till you wonder if 1t will ever end. It is fact that they will often serve you five different kinds of meat each as separate and independent course, and then. perhaps, along will come a dish of beans without any ac- companying food, and next to that, as like as not. a plate of ice cream. The serving of all these courses is conducted with mighty formality, and at the end of each there is loud tap of bell to inform the waiter that new act IS on and to clear away the dishes.
 "All in all. take my word for it, the hotels of this country have got all similar institutions of foreign lands beat to an ignominious fragile"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
Business and Politics

The banks are bulging with money. This money will, however, stay in the banks until after the November cleo tion. What has occurred in previous presidential years will occur this year. No great commitments will become known, no large enterprises started, until after the day of ballots in Novem- Der. As that event is but six or seven weeks away the business world will not have long to wait.
 It is indeed strange that this should be so this year because no full change in political control is possible in the coming election. If MT. Bryan should be elected President he and the demo- cratic party would not sain full con
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
HOTEL TALE OF TWO CITIES.

From the New York World.
 London hotels are experiencing a period of depression. Shares in great establish ments are quoted at discounts of 50 per cent and more and the spirits of proprie- tors are down correspondingly. Excess sive competition Is the stated cause of hotels. NO more enterprises of this kind" says one director, should be con- templated for 10 years"
 To observers in New York, where great hotels apparently cannot be built fast enough, this seems like a strange state of affairs. It points however, merely to a characteristic difference between the worlds two chief metropolitan centers
 London is, in the sphere of activity to which the hotels belong, city of a sea son. It's landlords must look for their prosperity to that time of year when so ciety and the tourists are in town-par ticularly the tourists. Then may they fill their rooms and their tables. In New York on the other hand there is no absolutely dull season for the hotels. This city is a summer resort for thousands of people from the west and south; the spring and autumn bring buyers and sightseers in droves; in winter society is at home part of 1t in hotel apartments. and visitors on business and pleasure bent do not cease to pour in by boat and train New York catches even coming and going that very army of American tourists which is an annual blessing to Europe
 London is England in such fashion as New York never can be America. But the British capital is not, as its American sister is, the gateway to a continent and the play center and commercial capital at once of a nation of travellers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
SAYS NAPOLEON WAS A HOBO.

Montclair Dispatch to New York Times.
 You're not tramp you can make q living as a campaign orator" said Ser- geant McGarry of the Montclair police, as he dismissed the charge of yagrancy against John Huffledinger, who had been arrested by Policeman Mulligan. Sergeant McGarrys estimate of the prisoners quail ihcations was reached after he had tried for 10 minutes to get in question edge ways during a rapid-fire discourse by Huffledinger.
 The prisoner when informed that he had been arrested for vagrancy, began a discourse that took up the history of tramp life from away back in the middle ages. He was a scholarly talker, and he pointed to Napoleon as an illustrious predecessor of the modern hobo. Na- poeon, Huffledinger declared, had tramped all over Europe, and was arr rested only at Moscow and Waterloo. Huffledinger promised to get out Of town when the sergeant discharged him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
One Mans Gratitude.


 '"rhe oft-repeated declaration that great corporations are heartless is absolutely false,. as I have good reason to know said young man who is employed by one of the biggest corporations in the United States last night.
 "I have recently had some trouble of purely personal nature. It had no con nection whatever with the corporation by which I am employed in purely clerical capacity The officers of the concern had no special reason to take an interest in my affeairs; yet was not forgotten
 Though l was forced to be away from my place for number of weeks, my job was held open for me during all that time.
 More than this, the officers of the com pany took unaccountable interest in my troubles and helped me in every way they could Now, there is nothing in my power that l would not do for that corporation It held out a helping hand to me when 1 needed it and yet had no call on it.
 The public may say all it pleases about the heartlessness of the big corpora tions. but my eyes have been opened
 "The employe who does his duty and makes himself useful to his employer will be taken care of, no matter how small the man or how big the concern"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
Mir. Taft's Campaign Anxiety

The Springfield Republican is sup porting in an independent manner the candidacy of MT. Taft. It is, however, moved to say that "the plain truth seems to be that MT Bryan in the first part of September is running stronger than seemed possible early in July, and that the Taft campaign has no more than begun to get up the steam necessary to make 1t victorious. Every political observer admits that the dem- ocratic candidate has been favored by B better start than his opponent" After considering the case up one side and down the other the Republican reaches the conclusion that "a narrow margin of victory" is all that the present out look offers MT. Taft.
 The republican party, in short, is scared, and so is Mr Taft. At the opening of the campaign MT. Taft free
 
 ly stated that he intended to initiate MT Mckinley and MT. Roosevelt by staying at home. He declared that he would not enter upon an undignified speaking tour. But all such declara- tions have been forgotten, and Candi- date Taft is now billed to make a speaking tour after the manner of MT. Bryan; except that in force and ora tory it will be long ways after.
 There is but one conclusion about this. MT. Taft sees that public senti- ment has been running against him. His political managers see it if Mr. Taft does not, and an effort is to be made before the people to stem and turn it. This is why MT. Taft is going on the stump. A rear platform toul is not to his taste, but the decree has gone forth that MT Taft is to become a vote seeker of that sort. It is Hob sons choice in his case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
The Iron Market.

The Birmingham pig iron market con tinues firm, but without special features It is not very active, but inquiries for 1909 delivery are becoming animated. NO schedule of quotations has been deter mined; some sales agents are inclined to think improved conditions will warrant a sl350 market on a No. basis while others are talking about SIS. Rogers, Brown & Coos Cincnnati report says:
 .'The week has been quiet, compared with some of it's predecessors, due to the holiday 'break-in. Evidence Is all to- ward gradual improvement. and 1t is con- fidently expected that September, all though short month, will show up bet ter than August
 Prices in this territory are firm. South ern iron is strong, and there still contin- ues to be the disinclnation to offer iron for any extended period ahead except at considerably higher figures. This de- ters buyers, and, although inquiries for ex- tended tonnage are in good number, re- cent actual buying has not been large.
 Business for the balance of this year is good and furnace books are in satisfac- tory shape for that period. Forge and mill irons are the favorites in buying just now, and there is a large tonnage un- der consideration. Some of the furnaces ing August are now apparently satisfied with the condition of their books and are not pressing for business as they did,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
om the New York Press.

From the New fOTK PTes5.
 The average man isn't half as ashamed of going toi jail as to church picnic.
 What a woman wants her husband to do every once in a while is to quit loving her and make love to her.
 Nobody could estimate how many times widow would have had to be married to get over being so innocent about men,
 A man thinks he has fine business judgment when he g,1sses stocks are going up, and they do, unless he bought them.
 When you hear people talking so loud that everybody in the block can hear them, it's sign they are telling what they saw in Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
THE TURKISH sUFFRAeETTE.

From the Boston Globe
 When the trade of the Sultan of Tur- key proclaiming the re-establishment of the constitution of 1876 was read in the streets of Salonica there were strange scenes in that historic city The place was completely in the hands of the young Turks, and placards were posted up everywhere demanding liberty and equal rights for Mosem, Christian and Jew. The Sultan's proclamation pro- claiming these rights in the name of the constitution that had been held so long in. abeyance was the signal for the most en~ thusiastic demonstrations.
 Perhaps the strangest feature of the triumph of the movement represented by the young Turkish party was the absence of bloodshed during the agitation that preceded the Sultan's trade, and after this proclamation there was no thought for anything but holiday-making. Greeks and Bulgarians, however suspicious of one another previously, fell on each others shoulders and embraced.
 The most significant demonstration of all however, was that made by the young Turkish women, who, joining the process sion of merrymakers, threw up their yeils and uncovered their truly beautiful faces, while here and there an embryo Turkish suffragette acclaimed a short speech in passing, in honor of liberty and equality. It was a startling evidence of the extent to which the leaven of democ- racy is leavening the whole mass of hu- manity.