The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-09-07

'Wenatchee's New Depot" a rare
piece of humorous fiction, by Jim
Hill. Full length portrait of A. A..
Piper as frontispiece.
Cutting it Out" by Doc Mccoy,
author of Equine Ailments and
How Tammany tempered with Me-"
Which Shall 1t Be-" a touching
poem, sung as a duet with much sue
cess by Bill Grimshaw and Frank
Reeves.
Il Also RAN by any of the twen-
ty-three candidates for Sheriff..
"Pills Have Rolled by Doc Gil
christ.
"The Insecty side,'' by Dad
Schwartz.
"A True Appreciation of the Di-
rectoire Gown" by Bruce Griggs..
'The Tragedy of the Dill Pickle
Barrel by Pearl Holcomb.
Look What They Did to Mel"
by Frank Scheble, author of "It Was
Not Ever Thus
Don't 1t Beat Business How He'll
Keeps Up" by John Berger.
Get the Hook by an Habitue of
the Wenatchee theatre.
''The Next Show Will Be Better"
by Ed Ferguson.
Was down at Atlantic City last
week on a rare frolic: a veritable
avalanche of femininity, ranging in
years from the cradle to the grave
Never saw so many girls since Doc
Culps wedding They all asked
about Wenatchee Seems they'd
heard of Spencer Martin, Big Shook,
Grimshaw, Mccoy, etc. and think
Wenatchee fairies are using the
wrong system.
Both Roosevelt and Taft asked
after the political outlook in the
Squillchuck, and wanted to know
what stand ST France had taken on
the Bank Guarantee" plank
was over at the Supreme Court
rooms the other day, and Chief JUS
tice Harlan seemed much interested
in some of Judge Palmer's police
court decisions, and asked to be re-
membered. Chief Wilkie, of the
United States Secret Service, asked
after Billie Simmons. Wilkie wanted
to know if there was an ex-Texan in
Leavenworth going by the name of
Mayer and wanted at all points to
the south. l craftily shielded our
fellow Journalist, whom l tenderly
love, though back issues of the
World do not hint at it.
A dispatch from Findlay, Ohio,
says twenty-five more leading fami-
les have escaped from the authori-
ties and are headed for Wenatchee
Valley. The lure of the Big Red APP
pie is too much for EN-
Louis Crollafd must have out-By-
roned Byron whilst living here:
many maids are on his track, ans
there are lots vi 'em here Wash
ington seems regular woman incu-
bator, and, as Doc Mccoy says, some
are visions" and some are just
sights fine shade of distinction
understand that Doc has quit Tam
',anv Hall, and is dining at the
Tagle Barn-he always loved horses
recall his celebrated retort wher
AT pped by companions concerning
his fondness for horseflesh.
Washington has it's celebrities, no
less than Wenatchee. Here the
meg aphone man in the rubberneck
wagon shows the city's guests from
the crrn belts all that's interesting
including Ford's theatre, where Lin
coin WIS shot, he old Hancock sa-
loon on Pennsylvania avenue, where
Webster, Clay AMI Calhoun got
halo shot every day The dusty
bottle from which these great men
drew inspiration still stand where re-
placed wheN emptied fifty years ago
Andrew Jackson's tile hat rests or
pantry shele and rats rest in Presi-
lent Buchanaa's liver pad.
But, as l said, Wenatchee has at
fractions, too. We proudly point
out to new CON ers such noble insti-
+--+ions as the q eat Northern Hotel.
where Harry Taylor is confined; we
snow them the historic spot where
Whiskey Dick bit the dust, the beau
tiful bastile by Roy Zahren at the
zenith of his spectacular career, and
such browning glories as Sam Sum-
ner and George Ellis. o, Wenatchee
is not inconspicuous. l told 'em all
about it from New York to Denver
l tell them all that never since Moses
staked out the Promised Land, and
showed the blue prints to the chill
dren of Israel, has such a real estate
opportunity been offered as Wenat-
chez presents today. Some of them
believe me.
Taft wants to know If it is true
that Burt Williams gets up at four
O'Clock in the morning, in order to
get in full days loafng. l said
no, that he was thinking of Ed Rus
sci, who is an actor. and therefore