The Washington herald., 1909-05-23
HON. WESLEY [. JONES.

vantages 10 q young lawyer without
means Mrs, Jones and the baby we're
left IN Illinois, because I didn't have
funds enough to take them along I
Travelled 70 Spokane In an immigrant
car. 4 friend there advised me to settle
al North Yakima, a town OF about 1.oga
inhabitants, IN the central part OF the
Territory ! arrived at the place which
has since been my home on April .
lSSe. didn't know \ soul, either in the
town OF the adjacent country, and all
the money I had was 81
IN twenty years" Senator Jones went
on to say. many changes have come 10
North Yakima now a driving and mod
ern city, and &c central Washington.
Land which was desolate as any part OF
the Desert OF Sahara has been touched
by water, and now blooms ike garden.
Men with five-acre farms build pretty
cottages and live IN comfort, and the
certainty that their apple. pear. and
peach orchards VIII have good crops
season after season Washington apples
are sold IN al OF the large Eastern
cities. and refrigerator cars are being
made IN which our peaches can be kept
fo- t-so weeks and half Land planted
10 fruit trees IS selling for as much as
$500 an acre Even wild land, five miles
IN TIE country. bur near to irrigation
bitches. Is worth 500
Country a Rich One
''why. SIR" and Senator Jones be-
came pleasantly oratorical. "the State OF
Washington. nearly as large ss New
England. Delaware. and Maryland COM
bined. With its Immense stretches Of des-
ert only waiting for moisture. with its
three crops Of alfalfa every summer.
with its 100000 acres Of fir, cedar. hem
Jock and spruce timber; with it's single
trees which cut 40o.sOo feet Of lumber
enough to build eight seven-room houses
with SIS apple orchards. which yield
twenty tons 10 the acre IN seven years
after planting. with"
but" I asked, did you frd employ
ment as soon as you got to North Va
kima -
-oh. yes" Senator Jones answered.
putting away his speaking voice and
emitting his gestures. a real estate COM
pany paid ne Sc a month I sent for
Mrs. Jones and we went to housekeeping
IN two-room shack. In fourteen months
two lawyers and myself formed a part
nership and bought a set Of abstract
hooks on credit. Ny first fee amounted
to $ and was paid in q replevin case
IN which I performed before a justice
Of the peace. One of my partners was
elected prosecuting attorney. and that
helped US considerably. However, the alb
stracts We made CT reaK estate kept us
alive and more OF less cheerful Our
business grew and made a respectable
living. doing a general country practice
n region OF farms and orchards. In
tine I bought some land and now I grow
apples. pears and alfalfa
Made Speeches for Blaine.
s'when Old you begin to take an inter-
est in politics.
4 made some alleged speeches for
Blaine IN lSS4 the year e came of age.
IN ISIS stumped around in rural school
houses for-Gen- Harrison. After going to
Washington electioneered whenever
there was a campaign aad IN my own
contests 1 have Travelled the state many
tines from end TO end. Last year
made speeches in the Central West for
Nr. Taft"
Ten years after going to I've in North
Yakima you were elected to Congress.
How cid ycu get the nomination p
In 1895 the Republican party IL Wash
Is gton went to pieces over the free sii-
Yer question Francis ". Cushman, now
known a. one Of the great orators and
wits of Congress. q lawyer In Tacoma.
sTho had been a section hand on z rail-
way IN Iowa and cowboy and school
teacher IN Wyoming. and myself stumpe5
the State for Mckinley and the Repub-
hc2n platform Washington gave Bryan
plurality OF 130J. Nearly every one
believed in 1sS that the Republicans