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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-30

prefers to own its own bridge 1t can
locate it wherever it thinks desirable
and in case of accident can make its
own arrangements without the nee
essity of waiting upon the leisure of
the county. Should a freshet carry
out the county bridge the com mission
ers as is well known. would be some
what deliberate about replacing it.
The street railway, on the other hand.
would want it replaced at once. For
this and for various other and obvious
reasons it prefers, when it goes across
the river. which is some time i'm the
future, to go by its own route. 1t
seems from present indications that
immediate extension will be within the
limits of the city.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-30
EXPERT PAYS TRIBUTE TO
IRRIGATED LAND SECURITIES
Calls Attention to Value of S20G0
Land IN Northwest and Says Its
Worth the Money.

SPOKANE, Wash, June 25.-Irri-
gated districts in Washington. Idaho,
Oregon and Montana are declared by
an editorial correspondent of Bonds
and Mortgages of Chicago to offer an
interesting field for safe investment,
the writer saying among other things,
that the states that lie across the
great divide of the Rockies are the
most prosperous of the nation. Under
the heading, Farm Mortgages in the
Farther West; What Investments in
Loans Promise in Inter Mountain Re
gions," this article appears:
Investment Field Changes.
For many years the investment field
for farm mortgages has been largely
confined to the prairie states. There
the increase Of population was large
~ centered and the immigration came
from the older states and built up on
the plains new homes and farms.
Money was needed for the develop
ment and this demand was made
prominent to the east where the
source of money is largely located
But as the years have gone on the
farther west has reached a promin-
ence in this line of investment that
brings its own prominence to the fore,
and it is interesting to note how the
lands Of the farther states have be
come worthy the investors attention.
Elements have conferred into their de-
velOpment that have not been under
stood by the average investor. nor
will they be without a personal visit.
The states that lie across the great
divide Of the Rockies are among the
most prosperous in the nation. Colo
RADIO is raising more wealth on its
farms than on its mining properties.
1t is being covered by irrigation en-
terprises that have for their basis the
best and surest OF moisture producers.
All along the valleys are seen here
and there bitches and dams. reservoirs
are being built in the mountains and
the rich bottom lands are being utii-
lied by the farmers who have the ad-
vice OF the best eXperimenters of the
nation in telling them what to do to
make a success. The dry farmers are
also making progress and they are
reapi9s from the one-time desert
crops iuat would have been wonders
in the farther east ten years ago.
Irrigation Securities Profitable.
To handle these properties are the
irrigation securities, and they have
been perfected to degree that makes
them among the best of investments.
The reclamation service. as one west
ern land owner pat it, "has made the
irrigation bond respectable" That Is,
the investors have been impressed by
the worth ana the promise of this
class OF agricultural development
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-30
GOOD ROADS FROM TOWNS
\. w. Mcdonald of Washington Mar
scry Thinks Each Center Should
Start MOVcmcnt-Lct il Itadiatc

Good road work on the reservation
is to be undertaken by the people of
Toppenish in all probability. There
is a movement afoot there to gather
$500 for road work which will be
the nucleus of a system of fine high
ways radiating from TOppenish and
which will be extended at time passes
and as the ranchers sec the direct
benefits from proper road cOnstruc-
ton. This is the idea of \. w. Nc
Donald, president of the Washington
Nursery company who was in North
Yakima Thursday. He thinks that
the state road system is wrong i'm that
it constructs highways at great ex-
pense in sections where they are used
by minimum rather than by a max
mum of the settlers. The greatest
use Of the roads is nearest to the
towns. IS the distance increases the
use is less. Mr.. Mcdonald thinks the
good road work should start at the
centres and work outward In this
way the expenditure of money will be
a benefit to the greatest number and
viii more speedily populalfze the
good roads movement.
Start From the Towns
hundred dollars a mile. in and
about Toppenish. Mr.. Mcdonald be-
licves will go a long way toward good
roads work. The $500 it is propoeel
to raise will therefore construct Is
miles of good road. or rather put IS
miles Of pvistiDa roads u, ,,ool o1,,1i
ton. His idea is to put two or three
miles Of each road leading into Top
penish into excellent repair and then
ask the ranchers in the adjoining ter
r'tory to take up the work and ex-
tend it, This is the plan which is be-
ing agitated at Toppenish and which
Will probably be taken up.
Ranchers. Mr.. Mcdonald saws.
should be able to haul four tons or
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-30
ficliDOclLctS Arrested.

DENVER, June Esd Hoffman
and A. b. Kellar, cabinet makers, to-
day were arrested on a charge of rob-
bling Joshua Selby of Baker City. Ore.
of S52 and a note for S525. 1t was
said the men picked Selbv's pockets
on the street car SATURDAY..
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-30

Mothers-Have you tried HOLSTERS
Rocky Mountain Tea? It's a great
blessing to the little ones, keeps away
summer troubles. Makes them sleep
and grow. 50 cents, Tea o. Tablets.
Cases Drug Store.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-30

Whereabouts on a really good roads and
in such a country as this they should
have those roads The present ex-
penditure of money over long dis
tances. he believes to be false econ
omy
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-30

Pineu'es-new Kidney remedy-are
Tor all diseases of the kidneys and
bladder. They act promptly in all
cases of lame back, rheumatic pains,
Inflammation of the bladder, urinary
disc ders and weak kidneys. Sold by
c. w. Camp, West Side Druggist
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-30
FINDS CHANGES
IN MICHIGAN
THINKS YAKIMA IS DtIIER
W. r.. Parsons Is Back From Visit to
Ills Former Home and Has Some
Real Product of the Sugar Bush

Corn was planted in Michigan
about week ago, according to w. T..
Parsons, car inspector of the North
ern Pacific railroad here who has
just returned from a visit to his old
home in Middleton Mich. The
weather has been wet and cold there.
The oats are about four inches high
and doing well. Yakima is so much
better that Mr.. Parsons says that so
far as he is concerned the east is but
a recollection. The Yakima man
brought back with him some maple
sugar and maple syrup taken from
real sugar bush and not manufactured
in a factory. He says he would like
to have enough sugar to give every
/ former Wolverine in Yakima county
taste, but he failed to find that
quantity.
Met Two Fine People.
He brought back with him some
thing else. That is a splendid esti-
mate of the character of two old peo-
pie he met in Michigan. One of them
is his father-in-law and the other is
his father-in-laws second wife. Tho
man, he says, is one in 5000 and the
woman is good as the man. That
alone, he says, was worth the trouble
and expense of his trip. He expects
the old gentleman to come to Yakima
this fall. and if he does Mr.. Parsons
says he proposes to take a couple of
weeks vacation and do his best for
him.
Mr.. Parsons went east primarily to
see a daughter who is ill. He had eX-
! pected to bring her back to Yakima
but she was unable to make the trip
at this time. She will come here in
the fall he hopes.
Great Changes i'm Michigan.
Great changes have taken place in
Michigan. or at least in that part Mr..
Parsons visited. Nearly 10000 young
people, he says, have gone into the
Alberta section of Canada. Others
have moved to various parts of the
United States In the Clark carriage
factory, where he worked at Lansing,
Mich, score of years ago, he found
but two employees left who We're there
! in his day. The Odds factory which
he remembers as a little one-room
shop, is now an immense industry and
Odds is a multi-millionaire. Several
opportunities We're offered the local
man to remain in the east in railroad
work but his invariable answer was
that yakima is better
Passenger Travel Is Heavy.
Passenger travel west is very
heavy, Mr.. Parsons says. His train
was crowded and was dropping loads
and picking up loads at every station,
Nearly two carloads were left off at
the entrance to the Yellowstone, but
the number of travellers on arriving
here taxed the capacity of the train.
The A.-Y.-P will bring many visitors
but he found that Yakima was very
little known in his section.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-30

the best sort of settlers. They have
one great need-moncy.
THE people Of the east think we
are wild and wOolly," one loan broker
expressed it, because we are so far
from the ccntcrs of civilization. They
do not realize that there are aS many
college graduates here as in any part
of the country according to our popu-
lation. What we need is to get our
securities to market If we knew
how to reach the eastern investor and
convince him, so that he would send
his money eighteen hundred miles for
investment we could do many times
the business we now do. We could
make all this country blossom as the
rose.
Old Time Sentiment.
81 have lot of farm mortgages in
my safe that | am carrying to get a
market for them. They pay a high
rate Of interest and are as good as
any security that my bank holds, but
the east does not realize what they
are, and it is hard to convince the
man who is more than a thousand
miles away"
This is the expression heard often
1t should be remembered that about
all these people have on which to bor-
row money is land. 1t IS as good land
as lies out of doors, but they have
not had time TO improve it. Land that
is worth ten dollars an acre will be
worth four times that in five years.
Land that is not as good and will not
produce as good crops is selling 500
Go. IN nr1 "a
In Utah something of the same sort
of condition exists, though it is modi-
fed by the solidarity of the Mormon
people. They have their banks and
their capitalists, and they care for
their own. But the Mormons are not
the only people on these fertile lands.
The Gentiles are a large part of the
population, and they must look to the
more ordinary channels for their
funds with which to make improve
ments to develop their holdings.
Tens of thousands of acres in Titan
| are being settled for the first time
and irrigation enterprises are being
pushed here as elsewhere in the west.
The attendant enterprises are going
along with them and the villages are
Incoming prosperous. Here the farm
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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-30
Will Own Its Bridge.

The street railway company will not
ask the county for rights on the new
bridge TO be constructed across the
river and into the Mckee. 1t does not
want to divide with the county on
such proposition, irrespective of
whether the county would be willing
to divide with it. The street railway
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-06-30
TRACTION LINE GETTING BUSY
Present Indications are That Immc-
diatc Extensions VIII BE Entirely
Within the City Limits

Increased activity. on the part of the
street railway company is a feature of
the week. Engineers are out survey
ing lines outside and inside the city.
a corps of engineers and assistants
were at work Friday on north Fourth
street placing stakes. They have been
doing similar work elsewhere in the
city. 1t is said that the move has no
particular significance at this time, but
it is understood that the company has
placed an order for rails and other
materials, for immediate extension. 1t
is known that an extension is to be
made at once upon the arrival of the
material from the present line to the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-02
YESTERDAY WAS
STEAMER DAY
Many Boats Come and Go---The
Siberia's List---Makura
Due Today.

Yesterday was the biggest steamer
DAY that Honolulu has had in many
moons, the waterfront teeming with
moving craft from early morning until
after 7 clock last night. The Aso
and. the Soya, escorted by hundreds OF
sampans. came in, being followed short
" afterward by the Pacific Mail liner
Siberia. from the mainland.
The Siberia brought over seventy
passengers for Honolulu, and she IN
loaded 80 tons of freight before de-
parting last night. She had good
weather all the way down from the
Golden Gate, nothing out of the ordi-
nary happening on the trip.
The Aorangi did not get away for
British Columbia until much later than
was at first expected. She had little
freight for this port, but she took some
passengers from here.
The Observation-Disclosures steamer Pie
iades was also DELAYED in sailing, not
leaving until about 0 clock. She was
bound for Kahului, where she will pick
up sugar.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-02
MAUI
AUTO STORY

Captain Weeden, the jolly zkipperif
the Lurline, brought back a good story
from the other islands, and although it
is partly at his own expense, he told
it with great gusto the other night. as
the bulk OF the joke il on some people
who tried to hand it to him on the
fair Isle of Maui.
It seems that along with the captain
on his jaunt to Hilo went a tourist
capitalist with great big touring au-
tomobile On the Big Island Skipper
Weeden and his friends had fine time
in the machine, hitting the high spots,
as il were. bnt there was never q word
from the ofieials there with regard to
a speed limit. Several days, during the
stay eff the big steamer, were spent ON
the roads Of Hawaii
Then the Luriine went over to Maui
The boat arrived there at 6 O'Clock ia
the morning, and at 7 Captain Weeden
had seen that the ehoo-ehoo wagon was
on terra frma, with the chauffeur at
the wheel. After making several trips
inland in the machine, the captain told
the driver to- make start down the
Jcs2NH- cAU1 utSldACt,
at no snail pace, the big touring car
met an obstruction to It's speed propen-
stiles IN the shape of smaller car be-
longing to member Of the Maui med
zeal fraternity. The smaller ear zig
Jagged back and forth in front so that
the machine in which the captain was
seated, could not pass. Finally, how
ever, the big car slipped past. and, as
he told it, Captain Weeden shouted as
he few past:
tHo. doctor, and why don t YOU get
washing machine? TIN 60 faster, =
Apparently the doctor referred to
didn Z like to take the dust of the big
machine, fer, according to Captain
Weeden, he tried to get warrant for
the shippers arrest the next day.
There was eonsidera bic excitement over
the BUSINESS, it seems, although Cap
tain Weeden was happy to oblige in
anyway possible, and appeared in the
courthouse on the following morning.
There was ne arrest. however. and
there was no fine paid for exceeding
the speed limit, according to the Lur-
line s master.
Captain Weeden is laughing heartily
over the attempt TO put him. in dnrance
vile, though he says there are some who
fail to see the joke.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-02
MORE CHANGES NEEDED.

Editor Advertiser: | notice in your
valuable paper, in the Legislature pro-
eeeding yesterday, that there is under
consideration a bill to permit the gov
eminent (the plaintiff) to appeal in
certain criminal cases as well as the
defendant. Admitting this to be good
law, Is there not other changes in our
laws badly needed to bring about the
conviction of the guilty in our courts 2
In your columns a few days ago was
mentioned a ease on trial of several
persons charged with gambling. In
eross-examination, the attorney for the
defendant asked the principal witness
for the prosecution many questions as
TO the method of paying informers; as
if that had anything to do with the
question as to whether or not the de-
PENDANTS were guilty of gambling In
another ease farther back. the questions
Of the attorney for the defendant all
tended to find out the cause of the
trouble between the doctor. who was
on trial as being an insane person. and
the man he had shot at, TRYING TO show
that the defendant was justified in an
act he was NOT on trial for committing.
instead Of whether or not be was in
sane. Another prominent case still far
Their back. which lasted many days, a
person reading the proceedings of the
trial could not tell whether the Adyer-
tiser was on trial. or. the defendant
who was charged with bribery
Now should not our laws relative to
court procedure he amended to prohibit
such questions. and enable a jury 70
get at the facts a. to whether the man
charged committed the offense and as
to whether or not he is guilty. in
stead Of bringing ont matters that have
no bearing on the ease on trials
JUSTICE.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-02
ALMY TALKS
OF SAILORS

The discharge which an American
sailor receives from his ship is abso-
lutely no good, said Shipping Com
missioner Amy yesterday. sThe
American discharge does not count for
two whoops, every sailor being given
the same rating usually. Shippers OF
vessels coming in here give every man
Recommendation, and it has now come
TO such a pass that the American dis
charge means nothing.
:" As matter of fact, an American
seamen is not often called upon TO
show his discharge nowadays, it has
come to mean so little. 1t is a great
deal different with the British and Ger
man ships. Their discharge shows on
the face of it the ability of a seaman,
whether he is an able or just an ordi-
nary seaman. Shipping Commissioners
all over the States should be compelled
to enforce the Federal regulations
which would overcome this defect.
Amy has written to the Bureau OF
Navigation at Washington, explaining
the situation, and has strongly urged
that United States Shipping Commits
SioneTS De eompeLed TO enforce ali the
regulations 1t is an ordinary thing
for captain now, when he pays off
a crew, to tell the Commissioner to give
the whole batch good recommendation
ON their discharge papers. This makes
them of absolutely no value to skip
per when he wants to choose crew,
for he cannot tell which is the good
and whicE is the bad seaman
A Plausible Explanation.
Editor Sheba of the Hawaii Shinpo
thinks that Captain Greene of the Chiyo
Maru misunderstood his wireless opera
tor. regarding the time of arrival in
Honolulu of the japanese training
ships As the japanese boats are SEIZED
uled to remain here eight days, he
thinks it probable that Captain Greene
understood the operator to mean that
the cruisers would arrive here April 8,
while as matter of fact the operator
probably said that they were to be here
that number of days. This would ex-
plain the letter which was received by
Harbormaster Captain Clark from the
master of the Chiyo.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-02
Shipping Notes.

The steamer W. G. Hall arrived here
Yesterday morning early from Kauai.
The Clandine got in yesterday morn
ing from Hawaii and Maui, bringing 4
good list Of passengers.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-02
Trent Trust Co, It'd.

reporter that he was doing something
contrary to naval regulations. The re-
porter caught on. but guessed the
sailor-sentry thought he was making a
sketch of the turret. He showed his
paper to the sailor. 1t was covered
with shorthand characters. The Japa-
nese wrinkled his brow and gazed at
the characters this way and that, and
finally took the paper and showed it to
an officer. The reporter trembled in
bis shoes Whether he was to be
thrust overheard or cast into the
cruisers prison, or hailed before the
stern looking admiral. he did not know.
Either. would have been a terrifying
experience. 4 Japanese newspaper
man standing by saw the situation and
explained that the haole reporter ha /
just borrowed some paper and was iot-
ting down notes which were too many
to keep in his head. The explanation
was satisfactory, and the reporter es-
capped being classed as a spy or war
correspondent without credentials.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-02
Reporter s Notes Censored.

An Advertiser reporter while on the
deck, yesterday morning, of the flag
ship Aso, borrowed piece of paper
from another scribe, and began to jot
down notes which he had been retain
ing in his memory. He was standing
near one of the big turrets. aud ocea-
sioually booked at it. or the bridge, or
at some oddly Of mechanism which
would appeal to lavman 5 eye, in try
ing to seartt his memory for occur
rences- lie felt a touch on his arm
and, turning about, pencil point at his
lips he discovered squat. square-look
ing japanese sailor, with dark, sun
burned face, type Of japanese sailor
showing tremendous muscle-power. He
pointed to the pencil and TO the paper,
and shook his head. and by an inteili-
gent use of gestures indicated TO the
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-04-02

News of the /;
Wireless World 4;


Nearly two thousand miles away, the
United States Army transport Sheridan
wirelessed to Kahuku that, on Wednes
day night, she was about twenty-five
miles off Midway Island. This is one
Of the longest messages which has ever
been received here from steamship at
sea With good weather, the Sheridan
viii probably arrive next Sunday She
has large number of passengers, some
OF whom are as follows: Major Rob-
ert s. Woodson, medical corps; Captain
Patrick A. Connolly, Twenty sixth In
fantry; Lieutenants William J. Ayres,
Philippine Scouts; William J. Browne,
Philippine Scouts; John T. Kingman,
Engineer Corps; John C. MaIoney, Phil
ippine Scouts; Bruno f. Ssher, Third
Infantry; George B. Shawn, Thirtieth
Infantry; Frank O. Smith, Philippine
Scouts; Francis w. Healey, Twenty
ninth Infantry; Wallace E. Sabn, medi-
cal reserve corps The Iast-named two
officers are reported to be seriously Ill.
The transport took $50 tons of coal
aboard at Manila and carries forty-one
easuals, thirty-four sick and twenty
FIVE military eonvicts.
aS - -
Illustrating just how wonderful was
the power OF the Kahuku sending APP
paratus before the big transformer
broke down, Jack Baleh told yesterday
how the operator IN San Francisco, re-
eeiving message from Honolulu, had
placed the receiver up to the speaking
tube of a. telephone and the dots and
dashes were read by the man at the
other end, several miles away. The
big transformer here only worked three
nj ghts before It broke down, however,
So number of interesting experiments
had to be done away with fol- the
time. These Will be continued just as
soon as the new intricate and powerful
transformer arrives here from the main
land.
- - y
It may be that q station will be
erected at HiIo proper by the local
wireless company in the near future.
This all depends, however. on several
propositions which are still pending.