The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-08-21


5 o'clock last night. after an illness
lasting about six weeks. The end
was not unexpected. For days he
has hovered between life and death
and the end came peaceably last
night. The death was the result of
a severe attack of typhoid fever. Mr..
Tbbits has been in very poor health
for the past several years and has
been confined to his home during
considerable portion of the time.
Prior to having taken seriously sick,
he spent several weeks on his ranch
above Cashmere, but becoming Ill he
was removed to his home in this city,
where the end came.
The funeral services will be tomor-
row afternoon at 3 O'Clock, from the
Masonic hail. and the funeral will be
in charge of the Cashmere Masonic
lodge, of which the deceased was a
member The Cashmere lodge will
be assisted by the local lodge. The
honorary pall-bearers will be: G. G.
Ward, Marvin Chase, George r. Fish
er, III. j. Olive, Cashmere; ]. J.
Griggs, c. A. Cushing, Seattle; A. s.
Burbank, Cashmere; ]. M. Francis
co, Cashmere; j. B. Olinger, j. A.
Swalwell, Seattle; DR.. Walter Cam
eron. The directors of the Wenat-
chez Fruit Growers association will
attend the funeral in body. DR..
w. A. Stevenson will give short ad-
dress and the funeral arrangements
are in charge of the Wenatchee Tn
dertaking Co. The body will lie in
L. 1.11
m. until p. m.
Milton Orlando Tibbits was born
in st. Maries, Canada, Dec. 27, 1861.
He went to South Dakota, Clark
county, in 1888 and took up home
stead there. He was elected prin-
cipal of the grade school in the town
of Clark in 1884. In 1885 he became
associated with DIR. Seaman in the
real estate business and established
a banking business at Henry. S. D.
He sold his interest after two years
and moved to Bottineu, n. D., and
engaged in the real estate and loan
business there. He was elected reg
lister of deeds for the years 1889 and
1890. He came to Washington in
January, 1891, and located at Fair
haven. He was one of the pioneer
builders of the city of Everett and
was appointed receiver of the Bank
of Everett in 1893. He wound IL
the affairs of this institution very
successfully. From 1896 to 1898 he
was interested in mining in Rosland,
B. c., and Toronto, Canada, being
president of one of the largest mnf-
ing companies operating at that time.
In the spring of 1898, on account of
i, bad health, he engaged in cattle busi-
ness in the Wenatchee valley and as
the fruit industry took prominence
he changed his occupation to that of
orcharding and was closely identified
with the building of both the high
line and Peshastin bitches and aided
in every way possible in developing
the valley. In 1907 he was elected
president of the Wenatchee Valley
Fruit Growers association, which was
then struggling for existence. With
the assistance of the directors he has
established it upon strong substan-
tial footing.
Mr.. Tibbits was married to Mrs.
Dora L.. Seaman at Fairhaven, April
10. 1898, and leaves to mourn him
a wife and two children, Helen aged
Is and Marian aged IL. Besides
these there is a mother, Mrs. D. M.
Tibbits, who lives at st. Maries, On
tario, and five brothers and four sis
ters. The brothers are DR.. M. A.
Tibbits, Linden, Mich; DR.. Newton
I. Tibbits, Peshtigo, Wis; Burton A.
Tibbits, Clark county, Dakota; Hy-
mon E. Tibbits, Cashmere, Wash,
and H. L. Tibbits, st. Maries, Onta-
rio. The sisters are Mrs. A. B. Rea,
Clark, S. D.; Mrs. Celia Gregory, st.
Maries. Ontario; Mrs. HI. e. Diehl,
kawton, Okla, and Miss lola Tibbits,
st. Maries, Ontario.
AS the representative Of the fruit
growers association, he attended the
meeting of the Western Fruit job
bers association in Minneapolis in
January, 1909, and was able to pre-
vent that body from recommending
to congress the adoption of the Colo
RADIO apple box as the United States
standard, which they were on the
point of doing.
Later in the same month he at
tended the conference on the Lafean
apple package bill at Washington, D.
c., and succeeded in getting many Of
the Objectionable features OF that bill
eliminated, as well as to procure such
a modification of the size OF this box
as would enable the fruit raisers OF