The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-11-30
NORTHWEST NEWS
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Seattle, Nov. 3O-There seems to
be a decided difference of opinion on
the liquor question in Washington.
Cowlitz county has gone wet" while
Stevens county voted dry" Whit
man county has bitter fight on that
will be decided today. A petition is
being circulated in Spokane county,
calling for a special election on JAN
uary 20, 1910, to settle the issue.
Governor Hays home town went
dry recently, with the executive s
hearty approval. Auburn, in King
county, on the other hand, refused to
Danish the saloon. Many localities
are wrestling with the issue. On the
whole, the local option forces have
the best of the argument, as to the
number of towns carried, SO far.
A continuous telephone line from
ST Paul to Puget sound, by way of
Spokane, is to be constructed soon.
Independent interests have acquired
a large number of telephone COM
panies in the intervening territory SO
that a through connection can be eS-
tablished without much difficulty, it
is said. Seattle is to be the western
terminal. This wire will ultimately
give telephone service to New York
thereby making it possible to talk
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
That no section of the country pro-
| duces apples like the northwest was
the big lesson of the second annual
apple show. recently held in Spokane.
First honors went to Oregon this
year. as Thomson & Guthrie of Eagle
Point, won the thousand-dollar prize
offered for the best carload. They
exhibited Spitzenbergs Washington
growers won the greater bulk of the
prizes offered, Wenatchee making
the best individual showing. The
growers of Yakima, Walla Walla,
Spokane. Okanogan, British Column
bia Idaho and Montana all acquitted
themselves with credit President
Howard Elliott of the Northern Pa
cific, who was at the head of the
show, was enthusiastic over its re-
suits.
Merchants of the northwest look
| forward to the largest Christmas bus
mess season that has ever been
known The last statement of bank
ing institutions submitted to the
government. shows that there Is
more money on deposit in this part
of the country than ever before
Marked gains are shown in the No
vember report over September And
the best of it is, that all the money
for the 1909 crop has not yet come
in. The statement also shows an
| increase in loans, indicating business
expansion; whereas the money cen
| tiers on the other side Of the Rockies
have been calling in their accounts,
because of local conditions, there
fore, it can be seen that the people of
the northwest have money to spend
for Christmas.
From a newspaper mans stand
point, Lynden, Wash, seems to be
is the luckiest of all editors. The
local commercial club has just voted
him substantial evidence of its. APP
probation of his efforts to boost that
locality, through the columns of the
/ Tribune. 1t is generally taken for
granted that that is a part of an
editors everyday routine But the
business men and farmers of Lynden
seem to be of another stripe They
wanted Editor Cloud to know that
they appreciated his work. The re-
suit is that Lynden is going to have
a better booster than ever before
Other editors are equally deserving
of such recognition and the commun-
ity that grants it will be gamer a
thousand fold.
The campus of the University of
Washington is to become public
park, under the direction of the Sc
attic park board A lease has been
effected with the regents, covering a
period of several years. During this
time the city will expend $4,000 to
maintain the landscape gardening,
features, which made the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific exposition grounds the
admiration of all visitors Had the
city not stepped in they would have
been lost Later on, it is hoped that
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