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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24
MAMMOTH PEACH ORCHARD
Parker Man in the Fruit Business
Strong and Contemplates More.

J. A. Piland, one of the heaviest
peach growers in the Parker dlstric-,
was in the city Saturday. Mr.. Pr
land has about 1000 peach trees set
out and will put out over a thousand
this spring, a thousand more the
coming fall and another thousand \
year from now. He has also planned
to make some other improvements
on his home place. principal among
which is the erection of couple Of
houses and the laying out of 6 fine
lawn. Mr.. Piland believes the cold
weather this winter has in no way
injured the peach trees In his section,
although he believes it little early
to say truly. He states that the peo-
pie of the Parker district are waiting
anxiously to be connected with North
Yakima by electric railroads.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24
WINS BROTHERS.
WIDOW AND FARM
Justice StOcker Yields Final Link in
Romance Which Succeeds Period
of Mourning.

SPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 1S.-Hav-
ing purchased two months ago the
2OO-acre Adams county farm be-
longing to the estate of his brother,
who passed away three years ago,
Edward Houser of Lind, Wash,
completed his fraternal succession
when he and Mrs. Cora Houser were
united in marriage by Justice George
w. Stocker yesterday in his cham
bers in the county court house.
Following her bereavement Mrs.
Houser went to live with her father,
William Watkins, wealthy rancher,
whose home is at Bemis, Adams
county. With the rounding out of
full year she discarded her garb of
deep mourning. About this time her
brother-in-law began to call on her.
Talks Business First.
He as first discussed with her his
plans for adding his brothers hun
dreds of acres to his large farm. His
visits became more frequent and as
time went on she began to look for
ward to his coming with something
more than sisterly anticipations
Last month after increasing his land
ed holdings by acquiring his broth
er's farm. he visited the young and
pretty widow at her fathers home,
proposed and was accepted
They came to Spokane yesterday
on the morning Northern Pacific
train and went at once to the court
house. After he had secured the Ii
cense at the county auditors office
they went before Justice Stocker.
They were accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. A. r. Gilliland and Mrs. Grace
Loopy of Spokane. Mr.. and Mrs.
Houser left last night for Lind
where they will reside.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24
BOWLING ALLEYS
NOW BEING PLAc Ed
Local Gyms Equipment Now Com
plete and Floor Is Most Popular
Place i'm Town.

The new bowling alleys for the
Y. NJ. c. A. have already arrived and
are being placed in position, complet-
ing to a large extent the original
plans for the gymnasium and amuse-
ment equipment. 1t is probable that
the work will be completed and the
alleys ready for the bowlers by the
last of next week and match games
will no doubt be arranged at frequent
intervals.
The Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium has al
ready proved to be one of the most
popular institutions ever introduced
into this city. Usually such institu-
lions are patronized by boys and
young men, but the gray-haired con-
tingent in this instance has not been
outdone by the younger generation.
Men who are too slim are working
daily to develop needed Drawn while
those who are afflicted with too much
adipose are just as conscientious in
their efforts to reduce the fatty &C.
emulation of former well-dined ex-
istence. Probably there is not a
floor in the country where a more
varied array of age, experience and
condition of physique is seen every
afternoon than in the local gym.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24
WILL HANDLE
BIG PROJECTS
George :. Rankin Is Elected I'r.si-
dent Of the Central Washington
Investment < Power Co.

While definite plans of the Central
Washington Investment & Power Co.
are not announced, the fact deve-l
oped on Friday, when a list of officers
was filed with the county auditor,
that the corporation will handle a
number of the larger projects in the
Yakima valley. George 5. Rankin,
whose interests are scattered from
the Cascade mountains to Pasco and
beyond, was elected president Of the
company.
Alex McCredy, who is associated
with Rankin in several Of his pro-
jects, was made vice president and
]. o. Gull. also with Rankin in Il
number of his companies, has been
named as secretary and treasurer.
Several of the Rankin properties
and those in which he is interested
with either McCredy or Gull are to
come under the control of the new
company. Included in these VIII be
the project to irrigate high lan's in
the Mckee valley, which has already
been announced. Development work
at Wapato and Parker is also 20 be
handled in the same way, ii is re-
ported. and the interests will nc scat
tered along the Yakima river, as far
as the Columbia, and along the Co.
lumbia river for some distance.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24
FOUR MILES OF GOOD ROADS
Advertise for Bids for Improvements
Over COunty-New Road Super
yisOrs Selected.

-Four miles of good graveled
roads, built in the best possible
style, are to be constructed this year
by Yakima county, according to the
decision of the county commission
ers at their session Saturday. This
road work will be scattered through
ont the county. and will not include
the state aid work. which is certain
90 be carried on in some localities.
One mile of new gravel road will
tie north from Selah. on the highway
that cuts through the Schott hop
gard. This road is much travelled,
60 the upper Selah and the Wenas
valley, and badly in need of improve
ment.
Another mile will be in the Mckee
galley, from the Holland church
youth, and will be a big improve
mert for that section.
The Glade-Mabton road will be inn
proved by the building of stretch
of gravel road for mile, south from
ohe city limits of Mabton.
In the Sunnyside district quar-
ter Of a mile will be built connecting
the city with the state aid road. for
another quarter mile. A further ex-
tension of three-luarters of a mile
will be made east of the state aid
road, making a stretch of one and a
quarter miles.
Bids for this road work are to be
sought and will be opened on March
rs
Road supervisors for the altered
district of the county were named.
with the exception of the official for
Road District No. 4, including the
AhtAhum valley and lower Mob Hill
w Il H:incaid was chosen for Dis
trict No. { including the Naches and
Cowic'.c valleys and Fruitvale. d.
G. Caiu was named for District No.
2, which includes all east of the
Northern Pacific tracks and north Of
Union gap. to Selah gap, and also
che moxee valley.
+. G Graetz will have supervision
over the larger road district known
as District No. 3, which includes
about oDe-third of the county, along
the south line. The supervisor for
district No was not named. George
MeiIis was chosen for District No. 5,
which includes Parker, Wapato and
mucn Of the reservation. Nick Ortiz
was selected for District No. 6, in
Guiding the Wenas and East and
West iciah valleys.
The new supervisors are Mellis
and Orth. the latter being named on
petition of many property owners of
the 5ci,h and Wenas valleys. No APP
plicat,an has been received for the
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24
NEW FRONTS
ARE PLANNED
CHANGE ALONG YAKIMA AVENUE
Yakima Trust Co., j. II. Weigel &
Co. and Dean Clothing Co. Make
Alterations.

Three handsome new store fronts
are to be placed along the north side
of East Yakima avenue, between
Front and First streets, during the
next month, the Yakima Trust Co.,
J. II. Weigel & Co. and Dean Clothing
Co. having announced that altera-
lions will be started In the next few
days
The new front of the Yakima Trust
Co. will be one of the most noticea-
BILE changes. Instead of center en-
trance and two windows. the bank
will have an entrance at the east side
of the room and one large plate glass
window Marble will be noticeable
feature in this front.
In the changing of the Weigel store
the windows will be made narrower
but deeper, and marble and plate
glass will be used. The Dean Cloth
ing Co. will also alter its entrance
way. Other changes along the ave-
1ue include the new front for the
Baker haberdashery, and alterations
of the building formerly occupied by
the Orpheum theatre, to be used by
the Her Investment Co. and a new
cigar store Another alteration will
be in the Yakima hotel, where the
Central Washington Investment &
Power Co. will fit up new offices.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24

booker. MCGOWAN, Minkler, Nichols.
Piper. Potts. Presby. Roberts. Ryd-
strom, Smith. Smithson, Whitney,
Williams, Ruth.
Long before the voting was over
Wednesday afternoon these 81 sen-
ators made it plain beyond all man
ner Of doubt that they were opposed
to any honest local option bill. and
would vote only for some spurious
measure that would be acceptable 20
the liquor lobby.
The sincere advocates of local OPP.
ton did a thorough job of smoking
out when they offered concession af-
ter concession and proved the insin-
cerity of many senators who had
long been pretending to be for local
option if this or that alleged drastic
provision had been left out of the
bill.
These 21 senators who have lined
up for the saloons against the peo-
pies right of home rule need not de-
lude themselves with the belief that
they can bring forward bogus local
option bill drafted or dictated by the
liquor interests and deceive the in
telligent voters of this state.
The republican party went before
the voters last year with a pledge
that its senators and representatives
would work and vote for a reason
able local option bill. Governor
Cosgrove, Acting Governor Hay and
large majority of the members of
the house have put a fair and honest
construction upon that pledge.
The q senators who defeated the
house bill and voted down a large
number of modifying amendments
will find that they can not convince
their constituents that they have
kept faith with the party or the peo-
observation-disclosures.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24
IRISH HEADS FRUIT GROWERS
Officers of Organization Selected by
Trustces-E. G. Peck Is
Secretary.

w. \. Irish, who for several years
has been secretary of the Yakima
Horticultural union, was selected
Saturday by the board of trustees as
the president of that organization
for the season of 1909. succeeding
NJ. y. Richards. President Irish is
the third president of the Horticul-
tural union, w. l.. Wright having
held that office when the corporation
was originally formed, with NJ. n.
Richards as the second fruit grower
to hold the position
j.. G.. Peck, one of the leading
fruit growers of the valley and men,
Der of the board for a number of
years, was selected as secretary, the
other officers being w. NJ. Richards,
vice president, and Edward Remy,
treasurer.
The board continued the work of
gathering names of men willing to
part with stock in excess Of 10
shares and those willing to purchase
where under 10 shares, taking steps
toward equalizing the holdings
Another move discussed and which
will be Immediately taken hold of
by the trustees was the operation of
an apple packing school. directly I'M
der the supervision of the HorticuI-
tural union. This will be started, it
is expected, in the next 80 DAYS.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24
POOLE WILL
Be MANAGER
FOR BIG IRRIGATION PROJECTS
Former Yakima Man Becomes Active
Head of Central Washington In
vestment & Power Co.

Arthur Poole. formerly of North
Yakima and more recently connected
with big Investment enterprises in
California, has been selected as man
ager of the Central Washington In
Vestment & Power Co.. recently form
ed by George s. Rankin and asso-
Ciatcs, and will be the active head of
chat company. He will open offices
IN the Yakima hotel building. adjoin-
ing thc barber shop on Yakima ave-
nne. in the near future.
J. 0. Gull, of the firm of Gull G.
Davis will have active charge of the
legal affairs of the company and will
also have offices in the same room.
He will devote practically all of his
time TO the legal work for the cor
poration and for other corporations
which he now represents.
While no statement is made as to
the plans of the company. excepting
chat it will work along general de-
velopment lines, the manager has
been secured to handle several large
irrigation projects in the Yakima
and Columbia river valleys and also
TO handle townsite properties for the
company
George S. Rankin and Alex Nc
Greedy. officers of the company, will
spend much of their time in general
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24
BIG FRUIT
FIRM FORMED
OHIO MEN INVEST $4,000 HERE
Judge A. l.. Sweet From Van Vert.
Ohio, Brings News of Prospec-
tive Settlers.

Another large fruit corporation
which will engage in the raising of
fruit and marketing of it, was organ
lied on Saturday when Incorporation
papers of the Calumet Fruit Co., with
a capital of $4,000. were filed at
Olympia. Former Ohio men, who
have arrived in the city during the
past year, are the incorporators.
The first trustees are F. H. Sweet,
Robert Webster and Harry Pfnstay
and later Judge A. L. Sweet will be
associated with the company.
Judge Sweet arrived Monday in
North Yakima and reports that about
40 families from Van Vert. Ohio, and
vicinity, will locate in North Yakima
and the surrounding section.
Judge Sweet says that there is
great interest in Van Vert and vi
cinity regarding the Yakima valley
and there will be many newcomers
from that section.
Just before leaving Van Vert.
Judge Sweet was the guest of honor
at banquet of the Van Vert Bar
association, which resolutions were
passed testifying to the apprecia-
ton OF the judge as jurist, lawyer
and private citizen. The Van Vert
Daily Times says: North Yakima
will be the winner where Van Vert
is the loser, for Judge Sweet is an
Al citizen"
James L. Pierce of Columbus,
Ohio, one of the supreme justices
has sent a letter to North Yakima in
which he highly commends Judge
Sweet, who has been prosecuting at
torney and probate judge at Van
Vert for years.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24

place in District No. 4. which will be
filed at the March meeting
The county commissioners voted to
set aside a strip four feet wide along
Lincoln avenue and the old Power
House road, for three-quarters of q
mile from the city limits, for a walk
and bicycle path. Part of this strip
has already been improved with a
board walk and with cinder path.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24

If you suffer from constipation
and liver trouble Foley's Orino Lax
alive will cure you permanently by
stimulating the digestive organs SO
they will act naturally. Foley's
Orino Laxative does not grippe. is
pleasant to take and you do not have
to take laxatives continually after
taking Orino. Foley's Orino LaXa-
tive cures constipation without irri-
tating the stomach or bowels like
ordinary purgatives. Mort Yakima
Drug Store. A D. Sloan, Prop.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24

Balance Sheet" The prayer fol.
lows:
God in heaven, am a rough
man, but I'm square. I killed a man
while fighting for what rightfully be-
longed to me-killed him after he
had fired twenty shots trying to kill
me. If ] was wrong, let them hang
me. II I was right, save me and lei
all of my enemies who perjureu
themselves to send me to the gal.
lows die before die. That is all
o, God. for I'm not much of a pray.
ing man"
Next day, whether by mere coinci-
dence or in answer to prayer, opin-
ions widely differ, there came an Or
der for the sentence of Adams to be
committed from death to a peniten-
tiary term of seven years. Okla
homa, having no state or territorial
prison. Adams was sent to the Kan
sas penitentiary, where, after the ex-
piration of three years OF his seven
year sentence, he was pardoned by
the late Grover Cleveland, then
president of the United States. Okla
homa convicts at that time being
federal charges.
Fights IN RpCOvep RiDi,tS
Following his pardon, Adams re-
turned to Oklahoma City and
sought by civil litigation to be re-
stored to ownership of the land he
claimed. He dealt in other real es-
tate meanwhile, and, as the city
grew, he prospered for time, but
all of his accumulation was swal-
lowed up in attorney fees and court
costs.
At last, money gone, family gone
for the wife who once braved bull
let's to protect him, eventually turned
against him for some cause which
has never been explained-the old
man dropped out of public view, and,
living in squalid little hut in the
poor quarter of the city, became a
recluse
His last years in Oklahoma City
were devoted largely to the writing
of a book which he never intended
for publication. but which purports
to be faithful portrayal of the
tragic happenings of early days in
Oklahoma when might made right
and when many "claim'' was
washed in the blood of contesting
homeseekers. In that book he re-
corded the names of thirty-three wit
nesses who appeared against him
and he waited in Oklahoma City I'M
til the years licked off their allotted
time and they were carried to the
cemetery.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24
Whisky Men Smoked Out.

The whisky lobby at Olympia
wasted no rope. They tied up exact
ly the number of senators needed to
beat an effective local option bill.
They had to have 21. They got them,
and this is the list:
Allen, Booth, Cameron, Eastman,
Graves, Huxtable. Kline, Knicker-
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24
Washington Once Gave Up

to three doctors; was kept in bed for
five weeks. Blood poison from a
spiders bite caused large, deep
sores to cover his leg The doctors
failed. then "Bucklen's Arnica
Salve completely cured me-" writes
John Washington of Bosqueville,
Tex. For eczema, boils, burns and
piles it is supreme, Csc at c. c.
Cases drug store.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24
May Not Attend Funeral.

WASHINGTON. Feb. 22.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt was notified at Hamp-
ton Roads today of the death of Stew
art Douglas Robinson, his nephew,
at Harvard college. 1t is not known
whether the president will attend the
funeral.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24

To stop that pain In the back, that
stiffness of the joints and muscles,
take Pineules. They are guaranteed.
Don't suffer from rheumatism, back
ache, kidney trouble, when you get 80
days treatment for 800. A single
dose at bed time proves their merit.
Get them today. Sold by c. w. Camp,
West Side Druggist.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1909-02-24
HIS CURSE
FULFILLED
OKlAHOMAN DEPARTS FOREVER
Sees BIB Enemies Carried to Grave
Who Tried to Hang Him
Wife Untrue Also.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Feb.
22.-"Having lived to see the fulfill
ment of a curse which l prayed upon
thirty-three Of my enemies. who,
nearly nineseen years ago, tried to
swear my life away-having sur
vived the gallows they builded for
me to hear the funeral dirge of each
of them, l now leave Oklahoma for
ever. Where l am going is the bust
mes of no one but myself-suffice 1t
to say that never again shall 1 re-
turn to the land that has blighted my
life"
This remarkable statement was
made by J. G. Adams, an Oklahoma
pioneer, as he swung upon the rear
coach of a southbound Santa Fe
passenger train one evening recently.
Away back in April. 1889. when
Oklahoma was opened to settlement,
Adams came with the rush Of home
seekers and "staked" "claim" Of
$50 acres, upon a part of which is
now situated the Oklahoma City
courthouse The remainder OF that
Claim" has long since been dotted
with six and seven story office build
ings, the total value of the ground
now running we'll up into the mil
lions.
Fight for Early Land.
Back in the early days when the
sixshooter and the Winchester were
law in Oklahoma, there came for
ward nine contestants for the Adams
Claim" At last the contest mar
rowed down to Adams and Capt. w.
l.. Couch, the latter being far famed
as a lieutenant of the original Okla
homa boomer, David L. Payne. A
fierce gun fight was the sequel to
the Adams Couch feud-a battle in
which the wife of Adams dashed be-
tween the combatants as target to
shield her husband.
Couch was killed and his dead
body was carried away by rough men
Of the frontier, who had learned to
admire him. Adams was tried for
murder, and was sentenced to be
hanged.
The fight of time brought execu-
ton day dangerously near-the
scaffold of death was built.
Prayer for Divine Aid.
One night when the gallows
seemed inevitable, so Adams related
just before his final departure from
Oklahoma. the doomed man kneeled
on the rough floor of his frontier
Jail cell and uttered prayer, YER
batim copy of which he recorded in
a book which he designates as "The
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-04-14
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES.

FOR sALE-Cheap-Ciga and souvenir
Stahai leaving city Tor Seattle fair. Call al
! a ave y W. apl4-9t'
FOR SALE-Hotel. Pa ave; value. So 400.
quick SALE $l,5oo, $1,000 cash, balance to suit
purchaser l. V STERRETT, with J. ID
YoAkLEY, go F st. y. ". apl4-3t-
FOR COMPLETE LIST OF sEIECr. bpsi-
ness places Of all kinds and prices can. You
VIII always ind attractive places al our
once oueIcd ICr sale NEW YORK BUSI-
NESS BROKERS. 1873 F. aplS-9t
BOOMING HOUSES-Read an OF them as
one may be Just the place for you: - rooms
400 block, Sd St y W, only $500 IL rooms
and baths, near union station and Iibrar,,
snap al 5000 II rooms, 200 block 18th St \
w. very cheap al 5000; u rooms. handsome
IS furnished, so block + st. N W. gfveayyav
al SOU and % rooms, 200 block Pa. ave \
W, II rooms, furnished, sacrifice 5000 NEW
YORK BUSINESS BROKERS, 142S F.
apl3-St
GROCERY STORES-COrner s f, rent. -
invoice or fltltOi BrightwoOd Park section
less tIan value at 500; near 10Th and II
SITS y T., $3.50; on Conduit road rent sol
sacrifice, $500: laurel, Md. business $500 or
brick property included. 5000: near 9Th St
aI,a Ia ave. y w. rent SO price, $50;
BUSINESS BROKERS. 14zs F. apl3-5t
HAVE cigar, drug stores. poolrooms. boteIs
barber shops, and lunchrooms at prices and
terms 10 suit NEW YORK BUSINESS
BROKERS', 1923 +. apl3-St
business woman who can interest investors
In a gentceI profitable business in Wash
ington. BOX Se5, Times oniee. aplS-st'
FOR RENT-wholesale liquor store l022 7th
St y W; present tenants 10 move soon.
Apply a. SOMMERS, so 9Th ST. y. w.
apl5-3t'
Exceptional opportunity to secure a bar
gain Tor the right man. a nice grocery; ex-
ceilent location; 500 only. Address 1925 eth
s.. ~ We aDl0.I2.14'
EOn -~rf.,-4 s.,r,..--- g5,-,.---
lessen, store established 20 years; selling on
account OF ~ health. l522 Lamont. apl3-5t
CAFE AND DAIRY LUNCH: about half val
uei business street y. W. dairy lunch. near
lth and \. w, investigate this See
IHORNTON. lo4 Sth ST n W ap12-3t
ROOMING AND BOARDING HOUSES. SIPS
Up TO S2,0o0s some excellent bargains gopd
furniture: auction prices. THORNTON 7oi
SIN ST y. w apl2-3t
CONFECTIONERY; near two schools: fruit
and confectionery store. Pa. ave Grocery
stores. $50 TO 1000 THORNTON, 7O4 6th
- y W. aplz-3t
A FORTUNE IN OKLAHOMA. The best
business opportunity in the country is in Ok
lahoma today. on an investment OF from
$1,000 to S250e0, 20co dividends can be guar
I anteed- Legitimate enterprise and no risk
taken. Write for particulars 70 Okla In
Nestment CO., Wall and Lombard SIS. Nus
49,. 80 dpLz-5L
FOR sALE-Luneh room; doing good bust
ness. opposite G. P o.. cheap. IL sold at
once. Apply % y. Cap st n T. aDl2-3t
FOR SALE-Grocery store. one Of the best
corners in the southeast; worth $3.50: SOS Tor
quick sale; owner has other business This
is a snap. inquire at store 761 7th S. K.
FURNISHED HOUSE. hned with roomers,
5000 per month Apply 729 18th 81. y. W.
w. -, - aDl--ot