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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-29
Quake Shakes California.

San Francisco, Oct. 29.-The earth=
quake reported in several places was
more severe than any experienced in
several years. In Northern California
and southern Oregon the vibrations
continued for ten to twenty-five sec
onds, according to observers in diff
ferent towns. In several places the
windows were shattered, chimneys
tumbled and in others no damage oc-
Cured. Humboldt county appears to
be the center of the disturbance. but
only meager reports were received.
the wires being interrupted. At
Crescent City there was no damage.
although the shock was the heaviest
since 1870.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-29
CONTRACTORS
HAVE CREWS
At WORK
BACKBONE OF STRIKE IN THIS
CITY SEEMS TO HAVE BROKEN
RANKS OF STRIKERS BEING
DEPLETED.

A trip over the city where the vari-
Gus contractors have work did not
indicate this morning that a strike
was in progress on street work. The
rock crusher in the south end of town
seems to be working with full crew
The Downey & Bethel mixer just
north of the crusher is working with
but two men short of a full crew;
Ball & McNerney, with the sewer
contract, has a big force OF men on
South Wenatchee avenue between
Thurston and Yakima; the Eagle
Transfer company has full force on
Kittitas; Jack O'Conor, while he has
no hammersmen, yet he has force
of teamsters and shovelers and he
started his rock crusher to work to-
day and has en- route power drill
and steam engine. The drill will be
put to work after it's arrival on the
street work and do away with a
large portion of the hammer and
drill work
To all intents and purposes the
strike Is broken in this city. While
the men had a meeting this morning
on the river bank yet the ranks of
the striking men are slowly being de-
pleted. Numbers of them are at
work in the adjacent orchards, some
have left town and others are pre-
pairing to leave, while some few have
gone back to work.
The determination on both sides
to hol dout to, the last ditch has not
been broken. The majority striking
will not go to work under the terms
of the contractors and the contract
ors will not give in to the work.
men, yet the crews of the various
contractors are being filled by out
side men and the city work is once
more progressing almost at its nor
NAL stage.
there is something unusual in pro-
gress was the fact that a special Of
ficer was guarding the South We
natchee avenue work. Occasionally
a member of the striking force would
drift along and would want to talk
with the workmen but Officer Nelson
notified them to go on and there is
no communication between the strik-
ers and the employed workmen dur
ing working hours. These are ap-
preached at night, noon and morn
ing by the strikers and urged to sus-
pend operations, but during working
hours there is no communication
whatever The second mixer be-
longing to Downey & Bethel is being
placed in readiness to grind out the
dope for the new commercial club
building and it is said that there is
a force of men ready to go on with
this work.
Secretary Filigno left last night
for Spokane. Though the men met
this morning and by unanimous vote
decided to still hold out, yet from
present indications the backbone of
the strike in this city at this time
is broken.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-29
SOUNDPROMOTERS
N COUNTY
c. ID. HILLMAN, THE WELL
TIE. SAID TO HAVE HIS EYE
ON LEAVENWORTH TRACTS.

1t is stated that there Is going to
be great things doing next spring up
the Wenatchee river. During the
1Nst month C. D. Hillman, the well
knu>.q land promoter of Seattle, has
paid several trips to Leavenworth
and vicinity and is making negotia-
tions for big tracts in that locality.
Hillman is a colonizer and it is ex-
pected that it is his idea to get hold
of a large body of land there and
sell it off in small tracts as he has
done in other sections of the Sound.
F. A Reynolds. of Mason Creek, is
in the city today and he states that
from all indications the upper end of
the county is going to have the big
gest boom next season in its. history.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-29
The Railroad Pay Roll.
Buying Hostetters Bitters.

The police of this city have long
been accustomed to going through
the lumber yards each day looking
for drunks Since the recent local
option election and the closing of the
saloons this practice has been over
looked. Yesterday, however, Chief
Inscho was back of a pile of lumber
on Columbia street and saw half a
dozen empty bottles which had con-
tanned Hostetter's Bitters and also
other patent medicine bottles 1t is
said that since the closing of the sa-
rapidly increasing.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-29
Masons Buy Hall Site.

Cashmere, Wash, Oct. 29.-The
Masonic lodge of Cashmere has pur-
chased two lots on Cottage avenue,
east of the drug store Of F. s. Bal
ley. A two-story building will be
erected.
Mr.. AMI Mrs. Guy Chapman of
Monitor are the parents Of a son,
born Monday, October Is.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. G. B. Kinney of Peshastin, Mon
day, October 25.
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Hubbard Disapproves of Situation.

Hubbard Disapproves of Situation.
State Labor Commissioner Hubbard
has been much interested in the labor
situation in this city, being interested
from the fact that the strike followed
Immediately his declaration that pub
lie work in this city should be but
eight hours instead of ten hours. Each
day he has called up Prosecuting At
torney Kemp in reference to the stu
alton and this morning after being
appraised by Mr.. Kemp of conditions
today made very plain his disapprov-
al of the strike as 1t now stands.
Commissioner Hubbard said that
men who have been satisfied with
$3.50 per day when working nine or
ten hours a day ought certainly to
continue work and be entirely salts
fed with $3.50 day under the eight
hours law as enforced. He said that
it is doing him an injustice as well
as being unfair to the employers to
strike under such conditions or to
hold out for more than what they
were receiving for nine or ten hours
a day. He also said that he did not
approve any such attitude nor would
such conduct be approved by labor
generally.
Labor Commissioner Hubbard's
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-29
Ship Apples at Cashmere.

Cashmere, Oct. 29.-The apple
crop is being shipped as fast as a
small army of pickers and packers
can prepare it, From eight to 10
cars are being shipped daily. Esti-
mates place the crop at about rs per
cent as compared with last season.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-29
Won't Be q Saloon i'm the State in
Ten Years From Now.

Spokane, Oct 29.-John p. st.
John, formerly governor of Kansas,
who has come to Spokane to begin
the fight for prohibition in the state
of Washington, made two predictions
in the course of an interview:
'Ten years hence there won't be a
legalized saloon within the bound
areies of this commonwealth. Spo-
kane will be dry in five years from
this time"
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-29

Bought Horses in Washington ID. C..
George D. Brown, of Chelan Falls,
is in the city today, coming down
for the purpose of taking up with
him fancy driving team shipped
him from Washington, D. C. The
horses are well matched Hamilton
ians and are expected to step over
the road at very fast clip.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-29
Bought 20 III. p. Forde.

George H. Ellis has Joined the
ranks of auto enthusiasts and is the
possessor of 20 h. p. Forde auto
mobile which arrived here yesterday.
Mr.. Ellis tried out the machine here
yesterday and he promises to be one
of the most enthusiastic automobiles
of the valley.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-29

FOR $2,535, 600 HE PICKS UP
ENOUGH COMMON STOCK TO
SECURE CONTROI-GETS THE
SHARES FOR 65.

Spokane, Oct. 29.-To prevent the
Spokane & Inland Empire system
from passing into the control of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul rail-
road, the Hill interests have bought
so per cent Of the common stock. The
actual buyer of the stock was the
Northwest Improvement company,
which is the holding company Of the
Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific.
The stock was bought at 65. While
this is 20 to 25 points higher than
the stock has sold for locally, it
would not be reasonable to suppose
that Graves, who made the deal for
the sale of the stock, would be able
to deliver 50 per cent without buy
ing up enough of the stock to boost
its value, and the Northwest Improve
ment company readily might have
agreed to pay $65 for 60 per cent
Vi luc COHIuOu.
Capitalized at $40, ,OOO, 900.
The Spokane & Inland Empire sys-
tenn is capitalized for $10,000,000
preferred and $4,000 common. Prac-
tically all of the common is issued.
while more than half of the preferred
is still in the treasury. The pre-
ferred has no voting power, hence the
Improvement company did
not buy any of it.,
According to the records of the
state railway commission at Olympia.
the Great Northern already owned
$1,OS3,S50 preferred and $2,157,3507
common. This valuation evidently is
on par basis. which would NEAR
that Hill owned 1000 shares of tht
common AS so per cent of all thu :
stock amounts to 10000 shares and
Hill already owned 21,000 shares, he
would have to buy $4,000 shares to
get 60 per cent. This would make
the deal. at $65 share, amount to
s2,535,00o.
About six weeks ago the Spokane
& Inland was negotiating for the sale
of it's entire system to the Chicago.
Milwaukee & st. Paul. Such a deal
naturally could not be consummated
without the knowledge of Hill, and
naturally, too, it did not appeal to
him to have a competing railroad in
control of line in which he is inter
ested and which competes with his
own road in the most important part
of the Palouse country. Hence the
deal whereby Hill takes control.
The Hill and Graves interests to-
gether are stated to have always held
control of the system, and in order
troll they needed only to acquire
Graves stock The current report
among some of the minority stock
holders is that the Hill interests will
not buy more than 60 per cent of the
stock, and some are complaining that
Graves has sold them OUT in dis
posing of his own stock without CIV
ing the minority holders chance to
get in on the deal.
Whether Hill is openly to take con-
troll of the road can only be surmised.
One rumor says that the new control
is to be announced within a short
time. and another sys that Hill will
leace the present management undis-
turbed and conceal his ownership as
long as possible. for the reason that
Graves can get more concessions in
the way OF franchises than Hill could
get out of the city.
Hills control of this system means
that he owns the Spokane Traction
streetcar lines--or. rather,
that his railroad owns this property.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-29

William walker Goes to MANSFIELD.
William Walker, who has been day
telegraph operator at the Great Nor
thern depot for the past two years,
leaves tomorrow for Mansfield, where
he has accepted the position of ticket
agent at the depot.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-29

Mrs. E. G. Bowersox returned yes
terday on 10. .43 from Idaho, where
she has been visiting relatives for
some time.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-29
NEW DEPOT NEARS
COMPLETION
OTHER RAILROAD WORK IN PRO-
GRESS-NEW ROUND HOUSES
ASSUME SHAPE-NEW YARD
AGE GOING IN.

That the Great Northern railroad
officials appreciate the Importance OF
Wenatchee as a rapidly growing CEN
ter is evidenced by the large amount
of work now going on in this city.
The new depot, new roundhouse,
more yardage, new fruit houses and
other improvements are evidence of
its rapidly increasing Importance
consequent to the development of
North Central Washington.
The new depot is now nearing COM
pletion The brick and carpenter
work are now practically completed
and the building now only waits the
completion of the plumbing. heating
and few other finishing touches.
The building will be occupied by
December l. The new sidewalk lead
ing fro mthe depot to the center OF
the city will also be completed with
in few days.
AS a terminus of the Big Bend
branch of the Great Northern round
house is needed and it is now assum-
ing shape. The turnstile is now in
and the frame work of the round
house is up. This will be large enough
to accommodate five engines. Shops
of more or less importance will also
be put in. A large force of men is
at work on this end and on the
trackage necessary. The new round
house is located short distance
north of the Beal mill.
Work on Subway.
Work is progressing on the sub
way leading under the tracks just
south of the new depot. This will
afford an opportunity for teams to
get to and from the boat landing
without crossing the railroad.
The work now progressing will be
a considerable advantage to the We
natchee Canning company, its plant
being located just across the track
from the depot and the subway leads
to one side of it.
The Railroad Pay Roll.
The erection here of the round
house and the other work consequent
to the making of this the terminus
of the Big Bend road makes a ma
terial addition to Wenatchee in the
way of a pay roll Probably not less
than 25 families will be located here
as a result.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-29
NEED TURKEYS NEXT
MONTH
MARKET MEN LOOKING AT LO-
CAL SUPPLY FOR THANKSGIV-
ING-SUPPLY AND DEMAND
APPARENTLY EQUAL.

Four weeks from yesterday is the
big turkey day, between which day
and Christmas the people Of this val
ley will eat probably 5000 or more
copies of the great American bird, in
addition to multituies of geese,
chickens, ducks, squads and other un-
feathered folk.
Market men are already commenc-
ing to look around at the local sup
ply, and the great packing concerns
have their agents out in the country
districts of Missouri and other east
ern poultry raising sections to buy
up large quantities for the Thanks
giving festivity.
Supply Very Good.
The supply is apparently very good
although there will probably be no
surplus. It is rather too early to
make predictions concerning the
price, as the local growers. are in
clined to hold back and refrain until
the last minute from making deals.
1t is thought that the retail price
of dressed turkeys may go to 80
cents per pound, yet again, it may
not be more than 25 cents. 1t is said
that poultry raisers in the valley have
birds.
The most of the Thanksgiving tur-
key dinners in the city will be fur
nished from the local supply.
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Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25

About 11,0OO acres are under cultivation,
which usually yield two crops year or 8
crops In two years Of about 1R tons each,
the entire annual product being valued at
about $2,500,0O0. This Is the crop most
consumed In the Territory, the exports for
the last year having been only $140,773.
The industry has suffered much of late
years from competition In the mainland
markets with rice grown In Texas and other
parts of the United States, and importations
aggregating about 100000 annually of ia
panese rice, which is preferred by japanese
to either Chinese or japanese varieties
raised in the Territory. In order to take
advantage OF lower duties, much of the ia
panese rice is imported in the unpublished
state to be polished in the Territory An
increase in the duty on the unpublished rice
would assist the home production. Much is
being done by the federal experiment sta
ton to improve varieties of rice and meth
DDS Of cultivation.
Delegate Kalanianaoe in reviewing the
tariff demands Of the rice industry, called
the attention of the Ways and Means Com
mittee to the discrepancy existing between
the present duty Of cents per pound on
cleaned rice and that OF only ~ cents on
uncleaned rice.
The duty of cents on cleaned rice is
evidently the basing rate, and the American
growers have already asked that this rate
be continued In the new tariff law. The
rate OF ~ cents on uncleaned rice was pre-
sumably intended as an equivalent to the
rate on cleaned rice but 1t has not proven
SO In practice.
The only differenttal that should be made
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25
THE HlLo BREAkWATER.

The undertaking of the most vital import.
ance to the harbor Of Hilo is the breakwater
the appropriation for which alter hard
fight was carried through Congress with an
appropriation Of $500 900. This contract was
awarded to ID. T.. MetZger and work was at
once started upon It. A spur track was run
to the quarry at Pahoa from the main line
of the Hilo Railroad and the rock after be.
ing blasted out and handled by enormous
derricks is loaded onto fiat cars and carried
a distance OF thirty miles to the breakwater.
This rock is especially fitted for the work
1t has weight OF 40 pounds TO the square
foot and quarries easily. The surface rocks
are from four to five tons weight and the
smaller rock Is used underneath to fill up
the holows. The breakwater at the pres.
ent writing is out nearly Ave hundred feet
and the work is progressing rapidly. The
breakwater when finished will cost much
more than the present appropriation but the
contractor is paid a certain price per ton
for the rock In position and work will be
continued until the present appropriation is
exhausted. When finished the breakwater
will be considerably over n mile In length
and will make Hilo Harbor one of the safest
on the Islands.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25
PROTECTION FOR RICE
Industry Once Second In Importance Fast Being Forced To
The Wall By Japanese Competition.

between cleaned and unceaned rice Is the
loss In weight by cleaning and polishing.
This loss In weight Is only from to 10 per
cent: therefore the dfferential on unclean.
ed rice should only be at most, 10 per cent
Of the duty ON cleaned rice, or two.tenths
of a cent per pound, making the equivalent
instead of 1.25 cents.
The reason for this basis Of equivalent
is that both the loss In weight and the cost
of polishing are fully covered in the lower
price at which the unpublished rice Is i'm.
ported; therefore the only difference that
should be made in the tariff is to cover the
loss In weight of the rice upon which the
duty has been paid, and this Is fully met
by an allowance of 10 per cent of the duty
on cleaned rice
Because of the present inequality in the
rice schedules the most of the rice import.
ed to this country Is In the form of unpolish.
ed rice in order to obtain the lower duty.
In Hawaii about "a 900 900 pounds of ia.
panese rice are imported annually. and prac.
tically all of Il IL entered as "uncleaned"
rice. The result is that this Japanese com.
petition is destroying the rice-growing in
dustry In Hawaii. II Is also making an un.
reasonable competition for the rice growers
of the mainland.
As II was evidently the intention of the
protection of cents per pound on cleaned
rice, which rate was designed aS the basic
rate on rice, we ask that the rate on un.
cleaned rice be fixed at the proper equiv.
alent of, say, is cents per pound.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25
EVENING BULLETIN INDUSTRIAL
THE HIL0 RAILROAD co.

One Schenectady 80 ton locomotive.
One Baldwin 20 ton locomotive.
One Baldwin 20 ton locomotive.
One Porter 20 ton locomotive.
Two frst-class coaches.
One second-class coach.
Two canopy top cars.
Eighteen 40 ton fiat cars
Twenty 40 ton box cars.
Nine 4 ton fiat cars.
One 40 ton derrick car.
One 90 ton coal car.
One 20 ton tank car.
Two stock cars
A total of Ave locomotives and Hfty.seven
cars.
new bond issue is underway to provide
an extension of the line to Hamakua. The
road will be built to Paauhau, forty-four
miles In length. On this branch 20 ID.
steel rails and hardwood ties will be used
The first spur will be built to Hakalau,
a distance of fifteen miles, and while this
is in operation the further extension will
be underway.
When the entire road is in operation.
all sugar and freight will come and go
through the port of Hilo which has pre-
viously been shipped from precarious land
ings at the different plantations
Hilo Breakwater.
Congress at its last session appropriated
$500, 900 and authorized a continuing con-
tract for 100000 more toward the con-
struction OF breakwater at Hilo, on a
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25

- HIS railroad. the only broad gauge
road in the islands was built in
1904 and fnanciered by d. I'm
Dillingham; and Co. II is built of 60 lb.
steel rails and rock-ballasted throughout
There are in all forty-four miles of track
as follows: The Belt line lla miles to
Waiakea; main line, "a miles to Puma
plantation; Is miles to Olaa, 16 olaa to
PUMA, Olaa Branch, 1G miles, olaa to
Glenwood; Hawaii Mill branch u mile to
Hawaii Plantation, sundry tracks 1 q
miles. At Hio there are two steel bridges
The company owns all their right of way
except a few hundred feet of leasehold.
There are ten combination passenger
and freight depots three of which are in
houses and construction and repair shops
in which the company builds all of its
own ears and does all repair work. The
company has the only foundry and public
machine shop plant on the Island of Hawaii
The company owns two wharves:
First: River Wharf, on the Wailoa
River adjoining the shops for the use of
lighters. Two warehouses adjoin II; the
main line runs past it and two local tracks
run across IL.
Second: Hilo Harbor Wharf. This
wharf is 500 feet long and 100 feet wide,
with "a feet of water alongside, and is
covered with a substantial warehouse. The
company plan in the near future, to deep
en- the water at their wharf sufficiently to
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25

accommodate any ship ahoat
Rolling Stock.
The rolling stock is of the best class
Baldwin and Schenectady locomotives and
well built cars of the company's own con-
struction. The five locomotives are six to
eight years old and Sheir effectiveness Is
well maintained. The passenger. freight ami
miscellaneous ears are in good condition.
List of locomotives and cars now in use:
One Baldwin 70 ton locomotive
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25

plan estimated by the Army Engineers to
cost $1,700,000. The building Of the
breakwater will, from the beginning, pro-
portionately protect the harbor, and when
completed, will make Hilo Harbor one of
the best and safest in the world.
r. W. Filler, Supt. of the Hilo R. r. Co.
was for many years superintendent Of the
Kahului r. r. in Maui and under his man
agement the Hilo r. r. is making rapid
strides.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25

There are four frst-class hotels in Ho-
nolulu. The Alexander Young and the
Royal Hawaiian are in the city proper; the
Moana and the Honolulu Seaside are locat-
ed at Waikiki Beach. This suburb is four
miles from the business center and its bath
ing is famous. There are half dozen fam
lily hotels, great number Of lodging houses
and still greater number Of boarding
houses. Hotel rates are about the same as
on the mainland. Boarding houses charge
from 81 to $l2 per week, and lodging
houses from SO to $12 per month. Restaur-
ant charges are reasonable; service excel
lent.
Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-03-25

r. HE production of rice is conducted
largely by the Chinese upon land leas-
ed at rentals Of from $40 to $50 per
annum per acre. The rice plantations are
usually small seldom exceeding 100 acres