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Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-21

find that we have a number of iron
beds of which We have only one or two
in stock. and tn use we will close out at
YOU own figure. An $3.50 go QE
bed, during this sale for. ...... 60 "
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-23
THIS is MY 18Th BIRTHDAY
Marquis of Salisbury.

James Edward Hubert Gascoyne
Cecil, fourth marquis of Salisbury,
was born in London, October %,
1861, and received his education at
Elton and at University college, Ok
ford. From 1885 to 1892 he repre-
scented the Darwen division Of Lam
cashire in the house of commons. In
1900 he became under secretary for
foreign affairs and continued in that
position until 1908, when he became
lord privy seal. He succeeded to the
title in 1903, upon the death of his
father, the third marquis of Sails
bury, who was a famous statesman
and former British premier. The
present marquis was married in 1887
to Lady Cicely Alice Gore, daughter
of the earl of Arran. He is the pos
SCISSOR of magnificent estates aggre-
eating 10000 acres in Hertfordshire
and Dorsetshire.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-23
WENATCHEE'S CIVIC SPIRIT.

life today than
conditions The growth
of brought with problems affecting their
social and moral webng but the the difficulties the
been the effort rec them These efforts have
taken the form of graduating graft and necieny from admns
ton where they known exist of simplifying the system OF
Of endeavorng conditions at
fecng health by giving heed proved methods of sanitation In
addition these tendencies special effort aesthetic
endeavOr make the streets and the structures
lining them conform well accepted ideas of the beautiful
In order general scheme combining both beauty and
utility cities which have without regard to these
sderaons expanding of which might have
defined accomplish these objects been
followed from the beginning Washington the most beautiful city
fortunate having general plan for its construction
tearing building applied urtherng
work that has already been accomplished.
The principles which applicable large cities equally
smaller Right here in Wenahee be we'll
pended i'll expended accordance whether good Judgment
judgment used The municipality has entered important
of its growth and if good judgment exercised in the projection of
public the work will not have to be done
subsequent time In formulating comprehensive plan of
accommodate the of particular property holders the
administration wisely just recently holder
dna of the regrade and who thought that the
might have been done otherwise recognition of the
benefit the municipality since the results of the work have become
apparent himself well satisfied with
it done This is evincing the kind of public spirit
The benefit which the comprehensive scheme public improve
which have been thoughtfuy and carefully planned and
neighboring speak complimentary
destined make of the beautiful and
the smaller in the Men with capital
much faoraby with the advantages of
than they months
The why forging
the have insisted having control it's civic policies
who combine good judgment with integrity and
much to city than stone and mortarhere must be civic
pride and public spirit
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-23

but popularity called the Federal
City Only one wall OF the White
House had been built and the site for
the national capitol building had been
scarcely surveyed.
The enumerators employed to take
the first census were not even pro-
vided with blanks and they used such
odds and ends as they CHANGED to
have, or could beg or borrow, such
as butchers brown paper, bits of
parchment, the back of wall paper, or
slips pasted in long ribbons. One of
the greatest difficulties in taking the
census was religious superstition.
Many of the preachers were violently
opposed to census, because in Bib
lical times a curse fell upon the land
when the children of Israel were
numbered.
The first census showed a popula-
ton of 100000 whites and 100, 900
slaves, or every fifth person In the
country was slave.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-23

and to school district business than
he has to his personal affairs. He
has repeatedly said that were it not
for his desire to see continued the
work now outlined by himself and
the present council that he would
gladly step aside for successor. AS
was stated in the Daily World some
two weeks ago, the fight between Mr..
Gellatly and Mr. Grass has in it ele-
ments of political revenge. It is
known that Mr.. Gellatly is available
timber for the legislature or for con-
gress, while Henry Grass would wear
the judicial ermine. Both aspire TO
leadership and the one is in the way
of the other. The victory at the pri-
maries November will be a step
forward in the political aspirations
of one of them and a downward step
for the other.
Mr.. Gellatly is the head of strong
local organization, but as yet none
have been called into council but it
is expected that meeting will be
held next week
Both leaders in the fight are con-
fident of victory next month and the
outcome will have much bearing upon
the improvement situation and the
dry town policy.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-23
!.
lem as an issue up for solution.
Sewerage Question.

One of the most important ques-
lions to the growth of town is the
question of sewerage and the present
city administration is having plans
prepared for an extensive system
covering the west end of the city.
he present plans call for an outlay OF
some $4,000. 1t is likely that some
people will vote against the present
administration on account of the cost
of this work. The council, however,
asserts that bonding scheme has
been planned whereby the payments
for this work can be extended over
a period of five years or more. Whe-
Their the present administration is re-
turned or not the sewers will have
to be built sooner or later. TIL ad-
ministration is anticipating the needs
of the city and if this work is re-
tarded by the election this fall then
it will bob up again for some future
council to worry over.
The attempted solution of these
problems while they have made the
present administration a great many
friends have also aligned many
against the present powers that be.
Both Sides Organizing.
Henry Grass is a keen politician
and knows the value of organization.
He is there with the glad hand and
many differences of past political bat
ties have been bridged over and for
mer opponents are now lined up I'M
der his leadership. He has with him
strong organization which has its
regular officers and committees.
John A. Gellatly, on the other
hand, while just as astute politician
as Mr.. Grass has deemed it only
necessary to rely on his record as
mayor during the past epoch Of de-
velopment Mr.. Gellatly is busy
man and for the past year has de-
voted more of his time to the city
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-23

THIS DATE IN HISTORY-OCT 2S.
1803-Edmund Oendleton, father
of Virginia's declaration of independ-
ence, died. Born September 8, 1921.
1817-James William Denver. gov
ernor Of Kansas. after whom the
capital of Colorado was named, born.
Died August 8, 1894.
1837-Osceola. the Seminole chief
was captured near St. Augustine
Fla.
1S4S-General njischgratz sum-
moned Vienna to surrender.
1S55-Kansas constitutional con-
vention met at Topeka.
1894-John Lovesee, the third
white settler in Winnebago county,
ILL.,, died at Rockford.
1905-President Roosevelt deliver
ed an address in Mobile, Ala
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-23

r. L. Tolliver, delegate to the
North Central Washington eDvelop
ment league, is in Wenatchee today
and in remineScing with Secretary
| Elliott of the league it was learned
! that Mr.. Holliver owes his location
in Washington to one of the fruit
shows in which Wenatchee apples
were exhibited. AS Mr.. Tolliver ar
gued with his father in a communi-
cation that "they grow big red ap-
Piles and grow most anything" and it
occurred to him that it would be
more satisfactory to grow apples than
in growing corn.
The Tollivers came from central
Illinois, where they were farming
corn on a very large basis. Young
Tolliver himself was responsible for
the growing of $50 acres of corn and
when one takes into consideration an
Illinois corn crop and the handling
of $50 acres one will appreciate the
pluck and tenacity of these gentle
men.
Mr.. Tolliver explained his Ephrata
holdings. Mr.. Tolliver has some 10
acres set to trees and it is watered
by number of springs which are all
let into a six inch pipe with some
so feet head, giving him in the
neighborhood of 40 to so feet miner
inches of water and enables him to
water very large tract. In a few
years to come, with proper care, it
will doubtless develop into one of the
finest orchards in this part of the
country. Provisions are being made
by the TOllivers and others in Ephra-
ia to conserve certain water into
reservoirs and irrigate as large an
area as possible
1t might be said in addition that
they are heartily in favor of the
Quincy irrigation project.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-23
TAKING THE ]. 5.
CENSUS

Washington. Oct. 23.-The frs;
important step in the gigantic task CT
taking the thirteenth decennial Unit.
| ed States census was taken today
when civil service examinations were
held in New York, Boston, Philadel.
phia, Atlanta, New Orleans, Cincin-
natl, st. Paul San Francisco, Denver
and several other large cities for the
| selection of the first batch of the
three thousand temporary clerks who
are to be appointed in the census but
reau. Very few appointments from
today's examination will be made be-
fore the first of the year and not
many will be made until next April
The maximum force will bed rawn
about next August.
These 5000 appointees will be Civ.
en- salaries of about $500 per annum
at the beginning, but promotions to
$500 per annum, at least, will be
reasonably rapid for those who rem
der satisfactory service. All appoint
ments will be on probation, subject
to termination at one month or any
later period if the appointee does not
come up to the requirements.
During the period of greatest &C
tivity about $500 clerks will be en-
ployed in the office and $1,000 men in
the field. This force represents a
larger body than the combined pop
ulation of New York and Boston 12O
years ago, when the first census was
taken.
The enumeration of 1890 cost $44,-
600, and at that the money ran out
and the names were never printed.
Next years census has behind it an
appropriation of $10,000,000, and an
emergency fund of 100000 addi-
tional. In other words, the design is
to proceed regardless of cost, eff
ficiency being of more importance
than economy. The aim is to make
the census of 1910 the most efficient
ever taken in the United States.
The first census numbered the in
habitants of the thirteen original
states. On the whole 1t was vastly
more difficult to take the first CEN
sus than it will be to take the forth
coming enumeration of 1910. Condi-
lions were much more difficult. All
work west of the Alleghenies was
practically abandoned, in spite of the
fact that there was an important in
terest in the northwest, but Detroit
was not reported, neither was Vim
cennes.
Philadelphia was then the capital
of the nation, and Washington was
still a paper plan without a name,
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-23
Steamer Enterprise Stops.

Hunters, Wash. Oct. 23.-The
steamer Enterprise, plying the Col
umbia between Kettle Falls and the
mouth of the Spokane, will lay up
for the season November /.
w. T. Clark of Wenatchee, E. P.
Twohy of Spokane and T. ]. Hum
bird of Standpoint, stockholders IN
the Hunters Land company, were IN
town this week inspecting the COM
pany's holdings.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-23
The Water Situation.

The water situation during the
summer has been miserable. The
city administration is facing the
blame for this. This much, however,
can be said for the improvement of
the system: Consulting City Engin-
eer Hanford and an expert from the
Washington Iron Works, Seattle,
carefully examined the pumping plant
and reported that at last it is in per-
feet running order and capable of
furnishing the city with an abundance
of water City Water Commissioner
Sherburne is this week cleaning out
the sand and general accumulation
of the past year from the reservoir
south of town, thus putting it in
shape for active use during the COM
ing season. The three reservoirs are
capable of more than meeting the
city's requirements. 1t is now gen.
orally deemed that the long vexed
question of an adequate supply of wa
ter has been solved and that neither
Mayor Gellatly, should he be reflect
ed, or in the case of the election of
Mr.. Grass will have the water prob
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CONTEST EN[|vENS
CAMPAIGN
CONTINUED from Page ~

lection of the assessments.
This is causing considerable dis
cussiOn on the streets and the dis
satisfaction may cause the admins
tration the loss of some votes, as il
is argued that the macadam apple
now will be an additional expense
when the paving is done.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1909-10-23
1t Is a Little Different

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making slowly experimenting along line
thoroughly
We profing by the
dollar do the work should and seeing
positively that this
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handling and $50
for contractors who
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less than so for
5Ocentsp ton OF OF concentrates
shelters that will handle ore right and
profits
to AN almostabs
difference the this has been
proted
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The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-08-27

The recent floods In northern Mex
dous difficulties which accompany rail-
way operation in that and other noun.
tain districts. 1t is not infrequent for
train to be left marooned on short
piece Of track with no rails lett either
before or behind it. Conditions here
are unalterable and the problem of the
builders is to dodge the irresistible and
plan to withstand other assaults.
Eventually the adverse conditions will
force the creation of railroads in
northern Mexico which will rank with
the magnificent systems of the east,
but they will cost minis of money.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-08-27

There is the most extensive sham
war in progress. on the Massachusetts
coast this week that has ever been
undertaken in the United States. The
attacking force consists of the COM
panies of the United States coast ar
tillery. Sham battles have been ar.
ranged in Plymouth and Bristol coun-
ties to determine whether Massachu-
sets, and particularly Boston, are safe.
ly protected against foreign foe. A
war balloon is to be displayed in ac-
tual service. The vanguard of the at
lacking army were to approach Bos'
ton in Automobiles and attempt rear
attack upon the city. A barrel of
giant tacks will be carefully placed in
the sandy roads over which the enemy
must pass, and it is thought that they
will prove excellent defense. Great in
terest is felt throughout the country
in these maneuvers.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-08-27

China recalls her genial Minister
WI at Washington that she may re-
place him with more aggressive dip
lomat. and appeals to America and
Europe to help her stem the tide of
Japanese aggression in pushing the
UNDERWRITING railway into the heart
of Manchura. There is little use in
Chinas begging for assistance from
other powers. She is in the hands of
the Anglo-Japanese alliance, which is
reinforced by a cordial understanding
between Great Britain, Russia and
France. In the face of such an al.
lance even the aggressive Emperor
William is silent. America still favors
the open door in the far east. but our
diplomatic victories have not been fol.
lowed up by commercial victories. We
sold China far less goods last year
than we did six years ago. We have
failed to take advantage of opportu
nifty opened to us by our brilliant dip
! lomats and if the open door is closed
! in our face by the Anglo-Japanese Rus
sian combination we are wholly to
blame for our own loss.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-08-27

Being a philanthropist is a most
thankless task, whether 1t be an in
dividual or nation which strives to
live up to certain ideals of civilization
and of duty which are above and be-
yond those accepted by the rank and
file Both England and the United
States have, during the last half cen
fury, tried to lend helping hand to
weaker peoples, but in no instance has
the assistance been appreciated. Eng
land has done great things in India,
but in return she has received bitter
hatred, constant rebellion and bullets
of assassins. Egypt repays her debt
of gratitude with fear and hatred. The
Cubans today like better the Spaniards
who abused, defrauded, imprisoned
and starved them than the Americans
who saved and regenerated them.
They would prefer to slip back into
the state of ignorance. poverty, dirt
and disease from which America tried
to lift them. Porto Rica, the Philip
pines and the Panamans are no better
Still both nations and individuals must
go on doing their work in the world
according to the light which has been
given them, whether it be accepted in
spirit of gratitude or with calumny
and abuse.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-08-27

A committee of congress is to have
a beautiful time during the vacation.
Its members will travel through the
principal countries of Europe, will
make tour of our own great lakes,
and will proceed down the Mississippi,
all for the purpose of gathering new
facts about water transportation. The
time was when these junketing enter.
prises could be INDUCED in very eau.
tiously. The public was sensitive to
such use of its money, and travelling
representatives were apt to be left at
home next time. But billion dollar
sessions have changed all this; and
now congress never adjourns without
having made provision for the enter
tainment of a good share Of its mem.
bers luxuriously at the public expense.
There is nothing which these gentle
men will learn during their travels
that they could not find out by spend
ing three days in any good library and
three more in talking with business
men who know what is doing in the
world. They would find the facts
| briefly as follows: The waterways Of
Europe are far more generally util-
lied and more highly developed than
those of the United States because
railroad rates in those countries are
so much higher than here. Articles of
large bulk and small value could not
be transported at all for the rates that
foreign railroads charge, and the COM
parative neglect or, rather. failure to
use the American waterway is not due
to any deep railroad conspiracy, but
to the low railroad rate which makes
the waterway less of a necessity. The
second reason why our river is bare
of boats is because they are wholly
destitute of traffic conveniences. We
possess, as has been pointed out, none
of the barges that ply profitably on
the rivers of Germany and France.
Our river harbors are innocent of a de.
cent landing place for steamers, and
of modern appliances for unloading
vessels. In short, we have not used
our waterways because we did not
need them; and now that the increase
of transportation demand is forcing
us to utilize them, we have only tc
make these simple business arrange
ments. This is all that the committee
can discover and intelligent people
know il already
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-08-27

Not only are great irrigation schemes
subduing deserts and barren stretches
which have never brought forth fruit
but it is now thought practicable to
reconstruct the ruined system of Chal.
dean and Assyrian bitches and canals
to restore fertility to the Mesopatamia
region. The soil is remarkably pro-
ductive when sufficient moisture can
be obtained, and it is not unlikely that
revival of agricultural pursuits in
this section, rich only with historical
and biblical lore, will result in the
building of a new Babylon, a great
metropolis which will constitute the
gateway between the near east and
India.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-08-27

This has been year notable for it's
anniversaries of the birthdays of dis
tinguished men and, as well, of import
ant inventions and discoveries. On
the Goth of this month it will be one
hundred years since Oliver Wendell
Holmes was born. Perhaps among all
American authors none have ever been
possessed of a finer sense of humor or
more delightful literary sense than the
genial "Autocrat of the Breakfast Ia
ble." He left no words that sting or
hurt and many that bless and please.
He was the beloved friend of that Won
derful circle of men and women Of let
tiers, including Lowell, Agassiz, Phil
lips, Bryant, Emerson, Whittier, Long
fellow, Sumner, Fields, Julia Ward
Howe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bayard
Taylor, Howells, Higginson, Edward
Everett Hale, and host of others as
sociated with. them. Boston and New
England can we'll be proud of him, but
the entire country will pay glad
tribute to one who not only left his
impress upon it's literature but, by
the warmth of his great heart and the
purity of his life added another incen.
tive to make life worth living to pos
terity.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-08-27

The Italian historian Ferrero says
that Americans are great wealth pro-
ducers and have advanced in the scale
of living beyond most European ma
tions, but is impressed with the idea
that Americans are not saving. There
are plenty of instances in which this
criticism would be entirely correct, but
there are thousands of others where
if the conditions were fully under.
stood in the light of American business
customs and demands, the things
which bespeak extravaganza to the
foreigner could be accounted for in
America as a business asset. 1t pays
in America to have a good appearing
home. In France they are taxed so
high that people purposely allow their
houses to look shabby and run down
This would be a most wasteful thing
to do in America. One nation cannot
Judge of another's real economy or
extravaganza any more safely than
one person can of another whose real
condition he does not know.
The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1909-08-27

Even if the new tariff schedule is
unsatisfactory in many of its sched-
ules, the sensible thing for the people
to do is to accept what concessions
they have received as a step in the
right direction. No great reform is
attained in day or year, but the
right about face has been effected.
From now on the republican party is
committed to a reverse march which
must be continued. There is no popu-
lar demand for free trade, but for a
sane protective policy and that will
be obtained through the republican
party, by evolution in the ideas of the
party.