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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
T. R. AND SON GOOD
TO BE WITH, HE SAYS

WAVERLY, N. NJ, Aug. 26.-J. AL
den Loring of Owego, n. Y, one of the
field naturalists that accompanied the
Roosevelt African expedition, deliv-
cred his first lecture, Through Africa
With Roosevelt" here tonight as one
of the attractions of the Old Home
Week celebration. Mr.. Lorng COW
cred the entire trip from Mombasa,
British East Africa, to GondokOro on
the Nile, where the big game hunting
practically ceased. After describing
the habits of the natives and game
and relating many interesting expert
ences tina befell various members of
the party, the speaker said
Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit are
two of the finest men to be with in
camp that l have met. Their whole
interest was for the good of the eX-
petition and they added many rare
animals to the collection simply be-
cause they were determined to make
it as complete and valuable as posi-
BILE. Although handicapped by poor
man. Like all spOrtsmen, he made
many good shots and he made many
poor ones, but as whole his shoot
ing was above the average and he fire.
quently brought down many flying
birds, such as herons, cranes and
greater bustards. Hunting dangerous
game, such as buffaloes, elephants,
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
MANY TROPHIES
ARE OFFERED
Racing Association Cups Shown
in Windows of Star Cloth
ing Company.

Emmett Harris, manager of the
Speed King Racing association,
which is to hold a series of races
here the latter part of this week
and the first of next week, returned
from Seattle Monday, announcing
that he has completed all arrange
ments for the big races to be pulled
off here and that everything prom
Uses this will be one of the most sue
cussful tournaments that association
has ever held any place in the state.
Ship Cars.
He announced that they Grated
their cars to ship at Seattle yester-
day morning, and that the four ma
chimes will be here Wednesday or
Thursday, so that the drivers will
have plenty of time to try the cars
out thoroughly on the new track,
before the final events Saturday,
Sunday and Monday. He said last
night in an interview that the work
on the track was coming along in
first class shape and that when they
are through they will have a track
here which will be at least six Sec
pnds faster than the Meadows at Sc
attic, caused by the fact that the
track at the Meadows is much
harder than this and not banked so
high at the end turns, making a fast
turn exceedingly dangerous for this
reason. He says that they will en-
deavor to break all previous state
records on the North Yakima track
and thinks it can be easily done. He
said, continuing:
Best Track in State.
without a doubt, North Yakima
has the finest race track, especially
for motor cars, in the state of WASH
ington, with the track at Walla
Walla coming in second. The soil
here is of just the exact firmness to
make good track and this one has
been exceptionally well worked ever
since it was first built, I understand.
Many Valuable Cups
"SiX of those cups we have on dis
play in the windows of the Star
Clothing company are to be award
ed at the races here. The largest
one, what we call the Speed King
Racing Association Sweepstakes
trophy will be given for the three
day 10-hour race, any kind of car,
just so it is an automobile, being
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
DR.. CHAMBERLIN
AGAINST DIVISION
Believes His Election Assured by
Withdrawal of C C. Lee
From Race.

pr. c. w. Chamberlain of Granger,
candidate for the house of repre-
sentatives. who was in the city yes
terday, expressed himself as en-
phatically opposed to any division OF
the county.
He feels that the lower valley
should have representation in the
lower house of the Legislature, and
with the elimination of G. g. Lee OF
Toppenish, who has withdrawn from
the race, that there is very little
doubt of his election.
Il have never favored the division
Of the county into two parts" said
DR.. Chamberlain, land l am not go
ing to begin advocating it with my
election to the office of state repre-
sentative. l would strongly eppeee
any such movement that came up, as
I see no valid or reasonable cause
for changing the boundary lines Of
either Yakima or Benton counties
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
FIGHTER HAS NAME ERASED
Precedent Set Means That No
Longer May People Elect Man
Against His Wishes.

DoWntrodden politicians chrked
up bit Friday afternoon when they
heard that no longer could they be
rushed into office against their will.
Hereafter when the Office seeks the
man, the latter may say nay, nay,
and no one shall say him aye. More
over, when after the earnest solicit
tation of his friends, he announces
himself, and then wants to decline,
he has a right to, and an aroused
electorate may not rush him into
public place whether he will or no.
The Court Commissioner set that
precedent in deciding that O. A.
Fechter. erstwhile state senatorial
candidate, subject to the primaries,
had the right to have his name
stricktn from the ballot. after it had
been sent to Olympia. Secretary of
State I. M. Howell had ruled that a
technicality made it impossible for
Fechters name to come off
I'm not much on these technical
tiles" said Deputy Prosecutor Walk
er Moren. but is only simple just
ice that a man should not be COM
PEELED to run for Office against his
will, The principle is of course that
the office shall seek the man. but
hasn't the man got a right to run
away and hide? l don't believe any
man should be made to martyr him
self for the pleasure of the populace.
THE office has cought me, and,
may add, has succeeded in trailing
me down. But it's always been my
experience that there are plenty of
men who are unablt to hide their
tracks when fleeing from the demon
public service. Why then should q
man be jumped on and made to run
against his will when so many feel
called but so few are chosen"
Tht force of the argument was toe
much for Court Commissioner Gre
sap, and he said after adjournment
that he would have been willing to
give several other candidates permis-
sion to withdraw their names.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31

rhinoceroses and lions, he exhibited
the courage of a veteran big-game
hunter. and the quickness with which
he mastered the situation when in
dangerous places, and the accuracy
of his shooting, showed that he never
got excited
II do not think that the colonel
gives his readers a fair impression of
the very great danger that he and
Kermit were so often placed in. At
ter we had said goodbye to four or
five settlers with whom we had be-
come acquainted. and met them
again several weeks later to find one
with a badly injured arm chewed by
a leopard, a second in the hospital at
the point of death from lion maui
ing, and a third who exhibited rent
in a shirt made by tusk of a charg-
ing elephant that killed his gun
bearer: and after we had dined with
a missionary one noon and learned
of his death from fever the next day..
we began to realize that hunting Afri--
can big game was not altogether a
one-sided affair"
Mr.. Loring spoke of Kermit as being
one of the most persistent sportsmen
he had ever met; cool in the presence
of danger. and so enduring that when
he pursued a wounded animal he sell
dom failed to get it, and in the chase
he outran his gun bearers and even
the swiftest porters.
In substance Mr.. Loring denied that
the expedition was one of slaughter.
He said that it was purely scientific,
sent out by the Smithsonian institu-
ton for the purpose of enriching our
knowledge OF science and to collect
specimens of African animals. Ten
times the amount of game could have
been killed. Already over twenty-five
animals new to science have been de-
scribed, and when the entire collec-
ton has been worked up many more
will have been found. Not infrequent-
ly the government is compelled to
close to travellers sections of the coun-
try where man-eating lions have sud-
denly appeared and are killing the ma
tives, or where rogue rhinoceros or
buffalos toss them with their horns.
These animals have to be killed before
the region is again safe for travellers.
Game is 50 abundant that barbed wire
fences are broken down by Zebras,
wild beasts and hartebeests and crops
seriously damaged The settlers en-
courage hunters, and if they had their
own way in a short time the vast herds
of game that now roam over the
plains would be greatly decreased
large number of colored lantern
slides made from photographs taken
by Colonel Roosevelt and Kermit were
shown. They depicted herds OF wild
elephants, giraffes and other African
animals.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
ArteSian Well in Mckee.

With a view to retaining 500
acres of upper Mckee land, T. r. Hop
kns of Kirkland has had a deep we'll
drilled upon the property by E. M.
Churchill the well known driller.
Mr. Churchill has been at the task
for three months and has an eight
inch hole sunk to the depth of 227
feet. The first water was struck at
depth of 81 feet and the second
flow at 1919. The water comes to
within so feet of the surface and will
be pumped by gasoline engine and
distributed by gravity over the land.
The land lies at an elevation Of 1000
feet and is pronounced ideally locat-
ed for fruit Mr.. Hopkins expects to
start operations on another well
soon.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
NEAR END OF BIG CONTRACT
Dunbar & Bailey Move to Mabton
to Commence on Last Lap
of Big Job.

Bailey & Dunbar the contractors
in charge of the work of classifying
oil the irrigated land in Yakima coun-
t., moved their camp to Mabton Fri
day afternoon to begin the last lap
of the long contract They moved in
from Fruitvale, where they had been
camped for the past two weeks, and
took No. for Mabton. They have
about six or seven sections of land to
work over down there, which will
take a week or ten days, and then,
with the exception of some little
office work, they will have their con-
tract all finished. In fact they have
to, as their time expires tho 18th Of
September.
For Tax Purposes
They have been in the vicinity Of
North Yakima for the past four
months. working over the land lying
in the valleys tributary to the town.
The object of classifying the land is
mainly for tax equalization purposes,
although there will be many other
ways their reports can be used profit
ably.
In their classification of examina-
ton of the lands they divide each
section into ten acre tracts and take
each tract separately. On this they
give the number, size, quality and
age of all improvements, such as
buildings, fences, wells, etc. They
give the acreage of each crop, whe-
Their 1t be fruit, forage, or pillow crops,
and also give a very minute examina-
ton to the land. telling whether 1t is
alkali, rocky, or what kind 1t is. The
topography of the tract is also an
important part of the examination.
100000 Acres Irrigated Land.
There are approximately $4,000
acres of land under irrigation in
Yakima county at the present time.
and they had to take all of this, ma
king a very long and expensive con-
tract Several other counties of the
state have taken this work up, but
but they are all counties where tim
Der is grown, and the timber cruis-
or" is the man in charge of that
kind of work. But this is much diff
ferent. and Yakima county is prac-
tcally the first county in the state
to take up this kind of work.
Work Delayed.
The contract was taken In Octo-
Der of 1909 and expires September
Ia, 1910. They intended to have it
all finished, however by the first of
June, but many delays. and much
more land than was at first supposed
to be under the contract had TO be
included, and consequently it is just
now nearing the finish. At the time
the county commissioners of Yakima
county called for bidders for the
work. there were a great many men
out in the field figuring for large con-
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31

eligible to entry in this race. The
second cup will be given for the g.
mile race of cars under $4,000 in
price. The third will go to the am
ateur drivers entry. The fourth cup
is for motor cycles of any class, and
the fifth will be given to the best
lady driver in the smile race. The
sixth is what we are going to fea-
ture, being an extra cup, offered by
Sheriff Lancaster to the local car
making faster time than he does in
his first race, at the opening of the
days activities on Saturday.
1--WE also have on display several
of our own trophies which we have
taken in contests in this state, there
being some very valuable trophies
in the lot. We are expecting some
of our exptert drivers in tomorrow"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
NEW YORK HATES TEDDY
Colonel Says Metropolis Wants TO Get
Rid of Him.

DENVER, Aug. 29.-Colonel Roose-
Welt at the Colorado Livestock banquet
tonight in a few words outlined his
opinion of the attitude of New York
City toward himself. He said that
when he was made police commission
er and told him to "go ahead"
After ninety days, the Colonel con-
tinued New York woke up to the
fact that it was being treated on a
basis Of morality, it never hoped to
attain" He said New York was in
te-s -
a ferment until the judges came to
the rescue of the people by declaring
that II beers and one pretzel made
a meal, then New York breathed freely
again. Ever since then New York
has left an alert interest in me and
ardently desired me to be elected to
any office that would take me away
from there"
Pinchot Startles Audience.
Clifford Pinchot, who preceded Roos-
evelt, startled the audience by saying.
"a great movement that is sweeping
the country, call it insurgency if you
will, is the idea that it is better worth
while to help the small man make a
living than ii is to help the big man
make a profit If I We're making a
political speech, l would ask the au-
thors of the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill
if they had that idea in mind when
they framed that measure"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31

tractors what It could be taken for,
and w. II. Dunbar a civil engineer
of Grandview, was also out for this
very purpose. He and Chas. F. Bail
ey of Granger, prominent real. es-
tate dealer there, formed a partner
ship and submitted their bid to the
county commissioners. They were
awarded the contract at cents 8
mills per acre, being the lowest bid
ders.
Twelve men have been employed
most OF the time and have worked in
all dnkis of weather, except when
snow was on the Grounc
no work could be done, owing to the
fact that the land could not be ex-
amined
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31

The Open Range.
l am here at the invitation of the
Colorado Livestock association, and
[ desire to express my appreciation
of their steadfast stand for decency
and progress in the handling of pub
lie lands and national Ofrests. They
have met and overcome the unre-
Ienting opposition of some of the
most influential stockmen of the
state; they have won because they
have been right. / want to express
also my appreciation of the work of
the American National Livestock as
ISOLATION. 1t has been one of the
really important forces working to-
ward effective railway regulation,
While its support of the policy of
federal range cantrol has given IT a
large place in national affairs AS an
oldtime stockman I realize that the
present order of things on the open
range cannot continue, and that the
sure way to protect the range itself,
prevent the increase of big outfits,
promote the equitable use of the
grazing lands, and foster genuine
homestead settlem ent, is to extend
over lle open range u system VI
range control somewhat similar to
that now in effect on the national
forests
Cost Too High.
Whatever system of range control
may be adopted in detail there are
two things it must not do. 1t must
not handicap or exclude the small
man by requiring him to spend more
money for fences than he can afford
and it must leave every acre that
can be settled by bona-fide home
steaders freely open to such a settle
ment.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
Big Mistake.

"If there is one thing which is
more unwise than another. it is the
creation by legislative. by executive
or by judicial action of a neutral
ground in which neither the state nor
the nation has power, and which can
serve as a place of refuge for the
lawless man, and especially for the
Iawless man of great wealh, who can
hire the best legal counsel to advise
him how 10 keep his abiding place
equally distant from the uncertain
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
Federal Resources.

AS a result of the impossibility
oof getting such wise action by the
several state governments in the
east, we are doing out best to get ma
tional legislation under which the
national government, at the expense
Of millions of dollars, shall under
take to do az regards the Appalash-
ians and White mountains OF the
east what 1t is now doing in the
Rocky mountains here out west. 1t
would be both a calamity and an alb
surdity for the national government
now to do in the west the very thing
that at heavy pecuniary cost il is
trying to undo in the east. By act
ual experience in the east we have
found to our cost that the nation,
and not the several states, can best
guard theinterests of the people in
the matter of the forests and the
waters, and that if it fails to attempt
this duty at the outset It will later
on have to pay heavily in order to
he allowed to take up the work.
which, because it is done so late, can
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
Neutral Ground

tnen unheSltatlngly invoke the law
TO show that the state had no con-
stitutional power to act. Long ex-
perience has shown that it is by no
m cans impossible. in cases of con-
stitutional doubt, to get Que set of
judicial decisions which render it diff
tlcult for the nation to act, and an
other set which render it impossi-
BILE for the state to act. In each case
the privileged benefciarles of the de-
cesion invoke the aid of those who
treat the constitution not as a heal
thy aid to growth. but as a fetish to
prevent growth: and they assail the
advocates of wise and cautious pro-
sress as being opponents of the con-
Gtitution AS 1 have said before.
am a strong believer in efficient ma
tional action, where such action Of
fers the best hope of securing and
protecting the interests OF the whole
people as against the interests of a
few. But l am emphatically in favor
of state action, where state action
can best serve this purpose: and l
am emphatically in favor of state
action. where state action can best
serve this purpose: and 1 am no less
emphatically in favor of cordial and
hearty cooperation between the ma
ton and the states where their
duties are identical or develop.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-08-31
The Open fange.

frontiers of both state and national
power.
Tombstone epitaph., 1910-08-07
Colonel Pickett At
 The Mile High City

It was the pleasure of the editor this paper. last Monday. to meet Col Ii L Pickett, of Tombstone, who pass ed through Prescott on his way to Los Angeles. Az Col Picket. grew up in Tennessee in the shadow of the Hermitage, the home of Jackson, and Monticello, the home of Jefferson, we were fully acquainted in the twinkl.ng oi gnat's eye, if no. sooner. When the Colonel vas hunting 'possums in the Alleghenies we were coon hunting in the Blue Ridge. Col. Pickett came to this territory in 1882 and Is one of the best known mea in the territory, and hIs friends place him in the probable L. 5. senator class for the coming state of Arizona. He was member of the Tennessee legislature in 1878 and Pickett county, Tennessee, was named in his honor. About year ago his son, Harry E Pickett, who has prscticed Tn our local court, graduated from the law school of the university of Virginia which is probably the best law school of America. So, Col Pick. ett found himself in the hands of kis .riends all times during his short stay D this city.-Prescott Courier.
Tombstone epitaph., 1910-08-07
Tombstone Youth Runs Auto Above Speed Limit

The Los Angeles Herald tells the following experience of Tombstone youth, the son of Martin Costello of this city:
 Driving new Pope Hartford auto mobile at high rate of speed ID Pico street, Cecil Costello, l7 years old. a son of Martin Costello, a millionaire mining man and banker of l4l7 South Figueros street. last night raced for more than a dozen blocks before he was overtaken and placed under arrest by Motorcycle Pstrolmeu Gee aud Gardner. The officers cay the young man was driving at & rate of 5U miles sn hour and faces sentence.
 Young Costello took several fire ends out to show them how skillful he is in driving sn auto The clear street seemed 70 him sn ideal opportunity and he"let her out" and was travelling at high rate of speed when he was seen by the motorcycle officers, who were watching for speeders.
 The mounted pasrolrnen gaze chase and raced at a speed of 45 miles an hour for several blocks. They found they were being left behind by the rapidly moving auto. and let out their motorcycles to the limit When they overlook the lad their speedOmeters fickeres above the 50-miie mark.
 Young Costello declared that he was ignorant Of the speed he was mak- ing, and said that the car was new one and he wanted to see how fast he could drive it, Because of his age he was not locked up in the city jail, but was detained in the captains office until the arrival of relatives to bail him out.
 When leaving the city prison in her auto, Mrs Costello ran the machine over the sidewalk, smashing bicycle belonging to a messenger boy. which wac standing at the cnrb."
Tombstone epitaph., 1910-08-07
From Tuesdays Daily.

| Charles Batchelder left this morn. ing for Tucson, from whence he ~ilI continue to the coast.
 Vim. McPherson was an outgoing passenger today for Glohe. where be goes on business visit.
 A Prescott dispatch says: Frank | Spence sentenced to be executed ct Florence on August ,. for the killing of Edgar Sullivan, nearly tWo years ago, today had his sentence commuted | to life imprisonment.
 Although Naco officers and those of surrounding towns are still looking for the Mexican postmaster who IS al. legged to have taken French leave" several days ago. tearing with him about $500 in Mexican government money, no trace of him las been found.
 John ". Walker. the efficient court reporter of the district, srung onto the rear steps of the out going 6:2O train this morning wIth his baggage checked for Indisna. He will join his brother, Norman Walker, city editor of the Fl Psso Herald, and hIs hrot her Charles Walker, cashier of the Tucson National Bank of Tucson, in E. Paso and in their company will journey to the "Hoosier" state to visit the 1T parents.
 Court closed today with the last case to be tried, the Murdock case, and nov the over worked bailiffs, deputy sheritfs and other attendants will get vacation, ss well rest from the various "hot air blasts" of the numerous attorneys who have been disturbing the atmospheric condi- tions for the last three months.
 In the csse of Murdock, charged with perjury, the jury this afternoon re. turned verdict of guilty" with the recommendation that mercy to the fullest power of the court be shown the prisoner. A motion for new trial was immediately filed, arguments on which will be heard this evening.
 Judge Arthur A . Sutherland, of the supreme court of New York, made a short visit at the home of A Rock fellow this week, leaving yesterday afternoon for Nogales, where he is in- terested in mining properties. Judge Sutherlsnd's home is at Rochester and he i. life long friend of the Rockiellow family.
 Mrs. Harry Locke, of Courtland. after spending week in Tombstone, the guest of Mrs. A. H. Gardner, has returned to her home.