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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-08
Fifty Opponents for Checker Cham
piOnship.

Saundusky, o., Aug. S.-A contest
between Newell w. Banks, the cham
pion checker player of the world, and
fifty of the best players of the silent
game from various parts of the coun-
try, is scheduled as the feature at
traction at the annual summer meet
ing of the Ohio Checker association
here this week. One of the condi-
tons of the contest is that the cham
pion is to play the game blindfoIded.
while his opponents will sit at their
respective tables and study each
move to be made.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-08
S|M0NS WOULD BE
ASSESSOR
Leavenworth Man Filed To-
day in Opposition to
r. G. Osborn.

R. E. Simons, of Leavenworth, was
in the city last week and made a
preliminary canvass as to the senti-
ment of his Wenatchee friends to
his making the race for county as
SCISSOR. Today he is again in the city
and filed his declaration of candidacy
with County Auditor Godfrey. Mr..
Simons has been a resident of the
county for the past four years. MAX
ing his home most of the time at
Leavenworth, where he is engaged
in horticultural work. Prior to this
year he was in the mercantile bust
ness and has also spent several years
rallroading. During the past year he
was deputy for County Assessor Os-
born and is very familiar with the
method of taxation in the county.
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he stated that 80 per cent of the
criminal cases in Great Britain are
due to the liquor traffic. Authori-
ties agree that in this country so per
cent of criminality is the result Of
alcohol. Trying to defend the tenn
perance cause is about as sensible
as to prove the multiplication table,
but the liquor men do not attempt
to prove their side. They can't; SO
they keep still.
Travelling Men Praise Wenatchee.
In my travels about the stage l
have met at least a dozen travelling
men who have given their opinions
of business conditions here. I give
you my world tell you before God
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-08
TALK BY THE BOARDERS.
Ready Wit, Blond Lady, Graduate Of
flee Boy and Others.

rice soy ana others.
81 SEE that a Chicago professor
claims TO have isolated an ion"
remarked the Young electrical en-
gineer.
Yes. and it eats out of his hand"
supplemented the ready wit.
But aren't they really dangerous"
inquired Miss Keys.
Not if they're caught when young"
explained the ready wit.
For my part. Id rawther 90 after
moose or shoot tigers in India" the
ribbon clerk chimed in.
II don't care for them" sighed the
blond lady Il have been in the 700
but twice during my stay in the Glitch"
"Ah. never did care for Sweeney
| think kIeinow has II Oh him as a
hitter and as IA catcher bot" observed
the graduate office boy. breaking
gracefully into the converse ton.
That is where you are wrong re-
tOrted the bookkeeper. II never gave
Well. then. listen TO me. In couple
more years there won't be catcher
in either league that's got anything on
him."
You must expect lot of them to
die drawled the ready wit.
Isn't it shocking the way those wo-
men will crowd TO murder trials?"
asked the blond lady. with sudden
show of interest. Il just went up this
afternoon to see the young man who is
accused of throwing his sweetheart off
a pier. and there was such crush of
women that couldn't get in. That is.
couldn't get in at first. and rude
man who said be was bailiff tried to
stop me at the door. But | told him
l was an American citizen and knew
my rights and that stopped him. The
prisoner was quite nice looking. and
he looked so downhearted wanted to
comfort him. But isn't it awful the
way so many of those dreadful women
send flowers and things?''
Perfectly dreadful" agreed Miss
Keys.
81 fear that you did not get the full
purport of my remark when l observed
that Chicago professor had succeed
ed in isolating an ion." said the young
electrical engineer gently.
when l was going to school we
pronounced it 'is-o-lated.'" the ribbon
clerk offered in reproof.
do you know Noah Webster" ask
ed the ready wit. winking at the
others.
''SOme day you'll get so sharp you'll
cut yourself" giggled the landlady. Il
almost hate to see our little dinners
come to an end in spite of the worry.
the conversation is so entertaining and
enlightening. Roy R. Atkinson in
Puck.
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saloon man himself give us a reason
why he should be allowed to run a
saloon in Wenatchee? The only ar
gument he can make is that he is
willing to pay $1,000 per year lie
ense. l tell you, he will pay more
than that. He will pay any amount
$4,000 or $1,000. This high lie
ense is regular hold-up game. By
what right can you charge the sal
oons $1,000 license? Why should
you charge such an enormous
amount to a saloon and scarcely
anything to big department store
doing hundreds of thousands of dol
lars worth of business? There is no
principle to it. The saloon keeper
is simply willing to pay. You know
he is willing to pay, because he
wants to rob, debauch and reduce
boys and men to criminals and you
are willing to take $1,000 out of his
proceeds. If l were living here and
the saloons must run, I would ia
vor them with a free license. Money
won't sanctify this unholy traffic
License cannot absolve your consci-
ences.
Answers DetractOrs.
do you say that prohibition has
not been complete success?
Il answer: You have not given
il time. Drunkenness is a disease
and it takes time to get cured of it..
Down in my state of Georgia
they have had state prohibition
three years. The legislature is now
in session Not one man has pro-
posed a repeal of the present law?
Why? Because $2O,OO0,OOO is now
staying home to building up the
states prosperity, instead of adding
more millions to the Golfers of
Pabst, Busch, Lemp, Schlitz and
other wealthy brewers of Chicago.
st. Louis and Milwaukee.
1T is useless to discuss this pro-
position further. l cannot believe,
after seing such a beautiful city as
Wenatchee redeemed from a volcan-
ic desert to one of the finest little
cities on earth-I can't see it that
God and man and ask the devil and
the breweries to help build this
city"
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-08
Stole Chickens.

The hen house in the rear of E.
F. Sprague's residence on Mission
street, was robbed last night and
eight fowls taken. Wire netting on
the alley side was cut and the chick
ems lifted from their roosts. No clue
to the robbers is left and the police
were not notified
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Mr.. Simons assures the people that
should he be elected fair treatment
will be guaranteed everybody and he
would consider it pleasure to go
over the county business with the
taxpayers, and guarantees a fair deal
to everybody.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-08

prohibition standard first, and I
suppose the old elephant will beat
the donkey to 1t. He generally does.
Whichever party does take up this
| issue first of national prohibition
will sweep the country.
Wenatchee Praised Everywhere.
Il have Travelled over the state
for several weeks and / find Wenar-
chez spoken of everywhere and
held up as one of the model NUM-
cipalities of the Northwest. If you
people could hear the good words
spoken about you, you would not
listen to any suggestion of going
back to the dirt and dogs of the
liquor question.
Defines the Issue.
1.-The issue before you now takes
this form: You must decide whe-
Their the vote of last fall was a mis-
take or not. You have given your
decision once. Was it right, or was
it wrong? There is no issue to the
Christian. 1t is impossible for a
man to be Christian and friend
of the liquor traffic. There is moth
ing in the liquor traffic which is in
harmony with the plain principles
OF the Christian. / am willing to
stand and debate that question any,
where on earth and l know that the
verdict of honest men will be with
me, or l will eat dirt the rest of my
days. Anybody who takes the oppo-
site side is either a fool or a liar.
From the standpoint of good
citizenship, what is the verdict?
The world is giving it's verdict. Over
100000 people in this country
are now in dry territory and that
territory is being added to every
day. In the year 1909 every day
there were eight churches built and
sixteen saloons put out of business.
OF the $50 leading cities of the
country the number of saloons was
decreased fifty saloons per city.
| am not telling you what
is said by short-haired wo-
men and long-haired men. 1 am
giving you plain, bald-headed, brass
tack facts. No-license sentiment is
on the road to victory The liquor
traffic is on the down grade. The
liquor power is under such disgrace
full reputation right now that it will
finally go out of existence as did
slavery, lotteries, prize-fighting and
gambling. When you voted last fall
were you right in going up and
should you turn around now and
go down hill?
municipal reformers every year
favor the abolition of the saloons.
At an international meeting for mu
nicipal reform held in London last
year, 1 was present and heard Lord
Alderstone, lord chief justice of
England, make an address in which
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-08

| that everyone of them says that bus
mess conditions have improved since
| Wenatchee put the saloons out Of
business. These are bright, smart
fellows-right after the business
with a big b They didn't know
Sam Small from house cat.
Il have been down at Walla Wal
la lately and was giving them some
pretty hot shot in a large meeting
| where there were 1900 people pres
| ent. A man arose in the audience
during my address in which l refer
red to Wenatchee, and said he would
like to see every city in the country
the same as Wenatchee Walla
Walla is saloon-ridden city and my
friends, there is not much paving,
not much building, not much road
construction, very few new enter
prises being talked about at Walla
Walla, and it is the worst saloon
hole in the state of Washington.
North Yakima Man Talks.
Il will be honest with you. l did
hear one man in this state tell of
the poor results of no-license in We
natchee. 1t was in the Northern Pa
cific depot at North Yakima There
were one hundred people present
and the man who was talking was
about three-thirds drunk. He was
talking to another man who was So
ber'
Mr.. Small then impersonated the
remarks of the drunkard "Wenat-
chez is dead. Local option killed
it. Nobody doing any business. City
going bankrupt. No money to do
anything. Everybody going away
Going away myself. You ought to
be there Saturday night-see all the
best men in town buying tickets for
Leavenworth. Merchants stand in
their front doors to see trade going
by to LeaVenWOrtn. LeaVenWOrth
merchants are getting rich"
people were standing around
and seemed quite amused. Finally
l walked up to him and asked: My
friend, how much business do
those people over in Wenatchee do
in Leavenworth every Saturday
night How much furniture and
hardware and groceries do they car
ry back with them?' oh, they don't
go up there to get those things.
They go up there to have a good
time Everybody laughed and the
man went across the street into a
saloon to get another drink.
Saloons Take Money Away.
"The question with you is, who is
getting this movement up to bring
saloons back to Wenatchee? 1t is
reasonably sure that citizens here
in Wenatchee are not doing it. 1t
is the breweries of Spokane and Sc
attic. They do not care what be-
comes of you-of your boys, your
girls and you business men. They
want $4,000 or $4,000 per month
out of here to enrich themselves
They have a surplus stock on hand
and want to get rid of it. Do you
know that the amount Of whisky in
bond at the government warehouses
at the present time is unequalled in
our history. There is Just as much
liquor in existence today as ever be-
FORE It used to be that a govern
ment warehouse certificate was good
collateral at bank. 1t is not so
now. Good bankers do not lend
money on such collateral any more
The issue here, my friends, is-do
you want the saloons to come back
here and take from 100000 to
$685. 900 per year out of this city
to enrich the breweries?
81 want to invite any man here
to get up and tell us single argu-
ment why legitimate business inter-
ests would be helped by the saloons
returning to Wenatchee. Can any
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-08
10 the Fruit GrOWer

| Dear SIR
| In view Of the belief held by various
| growers regarding the possible injury re-
sultlng to apples from hauling them loose
IN boxes to our packing house, we desire
to make the following statement
Apples can be and are hauled loose in
| boxes on wagons with springs over rough
roads without the slightest injury In the
| PaJaro Valley, California, thousands of
wagon loads Of Yellow Bellflower and
Newtown Pippin apples, loose in boxes, are
hauled every season without injury The
distances hauled are from one to fifteen
miles.
In order to protect you fully we make
you the following guarantee: If your ap-
plies are loaded on wagons with springs
and hauled to our packing house with or
binary case and any Jury results to the
fruit, the firm of Macdonald & Sons will
buy from you those apples so injured at a
price equal to the highest f. o. b. price paid
in this district during the present sea-
son for fruit of Extra Fancy quality of the
same variety and size.
We wish to assure YOU that in introduce
ing the California method Of hauling ap-
apeS in this distict, we are actuated bv a
sincere desire to improve and standardize
the packing and extend the marketing ia
cllltles you have heretofore enjoyed. We
know that the establishment of our enter
prise. will benefit the growers of this dis
trict, and until the contrary has been
proved, all statements derogatory to our
undertaking would seem to be prompted
by self-interest or ignorance.
Yours very truly,
Macdonald e Sons
Per j. w. n Macdonald,
District Mgr.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-08-08

Well that Dorothy Deacon the Princess Radziwl let society
a
Cupid who king overwhelmed opposition
The RadZwiI
OF
90
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-05-18
Application for Charter.

Georgia, Terrell County.-To the
Secretary of State of the State of
Georgia: The petition of J. R. Mer-
Ger, j. G. Dean, j. M. Bell, R. L.
Saville, j. E. Morris and M. ]. Yeo-
mans respectfully shows:
list. That each of petitionsers is
a resident of Dawson, Terrell county,
Georgia.
End. That petitioners and others
associated with them desire to form
The Westinghouse Life Insurance
Company of Georgia, corporation to
be chartered under the laws of the
State of Georgia regulating insurance
companies and providing for the In
corporation of the same.
3rd That the kind of insurance
that will be written and sold by said
corporation will be life insurance.
4th. That the amount of the pro-
posed capital stock of said company
is 100000.
9th. That petitioner J. R. Mercer
agrees to subscribe and take One
Hundred and Fifty shares of the
capital stock.
Petitioner ]. G. Dean agrees to
subscibe and take One Hundred
shares of the capital stock.
Petitioner j. M. Bell agrees to sub
scribe and take One Hundred shares
of the capital stock.
Petitioner r. l.. Saville agrees to
subscribe and take One Hundred
shares of the capital stock
Petitioner J. E. Morris agrees to
subscribe and take Twenty-Five
shares of the capital stock.
Petitioner M. J. Yeomans agrees
to subscribe and take Twenty-Five
shares of the capital stock.
9th. Petitioners in good faith in
tend to go forward without delay to
raise the capital stock and organize
said company.
18th. Petitioners request to be in
corporated under the laws of the
State of Georgia, and have vested in
said company all the rights of the
insurance companies which are char
tered under the laws of said State.
| and have said company subject to the
liabilities and penalties of insurance
companies chartered under the laws
| of this State.
}. X. MERCER, J. G. DEAN,
}. M. BELL, r. L. SAVILLE.
j. E. MORRIS, M. j. YEOMANS.
Georgia, Terrell County.-Before
me in person came J. r. Mercer and
j. G. Dean who, on oath, say that the
names subscribed to the foregoing
petition are genuine signatures of
the persons named therein, and that
the facts stated in said petition are
true. j, R. MERCER, ]. G. DEAN
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this the 7th day of May. 1910
j. P. PERRY, N. P.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-05-18
LAWYERS EASY MARK.
Confidence Man Says They Are His
Best Customers.


A professional confidence man,
who says he has a good home and
comfortable bank roll, was arrested
in Pennsylvania the other day. He
said he found the confidence game
quite easy, and that his best custo-
mers were lawyers. He stated, with
some show of pride, that he managed
to land on an average seven out of
every ten lawyers that he tackled.
The lawyer, he explained, invariably
thought very we'll of his own mental
capacity, and at the same time was
rarely averse to picking up piece
of easy COIN The swindler would
study his man for one, two or three
days, and then go to him with law
suit that had been carefully framed
up. The sWindler was invariably
ready with a promise of a large con-
tingent fee, and was willing to give
a fat retainer. The retainer fee was
invariably written into a check twice
as large as the fee named, and the
lawyer would take the check and give
the swindler the change. 'They do
not like to face ri&icule," said the
sharper, therefore they rarely kick. ]"
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-05-18
FARMERS OWN THE NATION.
Crop Values Show Money Kings Are
Not in Possession.

crop saIucS SHOW money hIIIgS are
Not in Possession.
The farmer, not the money king
of Wall street, is the real owner of
the United States. This is the opin-
ion of Isaac F. Marccsson expressed
in Munseys. The CLEAN of his fields
is another Aladdin story, continues
Mr.. MarCosson, only instead of rub
bling lamp he has simply scraped
the ground.
Our cereal crops last year were
worth SO, 100000, which is suffi-
cient to pay for all the tools, imple
ments and machinery of the whole
of American industry. While this
sum seems huge as it stands alone
you have only to go back a few years
in the story of our agriculture to see
the miracle of steady increase that
has been achieved Eleven years ago
the value of all our farm products
for a single year was reckoned at
$4,417, 100000. You have already
seen how that figure was doubled by
1909. During these years the sum
total that the soil has yielded the
farmers is $4,000, 100000. The ad-
vance is so steady and sure that you
can almost calculate upon it year by
year.
Compare this record with the ebb
and flow of earnings in steel or any
other industry, and you will realize
as never before how agriculture
keeps the even tenor of it's prosper
Gus way, unmindful of panic or de-
preston. Why? Simply because
land is stable and given proper meth
DDS of farming, the more you take
out of it the more valuable it be-
comes. 1t cannot be moved away; it
is in truth the very foundation of
the nations material welfare. 1t
would take $24,OO0,O00,OOO to buy
our farm lands, and their value is
real, and not watered save by irri-
cation.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-05-18
TWO IN WRECKED BALLOON.
In Critical Condition When Found
Near a Kentucky Town.

A Glasgow, Ky, dispatch says;
Two unconscious men were found il
the wrecked car of a dirigible balloon
which landed late yesterday near
Center, Metcalf county, thirty miles
from here One of them is believed
to be A. Holland Forbes.
On a card bearing this name, found
in the mans pocket, was the instruc-
ton: "In case of accident notify
the New York Times"
The two men were taken to the
home of a farmer and a physician
was called. Forbes regained con-
seriousness to a slight degree and told
in a dazed fashion of having started
out from some point in an attempt
to reach New York city.
The physician attending them said
both were in critical condition.
Sailed From Illinois.
A. Holland Forbes, holder of the
Lahm cup, and ]. c. Yates, another
New York aeronaut, assembled Mon
day night at $50 in the balloon
Viking from Quincy, H., with the
avowed intention of breaking the
balloon record. The
balloon rose 5000 feet and floated
slowly southwark.
The balloon Viking is said to be
the largest in existence, having a gas
of $4,000 cubic feet.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-05-18
HEAD SLICED LIKE BREAD.
Used BY Eminent Physician in Illus

Used BY Eminent Physician in Illus
trating a Lecture on Anatomy.
DR.. Doyen, the famous French sur
geon, whose methods have some
times been criticised as f1ambOyant,
but whose skill as an operator has
never been questioned, recently gave
another rude shock to the prejudices
Iof old-fashioned medical men. In
Opening his course of lectures on
anatomy in Paris the other day he
illustrated his words with the cine
photograph and the magic lantern,
throwing upon the screen some of the
most extraordinary pictures ever
shown.
For instance, he had taken hui
man head and cut it like a loaf int o
thin slices, and he exhibited col
ored photographs of these through
the magic lantern while he pointed
out the nerves, arteries and convolu-
tons of the brain. Another startling
picture was of a longitudinal section
of man greatly enlarged. Yet an
other was a section of a womans
body, showing the organs tortured
into improper places by too tight
corsets. All these were actual pho
tographs, and were in their natural
colors. But the crowning sensation
of the demonstration came with a
series of moving pictures showing an
operation for appendicitis, with a
running commentary by the surgeon
explanatory of each successive detail
of the delicate operation.