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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16
The Learned German Boy.

During the civil war. George Den
ker, a German boy about 16 years
old, who had enlisted as volunteer
from Pennsylvania, was slightly
wounded in a battle and taken to a
hospital.
"Dumpy," as he was called, al
ways wore one Of those old fashion
ed German hats, which caused lots
of fun for his comrades.
Major Mcdowell, his commander,
happy over the victory of the day,
and ever ready to have fun with the
German boy, who could not speak
English very plainly, said to him as
he saw him sitting near stove in
the hospital with his arm IN sling:
"Dumpy, remove that helmet"
'Das hell mitt? Das hell NIT
vat?" said the German boy, rather
embarrassed.
"The helmet, that hat" said the
major.
Ode hell mitt your hat" said the
German boy, getting angry. This
made everybody laugh, even the
wounded, who had listened to the
ersation.-Norman E. Mack's
National Monthly.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16
WHITMAN COLLEGE
CELEBRATES

Walla Walla, Wash, Feb. 16.-An
interesting program of exercises was
carried out at Whitman College to-
day in celebration of the semi-centen-
NAL of the college and the centennial
anniversary of the birth of its foun-
der, Cushing Eells. The jubilee was
made the occasion for large gather
ing of former students from all Sec
tons of the Northwest, together with
public officials, visiting educators,
churchmen and other friends of the
institution Addresses were delivered
by number of prominent speakers,
who highly praised the work of the
college in the past and present, and
predicted bright future for it.
Cushing Eels, who founded the
college in memory of DR.. Marcus
Whitman, whose disciple he was, was
born one hundred years ago today
in the town of Blandford, Mass. He
was ordained Congregational min
lister in 1887, and soon afterward he
and his wife offered themselves as
missionaries to the American Board
of Commissioners of Foreign Missions
and were appointed to Oregon. They
arrived at Walla Walla in August,
1888, having made most of the jour-
ney from Missouri on horseback. For
ten years they served among the Spo-
kane Indians. Then they removed to
the Willamette valley, where DR.
Eels laid the foundation for William
cite University at Salem. He was
also the first teacher in what was af
terward Pacific University at Forest
Grove, Oregon, AMI taught school in
other places until 1860, when he re-
turned to Walla Walla and founded
Whitman College. He gave to the
college $4,000 of his own money and
spent a year in the East working in
it's behalf In 1888 he retired from
active work and went to reside in
Tacoma, where his death occurred on
his eighty-fourth birthday, Feb. 16,
1893.
Whitman College prospered from
the start and its development was
greatly aided by liberal benefactions
from DR.. D. K. Pearsons and others.
The institution occupies more than
a dozen buildings and a campus of
thirty acres located in the heart of
the city. The standards maintained
are high, the Carnegie Foundation
ranking the college with sixteen en-
trance requirements, the same as
Harvard and other large Eastern uni
versities. At present the college has
upwards of 500 students divided
among the college of liberal arts, the
school of music and the preparatory
department The number of students
continued to increase each year, not
withstanding the fact that the tuition
fees are the highest charged at any
college or university west of the
Rocky mountains.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16

toms service at New York shows that
they were adopted to better meet ex-
listing conditions. They provide for
keeping efficiency records and for pro-
motion Of clerks from class to class
in order of seniority, unless the NOM
mating officer certifies that the per-
son to be proomted though not the
senior, is best qualified for promo
ton.
The regulations governing the ap-
pointment of unskilled laborers are
shown to have continued to operate
satisfactorily, reducing the number
of cases where persons appointed as
mere unskilled laborers are improp-
erly assigned to classified duties.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16
ASKS CHANCE To
EARN LIVING
MAN WITH SIX PRISON TERMS
BEHIND HIM WOULD LIKE TO
REFORM AND ASKS FOR A PO-
SITION.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Feb. ia
great deal of interest is being mani
tested in the welfare of prisoner No.
1905 at the state penitentiary at
Saltwater, who, according to letter
mailed by him to the Minneapolis
police department, is to be released
today. The man, who is said to be a
relative of an English nobleman,
asked the police to find him a posi-
ton. He wrote:
eff you know anyone who is will
ing to give a man with six prison
terms behind him chance let me
know. I have been twelve years and
ten months behind the bars. / wish
1 had the silver tongued eloquence
of Demosthenes, the orator of an
cient Athens, that I might go out in
the world and persuade young men
to avoid the pitfalls of sim"
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16
JUST WHAT THE TRUSTS ARE
COSTING THE PEOPLE TOLD IN
FIGURES FROM THEIR BOOKS
CAUSE OF HIGH PRICES.

Chicago, Feb. 16-While the
American people are fighting to force
down the increased cost of living,
there is locked up in the beef trusts
cold storage plants enough food to
feed every man, woman and child in
the United States for months.
This tremendous food hoard is
valued at $3,000,000,00 Some of
the meat and other necessaries have
been accommodating in the strongholds
of the robber food barons for two,
sometimes three years.
The Chicago packing house trust
and its affiliated trusts in every cor
ner of the country have amassed this
frozen mountain of food in order that
the people may pay increased trib-
ute
The facts in the cold storage stu
alton today are amazing. These fig
ures that follow are not guesses, but
the estimates of the packing inter-
ests themselves, which have been OBJ
tanned from inside sources.
Cause of High Prices
These figures constitute the only
needed proof to show the cause of
the high cost of living. They show
the beef trust and it's affiliations to
be protected in their miscrly course
by the knowledge that the tariff will
not permit the foreign producer to
come into the United States and I'M
dersell them.
Under lock and key the food hoard
is being held until they day comes
when prices are raised still higher.
But here are the astounding figures:
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16
The Newer Education.

The relation of the larger univer-
stiles of the United States to the
practical problems of existence is
being emphasized in an astonishing
degree nowadays. If the notion of
clustered halls where pale-faced stu
dents pored over musty tones once
held sway, that idea has entirely dis
appeared The dominant thought
appears TO be, how can the training
of the schools be made most useful
in lettering the conditions Of human
life
The University of Wisconsin,, for
example. has been rendering great
service to the people of our neigh
boring commonwealth through its
municipal reference bureau. Recog-
nizing the activity in the field of city
administration, it has collected in
formation from all available sources,
and is now ready to send out ma
terial on such subjects as sewage
disposal, water supply and purifica-
ton, street sprinkling and cleaning,
the smoke nuisance, parks and play
grounds, care of trees, public utili-
ties and public service rates, civic
centers and are commissions. The
statement that one mornings mail
brought inquiries from city officials
in nine different commonwealth in
dicates the Importance of such uni
versity work-Chicago Tribune.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16
GROWS TO GREAT
POLITICAL BUREAU

Washington, D. c., Feb. 16.-The
civil service commission, in it's 26th
annual report to President Taft to-
day, for the year ending June 80,
shows that the number of positions
for which examinations are now held
is 2S,303, involving an immense
amount of work for the commission.
The report shows that there are
367,794 officers and employees in the
executive civil service, 234,940 sub
ject to competitive examination un-
der civil service rules. The number
of original appointments through
competitive examination is shown at
39,9O5, this number being increased
by promotions, transfers and rein
statements to 43,0s6, and appoint
ments to the Philippines and in the
labor class, where unskilled labor is
included, the number is 43,970.
Thirteenth Census.
The report states that the census
act provided for a special test exam
ination, open to all applicants with
out regard to political affiliations, to
be prescribed by the director and con-
Quoted by the commission. Examin-
ations have been held and appoint
ments are now being made. Emu
merators were to be designated for
appointment by the supervisors of
the respective districts, subject to the
approval of the director. The latter
ordered that all appointments shall
be made without regard to politi-
cal affiliations and that no person
appointed shall be active in politics.
Applicants are required to take SIM
pie practical examination consisting
in filling out sample forms.
Fourth Glass Postmasters.
The regulations for the appoint
ment of fourth class postmasters in
the fourteen states affected by the
presidents order making them SUBJ
ject to examination are set forth, it
being stated that they are in force
and working satisfactorily. Two ex-
aminations are prescribed, the first
for those offices paying more than
$500 per annum, the second where
less than that amount is paid, in
either case the facilities which the
applicant has for transacting the pos
tai business being considered.
The statement relative to the new
regulations for promotion in the GUS
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16
Today's Events

st. Luke's Ladies' Guild meets with
Mrs. Quigg at p. m.
Presbyterian song recital.
Big event at bowling alleys.
Masonic meeting at 2 p. m.
Royal Highlanders.
Red Men at Eagle hall.
Spanish War Veterans, Mechtel
building.
Merrymakers at Elks hall.
Litany at st. Luke's at 4:30.
Gem Observation-Disclosures song and
moving pictures.
Wenatchee theatre-Electra.
Union revival services at Presby-
terrain church.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16
So, 100000 Worth Of Food in Storage

There are 100000 cattle carcasses
in cold storage. Other stored meat
in these great cold warehouses the
country over includes 100000 calves,
$4,000, 900 sheep and lambs, and 50,-
100000 hogs, not counting the hui
man ones engaged in the industry.
Millions in Fish.
In rs fish freezing plants there
are fish valued at 5,000,00 They
are being thrown on the market dur
ing Lent. In other cold storage
plants controlled by the beef barons
there are held 1900, 100000 eggs,
100000 pounds of poultry and
fruits, ana miscellaneous articles of
perishable food worth 100000.
There are millions of pounds Of
potatoes, trutles, cells, cases of can
ned goods and milk and butter and
cheese. This last item alone is be-
ing boarded to the extent of $780,
100000.
There are 100000 people in the
United States, counting in the
farmers who will never demand any
of this frozen food. This makes co.
100000 families or less whose mar
ket baskets must be filled every day
or two with food to replenish the
larder. The cost of this food that
the market baskets carry has risen
and risen.
The Packers Reply.
Scarcity OF food" the packers
here have cried at the complaining
women with the market baskets. But
according to the trusts own cold
storage figures as given above, these
quantities of food per family are held
by the monopolists:
Beef, 420 pounds.
Eggs, IL dozen.
Veal, As pounds.
Poultry, 6 IL pounds.
Pork, 400 pounds.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16
Mutton, 4S "a pounds.
Fruits. $3.50 worth.
Lamb, II IL pounds.
Fish. $1.25 worth.


Fruits, $3.50 worth.
Lamb, II IL pounds.
Fish, $1.25 worth.
Miscellaneous, SIS worth.
The two principal items in the
average market basket and food bill
are beef and pork. So the beef trust
stores enormous quantities of beef
and pork to control and maintain the
high price now charged for these
basket necessaries.
There is enough fresh meat stored
to provide every family in the Unit
ed States with two and half pounds
of it every day in the year, This is
more than the average family con-
sumes. The value of the entire hoard
of food perfamily is $3.50, and for
each person is nearly as great as the
average wealth of the country per
capita, which is $3S.
When will prices be high enough
to please the barons, so they will
flood the country with their frozen
food and make millions off the wo-
man with market basket?
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16
School Notes.

Miss Kate Taylor. principal OF the
Peshastin schools, is back at her post
after an illness OF several months.
Miss Maud Fairbanks began teach
ing in the school on Peshastin creek
last Monday.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16

Princeton will tpen the New York
American grounds with a game with
the Highlanders on April IL.
''Rube" Vickcrs is little bit sore
over his transfer from the Athletics
to the Baltimore club Of the Eastern
league.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16

Manager Griffith of the Cincinnati
Reds put over the biggest deal of the
year when he traded Higgins, Cakes
and Corridor to st. Louis for Reebe
and Storke.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16
Aerial Show Opens in Boston.

Boston, Mass, Feb. 16.-The first
air-ship show ever given in America
opened in Mechanics building today,
to continue until February %. 1t is
officially called the First National
Exhibition of Aerial Craft. More
than a score of large flying machines
are shown, among them the Boston
balloon, tho Baldwin dirigible, a
Wright model a Curtiss type, Lang
ley, Bleriot, Santos-Dumont and 9TH
err machines.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-16

Norman Elberfield played under
Manager George Stallings in three
different cities, Philadelphia, Detroit
and New York.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-09-01
The Story Of Your Teeth.

Ever hear Of tooth seeds? New.
born babies have them in little sacs
In their gums, the milk teeth on top.
The baby begins cutting it's first teeth
at an average age of eight months.
The milk teeth are 20 in number, and
the permanent teeth 80. The milk
teeth are gradually absorbed by the
growing second teeth, so that some.
times the roots are practically re.
moved. There are three sections to a
tooth-the inside pulp cavity, the
dentine and the outside enamel. The
ache is always in the pulp cavity.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-09-01
German

The Germans are eminently. a
shurchgoing, or at any rate a church.
belonging people. According to the
last FEDERAL census, taken four years
ago, the total population was go. GAL.
S1S. This church census gives the
church membership, Eyangelicals
and Catholics combined, as 59,741,3 44.
The Evangelicals far outnumber the
Catholics, the figures being: Evan.
Selicals, 37,646,S52; Catholics, 22,094,-
1872. The Free Thinkers number only
l,270.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-09-01
amended so as to read as follows:

so as 10 read as fOllOWS:
Section 158. No land shall be sold
for less than the appraised value, and
in no case for less than ten dollars
per acre. The purchaser shall pay
one-ffth of the price in cash and the
remaining four-ffths as follows: One
fifth in five years, one-fifth on or be-
fore the expiration of ten years, one
fifth or or before the expiration Of
fifteen years, and one-ifth on or be.
fore the expiration of twenty years.
with interest at the rate of not less
than five per cent per annum, payable
annually in advance; provided, thai
when payments are made before due
they shall be made at an interest pay
ing date, and one years interest in ad,
vance shall be paid on all money SO
paid. All sales shall be held at the
county seat of the county in which
the land to be sold is situated, and
shall be at public auction and to the
highest bidder. after sixty days. adver-
tisement of the same in a newspaper of
general circulation in the vicinity OF
the land to be sold, and one at the
seat of government. Such lands as
shall not have been especially sub-di-
vided shall be offered in tracts Of ono
quarter section, and those sub-dividrd
in the smallest sub.divion. All lands
designated for sale and not soldwithin
two years after appraisal shall be re-
appraised before they are sold. No
grant or patent for such lands shall is
sue until payment is made for the
same; provided, that the land con.
tracted to be sold by the state shall
be subject to taxation from the date
Of such contract. In case the taxes
assessed against any of said lands for
any year remain unpaid until the first
Monday in October of the following
year, then and thereupon the contract
Of sale for such lands shall, if the
board of university and school lands
SO determine, become null and void.
Any lands un6 er the provision of Sec
ton 1853 of the constitution of the state
of North Dakota that have heretofore
been sold, may be paid for, except as
to interest, as proved herein; pro-
vided, futher, that any school orinsti-
tuition lands that may be required for
townsite purposes, shcool house sites.
church sites, cemetery sites, sites for
other educational, or charitable instiu-
tions, public parks, fair ground, public
highways, railroads right of way, or
for other railroad uses and purposes,
reservoirs for the storage of water for
irrigation, drain bitches or irrigation
bitches, and lands that may be re-
CURED for any of the purposes over
which the right of eminent domain
may be exercised under the consti-
tuition and the laws of the state of
North Dakota, may be sold under the
provision of this section, and shall be
paid for, principal and interest,in full,
in advance, at the time of sale, or at
any time thereafter, and patent issued
therefor, when principal and interest
are paid.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-09-01
Proposed Amendments
to Constitution.

The following proposed Amend
ments to the Constitution of the State
of North Dakota, having passed the
Eleventh Legislative Assembly, will be
submitted to the Twelfth Legislative
Assembly for approval or rejection:
Proposed Constitutional Amendment.
Section 112 of the constitution of the
state of North Dakota is amended so
as to read as follows:
Section 112. The legislative assem-
bly, shall provide by law for the cleo
ton of justices Of the peace in each
organized county within the state, but
the number of said justices to be elect
ed in each organized comfy shall be
limited by law to such a number as
shall be necessary for the proper ad-
m~instration of justice. The justices
of the peace herein provided for shall
have concurrent Jurisdiction with the
district courts and with all county
courts in all civil actions when the
amount in controversy, exclusive of
costs, does not exceed two hundred
dollars, and they shall have such juris-
diction to hear and determine cases of
misdemeanor as may be provided by
law, but in no case shall said Justices
of the peace have jurisdiction when
the boundaries of or title to real estate
shall come in question. The legista-
tive assembly shall have power to
abolish the Office of justice of the
peace and confer that Jurisdiction up
on judges of county courts or else
where.
Proposed institutional Amendment.
Section 81 of the constitution of the
state of North Dakota is amended to
read as follows:
Sectiont 81. The term of Office of the
judges of the supreme court, except as
in this article otherwise provided,
shall be ten years, beginning on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday
in January of the year next following
their election, and they shallholdthcir
Offices until their successors are duly
qualified. This section shall moi be
construed as extending the term of Of
fee of the judges serving at the time
of the adoption Of this amendment,
except as herein provided. The terms
of Office of the judges of the supreme
court elected at the general election in
1910 shall be as follows: The one re-
ceiving the highest number of votes at
such election shall hold his Office for
a term of ten years; the n receiving
the next highest number of votes at
such election shall hold his Office
for a term of eight years, and the one
receiving the lowest number of votes
at such election shall hold his office
for a term of six years.
Proposed institutional Amendment.
Article 8, section 158 of the consti-
tuition of the State of North Dakota, is
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-09-01
Great Docks for SINGAPORE.

Singapore, Straits Settlement (Brit-
!sh), is the docking and shipping base
If that part Of the world. New docks,
costing $20,0O0,000, are bling built as
q rendezvous for the fleet. It is be-
lieved that the Australian, Indian and
China British squadrons may in the
future constitute a great eastern fleet,
with headquarters at Singapore.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-09-01
She Was Encouraged.

Was your story accepted?" asked
the bosom friend.
No answered the struggling au'
thor, who has hopes Of selling some
thing before she dies, but l think
the tale made an impression on the
editor"
ooh, how lovely!" cried the bosom
friend. do tell me why you think he
was impressed"
A tender smile fitted across the
face Of the encouraged author. II no
ticed that the pages containing the &C
count of my hero's death were spotted
with what looked like teardrops," she
replied.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-09-01
Monarch,s Spying Discounted.

One of the %favorite pastimes of En-
peror Menelik of Abyssinia is to
mount a tower of observation, which
he has constructed for the purpose,
and watch his subjects going about
their duties in the streets and open
spaces through a powerful telescope.
One disadvantage of this method of
spying is that it is perfectly well
known to the people themselves, who
consequently do not give their liking
Of kings" much opportunity for dis
covering any deed worthy of punish
ment.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-09-01
Stephenson Has No Enemies.

Uncle Ike" Stephenson of Wiscon-
sin, is a senator without enemies, and
It is not likely that he will have any
II he remains in congress all the rest
Of his life. for he is not a man to stir
lp trouble. He has a sharp political
opponent in Senator La Toilette, al
though they were close friends only a
ieW years ago. Uncle Ike" is in the
senate quite frequently, and he goes
rom one senator to another and has a
bit OF conversation and then passes
IN.
The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-09-01
Proposed onstitutionalAmendment

ProposedC nstitutionalAmendment.
The Legislative assembly is hereby
authorized and empowered to provide
by law for the erection, purchasing or
leasing and operation of one or more
terminal grain elevators in the states
o. Minnesota o r Wisconsin, or both, to
be maintained and operated in such
manner as the Legislative assembly
shall prescribe. and provide for in
spection, weighing and grading of all
grain received in such elevator or ele.
vators.
ALFRED BLAISDELL,
Secretary of State.
Bismarck, N. D., August s, 1910.