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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-06-07
STATE COMMISSION
COULD FIX CHARGES
Colonel Moren Thinks City Should
Call in Aid of Public
Utilities Act

That just and reasonable read
justment of light and water rates
can be procured from the Pacific
Power & Light company through the
offices of the public utilities COM
mission of this state, is the opinion
of Colonel Walker Moren. father of
the act 0 fthe last legislature. which
extended the scope of the old rail-
road comm ission law so as to include
in its operation all public service
corporations.
Colonel Moren make his success
full campaign as candidate for the
legislature largely upon his under
taking to introduce and pass if pos
sible a public utilities commission
law, based upon the New York
statute, and which would give the
state control of rates etc, charged the
public. Through his efforts the pub
lie utilities act was passed, and Col
onel Moren is wondering why the
city council. under the provisions Of
this law. has not invoked the aid of
the public utilities COMM ssion to
secure just and reasonable rates and
HcSuCd tAtCiloIOllS anu lliiplpNclilS
IN the water service. The act went
into effect June /. and is now opera
tive.
'In pressing the passage of this
bill" said Colonel Moren yesterday,
Il laid particular stress upon the
situation in Norh Yakima and ex-
planned to the legislature that the
people OF this city We're not getting
fair treatment from the Pacific
Power & Light company. The ex-
cessive rates charged here were dis
cussed at some length Mr. Fair
child, chairman of the commission
created by the act, told me that he
would be glad to come to Yakima
and look into the situation upon re-
ceipt of any complaint from the
council or other competent BODY
Provisions of Act
The public utilities act provides that
all charges for light, power. water,
etc. shall be just, fair and reason
able, and that the service shall be
adequate, efficient and safe" These
provisions would apply to any i'm
proper condition of the water supply
and the company could be compelled,
Col Moren says, to remove causes Of
contamination such as dead ends"
etc.
The act further provides that pub
lie service corporations must file and
publish schedules and rates and
shall mott be permitted to practice
discrimination against or in favor OF
ANY corporation or person in the
matter either of service or rates. 1t
Is also provided that. for the purpose
Of arriving at a decision as to what
may constitute just fair and reason
able rates the commission may ex-
anime the books of the corporation
concerned.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-06-07
parcels post.

since February. % tn post office
has been weighing all this mail. IT, is
being the weighing season. The rail-
roads will be paid for the next four
years on the basis established. The
weighing season will continue until
June -.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-06-07
Abraham's Natural Seed Next.

This Spiritual Seed of Abraham, a
will constitute the Church o.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-06-07

From of old Abraham, Isaac Jacob,
David. etc. were called the fathers. not
My because of their relationship to
W Jewish nation. hut particularly he
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-06-07
Analysis OF Facts.

analysis of the data thus obtained
showed that 4 cases were persons
living in rooming houses, apartment
houses and in boarding schools,
While 80 were among persons who
lived at private residences.
"Twentythree cases were at resi-
denCes where the general sanitary
conditions were good, 20 where the
conditions were fairly good and :
where the conditions were bad. From
thes" finding it would appear that the
disease did not prevail diSproportion-
1tely among persons living in sani-
tary neighborhoods.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-15

made in this country. One man was
guarding a box for whose owner he
was waiting. 1t appeared as if the
owner would arrive too late for the
train, and the man pathetically re-
marked; IF he had only left his ticket
I would have gone in his place" That
indicated the tone of those who went
and those who stayed.
Many of the Glasgow contingent
were railway workers, surfacemen,
piatelayers, shutters, and the like.
They complained of the hunger"
wages which they were paid for hard,
responsible work, and pointed out that
the daily wage of from IS. to los.
which they were promised in Queens
land was two or three times as much
Ss they received at present
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-15

States can show a cleaner bill of
health than Morehead City, North Car
DINA In a population of about 5000
there is not a family having a crippled
child or one who Is idiotic or insane.
There is here, too, very homologous
population, There is neither an Irish
man, German, Italian, or Jew in
town, although there is no ban on
any race or creed. The white popu-
lation outnumbers the blacks four to
one, the latter having their residential
section and their own churches and
schools. Morehead City is also re-
markable for its simplicity in its relig-
ious doctrines, There is neither Cath
Ole, Episcopalian, Presbyterian nor
Unitarian, although there are eight
churches and several denominations
Frank p, Fogg in National Maya
zine.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-15
A REMARKABLE EXODUS FROM SCOTLAND

The largest party which has ever
left the United Kingdom as a body OF
prospective settlers in Australia en-
trained at Glasgow and Edinburg re-
Gently.
The party is almost composed, says
a correspondent of the London Chron-
icle, of single young fellows, with a
few married men travelling alone, all
having been especially selected to as
sist in railway and agricultural devel-
opments in Queensland. A special
train of ten large coaches was run for
the benefit of the emigrants, who are
to embark on the Waipara at the
Royal Albert dock.
In an interview one of the emil
grants pointed out, 1--WE get cheap
land out there, and when improved the
land is our own. Here we are only
working for the landlords"
Large though the party is, it forms
only the first of a series to Australia
and New Zealand.
Since the year opened $4,000 emf
grants have sailed from the Clyde
alone. Recently two special trains
left the Waverley Station, Edinburgh,
for London, with 25O selected single
men bound for Queensland, Australia,
The men were mainly navvies, miners,
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-15
A Matinee Hero.

mot a seat in the housed"
Audley turned away from the box
office and went out again into the heat
of the summer afternoon, walking aim
lessly for a block or so while he made
up his mind how to put in the four
hours he still had on his hands before
the boat left. There was a play on at
the Imperial that he was particularly
anxious to see. Kenworthy had written
him about it.
The hero is a marker for Earl
Drayton,' he said; "big-hearted, but
impulsive and his own worst enemy"
Poor Drayton! He had been Audley's
roomate at Old Orange, was one of
the most promising members of the
class and then, in his junior year, came
the ugly scrape which caused his ex.
pulsion from college. Other men would
have wormed themselves out of the
predicament without marrying the
woman, but Drayton was not of that
sort. And she dragged him down to
her level.
Il should like to have seen the
thing, Audley thought as he turned
INTO the glare of Broadway, but I'll
be hanged if I'll stand three hours and
pay dollar for the privilege. I've two
minds to trot straight over to the boat
1t ought to be cooler by the river.
side"
lie took car downtown and was
making his way through the narrow
street to the wharf when the clang of
gong startled him.
The patrol!" someone shouted, and
the great free show of the neighbour
hood was on view.
] Audley was jostled and showed out
OF the way, for he had no thought of
quickening his steps for any such en-
.tertainment, He was dragging himself
out OF the scurrying crowd when the
wall of child gave him pause.
Audley was fond of children, as he
was fond of dogs and horses, and could
not bear to see any of the three suf
fer The cries came from a little fe;
low who had been knocked down by
the rush of the morbid.
Are you hurt, young MANI" Audlev
demanded, as he bent over the child
He was a boy of some four years of
age, who kept rubbing one of his legs
in way to suggest that it had been
trampled upon.
Mamma, mammal" was all the re.
ply that could be obtained, however.
Audley looked up; but not one OF
! the numberless female heads thrust
eagerly out of the windows over him
. made any pretense of claiming kinshir
with the youngster
Where is mammal" Audley asked.
The cries ceased for an instant, anC
I two warm arms were stretched out t
r the six-footer, who had not in
I tended doing more than lead the chill,
: to the doorstep out of the crush. Blu
e there was evidently something wronj
:. with the leg, so Audley stopped, gath
cred the little chap under one arm am
:. repeated, Where is mammal"
r For reply the boy pointed to a tent
ment doorway close at hand, and the
= proceeded to snuggle his tousled hea
close to Audley's immaculate collar.
How far up?" inquired the moder
Samaritan, after he had assembled tn
first flight.
He wasn't at all pleased with tn
G atmospheric conditions. The sande
!. floor, the light that was dim, if not re
+ ligious, the conglomerate odors fror
o rival stew postal this was a revelI
:. ton to the clubman. He didn't like
+ one bit; he was a man generou
=, enough with his money, but to Civ
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-15

with Mrs. Harrison, and some Cl
those people Mrs. Hutchinson prevail
ed upon to go back.
There were threats that the Massa'
chusetts people were coming down to
capture them all by force. This so
preyed upon the Hutchinsons, who
had suffered severely, that they
packed their now scanty goods upon
a raft, and with improvised sails head
ed for the Dutch settlement of Man
haitian.
They we're kindly received and
given title to a tract of land on Long
Island, near He'll Gate. There, in a
little clearing, on the waters edge,
they began to build a house.
Ere the roof was on they were at
tackled by Indians, who evidently mis-
took them for Dutch, and all were
massacred.
So died Anne Hutchinson.
Anne Hutchinson was mourned by
Mary Dyer as a sister, and she
preached a funeral sermon at Provi-
dence in eulogy of her. Mrs Dyer
also went back to Boston and made
an address in praise of Anne Hutch
| inson on Boston Common, to the great
scandal of the community. Mrs.
Dyer had now become a Quaker, prin-
cipally because Quakers had no paid
priesthood, and allowed women who
heard the Voice to preach.
Mary Dyer heard the Voice and
preached. Her attention was called to
the law, which in Boston provided that
Quakers and Jews should have their
ears cut off, and their tongues bored
She continued to preach, and was
banished.
She came back, and was found
standing in front of the Jail talking
through the bars to two Quakers, Rob
inson and Stevenson, who were con
fined there awaiting sentence. She
had brought them food and was ex
horting them to be of good cheer. She
was locked up, and asked to recant
She acknowledged she was {
Quaker, and not in sympathy will
magistracy.
She was sentenced by Governor
Endicott, on her own confession, will
having a contempt for authority, anC
ordered to be hanged. The day cam,
and she was led forth, walking hanC
in hand with her two guilty Quake
brothers.
The scaffold was on Boston Com
mon, on the little hill, about wher
the bandstand is at the present day.
Mrs. Dyer stood and watched then
hang her friends, one at time. A
they were swung off into space sh
called to them to hold fast to tn
truth, "for Christ is with u.s." Wher
lever she spoke or sang, the drum
that were standing in front and bac
| of her were ordered to beat, so as t
: drown her voice.
After the bodies of her friends ha
2 dangled half an hour they were Gu
down.
{ 1t was then her turn. She ascende
{ the scaffold, refusing the help of tn
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-15
TWO GREAT WOMEN---ONE BANISHED,
The OTHER HANGED ON BOSTON COMMON

Rev. Mr. Wilson. He followed her and
bound his handkerchief over her eyes,
guard in the meantime tying her
hands and feet with rawhide.
do you renounce the Quakers?"
Never, praise God, His son Jesus
Christ, and Anne Hutchinson, His
handmaiden-we live by truth"
"a reprieve! a reprieve!" someone
shouted And it was so-Governor
Endicott had ordered that this woman
be banished, not hanged, unless she
again came back to Boston. 1t was
all an arranged trick to thoroughly
brighten the woman.
Wilson removed the handkerchief
from her eyes. They unbound her
feet, and the thongs that held her
hands were loosed. She looked down
below at the bodies of Robinson and
Stevenson lying dead on the grass.
She asked that the sentence upon her
be carried out. But not so, she was
led by the guards fifteen miles out
into the forest and there liberated.
In a few months she was back in
Boston, to see her two grown-up sons
and also to bear witness to the
Inner Light"
Being brought before Governor En-
dicott, she was asked, Are you the
same Mary Dyer that was here be
fore?"
81 am the same Mary Dyer"
'Do you know you are under sen
tence of death?'
81 do, and l came back to REMIND
you of the uprighteousness of YOU
laws, and to warn you to repent"
Are you still Quaker?"
81 am still reproachfully so-called.
Tomorrow at nine o'clock l orde
that you shall be hanged"
This sounds like something yo1
said before!"
Lead her away-away. | say!"
At nine the next morning a vas
crowd covered the Common, the shop
and stores being closed, by order, 70
a holiday.
Mr.. Wilson again attended the Gu
prit. Mary Dyer Mary Dyer!" h
called in a loud voice as they stoo
together on the scaffold. MARY Dyel
repent, oh, repent, and renounce you
heresies!"
And Mary Dyer answered, NAY
man, am not now to repent, know
ing nothing to repent of"
Shall have the men of God pra
for your"
She looked about curiously, haI
smiled, and said, 81 see none here"
"Will you have the people pray fo
you?"
Eyes, want all the people to pra
, for me-"
E Again the light was shut out frol
her eyes, this time forever. He
hands were bound behind her wit
thongs that cut into her wrists, he
feet were tied. She reeled and IL
Rev. Mr.. Wilson kindly supported he
The moose was adjusted.
Let us all pray" said the Rev. NJ
l Wilson So they hanged Mary by,
2 in the morning.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-15

and railway workers, whose services
are required on state railway extern
sion work. A Queensland government
official visited Scotland some time ago
and carefully chose the men he de-
sired from a great number of appli-
cants. The tests applied were severe,
and the great majority of the appli-
cants We're rejected.
The scene at the station was a
memorable one, and the crowd num-
bered about 1000. Many pathetic in
cidents We're observed, but the emf
grants themselves were in high spir-
its. Young for the most part and well
set up, they impressed one fayorably
by their appearance, and one thought
of the loss the country sustained by
their departure. Amid the hustle and
excitement which prevailed it was not
easy to obtain interviews, but | had
short conversations with a number OF
the men. There is no doubt that the
men regarded themselves as fortunate
in being among the selected. They
were going to a land where the pay
was bigger and the hours shorter and
their passage money had been adj
vanced.
A common estimate was that they
should save in a year more than they
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-15

A REMARKABLE
NORTH CAROLINA TOWN
Probably no town in the United
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-26
The crunohing Of Little Persia.

Old bruin has at last caught his
weak prey and is crunching out its
life between his massive jaws. II will
not be long before such a thing as
Persian autonomy will be a signal
for laughter. ohicially, the shah
may be permitted to hold an once
and derive certain emoluments as a
nominal ruler, but that viii be about
the limit of his power.
II was not to be expected that Per-
STA could long resist the eneroaeh-
ment of greedy Russia. The news
that IL had fully accepted the cars
ultimatum was purely perfunctory.
with just touch OF tragic satire in
escapable to the student of AFFAIRS.
In this case Russian rapacity was
helped on by British avarice. Little
Persia, like William Tells young
hedgling," had been Melted by old
Gesler and sarnem beforehand and
was denied the possibility of escape
even by so perilous means as hav-
ing an apple shot on his head.
The powers must view this con-
quest with a good deal OF chagrin at
their own complacency The near
est that Russia could come to justI-
flying its action would be TO say that
might makes right" It is SO pre-
posterous that It is grimly funny that
Russia can compel Persia even 10 in
demnify 1t for the expense Of sending
troops into Persia TO whip the shah
into submission. Il is principle
that never would be tolerated be-
tween self-respecting nations or in
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-26
Where the Negro Dwells.

Not SO many years ago FIVE south
ern states had larger negro than
white populations. Now, according TO
statistics just issued by the census
bureau, only two have more negroes
than whites, South Carolina and Mis-
slssippl Mississippis total popula-
ton, white and negro, is 1,797,114,
OF which 1,009,4S7 are negroes.
South Carolina has a total population
OF 1,515,400, OF which S35,S43 are
negroes. Georgia has more negroes
than any other one state, 1,176,9S7,
and Il has 1,431,s16 whites. Thir-
teen southern states comprise the
great majority of our negro popula-
ton still. There are, under the gov
ernment's last count, 9,32S,294 ne
groes in the United States, and
8,327,345 of them are in these thir-
teen states Of the south. The negro,
therefore, evidently finds conditions
much to his liking in the warmer cli-
mate or he would not stay there, but
those of his number who dwell in the
north probably do not care to ex-
change places with the fellows in
Dixie, so that 1t makes a fairly con-
tented family all round.
Nebraska's negro populat o n
amounts only to 1859. while its total
population under the 1910 census is
1,192,214. It's total population in
the last decade showed an increase of
11.S per cent, its negro population
32.7 per cent. And the Nebraska
negro is doing his part toward self
improvement He is steadily getting
his hands on valuable property. He
Is as a rule a law-abiding member of
society and is not at all inclined to
make problem" of himself, either
to his or the white race. AS a gen.
eral thing the negro in Nebraska and
elsewhere in the north stays pretty
close to the towns and cities, though
he is branching out into the country
more than he formerly did, and when
he goes into farming on even a more
extensive scale he will find himself
and his race better off for II. He
can we'll afford TO follow the teach
ings of his great race man, Booker T.
Washington, as to that.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-26
JUDGE VERSUS JURY.

Chicago Record Herald: A judge has
the right to take a case from a jury. He
has the right to set a verdict aside as
being contrary to the weight OF the evil
dence. But he has no right to direct
a verdict, If the jury disagreees with
him. The directing of verdicts regard
less of the jury's own opinions and SEN
timents is an abuse. It makes a mockery
Of trial by jury.
Des Moines Capital: Wuthrow was the
short time ago, insisted on a jury find
ing what he told them to find. Those
who knew Thomas of that name, big in
Iowa politics forty years ago, need not
be surprised that a Wuthrow was so per-
sistent with a jury. Their only wonder
may be that he ever yielded. That was
never our Toms habit.
Brooklyn Eagle: Jurors are absolute in
passing on facts. The Judge Is absolute
in passing on law. II Jurors and Judge
disagree as to whether certain questions
are questions OF law or are questions of
fact, then each may properly hold to his
convictions. and a verdict unsatisfactory
to the judge may be set aside by him.
subject to appeal. Too many judges in
all the states lose sight of this fact, seek
to coerce jurors, treat Jurors as the slaves
Of their whims, attack Jurors bitterly
from the bench when coercion or dicta-
ton is resisted. A full recognition Of
the dignity of Jurors, and of their au-
tonomy within their own field OF facts,
would make jury service much more toll
cradle to the self-respecting citizens who
are really needed in the jury box.
Omaha daily bee., 1911-12-26
People Talked About

Imagine what would have happened IL
Mr.. Shuster were a Jap!
Hon. Bourke Cochran Views with alarm
the activity Of courts and lawyers in
business affairs. There are others.
However. Mr.. Shuster achieved a SUI
perior line Of front page advertising that
will give him all the business he can
handle when he is ready for it.
Something like S,5OO,OOO words of testi-
mony in the Lorimer case have been
printed. That measly 100000 talked some
without disclosing its parentage.
A New York City official and a demo-
crat voluntarily resigned $4,000 job for
one with a salary of $500. On this bald
statement jury would honor the insanity
plea.
One of the Chicago big grain specu-
lators has evolved list of the worlds
twenty greatest foods, and puts fried
musR at the top of the column, next to
pure reading.
Back in Allentown Pa, one Charley
wallitsch was refused citizenship papers
because he had never heard Of William
Jennings Bryan. The town divided on
the question Of putting Charley on the
village Christmas tree. but compromised
by placing him in the showcase OF
nickelodeon.
The famous Lane Cutoff on the
Union Pacific, which Topped off ten miles
OF curves between Omaha and Fremont
at cost Of 100000. has been pushed
into second place by the Lackawana cut
off on the New York and Buffalo line,
just completed. The new construction
saves eleven miles in distance, twenty
minutes in train time and cost S11,OO0, 900
An Iowa tenderfoot who looked the part
dropped into q barber shop near the
Chicago horse show, listened to line
of tonsorial talk while the trimming went
on and got bill for $685.. The victim
excused himself to get change and re-
turned with a policeman. When the bar
Der emerged from the subsequent pro-
ceedings he was out a so fine, some
change and six hours time. But his
knowledge of tenderfeet was improved.