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Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-06
Henry Birkland Victim of Runaway
Accident Near Stanford Last
Saturday Afternoon.
DIES SUNDAY MORNING
Dies Sunday Morning-Funeral Held
This Morning From the Presby-
terian Church in This City.

While driving with his wife i'll a
farm wagon near Stanford last Sat
urday, Henry Olaf Birkland was the
victim of an accident that resulted
in his death at O'Clock Sunday morn
ing. The body was brought to this
city yesterday and the funeral was
held this morning from the Presby-
terian church, Rev. E. w. Wright
officiating.
Wagon Upset.
1t seems that the decedent had
been to Stanford with his wife and
was returning to his homestead near
Alton. One of the horses he was
driving was a broncho, and on going
down hill became unruly and getting
over on the hill side, the wagon was
upset. Mr.. Birkland appears to have
alighted on his head and heavy plow
fell upon him, inflicting injuries re
sulting in cerebral hemorrhage, from
which he died.
Native of Illinois.
The decedent was a brother OF En-
gineer Birkland, who has been con-
nected with the county surveyors Of
fee for some time past. He came
here from the east last fall with his
wife and another brother, Lewis Birk-
land, and they. took up homesteads
near Alton. He was 36 years.
months and % days old and was a
native of Illinois. He had been
brought up on farm and had ex-
cellent prospects in his new home
Mr.. Birkland was an intelligent farm
er, hard working and OF exemplary
habits. He had numerous friends in
The county and was highly esteemed
by all who knew him.
There is much sympathy for the
widow and brothers. who are all deep
ly shocked by the tragic occurrence
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-06
Sixty-Seven Thousand Dollars for
Erection of New Central School
Building in City.
GRADE SCHOOLS CLOSE
Students and Teachers Finish Work
for Year-Preparing for Com
mencement at High School.

The special bond election held last
Thursday to pass upon the plan to
issue bonds to the amount of $67 900,
for the purpose of erecting in this
city a new central school building,
resulted in the authorization of the
issue. there being seventy-eight votes
cast in favor of it and seven against
the plan. The school board will now
advertise the sale of the bonds and
following that will call for bids for
the construction of the building. 1t
is expected that actual work on the
new school will begin the first week
in August.
High School Commencement.
The program for commencement
week at the high school is now COM
pleted. The baccalaureatc sermon
will be delivered by Rev. L. w.
Wright at the Presbyterian church
Sunday, June l8. Monday or We'd
nesday following the class play will
be presented at the opera house, and
on Tuesday, June 20, the Junior Prom
will be given at Armory hall. The
commencement exercises will be held
at the opera house. Thursday eve
ming, June p, when Rev. Frank
Powell, of Helena, will deliver the
address. The annual alumni banquet
will take place on either Friday OF
Saturday evening, June % or a.
City Schools Close.
The city schools closed last Friday
! after a year of most successful work
and the teachers have already scat
tered, most Of them going to theii
former homes to spend the vacation
There were no formal exercises to
mark the close, the eighth grade
pupils giving a party at the Haw-
thorne school Thursday evening
while the teachers gave a party Fri
day night The eighth grade grad
yates this year number about twenty.
four, and most of them will enter the
! hill school in September.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-06
A GOOD SHOWING.
Farmers Elevator Company Holds
First Annual Meeting.

The Farmers Elevator company
held their first annual meeting at the
court house last Saturday afternoon.
The result of the years business was
very hattering, as the reports showed
that. from financial point of view,
the business has proven great sue
cess. The books of the company had
been audited by Chase & Pratt and
Mr.. Chase submitted report, which
Mr.. Chase read to the stockholders,
that showed highly satisfactory con-
dition Of the business and most
profitable year. A 10 per cent. divi-
dend was declared and large sum
was placed i'll reserve, which en-
hanced the value of the stock from
$500 per share to $38.75 per share
M. B. Lytle, manager Of the COM
pany, is largely responsible for the
excellent financial condition of the
concern, and he was again elected to
fill that position. and the same board
Of directors and other officers were
reelected for the ensuing year.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-06
BIG MORTGAGE FILED.
Is for Six Hundred Millions and Fill
ing Fee is a Hundred Dollars.

The Great Northern Blanket mort
gage, filed in all the counties of the
state where the company has mileage,
was filed with County Clerk and Re-
corder Cunningham yesterday. The
mortgage is for six hundred million
dollars, and the copy came in print
ed form, accompanied by duplicate
sheets, already gummed and ready for
placing in the records, thus saving the
Office great deal of labor. A check
for $l0O for the filing fee accompanied
the document.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-06
Lorimer to Defend Himself.

Washington, June 3-Senator Will
liam A. Lorimer, whose election to
the senate is to be reinvestigated. re-
quested today that he be permitted
to appear before the new investigating
committee to testify in his own be-
half. The request was telegraphed
to the senate investigating committee
on privileges and elections by Mr.
Lorimer. who is in Chicago. The
committee, it was said, would be glad
TO hear him.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-06
PRIMARY COMMISSION IN SESSION
@ Q oooooooooooo GO Q

q Special to the Democrat. 9
9 Helena. June 6--The bi-par- g
9 tisan commission Of three sena g
. tors and three representatives, 9
Q appointed by Gov. Norris to g
Q frame a direct primary measure, G
9 which is to be submitted to the g
. members OF the legislature for g
Q their approval before calling an 9
9 extra session, met here yester 9
Q day afternoon in the governors 6
9 office. The commission organ 9
Q lied by electing Senator Tom 9
9 Stout, OF Fergus, chairman. and 9
9 Representative Law. of Gallatin, 9
9 secretary. After general discus 9
Q sion of the proposed measure. an 2
Q adjournment was taken until this 9
Q morning All the members of 9
2 commission are in attendance and .
9 there is no doubt that a real di- 9
9 rect primary measure will be for Q
. mulated. 9
~ n n - - "A n a
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-06
Rathbun-Carlson,

Paul Rathbun. the well-known rep
of Lindsay & Co. and a
popular member of the local fire de-
partment. and Miss Orpha Carlson,
were married at Roundup last Satur-
day night. Mr.. and Mrs. Rathbun
arrived here Sunday and will make
Lewistown their home.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-06
WOODMEN AT CEMETERY.
Impressive Memorial Service Is Held
There Sunday Afternoon.

Impressive memorial services were
held at the city cemetery last Sum
day afternoon by the Woodmen OF
the World Headed by the Bijou
band The members of the order
marched to the cemetery, where a
monument was unveiled and the i'm
pressive ritual was carried out, Mayor
John S. Marshall presiding through
the exercises. Following the unveil-
ing. H. l.. DeKalb made an appro-
pirate address.
Fergus County Democrat. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-1919, 1911-06-06
Wanwig-Frye.

Miss Ada Frye and Roy H Wan.
wig, of Forest Grove. were married
at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Elijah, Thursday evening the cere-
mony being performed by Rev. +. L.
White, of the Methodist church. The
bride and groom are well-known
young people of the Forest Grove dis
trict and will reside on their ranch.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
PHOTOGRAPHER HERE

Geo. Webster, the official pho
tographer for the community pub
licity department of the Hartman
system is expected to arrive today
to get additional views for the big
booklet which will be produced for
the Commercial Club this fall.
Some OF the smaller literature should
be in the secretary's hands before
long, as the copy went to the Port
land printers two weeks ago.. 1t is
needed badly, for every day brings
bunch of mail inquiries, for infor-
nation concerning the valley, the
result of Kennewick advertising now
running in the Sunset Magazine.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
L|NEMAN DIES As
RESULT OF BURNS
N. S. Greenlee Succumbs to Injuries
Received ct Coyote Rapids
Body taken to OREGON

After an illness of three days, n.
S. Greenlee died at Coyote Rapids,
Friday evening at 6 o'clock. His
death was the result of severe burns
received while at work installing a
switch with a 24OO volt circuit al
the Coyots Rapids pumping plant,
which is being built by the Pacific
Power & Light company.
r. ]. Andrus, the local manager,
gives the following account Of the
accident: "Mr. Greenlee was work.
ing on cables and was using bind.
ing wire to connect two live wires.
In 80 doing he got a short circuit
by means of the binding wire, Great
ing an arc between the two wires.
His position while seated on board
near the switch was such that his
only means of escape was to jump
down thru the arc. In so doing his
clothing was fired, altho he received
only two electric burns, which were
Continued on page 81
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
Argument in Favor Of a Dry Town

FELLOW CITKENs-I look upon
oie present temperance movement
70 abolish the saloons from Kenne-
WICK as crisis. l look upon the
''e''ion on Thursday, July 9Th, as
an event Of the utmost Importance
our city. Many cannot look
upon this agitation as a matter of
s,'ious public interest to the peo-
pe and so they are Indifferent to
alo care not whether it carries
Tue polls or is defeated. But in
seeu' as | look at it, the town is
'a'e TO face with a question of the
0S' serious and stupendous charac-
wa 'ne most vital by far since the
l "n was orRanized;> .queste;8s. /
S''a'e not to say, of vastly more
.. '0unt to the people of Kennewick
lou NJ dlstributive rates, trade and
s,a sA'e regulations, we'll lighted
~ 's and all that, important as
H. .lhngs surely are. The ques-
tha f"''' | need hardly say, concerns
'ne very highest interests Of a town
people. 1t has to do with
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
Argument in Favor Of a ''Wet'' Town
Continued on page s.

The following article was reprint
ed from Pearson's Magazine at the
request of A. +. Brown. It was
written for the magazine by Rev.
William A. Wasson. Mr.. Was
son." the editor of the magazine
states, is a clergyman of the
Episcopal church. He thinks it is
a clergyman's duty to speak openly
against any system which he believes
to be the source of immortality and
crime. Some folks say that it does
not look right to be against pro-
hibition. Mr.. Wasson believes that
no consideration of mere expediency
should deter clergyman from do
ing his duty. The object of a
prohibit,ry liquor law is to
lessen liquor drinking. It's effect
seems just the opposite. Mr.. Was
son has closely studied the matter
for years and he explains here just
wherein a probationary law fails
in its object. He does not overlook
the evils Of the saloon. He submits
a plan for the regulation of the
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
HANSEN GETS LAND

Otto Hansen of Spokane has re-
ceived communications from Wash
ington D. C. informing him that
the decision given in the land court
there, in the case which has been
carried on for some months, was in
his favor. His opponents were M.
N. Hu1nel, Miss Bienhart, Chas.
Robertson, and Ed Mann. They
have been granted the privilege OF
appealing to the Secretary of the
Interior, and unless they take this
course, the decision is final. Some
of the finest homesteads in the state
were involved in the case, which
fact has made the fight of more
than ordinary interest to the con.
testants.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
NORTHERN EXPRESS
PUTS WAGON ON MONDAY
Free Delivery and Collection of Express
.-Service Beginning the First
of the Week

The Northern Express company
will inaugurate its free delivery of
express the first of the coming week
making deliverys after the arrival of
each train on the Northern Pacific
and the S. P. & S., and making a
tour of the town in the afternoons
for the collection of such natter as
is to be shipped. The wagon will
make daily trips to the Highlands,
and all thru the residence portion
of the town, giving the residents the
same service as the merchants.
All boat business, both for up
river and from up-river will be
handled free of cost. making a big
saving for the merchants and resi-
dents of the upper towns.
The new wagon arrived the first
of the week and is now stored in the
freight house and is resplendent in
red and green paint, with a covered
top. If the team to be used here
is equal to the teams used in other
cities, the turnout will be credit
to the town, and Agent Crawford
states that it surely will be.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30

righteousness, purity, liberty, re-
ligion, the morals of country, the
holiness and happiness of the peo-
pie.
Look for moment at the situa-
ton. Here is an evil, the depth
and measure of which cannot be
over-stated. 1t is an evil we have
all to do with. LET it alone, "
some will wisely say. and it will
let you alone.' But what hurts
your neighbor hurts you. Who
has not suffered. in some shape,
through drink? What home is safe
from its inroads? Someone belong
ing to you, someone dear to you,
someone you have to do with, is its
victim. No; you cannot let it alone.
for it will not let you alone.
1t can never be right to license
wrong. You may give the saloon
the dignity of official sanction, but
you can never make right what is
all wrong. The decreeing Of what
should not be decreed makes it all
Continued on page 81
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
HOW WOULD YOU
LIKE TO Be MAYOR
COuncilmen are Looking for a Man to
Fill Richards Place for the
Unexpired Term

How would you like to be mayor
of Kennewick for the next six
months, to fill the unexpired term
of Mayor Richards who leaves short
ly for his new home in Seattle? The
city council is casting about for
suitable timber, (not to say, how
ever, that they want blockhead
to sit in the executive chair) to
guide the affairs of the town during
the coming six months.
Whoever takes the place will not
have an enviable job on his hands,
at best, and no doubt Mayor Rich
ards will sleep better for having
got shut" of it.
The councilmen, while of course
none of them would shirk the job,
do not want to fill the place from
among their number, for various
reasons, and so are casting about
for some one who is conversant
enough with the city's affairs to
make the most of the present op-
portunities.
Who will be next mayor? How
would YOU like the job?
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30

liquor traffic which will make for
temperance. This article will en-
able any man to decide whether or
not a prohibitory law will be for the
good of his own particular neighbor-
hood.'
We will only quote here parts of
the article as the whole of the
matter would take up too much
space.
The prohibition leaders boast
that, while ten years ago there were
only six million people living in
dry" territory there are now
thlrty-eight million. If prohibition
and temperance were one and the
same thing, we are certainly max
ing prodigious strides towards the
millennium. But sober-minded
people have no faith in the profess
sions and promises of prohibition
lists. Fifty years ago, the leaders
of the crusade thought they saw
the dawn of perfect day, when
there would not be a dram shop
Continued on page seven)
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
AL ABOARD
FOR HANF0RD
D, Do;nqs Promised on the Fourth
Band and Baseball Boys
will Run Excursion

Hanford will celebrate, and from
,rssent indications it will be the
h;,pest independence Day which
ever happened on the Columbia
p;ror between Kennewick and Wen
stchee.
The Base Ball Association and
.be hand have chartered the noun
tain Gem and will run an excursion
! leaving the foot of First St. at ZOO
m. Buses will leave the Ken
nevick and Koontz Hotels at 6:45.
Fare from Kennewick for the round
trip will be $500. The boat will
return the same evening.
The big feature of the day will be
the Kennewick-White Bluffs ball
game for a purse Of $35 and the
cate receipts. AS an audience of
500 or 600 is expected at the game,
It will be a contest worth winning.
Little is known of the calibre of the
White Bluffs team this year, but
they will have to play above their
Standard of other years to get away
with the money.
The Hanford committee report
that they have erected a fine OPEN
air dancing pavilion for the occas-
ion and have engaged the Twin
City Orchestra to furnish music
during the afternoon and evening.
Dancing will be free to everybody.
Judge Hanford is coming from
Seattle to deliver the grafton, and
h will be accompanied on the trip
" Hon. Samuel Hill, the good
roads man, and several other men
prominent in the northwest.
A good program of sports will be
run off in the early afternoon, pre-
vious to the ball game, and an ex-
. cellent display Of fireworks is prom
ised for the evening.
The Hanford boys are expecting
big delegation from Kennewick
and are making all kinds of pre-
partitions to give them the best time
ever.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
FINLEY FOLKS ARE
GOING TO CELEBRATE
Whole Valley is Invited to Coffeen's on
the FOurth-Big Old-Fashioned
Picnic

The whole Kennewick valley is
invited to Coffeen s place, in Finley
to spend the glorious Fourth. There
will be big old-fashioned picnic
held there under the trees, and
there will be sports of all kinds going
on all day, to say nothing of patriotic
speeches and varied program run
ming thru the day. Mr.. Coffeen
says he has a shote that he is un-
able to catch, and if he is able to
corner the brute before the fourth,
it will be given a liberal coat of
grease to supply some side-splitting
amusement.
The affair is given under the
auspices of the Finley Grange, who
have made for themselves an en-
viable reputation as entertainers in
the past, aod they intend to outdo
themselves On this occasion. No
one will regret having spent the day
with the Finley folks, and everyone
is invited.
OF course, the really big feature
of the day will be the basket dinner,
which the ladies will take pride in
preparing.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
COFFIN BROS,
SHIP SHEEP
Twenty-Five Car Loads Of Mutton
Leave kennewick for Eastern
and Western Points

Saturday trainload of 10000
sheep was loaded in the local yards
for Seattle, and another trainload
of -, 900 was loaded for St. Paul.
Both shipments were made by
Coffin Bros, who have had the
sheep, numbering 1900, grazing
on the hills during the winter.
These two shipments, with a train
load of seventeen cars made last
week, make the biggest output Of
mutton from the Kennewick valley
in years, aggregate in value close to
$50, 900 at the present prices.
When one stops to consider that
nearly three-fourths of this num-
Der of younger sheep will be shipped
back here in the fall, for fattening,
one can realize what a shipping
point for this one item Kennewick
is beginning to be. Four or five
trainloadsa a year of sheep alone make
an item that but very few cities in
the state can equal, and shows how
fast this point is becoming import
ant in the shipping world.
The wool that was clipped from
the sheep makes another important
item, but as practically all the fleece
goes to the far eastern states, it was
shipped from Finley by boat, going
around the Horn. The values of
wool added to the value of the NUT
ton makes sheep raising in the Ken
newick valley one of the best paying
Industries.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
FREE YEAR BOOKS

This weeks mail brought us a
sack OF 1910 government year books
cent out by Senator Jones for dis
trlbution in the Kennewick valley.
This volume contains many articles
OF value to the rancher such as THE
Agricultural Duty OF Water, /"
Nitrogen Gathering Plants, THE
Eradication of Cattle tuberculosis, /"
Good Roads Movement" Grad
ing OF Cream, "''The Handling and
Marketing of Fruits" and many
others. These books are absolutely
lfee and may be had, while they
Ast' for the asking at this office.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
SUNDAYS GAME

Aside from the painful fact that
we lost by poor fielding and stupid
base running game we already
had as good as set down in. the
won" column, the contest with
Prosser Sunday was an interesting
one to see, and may there be more
like it-with the break in the luck
the other way around.
Cryderman didn't pitch in any
where near his usual form, being
unable to locate the plate. In the
very first inning he got into trouble,
when after the first two Prosser
men had reached first on singles,
he gave a pass, filling the sacks,
and then forced home a run by
hitting the next batter. A double
play luckily ended the inning.
Richards, Prosser's finger, started
strong, tanning Stull and Martin in
the first, but in the second session
Kennewick tied the score on a
single by Howe and Dever's double.
The county seat boys forged to
the front again in the fifth when
pass and single gave them another
run. Neither side scored again un-
til the eighth when Devers started
action with his second hit of the
game. Ward grounded out. Lar
kin hit, scoring Devers and was in
turn brought home by Gascoygne's
double. Cryderman struck out
and Stull lined ont fly which was
muffed and Gascoygne came in.
Martin struck out, ending the in
ming with the score 4 to 2, and the
Continued on page 81
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
TWO GAMES OF
W|ERD BASEBALL
Defeat Richland in Farcial Contest
and Lose to Prosser by
Stupid Work

The twilight ball game last FRI
day night with Richland went five
and one-half innings and ended
with score of IS to 7 in Kenne-
wick's favor.
1t had rained nearly all day and
the evening was cloudy, so that by
the time the teams lined up at $50
it was so cold and dark it was fool
ish to have started the game. After
a couple of innings had been played
neither the umpires nor the players
could see the ball half the time and
the game developed into a farce.
The attendance was II.
We play Richland again Sunday,
July 9th, at Richland, and an al
together different result should fol-
low, as the boys from up the river
have great deal more "class", we
are sure, than they showed down
here.
The score:
Kennewick g 4 6 2 8 x-1S 13
Richland Il O 2O2 2-7 3
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
HON. JOHN A. GELlATlY
MAYOR OF WENATCHEE

Will address the voters of Kenne-
wick Sunday evening, July End, at
the tabernacle. Mr.. Gellatly will
prove to our citizens that voting
dry" in Wenatchee has been a big
benefit to that city. Come out and
hear him!
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
PASCO HERE SUNDAY

Pasco is coming across again next
Sunday and the two old rivals will
tangle up for the sixth game of the
season promptly at $3.50. Here's a
chance to get down a bet and make
a little money to spend on the
Fourth-maybe.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1911-06-30
COMMERCIAL CLUB EXCURSION POSTPONED

AT meeting of the publicity committee last evening"
voted to postpone the Commercial Club up river
until Thursday, August 10TH The trip had been planned for
Thursday July th but Difference excursion which
will be by the band and the boys on the FOURTH
it was thought best postpone the latter month.