davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-08-31
When They Came to the Fold.

"A Boston clergyman tells of a gen.
ueman in that city who has a some
what patronizing manner, due to the
exaggerated notion he has of the
amount Of bad blood" that runs in his
veins. When not long ago this man
was introduced to a Syrian of good
birth and education. who lives in Wor.
cester, the Hubbite blandly inquired,
during the course of their converse
ton: May ! ask if you are of the
christian religion?" The Syrian
smiled My family" replied he, was
converted to Christ's teachings al the
time Of Johns second visit to Leb-
anon"
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-08-31
Serious Omission.

The new millionalre's banquet table
vas spread, and the guests about to
be summoned.
Are you sure there are no report
era PRESENT." anxiously asked the host
q the butler.
i've made ceraiI Of It, sir"
"Then go out and get a few" re-
soined the host.-Canadian Courier.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-01-19

probable that the percentage of culls
will increase rather than diminish
as the crop increases in bulk.
The establishment of bi-product
plants is also suggested, with the
provision that they should be built
by fruit growers associations rather
than by single individuals, since
too expensive plants with elaborate
machinery in which capital would
be tied up would prevent growers
from making the profit they expec-
ted, and thus prove the plants a
failure. In some sections the prune
driers and hop driers can be made
to handle the dried fruit easily, the
expense of changing the drier and
the addition of certain implements
being very small. Proper precau-
ton in the establishment of these
bi-product factories and the hiring
of men conversant with the bust
ness will allow the manufacture of
culls into material which may be
disposed of at a handsome profit.
A reduction of the cost of pro
duction can be accomplished by the
building of better packing houses,
more careful planning of the or.
chards, and a better system of
bookkeeping. That is today, a
more careful record of actual costs
and a closer study of the proper
division of labor should be made.
The grower should know the exact
cost of such single items as pruning,
spraying, thinning, cultivation and
packing. If possible the cost of
the package and packing Of the
lower grades should be reduced.
The establishment of the parcels
post would prove great boon to
the fruit grower. by its aid he
would be able to ship out jells, jams,
vinegar, aud packages of dried fruits
to various: parts of the country at a
greatly reduced rate. This would
mean an enormous increase in con-
sumption of both the fruits and
their bi-products.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-01-19
PAGE THREE

OF two stories, now known as the
Garden Tracts or the North Side
school.
Fred Beach launched new news
paper The Rally" on the troubled
seas Of journalism during that
eventful week of the long ago,
and this was read publicly at the
club organized for the Intellectual
uplift Of the community. This Or
ganization was the Literary" and
the names of Bertha Richards,
Clara McElvain and Lottie and
Charles Lum appear among the
others on the program.
Frank Emigh had but recently
hove in sight and had a firm grip
on numerous holdings in the valley
and it was said of him as of the
bull dog, Eff he oncet' gets holt
heaven AMI yarth can't make him
let loose"
Less than a score of years have
passed over~the> valley since those
gloomy dog days when only tenacity
of purpose and hope for future pros
perity held men and women to
their daily tasks yet the changes
which time has wrought are little
less than miraculous. 1t was not
the man with the hammer who
performed the miracle of transform
ing the desert but the optimistic
booster whose slogan was TRY
again"
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-01-19

commercial activities. One sets
forth values IN merchandise at the
general store of Mrs. S. Conway in
the post office building. On Col
umbia Avenue, the street on which
the Kitten and CARRIER residences
now stand, S. Gardner Ono relation
to A. R. dealt in hardware, lum-
Der, drygoods, groceries and all the
necessities of a pioneer colony.
Professional cards tell of the enter
prise of DR.. G. A. Cantonwine,
druggist, and R. NJ. Needham,
lawyer. The Kennewick hotel was
maintained by c. J. Beach. Adriel
B. Ely, in competition with G.. j.
Beach, sold land at bedrock prices.
Some went at SIS an acre while
other tracts lei the market at $50
oil dCIC.
Like many of the early residents,
some of the buildings have passed
away. Notice is given in the paper
of grand ball to be given in the
Columbia Hotel. This building
with the old Kennewick Hotel, the
post office and several other popu-
lar gathering places in the old days
exist only in the memories of those
who survive the vicissitudes of the
last eighteen years.
There was great excitement among
the carpenters, for bids were called
for the erection of a magnificent
new school house, frame structure
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-01-19
.ennewiick's
First Newspaper

Like Bellamy, we are sometimes
justified in Looking Backw ard, i"
and copy Of an ancient newspaper
published in these parts, furnished
US by w. A. Moran, affords an op-
portunity for retrospection. 1t is
the ninteenth issue of the Column
bian, published eighteen years ago
by Winfield Harper. Those were
the days when Kennewick was in
Yakima county, when the water
was not, and when the scanty pop
ulation worked out the problem of
existence in a waste of sand and
sagebrush. For nine years after
the date of this Columbian, they
waited for the life giving water,
daily promised them by the Yakima
Irrigation & Improvement Com
pany. 1t is said that the popula-
ton numbered at least a dozen.
Many OF those who came to cast
their lot in the vallev grew dis
couraged with the apparently in
surmountable difficulties whic h
doomed big and black between them
and success. Success meant con-
quering the soil, and irrigation was
required in the grim struggle. A
majority there were who had not
the patience to wait, and vanished
with their worldly goods to parts
unknown. Now and then there is
a familiar name on the pages of the
old chronicle. names of the old
pioneers who waited until they came
into their own.
A glance at the advertisements
gives many revelations Of the past
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-01-19

Oregon and Washington were
bound together during the past week
with another link of steel, the new
Cello bridge across the Columbia
River at Cello having been opened
to traffic. The bridge steps across
the river, daintily, its piers being
fixed on rocks reaching above the
water. The viaduct will give the
North Bank road direct conn ection
with the new Hill road up the Des-
chutes into central Oregon.
Vancouver has aspirations to be-
come port, and petitions for a
special election, when the establish
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-01-19

lost the gem. which is valued at
$75, from its setting in a ring he
wore last September, while work.
ing in the yard at his residence
The chicken, then a young Rhode
Island Red rooster, seized upon it
as choice morsel and swallowed
it. His digestive qualifications
were too slight, however, for proper
dislntegration and the diamond
lodged in the gizzard. In the mea n
time Reel gave up his search for
the sparkler, concluding it was lost
to him for all time. A few DAYS
ago he went to the henhouse and
killed the rooster for dinner. Mrs.
Reel was dressing the fowl when
she found the missing diamond and
now claims proprietership of the
stone. Reels solace was in the
form of choice bits of the rooster
after it was cooked.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-01-19
NEWS Ditto
ESTATE

Mrs. Georgia Babcock, who died
at Cheney, Wash, recently, was
one of the early pioneers, going to
St. John 80 years ago with her hus-
band, Washington A. Babcock, from
California, making the trip by team.
Mr.. Babcock died II years ago.
Mrs. Babcock was member of the
Bonner party. She was born in
Springfield, Ill. in December, 1841.
In 1916 G. A. Bonner, Mrs. Bah
cocks father, accompanied by his
wife and children, started for CAL
ifornia overland in a company of
81. The party experienced danger
and suffering. MIR. Bonner received
a flesh wound and blood poisoning
set in. 1t became so severe that
the party had to leave him. His
wife refused to go, but got the party
to take the children. Neither she
nor her husband were rescued or
heard from later. The children
with the party went on to California,
but to such extremes were they
driven that shoe leather and shoe
strings were boiled for food and
the flesh of those who died was
eaten by those who survived. Only
45 OF the 81 who started reached
California. The early settlers uni
ted IN caring for the children. The
TWO youngest grew up through the
Kindness of a Swiss woman and
after they grew to womanhood thew
looked after their former benefac-
tress. Mrs. Babcock leaves a son.
frank B. and a daughter, Mrs.
Ioitn M. FOLEY, at Walla Walla.
Wash.
Alter reposing three months in
oil impromptu jewel case in the
form OF chickens gizzard, three
quarter carat diamond, belonging
10 b. M. Reel, a motion picture
niacnlne operator of Spokane, was
'es'ored to its owner recently. Reel
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-01-19
81 Handling Gull Fruits
How Make Profit Low Grades Shown by Prof Lewis of
Oregon Agricultural College

How to handle the Gull fruits of
the orchard in such a way as to
bring in a neat profit to the grower,
was the problem with which Prof.
G.. L. Lewis of the division of horti-
culture at the Oregon Agricultural
College dealt in a recent address
before a gathering of fruit growers.
To put the fruit on the market at
a price high enough to insure a
profit, and still low enough to in
sure its consumption, is one of the
grave problems which the fruit
grower must meet. There is so
much more competition in the low
grade fruits than in the fancy fruits
that it sometimes seems doubtful
whether it is wise to spend much
capital putting the culls and low
grade fruits on the market, in boxes
and packages. Itcosts just as much
to ship them as the finer quality
fruits, and frequently costs as much
to handle them in the orchards and
packing houses.
If lower freight rate for low
grade fruits is one suggestion, but
the railroads would not be likely to
welcome such a suggestion, and it
might be necessary to raise the prices
on the better grades in order that
the railroads might handle the
other at a profit. Immediate ques-
ton would arise as to the Emita-
tons of grades to which the differ
ent rates were to be applied.
Better distribution, Prof. Lewis
believes to be preferable solution
of the trouble. Cooperation among
the fruit growing districts, and a
friendly copartnership between the
fruit producing districts, of the
United States would accomplish a
better distribution. The opening
of the Panama Canal will undoubted-
" be another great factor in better
distribution, especially for the
European markets, but too much
dependence should not be placed
upon it for the American apple
trade, since many of the growers
will have local freight rates, not
only at the point of production, but
on the railroads at the final point
of distribution. Rates the steam
ships can offer, and the possibility
of securing steamers equipped for
handling the fruit trade in tropical
waters will also have much bearing
on the amount of assistance the
fruit growers will receive from the
canal.
The eradication of some OF the
lower grades, especially of the Gull,
can be accomplished in some or
chards, but in many a scarcity OF
help, the size and management OF
the orchard, and climatic conditions
may make this impossible. 1t IS
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-01-19
PUBLIC LAND AND MINING
CASES.

If you are interested in any delayed
final proof or any matter before the
Interior Department., write to
CLARK & WRIGHT, registered
land lawyers, ou2 F Street N. W.,
Opposite Interior Department.,
Washington, D. c.
Free information about contests and
where to obtain SCRIP, locatable-
upon public lands, without residence
or cultivation.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-01-19

Using the estimates of the state
grain inspector for the 1912 wheat
crop, the state board of control has
apportioned 100000 grain bags
among the various counties of the
state. The counties may get these
bags before April 1. After that
there will be no reservations and
the bags will be sold to anyone who
has the money. The price of the
bags have been fixed at seven cents,
but these figures are subject to
change.
The apportionment by counties
follows:
Columbia, 119, 900; Garfield, 3d.
900; Walla Walla, 24O,OOO; Whit
man, 100000; Spokane, $4,000;
Lincoln, 312, 900; Adams, $4,000;
Douglas, ia, ZOO; Benton, 81, 900;
Franklin, $4,000; Klickitat, 55,-
900; Yakima, 10000; Asotin. TO-
600; Skagit, $1,000; Whatcom,
5000; all other counties, 10000.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-01-19

Goat raising has become an es-
tablished industry in Klickita t
County, and talk is heard of an
association of growers being formed
for the development of better bred
animals. The animals have been
found very valuable by Klickitat
farmers in clearing land of brush.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-01-19

ment of the Port of Vancouver will
be decided, are now being circulated.
1t is held that slight dredging oper-
ations and other Improvements in
the river below Vancouver will give
splendid depth.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-03
P. D.
LEADING SOUTH
Receipts of Local Office for
Month of April Amount TO
S111,686.31.

Atlants's -pcstohice receipts for the
month Of April were the heaviest in the
history Of the South. being s111 1851,
received by the Mckee administration.
During the month Of April. 1871. the
receipts at the Atlanta postof7ce were
s3.1314s. just S1s.55465 less than for
the same month this year April 1910
showed Atlanta's postofice receipts 10
be Ss6.5O5 10. or S2518I1s less than the
CORES onding month Of the current
year April 10. 1911. exceeded April,
1910 by s6s2623,
Seven years ago. 1905, the receipts for
April we're s52.e35.sl. or just little
more than one-half Of what the receipts
were for the corresponding month of
1912
During April of this year there were
4,33s. 600 cancellations at the Atlanta
postoffice. while for the same month Of
the previous wear the cancellating ma
chine accommodated 3.7S2,4o0 pieces.
showing an increase for the current
year Of $4,000 pieces
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-03
NORRIS SLAYER
To HANG JUNE 7
IN Nine Hours Ben Green Is
Convicted of Killing White
WOman'S Protector.

Ben Green, the negro SLAYER II aaron
Morris. viii go & Bis death GA tae Eal-
lows ~ the Tower an June T. Fol-
lowing 3 verdict Of arst degree murder
So the criminal division Of superior
court. Judge i s. Roam tqday gave
Green his death sentence.
The jury which pronounced Green
guilty without Recommendation for
clemency deiiberated but Short time
The trial contaminated bnt ght hours
and the jury was closeted little more
than an hour
Mrs. Cohen Main Witness.
Green was convicted largely on the
testimony of Airs Cohen the woman 81
whose aid Morris rushed when he ne-
gro gave him the knife wound thar
caused his death Lon Teasely ne-
gro introduced by the state testified
that Green had told him the whole
story.
The defense submitted evidence ID
show that Green. who IS known re he
police as Cocaine Ben" was in the
house Of negro woman 1T The TIME
the killing occurred. Two Witnesses at-
tempted to establish this alibi for the
condemned negro. but failed
Aaron Morris was stabbed 10 death
by q negro at the corner ~ Couruand
and Gilmer streets on tile night ot
March q. The negro had accosted Mrs
Cohen. a neighbor woman and Morris
had responded to her screams
Green was arrested shortly after the
killing and held on the story that Lon
Teasely told the police
Morris left a wife ana two children
entirely dependent but s benefit fund
vas raised thra 4el neW paper SUB
scripIons.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-03
Bowels are Basis
of Child Health

The careful mother. who watches
closely the physical peculiarities Of her
children. will soon discover that the
most important thing in connection
with d childs constant good health is
70 keep the bowels regularly open
Sluggish bowels viii be followed by
loss OF papetite. restlessness during
sleep. irritability and dozen and one
similar evidences Of physical disorder
Al the first sign Of such disorder give
the child a teaspoonfu of Dr. Cald =
wells Syrup Pepsin at night on retir-
ing and repeat the dose the following
night If necessary more than that will
scarcely be needed. You will find that
the child VIII recover Its accustomed
good spirits at once and win eat and
sleep normally
This remedy is a vast Improvement
over salts cathartics. laxative waters
Pnd similar things. which are alto
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-03

gether too powerful for child. The
homes Of Mrs Vallie Utley. Keyser, \.
c. and Mrs. f L. Hair, Dalton, Ca,
are always supplied with DR.. CaldwelPs
Syrup Pepsn, and with them, as with
thousands of others, there is no sub
stitute for this grand laxative. II is
really more than a laxative, for 1t con-
tains superior tonic properties which
help to tone and strengthen the stom-
ach liver and bowels 80 that after a
brief use Of fl sill laxatives can be dis
pensed with aud nature will do its own
work
Any one wishing to make a trial of
this remedy before buying It in the
regular way OF druggist at fifty cents
or one dollar a large bottle family size)
can have a sample bottle sent to the
home free of charge by simply address,
ing DR.. w. B. Caldwell, 4O5 Washing
ton st. Monticello, III. Your name and
address on a postal card will do.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-03
HOUSE LIFEBOAT BILL
FAV0RABLY REPORTED

WASHINGTON. May 3-The house
committee OH merchant marine and ASH
cries has favoraby reported bill re-
curing all passenger vessels TO keep
wireless operators on duty "a hours per
day and lifeboat equipment sufficient 10
carry all passengers and crew
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-10

should become liable to those employee
ed, the legislature did not undertake to
say that it necessarily followed that
because an enterprise employed five
persons that a greater degree of dan
ser must necessarily exist therein than
In any similar institution in which but
four men were employed. The appar.
ent and reasonable purposes which
should be assigned to the legislature
in the selection of such a number was
that the same might be and become
median line Of danger zone in which
an injury, resulting from the proximi-
ty of several fellow servants, is like
ly to occur; and it is just as reason
able to conclude that where five or
more are employed the dangers that
the legislature had in mind would ex.
list. as it is to conclude that every
person has arrived at full maturity at
the age of twentyone years, and may
at that age do things that even one
month, or one day before, he could not
have done. 1t would not be contend
ed that because a person has arrived
at the age of twenty-one that he is in
fact fully matured, nor would it be in
sisted that the legislature concluded
that twenty-One was a certain point of
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-10
maturity as to any person, much less
as to very person.
A Median Line az to Aoe

maturity as to any person. much less
as to very person.
a Median Line az to Age.
We know, as a matter of common
knowledge that some persons are ma
tured at eighteen, while others do not
mature for years after the legal date
of maturity has been passed. But the
age of twenty-one is adopted as me-
dian line in the maturity zone and
maturity itself may vary from this me-
dian line one way or the other several
years, and still it could not be con-
tended that the fixing of twenty-one as
the age of maturity is an arbitrary,
unreasonable and unjustifiable asser-
ton of the age Of maturity. And IL
the enactment of the act under dis
cussion. the legislature. being COM
PEELED. for the purpose of legislation, to
esta blish and fix some number at
which this consequential and result
ant danger appears, the legislature has
fixed upon five, not that the danger al
ways and without variation does ap-
pear at that point more than that ma
turity appears at the age of twenty
one years, but because somewhere in
the vicinity of five, one employment
taken with another, a danger, the re-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-10

sponsibility between the master and
the servant. leaving the servant re-
sponsible for all misconduct on the
part of fellow-servants. whom he may
fairly and reasonably be charged with
having notice of, and after that, and
for the reason that he has greater OBJ
portunities for knowing, the RESPONSE
bility is left with the master.
From these considerations it is the
courts opinion that neither the Con
stitution of the United States nor the
Constitution of the state of Indiana
is offended against by the act; tina,
the classes created in the act are pro-
per and based ON reason and warrant
and that the demurrer to the COM
plant should be overruled.
The case will now go to trial on it's
merits.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-10
LIABILITY ACT IS
UPHELD IN RULING
Important Ruling Made by
the Judge of Madison
Circuit Court.

UNFOLDING the constitutionality OF
the new Indiana employers liability
act, In the case OF Archibald Murphy
against the National Tile company of
Anderson. Judge Fl. &. Austill of the
Madison circuit court delivered a de-
cision in which more than passing in.
terest will be taken by local employ.
ers and workingmen. The plaintill
instituted suit for $1,000 damages for
loss OF an eye. The ruling came up
on demurrer. The trial has not been
held. The decision of the court on
the constitutionality of the act is as
follows:
In fixing the point where employers
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-10
A HORTICULTURE,
MEETING, SATURDAY

The inauguration of Jesse Stevens
as president will be the leading feat
ure Of a meeting of the county horti.
cultural society, Saturday afternoon at
the court house. Stevens, the recent
ly chosen president from Centerville.
will outline plans for the new year in
his inaugural address. and standin.
committees for the year will be Sc
lected.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-10
Felt So Small

Boggs-Did you get in all right last
night: Woggs-Oh. yes. Boggs-Then
the doors wern't locked. as you fear,
ed? Woggs-1ndeed they were. but
my wife yelled at me as was coming
up the steps. so l crawled In through
the letter slot.-Puck.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-10

Safoouardod.
She-Does the course Of their love
run smooth: He-Oh. yes: there are
banks on both sides-Judge.
Corpus Christi caller and daily herald. [volume] (Corpus Christi, Tex.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-28
Mn.an b Nl-II IlIl.rlr ..Iana

phoNlnfNcr u Jan 20
roiiloians here are ioohlns forward
Win considerable interest be- thf
VISIT nf Iotrrnor Woodrow Wilson,
who "a cominH 90 Providence iomor
row inr ihr pnrrnse ~ comforting
with the p,maerailr ienaew of en-
state apon ihr eominr presidential
Campnlgn ana ihc ecncrai situation
ln nhofe i.lnhi During his ain,
here ihe Nfw Jersey rsgcHiieo viii
ir the epest of FORMER Goyerno,
ismrs u iiisglna