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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
PASSENGER AGENTS
TO ASSEMBLE HERE
DR.. H. P. James of Commercial
Club Receives Word to That
Effect From MIR. Charlton

Forty or fifty railroad men, repre-
senting the passenger departments OF
their respective roads will assemble in
this city either late In March or early
IN April for their semi-annual gather
ing. DIR. II. =. James. secretary OF
the Commercial club went out some
time ago to get the next meeting for
North Yakima. If It was possible to 80
arrange 1t. A. letter received by DR..
James Monday from A. ID. Charlton,
general passenger agent OF the North
ern Pacific railway with headquarters
at Portland, who announced that the
meeting will be held In this city. The
North Pacific Coast Passenger Agents
association comprises in its member
ship the representatives OF all the local
railroads in this part of the states. and
also the North Pacific representatives
of all the eastern roads. 1t Is an i'm
portant body and contains a type of
men 1t is well to have in this city
for a day or two.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
Rutherford Page Celebrating His
First Flight as q Licensed
Aviator Is the Victim
ACCIDENT WAS DUE
TO HIS RECKLESSNESS
Page Had Been Cautioned by
Glenn Curtis Not to Attempt
Anything Spectacular But Was
Carried Away by His Success

LOS ANGELES. Jan. 22.-Ruther-
ford Page, aged "a, graduate Yale 10
and son of Mrs. Helen Page of New
York, flying as one of the Curtiss
ayiators fell $50 feet to his death this
Afternoon on Dominguez field a few
moments before the close OF the third
days programme of the third lnterna-
tional Aviation Meeting. His death was
Instantaneous.
Page was endeavoring to turn on
a pivot" when swell of air over
Hangers caught his planes. He made
a vain effort to regain control ana
when 60 feet in the air jumped clear
of his machine. He cleared the ma
chine and fell fiat onto the paved
ground.
Page was flying for the first time as
a licensed aviator, having been award
ed a license last Saturday. His flying
early today was recklessly spectacular
and eileen Curtiss, who taught MIN,
cautioned him against attempting at
his first meet to perform feats of fly-
ing that required long experience to
learn
Page merely laughed and assured
Curtiss he was "all to the good Dur
ing the afternoon Page had remarked
he would beat Beachey "or break my
fool neck"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
DRAINAGE DISTRICT
NO. II POSTPONED
County Commissioners in Session
Monday Give Engineer
Further Time to Report

Yakima county commissioners were
In session Monday and transacted the
following business:
Consideration of drainage district
No. IL was postponed until February
10, in order to give County Engineer
Marble time to get his report ready.
This district is in the Sunnyside coun-
try, and the outcome of the movement
to form the district is being awaited
with considerable interest.
In regard to the w. Il. Snyder road
matter, the right-o f-way has been Sc
cured except from ID. Il. Partch. His
damages were fixed by the commits
sioners at $75. If he does not accept
that sum, condemnation proceedings
will be commenced against him.
The Butterfield road was vacated
as petitioned for, and another But
terrified road established in the Ter
ace Heights country
The sum of s625.S5, received from
the forest reserve fund was apportioned
pro rata between the general road
and bridge fund and the general
county school fund.
A. c. Wallin was appointed to the
vacancy as justice OF the peace of
Naches City.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
MONEY IS RETURNED
TO COAL CLAIMANTS
Further Proceedings With Refer
ence to the Cowlitz Fields at
Vancouver Next Month

Messrs. Fred Parker and A. B.
Whitson of this city have received
from the federal government a return
of the money paid out by them to the
government on coal claims in the
Cowlitz district on which they filed.
Others of the claimants have received
word from Washington that the mon
e., amounting to $1,000 in each in
stance, will be refunded. Practically
all of the score or more of Yakima
holders of claims have decided to take
their money back, but there are sew
eral claims which will be fought out.
The government has admitted that
there are $50 acres of coal land in
the Cowlitz field and Messrs. John P.
Hartman and associates, Dr. Court
right, and the Kaufman and Druse
claims are being fought through the
land office of the United States at
Vancouver. These claims make an ag-
gregate or $40 acres, which is four
times greater than the total admitted
by the government. Attorney Fred
Parker has represented the greater
number of the local claimants in the
the negotiations which have been had
with the federal authorities.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
ELECTRIC PUMPING
PLANT FOR GRANGER
Pacific Power & Light Company
Planning to Irrigate Land
for Ranchers II

GRANGER, Jan. 22.--(Special to
the Herald-An important meeting
was held in Granger Saturday after
noon. when officials of the Pacific
Power g. Light Co. to-wit: Geo. V. Ar
rowsmith, general superintendent of
the irrigation department. and l.. n.
Fry of Sunnyside. and A. f. Haynes,
representing the General Electric Co.
of portland, met to discuss with the
ranchers residing above Granger the
advisability of installing an electric
pumping plant for the purpose Of
pumping water to the high lands lying
In the vicinity of the Sunnyside Canal,
which. although they are below the
canal, do not receive water at the
present time. This, II effected will
bring into productiveness many thous-
ands OF acres tributary TO Granger
that will make the finest kind of frult
land when watered owing to their ele-
walton.
The question of supplying the
ranchers in that vicinity who desire
current for lighting purposes was also
taken up. The visiting officials de-
parted Saturday afternoon. expecting
to return Tuesday to make Ginal ar
rangements.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
TOO MUCH PUBLICITY
SAYS ]. G. FARRELL
President of the Steel Corporation
Says That Foreign Business
Is Being Ruined

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.--James G
Farrell, president of the United States
Steel corporation, protested before the
Stanley steel investigating committee
today against the unnecessary pub
licity of the manufacturers cost of
steel products as ruinous to the for
eign and domestic manufacturers.
Farrell also discussed the Gary din
ners declaring while they might have
had influence to maintain the stability
of the market they had no influence
in fixing or maintaining prices. He
told the committee he favored pub
licity in corporations and he though
there should be governing board but
he believed it to be impossible for the
government to fix even the maximum
prices.
Farrell said he did not believe the
Sherman law should be repealed but
1t should be classified so business men
knew exactly what they could do.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
STARVATION DOCTOR
HYPNOT|zED PATIENTS
Had williamson Girls Write Let
tiers Saying They Were Well
Treated When Starving

SEATTLE, Jan. 22.-Dorothea Will
hanson testified today in the case of
Mrs. Linda Burfield Hazard, charged
with the murder of Claire Williamson
that Mrs. Hazard was unkind to her
and that she feared the woman to
such extent she would have long cry
ing spells when she thought of meet
ing the starvation doctor.
This statement was made during
cross examination. Miss Williamson
could not say whether her sister had
been similarly treated as she was not
permitted to see Claire. To refute
Miss Williamsons testimony letters
were introduced by the defense writ
ten by Claire expressing her apprecia-
ton for the kind treatment accorded
them and saying the sisters Were
happy.
Dorothea testified she weighed 81
pounds fully dressed when taken from
Olalla to Tacoma in July and that
she could not have weighed more than
4s pounds during the May previous.
She explained the letters by saying
that Claire was SO enfeebled she did
things under Mrs. Hazards directions
she would not have done of her own
accord.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
la TOILETTE |NvADES
FAR EASTERN STATES
Has a Large and Enthusiastic
Audience in New York Where
He Scores Supreme Court

NEW YORK, Jan. 22.--The politi-
cal atmosphere in the east is further
changed tonight by the first appear
ance in this section of Senator La Fol-
lette since he announced his candi-
dacy as a progressive republican for
the presidential nomination. In con-
nection with the senator's coming,
there was political gossip to the effect
that Roosevelt also might appear but
the Colonel was not present. Clifford
Pinchot close friend of Roosevelt.
who has been regarded as a staunch
Roosevelt lieutenant, appeared with
La Toilette however, and presided at
the meeting. While the meeting was
under way the crowd was so large
that the police had to be used to
keep 1t away. When the senator was
finally led to the platform, he was
greeted with the waving of handker-
chiefs from the women and cheers
from the men as the next president
of the United States"
Favors Recall of Judges
In his address La Toilette declared
that the senate was created to repre-
sent all the people of the state, not
the steel trust, the money trust or
Standard Oil. Answering shout
from the gallery whether he favored
the recall of the judiciary, La Toilette
declared he did, statement which
was received with great applause.
He said, however, he would place linn
itations on 1t, that did not surround
other officials He declared that when
the court forgets its function to con-
strue law as 1t is written, and usurps
the function of the legislature. he
said there was a justification on that
s ore alone. for the recall of the judi
ciary. He said he was not trying to
veil his meaning, that he meant the
United States supreme court when II
wrote into the Sherman Law the
words that congress refused to write
into it. He declared emphatically for
equal suffrage.
Pinchot's Introduction
In introducing La Toilette Pinchot
said there We're two principal ques-
lions before the public today are con-
| servation and the progressive move
ment Both of them took their origin
in the principle of making efficient use
OF what we have for the general well
fare. Declaring that efficiency is OPP
position of waste, PinchGt described
strikes, the discrimination by the
great corporations against the people
and political rings and bosses as forms
of waste, the remedy for all of which
is the effective participation of the
people in the control of their own af-
fairs.
To the speaker he was about to in
troduce he paid high compliment as a
constructive statesman, and declaring
La Toilette had taken up the stand
ard of progressives in order to pre-
vent the nomination of reactionary
with little expectation of winning the
nomination he said 1t appears now as
II he stood a good chance OF captur-
ing the fortress"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
WAFATO COMMENDED
Prides Itself on Business Administra
ton of Municipal Affairs

OLYMPIA, Jan. 22.--"The city of
Wapato justly prldes itself upon a
business administration OF its munich
pal affairs Its mayor and council from
the organization of the city to the
present time has been in the hands of
men who proved their ability by that
most strenuous test-success as indi-
viduals in trade and commercial life"
This is the comment of the examiner
for the state bureau of inspection In
his report on the town OF Wapato,
Yakima county. AS Il result OF the
efficiency OF the officers tho munich
pality is In excellent condition.
The assets OF the city amount to
$17GOO.29 and the liabilities of the
city are $l1,476.90.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
JOHNNY COULON is
STILL BANTAM CHAMP
KNOCKING OUT FORBES
Champion Puts Out His Man in the
Third Round of the Fight

KENOSHA. Jan. 22.-Johnny Cou-
Ion. bantam weight champion of the
world, tonight knocked out Harry
Forbes. former champion in the third
round of a scheduled ten-round fight
The end came when the round two
minutes and "a seconds old, a right
swing to the jaw and q counter to the
stomach doing the work.
Forbes never had q chance He had
trained to such a fine point he was
outclassed when he entered the ring
He made a fair showing during the
first round but by the middle of the
second it was evident he would not
last long. On two occasions he went
to his knees and rested without being
hit.
Coulon quickly followed his advant-
age in the third by putting Forbes
down three times, once for nine Sec
onds and again for eight and finally
for the count.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
NO THRONE ABD|CAT|ON
IS CHINESE SITUATION
Premier Yuan Shi kai Is Playing
to Galleries and Is Being De-
nounced for Bluffing

PEKIN, Jan. 22.-Premier Yuan
Shi Kafs efforts to bring about the alb
dication of the throne have failed and
the situation in China has entered a
new and perplexing phase.
Owing to the absence of severa
princes from the conference today OF
the Imperial Clan, the decision was
left to the reactionaries and the dow
ager empress, being reluctant TO abb
dictate has accepted the advice of the
reactionary princes.
Yuan's bluffing is becoming obvious
He has held a special train ready for
his departure and asked for another 50
called sick leave, indicating no inten-
ton of relinquishing the premiership.
He is now recognized as an anti-man-
chu, therefore this distrustful country
accuses him of personal designs.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
PEACHES DAMAGED
Report Of Illinois and Missouri Biz
yards wifi Affect the Price

The reports of the billiards. In Illi-
nois and Missouri are that great dam
age has been done to the peach crop
The following telegram under a St
Louis date, tells what to expect
A big advance in the prices OF
peaches next summer will be one OF
the results of the billiards. which have
swept the middle and southwest dur
ing the past two weeks, according to
market men here. Reports from south
ern Illinois and all parts of Missouri
great peach producing sections. state
that the crop was seriously damaged
by the cold last week, the first week
of the spell, and that the zero weather
has now completely killed the crop.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
Confessed to the Police Depart.
ment That Midnight Robbery
Was Imaginative
WAS AFRAID TO GO HOME,
MADE UP FAIRY STORY
Search for Burly Negro Was Fruit
less, for There Was No Such
Man, and Boy Confesses That
Whole Tale Was Myth

1--WE traced his little footsteps in
the snow" are the opening words of
a sad and tender song in reference to
the death by freezing of Il small boy
in the middle west quite a number of
years ago. They might be applied,
with variations, to the holding up,
ga'gging and binding of Frederick
Brown by a burly negro footpad last
Saturday night-but they would be
lacking in one of the essential details
of q newspaper story. They would
not state fact. The boys footsteps
could not be traced. for he did not
make any. He rolled over and over
on the ground Therefore, it would
be better to state that 1--WE traced his
rolling pathway through the snow
1t would be better to give the true
story, and by so doing show how easy
it is to fool newspaper reporters
when a report is sprung late at night
and there is no opportunity to verify
the alleged facts.
Holdup Was Hoax
The story that appeared in the Her.
aid Sunday morning regarding the
SciiSdlioiittl iloiutP VI N''''S NN'Nf
lex Brown was hoax. The boy, who
is only II years old, is not young
man. He is very much of kid.
When he was found gagged and bound
at the side entrance of the Yakima
hotel at an early hour Sunday morn
ing, and told his tale of woe about
having been robbed by burly negro,
his listeners fell for the tale as
though they were absorbing a dime
novel story.
Search by the police Sunday and
N-onday morning of course found no
trace of the man who had commit
ted the outrage, for there was no such
man. The police became suspicious
early in the game, and made a careful
investigation. They became convince
ed that the boy had not been held up,
but was acting part, so they started
out to find the reason for his action.
There was reason, and it was
quickly found, after the correct scent
of the trail had been secured. The
boy had left home Saturday morning,
after he had been told not to leave.
In the evening he visited a number
of picture shows, and at II o'clock at
night was afraid to go home to face
the music.
Monday morning the father of the
boy gave the police clue, and it did
not take long to get the true story
Monday afternoon the boy was taken
to the police station, where he was
closely questioned. After few min
utes of that kind of inquisition by De-
tective r. A. Grant, Frederick the
Great Hoaxer admitted that he had
tied himself, bound himself and gag
ged himself, and that there was no
negro who assisted in the work.
1t is the intention to not allow the
matter to stop where it is at present
There is talk of having the boy exam
ined as to his mental condition, and
IL necessary he will be placed in COM
Portable quarters where he will not
have the opportunity, and where there
will be no necessity for him to do
the hero holdup act.
Thus for the time being endeth the
Frederick Brown hoax holdup story.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
ENORMOUS PROFITS ON STEEL
carrying Roads and Ore Companies
Should Not Go Together

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.--The I'm
reasonable profits made on the iron
ore of the lake region and excessive
earnings flow into the treasury of the
United States Steel Corporation from
it's ore transportation facilities which
suggest the necessity from the stand
point of public policy of segregating
the ore railroads from the giant cor
poration and the large inter-company
profits which are made by the con-
solidated ore, iron and steel compan-
les accorded to the preliminary report
on the cost of production in the steel
industry filed by Commissioner of
Corporations Smith and made public
tonight.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
new TRIAL REFUSED
FOR BILLY GEORGE
Prisoner Sentenced to 10 to 20
Years in Penitentiary at
Walla Walla

Billy, George, the Indian convicted
of murder in the second degree fol
the killing of William Lusby near AL
falfa last April, was before Judge Pre-
BILE on Monday, when his application
for new trial WAS denied. The judge
thereupon passed sentence upon the
prisoner, giving him from 10 to &c
years. Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary at Walla Walla.
1t is rumored, but not definitely an
nounced, that the case will be appeal
ed to the supreme court of the state
Jim johnson, held as an accessory
has had his trial set for the opening
day of criminal court. Thursday. Feb
ruary /.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
w. w. Butler Says That Five
Large Plants Will Be Estab-
lished in This Valley
INDIVIDUAL. COST WILL
BE ABOUT $4,000
Over a Million Dollars of Fruit Is
Now Wasted Annually in This
Valley of Which Good Use
Could Be Made

Five evaporating plants are TO be
erected In Yakima county by the
Washington Fruit Evaporating ASSOC
citation, which is a subsidiary organi-
cation of the Washington Fruit Dis
tributing association, and of which w.
w. Butler of Grandview is the leading
washington representative. The mon
ey Is largely outside capital The
plants. according to Mr.. Butler. will be
three in the territory below Union
Gap and two In the territory above
the gap. They will cost on an aver
age or $4,000 each: will operate ap-
proximately FIVE months each year.
VIII employ twenty or twenty-five of a
crew each. and will expend in money
ror labor practically half a million
dollars each season.
About the Possibilities
As an indication of the oharactsr NJ
the possibilities, Mr.. Butler, who was
In the city Monday a guest at the
Yakima hotel. produced a few figures
he has been collecting. There are in
this valley, according to Commission
4,
FRUIT trees. Taking half of these to be
Oh bearing age and yielding five boxes
OF trult to the tree. there is a total of
o'oo'ooo boxes OF fruit, Of which at
ieast third, or total of 2,916,OOO
~ not packed and marketed. This
hgures to total of 1926 tons. which
VIII reduce to 10000 tons of evan
GRATED rruit or whereabouts. AT the
present market figures OF such stuff II
should have value of 100000 and
the handling of 1t should require the
payment OF half-miilion dollars for
the labor involved.
Big Quantity Wasted
There are now wasted. ACCORDING
to Mr.. Butler, IA million dollars worth
OF fruit annually in this county, ana
this alone, in addition to wasting such
total, spends annually 100000 for
cured fruits in California.
As a further Indication OF what tba
processed fruit industry means. Mr..
Butler says that last year the export
business of California in those lines,
and there are no more trees in that
state than in this, was It total of $1O.-
100000 In value and that the total Of
canned and vaporated fruit was In
1910. $27,000.000. Here 1t amounted
to absolutely nothing, that entire
source of profit being lost.
What Evaporators Pay
In California the evaporators nav
from 81 to $40 per ton for their fruit
and Mr.. Butler says that the expecta-
ton would be to pay about the same
figures here. The work on construc-
ton. he says. will be taken up in
time for the operation OF the eyap-
orators by about August 1st.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
TAFT TRUSTS HITCHCOCK
Will Not Believe That His Cabine
Officer Is Against Him

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-Twice to-
day President Taft denied emphatical-
ly to White House callers that he
placed any credence in the reports
that Postmaster General Hitchcock
had been politically active to prevent
his denomination. He also denied that
cabinet officers urged him to GUST
Hitchcock from his official family be-
cause of the alleged anti-Taft activity.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
ROYALTY TO VISIT TAFT
New Governor of Canada Will Pay
His Respects to the President

NEW YORK. Jan. 22.--One sur
prise of the first days visit of the
Duke of Connaught was his unexpect-
ed decision to go to Washington to
pay his respects to President Taft.
According to his altered plan the
Canadian governor general will leave
here Thursday for Washington. He
will probably not be accompanied by
the Duchess and Princess PATRICIA
The vice-regal party spent the day
rather quietly although the Duke re-
ceived several callers Ambassa dor
Reid tonight gave dinner in honor
of the vic regal party. No official list
of guests is given out. but it included
Cardinal Farley and Governor and
Mrs. Dix.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
NOT TRUE, SAYS MIR. PERRY
Statement to Effect That Roosevelt Is
Candidate Is False

COLGATE, Jan. 22.--Statements
attributed to Edward Perry, chairman
of the fourth district congressional
republican committee that he has
been instructed by letter from
Theodore Roosevelt to have him en-
dorsed for the presidential nominal
ton are untrue according to Perry
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-01-24
CURT|SS <1SSs:y!!!!!I! At FALLS TO
HIS DEATH r. EOS ANGELES
JUDGE DONWORTH
RECALLS RESIGNATION
OF FEDERAL JUDCESHIP
President Taft About to Turn in Hum
phrey's Name Is Embarrassed

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.--Announce-
ment was made at the White House
that Federal Judge Dunworth of Sc
attic who recently resigned had with
drawn his resignation. The president
had about concluded to send to the
senate the name of Representative
Humphrey as his successor but the
thdrawal of Donworth's resigna-
ton has complicated the matter. Judge
Donworth, is is said, resigned on &C.
count of bad health. The reasons fol-
changing his mind are not made pub
lie.