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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
FREIGHT TRAINS IN
HEAD-ON COLLISION
Eleven Cars Demolished and Three
Men Injured in Wreck
at KiOna

One man perhaps fatally injured,
two others slightly injured, and the
carcasses of 500 sheep strewn along
the Northern Pacific right of way
are the result of a wreck which oc.
cured near Kiona, Saturday after.
noon. at 5:15 o'clock, when freight
train extra 1852, westbound, in
charge of Conductor johnson and
Engineer Durham, collided with
first No. 6O2, eastbound freight, in
charge of Conductor Holdred and
Engineer Rasmussen. Four cars o1
the east bound train and seven o1
the westbound were demolished
This includes two cars of bananas
and five cars of sheep.
John L. Baker, of Yakima City,
who was in charge of a car contain.
ing emigrant movables, suffered
severe, and may be fatal, injuries.
His left leg was broken and the
fingers of his left hand severed
Baker was thrown from his car te
the embankment above when the
trains came together. He was tax.
en- to Toppenish on a special train
Engineer Durham jumped from hi
cab. his left arm being broken. En-
gineer Rasmussen sustained slight
injuries. The tracks were cleared
for traffic at midnight.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
WILL MAKE A MILLION BASKETS

Manager Larry Marks estimates
that orders for tin-top baskets which
will be made up at the factory this
season will run close to one million.
This practically will be the factory's
capacity for this season, and is con-
sidered an excellent output when
it is taken into consideration that
all the operators were inexperienced
at the beginning of the year.
Ten thousand strawberry crates,
complete with cups, were made up
and disposed of to handle the years
crop.
Two more stitching machines are
now being set up to be used on the
eight pound grape baskets. About
fifteen employees are now working
on the day shift and as many more
would be used on the night shift if
it were possible to get the necessary
help.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
STORY-KISTLER

Clifford Story of this city and
Miss Margaret Kistler of Kansas
City were married at the brides
home, May 18th. The happy young
couple arrived in Kennewick last
Saturday and are now settled in
the groom's home on his fve-acre
Garden Tract. They received a
noisy chari-vari from a party of
friends Saturday night. The bride
spent several months here last
winter as a guest at the McConahy
home and many friends among the
young folks of the city are glad to
welcome her return as a permanent
resident. The groom and his bro
ther are the owners of the Story es-
tate, which includes several pieces
of valuable city and valley property.
He is a popular member of the
younger set and has host of friends
who wish him and his bride con-
tinued happiness.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
WORK ON FOUL PLAY THEORY IN CHRISTENSEN Case

Mr.. Christensen leaves wife and
two children in Pasco. His bro
ther, George F. Christensen, and
sister, Mrs. G. E. Lowell, reside at
Ritzville, where the deceased was
cashier for number of years of the
German-American State Bank be-
fore coming to Pasco. His parents
reside at Stevenson where his father
is cashier of the Bank of Stevenson.
Funeral sevices were held Mon
dap at the Pasco home under the
auspices of the Masonic lodge after
which the body was taken to Spo-
kane where interment services were
conducted by the Spokane lodge of
the Elks. Besides belonging to the
Elks and the Masonic order, Mr..
Christensen was a member of the
Moose, the Eagles, Knights of Pyth-
las, Odd Fellows and Woodmen.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
4 SHOW FOR THE FARMERS

The exhibits of the irrigated Sec
ton of Washington were more nu-
merous at the Chicago Land Show
than any other. The reproduction
of the Chicago Land Show brings
the show to you and you can view
the exhibits of twenty states, Mexi-
co and Canada, as we'll as if you had
really attended the show. All the
exhibits of the State of Washington,
the Walla Walla Valley, the Yaki-
ma Valley, the Spokane Valley, the
Wenatchee Valley, the entire In
land Empire are shown in colored
slides, also slides showing the de-
velopment of Washington, the grow
ing of tobacco, sugar cane and cot
ton in the south, industries of the
Pacific Northwest, scenic views OF
the Glacier National Park, motion
pictures showing the evolution of
harvesting from Biblical times to
the present day, perfected machin-
cry drawn by traction engi n s..
Shows you how to plow an acre OF
land in four minutes. Motion pic
lures of farming with dynamite.
Strictly educational.
These pictures will be shown at
the Kennewick Opera House, next
Saturday evening, June 9Th.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
INSPECTOR SAYS SPRAY
" NOW FOR COOLING MOTH
,.;..s Rauchers to Check Apple Pest
With Arsenate of Lead This
Week

We gladly publish the following
communication from FEE. DeSellem,
Horticultural Inspector:
Every fruit grower who intends
to market apples free from worm
.t;nas, etc., should spray this week
,or the codling moth with arsenate
Il lead at the rate of to Il pounds
to 50 gallons Of water.
THE purpose OF this spraying
;s to coat the surface of the apples
so that when the little worm
batcbes and starts to eat it will be
noisoned. If the trees were sprayed
throughly when the calyxes were
open, and if this second spray is put
on in time, a large per cent of the
newly hatched worms will be killed.
These two sprayings are worth more
than all the later sprayings that
can be DONE"
Fruit on the trees throughout the
valley must be thinned heavily this
wear. The apples will thin them
selves to considerable extent, since
tbe weather was so favorable that
the blossoms closed in three or four
days this year, before they were
pollenized. These will drop off,
but there will be so many left on
the trees that they must be re-
moved.
There is an enormous crop OF
peaches and these must be thinned
by hand. Other fruit trees are
heavily loaded and the same meth
ods will have to be used.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
AVIATOR PARMALEE
KILLED At NORTH YAKIMA
Biplane Caught by Gust of Wind and
Dashed to Ground While Making
Exhibition Flight

Philip o. Parmalee, aviator, met
death while making an exhibition
flight from the fair grounds at North
Yakima Saturday afternoon.
A strong gusty wind was blowing
at the time Parmalee prepared for
his last fight, and the aviator was
urged to postpone the exhibition
at least until the wind Quieted.
He laughed aside the warnings and
took the air in the teeth of the wind.
He arose to a height of about 400
feet and when he had gone about
two miles from the fair grounds he
swung in a wide circle for the return.
When he had almost completed
the turn a sudden gust from one of
the draws or small canyons that
notch the side of the Mckee Valley
struck the rear of the plane, and in
flash the machine plunged head
long into an orchard. Parmalee's g
body was broken to jelly and the
motor of his machine was buried
two feet in the ground.
Parmalee had made many fights
in Los Angeles during the last six
months and was considered one of
the most careful of the American
aviators. He had been in the en-
ploy of the Wright company until
few weeks ago, when he formed a
partnership with J. G. Turpin, who
was injured in the accident at Seat
tie last week.
Both Parmalee and Turpin were
using machines which had been built
at Los Angeles recently under
Parmalee's directions. These ma
chimes were of a different model
than the regular Wright machine,
having the propeller and motor in
front of the operator instead Of be.
hind. 1t is thought that Parmalee' 's
death and Turpin's accident which
killed two spectators at Seattle last
week were due to the fact that the
aviatnrs were using machines tc
which they were unaccustomed and
which were not properly balanced.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07

H. E. Christensen, cashier of the
Bank of Pasco and member of the
Pasco city council, died on an S.
P. g. S. train between Benge and
Washtucna early last Satur day
morning while enroute to Spokane.
His death was caused by drinking
from a flask of whiskey N which
was found a quantity of strychnine.
At first the bankers death was
supposed to be suicidal, but an ex-
animation of the banks books and
Christensen's personal affairs shows
that everything had been left in
first class shape. AS no other mo-
tive than financial difficulties could
be imagined, the suicide supposition
has been dropped and the police
and insurance officials are now work
ing on the theory of foul play.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
STOCK COMPANY At THE PRINCESS

Last night at the Princess Theatre
the Vim Moore Stock Co. gave an
able production of THE Man of the
Hour" before a good house. Mr..
and Mrs. Moore and their company
of five are pleasant people to meet
and are capable actors. They stay at
the Princess tonight and tomorrow
night and are worthy of good patron
age. Tonight (Friday) they will
play I'm the Days of 49" and
tomorrow night will put on the
comedy, What Happened to
Smith,"
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
CITY BILLS HEREAFTER
REQUIRE REQU|S|TI0N
Finance Committee Insists Upon Better
System-Band to Get
Money

The council frightened the city's
purse strings at their meeting last
Tuesday night. The finance COM
mittee insisted that someone stand
responsible for the payment of the
bills. Hereafter system of requisi-
tioDs will be used, for their benefit.
Each bill rendered the city must
contain the requisition number,
and each requisition must be signed
by the chairman of the committee
under whose direction the money
is to be spent.
Appointments for city jobs will
have to have the sanction of the
city council in the future. This is
a result of some discussion of the
various improvement districts. 1t
appears that some of the sidewalk
and irrigation systems have not
proved up to the standard, and
none but experienced inspectors will
be allowed ON the jobs hereafter.
The improved appearance and
conveniences of the city's new walks
inspired the property owners in the
east end of town to petition for
walks. The petition was fayorably
received, but action was delayed for
the pupose of ascertaining if the
district could not be made larger.
Engineer Smith reported a de-
feet in the main trunk sewer, and
NJ. Jennings, the contractor, ap-
peared and stated that, while he
failed to see how. he could be held
responsible for the overflow of the
waste water, that caused the set
Ting of the pipe, he would have
the defect repaired.
The band will receive their Gus
tomary monthly money from now
on, as well as that of the past few
months, which has not been paid.
The previous members of the city
council agreed to pay TWENTY-FIVE
dollars a month for year, which
time ends with the October pay
ment. Further action will be de-
layed until that time.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
SuB-S1ATloN BURNS

Fire completely destroyed the
sub.station of the Pacific Power &
Light company at Richland last
Saturday afternoon. The building
was small frame affair and the
loss on it is insignificant but Super
intendent of Power Siegfried esti-
mates the company lost close to
5000 iE the destruction of the big
transformer and other equipment.
The fire is supposed to have been
started from a heavy kick of the
current coming into the station as
result Of persons telling a tree
across the high tenson line at Grand
view.
A hurry-up construction crew
vent at the job of repairing the loss.
Fortunately the company had five
transformers at the Kennewick ware
house awaiting distribution to other
stations. These we're taken to Rich
land, q new station was built and
Inc service was resumed at five
O'Clock Wednesday night. Ranch
ers near Richland who were using
the current on their irrigating
pumps, and the Richland city SER
vice. were the only ones to suffer
inconvenience from the shutdown.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
PASCO WANTS PROF. KlMDAll

An effort is being made to secure
the services of Prof. G.. O. Kimball, ,
of Kennewick, to devote half of his
time in Pasco. The plan is to have
Prof. Kimball take charge of the
band and orchestra, organize and
direct choral union and look after
other musical features of the city.
Prof. Kimball is one of the best
musical directors in the entire north
west, having for eight years been
instructor of music in the state uni
versity. During the year he has
been at Kennewick he has built up
the musical features of the city to a
remarkable degree. Few things are
more valuable to the social life of
any community nor has a more
wholesome influence upon the moral
tone. We believe the amount of
money required to secure the SER
vices of Prof. Kimball would be
money well spent and would be
like bread cast upon the waters
which shall return after many days.
Express.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
PLAY PROSSER SUNDAY

What should be the best game 80
far this season will be played next
Sunday on the local grounds, when
Prosser will cross bats with the
locals. The crowds at games 80 far
this season have generally been
small, due no doubt to the fact that
in most cases the visitors were no
match for the local team, 80 little
class" was expected. There will
be no such excuse for lack OF atten-
dance at this game, for Prosser has
shown that they are worthy OF the
best that Kennewick can send
against them. Come out and help
the boys make it ten straight.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
ROBINSON-DlMIck

The first of this years June we'd
dings in Kennewick was solemnized
at the Episcopal rectory last Mon
day evening. The contracting par
ties were Robert R. Robinson, of
Vancouver, B. c., and Miss Edna
Dimick, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
L. J. Dimick, of Hover.
The ceremony was performed by
Justice C. Staser, assisted by Rev.
G. E. Wilkinson, in the presence of
the BRIDES mother and a few close
friends. Following the ceremony
the party partook of dainty we'd
ding supper at the Hotel Kenne-
wick.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robinson left On
Wednesday for Portland, where
they expect to stay until after the
Rose Festival. They will go from
that city to Vancouver, where Mr..
Robinson has prepared home at
$500 Fourth Avenue West, and
where they will be at home after
the 18th.
The bride came to Kennewick
from her home in Hover two years
ago and during that time has been
in the employ of this paper almost
continuously as reporter. In that
capacity she had grown to be valu-
able employe and had formed
wide acquaintance and a great many
friends throughout the valley, whose
well-wishes 60 with her and her
husband on their new stage of life's
journey. Mrs. Robinson was an
active member of the n. I. L. E.
Club.
Mr.. Robinson first met his bride
while on a visit to Kennewick over
year ago. He is a foreman of
electrical construction and holds a
good position in the British Col
umbia metropolis.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
STRAWBERRIES FILL IS CARS

Except for some small shipments
VI 1he later, softer varieties, the
lSl2 strawberry crop has all gone
ou'' Though it will not be possible
W get all the totals for some days,
.nas' Il. Collins, whose firm ham
N'eu 'he major portion of the crop,
eS'lmates that the shipments will
. pSooaoly exceed 10000 crates, or
l'oiii 81 to 35 cars. The average
p, price paid the growers will very
may oe close to $500 per crate, as
soal, .so 50 that the valley is about
.0O'oVo better off than three weeks
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
CHERRIES ARE RIPE

The first shipment of cherries
have been going through the local
commission houses since the first
of the week. Bingsa are bringing
ten cents per pound today. The
cherry orchard of R. L. Banta in
the Garden Tracts is fair example
of the big crop which the growers
throughout the valley will handle
this year. Mr.. Banta has sold his
entire crop of Bings, Royal AIMS,
and Early Junes to the Collins COM
pany at a contract price of one dol
lar a box.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
DANCE TONIGHT

The base ball boys will give a
dance tonight at the Commercial
hall. There should be large attend
ance, as it is hoped that the pro-
ceeds will wipe out the deficit in
the clubs treasury and replace it
with balance. Good music has
been engaged and all who 60 are
assured of a good time.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
keNNEWIck KIDS WIN

ne Aennewick Little Leaguers
, IRON the Pasco Cubs on the
na elounds last Saturday after
m Inc game was a red hot argu-
. aho went twelve innings with
III '"' score of 9 to7. Shannon and
I;.n 'h We're tie battery for the
.,d Aeaeuers and Hull, Waters
S''u Evans for the Cubs.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07
WILL SELL ASSETS
OF DELARM CONCERN

Trustee Louis P. Sichler, of the
bankrupt Columbia River Orchards
company and the Washington
Orchard, Irrigation & Fruit COM
pany, has asked Referee in Bank
rupts, John A. Hoyt, for all order
authorizing the sale of the COM
pany' sassets in Eastern Washington,
and at the same time said that such
sales proceeds all would be needed
to pay off the claims of lien holders
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07

leaving not a penny for the holders
of IS, 900, 600 bonds of the COM
pany, 81, 900 900 of which are held
by residents of Washington and the
remainder by people of other states.
w. E. Delarm, the promoter of
the companies, is still at large.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07

w. A. Myers of Touchet, who recent
ly purchased the J. B. Davis grocery,
has taken possession Of the business
and is now located with the family in
living rooms at the rear Of the store.
Mr.. and Mrs. Davis have rented the
Ashbaugh house on Yakima street for
the summer.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-06-07

Mrs. w. R. Weisel received a tele-
gram Wednesday bringing the sad news
of the death of her father. M. Brund-
age, in Ohio.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28
The Net

is the name of the big fifteen
thousand dollar serial story
which will appear in The Weekly
Kansas City Star soon, for the Lews
paper rights of which the author re-
ceived $4,000. The story, pro-
nounced the greatest this popular
novelist has written, will not be pub
lished as book until it has run SER
tally in this newspaper.
The theme is the Italian Malta,
against that sinister background the
author has thrown the softer colors
of an absorbing and fascinating love
story. The story, while tragic in
one, has the humor, sprightiness
and action that has characterized
his previous success.
"The Net" will be continued in
liberal installments each week, with
fifteen powerful illustrations by
Howard Giles. The subscription
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Subscribe now and avoid missing
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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28

Now that practically complete re-
turns from Idaho disclose the fact
that President Taft lost that state to
Woodrow Wilson by more than 1, 900
votes, and the latest reported re-
returns from California gave that
state to Wilson by plurality of
100 or so, a revision of the cleo
toral vote is necessary.
Woodrow Wilson 446
Theodore Roosevelt n
William H. Taft 8
The two states that the president
carried are Vermont and Utah,
while Col. Roosevelt gets his II
votes from Washington, Michigan,
South Dakota, Washington, and
Pennsylvania. Mr.. Taft gets fewer
votes than any other candidate for
reelection ever received, and fewer
votes than any democrat or Repub-
lican has received in the last half
century. James B. Weaver, as the
populist candidate got 22 votes in
1892, and George B. Mcclellan,
the Democratic nominee in 1864
had I'll votes.
Mr.. Roosevelt's II votes may
best be compared with those OF
Fremont, who in 1856 got ia votes
as the standard bearer of the newly
organized Republican party. But
the analogy will cease at this cleo
ton. There is vast difference be-
tween the Republican party in 1855
and the Bull Moose party of 1919
The Republican party at that time
represented one of the great princi
pies of government and was in ne
sense comparable to the party o
Theodore Roosevelt. 1t was not {
neutrality-suspicious. and dominat
ed by the personality, ambition, ant
revengfulness of one individual
The Progressive party reached it
high water mark on election day
In four years its membership vii
be scattered and demoralized.-
Hutchinson Gazette.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28

Complete election returns filed with
the secretary of state show that the
Democrats will have seventy. TWO
members of the house, the Repub-
licans fifty-two, and the Socialists
two. In the senate the Democrats
will have twenty-one members. the
Republicans eighteen, and the So
cialists one. There will be about
twenty-nine old members in the
house and nine in the senate.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28
Publication Notice.
First published November I'll, 1912.


Court No. 22S4
In the District Court of Meade county,
Kanses.
Andrew Clinesmith, Plaintiff.
VS..
Ada NJ. Melton ct al, Defendants
The State of Kansas, to Ada NJ. Melton
and Gladys Melton, Helen Melton and Harry
Melton minors, defendants, greetng:-
You and each of you are hereby notified
that you have been sued in the District Court
of Meade county. Kansas, by Andrew Cline
smith, plaintiff, who filed his petition and an
affidavit for service by publication in this
action in said court on November goth 1919,
and unless you answer said petition on or be-
fore January 9th 1918, the same will be taken
as true and Judgment and decree rendered
against you and each and all of you foreclos-
ing certain mortgage dated December -,
1907, given by Arthur r. Melton [snce de-
ceasedl and the said Ada NJ. Melton, to the
plaintiff on the following described real estate
in said Meade county, Kansas, towt:
Sixty FOOL acres off of the East side of the
Northeast Quarter of section IS, in township
81 south; of range Fl west of the 9th p M
to secure the payment of 100000 and in
terest. and for costs of action, and the sale o.
said real estate TO satisfy the indebtedness
due plaintiff under said mortgage, and sucl
other and further relief as may be just ant
equitable. As witness my hand and the sea
of said Court this goth day of November 1912
Seal. John Elliott.
Clerk of said District Court.
II. Llewelyn jones'
Attorney for Plaintiff
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-11-28
Notice of Final Settlement.


First Published November 7, 1912.
State of Kansas, Meade Comfy, IS.
In the Probate Court of said County.
In the Matter of the Estate of Thomas
Denneny, Deceased.
To all Creditors of and o,her persons in
terested in SAID estate
You are hereby notified that at the next
regular term of the Probate Court in and for
said county, to be begun and held at the
Probate Judges Office in the city of Meade,
in said county, on the End day of December,
1912, being the first Monday in said month
of December, will make final settlement of
said estate, and at which time application
will be made for an order of the Court
finding and adjudging who are the heirs of
the deceased.
Having filed with said court my claim for
compensation as Administrator of said estate,
and for necessary attorneys fees and other
expenses necessarily incurred in the admin
istration of said estate, hereby give notice,
as ordered by said court, that said claims are
set for hearing in said court on the end day
of December, 1912.
LOUIS BoEHLER, Administrator.