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The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20
CONSULAR CHANGES.

Paris. Jan. 20.-various diplomatic
and consular changes were announced
yesterday. Henri Merou. consul gen.
eral at San Francisco Is retired on a
pension. Raphael Monnet. now con-
sui at New Castle England. replacing
NJ. Merou. Baron de vaux Moisson,
secretary at Mexico, is appointed sec.
ond secretary at Havana and NJ. Ay-
third secretary at Mexico.
Marie H. Leduc is appointed chancel-
lor at New Orleans
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20
HEARING DELAYED

Washington. Jan. 2o.-James B.
Forgan, Chicago hndncier, scheduled
to testify today before the currency
reform committee of the house, did
not appear and the hearing was ad-
journed until tomorrow.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20
STORMY SEA
And llauretania Was Damaged-Pas.
songers Thrown From Berths.

Ooas8St0 AutVWu EFU10 0erIUUs
New York. Jan. 20.-The Duchess
Of Tallyrand. formerly Miss Anna
Gould. reached here today with her
husband. the Duke Of Tallyrand and
her three and one-half year old son,
Prince Howard De sagan. on the be-
lated steamer Mauretania to attend
the wedding on January % Of Miss
Helen Gould. the duchess' sister and
Finley ]. Shepard. Anthony J. Drexel.
father-in-law Of Marjorie Gould.
daughter Of George J. Gould. also
came over to attend the wedding.
The Mauretania's passage from Liv.
erpool was the roughest and slowest
trip she has ever made. During an
especially heavy blow last Wednesday
part Of the ships rail was carried
away. the plate glass windows OF the
bridge were broken and passengers
thrown from their berths at the dead
Iis, light.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20
EAST TRAnfs DELAYED.

Seattle, Jan. a0.-An transcontinen-
tai railroads reported their lines clear
and trains moving over the Cascade
mountains regularly today. Trains
from the east were reported from two
to fve hours late. the delay being
caused principally by trouble In the
Rocky mountains.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20
EnraRement Reported,

Constantinople. Jan. 20.-The min
istry of the interior has issued re-
port of an engagement between the
Turkish and Greek fleets between the
islands of Tenodos and Lemnos. last
ing several hours.
According to the report there were
heavy losses on both sides.
The Turkish feet returned safely
to the Dardanelles and the wounded
are being brought to Constantinople.
It is not here whether this report
refers to the engagement on Saturday
or whether the engagement was re-
newed Sunday.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20
WOMAN SUICIDES.
Lost Her Fortune In Real Estate Ven.
ture and Ends All.

New YORK, Jan. 2U.-Mre. Eleanor
B. Barry, once in affluent circumstan-
ces. but who recently lost her money
in q real estate venture. shot herself
to death In her up town apartment to-
Cured through participation in land
investment scheme headed by Edgar
r. Jackson. who was convicted last
week on q charge Of fraud in connec.
ton with the sale Of Long Island
property. are believed to have been
responsible for the woman's act.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20
RESIGNS POST

Director Quits Berlin Royal opera-
Can't Agree With Emperor.
Berlin. Jan. 20.-Emil Paur. for
chestra, suddenly resigned today al
conductor of the Royal opera at Ber-
lin. His action, according to press
reports, is due to q difference Of opin-
ion with Emperor William. Paur took
the place Just year ago.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20
May Mean Concessiona

London, Jan. 20.-The porte's de-
cision to call a national assembly
Tuesday to take under advisement the
Balkan situation probably heralds
further concessions on the part Of
Turkey-concessions which could not
ing Its fall. In any case. the Balkan
delegates in London do not believe the
porte's reply to the joint note Of the
powers will be such a fiat refusal ~
was foreshadowed from Constanu-
nople.
the Turkish 1 aaSs had reached
the Aegean islands. but was willing
to enter into negotiations respecting
those islands some distance removed
from the Dardanelles. II Turkeys
answer ls unsatisfactory, the allies IN
Difference to Europe. will ask the
power. whether they have means 70
compel Turkey to comply with their
out the plan already.
VIII BE Considered Void.
In such event, the allies will regard
oil concessions heretofore made for
the sake Of peace, either to Turkey
or the powers. as void. Thus they will
not recognize the undertaking con-
senting to an autonomous Albania, or
the pFOhlse Oh ooASAd duO NlOntcHos
gro to retire from the Adriatic. Ques-
toned as to the possibility in this
case Of Austria employing force. the
head Of one Of the delegations said to-
day:
entente, and especially Russia, will
permit such action on the part Of Aus
tria. If we are forced to fight an
other war, the cost Of which Is nearly
Sl,0O0.00O daily, we will not abandon
driven on by force. That would mean
IN European war.
''If Austria were permitted to march
on Belgrade and to lombard our
troops on the Adriatic, and We were
crushed, We should prefer to become
Austrian rather than belong to the
slav race when our mother. Russia,
lacks the force or will to protect US"
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20
SMITHS FATHER DEAD.

Santa Ana. Cal. Jen. 20.-George
r. Smith. father of Senator William
Alden Smith of Michigan. died at his
home here yesterday. aged So years.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20
AVIATOR KILLED.

Ruenos Aires. Jan. 20.-The Argen-
tine aviator, Lieutenant Origone. while
making flight near Brandzen today
fell with his machine and was killed.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20
HEAVY SNOW STORM
Traffic in Chicago Greatly Impcdetl

Today.
Chicago. Jan. 20.-A heavy snow
storm greatly impeded traffic in this
city today. With trolley wires and
third rails coated with snow and sleet,
the street cars barely more than
crawled over the routes and thousands
OF persons were late reporting to
places of employment. Telegraph
wires were affected, although not de-
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20

. . .
THE WEATHER..
North Dakota: Fair tonight
and Tuesday. Rising temperature.
Q . Q Q Q q .
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20

Representative Hedalen Of Walsh
county has introduced bill propos-
ing that three-fourths vote Of the
Jury shall be sufficient to return q
verdict In certain cases. He would
murder where death punishment can
be inflicted. from the three-fourths
rule that he proposes.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20

From six months to two years Is the
sentence that Representative Everson
Of Griggs county would provide for
violators Of the prohibition law. At
present the sentence ranges from nine.
ty days to one year in the county fail.
with penitentiary sentences admissa-
BILE upon second conviction.
The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1913-01-20
Tarln Hearings Res,lmetl.

The tariff hearings will be resumed
today with the agricultural schedule
open for consideration. The hearings
will close January 81 with considera-
ton of the administrative feature Of
the present law. The Money Trust"
Investigation, to be resumed Wednes-
day proba bly, will be concluded by the
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-12-26

Girl apple packers. As yet only
about four hundred acres of
ihis huge holding is set to trees,
apples with peach filters, but IN
time the entire acreage will
come under the big, high power
pumps, for this is pumping
project lying along each side Of
| the river from which the water
| is lifted. The men back Of this
move know exactly what they
are about-what the valley will
do. Years ago ''Jm' FOrde
was II homesteader near Oro~
Vile, before any Oroville was
there; IA neighbor Of Smith and
the orchard that was planted
in the wilderness, was he. And
Forde noted the regular crops
of fruit coming as Oft as the
seasons came, and he had
Smiths story Of every spring
the blossoms and every fall the
harvest for the preceding %
wears; and he knew that it
made Il record that no other
region in any other state had,
or likely ever would have. And
later when he and Geo. Ellis
took up "storekecping' and
/ the one store became two and
three and finally a string Of
about dozen stores from the
Canada line south for two
. hundred miles ending with the
/ largest store in Wenatchee,
F'ordc thought often Of orchard
possibilities in the Okanogan
"whcn thc railroad comcs.'
And with the grading Of the
road the firm concluded that
time for action had come. As
stores were sold land was
bought, always frost-frce Okla
hogan land, and the process
was continued until all the
stores were gone and the big
ranch spoken of and other Okla
hogan realty had been acquir-
ed; for the gentlemen know
what they are doing and what
the Wonder Valley will do for
/ them.
As we approach Oroville we
slow down for a glance at Geo.
Whistler irrigating a valley
homestead from a mountain
stream and testing out some 70
varlties Of grapes and half as
many kinds Of peaches, his pet
hobbies. and pause yet another
moment for a look at his young
Spitzenburg apple trees; for
Whistler is a believer in blood
III trees-that is, breeding; and
his young Spitz have an an
"estry, pedigree, can "read
their title clear" to a daddy Of
renoWn, the famous old Smith
SpitZenburg, now on it's second
half century Of growth, and
with girth of trunk of near
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FRUIT GROWING
Continued from page y

NCollIlHueu lIoIl page
only go to waste. And the
same rule applied to the other
settlers who came a quarter Of
a century later to cast their lot
in the Wonder Valley. The
Davis family, and the Murrays
who started an orchard and a
nursery, the first nursery in
the valley, located near present
town of Malott. And DR..
Pogue who settled on bench
high above the river, and
brought the waters Of a creek,
afterwards called Salmon
creek, to his land, and who put
out more extensive orchard,
testing not only the apple but
grapes, peaches, pears, plums,
prunes, apricots and small
fruits. And always the answer
to their efforts was the same
all kinds Of fruit came early
into bearing, annually produc-
ing heavy crops of beautifully
colored, fine Favored fruit.
And the climatic popularity
noted by Smith, the freedom
from spring frosts, was like
wise noted by his neighbors-
fifty miles down the valley.
And yet the valley that can
and will beat the world famed
Wenatchee district, raised bu.
little fruit. And why? The
answer is obvious-no one to
use it and no way to get it to
market, for the valley was
without a railroad. Years af-
ter Smith had planted his or
chard and was eating his lus-
cious apples, Spokane was
founded, and later got a rail
road. And from Spokane, POO
miles away came the mail and
the freight for the Okanogan
country, by packhorse and wag-
on train. And across the 200
miles of timbered valleys, of
mountain ranges and desert
prairies to Spokane went the
beef cattle from the Okanogan
country, fattened for Seattle's
Christmas Beef, fattened on
the valley bunch grass till they
were fatter, tenderer, more
tOothsome than ever were corn
fed beef Of the corn belt states.
And the beef cattle could be
driven to market. And because
the famous apples and other
fruit would not, could not walk
200 miles to market the settlers
raised mostly cattle and only
a little fruit.
Then one day, more than a
quarter of century ago, a
young man with a crew of help
ers came up the valley-sur-
veying a railroad. At the
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-12-26

and apple orchards, just com
ing into bearing, and a few
very old orchards that have
acted as land marks and guild
posts to the new corners.
Between Malott and Okanog-
an City on the higher western
benches. Jonathan Chalmers
and associates are retaining
several thousand acres of des-
crt soil-the Pleasant Valley
project. The storage of spring
flood waters is the handspring
Of this system, is proving to be
entirely sufficient and more
than meeting the hopes Of its
promoters. In this project
there is one holding Of seven
hundred acres-the Boston and
Okanogan Apple Orchard AS
sociation, with over six hund-
red acres now out to young
trees. This company are plan
ming a canning and jelly fac
tory, cider and vinegar plant
in connection with orchard de
velopment. Other parties in
project have several hundred
acres out to orchard, alfalfa
etc.
About Okanogan City are
numerous small orchard and
pumping plant propositions.
and one, promoted by DooIey
Bros, of larger magnitude.
Around Omak is the noted
"Okanogan Project,' under
government supervision. The
/. 5. Reclamation Service has
under development over fifty
projects, and Uncle Samuel in
his literature gives actual inn
partial reports of each as tu
climatic conditions, crop adapt
ability, etc. From all these
half a hundred projects in hall
a score of states several are
recommended for the fruil
grower. One, the Okanogan
Project, receives Unclc'S I'M
qualified endorsement as ii
fruit and especially an apple
producing region, and lis frost
free popularity is also noted.
In this project several thous
and acres Of desert land has
been cut up into ten, twenty
and forty acre tracts, mainly
set to apple with peach, apri-
cot and pear filters. Two Years
ago some water shortage was
felt, but the Service has been
cementing and otherwise i'm
proving the delivery system
and the improvement noted
this year will likely be more
pronounced next season. Trees
on these tracts are growing
finely, just coming into bear
ing, and are subject to only one
criticism-much of the prun-
ing | do not like. Tracts are
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-12-26

Davis Ranch they found lodg
ing, and to the lady Of the
house the young engineer con
fided the fact that the road
would be built and running il
three years. The young eng
neer later went east, to Chi
cago, New York, became noted
in engineering circles, attained
Il national and international
reputation and finally was APP
pointed by Pres. Roosevelt to
take charge of the Panama
Canal-for, his name was John
l.. Stevens. And twenty-seven
years after that survey was run
we are seeing the cars pass up
and down the Okanogan Valley
for the first time. But that is
modern railroading run your
survey, get your franchise,
keep the other fellow out, then
take your time to build the
road, even if it is "a quarter of
u century of time.
But with the grading Of the
railroad four years ago and
the prospect that it would be
speedily ironed, Git wasn't)
men who knew things about
the fruit business and had
long had an eye on the Wond
cr-NalIcy with its peculiar ad
VantagcS should, after half Il
century Of test and trial and
always making good, be start
cd on It's way to fulfill its man
fest destiny, the growing in
large measure of the choicest
fruit the world had ever seen.
The delay in ironing the road
has held up-slowed up, all
valley development; and irri-
cation men and measures and
enthusiastic orchard folks
were all effected by the mae
ton, the uncertainty, but could
not be entirely stopped, and
with pleasure we tell Of the
progress made.
At the mouth Of the river
q twelve hundred acre holding
has been secured by a coterie
Of Chicago capitalists and east
rem authors and artists; folks
renowned in financial affairs,
others famous in folklore,
story book and artistic circles
An irrigated fruit growing
summer home" colony, a
modern Utopia, financed by the
tinanciers and enlightened, en-
livened and embelIished by the
other famous folk, is planned.
Up the valley about Malott
numerous orchards have been
planted on the river bottoms
and are being irrigated from
small creeks and springs and
by pumping plants. Most of
these are young peach, pear
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-12-26

frost free fruit and alfalfa
laud have been some three
wears surveying, mapmaklhS'
uerfccting water rights. work
inc thru permits. etc, win a
rood start on ditch made ana
flumc laid. The men in tins
enterprise are ditch makers
and ditch managers, experience
ed i'm TN art of water handling,
and have at their head that vet
cran Canal Builder and lrri-
eationiSt. Marvin Chase; the
man who years ago pulled the
GREAT >;unnysidc System ont OF
the dumps: who built the We
natchcc Canal, handled the l'll.
Iings Project, is carrying to
completion the big ChcIan SyS-
tenn. and will ii little later con
centratc his engineering ability
on the Loomis Work, otherwise
known ms the milestone Pro
iect.
Near Tonaskct are several
Young apple orchards of prom
Use owned by II. NiSscn, Orc
Vile Kellogg, Pickcn Bros, f..
b. GrinnclI and others; and 4
Furnishing Young peach or
chard belonging TO Ralph
Pheasant that this season af-
forded the luxury Of much fine
fruit TO residents of surround
ing region.
A short distance above To
nasket we come TO the Pratt
Forsyth-Lcc orchards, ably
presided over by Earl Brit
tain. These too are young
trees. but in combination with
the Clay Fruit and the Folsom
orchards, all young trees, Sent
cut from Tonasket a car Of APP
pies for the holiday market.
Part of this offering were
Spitzcnburgs from the Fruit
place, Il grand variety that in
some regions is a shy bearer
and in some places won't bear
at all. This valley is a true
Sptizcnburg zone as Mr.,
Fruits Spitz proved this year
their first season, by coming
to the harvest loaded to the
guards, and outhcaring even
Winesap and Johanathan.
Midway between Tonasket
and Oroville we come to a bio
ranch in process Of making,
the Thousand Acre EIIis-Fordt
Fruit Farm. The local work
is under the management OF
Dan d. Englund, who now has
a mile of orchard stretched
along the county road on the
west side Of the river, some of
the trees bearing this season
while the promise for next yea,
looks as tho Manager Dan
would have to add to his staff
OF helpers a bevy Of pretty
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-12-26

kept clean. are well titled.
Then we jump twenty miles
.up the valley, by Riverside with
some small orchards watered
from johnson Greek, on up
Wagon Road Coulee, now dry
and barren but potent in pos
,ibility with the coming of wat
cr some day. on up 10 the 200
acre orchard of the Boston and
Okanogan Orchard Co., ON
I2neas Creek, about four miles
hclow Tonaskct. This is a
Young orchard, trees are grow
ing spIendidIy, this season
showed a few apples, and next
ear manager J. d. Armstrong
WiII clear the decks for action,
and the season after will show
ii bank roll as we'll as a pay
roll.
AS you wing your way on up
the valley to within mile ana
a half Of Tonasket you may
note a settlers shanty on a
homestead hillside, with Il view
overlooking the town, five miles
Of river and fifty miles of val
ley. Here lives a dreamer who
j. realizing at least some of his
dreams, and his wife who has
the soul Of an artist, and per
force, the hand Of an artisan
and three growing youngsters.
md they all have faith in the
future Of fruit in the Wonder
Valley; and as proof have set
five acres to orchard, watered
as yet by the bucket brigade
method, which has been very
good for the trees but Il bit
wearing on the backs of the
huckct-brigaders. But, thank
Fortune, two bitches are headed
dis way. Thirty kinds Of APP
pies, and Il dozen Varities each
Of peaches, Of grapes, of pears,
and lesser number of necta-
rines, prunes and other fruits
are being tested out. Also a
system Of summer pruning that
sill do away with much Of the
winter and springtime mutiIa-
ton Of fruit trees is being sue
'osSl'uIly developed. A system
that puts the tree growth per
wancntly in the tree instead of
in brush heap fires.
On the benches west of To
naSkct over Il hundred acres of
Young orchards have been set
out in last two seasons, to be
kept growing by "dry land"
liIIagc till the waters Of the
NinIahckin and Toats CouIee
Greeks, yet thirty miles away,
can be brought by way of the
milestone Irrigation and
Power Company's Canal, now
building. The promoters of
this project which will cover
about twenty thousand acres of
The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1913-12-26

nine feet, and yet produc;no
IT. i. =. has produced every vear f a.
fruit. " illle
About 0roville are var;on
young orchards under wa stoS
IRON pumps, from springs and
small streams, and adjacent ' tn
town some beautiful tracts do %
serving Of special ment; y"
plated and put under water .J h,'
l.. l.. Work and associates )!
Last on the list comes = ~.
Ject Of first import, locally riI.
known as 1.-THE Oroville Pro
Iect, " fathcred by the East and nd
West Okanogan Irrigation n 1;''
trlcts with water to come fron
the SimiIkameen river and cow oo"'
er about ten thousand acres Of
frost-frcc fruit lands all ahoU,
OrovlIle and extending down
the valley on both sides Of tLn
Okanogan River well below T To-
naskct. This project Started
originally as Il pumping prono
sition. Then Claude NJ Zad;
ker, a young engineer of vas,
energy, broad experience and
yet broader views and ami;
tlons was called into the oamo
who insisted that gravity WATER
could be gotten from the Sim.
lIkameen. \ local engineer and
an eastern expert said 81
can T be DONE Zediker held
to his IDEAS and proceeded to
prove ms proposition by run.
ming Il line mp the river, and =
lttIe a boVr erich Bar, famed
from bygonc days Of golden
glory, found the river al even
Il higher elevation than he had
predicted. That settled the
whole matter and every move
since has been bent toward or.
ganlzatlon and the securing of
funds for active ditch making.
The making Of this ditch will
also be the making of Oroville;
to advantages Of geographical
location and rail connection
add the benefits accruing from
a denseIy populated horticul-
tural community and you have
a Struggling town transformed
into a we'll built little city.
And with the coming of the
waters on the other numerous
projects all down the river the
same transforming power will
be at work, the desert will truly
be made TO Blossom as the
Rose;' and, the Wonderful
ley-the Valley Of the Okanog-
an, will claim her heritage. will
come into her own. Good
Friends, Happy New Year TO
you all, my tale is told-Good
Night.
j PARKHURST DOUGLASS
Tonasket.
The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1913-03-14
cHEETAH HUNT N mnI


The cheetah hunt which the vice.
roy witnessed recently at Hyderhad
reminds one that cheetah hunting was
an extremely popular sport with In
dian princes In former days. although
the initiation of European forms OF
sport has Come much n these times
TO rob it OF ancient vogue
Il Was practiced both by Hindu
and Nohammedan chieftains over the
greater part OF India. for the cheetah
even now Is not rare beast. and q
century or 50 ago must have been
common enough
Another animal used In the same
way BY Indian mobiles was q sort of
lynx spelled variously as shoe
goose ..syahgush But this was
used much more rarely than the chez
tab However. 1t was not only In
dams who INDUCED In this form OF
sport
Il was enjoyed and practiced BIZ
Europeans as well in the days when
they were content 10 abide In India
for fifteen years ar a stretch and
wnen they lived rIndienne in q Way
unknown % modern times. More than
one Of the Conrany's uabohs Kept
their own cneetzhs, which were ire
Qnently presents from friendly chiefs
Il may easily be imagined that chez
tab hunting was very good sport and
welcomed BY the servants Of the
Company as an excellent substitute
for the coursing which Vas familiar
70 them in England and which, like
tie cheerah hunt. has vanished be.
fore the spread Of games such IS ten,
MS and golf.-Aadras Mail.