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The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-01-09
SURVEY FINISHED

\ SSISTANT Engineer Boskies
n of.the State Engineers Of
flee, who has been here dur
ing the past week or ten days,
has all but finished his prelimin-
ary work on the asco-Kenne-
wick surveys. He reports that
steel cantiliver bridge, capable of
carrying a single track street
railway, besides caring for
other traffic. can be built for an
amount under 100000. This
figure is considerably lower than
the estimate placed before the
legislature and will no doubt be
received favorably.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-01-09
RECEIVER TAKES
LOCAL CREAMERY
R. E. Pratt Takes Temporary
J Charge Of Kennewick Butter
i Factory-To Continue

While not in any way lnsolvent
.ho local stockholders in the Colum-
bia Valley Creamery Wednesday pc
titioned the court for receiver to
take charge of the plant. R. E.
Pratt was appointed by the court to
take charge of the company's affairs
until the 2Sth OF this month when
the hearing of the case will be held.
5 i ocal stock holders base their
action on the alleged extravaganza
of the previous management and
the impaired credit resultant. That
the concern may be enabled to get
temporary loans and the business
continued, their action was taken.
Consultation pointed out the fact
that unless some similar action was
taken the community stood a good
chance of losing the institution, and
rather than have the cream market
lost to this community the action
was filed.
Until the hearing, then, the plant
will be under the supervision OF
Receiver Pratt who has announced
that payments for cream delivered
will be made twice a month here
after instead of monthly. Plans
for the continuation of the business
are being considered and will be
submitted to the court at the time
of hearing.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-01-09
ACTIVE LIFE OF FORMER
LEGISLATOR IS ENDED
-
Lee A. Johnson, Father Of Local Banker
Passes Away at Portland Home
Had a Varied Career

Lee A. Johnson, father of Lau-
renee E. johnson, of this city, and
widely known throughout the Yak
lima valley during the past ten years
as minister. rancher, politician,
banker and real estate operator,
died at his home in Portland Mon
day morning, aged fifty eight years.
He had been in failing health for
the past two years, diabetes being
the direct cause of his death.
Mr.. Johnson came west to Morrow
county, Ore. about 35 years ago,
where he engaged in the stock bus
mess. After some years he took a
theological course at Northwestern
University, Chicago, retufning to
Waitsburg, where he took up the
ministry as profession. From that
place he went to Walla Walla where
he was pastor of the Methodist
church for five years.
Mr.. johnson went to Sunnyside
in 1902, where he engaged in the
hardware business, sold out and
started another hardware store al
Outlook. He later organized the
First National Bank of Sunnyside
and engaged extensively in numer.
Gus real estate ventures.
He was elected to the state legis
lature in 1906 and was defeated by
Frank Allen in the race for the state
senate in 1910. He was a candi.
date for congress against Poindextel
whom he defeated on number o.
first choice votes, but who beat
him out on the total. He was ap.
pointed regent of the State College
, by Gov. Mead. He was a promi.
nent member of the Masonic, Ode
Fellows and other fraternities.
Eighteen months ago he removed
with his family to Portland and be.
came vice president of the Com.
merce Trust & Savings bank, 6:
that city, of which institution he wal
active in the management until &
short time before his death.
Besides his wife, be leaves one
brother in Morrow county, Ore.
three sons, Laurence f of this
city, and William and Lewis wht
lived at home; and one daughter
Mrs. Maud Ktyes, of Portland. AL
of his children were with him at tn,
time of his death.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-01-09
WASN'T WORTH WHILE

A sneak thief broke into the Haas
Bakery Saturday night and robbed
the till of the cash register. For
his trouble he secured three nickles
and several pennies. Entrance was
made through a draft hole cut in
the roof over the entrance of the
oven. The police arn't losing any
sleep over the apprehension of the
the bold, bad man it seems.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-01-09
CONSIDER PEAR BLIGHT
AT MEETING TONIGHT
Prominent Speakers Will Discuss Or
chard Disease and Methods Of
Combating 1t

The Kennewick Highlands I'm
provement Club, which has taken up
the fight against pear blight, will
hold a meeting at the Commercial
Club rooms tonight (Friday) at
O'Clock to consider methods of con.
trolling the ravages of the disease.
The list of speakers includes
County Agriculturist L. M. Lamp
son, VIM. Meikle, horticultural in
structor in the high school; Luke
Powell, horticultural Inspector fol-
this district and F. E. DeSellem.
Prompt and positive cooperative
action is absolutely necessary to
eradicate this orchard pest and the
following letter from Prof. Thorn
Der urges the movement for con-
certed action on the part of the Or
chardists.
Lewiston, Idaho, Dec 80, 1913.
Highlands Improvement Club,
Kennewick. Washington.
Gentlemen:
| want to urge upon you in the most
emphatic manner possible the necessity
of Kennewick coping with the pear
blight situation with an iron hand.
1t is important because with your
present pear acreage it will mean
thousands of dollars annually to the
district and with success almost within
your grasp, it seems to me that il
would be the rankest kind of insanity
for you to fail to act together. 1t is
seless for any man in your district tc
say that pear blight does not exist
there, because it does and most of us
have seen the evidence this year.
Another factor is that pear blight is
bacterial disease and as such spreads
rapidly from limb to limb and tree tc
tree. In addition the blight will destroy
your apples as well as your pears il
you cannot control the situation. Dc
not permit some really intelligent indi.
vidual to work off upon you paten,
cure. There is only one remedy known
at the present time and that is to Gu,
out the diseased parts, sterilizing al
wounds and paint over the cut surface.
Of course modification of the cultiva.
tion of the orchards and the irrigation
of the same has great part in the
combating of the disease. Let prompt
action, thorough work and persistency
be your slogan.
AS see your problem it is compare
lively simple one but if neglected fol
even another year, l doubt whether yor
could cope with the situation without
thousands of dollars of loss.
Very truly yours,
w. S. THORNBER
Chief Horticulturist
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-01-09
PRINCESS GIVES AN
OPEN AIR PERFORMANCE
Manager Baker Entertains Ouarantined
Members Of the Coyote Club with
Special Quo Vadis?" Show

The first open air moving picture
show ever attempted in this section
of the state was staged Tuesday
night by the management of the
Princess Theatre. The show was
Of a very private nature in spite of
its having been shown in the open
air and on one of the public streets.
The reason there was not a larger
attendance was owing to the lateness
of the hour, but those for whom the
show was given enjoyed it none the
less.
Tuesday night Manager Baker of
the Princess played to two full
houses when his special feature
"Quo Vadis?" was run. After
the second performance, the ma
chine, screen and the films were
taken up the street near the Coyote
Club house. The screen was hung
On the opposite side of the street,
machine connected up and the show
OF the evening was on, the Coyote
Club occupying strictly reserved
seats.
The Coyote Club house is under
quarantine and five husky young
fellows are cooped up. Three or
four days of enforced idleness very
naturally would get on the nerves"
of a bunch like that and the boys
were aching to get out to the movies
or to experience anything to break
the monotony. So Mr.. Baker very
ohhgingly volunteered to take the
show to them since they wero un-
able to attend the theatre.
Fred G.. Helm, who owns the
state rights to Quo Vadis?" films
and who was here with them,
promptly signifed his willingness to
donate his share to the entertain
ment of the Coyotes. Manager
Longmuir gave permission to have
the connections made to the light
wires and to them all the Coyotes
express their gratitude.
The show began about 1920 and
was given complete-even to the
music, which was furnished by a
Victrola. The pictures were clear
and the promptu performance was
up to the high standard of the
Princess productions. Mr.. Baker
need never fear of having a small
house in the future if the attend
ance of the Coyote Club can prevent
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-01-09
THOMPSON-JEWELL

The Pasco Athletic club will hold
benefit smoker next Thursday
night, Jan. 10. A ten round box
ing bout between Jimmy Thomp-
son, of Walla .Walla, and Harry
will be staged. Fifty per cent of
the proceeds will be devoted to a
family in Strengthened circumstan-
ces.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-01-09
ASK EQUAL|zED
EXPRESS RATES
Petition Commission for Fairer
Charges on Butter and
Cream Shipments

w nat appears to be one OF the
most important moves for the better
protection of the dairy interests of
the state, is contained in a petition
addressed to the Interstate Com
merce Commission of Washington,
d. c., the Railroad Commission of
Oregon and the Public Service Com
mission of Washington, which is
now being circulated amongst the
dairymen and business men of this
community and throughout the en-
tire state.
This petition is being generally
signed by the dairy interests, the
numerical bodies and business
men throughout the important dairy
sections and seeks to equalize the
express rates on butter and cream
shipments to the market centers.
When the country was new and un-
developed, the dairy herds widely
scattered and distanced from the
cities, the express companies put
into effect a rate to induce shipment
of milk for city consumption. Later
when creameries were started the
same rate was applied to cream
shipments, having a value several
times that of can of milk. This
can OF cream contained many pounds
OF butter in the nature of butterfat
which was being carried by the ex-
press companies for less than one
half OF the rate that applied to but
ter manufactured.
This express on cream shipments
is In many instances, less than third
class freight rate. The result of
this inequality of express rates on
butter shipped in cream has been to
build up central creameries in the
big markets to the decided disad-
vantage of the farmers local plant,
and the farmers cooperative cream
cry and other local creameries. All
these within the great dairy sections
have been unjustly Disseminated
against and in many instances en-
tirely ruined by unfair competition
The local creamery is simply de-
sirous of having the express com.
panies' either to lower the present
butter rate so that it will be on the
same basis as the rate on butter
carried as cream, or to increase the
cream rate to a point where it will
be equal to the butter rate. Some
such adjustment would only seen
fair. If the farmers creamery is
expected to continue as one of thu
substantial industries of the com
munity the express companies m1s
so equalize their rates that butter
cannot be shipped as cream at less
rate than it can be shipped manufac.
tured. The country community il
entitled to some manufacturing ente
rprise. The local creamery is distri
butor of many thousands of dollars
monthly and is always an importan
business frctor in every farming
community and unless the Public
Service Commission gives the dairy
interests the proper relief the farm
ers' creamery will soon be a thing
of the past, is the way the matte
is viewed by the signers of this pc
tition.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-01-09

The annual meeting of the Kenne-
wick Library Association will be held
in the library building next Monday,
Jan II, when new officers for the COM
ing year will be elected. All members
are urged to be present.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-01-09

Mrs. Beed, daughter from Iowa,
who has been visiting with her parents,
the Buckinghams, left for home We'd
nesday.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-01-09

The masonry work of the Kennewick
Transfer Co.. 8 building is about COM
pleted and the CARPENTER work is pro-
crossing nicely.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1914-01-09

Mrs. Gus Sasse and daughter Dorothy
visited at the A. H. Wheaton home,
Thursday.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-09
JEKYLL-HYDE
BUSINESS MAN
Sent to Sing Sing for Eighteen
Years at Hard
Labor in !
Stripes.
CAUGHT IN ROBBERY
Only One Case Made Public Although
Others Were Charged
Up Against
Him.

United Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, April, 9.-Convicted
Of first degree robbery Edward Men.
del, prominent Newark business man
today was sentenced to eighteen years
at hard labor in Sing Sing after evi.
dence had been produced showing he
had for years lived Jekyll and Hyde
existence. Mendel has wife and two
small children. Mrs. Mendel. de-
mure, tastefully dressed little woman
was in court when sentence was pro
nounced. She collapsed.
Several months ago Mendel was ar.
rested on charge preferred by Mrs
Pauline koethel. She had attended a
banquet in the Woolworth building
cafe and met Mendel Just outside. He
suggested they go to Broadway cafe
after he had led her to believe he was
friend of her husband She &C
quiesced and having several drinks
he led her to railway yard where he
attempted to assault her. Unsuccess
full he took her rings, tore her ear
rings off and was running away when
policeman, who had followed the
couple, caught him. The jewels Men
del had taken were worth S1,5o0 A,
MendePs trial. several prolnine n!
ministers and business men from New
ark testified rs to his good character
The defense WIS that Mendel was I
victim OF mistaken identity.
District Attorney Whitman told the
court ten other women had identified
Mendel as the man who had robbed
them as he had robbed Mrs. koethel
but that they refused to testify, fear
ing notoriety. Mrs. Mendel declared
Mendel had been a model husband
She testified he frequently came to
New York to attend lodges and various
directors meetings. He was a member
Of the church and seldom missed serv
ices.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-09
FOUND
SHIP IN DISTRESS
Then Guided Life Savers Through the
Fog, for the First
1imo ss

UNITED Press 1essed Wire Service j
MARBLEIEAD, Mass, April a.
An aeroplane Was used here for the
purpose of locating ship in distress,
perhaps for the first time, when a
biplane answered whistles Of distress
in fog and located the steel steam
er Coastwise. The areoplane guided
la life saving launch to the spot
where the Coastwise was drifting with
disabled engines on Mystery Island in
Salem harbor.
Searching for forty-fve minutes in
a fog so thick that objects faded to
shadows a short distance away, Cliff
ford Webster, accompanied by s. w.
Startling Burgess. finally found the
ship whose distress blasts had call
ed out the life savers.
The Marblehead life saving launch
trailed the air craft and 1t was found
that engine trouble had left the yes
sci lost and helpless in the fog. Re-
pair work was being done. The
Coastwise had unloaded coal at Bev-
erly and was bound for Norfolk. The
machinery was repaired and the big
steel steamer continued on it's jour
ney southwark.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-09
WOMAN CHARGED
WITH MURDER
Mrs. Brazzei Of Dubuque Goes to
Trial Today on Serious
Indictment.

| United Press Leased Wire Service. I
DUBUQUE, Iowa, April 9.-Dressed
in deep black and accompanied by
her mother and daughter, Mrs. Dorcas
Brazzell walked into the district
court room today and her trial for
the brutal murder of her husband,
Charles Brazzell. motorman, was
started. Every seat in the court room
was filed, many women being in at
tendance.
Brazzell was murdered and his body
mutilated in his home here on Jan
uary a. week later his wife dis
covered the body and alarmed the
neighbors upon her return from a
visit with her daughter, a Charles
City school teacher.
The state will try to prove that Mrs.
Brazzell murdered her husband in the
/ morning and then told the neighbors
she was going on a visit to Charles
City. AS the body was not discover
ed. the state will claim she returned
in a week and discovered it herself
The state will try to prove that Braz-
zell was never seen alive after the
morning of January "a, the day his
wife left for Charles City.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-09
THE PENNY NEWSPAPER
THREATENS THE COUNTRY

that threatens the country today is
the rapid spread of the one cent a
copy idea among American publish
ers. BY selling papers at one cent a
copy. publishers are in most cases
actually disposing of their product at
n cost less than the cost OF the white
paper consumed in printing
The Sun declares that. having fail
eo to make profit on one cent pa
per publishers make concessions to
advertisers to get contracts to make
M the loss on actual production and
that is bringing about situation
where big business controls the pub
lications in which it adyertises.
Some persons" the Sun adds. may
argue that congress has not the power
to regulate newspaper prices but that
argument scarcely holds good in view
of It's recent proceedings under the
newspaper publicity act
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-09
MURDER IN
TENDERLOIN
Woodsey. the Man From Cali
fornia Shot by Duffy the
Goat During an
Argument.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO, April 9.-"Duffy the
goat" scion Of wealthy and re-
spectable Chicago family, but for sew
eral years a well known figure in the
tenderloin district, is being sought by
the police today in their efforts to
unravel mysterious murder near a
notorious red light district cafe,
shortly before midnight The body OF
"a handsome we'll dressed man, known
to cafe frequenters only as "Woodsey
the man from California lies in a
morgue. a bullet through his heart.
pretty woman, said to be a strang-
er to the tenderloin. is missing and
also being sought by the police.
The murder occurred, the police
were told today. just outside the Roy
Jones cafe, resort for underworld
citizens and popular stopping place
for Stunning" parties. Jones was
recently permitted to reopen the place
after Mayor Harrison had closed It
because of stories brought to light
in the O'Hara vice investigation. Ac-
cording to fragmentary stories told
the police. Duffy the Goat whose
real name is James Franchee. enter
ed Roy Jones' last night with Wood
sey" and the pretty woman. Present
I ly there was a quarrel. Walters
heard "Woodsey'' espousing the
cause OF woman suffrage and Duffy
the Goat insisting that woman's
place was at home.
The party went outside, walters
said. minute later the woman
rushed into the cafe and shouted that
I"Woodsey'' was dying, A porter car.
ried the wounded man into the cafe
and called the police. but he died
enroute to the county hospital. The
woman and Duffy the Goat" had dis
appeared when detectives arrived.
In the dead mans pockets was
found a postal card addressed to Miss
Sadie Wallace, Kingsland Apartment
] 59f Turk street. San- Fraueisco, reAd
ing: Kitty came to Chicago and I
met her here. She is on the way to
| New York. The only girl ! care to
see is you
The postal was signed wv W.
Nothing else was found on the body
that would serve to identify it.
The murder victim was i'd entitled
today as Isaac Henagow. a cigar
maker, who is said to have spent
some time on the Pacific coast, win
ming him the appellation. 1.-The man
! from Calif.' His father, Meyer Hena-
gov, 6537 st. Lawrence avenue, made
the identification. After questioning
several witnesses today the Twenty
second street police said they wers
positive that Duffy the Goat was
the slayer and that he will be book
ed for murder. The police said his
capture was only a matter OF a few
hours.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-09
GYP THE BLOOD
AND HIS PALS
Four Gunmen Have Slight Chance CT
Living Few Days
Longer.

IUnited Press Leased Wire Servicel
NEW YORK, April 9.-Gyp the
Blood and the three other gunmen
sentenced to die in the electric hair
at Sing Sing Monday, today still have
slight chance of living few days
longer.
undaunts I'd by Governor Glynn's re-
fusal to stay the execution, Joseph
H. Shay, attorney for former Police
Lieutenant Becker, convicted of .nsti-
eating the Herman Rosenthal murder,
prepar I'd today to file an order before
the supreme court asking District At
torney Whitman to show cause why
commission should not be appointed
to take the depositions of the four
condemned murderers. II any justice
of the supreme court resolves such an
order. the execution will in all prob
ability be delayed until after Monday.
When the gunmen are put to death
Ave doctors will be present to watch
thu execution from the standpoint OF
science and to examine the brains OF
the men afterward
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-09
GRAIN DEALERS HOSTILE
TO COOPERATIVE MARKETING

ers to abandon their co-Crerative
movement and return to the old
method OF selling grain through the
old line dealers. Representative are
here for the exchanges at Duluth,
Minneapolis. Milwaukee. Kansas City,
Omaha. Chicago. St. Louis. and Des
Moines. A particular effort has been
made to secure large attendance by
sending confidential letters to al
dealers calling their attention 10 the
growth of the cooperative move
ment and the necessity OF blocking 1t
at an early stage.
One plan suggested. is the cutting
OF commissions charged for handling
grain. This plan was tried in Iowa
when the board Of trade started
fight against the Grain Growers
Grain COMPANY,
Farmers we're offered more than tbs
market price and charges on the Win
nipeg board cut down. But the Can
adian farme mers stood by their Own
iccncern and the plan failed.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-09
MEREDITH
FOR SENATOR
Editor of Iowa Fam Paper
Announces That He Will be
Candidate for
s'''".

Unit ess Leased Wire Service. J
D " 4OINES, Iowa, April 9.--E. T,
NJ III, millionaire publisher OF
.ssful Farming, announced his
A didacy for the United States SEN
ate against Senator A. B. Cummins
today and will fight it out for the
nomination with Congressman Maur-
ice Connolly of Dubuque, now that
Fred White of Sigourney has aban-
doned the race because Of ill health.
Meredith issued his official statement
today over his signature, announcing
that he would make the race for the
Democratic nomination He says he
is assured by his friends that there
is state wide demand that he run
and that if elected he will stand by
President Wilson in all things.
Meredith criticises Senator Cum.
Minis for opposing the things for
which Cummins formerly worked and
says the president is entitled to have
a solid Iowa delegation behind him in
congress.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-04-09
More Property Destroyed.

United Press Leased Wire Service ]
LONDON. April 9.-Historic ex-
hibits which it will be impossible to
replace were damaged in the British
museum today by militant suffra-
gette armed with a hatchet. The
woman entered the Asiatic room OF
the museum, smashed numerous cases
and scattered valuable exhibits. Be-
fore an attendant could reach her.
the suffragette had done considerable
damage. She fought off the first men
who approached her, but was finally
overpow cred and arrested. Several big
cases containing exhibits were smash
ed by the woman Some most valu-
able porcelain cups, saucers and
plates we're ruined, running thu sets
to which they belonged. After being
arrested the woman steadfastly re
fused to give her name.