Evening star., 1923-08-30
TALKS and TALES
With and about
CAPITALS GUESTS


tional strife, and the markets OF Amer.
ca clogged for the want Of an outlet.
| the nationwide benefits to be derived
| from immediate recognition of Mexico
are tmmeasureable, is the opinion Of
John H. Rossiter of San Francisco
holder Of vast industrial interests in the
country to our south, and noted breeder
OF thoroughbred horses, who is spending
| d lew days at the Hotel Washington
Mr. Rossiter said the importance OF
diplomatic relations being resumed be-
tween the two countries was almost
unparalleled. He was enthusiastic over
| the work accomplished by Charles
Beecher Warren and his associates, OF
the commission sent by President Hard
ing to pave the way for a return of the
TWO countries to old friendships and
SAD the patience and skill with which
these diplomats handled the situation
was most comnendable
The visit of the western breeder 10
town Is purely Of a social nature, he
having made it custom for years to
stop off in Washington on his return
nome from the horse sales at Saratoga
Springs, where each year he ships 4
string of yearling colts and FLIES from
his big Rancho Wikiup farm in tl.e
Valley of the Moon, Sonoma county.
CAN'T, and few from his other proper
ty, the Sayre Farm, near Lexington. Nv.
Prlces brought for thoroughbred
morse flesh this year at the Springs
varied and business was "spottv.''
according TO the westerner. The out
standing feature of the sales was the
refusal of $125.0O0 for the colt Sun
Flag, whose sire, sun Briar. is he
star Of w S KiImer's RembIicE Hail
Va, nursery, and whose fOals are in
great demand at preBnt, Sunayr, one
OF the noted horses two-year daugh-
ters. having won the Kentucky selling
state at Saratoga on Tuesday
With one exception, this was thu
greatest price ever offered for a two
year colt. Three yars ago, Nj.
Rossiter sold Inch Cape for $15o.00G
The promising runner was afterward
burned to death.
The famous Traprock heads Mr.
Rossiter's studs, alternating his time.
IN tWo-year periods, between Rancho
Wikiup and John +. Madden's place in
Kentucky He also has Cataract, half
brother TO Cltimus. now dead and
also half brother to Runnymeade, sircb
of Norwich, the Kentucky derby win
ncr of few years back
The pet Of Rancho Wikjup however,
is that grand old aristocrat. Disguise
now twenty-siX years old. but as
physically fit and lively as a young
ster. This great thoroughbred is Tho
only American horse TO win the Eng
lish Jockey Club stakes which he did
| in 1900, also running third in the
derby to Diamond Jubilee. owned by
the then Prince of Wales, who after
ward became King Edward VII
Disguise has won an enviable pos
tion as great sire Of dams, one a.
I, = rt.Fr Il
| the champion two-year-old last year.
His fillies are in great demand.
While Indiana delegates to the n, NJ
republican national convention may
cast a complimentary vote for their
favorite son, Uncle Jim Watson. for
the presidency, 1t will only need the
teeny- stampede to switch
the Hoosier state over TO Calvin Cool
idge for the nomination TO succeed
himself. AT least such is the fixed
idea of 7. c. Paris. capitalist. OF
Frankfort, Clinton county. Ind. The
hustling little railroad center within
| forty-five miles distance OF Indian
apolis.
| for a few days and will remain in
the east until after the Dempsey
| F'irpo fight, which he will attend.
He reports unprecedented crops IN
Indiana this year, with corn growing
an arrow.
our farmers have had hard pull
| ing for several years back, but j
looks at last as though the worm
| had turned. The price of hogs. which
| had dropped from $12 and SIS of a
few years ago to as low as 81. is
going back up again. Then, too. corn
| is bringing from so to 90 cents
bushel, or as much as wheat, and
! with soil that easily yields from
fn nj he
| only thing to worry Indiana farmers
right now is in what bank 70 deposit
their savings.
Frankfort. a town of only about
Ia 600 population, is one of the buSI-
est communities in the United States.
SiX or seven railroads pay il their
respects; the Van SWeringen interests
have located their Glover Leaf shops
there; plans are now being consid
cred to erect a $500 900 roundhouse in
Its midst, and with the huge Ingram
Richardson enameling works, the Nc,
Dougal kitchen cabinet factories and
the Bankable cigar plants to keep la
bor going. life in that section is any
thing but dull.
Mr.. Paris said that President
Coolidge looks awfully good to US,
and, while no people in the country
deplored the death of President
Harding more than Indianians, they
felt greatly relieved when they real
lied who was to succeed him."
The more one comes in contact with
the great engineers of the west. who
are devoting their time. energy and
brains to perpleXing irrigation prob
lens. the greater seems their amaze
ment at the apparent diSinterested-
ness of eastern business men. and
especially bankers, in the mammoth
projects that today are revolutioniZ-'
ing conditions west of the Missis-
sippi
Conversing with o. McDermith. con-
sulting engineer Of Portland, Ore. in
the lobby of the Hotel La Fayette
who is in town to secure more ap-
preparations for the mammoth Yaki-
ma project. the largest government
undertaking in the state of Washing
ton, it was plain to see that irriga-
ton workers are at loss to under
stand the attitude of eaSterners re-
garding such matters.
'To us irrigation Is the all-import-
ant factor in the life of the country"
said the engineer. Take this va
kima project, for instance. 1t has
developed the state of Washington
apple is today worId-known. And
besides it has paid 1t is one OF the
! few projects that has paid all money
construction and will ultimately cul-
tivate 100000 acres Of land. Two
hundred and fifty thousand acres are
now under cultivation"
Mr. McDersmith said further that
due to the project such crops. and
general all-round farm produce could
not be duplicated in the United
States. and that a special crop had
already been harvested.
The upper part of the kittitaS unit
of the project now reaches to a point
120 miles from Seattle, the principal
market on the west coast for its