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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-09-06
Kennewick Car Bumped Off
High Grade near La
Grande, Oregon
A. F. BROWN RECEIVES
SLIGHT INJURIES
Last Reports Indicate that
Kennewick Merchant has
Fighting Chance

George w. Sherk, proprietor of
Sherk's Department store, of this
city, is in the hospital at LaGrande.
Oregon, with badly fractured skull,
I broken lower jaw and collar bone
IS the result of an automobile acci-
dent about noon yesterday on the Old
Oregon Trail 18 miles this side of La
Crande. A. F. Brown, manager OF
the Kennewick Valley Telephone COM
pany, is also in the hospital with a
sprained back and other minor injur-
lies, while Postmaster Gordon C.
Moores and G. r. Bradshaw, the other
occupants of the car, escaped with
only slight bruises and scratches.
Mr.. Sherk this morning underwent
q trepanning operation to relieve the
pressure on the brain and word from
the hospital this afternoon was to
the effect that he had come through
the operation in fair condition and
had fair chance of recovery. His
physicians consider his greatest han
dicap his age, ~ years, and the fact
that he lost more than two quarts of
blood before arriving at the hospital.
At the last report he had not re-
gained consciousness.
No accurate details of the accident
have been received. It is reported
that California car in which were
four men, attempted to pass the Sherl
car on grade. The car first at
tempted to pass on the lower side
and almost went off the grade. Then
the driver attempted to cut in on the
upper side, collided with the Sherk
car which turned over three times as
it rolled over cliff 1875 feet high.
Immediately upon receipt of the
news, Mrs. Sherk, sons Everett and
Barton and daughter Beatrice left
hGe by auto and arrived in LaGrande
at nine last night. fs
Everett telephoned today that the
fracture over his fathers r1gnt eye
was about two inches in diameter and
; there is lesser fracture in the back
Of the skull.
The four men left here yesterday
morning for weeks camping trip
to Wallowa Lake in Eastern Oregon.
They met with the accident shortly
before noon.
Mr.. Bradshaw left LaGrande this
morning and is expected home to-
night, but Mr.. Moores will remain
there to await the outcome Of Mr..
Sherk's battle for life. Mr.. Brown
VIII probably be able to leave the
hospital within few days.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-09-06
TO BUILD SHED

Inc county commissioners today
awarded A. v. McReynolds a contract
ior building road machinery shed
on the county's lots in this city. A
sned 90 by so feet will be construct
eo' the present buildings will be NOV
"a and utilized as workshop and tool
sned and the property will be en-
closed with high fence. The pro-
perty is located east of the John
Dover, Lumber yards.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-09-06
DUCKS OCTOBER /
Season in Benton is Two Weeks
Longer at Closing End

Although in some counties of Che
state the duck season opens two
weeks earlier this year than last, this
is not true of Benton nor Of the other
counties west of the Columbia and
south Of the Snake river. The season
in these counties as in former years
opens October / but is two weeks
longer than last year, closing January
16.
In Franklin county the season opens
September 16 but in Walla Walla and
Yakima it is the same as in this coun-
ty.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-09-06
MUSIC CREDITs

MRS. I. B. Hopkinson has returned
from her vacation and has resumed
ner ,l music classes Tuesdays and
ihurdays at the residence of DIR. l..
- Aidrich. She will be pleased to
Ar irom any high school students
"no uesire particulars concerning the
soaise Ior nigh school credits for out
side music study.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-09-06

that the safety of the canal will
allow.
We are now just over the peak de-
nand, as the cooler weather has in
creased. our net deliveries about 1870
in the last week, and there will be
plenty of water for all reasonable de-
mands. ~
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-09-06
GIVE SILVER CUP
Supply & Storage Company Offers
Handsome Trophy at Fair

The Kennewick Supply & Storage
company has given a handsome sill
yer cup to be offered as trophy at
the Kennewick Fair which opens Fri
day, September Id. The exhibit COM
mittee has offered the cup for the
best individual farm exhibit.
The Pomona Grange cup which was
won last year by Finley and two
years ago by Kennewick Valley will
again be offered for the best district
exhibit. The cup will be offered un-
til it has been won twice by the same
district.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-09-06

Mrs. Jessie Hendricks is spending
few weeks in Portland the guest Of
Mrs. C. j. Anderson. Mrs. Hendricks
who made her home in Kennewick
for some years is now living in Port
land.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-09-06
GAS GOES DOWN

Inc Standard, the Union and the
quality Oil companies announced
announcer reduction of two cents in the
price of gasoline effective this morn
ing. This brings the retail price down
TO ~ cents a gallon. This is a re-
ductlon of five cents since the first
of August.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-09-06

Al. Smith and Ed. Fishburn re-
.,,-ned Yesterday from a two weeks
fishing trip to Lake Pend o'Reille
and other Idaho lakes. They report
= fne outing and plenty OF fish.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-09-06
WORST is OVER
SAYS MULDROW
Irrigation Manager Says
Water Weeds Have Been
Bad This Year

w. ". MulQrOW, manager Oh the
Columbia Irrigation district, has is
sued the following statement regard
ing the recent shutdown of the irri-
cation system.
We have just passed through the
most difficult period for water deliv-
cry that has been experienced in the
past two years. The long-continued
spell of hot weather led to several
affects that combined to bear down
on the irrigator. Weed and moss
growths in the canals are very sensi-
tive to cool weather, and thrive with
amazing rapidity in continued hot
weather. As they grow day by day the
water creeps up on the raw ditch
banks and seepage losses become
much greater, there is less water to
deliver to each rancher and all gates
have to be cut down gradually. At
the same time, and for exactly the
same reasons, the farmer finds the
water won't go as far on his place.
Rills that went through easily in
cooler weather won't go through now,
and he needs more water instead of
less. ss-i go E
This is a perfectly natural condition
that has been fought for many years
on many canal systems, and by many
methods. Much is known about it,
and many good men have worked
months and years trying to develop
the best method Of handling it. No
easy way has been found except the
turnout method. Take the water off
these weeds and mosses and the sun
kills them dead to the ground in q
few hours. But long stretches of our
canals are below grade and several
inches of water fails to run out. It
takes three days to dry up the water
in the larger part Of our canals, and
a few stretches do not dry out then.
These we must cut.
On some canals where soils are
deep and heavy, as in Idaho, results
are secured by dragging with form
of disc harrow. Our canals would not
stand that. 1t has been tried. 1t cuts
out the silt scaled bottom and in
creases seepage at once to q point
that cannot be borne. The heavy chain
method is the best so far discovered
for our use, but it is slow, laborous
and expensive, and does very i'm
perfect job. In the smaller bitches
something can be done with a short
scythe when men can be found who
are willing to work in the water. Our
men are willing, and have spent many
days this summer working waist deep
and over, but the main canal is neck
deep for twenty miles.
The weed and moss conditions in
our canals were worse than at any
other time in late years. Many miles
that had no weeds last year were
lined with them this year. The rise
on the banks of the main canal was
above any post mark all along, very
dangerous condition, and only careful
watching prevented serious damage.
The highest point on the Headgate
gage in 1921 was 43A inches. In 1922
it was worked up to 44A inches, an
increase in maximum of 6es net. This
year it has been brought up to AZ
inches, further increase of 99c net.
Where it now stands.
The water at the Headgate is reg
ulated to a quarter of an inch at all
times, and is kept at the highest point
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1923-09-06

Mrs. II. C. Schmidt returned Mon
day from two weeks visit with her
sister, Mrs. C. B. Burpee, who lives
in the Parker Heights district of Yak
ima.
, 1923-04-10
WASHINGTON NOTHE
NINEVAH?

That Washington is on the way
to being another city of the sodom
and Gomorrah type; a Ninevah
where vice and revel flourish; a
Rome under the later Caesars. the
wife of a prominent United States
Senator would have us believe. She
writes, for her home town paper on
the Pacific Coast, of the hideous
evils Of drinking and gambling in
exclusive Washington society cir
cles. The Pacific Coast may be
greatly perturbed over this; but, IL
so, it will be moro sensitive than
most sections of the country.
Washington is probably no differ
ent from most other cities in the
land, save that through political
channels and because of the chican-
cry which is firmly embedded in the
y gteenth Amendment, drinking Is
made easier of Accomplishment in
high circles at the Capital than in
many other places. But it is ensy
enough anywhere. and bids fair TO
continue so indefini tely.
The stranger in New York who
could not get a drink or drinks must
be raralyzed on half-wtted. The
, 1923-04-10
ElOpement Shattered

SHERIDAN. Wyo., April 10.-The
course OF true love isn't running very
smoothly for John Crisswell of Kaycee
and his 15-year-old bride. Crisswell,
arrested this morning by Deputy
Sheriff ]. T. Harrington. is held at
the Sheridan county jail awaiting the
arrival of Sheriff Moses woodside OF
Buffalo. who holds a warrant. charg.
ing him with kidnapping. His tear.
full little bobbed-haired bride. nee
Doris Alma Callwell, is in the custody
of her father and mother. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charley Callwell of Kaycee. who
appeared on the scene this morning.
And the most casual observer must
be convicted that their respective
chances for escape are on a par.
Here romance began au~spicIously
enough. They eloped Sunday.
The first few miles of the journey
were made on horseback. At the
would-be Groom's ranch. the sad
die ponies were abandoned. and the
two left in Crlsswell's REQ. Shortly
before they reached Buffalo. the REQ
lost n wheel. and the clippers were
picked up by passing tourists and
brought in to Sheridan where Sun
day night they caught AZ for Hardin
where the following day they were
united in wedlock by Justice Wick
ers.
The couple returned to Sheridan
Tuesday night. but their dream of
happiness was rudely shattered at
the appearance of the irate parents
this morning. A stormy scene at tho
Crescent hotel featured the arrest.
and the bride. not a whit less irate
than her parents. made things lively
for the officers for several minutes.
Mrs. Callwell his morning an
nounced that proceedings to annul
the marriage would be started at
once. and in addition to kidnapping.
intimated TINT charges of perjury.
, 1923-04-10
MIR. HAYNES ERUPTS A
GREAT BROMIDE

Prohibition Commissioner Haynes
says that men who have a high
standing both in official and private
life are greater offenders against
the prohibition law "than those Of
whom society exects less"
Mr.. Haynes say they sanction
and participate in the illegal traf-
Tic although they would
not knowingly wink at the violation
OF any other statute"
The commissioner repeats only
what everybody knows. The prohi-
bition law is unlike any other. The
~so-ealled big men who violate IL
have not the slightest real feeling
that they are criminals. Until that
feeling comes Mr.. Haynes and the
frantic dry fanatics have a tough
jo6-nay, an impossible job.
Time is a healer Of all things.
only time can heal-or eradicate
the fostering sore Of prohibition.
, 1923-04-10
BUILD MORE

The necessity of providing more
adequate facilities for the church
going public of Casper becomes in
creasing1y evident with the growth
of the city. At the recent Easter
services multitudes sought various
places of worship and were unable
to obtain admittance. That, Of
curse, was true in the greatest
cities of the country on Easter Sun
day; but Casper's crying need of
religious expansion is linked closely
with its need of more architectural
beauty.
That in a city of $4,000 inhabi-
tants there is but n real religious
edifice physically worthy of the
name is a sad commentary on a
wide-awake municipality where con-
siderable wealth is congregated, even
for its size. The Episcopal church
is planning a magnificent new home,
and the Presbyterian church is now
campaigning for a fund Of $4,000
with which to erect a structure in
which the city can take a just pride.
This amount is reasonable enough,
it would seem, considering the cost
of materials and labor. Casper has
passed from the small town stage,
: and has already reached that of a
real city. It can not DE the city
it should be, if provision Is not made
for religious as well as material in
terests.
The men and women Of the Pres
byterian church hre working with
commendable zeal in the great en-
terprise they have undertaken. and
the sacrificial spirit is not wanting.
In this they should have the
hearty cooperation of their friends
and all who desire to make Casper
not only n greater city, but a better
.city in which to live and to bring up
their families. The members of the
finance and building committees are
well known and responsible men of
the community, and their efforts
should receive the encouragement
of prompt response and support to
the limit of ability. The site chosen
for the new building is at Eighth
and Wolcott.
, 1923-04-10

visitor to Los Angeles would not
have to stay long in the city to be-
come acquainted with some promi-
nent bootlegger. The wayfarer
within the gates of Casper would
not long go thirsty, if he were mind
ed to hunt out some illicit potables.
Indeed, as a proof of the made
quacy and even impossibility of en-
forcing the prohibition law as it nov
stands, we would be minded, on a
large wager, to guarantee that any
intelligent, thirsty man could be put
down in any city in the country of
more than 10000 population and
get a drink or drinks within twenty
four hours time, if he were untiring
in his efforts to get some "hooch."
1t is this condition which &C
counts for the furry over the evils
of Washington. 1t would be inter
esting, indeed, to have reliable sta
t%isticians compile figures on the
amount of drinking in so-called $50
ciety" circles now and six or eve
years age. That it would be greater
today, in effect if not in volume,
no one who has been in the large
population centers of the country,
and looked around even on the out
skirts of social functions, can gain
say.
Nor Is this promiscuous and
studied evasion of the law confined
to the 400" of New York. It &C.
cupies a proud place in the annals
of all circles of Gotham society, as
it does among the counry club folk
Of Los Angeles, the denizens of Chi
cago from the Loop District to the
Exclusive residential section; and in
all probability among many other
wise best people in Kalamazoo.
kokomo, and kindred spots from
Jacksonville to Seattle and from
San Diego to Bangor.
The condition, If it exists as the
Senator's wife describes 1t, is de-
plorable. We may allow perhaps
for a little natural exaggeration.
But drinking for the rich, the we'll
TODD, and even the man of moder-
ate means has become something of
a "parlor trick" since its inhibition.
May men, one might almost say the
average man, considers he is COM
uniting no ethical or moral fault in
buying liquor just us long as he
doesn't sell it for profit.
Chauncey Depew said nearly all
there was to say on the subject when
he pithily remarked that "any law
which very many of the best people
Of any community considered IL
smart to break is a bad law"
Washington is no worse than the
rest Of the country. And the rest
OF the country is no better than it
should be in this regard.
, 1923-04-10
-ByFOX

This will give the property an out
let to the outside world and its de-
velopment as a commercial mine will
then be possible. Mr.. Johnson will
bring several families of miners to
assist him with This plans. and as
the business increase more will be
coming in until eventually 1t is ex-
pected that the Belcher property will
have a payroll that will be a con-
siderable asset to the valley. Tho
fact that the mine is on a state high
way, between Beaver and Garland.
makes the property valuable also Us
a wagon mine.
Mr.. Biesemeir and Mr.. Wilcox
have been operating the mine for a
considerable time and that
as their working OF the property
progressed. the vein of coal became
thicker and the quality appeared to
grow peterborough 81 as to attract
the attention of experienced mining
men.
, 1923-04-10
CROAKERS ARE
PLENTIFUL.

Wherever the human family
bands together, there the croaker is
to be found. He is the man who
predicates everything on defeat. He
says it Cant be DONE" even while
somebody else is that minute proy-
ing that it is being done. He can't
see prosperity coming because his
eyes T 81 full of crocodile tears
that he is blinded.
The realtors of Philadelphia must
have been very fond of n Samuel
Mickle, of whom Benjamin Frank
lin wrote nearly two hundred years
ago. The realtors of Philadelphia to-
day like to tell the Franklin story
in fact, all realtors like it. It hits
them in the pocket-book, and that
Is a most sensitive organ with many
Of US. Poor Richards story, which
proves that human nature as re-
spects the real estate market hasn't
changed much, goes like this:
There are croakers in every
country, always boding its ruin.
Such a one then lived in Philadel-
phia; a person of note, an elderly
man with a wise look and a very
grave manne of speakin; his name
was Samuel Mickle. This gentleman,
a stranger to me, stopped n day
at my door and asked me if | was
the young man who had lately
opened a new printing-house. Being
answered in the affirmative, he said
he was sorry for me, because it was
an expensive undertaking and the
expense would be lost, for Philadel-
phia was q sinking place, the people
already half bankrupts or near be-
ing SO; all appearances to the ron
trary, such as new buildings and the
rise of rents, being to his certain
knowledge fallacious; for they
were, in fact, among the things that
would soon ruin us. And he gave me
such a detail of misfortunes now ex-
istlng, or that were 500 to exist
that he left me half melancholy.
Had l known this before 1 engaged
II the business, probably 1 never
should have done it. This man con-
tinued to live in this decaying place,
and to declaim in the same strain.
refusing for many years to buy a
house there, because all was going
to destruction; and at last I had the
pleasure of seeing him give five
times as much for one as he might
have bought It for when he first he
gan his croakin.n
, 1923-04-10
LIVE NEWS from WYOMING

and b~ootlegging would also be pre-
ferred against her son-in-law.
Charges that I have beer boot
Logging are absolutely groundless
and Mrs. Callwell knows it," Crisis
well declared from his cell in the
county jail. when informed of his
mother-in-law's intention this after
noon.
ALSO. I did not carry off her
daughter" he continued vehement
ly. his eyes flashing. "She came
with me willingly. I married her
with the best Intentions in the world.
1 wanted to make her happy. and be-
fore God I'm going to do it."
Crisswell said he was 80 years old.
His mother-in-law. however. says he
is As. 'if he's a day"
Crisswell ave his age as 80 and
that of his bride al IS when n mar
riage license was Issued them in Har-
din.
The bride tearfuIly insists that
her place is with her husband.
, 1923-04-10
Coal Mine Projected

POWELL. Wyo.. April 1o.-That
the Belcher coal mine three and ne
half miles north of Garland has been
taken over on terms OF a longtime
lease by J. A. johnson. an expert
enced mine operator OF the Fromberg'
country. and hat 1t is to be operated
as a commercial railroad mine is an
item of information that will be Of
much interest to people interested in
the industrial development of the
Shoshone valley.
Mr.. johnson win build gradually
to his goal OF making OF the Belcher
property a large producing mine
that will add materially to the in
dustries of the Shoshone valley, but
to begin witha spur OF track is to
be laid to connect the mine with the
Burlington railroad only n half mile
away from the mouth of the mine
, 1923-04-10
Double Track U. p.

. ROCK SPRINGS. wyo.. April TO-
The little town of Granger this
week began to assume metropolitan
appearances with the arrival of about
200 workmen. who form the first
crew OF the several which will work
on h double-tracking project OF the
Union Pacific. extending from the
Junction City to Leroy. fifty miles
west. Headquarters for the large
crews will be in Granger throughout
the life of the contract. and upward
of 700 men are expected to be quar-
tered there before the end of April.
new men arriving daily. The first
crew arrived the middle of this week.
The work Ia to be rushed to COM
pletion. about 1000 men to be employ
ed and the contract finished in four
months. II possible. According to re-
ports the railroad company is expo
..riencing difficulty in recruiting men.
, 1923-04-10
Duel to Death

ROCK SPRINGS. wyo.. April TO-
Standing about six e e apart and
firing high-opwered bullets at each
other cost William K Cherry. 80 and
colored. his life and put Sam Bent
ley. a person OF the same persuasion.
on n hospital cot.
The fight to death took place at
Dimes. a nearby coal camp. about
four o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Cherry fell to the ground MORALLY
wounded soon after Bentley got his
.45-calibre Colts in working order,
five shots out OF the six fired find
ing vulnerable spots IN various parts
Of Cherry's body. the most serious OF
which entered the heart and caused
almost instant death. Bentley was
shot through the leg and will be dis
, 1923-04-10

charged from the hospital in a few
days.
1t is said that bad feeling had ex'
listed between the men for some time.
A bullet extracted from the dead
mans leg is aid TO have been sent to
the spot about seven years ago in
another brawl.
A coroner's jury assembled at
Dimes returned a verdict that Bent
ley had sho his man in self-defense.
Cherry's remains were taken TO
Kansas City for burial and were ac-
companied by his wife.
, 1923-04-10

About 100 bunk cars. sidetracked at
Granger. will serve as quarters for
h workmen. The movement of dirt
is to be accomplished with steam
shovels n will start at once.
The engineering headquarters are
being established at Carter. Another
double-tracking project of the road is
to be completed this summer between
Emery and Echo.
, 1923-04-10
THE CASPER TRIBUNE'S
PROGRAM

Irrigation project west OF Casper
to be authorized and completed at
once.
A complete and scientific zoninB
system for the city of Casper.
A comprehensive municipal and
school recreation park system, in
Guiding swimming pools for the
children Of Casper.
Completion of the established
Scenic Route boulevard as planned
by the county commissioners to
Garden Creek Falls and return.
Better roads for Natrona county
and more highways for Wyoming.
More equitable freight rates for
shippers OF the Rocky Mountain
region and more frequent train
service for Casper.
, 1923-04-10
Scott Clothing Co.
Gets Shoe Agency

Through a deal completed Monday
between Jack cot of the Scot
Clothing company and H c. Rasmus-
sen of B%rockton. Mass, the Scott
store obtains the exclusive local
agency for the Thompson Shoe COM
pany OF Brockton. and will handle all
their lines.
The first shipment OF this line will
be on hand for the opening of the
new Scott store.