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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1910
Page
4
The Wenatchee Daily World lists subscription rates for the newspaper. One year by mail in advance costs 5.00 dollars. Six months by mail in advance costs 2.50 dollars. Delivered by carrier per week costs 10 cents.
Mayor Gellatly vows to keep the city sanitary through summer, cooperating with health authorities and state board recommendations. He criticizes lax practices, calls for closing garbage receptacles, cleaning vacant lots, and removing junk to curb unsightly conditions and encourage strong sanitation.
Governor Hay urges recall power for voters, appointive state officers, and a streamlined government. He supports recalling underperforming officials, appointive judges, and a short ballot to increase accountability, while favoring direct legislative choices only on constitutional amendments. He faults current department heads for weak voter accountability and proposes coordinated administration and greater public responsibility.
A mounted posse chases the robber who held up the El Paso and Southwestern train near Robsart New Mexico last night. Only a few hundred dollars recovered, not the thousands first reported, according to special dispatches from Santa Fe.
A nearly twenty year old account reveals Roy Turner guarding a melon patch and firing on a noise in the night. He later learns the intruder was his father’s hog, not an Indian, after telling a neighbor of a supposed killing.
Charles P. Neth's private mail service, once a rival to government delivery, ends after he pleads guilty in federal court for organizing it and pays a $25 fine. Neth, head of a debt collecting agency, charged one cent per letter and built a large wholesale client base before federal action halted the venture.
Dr L P Roy ster of Norfolk VA told the American Medical Association in St Louis that patent baby foods cause nine tenths of infant deaths and urged mothers to give fresh air. Dr W A Evans of Chicago argued that red hot schoolrooms increase mortality among children.
Private Nathaniel Bledser of the 25th United States Infantry appeared in Seattle court charged with assaulting a woman. He looked utterly desolate and seemed near collapse with no one to support him. The lawyer moved to adjourn the case until Monday.
Insurgent senators reached a practical agreement to support the house sundry civil bill funding the tariff board expenses. Speeches in the senate will express a preference for a tariff commission while accepting the house provision.
The advance guard of delegates and visitors reaches Edinburgh ahead of the World's Missionary Conference opening next Tuesday. The event is expected to be one of the largest of its kind with eminent Presbyterian divines missionaries educators and laymen from around the world. Canada and the United States will have strong representation, the Canadian group totaling twenty five members.
Petition filed for letters of administration in the Estate of C. M. Banker with Parr and Hubbard for counsel. A petition for appointment of guardian for Allan Scott Williams is drawn with L. J. Nelson listed as attorney.
The piece portrays Spokane as the Falls City of the west, a hub for fruit raising, mining, and manufacturing. It notes a network of electric lines, positioning Spokane as a commercial center and predicting Wenatchee could rival it with new lines to the Columbia and Wenatchee valley enhancing regional growth.
Marshal Abernathy and his two sons Louis and Temple, ages ten and six, ride from Guthrie to New York to greet Colonel Roosevelt on June 1. The youngsters travel 2,000 miles on horseback armed only with pocket knives, relying on locals for direction. They previously rode 1,300 miles from Guthrie to Roswell, New Mexico, last year.
The Thomas Paine National Historical Association has created the Thomas Paine National Museum in the old New Rochelle house, a 1784 gift from New York to Paine. The collection features Paine’s chair with wax figure, early editions, portraits, cartoons, and a grave site linked to his burial and Cobbett theft. Nearby, the 277 acre farm site and local monument anchor Paine’s legacy in American liberty. An adjacent item notes the auto fruit car replacing the pushcart for itinerant vendors and its modern convenience.
An inventive youth profits from a rebuilt car business and gains attention. A curious experiment substitutes soapsuds for oil to calm seas, showing rapid wave reduction on a freighter in a Atlantic storm and on the steamship Senegal in the Adriatic. Six pounds of soap in two barrels of water created a ten yard calm zone.
Oklahoma voters face a statewide referendum on locating the state capital with Guthrie, Shawnee, and Oklahoma City as candidates. Oklahoma City argues for the seat citing location and rail access, while Guthrie contests. The vote also decides repealing a constitutional ban on foreign railroads acquiring domestic corporate property.
The Cashmere May festival, run by the Presbyterian church under Osborne Williams, highlighted exceptional musicians including pianist Pauline Drake and Adeline Dennis with Katherine Hellenbrand as leading soloist. Osbourne Williams and W A Liddell praised for vocal gifts. Ben Beason from Dubuque Iowa leads a strong Cashmere band with members such as Charles Burbank and Harry Miller. The band, formed two years ago, gives weekly Saturday concerts funded by local business men, and played together for the first time at the festival.
The box mill runs in full force and logging uses a small engine. Fred Long leaves for a six week Sound visit. Roy Costello heads to Spokane. William Wilder and wife plan a month by the Sound. A son born May 30 to Mr and Mrs H Garrett. mother and baby well. Bowery dance at the mill Saturday night. Mrs Henry Wilk visiting Wenatchee. Howard Sheftell helps his father saw wood. Lebos baby sick, taken to Wenatchee doctor.
Thomas A. Edison discusses a spinthariscope containing a tiny radium fragment. He says it has emitted millions of sparks over six years and could illuminate large areas for thousands of years. He estimates speeds from light to 12,000 miles per second and calls the speed the source of radium power.
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