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Newspaper
Wenatchee Daily World
Location
Wenatchee, Washington, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1909
Page
1
The new code adopts limits on malicious prosecutions and bans aggressive attorney advertising in newspapers. It includes provisions on procreation penalties for convicted rapists and habitual criminals, expands accountability for manslaughter with negligent steam boiler explosions, and criminalizes advertising cures for venereal disease or divorce services. It also penalizes concealing a birth and tightens child employment rules.
Secretary Lem McKittrick of the Commercial club received a letter from W F McCormick representing Fred Harvey the dining car hotel and eating houses of the Santa Fe railway system. He asks about the best time to contract Wenatchee apples this year and notes Hood River as a prior source. Charles Shoof and E H Chandler arrive from Illinois and Indiana scouting the valley for relocation. Frank McMullen reports good prospects for a wheat crop after moving homestead work to Winchester.
Decoration Day program lists afternoon service at 2:30 in Wenatchee theatre with a high school quartet, invocation by Rev A J Adams, solo Oh Rest in the Lord by Mendelssohn, address Patriotism the Old and the New by Rev F Stuart Hyatt, benediction by Rev W A Stevenson, Beightol, and public invited.
President Taft and his cabinet debated the Georgia railroad strike and ordered Chairman Knapp of the Interstate Commerce Commission to travel to Atlanta to mediate the dispute or ensure compliance with federal law. Second Assistant Postmaster General Stewart was also sent to Atlanta to monitor mail movements.
The will of the late Henry H. Rogers was filed for probate in New York. He leaves all property to his widow, children, and relatives, except $100,000 left to Fairhaven Massachusetts for use by its primary and grammar schools.
Portland tributes mark the death of Robert Glenn a pioneer printer who served in the customs service. He was 70 and the father of Robert Glenn city editor of the Spokesman Review.
Taft sent to the senate the nomination of Arthur W. Orton of Portland Oregon to the register of the land office at Lake View Oregon. Arthur H Halloran editor of Journal of Electricity Power and Gas San Francisco is visiting to review state power propositions and recommend California friends invest in the area.
Ww. Halling spends a few days in Seattle while Mrs. M. C. McDonnell departs for Spokane to visit friends for several days.
Mrs. N. I. Neubauer hosted a large gathering of friends this afternoon from 3 to 5 o clock in a reception honoring Mrs. Hyman Harris.
J. A. McArthur of Entiat visits the city on business. He owns a fine Entiat valley ranch and a handsome residence there.
John A. Fox touring Wenatchee advocates a $500 million nation wide bond to open rivers and harbors. He argues for vast savings by water transport, cites 167 large cities on navigable waterways, and urges congress to fund improvements to the Columbia and Snake rivers and related systems.
Dan Vincinquerro, once linked to a Cre Elum murder case, is jailed on a charge brought by Clara Ward accusing him of living off earnings of a prostitute. He moved through Cle Elum North Yakima Seattle Wenatchee Chelan staff and borrowed ten dollars before being arrested in Wenatchee. Ward allegedly used her name as Mrs Vincinquerro in a hotel and later accused him at a shoe shop. Vincinquerro says he seeks to beat the charge and accuses Ward of vice and intoxication.
A mob stormed the Adeline county jail and fatally shot Tom Barnett, recently convicted of murdering Alexander Sears. Barnett was killed in his cell after the mob failed for an hour to force the door open.
Pittsburg May 28 More than 3 000 men employed in the Homestead steel works received full pay today for the first time in 18 months The payroll totaled 200 000 dollars Omaha Neb May 28 Police in South Omaha and Omaha have little progress identifying men detained on suspicion of Union Pacific train robbers The belief is strong that the right men were caught Mrs H F Schade and three children arrived from Sheffield Pa to join her husband The Misses Mary Woods and Jennie Smith accompanied Mrs Schade and will stay here the summer Miss Erma Graves of Everett is visiting friends here briefly continuous news items
Washington forecast calls for showers tonight and Saturday with high winds along the coast. The outlook notes unsettled conditions with gusty onshore winds.
The Wenatchee high school senior class day events drew a full house at the Presbyterian church last night. The 1909 class, the largest yet to graduate, featured Vera Sanderson Edith Simon Silas Town Marguerite Wilson Minnie Simmons Vida Van Cleave Loren Baptie Norman Carlberg Agnes Fish Paul Garret John Brisky Terrance Cunningham Leo Fish Guy George Stephen Knowles Lester Leavell Ray Morrison Montz Johnson Ben Koehler Orpha Leavers. A program included invocation by Rev A J Adams a vocal solo Mildred Finch a class prophecy Loren Baptie a valedictory Orpha Leavers and diplomas. Tonight the diploma ceremony at the Methodist church will include an address Willis Poe class history Edith Simon class poem Minnie Simmons awarding of diplomas C A Battles and scholarships benediction by Rev A J Adams.
Millers in California Oregon and Washington engage in debate as the agricultural department's bleached flour ban takes effect June 1. Many have already stopped bleaching. San Francisco jobbers request certificates from northern millers that no bleaching occurred. Local mills seal shipments with certificates asserting compliance with the new law.
John Aikin of Aikin & Cassidy Electrical Supply departed last night for Seattle to remain a few days on firm business.
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