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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1909
Page
4
Notice from North Yakima Washington post office marks second class matter with weekly Wednesday publication. Rates shown for subscriptions and advertising after August 4, 1409, including one year two halves and three months options.
Criminologist Charles Henderson warns county jails act as free schools for crime, urging reformatories and probation. The piece also flags a looming fight at the National Irrigation Congress in Spokane over water power control and reclamation plans, urging Yakima to mobilize delegates and votes.
Ulysses Sorenson, Berwyn Nibb blacksmith, built an aeroplane from scratch. He tied the craft to a balcony and rose about half a mile before tumbling, landing in a jumble of wreckage. He survived but quits aviation, echoing Darius Green history.
The account notes that Sorenson's fall from a great height after following a risky example ended in survival rather than death. He survived the 3500 foot descent and is urged to share the experience to warn other ambitious inventors about the dangers of overreaching.
The Post Intelligencer reports tentative plans for a Northern Pacific fast train to deliver Washington irrigated fruit to New York markets quickly. Superior packing and grading make Washington fruit highly marketable, and broader distribution could spur more production to meet new demand in eastern markets.
Frank McLain a noted freighter and stockman of the Big Hole basin in Montana was shot and killed in a Butte saloon brawl Thursday morning by ranch hand Lew Cunriff after a quarrel with Cunriff’s brother. The brothers fled into the mountains as a large posse of ranch men pursues them.
Pullman reports the Palouse region awaiting the heaviest hay harvest in years. Labor shortages loom as farmers search towns for workers while hundreds of acres of wheat and oats risk collapse under heavy crops, needing only wind and rain to topple.
In Seattle Harry Furst a former bookkeeper in St Paul was arrested Monday for drunkenness as he entered the exposition grounds. Police found three bottles of whiskey on him claiming they were for cooking use. At the YWCA building officials disputed his claim and the incident caused consternation. TACOMA Colonel Clinton Ferry Pioneering Tacoma Builder Dies in San Diego at 73
W A Gildersleeve plans a Palouse river hydro electric plant to light WASHTUCNA if the September 15 local option election approves license revenue. He would install the system and plant, wiring from the falls four miles distant, in return for 250 dollars monthly income first year and future industrial growth.
List of uncalled letters includes Walter D Butler Mrs Mary Green M L Mathews M L Mathews Carl Mintle C B Plank Frank Marie H Smith Andrew Withery Orvel Yasting Miss Mary One cent due on each letter. Postmaster E H Taylor requests callers mention the advertised list.
Uncalled for mail at Selah Washington for July 1909 includes names Davis Clyde Emmuson Nat Elberson Frank Jefferson T. H. Johnson Carl Karl Oskar Ledbetter S. P. Moorman Lee Wolf Martin IRA 8S. KING Postmaster.
City officials prepare to meet a looming strike with non-union workers. FE L Reed, famed for breaking the 1905 teamsters’ strike, leads hiring of 450000 men as unions send secret notices to vote on a referendum set for Thursday.
In Seattle, Governor John A. Johnson of Minnesota urged the western states to unite for fair influence in Congress and national administration. He argued the West, with its resources, should come into its own and steer national policy, shipping, and commerce, free from old world caste and wealth domination.
In Muskogee Oklahoma on July 31 a white husband William C Uphoff defends his bride said to have one sixteenth negro blood. The couple faced relentless social persecution after their marriage three months ago, despite her fair healthful appearance and good reputation.
The young husband Uphoff and his wife, a mixed race couple, face public hostility after a rumor of her being tainted. He declares he will spend all he has to win recognition, plans a public vote on whether he should have married a negro, and faces clerks and newspapers urging conformity.
Yakima county spent 351146 43 to run its public schools last year. J A Jacobson county superintendent and assistant F C Barker prepared the year ending June 1909 report for submission to the state superintendent. The county had 9602 students with 7964 enrolled and 891328 total attendance days, yielding 18 cents per day in apportionments. 1908 figures show 8866 students and 7315 attendance.
A shipment of 1.85 million dollars in gold from Fairbanks is bound for Seattle. The cargo aboard the City of Seattle will depart Skagway Thursday night and head to the Seattle assay office and banks.
J A Jacobson county superintendent of schools is compiling the annual record for Yakima county. The report totals about 9600 pupils with North Yakima listing 3362, reflecting growth from the prior year ending June 1908.
Deputy U S Marshal Ned Green and Supreme Court Justice J F Alshie reported one foot of snow at White Bird station in the Bitter Root mountains 25 miles east of Grangeville Idaho. Snow swept all sections of the range over the last three days creating record July snowfall in the district.
The Tieton Water Users association held its regular monthly meeting in the city noting routine business. It expects Secretary Ballinger of the interior department to arrive by August 7 to discuss expediting work on the Tieton canal.
Sam Berger, Jim Jeffries manager, announced Jack Johnson deposited 5000 dollars with a Chicago paper to bind their heavyweight title clash. Berger said Jeffries acts in good faith and will demand only fairness and justice from Johnson and the public.
In Mellila on August 3 the Spanish commander released a captive balloon to observe 54 gorges and ravines on Mount Guruga. Thousands of Moors have been preparing for a great battle.
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