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Newspaper
Yakima Herald
Location
Yakima, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1909
Page
2
Washington state legislative action recaps a stormy session with the capitol land bill advancing through the senate and house with amendments. Other items include eight hour bill for women workers killed by indefinite postponement, a new building for the State Printer, and liquor license provisions for Sunday hotel meals.
Sunnyside realty and business men plan a publicity office in North Yakima during the Northern Pacific excursion rate period. Al Fleming and R. K. Tiffany will recruit four or five Sunnyside dealers to attract Northwest tourists stopping in North Yakima to visit the lower valley and consider lands there.
OLPMPIA March 5 Both houses passed a bill granting the railway commission jurisdiction over telephone and telegraph firms and power to compel physical connections between competing long distance companies in cities with exchanges. The act also endows the commission with discretion on permitting future railroad grade crossings. Another act places warehousing and grain inspection under the commission. The senate refused to concur with house amendments to the criminal code and a conference stalemate threatens passage. The house struck out senate prohibitions on rectified liquor sales and wagering games in private rooms. The house delayed the initiative referendum constitutional amendment while the senate approved a liquor sales ban within three miles of a naval yard.
An advertisement promises a one hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure. It includes endorsements from Toledo wholesalers Walding, Kinnan & Marvin and cites internal action on blood and mucous surfaces with testimonials, price seventy five cents per bottle and a recommendation for Hall's Family Pills.
In New York on March 5 a prisoner declares death in the electric chair preferable to life imprisonment and argues that Governor Higgins had no authority to commute his sentence since there was no request or consent for such action.
Albert T. Patrick pleaded before the appellate division in Brooklyn to overturn his 1900 murder conviction for William Marsh Rice. He claimed a colossal conspiracy by justice and prosecutors. Assistant DA Taylor warned that rejecting life would mean execution by electric chair.
C. H. Hinman closed a sale on Friday transferring 80 acres in the Zillah district from the Union Gap Irrigation Co canal to the Minnesota Zillah Orchards Co. for 18000. The land will be set to standard fruit varieties with improvements planned. Also recorded was H. H. Lombard and Frank Horsley transferring 40 acres west of the city to the Yakima Development Co for 5800.
Spokane March 5 More than two million fruit trees will be planted in eastern Washington this spring and fall mainly apples. 1908 totals show apples leading with 1 169 989, Yakima and Chelan strong in apples. Spokane county 399 555 trees while Yakima tops with 2 115 695 apples of 5 845 946 total.
Mrs. Ida Soper of Big Pond Pennsylvania recalls a near death from chronic lung trouble. She credits Dr King s New Discovery with a permanent cure after others failed. The ad touts relief for coughs colds and bronchial ailments with 50 cent and one dollar sizes and a trial bottle.
A Yakima committee starts next Monday to solicit financial aid for maintaining the Yakima Tigers for the coming season. Other league towns have fan support and posted guarantees as they prep for the season. The Tigers play a Tieton game on March 17 and open the Northwest league with Vancouver on April 19 in Yakima.
The article notes that the Valley league series opens the following Sunday with abundant baseball and interspersed high school games. Col Payne of the Tigers may persuade Mayor Armbruster to throw the first ball, with the city mayor once a promising ball player likely to take the mound.
Yakima county commissioners approved graveling of a mile on Wide Hollow road north of Shanaoun place and planned further Summit View road work. A gravel pit purchase on Conant ranch near Nob Hill was discussed, with a likely pit acquisition. Additional graveling near Yakima City to connect with the North Yakima main highway was approved to serve heavy traffic from Zillah Parker and reservation districts.
Grandview water users press for a full inquiry into Sunnyside project work by the United States reclamation service. New Sunnyside Water Users' association board seeks dismissal of canal superintendent Walter N. Granger and proposes audits of contracts expenditures and payrolls. Resolutions urge publishing findings for stockholders and better oversight of future contracts and canal maintenance.
The report notes improvements made and resolves that the trustees resist money collection from the association based on fraudulent contracts by former trustees. It pledges hearty support in any fight to defend the association's rights.
In Lincoln Nebraska the Supreme Court upholds civil jurisdiction in the church property dispute. Bishop Bonnacum preserves possession of St. Vincent's church against Father Murphy of Seward. The case, advancing through district court and higher courts, has spanned years and involved papal review.
Fine warm rain lasting three hours refreshed Prosser area basins and signaled booming wheat prospects. Roots spread 30 inches to five feet, with 65 000 acres fall and 5000 spring wheat in Horse Heaven and 20 000 fall and 50 spring wheat in Rattlesnake, about 60 percent tributary to Prosser.
New York physicians and scientists specializing in radium question Dr. F Skillman Bailey s reported discovery of radiothor or thorad X. They warn pitchblende radioactivity has been known, offering cautious views that no new therapeutic value is proven. Yale physics professor Bertram Boltwood calls it an overstatement of existing knowledge.
An old advertisement proclaims Rings Little Liver Pills relieve sick headache constipation and biliousness by cleansing the system. It claims no gripe and lists a price of 25 cents sold by C. W. Camp.
Opening of spring work in rail road camps and farms creates brisk demand for laborers. Local agencies report a small on hand supply with men shipped from Seattle and Tacoma to fill contractor needs. Forty Italians and Bulgarians await orders for the Milwaukee road branch line between this city and the Columbia river. Twenty men were sent to Prosser Monday for field work.
Private irrigation project work and Sunnyside canal repairs provide employment for many men. Clearing sagebrush on the Columbia offers jobs as well. Employment agents report ample work for the willing but difficulty finding men willing to move out of town for jobs.
George C. Mitchell hop dealer and rancher plans a two story brick building on his two lots at the southeast corner of West Yakima and Fifth avenues. The North Coast railroad will acquire Yakima avenue property, boosting demand for store rooms and prompting a rush of building across both ends of the avenue in the coming months.
Advertises ManZan Pile Remedy in a tube with attached nozzle for direct application to affected parts. States guaranteed price of 50 cents, Gold by C. W. Camp.
Mrs George A Devilbirs wife of a Mendocino farmer registers as farmer's wife and raising children in the birth certificate received by the state board of health. The infant boy is the thirteenth living child in the Devilbirs household. Mrs Devilbirs is 37. her husband 55. Devilbirs hails from Missouri but was born and raised in Mendocino county.
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