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VOL. VI. NO. 78. WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1910.

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Ira D. Edwards Gives Caustic Answer to Conrad Rose

and States That Dealers Are Not Paying Prices in

Accordance With Market Conditions - Growers in

Best Apple Valley Should Command Top Prices.

Editor Daily World:

In his letter of last night, Conrad

Bote pleads guilty before he is

charged. In my open letter, pub-

lished in the Daily World of Sept.

3 4th. 1 refer to two men whose

firms are members of the Interna-

tional Apple Shippers' Association

and all others who were attempting

to secure the apples of the Wenat-

chee growers for less Than market

conditions justified them in asking,

[f that hits Mr. Rose, it is no fault

of mine. Mr. Rose credits me with

ill that has been said and written

on this subject recently. If this

agitation results in gain to the

growers, and 1 believe it has and

will result in still greater benefit

before the season is over. I tan

stand it.Mr. Rose says 1 am a real estate

dealer. I am. But first. I am a

citizen of the Wenatchee valley,

with the best interests of the grow-ers at heart. For I realize, as we

must all realize, that they have

made the valley what it is and that

upon their success in growing and

marketing their apples depends the

future of this city and valley. 1

believe that the man who, because,of his intelligence and industry,

aided by ideal soil and climatic con-ditions, grows the finest apple ever

produced, and then with infinite

care, packs and prepares it for mar-ket in a manner far more attractive

than the growers of any other dis-trict, should receive just returns for

his labor and that is, every cent

that markets and market conditions

justify him in asking. No man or

number of men should be permit-

ted to make a combination; to ar-range a "gentleman's understand-ing" or to create a false impression

that would enable them to take

from the grower a large part of his

honest profit.

Mr. Rose says I have misrepre-

sented the facts in regard to mar-ket conditions- I will leave the

growers who have attempted to

market apples this season to deter-

mine whether I am right or wrong

in the position I have taken.But let us see who sticks closest

to actual facts. Mr. Rose states

that in a previous article I misrep-

resented "the prices Hood River

growers were netting for their

fruit." My only refence to Hood

River was in these exact words:

"Hood River and all other sections

where the growers get together and

play the game as the buyers play

it are reporting sales at figures

very satisfactory to the growers,"

and this is absolutely true. The

Hood River Association closed out

their total holdings (SO per cent of

all the apples grown there) to Stein-

hart & Kelley of New York about

thirty days ago.

Mr. Rose says "my purpose is to

boost the real estate business."

My friends of the real estate frater-

nity here criticise me for the stand

I have taken because they fear it

will work to their detriment. No,

Mr. Rose, I did not attempt to boost

the real estate market nor have I

any personal interests to promote.

I know full well that my personal

interests would have been beuer

served had I remained silent. I ampersonally interested only in the

broader sense that the valley's best

interests are my best interests.As to my knowledge of the sub-

ject will say that I have resided in

the Wenatchee valley for twelve

Years. During that time I have

been engaged in the growing and

marketing of apples, in the mercan-tile business and in the real estate

business ?in fact, I am interested

and engaged in all three lines of

business at this time Consequent-

ly, I have had a chance to study

this subject from all angles. In ad-

dition I have interviewed dozens of

growers this season; have kept in

close touch with apple and market

conditions in all sections of the

country and have a large amount of

documentary evidence that can be

used of necessary.

Mr. Rose says: "We believe the

real trouble this year lies in the

fact that the average grower does

not know the real conditions." I

believe the average grower does

fully understand conditions. He

knows that the apple crop of Eu-

rope is a practical failure; that theapple crop throughout the middlewest and eastern states is lighterthan it has been for years; that in

? many states the crop is a total fail-

| ure. The Wenatchee valley grower

t knows that a limited section of the

! west must supply the high grade

apples for the markets of the world

this year. Because of these condi-tions the grower knows he shouldreceive prices as high as he has re-

ceived heretofore. He also knows

that he would receive these prices

if prices were fixed by market con-

ditions and not through the manip-

ulations of a few men.During the week I have been in

receipt of a number of letters fromdealers and growers, commending

me on the stand I have taken in theagitation for better market condi-tions. Among the letters receivedwas one from E. H. Austin*, a fruitand produce commission merchant

of Worcester, Mass.. and among oth-er things he says:

- I have read with great interestyour article in the Fruit Trade Jour-nal of Sept. 24th to the fruit grow-

ers of Wenatchee valley. The state-

ment you have made is true to theletter, and 1 heartily endorse every

word of it. The growers in the val-ley have toiled faithfully and shouldbe permitted to reap the reward of

their labor, which they can, if they

will only go the right way about It.'The way out of their dilemma

(If there is such) is through theforeign markets, where their apples

are in great demand ?where they

appreciate a good thing and arewilling to pay for it.

"Notice, if you please, the article

| from Consul Albert W. Swalm at

j Southampton, England, in this issue!of Sept- 24th, wherein he says 'thatj a shipment of apples from Wenat-

j chee commanded a higher price thanI any other American apple offered in

! the English market.'"I have handled apples for over

twenty years, quite largely throughthe foreign markets, and I knowwhereof I speak when 1 say that

J apples can be handled to much bet-iter advantage, with less friction and

I very much larger per cent of profits

when sold independent of the auc-tions. There are large cities out-side of Liverpool and London, such

ias Birmingham, Bristol, Sheffield,

| Leeds, Manchester, Southampton,

| Derby, etc., in England, also Car-diff and Swansea in Wales, that are

hungry for these apples and that

will pay much better prices, while

all the numerous expenses of auc-tions will be eliminated. I am fa-miliar with all these cities mention-ed, having sold apples in some of

them."

Agitation of this question is the

thing that is mose needed. It hasalready resulted in a greatly im-

proved condition. I hope the buy-

ers, as well as the growers, willkeep it up.

IRA D. EDWARDS.

+ KI'LSHAN A WRH'K. *

+ +

+ Big Puget Sound Navigation 4»+ Boat Aground I» I*veptiou. +

* Seattle, Wash., Oct. I.?The +

4? new steel steamer Kulshan, of +

* the Puget Sound Navigation +

* company, went aground this \u2666+ morning in Deception Pass, and +

* it is feared is a total loss. +

* The Kulshan was built in +

+ Seattle last summer for the +

* Bellingham run. She is about *

* 125 feet long and valued at *

«f $150,600. The place of the +

+ mishap is far from telegraphic +

* communication. The vessel was *

* not equipped with wireless and +

* it is believed some of the pas- *

+ sengers were injured. The +

+ Kulshan was bound from Se- +

+attle to Bellingham with pas- +

+ sengers. +

Rochester, Minn., Oct. !.? Reports

are in circulation that the conditionof United States Senator Robert M.La Follette of Wisconsin, who is now

in Rochester for examination andoperation by Dr. Mayo, is very grave.

The fact that Senator La Follettepostponed his visit to Rochester isregarded as significant.

THE HUNTING SEASON IS ON.President Taft has declared war on the "Pork Bar'l."?News Item.

VANDERBILT GUPWON BY GRANT

Made Average of 65% MilesPer Hour?Many Kill-

ed and Maimed.

Long Island, Oct. I.?The MotorParkway, with dead and injured

marking nearly every mile of thecourse of the sixth Vanderbilt Cuprace, was won today by Harry

Grant, driving a 120 horsepowerAlco. Joe Dawson, driving a Mar-mon, finished 25 seconds afterGrant and one minute ana six sec-onds ahead of Jonn Aiken in a Na-tional.

Grant captured the race last year

in a car of the same make. Thewinner's time in the 288.08 mileswas four hours 15 minutes 58 sec-onds, an average of 65 1-2 miles per

hour. This is a new American rec-ord. The race was marked by fatal-ities, being second only to the Paris-Madrid race. Harold Stone, the Lo?

Angeles driver in a Columbia, was

probably fatally hurt soon after therare started. Charles Miller, themechanician of the Marquette-Buick

driven by Louis Chevrot was killedin a collision with a touring car on

the road- Ferdinand Dzubia of NewYork, manager o fthe Pope-Hartfordcompany, was killed in a smashup

while on his way to the race. Mat-thew R. Bacon, Stone's mechanicianwas killed. Henry Haggerdon, aclerk employed in a local automo-

bile store, who was watching thenice, was killed by Joe Dawson'scar.

The number of accident short of

fatalities ran to scores. From a

sporting point of view the race wasa thriller and will go down in his-tory as the most hotly contested

race ever held on the open road.Judged by it toll in killed and

maimed, however, the 'race was re-

volting and sportdom was severely

arraigned for the manner in which

it was conducted.

NEW CHURCH READY

The new structure of the Church

of Christ, on Okanogan avenue, has

been completed and the congregation

will meet there for the first time to-

morrow. The edifice is one of thehandsomest in the city and was builtat cost of $4,000. The evangelist incharge, S. O. Pool, extends a heartyinvitation to the public to attend thetion has been holding its meetings in

For several years this denomina-services both morning and evening,the country. Finally the congrega-tions became so large that more room

was necessary. The membership isnow about 100. The new churchseats 230 and will be none too largefor the regular attendance expected.

The first service tomorrow will be-gin at 10 a. m. Preaching at 11 and7:30 o'clock. Subjects, morning,"The Temple of God;" evening, "ThePower of the Unseen Sword."

STATE ROAD10. 1 ISLOCATED !

Engineer Bowlby and Com-mercial Club Decide on

Colockum Road.

The s,tate road from Wenatcheeto Ellensburg has been definitelylocated. The Colockum route hasbeen officially approved by Commis-sioner Bowlby and accepted by theWenatchee Commercial Club com-mittee.

Last Sunday State Highway Com-missioner Bowlby was present inWenatchee and met with the Com-mercial Club committee. The ar-guments presented at the recentmeeting of the Commercial Clubwere rehearsed to the state official.However, he had gone over the mat-ter very thoroughly, prior to hiscoming to Wenatchee, with his as-

sistant, F. H. Copp. The engineerhas spent several weeks riding onhorseback over all the suggestedroutes and his report to the super-

iar official was very exhaustive. Mr.Bowlby was able to convince thecommittee that the Colockum route

is the superior in all respects to

every other. Following the actionof the Commercial Club to accept

the Colockum route only as a lastresort, the committee was forced to

take action or lose the consumma-tion of the project at this time.Engineer Copp arrived in the citytoday and will go to Ellensburg to-

morrow to assume active supervis-ion of the work.

A corps of twelve surveyors hasbeen at work at the summit betweenhere and Ellensburg since Sept. 10.Their camp is located two miles the

other side of the summit. The pre-liminary survey is now complete fora distance of six miles extending

from the summit toward Ellensburg.

The permanent survey is now fin-ished four miles from the summittoward Wr enatchee. Engineer Copp

stated to the Daily World reporter

this afternoon that the permanent

survey from the summit to Wenat-chee would be completed by Thanks-

giving, and that the survey for theentire route from Wenatchee to

Ellensburg will be completed by De-

cember Ist.

Mr. Copp was asked how the com-munications of the Commercial Clubcommittee were received in the of-

fice of the state highway commis-sioner regarding the protest against

the selection of the Colockum route.

He was reminded that Mr. Bowlby

had approved the Monitor route."Mr. Bowlby is a very busy man

and is compelled for that reason to

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WANT WENATCHEEPEACHES

Dry Farming Congress Ban-quet WillDisplay Fruit

From This Valley.

A wire was received by the com-mercial club yesterday suggestingthat the organization furnish 20boxes of peaches and 20 boxes of redapples to be displayed and distribut-ed at the banquet of the Dry Farm-ing Congress, to be held in Spokanenext Monday night.

A reply was sent that it is tooearly for Wenatchee apples to begood for eating purposes but that40 boxes of peaches will be sent. Tothis offer R. J. McLean, secretary ofthe Spokane Chamber of Commerce,

answered with grateful acceptance.

He stated that Wenatchee will re-ceive valuable publicity.

The banquet will be given at Dav-enport's restaurant in the Hall ofDoges. The management has an-nounced its purpose to outdo all itsprevious triumphs on this occasion.

ANYBODY SEEN KELLYEmploye at Pool Hall Sued for Di-

vorce Avoids Publicity.

Divorce papers were served thismorning on S. J. Kelly, an employeat the Pastime Pool Hall. The young

man has a wife in Medford, Ore., ofvery excellent family. After livingwith her family all last winter with-out contributing a cent to the sup-

port either of himself or his wife,he finally left, agreeing to go andearn some money and provide for hiswife, who had failed in health.

Months rolled by and no word wasreceived. Then came the news thather husband had located in Wenat-chee. where he had a good job andwas wearing good clothes. Mrs.Kelly wrote her husband several let-ters telling of her love and loyalty.She begged him to write somethingeven if he could not send any money

to meet her pitiable needs. She gotno reply whatsoever. Finally shewrote the police of this city and so-licited their aid in her distress. Sheacknowledged her love for the manand urged them to induce him to betrue to her. Reports had reachedher that he was running about withall kinds of girls and women of ques-

tionable character.The crisis came this morning when

Chief Inscho received a divorce sum-

mons. When he presented the pa-

pers to Kelly, the first remark thefellow made was, "Don't give this to

the newspapers, for God's sake. Idon't want any of these flusies aroundtown to know that I am married."

Somehow or other the news hasleaked out.

Wont Postal Bank Funds.

Washington, Oce. I.?The Farm-ers' and Merchants' Bank of Cash-mere has applied for deposits of

postal bank funds.

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DYNAMITE LOS ANGELES "TIMES"Many Employes Killed and Los Angeles Times Build-

ing a Total Loss With Property Damage to Amount

of Half a Million?Loss is Accredited to Labor Unions

With Which it Had Waged an Unceasing Warfare.

Los Angeles, CaL, Oct. I.?The building and plain ofthe Los Angeles Times, one of the best known newspa-pers of the southwest, of which General Harrison GrayOtis is editor and principal owner, was eompeltely de-stroyed by an explosion and tire shortly after 1 oYlockthis morning, resulting in the death of upwards of twen-ty employes and a financial loss of nearly half a milliondollars. The management of the paper lays the blameof the explosion on the labor unions, with which organ-izations the paper lias long been engaged in a bitterwarfare.It is charged that unknown par-1

ties set off a heavy charge of dvna-1mite in a blind alley which ran into jthe center of the building, complete-ly wrecking the interior and settingit on fire from roof to basement. Theforce of the explosion was terrificand was heard for miles. All thewindows in the vicinity of the Timesbuilding at First and Broadway were ;

shattered. Between 50 and 75 em-!ployes were Mi the building at thetime of the explosion, and until the

i

whole list of employes of the paper

can be checked over it will not be iknown how many lives were lost.

The responsible heads of the pa- 1per, including Assistant GeneralManager Harry Chandler, had nar-row escapes from death, many ofthem having left the building ashort time before the explosion.

The fire spread throughout the Ibuilding with amazing rapidity, andin the course of but a few seconds jthe flames were bursting from every j

window and door in the building,

shooting high above the roof.

Xo Clue to Perpetrators.

The building was equipped withgasfittings and the force of the ex-

plosion tearing *these pipes into bitsreleased the gas, which was instant-ly ignited in every part of the build-

ing.There is no other cause than dy-

namite, is the evidence of witnesses,

except in the one case of the West-ern Union telegraph operator, Wm.Firmin, who stated that he detectedthe odor of gas throughout thebuilding early in the night and hadcalled the attention of others to it.

A few minutes after the explosion

the police arrested a man namedHarry Lake, who was making hisway through the Broadway tunnel a

few blocks distant. He was lockedup on suspicion. Another mannamed William Irwin was arrested

and afterward taken to the station.The police are without clues, how-ever.

Assistant General Manager Chand-ler narrowly escaped with his life.His office was on the ground floorand he left a few minutes before theexplosion. He is accustomed to re-main in his office until late in themorning but last night his wife came

for him and he went home earlier

than usual. His secretary, I. T.

Westley Reaves, remained in the of-fice and is among the missing.

Says Ijabor Unions Responsible.

Speaking of the explosion. Mr.Chandler said: "You can say for

me that there is no doubt that thisterrible outrage can be laid to thedoors of the labor unions. They havedestroyed the building and plant and

I way back to Los Angeles from The!City of Mexico, where he went someweeks ago as a representative of theUnited States government by ap-

pointment from President Taft to the

celebration of the Mexican centen-nial. General Otis is due to arrivein Los Angeles late this afternoon.

The building in which the Timeswas housed was stone and brick. Thepart four stories high is of stone,

built in ISS7. The six stories ofbrick were added later.

Many From Composing Hoom I>eatl.The dead and missing come prin-

cipally from the composing room,which was directly above where theexplosion occurred. A number ofprimers and linotype operators aremissing and it is believed are buriedin the still burning ruins and debris.All but three or four of the editorialstaff had gone home but the entireforce of telegraph editors and tele-graph operators was at work, withthe exception of one man, who hadjust left the building. Those in thp

building made their way to the win-

dows wherever possible, and somejumped to the roofs of the adjoiningbuildings. Many jumped to thestreet, but some who had climbedinto the windows were seen to fallback into the flames. Owing to the

wrecked condition of the buildingmany are believed to have been un-able to reach the windows or otherexits.

Called Off Labor Parade.

Mayor Alexander, the city council, jchief of police and other municipal

{officials met today with representa-

tives of tbe labor unions. It was re-! solved to call off the proposed unionlabor parade Monday in protest

against the anti-picketing ordinance; and other alleged anti-union labor'conditions exisiting in the city. It

j was agreed that such assemblage in

| tbe midst of the present excitement; was unwise.

The city council voted a $25,000

?fund to be used to run down the

i perpetrators of the alleged dynamit-

| ing of the Los Angeles Times. Thej $25,000 was made available as a re-

j ward for the capture of the culprit

jor culprits.

Pressmen Kscaped.

The men in the pressroom, which

j was in the basement, all escaped. It

'is estimated that 125 men were in thebuilding at the time of the explosion.

Two Watchmen Kmployed.

The Times employed two night

i watchmen but they saw no one aboutthe building to arouse their sus-

picions. One of the watchmen wasjv, B. Glasier. He was not foundland it is believed he perished.

have killed a number of our men.

We do not know how many, but they

cannot kill the Times. There is no

doubt but that the explosion wascaused by a charge of dynamite. No

other agency could have caused it.

There was no oil in the building, we

had no boilers to explode, there was

no gasoline in the place excepting a

small can or two in the composing

room. It is true the building was

equipped with gas, but no explosion

Tried to Blow Up Auxiliary Plant.Manager Chandler is authority for

the statement that a similar attempt

was made to blow up the Times' aux-

iliary plant last night. One of theemployes saw two men trying to

climb to the roof. He fired two shotsat them. The men fled. He inter-prets this second attemps as furtherproof of a carefully planned effortmade last night to destroy both theTimes main and branch office.

of gas could have caused it. It was

evidently aimed to destroy the plant,

and kill as many as possible of theemployes. For years we have been

receiving threatening letters from

people who said that the paper ought

to be blown up. 1 have not receivedany such letters lately, although I

have had several telephone calls

within the past few weeks, threaten-

ing us with destruction.''Had Auxiliary Plant.

Two years ago. in anticipation of

just such a thing as has occurred

this morning, the Times established

an auxiliary plant, equipped with

linotypes and presses. The Timeswas issued today from the plant of

the Morning Herald and the Times

auxiliary plant.

General Otis was absent from the

city when the newspaper was de-stroyed this morning. He is on his

Would Blow Up Zeehandelaar.Additional excitement was dis-

covered in an infernal machine un-

der the residence of Secretary F. J.Zeehandelaar of the Merchants andManufacturers' association, who hasbeen active in conjunction with theLos Angeles Times in opposition to

labor unions. The machine was dis-covered by Special Officer Hendrick-son. who. under instructions fromthe chief of police, placed the ma-chine, which was of clockwork pat-

tern, in an isolated place. No arrGatshave been made. The deadly char-acter of the bomb was establishedby the police and detectives. It con-sisted of 15 sticks of dynamite at-

tached to a fuse with clockwork at-

tachment.An attempt was made this after-

noon to dynamite the home of Gen-eral Otis, but nod-image was done.