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WENATCHEE DAILY WORLD VOLUME I.—NO. 9. MILLION DOLLARS IN FREIGHT REBATES RODNEY SWIFT ACCUSES HARVES TER COMPANY OF EXACTING THIS FROM RAILROADS IS A STOCKHOLDER MONEY PAID TO ONE BRANCH OF HARVESTER COMPANY ALONE WAS $450,000 CHICAGO, July 11.—Another at tack was made this afternoon npon the International Harvester company by Rodney B. Swift formerly head of the experimental department of the MoCormick pranch of the harvester company. Swift's connection with the company was severed some months ago and snit commenced against him by the officials of tbe company, who alleged that he had defranded the company out of the proceeds of the sale of a patent. In his bill filed this afternoon Swift, as a stock holder, demands an accounting from the company and demands that [the court force the company to cease tak ing rebates from the rai'dcad com panies aud money said by Swift to have been illegally exacted from the railroads in the past. Swift declares that up to September SO, 1902, tbe MoCormick branch of the harvester company alone forced the railroads to pay it, jthiough re bates and the operation of the Illi nois Northern road, a sum in excess o* $3,000,000. Up to the same date the money paid in rebates to the Piano branch of the harvester com pany through the agenoy of the Chicago, West Pullman & Southern railroad amounted to $500,000. Swi'tt asserts that the alleged il legal rebates {made to the Internation al Harvester company since 1902 amount to more than $1,000,000. DECIDES AGAINST PURCHASE OF PLANT CITY COUNCIL REJECTS PROPO SITION OF BUYING WENAT CHEE ELECTRIC COMPANY'S PLANT At its meeting last night the city conncil decided to reject the proposi tion of the Wenatchee Electrio Comp any to sell its plant to the city at a price of $100,000. Will H. Parry of Seattle appeared before the conncil two weeks ago with the proposition and it was referred to the finance committee of the conncil, wbijh made a thorough investigation of the plant. It was decided that the prioe asked is exorbitant and that the plant itself is not an investment which would re commend itself to c conservative buy er. It is stated that there is insuffi cient water supply to make it possible to increase >he plant to keep pace with the growth of the city and that at times during tbe winter, the stream freezes ap ent.rely and the city is without light or power. As it has been decided that the plant is totally inadequate to the needs of the oity it is probable that this will end negot iations for the purchase of the plant as far as the oity is concerned. Rev. O. W. Minszer, presiding el der of this district was in town yes terday and today. He held the Fourth Qnartrly Conference of the M E. Church last night. A hundred hens, a hundred dollars. It's easy. PROJECT WILL BE CARRIED CUT AT ONCE COMPANY TO IRRIGATE THREE THOUSAND ACRES ACROSS COLUMBIA RIVER WILL PUMP WATER SIX PUMPING STATIOMS TO BE ES- TABLISHED ALONG EAST SIDE OF RIVER W. G. Stewart who will have charge of the engineering work in connection with the proposition of iriigating the lands in Columbia val ley arrivd ia the city yesterday and will at once begin the work of estab lishing levels and selection of pump ing stations. Mr. Stewart states that it is the intention of the oomoany t; water the lands from a point six miles above Wenatchee to eight miles below. The amount of available laud is estimated at 5,000 acres although until the lev els are established this cannot be de finitely determined. Of this amount the company will be in a postiion by next spring to irrigate about 3,000 acres. Power for operating the pumping stations will be secured from an elect ric plant to be estabiishd at the fall of the Wenatchee river above Leaven worth and about 24 miles above tbe junotiou with the Columbia, and it will develop at the start, aprpoximate ly 5,000 horse power which can at any time be increased, as at this point there is an enormous supply of pow er at all times. The water for irri gating will be pumped from the Col umbia river at six different points and supplied to the farmers at a cost of $80 per acre for a perpetual right and a maintainance fee of $4 per aore per year. Mr. Stewart has been for the last two years engaged in the govrnment reclamation service and is thoroughly posted on the subject of irrigation. He states that the government has found that irrigation by means of pnmping is far more satisfactory than the gravity system and he be'ieves that it is the method which will be generally used for reclaiming arid lands. Whenever an irrigating ditch breaks as in the case of the high lihe ditch r a few weeks ago, the whole valley nnder the dito l, is with out water, whereas with a pumping system, if one station breaks down the others can be con eoted with the ditch and the lands are never with out water. Mr.Stewart believes that the lands near Wenatcthee are particularly adapted to this system and states that its success here depends upon the farmers themselve.s ana that with their "co operation it will be possible to establish here a plant which will be a model of its kind. Already a large nrmber of contracts have been secured from the farmers and it is believed that the remainder will not be slow In availing themselves of this golden opportunity. FOUNDATION COMPLETED The foundation work on the new two story brick business blook of C. A. Bower is about finished. Work on the brick laying will commence in a few days. MAKE GOOD SALE. Bousquet and Holm report the sale of the Lee Cameron improved tract of three acres to John Griffith of Newport, Wash, for the sum of S3, 200. R. K. Pbyfe and family now at the Elberta Hotel 01 a pleasure trip will be in town for a few days be fore going on to the Coast. WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY. JULY 12, 1905. ALL THEY WANT IS A BILLION DOLLARS JAPANESE WILL ASK THIS SUM WHEN IT COMES TO MAK ING PEACE POLITICIANS' VIEW PROFESSORS WOULD HAVE JAPAN TAKE MANCHURIA AND PART OF SIBERIA VICTORIA, B.C. July 11.—Mail advices reoieved by the Empress of India today include views of Toluo political parties and politicians of Japan with egard to [peace {terms to be soured by Japan. The terms proposed by the prog ressive party are the cession of Sakha lin, acquirement of fishing right on the Siberrian coast, opening of the port of Vladivostok, acquirement rf the Chinese Eastera railway by . T a.an, the inheritance of all rights of Russia m Manchuna by Japan and an indem nity of a billion dollars. GIVES UP A MILLION Girl Goes on Stage and Is Disinherined by Grandfather who is im mensely Wealthy CHICAGO, Tuesday, July 11—Dis inherited by her grandfather because she refused to give up the stage, Miss Antonette Perry, a member of "Mrs. Temple's Telegram" Company, now pla r iig at the Paris Theatre, lost n million or more. Tbe grandfather is C. L. Hall,a former state senator of Colorado, and one of the best known mining men In the state. He is owner of the famous Mammoth mine whone output equals, if it does not exceed that of the celebrated Independence mine. A year ago be disinherited one of his daughters, Mrs. Georgo Wessels, a member of William Gillette's 0 mpany, for disobeying him in the same way. WANTS APPROPRIATION. Mrs. Frank Reeves, who has been ohosen as hostess for Ch«lau County at the Portland Fair, appeared before the oity conncil last night, backed up by her oorps of eight assistants and asked that the city fathers make an appropriation of funds for the pur pose of enabling ber to entertain in fitting style at the Exposition. She suggests that the Wenatchee band b-> sent to tbe fair to help along. The o nncil took the matter un der consideration and appointed com mittee to see what can be done about it. L M. LANE IN TOWN. L. M. Lane arrived yesterday from Seattle. He will be in town for some time to oversee the construct ion of his briok business block on Wenatohee Avenue. The excavation is now done and a portion of the building material on the ground. The funeral of Esther Dyer, the sixteen months old child of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Dyer, was held yesterday from G. G. Hail's undertaking par lorß. The Rev. Mr Corbley con ducted the services. Mrs. Eatherine Dean, Deputy Mat ron of the asylum at Medioal Lake arrived on the morning train and will leave this afternoon with Ansis Mc Goban who was comtmitted to that institution Monday. Heavy rain in New York floods Wall Street. A new supply of water ed stock will propably be issued soon by the enerprising brc kers. Wanted —A yonng man to act ac reporter for the World, apply at office. ONE LOT Just west of High School Buildiug, if sold at once, CASH, - - - $50.00 THE BEST SNAP IN TOWN ARTHUR GUNN . . . REAL ESTATE AND FINANCIAL AGENT . . . Cor. Wenatchee Aye. and Palouse St. Real Estate .... Insurance General Brokerage BOUSQUET and HOLM A BIG CUT IN LUMBER We do not mean that we have cut the price on lumber, but that there is more lumber being cut up this summer than ever. We are looking for more business. We want you to call and let us figure your lumber bill. If we can save you money, that's what you are looking for. If we can sell you the lumber, that's what we are look ing for. ■ m ■ The Pioneer Lumber Firm WENATCHEE LUMBER COMPANY F. M. SCHEBLE & SONS. FIVE CENTS PER COPY.