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THE BEST ADV. MEDIUM VOL. 111. NO. 132. Christmas Suggestions — WENATCHEE ELECTRIC COMPANY Columbia Valley Capital and Surpliis Profits $115,000.00. Resources Over Half a Million Dollars. Worth of Stockholders Over $1,000,000. Established 1892 The Old Strong Bank BARGAINS I N Heater® — aiS kmtls On going over our stock we find that we are overstocked on heaters. We must dispose of them, so they go at $3.0 0 to $12.00. We have also cook stoves and ranges, carpets, rugs, etc. See our display of granite ware in our window. HsgsEiG&f® «& Graves 30-32 Wenatchee Aye. Phone 503. We have for sale the best buy In a ten acre tract in the val- AJ: in one year oli trees, choice varieties, on Wenatchee aye., 1% miles out; good house and out buildings $5000 TERMS Wenatchee Realty & investment Co. TOM JOHNSON WINS 3C FARE Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. s.—After years of fighting the Cleveland Elec tric railway, the 5-cent company, surrendered to- Mayor Tom John son's forces today, and through Fred H. Goff promised the city council that it would consent to merge with . An Electric Flat iron. An Electric Chafing Dish. An Electric Disc Stove. An Electric Portable Lamp. An Electric Curling Iron Heater. An Electric Coffee Percolator. An Electric Warming Pan. A tasteful fixture for your living room. the 3-cent company in a holding company. All that remains is fixing the figure at which the Cleveland Electric stock shall be taken over. j Business is increasing in the Post office department and the postmaster is compelled to put on another clerk during the holidays. F. A. Reynolds, of Reynolds, is in the city today. • THE WENATCHEE DAILY WORLD, WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7,1907. LAND DEALS ; AT PESHASTIN S. P. Beecher Sells Forty Acres for ■ $14,000 —Gave $0,000 for 80 Acres Last Spring. ! Last spring S. P. Beecher gave C. Gibbs $12,000 for his eighty acre ranch four miles east, of Leaven worth. Some five acres were plant ed to orchard years ago. There wa I also about ten acres of young trees, some bearing and some to come in later. It was 40 acres off this tract; that Mr. Beecher sold a short time ago to eastern parties for $14,000. Two years ago S. P. Beecher sold a 40-acre tract in the same vicinity,; highly, improved, to C. S. Craig, fcr , $6,000. Two weeks ago a man cane aloug and offered Mr. Craig $ir.,oro: for his 40-acre ranch, but the offer was turned down. The fruit land in j the vicinity of Peshastin, which is nearly four miles distant from Le i- J venworth, is considered to be the; best adapted to apple growing of any J in the state. Many, in fact, most of ■ the many Chelan county prize win ning apples come from this vicinity. —Leavenworth Echo. j Mrs. C. R. McKinley and her sis ter, Nita Hinkley, from Brewster, are guests of Assistant Postmaster O. P. Bethel and wife. Mrs. McKiKnley leaves for Spokane today on business and Miss Nita will return to her homestead at Brewster Sunday. The Daily World is read by the j best people in the Wenatchee Valley, jlt pays to advertise in its columns. TROOPS TO 00L0FIE1E San Francisco, Dec. G. — Promptly lat is o'clock today the soldiers at the Presidio left their barracks aud pro [ ceeded to Oakland mole, where they ! were to take special trains for Gold | field. ! General Funston was at headquar ters early today attending to the de tails of the transportation of the ; men under the command of Colonel Reynolds, General Funston will remain in San Francisco unless the situation at Goldfield becomes so se rious that more troops will have to be sent, when he will take personal command of the men in the field. If there are no delays the troops will arrive at Goldfield tomorrow. "Jim Crow" Bill Passes. Guthrie, Okla., Friday, Dec. 6. — By a vote of 95 to 10, with four ab sent, house bill No. 1, known as the "Jim Crow" measure, providing for separate coaches and waiting rooms for whites and blacks, was passed yesterday. ARTESIAN IRRIGATION Another irrigation project will be discussed on Saturday, December 4, near Hartline. which will have to do with reclaiming many acres of land in that fertile section of Douglas Co. Following are the names of some of the people interested in the deal: jG. F. Charles, Lee Albin. M. Brown, C. B. Richardson, M. Warren, M. Eriekson. H. D. Heydiauff. Eugene Edson, Roiwe Deyo, Joseph Appling, IW. D. Mapes. John Myers, James KoKger, Fred Blackshaw, David Lep j pard, James Anderson, Cnarles and !D. Eckenbarger, Lewis Jansen, M. ! Ailen, John Myers, and Harvey : Brown. G. F. Charles is circulating a pe tition in the district in favor of the scheme. The plans call for the slnk j ing of an artesian well In connection with the project ' THE CITY LIMITS Shall They l>e Extended to Ladade the Section North of Town. The question of the extension of I the city limits to include the north part of town which was hinted at in last night's World has caused no small amount of comment, and from present indications it is highly probable that more definite meas ures may betaken to secure the an nexation of this district to the city. The Sentiment of the People. At the present time it is impos sible to state just what is the sen itiment of the people residing in Suburban Home, Second Suburban Home and Garden Home Addition*. !As to the sentiment of the people within the present city limits, there is probably no question. That the city must grow is accepted without I argument. The World will be pleased to have communications from the people of ! that part of town giving their views Jon the question. TERRIBLE DISASTER Five Hundred lives Believed to he Lost in a West Virginia Mine. Pittsburg, Dec. 6.—A terrific and disastrous explosion occurred today in mines Nos, 6 and 8, of the Con solidation Coal Mines at Monogah, W. Va. I Mine superintendent Malon says at least 500 men are entombed. i it is believed a majority of the entombed men were killed. The bodies of throe miners have been recovered near the mouth of mine No. 6. j .Mine No. 0 is located on the east side of the Mononghaela river and! Mine Xo. Sou the west side. How the explosions occurred sim ultaneously in both mines can not j be explained at this time. All is confusion at the scene of the disaster and definite news is meager. The explosion was heard for eight miles. GETS BIG PROFITS Wilbur Little Clears $4,000 from Six Acres of Orchard Trees Six Years Old. j T. A. Walton, formerly of this city but now of Seattle, is in the valley .today, and thinks he will move back to Wenatchee next summer to live. Mr. Walton one year ago sold a good home in the north part of town to Wilbur Little. He received for the six acres $12,000 or $2,(700 per acre. This was regarded as a high price at the time, but Mr. Little bought the place for a home and was satis fied that i: would net him a good per cent on his investment. The six-year-old orchard of six acres this year netted him $4,000 after paying the charges of picking packing and marketing the fruit, or, 33 1-3 per cent on his investment. Stemilt SchooUOpens. Miss Lena Kerr, has been teaching in the schools at Peshastin, has closed her school there and this Week began a term of school on Ste milt Creek. TEACHERS TO CONVENE State Convention To Be Held in Se attle December ;?1 and January 1 and 2. County Superintendent E. C. Bow jersox is in receipt of announcements; regarding the next convention of the State Teachers' Association, which will be held in Seattle December 31,1 I and January 1 and 2. I The railroads have made a rate of j one and one-third fare for the con-, l vention, and it is expected that large I numbers will attend from this coun jty. There are fifty-six members of! '.the state association in this county, ' .an excellent showing when the nuin ; bor of teachers is taken into con- j ; sideration. LOCAL MONEY SITUATION More Money on Deposit, Less Loans and Safer Business Methods than Formerly. An examination of the statements jof the hanks of the city and from mi i terviews with the heads of the sev eral institutions by a World repre sentative brings out the following {facts: j (1) There is more monjey on de l posit in the banks of Wenatchee than I ever before. I (2) There has been a great in crease in tho deposits since the time I when the last statements were ren- I dered in August. j (3) There have been fewer calls for loans during the past month than for many months previous. j (Continued on Page Three.) A. P. Woodard, recently of the Hotel Stevens, Seattle, is here to ac cept a position in "The Hotel Chewa wa. FRANK DALLAM ON PIE BITERS There was a pie social at the M. E. church last Friday evening. For, $ome reason we were not notified of the coming event, and hence fail ed to mention it in our last issue. However, there was a good crowd oat and a stack of pies was con-1 sumed, much to the delectation of the consumers and the enlargement; of the church fund. Speaking of pies reminds us of the genius who earn ied the reputation of being the great j American pie biter. Somewhere in j the back ages we ran against the in dividual who claimed this honor. He ihad a protruding set of grinders that j looked like the teeth of a hay rake, jtnd the opening in his face that pass ed for a mouth resembled a barn door. He claimed that he could bfce through twenty-two pies, and at the time we mention he was in a very depressed state of mind. He stated that he had just returned from Canada and had lost a sure thing bet. He had staked $."00 whh a willing' taker that he could bite through 13 j pies and had lost the money. As | almost twice as many was an easy nip for him a sympathetic bystand-, er inquired how it happened he fell. down on such a light task. He do-; lorously stated that the blasted Ca- j nadians were vile and rotten sports j as they rung in a tin jdate on him. j We throw in the story in conjunc tion with the report of the local pie meet as a warning to anyone who may aspire to winning the champion ship as a biter to watch carefully that they do not run up against any such brace game as that practiced by the shrewd Canadians. —Palmer Mountain Prospector. READ THE WANT ADS. FIVE CENTS PER COPY. WANTS TO BE A NATION Speaker Before Canadian Clah Says Canada Should Unite with the U. S. «r be Independent. Ottawa, Dec. .">.—Addressing tho Canadian club at Ottawa last even ing on the future of Canada, J. S. Ewart, XX. ('.. urged that the pres ent position of subordination is one that cannot last forever. Canada must some day rise to the full dig nity of nationhood and either alone or in some partnership have and ex orcise the highest powers of govern ment. Tiie Dominion most probably will be in one of the following posi tions: Union with the United States; independent republic, union with the United Kingdom; an independent monarchy with Canadian king and queen; independent monarchy with the same sovereign as United King dom. In Ewart's opinion the future of Canada will seemingly be nation nationhood, self-eontTol and political equality with the United Kingdom instead of subordination and subser viency to the colonial office. If, con cluded Ewart, this be our future, then we will yet reach the goal aim ed at by the late Sir John Mac Do nald. We shall get a great British monarchy in connection with the British empire and under a British king, recognizing the sovereign -if Great Britain as its sole and only head. BOXING Conunercfctl Club Members Will Practice the Manly lrt Under Direction of loot Curley. Jack Gurley has been granted per mission by the directors of the Com mercial Club to give boxing lcsoiw to the members Bolelv. However, in few days Curley will open a pub lic gymnasium in which everybody will be welcome to irin. In both the club and the gymnasium, to be installed later at some location yet t) be selected, a specialty wi'l be made of handball courts, wrist ma chines and punching lug exercises. The fixed price will be $S fo<- 12 lessons to be given twice a week, but members can of coirse exercis3 every night. Members of the Com mercial Club desiring lessons will put their name down wth the secre- (Continued on Page Three.) A SHEEP TALE Republic Prints Fake Entiat Sheep Story. Seven hundred sheep rolling down a mountain at Entiat!!! Landing in the Mad River —with their valuable wool hanging on th-j jagged rocks above!!!! This is the story printed fa the Republic, an "esteemed contempo rary" of this city. The article says: 700 Sheep Lost at Entia. "News comes from Entiat of a seri ous accident occurring on the Mad river last Friday, in which over 700 sheep belonging to a man named Guye were lost, thereby involving a loss of about $2,100. "The herd was being driven down a mountain slope which was cover ed with sleet, and of a sudden seven Omnlnta en Pa*» 8). —»