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4 THE BEST NEW YEAR'S PRESENT Open a Savings Account for your boy or girl in tha Far mers' and Merchants' Bank of Wenatchee. 4 per cent paid on savings. Covered Jars, 1 to 10 gals., at 25c. a gal. .Mixing Crocks at 50c and 75c each. We sell McKinley Edition of Sheet Music. 10c a copy. Special on sleds for a few days. Wenatchee Bazaar Phone 192 We Deliver. BLACKSMITH AND REPAIR SHOP. Have opened in the old Vachon stand on Wenatchee avenue near Arrow Livery. Old and new cus tomers given prompt attention. We Guarantee Satisfaction. A. J. MeCULLOUGH, Tho Blacksmith. W. M. RICE. The Leavenworth Liveryman Prepared to furnish rigs, sad dle horses and pack trains to the Chelan County and tran sient trade. One of town cus tomers phone of write. RICE THE LIVERYMAN. HOMESTEAD RELINQUISHMENT 160 seres, with 25 acres un der water, 70 good wheat land, 3ft inches running water on the place. $650.00 U. F. LAKE Wenatchee, Wash. Palace of Sweets" That's what 4t is. Candies all made fresh at our own fac tory. BREAD White, brown, rye; Buns and Biscuits. We are baking all the time. WENATCHEE BAKERY, F. A. Mechtel, Prop. Do you need glasses? We can furnish anything in the optical line. Complicated cases our spe cialty. WOLFF & HESS, Expert Opticians, HOTEL CHEWAWA. THE WENATCHHE DAILY WORLD. WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, JfANtTARY 6, 1908 RAILROAD BUILDING IN EASTERN WASH. (Continued from Page One.) i em, in course of construction from | Curlew, on the Washington & Great I Northern, to Vancouver, B. C, was j built 20 miles west of Keremeos, B. ft, the total length of construction for the year being 94 "miles. In the construction of the Port land & Seattle road between Spokane and Vancouver, Wash., from 8,000 to 10,000 have been employed dur ing the greater part of the year. On the line between Texas Ferry, on the Snake river, to which the line has been constructed from Pasco, and Spokane there are now 5,000 men employed. The work being done at present is principally rock work and the greater part of it is of the heav iest character. Construction forces j are working at present in the sub j urbs of Spokane, making a rock cut through the hills west of Hangman creek, across which the road will b3 , built into the city. The length of the line from Spokane to Pasco is 145 miles. The cost of the Portland '& Seattle, it is estimated, will be about. $70,000 a mile. The Northern Pacific has com pleted the construction of 22 miles of the branch from Culdesac, Idaho, to Grangeville, Idaho, having laid steel into Vollmer. The entire ex tension from Cnldesac to Grange ville, 55 miles, will be completed early next summer. ! From 7,000 to 10,000 men have been engaged in the construction of the Coast extension of the Chicago, I Milwaukee & St. Paul in Idaho and j j Washington. Much of the grading in Washington, Idaho and Montana is nearing completion. The cost of i the Milwaukee through Eastern I Washington will be $40,000 a mile. j Work on the North Coast road, of j which Robert E. Strahorn of Spo kane, is president, from Spokane to the coast has been carried on during [the year with a construction force that numbered as high as 1,000 men. The work was mostly confined to the Yakima valley, although construe-1 tion gangs were engaged in grading! at other places on the right of way. Mr. Strahorn says work will be re 4sumed next spring with increased forces. The North Coast fine runs southwest from Spokane, making :v (detour southward, passes through Benton and Yakima counties, and is j surveyed across the Cascades through j ] Cowlitz pass. West of the moun-j ] tains the line is surveyed into Seat- j tie and Vancouver, Wash. The Washington Water Power; Co. completed the Cheney suburban' line during the year, nine and a quarler miles long. It also complet- J ed a steam auxiliary station and; strung a high power line to the mines | ijn the Coeur d'Alene district, 140, miles. Extensive alterations and im provements were also made at Post Falls. Idaho. j The Spokane & Inland Empire Co. ; completed extensions of the Spokane !& Inland Electric line from Waver ! ley, 34 miles south of Spokane, to ■Spring Valley Junction, and from | that point by two lines, the present j terminals of which are Colfax and j Palouse. The total length of the I extensions completed is 82 miles. The Coeur d'Alene & Spokane ! Electric line of the Inland Empire .system was double-tracked from Greenacres to Spokane Bridge, six I miles and a branch two miles in length was built to Liberty Lake. The Spokane & Inland Empire Co. also spent nearly $1,.000,000 in de velopment of water power in the Spokane river at Nine Mile. The p'Bnt will be in operation next spring. j E. P. Spaulding, vice-president and; i general manager of the Idaho North letn railroad, announces that work oa the line to connect with the Ore gon Railroad & Navigation Co.'s , I racks near the mouth of th i Coeur id Alene river, and following along that stream and Pritchard creek to Paragon gulch, six miles b-yond Murray. Idaho, will be pushed for ward in the spring with the p.-esont construction force increased to I.o*to r..en. Two hundred men ar? being employed this winter. The g-.iding j-involves the removal of 300,00 ) yds. [of rock, which is for the greater , part necessary in shortening the curves around the sharp bends of the river. This will be done all along i the line, the greatest amount of rocs | work at any one place being 80,000 yards. It is expected to have the i line in operation next October. The Pullman, La Crosse & Colum bia railroad has filed articles of in corporation in Washington with a capital of $1,500,000 to build a rail road from Pullman, by way of La Crosse to a point on the Columbia river. The incorporators are J. O. Staats, H. M. Greene, J. H. Clarke, T. H. Shobe, E. S. Knowlton and J. S. Schrock of La Crosse, and J. B. Taggart of Hay. 9N THE ENTIAT Continued from page 1.) A couple of young fellows going to school seem to think they are run ning the school and the teacher J seems to think that he is the proper I one to manage things. They have had the directors in, but they don t seem to do any good, and now they j are looking for Bowersox to come up j and straighten things out. We had the doggondest sleigh ride here Tuesday night you ever heard I of. About sixty young folks and some older ones took a ride up the valley. It took six teams to haul the outfit. It was what you call a I progressive sleigh ride; it was chape i roned by Mr. and Mrs. Hedding, Mr. ; and Mrs. C. C. King and Mr. and j Mrs. KKnapp and a lot of others. They started from Entiat proper, and; the first stop was made at the home of C. A. Harris, where they partook of hot soup; the next stop was at the home of G. W. Cowan, where hot coffee, cocoa and scrambled sand-' j wiches were served. They then took | ' a drive up the valley some 6 miles to where it widens sufficiently to let j the outfit turn around, and drove i back to Frank Knapp's, where they I feasted on pie and coffee and a lot of I Other stuff. Then had what you call! a watch party—watched the old year j go and the new one come, and play |ed games and had a jolly good time, and to say that they made considera ble noise while on the trip would be | a very mild expression. Friday night there was a dance at Gray's Hall at Entiat, where a good time was had with a crowd big enough to dance four sets all night. Mr. Mass has a got a brand new cutter, and there is one young lady in this valley that don't have to ride on a bob sled when she goes places, and the first letter of her name is I "Lizzie." I haven't got any news for yoa now in the way of birth, deaths or marriages. There is a preacher keeps smelling around a good deal, but he lis so doggoned sly about it I would I not mention it if he did get married. I There is nobody sick and nobody likely to die soon; the old stork has not made a visit here for a long time, j but. he is hovering around making plana for spring and summer deliv ery. A. HAYSEED. Hereditary. i Guardian—How does my niece get on ! with her music? Is she making any i progress? MusicES—l ivgret to say ; that she is not. Her time and finger ! lng are very defective, and all 1 can ido to correct them makes no Impres ! slon on her. She will run tho scales to i suit herself. Guardian—She inherited that from her father. He was twenty years in the coal business.—Loudon j Graphic. A'aska's Size. Drawn to the exact scale, Alaska, If placed on top of the United States, would reach from Savannah, Ga., to Los Angeles and from Mexico to Can ada, and its range of climate and phys ical conditions are even greater. The strip of mainland and Islands fronting the Pacific ocean are as warm In win ter as Kansas. The arctic coast Is colder than Duluth.—Fairbanks (Alas ka) News. Roulette Wheels. There are no "crooked roulette wheels" In practical use and for two reasons: First—They can't be made. Second.—There Is no need of them. The man who can get other men In any considerable numbers to play their money at his roulette wheel doesn't need any meretricious ace in the hole. He cant lose, and he knows it—Chi cago Inter Ocean. No Wonder. Wishing to learn what his nephew would say, Uncle Charles asked little Fred, "What would you do If you stood at the root of a tree with your foot on the head of a live rattlesnake, a tiger was crouching on the branch above ready to spring and you saw a wild Indian running at you with uplifted tomahawk?" "I would wake right up," was the unexpected reply.—Circle. Plain end Colored. Those who have lived wkh colored people know that nature has arrayed all mankind in two solid phalanxes, the white man on one side and the col ored upon the other. In the past the division has always been tacitiy recog nized. The claim of racial ties and the struggle for racial purity have always kept the division clear cut and well marked.—British Australasian. The Volume of Square Timber. When all the dimensions are in feet, multiply the breadth, depth and length together, and the product will give the volume in cubic feet When either of the dimensions Is given In inches, multiply as before and divide the product by 12. When any two of the dimensions are given in Inches, multiply as before and divide by 144. Blacking. Liquid blacking, such as is now need, was invented early In the nineteenth century. Previously various mixtures were used. There are many allusions In eighteenth century literature to shoe blacks and blacking. In the London World of Jan. 31, 1754, Edward Modre, describing the miseries of an author, says that he would rather have started in life as a shoeblack had be but had the money to buy or credit to procure "a stool, brushes and blackball." An old kind of blacking consisted of Ivory black, very coarse moist sugar and wa ter, with a little vinegar. A misture of whale oil and soot was used In Gay's time. The author of "Trivia" has several allusions to the "black youth" who stood at street corners then, as now: Hark! The boy calls thee to his destln'd stand. And the shoe shines beneath his oily hand. De Foe makes his Colonel Jack de scribe himself when a boy as a dirty vagabond, "like a 'Black your shoes, your honor?' a beggar boy, a black guard boy or what you please, des picable and miserable to the last de gree." Here is another quotation from "Tri via" (1715?): His troble voice resounds along the mews, And Whitehall echoes. "Clean your hon or's shoes!" —London Notes and Queries. Arab Weapons. Here in Muscat I saw the pure bred Arab man. sinewy, but not tall, a domineering, swaggeriug nobleness in his glance and a brace of daggers in his waist. Wh.'ii I recognized a beau tiful baft or noticed a slender inlaid native gun or singular shield, I offered to buy, but nothing would induce them to sell. "Sahib," said one man, "I killed my deadliest foe with this blade, right through his black heart. You see this dent in my shield? Ah. that dent was caused by a spear! The shield saved my life. Shall I. then, sell it for money? My gun? No, sahib. I am an Arab, and my gun is my other self. How could I be an Arab if I had no gun? This sword—lt belonged to my grandfather—it has killed forty men. By Mohammed, it is true! These marks, sahib; you see these marks? Only one of these marks is put there when a man Is killed." I offered three times the value. The answer always was: "No, sahib, I will not. I can not."—Chambers' Journal. Some Odd Pockets. "A music pocket?" said the tailor. "Oh, yes. for professional singers I of ten make music pockets. They run across the back of the coat, as a rule, above the waist and they hold, with out crushing, a half dozen songs. I have three or four detectives among my patrons, and in their business suits I alwnys put handcuff pockets. These pockets are in the sleeves. Their ad vantage is that the handcuffs can be drawn forth without the prisoner's see ing the action. When a rambunctious prisoner sees a detective's hand go to ward an ordinary pocket he knows what is coming and prepares accord ingly, but with my special pocket the handcuff is on hire before he knows where he is tit. One of my patrons has his trousers lined from the knee down with leather. Do you know why? Be cause a dog once bit a large chunk out of the calf of his leg. and he doesn't want to incur such a loss again."— Louisville Courier-Journal. When Bride and Groom Were Thin. In the year 17'.»5 Dr. Douglas was made master of Corpus Cliristi college and then married Miss Mainwaring, a daughter of the Lady Margaret pro fessor of theology. As both were very thin, Mansel wrote as follows: St. Paul has declared that persons, though twain. In marriage united one flesh shall remain. But had he been by when, like Pharaoh's kine, pairing-. Dr. Douglas of Bene* espoused Miss Main waring, The apostle no doabt would have altered his tone And cried. "These two splinters shall make but one bone!" —Pall Mall Geeette. Why H« Wk Mad. "Oan we n»4 yon up a tun of wlner inquired the clerk. "Naw," replied Mr. Nurrcch. "How about a few baskets of cham pagne T* "Look here, yean* man. are yon try ing to kid me? Don't yon I know that wine is mM ta bottles? I know that yoo don't order it like yon would coal."—Pittsburg Post The Aeeeuft. •%t is claimed by complainant that yon assaulted him," said the Judge. "He lies, your honor. I never touched him. Croucher and Willoughby picked him up and carried him to the pump. All I did was to wo* the pump handle."—London Express. Three Wars. An old Georgia negro having told a Judge that he had "been in three wars" was asked to name them, when he re plied, "I wuz a cook in de Confedrit war, an' atter freedom broke out I wuz married two times!" * An Easier Way. 'Arry (on 'is 'olldays)—Fancy livln' 'ere all yer life! Ain't yer ever been to London and seen the sights? Old Salt—No. sir, but some of the sights tomes hup and sees us.—London Tat ler. A Good Thing. "He seems to be making quite a lot of money now. Is his system of phys ical culture a good thing?" "Well—er—every one who pays for it to."—Exchange. • / Sickness is •very man's matter.—l Danish Proverb. TO HOLD JOINT INSTALLATION Modern Woodmen and Royal Neigh bors to Hold Demonstration Wednesday at Bower Hall. Modern Woodmen and their fami [lies and the ladies' auxiliary, the | Royal Neighbors, will hold forth at | the Bower Hall Wednesday night, ;when the officers of the two orders for the coming year will be installed. This will be the big meeting of the year, a supper will be served and the festivities will last far into the night. To Hold Funeral Wednesday. The body of Mrs. Carrie F. Xorell, who died Friday night at Leaven worth, has been brought to Wenat chee, and is now in the undertaking parlors of E. F. Sprague. The body will be left in the receiving vault at this place till spring, when it will be shipped to Sparta, Wis., for in terment. Mrs. Harter of Wenatchee was in | 'town a couple of days this week! ! looking afrer some business matters.; Everybody here knows her as Mrs. j Baker, but she became Mrs. Harter [seme t°n days ago.—Bridgeport Re-' publican. Editor H. E. Marble, of the Meth ow Valley News, and his good wife, are rejoicing over the arrival of an early Christmas present, Dec. 14—a little girl. The members of the Oka nogan County Press Association and many other friends will rejoice with the Marble clan. —Riverside Argus. fee and Glass. Ice has the property — peculiar t« bodies which expand on freezing—of liquefying under pressure and solidify ing again when the pressure has been removed. Consequently the weight of any body moving upon a sheet of ice causes the formation of a thin layer of water which separates it from the ice and thus, by reducing the friction to a minimum, enables It to move smoothly over the surface—l. c., makes the Ice more "slippery." On glass, on the con- J trary, this liquid medium is wanting, ■0 that the two solid and unyielding j bodies come Into actual physical con tact} causing a friction which. In spite of the smoothness of the glass, consid erahly retards the motion of the body. If two smooth sheets of glass be taken and a few drops of water sprinkled over the one and the other placed above it, a thin layer of water will be formed, and until this layer has been pressed out the upper glass will move on the other as smoothly as if on ice. This peculiar property of ice is due to the effect of pressure in lowering tho I freezing point of writer, so that when ever ice is subjected to great pressure j it partially ru?lts. Man and wife want board and room in private family; can give good references. Address X 27 care of the World. Begin the New Year by opening a Savings Account with the Columbia Valley Bank. 1-10 Do You Want to Buy a Home? If you want to purchase a home or property as an investment you can not afford to pass up the many bargains that are advertised from time to time in this paper. There is rarely a real bargain but what is advertised. Watch the columns of the Daily World for bargains. They are there. New Tear's Greeting. We wish to" greet onr patrons of the past year and to call their at tention at the same time to our nice line of ladies' goods. Prices on cer tain kinds are now Way Down. Allow us to qtfdte you prices oa Woman's Exchange. Mine Tiffany. THE GUARANTEE FUND LIFE ASSOCIATION' OF TACOMA, WASHINGTON Those harhig money to loan will do well •> eoneult John A. Gellatly, who is familiar wtth securities and titles, who is in a position to loan your money at 10 per cent per an num, net to you. H.J. KIMMEL The Builder General Contract Work. In cluding plain, and reinforced concrete. With a specialty of Cement Work. Phone 315. Sonth King Street. WENATCHEE. Don't Go to a Butcher Shop to get your work done; get it done where it will be done right. We do nothing but horseshoeing; can't afford to waste our time repairing old sleds. We shoe the horse right; we only run one busi ness. Satisfaction Guaranteed. L. O. Hall EXPERT HORSESHOER. CHOCOLATE THAT YOU LIKE We put up as fine a box of pure candy at 50c a pound as you can buy for 80c in adver tised brands. We put them up fresh every day, so you know what you are buying. The quality is abso lutely pure and the assortment large. The Fern Ca.ndy Kitchen The Home of Delicious Sweets. Opposite Postoffice. C. F. EGGIMAN, Proprietor. A WELL-SHAPED HAND looks all the better for a little adorn ment; and what conld be handsomer, or show up to better advantage than a nice Seal Ring? We have a full line of Gentlemen's Seal and Initial Rings, also Onff Links of beautiful design and attractive appearance. These are solid gold with oraament al settings. We also carry a most tempting line of general Jewelry, srtfo as ladles' and gentlemen's gold and silver watches, chains, ehmrms, rings, brooches, tto. HOWARD THOMAS THE JEWELER Ac Permanent ac The PrramkL