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PER WEEK IOC VOL. IV. NO. 161. mm is m m FRIGIDEST COLD OF YEARS About Zero in City This Morning-Port land is Blockaded by Snowfall-Spo kane Has Zero Weather - Trains Blockaded-Middle West Blizzardy- Plumber's Harvest. Last night was the coldest of the year. At 7 o'clock this morning the thermometers on the east side ot Wenatchee avenue registered about 2 degrees above zero. On Nob Hill some thermometers showed 2 below and on the west side of Mission street and Wenatchee avenues 5 below was registered. This is the record for this year. Trains delayed, pipes bro ken, tracks blockaded and a general suspension of business is the result of the present cold wave which seems to be passing over the greater part of the northern and western states and Canada. About four inches of snow fell here, and this is drifting badly In some places today. Locally the plumbers are being swamped with orders to replace and ihaw out frozen pipes that have burst, or at least some of them have. This is the harvest season of the plumbers. Different plumbers esti mate the average cost of repairing frozen pipes at from $2.50 to $10 per job, depending, of course, upon the amount of time spent on the job. The coldest point was at Prince Albert, where it was 42 below zero. At St. Paul it was 26 degrees below, and at Chicago it was 8 below. Chi cago was swept by the strongest wind of the year, making the cold exceedingly bitter. The velocity of the wind at Chicago was 24 miles an hour. At Buffalo the. velocity was 2 8 miles, but the thermometer regis tered 30 degrees above zero there. Kalispell reported 16 below, while Denver had the same temperature as Spokane. Temperatures lower than 30 de grees below zero are being recorded in some of the town? in southern Canada. The sudden drop was due to the rapid motion of the area of high atmospheric pressure from the •coast eastward. This area is excep tionally large, covering the southern part of Canada and the middle west and west of the United States. BOOST I PRICE OF FLOUR SPOKANE , PRICES HAVE RE EN ADVANCED 2o CENTS PER BAR REL WHOLESALE AND 5 CENTS PER SACK RETAIL. There is a prospect of the price of I flour being advanced here by the dealers in the near future. This is \ in sympathy with the general ad-! vance that has been made all over' the coast during the past few days. Twenty-five cents per barrel was add ed Monday morning at Spokane to: the wholesale price by the conimis- sion merchants, and an additional five cents was added to the price of each sack of flour handled by the retail grocers. Advances in the price of this staple article have already been made in different sections of the east, and twice in the last few weeks the wholesalers in San Francisco have raised the price, bringing the present price of flour in that city 50 cents higher on the barrel than it was be fore the first boost was made. The price of flour here is $1.35 per sack for the best grade, or $5.25 per barret YAKIMA HAS AWAKENED TO THE PACT THAT WENATCHEE HAS WON OUT BY SUPERIOR PRODUCTIONS AND BY SUPERIOR BOOSTING. SHE IS UP AND DOING NOW. TEN CARLOADS OP THE FINEST OP APPLES ARE TO BE PURCHASED FROM THE GROWERS BY THE YAKIMA COMMERCIAL CLUB TO BE USED ES DURING THE COMING YEAR. FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSTONS OF LFTERATURE ARE TO BE SCATTERED BROADCAST AND A GENERAL PUBLICITY MOVE MENT INAUGURATED. It? WENATCHEE TO BE IN THE GAME THIS YE"AR? HO TO THE COMMERCIAL CLUB ROOMS MONDAY NIGHT AND TALK THESE THINGS OVER. PORTLAND, Jan. 7.—The Pacific northwest is in the grip of the worst : cold spell that it has endured for years and portions of the two states 111 which snow is a rarity are covered | to a depth of several inches in a mantel of white. The greatest de gree of cold la at Spokane, where the mercury stood at 4 degrees below zeio early today. In northern Wash ington the weather has been clear, with abnormally low temperatures in the western part of the state. At Seattle it was 18 above this morn ing and at Ticoma 21 above. At present Portland is the worst sufferer from the storm. A fine snow, like granules of sugar, put the street cars out of commission by ; noon and with the wind blowing over 40 miles an hour and the mercury at 19 above or lower, Webfooters i - i managed to rain some conception of a Dakota b izzard, although the : imitation is, fortunately, a poor coun terfeit. TACOMA SHIVERS. TACOMA, Jan. 7. —With the mer cury down to 21 degrees above zero and the wind blowing 36 miles an hour, this section is experiencing a genuine win:er grip. Light flurries of snow cane last evening, but in the Cascade 'ange the snow was be tween three and four feet deep. Snow is reported general east of the moun tains, but trains are moving regular ly. Along the waterfront several small craft broke loose and one or jtwo launches were sunk. RECORD COLD AT HELENA. HELENA. Mont., Jan. 7.-—Helena is today experiencing very cold wea ther, the thermometer registering 6 below at 6 a. m. W. G. Pruitt, in charge of the state livestock board, anticipates ej harm to stock, ranch men being better prepared than ever to feed and otherwise protect their animals. BLIZZARD AT ST. PAUL. ST. PAUL, Jan. 7.—Twelve de grees below zero was the lowest rec ord of the weather bureau thermom eter this morning. A northeast wind is driving fine snow, making almost blizzard conditions. Street car traf fic was demoralized during the morn ing. JUDGES ARE TO BE BANQUETED ATTORNET9 ARRANGING FOR SWELL TIME TO RE GIVEN IN HOXOR OF JUDGES STEINER AND GRIMSHAW. The attorneys of the county are ! arranging lor a banquet Saturday ] night, at the Olympia hotel, to be ; given in honor of Judges Steiner and I Grimshaw, the retiring and incoming I superior judges of Chelan coun ty. It is expected that all the attor neys of the county will be present. The banquet is to begin at 7:15 and | this will be followed by speech-mak- I ing and a social time. Harry Shotwell and family will take a three weeks' trip to the coast. They will visit relations and friends in Seattle, :ind go from there to Roy and visit relations of Mrs. Shot well. THE WENATCHEE DAILY WORLD AVENATCHEE, WASHINGTON. TROUBLE FROM SNOW-SLIDE TRAINS FROM THE WEST BLOCK ED BY SLIDE WEST OF THE TUNNEL — NO. 1 TODAY HAS BEEN ANNULED. The eastbound yesterday afternoon was delayed some time from a snow slide just west of the tunnel. The same trouble was the cause of No. 2, due here early this morning, being about six hours late. The eastbound today is reported on time and it is thought that the trouble with the slide is over for a time. Snow is from' four to five feet deep in the Cascades and all trains are armed with the snow plows. Xo. 1. due here at 1:10, has been annuled on account of the storms in the Dakotas and Montana. A train will be made up at Spokane this eve-j ning and arrive here on the regular schedule, 11:10. I CLOSED SHOP IS JUSTIFIED SUCH, IS CONTENTION WENAT CHEE AND SPOKANE DEBAT ERS WILL DISCI'SSS ON FRI DAY NIGHT HERE. "Resolved, That labor unions are justified in insisting through all law ful means at their disposal on the closed shop," is the question to be debated by the high school teams of the Spokane and Wenatchee high schools Friday night. Arnold Eg gerth and Miss Fae Dyke represent the Spokane high school, and Mr. Dill, debate director, states that the team has about completed its work in preparation for the coming con test. Paul Garrett and Earl Marr, of the local high school, uphold the nega tive side of the question, and unat. the able instruction of Miss Emma England have developed strong argu ments. This is one of the strongest teams that has ever represented Wenat chee. Each team claims one victory. We natchee having won from Waterville and Spokane taking one from Pa louse by default. This year, in order to lessen the number of times each winning team must debate, the committee has di vided the state into three districts. A prize of $50 will be awarded to the winning team in each district. The rules governing the debates are as follows: 1. The superintendent of public instruction shall district the high schools of the state into three divi sions. 2. Three judges shall be selected in the following manner: Each team shall name one judge accentabip *~ the opposing team, and the commit tee shall name the third judge. Xi judge shall be a resident of eithei town taking part in the debate. 4. Each team, after the first con test, shall consist of two debaters. 5. In the closing speeches the debaters shall confine themselves to answering arguments of their oppo nents or to reiteration of arguments previously made. Judges shall decide all debates on the following basis: 75 per cent for argument and 25 per cent for effect iveness in presenting the argument, the latter to include harmony be tween the different speakers, or "team work." CHANGED DATE OF INSTALLA TION. On account of the stormy weather the joint installation planned by the Woman's Relief Corps and the G. A. R. has been postponed from Friday of this week to Friday, January 15. Walter Olive returned to Spokane this morning. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1909. BOUGHT LICK ORCHARD TRACT WENATCHEE REALTY COMPANY ON YESTERDAY PURCHASED 24 ACRE TRACT SOUTH OF THE CITY LIMITS. The Wenatchee Realty & Invest ment Company on yesterday closed a deal for the "Lebeck Orchard Tract." This tract has been platted under the above title by Mr. Lebeck and it includes about 24 acres. About ten acres of the land i 3 in one year old trees and the balance will be planted in the spring by the purchasing company. There is no water with this tract, but the water w4U be put on the land from the Miller ditch, owned by the Wenat chee Realty Company. There is no waste land on the tract and all of it will be planted. The purchasing company bought this tract as an investment and it is not to be placed on the market for a time anyway. SHILLING CALENDARS FOR 1910. It would seem that this is a long time ahead to be selling calendars for the coming year. We are still receiving calendars from our friends for 1909. But as far back as No vember the hustling salesman for advertising companies have been on the still hunt for 1910 business. Mr. Will I. Baker, one of these salesmen, is in the city at the present time, representing H. G. Brace & Co., of Settle. He has two large sample rooms at the Olympia hotel, and both of them are packed to the limit with a beautiful array of the most attract ive line of art calendars and adver tising novelties it has been our privi lege to see. Many of the designs represent entirely new ideas and are especially striking for their origin ality. STATE MAY EIGHT WHITE PLAGUE DR. GHENT ARGUING NECESSITY OF ESTABLISHING A STATE SANITARIUM T O TREAT TUBERCULOSIS. Unless the plans and hopes of Dr. J. A. Ghent, of Seattle, fail, the state of Washington will soon have a state sanatorium for the treatment and cure of tuberculosis. 'I have drafted a bill which I shall introduce just as soon as the legislature convenes which has for its object the construction of a free tu berculosis sanatorium," states Dr. Ghent, who is a member of the legis lature. "On every hand I have met with the grea'est encouragement and I firmly believe the appropriation of $1.i0,000 which the bill calls for will be passed. It will be known as the Washington Tuberculosis Sanatori um and we hope to care for and cure as many indigent tubercular patients as we can. The board of trustees will be made up of five members to be appointed by the governor and two of the members of the board must be regularly practicing physi cians. We will buy a 30-acre tract of land, the cost not to be more than $15,000. The rest of the money will be devoted to the erection of suit able buildings and maintaining the institution. "I am also interested in another measure that I will introduce, and that is a bill providing for reciprocity in the practice of medicine in the Pacific states. All of the coast states should have a uniform medical ex amination." I. H. McClaire, general agent of the Northwestern Life nlsurance company, and M. Backus, both of Se attle, are here this week on lantt and irrigation matters. ADVANCE WD OF LEGIS LATORS FLOCK 10 UN Representative - Elect Holm Has Al ready Gone to Olympia-Number of Caucuses and Frame-Ups This Week -Fight For Speakership-Big Lobby For State Appropriations. R. F. Holm left Monday for Seat tle and will go to Olympia today. He ; went early so as to be present at a i I : number of caucuses that are to be held. Mrs. Holm and daughter will 1 | leave tomorrow and will remain in Olympia during the entire session of | the legislature. The Spokane delegation went through here Monday and stopped in Seattle to attend to all of the little frame-ups and agreements that are i necessary in the making of laws. The Spokane delegation is reticent and I advices from Seattle are to the ef jfeet that.it was not taking anybody i into its confidences as to its early | visit to Seattle. For some days past | there have been rumors of a split in the Spokane and King county dele gations, the component parts of which were anxious to see somebody besides Meigs of Yakima as speaker. To this end it was announced that there would be a caucus today a' which the dissatisfied ones would make an effort to bring over enough members of each delegation to make Meigs' selection doubtful. Lieutenant . Governor Hay was ! among the early arrivals in Seattle | and is spending his time calling qn | some of the gentlemen with whom he | will be associated in Olympia. Th*>! 'lieutenant governor wasn't announc ing a great number of his intentions for the future, preferring to await the entanglements to the gubernator lal situation. The lobbyists for state institutions; j are already arriving in Olympia and' iif all the appropriations are granted; J that are being sought the state will ;be plunged in debt. According to estimates prepared [tare, do not take account of highway AFRAID TO COME DOWN TOWN i I FORMER CHIEF OF POLICE SAYS I THAT HE WILL WAIT UNTIL ! HE CAN WEAR ANOTHER STAR BEFORE MAKING TRIP. Former Chief of Police Ferguson, I who has been elected sheriff of the I I county, and who Tuesday night relin j quished his duties as chief of police to N. Inscho, was not down town yes terday nor today, and it is reported that he has made the assertion that he would not come down town again until he was allowed to wear a star, j Chief Inscho called him up this after ■ noon at his home and stated that if j he wanted to come down very badly that he would detail a policeman to; i escort him over the city, and this is i likely to be the arrangement made to allow of Mr. Ferguson coming! down town. HAD THEIR WORK FOR NAUGHT. The* Eagle Transfer Company re cently built a road to the C. & O. docks at a cost of several hundreds of dollars. Last week the Great Northern, in order to furnish a side track to the Rex Spray Company warehouse, built along the new road way and now it is up to the Eagle Transfer Company to build a new road. There is a sentiment in favor of the city building a boulevard to the docks, as it seems impossible for any private individual or corpora tion to maintain a road to the docks. PER YEAR $51 5c PER COPY. or military expenditures, both of these being provided for by special taxes, they having their own funds apart from the general fund, by State Auditor C. W. Clausen, the estimated state revenues in the gen eral fund for the coming biennial period are $3,811,425, while the amounts the various state offices, boards and institutions will ask the legislature to appropriate total $6,- --021,184.77. In other words the esti mated revenues are about 63 per cent of the estimated demands, and the estimated demands only take ac count of existing institutions, boards and commissions, not calculating on the possible new bodies or institu tions that may be created by the legislature. The estimates, both in the columns of revenue and expendi- BOATS HAVE STOPPED RUNNING STAGES ARE NOW HANDLING PASSENGER AND MAIL SERV ICE —MUCH ICE RUNNING IN THE COLUMBIA. The boat service on the river has been temporarily suspended. There is too much ice to allow of naviga tion. The landing places all along the river are frozen up and the down river boat yesterday took all day to make the trip from Chelan, and the trip was beset with a great deal of trouble. Stage lines have been in augurated up the river and until boat service is resumed, which may be some weeks, daily stages will leave here for Waterville and to Chelan and other up-river points. "TRIAL MARRIAGES" IX RUSSIA. It will be remembered that the first suggestion of temporary con tract marriages, or marriages ex pressly limited to ten-year terms, came from that bold radical and dis ciple of "the comic spirit," George Meredith. Some of his admirers were shocked, while others regarded the idea as at least semi-humorous in conception and intended effect. But the writer of short stories saw "possibilities," artistically speaking, in it. and two or three attempted to depict the misery, the injustice, the cruel misunderstandings that trial marriages or limited, renewable unions would entail. Later an Amer ican woman, an educator and student of sociology, in an elaborate text book on the family, threw otu the hint that in the future one solution for the evil of hasty. 111-considered unions and equally hasty divorces may be sought in trial marriages. That hint raised a veritable storm of criticism and censure. Now, curi ously enough, it is at a national con gress of Russian women, the first of the kind ever held in the czar's em pire, that experimental marriages are seriously proposed and defended. Several delegates, it is reported by cable, argued that the union for life is often "immoral" and the cause of deceit, sin and unhappiness. Mar riages should be tried in the inter est of morality, the true home, the welfare of society.—Chicago Record- Herald.