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Member of the Associated Press VOL. VI. NO. 78. PIE IS HI 111 m with in mm 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 am personally 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 fPie ttfenatrhjte Sailjj Porte rope is a practical failure; that the apple crop throughout the middle west and eastern states is lighter than 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 should receive 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 from dealers and growers, commending me on the stand I have taken in the agitation for better market condi tions. Among the letters received was one from E. H. Austin*, a fruit and produce commission merchant of Worcester, Mass.. and among oth er things he says: - I have read with great interest your 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 the letter, and 1 heartily endorse every word of it. The growers in the val ley have toiled faithfully and should be 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 the foreign markets, where their apples are in great demand —where they appreciate a good thing and are willing 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 'that j a shipment of apples from Wenat j chee commanded a higher price than I any other American apple offered in ! the English market.' "I have handled apples for over twenty years, quite largely through the foreign markets, and I know whereof 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 has already resulted in a greatly im proved condition. I hope the buy ers, as well as the growers, will keep 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 ♦ + 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 condition of United States Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin, who is now in Rochester for examination and operation by Dr. Mayo, is very grave. The fact that Senator La Follette postponed his visit to Rochester is regarded as significant. WENATCHEE, WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1910. DYNAMITE LOS ANGELES "TIMES" VANDERBILT GUP WON BY GRANT Made Average of 65% Miles Per Hour —Many Kill ed and Maimed. Long Island, Oct. I.—The Motor Parkway, with dead and injured marking nearly every mile of the course of the sixth Vanderbilt Cup race, was won today by Harry Grant, driving a 120 horsepower Alco. Joe Dawson, driving a Mar mon, finished 25 seconds after Grant 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. The winner's time in the 288.08 miles was 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 the rare started. Charles Miller, the mechanician of the Marquette-Buick driven by Louis Chevrot was killed in a collision with a touring car on the road- Ferdinand Dzubia of New York, manager o fthe Pope-Hartford company, was killed in a smashup while on his way to the race. Mat thew R. Bacon, Stone's mechanician was killed. Henry Haggerdon, a clerk employed in a local automo bile store, who was watching the nice, was killed by Joe Dawson's car. The number of accident short of fatalities ran to scores. From a sporting point of view the race was a 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 the handsomest in the city and was built at cost of $4,000. The evangelist in charge, S. O. Pool, extends a hearty invitation to the public to attend the tion 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 is now about 100. The new church seats 230 and will be none too large for the regular attendance expected. The first service tomorrow will be gin at 10 a. m. Preaching at 11 and 7:30 o'clock. Subjects, morning, "The Temple of God;" evening, "The Power of the Unseen Sword." Chelan County Official Paper. THE HUNTING SEASON IS ON. President Taft has declared war on the "Pork Bar'l." —News Item. STATE ROAD 10. 1 IS LOCATED ! Engineer Bowlby and Com mercial Club Decide on Colockum Road. The s,tate road from Wenatchee to Ellensburg has been definitely located. The Colockum route has been officially approved by Commis sioner Bowlby and accepted by the Wenatchee Commercial Club com mittee. Last Sunday State Highway Com missioner Bowlby was present in Wenatchee and met with the Com mercial Club committee. The ar guments presented at the recent meeting of the Commercial Club were rehearsed to the state official. However, he had gone over the mat ter very thoroughly, prior to his coming to Wenatchee, with his as sistant, F. H. Copp. The engineer has spent several weeks riding on horseback over all the suggested routes and his report to the super iar official was very exhaustive. Mr. Bowlby was able to convince the committee that the Colockum route is the superior in all respects to every other. Following the action of the Commercial Club to accept the Colockum route only as a last resort, the committee was forced to take action or lose the consumma tion of the project at this time. Engineer Copp arrived in the city today and will go to Ellensburg to morrow to assume active supervis ion of the work. A corps of twelve surveyors has been at work at the summit between here and Ellensburg since Sept. 10. Their camp is located two miles the other side of the summit. The pre liminary survey is now complete for a distance of six miles extending from the summit toward Ellensburg. The permanent survey is now fin ished four miles from the summit toward W r 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 the entire route from Wenatchee to Ellensburg will be completed by De cember Ist. Mr. Copp was asked how the com munications of the Commercial Club committee 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 (Continued on Page Five) WANT WENATCHEE PEACHES Dry Farming Congress Ban quet Will Display Fruit From This Valley. A wire was received by the com mercial club yesterday suggesting that the organization furnish 20 boxes of peaches and 20 boxes of red apples to be displayed and distribut ed at the banquet of the Dry Farm ing Congress, to be held in Spokane next Monday night. A reply was sent that it is too early for Wenatchee apples to be good for eating purposes but that 40 boxes of peaches will be sent. To this offer R. J. McLean, secretary of the 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 of Doges. The management has an nounced its purpose to outdo all its previous triumphs on this occasion. ANYBODY SEEN KELLY Employe at Pool Hall Sued for Di vorce Avoids Publicity. Divorce papers were served this morning on S. J. Kelly, an employe at the Pastime Pool Hall. The young man has a wife in Medford, Ore., of very excellent family. After living with 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 and earn some money and provide for his wife, who had failed in health. Months rolled by and no word was received. Then came the news that her husband had located in Wenat chee. where he had a good job and was wearing good clothes. Mrs. Kelly wrote her husband several let ters telling of her love and loyalty. She begged him to write something even if he could not send any money to meet her pitiable needs. She got no reply whatsoever. Finally she wrote the police of this city and so licited their aid in her distress. She acknowledged her love for the man and urged them to induce him to be true to her. Reports had reached her that he was running about with all 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 the fellow made was, "Don't give this to the newspapers, for God's sake. I don't want any of these flusies around town to know that I am married." Somehow or other the news has leaked 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. 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 of the Los Angeles Times, one of the best known newspa pers of the southwest, of which General Harrison Gray Otis is editor and principal owner, was eompeltely de stroyed by an explosion and tire shortly after 1 oYlock this morning, resulting in the death of upwards of twen ty employes and a financial loss of nearly half a million dollars. The management of the paper lays the blame of the explosion on the labor unions, with which organ izations the paper lias long been engaged in a bitter warfare. It is charged that unknown par-1 ties set off a heavy charge of dvna-1 mite in a blind alley which ran into j the center of the building, complete ly wrecking the interior and setting it on fire from roof to basement. The force of the explosion was terrific and was heard for miles. All the windows in the vicinity of the Times building at First and Broadway were ; shattered. Between 50 and 75 em-! ployes were Mi the building at the time of the explosion, and until the i whole list of employes of the paper can be checked over it will not be i known how many lives were lost. The responsible heads of the pa- 1 per, including Assistant General Manager Harry Chandler, had nar row escapes from death, many of them having left the building a short time before the explosion. The fire spread throughout the I building with amazing rapidity, and in the course of but a few seconds j the 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 with gasfittings and the force of the ex plosion tearing *these pipes into bits released 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 detected the odor of gas throughout the building early in the night and had called the attention of others to it. A few minutes after the explosion the police arrested a man named Harry Lake, who was making his way through the Broadway tunnel a few blocks distant. He was locked up on suspicion. Another man named 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 floor and he left a few minutes before the explosion. He is accustomed to re main in his office until late in the morning 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 this terrible outrage can be laid to the doors of the labor unions. They have destroyed the building and plant and 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 was caused 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 of gas could have caused it. It was evidently aimed to destroy the plant, and kill as many as possible of the employes. For years we have been receiving threatening letters from people who said that the paper ought to be blown up. 1 have not received any 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 Times was 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 Established July 4,190f 5c PER COPY I way back to Los Angeles from The !City of Mexico, where he went some weeks ago as a representative of the United States government by ap pointment from President Taft to the celebration of the Mexican centen nial. General Otis is due to arrive in Los Angeles late this afternoon. The building in which the Times was housed was stone and brick. The part four stories high is of stone, built in ISS7. The six stories of brick 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 the explosion occurred. A number of primers and linotype operators are missing and it is believed are buried in the still burning ruins and debris. All but three or four of the editorial staff had gone home but the entire force of telegraph editors and tele graph operators was at work, with the exception of one man, who had just left the building. Those in thp building made their way to the win dows wherever possible, and some jumped to the roofs of the adjoining buildings. Many jumped to the street, but some who had climbed into the windows were seen to fall back into the flames. Owing to the wrecked condition of the building many are believed to have been un able to reach the windows or other exits. Called Off Labor Parade. Mayor Alexander, the city council, j chief of police and other municipal {officials met today with representa tives of tbe labor unions. It was re ! solved to call off the proposed union labor 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. The j $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 the building at the time of the explosion. Two Watchmen Kmployed. The Times employed two night i watchmen but they saw no one about the building to arouse their sus picions. One of the watchmen was jv, B. Glasier. He was not found land it is believed he perished. 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 the employes saw two men trying to climb to the roof. He fired two shots at them. The men fled. He inter prets this second attemps as further proof of a carefully planned effort made last night to destroy both the Times main and branch office. 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 and Manufacturers' association, who has been active in conjunction with the Los Angeles Times in opposition to labor unions. The machine was dis covered by Special Officer Hendrick son. who. under instructions from the chief of police, placed the ma- chine, which was of clockwork pat tern, in an isolated place. No arrGats have been made. The deadly char acter of the bomb was established by 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.