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VOL. XVIII. INTER-VALLEY TROON GIVEN 50 YEAR FRANCHISE TUESDAY AFTERNOON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FINISH IMPORTANT WORK. STRIP 6IVEN OFF HIGHWAYS No Changes Made in tbe Franchise Granted—Company Has Started Work. The application of the Yakima Inter.Valley Traction company for a franchise along the county roads for building an electric railway was granted hy the commissioners Mon day afternoon. The existence of the franchise is for fifty years. The pe tition was granted by the commis sioners without any change. It gives the traction company two and a half feet off the county roads 40 feet in width, nnd 12 •_ feet off the 60-foot roads. The franchise will be accepted by the Inter-Valley company, it is stated by a high of. flclal of the road, and as work was started Monday, there Is evidently no difficulty from the company's standpoint. The company did not ask for a right-of-way along any roads nar rower than 40 feet. It ls stared ln the franchise that construction must be started 30 days afer aceptance The engineering work of the system was started last Monday, and actual construction work will commence S3 soon as material can be secured. The terms of the franchise are that the company will have five miles of line operating inside of the first twelve months after the Issuance of the franchise, and that five miles be built each year for the first two years thereafter, and that entire system be in operation Inside of five years. An agreement has been made between the commisisoners and the officials of the traction company, and embodied in the franchise, whereby the company shall haul all crushed rock and material for the use of the county roads at 1 cent per cubic yard per mile. The county is to load and unload the material. The following agreements are alsr; embodied In the franchise: That the tracks must be laid along the side of the roads. Bridges less than 40 feet ln width may be used by the traction com. f^|*gß^ Photograph s • am\*mm*f r r*" *s Crayon, Sepia and Pastel _flf H kJ Enlargements // ir\ J\ *orl( GuarantMlJ and Up-ta-Date J r*m**M* p. J. TIOHNER W. fl. LADD, Pres. CHARLES CARPENTER, Vice Prts. W. L. STEINWEU, Cashier A. B. CLINE, Asst. Cashier THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Established 1885 22 Years Satisfactory Service. The Oldest and Largest Depositary for the Unit- Bank In Central Wash- ed States, County of Ington Invites Your Yakima antl City of Accounts. North Yakima. The Yakima Herald. pany for a right-of-way, but bridges having a greater span must be strengthened before tracks are laid. Where tracks Interfere with ditch es or fences, the traction company must change the course of the ditch es and rebuild the fences to the sat isfaction of property owners. Actual construction of the system will probably start about April 1, if not sooner. The rails for the line are on the way from the east and are expected to arrive dally. The system of the Inter-Valley Traction company, while now em bracing a large area proposed to be tapped by the tracks, will ultimately cover an Immense territory If plans are carried out. Included will be a complete line to the Columbia river, which will connect with the river boats and give North Yakima a quick outlet for Its produce to all of the principal markets of the world by the cheaper method of transporta tion, the waterway. REVIVALS ARE GREAT SUCCESS WINTER AN EXCELLENT SPEAKER Tells Tuesday Evening of the Chasm Between Christ and the Devil. The revival services being con ducted at the Methodist Episcopal church are arousing considerable In terest and are being well attended. A large audience attended last even ing. The services opened last Sun day and will continue throughout the week. The attendance Tuesday night surpassed that of any previous evening. The evangelist, Frank H. Winter, used as his subject "The Oreat Chasm." He said In part: "The one that separates man from God Is the great est. lesson from rich man and Lazar us, as found in Luke 16-27." He stated the following lessons are drawn from the story: "The gulf exists here now, Christ and the Devil oppose each other. A great gulf is between Christ and the devil. A great gulf ls between a Christian and a sinner. Bad men do not come to the church because there ls 8 NORTH YAKIMA, WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1907. pio.-it gulf. The church is making a mistake In trying to bridge it over. The church should widen it. There is a great gulf between good and evil, love and hate, purity and im purity. The battle is on the ground of the questionable things." He also referred to dances, cards and thea-! ters, and stated that he would tal further on those subjects later. j "If I havenf a good reason," c said, "I want you to tell me. Eve £ one Is on one side of the gulf oi- m the other. The great battle of Jr_ ls to overcome sin. This life If-_**C only place to get on the right si"** the gulf. If you can have a '_■ r time heie serving the devil, wr^ 11 you want to change in hell? Only one has the right and will take you across the gulf, that Is Jesus Christ. To say nothing of the hell hereafter, what do you think of the hell here?" At the opening or the services the evangelist asked questions about the bible. This evening those in the audience will tell or give reasons j why they believe the bible is God''l word. OVER EIGHTY MEET DEATH IN HORRIBLE NAVAL ACCIDENT Explosion on French Battleship lena Proves to Be Horrible Catastrophe. TOULON, March 12.—The powdet magazines on board -the French bat. tlcship lena blew np this afternoon, and as a result Captain Adigard, commander of tlie battleship, Cap tain Vertier, cliief of staff of the Mediterranean squadron, and from seventy to eighty bluey'ackets are dead, while Roar Admiral Mancerou and hundreds of men arc suffering from injuries. Naval circles arc aghast, and the public stunned by the appalling catastrophe. The en lire after part of the lena is blown to pieces. The bodies of victims were hurled through the air by the succession of explosions and the panic stricken workmen at the ar senal fled from the vicinity of the dry dock. Scores on board the lena jumped overboard onto the stone quays of the dock and sustained serious In juries. The primary cause of the accident was the premature explos ion of a torpedo. What caused the explosion is not known, but the powder magazines were set on fire and the resulting explosions prac tically destroyed what is considered one of the best vessels in the Frencn navy. The crew haa finished tho midday meal only a short time be fore and had dispersed to var'ous parts of the ship. The first shock shook the vessel fore and aft. It was followed Im mediately by others. The ere* rushed wildly about the dack. The men forward attending a lecture clambore^l over the bulwarks and jumped down, some of them Into the dock and others onto the stone quay, i many of them being fatally hurt j Hundreds of men below decks were enshrouded ln smoke and whils I they groped their way upward to the exits many fell unconscious. Flying missiles demolished the tor- j pedo house of the arsenal, the en gtae works and the pump house near! by and constituted a serious menace to the lives of those who made their way toward the battleship to begin the work of rescue. Amidst the masses of dense smoke the search for the dead and wounded began. The lower decks of the len.i were littered with fragments of shattered and torn bodies, while the surrondlng water was dotted with human fragments. It is impossible to ascertain the exact number of killed and wounded until tomorrow when the roll call will be held. Cave In— Tuesday morning about ten feet of the sewer excavation caved in at the point where it crosses North Second street. The water pipe wa? not Injured and the damage will he repaired at slight cost, as it will only necessitate filling ln the caved portion of the street. JUDGE ALLOWS mm story *(M STA66ERS THE DEFENSE ' .ndlng of Thaw Trial Is In Sight— Lunacy Commission Is Abandoned. NEW YORK, March 12.—The enl of the Thaw trial at last s.ems to be in sight. Tentative plans for the final stages of the trial were agreed on today by the counsel, even to the detail of allotting the time for sum ming up. District Attorney Jerome has at last burned all bridges behind him leading to a lunacy commission and Is irrevocably pointing his course to -proving Thaw was sane when he shot White, and being sane his crlm*e constituted murder in the first de gree. Within two weeks the case I should be in the hands of the jury. Jerome played today probably the strongest card he holds, the evidence of which came to his knowledge but a few days ago and which undoubted ly caused him to abandon the ide 3 of trying to send White's slayer to a mad house and try for a straight- I out conviction under the criminal I statutes. The evidence came from I Mrs. White's brother, James C. I Smith, who told a remarkably clear, succinct story of the events of Mad: j son Square garden the night White | was killed and of a long conversation jhe had with Thaw just before the | shooting. Delmas fought bitterly the introduction of this testimony for nearly two hours today, renew ing his argument begun yesterday I afternoon. He insisted Smith was ■ probably a witness In chief and 'should not be allowed to testify In rebuttal. Jerome replied he only ' recently ascertained the value of 1 Smith's testimony and he appealed to the court to allow the testimony to Igo in. Judge Fitzgerald held in the j interest of justice the jury is ea j titled to know all the facts. It was j one of tho most serious blows ths • judge had dealt the defense since the trial began. A photographer named Rudolf J Kckemeyer. who took the pictures of Evelyn Thaw whim had been In | troduced in the evidence, was th* last witness of the day. Jerome tried ] to fix dates of certain pictures foi . which Evelyn posed, thus hoping tc '< establish the day she says she hat 4 I the experience with Stanford White j Delmas objected on the ground tht ; evidence tended to contradict Mrs j Thaw's story. Jerome said he de. sired to take advantage of the walvei Delmas made at the beginnig of the trial in regard to rebutting Mrs : Thaw's testimony. HAVE YOU AM AMBITION? For something different—something better than your neighbor has? Somethiug iv a class by itself, some thing with exclusive features, something that is a suc cess, if so, we are offering you an opportunity to gsatify your ambition. We offer you the J I. CASK Farm Implements which are a great success, they ate the best possible to build. WYMAM * SHELDON The Large Vehicle and Harness House 15-17-18 North Firat St. i SEEDING TIME We make a specialty of this line of our business, being experi enced seedsmen. We understand buying as well as selling and buy only from reliable seed growers. We buy everything in bulk and put up every package ourselves, aad what Is more we take a sample from each sack that ls in the least doubtful and plant It, so we know just what we are selling. We are p-epared to fill your order for private or market gardening. Mail orders will receive prompt attention and prices mailed on application. We are agents for the old reliable SYRACUSE PLOWB. Spring and Spike Tooth Harrows, Cultivators and Ditchers, Iron Age Seed Sowers, Wee-Jen, etc. Treat-Raynor Co. PHONK 3434. 15 S. FIRST STREET. Out of the High Pi-iced District. Jerome said he would only pro duce two more witnesses. Hummel and his stenographer, besides three experts, with whom lie intended to conclude the state's case. It was agreed after the defense has put ia its sub-rebuttal, each side shall have one clear day for summing up. Then will follow the charge and conside:-a tion of the evidence by the jury. DOIBLE HEADER NORTH COAST LIMITED OPFRAT- J ING I\ TWO SECTIONS. ITo Accommodate Wonderful Immi | gration From the Fast—Twice the Number of Last Year. For the last three or four days the North Coast Limited, the crack train of the Northern Pacific, has been operating in two sections to accom modate the great traffic caused by the immigration of easterners to Washington. According lo reports from the Northern Pacific officials the immi gration of eastern passengers will be twice the number of last year, and possibly more, and last year was '• considered a heavy one. Liberal stopover prlvlllges are being granted and consequently many who pur chased tickets through io the coast are taking advantage of the oppor tunity to stop in the irrigated belt, in this city and other places along the line, and the big vanguard haa not yet struck the coast. The superior attractions here have captured many who purchased colo nists' tickets, and the balance of the ticket will never be used. This wonderfu: incoming of set tiers promises to make this the big gest year of any for the agricultural sections of Washington, and North Yakima will receive a great impetus from the settlers. Con tract Awarded— The county eommisioners .^warded the contract for rebuilding the wrecked -portion of the Mabton bridge to Charles E. Lum Monday. The contrnci price is $6,984. " *** *m*mmmmmmmmmlm\\ jltililil l_i_E_____Z____Hl| NO. *