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Wenatchee's Big Red Apple Daily VOL. V. NO. 139. A YANKEE'S TROUBLES IN BAGDAD Former Wenatchee Newspaper Man Describes How It Seems to Be Transported to the Place Made Famous by the Author of Arabian Riches and Splendor of Fabled Day Gone and in Its Place Is Poverty, Squalor and Desolation Ragdad! It sounds more like the fabled city of some good yarns than a real place.

1 didn't more than half believe there was such a town when they told me to go there. Even when "Cook's" sold me a ticket I had a sneaking suspicion that they mistook! me for some harmless person with "trip to the moon" delusions, and merely took my money to get rid of me. Rut the Atlantic liner let me ride on the ticket all right: and at Naples they gave me another one. bigger than the first and printed in four different languages. This looked more serious and my spirits fell to low ebb when I beheld no perforated 'return" slip.

Rut I was weeks from home, had no that posterlike ticket saying in four languages that 1 had (for reasons paid a through fare to what could 1 do but go to Ragdad? So like Mr. Columbus I turned my back on the cafes of the mandolin players and the lusty-lunged singers of "Funiculee-Funicula" and sailed steadily out to sea. That is, as "steadily" as the average Yankee tourist flails after a week in giddy, blithesome to India, to Persia and up the historic Tigris, past the tomb of the Prophet Ezra, past the arch of and to Bagdad. In the bright sunshine of a clear October morning the porcelain domes of the great mosques glittered among the green date palms, the swift- silent Tigris swept softly past mud walls centuries old, and the city of striking sky-line and stagey-effects looked more like a Relasco scenic arrangement than a real 20th century mod town in Turkey. Rut I had arrived.

I saw, I heard, and So, after all. Cook's had played no joke on at least, I rode 17,000 miles on the ticket in two months. Rut now 1 know why a shifty-eyed, tatooed sailor whom saw in Colombo crossed himself and hurried away when he caught sight of "Ragdad" painted on my trunk. He had been here a glimpse of me, the condemned one. gave him the creeps.

For this is one place no white man ever called home. A few venture in. some escape, but not one ever comes back. If you are credulous and take seriously the flippant narratives of certain chroniclers of the long ago, it would appear that once upon a time Ragdad was a decidedly sporty spot. The gay young blades of Haroun-er-Rasehid's time, for instance, are reputed to have given their midnights over to wassail and debauch, and many a possible future Caliph suffered his sweet young life to be prematurely snuffed out in some unseemly brawl.

Rut gone are those gladsome forever is the grandeur, the pomp and the magic of Alladin's enchanted age. Bagdad today is but a suggestion of the past. The ruined gateways and mosques, the tombs of lovely ladie of the long ago, all hint at the splendor that was, but is not. As David Fraser says of it, "The city of Haroun-er-Raschid is finished. That grandson of Ghengis with the illomened name.

Nulaga, smashed it. and Timur the Tartar struck again when its head was in the dust, and shahs and sultans hammered at it without ceasing until its greatness died completely So the Bagda of today is of mushroom growth and mean appearance, remarkable only as the capital of a remote province of the Ottoman empire, where Trade is greater than Tradition, and foreign Consuls above the name of Caliphs. Truly "Ichabod" is writ targe below the history of Bagdad." Yet Bagdad is not minus its; charms, for travelers. The Moorish houses, castle-like with great; doors studded with iron bolts and barred like a fortress, the occasional; glimpse of shady courtyards andj splashing fountains are all "redolent of the east, and mean much to those unsatisfied souls who adore the picturesque and ache continually for touches of imagery in a world of materialism." And over it all is the pall of silent centuries past and gone worn deep down in flagstones, like the ruts in the rock streets of Pompeii marking the ages that city must have lived and the countless carts that rattled through its highways before Christ. "Memory and imagination, too, says Fraser, are genii easily summoned, and they will conjure for you from the pages of the Nights the most gorgeous palaces, beautiful gardens, all alove with running water and singing birds, colored like a dream, and langorous with the small of roses.

Rut such dreams never last, more's the pity. The narrow, squalid streets, the beggars, the streams of soreeyed children, the heat, the dust and filth, and the army of vagabond dogs sleeping in your path and around which you must pick your way, make you long for freedom, for air, for open country. My first impression on landing was that 1 was walking through alleys and must certainlysoon emerge into broader streets. Rut. alas for dreams of asphalt and gay boulevards for they who dwell in Ragdad.

Avant. too, ye visions of green lawns and grassy slopes, 'for this is the desert eternal. It is 3000 miles from Bombay to the hills of Syria, and in this whole dreary dt-s---ert stretch there is just one patch oi Continued on Page 4.) ELLIS FORDE BUYS BANKRUPT STOCK LOCAL CONCERN WILL SELL STOCK OF RELLINGHAM STORE IX WENATCHEE PLAN TO MAKE IT IMPORTANT EVENT. George H. Elite announced this morning that he has completed the purchase of the bankrupt stock of Carter of Rellingham.

which has just been put into the hands of a receiver. The goods were obtained at 61c on the dollar, making it possible for the local store to sell at attractive figures to the local trade. A $12,000 stock of fine clothing, men's furnishings, all new goods, was obtained for $7,300. The Carter store catered to the best dressers in Rellingham and carried a strictly city stock for about two years. Lack of capital caused the failure.

WATER TROUBLES Pat Sherburne, the water commissioner, is not having as much trouble this year as last winer from frozen pipes, but one of the mains on King street was nearly bared by the recent grading operations, so that it was frozen up and this week had to be thawed out and lowered. On the whole the city is in better condition contend with cold weather now than ever before and it is not expected that the tie-up of last winter will be experienced this year. Skating Party. A party of young people went out to the Morris pond yesterday and had a fine time skating. Those who partook of this pleasure were Misses Olive and Madonna Richman, Mary- Pate, Hazel Halbert, Helen Scanlon and Messrs.

Floyd Slosson and Geo. Longanecker. Bought Laud in the Methow. EL H. Hoffman returned from the Methow valley Thursday, where he purchased 80 acres of land.

He is very enthusiastic about the prospects of that section for the purposes of fruit raising and believes that remarkable jumps in the value of land take place from now on. WENATCHEE. WASHINGTON, MONDAY. DECEMBER 27. 1909.

STATE GOOD ROADS MEETING ASSOCIATION WILL MEET AT ABERDEEN NEXT ASKED TO SEND DELEGATES. Senator Arthur Gunn is in receipt of a letter from the secretary of the State Good Roads association in which he urges the county to have proper representation at the meeting to take place during January in Aberdeen. He says: "My Dear Mr. Gunn: Whom shall we have from your county on the program for January 21 and 21, at Aberdeen for the State Good Roads association? Will you not appoint ten delegates or twenty from your county, being careful to have some automobilists. farmers and business men, and particularly give it wide publicity in your papers.

"Let me know whether I can depend upon it to have you give the matter all it deserves in your county. I am very busy in private matters and am asking each man in each county to act as a "publicity agent." and to appoint delegates, but we want you, your county commissioners and engineers at least there, and numerous others, if we can get them. "The road movement in this state must be put on a more detailed basis. "Very sincerely, FRANK BROWN. NEW QUARTERS FOR BANK The First National bank is occupying temporary quarters in the store romm adjoining the old location.

Mr. Fisher, when seen this rlorning. could not say just when the regular room would be ready for business again, as the unsettled transportation conditions make the getting of fixtures from the east very uncertain. The contractors undertook to have their work done by the first of February, but. unless the freight situation is quickly relieved they will be unable to do so.

Mr. Fisher contemplates making some new departures when the bank is once more settled down at the old familiar corner, the most important of which will be the safety vault service that is being instaleld now. Fittings will also be put in for savings and investment departments as the bank feels the necessity for keeping abreast with the growing custom of combining saving and commercial businesses in the same institutions, until legislation can be effected to regulate such naturally disadvantageous combinations. START ELECTRIC WORK EEB. IS George Brown of Chelan Falls and J.

G. Kennedy of Waterville came down on the boat this morning. These are The men who are at the head of the Brown Electric company, recently incorporated, and which has taken over the Gray plant at Entiat. On account of some knotty problems in surveying Mr. Brown stated this morning that there has been some delay in getting to work on the new plant which is to be nisfalled at the mouth of the Entiat.

Work, however, will be in progress in February and there will be no letup until the new plant, is completed and it will be one of the best in the country. Dr. and Mrs. J. H.

Blake entertained a few friends at cards Friday evening. Among the guests were Miss Drysdale of Bellingham, Dr. and Mrs. Sehiltz and Dorothy and Janet Schiltz. During the evening a Christmas tree was decorated for the children.

On Christmas day Dr. and Mrs. Blake entertained at dinner, the guests being the same as on the previous evening with the addition of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jones, Mrs.

Edwards and Miss Doris Jones. Member of the Associated Press CANNOT END STRIKE St. Paul. Dec. was hoped to be the final conclusion of the railway managers and striking switchmen began in Governor Eberhart'fi office today.

President Hawley of the Switchmen's union said Governor Eberhart v. as too optimistic. "The railroads are demanding concessions and conditions to which the switchmen will positively not agree." he said, "they jire demanding all and give nothing All efforts of Governor Eberhart to end the strike have apaprently failed because of the refusal of the railloads to agree at once to reinstate the strikers. CONVICTS FREED IN II CITY Forty convicts were brought in on the Friday boat from the Methow and thirty were released here on account of their time being up. The other ten were taken on to the penitentiary.

Those who were released were provided with clothes and $5 in money, also transportation money sufficient to take them back to the points where they were committed. With the addition of the transportation money some of the men had as much as $15. Work for laborers is not very plentiful now, the ex-convicts will soon be out of funds, unless some action is taken to provide them with means tor a livelihood. The men are all in good training for hard work as they have- been on road building jobs in the Methow all summer. Their work there was so satisfactory that the Methow people raised a fund and gave the men a Thanksgiving dinner.

The act was entirely one of appreciation for work done and sentiment had very little part in the motives prompting the citizens. "Secretary." New York, Dec. 27. -The Christmas blizzard was the severest storm experienced in the east in twenty years. It tied up all traffic in manycities and railroad traffic is disarranged throughout half a dozen states.

Philadelphia, Dec. cityis still in the grip of the blizzard which descended on this section of the country on Chrstmas day and it will probably be several days before conditions are normal. Boston. Dec. million dollars is the estimate of the damage wrought in and around Boston by the blizzard which yesterday swept New England.

An ice blockade in the Entiat river has diverted the waters of that river into a new channel. The blockade is below the Entiat Light Power power house and the water has been flowing only the King place and has completely blocked the county road, causing a great deal of Inconvenience. The roads are impassable and those living on the upper Entiat were cut off rom the lower valley Crews are at work today trying to free the river of ice and reestablish (ommunicatioTi. A nine-pound daughter arrived Christmas morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Miller. It is needless to say that this gift was prized more highly than any other gift that found its way into the Miller home. Marriage licenses have been issued during the past several days to Jas. P. Coats and Martha J.

Farnsworth. both of Leavenworth; W. E. Eckenrode and Mabel C. Furney, Wenatchee; L.

R. Tice and Connie T. Parker. Wenatchee; Thos. E.

Geyer and Goldie Jones, Wenatchee. The big stick of candy which has been hanging in The Grotto window for the past month was sighed Xmas eve and tipped the scales at 41 pounds. Forrest Leedy and Fern Hampton each had guessed 41 pounds as the weight of the stick and the Grotto presented them each with a five-pound box of the best chocolates, probably that much weight will he Knst in a Blizzard. Ice Blocked the River. Priceless Christmas Gift.

Marriage Licenses. NATIONAL APPLE SHOW-WHERE? CHRISTMAS DAY RAGING RADIUM TOOK FIRST PRIZE FOR COLTS AND JUDGE MARTIN ON OLDER RACING PROMISED FOR THIS WINTER. The Christmas races that took place on the lower speedway were successful beyond an expectations. Fully 600 spectators were in the crowd and the events were pulled off without any delays. A great deal of credit was accorded to Sam Campbell, the helmeted hero who drives the municipal steeds to the conflagrations, for his able management of the pro-1 gram.

He succeeded in starting all; the races without the continual jockeying that wearies a crowd, and handled the program with a mastery: of the situation that promises much for the success of future races here. Already there is talk on the street of getting up another program for Now Year's day and for still others along through the season. There was a lot of talking at the meet about forming an association and getting a race track. There is some fine driving stock in the neighborhood of Wenatchee, and the owners want to see some county iairs here and try out their horses with the best. Radium took the first prize in the colt race with a burst of speed that astonished everybody and showed some class that puts him in the first rank.

He hardly lifted his feet from the ground and went along with a big, pure trot unequalled anywhere. The second prize was taken by- Judge Martin's colt. Lolo. and in the aged race Judge Martin got the first prize. Both of the judge's horses are registered, and the colt had not been tried out before.

M. O. Merrill's entry got second prize. Three of the colts showed such class that their owners are confident of great things in the future. They were Charley Brown's pacer colt.

Ansel Griggs" Radium and Billy Lang's colt. A feature of the day was some driving in the second heat of the colts' race, when Charley Brown got a burst of speed right at the wire that brought the crowd to the highest pitch of enthusiasm. The winners were all decorated with ribbons furnished by Sehade ParshaJX INQUIRES ABOUT POSTOFFICE Dave Gelltaly received a letter this morning from Senator Wesley L. Jones inquiring for all information which the commercial club may be able to furnish that will assist him in his introduction of a bill for the appropriation of $100,000 towards the construction of a federal building in this city. The senator particularly wanted to know about the volume of business being done in this postoffice.

Mr. Gelltaly replied giving all the items which could fee used to advantage. Lillis Heard From. Dick Lillis has heard from his brother Jack, who is at the present time basking in the sunshine of Jacksonville. Fla.

En route there he spent several days in Kansas City, Arkansas Hot Springs and Atlanta, Ga. After remaining in the Florida city about ten days more Jack will go to Key West for a few days then to Cuba and will arrive in New York City for the longest visit in about a month from now. We can believe that Mr. Lillis is having, as he says, a most enjoyable time. Parker-Tice.

A very quiet but pleasant wedding took place Saturday evening in the, residence of Mr. La Rue Tice. The parties were La Rue Tice and Harmie Parker. Dr. Waterman returned from Seattle in time to officiate.

After the ceremony and the congratulations a bountiful Christmas and nuptial repast was served and a delightful evening of friendship followed. The good citizens of Wenatchee tender congratulations and well wishes. Wenatchee's Big Red Apple Daily Ranchers, Merchants and Real Estate Men Do Not Favor Inland Empire City for Next Year and Seattle Suggested by Many Who Believe the Northwest Would Thereby Secure Better of Prominent Citizens Where shall the next national apple show be held? This question is the cause now being agitated in real estate and fruit growing circles. It is of vital interest to this community The following interview from a prominent land dealer of Spokane appeared in the Sunday Spokesman- Review: "On the first announcement that the third national apple show would be held in Spokane, antagonism to the plan made itself felt, and John S. Malloy has come forward with statements showing 'why' the third national apple show should be given to either Minneapolis or Chicago.

Mr. Malloy. a local dealer in irrigated apple tracts in the northwest, makes statements and assertions which probably will result in a lively controversy. Mr. Malloy has interested others in the controversy and it is probably that much weight will be brought to bear to transfer the next meeting place of the national apple show.

"Mr. Malloy said: 'The question as to whether or not the national apple show should be held in Chicago has been much discussed, and it was recently announced that the chamber of commerce had unanimously decided to hold the show In Spokane again next season. wish to express myself regarding this matter for the reason that I am heavily interested in irrigated lands, having sold over 4.000 acres of irrigated land in the Spokane valley and about to put on the market another 3,500 acres in the vicinity of Post Falls. The apple show is of such great importance to those who have invested in orchard lands throughout Idaho. Washington.

Oregon and Montana that I believe the utmost care should be exercised in coming to a definite decision as to whether the show should be held here in Spokane or in the middle west. The matter should receive the most careful consideration by men interested in lands suitable for orchard purposes, whether irrigated or not. and should not be decided by a committee of men the most of whom are not familiar with the conditions relative to the sale or development of platted acreage, and therefore not in a position to possess that knowledge which is necessary in arriving at the logical point for holding the national apple show. I firmly believe that the majority of the real estate men who handle platted acreage in the northwest, whether they reside in Spokane or surrounding cities, will agree that the proper place for holding the show is in the middle west. Handicapped in Spokane.

'In the first place the apple show will never be of national importance so long as it is held in Spokane. It is simply a northwest apple show And while nothing in the world can beat it, and it is a grand affair from a commercial and artistic standpoint, yet we must have the middle west and east compete with their best apples in order to conclusively and forcibly prove to the fruit, growers in those districts that the apples grown in Idaho, Washington. Oregon and 1 Montana are superior in every respect. We must admit that the few exhibits shipped out here and repre-' sented to be the cream of what be produced in the eastern and southern states were more or less of a farce. Such representations insult eastern people who absolutely know that their states and the southern states produce much finer apples than those shown as being the best they can produce in the last two shows held in Spokane, and we can never expeel to get the eastern people to take enough interest in the apple show to make their best showing while it is held in Spokane.

'By holding the show in Chicago would also create a better among the people engaged in selling the lands and residents of all irrigated districts within 300 or 400 miles of Spokane. It is generally conceded that Spokane is the hottest competitor for all the districts in the northwest; that is, we have here exrellent lands with and without irrij gation; can offer more attractive features from the standpoint of convenience to market and comforts of a home, as well as educational features. and to properly illustrate the position Spokane holds as a competitor to all I other districts in the northwest is to say that Spokane is the hub of a wheel of which every spoke points to an attractive and productive fruir district. Homeseekers and people interested in orchard tracts will always come to Spokane and take their bear' ings from here, and there is my argument in advancing the theory that Spokane would receive the same publicity, or more, by holding the apple show in Chicago as it would be holding it in The above sentiments seem to meet hearty response in Wenatchee. The- Daily World reporter called on a number ol representative men and secured the following expressions front them.

Some parties who were very much interested and had decided opinions were unwilling to say anything at this time. P. P. Holcomb, president of Wenatchee Fruit Growers association: "We have received all the good there to be gotten by exhibiting in Spokane Chicago should be the next apple show city. The expense to exhibitors would be greater, but results would be commensurate.

The advertising to be obtained in the eastern city would be of immense value." D. X. Gellatly. former secretary of commercial club: "This man Malloy voices my sentiments completely. It was hard to get exhibits for the last show from Wenarchee and Xorth Yakima.

Exhibitors had fears about getting a square deal. Xow that their fears have been realized, the difficulty of securing exhibits for another Spokane show would be even greater. Chicago is the place for the nex' show. The distance and expense are not obstacles which are insurmountable. The railroads will give even greater assistance than for Spokane because they also will receive more benefit.

It will be perfectly possible to raise both money and exhibits." A. .1. Linville. real estate dealer: "Exhibit in Spokane and advertise Spokane. Kxhibit in Chicago and advertise Wenatchee.

It may cost more to take our fruit east, but we can do anything we want to do. Xo'hing is too good for Wenatchee. I will take' an exhibit for one." C. B. Halbert.

capitalist and real estate dealer: "I never heard of anybody locating in Wenatchee be, cause of having attended the Spo; kane apple show. We have been sending money to that city and have attracted buyers which the Spokan. dealers have sidetracked. Chicago too far away to do us much I Besides we want our advertising in the west. We want to settle up this county with western people Seattleis the ideal place for the next apple That city is not our competitor, but it is our friend and booster.

Give Seattle a chance and she will put on a show that will be fair to all and advertising will be done where it will Ido some good. We real estate men are getting a large part of our outside business from the Sound country. The people there are genuinely interested in the orchard growing proposition. Let them see more of our exhibits and they will invest more of their money here." Dr. Blake, physician and orchardist: "At first impression I am in favor of Chicago, although I anticipate some big obstacles.

But if Chicago is the place to get results, we can overcome the difficulties all right." W. Wilmeroth, fruit buyer and real estate: "I should not be in favor of going to Chicago if the show had to be held under such auspices as was the recent Land Congre--. where we made an exhibit. I understand that the Chicago Tribune has control of the Coliseum so that that (Continued on Pago 5c PER COPY.