BIRD
SCALPED
Walla Walla Cashier Elimin
ated From Politics.
ENEMY OF THE TACOMA BOSS
FIGHT VS. A
County Not Liable for Injury on High
way, 8upreme Court Kulei-
Crocker 111 Said to Be Jealous of
Friendship Between Burford
and Ankeny.
Tbe Walla Walla Bulletin gives
tbe following insight into Washington
politics:
Tbe lntest news from Crocker head
quarters is that tbe Taconia Boss bus
landed oa another close friend ot Sen
ator Ankeny. This time it is a man
close up to the' tbroue and whose
standing bus uever before been as
sailed. It is none other thnn A. K.
Burford, cashier of Senator Ankeny's
bank, aud for many years his closest
bnsinoss and political associate.
It bus been known for many years
that Crocker has been unfriendly to
Burford and be Las repeatedly at
tempted to displace him in tho confi
dence of Senator Ankeny, but could
never suocoed.
Crocker has been banding out stabs
at Burford for tbe past year to the
newspapor writers and politicians on
the Sound and when anything bus goue
wroag in Walla Wollu county he bus
laid it at the door of Burford, or
someone whom Buiford Las been
friendly with. Tho morning after tbe
oleotion in Walla Walla, Crocker said
to newspaper men in disenssiug the
result that "it was Burford'a maiden
effort at politics. "
Duriug tUo oumpaign Burford wont
to Taooma to confer with the Boss
and returned and curried out his in
structions as far as it was possiblo,
but tbe effort to carry the eleotion
was a fizzle and Crocker promptly luid
the blame on Burford. It was then
he began to realize on his plans to
eliminate the Senator's olosest friend
who had stood between them in many
a deal tbe Boss had attempted. He
managod to get an agreement whereby
Burfoid in tho future will have no
thing whatever to do with politics
either here or elsewhere in the statu.
It is said that his oonueotiou iu the
future with tbe Morning Union will be
ooulluod exclusively to the business
department and that he will no longer
be permitted to censor tho news or
editorial columns of the paper.
This duty is now in tbe bunds of
J. II. Podigo, A. J. Gillis, Ed. L.
Bruuton and O. T. Cornwell. Corn
woll and Bruuton will be allowed on
ly nominal consideration iu the direct
ion of tbe puper, while tho active su
pervision will be performed by Pedigo
aud Uillis.
This calls in mind the fact thut for
many years any unpleasant duty re
quired iu the banking business bus
boon sbiftod to Burford and ho has
undoubtedly boon charged with many
acts wliioli he wus compelled aud
diroetod to take. Ho, however, has
boeu tbe closest aud most loyal f rimul
Souutor Ankeny bus ever had. His
political judgmeut hus not always
been of the 18 karat kind, but his
loyally to tbe Senator politically and
in business way bus been of the high
ost character.
Crookor has unquestionably always
beeu joalous of tbe relation between
Burford and Seuntor Ankeny and is
beginning to roulizo ou bis ambition
to come between them. It is also as
serted that Crookor has desigus on
handling tho business alfuirs of Sena
tor Ankeny us well as his political
interests aud is planning to oust Bur
ford from that position. It is recalled
that Crookor secured his footing fin
ancially largely through handling tbe
businoss of his sister iu law and since
she has tukeu his power fiom liim and
given it to her husband, ho is without
capital to oporato extensively and bo
figures thut the management of tbe
large financial interests of Senator
Aukotiy would oflor au oxoellont sub
stitute for the loss h !m sntined
through the soooud marriage of his
sister iu law.
Owing to the advancing ago of Sou
ator Ankony he will neoossarily turn
over the entire management of his
business affairs to some one in the
course of a few years and it is intim
ated that Crooker would like to huve
this duty to porforni.
Whitman Farmers Find Profit.
Bat Ryau, who has a large farm
south of Pulluiau, is making oxoellont
headway with harvesting. He has
800 aotes of barley, making an av
erage yield of between forty aud fifty
bushels per ucie. Tbe graiu is said to
be ot floe quality. Frank Hickman,
living west of Pullman hag threshed
bis batloy, of whiau bo bassevetal
hundred acres. While tbe yield was
much less thau usual, the average is
botweou forty aud fifty bushels au
acre. Barley is worth from 75 couts
to 85 cents pr 100 pounds. At this
price a crop of fifty bushels an acre
would bring f 22.40 au acre, which is
a good return cu laud worth from f 10
to f 50 au acre. There is a large
aoieugeot barley in Whitman county.
Faruieis that are iu ueed of ranch
hands, should call ou Craghead &
Hays. Rural telephone connection
in office. It.
Tbe county is obliged to keep tbe
highways in a reasonably safe condi
tion, tbe Supreme Court of tbe state
decided, in tbe case of Agnes Dignan
by her guordiau, Mary Diguau against
Spokane county, but a county is not
liable where tbe accident is not pri
marily due to tbe condition of tbe roads
or bridges
The plaintiff was driving along tbe
road one day when a dog ran out and
attacked tbe dog belonging with tbe
wagon Tbe dog fight found its way
under the horses' feet.
One of (he team kioked aud Broke a
siuglecree. This let the horses plunge
ahead and the neok yoke allowed, the
wagon tongue to drop.
The tongue scraped tho ground nntil
it came to a bridge. One of the
boaids of the bridge was warpod, tbe
nail having pulled nearly out. Tho
wagou tongue shot under this board
and punched into the bank of tbo
stream, throwing tbe girl out and in
juring her.
In tbe court below tbe case was ta
ken from tbe jury and dismissed. Tbe
Supreme Court affirms the lower court
and holds that iu such a caso tbe
county is not liable because if tbe
team had not boeu diaturoed by tho
dog fight tbe accident would not have
ocoured.
I have a piece of desirable property
25 foot front, center of Main street,
Athena, which I will trade for cattle.
R.. J. Boddy, Athena.
LOST LAKE iLOKGER LOST
Wagon Boad Being Constructed Into
District and Soon Be Finished.
Lost lake in Oregon made famous
by Uifford'a photograph of it, in
wbioh Mount Hood Li reflected, will
soon be uo loneer lost. Workmen
have commenced to construct a wagou
road to it from the maiu road, aud
soon it is to be possible to go to that
much admired sheet of water without
hnvincr in cn nn foot through many
miles of forest. The road will be the
most scenio one iu the valley, winding
up through the mouutains and reach
ing au elevation at its highest point
of 4000 feet, states a Portland paper.
For a number of years Lost lake has
shared equal interest with Mt Hood
iu the mind of tbe tourist, but few
have goue there owing to its inacces
sibility. It could not be reached in
any way except through almost track
less timber, and for this reason no
accommodations for visitors have ever
been made ou its shores.
With the building of the wagou road
it is thought that a hotel will be built
there and that it will become X)tie of
Oregon's most popular reoreation
spots.
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