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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19
NATIONAL DOODLE ISSUE.

Washington's scandal disclosures
are the main topic Of general discus
sion in the United States today. AM
the post office department is the po-
| litical storm center.
Many political developments excite
the peoples interest for an hour,
day, a month. Within the past half
year any number Of minor questions
have been considered in relation t(
national issues and have faded out OIL
memory, and there are numerous
small tissues" today of which, ii
1904 the people doubtless will have
but faint recollection. There are
but few public questions which con
tain the substance AMI size of is
sues.
Government scandals are not the
stuff of which dreams are made. They
do not fade out without leaving al
impression. and the present scandals
have not reached the waning stage
A grand jury has just been put in OPP
Grafton. There have been several in
dictments. and the new daily disclOs
ures indicate enough material to en-
pIoy an honest jury for many months
to come. The government scandals
as an issue, have the promise OF
growth and endurance.
The people of the United States are
the masters of their own government
al situation at any and all times
No human means can allay the
peoples concern for honest admins
tration through and through That
concern is greater than the popular
favor of the hour for any man Oh
set of men. 1t is more powerful than
the political strength of the biggest
leader. 1t is a force ever in reserve
easily called into requisitiOn, invinci
BILE
No ingenuity or influence. however
great, can prevent the peoples com
ing sooner or later into the whole
truth concerning the abuse Of govern
mental functions. The scandals
have passed the stage where suppress
sion is possible Administration poll
ticians may confidently expect TO be
confronted with the complete scheme
Of gross frauds With the frauds com
mitted under the republican steward
ship they must surely reckon, and
reckon at the peoples first opportuni
tty There will be no default on the
peoples part. Charges Of a gigantic
and complex scheme of swindling
have been made and in part substan
riated. No presumption of innocence
holds in favor of the party men re-
spOnsible The burden Of proof has
been thrown upon them.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19
TWO MUSES. IN A SMASH-UP.

Luckless playWrights Of low degree,
who have experienced the humiliation
of beholding their work produced be-
fore cold and unappreciative audien
ces, may find quite a deal Of comfort
in the recent joint failure scored by
Rudyard kipling and Poet Laureate
ture.
1t is true that in this instance, Kip
ling was represented only by one of
his stories. The Man Who Was" and
that the dramatization was done by
another hand. Still, remembering that
a success would have been credited
to the story's author, it is but fair
that the failure should be charged to
his account And it was a deplOrable
failure. something over which a man
could lie awake of nights afterwards.
beWailing the tragedy that had befal-
len a child of his muse.
AS for Poet Laureate Austin's two
act drama, "Flodden Field that effort
must have been even worse than Mr..
Austins poetry. if such a thing were
possible. This play was produced at
the same charitable entertainment
with that of Kipling. and the two be
tween them seem to have made the
entertainment distinctly funereal The
London papers speak unreservedly OF
the badness Of Mr.. Austin's prOduc-
ton. "Candidly," says the London
Daily Mail. lit is difficult to speak OF
it seriously as a piece of dramatic
art. 1t will be hard to find anything
more stupid, more utterly inept ana
ineffective. than this expansion into
melodrama of a fragment OF English
history. There is no plot. no drama
for the puzzled spectator to grasp OF
| follow"
So here we have the crowned POeI
| Laureate of England and that rlva
whom admirers call the uncrOWned
but real, poet laureate both gong
| down to disaster together, exactly as
| if they were the verest amateurs II
the business. The spectacle is not
only comforting to humber men, but
it goes to prove that the popular YER
| dict in the arts is splendidly impair
! tial and that it is extremely apt to be
truthfully and feariessly voiced By
| the newspapers. 1t made no differ
ence. apparently, that Alfred Austin
and Rudyard kipling, rather than com
mon and obscure John Doe and Rlch
ard Roe. were on trial. Their WORE
was unsatisfactory and a prompt de-
cision was rendered against them
The incident is rich in delightful sig
nificance-to all. of course. except
| Mr.. kipling and Poet Laureate Austin
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19
HfPPNfR PHOTOS
Scenes of DeSO|atiOn and
WreCkage Portrayed
TAKEN BY [. W. ROBERTS
Mr.. Roberts Returned Last Night
With Tales of the Floods
Terrible Work.

l.. w. Roberts. of the Roberts Mon
umental company, returned from
Heppner last night with a dozen pho
tographs of the wrecked town, which
he took during a five hours stay there
Wednesday. Mr.. Roberts photographs
are the first to reach Walla Walla
since the food and realistically por-
tray the scene of desolation and
wreckage apparent on every hand in
the Inflated town. The photographs
are on display at COOkerly's under
taking parlOrs and were viewed by a
large number of people Turing the
day.
One of the photographs taken shows
the Palace hotel with demolished
houses piled up against it. The in
mates of the hotel had a very narrow
escape and owe their lives to the
houses which piled against the hOJel
and acted as a breakwater. A pho
tOgraph of where the Heppner hotel
stood reveals nothing but few cook
ing utensils and the stoves. These
have been utilized and on the site
lunches are being served the men. 1t
is estimated from Is to 20 lives We're
lost from the Heppner hotel. Two
huge popular trees. which were the
means Of saving at least a half dozen
lives, are shown in another photo
graph. The trees stood in the center
of the foods path and as houses went
floating down with the torrent of wa
ter people leaped into their friendly
branches and chung to them until the
waters subsidized. The O. r. & n. de-
pot. which Agent Herman and wife de-
serted losing their lives is shown with
huge piles OF debris and wreckage
piled all about it. Standing on top Of
pile OF debris is the Bartholomew
boy, who with his parents and sisters
were saved by a miracle. The Bar
thOlOmew home was swept into two
huge poplar trees which We're snapped
off short by the impact. The mouse
floated up onto the Jagged stumps
which sOlidly pierced the floor and
held it in a upright position. In this
position with the heavy stumps acting
as anchors the residence and family
drifted below town and landed mid
other wreckage. The mother had two
ribs broken but aside from this the
family escaped uninjured.
Other photographs taken show the
path of the flood in the heart OF the
residence and business district. where
many lives were lost and property de-
strOyed, while others show gangs of
men at work clearing away the wreck
age in the search for bodies.
The conditions at Heppner are
terrible" Mr. Roberts said this morn
ing. During the five hours | was
there bodies were being brought IN
every Is minutes. and this too in
face of the fact that over 140 bodies
have already been recovered and not
on tenth part of the Wreckage delTed
into. There are piles of wreckage, IN
some instances a half mile Ions and
from four to 10 feet high that have
not been touched yet. These I'M
doubtedly contain many bodies. In
these drifts will be seen everything
IMAGINABLE. Parts of houses, heavy
timbers, wire, dead dogs, cattle,
Dianos and organs and human beings.
II will take three months to turn over
all the wreckage in the search tor
bodies.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19
CHEAP WOODS USE.
Processes by Which Soft WOODS are
Treated as Railroad Ties.

Necessity has been the mother OF
an invention for the preserving OF
chean timbers to replace high grade
woods The invention is being eX-
nloited bv the bureau of forestry at
Washington. The rapid disappearance
of American Jimbers has developed
the method of economy. WaStelul
and continued cutting has resulted III
the rapid disappearance OF such WOODS
az white oak, formerly the only WOOD
used for railroad ties. 1t never oc-
CURED to the railroad managers that
the supply would ever be lnsufflclent
Forestry can not make up Immediate
" for the waste and it is essential
that high grade timber when cut be
nut to it's highest use and that low
grade stuff be utilized where possible.
This economy the bureau has persist
emily urged. BY every available
means it has attempted to find uses
for woods not now regarded as mer-
charitable and to substitute such
woods for woods rarer. but better
known. The railroads have been i'm
pressed with the necessity for such a
substitution. LOdgepOle pine in the
northwest has been laid as ties during
the past year instead of bull pine.
Shortleaf and loblolly ties will prob
ably soon replace those Of lOngleaf in
Mississippi Louisiana and Texas.
| Hemock and tamarack may take the
place of oak and pine in other parts
| of the country; and when oak is used
at all for ties it will be the inferior
| species instead of the valuable White
| oak.
The substitution of low grade for
high grade timbers depends on timber
preservation. Special treatment must
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19
UNION SHOULD MARK THIS.

The Seattle Post Intelligencer says:
A special service" is a great feature
of a newspaper. Some special ser
vices" however, cannot be allowed to
go at large without the company of a
detective On the first page of the
Seattle Times Of June 16 appeared a
vivid account of the disaster at Hepp-
ner. under this heading; BY A. NJ.
Synder. The Times Special Service. -
The article was taken verbatim from
az Associated Press dispatch that
came in the regular report and was
published on the first page of the
Post-Intelligencer for June 16. the
morning before it appeared in the
Times Anyone who will take the
trouble to compare the two papers of
the same day will learn something
about the way in which a special ser
vice" can be manufactured if you dc
not happen to have one on hand.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19

so prolong the life Of the inferior tim :
berS. and at cost SO small as TO
make the investment & good one.
In the first of a series Of bulletins
on problems in timber preservation
Just issued b. the bureau of forestry
as Bulletin Al. seasoning of Timber,
b. Hermann Won Schrenk, the season
ing which precedes the preservation
treatment is dealt with. DR.. Won
Schrenk' 5 seasoning experiments
have already developed facts of very
considerable importance.
Advantages Of Seasoning.
The main advantages Of seasoning
timbers are that seasoned timber
lasts longer. since the water in green
timber is necessary to the life of de-
cay-prOducing fungi: that it greatly
increases the effectiveness Of the pre-
sentative treatment; and that by redu-
cling the weight Of timber it causes a
corresponding saving in freight.
One of the interesting facts brought
out by DR.. Won Schrenk is that high
grade timbers like white oak and long
leaf pine, being much denser than
timbers of low grade, are not so read
lily penetrated by the preservative
fluid and that it is therefore, more
economical to treat low grade, pOr-
GUS wood like beech, which ordinarily
lasts only four or five years, than a
high grade timber. Beech so treated
has Outlasted oak several times. For
a similar reason. lit would be a great
waste" says DR.. Won Schrenk. ito
attempt the treatment Of white oak
or longleaf pine. when better results
will be obtained by using loblolly pine
C, rod ool-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19
Experiments Beirq Made.

The American Telegraph and Tele-
phone company is experimenting
through the bureau with methods OF
lengthening the lasting power OF cedar
and chestnut poles.
In Bear Canyon, Gallatin county
Montana, and at Sheridan, Wyo., the
seasoning tests with lodgepole pine
begun last summer in cooperation
with the Burlington railroad, will be
continued under the direction of Rey-
nolds Hill. Experiments in seasoning
and preserving longleaf pine ties will
be carried on on a large scale at Sis
bee. Texas.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19

the average throughout the country
and better than many. but the critic
ism applies to the public school sys-
TEN of the whole country.
The people of the United States pay
many millions every year for the
maintenance of high schools, the peo-
pie of this city contributing many
thousands of dollars, but in view OF
the facts to which attention is called
in this brief article and others that
might be cited it is a question Wheth-
er they are getting an adequate re-
turn for the money expended.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19
WHY BURFORD SUPPORTS HUNT

One reason why the cashier of the
First National bank is so anxious for
the reelection of Mayor Hunt is be-
cause he wants TO put through the deal
by which the city is to pay twenty
five thousand dollars for the Thomas
land. now practically owned by the
bank. The city has no use for more
than four or five acres Of this land,
as it already owns all the subterran-
can water on the entire ranch of over
$50 acres. The city's water rights do
not help the sale of the land to other
parties hence the desire to unload the
p0rperty on the city. Mayor Hunt
has already done the bidding of the
cashier of the bank who will continue
to be mayor de factO so long as the
present administration is retained in
power. The bank also desires to be
protected from paying more than fifty
per cent of the taxes assessed against
it's stock and the present administra-
ton has been very obliging in giving
the bank its own way in this respect
1t is also said that the bank is inter
ested in obtaining certain valuable
concessions from the city and for that
. reason as we'll as the others specified
it will oppose the election of Frank S
Dement, and do its best 70 reflect Gill
| bert Hunt
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19

Undertaken j. w. Cookery brought
the word from Heppner that Maude
Elliott was still alive and that she
had reported at the morgue to that
effect. The Union published Mr.
Cookerly's statement regarding Miss
Elliott Thursday morning Now if the
morning organ has any quarrel with
any one who would deny the RELIABLE
itv of it's news report from Heppner It
should settle the matter with MI.
COOkerly
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19
pUBIJC SCHOOL SYSTEM DEFECT
I'VE

All over the United States it is no
ticeable that high school graduating
classes are very small in proportion
to the school population and that the
girls far Outnumber the boys, The
WalIa WaIla class graduated last
night consisted of six girls.
This naturally raises the question,
Are the high schools of the country
accomplishing the work for which
they are established? The answer
must be in the negative. The whole
work of the lower grades is based
upon the suppOsition that the pupils
are being prepared for the high school,
but in fact only a small per cent ever
reach the high school and a ridicu-
lousy small per cent ever complete
the course. Again the high school
course is based upon the idea that the
students are being prepared for col
lege and here again the result is a dis
appointment.
Recently Congressman TaWney Of
Minnesota appointed four high school
graduates in succession to take the
examination for admission to the naval
academy at Annapolis. All failed to
reach the required 70 per cent IN
the common school studies taught in
the eight grades below the high school,
Congressman Tawney feels much
disappointtd and Inundated by this
result and he declares that he will be-
gin an agitation for reform in the
system of public school and high
school instruction in his state. He
says that practical studies are neg
lected in the desire to pass the boys
and girls on to the high school. There
no attention is paid to the sommon
school studies of most practical use
and the whole aim is to fit the student
for entrance into college.
What Mr. Tawney says of the public
school system of Minnesota is true of
the schools of this state and of every
other state of the Union. Only a
small per cent of the boys and girls
ever get beyond the eight primary
grades. and instead of making the
whole purpose of their work fitness
TO enter the high school, an effort
should be made to give them a praC-
teal education for the duties of life
upon which 90 per cent of them vii
enter without further preparation. L
all pupils were kept in school unit
they had gone through the high school
the class that graduated in this city
last night would have numbered fully
one hundred instead of a half dozen
and there would have been as man,
boys as girls.
There are about two thousand schoO
children in this city and the final pro
duct of our public school system
should certainly under proper condi
tons be more than six girl raduates
1t reminds one Of the mountain tina
labored, groaned and Numbered ar
finally gave birth to a mouse.
These structures are not intended /
apply to the Walla Walla high schoC
alone for no doubt it is as good a
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19

Jasper-Gayboy seems to be pros
pering nowadays.
Jumpuppe-I don't see why you
think so. His wife and family are
not wearing any better clothes.
Jasper-Nery true. But he is
smoking better cigars.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19
Time ScheduIe-WaIIa WalIa
Two trains daily

Time ScheduIe-WaIIa WaIa:
No. 7 Arrives from Spo-
kane ... ....... 400 p II
and departs for
Pendleton and the
east 80. ........ 400 p
No. s Arrives from Pen
dletOn and the east
and departs ......10:00 a II
for Spokane and the
Palouse country 1000 II
No. 43 Leaves for Portland
and Spokane via
Wallula &c.. ....10:15 p II
No. "A Arrives from Port
land and Spokane
via Wallula ..... 2:55 II
No. Al Leaves for Pendle-
ton Except Sunday 1000 nc
No. AZ Arrives from Pen
dleton Except Sun
dav) .. 9:15 pm
No. SIS Arrives from DAYTON 600 4
No. 90 Leaves for Dayton. 1880 II
No. 40 Leaves for Wallula. 800 p Il
No. 46 Arrives from Wallu-
la ....... ........ $50 p %
STEAMER LINES.
San Francisco Portland route
Steamer sails from Portland s p. u
every 5 days.
Daily Boat Service between Poh
land, Astoria, Oregon City, DaytG.
Salem. independence, Corvallis al.
all Columbia and Willamette RlT@I
points.
SNAKE RIVER BOATS.
Leave Riparia Sundays, TuesdaHI
and Thursdays.
Leave Lewiston Mondays, WellaE
days and Saturdays.
r. BURNS, Gen. Agent,
Walla Walla. Waa1. /
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-06-19
WEATHER..

Tonight partly cloudy and threat
ening. Saturday fair.
The sun., 1903-04-01
STEEL ROADS COMING.
Specifications for New Elm Street Re.
quested-AutO speedway.

An informal talk by members was held at
the Automobile Club last night on the troubles
OF beginners and how TO operate a motor
car At the close OF II Gen. Roy Stone the
committee on steel roads said his committee
wanted suggestions of places where mile
of steel rails can be laid for speeding pur-
poses. The place he found at Creedmoor,
l.. L. as told in THE Sun. was objected TO-.
he said, by one of the committee as being too
Inaccessible. although il is only fourteen
miles from the 1hrty-fourth street ferry
and only eight mies from the Ninety-ninth
street ferry.
II was called TO Gen stones attention
that there iS a two-and- -half-milp stretch in
Bronx Park which President Hsffcn once
said could b. converted into an automobile
speedway, II there were funds available
and this might be used, the club proposes
to pay all expenses. Gen. Stone said he
thought there would he much red tape
involved IN getting room in "A park that the
rails would not be laid this summer.
The reason that the mile of steel rail In the
hands of the club is to be used for strsight-
Is that the city seems about ready to lay its
own steel roads now. The block stretch
on Murray street has been complete succ ss
1t shows a saving of almost Is per cent in
traction
Engineer Basing OF tho Dock Department
has recommended the use OF the steel rails
on the docks, and yesterday Gen. Stone said
he was asked TO help prepare specifications
FOR laying them on Elm street by City En- =
gineer Olney. who agrees with President
Cantor in approving Of the steel tracks.
The sun., 1903-04-01
Obituary Notes.

Dr, Russell p. Fay of Yonkcrs died last
evening at his home isi Warburton avenue,
Of the. westchester County Homeopathic
Medical Society, Hs orsaniged the icnkers
was a member Of its governing Stan. He
was also n member OF the American Institute
of Homeopathy and Of the New York IIomqo-
eishteen-monihs-oldc child. The funeral n' will iii
be held on Thursday afternoon in the First
attributed to his hard work. ~ "V"'" Is
r. W. Corbett. former United States Sena-
tor from Oregon, died at his home in Portland
Yesterday OF heart trouble While his death
as he had been in poor health for some time
Early Yesterday. realizing that his strength
Lewis aud Clark Exposition. MIR. Corbett
was 20 years old and had lived in Portland
nfty-'YMG No yearTi ri,a icing from New York in
Oregon from 1891 TO 1878. His fortune is esti-
mate ut s5,on.Ooo.
Edmund Wilsey who was one of the oldest
residents and prominent real estst. operator
in The Bronx, died on sunday at his home.
III 'i:nton svenue. l!e was born in March.
iss b "scG raid to hsyr hen
l,endrlck y wilsry, Who came from ROLAND
Mr. Wilsey's ,srest-srsndfathcr,, Benjamin.
Indian war. One OF his Rrsndfathcrs was a
mirule man IN l77o and his father. was an
year. was memStr Of tn, h. choir OF tn" Ss Church r
Of st. Psul and 81 John in Morrisanis. ".
leaves two sons and SIX daughters
Hugh Mull6n. q prominent citizen OF Mont
clair. n J and one Of the oldest livery
men in the State. died Ia his home in Yates
avenue. at i2:S1 O'Clock yesterday morning
of q com pl cation of discasrs after an illnesS
OF several we'ks. Mr MULE was presidpnt
OF tho Horizon Mlllins Comps Of Mont
clair. and q neiID'r OF the Orange Lodge
of Elks. Royal Arosnun and tn" Essex County
Road Drivers Association widow and
four grown dau ghters survive him.
william Madden, a woll-known Civil War
veteran, died on Monday at his home. i92
sixteenth street. Brooklyn. He went TO
the front with the Fourteenth Regiment az
the breaking out OF the war and served until
the close. he was also a member of the
Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Department serving
with the old Empire Engine Company for
eight years.
Dudley Gill Sherin OF Warren county.
died at his Lake George r, side nee on Monday
night He was born In Stony Greek Warren
county. So years ago. lie wsselected sheriff
u Noysmber, is,, Ee had previously held
game warden.