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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-01
BIG NEW LAKE FREIGHIER
C. a. Tomlinson's Boat Will Cost
Him $3.50, 900 and Transport
10000 Net Tons.

Duluth, Mimi, Dec. IA contract
was signed yesterday between c. A..
Tomlinson of this city and the Amer
fcan Shipbuilding company for the
construction Of one of the biggest
freight carriers on the lakes.
The new Tomlinson boat will be
u94 feet over all and Ala feet keel
She will be SO feet beam and 20 feet
aeep. She will have twenty-eight
matches. and will cost $350,000. The
Great Lakes.
This vessel is expected to transport
10000 net tons on the usual summer
draft to the connecting waters Of the
Great Lakese.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-01
NEGRO Is LYNCHED
Rung to Tree by Whites and Blacks
Acting Together.

Belcher, La, Dec. 1.-Three of the ne
groes who were concerned in the fatal
shooting Of Robert Adger. a prominent
cotton planter, when he was endeavoring
90 stop a fight among them, were brought
back here by the sheriff's posse and then
seized by mob Two Of them were re-
leased, as they were able to clear them
selves, and the other was strung UP to the
limb of q. tree.
Several negroes joined the posse in the
search and were apparently as eager for
u lynching as the whites.
One negro was presented by the whites
with a purse of nearly 500 for the part
lie took in the pursuit.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-01
FEAR OF FEVER
Leads to Extra Precautions Being Taken
In Chicago University.

In chicago UNIVERSITY.
Chicago, Dec. 1.-Several cases Of ty
phoid fever have developed in the last
few days, and President Harper Of the
University Of Chicago at a special meet
a1is Of the students yesterday asked them
TO do all in their power to help the author
iaties in their efforts to rid the university
of the disease and to prevent dismissal Of
classes and sending Of students to their
homes.
| The students were asked to leave board
ing places where the water was not boiled
Il and to take all other precautions.
! Dr. Charles P. Small, the university
physician, said:
1--WE do not anticipate such an epidemic
i as has broken out in several eastern COL
leges this fall. Only a few cases have
been reported as yet, and I am sure that
the fever can be controlled If we are
helped by the precautions Of the stu
dents"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-01
ELLIOT ON HIS WAY
Minneapolis Crank Thought to BE Bound
for Washington.

WInnedpUIIS OTdHK IHUUHHC TO DC 1ounu
for Washington.
Washington, Dec. Information has
reached the White House that Peter Ell
Hot the mad Minnesota Swede who Gre
ated so violent scene in the vestibule
of the White House several weeks ago.
IS either in Washington or en- route TO
this city.
He escaped a week ago from the asy-
1um at ST. Peter, Mimi, where he was
sent to be confined, and until advices were
received here about his coming to Wash
1ngton again no trace Of him had been
discovered. Police and secret service Of
ficers will use every endeavor to prevent
him from getting near the president.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-01
ROYALTY TO VISIT US.

New Haven, Conn, Dec. lit is re-
ported that the crown prince Of China
will come to the United States next sum-
mer and will witness the annual Yale
Harvard boat race under escort Of Wong
Kali Kah, a Yale graduate. who is Chinese
commissioner to the st. Louis exposition.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-01
REVOLUTION is CONTAGIOUS.

Port of Spain, Trinidad, Dec. 1.-The
secession of Panama from Colombia is
re- echoed in Venezuela and uGiana. It is
asserted by one Venezuelan that the. op-
position party in Ciudad Bolivar contem-
plates initiating the Panamaians and Sc
ceding from Venezuela.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-01

Rome-Altho Ambassador Meyer is confined to
his bed as result of the fall from his horse yes
terday while fox hunting in the outskirts Of
Rome, his injuries are of slight nature.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-01

London-Admiralty officials here deny the
statement caDled yesterday from Port Of Spain,
was to leave there Thursday for La Guira, Vene-
Zuela.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-01

The Journal printed yesterday near
ly SO per cent more p%fd wa1H ads
than any other paper in Minneapolis.
People must like Journal want ads,
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-01
TRUST BIZ Is BAD
Fewer Big Corporations Formed Last
Mon'th-Low Record Since 1901.

Month-Low Record Since 1901.
New York. Dec. Papers filed for new
companies in the eastern states, with a.
capital of 100000 or over, in November
reported a total of only $56, 100. coo. This is
the smallest aggregate for any month
in a series of years. the nearest approach
| being 7,45o,00 in August, 1901.
], Pennsylvania heads the list Of states
with capital of $2s,8oo,o 900. New Jersey
is represented to the extent of only $4,250,-
600, the smallest total for the latter state
kn many years.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-01
kuwAUKEE DEPOT.
chIcaqo, milwaukee 4
81. Paul Railway.

Ticket office, 1913 Nicollet av. Phone. 122.
'Daily. Ex.sunday. xEx.sat.I Leave. Arrive.
Chicago, La K, Milwaukee. .l@ 7:60amI 40 :sOpm
Milw kee, La Crosse, Winonal' 2:20pmIs 3:20pm
Chicago, La K, Milwaukee. IL 6:45pmI
CHICAGO "PIONEER' Lids 8:OOpmls S0Oam
Chicago, La X, Milwaukee. .s1O: 25pm( '12 :O1 pm
Northfeld, Faribault, TX. Cityl' 8:2Oaml. 6:20pm
Chicago, Faribault, Dubuque. IL 3:5Opm|a 9:25am
Northfeld, Faribault, Austin IL 7:15pml I'll :15am
La Crosse, Dubuque, Rock Is Il 7:50amI z10 :30pm
Ortonville, Milbank, Aberdeenlz 9:30amz 0:00pm
Ortonville, xFargo, Aberdeenls 7:00pmis 7:15am
Pennington, Mankato Wells IS 7:50am z10 :45am
Farmingt ton, Mankato, Wells. liz 6:40pm 0:10pm
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-12-01
Minneapolis, St Paul & Sault ste. Marie

Lv. Depot Sd and Washington avs s. AT.
e:45 ann 80. Pacific Express. daily. 500 pm
6:85 pml.. Atlantic Limited, daily ...l9:30 am
Depot, 9Th and Washington avs N.
$3.50 pmI -. Dakota Express. daily -. 80 am
$500 ami Rhinelander Local, ex. Sun. 6:05 pun
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09
PEARSON IS CAPTAIN.
Is Selected to Lead University
Washington Football Team.

Robert G. Pearson, of Starbuck w,,
is we'll and favorably known in Wall.
Walla has been chosen as captain \.
the Washington university foothsn
team for the year of 1904
Pearson has the distinction of h.
ing the first man in the history Of N.
university's athletics to have held N.
captaincy of the track team, for two
successive years. He is a member ..
the Junior class and first became pror.
inent in university athletics by win.
ming a place on the mile relay team q.
1902, which won the coast record fl,
this event. His strong point is mid.
rde-distance running, his special event
being the half-mile. He is a brobar
Of Joe Pearson, who holds a record
Of 10 seconds for the hundred ya1asi
and who is regarded as one of ny
fastest men at this distance on the
coast.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09
ASSESSMENT OF BANK STOCK.

The supreme court of the state OF
Oregon has affirmed the decision Of
the circuit court at Pendleton holding
that Levi Ankeny's bank stock is as
sessable at $3.50 a share, instead Of
$73 as he contended in an injunction
suit brought to prevent the collection
of the tax levied by the assessor Of
Umatilla county on all the stock of
the First National Bank at Pendleton.
The decision of the Oregon supreme
court is important in view of the fact
that a similar suit is pending in Judge
Hanford's court regarding the assess
ment of Mr.. Ankeny's bank stock in
Walla Walla. AS a part of the protest
against the collection of the tax Mr..
Ankeny contends that the five-mill
school tax levied by the directors of
School District No. l last year was IL
legal Part of the money raised by
this tax went to buy the high school
site from Mr.. Ankeny, who objects to
contributing anything to the support
of the public schools.
It is not just clear why the federal
court is dealing with the Walla Walla
case, while the state courts have de-
cided the question in Oregon. 1t is
just possible, however, that the Unit
ed States circuit court of appeals
might decide that Judge Hanford has
no jurisdiction in the case just as it
did in the Sullivan estate case re-
1oI
federal judges are not always infalli-
BILE.
The Oregon decision is a vindica-
ton of the position taken by former
County Assessor Cadman, who con-
tended that bank stock should be as
sessed like other property at its cash
value, less 40 per cent.
At the last session of the legisla-
ture a bill was struggled through Civ
ing banks the right to levy their own
doubtedly intended to prevent the flu
ture assessment of bank stock accord
ing to the law followed by Assessor
Cadman. The new law is plainly I'M
constitutional, as other property own
ers are not allowed to fix their own
assessments. 1t is hardly likely that
the national banks will be able to pack
the supreme court in favor Of a de-
cisiOn sustaining the constitutionality
Of such an unjust law, but the lobby
that secured it's passage would not
hesitate to attempt to influence the
court to uphold this rank example of
class Legislation.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09

officers and legislators were primari-
municipal paternalism in the United
States. Corporations failed to abide
by the conditions of franchise grants.
Public servants were dishonest. Other
serious wrongs and abuses existed. Re-
lief could be had only from a thorough
system, asserting municipal authority
and powers. Cities could serve them
selves and their public better by pro-
viding light and water, by operating
the street railways and conducting
ting restrictions on legislators and Of
ficials they could protect themselves
against dishonesty.
That there is need of a little NUM-
cipal paternalism cannot be doubted.
Whenever cities cannot own public
service plants, they should at least be
able to control the private companies;
and whenever they cannot control
the private companies, so as to get
satisfactory service, it is their duty
There is a sphere in which municipal
ownership and municipal paternalism
are a natural feature of government.
If they do not wish to have the ten
dency become an extreme, the people
must become competent citizens. The
municipality should be a capable pow
er. But the municipality should not
trespass on private rights. There is
medium Of municipal paternalism
by which many benefits may be secur-
ed; but there is an extreme by which
injury would be wrought. Common
sense and civic education are compe
tent to determine this medium, and
should do SO. If sentiment and ig-
norance prevail over judgment, the
instrument designed for betterment
will realize retrogression and detri
ment.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09
Roentgen Ray Society.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Dec. 9-Em-
inent physicians and scientists of New
York, Chicago, Cleveland, Louisville
and other cities were present today at
the opening of the third annual meet
ing Of the American Roentgen Ray
society. DR.. A. w. Goodspeed of the
University of Pennsylvania is the
president of the society and the meet
ing is being held under the university
auspices. The sessions are to con-
tinue two days and will be devoted al
most entirely to discussions Of the
value Of the TX ray from a medical
viewpoint. Prominent among those
present today was Captain Deane c..
Howard, representing the medical de-
partment of the United States army.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09
Baptist Missions FIourishinq.

CHARLOTTE, N. c. Dec. 9.-The
Baptist state convention which opened
in this city today is we'll attended by
delegates and visitors from every part
of the state. The annual reports of
officers and committees show the de-
nomination in North Carolina to be in
q flOurishing condition. The total
amount contributed to missions during
the year reached the $4,000 mark,
which is a considerable increase over
the donations of last year.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09

black and white citizens. The recent
changing their fundamental law so as
to restrict the suffrage by literary
and property qualification is, there
fore, not open to objection. 1t may
be thought eXpedient or ineXpedient,
but it violates no vested right either
under the law Of nature or under the
fundamental law of the country. OF
the status Of citizens in various COM
monwealths, Mr.. Scruggs says:
In the Greek democracies, all the
citizens were neither Legislators nor
magistrates; still less were they ever
bath at the same time. All Roman
citizens were not qualified electors. In
the Dutch republic, citizenship and
suffrage were never inseparable; in
point of fact, less than half the citi-
cantons, suffrage was never coexten-
sive with citizenship. In the republic
of France less than half the citizens
have, or ever had, a voice in the
government. Even in the Latin
American republics, where there has
been the nearest approach to univer-
sal suffrage, where women have all
the natural rights inherent in citizen
Ship and where even the nationality
of the son follows that Of the mother
instead of the father, no woman has
ever been a voter. In the United
States, women are citizens, entitled to
all the natural rights incident to that
relatiOn; yet no woman has ever eX-
ercised the elective franchise in vir-
tue of her citizenship. Where she has
voted at all, it has been in virtue of
an enabling act of the Legislature. In
word, it is an axiom of our law, il
Illustrated by numerous judicial de-
cisions, that the right to vote is not
an essential element of citizenship;
that a person may be a citizen, entitl-
ed to all the privileges and immuni-
ties incident to citizenship, without
having the right to vote"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09
CITIZENSHIP AND SUFFRAGE.

William L. Scraggs, one of the most
on constitutional law, in an able arti-
Gle in the December number of The
North American Review, discusses the
relation between "Ciuzenship and
Suffrage" Examining the various de-
finitions that from time to time have
been given of the term Citizen" Mr..
ScruggS concludes that any native
born or naturalized person, of either
sex, or of whatever condition, entitled
to full protection in the exercise of
all the natural or personal rights in
cident to membership of the state or
nation, is a citizen or a SUBJECTIVE
choice of terms being immaterial.
But there has always been a broad
distinction between natural and per-
sonal rights and the right Of parti-
cipating in the affairs of government.
The latter right is gift which is con-
ferred by the state. Mr.. Scruggs pas
ses in review the incidents through
which the idea Of American citizenship
bccii OcNClOpCO, paying pdI
attention to the effect of the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments to the con-
stitution. The fourteenth amendment
| did not materially change the status
| of the suffrage question and even in
the fifteenth amendment the right of
a vested right; there is in it an as
sumption only of the potential right
to vote, and this potential right can
become actual only by a law of the
state. or in a territory by law of
congress. The only mandate is that
in comforting the right to vote, the
grant must be impartial as between
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09
STATESMAN'S GREAT OFFER.

The Statesman today makes an i'm
portant announcement to all Its actual
or prospective subscribers. Friday
and Saturday of this week and Monday
of next week will be made bargain
days on which the daily may be Sc
cured to be delivered by carrier or by
mail at $3.50 a year, cash in advance.
The regular price of the daily is 65
cents a month Every subscriber TAX
ing advantage of this special offer will
save nearly 20 cents a month in the
cost of the paper. The Statesman can
afford to offer this bargain because
by getting it's money at the office in
advance it saves in the cost of send
ing a collector from house to house at
the beginning of every month. The
subscriber will not only gain by secur
ing the paper at reduced price, but
he will be spared the annoyance of
having a collector call at his residence
or place of business every month or
oftener in some cases.
The Statesman has never before
been offered at such low
price. This bargain is the more
remarkable in view Of the fact
that the paper is better than ever
before. Every reader recognizes the
fact that the local news service and
the Geographic report have been Won
derfully improved within the last
month. The paper now covers the
local field completely and it's tele-
graphic service gives all the import
ant news of the world on the same
day that it happens and fourteen hours
before any morning paper can put it
within reach of people who do not
rise before o'clock in the morning.
An evening paper has the advantage
over its morning competitors in any
part of the United States and on the
Pacific coast this advantage is espec-
tally marked because of the difference
of time. Al o'clock p. m. when the
Statesman goes to press, it is past 7
o'clock in New York and Washington,
D. c., and nearly midnight in London.
1t is plain. therefore, that all the i'm
portant events of the day on this con-
tinent and in Europe have occurred
before the Statesman locks its forms.
For example, the Statesman this
week was able to publish the presi-
dents message two and half hours
after it was delivered. While no morn
ing paper was able to give ii until the
next day. The Statesman alsO pub
fishes the doings of congress and all
other important events of this country
and of the old world on the same day
that they occur, While the morning pa
pers come trailing along many hours
later with rehash of twice-told tales.
The evening paper is taking the lead
everywhere and even slow going old
Walla Walla is waking up to the fact
that it is possible to read today's news
today instead of waiting till the next
morning, To wait might do for RiI
Van Wrinkles, but it will not do for the
i've progressive business man or any
other citizen who wants to read cur
rent events and not ancient history.
Since the Statesman improved its
news service and its typographical ap-
pearance about a month ago, there
has been gratifying increase in it
subscription list, but there is alwav:
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09
MUNICIPAL PATERNALIS

Progressive exaggeration of munich
pal paternalism in the United States
may look like a development from the
European methods of city government.
The principal cities of the old world
and the smaller cities Of most coun-
tremes in applying the theory, and a
similar expansion is now apparent on
this side Of the Atlantic.
Since the foreign cities were the pio-
neers in instituting laws and practices
affirming the concentration of large
powers and authority in the municipal
government, the inference might be
that in emulating them American
cities are intoxicating foreign ideas
into modern systems. But there is no
can cities are mere imitators or that
they have found European methods
to be superior.
While impressions may have been
produced here from observing the re-
suits of municipal paternalism
abroad, it is not likely that these i'm
preSSionS We're profound enough to
cause radical changes. The paternal-
istic tendency in United States cities
| is the OutgrOWth of conditions and
abuses. Whether the idea had pre-
vailed in Europe or not, it would have
/ been adopted in some measure. In
| charging the general principle, Amer
! lean cities are not so much borrowing
| philosophy derived from European
municipal experiences as they are es-
| tablishing original systems consistent
with affairs and policies peculiar to
this country.
( AbSalutism and democracy are not
| far at variance in the ultimate, as the
| one attains to supreme personal au-
| thOrity and the other to the tyranny
| of an arbitrOry system resembling
popular government. Municipal pa
| ternaliSm, when carried to the extreme
is the domination of system in city
government. Therefore, there is little
indication that it would have been ap-
piled in American cities if it were MOI
necessary.
The abuses committed by franchise
seekers and quasi-public corporations
and the crimes perpetrated by public
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09
Southern Ohio Poultry Show.

HAMILTON, o., Dec. 9.-Severa
states are represented at the fifth an
nual exhibition of the Southern Ohio
Poultry association, which opened to-
class of exhibits the show is one OF
the best of it's kind ever held in the
state Poultry fanciers are here from
far and near and the exhibition will
be the center Of interest until it closes
next Monday.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09
MUSIC WITH MEALS.

Chicago restaurant men have elm
mated OrchestraS as a gaStrOnOmic ac-
compartment, and now all the country
prominently to the fore: Is music a
good companion of eating?
Many patrons of fancy eating-pla-
ces will cry out vehemently against
a change, saying that the half
of taking dinner downtown lies in the
pleasure of listening to the little or
chestras. The patrons who favor mu-
sic, probably, are in the majority But
the trouble is that music lovers are
more divided than any one class Of
persons and that the bonifaces are
driven to their wits end to provide
programs which will fit widely differ
ing tastes.
When Sam Johnson, almost two CEN
turtles ago, defined music as the least
unpleasant of noises" he expressed
percentage of mankind. These people
stolidly and stiffly argue that they do
not enter a restaurant to pay for
steak with melody sauce a Ia Chopin,
Schumann, Wagner or ragtime. The
sauce they are after may be Borde-
laise, some other epicurean connection,
or just plain gravy. They desire to
eat and do not wish the solid enjoy
ment Of palate Utilization interfered
with by the best fiddler that ever fid-
died.
With the supporters of music divid
ed against themselves, and some other
persons asserting that the restaurants
could well dispense with orchestras and
improve the edibles, the action of the
Chicago prOprietors is easily under
stood. AS to securing harmony among
the musical element, as little chance
for that exists as for esta blishing the
blessings of peace among some polit-
ical factions we could mention. The
classicists stand irrevocably against
the ragtime and popular air. follow
ing, and, while the latter do not often
grow argumentative, they do worse
they positively refuse to evince the
slightest interest in any music of the
superior brand.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09
w EATHER.

Tonight and Thursday cloudy to
partly cloudy.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09
AT THE HOTELS.
The Dacres.

The DacreS.
c. L. Cannon, Seattle.
A. F. Hague, do
Geo. Everett, do
Miss Kate Lincoln, Chicago.
D. Leipman, Philadelphia.
H. S. Hagan. San Francisco.
Geo. Haverly. Chicago.
S. F. Patton and wife, Waitsburg.
G.. H. I'airtrother, san Francisco.
Albert S. GOss, Lamar.
p. NJ. Nevins, Seattle.
John NJ. Struck, Denver.
Norton Wilson, do
J. LOcnman, Salt Lake.
G. w. BrOwner, Sea tile.
E. c. Cluster Pomeroy.
Ed O. Shea. Spokane.
Jas. Managan, Spokane.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-09

room for more and in order to give
every family in Walla Walla chance
to have the daily Statesman as zest
to their evening meal and to brighten
the converse around the evening fire.
side this great bargain offer is now
made, which is positively limited to
the three days specif1ed-Friday and
Saturday of this week and Monday OF
next