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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-03
"Mystic Midgets."

1t would be difficult matter to for
mulate a more refreshing entertain
ment than that of the Mystic Mid
theater Friday and Saturday evenings
under the auspices of ST. GATHERINGS
society. \ wealth of color, a profus-
ion of childish voices and innocent
faces, with a setting of flowers, and
the Whole thrown into the softened eff
fects of color by the calcium light
screen. The mystic Midgets'' like
most of the latter day extravaganza
performances, carries out the idea of
a carnival Of nations. The heavy
comedy work is given to the gnomes
and the difficult representatives of all
the nations. Paul Whitehouse as
Uglio the Ogre, leader of the gnomes
handles his followers in an exception
ally clever manner. The gnOme dance
and song is one of the hits of the eve
ming. The gnomes are Walter Higgins
Oscar Weatherman, Walter Pauly, Ray
Ryan, Harry Davis, George Anger
Guy Melraney. Miss Milcent LerOuX
as Prince Odbillous ruler of the mys-
tic, rules her subjects with a master
hand. Commodore Harold Stevens, of
the mystic ship Phantom, gives orders
and commands with the air of an old
sea dog. The policeman, the same ev-
eryWhere, has a deal of trouble in
handling the various representatives
of the different nations, each one a
splendid diplomat in his or her part.
The nations are represented as fol-
lows:
Uncle Sam, America, Guy Struthers;
John Bull, England, Mart Metzger;
Terrence, McGinty, Ireland Robert
Garrahan; Rob Roy, Scotland, Willis
Hales; Karl Won Krause, Germany,
Lesne Anger; Policeman, same every
where, Donald Grange; Carlos Gorilla,
Spain, James Stack; Gaetanio Bana-
Mo- Italy, Ward Gardner; Count Pierre
Coutard, France F. Smitten jOr
DOLittle, Military commander, Edward
Dean; Ivan Ipanhoff, Russian, Everett
Coykendall; Not Worth a Cent, Indian,
Mason Whitman; Hop Sing, the Mys-
tics Washee Washee, Gail Group;
Tiko, Japan, Lizzie Babcock; Sambo
and Quimbo, two little Coons, Pullman
pets, Alfred Lowe, and Jay Allen.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-03
WAGE REDUCTION SETS IN.

Following in the wake of the cleo
ton comes information Of decreases
of wages in all sections of the country.
On Friday and Saturday of last week
a number of mills about Philadelphia
and at Columbia, Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, gave notice of reduc-
tons in wage rates Of on an average
ten per cent and on Monday the
Reading Tube and Iron Company post
ed notices of a reduction in the wages
of puddlers from $3.50 to 81 a ton. At
Harrisburg similar reductions were
made in some mills while others shut
down altogether, the reason being,
presumably to make it easier to force
the men to consent to the reduction.
Manifestly the notices of these re-
auctions were withheld until after the
elections for political reasons. The
men were allowed to continue under
the false notion that prosperity is
unimpaired until they had cast their
votes for the party which pretends to
act as Providence for the industrial
element of the country, and having
conveyed an extension of power for
another year at least, the truth is
presented to them in the cruel and
forbidding form of notice of a de-
crease in wages. 1t is poor cOmpensa
ton for their services and servitude.
But it is about what might be expected
from the pampereA tariff pensioners
who are fifty represented in the public
life of the country by Mark Hanna.
There has been no diminution of the
cost of living to salve the bruise on
the hearts of the deceived working
men which the decrease in wages will
involve. The sober, Industrious and
honest mechanic who hoped to increase
the comforts of his family out of the
fruits of an uninterrupted prosperity,
will be obliged to smother that delight
full expectation and do the best he can
with diminished revenues and unal-
tered necessities. Meantime the pub
lie prohigacy will go on unimpeded and
Hanna and the horde of hungry beef
eaters who cluster about him will en-
joy their plenty while idle workmen
suffer from want.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-03
MACHINE EGOTISM.

1t would appear that the climax OF
audacity has been reached by the
republican bosses of Pennsylvania, ir
their representation of the politica
condition Of the state and the trend OF
public opinion in regard to the record
Of machine-rule.
Senator Penrose is given as author
ity. for the statement that "the people
of Pennsylvania are satisfied with Their
national and state governments anG
they are determined to "let vel
enough alone" They do not want
a change in either the methods or the
policies Of the national or state gov
ernment." That is to say, He that is
filthy, let him be filthy STILL" Let bri-
berry, political lust and usurpation OF
power hold high carnival in the state
and without restraint.
Whether such conclusions are cor
rect or not it is the determination OF
the machine bosses, with their charac-
teristic audacity to force that construc-
ton of the public's Indifference dowr
the threats Of the people.
If the egotistic boasting of the Pen
rose declarations have any semblance
of truth, God save that commonwealth
and the rights and liberties of the peo-
p1e
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-03
FOUND DEAD IN BED.

Washtucna Enterprises: John Ingles
was found dead in his bed at 6: 80
Tuesday morning. in his room at G.
w. Bassetts house. DR.. H. H. Brown
was Immediately summoned, and after
an examination stated that death had
resulted from heart failure and had
occurred two hours before.
Mr.. Ingles was a single man. He
has lived in the vicinity Of Washtucna
for three years and has for some time
been in the employ of G. w. Bassett
at whose house he lived. He was 40
years of age. His father and step
mother, Mr.. and Mrs. James Ingles
live on Rattlesnake fiat.
Senator O. T. Cornwell, of Walla
Walla, was at kahlotus from Satur-
day till Wednesday looking after land
interests he has near that town.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-03

council will give the people falr
chance at the several propositions now
being discussed they will soon settle
the water question. The Statesman is
willing to bow to the will of the peo-
pie whenever it is fairly expressed on
propositions squarely submitted. There
are in fact three propositions before
the people. First, in the view OF the
Statesman, and we believe in the
Judgment of a majority Of the bust
ness men of the city, is the Glasford
plan for making immediate use of the
flow of water developed at Thomas
springs and developing more as the
needs of the city may require: second,
the First National Bank plan of hav-
ing the city pay $4,000 for half the
Thomas ranch as a condition of its
being allowed to make use Of its
$4,000 water rich and $4,000 develop
ment work; third, the National Bank
plan of having the city abandon its
water right and development work on
the Thomas ranch and issue bonds to
the amount of $3.50, 900 for taking water
from a point twelve miles up Mill
creek, with a probability of having to
paw 100000 more to settle damages
claimed by riparian owners.
The second and third propositions
might be combined in one, thus allow
ing the people to make a clear-cut de-
cision between the Glasford plan and
the First National Bank scheme. The
result of such an election is a fore
should make haste in going through
the formalities required by law.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-03
HOLD FAST TO THE GOOD.

Hold fast to that which is good,
Gil in dealing with the water problem
No city in the country has a better
and purer water supply so far as 1t
goes than Walla Walla. There is no
reason why consumers having plenty
of good water under the present Sys-
TEN should be forced to connect with
q new system. They are well satisfied
with what they have and believe in
letting well enough alone.
However, stronger pressure is need
ed in the business district for fight
ing fire and water must be supplied to
the people in the more elevated
residence districts of the city who
cannot be supplied from the present
system. Both these objects can be
easily accomplished by the plan pro-
posed by Councilman Glasford. He
would make use of the flow of water
developed at Thomas springs to sup
ply the business section and that pOr-
ton of the city east Of Howard street
now inadequately provided with water
The present flow at Thomas springs is
sufficient to meet present needs and
when it is utilized the council will
have time to carry on further develop
ment work at Thomas springs accord
ing to the plan advocated by Council
men Smith and Boyer or by some 9TH
er scientific method.
The Glasford plan is not a tenn
porary eXpedient'. 1t provides the
basis for a complete water system for
city Of ten times the population OF
Walla Walla. According to Engineer
kiersted the supply of water at
Thomas springs is sufficient for all the
needs of a population of from twenty
five to thirty thousand people and
when that mark is passed Walla Walla
can tap Mill creek at one time as well
as another and augment her water
supply to the highest point necessary
But it is fOllw to resort to Mill creek
now when there is an abundance OF
pure, cold spring water belonging tC
the city on the Thomas ranch. The
right to use this water cost the Walla
Walla Water Company $4,000 and ir
developing the flow the city has al
ready expended nearly $4,000. The
people will never vote to abandon this
valuable right in order to increase the
market value of the land for the ben
eft of the First National Bank, which
acquired the Thomas ranch by the
foreclosure of a mortgage a few years
ago. Neither will the people vote fol-
any scheme that involves the purchase
of half the ranch for $4,000 in order
to give the bank handsome profit or
the sale of the other half In spite OF
the ingenious attempts to hide the rea
title of the land the people are not te
be fooled and they will not submit tc
any hold-up game for the benefit OF
any private interests.
No one would object to the council:
submitting the proposition for the
Thomas ranch or for the abandonment
of the springs in favor of the Mil
creek bankruptcy scheme to the people
and allowing them to decide between
1t and the Glasford plan, but if the
former proposition is submitted alon,
II will be buried out of sight. If tn,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-03
DESIRABLE LIBRARY SITES.


The city owns a site that would be
desirable for the Carnegie library
building. 1t is the lot on PalOuse
street between the Mott Candy Com
panys new building and Mill creek. A
blacksmith'S shop now stands on the
lot, which is One-hundred feet wide
and at least e-hundred and fifty
feet long. This site is in a good part
of the city near the business center
and easily accessible. 1t is near Will
man college and the Carnegie building
would add to the attractiveneSs of
that part of the city.
Another desirable site is the Ward
property at the corner of PalOuse and
East Alder, adjoining the Walla Walla
hospital grounds. The Statesman is
informed that this lot is offered to the
city for $500 dollars, which is $500
less than has been offered for it within
the last year. If the city council pre-
fers this site the lot on Palouse street
could probably be sold for enough to
pay the price.
The city is growing eastward and it
is generally agreed that the library,
if not located in the heart of the bust
ness district, should go to the east
side
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-03
KANSAS PROSPERITY.

Kansas has had a trial Of a change
from democratic-p opulist admins
Jration, which has given the people
some costly experience. The repub-
lican legislature increased taxation
IN real estate 35 per cent. without
making any improvement in the pub
2ic service. The eight thousand seven
hundred miles of railroad in the state
is taxed at a rate of 1910 mills on the
valuation while farm property is tax
ed at rate of 10 mills on the dollar
Of valuation.
To compensate the farmers for this
gross inequality the republicans claim
to have given to the farmers the
splendid crops of corn and wheat that
they have just harvested.
This claim of the local state govern
ment of Kansas must be considered
a political heresy, as the prerogative
of sending good crops to the farmers
of this country must be ascribed to
Roosevelt, Quay Plass and Mark Han
ma, who must be recognized as the
sole dispensers of national prosperity.
The disastrous food that destroyed
millions of property in Kansas must
be blamed on Bryan and the dem
ocrats.
Republican prosperity to farmers
comes through an invisible tariff tax
of fifty per cent. added to the real
value of everything that they need in
the economy of their homes This
prosperity tax is needed in the incuba-
ton of millionaires. who pay republi-
can campaign expenses
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-03

j. H. Bay, do
G.. G. Furlay, Enterprise, Or.
Maggie Binnie, Spokane.
Miss E. B. Groves, do
L. E. Hammer, do
Ed Blackburn, do
The Palace.
John A. McCracken, Portland.
J. F. ThraSher, Wallula.
Robert Stuart, San Francisco.
D. E. George, Waitsburg.
oliver Lynch, Umatilla.
H. Moullon, Cornell.
Miss L. Ketchum, Portland.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-03
ADJUSTMENTS
The Lauder Concerts.

Walla Walla people who are inter-
will have fine entertainment this
coming week in the lectures and con-
certs that are to be given by the emf
nent artist, w. Waugh Lauder.
The first lectures will be given to-
the first concert tomorrow night at
s o'clock
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-03
AT THE HOTELS.
The Dacres.

The Dacres.
P. M. Miller, Chicago.
n. A. Seldue, do
H. S. Darwin, Duluth.
Geo. Aver. do
Morton DOley, Portland.
F. E. Simpson. Athena.
H. r. Koyue, Milton.
Geo. E. K. Fachtner, Portland.
F. w. Hall, Chicago.
The State.
D. Bay, La Grande,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-12-03

The increase in Walla WalIa's pOpu-
the state statistician is based upon a
comparison of the school census re-
ports of the two years. Everybody
knows that the population during the
last year has increased by several
a falling off in the number of children
Of school age in the district during the
year. This showing was manifestly
incorrect. Many families were over
looked. Next year the board of educa-
ton should see that every child is
rounted so that the population Of the
city may not be misrepresented to the
detriment of the town.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-13

This beautiful domestic comedy
drama will be the opening bill by
Ewing Taylor combination at the
opera house. Monday evening, March
16. A story that for dramatic inten.
sity and power has never been ex-
celled. There Is an intermingling OF
pathos and comedy, tears and laugh
ter. A homespun New England idyl
OF true heart interest free from yul-
garity and ribald lest and as pure and
sweet as breath OF new-mown-hay,
IL will be intersperced by q carefully
and we'll selected company with per-
feet stage environments aud has been
pronounced both press aud public an
exceptionally powerful and pleasing
production. The engagement is for
three nights 10 40 entire new reper-
toire Of plays. Populsf prices will
prevail, viz: Is. IS and SO cents. Seats
at post ofilce book stose.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-13

Yesterday the offices Of the Chero
kee Townsile Commission In the Hill
building were closed indefinitely, O
perhaps until sometime In July when
the s25 900 appropriated for townsite'
will be available. The recodrs were
locked up under orders from the In
terror Department and Chairman
Long and Clerk Bland left On yester-
day afternoon's Frisco for their homes
at Rolla. Chic: Clerk Wise will re-
main In vinita and engage In the
real estate business. Mr., Long has
been rendered and has accepted the
appointmeut Of Postmaster a Rolla,
MO. The salary is 1880 per aunum
and he has resigned the position Of
chairman OF the Townsite Commis-
sion. Col. w. H. Shipmon OF Tulsa is
slated for Longs successor.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-13
GIVING THEM THEIR TITLES.
It Comes Little Awkward to plain
American Citizens to Handle
the ssTufts.v

Titles do not belong in America.
and it so rarely falls to the lot OF
our citizens to have to use them that
little awlxwardness is excusable.
Only the other day a village class
in literature. engaged in studying
Dickens, spent half an hour Of one
session on the question-suggested
by reading from The Old Curiost
ty Shop"--of what a marchioness re-
ally Is, and how the word should be
pronounced. "Marshy-o-ness, the
wife Of a field-marshsl," had been
generally agreed on, until it oc'
Cured to the schoolmistress to run
across to the library and look in the
dictionary, relates Youths Compan-
ion.
A suburban Yankee clerk, to
whose lot it fell to be sent to trans
act q small piece of business with Q
real travelling duchess, went even
further astray. A ccmrade told him,
just as he was starting out, that he
must be sure to address the great
lady as your gra;e."
mot If / know M" was the de-
risive reply yours truly isn't a
born idiot. Hanged IL pretend to
be up on duchesses, but know
they're not queens, anyway. You've
got to call q queen by her Christian
name, because she hasn't any other
kind; but there it stops. This wom-
an isn't my Grace, and don't know
whose Grace she is, and what's more,
don't care, nor what's the one par
ticular, correct handle to her last
name. either. I'm going to call her
just lady, and that's got to 90. If
she is one it's all right, and If she
isn't it doesn't matter"
His reasoning was correct If his
form of address was not. Had he
chosen the good old-established form
of madam instead of lady, he would
have erred in neither.
Our friends of the colored race, al
ways readily impressed by outward
dignities, take willingly to the use
of titles, even though they OCCASION
ally pervert them. 1t was a colored
butler who. with manifest enjoy
ment of the opportunity, ushered
into the drawing-room cardinal
who had called upon his mistress,
sonorously announcing, with his ut
most impressiyeness:
"His remnantsl"
His eminence preserved the "rem-
nants" Of his gravity until the door
closed. when he gave way TO mirth
at this surprising reduction to frag-
ments of the usual title accorded to
a prince of the church.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-13

George Armstrong is here from bi'
farm on Gran1 river.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. E. Halsell are ex-
pected home from Western Texas to
morrow.
II you bought garden seed OF US last
year and was pleased don't forget 70
tell your neighbors about us this year
Frazee Hard ware s. Furniture Co
Tom Badgett Is suffering with
rheumatism.
Mrs. w. I. Davenport has pDeumo-
MIA.
If you want ferce that viii last
for ages and turn cattle, sheep, hogs,
to-. get the American hog fence OF
the Darrough Hardware Co. tt
Harry Pennington left yesterday
Afternoon for Miami to reside.
A girl baby was born few days
since to DR.. and Mrs J. r. Hollings-
worth Of Pensacola.
J. w. Orr, Of the International
Trust Company, returned from Ohio
last night.
While we are advertising garden
seed don't forget that we are pushing
the Ellwood hog fencing, the best on
earth. Frazee Hardware Il Furni-
ture Co.
Mrs. j. w. Bradley, who lives four
miles from town, died last night after
a short illness.
Rev. J. s. StubbIeheld returned
from Fayetteville last night, where
be had been 20 yisit his parents.
Judge Gill returned from SallIsaw
this morning, where he hls been hold
ing court.
For Cattlemen's Convention, Ell
Paso, Tex, the Frisco will sell round
trip at one fare plus 81, commencing
March 5, final return limit March IS.
Good for stop over at Ft. Worth. BY
proper execution tickets will be good
to return by April I.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-13

The frequency with which old pipes
made Of clay, wood and metal have
been found in England, Ireland. Ger
many, Switzerland and France. has
led archaeologists TO the belief that
the ancients may have smoked. The
belief receives some color from pas
sages in ancient authors. Herodotus
remarks that the Inhabitants of the
Aroxes islands, supposed to be the
modern volga, "were wont to throw
piles of fruit on fire and then 70
inhale the vapor, with the result that
they became as drunk as ever the
Greeks became after drinking wine.
and the more fruit they threw on the
fire the more drunk they became" !"
Pomponius Mela talks in a similar
strain Of certain Thracian tribes.
Pliny asserts that the vapor Of plants
was used to cure diseases, and says
that in some instances it was even
inhaled through . tube.-Scientific
American
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-13

Experience of n Telephone IAneman
That Was Hair-Raising and
No Mistake.

An old lineman lately told Of try
ing experience which came to him
while be was hunting for break In
the telephone connection between the
main Office and the insane hospital
at Indianapolis. He had followed the
line all the way out. and found that
the difficulty lay between q 40-foot
pole and the telephone in the mems
building. AS he passed along he mo-
ticed several TRUSTEES" guarded by
their keepers. working in the garden,
relates Youths Companion.
II had to climb tree In an isolated
part OF the yard" !" he said, ITO unfasten
q wire that had become entangled in
limb. connected my test set and
called up the wire chief and ex-
planned the case to him. With the
work and the talk perhaps was in
the tree 20 minutes.
IT was on the point Of dropping
from a lower limb to the ground
when saw a crazy man waiting for
me with a large pruning knife in his
hand. He was one of the gardeners
whom had passed.
"'Come DOWN. he cried. i know
you. You stole my $1,000. Give It
back or I'll kill YOU And when he
saw me hesitate and draw back he
yelled: Come down. or I'll come up
there after your
II scrambled higher into the tree
and shouted for help. but none csme.
The madman found heavy board.
and placing it against the tree, start
ed to climb up. but in his hurry and
excitement he did not place 1t secure
ly, and when he was about half way
up It slipped and he went sprawling
to the ground. He tried It three
times with the same result. Then an
other inmate came saunterlng by.
and at once took d hand in the game.
He held the plank for the other man,
who soon made good headway.
AT that instant I bethought me to
attach my test set and summon help
through the Office.
".Call up the insane hospital l
called, and tell them to send help
TO me in the garden! There are two
lunatics after me. and one of them
has long knife. Hurry,'
"I looked down then. and saw that
the maniac was In the tree. When
Just below me he seated himself on a
limb. and drawing the knife back and
forth across his palm. said: Look!
Won't it cut?
'He started toward me. and had
.nne hand on my foot. and / had
raised the other TO kick him. when
several keepers rushed up. Two Of
them climbed the tree. and Just as he
raised the knife to strike they
reached him and threw rope round
him. So intent was he on getting at
me that he did not see them, and
was easily taken"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-03-13

The best pill meath the stars and stripes:
II clcanses the system and never gripes.
Little Early Risers Of world repute-
Ask for DeWitt's and take no substitute.
A small pill. easy to buy, easy to ltake
and easy to act, but never failing in re-
suits. Dewitt's Little Earlyi Risers
arouse the secretions aud act as "a scuic
to the liver. curing permanently. AIw
Foreman. DIV