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The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09
NEW LODGE
Organized at This Place Last
Friday Night.

frluaN Night.
The order of Modern Workmeu of
the World established a lodge at this
place on last Friday night and 80
members were initisted The lodge
was organized by j.. r. Haskins,
organizer. who spent several days ia
the Gap last week working mp a
membership.
The following officers were elected
for the ensuing year w 1. Nickels
w. w; .. j. Buckley. Y. w. W
C. NJ. Daugherty, S & r. lohg
Taylor, DR.. p. w, T. W Heuritz
c.; II. X. Palmer, p; NJ Zieglar
l. 5; \. b. Pippin. w; ;. Il. Brooks
O. :.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09

We understand that the fare on
the Cumberland Valley division Of
the Louisville and Nashville has
been reduced from four 90 threc cents
per mile. which will be greatly ap-
precisted 10y the travelling public
The fare has been four cents per mile
ever since the road was built.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09

4 fine slight used upright piano.
bright and almost new. In perfect
order. fully warranted FIVE years. for
$4,000 cash or on easy payments.
with ga interest per snuum. a very
great bargain and should not be ovet-
looked. IL you want piano. The
Hobbic Co., Roanoke.
Head. Sloan a. Taylor are agents
for the celebrated New Home Sewing
Machine and can sell you machine
cheaper than amy one else.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09
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Big Stone Gap, Va.

Judge Skeen paid Scott county
deserved compliment when he said
she had the best set Of county officials
Of any county that he visits This
is saying a great deal for our officials
but no more than they deserve
Scott County Leader.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09

Easter services will be held on
Sunday at Trinity Methodist Church.
Subject At morning ser
vice: THE Resurrection: Al night
The New Birth" John ) chAp. ;
verse.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09

James Hawkins. Of TsksweIl, has
accepted a position - clerk IN the
drug store AZ this place. Mr.. Hsw--
kias is well known ia the Gap. as
he formerly held the same position.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09

Head. Sloan e. Taylor axe agents
ior the Green Seal Paint. one OF the
best paint- ON che market. Try ID.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09

The commencement exercises Of
Gladville College viii be held ON
April 10Th and 18th at night. The
commencement sermon viii be
preached on April l9th 10y Rev.
Charles +. Painter, &C Dickensonville
Circuit.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09

Head. Sloan 4 Taylor buy sash
aud doors by the carload and are
prepared to give you special prices
on them. Call aud see them.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09
BOARDERS WANTED.

am prepared 70 accommodate per
sons desiring board in Big Stone
Gap.
For further informations apply TO
Mas. A. J. BRowN.
Big Stone Gap,
Near Inteimont Building.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09
FOR SALE.

We have for sale hay, chop aud
com at reasonable prices Call and
see as. We are also dealers in coal
i. @. PArrrRsoS a. Co.
F-h sem
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09
CIuboing offer.

The Big Stone Gap Post 10 eiahbin
witatbe following papers at the follosins
rktes.
Post and Thriee-s-week New
ysrk World. ...........-.... .sl.a
TAe Post aud Tie T~ice-a-week
Lsai.s,lle coaTssr-Jsarnai. !. ..s,.ss
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09

The commission has awarded g.
considerable increase iu wage, Co
.uine workers aud the operators are
making ample provision for 10 by
adding "a -til larger rcr ceutage to
the price ofcoal D. thcy can sell 40
thi- increased price. it viii be a
mouey-makuug arrangement. The
hope OF consumers resides iu che fact
that coal has been placed on the iiee
list DO this docs not bring relief
then the situation is hopeless. SOB Oar
a~ the public IS concerned -pmriI.
Rrg's.r
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09

Shaler Gilly, who is engaged in
the lum Der business at Rock House
Russell county. spent few days IN
town last week visiting relatives.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09
"My Sons"


said a great business man. "are my
partners and they need all the
strength and courage | can give
them, and he forthwith paid for a
$1,000, 900 policy in The Mutual
Life Insurance Company of New
York Not without the most care
ful investigation, however. extend
ing over six months. He was con
WINGED BY Just such facts as led the
President of a National Bank IN
New York 10 make the curious and
shrewd provision in his will, which
is contained in "a Bankers VIII.
Write for it and also for the
account Of the $1,000. 600 policy,
"The Largest Annual Premiums.
Tais eonpasy raass
Ffaf-Iu Assets.
fsrz-Ia Auaoaat Pad Pcliss-holdszs.
The Mutual LIFE INSURANCE
COMPANY OF Nav YoRg.
RseAAse a. xscusDs r-e-sa-n1
Frank W. Adams, Manager
for Virginia.
Wise County Insuf. Agency,
4 BIG STONE GAP. VA,
District Managers.
Renew your subscrip-
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09
EAST TENNESSEE FARMS.
THE BELT OF COUNTRY

THE BELT OF COUNTRY
on which we have land for sale is
famous for its fertility and the
excellence of its crops.
There is no better farming Sec
ton ina the country. We can sell
YOU farms all sizes, prices and
kinds. Write us for catalogue.
MOrriStOxn Real Estate Exchange,
MORRiSTOWN, TENN.
The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1903-04-09

Written at a simple sitting Give
As handed in.-PmNcRAL.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09
LARIMER is RIGHT.

Dave Larimer. the Politician" of
the SpCkesman-Review. is right when
he says thai it does not become the
Levites to charge Governor Mcbride
with disloyalIy to republican legisla-
tive candidates in Eastern Washing,
ton last year. It is true that Nc
Bride did not make any special effort
10 elect republican candidates known
to be in league with the railroad lob
by. To have done so would have been
10 belle his own attitude regarding
the proper regulation and equitable
taxation Of corporations.
In the campaign Of 1900, however,
the Levites gave open or covert sup
port to Governor Rogers in almost
every county Of the state. In this
county Frink ran nearly four hundred
votes behind his ticket and in Spo-
kane and King counties thousands
of Levites voted for Rogers. 1t may
as well be admitted in this cOnnec-
ton that for some mysterious reason
the railroads in that campaign Oppos-
ed F'rink and did their best to secure
the reelection of Rogers. It seems
that Frink was wrongly accused of
being the railroad candidate, but the
other fellow got the votes controlled
by the railroad lobby.
Why this was true the Statesman
will not now undertake to explain.
Certain it is that Governor Rogers
felt under great obligations to the
kevites and that he deferred to the
wishes Of Mr.. Ankeny in several in
sances in making appointments. The
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09
A;:.B!'(''
BOHEMIAN
Pure. Pole and Sparkling. Bottled
Only at the Brewery in St. Louis.
BachtOId & Achcrmann.
Wholesale Dealers.

perienced steambOatmen on the Up
per Columbia, after nAss a tril
with the Washington State Congress
sional delegation, including Senators
Foster and Ankeny and Congressman
Jones, from Wenatchee. claim that
from $4,000 to 100000 will put the
river in navigable condition from
Wenatchee to this city.
Further work would aid navigation
materially, but with the chief obstruc-
tions blasted out, the needs of the
farmers, miners and fruitgrOwers
could be quite satisfactorily met, es-
pecially when the river is not over
flowing and turbulent during June of
each year. During the freshet season
no steamer could live. for instance, in
Box canyon. But for all practical pur-
poses and for the present urgent
needs of the settlers and merchants,
immediate relief would follow the eX-
penditure of $120,000 to s250,000 On
dynamite and a little cribbing along
the Upper Columbia.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09

of the day. A general policy or pro
era stination is fairly deducible from
the attitude of officials. Too many
men intimately connected with tbs
suDDospd work are denying al
knowledge of its progress and results
Not very long ago President Roos
eveIt was reported to have decreed
that q greater secrecy must be oD
served with regard 20 developments
Since that time. However reliable the
reports may have been, the admins
tratiCn has been guilty Of no slips OF
admissions. And, bearing upon the
ro1icv it IS noticeable that a great
number CT officials have arisen tc
promise things. The promises nave
been vasue.
Patent. also. is the fact OF lack OF
insistence by the republican press
Commentator for the great work al
ready performed has been the note of
the party newspapers; and the great
works, consisting OF nothing more
than a handful Of indictments found
by federal grand jury. have been
rather magnified in Importance. The
republican press, almost to a unit mas
stood between the administration
and public opinion.
The effect produced upon the public
by the attitude Of the administration
and the organs agreeable to its pur-
poses has been bewilderment. The
people are at a loss to understand
the meaning of the pretext, vague
promise and apparent inactivity and
hamilton The people cannot trace
the results Of the investigations.
They are put off with mysterious
mods and with 'Wait, wait, wait" AS
if a powder fuse was burning its I'M
seen way underneath the mountain of
scandal and a tremendous explosion
was coming. Undoubtedly the explo-
sion is due.
But the people are not convinced
that the fuse is working. The general
result Of the utterances and opera
tons so far has been to subtitle the
investigation. The country is wait
ing and wondering.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09
WHERE WE MAY LEARN.

American cities could learn a great
deal from Canadian cities regarding
honest and efficient municipal govern
ment with the greatest good to the
greatest number from the money
raised by taxation. There is an air
Of solidity and permanency about
most Canadian cities that is almost
entirely lacking in cities of equal
population in the United States. For
example, in Victoria, city of twenty
FIVE thousand people, all the business
buildings are of brick or stone, The
business streets are all well paved
and kept scrupulously clean, and in
the residence districts the streets are
all paved or macadamized. Yet the
rate of taxation in Victoria for all
purposes, municipal and provincial,
is only twenty-five mills. How so
many substantial improvements ali
public utilities are secured with so
little money is pulling to visitors
from the American side who are &C
customed to paying a much higher
rate of taxation with comparatively
insignificant results.
In Walla Walla the rate Of taxa Ion
last year was 142 mills; yet there is
not a single block Of pavement in the
city. 1t is true that paving is usual
ly done in American cities by special
assessment Of abUtting property, but
Walla WaIla has been very slow in
making q move to get this much
needed improvement either by gen
eral or by special taxation.
In Canadian cities every dollar is
made to so as far as possible. A pub
lie office is not used as private
snap. No gratis are allowed. Munic-
ipal government in the United States
has been almost a complete failure
so far in the history Of the govern
ment. and it behOOves the people who
would redeem the good name Of the
nation in this respect to profit from
the lessons that may be learned by a
study of systems of municipal gov
eminent in foreign cities with view
to adopting whatever is suited to our
free institutions.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09

governors attitude toward the North
ern Securities merger gave the rail-
roads no reason to regret that Frlnh
had been defeated.
But since McBride's accession tC
the gCyernCrship the railroad lobby
has no doubt wished many times that
it had eiected Frink, who would not
have been so persistent in his advo-
cacy Of a railway commission and the
lust regulation and control OF corpoI-
ations in the interests Of the common
peODle,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09

Read the ads in the Statesman
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09
THREE TINES CONVICTED.

For the third zine Caleb Powers,
who in January, 1900, was acting sec
rotary Of the state of Kentucky, has
been convicted of the murder OF Gov
ernor Goebel of that state. Twice he
was tried before Judge Cantril, found
guilty and sentenced for life. The
third trial was before another Judge
and ended two weeks ago. The YER
diet Of the jury was guilty, as before,
and the sentence was to death by
hanging. AS in both the other trials
the evidence was overwhelming and
positive. The sentence was IN accord
ance with the testimony, but there
will be an appeal again. A republican
partisan court Of appeals reversed the
Judgment of the lower court in both
the other cases. At present the re
publican party has not a majority on
that bench.
The murder of Governor GOebel was
one of the most atrociOus crimes OF
recent years. His predecessor in Of
flee had been a republican and in the
campaign which resulted in GOebefs
election every form Of fraud and force
was employed to compass the election
of the republican candidate. The
state militia was perverted into re-
publican machine, but nOtWithstand-
ing these expedients the democratic
candidate. Senator GOebel, was elect
ed. In order to change the result,
however, the defeated republican can
JiIlte was inaUgurated ahead Of time
and when the rightfully chosen exec
utive came to qualify his claim was
resisted by force. The day before
that fixed for his Inauguration he was
assassinated. the shot coming from
window in the office of the secretary
of state, Caleb Powers.
Manifestly the motive for the crime
was to prevent the inauguration Of the
honestly elected governor and the
court officers directed their efforts to
discover the perpetrators. Soon one
Of the mOuntaineers who had been
munity confessed his part in the af-
fair and implicated others. They con
firmed his statement and added some
thing. In that way the chain of facts
was followed until finally it was
traced to Governor Taylor and Secre-
tary Of State Powers. Taylor became
a fugitive from justice and attended
the republican national convention Of
1900 as the lion of the occasion. Sub
sequently President Roosevelt, then
governor of New York, refused to
honor a requisitiOn for him and he 10
Gated in Indiana, where he has since
remained under protection of Cover
nor Durbin who was recently com
mended by President Roosevelt for
protecting a negro, who had outraged
white child. from d mob.
Powers. with more confidence and
less discretion, took his chances of q
trial and exhausted every eXpedient
to secure his acquittal. All the re-
sources of the republican machine
" 6l Z 1l1NOhSu anu NlIutSSSS were DuII-
led and bribed and in every other way
urged to refuse to testify. But they
told the story with the result that one
of the murderers of Governor GOebel
is now in the shadow of the scaffold
and the chances are that he will pay
the penalty OF the crime on the day
set in November.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09
WEATHER..
Tonight and Thursday fair.

The Statesman does not believe
that a majority Of the people of this
city demand the closing of the Fruit
Fair on Sunday. as a majority are not
regular attendants at Sunday services
and are inclined to believe that peo-
pie should be allowed to worship Goi
and enjoy themselves as they please
on the Sabbath so long as they do
not transgress the laws Of order and
decency. However, the ministers
have the right OF all American citi-
zens to petition or protest to their
hearts content. and they will at
least have the satisfaction Of having
gone on record according to their con
vIcuons Of right and duty, however
Unayailing their petitions and protests
may prove to be
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09

$3.50 to Ogden and Return $25.10
$26.6O to Salt Lake and Return $26.6o
The o. r. & n Co. announce the
above rates to Ogden and Salt Lake
and return account Of the IRRIGA-
TION CONGRESS to be held at Og-
den September Is to 18th.
Tickets On sale Sept. 18th and 18th
with a final limit of Oct. 10th. These
tickets will be good for stop-over on
the return trip.
or address
r. BURNS,
General Agent.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09

The Union admits in its leading
editorial this morning that the ma
chine candidate for mayor was near
ly defeated and the machine candi-
date for chief Of police was badly
beaten at the recent election because
of the opposition Of the Ministerial
Union. No doubt there was good rea-
son for this solid opposition by the
ministers Of the city to the machine
candidates and it was certainly not
complimentary to the administration
The Union asks the ministers what
was gained by their united action. It
was not so much question of what
should he gained as what should be
prevented. The ministers believed
that a combination had been formed
for the perpetuatiOn Of open gambling
in this city in spite Of the new law,
and they certainly blocked any game
of that sort as we'll as some others
that were believed to be in cOntem-
plation by the machine. The exodus
of gamblers and macQues from the
city after the election proved that the
work Of the ministers was not in
vain
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09

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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09
SUBTILIZING THE INQUEST.

An increasing air of mystery is be
ing permitted TO envelop the "investi-
cations Of the administration scan
dals. Vague statements are the order
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09
To Improve Upper Columbia.

Kettle Falls, Wash.-Captain j. D.
Miller, Captain Bruce Griggs and Cap
tain Clifford c. Griggs, the most eX-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09
Time Schedu7e-WaIIa WsIIa.
TRO TRAINS DAILY.

Time schedu'e-WaTIa WaIIa:
No. Z Arrives from Spo-
kane ...... ....... 400 n
and departs for
Pendleton and the
east -. ......... 400 p NJ
NO. s Arrives from Pen
dletOn and the east
and departs .10:00 a ~
for Spokane and the
Palouse country ...10:00 a %
No. 43 Leaves for Portland
and Spokane via
Wallula -. ....1O:15 p %
No. "A Arrives from Port
land and Spokane
via WalluIa ....... 2:55 an
No. Al Leaves for Pendle-
ton Except Sunday)10:O0 a n
No, ~ Arrives from Pen
dleton Except Sun
day. 49,. .... 9:1Ah, N
NO. % Arrives from Dayton 500 L
NO. 90 Leaves for DAYTON. 1880 N
No. As Leaves for WaIluIa. 800 n
No. 46 Arrives from Waltz
Id 6:3U q
Through Pullman Standard and
Tourist Sleeping cars daily to Omaha
Chicago, Spokane; Tourist sleeping
car daily to Kansas City; through
Pullman tourist sleeping cars (per
Sonally conducted weekly to Chicago
and Kansas City; reclining chair car:
Iseats free) TO the East daily.
STEAMER LINES.
San Francfsco-POrtland route
Steamer sails from Portland s D.
every 5 days.
Daily Boat Service between Port
land, Astoria, Oregon City. Dayton
Salem, Independence. Corvallis and
all Columbia and Willamette River
points.
SNAKE RIVER BOATS
Leave Riparia Sundays, TUESDAYS
and Thursdays.
Leave Lewiston Mondays. Weines
days and Saturdays.
R. BURNS, Gen. Agent,
Walla Walla. Wash.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-09-09
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

Copy of change of advertisement
must be delivered to the business Of
flee by the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. to
insure insertion in the issue of even
date.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30
0VERTRAIN YOUTHS
Germany's Commercial Rise
Has Been at a Great Cost.
SpeciaI Foreign Service.

Special Foreign Service.
BERLIN, Aug. 29.-Prussian mill
tary authorities are becoming alarmed
at what they term the degeneration of
the German youth. In countries like
Germany, where a term of military
service is required of every able man,
the examinations for army fitness are
pretty apt to indicate the true state
of the nations health, and when IT
out of every 1000 applicants have
weak hearts, it is no wonder that the
authorities decide there is something
wrong
Between the years 1881 and 1885 the
annual average of persons with heart
trouble was low, only 1.5 per 1000, and
high water mark was reached in 1898.
when the average was found to be ia.
Perhaps the best opinion on the
cause of this state of affairs is that
offered by DR.. Stricken, the army sur
geon, who has given the matter care
full study. He declares that overwork,
irregular exercise and imnloderate and
too ear1y use of tobacco and intoxf-
cants are responsible for much of the
trouble. Another point to which the
doctor calls attention is the practice
of putting children at work too early.
AS they often are required to toll be-
yond their strength, the strain, with
Irregular hours of rest, results in pre-
mature breakdowns, which, the doc
tor is positive, have much to do with
the general standard Of health.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-30
A swEDE,s PHILOSOPHY.

Ay spese dis far ban qvfte guide world,
Sometimes ay having yolly fun;
Ay lax may trends, lay lax may yob,
Ay ant fraid for anyone.
But We skol say lots of men
Yu ban nice faller; take a drenkl''
Ay bet yu he ant feel SO guide
Eff We skol say yust vat We tenk!
Ay guess ay got bout saxteen girls,
Ay ant know vich ay Taking most:
Eff Yennie know ay lax Christine,
But ay tai Yennie "Ay love yu!"
And give Christine a foxy Yenk.
All wonder vat the girls skol du
Eff We skol say yust vat We tenki
Ven Missus zones meet Missus Brown
On Sidewalk. Missus zones skol say
GAY tenk dat ban yust lovely dressi
Ay skol have mine made yust same
yayr
Den, little later, "Missus Brown
Look lax she york at kenchen senki"
Ay tai w. OAR ban hal tn pay
Eff We skol say yust vat We tenkl
VAL 1t ban better, after all.
Eff We skol boosting all the time.
It ant no use to max men fall
Yu say, it ban tn hard to climb
So ay skol always tally may friend
"Yu ban nice faller-tak drenk
The sun ant got guide chance to shine
Eff We skol say yust vat We tenki
milwaukee Sentinel.