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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-06
Architect Richie Sues the State.

Architect Richie Sues the State.
OLYMPIA, April 6.-Through his
attorneys, Vance & Mitchell, w. A.
Richie has brought suit against the
259 for services rendered during the
construction and in connection with
shows four causes of action. The first
and most important is for $12,8O0 for
services rendered by request and under
instructions and directions of the state
capital commission as witness and ex-
pert on behalf of the defendant in the
case of the Goss Construction COM
pany against the state, which has been
pending and on trial since 1902.
The second cause of action is for
1863 for expenses incurred and money
expended and advanced in attending
the trial of the Goss case in the SUI
perior court from time to time dur
ing the trial. The plaintiff also asks
for $3.50 for work and services rend-
cred for the defendant in May, June
and July of 1902 in furnishing written
plans, specifications and details for
furniture, furnishings, etc. of the sem
ate chamber and the hall of the house
of representatives, which were accept
ed and used in the construction Of the
work.
The fourth cause is for s1400 for ar
chitect's commissions for plans, speci-
fications and detail drawings of struct-
ural iron work including floor beam
construction, cast iron columns, eX-
banded metal fireproof floor cOnstruc-
ton and its supports for the new cap
itol at a cost to the state of $4,000.
This was in place of the hollow tile
fireproOf construction called for in t--e
original plans and contract.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-06
WE HAVE MONEY TO LoANI
DICE & JACKSON

of the western roads. is based on the
holding that no state has right to
pass a law requiring a railroad to give
something for nothing
The stock shippers BILL which is a
compromise reached between the rail-
roads and the shippers, was passed by
the Iowa senate Thursday afternoon
with practical unanimity. 1t had al
ready passed the lower body and as it
went through the senate was not ma
terially modified, except to give ship
pers forty-eight instead of thirty-six
hours to avail themselves of return
passes.
Legislators who have been notified
of the stand taken by the roads ex-
press the belief that the law can be
enforced in Iowa, although they admit
that there is doubt about the railroads
being compelled to issue passes to stock
shippers outside of Iowa.
Frank F. Merriam, ex-auditor of
state, has taken his departure for
TuskOgee, l. T., where he is starting
in the newspaper business. Before
leaving the ex-auditor, who was charg-
ed with the extortion Of fees to the
amount Of $4,000 in making examin-
atoms of insurance companies, filed
with the committees long statement
eral which practically exonerates HIM
from most of the charges. A similar
statement was filed by his insurance
assistant, Max Beehler, of Chicago, and
nothing further will be done about the
matter.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-06
THEY WILL IGNORE THE LAW

DES MONIES, Iowa, April 6.-The
railroad corporations have created a
stir by the announcement that they
entirely the law requiring the issuance
cision, reached by the traffic managers
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-06
TRIBUTE OF THOMAS L. VANCE
Long Association With Colonel Win.
ston Makes His Death keenIy Felt,

OLYMPIA, April 6.-Thomas l..
Vance, of Olympia, who was assistant
attorney general under the late Col
onel Winston, pays the following trib-
ute to him:
colonel Winston, Notwithstanding an
occasional brusqueness of manner. was
man of the most kindly nature, as
any one associated with him profess
sionally or socially will testify. To his
officsa. subordinates he was the soul Of
consideration and courtesy.
He was loyal above all else. His
friends were his friends for all time
estrangement or no estrangement. If
he had nothing good to say of former
friend he said nothing.
Mentally he very narrowly escap-
ed greatness. He was the most orig
lnal thinker l ever personally knew,
but adherence of detail prevented his
becoming great lawyer.
he Illustrated the truism that the
great lawyer is not the original thinker.
Colonel Winston. had, however.
the essential instinct of a great lawyer.
knowing the essential parts in a case
and recognizing the law as he saw it.
Clever Story Teller
AS story teller he had no peer in
this part of the country. but he never
allowed this faculty to distract him
from subject matter. His wit-or
humor. for he had both-illustra ted
rather than obscured, and was a means.
not an end.
My relations with him were such
mat death was a personal affiiction.
and cannot now fittingly give my con-
ceptlon of the man as a whole"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-06

clans the physical phenomena of the
stroke that was causing his life to ebb
like the sands from a broken hour
glass.
1t was one of the most remarkacie
incidents in the records of medical
science. DR.. Truax stricken at the
side of the operating table and dead
within ten minutes, spent every second
of that time in describing to fellow
physicians for the sake Of the science
he loved, the mental and physical char
acteristics Of the last minutes of life
lost in such manner. His last words
were those of endearment and blessing
for the family he had left.
DR.. Truax, one of the noted gynecol-
ogists and lecturers upon obstetrics in
New York, was stricken down while
performing an operation today in
Bushwick hospital in Brooklyn. At 1: 80
o'clock in the morning he had been
summoned to the hospital from his
home at 255 Madison street to operate
upon a patient whose life was de-
SPARED of. His work was Of the most
delicate nature known to surgical
science, and required not only a steady
hand, but intense concentration. For
thirty minutes he worked, and sudden
ly, while in the act Of successfully fin
ishing the operation gave a groan of
agony and crying out:
It's come! My God! It's comet
He reeled from the operating table
and as his knife fell from his nerveless
hand, he sank into the arms of DR..
Herman HERMAN.
At the same time that DR.. Truax
sustained the heart shock, DR.. George
Everson, one Of the physicians picked
up the knife that had fallen from DR..
Truax's hand and proceeded to finish
the operation as DR.. Herman, Miss
Ellingson and one of the nurses car
bedroom of DR.. HERMAN.
Stimulants were administered and
within five minutes DR.. TruaX opened
his eyes and whispered:
There is no use trying to save me, l
am dying, my friends, from acute di-
lation of the heart. Listen, DR.. Henri
man, and l will give you my sensa-
tions"
Then as DR.. HERMAN and Miss Ell
lingson listened to the dying man he
said:
My body feels like a wave upon the
ocean. 1t seems to be rising and pitch
ing about. The agony is Undesirable.
My heart seems pounding against it's
walls. My heart is bursting. My lungs
feel as if they were being pressed to-
gether by an enormous wise. The ac-
ton of the heart is now not SO in
tense. l seem to be losing the faculty
of sensation. My heart is barely NOV
MS oiI oJ ihS' lily 1IleHuo. give lily
love to my wife and children. 1t is the
end"
DR.. Truax was born in Oswego, and
was forty-eight years of age. He had
a large family practice, and lecturer
at the postgraduate. He was a grad
uate Of the Long Island college in the
class Of 81. He was a member Of the
Royal Arcanum, the Independent Order
Of Foresters, National Provident Union
and the Junior Order of American Me-
chanics His wife, one daughter, Mrs.
Frank B. Coates, and one son, Ed
ward, survive him.
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]. w. Cookery. licensed embalmer
and undertaken. Babcock block, ~
First street. Tele. Main 379.

I, the undersigned have associated
myself with my father DR.. N. G. Bla-
lock for the practice Of medicine and
surgery, and we expect to devote our
entire time and attention to the same.
We can be found during office hours
at Room 4, in the Rees- Winans build
ing, corner of Second and MAJ
streets, Walla Walla, Wash.
Y. c. BLALOCK, NJ. b.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-06
PHYSICIAN DIES HEROIC DEATH
OIlatation Of Heart Affects Suroeon
Performing An Operation.

NEW YORK. April 6.-With death a
pare ten minutes away and his frame
racked by the most terrible tortures a
man may endurse, DR.. Stephen Paul
Iruax. stricken down with a fatal at
tack OF acute dilation Of the heart.
calmly and in the cold language of
science described to his fellow physi-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-06
RICH MAN FIGHTS FOR NEGRO
Millionaire Tries to Dine His Valet at
An Exclusive St. Paul Club.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, April 6.-The
board of governors of the Executive
Minnesota club, of VIII CHI J. J. Hill, Ell
bert Young, julie NJ. Hannaford, and
a half dozen other millionaires, are
members, will demand an explanation
which may be followed with expulsion,
from M. Doran, .Jr., himself wealthy
and the son of a millionaire broker
Mr.. Doran's democratic notions have
upset the club and caused nine days
ton
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-06

Patience-I always think of all the
mean things l have said during the
day, before l fall asleep at night. Pa
Do you stay awake
as long as that?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-06
Campaigned With a Neqro.

Mr.. DOran recently toured the city
on campaign errand with Irving Cot
ling, his negro valet, for the purpose
Of capturing the colored vote. He is a
member of the city assembly, a prom
inent democrat and a candidate for re-
election. The two spent the day cleo
pioneering, and late in the afternoon
Gotling saved his master from a vio-
lent attack of a drunken negro with
razor, which occurred in a negro sa-
loon. The master and servant then
left and walked toward the club.
Take dinner with me-" Mr. Doran
invited. Gotling demurred, but was
pesuaded and Mr.. Doran marched his
guest into the magnificent Flemish
dining room and ordered the colored
waiter to serve himself and his guest
Waiter Obeyed the Rules.
Against orders, sah," the waiter re-
monstrated. DO as 1 say Mr.. Doran
commanded.
The waiter refused and Mr.. Doran
promptly applied force. A figh, ensued
in which the waiter was very roughly
handled and Mr.. Doran and his negro
guest summarily elected. They pro-
ceeded to less expensive restaurant
and dined together.
Frantic attempts were made to hush
the matter up, which succeeded until
today, when Mr.. Doran himself admit
ted the facts and gave his version.
There was some trouble at the
club" he said. The negro was with
me. He had been helping me all day
long. He is good man and 1 can see
no reason for the clubs objections
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NOTICE..

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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-04-06

Live and dressed poultry, fat ana
fine. G. & G. Poultry market, South
Palouse street, Phone Main 500.
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Alfalfa seed and seed rye at c. A.
Beck's grocery.
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Try Muntinga's bulk pickles anu
olives.
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UNION SAVINGS BANK

mas a capital of $4,000. 1t conforms
in every way to the banking laws and
Is incorporated under state laws.
This is the safest place for your
money.
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Turkestan alfalfa seed. Milt Evans
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YOUR INTEREST
SAVINGS

grows with the account. Every dolla,
added to the
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1904-11-09
THE PACIFIC OCEAN.

How 1t Came to BE So Called by the
Explorer Magellan.
Magellan, practically the first to cir
cumnavigate the world, set out from
Spain in 1919 to find a western route
to the famous Moluccas, or Spice is
lands. Vague rumors Of pacific ocean
were scattered through Europe. To
test these Magellan, following the
coast of South Americas, passed
through the strait which now bears
his name, formerly the strait of the
Eleven Thousand Virgins. tossed all
the time OH most tempestuOus sea.
Emerging into the broad waters on
the west, he sailed northwest for three
months and twenty days ON placid,
almost unrufiied sea, which he chris
tened then and there Mar Pacifico, or
Pacific ocean, the name 1t will now
forever bear. Notwithstanding its
name typhoons in the west and else
where make this ocean as perilous q
path as any other to those who tempt
it's vast expanse and comparative soil
tude. .---+
: Magellan himself fell iH-the Philip
pines, but the Victoria came home to
tell the tale. Drake was the first Eng
lishman to sail on its wide waters
London Standard
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NORMAN .pIsTRusT.


One Simple Way By which q Travel
er May DAsaxm Il.
The greatest. obstacle to agreeable
pedestrianism in Normandy is the pro-
verbal Norman distrust. The Nor
mans distrust Of the stranger takes
the form Of q comical sort Of terror -of
being financially duped, cheated or
swindled, not to say -robbed-probably
because he Is himself peEpetually en-
gagged In financial duping.
II the tramper does not succeed In
disarming by one means or another
Norman distrust his tramping life in
Normandy will be made a burden to
him. Norman distrust can be disarm-
cd, but it cannot be disarmed In an in
stant, a PAmericaine. 1t takes time
to do 1.-THE Norman is the last person
I'm the. world to stand and deliver-and
there is no social device TO be mention
ed in the same breath with drinking
for courte0usly consuming time
II the tfaIpper asks a simple quesA
ton at farmhouse he cannot decenrly
Nnger-not In Normandy-after his
question Ia answered. II he makes q
petty purchase In a. store his situa-
ton 10 only tribe less awkward.
since he Is morally obliged to retire as
soon as the transaction, Is completed
On the other hand, he has only to or
der a drink-in this country Of cider
and applejack every store and nearly
every farmhouse sells hquor--to be en-
titled to sit at table for as long az
he wills 1t and to talk.-BookIovers'
MaRazine ...
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A Sensitive Ten0F.

Roger, the celebrated French tenor.
was exceedingly proud of his profess
sion and was Opt to take Offense at the
least slight, whether intended or not.
ON one occasion he was engaged for
the sum Of EGO to sing at the house OF
a rich financier who thought II the cor
rect thing to have the principal singers
OF the day at his house parties. :.
Roger sang his first song: magnifi-
Gently. but not the slightest attention
was, paid him, the guests talking their
loudest. Presently the host thought
that it was about time for another
song and Sent for Roger, but he could
not be found and was seen 'n0smeEe.
On the following day .Mr.SPIutus was
surprised to receive from Roger notes
to the amount Of ESQ. with the follow
ing words:
81 have the honor to return the eco
which received for singing at your
party, and beg to add f2O more TO
make mp for having 30 greatly dis
turbed the. conversation Of your
guests."-London Tit.Bits.
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a aoMAhI FIAsco.

TM@ Colossal Show That Was Plan-
nea by sx4amachus.
3 Symmachus, last Of the great mobiles
Of Rome, who. bIihded by tradition.
thought to revive the glories of his
beloved city By Eaviving its shame.
&xanhicaIly deacfibds the anxieties Of
ne pxaDarmfiof1s for one of these CO.
lossal shows. on which he Is said to
have spent what would be about $780,
900 Of our money. He began a year
In advance. Horses, bears. lions,
Scotch dogs. crocodties, chariot driv-
era, hunters. act0rys and the best glad
iators were recruited from all parts.
But when the time drew near nothing
WIS ready. Only a few OF the animals
lad come. and these were half dead
OF hunger and fatigue. The bears had
not arrived and there was no news OF
the lions. At the eleventh hour the
crocodiles reached Rome, but they re-
fused to, eat and had to be killed all
die of hunger. 1t was even worse
with the gladiators who were intend
ed to provide. as In all these beast
shows, the crowning entertainment:
Twenty-Five of the Saxon captives.
whom Symmachus had chosen on ac-
count Of the well known valor. Of their
race, strangled one another In prison
rather than fight to the death for the
amusement of their conquerors- And
Symmachus, with all his real elevation
Of mind, was moved to nothing but
disgust by their sublime choicel
Rome in her greatest days had gIoried
In these shows How could q man
be a patriot who set his face against
customs which followed the Roman
eagles round the world? How many
times since then has patriotism been
held to require the extinction Of moral
sense Contemporary Review.
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IMPREssING THE INDIANS.
simon Fraser's Methods with the Um.
tutOred Redskins.

tutOred ReAmHximm. W
Even as late as the year 1906 there
were Indians on the North American
continent who had never seen or heard
a gun, had never seen tobacco smoke
and were capable of worshiping the
white men who controlled these won
ders. The Rev. A. G. Morice tells Of
some of the adventures of Simon Fra
ser, who has stamped his name on
Canada. Father Morice writes as fol-
lows: "On landing at Lake Stuart Fra
ser's men, to impress the natives with
a proper idea of their wonderful re-
sources, fired a volley with their guns,
whereupon the whole crowd of In
dams fell PROSTATE to the ground. To
allay their fears and make friends to-
bacco was offered them, which, ON be-
ing tasted, was found too bitter and
thrown away. Then, to show its use,
the crew lighted their pipes, and at
the sight of smoke issuing from their
mouths the people began to whisper
that they must come from the land of
ghosts, since they were still full of
the fire wherewith they had been ere
mated. Pieces of soap were given TO
the women, who, taking them to he
cakes of fat, set upon crunching them,
causing foam and bubbles in the
mouth, which puzzled both actors and
bystanders. All these phenomena,
however. were soon explained away,
leaving profound admiration for the
foreigners and their wares" -
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Five kinds of day are recognized,
and it has been said-that the word
''day" has no rear meaning without an
adjective deflling what kind of u day
Is meant. There iss@, civil day, the as
tronomical day, the apparent solaEalay,
the mean solar day and the sidereal
day. The civil day: begins at the mid
night preceding mean noon and con-
sists of twenty-four ko:As c ,unted aft
sr IL O'Clock. The astr2n0nlical day be-
gins twelve hours after the civ11 dfy,
or at the mean noon zOf- the correspond
ing civil day. These hours are Fecl1-
oned from o to ID. lit. will beSseen.
therefore. that while 10 hours II min
utes Jan. l. Astronomical time is also
10 hours IL minutes Jln..1 civil time.
yet % hours II Asinutes Jan. i .astro-
nomical time is also 10 hqurs II, min
utes, a. m. Jan. 2 civil time. There, are
many anomalies g-cowing. out Of this
use of the civil day. and there are
many arguments in favor OF dsing the
astronomical day 1T is one of the re
forms which undoubtedly Wal come
some tiine.-London Standard ~. 9-s
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Fishes undoubtedly communicate
with their fellows. Even If they can
not talk" they have other means Of
communication that are better adapted
to their needs. We know how readily
fishes recognize their mates and how
quickly brooding fishes repel intruders
OF their own or other species. Some
thing besides seeing them-perhaps
some sense Of which we have no CON
ception-may do this. Many fishes
communicate with their fellows by
means OF sounds prodaced through the
medium Of their dir bladders, by grind
ing their teeth together and I'm. various
other ways. u a..
The sense Of touch Is highly deyel-
oped in many fishes and doubtless en-
ables them to communicate. The sense
Of taste. located all over the skin In
some fishes, in the finsf In others, and
the sense of smell. strongly developed
In some forms Of submarine life, also
must be aids rtoy conmnnication--St
NtGUOIAA. bs4
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BookWoRMs.
Not the Human Kind, Aut the Gruba
That Tunnel V0lu1Hes

Not the Human Kind, hut the Gruba
That Tunnel VolusGes.
Blades, in his interesting volume,
'"The Enemies of Books" has shown
that several very real bookworms are
undesirable tenants of old libraries,
and he has studied closely several
specimens sent him and described their
ravages
Two grubs in particular richly de-
serve this name, the anobium, peril
max or eruditus and the Oecophora.
The anobium, a small, light colored,
brown headed grub. with body like
thin ivory or transparent wax, bears
a close resemblance to the white mag
gots of Stilton cheese. Working
with pair of strong jaws, Ikea steel
bit, the grub begins at the wooden
boards and If allowed will perforate
the whole volume The oecophora,
similar to the anobium, except for the
possession of six legs, is not unlike
the SO called deathwatch.
M. Peignot asserts that; he found
twenty-seven volumes in one row
pierced from end to end by a single
worm tunnel Mr. Blades doubts this,
but has himself seen two volumes SO
treated, with no fewer than PIP dis
tinct holes on one cover.
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The publishers of the beautiful
ballad. II Wait Alone For YOu." by
the late w. Wesley Wells. have sent
us n copy of his last song. my Mer-
cedes. +" which has just been published
and which he composed few weeks
before, his death. IL is simply beau
tiful, easy to play, melOdious. and n
perfect adaptation of exquisite words
TO beantifuI melody. The publish
ers, J. w. jenkins Sons Music Co.
of Kansas City. Mo-. are making a
special price of % cents per copy
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Garrick and the bishop.

In the Realities of Irish Life" by
W. S. French, is this anecdote: II have
heard story that upon one occasion
the bishop Of London asked the ceie-
brated actor, Garrick, If he could ex-
plain how it was that he and his cler-
gy failed to arrest the attention Of
their audiences, although they preached
every Sunday of the realities Of the
world to come, while he (Garrick)
filled crowded houses with the most
rapt attention, although they knew
perfectly we'll that all he was saying
was fiction. The reason is very plain,
my lord replied Garr:ck. You deal
with facts as if they were fiction;
deal with fiction as if they were
facts"