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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-18

1t would puzzle an astute diplo
matist to prove that either France o:
Russia has derived any benefit from
the present alliance. A war between
France and England in RusslaS be-
half would prove fearfully costly be-
nevolence for the French republic. and
present to the world the interesting
spectacle of a republican govrnment
going to the support of the most des-
potic and absolute government in Eu-
rope.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-18
TARIFF REFORM

The giant steel trust, the greatest
corporation the world ever saw, has
in spite of it's vast wealth and seem
ingly invincible armor of protective
tariff, been forced to play fair with
at least one American railroad cor
poratiOn. says the OregOnian. The
tariff which levies a duty of 1854
per ton on steel rails imported from
foreign countries, has for many years
enabled the great monopoly to exact
that much of Il differental from the
American consumers. although foreign
consumers were at the same time
quoted lower rates than could be made
by the foreign mills. Mention was
made Il few weeks ago of the placing
of an order With the steel trust by the
Canadian Pacific for 1880 tons OF
rails at $3.50 per ton at Il time when
the lowest price quoted American buy
ers was $2S per ton. and the best
III i'N 'pt'llii'plt Itolli Tie lltiS
was $20.10 per ton.
With the foreign rails costing $40. 30
at New York and Il duty of 1854 to be
added to that amount, railroads need
ing metals for the east and middle
west were practically forced to pay
the trust $28 per ton or else take the
foreign rails at few cents per ton
more. The Hartman system. how
ever. needed 80, 0G0 tons of rails for
the far west out where the freight
from the east was high and the freight
from Europe low Mr.. Hartman also
knew that one of his competitors lust
over the line had been supplied with
rails at $3.50 per ton. so he rebelled
against paying $2S, and invited COM
petition from abroad. According to
reports. the foreign mills agreed to
land the rails at Pacific coast ports.
duty paid. at $3.50 per ton. AS the
rail freight rate from Chicago to the
the equivalent in price of $3.50 per
ton. Il cut Of S3.5D per ton under the
trust price. These were the figures
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-18

which the railroad magnate offered
the trust, with the alternative of hav-
ing the order go abroad. The order
was accepted by the Illinois Steel
company, the Chicago branch of the
steel trust and now other roads which
are in need of rails are making Wry
faces over paying the list price de-
manded Of them.
So much dissatisfaction has been oc-
casioned over the Alleged favOritism
shown MI Hartmann as we'll as that
shown the Canadian Pacific. that
many of the roads are engaged in cut
ting down the early estimates and
sible amount Which can be got along
with. One eastern road where the OPP
Grating department had estimated the
requirements at 10000 tons cut that
amount down to 10000 tons and an
other made similar reduction in its
estimates and then placed the order
with Il foreign mill.
All of this dissa tisfaction will be
Highly gratifying to the American
citizen who is DESTROYS of having the
tariff revised III such a manner that
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-18
THE MERGER AND PROSPERITY

The Argus editor saws that the
Statesman is = foe 10 nrosnaritv he
cause it reioiced over the decision Of
the United states supreme court hold
ing the railway n,arga,. tn he , viola
ton of the sherman antitrust law
II ,b;s Ia t,.,o p,e,.i1a,,t pl,,,,.,,.
for he ordered Attorney Gana,,l Knov
IN brino suit AGAINST tho ,,,o,.r-,,,. ,,,,,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-18

American products are available g..
Americans at prices no higher than
are charged foreigners for the sam,
products. There are Il thousand am,
one articles the price of which is ,o,,
trolled by the steel trust and whose
consumers individually are nor 60
riOusly affected by the unjust tax r.,
led thereon. These small corsr,,...
would be less powerful in putting up
a fight against this legalized extortioo
but when big corporations like ..,.
American railroads begin setting H..
steel trust right on list prices th...
hope for general improvement al
along the line.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-18
YOU ARt. WRONG AGAIN.

The banks have not paid their taxes
| in full as yet, since there is some ques-
| ZION as to Whether they come under the
| new assessment law for taxes of 1903
| or not, but they have paid all that is
| due under the old assessment-CnioE
Wrong you are. The two national
banks of this city have paid all the
| taxes due under the new law by which
they are allowed to fix their own as
seSSment on bank stock. The First
National fixed the value of it's stock at
$9l Il share, While the Baker Boyer
$Sl q share. Under the old law. which
was still in effect on the first day of
March, 1903 the date fixed for taking
valuations, the commissioners. acting
as a board of equalization. fixed the
assessment of bank stock at the same
figures as set by Assessor Cadman the
year before-$233 Il share for stock
Of the First National and $3.50 a share
for the stock of the Baker Bower Ma
tional. Under Il decision of the United
states supreme court the market value
of bank stock may be taken us the
basis for assessment. First National
Bank stock cannot be bought for $500
Il share and the stock of the other
oank is worth nearly as much
Last year the commissioners insist
ed. against the protest of the banks
that Assessor Cadmans figures should
stand. and the banks finally settled on
that basis after the Oregon supreme
court had decided a similar case
against the First National of Pendle-
ton.
This year the commissioners started
out bravely, but it seems they have
got cold feet" After passing, a res
olutlon declaring that the banks should
pay their full assessment as made
F: under the old law they accepted as
. partial payment about 40 per cent
of the taxes due. OF course the banks
VIII not bring a suit to get the nriyi
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-18

Because curious and ambitious
cub reporter of the Statesman had
the temerty to ask the poundmaster
why he drove a pair of old Water-soak-
ed horses down town from Editor
Showerman's Mill creek pasture, the
aforesaid editor wrought himself into
4 state of raging fury this week and
he goes after the Statesman hammer
and tonSs No one in authority at the
Statesman office had any intention of
publishing anything about the cond-
ton of the horses taken away. and the
Statesman is pleased to inform its
readers that there was nothing more
serious in the incident than the fact
that the poundmaster has been APP
pointed an agent to sell the horses at
auction. as he has Il good deal Of work
along that line in his official capacity
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-18
CITY OFFICIAL PAPER
WEATHER..

Tonight showers; Saturday prob
ably fair.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-11-04
CALF
ARGUMENT

Ira Post makes the nose ridiculou.
campaign speech against tax reform we
have yet seen. He talks about a calf
and certainly is weak in the calves of
his legs, when he makes it. Let Us see
about Posts Durham:
The calf when born, and most calves
are born in MarGn and April, would not
be- worth more than two dollars on
April / of the year. The state tax
that. year on the calf would be at the
rate of ; cents on the 500, and on 50
it would be exactly ono mill or one
tenth of cent. And since tine calf win
eat corn and hay during the first win
ter. which can not be assessed because
il is grown that year after the first OF
April and nas been consumed before
The assessor comes around the next
April onntcnth of cont is all he
state tax paid on toat calf the fret
year. Then the assessor comes again
in April The calf has survived winter
and may be worth SIS, a hign valuation.
The tax that year on It Is actually
seven and half mills, which is three
fourths of a can't. Tho corn has all
been fed and the nay IL all used up. The
calf lives through the winter again on
nay and corn grown during the summer
and eats it all up by April next. This
hay and corn has not been taxed. be.
cause the assessor docs not come around
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-11-04

until it is all gone. Thus We get the
calf up to tne time he is two years old.
and 50 fnr nine tenths of cent has
been paid on him in taxes. Along
comes the assessor. II nnds tle calf
now two years old. ii tnat age in the
spring Of the Year. ne may be worth
$40 certainly not more. The tax then
for that year for state purposes would
be twenty mills or two cents. He eats
corn and hay grown again. that year,
which arc free from taxation and We
bring him up to his third birthday, WITH
onl ytwo cents and nine mills paiI as
taxes on him. The third year nc is as
scssed at $50 say. That fall he goes
of to market. The tax on him That
year is three. cents, according to the
values we give him here. Add this to
the taxes of the other two years aud.
you have exnetly paid five cents and
two mills on him, sum total for the
three years. Now, take his statement
that it takes five acres to fattcn a beef
steer, Tie says under the new laws
these five acres will be assessed at $50
an acre of $3.50 in all. At five cents on
the hundred dollars that would be
twelve and half cents for the last
year. Tho first year two acres is album
lant for the calf. That would be ono
min for state taxation. The second
year three acres is enongh. The tnx
would be a mall and d half. or for the
three years it would b. twelve cents
and seven and a half mills on the land
10 say nothing abont hogs, saeep and
horses that have pastured on tho same
land. Add this to the tax on the calf
and you will have the sum total on the
calf for three years Mt exactly II and
threc-qunrter cents, or IN average Of
a little over five cents year on calf
and farm TO keep him.
And yet Mr.. Post makes the astouud-
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-11-04

ing declaration that the farmer must
pay for this calf and the land to MIN
on an assessment of $3.50, or seventeen
times the value Of the product! which.
ns values at $50. Then he adds that
The statement is appalling. Yes, ii is.
hat the only thing appalling aboat it
= the supreme misrepresentation made
by Mr.. Post as well as The shocking dis
play of his isnoranee. Any farmer,
knows better than to believe such logic
as Post puts up.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-11-04


Congress rs'a'lng TO 'banNfaptey' that
he nas duly surrendered ny properly
aud rights Of property and has tnlly
complied with "il 'ae requirements Of
sud act7 anu Of l''9 oriofS o. the eo"r'
touching ~ oanSrupteN'
Wherefore he Prays that ne may BE-
deereed 10y the court to have a full dis
charge from all debts provable against
his estate under said bankrupt laws. eN-
cspt such debts as are excepted by law
from such discharge.
Dated this lltb dav OF October A D.
1904.
ts;..naD or ,pr>-cr po<-p
ST s. '-''''-''' - = 80 -,
"'" '"''" ~
Elmer +. Goodwin,
Attorney for Petitioner
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-11-04
only Makes a Bad Matter wor,e

Perhaps you nave never thought Of it
but the fact must be apparent to every
one that constipation is caused by q
lack of water in the system, and the
use Of Elastic cathartics like tae old
fashioned pills only makes bad mat
ter worse. Chamberlain's Stomach and
Liver Tablets are much more mild ana
gentle in their effect and when the,
proper dose is taken their action is SC
natural that one can hardly realize ~
is the effect Of a medicine. Try csc
bottle of them. For sale by Stone 8
Mercer.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-11-04

cnamberlain's .omach and Lives
Tablets are becoming n favorite fos
stomach troubles and constipation. For
sale by Stone 4 Mercer.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-11-04
aot .hat az va. 9gLs EIouR ysts
A Good Complexion.

Sparkling eyes and rosy check
EtoFed by using Dewitt's Little ElFy
Risors," SO writes S. P. Moore, oe
Nacogdoches, Tex. A certain cure for
billionsness, constipation, etc. Small
Piii-casy to taISczaeasy to- net. Sold
BY Stone 8 afess 9asgisas.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05

The London Globe says: The
French ministry Of finance has just
published the statistics Of the wills
proved in France in 1903. and from
this It is evident that the number Of
very rich people in the country has
been grossly exaggerated. Last year
only 497 Wills leaving more than
100000 francs. or 100000. were
proved, and Of these only LA excee
cd 1000, 900 francs, or $4,000. There
were only eight fortunes Of over TO-
900. 900 francs, or G400,O 200. and the
highest OF all was of the exceptional
value of 100000. It Is evident.
tken, that the real millionaires In
France are very few, but It should
be noted that rich men In France
marry rich wives. so that q family
may be much more wealthy than the
will Of either father or mother would
imply. But the fact remains that the
Frenchman is too wise to be given over
to the hunger for gold, and that the
whole JOY of living for him is not cen
tered in piling up dollars, as It seems
to be across the Atlantic He is salts
fed with thousands OF francs, and
with the appearance rather than the
actually of wealth. He likes to re
tire and live at his ease. and therein
no follows the dictates Of the old
world philosophy.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05

1UuE years are last
being removed. The surviving mem
Der of the Davis cabinet is ex-senator
John H. Reagan, of Texas He was
postmaster general Of the confederacy.
The five members of the confederate
house of representatives are Judge
John v. Wright, of Tennessee, now an
attorney in the general land Office of
the interior department.; Messrs. At
kins and Colyar, of Tennessee; Judge
John Goode. Of Virginia. and ex-United
States senator James L. Pugh. of Ala
bama. It is said that S. 3. Callahan,
who was delegate from the Creek and
Seminole Indian nations to the con-
federate congress. is still alive, but he
did not have q voice in that body.
There are number of ex-confeder-
ate soldiers in public life here and
thousands Of them. of course. in pri-
vate life, but the confederate congress
and cabinet has about passed away.
Many of the ex-confederate soldiers
found good positions with the federal
government eventually, republican adj
ministrations taking care Of some of
them. One of the most noted was Gen.
James Longstreet, the famous corps
commander. who for years drew a
handsome salary under republican
administration as commissioner of rail-
roads. Gen. Mosby. the celebrated que
rilla. who says he honored that name,
has been in the public service as United
States consul, and is now filling posi-
ton in the treasury department.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05
Lost.

But comparatively few steps from
quarter of a million people as we
reckon distances in this age of rapid
transportation, and yet-lost."
Such were the thoughts running
through a gentleman's mind when !
hailed him one evening, several years
ago, as he sat on stone beside a lit
tie lake in these Ontario forests How
well remember the picture he made
as watched him, and as he looked
first out over the stretch of water that
barred further progress in one direc-
ton, and then backward into the tan
gled forests from which he had just
emerged.
Looking for anyone?" I asked, jok-
ingly.
Looking for anyone? mol" he re-
piled. Il am looking for the world.
for the people Of the world. I would
like to have the city of Columbus, O.,
stretched out right here in front OF
me so that might know where I am
at. Friend, am lost"
knew the experience. had had
the same but year before. The
gamey bass Of that particular lake had
enticed me into unknown paths, and
l had paid the penalty of the over-san-
guine novice.
'They told me there was trail
through these woods" said the lost
tranger.
so there u.s." l replied.
"Yes, not one but so, and l have
travelled all of them, and all lead to
the same city of nowhere A dozen
converge at this very point. I have
followed them, and here l am at-no-
where"
Deer runways, to be sure. but paths
SO plainly marked that the novice fol-
lows them almost thoughtlessly, with
q heedlessness that pays no attention
to the way out as well as In It is. oh,
SO easy to get into these Ontario for
ests: but hard, so hard, to get out
again. And this is but the teachings
Of experience. assure you.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05

money. Wall street men say that
they have. taken in as much as
$1,000 day They began with
two trips, morning and afternoon.
Now they add evening runs with
"Seeing Chinatown by Electric light as
q drawing card. The rival coaches draw
up on opposite sides of the street near
the F'latiron building and iron-lungee
barkers bawl their invitations across
the street.
Now it is discovered that the coaches
need q license from the board Of alder
men. and the two companies are fight
ing each other-preparatory to forming
a Seeing New York trust some say.
Whereat the city sorrows. For it has
been one Of the chief amusements OF
the hardened New Yorker to stare at the
starers who, conspicuous on their high
seats, fidget uneasily,
The lecturer" has his way Of get
ting even with the "rubber-necks" on
the sidewalk. When they are unusually
persistent the professor" has only to
say: Ladies and gentlemen: Yonder
YOU see several of the most famous
crooks and confidence men in the city.
They"
It seldom fails.
OWEN 1.ANGpON.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05
EXPANsE OF WOODLANDS AT
ToRoNTo's BACK DOOR.
HAUNTs OF WILD ANIMALS
Solitude Of the Woods-The Dominion
Is Feeding Logs to American
Mills-Playground for Amer
lean Pleasure Seekers,

Toronto-Another line of railway Is
now being built from this city to tap
the trackless forest of the north, for
ests that extend in almost an unbroken
line from Allendale on Lake Simcoe to
Hudson bay.
1t is, however, not the railroad but
the country which is interesting. It is
country that represents both the
wealth and poverty of this great prov
ince of Ontario. Who would attempt
to estimate the value of its forests,
filled, az they are, with pine and hem
lock and spruce? But take the forests
away. and what is left? Poverty. A
poverty represented by rocks and wa
ter. Nature was in an unruly mood
when that section OF the American
continent was born, but she later COW
cred the unsightliness with an abun-
dant growth of green that has made
OF 1t paradise so long as the green
remains; so long as man does not I'M
do the work of nature
Hundreds of square miles of practi-
cally untrodden forest. Hundreds of
square miles over which the red deer,
the elk, the moose and the black bear
may roam at will. Trackless forest?
No They are crossed and criss-
crossed by the trails of the wild ami
mails, the trapper and hunter, and the
skedge ways Of the lumberman. for
man has already begun his work of de-
struction in this wonder-world, and
from 1t is sending lumber to the
worlds markets.
The tracks of the forest form a be-
wildering network, a maze in which
the uninitiated might wander for
weeks without hope of solving the rid
die they present, but which to the int
tiated are as plain as an open book,
and over which they travel with the
same degree of assurance that is char
acteristic of the city man on his city
Almost at the very door of this for
est world stands Toronto. with its
quarter of million people. 1t is CIV
ilization and solitude brought face to
face.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05
BIG PROFIT IN BATHHOUSE
Average New York Seashore Resort
Receives Nearly $4,000 Day
for Rooms Alone.

If you doubt that the nickel and guar
ter business doesn't pay, consider the
money-making propensities Of the aver
age seashore bathhouse around New
York, and make over your opinion. A
representative bathing pavilion has
1900 bath compartments. 1t costs 20
cents to rent one. On a medium hot
summers day some $500 are derived
from renting these rooms, for the COM
partments are used in the course Of the
day by about 1000 persons. Bathing
suits rent for Is cents each. There
would be 5000 OF them for such a pavil~
ion, which means $1,000 day if half OF
them are rented once; and it is fair to
assume that three-fourths of the 1000
bathers pay five cents for the use Of 9
comb and brush-$150. A total Of near
ly $4,000, to say nothing Of the proceeds
from restaurant. bar. barber shop and
indoor baths.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05

cred and decided upon, but the funeral
took place in New York city before
the proper authorities were prepared
to notify the family. Mr.. Thomas Her.
ran, son of the late diplomat, said that
the family considered it best under the
circumstances to have the body in
tered in this country. although the
honor suggested by the state depart
ment would have been deeply appre-
ciated.
DR.. Herran was one of the most pop.
ular diplomats in Washington, and had
the confidence and respect of every
body in the government, from the
president down. He was grievously
disappointed at the failure Of HE gov
eminent to ratify the canal treaty.
which he and Secretary Hay had nego.
tiated. His efforts to secure the rati-
fication Of that instrument put him I'M
der some suspicion in Colombia. where
the faction that was endeavoring to
squeeze $4,000, 900 more from this gov
eminent were angered because DR.. Her.
ran insisted that the treaty gave COL
ombia all that she could justly ask for.
For awhile 1t looked as though DR..
Herran would not dare show himself
in his own country, but he made a
visit to Bogota and succeeded in re-
establishing friendly relations with the
United States after the Panama revo-
luton. and was again Colombia's rep
resentative here.
The tender of a man-of-war to con.
vey to their native country the re-
mains of foreign diplomat is one
marked way in which nations show
courtesy. United States representatives
abroad who have died at their posts
have been brought home in foreign
war vessels, and the last time the
United States had occasion to show
that mark Of respect to a foreign power
was when the body of Lord Pauncefote,
late ambassador of Great Britain. was
to England In United States
battleship.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1904-11-05

bird Ieutenants were the hotel Keepers
Of the island. 1t got a bad name ara
kept it when Mckane and Others Welt
TO Jail. Only recently business men WOKE
to the fact that beach resort ten miles
from the center of population OF
100000 people, with 100000 more
near, and withal served by 20 lines OF
trolley and steam ears and by 80 huge
excursion boats, was worth cultivating.
The pike" at st. Louis may be finer,
than the medley which was the re-
suit of that discovery but IN
size Coney Island beats the Plke
ten times over. 1t draws q Sunday
crowd bigger than the whole exposition
has yet seen, and quite as orderly.
Coney Island has reformed. The busl-
ness men will not have sinful games OF
chance, they will not tolerate any dis
order. 1t does not pay. If it did pay
but-well. it doesn't And that is
enough for the carnival crowds VINO
throng the busy streets of summer
city as populous. on pleasant days. as
Turin or Edinburg.