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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-08
American Nurses for Japan.


SEATTLE, Wash, March S.-Dr.
Anita Newcomb MCGEE, president of
the Society OF Spanish american war
ourses. and herself probably the best
known army nurse in the United
States. has given the following expla-
nation of what is expected of army
nurses and what they must be pre-
pared to do:
They must know as well as a reg
ular soldier how to make a camp and
how to take care of it. They must be
able to forage for food with the troops
and know how to cook it after they
get it. They must have nerves steely
enough to go out upon the battlefield
and pick up the wounded under
fire. They must know how to arrange
and erect a field hospital, keep it in
They must be able to remain on duty
eighteen hours at a stretch among the
wounded without fiinching. They
must at times trudge along the roads
in rain, mud, heat or cold like the
soldiers marching with heavy outfits.
They must be able to sleep in blank
cts on the ground when duty cOmpels
it They must have comprehensive
idea of medicine and surgery and must
assist the surgeons in operations
They must eat the rough and fire.
uuently spoiled rations of the troops
without complaint. They must, above
all things, be courageous to the point
of heroism when a human is to be
aided
DR.. McGee and her party of nine
nurses Will reach Seattle this even
ing over the Great Northern, embark
ing the following morning on the Iyo
Maru for Japan. They have all seen
service in the field, being part of
the corps of nurses on duty during the
Spanish American war. y uniform
will be worn by the American nurses
in Japan. The dress, with the regu-
lation white cap and apron, Will be
made of pOnSee silk, which has been
selected because of its light weight, |
its serViceable color and, above all, |
because it is easily Numbered. For
travelling the nurses have uniforms of
brown serge.
DR.. MCGEE, who was educated part |
~ Europe. speaks French and German.
She studied medicine after her mar
riage. which took place in 1883, and
has practiced her profession for
years From 1898 to 1901 DE-. MCGEE |
held commission as acting assist +
ant surgeon of the United States army. |
the army nurse corps being her special |
charge. Her father is Well-knOWn |
astronomer and her husband, DR.. w. ]. |
MCGEE, is with the bureau of ethnol- |
ogy,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-08
WAITSBURG NEWS,
Close Election for School Director
w. B. Brooke Chosen.

Special to Statesman.
WAITSBURG, March S-The an.
nual election of a school director was
held in Waitsburg Saturday. The con-
test was very interesting and a large
vote was cast w. 3. Brooke was elect
Ell over A. Anon by a ma jority of three
votes.
Invitations have been issued for
leap year card and dance party to be
given by the Ladies' club at Armory
hall March 8.
Charles Middleton has just estab-
lished new dray line in Waitsburg.
which now makes two companies en-
gagged in this business here.
The farmers around Waitsburg re-
port the prospects for a good crop this
year are very flattering.
Miss Tina Cox returned yesterday
from Moscow, where she underwent an
operation for tumor on the neck. The
operation was performed by DR..
Thomas of Spokane and DR.. Gritman
o Moscow. She has completely re-
covered.
MstletOe lodge, Degree of Honor. of
this city has sent out invitations for
the eighth anniversary of the Organiza-
ton of the lodge. A splendid program
d large attendance is expected.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-08
Man Weds Forty Seven Women.

James H. Shippe, a street car con-
ductor, was arraigned in court today
Oh charge of bigamy, he astOunded
the judge by admitting that he had
been married many times, about forty
seven, he thought.
Two of his wives were in court and
it was stated that he had married at
least four other women, one living in
SaE Francisco, and the others in this
state.
He was held for the action of the
grand jury
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-08

into effect. No charge was made that
his bakery was not conducted in a
wholesome and sanitary manner, bu,
the prosecution was begun solely be-
cause of the violation of the provision
above cited
Demurrer Sustained.
Mr.. Marshal was represented by
Warren w. Toiman and J. D. Camp
oell who filed a demurrer to the COM
olaint, upon the ground that this par
ocular provision of the law was I'M
constitutional The matter came on
for hearing yesterday morning be-
fore Judge Richardson, upon the de-
nurrer, the state being represented by
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney r. NJ.
Barnhart. After a full argument and
the citation of numerous authorities
the court promptly ruled sustaining
the demurrer, and declaring this par
ticular provision Of the Jaw to be I'M
IollSllt utlOIlcll, DIS UolllS III COIllllCl WIFI
section II of article 1 of the consti-
tuition of Washington, which in effect
other than municipal privileges or i'm
by the legislature granting to any citi-
zen class of citizens or corporation.
muntes which upon the same terms
shall not equally belong to all citizens
or corporations.
Special Privileges
The court said in effect that the re-
mainder of the act was constitutional
and that the act was complete without
this provision, but that this provision
was plainly unconstitutional, as grant
ing special privileges to those who had
bakeries in easements at the time the
law went into effect, they being per-
mitted to continue such basement
bakeshops Indefinitely, while those
now or hereafter desiring to go into
business We're absolutely forbidden to
open a bakery business in base
ment.
The effect of this decision will be to
sustain and render capable OF enforce
ment all of the sanitary regulations
of the law, while at the same time re-
moving all opportunity for the dis
which would have been the
effect if the law had stood in toto
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-08

of warfare for the time and can take
but slight interest in a war that is
one merely OF politics and diplomacy.
Great Britain is chained to an ALI
ance with Japan that cannot be broken
however, should France interfere, and
the making of common cause with
ably demanded of her.
Lombard street is the delicate Their
mometer that marks the changes in
feeling in Great Britain, and nothing
could be more alarmingly significant
than the condition existing in Londons
financial world at this time. A great
financial panic is imminent and it
hinges only upon the continuance of
the conservative faction in power in
Parius.
Present War a Mere Prelude.
To London the war in the Far East
has become a mere prelude to far
more serious affair; curtain-raiser
to the geratest war drama that has
ever been played in the history of the
world The matter of real import
ance will continue to be the menace of
Just what position the United States
will occupy in this great conflict of the
powers is occupying no little part of
the attention of the diplomats of the
world at this time. Russia has always
counted upon the United States as a
friend; Great Britain looks to the
United States as a natural blood ally
France is a natural enemy of Eng
land, and any alliance along these
lines is regarded as too remote for dis
cussiOn. Russia needs new navy and
will look to France to supply it.
Russia realizes that the long, slen-
der and only too weak thread Of iron
Russia in Europe with |
cannot be depended upon to
aid her in her fight. With her own |
navy crippled and useless, she must |
have the aid of Frances great fleet to |
guard her transports.
1t only needs some great Russian |
reverse to inflame the Partisan mind |
and involve the two leading navies OF |
the world IN war that viii re-
1uce that in the Far East to trivial |
pettiness.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-08
Forgot He Was Married.

SEATTLE, Wash. March S.-Harry
Wright, a prosperous merchant of Port
Townsend, caused a tlutter in the
courthouse Saturday afternoon when
he appeared before Judge George
Hatch with a marriage license and
an attractive woman as u candidate
for matrmony. Judge Hatch knew
him, his wife and family of little ones
III Port Townsend. The surprise at
the meeting was mutual.
Judge Hatch is from Clallam county,
but for the past week has been sitting
with the judges of King county. When
Wright, with his marriage license and
judge to tie the fateful knot he was
steered by willing bailiffs to Judge
Hatch's chambers.
Got Wrong Judge.
The recognition was immediate,
Wright, trying to look as little like a
bridegroom as he knew how, side
stepped, muttered incoherently some
thing about a friend. and escaped from
the room. The bevy of young women
who accompanied the bride, backed
out with the happy pair.
In the corridor a somewhat heated
discussion followed, in which Wright
tried to answer the voley of Ques-
tons which were shot at him by the
remainder of the wedding party FL
Nally Judge Hatch himself appeared.
He took Wright to one side and a
heart to heart conference followed,
from which the bride and her friends
were excluded. After the conference
Mr.. Wright and his friends passed
through the door of the courthouse
and faded away through the rain and
the mist
Remembered His Name All Riqht.
In the license Wright gave his true
name, but said that his residence was
Portland. The name of the bride was
given as Cecil Richtman.
AT noon today Mr.. Wright return
ed to his Port Townsend home from
his adventurous excursion IN the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-08

Doctor (cheerfully)-Oh, I'll find out
what ails you before long. Patient
(shuddering) doc, am l so near
the autopsy as that?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-08

Biffins-He labeled that box dry
goods" AIihins-What was in it? Milf
fins-A bound volume of the Congress
siOnal Records.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-08
For Over Years

IHE WEEKLY STATESMAN has been a well
come visitor at TIE Fl eside of the best homes
in the Walla Wall Valley. Every week more
than three thousand people peruse its columns.
THE WEEKLY STATESMAN today is the most
widely read weekly published in Walla Walla.
AS such its medium that brings results to
the advertiser. THE WEEKLY STATESMAN
is bright SPACE paper, teeming with current
local events and telegraph news from all over
the world and circulates in over a thousand
homes in Southeastern Washington. Mer-
chants desiring to reach an exclusive field
covered only by THE STATESMAN use its
columns freely and with excellent results.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-08

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take Laxa tive cromo Quinine Tablets.
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. f. w. Groves sigma
ture is on each box. CSC.
, 1904-06-23
ADVICE,
Freely Given g. a Laramie
Citi3gE.

When one has suffered tortures from
a bad back and found out how the
aches and pains can be removed, adj
vice is of untold value to friends and
neighbors, particularly when they
know the statement is absolutely cor.
rect. The following neighborly advice
comes from a Laramie resident.
Chales Norton. now retired of 107
Hodgeman avenue, says: "One day
while in the Laramie Drug Cos. store
I got a box of Doan's Kidney Pills prob,
ably more out of curiosity than expect.
ing the medicine tt de me any good
becausefora number of years a Difficult
ty with the kidney secretions existed
indicated by irregularity. noticed when
in this condition my back ached across
the loins and l knew that in some way
my kidneys were affected. | had an
attack when l began using Doan's Kid
ney Pills and I tested the remedy thor
oughly. If anyone in Laramie receives
as positive benefit from the use of the
medicine as l, then backache OR kid
ney complaint in any of its forms will
cease to exist in this vicinity"
Fore sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Fuster-Milburn Co., Buffalo. N.
Y, sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name Doan's and take
no substitute.
, 1904-06-23
THURSDAY, JUNE %, 1904.
STAND PAT FOR PROTECTION.

Probably the protection plank of the
republican platform caused mere de,
bate than all others. The good times
OF the past few years have caused
many Americans to forget what hap,
pened when Cleveland and free trade
were elected in 1892. 1t has been only
twelve short years, but people with full
stomachs become independent, dissat-
isfied and anxious to try something
else.
1t is a fair proposition that the tariff
should equal the difference in cost of
production between this country and
the countries of Europe. There is no
reason why American workingmen
should have their wages reduced to a
level with the wages of the old world,
1t Is also fair that the rate should be
readjusted only when demanded by
he commercial interests of the coun.
try and then by those who are friendly
to the policy of protection.
The demand Of the eastern wing OF
the democratic party has ever zee fol
free trade in raw materials, and they
conclude that such products as wool
hides, etc, are raw materials, whereas
they are the finished products of the
f1ockmen of Wyoming. Free trade in
wool this year would clip of all the
profit now being made by our sheep
men and leave them just as fiat as
they were in the days OF Grover Cleve
land.
Woolmen of Wyoming have not for
gotten the speech made by Hon. Henry
A. Coffeen, democratic congressman
from Wyoming, wherein he urged pro
lection for the sheepmen and then vot
ed for free trade. In advocating pro
lection on wool he admitted the justice
Of it and in voting against it he show
ed the hypocrisy Of his position.
Wyoming is in favor of standing fol-
the protection of the finished products
Of the west as well as the finished pro
ducts of the east.
, 1904-06-23

st. Louis will merely amount to a fight
for the control Of the party n the
best that even the most sanguine dem
ocrats hope for is that they may be
able to present a solid front to the en-
envy in November, trusting hat the
coming republican victory may be the
means of forcing the warning demo
cratic factions to harmonic in the fu-
ture.
In striking contrast to this disheart.
ening picture is the united effort and
the fixed purpose of the republican
convention at Chicago. There har'
mony prevails-no discordant voice is
raised by an Insignificant faction in
the interest of its selfish ends. There
all are working for the greatest gooC
of n common cause. knowing hat tho
people of the nation approve of wha
is being done and that they have the
right and the certainty of an over
whelming victory on their side-Chey
enne Leader.
, 1904-06-23
NO RACING WITHOUT BETTING

A Chicago dispatch thai
there will be no more horse racing a,
Washington park this year and a re
port is in circulation hat the park will
be abandoned. The tsand taken by the
city authorities prohibiting betting in
any form at the track is responsible
for the curtailment of the present
meeting.
With the elimination Of the book
maker race-goers refused to patronize
the track n during the last two days
not enough money was taken in at the
gate to pay the employees at the track,
to say nothing OF The purses for the
races.
1t is the old story. A horse race
without betting is as tame and uninter.
esting as two women kissing each 9th.
er. AS well carry on a poker game
without stakes-if such a thing were
possible. The men who own fast
horses are generally a little speedy
themselves INT as a natural conse,
quence like to wager a little that their
horses are faster than those belonging
to the other fellow. 1t is in their bust.
ness.
There can be no such thing as horse
racing without betting. Even a Chica-
go city council ought to have sense
enough to know that.
, 1904-06-23
ORGANIZE.
Senator Warren Made Chairman and
Mr.. Boswell Vice President.

Chicago. June 23.-The Wyoming
state delegation perfected its organiza'
ton Monday evening. The "stand
pat" policy was Endorsed and while nc
expression was made as to the vice
presidential nomination, there is a sen
timent in favor of Senator Fairbanks
Senator Warren was selected as chair.
man of the delegation and J. f. Cos.
griff secretary.
The delegation will make the follow.
ing recommendations for committee
positions in the convention: Creden.
tials, NJ. c. Nichols; rules and order OF
business. j. E. Cosgrint; permanent or.
~ganization. ]. G. Oliver; resolutions,
Senator Clark: honorary vice presi-
dent, N. X. Boswell; to notify nominee
for president. Senator Clark; to notify
nominee for vice president, Represen-
tative Mondell; national committee.
man, George E. Pexton.
, 1904-06-23
Sketch Of Charles W. Fairbanks.

A little more than ten years ago
Charles Warren Fairbanks was hardly
thought of as a factor in political life.
Yet in 1892 he was made chairman of
the Indiana republican convention,
and one year later received the entire
vote of his party in the legislature for
the United States senatorship. The
vote, however. was not large enough
to elect. In 1897 his election came,
and scarcely seven years after his ap-
pearance in Indiana politics he was
talked of for the highest honors in the
gift Of the people of the United States.
Senator Fairbanks is a native of
Ohio. having been born at Union.
vile Center. that state, in 1852. He
was graduated from Ohio Wesleyan
university at the age Of 20 and began
his career as a newspaper man
Through the influence of his uncle,
William Henry Smith, president of the
Associated Press at that time, he Sc
cured a position with that organiza'
ton at Pittsburg. He found time to
practice journalism and read law al
the anne time, and soon after he be
came a graduate of law his ability Sc
cured for him the position of solicitor
for the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad
His success in corporation law gave
him a wide reputation, and at the time
of his election to the senate he was
known as one OF the most skilful rail
road attorneys and financiers of the
west.
Soon after his election to the sen
ate a high compliment was paid to Mr.
Fairbanks by his appointment as chair
man of the United States branch of the
Anglo-American joint high commits
sion. The questions that the commits
sion was expected to consider were OF
the highest importance. and their ma
ture was such as to demand not only
a profound knowledge of law. but the
theory and practice of diplomacy
Throughout the trying negotiations q
the joint commission. Senator Fair
banks conducted the case of the Unit
ed States in such a way as to command
the respect of the British and Canadian
commissioners and to retain theil
cordial personal regard and good will
Mr.. Fairbanks home is in Indianap
oils. He also occupied a large house II
Massachusetts avenue, Washington
when congress is in session. Mrs
Fairbanks is one of the most promi
nent clubwoman in the country and
through that medium, is almost as
widely known as her distinguished
husband.
, 1904-06-23

At the immense mass meeting in the
Chicago Auditorium Tuesday night
Secretary Shaw defended the practice
of American manufacturers who sell
abroad cheaper than at home. Some
of the articles thus sold are protected
in this country by patents. and are not
so protected in the foreign countries.
Further. the manufacturer is allowed a
rebate on imported raw material when
he exports the finished article, and this
permits a reduction of price. Nearly
every class of goods imported into this
country, said Secretary Shaw. is OBJ.
tainable below the regular foreign
market, showing that foreign manufac,
turers do the same thing that is com
planned of by critics of the American
manufacturer.
, 1904-06-23
STATE PRESS
The Cattle situation

INC SakIie StI01Slon-
The old adage, cit is always darkest
just before the dawn" has been ap-
piled among cattlemen very forcibly
this spring. Cattle feeders in the corn
belt states lost heavily on their winter
feeding. Range cattlemen had a most
Improbable experience in marketing
their cattle last summer. Low prices,
poor railroad service and no return
passes foremost in the minds Of
the western ranchmen who attended
the spring meetings of the s%tockgrow-
ers' associations In Montana and Da-
kota in April, but since that time the
situation has improved step by step.
First came the welcome news that the
railroad companies had restored the
return passes, which meant a saving
OF about $780, 900 annually to patrons
of the Chicago market alone, and for
this saving the thanks of the stockmen
were due to the Bowles Live Stock
Commission Co. Of Chicago, for taking
the initial step in the fight on behalf
Of the shippers. Next came a promise
from the different railroads that good
service in the transportation of live
stock shipments was assured; that
the tonnage system as applied to live
stock shipments had been abolished
and that fast rum and uniformly good
service would be the rule this season
Now comes an era of high prices fol
cattle. The market has advanced full,
ly $3.50 per cwt. since April and values
are the highest since January, 1908,
with the top not yet in sight. Still
more encouraging is the flattering
prospect that high prices have come
to stay for the summer, n with this
favorable outlook 1t is reasonable to
presume that by the time the shipping
season begins from the northwestern
ranges cattle values at the different
market centers will still be at a high
level, and what appeared this spring
to be an unfavorable shipping season
from the western ranges will in all
probability prove a very satisfactory
one to the cattle growers.-Sheridan
Enterprise.
, 1904-06-23
DEMOCRACY'S INEVITABLE
PLIGHT.

AT no time in its history has the DEM
mocfatic party presented a more disor.
ganized and discouraging appearance
than 1t does at the present day. The
humiliating spectacle of a great party
torn by dissension and rent by faction
al strife will occupy the stage when
the st. Louis convention assemblies.
With its principal leaders unable to
agree on hardly a single issue and d.
Vided amongst themselves az to who
should be the presidential candidate,
the prospect Of party success at the
coming election is 80 remote that it is
hardly even seriously considered by
informed democrats. The struggle At