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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14
COUNTY OFFICIALS wR0TH
TAKE EXCEPTIONS TO BOARDS
ORDER REGARDING BUYING
OF SUPPLIES.
Claim That Authority Is Placed in
Hands Of Democratic Officials
May Take Issue.

While apparently everything on the
surface is all serene the republican
office holders around the court house
it is said, are waxing wroth over the
order made by the commissioners a
few days ago requiring that a re-
QUESTION for all supplies purchased
hereafter must first be obtained either
Of the board or of Auditor Honeycutt.
Just what will be the outcome of the
order is problematical. Several of the
republican officials, are credited with
saying that the order was made mere
ly for the purpose of placing the pur-
chasing of all county supplies in the
hands of the democratic officials more
especially Auditor Honeycutt. 1t
seems that such patronage heretofore
has been passed out where it will do
rangement such patronage could BIZ
placed wherever the board or auditor
saw fit.
Several officials, it is said, came to
a common understanding a few days
make an issue Of the matter with the
commissioners if they persisted in en-
forcing the order. When the matter
was first suggested to the auditor he
demurred at assuming the RESPONSE
bility of passing on the supplies need
ed about the court house, but the re-
publican officials claim that this was
only a bluff and the order was made
as it was originally intended.
The commissioners claim that the
order was merely made to curtail any
abuses that might arise through Off
Gals being given the authority to pur-
chase supplies and would apply tt
either democratic or republican Off
Gals. An instance was pointed out ir
the case of County Clerk Hauerbach
who, just before being relieved of his
office, purchased SIS worth of pen:
alone for his office. According to one
of the officials. it simply rained pens
in the clerks office for a time. The
purchase was made of a boon COM
panion of Hauerbach, but the county
was forced to foot the bill.
The commissioners cite the fact thai
they are simply reviving an old order
passed by a republican board Of coun-
when Auditor G.. N. Mclean was mads
purchasing agent of the county.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14
conscious with a bullet in mis- head.

conscious with bullet in mis- head.
Today he is lying in a critical con-
dition at the Fort Miley hospital,
wnere the surgeons this morning re-
moved the bullet.
In Smiths room at 90s Jackson
street was found scrapbook with
more than 1900 clippings from British
and American papers, all of them be-
ing chronicles of suicides or cases of
attempted suicide. The young man
had evidently spent several years in
gathering them and had studied care
fully the manner of death chosen by
those who had wearied of life. One of
the interesting features Of this book
is that where the attempt has not
been successful he has interlined in
lead pencil the date of death or re-
covery, as the case might be. 1t is be-
lieved that he brooded over the SUBJ
ject and finally determined to end lis
own career.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14

Tuesday, Smith left his room and
went out to the beach at Lands End.
He was not seen again until three
soldiers from Fort Miley found him
lying in the cave semi-conscious, and
nearly dead from a bullet wound in
his temple.
At the post hospital Smith told a
story of being held up, beaten and
robbed and then shot through the head
by his assailants. He declared that
at o. m. Tuesday while walking along
the beach he was stopped by two men
who ordered him to throw up his
hands. When he refused they shot
him and threw him into the cave to
die This story, told to the nurse at
the post hospital after the young man
regained consciousness, is doubted by
detectives investigating the case.
The Collins family, with whom
Smith lived, believe that he went to
the beach with the deliberate intention
of committing suicide. No revolver
was found near him. but it might east
ly have been flung away and carried
out by the tide.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14
Sells Baby for $25,

SEATTLE, Wash, Feb. 14-Unless
the Washington Childrens Home So
ciety is willing this week to give a s.
weeks-old baby to w. E. Smith, of
4OS-409 Yesler Way. who claims to be
it's father the courts will be called
upon to settle one of the most difficult
questions of paternity ever presented
for solution.
When the child claimed by Smith
was one hour old its mother parted
with it to the matron of a maternity
home in which she was confined.
Three hours later it was sold by the
matron for s25 to woman who gives
her name as Mrs. Rose Burkett; a
week later it was turned over to the
Washington Children's Home Society
by the woman who had purchased it.
These are the facts as related by
Smith in mis- effort to prove the pa
ternity of the child. The Home Socie-
ty is willing to give up the child if
the man demanding it can prove to a
certainty that it is his.
All would be easy if Mrs. Rose
Burkett, as she is known to Smita
and the society, could be found. The
matron of the maternity home says
that she could not recognize the baby.
as she mas not seen it since it was a
saw it for an hour, and says she paid
no attention to it,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14
LINDEN BANK CLOSES DOORS.
Depositors are Promised Settlement
On Friday.

BELLINGHAM, Feb. 1.-THE Kill
dali bank at Lynden has closed it's
doors and the depositors are awaiting
a settlement of it's affairs. The bank
refused to cash checks yesterday. but
stated that a settlement would be
made on Friday. Some of the de-
positors decided to ask for the ap-
pointment of a receiver, but after
consulting with attorneys allowed the
matter to rest until Friday, when
settlement mas been promised.
The bank was established several
years ago by Kildall Bros, in connec-
ton with a general merchandise store,
and has build up business of con-
siderable proportions. Following a
fire which destroyed some of the prop
erty of the firm, the store and the
bank, both failed to open last Monday
and the Kildall brothers were absent
from the town. Yesterday John Kill
dali returned to Lynden and opened
the store Checks on the bank were
presented to him and he said that
there was no money on hand with
which to cash the checks. but that
settlement would be made on Friday.
Kildan Bros and other Lynden par
ties interested in the bank were in the
city today and it is said that a deal is
pending for a sale of the Kildall prop
erty in Lynden, including the store anc
the banking business. which will pro-
vide sufficient bunds, if contaminated
for settlement of all liabilities.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14
How's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
FL. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. o.
We. the undersigned, have known
F. ]. Cheney for the last Is years, and
bell we MIN perfectly honorable In all
business transactions, and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
wALDING, KINNON & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists. Toledo. o.
Take Halls Family Pills for con't'-
patton.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken intern
ally, acting directly upon the bi"oi
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14
TWO SCHEDULED TO HANG
GRWSOME TASKS CONFRONT
WARDEN KEGS OF STATE
PENlTENTiARY.
A. A. Armstrong and Willie White
May End Their Lives on the
GaIlows.

The grewsome task Of executing
two murderers at the state peniten-
tiary will soon devolve upon Warden
KEGS unless Governor Mead extends
executive clemency to the condemned
men and changes the death sentence
to one of Imprisonment for life. A
few days ago the supreme court af-
firmed the death sentence pronounced
on A. A. Armstrong the Chehalis
county murderer and Saturday, Will
liam White a youthful murderer of
Seattle was convicted of murder in
to be hanged.
Armstrong who is confined in the
penitentiary has been informed Of the
supreme courts decision. He fully
expected the supreme court to set aside
the verdict of the lower court and
grant him new trial and ne was
greatly downcast at the turn of af-
fairs. His only hope now of escaping
the gallows lies in the hands of Gov
ernor Mead but it is hardly thought
that enough influence can be brought
upon the executive to cause him to
interfere, since the supreme court af-
firmed the death sentence.
Young White who was convicted of
murder at Seattle Saturday is only
IS years OF age, but he has the ear
marks of a hardened criminal. Du-
ring the trial which occupied all of
last week, he maintained a f1ippant
air. Even when the jury filed into
the box and the verdict was read. he
met it with a smile. 1t was only
when the sheriff started MIN for his
quarters in the King county Jail that
he seemed to realize that he would
soon be on his way to the gallows.
While the jury was out the pris-
oner talked with bystanders iHaa tone
of youthful bravado, criticismg the
court and the conduct of the case and
afterwards telling some of the details
of mis- past life. The boy processes to
believe that the case is to be retired
in the supreme court, where he will
be allowed to introduce witnesses un-
der very different rules of evidence.
Asked what he thought of the jury
which was then celebrating on his
fate, he replied:
We'll, when l came down from the
stand it looked pretty hard. 1 guess
it'll be first degree, all right"
The crime of which White was con-
| victed was committed in the early
hours of the morning of September 26
at Lou Conway's saloon, on Maynard
avenue. in Seattle. White and a part
ner, who is alleged to be John Hide
brant, now being held for trial at the
| King county Jail, held up the saloon
taking the money from the till and
from the pockets of those in the room
! wantonly killing the bartender. Mat
! thew Murphy; and wounding the
proprietor, Louis G. Conway.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14
PLEASANT MOST EFFECTIVE.

T. J. Chambers, Ed. indicator, Lib
erty, Texas, writes Dec. Is, 1902:
With pleasure and unsolicited by you,
bear testimony to the curative power
of Billiards. Horehound Syrup. I have
used it in my family and can cheer
fully affirm it is the most effective and
pleasantest remedy for coughs and
colds 1 have ever used" Csc, sec and
800.
For sale by Upington Drug Store. q
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14
HOWARD OUT IN The COLD
,.0oer COMES FROM SOUND
THAT GOVERNOR MEAD WENT
BACK ON HIM.
Wac Promised Job Under the New
Administration but Has Been
Thrown Down.

lively political storm may soon
l.. raging about ]. Howard Watson,
s,.,,erlv a we'll known newspaper man
# Spokane, recently private secretary
4 Governor Mcbride, and VINO was
-. ana time manager of the republican
nanpr in Walla Walla.
Almost every day there are
dovoIopments showing that Mead has
q very poor memory for his early obli-
cations saws the Seattle Times. J..
Howard Watson has been in Olympia.
Nv, the governor has been apparently
oeious of his existence. Mr.. Wat
sor certainly is not worrying the gov
qrnor. nor worrying over the COVER
nor's actions, but there exists every
reason why the governor should be
soIcitiOus over Mr.. Watson.
During the last campaign wnen mat
ters we're looking pretty blue for the
present governor an appeal was made
for help from the Mcbride wing of
the party. Certain of the state Off
Gals suggested to Mead that he
provide for Mr.. Watson during his
term and declared that Watson could
Sraighten out some of the political
endorsements that were keeping
the candidates awake.
In general way it was agreed by
Mead that he would find a place for
Watson, either as the governors pri-
vate secretary or in some other ca
peity. A membership on the state
board of control was favorably con-
sidered
No definite berth was agreed upon
Tor Watson, but the obligation to pro-
V'as him an appointment equal to the
on9s held under Mcbride was abso-
'pde There were too many parties to
@e agreement to leave any room for
doubt on that score.
twill be recalled that Watson made
rip through Central Washington,
where his acquaintance was wide and
"nere his influence was the strongest.
ne managed to straighten out a great
zeal OF the trouble that beset the Mead
ticket.
iNere were some politicians who
uOuo'ed the mission of Watson at that
''''e' but these were mem not IA
"'''ar with the deal whereby it was
~"uerIaken. The returns from the
sections Mr.. Watson visited indicate
we degree of his strength and the
"Faf'iness Of mis- effort.
II was a disappointment to those
'@'e omcials who urged the Watson
"hen the governor announced
wilson man would be his pri-
'1'e secretary, But the disappoint-
''''' accumulated when the executive
.-pua'ated the entire deal. So far as
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14

ocean, as one who knew the reverend
father. recital Of the miracle at
which ne had been present thirty
years before. This he did in a manner
entirely simple and unaffected, though
speaking little gravely, as one who
recalls an event which has left a deep
impression on his mind.
AT the time of the occurrences" he
said, Il was working on the church.
l was only a laborer in those DAYS.
one of my mates was a man named
Hope. called him my walking mate,
because We both had our homes at
Hay. and though We lived in Llantnony
during the week We used to walk home
to Hay on the Saturday and return
again to work OH Monday.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14
Ha. Been In Ill Health.

Smith had been in ill health for
some time and three weeks ago sick
ness compelled to give up his position
with Roth & Lindner, where he was
considered a steady, reliable work.
man.
The most remarkable feature of the
case is the fact that Smith is still alive
and may recover after his terrible ex-
perience.
He was seen lying in the cave by
two men prior to the discovery of the
body by the soldiers. They thought
him drunk and left him there without
food or water and seriously wounded
1t was in the afternoon that three
men of the Twenty fifth artillery COM
pany saw Smith lying in the cave.
From mis- limp appearance and condi-
ton of his clothing they, too thought
he was drunk, but examination re-
vealed his wounds and that he was
still alive. They took him to Fort
Miley hospital.
Smith has had varied career. He
served as a private in the Leicester
shire Yeomanry through tine English
Boer war and was twice wounded.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14
TALES OF SUICIDE RESPONSIBLE
Believed Man Discovered With Bullet
In His Head, Tried Suicide.

SAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Feb. H.
Brooding over death and suicide, young
own life in the lonely cave at Lands
End He was found there by three
soldiers from Fort Miley. after hav-
ing lain three days wounded and I'M
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14
More Evidence Of Trib's Good Work.

More Evidence Of Trib's Good Work.
Baker City. Or, Sept. 3, 1901 was
a constant user of both smoking and
chewing tobacco for As years. l took a
treatment of TRIB about three months
ago and can endorse it as cure. MY
general health is much improved since
took your cure. Sincerely yours.
N. H. STARBIRD.
For sale by L. L. TalIman.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14
NOTICE..

Those wishing work complete before
Decoration Day should not delay in
making selection. The Roberts Monu-
ment Co., Elm street.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14

Thoroughbred Silver Laced Wyon-
dotte ROSTERS for sale. Too many on
hand. Inquire Geo. LaDue, corner
Pleasant and Fern avenue.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-02-14
RAISES THE DEAD By PRAYER.
Witnesses Testify to the Miraculous
Powers Of Father isnatius.

LONDON, Feb. 1.-THE wide pub
licity given to certain statements
made in the recently published Life
of Father Ignatius,'' to the effect that
the reverend father had been the in
strument of God in the performance
of miracles, has raised a great deal of
Ignatius states that, knowing the un-
belief of the age, ne was skeptical.
In order, therefore, that his case
might be presented to the public in
the most convincing way, it was sug-
gested to Father Ignatius that cor
respondent for The Inter Ocean should
be sent down to Wales to investigate
impartially the stories of the miracle.
To this suggestion, Father Ignatius
gladly consented.
In matter of this sort an investiga-
ton is a somewhat difficult affair, be-
cause the miracles mentioned by the
Baroness de Bertoucn in heu Life of
Father Ignatius,'' happened some
years ago and witnesses of the events
are for the most part dead or scattered
abroad over the face of the earth in
manner beyond all tracing.
Two Witnesses Found.
Two witnesses, however were found.
The one was man who was present
at the raising of the laborer who was
said to have been killed during the
building operations at Llonthony thir-
ty years ago, and the other was the
mother of the sick boy whom Father
Ignatius was stated to have been in
strumental in instanteously curing of
internal inflammation at IL years of
age.
The name of the first witness is Da-
vid Evans a builder, farmer, and
shopkeeper, at Hay. He is a man of
no small prosperity and of high re-
pute.
Yet so great is his veneration and
love for the Monk of the Golden VAL
ley that. when he was hidden by
messenger to Llanthony ne mounted
his pony and rode seven miles across
the hills without murmur or question.
There, in the little visitors room at
the monastery, he gave The Inter
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The daily Alaskan., 1905-02-28
LENA BUCHH0lZ
 COMMITS SUICIDE

A telegram in the Whitehorse Star of Saturday, says Mrs. Lena Buchholz, wife of Peter BuchhOlz committed sui eide at Fairbanks. Mrs. Buchholz formerly resided in Skagway. Prior to last fall her husband had been in the butcher business for several years at South Dawson.
 MT. and Mrs. Buchholz were the proprietors of the City hotel at Port Angeles, Wash, from 1895 to 1898. Prior to that time they had been in the hotel business tn East Clallam, Wash. They came to Skagway in the fall of 1898. Mrs Buchholz resided here most Of the time until the fall of 1900, when she joined her husband at Dawson. She joired the stampede to Fairbanks early last year. Later her husband failed in business and followed her to Fairbangs, leaving, it is said, $40, 600 in debts behind him. The dead woman left son at Fairbanks, aud mother and sister on Puget sound.
The daily Alaskan., 1905-02-28
STAY NO DANGER
Smallpox Confined at Post
 and Cannot Spread

The people of Haines desire 1t under stood that there is no smallpox at that place and there has been none there, The case of smallpox that is at the post is being strictly quarantined.
 I. Sowerby, the well known agent of the Alaska Steamship Company at Haines, writing to the Daily Alaskan, under yesterdays date, says:
 "In view of the fact that exaggerated reports have apparently been circulated in regard to the smallpox condition at Haines, consider it my duty to inform you that there is not and never has been any case of smallpox in the town of Haines this winter. One of the sol diers at the post was taken down with a disease which was pronounced by Dr. Clayton to be smallpox. From all the reports received from the post the La- tient is doing nicely and he will proba- bly be entirely well in very few days. A strict quarantine between the post and the town of Haines is being en. forced and there is absolutely no danger of the disease spreading"
The daily Alaskan., 1905-02-28
A MANLY ACT

That was a straightforward and man. ly act ou the part of those citizens Of skAgway who had charge of the enter tAinment of Gov. Brady when they told him in plain words that the people Of this town do not approve of his plans for the government of Alaska but that they want terri.orial.gOvernment. The members of the committee did not pro pose that the hospitality of Skagway should be understood as an indication that the people of the town had accep- ted the idea of government advanced by the governor, nor did they propose that they be placed in false light be fore him. He had made use of the opportunity afforded him at the receP- tion at the Arctic Brotherhood hall to speak against territorial government. The members of the entertainment committee made an opportunity to tell him that the people of Skagway, in- eluding those wLo were entertaining the executive party, were in favor of such 6 government.
The daily Alaskan., 1905-02-28
Ross. Higgins Not Going Out
 of Business

c. B. Haraden, manager of Ross-Hig' gins Compsny's Alaska business, stamps as absolutely without foundation the rumor that his company is going out of business at SKagway. Not only is it not true, but the house is making arrangements to handle larger busi- ness at Skagwsy this year than it ever has done in a single year in the past.
 In speaking of the matter last Satur- day, Mir. Haradsn said:
 eve are we'll pleased with the busi- ness we did in SkagwaY last year and we expect to do better one this year. We will handle the big wholesale busi- ness that we contemplate doing from this town,
 "You can say that the Ross-Higgins Company is too we'll satisfied with Its Skagway business to abandon this field. Skagway is a good town and it is going to get better"
The daily Alaskan., 1905-02-28
CANADIANS WANT SELF-GoV-
 ERNMENT

One of the things which Dr. Thomp' .on will seek to accomplish while at Ottawa, where he goes as the chosen representative of the people of the Hu- kou, will be to secure a wholly elective Yukon council. The present council is half elective and half appointive. This Is uns atisfactory to the people, and the plank for an sll elected council was one O, the strongest cards in the platform upou which Dr. Thompson conducted hIs campaign for election to parlia- ment
 The scheme of government, of which the Canadians have tired and which they seek to change, served as a model for Senator Dietrich in preparing his bill for the government of Alaska. The chief difference between the pro posed Dietrich government and the government the Canadians of the fu- kOn are seeking to discard is that in the Canadian government the people have elective representation in parlia- ment, while Dietrich proposed to legis- late Gov. Brady on the people as a dele gate In congress, thus depriving them of actual representation.
 The Daily Alaskan does not believe Alaskans would like Aplan of govern ment which has been tired and rejected by the people of the Yukon.
 The report that the Dietrich bill has been pigeonholed will cause satisiae- ton In Alaska It is also fortunate that Dietrich will be an eX-senator af, ter nsxt Saturday.
The daily Alaskan., 1905-02-28
PUBLIC SCHOOL
 FOR PROTECTION

The debating society of the Skagway public school, compo ed of members of the seventh and eighth grades, decided by unanimous vote that the policy of protection should not give way to that Of free trads.
 All the members of the class partici- pated in the debate and all of them, one after another, declared for the Ameri' can policy of protection. The d bt took place yesterday.
 The next debate will be on the fol- lowing resolution:
 Resolved, That all American citi- zens should have the right 10 vote for president"
 Those who support the resolution will contend that the residents of a ter. ritory should have the right to vote the same as those of state.