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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-01-24
REIGN OF TERROR IN IRELAND.
Starving Peasants Frightened by .
Strange Phenomenon In LowIands.

DUBLIN, Jan. 24.-The moving bog
| near Castlera, County Roscommon,
| continues to cause terror among the
poor cotters, whose holdings are being
steadily submerged and their cot
tages swept away in it's resistless on
| ward course. Many homeless fami-
ing been swept away.
The government so far has not re-
sponded to the appeal for relief works
to employ the victims, whose miser-
able condition cannot be exaggerated.
Homeless and penniless, with nothing
facing them but want and starvation,
they wander about their demolished
homes, and if relief does not come
speedily many will end their days in
lunatic asylums.
The bog is known as that of Gloon
shiever, on Lord de Fryne's estate,
three miles from Castlera. 1t moved
three-quarters of mile in a few days,
covering everything in it's way with
peat and water to a depth of eight or
ten feet.
Imprisoned by Water.
Few people can fully realize" writes
a correspondent, what the phenomena
of a moving bog really means to the
unfortunate tenants whose lot it is to
live on Lord de Frynes estate. The
peasants are surrounded on all sides
with miles Of bog and water.
Sad is the story of the hamlet of
Cloonshiever, with it's forty or fifty
little one-story, whitewashed cottages.
On Saturday last an immense bog.
which overhangs the valleys, without
any previous warning, swept down on
them like an avalanche
1.-The first intimation the villagers
had of the visitation was when the
hogstuff came dashing into the doors
of the houses so rapidly that it was
with the greatest difficulty many OF
the unfortunate people escaped with
their lives.
Great Mountain Torn.
"The mountain, which is eleven or
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-01-24

the proper correction to be made so
as to comply with the provisions Of
this act, and if the person offering
such instrument is not grantor or
grantee named therein, and such per-
son fail to comply with such notice
from the auditor, said auditor shall
cause notice of such defect to be given
to both the grantor and grantee named
in such instrument and require of
them the correction to entitle said in
strument to be placed on file or record
properly.
Sec. 4. If any of the things re-
quired under section 1, of this act, are
missing from any such instrument Or
instruments, the same shall be con-
sidered by said auditor as apparent
defects"
Sec. 5. 1t shall be the duty of the
auditor to carefully examine all in
struments offered to him for filing or
record. and to Immediately notify the
persons interested therein in person
or by mail of any errors or defects
that may appear therein, other than
those mentioned in section l of this
act and to note said errors or defects
upon the margin of the record.
Sec 6. An emergency exists and
liof a1y
upon it's approval by the governor.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-01-24
n. P. May BUILD INTO THE WALLOWA
Believed That Requirement Of the Narrow euage is the First
Stop In That Direction

There has been no formal transfer
of the Narrow gauge to the w. & c. r.
system, although in all probability
this will be done in the near future
General Manager McCabe said this
morning. Il believe that some UNI
Outstanding was reached regarding
the narrow gauge at the conference of
railroad interests at Portland but as
to future plans or intentions of the
company to extend the road beyond
Dudley, there is nothing to give out.
1.-THE w. & c. r. has relinquished
it's interests in the Turner line as the
branch has never proved a paying in
vestment. AS to the narrow gauge,
when it formally becomes part Of the
w. & c. R., in all probability the road
to Dudley will be standardized and
may, at some future time, be extended
a few miles further up Mill creek in
order to tap a rich wheat section in
the Russell creek neighborhood. The
project would require considerable
engineering skill and outlay of money
owing to the heavy grades that
would be encountered. I have never
been over the ground and do not be-
lieve survey was ever made for an
extension and furthermore I am not
feasible believe, and may be brought
about in the course Of time
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-01-24

The mountain, which is eleven or
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-01-24

Northwestern Mutual Fire Associa-
ton. F. E. Waters. agent. Room zo.-
P. O. Bldg. :,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-01-24

twelve miles in extent, is rent. and
torn as If by an earthquake. The NOV
ing portion was about 800 yards square
and had been carried a distance Of
destruction which such a mass had
left in the train can be more easily
imagined than described. Many of
the houses have wholly disappeared.
while all that is to be seen of others
is the chimney tops.
''At one point lake of about ten or
twelve acres in extent has been
the pen-up mountain streams. Unless
some means is speedily adopted to
drain off this water it will undermine
the entire bog and a disaster of over
whelming nature may be anticipated.
Danger Increasing.
A later dispatch shows how immin-
ent is the danger. A Roscommon sor-
respondent, telegra phing yesterday,
says:
"The lake formed by the flow of
water from the mountains has today
assumed still larger proportions, and
is steadily extending upward toward
a number of houses on the rising
ground. The land attached to the
holdings already has been covered
over, and the dwellings cannot long
continued 11abitable.
ut would be impossible to exagger-
ate the miserable condition of the VII
layers who haze been made home
less and penniless. They wander
about the scenes Of their former homes
with nothing but want and starvation
facing them and their families.
"One unfortunate woman was COM
pletely deranged in mind by the
shock when the seething mass of fog
burst through her door before day
light one morning, and she narrowly
ESCAPED with her life, leaving all her
possessions to the mercy of the inva-
der. She is the mother OF large
family, all the members of which at
present are away"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-01-24
NJ. p. Into WaIIowa.

Although the idea has been scoffed
at owing to the Hartman and Hill
interest being so closely allied, there
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-01-24
"Give Lawson Rein"


Lawson will overreach himself,
was Mr.. Rockefeller's declaration
IF we let him have free rein he will
go to greater extremes and bring about
a reaction against himself all the
sooner
This same policy is approved by
President Stillman of the National City
bank, in it's connection with the Mum
roe & Munroe stock jobbing scandal
Lawson's attack on the bank is not to
draw their fire. even If they are COM
PEELED to pay over to the Munroe cred
itors the last days draft of 100000
which was collected just before the
failure.
The unnamed New York publisher
whose identity Mr.. Lawson thinly con-
cealed in an account of how he was
plucked by a syndicate in the steel
trust shares and was placated by Geo
w. Perkins. says that the story was a
lie. but as his name was not men
toned. he would not give Lawson the
satisfaction of entering into any con-
troversy.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-01-24
- All RICH. and 1 Recommend
1t to All

7, Wy creek, Wash, Feb. %, 1904.
csn, 'suest OF Your letter that I re-
1w, at valley. asking me to say how
ros. se''ihg along with TRIP. I
Tia , SS 1t is fine. I began taking it
san, Nay after received it. 'TRIB"
cn. sa' and recommend it to al, as
usin ', 'Of liquor and tobacco. re-
''a Yours truly,
ro, GUY SUPINGER.
SSle by L. L. rallman.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27
Tariff Revision.

1t has been generally supposed that
Representative McCleary of Minnesota
was the only statesman in the land
who has nerve enough to argufy in
favor of revising the tariff upward,
but now comes Senator Henry Clay
Hansbrough of North Dakota and
Glasses himself with McCleary, partial
ly at least. AS | understand McCleary's
beautiful and comprehensive scheme, it
was to have general uplift of tariff
rates. Hansbrough is more modest
and Moderate His desires for a rise
in the tariff appear to extend only to
spring wheat His constituents mostly
live by producing wheat. He wants to
see them prosper. Therefore he is in
favor of taxing Canadian wheat to
such an extent that every man, woman
and child in America will be COM
PEELED to pay more for bread. The cpl
taph on Sir Robert Peels monument is,
HE gave the people cheap bread" and
he is one of the immortals Hans
brough would reverse the Peelpla Safe
to say that no shaft will be erected to
his memory by penny subscriptions.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27
Trouble Among the Mormons.

Good news comes from Utah-the
Mormons are falling out among them
selves. There is fiat rebellion against
the despotic rule of the hierarchy of
which President Smith is the head. His
rule is too much of the iron variety 1t
is claimed by the reealcitrants that the
church governs the moral, religious, ed
ucational and business movements of
the people as though the latter were
serfs or poems. Hitherto it has been a
matter of grayest danger for any Nor
mon to raise his voice against the pow
ers that be-gravest danger in every
way The kicker was certain to be
ruined. At least it has been currently
reported to be so Now, however, the
opposition to the twelve apostles APP
pears to be widespread and systematic
Perhaps it is and perhaps it isn't
There may be more smoke than fire
At any rate, gentiles will watch the rev.
olutionary proceedings with intense in
terest. Utah possesses many resources
and will become rich and prosperous
whenever -Mormons feel assured
that they will have a square deal out
there
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27

People generally will be delighted to
know that Iarse Henry Watterson is
about to shake the dust of Europe from
his shoes and to return to his own
country, for he is a prime favorite
with all sorts and conditions of people.
He will be able perhaps to tell Us some
thing new about the Spanish fandango
and '.sich''
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27
Silent LEGISLATORS.

Some editors who ought to know bet
ter are trying to confer fame on a
member of the British parliament be-
cause he boasts that during his twenty
four years Of service in that body he
has never made speech and never in
tends to do SO. Pray, what credit is
that to him? There is a time to make
a speech and a time to refrain from
making speech A wise man will
determine the psychological moment
when to do the one thing or the other.
One editor remarks that speeches in
legislative assemblies are seldom made
to convince the opposition or win votes
for the measure under consideration.
That would be important if true but it
is not true While, of course, the fate
of strict party measures is not fire.
quently determined by speeches, still
they sometimes are. Were all bills
party measures the usefulness of par
liamentary oratory would undoubtedly
be reduced to a minimum, but nine
tenths of all the bills considered by
parliamentary bodies are nonpartisan,
and their fate is frequently determined
by speechmaking | have served in
both the Missouri legislature and in
congress, and time and time again l
have seen bills killed and bills passed
by reason of the skill and force with
which the reasons for or against We're
urged by trained speakers The error
in the argument that all speechmaking
is futile grows out of the foolish idea
that the main duty Of a legislator is
to pass a bill. The contrary is true.
His chief duty is to kill vicious bills,
and one of the most effective ways to
accomplish that is to talk them to
death. Some very good people count
that as a waste of time, while as
matter of fact it is a most valuable
consumption of time. The plain truth
is that certain persons delight in lam
basting congressman, vet every one of
the lambasters would be in congress
himself if he could only break in. Con
sistency is a rare jewel Parliament
means a talking body Is it a misno-
mer?
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27
Uncle Sam as Bond EuIl.

Since President Roosevelt took his
f1ier in Santo Domingo politics Uncle
Sam appears in the role of bull in the
bond market of all the bankrupt re-
publics in this hemisphere. This may
pander to our national vanity, but will
it eyentuate in our national well being?
Is not our uncle biting off more than
he can chew when he sets up as receiv-
er general and financial agent of these
tumultuous, debt ridden and debt con
tracing republics? What matters it to
us that the bonds of all these Central
and South American states are going
up? Or how does 1t concern us if they
should take tumble: Nevertheless
London spectators are exploiting all
these bonds on the strength of the as
sumed fact that we are going to be-
come a sort of guarantee company for
all the claims. legal or Illegal. mostly
illegal. now pending against them ALL
The secretary of the Foreign Bond
holders corporation says:
Let MS compare the quotations on some
of these bonds year ago with the prices
ruling today AT the end of March, 1904
the Colombian bonds were quoted at Il
The present price is 40. Costa Rica bonds
a year ago were 10 and are now 40: Guate-
malas have advanced from Is to q: Hon
duras bonds from to g. and Venezuelan
from p to 49, The foregoing debts are all
at present and have been for many years
in total default
The rise that has taken place appears to
be largely due to the idea that the United
States is going to intervene in some way
so as to mate all these defaulting coun-
tries pay their debts
Whom does all that profit? Not a
soul except the greedy gamblers who
have bought those bonds at ridiculous
~ low figures, taking great risks of
realizing great gains hoping that their
respective governments would collect
their claims at the lannon's mouth.
Their respective governments being a
little slow about performing the cannon
mouth collection caper, these greedy
gamblers are no doubt rejOiced because
President Roosevelt has taken that
bandit chief, Don Carlos Morales, pres
ident Of the Santa Domingo republic (9.
under the shadow of his protecting
wing. Nobody can blame these gam
blers for being glad. It is the greatest
and most unexpected winifall that has
come to any gamblers in human folly
and distress since gambling was first
invented among men. The important
questions staring US in the face are
these: Whittier are we driftings Are
we not playing with fire. Why should
we imperil our peace, our honor. our
good name, by mixing in the revolution
airy affairs of a set Of the most grace
less cutthroats that ever vexed this
glorious world with their malign pres
ence? Why cannot we attend to our
own business? What mania leads US
into poking our noses into other peo-
pies business? The idea Of being a
world power seems to have added our
Uncle Samuel
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27

mania for Japan and everything Japa-
nese seems to be dying out, and that Is
California. The people out there do not
appear to be SO completely stuck on the
little yellow men as the citizens of the
rest of the country. Quite the contrary.
Indeed, they are beginning to cIamor
for a Japanese exclusion bill which
shall be a fitting companion piece to
the present Chinese exclusion law
What will those enthusiasts in Ameri-
ca who have been shouting themselves
hoarse every time the Japs thrashed
ihe Russians think of that? If the sen
siment in California is fair test, then
in the case of the Japs it is like unto
tae case as to mountains lis dis
lance lends enchantment to the view"
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27
An Important Movement.

For some time there has been
sporadic talk as to substituting Italian
labor for negro labor down south. Up
to this time it has been talk-merely
that and nothing more At last, how
ever, it is taking definite shape The
Italian ambassador, Signor des Plan
ches, has been revolving in his mind
a project to divert the stream of
Italian immigration pouring into this
country from our northern to our
southern ports and to induce immi-
grants to seek labor rather on south
ern farms than in northern cities, in
northern workshops and on northern
railroads. With such head to the
movement it bids fair to become of
vast Importance to all concerned
There can be no question that negro
labor is becoming more and more I'M
satisfactory at the south and every
where else that it exists in this coun-
try. There are two reasons for this.
First, the ceaseless exploitation of the
race question by demagogues who
know nothing of it has tendency to
make the colored people dissatisfied
with their lot: second, the negroes who
were old enough to learn habits of in
dustry in antebellum days are rapid
ly disappearing, and their descendants
do not take to manual labor with any
considerable degree of enthusiasm,
especially to farm labor which, when
the long day is considered, may not
improperly be regarded as the hardest
of all labor. They are the most gre
garious of peoples and love TO congre-
gate i'll the towns and cities. where
they lead very precarious life. But
they prefer an opportunity to see the
passing show. even from the curb
stone to the more solid comforts OBJ
tainable on the farm. This downward
movement of our population generally
has been much deplored by various
philosophers, but it seems never to
more marked among the colored folks
than among the whites.
Northern newspapers with one ac-
cord hail the project of Signor des
Planches with delight because, as they
say, it Will relieve the congestion of
population in the great cities. But
query: Are they not congratulating
themselves prematurely? 1t is safe to
say that where three Italians displace
three negroes down south, at least two
and perhaps three negroes will betake
themselves to the great cities of the
north, and the last condition of both the
cities and the negroes will be worse
than their first Another query: Will
the whites down south be willing to
do the very desirable thing of substi-
tuting white for negro labor if they
must use Italians for that purpose!
For it is well known that Italians are
not assimilated with ease or rapidly
They remain a separate people wher-
ever they CO. to a large extent So
that from any standpoint Signor des
Planches project is much better In
theory than in practice. English, Ger
man, Irish, Scotch Scandinavian and
even French immigrants mingle read
lily with the descendants of the original
settlers by fntermarriage. and after a
generation or two their children are
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27
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Especial Washington letter.

lSpeclal w washington Letter.
nee upon a time, so the story
runs, there was a boy too in
dolent to say his prayers, so
he wrote him one and glued it
to the head of his bed When he tum-
bled in at night he would point to it
and say, Lord, them's my sentiments. .
/ am in the same frame of mind touch
ing tue news to the effect that they
have succeeded in identifying the
bones of our first and greatest naval
cry patriot would rejoice if his body
could be recovered and buried in Amer
lea, OF course, also, he ought to have
been buried here when there was no
doubt about the identity of the re-
mains. There would never have been
any trouble about the matter had our
then minister to Versailles, Gouverneur
Morris attended to his business instead
of dancing attendance on the fine la
dies of gay Paris But the SO called
Identification is decidedly gauzy The
st. Louis Post-Dispatch expresses my
idea exactly in this vigorous fashion:
At distance the identification of the
body OF Paul Jones is not satisfactory
There was no inscription on the coffin,
no uniform. sword or decoration to distin-
guish the remains from those of other oc-
cupants of st. Louis cemetery. The phys
ical features of the body itself might be
possessed by 1000 or 10000 men of that
time or this. The "peculiarities" men
toned in the cablegram are not peculiar
feet seven inches high? Besides is IT not
reasonably certain that Paul Jones' body
has shrunk since his death? Why should
men have dark brown hair slightly streak
ed with gray? The arrangement of his
hair corresponds with that IN vogue among
gentlemen of that time The face is clean
shaver. How many gentlemen of 1872
were not clean shaven? There is d mark
on the linen which looks like u" or an
inverted "P" which reminds one of the
cloud seen by Hamlet which looked like
weasel or a camel or a whale. 1.-THE body
was carefully packed" Anything ex-
traordinary in that? Tin foil was wrapped
about the limbs presumably for sea
transportation. Why is it presumed?
And even so. does it prove the body to be
John Pauls?
Those who seek shall find and General
Porter may claim the triumph due to
working faith but when the object of the
search is a hero's bones lost for hundred
years a skeptical people must be pardoned
if they require a clearer proof than is Of
fered in this case.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27
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really American citizens, but the Ital-
ians prefer or are forced to herd by
themselves. Ali these matters will
have effect in helping along or hinder
ing the Italian colonization scheme for
southern farms.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27

Those astute political philosophers
who in 1900 endeavored to make so
much capital out of the fact that Will
liam Mckinley carried William J..
Bryan's precinct would do well to turn
their luminous minds to the fact that
at the recent municipal election Oyster
Bay went Democratic What's sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gander
There is precisely the same Importance
in the Democratic victory in President
Roosevelt's home town as there was in
the Republican victory in the Bryan
precinct The effect in each case was
nil
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27

Kaiser William stirred up Europe by
his brief visit to Morocco, and Presi-
dent Roosevelt is stirring up the bears,
wolves, rattlesnakes and other deni-
zens of the great and gorgeous west
by his exploits as the modern Nimrod
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain. Togo, Nogi,
Linevitch and the rest of the bigwigs
will have to get a move on them or
they will be lost to view completely in
these strenuous times. There's not
limelight enough for ALL Just at pres
ent William and Theodore are monopo-
lizing about all there is
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27
Cheated Death.

Kidney trouble often ends fatally, but
by choosing the right medicine, E. H. Wolfe,
Of Bear Grove, Iowa, cheated death. He
says: 1.-TWO years ago / had Kidney Trou-
BILE, which caused me great pain, suffering
and anxiety, but / took Electric Bitters,
which effected complete cure. have
also found them Of great benefit in general
debility and nerve trouble, and keep them
constantly on hand, since, as I find they
have no equal. J. w. Merritt, the drug
gist, guarantees them at so cents. 4-6-Im.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27

Hon. Robert NJ La Toilette is still
holding on to the governorship Of Wis
consin. though the term of six years in
gar to run March 4. He has Il prece-
dent in the case of David Bennett HILL
who held on to the governorsllp for
ten months after the beginning of his
senatorial term
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27

Mr. Circuit Attorney Jerome of
Greater New York has pronounced
Thomas Jefferson to be fakir. There
is an old saying that a living ass may
kick dead lion with impunity.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-04-27
Where laps Are Unpopular.

There Is at least one place in tue
United States where the unaecountable