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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-15

"Only recently" said the manager.
"Mr. Rockefeller and I were driving
through the estate together and he
said to me:
Why do people abuse me so? Can
it be possible I am regarded as an enc
my of civilization? I am willing, yes.
anxious to give freely of what 1 pos
sess, but my money must go where it
is intended to go and not line the
pockets of others
Mr.. Rockefeller's father was here
about year ago. A recent magazine
story refers to him as a man who as
ISOLATED with horse thieves I'D at
Moravia, and who used to absent him.
self from home for long periods and
return with plenty of money. 1 know
he used to go away and 1 know why.
He had farm which would never yield
any profit, SO he went to Canada, and
bought up a lot of fine timber. sent il
to the mills and sold it at a hand
some profit. He repeated this often,
until finally he decided to devote all
of his time to the lumber business and
made small fortune. The old man
is now living quietly on a ranch in the
west.
Mr.. Rockefeller has ben pictured as
a weakened up, dried out, cranky fos-
sill. Nothing could be more inaccur-
ate. He is witty, buoyant in spirit,
and as youthful in his manner as a
boy. He likes his joke as well as any
man know. And what is more, ne has
an utter dislike for ceremony.
You can take my word for it that
nowadays he is not obliged to deny
himself anything that his appetite
Graves. He eats what he pleases and
when he pleases, and what is more, ne
sleeps well. He is not the thin, gaunt
giant caricaturists make him out to
be. but a well-built, strong healthy
man.
Zone of Mr.. Rockefeller's qualities,
wholly unknown to the world, is his
live for little children. In driving
about the estate with him have often
been asked to halt while he stepped
out of the wagon to lift little child
from the ground and kiss it and talk
to it. 1t matters not how poorly the
child is dressed or how dirty the face
may be-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-15
ARE REVISING THE STUDIES
THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCA-
TON WILL PROMULGATE
NEW COURSE.
Committee Is Now at Work in Olym
pia and Will Submit Report to
the Board.

A new course of study for the COM
mon schools of the state is being pre-
pared at the office of the state super
intendent. When completed it will be
submitted for approval to the state
board of education, which meets here
August 21, after which it must be fol-
lowed by all the teachers.
Those engaged on the work are
Superintendent Bryan, his assistants,
Dewey and McCully; Professor A. H.
Yoder, of the state university; H. G.
Sampson, of the state college at Pull
man; Principal Harry M. Shafer, of
the Cheney Normal; c. H. Morgan, of
the Ellensburg Normal, and an in
structor of the Bellingnam normal.
When completed the course of study
will be printed in pamphlet form, con-
sisting of from 125 to $50 pages. 1t
will contain a general outline of all
the work in the different grades from
the primary to and including the eighth
grade.
The methods of teaching the time
to be given to the several topics, ETC.,
will all be outlined.
The directions will necessarily be
general, SO that different text books
may be used, as under the new text
arithmetics and ten or more different
readers and many different books of
instruction in other branches have
been adopted by text book commissions
of the districts of the state.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-15
CROWDS STILL CONTINUE TO
CALL AT THE WASHINGTON
STATE BUILDING.
Cherry Exhibit at Lewis and CLARK
Exposition Is Added to by
Another Shipment.

Special Correspondence.
PORTLAND, July 14.-Walla Walia
people at the fair during the middle of
the week were quite numerous. They
included the following: Mrs. Bessie l.
Gross, c. E. Dimmitt and family, DR..
c. w. Suttner. E. Sell, E. B. Sell, Mrs.
N. Sell, Edith Melcher w. s. Mullinix.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Wills. Joseph Kel-
Tough, Laura Kellough, Edith Kellough,
M. w. Rasmus, p. ]. Cochran, William
Parks, Mabel Rinehart, E. D. Baldwin.
j. c. Hinckley, Margaret Jones, Angi-
leen Sheldon, Mr.. and Mrs. o. d. Glib
son, Dr. L. c. Davidson, Mr. and Mrs.
w. D. Gregory, Mr.. and Mrs. p. n.
Winans, Mrs. F. w. Shultz, Mr.. and
Mrs. Allen H. Reynolds, Mary Gillian.
Elouise Thomsa, Mr.. and Mrs. Harmon,
Mrs. j. F. Stack, Bryan Stack, James
Stack, Edith Stack, Belle Starrett.
DR.. N. G.. Blalock. chairman Of the
board Of commissioners for Walla
Walla county, is here in the interests
of the county exhibit and also to at
tend the American Medical association
and also in the interest of the Open
River association.
Thursday 80 girls Of the Spokesman
Review contest visited the Walla
Walla booth. Thursday was also
Mazama day and many members Of
the Mazama, Appalachian and Sierra
clubs were present.
A new shipment of cherries has late
ly been received consisting Of punches
and clusters still on the branch. some
of them foot or more in length and
so thick that the branch cannot be
seen. These were arranged artistically
and added to the beauty and unique
ness of our display
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-15
WHY DO PEOPLE ABUSE Me?
Rockefeller SorrowfuIIy Puts Thi
Question to Superintendent.

NEW YORK, July 15-Jonn D.
Rockefeller's reply to the tainted
money accusation is made public
through the superintendent Of his PO-
cantico Hills estate, who tells exactly
what Mr.. Rockefeller himself said on
the subject. Mr.. Rockefeller's man.
ager also answers Miss Ida Tarbell's
sensational charge in a recent maya
zine article that Mr.. ROckefeller's
father, who is living, was a trickster
and suspected of horse stealing.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-15
Avoided Joining Any Church.

CLEVELAND, o., July 15.-Rev. Hi
ram c. Haydn, preaching the sermon
at the services in memory to the late
John Hay at the Old Stone church,
told why the stateman did not join
the church. DR.. Haydn said
Hay was not, so far as I know, a
member of any church. Once he stated
his reason. 1t is characteristic. He
said: My faith in Christ is implicit.
am a believer. 1 am in fullest SYM
pathy with all that the church mainly
stands for, but feel that to unite with
it formally 1 should be in full accord
with it's methods, creeds and aims, and
cannot go that far"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-15
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPOSITION
June list to October 18th.

June list to October 18th.
Tickets to Portland will be sold from
Walla Walla daily at rate of 1915 for
the round trip, good for thirty days.
For ten or more travelling on one
ticket a rate of $3.50 for round trip
will be made. Tickets limited to ten
days.
In addition to the above daily excur-
sion rates the o. r. &. N. Co. will, from
time to time during the fair. run a
series of coach excursions at very low
rates. Dates for these excursions will
be announced later.
r. BURNS,
General Agent, o. r. &. N. Co.,
Walla Walla, Wash.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-15

The Statesman has just published
neat little book of poems by Mrs. U. H.
Berney. Copies can be procured at
the city book stores. Price, only 10c.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-15

If your grocer has not got Cleveland
Baking Powder make him get it for
you.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-07-15

Hacks-Shaughnessy & Clancy.
Stand, Caswelrs Cigar Store. Phone
$50. 4
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-08

Evangelist Billy Sunday swooped down Canon City,
Colorado the day took the town by storm In
bigger political
campaign Thus far in his assault Mr.. Sundays sedge
hammer blows directed largely ministry
Indifferent Many of the latter
ne declares have become sounding brass tinklng
cyrlbals' He states that many churches gone
seed and widowed. In a recent sermon he
shot this bolt:
Being church member will not you; hell is
full are sticking out
of the windows"
This has aroused the antagonism church
people and the stirup causing
Sundays brand of salvation peaceab1e then
gentle to be entreated, ETC., hits the ball
the and way around the bases
on foul tip But he up his roofing
is something to be remembered.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-08
SLAUGHTERING NIAGARA

The raid Niagara Falls continues Notwithstanding
the fact that the falls menaced extinction
M Clark state geoogst of New York. states the matter
clearly in figures that will prove startling On
madam side chartered companies organized and
in state of activity which statutory limit of
consumption of water of $4,000 cubic feet
the American side franchises given o
les with limit of 10000 cubic feet second The grand
total of legal abstraction above the falls
fore $4,000 cubic feet second What the total
the falls for each The
calculations extended period forty
that it is about $4,000 feet per therefore
evident that one-ffth of the already
been mpounded to be carried in fumes longer
contribute to the grandeur of the spectacle. -
This is serious, and it alarming when considers
that this is only beginning legsla-
of the state of New York bill franchise
developing 200 horsepower falls, wdcn will
be just about enough to dry the American falls. y
The of the waterpower of Niagara has been dream
OF the centuries but when about realize it
begin discover that, utitarian are Amer
lean people have strain of sentiment mixed with de-
termination to be rich than anybody else in the
world
The engineers there the grand
est conceptions of science engineers viewpoint
the engineering triumph realizes the anthem which Kip
ling addresses to the steam in McAndrews hymn.
But all engineers, while nearly everybody
tourist All the world Of Niagara
the world there
sacred where nature be touched by the i'm
proving hand of Niagara is the whole civilized
worlds playground.
If Niagara Falls shall be destroyed by draining
off the water it is that the commercial gain
will balance the The falls today 100000 WISH
annually and question whether the state of New
York will realize from of the falls much
today from merely showing them to
Another thing to be considered the raid Niagara
is that American side feet higher
Canadian side, that if allow the draining
go Canada will Niagara long after
OF the entire flow the only
about onethrd passes through the American channel
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-08
ITALIAN IMMIGRATION

Last one-fourth immigrants landing in this
country were Italians most of whom halted
Atlantic steamers discharged them, pop
ulaon of the tenement houses in Boston, and
other northern cities Italian immigration indeed
averaged 100000 year. large percentage
them are from the peasant class of Sicily Sardinia and the
peninsula, who accustomed % agricultural labor
During the last few southern planters found
that the tendency of the plantation drift
towns and cities mnimizes the supply
field mucn that large cotton cannot
gathered and as the worlds demand increases and the
ton European nations beginning to
to Africa and Asia for cotton need
been testing the quality Of Italian labor
ing satisfied that better obtained from
white Italian either sugar plantations The
foreign demand for raw cotton produced this
gether with the home consumption requires crop
100000 bales cotton
ket during the last two years. forcing up price,
the failure to gather considerable portion
led the Lancashire in England
and those in Germany to redoube their efforts
independent of this country.
In view of the movement of southern planters Texas
Louisiana and other southern employ
labor the Italian ambassador Washington Sgnor Ed
monde des Panches last began investigate
of the immigration of mis- countrymen determined
seek better outlet
congesed tenement house northern
forded and he will personally
at early date. 1t is said Scian aborer make "a
clear, where negro makes 81, live what a
gro would waste. Some them Louisiana
four years work. acquired at $40 to $50
and doing we'll 1t is probable that if
mad been Italian line ports
to New Orleans other southern there
would be strong tide of immigration of the kind
the southern states AS it is the Italians usually
dumped New York. and get what work they find to
hand and those who to the mines generally fall like
the tenement house dweller
and when they lay up money, go back Italy o
spend it.
AS southern planters have themselves taken the ina
tive in the substitution of Italian for labor will
have blame but themselves if the
altogether to their liking. If Italian immigration south
ward begins strongly and is largely diverted from t1e
northern cities and states will be long before the
white element of the southern will overshadOw the
blacks sufficiently poll
ticians that the whites dsressngy menaced by black
domino tion after they have bound
political factor. With apprecaby large Italian
vote which will in the future the combination known
the solid SOUTH" will doubtless be broken
old shibboeths of sectionaism give way .
intelligent interest national muering
BourbOnS like Governor Vardaman of Mississippi will
like a change this kind introduction
Italian within fifteen years
likely to work the change
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-08

The time that Governor taking to consider the
mission gives encouragement belief that he will
fulfill his promise able honest and courageous
men in thorough sympathy with spirit purpose of
the law If he does this he will
identified with the advocacy of railroad commission and
ne will not consider the any candidate VINO
posed commission when it the paramount issue in
this state
Governor Mead might we'll governed in his ap-
pointment of commissioners by the square
deal between the railroads and the public
by President Roosevelt Thursday speech
the Texas legislature. He said part:
The public has right, a privilege my view
supervisonary and regulatory power over the rail-
roads as will insure that While they give
themselves they get it in return.
The proper exercise of that power is conditioned
upon the securing of legislation will enable
the representatives of any unjust
discriminating rates altered just and
rates and are altered Immediately.
1 know perfectly we'll that, when you give that power
there is chance of it's being occasionally abused There
Is no power that be given representatives
the public which it is possible everyone
Knows the power of taxation, must of course be
given TO the representatives of the people, power
taxation There must be trust placed in the
common sense and common honesty those are to
eorce the law If it falls, will to my
io' 10 nominate board to carry law l shall
nominate men, as far as am able, whose ability
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-08
GOOD FROM SANITARY STANDPOINT.

The city council acted wisely in requiring tender
resorts the stories OF buildings in
prescribed district within months. 1t is we'll to keep
district practically within the present limits near the
city hail. under police surveillance without an
extensive increase in the
fits ordinance will be the cleaning out of the
Augean stables of the city hall, which for
years have fit breeding ground for
pestece 1t would be difficult to find in any city worse
lot of ramshackle within fire limits, and it
will be a good thing city a sanitary stand
point, this of reeking filth
rottenness cleaned out.
The unconscionable charged for stalls there
should enabled the owners to erect brick or stone
buildings long and there is to doubt their
ability do within months limit fixed by the
council
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-08

age and integrity can count who be swayed
by any influence whatever direct indirect social po
cal or any other to show improper favortsm
roads, and who on the other nand if railroad
justly attacked matter if behind it
feeling of prejudice per the people will stand
against that attack That Interpretation
doctrine of the square deal.'
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-08

Nothing would be gratifying to most Americans
at this stage than to learn that
Admiral :Togo's fleet mas Admiral Rojestvensky s
souadrons the bottom of the sea as he
did with Markaros warshps at Port Arthur Cable
grams from Singapore that both fleets now
not far from that port great naval battle is
likely to occur within few hours.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-08

Rev. DR.. Snanks of Milwaukee, has played pretty
trick his infant Little Shanks will be
the of Dr. Shanks boy despite the mothers vgor
The 81 given in honor of DR.. Little
the Garrett Biblical school, Evanston, Ill., Dr. Lean
presiding elder of the Milwaukee district the Methodist
Episcopal church. This is unhandsome advantage to
take of the little fellow. Think he is going to suffer
from when he gets out the boys who will doubt
call him Fatty Shanks.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-08

There is indication that the Russian party
full of trouble fat trying himself
his trousers the berth Of Pullman without
bullying the edge when there Daughter of Rebekah
with her berth made sitting comfortably in her seat
aisle
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-08

General Lnevitcs latest picture indicate that
the old has been pushed through four
yards GAIN and has been jumped heavyweighs
of the opposing eleven.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-08

of hardest jobs bearded has is to live
up his whskers.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-08
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS

Copy change Of advertisement must be delivered to ne
business office by Of 10 o'clock to insure insertion
in the issue of even date.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-03
North Dakota Offers Opportunities to the 0n1eSeeker

lost to them under the old arrangement
will very quickly pay for the land, al
most certainly within three years.
There is decided tendency toward
Red river valley lands by the we'll
fixed financially men who are now COM
ing to North . dakota. The Holes farm
has been an object lesson to them.
Over three hundred persons, Mr.. Holes
says, came to his place last year to in
vestigate the question of corn. Seeing
was believing. They came in doubt;
they went away satisfied.
When James Holes first went to the
Red river valley in 1868, much Of the
land was unceded Indian land, but,
becoming satisfied from his investiga-
tions with soil and climate, and know
ing that negotiations were being had
with the Indians that would result in
the surrender Of their claim to the land,
he settled and engaged in farming as
a business. He has adopted every i'm
proved method and has used the best
machinery. He has prospered, and
whenever he has cared to do so, has
wintered in California, in Florida, in
Cuba, or wherever fancy or interest
took took, him, tho generally preferring
North Dakota winters. On these trips
he has studied the characteristics Of
soil and climate, methods Of agriculture,
markets, ETC., and remains steadfast to
the belief that for fertility of soil,
lhealthfulness Of climate and accessi-
bility to markets, coupled with a low
valuation of land, there is no place on
earth equal to North Dakota for sue.
lssssfpll ffsEminlG
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-03
Full stValue koceiVed''
By Readers. Best Results
Obtained by Advertisers.

Note The Journals Telegraphic
News of the world; it's Editorial
page mot an advertisement on it);
it's Local pages; it's Commercial
page. These account for the Won
derful popularity Of The Journal In
the homes of the people and for it's
great advertising patronage.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-03
Lauds Of Barnes County
@ Unsurpassed IN the West
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence. ... a...
Valley City, N. D., April 3.-Corn
growing in North Dakota is now be-
yond the experimental stage, and it is
considered a necessary and regular crop.
On a section farm there are often 100
acres or more in corn. In the eastern
part of the state this crop has double
value. It produces the corn and fod-
der, and it is also credited with direct
money return in adding to the fertility
of the soil. go
Wheat grown after corn will, in three
years, out-yield by fifteen bushels an
acre land continuously in wheat. Corn
is now grown on land which otherwise
was summer fallowed, and so long as
corn has been given these double values,
so long will the state have feed that
is cheaper than anything grown else
where.
Corn, as grown and generally handled
in North Dakota issinfade at a cost Of
about $3.50 an acre, which includes the
expense of putting it in stacks in the
barnyard ready for feeding.
The new conner who is looking for $40
an acre land must 90 further west or
north, for there is hone to be had IN
lRsaIaea county, Iahlpxad land hala
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-03
.Chamces for Gilt Edged Land
Investments int North Dakota

more placed valuation of $50 an acre
on these lands, and his corporation car
ried them into it's books on that basis,
and have yearly had a dividend on $50
an acre-an investment more satisfac-
tory than any bond or mortgage that
can be found on. the market. Tho the
price of the lands then was but SIS an
acre, the real value exceeded $50 and
still exceeds $50, and it, will no doubt
reach $50 an acre long before the time
required to reach that point by the
slow stage Of 81 an acre year, and
will in the meantime pay handsome
profits from cultivation.
It will thus be readily seen that the
country around Larimore and all that
portion Of the Red river valley, in fact,
offers exceptional opportunities for the
landseeker and investor. The region
has long since passed the experimental
stage.
Crop Payment Plan.
ftThe crop payment plan offers an
excellent opportunity for, the careful
farmer to obtain a home of his own,
and should be appreciated by, those who
have hitherto been giving up half the
ersR soE the use l ct The land, The hall
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-03
Kemmnre Is q Coming
Distributing Center

As an evidence of the alertness of
our citizens and the interest they take
in the general welfare of the eommu-
nifty, we have five rural free delivery
routes and two star routes leaving
Kenmare daily. There is on foot
movement to organize a farmers ele-
vator company, and an elevator will
be erected in time to handle the next
crop. The utilizing of our vast re:
sources Of raw material, consisting or
gravel deposits and an excellent quail
ty Of brick and pottery clay, is reeeiv-
ing the careful attention of our bust:
ness men, and every inducement Will
be offered to capital to foster and de-,
velop the manufacture Of brick, ce-
ment blocks, thing and, pottery into a
cheap building material.
The survey has been completed and
the right-of-way determined upon for
the construction of new line of the
500 railroad thru the northern part of
North Dakota from Thief River Falls,
Mimi, to Kenmare, N. d.. its western
terminus and division point. large
part of the material being already on
the ground ready for use. A round
house is under construction. When the
line is completed, Kenmare will be
very desirable place as Wholesale dis.
tribptinG BUSINESS