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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18

Representing a number of Seattie
capitalists. c. M. Maxwell, of Seattle
will tonight make application to the
city council for a franchise and right
of way over the streets of Walla Walla
for the purpose of constructing ana
operating an electric railway system.
If the franchise is granted Mr.. Max
well announces that he will at once
form stock company and begin work
on the road, 1t is said that negotla-
tions are now on with the Northwest
ern Gas & Electric company to 1ur-
nisn the motive power, and if satlsfac-
tory arrangements can not be made
with that company, the promoters OF
the scheme will install plant of their
own.
1t is also planned to extend the hhe
to Milton and F'reewater, tapping the
big fruit belt in that section of the
country. Applications will be made to
the county commissioners of Walla
Walla and the county court of UNA
tilla county for right of way over the
public roads for the proposed inter-
urban line.
1t is reported that the men repre-
scented by Mr.. Maxwell are amply able
to carry out the project and that II the
franchise can be secured work on con-
struction will be commenced at least
within 80 days.
Mr.. Maxwell is interested in the
ttle-Tacoma interurban line ano
has been making Investigations about
Walla Walla for several months. He
was here about three weeks ago ac-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18

his attorneys gave notice of appeal to
the supreme court. Through an error
of the clerk a commitment was made
out for Bush and he was brought to
the prison. He will now remain in the
King county Jail until his case is de-
cided by the supreme court.
When Warden KEGS and guards re-
turn they will bring to the peniten-
tiary seven convicts now lying in the
King county Jail waiting for transpor-
tation to the state prison. Among the
bunch are several noted criminals with
long records.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18
MORE ELECTRIC LINES PROJECTED
Seattle Capitalists Will Ask Wa|a Wa|Ia City Council Tor
a Franchse.-TWo |nterurban Lines Proposed

companied by a civil engineer and the
ground was gone over completely. the
engineer, it is understood, has reported
favorably upon the proposed route for
the interurban line and all that is re-
quired now to put the project into
operation is the right of way and fran
chises.
lsaacs Reaching Out.
Through A. P. Pearson of Freewater
acting as agent, the Walla Walla In
/ terurban Railway company, has ap-
piled to the county court of UmatiIla
county, Oregon, for a right of way
over the public roads in that county,
commencing at the McMinn fruit farm
on the state line and running south to
Freewater, thence across Umatilla
county to the Columbia river near
| Umatilla Junction. The application
was accompanied by a petition from
| a majority of the land owners along
the proposed right of way, praying the
county court to grant the request of
| the company.
According to the plans the Inter
| urban company, which is believed to
be promoted by E. S. Isaacs and his
| associates of Walla Walla, is to con-
struct and operate an electric line from
| Walla WaIla to F'reewater and thence
| to the Columbia river. 1t is said that
the company will run both daily pas
senger and freight trains between the
i terminal points every two hours, eX-
cept during the fruit season when an
hourly schedule between Walla Walla
and Freewater will be maintained.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18
PRETTY MARY GLENN RETURNED
TO WALLA WALLA WITH
FATHER THIS NOON.
AIleqed to Have Left Home With
Arthur Sailing, Married Man.
Sailing May Be Prosecuted.

When William Glenn, accompanied
by his pretty little daughter, Mary,
II years of age. stepped from the w.
&, C. r. train at the Main street depot
curiosity seekers was on hand to catch
a glimpse of the young miss The oc-
casion of SO much curiosity was a
story told the police last evening that
Miss Glenn had eloped with Arthur
Sailing, married man of Walla Walla
According to Mr.. Glenn, Mary de-
parted from her home near Ninth and
Chestnut streets some time Sunday
and he mad occasion to believe that
she was accompanied by Sailing. The
officers were notified and dispatches
sent out broadcast resulted i'm locating
noon Mr. Glenn boarded last nights
train for Pasco and the meeting be-
tween father and daughter is said to
have been quite affecting. Mr.. Glenn
returned with the girl at noon today.
To avoid the crowd of curiosity seek
ers they left the train on the opposite
side of the depot and hurried away.
We'll there was something in the
elopement story" Mr.. Glenn said to a
Statesman representative. Il do not
know where Sailing is but l have a
pretty good idea. He was not with
Mary at Pasco l am certain of that.
do not know whether 1 will prosecute
the man or not
During the conversation Mary stood
nearby with doWncast eyes. She is
a mere slip of a girl, wearing rather
short dresses. she is a decided bru-
nette with dark thick hair and alto
gether is a rather pretty miss.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18
GOES AFTER PRIRONERS
Warden KEGS Took John Bush Back to
the Sound Last Night.

Warden KEGS and two travelling
guards left for the Sound last night
with joan Bush, the young Seattle
burglar who was given a sentence OF
ten years. Bush was brought to the
penitentiary through a mistake of the
county clerk of King county. After
his conviction ne was sentenced along
with a number of other prisoners, but
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18
CHILDREN STARVE AT SCHOOL.
Teacher Finds Them Inert by Reason
of HabtuaI Underfeeding.

LONDON, April 1S-No keener ad-
starving school children exists tnan
the teachers, VINO are finding them dull
and inert by reason of habitual under
feeding, a task beyond their powers.
This week three hungry little school
girls interviewed the magistrates at
Worship street police court.
Breakfastless and dinnerless they
had sat in their seats at st. Matthias
school. in Bethnal Green, until a COM
passionate teacher, in sheer despera-
ton, had sent them to Worship street
for advice. But nothing could be done
for them. Ls
A newspaper representative yester-
day found the little girls IN their places
at school,
Bodies Hardly Covered.
Ill clad, their thin little bodies hard
ly covered by their ragged frocks, their
toes coming out of boots which were
almost destitute of soles, these hungry
little girls told a pitful story.
Sophy Higgins, an understood little
creature of 8, with a thin, pincned
face and wistful eyes, is the youngest
She lives with her three brothers and
sisters and her father and mother in
single room in Dank street, White
chapel.
Week in and week out bread ana tea
with margarine as a luxury, had been
the childs only food.
"A Slice" Their Dinner.
"a slice" was little Sopny's dinner
yesterday. A daily slice has been ner
only dinner for many weeks. Ada, her
1O-year- sister, told the same tale
In the same school there are many
other cases almost as pitiful as that of
Ada and Sophy Higgins.
Out of a large class of little girls,
only thirteen had meat or fried fish for
dinner. One a haporth of pie crust,
one rice, one ha'porth of pudding, but
the majority had dined off a "slice."
The exceeding bitter cry of the
hungry school child comes from the
west as we'll as the east.
At Nine Elms, Mrs. Despard, a sister
of Gen. French, feeds a couple of
hundred children, who but for her
hrna6
soup or rice pudding is served daily at
the Despard club.
I'VE can only feed a fraction of the
hungry children mere" explained the
secretary to a newspaper representa-
tive.
only the poor children are fed at
the club but there are dozens of others
around, children of respectable people,
who are brought up on a diet consist
ing chiefly of bread, tea and drippings
of margarine
Committee Wants Facts.
Sir William Arson. replying in the
house of commons yesterday to DR..
Mcnamara, said that the physical de-
terioration committee devoted a COM
paratively small part of it's labors to
the question of the provision of food
for school children.
1t also failed to furnish information
on certain facts a knowledge of which
is essential to legislative or admins
trative action on the subject.
"The committee now sitting" added
Sir W. Arson, will provide a more
precise knowledge of these facts, and
will report with the least possible de-
lay"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18
DIVORCE SUIT DISMISSED
Mrs. Martin Returns to the Home Of
Her Husband.

In the superior court today McDon-
aid & Rupp filled motion of dismissal
in the divorce case of Esther B. Mar
tin versus w. c. Martin. Since COM
mencing the suit the Martins have
patched up their domestic troubles and
are again living together
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18

100 Trimulas. Nice, large plants in
full bloom at 20 cents each, to first Gus
toner Wednesday morning. Hampton
Huff, Florist, 769 Carrie avenue.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18

probe the Equitable" reads
headline in a contemporary. Why
should there be probe when II is
only the Hyde that is sought to be re-
moved?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18

WANTED-GOOD HOUSEKEEPER.
Steady employment; good natured
and one that can make good bread.
Phone 11O5. P. O. address, d. d.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18
LOTS FOR SALE CHEAP.

We nave 2 lots on Fourth street and
2 lots on Jefferson street, each 50x125.
and can be bought for $3.50 each. Terms
easy.
Have your friends look these up, if
you do not want them yourself.
BAXTER REALTY CO., 27Ia MAIN
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18
HOW TO LIVE RENT FREE.
Important Problem Is Solved by Two
Americans In London.

LONDON, April 1S.-For their solu-
ton of the problem, How to Live Rent
Free" a pair of audacious swindlers-
mother and son-were at Armagh as
sizes on Saturday sentenced to terms
of Imprisonment.
Pretending to be wealthy Americans,
James Adams, 33, and his mother, Ruth
Adams. 65, entered into agreements to
rent mansions in England, Scotland
and Ireland.
In the Silly Night.
Their stay in each place was short,
for whenever pressure for payment
seemed imminent the pair quietly left
the neighborhood, and landlords and
t1adesmen who had supplied goods for
the ''nomads" were left to fight the
matter out among themselves.
The following are some of the strik-
ing features of the Adamses' peregrin
ations:
Rented Ballyards castle, Armagh
Gave orders for decorations to the
amount of $40, and ordered 500
worth of furniture. When the latter
arrived a letter was sent to the firm
VINO supplied it asking them to take 1t
away again.
Wanted to purchase, cash down, En-
nislare estate, Armagh. James Adams
told the agent he was "a relative of Mr..
Adams, the American minister to the
Court of st. James,
Went to Harrogate and agreed to
rent a house from a Mr.. Matthews.
James posed as a Boston lawyer; Mrs
Adams talked Familiarity about Bob,
the mayor of Boston. The rental was
fixed at ESQ per annum, but James
eventually agreed to buy the place for
e135O They left in a hurry.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18

ONE NEW WAGON AND CAMP
outfit for sale at III West Alder.
Cheap if sold at once.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18

All Talking Machines now sold on
the installment plan-Stanley Music
House.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-18

For fine Meats ring up Main 80. Gus
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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-06-07
ESCAPED FROM THE ASYLUM.
Prominent Albany Man. Who Was an In
mate, Saw Things in the Institution.

Prominent Albany Man, Who Was an In
mate, Saw Things in the Institution.
From the Atlanta Journal
j. G. Hilsman, 30 years DID, who
claims to be from Albany, where he
says he was employed in the First
National bank, was arrested by the
police Saturday at the Kimball house
and held at police headquarters pend
ing instructions from his family and
from the insane asylum at Milledge-
vile, from which place he escaped on
May Is.
Hilsman says that his uncle, DR.. P.
L. Hilsman of Albany, had him sent to
the asylum to take treatment three or
four months ago. He tired of the con-
finement there, however, and as he
was in the cOnvalescent ward and al
lowed the freedom of the grounds he
quietly Git rag" He made his way
to the train two miles away and came
on to Atlanta. He went to the Kim
ball House, where he was arrested.
Hilsman says that the fare at the
asylum is bad, and the rats and
reaches he saw there, he declares, are
a foot long. Hilsman says that he
was sent to the place for alcoholic
treatment
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-06-07
AMER1Cus SETS GOOD EXAMPLE.
Council Prohibits Bicycles on Sidewalks
and Bull Dogs from Nunning at Large.

Council Prohibits Bicycles on Sidewalks
and Bull Dogs from Itunning at Large.
From the Americas Times Recorder.
Nothing but praise was heard yes
terday for the city council in having
regulated bicycles to the roadway and
bull dogs to the back yards. Hereto
fore the bike and the bull pup have
held high carnival in Americas, BIZ
cyclists riding down citizens on the
sidewalks while the bull pup struck
terror to the juvenile heart Bike
riders, especially the negro store por-
ter variety, have long been nuisance
and the wonder is that more of them
here have not been killed outright by
outraged and turnover citizens. In the
future bicycles will not be allowed on
sidewalks even in the suburbs, and
anv violation of the law reported to
the police will have prompt attention.
Heretofore muzzled bull dogs have run
at large, but the danger of this has
been recognized and any such straylng
cur will be a shining mark for the
dog catcher.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-06-07
SENT PLOUGHs AND HANDS
Mr.. Melton Thanks Those Citizens
Who Have Have Assisted Him
in Saving His Crop.

cannot express my sincere APP
probation of the great kindness
of those who sent mules, plOws and
hands Monday and Tuesday TO
assist me in cleaning the grass out
of nv farm. r. L. MELTON.
The foregoing card of thanks from
Mr.. Melton was written in apprecia-
ton of help which about twenty citl-
zens of the town and county gave him
by sending each pillow and hand to
ioin in the crusade against the grass,
which had literally taken his farm
three miles from Dawson. With TINS
additional force the cotton was almost
cleaned in two days.
On account of continued sickness
among his farm hands, and inability
to secure others on account OF the
scarcity of labOrers, Mr.. Melton S
crop was in an extremely bad condi-
ton, and much of it would IN all
probability have had to be turned out
had it not been for the generous as
sistance of friends and neighbOrs.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-06-07
PREDICTS A REDUCED YIELD.
Commissioner of Agriculture Stevens Gives
Figures Which Point That Way.

Commissioner O. B. Stevens, OF the
department of agriculture, predicts
biz slump in the yield of cotton in
Georgia as compared with last year,
which he attributes quite as much to
providential causes as to the reduc-
ton in the acreage. According to
MIR. Stevens view the extremely
rainy weather, which has produced
an abundance of grass, and the pres
ent scarcity of farm labor are going
to have much if not more to do with
cutting down the yield than the reduc-
ton which has been made in the acre
age in Georgia, which, according to
reports made to the department by its
numerous correspondents, amounts to
about ID per cent as compared with
that of last year. Mr.. Stevens be-
lieves that if the unfavorable weather
continues, with the scarcity of labor,
Georgia will make only 5 about mil
der the most favorable circumstances,
a. against ], 800 600 bales last year.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-06-07
TRYING TO GET TOGETHER
CITY AND WATERWORKS COM
PANY HOLD CONFERENCES.
Question Will Be Up Before Council
This Afternoon. Disagreement
on a Committee Report.

AS the outcome of a conference be-
tween representatives of the city council
and the Dawson WaterwOrks Co. the
CITY has resumed use of the water sys-
ten, and the protection thus afforded
in case of fire is once more assured.
Mr.. H. B. Hodge of Philadelphia,
secretary of the American Pipe Manu-
featuring Co., the purchasers OF the
waterworl1s company's bonds, and At
torneys Olin j. Wimberly and j. q.
Parks, representing the interest of the
waterworks company and the bond
holders, took up the matter of set
Element Friday morning and an
agreement was reached whereby,
pending negotiations for the pur-
chase by the city of the waterworks
plant, the city will use the water of the
company for at least sixty days with
out prejudice to either party.
At meeting of the council Mayor
Mercer appointed Aldermen Baldwin
and Dean and City Attorney Edwards
a committee to meet the representa-
tives of the waterwOrkS company in
conference with a view to arriving
at a settlement of back rentals due the
company and if possible agree upon
sum for the purchase of the plant.
Several conferences We're held between
the representatives OF the two interests,
but no agreement was reached.
The News understands that the water
works people wanted S3S, 500 for their
plant and their claims against the
city, while the committee representing
the city were not willing to 90 over
S35. 900. 1t was finally agreed that the
latter sum be reported to the council,
and another special meeting OF that
BODY was called. Alderman Ralnes
offered a motion that $50, 600 be paid
the company for all of its interests IN
and against the city, and Alderman
Baldwin offered a substitute that the
report of the committee $50, OO0) be
adopted. Those voting for the substi-
tute were Aldermen Baldwin, Dean
and Whitchard, and against 1t Alder
men Raines, Deubler and Jennings.
Mayor Mercer broke the tie by voting
against adopting the committee re-
port, and it was therefore lost. Alder
man Deubler then made motion,
which was carried, to postpone further
action upon the whole question until
the regular meeting of the council
Tuesday afternoon. At the time OF
going to press the council is an SEES
sion, and it is not improbable that
before adjournment an agreement Will
be reached whereby the whole water
works question, SO far as the city and
the prOprietOrs of the present system
are concerned, will be settled.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-06-07
BRONWOOD BRIEFS.
Occurrences of the Week in ana
Around That Community.


We are glad to welcome Mr.. X. b..
Weaver to our city. He has bought
the local telephone exchange, and we
wish for him much success.
Mr.. Will English was in our little
city last week. Come again, Billie;
we are always glad to see you.
The young people of Bronwood pic,
nicked at divers mill Friday, and all
report a good time.
Messrs. j. J. Hill and w. G. Aven
attended the district conference at
Leslie last week.
Won't some one bring in some
chickens that are ripe? We are chick
en- hungry.
Mrs. w. G. Aven spent last week in
Americas visiting her son, Mr.. w. u.
Aven, Jr.
Mr.. Frank Bussey of Cuthbert was
up to see his cousin, RObt. Ellerbee,
Sunday.
Mr.. r. NJ. Andrews will put up a
ginnery at Pleasant Hill in the near
future.
Mr.. j. H. Ellerbee made a trip to
Florida last week.
If you want a good horse see w. q.
AVen.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-06-07
WILL LEAVE BRONwOOD.
Professor Huffaker Will Not Accept
Reelection.

Professor r. B. Huffaker. who has
been principal of the BrOnwOOd High
School the past three years and made
that institution one of the best to be
found in anv of the small towns of the
state. declined reelection by the board
and viii seek a broader field. He has
already had the offer OF splendid Po-
sitions, but has not yet decided Whlch
one he will accept.
Professor Hutfaker is one of the
most progressive and successful teach-
ers in the state, and the community
that secures him will have cause Tor
cOngratulatOn.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-06-07
Huge Task.

1t was a huge task to undertake the
cure of such bad case of kidney dis
ease as that of c. F. Collier of Cher
okee, Ia, but Electric Bitters did it.
He writes: 'My kidneys were so far
gone l could not sit on chair with
out a cushion, and suffered from
dreadful backache, headache and de-
preston. In Electric Bitters, how
ever, | found a cure, and by them was
restored to perfect health. | recon-
mend this great tonic medicine to all
with weak kidneys, liver or stomach. "
Guaranteed by Dawson Drug Co.;
n1,ice SOC
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-06-07
THE TIPPLING HABIT is GROWING.

The tipping habit is growing among
the American people, according to fig
ures of the bureau of statistics. The
nations drink bill has increased dur
ing the last year so that each of the
81, 1852, 900 inhabitants is spending on
an average of 1882 annually for
stimulants, or S91. IS for each family
of five persons, which is an equivalent
of one glass of beer a day for every
one of the population. The use of
whisl1ey increased from 1.01 gallons
for each person in 1896 to 1.48 gallons
in 1904, and the consumption of wine
in the same period shows a gain of
100 per cent.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-06-07
COTTON TOOK A DROP.
Government Report Caused the Staple
to take Downward Turn.

The government first monthly cot
ton report was issued Thursday, and
under its influence the price of the sta
pie, which had reached 81 cents in
Dawson, took a drop down.
According to the report the cotton
percentage of acreage for the entire
belt shows a decrease of ia. The
average condition is 77.2.
Returns to the department of agri-
culture show thu total area planted IN
cotton in the United States up to May
- to be about IS. 100. 600 acres, a de-
crease of about 100000 acres from
the total acreage planted last year.
Cotton was quoted at cents In the
local market yesterday.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-06-07
sARDIs SCHOOL CLOSES.
Pleasant Day Ends Successful Session
Under Mrs. w. ii. Gurr.

Appropriate and interesting exer-
cises marked the close OF the Sardis
school, five miles north of Dawson, on
Wednesday. Besides the patrons OF
the school many Dawson and Par
rott citizens were present. A bounti-
full basket dinner was served at the
conclusion of the morning program
The Sardis school is one of the lead
inc institutions of the county, and has
been fortunate in having as its princl-
pal Mrs. w. H. Gurr. Under her eff
fcient management it has grown and
prOspered.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-06-07
state warden visited Camp.

Hon. Jake Moore, state warden, has
just inspected the Terrell county con-
Victs and looked into matters con-
nected with their work and care. He
stated that their condition appeared
excellent, and that no criticism could
be offered by him.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-06-07

Some day you will get bad scare,
when you feel pain in your bowels,
and fear appendicitis. Safety lies in
DR.. Kings New Life Pills, sure
cure for all bowel and stomach dis
eases, such as headache, biliousness,
costiveness, etc. Guaranteed at Daw-
son Drug Co.'S. drug store: only 25c.
Try them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-06-07
Dawson Downed by shelIman.

Shellman landed a victory from the
Dawson baseball team Monday after
by a score of Ii to s. Several Daw-
sonians went down to view the con-
test and cheer the team on to victory
that failed to take place.