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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18
TEXAS MAY RETALlA1E
Special Legislation If Railroads Enjoin
Railway Commission.

DALLAS, Tax, May 1S.-Threats of
special and retaliatory legislation if the
railroad owners enjoin the Texas rail-
road commission from enforcing it's
new cotton rate are made.
Railroad Commissioner O. B. Col
quit, who has just visited his nome
section in north Texas, says that he
has been told on good authority in Dali
las and Forth Worth that the railroads
have decided to enjoin the railroad
commission in their effort to prevent
the reduction of the freights from 60
ing into effect. The commission, he
says, will meet the situation the best
way it can.
1t is reported in unofficial circles that
if this action is taken by the railroads
an effort will be made to have Cover
nor Lanham call a special session of
the legislature to enact into law the
commissioner rates, including the en-
Joined cotton rates.
1t is claimed by the advocates of this
remedy that the railroads will then
have to enjoin every shipper in order
to carry out their program of prevent
ing the enforcement of the cotton rate.
The commission, if the injunction pro-
ceedings are instituted, could of course,
bovo NOTHING tO do with the enforce
ment of the statute embodyng the en-
joined rates. Members of the commits
sion are considerably exercised over
the prospective injunction proceedings.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18
FOR TRAVELLING MEN AND
PASSENGER AGENTS
Governor Mead Is Down for Speech
SO Are Three Other Governors
Of the Coast

Four governors will speak at the ex-
ercises in the auditorium at the Lewis
and Clark exposition on June 10, which
has been set aside by the exposition
management as Travelling Mems Day.
The governors are George E. Cham
berlain of Oregon, Albert E. Mead of
Washington, Frank r. Gooding of Ida
no, and George c. Pardee of California.
Travelling Mems Day will be one of
the biggest days at the fair. A COM
mittee is making elaborate arrange
ments for entertaining "a great number
of Knights of the Grip on June 10. In
vitations to be present have been ex
tended to 300 commercial travellers,
travelling passenger and freight agents
and travelling insurance agents, and to
all members of the United Commercial
Travellers association; and a majority
of these have promised to come. Spe-
cial trains will bring 700 from Seattle
and a large number from Tacoma and
Bellingham, and from Vancouver B.
C.
There will also be several trainloads
from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Sac
ramento and other California points,
as well as from Salt Lake City, and
points as far east as Denver.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18
Skies Dry Goods CO.
SECOND STREET. BETWEEN MAIN neA ALDER
Attend the Sale Now On

with a message that might so stir up
the country as to remove from public
life many of the men upon whom the
corporations for years have depended
for protection.
Every consideration, it will thus be
seen, demands, from the railroad view
point, a postponement.
Of course the real reason for this
postponement could not be presented
at the White House, and so the pres
ident is to be approached with the ar
guments of political expediency and
the need for education.
President Highly EIated
The president is highly elated over
the response the country mas made to
his Denver and Chicago speeches. He
believes the country wants him to
stand fast for the policy he mas out
lined.
This feeling of confidence will man.
ifest itself should he decide to accept
an invitation to deliver an address be-
fore the International Railway con-
gress now in session in Washington.
1t is expected that this address, if de-
livered, will contain a clearer expo
stion of his policy than has yet been
made, and at the same time indicate
to what extent his attitude has I'M
to congress a year ago, he said that
at present it would be undesirable,
if that were practicable finally, to
clothe the commission with gennfRl au-
thority to fix rates."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18
GAVE INTERESTING LECTURE BE-
FORE THE STUDENTS OF
WHITMAN YESTERDAY
Believes That Imagination Is the
Greatest Power of Mind and Gave
Several illustrations

The first chapel talk for some time
was given at Whitman yesterday
morning by Rev. James Edmunds, who
has charge of the Sunday school work
of the northwest for the Baptist church.
1.-The Imagination" was the subject of
his able short address. He thought it
the greatest power Of the mind, al
though often spoken of sligntingly.
1T is the artist and master builder
of the mind" said the speaker. Its
creations are made from the materials
from the rest of the mind, just as
builder constructs a house from
material furnished by dealer in lum
Der, so the products of perception,
thought and sensation furnish the ma
terial for ina gination. All inventions
have been the product of imagination.
Were it not for this faculty there
would be no OK cart or North Coast
Limited, no Tower of Babel, Or Ferris
Wheel. All change is first imagined
except what comes by chance. The
point I wish to make for you young
people is that from the mental material
you are gathering now, you will nave
to work a lifetime AS man imagines
so is he. No less true of character
than any other faculty of mind. If the
thought life be worthy so will the
whole life; if bad, the life will be un-
worthy. No one can think of a thing
often enough and not do it when OPP
laying bricks of thought and the NOR
tar will harden and you cannot change
the structure you are building
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18
RESERVE YOUR ROOMS FOR THE
PORTLAND FAIR NOW.

Through an agreement with the
Portland Service Co. we are in posi-
ton to reserve rooms in Portland for
a limited number. It is not necessary
to give the date you expect to be in
Portland at the time application is
made for room. Your accommodation
will be reserved for you when you ar
rive.
1t is advisable to make reservations
for rooms early in order to save time
on arrival. Rooms can be had now
from Is cents to $3.50 per day ana
those making application now will get
the choice of the rooms.
For full information call on or ad-
dress, r. BURNS,
General Agent, No. 81 Main st.
Walla Walla, Wash,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18

Hacks-Shaughnessy & Clancy
Stand, Caswell's Cigar Store. Phone
$50.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18
BATTLES WITH HUNGRY EAGLES
Captures the Birds to Verify His
Lurid Story

UKIAH, Cal, May 1S.-S. S. Chal-
mers, a sheep herder on a large ranch
near this city, was suddenly attacked
by two enormous eagles while riding
horseback on his ranch and compelled
to put up most desperate fight fol
his life.
Chalmers first saw one of the birds
flying through the air with a sneep in
it's claws, and was eagerly watching
heard a shrill, melancholy like cry
that sounded distinctly in the evening S
stiffness. Looking back he saw anoth-
err huge eagle. When the bird with the
sheep heard the cries of it's companion
it dropped it's prey and both flew to-
gether, close behind the horseman.
Chalmers had no gun, and thinking
the eagles would attack him started
his horse on a run. He ran the ami
NAL nearly two miles up a steep hill,
and then again he heard the whistling
sound This time the birds were upon
him. He reached for mis- quirt which
hung on his saddle horn, and Selling it
he commenced hitting at them. With
knock one of the eagles in the head,
stunning it. The bird fell to the
ground.
The other one then came at the
horseman more furiously than ever.
Several times the great bird swooped
at him, sticking it's claws into the
mans shoulder and dealing heavy
blows with its wings, which tapped
wildly in Chalmers face. The eagle
finally closed in so that the unfortu-
nate man could not strike at it with
his whip but he managed to pull off
the bird. The eagle pulled and shook
at the cloth savagely, the man in turn
striking it viciously with his fist.
After struggling desperately for sew
eral minutes Chalmers succeeded in Sc
curing his knife from his pocket and
springing forward in spite of the hail
of blows from it's claws, beak and
wings, struck it in the body as the bird
flew at him, knocking it to the ground.
Quickly jumping on the eagles head
ne managed to kill it.
Chalmers was badly cut about the
head and face, and he also received
several deep gashes in the right shOul-
der. where the birds had stuck their
talons in.
The dead bird measures seven feet
from tip to tip, with talons six inches
long The live one is not so large, only
measuring five feet, with talons three
inches.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18
RATE MAKING SITUATION.
Railroads Are Now Playing for Two
Years Delay.

WASHINGTON, May 1S.-The rail-
road rate situation has become more
acute since the president at the Den
yer banquet and later in Chicago de-
clared himself, more radically than
ever before, in favor of giving the gov
eminent the rate making power.
The confidence of the country at
large in the president is so great that
popular sentiment is in danger of chys-
tallizing solidly in favor of any policy
he may advocate provided ne strikes
while the iron is hot. and so when he
says that government regulation of
railway rates is essential to the nation
ready to believe him.
That the foregoing statement cor
rectly describes the situation is admit
ted by the leading railway men now in
Washington as well as by members of
the senate committee on interstate
commerce. These men are alarmed at
the popular response to the presidents
recent utterances.
Iron Is Hot for Striking
The president would strike while the
iron is hot if he were to call an extra
session, say in August, or early Sep
tember Public opinion, still at high
heat might in such event force the
enactment of sucn legislation.
But there is no likelihood that the
president will convent congress earlier
than the middle of October, and the
railroad people regard this leeway of
40 to- 80 days as important They now
admit that the president will write
message that will present the rate
making idea in it's most attractive ana
convincing form.
AS the session progresses and the
treasury deficit and other important
questions come to the foreground.
however, the senate will try to con-
vince the president that it would be
unwise to project the rate question as
an active issue in the Off-year cam
paign of 1905.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18

Meals at all hours. Everything first
class.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18
Postpone Two Years.

The senators will try to secure the
presidents consent to a postponment
of the question until after March a.
1907. when they will be willing to take
it up at a special session and dispose of
it in advance of the presidential cam
paign.
The chief argument to be used with
the president in favor of this postpone
ment will be that the present discus
sion is educational and should be con-
tinued until the public can securely
grasp the elementary principles upon
which the rate making question rests.
Meanwhile taking advantage of this
cord, will clear the atmosphere by the
correction of many of the practices
complained Of This done, it is figure l.,
that when March, 1907, arrives, the
railway rate will no longer be the pop
ular issue.
In short, the president seems to have
the railways on the run.
Railroad men admit that if the pres
ident can succeed in forcing action at
the coming session of congress, they
will be greatly harmed, in addition to
which the country will be started to-
wards government ownership, or at
least, drastic government regulation.
Legislation at the next session woul :
also mean more liberal statute, from
the viewpoint of the people, than the
railways care to accept. Any compro-
mise act. they fear, might be vetoed
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18

Concert Tuesday, May %, Whitman
Chapel.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18
Nations to Talk Trade

BERLIN. May 1S.-In response to an
invitation of the Commercial Treaty
association. delegates from the com
mercial bodies of nearly all the coun-
tries of Europe assembled in Berlin to
day to discuss the obstacles in the way
of the further development of interna
tional trade. The principal subjects
on the program are the taxing of com
mercial travellers, rebate duties on re-
turned goods, customs regulations, the
relation between freight carriers ana
the customs authorities, and the pos
sibility of holding periodical interna-
tional conferences to facilitate COM
merce.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18
LADIES'.

Man tailored Skirts to order at rs.
Kean's, Fourth and Main.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18
"chIoroform Man" Goes to England

NEW YORK, May 1S.-Dr. William
Osler late Of John Hopkins university,
sailed today for England to take up his
duties as regius professor of medicine
at oxford university
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18

Good Meats, Fresh and Salt Fish
at Peoples Market Phone 92, 1
South Third Street, A. E. Augustavo
Prop.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-05-18
LEWIS AND CLARK ExPosIrIo.
June list to October 18th

Tickets to Portland will be sold f,.
Walla Walla daily at rate of 1915 fl,
the round trip, good for thirty davs
For ten or more travelling IN A..
ticket rate of $3.50 for ronnd =,
will be made. Tickets limited to ten
days.
In addition to the above daily avon.
sion rates the o. r. & N. Co. will fron.
time to time during the fair. RIM
series of coach excursions at verv lov
rates. Dates for these excursion, mill
be announced later.
R. BURNS, .
General Agent, o. r. & N co
Walla Walla, Wash
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-16
LoDz STB.nE GOES on.
No Disturbances Yestcrda, May
Ec Declared.

Special cl,s Dsspa'c, 70 TIE Sun.
LODI, Russian Poland, Feb. 49, 1928
P. M-l'he STRIFE situation here has not i'm
proved, but there have teen no disturb
ances to-day. The Governor. in an inter-
view, said
"rne position is most serious and very
obscure. an opposed 70 a lockout. as
am anxious that the people shall not DO re-
duosd to starvation. which would lead TO
y olonoe. involving perhaps hundreds.
Should martial law be instituted response
bilty would rest on the military TO do their
utmost 10 avoid bloodshed ! am opposed
to retaliation on the part Of the owners.
The Governor warmly protested against
the publicltioa by certain German news
papers Of news Of alleged scenes Of violence
and hloodshed in the streets OF LODI, which,
he declared the correspondents themselves
knew TO be false.
The employers are still undecided regard
ing the course they will pursue. There is,
however. a slightly increased tendency
to support LOCKOUT,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-16
FOR HIDDEN JEW ELS.
Women Passengers by the kronprinz Under
Suspicion In Vain.

Head gales and tall seas. which fire.
quently shook their crest3 aboard her made
the North German Lloyd line steamship
kronprinz Wilhelm, in from Bremen more
than half a day late. In midocean she
snapped wireless messages with the Ameri-
can liner St. Paul. bound for Southampton.
which reported that one OF her stokers,
Heinrich Frihman of Hoboken, had jumped
overheard just after she passed out OF
Sandy Hook.
Two women cabin passengers OF the
KronprinS Wilhelm attracted much notice
from their fellow voyagers by a lavish dis.
pay of iewelied rings. Their fingers blazed
with diamonds, sapphiIes. amethysts and
pearls. They We're under suspicion OF
smuggling, and every one Of their seven
pieces OF baggage was examined as with
a tine tooth comb without revealing any
thing dutIable that had not been declared.
friend Of the women who met them
at the pier raid to an Inspector that there
seemed TO be a lot OF unnecessary searching.
The in ,pector remarked that he did not
think 80, a. he had searched the baggage
OF the women several times before ana that
he also had had the pleasure Of going
through five times the baggage of the man
VINO had butted in.
After the examination Of the baggage
was over the women. both protesting were
taken into q cabin and searched personally
10y two women IN 'pcCtors. No jewelry
was found IN their clothing. They declared
that the four punches Of rings they wore
were purchased in America or had paid
duty before
Some pa zen gers by tho Kronprinz VIII
helm were s. y Harper son Of the Presi.
dent of Chicago Univc r-ity; Ferdinand Bonn,
the German tragedan, who will appear at
the Irving Place Theatre. Miss Lille White.
who l. going 10 lecture on how TO build up
the female form divine by physical culture
and dress reform: Frank Tilford. the Duke
de Moro. Francis l.. P. Lynde. George L..
McCurdv, William A. Durham and Judge
Joseph Dorset.
Young Mr.. Harper has been spending
the winter in Moscow, whence he was sum-
moned by hs father who on Saturday will
trouble.
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on the organization OF the society, which
is largely represented In the peuuonE
was asked.
-Ol, Mr.. Hyde is not for repr,,sals, was
the answer The victors would DO content
vita clopping of one head.
Mr.. Alexander and his follower claim
a precedent for the action they propose
pointing out that tho Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company did virtually the same
thlng IN 1902, WI en- IL mutuEhZed Is man
agement by securing the passage Of legls-
b-tive act by which the directors end stock
holders averted TIE possibility Of future
c-ntrol by an individual or faction holding
nj jor,ty OF tfe stock.
Under this act the Me- ropoli' ans board
Of directors must consist Of more han tfir-
teen and less than tweni y-five mt mbers,
at least wo-tfirds Of whom shall together
hold. IN the ir own right, or in a representa-,
tive ospaci Y, ma jori cf the carl al
5 ock and the remaining fird may be hold
Crs of life or endowment policies each
raging annual premium Of at 'asi 500
or being en.i led TO an annuity OF at i asst
500. Zach s.ockholder has one vote for
directors for every share Of s. ock he owns
and every insured prison paying 500 pre-
mium or dI wing 500 annui y Las vote
IL was reported yes erday that those VINO
oppose Mr.. Hyde may prt sent at lo-days
meeting a pei ion in which they declare
that they will resign II he is reelected vice
president.
President Alexander and Mr.. Hyde at
tended the tri-weekly meeting Of the eXecu-
tive committee of the board of dirs cors
yesterday There was no evidence OF war.
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GERMANY WANTS BATTLESHIPS.
Russo.Japanese War Lelieycd 10 Have
shown Their Value.
.speelaI - pespa.eh o ~ SD

Special Caok Despatch 70 THE sun
BERLIN Feb. l5.-At a meeting OF the
Re.ohst. g Budget Commission to-day,
herr Won Tirr itz. Secretary of the ImF eri4-i
Admiralty. ntde a 81 eech which fore
Swallowed bill to provide new h-ttleshii
instead OF cruisers, which the Re.chst' g
refused in 1900. seven new tori edo divisions
and ossibly seven snail cruisers. herr
Won Tirpitz said that EXP erence in the Far
Last confirmed the fundamental principle
of the German programme thai the navy's
strength lay in b&ttlesnirs.
The Radicals, Cei.trists and s. aiists
severely criticised naval expansion &C.
ciaring they saw no need for it. They de-
nolmced the Government fer not checking
the agitation of the Navy League.
Herr Won Tirpitz admitted that the
leagues Programme was too far reaching,
ard said he would try to infuerce it to
moderate its demands, but he maintained
that strong navy, especially in tattle-
ships, is necessary to the maintenance Of
peace.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-16
THE Gather.

The sres OF nigh pressure which vas central
over the easi Cult states on Tucsday. had backed
into The central valleys yesterday giving way 70
the low pressure from the upper Lake regions
which moved into the New EnEsnd States with
out creating any marked ds,risa The
pressure vas high over ell the country west Of the
Allegheny Mountains. except where low areas
were beeorainE apparent over North Dakota and
In the extreme Southwest.
Tae temperature has risen IN all the Atlantic
coast and Gull states the Ohio Valley and the
lower lake regions and has fallen In the middle and
upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys and upper
Lake regions. Freezing weather extended yes
terday morning 50 far south o. Jacksonville, Fla..
and eouthern Texas. Tae region of zero ten
perature and below covered the upps! Lake regions,
the upper Miss Sslppl and Missouri valleys and the
re non souih 70 St Louis and central Kansas.
snow fell n western Pennsylvania. Sew YORK
and tic New England STATES. and rain In southern
Aukona.
In THIS city the day was fair and warmer, with
occasional snow aurres wind llsht TO fresh nor-h-
westerly: average humidity, rs per ocnt barome-
ter corrected 70 read % ses level Al A. IL. 500.
8 P n, 800.
The temntrAturc yesterday. Is recorded hy the
oric.A Thermometer, Is snown IN me annexed
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PLAY TO AID REToLUTTON.
5000 Raised at n jacob Gortlln BENEFIT at
the Thala-lcNaluiisnist Talks


Jacob Gordin gave a benefit performance
at the Thala Theatre on the Bowery last
night for the Russian revolutionists. The
symbolic play. God, Man and Dav.l,
sad to be Mr. Gofdin's masterpiece, was
chosen for the occasion. It deals wit.
homely Jewish life in Russia, before the
rnercenarv spirit began to prevail there.
There is a prologue in which God and The
Devil hold a poetic-phlosophic discussion
amid red and white lghts, with a chorus
Of angels behind ror7e curtains
The play is realistic The Devil APP
pearing disguised as ono Of the Characters,
who begins TO corrupt the good man by
means Of q lottery ticket. Tie pious
family becomes accustomed little by little
to all sorts Of luzu les. and thus a sombre
tragedy is worked out. The verse is full
of philosophy and humor.
After the second act Mr.. Gordon was
called for He came on and said a few
words waicl arc isei the entlu iiasm Of
a very responsive audience. Then a real
Russian revolutionist, by name Charles
Teohitlowsky. who came here from Switzer-
land a few weeks ago, about the time OF
the arrival Of Madame Katherine Bresh-
kowsky, was introduced
After the two conc.ud n Z acts OF the plav,
rec tatlons were gwen by the actors. Mcrc
than $500 was raised. WI Oh is 10 q sont ar
cnce 10 the kuss an sir ke headqW rtrrs
70 aid the rcvolutonists in carving out
tho IT Cramme.
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VOTE on c0URT rouse SITE.
Dsr Association wants II Handy 10 the
New Han q Records.

The Bar Association held a special meet
ing last night to consider the bill before
the Legis ature extending the territorial
limits for the now county court house above
Franklin street J. Fred Kernoctan offered
a resolution saving that It was the desire
Of the ASSOCIATE ion that tho court house
be erected in the immediate neighborhood
Of the present court house, A substitute
resolution Was offered by J. II, Cohen.
urging the passage of the bill. providing
the new court house be erected near the
present site and with easy communication
with the new ball Of Recoi ds
After o discussion Of nearly two hours
this resolution was adopted by a vote OF
% to 20.