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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10
DEATHS OF TWO DUE TO TRIAL

DES MONIES, Iowa, March 10
Fred Hoffman, a restaurant keeper
crazed b. reading accounts Of the
Scofield murder trial, held here last
week, murdered his former VIE last
night, and committed suicide Aeii'
ately afterwards.
Hoffman mad been out of his mind
for two weeks, or since the famous
Scofield trial began. He gathered men
in his restaurant and held mock trials
at which he presided as judge ana
denounced the criminal lawyers Wn'
were defending Charles Thomas, Wno
was charged with Mabel Scohelds
murder five years ago.
On Saturday Thomas was convlcea
and late last night, Hoffman arne'
himself with revolver and, declarlns
that justice had miscarried in a tnOu'
sand cases in East Des MONIES, hia1'
a search for George Harmes, VINO "a'
engaged to marry the former MT
Hoffman next week.
Unable to find Harmon, the ihSN"'
man chased down his former vile DIV
shot her through the breast. Sne u''
instantly. Hoffman then fired sH''
through his brain.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10
" M. C.. A. State Meet.

FOND DU LAC, Wis, March g
Every arriving train today mas ofous'
it's quota of delegates or visitors 10 'D
annual state convention and atni'''
meet of the Young Mems Chii'"
association. Oshkosh, Milwaukee Hf
pleton, Green Bay, La Crosse anu 0''
leading cities Of the state viii DC
represented. Tomorrow ana oa'"
will be the big days of the a'"'
contests. The programme consi''
six events, open to ali Y. NJ.
athletes of the state. AS the
list is large and of a high class
expected that there will be a sln'
ing of the state records pe1oie
last event has been pulled OIL
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10

tributaries, including Rock lake, Cow
lake, Colville lake, Medical lake, Rock
Creek lake and Silver lake, and other
small streams in the vicinity of Medi-
cal and Colville lakes. The govern
ment also claims the right to appro-
pirate, divert and store water along
the beds of all these streams in Adams
and Franklin counties.
The notice also gives the list of
state lands to be withdrawn for right
of way. Over or upon these lands the
government will require rights of way
for canals, bitches or laterals or sites
for reservoirs or other structures.
Among these lands are the following:
Sections in townships 10, IA, Is, 16,
II, 20 and Fl east.
The notice further includes a list of
lands belonging to the state which are
susceptible of irrigation and within
the area to be irrigated from the works
projected by the United States. These
include the following:
All Of township 9 north, 20, 80 and
81 range east; all of township 10
north, %, 20, &c. 81 and 80 range east;
township II north, ranges %, 20, 80,
81, 80, 33 east; township IL north,
ranges %, 20, 80, 81 and 80 east; town.
ship 13 north, range 80 east; also Sec
tions in township IA north, ranges "a
and 35 east.
Under the provisions of the new bill
the land commissioner will withdraw
these lands and the government will
improve them by irrigation.
Much interest is being taken in the
matter, as it is believed that these new
projects will open up large tracts of
heretofore arid lands in the eastern
portion of the state.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10
SERVES FIRST NOTICE OF WITH.
DRAWAL ON STATE LAND
COMMISSIONER.
Gives in Detail the Description Of
Land the Government Pro.
poses to Irrigate.

The first notice of withdrawal of
state lands and waters under the pro-
visions of the government irrigation
bill passed a few days ago by the leg
islature and the first formal declara-
ton of such action by the government
officials has been served on Land
Commissioner E. w. Ross.
This formal action was taken by En-
gineer T. A. Noble, of the United
States geological survey. Engineer
Noble, after leaving the necessary
documents in the office of the commits
sion, went to Seattle yesterday
and thence continues his journey to
Spokane preparatory to beginning the
important work of irrigation in the
eastern part of the state.
The notice is of considerable length,
and goes into detail as to the lands
which the government purposes to ir-
rigate in the immediate future. This
work is being carried on under the bill
approved by the legislature last week
and signed by Governor Mead Satur-
day, and under the provisions of an
act of congress of June II, 1902, which
appropriates the receipts for the sale
and disposing of public lands in cer-
tain states and territories to the con-
struction of irrigation works for the
reclamation of arid lands.
The notice from the government
states that the United States intends
to make examinations and surveys for
the utilization of all waters flowing
and being the following streams, lakes,
ponds, springs or other sources of
water supply within the areas drain
ing into said streams or lakes for the
construction, operation and mainten-
ance of the Pa1ouse project. The
streams included are the following:
Hangmans creek and all it's branches
upstream from the town of Latah;
Palouse river and all its branches AMI
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10
jim HILL SAID TO BE PURCHASER
OF COLUMBIA e. NORTHERN
RAILROAD.
Will Put Through Extension Crossing
Northern Pacific Near Prosser-
Short Line to Portland.

Now comes the declaration that in
dications are that the recent sale of
the Columbia River & Northern rail-
road was to James J. Hill, for use by
that railroad general in invading Har-
riman territory, not by means of the
Northern Pacific, but through an ex-
tension and cutoff from the Great
Northern, crossing the Northern Pa
cific near Prosser and offering short
connection with Portland over easy
grades.
Payment has been made of the pur-
chase price of the Columbia River &
Northern railway, it is stated, follow
ing the deposit first made to bind the
agreement for transfer entered into
with Scott & Co., for the road. The
actual transfer is to follow, but it is
not expected that any immediate
change will take place in the manage
ment of the interests of the company.
Is Hill Behind It?
Concealed behind the banking house
of Scott & Co., Wilmington, Del, is
the plan of James J. Hill to send trains
of the Great Northern and Northern
Pacific direct to Portland without the
haul over the mountains and through
tunnels to Puget Sound, and thence
down the Cowlitz over the Northern
Pacific line of difficult maintenance
asserts the Portland Telegram. The
Wilmington bankers are agents of in
terests not made public that have
bought the Columbia River & North
ern railroad, and a glance at the map
confirms that it is not necessarily
Northern Pacific capital that would be
most interested in direct route into
Portland from the main line near
Prosser, but that the route is directly
to a connection with grade already
partially completed by which the Great
Northern sought entrance into eastern
Washington wheat districts.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10
SEES ONLY EVIL IN AMERICANS
German Author Says They Are Heart
less and Immoral.


BERLIN, March 10.-K. thinner
mann, in mis- book, Uncle SAM" just
published here, declares that Ameri-
cans are a selfish, egotistical race,
aims are utterly sordid and who are
occupied solely with the task of ac-
cumulating dollars.
1.-THE Americans evil-Iooking eye,"
say Herr Zimmerman, "betrays the
depths of depravity into which the ma
ton has fallen
The sorrows of others, says the au-
thor, inspire no sympathy in the heart
of the American. He is without heart
He is unable to grasp the conception
of an ideal. He Systematically cheats
in his commercial operations.
Herr zimmerman says the Ameri-
can people have no moral principle ex-
cept the accumulation Of wealth, and
that every citizen is estimated by the
number of his dollars.
The author lived several years in
America and his book records his i'm
pressions of that country. The volume
is more strongly anti-American than
anything published in recent years.
The object of the book is to count
eract German enthusiasm for America,
aroused by Goldberger's work, 1.-The
Land of Unlimited Possibilities" and
other German books on the same line.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10
Swedish Republican Clubs.

PEORIA, ILL.,, March 9-Today, in
accordance with it's custom of many
years, the Illinois Swedish American
Republican league assembled in annual
convention to listen to a flow of re-
publican oratory and to celebrate
Ericsson day, the anniversary of the
victory of the Monitor over the Mer-
rimac. Two business sessions were
held today and were well attended by
delegates from Swedish American
clubs throughout the state. Public in
terest centers chiefly in the annual
convention banquet in the Coliseum
tonight. Secretary of the Navy Nor
ton will deliver the principal address
of the evening.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10
BIG COLLEGE TEAMS DEBATE
FIRST CONTEST UNDER TRIANGU-
LAR AGREEMENT TAKES
PLACE TONIGHT.
Cornell, Pennsylvania and Columbia
Will Battle With Words-NoveI
Plan for the Debate.

ITHACA, N. Y, March 10.-Tne first
debates between Cornell university, the
lumbia university under the triangu-
lar league agreement, takes place to-
night. The plan is a novel one that
has never been tried before. 1t pro-
vides for three simultaneous debates
tonight, one at each of the three uni
versities. The subject of debate is
the same in ali three contests ana Is
embraced in the following:
Resolved, That the interstate COM
merce commission should be vested
with authority after full hearing of
any formal complaint, to prescribe the
maximum reasonable and equitable
railroad rates to be substituted for
those found unreasonable or discrim-
native; the order of the commission,
unless suspended by writ of injunc-
ton of United States circuit court.
of thirty days notice to the carrier.
and to continue in force thereafter un-
less suspended by order of a federal
court
Cornen supports the negative side
of the argument in the debate here
tonight with Pennsylvania, while a
second Cornell team upholds the af-
hrmative in debate with Columbia
at New York. At Philadelphia a Sec
ond Columbia team supports the mega
i've side in debate with a second
team representing the University of
Pennsylvania
Much interest is manifested in the
oeOate mere. The judges are General
F'oratio c. King, John Brisben Walker.
ana W. W. Goodrich, ex-justice of the
New York supreme courn
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10
BottIers In Session.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Marcn y
Wisconsin State Bottlers' associa
began it's third annual CONVENE :,
this city today with headquai' -,
the Republican house. The asSo g.
membership extends througho"'
state and the attendance at 'ne 80,
vention is large and represent
The two days sessions Will psfZ
cupied entirely with the discuss~
matters relating to the mutuai q
fit and protection Of those ensao
the bottling business.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10

fersOn college takes place here this
evening and it promises to be the
event Of the college year. Compul-
sorry arbitration is the subject chosen
for the debate. It is the first time
representatives of these two colleges
have met in such a contest and the re-
suit is awaited with considerable in
tereSt
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10

try Broxson'S Wood Yard. Phone
s55.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10
Two Letters from Dealers Who Have
Handled Large Lots of "Trib."

Spokane, Wash, Feb. IA, 1904
In answer to yours Of the 7th, will
say: We believe our success with
"TRIB'' is due to the merits of the
goods. KRUM & BRALEY.
Baker City, Or, Feb. 9, 1904.
Are handling "TRIB" successfully.
1t is seller and gives our customers
the results they are looking for. They
are satisfied.
GRACE & ROBINSON.
For sale by L. L. Tallman.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10

For sale by L. L. Tallman.
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debate Compulsory Arbitration

ALBION, Mich, March 1O.-A de-
bate between representatives of A.
s'''h college and Washington and Jef-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10

Pianos for rent. Judge Taylor, No.
8 N. Sixth Street.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-10

Needles, the Horse Sheer, EOS East
Main Street. Give US a call.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-06-22

The odor of the sassafras tea cir.
culates around the private office OF
Acting Secretary Adee in the state de.
partment, Washington, these days.
Two months in the year Mr.. Adee
drinks tea, but in March and April
he brews sassafras by way Of spring
medicine. He has a tiny brewing out
fit tucked away in his desk and when
the thirst comes upon him he boils
a little water and makes him a cup Of
tea. And no matter what weighty in
ternational problem is under discus
sion Mr.. Adee sets 1t aside for a few
minutes when the time for such re-
freshment arrives.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-06-22
WHY EYESIGHT FAILS
INFERIOR ARTIFICIAL LIGHT FIRE
0uENTLY THE CAUSE:

tl:uminauts OF the Past, Ono and All,
with It's Clear, U~nwnvering. Yst Eofi
Flame Cannot Hurt tho Eyes.
New York, June 20.-No one can 60
Into n schools or meet a group of
children on the street without noticing
how large q number Of them wear
spectacles. The. proportion seems to
increase yearly, and there are many
more who ought to wear glasses. The
experience OF one teacher might be du-
plicated by the GORE. She knew Alice
was inattentive and she thought she
was unusually stupid. She said SO
to the principal and sent a note to
the. mother, requesting that the child
be helped at home IL she wished her
to keep up with her class. One day
after a blackboard explanation, the
teacher called upon the child and found
that she had not seen what had been
written. She was kept after school
and by dint of much sympathetic ques-
tioning Miss C. found that Alice had
never been able to see what was put
on the board and that her head had
ached SO often and so hard that she
frequently failed to hear what was
said.
Such a condition may be caused by
lack of proper food, but in our Ameri-
can homes it is usually due to the poor
quality of the artificial light. The vel
low, insufficient light Of the ordinary
kerosene lamp, with its smoky chin
ney, is about as bad for the eyes as
can be imagined. The Pickering light
from a coal gas jet is but little better,
and even the electric light, brilliant
as 1t usually is, has an unsteadiness
due to variations in power, and a glare
peculiarly trying to the delicate nerves
of sight. The comparatively new il
luminant acetylene gas produces as
nearly perfect an artificial light as has
yet been found. 1t gives a clear white,
unwavering light, very brilliant, vet
perfectly soft, and so nearly like the
rays of the sun that ven colors ap-
pear as in daylight.
FOrtunaIely, ~acetylene is very easily
and cheaply produced, and the simple
apparatus necessary can be purchased
and installed in any home at a very
moderate cost, and the acetylene can
be piped to convenient points i'll the
house where a light is needed. 1t is
then lighted and extinguished and used
exactly like ommon city gas.
Acetylene is rapidly coming into
common use in homes, churches,
schools and institutions of all kinds,
and it is reasonable to expect that as
its use in the home increases, there
will be fewer defective eyes, particu-
larly among children. Poor eyesight
and the many ills resulting therefrom
will undoubtedly be much reduced by
the use of this new illumlnant.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-06-22

make you irritable; you ant sleep,
you are unable to quietly and calmly
perform your daily tasks or care for
your children.
The relation of the nerves and gen
erative organs in women is 80 close
that nine-tenths of the nervous pros
tration, nervous debility, the blues,
sleeplessness and nervous irritability
organism which makes her a woman.
Fits of depression or restlessness and
i~rritability. Spirits easily affected, so
that one minute she laughs, the next
minute weeps. Pain in the ovaries and
between the shoulders. Loss of voice;
nervous dyspepsia. A tendency to cry
at the least provocation. All this points
to nervous ~prostration.
Nothing will relieve this distressing
condition and prevent months OF pros
tration and suffering SO surely as Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. M. E. Shotwell, of 1O3 Flatbush
Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y, writes:
~ cannot express tho wonderful relief l
have experienced by taking Lydia 3. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound. | suffered for
a long time with nervous prostratlon, back-
ache, headache, loss of appetite. | could
not sleep and would walk the floor almost
every night. (,
az had three doctors and got no better, and
life was a burden. / was advised to try
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
and it has worked wonder for me.
/" am a well woman, my nervousness Is all
gone and my friends say I look ten years
younger
Will not the volumes of letters from
women made strong by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound convince
all women of It's virtues? Surely you
cannot wish to remain sick and weak
and discouraged, exhausted each day,
when you can be as easily cured as
other
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-06-22
FORESTS DUE TO THE Foes.
Peculiar Conditions Found to Exist
the Congo Valley.

Peculiar Conditions Found to Exist i.
the Congo Valley.
A peculiar climatic feature exists
in the southern part of the Congo val
ley for 10 degrees south Of the equa.
tor. The rivers and lakes are found
to be bordered with a dense vegeta'
ton, which extends out from the wa,
ter a distance proportional to the ex'
tent of the water surface. Adjacent
hills and mountains are often covered
with dense vegetation on n side
and are bare on the other. Beyond
this bordering vegetation there are
plains, almost treeless or with small
scrub growth and thin grass.
The explanation is given as fol
lows: From May to October there is
a dry season, with hot days and fair
ly cool nights (often so degrees Fair.
enheit.) The evaporation Of the day
time is followed by condensation into
fog at night. This fog moistens the
country adjacent to the water sur
faces and causes a luxuriant growth
Of vegetation. The morning winds
blow the fog against the exposed sides
of hills and mountains and UP the val
leys of tributary streams. Wherever
the fog is not carried the country is
dry. r
The natives reflect this character
istic of their hills by shaving off heil
hair from one side of their heads
Dense forests are found where the
fogs prevail, while out of range o.
this moisture there is only a parse
vegetation.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-06-22
FOOD IN SERMONS.
Feed the Dominic Right and the Sermons
Are Brilliant.

A conscientious, Woodworking and
eminently successful clergyman writeE:
II am glad to bear testimony to tbs
pleasure and increased measure Of
efficiency and health that have come to
me from adopting Grape-Nuts food az
one of my articles of diet.
For several years l was much dis
day by. indigestion. My breakfast.
usually consisting of oatmeal, milk and
eggs, seemed to turn SOU ard failed
to digest. After dinner the headache
and other symptoms following the
breakfast would wear away, only to re-
turn, however, next morning.
"Haying heard of Grape-Nuts food,
finally concluded to give it a fair trial.
I quit the use of oatmeal and eggs, and
made my breakfasts of Grape-Nuts,
cream, toast and Postum. The result
was surprising in improved health and
total absence of the distress that had,
for SO long u time, followed the morn
ing meal. My digestion became
once more satisfactory. the headaches
ceased, and the old feeling of energy
returned. Since that time, four years
ago, | have always had Grape-Nuts
food on my breakfast table.
81 was delighted to fiEd also. that
whereas before | began to use Grape
Nuts food / was quite nervous and be-
came easily wearied in the work of
preparing sermons and in study, a
marked Improvement IN this respect re-
suited from the change in my diet. |
am convinced that Grape-Nuts food
produced this result and helped me to a
sturdy condition of mental and physical
strength.
Il have known several persons who
were formerly troubled as l was, and
who have been helped as | have been,
by the use of Grape-Nuts food, on my
recommendation, among whom may be
mentioned the Rev. , now a mis-
sionary TO China.ys Name given by
Postum Company. Battle Greek, Mich.
There's a reason"
Read the little book, 'The Road to
MellYiue." In each pkg.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-06-22

The great interest being shown in
educational matters by the state of
Mississippi and the excellence of our
schools will be a revelation to many
who have not taken the time and
trouble to investigate the matter. The
following on the subject from the
acknowledges will prove an eye-op-
ener to the initiated:
ga few weeks ago a correspondent
Of the Commercial-Appeal gave some
very interesting figures showing what
the several states of the South were
doing along educational lines, and in
the matter of appropriations for their
state universities and colleges and
higher education generally.
GAS was to be expected, Mississip-
pi is placed well to the front in the
matter of amount appropriated, and
when it comes to the per capita of
the appropriation, she leads them all.
"The correspondent did not take
the trouble to figure out the per CAPT
ia, the most interesting part from
the stand point of a Mississippian,
but he furnished the other figures, and
the per capita is herewith calculated
for him as follows:
Annual Per
- "
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-06-22
Streets Of the World.

"The highest street in the world,
said a globe trotter, lis Main stree
in Denver. The richest Is Fifth ave
nue. In New York. The widest is Mar
ket street in Philadelphia. The short
est is the Rue Bile in Paris; this
street is only twenty feet long.
THE dirtiest street is Tchang-tsl
in Nankin. The cleanest is the Via
CASTLE in Seville. The most aristo
cratic is Grosvenor place, London
The most beautiful is the Avenue des
Champs Elysees, Paris.
The narrowest street is Via Sol, Ha
yana, which has a width Of forty-twe
inches. The ugliest street is consid'
cred by many foreign artists anc
architects to be our Broadway, will
its skyscrapers."
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-06-22
PEppLlNe HER OWN PUPS.
Newfoundland Dog Carries Basket lr
Which Offspring Are for Sale.

Newfoundland Dog Carries Basket In
Which Offspring Are for Sale.
Many compassionate persons have
sympathized with a mother who for
several days has walked the business
districts soliciting purchasers for her
offspring. The mother Is a big New
foundland dog. She carries three
handsome puppies in a basket plac,
arded For Sale" and proudly
marches along the street, following
the footsteps Of her owner. Her fond
interest in the puppies welfare gives
a pathetic touch to the method of her
master in attempting to dispose of
them.
When people stop to examine the
puppies the proud mother sets the
basket down gently and caresses the
trio. IT know it seems tough to have
her peddling the pups" exclaimed the
owner to a tender-hearted on-looker,
but they're not all for sale. I'm keep
ing one for her."-Philadelphia Rec
orc.
The Kemper herald. (Scooba, Miss.) 1875-1908, 1905-06-22
Candle Shot Through Board.

Concerning the shooting Of a can
die through a board, a correspondent
writes: I'VE selected a weather
beaten pine-fence board IS a target
and loaded the gun with three drains
Of black powder, followed by an or
binary sstearine' candle, which fitted
tightly. The candle passed through.
making a clear-cut hole, and buried
itself in the sand back of the target
The candle, while somewhat torn,
was still far from ~shapeless."