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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
THE REAL OBJECT.

The pretense Of the big insurance
companies that they made campaign
contributions in order to protect their
investments comes with very poor
grace from men who are making such
mighty poor use of the funds they
had in hand.
The report of the Frick committee
showed that the Equitable kept On de-
post with certain trust companies,
whose stock it owned, immense sums
on which it got 8 Per cent interest. In
addition it received dividends on the
stock making it's earnings something
less than 8 per cent. The New York
Life pursuing the same policy placed
SIC, 900, 900 with one trust company ON
which it got 1 per cent
These are the insurance managers
who were pouring out trust funds to
campaign committees in order to pro
tect their investments" It is a rather
significant thing that other insurance
companies all through the campaigns
of 1896 and 1900, while just as solicit
tous for sound money as the New
Workers, did nothing in politics but
husbanded their resources and
through the hard times were earning
twice as much for their policyholders
as the three New York companies.
The contributions to the national
campaign fund were we are obliged
to believe, only a blind. They were
to cover the real object Of the Equit-
able, Mutual and New York Life.
Their real object was to control the
governor, the legislature and the in
surance commissioner. For years they
were successful. The commissioner of
insurance was in turn named by each
Of them, and they were merrily exam
ined year after year and came through
Will cream JILL VI Aeai'n eaoh 'iiiie'
This is perfectly evident from the
fact that for weeks after the Prick re-
port and the examination by Mr.. Hen
bricks, Governor Higgins opposed a
legislative examination. The legisla-
ture also hesitated until the avalanche
of public Indignation descending upon
Albany, compelled the undertaking of
the work.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
NEW BUILDING MATERIAL.

Economical Value of Concrete as
Shown In Liverpool, England.
So many uses are found for concrete
in building operations that new appli-
cations of this material in order to Sc
cure permanence and economy Of con-
struction are being constantly record
ed. One of the latest is from Liver
pool, where dwellings made Of con-
crete are being erected by the corpora
ton for the artisan classes, the idea
being that the cost Of erection can be
reduced to a point that will enable
rooms to be rented for q shilling a
week, says Harper's Weekly. The ma
terial used consists Of concrete blocks
formed from waste crushed clinker OBJ
tanned from the city refuse destructor
plant, which ordinarily is employed in
making concrete slabs for crosswalks
and in pavement foundations. The
structure Of these slab, or concrete,
dwellings is REINFORCED by steel franz
ing, and they appear eminently strong
and durable.
The cost Of brick dwellings recently
erected in Liverpool was in one case
about $4,000 and in another about
81 ,OOO for block, while the estimated
cost Of a concrete block was but &c.
600. In the actual erection, however,
there was required a new and neces-
sary plant which brought the cost to
over $4,000, but the actual amount in
volved in the building was but $4,000
The engineer in charge is confident
that with further experience the new
method will be found most economical
and desires to erect five additional
blocks. If dwellings for the masses
can be provided at a substantial re-
duction on present costs the use Of
concrete is bound to have an impor-
tant influence on sociological condi-
| tions.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
THE ARMADA's TREASURE.
Spanish "Pfeces Of Eight" Found OF
TObermOry, Scotland.

Spanish "Pfeces Of Eight" Found OF
TObermOry, Scotland.
Hopes ran high in TObermory bay,
Scotland, the other day. The salvors
wore an air of mystery and impor-
lance. The divers looked like men OF
achievement They had found some
pieces Of eight in the hulk Of the
Admiral of Florence, says the London
Mail.
For over three centuries this unhap
by relic of the Spanish armada has
been buried in the sand off the Argyll
shire bay. Her bearings have always
been fairly well known, and, as witt
all Spanish galleons, she is believed to
carry much treasure. Time and the
fishes have accounted for the men who
went down in her, but the treasure
should be still there.
Many attempts have been made to
salve it in the past, but no such scien-
tifically equipped effort as that which
has been proceeding during the past
| month. The divers and the suction
pipes have hitherto brought up various
articles of interest, such as silver can
dlesticks, gold chased ornaments, stone
cannon balls and iron shot.
At last they have come upon five
pieces of eight in the forehold of the
Admiral of Florence, and every reader
of historical fiction will be thrilled by
the very name. pieces of eight were
so called because they represented the
value of eight reals, and from the days
when Elizabeths stout hearted sailor
men started out to despoil the Span
lard on the high seas these coins have
shared with the doubloon the honor Of
rewarding British pluck.
No one could possibly write an Eliza
bethan romance without having jack
tars paying for their sack with pieces
Of eight" Even Robert Louis Steven
son succumbed to the rhythmic charm
Of the name.
The Tobermory salvors are pressing
on their work, hoping to come upon
much treasure.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
THE COUNCIL SHOULD TAKE
WARNING.

It is expected mat the city council
providing for the paving of North
Fourth and Elm streets. In it's pres
ent form the ordinance provides for
the use of Warren's bitulithic pave
ment, shutting out all competitors and
ignoring the petition of majority of
the property owners for asphalt. The
agents Of the Warren Construction
company boast that they have six of
the seven councilmen pledged to vote
for the ordinance in it's present form.
If this proves true it will be only an
other instance of city council de-
flying the will of a majority of the
people at the behest of a greedy cor
pOration not over ScrupulouS in its
property owners and councilmen. In
the city of Omaha yesterday major
ity of the city council went to Jail
to serve out sentences for contempt
of court in violating an injunction
restraining them from voting for an
ordinance extending the franchise of
a gas monopoly. In Philadelphia a few
months ago the city council gave
away franchises worth millions a
year to street car companies, but ON
the demand of Mayor Weaver, backed
by an outraged people, these fran
chises were rescinded.
Walla Walla's city council should
take warning from these examples of
what may be accomplished by an in
dignant people whose petitions and
protests have been ignored by men
chosen to act as their servants in a
public capacity. The people of Wal
la Walla may be slow to wrath, but
once aroused they will brook no OPP
position to their demands. The fact
that six or even seven of the council
vote for an unjust or dishonest meas
ure will not make it right. The peo-
pie demand a voice in the choice of
pavement that they must pay for and
they will have their way sooner or
later
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
A Rival to Standard Oil.

Germany does not produce petroleum
and has long been restless under the
grip which Standard Oil has upon the
fatherland The whole country has
been explored for petroleum, but the
quest is hopeless. For years Germany
has produced potato Spirits" or alco
hol, used chiefly as stimulant, anG
recently it has been discovered that il
is infammable and yields a grea,
amount of heat.
1t has been demonstrated that potato
alcohol may be substituted for kero
sene and gasoline for use in motors. II
is very cheap, and the output is be-
lieved to be capable of limitless expan-
sion, the source Of supply being mex.
haustible. During the process of fer.
mentation the bulk is increased by add
ing water in large quantity. Potato al
cohol is not so infiammable as gasoline
and benzine and is therefore much
safer for motors.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

there were many questions left I'M
settled in the last conference. There
was the question Of the duty of neu-
trails which very nearly strained the
peace of the world when France was
lending her ports to lift the Russian
fleet around the world. 1t was thougnt
at the beginning of the war that it
would be impossible for Russia to get
her Baltic fleet to the Orient, but with
French aid it arrived, and it is still
there.
There is also the question of con :
traband. No doubt England did well
supplying both belligerents with tine
sinews of war under the guise of ira lie
The loss of the few ships which were
caught redhanded and captured OF
SUNK cut very little figure in the rich
haul of John Bull.
These and many other questions are
open to the best thought Of the ma
tons. The late destructive war in the
Orient has absorbed the fighting ma
tons to a degree which augurs well
for calm and practical discussion OF
ways and means to maintain peace.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

They are doing something for the
English language. Murder in the first
degree is becoming less common. The
American who is Intentionally care
less is beginning to find that he does
not increase his own Importance by
assassinating the language and the
English cockney, who uses vile Eng
lish with the evident idea that Amer
leans will think more of his standing
at home, is discovering his mistake.
Clean, straightforward and I'M
adorned English is having a better
chance than ever before. While the
use Of slang is not perceptibly lessened
it is developing into better slang,
that is, slang which helps forward the
expression of ideas.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

Oh, vast, unwieldy land Of ours!
Like some huge Titan boy thou art
Whose young blood surges through his
heart
In crude strife Of powers,
Until some tingling moment when
One cry wrings all true souls, and then
Thou standest in the strength Of wrath
Thou gatherest all thyself to tower above
thy peers!
Thee, newborn far beyond the main,
God Graded in a new found cline
That wistful Europe's dreams sublime
Might not seem all in vain.
Hope, reawakening at thy birth,
Thrilled the dropped songsters Of the
earth
To brief ecstatic JOY. Ere long in thee
Shall they behold the pledge Of one hui
mainly.
The nations aye the nations wait
Thy 'ripening. Shall they lift their eyes
To see thee Knit thy thews and rise
Single and whole and great?
Not sooner for the bugie call,
Not sooner for the sound Of all
The cannonades that roar beneath tho
sun.
knowledge and love and toll shall slowly
make thee one.
What song shall hail yon faroff morn?
Must hope be sung in sweet, sad walls
BY Europe's rich voiced nightinSales
Needing against a thorn?
Come, new world lark! Come, future
seer!
In thy chanting men shall hear
love dominant through the triumph
hymn Of life,
While long retreating drums beat the
dead march Of strife.
w. NJ. Gamble in Atlantic.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
THE CARS NEW MOVE.

The report that the szar has inter-
Vened to call a second meeting of The
Hague conference himself, having Sc
cured the cooperation of President
Roosevelt, whose invitation would nat
urally have taken precedence of that
OF the ear, will prove interesting news
to all the world.
Inc specific line of discussion the
ear Will have to propose is. of course
not known, but he must propose some
thing, and doubtless, out of his late
experiences, the car can find meat
for a weighty program. Resides
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
ENGLISH AS 1T IS SPOKEN.

An Englishman who has travelled
over this country and who has lect-
ured in some of our leading schools
has this to say about the controversy
between England and America over
the use Or abuse of the language:
The Englishman who thinks that
the average American mas a nasal
finement, and the American who thinks
it is essential to drop ones aspirates
where they should be sounded and
vice-versa in order to be a true
Britisher, are both in the same boat:
they both exhibit about the same
amount of intelligence as the child
who gets up early on Easter morning
to search for rabbits eggs"
He denies that he Englishman says
"Rawtner nawsty" or "awfully Jolly.
don't yer know" unless he wants to
be put down as a consummate ass by
his own people. Nor does he find that
Americans say calculate" and guess
unless they are the fitting words
He suggests that the mutual critics
take long trip, and learn something
about England and America before
censoring again. The Englishman NAV
be right, but there is some compensa-
ton in these mutual determinations
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
DROWNED IN SNAKE
Railroad Laborer Taken With Cramps
and Sinks to Bottom.

George Ball, 20 years DID, was
drowned in Snake river, just below
Lewiston, Sunday morning. He was
employed in construction work on the
-Riparia line, and went in
swimming with a companion. They
were bathing in a slough when Bal
apparently took cramps and sunk. His
companion could not swim and there
fore could give no aid. Workmen were
called and the slough was dragged, the
remains being recovered after 40 min
utes' search. He leaves a mother, who
resides in Spokane.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
The Cotton Issue and the Public.

A prominent Wall street man is
, quoted as boasting that he would ham
mer cotton down to 8 cents pound
and crush the southern cotton combine
which retaliated with threat to keel
the price up to II cents. As between
these contestants the country Is in the
main neutral. What the people want
to see is the untrammeled operation OF
natural laws in fixing the price of cot
ton as everything else. Then we know
approximately where we stand, wheth-
er manufacturers, dealers or consum-
ers.
If manipulatOrs keep their hands Of
the market cotton will soon find it,
true level, whether high or low. the
manufacturers will adjust their bust
ness to the situation and the SO.OOO.OOo
and odd American people who buy cot
ton goods will get them at reason.
able price and put into them all the
cash they can spare. All the cotton
that the United States can produce can
find market here, whether the yield
be 100000 bales or 100000 bales
a year. The country has an interest
in seeing huge crops of this staple just
as it rejoices over big yield Of wheat
and corn or Of valuable metals. Tam
pering with a certain product may
make money for spectators, but in the
long run will tend to injure produc-
ton, and production is the key to pros
perity. ~. .,.,... =, ----e, go .-,,sys
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
Gets Stack of Dollars.

SCRANTON, Pa, Sept. 26-Miss
Susan E. Dickinson, a Boston newspa-
per woman, has won a prize offered by
a New York magazine for a story. The
judges were Admiral Dewey and Sen
ator Allison. The prize is a column
of silver dollars equal to the winners
height. Next to the award the inter-
esting feature is that Miss Dickinson
is less than five feet tall. The prize
will net Miss Dickinson about $500.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
Power of the ArmOred Cruiser.

w. S. Meriwether, writing in re-
cent issue Of Harper's Weekly con-
corning 1.-The Value Of Armored Cruis-
ers In Our Navy" gives some interest
ing information about the enormous
energy pent up within these express
racers Of the navy. In the case Of the
Colorado, for example, the horsepower
which that vessel has developed more
than equals the united energy Of a
quarter Of million of men. Installed
in a locomotive engine it could whirl
600 passenger cars over a track at the
rate Of mile minute Six hundred
passenger cars would stretch over a
distance Of twelve miles, and these
could carry an army Of $4,000 men.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

Admiral Clark will surely paste in his
scrapbook "for keeps" the following
Quatrain written for the New York
Sun, on the occasion of his retirement,
by John Jerome Rooney:
Here's a nations love for you. love and
big handshake for you,
Captain Of the Oregon, greyhound of
the sea!
Duty lit the path for you, glory trailed
the wake for you;
Take a long shore leave with us-ever!
port is free!
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

mobile faddists who cannot get them
selves mangled quick enough to suit
in the devil wagons that polo is fully
as dangerous as scorching in car. In
fact, in view of the fatalities at polo,
the wonder Is that the sport is no,
more popular with folks who have
nothing to live for
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

1t is estimated that the return of
railroad passes by Nebraska state Of
ficers will entail an expense Of $4,000
a year upon the state and may lead to
an extra session. But if the railroads
are contributing $4,000 a year to the
state of Nebraska they have a right to
expect peculiar consideration at the
hands of the state officers.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

Archambeau, of the Warren Con-
structiOn company, says that he has
found Walla Walla SO easy that he
has about decided to make his resi-
dence mere until he has paved every
street in the city with his bitulithic
compound. No other city on the Pa
for the bitulithic boosters.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
ENGLISH GRAFTERS.

The cunning of American grafters
appears to have been outdone by GER
tain recent proceedings in the urban
district of East Ham, England. An in
vestigation by an expert has shown
that the council owning certain waste
lands and holding them for the public
conveyed the property to a private
individual in trust. Three officers of
the town We're then constituted the
trustees and they together undertook
handle the property. They added
more land and advertised the whole
for sale, and have now come in with
report showing an alleged profit for
the town of some 1000 pounds. But
the expert finds that they have charged
themselves with nothing for the value
of the land turned over to them by the
town, and have besides paid out con-
siderable sums to firms in which they
were interested in fees and expenses
for handling the land.
The expert advises that they be sued
to recover the land with which they
have parted, and the moneys which
they have illegally taken from the
town treasury by an audacious use of
the corporate seal The American
CRATER cannot improve upon this mode
of procedure, which appears to have
seemed good to staid and reliable
Establishment
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

1t is a strange anomaly in modern
life that man of M. Whites brain,
character and patriotism should have
and pestiferous imbecile like Nicholas
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
The Nebra ska republican cOnVentiO

The Nebraska republican convention
apparently had not heard that rebates
mands that Nebraska representatives
in congress cooperate with the presi
city, extortion and abuses may be
checked
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
A BEAUTIFUL GROOM COTTAGE.

Suitable for a lodging house Three
blocks from postoffice. Toilet, good
cellar, bath room, woodshed, large
shade trees. A lovely 1ocation large
lot. A snapp. Only $500. Terms easy
Room Roman building.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

fitted intellectually for the United
States senate, but that he gave him
the place just as a filler This goes
toward proving that Addicks is not a
fit man to select United States sena-
tors a fact which the people have for
some time been, as it were, Delaware
Of
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

1t is now explained that Raisuli, who
was heard Of some months ago, is not
a bandit, but simply politician Of the
simple Moroccan type. This IS hard
either on Raisuli or the politicians.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

Now that China is getting so chesty
various powers that have a narrow
foothold on the Chinese coast will do
we'll to provide themselves with life
belts. They may have to "swim out
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

Former Senator Stewart of Nevada
has lost his fortune in a minute. Evil
IDENTIFY he was just the opposite of the
get-rich- quick brand of senator.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

Forty million bottles of August Flower
sold in the United States alone since its
introduction! And the demand for it is
still growing. Isn't that fine showing
of success? Don't it prove that August
Flower has had unfailing success In the
cure of indigestion and dyspepsia-the
worst enemies of health and happiness?
Does it not afford the best evidence that
August Flower is a sure specific for al
stomach and intestinal disorders ?-that i
is the best Of all liver regulators?
August Flower has matchless RECORD
of over IS years in curing the alllng mil
lions of these distressing complaints. s
Two sizes. 25c and 75c. All druggists
For Sale by
THE HocKETT DRUG COMPANY
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

Pat Grove must have solved the
problem of aerial navigation. He has
been seen in three cities a thousand
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26
WANTED.

A girl for general house work in
girl. Apply 225 McAulley ave.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

The worst throw down Sir Thomas
ever got was when his morse threw him
in the very presence of the king
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

w. J. Bryan now knows that where
there is a sealed letter there is often
no will.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

The car ought to know more about
before he called the first conference.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

Wanted-A boy with horse to carry
hours. Apply at once.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

E. Benjamin Andrews sees another
great European war just ahead. E.
Benjamin has seen things before.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-09-26

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