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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-07
FORMER POLICEMAN, MURDERER

BUTTE, April Matt Dixon, a
miner, was almost instantly killed by
Victor North in a row in the Louvre
saloon. North is a former policeman
and is we'll known in Butte.
Both men were intoxicated, and
North, after a short discussion, caused
by North playfuily slapping Dixon.
pulled a large knife from his pocket
and slashed Dixon's throat from ear to
ear. The man bled terribly, but plac-
ing his hand over the wound, ran from
the back door of the saloon nearly 100
yards to the front door of the Stock
holm saloon. His strength carried him
only to the door, where he fell, but.
with wonderful presence of mind, he
continued to holJ the gaping wound to-
gether
Gail for DOCTOR" said the main
weakly, to c. F. Miller, proprietor Of
the Stockholm saloon. Then for mo-
ment he removed his hand from his
throat A great stream of blood gushed
out and in almost an instant he fell
flat upon his back, and, after making
several attempts to speak, expired.
North was so drunk that he did not
realize the enOrmity of his crime, as
almost Immediately he resumed his
friendly slapping of MS acquaintances
in the saloon. He made no attempt to
escape the officers, incOherently talk
ing about $4,000 bail when taken to the
station.
With one stroke of his knife North
severed all the large arteries in Dix
ons neck, partly opening the windpipe.
The two men were known as the best
of friends.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-07
WILLING TO NAME ONE FROM
THAT CITY FOR RAILWAY
COMMISSION
George w. Dickinson Has Been Pro-
posed-John E. Frost Will Get on
Tax Commission.

At a quiet little conference held on
Wednesday afternoon in the Hotel
Butler, at Seattle, Governor Mead was
asked to consider favorably the name
of George w. Dickinson for the posi-
ton of member of the state railroad
lature.
The men who asked the governor
commission, created by the last legis-
to appoint Mr.. Dickinson were c. J.
Smith, E. c. Hughes and A. B. Stew
art. 1t is understood that Mr.. Dickin-
sons friends are soon to start an ac-
tive campaign in his behalf. AS for
Mr.. Dickinson himself, he is taking no
move to secure his appointment
While the governor was in that city
the fact leaked out that he had decid-
ed not to appoint a Seattle man as
member of the tax commission. 1t is
stated by close political friends of the
governor that he has practically de-
cided to name John E. Frost as the
third member of the commission.
If the governor does this the situa-
itno will be considerably simplified as
far as the appointment of a King coun-
ty man on the railroad commission is
concerned. 1t has been claimed from
the beginning that the governor would
balk at picking both a tax commission
err and a railroad commissioner from
among the King county republicans.
Mr.. Frost was named by Governor
McGraw to fill out the unexpired term
as state auditor of the late L. R
Grimes. of Ellensburg, who died while
in office. In 1896 Frost was nominated
for the same office at the Tacoma con-
vention, but the ticket was swamped
under the fusion majority of over 12,-
300.
Governor Mead's position as to
King county's claims for a member of
the railroad commission We're stated
by close friend of the governor. He
used these words:
Governor Mead would like to name
a King county man as member of the
railroad commission. He insists, how
ever, that there shall be a showing of
sentiment approaching unanimity
among the business men and republic
cans Of King county in favor of one
man. He has said he would name a
King county republican as one of the
members of the railroad commission.
His language to me was:
You people pick out a COOL man
and unite on MIN, and I'll appoint
him.
Now, that is the way Governor
Mead feels about the matter. Natur-
ally, the governor does not want to be
put in the position of favoring any one
faction or any one insterest in Seat
Ne. 1 imagine that unless the King
county republicans should unite with
the representative business interests
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-07
MORMONS BUY LANDS
100000 Paid for $1,000 Acres-WiII Be
Settled by Colony.

BUTTE, Mont, April 6.-President
Joseph Smith, head of the Mormon
church, has bought $1,000 acres of land
in Alberta, north of the Montana line.
and proposes to establish a colony OF
Mormons on the tract. The price paid
was about 100000, according to w. F.
Cochran, of Nelson, B. c.
Mr.. Cochran was chief owner of the
big Bonanza ranch, as it is known,
the property bought by the Mormon
leader The improvements on this
property are estimated to be worth
$4,000. The nearest town to the
ranch is Mcleod, 100 miles from CAL
gary.
The plan is to break the tract into
small farms, to be settled upon by
Mormon colonists from Utah and else
where.
Although the deal for the ranch has
been closed and the money paid, the
Mormons are not expected to take pos
session until late this fall or early next
year. They will raise crops this sea-
son at their old homes.
The Mormons are numerous in the
Alberta country, fully. 5000 having 10
Gated there. They are sturdy people
and make a success of farming.
Il believe" said Mr.. Cochran, 1T is
President Smiths intention to give
each family a tract, holding supervi-
sion in the church trustees"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-07
DOG is A LlNGUIS1
St. Bernard Understands Languages
and Saves Girls Life

PERU, Ind, April 6.-J. H. Lena
nan, the Lake Erie & Western railway
Jacket agent at Sharpsville, south of
here, is the possessor of a ST. Bernard
dog, named Duke, that is gifted with
more than ordinary dog intelligence.
Lenahan is a native of Cork, Ireland
and his wife came from Meintz, Ger
many.
The dog understands every COM
mand, no matter whether it is German,
Irish, or English, and when the family
lived at Arcadia, a few years ago, the
dog understood French, as it was
spoken by a Frencnman who boarded
with the Lenahan family. The dog
watches tramps closely, but never
bites them. Duke, when intruders are
not afraid of MIN, gets hold on the
persons sleeve and leads them to the
front gate.
Every morning Duke makes the
rounds of the neighborhood and shakes
hands with his numerous friends. The
dog is the pet of the town and recent
ly he saved the life of little girl that
had wandered upon the railroad track,
by catching her clothes and dragging
train.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-07
Administrators Sale

will received
following
on tract
T., M,
bothw
of E. w. M,
be land
both with andw
House Chestnut Streets
Wala City
House and
Wala
Howard Streets n Wala Wala City.
North Township
in Column County,
For OR
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-07

Peoples Cash Market, fine Meats,
fresh Salmon, Oysters, ETC., No. II
South Third street. Phone 80. Gus E
Augustavo. Prop.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-04-07
DISTRIBUTE MUSIC BY WIRE.
Washington Man Has Scheme to Sell
Chopin and Wagner by the Yard

WASHINGTON, April What do
you think of proposition whereby you
can sit in your home, touch button,
and have the music of Chopin, Schu-
bert, Mendelssohn, Sousa, Williams,
Walker, and other celebrities entertain
you while you eat?
Or better still, by touching a button,
listen to the orchestra playing in the
Waldorf "A storia New York?
While this is impossible at the pres
ent writing, it will be possible by next
fall
To explain: Some time ago, DR..
Thaddus Cahill of Washington, D. c.,
invented a machine consisting of Sc
ries of dynamos to be used for the
generation and distribution of music
by electricity. The United States pat
ent office told him that his patent was
the only strictly original one that had
been granted for 20 years. The mus
ic is produced and distributed in the
following manner:
How 1t Is Accomplished.
On a common shaft are set a num-
Der of small alternating current ar
natures, each producing a current of
particular vibration-the frequency
corresponding to the known vibration
of a given note in the musical scale,
whether the frequency is that of chord
as a piano. violin) or a diaphragm
(drum) The circuits of these constant
ly rotating armatures are carried to
a piano. When music is desired the
operator lowers a key, and closes the
circuit of the corresponding dynamo
onto the line, which carries a requisite
vibration to the receiver at the house
of the subscriber.
The music thus produced may be
heard simultaneously in thousands of
different places scattered over an area
of many miles. The receiving instru-
ment is connected with this line, at the
residence of each subscriber, and may
be so arranged that it can be cut off
or on just as electric light is now dis
tributed and used. In each reseiver the
particular note or combination of notes
for which the performer has connect
ed the proper keys, is instantly produc-
ed. These notes are pure. clear, of
any desired loudness, timbde or pitch
The special currents or circuits re-
uuired for any given note or notes,
having been thrown onto the circuit,
the receiver is made to vibrate ac-
cordingly.
Differences of loudness and quality
are provided for by skillful devices,
and the effect is the same as if produc-
ed by any other instrument, save only
this, that there can be produced out
of one set of dynamos, by use of ac-
cessory instruments, all the different
qualities of tone, that is, all the differ
emit musical effects. such as are now
rendered by any musical instrument,
as by the violin, piano, ETC., or upon
all of them together producing the or
chestral effect.
Not Like Telephone System.
The method of transmission is not |
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-22

men DO want to marry them. il Is enlineniy proper
thatrheir suits Be reduced 10 Unconditional business
G. World.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-22
THE WoRLD cRows BETTER

DESPITE THE sneers OF pessinlists and the de-
spondsnt murrnuring Of those Of little faith, the
world grows better every day. Never were men and
women more responsive to the suggestions OF charity
or the requirements Of benevolence than they TO-
day. Never before did any appeal in behalf Of a
worthy cause meet with quicker response
The charity of man to his fellowman was never
more promptly performed There IS. it IS true. room
for improvement il this regard; but unsehshness is
today stronger than the spirit Of commercialism and
contributions By rich and poor the needs Of their
feIownen were never as liberal as they are today.
Laying aside such instances as the magnificent,
not to say stupendous, benefactions Of Mr. Carnegie,
Mr.. Rockefeller, Nj Morgan and other rich men and
looking only to the contributions Of the moderately
rich and even Of those who by comparison may be
called poor and every gratifying condition of public
sentiment IS shown
The Sunshine Society, organization with a
large membership, labors TO carry brightness and
cheer and comfort to the sick and distressed andthose
whom the busy throng prone to pass unnotced. Re
gently its secretary asked for postage stamps 10 send
out Chr tas presents to the poor vth, and she re-
ceived no. $50 stamps their equivalent in money
Mr. Crttenten, the founder Of the Florence Crit
tenten homes Tor fallen women and girls asked for
stockings for the inmates of the home and received
7,s5I pairs.
The Salvation Army asked for shoes and they
poured in by thousands of pairs, some coming from
even far away Alaska.
Booker Washington asked for books for the Ii
brary Of his school, and since has received 900
volumes.
There is in such instances of unselfsh benevo-
lence such touching manifestation of humar sympathy
much to The cheer and encourage. The leaven of
righteousness at work in the hearts Of and the
world grows better Houston Chronicle
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-22
THE wooINc OF FARMS.

THE 10 manageable young women who drew
homesseadson on the Rosebud Indian reservation in
south Dakota have received proposals from 10000
men
Most Of them have come BY mail, from who
never saw the young women and know nothing about
them except that among the charms Of each is 100
acre tract Of good land 1t would look as If these
1000 men and perhaps many more still remaining to
Be heard from wouldlik to marry the 100 acres with
out much regard for the nature the female incum-
brance
There is nothing very remarkable about il. We
have got used TO It, seeing rich American girls marry
foreign titles and titled foreigners marry American
millions And even in humber life the practice Of
marrying for money Is not 50 uncommon as it might
be.
But the remarkable part Of the Rosebud incident
lies in the fact that every one Of the young
men have refused the offers, have organized and
nounced that the only way get into their favors to
work into it, The girls invite their admirers to come
out and show what they can do in the way Of blowing
sowing aud harvesting. suors who prove by one or
two seasons work that they are industrious and pro-
vident and every way competent to care for farm
will stand chance No others need apply.
Now here is fine discriminating Judgment. If
man and woman marrying for each other they
must be worthy Of each other. If man is to marry
farm he must be worthy Of the farm. He who
narries Il supposcdto have given reasonable
assurance that he can support her. He who marries
farm ought to he required to show that he can main
tain it,
Foolish girls may be by soft words but
farms are not to be in that way. Good clothes,
white hands. handsome face and parlor manners
make little impression in wooing cold-blooded an
individual as a farm
These young women Of the farms fortunate
not only in their judgment, but also in their oppor-
tunity. The city young woman seldom put her
young through his business or professional PAGES
to determine his fitness. If she could, there might
be far less matrimonial disasters.
OF course, as a matter Of fact, ought to
marry farm OF want to mary one. But since 10000
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-22
OBSERVATIONS.

WE HIVE observed
That more people talk economy that practice it.
That experience does not make brains or age
bring wisdom.
That it is easier to tell what ought TO be done
than to do it.
That money is too often used as the yard-stick Of
mans success.
That time has corrected many false notions and
ideas.
That what is called physical courage is generally
moral cowardice
That the man who groans the loudest is not al
ways the most pious.
That common sense is considered an uncommon
thing.
That it is foolshness to physic oneself to purify
neighbor blood,
That murder spelled backwards quite often is its
cause By Observer.
IT HAS passed-tha street railway franchise
Chickasha will take another step toward metropoli-
tanism.
A PLEASANT vacation to the school teachers and
the children.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-04-14
TROPICAL TREES LITTLE KNOWN
This L. a Much-Neglected Field or
Botanical Study.

According to an expert in the bureau
Of forestry in the Department OF Asri-
culture, there is, comparatively speak
ing. little known concerning troplcal
trees, and this, despite the fact tna'
naturaIists and botanists are constant
II exploring the regions near the equa-
tor Indeed, it is stated, says tle
philadelphia Record, that there must
la MANY hundreds of varieties that
have been little known ana that are
unidentified by name
This curious fact is due TO the eAcep-
tional conditions Of the tropical loi-
ests In temperate zones forests arc
fairly open and, generally speaklhs'
include trees of only a few varleues.
Tins there are oak forests hlcholy
forests. etc, but rarely any Iorests
where three or four kinds OF treeS
exist in any number.
In the tropics, on the other manu.
tbe case is exactly the opposite. for-
ests composed of one variety Oh .ree'
or even of only three or tour kihus'
are practically unknown. 50 NAY
different sorts of trees grow Closely
together that frequently more tnan foo
varieties may be counted WITHIN Il
short radius. Moreover, all these gro"
together in great confusion. 1ney
tower TO extraordinary heights eacu
tree. IL would seem, striving us pest
to reach the sunlight. Consequently
the trunks are extremely long anu
thin. because each tree is reachins ~
get higher than its neighbors' III oloe,
to escape the twilight of the prime - =.
tropical forest Leaves ana Oianen ~,
are SO confused that in many io,es.s
one can see neither sky nor suhll
for miles, the crowns of the tfees
interlacing and forming 'nieA' 80
penetrable roof. ,-;nos
To add to this confusion great vines
ond creeuers and hundreds OF ware
tles of vegetable parasites oVersio"
IT r e said that it is well-nigh lmpos-
s,b,a 70 cut down any one tree Tor pu,-
1850. $3.50 Of examination, for the reason
hat thc forest is SO dense that 1Is.s
Is insufficient room fer the tree 70 'aA'
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-04-14

nantly, although her voice trembled a
little, che is not brilliant at all! He
is the most stupid man that ever
lived"
Perhaps you will kindly explain, "
Ruth said coldly.
But this Clarice stubbornly refused
to do, and it was not until Ruth put
off her dignity and descended to ten
der coaxing that she drew the truth
out Of her friend.
''He-he came around yesterday
morning-and I had been suffering for
three days with an liberated tooth. |
didn't have wink of sleep during all
of that time, and l was too great a
coward to go to dentist at first. Well.
Jim came then, and of course my
nerves were all on edge and the world
loked blue and 1 was all unstrung.
and 1 couldn't see anything in its
proper perspective. Everything was
distorted and out of proportion-sh,
you understand how felt
Perfectly" said Ruth, with sympa-
thetic comprehension.
"You called him brilliant just now,
but it seems to me that even man
might have known better than to make
a proposal of marriage at such time.
l thought at once of all the skeletons |
had seen in married lives, and Of every
warning had ever received from any
one on the subject and-well-of
course 1 would not listen"
II should think not, indeed Ruth
said promptly. II do not wonder that
you called him stupid. l nope that
tooth is all right now, Clarice; 1t has
done mischief enough, I should say"
1.-The tooth has been pulled and L
have had a nights sleep, thanks.
Then perhaps you would not OBJECT
to hearing the story over-J1m," rals-
ing her voice. II think that you may
come in now"
Jim came, obedient to the summons
and Ruth, after a murmured bless
you. my children" had the good taste
to leave the room hastily.-Wayerley
Magazine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-04-14
A Useless Graft.
fought y

'It does beat all, Michael, what
they're teaching girls now in these
city schools" said old Mrs. Millikin,
LAYING down the advertising section OF
q big daily which she had been read
ing closely for the last half-hour. "Of
course when Jamie went to the farm
school and they gave him digging and
chores and such, it seemed right
enough. for he was a boy. and was
fitting himself for making living Off
the land.
"But what I can't make out is why
ever city folks, and girls at that, and
ones that don't need to be scratching
70 make ends meet, should be paying
+wantv-fye dollars extra, as the paper
here says, just to learn fencing"
"Does seem kind O queer. ma, come
10 think of It," returned the old man.
ar rho other end Of the table, but
.oor,s like of late I've been hearing a
,o+ of talk bout nature studies and
hack to nature and simple lifes and
such. and maybe that's the city folks,
wav o, getting at those things. though
= ,nears to me as if 'twould come han
dior for 'em to take a jaunt out In the
country where real fences was, II
they're so mighty anxious to De learn
cd bout the building of EN-!
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-04-14
How He Missed.

A correspondent of the London Pail
Mall Gazette, says: 81 had a friend
not the one who lived on apples, but
another one-who did his duty to
himself and others with such zeal that
he never went to bed without taking
hi temperature or got up without
taking a scientific decoction the name
and composition of which | have for
gotten; the flavor, however, was such
as rendered the duty performed par
ticularly meritorious. His dietary was
based on the most scientific prin.
ciples: he had his appendix removed,
so as to aviod all risk of appendicitis,
and, in short, he so fully realized the
duty of being healthy and long-l1yed
that he never had time to do anything
else or talk about anything else. I'm
fortunately, he never took the hckle
Jade Fortune into his calculations,
and after only year of striving most
manfully to fulfill the duty of being
long-lived he slipped on piece Oh
orange peel and fractured the base OF
his skull.
"And the moral of all that is that if
he had not bothered himself so much
about his health, though he might
still have died through slipping on
piece of orange peel, the last year OF
his life would, at any rate, have been
more proftably spent"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-04-14
GILBERT sTUART's BIRTHPLACE
IL Was Among Lot of Rhode Island
Towns with Indian Names.


Towns with Indian Names.
Many American geographical names,
especially those of Indian origin. sound
Qua III English ears, and are STUN
Dllng block indeed to English tongues.
A little Yankee boy in England came
nome to his mother fairly fearful with
wrath because his teacher in the geog-
raphy lesson had compelled him to
bound Massachusetts with the accent
On the second syllable, and would not
accept his polite correction, thinking
he was trying to play joke upon her.
His mother had to send a little note,
calling attention to the gazetteer for
confirmation, before the teacher could
be brought to change her pronuncia-
ton.
A well-known story, not new but
true, is that of the slow and stolid Brit
on, on the lookout everywhere for the
American humor, of which he had
heard so much, who fell into converse
ton shortly after his arrival in this
country with three pleasant American
gentlemen, of whom, after time, he
inquired whence they came.
From Oshkosh" said the first. The
Englishman smiled.
From Kalamazoo" said the second.
The smile broadened.
From Skowhegan," said the third.
The Englishman laughed outright.
ooh, 1 say" he protested, "how you
fellows do chaffi Really, where do
you come from? I'd like to know,
don't you know"
Older, better, equally true and less
we'll known is a little anecdote of Gill
bert Stuart, the famous painter OF the
best portrait of Washington, who spent
much time in England. He was a
Rhode Island man, and it was his de-
light to observe the bewildered in
credulity of his English friends when,
on being asked where he was born, he
would reply glibly, and quite truth
fully:
'In Narragansett, six miles from
Pottawoone, ten miles from Papa
SQUASH, about four miles from Conan
lent. and not far from the spot where
the battle with the Pequots was
fought"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-04-14
How "AIl Men Are Born Equal"

The woman born beautiful doesn q
bother to educate her intelligence, is
spoiled by fiattery, is unable to holo
the men she attracts; the woman
born homely is driven to develop her
character and her mind, and so more
than overcomes her handicap as
against her pretty sister. The man
born clever loses because he wins too
easily and has not incentive to that
sustained effort which alone achieves
success; the man born SLOW de-
yelops patience, assiduity, balance
and. best of all, tenacity.
It comes near to being a universal
rule that strong points and weak ones
lust about offset each other in any
human being at the start, and that
the development is matter for the
man himself to determine. And
there Is no fatal handicap except the
disposition to regard ones handicap
as fatal.-Saturday Evening Post.