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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13
WALLA WAllA MARKETS
REVISED DAILY.
Retail Prices.

Retail Prices.
The selling quotations on the local
market are:
Sugar-Per 100 lbs, 500.
Cheese-Per ID. zoe.
vegeta per tack; new.
$1.25.
Onions-Per 100 lbs, $500.
Parsnips-1c per Id.
Turnips-1c per Id.
Cabbage-Per 100 lbs, $500.
Green Apples-$1.00. choice.
Figs-Per h., 12hc.
Cranberries-Per gal, SOC.
Pineapples-50c each.
Fruits-Oranges, per doz., Csc to Soc.
Lemons-Per doz., 25c.
Eggs-Per doz., 40c.
Butter-Country, per roll, 65c;
creamery, per roll zoe.
Flour-Per barrel, $40 to $500;
Graham flour per 50-lb. sack, $1.30:
whole wheat flour per sack, $3.50; roll
ed oats per lib. &c.
Hay-Baled, per ton; wheat, $13;
alfalfa, s13.
Bran-Per ton, $3.50; shorts, per
ton, $2o.50; rolled barley. per ton,
$3.50.
Fish, per lb.-Salmon, 15c: hall
but 12kc; soles 10c; perch, 12hc; rock
cod, 15c; Holsters, Csc; founder, 10c;
herring, 1oc: crabs, Csc and soc; smelt,
12kc; sturgeon, 15c; black cod. 15c;
shrimps, soc.
Eastern opsters-75c a quart.
Spring chicken, 1sc.
Geese and ducks. 16c.
Turkey, zoe.
Meats.
Porterhouse steak, 12hc. =
Sirloin steak, 1oc. i =.
Round steak, &c:
rnuc. stoor ~ =
Prime rib roast, Ice.
Beef roast, 7c. =
Boiling beef, &c. 9
Mutton chops, SC. i
Mutton leg, SC. + !. u
Mutton stew, Sc. l.
Pork steak, Sc. : Il &
Pork roast, Sc.
Pork sausage, &c. G
Hamburg steak, &c. s
Bologna, &c.
Head cheese, &c.
Liver wurst, &c.
Blood wurst, 7c.
Buying Prices.
These are the quotations on the local
market:
Apples-Per box, 60c to soc.
Lemons-Per case. 81 to $3.50.
Oranges-Per case, s4.5e.
Onions-Per cwt., $500.
Carrots-Per sack 76c.
Beets-Per sack, 75c.
Potatoes-Per cwt., 81.
Chickens-Hens, per h., &c; roost-
ers, per Id. &c.; spring chickens, per
H., &c; geese. per h., &c; ducks, per
h., 7c; turkeys per h., IL to 14c; eggs,
35c.
Calves-Live, &c; dressed, &c; up to
15e lbs, &c; 2e0 lbs. Sc.
Good hogs-Live &c: dressed 6Ac,
Sheep-Wethers. 81: ewes. 81 sc;
lambs. -.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13

LOST-BETWEEN HIGH SCHOOL
and Fourth on Newell and Stahl. a
pair Of spectacles. Finder leave at
this Office and receive reward
FUGL
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13
Looking Backward.

Ancient history comes natural to
her."
Il suppose it seems like renewing the
scenes Of her childhood"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13
PROFESSIONAL.

DIR. j. G. MACK, PHYSICIAN AND
Surgeon, has gone to Chicago to take
some special instruction surgery.
Will be gone couple Of months.
Residence phone $50.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13

A square man always comes round
when he owes you money.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13

II hens were progressive they would
be holding a hens rights convention
and insisting that they should be al
lowed to do half Of the growing.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13
CIAiRVCYANcY,
GROCER.

THE PLACE TO BUY GROCERIES
is at the store of ]. F. Mclean, 124
East Alder street. .
M. SHANK & CO.. DEALERS IN
iron, brass. copper, bottles, lead,
zinc, sacks. rubber, hides, furs, etc.
los East Main ST., Phone Black 993.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13

On a good bluff a man can live Tor
several months. On a superb bluff he
can work his way through life.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13

A cats nine lives do not do it any
good when it happens to be sojourner
in a city that is besieged.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13

Try the Cascade Fuel Co. for WOOD
or coal. Phone Na'n 31A
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13

II none but the brave deserve the fair
the man with a healthy bank account
Ii always listed with the brave.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13

Although the hint is hardly season
able, it may be safely said that a cat
does not appreciate a bootjack as
Christmas present.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13

In the Institutes for feeble minded
they also lead the simple life.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13

A blind man with second sight would
like nothing better than to trade it for
first sight.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13

Walking is healthful exercise, but it
q policeman IL In pursuit running Is
much more %.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-03-13
"ANTED.

WANTED-MEN TO DO HOUSE TO
house distributing. Fair pay. Ad-
dress, P. o. Box 8.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-23
MEN ARE IMPORTED
TO COMMIT MURDER

Meantime the officers were travelling
often up Bingham canyon. John Forbes.
the deputy sneriff. who has now ali the
work III Little Austria since
Chidester was crippled for life, made
daily visits to the pace, acquiring his
information little b. little. sheriff
Emery sent ether deputies out there.
and they learned things. CHIEF Williams
and Othcer Coates. his day man, inter
esteG themselves, and took several con-
spiraaors to the county jail Members
OF the DeV.ch band were beginning to
EnoW what the unpleasant process OF
being "sWeated" meant They saw that
the officers mad forgotten prejudice
against their time honored methods of
extcInlina ton; and they made up their
minds that they would have to get out
side help to attend to BOgdan's assas-
Sination. They acted on the new idea.
In MIcl1ay, Idaho, is a big colony of
Austrians- Several of the particular
brotherhood TO which Starcevic, the
dead man belonged, of which DeVic was
also member, members themselves of
the Roman Catholic faction were sum
mCned, They came to Bingham and got
jobs as snelter laborers.
These men, one of them a brother of
Starcevic. learned their task. June 10
they SGT about to accomplish It. They
got good chance at Melich that day
and set upon him with knives. deliCh,
like BOgdan, had been told that he was
10 be killed, and rad gotten ready to
resist the process. He defended him
sef with vigor. When Policeman
Coates arrived he was able to find and
arrest two Of the conspirators. After
lively two days chase in the mountains
he rounded up the other two. That
ended the second chapter Of the affair.
The Devic faction left off active eff
forts toward killing Bogdan ana Melich
for several weeks. A chance to liber-
ate their leader had presented itself
and took much Of their time The
county attorney set the mans bonds at
$1,000. They raised the money and
then spirited Devic out of the country.
He is now a fugitive from justice
This done, the faction resumed their
plans toward assassination They got
three more men from Idaho and set
them to work in a Murray smeIter.
These men afterward came to Bingham.
They followed Bogdan to Bingham
Junction. few days ago. and there
attacked him. Like Melich, Bogdan
was ready for them. They saw it, and
knew that the victims time had not yet
come. The trio are now in jail await
ing trial before Justice Lee of Bingham,
for threatening to commit murder
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-23
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little HZ<c TSLA
REN04fFh.

ing one Of the attacking party in the
leg Then he went for an officer
That is how Lafayette Chidester came
to lose his leg. He responded to the
call Entering Devices house, to which
the rioters had retired, he was ambus-
caded by the leader and Tony Star
ceVic, the latter's cousin. Chichester
was shot in the leg by Devic, whom ne
beat to the ground and shot in the
shoulder. BOgdan and his cousin.
Melich, shot down StarceVic, whose
6ullet-riddled body was buried two
days later.
A half hour later Policeman Clays
brought Chichester to the Highland Boy
office and posted a guard about the
house. Then Chief of Police Williams
of Bingham broke into the Devic house
and arrested five armed Austrians. He
stood in dark room with two revofv-
ers leveled, while Coates scratched a
match; then rounded up the men, who
were too cowardly to shoot him even
while they had held the advantage.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-23
JOHN BOGDAN MARKED
FOR ASSASSINATION

John Bogdan had been a marked man
before that night With StarceVic' 8
death to his credit ne was made a spe-
cial object of vengeance. The Devic
faction was scattered for awhile. Sew
eral Of them were in jail. Two were in
the hospital; a leader in the morgue.
And the rest were most of them in hid
ing.
But in the course of a few weeks they
began to come together again. AS soon
as they did they laid new plans for
BogGan's death. He was told by
friends And the conspirators them
selves made effort to let him know. IL
is one of the rules of the vendetta to
inform a man that he is doomed-to DO
1t in braggadocio way, and then to
kill him and keep still about it. The
rest of the neighborhood shrug their
shoulders and remember it as an af-
fair between the parties to the tragedy.
They go on and drink their beer and
cheap red wine just as they always did
after they have bought funeral
wreaths, contributed for hack hire and
done other things to see that the de-
ceased got a proper burial
So ii went on in this vendetta. John
Bogdan, warned that he was to be
killed, bought a Krag-Jorgensen 1890
rifle. a Winchester .44-caliber repeating
rifle, and .45-caliber Colts single ac-
ton revolver. These he distributed in
convenient places over his house. He
placed another revolver beneath his
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-23
MANY CITIZENS
SIGN PETITION
Ask President to Establish Registra-
ton Office in Salt Lake.
SOLDIERS PLAY A PART
BY TUESDAY NIGHT TEN THOU
SAND SIGNATURES CLAIMED.

The petition addressed to President
Theodore Roosevelt asking that a reg
istra.ion Office for the Cintah reserva-
tion opening be established in Salt Lake
in the interest of the soldiers, is being
extensively signed. Colonel NJ. NJ.
Kaighn. who has been placed in charge
of the matter in a measure, is confident
that 10000 signatures will have been
secured by Tuesday night when the
lists will be forwarded TO Washington
Petition blanks were placed in all the
hotels. all the banks and many of the
stores ia Salt Lake; they were distrib-
uted also in Park City. Bingham, Muir
ray. West Jordan, Sandy. Bountiful,
Pennington, Kaysville. ogden and Lo-
gan. About one-ifth of these lists have
been returned. These contain between
1900 and 1,5G0 signatures, ranging down
from Governor John G Cutler. w. ).
McCO- A tx. Simon Bamberger, Nj. H.
Wake. and men of their standing in
the community down 70 the humblest
In addition to these lists have been re-
turned bearing the signatures of 200
old soldiers. In addition to all this r.
T. Hulaniski of Ogden, department
commander of the c. a. R., has wired
to President Roosevelt strongly urging
the establishment of the registration
office in Salt Lake
Colonel Kaighn said last night that
ne considered ii the duty of the mayor
and city council to take official action
in the matter He thought u resolu-
ton should be passed by the council,
signed by the mayor and at once for
warded to the president. In addition to
this he thought these officials should
sign the petition in a body. 1t is pre-
sumed that the matter Will be brought
to the attention of the council tomorrow
night, should there be a meeting.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-23
RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCE
CAUSE OF THE WARFARE

| religious differences have made this
! DIVISION of Gins. The members of one
J belong TO the Greek Catholic church
] nose OF the other are Roman Cath
/ ollcS- None of them are over Jealous SO
! Tar as the church going is concerned
! Ihey would rather spend their leisure
| hours carOusing i'm the saloons which
! the county has licensed outside Ring
/ nam city limits, or in the cellars of
I their hillside cabins, among which are
| occasional stills. than to nav any at.
! IentlOn to religious devotion But for
all that the division line of Roman
Sathollc and Greek Catholic has been
drawn sharply, simply because it had
/ been so with their fathers
The members of these clans do not
mix with one another. They often meet
IN some OF the saloons. or on the trail
! at night returning from their beer and
VINE drinking From such meetings
the smaller party retireS badly battered
some of its members often bearing knife
wounds The narrow defiIe has more
man once echoed with revolver shots
Knives have flashed in the roadway.
The men of the Roman Catholic clan
come from the southern border prov
lnceS. They lived where other laws
IMAM those OF the land ruled Some of
them were brigands and some cattle
thieves. All got from their fathers
who had gotten it in turn from their
fathers before them the law of the ven
delta. If one Offends YOU too far KIN
MN ana as many of his family as pos
slD'e, Tor 1t Will then be their duty to
XIII you and yours-that is the ven
det1a- Simpler and quicker than the
law OF the land. it always appeals to
these southern Europeans
Incidents in the Past.
The present vendetta is not the first
Inat mas existed in Little Austria"
They tell strange stories of the gully
and its people one night a mine SUPER
lnJendent was making his way aIoHg
the Copper Belt track that hangs high
on the rocky wall of the canyon. Heaps
OF mine timber lay beside the railroad.
FROM behind one of these a man
stepped He held knife, appraised As
ne looked into the face of the superin
tendent he jerked back his hand
Scusa me-" he muttered. Il get
wrong man.
shadow.
Now this is a fact. vouched for bv
Blngham's peace justice. He also told
a Finn left his cabin further down
the canyon one night. He did not re-
turn. His friends notified the authori-
ties They could find only this-the
man had gone to Little Austria" that
hlght- The day before he had been in
vowed IN an ugly dispute with one OF
tnat settlements big men. Time went
on ana finally, through unquestioned
channels came the report that the Finn
nad peen murdered. The body was hid
zen IN a dump of a neighborine mine
IIunqreos OF tons of rock were thrown
on that dump every day and search
was useless The officers were satisfied
they had Learned the fate of the miss
ing man.
These things. told for facts by Justice
''eOfs &c 4. Lee. and vouched for by
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-23

and how Devic and the rest ambushed
him
They knew 1 was coming and it
seems like they laid for me-" he said
Chidester was a big able bodied man
before this thing happened He makes
a pitiful figure now. In Bingham they
are getting up a subscription for his
benefit. 1t isn't necessary to say that
the officers of the place are taking a
leading part i'm doing this work
Since Chichester was shot, Sheriff G
Frank Emery has been given no other
deputy in Bingham. John Forbes has
to do the work alone He has about
twenty square miles of territory to
cover, including the scene of the ven
delta. The police there help him as
much as they can, and by working to-
gether these officers are beginning TO
weed out some of the worst men in
Little Austria Every week or so a
knife-wielder is taken into custody, and
then Justice Lee does his part and the
swarthy-faced man goes out of the
game for several weeks.
In the Office of the county attorney
they are gradually getting together the
facts which they hope to be able to use
in court to prove the existence of con-
spiracy, should occasion to so do arise
The occasion may not come up in De-
vic's case He has fed. But there are
other cases. and then there is the like
lihood of more blOOdshed John Bog
dan and Joseph Melich have been told
they will be killed-and the threat re-
mains TO be executed. It is not within
the province of the officials to build
plans on anything like this-but the
work has begun. anyway, and evidence
gathered for these other cases might
come in very nicely some day At any
rate the officers all Of them saw that
John Bogdan VIII some 'day be claimed
by the vendetta
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-23
PRUITT Is PARDONED.
Married Twice Under Misapprehen-
sion, He Completes Prison Term.

A special session of the state board
Of pardons was held yesterday, at
which favorable action was taken on
the application of Samuel r. Pruitt for
pardon Pruitt was sentenced to a term
of three years and to pay a fine of $500
on conviction for pOlygamy obtained
against him in the district court OF We
Der county. He served the. three years
and had started serving on the time
that he would have been required to
serve If the fine had not been wiped out
with a pardon.
Pruftt, who is a non Mormon, says he
married his second wife in the belief
that his first wife had secured a d.
Vorce from him. Before going through
the second ceremony he had been noti-
fed that she had begun a suit for an
nulment of their marriage, and he sup
posed the decree had been granted
When arrested and arraigned in court
he pleaded guilty.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-23

you dismount men seem to rise from
! the earth about you. They crowd close
ON you, talking among themselves in
| their own cultural tongue All the time
new arrivals are pushing in from the
outer edges of the crowd They iOstle
you, seemingly in ignorant curiosity
II you are an officer the pressure is ter
I rIilc, and more than once you will feel
something hard-a weapon hidden be
meath its owners clothing
Narrow black eyes, some Of them
slanung. CLINT all about YOU Heavy
sullen features give no sign Of interest
Swarthy faces and black heads, pressed
close together. surround YOU None
among the whole crowd stands ready
70 answer your simplest question. They
shruS their shoulders or stare insoIent-
" INTO your eyes: then comment on
your arrival in their own language.
Ihese are the men Of Little Austria
They live in their cabins very much
IKE their own pigs. ten or a dozen of
them in a house. In the mines and
smeiters, they work doggedIy and i'm
silence Once they get back to their
narrow defile, they forget their work
ana the rest of the world and laDse back
10 the customs of their strange father
land.
Among these customs is the vendetta.
II isn't exactly along the lines of the
Itailan or Sicilian war OF clans but
many OF the characteristics are there
Little Austria has its two factions
leI a member of one offend the other
TOO Tar and he is marked for assassina-
uon. The methods Of accommodating
TINS end are perhaps not so fine as with
Slclllans, but they are effective.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-23
ADDITIONAL SOCIETY.

A party consisting of F. Y. Taylor,
NJ NJ Atwood, Ralph Savage, D. Har-
rington, l. A. Kelsh, together with
their families and a number of others,
viii leave the early part of next week
for a fishing and camping trip to the
head of the Weber river. The party
will be gone from ten days to two
weeks.
Miss Lizzie Hughes Brundage. a sing
er Of Scranton. Pa. who was the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs Thomas p Evans, left
for the east Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs John James entertained
a party Tuesday evening in honor of
Mrs. Lizzie Hughes Brundage of Scran-
ton, Pa Mrs. Brundage sang several
Welsh songs. Other musical numbers
were given by Miss Lillian Turner. Miss
Aura Rogers, Misses Lillian and Gene
We've James, Frank Schmidt and Mr.
James.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-23
CITY OFFICIALS RETURN.
Mayor Morris and City Attorney Dey
Ready For Duty.

Mayor Richard P. Morris who has
been out of the city, sojOurning in Los
Angeles. San Francisco and other Pa
cific coast towns. during the past two
weeks, will return home this morning.
In a communication from Mayor
Morris received at the city hall a day
or two ago he said the first thing he
would do upon his return TO the city
would be to try to straighten out the
tangle in the waterworks extension
situation The city must determine
without further delay where the intake
of the Big Cottonwood conduit is to be
located.
City Attorney c. c. Dey has also re-
turned from a trip out of the city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-23
sT FREDERICK r. eEcHDoLT.

HoGSED persistence, with the muir
IL der of two. men as it's object, is
keeping half a hundred Austrians
and half a dozen officers at war up in
BinghamrOanyOn- The Austrjans have
Sworn tos7Eill the two men. They did it
because IT was the-custom Of their IA
1hers, in the land whence they came
Sooner or later they intend to accom-
plisah the assassination.
But Little AUssria's'' vendetta has
yet 70 claim John Bogdan and Joseph
9Gelich- Since they pointed him out for
death more than three months ago the
,~onspirators against Bogdan's life have
lost many men, some of them by
wounds, one by death, more by the
necessity Of fleeing to escape arrest.
But the long finger has been pointed at
kASogdan and officers who are fighting to
snrealS UP the conspiracy confess their
belief that he will be murdered.
FNactions, divided by religious differ
ences, warred in Bingham canyon last
winter. That started the vendetta
,Bogdan led one faction. Frank Devic
led the other. Devic pointed out Bog
dan for death. And forthwith they
tried to kill him and his family Or
dtnariiy Bogdau would have been muir
dered and the officers looking for evil
dence would have been baffied by lot
of silent, sullen foreigners. Chance
changed all this, and the affair took on
novel features.
Like Story of Sicily.
The story Of this vendetta sounds like
a tale of Sicily in the early part of the
Hast century. You find some of the
things you hear in Bingham hard to
believe. To understand them at all
YOU must know something of Little
Austria" and its people. See these and
you will be ready TO listen to the things
Singham's peace officers can tell you.
Little Austria is bit of the Old
World transplanted in the stony gorge
above the Highland Boy works It's
people come from some out OF the way
hooks in EurOpe'S most mysterious ma
ton. OF a strange mixed race OWnine,
some of the characteristics of the Latin
and some Of the Slav, along with traits
OF the TeutOns. these AuStrians are
many OF them from mountain provinces
where old customs still endure and
man to man dealings are carried ont
along primitive lines.
They found a tit home In this gorge.
It's steep walls are less than 200 yards
apart They rise nearly LOCO feet
Ragged outcroppings Of the living rock
hang over the roadway. A little stream
runs down the middle Of the ravine.
II is a rugged, formidable place.
Here are hundreds Of cabins. They
cling to the steep hillside. They push
their dirty porches into the road; and
Stables, chicken yards and pigpens are
mixed ND among them. Beer kegs.
heaps of tin cans, empty bottles and
stable refuse are scattered over the
pare ground There is no sign Of any
0n1ng green except up on the mountain (
sides, where the cows climb like goats
fn search of pasture
Crowds Rise From Earth.
You reach the place on horseback.
a Ia
wants to go any distance in Bingham
canyon Bands Of black-haired children. /
playing in the trail, scatter from he
meath your pony's hoofs. And when /