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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

They asked him how long he had
known US. He threw up his hands with
an eloquent gesture: memory refused
to travel back such distance. It ap-
peared there was never a time when
he had not known us. We had been
boys together. Did he know anybody
else who knew us? The question ap~
peared to him almost insulting. Every
body in Innsbruck knew US, hon0red
rs, respected us-everybody, that is,
except a few postof1fce officials people
quite out of society. Would he kindly
bring along, say one undoubtedly re-
spectacle citizen who could vouch cor
our identity. The request caused him
to forget us and our troubles. The ar
gUment became a personal quarrel be-
tween the porter and the clerk II he
the porter. was not a respectable c1tl-
zen Of Innsbruck, where was such to
be found? Both gentlemen became ex-
cited, and the discussion passed be-
y0nd my understanding. But I gath
cred dimly, from what the clerk said
that iIl-natured remarks relative to the
COW had never yet been satisfactorily
replied to; and from observations
made by the porter, that stories were
in circulation about the clerks aunt
and a sergeant of artillery that should
suggest to a discreet nephew Of the
lady the inadvisability Of talking about
other peoples grandfathers. Our SYM
pathies were naturally with the poF~
seem to be advancing our cause much.
we left them quarreling ana persuad-
ed the head waiter that evening to
turn out the gas at our END OF table
d'hote. The next morning we returned
to the postofflce by ourselves. The
clerk proved a reasonable man when
treated in a friendly spirit. He was
bit of climber himself He admitted
the possibility of our being the right
ful owners. His instructions were only
not to deliver up the bags and he,
himself. suggested a way out of the
difficulty. We might come each day
and dress In the postoface. behind this
screen It was an awkward arrange
ments even although the clerk allowed
US the use of the back door. And oc-
casionaIly in spite Of the utmost care,
bits of Us would show outside the
! screen. But for q couple OF days, UNI
/ til the British consul returned from
1 SaIzburg, the postoflce had to be cur
/ dressing room. The continental Official
I am inclined to think. errs on the side
/ of prudence.
! JEROME K. JEROME
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

Nobody takes any notice of him.
The foreign official is a man whose life
is saddened by a public always want
ing something. You read it in his
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

ourselves in civilized society. Our bags
were waiting for US in the postohIces
we could see them through the graf
ing. But some informality--I have
never been able to understand what
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

it was-had occurred at Constance.
The suspicious of the Swiss postal au-
thor1tes had been aroused. and special
Instruction had been sent that the bags
were to be delivered up only to their
rightful owners. It sounds sensible
enough, Nobody wants his bag deIiy-
cred up to any one but the proper
owner. But it had not been explained
to the authorities at innsbruck how
they were to know the proper owners
Three wretehed looking creatures
crawled into the postoff1ce and said
they wanted those three bags-ffkhose
bags, there in the corner which were
nice, clean, respectable looking bags.
the sort of bags that any one might
want. One of them produced & bit Of
paper it is true, which he said had
been given to him as a receipt by the
postoffice people at Constance. But
IN the lonely passes Of the TyrOI one
man, set upon by three, might easily
be robbed of his papers and his body
thrown over a preeipice. The chief
clerk shook his head; he was q kind
ly-iooking man but he had had his
instructions to be careful, and he in
tended to be careful. He would like
US to return accompanied by some one
who could identify US. The hotel por-
ter occurred to US as matter Of
course. Keeping to the back streets
we returned to the hotel and f1shed
him out Of his box. 81 am Mr.. j., n
I said, this is my friend, Mr.. B.. and
this is Mr.. S" The porter bowed and
said he was delighted. ''I want you to
come with us to the postofHce, / ex-
planned. and identify us The hotel
porter is always a practical man; his
calling robs him of all sympathy with
the hide-bound formality OF his COM
patriots. He put on his cap and ae-
eompanied US back to the office He
did his best; no one can say he did
not. He told them who we were; they
asked him how he knew. For reply
he asked them how they thought he
knew his mother: he just knew us; it
was second nature with him. He inn
piled that the question was a silly one,
and suggested that. as his time was
valuable, they should hand us over the
three bags and have done with their
nonsense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05

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Schuyler Stauntonof human happiness slides 5idss o9i ,
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than the s'French or Turk or
Rooshian, - to which add the
German or the Belgian. When
4hn ArmIn- a t1aarican annointS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-05
$3.50 Kid Body Dolls,
$500

plenty of time to
make a dress that
will please the little
girl, and the hurry
and trouble of KIN as
time and the most
Il par ticular Xmas
= present is over.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-02-08
STATEMENT ID"
MISCELLANEOUS


JULY to
2sh 1908
sson ronnO
1903
Alex. boarding nursing
8rh 1903
coffin digging
third
killed by train Springfield
pauper rom
Dooly. pauper
s
1859 Bastian Albert Mol patient
1857
N. r,
1893 refunding
1893 Frank IS Barton reminding order for
railroad teaephone
5oss @ pbo. rsn: ora nhe. .n
1st 1904 70 July lst 1904
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T. conn., s b;t.i expense: ia ~
Louis Bunr.r co
sese Nelson Grotha
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-02-08
STATEMENT noy
ELECTRIC LIGHT. WATER FUEL AND TELEPHONES

of
Warrant whom issued
4271 City of New Um light December 19o2
43ls Chas StoHs
1895 Herman Nagel, -.
1895 Herman Nagel. Z cords slabs
1885 Herman Nagel coal
1896 j. c. Beetle, 2 cords
1853 City of New Tim, January s.. -
1865 phones
used auditor register deeds for the
month of December, January,
1910 City of New Tin, light February
4670 City of New UIrn, light for March
673 Minnesota Central Telephone
4ao2 City Of New lln water and light used
491 City of New Tim. water and light used
1910 Minnesota Central Telephone auditor
register of deeds and sheriff for April and
1919 City of New Uln water and light
bO34 Bingham Bros
b035 Herman Nagel,
bl53 City of New Ulm, light IN July
b156 Peter Scherer so.
Central Telephone
register of deeds sheriff md July
blSl City OF New Ulnn, and
b235 City of New UIn, and light
1855 City of New Ulm, n October
a354
register of deeds sheriff August September and
a42s City of used in November .
fotal
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13
WHITES TASK.

Someone has said that White has the
hardest task imposed upon any states
man since Lincoln saved the union.
There are some points of unlikeness.
Lincoln's problem was to suppress in
surrection and preserve the union.
! This was his whole purpose at the out
this nation cannot live half slave and
half free, it was not his plan to make
the abolition of slavery a matter Of
first Importance, but in attempting to
save the union, he was forced to en-
counter the fact that a large part of
the people both north as we'll as south
did not want the union saved. Not
only was the south determined upon
separation, but there were many in
the north who so detested the institu-
ton of slavery that they were willing
to see the union dismembered if by
that means the accused institution
might be taken out of the country.
1t was Lincoln's task to develop
en- it where it was weak. rally it where
it was strong to the task of compel
ling the people of the south to stay
in the union. AS We look back at that
period now from these days of politi-
cal quiet and great commercial pros
perity, we wonder that it was possi-
BILE to steer the ship of state among
the rocks and breakers to a safe
haven, and whether, if the country
were threatened today by as powerful
foes as menaced it's integrity at that
time, it could be preserved.
White, the new premier of Russia, is
facing a situation more desperate, if
possible, than that which confronted
of intelligence. White has to deal
with hostile men of intelligence on the
one hand and with masses of ignor-
ance on the other. He must overcome
the opposition of the bureaucracy, of
wealth and power and prestige and of
the church itself, while at the same
time seeking to weld together a loose,
chaotic mass of ignorance, prejudice,
superstition and fear into an active,
constructive power. Not only do the
conservatives, the bureaucrats, the
nobility resent the liberal measures
which he proposes to introduce, but
the radicals, deceived SO many times
by false promises, are suspicious, dis
trustful and apprehensive that after
all is said and done, the concessions
made to them, the terms granted in
the name of elf-government, may be
such as to rob popular rule of it's es-
sence
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13
PROHlBITiVE LAW.
Chicago Woman Urges Iowa Teachers
to Begin Campaign.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Nov ia
prohibitive child labor law is the press
ing need in Iowa. This is the opinion
of Miss Jane Adams of Hull house,
of Woodbury. county here.
Il am anxious to see the teachers of
Iowa, who ought to be the people most
interested in the question. take up the
matter of child labor" she said, land
push the cause to the passage of a law
prohibiting the employment of children
in shops. Iowa has always been apa-
thetic in the matter, bringing the plea
that the state is an agricultural and
not manufacturing one. That is
what they told us in Illinois, until
some of us looked up the matter and
found it to be the third state in the
country in manufacturing. The child
who works in the shop, usually doing
down man at the age of co.
Some Political Predictions.
Politicians are becoming aware Of
the fact that six of the eleven con-
gressmen of Iowa will not be able to
keep their seats without struggle
next year. The six districts where in
surrections are beginning to appear
are the first, third, sixth, seventh,
eighth and tenth. In the first it is
reported that Congressman Hedge will
retire voluntarily next spring. Prob
ably ]. S. Mckinney of Fairfield will
be brought forward, but the progress
sives may oppose him with Senator
Young or s w. Brookhart of WASH
ington. In the third it is now evident
that G.. E. Pickett of Waterloo will be
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13

York After Dark was the attraction,
and it proved a rare treat. Clyde E.
Granger as Richard Glenwood. 1.-THE
Shadow" had the leading part, and
this capable and versatile actor was
at his best. Rae Bronson as Kate
Paxton was exceptionally clever Del
Lawrence made an excellent detective
and lover. Alta Phipps as Flossie
Glenwood was all that could be
desired. S. M. Griffith as old DR.. Les
lie was splendid. Roy Sutherland as
Bill Burk, crook, was good, and Ed
Redmond as Noah Lott, a negro char
acter, could not have been better
Beth Tate as Milly Mytton and Es-
telle Redmond as Mott Street Mol
did good work.
The large audience was highly
pleased with the performance, which
will be repeated tonight.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13
IRISH SINGERS ARRIVE.
Twenty Six Beauties From Dublin to
Make a Tour.

| The Irish Ladies Choir, an organiZa-
| ton Of twenty-six of the prettiest girls
in Ireland, which arrived in New
York, Saturday afternoon on the
| Anchor line steamship Astoria for a
| tour of the United States, that will ex-
tend to the Pacific coast, will give a
private concert at the Hatel Astor on
| Friday evening to open the tour. The
! first public concerts will be given at
| the Academy of Music newt Sunday
afternoon and evening.
This splendid organization holds the
prize awarded at the Fels Cecil, the
| annual music festival of Dublin, and
has gained the first prize in every
competition it has entered. The men,
bers are ladies of culture and refine
ment, enthusiastic in their love of old
Irish music and pleasantly expectant
of the wonders they shall see in their
tour of this country. Their concerts
are to be given under the auspices of
the A. O. H and Knights of Column
bus lodges and other Catholic socie-
ties.
The solosts are the leading artists
in vocal and instrumental music, and
Nine. Cosslet- Heller of Dublin, who
aside from being the conductress, will
sing the soprano solos, is considered
one of the best oratorio singers and
song reciters in Europe. She has
large repertoire from the works of
Wagner, Gounod, Nevins, Schubert,
Strauss and Kuckens, and sings in
Gaelic, English, Welsh, French, Ital-
ian, German and Spanish. Miss Joan
Holland of Dublin is the contralto
ana her voice is said to be of very
fine quality and her press notices are
very f1attering.
Miss Violet Kelly of Dublin is ac-
knowledged as Ireland's greatest harp
list; Miss Madge Murphy, Of Cooks
town. who is a pupil of Seveik, has
won a great reputation as a female
violinist and has played throughout
Europe with great success, and Miss
jamie Jellie of Carrickfergus, re-
ceived the gold medal as a pianist and
will surprise the music-loving world
of America.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13
1T MAKES TOMBOYS.
London Women Refuse to Believe Fav.
orabIe Report of Our Schools.

LONDON, Nov. 13.-Mrs. Honan of
the London county council educational
committee, who has been in the Unit
ed States studying the system of
mixed education for boys and girls up
to a certain age, reported to a con-
ference of the association of the mead
mistresses that she found the system
a great success, not only in schools
but also in colleges. even in the class
of girls of weak character.
This report has apparently ex-
cited the ire of Lady Verney, who
said: 1T is a deplorable thing that
the old fashioned pride of womanhood
in Great Britain is dying out. 1 mean
the charming femininity of women
which no education should be allowed
to kill
Collegiate School for Girls brought
forward motion advocating sepa-
rate schools for boys and girls.
1.-The teaching of boys and girls in
one class she remarked, leads to
the making of tomboys, if to nothing
worse, and there is far too much max
ing of tomboys in England today. In
one class it leads to a sort of girl
rawdyism in the streets and in the
other classes it makes the person, who
automobiles, yachts and bets, almost
anything but a woman.
1T is not a good thing for boys and
girls to form one class. The action on
the girls in such classes is to make
one portion compete against the boys
beyond their normal reach, while the
other girls sink back into the apathy
of thinking themselves the intellectual
interiors of the boys"
Mrs. Honan's American tour went
for naught, Lady Verney and Mrs.
Bryant carrying the day with a large
majority.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13
THE MONEY SUPPLY.

Working under pressure to supply
imperative demand, the government
has been turning out money at an I'M
usually heavy rate for some weeks
past, and sending it among the people
Thirty cents in new money was put
into circulation for every man, woman
and child in the country, during Oc-
tober. 1t is the fashion of the day
among the photographers and writer's
of lighter stuff to use 80 cents as the
comparison for something that looks
small and cheap, but this is a case
tain, for there is population in our
country now, estimated to Nov. l, of
s3.726. 600. and 80 cents each means
s2S, 900, 900 This seems an enormous
sum to put out in the form Of new
money, in a single month, as indeed
it is, but the country needs it.
There are many troubles of a money
nature that come at intervals, and
make it hard for the treasury depart
ment to keep the money spread around
in a satisfactory manner. Principal
of these is the great annual crop
moving factor. The country is now
feeling the call for money from this
influence and will continue to feel it
for some time yet. We nave no such
elastic exchange medium as some
statesmen believe we could have, but
money into the channels of trade at
a rate to ease up the pressing demand
even if it fails to solve the supply
problem.
For the past twelve-month period
the new money coming into use ran
to the big total of s69, 900, which
makes the total sum 1858, 131,57S.
This is a per capita circulation of
S31.69, the highest ever known. 1t
would seem that with that much
money for every person, and our Won
derfully developed systems of credit,
by which a business of millions and
millions is transacted every day with
out the exchange of actual cash, the
country ought to get along without
any such thing as money scarcity, yet
when one looks at it the other way,
considers the size of the country, the
mighty commerce, and the rate of
growth in all things in recent years, it
will readily be seen that there is a lot
of money needed to do the business
with.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13
THREE MEN HELD.
Arrest Made by Pinkerton Detectives
at Lewiston, Montana.

HELENA. Mont, Nov. ia pro-
found sensation has been caused at
Lewiston, Fergus county, through the
arrest by Pinkerton detectives of three
prominent business men of that place,
charged with the murder on Aug. %, of
Samuel Studinski, formerly of San
Francisco, who at that time was con-
Quoting a small jewelry store in Lew
istOn.
On Studnski's body and on stove
in his room were found cards Of warn
ing or revenge which had been penned
Studinski was known to be in possess
sion of many valuable diamonds and
taken from his own stock.
Pinkerton detectives have been
working on the case for some time and
their action today, they assert, is
based on evidence which cannot be
doubted Those arrested are Harry
Long, E. w. Taylor and A. G. Helm
icke.
The citizens of Lewiston are not
disposed to give mucn credit to the
guilt of the accused until something
more tangible than the mere state
ments of detectives is shown. The ar
rests were made quietly not even the
members of the family being aware
that the men were inc Jail. Later in
the day the men were released for
the want of evidence They threaten
to bring suit for false Imprisonment.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13
he RESPONDS TO APPEAL FROM
VOTERS IN WALLA WAlIA
DISTRICT.
W. s. offner Declines to Enter n.
Race, Giving Way to the
Old Member.

w. r. Criffield announced toll.
that ne would be candidate for re-
election as member of the cit,,
board of education This daois;o,
was reached this morning after a Iarc,
delegation of the voters in tho a..
trict had called upon Mr.. Crieo,,
and urged him to again become
candidate.
When Mr.. Criffield announced tbot
he would comply with the reorast
of so many of the voters in the die
trict, w. S. Offner, who had hAor
spoken of as a candidate, stated toa,
he would not allow his name IN ho
used. 1t is very likely that there will
be. no opposition to Mr. Critical
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13
NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL
ELECTION.

Notice is hereby given that the
Annual Election of School District
No. One of Walla Walla County, State
of Washington, will be held at Baker,
Snarpstein. Lincoln and Washington
Schools in said School District, Oh
Saturday the Second day of Deem
Der, 1905, for the purpose of electlns
two Scnool District Directors LOT
a term of three years each.
Also for the further purpose Oh
submitting to the voters of salo
School District No. the proposition
of authorizing the Board of Directors
to provide free textbooks and sup
plies for all children attending lne
Public Schools within said District
and for the transaction Of such othef
business as may lawfully come before
this meeting.
The polls will be open from
o'clock P. M. to o'clock P. Nj.
By order of the Board of Dlrectols'
Dated this 10th day of November
1905.
MARGARET CENTER
Secretary.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13

times these side doors are clumslly
fastened. sometimes not fastened at
all. The unfastened door works open
with the motion of the train, and oc-
casionally a passenger is precipitated
through the open door and smashed to
pieces on the track. There were
thirty three such cases last year, but
none of them were reported an acct
dent. Either the passengers commit
ted suicide or the company opened
the doors upon them with homic1dal
purpose.
Nor does the English railway take
any account of the adventures of peo-
pie holding season tickets, commuters
thew would be called in this country.
Perhaps they are not regular as hu-
man beings in English railway cir
cles
1t would appear as if more accurate
data were wanted before we admit
that our railroad system is less care
full than that of Great Britain. Still,
the American railroad is a sufficiently
virile foe of the census.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13
ENGLISH RAILROAD ACCIDENTS


The Boston Globe has begun to
doubt whether English railroads are
SO much safer than American roads
as We have been led by statistics to
believe. There seems to be involved
an illustration of the old adage that
figures will not lie, but some great
liars will figure. The English re-
ports of fatal accidents are of two
kinds, original and official Original
reports show a great many people
killed on railways-more per mile of
track and more per thousand passen-
gers carried than in America-but
the official reports show very few
killed. There must be either re-
markable number of resurrections be-
tween reports or the official reports
are ,doctored. 1t is possible that a
passenger may be reported killed in a
wreck and it be afterward learned
that ne was not killed, perhaps not
even injured. But mistakes of this
kind would be too infrequent to affect
the general average The English also
nave custom of reporting certain
1atal occurrences as not accidents. The
English railway carriage opens unon
the side. Passengers are nlaced in
compartments and locked in. Some
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13

a candidate against Congressman
they expect it. If Mr.. Pickett enters
the field, it will mean the entry of
tenth will have opposition is the gen.
eral belief in his district In the eighth
If Cummins is not a candidate against
Hull in the seventh, w. H. Berry of
Warren county or E. r. Nichols of
DalleS will be brought out.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13
Will Investigate Insurance Matters

NEW YORK, Nov. 13.-The meatinc
of western insurance commissioners
called for the purpose of investigating
the situation in regard to the east
ern insurance companies, as develone5
by the New York insurance investiga-
ton, opened here today and will re.
main in session probably all throueb
the week. The commissioners win re-
port their findings to their respective
state governments.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13
Big Advance Sale.

The sale of seats for the Sultan
of Sulu" was opened at the Keylor
Grand box office this morning, and
the reserved seats went with a rush
A long list of people was at the door
long before the bow office was opened
and one of the ticket sellers was kept
busy taking orders over the telephone
Up to II o'clock the sale reached the
total sum of $50, the largest ever
Walla.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1905-11-13

The founding of another magnificent
theater in New York, to cost $1,000
600 is announced, and it is also pro-
claimed that actors will not be per-
mitted to say has vent and Il seen
nim." If the new institution does sue
coed in making those scandalous vul-
garisms, Between you and l." and
Between ne and you," less popular,
it will justify itself.