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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
A FAMINE IN CHINA
KlANGSU PROVINCE NOW FAC
Ing STARVATION.
Ten Million People Reduced to Stern
Want-Food Riots Occur Daily-lm'
perial Government Urged to Aid
Sufferers-Thousands Are Dead
Death List Appalling.

Shanghai, Nov. S.-Advices received
of the most desperate nature prevail
ia the northern part of the province of
Kiangsu, with but one exception the
most fertile and valuable of the many
provinces of the empire. Ten millions
of the total population of 21,000000 in
the province are reduced to stern
want. Crops are a failure and scenes
of suffering that rival anything in the
empires history are reported from
every point in the region.
Food riots which have been marked
with much bloodshed, are reported
ken no steps to relieve the distress.
In fact, to prevent the rioting spread
ing to the cities, all the governors
have been ordered to keep the people
in their homes at all hazards and
further rioting has resulted from this
step.
All the local diplomatic represen-
tatives have received advices from
foreigners in the famine stricken re-
gion, urging them to use all their in
fiuence to have the imperial govern
ment take steps to aid the sufferers.
A Presbyterian missionary who has
just returned from the region declares
that thousands of people have already
starved to death and that unless imme-
date aid is forthcoming the death list
will be appalling.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Joe Archambault was terribly in.
jured on the Northern Pacific five
miles north of Yakima recently by be-
ing crushed by freight car.
The enrolment in the public schools
of Spokane for the month of October,
1905, was 1926.
Figures given out by the reclama-
ton service show that Washington
contributed nearly 100000 to the
reclamation fund during the last fiscal
year. The exact amount turned into
the treasury was $494, 1872, making a
total of $o,o.s,615 contributed to the
fund to date. Washington now ranks
third among the arid states in the
sale of public lands.
Oregon contributed last year $461,-
PSI to the reclamation fund during the
fiscal year, and thus gives way to
Washington for the first time.
Idaho contributed 1901 ,234 to the
reclamation fund during the fiscal
year, making a total of $2,335, 1874 paid
into the treasury by the Gem state to
date.
Among the applicants for a cadet
ship in the revenue cutter service who
have passed the required examination
and will soon receive their appoint
ments is William 2. Wishaar of Sc
attic.
The delivery of grain is about com
pleted at La Crosse. Deliveries to
date are 276,000 bushels, which with
10000 bushels yet to come will make
the total receipts 2S5000 bushels as
compared to $4,000 bushels last year.
An unusual amount of business was
transacted at the United States land
Office during October at Walla Walla.
Articles of incorporation of the
North Yakima Y. M. G. A. have been
filed with the county auditor.
The recent fire losses at Toppenish
are placed at $4,000
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad has bought four blocks, COM
prising As lots on Twenty-ffth street,
between East K and East G streets,
Tacoma, for approximately $355000.
Prosperity reigns in the irrigation
belt" of central Washington, and Pros
ser is enjoying it's share.
The shortage of cars on the Great
Northern has filled the warehouses
almost to the limit and huge piles of
wheat are growing on the outside plat
forms.
Judge William II. Upton died at
Walla Walla recently after a brief i'll
ness of but two days of heart failure.
James Brady, a logger, aged 49, Sat
urday afternoon shot and instantly
killed Mrs Flora M. Shannon, aged
As, at Seattle, and then attempted to
commit suicide. He will recover.
Brady while suffering broken leg,
was nursed by Mrs. Shannon. He ac-
companied her home and declared his
love. Mrs. Shannon leaves daughter
of II.
A. J. Lowering, republican candidate
for county assessor, dropped dead at
South Bend Sunday. Mr. Lowering
was an old and highly respected resi-
dent of this county.
George M. Anderson, hermit who
lived near Lyle, Wash, was found
burned to a cinder recently. His
cabin was burned to the ground, and
ii is supposed that while the man was
reading in bed lamp exploded, cover
ing him with burning oil.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
HE SHOT WILD TURKEY.
Hunter Roosevelt Finally Lands His
Bird

Washington, Nov. 5.-President and
Mrs. Roosevelt arrived in Washington
Sunday night, at $40 O'Clock, from
Pine Knot, Va, where they went We'd
-nesday last, accompanied by Surgeon
General Rixey and Private Secretary
Latta. The party came in the special
car Signet, over the Southern rail-
way. The president and Mrs. Roose-
welt were driven direct to the White
House. The president spent his entire
time while at Pine Knot in hunting
wild turkeys. He had never shot one,
although he often hunted them. His
hunting companions were DR.. Rixey
and j. c. Bishop, a local celebrity.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday morn
ing the start was made NJ 4 o'clock,
and the hunt kept up all day. 1t was
not until late Saturday afternoon,
however, that the president accom-
plished his desire. He shot a wild
turkey, the only one shot during the
three days of hunting.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
Negro Soldiers Elnht.

Kansas City, Mo, Nov. "a spe-
cial to the Times from Ell Paso, Texas
says: Negro soldiers Of the Twenty.
fifth infantry at Fort Bliss, five miles
from here fought in a saloon outside
the reservation last night. Private
Mathews was killed and Private Lewis
and Alexander Johnson, a saloon keep
er, were wounded. 1t is said Johnson
can not live. Other troops from the
fort have been dispatched to arrest
the men. A card game is said to have
prompted the affair.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
LABOR IS in DEMAND
1T Is SAID THE RAILROADS
NEED $4,000 men,.
Scarcity Of Men Delaying Work on All
Western Lines-Pay Reaches $3.50
Day-Demand for Workmen Felt
All over the Country, but West Suf.
fers Most.

From Chicago comes tins report: In.
ability to find laborers is hampering
the railroads all over the west in car
rying out contemplated improvements.
At least $4,000 men are wanted, rail
road managers say, with practically
none on the market. Roads are will
ing to pay as high as $3.50 a day. The
Western Pacific needs 5000 men; the
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, 5000
to 1000 men for its extension to the
coast; the Southern Pacific, 5000 for
its extension northward through Cali
fornia to Portland; the Chicago &
Northwestern. 1000 to 1000 men, and
the North Coast line n large force for
its road from Walla Walla to Seattle
In addition to new construction,
nearly every western road is double
tracking and building cutoffs and ma
king similar improvements. The
Northern Pacific wanted to double
track its Washington main line in time
for the heavy fall and winter traffic,
but failed through lack of labor, with
the result that it has 10000 loaded
cars on it's tracks for lack of track
facilities.
Texas is not complaining so bitterly,
because the railroad men think la
borers prefer the south to the north
during the winter. Even in Texas,
however, the labor supply is made
Quate.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
Is Another Child Wonder.

Madrid, Nov. 5.-Latest among the
Infant phenomena" is the wonder
child-little nine-year-old Pepito Ar
riola.
This young Spanish pianist is SC
tiny that a special piano has been
| uilt for his baby fingers, and the
keys of the instrument are consider
ably narrower than those of a full
sized piano.
In appearance he is a typical dark
skinned. black-haired, little Spaniard
Besides being a pianist Pepito is also
a composer; he has written a march
which has been accepted by the King
of Spain.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
Fears an Attack From Japan.

The story emanating from Italy that
Japan is preparing a naval attack upon
the Dutch island of Java, seems to find
belief with part of the foreign press
the alleged frequency of Japanese
spies in Japanese ports being cited as
proof of its truth. 1t is stated that
a few cases of espionage dates as far
pack as the Russian war, and no in
formation of an alarming nature has
reached the authorities recently.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
She is Champion adder"

New York, Nov. 1.-TWO new wo
mans championships were earned at
the National Business show. Tests OF
speed on "arithmetical devices" made
place for Miss Helen Jacobs of New
York in ,ne Mercantile Hall OF Fame
as the adder and nster of 500 checks
in minutes and So seconds. Miss
Nellie Boyd OF Philadelphia broke all
records on the simple adding machine
by adding a column OF "a lines in three
and four figure items in 23 second.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
ITALY BALKs U. S. STEEL.
Storm of Protest Compels Withdraw
Of Contract.

Rome.-Alarmed by the storm {
protest at the letting of a contract I
the Midvale Steel company of Phil
delphia for armor plate for the Italia
navy, the ministry of marine has d
cided TO cancel the agreement.
Besides the popular cutlery, the mi
istry was embarrassed by threats
litigation by the Krupps, who accui
the Midvale company of infringiI
their patents.
The contract will probably be let
the Italian Iron Works company
TERM The Italian concern, howeVt /
is said to be in no position actual |
to furnish the plates, which will pre-
ably really come from the Krupps.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
Salton Sea Turned Back.

Imperial, Cal.--An official report
from Salton Sea says that the water
flooding into the sink from the Colo
RADIO river is receding, and about 81
per cent of the regular flow of the riv'
er is now under control. 1t is consid-
cred practically certain that the river
will be completely turned into the old
channel soon.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
Dedicate Chicago Labor Temple.

At Chicago five thousand members
of the German Building Laborers'
union dedicated their new $4,000 Ia
Dor temple Sunday. The structure is
tbe first ever erected in Chicago ex-
clusively by labor union. 1t Is pro-
vided with Offices, halls and lodge
rooms suitable for business and social
gatherings.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
FOOTBALL GAMES SATURDAY.

Spokane High, 16; Butte, Q.
w. S. c., 4; S. A. A. c., 0.
Whitman, 0; Washington, 0.
Utah, AZ; Montana, 0.
Multnomah, 16; Astoria, s.
Oregon, 4; Willamette, 0.
In Middle West.
Michigan, 10; Vanderbilt, 4.
Wisconsin, IS; Iowa, 4.
Minnesota, 10; Nebraska, 0.
In the East.
Yale, 10; West Point, 6.
Harvard, 8; Brown, 8.
Princeton, AZ; Dartmouth, 0.
Carlisle, 8; Syracuse, 4.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
SPOKANE MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Wholesale Produce Prices.

observation-disclosures, S1.2E cwt; to-
matoes, 40@45c crate; huckleberries,
II 1-2c; cranberries, $40 Dbl; potatoes.
750S5c cwt; turnips, $125 cwt; on
ions, $1.25@1.5O cwt, carrots, $1.750
2.25 cwt; prunes, 40@50c; caulifower.
SlQ2 doz; hOrseradish, 10Wl2 1-2c Id ;
green peppers, S5c0$1 box; beets, 81
01.50 cwt; pears, $125WI.5O box;
ounces, 81 box; elephants, $3.50
crate; sweet potatoes, SC Id; canta-
loups, $2@2.50.
hpples-Cooking, 75Q$1 box; eat
ing, $1@1.5O box.
Grapes-Muscats, $1@125 crate;
Tokays, $3.50; Black Hamburgs, $40
1.25; eastern Concords, 40045c bas-
ket.
Oranges, $475Q5.25 box; lemons,
fancy, $6.59@775 case; dried figs, 75@
soc 10 lb box; figs in bulk, &C lb ;
| black figs, 10 ID package, SOC; Fard
dates, S@9c ID; golden dates, 901Oc
Id; bananas, $275@3,25 bunch.
Butter and Eggs-Fresh ranch
eggs, current receipts, $7@725 case;
fresh ranch eggs, selected, s825
case; local eggs, $.50@7 eastern eggs,
$780, best creamery butter, &c lb;
cheese, twins, 15c h.
Honey-$3.5O; strained honey, &c lib.
Sugar-$5.95 per 100 lbs; beet, $5.75.
Coffee-Common package goods,
$lL25 per ~ lbs.
Seed-Alfalfa, $14 cwt; red clover,
S1450@15 cwt; Kentucky bluegrass,
$13,5O@14 cwt; timothy, $5,50@6 cwt;
white clover, $1,000.
Wholesale Meat Prices.
Beef-Steers, dressed. SOS IL lb;
COWS, dressed, 4@4 1-2c ID; mutton,
dressed, &c ID; pork, lie lb; hams,
Ia SAC lb; bacon, Is lac lb; lard, II
1-2c ID; dry salt extras, 81 cwt; dry
salt backs, $11.50 cwt; veal, fancy
small, 6 1907 1-2c; veal, fancy large,
1-2Q6c Id; smoked salmon, 15c lb.
Wholesale Feed Prices.
Bran, SIS ton; bran and shorts SIG
ton; white shorts, SIT ton; corn, $1.40
cwt; cracked corn. $3.50 cwt; timothy
hay, SIS ton; alfalfa, $14 ton; rolled
barley, $1.16 cwt; new oats. $1,25 cwt;
chopped oats, $l.55 cwt; wheat, $40
lie cwt; red shorts, SIG ton.
Prices Paid to Producers.
Live Stock-Steers, $3Q3.25 cwt;
COWS, $2@2.50; sheep, $4,000 cwt;
hogs, $6.50@7.
Dressed Meats-Mutton, SC ID; veal,
fancy small No. 1, 1907 1-2c lb; fancy
large, 5@6c Id; pork, sc lb.
Poultry and Eggs-Liye hens, 13c;
live spring chickens, 13@14c; live
roosters. 1Oc; dressed hens, lac;
ducks, lie; fresh ranch eggs, 81 case.
Hides-Green steers, &c lb; cows, &c
lb sailed, 1c higher; dry hides, 14@
loo; calf skins, green, 10c lb; kip, SC
b sheepskins, $1@1.25.
Creamery produce, f. o. b. Spokane
First grade creamery butter fat,
% 1-2c.
Feed-Timothy hay, $13@14 ton; al
talfa hay, $1O.5O@11 ton; oats, $40
Ito cwt.
Vegetables-Apples, 50@60c box;
beets, 75c@S1 cwt; potatoes, 75c cwt;
cabbage, s1@125 cwt; onions, 81 cwt.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
May Bar Chinese War Junk.

San Pedro, Cal.-Whang Ho, the
chinese war junk secretly brought to
THIS coast from the Orient, is being
held by the customs officials here
pending decision on It's right Of en-
Try. The charge is made that the YES
Eel, being of foreign construction, had
no right to enter this port flying the
American flag.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10

Jacques Bommelaert, at various
times pilst and captain of lifeboat
and now deputy mayor of Malo-les-
Bains, France. has assisted in the saw
ing of 100 lives at sea. Many govern
ments have honored him, including his
own, which conferred upon him the
cross of the Legion of Honor.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10

Levi p. Morton, former vice presi-
cent of the United States, is over 81
years old. but still as active as he was
'hirty years ago. He gives close at
tention to his financial affairs.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10
Wheat Report,

Colfax-Bluestem, 53c; club, Sic;
red, 48c; little movement.
Portland. Ore.-Club, 64c; bluestem.
Sc: valley. &c; red, 61c.
Presser, Wash.-Bluestem 5Sc; club
and red, SEC.
Tacoma, Wash.-Unchanged. Blue
stem. csc; club, Gee; red, 64c.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10

Although Spain is on the gold bas
gold is never seen there, the silV
peseta being worth only about
cents, while the gold one is wor
nearly 20. The silver and paper ca
rency is ever changing, varying fro
26 to 139 for 100 gold pesetas duri
the last year.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10

was her father violent when you
asked for her hand?"
VERY. | thought he'd shake my
arm off "-Louisville-Jo
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10

you mustn't kiss me until we
formally engaged"
"Do you always insist upon Ii !
ruler" 7
1--WE always tried to."-Illustrat ,
Bits. |
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10

WaIla Walla. - Wheat-Bluestem,
5ec: club, 55c f. o. b.; no sales, market
quiet.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-11-10

If the wind is favorable 1t is fl .
day.
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age and it is only through Jesus

age and it is only through jesus
Christ that you and l can shake OF
the awful incubus of the past.
There are vast differences in the
forms and degrees Of sin, and there
are vast differences between becom-
ing a Christian in early life, in adj
vanced life and in old age. II you
have not already become a Christian
the practical thing is to begin now.
There is no moment SO absolutely
sane and solid. so certain or alto
gether utilizable, as the present.
There will never be another moment
SO golden as the moment you are al
lowing to slip away. The longer the
devil has you in his grasp the more
verer will be the struggle required
to ecure your freedom in Christ Je-
sus. If I were an unsaved man, be-
fore all other duties l would assert
the supreme duty of saving my soul.
The supreme duty of life is to shake
ourselves clear of the domination OF
sin by the help of Almighty God.
But you say everybody does not see
it that way. 1t was sc in the apostles
day, and here in the context it gives
the reason, eff our gospel is hid it is
hid in them that are lost" Do you
call a blind mai to give testimony Of
the beauties of an electrical display?
The devil has constructed many
kinds of wells to blind the eyes of
men. These are the wells Of selfish
ness, worldliness, pride Of life, the
lust of the flesh, avarice and many
others, to pull over the human heart.
MY friends, there is no more fatal
mistake than to belittle and UNDER
estimate the task of the religious life
and what has to be done in order
that a human soul may be recreated
in the likeness of God. 1t is a task
of infinite delicacy, requiring divine
power and wisdom and one which, II
accomplished. ends in glories as eter-
nal as the throne of God. Thank
God that if We get the victory the
victory is one that shall become
greater and greater, certain and
more certain in the midst of all this
conflict we wage in this world with
the enemy Of our souls. / was not
brought up to believe in the doctrine
of final perseverance," but l honor
the doctrine and those who believe
in it, but since the day when l first
experienced the joy Of sins forgiven
I have been a fairly good soldier OF
Jesus Christ, and sometimes, in my
middle age I experience a JOY SO
satisfying that I can scarcely contain
myself. That Joy seems to be ground
ed upon this hope: that I am going to
win the last fight and obtain the final
victory. that I am in an enemy'S land
and assaulted by a powerful foe who
hates me with diabolical hatred and
would ruin me when I am setting my
feet on the footsteps of the throne;
that, by Gods grace, I am going to
win and celebrate the victory within
the gates and at the footstool of Him
who sits upon the throne. God grant
that against all our spiritual foes we
may fight the good fight of faith,
and lay hold on eternal life!"
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ga Small Thing"

Do you believe in progress? Do
you believe that all the wonderful
achievements of the nineteenth CEN
tury-the railroad, the telegraph, the
telephone, electric light. kerosene.
sewing machine, agricultural machin-
cry, steamships, trolley cars. ETC.
have made life easier and better
worth living? do. l believe that a
man who lives forty years under
modern conditions has experienced
more life and better life than Methu-
salem, though he had lived twenty
centuries of his time.
Rhe triumphs of the nineteenth
century were triumphs Of human SER
vice-the placing of knowledge and
the fruits Of knowledge within the
reach of the common man. Every
mans life is better, happier, more Sc
cure because of them. We live more
comfortable, more sociable lives in
better and more comfortable houses
because of them. Even the hopeless
dweller in the worst city slums is
more comfortable in his physical cor
ditions than the middle-class citizen
of the days Of George Washington.
In little things as in great, comfort
and convenience have been the leg
acy of the Century of Improve
ment." Paint, in a certain sense, is
a minor matter. yet it gives beauty,
healthfulness and durability to our
dwellings,. Fifty years ago painting
was a serious proposition, a luxury
for the owners of stately mansions
who could afford the expense of fire.
quent renewals. To-day ready nI1ed
paint is so cheap, so good and so uni
versal that no house owner has an
excuse for not keeping his property
well painted.
A small thing, indeed, yet several
hundred large factories employing
thousands of chemists and skilled
workmen, are running every day in
the year to keep our houses fresh,
clean and wholesome.
A small thing, yet a can of good
ready mixed paint, such as n may
buy from any reputable dealer, en-
bodies the study of generations Of
skilled chemists, the toll of a thou
sand workmen in mill, laboratory and
factory, and the product Of a long
series of special machinery invented
and designed just to make that can
Of paint and to furnish us IN infinite
variety of tints,. colors and shades.
1t was a wonderful century, that
nineteenth of our era, and not the
least of it's wonderful gifts was that
same commonplace can of paint.
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An Unsafe Investment.

1t is not considered a good bust
ness transaction to invest all mes
capital in a single venture. Yet so
does every one who "layeth up treas
ure for himself, and is not rich to-
ward God" =.
Two business men met. One said
to the other: Have you heard the
sad news?" mo; what is it," Our
neighbor, B, is dead" "Ah! Is
is so? How much did he leave?'
All"
Practically that story is as old as
the race. No one of us brought any
thing into the world, and it is certain
that no one of us can take anything
out. We all leave all earthly posses
sions. Not every rich mar is rich to-
ward God, else our Saviour would
never have uttered the parable OF the
rich fool. We know what the mar
said to his soul, but it would be
worth a good deal to know also what
the soul would have said to the man.
Rev. G. B. F. Hallock, D. D.
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Sermons in Miniature.

WEAKNESS is the only condition on
which God gives rest.
Your devotion to Christ may be
known by your deeds for His people.
The discussion Of the creed does
not excuse from it's demonstration.
Believing about the Holy Spirit
will not take the place of receiving
Him.
It's hard seeing Christ in His
church while your eyes are on the
clock.
If you wait on the Lord you Will
always keep ahead of the devil.
When the troubled soul calls up
heaven it never gets the busy sig
nal. .
There is none of the music Of
heaven in a holy tone.
The worldly Christian will never
make the Christian world.
The iercest fighting may be but
the polishing of the crowns.
You cannot prove your holiness by
putting your head into heaven.
There can be no social stability
apart from Christ's great law of SER
vice.
Work for God leads to knowing
the will of God.