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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

School Superintendent Grant Bona
today received notice from State Su-
perintendent r. B. Bryan that the a.
portionment of Walla Walla county TOT
this year would be $3892.SO. Inls
fund will be divided among the diner
ent disericts of the county each one
receiving .OO55 for each days atten'-
ance to it's credit.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17
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y RUssIA'S BLACK SEA FIer
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The Black Sea fleet, practicable or
that remains Of Rusia's navy. is w,,,
in throw of the much quoted shin.
biscuit. writes the SebastopoI oorro
spondent of the London Express. There
are six men-o'-war, heavy, sinister
green painted, throwing forth rro,,
smoke, which in the absence of v,,,,
spreads and sprawls over the mos.
fortified town in the world like a crena
pail. The torpedo nets are ont. tho
long shouted guns are uncovered and
where the sun can catch them give
the dull CLINT Of scraped lead. There
are men in the fO'c'sles gyratine red
flags. Then other trumpets blare
| A little to the back as though in
disgrace and freshly-fired, hiccoughinv
the blacklist smoke, is the Panteleimon
1t is very likely that If you look
through list of Russia's warships Won
will find no reference to the Pantelei-
mon. But all the world knows of the
Potemkin, the ship which mutinied
sailed the Black Sea with the red flag
of revolution at the masthead and
bombarded Odessa. The Panteleimon
is the Potemkin rechristened.
In the fairway is a hulking pom
toOn, with feeble cranes Juggling inef.
fectually-for all the world like fish
lines caught in snags. An endeavor
is being made to bring to the surface
the Bug. When Sebastopol began to
reel with rebellion a year ago and
the forts and ships barked with cannon
at one another, the authorities pulled
a plug and sunk the Bug. She was
laden with the deadliest explosives in
tended for mining, and if shell had
got into her every warship would have
been MANNED. The Bug is well sunk
in the mud at many fathoms depth,
and refuses to shift.
On the low lying dun hills beyond
the TERED earthworks stand great
gaunt buildings, barracks, with twenty
thousand troops in occupation. In the
, multi-eyed fortress, where the windows
are small and meshed with iron, are
ten thousand prisoners, soldiers and
sailors, who, under the sharp judge
ment of the drum head, have been
found enemies of their lord. the car
| From up the harbor comes the clang
of innumerable hammers in the re-
! pairing yards. A row Of obsolete tor
| pedo boats lie on stocks heaved over
on their sides. Live torpedo boats
lurch toward the harbor mouth. Impu-
dent pinnaces, always shrieking, curve
from point to point. On the fortress on
the docks, on the hills, move patrols
of soldiery.
Sebastopol is in full preparation for
war.
The enemy are Russians-sailors-
] the troops are we'll in hand. OF recent
months the officers have lived closer in
| touch with their men. The Russian
Tommy in Sebastopol likes his officer,
who takes a fatherly interest in him.
| When rebellion breaks out the 10000
soldiers in the arsenal forts may be
relied upon.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17
TRAPPERS BURNED OUT.
Dayton Boys Meet With Hard Luck In
Mountains.

When George Goodwin and T. S.
May returned to the Salmon river
country Monday where they expected
to put in the winter trapping and
hunting, they fOupd the bear, deer,
beaver etc, hold ~: grand jollifi-
cation around TIL, dins Of their cabin
Dayton Dispatch.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

The London Telegraph tells Of a
small girl who entered grocer's
SHOP in Whitechapel and said:
please, sir, I wants 'arf a pound
Of butter and a penn'orth of cheese
and muvver says she will send a shil-
ling in when farver comes home"
"All right" replied the man.
But" continued the child, "muv-
yer wants the change, cos she as got
to put a penny in the gas meter"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17
THE BIG BATTLE.

A moving picture portrayal of the
Cans Nelson fight for the lightweight
championship of the world will take
place Saturday, (Nov. 10 evening at
the Keylor Grand theater.
This is reported to be a wonderful
reproduction of every incident and
blow in the contest. The views are lif.
size and clear. Those who are inter-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

The Union need not worry over The
Statesman getting the scoops" About
the only task those Undergraduates
are capable of is to get out and veil
fake when they're beaten. The
statesman is prepared to substantiate
its declaration that the story of the
plot to blow up the prison was told to
members of the commission.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

ested therefore, will have the Oppc-
tunity Of seeing the struggle in al
it's details from the opening of the
first round until Nelson dealt that 70.
tai blow which placed Cans in the
possession Of the championship of tn;
world.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17
HIS FORMER VISITS.

Monsieur Bellati, principal bari
tone with Leoncavallo and La Scala
orchestra, which is to appear at the
Keylor Grand Nov. 27, is the only
member of the organization who has
for two years with Metropolitan Oper1
company under the Grau regime and
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

Today the courts were asked to pre-
vent the Warren Construction COM
pany from forcing the council to rob
the property owners through those
railroaded paving contracts.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

We may expect a redundancy Of
Recommendation" in the governors
message, now that the prison commits
sion has completed its arduous la
bors of walking up the hill and walk
ing down again.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

In taking the census preparatory to
moving for the new city charter. the
councilmen must not be counted twice,
1t would be too expensive for Frank
Reese.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17
LOWER IN WALLA WALLA.

In Spokane Leoncavallo and his ga
laxy of artists are to be played at an
admission Of IS. In Walla Walla the
prices of admission have been reduced
to $3.50 and 81 for the downstairs, or
$1.0O and $3.50 lower than in Spokane,
q commentary Of itself on the manage
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

Standard Oil dropped twenty dollars
a share yesterday. That likely caused
the three firm hairs on John DIS era
MUM to turn black.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17
later spent season at Naw o-,

'ater spent a season at New Orleans
Monsieur Bellati presents ona.'
example OF the benefit of the ,nos e'
school in that his success q, d.
Florence, Italy, one of the most
tentious OF Italian opera houses ,.
him the eminent position 70 ''i
baritone during the se,,nn q.
auctions of the new works Offered
Leoncavallo. Mascagni and p,.u,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17
The Harmless Story Man.

George Augustus Sala was at a dim
ner party once where one of mis- fellow
longwinded but entirely harmless stor-
les. Taking advantage of some chance
remark in the general conversation,
this man said:
THAT reminds me of an anecdote
once heard There was"
zone moment, my dear sir" inter-
rupted Sala with exaggerated courtesy.
IF the story you mean is improper
we have all heard it and if it is not
improper we don't care to near it,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

We felt real sorry for dead Maude
Creffield until we read that touching
head in the Union. Then we realized
what she is missing and are overjoyed
that the awful burden has shifted.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

A coroner's jury in North Carolina
praised the members of a posse who
shot to death a negro fugitive. Giving
thanks unto murderers is hardly an
American trait.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

There are one or two men in the city
who are not Owls. But they have the
tendencies-according to their better
halves.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

With torrential rains in Panama our
Theodore should be able to poke sew
eral holes in the canal mud with his
big stick.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

The chaplain did not write that
story but he knows ne can pull his
coat and everla.tingly whale the man
who did.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17
@E8 49, JED

The trouble with Walla Walla of
late has been that she took too much
water in hers.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

ne was subject to restraint and disso-
luton, then the gravity Of this en-
tire community would be profoundly
endangered.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17

Entered at the Postoffice OF Waha
WaIIa, Washington, as Sseond'e'ass
Matter.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-17
IN A LIGHTER VEIN.


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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-05
Faith Aspersed.
E New York Evening Post.

From the New York Evening Post.
ALI the miserable calculations about how
many wretched dollars our tobacco and
sugar senators have saved for their con-
stituents by killing the Philippine bill are
quite beside the mark. Nor is it a question
merely of one more administration measure
being slaughtered in the house of its
friends. Beyond all these mercenary and
political considerations rises the fact that
the nations good faith has been aspersed
There is involved a large matter OF public
policy and not, as senators pettifogging
in behalf of their Interests" ailege, mere
ly a dispute over tariff schedules. We do
not know, and we do not greatly care,
whether the adoption of the reduced tariff
rates proposed, with free trade three years
from now, would enable the Filipinos to
make better living than they can today.
That Is not the real point. The true Issue
is one of sentiment rather than of trade.
BY the pledges of our government, by
the personal attitude of Secretary Taft
and President Roosevelt, by the urgings
of one governor general after another and
the entire Philippine commission the Fill
pinos had come to think of the bill which
the Senate committee throttled as a cru
cial test of the generosity and sincerity of
this country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-05
Rubber Revelation by a Ram.

a popular lecturer who has entertained
great multitudes of people In this country
for years has one talk which is always lis
tened to with more than the average de-
gree of keen attention. 1t Is entitled
Acres of Diamonds" and it tells of the
many instances of unconscious wealth. OF
boys digging for fish worms and finding
gold. and men digging cellars and finding
coal and so ON through Il long list of dis
coveries, all illustrative of the fact that
man makes his own opportunities by seek
ing. Apart from its moral application 1t
Is now brought to mind by an announce
ment from Denver that through the death
of valuable ram on Colorado ranch the
discovery has been made that millions OF
acres in that state are covered by weed
from which fine grade of rubber can be
made. This ram, it appears. died recently
from a mysterious cause. The owner
thought enough of the animal to have an
autopsy performed, and In the intestines
were found small balls OF gum. which,
when examined by chemist, We're found
to be nothing else than rubber. Then the
fields were searched and the rubber wee6e
were found. and now the owners of many
of the Colorado sheep ranches are going
ont of the grazing business to grow rubber.
Truly, we are only beginning to get at,-
quairted with our own country. after alt
Those who seom at the bugoiogfsts and the
weedologists and the soiioiogists of the
Department of Agriculture for their peeI-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-05
Tom johnson.

Tom johnson was pre-eminently the man
to fill the Ohio vacancy on the democratic
national committee. and his selection for the
place Is a straw-a hay-stack, indeed-show-
ing the direction of the wind. He is demo-
crat up to date. IN England just now they
are calling such man "a whole logger
Mr.. Johnson is easily THAT in our affairs.
His democracy embraces many things, from
tree trade to the single tax. He is not foe
free silver. but that issue when proclaimed
by his party does not alright him. He does
not declare in set terms for socialism, but he
will work In harness with socialists without
baking. In a word, Mr.. Johnson IS Off
with many of the old things, and is willing
TO be on with as many of the new Will
insure the control of national affairs. lie is
one Of many.
Conservatism, we are told. is not to be
the democracy's next bid The Parker cam
paign It is thought, showed the fallacy of
trying to beat the republicans on then own
ground. AS 10 protection against free trade,
sound money against free silver, and a
uauful shouldering of the responsibilities
growing out of our new possessions as
against scuttle the republican record
stands approved so emphaticauy that an
other try on any or all Of those lines would
be folly New times, new leaders and new
issues.
Mr. Johnson is one of the new leaders, and
a very active one. a good speaker, though
not an orator as Mr.. Bryan is; a rich
man. though not as rich as Mr. Hearst IS;
of philosophical tendency, though not by
any means the equal of Henry George In the
fields Of political and sociological specula-
tion. he yet possesses qualifications for
everyday political work which make him
strong with the Bryan. the Hearst and the
George foliowings. We should reckon ill if
We left him out. His new place will give
him increased power and Importance, and if
"a radical campaign on radical lines is to be
made tu lTS, Bryan and Johnson-the west
and the middle states uniting for action--or
Hearst and Johnson-New York and Ohio
hitching tip together-would be thorough
IS representative ticket.
Things are going at gaIlop. and hard
drive under the whip may be expected two
years from now II is the pace that wins or
Kills. and tie track is in condition for the
race Of all races.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-05
What is the Matter With chicagop

The historian of the future. looking back
over the American records during this Pc
riod, VIII miss enc OF the most significant
signs OF the times IL he does not note and
measure the condition of Chicago as re-
CARDS It's morality and management
Viewed today. the situation there Is more
than deplorabie. II is amazing For
many. many months there has prevailed a
reign Of vice and crime against which the
decent elements of the city have seemed
helpless. Police lnefficiency and admins
trative ineptitude have combined to permit.
or at best 10 fail To cope with the evil ele-
ments which have given the city through
out the country The reputation OF being to-
day the vickedest and least safe com
munity u the United States
Chicages rs who value their lives and
properties. and who cherish the honor OF
their wemaniind. are aroused by the spec
tacle OF continued law-breaking in
the very open streets. but. not even
the Indignation Of hundreds OF thousands of
citizens appears sufficient 10 cause a moral
reaction. SO long have these vicious con-
ditious continued that the police and their
slperiors seem to be incapable. If willing;
to make Roadway against the vice and
crime. Certain local industrial factors
serve to complicate the problem. The vast
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-05
Mcbs.
from Springfield. Ohio. APP

In dispatch from Springfield. Ohio. ap-
pears this statement
THE city has been quiet all today and to-
night. The investigation shows that the
mobs were made UP almost wholly OF young
men from sixteen to twenty-one years OF
age"
Undoubtedly true. And yet some ex-
cited people and scheming politicians had
read into the outbreak a portentous mean
ing on the race question Here was proof,
they declared, that the negroes must all
be sent to Africa posthaste or else be
stripped of all their legal rights and segre-
gated in this country. Representative
northern people, we were told are fercer
than the southern people in dealing with
negroes. As a matter of. fact. responsible
and respectable people north or south. do
not burn human beings or set the torch to
human habtations. The mob spirit In
the main is fed by the immature and the
toughs, and the whole country is sharned
before the world by the actions of very
small and disreputable minority A cur
few law for the one class of offenders. and
a little cold lead for the other class. would
work a power of good.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-05
The Socialist Conference.

Twenty-Five earnest thinkers on the state
Of the nation assembled last week at the
summer home Of a wealthy young New
Yorker who has devoted his life to the
amelioration OF poverty. They had been in
vited TO consider ways and means of rescu-
ing the country from the grasp of the trusts
and other evil institutions which are squeez-
ing the life blood from the people. A fair
proportion of them were well-known social
lists frank in their advocacy of the doc
triues of that political party. Others were
neophytes of the same cult: Others still
represented the regularly established politi-
cal organizations. All were more or less
disposed TO condemn the present methods
Of social administration.
Judging from all the reports that have
been published. the meeting was abso-
Lutte failure in so far as 1t disclosed the i'm
possibility of welding even these two dozen
and more earnest thinkers on the state of
the nation into compact, working political
party, or the nucleus for such party
Those who are already members of the
party of socialism declined to mpromise
their views for the sake of harmony, and
those not now enlisted refused to sever their
existing political ties to espouse question
able cause The debates were free from
aCrimony but devoid of results, and the
group of earnest thinkers separated without
having advanced an inch along the way of
socialism which had been spread before
them.
These conferences, however. are valuable.
They accentuate the fact that something Is
wrong in our national economy They make
for acknowledgements, If not Immediately
for reformation. A genuine debate IS al
ways Illuminating 1t would have been well
II the host on this occasion had provided
corps of stenographers to report the formal
and the informal talks that occurred during
the three days the earnest thinkers were his
guests. a book comprising these reports
would be mighty interesting reading"
The socialist party is growing rapidly in
this country. as well as abroad. Its annual
gains have become an object of gradually
increasing interest and concern on the part
of the old-line political managers. Enthu-
Siastic socialists assert their belief that in
the course of few more years their party
will have grown to such size and be in
such an excellent state of organization and
discipline that ii must be reckoned with in
the selection of President and Congress.
Unlike the populists, the socialists are COM
ing INTO the arena as party by stages in
stead Of at a single spectacular bound. They
will serve an excellent purpose, whether
they rise to the height they anticipate or
begin to disntegrate after few seasons of
growth. They call attention to a national
need and point the way to meeting il.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-05

meat packing establishment and other great
manufacturing plants bring into the city a
horde of people from Europe. SO poor that
they easily drift into evil ways. Criminals
breed rapidly in the fetid atmosphere Of
the human cess-pooi. The city draws to It.
as irresistibly as a magnet does iron filings.
the idle, the weak, the incorporate. the
criminal and the vicious. It's geographical
position exposes 1t to invasion by the army
of tramps. 1t both manufactures and har-
bors these wanderers
Thus there is unquestionabIy a difficult
situation at best in Chicago for even the
most efficient police administration to cope
with in favoring political circumstances
But that 1t is Impossible to handle 1t. to
render the streets safe and to lower the
percentage of violent infractions of the law
is unthinkabe. For Chicago to claim I'M
potency in the face of the difficulties which
have been self-created is to confess failure
as municipality If that is the case the
problem broadens to raise the question
whether the city has not forfeited its right
to self-government. whether the state
should not. in the interest of the welfare
of the commonwealth, take charge of the
municipality
The following table of crimes committed
during the months of January and Feb
an unenviable leadership In this respect in
the list of the eight largest cities in the
country:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-05
A Consolation

| amt unbelievin'. I try not to be
The sort that does nothin' except disagree
And yet 1 must say that my comfort I've
found
For the most part in doubtin' the news
that goes round.
| used to git terrible tore up in mind
BY the awful events that was threatenn'
mankind
But now 1 don't waste no expressions of
woe
On the stories they tell: cause they
mightnt be so.
When they tell bout the monster of cor
porate greed
That's ready to freeze am plunge us in
need
An the pitiless plans that is bein'
laid
To fret us poor public an make us afraid.
An when they portray how at no distant
day
This world will drop PUNK in the sun any
way,
| lust keep on workin contented an slow.
There's always this comfort: 1t mightnt
he go
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-05

Ing through microscopes and their appar-
emily Juvenile experiments In this and that
line of research are coming to understand
that there is a probable value in every
discovery they make. great or small. II
may of course be argued in this connection
that that Colorado ram proved himself
worth an entire departmental bureau when
he suffered death In the cause of science
and trade But 1t remains to be noted
that the scientists will probably now pro-
coed to take hint from the ram and find
uses for things that have heretofore been
sworn at ss nufsances and cut down and
destroyed. just think of the gum shoes
and golf balls that have gone to waste In
the course of years on those Colorado
plains.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-05
Assaults

The question of municipal ownership of
the public utilities sinks into insignficance
compared with that of the safeguarding of
the people. Chicago Is for the time freed
from the agitation of the former complex
problem. 1t should devote itself reso-
lutely to the house-cleaning which is the
first essential to any endeavor to undertake
additional responsibilities. When it has
made it possible for citizens to walk the
streets without molestation and to sleep
without fear of burglary and to repose a
worthy confidence in the honesty and eff
flciency of the police 1t may proceed to
study the intrcacies of municipal manage
ment of the street railroads