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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-29

and was charged, as affiant is inform
cd and believes, with an assault with
intent to commit murder Affiant
pleaded mot guilty" waived examina-
ton and was held for trial in the Cir
cult Court in case the grand jury of
said court should find an Indictment
against him. On said 23rd day of
March affiant was taken to the Oahu
Prison, where he was properly treated
by the officials of said prison, being
supplied with proper food and drink.
Thereafter, to wit, on or about the
9Th day of May, 1906, the grand jury
of the Circuit Court of the First Cir
cult found an Indictment against affi
ant on a charge of assault and bat
terry with weapon obviously and inn
minently dangerous to life Affiant
was arraigned on said Indictment and
entered a plea of not guilty and is now
awaiting his trial. Atlantis bail was
fixed at one thousand dollars, which
he is unable to pay
Affiant says that he is absolutely
innocent of said charge, that he does
not believe that the Territory has a
particle of evidence against him ex-
cept as contained in said writing. And
affiant further says that if the sail
writing is confession of the guilt of
affiant it is false and untrue, for af-
faint is not guilty. And affiant further
says that he has kept silent on the
subject of said tortures until quite re
Gently. as he feared that if he should
say anything concerning said tortures
they would be reinfiicted upon him,
and it was only when affiant learned
that such tortures We're not permitted
in Oahu Prison that he dared to speak
of them
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-29
And further affiant sayeth not

And further afffant sayeth not.
(Sgd.) VI MARIN VOTING
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 2Sth day of July, 1906.
(Seal)
(Sgd) CBAS. A. MANN,
Notary Public, First Judicial Circuit.
HEARING ON MONDAY.
The motion has been set for hearing
before Circuit Judge Robinson on Mon
day morning at $3.50.
we have had this matter under in
Vestfgation for about week past"
said Attorney General Peters last night,
ever since word was brought to us
that the man vi Marn Young had
made up his mind not to plead guilty
to simple assault, as he at first said
that he would do. The man was in
dicted by the grand jury for assault
with intent to kill, but whether any
confession was introduced before that
body to procure the indictment I can
not now say. / was sick during
part of the time the grand jury was
in session. The affidavit, with the mo-
ton of Messrs. Magoon e Lightfoot,
was served on me this afternoon. /
will go to the bottom of the case"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-29

in such terror for his life, believing
that the said Vida would now carry
out his threat to take his life, that
he could hardly stand, and leaned
against the chair, whereupon said
Vida struck aff1ant and ordered him to
stand up straight like a soldier.
Said Vida then placed himself in
front of affiant and presented the said
revolver, which affiant supposed was
loaded. at the breast of affiant, ana
kept affiant standing facing said re-
volver for what seemed to be to afH-
ant many minutes, affiant expecting
instant death.
Still, however, affiant refused to con-
fess that he had shot somebody, but
continued to declare his innocence.
After said Vida had threatened affi-
ant with the revolver as aforesaid,
said Vida took from a drawer of
desk in said office a long piece of
rope. The rope was placed around the
throat of affiant One of said police
men took one end of said rope and the
other took the other end, and each
policeman pulled on said rope, thereby
Earroting affiant. The agony caused
to affiant by this torture is beyond
description. Fortunately, however,
for affiant, consciousness soon left
him.
When consciousness returned, the
said Vida was tanning affiant with a
handkerchief; and one of the police
men was pulling atlantis hair. as a
means of restoring suspended ANNA
ton.
Thereafter said Vida again asked
many questions of affiant, and he. be-
the limit OF human endurance having
been reached, replied yes to said
questions and all of them Affiant does
not now know what the questions We're,
he being only half conscious.
AS affiant said yes" to the ques-
tons propounded by said vidal a
statement, which aff1ant supposes is
called a confession. was written down.
Affiant does not know the contents of
said writing. but affiant says that if
the said writing is a confession on the
part of affiant that he shot somebody
or attempted to shoot somebody, it is
absolutely false, and was wrung from
affiant by means of the tortures afore
said
When the said writing was COM
p1eted the said Vida seemed to be
satisfied. and. giving one of the police
men twenty-five cents. he ordered said
policemen to take affiant to a Chinese
restaurant and give him something TO
eat. This was accordingly done. and
the food and water so taken at this
time by affiant were the first food and
the first water given TO affiant since his
Incarceration, with the exception of the
water torture above referred to.
AFTER TORTURE, ARRAIGN-
MENT.
After the tortures inflicted as afore-
said affiant was allowed to remain
In peace in his cell and did so remain
until the 23rd day of March, in the
forenoon of said day, when he was
taken before the District Magistrate
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-29
AFTER TORTURE, ARRAIGN-
MENT.

After the tortures inflicted as afore-
said, affiant was allowed to remain
In peace in his cell and did so remain
until the 23rd day of March. in the
forenoon of said day, when he was
taken before the District Magistrate
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-29

have none without health and strength.
FREE BOOK Write me today for my
beautiful illustrated book, with cuts
showing how my Belt is applied, full
of good reading matter for men who
want TO be THE Noblest Work of
CODA MAN. Inclose this ad. and
I will send this book, sealed, free.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-29

The price of the
PIANOLA is $3.50.
Moderate MONTH
ly payments can
be arranged.
The PIANOLA
PIANO Ca gen.
uine Metrostyle
Pianola and a
standard upright
piano combined
in a single case),
costs from $3.50 to
$1,000.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-07-29
MUSIC i'm the SUMMER HOME

"a good time" without almost lacks
sentia detail of completeness.
We hardly daily
until deprived of in the country where music least accessible
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17

confidence and the senatorial interests
in what they advanced as a plea for
harmony" They greedily grasped
the bait hung out and nominated the
youthful Rupp-the absorber of the
Evening Bunc's" paregoric.
It is true they advised that Rupp
was put up to be knitted by the people
who would have none Of the Even
ing Bunc'' and its coterie. But they
could have retained the confidence of
the great majority Of republicans by
doing the knitting in the convention.
James Haviland's candidacy was
not a factor in this trade, Haviland's
nomination was conceded long ago.
The curbstone bosses merely trailed
in under Haviland's mantle.
And some Of those leaders" swal-
lowed the suicidal dose from the
Evening Bunc."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17
Sleep and the Temper.
Pail Mall Gazette.

The popular science of Doctors Ac
and and Bevin Let's, who tell us t.
sleep as long as we can, makes more
talk than anything else read before the
British association, and deserves to do
30. There is a great deal about it in
he papers, too, cordially written by
weary journalists. The Daily Tele-
graph mentions a well-known judge
who is over 50 and looks young as a
consequence of always taking a NAP
when so disposed;" and a gallant Of
fcer of 20 who is taken for So, not "in
the dusk with the light behind him, -
but on the fierce parade ground. There
is also the case of "hari-working lit
erary man" the adjective is redundant
whose wife says that whenever he
grows sulky or depressed or dyspep-
tic she 'lets him lie an hour or two
longer in bed. 1t never fails to cur
him." This is suggestive, going be-
yond what is said by the doctors. Let
us sleep and cultivate good temper.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17
AM1MS@1l@MGS

comic opera. Each stands in a class
pre-eminently by itself. Henry w.
Savage has made his grand opera
company the greatest organization Of
its kind in America. John Cort has, in
the Stewart Opera company, the
greatest organization Of its. kind In
America.
Therefore those lovers of the lighter,
cheerier kind of music cannot help
but look forward to the coming of the
Stewart opera company to the Keylor
Grand theater for an engagement Of
four nights, starting Monday, Sept.
"a. with most unusually pleasant an
ticipation. The east has had a monopo-
ly on the Stewart company for sew
eral years. This is the first trip to
the west. Realizing the demands of
the theater-goers of the northwest for
first class light opera, and not be-
ing able to secure the quality Of COM
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17
Blue Monday.
Farming

The facetious answer to "how may
we make washing easy?" is naturally
Put it out" This many a city woman
regretfully does for as yet most modern
laundries are not model laundries. But
the reply may be soberly given to the
country woman, fresh air, and SUM-
shine being potent factors in the best
and most sanitary cleansing of clothes.
Provided the water supply is the same
in both places, the proper laundering
of clothes is more difficult in the city
than on the farm. Hot and cold rum
ming water in stationary tubs cuts in
half the labor of washing. Running
water in the house helps but the labor
of emptying heavy tubs of water is too
great for any woman who is not very
Amazon of physical strength.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17
HUMILIATING SURRENDER!

The republican convention has
come and gone. The ticket has been
put I'D and, on the surface, every
body(?) is talking harmony. But 1t
lis the sort of harmony" which Is
about as far from peaceful valley" as
Willie Hearst is from the White
House.
That particular republican conven-
ton will go down into the political
history of the state as the toy
structure of a band of juvenile politi-
clans with backbones of straw. No
more cowardly surrender was ever
made.
In the last city election the solid
republican stalwarts, veterans Of
many glorious battles, lay back and
permitted the kids" to play at pol
itics. They realized their mistake
when the kids" started in to lick
their dads.
The "old guard" rallied to the cry Of
patriotism once more and quickly de-
monstrated they knew as much about
handling the new "automatics" as
they did in aiming the old muskets.
Aided by a loyal mass of property
owners and taxpayers they went over
the firing line and won.
What must have been the feelings
of those SCARED veterans, accustomed
to giving, or taking no quarter, to-,
in the very teeth of the overwhelming
defeat administered to the traitors
and renegades, suffer the bitter humil-
iation of seeing their own leaders put
up the white flag? The true, solid
ranks of loyal republicans went from
the victorious primaries into the con-
vention prepared to fight and to
claim all the fruits of victory. "Un-
conditional surrender" was theirs to
demand.
The voters of the city and county
had expressed themselves. They went
to the primaries to down the curb
stone bosses and expected to see them
kept down. Yet, with an absolute
working majority, which could not be
reduced more than half, the spineless
leaders" went into a panic and per-
mitted delegates to betray interests
and win personal demands, which
should have been answered in a far
different manner.
The result is the boxers carried their
bluff through and got all they asked
for two months ago, with the excep-
ton of one candidate.
And it was not the way the people
voted at the primaries!
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17
THE PRICE OF PIRACY.

Down in Mexico President Diaz
gathered together all of his brigands
and murderous outlaws and made po-
licemen out of them. Here in Walla
Walla we allow the bandits to be NOM
mated to office as price of their
being good"
There can be no question of the
shameful trade" made Saturday by
the Ankeny leaders in allowing the
nomination of Otto Rupp as a candi-
date for prosecuting attorney 1t was
merely the price of piracy-a SOD
thrown to that piratical concern
known as the Evening Bunc"
The people had spoken at the pri-
maries. The republicans voted in
overwhelming numbers to repudiate
the Evening Bunc" and its crowd Of
curbstone bosses. Had it net been
for the Evening Bunc" and its gang
of kicked-out renegade politicians
who sought to foist themselves upon
the old boxer organization, there
would have been no necessity of rally
ing to defend the senator and Walla
Walla's interests.
The people realized the danger and
they voted accordingly-against the
Evening Bunc". The majority of the
delegates in the convention realized
the danger, too, when they voted
against the proxies which would admit
the Evening Bunc" and its gang
to the convention in direct opposition
to the expressed will of the voters
at the primaries.
Yet, with a cowardice strange and
shameful, some Of the Ankeny leaders
allowed a betrayal of the peoples
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17
FARM LABORER DIES.
Tim Palmer Is Dead Following an Or.
Grafton for Appendicitis.

Tim Palmer, a farm laborer from
San Francisco, died at the Walla
Walla hospital about 1880 o'clock this
morning as the result of an opera
ton for appendicitis, performed one
week ago Sunday.
Little is known of Palmer except
that he came from San Francisco re-
Gently and that he was % years Of age.
His mother, Mrs. ]. S. Palmer, Of "a
Franklin street, San Francisco, has
been telegraphed to and arrange
ments for the funeral will be made as
soon as she can be heard from.
Palmer was taken to the hospital on
September 6.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17

pany to supply that demand in any
other way, Mr.. Cort purchased out
right the Stewart company for term
of years, and now is able to present
this stellar lyric organization in the
cities of the northwest.
For the first two nights of the en-
gagement at the Keylor Grand, the
Stanislaus Stange-Ludwig Englander
comedy opera, '"The Two Roses" will
be sung. On Wednesday night, the
Alfred Collier comic opera Dorothy"
and on Thursday night, the Harry B.
Smith-Victor Herbert light opera,
"Babbette."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17

would take chances with jury and
entered a plea of not guilty.
Fogg is big burly man, cross-evea
and altogether presented disreputabs
appearance in court this mornne
When requested to enter his plea
Fogg wanted to know If he was chare.
ed with rape. When told that he was
Fogg replied well 1 won't plead sun.
ty."
Sol McGriff, charged with shooting
Fred Hopkins, the Eureka fiat ranch.
er did not have an attorney and Oscar
Cain was appointed by the court to
defend him. After a lengthy confer.
ence McGriff decided he would plead
not guilty.
Mike Riley, an ex-convict, William
Jackson, a negro, William Richardson
and James Mccall, charged with lar.
ceny all entered pleas of not guilty.
Hugh Callahan, accused of lifting a
valuable ticker" and a gold watch
chain from j. A. Scott wanted further
time to plea.
Callahan said he expected a letter
dressed in a dark suit, light fedora
hat and appeared out of place among
the other prisoners lined up before
the court.
Callahan said be expected a letter
from his father in California with
some money in a few days and de-
sired that his case be put over until
next week. Cain & Bryson are CAL
lahan's attorneys.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17
Vaudeville on Fifth Avenue.

NEW YORK, Sept. 17.-Keith &
Proctors Fifth Avenue theater reopens
today under the management of E. F.
The management has decided to keep
open on Sundays and to have continu-
Gus concerts beginning in the afternoon
and lasting through until night clos
ing This is the first house in the
city to introduce this innovation.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17

silenced by the chair. When o.,
who he was going to nominal
said:
why, Charlie Painter, of cour..
my old friend Charlie"
He also relieved his mind Of off,,
thoughts brought about by the oooo
sion.
What a devil Of a fool Of mvs0,.
did make, didn't l." he confided n :
'semi-whisper to the man STANDING ;,
side him. Il didn't know il was a..
of order for me to make a sneao,
But of course 1t was, wasn't it? wb,t
fool 1 was"
Sheriff Painters friends are CON
selling him today on his narrow o.
cape, from distinction.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17
When Nation Owns Roads.
N. Y. Herald

N. Y. Herald.
The ownershing and operation of the
1000 miles of lines, spread like net
work over our 100000 square miles OF
territory, would be another matter.
There are now more than a million
employees. Under public and political
operation the number would be dou-
bled. Fancy 100000 more voters di-
rectly under the thumb of a national
partisan administration!
Mr.. Bryan may we'll express a doubt
whether the country is yet ripe for a
change Government regulation is es-
sential. Government ownership is un
desirable and remote possibility, but
government management--never.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17
AND N. C. MOORE BALKEO
CONTINUED from Page One.)
Waterman, J. F. Mclean and r. H.
Ormsby of Waitsburg.

Waterman, J. F. Mclean and r. H.
Ormsby of Waitsburg.
After the morning session of the
convention the committee on resolu-
lions adjourned to the office of ]. H.
Pedigo where the platform, endorsing
the administration of Senator Ankeny
and directing the Walla Walla repre-
sentatives to work for the passage of
a direct primary law was drawn up.
Baked On Ankeny.
According to reports, that part of
the platform relating to the direct
primary law was satisfactory to the
governor but when it came to signing
the resolutions the governor, it is
said, objected to going on record as
endorsing the administration of Sen
ator Ankeny in the way it was
worded.
Whether it was the governors ex-
IRENE dislike to attach his signature
to anything, or else his antipathy to
Senator Ankeny, the other members
could not fathom.
At any rate it is said the governor
was only induced to sign the platform
after Is or 20 minutes straight talk
from the other members Of the COM
mittee.
The platform, as drawn up by the
committee, was formally adopted by
the convention, the boxer delegates
voting strenuous aye Later it de-
veloped that Governor Moore had
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17

Whitman county newspapers are
engaged in a discussion OF graft :
One side demands that payment for
political support is necessary. Inc
other decla res the patronage given the
newspapers is sufficient. 1t occurs
TO neither side that political inde-
pendence would help the readers, as
well as the business Office.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17

John Sharpstein was slowed safely
and the only speaker fit to cope with
the boxers GoseO on the floor was
chlorOformed!
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17

only signed the platform after much
persuasion.
Liquid Nomination.
The funniest feature of Saturdays
convention was the nomination speech
Of George Geaney of Dry Creek who
was not too full for utterance.
1t happened about o'clock just as
John H. Pedigo had finished his trib-
ute to w. H. Weber as he placed him
in nomination for representative from
the 18th district.
Delegates and spectators were
startled and amused to hear
a voice from the middle of
the crawd Of onlookers begin in ring
ing tones:
"Mr. Chairman, I rise to nominate
man whom 1 have known since
childhood" Two or three more eu-
iO6lStlC IdSSS were pll6Q on DG1Oro
Chairman Sharpstein could make the
man from Dry Creek understand that
no one but a delegate was privileged
to make nominations.
Those standing about say that Just
as Geaney arose to testify Warden
KEGS thought that greatness was
about to be thrust upon him and en-
deavored to dissuade his friend
George, in a stentorian whisper:
Shut up. George. shut up" as he
backed towards the nearest exit.
II Was Charlie Painter.
But the distinction was not for KEGS.
The toga floating about in the alcohol
filled Uranium of the wet citizen from
the Dry Creek was destined for other
shoulders.
He confided the object of his ora
tory to a bystander just after he was
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17

What must be the feelings of the
'old guard" to see their hard work
nullified by a surrender to the rene
gades and traitors who would have
disrupted the party but for those vet
Grams who made it possible for Walla
Walla to have a senator?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17
Jail Burned.

The city Jail at Culdesac, Idaho. was
destroyed by fire early Thursday morn
ing. Harry Critics and Doc. Hoskins
were the last inmates Of the Jail, and
they were released the night before.
1t is the general belief that the fire
was the work of an incendiary. 'The
loss is about $4,000.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17
No. We Haven't.
Oregonian.

A story comes from Denver that a
Kansas City man who died last winter
in Kansas City and was duly slowed
away in a, vault came to life, as re-
suit of the devotion of his fiancee, on
September 4, and the next day was
married. The yarn sounds a trifle
f1shy to us. But then of course we've
never seen the woman.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-17
An Odyssey Of KS

I'VE travelled up and down this land
And crossed 1t in a dozen ways,
L But l can never understand
These towns with names chock full
of KS.
For instance, word once came to me
That I should pack my grips and go
I thought at first to Kankakee
And then remembered Kokomo.
"Oh, Kokomo or Kankakee."
I unused, now, which one can It be!
So to the ticket man 1 went
He was a snappy man and bald
Behind an iron railing pent.
And confessed that I was stalled.
''Some much KID town is booked for me-
I said. I'm due tomorrow, so
I wonder II it's Kankakee
Or If 1t can be Kokomo."
there's quite difference" growled he
"'Twixt Kokomo and kankakee."
He spun a yard of tickets out
This folded kind that makes strip
And leaves the passenger in doubt
When the conductor takes clip.
He flung the tickets out, say,
Then asked. well, which one Will
I'll sell you tickets either way.
To Kokomo or Kankakee."
And still really didn't know
I thought it might be Kokomo.
At any rate, I took a chance.
He whacked that stamping thing
blow.
And l, toy Of circumstance.
Was ticketed for Kokomo.
Upon the train I wondered still
II all was right as right should be;
Some mystic warning seemed to I'LL
My mind with thoughts of KanKaKee
The car wheels clicked 1t out. Now no
Had better be for Kankakee!"
Until at last 1t grew 30 loud
At some big town l clambered OUT
And elbowed madly through the croWu'
Determined on the other route.
The ticket agent saw my haste;
where do you wish to goT crieo nc
I yelled: i've got no time to waste
Please fix me up for Kankakee. o,
And then the wheels clicked. "Don' WV
know
You ought to go to KokomoT
Well, anyhow. did not heed
The message that they clicked TO me-
I went and landed wrong indeed
Went all the way to Kankakee.
Then in q rush doubled back ,.ov
Went wrong again, I'd have you AN'
There was no call for me. alack'
Within the town OF Kokomo. -.
And then I learned. confound the io'A'
I should have gone to Keokuk r.