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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
Cans Is Hero,

GOLDFIELD, New. Sept. All
Goldfield stayed up last night to talk
about the fight and there is but one
conclusion and that is Cans is a mighty
popular fighter just now and can have
almost anything in Goldfield. Praises
of the Baltimore negro are sung by
everybody while there is nothing but
condemnation for Nelson.
There is no denying Cans put up a.
great battle and fought it gamely,
honestly and in a spirit of true sports
manship. His conduct in the ring was
fore during and after the battle was
exceedingly gentlemanly and won for
him more friends than he ever lost
by taking.
Throughout the fight Cans had the
sympathy of the crowd. Few of those
who bet on Cans or Nelson are not
perfectly satisfied with Silers decision
as, whether the foul was intentional
or not, it was SO palpable that nothing
could have been done but to give the
fight to the negro.
Many are inclined to believe the
foul was intentional but Nelson peO-
pie not only deny this but declare
no foul was committed. Those who
say the foul was intentional point to
the fact that Nelson not only lost his
head but was rapidly wearing himself
out and could not have been expected
to 60 much farther.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
A Man Who Dsboies in Thinqs.

Buffalo New York Times.
Be it said with awe, but still let it
be remembered, that the President is
man who dabbles in things. He is
an amateur hunter, fisherman, soldier,
boxer, wrestler and literateur. Why
not then, an amateur photographer?
His authority on the spelling question
is just as weighty, and no more, as
the authority of any gentleman Of fair
education with a tendency to take i'm
petuous dips in a bewildering variety
of subjects. The Times has yet to
find a single scholar who is willing to
come out with square declaration
that the new thought in spelling is
anything but makeShift.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
BREEZY NEWS OVER WESTON WAY
Eph Tucker Meets With Mishap-
Towns Water Supply Running
Short.

Weston Leader:-Eph Tucker, a
young stockman near town, had few
exciting moments of trouble Saturday
afternoon with his saddle horse. The
angry animal plunged and reared in
a fruitless effort to unseat it's rider,
and then fell backward. Tucker tried
to escape from the saddle but his
right leg was caught beneath the ami
NAL, bursting the calf and breaking
the outer bone below the knee. A
telephone message brought DR.. Cashatt
promptly to his relief, and in few
weeks he will be able to ride again.
S. r. Caplinger nearly lost an eye
Saturday while threshing with the
Weston mountain outfit at the farm of
w. A. Barnes. He has charge of the
horse power, and was shifting the
brake when the spring controlling 1t
was suddenly released and struck him
in the right eye knocking him down
The optic is now in mourning, but he
is thankful that no worse injury re-
suited.
A Seattle horse buyer was in town
last week, and purchased Seth Hyatts
span of grays for $500. A Milton
man sold him a team for $3.50. When
the visitor left he said that he would
return next week. Owners of good
horses will no doubt be glad to see
him, as the price does not deter him
when he is suited with the team Of
fered.
The annual water scarcity has again
compelled recourse to the auxiliary
pump at Weston, and the superintend-
ent has given notice that it will be
necessary to stop irrigating and street
sprinkling for a time. The gravity
flow is larger than formerly, but is not
sufficient to keep the reservoir full
without the aid of the pumping sta
ton. 1t is thought, however, that the
period of scarcity will be much shorter
than in former years.
Pearl Shepard, who was seen to pass
bottle of liquor to a minor during a
recent dance at Weston and was ar
rested by the city marshal, appeared
for examination Monday morning in
the recorders court. The young man
pleaded guilty and paid fine and costs
amounting to $1,000.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
Catarrh Cannot be Cured

With LOCAL, APPLICATIONS, as
they cannot reach the seat of the dis
ease. Catarrh is blood or constitu-
tional disease, and in order to cure it
you must take internal remedies. Halls
Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and
acts directly on the blood and mu-
cuous surfaces. Halls Catarrh Cure
is not a quack medicine. It was
prescribed by one Of the best ply
sicians in this country for years and
is a regular prescription. 1t is COM
posed of the best tonics known, COM
bined with the best blood purifiers,
acting directly on the mucous sur
faces. The perfect combination of the
two ingredients is what produces such
wonderful results in curing Catarrh.
Send for testimonials free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo,
Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
CHARLESTON CANNERY BUSY
Despite Shortage in Crop, Output Will
Be Big This Year.

CHARLESTON, Sept. 4.-Despite the
shortage in some varieties of fruit in
this section the Charleston Canning
company is able to secure a sufficient
supply of fine fruits and vegetables
to keep in continuous operation. Man.
ager ]. H. Sprague states the output
will greatly exceed that of last year.
He is now engaged in canning Bartlett
pears. They are being put up in 1-2
pound and one gallon tin cans. The
pears are of an excellent quality and
are splendid sellers. Mr.. Sprague es-
Inmates the output of pears alone at
10000 gallons. He has been successful
in securing a large quantity of fine
frees stone peaches which he will COM
mence canning tomorrow. It is expect
ed that tomatoes will be arriving in
sufficient quantities to allow the can
ming of them early the coming week.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
Our lovable Judge.
Cta- of ofo~h,,a1y

According to reports and the pa
pers, Judge Thomas H. Brents, of
Walla Walla, is destined to become a
Lieutenant Hobson or a kissing bug
or something else-probably all three.
When a man of the judges age gets to
be so popular that he is allowed first
kiss he is far enough ad-
vanced to attract some sort
of attention. Let's run him
for governor. kissing pretty girls isn't
bad occupation, but we can't say that
We envy Mr.. Brents his privilege. So
long as the bride is pretty or sweet,
o. K, but a judge should be impair
tial, and just think of some of the ar
ticles that poor Thomas might be
obliged to caress-and with his eyes
open too. Gee whiz.!
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
MURDER. FIRE! POLICE!

The amenities Of the political edi-
torialists have been destroyed-cre-
mated in the heat of angry passions
boiled to death in steamy Trades
hinged to the ever present dispute as
to which of the owners Of bullying
foreheads is the most devilishly cum
ming politician. The mutual admira-
ton society is busted"
1t is with briny sorrow that we
weepingly record the break in the
heretofore harmonious pact to boost
mutually and collectively in the bat
tie of the boiling editorialists. Until
now we had conceived no more beau
tiful result than the elevatlon-by
each-of both-to the proud pinnacles
of journalistic political Immortality.
Ills true there had been rumors at
the beginning of the great battle that
Senator Ankeny and John L. Wilson
were being fought for, or defended.
But the senator and ex-senator proved
to be merely side issues-little red
wagons in which the editorialists were
to ride to power and fame. Once i'm
bued with the love of pugnacious neol-
ogy-soaked with the intoxicating joy
BUSINESS of seeing their names in print
ahead of all other politicians, issues,
theories and conditions-the editorial
lists chortled merrily to the senatorial
warriors as they passed over them
without a gee" or a "haw" and
climbed the heights of reciprocal dew
ilishness.
And then it seemed nothing could
dissolve those creamy illusions upon
the political malignity of each. No
matter how the people pleaded or
cursed, or died from the effects of the
seething torrents of carbonated rhet-
oric the mighty ones went forward
with columns and pages of the admit
ration vaporings. The circulation fell
but it hindered not the sway of the
fevered contestants for the verbosity
prize.
But there came sudden halt-a
break-a rift in the smoke of battle
One of the warning editorialists so
far forgot the mutual admiration rules
as to deviate from the established
boosting on political deviltry.
He let slip a word which sounded
like thief"
Came then an expletive, personally
applied, that spelled out liar"
No more will the cunning of each
and both-be exploited. The bars are
dcwn--the preliminary skirmish is
ended. From this On twill be swear
words and fisticuffs. Look for the chal-
lenges when the Thief and the
Liar" have chosen their seconds.
We are fairly lettering with excite
meIt.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04

| tendency to again unsettle his posi-
ton as a statesman to be trusted.
| The curious thing about Mr.. Bryan
is that he is constantly posing as
reasoner and a logician while as a.
matter of fact he is neither. His pow
er is in appeal. He can stir people to
action. He has also a certain poetic
faculty which can lulu people to rest.
His non-partizan lectures are full of
good, homely truths culled from the
best books Of popular quotations and
strung together like the wires of a
harp waiting to be struck into music
by the master. They are neither pro-
found nor discomforting. His political
speeches where they are not personal
and bitter are trifiing comments upon
the platform. The most that was ev-
err noted about Bryan's speeches was
that they drew out the crowd and in
spired his followers. There is yet to be
recorded the fact that he converted
blocks of voters to his cause by an
utterance that stuck in the mind and
compelled a change of front on the
part of the Individual. The New
York speech, partaking as it did of
the nature of both a social and a po-
litical effort, was sufficiently personal
to have a point and sufficiently
impersonal to avoid antagonists.
1t showed Mr.. Bryan at his best as a
temperate observer of events. Yet
measured by this standard it falls
far short Of being satisfying 1t reads
something like presidents message.
A perfunctory discussion of a large
number of topics, it is not a well-knit
argument on any one. These defects
in the speech are inherent in the man.
Mr. Bryan is not a logical thinker.
He is a magnificent phrasemaker and
powerful orator. Hence all of the
objections to the speech in type doubt
less were lost upon those who heard
it. They sat under a spell which was
of the manner and not of the matter
But with all his defects it is a mat
ter of congratulation to the country
that the second of our great political
parties has as its leader a man who
has SO many of the great qualities of
our politics and so few of it's vices
AS citizen, husband, father, publicist,
orator, politician he holds and MAIN
tains high place in the affections of
the American people. His patriotism
is sincere. His faith in his country
is unclouded; his labors for peace are
unselish; his aspirations are honor
able. He is so nearly a great man that
it is a matter Of some aggravation that |
he has not broken the bounds which !
apparently hold him to shallow courses
and Intellectual measures.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
The Changes Are Reasonable.
PhiladelDhia Press.

Spelling reform had the able, loyal
and enthusiastic support of some COL
lege professors. This made it respect
able but it needed more. This assis-
lance has now come to it. Capital in
the person Of Mr.. Carnegie has subsi-
died it and authority in the person Of
President Roosevelt has given it official
sanction. 1t is idle to attempt to be-
little the proposed reforms by print
ing in ridicule of it. The changes
ing in ridicule of it. The charges
proposed are few in number and are
entirely reasonable They for the most
part simply drop unnecessary letters
or change that sequence of letters so
as to bring sound and photography
into harmony.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
MR.. BRYAN AT HOME.

If Bryan is not the right prophet for
democracy in 1908, the best thing that
could have happened for his oppon-
ents is the demonstration of that night
in New York, so far in advance of
the national convention. 1t gives time
for the opposition to take the true
measure of the Bryan sentiment, to
perfect plans to counteract it and to
raise up another prophet to take his
place.
That the demonstration for Bryan
had an element of reality no one can
deny. The man is popular. He is
more seriously regarded than ever be-
fore. 1t is true that the country has
gone forward toward what is called
Organism, says the Minneapolis Jour-
nal. The fatal fault of Bryan's poll
tics is that he will never permit the
| country to catch up with him. When
| it is about to surround him and make
him its one hero, he, like the will-o'-
the-wisp, is off again. For example
in his New York speech he for the first
| time definitely abandons free silver,
but in the same breath he is off on
another tangent, the public ownership
of railroads under an apparently i'm
possible scheme of ownership of trunk
lines by the federal government and
short lines by the states.
| And curiously enough, Mr.. Bryan
puts the argument for the public own
ership of railroads on the ground that
the recent rate legislation has tended
to produce a danger of Capitalization.
The railroads, he says, will now have
a paramount interest in the election
of the president, who will have the ap-
pointment of the interstate commerce
| commission. If this Is Capitalization.
what would be the effect of the gov
| eminent ownership of the railroads,
with their millions of employees?
Both Mr.. Bryan's settlement of the
| railroad question and his assignment
of reasons for his platform have a
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
NEW YORK GIRL A FREAK
Sleeps All the Time and Is Sent to
"GirIs" Home,

Sleeps All the Time and Is Sent to
"GirIs" Home.
NEW YORK Sept. 4.-"What is the
charger" asked Magistrate Cornell, in
the Harlem Police court, when Rosie
Schliefenstein was brought before him
by her parents. Rosie put her plump
hands on the edge of the desk, tucked
her chin in them, and yawned. The
magistrate spread his right hand over
his mouth to hide the echo of the
yawn. "She's always snoozing,' said
Joseph Schliefenstein, her father.
Rosie was already sound asleep, kept
in her upright position by her chin,
which was hooked over the edge of the
desk. Miss Macauley," said the mag
istrate to the probationary officer,
take this girl from the room and see
if you can't wake her up" Miss Mac
auley brought the girl back in fifteen
minutes. Cant do anything with her"
Miss Macauley said, "She's so sleepy"
Then the father told the court that
Joe, the " fat boy" in the "Pickwick
Papers" never could sleep like his
Rosie. She was always taking maps,
he said, and, although eighteen years
old and pretty, she could not hold
job more than twenty minutes because
of her sleepy habits. Like Mr.. War
dies Joe, she also had a good appe-
tite, but, besides eating and sleeping,
she seems to be unable to exert her.
self. She was sent to the Magdalen
Home, where she will get the benefit
of discipline until she is twenty one
years old.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
RAILROADS IN A GREAT BATTlE|
500 and Great Northern Fight for
Crosby Townsite in North.
Dakota.

CROSBY, N. D., Sept. A battle
royal between the 500 and Great
Northern companies over the Crosby
townsite impends. Both roads are
building into this section, the 500 a
branch from Flaxton on its main line
and the Great Northern a branch from
Berthold, also on it's main line; but
neither will enter Crosby's present
site, which has for two years been
the trade center of northern Williams
county, it being contemplated that the
grade is such as will not permit Of
the location of sidetracks.
The 500 plated a new Crosby town.
site two and one-half miles northeast
of the present location and put the
lots on sale, but Crosby business men
refused to buy, for many reasons, all
of which they made known to the 500,
except the chief one-a laundering be-
lief that the Great Northern would
plat a townsite only a mile or two to
the south, and, hemmed in between
the international boundary line and
the Great Northern road, the 500 town
could never be a good trade center.
Whether unconscious or not Of this
feeling on the part of the people, the
500, with a heart to please, plated a
new TOWNSHIP nearer and free from the
farmers Objectionable features; but
the sale of lots proved a frosty ack-
nowledgment of the roads generous
disposition, only a few sales, it is said
having been made
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
Chicago Inter-Ocean.

Even more important is the fact
that the Presidents decision puts be-
hind the simplified spelling the influ-
ence Of a recognized master of the
English language whom no one can
dream of accusing of illiteracy merely
because he chooses to spell otherwise
than in the traditional manner. When
the average man makes up his mind
to spell as he pleases-with a free
dom limited only by the practical ne
cessity of being understood, just as
William Shakespeare did-then and
then only will our spelling be greatly
changed, really simplified, or actually
reformed"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
Starving to Death.

Because her stomach was SO weak
ened by useless dragging that she
could not eat, Mrs. Mary H. Walters,
Of st. Clair ST., Columbus, O., was
literally starving to death. She
writes: my stomach was so weak
from useless drugs that 1 could not
eat and my nerves so wrecked that
could not sleep; and not before I was
given up to die was 1 induced to try
result that improvement began at
once, and a complete cure followed"
anteed by E. L. Smalley, druggist.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
SLIP OF A BOY A HERO.
Swims Out a Mile and Saves Man
From Drowning.

NEW YORK, Sept. 4.-Our heroes of
ordinary life are receiving honors in
the public prints, and some are re-
ceiving medals, but it remains for a
slip of boy to swim out a mile, save
a great big man from drowning, and
then come home and be made the re-
cipient of a sound spanking from his
devoted mother. That mother doesn't
seem to have any humor in her soul.
She utterly failed to catch the signi
ficance of the act of her heroic son,
for hers he was, though he was ever
so many sizes smaller than the man he
rescued. She should have considered
him to have grown to size as large
as that of the man he rescued, and
so to be too much of a man to be
slippered as of yore. 1t is evident.
however, that that mother handled her
slipper before and we are thus brought
face to face with the question, whether
the heroism displayed by her son was
not the direct result of the spankings
she had administered to her son in
times past, in teaching him the way
to go in this case was to make for him
in the offing, concluded that the way
to go inthis case was to make for him
as fast as stroke after stroke could
carry him. The old question is here,
is it better to use the slipper and rod
on our children, or bring them up
without correction that tells upon their
bodies, and sets their brains consid-
ering and concluding that this, after
all, is a world in which there is a
great deal of strenuosity at every
hand.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
New York American.

New York American.
Look at the corn crop this year; look
at our manufactures; look at our ex-
ports-why tinker with the spelling
that has rendered these possible? 1t
may be, indeed, that the president was
resolved that the language should be
revised by it's friends. Who knows
what the democrats might have done
had they come into office? The only
now is that some new president, who
knows not Brander Matthews, may
arise and switch the government SPELL
ing back to the familiar style. That
wood a feerful bio the Republik.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
National Convention - KNIGHTS O
Pythias, New Orleans, La, Oct.
18th to 25th, 1906.

For the above occasion the North
ern Pacific Railway Co., announce
a round trip rate of $77.S5.
Tickets on sale Oct. and 8, 1906.
Going transit limit of 10 days from
date of sale, final limit Nov. Is, 1906.
Stop be granted in
either direction within final limit at
points west of St. Louis and Chicago.
For additional information call on or
write:
S. B. CALDERHEAD,
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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
Ownership the Issue.

CLEVELAND, O., Sept. 4-Tor.
Johnson, in discussing Bryan's stand
for government ownership of railroads
says it will cause the nomination of
Roosevelt and drive thousands of dem
ocrats from the party. He saws: "To
all such democrats 1 say God speed
For every such there will be ten from
other parties to join us. Government
ownership is the paramount issue and
with it Bryan will sweep the country
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
If It's a Reputation

You are after, Whites Cream Vermi-
fuge has a worldwide reputation as
the best of all worm destroyers, and
for it's tonic influence on weak and
unthrifty children. 1t improves their
digestion and assimilation of their
food, strengthens their nervous sys-
tenn and restores them to health and
vigor natural to child. If you want
a healthy, happy child get a bottle Of
Whites Cream Vermifuge.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
Anti!
Star of Starbuck.

Two new babies for Starbuck this
week. Good prospects for or 10 next
week, and religious intentions for doz-
ems, in the future. This surpasses
Of the past. If it continues
will have done more for the human
race, numerically, in the next decade
than any hamlet on the Pecific coast.
Go it, little town. Kids seem to be
your speciality, SO stick to it.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
HUNDREDS OF FIGHT FANS THERE
Continued from Page One)

cigar store and Simon's cigar store.
A crowd estimated at 500 peone
filled the streets in front of The States.
man office to hear the returns which
were read and posted on bulletin
boards a minute after being received
at the Western Union offices. Both
the cigar stores were crowded with
sports eager to hear the returns
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04

1t is the intention Of the manago.
to secure large supply of this Voc.
table. providing that they can be 90
cured at a reasonable price and >.
make speciality of canned tomato
Other varieties of fruits will ba 49,.
served as they come in season.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04
Press Comments
Gutter
Pendleton Tribune.

The Walla Walla Union in a rather
exciting manner inquiries abruptly:
Are you for Ankeny or for Mead?"
OF course this is sudden, but to be
candid neighbor, either will suit us.
We're not looking for a scrap.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04

The boiling editorialists are getting
down to business. To date one is
most any old kind of a liar. If we
could only rib up one of those French
full
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04

That rs" was an awful hole for the
Evening Bunc" to put the new An
keny club in. And the "Bunc'' and it's
crowd of parasites still insist they
are not showing any knives into Sem
ator Ankeny!
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-04

Queer how many wise ones you find
who knew Cans was going to win.
They about equal the number of those
who played the chocolate drop for a
sure thing and won sloshings of
money-but forget to bring the price
of a drink with them.