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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
Deal All but Closed.

The deal was all but closed for
100000, the owners being represented
by a well-known real estate broker
Mr.. Kerr approved the price, but said
he was not yet ready to close the deal
This property will be gone within
forty-eight hours" said the real estate
man to Mr.. Kerr a day Or two before
Harriman's agent J. B. Coyell, ap-
peared on the ground.
ooh, I've heard real estate men bluff
before now" Mr. Kerr is said to have
replied.
This ended the interview. Two days
later Mr.. Coryell placed a check for
$4,000 in the hands of his agent, and
it was given to Mr.. Stetson as 10 pei
cent of the purchase price, namely
$3.50, 1000 The word was carried to Mr.
Kerr and the remarks of that gentle
man, it is said would not look we'll in
print.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
Wine Is AduIterated.

NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-1 had 6
sample of wine sent to me from q
prominent church in this city, Health
. Commissioner Darlington said to the
salaries committee of the board of al
dermen. Il had the wine analysed anC
found that it contained wood alcOho
hard cider and aniline coloring. II
was poisonous and vile. 1 do not know
if this wine is the sort generally useC
in the churches. All I know is that il
was labelled Communion wine pre-
pared for use in churches, and the bot
tie bore the name Of the manufacturer
I intend to find out if tnit bottle is q
sample of the wine used in churches
The commissioner made such as
stOunding statements of the extent OF
the adulteration of foods that the COM
mittee gave him an additional analyti
cal chemist with whom he expects tC
begin a crusade against food adultera
ton following the Washington plan.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
SPAIN TRADE IS INCREASING
Business With Former Enemy Grow.
ing Larger Each Year-Big
Exports Reported.

WASHINGTON, D. c., February 21.
Spain in the last fiscal year are eX-
ceedingly interesting, since they show
marked growth both as to imports
from and exports to Spain since the
war A comparison of the conditions
in 1905 with those of 1897, the last
year prior to the war with Spain, ac-
cording to the official figures just pub
lished, shows that imports into the
United States from that country have
increased from S3,500,000 to $S,500,000,
and the exports from the United States
to Spain have increased from $11,000,-
900 to $17,0OO,OO0, speaking in round
numbers. The principal articles i'm
ported from Spain are fruits and nuts,
sulphur ore, cork, wines and vege-
tables. Fruits and nuts are by far the
largest item in the imports from Spain
amounting in 1905 to considerably
more than $4,000, 600 out of a total I'm
pOrtatiOn of $S,50J,O0O from that cOun-
| try Of this total of more than 49,
100000 worth of fruit and nuts, al
monds amounted to sSS5,254; preserved
! and prepared fruits, $664490; raisins,
$196,100, while olives and groups
formed the bulk of the remainder.
The largest exports to Spain are
Jaw cotton, which amounted in 1905
to more than s12,725,O 900; tobacco, I'M
manufactured, $S13,S55; crude mineral
oil, s663,S29; shocks, slaves and head
ings, $327,257; boards, $295565; iron
and steel manufacturers, $307,544; and
leather and manufacturers thereof,
s246,S69
The trade with Spain in 1905, both
as to exports and imports, was larger
than in any proceeding year in the
history of our trade with that coun-
try.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
HUNDRED AND SIX YEARS., OLD
Mrs. Deborah SiIIman of Easton.
Conn.,, Celebrated Her Birthday
Today.

BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, Feb. 21.-Mrs.
Deborah Silliman of Easton, is cele-
brating her 106th birthday today. She
is still fairly strong, although she has
not fully recovered from an attack of
illness she had last summer. 1t was
expected that she would not survive,
but so remarkable was her vitality
that she rallied after three weeks of
serious illness and was once more able
to be up and around the house. Mrs.
Silliman lives with her grandson,
Frederick E. Silliman, within a mile
of the house where she was born on
February 81, 1900. She remembers
the stirring times of the War of 1912
as well, she says, as if they had oc-
CURED yesterday. Mrs. Silliman has
never travelled in railroad train and
has not even seen a trolley car. She
has not been out of Connecticut since
1919. She retains most of her facul-
ties unimpaired, and reads without
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
Father Saves Child.

MANITOWOC, Wis, Feb. 21.-Early
day athletic training saved the life OF
George Schadeburg and that of mis- A.
year-old son. Schadeburg clinging to
the ties Of railway trestle holding
the boy while heavily loaded train
passed him, was the cause of the above
statement.
The man was crossing the Wisconsin
Central bridge near the city with his
two children and the younger boy had
trailed in the rear. Schadeburg heard
the train approaching and rushed back
to save the boy, but was unable to
clear the bridge. Grasping the lad by
the arm, the father swung from the
side of the bridge and held on until the
train had passed. Schadeburg's arm
suffered a severe wrench, and he was
completely exhausted when assistance
reached him.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
USE TELEPHONES FOR DEFENsEs
All Army Posts In Vicinity Of New
York Are to be Con-
nected.

NEW YORK, Feb. 21.-All the army
posts in the vicinity of New York, will
within the next three months, be
equipped with modern telephone sys-
TENS with a central station at each
post. This work will be conducted un-
der the officers Of the army signal
corps. who have been recently pur
chasing large quantities of telephone
material. including some two hundred
Instruments These will be distributed
to the various posts under a decision
IF the war department prescribing a
telephone outfit for all military sta
lions. Hitherto such conveniences have
been merely permitted; hereafter they
are to be regarded as part of the ne
cessary equipment of the garrison
They are found to be necessary in the
transaction of official business, and it
will be a part of the work of the sig
nal corps to keep these systems in re-
pair and extend them whenever neces-
sary.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
RESCUE HELPLESS WOMEN.
Blaze Starting in Sioux City MiIIiner,
Store Destroys Six Stores.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Feb. 21.-Six
business concerns in the Cohen Ma
gour block at Fourth and Douglas
streets and the adjacent buildings, lost
heavily by a fire early today that
started in the millinery store Of Mrs.
Nellie Sauter. The latter, with her
companion. Miss L. Shindele, was
nearly suffocated when rescued by fire
men.
The total loss will reach $4,000, not
more than half of which is covered by
insurance. The Chicago Newspaper
Union, the Sioux City Journal, and
half a dozen other concerns were en-
dangered from the fact that fire en-
gines refused to work and the water
pressure from the hydrants was not
strong There being no wind, the
flames did not spread.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
SM0KELESS WARSH|PS POSSIBLE
Naval Officers Interested in Expert
ments Being Tried on Uncle
Sans Ships.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 21.-Na-
val officers are much Interested in the
possibilities of results from the use of
a smokeless fuel. Importance attaches
to the use of sucn an article On account
of it's contribution to the secrecy of
naval operations by means of invisi-
bility. 1t has become an important re-
quirement that there shall be as lit
tie attention as possible attracted to
naval ships in operation in time of
war, and it is for this reason that the
deadest kind of paint is used on the
nulls Of vessels, and that smokeless
poyder has been adopted for the am
munition. With the dense smoke which
pOurs from some of the tunnels it is
easy enough to locate a ship under
way; in addition to which, smoke of
this kind, when ships are in fleet for
nation, obscure signals displayed and
might lead to confusion, if not dis
aster. Naturally under the circum-
stances, any prospect of obtaining a
fuel which does not emit smoke will
be Of Importance. The tests which
have been conducted under the naval
bureau of equipment have promised
important results, but they nave not
gone far enough to lead to any final
conclusions
Numerous attempts have been made
in the past to find some method of do
ing away with the smoke from the coal
used in firing, but the various f1ues
and patent cOntrivances tried proved
ineffective in every single case.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
Shoots His Own Mother,

GUTHRIE CENTER, Iowa, Feb. q
Hermann Reese, IS years of age
shot and killed his own mother, Mrs
]. A. Reese, last night at his nome al
Beargrove, near Guthrie Center. The
family was gathered about the CRATE IL
the SittingrOOm Hermann was exam
lining a revolver which he thought un-
loaded and pointed it at his mother
in a playful mood. 1t went off and
the aged woman dropped dead at his
feet, shot through the heart The boy
is Frustrated with grief.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
Identity Is Hidden.

Whether or not the North Coast is a
Vanderbilt or a Gould line has never
been disclosed by Mr.. Kerr or any one
associated with him in the enterprise,
1t may be neither one nor the other.
Railroad men, as we'll as shrewd real
estate operators, claim to be absolute
continental identity of the North Coast.
Mr.. Kerr, who, with John H. McGraw,
is on the board of trustees of the cor
poration refuses to make any statement
regarding the financial backing of the
North Coast save that which has been
published.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
Beats Out the Agents Of The
North Coast.
IN PURCHASE OF SEATTLE PROPERTY
STRAHORN STILL KEEPS HIS
RIVALS IN DARK AS TO HIS
BACKING.

That the North Coast Railway, rep
Is not the owner of the Stetson & Post
property on the waterfront, instead of
E. H. Hartman, is due to one of those
interesting incidents which have oc-
CURED in endless number during the
past sixty days in Seattle, says the
Seattle Times. The fact that Harri-
man won by a nose, dashing under
the wire an inch or two in front of his
adversary, said to be a Gould line,
makes a story typical of what has
TRANSFERRED in this city In tide land
properties and railroad terminals, the
like of which has never before been
seen in any Pacific coast city.
The try of the North Coast Railway
for the Stetson & Post property for
terminal purposes has not been gener-
ally known among real estate men, The
age On deep water and an equal
amount on Railroad Avenue, could
probably have been purchased a year
ago for 100000. Real estate men VINO
saw that it would be required for
railroad terminals placed value OF
100000 on it thirty days ago, exclu-
sive of the improvements. This price
was offered for the lots by Mr.. Kerr
who has the destinies of the North
Coast in charge in this neck of the
woods. Mr. Kerr said he wanted the
property, but was not yet ready to
buy. This was more than thirty days
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
CARTER TRIAL BEGINS.
Des Moines Loan Broker Charged With
Murder of e. J. dresser.

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Feb. Civ. L.
Carter, the Des Moines loan broker
accused of numbering E. ]. Gresser,
a farmer living near Avon, Iowa, was
placed On trial today. The murder oc-
Cured last October Gresser was shot
while at supper, his assassin secretlng
himself in the shrubbery just outside.
Carter held a mortgage on the murd-
cred mans farm and is alleged to nave
put him to death in order to secule
the property. The defense will endeav-
or to prove an alibi.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
To Build Gigantic SmeIter.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 21-
The Guggenheims and Rockefellers.
who recently formed the Amer
lean Smelters Securities Com
pany, have decided to built a
$3,5OO,00O smelter at point
mile back from Port Costa, and
graund will be broken early next sum-
mer. 1t will be one of the largest and
best equipped smelters in the country
and will give employment to a large
number Of men,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
THE FARMERS SAVINGS BANK
ORGANIZED IN 1889
Capital fully paid up SIOO. 1000 90
Surplus $4,000. 90

With unexcelled facilities for the
transaction of the Banking Business
The Farmers Savings Bank solicitis
the accounts of firms and individuals
who may rely upon courteous con-
sideration and the very best treatment
consistent with conservative banking
and good business methods. Four per
cent paid on time deposits. Large or
small accounts will receive the same
care and attention.
Our Trustees Are:
Levi Ankeny; Geo. Struthers
G. w Babcock; S F. Henderson,;
Frances Dooley; A. H. Reynolds;
G. A. Evans: G. H. Smell;
w. P. Winans.
Our Officers Are:
w P. Winans, President.
G. w. Babcock, Vice-President.
]. Chitwood, Cashier.
A. A. King, Assistant Cashier.
The Farmers Saving Bank.
Cor. Main & Second SITS.
Rees- Winans Bldg.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21

by a tie vote, Senators Clark, La Fol-
lette, Sutherland and Teller, voting
for it and Senators Clapp, Warner,
Long and McComber against it.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
STRAYED OR STOLEN.

Bay 2-year-old colt, white mind feet,
stripe in face; heavy, bushy tail; been
gone since February II. Finder return
to Model Stables and receive reward.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
McMINN'S DANCING SCHOOL

Tuesday and Saturday evenings
dren's class Saturday, 2:3O p. m.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21

Meet me at the Walla Walla Bowling
Alleys and develop your muscles.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
NOTICE..

When wanting hay, call up Phone
1872.
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glasses, but is almost completely deaf
She believes in plain living and regu-
lar habits.
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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-06-21
The Orchid Family.

There seems to be general miscon-
ception as to just what an orchid is.
Many call any plant which grows on a
tree OF has some peculiar feature an
orchid. This mistake is frequently
made with the pitcher plants and the
tail flowers" The uniting in one Or
gan, called the column, of the stamens
ana plstlls serves to distinguish the
orchid family from all related ones.
The orchid family embraces 5000 or
1000 species, of which comparatively
few are found in the warm temperate
and almost none in the cold temperate
zones. They are mostly distributed in
the tropical regions, in hot, humid
places. Orchids, however, do not inva-
riably prefer humid conditions. Nearly
all tropical orchids grow on trees, but
In temperate regions they grow in
earth.-Youth's Companion.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-06-21
BRITISH BRIEFS.

England's first representative parlia-
mept assembled in 1865.
Caesar conquered Britain in the year
50 B. G. The Roman occupation con-
ttnued nearly 500 years, or until 40
A. d.
In 1879 was passed the habeas cor
pus act, which, along with the right of
trial by jury, is the great bulwark of
Anglo-Saxon liberty.
The great plague was introduced into
London in 1864 by bales Of cotton i'm
ported from Holland; 100000 persons
succumbed to the disease in one year,
Cromwell's long parliament assem-.
bled in 1910; Charles I. was beheaded
Jan. 30, 1916, and Cromwell became
lord protector in 1853. In 1860 the
Stuarts were restored to the throne.
Westminster abbey, where the kings
and queens of Great Britain are
crowned, was originally Benedictine
monastery. It was founded by Sc
bert, king of the East Saxons, about
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-06-21
S6c Farm F ireSide.
Gleanings by Our Country
CORRESPONDENTS.
SPENCER BROOK
correspondents. 90.

Many farmers are replanting the
low grounds lately flooded.
The water has receded enough so
that the public can get over the river
again.
Roy Ellingwood came up from An
Okla on his wheel last Wednesday and
returned Sunday.
H. w. Whiting came up from Min
neapolis Saturday and remained over
Sunday with his parents.
Ada McKenney and Lola Babb will
go to St. Cloud to attend the summer
school which begins this week.
A part of the dam at the mill was
washed out, but will be replaced so
that the miller will be able to grind
in day or two.
It is stated that a rural route will
be established between Princeton and
Spencer Brook to begin operations
about August the first.
Miss Anna Whiting returned from
Neillsville, Wis, on Saturday, where
she has been an instructor in music
and drawing the past year.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-06-21
sLIFErON EASY STREET.
1t Is an Ideal Place and Worth Striv.
ing For,


ing For.
There are more strong limbed, clear
headed, brave hearted people living on
Easy street than anywhere else in this
broad land, and their prime condition
is the natural consequence of living
there, for, although you may not have
thought Of it, there is a close relation
ship existing between good health and
the consciousness of getting on well in
life. You can see this for yourself if
you will note how a strong man droops,
like frost nipped flower, who by some
mistake loses his position, his possess
sions or the esteem of his fellows, one
or all. ShylOck made a hard bargain
with borrower, and in his effort to
foreclose the bond lost his cash and
won the contempt and scorn Of all men.
Mental disturbance followed, including
physical ill being, and, staggering away
from the judges bench and clutching
at the air, he cried, Il am not well!'
But you need not go back so far to get
an Illustration.
And on the other hand you can see
~ ,OOoNA AAA9 Iva JOOAoCA1 LII" Tie gain,
or even the anticipated gain, of home
on Easy street will make a sick man
well, quicken dying hopes into life and
change the water of sorrow into the
wine of JOY. Recent literature has re-
minded us how a happy t'!-n in the
tide Of the affairs of JOSIAH; Wedgwood,
afterward to become Re worlds great
pioneer pottery artist and inventor,
raised him from an invalid's couch and
started him upon the road to affluence
and distinction among England's in
dustrial princes. Similarly Mary Wolf
stonecraft, afterward the mother of the
poet Shelley's wife, i'll from neglect and
discouraged by hardships, was, by the
success of her modest ventures in lit
erature, heartened to undertake her
great life work, which soon yielded her
a handsome royalty.
Read the story of Angelina, who
lives on East street and has no desire
to move and lose her clear headedness
and her health. She was engaged to
be married to Allan. He was a clerk
receiving $l2 per week, and she earned
Poo a. AdOlIu ledCuluS SCHOOL. Alter q
few years Angelina explained her con-
tinued spinsterhood by saying that she
had given Allan time to develop into
larger money getter, and he had not
done it, so she decided against the ad-
visibility Of exchanging an $95 a
month position for $50 a month hus
band. It is quite true that when poy-
erty comes in at the door love flies out
OF the window, but it is not because
the Angelinas are without sentiment.
It is because love cannot feed on in
competency and thrives best on Easv
street.
30 the Importance Of every thing that
will aid any one to get on in the world
Is established on sure foundation
the testimony Of facts. We do not ex-
alt mere money getting above those
qualities Of head and heart which
make life worth living, but rather en-
phasize; the honorable getting of it as
q conserver of them. And hence the
wisdom of living on Easy street-Cent
Per Cent
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his house by giving fla new coat of

his house by giving tia new coat of
paint.
VIM. Vincent of Aitkin visited his
nephew, Henry Sleeves, few days
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leon Annis drove
over to Greenbush Sunday and visited
with friends here.
The social club met with Mrs. Tom
linson on Thursday, June Il. Ice
cream was served by the hostess.
The boys in this neighborhood who
attended the dance at Carmody on
Saturday night report a pleasant time.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Myers are very
much pleased over the arrival of a
little girl at their home on Friday
June Is.
Some of the Oxbowites and their
friends went picnicking and fishing at
Stanchfeld lake last Sunday. We
might tell another dogfsh story, but
we will not.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-06-21
Following The Flag.

When our soldiers went to Cuba
and the Philippines, health was the
most important consideration. Willis
7. Morgan, retired commissary SER
geant U. S. A., of Rural Route l.,
Concord, N. H., says: II was two
years in Cuba and two years in the
Philippines, and being subject to
colds, I took DR.. Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption, which kept
me in perfect health. And now, in
New Hampshire, we find it the best
medicine in the world for coughs,
colds, bronchial troubles and all lung
diseases. Guaranteed at G. A..
Jacks, druggist. Price SO cents and
Sl.00. Trial bottle free.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1906-06-21
HOW THE TIGER KILLS,
Neo err: Faces His Prey, but Attacks 1t
e. ON the Flank.

Neo Faces His Prey, but Attacks 1t
54 On the Flank.
1 have taken considerable trouble to
find out how tigers kill large game.
Some time ago was asked to come
and see asfull grown bullock that had
been killed by tiger. On examining
it 1 found the animal had it's neck
broken, and there were claw marks
on the nose and shoulder, but nowhere
else. There was no doubt that the
tiger had jumped at the bull and land
ed on the shoulder, and when the bull
turned his head to gore the tiger he
must have put his CLAW out and with
sudden jerk broken the neck.
On another occasion went to see
young buffalo which had been killed by
tiger and found the same thing had
happened. There We're similar marks
on the nose and also on the near shout
der, which clearly indicated that this
animal had been. killed in the same
way. Malays who have actually seen
tiger killing buffalo told me they
saw the same thing happen; also that
in dragging off a heavy carcass, such
as buffalo or bull, he gets most Of the
weight across his shoulder
This must be fairly correct, as I
have often followed a kill, and the
marks left indicate that only portion
Of the animal was trailing along the
ground. I have known a full grown
bull, which ten men could not move,
dragged for two miles by tiger in a
heavy jungle, where roots of trees and
swamp had to be gone through. In no
case have seen the pug marks facing
the wrong way except when stopping
to feed, which proves he must carry a
portion of the animal over his shoul-
der.
The old idea Of tiger killing large
game by blow from his paw is non
sense; besides, in India tiger never
faces his prey, but attacks him on the
flank unless charged. Another curious
fact that may seem very like fairy
tale is that tiger does not seem to
mind small lamp being tied over a
kill about ten feet high, but will come
and feed. have known three occa-
sions when this has been tried, and
each time tiger has come to feed
upon the carcass.-London Field.