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The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1906-06-09

department prior to March 1,
1905, will be accepted. This
cuts out the Farmers Union
Ditch company by about 90
days and also others.
There were Two PROPOSE
tons before the meeting: One
was to ask for a further modi-
iicalion of the order of 1890
so as to let in the Farmers
and other companies who are
DESTROYS of occupying govern
ment lands for irrigation pur-
poses. 1t was suggested that
a petition be made to extend
the time limit from March
1905 to January or March /,
1907. The other proposition
was to demand the abrogation
of the order of 1890 and de-
mand our rights under the
laws. The first proposition
was favored by Judge liol-
brook and others. K. b. Wal
lace. Col. Sampson and K. c..
Breckenridge argued in favor
of the latter. The question
beng put to a vote the pro-
position to demand the total
abrogalion of the order of
1890 carried by only one dis
senting vote. \ motion was
put. and carried that a com
mittce OF three be appointed
to go at once To Washington
to urge the demands of the
citizens of the great San Luis
Valley, which covers an area
as large rs the State of Con
necticut and which has a soil
and climate not surpassed in
the Rocky Mountains. which
now has some 10000 acres
under cultivation, with 1000
900 acres more that is only
awaiting the storage OF the
Hood waters OF the Rio
Grande river for its rcdcmp-
ton from an arid waste to
fertile fields OF grain. hay, POI
tatocs, bccts. etc. The fol-
loving were named as mem
bcrs of this committee: Judge
llolbrook. OF Concjos county:
+. C. Cloudy. of Denver; and
\. Y. Tabor. of Creole.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1906-06-09

John Hecker has moved his two
story wooden structure east If
feet and is putting a stone fonnda
tior under the building prepare
tory To veneering il with brick.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1906-06-09

A party of capitalists from the
East arrived IN town Friday and
will go mp 10 the As,llc mines
Saturday.
The Monte Vista journal. (Monte Vista, Rio Grande County, Colo.) 1888-1921, 1906-06-09

mass meeting OF citizens department prior To March
from all of the valley 1905 will be accepted. This
assembled City Hail. Monte the Farmers Union
\ sta. to what steps. if Ditch company by about
cnull la akaui iuali laa.sul
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20

With the railroad commission using
the big stick to force the railroads
to grant equitable distributing rates
to the jobbing interests OF Waila wal
la; with the Seattle P.-I. and the Taco
ma News advertising the city as the
home of a United States senator; ana
other papers throughout the state COM
pelled to refer to the removal of some
of their prominent citizens 10
lengthy abode on 1.-The hill'', we are
certainly gaining some publicity All
advertising pays.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
WHY HEARST IS STRONG.

The New York campaign revolves
around Hearst. If the republicans dis
cuss the denomination of Higgins it is
with the thought in mind that Higgins
can beat Hearst. If they discuss the
nomination of Hughes it is because
they believe Hearst would beat Hig-
gins. If the democrats talk of a
straight nomination it is in the fear
that without it Hearst will swallow the
organization. The whole campaign re-
wolves about Hearst, his personality,
his chances, the effect of his candidacy
upon the fortunes of political ma
chimes.
The New York World almost weeps
as it contemplates Hearst arm in arm
with Murphy walking off with the
clothes of the democratic party. which
leads the Boston Herald to inquire
what the World has been doing to per-
NIT Hearst to become so strong? WHY
is Hearst strong? 1t is not his person.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
Not All In the Air.

The incident below-which Daniel
Colt Gilman, LII. D., late president of
Johns Hopkins university, incorporat-
ed in his sheaf Of remembrances, 1.-The
Launching of University and Other
Papers" not happen at the pres
ent time, when each new institution of
learning has its millionaire sponsor.
1t belongs to the pioneer period of ed
ucatiOn, when starting a college meant
breaking the wilderness.
A gentleman. President Gilman says,
once introduced himself to DR.. Day,
then president Of Yale, as chancellor
of a western state university.
"How large faculty have your"
President Day inquired, with genuine
interest
Not any," answered the western
gentleman.
Have you any library or build
ingsT'
"Not YETI
"Any endowment?"
"None"
"What have you. then" persisted
President Day.
The visitors countenance brighten
ed. I'VE have a very good charter"
said he.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
A Universal LANGUAGE Exists,

"A universal language has existed
since mans birth, the language of the
gesture"
The speaker. an ethnologist, sharp
ened his left forefnger with his right
forefnger as one sharpens a pencil.
THAT gesture means Shame! Hiss
for shame" he said. 1T means that
the world over. Use it on a savage
woman in New Guinea or on the king
of England, and both alike will under
stand you
He shook his fist.
''That is a threat" he said. "The
world over it is a threat
Holding his forefnger a little to the
right of his face, he shook it.
"a warming he said. wherever
man exists, there the shaken forefin-
ger means a warning"
49," he concluded, 81 could go on
Indefinitely, giving you one by one
the signs that compose our universal
gesture language. Since this language
exists and since everybody under
stands it, l see no reason why new
universal languages should be contin-
ually invented, particularly since these
new ones are very difficult to learn
st. Louis Globe-DemOcrat.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
THE RABIES OF BROWN.

There are four big issues in Nebras-
ka this year says the Kansas City
Star. They are the abolition of free
passes upon railroads; direct primaries;
the creation of a railroad commission,
and the direct taxation of railroad
property. These issues are usually
condensed into one-that railroad DOM
ination of the state must cease.
SO far as the people have been heard
from it has ceased The nominations of
Legislators have gone against the rail-
roads with cheerful unanimity and the
road agents are now engaged in a
strenuous effort to save the remains
of the machine state ticket
The main battle RACES around the
selection of a senator to succeed Mil
lard. He was chosen five years ago
when there was nothing but railroad
in the legislature and in the strenu-
Gus battle for popular rights this year
he has developed no strength at all
The leading candidates are Edward
Rosewater, editor of the Omaha Bee,
who would have been in the senate
long ago if the people had but listened
to him, and the attorney general, Nor
ris Brown. Brown is within seventy
votes of a majority of the state con-
vention with 29S delegates unsolicited.
ton he will be chosen by the legisla-
ture and will go to Washington in
Toilette when he arrived at the cap
ital. Brown, as attorney general, had
the temerity to do his duty When the
railroads refused to pay their taxes on
the ground that they had not con-
scented to the values assessed, Brown
took the unheard of course of going
to law with them. And he beat them,
too. This made the railroads mark
Brown off their roll of safe and san
men.
Brown has been degenerating ever
since. He has shown symptoms of
| mania in attacking and breaking up
the grain trust and of deplorable lun-
acy in his rank proceedings against
! the lumber trust. Not only has Brown
gone mad on these subjects but he has
| inoculated the people Of Nebraska.
They have gone daft with him and
| employ their time at political meetings
roaring songs of freedom and speeches
| defantly excoriating the patriots who
| have consented to make the state
! for their own good. There is no joy
| in Nebraska for railroad men who for
| see themselves sentenced to the un-
exciting job of carrying freight and
| passengers while the rabble carry con-
ventions. Much of this is due to the
| rabies of Brown, bad man.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20

atty, which is weak and watery. 1t
well nigh blank. 1t is not his pub
lie utterances, so many of which as
can be actually traced to him being
thin and vapid. He has no friends
among the politicians and to the peo-
pie he is practically unknown.
Hearst as an individual is nothing.
AS a publisher he is something, but it
is as rallying point for discomfort
that he is everything. When he ran
for mayor it was the psychological
man than Hearst with as much radi-
calism in his composition could have
York voted not for Hearst but against
Murphy. If they vote for Hearst for
and the Albany regency in both the old
parties.
ALL There will be discomfort with the
domination of gas companies, insur-
ance companies and traction COM
panies to be voiced. The people of
New York are corporation-ridde and
they have come to know it. Hearst's
papers have hammered in the truth
that New York gets less public service
for more public money per capita than
any city in the world. He had proposed
a remedy which is abiding not only
to the people who want revenge, but to
politicians who want place-municipal
ownership. This issue has penetrat-
ed all of the big and little cities of
New York. 1t is on a tidal wave 1t
is untried and therefore strong. 1t
has not been tested and it has not
failed. Private ownership has been
tested and has failed in everything
except the piling up of dividends to
be spent by the riotous scions of
great families. 1t is no wonder the
people of New York rebel 1t is no
wonder they look eagerly for a Moses
and are ready to follow even such an
uncertain one as Hearst. They are
mad through and through, and the
bloated pashas of the money kings
who hOno IN fool them AGAIN NAV he
fooled themselves.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
No Sex In Initials.

There is bad trick In business
letter writing to which men as wen
as women are addicted" said DUST
ness man. II mean the way people
have of signing merely initials anu
leaving you without clew as to theif
sex, consequently without a correct
form in which to reply to their comInu-
nication and without properly colh-
plete notion of their identity.
For example, l have been for tnree
weeks in desultory correspondents,
with a client who signed s. 7. snlts'
we will say. The handwriting was
somewhat feminine, and had my see
rotary address the answers TO MID
s. T. SHIFTS We received correo
ton this morning from Samuei =
SHIFTS, and discovered that our corfe
spondent is man.
"At other times women write
signing merely initials, and se'e ~.
letters are interchanged before we u,I
cover that p. b. Pipkin' or II. =.
Skeeter' represent members OF the I'M
sex 49,,
"This is a case where brevl'! ''
the soul Of wit."-New York Press
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
A Narrow Escape,
travel.

Will Harder of the threshing crew
of Harder brothers, is entitled to thank
his lucky stars that he is yet in the
land of the living, says the Weston
Leader. The outfit was at work on
Tuesday at w. P. Willaby's place
west of town when a knuckle on the
feeder broke, releasing a bar which
struck Mr.. Harder across the side of
his head, knocking him insensible. The
bar came in contact with the cheek
bone, which withstood the shock. This
is not saying that Mr. Harder is pos
sessed of most adamantine cheek
than the average individual. Had the
blow been an inch higher, it would
have struck the temple; an inch lower
and it very probably would have bro
ken his neck. The wounded man was
taken to Athena for medical attention,
and is fast recovering.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20

frst anybody knew they were all ths
pest of friends.
But the strangest part, of course.
was about Lois. Jim never did SIN
gle brave thing so far as l know, risk
his life In saving a train Of passengers
or anything like that, and he spent a
lot of money in helping people in one
way and another-a good deal more
than his salary could possibly amount
to-and either of. these things was
enough to keep Lois scornful. She had
no use at all for a man unless he was
brave and no use for one who wasn't
absolutely honest, and of course spend
ing more than one earned would seem
to have only one meaning.
However, Jim kept right on in his
quiet, good natured way until he had
made the railroad men his friends, and
even Lois and began to look forward
to his spending an evening, things
went off 50 swinging and pleasant-like.
NO, / don't know as he ever did
ask me in so many words for my con-
sent or even if he asked Lois. 1t all
came about as if twas made to be so,
minister and all, and it want until
after they were married and gone to
his home that we found out he was
one of the biggest owners of the rail-
road, with more money than he could
throw away. That first time he saw
Lois he was just from college and
gone into partnership with his father
and was taking an observation trip
over their road.
His father like it? Seemed so. Any
way he's never said or looked word
against it when I've been there, and
he's just as proud Of Lois as Jim him.
self. And Lois, why, up there the
city is just full of society queens, as
they call them, and Lois leads the
whole lot-takes to it naturally, they
say, just like she's always took to ev-
erything. l go up once year, and
they all treat me like king, and Jim,
especially if he's got some big nabob
visiting, as he generally has, button
holes me and tells that story about
but Lois hates personal talk that
touches on brag, so it doesn't matter.
You see, she might hear"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
MEEkER NEARING OMAHA.
Old Pioneer On the Back Trail Near
ing His Journeys End.

Ezra Meeker, the pioneer retracing
the old Oregon trail, who began his
journey from and placed his first mon
ument in The Dalles, has nearly ac-
complished the task he started to per-
form. He is now within 200 miles of
Omaha, Neb, and within less than
two weeks will enter the city where a
rousing reception awaits him.
In his letters to George H. Hines,
curator of the Oregon Historical Socie-
ty, Mr. Meeker says he never felt bet
ter in his life, and that his trip across
the plains has been of great benefit to
his health He encountered many vio-
lent storms on the plains, but he paid
no attention to them, and two cyclones
passed near him, but did no damage
to his outfit.
After arriving in Omaha, Mr.. Meeker
will take a brief rest and proceed in
his prairie schooner to Indianapolis,
Ind, the goal of his journey. The re-
mainder of his trip will be compare
lively easy, as he will have the best of
roads in the country over which to
travel.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
- -
Diversion in Linn.
Harrisburg Bulletin.

We have some queer laws. 1t costs
less to wallop your wife than it does
to whip your horse Recently one of
our citizens was fined SIS for beating
his horse which wasn't the full limit of
the law; while last week Judge Hen
derson gave a drunken brute the full
limit of the law for beating his poor
little wife, which was only $50. Both
cases were tried in the same court.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
How She Cured Him,

An impecunious young lawyer whose
lack of clients, says a writer in the
New York Sun, has sometimes caused
him to visit a pawnshop told the fol-
lowing story, in which the joke was
on himself:
My mother gave me a gold watch,
which was often of more service to
me as a pledge on which to borrow
money in pawnshop than as a time
piece. 1t grieved her to know that
made such use of her gift, and several
times she furnished the means of re-
deeming it.
One day, when had gone a partic-
ularly long time without my watch,
mother demanded the pawn ticket.
Within a week she handed me my
watch, and promised, as usual, not to
pawn it again. But the necessity re-
turned, and had recourse to the loan
office .
The pawnbroker glanced at the time
piece and opened the inner case. His
manner became formal. Where did
you get this watch?" he inquired.
1t was present" l replied.
well, I'm going to hold it until you
can prove it's yours" he declared, and
then, by way of explanation, 81 sup
pose you didn't read what's engraved
on the case?'
NO" l said family.
''I'll read it to you: If this watch is
offered for sale or pawn notify Mrs.
-, - street. Reward"
There was nothing to do but go home
and make clean breast of it.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
HURRY UP, GOOD PEOPLE!

Now that the Battle of Tacoma has
been fought and the maneuvers at
American Lake have been executed,
the hundreds of thousands of people
in the great state of Washington will
have time to give their undivided at
the warning sditorialists, upon which
and whom hinges the momentOus fate
of the "ins" and the "outs." The re-
suit of the terrific war Of words will
be watched with bated breath by the
walls and the hilltops.
Every trick of battle, every art of
war known to the human family, is be-
ing employed in the fearful struggle of
the editorial giants. Already has the
mighty horn sounded for the falling
of the walls-this early is the wooden
horse of the Greeks dragged into the
citadel. Soon will come the frightful
annihilation incident to the use of 49,
inch "Deweys" and photographed
Whitehead torpedoes. Ambuscades and
escalement, frontal attacks and flank
movements, lyddite shells and
smothering red fire, with black flags,
red flags and any other kind and
color of fags-except white-are in
use, with the bloody, fearful war cry of
mo quarter" 1t is and will be, the
apotheosis of General Sherman's def
milton of War.
From every corner of the world,
from every page of the dictionary, will
come those stupendous hosts of adj
jectives, articles, conjunctions, pred
icates hanging participates and
explosive syntaX to bring
slaughter to the politicians and the
Kings English. No mightier exemplifi-
cation of neology will ever be seem
not even in a 4-Paw circus bill-than
in the magnificent campaign mapped
out by the bullying foreheads of the
mutual admiration society.
The doors are open-the perform
ance is going on-with admission at
the low price of five cents-a half a
dime-for single performances, or
season ticket at the rate of so cents
per month. All live news will be
carefully expunged while the battles go
forward and the audience will be sat-
isfied with the noise of the exploding
fireworks
In a seething torrent of carbonated
persifiage the most spectacular car
mage will result for the benefit Of the
people. The awful scene of our suf-
fering senator, firmly caught between
the grindstones of the mutual admir-
alton editorialists, will be enacted
daily for the benefit of the populace
and John L. Wilson.
Don't fail to see it. If you haven't
the price, borrow, beg, or steal it, or
crawl under the canvas. 1t will en-
terrain you until election time comes
and you are called upon to exercise
your own common sense and de-
monstrate your own civic pride.
Until then-enjoy yourselves!
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
A Mystery Solved

How to keep off periodic attacks
of biliousness and habitual constipa-
ton was a mystery that Dr. King
John N. Pleasant, of Magnolia Ind
The only pills that are guaranteed to
give perfect satisfaction to everybody
or money refunded. Only 25c at E
L. Smalley's drug store.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
DROWNED IN SNAKE.
Member Of Engineer Corps Making
Survey is Dead.

Reports from Huntington tell Of the
death of one of the party of engineers
who are surveying the Snake river
road Particulars of the tragedy are
meagre.
The young man was in the river
when he was caught by the current and
carried beyond help, drowning in
sight of his companions who were I'M
able to do anything to help him. The
accident occurred early in the wook
but news of it did not reach Hunting
ton until yesterday. The young mans
name is unknown.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
Winning
BY FRANK H. SWEET
Copyright, 1906, by Charles II. SutcliTe


whats that? How did l come to
give my consent? Well, don't know
as l ever did. It was one of the things
that just come about-happen. you
know, as If twas made to be so. l
never did have much use for White
hands and store clothes and soft
voice. Seemed to me they went mostly
with card sharps and men who want
willing to work, and Lois felt the same.
Her great idea in man was courage,
ready to risk life and all for anything
that seemed right, especially if a wo-
man was in it, and to us that kind Of
a man had big brown hands and broad
back and loud voice, and he always
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
Proper Thing in Bunchgrass.
Echo RPpiStar

Last Tuesday a man gave a hurry
order to a waitress in one of our no.
tells coupled with a little profanity.
He was ordered out of the house and
defied the lady to eject him. There was
no man handy to call in at this juno
ture, but catching up a bread-knife the
plucky waitress chased him to the
street. He won't come back until he
gets over his scare
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20

No. dear reader. there was no earth
quake in Walla Walla yesterday. That
mature explosion of a 13-inch editorial
being mixed by one of the warning ed
jured
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20

If you see reputable citizen zigzag-
-glng down Main street while reading
a pamphlet, don't imagine he is drunk
or crazy. He's merely digesting those
new health laws compiled by the
health officer and his erratic gait is
due to his aversion to the miniature
lakes of tobacco juice on the side
walks
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20

At last the strain of expectation, the
Seattle P.-I has come to the rescue of
its Walla Walla edition with nearly a
her senator. We had feared the little
"Bunc" was to be left to fight the bat
tie alone
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20

A number of arrests were made by
.,le police Saturday night and Sunday.
But none of the apprehensions was for
the serious, hanging crime of violating
the anti-expectoration ordinance.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20

dav picking up the hot end of the dl-
rect primary stick? Not bit OF II. IN
stead they hit the trail of the simple
life by organizing a Jeffersonian CLUB
and electing as president a surgeon 10
care for the wounded. linen tney
trekked homewards-a little nght-
beaded-but still able to navigate.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20

On the return in the Hunt Frank
lin" from the pipe line trip: George,
what is your opinion of this Bill Kirk
man." why, to tell you the truth,
Gilbert. l don't know what to think of
him-yet."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20

Isn't it a huge joke to hear John l..
Wilson. the most INSCRIPTIONS and
dictatorial political boss Eastern
Washington has endured, shouting for
the direct primary in the interest of
"clean politics." When the devil was
sick'-you know.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20

The Seattle dispatches say Walla
Walla is to be given the distributing
rates first agreed to by the railroads.
This means the distance flag for some
other cities which have entered the
commercial race with Walla Walla.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-20
First Glass Family Laundry Work.
name is unknoW

Housekeepers when you want any
laundry work done you have only to
call Up phone 1SS for our wagon,
when we will show you what can be
done by a modern laundry equipped
with modern machinery. Four cents
per pound. Elite Family Laundry
Telephone 1873. VIM. Teal, manager