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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-16
Waitsburg Man Shoots Him
self in the Head.
WAS The 0. R. & n. STATION AGENT
Dependency Brought About by Finan-
cial Troubles Said to Be Cause
for the Deed.

Special to The Evening Statesman:
WAITSBURG, Jan 16.-In a fit of
dependency, brought about through
his inability to meet certain obligations
that were falling due and great grief
over the loss of his baby several
months ago, ]. o. Haynes, agent of the
Oregon Railroad & Navigation COM
pany at this place, committed suicide
this afternoon at 1 o'clock by shooting
himself in the head. He died a few
minutes after firing the fatal shot.
Just before 1 o'clock Haynes walked
out of his office in the depot and went
into the tool house near by. In a
moment Mrs. Haynes, who was in their
rooms at the depot, was startled by a
pistol shot in the tool house. She has
tened to the place and was Mortified to
find her husband lying on the floor
with the blood oozing out a wound in
the right temple. Clutched in his right
hand was a 3O-caliber revolver. She
called for assistance and several per-
sons who were at the depot answered
her call. They picked up the uncon-
scious man and carried him into the
depot, where he expired Immediately
after
The act of self destruction was
great shock to the people of Waits
burg, as the deceased was well thought
of and highly respected.
Financial Troubles.
From close friends of Haynes it is
learned that the agent had become in
volved in financial straights and re-
Gently had been compelled to borrow
considerable money. Being unable to
make promised payments had caused
the past few months. In addition to
this there had been great amount OF
illness in his family. Mrs. Haynes was
under the care of a physician for sew
eral months, and recently their little
child, after a lingering illness, died.
Since that time Haynes had been
changed man.
He leaves a wife and two children.
He had been agent at Waitsburg for
about a year. coming here from Hood
River. He was a member OF the
Knights of Pythias, Ancient Order of
Workmen and the Degree of Honor.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-16
THAT is DECISION OF THE PRESl-
DENT AND THE CON-
MISSION.
Attorney General Moody Holds That
the Spooner Law Gives Presi.
dent This Power.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 16.-The
digging of the Panama canal will be-
done by contract, the president and the
commission have decided, and formal
will be made in a few
DAYS. The work will be done under
the supervision Of the commission and
engineers. Secretary General Moody
has decided tnat the Spooner law per-
mits this action. The law authorizing
the canal leaves the method of building
if to the discretion of the president
and the commission.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-16
Madman Fights Police.

MILWAUKEE, Jan. 16.-After a
desperate fight with two policemen, an
unknown man, supposedly insane, COM
mitted suicide at the residence of Jacob
Kunkel by cutting his throat with a
razor. Two officers, Herman Mar
ouardt and George Boerner, were
slashed by the maniac.
As a result of the encounter the
room in the little cottage on Wright
street looked like the interior of
slaughter house.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-16

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 16.-The
house declared by a vote of 10 to 6S
against the democratic proposition for
absolute free trade between the Philip
pines and this country, the minority
asking that the restrictions placed by
the bill upon the importation of rice,
sugar and tobacco be eliminated.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-16
Killed Wronq Man First.

OTSEGO, Mimi, Jan. l6.-W. II.
Brandt today, through jealousy. shot
and killed Justin Adams and Mrs. Ada
Brandt and then committed suicide.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-16
Great Northern Train Wrecked.

VANCOUVER, B. c., Jan. 16.-The
Great Northern express was wrecked
struck a fallen tree. Engineer j. w.
Jones, of Seattle was killed.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-16

ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 16.-The
entire Council of Workmen. consisting
of % members, were arrested last
night, charged with being revolu-
tionists.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-16
Killed in an Election Row.

BUDAPEST, Jan. 16.-Six peasants
and two policemen were killed in an
election row today.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-16
Morocco Conference Meets.

ALGECIRAS, Jan. 16.-The interna-
tional conference on Moroccan affairs
opened at o'clock this afternoon.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-16
The Chicago Grain Market.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 16-Wheat.. $50
8Skc; corn, ASH @45hc; oats, $3.50
31%c.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-16

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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-22

and an abundance or rOod or the best
quality at a total cost of 500 year
per person.
A Chiidren's Heaven.
So much for the cooperative prepare
ton of food. And now for the caring
for children. There should he two sep
arate establishments, one for infants,
who like to sleep, and one for children,
who like to run and shout. Both should
be scientifically constructed and ven
tilated and kept as clean as an up to
date hospital. The food should be pre-
pared under the general direction of a
physician. No building for children
should he over two stories high, and
the upper windows should he beyond
the reach of children. No matches or
exposed fire should he permitted, and
there should be II night Waterman, fire
extinguishers and an automatic sprin-
king apparatus These establish
ments should be under the supervision
of n board of women directors. and the
actual work of caring for the children,
washing. dressing and feeding them.
playing with them and teaching them,
should he done by trained nurses and
kindergarten teachers who live i'll the
colony as the friends and social equals
of its members In other words, it is
my idea that the caring for children
should be recognized as Il profession
and that servants should have nothing
to do with it. 1t is my idea that it
should be done in IL place built for the
purpose, with floors for babies TO crawl
where there is no dirt for them to eat.
with Fairgrounds for children where
there are no stoves and no boiling wa
ter, no staircaseS and wells. no cats
and dogs, no workbaskets, lamps, pi-
amos, sewing machines, jam closets,
inkStands and authors writing tables.
Instead there should be sleeping rooms
and bedrooms and sun parlors for
nursing mothers, Il separate building
for the sick, kindergarten rooms and
indoor Fairgrounds for bad weather,
and big all outdoors romping ground,
with sunny places and shady places.
swings, rocking horses, sand piles and
all other accessories of children'S
heaven.
Every member of the community i
propose would have his own home,
to which he would invite his personal
friends as he chose, and the other mem
bers of the community lie would meet
in the same way that he meets ac
quaintances in business and politics.
in theaters. restaurants and clubs. In
q colony of hundred families there
OUGHT to ..5c pe1:sons of every kind of
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-22

Baron Speck Won Sternburg, ambas-
sador from Germany to the United
States, delivered the principal address
the other day at the commencement
exercises of the University of Illinois
at Urbana. ILL.,, says a dispatch from
that city In the course of his address
| he said:
1.-The spiritual bonds between our
two nations, especially during the last
thirty years. have been powerful fac
| tor The increase in the number of
men of university training in the Unit
ed States and in Germany during this
period has been pointed out as one Of
the most remarkable facts of our epoch.
Higher education has adjusted itself
to the needs of our modern life. and
the demand for university education is
more earnest in both countries than
anywhere else and has become far
more general. Our people at large have
awakened to the one thing needed for
national SUGGESTIVE growth OF a truly
scientific spirit in the conduct of af-
fairs, from the smallest industry TO
the ?. ADMINISTRATION of. the state. itself,
TN Gerni:Sny the scientific spirit has
penetrated into every branch of bust
ness. into every factory. Empirical sys-
TENS, which have not adapted them
selves to the changes. have one by one
gone to the wall. 1t has become a fire.
quent saying that the German univer-
sity professor is the father of modern
German industry. This is true to the
word. He has harnessed science to
industry and has brought Teuton en-
ergy, enterprise and perseverance TO
its fullest development.
Emperor Kang Hi of China issued
a treatise which his grateful people
named the Holy Edict' Kang Hi was
the second emperor of the present dy-
nasty, the Chings, which overthrow the
corrupt and degenerated Mings. He,
like Frederick the Great. was not only
a highly successful warrior, but a
statesmar- and artist of great renown-
Charlottesville are the inscriptions
of the seals of Kang Hi. They contain
two impressions-one the characters
attend to the people, the other, ven
crate heaven Every country which
expects to be prosperous, every indi-
vidual who wants to perform his duty
and find happiness in life, can today
do no better than follow the teachings
of the Holy Edict.' At a glance those
who read them and have read or lis
tened to the quotations in the speeches
of President Roosevelt must be struck
by the extraordinary similarity of the
two. Let me give few examples:
"Kang HI says: cultivate filial piety
and brotherly love, fo- thereby will be
honored social morality President
Roosevelt says: We must in our lives.
in our efforts. endeavor TO further the
cause of brotherhood
'Kang Hi says: Esteem thrift and
economy. for thereby. is saved. money
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-22

derfnocraticaIly elected. For the man
agement of its various departments
salaried experts should be employed,
machinery should be Installed wher-
ever it could be made to pay, and the
best modern methods should be APP
piled in every industry. All it's pur-
chases should be in bulk and tested for
quality, and SO far as the preparation
and serving of food is concerned the
processes should be kept as aseptic as
a surgical operation.
The buildings of this home colony
should be of frame at the outset, of
simple and expressive design, each
structure exactly adapted to its spe-
cific purpose. The buildings should be
conveniently grouped-those for the
children in one place, those for cook
ing and eating in another, those for
reading, for music and social inter
course, for recreation and exercise in
still other places. The greater part of
the land would Of course be given up
to farm and woodland and to the in
dividual dwellings of the families. The
ground available for this latter purpose
should be divided into lots, priced ac-
cording to size and location and leased
to stockholders for long terms. Each
would erect his own home, according
to his own taste-a home of course of a
kind hitherto unknown, with no pro-
vision for the cooking Of food or the
training of children or other trades
and professions. 1t would be a place
where the family met, to rest and play
and sleep. 1t might be large or small,
anything that the owner chose TO make
it. My own would be four or five
room cottage OF rustic design, and 1t
would cost from 5000 to $500. Besides
these there should be apartment build
ings owned by the colony and dormi-
tories with rooms for single men and
women
AS to the public buildings, there
should be large and beautiful dining
hall and modern, scientifically con-
structed kitchen. There should be sep
arate tables for each family or for con-
genial groups of people. The servics
should be unexceptionable. the food
simple. but perfect in quality and
There should he vege-
tartan service for those who prefer this
cheaper mode of life, and the charge
for board should be based upon the
cost of the service. l will probably
be laughed at, but | believe that, grant
buildings, equipment and capital. the
members of slIcl, u colony as l describe
could be provided with perfect service
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-22
IMPROVING MAIL DELIVERY.
Rural Carriers to examine Only
Boxes Displaying SIEThlis.

Rural Carriers to examine Only
Boxes Displaying SIETaiIs.
In view of the great loss of time
| necessarily involved by requiring rural
carriers to examine every mail box on
their routes each day, an exhaustive
inquiry, covering a period of several
| months, has been conducted by the
postoffice department TO determine
whether or not a change in the regula-
ton is advisable, says a Washington
special dispatch to the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. This inquiry has brought
out the fact that for the purpose of de-
livering and collecting mail at those
boxes with which they have actual
business carriers would only be re-
quired to make daily visits to about
one-half of the total number of boxes
on their routes
Figuring the average number of
boxes on a standard route at eighty
and the time taken TO serve each box
as two minutes, it is shown that by
the present system of calling at and
examining every box on each route a
total of about two and three-fourths
hours is consumed per route, whereas
If carriers are required to call at and
examine none except those boxes with
which they have business to transact
the service of each average route will
be expedited more than one hours
time. In other words, the people liv-
ing at the farther end of a route will
receive their mail that much earlier in
the day.
1t has therefore been decided that
after July 1, 1906, carriers when max
ing their trips will visit and examine
only those boxes for which they have
mail for delivery and those ON which
the signals are displayed TO indicate
that there is mail for dispatch BY
the new ruling patrons will need to
display the signals on their boxes when
they deposit mail therein for carriers
to collect, and the carriers will be re-
CURED to raise the signals ON patrons
boxes when they deliver mail
Those patrons who are now main
tanning mail boxes on which there are
no signals will need TO fix up or pro-
cure some sort of device which will
serve as a signal to carriers
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-22
FA VORITE OF THE
PRESIDENT

The late Robert Barnwell Roosevelt
uncle of the president, was held in
high esteem by the chief executive
who always looked forward to their
annual reunions with the greatest OF
pleasure, says a Washington dispatch
to the New York Tribune. OF late
years. on account of the presidents
manifold duties, which made it well
nigh impossible for him TO spare the
time to go to Sayyille. Mr. Roosevelt
had done most of the visiting 70 his
nephew. The last time the president
went to Sayville was in the summer
of 1904. when he rode horseback across
Long Island from oyster Bay in com
pany with his boys. Mr. Roosevelt
paid the president q visit last winter
arriving in Washington without trou-
bling to send any advance notice of his
coming. The old man never paid much
attention to the subject of clothes. pre-
ferring to wear what was most com
forta BILE and so when he arrived at
the door of the White House office
building one morning the doOrkeepers
thought him some venerable farmer
who was seeing the sights"
I'D like TO see the president" the
old man said to the loorkeepers.
You'll have to see his doorkeepec
first said one of the policemen at the
outer door, and Mr. Roosevelt pro-
ceeded to make his wants known to
Major Charles Loeffier. Major Loeffler
looked Mr. Roosevelt over, was
not particularly impressed with his
appearance, perhaps. and told him
that the president was busy" Then
Mr.. Roosevelt tried Secretary Loeb's
door with equal lack OF success. John
Hans, the doorkeeper on guard. told
him that the secretary was busy" too.
While Mr.. Roosevelt was standing
first on one foot and then ON the other.
in an irresolute way. he was recognized
by one of the secret service men who
had seen him IN Sayyille on the occa-
sion of the presidents visit. The detec-
tive steered him info Mr.. Loeb's room
in a jiffy, and the secretary hustled
him into the presidents Office in less
time than it takes to set this type.
The president happened TO be IN the
cabinet room at that moment and did
not see his uncle's entrance. This did
not disturb the old man in the least,
however, for he threw himself into
one of the big leather armchairs. took
a long black cigar from his pocket, lit
it, crossed his legs and breathed a sigh
of relief.
The president spied him in moment.
With shout of delight, he cried,
why. Uncle Robert.'' leaving the SEN
ators and members of congress IN the
cabinet ROOM How are you? l am
awfully glad to see you. When did
you get in? Why didn't you let me
know you were coming?"
questions at him he rushed up and
pumphandled him in "a way that would
have struck terror to a less vigorous
man than Robert B. Roosevelt. The
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-22
PAGES 9 TO IA.
HOME COLONY PLANNED BY UPTON SINCLAIR

10 convey people to and from the din
ing hall in bad weather. There would
be a livery stable, at which you could
hire or keep rig for about one-fourth
what it would cost you elsewhere.
think that such community should
he planned for the accommodation of
certain number of members and the
necessary working force and should be
limited TO these. Not all OF the mem
bers need he stockholders, OF course.
Others might he admitted TO the bene-
fits of the association, but in that case
the stock should pay dividends. and I'm
any case the management of the cor
poration would have to be vested eX-
clusively in the stockholders. For the
administration OF the various indus
tries there would have TO be superin-
tendent n man Of first class executive
ability. responsible TO the board OF d.
rectors.' and there would be corps OF
mana gers Of departments, each thor
oughly experienced man: a manager OF
the farm and stables. OF the truck and
flower gardens. of the purchasing de-
partment and the cooperative store, OF
the catering department, of the build
ings and grounds. the power plant and
the heating department. How many
such men there should be and what
they should he paid, how many en-
ployees of all sorts would be necessary,
is one of the questions upon which ex-
pert advice is needed. / am willing to
get Il complete set of figures for the en-
terprise / have outlined. provided that
I hear from Il sufficient number of peo-
pie TO make it worth while ! am per-
fectly and seriously i'm earnest about
the matter, willing TO give my time to
it, for years if need be. / hope TO
hear from 100 or 200 people who are in
terested. | am willing Ia undertake
TIE enterprise with AZ few as twenty
families. | wish TO hear NOT merely
from those WHO will invest as stock
holders. but also from those who will
rcEt or build homes-from men and
women who are willing to contribute
their labor as walters. cooks. nurses.
teachers or managers. aad from per-
sons having business experience who
would like to help me in working out
this plan
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-22
K an6 Hi Like OeddY

In business" President Roosevelt says:
Only 10y avoidance Of spending money
on what is needless or unjustifia bic
can we legitimately keep our income
to the point required 10 meet our needs
that are genuine
"Kang III says: Promote academic
institutions, for thereby are established
scholarly habits President Roosevelt
says: OF all the work that is done or
that can be done for our country the
greatest is that of educating the body.
the mind and. above all. the character
''Kang HI says: Explain laws and
ordinances. for thereby are warned the
foolish and Obstinate President Roose-
Welt says: When we make II evident
that all men, great and small alike.
have TO obey the law. we put the safe
guard of the law around all men
"Kang Hi says: Recommend polite
speech. for thereby is refined the social
atmosphere President Roosevelt SAYS:
Speak softIy'-the following words you
all know.
"Kang Iii says: Develop legitimate
business, for thereby the peoples de
sire is rendered pacific President
Roosevelt says: Our laws should he so
drawn as TO protect and encourage cor
porations which do their honest duty
10y the public.
"Kang HI says: Keep disciplined the
forces, for thereby are prevented thefts
and robberies.' President Roosevelt
says: A good navy IS not provocative
OF war; 1t is the surest guarantee OF
peace
'Kang Hi says: Settle enmltles and
discussions, for thereby you protect hui
man lives President Roosevelt says
Every thinking man rejoices when by
mediation or arbitration it proves pos
sible TO settle troubles I'm time TO avert
suffering
The style of Kang HIS maxims
shows the conventional character of the
orthodox Confucianist and naturally
may appear pedantical to you. But
think you will agree that il is re-
markable document which reveals the
Utmost thought of great Chinese
ruler and runs closely on the lines oc
thought of President Roosevelt"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-06-22
Indiana Cabin Rufsir1G

There was a log cabin raisiR'" nj
Buzzard's Roost the other afternoon
the first in Marion county, Ind, it is
thought, for the last twenty-five or
thirty years, says the Indianapolis
News. 1t was of the old fashioned
sort all through, with four or five men
doing nearly all the work and about
twenty men lounging about on conven-
lent piles of lumber and logs and of
fering good advice.
The manner in which the cabin was
raised was not the only interesting
feature connected with IL. On Easter
day of 1897 William Watson WooIlen
of Indianapolis was wandering along
Fall creek between MillersvilLe and
what is now the Benjamin Harrison
army post when he 'discoveredr Buz-
Yards RoOst. 1t was simply an I'M
named tract of forty-fOur acres of
wilderness, and its primitive state ap-
pealed to Mr. WOollen's love of nature
In the rough. He determined to be the
owner of that forty-fOur acres. and in
few months he was. When he dis
covered the tract a man told him of
the number of turkey buzzards that
were In the habit of roosting in a big
tree on the land, and therefore Mr.
Woollen gave to it its present name.
He bought the land that a bit of
primitive Indiana might be preserved
to the future generations, and the log
cabin is part of this scheme. The
city of indianapolis is to receive the
tract of land and the cabin some day
without charge, according to Mr.. Wool
lens plans, when he no longer is here
to enjoy it. when fifty or more years
have passed." he explains, there will
be at least one place in this state
where people can go and see the way
their forefathers lived in primitive In
diana-see not only the tangle of
forest and the old log cabin, but also
some OF Indiana's native birds"
1t is probable that Mr.. Woollen will
spend his last years In the cabin when
he is ready to retire from active life.
He is never so happy as when near to
nature and when surrounded by his
friends, the birds. He has planted
more than 500 cherry trees in the rich
bottom lands. along with many berry
bushes, and in this way the place will
be self supporting before it is turned
over to the city. The rest of the land
will be left in its present primitive
state.
But to revert to the cabin raisin'"
and the raisers. For several weeks
the work preliminary to a recent Sat
urday's event had been going on. Trees
had been cut here and there out OF
Buzzard's Roost forest In such manner
that their loss would not be noticed,
and these logs had been dragged to the
top Of the hill. where there was small
clearing in the thicket There they
had been hewed roughly into shape.
Meanwhile a big basement of cement
blocks had been built Then the cabin
had been built up about three logs
high by men hired for the work.