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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17
THE PRESIDENT VS.. ALDRICH.

The gossip of Washington suggests
that President Roosevelt has known
since the beginning of his second ad-
ministration that he could never ac-
complish anything of Importance until
he had dethroned Aldrich in the senate.
That he has done this begins to be con-
coded. The adroitness with which the
president has unanswered the rate bill
and the generalship with which he
massed his heavy artillery, the first
gun of which was the Garfield report,
and the second his special message
to congress upon that report, have, it
is said, put the Standard Oil senator
in a state of mind far from enviable.
The men who were formerly relied up
on to do Aldrich's bidding are now re-
calcitrant. They are either with the
president or they have heard from their
constituents so Enthusiastically that they
find it inexpedient to be with Mr.. Aid
rich.
The senator from Rhode Island has
heretofore been able to smother good
many measures by merely letting it be
understood that the party would be en-
dangered by their consideration. He
has stood off tariff revision by this
familiar threat. But now he finds the
shoe on the other foot, and he is be-
ing told that if the senate flunks on
the rate bill or declines to take up the
alcohol BILL the prospects of many
members of the lower house for re-
election are greatly lessened. He is be-
ing asked on all sides to say what he
will do for the republican party and
for the members who have been so
cheaply obedient to him for so long.
1t is up to Aldrich. Nobody can
deny that he is in an uncomfortable
will relieve the country of the tyranny
Of Standard Oil made rates and
another which will relieve the country
of the tyranny of Standard Oil mon
opoly of the instruments of light, heat
and power. There are few sympathizers
with Aldrich, the senator, vino should
have no other motive than the effecting
hn Of no
Pile. There are just as few for Aid
rich, the lobbyist, for every right
thinking man likes to see a lobbyist
caught like rat in a trap.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17


The real point of the report is apt
to be missed in dwelling on the rebate
disclosures They show that the Stand
ard has profited at least $75OO00 a
year by rebates. All these are given
in direct violation of the present law
and may be punished Rebates are a
bagatelle, however compared with the
advantages enjoyed on open rates from
the Standards refineries. Mr.. Garfield
finds that the refinery at Whiting en-
joys a difference of from 1 to IL cents
a hundred pounds in favor of its prod
uct and against the product of indie
pendent refineries shipped similar dis
tances. There is no explanation of these
rates except the one that holds good
for rebates. They are forced on the
railroads by Standard Oil. In many
cases a tariff rate is enjoyed secretly
by the trust. For instance, the tariff
rate from Whiting to Birmingham.
Ind, is A cents a hundred. but by a
secret combination of rates over one
route the Standard ships for 20 1-2
cents. The Independent refinery at
Toledo pays AZ cents on the same dis
lance. This is not a rebate, and not
contrary to law, as the SNUG Rogers
most virtuously maintains. 1t is just
as wrong morally and economically as
rebate, and, not being illegal, the law
should make it so.
This preference in rates has built the
Standards monopoly, and the con-
sumner has had no benefit. In New
England, as the report shows, COMPETE
ton has been stifled and the public
has been bled 100000 or 100000 a
year in excessive prices because the
Standards competitors could not get a
Joint rate over New England roads.
The lesson of the report is plain. An
interstate commerce commission with
power to act would put an end to
these determinations in the shortest
possible time. They can have no real
defense.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17
THE SOUTH DAKOTA DIVORCE
AGAIN.

The need of a national divorce law
to clinch the recent decision of the
supreme court is made evident by the
remarks attributed to Mrs. James G.
Blaine, and which are undoubtedly au-
thentic. She says to the newspapers:
Eyes, it is true that I am going to
a divorce l am not familiar with the
divorce laws of South Dakota and so
cannot say on what grounds shall ask
for a separation. My lawyers in New
York and a firm in South Dakota are
working on the case. l am very enx-
ious to spend as short a time as pos
sible in the west, for 1 hope to be
with nay parents for the summer in
New London, Conn.,"
Mrs. Blaine proposes to obtain what
might be termed fake domicile
in South Dakota for the one purpose
of changing her marital status. South
Dakota has the facilities for accom-
modating her. This is what Justice
White, in his opinion, termed the power
of states with meager legal obstacles
in the way of divorce, to caerce all the
states of the Union having stricter
laws, providing the other states are
compelled by the full faith and credit
clause of the constitution to recognize
these divorces The supreme court, in
effect, said they were not obliged to
do so; but this decision does not pre-
vent ntigants from following their de-
sires along the lines of least resistance.
If Mrs. Blaine has a good cause for
divorce she can get it, no doubt, in
the state in which she lives. The only
object in going to South Dakota is to
gain time. But it is quite evident that,
while she may go there merely to gain
time and be back at the eastern water
ing place for the season, others may go
there to set up fraudulent claims, and
they may be as successful as she. The
only way to make the decision of the
supreme court of full effect is to secure
a national divorce or uniform state dl-
vorce laws. Neither of these methods
seem to be applicable without an i'm
mense amount of work on the part of
somebody who is sure he will never
need a divorce.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17
Irritation In India.

The most extensive irrigation works
In the world are in India There an
area equal to more than the entire sur
face of the state of Maine is supplied
with water from rivers which are con-
trolled by artificial means. This takes
no account of the land irrigated by pri-
vate enterprise or from tanks. The
value of the crops raised on land irri-
gated by the government is about $685.
100000 yearly. 1t is believed that II
all the tanks and other small local
sources Of irrigation were taken into
the reckoning the area watered would
be nearly as great as that of the British
isles-say a region not far from three
times as extensive as Ohio.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17
y y y y y y y y y y y y = y y
y RUDOLPH WRITES A LETTER. y

Personal letter to my old college
friend, the senator: Dear Sen: Hav-
ing nothing else to do 1 feel as if l
must write you a long letter. You
I'm good writer and must write.
can write as good as any two men.
In fact, I'm really two men in Walla
Walla today: One man in myself;
also man beside himself. Isn't that
two? Betcher life it is. Dear Sem,
sometimes I'm inclined to think you
are real mean. Sometimes think you
do not even remember my name. Well,
l might say I used to work for you
on a paper. But one fine morn an aw-
full calamity overlook me. l woke up.
At fust 1 thought had lost my head.
Alas, that was too true. But something
worse was to follow: I also lost my
Job. And, sir, did you ever lose a good,
workable job? IT'S a terrible predica-
ment to find oneself in. But I'm the
boy for Molly when it comes to landing
on my feet. I'm still in Walla Walla
dishing up the real thing in the line
of politics every week day and twice as
much on Sundays. And 1 know so
much, about politics. If 1 desired to
tell tales out of school half the citi-
zens of Walla Walla would be where
they beIong-in Jail. Many would be
in dark cells; not a few in irons. And,
Sem, would you believe it? During
the campaign of the steen year some
one accused me Of getting away with
a swag amounting to one million dol
lars. This is a base lie, as I can go
in any court and prove that I never
was seen with more than $40 in my life.
Of course, Sem, no live ones in Walla
Walla take it seriously, but neverthe-
less the dead ones hereabouts say that
am the best muckraker ever. And
would you believe it, dabble into for
eign affairs, too. A few weeks ago I
had Los Angeles Completely Destroy
ed" That I thought good but still
have better things up my sleeve. Good
bye, Sen. Will write you again in
few days. You need not answer this
letter. Yours as ever-Rudolph Hickle-
speel.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17
Telephone In Every Pew.

Members of the Mum Avenue Pres
byterian church, Orange, N, j., have
had difficulty in hearing the officiating
minister unless they sat in the front
part Of the auditorium. This deficiency
In the acoustics Of the church has been
remedied by having a telephone sys-
tenn installed. there being a transmitter
in the pulpit and a small receiver In
every pew. When the telephone sys-
tenn was used for the first time persons
sitting in the last row Of pews had no
trouble in understanding every word
spoken by the pastor. - New York
Times.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17
RIGHT MEN CAUGHT.
Railroad Officials Sure They Have tho
Train Robbers.

VANCOUVER, B. c., May 16.-Gen-
eral Superintendent Marpole has re-
turned to Kamloops. He says that
there is no doubt of the identity of the
positive the old man is Bill Miner and
in any case he will be identified as the
1t is proposed to reestablish the sys-
tenn of surveillance of suspicious char
acters, a large number of whom are
coming in from the United States.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

The writer of a letter to the New
York Globe. who signs himself Man
ufacturing Chemist" states that 1.-The
statistics of the French army medical
board for 1905 show 100 cases of ap-
pendicitis operated on and IS deaths:
APO cases treated without the knife.
one DEATH" Possibly those treated
without the knife were not very serious
cases. though one of them died.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17
OVERSIGHT WHEELS.
Inexpensive Method Of Utilizing q
Small Water Power.

Inexpensive Method of Utilizing .
Small Water Power.
Water powers which once were con-
sidered of no commercial value are
now being utilized, says Popular Me-
chanics. Power has a commerce value
and can be made to earn money. The
larger the power the more it is worth,
Of course, but many small powers now
going to waste can at small expense be
made to pay big returns in grinding,
saving and other work.
Many a farmer could light his house
and premises brilliantly with electric
light at no cost except the putting in
Of turbine or overshot wheel and a
small generator, with a small allow
ance for wire and fixtures. If the pow
err is some distance from the house
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

electric motors will churn, saw and
grind, and motors and generators are
SO simply made in these days almost
any bright young man Of eighteen can
do all the installing from the printed
directions. A water power where an
expensive dam is not required-and
there are thousands of this kinds a
very prOfita BILE possession.
Overshot water wheels are now
made of steel. which has many advan-
tages over the old wooden wheels. The
steel wheels do not swell and warp,
they carry more water, which means
more power, and are made in all sizes
from a few feet diameter up. The IL
lustration shows steel wheel forty
feet high and two feet wide. 1t runs
mill at Springwood, Va.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17
GARFIELD REPORT AS EVIDENCE

The Garfield report on Standard Oil
proves the strongest piece of evidence
yet given to Congress in support of the
railroad rate bill. With his keen sense
of dramatic effect, President Roosevelt
held it for the climax. The report
is complete answer to the argument
that present laws are sufficient and
that rebates are the only serious evil
for the authorities to consider
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17
Oil Tank ExpIodes.

JERSEY CITY, N. j., May 16.-The
top of an Oil tank of the Standard Oil
company blew off yesterday morning.
The explosion Jared the city and ex-
cited people thought it was an earth
quake. The oil is burning. Oil in ad
joining tanks is being drawn off.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17
THE SPARE FEEDERS.


lation to Health.
It is a very, difficult matter to settle
Individual requirements in the way of
food by any appeal to general prin-
ciples. We must not push the general
too far into the particular, and the kind
and amount Of diet which may prove
admirable for one man may, and very
likely will, not be acceptable to his
near neighbOr.
Physiological history gives us many
examples of successful living on meager
diet. The case of Thomas Wood, the mill
er of Billericay, was described to the
College of Physicians in 1861 by Sir q.
Baker. Wood lived healthily for eight
cen years on sixteen ounces Of flour
per day made in pudding with water.
He took no other liquid. He lived
daily on this diet, representing LIZ
ounces of heterogeneous or proteid ma
terial, 30 of fat and 11.28 ounces of
starch. The ordinary food tables give
us as necessary for ordinary labor
about four ounces of proteid food.
about three ounces Of fat and about
fourteen ounces of starches and sugars.
Cornaro's case is often quoted IN
connection with the subject of meager
diet in relation to health. He lived to
the age Of 100 years. He took bread.
meat, the yolk Of an egg and soup to
the amount Of twelve ounces and drank
one pint of wine daily. II there was
represented here apparently an insult
ficient quantity of food the diet GER
tainly boosted of variety. On the
whole, the case Of the free feeders may
be described as less hopeful than that
Of the spare feeders. Mankind will be
the healthier and happier, probably, if
they limit their diet amounts. Such at
least is the trend of modern scientific
Opinion.-Andrew Watson, Phi. D.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

land they cultivate and what kind Ct
seeds they expect to experiment with.
This world eliminate the graft from
the plan and reduce it to its legitimate
function of getting seeds into the
hands of those who have use for them.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17
Statesman COmD'V
Telephone No. 123
Jail Couldn't Keep Him From Wedding

Jail Couldn't Keep Him From Weddinq.
NEW YORK, May 17-One of the
strangest weddings ever celebrated in
New York was that of Victor T. Free
man and Miss Leila Shaw.
The bridegroom had been arrested
only few hours before on the charge
Of embeZzlement, made in Chicago, anc
only the frantic efforts of his attorney
and his friends enabled him to get out
Of the clutches of the law in time for
the wedding. He declares the charge
against him has been trumped up by
his political enemies.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17
A Dundee Relic.

A dredger built Of oak. sixty-eight
feet long, twenty-one feet wide and
drawing seven feet six inches Of wa
ter, is now in use in Dundee harbor.
It has been in use in the same place
for over 100 years. and its engine is
said to have been built by James Watt.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

Thomas w. Lawson is showing other
rural gardeners a proper example by
selling off his inordinate supply of
dogs The Boston Suburban NaStur-
ton society has adopted appropriate
resolutions.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

When Senator Penrose the other
day intimated that Tillman was an ass
the South Carolina firecracker said he
would bring in some testimony about
Penrose that would make an ass ap-
pear by contrast. highly ornate men,
Der of society. Hush, senator's, Smoot
might overhear YOU
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

President Pollock of the Delaware,
Ohio, city council. has introduced an
ordinance to prohibit chickens from
running abroad. and to impose a $2.25
tax on dogs. Every city gardener In
the United States would vote for Pol
lock for president
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

Publishers are said to have book
on the volcanic eruption of Popocata-
petl all ready to issue. They are mere
ly waiting for the volcano to do its
part.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17
Murderer Is Sane.

DAYTON, Ohio, May 17.-Dr. Oliver
c. Haugh, triple murderer, was today
declared by a jury to be sane. The
only thing that stands between him
and electrocution now is interference
upon the part of Governor Pattison or
the board of pardons, and it is not ex-
pected that either will intervene.
Haugh was declared by experts to De
shamming Insanity Last year ne
murdered his father, mother ana
brother near here, then set the house
afire The bodies were cremated.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

of canal to be built at Panama at
once, provided the dirt is to fly" Con-
gress is now engaged in "disciplining'
the president by refusing to take any
interest in his old canal
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

The French government has made an
appropriation of $4,000 for psychical
research. 1t would take more than
this to find any soul in some of our
corporations.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

The battleship Missouri recently won
the ocean race from Guantanamo to
New York Missouri now claims pre-
eminence in both army and navy,
pointing to the proficiency of the big
battleship in one field and to the army
mule in the other
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

Il admire the spirit which never
gives up said young M. Rockefeller
to his Sunday school class. 1t must be
admitted however, that Mr.. Rockefel-
Ter, ST. gives up a moderate amount.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

The Chicago city hall is said to be
sinking. 1t is thought to have been
overweighted with theories since Mayor
Dunno came in.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

A % story hotel is being finished
in New York. 1t is the kind that
has a knot tied in it during an earth
quake.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

Senator Clark is going to quit the
senate. The price of board in WASH
ington is too high.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

White might as well be vice presi-
dent of the United States so far as
free advertising is concerned.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

All the gags" sprung by Hi Henry
Rogers MINISTRIES last week had a tone
of sadness.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17
WAN FED.

Wanted-A boy with horse. to car
y newspaper route. Call at this Office
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

Get the habit! If you read The
Statesman you will always have 1t.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-17

Wait for the street cars at the BOOK
Nook.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-16
By RENE BACHE

roval permit each owner having his peculiar
mark, by which his teathered property could
be identified and distinguished from that of any
body else And in July August of each wear
the Young fowls were caught and marked with
much dignitied ceremony
Thus it is surprising that in England the
swan should have To be regarded as - a dish
to set before 4 king, and specially appropriate To
Christmas. Just President Roosevelt in the
White House. tcastS at Iuetle on the largest and
finest turkey (ted on CheStnutS and with iust
enough wild blood to contribute game tlavor)
that the State of Rhode Island can furnish so doe,
Edward VII partakc of selected specimen of the
royal fowl, the largest and plumpeSt Young cvgnct
that can be obtained from the Swannerv on the
Thames. killed by the official garnekeeper and
forwarded by special messenger 10 SanCirilgharn
King Edwards Christmas swan this wear will
weigh ounce less than sixteen pounds When
1t is delivered at S,,n,lringlan the rov head cook
Will himself attend to the business OF preparing il
New-York tribune., 1906-12-16

the piece were ike lightning and thunder, but here
was no more uneasy feeling Withln a minute a
quick double shot sounded ahead followed oy
l1stv Hello there" l answered and p-eently
reached strange shack, in front cf which 1ss an
unknown man gun IN hand
Needless to say / stopped with him I'll day ghc
Without noticing it, / had drifted into the sde
trail In response % his question a. % why ] lad
fired when | thought was on the night trail ! I'D
of the peculiar sensations, at mention OF "--cl
comical expression OF grim hurnOr llluTn-Det lis
heavv features. When | awOke, late. he re-c- ed,
You felt funny eh out there in the dark me
along with and II show YOU something
In the soft black mold the prints OF ny ing
boots showed distinctly as though they hal cen
stamped in putty, while beside them was "a Gle
row OF great tracks which could have been r.ade
only by a rnOnStrouS mountain lion. The br1-- aad
followed from the darkest part OF the tra, %
where had fred the shot. hat a ot eng
lost and knowing II and Of being saved wI- Int
knowing from what why; vet old hand 10 ne
game as am. | would retrarnp that darlered
trail and endure that terrifying sensation 0t ieng
follow ed by evil shadow. for large slice II
those picturesque western W1dS.
New-York tribune., 1906-12-16
An Eery Adventure

once in the great woods of British Columbia had
~ experience which left me believer IN what
is sometimes called sixth sense. | was returning
one night from a trappers camp 70 my shack on
the edge of the forest
In due time reached my destination and found
of those big hearted typical frontiersnen. My
host had advised stopping with him till daylight,
but had an important transaction tor the morn
ing, and scoffed at the idea OF getting lost
perfectly plain trail. The path of soft, black
bush mold, trife damp from recent showers L
swung along, my boots making not sound II
quite dark.
l experienced most extraordinary sensation. y
peculiar trickling seemed TO creep down my spine.
1t steadily increased and unexpected drops stood
upon my forehead | could understand it. but
it became worse, until something seemed
nand TO halt and face about. OF course nothing
visible in the blackneSS vet the instant turned
the triCkline sensation ceased. y few moments
after reSUming the route the queer feeling returned,
and again faced about, with the result. This
repeated, and being more than little
scared, krelt down, leveed my rifle, as near |
could Judge -bott tWO feet above the back trail,
and fired lnN'-cL place the flash and crash of
New-York tribune., 1906-12-16
With Grouse for Guides

ONCE was lost in a broad area of Michigan pop
lars. was shooting rutfed grouse, and after some
lively sport there came the realization of being lost.
ton appears exactly alike and in which extensive
view impossible Any attempt at climbing such
small growth useless but at last came the
thought that the rufed grouse, when flushed almost
invariably make for tall timber. Because the
heavy woods lay to the right, indicated by the
flight of the birds. the lighter and the saving
open must be the left bore off in that direc
tiOn, and came out all right.
Again was lost and saved by most peculiar foe
and friend a bowling blizzard. 1t was on the bleak
quest of ptar1ngan My guide was a noted half
breed hunter named Joe, and we left our shack he
looked troubled. The Indian in him told him that