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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-07-25
Irrigation Makes Markets.

wares of the manufacturer or mer-
chant means one of two things; either
he can sell twice the volume of goods
or he can get much higher prices for
the same quantity. Markets are al
ways doubled when population doubles.
Cutting up big estates into small farms
doubles population. Therefore. the
swing of merchants and manufactur-
ers to the support of the propaganda
OF irrigation and the small farm Is
something easily explained.-The
Ranch.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-07-25
LITTLE GIRL DROWNED.
Fell Into Schanno Ditch While Cross
ing Foot Plank.

Two year old Georgia Naomi Rich
mond daughter OF Captain and Mrs. v.
s. Richmond. was drowned in the
Schanno ditch yesterday morning about
o'clock. 1t is supposed that the child
fell into the ditch at Spruce and Wenas
while endeavoring to cross on foot
plank. The body was found half an
hour later by two men who went in
search of the body at the request of
the child's mother. in the water wheel
located at the Bunce foundry, about
fifty feet below the crossing.
Mr.. Richmond was formerly captain
of the Salvation Army in this city He
was living in Hoquiam until recently
when he moved over here to look after
business interests. The funeral will
be held from the residence ut o'clock
this afternoon. Interment will be in
the Tahoma cemetery Adjutant Fisher
will officiate.
ha.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-07-25

while the commission man has only
one market to work on. Should this
particular market become glutted, the
grower has no other option but to have
the commission man slaughter his fruit
in that market"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-07-25
Notice, Fruitgrowers.

High. grade Paris Green and ar
senate of lead for spraying; i'm
proved berry crates with folding hal
locks; cherry boxes. both common
and selects, for sale at Horticultural
Union warehouse.
18-f E. E. SAMSON Mgr.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30

Sacred to the memory of Michael
Brown, a native of County Galway
Ireland, who was drowned in Chilli
wack lake, October TO- 1858. His
body was found and inferred here
June IS, 1859, by his comrades, the
members of F. Company, Ninth in
fantry, United States army. Age &c
years, Requiescat in pace"
The monument was discovered by
accident by Chilliwack survey
party; it stands in what was once a
small clearing in a dense forest, no
trail Of any sort leading to the spot
The monument is made Of cedar, and
is in a remarkably well-preserved
state, the wood being only slightly de-
cayed and the inscription quite leg
ible.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30

most important features Of the con-
vention will be the amalgamation Of
the eastern and western organizations.
BY a peculiar coincidence two organ
izatiOns were formed almost at the
same time, one in the east and the
other in the west. Both adopted the
same name and the same restrictions
as to membership. For nearly one
year neither of the organizations
knew of the existence of the other.
At the convention of the western or
ganization at Altoona, Pa, last year
a proposition was made by the east
ern organization to merge the two So
cieties. This question will be definite
ly decided on at this present con-
vention. If the merger is decided on,
national officers will be elected by the
convention.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30
Matteson Family Reunion.

RENSSELAER,, N. Y, Aug. 3O.-The
annual reunion of the Matteson fam
lily is being held here today at the res
idence of Herbert r. Blood on Pros
pect Place and is unusually we'll at
tended. Nearly one hundred members
of that family, from all parts of the
state of New York, Massachusetts,,
Connecticut and Vermont are present
An interesting program has been ar
ranged for the occasion, including mu-
sic by an orchestra and a number Of
historical addresses by prominent
members of that family. All three
branches of the family are represented
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30
FIND LONELY GRAVE.
Last Resting Place of M. Brown Of
Ninth Infantry Discovered.

NEW WESTMINSTER, B. G.. Aug.
30.-The lonely grave of an American
soldier who met his death forty-eight
years ago has just been discovered in
the dense forest at the foot of Chilli
wack lake, on the Canadian side of
the boundary line. The soldier M.
Brown, was a member of F. Company.
Ninth United States infantry, and
was detailed to act with the escort to
the international boundary line sur
veyors. The inscription on the monu-
ment over his lone grave tells the
rest of his story. 1t reads as follows:
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30
HONOR MEMORY OF CONWAY
Tablet Unveiled Today in Honor Of
Heroic Sailor.

CAMDEN, MASS, Aug. 30.-This is
the day set for the unwilling of the
the sailor in the United States navy
who at the breaking out of the civil
war refused to haul down the Ameri-
can flag at the Pensacola navy yard,
when all the officers there renounc-
ed their allegiance to the Union. The
presence of the North Atlantic squad
ron under the command of rear Ad-
miral Robley d. Evans, in the harbor
is lending unusual dignity to the
event and has attracted thousands of
visitors from all parts of the state to
this city.
The formal exercises in connection
with the celebration will be held at
two o'clock this afternoon at the Cam
den Trotting park, where seats have
been arranged for about two thous-
park will be brief. The meeting will
be called to order by Thomas A Hunt,
who will deliver an address of well
come. after the Rev. DR.. J. S. Sewall,
of Bangor, the chaplain of the Maine
Commandery of the Loyal Legion, has
delivered the opening prayer. Major
General ]. L. Chamberlain, of Port
Iand, will tell the story of the heroic
and patriotic action of William Con-
way on January u, 1861. other brief
addresses by Governor Cobb and 9TH
ers will follow A letter from Presi-
dent Roosevelt will be read. Music
and singing will fill the rest of the
program.
After these exercises Major John T
Richards. commander of the Maine
Comamndery of the Loyal Legion will
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30
Seaside House, Seaside, Ore.

Is open for the season of 1906. Re-
modern improvements including cleo
trio lights.
Mr.. G.. M. Cartwright is now sole
owner Of the Seaside property, COM
prising 700 acres of woodland and
meadows. He has spent $15,000.00 in
improvements and is planning further
changes in beach and buildings. Fine
fresh and salt water fishing and bath
ing.
Our own dairy and garden.
For particulars and prices, address,
F. E. DAGGETT, Mgr.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30
Driven to Suicide.

Frank Dawley, a mechanic at East
Rochester, accidentally shot a neigh
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.

In the superior court of the state OF
Washington for Walla Walla County.
In the matter of the estate Of Joseph
H. Miller, deceased.
Notice is hereby given to all per-
sons having claims against said Jo-
seph H. Miller deceased to present the
same, with the necessary vouchers
within one year after the first publica-
ton of this notice, to-wit: within one
year after the 18th day of August, 1906
to the undersigned administrator at
his place of business, to-wit; at No. 5
South Second street, Walla Walla,
Washington.
A. X. DICE,
Administrator.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30

me we'll and safe. Before that time
had a cough which for years had been
growing worse. Now it is gone" Cures
chronic Coughs, LaGrippe, Group,
Whooping Cough and prevents Pneu-
monia. Pleasant to take. Every bottle
guaranteed at E. L. Smalley's drug
store. Price SOC and $1.00. Trial bot
tie free.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30
Practical Jokes That Are DEADLY

Dor in the thigh The wound did not
prove very serious and Dawley was
not arrested. Then the fool joker hap
pened along. He told Dawley the man
he shot was dying; that he would
be surely arrested. Dawley took the
Joke seriously, went to his room, got
a revolver and told his wife he meant
to kill himself. She took the weapon
from him, but he found it again and
fired it into his head
A joker of the lying type told James
H. Lack of Wilmington, Del, that his
brother had died at sea. Lacy be-
came seized with hysterical convul-
sions, which resulted in his losing con-
troll of his vocal organs He had
come to town to meet his brother, but
fell into the clutches of the fool jok-
err who represented himself as the
first mate on his brothers ship that
had just put into port. The shock
so dazed Lacy that he fell into spasms
of weeping, and later lost his power Of
speech.
A practical joker nearly killed Will
liam F. Jones of Boston, by one of
the best known methods. Jones was
with fishing party at Arverne by the
sea, when one Of his companions drew
chair out from under him as he was
about to sit down. Jones fell violent
ly. He was taken to the Far Rack
away hospital in commissions, suffer-
ing from injury to the spine.
James Lafteus of Weehawken, a
member of the Mercury Athletic club,
lost his life by this same joke A men,
Der of the club shifted his chair when
he attempted to sit down. He died
from spinal meningitis due to the in
jury he received in the fall.
The loaded cigarette is one of the
old favorites of the practical joker.
1t cost Edward Weinschreiber of Will
liamsburg the thumb and two fingers
of his left hand and sent him to the
GATHERINGS hospital suffering from
those and other wounds A friend
fond Of fun" had placed a cartridge
in his cigarette.
Case of Hydrophobia.
care you ready to bark, Jack?" the
joker friends of John Mcdonald,
silk operator at Patterson, called after
him, following a tussle he had with
dog supposed to be mad, in which he
was severly bitten. The jokers also
parked when he came near Only Nc
Donald and his aged mother know the
torture of the bantering and his hor-
rible conviction borne in on him
stronger from day to day that in the
end these jokes would come true. Nc
Donald died two months after he was
bitten in violent paroxysms of hydro
phobia at ST. Joserh's hospital.
Once in a while the practical joker
pays with his own life for the fun of
trying to scare some one else into
fits. Mrs. w. S. Lane, at Covington,
KY, saw some one stealthily moving
about her room when she awoke at
night. Fearing she was about to be
attacked she seized a shotgun that was
hanging near her bed and shot the in
truder. She then found she had kill
ed her own son, who was dressed in
a halloween disguise, and had thought
to give his mother a scare.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30

unveil the bronze tablet donated
Jointly by the people of Camden,
where Conway was born, and by the
Maine Commandery of the Loyal Lee
gion. The tablet has been attached
to an immense boulder, provided by
the town of Comden. A salute Of
twenty -one guns will be fired by the
warships at the unwilling of the tab
Let
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30
GaIveston's Sea Wall.

Makes life now as safe in that city
as on the higher uplands. E. w. Good
loe, who resides on Dutton ST., IN
Waco, Tex, needs no sea wall for
safety. He writes: II have used DR..
Kings New Discovery for Consump-
ton the past five years and it keeps
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30
American Veterans of Foreign Servic.

CINCINNATI, o., Aug. 30-Nearly
three hundred men who have seen SER
Philippines and other foreign cOun-
tries are in attendance at the sixth
American Veterans of Foreign Service,
which opened here today. One of the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30

miscalculation. The squib confined In
the stove blew it to pieces and the
flying sparks set off the store or pow
der in the room. 1.-THE building SEEM
cd to heave I'D at the second eXplO-
sion and several girls ran into the
street. their hair and dresses ahre,
screaming in agony"
Really it was only a joke, was the
explanation of three men when they
were arrested at Middleton, n. Y, and
indicted for assault. They had tied
Andrew Clark, a nervous boy, in
stall with a kicking mule. The boy
had commissions and it was many
days before the doctors pronounced
him out of danger of losing his life
by the joke"
"Ghost' Caused Runaway.
A white-robed figure appeared in
which Frank Daily of Summit, VT, was
driving with the woman he had just
made his wife. The ghost scared
the horse, which ran away. When it
was finally checked Daily suddenly
threw up his arms over his head and
fell Imply across the dashboard. The
jokers only learned of the tragic Sc
quel when Mrs Daily drove into town
with the dead body of her husband.
Peter Kuhn was frightened to death
by weird noises in the night at Norris
City, Ill. His body was found in bed
in the morning with a look of horror
on his face. A nail driven in a single
of the roof above the head of his bed
held a tin can, to which a long string
had been attached. The practical
jokers, by rubbing this string with
resin, produced the sounds. Kuhn was
known by the jokers to be a firm be-
lever in ghosts.
Some young men of Crowley, La,
thought it was a good joke to lock
Susan Washington in the room with
an empty coffin. The girl thought so,
too, at first, but became terrified when
hours passed and all was still, the jok-
ers having left her to spend the en-
tire night in the room. She died a
few hours after being released
Of course people ought not to die of
fright. Neither should they go crazy.
Either results from the natural cheer
fulness of the joker.
B. B. Messer, a farmer, IS years old,
at Huntington, w. Va, is hopelessly
insane as the result of a joke played
on him by his grandchildren. At a
family reunion, six of his grandsons,
ranging from 16 to 80 years of age, re-
siding at a distance, planned, as a
joke, that each should write the old
man a letter the following week. Each
was to express sOlicitude for his safety
since the writer had dreamed that his
grandfather had died.
The letters arrived one by one. On
Monday, came the first, Tuesday the
second, Wednesday the third. and
Thursday like letters followed, all with
the same dark foreboding. The matter
preyed upon the old mans mind so
heavily that by Saturday he lost his
reason.
Driven to Suicide.
Frank Dawley, a mechanic at East
Rochester accidentally shot a neigh
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30

The original Laxative Cough Syrup
acting as q cathartfc On the bowels.
It expels all cold from the system Dy
is Kennedv's Laxative Honey and Tar.
Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar -
a certain, safe and harmless cure luz
colds, Group and whooping cough. SOLD
by l. L. Tallman.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30

This is the curious and time-honored
description of a certain form OF INCL
dent. Sometimes the incident means
some ones discontinue Sometimes II
means his distress or his ruin.
Sometimes it means death.
The other day Frank Gagner, Pol
ish worker in a plaster factory at
West New Brighton, Staten island
avoke from sleep on the floor of the
factory to meet a frightful fate.
While he had slept a joker had tied
a rope to one of hi slegs, Someone
just who, it is for the police and the
courts to determine-threw the end OF
q rome over a shaft. Perhaps the shaft
was not then in motion. If it was In
motion perhaps it was thought to
brighten the sleeper by simply pulling
the other end.
But the strands of the rope caught
in the wheels and Gagner was drawn
into the air screaming with terror and
then whirled and banged until he was
ITO the floor, leaving a leg and arm
dead. The body was thrown violently
still fastened to the whirling shaft.
The practical joke was over
The joker or jokers fled in horror.
Another name was added to the long
list of victims to the practical joke.
In the record of daily events in pub
lie print appear as many names of
those who die from the unintentional
violence of the fool joker as by the
hand of the man who has murder ip
his heart.
Firecracker Fun.
A few days ago George w. Lester,
an aged man, died in the Kings county
hospital because he had the i'll for
was doing on the porch Of a hotel
when to scare him a lighted fire
His leg was burned and death came
from lockjaw.
The tirecracker is a favorite instru-
ment of destruction in the hands of
,the fool joker By it he has slain
and MANNED many. Andrew Kirkpat-
rick was killed at Lanoconing, Nd, by
one of he usual Fourth of-July jokes.
He was carrying 4 giant firecracker
under mis- arm when q young man ap-
lied a match to it. kirkpatrick's side
was torn open and he died IN agony.
In the case of Miss Wilhelmina
ShaIley at New Brunswick, n. j., the
firecracker was used as one of the
means of the jokers to make them
selves agreeable to a bride and BRIDE
groom 1t was thrown in Miss Small
leys hat, where it exploded and set
the hat and the girls hair on fire.
Prompt measures saved her life.
But of jokes with explosives the
most serious was at the squib factory
in Scranton, Pa. In that memorable
case, five girls and one man were kill
ed and many others dangerously
wounded. The property loss was
heavy, for the factory was almost to-
tally destroyed.
1t all came about from the idea Of
a girl at the lunch hour, that she
could have some fun soaring her COM
panions by exploding a squib in the
stove. There was the not unusual
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30

DR.. F. c. Rood has returned to WAL
la Walla to remain and will open a
new dental office soon. No. 6s
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-08-30

Otto Maurer, surveyor and irriga-
ton engineer. Rooms and ia East
Main street, Walla Walla, Wash.
, 1906-12-20
INVENTORS HAD LAST LAUGH.
Steel Making by Bessemer Process
Mas Ridiculed at First.

The so-called Bessemer process of
making steel by injecting air blasts
into molten iron was discovered first
by an American named Kelly, and
known as his air boiling process.
After the iron workers had seen
1t done, they still would not believe
1t. Some crank'll be burning ice,
next thing" they said. Some of his
customers, when they heard about it,
wrote Kelly that they wanted theiI
iron made either in the regular way,
and not by any new-fangled method,
or not at all.
When the first blast WAS so strong
that 1t melted the iron, the spectators
roared with laughter at what they
called "Kelly's fireworks" and laugh
ed for ten years at his folly"
When Bessemer introduced his
process to the British iron makers,
they, too. roared with laughter at the
crazy Frenchman," and would not
allow the SILLY idea" to be mentioned
in their records.
The steel rail proposition excited
only derision. "Bosh! Stuff! Hum
bug! Nonsense!" said the railroad
directors when it was proposed to
them. But after one road had tried
1t, the steel mills could not keep up
with the orders sent in.-The Sunday
Magazine.
, 1906-12-20

back in time for the Christmas holi.
days
Rev. F. w. Bross returned last night
from Rock River, where he went a day
or two ago, and will spend a few days
in the city
Mrs. ]. F. Johnson is improving
somewhat, being able to sit up a part
of the time now, although still confined
to her room.
George and Thomas Peryam, stu
dents at the university, will spend the
Christmas holidays with their parents
at Encampment.
John Isberg is spending a few days
in the city and will help OUT at the
Greenbaum store during the heavy hol.
iday rush of business.
]. d. Negus went to Cheyenne this
afternoon. His traction engine train
is tied up here, owing to the ice along
the roads to the mountains.
Miss E. E. G~oldsborough of Denver,
who has been teaching the school at
Red Buttes, left for home today to
spend the Christmas holidays.
l.. Osborne left last night for Grand
Island to spend the Christmas holidays
with his father, who is the district
foreman for the Union Pacific at that
place.
Mr.. and Mrs. John H. Davis returned
from the east this afternoon, where
they have been visiting for some time,
Mr.. Davis having been at Chicago to
attend the fat stock show.
A. H. Bath OF Mandel is in the city,
being accompanied by his b%rother-in-
law, Dan Hagbery, of Sunshine, Wyo.,
who has been visiting him on the Man
del ranch for a few days.
Emil Johnson this morning forward,
ed transportation for his wife and
children to Santa Clara, Cal, and they
will start home upon receipt of it.
They have been spending the winter
on the coast,
C. D. Oviatt returned last night
from South Omaha, where he had
been with a shipment of cattle, which
he disposed of at satisfactory figures,
He left for the ranch this morning,
taking a cook for work on the ranch.
Mrs. Paul Pascoe and her charming
, 1906-12-20
II BROWN

HELD HIS
The funeral of John Brown, the faith
err of Mrs. John Hurley and Mrs. John
McCue of this city, whose death oc-
Cured suddenly at Sheldon, Neb., from
heart failure, occurred here this morn
ing at 10 o'clock, the remains being
taken directly from the Stryker under
taking rooms to the cemetery, religious
services having been held at Sheldon
Defore the party left that city with
the remains. Mr.. Brown was born in
ireland 70 years ago and came to this
country more than half a century ago.
dis four daughters were born in Amer
ca, three in Illinois and one in Ne
braska. His wife died here nine a
ago and the remains were laid beside
them today. The following gentlemen
acted as p~allbearers: NJ. H. Murphy,
Jerry Murphy, Ed Kelley, Jimmie Will
son, Tom Smyth and F. o. Frazer.
, 1906-12-20

niece, Miss Hazel Entwisie, who were
here last night for the Ivinson-Grow
party at the Union Pacific, returned
home today. Mr.. Pascoe was not feel.
ing very well and did not essay the
trip to the city.
Mrs. D. N. Stickney will leave sat
urday morning for Savannah, Mo, 20
be present at the marriage on the 26th
of her niece, Miss Caroline Wells, Of
that city, to Rev. Alexander. Miss
Wells spent several months with Mrs.
Stickney here and has many friends
here who will wish for her happiness.
Mrs. David McCullagh was in from
the ranch this morning, here to meet
her sister, Mrs. Edith Staples, who
has come to the city for the purpose
of making her home here, having a
son living in town. Mrs. McCullagh
and Mrs. Staples were among the call.
ers at this office this morning.
, 1906-12-20
Railroad Notes

Pay checks are in evidence every
where today.
Trainmaster F. C. Let's returned last
night from Rawlins, where he had been
for a few days trying to get a move
on" the accumulated freight at that
sttion. He and the assistant super
intendent have been working on the
proposition and are about to get things
going to suit them, although there are
a large number of loaded cars here
at the present time.
, 1906-12-20
REPORT FOR
THE HOSPITAL
DEPARTMENT OF UNION PACIFIC
HAS LARGE SURPLUS AND
JANUARY FUND OMITTED
Statement Issued Showing Transac-
tons for Year and Amount of Sur
plus Funds to Credit of Depart.
ment-Number of Patients Treat
ed on the Wyoming Division.

The hospital department of the I'm
ion Pacific Railroad company has is
sued a statement covering the opera
lions of the department for the past
yea and notifying all concerned that
the hospital assessment for January
will not be collected except from those
employees who enter the service of the
company during that month. There is
a considerable surplus on hand, more
than is needed for the month, it is be-
lieved, SO that the contributions for
January may be omitted without i'm
pairing in any way the usefulness of
the department.
Balance of Twenty-four Thousand.
The statement shows that during the
year the receipts were 500, 557. SO, the
disbursements were s65,61S.56, leaving
a balance on hand of $24, 939,43. The
report covers all the divisions of the
road, the Laramie employees being in
cluded in the Cheyenne division. A
statement of the distribution of the
fund on that division follows:
D...