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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04
Quake and Tornado.

SPEARFISH, S. D., June A re-
port from Sunnyside, Wyo, tells of a
tornado in that vicinity A terrible
storm originated in the vicinity of Bear
lake and made it's way northwest,
striking the divide near the Heckinger
ranch.
Mrs. Heckinger and her son, Hugh,
the only occupants of the house. took
refuge in a cellar and after the storm
was over hurried to an adjacent hill
from which the ranch of Mrs Guidin-
ger, daughter of Mrs Heckinger,
could be seen. From this site they
observed that the ranch house had been
destroyed, but on going over found
that Mrs. Guidinger and children had
escaped injury.
The rainfall was tremendous. While
the tornado was in progress a slight
earthquake shock was felt in the town
of Sundance
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04
conviction Follows confession.

CONVICTION FOLLOWS CONCESSION.
PHILADELPHIA, June 4.-To the
amazement Of everybody, including the
prosecutor himself, the jury in the
court of oyer and termlner Saturday
found Harry Norris guilty of murder
in the second degree.
This erratic and perhaps weak-mind
ed youth had made an astonishing
confession" to the effect that he and
a companion, Neil or Haff1ey, had killed
Clara Mcconnell, a young milliner, last
February Norris was at the time in
the county prison charged with larceny.
He said that he and Haffley had met
the girl at Sixteenth street and Ridge
avenue, had inveigled her up an alley
and had stolen bag she carried which
contained $50. She was about to
scream, and Haff1ey, Norris said, pick
ed up an iron bolt and killed her.
Then they threw her body into a pit.
The police could find nothing to con-
meet either Norris or Haffily with the
murder, If, indeed, it was murder at
all. But Norris was tried and now
has been convicted.
His lawyers have made the usual mo-
ton for four days in which to file rea-
sons for a new trial. His mother is
heartbroken and says the lad is weak
minded and that they had contemplate
ed having him confined for years, but
put it off from time to time.
Social Evil Crusade.
PITTSBURG, June 4.-The social
evil crusade continues Instead of
prosecuting the women, the authorities
have decided to go after the people
who rent their houses to the women
at enormous figures, who sell them
their clothing at two or three times
it's value, who rent them furniture and
who loan them money at usurious
rates. There are two forces at work
in the crusade, the district attorneys
office and the city police authorities,
under direction Of the mayor, but they
are not working tremendously.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04
M'CURDY COMING BACK TO j. S.
Former Head of Mutual Life, It Is
Said, Will Face His Many
Accusers.

NEW YORK, June 4.-That Richard
A. McCurdy, former president of the
Mutual Life Insurance company, has
made arrangements to return to this
country is reported on good authority,
which says he will arrive in about
three weeks and put himself at the
disposal of District Attorney Jerome.
Then, when the district attorney and
the grand jury are through with him,
he will devote himself to defending
the suits brought against him by the
company he formerly headed.
Whether or not criminal proceedings
against the former insurance president
will follow his arrival, it is certain the
grand jury will want McCurdy to tell
it all he knows about the 100000 "con-
fidential fund.-" which the Mutual paid
out on an order of Robert Oliphant,
chairman Of the committee on expendi-
lures.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04
DEMOCRATS ARE ACTIVE.
National Committee Will Enter Fight
to Change Complexion of Congress.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June A.
The democratic national committee is
to take "a hand in the national con-
gressional election. A subcommittee
appointed to aid the congressional
committee will soon be at work. Mr..
Johnson, of Texas, and Mr.. Woodson,
of Kentucky, have already arrived.
The reason for this unusual action
on the part of the national committee
is said to be that if the democrats
elect the house it will materially aid
their chances in the next presidential
election. The unregenerate now sus-
pect that the congressional committee
is too strongly imbued with Hearstism
and that the national committee wants
its pro-Hearst proclivities toned down
somewhat About the Hearst complex
ion of the congressional committee
there is no doubt, any more than there
is doubt that the national committee is
anti-Hearst.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04
Deadly Serpent Bites

are as common in India as are stomach
latter however there is sure remedy:
Electric Bitters; the great restorative
medicine of which s A Brown, of Ben
nettsville, S. c., says: They restored
my wife to perfect health, after years
of suffering with dyspepsia and a
Ritters cure chills and fever, malaria,
biliousness, lame back, kidney
troubles and bladder disorders. Sold on
guarantee by E. L. Smalley, druggist
Price soc.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04
WILL BUILD THEATER.
Playhouse to Cost 100000 Viii be
Erected by George Sweeney.

SPOKANE, June 4.-Charles Sweeny
and John F. Cordray. manager Of the
Washington and Columbia theatre,
closed a deal today whereby Mr..
Sweeney will start at once with the
building of 100000 opera house for
Mr. Cordray in Portland, at the site of
the old Dekum homestead The plot is
200 feet square. The theater will face
100 feet on Morrison street, and will
run 200 feet through to Yamhill street
Mr.. Cordray said:
1T will be five stories high. The
front will be offices and stores. with a
fine entrance for the theater The
theater will seat from $500 to 5000
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04
INDEPENDENT MEN WILL FIGHT
Revelations in Cleveland Will Resu'e
In Immediate Demand for Bet
ter Rates.

CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 4.-lnde-
pendent Oil men will call upon tne
railroads this week to correct the rate
discrimination disclosed at last week
session of the interstate commerce
courts and the interstate commerce.
1t will be the first formal notice OIL
the Independent oil mems determine
ton to fight for a square deal.
The assistance of the people. the
courts and the interstate commercials
commission will be sought in an eHorl
to obtain a correction of the present
injustice to the shippers of Oil. lho
fight in Ohio and the east will be car
ried on through the National Peroi-
cum association, while similar do
ISOLATION will act in the west.
Secretary c. D. Chamberlain OF 'h'
National Petroleum association has TO-
ceived a letter from Commissioner uai
field asking that he be kept INFORMED
as to the attitude Of the railroads "
ward the Independent oil shippers ai'D
also as to developments in the hsA~
against discrimination.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04
VINE SHELTERS 800 PEOPLE.

TreIIis on Which It Runs Embraces an
Area Of One Fourth Of an Acre.
In the Carpenteria valley, half en-
circled by a picturesque range Of the
Santa Ynez mountains, stands the
worlds greatest gravevine, says the
Los Angeles Times.
Sixty-four years ago a Spanish wo-
man named Joaquin Lugodi Ayala,
planted a small twig of the Mission
grape She watched and tended it
with jealous care through it's early
growth, and in later years kept it neat
ly trellised and trimmed. Some twenty
years ago the vine was purchased
with a plot of ground by Jacob Wilson.
who has since denied it further COM
pass by keeping it constantly pruned
It's present measurements, however
are by no means uninteresting. At the
ground the giant trunk measures feet
9 inches in circumference. Five feet
above the ground it has a girth of 7
feet II inches. At height of feet
the trunk branches into five divis-
ions which radiate in different direc-
tions. These five branches have a
combined circumference of IA feet IL
inches, the smallest measuring 2 feet
and the largest feet inches. Within
a radieus of 18 feet from the trunk
there are twenty-nine subdivisions or
runners, each measuring from 10 to
Fl inches in circumference, together
with countless smaller branches. The
longest runner at present reaches the
enormous distance of IS feet.
The trellis, which is entirely over
spread, is 100x110 feet in dimensions,
embracing an area Of approximately
one-fourth Of an acre. A company of
500 people are said to have at one time
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04
FRISCO GIRLS sMuGGLED EAST
Chinese Women From Underground
Dens Being Sent East for
Immoral Purposes.

PHILADELPHIA, June 4.-Chinese
girls, forced by the San Francisco
earthquake from the underground dens
that held them captive, are being
smuggled eastward to escape deporta-
ton, according to information receiv
ed by the police here. The depart
ment has been informed that several
score of them are on their way hither.
Five have arrived and disappeared.
New York are watching for the slaves.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04

found shade beneath the outrageous

branches.
The vine is still in healthy state of
growth, and, If permitted to do so, bids
fair to further enlarge itself by many
square rods. The largest crop ever yet
actually weighed out was ten tons; in
1895. This did not include miscellan-
friends of the proprietor A common
estimate of the entire yield was 24,oUO
pounds. The largest clusters are re-
ported to have weighed nine to ten
pounds each.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04
Death From lockiaW

Never follows an injury dressed with
Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Its antiseptic
and healing properties prevent blood
poisoning. ChaS. Oswald, merchant, of
Rensselaersville, n. Y, writes: 1T
cured Seth Burch, of this place. of
the ugliest sore on his neck 1 ever
saw" Cures Cuts, Wounds, Burns
and Sores. Csc at E. L. Smalley's drug
store.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04
Santa Fe Company Indicted.

LAS VEGAS, N. NJ, June 4.--The
Santa Fe company is prepared to fight
the indictments found against 1t by
The company is charged with grating
rebates in favor of the Colorado Fuel
Starkville, Colo, to Deming, N. M.
The Colorado F. & I. company was in
dicted for receiving these rebates.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04
License Fee Notifications Are Now
Being Mailed
PROMPT RESPONSES ARE BEING RECEIVED
OF STATE Is RE.
ELECTED in PAYMENT OF
DELINQUENCIES.

The secretary of states Office is just
completing the task of mailing postal
card notifications to corporations re-
minding them that the $40 annual Ii
cense fee is due on July 1. About TO-
900 notification cards have been sent
altogether, this number representing
what are termed Give" corporations.
In all there are 1920 domestic and
$500 foreign corporations accredited on
the books of the secretary of states
office, but it has been the practice of
Secretary Nichols to drop those which
are more than three years in arrear-
age in payment of their license fee.
The law provides a penalty Of $3.50
for non-payment of the annual fee
on July L, and after January 1 fol-
lowing, the penalty counts at the rate
of IS a day, but this is rarely COL
lected.
Fees Being Promptly Paid.
An indication of the prosperity of
the state is found in the fact that cor
poration license fees are coming in more
freely this year than ever before in
the history Of the state, numerous cor
porations this year having paid up
licenses two or three years delinquent.
An effort is to be made by Secre-
tary of State Nichols to have a DILL
passed by the next legislature provid-
ing for disincorporating old organiza-
tons which are manifestly defunct.
1t is found to be a great annoyance
and inconvenience in the working of
the office to have names of corpora
tons on the books that have gone out
of business years ago. The records of
the office are thus badly crowded with
dead files and new and legitimate cor
porations are shut off from using de-
sirable and appropriate names which
are already on the books standing
against corporations which have no
existence in fact.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04

people, with 1900 on the lower floor
alone. 1t will be the largest on the
Pacific coast. 1t should be ready by
October"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04

FOR SALE-AT STATESMAN OF
fice Heavy Newspaper Wrappers;
size feet square,; suitable for
building purposes or for laying car
pets.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04
AFTER YOU START A
SAVINGS ACCOUNT

You will soon acquire the habit OF
saying-it's the start you want 10
make-and IL you make a start in the
right direction-by opening a savings
account-you will find 1t great 1ncen-
tive to save.
You will find yourself cutting down
expenditures so that you VIII nave
something to make the account grow.
We help it grow to the extent Of 4
per cent interest compounded semi
annually.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-04
HEADQUARTERS
for
SMOKERS SUNDRIES
Cigars that you will enjoy.
UPTON'S S Ssssss 81: md
TvoeMriter For SaiA.

Typewriter For Sale.
An Oliver Visible writer) in first
class condition. Call evenings after 6
p. m, so Park street.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-05
Her Directions.

Before Mrs. Sage left her home for
her annual summer visit at her moth
er's she told her husband that if he
wanted anything that wasn't in plain
sight, to write to her for directions.
Don't turn the house upside down, as
you generally do" she said, with I'M
happy recollection. 81 will answer by
return mail and tell you just where
it is.''
Mr.. Sage found everything to his
hand, but soon after his wife's depart
ure a neighbOr came in to borrow a
pattern which she was sure his wife
had. Mr.. Sage wrote, as he had been
requested. His wife's reply subsequent
~ found its way into the Springfield
Republican.
You will find it hanging on the wall
by the attic stairs ran the letter, cor
in the box on top of the sewing ma
chine in Ellen's room-the green box,
or the red one, 1 forget which. Per
haps, though, it is on the top shelf in
the closet in our roOm-left-hand side,
If l remember correctly. But look Oh
the other side, too
eff not there, it is in the bottom
drawer of the high-boy in the upper hall.
That is where l keep my patterns, and
don't unite all the bundles. 1t is
among them somewhere. 1 am not sure
but It is in the second drawer from the
bottom. 1t is somewhere upstairs, any
way, so don't rummage downstairs.
ZIP. S.-Come to think of it, l may
have lent it to Mrs. Hall. Write me if
you find it,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-05
He. Too. Was Shnrn.

A party of English tourists, coming
upon an old Highland shepherd,
thought to have a little fun at his ex-
pense, says the author of National HUI
NOR" and began by asking him If he
enjoyed the scenery.
81 suppose" said one, chat you can
see a great distance from here on a
clear day."
"Oh, yes, gentlemen, great distance,
indeed"
Il suppose, now, on a clear day." said
another, "you could see as far as Lon
don?"
aye" replied the shepherd, "and
farther than London"
GAS far as America and Madagascar,
should think" said another, with a
wink to his companions.
AYE. to be sure, and farther, too"
FARTHER than America Well now,
old man, tell us how far you can see."
"Weel if the NIGHT IS clear, gentlemen,
YOU will see from this ahl the way to
the MOON"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-05
ESKIMOS OF ALASKA.
They Are Little Known, Living
Along the Coast.

They Are Little Known, Living
Along the Coast.
The EskimOs are a people who are
little known and have been studied but
little, says the Southern Workman.
They dwell on the American continent
from the KuskOquim river on Boring
sea to Labrador, never going far into
the interior or south of the region Of
ice foes. Wherever they have wan
dered it has not been in search of
easier conditions Of living. Though
the interior furnishes more game and
richer furs, and the Alaska peninsula
has milder climate, they have kept
to the barren and ice-bouund shores.
Physically they are heavy, strong of
arm and back, and very light on their
feet. They are shOrt-legged but very
deet-footed and great jumpers. They
begin to practice jumping as soon as
they can walk. Their favorite way of
jumping is to spring up and kick with
the toes of both feet and come down
again on their feet. Many of them can
in this way touch a point from twelve
to thirty inches above their heads. In
looks they resemble the japanese far
more than the Chinese. But they are
lighter in complexion and very ruddy-
faced. The girls and young women
are good-looking; some are handsome.
Their eyes are a clear br0wA and very
bright and their eyesight is marvellous.
Their food is what the sea produces
seal. walrus, whale and fish. The hair
seal is the most useful. It furnishes
the skin for footwear, mittens, trou-
sers, material for nets, ropes and bags
for oil. The flesh is used for food
the blubber, which is the largest part
of the seal, furnishes oil for food, light
and heat. The quantity of seal seems
to be unlimited. Unlike the fur seals,
they never come ashore. They are
captured in the nets, and when the ice
forms they are shot.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-05
water for Norsemnn,z Horse.

"You never see a broken-winded
horse in Norway" said a horse doctor
"This is because the horses are a.
lowed to drink while they eat, the same
as mankind.
Our horses, let them be as thirsty
as get out, must still eat their dry fol
der, their dry hay and oats and corn,
with nothing to wash them down. But
in Norway every horse has a bucket Of
water beside his manger, and, as be
eats, he drinks also.
at is interesting to see how the Nor
wegian horses relish their water with
their meals. Now they sip a little
from the bucket, now they eat mouth
full, then another sip, then another
mouthful, just like rational human be
ings."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-05
DEADLY GRASS OF PAMPAs.
Arrows of the Plant Stipa often
Fatal to Cattle and Sheep.

Arrows of the Plant Stipa often
Fatal to Cattle and Sheep.
In South America, chiefly in the vast
plain that extends from Patagonia up
to Bahai Blanca, and also in the prov
ince Of Santa Fe and in Uruguay, there
are large grasses of the genus stipa
which grow in the spring and whose
misdeeds have been exposed by Mr.
Blanchard. The grasses have a fruit
about seventy-five millimeters (three
inches) long made up of three parts :
First, short basal portion formed of
conical axis with a sharp point COW
cred with sharp stiff hairs directed
backward; second, a cylindrical part
formed Of a membrane inclosing the
seeds, and, third, a shaft like that Of
an arrow.
All the stipas of South America have
these arrows, which, when the wind
blows, strike people in the face and
hands and produce painful wounds
They are so abundant that they adhere
to, the fences, forming a continuous
fringe for miles In length and giving
the illusion of vast lines of foam. A
man may get rid Of the darts that
light on his beard, hair or clothes, but
if he neglects to pluck them off at once
they penetrate the thickest garments
and reach the skin. If an attempt is
then made to withdraw them they
break and the seed remains imbedded
In the cloth, being removed with great
difficulty. In any case, although man
may contend successfully against them,
animals are unable to do so and the
sheep that are bred in such numbers
on the pampas are their chief victims,
the darts of the stipa penetrating their
eyelids and binding them, so that be-
ing no longer able to find their way
about they die of hunger and thirst.
The seeds also form amid the hair of
the feet and over the whole cutaneous
surface a mass of sharp points which
every movement pushes farther into
the flesh, giving rise to ulcers, to which
the animal generally succumbs.
The darts also penetrate into the
salivary glands Of herbivorpus animals,
while they accumulate in great masses.
These form especially under the tongue.
where they render difficult the move
ments Of the organ and the prehen-
sion Of food. The genus stipa is dis
seminated throughout warm and tenn
perate regions, but is rarely found in
Europe. There are about 100 species.
of WHICH four are found in France,
but as these grasses are driven out by
cultivation they are seldom found in
gardens and fields and are not at all
dangerous to cattle in France.-Trans-
lated from Revue ScientifQue for Lit
erary Digest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1906-12-05
LAST OF THE SLAVE SHIPS,

Some of Her "CargO" Stin to he
Found in BaclSwOOds of Alabama.
Many things can be forgotten In for
ty-seven years and probably few Amer
leans remember the story of the slave
ship Clotilde that was run into Mobile
Bay and burned one dark night In 1879
and how It's cargo Of slaves was DUNN
ed off into the canebrakes and left.
some to be picked up and sold. some Ia
wander about and starve and some 70
die of Inconsistencies.
Notwithstanding that 1T all happened
close to Mobile, scarcely any one in
this year recalls anything of the facts.
Only in an old scrap book of a friend
1 find a single printed word about
them, and when this friends daughter
had once been to the strange settle
ment and had described some Of the
peoples habits Of life in a charming
little dialect sketch the dramatic situ-
alton seized upon me.
A burning desire possessed me to see
these remarkable people face to face. A
chase followed among the old negroes Of
Mobile, for somebody had said | could
find among them n certain man who
knew Of the Africans. He also knew
the road through the big dark swamp
behind the city to their settlement.