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The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-20
THE POWER OF A PENNY.

Ny grandma and were visiting my uncle in Detroit
Mich. I then just girl of years and had never
been away from my for than week, so at
times grew lonesome for her. One day when I was
The Minneapolis journal., 1906-05-20
WHEN ONE rs TEN.

Mama had promised that when I 10 years
old, I might make my first batch of biscuits I had
always wanted to cook r Ever since I wee girl
piece of dough had had fascination for and when
mama was baking generally sat at the table watching
her. One day shortly after my tenth birthday,
went away to spend the afternoon. AS tea-time
and she did not return thought how nice it would
be to surprise her and have supper all ready when she
came home. Now my time to make biscuits There
good fire in the range did not have to bother
about that I went to work with and soon had
tin of biscuits in the oven and when came they
nicely Drowned. Oh! what proud, satisfied little
girl was, tho did say, Altho your biscuits
are good my dear, just little more would
have made them excellent Emily Burkhardt
Eighth Grade, 3434 Blaisdell Ave.
Bryant School.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20
Honorinq Petrarch's Memory.

AREZZO, Italy, July 2O.-Six hun
dred and two years ago today, on July
20, 1904, Francesca Petracco, better
known to the wo1:d as Francesca
Petrarca, or Petarch, was born here,
the son of exiles from Florence. He is
one of the four great poets of Italy
and the anniversary of his birth is OBJ
served not only throughout Italy but
wherever there are people with liter
airy tastes The celebration here con-
sisted principally in memorial exer-
cises at the birthplace of the great
poet and the reading of some of his
most famous works.
Petrarch entered a monastic school
and later took orders in the church,
but never served as a parish priest,
but became attached as chaplain or
secretary to the households of various
great mobiles, and later serving the
states in various diplomatic and cere-
mOnious positions. In 1341, at the cap
itol in Rome, he was crowned with a
laurel wreath as the greatest Italian
poet of his time. He died on July IS,
1874, at Arqua.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20
CONFUSION IN SPELLING REFORM
Philadeipha's School Superintendent
Finds Plan Objectionable.

PHILADELPHIA, July 2O.-Prof
Martin G. Brumbaugh, the newly elect
ed superintendent of public schools. is
not in favor of simplified spelling as
advanced by the simplified spelling
board of New York, whose report is
now in the hands of the board of edu-
cation of that city.
Speaking on this subject, DR.. Brum-
baugh said:
Theoretically am in favor of SIM
plified spelling. But 1 cannot approve
the list of the spelling board for use
in the public schools. There are diff
culties in adopting it, which I do not
see can be overcome. Supposing the
list were adopted and the children were
taught to spell by the reform method.
when they would refer to the standard
dictionaries for the definition of the
words they would find entirely differ
ent spelling. To obviate the difficulty
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20
A REAL PLATFORM.

Winston Churchill, the novelist, who
has accepted the Endorsement Of the
Lincoln Republican club for the gov
ernorship of New Hampshire, makes
the Illuminating suggestion that 1.-The
broad issue and general platform
should be the interference of the
Boston & Maine railroad or Of any
other corporation in the politics and
government Of the state"
Mr.. Churchill has defined not only a
real issue but the most important issue
in American politics. His platform
applies to nearly every state and to
the national government as WELL More
and more the question in political con-
control the party machinery, but
whether that machinery shall be a
corporation annex.
This is the issue in Iowa, where the
railroads are opposing the renOmina
ton of Governor Cummins. 1t has
been the real issue in Wisconsin dur
ing La Follette's long fight, as it was
in Michigan under Pingree. It. was
the issue in New York last fall which
overthrow Boss Murphy, and it was
the issue in the democratic state con-
vention in Pennsylvania the other day
when Guffey was defeated.
Whenever this issue can be clearly
drawn there is never any doubt as to
the result. The difficulty is in making
the issue clear, and the chief work
which satellite politicians perform for
corporation employers is in drawing
behring's across the trail. No more
artistic example of This work can be
found than in the Iowa contest where
the corporations took advantage of the
governors tariff revision views to
make a campaign against him on the
issue of Dingleyism.
If Mr.. Churchill can make the peo-
pie of New Hampshire understand that
the real question is whether they are
to have self-government nr govern
ment by the Boston & Naive railroad
there can be little doubt which they
will select.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20

an admiral of the navy, reviving the
rank for his benefit. He is absolutely
independent of the secretary of the
navy and of the president of the United
States.
He cannot be retired and he cannot
be disciplined by reduction in rank or
any of the other usual means employed.
The place gives him an annual income
of $4,000
If he chose to do so he could close
down his desk, go home and never turn
his hand over in the way of work,
either for the navy or any one else, and
his pay and allowance would go on as
long as he lives; but the admiral pre-
fers to work, and to work hard.
He is at the head of the navy gen.
eral board, charged with the duty of
devising general plans for improve
ment of the navy, the management of
the ships, the handling of officers and
men, and the control of the great gov
eminent shipyards. Every day when
he is not at sea for the maneuvers he
is at his desk in his office or attending
to the meetings of the board.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20
CREDIT DUE MIR. ROHRABACHER.

Credit for the special edition of the
Statesman appearing today should be
given to Mr.. c. A. Rahrabacher, who
has had many years experience in
commercial sketch writing. Mr.. Rohr-
abacher is an interchangeable worker, the
youngest man of his age in the United
States, and his wide acquaintance with
commercial and industrial affairs in
every section of the country enables
him to give service in his line that few
if any of his rivals can equal. Mr..
Rohrabacher is a cogent and fluent
writer of great versatility, and his
sketches of business and professional
men and of various industries will be
found of fascinating interest.
This special edition of the States
man is the best ever published in this
city because of the thorough work
done by the able and clever author. 1t
will long be preserved as a souvenir in
the homes of the Walla Walla valley.
and in the years to come will prove
valuable for reference.
Mr. ROhra bacher is a man of charm
ing personality, genial, cultured, whole
souled, buoyant, optimistic, with an
exhaustive repertoire of wit and
humor and a heart trimming over
with that genuine sympathy that
should make the whole world kin. He
four months residence in Walla Walla,
who will always give him the glad
hand whenever he comes to Walla
Walla either as a permanent resident
or as a visitor.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20

the dictionaries would have to be
changed, and that would be spelling
reform with a vengeance.
eff the system were adopted in the
Philadelphia schools, a child whose
parents would move away would meet
with difficulties in other schools where
the present system of spelling is
taught Many poor families often re-
move to other cities and this would be
great setback to young pupils. There
fore. 1 do not see how the system can
be adopted at the present time.
1.-The superintendent of schools in
certain city of the state spells en-
tirely by the reform method. On his
letters he had printed at the head:
This letter is written after the SIM
plified method of spelling Otherwise
the recipients of his letters would
probably think it strange to see love
spelled 1uv.'
"a movement has been made in this
city toward the adoption of the reform
methods in the schools, and the subject
was preached to the board of educa-
ton. Instead of using the termination
'oped' in the participles of the prefer
tense opt is used AS examples are
the words 'stopt,' Slept 'dropt,.'
Among some of the other simplified
words are "addrest,' 'blusht,' 'carest,
'shapt,' 'domicil,' 'prest,' 'saber,' 'heapt,
protest. 'thorofare,' thru tho 'vext,
'winkt,' and 'wO.'"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20
A MODERN LAWYER ON BURR'S
TRIAL

1t will be SO years next August since
Aaron Burr sat for his trial in Rich
mond on the charge of treason. For
the earlier half of this period the
voices raised in Burr's behalf were
few. Gradually the defenders increas-
ed in numbers and vehemence With
ing the last few years we have had
Burr partisans attempting by denun-
ciatory pamphlets and in extravaganza
fiction to set aside in the popular mind,
as Chief Justice Marshall set it aside
on the records, that Scotch verdict of
mot proven" rendered in 1907.
A striking contribution to the con-
troversy over Burr is the first paper
in Frederick Trevor Hills series. De
cisive Battles of the Law" beginning
in the June Harper's Mr.. Hill re-
capitulates the case against the accus-
ed as brought out directly and by
cross Xamination-there was no tes-
timony for the defense-and this is his
conclusion:
"This unpromising official report
presents a stronger case for Burr than
all the briefs and special pleadings of
his Jealous partisans and
read without bias, passion or pref
udice, that mute appeal from the YER
dict of mot proven" surely invites a
reversal of the judgment of his peers"
Burr went to trial handicapped, Mr.
Hill finds, by his fatal duel with Ham,
ilton. The country knew that this af-
fair had astracized him from society
and driven him from politics, with
two indictments for murder hanging
aver his head and financial ruin star
ing him in the face"
The jury has been called hostile. It
was so by act of the defense; for
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20

when two panels had been exhausted
without effect Burr proposed that he
be allowed to select from the rejected
of the last panel, and he deliberately
chose those men most bitter in their
attitude toward him. 1t was such a
jury which, on the case presented,
found a mot proven verdict the worst
it could render. History has been
busy during the past century with all
the principal actors in the great
DRAMA" writes Mr.. Hill, but concern
ing Aaron Burr not one particle of new
evidence has been unearthed."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20

Another plan that might be con-
sidered by the council and the Com
mercial club for a permanent park near
the business district would be to trade
the forty-acre tract at the head OF
Alder street for ten-acre tract
nearer the center of the city. The Ward
property would make an ideal park site
if the city could secure it.
Walla Walla is behind most other
towns of any size in providing public
parks. Waitsburg with 1900 people has
two public parks, one of two acres be-
ing a beautiful grove a few blocks
from the business district and the
other a ten acre tract being a little
farther out.
1t is high time for Walla Walla to 90
something more than talk about the
necessity for public park. We can
get one easily and cheaply and it
should be done at once. Otherwise
some of the -burdened residents
are talking of digging an immense cell
lar on some vacant lot in the business
district to be used as retreat from
the sizzling rays of the midsummer
sun.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20

sion to determine, in a scientific man.
ner, whether any given rate or pre-
pared rate is just as reasonable.
President Roosevelt is cognizant of
the scheme and, when it is worked out
a little more fully, it is probable he
will approve it. Without such a valua-
ton, it is commended, it is like going
around in cradle to undertake to fix
rates by having regard for the CAPT.
talization of the railroads.
Estimate Is $1,000, 900, 900.
Professor Adams more than a year
ago fixed commercial valuation in
excess Of $11, 0OO, 900 900 upon the rail-
roads of the country, but that valua-
ton is of no Importance in the effort
to get what may be reasonable rate.
The uniform system of accounting is
to be so arranged that it will show the
receipts from each class of traffic and
the proportion of expense incurred in
moving t. In that way the just return
of one rate to all other rates, it is be-
lieved. can be ascertained and in only
that way. The rate per ton per mile
statistics put out by the railroads, the
commissioners merely smile at, because
they do not show anything as to the
reasOnableness of the rates or the I'M
rQaSOnahlanoSS of thor,
Effective July I, 1907.
The law requires the railroads to
keep their books so that the commits
sion can ascertain the railroad receipts
and expenditures on account of all
kinds of traffic, but it is silent on the
question of valuation. But, inasmuch
as the commission is authorized to as
certain what a reasonable rate would
be, valuations will be fixed upon all
roads, in an unofficial manner, until
such time as congress authorizes the
fixing of them in the ascertaining Of
rates.
1t is the intention Of the commission
to have the new system go into effect
on July 1, 1907, compelling the rail-
roads to have fiscal year correspond
ing with that of the government. At
present each railroad is keeping it's ac-
counts in it's own way, the only uni
formity that is required being in the
making of reports to the commission.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20
WANTED AT ONCE, A PUBLIC
PARK.

The intense, protracted heat of this
month, which promises to continue till
the middle of September, again brings
strongly to mind as we'll as to weary,
willing bodies. the urgent need of a
public park with abundance of cool
shade not far from the business dis
trict. Many of the residents of Wal
la Walla are not able to leave their
daily employment for lives of ease
mountains with all the attendant dang
erS of being drowned or kidnapped. and
they would enthusiastically welcome
and applaud some definite movement
ON the part of the Commercial club and
the city council to provide the people
with public park as soon as possible.
natural park is owned by the city
along Mill creek in the upper part of
the city and this should be cleared I'D
and made ready for immediate use,
and to make it more accessible and at
tractive a boulevard should be opened
along the banks of Mill creek from
Otis or Merriam street above Fire
Station No. 2, to the park site. This
would give the city continuous park
from the starting point to the expan-
sion of the driveway into the tract of
two or three acres owned by the city.
The opening of this park would not in
volve heavy expense Hobson street
could be extended at little cost from
Clinton street back of the Odd Fellows
Home grounds to Merriam street. which
opens into Boyer avenue and East AL
der street, and with a good bridge
across Mill creek would give easy ac-
cess to the tree-lined boulevard from
both avenues.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20
WHERE Is DEWEY?
Hero Of Manila Bay Is In an EnviabIe
Position.

ST. LOUIS, July 20.-"What has be-
come of Admiral George Dewey. and
what is he doing now?'
This inquiry, sent to the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat, ELECTED the following
infOrmation:
Taken all in all, there is perhaps no
man in the United States in the SER
vice TO the government or out of it who
is in a more enviable position than is
Admiral Dewey. Congress has given
him the rank, pay and allowances of
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20
ACTS ON NEW RATE LAW,
Federal Body Seeks to Employ Prof.
Henry Adams for Important Work.

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 90
The interstate commerce commission
ers have taken the first step toward
the enforcement of the new rate law.
A conference has been held with Pro-
fessor Henry Adams, of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, statistician of the
commission, at the end of which he
was asked to enter the employ of the
commission as an exeprt to devise the
uniform system of bookkeeping for all
railroads required by the law.
The professor asked for week in
which to consider the matter. There
is no question that he will accept if
he can make satisfactory arrangements
for leave of absence from the uni
versity for a period of about two years.
May Fix Valuations.
Back of the intention to engage the
professor is a fact of far greater sig
nificance than the mere preparation of
a uniform system of accounts 1t is
to have the work done now so executed
that it will be of use in fixing a valua-
ton upon all the. railroads of the coun-
try, so that balance sheet can be pre-
pared which will enable the commits
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20
CONVICT HIDES IN A BALE.
Prize Prisoner at Sioux Falls Figures

TTIZS TTISOU0T at 0tOuN aus II0uTSS
in Sensational Effort to Get Away.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., July 2O.-In
attempting to make his escape from
the state penitentiary, late this after
noon, Fred Barton, the bank robber
who is serving term of IA years and
six months, had a remarkably close
race with death. The attempt to es-
cape was daring one and Of an orig
inal character. Barton concealed him
self in one Of several bales of old rags
which were being shipped from the
penitentiary, and was conveyed to the
Illinois Central freight depot Had it
not been for the fact that each bale
have succeeded in making his escape.
However, when the bale in which he
was concealed was weighed it was no.
ticed that it was over a hundred
pounds heavier than the other bales,
and an investigation was made and
Barton found hidden in it.
Without being released from his I'M
comfortable rtsition, he was taken
back to the penitentiary, and when the
rags were withdrawn from about him
he was found to be nearly dead from
suffocation and the severe jolting and
tumbling to which he had been sub
jected when the bale was handled by
the men in charge Of it.
Barton, with other accomplices,
"Jacko' Wilson, Paddy" Carroll and
John Burns, was convicted last Janu-
airy in the circuit court of Bon Homme
county of the robbery of the bank of
Springfield, at Springfield, in that
county. on the morning of October 5,
last. The arrest of Barton and Burns
was due to the vigilance of Chief of
Police Zirbes, of Aberdeen, who traced
them to Sioux City.
They refused to return to South Da-
kota without the formality of requis1-
ton. This was secured by Sheriff Gar
ner, of Bon Homme county, immedi-
ately before last Thanksgiving.
When arrested the prisoners had
about 1925 in silver, which was identi-
fed as part Of the Springfield plumber
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20

Youths and Young Mems Suits,
sizes up to "a, regular prices 81
to SO, reduced So to $3.50
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20

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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20

Entered at the Postoffice of Walla
WaIIa, Washington, as Second-class
Matter.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-07-20
THE MIGRATORY AMERICANS.

In the year since the completion of
the new transcontinental railway route
across southern Nevada the population
of that state has doubled. 1t has more
collapse of the mining boom in the
seventies. 1t has regained ground in
literal sense also. The opening of
system of irrigation by which the
waters of the Truckee are husbanded
to give fertility to $4,000 acres of bar
rem land has contributed not less than
the new railway facilities and the new
gold discoveries to revivify the droop-
ing silver state.
Even these gains, promising as they
are Of future growth, are only COM
parative. Nevada is still politically
the pocket borough it has ever been,
it's two senators representing a con-
stituency no larger than a New York
assemblyman's. But the lure of new
gold fields and the prospect that with
in another twelvemOnth the locomotive
may penetrate Death valley, as it has
already penetrated the Mojave desert,
make the outlook particularly bright.
This repopulation of deserted Ne
vada evidences a movement Of popu-
lation directly counter to the prevail
ing one from the rural districts to the
cities. The existence of this trend in
New England is a familiar story. The
figures compiled by Chief Clerk Rossi-
ter of the census bureau and printed
in the Review of Reviews showing the
extent to which it has attained in
many of the agricultural states will
occasion surprise.
In Kansas, for example, of the 105
counties in the state, Fl decreased In
population from 1895 to 1900 Between
the latter year and 1905 the number of
counties suffering a decline rose to "A,
with a total loss of 10000. During
that period the city population in
creased by Is per cent. In Iowa a yet
more extraordinary change has taken
place. During the past five years II
of the 80 counties lost 5 per cent OF
population, and the smaller towns and
villages suffered proportionately.
In New York conditions not felt else
where operate to produce an ebb and
flow of population. Twenty eight
counties, or exactly half of the total
number outside the metropolitan dis
trict, have today a smaller population
history. These counties, which had
1861 people in 1905, show a de-
crease of SO,576, or 6 per cent of their
aggregate highest population since
1910.
OF $50 towns in the state 5S5 de-
clined in population between 1900 and
1905. In general the decline of rural
and semi-rural population was large
Communities under 10000 decreased 5
per cent, while communities of from
10000 to 100000 increased q per cent.
Communities of above 100000 increas-
ed 151a per cent.
Many causes have operated to effect
these changes. For one, the trunk
railways which deliver foodstuffs in
New York at prices with which the
farmers of the state find it diffiuclt to
compete. The decrease in the proper
ton of children is another. In Otsego
county the percentage of children I'M
der 10 years of age fell from % in
1860 to 14.5 in 1900. In Putnam the
decline was from "a to 1863. But in
larger sense, Mr.. Rossiter shows, So
cial changes have been operative.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-10-04

In the Pettis county circuit court
the case against Harvey W. Salmon,
charged with grand larceny, was
continued until November IL. That
against T. N. Casey was dropped
from the docket, and the one against
Frank Salmon was 'continusd BY
consent" which means that4it will
never b tried. Frank was indicted
on charges Of receiving deposits
while the bank xas insolvent, and
also With grand larceny. The only
real chargs. .against him, hovsvef,
seems TO bsthet bic name h Salmon.
-Osoeola Democrat. ~
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1906-10-04

The Board OF Health for the city OF
Butler, at meeting held Monday to
discuss the diphtheris situation, rec,
commended to the mayor that all the
hydrants In the city be opened up,
flushed and thoroughly cleansed. 1t
Is said that some hydrants In the
outlying districts have not been
opened up for years, II at any time
since they we're put In, that they are
alled with mud and stsgnant water
which breeds disease. The fire chief
recently put in q day opening up
some Of these hydrants, and inform.
sd the mayor that the odor from
them when first opened was very Of
|ensive. The ordinance requires thst
Ill hydrants shall be opened up and
lushed periodically.