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The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29

the single exception of a provision for
the presence of party committee chair
men at the canvass. }
All party tickets are uniform in size
and color and made UP in perforated
pads. The voter is not compelled to
disclose his party Affiliations and if he
is registered is given the tickets of all
parties represented in the primary con-
test. In the secrecy of the election
booth he selects and marks the party
ticket of his choice, folds all the tickets
in a prescribed manner and returns
them all to the ballot clerk, who de-
posits them in the ballot box. While
it is, of course, possible for q member
or members of one party to vote for
weak candidates on the rival ticket
and possibly nominate inferior men,
the La Toilette contention is that il Is
preferable to compelling a declaration
of party. This contention is based on
two grounds: First, that 1t is in har-
mony with the secrecy of the Aus
tralian ballot, and second. that 1T pro-
tects corporation employees from cor
porate interference with an untram-
meled exercise of the franchise. The
voter is given a chance to express
his preference from United States SEN
ator down the official scale to precinct
committeeman. In the latter case no
filings are made. At the bottom of the
ticket are three blank spaces and the
voter is instructed to write in the
names of three voters of the precinct
as his choices for committeeman. The
one receiving the largest number of
votes is, by provision of the act, chair
man.
The primary vote is canvassed in
fdentically the same manner as is the
general election vote and plurality
votes nominate
Wisconsin elects one-half its State
Senate and all its lower legislative
house every two years. The primary
act provides that two weeks after the
primary election all the State and
legislative candidates then nominated
shall assemble at the State capital in
platform conventions and to these con-
ventions is delegated the power of Sc
lecting the State central or campaign
committee. While this feature OIL the
Wisconsin law has been savagely at
tackled by the professional politicians
left outside the pale, it seems to the
honest and unbiased student of pri-
mary laws one of the strongest, if not
the strongest and most commendable
feature of the act. Wisconsin is over
whelmingly Republican. The men who
frame the Republican platforms and
who pledge themselves to the several
planks are those who will have the
opportunity to redeem those pledges
And when it is considered that those
conventions include approximately
three-fourths of the votes of the new
Legislature and the vetoing power In
the person of the nominee for Gov
ernor, 1T is at once apparent there is
little room for lodging, repudiating of
platform or excuse for failure to re-
deem platform pledges.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29

inburgh further describes the new
4 Macalpine process of refining oils.
for which a British patent has
just been granted;
The objects of this invention are
stated to be Cd to cheaper the process
of refining mineral and petroleum oils
by simplifying and shGtening the op-
erations required and lessening the
amount of waste products; CD to i'm
prove the color of the oil, and CD to
lessen it's liability to char the wick and
explode when used as a burning oil
There are three stages in the new
process. First, neutralizing any acid
which may be in the oil under treat
ment by mixing with the oil an alkaline
solution prepared by dissolving one
pound of carbonate of soda in ten
pounds of water, and using about one
pound of the solution to every twenty
pounds OF oil, and agitating the whole
for half an hour, afterward subjecting
such oil to a preliminary distillation;
second, taking such dfstillate, or oil not
requiring such acid naturalization and
preliminary distillation, and treating &
with an excess of weak sulphuric acid
in order to precipitate the substances
in the oil, which cannot remain in So
luton in presence of this acid. and
thus render the remaining impurities
susceptible of easy oxidation; and third.
trea.4ng the oil so prepared with weak
sulphuric acid in presence of suitable
oxidizing agents. and then preferably
rapidly boiling the same:
In carrying out the second part Of
their invention the patentees mix into
the oil s per cent by weight of sui
phuric acid, say about 1-72 specific
gravity, maintaining the whole at a
temperature of about 40 degrees c.,
with intermittent agitation for about
half an hour. after which the oil is al
lowed to settle for four or five hours
and then drawn. off from the tars, when
1t is fit for the last treatment This
consists in passing the oil into suit
able boiling vessel having an inverted
condenser attached and adding to the
oil the oxidizing agent, such as the OK
ides of hydrates of manganese, prefer
ably finely ground back oxide OF man
ganese ore, in proportion about per
cent of the oxidizing agent to the
weight of the oil and 10 per cent of
weak sulphuric acid of a specific grav-
ity not exceeding IL. After the reaction
manganese together with any excess of
sulphuric acid which may be present
are allowed to settle, after which the
oil Is drawn of and after the usual
treatment with acid and alkali is dis
titled in the usual way.
In regard to the failure of previous
attempts to refine mineral oil by means
of the combined use of sulphuric acid
of usual commercial strength and oxi-
dizing agents DR. Macalpine says that
In his opinion such want of success has
been due to the fact that the acid used
was of a strength sufficient to disinte-
crate the oil and dissolve the manga
nese and result in an oxidization of too
vigorous a character. 1t is claimed
Tor this invention that IT obviates these
disadvantages by the use of an acid so
weak as to have no action upon the oil
and which does not act upon the oxi-
dant itself except by the interpretation
of the impurities in the oil.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29
WORK FOR THE BAR ASSOCIATION.

New York California there complaint for
about the laws delay and there here the only
Il agitation the creation of Offices
Reform OF this kind originate with the lawyers them
selves and the fact that does promotes suspicion that
they prefer present expensive protracd meth
DDS that almost a denial of justice
1t in the multiplication of Judges the remedy lies
but the sphcaton Of pleading and practice Forty years
the law officers OF the British drew up
ment OF the civil and criminal practice English
forms OF litigation the simplest and expeditions
The thing be done here the abandon
for its amiabe and detached frame
il to resemble nothing much bump log.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29
Answers to Queries

SAN PEDRO-van, City. San Pedro
is without a Custom house. The near
est Custom-house to that harbor is the
one at Los Angeles.
ESPERANTO-W. N. p, Oakland.
For such information as you desire
about Esperanto, address the Recorder,
University of California, Berkeley
McCULLOCH-V. M. City The fam
lily name of Hugh McCulloch, who was
at one time Secretary. of the Treasury,
is pronounced as II written Ma-kul-oh,
with the sound of U as in Gull.
ALIENS AND PROPERTY-A. O. s..
Oakland, Cal. The Civil Code of Cali
fornia says: Any person, whether
citizen or alien, may take hold and
dispose of property real or personal,
within this State" "
REDUNDANCY-W G. F. City In
the following sentences: He is
mutual friend of ours and HE is a
mutual friend of mine 'of ours and
''of mine are redundant. for mutual
means pertaining reciprocally to both
of two persons. parties or sides; shared
alike; joint; common or to which two
or more persons have the same or equal
claims The proper sentence is He is
a mutual friend"
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29
In the Joke World

Footpad Cat a. m.)-Yer money or
yer life. an no back talk. Undsr-
stand?
Nonchalant Citizen-You'n have to
come again. old chap. The bridge
whist season opened tOnishti-Puck.
Sunday School Teacher-Now. then.
Willie Smart. can you tell me what a
prophet is2
Willie Smart-why. a prophets one
of these fellows that's always Iookin'
for a chance to say Il told you So
Philadelphia Leader.
In his chair. with the telephone trans->
mitter in his lap.
What in the world are you doing?~
asked the boss.
"A fellow called up a little while
ago." replied the future head of the
firm. "and told me to hold the phone
till he called again
Magazine,
Didn't you say that the bosses must
7 did,
And here you are setting yourself
up as boss"
Certainly. why did you suppose I
wanted the other fellows TO go?'-
I Apilid AcQ6cT-
A Dutch woman kept tollgate. One
foggy day traveller asked. Madam.
how far is IL to A?
Shoost a leetle ways" was the reply.
Yes. but how far?'' again asked the
traveller.
"shoost a leetle ways" more en-
phatically.
Madam. is 1t one. two. three. four or
FIVE miles2"
The good woman ingenuously replied.
Il dinks 1T is."5LiPpincotts magazine.
Meeting newsooy whose face was
SCARED with scratches and looked like
map Of some great railroad center. a
reporter asked the youngster what the
matter was. "Feller spoke disrespect-
full of my sister; said he'd bet she was
ross-eyed. and sailed in"
rs your sister cross-eyed7" aslyM
the reporter. N
'Hain't got no sister" was the reply
1T was the principle OF the thing what
got licked for."-Philadelphia North
American
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29

K job The men ntreads:
of weye the Constitute shertyam nd S
o # corporate 0
b O he meb
constitutional provision stands
today and radical of article XII
Ig h nnot texendan yfvnchseo h permit
lhe repeal amendment doub
o
The
public we'll founded
the
of
tt be
otraced
gher For all these
public policy 1t should be down
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29
UNUSUALLY SENSITIVE OFFICIALS.

THE Vermont Railroad Commission like own precious ns
tuition OF like purpose finds itself mpotent
mited to expire peace and disgust The report OF
thus:
II the legislative authority yields influence
Of railroad outside legislative
viii cothe railroad
road nsoenty obey
We do find among California ociay any
ness about drawing salary that has not been earned
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29
Seek Trade Equality
in Manchuria.

"HE Chamber OF Commerce pf
Shanghai has made repeated -
4 quests of the diplomatic body w
Peking to take action with a view
to insure equality of trade conditions
in Manchurias The chamber is said to
fear that japan will not give equal ad-
vantages. but the diplomatic corps at
Peking. according to a British dispatch
will not take united action, as some OF
the members do not consider that the
situation demands it. The Chinese are
unable to do anything until the evacu-
alton of Manchuria by the japanese has
been completed.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29

In Belgium all cows over three
months old are to be seen wearing ear
rings. Breeders are obliged to keep a
record OF all cattle raised by them. and
each animal has a registered trade
number, which is engraved on the ring
fastened to its ear.
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29

San Francisco will do well initiate the example
putting the chain gang work the There nothing
the criminal classes dread much Chief friend
Kid Sullivan would be any weleguaed
gang
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29

Townsend's Cal. glace fruits and can
dies at Emporium. Post and Van Ness
and 1908 and 1920 Valencia street
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29
System of Election Reform
l hat Freed Wisconsin,.

THE fourth article of The Calls direct primary election
lam series presents outline the features of system of cleo
lion reform that freed Wisconsin from the grip of the political boss
and corporate aggression
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29
EDIT L p GE OCTOBER 100
A Dangerous Amendment.

q NTE TO- which ratification
X corporation job. The linen reads:
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29
Improves Method of
Refining Oils.

~ oNsUL RUFUS FLEMING of Ed
inburgh further describes the new
Macalpine process of refining oils.
for which a British patent has
The San Francisco call., 1906-10-29
BY Geoge "A. Van Smith.

VA TISCONSIN has the most COM
NM prehensive and possibly the
Wv most adequate primary election
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-04

ly known, will, it is expected, soon
be in the service Of the United States.
This new weapon of destruction is
the discovery of the governments ex-
perts. General Crozier says it is the
most powerful explosive the world has
ever known, far surprising lyddite, jo-
vite, dynamite and other high power
destroyers. The new destroyer is es-
pecially adapted for use in conjunc-
ton with aerial war engines.
In Touch with Wriehts.
When The Hague conference next
meets it is expected that General Gro
zier will be able to say that such pro-
gress has been made that it will be
practical for explosives to be dropped
only in such a way that it will OBJ
viate the destruction of hospitals,
churches, cemeteries, and all the estab-
lishments usually immune in time Of
bt.mbardment.
The bureau of ordnance and fortifi-
cations, the most powerful board in
the war department has been in touch
with the Wright brothers in Dayton,
whose experiments with aeroplanes
have caused much speculation. The
government is convinced that the
Wrights have made gerat progress.
The government is not fully cognizant
cf all the Wrights have done, but be-
lieves progress enough has been made
to warrant overtures, and steps have
been taken in that direction.
While General Crozier will not dis
cuss the negotiations with the Wrights,
he says: you may simply say that
it is now up to the Wright brothers to
say whether the government shall take
their invention. They know the gov
ernmcnt's attitude and have it's Of
fer
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-04
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claimed they We're innocent, but after
az investigation We're deemed guilty
and scOt. During their trial and ex-
ecution an army officer who was sta
toned at Fort Dalles saw Mre. Under
WOoG and became enamOred of her
and asked her hand in marriage. 1t is
related that she refused to counte-
for him, but was prevailed on finally
to accept him through the influence of
Indians of her tribe, who thought that
tit was good diplomatic move and
would secure the favor of the great
soldier against further chastisement
So they were married and for two
years lived together, but not happily,
as the Indian maiden is said to have
never recovered from her repugnance
to the man who was indirectly respon-
sible for her fathers death. At the
emu of two years the army officer was
transferred to California and tried to
persuade his wife to go with him, but
she refused to do so and he went to
his post of duty. After time he re-
turned and made another plea to which
she was also adamant, and he then
went to Alaska, where he was sent
by the government, and is said to have
returned no more.
Afterward she met Amos Under
wood who was one of the few white
settlers in this part of the country
at that time. and an Indian fighter of
great renown and who came into Ore
gon in 1852. To him she was be-
trothed and several children were born
to them, the bodies of two of whom
We're eXhumed at the time of the fune-
raj and reburied alongside that of their
mother with the ceremonies Of the
Indians of her tribe
The ceremony was conducted by
been engaged in the work of remov-
ing the bones of his tribemen from
burying grounds near the river back
to the spot where Mrs. Underwood
was buried, and which, it is considered,
will be undisturbed for a great many
years to come. 1t was Mrs. Under
woods desire that she be buried ac-
cording to the custom of her race and
the family respected her wishes
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-04
CITY news IN BRIEF.

Miss Maude Summers, a graduate
nurse of the Walla Walla hospital, was
operated on for appendicitis at that
institution this afternoon.
Miss Elva Wheeler, a graduate of
the Walla Walla hospital training
school for nurses who has been ill
there for some time was able to return
to her home in Pendleton today.
Among the brilliant lawyers in the
city today is George H Turner LII. D.
of Spokane, who is here as attorney
for Whitman college in the tax case
in the United States court.
w. T. Dovell, Esq. of Seattle, came
here this morning on legal business in
the United States court. He is one of
the attorneys of Whitman college in
the tax case.
The paving suit injunction case
against the city was postponed this
morning for one week. When the case
was called at 10 o'clock before Judge
Brents, Gose & Gose for the plaintiffs
stated that Attorney Blandford had
filed a motion to strike out parts of the
COMPLAINT only yesterday and asked
f..r a eek to prepare to resist the mo-
Ii III which was granted by the court.
What is proving to be one of the big
shopping events of the season is the
Piercing Arrow sale inaugurated by
the White House clothing company
Saturday morning. The event has
caught the popular fancy as is evil
denced by the crowds filling the big
store and taking advantage of the
genuine bargains the store has to
offer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-04
TWO cluRs GO TO HEPPNER
WaIIa WalIa Joins PerdIetcn at An
nuaI Meeting of UmatiIIa County
Development League.

Walla Walla will be well represent
ed at the annual meeting of the una
tilla Development League, which meets
at Heppner, December II, for two
days session.
At a meeting of the executive boaru
Of the Commercial club, held in Sec
rotary Moore's office this afternoon
the urgent need of Walla Walla being
represented at the Heppner meetihs'
was fully discussed resulting in Dr'
n. G. Blalock. Prof. W. D. Lyman eA-
Governor Moore and Harry b. strohs
being named as delegates.
President Kaser will endeavor 10 ar
range his affairs so as to attend the
meeting. The committee on arrange
ments include some of the best known
men in Umatilla county and the meet
ing promises excellent results in the
campaign inaugurated oS
the commercial club and civic organiz-
ations in the northwest.
The Walla Walla delegates VIII 20
TO Pendleton on the local morning
train. December 10, and join the Pen
dleton delegation.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-04
INDIAN PRINCESS IS DEAD
Mrs. Underwood Was Belle In Her
Time and Was Once Wife of an
Army Lieutenant.

The death of Mrs Amos Underwood
and her funeral at Hood River, which
has just been conducted according to
the rites of the remnant of the power
full tribe of Indians that once had
swarmed along the banks of the Co
lumbia river has caused old pioneers
to reveal the fact that her life was
one Of romance and sorrow in her
youth, and also that she was a great
belle in her time and was the wife
of a prominent army officer.
AS the story goes, according to one
Of the few white settlers who was
he'll. in the late sixties, Mrs. Under
wood was the daughter of Chief Cheno-
will, after whom a town is named on
the Washington side of the river, and
whn III company with six other In
dams, was executed at Cascade Locks
for the massacre which took place
there III which % whites were MUIR
Gered.
ChenOwith and his companions
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-04
WHAT WOULD YOU DO IT,
You Were a Girl on a Crowded Street
With $106 in Your Stocking
and the Garter Broke?

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. Ais a wo-
man warranted in pulling up her
stocking in the street, provided she
has money in it?
Miss Maria H. Carmack, of No. 1907
Mount Vernon street, was Of the Opin-
ion that such an action was an I'M
pardonable breach of prOpriety, and as
a result she is out $106. she had
drawn the money out of the bank to
do some Christmas shopping.
To protect herself against pick
pockets she retired to the woman's
room in the bank, and came forth
again with an air of confidence. 1t
happened that the elastic on that par
ticular stocking was weak, and the
increased bulk caused it to give way
altogether at Thirteenth and Arcn
streets.
Miss Carmack realized that some
tnlnS nau gone wrong, Out the StTeet
was crowded and she wouldn't nave
stopped to investigate if she had had
$1,000 in her stocking instead of $106.
With head up and look of PANIED
unconcern on her face, she walked
proudly along Arch street, hoping
against nope that the bank notes
would not fall out, but they did.
81 realize now that l should have
pulled up my stocking" said the young
woman tonight in telling about the
loss. ut was false mOdesty that kept
me from it, I'll never carry money in
my stocking again, nor put my faith
in an elastic garter"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-04
Fuel Famine Averted.
L, L. TALLMAN.

no longer any danger of a fuel famine
in San Francisco and Nevada, accord
ing to James H. Smith, who stated to-
day that 5000 tons of coal are now
being unloaded in San Francisco, and
that $4,000 more will arrive before the
were shipped to Nevada points and
another 1000 tons will be shipped this
week. The unusual demand from inte-
riOr points. together with unavOid-
able delay in loading the company's
steamers a. the mines causing the
shortage.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-04
HurIs Dress Suit at Window.

SCHENECTADY, N. Y. Dec. A.
Joseph Reimy, Brooklyn black
smith out of a job and hard UP, last
night threw his dress suit case
through a $500 plate-glass window Of
a local department store for the pur-
pose of being arrested and making
sure of three square meals. He waited
for the police to arrest him, and was
today bound over to the grand jury.
The maximum penalty is four years
in states prison.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-04
CHARTER WHEAT STEAMER
Kerr Clifford Company Must Have
1900 Bushels
PRICES MAY SOAR 4 LITTLE
LARGEST TRAMP VESSEL ON PA
cIFIc COAST WILL LOAD
PORTLAND.
PRICES MAY SOAR A LITTLE

PORTLAND, Dec. 4.-Kerr, Clifford
& Co., have chartered the British ship
FRANKLIN, 1851 tons net register, to
transport wheat from Portland to the
United Kingdom She is the biggest
tramp engaged this season, and is ca
pable of handling close to 1000 tons Of
the cereal. The steamer is expected
to arrive tomorrow as she sailed from
San Francisco for the Columbia river
last Saturday
When fully loaded the FRANKLIN has
a draft of about % feet. Few YES
sells drawing that much water have
ever crossed the Columbia river bar,
but by waiting for high tide, it is be-
lieved that no trouble will be eX-
perienced in getting her to sea. On
account of her great draft, one of the
local firms declined a liberal offer of
the owners to charter her. She is built
on narrow lines, and the claim has been
made that she is one of the speediest
tramps af1oat.
A tramp of her size will more than
offset the carrying capacity of the
British barks Peter Iredale and Ga
lena, which had been engaged to trans
port grain from Portland to Europe,
but went ashore before they arrived.
The British steamship Knight of St.
George, which cleared early in Sep
TENDER with a full cargo of wheat
for ST. Vincent's for orders, is the
only other tramp taking wheat from
Portland for Great Britain this season
The British steamship Bessie Dollar
arrived the other day to receive wheat
for Shanghai, and it is said that a
number of other tramps would I'M
ma if they were available. Tonnage of
this sort is as hard to procure ap-
parently, as it is to get grain from
the interior But some Of the exporters
appear to have plenty of the cereal in
the local docks as they have been dis
patching sailing vessels of late with
decided regularity
Members of one of the firms said
this morning, however, that they do not
expect any more new grain charters
to be effected until after New Years
on account of the car shortage 1t is
explained that enough tonnage is in
sight to clean up the supply of grain in
the docks and the indications are that
but very little more Of it will arrive
from the interior until late in the win
ter
Advices from the Sound state that
the exporters there also are in no
position to make further shipments un-
til the railroad companies furnish ad-
ditional cars A couple of sailing YES
sells in the Columbia are on the dis
engaged list, and it is held to be GER
tani that they VIII not be taken until
late in January, if that soon.