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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
A VERY UNIQUE OFFER IN CLOTHING
Stockton Wooden Mills, for One Week
Only, to Make Outing Suits for
Fifteen Dollars.

A startling innovation in the mer-
chant tailoring world of Walla Walla
is the announcement of the Stockton
Wooden Mills, merchant tailors, Al East
Main street, that they are going to
make outing suits to order for one
week for the sum of fifteen dollars.
These suits represent regular $500
values
Such an announcement as this is
enough to make the oldest inhabitant
sit up and take notice, for heretofore
no tailor in Walla Walla ever attempt
ed to make a man a suit of clothes
to order for such price as fifteen
dollars
Regarding the outing suits his COM
pany intends to make for fifteen dol
lars Manager Gumbert said:
I'VE know that the offer is some
thing that has been unheard of be-
fore in this city. But be this as it
man. our offer to make a man a first
class outing suit for fifteen dollars is
bona fide one in every respect. Prin-
cipally the offer to do tailoring at such
popular price at this time is the re-
suit of very lucky purchase we have
Just made of a special lot of summer
fabrics The trouble is that we could only
purchase a limited quantity of the
goods and therefore can only guarantee
to make suits at such prices for one
week June u to June % is the
week in which we will build any of
our patrons an outing suit for $500
The original Laxative Cough Syrup
acting as a cathartic On the bowels.
1t expels all cold from the system by
is Kennedv's Laxative Honey and Tar
Kennedy's Laxative Honey and Tar IS
a certain, safe and harmless cure fol
colds, Group and whooping cough. Sold
by L. L. Tallman.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
Civil Service Commission Adds
Condition For Applicants
FOR many GOVERNMENT POSITIONS
DOWN BECAUSE SHE WAS
TOO FAT.

Moved and supported that the Unit
ed States civil service is no more than
human. 1t wants shapely girls in the
government employ, if girls must be
employed. Let girl be ever so bright
and ever so finely educated, and yet
fail to meet the physical proportions
required by the commission, and she is
marked down to a point where it will
be long, cold day before she gets on
the payroll of pour Uncle Samuel, is
ington correspondent of the Seattle
Times puts it.
L. May, a resident of Ann Arbor, Mich,
a graduate of the state normal school
school, who has passed the highest
scolastic average ever made by anyone
onation, and yet is marked way down
into the jungle of mediOcrity, where
happens to be too wide for her height,
according to the ideas of the civil SER
tons. Miss May is not an ailing per-
son. Her health is splendid. She is as
active as any girl. But because she is
somewhat ample and mot very tall, the
commission treats her as if she did not
know enough to come in out of the
wet.
She stood 100 in nearly everything
but penmanship, and in that she mark
er eighty, which is about as high as
copper plate chirography would be
marked by the commission, which
holds that no penmanship can be per-
feet. But the commission has knocked
the spots off her standing by marking
her so low on her physical examina-
ton that there are fifteen girls ahead
of her on the list, girls who do not
begin to know as much as she does,
but who are considered by the COM
mission to have better figures.
Miss May is here and camping on
the commissions trail, and it is to be
hoped that she succeeds In making
that autocratic body reveal what would
be necessary in a girls figure to en-
title her to be marked 100.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
HAVE MONSTER ELECTRIC SIGN
Installed This Morning in Front Of the
Davis-Kase Company Estab-
lshment On Alder.

a monster electric sign was Installed
by the Davis Kaiser Company in front
OF their store building on Alder street
yesterday.
The big sign occupies a vertical posi-
ton in front of the building. 1t is IS
feet high and two feet wide On each
side of the sign are 6S lamps
The sign is made of galvanized steel
and is a strictly modern affair The
lamps are contained in porcelain sock
cts that do not touch wood The
sign is so constructed as to be abso-
lutely fireproof.
The entire sign was designed and
built in Walla Walla under the super.
intendency of r. F. Bracket, CHIEF
of the Electric Sign Department O
The Northwestern Gas & Electric Co
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
Myers Gets Iron Work.

Councilman Bridges called attention
to the fact that a bid of 81 cents per
pound for iron work, submitted by Will
liam Myers several months ago, had
got lost in the shuttle. He asked that
it be resurrected and acted on one
way or another. Councilman Bridges
contended that the city was paying six
cents a pound for the same work,
which was hardly fair to Mr.. Myers
The matter ended by the bid of Mr.
Myers for so monument covers at 3R
cents a pound being accepted.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
Carl Schurz.

| \
proper pronunciation Of the name Of
this noted German In the camps Of the
Army Of the Potomac early in 1863,
when Schurz made his debut as gen.
eral in the field. In the reorganization
Of the troops after the battle Of Fred
ericksburg a division was placed I'M
I der the command of General Schurz,
who was really in the diplomatic serv-
Ice and on leave Of absence. During
a grand review the president sat with
| the headquarters group, and as the
division of General Schurz marched
up General Crouch who commanded a
corps, remarked loud enough for all to
hear, Here comes Schurz," pronounc-
| ing the name Shurs in the usual way
| among Americans. Lincoln promptly
turned and said, mot Shurs, general,
but Shoorts." The reformed pronuncia-
ton flew around headquarters, for
there was q knot Of men at the top
just then who prided themselves on
eastern culture and were not In the
habit Of taking lessons from the prairie
belt.
Much was expected of General
Schurz in the army on account of his
reputation as revolutionary patriot
Theme were many Germans of the
same stripe, really comrades Of
Echurz in 1S4S, who made splendid
soldiers in subordinate positions, prin-
cipally as captains Of field artillery.
But somehow Schurz's execution as a
leader was not high. Probably his tenn
permanent and not his courage was at
fault. Napoleon would have called
him an ideologist. He saw things as
they ought to be, not as they are. He
became a critic Of LincOln's methods
and of other leaders after Lincoln. For
eign trained minds are apt to think
that in this virgin soil anything can be
done that the leaders set about. But
our institutions are a growth. The
people rule, and they constitute a big
sovereign to be enlightened and con-
vinced. Our executives wouldn't be
autocratic If they could, because the
very idea of our system is to let the
people find out what they want and
stand for it.
Carl Schurz was noble representa-
tive in this country of his race. He
held the respect Of the German ele-
ment, whether native or foreign born.
Good citizens were attracted to this
country because men like Schurz were
hODored here. He and his fellow eX
lies of 1S4S were the pioneers Of a
great movement to America Of intel
lectual, liberty loving Germans, and
during the two decades from 1850 to
1870 approximately 100000 souls
from the fatherland settled in the Unit
ed States, and through them the Ger
man nationality secured the high posi-
ton it now holds in every field Of
activity. No native American has ex-
ceeded him in fidelity to liberty and to
truth, and no German-American has
equaled him in the history Of this re-
public in the ability to express. to Gre
ate and to incite noble thoughts on
noble themes or to move men to high
endeavor on behalf Of high principles
and policies in our national life.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
MORE TIME FOR v. W.V.T.C0.
NonarriVa| Of Material Delays The
Street Car System
COUNCIL EXTENDS Time UNTIL SEP. |
MASS OF BUSINESS TRANSACTED
BY COUNCIL AT LAST
NIGHTS MEETING.
COUNCIL EXTENDS Time UNTIL SEP. |
MASS OF BUSINESS TRANSACTED

! Inability to secure material already
contracted for resulted in the Walla
: Walla Valley Traction Company asking
the Council last night for an extension
of two months time in completing one
and one-half miles of street railway
as called for in the franchise granted
hte company last year Robert E
Allen, secretary of the company, ad-
dressed the Council and explained
| why the extension of time was re-
| quested.
Mr. Allen stated that the reason of
the delay was the company had been
lars worth of material already con-
tracted for. He said it was pretty well
evidenced that the company meant
business as it had already spent $4O,-
600 on the line and would complete the
but was unable to lay the Main street
line owing to the non-arrival of six
inch rails which they had ordered.
Councilman GlasfOrd favored grant
ing the extension, stating that it would
probably be six weeks or two months
before Clinton street bridge could be
completed, over which the line will
pass. In view of all these things, a
resolution. fathered by Councilman
Mexican, granting the company an ex-
tension of time from July 1 to Sep
TENDER 1, was adopted. The company
is required to have one and one-half
miles of road completed and in opera
ton by that time
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20

In the police court Doc" Nc
Cool was convicted of indecent ex-
posture and fined SIS "Swede" Sam
Severson could not make the court be-
lieve that he was not drunk the night
before and he was fined $40. Neither
of the culprits had the necessary
wherewith and will serve their fines out
in Jail.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
Adams County Candidates.

RITZVILLE, June 20.-Cnadidates
for county offices as follows have an
nounced themselves recently: J. D
Bassett, republican, for the state legis-
lature; A. o. Hauschield asks the DEM
ocrats to nominate him for county
surveyor, which Office he now fills.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
Mr.. Boyer High-Priced.

Sharpstein & Sharpstein in a COM
munication to the council, stated that
the right of way committee had been
unable to come to an agreement with
z. H. Boyer for a right way across
his lands and also for his riparian
rights to Mill Creek Mr. Boyer placed
a valuation of $500 on his rights. The
right f-way committee offered him
matter was referred to the water COM
mittee with power to act
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20

We all have to play a losing game
now and then, but it takes some Of the
sting out Of defeat to know that we are
''up against" something really worth
while,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20

William Coleman and Harry Robin
son, who nave been attending the law
Walla this morning to spend their sum-
mer vacation. Owing to missing sew
eral connections it took the young men
nearly five days to come from Ann Ar
Dor to Walla Walla.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20

Oscar Shelton has petitioned the Sill
perlor court to be appointed adminis-
traitor of the estate of the late Frank
Shelton. The hearing of the petition
has been set for July 2.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Inc Womens Christian Temperancs
u'iioh Will meet at the residence Of
MIS- H. a. Birdwen, 54S Washington
street, at 2:3O o'clock tomorrow after
noon.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20

j. E. Leonard, stakeholder in the
Natural Oil & Development company
left last night for Midvale, Mon. 10
look after oil property owned by IN,
company in the Two Medicine district
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20

The funeral of w. A. Barrow, the
old pioneer who died Monday after
Holloway chapel at 10 o'clock this
morning. Rev. Joseph Beaver. pastor
of the Park Street Baptist church, o.
ficiated. Interment was in the Odu
Fellows cemetery
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20

apprehension when he reported that
he had located some of the alleged
shortage
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20

An action to collect the sum OF
$13612, alleged to be due on prom
issOry note, was begun by j. H. flt-
man against Nj. c. Mahan in the su-
perior court this morning The note
was given at Rockford Wash. ana
was money due Mr.. Pitman for lapor
performed.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
Plenty of Time to Protest.

Councilman Kirkamn last night,
resurrected a resolution, passed by the
council some mtnohs ago, providing
for 10 days notice being given prop
erty owners after bids for paving had
been received. He said that it was
understood among the councilmen that
such notice was to be given, but that
it had not been followed out so far in
publishing the notices. The clerk was
instructed to reinstate all advertise
ments for bids for districts that the
council has under contemplation for
Improvement in order to allow the 1C
days notice to property owners.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20

Mrs. Ethel Hector, in her divorce suit
against William Hector, well Kho"h
Eureka fiat former, filed reply u
Mr.. Hectors answer made SOME
months ago. Mrs. Hector denies thei0
are liens against their property or tha'
all and singular, the property is own
ed by Mr.. Hector. She says 400 acres
Of the land is community properly.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
NOTICE..

When wanting a load of hay call up
1872
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
Ordinances Passed.

Ordinances were passed as follows:
Appropriating the sum of $66.66 to
pay for the interest of the Stahl
minors on upper Mill Greek necessary
for the new water system.
Appropriating the sum of $50 to pay
Alfred Wickersham for a right-of-way
through his land for the new pipe line.
Apprporiating the sum of s56S.50
from the street fund to pay the War
rem Construction Company for ap-
proaches to First street from East
Main street.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
Aftermath of Flood.

George Stovall, representing a mum
Der of property owners along Mill,
Yellowhawk and Garrison creeks, ask
ed the council for an appropriation
for bullIheading Mill Creek at point
where Yellowhawk has it's intake in
Mill Creek He stated that the original
channel of YelloWhawk was completely
filled with gravel by the recent flood
and that before water can flow down
the stream again it will be necessary
city and will also petition the county
to remove the gravel.
To properly proportion the water
from Mill Creew into the YellOwhawk
and Garrison creeks it will be neces-
sary to construct bulkhead above the
weir. Property owners have subscrib-
ed $215 toward the $500 it is estimated
the bulkhead will cost. The petitioners
asked for an appropriation from the
city and will also petition the County
commissioners for an appropriation.
The matter was referred to the water
committee.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20

On petition of ]. Vernon. graiiu-
father of the little child, John MUS
grave has been appointed guardian VI
the person and estate of Della May
Beaman. aged II years. Mr.. VerhoN
first petitiOned to be appointed Sud'
dian of his granddaughter, but seVei"'
of the relatives raised an objection
and he withdrew in favor of Mr.. MUS
grave. The little girl is possessed Vi
small estate left by her mother
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20

mitted a bid of $10.25 for concrete
work
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
Open Thirteenth Street.

The report of the street committee
recommending that Thirteenth street be
opened from near Dement, Bros mill
to the county road north of the mill
tary reservation and that the city
clerk be instructed to notify the o. R.
& n. to vacate the same at once, was
adopted.
Certain streets in Shields addition
were ordered vacated on the recon-
mendation of the street committee
The city and trustees of the Chris
tan Church will bear equally the ex-
pense of constructing a four-foot con-
crete sidewalk on the line between the
Christian Church and the Spanish
American War monument grounds.
A petition for a street light at the
corner of Seventh and Main streets
was referred to tn light committee
A request from Eugne Lennon ask
ing that the city relinquish all it's
water rights on his property, as sue
cessor to the old Walla Walla Water
Company, was referred to the water
committee.
A petition from property owners for
sewer between First and Second
street on Maple street, was referred to
the proper committee.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
Nelson Gets Contract.

The bid of F. E. Nelson for concrete
entertainments on both sides of Mill
Creek at the Clinton and Park street
awarded to him. Mr. Nelson bid 1922
for concrete in place, excavating per
cubic yard $1.25. James Knott sub
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
Stine's Report Read.

The report of w. H Slime, employed
to locate an excess of $500 in the
hands of Treasurer Parks. was made
public for the first time last night.
Mr.. Slime found that on March s
Treasurer Parks issued saloon licenses
to Fred Post and P. n Hansen re-
ceiving the sum of $179970. which he
failed to properly credit on his books.
There is yet a balance of s39.45 in
Treasurer Parks hands unaccounted
for.
In connection with Mr. Shines re-
port a communication was received
from E. G. Shamrock concurrfng with
Mr.. Shines report. with the exception
! of an error of $500 that Mr. Slime re-
! ported he had found in the experts
! footings. Mr. Shamrock called atten-
ton to the reported discovery of s145
of Clerk Reynolds shortage by stating
! that the clerk had been mistaken and
so far had not found any errors in the
experts work on the city clerks
books. Clerk Reynolds said the $145
belonged to the fiscal year of 1904
and that he had labored under a mis-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-20
Wickersham Had a Bill

A bill for 500 presented by John
WickerSham for damage done to his
garden and land on upper Mill Creek
through the new pipe line giving way
during the heavy rain May 80, was
referred to the water committee. Men,
bers of the Council thought that $50
would cover the damage to Mr.. Wick
erShams place.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16
Prosperity Ridge

From, our Special Correspondent.
Aug. 15-Severnl of the farmers in
this vicinity have begun harvesting
their grain.
o. G. Ramey is home for two weeks
visit with his parents and other rela-
tives. He preached at Bethel Sunday
morning, August 9th.
Miss Jane Bass and Mrs Borland, who
have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs w. ii
Bass, returned to Colorado Springs Fri.
day.
Messrs. Dunn and Whiting went to
Hilltop the first OF the week after load
of poles.
Mrs. w. A. Melbourne and children,
who have been in Illinois the past month,
are expected home the last of the week
team belonging to Mr.. Rafferty,, OF
the Kinney place, ran away with the
binder one day last week. We did not
learn the extent of damage done.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16
Times Have Changed.

few years ago the farmers of Elbert
county and the Divide country were
poor. Many were in debt for their lands
and farm machinery. Much of the land
was under mortgages. The country was
new and expenses great. Some of the
farmers became discouraged and joined
the wage Garner of the cities. But n
change came over the situation. The
world demanded the wheat oats. rye and
barley produced by these farms. The
farmers applied improved methods to
cultvating the soil. They added grass
es and the dairy COW to the grain fields
and prosperity smiled upon them.
The poor farmer is almost unknown in
the fields of the Divide country today.
The opportunities are so numerous that
every ambitious man can own and oper-
ate farm. The big farmers complain
because they cannot keep hired help on
their farms After the first season or
two the hired man looks for tract of
land to cultivate and reap its harvest
for his own advantage. He builds a
home, fences his fields and engages in
the work of general farming His debts
are soon wiped out and he has money in
the bank. He leaves the ranks of money
borrowers and joins the army of neigh
bors seeking to become money lenders.
This is the condition OF the majority of
the Industrious and progressive farmers.
Uuder the prevailing conditions of
prosperity the farmers are liberal ip
contributing to all public institutions
Many of them are surrounded by modern
utilities in the telephone and rural mail
facilities. Life is no longer struggle
The work OF accommodating property is
no longer secret. The soil yields of its
bounteous crops and makes every one
happy.
1t is very doubtful whether any more
productive field in the United States
can be found by the home builder, or
the investor, by the capitalist or the
laborer, the dairyman. the fancber, or
by any class than is found among the
fields of the prosperous Divide country
of Colorado, of which Ebert is the cen
tral town and principal market.
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16
For County Commissioner.

James Cole, well known and pros
porous ranchman, residing six miles
south of Elbert, has announced his can
didacy for the office of commissioner of
the Ebert district, subject to the decis
ion of the Republican county convention.
Mr.. Cole is well known to most of the
old timers of this locality and to them
needs no introduction. He has been a
resident of the county continuously for
"a years and during all that time he has
taken an active interest in politics and
the welfare of the country Mr.. Cole is
originally from Iowa, but spent ten years
previous to coming to Colorado in min
ing and prospecting in New Mexico
We believe he is well qualified for the
office with his many years experience in
business affairs. With the exception of
justice of the pence, Mr.. Cole has never
held n public office and if years of faith
full service to the party count for any
thing he is certainly entitled to the just
consideration of the Republicans of Ell
bert county in his candidacy for this
office. Should Mr. Cole be the nominee
of his party for commissioner, and we
know of no Republican in the district
who is better qualified for the position,
we feel assured he will do his full share
toward leading his party to victory at
the polls this fall
The Elbert County tribune., 1906-08-16
Sidney Siftings

From Our Special corrcspoadent.
Aug. 15. Messrs. Frank and Guy
Munday have been to the Springs and
Manitou, sight seeing. They expect to
return to Mt. Carmel, ILL.,, this week.
Mrs. j. c. Clifford is on the sick list
this week, suffering from a slight attack
OF pneumonia.
Jacob Cole stopped at home few
days last week. He was accompanied
by Edward Gustavson, out on mission
airy trip.
Miss Epler Of Denver visited at Eli
Knowles few days last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Peterson and son
Theodore went to Denver Sunday to at
tend the funeral of Chester Rasmussen,
boy of sixteen, who died from the ef-
fects OF street car accident.
Carl Matthews has been visiting rel.
atives in Colorado Springs the past week.
Mrs. j. S. Evans and daughter Bessie
went to Colorado Springs Friday to have
some dental work done.