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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17
LABOR QUESTION IN ENGLAND.

The new British parliament is hav
ing a struggle with the labor question
which is suggestive of the aggressive
character of the union movement in
Great Britain. The demand of the
labor party, one that has been partly
conceded in bill recently introduced
by the government, is for a reversal of
the Taft Vale decision in the house of
lords three years ago.
In 1900 the Amalgamated Society of
Railway Workers declared a strike
upon the Taft Vale line in. Wales and
picketed the station at Cardiff to dis
courage the importation of non-union
workers. Thereupon the railway ap-
piled for an Injunction against the
union and this was granted, notwith-
standing the union pleaded that it was
neither a corporation nor an individual
and could not be sued. The action
against it was dissolved on appeal to
the high court and again reaffirmed on
appeal to the house Of lords. the court
of last resort, which held that a trades
union can be sued and is liable for the
injuries which its members may COM
nit.
The labor party now seeks by special
legislation to overthrow this decision.
The government has yielded the point
of picketing and is about to declare
this process legal and a part of the
right to strike. 1t proposes also to de-
clare that unions are not liable for the
acts of their members unless those
acts are shown to have been directed
or sanctioned by the union itself.
The labor party has been sticking
out for a bill which would wipe away
all adverse decisions and leave the
unions free to do as they please with
out the danger of being called to legal
account as corporations The govern
ment has declined to go that far. It's
bill is a compromise which is salts
factory to neither side It's reception
in the house of commons was distinct
ly chilly and it is quite likely to be re-
jected by the lords.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17
THE RUSSIAN CRISIS.

The news of the Russian election is
as dark and enigmatical as though it
came from Colorado. The most we
know is that the radicals are reported
to be carrying the districts every
where, but what the delegates will
amount to when they arrive at ST.
Petersburg is another question. The
powers of the douma We're very poorly
defined in the cars proclamation and
there were certain reservations which
made it possible for the car to cut
even these off.
tons are being held under the invita-
ton of the car, and that delegates
are going up to the capital to take
whatever part in the government they
may be able to. One report has it
that Nicholas is face to face with an
other crisis in his eventful history. He
is, as always, between the radical and
the reactionary parties, one advising
him to go forward and complete his
work by proclaiming a constitution;
the other urging him to disperse the
dOuma when it meets and resume his
autocratic sway. That he has the
will power to do the latter is unbe-
lievable; that he will do the former is
more probable. The situation will re-
main in muddle until something hap
pens which will compel the car to
make a quick decision. Farsighted-
ness does not appear to be his forte.
American sympathizers with the
aspirations of the Russian people have
unfailing faith in the saying that rev.
olutions do not go backward. The
people of Russia have put their hand
to the pillow and neither reactionary ca
balls nor the weakness of cars will
tablishing constitutional government
in Russia is a difficult one, but it is not
impossible. Patience and firmness will
accomplish the task and both patience
and firmness have characterized the
attitude of the peasantry. They have
taken hold of the elections in good
spirit. while the wOrkingmen in the
towns have f1outed the whole scheme
of reform, because it did not give them
everything at once.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17
ARRESTED FOR SLEEPING.
San Francisco Man Made His Home
Among Human Bones.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 17.-For
sleeping in an old vault with the bones
of people dead nearly half century
around him, Michael Reardon, 20 years
old. was arrested and charged with
vagrancy.
Many nights he has slept among the
dead. His bed consisted of old canvas
sacks and old coats for cover. The
policeman was making his rounds last
night and on entering the vault, kicked
at pile of old canvas on the floor and
beneath them. Closer investigation
showed it was Reardon. He has been
a familiar figure in the neighborhood
for several years and the policeman,
knew him.
The policeman asked him if he did
not fear to sleep amid such weird sur
re u,.Ilngs, with the collins for HI: bed
fellows. but he said:
No, the dead won't harm ME; it's
the living I'm afraid Of"
Today Reardon was taken before
Judge Cabaniss, who sent the old man
to tie almshouse, there in all likelihood
to end his days.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17
EMPLOYED TO DO BURGLARY.
Business Man of Stevens Point Con-
victed by Evidence Of Convicts.

STEVENS POINT, Wis, April H.
Rowland H. Butterfield was found gull
ty by jury in the circuit court here
today, after a ten-days' trial, on a
charge of being accessory to burglary
before the fact.
On May II, 1905, two young men
with state prison records entered the
office of Butterfield's business COMPETE
tor, John r. Mcdonald, and stole the
latter's abstract books intending to
throw it into the river or otherwise de-
stroy it, thus leaving Butterfield In
possession of the only abstract book In
the county. The book was valued at
$4,000.
The young men were apprehended
before the book was destroyed and, on
confessing their crime, were sent to
Waupun. They were brought here as
the principal witnesses against Butter
field who, they say, had agreed to pay
them $3.50 for the job.
Butterfield will be subject to a sem
tence of six months to one year in the
county Jail, or one to three years in
states prison. The defense will argue
a motion for a new trial. The verdict
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17
NO LACK OF DIGITS.
lmpecunious Texans Are Made to
Leave Iowa.

WEBSTER CITY, Iowa, April H.
The supervisors Of Hamilton county
have just sent the Arthur Kimberlin
family back to Texas This family con-
sists of the father, mother and four
children. They came to Hamilton coun
ty some time ago and have been re-
siding with relatives near Stanhope,
had no means of making a livelihood
and were living only at the expense
of their relatives. On the complaint Of
the latter the county authorities took
it upon themselves to return them to
the state from whence they came,
rather than to care for them here.
Each member of the family has five
fingers on each hand, beside a thumb,
and six toes on each foot. Relatives in
Hamilton county furnished them money
with which to come to Iowa.
When they arrived they took up theft
abode with these relatives. Everything
went we'll for time, but the TeXanS
displayed a lamentable Discrimination to
work and seemed instead to desire
to play the role of company in the
home where they were staying.
This naturally brought on friction,
and finally the Hamilton county rela-
tives gave their Texas kin enough
money to go to Louisa county, where
they had other relatives. The Louisa
county relatives kept them as long as
might be expected of them and then
returned them to Hamilton county,
They were still afflicted with the rest
mania, however, and after standing all
they could, the Hamilton county rela-
tives appealed to the board of county
supervisors.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17
OUR POSITION IN CHINA.

The American boycott in China
whether we deserved it or not, seems
to be an assured fact. The Chinese
have taken hold of it with enthusiasm
and there is no longer any doubt that
there is a sytematic effort to punish
this nation for the sins of a few citi-
zens thereof. This may not be an evil
dence of that boosted high state of
civilization in China, but it is a les
son we have taught them and we can
not complain if they have learned it.
It seems. however, rather illogical
that the country which prevented Chi
ma from being dismembered, the coun-
try whose soldiers refused to loot free
Iy in Picking and the country which
returned to the Chinese treasury the
indemnity awarded for the Boxer out
RACES should be the one and the only
one to suffer in trade with the Chinese
since. The trouble has been caused
by our gay and hearty manner of ex-
GLIDING the Chinaman or of getting rid
of him when we tire of his presence in
the land of the free. In Seattle and
Tacoma they were rather decent about
their methods of executing Cinnamon
who had broken no law, but In San
Francisco their brutality was frank
and unblushing. 1t is true we have
never shut the Chinese minister up in
his house at Washington and taken pot
shots at MIN for three weeks at a clip,
but we have nagged the coolies, and
the Chinese, who are great letter writ
ers, have marvelously exaggerated the
dangers to Chinese in this country.
The ordinary cartoon in China shows
Chinese walking about in American
cities with the cangue or portable pill
lory about his neck. The Chinese who
have never been here do not know that
this cartoon is a pure lie.
How to call off the Chinese boycott
has not vet excited the government
apparently, but it may some day soon.
When the question comes up it may
be well to adopt the attitude of Eu
ropean powers toward China. They
give her justice and exact it in return.
England does not give back indemni-
ties. The latest parliamentary re-
ports show that after paying the pri-
vate claims the ministry finds it will
have several million pounds left over.
Is that going back to China? Not very
much. 1t is going into the John Bull
current expense account. The English
robbed China in this indemnity and
Russia put in a bill which indicated
that her whole army was in Manchuria.
Japan, France and Germany took
their share and they stand high with
Chinese of1icialdom. America alone is
on the shun list. Probably as long as
we show a youthful spirit of meanness
in our treatment of Chinese coolies and
a youthful spirit of generosity in our
attitude toward official China the willy
viceroys will continue to play us for
western monkeys" of a low stage of
civilization If we allow them to do it
we shall justify their estimate.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17
TRAVELLING MAN RESCUE BABE.
Stranger at Waterloo, Iowa, Saves Life
Of Child.

WATERLOO, Iowa, April 17.-As
Engineer Nicholson of the Chicago
Great Western north-bound passenger
train approached the Franklin street
crossing yesterday his train under con-
troll but moving at a lively rate of
speed. he was Mortified to see child
crossing the track. The little one was
not able to walk, but crawled on the
track between the rails
Nicholson applied the emergency air
and whistled for brakes, but he knew
that the distance was too short with
in which to stop the train, and saw no
way of avoiding crushing out the little
ones life under the huge wheels of his
locomotive. The whistle screeched and
the bell rang furiously, but the baby
sat in the middle of the track, a smile
stretched as if to welcome the oncom-
ing locomotive. The wheels ground
sparks as they struck the sand the en-
gineer had loosened in his endeavor to
make a quick stop, but faster and
faster the huge machine approached
the smiling child.
Suddenly, just as the engineer and
his fireman thought there was no DOS
sibility of saving the baby's life, a
young man sprang from the sidewalk
and rushing in front of the engine, he
snatched the child from it's perilous
position, himself escaping being ground
under the wheels by the fraction of a
second. AS the train stopped the engi-
neer and fireman sprang from the cab
to congratulate the young man upon
his daring rescue and people who had
been spelbound at the peril of the child
also gathered around him.
The young man was a stranger in
the town, a travelling man, and mod
estly refused to give his name.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17
TOD SLOAN'S INCOME.
Jockey Drops from $4,000 Year down
to $50 a Week.

NEW YORK, April lon the plea
that he was ill and was so weak that
he was unable to undergo a long ex-
animation, Tod Hunter Sloan, better
known as Tod Sloan, formerly jockey,
had an examination in supplementary
proceedings put over until April 10, in
the supreme court today, after he had
answered a very few questions. Sloan
and John McGraw, manager of the
New York baseball team, are now in
partnership in billiard room or
Broadway, and Sloan testified that he
received $50 a week from the room.
Several years ago the jockey received
$4,000 a year for riding running
horses. ,r,; ...-.......
Henry D. Whipple, an architect and
builder, obtained judgment against
Sloan for $4,2SS, which represented a
balance on a contract for $1O,75O for
erecting a house for the former jockey,
a. OAcCpoHcdu Day. JdCOU otcIcl
Counsel for the judgment creditor) ex-
amined Sloan, and after he had declar-
ed the amount he received from the
billiard room, which he said McGraw
paid him, the lawyer asked:
Have you any other source of in
Gomez"
NO" was the reply.
Did you not perform in vaude-
ville?"
Eyes; at Keeney's theater in Brook
Ign, one week, ending March 25," re-
piled Sloan.
"And you received how much?'
"Six hundred dollars"
Sloan said that he occupied two
rooms at the Hotel Spalding for which
he paid $50 month. At the conclu-
sion of the examination, Mr.. Steifel de-
clared that the admission of the jockey
that he received $500 for his vaude-
vile act on March 25, made him liable
to be punished for contempt of court,
for the reason that on March 10 Judge
Greenbaum had issued an injunction
restraining Sloan from touching any
money that he might receive.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17
NOTHING LEFT TO EXPOSE.

Pity a poor young scribe,
What is there left to expose?
The world of graft has been shown
fore and aft
There's little that nobody knows.
Insurance was exposed by Lawson,
The System by Ida Tarbell;
Dave Phillips has shown up the senate,
And John D. was calciumed well.
Ray Baker has exposed the railroads,
Hapgood the suave colonel and fads;
The Ladies Home Journal and Golfers
Have denounced all the patent med.
ads
The Shame of the Cities is written,
Likewise the disgrace of a state;
Oil, copper. the courts and the law
They all get it sooner or late.
Pity a poor young scribe.
Think of the editors woes,
The rich and the proud to the dust
have been bowed,
Who is there left to expose?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

Springfield. Ohio, and Springfield, IL
linois have had their negro lynchings
as well as Springfield, Missouri, and If
Missouri lis not fit to be a member of
the Union" as the morning paper
saws. Ohio and Illinois are in the same
class In fact there is hardly a north
ern state that has not had shocking
and disgraceful negro lynchings and
Missouri is no worse than Kansas or
Colorado in both Of which states ne
groes have been burned at the stake.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

was surprise. On account of the age
of the defendant and his previous good
record and business prominence, it was
thought the jury would deal lightly
with him.
The defense will carry the case to the
supreme court. The crime was pc
culiar, in that both the principals We're
prominent in state circles Of Odd Fell
lOwship.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

LYMAN Jennings an old fellow of
Athol. Mass. gave the town $4,000 once
when If needed it, on condition of re-
oeiying from the town a $3.50 annuity.
ITp to date Lyman has drawn $4,000,
and he is still quite hearty.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

The honeymoon was over, and the
husband, upon returning from business,
was grieved to find his little wife cry
ing bitterly. ooh, George" she sobbed,
such a terrible thing has happened!
had made you a beautiful pie all
myself, and Ffdo went and ate it,"
well, never mind my DEAR" he said
cheerfully, 1--WE can easily buy an
other dog."-Birmingham Post.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

well, now" exclaimed Mrs Chat
tiers, over the evening paper, isn't that
the most aggravating thing?" whats
that?" inquired her husband. "Why,
while we're freezing here they're hav-
ing a temperature Of 20 degrees in
Florida, where it's SO warm anyhow
that they don't need it."-Philadelphia
Press.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

Ice barons in Rhode Island smilingly
slid the price from So to IS a ton re-
tail. The guffaw of Senator Aldrich
could be heard nearly as far away as
Washington.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17
SQUIBS AND QUlPS,

There's a man." said Phipps, "who
makes practice of smoothing over the
defects Of poor humanity" He has a
hard-looking face said Phipps
whats his business?" Hes a So
ciety photographer. "-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

The Methodist church is horribly
nv the report that the book
ooxoorn nrinted pamphlets containing
dds but it appears they were
struggled in while the senior deacon
silent at the forms
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

Hello, Bill, old man! Well, we'll! /
haven't seen you since the old DAYS,
when we used to run around together"
mo, Jack. All, those old days! What
a fool used to be them" II tell YOU
I'm glad to see you, old man. You
haven't changed a bit. "-Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

Maxim Gorky comes to this country
with the news that White is scoun-
drel. Fortunately for White. Max was
preceded by a reputation for eruptive
language and bad morals.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

The man who has undertaken to tell
a., ,,,tb the whole truth, and nothing
h,t tho truth for year on wager of
coz ooo NAV have $4,000 at the end of
the year. but he will be too thin and
sick to enjoy it.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

students of Chinese history now
claim that the game of football origin
ated in that country. Too bad: and we
We're all getting to like the Chinese so
much.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

An effort is being made in the east
to introduce the wooden shoe into COM
mon use The demand comes largely
from those who think they are not
making as much noise in the world as
thew would like.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

Brother Rainey of Illinois appears to
have the tariff on the run as to the
facts, but what are facts in comparison
with votes?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

People who live on the slopes of We
suvius take their danger as a matter
of course, the same as we treat the au-
tomobile. We are deadened by famil-
iarity.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

There are indications that the great
Elijah Voliva match is off. Life was in
rotten condition when it came to
weighing in.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

Mayor-elect Beardsley of Kansas
CITY. saws that clean StrcotS and civic
beauty" are to be the para mount issue
of his administration. Put the lid on
the dirt.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

At recent session of the Old Bailey
court in London a bigamist was sem
fenced to be married. His first wife.
1t appeared. had died just before he
was put on trial Served him just
right
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

YOnkerS, n. Y. is going to have "a
modern church" with garage and re-
pair shop in the basement. The spire
may become useful for the aeroplanists.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

GallowS Hill in Salem, Mass, is en-
joying a building BOOM Real witches
will soon be sitting out on the front
porches moonlight nights.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

If the first apostle would get shave
and a haircut in Chicago he might
venture back into Zion without being
recognized.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

Twenty years ago this month
George Hearst was appointed senator
from California. He is best known to
fame as the father of his son.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

Caesar" unused Charles L., had his
Brutus, l had my Cromwell. and if
that duffer. Dowie does not get his
shall be greatly surprised"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

ono castro. will temporarily retire is
for the harassed powers Of
Europe, which have never known
.,..sar 70 laugh or get mad over his
performances.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

DIR. Dowie fears that he may be
compelled to reveal Gladstone Dowie's
true character" to the world. No need
to do that.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

No matter if the hen is setting in
that last years Panama hat. 1t will
do to open the spring season with.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

There is a family similarity between
the names of VeSuviuS and VOliVa.
Both sound volcanic.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

Professor jerks of Cornell university
declares that man can earn $1,OOO,OOO
honestly. Not "professOring.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

Have you anything to sell? II you
have, a want ad will sell 1t for you.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

His Partner Cat the dancing partly
l really never heard a better speech ir
my life! Such wonderful flow Of
He-Great Scott! That reminds me
I've left the bathroom tap at home
full On!-Punch.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

Billionaires are becoming great
founders Of colleges
Yes; or it might be expressed, col
leges are becoming great finders OF
billionaires." -Washingt Star.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

What brought you here, my Door
man." inquired the prison visitor,
well, lady," replied the prisoner, II
guess my trouble started from attend
in too many weddin's."
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

Clarence-Miss Sharpun has brains
enough for two, bah JOve!
Florence-Then why don't you marry
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

The report that our old friend Capri
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

Finnegan Filosofy-Th' fact thot
some min kin say trut'fully thot they
niver did anythin' they wuz ashamed
av is more av a confession that they
how no sinse av sha-ame than amy
thing ilse.-Judge.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-17

The Lady Interviewer-And you
brought that lovely parrot from the ILL
fated ship? What a beauty! Does it
talk at all?
The Sailor Man (embarrassed)-
HIM! E-r-yes, quite a bit, mum; but
not fer ublication!-Brooklyn Life.
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