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The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-10

For the past month rumors have been
current 10 the effect that one OF the shore
resorts would soon pass out OF the hands
OF local owners and hereafter be conduct
ed by widely known New York amuse-
ment concern.
One OF the men directly Interested in
this particularly resort. IL Is said, will
leave tonight for New York on IA busi-
ness trip and 1t Is said that next week
the results may be made known.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-10
NEW GENERAL
Of jESU|TS TELLS
OF HIS PROGRAM

Rome, Sept. lO.-At today's meeting Of
the Society OF Jesus. Father Wernz. the
newly elected general OF the society in a
speech in Latin, summarized the program
Of the order I'm its complex fields OF work
Father Wernz conveyed To all present
the Apostolic benediction as he had been
charged TO do by the Pope
The meeting then turned lis attention
to a consideration Of the internal affairs
OF the society.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-10

Tihis. Sept. 1O.-Practics>l- without
warning the side OF the mountain rising
above the township OF Kwaren broke
sand and stones swept down on the town
ship and overwhelmed and obliterated Il.
Some 255 persons have been buried
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-10
CALHOUN DECLARES
He WILL NOT RESIGN

New York. Sept lO.-Ladenburg. THAI
mann a Co, bankers In this city. re-
ceived n telegram today from Patrick
Calhoun. president OF the United railway
OF San Francisco In which Mr.. Calhoun
denies that he Is 20 resign from the COM
pany. The telegram follows:
II have no intention Of resigning You
are Authorized 10 deny the report en-
phatically and state that my interest In
the property IL Just as great as ever"
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-10
255 PERSONS BURIED
alive AT kWAREL|

alive. Fifty-ive bodies already have been
recovered from the mire. which is about
six feet deep. In addition TO the lives lost
countless head OF cattle perished and
the crops were destroyed.
Kwareli township occupies an area OF
five klomeeters in the district OF Telaw.
In the Caucuses. Similar disasters are OF
common occurrence In Caucasian valleys.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-10
MINES RESUME OPERATION

Mahanoy city. Sept. i0.--After being
idle since Sept l. the 80 collieries OF the
Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
company In the schuyikill field. employ
ing 10000 men and boys. resumed opera
tions today
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-10
PUT FLAGS At
HALF MAST FOR
Man NOT DEAD

This morning word reached the Newport
police station and all over the city the
report was heard that George H.
vaughan. clerk OF the police commission,
had died suddenly. The flag was half
masted ON the police station. but later the
report was found To- be an error and the
flag was run up again.
MIR. Vaughan. who Is a former colonel OF
the Newport artillery company. was made
very sick on Sunday by eating Holsters.
but Is much better to-day.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-10
POLICE MORSE GOT EXCITED

The patrol wagon horse at the Fifth
station. a new animal % the business. on
Saturday evening broke from It's stall and
made dash down Borden street but was
captured by Driver Smith DR. CunIug-
ham said the trouble was only temporary
brought on by excitement caused BY the
noise OF children at play and the new sur
roundings.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-10
bRAYT0N OPENS
HIS AGGRESSIVE
CAMP PA|GN NOW
Tillinghast At Front to
Blind the Voters

Realizing the Fact That the Democrats and Indepen-
dents, Under Leadership of Col Goddard, Have
Made Braytonism the Issue, The Boss Hides Be-
hind the Legislative Agent, and Will Conduct
the Campaign Under Cover i'm the Hope That
Bluff and Buster and Mendacty May Save the
Day for the Corporations Controlled Oligarchy
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-10
ATTACHED FOR $1,000

The New England Brick company has
sttached the Property OF Vincenzo Guisu
sumpsit writ being fled at the city hall
this morning.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1906-09-10
OIL STOVE CAUSED A BLAZE

The overturning OF an oil stove I'm the
house az ii6 West Exchange street this
morning caused slight fire. which wns
extinguished by Hose Q and Hook and
Ladder g.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
FresHies al Whitman are Asked
to Contribute
MUG" OLDRIGHT's BILLS ARE SENT IN
ScRAPPY CLASS LEADER REcOv
Erred BUT STUDENTS MUST
JOIN IN SETTLING.

Every freshie boy and every freshie
girl at Whitman will have to contrib
ute one half of a silver dollar after
school begins again toward a fund to
pay the hospital bill of their class
president, George Oldwrigl1t, whose
face was cut up in the assault made
on the freshman flag pole in the small
hours of night several weeks ago.
Oldrights' head was caught between
the fiagpole on which the freshie ban
ner waved and big wooden ladder
which the sophomores were rushing
towards the pole with the intention
of sending a man up after the coveted
banner.
Oldrights injuries were not as Sc
rious as it was at first thought the.
would be, but the surgeons did $12
worth of patching to the countenanc'
of the gritty athlete and now 1t is
not deemed right that Oldright should
have to pay this bill himself.
The loss will be divided equally be-
tween the freshmen and the sopho-
mores. This arrangement is not par
ticularly pleasing to the freshmen who
think that it was not their fault that
they were rushed in the night with 8
huge ladder, which marred the facia
beauty of their high mogul The un.
derclassmen feel that the sophOmores
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24

groan, they waddle, they SLOUGH
through the world. Not a particle Of
good on earth, fat soldiers not
have one of 'em around if 1 could help
it,"
''Er-but-er-you would not ex-
actly-er-call yourself slight, would
you, colonel" a venturesome major
once asked Shafter after one of these
outbursts.
Slight? Mo-" Shafter Numbered
in reply. "H-ll, no! I've been fat
blobby old nuisance ever since the day
l tipped the beam at over 200 pounds,
and right then 1 ought to've been
courtmartialed and cashiered for d'lt-
rageous and malicious adiposity, sir
for scandalous corpulence to the preJu-
dice of military discipline!
ington Star.
Becomes a Little Rebel.
That there is startling difference
between the temper of the rising gen.
Grafton and that of the youth whose
young ideas shot up according to the
teachings of Mrs. Hannah More ana
Stamford and Merton, has recently
been proved by little 7-year-old gill;
who was laboriously spelling her wa!
through a reading lesson.
always speak the truth she salo
land obey your parents.
BE gentle and quiet. Never slam
the door and shout and scream a-oou'
the house.
"At the ia BILE eat slowly; not III
greedy manner like a pig.
Suddenly the little girl shut 'ne
book with a portentous bang ana an
nounced with firmness and DECISION
I'm not going to let any ola INV
reader boss me like that."-Rochesle'
Post.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
ADELE AND .MONTA' FREE
Cash Bonds Ire Put Up Through
Attorneys
| MONEY IS SENT HERE FROM Spokane
pouRs IN ON TELEeRAPHlc Or
pERs IN SUFFICIENT VOL
UME FOR BOTH.
MONEY IS SENT HERE FROM SPOKANE

Mrs. Adele Evans and James Mon
ta". who were bound over to the next
term of the superior court by JUS
tice J. ]. Huffman, Saturday morning,
to answer to the charge of arson. were
released from the county jail this
morning on a cash bond furnished by
the defendants through their attor-
neys
Mrs. Evans received the necessary
amount for her release this morning
and while walking up the street. with
her attorneys, Oscar Cain and Scott
Henderson, she received a telegram
from Spokane stating there was $500
at the Baker-Boyer bank for her. She
at once put up the necessary $500 FOL
the release Of ''Monta" and both the
suspects have their freedom.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
How to Trim a Hat.

what are you doing?" harshly de-
manded the brutal husband, abruptly
entering the room.
I'm just going to trim this 40 cent
hat l bought yesterday replied the
trembling wife.
"Extravagant woman, you will ruin
me with your everlasting bargain
hunting!~ he exclaimed, enraged, and
Selling the hat, he crumpled it in his
hands, trampled it underfoot, and
finally flinging it into corner of the
room, strobe away.
Weeping, the wife stopped to pick
up her insulted property, but her tear
stained face was irradiated by an &C.
static rapture as her eyes fell upon
1t.
"Oh!" she exclaimed in delight
NOW it is the exact shape of that $4(
French hat l saw yesterday and
never could have gotten it that way
myself. All it needs is couple of blue
roses and bunch Of lavender butter.
cups"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
L.. Mason
Confirmation.
Infection.

The wife of an army officer at a
western post recently had occasion to
visit a small neighboring town, to dc
some shopping at what is called the
general store. She was much enter
tanned by the variety and antiquity OF
the stock of goods. and as she passed
out her eyes were attracted by pile
of notices deliberately lettered and
ornately framed, the upper one be-
ing the scriptural passage: walk in
love-"
AS she paused, the clerk, dapper
young man of more affabi1ity than ad-
vantages, stepped forward with the
remark, Them are the latest things
in notices. This top one is swell to
put over a young lady's door-'Walk
in, love. "-Lippincotts.
People You Know.
Melba keeps down her weight by
taking three cold baths a day.
W. w. Jacobs can never write more
than one short story month.
The engagement ring Of Mrs. w K
Vanderbilt, Jr., cost $4,000.
Robert Kitchens, the novelist, treas
ures among his relics the butt Of a
cigarette smoked by the ex-Empress
Eugene.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
TO BE MADE HAPPY.

Five Couples Secure Licenses to Join
in Loving Wedlock.
A Christmas rush in marriage Ii.
censes kept Cupid Mckinney in the
county auditors Office busy this after
noon and up to 3 o'clock five couples
were provided with the necessary doc
ument with which the proper person
could make them husbands and wives
The following couples received mar
riage licenses: George M. Smit and
Bessie Mae Bluch, Waitsburg; Will
liam Writ Wilson and Ada Bowers,
both of Umatilla county; Francis
Blackman and Fora McComb of Walla
Walla;. Guy s. Demaris and Gertrude
E. fash of Dixie; Mac E. Elledge and
Marie Vistey of Dixie.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
A Story of Ristori.

1.-The late Nine. RistOri, the famous
actress" said a playwright at the
Players club in New York, 'had a
great detestation of boosters.
"At a dinner that was given in her
honor here, a bOastful Italian tenor ex-
cited her displeasure. This tenor, a
count, said:
I'm my fathers palazzo on the
Corso in Rome, the dining hall is sc
lofty that you can't distinguish the
paintings on the ceiling without an
opera glass;
Mime. Ristori glared at the boastful
tenor Then she said:
How very different from my
home. There the dining room is sc
low that nothing but sOles can be
brought on the table, and even they
have to be served in fiat dish"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24

ought to pay the entire Oldright hos
pital and medical bill.
Part Of the assessment will be used
towards making good the damage that
was done to the college property in the
class scrap this year. The f1agpole
will probably have to be repainted
and some nocturnal sign painting
abount the campus covered over. BY a
new ruling of the faculty the ex-
penses Of these repairs must be borne
by the classes concerned and not by
the college treasury
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
DOGS ARE POISONED.
Miscreant Unknown to the Police
Kills Number Of CANNES.

According to the police some mis-
creant is engaging in the wholesale
poisoning of dogs, and no less than 10
CANNES have died within the last few
days. Not only have worthless ours
lost their lives, but some valuable ami
mails as well. The fine cockerel span
lei dog belonging to Rodney Martin
is among the lot
The poison has been placed some
where in the Fourth street alley be.
tween ain and Rose streets, and a
number of them have been found in
the alley Six animals met death from
poison yesterday afternoon.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
ST. PAul's IS coNsEcRATED
Edifice is Dedicated With Inspiring
Ceremonies Including an Address
by Bishop Wells Of Spokane.

ST. Paurs Episcopal church was
consecrated yesterday morning with
beautiful ceremony. The debt of the
church has been paid off through the
untiring efforts of the ladies guild of
the church by means Of socials, din
ners and other ingenious schemes.
The services yesterday were con-
Quoted by Bishop Lemuel H. Wells, of
Spokane In the evening Is members
were confirmed according to the cere-
monies of the church. special mu-
steal program was also rendered which
has been specially prepared for the
occasion. The church was nearly filled
with worshippers.
Following is the musical program
Professional hymn B. Tour
Nunc Dlm1t1S ................J. IuEle
Hymn of Prayer ...... Caesar Frank
SanctuS .NouHou
Mrs. L. L. Tallmap.
Sermon ..... .Rt. Rev. l.. H. Wells
Hymn-My Faith Looks Up to Thee
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
The Street of Houses,

The numbers had been removed and
the last one forgotten, and the man
was counting the houses.
You need not do that" said his
friend. 1.-The old numbers began at
the bottom of the street on the left
side, going continuously, then turn
ing down the right side and coming
number faced the first. We are going
to reminder the houses with alter
nate numbers on each side. beginning
with T. on the opposite side, and No.
moved So, that the number Of houses
is obviously"
What was the number?-Chicago
Tribune
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
Nav Delay fiqht.

TONOPAH, Dec. 24.-If the report,
ed strike on the Southern Pacific oc.
ours Tonopah will be shut off and
Manager Riley would postpone the
Cans Herman fight The strike OF
the electrical workers has been set
tied.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
General shafter On Fat Men.

Weighing scarcely less, if not more,
than 400 pounds, Shafter had a pro-
found aversion to fat men, either as
enlisted men or officers.
They're no account for soldering
he would buster in his tremendous
basso. "They pant, they wheeze, they
snort, they choke, they grunt, they
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
A Novel Report.

The superintendent of streets in
Cleveland recently summoned to his
presence an Irish officer, to whom he
said:
TT is reported to me that there is
dead dog in Horner street. I want
you to see to it's disposition"
"Yis, sorr," said the subordinate
who Immediately set out upon his mis-
sion.
In half an hour the Irishman tele-
phoned his chief as follows:
Il have made inquiries about the
dogs disposition, and l find that il
was a savage one."-Lippincott's.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
SPORTS AIDED eY CHURCH.
Gymnasium, Bowling Alley and Ten
mis- Court to Be Built.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 24.-A
gymnasium, a bowling alley and a
lawn tennis court are to be the novel
features of a new church to be erected
in Kansas City in the coming year
by the members of the First COngre-
gational church. The other innOva-
tions to be placed in the church are
a plunge bath. large dining room
and kitchens.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
Three Die in Flames.

STEUBENVILLE, O., Dec. 24.-Fire
today starting in bakery Quilted the
upstairs and sleeping quarters suffo-
eating Mrs. Ira Hillman, aged 25, ami
her daughter. aged two and Elizabeth
Mccoy, aged Is years.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
Neuro Strike Breakers.

FORT WORTH, Dec 24.-Negroes
and Mexicans are being used to replace
the striking firemen on the Southern
Pacific at San Antonio and Houston.
The strike only effects the lines In
Texas and Louisiana.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-24
DARING HlGHWAYMEN.

= GOLDFIELD, Dec. 24.-TwO +
= masked men entered the Mer- +
= chants hotel last night and held Z
+ up II men with revolvers. They +
+ secured $3.50. No clew.
z Z = = q Z Z Z = Z
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-02
AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

The decision of the United States
supreme court in the case of the Ches-
apeake & Ohio and New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroads in the coal
carrying case is regarded as more inn
portant in it's bearings upon the rela-
ton of the railroads to interstate COM
merce than the Northern Securities
decision. The facts in that case were
that the Chesapeake & Ohio contract
ed to deliver to the other road large
quantity of coal at a rate which, con-
sidering the cost of producing coal at
the mines and its published tariff, left
i. no profit. In response the Chesa-
peake & Ohio set up that it had mined
the coal at a loss and carried it at a
published tariff The court found this
contention without merit. There is
mine, and to this must be addel the
published tariff for hauling it to it's
NSStiilheioll' lie Nouit ocSidl Gu WIN
the contract between the railroads,
and ordered the lower court to broad
en- its injunction so as to prohibit the
Chesapeake & Ohio from deviating
from it's published tariffs.
The case brings out the essentially
bal policy of railroads being dealers
in the commodities they carry. The
way this has worked out in the coal
region is that the railroads have pub
iished prohibitive tariffs which COM
PEELED the independent operators to
sell their product to the coal-carrying
roads at whatever price they could
get. Meanwhile the railroads were
secretly deviating from their ttriffs in
carrying their own coal at lower rates,
while pretending that they were only
selling their coal at a lower price than
ceeded in driving out competitive op-
orators they were in a position to ex-
act from the public the full tariff,
which was in itself unreasonable, and
the public got the worst of it. This is
the situation On the Reading, where
the coal rate is so per cent of the
value of the product. But the Reading
hauled its own coal for less while it
mad competition in the production. AS
soon as competition was frozen out,
the tariff rate prevailed.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-02
LEOPOLD'S CONGO CRIMES.

The civilized world cannot be GER
tain just what to make of Leopold II,
king of the Belgians. 1t entrusted him
with the government of the Congo Free
State largely because it was impressed
with his general air of benevolence
and because he was a monarch of a
naturally small power in Europe. Bis
marck presided over the meeting
which made the Congo Free State;
England gave her consent to it and
the United States came along and
breathed the very breath of life into
it by giving is endorsement Bis
marck congratulated the conference
upon the government having been un-
dertaken by Leopold, and Leopold re-
piled that his only program was the
work of moral and material regen-
eration.'
Thus, this great territory On both
sides of the equator, containing one
million square miles, one-third the area
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-02

of the United States proper, and fill
ed with a native population, was hand
ed over to one man whose benevolent
aspect entirely deceived the powers OF
Europe. Leopold has proved himself
despot of the meanest kind. His
avarice has impelled him to set up
slavery in the Congo, to countenance
and encourage murder, rape, f1ogging
and every other violent crime in the
calendar of the most besotted en-
peror of Rome's degenerate days. He
has farmed out the land, which he
claims to be his own personally, to
svndicates and with these rights has
gone the power to fog and punish the
white man without compensation.
The main export of the Congo is
rubber. The white man wants rubber
but he cannot get it. The miasmatlc
swamps in which he would have to
seek it would kill him. He must de-
pend upon the native for it, and the
native must be whipped into produc-
ing it. The brutalities practiced in
the Congo Free State are almost be-
vond belief. That they can be outside
the knowledge of King Leopold may be
true, though it is unlikely but If he
does not know what all the rest of the
world knows, then it is high time the
powers got a new administrator.
But Leopold does know it and he is
STEPPED to the elbows in the crimes
of the Congo. He is the chief gamer
by the output of rubber, and it is
to provide money for his singular do
mestic establishments that the men
are manned, children slaughtered and
women worse than slaughtered in At
RIGA The story is very briefly and
mildly told in a recent pamphlet OF
the Congo Reform association
The association wants the United
States government stirred to take
some action. What should be done is
first to get a new conference of the
powers which organized the Congo
Free State If it can be had and the
facts laid before it there will be an
end to Leopolds maladministration
The United States appears to be in
the conference together, since it is
free from the neighborhood jealousies
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-02

DR. Charles E. Hewitt, of the divin-
ity department Of the Chicago Univer-
sity. says that a minister ought not to
acquire money in return for the use of
his portrait and an eloquent letter OF
recommendation in which he thanks
God for anybody's Pure Cuff whisky
and advises all good people to use it
freely. No more should an impecun-
ious pastor replenish an empty flour
barrel with the proceeds OF a testi-
monial telling how Repuna snatcned
him from the brink of the grove. We
are getting to be aWfully particular as
to our ministers.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-02
BIG LAND OFFICE BUSINESS
Total ReCeip pts During Month Of
February Were s7,330.35
SEvENTY.M|NE HOMESTEAD ENTRIES
PRINCIPAL SOURCE OF INCOME
CAME FROM CASH SALES
OF LANDS.
SEvENTY.N|ME HOMESTEAD ENTRIES

The total receipts from all sources
of the Walla Walla land office during
the month of February totalled the big
sum of $3.50, according to the monthly
statements of Register Mohundro and
Receiver ellis, prepared today for for.
warding to the land department at
Washington.
The principal source of income last
month came from cash land sales
amounting $4,39O.92, the land being sold
amounting to 366.15 acres. The fees
from 10 original desert land entries on
1,9939O acres amounted to $4SS5O.
Much Land Filed on.
Nearly three homestead entries a
day We're received at the Office, the
total amount of land filed on for home
stead purposes being 11,627.6O acres,
the fees amounting to $40 and the
commissions $SO753
There were 60 final proofs entered,
the commissions on which amounted to
1892 SO. Other sources of revenue were
as follows: 20 cancellation notices,
$40; testimony fees, $27S1; plats and
$3.50; N. P. selection lists,
$14; act March %, 1904, 1910.