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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
SEVERAL MERCHANTS WORKED
FOR PROVISIONS AND GOODS
IN CLEVER MANNER.
Had Articles Charged to Prominent
Citizens of Wala WalIa-Police
Looking for Him.

A precocious youth, fast learning the
wiles of the professional crook, is
working a smooth game on merchants
by purchasing a small bill of goods
and having them charged to prominent
citizens. Charles Retzer, proprietor OF
the Model bakery, is out few dollars
as the result Of the youngsters clev-
erness and several other merchants
nave been approached on the same
game, but failed to bite owing to the
fact that they do not do credit busi-
ness.
Just before Christmas the youth en-
tered the Model bakery, and after pur-
chasing a $3.50 bill of goods, tool the
lady clerk to charge the bill to Charles
Mexican. This was satisfactory and
the boy departed with his packages. A
few evenings later he purchased anoth-
er small bill of goods and told the clerk
to charge them to William Witmore.
Mr.. Retzer became suspicious, and on
making inquiries found that Mr.. Nc
Kean had not ordered any goods.
few nights ago when the boy bought
several dollars worth of good things to
eat and told the clerk to charge them
to John Sharpstein, Mr.. Retzer came
from behind the counter and asked. the
youth to accompany him down to Nc
Kean'S store.
The youngster readily consented, but
when Mr.. Retzer went to get his hat
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
kELLIHER RIS SENTENCED
Given Five Years in Oregon Penitenti-
ary at Salem.

SALEM, Ore, Jan. S.-A. T. Kelli-
ner, the Chicago millionaire, convicted
of forgery in fraudulently securing
thousands of acres of state school
lands, was this morning sentenced to
five years in the penitentiary and to
pay the costs Of the trial. The defense
was granted 10 days to file bill of ex-
ceptiOns. Contrary to expectations
Kelliher's attorneys made no motion for
a new trial, but petitiOned the court to
impose the minimum sentence of two
years. The court stated that on ac-
count of the magnitude of the fraud
he could not impose the minimum pen
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
Officers Predicted Suicide,

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. S.-The San
Francisco police freely predicted that
Reynolds would not succeed in bring-
ing back the prisoner and that the lat
ter would commit suicide. Meir en-
bezzled about $4,000 from John Caf-
fey, Pacific Coast agent of the Pom
erOy Wine company of New York,
while employed as confidential man.
ager and bookkeeper. September "a
Mier mysteriously disappeared. Caffey
reported that Mier had been miss
ing for nearly week and fear
ed foul play. He did not suspect that
Meir was short in his accounts and he
did not examine the books until Oc-
tober l. wnen he found Meir short $780,
0OO He was traced to Galveston, Tex
as from here, and then to Germany and
London by Detective Gibson.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
Commander Young Reprimanded.,

WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-The Sec
retary of the navy today mailed Com
mander Lucien Young reprimand for
''remissness in the performance OF
duty while commanding the Benning-
ton, which blew up in San Diego har-
Dor last July. The reprimand, it is
understood, is very light.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08

this afternoon and give the machin-
cry a short test run. The last cargo
of jute has been received and the mill,
it is expected by the officials of the in
stitution, will be able to turn out a
larger number of sacks this year than
since the plant was installed. Warden
KEGS expects to employ about 800 con-
victs in the factory this year.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
BROUGHT BACK FROM LONDON
HE SHOOTS HIMSELF IN
HEAD.
Meir of San Francisco Had EmbezzIed
Twenty Thousand Dollars From a
New York Firm.

NEW YORK, N. Y, Jan. S.-Charles
M. Meir, formerly a trusted employe of
a San Francisco wine merchant, want
ed there on the charge of embezzle-
ment of $4,000, committed suicide this
morning aboard the liner Carmania as
the vessel entered this port from Liver
pool. Meir was arrested in London
November s on request of the state de-
partment and was ordered extradited.
Detective Reynolds, who was sent to
London, had the prisoner in charge
when he killed himself.
Meir shot himself with a revolver.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
ROBERTS FINE HOME IN
WAITSBURG.
Objections to Referees Findings-Case
Will Come Up Next Friday
Morning.

The famous Roberts divorce case
from Waitsburg occupied the boards
again in the superior court this morn
ing. Not content with the decision
of the referee who allowed her the
custody of the one child, $50 a month
with which to maintain it and several
hundred dollars worth of personal
property, Mrs. Roberts this morning
through her attorney, J. II. Pedigo, pc
titioned Judge Brents to reopen the
case and award her $50 month and
the Roberts home in Waitsburg, val
Mr. Roberts and his attorneys that
the motion would be heard next Fri
day morning before Judge Brents.
Mr. Roberts is finding mis- matrimon-
ial venture an expensive luxury. Ac-
cording TO the findings of the referee
he is to pay Mrs. Roberts attorney
$500 for a weeks work, in addition to
the $50 a month allowed her for the
maintenance of their one child. To
this must De added mis- own attorneys
fees, amounting to not less than $500;
1927 to the stenograpner, who took
down the testimony; the witness fees
and Referee Reynolds fee, which has
not been presented yet. Now, on top Of
$50 a month and the Roberts home,
which is one of the incest in Waits
burg.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
GOV. CUMMINGS MESSAGE.
Stands Pat for His Reform PaIi-
cies.

DES MONIES, Iowa, Jan. 8.-Gov-
ernor Cummings message was read at
the opening of the legislature this aft
ernoon. He made recommendation in
accord with his anti-pass state pri-
mary, pure food and insurance plans.
In regards to insurance he recommends
reasonable regulations requiring the
distribution of the surplus in such a
juring the legitimate enterprise of in
surance. He recommends a uniform
policy.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08

pacitated for labor, and this document
will be used as an argument in certain
quarters for a limited tenure for all
persons in the classified service.
For several years there has been
complaint of the large number of
superannuated employees in the depart
ments. The contention mas been that
their presence tended to a demoraliza-
ton of the service Various remedial
plans have been proposed, but most of
them have been rejected as impractical
BILE.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
is TESTING THE MACHINERY
JUTE MILL AT THE PENiTEN.
TIARY WAS IN OPERATION
THIS AFTERNOON.

If the test of the machinery that is
being made this afternoon proves sat-
itentiary will be started up in full
blast tomorrow morning. The mill was
shut down some time ago to allow of
numerous repairs being made to the
looms and the installation of electric
motors, which will furnish the motive
power for the factory in the future. The
\repairs have all been made and the mo-
tors placed in position. 1t was the in
tention to turn on the electricity late
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08

and coat the young fellow slipped
quietly to the door and made a rush
for the street, lodging around the cor
ner onto Main street and out of sight
before Mr.. RetZer could catch up with
him. The police have a fairly good de-
scription of the young fellow and he
will probably be taken into custody
within a few days.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
PATTISON IS NAUGURATED GOVERNOR
MOROCCO QUESTION THREATENS A GREAT War
FRANCE AND GERMANY ISSUE STATEMENTS

minister of foreign affairs, will follow
in the footsteps of France at AlgeciraS
unless France gives way completely tC
Germany. In that event Great Brit
ain will act independently. 1t is eX-
planned that Great Britain does not
want a German arsenal in Morocco any
more than the United States wants one
in Cuba 1t is asserted that Holland
and Belgium are planning to act to-
gether for their defense should the AL
geciras conference result in war;
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08

BERLIN, Jan. S.-The German
white book" dealing with the Moroc-
can situation, was issued tonight. II
icy, designed to counteract the anti
German sentiment produced by the is
suance Of the French yellow book on
the same subject. The German book
contains a statement supported by
documents that France intended to re-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08

.rOLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. S.-Pattison
was inaugurated governor at noon. The
induction into office of the first DEM
ocratic governor since 1880 surpassed
in brilliancy any inaugural for years
if not in the history of the state. There
We're soldiers, civilians, beautiful Wo-
men, grand music and exquisite decora-
tions. There will be social functions
tonight A driving snow made march
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
MOST BRILLIANT EVENT OF KIND IN YEARS
first Democratic Governor of Ohio Since the naugur-
alton of Campbell in 1890 Pattison Is in III
Health and Had to Sit in Glass Gage
During Ceremony

ing difficult The governor has been
i'll recently and unable to attend to
business affairs
To protect him against the weather
he sat in a glass cage especially con-
structed for the occasion and provid-
ed with foOtwarmerS and hot bags. The
occasion was made a sort of Jackson
Day celebration by the Ohio DEM
Ocracy
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
Frank Mason Found Dead.

OGDEN, Utah, Jan. S.-Frank Ma
son of Springville, Utan, who came to
other valuables, was found dead in his
rooming house last night. An autopsy
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
NEGOTIATIONS Have Failed.

WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-The state
department announces that the nego-
tiations between the New York and
Bermuda Asphalt company and Cas-
tro's government have proven an ut
ter failure.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
Germany Ready for War.

GENEVA, Jan. S.-Germany for sew
eral days has been increasing her
tiers. Garrisons are on a war footing
and big guns have been mounted.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08

duce Morocco to vassalage, and thus
directly gives the lie to France 1t pre-
sents an indictment of the French for
eign policy. The kaiser is confined to
his room with chill.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08

CHICAGO, Jan. 8.-Wheat opened
81 1-2, closed 81 3-S; corn opened
A SIS, closed A 3-4; oats opened
80 3-8, closed 321-4.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
CLUETO MURDERER.
Arrest Cabman Who Hauled Con.
stantne.

ATTEST Cabmdn VITO T1dUIeu OOH-
stantine.
CHICAGO, Jan. SIN pursuit of
clues to the murderer Of Mrs A. w.
Gentry, the police this morning ar
rested James Goodelman, a cab man,
who saws he took a man answering
the description of Frank Constantine
to two railroad stations, thence to a
pawnsnop and thence to the Sheridan
house, where he left him, Saturday
shortly after the time of the muir
der
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
Situation Serious,

StudtiOn SSFIOuS.
CHICAGO, Jan. 8.-The Daily News
correspondent in London says tnat
English observers concede the grav-
ity of the situation resulting from the
Morocco imbroglio. Sir Edward Gray
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08
Another Hazing Trial.

ANNAPOLIS, Mimi, Jan. S.-The
trial of Marsoni, accused of the haz-
ing of Roberts and Bryant, was re-
sumed this morning.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-01-08

has been ordered, as foul play is sus
pected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-07
First Bale of Cotton.

Brownsville, which is down in the extreme southwest end of the cotton belt has gotten together 800 pounds of new cotton, and shipped bale to a charity hospital in New Orleans. First bales are due as the national holiday comes in the year, and the appearance of one on July is not remarkable. It is simply normal in the Brownsville end of the cotton belt.
 The arrival of the first bale means but little so far as the outcome of the growing crop is concerned. The first bale of 1905 was received on June 26, and the first bale of the present year shows that the crop is about ten days later than it was last year. But that fact is really of little significance.
 The department of agriculture puts the condition of the crop on June 25 at S3.3, as against ten-year average of 841. The condition of the crop is 
 a little below average, but even this Is not of great significance, for the rainfalls and sunshine. and the labor supply, and the maintenance of culti- vation in July and August-all these things are what will make or mar the crop Nothing thus far disclosed is at all conclusive, and the weather man and the farmer man will decide in July and August what the crop is to be. The acreage Is ample, but acres that are not favored by nature and that are not kept free from grass by man do not tell the entire story. Gull tivation, weather and acreage are the Big Three in the cotton industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-07
HARD TO SAY WHAT IS
 MEANT BY "WALL STREET,

From the Wall Street Journal
 ' T was remarked by one of the shrewd-
 est editors in New York that if the stock exchange had been situated in some other street the reputation of Wall street would have been a better one, and it would not have been blamed for so many sins not of it's own commission. The name, as a heading. exactly fits the columns of the average daily newspaper. Throgmorton street has no such connota- ton to the English mind. The stock ex- change in London Is one thing and the banks and other financial institutions are something else. They are never Jumped into one inaccurate phrase to express some- thing which is nine times out of ten cen serious criticism or reproach.
 There has grown up in the past half century a tendency to set up a wholly imaginary entity, possessing all the vices of wealth and none of its virtues, and call it wall street." The logical fal- lacy involved is by no means confined to the yellow journals, although of course they also make a man of straw of the same kind to curry popularity with the ignorant. Graver editorials in more reput- able newspapers do exactly the same thing. One of the most serious newspa- pers in New York only the other day quite unconsciously personified its purely fanciful creation, not merely as Wall street." but as the Wall Street Journal. With a certain kind of thinker the name alone is hanging matter.
 It is difficult to say what is really meant by the term Wall street" It Is possible to name a good many things sometimes included in that name, which have no more to do with Wall street than the man in the moon. Wall street. for instance, had nothing whatever to do with the packing house abuses, and mere-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-07

rations to swell campaign funds. The people know this, and the people will be heard from In 1908. They know that in 1896. 1900 and 1904 slush funds of stupendous proportions controlled federal elections and swamped their own individual votes. They will vote regardless of party for the man who will put an end to such bold at tacks upon the rights and powers of the individual voter. Party lines will be lightly regarded in 1908, and won derful changes will take place. The mutterings of the coming storm will be heard next November in New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and two years later Wall street and the republican party will be overwhelmed by a national wave that Theodore Roosevelt can not control or curb. It is rising daily and when it sweeps over the country the grafters and mo- nopolists will disappear, and honest men will have a chance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-07
Affecting Foreign Airs.

'I have often wondered what there is about foreign manners or airs suf- ficiently attractive to cause people to ape them, to their own detriment," said q man of the world last night
 T was greatly amused not long ago, to notice at a resort in Tennessee, new arrival at the hotel. She was to all appearances a very ordinary sort of wom- an, the wife of an ordinary clerk on an ordinary salary. She arrived at the hotel in free-for-all bus or carriage, and immediately tried to impress the people on the porch by an attempt at English mannerisms and phrases It was really funny, In as much as she was obviously an American woman. When she was not affecting the English bored air, then 1t was the vivacious French air, until sho was the butt of good natured raillery One of the recognized English phrases is luggage which word Is as common there as baggage is here. However when used In the proper form, 1t means satchels, small trunks and grips, too heavy for ordinary carrying. The lady in question, with great amount of affeetatlon, asked the driver If her luggage referring to an ordinary suit case, was in the carryalI. This not only evoked a smile from an Englishman present but also caused the balance of the group to be highly amused. Instead of creating a favorable impression. she did quite the contrary.
 However, she is not the only one. To the traveller it is quite noticeable, not only in this country, but with quite a number of Americans travelling abroad. By so doing, these people often, I am glad to say the uneducated, lose their identity and become the objects of rdl- cule.
 ''The sooner these people realize that the most admired attitude is America and American customs for the Americans, the better chance they will have of gain ing the friendship and respect of those they come in contact with One cannot have much respect for a man or woman without a country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-07
Move City Jail,

'I cannot but agree with Alderman Jones that the Southside city jail should be moved" said man who lives only two blocks from the jail. "It should be moved for more than one reason, and not the least of these is that 1t is most unsan- itary place and one where disease is easily contracted.
 'trhe Jail is located in a residence sec tion of the city and where hundreds of people can see the filthy negro prisoners brought into the jail and carried out. They are always unkempt and the sight sickens one.
 'The street sweepers and a big pile of junk of various kinds which is used by the street gangs is kept around the prison, and Nineteenth street at Avenue D always looks untidy. The people in that ward should rise up and demand that the jail be moved to some place near the city limits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-07
Secretary Taft's Boom.

No one has right to question MT. will not be a candidate In 1908, but all have right to dispute the current statements that William H. Taft, sec retary of war and canal builder, is about to go on the supreme bench to stay for life He does not act "that way" at all.
 On Monday next he has agreed to address the North Carolina republi- cs.ns at Greensboro on the eve of the assembling of their state convention. He will be escorted from Washington to Greensboro by the most influential North Carolina republicans, and it is believed that he will be endorsed on the following day by the tar-heel re- publican clan in the very stronghold of the Fairbanks boom.
 The Fairbanks and the Shaw booms are essentially machine-like, and in these times they promise to melt away wherever a man like William H. Taft appears. But it is said that MT. Taft cannot carry Ohio--that the defeat of Governor Herrick last year was due to the stand he took, and that the Ohio republicans will not support him. This may be so, but the republicans of North Carolina probably will, and no one should set 1t down as a positive and undeniable fact that the war sec retary is going on the retired list as a supreme court judge. He does act LID or down to any such intention. He acts, on the other hand. very much as presidential aspirants have acted In lDtages of the republic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-07
Three Omissions of Congress.

It is the fashion to praise Congress because 1t determined the nature of the great canal, and passed railroad supervision bll and meat inspection bill, and a pure food bill
 But 1t neglected or refused to ap- propriate a dollar to carry the pure food bill into effect True, that bill does not go into effect until January 1, 1907, but many steps could be taken before New Years day if Congress had appropriated a needful sum. The makers of adulterated food drugs and patent medicines can go on untouched and unharmed and even unwarned, simply because Congress did not ap- propriate dollar for the gathering of information or the preparation of ways and means to stop after January 1 the misbranding of the articles in tended for human consumption.
 Nor is this all. Congress did not revise the Dingley tariff. It took no step in that direction. The standpat- ters were victorious at every point. and that great producer of monopo- lies stands untouched. No raid upon private monopolies can be effective while the Dingley tariff stands unre- vised. It is the chief source of pri- vate monopoly, creating and main taining thousand taxes for the bene- fit of the few It is idle to say that the many do not know this. They do know it, and they will vote up to their knowledge in 1908. They will vote for revision.
 Then, too, Congress refused to pass the bill to put an end to the buying of the presidency by Wall street. It refused to pass bill forbidding corpo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-07
CLUB TO HONOR TOM PAINE.

From tne Crl1c.
 Among the latest clubs to be organized in this city is one devoted to the admira- tion of Thomas Paine. Most appropriately MT. Moncure D. Conway Is it's president. Mir. Conway is the author of the life of Paine and the editor of his works. The Paine farm at New Rochelle Is now of- fered for sale. and will be cut up into lots to suit the requirements of the buyer. Paine's monument is not far from his farm. Some time ago it was fenced off from the intruding tripper who delighted in molesting 1t. The religion of the aver age rowdy Is of the aggressive sort, and when he sees the monument of an infidel he shows his Christian spirit by pelting it with stones. So limited is his informa- tion as to what Thomas Paine stands for that he knows him only as an unbelever. He was however something more. He was a great thinker and a great writer. and if he were living today, that he was an infidel would be forgotten in admira- ton of his other attributes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-07-07
WHO BIDEs HIS TIME.

By James Whitcomb Riley. Who bides his time, and day by day
 Faces defeat full patiently, And lifts a mirthful roundelay,
 However poor his fortunes be- He will not fail in any qualm
 Of poverty-the paltry dime It will grow golden in his palm,
 Who bides his time. Who bides his time--he tastes the sweet
 Of honey in the saltest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet.
 Joy runs to meet him, drawing near; The birds are heralds of his cause;
 And like a never-ending rhyme, The roadsides bloom in his applause,
 Who bides his time. Who bides his time. and levers not
 In the hot race that none achieves. Shall wear cool-wreathen laurel, wrought.
 With crimson berries in the leaves; And he shall reign a goodly king.
 And sway his hand OCT every clime, With peace writ on his signet r1ns,
 Who bides has time.