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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
UmatiIla Coal Fields.

That the Umatilla county coal helds
are attracting attention outside OF the
state. is shown by the secret visit OF
A. l.. Waterman, an agent of strong
financial concern of Ottumwa, Iowa, to
the coal mine being opened up by j.
A. Mclaughlin at Gurdane IN the
western part of this county, says the
East Oregonian.
Mr.. Waterman recently visited the
mine. and took extensive data con-
corning the country, the feasible
routes into that district, the topogra-
ply and minerology of the country
carried away many samples OF the
coal and pronounced the mine to be a
portion of an immense deposit In the
valley 200 feet below the tunnel now
being run by Mr.. Mclaughlin.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
Chicago Unionsts Opposed to the
Graveyard Trust.
WANT A UNION BUDY|NG GROUND
WHEREIN A DEAD UNION MAN
MAY BE INFERRED IN UNION
GRAVE.

CHICAGO. ILL.,. April 13-Embalmed
by a union undertaken, covered with
flowers furnished by a union florist,
placed in a union-made hearse driven
by union driver dressed in union
made clothing and in a union-made
coffin enveloped in union-made
shrOud, and followed by union mourn
ers in union-made carriages, union
men of Chicago now hope to be bur-
led in union cemetery graves dug by
union diggers.
Most of the other things are already
pI divided at union mems funerals. and
now it is planned that a union ceme-
terry be laid out by union surveys,
wherein the future union men can Sc
cure union burial.
The plan is evolved by the Cigar
makers union, which, in search of a
place in which to secure a plot of
ground in which their members could
be buried, discovered what seems to
be a graveyard trust The claim is
made that each cemetery quoted the
unionists the same prices, which av-
eraged SIS a grave. This price, they
say, will make an acre of graves cost
$4,000.
The price was thought to be excess
sive, and the idea of a cemetery exclu-
sively for union men was born.
About 1000 union men, according to
the committee which has the union
cemetery in charge, die in Chicago
each year, and it is thought that, by
having a graveyard in which graves
will be given to union men at cost
price, a vast saving will be made by
the widows and children of those who
die.
1t is also planned by the unionists
who advocate the union graveyard that
on Decoration Day trade unionists
march to the union cemetery in body
and conduct memorial exercises.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
BLIND COUPLE JOINED IN WEOL0CK
Pathetic Ceremony Occurs at Boise
City-Young Couple Promi-
nent Musicians There.

BOISE, IDAHO, April 13.-One OF
the most touching sights ever witness
err in this city was the wedding Thurs
day evening, at the home of the bride
father, of Miss Pearl Halves, daughter
of Mr.. Benjamin F. Halves, and Mr.
Russell Mckinley, son Of Rev. and Mrs.
R. A. Mckinley.
The bride, who is an unusually
bright girl, has been blind since her
infancy. She graduated from the Col
orado school for the blind, and then
took a regular normal course at Lew
iston, graduating with high honors.
Since then she has kept house for
her father in a most charming way,
being exceptionally capable.
Mr.. Mckinley lost his eyesight as
the result of a premature explosion
during the Cuban war. He attended the
Columbus school for the blind and
while he has been deprived of his
sight for but few years. he has prov
ed himself unusually apt in every way.
The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Nc
Kinley seems an unusually appropriate
one in every way. Both are very mu-
steal, the bride being a pianist of high
ability and the bridegroom playing a
number of different musical instru-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
GOT HALF THE PACKAGE.
Experience of Missionary Among the
Indians.

In the days when overland trans
portation was cutting Its first tooth
and inland America was very far away,
Rev. Mr. Pettibone was a missionary
among the Indians of a little pocket
between the Rockies and the Sierras.
He was supposed to get his mail
semi annually, but the schedule was
elastic; sometimes it worked.
Mrs. Pettibone, an Industrious and
devoted wife, remained in the east
doing good, without doubt among the
civilized savages. About the first of
each year she would begin work on
something practical for her distant
husband for a Christmas present. At
one time she decided that a pair of
trousers would be gratefully received.
These she made with her own hands
and. when the last button was faith
fully riveted on, she took them to the
nearest express office, to be coolly told
that it would take the price of a good
cow to send them to Mr.. P; then to
the postoffice to be told that her
package was overweight; then, full of
perplexity and grief, she bore the pre-
cious burden home again.
Then a happy thought came. She
ripped the garment apart on the me-
ridian line, front and back, put the
west half in one package and the east
half in another, and so overcame the
scruples of the United States postof-
| flee department.
! After many months Of patient wait
| ing. she got notice from Mr.. Pettibone
that he had received the west leg with
thanks and was making the best pos
| sible use of it. The east leg had wan
dered off, and it was impossible tc
F.! tell whether it was adjoining the east
erly limb of some stately savage OF
was reposing in a forgotten pOstoff1ce
corner. On the frontier in those days
even half of your trousers didn't &c
begging.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13

Australia has persistently turned
Town various schemes for developing
aer territory with the aid of assisted
immigrants. Her objection seems to
be based on the action that the upshot
Of such movement by philanthropists
would be to turn loose upon her a
horde of paupers. Canada, however,
las decided to welcome 200 families
Of the unemployed which a generous
banker will send out from England at
his own expense.
People who have the misfortune to be
unemployed and who are willing to be
assisted to new homes are not neces-
sarily paupers in the usual sense Of
the word. But there Is prospect Of
their becoming helpless If transplanted
from native environment to conditions
for which they are In every way un-
suited by habit and training. An in
competent person in the country Is in
most hopeless and distressing situa-
ton. Men who can turn their hands
to farm work and who will take all the
rough knocks of the land tOiler's life
can thrive in Australia or Canada or
anywhere else. Factory hands and
those of desultory employments do not
break into the agricultural harness
readily or if they do will not stick to
the pillow long enough to make the eff
fort worth while. Now and then a
town bred immigrant who has the en-
ergy to strike out for himself succeeds
as a tiller of the soil, but the chances
are heavily against a man who Is as
sisted to the land simply because he
cannot get along where nature planted
him.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
Matter Arnold in Jail.

PENDLETON, Or, April 13.-Wal-
ter Arnold, son Of the late j. w. Ar
mold, is now locked in the county Jail
on the charge of having robbed a
stranger of a purse containing about
S25. 1t is alleged that the crime was
committed Tuesday night in the Brew
cry saloon. Arnold, who is but 20
years of age, was located yesterday in
the Central barber shop and the money
was held by one of the BARRIERS, with
whom Arnold had left the purse. When
he was examined he made an unsuc-
cessful attempt to implicate two 9TH
ers who he claimed were his part
nerS.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
Work on Sweetwater Dam.

LEWISTON, Idaho, April 13.-Eigh-
tv teams and 1875 men are at work on
the dam on the Sweetwater now in
course of construction by the Lewis
ton Sweetwater Irrigation company. 1t
is estimated that the progress of the
work will justify the assertion that
water can be turned into the big dam
by the first of May. Work on all lines
on the contract is now being rushed
The company has three miles OF pipe
stored at the Kettenbach warehouse
ready to be hauled to the ground when
needed. This pipe will convey the
water from the reservoir to the land
to be put under irrigation.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
Drop Your Gun!

All the world Is reading the book
which inspired the car to call the
peace conference and recently won
$4,000 prize as a universal peace pro-
moter. The work is running through
new editions in various languages and
has already reached the sixth In Eng
lish. In the form of story the au-
thor, Baroness Won Suttner, appeals to
the nations to obey in the most literal
sense the military command which IL
adopted as the title of the book,
Ground Arms!" The horrors of war
and the blessings of peace are the argu-
ments used
In the opinion Of Baroness Won SUIT
ner republics are less inclined to war
than mOnarchies. This is as much as
to say that the people are opposed to
war and rulers favor it for ultimately
selfish ends. In individual affairs 1t Is
the man with the gun who gets into
trouble because he is ready for 1t. II
the carrying of private weapons were
abolished there would be fewer bloody
ARRAYS. With nations the power to
back up large ambitions and preten-
sions fosters these traits. 1t Is the
people who pay for the war game. and
II is for them to echo and re-echo the
command Of the peacemaker, Drop
yo,1r pnn"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
CHARGED With Stealing $150, 900.

SEATTLE, April 13.-According to
the amended complaint filed yesterday
by United States District Attorney
Frye against George Edward Adams,
who is confined in the county Jail upon
the charge of stealing gold dust from
the United States assay office, the
government officers have found new
evidence which warrants the making
of the amended complaint, which in
creases the amount Adams is charged
with stealing from $4,000 to S15O,0OO
Deputy Marshal Jack Stringer serV-
ed notice of the amended complaint
upon Adams yesterday.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
ITCHING PAINFUL
SORES ON HANDS
Suffered for a Long Time Without
Relief-Had Three Doctors and
Derived No Benefit Doctor
Was Afraid to Touch Them -
Soreness Disappeared and Hands
Now Smooth After Application Of
CUTlCURA SOAP AND
CUTICURA OINTMENT

"For a long time I suffered with
sores on the hands which were itching,
painful, and disagreeable. I had three
doctors and derived no benefit from
any of them. One doctor said he was
afraid to touch my hands, so you
must know how bad they were; an
other said I never could be cured; and
the third said the sores were caused
by the dipping of my hands in water
in the dye-house where I work. |
saw in the papers about the wonderful!
cures of the Cuticura Remedies and
procured some of the Cuticura Soap
and Cuticura Ointment. In three
days after the application of the
Cuticura Ointment my hands began
to peel and were better. The sore
ness disappeared, and they are now
smooth and clean, and l am still
working in the dye-house.
II strongly recommend Cuticura
Soap and Cuticura Ointment to any
one with sore hands, and l hope that
this letter will be the means of help
ing other sufferers. Very truly yours,
Mrs. A. E. Maurer, 2340 State St..
Chicago, ILL.,, July 1, 1905"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
Souaw With Knife Seeking Revenge.

ARLINGTON, Or, April ia
souaw from Rock creek, a small
stream just below this city, arrived
here this morning in search of Indian
Joe" who had stabbed her husband
with a butcher knife last Friday. she
swears she will kill him with the sam"
knife which he used on her husband.
The men quarreled over the owner
ship of land. The wounded Indian IS
in a serious condition in his tepee at
the mouth of Rock creek.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
The Circus to "COme to Town" Agai

The Circus to "Come to Town" Again
If the railway rate reform bill de-
pended upon ballots cast by the young
folks of the country, all the way from
the spooning, peanut and gingerbread
age down to kids in short clothes, it
would go under at the first round.
Cause why, the circus. Railway trans
portation rates for circuses have vault
ed so high the shows can't stand it and
will return to wagons, with exhibitions
at all the towns ON the route instead
of the widely scattered cities.
This going back to horse power for
circus transportation means, of course.
that the circus Of the future, IKE the
circus Of our daddies, will really "come
to town" from the open country past
'our house" or past the house of our
cousins on the other road, and we can
see the whole mysterious congeries un-
loaded and set up and afterward torn
down and loaded up. And we can
spend the money that has Deen gong
into railway fares to visit city shows
in peanuts, lemonade and gingerbread
right at home. Once more childhOods
event of the year will open with the
spectacle of trees and fences for miles
out on the road occupied by eXpectant
boys and girls, barefOoted and freckled
and the day after there will be smarts
and aches of scratches and stone
bruises mingled with fading visions OF
the clown, the dancing horses and the
wild Man of Borneo." So railroad
rates may soar and stay scared ii
thereby the travelling circus Is brought
back to primitive ways Of getting In
and out of town.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13

and others will be introduced. On
Monday night the southern play, wife
for Wife," will be presented. Popular
prices will prevail-10, 20 and 80 cents;
no higher.
The company comes well recon-
mended and includes such well known
PLAYERS as Jane Kelton, Rose Wilbur,
Ethel Alton. H. B. Carpenter, Daniel
Gilfeather Arthur Ashley, Zellah Cow
ington, Lawrence Williams and others.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13

the couple had lived peaceably, so far
as the public has known.
Mrs. Ratus was divorced from her
first husband, Fred Hoffman, who lives
at Appleton, Wis, with the youngest
daughter. Her two brothers, Ed and
Charles A. Klingbeil, arrived today
from Wells, where they have farms
One daughter, Mrs. Gordon Westbrook
lives at MarSeilles, ILL.,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
War Veterans Organize.

EUGENE, Or, April ia camp OF
the Spanish American Veterans asso-
citation was organized here last night,
With tho following officers: President,
G. G. Hammond; vice-president, j. M.
Deeds: secretary treasurer, o. j. Hull
officer of the day, Raymond Babb;
sergeant-at-arms, James E. Snod-
grass: canteen officer Merritt r.
Huntlev. officer of the guard, w. w
Rranstetter: chaplain, r. S. Huston
The camp starts out with good
sized charter list.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
Convict Surrounded.

BOISE. Idaho April 13.-The latest
advices received at the penitentlary
from those on the trail of Cannum'
the escaped convict, are to the e1ec'
that it is believed the man is sur
rounded in a neck of country between
the Snake and Payette rivers, near
Pavette If he should make any move
whatsoever it is believed that he Will
be detected.
The horse stolen from Ed Peasley
Saturday night was found near Pay
cite by one of the penitentiary guards
where it was deserted by Cannum
and is now being held in Payette.
The Statesman has the news.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
MURDERS HIS WIFE.
Jealousy Causes a Double Tragedy in
Home at North Mankato.

MANKATO, Mimi, April 13.-After
numbering his wife, Martin Ratus
committed suicide by shooting himself.
The woman was shot in the back while
lets to kill the man.
The bodies were discovered late yes
terdav by a nefghbor, who, while pass
ing the house in North Mankato, look
ed through the window and saw the
body of Mrs. Ratus in a chair in the
kitchen leaning against the table. The
police of the city were notified and 1T
was not until they reached the house
and broke in that it was known that
the tragedy was a double one. On
a bed in the room adjoining the kitch-
en- lay the body of Ratus, with re-
volver clasped in his right hand. bull
let wound on his right temple, and one
near his heart. No wound or brulse
was found on the woman's body until
today at the post norton examination
when the wound in the back was
found and the bullet extracted.
Suicide Was Planned.
The following letter written in Ger
man, tells the story of the. tragedy,
and supplies the motive. 1t was found
| in the mans clothes by Coroner Mer-
rift:
whoever may read this will know
that l killed myself on account of my
wife and a man by the name of Rome.
What money is left, give to Rose. Dat
ed March o."
The man referred to is laborer.
Rose is supposed to Ratus' stepdaugh-
ter. The letter would indicate that
Ratus had made up his mind to take
his own life more than week ago, but
it is uncertain whether the murder OF
his wife was premeditated or due to
some sudden pang of jealousy. DR.
Merritt has found two bullet wounds
on the mans breast. Another is in the
temple.
Jealous Of Wife.
Ratus and his wife came to NORTH
Mankato from Wells eighteen months
ago, and the former followed his trade
of brickmason They quarreled fire.
uuently. Ratus being jealous of his
wife and accusing her of unfaithful'
threatened her life with a revolver
and beat her. He was arrested, bu
got off with a nominal fine, as thu
officers thought that he had some
provocation for the act. Since thel
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
Receipts of State Land Office.

OLYMPIA, Wash, April Estate
Land Commissioner Ross has made his
for the month of March, with a total
remittance of $118,44118. The current
school fund represents $31,321O3, the
permanent school fund $53,682.07, and
the tide land fund $23,565.36.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
Creston Adopts High License.

CRESTON, April 13.-The town
council Saturday night raised the sa-
loon licenses for Creston from $ooo
to $1,000 a year. Bassett & Richard
son, present proprietors of the Column
only applicants for renewals. rms
probably means that the twon VIII
have but one saloon, though if any
other parties see anything in the pros
pect the bars are still down.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
Bell Gets Another Team.

w. H. Bell, the Cabbage Hill 1ar1her'
who lost a $500 team in the fire Mon
day night and who took his loss SO
much to heart that he was 1ound cry
ing on the street, has been presented
with $500 with which to purchase an
other team, by the citizens OF Pendle-
ton, among whom a subscription was
at once NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. IT'D
une.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
Insane Soldier Kills Himself.

OGDEN, Utah, April 13.-ThOmas
Cole one Of a party of Is insane SOL
diers and sailors en- route from Mare
Island to Washington, last night
stabbed himself 20 times with pocket
knife and will die. A companion leap
ed through a car window and escaped
to the hills. He was captured after a
fight.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
MOTHERS! MOTHERS!

To know that warm bath with
Cuticura Soap and single amounting
with Cuticura, the great Skin Cure, and
purest and sweetest of emollients, will
afford instant relief and refreshing sleep
to skin-tortured babies, and rest for
tired and WORKOUT mothers.
Sold throughout the world Cuticura Soap 25c, Oint.
ment 5Oc Resovent lin form Of Chocolate Coated
Fills &c per COZ. Potter Drug Chem Corp, Sole
Props, Boston, Mass.
rrMaied Free, "Hov to Cure Ecsema and "Au Abo0
the Skin, Scalp, Hair, and Hands"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13

Jerum X. Jerum, the English humor-
list. says the Americans joke too much,
"dontcherknow" He would have US
read his brilliant emanations and let
II 20 at that, which would be a nne
Joke for him.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
Drew Gun on Bush.

PENDLETON, April 13.-Mint Bush
came down from Athena yesterday and
attempted to have a warrant issued
for Mike Ryan of the same city. He
alleged that Ryan drew gun on
him.
AS the district attorney has receiv-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
ADJUSTMENTS
KeyIor Grand Theater.

The Lyceum Theater company,
headed by Jane Kelton, will begin an
the Keylor Grand on next Monday,
April 49, An entire change of pro-
gram will be presented each night and
between the acts specialties by the
three Kelsey sisters, May Flemming
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13

No more convincing sermon could be
preached Oh the ambitions, STANDARDS
and moral code of Wall street than ia
to be found in the blighting OF the ca
reer of John A. Mccall. 1t Is one OF uoe
tragedies of the system.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13

The Golden Sheaf, best grade of
Walla Walla Creamery, is now selling
for IS cents per 2-pound brick.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13
HAIR GOODS

switches, wigs, pompadours and all
kinds of ladies' hair goods made to
order. Switches made from cOmbings
cut hair and combings bought.
Gentlemens toupees and wigs made
Satisfaction guaranteed.
c. BOOTH,
Rooms and over Daily Statesman
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-04-13

ed conflicting reports concerning the
affair." he will probably go to Athena
Friday to make an investigation.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-04-20
News From Excelsior.

Excelsior, April 19.--School closed
Friday. The pupils all enjoyed al
Easter egg hunt on the school grounds
in the afternoon which was much ell
joyed.
Master Magnus Kibler spent Eas-
ter with relatives in Newbcrry.
Our farmers are very nearly all
planting cotton this week.
Mrs. Crumpton is visiting her son,
Mr.. Rufus Crumpton here this week.
Our early gardeners have beans up
and looking nicely.
Mr.. P. S. Cook and little daughter,
Bertha, of Columbia, came up and
spent Sunday with his mothers fam
lily.
Mr.. Aumcrlc Singley, of Newberry
college, spent Easter at home.
Mrs. j. D. Lorick and Mrs. J. r..
Wheeler gave a number Of the little
folks an Easter egg hunt on Saturday
afternoon, which was much enjoyed.
Miss Lucy Wheeler, of Kinards,
accompanied by Miss Maude Miller,
have been visiting her fathers family.
There will be communion services at
Bachman Chapel church next Sunday
morning with preparatory service on
Saturday afternoon previous.
Last Sunday was lovely day and
your correspondent attended the Eas-
ter communion at Mt. Pilgrim church.
The pastor, Rev. s. p. Koon, preached
an able sermon appropriate to the
Easter occasion. The ladies Of the
congregation had the church beauti-
fully decorated for the occasion.
There will be preaching at Mt. Pill
grim church on the fifth Sunday morn
ing at II O'Clock at which time the
Sunday school will be reorganized.
"......" ..,I Sigma.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1906-04-20
News From Blairs.

Blairs, April 16.-A peculiar in
cident or accident happened in this
community on Monday evening.
While chopping around some young
plants in the garden, Mary. Graham,
Id years old, saw hawk as he flew
over her head, (he had darted down
after little chicken) and struck at
him with the hoe that she had in her
hand and killed him, thing that has
never happened in this neighborhood
before to my knowledge.
r he Mount Pleasant school taught
by Mrs. w. D. Rutherford, has closed.
There are plenty Of peaches yet in
this community if they do not drop
off.
Farm work generally is a week or
ten days behind former years. Far
mers are preparing their land better,
planting more corn and using more
fertilizers under corn than ever be-
fore. Can't afford to buy corn, let
cotton sell at what it may.