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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1906-03-28
SETS FIRE TO HIS CELL.
Negro Prisoner Cren1ates Himself and
Four Others.

Four Others.
Corsicana, Tex, March 2S.-A negro
prisoner at the county farm two miles
from here set fire to his cell In an
effort to escape. The flames got be-
yond his control and before the prison
ers could be removed four were burned
to death and fifth was fatally burned.
The negro who started the fire was
among the victims cremated.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1906-03-28
War Office Unusually Active.

At no time during the war was the
war Office buster than now, making
dispositions to suppress the first evi-
dences of rebellion. Machine guns
and ammunition are being dispatched
in every direction; troops are being
shifted and concentrated at strategic
points, armored trains are being sta
toned at railroad centers and ironclad
automobiles are being sent to the
larger cities for use in street riots.
Here and in Moscow the Cossacks
and other cavalry are again patrolling
the streets night and day; a project
for a wireless telegraph system to en-
able the government to communicate
with the Interior in the event of a
strike of the railroad and telegraph
operators is being hastily worked out
and soldiers are being instructed how
to man trains and work the telegraph
lines.
The intrigues of the reactionists at
court are ceaseless. In fact the cabal
seems actually to be fostering an out
break in order to suppress it merci-
lessly and convince the emperor that
the people cannot be trusted with po-
litical liberties.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1906-03-28
Home Z Bakfnq
with
ROYAL
Baking Powder

The United States Agricultural Department
has issued land circulates free) valuable report
giving the results of elaborate experiments made
by and under the direction of the Department,
which show the great saving from baking at home,
as compared with cost Of buying at the bakers.
Abread, cake, biscuit, crullers, ETC., are very much
fresher, cleaner, cheaper and more wholesome when
made at home with Royal Baking Powder.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1906-03-28
GREAT STORM BREWING
EXTENSIVE OUTBREAK FEARED
IN RUSSIA BEFORE PARLiA-
MENT ASSEMBLIES.
BOTH SIDES PREPARING FOR FRAY
WAR OFFICE sUsiER THAN AT
ANY TIME DURING HosTIL-
iTiES WITH JAPAN.
BOTH SIDES PREPARING FOR FRAY

oIr L SlSi Spul =, mdiCu Go.~DSSpllS
the governments assurance that an
,ther extensive outbreak in the imme-
late future is impossible the clouds
are LOWERING and there are other indi-
cations that big storm may break
before parliament meets. The resent
ment against the terrible repressive
measures of the government is arous-
ing the people, especially the work
men in the cities, to fury. This is
playing into the hands of the reyolu-
tionists, who are planning a political
strike and a general uprising. They
believe that the right moment will
come in mid-April and both sides are
preparing for the fray. II it comes it
is likely to be bloodier and more ter
rible than anything previously wit
messed in this country.
The record of arrests last week in
st. Petersburg, besides showing an
awful state of lawlessness in the cap
ital, is eloquent testimony of the meth.
DDS by which the government hopes
to prevent the threatened explosion.
According TO the returns $50 beggars,
215 persons without passports, 2l7
thieves, 270 highwaymen and 1867
"unclassified" persons, which means
political suspects, were taken into
custody.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09
A BURST OF HIGH FINANCE.

The remarkable deal by which tne
National City bank became the owner
of the old custom house in Wall street
is being subjected to scrutiny by
Comptroller Metz of the city of New
York. Six years ago the secretary Of
the treasury, Lyman J. Gage, sold the
property to the National City bank for
$685. 900. No money was paid as the
United States had a deposit with the
bank. The treasury was notified that
it had been credited with $3,215,O 900,
leaving a balance of $4,000 unpaid.
This balance has never been paid and
because it mas not the bank claims
that it has never taken title and hence
the property. Meanwhile the govern
ment has regularly paid the bank
the building, although the government
gets no interest on it's deposit
Congress has tried to investigate this
deal and failed because the house Or
ganization would not permit. INV
the city of New York has interested
itself and is propounding the ques-
tons: IF the building still belongs to
the United States why does the gov
eminent pay the bank rent for its us :?
If it belongs to the bank why does not
the bank list it for purposes of taxa
tion?"
The National City bank is a Rock
efeller institution 1t is one of the
biggest banks in the country. 1t pays
its stockholders good dividends and
there is no reason why it should not II
it transacts all its business as shrew6-
ly as it has twisted this deal whereby
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09
PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS

The undoubted development of a de-
mand for the trial of public owner
ship of public monopolies mas it's root
in the fragrant defiance of moral and
statute law on the part of the mana
gers and owners of great corporations
and in the apparent helplessness CT
governments national, state and local,
to frame laws and ordinances which
will keep these men within decent
bounds.
The agitation for the delivery to the
interstate commerce commission of the
power to fix rates is traceable to the
persistent refusal and neglect of the
railroads to fix and observe such rates
themselves though the duty to do so is
established since civilized society was
capable of delegating any part of it's
powers to be exercised by private in
dividuals.
The. demand for public ownership of
street railways, gas companies and
waterworks in cities is a direct result
Of the failure of private corporations
having grants from the public to keep
their place, to give good service for a
fair remuneration and keep their hands
off the governments through which
they exist. They have preferred to buy
councils and bride legislatures until
they have made the very name of a
public service corporation hateful to
the general ear.
Confronted with the fact that the
public is aroused, indignant, revenge
full, they try to lead the discussion back
into the paths of equity whence they
themselves departed without provoca-
ton and without right Their appeal
falls on deaf ears in those communi-
ties which nave suffered the longest
by their exactions, their bribings and
their corruption.
The demand for municipal owner
ship is catsed not so much by the
merits of public ownership as by the
abuses of private ownership. 1t IS
only where these abuses have become
so intolerable as to be no longer borne
that public anger has traversed bust
ness judgment in its demand for re-
lief. The time has come when the
magnates who have bestridden our
see that their contempt of public rights
and their defiance of public indigna-
if there is not an immediate amend
ment of both their manners and their
methods.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09
COULD NOT REST
NIGHT OR DAY
With Irritating Skin Humor-WhoIe
Body Affected Scalp Itched All
the Time and Hair Began to Fall
Out-WonderfuI Result From
APPLICATION OF
CUTICURA REMEDIES

81 am never without Cuticura Soap
and Cuticura Ointment since I tried
them last summer. About the latter
part of July my whole body began to
itch. I did not take much notice of it
at first, but it began to get worse all the
time, and then l began to get uneasy
and tried all kinds of baths and other
remedies that were recommended for
skin humors; but became worse all
the time. My hair began to fall out and
my scalp itched all the time. Espe-
cially at night, just as soon as l would
get in bed and get warm, my whole body
would begin to itch and my finger nails
would keep it irritated, and it was not
long before l could not rest night or day.
A friend asked me to try the Cuticura
Remedies, and I did, and the first appli-
cation helped me wonderfully. For
about four weeks I would take hot
bath every night and then apply the
Cuticura Ointment to my whole body;
and l kept getting better, and by the
time used four boxes of Cuticura was
entirely cured, and my hair stopped
falling out, but 1 continue to use the
Cuticura on my scalp. 1t keeps all dan
druff out and scalp is always clean. I
always use Cuticura Ointment on my
face after shaving, and have found
nothing to equal It. I will never be
without it." DE. Blankenship,
319 N. Del. St.,
Oct. q, 1905. Indianapolis, Ind.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09
Material For Them Is BECOMING
scarcer Every Year.
FORESTRY SERVICE NOTES FALLING OFF
In Middle West, Where Trees Are Very
Scarce, II Will Pay to Grow
Good Supply.

The difficulty Of obtaining fence posts
at reasonable prices has given an i'm
petus scarcely realized to forest plant
ing in the Middle West. Newspapers,
boards of trade throughout the region
are pointing out the need of such ma
terial and dwelling on the profit realiz-
ed by a few men who planted trees
years ago and whose plantations nave
been successful. The local supply Of
all forest products is insignificant, and
timber, If not grown, at home, must be
imported. With the continuous retreat
Of the sources of supply under the at
tack of vigorous demand, the length
of the maui increases and the cost Of
transportation rises higher and higher.
Yet the fields and pastures must he
fenced. The posts must be had.
The annual production of fence posts
in the regular logging camps of the
country, as reported by the last census,
is S,715,661 How many times greater
than this is the annual cut from the
home wood lot no figures exist to show:
but by taking the total number of the
farms and their acreage and making
a conservative allowance for posts for
the fence inclosing each farm, it has
been estimated that upwards of L.
OO0, 0O0, 900 posts are set each year. Such
figures are too vast to mean anything.
Even the nine million posts of the
census, a mere drop in the bucket rs
compared with the unreported pro-
duction, would, if set Is feet apart,
girdle the earth, or would build a solid
pile SIS feet wide, 40 feet high, and :,
mile long
Durability and at least moderate
strength are the desirable qualities for
fence posts. The use of species which
are not durable is expensive, both OH
account of the more frequent removal
which is necessary and because repair
ing is constantly called for Timber
Of the required quality is produced in
the Middle West by hardy catalpa,
black locust and Usage orange.
Catalpa makes an excellent growth on
deep, porous, fertile soil, but only on
such soil. Five or six inch poets should
be ready to cut in about ten years. In
regions immune from the locust border.
Black locust will yield satisfactory re-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09
WHAT HYGIENE HAS DONE.

How far modern hygienic rules and
regulations have served to prolong the
,, period Of human life is being debated
earnestly between those who oppose
many of the rules which are now pre-
scribed for the conduct of individuals
Those whose business is interfered
with and others whose personal free
dom is restrained pooh pooh hy-
giene as fad. 1t is a particularly
bitter dose to school janitors, milk
men and butchers who see in it nothing
but silly interference with personal
rights. They claim, and with a show
of reason, that people lived before
these fads took possession of the
world and they will probably live
without them. Then why all this
bother about antiseptic washing of
school buildings and sweeping them
without raising dust? Why this non
sense about milk can shoppers and
diseased meat? That more than
100000 infants have been killed
in year by impure milk is the de-
claration made by Professor H. w.
Wiley. chief of the chemistry bureau
Of the department of agriculture
William E. Curtis has gone to the
head of the Carnegie Institute, DR..
Woodward, and he has said that lie
believes modern hygiene has pro-
longed human life by perhaps ten
years. He admits and deplores the
absence of accurate statistics on the
subject. He thinks the states should
have uniform laws for the reports Of
births and deaths, diseases, etc. At
present statistics are limited almost
entirely to municipalities. William A.
King, chief of the division of vital
statistics in the census Office made
the same confession, as to the crying
need of reports. He claimed, however,
that the meagre reports obtainable
demonstrated a gerat reduction in the
ucdtn rate III the United StdteS up 10
the age of SIS years. Above the age of
SIS there has been an increase. This
appears geratest in deaths from heart
disease, apoplexy and ailments of the
kidneys and liver; in cancer and other
diseases incident to high living and
high tension-in a word in diseases
beyond the control Of official authority.
A general complaint is made that
the United States is far behind the
rest of the modern world In the en-
forcement of sanitary regulations,
particularly in the rural parts of the
possible to secure enforcement
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09
WHERE THE GOLD COMES FROM.

The reports of the director of the
United States minis show a gain of so
per cent in the gold output of Alaska
in 1905 over 1904. The total is Off
cially stated at $14,65O,000. This was
in a year, too, when the Nome district
suffered from lack of water and an
unusually short season. The new Fair
banks district produced more than
half of this entire output. With IA
vorable conditions for 1906 Alaska
ought to be a good second among the
gold producing regions belonging to
the United States. The chief gold pro-
duction in our territory now comes
from Colorado, which yielded in 1905,
$40, sol, 900, with California second Her
product was 1880, 900. 1t is reason
able to expect from the present out
look that within the next ten years
Alaska will be producing more god
than either Colorado or California. The
time will come, we believe, when it
will produce more than both of them
annually.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09
Gen. Woods Succeeds Corbin.

HONG KONG. Feg. 7.-Major Cen
eral Corbin sailed today for San Fran
cisco on the Pacific Mail steamer
Korea. He has been relieved in the
command Of the military division of
the Philippines by Major General
Leonard Wood on February 1, and will
return home as fast as the steamer can
carry him.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

1915-The senator from New York
Mr.. Roosevelt, took the floor and made
a five hours constitutional argument
against executive usurpation of sena-
tOrial privilege. The senator from
Nebraska, Mr.. Bryan, gave notice that
he would on the morrow submit some
observations upon efficiency of The
gold standard in peace and war; the
senator from Missouri, Mr.. Polk, in
formed his colleagues that he pro-
posed at an early day to introduce z
bill reducing the tax on presidential
bOoms to per cent. The senate tner
adjourned.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09
WHEAT MARKET CONTINUES QUIET
HOLDERS SEEM SATISFIED TO
WAIT FOR SOMETHING TO
TURN. UP.

The position of the wheat market
continues one of decided quiet. There
is not much holdings and holders are
apparently well satisfied to await de-
velopments, but the advancing season
does not appear to lend encouragement
to the belief that any marked improve
ment is to be anticipated in the i'm
mediate future, says the West Coast
Trade. Europe is buying sparingly
but there is some encourage cement IN
the fact that the crop in the southern
hemisphere mas not yet been influential
in producing any marked reactions, ana
there are good prospects that the re-
naming surplus will be wanted abroad
at about the present basis of value.
With the quieting down in export bust
ness there is nothing of consequence
to animate the situation. None of the
mills want any wheat for the present
at least, having supplies more than
commensurate with the call for their
product. and California is apparently
well stocked up for immediate require
ments.
Cargoes Almost Nil.
season opened the local cargo exports
were nil for the week, though a small
parcel went to the west coast aggre-
eating 1900 bushels. Receipts have
also fallen to the minimum, amount
ing to 1875 cars, or 1880 bushels. The
total inspected at this point for jan
uary was 951 cars, or 7,O77,4 S3 bushes.
bringing the aggregate for the season
to date to 9,SO3,S44 bushels. Up 10
February 1 there has been inspected ut
Tacoma and Seattle since September 1
14,894,408 bushels Of wheat from this
seasons crop, with 10000 bushels at
Spokane.
The crop outlook continues. favor
able, so far as the Pacific Northwest
is concerned, and while nothing can
be determined as regards the outrun
before spring sowing has been COM
pleted it is expected that the stand
will come through the winted in good
condition.
Local prices for wheat are I'M
changed at 73c for bluestem and Tic
for club.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09
Socialists Preparing for Campaign.

DAENPORT, Feb. "A mass con-
vention of the Socialists of this city
will be held at Claus Groth Hall this
evening for the purpose Of organizing a
party, adopting a platform and nomi-
mating candidates for the coming spring
campaign. The platform, which has
already been prepared by a committee
and will be submitted at the convention
features of the Socialists doctrine it
is intended to put a full ticket in the
field.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

turns from soil in which catalpa would
fall and for this reason it is adapted
to wide area where the rainfall IS
light. Under ordinary conditions, To-
fifteen years.
Usage orange also is not exacting in
it's soil requirements. 1t is being ex-
tensively planted for hedges and wind
breaks from which a considerable yield
makes satisfactory growth on dry soils
and reaches post size in from fifteen to
twenty years.
Several other species such as white
willow, European larch, Russian null
berry, and red cedar, are also being
grown with good results, but none Of
them is better fitted to supply fence
posts than those first named.
The Forest Service fully recognizes
the Importance of fence posts in farm
economy and the great demand for the
suitable timber. Studies of the growth
and durability of various species have
been made, and the limits of the COM
mercial planting range of each has
been more closely defined. Rapid
growing species which are not durable
have been studied to determine some
form of preservative treatment which
will increase their durability. Further
work along this line will undoubtedly
add largely to the list Of species which
can furnish the desired product.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

East Alder street started the boom
for paved streets in the residence dis
tricts and from present indications 1t
will not stop until every thoroughfare
in the city is paved. About 70 blocks
of new pavement are now decided upon
and new assessment districts are be-
ing petitioned for at every meeting OF
the council Too bad our street car
system could not be completed before
all this new pavement is laid.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09
Neil and Tenny Matched,

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9.-Articlas
for twenty round contest were signed
last night by frankie Neil the Ameri-
can bantam weight champion and Har-
ry Tenny. The weight stipulated is
120 pounds ringside. The fight will
take place in this city on February p.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

The Statesman is under obligations
to Senator Ankeny for the daily Con-
gressional Record. The senator OF
course did not expect the editor of The
Statesman to commit suicide by at
tempting to read the complete record
but it was his evident intention to have
us take it in small doses for ready
reference.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

Though strongly opposed to divorce
in spite of it's prevalence, American
public opinion will sympatniZe some
what in the Countess de Castellane
attempts to escape from the little hu-
man Simian to which she is legally at
tached.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

Manhattan, New, Is a new town that
is being made while you wait" but it
costs you about s5 a minute to wait.
Surface scratches have uncovered ricn
gold ore and people are rushing in in
punches.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

it gathers in ten years $1,300,000 m
or evades taxes of $500, 900 upon prop
erty which it does own.
This must be one of those outcrop-
pings of high finance which make the
common people go out to the shed
looking for an ak.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

the doctors to tell us what is the mat
ter with us. If the doctor doesn't
know, good, round mouth filling
Latin derivative is often a great COM
fort
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

Notwithstanding the boycott OF
American managers on Shakespeare
people are paying eXtraVagant prices
for early editions of his works. A Bos-
ton man recently gave up the price
of a farm for the first four fOllOs, IN
which the spelling and punctuation
are simply rotten.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

All the colonies in Kentucky having
been cured or not wishing to have
their thirst tempered with, a liquor
cure in Louisville has gone into voluN-
tary bankruptcy.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09
RECOMMENDED 70 ALL MOTHERS

0I have used Cuticura Ointment for
chatting of infants, and as they grew
older all skin diseases were given treat
ment with that and the Cuticura Soap.
I never found it necessary to call doc
tor, as these Remedies are a sure cure.
if used as directed. l am glad to recon-
mend them to all mothers" Sincerely
yours, Mrs. F. A. Kennard,
June 81, 1905. st. Paul Park, Mimi.
Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills sold throughout
Che world Potter Drug Chem Corp Sole Props Boston,
u60a3led Free How 70 Care for the Skim"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

The coal miners strike is well timed
to stop the regular spring reduction in
prices which annually puts our coal
barons within sight of the poorhouse.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

Colonel Mann admits that he re-
turned some of the money borrowed,
but does not tell why. Perhaps that is
what he is asking himself.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

Mr. Sugita. the son of a wealthy
coal merchant of Toxic, has just sat
down in a chair of Japanese at Notre
Dame university. There is chair f
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

The two most widely known poll
ticians in Great Britain seem to be
Campbell Bannerman and Arthur al
SO-ran.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

The fighting between church and
state in France makes us congratulate
ourselves that America has solved at
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

Perhaps if they had a more eXten-
sive party to lead Alpnonse Chamber
lain and CASTOR Balfour would not be
so 10th to lead it.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09

When Mr.. Balfour taught the British
voter the theory of retaliation he did
not expect to have it practiced on him.
self first.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-09
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.

Copy of change of advertisements
must be delivered to the business Of
flee by the nour of TEN O'CLOCK a.
m. GO insure insertion in the issue Of
.ven date.