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The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-08-10
Prospect YaHey.

James Johnson has gone to
Wisconsin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hoppey have
moved to Kalamazoo.
Mrs. @. A. Stearns was in
South Haven, Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy futile are
camping at Lake Cora.
G. S. Adams and family are
enjoying an outing at Eagle
lake.
Mrs. Kate Tuttle of Kalama-
ZOO visited Martha Smith one
day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bosworth are en-
joying a visit with their daugh-
ter of Minnesota.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Cate and
Mrs. Adams of Paw Paw visited
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Smith, Sun
day.
Mrs. Wesley Hall and grand
daughter, Nina Smith, and Miss
Mary McCon were in Kalamazoo
last week.
VIII Bills, who has been visit
ing friends in the valley, left
Tuesday for Minnesota, having
been home but once in a year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Smith,
who have been camping at Three
Mile lake, have returned home
Their party of FIVE succeeded in
landing 80 black bass, some of
which were large ones.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-08-10
Lake G. ora.

Mrs. H. r. Vincent and son Of
Oak Park, Ill, have returned to
their summer home at this place.
John Ryder has gone to Can
ada for a few days visit with
relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. II. Vincent of
Oak Park, H., are here for an
outing.
Orlando and Marie Fuller of
Chicago are guests at the home
of their uncle. A. U. Craven.
Mrs. VIM. Stevenson Of Chica-
go has come to spend some time
at the farm.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-08-10
NEWS FROM THE
NE|GHbOR TOWNS
Interesting Paragraphs by Our
Staff Of Suburban Core
spondents.
VAN buren, CORRESPONDENCE
Gobleville, Decatur and Mattawan
Lake Cora, Base Line, Ge-
neva-Many Others.
GObIeWUe.

John Burnlce is in Ohio on a
visit.
Arthur Cook of Sleepy Hollow,
South Haven, was home one day
last week.
Will Chappell is starting a
very nice meat market ia the
Trip block
w. E. Stedman and family are
calling on old friends in Goble-
vile this week.
Jay Bradley and family are in
town visiting at the home of VIM.
Jones. Their home is in Dowa
giac.
Steve Bishop has bought the
Central hotel, so we will soon
have good hotel running here
again.
Mrs. A. E. Harmon is spend
ing a couple of weeks with her
father, Alison Hyanes, who is in
poor health.
A safe place to invest your
money is at the city shoe store,
as Jud has just moved in a fine
fire proof safe.
Elmer Hyames son Frank is
home from Kansas for a short
visit. He has a position as prin.
cipal in high school.
j. E. Hyames has a very nice
ginseng garden He says he is
picking the ripe berries now and
he will get a nice lot of seed.
Mrs. M. w. Clement and Miss
Weaver returned Saturday from
d visit at Petoskey, where they
went to visit Frank Clement.
DR.. Bennett bought the lot and
barn owned by Mrs. j. G.. Clark
and sold the barn to Mr. Essen
ger, north of town. Mr.. Willetts
is moving it to his farm.
Mrs. Fannie Moore has return
ed from Kalamazoo, where she
has been caring tor her sister,
Cassie Speicher, who broke her
arm few weeks ago.
Arthur B. Clark and wife, who
have been making some short
calls on their many friends the
past few days, have returned to
their home in Riverside, Cal.
Arthur is in the shoe business.
Harry Slonaker, the only son
of Harvey j. Slonaker, died last
week of blood poisoning caused
from a blister in the palm of the
hand The funeral was held at
the M. E. church, of which he
was member, last Saturday.
The arge attendance and boun-
tifuI supply of flowers showed
his standing in the community.
Ms. Edith Hyames and Mark
Stoughton and wife attended the
funeral of Mark Collins at Big
Rapids this week, Mark was a
son of Ed. Collins, and was 20
years Of age. He went to Cali
fornia three years ago and began
working in Eureka in a large
laundry, where he got to the
head room in the laundry bust.
ness. Last week the sad news
came that he was drowned.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-08-10
Malta wan.
Lucille Royal is visiting in Bat
tie Creek and Sherwood.

Lucille Royal is visiting in Bat
tie Creek and Sherwood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Fiske of
Almena spent Sunday at 9. q.
Halls.
Miss Lillian Pierce returned
Friday from the western nor.
NAL at Kalamazoo.
Miss Hazel Stuyvesant and
Ernest Reed of Kalamazoo are
guests at Claire Halls.
Over 90 partook of the supper
served by the l.. A. 5. at Mrs.
Bert Wheelers last week
Miss Grace Coykendall of Kali
amazoo is spending couple Of
weeks with her parents here.
Mrs. Ella Lindbroome of Min
neapolis, MINI, is visiting her
parents, Mr.. and Mrs, ID. c..
Thompson.
Miss Bessie Eddy has returned
to Alamo after spending a couple
of weeks with Mrs. S. w. Kel-
logg.
Quite a good many young ~
people from here attended Ring
ling Bros. circus at Kalamazoo,
August 2.
Mrs. Fred Virgo, who under
went a surgical operation in Ann
Arbor last week, is reported as
doing nicely.
The L. O. II. M. of this place
were entertained by Lady Van
Dine of Almena, August z, and
report a pleasant time.
Clyde Kellogg returned to Chi
cago with his guest Friday. He
intends to remain there some
time, as he has secured a posi-
ton.
The union Sunday school pic
mic held at Pretty lake last
Wednesday was well attended
and all seemed to have a pleas
ant time.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. M. Cleveland
and Mrs. b. E. Wheeler spent
Wednesday in Kalamazoo, the
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. W, H,
Kenoyer.
The new basket house in pro
cess Of erection for G. L. King
q Co. of Holland, is progressing
finely. 1t is 30x80 on ground
and has 10 feet studding.
e Mrs. Susan Lee is quite i'll.
Mrs. Lee was for a number Of
years a resident of this village
but now lives with Thurman
Thompson south east of town.
j. W. Rankin died Friday af-
ter a lingering illness. Funeral
Monday at 10 o'clock at Congre-
gational church. Deceased came
TO this place about one year ago
from Allegan county.
Miss Eva French is visiting
friends in Texas.
Miss Hazel Eager of Almena
is the guest of Mrs. Claire Hall.
Mrs. Harvey Kirkpatric and
Mrs. @. Finch are on the sick
list
Miss Lizzie Busch of Chicago
is the guest Of her aunt, Mrs.
Fred Labadie.
Rev. A. K. Siebert and three
children left Monday for an ex-
tended visit in the east.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roger Vokes and
daughter Lottie were Sunday
guests at Harrison BARRIERS.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1906-08-10

Home Coming" August IS
to ID. Come home everybody.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-28
Discovery by Settlers Opens Vast
Possibilities For Irrigation.
THE STREAMS ARE SWIFT FLOWING
WoRkMEN DUMFoUNDED TO SEE
DRILL DISAPPEAR THROUGH
BOTTOM OF WELL.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Feb. Is
Within the past sixty days the west
ern portion of Texas has received as
accessions to the population more than
a thousand families. These have gone
there to live and make for themselves
homes in the pasture country" Their
work is already attracting attention
to things not before known or dream
ed of in the plains country. Chief
among these is the water supply. Well
digging was the first thing attempted
by the settlers Their many efforts to
find water proved fruitless.
Perseverance led to the discovery
that a few hundred yards from a dry
well it was often possible to find an
inexhaustible supply Of good water.
Further investigation showed that the
wells which supplied water are all over
underground streams which have
marked currents, and are in many in
stances of considerable depth. Sticks
and pieces of board thrown into these
wells are rapidly swept away under
the ground.
In the hills in the northern part of
Kinney county wells are drilled from
the tops of the hills to a depth of ESQ
to 500 feet into subterranean streams
which flow with great rapidity and are
of depth sufficient to cause the loss of
drills, which break through the roof
of the stream and fall to the bottom,
breaking the rope in the descent.
A plan is now under consideration
to dam these subterranean rivers and
thus force the water to the top of the
wells on the crest of the range of
hills. If this experiment shall prove
successful, the irrigation of several of
the large counties of western Texas
will be an easy matter. 1t Is believed
the source Of the water is much higher
the assurance seems good for flowing
water if the stream can be damned
below the wells. So far there are only
drilled wells into this underground
river. 1t seems likely that a shaft will
be sunk and a careful examination of
the possibilities of the situation made.
These underground streams are COM
mon in west Texas Before the set
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-28
NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS.
p r. JOHNSON GOES TO KEW ARD.

Captain p. B. Johnson is dead. TINS
announcement has carried poignant re-
eret and sorrow to many a nome IN
Walla Walla, where the big, bralny,
lawyer-editor was known to almost
every man. woman and child not new
conner to the city. For over 40 years
no lived here and no citizen has taken
a more prominent or more useful part
in public affairs. For a quarter or a
century he edited and managed the
Daily Union, which he founded, and
under his masterful control it was one
of the strongest and most influential
pewsnapers on the Pacific coast
AS an editor Captain johnson was
always true to his convictions and ne
often advocated measures that were
not populay to his financial loss, and at
the cost of many pedsonal friendships.
Like all editors who have moral cour-
age. he made many enemies as well as
many devoted friends, and his political
enemies no doubt kept him from rising
TO honors that ne was more worthy of
receiving than many who were more
successful as politicians because they
were more unctuOuS, faWnlng ana
sycophantic. But in spite of all OBJ
stacles thrown in his way he sue
ceeded in impressing his strong per-
sonality upon nearly all the public con-
Germs of the city. county and state, not
to speak of the far wider influence that
he welded through his forceful pen.
Those who knew Captain Johnson
most intimately loved him for his many
sterling qualities of mind and heart.
His old employees all swore by him.
Long before there was any Topographic
cal union in Walla Walla he paid even
higher wages than are now fixed by its
scale A fire in 1899 destroyed his
newspaper plant on the corner of Alder
and Third streets, and not being pro-
tected by insurance it wrought his
financial ruin He still had a comfort
able home, a little wheat land and a
strong mind and he continued to take
an active part in public affairs until
few years ago. His last newspaper
article was one urging the people to
vote for the new gravity water system
and never was his writing more to the
point.
For strong logic. keen wit and ready
repartee Captain Johnson never had a
superior in Walla Walla. He was
giant in discussion or debate and few
cared to cross swords with him.
If any editor ever gees to a better
world P. B. Johnson's spirit is now In
the realm of the blest, and if the rest
of us editors will only emulate his
example we may hope to join him
there when the last copy is sent to
the press and 80 sounds the close Of
our labors on earth. Let us hope that
he has merely been called in advance
to solve for US the Great Mystery
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-28

of them going to Belgium and part to
other countries near at hand, whence
they could be drawn to Germany with
out paying import duties. 1t was
limited that Germany was stocking
I'D" preparatory to a tariff war. These
stories were mainly apocryphal. There
were no extraordinary purchases, but
if the reports could be made to stir
America to modify her tariff against
Germany they were a good enough
Morgan till after the LIST of March.
The fact of the matter is, Germany
is in poor shape for tariff war with.
this country, since she is buying from
us the necessaries of life for her in
creasing army of workmen. Neither
would the empire have any inducement
to enter upon a tariff war but for the
influence of the landowning class in
politics. They frankly want high du-
ties on grain, meat and their products
to make their estates valuable, arguing
that the prospecting German manufac-
turers can afford to raise wages to the
point where the workmen can buy
high-priced food at home and thus con-
tribute to the support of a home in
dustry. The manufacturers and the
working man have evidently SHOWN
more power in the government than
the landowner and the conflict has
been STAYED off.
The American standpateer will un-
doubtedly feel himself Endorsed by this
asking, What is the use Of stirring up
the tariff question at home when for
eign countries are afraid to meet us
on the subject, when England by her
votes reconsecrates herself to free
trade and Germany puts her much
vaunted reprisal tariff in a pigeon
hole? There is not any, so far as the
exporter is concerned. But the con-
sumner has not been touched by the
situation at all. Germany's backdOwn
has not changed his attitude toward
tariff which unnecessarily Expresses
him, while it enables the American
manufacturer to sell abroad cheaper
than he will at home. The tariff will
finally be revised by the friends of the
consumer, whether foreign countries
are able to force it's revision or not.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-28

tiers went into the waste places there
it was known there were streams under
the surface. Their termination in giant
springs proved this. But the vast ex.
tent of their territory was not imagined
until the homsteaders made an investi-
cation. In many places these rivers are
close to the surface.
A dug we'll on the pasture of John
Herring, forty miles from Bracket, at
the depth of forty feet, enters the top
of a flowing river twenty feet in depth
The wOrkmen were drilling for a .last
in the bottom of the we'll when the
drill fell from the hands of the man
holding it and disappeared in the drill
hole. The well was finished by men
suspended from the top by ropes. Then
the river appeared flowing rapidly un.
der them. No way has been found to
estimate its width. 1t fills completely
the channel through the rock and has
risen in the well about a foot above the
top of the channel.
Settlers of western Texas are enthus
ed over the prospect, for the soil in this
section is the best and only needed this
supply of water
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-28
SALARIED GOSSIPS.

You know how you like to hear
things about other people. Even if
slightly favored, they are perhaps the
more interesting. There seem to be
sources of this variety of underworld
news. We know we are to hear some
thing racy when we hear the beaks of
these birds of prey pecking away in
the front hall.
But in China they do things much
better Elderly ladies, who are ex-
perts, are regularly employed as Cos
sips, and they are paid we'll. 1t is
usual for them to go to the best houses,
beating drum to announce their ar
rival and to offer their services to
the lady of the house as entertainers.
down and tell the latest news, the
choicest scandal and anything that
they think may interest their hearers.
Should their stock in trade prove very
delectable they go away with hand
some present in addition to the regular
fee. Some of these gossips have a
large number of clients, whom they
visit at regular intervals.
In this delightfully."- simple way every
body is kept we'll informed of the do
ings of his neighbors. You who lift
up your hands in unfeigned horror of
some of the things the newspapers are
ing yourself? Is it something that
couldn't be printed in the papers?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-28
A JOKER IN THE TREATY.

Some wise person claims to have dis
covered the Joker" in the Santo Do
mngo treaty. Of course opponents of
the treaty always believed there was
Joker" in it somewhere and at last the
person of color has been chased out
of the international wood pile. 1t
consists in the provision that the
moneys collected from the customs, of
which the United States has now res
cued about s1,0OO,OOO shall be applied
to the payment of both the external
and the internal obligations of the
island. 1t is in the payment of this
internal debt that the trouble hides
II seems that Santo Domingo is blessed
with what is known as a deferred
debt" Most of us would like to ac-
cumulate that sort of a debt but can't.
However Santo Domingo has sue
ceeded. This deferred debt is the pay
ment due extinct bands of revolution
lists. The arrears of numerous reVo-
lutiOns now amount, it is said, to
about 100000 1t seems that when
there is revolution, the generals
in the field collect cattle. subsistence,
rolling stock, and the like and pay for
them in script This script is always
duly recorded on t. books of the gov
nd &c honnraI alilyn nv hot
parties because the ms never know
when they may be the outs" This
script now has little but prospective
value. Ten cents on the dollar is the
high quotation. But if the present
treaty goes through it is said that the
script will Immediately touch par and
unnumbered bands of forgotten revo-
lutionists will be brought back to green
and fragrant memory This feature OF
the treaty is urged as one of the rea-
sons against it's adoption. Personal
ly, we can see very little in the argu-
ment. This government seems doomed
to the collection of Dominican Gus
toms, and it is doing it with consider
able honesty and at small expense.
So long as we do this small service
there is reasonable prospect that
the obligations of the island republic
will be paid and there will be no for
eign Interference. 1t is admitted that
as soon as we get out half a dozen
European nations will step in and grab
naval stations. The Dominican GUS
toms will have to be used to pay some
thing Ultimately they will have to
be expended on sewers and roads and
sanitary arrangements of various
sorts. The foreign claims cannot last
forever And why in the interval
should not the heirs and assigns of the
patriots who contracted malaria and
dysentery be paid a pittance for suf-
fering of their ancestors. 1t looks to
us as though the Dominican deferred
debt were a good thing. 1t certainly
is an argument for our keeping the re-
public in order that much longer.
Therefore we say, by all means pass
the treaty and bring joy and gladness
into homes that heretofore have used
the government script merely for mu-
raj decoration.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-28
Champagne Scahs.

The Frenchman's face was hacked
and notched.
Have you been a duelist?" one ask
ed.
been champagne maker" He touch
ed his face These horrible nicks," he
said, they are champagne scars"
champagne scars" he went on,
decorate the visages of all the work
ers, in the underground champagne
mills of Rheims. They are caused by
the bursting of the bottles. About one
bottle of champagne in every ten
bursts.
There are miles and miles of clnam-
payne caves in Rheims, caves cut in
the solid limestone rock, where, in
constant temperature of As degrees,
millions of bottles of wine refine and
ripen.
THE workers down there smell moth
ing but champagne all day long, cham
payne escaping from bursted bottles.
And as the turner's move along the
racks-each turns $4,000 bottles daily
they are continually saluted with ex-
plosions. Bang And the glass spln-
tiers fly, and little fountain of cham
payne perfumes the damp air.
Day after day each bottle must be
turned, turned fifty times altogether,
till the sediment in it has all mounted
up and concentrated itself about the
cork Then the corkers remove the
corks, let the sediment-thickened wine
in the neck of the bottle blow off, and
skilfully replace the cork again.
THE corkers' and turner's work is
dangerous These men are nearly all
SCARED like me-"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-28
A HAPPY SOLUTION

Senators Ankeny and Piles reached
a happy solution Of the contest over
the appointment of a register for the
walla Walla land Office when they de
cided to recommend Receiver A.
ellis for the position and to recon-
mend Jesse G. Miller, of Columbia
county, for receiver. Mr.. Gillis has
proven himself to be a most efficient
officer. He is a capable lawyer and
an expert in clerical work, as we'll as a
first-class civil engineer thoroughly IA
miliar with all the details of land Office
business. He is a man of sterling in
tegrity and his private and public life
has been without reproach Walla
walla has no better citizen than A. j.
ellis and his fellow-townsmen of all
parties are pleased to see his faithful
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-28

service recognized by what amounts TO
a promotion. The honor is all the
greater because it came to Mr.. G1llls
unsought and was as much Of sur
prise to him as to anyone else.
Jesse G. Miller is a rising young law
yer of Dayton, a brother of Superior
Judge Chester A. Miller, with whom ne
served. IS volunteer in the Philip
pine army during the Spanish
American war. He had the endorse
ment of his comrades of Company F OF
DAYTON and OF Company l of Walla
Walla and of his party organization in
Columbia county for the position OF
register of the land office, and in addi-
ion he was endorsed for the appoint
ment by many of the best citizens OF
Garfield and Walla Walla counties.
Rotation in office is a good thing oc-
casionally and in this instance it gives
a worthy young man chance for pro-
motion. While Mr.. Miller is not recon-
mended for the position he sought, he
is endorsed for another paying the
same salary for duties less on. ous
There is no reason to doubt that Mr.
Miller will make a capable and efficient
receiver and that his official record will
Justify the good judgment of Senators
Ankeny and Piles in choosing him for
the place.
1t is natural that disappointed office
seekers and their friends should feel
sore for a time and that petitions and
protests should be signed as a balm to
their wounds. But such disappolnt-
ments are inevitable in politics and
they are soon lost sight of as the
world gathers itself together and
moves on regardless of the cries of
those hapless persons who have fallen
in the path of it's progress.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-28
GERMANY'S BACKDOWN.

In continuing her reciprocal rates
giving America time to think II over.
but it is clearly a surrender on the par.
face tariff war with this country.
Germany denounced her old treaty
With this country some years ago, and
passed her new tariff more than
year in advance of its going into force
Some months before the date of en-
forcing the new tariff we began to
hear of tremendous purchases of Amer
lean goods for German account, part
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-28

The New York state senate leaders
are trying to smother proposed in
vestigation of the state banking de-
partment More than $4,000 people in
the state have suffered severely by the
collapse of five of the big building and
loan associations that are supposed
to be kept within the bounds of law
by the state banking department. Vic
Tins of these building and loan asso-
citation swindIes are so bitter that they
will go to any extremity to punish
those who seem to be standing between
them and justice. They have been
baked for years through political ma
nipulation. These facts are being used
freely by the Hearst supporters in the
state and are bound to have an effect.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-28

Divine right Baer, having learned
that the Pennsylvania legislature was
about to order an investigation of the
ownership of coal mines by the Read
ing system, issued a statement accus-
ing the members of ignorance of the
constitution and general cussedness in
doubling his eminent authority in the
matter of fixing the price of COAL 1t
ture in asserting its ambition to run
the state of Pennsylvania. Mr.. Baer
has not resigned.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-28
Some over-patriotic Michigan people

Some over-patriotic Michigan people
a candidate for re-electino, tell where
he stands. The general merely says
that he is loyal to the platform of the
republican state convention" But this
statement has angered even the re-
publicans themselves The days of the
People are going to know what their
servants stand for.