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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
Mother Tongue Nuisance.
Chicago Chronicle.

The Chronicle is among the large
majority of the American people who
have no respect for this reform and
who will feel not only grieved but
aggrieved that the president has used
the great authority of his office to
make their mother tongue a nuisance.
The only explanation that can be given
of this attack on the "well of Eng
lish undefiled" is that the president
has acted hastily and without a full
consideration of the case. 1t is not
perhaps too much to say that the
president has done more to unsettle
and corrupt the language in day than
ignorant journalism could have eff
fected in century. The Chronicle
admires and follows President Roose-
welt as a political leader, but it draws
the line at his photography.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
Thinking People Won't Follow.
Kansas City Star.

KANSAS Clly SldT.
Mr.. Bryan was tremendously strong
on the trust issue. In recommending
Federal licenses for interstate corpora
lions he renewed his allegiance TO a
principle that is bound to grow in fav-
or. He was strong on the tariff, arbi-
tration of labor disputes, the election
of United States senators by popular
vote and the income tax. His most
radical position was taken on the gov
eminent ownership Of railroads. and
on this point he will not be spontan-
eOusly followed by the thinking peo-
pie. But the railroads alone are to
blame if man Of Mr.. Bryan's lum-
inous magnetism finds it easy to Gre
ate sentiment in favor of such a re-
grettable proposition. Honestly
though, are the democrats as glad to
see William Jennings Bryan as they
pretend to be?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
RETURNS FROM THE Holy LAND
Mrs. Gertrude WyIie, Dean of Women
at Whitman, Has Interesting
Trip Through Palestine.

Mrs. Gertrude Wylie, Dean OF
Women and professor of Biblical liter
AZURE. at Whitman college, returned
this morning from an eight months
trip to Egypt and the Holy Land.
Mrs. Wylie left here in February on
a leave of absence and went directly
to Egypt. She met her sister at caro-
and they went up the Nile together as
far as Thebes, visiting most OF the
oldest ruins now existing.
Thence they went to Palestine
where they spent nearly three months
in travelling and studying the life anu
history of the country. On the way
back Mrs. Wylie passed through Con-
stantinople and Greece. She also
visited the principal cities in Italy anu
took a short run through Switzerland
returning via Paris and London.
She arrived in America Aug. TO-
and since that time has been vlsltiH9
with her father near Boston, Mass
Her daughter, Miss Margaret ola HUI
return with her but will remain WIFI
her aunt in Ohio.
Mrs. Wylie reports a wonderfully ell
joyable trip although very busy oii0'
She learned a great deal at hrst h'iiN
which will be of immense service ~
her work as instructor of the dllleIe"'
branches of Biblical literature. Mrs
Wylie will not reside at Reynolds nd"
this year but will retain the postum
of Dean of Women which will mean
general oversight over the girls Oh 'NO
institution.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
LA TOILETTE DEFEATED.

The people of Wisconsin have just
given the country an object lesson in
self-government. In turning down La
Follette's candidate for governor and
nominating their own man they have
notified the junior senator that while
trey regard him as a gallant leader and
an intrepid politician they cannot ac-
cept him as a boss, says the Minncapo-
rs Journal. They cannot accept any
enc as boss and retain their self re-
spec: and independence
The boss business has visibly waned
in the United States. The people are
even tired of those who too perenially
associate = emselves with the idea Of
leadership. While bosses rarely te-
come leaders in the high sense of
term, it is very easy for a leader to
degenerate into boss. Therefore the
people keep a jealous eye on both
plants lest the one grow at all and
lest the other grow to too rank
height.
There was no issue in the Wisconsin
campaign except the dictation of La
Toilette. Mr.. Davidson, who succeed
ed to the governorship when Mr.. La
Toilette resigned, was a "halfbreed"
or La Toilette republican, but he was
not a hot enough partizan to meet the
approval Of the junior senator, who
brought out Irvine L. Lenroot against
him as a candidate for the governor
ship, expecting to make the office a
time came to elect a successor to
Spooner. He was rebuked at the pri-
mary for attempting to be the "whole
works" in Wisconsin.
The stalwart faction appears not to
doubtedly it's members voted for Da-
wilson. 1t it could not win a COM
plete victory it has the satisfaction Of
achieving a half triumph in the defeat
Of La Toilette.
1t is impossible that La Toilette has
met any substantial reverse in the vot-
ing. The people of Wisconsin still
have confidence in him and his ideas.
They merely decline to accept him as
dictator This is in accordance with
the spirit of the time.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
BRYAN AND SULLIVAN.

AS to Roger Sullivan Br. Bryan did
not beware of entrance into quarrel but
being in he proposes to so bear it that
the opposed may beware of him. At
Chicago he threw down the
gauntlet anew. and if the battle does
no do Mr.. Bryan any good it surely
will do Mr.. Roger Sullivan a great
deal of harm politically.
Mr.. Bryan, answering the objection
to his attitude as an attempt to control
the politics of a state, said he was
but trying to assert a principle which
he believed should be universal, that
no man who is the agent Or director or
owner of a public franchise company
which is applying for favors to the
public should have a leading place in
the counsels of political party. Such
a man he believed could not serve two
masters, the people and the corpora
ton.
The democratic leader might be ac-
cused here Of pushing pure politics to
an extreme but is he? Is not his posi-
vice regulations against a public Off
cial being too intimately interested
in the machinery of a political party
and of the legal prohibitions against
public officers being directly or in
directly interested in contracts in
which their sworn duty is to first rep
resent the people? Neither laws nor
regulations can limit the political ac-
tivities of the manager of a gas works
| or the president of a railroad, but pub
lie opinion can. Mr.. Bryan frankly
avows that his purpose in attacking
Mr.. Sullivan is to help create such a
public sentiment. 1t is a good senti-
ment and we'll worthy of being created
in both parties.
One cause of complaint against the
senate of the United States has been
that it contained many members who
were sent there not by the people but
by the corporations This feeling is
| the backbone of the demand for the
popular election of senator's. It is a
sentiment to which many of the states
have already yielded in laws providing
for the popular election of senators.
1t matters not that these laws are
extraconstitutional and can neither
take from nor add to the power of the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
Goes Halfway.
INDEPENDENT News.

On the next dangerous topic-Gov-
eminent ownership of railroads-Mr
Bryan did equally well; that is, he re-
ferred it to the status of an academic
question. He reinforced himself by
reference to such ownership in Eu-
ropean countries, and then qualified
his notion of such ownership here by
saying that as in it's completeness it
would result in Capitalization he pre-
ferred that the federal government
should own only the trunk lines, leav-
ing local lines under state control, and
he appealed to Europe for testimony
as to the practicability of this plan.
Yet he softened the whole application
by promising that he did not think the
country was yet ready for this change
nor, indeed, that majority of his own
party favored it, So it seems to us
that we are to class this with the "bi-
metallic" utterance as an example of
skillful speech-an Incorporation in the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
Good Threshing Record.

The Baddeley threshing outfit was
housed last Friday after a successful
seasons run under the management of
DR.. Joe Baddeley, says the Weston
Leader. The average for week was
1000 sacks daily, and the best days
work was 1925 sacks-which is going
some" This days feat was pleasantly
celebrated by the crew with an oyster
supper provided by the management.
On one occasion all local records for
quick moving were broken. The ma
chine was rolled out of the holes before
the cylinder stopped and "set' again
in 10 minutes.
The Blue mouptain sawmill will close
down in a week after cutting about a
million and a half feet of lumber since
June 1st The actual running time
was 81 days, and the mill maintained
an average of nearly $4,000 feet daily.
After the machinery is stopped winter
logging will begin, and a number of the
old employees will be retained on the
payroll by Manager Avery.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
MAYOR KELLOUGHS DUTY

While admitting that Mayor
Kellough has much to do in adjusting
the pipeline scandal and either max
ing public those suspected payrolls for
MAY. June and July, or permitting the
wafer committee to slide through
without an expose, we do not think
rhe executive is so hardly pressed for
time as to be compelled to overlook
the proposed change in the office. OF
building inspector.
There can be no question Of the ad-
visibility of transferring that ONCE
from a political job to a competent ex-
ecutive. such as the chief Of the fire
department. If for no other reason
than the opportunity afforded of dis
honest practices. the change should be
made.
Consider for a moment the existing
conditions which make it possible Tor
a councilman holding such a position
to play into the hands of contractors
or against them, if they displease him.
There are seven members of the city
council-seven men who have vote
on the vital municipal questions. The
mayor is without such prerogative.
A councilman holding the important
office of building inspector, may, for
certain reasons, honest, or dishonest,
oppose a contractor having in course
of erectin a cstly building.
AS building inspector the council
man acts inimically against the con-
tractor, who appeals to the city coun-
Gil for Justice. On the theory that
the councilmen will divide for politl-
cal, or personal, reasons, as they have
been known to do many times, the
vote is four to four, with the coun-
Gilman acting as building inspector to
cast the deciding vote.
Such condition made possible
through the holding of an important
office by a member of the council-is
placing too much power in the hands
of one man and is in violation of the
spirit of government. Supreme courts,
county boards, city councils, all such
bodies, are made up with odd num-
bers in membership in order to avoid
a deadlock and to prevent unfair ma
Yet in Walla Walla that wise safe
guarding of the public welfare is de-
stroyed by just such a condition as
exists in the city council.
1t is to the mayor the people look to
correct so patent an evil.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
GO UP THE PIPE LINE,
Mayor and Water Committee Make
Hurried Trip up River.

Mayor Kellough and the three men,
bers of the water committee, Council
men Bridges, Kirkman and Mexican,
made a flying trip along the new pipe
line this morning. The party left the
city at $50 this morning and drove
to the John Miller place, returning
shortly before noon.
although the work seems to be
going along as fast as possible there
is considerable yet to be done in the
way of refilling the ditch line and
clearing up the roads, said Council
man Bridges, this afternoon.
"This is the first time 1 have been
on the line for several weeks and
wanted to see just how things are
progressing"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
AGED HORSE Thief IS CAUGHT
James Burkhardt, Veteran of Civil
War, is In City Jail Charged
With Stealing a Horse.

Almost three-score years of age, a
veteran of the civil war, James Burk-
hardt lies in the city Jail today
charged with horse stealing.
He has been working for Mordo Nc
Donald on his ranch four miles south
west of the city and yesterday came
in on one of the fine saddle horses be-
longing to his employer. He took the
animal to the Pioneer stable about
o'clock last evening and attempted to
sell it. He claimed that he had rid
den the horse from Montana and had
a whole band up there
The material and manner of his
conversation excited the suspicion of
the hoped-for purchasers and they
sent for, the police who nabbed the
ey-whiskered thief just as he was
about to sign bill of sale for the an
imal for the sum of $40.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10

legislatures to choose senators. The
important fact is that in many states
they are being obeyed.
In the cities of this country we
have too many examples of the fragrant
pushing of public service corpora
tions in elections. They have their
agents out to secure the return of
friendly aldermen, mayors and attor-
neys. They claim to be only protect
Ing themselves against the return of
men who would blackmail them, but
it is noticeable that it is the corpora
lions which are getting something
over and above what they are entitled
to which manifest this protective ac-
tivity. No corporation which is giving
service under laws which guarantee it
only an adequate return on the CAPT.
tai invested is wild to own the council.
1t is the men who fear some of their
velvet may be taken away who are
phere Of the council.
The way to keep the public service
corporations out Of politics would seem
to be to give them just and remunera-
tive contracts under such regulations
as will protect them and the people.
They will then have little or no incen-
tive to mingle with politics, and no po-
litical party will find it advantageous
to have gas magnate on its national
committee or a railroad counsel chair
man of it's central committee.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
FOUND DYING IN HIS ROOM
CONTINUED from First page.)

for me off and on for several years. 1
have paid him over $4,000 in the past
seven years all put together. He
would work a while and then when he
was paid off would quit and spend his
money. How he spent it don't know
as he did not smoke or drink and had
no bad habits. He was great hand
to speculate, always had some scheme
for making money. But the poor old
man generally got left and the other
fellow got the money. Last Friday
he told me he was going to start UP
restaurant at No. 9 North Fourth
street with a new partner. 1 joshed
with him about it and that is the last
1 ever saw of him."
Was a FiIibuster.
1t is thought that Gregg was a ma
tive of England and learned the trade
of engineer under that flag. He was
also a sailor in early life.
There is a story that Gregg was a
filibuster in the Cuban Ten Years
War. While in prison there he saw
the execution of the crew of the U.
S. S. Virginius, December IS, 1873
when the captain and SO sailors were
shot in cold blood.
The only known relative of Gregg,
who is living, is his old mother She
lived with him formerly on North
Fourth street, but became an inmate
of the Stubblefeld Home about two
yehrs ago.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
Too Bitter a Dose.
St Paul Pioneer Press

Mr.. Bryan is too laxative. Already
bitter for many to swallow. The nat
ural reaction from Outbursts of this
low to offend the common sense Of
thoughtful men, the gradual change
temper which is likely to take place
in two-years, to say nothing of unfore-
or raise up some new idol, may de-
feat his nomination and render the
chances of his election even more re-
mote than they are today.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
Record of One Forty-Acre Farm.

neCoTu OF One FoTIy -ACTe VaT"'
The 4O-acre fruit farm of w. 1.
Harmon Of Fruitvale, is probably one
Of the best paying farms in the state
of Washington. AS an example OF
what a fruit farm is worth in the "a
kima valley, the Harmon ranch may
be safely pointed to as an accepted
criterion of the great wealth repre-
scented in one of them.
Three years ago this place sold for
$4,000 little less than $500 an acre
Today it could not be bought for $780,
600. It's fruit consists of peaches, ap-
pies and grapes. While not all of the
peach crop has been harvested more
than $4,000 worth of peaches have
been sold this year.
In the neighborhood of 1000 boxes OF
apples will be picked this year, and
these will no doubt average 81 pei
box, which is 25 cents less than Mr.
Harmon realized last season. Apples
will be cheaper this fall.
Mr.. Harmon expects to sell about
$500 worth of grapes. Therefore the
gross receipts of the ranch this sea-
son will exceed $12, OOO.-Yakima Re-
public.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
TAYLOR IN THE PEN.
Davenport Forger Arrives Along With
Convict From Whitman County.

George Taylor, the Harrington forg-
err, who thanked Judge Warren of
Spokane, for showing leniency in SEN
fencing him to but five years in states
prison for passing bogus checks, was
brought to the penitentiary yesterday
afternoon by travelling guards.
Taylor was sentenced at Davenport
where he was captured after success
fully eluding the officers for several
weeks Travelling guards yesterday
evening brought w. w. Allison from
Colfax to serve one year for assault
with intent to commit felony.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
MYSTERIOUS ROBBERY AT BOISE
Burglars Ransaek Realestate Office
and Make Awav With VaIuabIes.

anu WAKE AWAY WIN VaIudOIeS.
Mystery wells the robbery which was
committed in the Office of Roberts &
Hill, the Boise real estate dealers, last
Monday night, and while the police are
following up certain clews which they
hope will unravel the enigma, no sus-
poets have been arrested says the
Idaho Statesman.
Having picked the lock on the door
of the office in the Bank of Commerce
building, solved the combination of the
safe, and then picked the lock of the
inner apartment of the safe, the thief
escaped with checks aggregating in
value $500 and with 5000 in gold.
Steps were Immediately taken to stop
payment of the checks on Boise banks.
There were a number of drafts among
the lot, also.
The opening of the safe was a COM
paratively similar operation. The out
er combination was easily solved, and
the lock inside the safe, protecting the
money and checks, required only a
knife or a screwdriver to pick The
outer door of the Office, too, was opened
by the same means. 1t is thought that
a Boise thief is responsible for the
robbery, and one familiar with the
premises.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
New Variety of Wheat and Apple.

A report from Waterville, this state,
says that a new variety of wheat has
been found to do we'll in the Big
Bend country 1t is in the posses
sion of Kent Norris, a rancher near
that place. The name Of the wheat
is not known and Mr.. Norris only
raised a half bushel this year. The
original seed came from Spain. Mil
ling men who have seen the grain as
raised on Big Bend soil say that it is
of even better milling grade than the
famous bluestem.
The same report says that on his
upland fruit ranch near Buckingham
j. S. Phillips has succeeded in pro-
ducing a new variety of apple which
it is thought will prove of great val.
lie to fruit growers on upland ranches
The apple is very large, with white
meat, and skin streaked with red. It
is said to be of exceedingly fine flavor
and is suitable for cooking and eating
The tree is only four years old from
the seed and bore sixty pounds of
fruit this year. Samples have been
sent, it is said, to the bureau of po-
mology at Washington, D. c. for class
ification.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
REBELS ARE REPORTED DEFEATED
Cuban Government Claims q vic+or,,
Before Pinar Del Rio Which is
Now to be Attacked,

HAVANA, Sept. 1O.-An official buI
letin today claims that in the battle.
at Pinar Del Rio yesterday the govern
ment was victorious. Avalos rescueo
the government train and defeated the
rebels, the latter losing 200 men.
The government forces are Approach
ing to attack Pinar Del Rio which
Guerrero still holds.
Another Report.
HAVANA, Sept. 10.-The govern.
ment claim of victory is unsubsran-
tiated. All reports indicate the re-
bells have the best of the situation in
Pinar Del Rio.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
STRIkEBREAKERS RETURN.
San Francisco Company Ships Far.
Iey's Men Back to New York.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 1O.-The
United Railways this morning
shipped $50 Farley strikebreakers back
to New York. Seven hundred are
still here and it is expected further
shipments will follow as the company
has no use for them with a peaceful
settlement by arbitration in sight.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10

General Fred Funston and a few of
his associates who We're interested in
land adjoining the American Lake
camp. were positive there could be
found no more ideal SITE But, Satur-
day, camp was hastily broken at Amer
lean Lake because of the rain and
cold which threatened the health of
the troops s
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
OIL QUERIES RESUMED.
Pierce Admits Holding of Standard
but Claims "Pure" Business.

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 1O.-Attornev Gen.
eral Hadley, today resumed the OH
inquiry before a special commissioner
The case is a continuation of the ous-
ter proceedings against the Standard
Oil, Waters Pierce, and Republic Oil
company. Pierce admitted the Stand
ard holds 2746 shares In the present
Waters-Pierce company, but pleaded
his business motives were pure.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
PittSburg Dispatch.

Comparison of Mr.. Bryan's speech
with the achievements of President
Roosevelt in dealing with the same
problems must be to the detriment of
the theorist and to the credit of the
man of action. 1t will not be surpris-
ing if the beginning of the decadence
of the third Bryan boom is dated from
his Homecoming address in Madison
Square garden.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10

The Statesman is in receipt of many
munications-verbal and oral
praising its impartiality in the matter
of giving the news fearlessly and ac-
knowledging no political dictatorship.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
FACTIONS GATHERING,
Ohio Republicans Are Lining Up for
Stiff Fight Tomorrow.

CANTON, o., Sept. 10.-The fac
lions of republicans are gathering to-
upon the result of which will decide
Ohio's attitude toward the presiden-
tial aspirations of Taft and Foraker.
1t is said the Foraker-Dick faction
will support Taft.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10

man feel sighted in the matter Of po-
litical preferment we would suggest
they may secure sufficient publicity
ty applying to Secretary VanDeWater
for jobs on the committee of awards
in the cooking department at the fair
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
FROM OYSTER BAY.
Politics, Luncheons and New Arrivals
Are Listed as Events.

OYSTER BAY, Sept. 1O.-President
Roosevelt and Governor Higgins were
in consultation today. The governor
hopes to secure the presidents en-
dOrsement for reelection.
Paul Morton was here to lunch with
Higgins and the president.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., arrived home
this morning.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-09-10
Shame, Shick!
Republic

Last week large display lines in the
dailies announced that the Sultan Of
Turkey was sick and must undergo an
operation. This caused an exchange to
cruelty remark, that, "All things con-
sidered, we presume the old fossil is
suffering from female troubles"