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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-12
MAY WITHDRAW COAL LANDS
Government May be Compelled to
Stop Filings
PROTECTION WANTED AGAINST MONOPOLY
PLANNED TO RETAIN THE FEE IN
LANDS IN THE Westerly
STATES.
PROTECTION WANTED AGAINST MONOPOLY

WASHINGTON, D. c., June ~
Withdrawal from entry of all gov
eminent coal lands preparatory to the
formulation of legislation that will in
sure perpetually their protection
against monopoly and combination, is
to be the next move of the Roosevelt
program. The attorney general is now
engaged in an investigation of the
subject for the purpose of informing
the president just now far he has au-
thority to proceed under existing stat
utes. The initial action is likely to be
taken soon-at least before the ad-
journment of the present session of
congress.
There are about 100000 acres of
government coal lands situated
throughout the western states and ter
ritories, in Colorado, Washington, Wy
oming, Oregon, Idaho, Indian Terri
tory. New Mexico and Arizona and les
ser tracts elsewhere. 1t is estimated
that the present bituminOus fields of
production in the east may become
exhausted within the lifetime of per-
sons now living and already the coal
combinations have their eyes upon the
west
The president began to study the
ed to the suspected scheme by which
railroads We're going to get control of
the rich coal lands in the Indian ter
ritory at the time the Five Tribes
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-12
City News In Brief.


Charles Lawrence, a well known
Athena resident is at the Wallt. Walla
hospital receiving medical treatment.
a. T. Cope, NJ. NJ. Hart and j. L.
CoWell, appointed to appraise the es-
tate of the late Sarah A. THOMPSON
met at the Sharpstein law offices this
morning and listed the Walla Walla
property.
j. f. Wilson, administrator of the
estate of Bessie Mckinney deceased
has filed his final account and asked
that he be discharged as administra-
tor after proper hearing. The date of
the hearing was set for June 26.
Mordo Mcdonald last night received
a shipment of horses from Pendleton.
purchased in Umatilla county for the
Walla Walla trade The shipment in
cluded several fine craft horses.
Add city news brief
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-12

nished rooms for housekeeping. APP
ply to city electrician at City Hall.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-12
MEAD IsHAv|NG H|STROUBLES
Will Be Taken TO Task By Grand
Army Men
CLAIMED He WAS PLAYING POLITICS
FOR SUFFERERS IN SAN
FRANCISCO DISASTER.

Governor Mead will have to answer
to Grand Army men for his betrayal
cisco relief work The final report of
Commander in Chief ]. T. Goss, show
ing 1922 the sum the gubernatorial
dragnet was able to gather, reveals
just what Grand Army men from the
start insisted it was to disclose-a
financial inability to respond to the
call, says the Seattle Times. All the
Grand Army posts of the state had
been able to contribute was turned
over to local relief committees days
before Governor Mead pilloried the or
ganization. The executive. had he
given even casual heed to the regular
reports of the states charitable re-
spOnses, must have known that the
veterans had drained their treasures
for the California sufferers. The time
was most propitious for a raid upon
the well known reputation of the vet
Grams for charity, and the executive
made it.
Grand Army men, in their indict-
ment against the governor, show that
no other organization in the state was
subjected to the attack made upon
the veterans Governor Mead did not
summon the executive of any other
order save the Grand Army at Olym-
pia His scheme of collecting a state
fund went no further than a betrayal
of Commander in Chief Gloss into es-
tablishing headquarters at Olympia
where he would be in plain view of the
public and then calling upon depleted
treasures for another sacrifice. OBJ
viously the mission must fail, and
Grand Army men from the start in
sisted that Governor Mead must have
known it.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-12
City News In Brief

Cards are out announcing the we'd
ding of Miss Maude Talbot to Charles
l.. Dickens at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Casey. 507 Poplar street
Sunday, June Il. Mr.. Dickens is
popular employe of the O. r. & n
and the bride to be is well known
Walla Walla girl
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-12
No Saving in Result.

None of the asylum officials believe
an actual saving of money will result
from this economy. 1t is asserted the
nIatron has saved, in careful admins
tration, an amount several times equal
TO her salary each month. The stew
ards careful administration has WELD
ed economy. If both offices are neg
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-12

\ young son of Mr.. and Mrs Will
liam Esselstyn. operated on for appen-
dicitis at st. Mary's hospital Sunday
is doing nicely. Doctors Suttner and
Boyle. performed the operation. The
appendix when removed was found
To be over six inches in length. some
thing almost unheard of in the case
of a child.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-12
Put in False Light.

The publication of the contribution
ranks, was another blunder on the
part of Commander Giss, and either a
mistake or deliberate expose on the
part of the governor 1t does not re-
fleet the true condition In Grand Army
circles, nor does it give credit to the
order for the charitable and prompt
response made by the veterans for San
Francisco relief
In Seattle every Grand Army post,
each organization of the Women's Re-
lief corps, and each circle of the La
dies of the G. A. R. responded imme-
diately to the call for help from San
Francisco. Not one of them figures
in the report the executive allows the
public to read. Not one is quoted, be-
cause not one waited for tardy exec
utive to appeal for funds. Each had
heard the call of distress and contrib
uted funds days before the executive
summoned Commander Goss to Olym-
pia for his part in the plot.
From the $3.50 contributed by the
Loyal Legion every Seattle veteran
organization made sacrifices for the
needy of California, ranging down to
the $25 contribution of Mckinley cir
Gle, Ladies of the G. A. r., and the
contributions of clothing Sexton WO-
mems Relief corps made. One relief
cOrps-the Stevens cOrps-appropriat-
ed 500, and then for days at the Ar
lington hotel maintained headquarters
for the gathering of clothing and 9TH
er contributions. The Union Veterans
union, the political organization of the
veterans, Miller, Stevens, Sexton and
Green Lake posts, all contributed, yet
none figure in the showing Governor
Mead gives out as the charity Of the
Grand Army of the state.
The same story is told in dispatches
from other places as printed in the
Times.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-12

Col, Thomas Fisher. Chinese inspec-
tor for the Walla Walla district is in
Pomeroy on official business this week
Observer Newman recorded one
hundredths of an inch of rain as a
result of the storm that passed over
Walla Walla last night. making a to-
tai rainfall for the month of 80 of an
inch and increasing the excess for the
year to 40 of an inch
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-06-12

James Tiderington, the East Main
street grocer. who fell off his bicycle
Sunday and sustained a broken leg
and other injuries. is getting along
nicely at the Walla Walla hospital
Mr.. TideringtOn is of the opinion that
an unkind fate is pursuing him as
within the past year he has sustained
a discolated thumb, had blood poison
ing. had a severe attack of typhoid
fever and an operation for appended
tbs. finally winding up With Sundays
accident.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08

ephones as never before. Isolation is a
thing of the past. Modern equipment
and furnishings make his home the
best III the world His children are
offered improved opportunities for edu-
cation; the rural delivery brings to his
door daily literature Of the highest
class; he is a ravenotls reader. AS his
power to purchase increases his ap-
proaches the most comfortable and
happy ideal American home.
'In the production of these immense
crops the farmer faced peculiar condi
tions. His fields We're not always GOV
cred with sunshine and his pathway
was not strewn with roses. The early
part of the season was beset with many
adverse circumstances that tried the
iron heart of the sturdy plowman. How
ever, this extraordinary harvest was
not so much due to meteorological con-
ditions as to the skill. energy and sci
entific methods pursued by the farmers
themselves. There is no place in the
world where agricultural practices
have reached so high scale of develop
ment as in the United States.
"The American farmer has not been
handicapped by the traditions of cen
turies as have the farmers of the old
world. He has been steadily hoeing
his own row. With the help of the gov
ernment and state experts at the agrf-
cultural colleges and experiment sta
tions and the dissemination of scientific
knowledgeand the exchange of practical
experiences through the agricultural
press the farmers have advanced more
rapidly in technical, specific and prac-
teal knowledge than any other class.
A generation ago a season no more ia
vorable than that experienced in 1905,
from meteorological standpoint, would
have resulted in only a moderate crop
yield, far short of the present magnifi-
cent showing.
Although nature was by no means in
a generous mood the past season, our
farmers have wrested from her results
that would have been impossible, even
under the most favored conditions, In
the days of their sires or grandsires."
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08
The CITY MAN.
His Lot In Life Compared with THAT
of the Farmer.

According to the National Magazine.
n IN in the cities work twice as hard
as the farmers, and they get few or no
holidays. Thousands and thousands OF
professional men, clerks and men in
small business enterprises delve and
toll their entire lives away and at the
end are carted out to the cemeteries
without having had any more leisure
Or enjoyment in their lives than horse
on treadmill. The rut they toll along
in is as narrow as case knife" This
Is not the farmers view of the city
man, whom lie sees only during vaca-
ton, when the city man is taking
brief and much needed rest. The farm
er sees him sporting his glad rags"
and mistakenly imagines him to be all
the year round only an idle butterfly,
consuming the produce of the horny
handed son of toll. The truth, it is
held, is that the city man. as rule, is
the harder worker and gets much Less
enjoyment out of life. He longs for the
rural scenes and occupations of the
farmer; his dearest hope is to get back
to the country to spend his last years.
a few of the city folks make a big lot
of money and get their fullies and
amusements 10 the newspapers. but the
great majority of city toilers live a
very monotonoBs and stupid as well as
very laborious and poverty stricken
life. The farmer, it is concluded, has
''the real thing" while the city man
has only barren aspirations and disap-
pointments. The contented farmer is
not only the wisest but the happiest
of mankind Baltimore Sun.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08
Red Sea Pearls.

Pearl fisheries, of which the world
hears little, but which constitute con.
siderable industry, are carried on at
the Lohia islands, in the lower end of
the Red sea. Very few of these pearls
find their way to European or Ameri-
almost absorbs the output. Pearls are
the most popular of all gems among
the inhabitants Of India and Arabia
and it is seldom that native woman
of any social position is seen without
pearl ornaments of some kind, either
finger rings, earrings or rings for the
nose, and even the feet.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08
SARCASTIC DEAN SWIFT.
Rules and Directions For Servants
That He Wrote.

Rules and Directions For Servants
That He Wrote.
There was a servant problem when
Dean Swift was alive Just as there is
today, and he died IN 1745. In his
"Rules and Directions For Servants"
he wrote: when you have broken all
your earthen vessels below stairs
which is usually done in a week, the
copper pot will do as well 1t can
boil milk. heat porridge, hold small
beer. Apply it indifferently to all these
uses, but never wash or scour it, And
again: '1f you want paper to SINCE a
fowl, tear the first book you see about
the house. Wipe your shoes, for want
Of clout, on the bottom of a curtain
or damask napkin" In roasting
and boiling" he goes on, "use none but
the large Goals and save the small ones
for the fires above stairs" Another
touch that might have been written to-
day is the following: when a butler
cleans the plate leave the whiting
plainly to be seen in all the ehinks, for
fear your lady should not believe you
had cleaned it" Once more: There
are several ways of putting out a
candle. You may run the candle end
against the wainscot, which puts the
snuff out immediately; you may lay it
on the ground and tread the snuff out
with your foot; you may hold it up
side down until it is choked in its
own grease or cram it into the socket
of the candlestick; you may whirl 1t
round in your hand till it goes out"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08
SLAVERY IN CHINA.
Savage Cruelty Melted Out For the
Most VeniaI Offenses.

Says an editorial in the Peking
Times: THE position of the slave girl
in Chinese home is a very hard one as
rule. These slaves are generally the
property of the wife, and no one inter
feres with the mistress in her treat
ment of the poor little things, who will
as often as not be subjected to the
most savage cruelty for most venial Of
fenses. A few weeks ago we recall q
case of great hardship being brought
into the mixed court, Shanghai, in
which small slave girl had been gag
ged with piece of iron and severely
beaten because, when half starved, she
helped herself to some scraps of food.
Our attention has now been called
to piercing cries which emanate from
house near Canton road and are said to
proceed from little slave girl who for
some reason is beaten almost daily
with a thick knotted rope, but for what
reason is unknown
"Our informant thinks a word in
public, showing that the incident has
been noticed, may suffice to check tie
cruelty without lodging formal COM
plaint with the municipal police, which
might make matters worse for the poor
little sufferer il: the long run"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08
Temperature and BUTTERFLIES.

Some remarkably interesting expert
ments are reported from Zurich show
ing the effect of temperature on the de-.
velopment of species among butter
flies. The experiments have been con-
tinued through period Of about four
teen years, and it is found, for instance.
that the common small tortoise shell
butterfly if subjected to warmth Of
from 81 degrees to 80 degrees cent?
grade develops into the variety found
in Sardinia, while those bred in a tenn
perature Of from degrees to 6 degrees
produce the Lapland variety. Similar
ly the application of heat produced the
Sandman form of the swallowtail but
terfly and the Syrian form of the
Apollo
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08
The Vocal Cords.

Vocal power depends on the vocal
cords. When they are stretched, SO
narrowing the exit from the air pas
sage, the voice is high pitched. When
they are pulled widely asunder the
voice is deep. When they are flaccid
the voice is nearly lost. OF course,
voices vary individually in pitch and
resonance, but power Is always af
fected by the state of the general
health, and, broadly speaking, loss Of
nerve tone is more often responsible
than anything else for vocal weakness.
Fast living, mental strain and similar
conditions occasion such impairment
of the nervous system. Breathing foul
air, especially air saturated with to-
bacco smoke, is bad for the cords.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08

GLAD TO SEE YOU so WE'LL SITUATED.
Rnce that the thing is impossible. It's
matter OF some delicacy and one that
couldn't discuss with a stranger
oertrand looked obviously across the
&esk at the white haired, ruddy old
an' VINO was beginning with nervous
users TO unloose the cord around a
auare' thin packet. When the wrap
as was removed there appeared a
ane or white cardboard with a de-
sn m colors and gilt inclosing pho
slapn which upon inspection proved
II oe reproduction of detail from a
ncng of Chartran's, a Brittany peas
|Aands. = - net
,ms thing seems to be valentine"
- tne detective, 'if one may Judge
.,r uie design upon the frame"
inats what it is" responded Bal
' ana a fine one, as you'll admit
n uaugnter got it by mail yesterday,
want you to find out who sent
ns,as l.sands 8 mouth and eyes expressed
palnful ssu, amazement
q uls m Is indeed a-a somewhat deli
yo, nia'ter' as you intimated,' he said.
essod ask whether Charlotte has ex-
oosn,. wish that should do this?
4sha 81 sne know who sent it?"
que says she doesn't"
thaa snail ask for no further evidence
snt az !. point," responded Bertrand.
IN nere q, was another question:
lat vor ae =, hasn't expressed a wish
N So"a sua snouid Investigate this matter
kataS Sesnt n know that it is being inyes-
6ty n tr out am doing only my plain
= uying to find out whether tbez
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08

purchaser in the salesman's memory.
At any rate, we'll try"
He called up four Of the stores with
out result, but from the fifth he obtain
ed favorable reply.
"They have sent for the salesgirl,"
said Bertrand. Suppose you speak
with her." And Bailey, who was al
ready leaning across the desk, snatched
the telephone eagerly.
"Hello!' he cried after a brief inter-
val Of impatience. "Hello Are you
the young lady who sold valentine to
man who wanted to paste a photo
graph into it? What did he look
like? Very handsome? Yes.
Go on. Light hair and blue
eyes. !" You say he didn't have
any mustache or beard. What? Spell
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08
The Trail
Of .
Valentine
By HOWARD FIELDING
Copyright, 1905, by Charles w. Hooke

ww n was a surprise to Mr.. Bailey tnat
III the office of detective agency
n should present an aspect so whole
some and so ordinary. He had
,iotured it a shabby den Of tricksters
whose trade was deservedly i'll paid,
ond he had come upon an impulse
wholly at variance with the usual cur
rents of his life, dreading to be seen on
.,,ob an errand and sinking in at the
.troet door in the manner of man
who makes his first distressful visit to
pawn shop.
Mr.. Bailey was one of those men in
whose knowledge of life there are
HANK spaces. In his case these gaps
were due to obstinacy. When he had a
nreiudice against person, place or
an occupation he seemed deliberately
10 cultivate ignorance and to shun in
formation, as if upon scruple of con-
science. Because of this popularity his
notion of a detectives share in the
worlds activities had become constant
" more absurd from the day when he
fjTSC dIIGulpIGu " AlSpuddC q NC1 t6AAA
Young man from choosing that profess
sion. To this young man he had now
come as a client, surely at the spur of
DO small need.
Upon the receipt Of Mr.. Bailey's card
Harley Bertrand dropped half read
letter and made all haste to usher in
bis visitor. The obvious sincerity Of
the welcome went far to relieve Mr..
Bailey of embarrassment, and the busi-
nesslike appearance of the inner Office
helped still further to put him at his
ease
"Harley," said he, somewhat in the
manner of the old days when he was
legal guardian to Bertrand and distant
ly affectionate- Harley, I'm glad to
see you so well situated. You must be
getting on
pretty well, l thank you, Uncle
n John" responded Bertrand. "And how
\ Is 1t with you? At least you've grown
4 no older in the year since I've seen
4 you"
TT needn't have been so long," said
y Bailey. I'm afraid you took our diff
& ferences too much to heart and thought
Il that Ter Well, you might have
known that I didn't want you to stop
81 coming to the house."
81 "It's very kind of you to say so'
q "Tm frank and outspoken,'' continued
Bailey defensively, "and don't like
n your occupation. That's a fact that
n can't be altered, but we needn't quarrel
about it. Well be debarred from that
q In future anyway, because I've come to
& consult you professionally. which may
seem to put me out Of the argument
N Unless fail to help you," said Ber-
trand
# We'll, I'm bound to admit that if you
#fall | can't blame you," responded Bal
ley I'm prepared to hear you say at
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08
Went For a soldier.

At one of the London police courts a
young hooligan was being tried for an
assault on an elderly man. The mag
istrate, noticing an old customer in the
hooligan, thought he would give him a
little fatherly advice. and remarked:
Young man, I'm surprised at big,
strong, healthy looking fellow like you
always getting into trouble. Why, you
seem to be always wanting to fight.
Why don't you go for a soldiers"
Imagine the smile which illuminated
the magistrates face when the youth
replied, 81 did once, your honor, and
he nearly killed me-"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08
His Practical View.

A certain sweet faced grandmother
Is sometimes startled by the up-to-date-
ness of her grandchildren The other
day she was telling the youngest Of
them, boy five years DID, the story Of
Lot. She showed him the pictures of
the wicked cities of the plains envel-
oped in the fire from heaven. The lit
tie chap gazed at the pictured confla-
grafton and then asked:
"WereN they insured ?"-New York
Press.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08
The Highest Bedroom.

On the summit of Mont Blanc is the.
highest bedroom in the world 1t was
built for Alpinists who have been over
taken by storm on the summit or
have lost their way in the SHOWS. A
large camp bed occupies all the floor CT
the room, and can contain twenty-five
persons. Every stick and stone had to
be carried up by porters from Chamo-
nix The work of construction. which
lasted two years, was dangerous to the
workmen. During its erection the
building was demolished twice and
filed with snow nine times.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08
He Won the Trick.

"Oh, George dear" she whispered
when he slipped the engagement ring
on her tapering finger, "how sweet Of
you to remember just the sort of stone
l preferred! None of the others WAS
ever so thoughtful"
George was staggered but for mo-
ment Then he came back with, "Ncs
at all, dear; you overrate me. This is
the one I've always used"
She was inconsistent enough to cry
about it.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08
What She would Do.

"Johnnie, DEAR" said his mother, who
was trying to inculcate lesson in in
dustry, what do you suppose mamma
would do for you if you should come to-
her some day and tell her that you
loved your studies?' click me for
telling a falsehood' said dear little
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08
A Great sinner.

The Doctor-Yes; that's the sort of
man Beings is. The neighbors say he
cheats the gas company by tapping a
pipe in his basement. and he lies about
the ages of his children to keep from
having to send them to school. The
Professor-Then he sins against both
light and knowledge. Chicago Tribune
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08

The secret of many a mans success
is an affablc manner, which makes ey-
erybody feel easy in his presence, dis
peIs fear and timidity and calls out the
finest qualities in ones nature.--Suc-
cess Magazine.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1906-02-08
HAIL TO THE FARMER
Wonder of the Age, Says Pro-
fessor w. G. Johnson.
BILLIONS PRODUCED FROM THE SOIL

Crops of Two Years Worth More
Than Yield of Gold In Four Hum
dred Years, Says American Agri-
Yankee Husbandman Is Real Dicta-
tor of World of Commerce.