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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
MAYOR A CRATER.
Charge Made Against a California
Executive.

LOS ANGELES, Calf. Feb. al
Mayor Rufus Emo, of Long Beach.
held under five thousand dollars bail
for trial in the superior court today on
the charges of accepting a bride of
1926 from an architec in connection
with the building of wharf and pavil-
ion.
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infirmities inherent in the judgment
of any one man had made an assess
ment that many other men, property
owners in the same district. considered
obviously unequal and unfair. If we
these troubles for the city admins
tration will be done away with in the
future
Again, the city has tremendous inter
ests at stake in the forthcoming as
sessment. The last roll appraised the
taxable property in the city limits at
about one-third of the valuation Of the
whole county, and we nave seen that
the assessor aims at about 40 per cent
valuation for the city. Was this per
cent held up uniformly for county val
uations? Every man that has talked
self, have personal knowledge Of many
instances where valuations of county
property are far below this; in fact,
1 doubt if the county would show
uniform appraisement of even 25 per
cent and certainly the inequalities are
amazing. Now, the city had to pay
state and county taxes on this 40 per
cent basis, and in addition pay the
whole city tax, and it is apparent that
every interest of the city taxpayer is
strenuously for as nearly an equalized
roll as can be made. There are tnou-
sand other reasons for making this
roll which will be apparent to you on
reflection, but the limits of this letter
forbid me to enumerate them.
Tentative Plan Suggested.
Now, as a tentative plan to set the
movement going, and as something to
work on until you gentlemen can de-
wise a thoroughly good scheme that
will accomplish this object, 1 wish to
make you this suggestion: That the
Commercial club appoint committee
of it's ablest fairest, most experienced
members, members who are willing to
do real hard, painstaking work, to act
in conjunction with a committee of the
council, or to be appointed by the
county commissioners, in studying the
assessments now being made, and in
securing a basis of uniformity for the
new roll 1t might be advisable to
follow the plan adopted by the assessor
in selecting field deputies, and appoint
special committees whose knowledge
of localities, or classes of property
gives them special fitness to advise
as to valuations in sucn localities, or of
such classes. Then let that commit
tee go to work now; make a copy of
the roll and all entries thereon, and
study them continuously so that con-
illusions will not have to be hastily
made a day Or two before the board of
commissioners sits to equalize, but let
every detail be carefully worked out
ready to present in business-like
manner, and with orderly arrangement
and accuracy, ready for the calm and
impartial consideration of the board.
This is a big undertaking, and it will
cost considerable money, and unremit-
ting hard work by the committee, but
if the end can even approximately be
attained, it will be the best investment
of time and money the people of the
county and especially the city have
ever made. Such an assessment when
once made, will serve as a basis of flu
ture assessments for an indefinite time
and We certainly should use every rea-
sonable endeavor to secure it.
H. S. BLANFORD.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
Talking machines. Victor, Edison
Columbia Zanophone at Stanley's.
mar.

No Pill Is as pleasant and positive as
DeWitt's Little Early Risers. These
Famous Little Pills are so mild and
effective that children. delicate Ladies
and weak people enjoy their cleansing
effect. while strong people say they
are the best liver pills sold. Never
grippe Sold by L. L. Tallman.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21

PITTSBURG, Pa, Feb. 21-Presi-
dent John Mitchell Of the Miners un-
ion, arrived here this morning for a
conference with the committee in
charge of the fight to GUST Dolan from
the presidency of this district.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
MITCHELL PREDICTS GREAT STRIKE
Says 1t Will Soon Be Stern Reality
in the Bituminous Dis
tricts.

PITTSBURG, Feb. 21.-Mitchell says
the affairs of the New York confer
ence are progressing smoothly, and it
won't be necessary to reconvene the ma
tional convention of miners.
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Past Assessments Unequal.

1t is matter of the cOmmOneSt
who pays taxes, that the present and
all past assessments are VIGOROUSLY
unequal. 1t is also a fact, known to
ALL that no taxpayer ever objects to
paying mis- proportion of the taxes
when he believes he is assessed equal
ly, on a fair proportion of value, as
MS neighbors in the same community
or on the same class of property. Now,
as we are making a complete, new as
sessment roll and valuation; as the as
sesor is trying to appraise on a uni
form so per cent basis, cannot the
Commercial club devise a plan that
will assure the public that there is no
partially or favoritism; no glaring In
CAPABILITIES such as have characterized
the preceding rolls? You have in your
membership the representative men of
all business, trades and occupations;
men whose judgment is sound; men
whose regulations for fairness emf
nently fit them to arbitrate and decide
the question of equality of assessments
and appraisements for purposes of tax
alton. Can you not induce such MEM
bers to undertake, as a special COM
mittee, the most important task of
carefully studying the assessment roll
in order to bring about an impartial
The inequality of assessed valuation
in the city of Walla Walla on the pres
ent roll are simply intolerable. Per-
haps, as an officer of the city having
special information and trouble over
these alleged assessments, l am unduly
impressed by their want of uniformity,
but l venture to state the following
facts. believing that the public yer
dict" on the evidence will bear me
out The city is constantly creating
local assessment districts to make
street improvements. Every assess
sessment roll, especially made for the
local assessment; why? Because the
the inequality, and low basis Of valua-
ton of the regular tax roll, makes it
entirely unfit as a basis upon which to
assess the costs uniformly for making
the Improvement Now, the regular
tax roll should be so uniform and just
that when a local improvement dis
trict was formed, the tax roll should
be copied and used as the appraise-
ment for the special taxes for making
the Improvement
Difficulty in Assessment.
Most of our people will remember
what difficulty the city had to get a
uniform assessment for the purpose
of levying the cost of the first blocks
of asphalt pavement laid in Walla
Walla. The council and a special COM
mittee of citizens labored long and ear
nestly to make that roll, and it finally !
IN -D1 - l.
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Mahr Case.

In the court yesterday afternoon
two demurrers were argued and taken
under Amusement in the damage case
cific Railroad company. Mcdonald &
Rupp represented the plaintiff and
Lester S. Wilson the defendant.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21

Highest excellence In String Instru-
ments. Washburn. Regal. Stuart, At
Stanley's, % Main st. Phone 265.
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Two Cases Dismissed.

Personal damage suits begun by N.
o. Peterson and Minerva HALEY
against the O. r. & n. were formally
dismissed and stricken from the court
docket this morning. both cases hav-
ing been settled out Of court some time
ago. The two suits, however, still ap-
peared on the records and their dis
missal this morning was merely to
clear the records.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-21
Railroad Gases Occupy Attention
Of the Officials.
DAMAGE SUITS were DISMISSED
NELSON PETERSON AND MINER.
VA HALEY REACH SETTLE
MENT WITH O. r. e. N.

The case of the o. r. & n. against
Marcus Zugur, the WaitSburg rancher,
in which the plaintiffs began an action
to compel the defendant TO maintain
his fences and gates, adjoining the O..
R. & N. right of way, in repair, came
up in the federal court this morning
on a motion of the plaintiff to strike
certain paragraphs from the defend
ants answer. The motion was grant
ed by Judge Whitson and the case will
probably come to trial at the next term
of court. The o. r. & n. is suing fol-
damages.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-14

. In Idaho certain officers OF the West
ern Federation of Miners are under
indictment, charged with conspiracy,
acts of violence to property and murder.
They are alleged to have maintained
the agitation which for several years
has kept a large section of the country
virtually in a state Of war. The prep
aration of the charges against them
has occupied a long time, and they are
now awaiting trial in the regular course
of the administration of justice. Since
their arrest a movement has started
among those who believe them innocent
to aid in their defence. To obtain
assistance in this project one Of their
sympathizers appeared Sunday before
the Central Federated Union and made
a talk, in the course of which he said:
We must prevent the execution OF these men:
we must prevent this deathblow to organized
labor. Every union man should be in sympathy
with these men and should aid them. no matter
what their political afNIstions. II MoYER and
Axwoo are hanged and any man is then afraid
to shoulder a gun to fight for the rights of his class
that man Is q coward"
The author of these sentiments is one
Of the very few Socialists who have
. been elected to public executive office in
this country and a leader in his political
faction. 1t is clear that he regards the
legal punishment of a unionist convicted
of crime committed in the name of a
trade organization Is a blow to or
ganized labor, regardless Of the guilt or
innocence of the accused. In this opinion
he is not more completely in error than
in his assumption that murderers, dyna-
miters and conspirators against the
peace Of the community are worthy
representatives of the trade unions, and
that to defend such against the law is the
moral duty of every unionist to shoulder
a gun to fight for the rights of his class.
The "class" to which unionists belong
is not criminal and lawbreaking, al
though such orators as Sundays speaker
seem to believe it is.
Loose talk, wild threats and the like
come @om a good many of the noisy,
glib memb9@ Of trade Unions, and
they do the organizations not a little
harm. The most rabid a~nti-unionist
does not injure the objects Of his attack
so much in public opinion as one of these
chosen spokesman, who seeks to identify
labor" with all that is most detestable
in human nature.
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nIasATfsE1ED VOTES.
Faults and Shortcomings OF the New York
Blanket Ballet.

To THE EDITOR OF TEE SUN-Sr: Noticing
In this mornings sur Henry G. Howiana .
lette q gainst the Australian ballot. apd having
a decided opinion against It also. write 70
do what | can toward getting the voters 10
change the system.
know farmers in this town who won't 20
to the polls because Of the annoyance Oh tue
Australian ballot. Others who cannot reau
and are ashamed to admit 1t before the crown
refuse to vote. They do not deserve inc
privilege from their want Of self-respect ana
patriot ism In not learning; still. this mean
ballot DISTINGUISHES them. A young man
lost his vote last election by marking IL wrong
In his nervous fiuster over II.
Again, It is no protection against buying
votes. One way they have OF knowing that
the vote seller voted as he agreed to Is TINS.
When the clerk who receives the ballot from
the voter is q Democrat and the buyer ls also.
he gives the clerk q sign as one OF fW0;
which the clerk marks on the ballot WnlIe ne
SSIIots ara nep beih Is Soanted e aftef the polls are
closed, the marked ballots are examlneu ano
II found correct the seller gets his purchase
My vote would be for the voting. machine,
II those now made are not perfect. then kSep
on until we get perfect ones-no matter ~ apye
correct returns. as well as convenience. |
saw a blind man vote a split ticket correctiS
In one. ~
The man whose patriotism is so low e 70 icy
him sell his vote is so low. as to make him
worthless as a citizen. He is merely a WORK
AssiS; have a law passed gESa as| IL ANN an
elected ONCE, This would stop the bidding
n dG5 votes in the coming e. sie asHnr T NoTr. In
KATRHE March 10.
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by any eurtailment OF railway receipts,
but that is composed Of hundreds Of
thousands of railway employees, hun
dreds of thousands Of large and small
investors, of men who mine iron for
rails and wheels and boiler tubes, of
foresters who cut wood for car building,
of operatives in mills which furnish the
cotton waste which the engineer uses to
wipe his machinery, Of glass factory
hands who make glass for car windows
and lantern globes, of men who make
picks and shovels and hammers and
saws, and of an endless chain Of en-
ployers and wage earne rs whose industry
is in whole Or in part dependent upon
railway activity and prosperity.
Precisely the same line Of argument
may be pursued in almost every depart
ment of our national legislation. No
law can be passed which will suit every
body. The shipper wants a law which
will permit him to fix the price Of trans
portation. Labor wants to regulate
hours and terms for labor. These are
all Special Interests seeking their own
selfish and special ends, The great
public itself is the representative Of an
endlessly complex and conflicting mass
of Special Interests, impossible Of ad-
justment to the satisfaction Of all.
No important legislation m before
Congress that is not made a subject of
special investigation and hearings, usd-
ally public, before committees. Legis-
lators receive letters by scores and
hundreds advocating or condemning
the measures under consideration. The
President sees fit to urge some measure
which in his judgment would be Of
public advantage. The public hears the
noise which is made in support OF it.
Some of this noise Is made by sound
and reasoning intelligence, but some of
it comes from unthinking ~partisanship.
The public does not sec the mountain
ofindividual protest mailed to legislators.
Yet between these influences the Con-
gresham must decide. 1t is all a on
hict of Special Interests.
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The New American College.


At the annual luncheon of the New
York alumne of Cornell University in
this town q few days ago DR.. ANDREW
ID. WHITE spoke in favor of coeducation
for our higher academic institutions.
Incidentally he compared the conduct
of the 1000 students at Cornell to-day
with college behavior a few decades ago,
while I was at Yale said the distin-
guished speaker, two Of the college
officers were almost killed and several
deaths resulted from the conflict OF the
students with the town boys. l think
that the improvement Is due to the fact
that students are buster now"
DR.. WHITE graduated from Yale with
the class Of SO. Since the campus days
Of the "old grads" Of the sos and eos
remarkable changes have indeed marked
the development Of American education.
The college Of 800 students has now
become = university Of 5000. The
faculty that then boosted a dozen pro-
fessors Ii 10Y numbered in three figures.
New grounds have been acquired, new
buildings erected; libraries and muse
inns have increased in number as in
value; graduate schools have been or
ganized, and along with these and count
less other details Of material expansion
and the introduction Of new methods
and machinery of instruction, has pro-
ceeded the broadening of the under
graduate horizon.
The representative alumnus of twenty
or more years standing sometimes regards
the undergraduate Of to-day as a degen-
crate creature, and mourns the changes
that mock him when he ~revisits the
campus during term time. The under
graduate reoiprocates-so far as he
bothers himself with the matter at all
by considering the grad" as an idle
singer of an empty day
The college life of to-day offers more
freedom than that of an earlier genera
ton, with less Of license. In place of
the ~smouldering spirit Of hostility be-
tween teacher and student, there is
a definite and strong tendency to CO.
operation. The undergraduate commu-
nifty has grown in responsibility as much
as in numbers, and the development Of a
dignified community spirit has worked
out into a fine system Of real self-gov-
eminent. Town and gown" riots are a
decided exception, if they occur at all;
and nine-tenths of the disorder attrib-
uted to collegians is the work of mas
~queraders. The multitudinous activi-
ties Of modern college life keep a man
too busy for rowdyism.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-14
IMPRoYEp rRArFIc MULES.
Mounted Men for Both River ErOnts-Vcxs
atlous Restrictions Withdrawn.

Inspector John Flood, acting under
\ orders from COMMISSIONS Bingham. has
been making a very thorough investigation
into the workings of the traffic squad, As a
result of the Inspectors recommendations
IN the Commissioner several changes have
been made. The first change occurred
about two weeks ago when Gen. Bingham
cut the squad by taking eighty-one men
from IL. Several other changes were an
nounced yesterday.
West street, one Of the heaviest trucking
lines in the city, is to have six mounted
men to handle the traffic from Tenth street
to Battery place.
On South street three mounted posts have
been created.
To furnish these nin men streets and
avenues which are broad and where con-
Restion Of traffic seldom occurs are to have
the mounted men taken away and foot
policemen substituted. The mounted posts
abolished are:
Eleventh avenue from Twenty-third 10
T~hirty-fourth street; Whitehall street,
from South street TO Beaver street; Twenty
third street, from Ninth avenue to the North
River; Forty-seoond street, from west side
Of Fifth avenue to the North River. This
last change does not affect the mounted
men at Fifth avenue and Forty-second
street "a at Broadway and Forty-second
street.
-Four more mounted men have also been
cant to cover the long posts in The Bronx.
Under Commissioner McAdoo a traffic
regulation was established at the Fifth
avenue entrance to Central Park, which
required all southbound traffic coming out
Of the Park to 20 down to Fifty-eighth
street and around the Plaza before turning
into the Fifth avenue traffic, either north or
s%outhbound, Under that rule the carriage
entrance to the Park at Fifth avenue and
Sixty-irst street was made almost useless,
and drivers were forced to go several blocks
downtown before they were allowed 10
return north. Property owners along the
avenue and the Hackmen's Association APP
pealed to Commissioner MoAdoo to change
this ruling. A public hearing was held at
Police Headquarters, but Capt. Stephen
O'Brisn, then head OF the Traffic Squad,
had his way and McAdoo refused to change
the order. Gen. Bingham has decided that
the regulation is too complicated and has
abolished it. Carriages. going north out OF
the Park can now use the Sixty-first street
entrance.
Another Mchdoo rule was that between
the hours of 8 O'Clock and 5 o'clock in the
afternoon traffic coming west to Broadway
could not use Thirty-fifth street, but had TO
20 through Thirty-sixth street.
Commissioner Bingham has abolished
that order and Herald Square westbound
traffic can now come through Thirty-fifth
street at all hours.
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che citizens Of New York that a Nurses
Commission is the thing they need2
True, such a commission Is not wanted
by nurses, physicians, Oh the public;true,
it could do no good, could accomplish
nothing and would probably open new.
opportunities for political oppression and
financial graft; but are such small matters
to be allowed to interfere with the crea-
ton of fat jobs for the faithful?
The end and aim of legislation is the
establishment Of easy berths for the
politically inclined SOM of rest, and we
breed a race Of statesmen who under
stand their duties completely.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-14
ICE CREAM AND WHISKEY.
Two Articles In which New York 10 De-
cIared 10 He Swtndled.

To THE EDITOR OF TIE SUS-!Sfr: Why do your
famous New York restaurants serve up such q
miserable quality of ice cream! In all other arti-
Giles OF food one gets something like what he pays
for, but when It comes 10 ice cream It's different.
The price these restaurants exact for this delicacy.
thirty cents a portion. certainly ought TO secure
something OF O superior kind.
As a matter OF fact. all OF them serve up an ex-
tremely hard frozen substance with a taste some
thing like -four. The havoriDg o! the same Is OF
the remotest kind. Possibly the Ice cream chefs
OF these establishments proceed on the theory that
by the time the diner reaches the dessert he Will
know very little about quality anyhow. The ordl
nary country Ice cream "parlor" puts up o better
article OF ice cream every day In the week than the
places In your city TO which ] have reference. I
can certainly say that there are three or four places
in New Jersey that can lay 1t all over any OF the big
restaurants Of New York when 1t comes to serving
up ice cream that Is Ice cream.
The fault OF the matter lies in your restaurant
keepers using poor ingredients. Ice cream, in.
stead OF being frozen 10 a standstill like 1t Is served
In New York, ought TO be a little mellow" As
long as people keep on eating this sort OF Ice cream
7 suppose the restaurants look upon II as being
too good a thing to substitute a better article.
Il is about like the whiskey that Is sold In New
York's barrooms. II certainly would be a strange
sight 10 see a fresh bottle OF a prominent brand
opened. 1t Is pathetic TO hear a man ask for a
certain particular brand. II either suggests that
he Is mighty gulllble or that he doesn't know good
WhlSkcy from DAD. Oue VI VI Huht pioTllntHi
barrooms In the Tenderloin was detected a few
years ago In rennlng the bottles OF a famous Scotch
whiskey. The "spotter" used a ring With a scratcher
on 1t, and he found that the bottles were renlled
until the labels were almost worn on, Now this
cafe takes revenge by not keeping this brand
OF Scotch. In almost any other town this decep-
tion would have been enough to put the place out
OF bu sin ess, but not so In New York.
| am told that this place does the best bar bust
ness OF any on Broadway. and 1t certainly shows
it. At any hour OF the day from 10 O'Clock In the
morning to midnight four bartenders are almost
constantly busy. A man is in the last stages of
idiocy 70 ask for any particular whiskcy in this
place. The only way, anyhow, TO order whiskey in
q New York cafe is TO ask for Just plain Scotch or
rye. You then have the satisfaction OF knowing
that You haven't been the victim of a confidence
game in asking for a particular article which you
never get. II also gives the bartender less trouble,
as he doesn't have 10 hunt around and find a bottle
labelled according 10 your order. ANON.
ELIZA BETH, March 10.