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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28
constantly reYOlY-

ing. When subscriber presses the but
ton message is conveyed to this revOlv-
ing Indicator. which passes it to an
automatic switch. of which there are
a number in each section, their work
corresponding to that of the telephone
girl who works on the manual switch
board. The number wanted Is spelled
out with remarkable rapidly by tbs
mechanical switches, and the decimal
indicator is free in a shorter time than
1t takes to tell the story to take up
other work as required. When there
are more calls than the number 0f
switches idle the calls are stored and
served to the first switches disengag-
ed without greater delay than a few
seconds at most, which is better treat-
ment than one usually receives from
the well intentioned but sometimes
involuntarily exasperating telephone
girl.
Should there be any crossing or
grounding of wires automatic notice
of it is Immediately given to the ex-
change: consequently the defect may
be remedied before even the subscrib-
er u aware OF It.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28
GOVERNMENT RED TAPE.

When the Hon. Eugene Wrayburn,
made famous by Dickens. received a
bill he carefully numbered and filed it
away. He said that next to having a
receipt the best thing was to have a
bill properly docketed, and as ne
never expected to have receipts, he
took particular pride and care with
the docketing of his accounts.
President Roosevelt, in his remarks
to the Keep commission, intimated a
similar ambition on the part of gov
ernmental officials. They come, in
time. the president said, to regard not
so much the case as "the papers in
the case as the all-important matter
with which to deal and to feel proud
sense of duty performed if all those
papers are appropriately dOcketed and
referred"
The president. being a man of ac-
ton. is not enamored of a system of
doing business too much entangled in
red tape. He wants each case arising
run through the mill in order, but
would like to have department chiefs
make specific recommendations so that
each incident as it arises may be in
diligently and swiftly dealt with.
OF course. this is the only way in
which the government machine may
be kept from clogging. 1t is what
everybody finds hard to accomplish.
The Keep commission was appointed
for the purpose not so much of trac-
ing specific abuses as of unraveling
the system Of accounting in the gov
eminent service. It's business is to
cut as far as possible straight paths
from cause to effect. In this effort it
has the sympathy and good will of ev-
erybody who has transacted business
with the federal government.
But not too much should be ex-
pected from the recommendations of
this commission. When all is said and
done, the vastness of the machine and
the necessity of a ponderous routine
remains.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

putting of the rate into effect until 1t
shall be judicially passed upon and
pending such adjudication, the rail-
road shall pay into court an amount
equal to the difference between its
rate and the commissions rate, the
back to the defendant in accordance
with the decision of the court.
The Spooner amendment, it was
other day. might be construed by the
courts as putting an extraordinary
burden upon a ltigant. The ordinary
practice is for an applicant for an in
junction to put up bond. me
Spooner amendment requires a cash
payment into court 1t might and prob
ly would be claimed by the railroads
that congress had not the power to
put them in a different class from
other litigants and they would sue
cessfully contest that portion of the
rate law which provided for cash
payments into court The railroads
would then have the rate law about
where they want it. 1t would be an
endless procession of never concluded
suits. The interstate commerce COM
mission now has some seventeen
years old and still hale and hearty and
good for six or eight appeals more.
If a railroad could actually be COM
PEELED to put up in court subject to
the order of Individual shippers, the
difference between it's rate and the
commissions rate one of two things
would happen. On account of the
amount of money rendered temporarily
useless, appeals would be promptly
prosecuted, or few would be brought.
The working of the Spooner amend
ment would be toward Fastening the
settlement of controversies between
carriers and shippers provided it
worked at ALL But we believe Sena-
tor Clapp stated a point well worth
considering by sincere friends of rate
legislation when he argued that it
would not work at all.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28
SAFEBLOWERS LOOT BANK,
Burglars Make Big Haul at NIAGARA
N. D., and Get Aaway on Handcar.

LARIMORE, N. D., March 2S.-The
Bank of Niagara, at Niagara, N. D.,
twelve miles west of here, was broken
into and robbed Of $3.50 at an early
hour this morning. Who the robbers
were, or how many were in the gang,
is not known, as nothing unusual was
noticed till the cashier David Kirk,
went to open the bank for the usual
transaction of business. He found
everything inside in a chaotic condi-
ton. books, papers. iron and tools
were scattered about in all directions.
An investigation reveals the fact
that the robbers had first gone to the
Great Northern handcar house. which
they broke into and secured tools con-
sisting of crowbars and hammers.
They then made their way to the rear
of the bank, where they removed a
storm window, after which they broke
the light out of the inside window,
and entered. They drilled a hole in
the vault, filled it with nitro-glycerine
and blew the outside door off. There
yet remained three more solid iron
doors for them to pass, which they did
with the aid of more nitro glycerine.
crowbars and hammers The COM
partment in which the money was
kept was wrecked
After the robbery, the men returned
to the handcar house, took out the
handcar and escaped on it. They
must have left the village going east
ward, as there was a strong wind
from the west against which it would
have been impossible to pump the car.
The bank carried insurance against
robbery and is amply protected against
all loss
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

TedUy III SO1ue
I places, and it is believed that ere long
she will be relegated to the domain OF
OutwOrn institutions, along with the
high wheeled bicycle and other devices
which in their day and generation serv
ed a good purpose, but which have
survived their usefulness. One i'm
provement has rapidly followed after
another In telephone construction and
operation in the last ten or fifteen
years, so that the methods now In
vogue at the exchanges in putting sub
scribers in communication are quite
different from what they were even
as late as the close Of the nineteenth
century. The introduction of the
common battery" system, which did
away with the old plan Of turning q
crank to ring up" person when q
telephone conversation was desired,
was great improvement. 1t Is much
more convenient simply to remove the
receiver from it's hook in calling cen
trail than 70 turn a crank. as the old
system, still in use in some places, ne
cessitated doing. The improvement
also occasioned a great saving in the
cost of installation of telephones.
The most radical change of all is that
introduced with the automatic eX-
change system, which substitutes for
the ''hello girls" an apparatus that
does everything but think, and that
seems to do even that. 1t makes the
operation obtaining telephone connec-
ton speedier and greatly reduces the
cost of maintaining a plant since no
large force Of operators need be en-
ployed. 1t also has an advantage in
that the two persons talking may be
assured of absolute secrecy. There Is
no possibility that some fair operator
ut the exchange switchboard with the
curiosity natural to her sex may be
listening, matter of special impor-
lance in the smaller towns, where ev-
erybody knows everybody else. Ac-
cording to the automatic system, which
is now in operation in several large
cities of both America and Europe, the
subscriber instead of calling up an op-
orator at the exchange and naming the
number he wishes pushes the pointers
of dial so that they stand over the
exact number required. He presses
the buttons, and the automatic ex-
change does the rest If the line Of
the subscriber called is busy the per-
son calling hears a buzzing sound
which notifies him of the fact. Other
wise he. hears the signal bell at the
other end of the line ringing and waits
until the call is answered. When
through he hangs up the receiver, as
in the old system; the two lines are
disconnected and free for other use.
At the telephone exchange instead Of
long switchboard with operators in
front of it there is a system Of me-
chanical devices electrically controlled.
The machinery to perform the opera
tons formerly executed by the 'hello
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

An Omaha physician declares that
our of 500 operations for appendicitis
in Omaha hospitals in the past year
not 10 per cent were real cases. The
appendicitis craze is in full swing but,
he says. the profession is not entirely
blamable as 1.-The people demand ope-
rations.' 1.-THE people" have consti-
on inside of them, and the surgeons
have a certain curiosity about it, too.
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before some congressman, anxious to
make political capital, thought of in
stigating the investigation.
While no charges against Judge
Humphrey are made, some exceeding
ly interesting and significant facts are
stated from which the reader may
draw his own conclusions.
1t, seems strange, too, that the gov
eminent is without the right of appeal
and here again congress appears tc
have been at fault in failing to enact
legislation urged repeatedly during
the past fifteen years by the depart
ment of justice.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28
Fighting Cinnamon.

Fighting Cinnamon.
Ever since Chinese Gordon made
as good troops as ever handled a gul
out Of the peace loving Celestials west.
ern people have been thankful thai
China was not in a way to raise W
Gorcons of her own. The Chinese have
produced good war leaders. There were
some to give a good account Of them.
selves In that TAPPING rebellion which
called Gordon to the field nearly fifty
years ago. And the men Of China
have proved their mettle in war with
out foreign tutors, as witness the rec
ord of the rebel rank and file in that
very uprising, which lasted eleven
years.
But China is not a military power.
Her regular army establishment has
been joke for century. The reason
is not far to seek, and it cannot be
argued from it that China is an impo
tent nation. Leaders of Chinese thought
tons. 1t has been their pride that the
civilization of China had progressed
beyond the gunpowder stage. Actuated
by dread of standing armies aud the
power of military navies, the usurping
Manchu rulers have fostered this
peaceful cult to the extent that mill.
tary character has long been held in
contempt by the philosophic Chinese.
But the Chinese masses are not saints
or towards. Whenever they have tax
en- notion to do things to their hated
rulers, native or forelgn-as, for in
stance, the French in the Tonquin-
they have been VIGOROUSLY willing to
fight. Recent accounts from China
show that the rulers have changed
their policy and are either leading or
falling in with the current of public
opinion In this matter of keeping
swords bright and powder dry" as the
kaiser puts it. Already China has a
corps, drilled and equipped up to date,
that would astonish Chinese" Gordon
could he see it at practice maneuvers.
1t comprises ten divisions of $4,000 to
10000 men, and the plan of the gov
eminent is to add corps after corps
until the nation is ready to fight at
moments notice the most puissant of
her neighbOrs. For officers she has an
endless supply of the gentlefolk, and
aii over China there are families or
clans, innumerable in extent and of
fighting blood, who will be glad to
swap the uncertainties Of a civil career
for the certainty of army pay and sup
port for life for themselves and their
families.
The old tradition about the fighting
capacity of the yellow races was not
alone cracked, but smashed, when the
laps punctured Russia's armor of sup
posed invincibility. Perhaps there is
more of the same kind of prowess in
Japan's limftless cousin. If so, China
may at an early day be Independent
and able to keep the peace at home
and defend her own territorial in
tegrity." Backward nations are a nui-
sance to nations still in movement, for
they tempt assaults and interfere with
the worlds progress. China strong
armed will no longer be the China rot
ting, which has periodically set the
far east in a turmoil since first her
ports were opened to the world.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28
THE SPPONER AMENDMENT

Senator SpOoner'S amendment 70
the railroad rate bill is said to be one
which will prevail because it will
land senators and also of such sena-
tors as Elkins. Foraker. Kean. Platt.
Depew and a number of others. both
republicans and democrats. who are
entirely opposed to rate legislation.
The Spooner amendment provides that
when the commission has on hearing
declared a rate unreasonable and has
substituted a new one. the railroad
and secure an injunction against the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28
America Can Stand Alone.

There was great deal of false infor-
nation disseminated in Germany con-
corning the trade relations of the
United States with that country. Near
iy every German who had not made a
personal investigation of the matter
was of the opinion that because the
volume of Germany's imports from
the United States exceeded her ex-
ports to this country we should be
appalled, at the idea of losing through a
trade war;. Now it has become neces-
sary for the government to explain
that under any circumstances Germany
would have to purchase certain raw
materials from us, while we could prac-
tically place an embargo on German
products without suffering any evil
consequences.
Foreign commercial circles are SLOW
~ learning that this country can be
isolated and yet live. Our resources
are so varied and so extensive that the
home commercial field is only half con-
quered. What we have heretofore
bought abroad we can manufacture at
home and even create a surplus for
export. This has happened before and
our perfect independence
of foreign markets.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28
LARGE ASPECT OF POLITICAL
LOOT.

District Attorney jerome is now
in a position where he will have
TO fish or cut bait in the matter of
the prosecution of the officials who de-
prived the policyholders of the insur-
ance companies of their property to
give it to political committees. Magis-
trate O'Sullivan has put it up to the
grand jury to inquire into the facts
and has instructed them that if they
find that the contributions were meant
to defraud the policyholders then the
crime of larceny has been commit
ted and George w. Perkins is guilty
of larceny, while Cornelius n. Bliss
and George B. Cortelyou are guilty of
receiving stolen goods.
The district attorney has declared,
that in his opinion there is no law
which governs the giving of such
contributions He admits that if
there was an intent to defraud it con-
stitutes larceny, but criminal intent
would be impossible to prove, in his
corporation, might give political con-
tributions with the most patriotic mo-
tives He might also give them with
the basest motives. Confronted with a
complaint the defendant would natur-
ally claim high patriotic resolve in his
parting with trust funds for the pur-
pose of bolstering a political cam
paign.
Whatever the legal aspect of these
contributions may be, their moral at
mOsphere is now we'll understood They
constitute the purchase price of IL
cense to rob. The trustees of the
three New York life insurance COM
panies paid both political parties and
in addition bribed the Legislature for
immunity from legal attack while they
stole the policy holders blind. That
IpllCNlolueTS cOulO De SCOlen pima
and yet the companies show up en-
tirely solvent seems like a contradict
tory proposition. but in the insurance
business it is not So The trustees
and their outside pals so handled the
surplus funds that the profits from
large ready money transactions found
their way into the pockets of the cabal
rather than into the treasures of the
companies. The policy holders pre-
miumS have been the foundation and
cash basis of tremendous loot. The
political payments merely guaranteed
that the loot should go on undisturbed.
Hamilton. Mccall McCurdy and all
others of their class We're but cogs in
the wheel. Morgan. Hartman. Ryan
and Rockefeller were the big winners
in the game.
1t may not be possible to convict
Perkins of larceny in court He is
already convicted in the country. What
is now needed is legislation which will
prevent his having a successor
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

Railroads in France have no chance
to curry favor with deputies and sena.
tors by handing out free passes. Every
legislator has an annual pass on every
railroad, under the law. The govern
ment deducts small sum from the
pay of the members for the pass, but
the railways get nothing. 1t Is also
the law that the president of France
ride free on all railroads, and the privi-
lege entails no kind of obligation on
his part toward the railroads.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

The annual conference of the Ma
tional Florence CrittentOn mission will
be held in Boston, April 1926. The
conference is called to consider the
best interests of the Florence Critten-
ton homes, of which there are now
sixty three, including four in foreign
at S,197.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

General Rennenkampf gives notice
that he will execute all of the 900
prisoners in his charge if any more
attempts are made on his life. In
case of a successful attempt he will
presumably have left orders with
his successor to kill a few hundred
innocent people.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

Figures prepared by Dun's Mercan-
tile Review show that the price Of arti-
cles Of food Is about the same now a.
In 1878. @hile that Of clothing is Z
trif1e lower. It now takes about 500
to buy as much as SOC would purchase
In 1878.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

Attorney General Hadley's gen.
erOus offer to call off the sheriff while
Rockefeller visits his grandson must
make Rockefeller, with all his money,
feel like smooth two-bit piece re-
jected at the bargain counter
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

Edwin Markham says that good
government is simply good housekeep-
ing. Then 1t follows as a matter Of
course that the average American we-
man would feel very much at home In
Office.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

Chicago is swearing in new police
men at the rate of sixty a day. How
this must stimulate the ''landing' en-
terpriseS of the aldermen
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

The Cleveland Leader is asking
the question, where did Cox get it?
and Cox, like Brer. Rabbit, che lay low
and say nuffin.'
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

Speaking of lucky politicians, what
do you think of the fortune of Cum
Minis in getting on a match with
Steve Elkins?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

The car is said to favor the tunnel
under Behring straits. The car may
have an eye for a line Of retreat.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

Perhaps Mrs. Bellamy Storer is the
exception which proves the rule that
American women are fine diplomatists
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

If there is screw loose anywhere
you have only to call Mr.. Lawson's
attention to it,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

A Frenchman, says the kaiser, is a
whirlwind of personality. The kaiser
himself is something of a French
man.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

What did Attorney General Moody
mean by calling the beef trust a
"nerveleSS" creation?
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AUTOMATIC PHONES:
.AEY ARE SUPFRsEDlNG THE "HELLO
GIRLS" IN POPULARITY.
The Substitution Mt Exchanges of an
Electrically Controlled and Self
Acting Apparatus For the Manual
SwitchbOar Is u Great Change.
+" HE telephone girl

as an individ-
ual may be q
charming crea-
ure a n d q
h a r d working
employee, but
as an abstract
proposition eX-
perts in to-
lephony have
long b e G n
seeking to do
away with her.
Indeed she has
be en- on e
away with al
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28
TOM EASCN,
Commissioner.
CLEMENT A. EVANS,
II. Commissioner.
]. C. MOORE,
State Warden.
August 10, 1904.
JOS. S. TURNER, TOM
Chairman,
GOODLOE YANCY,
Secretary.

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him day. weigh more than
in
humanity will
benefit
YOursv very
c..
combination digest
In to
dyspepsia remedies digest certain
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sold leading druggists everywhere
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girls" is divided
into sections. In
the case OF the
Paris system each
section Is capa-
BILE Of serving 100
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lines. The prin-
cipal part of each
section is an in
strument known
as a decimal in
dictator, which is
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-28

Entered at the Postoffice at Walla
WaIla, Washington as Second.class
Matter.
Bisbee daily review., 1906-01-07

quarter ne. quarter, section 8, town ship I6. s. P. 21 e.; $4eo.
 .t Miscellaneous Gamer Queen Con. Min. Co. leases to Harry Jennings lot on north side Main street, Bisbee, eoI1so 2 years; sse0o. ... D. W. Semple to Bank of Bisbce. mortgages l Babeoek cylinder press, 2 Gordon presses, 1 newspaper folder, i imposing stone, type cases and type, Bisbee Evening Miner plant. for s1sSs.s7. Bank Of Bisbee assigns to H. A Schwartz mortgage from D. W. Sem ple to Bank of Bisbee on Evening Miner plant for valuable considera- tions.
 E. S. Smith to Douglas Savings & l Loan Assn.-Gives trust deed, lots A 1 and 25. block 10i, Douglas; $500. Cyril E. Kenyon to Copper Queen Con. Min. Co. gives satisfaction of lease on lost 15 and Is. block 26, Douglas; s1.
 | hlneTS anu hitISHaAA1S LeA1N " ! Geo. Dunn, gives satisfaction of mort gage on lot south side of Main street,
 Bisbee, 12x55, used as Azurtite saloon,
 $550o.
 P. J. Murphy 10 NJ. J. Brophy, gives
 agreement for sale k interest in the
 Night Hawk claim, Warren district,
 consideration of premises. 1 Arthur Prospecting & Mining CO assigns agreement to T. R. Brandt
 Wm. Lott to William Campbell
 gives bill of sale of his interest in
 partnership property of Dyson & Lott known as Mandolin Club; s150. L. Dinkelspiel & Sons bring suit against Abe Goodwin to recover per
 sonal property, value $47L63, Bisbee
 Mrs. Laura B. Cooper gives satis faction of mortgage to Wm. Hughes
 s32S, on chattels in Hughes bldg Bisbee.
 | Anna Nj. Diven to Ben Franklin gives satisfaction of mortgage, slOO on lot 90. block 50, Douglas.
 International Gas & Light Co. tile
 articles of incorporation, capital stock
 s15O,00O, shares 1500 at s100 each; in corporators: A W. McPherson, w
 S. McCay, ". F. Nordhdlt, A. F. Gressher, and J. c. Webster. Prin cipal place of business, Bisbee.