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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
HAVE YOU SEEN POLITE BOY?
A Chesterfield is Wandering Afal
From His Home in Seattle.

Where is my wandering boy?" is
the query of Mr.. and Mrs. S. Chester
field of 1920 Yesler way, Seattle. Chief
of Police Brown has received a COM
m%unication from the parents Of young
Harry Chesterfield asking him to
look out for him here.
Young Chesterfield is only II years
of age n until June lived with his
parents in Seattle. He left there to
search for work and on July IA, his
parents received a letter from him
saying that he had work in the harvest
field.
They have not heard from him since
and his mother is terribly worried
about him. Inquiries are being insti-
tuted in all the principal cities of
Washington and Walla Walla is asked
to keep an eye open for him, He
weighs about $50 pounds, has dark
wavy hair and dark eyes, the right
one being slightly crossed.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
Amsden's 2oscian's Opera.

The Roscian singers will return for
two nights next week and sing the
everlasting beautiful Mascot" and the
musical cocktail in three acts, 1.-The
Governors Wife" The company will
finish their engagement of twelve per-
formances in Spokane and come here
for two nights next Tuesday and
Wednesday and all will remember that
prince of opera comedians, Claude
Amsden, and the jolly Coincidence,
Miss Hazel Davenport, and in fact
nearly all of the old members of the
Roscians are with the attraction and
it will be one of the musical events
of the season as they had crowded
houses the last time they were here
and gave such splendid satisfaction
our music lovers will be delighted to
nave them return. Seats on sale at the
box office.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
One Ccntenarian In 127 900.

The labors of Sir George Murray
Humphry proved that there is about
one centenarian to every $4,000 peo-
pie and that of seventy authenticated
cases no n reached 40 years, three
only are said to have been 1OS and
one 1O6. The full exercises Of the va
riOCs powers. mental and bodily, is
conducive to great age, SO that there
need be no fear Of entering heartily,
actively and with full interest and
energy into the assigned work Of life,
physical or mental. The inhabitants Of
any countryside, as in Delabole in
North Cornwall. point with pride to
the number of hale and hearty Octo-
genarianS, nOnagenarians and cente-
narians living among them as an evil
dence of their healthy environment and
hygienic lives. SO in Paris. with its
1O,5O9 Octogenarians and $40 homage
narians, 80 of whom are approaching
their hundredth year. Six inhabitants
Of Paris are more than 102 years Of
age.-London Hospital.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
RIG HOLIDAY SEASON.

Although retail business in the city
has been somewhat light In holiuay
lines for the past week or So uue
chiefly to Thanksgiving preparations
there is every indication that the COM
ing holiday trade will be as large Ut
larger. than that of any previous year.
All of the merchants have SHOWN d
great deal of optimism Tor tnls
seasons bushes and there is every
| likelihood tina their great expecta-
| lions will be fully realized.
There is no reason why this should
| not be a most successful trading per-
| iod. Walla Walla has been prosper
Gus. ner people have been well sup
nIiad with work. at wages higher, in
many lines, than have ever before
been paid. Frugality and thrift have
resulted in the placing of almost every
| family in a position to reap the bene-
fits through wide Christmas purchas-
es. There has been comparatively
little sickness and no epidemics to cast
gloom over the approaching festal
dawson the contrary there are many
things for which the people may re-
joice.
The enterprising merchants OF the
city have secured the eastern and Eu-
ropean marts for the choicest collec-
tions of goods and wares and today
Walla Walla is as we'll stocked as any
of the larger cities of the northwest.
The purchases made were with a fore
sight which has brought prices with
in the reach of every one, with even
advantages over the buyers of less
fortunate cities. Never has Walla
Walla been better prepared tor a sue
cessful holiday season. Never Will
the purchasers have better opportun-
tiles for securing rare presents at ex-
ceptionally low prices.
They are all there in the big stores
of the city-everything-frOm a tooth
brush to a big sealskin, or a flashing
diamond.
And. with the SPLENDID advertising
being done, they will all be sold.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
TrajIn's Column.

Professor Boni, the Italian archaeolO-
gist, has just completed his greatest
undertaking. the restoration of Ira.
JAMS column. this task having consist
ed in replacing no fewer than fifteen
pieces of marble which had fallen out
of their places in the column, thus
menacing Il possible collapse of the en-
tire structure. The grotto beneath the
monument has also now been filled in,
giving the whole Il firmer hold on its
foundations. so that no untoward col
lapse may ever be feared in the future.
The loosening of the restored portions
had been occasioned by the fall of the
bronze statue of the Emperor Trajan
which SurmOunted the column.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
GRAFT TRIAL PROCEEDS
Tools Didn't Know They Were In.
finging on the Law.

OMAHA, Neb. Dec. efforts were
made by the defendants in the land
froud cases this morning to show that
the secret service men intimidated the
entrymen.
Witnesses denied this and said they
didn't intend to settle but defendants
offered a lease at $50 per year and $500
when the proved up.
The agent TOLD them that this leas-
ing for grazing purposes complied with
the law demanding improvements. The
testimony showed that the defendants
laid the expenses of entrymen, in
droves at the land office.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
To-Day IS ELECTION DAY
Do You Know That a School EIec-
ton Is Being Held IN the City?
Few Know or Care.

What is probably the quietest
school %elevtion ever occurring in Wal
la Walla is being held this afternoon.
The polls were opened at Sharpstein,
Lincoln, Washington anu Baker scnOol
buildings at 1 o'clock, but up to three
o'clock the total number of votes cast
in the foul wards would probably not
exceed 100.
Gilbert Hunt and DR.. N. . BlalOck,
whose terms as directors expire today
are the only candidates to succeed
themselves which accounts for the lit
tie interest being taken in the election.
Bith directors will serve three year
terms.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
A Short Way With Rir,,.

The ameer of A~fghanistan. who u,,,
witness a military demonstration in
which $4,000 troops will take mar,
when he visits India during the wintor
was married, while he was still ,i,,lo
more than a boy, to seven wives eac,,
the daughter Of a powerful chief ~
now has four wives. the eldest =,
whom is a shrew whose fierce out.
breaks his highness is said to bear with
almost Christian fortitude. She bos
killed with her W hands three of No,
slaves whom she caught flirting with
her august lord. and she disfiguros
those whose physical attractions nigh,
appeal to him. In appearance the amaer
IS a broad. rather clumslly built mar
with a tendency to Southwestern.
locker.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
Paris Literary Haunt Cono

The Librarie Nouvelle of Paris has
just closed its doors. 1t was founded
in 1S49, at the corner Of the Boulevard
DIES 1taliens and the Rue de Grammont
and had a brilliant career. One of is
finest productions was the first collected
edition Of the complete works of Bal.
FAC. During the second empire and the
first years Of the third republic the
place was frequented by all the noted
literary men of the epoch, who chatted
and turned over the books.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
The CauaGiNn Boom.

Consul General j. G.. Foster of OF:
tawa reports that the number of i'm.
migrants entering Canada during the
fiscal year 1906 was 10000, an in.
crease of ~, 1913 over 1905. The emf.
grants from the United States number.
ed 1919, OF 14,2G7 more than in 1905
1t is said that each British immigrant
costs Canada $13. At that rate Canada
got $75O,OOO worth of emigrants from
the United States for much less cost in
advertising, free fares, etc. Farmers
and servants from the continent Of Eu-
rope cost the government S. each.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

The world only knows Danton as the
embodiment Of brutal ferocity, or, as
he liked to call it, ~"audacity." There
has, however, just been published fol
the first time the inventory of the sale
of his household effects after his execu.
ton, which throws some Of the better
light of simplicity upon the character
of the butcher Of the Terror. Whatever
else lie may have been, Danton appears
to have been no money making revolu-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
UNCLE SANS NAVY.
The Attractions 1t Now Offers to
Bright Young Men.

The Attractions 1t Now Oher TO
Bright Young Men.
The new law opening to the sailors
the 4 of promotion to the COM
missioned ranks will have a-tendency
to attract the better class of our youth
who are ambitious and whose circum-
stances have barred them from Oppor-
tunitieS for advancement in other OIL
rections. In 1901 congress authorized
the secretary of the navy to commits
sion each year twelve sailors as war
rant officers. To receive this promotion
a sailor must be less than thirty years
old, must. have been in the service
seven years, served one year as a first
class petty officer and pass an examlna-
ton upon the theoretical part OF his
calling. This latter requirement rem
Gers it necessary for him to devote his
spare time to study. If he succeeds in
this test he is given a tentative ap-
pointment as gunner bOatSwain, car
Denter Oh warrant machiniSt, n this
duty being satisfactorily performed for
n year he becomes a warrant officer
at $1,000 per year sea pay, with an in
crease of 500 each year for three
years. The fourth year his salary is
$1,000 and after twelve years service
reaches $1,000. At sixty-twO years of
age he is retired on three-fourths pay
for life.
Those whose ambition reaches be-
yOnd the warrant officer can have it
satisfied through faithful and intelli-
gent attention to duty. as, after four
years service in that capacity, the as
pirant is eligible to a commission if
recommended by his commanding Off
Ger and upon passing another examina-
ton. A bright and studious young
man entering the navy as a sailor at
seventeen may in twelve or fifteen
years become a commissioned officer
and retire at siXty-two with the rank
Of captain.-Joseph Jenkins in Leslie's
Weekly.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
PASSWORDS AT THE BANKS
A Secret Sign Given Those Who Can
not Write Their Names

not Write Their Names.
The banks give secret passwords to
depositOrs who cannot read or write.
When n of these depositors goes to
draw out money the cashier leans for.
ward and whispers:
"What's your password?"
The depositor whispers an answer,
the money is paid out.
In a bank the other day a negro wo-
man sat upon a bench, her face indicat.
ing intense application of mind. The
cashier nodded toward her and said:
"She's forgotten her password and is
trying to think of it. She came to the
window awhile g and wanted to get
some money. She only wanted a small
amount. But she can't write. She's
one Of quite a number of our depositors
who are given passwords when they
open an account. When she came in l
asked her to give her name and adj
dress. She answered right up. What's
your password? | asked her.
"'M-m.' she exclaimed, pursuing her
lips, let me see. Amt dat peculiar!
Hit done escaped nah mind now
"'Can't you think of it?' 1 said. You
know l can't pay the money until you
give me the PASSWORD
lord, honey she exclaimed, Abs
mighty nigh dat money! But All jes'
can't member hit now
"'Well, sit down and think it over !
suggested to her. 1t may come to
you"
In a few minutes the old woman
arose with a happy look upon her face
and went up to the cashiers window.
She put her face as far inside the mar
row window as she could and whis.
pered:
abraham Linkun."
Correct" answered the cashier, and
he paid her the money she was after.
"Ah jes' couldn't place dat mans
name at first" she said as she went
out.-Kansas City Star.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

Nothing ear be more beautiful. more
inspiring. than the knowledge that
residents of the outside districts are
wrestling earnestly with the knotty
problem Of annexation and trying. I'M
s~elishly, to decide which is the better
conditton-evcn to the point of fervent
prayers 10 be guided Alright in seeking,
OF not seeking, police protection and
h comforts of the anti expectoraton
ordinance.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
ORPHEUM PRIZE WINNERS.

The prize winners at the New Or
pheum last night we're: Miss Ruth
Kreps, a pair of opera glasses, Miss
Edith Koontz, a mandolin, Miss Laura
Lehn, a pair Of opera glasses and a
razor, Miss Lille Mullis, a mandolin,
Ira Stovall, a razor and l.. 1T: Fry, a
razor.
The lucky ones at the second perform
ance were: Mrs. Bennett, a razor
Mrs. Moser, a pair Of opera glasses
Mr.. Elmer Stewart, a razor, Mr.. Geo
Strand, a razor.
Notwithstanding the fact that next
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

Monday will inaugurate high class
dramatic entertainments at the New
Orpheum, Manager Leavitt has decid-
ed to continue, for a time at least, the
regular Friday night presentations,
and for the next two Fridays he will
do the Santa Claus act by giving to
each patron of the theater a nice pres,
ent.
The Ella Wilson company is con-
coded to be the strongest dramatic
organization now in the west. They
come directly from the Grand Opera
house, Salt Lake City, Utah.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

@|&1A
A $1O,OOO,OOO PRIZE.

You Can Earn 1t by Reversing a Sim
pie Chemical Formula.
II any ambitious young man would
like to earn $4,000, 900 next year he
has a chance. The world will gladly
pay him that or even more If he will
show how to make india rubber cheap
ly. All he has to do is to reverse o
we'll known chemical reaction.
Any freshman chemist can do it-on
paper. This is all there is to it:
2C5HS=C1oH16
MISUNDERSTANDING.
It has been known for sixty years
that heating caoutchouc gave isOprene,
but nobody knows how to reverse the
process.
1t is not impossible. In fact, it has
been done on a small scale, for isO-
prene allowed to stand a long time i'll
the laboratory has spontaneously
changed into caOutchOuc. If, then, II
could accelerate and complete the
process the main difficulty would be
overcome, for isoprene can be made
from %turpentine.
Then, says the Independent. the rub
Der industry would be transferred from
the forests of Brazil to our own pine
WOODS. provided, Of course, the manu-
facture were cheap enough.
Chemists can do a great many things
that they do not because it does not
INV Thov nm nron11fo ofr,ro ~,vir;ro
artifcially, but the process is too *
pensive to be profitable.
On the other hand. Germany has
snatched from India an industry worth
many millions Il year by the discovery
of an economical process for the manu-
facture Of indigo. 1t is cheaper and
better to make it than to raise it.
Such will probably be the case with
rubber. although it's present high price
is not likely to last much longer. The
jump in price came from the sudden
demand caused by many new uses.
The natives of Brazil could keep us
in gum shoes and rain coats by their
slow process of tapping the trees,
catching the juice in little clay cups
and boiling it down over a wood fire,
but now that the world is using 10000
tons of rubber a year and is calling for
more all sorts Of eXpedients have been
practiced.
Rubber goods were weighted and
adulterated until they cracked and
crumbled at a touch. Old rubber was
carefully collected and reworked, but
it never could be made to regain it's
youthful elasticity and vigor.
The increased demand has been met
in various ways. 1t was found that
nearly all paints with milky juice, such
as the poppy. contained caoutchouc-at
least in small quantities-and from
some of them it could be profitably eX-
tracted.
Instead of waiting for the caOutchouc |
to rise slowly, like cream. from the
milky juice or collecting it by rude
and dirty methods of coagulatiOn. the
centrifugal separator was introduced
and a much purer product quickly OBJ
tanned. Countries possessing suitable
tropical colonies established extensive
rubber plantations.
The Para rubber tree begins to yield
when six or seven years old, and al
ready the cultivated rubber is becom-
ing an important factor. Within seven
years it is expected that the product of
the trees now planted in Ceylon and
the Malay states will reach between
10, 900 and 100000 pounds a year
and in double that time will be five
times as great, or as much as is nov
yielded by the Amazon forests.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
WIRELESS FLASHES BIRTH.
Baby is Named After Ship and Doctor
On Vessel

NEW ORLEANS. Dec When the
steamer COnchoa was lis miles off the
southwest pass the wireless operator
flashed the news of the birth aboard
the vessel of a son to John Trippet's
wife. The couple are enroute to San
Francisco, via Galveston. The baby
was named Conchoa Light Trippet in
honor of the vessel and the physician.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
AIemen Resigns.

HAVANA, Dec. las part of the
program to embarrass Magoon's ad-
m~inistration, Alemen, governor OF
Santa Clara province has resigned
Magoon ordered Alemen to correct
abuses practiced by him during the
Palma regime.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

1t is the woman's way of it-that ad-
dress, by a, woman speaker at the an
neNation meeting yesterday, declaring
people dissatisfied with the suburbs,
when she knows-cruel thing-there
isn't a house for rent in the whole
town.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

These are the days when huge skCl-
etons, decorating the center of the
coagulated cranberrieS, make the I'M
happy p~aterfamilias turn with horror
from the contemplation of Thanksgiv-
ing courses. -
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

zionist. He lived with his fafbrr-n~
In a poor sort Of house at Sevres oa,
his effects are set down at three cow.
two pigs. twenty fowls. twenty
pairs OF pigeons. some bacon. boIf -
dozen hams. an old coach, "a SIN, !,
consisting of an old donkey. and furri.
ture that the sale price showed 70 ~
poor. Not much to lose a head for
London Globe.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
h Really COsfs-

"But don't the repairs on your au-
tomobile cost you a great deal?" we
questioned.
NO." he replied as he perused his
expense book. 1.-The fact is, the cost
of the repairs is nothing compared
with the cost of hauling the machine
to the repair shop.'-DetrOit Tribune.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

Judge Brents is going to Tacoma af-
ter Christmas to hold court. If the
people of the watched" city are wise
they will get up a good horse with
which to win his honOr's affections.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

all the demands of an intellectual au-
dience. Mr.. Griffith's success in other
Shakespearian roles has been consid-
cradle, and he will be welcomed by
theater goers who patroniz and appre-
ciate the highest class of theatrical Of
ferings.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
Masked Riders Hold Up Train,

EVANSVILLE, Ind, Dec. 1.-When
the Illinois Central freight train ar
rived this morning it was said mask
ed riders held them at Princeton, XIV.
while they burned the tobacco stem
meries and fired a volley after them
when the train was released. The
crew thought h entire town was
fired when they pulled out.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
Georges Game

Anastasia-Don't you play cards at
all?
1nnocentia-No. but George says he's
going to teach me after we're married
Anastasia-I suppose he'll teach YOU
casino or euchre first.
1nnocentia-No. He says there's a
perfectly fascinating game called sol.
itaire. "-CathOlic Standard and Times
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

That Spokane hog, hardly fully di-
gested the remnants of the last fair
feast, is now asking Walla Walla and
other inland towns to aid in making a
greater Spokane for next year.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

One week from next Monday we shall
sell u Alpine staff, our toe calks and
our gum bootS-and alter our mode
of travel to conform to the rules and
regulations of the Walla Walla Trac-
ton company's new electric transport
tatiOn system.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

The demonstration OF the values of
a certain hair grower in the city of
the city at present recalls the old
camp cry of the volunteers in the
Spanish-Amercan war-"Hair on you
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

Before starting out those new cars
December 10, Manager Allen should
have each hand strap carefully and
thoroughly tested, put up the red
nounCe positively that women NAV be
permitted to stand up if they so de-
sire.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
Spoiled In the Making,

Mature designed me as a poet re-
marked the visitor, handing over a
manuscript.
"Ah! May l ask what seemed to in
terfere with natures plan" replied the
editor, returning the paper.-Ridgway's
Magazine.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

Miss MabelIe .Biggart should not
leave Walla Walla without interview
ing Frank Reese and some of the city
else she loses considerable local
color"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

Dear "Bunc:"-We of the editorial
staff drew our pay today and were not
given blue envelopes. And the checks
were signed with the same old fist.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

From now on III til the 18th inst,
that proud papa will be busily engaged
in buying himself Christmas Icesents
twice-and paying for them about four
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

That famous t~rotting mare, Sweet
Marie, 2:02, sold yesterday for $4,000.
She's too sweet for us. ,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01

Those two San Francisco lads, hit by
bricks from a falling wall, tumbled.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
Before Taking.

But 1 thought" complained the Sit
ter, "that you gave your customers
thirty days time"
eve merely permit them to believe
that SO they will look pleasant" re
piled the Observation-Disclosures Post
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-12-01
ADJUSTMENTS
GRIFFITH AS "klNG RicHARD.'

This NOSE excellent tragedian, by
many leading critics regarded as the
best living interpreter of Shakespeare's
strenuous king Richard aided by a
company and equipment that will fill