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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
That North African Plum.

The Belgian papers recently publish
ed a statement Of the commerce of Mo-
rocco with the principal European ma
lions in 1904, and it appears evident
that there is something more than SEN
timent at the bottom of the lively in
terest recently stirred up about the
future spanking privileges in the land
Of the naughty Moor. Previous to 1904
the trade Of France and England with
Morocco was large and increasing,
while Germany fell behind. In 1904.
however. the commerce Of France and
England declined, while that Of Ger
many increased over % per cent.
Germany is the only commercial
country whose trade with Morocco in
creased in 1904. French and English
imports from Morocco have about dou-
bled their exports to that country, and
the export trade Of Germany has been
fully double that of her imports, that
country seeming to control export trade
formerly going to Spain. The United
States appears as seller in the Moroc-
co market, but not as a buyer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
Americans at Work and Play.

President ]. ]. Hill of the Northern
Pacific Is big enough man among
the doors Of things to offer this genera
ton advice. and when he says that our
country resembles prodigal boy who
rapidly wastes his Inheritance he is en-
titled to a respectful hearing. The
way he puts it Is that we are turning
our natural resources into cash and
having a good time on that without
building up anything to take the place
Of the resources when they give out.
Another way to put it would be that
we are eating the golden egg, goose and
all.
There is some truth in this when ap-
piled to certain American people, but
only time can prove whether the entire
nation is guilty Of this economic sin.
We have been free with our timber,
coal. natural gas and oil, but people
argue that when these necessities Of
today are used up something will be in
vented or discovered to take their
place. One reason for the reckless ex-
penditure Of resources here is the race
characteristic Of hopefulness. Another
is the necessity for evening up activity
and enjoyment. The go ahead American
works hard, and he needs to play hard
or he would wear out before the re-
suits of any Individual life could be
harvested. He is in the game to stay
and not to retire on a bare competence
and live in idleness.
The men who are liberal livers and
givers are the ones who have made
their own fortunes. The extravaganza
and profusion aimed at by the preach
ers are not the ways Of the inheritors
Of wealth, but of the makers of wealth.
These act on the principle that having
made one fortuae they can make an
other if necessary. 1t is only another
form of the argument that If one re-
source gives out invention or discovery
will find substitute. Fortunately for
nearby generations the danger Of sadly
depleted resources is too remote to war
rant panicky sensations, and it is not
improbable that the progress Of the
arts and sciences will avert the trouble
that seems to be in store for genera
tons afar off
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
WIFE SLAYER GIVES UP.
Murderer Sought in the West Returns
and Wants to Confess,

ALBANY, N. Y, March 5.-JOhn
Cross Hammond, the man who killed
his wife here last November and then
packed her body in a trunk, and for
whom the authorities of this city have
been looking ever since, gave himself
up voluntarily to the police this after
noon. Hammond Travelled to Montana
and then to the Klondike, and firing
of wandering a fugitive from justice
he decided to return east and give him
self up He came to his mothers home
in COhOes last Wednesday, He
started to make a confession. but
got no further than that he had com
mitted the crime when he was told tC
keep still.
Hammond had $4,000 of his wife's
money when he left her
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
ATTACKED BY VICIOUS BULL.
Farmer Escapes Threatened Death
With Several Broken Ribs.

DELTON, Wis, Feb 24.-GeOrge
Cormode, a farmer living near here
was saved from being gored to death
by vicious bull by his dog. Cormode
was changing the animal from one
stall to another when the animal turn
ed on him and gored him. He was de-
Tending himself as best he could from
the attacks of the enraged animal,
when his large farm dog appeared and
by a vicious attack on the bull drew
it's attention away from Cormode long
enough to permit him to escape. the
man came out of the contest with sew
eral ribs broken and numerous bad
bruises.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

The expert statistician" is now busy
figuring out whether the sixth city Of
the country in point Of population in
1900 will move a notch up or down by
1910. This is interesting to some peo-
pie, but all people would like tip as to
which of the great cities in the popula-
ton contest viii be the cleanest. safest
and in every way the decentest of the
bunch four years hence.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
One Solution Of the Good Roads
Question.
HAVE PRISONERS CRUSH THE ROCK
APPEAL MADE TO GOVERNOR TO
ASSIST WORK IN WALLA
WALLA COUNTY.

The question of good roads in Walla
Walla county is now the principal sub
ject that is being discussed by the tax
payers and the people in general, and
as the county commissioners this week
will take up the several petitions be-
fore it asking that numerous roads
leading into Walla Walla be improved,
interest in the subject is growing quite
extensively While many taxpayers
are in favor of good roads and rae
willing to assist in every way possible
to bring about the desired result, many
of them are viewing with alarm the
vast expenditure of money that may
possibly be necessary in order to carry
out the several propositions now being
considered.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
BULLET-TORN HEART.
Mans Death Reveals Re.
markable Case to Physicians.

SACRED HEART, Mimi, March s.
After living for more than a week
with his heart literally shot to pieces.
Charles Barnier, who accidentally shot
himself in a restaurant last week, has
his accident, Barnier seemed to be get
ting better rapidly, and it was expected
he would recover, but he suddenly
took turn for the worse and died yes,
terday A pOst-mortem examination
revealed the fact that the mans heart
had been badly torn by the bullet,
and physicians express surprise that
he lived for any length of time after
the accident.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
CONSIDER TELEPHONE TAX
Commissioners Are to Confer
With County Assessors.
new PLAN FOR MAKING ASSESSMENT
WILL PROBABLY BE ON BASIS OF
SIXTY PER CENT OF
VALUE.
new PLAN FOR MAKING ASSESSMENT

The state board of tax commission
ers has sent notices to the officers OF
the telephone companies of this state
to meet the board at Seattle Thursday
next, when this years assessments will
be discussed.
The commission has promised the
county assessors to furnish the latter,
before June 1, with a plan and data for
assessment of telephone property. The
commission proposes to ascertain the
value of all telephone property, includ-
ing franchises, and expects that all the
aggregate higher than in the past.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
MOTHER PLEADS FOR SON.
Acting Governor Of Montana Pardons
Youthful Prisoner,

HELENA, Mont, March 5.-Lieu-
tenant Governor Norris, acting in the
absence of Governor Toole, has issued
q pardon for Arthur Ross, convicted of
assault in Gallatin county and sem
fenced to the penitentiary for eighteen
months. The pardon is granted by the
youth of the prisoner, and for the rea-
son that the pardon is recommended
that convicted him, and many others.
A further reason is that the young
mans mother needs him to assist in
her maintenance.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

1t is not at all because he has grown
old in wars" that Lieutenant General
tributes Of his countrymen. but be-
cause the rigid rules of the army force
him to hang up his sword He is one
Of the young old men" and good for
twenty years yet He has son about
the age of himself when he went ''for
a soger" in 1861.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
Write to Governor.

perhaps the most important matter
bearing on the cost of the road, the
preparation of the rock, and the source
of the quarry supply, will be found in
the law of 1903, and the letter which
We have sent to Governor Mead, which
you can use if you will. I have care
fully studied out a plan to have the
cOnvicts crush, quarry and load the
crushed rock on the cars on a siding
Carts station, On the O. r. & n. line
just below Touchet. The rock can be
delivered at the Blalock Fruit COM
panys siding for the improvements
asked for by the Blalock company, and
the College Place people, and can be
taken on the same railroad to any
siding along the Upper Milton i'm
provement. as there is no place from
Walla Walla to the state line where
the railroad track is more than nalf a
mile from the road.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
BIandford Has a Plan.

A Statesman reporter asked Mr..
Blandford what progress he had made
in his investigations which would
snow the feasibility of constructing the
macadam improvements. He said.
LAS 1 view it, the only very serious
question before the commissioners is
the one of cost. l have collected
large amount of data which l will
present to the commissioners when
they meet, some valuable letters, sug-
gestions, specifications and expressions
of approval and encouragement from
leading engineers. 1 am satisfied the
cost can be kept between $4,000 and
$500 mile for average construction.
There is no question that uncrushed
rock can be used for the first four in
ches of the roadbed, and crushed rock
for the remainder, and that we can
combine them in a first-class manner,
at a cost Of not to exceed $500 for
every mile where the team haul will
not exceed a mile to a mile and
half.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
Just as the Carnegie hero fund COZ

Just as the Carnegie hero fund CON-
missioners were in despair over the
degeneracy Of the times and the dearth
Of valor among men the peril of the
Cherokee people called out an example
Of the real thing. There are deserving
if it rested with them to exploit their
virtue. True heroism, like charity,
"vaunteth not itself, is not pulled up"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

Japan warns England to reorganize
her military and naval forces. The
Japs may have an idea that the time
fighting instead Of subletting the jobs,
as he has succeeded in doing from the
days of the Hessian mercenaries down
to the recent clipping Of the claws of
the Russian bear.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

can be obtained, at commercial rates
prohibitory. We can get quarries free.
The railroads will make special rates
ducement to make the road. Under
what conditions can we secure the AID
of convict labor at the quarry to drill,
blast, crush and load cars. or, if blast
ing be not allowable to convicts we
can provide for that with other labor
The quarry is on the line of the o. r.
& N. railroad, 20 miles from the pen
We think that under the laws of 1903,
page 264, with the aid of such convict
labor we can get crushed rock deliv
cred in Walla Walla for about SO cents
per cubic yard, and this would be a
God-send to the movement. There is
convict labor since the boycott Of the
brick, and we think that the making of
crushed rock would afford steady en-
ployment for from % to 40 or perhaps
so convicts.
your earliest convenience, as it is one
which means much to the welfare of
Walla Walla county.
J. N. 'McCaw,
County Commissioner.
H. S. BLANDFORD,
Sec'y Walla Walla Good Roads Assn.
Law on Subject.
The following is copy of the law
giving authority to the state board of
control to use the convicts in crushing
rock for road Improvement:
Section ALL cOnvicts confined in
the state penitentiary at Walla Walla
may be employed under the authority
of the state board of control under the
charge of the superintendent of the
penitentiary, or of such other persons
in the employ of the state as the state
board of control shall direct, in the
crushing, preparation or handling of
rock or other materials for roads or
streets. Such labor shall be performed
at such place or places in this state as
said state board of control shall direct
Section 2-Said state board of con-
troll shall have power and authority to
purchase out of the revolving fund OF
the state penitentiary all necessary
materials, tools and implements and
to do all things necessary to carry out
the spirit and intent of this act.
Section 3-Said state board of con-
troll shall have authority to sell and
dispose of such crushed rock or other
materials for roads and streets in such
manner and for such price as they
shall deem advantageous for the state.
Section All moneys derived from
the sale of such crushed rock or other
road materials shall be paid into the
revolving fund Of the state peniten-
tiary.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

short time sufficient business will
be developed in other localities in
Walla Walla county that will force the
Walla Walla Valley Traction company
to extend its interurban system quite
extensively
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

People will first tire Of reading about
the Panama canal enterprise; next
they will forget all about it. and when
finished 1t will be nine days wonder
and fade from the public mind.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

OF course a freak of nature like the
white blackberry" would be attributed
to Luther Burbank, the California wiz
ard, but citizens Of Greenwood, Miss,
claim that water buckets full Of these
freaks are gathered from patch of
bushes near that place every season.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

The Japanese minister Of war should
have remembered the fate Of the bearer
Of bad news before telling his coun-
try's new ally, England, that it's fight
ing machine is rusty. if not rotten.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

Thomas A. Edison was recently
awarded decision in lawsuit started
by Jay Gould thirty years ago and
which has been in the courts ever since.
Mr.. Edison should congratulate himself
on having outlived the case.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

Grover Cleveland says that the coun-
try lawyer gets ahead because he is
brighter than his neighbors and nat
urally takes the lead. That is noble If
true and very different from the rea-
son why the city leader gets there,
which is because he can pack the pri-
maries and keep the gangs quiet.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

The bright and well meaning Mrs
Craigie comes over from England to
suggest that Summing among the poor
Of our cities be cut out and that re
formers tackle the idle and thoughtless
elements Of the upper circles" But
they could easily start on a tour and
give the missionaries a hot chase ali
over creation.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

The Escurial, that palace where Enc
will live as queen of Spain. contains
nearly 5000 rooms. Up to date there
has been no lad" in Spanish papers
around and size up the palace job.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

Much is being written and preached
about the reasons for the late Marshall
Fields great business success. That's
easy. He had the goods on his shelves,
and he put the public wise to the fact
by liberal advertising.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

If the salary of the vice president
should be raised to $4,000 per there
would be some chance for that exalted
yet obscure gentleman to be recognized,
by name at least, without having to
look in the almanac.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

The COLLECTION, it is claimed, had been
who refused to turn it over on de-
mand.
The coins are from every country in
the world, and many of them are of
rare value to collectors. The sheriff
has possession of the collection and
unless a settlement is made it will be-
sold.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

1t cost the president Of the Wine
Growers association Of Germany, who
Is also manufacturer, $4,000 and a
stock of adulterated wine to be crooked
and get caught with the goods on him.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
Cheap Road.

IF we can secure the crushed rock
prepared by the penitentiary and fur
nished us in the dump for taking di-
rect to the road we can get cheap
rock. There will be no conflict of free
and convict labor in the construction
of the roads, and using uncrushed rock
for the foundation course, we will be
able to keep down the cost and build
our roads. A plant for crushing the
rock can be purchased by the board of
control at cost not in excess of $1,000.
The quarry is less than 20 miles away;
the rock is free to us to take without
cost and the railway desires nothing
as consideration but the freight, and
will make special low rate on condi-
lion that the rock so crushed snail be
used only for county roads and not
for any city or commercial purpose.
1 consider that the working out of this
plan means the solving of the crushed
rock problem, and that settles the
whole thing
Copy of Letter to Governor.
The following is copy of the letter
sent Governor Mead by County Com
missioner McCaw and Mr.. Blandford:
Walla Walla, March 8, 1906.
Hon. Albert E. Mead,
Governor of Washington,
Olympia, Wash.
Sir: There are now petitions before
he county commissioners of Walla
Walla county asking that over ten
miles of macadam road be constructed
under the provisions of the law of
1898. page 800, as amended by the law
of 1899, page 10. We are seriously
embarrassed by the prospective cost of
broken. or crushed rock We will need
more than 1000 carloads of crushed
rock and we fear the price at which it
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

Over in Austria they report a new
scheme for not having 'to take other
peoples dust" on the road besides get
hind. An antidust club has been Or
gained to bring about the abolition Of
dust on all public highways.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

1t really seems hardly worth while to
create the proposed regular army re-
serve now that the militia has shaped
up. The militia is an army reserve
with 100000 well picked men.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

If Joseph Chamberlain's reelection
was due to the efforts of his American
wife we may expect that lot of de-
over here presently looking pretty. IN
Napoleon's day the emergency would
have been held to excuse married as
pirants in appealing to the divorce
courts
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

And so Katheodori Pasha, the cable
announces, is dead. The name has
decided patent medicine look, but we
risk giving a free lad" to it just for
the sake Of remarking that Katheo may
be a descendant Of the Hunkidori we
knew in our youth.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

AS for that blowing In January In
several northern states, the oldest in
habitant" begs to be allowed time to
Just think 1t over.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

Chicago must be hard up for expense
money when it lets loose monster
who turned his wife and children out
Of the house during blizzard for q
fifty dollar fine.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

The latest freak of science is a rub
Der made nose that is so lifelike that it
cannot be distinguished from a natural
organ. That will do to tell until it Is
submitted to the tweaking test.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

That woman who hasn't tasted water
in forty eight years will find her affiui-
ty in the bibulous colonel who referred
to natures nectar as "that stuff I
wash my teeth with"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

People In Mexico were dying from
cold In December and January, while
northern folks were wondering why
overcoats ever came to be invented.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05

Newspaper reports Of the Yerkes-
Miner wedding struck the woman In
the case as ridiculous" And there
were others.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
ATTACHES OLD COINS.
Sheriff Takes Possession of Rare Col
lection at Crookston.

CROOKSTON, Mimi, March g.
Sheriff Gonyea has served a writ OF
attachment calling for the possession
of what is said to be the most valuable
collection of old coins in this state
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
WORK ON ELECTRIC LINE
Continued from Page One.)
Endorsed by Commercial Club.
PAGE EIGHT

After considering the proposition at
length the directors decided that the
proposition was good one and con-
seQuently endorsed the plan suggested
by Mr.. Anderson. They deemed the
investment would prove a paying one
and in order to put the matter before
the people in the proper manner a COM
mittee has been appointed by Presi-
and give them an opportunity of TAX
ing up quite a large portion of the
bonds.
Extensions May Follow.
No doubt as soon as the present pro
posed system has been in operation
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-03-05
Extensions May Follow.

No doubt as soon as the present pro
sed system has been in operation
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1906-11-22
TEN PAGES.
MARIETTA DISTRICT MEETING
HOME MISSION SOCIETY
AT WALESKA,

Nov. g. 4 and there was held at Wa
leska, the Marietta District meeting,
Mrs. B. 7. Frey of Marietta, district
secretary, presided, assisted through
out the meeting by Mrs. w. ?. Love-
JOY, delegate from Marietta, and Mrs.
w. F. Trenary, of Atlanta, Conference
Press Superintendent. Blue Ridge and
Woodstock sent two charming young
lady delegates-Miss Nell Cutcher and
Miss Martha Latimer, the former acted
as Irecording secretary. Mrs. D. W,
Ferguson represented Waleska, Alpha
retta and Roswell failed to send dele
gates, The auxiliary at Waleska has
only been organized about a month.
Rev, Mr.. Elliot, pastor in charge, invi-
ted all his women through written in
vitation to hear a home mission SER
mon. The outcome of which was the
organization after services of one of the
best auxiliary in the district.
REPORT OF wALEsKA AUXILIARY.
give in full the report of this new
auxiliary as it was so good: Number
of members, 81; number of honorary
members, 4; number baby roll, 5; num-
Der mite box brigade, 5; number of
subscribers to Our Homes, 10; amount
in treasury, $3.50.
The exercises were held in the chapel
of the Rienhart school and a pleasant
feature and one that added much in.
spiration, was the attendance of the