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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-05
ARE IN FIGHT FOR POSSESSION
Henry Bremmer, Who Accuses His
Wife Of immortality, Asks Court
to Take Son From Mother.

Flatly charging his wife with be-
ing untrue to him and with stealing
and secreting their 3-year-old baby
boy, Henry Bremmer, this morning,
began habeas corpus proceedings In
the superior court for the recovery of
the child.
Bremmer alleges that he and his wife
Lena Bremmer. were married in Al
berta, B. c., several years aog and
that on May 1, last. his wife ran away
with one Horace w. Keith, taking the
child with her.
She is accused Of living in adultery
with Keith at Wallula since that time
and proceedings on that charge have
been brought against her before JUS
tice Lewis Of that place.
Mrs. Bremmer was brought to the
city with her child this morning by
order of the court. She secured an
attorney and will make a hard fight
for possession of the child. The hear
ing will take place at o'clock this
afternoon before Judge Brents
Bremmer does not ask for the child
himself, but desires the court to make
a proper disposition Of him as he al
legged the mother is totally unfit per-
son to have him in charge.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-05
Subjects Of Uncle Sam Write Many
Letters
HUGE CONTRACT HAS Been AWARDED
AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY
WILL DO GOVERNMENT WORK
HEREAFTER.

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-An output Of
twenty-seven million postage stamps
per day-one stamp for every third
person in the United States-rs called
for by the contract just awarded to
the American Bank Note company.
This company printed Uncle Sans
stamps from 1S47 to 1884; then the
government bureau Of engraving and
printing was given the work. and every
year since then Congress has had to
come to the rescue with an extra ap-
preparation to meet the deficiency in
Cured in the work of turning the
stamps in Washington.
For the last three years, previous
to 1906, tenders were asked, but the
bid of the government bureau was
purely formal and was far below what
a private concern could take the work
for. The last Congress, however, un-
der the Post office Appropriation bill,
compelled the bureau of engraving
and printing to put in a bid at not
less than actual cost.
Underbids the Government.
The result was that the bank note
company underbid the government bu-
reau by five and one-half cents on
the large size stamps and by smaller
margin on the ordinary sizes. But
so small a difference as one one
hundredth of cent per thousand will
result in a big saving, especially In
view Of the fact that the governments
bid included no item such as general
salaries Of administration, interest
on investment Of real estate, and such
similar factors. =
Employs Thousands.
The American Bank Note company
had built up an extensive plant, en-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-05
Annual Report for Year Shows
Successful Management
TEN new CARS ADDED TO EQUIPMENT
DETAILS OF THE EARNINGS AND
EXPENSES OF THE GROWING
LITTLE ROAD.

The Washington & Columbia River
railway mad an exceedingly prosperous
year according to the annual report
filed by the railway officials with the
state railway commission at Olympia,
Saturday. The report just filed is for
the year ending June 30, 1906.
The gross receipts for the year were
s433,371.21. The mileage in the state
Of Washington earned $36S,532.O7 of
that amount The operation of the
road cost $2O6, 947.86, interest on the
funded debt amounted to $196,67S.22,
taxes were $31,75O, permanent i'm
provements, $5,757.S7, making total
deduction from the gross earnings Of
231,1S6.09, leaving the net income Of
the road $2,3652S The deficit from
previous years bad business was
thereby reduced to $17O.522.S1.
During the year the road carried
69.754 passengers, the total passenger
revenue amounting to $59,975.20 1t
handled 316,263 tons of freight, which
brought in $3O2,O7691. BY far the
greatest freight traffic was in grain
handling, 143,94O tons of that class Of
freight going over the line in the year
Three bOxcars and seven fiatcars
comprised the additions to the equip
ment during the year, which now con-
sists Of eighty-three cars, including
five locomotives
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-05
STATE Will Not Be Taxed.

There is no indication that the peo-
pie Of Oregon will consent to be taxed
for an appropriation toward Columbia
River improvement, in the matter of
jetties, dredging Cello canal or other
wise. This newspaper has always TAX
en- the ground that Columbia river i'm
provement is Of the first importance
in the states needs, but Washington
and Idaho have as much interest in
the great river, generally viewed as
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-05

Oregon. It is not to be seriously con-
sldered that the three states will get
together to help Columbia river i'm
provement projects. The United
states government should do the
work. and must do it If It is done.
Hence the need of direct appeal to
headquarters and the shaping of every
influence possible toward the accom-
plisnment of those good commercial
purposes in connection with naviRa-
ton Of the Columbia.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-05

ploying thousands of workmen when
the stamp contract was taken away
gagged in turning out hundreds Of
stamps and bank notes for Italy, Greece
and many other European and South
American countries. It is, therefore,
thoroughly prepared to take up the inn
mense order from the United States
government. the execution of which
begins February 1, 1907.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-05
Orpheum Manager Dead.

theater, received a telegram this morn
ing from Seattle announcing the death
Of Charles Wray, general manager
and head booking agent Of the Sulli-
van-C onsidine theatrical circuit. The
death resulted after a weeks illness
with pneumonia. Mr.. Leavitt will
leave on the o'clock train this even
ing TO attend the funeral.
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The Countercheck Quarrelsome.
Boston Herald.

Boston f1cTdIu.
Perhaps the most notable event III
the parliamentary career of the late
Colonel Saunderson, the pugnacious
Orangeman from Belfast, was his till
with the late DR.. Tanner. who, durine
an exciting debate very late one nlgn'
in the Commons, denounced Colohe'
Sanderson as a fool. Colonel Sauh-
derson thereupon arose and remarked
that Tanner was drunk.
81 may be drunk" said Tanner pu'
I'll be sober in the morning, While 'n'
member from Armagh will be 1ooi
all his natural life
Strange to relate that closed 'N'
incident.
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state university in Walla Walla this
year just a little better than any
other game.
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Want Them Thanksgiving.

Want Them Thanksgiving.
There was much talk yesterday in
favor of bringing the university team
here on Thanksgiving day even If
heavy financial temptation had to be
offered them. whitman has no
Thanksgiving game scheduled thus
far and Walla Walla football fans are
hungry to see such contest as the
misunderstanding one would be,
take place here on that day.
If the Whitman management can be
stirred up to arranging this game
there is plenty of assurance that the
town will back it up. 1t is estimated
by some that this game would bring
out from 1000 to $500 people if the
weather were good.
President Greenslade of the as
ISOLATED students of the college, SAID
yesterday he was in favor Of the plan
and it is possible that meeting OF
the college executive committee may
be called to instruct Arthur Morgan
the football manager, to bring the
here on turkey day.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-05
Bring Assurance Of Slight Superiority
in Play
Want WASHINGTON FOR THANKSGIVING
TWO DRAWS MAKE TALKED-OF
GAME ABOUT THE BIGGEST ..
SEASONS EVENT,

Whitman college football team re-
turned yesterday morning from Seat
tie where they played scoreless
game with the state university Satur-
day afternoon.
Although under the new ten yard
rule the Missionaries were unable to
make score it is conceded by every
body who saw the games and admit
ted in the Seattle papers, that the lads
from the eastern Washington college
town outplayed their opponents.
Under the new rules it is almost i'm
possible to score unless one team
is clearly superior to its opponents
and this was not the case at Seattle.
Whitman went up against the real
thing, team averaging four pounds
to the man heavier, and coached by
one of the finest football players in
America, Victor NJ. Place, of Dart
mouth.
Spagle Makes Runs.
Captain Spagle of Whitman. dealt
out the only sensational features Of
the day in his 20 and % yard runs on
Coach Baird's clever trick play. Whit
man was also superior on line plung-
ing, but could not quite cut ten yards.
Yardage was made by the Whitman
team four times and only twice by
Washington.
Whitman was penalized the whole
length Of the field during the game
and Washington also suffered some al
though not as badly in this direction.
This makes two games that Whit
man and Washington have played in
which the score has been a tie. There
are lots of people in walla walla out
side Of the college campus who
would like to see game with the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-05
NOTICE..

All persons knowing themselves in
debted to the undersigned, will please
call at the old stand No. Is E. Main
street, and square their accounts.
r. LUDWIGS,
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His Head Cut OF.

CHICAGO. Nov. 5.-Charles lhi7'''
an oiler aboard the steamer Mann
while entering the Calumet
thrust his head out Of a port noie
passing a draw and was decaplta''''
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-05

Eastern and local election
will be received at Caswells' lu' =.
evening.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-11-05
RAIN ELECTION DAY.

, Sizing up the coming Vic'oi'
, for Observer Newman says
, "Rain tonight and TUESDAY
! - = = = =
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18
SunfIOWer Philosophy.

We find it is no trouble at all
to think of a COOL cold.weather
joke on a very hot day, when it
would fall fat to print it.
1t is great thing this year,
girls, TO be as pretty as Il
peach, but care should be taken
that you are not as cheap.
During the heat of the day
the girl working downtown has
one Joy more to look for ward to
than the men know; taking off
her corset when she gets home
at night.
A man saves up money for a
rainy day, and the doctors get
it later for performing surgi-
cal operation on him, and it isn't
an umbrella be cuts out, either,
Occasionally you hear people
complain that they never have
a good time; what is the mat ter
with putting on just a few
clothes and sitting on ones
porch In the evening at home
and eating peaches?
There is a fad of late TOR
hanging notices on the wall
which the family are supposed
to read and then resolve to lead
better lives, We suggest this
one to comfort and uplift father
and mother: Get your hap
pinesss out of your work, OF
you will never know what hap.
piness is "
-Atchison Globe.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18
In a Minor Key.

A college of love-making has
been established at Milwaukee.
Now to make their work effec.
tive they should give marriag :
licenses as diplomas.
A Baltimore pastor has in.
vented a buckle which he says
will prevent swearing. He
should be able to dispose of a
number of them to Billy Nolan.
In Minneapolis they are In
vestigating the chop suey res.
taurants. There is a suspicion
that they do not use fresh rats.
A man named Norm cnstein
was convicted of bigamy in New
York When a woman marries
man with a name like that
she assumes the risk.
Mrs Jack Gardiner pays SIC
every time she has her hair
cleaned. John D doesn't pay
anything.
An eastern club is discussing
the question, Does a hen sit or
set?" What's the difference so
long as she lays and Matched ?"
What a wonderful vocabula-
ry the old minister has," said
Mrs. Oldcastle.
Yes replied her hostess,
ITS almost as big as JOSIAH bis
Uncle Williams was, only his
turned into goitre at last. -
Chicago Record. Herald.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18
One of the LuckieSt.

HE was the luckieSt teller
in the world said the ma n
from Georgia: when the sher-
if was coming to foreclose the
last mortgage on his house the
food hit the town, and the
house, with him in it, floated Sc :
renely away into the next
county: an in the earthquake
of 86 he was swallered alive,
endurin' which time, while
founderin' aroun', he discover
ed a oil we'll an twogold mines,
an come up smilin', an sellln'
stock. It's my belief that if
that Teller was blowed up by
dynamite he'd ketch on to the
horns O. the new moon, an eth
err git a firemdn's job in the sun
or contract fer diggin' canals
in mars"-Atlanta Constitu
ton.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18
Gone Again

Another lot Of Mouroeites
took in the Palmyra fair Satur-
day. They we're; j, II Elliott,
wife and daughter, Miss Beat,
rice, Misses Leila Hayden, Bes-
sic Hays, Susie Riddle, Leila
and Frances Jayne, z. F.. Leake
and daughter, Miss Agnes, DIR.
j. l.. Sweeney, Virgil Shear
man, Mrs. Minnie Losson, Mrs.
William Buchanan. James Hick
man and Miss Myrtle Longmlre.
Friday Geo, W, Tooley told
us: Stock, yes, there is a
nice lot of horses there, but
that ended it, for there was on.
ly Is Jersey cows. 8 hogs and l
spotted bull in the stock pens.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18
One Had Lovers TO Burn,

In Rcche5 err. Ma S, lived
Old Mary" au I'D mad She
had come down 10 visit one of
her city friendS, whose third
husband lay dead.
As ,ooa as "N1ar." VIC .aat-
ed the three WIDOW retau:
There" pointing 70 il sml't urn
on one side of the mautle, lie
the ashes of poor Tom, and
there pointing to another urr.
lie the remains of john Now,
what would you nave done with
Jack, who lies cold and still
cremated or buried?'
The old woman hesitated.
and then said. bitterly, II new
err had lover in my life, while
you-you have had them to
burn"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18
Man, Poor Man

An Ohio paper hits the nail
on the head when it sayss
MANS business requires haste.
The average business and pro-
fessional man eats in a hurry
and gets dyspepsia; he walks in
hurry and gets apoplexy; he
talks in hurry and gets the
lie; he does business in a hurry
and becomes bankrupt; he reads
in a hurry and is superficial; he
votes in hurry and produces
corruption; he marries in a
hurry and gets a divorce; he
trains his children,in hurry and
develops spendthrifts and crllni-
mails; he gets religion in a hurry
and forgets it in a hurry; he
makes his will in a hurry and
leaves a legal contest; he dies
in hurry and goes TO the devil
and his tribe increase.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18
Democratic lmpertinence.

The flourish Of trumpets with
which the national government
announces that it will have the
alleged Panama canal dug by
private contract would be greet
ed with hilarious lau. liter wer"
it not for the fact that millions
of money Fave already been
spent by the rough-riders down
there and not enough dirt
thrown to soil a wCmdu's shirt.
waist. Two enormous apprO-
priations have already been
spent and exhausted upon the
vague and elusive site for
ditch called THE Panama Ca
NAL" aud nov the powers that
be have thrown up their tails
like a plug race horse, admit
their ina bility to handle it with
out the scandal becoming of
void wide notoriety and beg
that it be let by contract and
thus relieve them of further re .
sponsibiiity. That many men
have become suddenly aud viO-
leutly wealthy by reason Of the
appropriations for the canal is
too patent TO be denied and
that their fear Of making too
great a botch Of the steal is
evident by their now wanting
it completed by contract.
In all this canal talk there
has been great cry and little
wool, and a demand for an &C
counting in the expenditures of
the lost and vanished millions
would be termed by strenuous
Republican newspapers as Dem
ocratic impertinence The Post
is on record as saying months
ago that it was never intended
to complete that canal, that the
transcoutinental railways would
not permit it, that all the alleg-
ed engineers were in the employ
of such roads and that it was
kept on the congress. onal cal
endar for appropriation pur'
poses alone.
1t will probably be twenty OF
twenty-five years before the ca
nal is finished, Five or SIX
national administrations will
have come and gone, many now
in the public eye will have been
entirely forgotten and some re-
membered to be denounced.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18
The Really Remarkable Rhea.

From the St. Louis Republic.
The rhea of South America
is remarka BILE Bird" said an
ornithologist.
Really"
Yes. The male hea matches
out the eggs. He, and not the
female, is the setter. He sets
always in a quiet and desolate
place, where there is no food,
nothing to attract enemies; and
as soon as the.young are born,
the question is-how to feed
them?
'The rhea answers that cues
tion in advance. Three or four
days before the eggs are to
open, he shoves a couple OF
them out of the nest with his
bill, and lays them in the sun,
What is the result? The re,
suit is that the hot South AtrI.
can sun decomposes the egg S
and the father breaks them as
the young birds begin to appear
in the nest, and the flies settle
on them, and in twenty-foul
hours they are alive with worm:
tender juicy, delicious worms
the best food in the world fol
the nest of newborn birdlings
"There. Is not that ingen
ious? Is not the rhea remarka
ble?"
"Herhe ,ly is"
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18

Then would it not be the part
OF wisdom, patriotism and COM
'nendable paternal instinct for
Roosevelt to use powerful in
huence as president to actually
have that canal we'll under way
before he goes out of office and
out of the public mind? 1t will
be better heritage to leave his
children than a national scau-
dal as now threatened. Kan.
sas City Post,
AN of that being true, then
the question is: How much bo-
nus will some contractor have
% pay some one tor the job?
Pats ValOr
Seeing no other way of earn
ing a livelihood Pat took to
highway robbery. He bought
pistol, and meeting a trav-
eler, stopped him with the cor
rect formula, Yer money or
your life"
Seeing Pat was green, the
traveller said: I'll tell you
what I'll do. I'll give you all
my money for that pistol "
Agreed" replied Pat, who
forthwith handed over the pis
tol and received the money IN
exchange.
Now, said the traveller,
hand me back that money or
I'll blow your brains outw
Blaze away, my hearty" re.
piled the Irishman; ''niver a
taste o powder there's in it,
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18
Strange Fuels,
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sun.
II have eaten mutton cooked
on a fire of broken mummy"
sud the sailor. 1T was in
Egypt, and the mummy was
stolen out of a tomb. Them
natives is always stealth num-
mics. They sell them in pieces
~ tourists, and what pieces
tney can't dispose of otherer-
Sc they throw into the bin
: E fuel.
Mummy burns like finder.
: vt it's a CHASTITY fuel. 1t is as
lastly a fuel as the shoe lasts
nat they burn in the shoe
akin town Of Lynn, where the
- I fashioned and discarded
Isis, CLOWN in the'Sgrates,
"ok to you like amputated .hu.
IN 10 Tribes.
81 have been in tannery:towus
where the fuel is leather chips.
ILnis fuel smells and smokes.
It clinkers, too, formin' itself
into big solid chunks what have
to be broke up with the poker
every little while.
"In British Columbia, where
fish is as plentiful as air, they
burn dried fish when there's no
wood handy. The oil in the
fish causes them to burn we'll,
but the smell of this fish fuel
amt to no white mans taste
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18
Ra ilrOad Taxes.

Palmyra, Oct. 10.
County CLERK Luther Mckay
has completed the railroad
taxes for 1906, including rail.
road bridges, telephone aud tel
egraph property in Marion
county. The tota! valuation of
this class of property in the
county is 81, 500. 2l9,43, this
amount includes the property
assessed by the local assessor
which amounts to $73, 1920.
The amount of taxes paid for
all county purposes is 500, 0l0.52
and for state purposes 50, 667, 81,
making a total of 500, 1913 06,
The Burlington system pays
$15, 1873 So, of this including the
Quincy bridge.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18
To Quincy.

Friday the following from the
Queen of the Prairies spent the
day in the Gem City: Misses
Anna McPlke and Eliza beth
Boulware, Kate Dillon, Grace
Turner and T. E Fitzpatrick
and wife.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18
Off To Palmyra

The following citizens of the
Queen of the Prairies took in
the Palmyra fair Friday: Mrs.
John Campbell and babe, Pat
and Miss Mamie Yates, J. S.
Scott and Miss Eleanor, W. B.
Arnold and Miss Elizabeth, w.
% Foreman, Leo Bell, T. M.
Boulware, H. A Ford, W. B.
Spalding and wife, Ed Long
mire, w. B. Hays, Pat Skur-
lock, Charles Buchanan and
wife. Miss Jennie Dawson, j. R.
Buchanan and Miss Mamie and
Mrs. r. S. Nc Cliutic.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18

George Landers and wife, of
Centerville, Iowa, arrived Thurs.
day morning to spend several
days with his parents, Mr.. aud
Mrs Michael Landers.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18

Mrs. Thomas Christian, of
Warren, was in the city Friday
enroute to st, Louis for a few
days visit.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18

Miss Myrtle Settle departed
Monday for Howell, Ark, to be
at the bedside of her sister,
Mrs, d II. Keith, who is quite
sick with fever.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18

Will Allen is organizing a
Negro band of nine pieces Will
is quiet and we'll behaved fell
low and we hope that he ard
his band will succeed.
Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1906-10-18

Nothing is as exasperating as
a faultless friend.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1906-04-23
Mystic Shriners
National Educational Assn.

The convention OF tie National Educational Associa
tion will be held in san Francisco July Ia H.