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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-02
SYMPHONY CLUB IS READY
Orchestra is Being Organized for
Coming Concerts z

At the first meeting of the board of
directors of the Walla Walla Sympho-
ny club, which was held in the wo-
mans room OF the library yesterday,
committees were appointed to man.
age the affairs of the club and work
for the coming winter was outlined.
The club is now organizing a SYM
phony orchestra with the purpose of
holding public recitals. Twenty local
musicians have promised to join the
orchestra. which, upon its organiZa-
ton, viii be placed in charge of a
competent musical director. The club
is planning on holding two public re-
citals and six program meetings this
winter
Members of the board are: F. w.
Paine, president; w. L. Sterling, vice
president: Mrs. G.. w Whitehouse, sec
ond vice president: Robert E. Allen.
third vice president: Mrs. E. F. VAN
dewater. secretary; ]. W. Langdon,
treasurer: Miss Lulu Carl. Mrs. Jose
phine Preston. and Mr.. Gilbraith.
The committees appointed were: Guy
A Turner. librarian; Miss Grace
Isaacs, chairman of program commit
tee. ]. w. Langdon. chairman of ways
and means committee.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-02
fort TO GET EARLY COAL OREGON SPORTS ARE ANGRY
OenOunce Repeal Of Law Protect.
ing Game Fish

PORTLAND. July 2.-Angling en-
thusiasts and sportsmen generally are
indignant at the discovery that the
last legislature repealed the law provid-
ing a closed season for trout, leaving
trout protected only in the Umpqua
and Rogue rivers. Many denounce in
round terms the action of Representa-
tive Jackson, who introduced the meas
ure. as a piece of laundering stupidity,
1t is generally agreed by cOmpe-
tent attorneys that nothing can be
done to protect the trout until the next
Legislature convenes in 1909. 1t was sug-
gested to Governor Chamberlain that
county boards of commissioners might
prescribe rules in each county and by
concerted effort protect the trout un-
til the state law could be reenacted,
but the governor declared that the
commissioners have no such power, it
being matter that only the Legislature
can regulate.
Secretary Gebhardt of the Oregon
Fish and Game association said that
the statute that Jackson's bill repealed
was a model, and afforded excellent
prot ectiOn to the trout
THE association has received letters
from all over the United States COM
plimenting Oregon on her trout law
said Mr.. Gebhardt. Our statute was
copied almost word for word in many
states, the California and Washington
statutes especially following ours
closely.
The repeal of this statute and the
abolition of the closed season for trout
wipes out all the work that the asso-
citation and the trout hateheries have
done in stocking Oregon streams. In
the past few years we have planted
1.250.O00 young trout in various
streams in the state, and to know that
this work is all made useless by this
amendment in the law is disgusting.
1T will be years before the harm
that will be done to trout fishing in
he next two years can be remedied.
The law may be remodeled at the next
session of the legislature. but the fish
Will be practically gone then, and it
will take a long time to replenish the
streams"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-02
MAY PAY BONDS At ANY
TIME THUS SAVING MONEY

j. H. yesterday. member of the state
board of tax commissioners has begun
a crusade for the placing of state mon
eys on loans to counties. cities. towns,
and school districts. yesterday has
sent out the following letter to all
county treasurers in the state:
I'VE desire a copy of the advertise
ment for bids for sale of any and all
bond issues, county, municipal and
school district. in your county. We find
that the average rate of interest paid
by the several school districts of the
state is 6.2 per cent. AS an active COM
petitor for this class of bonds we feel
that a considerable saving can be
made the several districts by the
state board of finance.
"a feature of the bonds written and
purchased by us is a provision that
any part of the bond issue may be
taken up after the expiration of one
year This does away with levying a
tax creating a sinking fund to meet
bonds at maturity and is conservative
ly estimated worth to the district a
differential interest rate of three
fourths of one per cent
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-02
LAND OFFICE REPORTS
ON THE BUSINESS DONE

Report has just been made by the
land office in this city of the quarters
business The public land sales for
the quarter are as follows:
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-02
WHITMAN HAS BIG MUSICIAN
Roy Williams TO Head Conservatory
Of Music

Announcement has just been made
a brilliant graduate of the New Eng
land conservatory of music, as head
Of the violin department of the Whit
man conservatory. He will assume
charge of the department at the OPEN
ing of the fall term in September.
Mr.. Williams has not only had the
best musical advantages which this
country can afford, but has had COM
siderable experience as a teacher ana
player although still a young man.
His high moral character. personal at
Effectiveness, and skill as concert
viOliniSt added to his proved teaching
ability, warrant the expectation that
he will fill the position with distinc-
ton and draw many pupils to study
under him. He will teach harmony
as we'll as violin.
Mr. Williams home is in Illinois.
and on graduating from the Monticello
high school, he attended the univer-
sity of Illinois. where he made a spe
cialty of music. He then went TO
Boston, and studied for three years at
the New England conservatory. hav-
ing as his teachers Eugene Gruen-
berg, Joseph Adamowski. Emil Mahr,
Louis c. Elson. Samuel W. Cole. Ben
jamin Cutter and others. Besides
teaching privately in Monticello anu
Champaign, ILL.,, and in Boston, he has
taught for two years in the Violin
Normal department of the New Eng
land conservatory and in the Institute
of Industry in Boston
Prof. Eugene Gutenberg, his teacher
of violin in the New England conser-
vatory and superintendent Of the violin
normal department, has written con-
corning him that 'he has given ample
evidence of very commendable abilities
and intelligence. both in a musical and
general way. He has been teaching
under my personal supervision in the
violin normal department, accumulat-
ing experiences of great value for his
career as teacher Owing to his ex-
cellent moral qualities, his seriousness,
reliability bind sympathetic DISPOSE
ton he certainly deserves every pos
sible success and it gives me great
pleasure tC give him my warmest re-
commentator"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-02

You will always get results by ad-
vertiSing with the Statesman
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-02
RETALIATION IS IHREATEND
70. R. Z \. Attorneys Hint at
| Rates 10 fasteners

WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE argu-
ment by w. w. Cotton. for the o. r.
& N yesterday before the interstate
commerce commission in the Spokane
rate case, is accepted here by experts
as conveying a yelled threat that if the
Portland jobbers persist in opposing
the methods employed by the Hartman
system and demanding lower distribu.
tive rates out of Portland to jobbing
territory of that city. the Hartman
lines may retaliate by giving the job
bers of Chicago and aother eastern
cities rates enabling them to invade
Portland's territory seriously.
]. N. Teal made a strong presenta-
ton of facts relating to o. r. & N.
handling of earnings. showing that
S24 100000 had been accumulated in
surplus. which. instead of being de-
voted to building roads through central
Oregon. had been used in large part to
fight the entrance of Hills North
Bank road to Portland. and to con-
struct the road from Portland to Sc
attic He analysed 0. R. & n. finan-
ciering. referring to it as tantamOunt
to eXtOrtiOn, so ffracteriZing it be-
fore the commission. and severely
censuring it as not just to the produ-
GERS of the Oregon country and as a
failure to perform its duty as the sole
means of transportation in the terri
tory involved.
w. w. Cotton, when he argued, went
into conditions he alleged existed. say
ing in a manner indicating considerable
feeling that the O. r. & N. would not
submit to "short hauling" ana while
he did not frame in specific language
the threat to let eastern jobbers into
that territory. vet his words were in
terDreted in that way.
His DRY was making" a prominent
TRANSFORMATION expert said, 'when Cot
ton made his address, It was what l
regard as a threat to the Portland
iobbers to cease OPPOSITION or feel the
weight of the Hartman lines power
in etal:atory measures. 1t was the
most significant feature of the Spo-
kane rate case"
Cotton referred several simes TO the
movement in Portland to utilize the Te-
hauntepec route via a deep water
route from Atlantic ports. and also re-
ferred to the "open river" movement.
indicating that the Hartman roads
take umbrage at both, and then hint
ed that the road would not endure
conditions thus imposed.
The transportation expert referred to
said to a newspaper correspondent that
the Hartman lines could bring pow
erful pressure to bear on Portland by
adjusting rates on carlo ads and less
than carload lots so as 10 give eastern
jobbers access to a region now prac-
tiCally closed to them. He asserted
that coast jobbers naturally want less
than carload shipments to carry a rel
atively higher rate than carload. The
Hartman lines could therefore make a
less than carload rate which would en-
able these eastern jobbers to trade on
advantageous terms, whereas, now
they must ship in carloads and main
tain branch houses on the coast.
The commission will take several
months to reach a decision in the Spo-
kane case. 1t is expected here that an
opinion will not be handed down be-
fore November. perhaps later.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-02
LONG LIVE THE KING

Is the popular cry throughout Euro
pean countries: while in America, the
cry of the present day is Long live DR.
Kings New Discovery. King of Throat
and Lung Remedies" of which Mrs
Julia Ryder Paine, Truro, Mass, says:
TT never fails to give immediate re-
lief and to quickly cure a cough or q
cola Mrs. PAINS opinion is shared
by majority Of the inhabitants of this
country New Discovery cures weak
lungs and sore threats after all other
remedies have failed; and for coughs
and colds its the only sure cure. Guar
anteed by F. L. Smalley, druggist. SOC
and $1.0S. Trial bottle free
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-02
ABRAHAM LINCOLN,

Was a man who, against all odds. at
tanned the highest honor man could
get in the United States. Billiards.
Horehound Syrup has attained a place.
never equalled by any other like rem
edy. 1t is a sure cure for Coughs.
Colds, Bronchitis. Influenza and all
Pulmonary diseases. Every mother
should keep supplied with this wonder
full cough medicine.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-02
KNEW NOT VENUS.
But the Politician Had a Real God
dess to Bank On

THAT Venus and Juno must have
been great girls remarked one of
Walla Walla's boulevardiers this after
noon.
Don't know nuttin' bout en- an
swered the politician as he puffed at
his cigar and exhibited a tendency to
enjoy life.
: Don't know those stareyed goddess
es ?"
Nope. De only goddess I knows is
dat La Hebe Louis Kan sells-and it's
de limit fer de fierce smoke Try one"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-02

Three days country picnic will be
given at Meador's Park, Walla Walla
river. on interurban car line, July 8,
4. 5. Prizes will be given for the diff
ferent races
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-07-02

Are you running risks of not get
ting any coal at all? From the re-
ports coming in-the coal supply
will be somewhat limited this win
ter.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-13
500 MILLION OF CHINESE.

Yellow Empire Has About Onc-fifth
of Globes Population.
The interesting question of the pop
ulation of the Chinese empire has Of
ten been discussed, but it is still i'm
possible to say with any degree of GER
tainty what the figures are.
At the beginning of the Christian
era 1t is tolerably certain that there
were at least sO,OOO,OOO Inhabitants
and 1t must be remembered that the
empire was much smaller than 1t is at
the present time.
Most Of the censuses taken in China
during the last 1000 years, says the
North China Daily News, have not
professed to take in the whole popu-
lation. Young children and old men,
for instance, were sometimes omitted,
the main object of the census being
to ascertain the number of taxable
persons
By common consent the most relia-
Bile census ever taken In China was
that of 1872. This gives the figure as
more than 862,OO0,OOO. In 1868 the
population was estimated at nearly
4OS,OOO,OOO: but In 1881 1t had fallen
to 3S0.O00,O0O. the great TAPPING re-
bellion, IL, which so many millions Of
people lost their lives, being one of
the principal causes, undoubtedly, for
this great decline.
Travellers, missionaries and others
who have visited the region devastated
at the time of the TAPPING rebellion,
express the opinion that the loss Of
life during that great CONFUSION has
generally been estimated Mt too low a
figure, and 1t Is question also wheth-
err the terrible famine more than q
score Of years ago In the province of
Chile, Shansi, Shensi md Honan, with
population Of 100000, is not re-
sponsible for the loss Of more lives
than 1t is usually credited with.
1t is still more certain that the Mo
hammedan uprising in the northwest
destroyed more lives than it is gen
orally supposed to have done. A very
moderate computation of the loss of
life incurred in these three calamities
makes 1t to be fully 6O,OOO,OOO. And
in this connection it would be well,
perhaps, to remind ourselves that the
habitual use of opium by such a large
number Of people has tended to act in
juriously on the recuperative power of
the nation.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-13

mails are particularly destructive, and
are constantly scratching at things
with their long claws. They are quite
susceptible of tanning, If taken young,
and in numerous instances the breeds
has been domesticated, although they
seldom show the usual dog traits OF
sagac,ous and intelligent attachment
Unfortunately within the last TWEEN
ty-fiye years the breed has become
so largely mixed with small dogs of
various mongrel types that 1t is now
most difficult thing to find in Mex.
leo an example of the true breed.
Such are sold occasionally at prices
ranging from 200 Mexican pesos
(ss9.60 United States currency up.
ward. Even in Chihuahua these dogs
are very rare. A few recent speci-
mems sold in this city are said to
have been specimens of the true
breed.
There is no commercial bird-fancy.
ing business in this city, and birds
are not as abundant on the upper
table land of Mexico as they are in
the more tropical coast regions. There
are bird fanciers' stores in both Tam
20 and Vera Cruz, where inquiries
on the subject may be directed.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-13

U Il!11DRl|6 FIJI !fnE Rn(||1 I'D E

that the nation = usurpng the powers of the States IL
without any real foundation because the powers
sumed by the nation, hitherto supposed
the States, simply outgrowth Of conditions which
have arisen from circumstances beyond the contempla
tion of either the States the nation Duties have
cast upon the nation arising from the exgencies of the
times This does not usurpation of the rights
joyed by the States 1t simply means the mode Of ma
tona life the progress of events the trend of empire
Lofty craftsmanship and fortultous circumstances have
placed upon the crest Of the flowing tide of expansion
and national greatness We continue to drift on
ward and upward wait for the ebbing tide to noat
backward and downward We cannot remain inactive
and stationary. There is stopping place. no station
in the life of the nation individual marked BY
progress retrogresson
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-13
1nd,.n Girl. At B..Eet-D.,l.

The finest basketball team in Indian
Territory is at Sapulpa, and is COM
posed of full-blood Indian girls who
have been trained by the superintend.
ent of the Euchee Mission School. an
experienced coach.
The Euchee team has never been do.
feated, a writer in the Kansas CITY
Star says. Match games have been
played with the crack" teams Of Tul-
sa, Claremore, Bristow, sapu.p5, Oh.
mulgee and Strond, but the Indian girls
have always won.
The Indian girls, who represent some
of the best and purest blood of the
Creeks and the Euchee clan, are all
scholars in the Euchee school. They
are excellent students.
The natural aptitude of the Indian
for athletics crops out In their basket.
ball play. Their strongest point "a
In team" work, backed up BY great
swiftness of foot. In the sapulpa
match game these girls once made 4
goal from the toss-up without letting
the opposing team touch the ball or al.
lowing the ball to touch the floor.
The fame of the Euchee team ha.
spread to such an extent that already
games have been scheduled for Mis-.
souri, Kansas tour.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-13
EAGLE DROPS CHILD INTO TREE

Its Talons Became Fixed In the
Dresa of Little One.
One of the pair of giant bald eagles
that nest In dead chestnut tree on
Waukhaw mountain, near Caldwell, N.
j., carried 3-year-old Gladys Vreeland
to the top of tall hemlock tree Sat
urday morning and dropped her into
Its branches, according to the story told
by her father, John Milton vreeland,
farmer, says the New York World.
The child weighs forty pounds and,
according to the fathers story. the
great bird was barely able to maintain
Its flight under the weight. Its carry
ing off of the girl was more than half
involuntary, its talons having become
caught In her clothing when she at
tempted to save hen. from the eagle.
yreeland said the bird had been soar
Ing over his chicken run for more than
an hour. He saw 1t swoop downward
into a clump Of currant bushes. In the
bushes the eagle pounced upon hen,
but could not rise with Its prey be-
cause of the thick foliage. The Tapping
of the great wings attracted the child
to the spot and when she saw the hen
held by the eagle she seized stick and
began to belabor the marauder.
The eagle sprung on her, sinking Its
talons Into her dress, the sharp claws
tearing her flesh. Her cries brought
her father running from field near
by. AT sight Of the man the. bird at
tempted to rise, dragging the child,
struggling. after 1t. Vreeland believes
that the birds talons became entangled
in the girls dress and that 1t could not
free itself. The two eagles have been
familiar to the neighborhood since
1903, but never had they been known
to attack human beings before.
The great bird rose slowly and labori-
ously, Its wings beating the air wildly
and the child screaming with terror.
yreeland sprang forward, but before he
got within reach the bird had lifted
Itself and Its precious burden above
him and was slowly rising higher and
higher The child continued to struggle
and the bird seemed trying to free IT.
self
1t had reached the top Of tall hem
lock tree when the struggles of the girl
rent her dress at the left shoulder For
several seconds she hung with her en-
tire weight in the grasp OF one talon
of the eagle, which continued dapping
the air wildly and trying to make head
way.
Then the dress at the right shoulder
gave way and Gladys fell through the
branches of the tree to the ground
where fortunately pile of hay broke
her fall, SO that she was little injured
AS the child dropped the eagle shot
through the air toward the mountain
at express train speed.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-13
CHIHUAHUA DOGS

Consul General A. L. NJ. Gottschalk
of Mexico City, in responding to mum.
erous inquiries from persons in the
United States in regard to the pur-
chasing of Chihuahua dogs. says:
"The Chihuahua dog, which as late
as twenty-five years ago was quite
commonly to be found in Mexico, is a
curious little creature, popularity sup.
posed to be cross-breed between
the prairie dog and the jack rabbit.
The animal resembles a small dog,
whose weight is sometimes not over
/ ~ pounds, with a disproportlonately
large head, bullying eyes, and long
ears. the hair is usually scanty,
showing the pink skin underneath.
One Of the marks is said to be an
Enclosed cranial assure, through
which the brain can be felt threbbing
underneath the skin, These little ami.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-13
ADVANCED WOMEN OF BURMA.

Clever, Shrewd and industrious, All
of Which Their Husbands Are Not.
The Burmese woman Is clever, witty,
well Informed, one of the shrewdest of
business persons. usually an excellent
housekeeper as well as a good mer-
chant, says Charles e. Russell In Har-
per's. Her two errors seem to be, first,
in marrying John Burman, who lie gem
orally lazy and unworthy Of her; and
second, in submitting to the medical
tomfoolery that the Burmese, for all
their Intelligence, still practice.
might add for third, II one more be
needed, the smoking of the Burmese
cigarette. which tends to twist out Of
shape her handsome mouth. This cigar
cite, by the way, is monstrous thing.
often eighteen inches in length and an
inch and quarter In diameter.
The Burmese woman not only man
ages all the material interests Of her
household but she keeps the Buddhist
faith Intact. Without her influence II
may be doubted II John Burman would
care very much. He is too INDECENT
and too fond of his ease in smooth
water. But the women are strict In
their performance of religious duties;
you can see them at ali hours praying
In the shrlnes where not often you see
the men. II this theory about the won.
en- is correct. 1t is wonderful testimony
to their strength of mind, for Bud
dhism in Burma is rock-rlbbed and an
parently unassnilable; and then, in the
last analysis, 1t must be to the women
that we owe the beautiful pagodas, the
excellent monasterles and the gemlike
shrlnes that dot this pleasant country.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1907-11-13


meet the needs of ALL. Their adjustments to schools
above and below must be made closer and more vital
Our universities have only begun deal with the prob
lem OF educating vast bodies Of immature students in
single Institutions and their problems of professional
and graduate study and are pressing for
early solution.
Compulsory education laws have been adopted and now
are in force in thrtysx States Such laws now are SUD-
pemented with their natural and necessary accompani
ment-tha is with laws restricting the employment Of
children In thirty-two of these thrtysx states while
In eleven other States there are child labor laws unac
companied by laws for compulsory education vigorous
organized efforts are making improve the operation
OF these laws and their adoption in States in
which they are not In force By truant schools and
truant officers and chdrens courts this movement is
in various parts Of the country receiving added rein
forcement In spite however. of all these efforts our
school attendance still falls below that which we ought
to have II we are to be thoroughly educated peope
Modern education calls for schooling for those who
no longer are In school, BY Of evening classs
and correspondence various other provision
the range of schooling is increased Such increase must
be regarded as extremely desirable and worthy Of being
regarded as among the first things considered in our
next educational advance.