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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01

of money to bring up these facilities
TO somewhere near the requirements OF
the country. The volume OF rallroad
business has increased ITO per cent
during the past ten years, mileage OUT
q per cent. locomotives 80 per cent
and freight cars As per cent, and 1t ap-
pears that extraordinary effort must
be made to finance the necessary IN
crease in the means of transportation.
Mr.. Hill and others have placed the
estimate as high as $1100O0O.00o
year for the next five years merely TO
provide for the existing volume OF
business, to say nothing of the natur-
al and probable increase.
These are staggering figures and
have created serious apprehension III
financial circles. The question has
been raised seriously Where is the
money To come from?'' How is the
prosperity of the county to be fnanc-
ed for that is what it means. IN
der ordinary conditions it would seem
to be practically impossible, and yet
the very prosperity which requires TINS
enormous outlay is also providing the
money to meet it in extraordinary VOL
ume. The earnings of the railroads
themselves have been unprecedented
and the payments of dividends ana IN
terest aggregate new totals. Railway
dividends and interest alone for ten
months in 1906 aggregated over $780,
OOO, 900 to say nothing of the great
profits of the industrials.
1t must be borne in mind, too, that
it will be much easier to secure money
for such purposes when the properties
upon which it is to be expended are
making such large returns to investors.
1t is an important fact that the new
issues of securities calling for these
large investments are not mere prom
Uses of future reward, but are based
upon actual business demands, and are
called out to meet requirements OF the
country enjoying greater prosperity,
and prosperity apparently based upon
more substantial grounds than has even
before been the foundation for Secur-
tiles of great volume. 1t is the legi-
innate work of business which this
enormous volume of money is expected
to do It is not called for to take
chances on the results of what has
been called mere cheerful optimism
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01
ADJUSTMENTS
RED FEATHER" COMING.

Chas. P. Salisbury, business manager
of Red Feather was in the city yes
terday completing arrangements with
Manager Catron for the appearance Of
the big comic opera at the Keylor
Grand on Friday evening of next week.
Few playgoers,' said Mr.. Salisbury,
appreciate what a hazardous under
taking it is to bring a big musical
company out to the Pacific coast, es-
pecially at this season of the year. For
instance, for the presentation of Red
Feather we carry company actually
numbering so people, and two of the
largest size baggage cars are required
to transport the scenery and Access
series. You will remember that this
opera has been declared to be the most
gorgeously mounted of any musical
attraction ever produced, without a
single exception. The item of railroad
transportation alone is a heavy one,
approximately $4,000 a week west of
the Missouri river. Local transfer
bills, covering the expense of hauling
the scenery and baggage from our cars
to the theaters and back, amounts to
about $500 a week, and naturally, the
expense of advertising such an attrac-
ton is greater than for an ordinary
show. 1t is we'll known fact that
the most expensive minor people en-
gagged in theatrical work are operate
choristers. In an ordinary dramatic
company people playing unimportant
roles rarely receive more than $25 per
week. while it is next to impossible to
get young men and women who are
possessed of good voices and attractive
personalities at that figure. Obviously.
operate principals earn large salaries,
and the total cost of an organization
like Red Feather reaches a sum week.
ly that to layman would seem pre-
posterous.
fortunately, the business of the
company has been very large. and since
the Portland and Seattle papers have
been unit in declaring the organiza-
ton 10 be the best musical show seen
on this coast this season. we have
every reason to expect a continuance of
capacity houses. In Seattle on Sunday
night the audience was enthusiastic to
such a degree that practically every
vocal number on the long program was
redemanded, several of them receiving
four to eight encores.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01

low its value 1t is a fine specimen Oh
the wig-maker's art, with hair long,
soft and of a glossy gray.
1t was ordered last summer, When
Rockefeller was in France, and reach
ed America recently on the liner La
Provence. 1t was made in Paris by a
dealer who placed upon the invoice the
modest value of five francs. Evidently
it was paid for in advance.
When it reached the customs office
yesterday, Joseph T. Ball, a CLERK
looked suspicious. Hum" he mused'
that's a cheap wig for the great Johh
d. Rockefeller" He called in Appraiser
Norton.
Norton made some inquiry OF local
hair dealers, describing the wig in de-
tail, and they We're unanimous that II
would be cheap at SIS. All were indig-
nant at Rockefeller's lack of appre-
citation of home industry.
No appraisement has been made d.
yet. Norton will inspect the offerings
of the local hairdressers and compare
their work with the wig of Rocke1elei
before he passes judgment.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01
ARE TO IMPORT MAHOGANY
Capitalists Organize Corporation t
Deal in Valuable Mexican
Wood.

YAKIMA. Feb. IA rumor that has
been quietly circulating about town
for the past few days, when traced
down, seems to be at least founded on
fact, although the particulars are
closely guarded. The rumor is to the
effect that corporation or company
of capitalists has been formed for the
purpose of acquiring mahogany timber
lands in Mexico, bringing the wood to
this state and working it up into fin
ished products of various kinds, prin-
cipally furniture.
1t is said that the plans of the COM
pany are about, complete, and that
Miles Cannon, who recently resigned
from the management of the st. Paul
& Tacoma Lumber company and later
sold his interests in the Boston store.
will go to Mexico within a month or
six weeks to complete negotiations al
ready begun for the lands on which the
mahogany is grown.
Owing to the great and increasing
value of mahogany, a company Of the
character indicated would necessarily
be capitalized for a large sum. This
is said to be the case. The Herald
informant states among those most
heavily interested are various MEM
bers of the Cascade Lumber company.
and that associated with them are a
number of the leading number men of
the northwest.
A Herald reporter sought an inter-
view yesterday with Mr.. Cannon, but
got little satisfaction. He only smiled
and said: Il cannot imagine who in
this town would give out the informa-
ton you save you have"
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Walla Walla, Wash, Feb. 1.

To the Editor:
Whenever one complains Of another S
action he should have remedy. That
there should be a new and better sys-
tenn of taking care of the poor no
one doubts. The remedy would be to
make it as hard as possible for any
one to graft.
The writer has had several years
experience in taking care of the poor.
I would suggest the county elect three
directors whose business it would be
to look after the poor, issue orders of
relief to the deserving poor and to
meet at the poor farm once each month
to look over the months affairs and to
see that the poor was being cared for
and that everything was running
smoothly.
There should possibly be five direct
ors who should meet every two months.
There should be one director at Waits
burg. one at Wallula, one at Pres
colt and two at Walla Walla. One
hundred dollars a year would be a
sufficient salary for each director. Each
director would be under censure from
his colleagues and be held responsible
for all his transactions. He would pay
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01
The Better Plan.
COlfaX COmmOner.

The CommOner does not take much
Lincoln, which the Spokane Spoh.
man-Review is trying to carve out OF
portions of Washington, Idaho and
Oregon. The three states would ma
turally object vigorously to having
their best agricultural districts sliced
off. and then Washington is a pretty
good state, as it stands, and its var
iety Of resources and climate is an
advantage rather than detriment
Instead ow talking secession let's all
get in and help make it the richest
and greatest state in the union.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01
THREE Bill S OF MORE THAN
ORDINARY INTEREST PENDING

The following three bills which have
been introduced at Olympia will inter-
est taxpayers of the east side, especial
ly sheepmen:
The first one is an act regulating
the removal of sheep from one county
into another. and providing for an
equitable division of taxes on sheep re-
moved from the home county into an
other county for grazing and pastur-
age. and requiring sheep owners to re-
port to the county treasurers, the re-
moval of sheep from one county to an
other. and providing penalty for the
violation thereof. and declaring an
emergency.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
tie state of Washington:
Section /. That when any owner or
owners of sheep, shall intend to remove
such sheep from the home county into
any ether county of this state for the
purpose of grazing and pasturing them
in such other county. such owner shall
file with the county treasurer of his
county a notice of his intention to re-
move his sheep to another county, and
state the time as nearly as may be,
sheep out of the home county, and
such notice shall be accompanied by
a sworn statement of the number OF
sheep to be so removed. and the county
into which they are to be taken, and
the purpose for which the said sheep
are to be taken into such other county.
Sec. 2 Such owner shall, as soon as
may be after the arrival of his sheep
in the county where they are to be
grazed. give a like notice and sworn
statement to the county treasurer of
the county in which said sheep are
to be grazed, which sworn statement
shall show the date when said sheep
arrived in said county.
Sec. 3. Before any such sheep shall
lie removed from the county into
which they have been taken for graz
ing, the owner of said sheep shall give
a written notice to each of the county
treasurers of the counties concerned,
Of his intention to remove his said
sheep out of the county where they
rave been pastured, and the date when
ne intends to so remove his said sheep.
Sec. 4. The county into which said
sfeep shall have been taken and past
rrCd, shall be entitled to receive from
the county where said sheep belong,
such portion of the taxes on such
sheep, for the year in which they were
pdstured in such other county, as the
time they were so pastured, bears to
the year, and such portion of the taxes
en- such sheep shall be a proper charge
against the county where said sheep
he long and in favor of the county where
they had been grazed or patured.
The second is, an act for the preser-
walton and protection of fish, and de-
claring an emergency. and providing
a penalty.
Be it enacted by the legislature of
the State of Washington:
Section 1. That no person shall
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01
NEMESIS FOR FAKE FOLK
Chicago Has Alliance to Guard Against
Suits for Bogus Accidents.

CHICAGO, Feb. l. The man who
comes home after night out, falls
down stairs, breaks his leg and then
sues an elevted railroad company for
damages has found his Nemesis. So
has the ambulance chaser" and good
old Dr. Fake"
A Chicago branch Of the Alliance
Against Accident Fraud. the object
of which is to make the path for such
persons thorny. was organized today.
The city, which has been victimizei
even more frequently than the public
service corporations by fake" accident
claims, is To become. indirectly, a
member OF the organization.
The alliance is to prosecute bogus"
claimants and false witnesses and to
institute dsbarment proceedings
against lawyers who handle such cas-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01

place in any stream, lake or pond, any
lime, dynamite or other deleterious
substance with attempt to injure fish:
nor any drug or medicated bait. SAL
non roe, or any composition of roe t,
poison or catch fish. Any person OF
persons violating the provisions of this
section shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor and shall. in addition
thereto, and i'm addition to any damage
he may have done. be liable to a penal
~ of fifty dollars.
Sec. .. Anyone selling or Offering
for sale salmon roe. or it's compost
ton, shall be guilty of misdemean-
lars.
Sec. 3. An emergency is hereby de-
cared to exist. and this act shall take
effect and be enforced from and after
| its passage and approval.
| The third is an act regulating the
keeping and deposit of municipal funds
lily the legislature of the state of Wash
] ington:
! Section 1. That all cities and towns
in the state of Washington. having
population of less than seventy-five
thousand G5,OOO) inhabitants, may Up
on a majority vote of it's city coun-
Gil instruct it's city or town treasurer
upon this bill becoming a law and an
| rus 'ly thereafter at the end of each
fiscal year. to designate one or more
-.
CIR Town is located as depository or de-
postaries bf the moneys required to be
kept By said treasurer.
Sec g Before any such designation
shall become effectual and entitle the
| treasurer to make deposits in such
hank or banks. the bank or banks so
! designated shall. within ten days after
| the same is filed with the COmptrol-
| Ter or town clerk of such city or town,
a surety bond to such city or town, in
the maximum amount of deposits des-
| ignated by said treasurer to be car
ried in such bank. conditioned for dhe
| pr Ompt payment thereof on checks du-
| ly drawn by the treasurer, which bond
shall be approved by the mayor and
comptroller or town clerk Of said city
! or town, and such bank shall also, at
the same time. file with said comptrol-
Ter or town clerk, a contract with said
city or town. wherein said bank shall
agree to pay not less than 21-2 per
centum on the cash daily balances of
all municipal funds kept by such treas
urer in said bank, while acting as such
dep2sitary such payments to be made
monthly to said city or town while
said deposits continue in said deposit
! tary said contract shall run to said
city or town and be in such form as
shall lie approved by the treasurer and
corporation counsel.
Sec. 8. The provisions of this act
shall in no way affect the duty of the
| city or town treasurer to give bond to
such city or town for the faithful per-
formance Of his duties in such amount
as may be fixed by the city or town
council by ordinance.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01
CLASSICS AND THE SCIENCES.

The controversy between Scientinc
versus classical education is coming to
be waged more and more around the
issue of ideals The claim for the clas-
sizes that they give the best mental
discipline and prepare for the broadcast
culture has been cOntrOverted and is
controverted now by the claim that
the study of the sciences gives just
as good mental discipline, if not bet
ter
Probably the contentious of both
sides are correct. 1t is matter OF
ideals. 1t is a question of what the in
dividual wants. If he wants mental
discipline of a broad fundamental
character. preparing for the highest
enjoyment Of intellectual pursuits and
giving intellectual refinement, says the
Minneapolis Journal, he will not ne
glect the classics. The humanities,
as the group composed of secular
letters is sometimes described. will in
vite him much more than scientific
research and exact calculation. The
advocates of the old school of classical
education have conceded the value of
scientific study as a means of mental
development, but they have not con-
coded and never ought to grant that
the mental discipline derived in the
one line of training is equal to that
of the other as intellectual exercise or
that it produces substantially the same
results in intellectual developments.
The rage for study in the field of
scientific research springs from a very
different source from that which pro-
duces the lover of learning and the de-
sire for general culture. 1t is in the
nature of things that this should be
so. The more intense the pursuit of
scientific truth becomes, the more re-
stricted as a rule becomes the range
of investigation and we have as the
highest produce the specialist intent
upon his pin-point of investigation
| Indifferent to and oblivious to the rest
of the world.
The difference between the advocates
| Of the classical method and the advo-
| Gates of the scientific as a means of
| intellectual development is one Of
| ideals rather than of achievement in
| lines which do not converge and will
| never meet.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01
Ex.Xarden Made Find|ay Serve
Eleven Months Extra.
BLACK MAN WROTE 200 LETTER:
WARNED OFFICIAL HEAD OF THE
STATE PRISON THAT HE WAS
BEING DETAINED.

YAKIMA, Feb. IA osuit will be
commenced in about ten days for $IU,-
600 damages by George Findley against
az Warden KEGS of the Walla Walla
penitentiary. Findley, who is colored.
was released from the penitentiaw
about a week ago, by Warden Kincaid
and claims to have served eleven
months over his sentence.
During the hop picking season of
1902, E'indley was serving as a police
officer in this city. While serving in
that capacity he arrested an Indian for
intoXication, and the Indian claimed
that while Findley was searching him
he took from his person, IS, and he was
placed under arrest for larceny. He
was brought before the superior court
for trial during Febuay, 1903, and was
sentenced to four years in the peni-
tertiary. An appeal was made to the
supreme court, which affirmed the
Judgment of the superior court. and
Findley was taken to the penitentiary.
During the period the appeal was
pending he served sixteen months in
the county Jail, and according to the
old law, which was in effect at the time
of sentence, he was allowed that six
teen months deducted from his term in
the penitentiary. At the time appeal
was made to the supreme court an act
of the legislature changed the law to
read that the sentence did not actually
commence until convicts were placed
in the penitentiary, and not from the
time judgement was rendered accord
ing 10 the old law. According to the
new law if a man is convicted and he
makes an appeal to the supreme court
all the time he remains in the coun-
ty jail is lost, and sentence commences
from the time he enters the peniten-
tiary.
Findley states that he wrote about
200 letters to former Warden KEGS,
notifying him that his term had ex-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01
TiIIman's Metaphors Get Mixed.

Washington Cd. c. Herald.
Senator Tillman's emotion caused
havoc to his rhetoric while he was re-
plying to Senator SpOOner and making
another general speech on the race
question at the south. For all his i'm
petuosity and undisciplined habits of
speech are usually guarded with care.
But he was tripped up by his meta
phors recently, as this, for example.
will show:
In 1876 negro militiamen used to
drum up the roads in South Carolina
with fife
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pired and wished to be released, and
no attention whatever was given to
them When Kincaid assumed the
wardenship of the penitentiary, Findley
made an appeal to him, and the warden
took the matter up with the attorney
general, who notified him that Findley
was sentenced under the old law and
that his term had expired. The war
den Immediately released the prisoner.
Findley should have been released in
June, 1906, but the penitentiary rec
ords show that his term did not expire
until June, 1907.
When he was released large num-
Der Of Walla Walla attorneys called on
him, asking that they be allowed
to take up his case, but he refused and
placed the matter in the hands of At
torney w. NJ. Thompson
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01

But will you say whether it is true
or not?" he was asked.
81 will not say anything, one way
or the other" replied Mr.. Cannon.
Have you any knowledge of such
company being fOrmed?" the repor-
ter asked.
Il haven't word to say, and l will
not have any information to give out,
replied Mr.. Cannon; but l cannos
imagine where you heard the rumor.
The exact location of the lands de-
sired by the syndicate is not known
but they are said to be near the west
ern coast of Mexico.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01
Why Clark of Arkansas Hates Him

Kansas CITY star.
Senator Carmack and Senator Clarf
of Arkansas are not good friends. An
editorial paragraph printed in the
Commercial Appeal when Carmack
was its editor is responsible. There
was some kind of a controversy be-
tween the two over some editorial
which Carmack had written, and Clark
in an answer, had said that Carmack
did not appreciate that friendship was
a substantial asset.
Carmack reproduced the comment of
Clark and added:
I'VE do not regard the friendship Of
the author of this declaration so much
as an asset as a liability"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01
HippIe's Brother Kills Himself.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1.-Edward
P. Nipple brother of Frank president
of the Real Estate Trust company and
recent suicide. committed suicide this
morning by shooting himself. He died
enroute to the hospital
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01

So many learned authorities and
jurists have tried and convicted Harry
Thaw in contributions to the yellow
press that we are now convinced the
reach the electric chair.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01
Taft Arouses Kentuckians.
Baltimore News.

Kentucky republicans are becoming
exceedingly active in the interest of
Secretary of War Taft for president.
Eleven newspapers in the state, in
Guiding one Louisville daily. are car
rying the secretary's name at the head
of their columns as the states choice
for president in 1905.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01

After considerable, study, brown
and golden. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish gives
the cheering information that, with
care. a woman may dress on $4,000 a
year. But some of our wives are SO
careless
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01
Woman Farmer Making Good.
DAYTON OptimiSt.

Mrs Martin Miller is preparing to
cross wire ten acre hop yard three
wears old. and will, demonstrate that
women can be hop growers as well as
men. Mrs. Miller has been asked by
an extensive manufacturer of yeast in
one of our eastern states to supply
good quality of hops at price in ad-
vance of those sold for other purposes.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01

AS denoting the speed of the west
We would call attention to the fact
that Walla Walla had soldiers barred
from n skating rink a month before
that burg in New York broke into the
press dispatches with a rink episode.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01
FINANCING PROSPERITY"

We hear a great deal nowadays
about the inadequate transportation
facilities afforded by the railroads and
about the necessity of large amounts
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01

If Japan should take a sudden no
ton TO wipe San Francisco off the
map. it would save California much eX-
pense in trying the Reuf and other
CRATER cases
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01

chain Milton to the new streetcar
tracks. Anchored to solid Walla
Walla there would be no danger of
the town floating away.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-01

The stealthy tread of the eliminat-
ed Evening Bunc" trio has again
been discovered to the rear of the An
keny position.