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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
BUT HE LOST HIS BOAT.
Looking at the Time, Anderson Walked
Into the River.

NEW YORK, Feb. 19.-JOhn Ander-
son, swears by the accuracy of his
watch. He is a deckhand on the
steamer Marion, which leaves Pier %
East River, for Norwalk, Conn.,, at 4
p. m. =
Looking at his watch straight in the
face, John Anderson reached the pier,
FASTENED his unsteady stride.
Half a minute to the good" cried
John, triumphantly and. still looking
at his watch, he walked off the end
of the pier.
For there was no gang plank, there
was no steamer there. John Anderson
had lost a day somewhere; the Marion
left her pier Saturday, p. m.
Policeman Tobin, and others, threw
rope to Anderson, f1oundering in the
river, and yanked him from his icy
bath. Suffering from to much cold
water he was taken to Hudson street
hospital.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19

What is said to have been the con-
elusive test of Mrs Fish's standing
in the smart set came Tuesday night
when she gave a dinner at her home
on E. 18th street. Sixty persons were
present. Not an Aston, not Van
derbilt, not a Goelet, not a Rhine
lander, not Schermerhorn, not
Wilson; all of these stand in the front
rank of New York's smart set, but
they were not among the guests.
Edward H. Hartman himself Is not
socially aspiring. But he is intensely
interested in having his daughters
break into the Four Hundred. 1t was
simple enough matter. Mr.. Fish was
president of the Illinois Central in
which Hartman was a director. Mrs.
Fish was an undoubted leader in So
ciety. What more easy than to have
Mrs. Fish take the Misses Hartman
under her wing and bring them within
the charmed circle. The one thing
that Mrs. Fish lacked was the tact.
Diplomacy is not one of her accom-
plishments. When she became con-
fronted with the task of taking up
the daughters of Hartman, who held
her husbands fate in his hands. she
blundered and refused.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
Mks. FISH WAS A "M|ANQH"
When Hartman Tried to Wedge His
Daughters into the 400" She
Found Out.

NEW YORK. Feb. he. II. Harri.
man did more than deprive Stuyves-
ant Fish of an income when he de-
posed that gentleman from the presi-
dency of the Illinois Central railroad
he dealt a body blow at the social
supremacy of Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish
from which she has been devoting all
her talents to recover herself.
When Mrs. Fish marked out a So
cial dead line which she declared that
the daughters of Hartman must not
cross, she paved the way for the de-
capitation of her husband. For the
past four months New York's smart
set has been watching the Fish Harri-
man social battle with bated breath
Those who have been keeping count
declare that the palm of victory
rests with Hartman.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
GIRL CAPTURES BURGLAR.
Robbed Only Month Before Young
Woman Tackles Second Thief.

NEW YORK. Feb. 19.-Miss Grace
LASER, young and slight of build, left
the tables in the basement dining room.
of her boarding house in West Twen-
ty-second street last night when she
heard footsteps on the parlor floor and
went upstairs all alone. notwitn-
standing the house was cleaned out by
burglars while her guests We're at din
ner. month ago.
When she got upstairs this ebenine
and found a. strange man tip-toeine
across the parlor, she grabbed him as
he tried to brush past her. and wher
he struggled she threw both arms
around his waist.
The guests below heard chairs tum-
bling around and as they rushed up.
stairs they heard thud. They founi
Miss LASER seated on the prostrat
man in the middle of the parlor floor
The police took him.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
$4,000 CHECK GOES AsTRAY.
Load Lifted from Saltwater Mar
When He Heard from Grand Forks.

GRAND FORKS. N D., Feb. 49,
When Probate Judge Hassell opened
his mail the other morning he was sur
prised and delighted to find in it let
ter from saltwater, Mimi. a check for
$4,000. His surprise continued. but
his delight faded, when he made the
further discovery that the check was
made payable to some person entirely
unknown to him.
The check was enclosed in a letter
from the cashier of a bank at Still
water announcing the receipt of the
check. He also wrote the cashier let
ter returning the check. which he said
he could not use in its present form.
but would be glad to receive it II the
sender would so amend it that he might
realize upon it.
1t is surmised that the saltwater
man spent several anxious hours be-
fore he received Judge Hasselrs tele-
gram.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
FRONTIER ALASKA OUTSTRIPS
EFFETE EAST IN DRESSING

I In the first place. it is sure sign of
prosperity. In the second place. it is a
delicate compliment which Alaskans
show EACH other, when they meet in a
social way.
Suppose a man never had a dress
too late to begin. 1t better fits him
! for the part he is to play should he be-
| come wealthy and go outside. Take
the average Alaskan and place him
in any society outside, and he will give
| as good an account of himself as one
to the manor born In every respect
he is a man of the world His easy
address is due not alone to his indie
pendence, but also because he has paid
attention to the refinement of dress and
personal appearance.
'Of course. there are many excep-
tiOns to this rule, and we do not want
to convey the impression that everyone
must have a full dress suit to be well
or properly dressed.
1.-The spirit which prompts the custom
is what counts. 1t is distinctly Alas
kan and broad enough so that all may
play at the game should they so desire,
Of course, those who have made them
selves outcasts."
The Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition
promises to dispel the prevailing ignor
ance in regard to all things Alaskan
and give the people of the country
proper conception of the Northland.
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SEATTLE, Feb. IS. Special Cores
fic exposition. which will be held at
Seattle in 1909 to exploit the Northland
does nothing else but teach the people
of the east and middle west that the
frontier of our country has gone much
further than the far west Alaska-that
the custom and culture of the effects
east may be found in these sections.
it will be well worth the $4,000, 900
it will have cost on opening day
June /.
Speaking of polite society in the far
north, Nome newspaper recently said
that a constant source of surprise to
the newcomers is the swell fashion in
which Alaskans dress at social func-
tiOns.i
1.-The women are gowned as tastefully
and as richly" this commentator con-
tinues, las those seen at a full dress
affair in the best class of society at
Washington, D. c., and the same holds
true of the men.
Il have never seen people dress as
they do here is an oft repeated re-
mark.
1.-THE slightly enviOus are apt to criti-
else this custom. They have been heard
to say that some of our people never
had on full dress suit before coming
to Alaska all of which may be true
Custom is Good.
But hn ic,c l,o1o
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
MANSFIELD HIT WRONG SPOT
And Miss Emma Dunn Quit Show
Company Because She Didn't
Like 1t.

CLEVELAND, o., Feb. 19.-Emms
Dunn, who plays Ase, the old woman
in Richard Mansfield's production OF
Peer Gynt,' so greatly objected tC
the spot on her back that the actor
selected to implant the blow which
is a part of his role as Peer Gynt. tina,
she has resigned her position and has
been succeeded by Miss Clara Os-
mond,
At least, that is one version of the
trouble that led to Miss Dunn's sud
den departure from the company, al
though another has it that Mr. Mans
field objected to the praise given his
leading woman, and caused her dis
missal, informing her that she was
too i'll to work.
Peer Gynt to hush the seedlings of
Ase. picks her up, throws her to one
side and administers a sounding whack
between her shoulders Miss Dunn
insisted on change of the place on
her spinal column where Mansfield
landed. She even consulted a physi-
sian who told her that her illness was
due to the shock to her nervous sys-
tenn by the blow which she received
nightly.
The place where l strike Miss
Dunn" Mansfield said today. "is the
one where doctors and nurses would
administer blow on the back of the
patient. 1t is where mothers strike
their infants in patting them on the
back. Miss Dunn has not been dis
charged. She has simply been given
time to build up her health in order
to Withstand the hardships of the
stage"
Mansfield denies that the trouble be-
tween himself and the members of the
company originated in the favorable
comment awarded them by the news
papers. Miss Emma Dunn. the dis
placed actress, made a hit that threat
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
IS GoDD HOME MADE REMEDY
Anyone Can Prepare This Mixture
Which Is Said to Readily Re-
Iieve Catarrh.

Unless all signs fail, this will prove
la hard season for those who are sub.
ject to catarrhal disease.
The coming months will be harvest
for the doctors and patent medicine
manufacturers unless great care is
taken to dress warm and keep the
feet dry.
! This is the advice of well known
authority and should be heded by all
who are subject to rheumatism, kidney
and bladder troubles and especially
catarrh. While the latter is considered
by most sufferers an incurable disease
there are few men or women who will
! fail to experience great relief from the
| following simple home prescription
and if taken in time it will prevent an
attack of catarrh during the entire
season.
Here is the prescription which any
! one cSp mix: Fluid Extract Dandelion
one-haH ounce, Compound Kargon one
OuHSC, SolupOuiiu oyl up Odi sd PtI Ia q
three ounces. Shake well in a bottle
and use in teaspoonful doses after each
| meal and again at bedtime.
These are mostly vegetable ingredi-
| ents and can be obtained from any
good prescription pharmacy at small
| cost
The Compound Kargon in this pre-
| scription acts directly upon the elimi-
native tissues of the kidneys to make
them filter and strain from the blood
/ the poisons that produce all forms of
catarrhal affections. Relief is often
| felt even after the first few doses and
| it is seldom that the sufferer ever ex-
,, periences a return attack within the
year.
This prescription makes a splendid
| remedy for all forms of blood disor-
ders and such symptoms as lame back.
bladder weakness and rheumatism
pains are entirely dispelled.
AS this valuable prescription comes
from throuhgly reliable source, it
should be needed by every afflicted
reader.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
COLFAX WOMAN'S HOUSE IS
VERITABLE CURIOSITY SHOP

to 1890. 1t is in manuscript, OF course
and contains thesbusiness transactions
of a relative of Mrs. Weld of that
period.
A Farmers almanack,' of 1928, pub
lished by Robert B. Thomas; another
bearing date 1915; two copies OF the
New England almanack," one dated
1903 and the other 1910, are objects OF
interest
"An Astronomical diary. or an al
manack for the year of our Lord Christ
1744," is the ancient date and queer
title Of another.
"Serm0n preached in Boston, Sep
TENDER "a, 1888, by John Beach, A. M.
missionary from the society for parts,
and a tract entitled, 1.-THE Shepherd OF
Salisbury Plain" printed in 1916, are
scanned with interest.
A copy Of the providence Gazette
printed in 1880 at Providence, Rhode
Island, published by John Carter. yell
low with age and seemingly ready to
fall to pieces, is handled with great
care and is looked upon with venera-
ton 1t is 4-page column paper
and we would like to reprint every
word of it on account of it's quaint
reading A notice is printed stating
that the highest price will be paid for
linen and cotton rags.
An old print of Bunyan's Pilgrims
Progress of 1869 and a copy of Sweets
elocution OF 1S41 are also shown.
Some Ancient Furniture.
But we turn from old prints and are
shown some ancient furniture. Two
old fashioned strait back flag or split
bottOmed chairs, their exact age not
known, but have been in the family of
Mrs Weld for over $50 years, are in
perfect state of preservation and are
an object of great interest; likewise
an armchair of about the same age.
The scribe accepted the privilege that
may have been enjoyed by some of our
revolutionary ancestors.
In the sitting room is a quaint piece
of furniture that was called in We Olden
time a High Boy" but is known in
this day as cheffonier, that is over
100 years old and still in use.
A thrce-legged card table. made of
cherry about IS years old, and a ma
hogany table, IS years old, of peculiar
design are here.
Nor is this all. Mrs. Weld has some
rare old china made in England
about 1851 She has enough Of the
left intact TO set table for eight. The
work on the old pieces is elaborate and
must have been done by hand. The
flowers and leaves are perfect. She Of
fered to make a cup of tea in the an
cient teapot, which was arranged to
take place later
Linen made by Mrs. Yields great
grandmother. which had been worked to
contain flowers and designs, is among
the list of rare things.
These We're all shipped from Provi-
.dence. Rhode Island, and probably few
of our readers ever dreamed that so
many things of other days We're housed
in COlfaX
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
WATER ON FREIGHT SCHEDULE
Tacoma & Eastern Railway Carries on
Lucrative Business in Hauling
the Liquid of Life.

OLYMPIA, Feb 19.-Water, just
plain drinking water, such as the wa
ter> wagon. is supposed to contain is
the sole commodity quoted in a tariff
sheet received yesterday by the rail
way commission from the Tacoma
Eastern Railway company. What a
road in Western Washington would
want to haul water for at this time
of the year anyway, would seem diff
ficult to imagine. 1t is explained, how
ever, that the Tacoma Eastern does
quite an extensive business in ''the
water haur line, transporting water
to supply donkey engines and mills
in localities where water is not avail
able. Regular tank cars are used.
The carload rate for Is miles or
$3.50 per ear.
Another Water HauIer.
In this connection Assistant Secre-
tary O. O. Calderhead, of the commits
sion, points out that the Washington
& Columbia River railway in eastern
Washington does an immense water
business, hauling more water than it
does coal. or even flour and other sta
PIE commodities. This is due to the
fact that the road traverses the fam
Gus Eureka flat. great wheat coun-
try. but having not a single we'll or
water hole on. its surface. All the
water for domestic purposes has to
be hauled in by railroad. The annual
report of the Washington & Columbia
shows that it carried for the year
ending june 80. 1906, 10000 tons of
water.
However. the Tacoma Eastern ira
verses no such waterlesS country
and that water should be the subject
OLA tariff sheet on that western
Washington road is somewhat of a
paradox, carrying Of Goals to New
castle.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
Historic Flag to Be H0iSted ;,
at ALASKA Yukon Exposition

SEATTLE, Feb. 10. (Special)-
When the American flag is hoisted to
the topmast tower of the Alaska build
ing at the completed Alaska ukon-
Pacific exposition at Seattle on open
ing day, June |, 1909, and the great
10 million dollar worlds fair is de-
clared open by the president of the
United States no ordinary banner will
be used. In fact the flag whose stars
and stripes first cast shadow over
the massive and beautiful buildings by
Lake Washington will be the original
American flag that was hoisted first
over the district of Alaska when that
empire was purchased by the United
States.
Recently the discovery was made
that the original flag with Sc stars
was reposing in a vault at the offices
of Dexter Horton & Co, of Seattle. 1t
is the property of Edward Leudekce,
Of Wrangel.
The history of this flag is most in
with the history of Alaska. which
country it is the purpose of the ex-
position to exploit The treaty ceding
Alaska to the United States was sign
ed by Russia on March 80. 1867 and
was ratified by the Senate May -
the same year. Owing to the oppo-
Sition in the country to the purchase,
the house refused 10 pass the bill APP
propriating $4,000 for its payment
and the matter hung over till July
Il, 1868. when compromise was
reached whereby the appropriation
was passed. However. the United
States in the meantime had gone
ahead and ordered possession taken OF
the country and a body of American
troops on a warship left San Fran
cisco in the fall of 1867 COR Sitka.
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They proceeded by the inside chanrel
first to Wrangel. At that point there
We're living a few Americans engaged
in pioneer work. One of these was
Edward Leudecke who after 40 years
Is still {, resident of Wralgel. Lett
decke, when the troops touched at
dat 'mirI. heard for the f:st time
of the American purchase. Although
tn: country was not then formally
taken ever by the United States he
ran - he fiagpole there @n1 hOistcd
the Anne rican flag, and thala il flew
for lnaEy months. In the mean time
the troops prOca"iel to Sitl:a then
| he "a! tal and Oh October Is, 1857.
lie lass an flag was pulled down and
the American flag raised before the
barracks and in the presence of a de-
iachinent OF both I..ssian In Ameri-
can troops
The flag of Leudecke tloated till
1868 when the news If the admission
Of Nebraska TO the union was IN
nounceG and then tn flag with SIS
ats " az pulleu 90 = II AM another
one with 81 stars. vas raised in its
place. eudecke, however. chung care
fully U lis flag and n 1905 turned the
o1nner over 70 G. j; Rodr'::n an at
torney IF Wrangel. wao sen; it on to
is lieSenr destination for safe keel
ing
L'UGe:.<c is noT over - years of
a,;c arc. is strong AM hearty. He re-
i, al. = Perfectly lie FIRST arrival of
American troops in the north and the
/. raaZeinent and JOY Il tho f:v, Amcri-
Cins T." re on being told that Alaska
had been purchased III, ,hA Russians.
Tie f.aE will be used at IL OPEN
az; .;it ceremonies 1T the Alaska
''-'n Pacific expos ton and after
i"2l Nil. be exhipi1e! in the Alaska
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19

Mrs. Juliaetta Weld is a lady who
lives on Main street. just north OF the
depot Her heuse is modest but neat
in appearance. and houses, best ces
the owner. many ancient relics of rare
worth. Mrs Weld came to C5lfaX
two wears ago from the ancestral home
near Providence, Rhode Island. She
is frcm good old New England stock
For generations they have lived un-
der the same ancestral tree, and FOR
generations have worked, saved and
accumulated. caring little for the ex-
citements and possibilities Of the far
west, says the Colfax Gazette. But
at the time mentioned the lady con-
cluded to see some of the broad wheat
lands of which she had heard so much
lied, something new to her in the econ
omy of the soil. She was so well
pleased with this part of the far west
that. breaking away from old associ-
ations, she bought the house and lot
where she lives. sent back for her old
time furniture and many keepsakes,
and no home in Colfax is more inter-
esting TO visit than is hers.
A representative of The Gazette re-
ceiveti, tip that she was the possessor
in fee simple of many ancient docu-
mentS. pieces of furniture. bria -brac,
etc. and by appointment had the pleas
ure of examining them in detail one
day this week. OF these rare articles
columns could be written, but we must
content ourselves at this time with a
simple glance. These articles have not
been purchased at some auction sale,
but have been handed down from gen.
Grafton to generation in her own fami-
~, thus their authenticity and age
can be vouched for The books and
papers. of course, speak for themselves.
Old, Old Volumes.
A quaint old volume, yellow with age,
the back of leather binding stitched to
keep it in place, with buckskin strings
around it to hold all the leaves together,
is a print that bears date 1880. That
was only II years after Hendrick Hud-
son sailed into New York harbor and
discovered the HUDSON river. The
thought carries us SO far back in the
history of our country that we ponder
over the ancient volume hardly believ-
ing our senses. The letters used and
the spelling employed are old style,
greatly in contrast with modern ways
of doing such things. The work is
entitled THE Isaac Pennington. London,
the 28th day of the 9th month, 1880"
1t is Il volume of 344 pages
Another old book of 2SS pages, old
style spelling, printed at Philadelphia,
August 20, 1895, but still in good state
Of preservation. is entitled The Amer
lean Remembrancer; or, an impartial
collection of essays, resolves, speeches.
etc relative or having affinity to the
treaty with Great Britain" A glance
through its pages reveals many letters
from Washington and other revolution
airy patriots No doubt it contains
much interesting personal---very. read
ing.
An old ledger is shown dating back
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
SARAH is A PROFESSOR.

Mine. Bernhardt Holds Chair In De.
~ DecIamatory Conservatory.
PARIS, Feb. 19.-Sarah Bernhardt
has been appointed to the professor
ship of dramatic defamation at the
conservatory of music and declama-
ton The appointment was made in
order to remove the objection of the
chancellery of the legion OF Honor,
which declined to confirm Nine Bern
hardt's nomination for the Cross of the
Legion of Honor on the ground that
actors could only be decorated in the
quality of professors.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19
DEATH TO 261 DOGS.
Police Have Killed Scores in EIGHT
Days.

MINNEAPOLIS. Feb. 1s.-Death at
the muzzle of policeman's revolver
has come to 261 dogs in Minneapolis
since Feb. s, when the shooting began
This is the total made up by Police
Superintendent Frank COrriston at
noon today from the figures submitted
10 him by his precinct captains.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-19

"On what ground the alienist was
asked. do you declare the prisoner
insane?"
On the simple ground Of human
ity, replied the alienist: for IL he isn't
crazy. he's up against it."-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
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This is an average of 80 dogs a day,
and If the crop holds out, the 500 mark
is over
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| CalenderS for 1908

I We are going after the CALENDER BUSINESS
in this section and have ordered line Of the latest
creations from celebrated designers both foreign
and domestic, We will show beautiful line of
both ENGRAVED AND EMBOSSED CALEN>
DERS Imported Tissue Novelties Wall Pockets
Fans, ETC. These lines we will show you in about
two weeks We do not keep an expensive sales
the road to sell these goods, so we will be
position to you money-wait and give
us chance, &c &c &c
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proper conception of the NOrthlaT