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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-06
"HELLO" GIRL NOW RICH.
Struck Claim No. in Oklahoma and
Makes Fortune.

OKLAHOMA CITY, o. T., Feb. g.
From telephone operator to owner OF
what is said will be the most costly
home in Oklahoma is the change OF
fortune that has come to Mrs. Charles
Payne. of Lawton, who was Miss Mat
tie Beal. of Wichita. six years ago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Payne have been here
consulting with architects relative to
plans for their new home to be built
on the land which Mrs. Payne drew in
the opening of the iwa-COmanche
lands in 1901, which was known as
claim No. 1. This claim was sought
by more than 100000 persons, who filed
applications for homesteads in the
Lawton district when the country sur
rounding that city was opened.
Claim No. l adjoined LawtOn town
site. Mrs. Payne proved it up, got
title and is now probably the richest
woman in the new state. Most of the
100 acres which cost her $1.25 an
acre, is now included in the best part
of the city of LawtOn. The magni-
ficent residence the Paynes will build
on the part selected for homestead
will cost $4,000, estimated from the
preliminary plans, which likely means
a home worth $4,000 before compile
ton.
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is established by way of the Panam.
canal, and the placing in service of fast
going. steel compartment ships. similar
to those running between New York
and Liverpool.
From the farmers viewpoint. an.
other objection to bulk grain is that
few Of the farmers have granaries. and
it would be entirely impossible, during
the threshing season. to get enough
teams and wagons to haul tie crops
to elevators as fast as threshed, and
unless the railroads will be able to
furnish cars more readily than for the
past two years. an elevator Of large size
say $4,000 bushels capacity. would not
begin to hold the grain that is now
taken care Of by the warehouses;"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-06
m WORLD OF BOOKS

Harris Dickson, the author of ga
brielle, Transgressor," is a Southern
lawyer, who was recently made judge
of the municipal court Of his home
town, Vicksburg, Miss. The scene OF
his new novel is laid in New Orleans in
colonial days.
If George Elliot had died at 3S the
world would hardly have heard OF her
as novelist at all, for when she pub
lished her first great work, Scenes
from Clerical Life" she was already
older than Mrs. Cragie was when she
died. and it was in the next 20 years
that she continued to create those mas
terpieces which have made her name
immortal.
The old New York home of Wash
| ington Irving, at Irving place and Sew
enteenth street, is in danger OF de-
struction in order to make way for
modern Improvements" and move
ment is now afoot for it's preservation.
1t was there that Irving lived when
his fame was at its height, and the
house is hallowed by the memories OF
many literary associations. If the plan
| amounts to anything the house will
doubtless be made into museum: that
| will be a perpetual reminder Of the
bygone days of literary New York.
For early publication, Little Brown
| & Co.. announce an index digest of
| hy,
Charles S. Hamlin, formerly assistant
secretary of the United States treas
| ury. 1t will contain a comprehensive
list of the leading words and phrases
used in the acts to regulate commerce
and a comparison Of other uses of the
same words and phrases found in other
acts. Each citation will be accom-
panied by a brief digest of that part
Of the law in which the word or phrase
is used.
1t is not often that a new writer's
first book goes through 10 editions. but
that is what has happened in the case
of John Reed SCOTS Colonel of the
Red Huzzars, The volume was pub
ISiicu last julie, uilO AiiS liz St~iC
started well, it has been increasing
steadily ever since.
Two more novels by Antonio FogaZ-
zare will be published in English
translation this winter by G. p. Put
MANS Sons. They are "The Patriot"
and "The Sinner" and they form the
beginning of triology that antedates
in time the period of the triOlogy Of
which 1.-The Saint" was the closing
volume.
On the outside of the church at Var
row, built in 164O has been placed a
tablet with the names of the ministers
including that of the Rev. DR.. John
Rutherford the maternal Great-grand-
father Of Sir Walter Scott A memoir
ial brass has been placed inside to
Scott. who occasionally worshipped in
this church when at Ashestiel, and an
other has been erected in memory Of
James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd.
Few even of our most cultured make
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-06
Real Estate Transfers.

The following is a list Of the real
estate transfers made in walla Walla
county yesterday. The list is furnish
ed by the Dean-McLean Abstract Co.
The Pacific Coast Co. to Kate WATSON:
deed. Oct. 13. 1906, $40; lot 7, block II,
town of Prescott.
Chas. J. Springer and wife to L. s.
Logsdon: lien. Jan. 80. 1907, 1854:
Sec. 6-7-33.
T. S. Logsdon to The Merchants
Bank: Assn. Of lien, Jan. 80, 1907.
$1S6O;.75; Sec. 6-7-33.
]. H. Weist to Alice Cavanaugh:
Sat. Mtge.. Feb. 1, 1907, $4,000: lot 6
part OF lot 5, block 5. College addition
]. H. Weist to The Farmers Savings
bank; Assn. of Mtge.. Feb. l. 1907
$4,000: part of lot and lot 6, block 5
College addition.
VIM. B. Hawley and wife to w. c.
Preston: deed. Feb. 5. 1907, 9696.69:
land in block 1, Roberts addition.
w. ]. Crawford and wife to James
c. Gardner; Mtge., Feb. 5, 1907, $1,000;
land in 1916.
Ada Streby to j. c. Warren: Chat.
Mtge., Jan. 90, 1907; 5000: household
furniture.
Alicia Durry to Homer and Marie
Alicia Durry; deed, Feb. A. 1907. 81,
land in 20-7-36.
Chas. N. Hatch and wife to James
B. Price and wife; Ayr. for deed, Jan.
81, 1907, $500; lot 1 and 2, block /.
Eidlewilde addition.
City of Walla Walla to Chas. F.
Hauber; Mar. Sat. lien. Feb. 5, 1907:
land in lot 1, block 1, Gains addition.
City of Walla Walla to Geo. Retzer:
Mar. Sat lien, Feb. 5, 1907; lot /. block
5, Bryant's addition.
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any pretense of knowledge Of the liter
allure of one of the most brilliant races
in history. A History Of Hungarian
Literature" has just been issued by the
Appletons. 1t was written by Frederick
Reidl, Phi. D., professor at the Uni
versity of Buda Pesth. This work was
commissioned by the Hungarian gov
eminent especially for English reading
peoples. In the words of the introduce
ton, I'm no country in the world is
literature so much a part Of its history
as in Hungary" The work is fitting
companion to the other volumes in the
series on other national literatures
written by such scholars as Murray.
Dowden, Garrett, etc.
1t appears that E. Phillips Open
helm is under contract, with his pub
fishers to write two novels year. The
Malefactor," the first of these for 1907
being just off the press, and the Sec
ond scheduled for later publication.
His American publishers. Little. Brown
& Co., now have no less than IL novels
by Mr.. Oppenheim on their list.
Confessions to a Heather Idor' is
the title of a novel by Marian Lee, in
which the device of telling d story by
correspondence is varied by causing the
heroine to relate her affair to craven
image. This heroine is 40 and widow.
yet the burden of her tale is her love
, affairs. The problem with ner is to
lvcid marrying an inpassionei young
man II years her junior. who
.sw cars before God tina. st.: shall learn
tc love him. Eventually while still
p rsisting in his suit he inadvertently
C.. mes to love another aud the problem
j., solved. tt. writer Of the confess
81. rs has anothe. and more backward
lo. ell and the dl Cculty with him is 10
&c; him to sp,a':. Finally he does ard
tie lady falls into his arms.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-06
oxford county. tells the following

Oxford county, tells the following
story:
1.-THE other day a rough-looking but
harmless tramp called at my house
and asked for something to eat. had
lust cooked a lovely jelly cake. and the
poor man acted SO tired and hungry
that I gave him the whole cake. He
thanked me, looked suspiciously at
the cake, smiled and walked away
Next day when l answered rap al
the back door I found the same smil-
ing face that 1 had filled with jelly
cake the day before"
beg pardon, mum. would yer g1vl
a poor, thirsty dog a drink of water?'
asked weary Willie.
Why" l exclaimed, aren't you the
same man 1 gave that jelly cake to
yesterday
The tramp taking his hat In his hano
said: please, maam, don't think
I'll ever be the same man again after
eating that cake"
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Whether Ne Ships Grain il Bulk
10 The Coast Or Not.
DEALERS WOULD DEDUCT PRICE
GRAIN SACKED BEFORE BEING
SHIPPED ON LONG JOURNEY
TO LIVERPOOL.

Anent the agitation for country ele-
vators for handling the grain of the
Inland Empire, The Palouse Republic
has obtained the following interview
with r. A. Smith & Co., grain dealers
Mr.. Smith said:
"Baffour, Guthrie & Co., probably
the most extensive exporters of wheat
from the Pacific coast, have the fol-
lowing to say regarding country ele-
vatOrs
I'VE see no particular objection to
bulk elevators if it is felt that the
country demands it. We can handle
we would have any difficulty in also
handling a certain quantity of oats in
the same way. The only thing that
must be borne in mind is that the price
we could afford to pay for deliveries in
bulk would be less than what we could
pay for the sacked grain by just exact
ly the cost of sacks and sacking at
tidewater, and as sacks are going to be
high again this season, the discount for
the bulk grain would be, say four cents
per bushel on wheat, and $1.25 per ton
on oats.
Nov, the foregoing indicates con-
siderably that while the wheat export
ers are willing to handle bulk grain
from the country, still the price of
sacks will be deducted and the burden
of sack expense fall at last on the
farmer. 1t is true that the large pOr-
ton of our wheat must be put in sacks
before it will be accepted for export to
Liverpool and other European ports.
This for the reason that bulk grain
loaded in sailing vessels is a dangerous
cargo in a rough sea. because of it's
shifting qualities. And when it is re-
membered that this grain is taken from
Tacoma, Seattle and Portland around
the southern extremity of South Amer
lea to Liverpool, journey of some
$4,000 miles, it is plain to be seen that
sacked grain is the safer cargo and
takes comparatively a low rate Of
marine insurance. This necessity for
sacks will continue for grain that is
exported from the west coast, until a
much shorter route to European ports
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-06
BIG SPIDERS TO SPIN CORD
kentuekian Plans to Replace Hemp In
dustry With Big Insects.

DANVILLE, KY, Feb. 6.-AssessOr
r. d. Bruce has set on foot a plan to
replace the hemp industry by the use of
giant African spiders. He is now in
the south completing arrangements for
a spider hatchery, it is stated.
According to Mr.. Bruce, the dark
continent produces kind of spider
which at maturity is the size Of a
maltese cat and weaves web as large
as broom Irvine. These, he declares,
are easily do1hesticated and are fairly
intelligent. The natives have utilized
the webs for fishing seines. A letter
from an African mogul states these
spiders can be raised in incubatOrs and
a stock company will be formed.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-06

AS many Washington farmers are
seeking cheaper wheat lands eise
where. the following report on the
wheat growing industry from Ameri-
can Consul Victor L. Duhaime OF
SaItllo Mexico, will be interesting.
He says:
In this consular district alone the
crop for this year is estimated to be
about 100000 bushels. The yield
generally averages from 10 to Is
bushels to the acre. Winter red
wheat is sown in October and the
crop gathered the following May or
June The quality compares favor
ably with United States wheat The
price ranges from $3.50 to s. per
bushel Mexican currency SIPS to $3.50
United States currency. About one
third of this crop is grown by irriga-
ton. The wages paid to workmen for
harvesting ranges from IS cents to 81
a day Mexican currency (37 II to so
cents United States currency)
Mexicans Do Farming.
This branch of agriculture is yet
entirely in the hands IL Mexican
ranchmen. Owing to the introduce
ton Of modern agricultural implements
the area is being increased each year.
The large steam plows, cultivators.
threshers and engines. and almost
every kind of improved farming ma
chinery now aid in the preparation of
n greater amount of virgin soil. not
Undertaken before owing to the crude
f.."i'ities.
This improved system of economic
cultivation by labor saving machinery
has proved to be so profitable and at
tractive that land owners are now d.
recting their attention to this brancn
of agriculture with much more energy
and activity. Consequently the value
Of agricultural land is advancing APP
rreciably and the farming sections are
becoming more thickly settled and
prosperous. Travelling modern steam
threshing machines are in general use.
Thriving Flour Milling industry.
In this vicinity there are six modern
rolling mills running by steam and
nine stone mills operated by water
power. The flour they produce is of
IN excellent quality and finds ready
sale in all parts of the republic, so
much so that large amount of wheat
is imported here from the United
States, keeping these mills in constant
operation day and night to supply the
demand for the fine grade of flour
which this locality has acquired rep
utation for 1t is shipped in burlap
sacks. two bags containing about 200
pounds or one barrel of flour. the de-
mand usually exceeding the supply.
Straw Used for Forage.
Wheat straw furnishes the princi-
pa. food for the animals. there being
no hay raised here. Owing to some
regularity of the soil it contains
sufficient nutritiye element to replace
hay in feeding stock, on which they
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-06
DAM CAUSED A FIGHT
People Near Johnstown Fear Anothe
Fatal Flood.

PITTSBURG, Feb. 6.-StrenuOus
protests against a gigantic water dam
are being made by the residents of
JOhnstown, MOxham and other towns
located in the COnemaugh valley, the
scene of the great Johnstown flood.
The Cambria Steel Co. proposes to
erect dam 100 feet high which will
Submerge l 400 acres o ground. The
people are up in arms and say if the
dam should break the water would
sweep everything in it's path for a
distance of Is miles
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-06
A Stitch in Time

will save nine. So will bottle OF
Balalrd's HorehOund Syrup always
kept on hand save many a spell of
sickness. A sure cure for coughs,
colds. bronchitis and whOOping cough.
Mrs. s.. Hot Springs, Ark, writes:
Il keep bottle of Billiards. Horehound
Syrup in my medicine chest. and thank
my forethought many times. 1t has
prevented many severe spells of sick
ness Sold by A. B. Shelton.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-06

Wheat straw furnishes the princi-
pa. food for the animals there being
no hay raised here. Owing to some
REGULARITY of the soil it contains
sufficient nutritiye element to replace
Day in feeding stock, on which they
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-06
A Valuable Lesson.

''Six years ago l learned a valuable
lesson" writes John Pleasant. of Mag
nolia, Ind. Il then began taking Dr.
Kings New Life Pills, and the longer
I take them the better I find them"
They please everybody. Guaranteed
at f. L. Smalley the druggis Csc.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-06
TRAMP MAKES DOUBLE REPLY.
"a Never Was the Same Man Since I
Ate that Jelly Cake"

OXFORD, Me-, Feb. 6.-Mrs. J. l..
Gus for her good cooking and WHO
has the reputation of making the best
iellycake that was ever produced in
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No Quail For Him.

"Quail, villain" He pointed his
trusty shooting iron at the head OF
the man who had been treating the
beautiful maiden to job lot of gen.
eral wickedness ever since the cur
tain went up.
cat last 1 have thee! Quail!"
But, contrary to the direction in
act 8, scene 2, the villain stood his
ground.
"Quail, tell thee! Why dost not
quail ?"
"Can't risk it on 80 bob week, !"
quoth the villain, with defiant
sneer saved over from the first act,
"because, forsooth, quail is legally
out of season, and l see gamekeep-
er in the audience"
Then he kicked over an Alp, wad-
ed through the bay of Naples, fell
into the thunder and only stopped
in his mad flight to remark to the
manager that an actor with a repu-
tation must decline to play on that
stage, as there were flies on it.
Pearson's Weekly.
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French Art Running Riot.

Clever dealers in artifce-that is
what the majority of painters in
Paris have become. For one man
whose work is "of the centre" you
have scores, hundreds, who are ia
cile and sometimes even accomplish
ed, but in the grain of their work in
curably factitious. They have made
no better use of the freedom from
formula, won by Manet and the 9th
ers, than to put more formulae,
usually very hollow ones, in the
foreground. Little groups are form
ed, each one devoted to the unfold
ing of a trick which some new man
has made temporarily popular. They
wax and wane, and you wonder why
they ever flourish at all. A sensa-
tion is made at the salon not by
an honest piece of painting with an
original accent, but by some pris-
matte audacity having no relation
to nature, by some purely arbitrary
scheme of chiaroscuro or, as in one
case that l have in mind, by a re-
turn to the "brown sauce" of the
old masters. Royal Cortissoz in
Atlantic.
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0DOR TAINTED AIR.
Is Is Not In Itself Poisonous or Even
Unhealthful.

According to the American Mag
azne, bad" air is not so bad. The
noint is explained as follows by
lc. Hirshberg of Johns Hopkins
university in an article on Popular
Medical Fallacies::" :"
"Foul air-which has for its ac-
cepted meaning air heavy with the
gases and odors of DECAYS not in
itself poisonous or even unhealth-
full. Unless it contains such a large
proportion of foreign gases that it
is noticeably lacking in oxygen its
chief effect is psychic. Some per-
sons, in brief, cannot abide
stencil. 1t sets their nerves on edge
and excites their imaginations, and
the result is that they grow pallid
..and at times seasick.
"Thus indirectly it may weaken
them and make them an easy prey
to wandering microbes. But of it
self it produces little direct harm.
Medical students, breathing the un-
speakable gases and odors of the
dissecting room, manage to eat vast
dinners and to grow fat. Tanners,
garbage mca, workers in fertilizer
factories and other persons who are
habitually surrounded by hair rails
ing aromas are ordinarily just as
healthy as other folk.
"That foul air is usually laden
with rather more germs and germ
bearing insects than air which
seems Ito the nose) to be pure is
beside the point. Experience shows
that pure air often contains as
many of these enemies to health as
the most foul exudations from a
sewer outlet. The Stegomyia fas-
ciata, which carries the germs of
yellow fever, would be just as dead
ly on a mountain top as along the
shore of a Louisiana bayou; hence
the absurdity pf shotgun quaral-
tines and of allthe other medicinal
manifestations of alarm that appear
when yellow jack RACES on the gulf
coast"
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An Ideal Citizen,

The ideal citizen is the man who
<Elieves that all men are brothers
and the nation is merely an extern
sion of hss family, to be loved, re-
spected and cared for accordingly.
Such man atteqds personally to
all civic duties with which he
deems himself charged. Those
which are within his own control
he would no more trust to his in
feriors than he would leave the ed
ucation of his children to kitchen
servants. The public demands upon
his time, thought and money come
upon him suddenly, and often they
find him i'll prepared, but he nerves
himself to the inevitable, knowing
that in the village, state and nation
any mistake or neglect upon his
part must impose penalty sooner
or later upon those whom he loves:
John Habberton.
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W0MAN'S PERFIDY.
The Way 1t Was First Disclosed ii
George Brandes.

In his young manhood George
Brandes lived almost entirely in the
life Of the intellect. Once he miss
ed keeping an engagement with a
girl because he was absorbed in He
gels philosophy at the time when
he ought to have been at the tryst-
ing place. He tells about it in his
"Recollections:" "With a passionate
desire to reach a comprehension of
truth, l grappled with the system,
began with the encyclopedia, read
the three volumes of 'Ksthet!cs,'
the Philosophy of Law the 'Philos-
ophy of History the Phenomenon
ology of the Mind then the 'Philos-
ophy of Law again and finally the
Logic the Natural Philosophy
and the Philosophy of the Mind in
a veritable intoxication of compre-
hension and delight. One day when
young girl toward whom l felt at
tracted had asked me to 60 and say
goodby to her before her departure
l forgot the time, her journey and
my promise to her over my Hegel.
As l walked up and down my room
I CHANGED to pull my watch out of
my pocket and realized that had
missed my appointment and that
the girl must have started long
ago."
Once before in earlier days had
he missed another engagement with
another young lady, one Henrietta.
For the sake of Henrietta's beauti-
full eyes and under those eyes he
had soundly thrashed another little
boy. Then Henrietta asked him if
he would meet her the same evening
under the old bay tree. DR.. Brandes
writes: "When we met she had two
long straps with her and at once
askcd me somewhat mockingly and
dryly whether l had the courage to
let myself be bound. Of course |
said l had, whereupon very careful
ly and thoroughly she fastened my
arms together with one strap. Could
I move my arms? No. Then with
eager haste she swung the other
strap and let it fall on my back
again and again.
"My first smart jacket was a
well thrashed one. She thoroughly
enjoyed exerting her strength. Nat
urally my boyish ideas of honor
would not permit me to scream or
complain. | merely stared at her
with the profoundest astonishment.
She gave me no explanation, re-
leased my hands, we each went our
own way, and 1 avoided her for the
rest of my stay" Then Henrietta
went away and told people. "This,"
says Brandes, "was my first expert
ence of woman's perfdy. This was
my first real experience of feminine
nofpro
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R, j. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, WINsToN-sALEM ~.
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His Three Thinks.

A father instructed his son never
to speak until he had thought three
times. One day the old gentleman
was standing with his back to fire
place and his coattail dangerously
near the bars. The lawabiding son
was in the room and suddenly Jump
ed off his chair.
Father" he said, with wonderful
deliberation, 'G think
"Well, what do you think?" was
the reply.
Father" repeated the youth, q
think
"Well, well, my son, what do you
Think" said the father.
Father" again the boy remark
ed, 81 think"
"Well, well, what do you think?'
said the father impatiently.
II think your coattail is on fre!'