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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-09-05
At Congregational Church Tonight.

At Congregational Church Tonight.
Subject of the prayer meeting at the
First Congregational church: Asking
large requests of God. What are our
desires from Him. Reference II.
Kings 13, VS.. 1919. This is the open
ing prayer meeting of the autumn and
all will receive an impetus for the
Lords work by attending. Meeting
lasts from 7:30 to $3.50.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-09-05

r. E. Rogers is in the city from Pas
co looking after business interests in
the city.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-09-05
Portland Will Welcome Taft.

PORTLAND, Sept. 5.-Secretary
Taft will be warmly welcomed this
evening on his arrival here. He Will
rest this evening receiving no one. To-
morrow he will visit the barracks at
Vancouver. The reception for Mrs
Taft will be in the afternoon and the
big reception for Taft will be held in
the evening when he will speak. He
leaves for Tacoma Saturday night.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-09-05
WILL TEACH IN GARFIELD.
Popular Whitman Man Will Instruct
In Latin and Mathematics.

Gaius Greenslade left yesterday af-
ternoon for Garfield where he will be
an instructor in the departments of
latin I'd mathematics in the high
school e. Mr.. Greenslade is a
membsr q lask-year's graduating class
of Whitman olege and is also ah
alusnRns of tt zeal high school. At
collie Gus" MS one of the best
knows members e The student body.
For sevsn years hxraone of Whit
mans be- <kbaters 81 &his year was
close second for hcNe in .oratory
During his la14-years in c,Dksse he was
president of - AssociatAd, students,
the greatest n0iabr theg stndents can
show one of their nunlnoCk He was
editor-in- chief Of the Ps6x&e, the COL
lege paper, resigning xDrposition on
account of other duties. Since gradu-
ating he has been employed as tele-
graph editor of the Union.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-09-05

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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07
WEALTHY men
KILLED At FIRE
Wall Crushes Four Prominent VoIun.
teer Fighters.
THEY WERE SkEPT FROM LADDER.
Acc dent at a Fire in While Pains
Results in the Death of Four Volun-
teer Firefighters Who Were Well
Known and Wealthy-Heavy Cornice
Brings Down Brick Wall.

White Plains Especially -Four vol
unteer firemen, well-to-do young bus
iness men and members of prominent
families, were killed by falling cor
nice at 100000 fire here. Some
of the bodies were SO badly charred
as to be unrecognizable
The dead are:
Chester Cromwell, a recent bride
groom, son of the president of the
First National Bank.
Charles Cooley, unmarried, of the
real estate firm of Cooley & West.
Caleb Underhill, married, manager
of livery stable.
Elmer Burgess, married. a confec-
toner.
A dozen persons were injured.
Among them we're:
Charles Sutton. both legs broken.
Charles Armbruster, both legs
broken.
Stephen D. Lyon, burned about the
body.
The dead men belonged to Union
Hook-and-Ladder Company, composed
or the leading young men of the
town. Only yesterday there had been
fire and the Union Company turned
out in frock coats and silk hats to ex-
tinguish the flames.
Mondays fire started in the new
three-stOry Mead Building with an ex-
plosion of gas on the ground floor
The building was occupied by the
Westchester Lighting Company, a
manufacturer of mems clothing, and
the Masonic lodge.
The cornice of tho building had
become loOsened and. fearing it
would fall into the crowd around the
building. the firemen prepared 20
pull il down. A ladder was run up at
what was believed to be a safe dis
tance. and after a rope had been at
tached to the loosened cornice the
men on the ladder began to pull
As the cornice gave way is brought
portion of the wall with it and the
ladder and its occupants were swept
down In the shower of bricks.
Cooley and Underhili were dead
when they. were removed from the
mass of wreckage. The other men
were removed to a hospital. where
they died a few moments after reach
ing the institution.
The section of cornice was so heavy
that is required nearly 100 men to
lift 1t. Extreme care had to be taken
lest in moving the debris other in
Juries might be inflicted upon the
men buried underneath.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07
Foreign.

Chinese rebels hold all the noun
tain Businesses on the borders of
Human and Kiangsi, and all attempts
of the imperial troops TO dislodge
them have failed.
The commission to revise the con-
stitutiOn of Holland recommends the
exclusion from succession to the
throne of children born after the alb
dication of the sovereign.
Daniel Osiris, the philanthopist
who presented Malmaison, the resi-
dence of the Empress Josephine, to
the French nation. Is dead.
Smallpox has broken out in the
famine camp in Central China, and it
is feared a worse pestilence will fol-
low
Relief parties have been sent to
Bareges, near Lourdes, France, where
20 houses were buried by an ava
lanche.
President Roosevelt, in "A letter to-
the Norwegian foreign minister
writes that he will value the Nobel
medal so long as he lives. and after
his death it will be highly priced
by his children.
Officials of the Congo a1ministra-
ton announced that the uprising in
the Manyanza district had been sup
pressed, and that the native chief
who instigated it has been appre-
hended.
Advices from Solomon Islands, in
the South Seas, state that the en-
tire topography of the islands has
been changed by an earthquake.
Prof. Karl Hau, of Washington
University, charged with the murder
of his mother-in-law in Frankfort,
Germany, admits having worn a
false beard, but still denies the mur-
der.
Completed returns from the Ger
man Reiehstag elections show. that
all the political parties increased
their vote, the Socialists continuing
the largest party numerically.
Lifeboats from Hartlepool rescued
"a of the crew of the British steamer
Clovering, ashore at the mouth of
the Tees. Twenty-nine lives were
lost.
A formal statement has been is
sued by the family of the private
settlement of the differences between
the Duke and Duchess of MARI
borough.
Sir Alfred Jones arrived at London
and at once proceeded TO white
wash" Governor Swettenham OF any
blame for hts conduct.
Governor Guidema, of the political
prison on Basil Island, Russia. was
assassinated by a youth, who es-
capeQ. A prison warden who at
tempted to arrest the assassin was
! fatally shot
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07

Lexington, Ky. (SpeciaD When
the case of Caleb Powers, charged
with completely in the assassination
of Governor William Geobel, at
Frankfort. seven years ago. was call
ed in the Circuit Court at George
town Tuesday the trial was continued
by agreement. A special term of
court will be called probably for the
early summer. Neither side has
made any preparation for the trial
This will be the fourth trial of Pow
ers, who has been sentenced to the
penitentiary twice and given death
penalty once.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07

months ago. Francis, who was en-
plOyed in a furniture house in Rich
mond. made away with $500 In the
Hastings Court he was sentenced
to a year in the penitentiary. Judge
Witt, Commemorative Attorney
Minetree Folkes and the jurymen
who tried the case signed the petit
ton. DR.. w. A Gillis informed the
Governor that he had examined
Francis shortly after the crime was
committed, and believed that 3the
prisoner was mentally unbalasced
from excessive drinking.
In the Circuit Court OF Clarke
County a strong protest was filed
against the granting of n license TO
sell liquor at Mount Airy, which is
near the Mount Weather Scientific
Station. Prominent government off,
cials are also interested in defeating
the application.
State Librarian John p. Kennedy
has advertised for a new list Of books
for the travelling State libraries
This is being done with the full
knowledge and sanction of the
library board. Copies of the list
nave been sent to three local dealers.
to several other concerns in Virginia
and to bookhouses in the North.
Lewis Moncure. son of r. c. l..
Moncure, of Stafford County, while
playing with a dynamite cartridge
struck a match 10 the cap. The
cartridge exploded and tore off three
fingers of the youths hand.
At Blairs Gap. Tenn. just across
the line from Washington County.
this state, Samuel Good beat his ~
year-old stepson to death with a
fence rail. The little fellows plea
for mercy was answered with power
full blows delivered on his body by
the enraged step-parent. Good has
not as yet been apprehended. The
brutal killing has caused seH<
in the neighborhood.
The voters of Madison district
will vote February 9 on the PROPOSE
ton to issue S25. 900 in bonds for
matchmaking the roads in that dis7
trict. Much interest is felt in the
outcome of the election.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07
SwindIed Country Banks.

San Francisco (SpeciaD The Cal
ifornia Bankers Association is look
ing for man said to be o. T. Mott,
who, it is alleged, has devised a new
scheme for obtaining money from
country banks. Several banks have
lent money to Mott, taking as securi-
ty stock certificates of the Fort Kent
(Me.) Trust Company and Aroostock
County (Me.) school bonds. Mott is
not known by the officers of the Fort
Kent Trust Company, and IL Is as
sumed by the banks that the certifi-
Gates are forgeries.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07
A Round Trip.

Many teacher has found himself
repeating year after year some fav-
orite story without considering the
logic of it until called to halt by
small boy listener. So 1t was with
Mr.. Frisbie when he told his pupils
this year as usual of a certain Roman
athlete who every morning swan the
Tiber three times.
AS the detail of this achievement
burst upon him, little Willie Barnes
nudged his next neighbor and snick-
ereJ audibly. The professor under
took to rebuke him.
Willie" said he. you seem to see
something very humorous in this.
Will you explain to the class what it
is? Do you doubt that he could swim
the river three times?"
mo, sir it amt that" gasped
little Willie. But / was wondering
why he didn't make 1t four times, so
as to get back to the side where his
clo'es were"
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07
Vote To Leave Dowie.

Cincinnati, o. (Specia) - BY a
vote of SO to 6, the Cincinnati Con-
gregation of Zion, founded by Dowie
and nurtured by Volviva, determined
to cut loose entirely from the parent
church in Zion City, according to
announcement made Monday. A let
ter was mailed to Overseer Volviva
notifying him of the action of the
church. Elder w II. Cossum. who
sent the letter. at the same time said
that the action taken was final and
that there could be no change back
to the old allegiance
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07
Seymour A. Baker Dead.

Kansas City, Mo. (SpeciaD Rev.
Seymour A. Baker. one of the found
ers of the Republican party, a pro-
slavery agitator, Presbyterian min
lister and an editor OF note, died at
his home here of pneumonia. He
was born in Arlington. VT. 81 years
ago and was one of the Oldest min
listers in age and point of Iservlce in
the United States.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07
David Peck Rhoadcs Dead.

Bridgeport. CT. (SpeciaD David
Peck Rhoades, one of the founders
of the New York Tribune and an as
sociate of Horace Greedy, died at his
home, in Stratford, aged S4. After
leaving the Tribune Mr.. Rhoades
formed the New York News Com
pany; which business he conducted
for many years until he sold out to
the American News Company and
retired. Death was the result of q
shock caused by a fall suffered by
Mr.. Rhoades a week ago as he left
the rooms of the Stratford Social
Club
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07
HEIGHT OF THE Atmosphere.
Estimates Which Considerably Ex-
cced the Old Ones.

Something like half a century ago
1T was thought that the atmospherS
envelope of the globe was ahnns~Ior-
ty-five mile Lhiel4-----r@r'7e belief was
based on the rate at which the density
OF the air diminished ut successive
levels, as measured with barometers
in balloons and on mountain tops.
Or course, no one ever went up forty
i've miles, but for long time no one
was in position to question the ac-
curacy of the figures. At length a
new basis for calculation was afford
ed. Simultaneous observations of
meteor from widely separated sta
tions on the eartk's surface, together
with careful measurements of the
angle formed by the line Of sight with
a true horizontal, led to the convic-
ton that the air must extend upward
more than hundred miles A
meteor is a bit of cold stone or metal,
which remains invisible until friction
between its surface and the air makes
the former hot. The meteor becomes
incandescent from its high velocity.
Still another method of computation
is described by T. J. J. See, an astron-
omer, in recent issue of the United
States Monthly Weather Review
If person knows the exact mo-
ment of sunset (Which he can learn
from an almanac) and then notices
when the last trace of blue disap-
pears from the sky, he will be able
to determine the height of the .atmos@
phere within five or ten miles by
formula which Mr.. See supplies.
Since the few observations thus far
made show slight differences, IS
would seem to be necessary that the
matter be followed up further, So
that the average OF large number
could be found. The theory on which
this plan is based is that the blue is
reflected from microscopic particles
OF nitrogen and oxygen in the upper
layers of the atmosphere. This the
Ory, says Mr.. See, receives its most
striking confirmation from the long
duration of the blue color after SUM
set, showing the great height of the
particles which scatter the blue light.
There can, he thinks, be very little
doubt that our atmosphere extends
TO height of about $50 miles.
Mr., See declares that a person
gifted with good eyesight can, with 4
little practice. make these observa-
tions easily, especially as they re-
quire no instrumental aid.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07
Late Earthquake Record.

London Especially Professor Be-
lar, the well-known seismologist,
telegraphs from Laibach that an
earthquake lasting 90 minutes oc-
CURED 4,6S7 miles from Laibach. 1t
reached its maximum intensity at
9.26 p. M. He points out that his
records of the earthquake that oc-
Cured on January are now shown
to have been those of the disturb
ance that occurred in the Tonga Is
lands
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07
BOY sLAYs MOUNTAIN LION.

William r. Weir, twelve-year-old
son of r. d. Weir, Colorado Springs
merchant, shot through the heart
mountain lion while hunting with
his father and others at Debeque,
Col. The animal measures six feet
and weighs three hundred pounds.
The shot was offhand at two hun
dred yards. The animal was at bay.
surrounded by the hounds. The shot
was remarkable under the circum-
stances, but Was Ia keeping with the
boys record IS a crack shot.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07
For the Open Championship.

An amusing story of amateur sport
comes from Rockville, Maryland,
where each year there is held a series
of races "for all comers."
The sun was blazing down on
field of hot. excited horses and men,
all waiting for tall, raw-boned beast
to yield to the opportunities of the
starter and get into line.
The patience oe the starter was
nearly exhausted. Bring up that
horse!" he shouted. Bring him up!
You'll get into trouble pretty soon,
IL you don't!"
The rider of the refractory beast, a
youthful Irishman, yelled back: 81
can't help it, This here's been cab
horse, and he won't start till the door
shuts, an amt 60 no doorl"--H Har-
per's Weekly
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07
Mrs. Longworth Ill.

Washington (SpeciaD Mrs. Alice
Roosevelt Longworth. wife of Repre-
sentative Longworth, of Ohio. and
daughter OF the President, is i'll at
her home in this city with what is
stated at her home to be a slight at
tack OF grip. The President and Mrs
Roosevelt spent sometime at the
Longworth home. and were very
much concerned about their daugh-
ter's health when they were inform
\ed by the attending physician that
her temperature had gone up to t02.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Domestic

the New York State Insurance De
partment, refused to accept the resig
nations of Messrs. Kinkead and
Marks, inspectors OF election of the
New York Life Insurance Company.
Richard OBrein, acting deputy SUI
perintendent of public buildings, New
York state, and James Johnston,
chief engineer OF the department.
were dismissed as the result of an
investigation.
Secretary Shaw declares that
published intimation that certain
financial interests nave received ad-
vantageous tips from the Treasury
Department is both false and gra-.
tuitous."
G. A. PrOuty, interstate commerce
commissioner, took testimony in the
case of ID. w. Durham, of st. Joseph,
Mo-, against the Illinois Central Rail
road at Wichita, Kansas.
The North American Insurance
Company, organized by former agents
of the New York Life, has received
authority to do business in New Jer-
sey.
A Missouri legislative committee
that investigated the Kansas City
Stockyard Company charges that the
company mulcted farmers and ship
pers.
Professor Marshall, of Ohio Wes-
ieyan University, in an address on
Race Effects of immigration, said
race suicide was due to immigration.
In a dispute at the breakfast table
between John Gebhardt and his son
Charles, at Steubenville, O., the faith
er was shot and killed.
The grand opera house and seven
other buildings in the business dis
trict of Harrisburg, Pa. were burn
ed. Total loss about S25O.OOO.
Federal Judge Holland fined the
Camden Iron Works Company, of
Camden, n. j., $4,000 for accepting
rebates.
Mrs. John McCausland. her two
children and her brother-in-law we're
asphyxiated in their home at Day
ton, o.
Capt. George b. Boynton. sentenc-
ed TO six months Imprisonment for
completely in a plan to counterfeit
Venezuelan money, was released af-
ter having served three months on a
pardon signed by President Roose-
welt
The hearing of the Hartman mer-
ger in San Francisco was resumed
before Interstate Commerce Commits
sioner Lane.
John Aldridge, charged with killing
his wife, was convicted of murder in
the first degree at Gainesville. Ga.
The fight for prohibition is on in
the Oklahoma Constitution Conven-
ton
Fire. which started with an ex-
plosion in the paint shop. destroyed
section Of the Baldwin Locomotive
Works. Philadelphia. causing a loss
OF $1.90O.O0O.
The Princeton Elevator Company,
of Princeton, Ind, was placed in the
hands of a receiver. Il is claimed
the assets are 100000. liabilities
100000.
The Senate Of California has
adopted resolution protesting
against the federal government in
terfering in the Japanese school
question.
The Little Miami Railroad Com
pany has increased its capital stock
$2,000,000 and modified its lease to
the Pennsylvania.
Two jurors were excused and two
accepted in the Thaw trial. making
nine now in the box.
Five railroad employees were killed
in wreck on the Boston and Maine
Railroad.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07
INSISTS UPON TREATY RIGHTS.
Any Solution OF The Controversy
Must BE Based Thereon.

Toxic (By Cable) After a care
full survey of public feeling here re-
garding the prospect of a satisfactory
solution of the San Francisco school
controversy, it may be stated that
while the approach of the termina-
tion of the diSagreeable affair is well
coined, yet the report from Wash
ington that. solution may be ef-
fected by mutual treaty excluding
the immigration of laborers is gen.
orally disbelieved as unreasonable.
According to the prevailing feel,
ing. a solution must be effected on
Japan's treaty rights pure and sim.
pie.
However, confidence continues that
solution of the question will be
reached without the least sacrifice
of Japanese honor and prestige.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-02-07

The Koreans are great losefS
flowers, though comparatiyely
gave the means to indulxa h q
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-25

Has the penitentiary on the hill
above town ceased to be the charmed
scarab which has heretofore protected
Walia Walla from the depredatiOns of
burglars. sneak thieves and criminals
of all classes?
1t would seem so for the daring bur-
glary of Ben Hollis home on Palouse
street last night on top of a dozen
other robberies and thefts which have
been reported to the police within the
past few weeks points to the conclu-
sion the city and vicinity is being
worked by a gang of veteran crimi-
nails.
One of the two men who were seen
coming down the steps of the Holt
residence last night by Charles Nc
Kean can be identified if the police
get him because Mr.. Mexican noticed
him particularly at only few steps
from him.
This fellow was evidently an old
hand at the business as he coolly and
insolently asked Mexican, What in
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-25
PROBATED MAN SECURED
LIQUOR FROM DRUG STORE

oliver Anderson, the man who was
charged with giving liquor to Gus
Swanson, probated drunkard, and
whose trial occurred this morning in
the justice court, was dismissed be-
cause of lack of evidence.
Bernard, the fellow who told Officer
Wilcox he saw Anderson give the bot
tie of whiskey to Swanson, denied hav-
ing said such a thing to the police
man.
Wilcox told how he found the
whiskey under a mattress in the back
end of Swanson's store on Main street
and how Bernard, who was lying on
the bed had told him of seeing An
derson hand Swanson the bottle.
From Anderson's own evidence and
that of Constable Peterson it is plain
Swanson is procuring the liquor from
some drug store. The police will keep
a watch on these establishments in
future and any violations of the law
will be punished to it's full extent.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-05-25

Did you see "Higbee OF Harvard
last night?
If YOU didn't you missed the best
amateur production Of the kind ever
seen in Walla Walla.
The play was unique here, because
the parts were all taken by girls-and
every one of them pretty girls, too
though you'd never have suspected that
some of the cleverly made up charac-
tors ever wore a princess dress, so
we'll were the characters of Higbee, ana
the other men of the play carried out.
If Mary Moffat is ever seen by FROM
man or Belasco she will have TO go OH
tho stage-that's all there is to 1T. Mary
was most ubiquitously there as the
Montana millionaire who feared neither
man whow he knew well. nor gram
mar which he knew not at all. From
the time Mary and her company nrst
anpeared on the pretty little stage at
e. paups school until the home -maoe
curtain dropped on the last act tnere
uas an almost continuous ripple Oh
rnirtb from the well satisfied audience
who listened and saw and held tneir
sides.
Leah Keylor as Higgins, the outief
with a very stiff neck and precise ar