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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-21
SERGEANT KITTY"

Notwithstanding the very warm
and oppressive weather, large audi,
cnce was at the Opera House last
evening to welcome and enjoy Helen
Byron in Sergeant Kitty" From the
start to the finish this delightful lit
tie comic opera was well rendered.
and the audience expressed its appro-
val by frequent applause and exac-
titns of many encores. Were Ser
geant Kitty" not itself an attractive
opera, it might have been made so by
the very excellent work of Miss By
ron who is a really clever operate
comedienne. She possesses not only
great versatility, sprightly and bril-
liant manners, but an unusually sweet
voice Of wide range, and great purity
of tone. She was decidedly the feature
of the performance, and that is saying
much, because she had good support.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-21
"BROkE" HUSBAND KICKED OUT
Spokane Woman Does Not Tolerate
Spouse of Mythical Means

SPOKANE. Jan. 21.-Dr. Charles
Simmons Carter, of San Francisco,
married a widow with a snug bank
account and a grown-up, irate and
bibulous son, and the combination has
resulted in a break between husband
and wife and the election of the doctor
from his apartments. Mrs. Carter was
the widow of John CrOak. a Great
Northern engineer, who was killed in
landslide near Leavenworth. The
widow purchased the ST Francis hotel,
where Carter wOOed and won her. He
represented himself as a man of means
but the means are said to be mythical
The wedding occurred January r. The
son came home intoxicated, the roomers
say. berated his stepfather for not in
forming him of the wedding, attacked
roomers who interferred and raised
cain" generally. A riot call brought
the police.
Next day the bridegroom, who claim
ed he had a check for $3.50 borrowed
$40 from his bride Then she learned
Of her husbands poverty and elected
him instantly.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-21
WAGE FARMERS ARE CHILLED
Chancellor J. r. Day Attacks the
Labor Unions.

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-In replying
to pleas for poor and charitable move
ments advanced by j. c. Phelps Stokes
and his wife, Rose Pastor Stokes,
Chancellor J. r. Day of Syracure uni
versity said in an address at the an
nual dinner of the Syracuse Alumni
association:
What is all this cry that is being
made about the poor wage-earner?
The wage-earners get enough for what
they do, and a great many of them
get more l know the poor. l lived
among them and studied them. know
that they are the chief support of up
wards of 10000 saloons in this city.
know that they are the chief causes
of intemperance and shiftlessness and
the blame is put on the hard hearted
corporations. We should cease some
of the philanthropy which we practice
and help the poor to learn themselves.
Il believe that there is not greater
piece of despotism that rules than that
by labor unions. 1t is hindrance in
itself to the advancement of man.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-21
MISS JEFFREYsS FAD.

Miss Jeffreys has one fad at least
that is shared by but few American
women. That fad is racing, and at
home in England, Miss Jeffreys sup
ports a rather ambitious stable of
thOrOughbreds with which she has
won not few stakes and consider
able silver plate. Chief among her
equine stars is the famous horse,
"Sceptre H. who recently won the
Manchester cup and before that got
the "CZarewitch. Miss Jeffreys' sta
Bile is in charge of trainer who was
at one time the occupant of similar
position in the employ of King Ed
ward, while he was Prince of Wales,
and some years before he assembled
the throne. She finds relaxation at
her country home in Surrey, where
her delight is to arise at o'clock and
watch the work outs" of her prOmis-
ing candidate. She is also fond of all
outdoor sports, is an excellent swim
mer. a fine tennis player, excels at
golf, and is an expert crOss-cOuntry
rider and follower of the hounds in
the sport of the aristocracy. 1.-The fox
hunt Miss Jeffreys is besides a
great student, is very fond of readina
and her library at her magnificent
country home is one of the most COM
plete in ''all England
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is GREAT COMBINATION.

The genius of the theatrical man
ager was never better eXemplified than
in the combination between Charles
Frohman and George c. Tyler when
they put together for joint starring
tour of this country William H. Crane
and Ellis Jeffreys in a magnificent
revival of she Stops to Conquer.
The interest taken in the old Gold
smith play is a never dying one, and
ever since it's first production at Con-
vent it from falling into other hands"
have been periodic revivals of it
which have been we'll received. Prob
ably of all the old classics excepting
Shakespeare it stands today at the
yerv top of the list, and it is doubt
full indeed if there will ever be play
written in our modern times that will
even remotely approach this one in
point of excellence. SO sincere and so
polished; so graceful and so true in
construction, it serves as a model to-
day as exemplifying all that a drama
tic writing should be.
different purpose than that to which it
eventually came. it has come down
through the years without particle of
change and it is regarded as one OF
the supreme tests of a players ability
to be capable of reading few speeches
from "She Stops to Conquer. 1t is
perhaps not generally known that
Goldsmith may be regarded as the
forefather of our present style of comic
opera which has found such favor IN
the last twenty-five years or so, but
the fact remains that She Stops
to Conquer is actually the forerun-
ner of the style of thing that made
Gilbert and Sullivan famous. Cold
smith originally intended his play to
be a comic opera, for in the original
manuscripts Of the piece that are still
preserved there are a number Of songs
which were intended to be sung by
Kate. Young Marlowe. Diggory and
Tony Lumpkin, with a series of what
would now be called "enSemble' to end
each act Like many another play
wright Goldsmith found it almost i'm
possible to convince the managers OF
his day of the value of his idea, and
So he removed the lyrics from the
play and finally found presentation for
it as a straight comedy.
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Overshot the Mark.
Star of Starbuck.

The article printed in The Star last
week concerning that COW of Butler
Bowers and her terrible fate needs a
little explanation. The article was
printed largely in jest-the statement
that she ate a monkey wrench and re-
ceived a broken back at the hands of
the section crew. ETC., ETC., being equal
ly fictitious. She didn't eat a mon
key wrench. she didn't upset the hand
car. she didn't jump the fence and
she didn't get her back broken. The
only injury noticeable was a few
scratches about the feet. This explain
alton is in defense of Mr.. Bowers
whose business was put in jeopardy
mOmentarily by that tnoughtless item,
a great many people taking it for
truth, even the monkeywrench part.
While the editor isn't trying to exon
crate himself in this matter. still it
seems absurd that people should take
such a statement seriously. Mr.. Bow
ers isn't man who would kill a COW
with a broken back loaded with a,
monkey wrench, and serve her up in
such style to a patronizing public.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-21
Cure Car Shortage
BY Filming Railroads

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 21.-A
strong movement has been started in
Washington to have an amendment
passed to the interstate commerce act
providing for reciprocal demurrage
as one remedy for the car shortage
trouble 1t is believed that this will
be among the recommendations which
President Roosevelt will make in a
message to be sent to congress short
ly.
"Reciprocal demurrage' is another
way of saying: Fine the railroads if
they fail to furnish cars"
At present the railroads fine ship
pers for holding or delaying cars
But when the railroad delays, the
shipper is expected to smile. The
shippers are tired of this jug
handled" arrangement They have
begun united and systematic move
ment in all parts of me country, and
congress will hear from them in a few
weeks.
The fight is already on in a num-
Der of states in the middle west to
secure similar laws from state legisla-
lures. The idea is to get state laws
TO cover state commerce. and inter.
state law for the interstate commerce.
Big Shipper Explains.
in explanation of the general de-
i.1nrage proposition one of the big
shippers organizations has issued the
following:
Our system of demurrage is a
jug-handled proposition. Demurrage is
tn" charge which a railroad company
makes for each day. Sundays and
holidays excepted, that shipper or a
re- over detains a car over 48 hours.
l. You order a car of your railroad
agent III which to load grain or any
&C mmodity, you are allowed 4S hours
f.cG time. Sundays and holidays ex-
ceDted, after the car has been placed
for loading. but you will have to pay
81 for each day you detain the car
over 4S hours, Sundays and holidays
excepted.
This is demurrage. 1t is fair bust
ne: siike and just to all.
Sauce good enough for the goose
should be sauce good enough for the
gander; that is, if you order a car in
which to ship grain or any commodi-
ty. the railroad company should fur
nish that car within 4S hours, and for
any delay over this Tune they should
pay you a demurrage OF 81 day or
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10 increase the wages paid to the SELF
supporting working women.
There can be no objection to the
objects so far expressed. We be-
lieve in women supporting themselves.
Neither do we object to some other
mans wife, or daughter. going into
notifies. In fact we are charmed with
man invade the sanctum to wheedle us
into voting for her particular candi-
date. If were wheedled, that's our
fault. If we're not wileedled, possibly
4 is that the wheedler isn't sufficient
lv good looking and that we are await
ing another visitor.
But the Equality League of Self
supporting Women has gone too far in
the prospectus Reading down the
column we find Mrs. Blatch. the
founder declaring that women should
be employed in the street depart
ments she does not care to have
them sweep the streets, but she does
want them as inspectors and heads of
about poking into dark corners for
he faintest signs of dirt, or dust.
1t is too much. Compelled to re-
move our soiled shoes in zero weather
on the front porch, admOnished against
dropping cigar ashes outside of a nalf
INCH receiver back of the bath room,
sternly warned against busting our
soiled coat in the parlOr, we suf-
fer enough from those household
martinets who have kept the
world clean for centuries. 1t is not for
US to advocate the employment of wO-
men inspectors on the streets and
sidewalks Never will we submit to
those same seedlings downtown that
we endure in the family domicile.
If a man may not wear muddy boots
to and from his work, gleefully vio-
late the antieXpectoratiOn ordinance,
dash his cigar stump againstfthe plate
glass show windows, Or empty his
pipe at the entrances of the dry goods
emporiums. he is being curtailed of his
grand American liberty. Neither may
he be expected to chase himself out of
the postoffice without dropping torn
envelopes and papers along the streets.
1t is not for us that women street
inspectors are to be created. Too
strong to bear would be that sight of
a woman inspector wetting her finger
and industriously rubbing the btu
lithic, or the asphalt to make certain
done his scrubbing well.
Nay, Nay. 1t is us to the mount
aims when the women street inspector
arrives
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-21
True Duck Story.
HillsbOrO Argus.

Monday was bad day for ducks.
Some tame ones We're, in the lake
south of the Jackson Bottom bridge,
and when they left the water and
went on the ice. taking a little rest,
their wings froze to the ice, and they
had to be liberated before they could
return home. One wild fellow had
joined his domestic brethren, and he,
too. like the rest, was made a prisoner.
This is a true story, because it was
told the reporter by a church MEM
ber-and besides, he mad the wild duck
with him as proof.
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fraction thereof; and they should also
move your loaded cars toward dest;.
nation at the rate OF Is miles a day.
which is but three miles an hour
IF such law were rigidly enforced
it would save the grain growers Of
western cities hundreds of thousands
of dollars annually Five western
states have such laws, and in 10 other
states the subject is being agitated
Last winter a reciprocal denim.
rage bill was introduced in the Iowa
legislature. It's experience was typi-
cal. Railroad attorneys and lobbyists
great and small, sober and woozv
worked night and day to defeat the
measure. They succeeded by a close
margin only. but the shippers and
business men bach of the bill consider
that experience only skirmish The
zeal battle is to come
Only Partial Remery.
Commissioner Lane. of the inter
state commerce commission. said in
his recent report to President Roose-
welt on the car shortage situation that
no demurrage law could build tracks
or cars, or furnish engines. In other
WORDS, demurrage is regarded by Com
missioner Lane as only a partial rem.
edy. The real difficulty. in the opin-
ion CT most of the commissioners is
the failure of the railway officials to
put sufficient money into equipment and
hetterments. The railroads, in other
words, Rave been run too much in the
interest of Wall street speculation and
not enough in the interest of the pub
lie. The result is that while great d.
vidends en- watered stock are being
taken i'll out of the earnings, the
equipment Of the carriers has steadily
faller behind the demands of the
growing commerce of the nation
What additional renierdies will be
recommended by the commission
and President Roosevelt? That may
net be answered definitely just now
But tnls is quite certain: President
Roosevelt believes in more and in
c,easing regulation of the railways as
the only thing that will avert govern
ment ownership. The private manage
n:ent of these common carriers has
shown itself incompetent in providing
physical equipment; the only alterna-
tive then is to give to the interstate
commerce commission more power.
Give them the right to require physi-
cal eOuiDment
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-21
THE HARTMAN Mel HOD.

The most striking feature thus far
of the interstate commissions inves-
tigation of the Hartman roads is the
revelations made as to the modern
practice of investing the funds of one
corporation in the stock Of another. 1t
was shown that the Union Pacific, on
Mr.. Harrimans orders, made large
purchases in the stock market, the
transactions being afterwards ratified
by his complaisant board of direc-
tors Some of these purchases were
of stock in systems that had no direct
connection to or relation with the
Union Pacific. as for instance, the New
York Central and the Baltimore &
Ohio. They We're made apparently for
purely stock jobbing reasons, just as
the mysterious sale to William Rock
efeler and the subsequent repurchase
of 100000 shares of Southern Pacific
stock We're intended to bring discOm-
future to Keene, the big Wall street
operator.
OF similar character was the pur-
chase of 46 per cent of the stock of the
Los Angeles street railway systems.
says the Minneapolis Journal, Ito pre-
vent it from falling into other hadns.
The real reason in this case, of course,
was Harriman's desire to fortify his
monopoly of transportation facilities
in southern California.
The method of securing a practical
consolidation of competitive lines by
having one purchase a majority of the
others stock is of comparatively re-
cent origin. 1t is device to eVade
the laws against consolidation. But
Mr.. Hartman has gone a step beyond
this. He mas made his control of the
Union Pacific a great engine for ma
nipulatin the stock market. He is
using his mastery over the railroads
of tic west to win for himself SINH
lar mastery in the east.
1t is to be noted that this mastery
does rot mean Ownership-far from it.
Mr.. Harriman's actual holdings of
..ock in the various corporations he
CONT, are small But his control
is complete and rests on an intricate
and interdependent system, in which
tee actual owners of the properties
have no voice. Nor do they care to
have any voice. SO long as dividends
are regularly declared and melons
frequently cut. the owners are salts
fled. They feel neither the interest
nor the responsibility of ownership.
The stock is to them a mere invest
went. such as government bonds might
DE: o, it is . speculation whose sue
| cess o. failure is registered on the
ticker.
Since ownership and control are
comi'e to be two distinct and diffe.'
| rnt :nincS in the railroad world, 1t is
evident that the government, repre-
senting the publics .oterest. must ex-
ercise more vigorous supervision
over the acts of those in control. They
must be made to cease intermingling
! the stock jobbing business with the
railroad business and to discharge the
latter function fairly as between the
public and the owners.
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oregon's Wide-spreading Prosperity.
MedfOrd Mail.

F. l.. Tou Velle, the gentleman
who. couple of years ago, purchased
the Kleinhammer orchard, south OF
MedfOrd, has sold 40 acres of the
tract to w. C. Hopson. of Milton, Or,
for $4,000. Eleven acres of this land
is set in Comice pears, now in bear
ing. and the remaining portion is al
SO set to pears, but not bearing. Mr..
Tou Velle has left of the Origina'
Kleinhammer tract 1O3 acres, no part
of which he will sell. His reason for
selling this 4O-acre tract was that he
had more land than he could care
for and do it properly. 1t was only
a few months ago that this SAGE same
4O-acre tract was listed on the market
at $500. The splendid record Comice
pears made on the New York market
is responsible for its increase in
value-and it is cheap at the price
paid. In three years time it will
have paid back more than the puf-
chase price.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-21
M'MiLlIAN RESIGNS POSITION

SEATTLE. Wash, Jan. 21.-John
S. Mcmillan, whose resignation as a
member of the Washington state rail
way commission was accepted late
Saturday night by Governor Mead. has
not yet decided whether he will give
up his position as president of the
national association of railroad com.
missioners. Nothing has been heard
from former Governor McGraw. to
whom has been offered McMllian's
place on the commission McGraw is
in Washington.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-21
Lonaworth's Story on Himself.

At the banquet of the Ohio COM
bronze tablet commemorating the first
permanent settlement in the territory
northwest of the Ohio was unveiled,
Congressman Mick" Longworth told
about his first attempt to make a
cling through the state on a special
and Longworth was one of the lesser
lights of the party. Very early one
morning the special arrived at Newark
Ohio. where a crowd was already as
for speech Longworth-theo only man
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-21

company in The Old Clothes Man"
stage material used for laughing pur-
poses only. He has gradually come
INTO his own. One more play commit
ted to the task of showing some Of
the best qualities in his nature will
be added to the local list, when. 'The
Old Clothes Man" will be seen for the
first time here James Kyrle Mac
Curdy wrote the piece, which is a
splendid melodrama of a new type.
The author plays the title role, ac-
composites his task successfully. The
play is not copy OF either THE
Auctioneer," or The Peddler." 1t is,
however, devoted entirely to incidents
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-01-21

in New York life. and one OF the chief
points in it's plot is the search that
Levi, the old clothes man, is making
for his daughter, who has fallen into
the hands of despicable villain, and
his finding her just as she is being
married to the william by Salvation
Army officer on the street corner dur
ing a snow storm. The Salvation AT
my, by the way, comes in for great
deal of advertising of laudatory
character and moreover lends color
to the piece Incidental to the play,
specialties are introduced and a spirit
ed bout between Danny DOugherty
and kid" Sharkey is one OF the feat
ures OF the arena scene.
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Fuel Shortage in The DaIIes.
Ghr.nninlp

A notice Of wood for sale, published
yesterday, brought about 80 bidders to
the old Cosmopolitan hotel this morn
ing, where Judge A. E. Lake was to
dispose of PA cords Of wood, when
belonged to the late John Mcdonald,
who died there last week Bids ran
up until the lot was sold at SIPS. IL
was good, dry bridge timber, which
tine old gentleman had hauled in dur
ing high water and most acceptable at
this season of wood scarcity.
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In talking to reporter last week
Samuel Loney declared he was losing
money while selling coal at $3.50 and
SO ton He insisted, however, that
his love for the consumers was SO
great that he would continue to sell
the coal and lose the money. In the
event Mr.. Loney goes broke We will
cheerfully recommend him to a job
cleaning the ashes and cinders from
the heating plant of the Washington
Printing & Book Manufacturing COM
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up-was asked to go out and mold the
crowd He said ne walked out on the
rear platform and in his best voice be-
gan:
Ladies and gentlemen-'
Just then a limited whizZed by and
his first sentence hung fire. Begin
ming again he repeated: .--.
Ladies and gentlemen-"
switch engine across the railroad
yard got in motion at this point and its
whistle punctuated "Nick's' opening
words with a shrill shrdluwhistle sh
words with shrill stacatto snrieks
Considerably frustrated but holding
himself we'll in hand, the orator once
more began his speech:
Ladies and gentlemen"
1t was no use. A freight train.
mile long if it was an inch, came rum
bling and creaking down the yard, and
the interruption was of such duration
that the crowd got restless. and mick
to keep it from disintegrating entire
ly. shouted at the top of his lungs:
You people don't need any speech
making. There are too many signs OF
republican prosperity in your twon-
Look at the length of that freight
train"
But a voice in the rear of the crowd
shouted back: ;,
Say. young Teller. what yer givin'
us: them's empties.''
And LongwOrth disappeared into the
special.-Saturday Evening Post.
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Miss Byron, although quite young,
hos been an operate star for several
seasons, and her successes each year
are more pronounced, until she is now
a candidate for entrance into that
CLASS which includes FRITZ, Scheff, Ed
ma May, Mabelle Gilman. Virginia
Earle and Elsie Janis. Among the
ctGers deserving special mention are
James McElhern, who did the part
of the captain very cleverly, and Car
rick Major 1t is to be hoped that
Sergeant Kitty" will play a return
date this Wilmington, DELI
Journal.
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Errata.
The Dalles Chronicle.

In mentioning visit which the
Roosevelt bird made to a Dalles home
yesterday morning. the Chronicle gave
the wrong family credit for entertain
ing him. Instead of nOnOring the Al
Nelson home by leaving it's precious
burden there. it was Mr.. and Mrs
E. l.. Nelson who were the best pleas
ed people in the state says DR.. Fer
guson instead of DR.. Large.