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The Washington times., 1907-10-21
sIxTY DAYs FoR ANGRY cHARLEs

Because he disturbed the quiet of
Blagden's alley late Saturday night,
Charles Chase, colored, was sent to the
workhOuse today by Judge Kimbau for
sixty days. Charles became riIed by the
pernicious Interference OF policeman.
and debated his rights in no uncertain
language at the time Of his arrest,
The Washington times., 1907-10-21

81. LOUIS, Oct 2i.-The great
est international balloon race in the
history Of the world will begin here
at 4 o'cloaz this afternoon.
1t wiz he great, not only from the
character of tn. contestants. but
from its possibilities. Most past
aerial races have been held near
large bodies Of water. St. Louis
geographical position. affords almost
limitleSs possibilities for distance
record breaking. There will be nine
contestants.
/ Weather Forecaster Bowie pre-
diets variable winds. becoming
southerly in the afternoon and
southwest late at night" Basing
their calculations on this announce
ment,' the aeronautS expect to land
somewhere on the Atlantic Coast
Should they be carried over the
great lakes, by any possibility, there
viii be no stops. The voyagers will
simply sail on over Canada.
POmmem Leads Flight.
The German balloon Pommeru.
with Oscar ErbsIohe as its pilot. and
Henry NJ. Clayton as his companion.
will make the first ascent. The
other craft viii follow as closely as
possible at fve-minute intervals.
The start viii be from the St.
Louis Aero Club cOncourse, near the
worlds fair grounds, at Forest
Park. The contestants are under
orders to be ready beside their cars
and with gas bags inflated at 2:45
p- m. The balloons viii all be filed
at once from a twenty-four-ineh gas
pipe, with long fed arms.
The contestants have all arrived,
examined conditions, and pronounce
the local managers preparations. all
that could be desired. 1t was at
first hoped that Italian and Spanish
balloons would also race, but delay
in depositing their entrance money
made it necessary to drop both ma
tions from the list of contestants.
Hundred Thousand Expected.
Grandstands Ene The fjftasr-qcra tract
from which the balloons viii take fight
Their capacity Is about l000O, but sur
rounding the grounds. IT is expected that
fully IoO 0O0 people viii watch the AS
cents.
To prevent crowding. two lines of
barbed wire have been erected around
the inclosure. which will also be guard
cd by a strong detail OF police and 80
regular soldiers from Jefferson Bar
racks.
The race Is the second for the James
Gordon Rennett Cup. II Is of interest
as more than a mere sporting event
National pride is AT stake and from q
standpoint much Is 20 be learn
ed. The United States and German
armies arc both represented among The
Changes Made.
Two changes were made among the
pilots and aides at the last moment
I.rof Henry Clayton, OF New York. VIII
accompany EroSlohe, and DR. Rudolph
Denig viii ride with MeclSel.
Officials OF the race are:
y " s-IfdFar timer = II pit.
The Washington times., 1907-10-21
CHANCES Made.

Two changes were made among the
pilots and aides At the last moment
Irof Henry Clayton, Of New York. VIII
accompany EroSloho, and DR. Rudolph
Denig viii ride with MeekeL
Officials OF the race are;
c. p. 5Iidden, timer c. B. Bishop.
The Washington times., 1907-10-21
THE WEATHER REPORT.

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Calls Committee Meeting.

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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-26
WiRE-TAPPERs GET $500.
Lure Business Man to Plunge After
Batting Him With $1,000.

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.-"Wire tap
pers" found another easy mark in Nor
ton A. Goodman, a business man, APP
propriately Of Green street, Fall River.
Goodman's get-rich-quick dream ended
in a loss of $500 He was about to
bring $500 mOre-all the money he
has in the world-to bet on a lead pipe
cinch.' but his brother warned him in
time. also the police.
The police raided the brownstone
house at 223 East Twenty sixth street
and arrested four men. They found in
the deCoy pOOlroOm much 'phOney'
money. racing charts, telephones and a
special wire" which was stretched to-
ward New Orleans only so far as the
roof of the house. Goodman was taken
90 tae poolrOOms where agents OF Mr..
Gates, Mr.. Vanderbilt and the Roth
childs were betting thousands on the
horses. Goodman won $1,000 and the
next day bet $500. Then he lost.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-26

Sixty wears or so ago. when enthu-
siasm for an entente cordiate between
England and France was about as
great as it is today. Douglas Jerrold
said: Tut, The best thing | know
between France and England is the
seal" And there are many VINO are
still Of the same opinion. says Lon
don Tid-Pits. and who regard the pro-
posed channel camel. the faie oil
which parliament will soon determine,
with disapproval and even with dis
may
But this project for linking England
with France has always had its dough
Nv champions and among them Queen
Victoria. who long years ago SAID 10
the Prince Consort: You may tel
the French engineer that If he can
accomplish the tunnel | Will bless MIN
in my own name. as well as in the
names of all the ladies of England.
1t is now more than century since
the problem of bridging over or pur-
rowing under the English channel was
FIRST seriously attacked by engineers;
ana MANY and marvellous are the
schemes that have since been devised.
In 1902 NJ. Matthew. a great French
engineer. conceived a wonderful idea
of a submarine road. through which
coaches could be driven from England
TO France. The tunnel was to be light
ed by oil lamps and to be ventilated
oh a
surface of the water. But the scheme
was hopelessly impracticable; for'
apart from the grave danger from one
or more of these shafts being destroy
placed shafts across the channel would
prove a serious obstacle and menace
to navigation.
Equally impossible We're the bridges
designed much later a model of one
of which was to be seen at the Paris
exhibition Il years ago. This bridge,
which was to link Folkestone with
Cape Gris-neZ, was to be supported py
l2O piles to weigh 100000 tons, to
cost over c340OO,000 and to take 10
years 10 collStl uCt. i'u> 'P''i' iioii' N'N
enormous cost of this structure. which
doomed it to financial failure, its piles
which would have involved so much
danger and difficulty to vessels pass
ing up and down the channel, consti-
tuted an insuperable objection to the
bridge scheme.
Another project doomed to failure
was that of two English engineers who
proposed to construct a tube railway
on the bed of the channel between
Dover and GrisneZ The tube, which
was to be Is feet in diameter and
only four inches thick, was to be laid
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Many DAD Plans to Cut Under
British Channel Are Proposed


!, ~ foot lengths secured to the bot
tom bv screw piles; and through TINS
submerged tunnel the trains were 10
be propelled by compressed ar. more
ambitious. but equally ineffective. was
the plan of NJ Castanier, n french
engineer. who proposed to lay TWO
parallel tubes on the sea bed, cohiec'-
ed at intervals by transverse tupes'
iap1 with station lalf way across Oh
the Varne bank
Other Visionary Plans.
Among many other visionary pro-
iects was one of a submerged bridge.
on which a platform carrying a tram
was to run across the channel anu
another for a submarine boat 10 run
on rails on the sea bottom.
Thirty-one wears ago the present
channel tunnel scheme came INTO De
| ing with the formation OF the Sociele
Franchise du Tunnel Sous-marln, ana
with the approval of both the Enghsh
and French governments work WAS
commenced on both sides of the chan
mel In France a capital of $4,000
WAS subscribed A vertical shaft was
sunk near the village of Sangatte,
about half dozen miles from Calals'
| and the tunnel was commenced, Win
was successfully driven about mile
under the sea. On the English SIDE q
beginning was made with tlree separ-
ate tunnels-one Of half a mile from
Abbot's Cliff. another from the Dover
side of Shakespeare Cliff ana the
third and longest a seven foot tunnel
extending for 2,O15 yards from shaft
100 feet deep sunk near the west end
of Shakespeare's Cliff.
Unfortunately the project eXcited
alarm in the military authorities, who
feared invasion. A joint committee OF
the houses of Parliament was appoint
ed to consider the scheme, and when
the prospect of success was assured
the work was stopped.
That the scheme is feasible is be-
yond doubt Beneath the channel,
from shore to shore, there extends
bed of gray chalk, consisting of chalk
and clay and quite impervious to wa
ter. and through this bed at distance
never less than 100 feet below the
water, a perfectly safe and dry tunnel
can be driven at an estimated cost OF
$4,000, 900. The proposition before
parliament is to construct two tunnels
so feet apart with third for draining
,,urpoCac These tunnels would be lit
tie more than 20 miles long; and when
completed. as now seems probable. 1t
will be possible to reach French soil
within half an hour and without any
of the physical qualms which now at
flict cross channel travellers.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-26
HUNGRY MANS WILD PLUNGE
Dashed HeadIong Through DELEGATES
sen Store Window.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, Feb. 26.-Driven
Smith plunged headlong through the
big plate glass window in front of Hen
ry Schwen'S grocery and delicateSsen
store, at 9 Skillman avenue, Long Is
land city, and landed in the midst Of
sausages. hams, pickles, cheese and
strings of weinerwurst. The inmates
of the store, when they had recovered
from the excitement, found Smith sit
ting in the window picking glass out
of his anatomy with one hand and
munching a sausage held in the other.
He would not bulge, but continued to
eat as only a starving man can.
Ruin and disaster faced Schwen on
all sides. The portion of the stock
which Smith was not actually engaged
in eating was being frozen and nipped
by the frosty gale. A call for outside
help was made, and Policeman Robert
Baumann of the Seventy fifth precinct
answered
With both hands full of sausages
Smith was lifted bodily out of the win
dow and later placed aboard a passing
trolley car and taken to the Fourth
street station house and locked up for
the remainder Of the night.
To the policeman Smith said that he
was originally from Arkansas, but later
from Pittsburg. He was peddling shoe
strings and said he got lost on the out
skirts of Long Island city, and was half
dead from cold and hunger. When he
saw the warm lights in Schwen's Win
dow and the rows of sausages hanging
idly on the hooks inside he simply
couldn't resist the temptation of div
ing in after them. Schwen's loss to
stock and the broken window will foot
up to about 500. Believing that Smith
is mentally unbalanced, Magistrate
Connorton held him until his mental
condition can be inquired into.
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PUBLIC SALE.

Thursday, February %, beginning at
10 o'clock a. M, at the ranch of H.
Nj. Bronson. five miles southwest of
Walla Walla, on Valley Chapel road,
near Newcomb bridge.
Four Mich COWS. two fresh.
Twelve twO-year-Old heifers; two
fresh, 10 fresh in the spring.
One 3-year-old Jersey bull.
Four short 2-year- heifers.
Six yearling heifers.
These are as fine a bunch of cattle
as was ever offered for sale and buy
ers will be pleased when they see them.
One Swear good work horse.
One 6-year-old good mare.
Two good hacks.
Terms-Al sums of $4,000 or un-
der, spot cash; sums of over $4,000,
per cent off for cash. or six months
time per cent interest, on approved
security.
H. NJ. BRONSON. Owner,
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NEW SPRING FASHIONS

CHICAGO, Feb. 26.-Thoughts of
spring lightly turn to the haberdashery
The first robin of the season has sig
nailed it's appearance at Riverside.
Berwyn, haywood, Downer's Grove.
blade of green grass has been discover
ed near the animal house at Lincoln
park. Although Easter is more than
month away, the moderating weather
has stirred mems Outfitters to activity,
some of them declaring that they alrea-
dy are doing a nice business in spring
goods.
Purchasers, prospective purchasers,
and window gazers are asking and
wondering what will be the '''proper
things" to wear this spring. Uniform
ity of design and color is desirable. but
with some of the designs on display it
is admitted that courage will be re-
CURED on the part of the wearer. The
modest dresser who likes to keep up to
date in the matter of shirts will not
have much difficulty in satisfying him
self. All the old stripes and figures
vii continue in vogue, with the plated
bosom the proper thing.
A heliotrope shirt accompanied by
purple or lavender fourth hand is eX-
pected to be in high favor. Pastel
shades, steel grays, and gun metal
colors will be popular in the necktie
line if Chicago follows New York and
London Wide string ties-something
after the fashion of those worn by
Andrew Jackson and Daniel Webster
will be pushed.
Radical followers of fashion will wear
solid colored hosiery-navy blue, Law
ender, grays, and tans, if something
other than black is desired. Various
shades of brown will be stylish in derby
hats, and the pearl colored soft hats are
expected to gain much more favor than
last year. when they had big run.
In collars the lower turndowns and the
big wing standups are expected to pre-
vail.
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and takes his way down the continent
through Budapest, passing through
Austria Hungary, Servia, Bulgaria,
down to the north of Greece, BOsphorus,
thence toward the Persian gulf going a
little to the north of the ancient city
Troy and to the south of Armenia,
called 1.-The cradle of the world" Mount
Ararat and the Persian capital, passing
the branch lines leading to Damascus
and the holy land with Jerusalem on
the one hand and Mecca on the other,
until Bagdad is reached. Thence a
short run takes the train to the sea-
ports on the Persian gulf.-New York
Herald.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-26

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Despite
the prompt action Of congress in enact
ing legislation to care for the Jap
anese question, it is altogether prob
able that, like Banquo's ghost, this
to come. Following a number of pro-
tracted conferences at the White
House, Mayor Schmitz and the Califor-
MIA. delegation believed the plan they
had mapped out with the president
practically offered a solution of the
subject. That the coast is not satisfied
is evidenced by a strong Geographic
protest now in hands of Mayor
Schmitz, in which O. A. TveitmOe,
president of the Japanese and Korean
Exclusion League, protests against
Secretary Roots amendment to the
Immigration bill. According to advices
reaching here by way of London, Japan
has not agreed in any way to any So
luton of the San Francisco problem
depending upon the exclusion of Jap
anese laborers from the United States.
This leaves open the whole question,
and it would appear that the United
States is still treading upon very thin
diplomatic ice. In all likelihood, the
matter will be one of the big issues
to be threshed out in the Sixtieth con-
gress.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-26
Kaiser Plans Railroad to Link
Germany With Oriental Lands

An all rail route from Hamburg,
Germany, to Bagdad and the port of
Koweit, on the Persian gulf, is the am
bition of the kaiser. 1t is said that
the emperor is resolved to have the
connecting lines already projected
through Asia Minor pushed on to COM
pletion If he has to get up a war to
do it. And the sultan OF Turkey APP
proves the enterprise for the govern
ment from military and commercial
points of view, saying nothing of af-
fording speedy and direct routes to
the holy city of Mecca.
The Germans are anxious to have
the Bagdad railway speedily finished
TO open up new commerce for Germany
with the 300,000.000 population of Brit
ish India. The proposed railway sys-
TEN would cover q large part of the
distance on the direct road to India.
When once completed from COnstan-
tinople through Asia Minor to the Per-
sian gulf the line With its European
connections would enable the kafsers
journey from Berlin to Bagdad and
the Persian gulf as we'll as to ancient
cities of Palestine.
First Part of Road
The first section of POO kilometers
from Konia to Eregli. east of Constan-
tinople. has been completed and il is
now proposed to begin work on three
sections of the line of 200 llilOmeters
each. 1t is estimated that the cost
of each section viii average about $40
100000. Ii is planned to take up three
sections nj once because it will aver
age the expense. The Taurus section
along the seashore. viii be costly ant
require much careful engineering The
two other sections are fairly easy. The
only problem to meet now is to OBJ,
tain surety for the Turkish guarantee
of funds. When that is secured there
viii be no difficulty in raising the nee.
essary money
The Turks it may be said. are par.
ticularly anxious that these three sec
lions of the Bagdad road should sooI
be finished. as it will open the line a:
far as Aleppo and thus facilitate ;
juncture with Damascus and theme,
with the Hejiaz railroad to Mecca.
Notwithstanding Germany's failures
sometimes in colonial policy, as re-
CARDS Turkey and Asia Minor tn
kaiser certainly achieved brillian
commercial policy In ten wears he
commerce in Asia Minor has increase,
more than ten-fold. BY her Bagda,
concessions Germany has acquired
vast strip of country through ASH
Minor. 1t is about $500 kilometer
long by 40 broad. for the concession
gives her rights of mineral and othe
developments for 30 kilometex on eac
side of the line. Germany looks for
ward in the future to the development
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Treasury Short $4,000

CHICAGO, Feb. 26.-It is reported
that false entry in certain books or
the United States subtreasury reveals
discrepancy of $4,000. Sub-Treas-
urer BOldenweck took the matter to
Federal Attorney Sims who took the
now in session.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-26

In a report issued this week by the
Geological Survey, attention is called
to the great damage done by the shift
ing channel OF the Missouri river The
report says:
The channels have shifted so rapidly
in late years, that, whereas fifteen
years ago steamboats, piled regularly
as far up the river as Omaha, thre is
now no regular line above Kansas City
At many points the channel has shift
ed in these fifteen years over mile
of ground. and where once were fertile
farms are now only brushy gravel
banks and worthless sand bars"
This report directly supports the con-
tention of the National rivers and har-
bors congress that the Improvement
or rivers not only will permit of their
carrying On their waters fleets of boats
bearing the commerce of the country,
but it also will prevent in large meas
ure the great damage done each year
by floods and freshets. With the riv-
ers improved by deeper channels to
provide for all stages of water, this
enormous loss to the country at large
each year would be obviated, while at
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Around the Lobby at Washington

gun thus early, Senator Kittredge of
South Dakota this week having in
he acted as host to the South Dakota
delegation in the Academy at a BAN
quet spread in Carval Hall. A number
of other state and class dinners are
on tapis and one already is planned
to take place at the Homestead hotel,
at Hot Springs, Va. The midshipmen
will be whired from the seacoast to
the mountain resort in a special ca"
and their congressional friends will see
that they are given necessary leave of
absence.
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of the bituminous and petroleum yield
ing lands at Kerkuk, about Babylon and
the Tigris and Euphrates valley, known
to be able to furnish a supply 10 times
that of the Baku oil fields. She CAL
clates that Anatolia, Syria. Mesopot-
anna and Irak can. when developed,
produce more corn than the whole of
Russia
But this is not ALL Germany has
her eye on the grand possibilities of
the cotton supply from MesopOtamia,
which would make her independent of
secure a market among the German
manufacturers.
Again, the concession grants Ger
many the right to navigate the histor-
el-Arab: also to build quays at Bag
dad and Basra. and other improve
ments for shipping on the Persian
gulf.
According to an authority who has
studied the situation the Bagdad rail-
road enterprise is called the greatest
event of the reign of the kaiser. 1t is
his most ambitious dream-direct COM
munication between Hamburg, Berlin
and the Persian gulf. This in a mea-
sure accounts for the interest the en-
peror manifested recently in Pales
tine
His apparent devotion to the his
toric and religious things of the holy
land cannot obscure the fact that the
increase and glory of empire We're
back of everything. The forces OF
Germany allied with the 100000
Turkish soldiers would make a power
| army, hard to defeat. This alliance
has been made and there is no doubt
that the railroad will be presently
completed.
Kaiser Studies Plan.
/ Already the German emperor has
studied the carefully devised plans OF
the famous German engineer. Sieges-
mund Schneider, for spanning the Bos-
! phorus With a bridge uniting Europe
With Asia. The sultan has seen the
mere question of raising the necessary
money to complete the work alons
the railroad line will not keep the
great monarchs awake onights to any
extent
Down in those vast plateaus and val
| leys along the Tigris and Euphrates
are ineNhaustible quantities of petrol
cum and coal The road will awaken
| the echoes of the ancient world which
built the greatest cities of history
among them Babylon and Nineveh
where the vast armies overran the
| earth and palaces arose on every
hand
The idea of such an enterprise bring.
ing to life an ancient civilization is in.
spring. Leaving Hamburg or Berlin
the passenger soon arrives at Vienna
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-26

Uncle Sam at last is determined to
come to the rescue of the big trees
of California. The senate committee
on public lands this week authorized a
favorable report on the bill to create
a reservation to be known as the
Calaveras Big Tree National Forest.
The secretary of agriculture is au-
thOrized by the measure to obtain title
to the forest of big trees in California
known as SequOia Westinghouse.