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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02
ADJUSTMENTS
At KeyIor Grand Tonight.

1t appears as though Ian MacLaren's
story of THE Bonnie Brier Bush" as
dramatized by James Macarthur will
never grow old. It's success has been
and is now phenomenal, but it new
ertheless is not a success that cannot
be accounted for.
OF all the good plays that have
graced the stage THE Bonnie Brier
Bush is the best and purest. 1t is a
story of human interest, unfolding a
life's chapter in the simple Scottish
glen, so true to nature and to life as
to appeal with irresistible force to the
audience. 1t is a comedy drama, which
like good wine, improves with age. II
is fragrant with the heather of bonnie
Scotland. is enlivened with pointed,
yet harmless Scotch wit, and is soften
end and tempered by the rendering of
"Annie Laurie" THE Bonnie Banks
of Lock LOmond," and other songs of
auld Scotland by an excellent quar-
tette.
This beautiful play, which will ap
pear here tonight at the Keylor Grand
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02

will be given with a most sumptous
scenic equipment, the entire original
Kirke La Shelle production being
used. The company is practically an
all-star one, including among it's men,
bers such artists as J. Palma Collins,
who was Mr.. Stoddard's understudy in
the role of Lachlan Campbell, and has
played the part since the illness and
subsequent retirement of the great
actor. Bino BulOw, young and very
pretty actress is this season making
a reputation for herself in the part OF
Flora Leonard Lowe. who was
brought to this country by Forbes
Robertson, Kenneth Mackenzie, late
of the George Edwardes company, and
many others equally prominent.
A male quartette will add to the
Scottish atmosphere, as will also Rob-
ert Ireland, whom everybody knows as
late pipe major of the 4Sth Highland
ers, whose performance on the bag
pipe cannot fail to. arouse enthusiasm
in every heart
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02
EXPOSED SOLON STUNNED.
People Of Home Town Desert Missouri
Man After Smallpox Scare.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, March g.
Representative A. A. Speer, who re-
turned to his home in Chamois when
smallpox broke out here, returned yes
terday and gave as his reason that
everyone in Chamos fled whenever he
approached, with the exception of his
own family. In desperation he decided
to return to the state capitol where
the people who remain say they are
not afraid of the disease.
John NJ Dougherty, a clerk in the
house of representatives, was taken to
the isolation hospital yesterday after
a doctor pronounced him i'll with small
pox.
Representative Kirkpatrick of Cedar
county was stricken with a mild case:
of small pox this morning and was &c
moved to the emergency hospital.
This makes the fifth man connected
with the house to contract the disease.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02

secured the position of athletic instruc-
tor at the Western university of Penn
sylvania at a salary of $3.50 year.
Mothers Maid Captures Him.
Miss Anne Aston of Chicago before
her marriage, returned from Europe
about a year ago with a perfect jewel
of a maid whom she had secured in
Paris. Her son came home from Yale
about the same time and a short time
later eloped with the maid. His father
believing that John AlstOn's actions
were due to excessive drinking, placed
him in a Sanitarium for a short time
but when he was released he went at
once to his wife and since then they
have been living in little cottage in
the suburbs of Allegheny.
Enraged at his sons marriage, the
elder Moorhead disinherited him and
cast him out of the family. Young
Moorhead at once set about to earn his
own living and asked no assistance
from any person. The w. U. p foot
ball squad needed coach for the men
behind the line about this time, and
young Moorhead, because of his great
record at Yale, was given the position
Two weeks ago he was given the post
of athletic instructor.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02
FLYING STEER KILLS HIM
Beast Hurled by Train Hits Horseman
and Sweeps Him Into Creek.

MIDDLESBORO, KY, March, q
Thrown over an embankment into a
creek with the horse he was riding,
being struck by steer hurled from the
track by a railway train, former Cir
death yesterday afternoon near Pine
vile.
At the time of the unusual accident
Goodwin was driving cattle from the
track. The train was running at a
rapid rate, and when it struck the
steer, hurled the animal through the
air Both Goodwin and the horse he
rode We're drowned. The steer was
killed by the impact with the train.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02
COUPLE FIGHT FOR slLvERwARE
Woman Who Was Forced to Climb
Over Dead Bodies Loses Case.

BECKERLEY. Cal. March CHAIR
warmers in Justice of the Peace Robert
Edgar's court received the shock of the
season when Mrs Eva Jameson, the
pretty young divorced wife of c. H.
Jameson, local undertaken, shook her
fist in her former spouses face and ap-
Piled to him opprobrious epithets.
The troubles Of the Jamesons have
been aired many times the most SEN
sational of which appeared in Mrs.
Jameson's petition for divorces, stating
that Jameson had forced her to climb
over dead bodies in the local parlors
on Telegraph avenue at night Jane
| son, she complained at the time, left
the business each evening, making her
care for the office and look after the
pleasant tasks to perform. 1t was
mainly because she could not stand the
shock which she received each time she
arose from bed, and, running downstairs
to answer the phone, was forced to fall
over dead bodies in order to reach the
electric light switch, that she made the
petition. The case came before the
superior court of Alameda county and
the separation was secured.
Judge Edgar listened to a complaint
on the part of the husband charging
her with having taken away from the
house $50 worth of silverware which
rightfully belonged to him. After the
exciting incident in the courtroom
judgment was passed in favor of the
plaintiff. Mrs. Jameson will be forced
to give up the silverware. She an
nounced Immediately after hearing
judgment that she would take an ap-
neal
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02
RYAN AND THE EQUITABLE.

The prospects of the Equitable rid
ding itself of the Ryan stock owner
ship are improved by the recent deci-
sion in the United States circuit of APP
peals Of a case brought by policy
holder against the company. The poll
cy-holder averred in his complaint that
under its charter the Equitable's net
earnings are to be accumulated, that
it is to be conducted upon the mutual
plan and that the surplus as ascertain
ed by balance struck is to be equi-
tably credited Or applied for the benefit
of the policyholders.
Heretofore policyholders who have
applied for relief in equity. have been
denied it by the courts. But in this
case the plaintiff made such a showing
of abuse of discretion on the part of
the officers and directors that the court
granted his prayer on the showing
made. This means that on the actual
have to admit it's surplus and that it
will have to credit this policyholder
with his share. The point of this liti-
cation so far as Mr.. Ryan is concern
ed is that it will destroy to a large ex-
tent the fictitious value of the stock
That amounts to 100000 on which
there are payable semi-annual divi-
dends of 312 per cent. On the basis
of earnings. the stock is worth a little
more than par. But Mr.. Ryan paid
$4,000 600 for it He paid. not for the
stock, but for what went with tine
stock. the control Of the board of di-
rectors and the power to manipulate
the surplus. If the surplus is credited
to members. then the ability to mani
pulate it disappears and Mr.. Ryan has
no incentive to stay in the insurance
business. The Equitable would be-
come a mutual concern, as it now pre-
tends to be. but is not, because it
| makes no proper accounting to it's
! members of the surplus earnings of
| their premiums
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02
THE REALISTIC MIR. GILMORE.

| The idiosyncracies of stage folk is
again demonstrated by the baking Oh
Mrs. Paul Gilmore at the too realistic
osculatory propensities of her talented
husband in the kissing scene in AT
Yale" The injured wife mas lifted the
edge of the curtain and permitted the
public to peep at what has long been
deemed a stage romance-tne histrlon-
| ic kiss
In so exhibiting this adumbration OF
domestic infelicity Mrs. Gilmore mas
destroyed, partially, at least a long
cherished delusion that the stage kiss
was not the real thing. 1t has ever
been the deceptive belief Of the front Il,
that those oscillations behind the
lights were just make believes and
that it was only after supper when the
sparkle of the "champagny' and the
glamour of "kedives" o'erspread that
the imitation was transformed into the
genuine The explosion of that illu-
sionary theory is shock to those VINO
Rave sat back comfortably and-at
times-sneered haughtily over the i'm
aginary.
The exposure of the fallacy by Mrs.
Gilmore is not welcomed. The idea
that we are seeing the genuine, UNI
adulterated love making on the stage is
disturbing and not calculated to obtain
io1,
We have viewed the STACEY Oscula-
tons of the past The agony of posi-
tive knowledge that the fellow up
there on the planks is getting the
moneys worth which we have paid for
is too great.
Again, Mrs Gilmore acted hastily.
down the amOrous nature of those
kisses applied by her husband surrep-
titiously. She could have fed Paul
onions each night before the perform
ance. She could have seen to it that
his ripe lips We're made ripper and less
juicy with an extra amount of red
PAINT. She could have had recourse to
dozen plots of the brainy woman to
make those kisses Objectionable in
stead of bringing about the discharge
of Miss Ball and the exposure of her
husbands blooded ways But this she
would not or did not, do.
Consequently our sympathies may
not be with the wife. They are first
with the husband for losing such a
charmingly realistic kissing star. Then,
We sympathiZe with Miss Ball for los
ing good job in which she is paid
for receiving those kisses which 9TH
ers might willingly pay for.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02
BRYAN WOULD RUIN TRUSTS.
Congress Should Deny illegal Combines
Of Transit Facilities, He Says.

WASHINGTON, March 2-William
Jennings Bryan, if a candidate for
the presidency in 1908 will have a plat
form more radical than anything so
far suggested by any public man. In
paper on "Our Dual Government
in the Reader Bryan writes a new
platform for his party. He plants
himself squarely against President
Roosevelt on the San Francisco school
question and on the proposition for
federal control of all corporations.
1t is, however, on antitrust legisla-
ton that Bryan takes his most radical
stand in a discussion of why it is not
necessary to have new amendment
to the constitution in order to control
mOnOpOlies Congress, Bryan asserts
has complete authority in respect Of
interstate commerce.
Mr.. Bryan, on proof that any cor
poration or corporations had become a
monopoly Or that any combination of
interests had violated the antitrust
laws, would withdraw from the offend
ing class the right to ship goods on
interstate roads, use the telegraph
lines or the mails. He would with
draw from these monopolies all tran
sit facilities and thus destroy them
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02
EDGE WAS KEEN ONE.
Arrested for Forgeries in Half the
Counties in Washington.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. March g.
William LUCE. wanted in half the
counties of Washington On the charge
of passing forged checks, was arrest
ed here. Officers declare that within
the past few months he has victim
lied hotels and business men in every
city from Portland north and east
as far as Spokane for amounts ranging
from 500 to $1,000. Three of his DO
gus checks were cashed in this city
after his arrival from Mount Vernon
where one was cashed yesterday morn
ing. This is Edges second visit to
this city.
Given the third degree" by the
chief of police here this morning, Edge
confessed that he was the man want.
ed, and that he had committed many
forgeries. How many he could not
remember. He expressed willingness
to stand trial here or in any other
city which wanted him. He admitted
that the money secured by his for
geries aggregated many thousands.
Edge claimed that he had spent the
money on worthless woman, who
finally betrayed him to the officers.
No record of Edge or his opera
lions locally is on file at the police
station. and ii he had any victims in
this city they accepted the fleeing
without reporting the case.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02

| for the most part one thing only: the
right to stand with white women on
precisely the same ground as that on
which white men stand with them"
! If this were all there was to the race
question in the south, there would be
no difficulty in unifying the white race
against it. But, unfortunately, not even
the testimony of Thomas Nelson Page
| can convince the world that this is
all there is to social equality. not even
gro's hope 1t is uncomfortable that the
negro should have started with such
an improbable hypothesis, while it is
quite natural that the white people of
the south should use this scare to ex-
plain and excuse all their acts toward
the race which excite hostility and
alarm in the north.
When he gets down to figures, Mr..
Page makes the rather startling state
ment that the negro question will soon
become one of numbers, says the Min
neapolis Journal. They make up a
group Of 100000 people today. They
have doubled once in every four de-
cades, from which he infers that there
may be in this country in three or
negroes. He thinks that then no one
will deny the existence of race ques-
ton. But inasmuch as it would take
12O years to reach his maximum figures
and inasmuch as by the same method
of computation it may be shown that
the white population of the United
States proper will then be 100000, 900
it may be as well to dismiss mathe-
MATES from the proposition for the
present and apply ourselves to the
settlement of the qeustiOn on the basis
of there being room enough in the
country for both races.
If there is any point to Mr.. Pages
protest at all, it is that somehow the
increase in the negro race must be
dictate how this is to be done. He sim
ply suggests an appalling state of af-
fairs several generations hence, if the
negro race is allowed to go on multi
plying. Amalgamation of the races he
utterly rejects, apparently overlooking
the fact that it is only since the. race
question became acute that the people
of the south discovered this horror of
a negroid population. The American
encyclopedia declares that probably
one-third of all the negroes in the
south have traces of white blood.
Assimilation is repugnant settle
ment of the race question and Mr..
Page will not find any northern au-
thority advocating it, but he cannot
complain. after having opened this
branch of the subject himself, if he is
reminded how far the people of the
south have gone voluntarily in that di-
rectiOn.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02
TRAGEDY REUNITES KIN
Boy Who EIoped With Mothers Maid
Forgiven at Funeral.

PITTSBURG, Pa, March John
Aston Moorhead, former Yale half
black, who eloped with his mothers
French maid, Marie, 10 months ago was
disinherited by his father John Moor
head jr, millionaire iron manufacturer
has been forgiven and restored to his
former position in the family.
The reconciliation took place at the
funeral of the young mans sister.
Miss Anne Katherine MOOrhead, II
years old, who lost her life in the
wreck on the Harlem branch of the
New York Central railroad week ago
yesterday.
The reconciliation was also partly
due to young Moorhead's ability to
make his own way in the world after
being cast off by his father, he having
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02
The letter! Give it to. me!

the last day or two, second note
was sent to the presidents of Near
aqua and Honduras, in effect convey
ing this threat No replies have been
received and while in official circles
the hope is expressed that further
bloodshed may be avoided, there is
underlying belief that it will be neces-
sary for either the United States or
Mexico to step in and force an arbi-
tration.
The assistance which it is alleged
Salvador is giving to Honduras has
only served to strengthen the determin-
alton to stop the whole proceeding,
but it was concluded to allow the bel
ligerents little more time to make
up their minds to accept the good Of
fees which have been rendered.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02

Henry Clay Pierce made an afhdaVlt
in 1900, as preliminary 10 se'uhs
the Waters-Pierce Oil company INTO
Texas, that he was not connected WIN
any other oil company with view 10
controlling prices. At Attorney Gener-
al Hadleys hearing in ST Louis last
year he admitted that his company
was a decoy of the Standard. NOW
Texas grand jury has indicted him for
perjury Texas is waiting with bateu
breath to see if Senator Bailey VIII
be called on to defend.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02
SENDS WAR VETERAN TO Pen
Judge Has Hard Duty to Perform
When He Inflicts Pun.
ishment.

PORTLAND. March What was
| regarded as plain and solemn duty, an
even balancing of the scales of exact
justice, was the dominating force yes
terday in a struggle between the care
fully considered judgment and the ten
der heart of United States Judge Tay-
Ter. With the impulses of his heart
fairly pulling him in another direction
Judge Tayler pronounced the sentence
that makes Edward Pugh a felon and
sends him to the penitentiary for one
year
Pugh goes to states prison to be
shut away from society for a year as
the price, not only of violating the
pension laws of the United States
government, but of grossly abusing
the confidence and esteem of a friend.
a close personal friend of years
standing.
Hours after the sentence had been
pronounced Judge Tayler sought the
office of District Attorney Sullivan.
do you realize that sending that
young man to the penitentiary was
one Of the hardest tasks of my life
he said. 1T was hard. hard thing
to do. but no other course seemed to
be OPEN
The picture could have been
painted blacker," said the district at
tOrney.
Yes, l think the sentence answers
justice but it hurt me to inflict the
penalty" responded Judge Tayler
Pugh. Spanish war veteran, was
convicted of forging names and in
spring the execution of fraudulent
pension papers. The man he imposed
upon was Fred Marquis of Mansfield
who was captain of the regiment with
which Pugh served in Cuba during
the Spanish-American war.
AS notary public, Marquis, who is
secretary of the board of managers
Of the Mansfield reformatory, sub
scribed to the genuineness of the
papers presented to him by Pugh.
The papers carried the forged sigma
lures of witnesses. Marquis satisfied
the court that he had been imposed
upon and had absolutely no criminar
intent. He was given a nominal fine
of $50. Pugh will be taken to the
penitentiary today
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02
LETTER WRITER FOOLED WIDOW
Matrimonial Agency Romance Has an
Unhappy Ending.

DES MONIES, March. with tears
in her eyes. Mrs. a. p Maynard a
young widow of Grand Island. Neb.. an
preached Officer Morris at the Union
station and asked his aid in finding a
man with whom she had been CORES
ponding through matrimonial agency
The man had given the name of Georga
Wilson.
He wrote such straightforward
manly letters" said Mrs. MAYNARD 81
cannot believe he was playing a Joke
on me. He said he was so busy he
couldn't come to me. so he asked me to
meet him here and We were to be mar
ried. He sent me his picture and
everything. l can't believe he won't
come
On the advice of the officer Mrs
Maynard promised to take the next
train to Grand Island
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02

The sons ability to get along with
out any parental assistance softened
the fathers wrath, and 1T is said the
elder Moorhead was about to forgive
the young man, and planned meeting
for this purpose to take place last Sun
day. Before the appointed time, how
ever. the news of the daughters death
in the New York wreck called the faith
err to New York.
When the funeral services were held
in the family residence, 92S Ridge ave-
nue., Allegheny, last Tuesday afternoon,
John Aston Moorhead and his wife
were present. After the services faith
er and son had long talk, with the
result that a reconciliation was eff
fected
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02
OLD HOME OF ADAM AND EVE?
Kansas ArchaeoIogist Wants to Organ
ize Company to DeIve for Ruins.

Kansas Archaeological Wants to Organ
ize Company to Delve for Ruins.
JACKSON, Miss, March PROF.
Clinton McMickie a Kansas scientist
and archaeologist is SO confident that
the Garden of Eden was located in the
Yazoo valley. this state, that he wants
to organize a stock company for the
purpose of making extensive excava-
tiOns on the farm of w. A. Henry
planter, about seven miles south of va
zoo City. He thinks he can unearth
the ruins of once splendid city erect
ed shortly after the expulsion of Adam
and Eve from the garden. Prof. Nc
Mickie says he has conclusive evidence,
based on the book Of Genesis, and
Greek and Egyptian records that va
zoo county was the birthplace of man.
and it will only be necessary to dig
the required depth in order to find
proof of his belief.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02

Euclid-av. and Ontario-st., heard the
crash at O'Clock. Running I'D to
Prospect-av. he was just in time to
see the coattails of a ragged speci-
men of humanity disappear around the
next corner.
Across the street a huge show win.
dow OF the Bailey company was
smashed. A paving stone lay in the
center of pile of clothing that had
been exhibited there.
On each suit was pinned a brand
new. crisp IS bill The suit nearest
the sidewalk lacked one. The tramn
had broken the window to get it-and
had succeeded.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02

Barrister-Well, madam, it was. of
course, disgraCeful of your husband 20
call you bad names because you lay in
cient ground for a divorce Now. il
he had taken a big stick and beaten
you well. it would have been much bet
ter. Then the matter would be as good
as done.-Fliegende Batter.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02

Traveller Cat station restaurant-
You say there is a piece of cheese on
that plate? can't see anything but
flies
Waiter-"Well, there must be some
cheese underneath, else the flies would
not settle there"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02

Lady-Couldn't you possibly have
saved your friend who was captured by
the cannibals?'
African TraVeler-"UnfOrtun
not. When l arrived he was already
struck off the menu"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02

General Manager Mohler of he
Union Pacific, says he believes this
anti-railroad legislation will shortly
produce a panic" That panic-among
marched up the hill.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02

James Bryce of England called on the
president yesterday. but the president
was in the back lot pitching horse
shoes with Jusserand and could not
see him. Mr.. Bryce is nice old man,
but he has no polo record later than
1871
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-03-02

A track meet at Whitman such as
concern back into its own and deprive
those colleges which appropriated The
Whitman idea of undeserved credits