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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14
SHORT WEIGHTS BOTHER.
Los Angeles is in Grip Of UnserupuIous
Merchants.

Down i'm Los Angeles the short
weight, measure and count agitation
has reached an acute stage. The stu
alton there is unlike that in Washing
ton, however, in that the demand for
reform comes from outside sources.
while the associations at the north have
been insistent in their efforts to devise
some plan whereby consumers may be
protected from impOsitiOns. Mayor
Harper. of the city of Angeles, has pre-
pared an ordinance for the creation of
scale of weights and measures, and
in support of it's adoption makes some
serious charges. He is quoted as say
ing: My attention has beencalled to
short-weight dealers on every hand.
They have unscrupulously taken adj
vantage of a shortage of commodities
by stealing an ounce or two from milk
bottles, cutting down the coal pound
age and shortweighting meat. groceries
and other commodities. This robbery
of the poor has got to stop. People
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14
PIRATES OF MANUFACTURING
Originality Has Little Reward in
These Days Of Corrupt and Unfair
Tactics.

The imitation of a popular article
by competing manufacturers is by no
means new or modern development of
commercial enterprise. The practice
is probably as old as the mechanical
arts. Nevertheless, it is as reprehen-
sible today as when it was begun by
somebody who lacked the ingenuity
to bring out meritorious production
of his own, but sought to profit by the
duplication of an article which had
won for itself widely recognized
standing in the trade. The practice
is fifty named piracy, says Iron Age.
1t filches from another the we'll
earned reward of his genious Or me-
chanical ability. 1t robs him of trade
which would otherwise have gone to
him as the originator. The more
clever the device the more likely it is
to be copied, unless it is protected by
patents. backed up by the means and
disposition to punish infringers. The
belief is unfortunately too common
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14

that if an article is not protected by
patents it is open to reproduction by
ANYBODY who may choose to take up
IT'S manufacture. This is true with re-
gard to staple goods. but not in the
case of a finished product which by it's
form or it's mechanism meets special
requirements. A reputable manufac-
turer is clearly above adopting such
methods of increasing his business, his
honor and his pride alike stimulating
him to win reputation for products
of his own creation. There are, how
ever INSCRIPTIONS people in every
branch of trade and they are to be
found among manufacturers as nu-
merously as elsewhere. Stove manu-
facturers have for many years been
wrestling with the problem of effect
lively checking the operations of those
who initiate stove as soon as it is
found to have good selling qualities.
Manufacturers in other lines are as
seriously harrasSed. Commercial hon.
esty would be greatly promoted if buy
ers could be educated to insist upon
being furnished with an original article
and refuse to take the counterfeit.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14
Making Arrangements for Site Near
Railroad Track
MAYOR EVANS OF MILTON SAYS
THE NEW FACTORY is TO
BE NEAR TWO ROADS.

Mayor F. NJ. Evans, of Milton, and
several members of the city council
came over from the Oregon city yester-
day for the purpose of arranging for a
site for the big fruit cannery shortly
to be erected there.
1t is the desire of those at the head
Of tn cannery project to place the
building close to the tracks of the O.
r. & n. company and also of the
Walla Walla Valley Traction com.
pany.
The Miltonites talked the situation
over with O. r. & n. officials but
were unable to make any arrangement
with the traction company on account
of the absence of Manager Robert E
Allen.
The cannery company also desires tC
be in close proximity to the Peacock
mills owned by ]. L. Elan of this city
and had an interview with him this
afternoon on the subject
No location will be definitely settled
on until the Walla Wal1a Valley
Traction company can be consulted.
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PAGE SEVEN

are entitled to receive what they pay
for and they can not receive this pro-
lection until the city affords them re-
lief" The council, however, inclincs
to the idea that his honor Is more in
terested in providing a fat berth for II
friend than in the welfare of the dear
people, and are not Fastening to COM
ply with his demands, and the Com
mercial Bulletin. commenting on the
situation, says: "All fair dealers are
as anxious as is the mayor that the
merchants of Los Angeles without favor
be compelled to sell full measure and
full count goods. but there is broad
doubt whether or not this new lcgisla-
ton will have the effect desired. 1t is
more than probable that il will sim
ply saddle the merchants with an extra
and considerable expense and will
bring no results. An ordinance exact
ly similar to the proposed one was pas
sed' in 1901 and merchants all over the
city were compelled to pay "a useless
fee for the testing of their scales. No
good results were forthcoming and the
next city council turned the scaler of
weights and measures out of a fat job
much to the pleasure of the trade in
general
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14
Neiqhbors Got Fooled.

Il was literally coughing myself to
death, and had become too weak to
leave my bed: and neighbors predicted
that I would never leave it alive; but
they got fooled. for thanks be to God, ]
was induced to try DR.. Kings New Dis
covery. 1t took just four one dollar
and restore me to good sound health,
writes Mrs. Eva Uncapher. Of Grover.
town, Stark Co., Ind. This King Of
cough and cold cures. and healers Of
throat and lungs, is guaranteed by E
L. Smalley, druggist. SOC and $1.0O
Trial bottle free.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14
LOOKING FOR SO PAPER.
Joe Matthews Pays Old Notes That
Have Been Outiaved for Years.

1t is somewhat rare occurrence to
find "a man making a business of hunt
ing up his old 80 paper for the pur-
pose of paying it. Such q thing. how
ever, happened this week when Joe
Matthews arrived i'm Palouse Monday
from Twisp, this state, after an alb
sence of several years, and commenced
to make inquiry for some old notes
which remained unpaid as a result Of
the hard time of SO. He finally located
the paper and made "a satisfactory set
Element. The notes were clearly out
lawed which fact Matthews knew.
Honesty in such a marked degree is
not met with every day.
Mr.. Matthews was raised in the
family Of John Petty on Fourmile. AMI
was well known in the PalOuse country
a few years ago.-Palouse Republic.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14
WATER WALKER WINS BET.
Captain OIdriev Earns $4,000 Prize by
Donu Rare Stunt


NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 14.-"Captain
Charles w. Oldriev yesterday accom-
plished the feat of walking on water
from Cincinnati to New Orleans, a dis
lance of 1000 miles. in forty days
lacking minutes. thereby winning
the worlds championship and bet
of $4,000. Oldriev met with an acct
dent just before reaching the goal at
the head of Canal street. that nearly
cost his life The big wooden shoes
he wore suddenly slid outward and the
water walker turned turtle. His wife.
who accompanied him all the way in a
row boat, rescued the captain.
Oldriev left Cincinnati January at
noon on wager he would walk to
New Orleans in forty days. At the falls
near Louisville he was delayed for
- hours, and this allowance, it was
agreed. should be computed in the
time.
Oldriev was in motion only during
daylight staying over night at various
landings. he was equipped with shoes
made of cedar wood, four feet five
inches long. five inches broad, and
boat preceding the water walker were
seven inches deep. In the gasoline
Captain ]. W. Weatherington. of Dali
las, Texas. who backed Oldriev. and
Arthur Jones. representing Edward
Williams, of Boston, who laid the
wager.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14
HAY RUBES ARE WEALTHY
King Timothy Makes His Subjects
Rich for Life
Wise FARMER CAN VISIT EUROPE
WHILE GRASS GROWS DOLLARS
ALL THE OWNER HAS TO DO
is WATCH IT GROW.

The Kettle Falls Tribune publishes
an interesting story on the possibilities
Of hay meadows in Stevens county. 1t
insists that the modern business farm
err has greater source of income from
timothy hay than from any other of the
crops planted in that section. Esti-
mates place the probable cash returns
from a quarter section of good land
planted toa timothy at $4,000 annually.
That means the money the farmer has
after paying all expenses. Those en-
gagged in the business have returns
that verify the figures. Because of
such conditions the acreage devoted
to timothy will be increased.
Timothy hay is one Of the staple pro-
ducts of the soil. 1t is in demand every
where that horses and cattle are kept
for profit According to the govern
ment crop report for January the prices
of timothy hay have advanced from $12
to SIG ton in Chicago in the past year.
Local prices. received by the farmers
in Stevens county, have reached $40 a
ton. Under favorable circumstances
every acre planted to timothy yields an
average of almost two tons yearly. The
crop gives better returns than any of
the cereals and does not require so
great an outlay of cash to handle the
ahrvest
The hay farmer is a man of compare
tive leisure. He has to work only
about two months in the year. He can
live in some adjoining town, as many
do and spend his idle time in the marts
of commerce. He can take the receipts
for the crop and travel with his family
to different countries of the world. He
can locate in the city of schools and
| educate his children. Everything that
money can buy is at his disposal. And
all the time the hay meadows are in
creasing in value. The grass grows
while the land owners sleeps. Once
| in seven years the fields need re-
! planting.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14
eEREsFoRp,s ACT cHARu1v.
Lord DeIavaI Left $4,000 to Negress
Who Was His Nurse.

NEW YORK, Feb. 14.-Sir Lord
Charles Beresford has arrived here
from England to settle the estate of
his brother. Lord Delaval. who was
killed recently in 500 railroad wreck
in North Dakota. He rs the sole ex-
ecutor of the estate, and as it will be
necessary for him to file papers in
the several states where property is
held, he expects to be in this country
some time.
One feature of Lord Delaval's will
is worthy of mention because OF
legacy of $4,000 in recognition OF an
act of charity of which he was the
beneficiary during the plague in New
Orleans fifteen years ago. Lord Della
val was left alone, i'll with the fever.
when a colored woman, Flora Wolf,
came and nursed him back to health.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14
How's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re-
ward for any case of Catarrh that cam
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
FL. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, o.
We. the undersigned, have known F.
J. Cheney for the last Is years, and
believe him perfectly honorable in al!
business transactions and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
WALDING. KINNAN & MARVIN,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 90.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucuous surfaces of the system
Testimonials sent free. Price 75c per
bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14
JOCKEY MILLER UNPOPULAR
Best Find Of Season Resorts to Un'
gentIemanly Tricks to Win
His Races.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1.-THE
presence of Walter Miller at EN-
eryville has not been altogether an
unmixed blessing, and the lamenting
may not be so wide spread as one
might expect. The boy is undoubt
eddy a great rider. but in just that
fact many unpleasant situations have
their rise.
Then Miller tries so hard to win
that he doesn't hesitate to put riders
over the fence in order to get to the
wire first. On more than one Oc-
casiOn Millers mount has been dis
qualified. If the champion jockey had
ridden a sportsmanlike race the back
ers of the horse might have cashed
If Miller had not won they could not
complain He had done his best.
Form is queer thing. but with Mil
Ter riding it is even more puzzline
than ever. The pernicious practice OF
riding the worst jockey that can be
found in four counties two or three
times with the horse finishing in the
ruck every time, and then engaging
Miller has grown up.
The horse with Miller up wins. Mil
Ter did it. claims the owner AS mat.
ter of fact. Williams. Graham, Sandy
any of a half dozen riders could
have won on the horse.
When Miller leaves it may happen
that one of the less experienced boys
Will spring into fame. Nearly every
year about this time new rider comes
to the fore. Early in the season 1t
looked as though Tommy Sandy would
come into the lime light and stay
there. But the boy has been so in
consistent that it is hard to say
whether he will ever develop into a
first-class rider. One day he puts up
two or even three efforts of the star
sort and next day he loses on horses
that figure away the best. Of course
as Sandy grows stronger he may be
boys are notorious in and cutters. Their
strength both of body and mind is so
limited that they can hardly be ex-
pected to be at their best all the time.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14
Even From the Mountains.

Billiards. Snow Liniment is praised for
the good it does. A sure cure for
rheumatism and all pains. Wright w.
Loving. Grand Junction, Colo, writes:
winter, for rheumatism and can rec
ommend it as the best Liniment on the
market. I thought, at the time / was
taken down with this trouble, that it
would be week before l could get
about. but on applying your Liniment
several times during the night, l was
about in 4S hours and we'll in three
days. Sold by A. B. Shelton.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14

b. L. & T. Assn: mortgage, Feb. II.
1907. S14O0; land in Evans Add.
George Buehler and wife to Harry
4. Reynolds; mortgage, 800: blks G.
80. Ga and 65. Ransom Clark Donation
claim.
Frank NJ. Shelton estate to Walla
Walla County Fair Assn, Mar. Sat,
mortgage. Feb. Is, $500; land in 30
1856.
Ira +. Ward and wife to Thomas
NICHOLSON: deed. Nov. IA, 1906. ST.:
land in blk. "F." original townsite.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14
Real Estate Transfers.

The following is a list of the real
estate transfers made in Walla Walla
county yesterday. The list is furnish
ed by the Dean Mclean Abstract Co.
D. E. Thurber to the Exchange bank;
chattel mortgage, Feb I, 1907, $3.50.
Eugene Bourgeois to c. A. Casebolt;
Sat. chattel mortgage, Feb. 10, 1907.
$126: 1906 grain crop grown on NV IA
of SW IA, 29-S-3S.
Isaac Critics and wife to Interstate
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14
FOR RENT.
GENERAL.

WHITE FRONT.
wAltA WAIlA JUNK SHOP.
wholesale and retail dealers in all
kinds of Hides, Wool, Scrap Iron,
Brass, Copper, Rubber, Lead, Z'nc'
Bottles, Old Rubbers and Second
Hand Sacks, and Secondhand Fur
niture, Stoves and Carpets.
M. SHANK,
phone Main s79. 105 East Main st.
WAlLA WALLA, WASH.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14

The Ladies Relief Society wishes all
bills against the society to be pre-
scented to the secretary, Miss Mary
Gillian, by February Is. SO
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14

Piles Cured in 8 to IL Days.
PAZO OINTMENT Is guaranteed
to cure any case of Itching, Blind.
Bleeding or Protruding Piles in to
IA days or money refunded. SOC.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14

WAlLA WALLA JUNK SHOP.
Wholesale and retail dealers in all
kinds of Hides, Wool, Scrap Iron,
Brass, Copper, Rubber, Lead, Zinc,
Bottles, Old Rubbers and Second
Hand Sacks, and Secondhand Fur
niture, Stoves and Carpets.
EPSTEIN e. YOUDOvITCH,
Phone Main $50. 121 East Main ST.
WALLA WALLA, WASH.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-14
Tn. Railroads Every Day.
-. Io,,;. CIohe-Democra

st. Louis Globe-Delnoci"'.
The earthquake is running the Ai'e
ioon railroad accident a close secoio
in the matter of fatalities.
The Washington times., 1907-12-20
SzeChenyi'S Friend
Stops to Have Duel
On Way to Wedding

BUDAPEST. Dec. 2O.-The Pesther
Journal announces that one OF the
nOblemen invited TO the marriage Of
Miss Gladys vanderbilt and Count
Szechenyi fought a duel with pistols
before he left for the United States.
The aristocrat named as a prospective
guest at the wedding is Count Anton
Sigray. a close friend to Count Szechen-
VI. Count Sigray, II appears, got into
a quarrel with his friend. Count Felix
Harnoncourt, a few days before his in
tended departure, and a court OF honor
decided that the matter must at once
be settled by q duel "sinCe II was un-
certain whether or not Count Anton
would return from his long journey"
Accordingly Count Sigray and Harmon
court met in the riding school Of the
Budapest Cavalry barracks and. at
tempts at reconciliation having failed.
the duel took place.
Bullets were exchanged three times.
but neither Of the combatants was hurt
Count Sigray left Budapest immedi-
ately after the duel to take ship for
the United States.
The Washington times., 1907-12-20
A Peace Move at Tokyo.

On the very day the fleet sailed
for the Pacific the council of elder
statesmen met at Tokyo and decided
to reduce military expenses. 1t is
said that the retrenchment favored
by these influential Japanese states
men viii save the government $780,
100000 in the next six years.
Even if this saving is effected,
Japan viii still have left n national
debt of more than 81, 100000, in
CURED for the most part during the
war with Russia. At the beginning
of the century Japan's indebtedness
amounted TO about a quarter of a
billion dollars. 1t was smaller even
than that of our neighbor, Canada;
very much smaller than that of any
other important nation.
In the last two years the Japa-
.nese have made great commercial
strides forward. They have cut in
on British trade in the Orient, and
they are in a fair way to dominate
commerce on the Pacific, just as the
British dominate commerce on the
Atlantic. They have more to gain
The Washington times., 1907-12-20
THE NEW CONGRESSMAN.

The member from Plunkviue at home
was a chap
Whom Fortune had dandled for years
on her lap
When he walked abroad all the TIM
brels would sound
And the earth seem to treD'ole for
Cres arOurd.
The member from Plunkvil.e 70 Wash
ington comes.
There aren't any umbrels, nor yet
ary drums
No man seems impressed by his air
stern and grim.
in fact. no one takes any notice Of him.
SThs member from PlunkvilIe" they
say at the door,
And he Is admitted at last to the floor.
Rut nobO7V offers the member a seat,
And he IS harassed by his hands and
his feet.
"The member from PlunkvilIe." the
Speaker IS told.
Aloft on his cushions OF velvet ard gold.
The Speaker bestows on the member a
stare.
And says: Hang him up on 4 meat
hook somewhere"
The Houston Chronicle.
The Washington times., 1907-12-20

year, cited and led the opposition
10 the only Democratic President
since the civil war, has given public
testimony that the succeeding
years have softened his condemna-
tion and eradicated all personal feel
ing. The presence of these two men
at the convention in Denver might
very reasonably work great good.
OF course, there is n danger in
volved. There is n danger in
volved in getting out of bed in the
morning. In this case it is that
some one Of the Hotspurs may eX-
plode his face and wreak the grow
ing harmony into characteristic
Democratic discord. But The Times
ventures TO believe this cannot be
done so that it viii involve the lead
ers, and, with the risk so far less
ened. it it greatly impressed by the
good that may come so easily to the
country through the development of
a strong, heartily cooperative,
earnest and sane opposition to the
party now IN power.
The Washington times., 1907-12-20
BRIDE SITS DOWN HARD
At WEDDING ON SKATES"

PITTSBURG. Dec. 2o.-Surrounded by
SOC persons on roller skates. the Rev.
c. L. ThurSOod, pastor OF the Central
Christian Church, himself on skates.
with the bride and bridegroom also on
skates, performed a unique marriage
ceremony at the Homewood Skating
Rink The bride was Miss Beuia1
Smith ard the bridegroom was Wiber-
SChandras.
The preacher stood the test all right,
but the bride shifted a foot at the
words, Love. honor and obey and sat
down amid the screams and roars OF
the witnesses.
The preacher told the guests he would
call the ceremony of unless they acted
Ilore decorously. He preached a stir
ring sermon for thirty minutes. Then
the crowd sNated in a merry whirI
around tne minister, holding him pris-
Oner in the middle OF the tioor IS long
as he had detained them
The Washington times., 1907-12-20
Harmony at Denver.

Grover Cleveland can be trusted
to serve the nation as best he can
during the Forthcoming campaign.
Not the Democratic party alone and
surely not any wing of that party,
but the nation. A less incisive iUdg-
ment than his would perceive
readily that the way to serve the
nation lies not in the direction of
a fourth candidacy and an affront
to the deep-rooted Rnti-third-term
sentiment of the American people.
Wherefore, it may be presumed
that the suggestion of another
Cleveland campaign will lack en-
couragement from the one man
whose approval is indispensable and
prerequisite to it. But this need
not mean that Grover Cleveland
must be idle, that he cannot serve
his party Loyalty and thereby serve
the nation as well. John Adams,
Thomas jefferson, James Madison.
James Monroe, John Quincy Adams,
Andrew Jackson, John Tyler (as
best he could), and Benjamin Harri-
son all furnish precedents for active
participation in party councils when
ex-Presidents, and the welding of
large personal influence made the
larger through service in the White
House
Today the judgment and sym
pathy of men like Grover Cleveland
are specially valuable TO the Democ-
racy. The bitterness that had its
rise In 1903 has lost its tang. Ever
Mr.. Bryan, who himself condemned
the Cleveland bond issue of the
The Washington times., 1907-12-20
A Costly Change.

THE words must conform to the
office celebrated, and the music it.
self must harmonic with the
sacred text. 1t is not a thing apart
1t is part of the liturgy"
With these words Archbishop
o'COnneu emphasizes his conviction
that the time has arrived to fulfill
the Pope's three-years-old injunc-
1ion that the Roman Catholic
Church shall return to the Gregor-
ian chants. They were addressed
to an archdiocesan music commits
sion and had the effect Of persuad-
ing that body to the same view.
There is prospect, therefore, that
at least in New England the cantO
fermO, the choral unison of the old
chant, viii suPplant Haydn, Mozart,
and Beethoven.
If the -merican Catholic Church
shall feel bound by the Pope's
suggestion, the sacrifice of so much
beautiful harmony viii bear hard
upon its people. No other denom-
ination has done more to spread the
influence of the best music; no
other church-goers have been more
helped by it's sweet ministrar ms;
no other church has Profted more
by the love of true music
The difficulty is not made the less
by the fact that much music which
IS not Gregorian vet conforms com
pIetely with Archbishop O'ConneI's
declaration of principle. The
church need rot lose all harmony
because occasionally certain re
ligious compositions depend upor
words out of conformity with the
service. The vast body Of ecclesias
5ical music is built upon the very
text Of the liturgy; and the music
itself does harmonic with the
sacred words-as is illustrated Low,
ingly in Beethoven's masses in
and D, most Of Mozart's fifteen sim
ilar compositions, and Haydn's
1.-The Seven Words on the Cross"