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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-12-09
Indian Horse Thieves.

The historians of the party say that
While passing through the Cayuse
country now Umatilla county, the
immigrants We're harrassed by the
Indians who stole their horses by night
and begged their provisions from them
by day. The horses would be stolen
and driven into the neighboring timber
il. hopes of receiving a reward for their
return.
| Even while Sticcas was guiding the
party the old chieftain's people were
grating the immigrants for rewards
for stolen horses.
The Cayuse Indians secured their
first white mans clothes from this
immigration of 1S43. and Kaiser in his
narrative says that many shirt was
given 20 an Indian. for the return of a
horse that fall
The result was iudicrous in the ex-
IRENE. When one Indian would appear
in nothing but a white mans shirt all
the other tribesmen would be consumed
with jealousy, and that night it was
pretty certain tnat many more horses
would be stoler. in hopes of securing
more shirts.
| In this way the immigrants were
stripped Of their clothing, and it be-
came so serious that finally council
of the Cayuse chiefs was called by the
immigrants while encamped at Whit
mans mission and Kaiser, as spokes-
man for the party, told the chiefs that
the whites had no more money or
clothing to give away and that the next
iIndiaL. who stole a horse or was found
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Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-20
NEW SENATOR BLIND.

Especial to the Washington Post)
Oklahoma City, June 13.-Thom-
as Pryor Gore, who appears to have
been named for United States SEN
ator from the new state, is blind. and
has been since he was eleven wears
old. when he accidentally shot his
right eye ont with an arrow gun.
At that time he was page in the
Mississippi senate. Three years be-
fore a playmate, in a boyiSh passion,
blinded his left eye with a stone
Gore has Won laurels in politics and
law. He was a page at eleven.
nominee for the legislature at rine-
teen, populist elector-at-largc in
Mississippi three years later. and was
unanimously selected in 1900 for con-
gresSional standard bearer bv the
same party in Texas. while absent in
South Dakota speaking for the fusion
ticket. but always was defeated.
He has never held Office since his
pageship. He has made stump speeches
in Oklahoma, and has been active in
all campaigns since he went there.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-20
After President Baer.

The 800 women who have started
after President Baer because Of the
slaughter Of the school children on
account Of a grade crossing over
which many fast trains on his road
run every day are in deadly earnest.
They declare that for years the
have been petitioning Gods trustee
to make that crossing safe for the
school children and that he has paid
no attention to them When appear
ING before the coroner after the re-
cent accident, one Of them said eve
decided at last that we could never
get anything done until we found
way to make it hot for old Raer him
self, and | believe that we have
found way at last to get under his
hide. This is not an accident. but
murder, and we petition the coroner
and the next grand jury to hold
George F. Baer for criminal negli-
gence in not providing gates and 9th
er warnings at this dangerous cross
ing" Perhaps those poor women
think that a millionaire should be
held responsible for crime Just as the
ordinary man IS, but they will find
out their mistake when they get into
the courts.
Irate mothers have gone after
Gods trustee, President Baer. and
there IS now likely SOmpthino oOino
to happen. At one grade crossing on
his road ten children have been killed
during the last year. The children
have to cross this death trap four
times a day to go to school. When
the last child was killed. fifty angry
mothers marched to the coroner's Of
flee and demanded vengeance on
Baer. They presented a petition t.
the coroner, signed by all fifty of
the mothers, demanding that Prpsi-
dent Baer be held for criminal negli-
gence for maintaining that death
trap. Baer S roads have been max
ing greater net profits the last year
than ever before. and the profits
amount up into the millions. but he
can't afford to abolish that grade
crossing. Ten mangled little chill
dren are nothing to him or any 9TH
er plutocrat. That is the way it was
in France just before the French rev
olution.-The Investigator.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-20
Denounced Haywood Trial.

The international Socialist Con-
gress met at Brussels, Belgium, and
adopted resolution condemning the
persecution Of Socialists in Japan
and the prosecution of members of
the Western Federation Of Miners
in Idaho.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-20
Some Startling Parallels.


Springfield, Mass, Rev. DR.. F. L.
Goodspeed declared that the "fall
of Rome may be repeated in Amer
ica." He assailed high living, di-
vorce and superstition. DR.. Good
speed said:
Everywhere in America we see
the same excess of idle, useless and
reckless pleasure seeking.
'We have no longer true thought.
There is a darkness on the face of
learning and literature is no more.
There is the same lack Of the power
Of intellectual initiative and Of the
desire for great moral under akings.
All is now subserved to the physic i
well-being.
''The same surfeit ard disgust Of
life is among certain classes of us as
was upon Rome. By drunkenness
and pleasure we feed the beast with
IL us. In some great crisis when we
essay to do strong mans task
we find ourselves helpless before the
foe.
"The decay of family life in an
cient Rome is paralleled in mode. n
America Matrimony has become a
matter of money largely and divorce
is rampant. Women who ought to
blush without the use Of paint ad-
vocate trial marriages. The Mormon
who drives his family team of four
or five is equalled by the Gentle who
drives tandem.
AS the sway Of superstition con-
tributed to the fall Of Rome, so it is
also having the same effect on Amer
lean society What better evidence
of the decline Of American life than
may be found in clairvoyants, me-
diums, Eddyism and other quacker-
les of superstition?
ga new tide of righteous faith is
needed to uplift America, the faith
to offer self-sacrifce and to bring
God down to the affairs of everyday
ife."
Taft Going to the Philippines.
Secretary of War William H. Taft
is going to the Philippine Islands
In September to inaugurate the new
National Assembly of natives that is
to be elected on July the 30th. 1t
IS expected that the majority of the
members elected will declare for i'm
mediate independence, which will be
denied by the United States. Sec
retary Taft said that he believed the
people of the island did not care to cut
adrift from this county, and that
they find it more to their prosperity,
their happiness and their well-being
to remain attached to the United
States.
Johnson Hung.
AS William johnson stood on the
gallows at Atlanta he confessed. He
said, 81 am guilty Of everything l
am charged with, and more. He re-
cited a series of crimes which led up
to the race riots Of last September,
and confessed that he had committed
all Of them.
Johnson confessed shooting j. A.
n n
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-20

i0ili 10 Ollc IOI Iuc uIlllIlcS COuulS-
sion to settle; that
That the passage of the bill was
not preceded by legislative investiga-
tion or suitable inquiry under the au-
thority Of the state. Nor is the fix
ing Of this rate predicated on reports
or statistics officially collated, which
would permit fair conclusion as to
the justice Of its operation with ref
erence to the railroads within is
view. 1t plainly. reflects dissa isfac-
tion with existing conditions and an
effort to provide remedy through
arbitrary action.
"The bill represents a policy Sc
riously mistaken and pregnant with
disaster. 1t is Of the utmost impor-
tance that the management Of our
railroad corporations should be sub,
ject to strict supervision by the
state and that regulations compelling
the observance of the law ard prop r
and adequate service should be rig
idly enforced. 1t is the duty Of
these corporations to provide trans
portation of passengers and goods
at reasonable rates, and the state
should compel the performance Of
this obligation
'EBut injustice on the part Of rail-
road corporations toward the public
does not justify injustice on the part
OF the state toward the railroad cor
p)rations. The fact that these in
control of railroad corporations have
been guilty Of grossly improper finan-
ciering and Of illegal and injurious
determinations in charges, points
clearly to the necessity of effective
state action, but does not require or
warrant arbitrary reprisals.
cit may be said that a two-cent
passenger rate is not 50 extreme as
to have a very injurious result. B {
this is a debatable question. Large
and prosperous suburban communi-
ties have been built up through the
offer Of communication rates much less
than the proposed maximum. Upon
the maintenance Of these rates many
thousands of our citizens rely"
Longshoremen' Strike Off.
At a meeting of nineteen branches
of the dock longshoremen, held at
Hudson Hall, New York City, Pat
rick Conners, leader of the striking
longshoremen, announced that, acting
in the best interests Of the men, he
would call off the strike against the
thirty-fve transatlantic steamship
companies in New York and Hobo
ken. 10000 men will return to work.
Death of Julia Magruder.
Miss Julia Magruder, the noted
Southern novelist, died in st. Luke s
Hospital at Richmond, Va, after a
protracted illness. Miss Magruder
was an ardent lover Of all the tradi-
tions Of the South, and was an active
advocate of the obliteratiOn of see
tional lines. Her story, "Acrcss the
Chasm," was upon this subject, ard
it was a masterful presentation Of
her views. She was fifty-one years
of age.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-20

cOnJIdctS expire. OlACcen IHOuSdnQ
will go this year. In their places the
government proposes to secure native
workers.
Peace Congress Opened.
The second Peace Conference at
the Hague was opened Saturday. The
national colors Of Holland, and the
orange standard Of the House Of
Nassau were hoisted at daybreak over
every public building
M. Nelidoff opened the conference.
In his address he affirmed that uni
versal peace and disarmament were
unattainable. The deliberate utter
ances Of the Russian statesmen. al
though pessimistic to the extent re-
ferred to, were hopeful when later he
said he believed a better method for
a judicial adjustment Of disputes was
possible, even though all conflicts be-
tween nations were no more avoida-
BILE than conflicts between individuals.
M. Nelidoff greatly pleased the
American delegates in the high tri-
butte he paid to President Roosevelt
and Andrew Carnegie-not mention
ing any other countries or rulers.
franco-Japanese Treaty Signed.
AT Paris, Shin-ichiro Kurino, Jap
anese Ambassador to France, and NJ.
PichOn, French Minister of Foreign
Affairs, signed the Franco-Japanese
treaty.
Gen. Kuroki Thanks.
AS Gen. Baron Kuroki sailed from
Seattle for Japan, he sent the fol
lowing message to Acting Secretary
Newberry Of the Navy Department:
"To his Excellency the Secretary of
the Navy, Washington, D. c.:
81 have the honor to express my
warmest thanks for the great cour-
tesy and kindness you so generously
extended while I was in your coun-
try. [ leave your beautiful soil to-
morrow morning with pleasant mem
Ories. GEN. KUROKI."
Schmitz Refused Bail.
Bail for Schmitz, former mayor of
San Francisco, convicted Of eXtortion,
was refused by Judge Dune when
formal application was made by the
mayors counsel. Sentence will Be
pronounced June q.
Millikens Steel Co. Bankrupt.
With liabilities of $6,j00,OOO. and
assets estimated at $S,0O0,00O, Milli-
kens Brothers (incorporated), one of
the largest steel concerns in the
country, engaged both in the manu-
facture Of structural steel and iron,
and i'll contracts for structural steel
construction, allowed themselves to
be put in bankruptcy on the petition
of four creditors. The company will
b. reolganized and work will 90 on
as usual in their enormous steel plant
at Staten Island, New York.
Danish King in London.
King Frederick VII, and Queen
Louisa, Of Denmark, visited the city
of London, and were entertained at
Guildhall.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-20

government will send home all the
Chinese miners when their present
contracts expire. Sixteen thousand
will go this year. In their places the
government proposes to secure native
workers.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-20
Morgan Buys More Art Objects.

j. Pierpont Morgan has secured
the great Rudolph Kann art collection
and will bring it to this country. Ad-
vices received from Europe indicate
that between $3,OOO,OOO and $4,000
600 will be paid for the collection.
Degree for Gov. Hughes.
Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa,
will confer upon Gov Hughes, of
New York. the honorary degree Of
Doctor of Laws.
Watson's weekly Jeffersonian., 1907-06-20
Danish King in London.

DANISH hlng III London.
King Frederick VII, and Queen
Louisa, of Denmark, visited the city
of London, and were entertained at
Guildhall.
Root to Visit Mexico.
Secretary Of State Root will visit
Mexico late this summer t. promote
harmony between Mexico and the
United States. Ambassador Creal
called on Secretary Root and present
ed an autograph letter from Presi-
dent Diaz, of Mexico. inviting Mr..
Root to become the guesl of the ma
tion.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-04-04
Railroads Bear eia Expense.

Railroads Bear Big Expense.
Senator Peterson's bill to require
the railroads to pay for the bridges
across drainage bitches hereafter built
In Iowa has become law. It Is one
bf the most important measures of
the session.
The bill was stubbornly opposed by
representatives Of the railroad COM
panies before the committees of both
houses of the legislature having the
same under consideration. 1t is an
act amendatory of chapter 68, laws OF
the Thirty-first general assembly, re-
tating ITO drainage. The representa-
lives of the railroad companies assert
that the enactment will cost their
several companies not less than $780,
900.
1t provides that where bitches and
drains are located and established
across the right of way Of any rail.
road company in the course of natural
drainage that "the cost of building
and constructing or rebuilding and re.
constructing any necessary culvert OF
bridge shall be borne by such rail
road company without reimbursement
therefor
It further provides that "the com
mssioners to assess benefits shall fix
and determine the benefits to the
property of the railroad company
within the levee or drainage district
and make return thereof with the
regular return and that such specia
assessment shall be "a debt due per
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-04-04

sona1Iy frbm the railroad company.
The act amended by this bill re-
quired the drainage districts to pay
for the railroad bridges at the place
Of crossing the right of way and per-
mitted only actual benefits to be as
sessed against the company.
The bill makes the law as amended
by this act apply to all proceedings
and cases now pending.
1t is of special Importance and
benefit to the sections of the state re-
quiring drainage.
Anti-Pass Bill Passes Senate.
After a debate continuing over sew
eral hours the senate passed the Grier
anti-pass bill in much amended
form and it is believed that confer
enc with respect to its provisions
will sa essential before it becomes
law
AS 1t passed the house the bill pro-
hibited railroad companies from issu-
ing passes to attorneys and surgeons.
The senate amended it ito allow passes
to be issued to two attorneys and two
! surgeons in each county.
AS it passed the house the bill re.
quired the executive council to secure
and publish annually list of all pass
holders in the state; as it got through
the senate this duty Is left optional
with the council.
In addition, the senate provided
that railroads may issue passes to the
/! fish commissioners and his car of lit
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-04-04

tax are made applicable TO THIS meas.
ure. by a provision inserted as sec
ton 2 Of the bill.
Railway BlIIa Before Senate.
While the senate committee on
railroads voted, nine to seven, to
recommend the Doran speed limit
bill for indefinite postponement, it
recommended for passage q large
number OF railroad bills, including
the anti-pass, the Allen demurrage,
the Lee cattle guard and the auto
railroad measures.
w. L. Eaton of the state railroad
commission which recently reduced
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-04-04

live stock rates In Iowa more than
eighteen per cent, says that the COM
mission W have power under the
law as it will be after the present
Legislature has acted, to remedy most,
if not all of the evils of which there
has been complaint in the matter Of
failure to furnish cars, and will be
able to do much in regard to compell.
ing better speed in handling freight.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-04-04

The greatest display of Horse
Cuts in Western Iowa at the
Journal Office. Hosemen get
your bills printed at Extra
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-04
BASKET BALL

The teams Of apo2ddus institute.
Of TINS city and the Grafton High
s sen will play basketball in the
West Side school building at Graf
ton next Thursday evening. 4
snort time ago in game here
hroaddus defeated by small score
the Grafton team. and the ADVANTAGE
OF playing at home that the Grafton
team will have in next THURSDAY
evenings contest make the teams
very evenly matched. The comina
game is expected by the fans TO he
the best of the season.
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Fights ManfuIIy for the Rights OF
the People and for Justice
To All.

CHARLESTON. March 4 Cspec,
ial)-senator o. A. Ashburn, Of
Doddridge, one of the representatives
of the Twelfth district. will be re-
membered, says the Charleston Mail.
by those who attended this session
of the legislature for his effective
work for two-cent rate bill. The
greatest danger that threatened the
enactment OF such a law was in the
fact that nearly every senator and
delegate entertained his own indi-
vidual views and was reluctant in
giving away. There we're many who
wanted the bill to bear their names.
Although Senator Ashburn pre-
pared rate bill and worked earnest
~ for It's adoption by the railroad
committee, of which ne was chair
man, he was too good friend of the
movement to retard 1t by holding out
to gain credit or political capital and
he accepted the will OF the majority.
Had he been unduly obstinate, as
were other alleged friends of the
movement, the result would have
been quite different.
The bill as prepared by Senator
Ashburn provided for a classical
ton of all railroads according to
their gross earnings. The minimum
fare to be charged was fixed at two
cents per mile and the maximum at
81 cents. A great majority OF the
senators, however. favored classifca-
ton according to length and Senator
Ashburn finally yielded.
Nearly all of Senator Ashburn's
time was devoted to the rate bill and
the one that was finally adopted
would have borne his name had he
not refused to permit. not wishing to
endanger its success by arousing
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-04
SENATOR ASHBURN
MAKES A RECORD

jealousies, The bin is really the
product of six members of the SEN
ate railroad committee. and natural
ly Senator Ashburn refused to take
all the credit.
Senator Ashburn has shown mark
ed independence and he has stood
every time for what he has believed
to be right. Early in the session a
bill that should have gone to his
committee was given to the commit
tee on mines and mining and he
made a vigorous fight against such
a proceeding. This bill was the one
to create a railroad commission and
the railroad committee had no
chance to consider 1t.
Several times during the session
Senator Ashburn insisted upon reg
ularity in referring bills to commit
tees and he voted every time, to sus-
tain his position in this regard. AS
chairman of the railroad committee
he gave every interest chance to be
heard. He sought to protect the
rights of the common people at the
same time admitting that the corpo-
ration also has rights that should
be respected. He favored neither
the one nor the other but dealt just
ly with both.
Senator Ashburn took part in
many debates on the floor and led
the fight for the two-cent rate bill,
winning a parliamentary victory in
spite of skilled opposition. He will
be back again at the next session, II
he lives and will be a strong mem
Der.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-04
IN NrEMoRIAM.

Dearl C. Lambert, two-year-oId
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. c.sE. Lambert,
OF Rinehart, died Wednesday, Feb.
~. 1907.
IT'S hard to break the tender cord.
When Love has bound thee;
It's hard, so hard, to speak
The word, We must part;
Dearest loved one, We must lay thee
In the peaceful graves embrace.
But thy memory will be sherished
Until we see thy heavenly face.
AN AUNT.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-04
MIR. FrTTRo IMPROVED.

Edmund Fittro has returned to his
home at wilsonburg, after having
undergone treatment here. He has
been a great sufferer for a year but
at present seems much improved.
his many friends are glad to learn.
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an adventures whom he marries
without discovering her character.
The play Is one in which pathos is
combined with comedy. The organ
-izatiun presenting Human Hearts
is under the management OF W. E.
Vaudeville, who has directed its tour
most successfully for a number Of
years. Mr.. Vaudeville is said to
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-04
PENSION DAY.

Monday was pension day and the
veterans Of the civn war were busy
having their vouchers made out and
sending them to Washington In or
der to receive their quarterly re-
mittanees.
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Under Southern Skies AT the
Grand Opera House Tonight

Under Southern Skies. which
viii be given at the Grand opera
house tonight, needs no introauctiea
to our theatregoers. Il he's baen
seen in our city and its merits nre so
well known that the announcement
Of its return is sufficient TO insure
crowded house.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-04

Under Southern Skies has prov
ed the greatest in point of popular
ity and large. houses, of all the re-
cent plays of southern life. 1t has
had five seasons Of high prosperity
and indications point to still great
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-04

In Human Hearts,. the story
told is one of much interest, in which
the sympathies of the audience are
thoroughly enlisted. Tom Logan,
an honest blacksmith, living in the
hills of Arkansas, is enrapped by
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-04

er success for this. its sixth year up
on the road It's story is wax,
s;rSag one that touches the heart
aa1 r-gses the sympathies OF the
apeeaatcr, while It's natural scenes OF
delicious comedy keep an audience
in ripple q laughter.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-03-04

have provided ample scenic display
for the production and to have en-
gagged a splendid company for the
portrayal poi,. of the various characters
WIN appear at the Grand wednes.
day, March 6.
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Bold At s. 90 per bottle By druggists. Our DO
q priceless value to all women sent free. Addr
saaDrnELD REGULATOR co.. atlanta.