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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Want Council TO
MdkeCOmpanYMOVe

Members of the committee on health
and police were last night given a
hard nut to crack. Alleging that the
feed and stock yards of the Walla
Walla Meat & Cold Storage company
in the northern part of the city is a
menace to public health and a general
nuisance, a upetitiOn, signed by 80
property owners in the interested Sec
tion was read by City Clerk T. D. S..
Hart, and came as a bombshell to the
city dads, who were beginning to con-
slider the plan Of adjourning.
For some time past complaints have
been registered at frequent intervals
with the police department, and also
with Health Officer A. E. Braden, but
as no drastic steps were tken for abe
relief of property owners, the citizens
went directly to the council, with the
petition, which is as follows:
1--WE, the undersigned citizens, tax
payers and residents of the neighbor-
hood of the city of Walla Walla, re-
spectfully request you to require the
Walla Walla Meat & Cold Storage
company to remove their stock yards
now located in the north part of the
city at the end of North Sixth street
and extending up to North Fourth
street, to some point outside the city
limits, and that they be required to
keep and feed all their stock, cattle,
sheep and hogs outside of the city
limits, and to clean up and put in
sanitary condition their present feed
ing yards, as the keeping and feeding
of such cattle, sheep and hogs at the
ont i- I1ic
ing our health and lives, and serious
ly damages our property by depreclat-
ing the value thereof and rendering 1t
impossible for us to sell or rent our
property. And we would further re-
quest that the said Walla Walla Meat
& Cold Storage company be forbidden
and prohibited from burning fer
tilizer at their packing plant in this
city, for the reason that the same
causes nauseouS OdorS and offensive
smells, rendering life burdensome In
that part of the city, and endangering
the health of those residing in the
neighborhood."
The petition was, on motion OF
Councilman Bachtold, referred to the
committee on health and police Ref
erence of the paper called for the
following remark from Mayor Tau
sick:
Il presume that most of you know
that I am interested in this plant. 1t
is my desire that you treat this mat
ter absolutely as though you were
dealing with strangers
Good Sanitary Condition.
1t is stated that the big plant Of the
Walla Walla Meat & Cold Storage
company is kept in excellent sanitary
condition. no complaint being made on
this ground.
Sanitary Inspector w. G. Gates, in
Speaking of the conditions existing at
:ae stock yards, this morning said:
Although it has been several days
since l visited the place, 1 can truth
fully say that the corrals and stock
Yards sre in as good condition as
many of the stables in the city linn
Its. | can say nothing about the
stencil Of which the property owners
colnp, ain. tor L have never remained
any great length of time on the prem
lSes Tie corrals are in as good con-
C.tl'n as it IS possible, and the hog
pen, containing some IS or pigs, was
III fair condition when last saw II"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
TAFT AND CANNON
DISCUSS TARIFF

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Taft and
Cannon conferred for an hour and
half this morning; but both agreed
not to divulge the subject they dis
cussed. 1t IS believed it was the tariff
Taft announced that revision OF the
tariff laws will be thorough and that
the party's promises regarding the
question will be kept.
Cannon is reported to hold similar
views on the tariff. 1t is believed that
no controversy occurred between theii.
A conference will be held tomorro"
afternoon at the home Of Representa-
tive Longworth with the members OF
the ways and means committee, having
the tariff revision matter under con-
sideration. A statement VIII -oe
given the public later
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
JudgeiWilfey
Down And Out

WASHINGTON, Dec. c.s9.-Judge L. G.
Whitley, formerly attorney general OF
the Philippine Islands, who was named
by President Roosevelt as the first
judge of the recently established Unit
ed States district court at Shanghai.
China. and against whom Americans
IN the Orient raised a vigorous outcry,
mas been removed from his position
the president sending to the senate the
nomination of Rufus H. Thayer for the
position.
President Roosevelt today sent the
senate the following nominations:
Luke Wright, secretary of war; Tru-
man Newberry, secretary of the navy;
Herbert L. Satterlee. assistant secre-
tary of the navy; Daniel ]. Keefe. COM
missioner general Of immigration; Ru-
rus H. Thayer, judge of the United
states district court Of China; Waoe
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
TWENTY FIVE CENTS PER MONTH.
RuefS Fate In Hands OF
Jury After Fifteen Weeks

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9.-"It is
the height of righteousness for us to
be here two months trying this man
who has confessed. of goong through
a complicated trial to determine
whether he is guilty, when he has ad-
mitted his guilt. Are you prepared in
the face of this confession to declare
him innocent? If you are, by the living
God, we know the reason why" shout,
ed Prosecutor Hiram Johnson in clos
ing the argument of the Ruef trial to-
day. He minced no words, and dealt
upon the attempt to bribe the jury.
Johnson delivered the address instead
of Heney, who is yet unable to ap-
pear.
Attorney Johnson lashed Attorneys
Ach and DoZier so severely that they
asked the court to direct the prosecu-
tor to confine his remarks to the evil
dence.
Down with assassins and jury bri
bers," Johnson shouted repeatedly.
Pointing his finger at Ruef he called
him "a Judas, self-confessed felon,'
with the plea of guilty on his lips"
The prosecutor was particularly bitter
in his denunciation of the defense.
The fate of Ruef will be placed in
the hands of the jury tonight. This
has been one of the longest and most
sensational trials on record. From the
time the first preliminary move was
made, Is weeks and three days have
elapsed.
A Dramatic Case.
Out of the trial sprang many i'm
pOrtant dramatic issues. Two of the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Bakers Use Many
Very Rotten Eggs

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 9.-All Phil
adelphia is in an inward ferment these
days. following the revelations made
by the state food and dairy commits
sion in regard to the use Of rotten
eggs in the manufacture Of bakery
products. Staid citizens now hold one
hand on "tummy' and the other over
the nose when passing a bake shop.
Even Father Penn, on his lofty perch,
wears look of pain and disgust.
According to the investigators. the
business Of supplying rotten eggs to
bakeshops is so extensive that there
are more than twenty dealers engag-
ed in the disgusting trade. Thousands
of dozens of 'rots" AMI "spots," the
refuse Of the big storage warehouses
and wholesale egg dealers are sold
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
PRINCE HELLO
WAKES WROTH
AT CLEMENCEAU

PARIS, Dec. 9. = Prince Hel1e de
Sagan, who recently married Anna
Gould de Castellane, angered at the
alleged clumsy manner in which his
case was presented today, practically
withdrew the case from the hands Of
Maitre Clemenceau at the resumption
Of the suit of Count Boni for the Gus
tody Of his children.
Maitre Rousset, representing the
Gould family, said today that George
Gould had authorized him to say that
in his opinion the relation of the
prince and princess prior to their mar
riage, had no bearing on the present
trial.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
WOMAN DENIES
GUILT, DYING
MAN CONFESSES

tRAKERSFTELD, Cal, Dec. W.
lowering between life and oeath'
Adrian Won Plank, Portland actor
today made an antemortem statement
admitting improper relations with
wife of Newton Blacker. teamster
who shot him last night after nnolne
his wife in a hotel room with the ac-
tor. The woman says their relations
were not improper, and that her nus
bands suspicious are unfounded.
Believing he is going to die, Won
Plank signed the following statement
'T was shot four or five times oy
Mr.. Blackmor, husband Of the woman n
who was with me in my bedroom
Three balls took effect in my chest.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Dayton Votes for Dry Town

DAYTON Dec. 9. = Especially
Dayton has elected to become dry
Whether the saloons VIII be closed at
once or whether they will be allowed
to continue to run as long as their Ii
censes are in effect, dropping out one
by one as the licenses expire, is a mat
ter for the determination of the next
city council, but the council is pledged
to make this dry town. The vote
on the liquor question yesterday re-
suited in over two-to-one victory for
the drys, the vote being wet 15S, dry
31S.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Mill Creek
Was the Topic

What promised to be a tame session
of the city council assumed a stormy
appearance toward the close last night
when E. s. Clark entered a verbal
protest against the action of the city
fathers in ordering property owners
living along Mill creek between NO
komis Lane and Clinton street, to
bulkhead the north bank. Mr.. Clark
objected not to the bulkheading, nor
to the cost of the work, could it be
done at a season of the year when dan
ger of freshets was eliminated, but he
said it was more than folly to start
work in the winter when almost any
day a rise in the stream might take
out all the false work, and entail a
heavy additional expense.
That the council should order prop
erty owners above Professor H. S.
Brode to go to an expense of $500 or
$500 each just for the sake of pro-
tecting Mr.. Brode's property, Mr..
Clark did not think was equitable, as
a temporary constructed wing, he
said, might be put in by the profess
sor at a cost of about $50, and thus his
property could be saved until the con-
crete bulkhead above could be installed.
After much discussion, one way and
another, the weary city fathers grad
ually lost interest and the verbal pro-
test was waited gently down the cor
ridors Of time.
The petition of property owners liv-
ing along the south side of the creek
between Clinton street and the Apple
gate property, asking for a bulkhead,
was granted, but as all property own
ers are in favor of the improvement no
further action on the part of the coun-
Gil was necessary.
Reports of Committees.
The street committee recommended
that the request of Eugene Lnnon for
a change in the lines of the proposed
alley between Spokane and Palouse
street be denied, and that the alley
be opened on the old survey. The report
was adopted.
The Winckler tax rebate case came
up again last night, in the report Of
the judiciary committee, recommend
ing that the city take no action, as it
is a personal matter between ]. ].
Kaufman ex-chief Of police, and Mr..
Winckler. The report was adopted.
The Washington Oregon Traction
company, by its officers, in a commu-
nication formally accepted Ordinance
No. 1862 which was passed by the
council October q, 1908.
The ordinance vacating University
street west of Stanton street, as de-
sired by the college authorities, was
given the first and second readings last
night, and was placed on the calender
for further action.
Accountant Victor M. Smith, OF
Spokane, in a letter to City Clerk T.
D. S. Hart, announced that he would
be in walla Walla February / to take
up the work of exporting the city's
records and Installing new system OF
bookkeeping.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
FULTON INTERVIEW
BADLY MISQUOTED

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-It has
transpired today that some errors
crept into the reports sent to Oregon
yesterday regarding the Fulton inter-
view with Roosevelt. Roosevelt merely
asked that proof of the froud be
brought if any was committed in the
Oregon senatorial primary election.
All Chamberlain said today was:
81 have been treated with such fine
courtesy here by men of all parties
that I must refrain from dragging in
politics this time"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09

In the Y. M. G. A. gymnasium, the
team representing the "Y'' will play
it's second game Thursday night, it's
opponents being this time the Pear
sons academy five. Both teams are
showing we'll in practice and a sharp
game is expected.
The Y. Nj. c.. A. quintet beat the
Weston normal last Friday night by
a score of more than 2 to 1. The acad-
emy bunch has not yet played any
games but has been doing hard work
in practice.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
"GOOD ENOUGH"
MEAT KILLS ONE
POISONS IA MORE

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9.-James
Reynolds, a waiter who served the
luncheon furnished the guests of Va
lejo at the launching of the Collier
Prometheus last Saturday, died early
today of ptemaine poisoning, IA other
walters are reported ill. They ate
some of the sandwiches and told the
caterer that the meat was rotten. The
caterer said it was good enough for
SO cents az head.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
AuCfiOneer Fee
Placed at $2S

More discussion than has been in
dulged in in a month of regular ses-
sions of the city council, was precip-
itated last night when the new auc-
tioneer ordinance, drawn up by the
city attorney at the instance Of the
judiciary committee, was introduced,
together with a report of the commit
tee recommending it's passage.
The new ordinance, which was adopt
ed last night, is the third which has
been before the council in the past
few weeks, the first one having been
found unconstitutional by Judge
Brents, when action for injunction was
started by J. w. Stoddard, proprietor
Of the Oriental Bazaar to enjoin the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
BLACK HAND
DROPS BOMB
GETS TWENTY

NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-Twenty were
injured today when a bomb wrecked
a five story tenement. The bomb was
dropped by a blackhand agent from
the roof of an adjoining building.
Five victims were taken to the hospi-
tai in critical condition. 1t is re-
ported the Black Hand is angry be-
cause certain families refused to con-
tribute money to the society.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Vaccinate Against Typhoid.

WASHINGTON, Dec.9O.-The spe-
cial medical board created by the
war department to consider immuta-
tion of regulars against typhoid fever.
met yesterday and later announced 1t
was convinced of the usefulness and
of anti-typhoid vaccina-
ton. The board has adopted a rec
that voluntary vaccina-
ton be introduced in the army as a
practicable basis of diminishing ty-
phoid.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Annual Banquet
Given by Girls

One of the most important social
functions of the year at Whitman
college will take place on Saturday
night in Reynolds Hall, when the
Libethrean literary society, girls or
ganization. banquets it's brother society.
the Athaneem. 1t is the custom for
the societies to take alternate years in
banqueting each other and this year
the girls do the entertaining.
The Libethresn is one Of the leading
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Fairbanks Speaks,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Vice Pres
ident Fairbanks today addressed the
rivers and harbors congress. He said
this was a work of national character
and it should be done under national
authority and that a large share of
the amount to be expended should be
raised by bond issues.
Ambassador Bryce, of England,
spoke. He said that a canal aids rail-
roads and does not compete with them.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09

mated that Moss was a candidate for
membership in Roosevelt's Ananias
seized his associate by the nose and
pulled it,
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Assaulted
And Robbed

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9.-Bleeding
from an ugly wound in the head, her
hands bound behind her, a cloth over
her mouth, Mrs Nellie Harris stag
gered into saloon near her home after
entered the house and attacked her.
midnight and said that burglars had
They bound her legs but she man
aged to release herself. Her furs were
taken by the burglars.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
TELEPHONE
GIRLS ARE
VACCINATED

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. "a force
Of doctors is engaged in applying the
vaccine points to the arms Of several
hundred telephone girls. All Of them
were not vaccinated on their arms, for
many of them are limping slightly to-
day. The order to vaccinate was is
sued by the board Of health after it
was discovered that Miss Ida Pankow.
an operator on the west exchange, had
smallpox
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Southern Society.

NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-What prom
ises to be the largest dinner in the his
tory of the Southern Society of New
York will be held tonight at the Wald-
rf-Astoria. The affairs wall be- TWEEN
ty-third anual banquet of the south
erners of the metropolis. DR.. Wood
row Wilson, president of Princeton
university, will speak on "Conserva-
tism, True and False" Martin W. Lit
tleton will speak on Some Lessons
of Yesterday and Today" and DR.. S.
Parkers Cadman will deliver an au-
dress on "StoneWall Jackson"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
CHUN, KOREAN
ACCOMPLICE OF
CHANG, GONE

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9.-M. w.
Chun, a Korean, jointly accused with
In Whan Chang Of the murder of Dur
ham White Stevens last March, has
not been seen for four months. The
district attorney has just learned that
the man is a fugitive. Chun and
Chang participated in an assault upon
the diplomat. Chang's trial has just
started Gun was released on his own
recognizance in July
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Damage Suit Against Herald.

PARIS, Dec. 9.-TomorrOW has
been set for the hearing of the case
of MN. Andre Messenger and l.. Brou-
san against M. Pierre Weber, the dra-
matte critic, and thei New York Herald
company. The complainants ask for
$4,000 damages on account of an ar
ticle written by Weber and published
in the Paris edition of the New York
Herald.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Auto Club ExpeIs Thomas.

NEWARK, N. J., Dec. 9.-The trus-
tees Of the New Jersey Automobile
and Motor Cycle club, after a stormy
session yesterday expelled E. r.
Thomas, the former New York banker
from membership in the club. Charg-
es Of reckless driving at Long Branch
on August IA. last, had been preferred
against Mr.. Thomas.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Mrs. Taft to Speak.

NEW YORK, Dec st is an
rourced that Mrs. Taft will attend the
convention of the National Civic fed
eratIcr in New York next MDnday and
Tuesday and will deliver an address
ct the meeting Of the wc:nan's depart
ment President-e It Taft Will de-
liver the annual address ut the closing
banquet next Tuesday nigaL.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Moroar - Banquet.

CHICAGO, Dec. 81. Pierpont
M.rstn will be the guess cf lonor at
a banquet of the Chicago Ass 'clation
cf G. mmerce, to be held at the a udi
. I'M hotel this evening Several
other speakers Of national reputation
have teen invited. Topics relating to
transportation and commerce are to
be discussed.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Commerce Council.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Repre-
seutatives of commercial organlza-
tions of nearly three score leading
cities gill be present when Secretary
Strauss opens the meeting of the Ma
tional Council of Commerce tomor-
row. The sessions will be held in the
office of the department of commerce
and labor Permanent officers will be
elected and plans perfected for the
work of the council.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Most Famous of Mules Dead
"And Her Name Was Maud"

RENO, Dec. 9.-"Scotty's" famous
mule, Maud" is dead On the desert,
60 miles from Winnemucca, victim
of wine and rich food. The physician
diagnosed "Maud's" case as Bright's
disease due to high living.
Ever since ',Scotty" took the mule
east on the famous train over the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Twenty-Five Drowned.

DULUTH, Mimi, Dec 9.-All hope
for the safety of the 25 men COM
prising the crew of the, steam freighter
Clemson was abandoned today when
23 hatch covers came ashore, that be-
longed to the Clemson.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Pinkertons Take Case.

PORTLAND, Dec. 90.-Multnomah
county is at standstill in the search
for the bandits who robbed the East
side bank of $4,000 Monday. Pin
kertons have taken up the case where
the local police left off, for the Ban
kers' association and are confident of
arresting the robbers within 48 hours
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Pension Frauds In Old ireland

DUBLIN. Dec. 9.-Wholesale frauds
in the distributing of old age pensions
in Ireland have caused such a scan
dal that no further pensions will be
paid until safeguards are placed on
the system. 1t is supposed there are
only 1920 persons over 20 years en-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09

Santa Fe, and fed her champagne
from a bucket, the animal has not
been the same. "Scotty" and the mule
went in search of new minei last week,
and MAUD" died, stranding her mas
ter in the sage brush forty miles from
the nearest spring.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
BIeached Flour No GO.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.-Secretary
of, Agriculture Wilson today declared
that flour bleached by nitrogen perox-
ide is adulterated and cannot be sold
in the District Of Columbia, any of the
territories or be transported by any
common carriers.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09

LONDON, Dec Especial exercises
in all schools and at Cambridge and
Oxford and meetings of several i'm
portant literary societies, marked the
3OOth anniversary Of Milton today.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09

PRESENT PENNANT.

+ NEW YORK, Dec. 9-.The +
+ American league directors today +
+ officially presented the Detroit +
+ baseball team with the champion +
+ ship pennant of the American +
+ league. =
= 4. + 4. + 4. = 4. 4. + + + = \ I.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09

Ellis, assistant attorney general He
also sent several hundred nominations
of postmasters and other officials ap-
pointed during the congressional re-
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titled to the weekly pension of five
shillings. but the records show that
$4,000 applied for money. Hun
dreds of additional demands are coming
and the evidences of the fraud are
strong.
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Milton Celebration.

NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-The tercen-
tenary of the birth of John Milton will
be formally celebrated by the students.
faculty and trustees of Columbia
university today.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
Missouri Judge Pulls Nose of
His Associate On Bench

KANSAS CITY, Dec. .9-Three
judges of Jackson county are occupy
ing their benches today following a
sensational squabble yesterday when
Judge Moss pulled Judge Judd's
nose.
When court convened an argument
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09

Cold Weather Reaches Omaha.
OMAHA, Dec. 9.-Three below. zero.
the coldest weather SO far this season.
was recorded here yesterday.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-09
vouno Is Postmaster

Young Is postmaster.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.-The
president has appointed John G.
Young as postmaster at Portland.