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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-24

$35 PER ACRE BUYS FINE d.
versified farm of 240 acres; 100
acres in summer fallow wheat; so
acres bottom land; 80 acres OF which
is good alfalfa land; balance best
of pasture, running water, will take
$4,000 down balance on easy terms.
Close to school and station, and
about an hours drive from city.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-24

Merry Married Christmas.
AT the home of the grOom's father
J. r. Tallmon, East Walla, yesterday
evening was sOIemnized the wedding
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VETERINARY SURGEONS

DIR. J. ]. MURRAY, VETERINARY
Surgeon and Dentist. Graduate of
American Veterinary College. y. Y.
Office, Star Livery Barn, corner of
Fifth and Alder Phone So C37
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BAGGAGE AND TRANSFER

GOODS MOVED: ALL
kinds of light and heavy drawing
Residence phone 1856; Stand phone
216: john Kralman. Prop
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$4,000 BUYS ONE-HALF ACRE,
nice new bungalow; fine barn, wind
mill, everything new and modern, a
fine suburban home.
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$40 PER ACRE BUYS 100 ACRES OF
the finest kind Of grain land 1 IA
miles of Waitsburg; part of this is
fine garden and fruit land; place is
soWn to summer fallow fall wheat;
small improvements.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-24

CARACAS, Dec. 24.-In a clash this
afternoon between thousands of peo-
pie gathered for a demonstration tot
support Acting President Gomez and
a remnant of the Castro party, two
anti Castroists were killed and hun
dreds were injured.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-24

good wheat land close to Clyde
rents for third.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-24

$500 BUYS A FINE BUILDING LOT
in Lemons addition will give good
terms.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

Copy for advertising should be in
the business Office not later than 10
o'clock a. IN. to insure insertion on
that day.
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FOR SALE-THREE LOTS AND SIX
roomed house. brick cellar, one block
within car line. Price $500, one
half cash, balance SIS per month
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-24

$1,000 BUYS \ FINE PLACE CLOSE
seven rooms, basement, lot 5ox137.
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WILLEMSTADT, Dec 24.-The Uni
ted States gunboat Dolphin arrived
this morning and was greeted by a
noisy welcome.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-12-24

$1,000 BUYS A FINE BUILDING LOT
in Greens Park addition. Lot sex17s
lays high.
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s22 PER ACRE BUYS 500 ACRES OF
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The

Entered at the PostOffice at Walla
Walla. Washington, as second-class
matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
OUR MODERN CIVILIZATION.
How Americas Influence Has Affected
 1t for the Better.

From the New York American
 The revolution in Turkey, the wonder ful flight and dramatic destruction of the Zeppelin airship-neither of these incl dents of present history at all equals in
 interest the all-prevading fact of the hot weather The heat Is the prevailing sub Ject of common conversation in New
 York and all over the land. From the first days of human civilization the best way to escape the discomforts of midsum- mer has been the paramount subject of talk. It has been discussed in languages now dead It will continue far beyond
 the death of our own language
 However, the American people in a comparatively short period have started fashions of apparal calculated to improve
 comfort. The low-cut shoes, the light un- derwear for men, the fashion of loose shirt waist for women, really are achive- ments. The American of the future will look back on us of today with the pity we feel for the knights of the Middle Ages incased In their armor under the beating heat of the midsummer sun And these terrible encasements of iron were not war fashion alone, but state fashion
 as we'll They were regarded as the supreme regalia of gentlemen. Inlaid with gold and silver, and done in ara besque, these suits of armor were donned as the most fashionable equipment on grand occasions.
 How men could endure the encasement of iron from head to foot is almost im- possible of comprehension. And from
 iron corselets to starched shirts is a long
 stretch of time. It took centuries But
 we have done away with starched shirts in summer In two decades.
 The terrible iron fashion, which must
 have inflicted tortures worse than any
 other fashion is now the mere stock of the curio shops And, no doubt. the elaborate clothes of today will become curiosities of the future as much as Milan mail for men and steel stays for women are the curios exhibited in our shops dealing in antique relics.
 And the same rule applies to all things.
 In years to come the electric fan will be
 as usual and common as the running wa
 ter is today that was rare in apartments
 only a few decades ago. And thus the
 world changes-only it has at last begun
 to change faStI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23

the Indian ocetan by bar and the easi- est approach is by the Chinde mouth. There is bar there also, but small steamers go over it and bring the goods from the ocean vessels which anchor out side. During our stay the water was so rough that passengers had to be taken on and off in basket.
 From Chinde one can go up the Zambe- si and it's tributaries by boat. There are three transportation companies, and the vessels start inland shortly after the ar rival of every ocean steamer. Some of them go into the Shire river and on into Nyasaland. Chinde is, in fact, the gate to that British colony, and all goods and passengers for it are landed there The trip inland is slow and affected somewhat by the condition of the river and there is now talk of building a railroad which shall go to Blantyre, the capital of Nyas- aland. Blantyre IS an enterprising town with two banks, a chamber of commerce and social and athletic clubs. It is only one of several promising stations in the colony. Zomba, for instance, which is much farther inland, has electric lights. It gets it's power from the Zomba noun
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
ACTION NOT MOVED.
A DisiIIusionizing Story of Henry
 Irving.

From the Springfield Republican.
 It is to many people a painful delusiou to learn that a great actor is not neces- sarily moved in acting moving scene. Very shocking, for example, is this story which the English writer, w. H. Pollock, told the other day about Sir Henry Irving. He had 1t from an actress who played Desdemona to Sir Henry's Othello:
 What" she said in pathetic tones, what do you think he said when he was supposed to be stiffiing me behind the curtains? Can you guess?" I replied nat urally that I could not. Why, he asked me what my mother had ordered for SUD- per. Think of itp'
 No doubt the actors part becomes in time more or less an objective entity in- dependent from himself. so that he leads Jekyll-Hyde life on the stage. But tho extent to which this happens must depend greatly on temperament The actor has to steer between two perils-that of laps ing into dead routine and that of wearing himself out by overdrawing his emotional resources.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23

enormous parks which have been laid out as perpetuity will be kept intact
 Power for the Zambesi.
 These falls will supply power for the navigation of the Zambesi and its tribu- taries The ZambeSi itself has about four thousand miles of navigable waterways. It Is one of the great rivers of the world and It ranks fourth on this continent. The biggest of the African rivers is the kon- go after which come the Nile and the Mi ger. The Zambesi rises in Portugese west Africa in a great plateau which is about mile above the sea. It's springs are not far from those of the kassai, which flows into the Kongo. The upper course of the river is over grassy plain, which it annually inundates. As the stream reaches the boundary'of Rhodesia the valley narrows and the course is broken here and there by falls and rap ids. The river has dropped 2,0oo feet be- fore it arrives at this point. and 1t then falls about a thousand feet within twenty miles. It is slow and sluggish just above here, and it looks some what like great pond several miles west of 1t where it
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
E1armessi1g the Zambesi
How Victoria Falls will work the gold nnines of the Rand


it into the turbines. At some distance above the falls the Zambesi is two miles wide. It narrows to a mile before it reaches the great gorge into which it goes in one mighty. drop of 400 feet. The falls are as wide as from the treasury
 to the capitol in Washington, and the water jumps straight down for dis tance of 400 feet By means of the canal now projected the drop will be only $50 feet, and the water will pour into 10 great turbines, each of which will gen. crate 5000 horse power, making 50O00 horse power at the first installation. The machinery used is to be just the same as is now employed at Niagara, and one of the chief engineers connected with the construction is a man who has put up works at Niagara. This is MT. Ralph D.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23

of Lake Erie over the falls is only little more than two hundred thousand cubic feet per second. At this rate it will not be many years before the beauty of our falls as great natural wonder will pass away
 The same fear has been expressed as to the Zambesi falls, but the British South Africa company has been careful In granting concessions which will prevent anything of this kind. The difference in the fall of the Zambesi IS very great at different times of the year, and the views when the river is high cannot be im- paired. The canals to be constructed are to be so arranged that neither the cleo trical works nor their course will be visible from the falls themselves, and every effort will be made to preserve this as one of the wonders of the world. No factories will be allowed near by, and the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23

Mershon of New York, well known au- thority on the transmission of electricity at high tension. Mr. Mershon has said that there is no doubt that this power can be carried for a distance of 500 miles, and ne speaks of the scheme as practical and profitable.
 Among the other European authorities who have investigated it are Professor Blondel of Paris, Dr. Tissot of Basic and Professor Klingenberg of Berlin. I am told that Lord Kelvin made a careful investigation of 1t, and that the chief German electrical works are interested, and that they will supply some of the machinery.
 Carrying Electricity 500 Miles.
 The scheme involves the carrying of the juice, or electrical current. for dis tance of 600 miles. and it is proposed to constrdyt line that long from here to the gold mines of the Transvaal for the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23

first installation. This is much farther than power has yet been carried in our or any other country. We are working plants more than half that far in Cali fornia. There are tramways in Oakland which get their electricity from water powers 140 miles away, and there are cer- tain stations served by the California Gas and Electric company at distance of $50 miles. If this plant succeeds it will result in the power of Niagara Falls being carried to far beyond Chicago. and to it's utilization in New York Bos- ton, Washington, Cincinnati, Indanapo- lis and throughout the mighty industrial beehive which is inclosed within a radius of 600 miles of Buffalo.
 Aluminium Wires and Steel Towers.
 As is now planned, the power will be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23

carried through aluminium cables as DE around as mans wrist, and these will be supported by great steel towers to feet high. Each tower will weigh in the ncighborhood of 5000 pounds. It will be bedded in a cement foundation and VIII be made about six times as strong as the weight Of the cables and insulators seems to demand An experimental tower was recently made in Scotland and testen' This tower is much like some which are now used in the United States. It LOOKS like those used for windmills and IS o feet high. Each tower will probably carry several cables. The insulators. Will be of porcelain and will weigh from oo to 75 pounds each. The cables VIII De made of aluminium wire, with a large number of strands to each cable The towers will be erected a thousand feet apart, and if will take in the neighpor- hood of 5000 of them to reach from here to the Transvaal
 Ibis probable that there will be much less loss of power on account of the wires
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23

makes it's great jump of 400 feet into this mighty cavern, walled with precipitous rocks It falls rapidly in the gorge, but after forty or fifty miles or so the water again becomes quiet and 1t runs onward comparatively smooth, with the exception of a few places, for distance of 800 miles to the Kebra basa rapids In Portuguese East Africa and thence on 400 miles fur ther into the sea- The last 400 miles are always open to navigation, but the delta is low and sandy and some of the chan nels are frequentlY clogged.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
-<zWUm~HNywN-
By Frank G. Carpenter
 SNSNNyxr.zzzH

, tain, down which a river flows with a fall
 of 1SO0 feet. Turbines are used and the
 dynamos are started at sunset to light
 the town, the power being used during
 the day for saving lumber and other
 work The development of these falls may furnish the power for the. railroads of the coast. Indeed, railroad 100 miles long connecting Blantyre with the Shire was completed last April. and this Is soon to be extended to Zomba, where this electric power Is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-23
Business on the Zambesi.

I stopped at one of the chief mouths of the Zambesi on my way down the coast The river divides as 1t hears the ocean and until recently the chief en- trance to it was at Quilimane, town on the Kwa-kwa river, fourteen miles from the sea. This is now separated from
New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
DER BEER Is OCDT!
Herr Kapitan Bachmann Loses
Three Cases-Such q ThHstiness!

The big German four-masted ship Peter Rick
mers arrived here yesterday with what Captain
Bachmann calls an experimental ballast. after
passage OF forty-seven days from Bremen. She
comes here 70 load case oil for Rangoon. and, with
the exception of 1850 tons Of sand amidshtps
she will carry her ballast with her cargo TO Ran
goon.
Captain Bachmann put away in the big ships
hold sixty thousand German brick. which are in
demand at Rangoon and can be sold at fair profit
He could not take a complete cargo of brick be
cause il could not be well distributed in the hold
and was forced 70 load in addition 10 the SAND
more than hundred OF stone.
Case oil is such a light cargo that il is neces-
sary TO carry additional weight 70 keep the Dig
ship steady. After taking out -le 1850 tons OF
sand which he thinks he afford 10 leave in
this country. Captain Bachmann will take on MS
oil cargo at Constable Hook
Captain Bachmann had something more than
ba last on his mind when ne dropped anchor on
Tompkinsyile Yesterday, and he will appeal to the
German Consulate here help unburden IL
The captain is fond CT his beer-the real peer
such is made only in Gernany-and ne brought
ten cases containing $50 bOtties-tor his own use
Taking inventory yesterday he touno 'Tat 'I,'ee
cases had been consumed by persons other than
himself and he will ask the German Consulate 10
Investigate the theft and make the Offenders pay
for what they drank.
The skipper said also that he had been much
worried over peculiar sickness that broke OUT
among the men OF the port watch. They com
planned of symptoms like the grip and laid of
s1-ster7aticaflv The captain investigated the Ill
ness OF the and thought II peculiar tLal ollIs
the men Of the port watch afflicted, and
was puzzled because none Of the i'll men would
take any medicine.
We shipped q big Dane sailormau al Bremen
said the skipper Yesterday. and think he knows
What j. the matter with the men I found out he
was the sea lawyer Of the crew and told the men
how to loaf I diagnosed The disease as lazlness-
I shall have that matter investigated also
some old barnacJes along the waterfront told
hin, rhe hest cure would be to snip buCko Yam
kee mate.
The Norwegian bark Sylfden also arrived yes
terdav aftor a passage OF ninety DAYS, from Para
pit Portuguese East Africa. IN addition 10 her
s-ro she brought part Of the mangrove bark
cargo of the bark Branden
New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
THE PETROLEUM FIELDS.

The lower southwest field presented little for
the past week Of interest. The great bulk Of
cornplatione were Of very small productive cali
hra where they were not utter failures The
well on the John MAY farm Big Branch. Duval
district Lincoln County. which reckoncd
as good for about thirty barrels day. shot
early in the week and immediatey Increased its
nrodIctiou TO one hundred and Gfry barrels
This fact has given some encouragement -
driIlers In that locality. At Tollsnsbee. Brook
County, on the river front. - test well COM
nIetad which was good for forty barrels a
g.,. Tho formation is very hard and the well
he increased 4 fairly good well was struck IN
the Walton pool Green Creek. ROane County
II was drilled through the Big lnJgn sand and
showed up for fifty barrels q day. This lies six
hundred feet south of the second test on the
same farm. and mean considerable for this
district The condition Of the roads has Tetard-
81 ,t.ori il, mn sections and especially the Ohio
side In tie Big Lime district. Fairfield County.
five wells held up together with dozen or
been possible haul 10 them on account Of
the roads From other sections Of ohio the
news j. of the most neaEre character.
In the illinois Held Il E"oG Heai or "'Ik IS
being held up because OF the terrible condition
of the highways. The rivers, creeks and
bitches oyeTfiowinE. making II Impossible TO
remedy The difficulty in the mean timc the
activity the field must necessarily be re
Of work is expected 70 set IN as soon as the
weather conditions have improved The excite
ment over the Illinois field having subsidized. 20
d great extent operators willing %
turn their attention 10 this we'll other
Fefned petroleum - unchanged at rs in bar
prices the basis of rVe points lower
Foreign prices for refined are also unchanged.
werp. q i .-s per 100 siles. ana arsnlsn s.35
marks per 6o kilos
New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
MOURN At TEN CENTS s HEAD.
Attempt to Save 'Snipe" Starts Blaze at
Gerschunin Meeting.

= desire - save a half smoked cigarette came
near creating q disturbance al Il meeting Of over
roJr thousand long distance revolutionists at the
Grand Cenfral Palace Yesterday afternoon The
meeting was called hv the American committee of
the Russian Social E-voiutionar" party in memory
q Gregory Audroov-rrI CfersChuuin. the Russian
raroIutiorlst Who died 10 Switzerland last week
When -he coat of the Young who stuck his
cigarette IN his pocket began burning he tore II
of ami -rled to stamp the fame. thereby set
ting Ere he woodwork
\ soon as the fame were discovered the band
struck up a revolutionary hymn ana the audience
sang while Ih- superintendent Of the building put
out the IRE \ large part of the lower East Side
had moved w 20 4ith street for the meeting In
slector Walsh had fifty policemen nand and :
soon as q bout thousand men and had
crowded. IN the were closed
Al admission fee II cents the cause"
was charged. Fifteen more speakers. presidents
OF various Jewish aut Russian societies. talked
about Cierschuuin ia German, English and Tiddish
Tor rver three hours it decided to send tcIe-
grams o. coudol"nce 20 various bodies Of revolu-
LionIsts throughout Europe
New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
OPPOSITION TO DUPLICATE BID PLAN.
Controller Metz Says Effort viii Be Made
TO Defeat His Project.

Ir IN interview YESTERDAY Controller Metz said he
had learned that d thoroughly organized oppos-
lion was being planned to fight his duplicate bid"
scheme which believes will prevent crookedness
II making bids for contracts 10 pc given by
the CITY H called attention 10 the fact that
ordinance intended 10 bring about this reform has
already been presented 10 the Board OF Aldermen
and referred for hearing. but that little had been
heard Of The ordinance This calls for duplicate
bid deposited with the Controller
II am firm believer in the removal OF reDpta-
ton and as the bids city contracts are now
made and opened there Is Tor all the harsh
things that are so often said" the Controller said
Charges are repeatedly made that employees work
IT. coIlusiou ~ bidders, making il possible TO
change figures F. bid after IT has been officially
received VIII duplicate filed in the Controllers
estimate box'-rot TO be opened until q day after
the original bids are opened-such thing would
impossible.
The main point avoid any possibility Of
5ids being changed over night after they have On
tered into competition with others. With little
check on the bids. d dishonest contractor working
with one on the inside might raise the price Of
various articles and increase the total amount Of
MS bid and It would be a rather difficult thing
to prove how II was done"
New-York tribune., 1908-03-23
BEHIND CLOSED SALOONS.
Bipgbam-Jer0me U'dr HGgeS I'm
0bofed. Il Is Thou oht.

From me appearance n -17e darfzened saloons yes
terdaT and closed SIDE doors - the opinion ot
r-arv --a- me conrrn7-arsz- between Police com
missioner Bingham and The Disr-ic- A-to-nev had
no- -et ataret While no confirmation could o..
had = is understood that al saloon keepe-s 7iI
keep their places closed Sundays until they re-
csiEe Tord 70 e conrrars From the present outlook.
nowerer- n does nor seem probable thar the good
wore 7-iiI come in this administration a. leas-.
IF much cirnc devoted keeping other
things closed well saloons SAID Park Pow
akloc1 proprietor. why. should pc able soor
70 srtend "ruTrn or Sundav- Bur the places mat
compelled - keep slu- only those thar are
mos conspicuous. When first received word TO
cfoss u decided ~ Investigate. and found that
1he o16=- oalv applied 10 Us in Park Row from
ann 70 Pear, srres1s and the places in the Tender
lcir
! cant afford 20 say u1uch.~ he continued but
like Eo7d r-ry other public surprises this closing
business VIII ~ shown soon TO- the graft there
II r. ! an inclined believe there IS more in
81 fhar m any Of them. barring gambling and dis
o-se-lv houses
Eizhteer prisoners charged witt excise violations
vere taken 70 r1e East s7fh street station I'D 70
117o o'clock lass n1=ht- Captain Cooley led ms men
n seen raids and squad nj Deputy Commie-
s5oner Hsnsons ner were busy m the district
making rhe eleven remaining arrests rornr7is-
eiorer Bingham was IN the district i, Is under
stood. and made round IN his aUtenobiIe, loot
Ins over The situation N person
For Ihe rrS. time T. many years The Tenderioin
experienced yesterday dry Sunday. Those
places equipped hotels TOLD each customer H.
would have 10 buy q sandwich 70 obtain q drink
The aged c-1ss usually given away Ve~e cgnspic1-
GUS hy their absence
Il Williamsburg twenty-five arrests for violation
~ The excise law were made and rrn-y arrests Tor
rhe violation c1 me SUndav law Among those ar
rcs,=d va James 8i-I-s1ghlir ~ ,Se -u- Johnson
avenue oa-render er1pioved in Larry Carroll 3
saloon aV No 11o Grand street Carroll who is
chief clerk n 5he Hanharrau avenue police court
ana 1er.tensHt of Senator EcCa-rans vas
thought 20 - iu-ruua from ali inrert-rence on the
par o. Ire rlIce
the eNctse laR- Last SlnGsv-s tntaL VS. II