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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31
UNCLE SAM AS A
SECOND HAND MAN
WILL SELL ABOUT A HUNDRED
THOUSAND TONS OF SCRAP
IRON AT AUCTION.
Tired of Having the Mass of Machin.
cry That the French Tried to
Use on Big Ditch.

WASHINGTON, Z. c., July 81
Uncle Sam will shortly have a grand
bargain sale of about 100000 tons of
scrap iron and steel. Officials down on
the Panama Canal Zone have become
wearied of the mass of junk which
once constituted the equipment for dig
ging the ditch when the Fdench engi-
ners started in on the work, and now
it is proposed to do away with it,
1t is a marvel to the government
engineers how the Frenchmen managed
to accumulate such stupendous
amount of machinery, beats, engines.
cars, dredges, shovels, and all, and yet
accomplished so little in the actual
work of making the dirt fly Wherever
possible the American canal engineers
have made use of this stuff Recently,
for instance. a dredge dug up from the
mud and ooZe several French barges,
with their engines, and these were put
IN shape, repaired, and now do service
after comparatively little expense in
their rescue. Everything that is SER
viceabe from the old outfit is employed.
but there is now some 100000 tons of
miscellaneous iron and steel junk that
once was machinery and is now either
too far past repair or unsuitable to
present needs, that will go under the
hammer to the highest bidder.
The French engineers didn't seem to
have any idea of how big job the
digging of the canal was likely to be.
They utilized machinery which the
United States now considers too small
for practical purposes. They tried to
do a job on a big scale with equip
ment Oh a small scale.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31

Waen / write letter to anybody
like to know that | am writing to that
person and to no one else.
1t isn't because l write any very sa-
cred secrets. | got over that bad hab-
it !cng ago.
1t is simply on the same principle
that I should rot be pleased if | had
been talking to some one and found
ttat half dozen people had been
listening to my conversation from be-
hind q screen.
While | might have sad absolutely
nothing that | would have minded
having repeated to those people, L
would have felt displeased at being
uuwittingly allowed to talk to an au-
d enCe
This may be. a peculiar sensitive
Hsss on my part but | rather fancy a
good many people share the feeling
ard on that account it seems to me
that the habit Of reading letters out
loud or of leaving them prCmiscuOus-
Iva round the house is a big breach Of
confidence.
Two or three times l have had the
experience of visiting some one of my
correspondents and finding my letters
,irewn around the house. sometimes
ffuttering about without even an en-
yciope to guard their privacy.
Naturally, since then | have made it
n practice to write letters that are as
general and impersonal as they are
uninteresting.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31
GlimbSes Through Gotham
Goggles
By Glen Gruensey.

the stock exchange in August are
double the July business.
Experts and prophets of the street
are almost unanimous in their de,lara :
rion that the coming month will mark
the beginning of q great era of spec
ulation such as has seldom been known
in this country. Brokers are conf
IDENTIFY looking forward to busy au
tumn and winter, and the prevailing
belief is that the tendency of activity
will De toward much higher prices.
1t is this confidence which has led
some of the greatest financiers of the
land to invest heavily in stocks, with
the result that desirable stocks are
now largely concentrated in the
hands of the favored few. Higher
prices this autumn will enable them
to unload at great profit. 1t is needless
to state that the aforesaid profits will
as usual, come from the pockets of the
small investor. 1t is a regularity OF
the latter that he always waits for a
period of wild speculation and in
fiated prices before investing his say
ings
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31
FOURTEEN MEDALS
FOR BRAVE ACTS

drowning, two arrested an armed MUIR
derer, and five gained official common
datiOn for distinguished service in the
Philippines.
While the story behind every one of
the certificates bristles with more
thrills than the average tale of adven-
ture. that which led to the award made
to Corporal Roy F Cox, of the signal
corps, is undoubtedly the most remark
able and entailed the greatest and most
long continued suffering
Cox travelled 50 miles through an
Alaska iblizzard with the mercury 80
degrees below zero to bring to the army
hospital a trapper whose feet were
frozen and who would undoubtedly
have died but for that heroic trip. Cor
poral Cox was the signal corps oper-
ator in charge of the Mimic station. %
miles from Fort Gibbon, Alaska. On
the night of Februady 25, 1908. he re-
ceived word that a trapper named
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31
Wealthy Woman
Believed tOHQUe
Married" COunt'

BOSTON, July 31.-Mrs. Joseph Ian
caster, the beautiful wife Of a wealthy
Boston business man, who was reported
to have elOped with Count" De Gre
When Mrs Lancaster left her home her
husband emp Dyed a detective, who
boarded steamship for England. The
detective followed coming up with the
them to London. In response to a
cable from the sleuth Mr.. Lancaster
in Boston that there will be trouble
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31
CATTLE DISEASE AFFECTS MAN
Eight Persons In Leesburg, La, Are
Sufferers From Charlton.

LAKE CHARLES. La, July 81
Charlton, a deadly and 'oathsome dis
ease which afflicts cattle and which
has Filled thousands of valuable ami
mails in Louisiana. has attacked hui
man beings now and many men are
under treatment. In Leesburg, the
county seat of Cameron Parish, eight
persons have been stricken. Up to
date no deaths have resulted.
Charlton has afflicted cattle for CEN
turtles, but has seldom visited this
country 1t was known to the an
clients in Egypt and often scourged the
Asiatic and oriental countries 1t is
caused by a germ which enters the
animals skin through an abrasion. 1t
multiplies and causes an inflammation
cerous growth which terminates in
blood poisoning.
The United States government,
alarmed by the inroads the disease has
made, has sent experts from the bu-
reau of animal industry to assist local
veterinarians in fighting the plague.
They are urging cremation of infected
an mails and the vaccination of all
others.
In Cameron parish alone one fourth
of the animals have died.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31

Monte faced death in. lonely cabin
on the shore of Lake Mimic, with both
feet frozen and no medical assistance
at hand. Cox obtained reluctant per-
mission from Captain Clifton his COM
handing officer. to go to Montes aid
his captain thinking the rescue an i'm
possibility. and being unwilling to let
Cox face the deadly cold and snow
alone.
1t took Cox one whole day to make
the trip of 80 miles overland to reach
sleep tor 4S hours. Early the next
! morning the soldier started out with
morning the soldied started out with
the helpless man on a sled and
| "mushed" Is miles through the blind
| ing snow and bitter cold to a road
| house. where he had hoped tomake
+, connections with a dog train and send
| Monte on into Fairbanks. The weather
| was too bad for the dogs to travel.
however, and Cox, nothing daunted, i'm
mediately started out for Fairbanks.
Al miles distant, pulling Monte on his
sled.
Late in the evening the soldier reach
ed Fairbanks and brought the man into
the hospital. Monte lost both his feet,
but his life was saved.
Cox returned to his station at once,
and merely reported that he had found
his man and taken him to a hospital
The real facts in his heroic journey
did not come to Captain CliftOn's no.
tice until long afterward. He then
recommended that Corporal Cox be
given certificate for bravery.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31
MgerS0n Letters

| with thee and whom | know through
thee
There is letter from Mrs. James
G.. Blaine, wife Of the statesman upon
whom IngersOIl bestowed the s0bri-
! quet of "plumed knight" in which
she says: There is no one in whom
have more confidence than in yOur-
self-feW in whom l have so much
Walker Blaine, son of James G.
| blaine. also wrote from Yale college
! in 1876 to thank Ingersoll for the
grand and eloquent tribute which you
paid my father in presenting his name
to the Cincinnati convention The
enthusiastic youth added: L would
sacrifice all the honors which a po-
litical life might bring for the power
of eloquence which your short speech
So we'll evinced.'
An interesting letter is that from
the distinguished Presbyterian clergy
man, DR. Henry NJ Field with whom
Colonel Ingersoll had q controversy
through the columns cf the North
American Review. 1t is written in
the fricndliest manner, but contains
this threat BY next Monday ] go
Tuesday evening. unless I hear from
YOU to the contrary, | will present
myself at your door prepared to de-
molish you in the neatest manner and
the shortest time"
Several Of Colonel Tngersolls let
ters to friends are published for the
first time, and abound in the beauti
! Jul word pictures that enriched his
! OratOric@l and more formal literary
! efforts IL thanking a friend for a
) box of cigars. he pays this tribute to
tobacco: Let them say. what they
will. there is in tobacco the essence,
the aroma of friendship. But
i whether smoking shortens life or not,
whether it puts my soul in peril or not
( | send You thousand thanks for send
! ing me box of emptations-from
which my sincere prayer is not to be
delivered"
In q letter discussing fishing he
makes this sarcastic statement; Tho
! apostles We're fishermen, and their
successors even to this day are a
sca!y set"
; On receiving an opal he wrote OF the
giver Diamonds are cold as intel
lect. rubies warm and selfish as de-
sire but the opal with it's imprisoned
fire. is a combination of head and
heart-Of brain and blood-a ming
ling of purity and passion-virtue glor-
flied by love"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31
EIGHTEEN BABIES
HOLD Up A TRAIN
Infants HoWls Herald Sho-tness o
Milk and the Conductor Has to
1ske Pals and Strip Cows in
Neahborinc Field.

HURON, S. D., July 31-Shortly af-
ter noon Thursday morning sucking
babies held up at a station 10 miles
east of Rapid City, S. D.. the North
western special train returning to this
city with 100 Blaci1. Hills excursion
lists.
The holdup was finally narrowly
averted by the exciting work of Con-
ductor Chambers of this city. who had
charge of the train.
The train left Rapid City in the
morning, carrying a number of men,
women and children who live in this
city and have been conducting a big
There We're IS mothers with infant
children aboard.
The train had proceeded but short
distance when four of the infants her
aided with appropriate sounds and
gestdres a shortage in milk In a few
minutes this disqueting feeling among
the ii others became general and
acute
Conductor Chambers pulled the bell
cord and stopped the train. He filed
many Offices Selling two train buck
cts he sprinted for a pasture a mile
away.
The clamCr arOuss eighboring far
mers from the mono.ony of their har
vest. and, sighting the trainman afar
plundering pedigreed cows, gave chase.
The conductor sped over fences and
bitches for his train. He boarded with
two pals Of rich milk and the watch
ing engineer jerked open the throttle.
1t was a peaceful excursion that
bowled into Huron last night.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31
EVENING CHIT-CHAT
Blu Ruth Cameron

If Won must read lstter aloud it is
a positive duty to your correspond
emf to first read it over to yourself
1t may be that an experience l once
had is partially accountable for my
warmth on this subject.
| very much suspect it is
But before you condemn me for
being unduIy Influenced, listen and see
if you wouldn't be. too.
I once wrote a letter to a girl friend
telling her about a little matter which
I was not willing to have made public
just them l wrote in very much of a
hurry and when | write in a hurry
must admit that l am a VIGOROUSLY
illegible penman.
The next week l got letter say
ing:
Isn't it lovely. Congratulations etc,
cts. l guess you must have been in an
awful hurry when you wrote for l
simply could not read the last sen
tence I showed the letter to every one
in the family and to almost every one
that came in, and they all read the
first part CT the letter-and send con-
gratulations. my dear. but they SIM
ply could not read the last sentence
With feeling half way betwixt in
disnation and amusement. ! recalled
that last sentence:
Il have told YOU because | promised
that YOU should be the first to know,
but don't tell anyone else whatsoever"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31

Observance of the tenth anniversary
vi the death of Colonel Robert Green
tngersoH has been accompanied by
the publication of many letters which
throw an. interesting light on the
fame and character of the great ag-
nostic. This correspondence was Civ
ell publicity By Mrs. Ingerso!l and her
daughter. Miss Maud Ingerson,
through the columns of the New York
Truth Seeker. an agnostic weekly With
which Colonel IngersolI was identi-
fed rs a contributor
Perhaps the most interesting Of the
letters. from a literary standpoint. is
one from the good gray poet" Walt
Whitman. In an epistle couched in
his characteristic style. Whitman ac-
fnowledges receipt Of some 5000 con-
tributed by Colonel IngersOll. and adds
that the sum has directly benefited
me and does today, in ways w'd please
you well if you cd know. It has Of
ten been stated that in his latter years
the poet was largely supported by
Coic8ci IngersolI. and this letter
serves rs partial proof Of such state
mept
S:3Gy of the great men o. Europe
iave written to I2gersou in terms OF
highest admiration. among them
Swjnburne, the English poet and
George Meredith, the novelist. both of
whom died recently. Another inter
csting letter to Ingersou is from
Eiornstjerne' Bjorason the Norwegian
poet and dramatist, who said: Il
envy the land which brought forth
such glorious fruit rs an Ingersoll."
Ia Il iette: dated Paris, November /.
1884. the great poet wrote: Il admire
free America where a man can stand
forth and say 10 the church what
.'ou have said II Northern Europe
" aid a mGl therefor be placed in
prison Your lectures and
2,aoils have helped many of our coun-
trymen in America to freedom. and
taaae have since helped many in their
Old home | am very sorry
ia3t. when | vas in America. I did
net have the opportunity to grasp the
hand OF 4 man who with the sword
fought to free from bodily slavery
tavee millions of people. and who has
shown the way to intellectual free
aa.n to many millions
George Jacob Holyoke. the Eng
fish reformer, wrote in 1887: Thy
debating portrait from Puck hangs
or my walls, Daily my eyes behold
the radiant face. My splendid poem
Life" enriched by my inscription.
is always before me. Thou are ever
in my thoughts and all who dwell
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London next week, at which it is hoped
that the main lines of a great practical
scheme will be developed. The iden-
tity of the donor of the large sum
which is the basis of the enterprise can
not at present be disclosed. but it will
probably be found to coincide with tina
of public kenefactor whose name is
we'll known all over the world, and who
is near relative OF one of the ablest
and most enterprising of the younger
conductors.
Besides the production CT number
of new operas by English composers,
the promoters are considering the pos
sibilities of reviving some OF tie older
Cperatic works.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31
ENLISTED SOLDIERS IN u. S. ARMY
HAVE JUST BEEN GIVEN
AWARDS.
No More Thrilling Exploits Have Ever
Been Told in Time Of War Than
Their Deeds in Peace

WASHINGTON. July 31-Fourtccr
enlisted soldiers in Uncle Sans stand
ing army have just been awarded GER
tificates of merit in official recognition
of deeds Of bravery and daring Wherein
the hero risked his life simply because
he believed it his duty to do So
No more thrilling stories have ever
been told than the exploits Of these he
roes of the time of peace. OF the IA,
four rescued comrades or civilians from
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31
Rae Old Landmark.

WASHINGTON, July 31-Proposals
were received by the district commits.
SionerS today for the Wrecking of the
old Anacostia bridge, over which John
Wilkes Booth sped his horses to ESCAPE
from an Infatuated mob the night he
shot down Lincoln. The historic land.
mark has been replaced by new
structure.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31
Red Men in Camp.

PHILADELPHIA. July 31.-Scores of
camps and councils of Red Men
today for a pow-wow that will con-
tinue for ten days.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31
OPERA IN ENGLAND.
Great Project for Foundation OF Lon
don Home for Productions.

LONDON, July 31.-A great project
for the foundation of opera in England
is under consideration, its realization
being largely due to the promise winch
has been made by munificent patron
of the arts of a sum of $1.50O,O00.
The scheme in all probability Will IL
clude the acquisition of a commanding
site in London and the erection thereon
of an opera house fully worthy OF the
first city of the world, but no detailed
plan has yet been drawn up.
A preliminary meeting Will be held IN
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-31

WANT ADS. untangle half of the
towns daily tangles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-14
GOOD ROADS DAY.
National Convention Opens at
Representative Hall.
Gov. w. r. Stubs Delivers the
Address of Welcome.
A LETTER FROM TAFT
President Gives His Approval to
Topeka Meeting.
Arthur C. Jackson Makes
Pointed Address.
MOd0c Club Will Sing at To-
A LETTER FROM TAFT
MOdOc Club Will Sing at To-
nights Meeting.

Today good roads enthusiasts have
been pouring into the capital city from
all directions. The tenth annual con-
vention of the National Good Roads
association was formally opened this
morning by Governor w. r. Stubbs'
who gave an address of welcome at
Representative hall.
There were several hundred persons
in attendance at the morning session
of the convention but it will not De
until tomorrow that the maximum at
tendance will be recorded at any one
session. The early trains this after
noon brought scores of delegates from
the east. A large number of delegates
will not arrive in Topeka until tornor-
row morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-14

make everything from engines and
automob iles to clothes pins and clothes
brushes-with butternilk backs.
Topeka has one of the finest street
railways in the west. and is the best
piped city in the country for gas. hay
ing 104 miles of mains.
| "And last, but not least, Topeka has
a live Commercial club of eight hum
dred members; any one of whom will
| be pleased to see you in Topeka at any
time you can come.
"And now on behalf of the CONNER
cial club and the city of Topeka, ex-
tend to you delegates to the National
Goods Roads convention a most hearty
welcome. We welcome you with sim
lcere cordiality and hospitality and re-
ceive you with open hearts and homes.
We feel highly honored in having the
privilege Of entertaining the repre-
congress. We want you to feel per-
fectly at home with us and to go
wherever you please"
Alaska Man Speaks.
Andrew Zingg of Fairbanks, Alaska,
who was a speaker on the program,
advocated a greater effort on the part
of the people of the country to do away
with the cultivation of tobacco which
he termed as an evil weed and the
manufacture of liquors. He stated that
if these industries were abolished a
small army of men could be employed
III Tile cOHSlTuCllOn Ol SOOQ TOdnS.
James S. Tustin. of ST Louis, claims
agent for the Missouri railroad. in a
humorous address pointed out that it
is not the railroads that are response
BILE for the excessive cost of getting
the grain to market but the poor roads.
Representative hall was crowded this
afternoon and an Interesting program
carried out. The Modoc club will en-
terrain the visitors this evening at the
same place.
Tomorrow's Program.
A cordial invitation was extended this
morning to the ladies to attend the
session. The program for tomorrow
follows:
1000 a. m.-Address, President Waters.
State Agricultural college. Manhattan,
Kansas.
1870 a. m.-Address, C. NJ Mills, super
intendent Of rural routes
11:00 a. m.-Address, Prof. w c. Hoad
UniUvUersity of Kansas
bia. Missouri, State Highway engineer.
20 p. m.-Address, Governor Shellen-
berger of Nebraska
2:30 p. m.-Address,- John Craft, presi-
dent Alabama Good Roads association
300 p. m.-Paper on Road Drainage, W.
R. Colt, president Oklahoma Good Roads
association.
$50 P. m.-AAddress., Discovery of Gyp-
400 p. n.-Miscellaneous discussion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-14

to be learned by experiment and other
wise concerning the economy in the
construction of roads and their durabil-
ity; but it is most gratifying to have
such a meeting as that you are to have
in Kansas, which shows a national
awakening as to the subject and Civ IS
an earnest of progress in the right
direction.
Sincerely yours,
(Signed) s'WM H TAFT"
The Rev. w. w. Horn of Topeka,
who made prayer at the start of the
session, also made a few remarks on
the subject of good roads. He was
emphatic in his statement that the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-14

President Arthur G. jackson of the
National Good Roads Association,
Who Responded This Morning to an
Address of Welcome by Governor
Stubs.
President Arthur c. Jackson arrived
in Topeka late last night accompanied
by two nieces. one of whom, Miss Anna
NJ. Grady, is the treasurer of the ma
tional association. and is a most en-
thusiastic advocate of good roads.
President Jackson was expected in To-
peka last week but was detained In
Washington, D. c.. on account of press
ing business in connection with the
business of the national organization.
One of the interesting features OF this
mornings program was the reading
by President Jackson of a letter from
President William H. Taft to Governor
Stubs.
'At the waterways convention in
New Orleans" said President Jackson.
Governor Stubbs and myself spent the
last half hour with President Taft. He
was disposed to be very frank and very
cordial.
He said that he was amazed at the
Indifference of the farmers in regard
to a question of so great Importance.
He said that it would be impossible for
him to be present in Topeka on ac-
count of duties in Washington, but
promised to write a letter."
President Taft's Letter.
Here is the letter;
The White House, Washington,
Nov. 16, 1909
my Dear Governor:
From your letter 1 understand you
are to have a National Good Roads con-
vention at Topeka, Kan, Dec. IA to Is.
1 take great interest in the movement
(which that convention is to promote in
me development of good roads.
My own view is chiefly state func-
ton and that all the states ought to
unite in an effort to promote good
roads. 1 do not think that the farmers
are as much interested in the matter
as they ought to be.
THE truth is, think that the good
roads have much to do with the use of
waterways and also with the question
of railway transportation, because the
difficulties of getting to waterways and
railways are the great burdens that the
farmers have to bear.
II believe that good roads figure very
largely in the moral and intellectual de-
velopment of the people, because they
affect directly communication between
farmers and the neighboring towns !;
and the closer this is the more in touch
are farmers with the general conditions
in the country.
Next to education, the system of
good roads is the greatest civilizer.
II have no doubt that much remains