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full 'front.' pointed yoke and long sleeves.
Price, 75c.
Wrappers Of blue-and-white or gray-and-
white striped flannelette, having full front,
plated back. turnover collar and long
sleeves; skirt has full flounee Price, sl00.
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Values in Millinery Materials

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Long pointed Wings in lightblae, cham
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Large single Wings in purple, brown,
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lIeekle Breasts, in brown, navy, red and
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uncurled Ostrich in Copenhagen 7sc and
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Various lots of Womens and .children's
Oxiords are priced to close ont at Sl.l5,
Si.55 and Sl95 pair.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-08-26

An assortment OF Veuise Edges. Inser-
tons aud narrow Appliques, in white or
cert, yard. &c.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-08-26

Glove.fltilnE b0dlces are last com
Ing Into vogue again.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-08-26

Pongees In the natural tone and
weave are striped with fast colors.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-08-26

Bronze slippers for house wear
and black pumps for street continue
In favor.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-08-26

Tucks still hold favor, but but
tons have outrun them in the race
for supremacy.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

corporation which was to deliver the
presidency to the heir apparent.
And on one sad day John Mitchell
showed clearly that he was not of the
stripe of Daniel J. Keefe. He couldn't
be bought with a federal office even
though that federal office was a cabl-
net position. Then it was that John
Mitchell a coal miner at ten and man
ager of men at forty, showed that ne
was not for sale.
Then it was also that the me-toos
dropped John Mitchell. After that ne
was only known variously as a "radl-
CAL" and "agitator" or a fanatic.
and the announcement of his sentence
to Jail like a common crim1nal-sen-
fenced to Jail for a technical viola
ton of a court injunction-was print
ed with apparent glee by some OF the
PAPERS which a short time previo''
had been boosting Mitchell as avail
able cabinet timber.
Rut this is not so strange when one
thinks of Paul Morton.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04
course n,,rsued by the president.

course pursued by the president.
It is also noticeable that those of
the editors who go into the legal phase
of the subject insist that It is impos-s
sible to libel the government, that only
individuals can be libeled. 1t would be
apparent. therefore, that if the New
York World really libeled Douglas
Robinson, the presidents brother in :
law, or Charles p. Taft, the brother of
the president elect, or President
Roosevelt, himself, the injured .ndivid-
ual would be justified in seeking re-
dress in the courts. But apparently
this plan does not appeal to Roosevelt,
who has doubtless tried hard enough
to get someone to stand sponsor for
the Pulitzer prosecution, but failing in
this has and is endeavoring to male
the federal government plaintiff in the
case.
The other day Walter Wellman, writ
ing to the Chicago Record Herald,
quoted some of the presidents person.
al friends as saying that the prosecu-
ton of The World was the 'monumen-
tai blunder of the Roosevelt admins
tration and predicting that unless the
suit was dropped the president would
leave the white house next month in
a storm Of publ G indignation.
Wellman's unnamed source Of infor-
nation is probably drawing some on
his Imagination, but the tenor of the
editorials reproduced in this paper to-
day, indicate that even yet the freedom
of the press is a dangerous thing for
self-satisfied autocrats to monkey WI tn
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04
THAT LIBEL SUIT.

The Evening Statesman reprints to-
day a compilation of editorial opin-
ions regarding the action of President
Roosevelt in attempting to have the
government of the United States pros
ecute Joseph Pulitzer and the New
York World for libel
It is not ceable that Of all the COM
ments made only that of the British
law Journal is in commentator of the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

Office Phone, Main 1443; Residence
Phone, Main 1444, Walla Walla, Wn.
FOURTH FLOOR.
WEATHER BUREAU-ROOMS AZ,
413. John Grover, Observer. Tele-
phone, Main 514.
THE VIAVI SYSTEM OF TREAT
ment cures in Natures own way.
We surely save you from the knife.
Parlors, ZIG, PIT. Telephone COG.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

mated. Some blow at the freedom of
is appropr ate and yet 1T is infinitely
disquleting that this is being done be-
hind the scenes, in a darkness too pro-
found for even the best lawyers in the
senate to penetrate it. The environ
ment of this action, it's init al stages.
suggest the court procedure Of Russia
before there was douma to give voice
to public opinIon-sugges also the
star chamber chapter of British his
tory and the unhappiest chapters of
royal aggression ON the liberties of the
English people.
Pittsburg Dispatch Und. Rep.):
1t is unnecessary to deal with the
possible efficacy Of such a libel prose-
tution. If any citizen desires to invoke
the law, who shall say him nay? The
Importance to the people is the van
ishing of the mystification that has
yelled the case. Perhaps the superau-
GUS activity of Mr.. Bonaparte in a Dis
trict matter reasonably stirs resent
ment. Perhaps the idea will occur that
even libel in the District of Columbia
was not meant to be a. federal offense
but rather a misdemeanor in a locality
bearing a peculiar relation to tn.
United States which has no libel law.
Boston Herald Ond):
The people of the United States do
not believe that the federal govern
ment should have power to bring
a'~1 on for libel against the press. The
old principle was that the press
should be under the law of the states
and should be held responsible and re-
qulred to make answer through the
courts on complaint of individuals who
considered themselves wronged. But
to give to the government right of act
ion on such grounds would have meant
menace to the freedom Of the press
and of speech. Whenever there has
been suggestion of purpose to mar
row the Interpretation of this freedom
of the press there has been instant
and earnest resentment
New York Post Und):
1t is safe to say in advance that if
the prosecution be anything but a s,,'t
for libel by aggrieved in1i iduals. il t
be an attempt to establish the rich.
Of the government, as such, to punish
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

This is John MitchelTs birthday Tho
man who left school at ten years of
age TO become a coal miner. who nv
Sheer merit lifted himself to tha head
or the coal miners organization. who
plloted that organization through two
or the most troublesome labor disputes
IN the history of the country and
came out of both with glory for him
SELF and his organization. who as sec
ond In command of the great American
Federation Of Labor is TODAY under
sentence to serve a nine-months' term
IN JAZZ for ALLEGED violation of a. court
made law. is forty years old TODAY
Forty years isn't very long time for
m&A to do all that John Mitchell
mas done in that period
IL wasn't so very long ago that
Jonn Mitchell was regarded as a nrettv
accent sort of an individual even by
thN me-too editors. He was variously
mentioned for places in Roosevelt's
ever changing cabinet and was invited
around to dinner at the White House
once In while. which gave the me-
too editors the tin to boost John Nit
cheil as the only labor leader the world
ever saw. AS Mitchell himself saws
ne even learned to wear a, dress suit
without feeling foolish. But that was
In the days when Mitchell was regard
20 as a possible asset of the closed
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04
Weather Conditions.

The Pacific coast low pressure area
has moved rapidly eastward, being
central tn s morning north of the Da-
kotaS and the barometer has risen on
the Pacific coast in consequence of a
moderately high pressure area now off
the northern California coast. AS a re-
suit of these changes ram or snow fell
nearly everywhere on the Pacific slope.
Fair weather continues to prevail over,
the greater portion of the remainder
of the United States, except in the
lower lake region. Temperatures are
lower on the Pacific slope and are
higher from the Rocky mountains to
the Atlantic. The indications are for
rain or snow in this vicim t. tonight or
Friday, with little change of tempera-
tura.
JOHN GROVER, Observer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04
THOSE MAIL ORDER HOUSES.

A Walla Walla business man. who
apparently knows what he is talking
about, stated recently that on one ru-
raj route leading from a town in south
eastern Washington during the first
fourteen days of December, 19O7-iur-
ing the panic, you remember-the sum
OF S1,7O0 was sent out to eastern mail
order houses for goods.
Remember this was on only one ru-
raj route, leading from one of the
smaller towns in this county. Think
what a grand total of the money sent
out of this county to eastern houses
must amount to- And think of the loss
TO this community by reason of this
money being sent away at the time it
was most needed.
The mail order houses, however,
never sleep. They are busy all the
time. not only in the production of
their giant catalogs but in devising
new schemes to combat the healthy
growth Of public sentiment which
would lead people to patronize home
merchants.
Their latest device is to encoura ge
deceit and dishonesty. as the follow
ing clipping from their catalog will
show:
LAS many people, especially mer-
chants. business houses, townspeople
and others, do not care to have others
know where or from whom they bu-
their goods, as many people object to
having the name of the shipper spreat
across every box or package, SO =
when it is unloaded at the station or
express office everyone can see what
they are getting and where they buy
it, to protect all those who care for
this protection and make it possible
for you to order your goods from ue
with no fear of anyone learning at the
railroad station, express office or else
where what you bought or where you
bought it. our name and address will
not appear on any box, package, tag,
envelope or article of merchandise"
In the name of honesty. why, if this
method of purchasing goods is honest
rs the mail order house claims it is,
should the purchaser be ashamed to
have the name of the firm on the pack
age? Ft''
Why should the mail order men
preach and practice deception?
JOHN MITCHELL.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

LOST-A SMALL LEATHER COL
lection book. Return to Statesman
office.
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WEATHER FORECAST.

Walla Walla and Vicinity: Rain or
snow tonight or Friday.
Washington: Occasional rain to-
night and Friday west portion; rain
or snow tonight or Friday east portion.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

New York Mail (Rep.):
Some assertion of governmental
power to punish criticism is contami-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04
LOST AND FOUND

LOST-A LOCKET NEAR THE
Christian Church, containing pic
ture of Grace Mccoy and friend.
Finder phone 1881.
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even unjust and mall cious attacks, i,
will be an enormous blunder.
Providence Journal (Ind.):

Providence Journal Und.):
The whole question Of the applica-
ton and influence of common law in
the Jurisdiction Of the federal courts
raises another. Is there any fed
eral common law applicable to criminal
cases? AS to libel, one of the al en- and
sedltlon acts of more than a century
ago made punishable the printing OF
soandalous material concerning the
FEDERAL government, the president q,
congress. But even that intolarab1e
statute did not provide penalties fo,
"blackening the good name of tn,
American people,
New York Times Qnd.):
IL s our impression that the YER,
great majority of Mr. Theodore Roose.
Velt's fellow citizens look upon this Ii
Del suit as the weakest and most fool
ISM action of his public career. He has
denounced men as liars. he has pro-
claimed some of his fellow citizens to
De undesirable, he has put whole
classes of the Industrious people of
thls nation under the ban by his de-
nunclatlons. He has affirmed guilt
where the courts have found innocence.
surely man who has brought the
pludgeon down upon so many defense
less heads ought not to holler for the
police when he is jabbed with a COOS.
quill
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MESSENGER SERVICE
SECOND HAND FURNITURE

WHITE FRONT, WALLA WALLA
Junk Shop-Wholesale and retail
dealers in all kinds of Hides, Wool.
Scrap Iron, Brass. Copper, Rubber.
Lead, Zinc, Bottles, Old Rubbers and
Secondhand Sacks, and Second
Hand Furniture, Stoves and Carpets.
M. SHANK, Telephone, Main S7e.
Jos Fast Main street.
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New York Journal of Commerce.:
Nobody can pretend that harm has
come to the government from the
statements which are made the sub
iect of these proceedings, and any at
tempt to punish their utterance will
have the appearance of intimidating
the press and will enable the alleged
offenders to pose as the special cham
pions of it's freedom, which they are
already eagerly doing.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

LOST-A BRACELET WITH THE IN
itials M. r. On it, between CAT Lo-
Gust street and Congregational church
Leave at Statesman Office for re-
ward
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ST. PAUL JUNK SHOP BUYS AND
sells at wholesale and retail all
kinds of Hides, Wool, Scrap Iran.
Brass, Copper, Rubber, Lead, Zinc.
Bottles, Old Rubbers and Second
Hand Sacks, and Second Hand Fur
n1ture, Stoves and Carpets, NJ Gold
stein, Phone2207; sc East Main St.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin (Rep.):
1t is hoped the story that President
Roosevelt will be forced to give up his
African hunting expedition in order to
carry on the bel suit which has been
instituted against the publisher of the
New York World is merely an inven-
ton of sensational journalism.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04
UNDERTAKES

!. w. COOKERY, UNDERTAKEN
= and Embalmer, z 1-2 First street.
We are licensed by both Washington
and Oregon Boards of Heath to snip
bodies. f-,s.r--sr'-s. (25)
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

British Law Journal, London:
There are ample Justification and
precedent for proceedings for libel by
or on behalf of a government.
Whatever else may be said Of the pro-
ceedings, the United States govern
ment cannot be charged with an inni-
walton or want of legality in any act on
against those responsible for charges
of corruption in what was undoubted-
" an act of state.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04
Philadelphia Record (Ind.):

Springfield (Mass.) Republican Ond.-
Rep):
Few people could have believed such
a development possible in free Ameri-
ca as a government prosecution of a
newspaper for libel upon the govern
ment but here are the plain indica-
lions of it,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

Norfolk (Va.) Landmark Und. Dem.):
That Panama libel suit of the presi-
dents is a blow at the freedom of the
press, but a wild one. 1t is utterly
wrong, and foolish. 1t was natural,
though, to expect an attempt to es-
tablish censorship at home after get
ting one fastened on the Philippines.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

Sioux Falls IS. d. Argus-ueader
(Fep):
Newspaper publishers generally will
protest against libel suits instituted
by the government. Followed up, the
precedent could be made to work
great ultimate harm to the privilege of
free speech.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04
HOW THE NATIONS PRESS
VIEWS ROOSEVELT'S ATTEMPTS
TO PUNISH THE NEW YORK WORLD

tional sovereignty and power.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04
Charleston Is. CT Post fDem !.

Charleston Is. c. Post. (Dem.):
The idea of just flying the good faith
and the fair name of the United States
by suit for libel in court probably
never occurred to other mortal than
Theodore Roosevelt, and for the reason
no doubt that no other mortal man but
Mr. Roosevelt ever thought he embod-
ieo In himself the national dignity and
the national honor as well as the ma
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04
SUIT PRESSING

STOLLERS PRESSING CLUB
Cleaning of Ladies' and Gentlemen's
garments. Hats blocked ana cleaned
IA North Third street.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

A good livery stable in Waitsburg
rented for five years at $50 per month !;
to trade for Walla Walla property.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04
Pittsburg Chron cle-Tepegraph.

IlttsUUTS CnrOm cIe-TeFegraph:
President Roosevelt has undoubtedly
had great provocation from the news
papers that have alleged misconduct
in the Panama canal affair He has.
however, already pilloried the Offend
ers and the wisdom of going further
and using the federal power to destroy
them in the courts of law looks like
crushing gnat with a trip hammer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

24OO ACRE STOCK FARM CLOSE TO
railroad; 300 tillable; 20 acres
meadow; good buildings; $3.50 per
acre. Good terms.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

Harrisburg Patriot Qnd. Dem.):
The SUI against the New York
World for libel in publication regard
ing the purchase of the Panama canal
was not, as some persons might be led
to suppose, instituted under the direc-
ton of Samuel w. Pennypacker, a
consistent and avoWed enemy of a free
press, but of Theodore Roosevelt.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

TWO GOOD LOTS ON WALLA WAL
la avenue, 52x20S. Close to Division
street. Price only $500 for two.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

FOR GAl-E-ReaI Estate
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ONLY $3.50 PER ACRE FOR 1920
acres-all tillable; $40 in wheat
rented for one third. All fenced. 8
miles to station. Small improve
ments. Easy terms.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-04

Salt Lake Herald Dem.):
The issue will be welcomed by the
newspapers of the nation. 1t has long
been supposed that this was a country
of free speech and free press; that the
president was subject to the same laws
as other people. = AS to the pros
ecution of the New York World for
libel or leze majesty, it is doubtful Il
twelve men in the whole country could
be found who would bring in a verdict
of guilty
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-11-10
NEW YORK GRAIN.

New York, Nov 9.-WHEAT.-Re-
cefpts 172.C00 spot strong No. 2 red
s1.27 nominal elevator; No. 2 red
l.22b nominal to arrive fob. ailoat.
Higher cables and firmer cash and ac-
tive bidding on the part of shorts
sent wheat prices up nearly two cents
with moderately active trade. Export
sales of thirty loads were reported
late and the market closed firm at a
net advance of to . cents. Decem.
Der 1.12A May 1.10A.
CORN Receipts $500; exports 2,
200; spot firm; No. 2 7012 elevator
lomestic Il delicered and n Lob
afoat; No. 2 yellow II all nominal
The market was without transactions
closing at a net advance of u q "
December 692s May 6sA.
OATS Receipts 250,400 spo
steady: mixed nominal; natural white
441sml 6; clipped white l51aG4Sh.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-11-10
TRADE WAS SMALL
In Yesterdays Stock Market to Ac'
compartment of Higher Money
Rates.

New York, Nov. 9.--Dealings in
stocks diminished Significantly today
to the accompaniment of the sustained
higher rate for call loans. 1t is EVIL
dent that the financial powers are
agreed that conditions are not propi-
tious for pushing speculative opera
lions in securities at present
The effect is to hold prices in equil-
ib.ium and to discourage purely trad
ing operations, which are based on
the chance of wide and sudden fluctu.
ations in either direction
The easing of the private discount
rate in London was regarded as the
most hopeful development as indica-
ting the unlikelihood of further rise
in the Bank of England discount ratio
Thursday. The further rise in the
sterling exchange rate at Paris point
ed to the movement of capital from
Paris to London, which was helping
to relieve the situation there.
The Importance attached to this
movement was shown by the rumors
it gave rise to in New York on the
large purchase of gold from the Bank
of France for shipment to London, ru
mors of which were not traceable tc
a source beyond New York stock
brokerage houses.
The continued demand for foreign
exchange in this market kept alive
the supposition that additional gold
shipments from here might be com
manded by London, although none
was announced. At the same time
the domestic interior drew further Oh
New York for currency and the sub
treasury operations mode further IN
roads on the banking cash.
Late in the day that dragging ten
dency of the market turned into posi-
tive weakness, when money ran vi
to 51a per cent rate The rate TO
time loans for shorter periods was al
so re-established at per cent. AC
tive selling of stocks was in progress
when the market closed.
The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-11-10
ENGINE PASSES OVER BABY

Nashville. Tenn, Nov. 9.--Nithout
doing any more injury than innict'n2
a slight cut on the chin the engine Of
train No. % on the st. Louis division
of the Louisville & Nashville road
yesterday passed over Il year-o'd in
FAINT a short distance from Adams
station. and when picked up the child
was laughing.
The train was running at the rate
of 70 miles an hour when the eng
neer sighting a white object. w6icl
looted to him like newspaper on th'
tract when nc arrived closer to th'
object ne discovered that il was
small b,by lie Immediately threv
on his emergency traFe. However
this ia not prevent the engine from
hitting the infant, the cowcatche
striking the child on the chin knock
| ing the infant Hat on the track.