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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-27
SP0RTSMEN'S SHOW
At THE EXPOSITION
Trap Shooting Contests, Aquatic
Events and Angling Competitions
On the Bill at Seattle This
Week.

SEATTLE. Aug. 2.-Trap- shooting
contests. aquatic events and angling
competitions are included in the pro-
gram of the sportsmens show of the
Alaska ukon- Pacific exposition, which
commenced today. Displays of sport
ne goods have been placed on exhibit
ton by all the leading manufacturers
Of the country.
Among the events to be decided by
the National Association of Scientific
Angling clubs are the following:
Distance fly casting. accuracy fly
casting, deliCacy and accuracy fly
casting. oale-half ounce distance bait
casting. one-half ounce accuracy bait
casting, one-quarter accuracy bait
casting, obstacle accuracy fly casting
and distance bait casting, one quar-
ter ounce.
A number of aquatic events are
scheduled for the first two days % phe
meeting, and these include canoe races,
canoe tipping and all the popular COM
petitions for which the paddle craft
are adapted.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-27
NATIONAL RIFLE
MATCHES ENDING
Greatest Rifle Tournament Ever Held
In America Is Nearing a Most
Successful Close at Camp
Perry.

CAMP PERRY. O., Aug. 21.-Wlth
the shooting today in the 18th annual
matches of the National Rifle asso-
citation. the greatest rifle tournament
end. Seventeen great events are on the
proeram for decision in the assocla-
lions meet. and handsome trophies
and cash prizes will be awarded the
winners. In the more important
matches the prize money will amount
70 several hundred dollars All the
matches are conducted on a percentage
basis.
Several new events have been added
since last year. The winners In lsoS
were as follows:
Individual military championship for
19OS-Won by Lieut.. 5. A Harris
Fourteenth T. S. Infantry; score 5s2'
Wimbledon Cup Match U000 yards
championship)- by Capt. X. n.
V CASEY. Delaware n. G.: score 81
Presidents match-Won by Sergeant
A. Brest. 18th u S. Infantry; score.
3O4
Leach cup match-Won by Capt. n.
X G. Casey. Delaware n. G.; score
104
Regimental team championship
Won bv Sixth Massachusetts Infantry;
score, IT'S.
Championship regimental skrmlsh
match-Won by corps of engineers U.
s. A.: score. 446
Championship company team matCh
Won by L. S. marine corps; score
453
Press match-Won by T. s. Van Cor
DO, Warren (Ohio). Chronicle; score
49,
Life Members match-Won by Dr-
w G. Hudson: score, IS.
State Secretaries match" on oS
u W Mcbride. Indiana: score 81.
r,tar-cIub match-Won by Fourth
n Infantry Rife club; score zzz. q
Individual .Oong range) Tyro n'atch
won by Captain Holcomb, L. :. ma
rine corps: score. 449
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-27

repair maintenance and building of new
stands.
The largest football receipts were
from the Princeton games, $2S,991.55
and the Harvard game. $32,605.12. The
baseball games with Harvard Melted
s15,0S632, while the Princeton games
brought in $13,213.S5. From the games
with the New York Nationals, $1,357.37
was received.
The receipts of the track association
were S1,4144O and the expenditures
$13,0793S; the baseball team took in
$33,161.30 and expended $29,041.25; the
football team received $72541.32
from their games with expenses Of
s46.2S4.S6. while the receipts of the
crew were $3,S96.32 and the expenses
s19,O42.21.
The reserve fund at the end Of the
year am unts to $119,S31.70
The largest item of expense for the
crew was the training table, for which
$5,1S1.29 was expended. For travelling
expenses for the four teams and their
while for shoes and repairs the foot
ball team expended $1,167.65. The sum
pic game fund.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-27

event that he forfeits to Jeffries Under
those circumstances Jeffries could
either defend his newly acquired title
or retire as he did before and permit
the other heavyweights to battle for il
Today. there is no doubt as to who is
champion. Johnson technically holds
the title, much as the sporting public
in general would wish it otherwise. His
holding may even be characterized as
formal and literal as compared tn real
and indisputable, but the basic princi
piles upon which the boxing game is
founded, as well as precedent. pro-
claim Johnson champion until he is
beaten or loses his title by default.
Jack McAuliff retired in favor of Kid
Lavigne, and there is none who win
deny that Lavigne was the accredited
title holder until he was beaten by
Frank Erne at Buffalo three years ago.
champion cannot publicly withdraw
himself from active service, remain re-
tired for years and permit the title he
once held to be- buffeted about from
one to another without losing it. To
regain it. it is necessary for him to
reWin it. The truth and especially in
this case. may sting most of us, but it
is just as we'll to be fair even if it is
a trifie painful johnson is chamDiOn
today
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-27

be able to finish the films the same
would be to hold the contest in the
afternoon. / would have the pictures
in ten different London theaters the
night of the fight. show them in Paris
eight hours after the referee had given
his decision. while Broadway would
have to wait but six days for look at
them. Their value, however. depends
on JEFF winning. Should Johnson
prove victorious Id, let them go to the
first bidder: they would be worth but
very little" Some hustling. that
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-27
Gov. Clark to Alaska.
~

BOSTON Aug. 27.-Walter E. Clark.
recently appointed governor of Alaska
and Mrs. Clark, with l.. p. Shackleford
republican committeeman from that
territory, We're i'm town today but did
not go To Beverly. Mr.. and Mrs. Clark
train The visit which the president
has been expecting from Mr.. Clark, it
is now expected will he made several
weeks later. or just before Mr. Clark
starts. September -, for his post of
duty at Juneau.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-27

Conforming to the prevailing custom
of polite sporting circles and emulating
some of the more genteel of the f1stic
sCribes, it is graceful and seemlv to
refer to the proposed Jeffres- Johnson
contest as THE battle of the century"
1t is traditional that all worlds cham
pionship contests are battles "of the
century" And so most of them prove
before the contest and while the pre-
liminaries are being arranged and
while the affairs are being arranged
and while the affairs are being ex-
plotted to arouse public interest To at
tempt to gainsay any of the antebellum
statements would be tantamount to
confessing guilt, asking for conviction
and praying for sentence on the ground
of high treason. Oftentimes, however.
the fights do not come up to expec-
tatiOns. and they prove to be short
commonplace and devoid of interest It
is but necessary to refer to the Cor
bett- Mitchell, JeffrieS- MunrOe ami
Burns Squires bouts. Strange cOinci-
dence-all three of these bouts sub
joined make grand total of six
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-27
.YALE'S ATHLETIC
RECEIPTS S110,9S6
Football Was Big Money Maker for
the Sons Of Eli This Year and
Melted Over $4,000.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Aug. 2t.-The
report of the finance committee of the
four major sports of Yale shows that
for 1907'0S the total receipts were
Successes and the expenses $1o1, 49,
90. The football team was the biggest
noney-maker running s26, 300. Sc ahead
of its expenses. The baseball team
showed slight increase of receipts
over the expenses. while the track
athletics and the crew ran far behind.
The sum of s2,1S2.53 was expended on
Yale field. and s16.s35.o5 used in the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-27

the Montserrat Golf club and the Es-
sex County club. The last named has
been the presidents favorite. but he
has also been seen frequently on the
others. The men who play with the
president at his favorite game are
sometimes called the golf cabinet, In
imitation of the naming of President
Ro,seyelt's friends as the tennis cab
met" Among the golfers who accom-
pany Mr. Taft from hole to hole are
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-27

See Sampson at the Bijou theater
next week
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-27

BEVERLY, Aug. 27-One of the main
considerations which led President Ta1t
to select Beverly. Mass, as MS SUM-
mer home was the number and ex-
cellence of the golf links near the town.
No less than three first class courses
are within easy distance of Beverly.
They are the links of the Myopia Hunt
club, declared by Harry 'arooh anu
other leading British golfers to De
equal to any in England or Scotland
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-27

rounds. approximately the exact
length of the recent Lewis Burke con-
test. There was more real fighting
crowded into this one contest that
| there was in the three championship
nights. 1t isn't because Jeffries-
Johnson contest gives promise of be-
ing wicked, stubborn, interesting
bout that. even at this early day and
in the face of the uncertainty of it's
final ratification it is commanding at
tention. 1t is because Johnson. the
holder of the title has succeeded in
making himself thoroughly unpopular
with the sporting classes. and the lat
ter. anxious to see him dethroned,
have pinned their faith and hopes &c
Jeffries. that rugged, honest old gladi-
ator. who. when at his best, proved
himself to be the greatest heavyweight
glove fighter in the annals of the mod
ern ring. 1t cannot truthfully be said
the fans are antagonistic to Johnson
solely because of his color. Such a the
DRY has been exploded too often in the
past. Dixon, Cans and Jackson were
colored and each champion, but they
We're popular and had as many friends
among the white as among the negro
people. There would be world of in
terest centered in the bout if it event
yates, but few would expect it to be
as hard fought as the Jeffries- Shar-
key bout at the Island or the FitZ-
simmons Corbett battle at Carson. I,
might turn out that way, but it all de-
ponds upon how near his old time
fighting form Jeffries can get
1t now develops that Hugh MrIn-
tosh, the Australian fistc promoter,
who returned to this city from Eng
, land last Friday to bid for the proposed
Jeffries-Johnson match has no in
tention of carrying the bout to the an
tipodes if his bid is accepted. He pre-
fers London, and says that city will be
the scene of the battle if things break
nicely for him. London is so much
nearer the center of population, and
am banking largely on the returns
! from the moving pictures" said he
! Sydney is four weeks from America
and about six weeks distant from Eng
land, so much valuable time would be
lost in getting the pictures before the
| tralia. | have gone over the ground
carefully with the European film man.
J ufacturers and they tell me they will
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-05-14

The elevator to success i generally stuck
Try the stairs.-System. Chicago.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-05-14
CHURCH NOTICES.


Unitarian church, Rev. +. Q. s. Osgood
pastor: Service every Sunday at 1890
Sunday school at ll45. Theme for next
Sunday, A Cheerful View of Life. Ser
vice at the Home for the Aged and In
firm at O'Clock.
Universali.t church, Rev. d. +. Trout,
pastor. Public worship at 1870 a. m,
with sermon by the pastor, subject,
Isaiahs Vision and Call; Sunday school
at ll.45 a. m. Everyone welcome. Preach
ing at Vernon at 3 p. m.
The Sunday morning service of First
Church of Christ Scientist, at l0.45. Sub
ject. Mortals and Tmmortals. The We'd
nesday evening testimonial meeting at
AS. The reading room is open Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday afternoons, from
, to 5 o'clock. All are welcome. Emerson
block Elliot street
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-05-14
A New Type of Motor

A new type of motor boat, the Roberta,
has recently been put in service in Pitts
burg waters by its inventor, Fred j.
Heavens. His most radical departure from
the conventional forms of boat construc-
ton are the placing of the propeller under
the middle of the hull and the absence of
keel, the skag taking the place of the
latter.
This skag is one-quarter inch by one
and a half inches fiat iron on edge and
gives sufficient steering way for all pur-
poses. The inventor claims that increased
speed Is obtained by placing the propeller
under the middle of the boat as the pur-
chase OF the tiukes against the water is
constant at all points on the circle de-
scribed by the revolving propeller
Tins Is due FIRST TO the fact of the bot
tom of the boat being perfectly fiat and
consequently not disturbing the water to
so great an extent as would a round hull.
and second to the weight of the boat on
the water being directly above the pro-
peller. thus giving the latter solid body
of water IN which to work.
Another unusual feature is in the plac-
ing OF the engine, which is set only four
feet from the front, whereas the ordinary
plan is to have it in the rear or at the
most not more than one-thir the distance
from the stern. As the engine of the Ro-
berta weighs only 50 pounds II was feas-
ible to put it in front. Small as it is and
with only one and one-half horsepower it
drives the natty little boat through still
water at the rate of six miles an hour
The crafts towing power is extraordi-
nary, as was well shown on one occasion
when it towed a hatboat 10 by % feet. |
loaded ten feet high with camp equipment |
and containing three passengers besides |
three other persons in the boat itself, all /
his against a stiff current in the Ale /
,heny river-Technical World
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-05-14
MAKING THE CARIBOU USEFUL.
A Canadians Plan for Furnishing
Transportation in the Far North.

'The success which has followed the in
PRODUCTION of reindeer in Alaska has
aroused attention in Canada, and the sug-
gestlon has been made that the reindeer
will settle one of the problems of develop
ing the resources of the Canadian north
land" said Albert F. Steele of Ottawa,
Canada: Gone has to hoof it or use dogs
up in the Arctic stretches now, and it is
conceded that civilization will move slow
" If no better means of transportation is
found
''The United States imported reindeer
into Alaska and taught them that they
could live just as happily and usefully in
Alaska as in their homeland. Some 250O0
are now in Alaska and they are more than
earning their keep. Canada need not 90
to the trouble of importing reindeer She
has herds of reindeer all ready up in the
northern regions. All that is needed is to
train them. for they are very wild.
These Canadian reindeer are really Carl
bou but Canadians say they will do as
well. The caribou are plentiful through
out the Canadian north OF course. our
people will have to catch these animals
and train them, but to people who are
building an empire that is a trifing mat
ter.
The most active advocate of using rein
deer or caribou in the development of
northern canada Is Fred $. Lawrence, who
lives at Fort Nermillion, on the lower
Peace river. He has made his home in
the north for 25 years. He suggests that
a start might be made toward homestead
ing Canadian reindeer by inducing Lap
anders to emigrate to Canada The lap
anders, by reason of their pastures be
coming crowded, owing to the great num-
Der of their reindeer, are looking for some
part OF the world to which they can trans
ANrt hn,r LNx,1 i.
themselves anew. The reindeer is feeter
md can be more easily kept than the
lorse. A prospector could maintain him
elf for year with ten head of reindeer.
his provisions gave out he could eat the
eindeer Washington Herald.
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-05-14
HailStones in Mississippi.

A shower of chunks of ice from the size
of an egg to that of baseballs falling slowly
at first and then increasing until it was
coming down in sheets, so to speak. fell
with roar and din upon this peaceful and
compactly built town and smashed window
lights by the score at o'clock Tuesday
afternoon. Folks got a little excited and
began singing and praying and laughing
and CRYING at the same time. and promis-
ing to lead better lives in the future
he cloud. green one, came from the
west There was no rain. and Just a
slight breeze blowing which tilted the
downpour Just enough to smash glass ex-
posed on the west side of buildings. All
the stores face west but the costly plate
glass fronts were protected by good stout
awnings. Even these awnings of heavy
tin and corrugated iron were smashed and
dented and cut through in places The
root OF Wilbomn's store and that of the
big lumber sheds We're turned into sieves.
The slate roof on the. depot is almost
ruined on the west side. Heavy plate
glass upper story windows of the stores
and residence windows by the score were
smashed; poles were knocked through
some shingle roofs and they were all more
or less damaged.
Live stock caught out simply went wild.
and the writer saw a bunch of horses 90
through barb wire fence without hardly |
their gait.
One chunk of ice that fell in front of the |
trug store measured six inches from tin to |
tip. four and one-half inches in diameter
and weighed six ounces. Most of the hail
vas cone shaped, resembling pineapples
and much of it was as large as
mail pineapples. running in weight from
hree to six ounces.
The community was visited at o'clock
~ a severe wind and rain storm, which
lid but little damage No rain fell be-
ore. during and until three hours after
he ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Correspondence
lemphis Commercial Appeal
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-05-14
Abnormal DroWsiness.

Sleepness is a normal and healthy con
dition when it occurs at the usual bed
time and when not extreme and over
towering: but it is not always associated
with sleep. Some persons IN perfect
health and excellent sleepers hardly know
the meaning of drowsiness; they are ac
tive mentally and physically until they
are in bed; then sleep comes at once, and
when it leaves them in the morning they
are again in full mental awakeness.
There are less fortunate persons who
never have complete and satisfactory
nights rest, who are yet almost constant
ly drowsy; they are always nodding, but
when the head touches the pillow sleep
recedes and the night is succession of
drowsy lapses to sleep with the instant
return of semiconsciousness.
In general, with the exception noted at
the beginning of this article, drowsiness
wrong either in the body of the sufferer
or in his habits. Those who habitually
cut off their hours of sleep, the might
owls and the burners of the midnight oil
ray for their bad habit by attacks of
~leepiness in the afternoon and early even
ing: later, unfortunately. after the inf1u-
ence of digestion wears off the drowsiness
disappears. and then. relieved of his bur
den. the person ''sits up to all hours,
again thinking IN that way to make up
for the hours lost by the drowsiness. If
he would abandon his owlish habit, go to
bed betimes and get the seven or eight
hours of continuous sleep that he needs
his daytime and evening drOwsiness would
disappear, he could do more and better
work and find life much more enjoyable.
\ slight drowsiness is often noticed af- |
ter hearty meal because active digestion |
draws greater volume of blood to the |
stomach, so that the brain is relatively |
poorly supplied In some southern coun-
tries this tendency is favored and the
Siesta after the, noon meal is national
custom. With us the afterdinner cup of
black coffee often drives away the i'm
pulse to sleep-whether for good or i'll
nay be left to the psychologists to deter
mine.
Sometimes we hear of attacks of seepi-
ness occurring suddenly at certain periods
If the day or at irregular intervals These
are altogether abnormal, and in such cases
here is almost always some poison at
work in the nervous enthusiastically a
,elf-manufactured poison which because it
IS made in too great quantity or because
or kidney diseases prevents
is rapid elimination accumulates in the
system.
An essential in the treatment of such
cases is dieting Meat should be given up
for time at least, and the only beverage
allowable is water or milk-Youths Com
paniOn,
The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-05-14
Travers and the Dog Fancier.

W. R. Travers, fnancier and wit. was
aff1lcted with a stutter. Mr.. Trayers
started IN life in the grocery business in
Baltimore, but disaster overtaking him
there he went to New York, where he
met with fair prosperity from the start.
and soon accumulated wealth. The worst
set back probably, that he ever received
during his career occurred on one occa-
SION on his way home after the business
day was over. Being attracted bv the
display in the window of bird fancier
and dog dealer he was tempted by curl
osity to enter the place One of the con-
spicuous objects that met his eye was a
very large parrot Mr. Travers inquired
of the proprietor of the establishment.
who was in attendance, Ocean th-th-
that p-parrot tt-talk?"
III it couldn't talk better than YOU"
replied its owner, I'D cut its head off"
Mr.. Travers made up his mind that
some time or other he would get even
with this dealer in animals and birds.
He succeeded most effectually. His coach
man made a complaint to him that the
stable was overrun with rats. Mr.. Trav-
ers said. well, you m-m-must hunt for a
r-rat dog" The coachman make it
known that Mr.. Travers wanted a dog.
Among the dog dealers who responded
was the identical man who owned the par
rot. Mr.. Travers recognized him at once,
and told him. Tiff he w-w-would bible
i-d-down at the s-s-stable in the m-morn-
ing with t-t-the d-d-dog he would g-g-give
him tr-tr-trial, and if he p-proved to
o-b-be a g-ggood rrat-c-c-catcher would
D-b-buy him
Early next morning Mr.. Travers was
IN hand at the stable as also was the dog
nan with his terrier. Mr.. Travers or
Tered the dog to be put inside the bin,
ogether with a rat, but the latter proved
o ferocious and showed such determined
light that it kept the enemy at bay. and
fter a prolonged combat, which resulted
n a draw, it was hard to tell which was
he worst hurt the dog or the rat.
The owner of the dog turned to Mr..
'ravers: Now you see what fine dog
hat is. won't YOU buy him?"
Il d-d-don't w-w-want tito b-b-buy
he d-ddog" Mr.. Travers replied, BIB
Mt III b-b-b-buy the FRAT. Harry Fur
iss in the May Strand Magazine.