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The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-07-16
MUCH FARM LAND FLOODED
Mississippi River Continues to Riss
Near St. Louis.

st. Louis, July 16.-The Mississippi
river continues to rise. Manufactur.
ing concerns on the Illinois side are
moving their stocks TO higher ground,
over the leyees. Citizens of Cahokia
worked all night strengthening the
levees, which will stand but slight
rise.
Five thousand acres Of farm land
are covered with water by the rail-
road embankment breaking at Guide
Sac, five miles north of st. Charles,
Mo. The Missouri river at st. Charles
Is Ave miles wide, but Is falling at
Hermann and Jefferson City. The
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-07-16

tianson. aged twenty-five, were
drowned in the Mississippi river in
this city.
The girls were in the habit of swim
ming in the river early every morn
ing They got out too far in the cur
rent and the water, being exception
ally cold, chilled them and when they
were carried off their feet they were
unable to resist the current.
Elizabeth Hagelin. aged nineteen,
sister of one Of the victims, was also
in the water when the two girls went
down. She was about TO be swept
away when Emil Zinzraz. driver for
the City Ice company, saw the girls
predicament and plunged into the
water, clothes and all He reached
Elizabeth and dragged her to the
shore, but was too late to save the
others.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-07-16
STRIKERS COWED BY
PRESENCE OF TROOPS
Latter Use Clubs Freely in Dis
persIng Crowd.

Pittsburg, July 1.-THE situation
at the plant of the Pressed Steel Car
company at McKees Rocks. adjacent
to this city, where $500 men are on
strike, is quieter. Following a night
of terror and wild disorder, in which
thirty persons were shot or beaten, a
detachment of the Pennsylvania state
constabulary arrived and soon after
wards the riotiug stopped. The men
are frightened and awed by the pres
ence of the mounted state police
When the police reached the plant
they stationed their horses inside the
great steel plant and then took up
positions outside the fence. A mo
troopers. Instantly the mill gate was
thrown open, several troopers vaulted
into the saddle and the next minute
dashed fercely into a crowd of strik-
ers and their sympathiZers. AS they
galloped through the crowd the state
police struck right and left with heavy
riot clubs. The crowd became de.
moraliZed under the terrific assault
and fed in all directions.
That incident occurred at daybreak
1t had potent effect and since that
time the strikers satisfied themselves
by congregating at the gates of the
mill, but not daring TO commit any
act that would cause a repetition OF
constabulary strike methods.
Strikers and the constabulary
clashed several times during the day
and twelve persons were injured
three of whom are in a serious condi
ton. Over score of strikers and
their sympathizers have been placed
under arrest.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-07-16
COMPELLED TO
ANSWER QUERY
Mrs. Thaw Says Harry Did
Threaten to Kill Her.
PLEADS TO BE EXCUSED

Explains Her Position to the Court
and With Tears in Her Eyes Begs
Him Not to Compel Her to Reply.
Further Testifies That Thaw Told
Her He Was Not insane When He
Killed Stanford White.
White Plains, N. Y, July 16.-Eva-
lyn Nesbit Thaw took the witness
stand in the hearing on Harry X.
Thaw's mental condition in the SUI
preme court here. Mrs. Thaw ap-
peared as a witness for the state,
which is opposing the release of her
husband from the Matteawan insane
asylum.
Justice Mills, having ruled that the
witness could answer the questions
In regard to the threat made to kill
her by her husband during a conversa-
tion at Matteawan asylum which had
been excluded from her former testi-
mony on the grounds of privilege
Deputy Attorney General Clark asked
her:
did Harry X. Thaw at that time
say this to you, or this in substance
I shall have to kill you when I get
out of here?'"
Mrs. Thaw appealed to the court
and begged Justice Mills not to make
her answer the question.
Can | claim a privilege on the
ground that it would tend to incrim-
mate meH" asked Mrs Thaw.
Justice Mills said she could not
claim privilege on that account.
Turning to the court with tears In
her eyes Mrs. Thaw said:
PitifuI Plea TO the Court.
81 don't want to answer that ques-
ton; 1t places me in a terrible posi-
tion. My husband will refuse to sup
port me the minute | answer IL and |
will incur his everlasting enmity.
am very much afraid to answer 1t. /
don't care how he has treated me, /
am still married to him and do not
want to answer it."
Justice Mills quickly instructed the
witness to answer and she said with
a long drawn sigh:
"Yes, he did"
Mrs. Thaw further testified that
during the same conversation Harry
Thaw told her he was not crazy on
the night he shot Stanford White.
Il only missed him by a minute on
the night before" the witness said
her husband told her.
Thaw sat with his eyes intently on
his wife as she testified and shook
his head when she told of the threat.
Mrs. Thaw was excused and An
thopy c. Comstock, president of the
New York Society for the Suppression
or Vice. was called as the next wit
ness. Mr.. Comstock's evidence re-
lated to conversations he had had
with Thaw regarding alleged wrongs
done young girls by White and 9TH
ers and was largely a repetition of
witness testimony on the trial Of
Thaw for the murder of White.
Thaw's speech and manner during
these conversations, the witness said,
were entirely rational.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-07-16
BRING MESSAGE
To CONFEREES
AldriCfl and Payne Called to
the White House.
TAFT'S ATTITUDE IS FIRM

That the President Insists Upon the
Adoption of the Corporation Tax
Amendment Is the Substance of
Report by the Senate and House
Leaders Following a Conference
With the Chief Executive.
dent Taft stands right where he has
stood all alGng" and will insist upon
the adoption of the corporation tax
amendment is the substance of a re
port made to the tariff conference by
Senator Aldrich and Representative
Payne. The leaders of the senate and
house had been at the White House,
having been summoned by the presi-
dent to explain a persistent rumor
that the corporation tax proposition
was in danger of being dropped in
conference
1t had been reported and not denied
that majority of the conferees were
opposed to the adoption of the meas
ure providing for 2 per cent tax
upon the net earnings of corporations
organized for profit The announce
ment that the administration would
be satisfied with a tax of ] per cent
and that the redraft of the amend
ment made by Attorney General
Wickersham would contain this
change did not remove the objections
entertained by the conference. The
representatives of the house protest
ed against the federal governments
entering upon such a new and rad
ical method of raising revenues"
Discouraging reports about the re-
ception planned for the proposition
when it should be returned TO the
conferees determined the president to
get at the bottom of the situation and
to learn if he could, whether the ad-
verse sentiment was strong enough to
encompass the defeat of the amend
ment
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-07-16
COULD DO IT OVER AGAIN
Weston Feels Fine After Walking
Across Continent.

San Francisco, July 16.-Edward
Payson Weston has handed to Post
master Arthur Fiske the letter which
Postmaster Morgan of New York city
gave TO W ton March 15 last. The
little ceremony ended one of the most
ever recorded. Although Weston was
four days behind the schedule he had
set for himself the old man was not
down hearted.
"It was great walk" he said, "and
but for unforeseen ifficulties and
my journey would have been here on
the Tooth day Still | am feeling fine
and could do il over again"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-07-16
JOIN MEN NOW ON STRIKE
Three Thousand Tin Workers Walk
Out at Newcastle, Pa.

Pittsburg, July 16.-At the expfra-
ton of their wage scale at midnight
5000 workmen, members OF the Tin
Plate Workers Protective association,
walked out of the tin plate plants at
Newcastle, Pa, and Joined the strik-
ers of the Amalgamated Association
Of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers.
The trouble results from the "open
shop" policy declared by the Amer
ioan Sheet and Tin Plate company
July 1.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-07-16
food here is caused by the high water
in the Missouri
ONLY AFFECTS ONE COMPANY
Fourteen Thousand Miners Quit Work
in Pittsburg District.

Pittsburg, July 16.-Over $4,000 min.
ers employed In the mines of the
Pittsburg Coal company, located in
the Pittsburg district, have gone on
strike. The strike order was issued
several days ago by the local union
officials and does not have the sane.
tion of the national officials of tho
United Mine Workers of America
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-07-16
BLAST FATAL TO SOLDIERS
Three Men viii Die as Result of Pow
der Explosion.

Cheyenne, Wyo, July 16.-The ex-
plosion of 100 pounds of powder in
the barracks of Battery A at Fort
Russell injured seven soldiers, three
fatally. and destroyed the building.
The injured men were preparing blank
ammunition at the time of the explo.
slon. the cause Of which Is unknown.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-07-16

People past middle life usually have
some kidney or bladder disorder that
saps the vitality, which is naturally
lower in old age. Foley's Kidney Rem
edy corrects urinary troubles, stimulates
the kidneys, and restores strength and
vigor. It CURED uric acid troubles by
strengthening the kidneys so they will
strain out the uric acid that settles In
the muscles and joints causing rheum
atism.--J. III. Anderson.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-07-16
ON A VISIT TO THE GAR
King Frederick of Denmark at ST.
Petersburq.

st. Petersburg, July licking Fred
erick of Denmark, accompanied by
Queen Louise and a royal suite, ar
rived at Peterbof on the Danish royal
yacht Daneborg. They were met by
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1909-07-16
TWO YOUNG WOMEN DROWNED

Girl Bathsra Lose Their Lives at
minneapolis.
Minneapolis. july 16.--Jennie Hage-
lin, aged tyCnty-one, and Jessie Chris.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-24

blizzard in action-when a congress
confesses itself incapable of exercising
a constitutional function, and puts it
self into commission in order that the
country may enjoy intelligent legisla-
ton.
Still another point is that a tariff
commission, invested with such pow
ems as are proposed, would be sub
jected to such approaches and tempta-
tons as would exceed anything of the
kind ever known in this country; and
it would be a miracle if the whole
scheme did not come to the ground
with a scandal crash of unprecedented
proportions. Congress needs to be we'll
advised in all details when revising
the tariff, but as the servant of the
people chosen by the people it is the
body to discharge the peoples most
important commission-the levying of
taxes and the appropriation of the taxes
collected.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-24
FARMERS FUME

ever taken by executives of city To-
Gated in a farming community" said
one of the fOOthill ranchers this morn
ing. What would WalLa Walla be to-
day had it not been for the sons of
toll, who, from the earliest history of
the valley, have played such an i'm
portant part in building up the great
industries now operating here. OF
course, Walla Walla has grown from
a country village to a fair-sized city,
and should endeavor to present the
neatest appearance possible. But other
things are to be considered, and if the
town is to maintain the standard al
ready attained, the farming interests
cannot we'll be antagonized.
with Spokane and Seattle it is diff
ferent; those places are supported by
other industries Not so with Walla
Walla. Fully IS per cent of the money
spent here comes directly from the man
in the overalls, and it is up to the
business men to see that their country
customers are not turned away through
the passage of a hitching ordinance
that was drawn up by some interested
party who either has a crouch against
the valley or who is not alive % the
best interests of his own city.
1T is discrimination against the
farmers as near as l can determine.
Being compelled to hitch teams out
in the residence district to avoid the
two-hour limit, and compelled to walk
half IA mile or so in order to reach the
business district does not appeal to
the farmer, especially when autos and
city vehicles may avoid the provisions
of the ordinances by taking a spin
around the block three or four times
q day. Many of the farmers, when
they come to the city, rema.L often
for the entire day to transact their
business and they do not propose to
be required to drive around the city
10 avoid the hitching ordinance. If
those laws are put into affect, Walla
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-24
A TARIFF COMMISSION.

Agoin the question of a tariff COM
mission. The president did not recon-
mend one in his message, and the
house did not provide for one in it's
bill. But the matter is coming up in
the senate and the advocates of the
measure will explain their proposition
fully.
There are men who favor commits
sion as the means of taking the tar
iff out of politics" They state very
frankly that congress is incompetent
to deal with the subject. 1t lacks the
necessary information, ond has neither
the means nor the time to acquire it
Let the matter be turned over to a
commission of seven, or II or Is men,
bers, qualified by long experience in
business to handle all business ques-
tons affected by the tariff. Let this
commission keep an eye on all business
changes both at home and abroad, and
adjust tariff schedules to them as
American interests may demand In
this way we should secure a scientific
| treatment of the tariff. and relieve
congress of a duty it has always botch-
ed, and will continue to botch until re-
| lieved of it.
There are men who stop far short
of this, but favor some provision for
assisting congress in gathering the in
| formation it needs whenever revision
time rolls around. With this object
in view a special clerical force is sug-
gested, composed of men of business
training and reading, whose duty it
should be to keep close track of all
marked growths and changes, and re-
port to congress or to the secretary of
the treasury whenever called upon to
do so. In this way, everything of a
business nature bearing upon the tar4
iff would be ready to hand whenever
needed. Congress, or the ways and
means committee of the house, could
inspect the latest compilations at every
session. and note the ACCESSIBILITY Of
action from time to time.
Whatever is done, if anything in this
line, congress, we may be sure, will not
part with even the smallest portion of
its power in the premises. 1t could not
if it would. The power it exercises is
derived from the constitution which
imposes upon congress the duty of
laying national taxes. And then it will
be a cold day-with 4th of March
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-24
GORDON AND SCHIVELY.

The grand jury of Spokane county
appears to have performed an import
ant duty in returning indictments
against ex-Judge Gordon and State In
surance Commissioner Schively-
though there was no connection be-
tween the cases, or the men in the
matters for which they were indicted,
says the Oregon Journal.
Gordon, formerly a member of the
highest court in the state, and later
an attorney for the Great Northern
railroad was accused, it viii be re-
membered of cOrruptly influencing
Supreme Court Judge Milo A. Root to
render an unjust decision in favor
of the railroad company in damage
case, in consequence of the exposure
of which. Root, though he had just
been reelected, resigned. Gordon, it
was said. used a considerable sum of
the railroad company's money beyond
what he was entitled to or could ac-
count for. and so was discharged, but
not prosecuted by the railroad COM
pany. and the popular suspicion has
been that the corporation dared not
prosecute him because he was employ
ed. at least tentatively and tacitly, to
corrupt the courts. This at any rate
happened, for in spite of all Roots
lame excuses it is admitted that in a
certain damage case he allowed Cor
don, then a railroad attorney, to write
the decision, the court being divided
four to three on the main points in
dispute. and the decision being. as
seems to be generally acknowledged
a gross and outrageous miscarriage of
justice. Root. however, it appears
really got little if any money. He got
little free transportation and ex-
pected and plead for some campaign
expenses to be paid Gordon seems to
have worked both ends, the railroad
out of a corruption fund and the court
out of a corrupt decision, that he
didn't pay for after all.
So far there has been no positive
public. legal proof of all phases OF
this shameful and disgusting business
but the indictment by the Spokane
grand jury may result in smoking Cor
don out, and along with him his en-
ployers. 1t is very important that this
be done. A newspaper of the right
the bold, sheer corruption of great
state court: but if this has been done
it is immensely important that i
should be known, and who did it, ant
why. and all about it. Gordon may
never be forced to tell; there are pos.
sibly "higher-up" men in the matter
than he; but the inquiry should go tc
the utmost possible limits, in order tc
ascertain the facts.
Schively is charged with large and
continuous embezzlement. which was
rendered comparatively easy for him
because of his position as a state Of
1icer Whether he is guilty, or to
what extent, is matter to be deter
mined; but it may be remarked al
ready that he is one of your profess
sional machine politicians; to some ex-
tent a boss; a leader; one who for
many years has made politics a trade
a prominent republican patriot, whose
business has been to ''wor1" the peo-
pie. The cases of Gordon and Schively
will be watched with good deal of
interest throughout the country.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-24
Weather Conditions.

Showers fell in northwestern Wash
ingtOn during the past "a hours, and
the weather in the Pacific northwest
is unsettled. A high barOmetric area
remains over western Oregon with low
pressure over the western Canadian
provinces and the eastern slope of the
Rockies Rain or snow fell in Montana,
northern Utah, over the upper lakes
and along the Atlantic coast and the
Gulf states. Temperatures are higher
between the Rocky mountains and the
Mississippi river, and CORRESPONDENCE
cooler east of the Mississippi. The in
dicatiOns are for showers in this vi
cinity tonight or Sunday, with slight
temperature changes.
JOHN GROVER, Observer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-24


right to be paternally affectionate. my
dear, I visited a poor family last week
one of those terribly poor families
with positively no visible means of sup
port. l gave them two dollars and when
went back yesterday to take them
some more | asked what they had done
with the first. And what do you think?
Those people who were on the very
verge of starvation had spent every
cent of that money for canary bird
and cage. And they hadn't even the
money to buy bird seed for the thing.
What do you think Of that?
'1 can beat that" said the middle
aged philanthropist. Just the other
day I started in giving a family two
dollars and a half a week. I knew
they didn't any of them drink, and
thought they could be trusted to use it
to the best advantage. They were in
telligent people. When l went down
this morning to carry the second in
stallment I inquired what they had got
ten with the first. And l found they
had started to get a baby carriage on
the installment plan and bought bot
tie of picked pigs feet with the rest"
You know the big fire they had out
at the east end said the last and
youngest of the philanthropists break
ing in boyishly on the laugh that fol-
lowed the picked pigs feet. We'll,
some one gave me five dollars to take to
one of the families that got burned out.
They'd lost everything, you know, and
needed so many things that 1 didn't
know what to buy so l gave them the
money
well. I went down TO see how they
were getting on and maybe you won't
believe it, but that family-there's
eight of them, counting the baby and
the old northumberland hired a hack
and all piled into it and taken a ride. |
They said they never had enough rid |
ing before and never rode in a hack |
and they just rode five dollars worth"
Il suppose you scolded them well?"
queried
Il didn't" said the youngest philan-
thropist shamefacedly. Il got my sis |
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-24

Walla will be classed as a dead one,
and with the Farmers union behind
the movement it would soon be the
rule to have bankrupt sales in now
prospecting establishments.
1.-The proposed agitation seeking to
have the city adopt an ordinance eX-
Guiding hitching racks from the bust
ness section, will have a baneful in
ffuence on the future welfare Of this
city, if passed." said a prominent farm
er today. 1.-The city is indebted to the
farmer, and the rich surrounding
country for it's wealth and commercial
standing, and the proposed ordinance
can have no other effect than to cause
the farmer to purchase his goods at
a place where he can drive his team,
be it at Prescott, Waitsburg, Dixie,
Wallula, or at the depot at either of
the railroad lines centering in this
city.
1.-THE farmers are now prepared to
care for and subserve their business
interests, let the chips fall where they
may. The state board of control ar
bitrarily fixed the price of wheat sacks
at an unfair figure, thinking that the
farmer would be- compelled to pur-
chase them from the state.
The Farmers union, a new gentle
man in our midst and an important
factor to be hereafter reckOned with,
rebelEed and did not pay the price and
as a sequence the leading farmers Of
this valley purchased sacks from par
ties other than the state. The jar was
severe and Governor Hay was COM
PEELED to instruct the warden and clerk
of the penitentiary to transform them
selves into travelling statesmen to dis
pose of the sacks on hand at a. much
lower figure than originally called for.
The city may find itself in a similar
plight The ordinance may be passed,
and the farmers business excluded,
yet if it is, the commercial interest
will suffer and pay the penalty"
Councilman Opposed.
Councilman Fred S. Hull, when in
tervieWeW this afternoon, said hG was
willing to be quoted as saying that he
did not favor the final passage Of the
ordinances, and did not believe they
would be passed. anyone who is ac-
uuainted with conditions here knows
that Walla Walla must depend upon
the farmers for the representative bust
ness, and it would be a wrong step TAX
en- were they antagonized. Their teams
have as much right on the streets as
automobiles, and personally, I do not
favor the passage of the ordinances
Looking tor results? Classified Adds
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-24

LllS pun iiloINou VI
money are needless
" cautious in many
asses.
I expressed that
ceiling the fother day
0 a group of philan-
hropic workers.
They looked at me
With gentle pity for
ny ignorance-espe-
tally, the two Oldest
)hilanthropists.
MY DEAR, said the
cry elderly philan-
.hropist, whose white
lao;x1 -o-0 L;oo ~ n
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-24
Evening
Chit-Chat
BY RUTH CAMERON.

l am apt to be rather scornful of sci
entific charity.
The generosity which hedges its gifts
with precautions and provisos seems to
me too coldblooded to deserve the warm
sweet name of charity at all.
l cannot help feeling that the char
liable organizations which give orders
for groceries and other necessities to