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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
ARE CANAL LOCKS DISABLED so
EASILY?

Americans with the Panama canal in
the back of their heads observe with
some uneasiness how quickly the Ca
madam canal at the Sault was put out
of commission by an accident that
seems trifling.
The engineer of a steamer lying in
a full lock with the upper gate open
and the lower gate closed misunder-
stood the signal and went ahead in
binary freight vessel with the closed
gate carried it out and the rush of
water swept all vessels waiting for
passage through into the lower lake.
That was no great matter, but the
accident restored at a single stroke the
original rapid of ST Mary's on that
side, the water rushing through the
canal and over the disabled lock as it
| rushed over the rocks of its primitive
| channel. The lower gate is disabled
and the upper gate cannot be closed
and it seems probable that the whole
| Canadian channel will have to be
damned before any repairs can be
made
1t may be that the gravity of the
disaster and the length of time that
| navigation must be interrupted are ex-
aggerated in the dispatches. But if SO
slight an accident have so serious con-
sequences, what would be the result OF
the more Serious kind of disaster to
| which every lock is subject? These
massive triumphs of engineering sci
ence seem to be less solid and control
liable than we have been taught to be-
1 lieve.
/ 1t is not difficult to apply this ex-
perience to the conditions we are Gre
ating at Panama. That channel has no
original waterfall, though the Chagre
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
MERCHANT SWINDLED MAKES
Bah CHECK COOL.
Bellingham Man Shows Himself to Be
Quite a Financier.

BELLINGHAM, June 18.-Isaac ia
cobs. local dealer in clothing for men
has distinguished himself as something
of a financier and indirectly has picked
pot of $11.5O right FROM under the
noses of nine other merchants, who
like himself were stung some weeks
ago by bad check man, who dropped
into the city for short visit The
man gave his name as J. j. Black
when he arrived. He deposited $50 In
the First National bank, the next day
withdrawing all but $11.5O. Then with
the aid of a partner he managed to
pass ten checks for sums ranging from
$12 to SIS, all the accounts being. just
little more than the sum he left on
deposit.
The ten checks have been duly pre-
sented and payment refused because
of a lack Of funds, and the ten hold
ers of the bad paper have been be-
| moaning their losses. But today a
bright idea struck Jacobs, and he pre-
scented his check for SIS; it was re-
fused and he inquired the amount of
| the deficit. He was given the infor-
nation and promptly deposited $3.50 in
the bank to the credit of J. J. Black.
| Then he presented his check and re-
| ceived the money. Now some of those
| who held checks so small that only SO
cents or a dollar would have had to be
| deposited in order to have made good
their paper are wondering why 1T is
that they couldn't have thought it all
| out themselves.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
TAXING THE CLOTHING OF THE
PEOPLE,

The wool schedule, like the cotto1
schedule, taxes the clothing of the peo-
pie for the benefit of the various indus
iris that make it. This was patiently
endured to build up American indus
tries, in the expectation and on the
promise that the tax would be taken off
or reduced when these industries were
full grown.
Congress is breaking that ancient
promise again in the wooden as in other
schedules. No duties are to be reduced
unless they are more than prohibtory
In pretense none are to be raised, but
we encounter the same insidious chang
es of administrative regulations and
Juggling between specific and ad val
orern duties by which the tax on the
consumer has been increased in other
articles without his knowing it till the
mischief was done.
All schedules are complicated enough
but the wool schedule is bottomed on
duty on raw material. 1t is needful
to protect the sheep growers of few
states from the pauper sheep of South
America. as the sugar growers of Lou
isiana have to be protected from the
tropical islands we have so benevolent
ly assimilated. This adds to the com
plexity of duties on manufactured
goods a differential or compensatory
duty to compel the sheep grower tc
transfer his benefit to the wooden man.
ufacturer in higher prices for clothes
The plain citizen cannot pretend tc
understand any of these schedules
least of all those that begin with tax
on raw material. 1t is not considered
needful that anyone should understand
them. because they are invariably made
in congressional committees by thu
manufacturers who are to benefit b.
them. All the D IAN cltlZen KNOWS Ii
that he must pay more money for hi:
clothing and get a poorer article, shod
DIV wool or underweight cotton.
If by any slip of the present tariff
law he can buy good German or Eng
lish article for a reasonable price, thu
purpose of the Payne Aldrich bill is tt
prevent him.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
To Run Down Fast Autoists.

TACOMA, June 1S.-The police de-
partment will be provided with mo-
torcycle to run down and arrest speed
ing automobilists. The crusade against
fruit expected on account of the i'm
possibility of making arrests. Autos
whip by so fast that patrolmen find
themselves unable to read their num-
bers. A motorcycle carrying a speedo-
meter is expected speedily to do away
with the auto speeding.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
Reappointed on Board.

OLYMPIA, June 1S.-Gov. Hay has
announced the reappointment of j. E
Frost, of Ellensburg, and T. D. Rock
state tax commission.
The governor also appointed E. w
Southwest Washington fair commission
which leaves but one member yet to be
named of commission of u.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18

river is a mountain torrent But the
engineers are creating a sudden fall Of
so feet instead of 20 feet at the Sault,
pressed upon from above by an arti-
fetal lake hundreds of miles in extent
as Superior presses upon the locks at
the Sault.
The double locks at Gatun will be
some safeguard against an accident
like that in Canada, but we imagine
that it's effect upon engineering and
navigation would be serious.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
Frisco Gets the Boat.

SAN FRANCISCO, June 18.-The
sloop Gjoa, little craft in which Cap
tain Amundsen succeeded in threading
the northwest passage, is today the
property of the city of San Francisco
She was presented to the city yester-
day by Consul Henry Lund of Norway
in behalf of Amundsen and the Nor
Wegian residents of the coast.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18

No matter what we try anon. the
new cereal foods. there's always a
feeling that when we are through ex.
Perimenting we will 60 back to good
old Quaker Oats.
In another column will be found
some 1T the reasons for eating Quaker
Oats; everyone who has eaten this
food regularly will recognize the truth
Of the statements made in these
advertisements.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
Close for Visit to Exposition,

TACOMA, June 1S.-Sawmills in
this city and along the Tacoma east
ern railroad are considering a shut
down of two weeks. The mills will
close about July and lumbermen say
the interval will constitute a mid
summer vacation for visiting the expo
sition at Seattle. The cessation of
manufacturing is expected to largely
improve market conditions
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
Vernon Make Address.

WILBERFORCE, O., June 1S.-Wil-
berforce University, the pioneer insti-
tuition of higher education for colored
students in this country, held it's an
nual commencement program yesterday
with w. T. Vernon, register OF ,Ee
United States treasury, as the orator
of the day.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18

a marriage license without having to
submit to the regulations imposed by
the new law. The license is the first
Of it's kind granted since the new reg
ulations became effective, and was
given under the provision allowing
couple to be married without exam
ination where the woman is As years
old or over.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
Pleads To Be Locked Up.

VANCOUVER, Wash, June 49,
Fearing that he was losing his mind
and believing that he would do some
one violent injury if allowed to roam
around the city at large, last evening
George Brown appeared at the police
station and pleaded with the chief to
lock him up.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
Enforcing Law at Vancouver.

VANCOUVER, Wash, June 1S.-The
new law requiring the removal of all
screens III front of saloons is being
strictly enforced in this city by the
sheriff and chief of police. All of the
saloonmen were notified some days
ago and today every screen was rs-
moved.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
VIEW OF THE COURT OF HONOR Ayp EXPOSITION sEATTL

VIEW OF THE COURT SEATTLE
principal Exposition
Geyse Basin ana
the fowe line each
side Basin directly
OF Manufac-
looked
be finished
Exposition estimated
thatitw ouldt take them 10
the steps
in the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
Contract for Supplies Awarded.

OLYMPIA, June 1S.-Secretary of
State Howell today awarded the con-
tract to the Vaughn Merrill Co, Of Ia
coma, for legislative supplies on the
low bids. There were four other bid
ders.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
Canoe capsizes: Man browns.

NELSON, B. c., June 1S.-1z1Vord has
reached here of the drowning last
evening of Thomas Carlisle, at his
ranch on Kootenay lake, by the cap
sizing of his canoe The young mar
lately arrived from Newcastle, Eng.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
CLEANLINESS FIRST.

There seems to be no white wash
methods in the campaign for cleaner
city that is being carried on by the
city council and other semi official
organiza tons. Through the inspec-
ton of back doors and unfrequented
alleys the crusaders are striking at
the very root of unsanitary condl-
tions and VIII, when their work is
done have killed the serpent in the
shell and saved the city from a prob
able epidemic tof typhoid fever or
other contagious disease. The slovenly
practices of restaurants, business
houses and even home keepers do not
often come to the notice of the casual
observer who calls only at the front
doors and traverses only the clean
and well swept streets. The inspec-
tors, however, have gone farther and
Under the starched outer attire of the
city they have found dirty under
wear, the neglect of which breeds
contagion and spreads disease.
Conditions in some instances were
even worse than the most dubious
expected to find them. Stop cans
overlooking with their tfermenting
filth, chicken pens in which fattening
fowls wade in the filthy ooze of their
own eNcrement, piles of decaying
rubbish and unsightly and unsanitary
:itters of other debris where the germ
disseminating house fly breeds have
been reported by the Investigators
Owners of premises found to be in
a poor state of sanitation have been
notified and asked to clean up and
certainly the request will not have
- be repeated for surely Walla Walla
houses no citizen who will long per-
nit conditions to prevail that are
detrimental to his business and a
menace to the health of himself and
his patrons.
Too great efforts cannot be directed
to Kidding the city of places where
flies breed. Scientific investigation
has proven that to fight the adult fly
is a futile task. The only effective
method of staying it's germ spreading
is to destroy its breeding places. The
rapidity with which flies multiply is
illustrated in a recent lecture of Pro-
fessor Melander of the Washington
State collegs. By the end of the
summer a fly of April l may have
259,200, 600. O00,O 0O,OO0,OO0 descendants
This seemingly incredible propagation
is possible because the eggs hatch in
from three to y hours and in about
ten days a new generation IS on the
wing. The number of bacteria found
on one fly taken from a barn house
or pig pen runs into the hundred
thousands and it has been demonstrate
ed that a tuberculosis gerf will live
thing for oyerestimate, these figures
should he sufficient incentive for a
thorough campaign for the removal of
all breeding places. Screens are val
liable in combating the ravages of
the little fly but it can be easily un-
dersto6d how the disease germs may
be carried into the house and the
dining room table even though the
fly is kept out. Food stuffs which
have been exposed to flies in store OF
preparing room may prove an open
door for deadly bacteria. The cleanIi.
ness crusade has been started and il
should be carried on without halt OF
hinderance until the back door is a.
presentable as the front, and the allie,
as clean as the street.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
METHOW RIVER TO
DEVELOP POWER.
High Power Tension Line to Carry
Light Over Okanogan.

SPOKANE, June 1S-The Methow
river in Okanogan county is to he har-
messed, and enough power developed
to flight the small towns in that coun-
try and furnish power for the irriga
ton of thousands of acres of land.
The Columbia Water Power COM
pany. of which Sam Berry, J. B. VAL
entine and Sidney Berry, all of Spo-
kane, are the principal incorporators,
has extensive plans which include the
building of a large power station.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
Lapds May Go at Public Auction.

Lauds May Go at Public Auction.
OLYMPIA, June Island Commits
sioner E. w. Ross has sent out a final
ten days notice that unless upland
owners make application for Lake
Union shore lands such lands will be
offered for sale at public auction.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18

The Classified Columns will nr.
what you want to buy or find buyer
for what Won want IN sell
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-06-18
WEEDS WITHOUT EXAMINATION.
Exempt From the Provisions of the
New Criminal Code.

TACOMA, June 1S.-Being over As
years of age. Miss Adelaide c. King
and Charles D. Stone were today given
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-05
shark ImpaIed by Steamer.

A shark of the enormous species
which haunts the Red sea was the
cause of an extraordinary incident in
The passage of the liner Oroya of the
Orient ROYAL Mail line from sydney io
London The liner had just rounded
the islands of Perrin. when it was
found that a huge tiger shark w1s
ernly fixed on the bow of the vessel
Tte shark. which was estimated 10 b
f,c~ % feet to 25 feet in length. struc
eled i'm vain to free itself. beating vio
lenily with its tail on the starboard
side of the liner Its head was twist
ed round the port bow. Eventually The
Oroya reversed her engines and the
shark got free ard lisapfOa ed in thy
del ,hs. leaving ira, Of blood from
the wound ia its side where The Prov
nf lie shin had struck
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-05
A NatIon of canItaIIsta.

The Pennsylvania railroad, our big
gest railroad property, announces that
the dividend paid on November 27,
1908, was sent to 5S,739 stockholders
OF whom about $4,000 were women.
A year ago, the number Of stockhold-
ers was 52.622, and about $4,000 of
these were women. The increase in
the number Of women stockholders is
one Of the strong tendencies shown
by this and other high-class railroad
properties. Even more noteworthy,
however, is the tendency toward the
elimination OF foreign holdings Of
stock. and the gradual gathering OF
the stocks of our big properties by
the citizens Of the United States. Ten
years ago almost half the stock of
the Pennsylvania was held abroad. To
day, according to figures kindly fur
nished to us by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company, only about 16 per cent.
OF its stock is owned by stockholders
who live outside the country Worlds
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-05
Railroad Presidents Asked
To Conserve Forests

timber problems which must be work
ed out to meet the given conditions
At the same time there are certain
lines of general policy which can be
proiltably adopted by many roads
They are:
q. The use of chemically treated
ties wherever possible.
"2. The use of so-called inferior
woods, as, for example, black gum and
lloblolly pine, for ties. which will re-
duce the drain on white oak, and
which is entirely practicable if the
ties are treated.
"3. The purchase and management
of land bearing mature timber which
can be used Immediately, and of sec
ond-growth timber which will meet
the needs of the future. Such lands
if properly managed will insure a per-
petual supply of ties and lumber at
the cost of production.
"A. The planting Of trees upon non
agricultural land owned by the com
pany, which does not now contain
sufficient young growth to produce a
timber crop.
"5. Cooperation with other roads
in the adoption of standard specifica-
tions for ties and timber and for the
treatment of them Cooperation with
timberland owners and the states in
fire prevention. and in bringing about
conditions which will make the prac-
tice of forestry profitable.
"'These are in substance the recon-
mendations of the subcommittee on
forest supplies of the American Rail-
way Engineering and Maintenance of
Way association. The adoption of
these recommendations and the ap-
pointment of technical men to carry
them out will, it seems to me, be wise
action for any railroad The influence
of their general adoption would be
far reaching and most beneficial.
Il should be very glad to discuss
the matter more in detail with you
at your convenience, or to be of use
in any other way
Responses which show much inter-
est are being received, and it is pre-
sumed that definite action along the
lines mentioned will result
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-05
Loved and Hated.

Europe hates our rich art patrons
and loves them. 1t loves them for the
money they have made and are will.
ing to spend on old masters and new
masters, even when they are spuri,
Gus. 1t hates the rich American when
he beats rich European in competi-
tion for some highly desired art treas
ure. Then Americans become mere
men who triumph by brute strength OF
the longer purse. and worst than that.
art consumers who raise art prices to
unreasonable heights by their tradi,
tional desire tc get what they want
when they want it,
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-05
SAYS GOVERNMENT
RUINED PROJECT
Case Involving st2o,ooo,ooo Expendi-
ture in Reclamation Of Arid
Lands to Be Heard

Spokane. Wash, June 5. -- Former
United States Senator George Turner
of Spokane, has gone to Washington
D. c.. to appear before the United
States supreme court in the noted liti-
cation of the Irrigation Land and I'm
provement company of Arizona
against the government. He will first
have conference with Richard A..
Ballinger, secretary of the Interior
with view to bringing about a com
promise, in which event the suit viii
be dismissed. Otherwise, II is ex-
pected to attack the constitutionality
of the entire reclamation service as
organized by the government.
The Importance of the case becomes
apparent when it is known that more
than S120,000,000 has been expended
by the reclamation service since jan
uary 30, 1908, in irrigation works in
the western states and territories. and
that the various projects are 10000
miles Vi ullCHtSt tdliy yihb WdNSi W
10000 900 acres of lands, which annu-
ally produce crops valued at more
than s25O,000,00 The government
plants are in Washington. Idaho, Ore
gon, Montana. California, New Mexico,
Arizona, Utah, Nevada. Nebraska, the
Dakotas Kansas and Wyoming.
The case in question began when
the government started a reclamation
project in Arizona after the company
had expended considerable capital on
its works. The company sued, claim
ing that through its entrance to the
project the government has crippled
and practically ruined the private en-
terprise.
A decision, which has a bearing on
the case, prepared by Justice Brewer
and handed down by the supreme
court two years ago, intimates that
the reclamation work is not legal un-
der the constitution of the United
States. II the Arizona case goes to
the supreme court that point will be
passed upon.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-05


"The size of the pages varies with
the age and size Of the New York
hotels the woman remarked. That
is. so it seems to me. The Knicker.
booker, which, while it is fairly tall,
is also fairly young has pages about
10 years of age, who look to be s.
tiny kinds in uniform and buttons,
whose baby faces must rake in the
coin by way of tips, all right enough.
came near giving one of them a
quarter myself, he was so cute and
little. The Hotel Astor has boys a
size or so larger. being an older hotel
and perhaps a trifle more massive. The
Waldorf-Astoria, older and larger still,
has boys even larger to match, while
the ST. Regis has full-grown men.
However, in the downtown hotels,
which are not particularly high, but
can boast Of an age considerably in
advance OF the young Knickerbockers
that have grown so fine and tall, old
men are pages"
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1909-06-05

Washington, June 5.-The presi
dents Of the leading railroads of the
country have just received a letter
from Clifford Pinchot, United States
forester. calling upon them to prac-
tice forest conservation and better
timber utilization. In his letter the
forester says:
Il am writing to call your attention
again to some phases of a subject to
which / know you must already have
given much thonght-the conservation
of our forests. The report of the ma
tional conservation commission shows
that we are cutting our forests three
times faster than they are growing;
that much large timber and young
growth are destroyed yearly by fire;
that as a nation we have used wood
wasteful and extravagantly; that
the only way we can get the timber
we shall need in the future is to keep
all our forest land constantly growing
trees; and that the longer we delay
action the greater will be the pinch
of timber shortage later on.
"One-fifth of our remaining timber
is in public forests. and on these for
ests the nation and the states are
practicing forestry Four-ffths of our
timber is privately owned, and 1t is
being cut almost exclusively for pres
ent profit without regard to the future
The problem of providing a timber
supply can not be solved by the ma
tional government alone, by the
states alone, nor by individuals alone,
all must work together
"Since the railroads are among the
largest consumers of wood, they will
suffer heavily from the much higher
prices and the actual scarcity of tim
ber which will occur if our forests
are not conserved. Railroad COM
panies can most advantageously un-
dertake both the growing of timber
and the economical utilization of the
They have a steady demand
Tor timber, the extent of which can
be largely anticipated, and they need
much small timber of kinds which
can be grown in a relatively short
times
Each railroad has its own especial