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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-04-07
FAIR
WEATHER FORECAST.

Walla Walla and vicinity: Fair to-
night with light frost; Thursday fair
and warmer.
Washington: Fair tonight, with
light. frost west and southeast por-
tions and heavy frost northeast por-
ton. Thursday fair and warmer.
Weather Conditions.
A large area of high barometric
pressure with its crest over western
Washington covers the western half
of the United States and is attended
by clear weather on the Pacific slope. A
disturbance of great energy has moved
from Kansas to the Lake region since
yesterday and has caused general rain
over hte eastern half of the country
and gales on the Great Lakes. Snow
is stnl falling in portions of the middle
Rocky mountain states. There has
been a fall in temperature the inter
mountain country and a pronounced
fall in the Mississippi valley. Unus
ually high temperatures continue in
the Atlantic states. The indications
are for fair weather with light frost
in this vicinity tonight and fair and
warmer Thursday.
JOHN GROVER, Observer.
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ELECTIONS HELD
IN MANY CITIES
LIQUOR QUESTION DOMINANT
FACTOR IN MAJORITY OF
MUNICIPAL CONTESTS.
ST. Louis, After Eight Years of Demo-
cratic Rule, Elects Republic
can Mayor.

CHICAGO, April Tn the city
election here the Little Ballot" con-
tanning propositions for tax levy TO
erect tuberculosis sanitarium car
ried by a large plurality, but the poll
ticians were given several surprises in
the makeup of the new council. The
towns of Evanston and Cicero voted
down proposition to be annexed to
Chicago.
In the council fight the work Of the
Municipal Vo,ers league was effective
in defeating four aldermen in the So
called grey wolf element. =. In the
third ward Alderman Milton j. Fore
man won easily. In.the seventh ward
Professor Charles E. Merriam Of tte
University of Chicago was elected by &
tremendous majority. Aldermen Kenna
Powers, Brennan and Cullcrton Were
reelec. ed.
New Trier township voted itself
dry today, driving our tie saloons is
Gross Point, where the Fort Sheridan
soldiers gathered.
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GASOLINE MOTORS
WILL HAUL TRAINS
o. r. G. N. TRAINS WILL BE FUR
NIsHED WITH HIGH
SPEED EQUIPMENT.
New Passenserservice to Be Estab-
Iiseeo Between Dayton and Pen
Gleton by July I.

DAYTON. Wash, April by far
the most Interesting development in
the ryif-ead situation in southeastern
Washington, is the authoritative an
nouncement. made here today in the
Offices Of the O. r. & N company that
gasoline motor car passenger service
will be established between Dayton
and Pendleton before the end of the
summer. This statement is based on
a bulletin received by Agent T. J..
Ferg from the general offices of the
traffic department of the Hartman
system a. Omaha.
According to information received
here, an order for 800 gasolin motor
cars of 200 hors power has been placed
with eastern manufacturers for deliv-
cry not later than July /. The cars
will be modelled along the lines of those
now in use in tile Mississippi valley
where motor service was first intro
duced by Hartman.
Several branch lines of the Union
Pacific and O.. r. & N company in
the northwest are to be equipped with
this new service. Wallula and Starbuck
are to be terminals of another run
which may possibly be extended to in
clude PomerOy. Although no schedule
is announced, it is the opinion of local
officers of the company that passen-
ger trains will be run between Day
ton and Pend'e.on every two or three
hours The cars, now being built have
a speed of sixty miles an hour.
OF the three trains now operated be-
tween Dayton and Walla Walla two
will be discarded, the third to be used
for hauling freight.
Aggressiveness on the part of the
Hartman lines against electric rail-
roads is said to be the motive for the
establishment Of the new service.
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Phone 80.

One of the many pleasant issues Of
the teachers institute is the splendid
music furnished by the Fischer School
of Music At this mornings session
Mr.. Fischer gave several delightful
violin solos as follows:
"Andante," from Mendlessohn's con-
certo; ''Wiegnlied." by Schumann;
'aTaffy Was a Welchman." Faphrscne
Ode by Brahms; Spring" by Hill
bach, and Perpetual Moitno,'' by Refs
Mr. Fischer never played better norto
a more appreciative audience. Mrs.
Anna Selkirk Norton sang at the af-
ternoon session, and was in splendid
voice. Many complimentary criticisms
were heard from teachers from all
parts Of the state as to the ease and
grace with which the artists execute
their powers.
Rev. and Mrs. r. c. Brooks at their
home on Merriam street, entertained
the Young Ladies' club of the First
Congregational church last evening at
6 O'clock luncheon, followed by lit
erary program of much interest. Rev.
Brooks read to the club the following:
"Cleon' and rabbi Ben Ezra"
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The teachers who are in the city
this week attending the joint county
institute, and who will attend the
meetings of the Inland Empire Teach
ers association for the coming three
days, will be guests of the Commercial
club this evening at a reception to be
given in their honor. Beginning at 8
o'clock, Smiths orchestra will give
several selections. and at SIS o'clock
Mayor Eugene Tausick will deliver
the address of welcome. Addresses
will also be delivered by DR.. S. B.
L. Penrose of Whitman college, City
Superintendent of Schools o. S. Jones,
the state superintendent who are
present and by some of the more
prominent instructors.
Refreshments will be served in the
club rooms at $50 o'clock, and the
orchestra will play several selections.
Committees from the joint institute,
from the Inland Empire association
and from the Commercial club will
look after the comfort Of the visiting
teachers and assist them in becoming
better acquainted.
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the strap or flung carelessly down
WaStefully economical people think
1t is extravaganza to buy shoe trees,
but l find they pay their way every
time. good pair Of trees costs
about rs cents, and lasts a lifetime.
In two or three years they will have
saved their cost in the prolonged life
of your shoes. 1e also pays to have
more than one pair of shoes Two
pairs worn alternately, wear more
than twice as long as one pair worn
steadily. Shoe dealers say that this
Is because the animal heat does not
have time to get out of the shoes
that are worn every day and the
leather rots because of it's continu-
ally heated state.
When coat has Dig roomy pockets
and the woman who wears it does not
have pocket anywhere else in her
garments, it is certainly a temptation
to thrust a handkerchief, gloves or
parcels into those convenient cubby
holes. But nothing spoils the looks
of coat more quickly. / know one
mother who always sews up all the
pockets in her daughters coats just as
soon as they come from the tailor
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I'm The Social Circle
Phone 80. Hours m. to M
Hours 9 a. m. to 3 p. m.

Mrs. j. c.. Reid, 104 East Birch
street, entertained the Pilgrim society
of the First Presbyterian church this
afternoon. Plans were consuFated for
the Easter sale which is to be held
Saturday at Hanger Thompson's store,
Alder and Second streets. Refresh
meEts were served by Mrs. Reid in
conclusion.
Mr.. Thomas Atwood of. Whitman
college will spend his Easter vacation
at Spokane with his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Langdon, 5O4
East Rose street, have returned from
a two months sojourn at Portland and
nearby cities.
Mr.. Clarence Jones of Slater is in
the city visiting friends.
Mrs B. F. Stone and daughters,
Miss Ruth Stone and Miss Edna
Stone. South Second street, are ex-
pected home soon from Southern CAL
ifornia, where they have been spend
ing the winter.
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SEES NEITHER MOB RULE
NOR ANARCHY AS RESULT.
Attorney for Standard Oil Thinks
There VIII Be No Terrible
Consequences.

ST. LOUIS, April TT See neither
revolution if the Standard Oil company
wins nor industrial anarchy and mob
rule if the government WINS said Al
torney John C. Milburn, representing
the trust in the government dissolu-
ton suit today, before the hearing
opened.
Milburn declared that he had not
begun to see ghosts yet.
"Disor6ered livers instead of we'll
grounded apprehension of probable
events give rise to such talk of revo-
tuition agains. trust rule and the fur
Their slavery of the people to the big
corporations he declared.
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watch her carefully and return her to
the asylum at the first sign of any
dangerous delusion. Judge Frater. who
committed her to the asylum after a
commission had declared her insane
and Prosecuting Attorney Vanderveer
agreed with Dr. Calhoun that it was
not only right but best for all con-
cerned that the girl be allowed to go
with Mr.. Hurt.
She has gone and the state is very
well rid of the whole business.
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THE END OF A TRAGIC CHAPTER.

Esther Mitchell has been released
from the insane asylum at Steilacoom
on parole, and with that act, let US
hope the last word has been written in
the story of the triple tragedy growing
out of that sect of Oregon Holy Rollers
which acclaimed Joshua Creffield as
its leader and prophet-at least so far
as the state of Washington is con-
cerned.
Three violent deaths, two wrecked
homes and several thousands of the
publcs dollars was the cost of this
mans incursion into this state, and we
can only be s-lad that the last rem
nant of the pitiful. disgusting mess
has been returned across the Columbia
river
While there are many who believe
that it is wrong to allow a girl who
killed her brother in a manner which
was not only cold blooded but despica-
ble-viewed merely as murder-to SO
escape punishment, her commitment to
the asylum at that time and her re-
lease at this time has probably been
the best solution of the problem.
No punishment which could have
been inflicted would have had the
slightest effect upon this young girl
Call it nomicidal mania religious ia
naticism, hysteria, hypnotism-what
sou will-this girl was convinced that
it was her duty to kill her brother be-
cause he had slain man whom she
believed to be holy and the law had
refused to punish him for his act, says
NO hn hot
she had done and she was sorry-not
sorry because she had done it, but
because it had to be done.
It was a case where the law was al
a loss. 1t was a case outside the beat
en- path. 1t could take no cognizanee
of her beliefs and hallucinations and
was bound to prosaic facts. AS COM
promise she was sent to the western
Washington asylum for the insane.
4 woman who was really guilty OF
the staying of George Mitchell, who
would have fired the shot herself haC
she been able to get near enough tt
the boy, and who undoubtedly impellet
the girl to the deed. escaped punish
ment and solved the puzzle by taking
her own life in the county Jail.
Esther Mitchell has been confined
to the asylum for nearly three years
DR.. A. P. Calhoun. superintendent a
Stelacoom, takes the position that i
is wrong to keep a sane person in sucf
an institution. That he has that belle
is fortunate for the patients under hi.
care. The knowledge of it, in mind.
capable of understanding what tina
means. gives them something to hop,
for and something to look forward to
Dr.. Calhoun has always maintained
that Esther Mitchell was perfectly sane
outside of her delusion about her dut!
in killing her brother. He has watched
her carefully and finally became con
WINGED that she had no slumbeeans
mania, no desire for further vengeance
and had become again the gentle, sim
pie girl she was before Joshua" Cre1
field came into her life.
He found that O.. V. Hurt, farme
of Oregon, the father of Mrs Creffielo
was able and willing to take care o
the girl He was recommended as
proper guardian by United States Sen
ator Chamberlain. He promised t
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DIR. ELIOT AND DR.. REID.

If DR.. Eliot shall adhere to his pres
ent resolution respecting the ambas-
sadorship to Great Britain there will
be some sympathy with his point of
view He has earned, after many
years of faithful and distinguished
services, such a rest as he could not
responsibility and Importance. The
American representative in London
finds employment for all Of his time.
Both his business and his social en-
gagements are exacting and draw
heavily upon his physical as upon his
mental strength.
On the O. her hand, if DR.. Elliot de-
cides in the end to accept the place,
all that has been said in his praise
will stand. The country will enjoy
in its most conspicuous embassy the
services of a man widely known, and,
wherever known, held in the highest
esteem for his character and scholar
ship He will be welcomed by the best
of England, and increase the respect
felt there for the best Of America.
It is stated that Whitelaw Reid will
remain in commission for at least six
months, and maybe a year. If DIR.
Eliot declines, why disturb him at all?
Has he not made us an able and eff
ficient representative? Does he not
enjoy, and has he not earned, the re-
spect of the people to whom he is ac-
credited? He has carried himself
throus bout his four years in London
so as to command the attention and
secure the good viii of representative
Englishmen from the sovereign down.
His public addresses-the English
will NJ lake orators out of everybody we
send tnem-have pleased the most Gull
tivated audiences, and his house has
been 'he resort OF men of rank and
power in both the political and the
literary world
Mr.. Reid could not hope to escape
detrac ion at home. His very emin-
ence ;tnd success have made him a
mark for attack. His domestic -ex-
penditures have been condemned as
too Elvish-although the figures are
unkno Hn to his critics-While the at
tentioiis he has received from King
Edward have been described as at the
expen of his personal dignity
= Count Speck Won Sternburg was at
tackeU by foolish men at home be-
cause of his cordial relations with
President Roosevelt, when, as every
body in this country Knew the am
bassa Ior's course Injured to the
strang thening of the friendly relations
between the two courtries-the prime
object of his mission. He was held
in the highest respect in America be-
cause of his practical and tactful grasp
of the meaning of his mission.
AS Cor the grade Of Mr.. Reid's Lon
don Establishment, the very men who
have been the seventh on the subject
would have been severer still if he had
taken q small house on an obscure
street and lived in skinny fashion.
Inst cad of fiourises such as we have
had about sybarite. we should then
have had fiourishes about a rich n1iser
in office, discrediting his country at
the leading capital in the world 10y
cutting corners to save little out OF
a small salary
Whether he comes home soon, or
four years from now, Mr.. Reid will
rank among our most successful am
basad,rs at a post for which the pick
of the country has always been
sought
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r + + + + j + ! + + + = + + + :. I
!. BAITED HOOKS WITH 1
+ HER OWN FLESH. :!

+ PORT ARTHUR, Ont, April T. !
+ Cutting strips of flesh from her :
f. own body, heroic Indian woman, !
i living north of here, baited a I
I. hook with it and caught fish to 1
I. save her children from starving. I
= This story was brought here by I
+ Woodsman, whose comrades are !
+ now caring for her. The first !
+ fish caught was the first food I
!. the family had for many days /
i 4. i 4. j j i + + = = I. + + 4. + +
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Injured on TrolIev,

Attempting to board a moving
street car yesterday afternoon on
Main street in front of the Dacres
hotel John Dorrity 25 years old, re-
siding east Of town, was thrown to
the pavement, sustaining painful
bruises. His injuries, however, were
not serious.
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Files Comnlaint.

SALEM, April Elmer Council has
filed a formal complaint with the rail-
road commission against the Northern
Pacific in which, the lack Of station
and stock pens and chutes at Deer ISL
and, between Goble and Portland, are
declared inadequate. The commission
will investigate.
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Probate Baldwin's Will,

SAN FRANCISCO, April 7.--Unless
new claimant to portion of the
enormous estate left by Lucky" Bald
win appears today, his will is to be
probated without contest. It is re.
ported that Mrs. Zelda Selby, a daugh-
ter, who threatened to contest the viii
was given million dollars.
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If one has the
money to buy, mis-
Use, throw away and
ouy again, careful
ness is not so i'm
portant, but few of
IS are so situated.
At the end of the
Taar a coat which
has been kept on a
hanger when not in
use will look as if
it had cost twice as
much as an equally
expensive cCat which
Y, q O hnn- ~
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ROANOKE, Va, April w. B.
Hooker a Roanoke civil engineer, has
been requested to report at Mayfield,
KY, to begin the survey of the Cairo
and Norfolk railroad.
Surveying will be done on two sec
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st. Louis Goes Republican.

ST LOUIS, April EARLY returns
indicate that ST. Louis has gone re-
publican after eight years of demo-
cratic rule. At midnight returns from
IA out of 403 precincts gave Freder-
iclz M. Kreismann, republican mayor
atty nominee, 10000 votes and William
G. Woerner, democrat, 1868.
1t is believed that entire republican
ticket with possibly one exception, has
been cleo ed
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Offered Bio Plum.

WASHINGTON, April Tt was
learned today that President Taft mas
offered Charles Fulton, of Oregon, the
position as envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to China. Full
ton has asked ten days in which to
consider the proposition.
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in. order to remove temptation from


in order to remove temptation from
her path.
In the uncertain climate which pre-
walls IN the most part of our country
sudden storms must be reckoned with
by the lady who wants to keep her
clothes looking well. Most hats even
if they are not exactly perishable,
never look the same after they have
been caught in a heavy shower or
course it isn't possible to carry an
umbrella everywhere you go, but 1t
is entirely feasible to always keep a
chiffon veil big enough to tie over
your hat in your little handbag.
have tried that plan this winter and
find myself with much more re-
spectacle looking hat than / usually
have at the seasons end
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Wanted the Insurance,

SAN FRANCISCO, April 7.-Driven
by hunger and the thought Of his suf-
fering wife and baby, John Cimino set
fire to his house early today hoping
to collect $1,000 insurance, says Fire
Marshal Towe. Cimino has been ar
rested.
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Evening
Chit-Chat
BY RUTH CAMERON.

1t isn't always the girl who can buy
the pretty clothes who has pretty
clothes to wear.
To be we'll dressed it is just as es-
sential to know how to keep things
nicesas il is to know how to buy nice
things.
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PASSENGERS Arrive.

SAN FRANCISCO, April THE
cruiser California, carrying the pas
sengers rescued from the wrecked
steamship Indiana, arrived here today
The Indiana was wrecked on the rocks
near Magdalena bay.
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Licensed; 10 Wed.

License to wed was granted by the
county auditor this morning to Walter
Maxson and Miss Geneva M. Bowers.
both of this city,
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Roanoke. Mr. Hooker, has for many
years been connected with the engi-
neering department of the Norfolk and
Western railway
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Christians hope" 1 Peter 1925. The
meeting will be led by John M. Lewis.
and will begin at 1880.
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tons from Cairo to Bowling Green, KY.
These two sections are to be built within
80 months, after which the road will
be projected to Norfolk via Bristol and
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Christian Church Prayer Meeting.
The PRAYER meeting subject of the
Central Christian church tonight is,
1.-THE foundation, content and ethics Of
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MoDJEsKA NO BETTER.

SANTA ANNA, Cal, April I.
The condition of Modjeska,
the singer, is unchanged. She
mas been unconscious since
Friday.
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Right side down in dress
The Newtown bee., 1909-12-24

Creighton Barker, student al Dartmouth college, came home, Mon. day morning, for the Christmas va. cation.
 John Pepper mas taken a position with Hubert Thomas, the funeral di' rector. He is graduate and licensed embalmer. He was for a number o1 years employed by N. Buckingham & Co. of Bridgeport.
 Henry Kinney Camp, No. 23, Sons of Veterans, win hold a regular meeting, January 5, when officers fol the ensuing year will be elected and installed.
 Rev w. D. Humphrey, member from Roxbury to the last Legislature and Mrs Humphrey were visitors in town, Monday.
 Pliney Squires was in Danbury Monday.
 A.rs Frank Reed of Falls Village was the guest of Mrs T. F. Platt, the first of tine week. On Thursday night, December 24 Robertson, the shoe man, will give away the very handsome doll which has been on exhibition in the show window of his store. Perhaps your daughter will be fortunate enough to secure it,
 Skates and sleds in elegant variety at the store of Osborne & Stone.
The Newtown bee., 1909-12-24
WORTHWHILE.

Mrs w. c. Hine was in New Haven on Saturday of last week.
 Miss Ruth Buckingham spent last week with her uncle and aunt, MT and Mrs Don c. Peet of Peet Hill.
 Burton Kinney and his mother Mrs Starr Kinney, took possession of their new home, last week Friday.
 Charles Robertson came up from the Soldiers Home in Noroton, last week Wednesday, and visited old friends until Saturday. All were very much pleased to see him once more .
 Milton Hart of West Cornwall was the over Sunday guest at MT and Mrs E. B. Buckingham's. He led the Christian Endeavor service Sunday evening, and gave very acceptable address.
 Rev F. H. Divine of Brooklyn, N. r., former State Convention secre- tary of che Baptist denomination in Connecticut, now district secretary for New York state and Northern New Jersey under the direction of the Baptist Home Mission society, was a very unexpected but very well come caller at the parsonage for a few hours, last Monday. o.
 The Sunday school will celebrate Christmas eve by going to the home of MT and Mrs w. c. Hine, where the annual remembrances will be dis tributed and a little in the line of re- treatments served.
 Services Sunday at the usual hours of 10.3O a. m., and p. m. c. E.. service at 6.30 o'cloch. Topic, "How Missionaries Win Souls for Christ. |" Leader, Mrs w. D. Soule.