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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19
QUARREL OVER PRIVILEGES
COMMERCE COM
MISSIONERS AND STATE CON-
MISSIONERS WRANGLE.

WASHINGTON, D. C. Nov. 49,
The feeling of resentment on the part
of SINE state railroad commissioners
against what they term the wish of
the interstate commerce commission
to hog" all the supervision over
railroads, reached a climax today at
the convention of the National AS
ISOLATION of Railway Commissioners,
when the convention was asked to
approve the Esch bill of the last con-
gress to empower the interstate COM
merce commission to investigate all
accidents on railroads engaged in in
terstate commerce.
Commissioners Earle of South Caro-
lima led in the denunciation Of the
bill Mr. Clark Of the interstate COM
merce commission and Commissioner
Burr Of Florida finally offered sug-
gestion that the bill be approved, if
amended so as to specify it was in
no way to interfere with the. right of
the states. This course was pursued.
MoseIey Is Amazed, He Says.
Scarcely had Secretary Moseley of
the interstate comerce cmmissiOn fin
shed the report a special committee
recommending the approval of the
Esch bill, before Commissioner Smith
of South Dakota objected that it
would interfere with the right of the
state to investigate. Mr.. Moseley
said he was amazed to hear such a
statement But it was not until
Commissioner Earle obtained the floor
that the situation became delicate.
I'VE have heard you ask for uniform
classification, uniform demurrage,
uniform this and uniform that"
said Mr.. Earle, shaking his, finger at
Moseley. 1--WE are getting tired of it.
Are you going to take everything?
I'll tell you right now, I, as a rail-
road commissioner of South Carolina,
am not going to accept your uniform
demurrage CODE
81 don't care if you DON'T" retorted
Mr. Moseley.
I'VE have authority" continued Mr..
Earle. You are trying to run the
whole thing"
mo, we are not" again interrupt
ed MI Moseley, with vigor.
Chairman Decker cautioned Mr..
Moseley against interrupting. well,
he was pointing to me- retorted Mr..
Moseley, land I am going answer
when he addresses me-"
'1t would not be so BAD said Mr..
Earle, eff you had competent men, but
you send out inefficient political ap
pointees that try to lord it over US
with the badge of federal inspectors"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19

Cannon left the Harrisburg high
school in 1895 and tried to enlist
for the Spanish war. He failed and
few years later turned up in Mic
aragua as an engineer on the canal
survey. He took great interest in the
frequent revolutions and finally left
the service of the canal commission
and threw his lot with one of the
leaders,
Three years ago he was accused of
siding with a revolutionary party and
had to leave the country. When his
friends regained power he was with
them and he wrote to his father that
he had property worth $4,000. An
effort will be made by the parents to
have the body brought here for
burial
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19
CANNON SOLDIER OF FORTUNE
Was Native of Harrisburg, Pa, and
Was 29 Years of Ace.

HARRISBURG. Pa, Nov. 1S-Le-
roy Cannon, reported shot in Mica
raguad as a revo,utionist, was a ma
tive of this city and was 20 years
old. He had been living in Central
America for eight years, and in that
time had been heard of half a dozen
times as figuring in hazardous enter
prises.
Cannon's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Daniel K. Cannon, received the first
intimation of their sons fate from an
Associated Press reporter this after
noon. Mrs. Cannon doubted the story,
saying she had received a letter on
October 10, which stated that her son
was returning to his plantation.
She said that he had written about
coming home after he was released
from prison, but the letter told of a
change Of plans. Mr.. Cannon said
that he had been expecting his son
home
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19

Scribner's under DIR. Holland, and
when, at DIR. Hollands death, the
magazine underwent a further reor-
ganization and change of ownership,
MIR. Glider became, in 1881, editor-in-
chief of the Century Magazine, q
position he held until his death.
Better known as poet even than
as an editor, Mr. Glider has published
six books of verse, among which are
sonnets and lyrics which have been
highly rated by critics. His best
works are:
1.-The Celestial Passion" Lyrics"
1.-Two Worlds 1.-THE Great Remem-
brance," I'm Palestine" Poems and
Inscriptions" "a Christmas Wreath"
"A Book of Music"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19
REBELS NEED AMMUNITION.

NEW ORLEANS, Nov 1S.-That
revolutio nists in Nicaragua are entire
ly out of ammunition was the report
brought to New Orleans tonight by
passengers on the steamer Imperator
from Blueffelds. For this reason, it
is stated, forces of General Estrada
were compelled to evacuate Greytown
and generally to seek cover until am
munition and arms could be receiced.
Before leaving Bluefields on Novem-
Der 13 passengers on the Imperator
learned that the steamer Utstein,
which sailed from New Orleans yes
terday was expected to carry much
needed supplies 10 the insurgents.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19
COAST IN STORMS GRIP
High Winds and Heavy Rains Dam
ace THINGS AIond Coast.


PORTLAND, Ore, Nov. 1S.-Ac-
cording to reports received by the
United States weather bureau for this
district a severe wind and rain storm
has prevailed today all over the Pa
cific northwest. Reports are missing
from the principal stations of the
north coast tonight, including Ia
toosh, North Head and Blaine, Wash,
owing to the prostration of telegraph
and telephone wires. At Portland the
wind attained a maximum velocity
Of 80 mics an hour and at Seattle Sc
miles When the wires went down
to North Head this morning the wind
had attained velocity of So miles
an hour The heaviest rainfall has
been along the coast and at Portland
the greatest fall being 1872 inches at
Marshfield. Tonight the weather Of
fee stated that the storm is appar-
emily central off the coast Of Van
couver Island. The prediction is that
the barometer will fall tomorrow and
that rain and high winds will con-
tinue. Shipping on the Columbia
river is practically at a standstill
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19

The latter result, it is thought, will
be to preclude a possibility of the
Burlington using the Midland as
link in the chain of new trans-con-
tinental line.
Directors elected were:
BY the Colorado & Southern
George B. Harris, George F. Baker.
George F. Baker, jr., Harry Bronner.
w. P. Clough, Edwin Hawley, James
j. Hill, James N. Hill, Darius Miller,
F. T. Nichols, Samuel Thorne, Frank
Trumbul and Daniel Willard.
By the Colorado Midland-George
]. Gould, Edwin Gould, Edward T.
Jeffrey, Winslow S. Pierce, Edwin
Hawley, Harry Bronner, w. P.
Clough, George r. Harris, Daniel
Willard and Charles H. Schlacks.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19
TARANTULA AT DEAD LETTER
Curious Clerk Opens Letter and
Deadly Insect Leaps on His
ShouIder-Panic.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 10. -
The dead letter Office of the postoffice
department today belied it's name
when a tarantula threw the clerks
into a frenzy that for a moment
threatened to become a stampede
The trouble started when J. E..
Davis, a clerk, tore the cover from a
mysterious looking package addressed
to "Dott Huggero Verify Via Leon v.
Firenzo, Florence, Italy"
He found a box pierced with small
holes. Placing it to his ear. he shook
it in an effort to ascertain whether
it contained an internal machine.
The lid came off and Davis found
gigantic tarantula resting on his
shoulder He knocked it to the floor.
Women clerks climbed on desks. The
tarantula was killed.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19
Are Thrown From Train.

FORT SMITH, Ark, Nov 1S.-Con-
fused and believing the station they
were passing the point at which they
should transfer, Mrs. c. E. Toulouse
and her siXyear- daughter of Sc
attic, Wash, ran to the vestibule OF
a swiftly moving ST. Louis and San
Wister today. A sudden jar threw both
to the ground. Mrs. Toulouse sustain
ed injuries probably fatal. The child
will probably recover.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19
THE EVENING STATESMAN WAILA WALI.A. WASHINGTON

certain notes and mortgages executed
favor of the. Walla Walla Fire Insur-
ance company. Plaintiffs maintain the
notes and mortgages are in fraud to
their rights as stockholders of the COM
pany. The attorneys interested agreed
TO brief their arguments and submit
them to Judge Brents, who, has been
requested to review the case with
Judge Miller of Dayton, as a similar
suit has been instituted there Z.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19
Train Robbers Get "Life.v

OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 1S.-Federal
Judge Munger today overruled a mo-
ton for a rehearing on the part of
five men convicted of holding up the
Union Pacific overland limited train
here May %, and robbing the mail
car, and sentenced each to life impris-
Onment at Fort LeavenWorth. The
men are William Matthews, d. w
Woods, Fred Torgensen, Frank Orig
ware and Lawrence J. Golden. The
prisoners will be taken to LeavenwOrth
this week.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19

Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and 9TH
err eastern points. During his absence
his two classes in theisfn and logic
will be conducted as usual. Professor
W. A. Bratton head of the mathematics
department will deliver two lectures
per week to the logic class on In
ductive Logic" Arrangements have
been made for the class in philosophy
or theism to be conducted by Rev
r. c. Brooks, pastor of the First Con-
gregational church of this city.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19
Demurrer Is ARGUED.

Demurrer to the complaint in the
suit of the Hollon Parker company VS..
Dorsey Hill as receiver of the Walla
Walla Fire Insurance company, de-
funct made by the defendant, was
argued in the superior court yesterday
before Judge Brents. Suit is one III
which the nlaintiff homes to set aside
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19
FAMOUS EDITOR
DIES SUDDENLY
RICHARD WATSON GLIDER, EDl-
TOR OF CENTURY MAGAZINE
EXPIRES LAST NIGHT.
END WAS UNExPECTED-AN GINA
PEcToRUs cAUSE-WAS
WELL KNOWN AUTHOR.

NEW YORK, Nov. 1S.-Richard
Watson Glider, -in-chief of the
Century Magazine, since its founda-
ton in 1881, and widely known as an
author and lecturer, died unexpected
Iy tonight of angina pectoris at the
house of his sister, Mrs. Schuyler Van
Rensselaer,.
Mr.. Glider was taken ill in the de-
livery of a lecture on ''Tennyson' be-
fore the Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION of Orange, n. J., on We'd
nesday. November 8.
On the way home he collapsed, but
managed first to summon assistance
from New York by telephone
Mr.. Glider was up the following
day. though he still suffered occa-
sional seizures of sharp pains. His
physicians, on the second diagnosis,
realized that his malady was grave,
but they did not acquaint Mr. Glider
with the truth.
This morning Mr.. Glider was rest
ing easily. No fears were felt and
at noon his wife left the house. Soon
after 1 o'clock she was recalled. DR..
Joseph Collins and Dr. Theodore
Janeway were called in consultation
with DIR. Hodgeson, and it was real
lied that Mr.. Glider had only a few
hours to live. He suffered great pain
and opiates were administered freely.
The end came at o'clock.
The funeral will be held from the
Church of the Ascension and the bur-
iai will be at BordentOwn, N. j. The
date and pail bearers have not yet
been selected.
Richard watson Glider early show
ed his bent for letters. Born at Bor-
dentown, N. j., in 1914, one of eight
children, he was writing, setting the
type for, and publishing, the st.
Thomas Register at Flushing, L. l.,
when he was Is years old. Four years
later he united with two young col
leagues in the production of a cam
paign newspaper supporting Bell and
Everett for presidential honors. His
interest i'm politics carried him into
the great Civil war struggle then
raging, and while still in his teens,
he enlisted with Lands Philadelphia
battery and served in the campaign
OF 1853. when Pennsylvania was in
vaded by the Confederate forces.
The death of his father cut short
a subsequent noviate in the law and,
thrown on his own resources, the
young man became, first, a railway
paymaSter and later an editor again.
When Scribner's Monthly was
started Mr. Glider found himself at
the age of 26, in a position of honor
and high literary influence. For II
years he was managing editor of
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19
DIRECTORS ARE ELECTED

SOlOTddO anu SOuttVTH SlSCk1OIoSTS
Choose Officials.
DENVER, Nov. 18.-Stockholders
Of both the Colorado & Southern and
the Colorado Midland railroads elect
ed directors here today. The result
showed James J. Hill to be still the
controlling factor in the former road,
while the Goulds appear to be DOM
iDant among the Midland directors.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19
Livestock Men Meet Secretly.

FORT WORTH, Texas, Nov. 49,
1t was stated at a conference of
stockmen of Texas here today that
livestock representatives of Al states
held a secret meeting in Chicago Oc-
tOber 10 and took action to induce
the federal government to abolish the
provisional quarantine area. If this
is carried out, it was declared, it
would throw Texas back into the in
fected area. Steps were taken to pro-
test at Washington against this pro-
posed action
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19

Figuring out the possibilities that
the want ads. hold for YOU should
be one of your most interesting tasks
TODAY
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-19
penroee Goes East Toda,

CIFUSE Ci0~S .EeSt TOUdy'
President S. B. L. Penrose Of Whit
man college will leave today for a trip
east in behalf of the college. He will
be gone three or four weeks and dur
ing his trim will visit in New York.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-12-05
Fighting Water Fires.

1t falls to the lot of few to set the
river on fire, and, despite the tradition
that the feat is the quickest way to+
fame. the names OF those who have.
done it never seem % survive.
But that many man can and does,
set river on fire is so true that in
vention has had to concern itself with
means for putting out those very
blazes
They occur usually when petroleum.
gasoline or some other liquid hydro
carbons spread on the waters surface
and happen to be ignited before their
spread has too greatly broken up and
thinned them. Whole ports. with their
shipping, are endangered.
In Germany they have devised two
solutions which, mingling as they are
poured, instantly raise thick, tena-i
ctous foam. One solution is composed
Of potash, alum and sodium sulphate,4
the other of sodium bicarbonate. sodi--
UNI sulphate and Neorice root extract.
The soapsuds appearance of the foam
In reality covers an inert gas, which,
spreading over the entire burning sur
face. acts as blanket and Instantly
kills the flames for want Of oxygen
Milwaukee Sentinel.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-12-05
The Natural History Mystery.

The principal of the Peterson Pre-
paratory school had a penchant for
distributing prizes. Prizes mean pa
rental pride and consequently more
pounds and pence for me-" he would
tell himself 1.-The dear fathers andi
mothers imagine their children arel
progressing amazingly, and / get the
credit and cashr'
And he was a wise principal. for
when Willie. aged six, returned home
with an award for his scholarship his
fond mamma beaned with maternal
Joy.
Splendid. my dearest pet,'' she ex-
claimed "But how did you gain it,"
Il was first in natural history" pro-
claimed the prodigy
Natural history at your aeef" ex-
claimed mamma. How did thst hap
peng'
"Oh. they asked me how many legs
a horse has answered Willie, and l.
said FIVE"
Five cried mamma. @fsus Il horse.
hasn't FIVE legs, child
Il know explained wife ss.n Ill
the other boys sid ncel
Merrrr
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-12-05
The Mysterious Dispatch.

The club conversation turned to the
Spanish-American war. One member
of the party noted for his boasts OF
being man of the world began:
81 tell you, boys, one of the stran-
gest incidents of the war, one which
never became public, was mysterious
dispatch given TO secret agent OF the
Spanish government to carry to the
head of the Spanish spy system in the
United States and which came under
my observation"
Everybody leaned forward to hear
the expose of the diplomatic secret.
Continuing, the globe trotter said:
"This agent, who boarded the same
steamer on which had taken passage
home. could not read the dispatch be-
cause 1t was in French. He was afraid
| 1t was some sort of frame up on the
part of higher unfriendly official to
get him in bad with his other supe-
riors at home
eve became chummy. and owing to-
my f1uency in speaking Spanish ! cas-
| ily passed for n Spaniard. When he.
learned that / also knew French he
mentioned the dispatch and suggested
that translate it for him. | was more.
than willing to learn something that
might be of advantage to my Uncle
Samuel and assented. He drew the
precious paper from his breast and
handed it toward me when
At this point every listener was on
the edge of his chair with bullying.
ieyes
suddenly a gust of wind swept the
deck and blew the paper from his hand
into the sea-" concluded the narrator,
with smile.
! AS the smile grew into a hearty
laugh the others knew they had been
stung Philadelphia Times.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-12-05

up there and will keep on standing
against you till you stop pouting about
that mistake and are glad of it from
the very bottom of your heart. :
Then the widow added timidly
= ..I'll stop at Mrs Willey's and ex,
plain that her goods We're delivered. to
the wrong house. ana it may prevent
the loss of her custom to you
The grocer made no reply. but work
ed away at tidying up the counter !
The coming Of Christmas, let US hope.
found him a happier man. His wife
had returned 70 him. ard Mrs Miller
at the head ef Pearl. ordered her
Christmas groceries frein hin Ard
Mrs. Niiey. 1T a more HulnBie part
of Pearl street. also save Hin iii ofsieI
for Christmas groceries. and to fhese
last he aided, Nst1 us 19lstlsl:iae
some niee IUlsaIie Il ee3 which
We're the eaase Cousin HannaE's-
SAVING to hisI m 80 ssItla
Il saauldfist wendes
] allenldllf Teli eF . Is: ttsaf
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-12-05

.haser," / said to him, ''ycu moon
baying. rabbit pointing, egg stealing
old beagle, can't you see that | don't
want to leave you? Can't you see that
we're both pups in the wood and the
nissis is the cruel uncle after you with
the dish towel and me with the flea
Imminent and pink bow to tie on my !
tail why not cut that all out and be-
pards forever more"
Maybe you'll say he didn't under
stand; maybe he didn't. But he kind;
of got a grip on the hot Scotches and :
stood still for a minute, thinking.
"Doggie," says he finally, I'VE don't
live more than dozen lives on this
earth, and very few of us live to be
more than 300 II ever see that fat
any more I'm fat, and If you do
you're fiatter, and that's no fattery.
I'm Offering so to l that Westward
Ho wins out by the length of dachs--.
hund."
There was no string, but froiicke6
along with my master to the Twenty
third street ferry And the cats on
the route saw reason 10 give thaHhS
that prehensile claws had been given
them.
On the Jersey side my master said
to a stranger who stood eating cur
rant bun:
"Me and my doggie, we are bound
for the Rocky mountains
But what pleased me most was when
my old man pulled both of my ears
until howled and said:
"You common. monkey headed, rat
tailed. sulphur eolored son of door
mat, do you know what Pm going to
call your
l thought of Lovey. and l whined
dolefully.
"pm going to call you Pete" says
my master, and If I'd had FIVE tails
couldn't have done enough wagging
to do justice to the occasion. .
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-12-05
MEMOIRS or A
YELLOW DOG,
Secrets of Flat Life Divulged by
a Canine of Low Degree.
By o. HENRY.
lcopyrlght 1905. by Mcclure. philips &

Copyright. 1906. by Mcclure, Phillips &
Col
don't suppose 1t will knock any of
you people off your perch to read a
contribution from an animal. Mr.. Kip
ling and good many others have dem
Dnstrated the Tact that animals can
express themselves in remHnerative
English. and no magazine goes to press
nowadays without an animal story in
it except the cid style monthlies that
are still running pictures of Bryan and
the Mont Pelee horror.
But you needn't look for any stuck
up litera ture in my piece, such as
Bearoo the bear and Snakoo the
snake and Tammanoo the tiger talk
in the jungle books. A yellow dog
that's spent most of his life In cheap
New York fat. sleeping In corner on
an old satin underskirt dhe one she
spilled port wine on at the lady long
shoremen's banquet, mustn't be ex-
pected to perform any tricks with the
art of speech.
was born yellow pup: date, To-
caIity. pedigree and weight unknown.
The first thing | can recollect an old