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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28
THE CHINESE MISSION

Much interest still attaches to the
Chinese mission, and many opinions
are expressed as to the sort of man
who should be selected to fill it.
Mr.. Cranes appointment was hailed
with satisfaction largely because he
had travelled in China, and as bust
ness man observed business conditions
in the empire. 1t was known that
he had had no experience either in pol
tiles or diplomacy, but it was assumed
that his business knowledge and eXper-
fence would fully answer the require
ments of the place. When we think of
China it is as field for the expansion
of American trade. Mr.. Crane then,
everybody believed. was the very man
for the assignment.
The appraisement was a mistake. We
need not censure, but rather should
sympathize with a man placed as this
Chicago merchant was placed. He was
suddenly lifted out of privacy into the
white light of publicity, and naturally
was a little dazzled by his new sur
roundings. He talked unwisely, and
disqualified himself for his place before
he could leave the country.
Opinion seems to have swung now
to the other extreme. 1t is insisted
that we should send man to Picking
whose forte is not business, but diplo-
macy. Business is all very we'll, but
the diplomat and not the drummer is
required We want all the Chinese
trade We can get but we want also, and
must have, man on the spot who
knows the east as a diplomat does, and
who will BE- able to follow under
standingly all of a political or diplo-
matte character that way be going on
within the range of his official vision.
There is much in this suggestion.
China is in a state of unrest and de-
velopment The old order is changing
slowly, it is true, but. so as to make it
necessary for foreign representatives
to know more than the a. b. c. of
things. They should be able to read
eastern riddles, and report intelligent
ly upon them to headquarters.
Our man there should be the equal
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

miles from Chicago, and 100000 900
has thus far been expended on the
work. The entire route of the lakes
to the gulf deep waterway from Joliet
to New Orleans, through the Des-
PLANES river the Illinois and the
Mississippi rivers, has been surveyed
under direction of congress by govern
ment engineers, who have officially re-
ported that the building of the water
way is feasible. Illinois has adopted
constitutional amendment for a bond
issue of $20,000,O00 to be spent in con-
structing the deep waterway south
ward from Joliet bill is pending in.
congress providing for the issue by the
government of bonds to the amount of
$500, 100000, the money to be spent in
constructing this waterway from the
great lakes to the gulf. 1t is the in
tention of the association to ask the
next congress to pass a bill provid-
ing definitely that the government I'M
dertake the construction of this work
from the point where the Illinois Work
will end to the Gulf of Mexico. )
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28
CIVIL PENSION SYSTEM.

The government is gradully coming
around to the adoption of civil retire
ment pension law. Such a system
should have been devised and put into
execution years ago, but reforms, as a
rule, are brought about slowly, after
long discussion, and the government is
VIGOROUSLY 10th to act quickly in mat
tiers of this nature.
The civil pension fund is to come be-
cause it is in the interest both of the
government and the clerks 1t would
provide means whereby a clerk too
aged Or feeble for efficient work might
retire without becoming a derelict
With such a retirement system de-
partment head need not be burdened
with a faithful clerk whose efficiency.
through no fault of his, had declined.
With such a system to fall back on
the content and working efficiency of
the clerk not in decline would be pro-
NOTED.
Advocates of government economy or
government parsimony have no ground
for opposition to a retirement fund, be-
cause this fund, after the start is made.
is not to come from the United States
treasury, but from the pay envelopes
of the working clerks. After the gov
eminent sets up the system it becomes
self-supporting.
bill for the creation of the civil
pension system has figured in several
congressional sessions. Representative
Gillet of Massachusetts, chairman of
the committee on reform in the civil
service, has been most persistent adj
vocate of the plan, which. it is said
has been so perfected that it meets
the approval of clerks, officials and
other interested persons.
Secretary MacVeagh of the treasury
is now prominent friend of the pro-
posed system, and in the news columns
of papers recently it was said that
in his annual report he would strongly
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28
PITTsBURG's UPLIFT.

When the civic spirit is rightly
touched, things happen. Take Pitts
burg as an illustration. A sooty. grimy,
noisy place noted for it's production of
steel and scandal, where armies of
swart and smeary men sweat before
blast furnaces, open hearth furnaces
and such things, and where million
aires -drench themselves in champagne
and carry off chorus girls. The civic
spirit was appealed to and now a new
and better Pittsburg will rise out of
the smoke of the older town.
The Pittsburg survey of 1907-S, main
~ promoted by the New York Charity
Organization society and the Russell
Sage Foundation, made descent upon
Pittsburg, and it's report of evil condi-
tions stirred the city and resulted in
the formation of the civic commission.
This commission includes a host of
the influential and responsible resi-
dents of Pittsburg. Its work promises
not to be confined to holding meetings
and adopting resolutions. 1t is going
to clean up and in a way make over
Pittsburg. 1t has divided itself into
committees for the study and cOrrec-
ton of tenement and general housing
conditions, public health and sanitation
congestion of street traffic. overcroWd-
ing of public schools, the adoption of
business methods in the administra-
ton of city affairs and scores of al
lied activities.
This great task has not been under
taken by the usual glass of conven-
tienal reformers who mean we'll but
who seldom arrive, but by the men
who have made Pittsburg a vast.
throbbing industrial city.
A street car expert has been called
in consultation to devise a plan for
the street car system. an
other authority has been called on to
revise the water front, improve that
section of the city and minimize the
flood peril, and Frederick Law Olmsted
has been asked to plan the half million
dollar park given to the city by Henry
c. Frick
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

and misery. / advise all suffering
women to take Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound" MRS. EMMA
WHEATON, Vienna, w. Va.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound, made from native roots and
herbs, containgH0I narcotics or harm
full drugs, aid toby holds the record
for the largest nulb ber Of actual cures
of female diseases of any similar medi.
cine in the county, and thousands of
voluntary testi 6onials are on file in
the PinkhamF laboratory at Lynn,
Mass, FROM Women who have been
cured from almost every form of
female com Plaints, inflammation, I'LL
cera ton, Placements ibroid tumors,
Irregularities, periodic pains, b2ckache,
Indigestion and nervous 0stration.
Every such sufferinG1DD(nan owes it to
herself. to giyal9!dia E. Pinkham's
Veget2 bl0r Dh1pound trial.
If v ia would like special advice
about your case write cOnfiden-
tiaI letter to Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn. Mass. Her advice is free,
and always helpful.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28
CONTINUED From Page One)


welt declared to the seventeen govern
ors who accompanied him that the
United States should build the great
waterway by issuing bonds if neces-
Sary.
The third convention of the aSSocia-
ton was held in Chicago in 1908.
Three thousand five hundred and sew
enteen delegates were present. Mr.
Taft was there, and in an address he
said that the project should. in his
opinion, be treated as the government
had treated the Panama canal and
that provision should be made by
bonds for the setting aside of fund
sufficient to complete it as rapidly as
possible William J. Bryan also spoke
on the Importance of the project and
it's early completion.
A brief resume of the condition of
the deep waterway work will show the
present status of the project The sani-
tary district of Chicago has built the
deep waterway to Joliet, ILL.,, forty
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

lrge the adoption of a civil pension
system. The secretary was quoted as
aging that while the government is
Inder no legal obligation to provide
.or infirm clerks, it is under a moral
obligation to do 50 because of their
ong and faithful service. He feels
that it would be right to transmute
the moral obligation into a legal one.
The government in this civil pension
project would be but following an ex-
ample set in the business world, where
the pension fund has been proved to be
in line with correct business principles.
The big railroad corporation or the big
industrial company which has not it's
own pension system and fund is the ex-
ceDtiOn
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28
Biographical
--Culenddr---
SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWEL
Octo Der %.

Lieutenant Gensral Sir Robert
Smyth Baden Powell, upon
whom King Edward recently conferred
the honor of knighthood and invested
with the insignia of a Knight Com
mander of thesSRoyal Victorian Order,
was born So years ago.
Sir Robert Joined the British army
in 1876 and his career since then has
been marked py many brilliant suces-
ses in war and peace. 1t is likely that
his action in founding a Juvenile order
known as the Boy, Scou-s had muci'
to do with the kings decision 20 make
him knight. This order has spread
all over the United Kingdom and #
it continues to. grow in the future as
in its brief past, half the boys of Eng
land will be enrolled.
General Baden-Powell,s military
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

Of the ablest he will be called upon to
meet All of the great powers and
our rivals for trade are Well looked
after by men of training of them
veterans in the observation of eastern
affairs. The American policy will of
course be shaped here. What is most
necessary, therefore, is a capacity in
our representative for judging things
at their true value, and an industry in
keeping we'll informed as to all that
goes on of interest to this government.
Is there diplomat knowing something
also of business, or a business man
knowing something also of diplomacy,
out of commission, but willing to take
one and serve his country? Now is
his chance.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28
ALMIRA ELECTION ENDS
IN VOTING DOWN "WETS'

ALMIRA, Oct. 2S.-The local option
election held here today was won by
the drys by a majority of II votes out
of total of SO ballots cast. Four sup
posedly wet voters swore in their votes
when challenged, the judges marking
the ballots so that it would be possible
to tell how they voted should the cleo
ton be close enough that four votes
would change the result. Charges of
illegal voting are made and threats of
prosecution. The judges We're also
criticised for marking the ballots, the
critics claiming it to be illegal The
drys are celebrating their victory by
the ringing of church bells and other
demonstrations.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

fame rests principally on his exploits
during the Boer war. He organized the
Bechuanaland forces, and at the end
of 1889 occupied Mafeking with an ir-
regular force.
His defence of that town, open and
unfortified as it was, against CronJe
was a mastery feat. Throwing up
hurried entertainments, he resisted
every attack from October, 1889, until
the town was relieved on May 16, 1900.
A great feature of the siege was the
versatility of the defenders, who, I'M
der General Baden Powelps direc-
lions, manufactured guns and powder
and devised thousand ingenious
schemes for harrassing and trucking
the besiegers.
In the latter part of the war he
rendered further good service. Eighteen
months ago he initiated the Boy Scouts
The idea underlying the movement is
to train boys in good citizenship, to
make them manly and patriotic, and
strengthen their physique by work in
the open air.
The boys are taught the art of
scouting, as expounded in Sir Rob-
ert's we'll known book The move
ment has grown to enormous proper
tions, and the Boy Scouts are now
familiar sight to all. At the parade of
scouts at the Crystal Palace ON Sep. 4,
message was received from the king
telling the boys that his majesty takes
the greatest interest in Them.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28
UNREST IN THE WORLD

A large section of Italy is in a state
of seige in order to insure the safety
of the Car of Russia, who is to be a
guest This would have a strange
sound over here except for the Taft
Diaz meeting. We had to fill Ell Paso
with plain clothes men, in order to
do our duty by the President of Next
co, and the Mexicans had to resort to
the same tactics to insure the safety of
the President of the United States
while he was on their side of the line.
There is so much unrest in the world
everywhere, and authority is SO freely
defied, arms and the man are becom
ing inseparable. A republic, as well
as a despotism, has it's troubles.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28
BEGIN ON REAL WAR
Continued From P;

.~~~~~~~~~~>~~~> NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
from this on conditions are different.
1t is understood the dries will not
carry the campaign into the pulpit
unless it is necessary to win, but it
is understood several ministers
through the city stand ready to take
up the fight and many have COM
mented on it already from the pull
pit, while one delivered sermon on
the liquor question the same evening
the first meeting was held by the
dries.
One of the saloon men in talking
on the subject said: IF this
question is not killed in the bud
and it by chance comes before the.
people, all concerned can rely on the
fact that we will put up clean fight.
We intend to put our side OF the
question before the voters of this city
and they are the jury. But if we
lose or if we win there will be no
one who will have any cause; to say
we did not carry on our campaign in
a clean manner. 1t will take money
to run the campaign"
One of the committees of the dries
met III the l. M u "A ySSICAudv
afternoon and talked over some mat
tiers pertaining to the coming fight.
They had nothing to give out how
ever, as to what was done. 1t is
understood the three committees
elected some time ago are to get to-
gether and elect a committee to
handle the affairs of the dries di-
rectly and be on duty all the time.
This has not been done, although it
is understood it was decided to Sc
lect such a committee at the meet
ing yesterday. When asked to make
some statement as to what the dries
are doing, one of them stated yes
terday: There is nothing ripe just
yet 1t will be our policy to do as
little talking as possible until the
time to strike comes. We will be
in a position to go into the fight
properly euipped then, and it will be
fight to the finish"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

E. Pinkham'S Vege-
table Compound.
Eleven years ago l
was a walking
shadow. had been
under the doctors
carebutgotnorelief.
My husband per-
suaded me to try
Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vege ia Bile Com
pound anditworked
like a charm. 1t re-
lieved all my pains
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28
PRESENCE OF SURVEYORS
STARTS A LAND BOOM

HUSUM, Oct. 2S.-The appearance of
the railroad surveyors, who are run
ming line up the White Salmon VAL
ley. is causing a whirl of excitement
in the Trout lake country.
A crew of 20 cruisers has arrived
there and will rush supplies out west of
Trout lake for a two months stay.
This is significant that the road is to
be built up this valley will be in the
interest of the Weyerheusers in taking
care of their extensive timber holdings
west of Trout lake.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

A Texas roundup is interesting, but
it cannot be as exciting as the work
that will come under Mr.. Taft's OBJ
servation when the time comes for get
ting members of congress satisfactorily
corralled and classified
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

In a few weeks the average citizen
will have climatic troubles of his own
that will prevent him from taking his
present interest in arctic controversy.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

Congressman Scott thinks that Mr..
Roosevelt is hiding in Africa. If this is
true the trip is one of the most signal
failures in spotlight lodging ever
scored
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

Frozen flowers are being shipped
over great distances. They should be
in demand when certain statesmen find
it eXpedient to throw reluctant bou-
DUETS at Uncle Joe Cannon.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

1t is not always as easy to relegate
an insurgent to the closed incident
class as it is to retire diplomat to
private life.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

When Judge Gaynor talks of sWal-
lowing the tiger he probably fails to
figure on the tip that would be expect
ed in New York for a meal like that
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

The natural impression over here is
that Sir Thomas Upton is preparing
to revive the admiration that has so
long been felt for him as a good loser.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

About 10 per cent of Russia's pop
ulation is illiterate. An the other 81
per cent is compelled to read censored
neWSDaDerS.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28

News from Cuba that eggs are 81 a
dozen indicates the need of less atten-
ton to fighting chickens and more to
laying hens.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28
WEATHER FORECAST

Walla Walla and vicinity: Rain to-
night and Friday.
Washington: Rain tonight and Fri
day.
Weather Conditions.
A large high area of pressure COW
ers the central valleys, maintaining
fair weather over the greater portion
of the United States. Light showers
fell, however, in portions of the middle
Atlantic states under the influence of
the low area now disappearing off the
New England coast. disturbance of
large area is apparently over western
Canada and the north Pacific ocean,
and is causing rain along the Pacific
coast from central California to British
Columbia. Temperatures are higher
in the Rocky mountain states. and
lower from the Mississippi valley to
the Atlantic. The indications are for
rain in this vicinity tonight and Friday.
JOHN GROVER, Observer
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-10-28
OWES
HER
LIFE TO
Lydia e. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound

Vienna, w. Val feel thatI owe
the last ten years of my life to Lydia
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-06-03

Negaunee Is covered by dense
smoke, caused by forest fires which
completely surround II. Fishing
parties who camped Wednesday night
at Goose lake, five miles south, were
compelled to flee for their lives At an
early hour In the morning they re-
turned, nearly exhausted
The city fire engine was sent to Dali
ton, a small town south Of Marquette,
on the Munising railroad. Families
were compelled to flee on a special
train.
Late advices say that the town is
practically wiped out. Fire from an
engine spark started the blaze. Among
the buildings burned is the Dalton
Lumber Co.'S plant, entailing $4,000
loss. Two mills were saved with diff
ficulty. Forest fires are reported at
Mcmillan, east of Negaunee and near
Sidnaw. Wire communication is inter
rupted. No immediate danger Is ex-
pected near the city. The firemen are
held in readiness. No rain storms
have occurred this spring and every
thing Is as dry as finder.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-06-03
Files A Big Mortgage.

The Michigan United Railway com
pany has filed mortgage for 81. 500. =
600 in the office of the register of
deeds of Siawassee county at Corunna
The mortgage is in favor of the
Detroit Trust compsny and covers all
the lines and property of the railway
1t will also be filed in Ingham jack
sion, Clinton and Eaton counties. in
which the company has lines The
mortgage is so long that the fee of
recording it will be $40. This money
will probably provide for extensions
and improvements and take care Of
existing Indebtedness. 1t is claimed.
In some circles, that the company will
soon extend its lines from Lansing to
Owosso,
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-06-03
An Aged Suicide.

Feeble with the weight of his rs
years, and respondent, Henry Hoff-
man, a well-known farmer living near
Traverse City, took his own life with
a shotgun. A son, sole survivor of the
immediate family, while at work in
the fields, heard the report of the
gun, but thought nothing of it, as his
father had said he was going TO town.
When the son reached the house at
noon he found the aged man dead, one
side of his head shot away. In his bare
feet, Hoffman had pulled the trigger
of the gun with a toe. On the table
lay a note in German, telling where
would be found SOS, the household
fund
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1909-06-03
MICHIGAN ITEMS.

E. j. Moon, laborer, has put in a
claim of $1,000 against the city of
Marshall for broken ankle, the result
of cave-in while he was digging a
city sewer.
John II. Dennis, president of the
Barry County Pioneer and Historical
society, announces that the annual
meeting of the society will be held
in Hastings on June "a.
George Burgeon and Eliza May
Porter, the Chicago couple arrested in
Port Huron on statutory charge,
were fined 1925 or SIS days in the De-
troit workhouse. They are unable to
pay the fines.
Owosso's estimated budget, as APP
proved by the council. is a record
breaker, totaling $71 900, which is an
increase of $4,000 over last years
budget The increase is attributed -
many public improvements.
Because his little daughter caught
her foot in a defective walk and fell.
causing a fractured shoulder which de-
veloped into congestion of the lungs.
from which she died, Henry DeBruin
wants Grand Rapids to pay him So 900.
The board OF tax review OF Bessem-
er was this year controlled by the
citizens. A raise of the mines within
the city from s550,0O0 last year to
81 ,206,0 900 now is the result. The total
valuation OF the city is raised from
$950,000 to s1,5S6.00o This is the
first time since the raise by Pingree's
tax commission in 1900 that the mines
have been fairly assessed.
Col. George p. McCaughna, for IL
years municipal Judge of Owosso. has
resigned the office and will go west.
Col. McCaughna was elected each
term on the Democratic ticket, despite
the fact that the city has . normal Re-
publican majority of 500