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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
CONSERVATION LEGISLATION
THE BEST MEDICATION

The reluctance of the present to
tary Ballinger is easily understood He
has officially expressed such completes
confidence in Ballinger that it is in
effect an investigation of his admins
tration. Moreover, it cannot fail IL
increase the division in the party and
perhaps il his administration.
Vindication Of Ballinger by a con-
gress in which public confidence is not
implicit will not end the campaign
against him Nothing will end that
but the return in some way to- the
limelight of the star Juveniles of the
last administration. The evidence may
leave Ballinger clean. but the public
will not take the trouble to read eVi
dence. 1t only reads the headlines
on conclusions and believes what it
wants to believe. The public divides
on the Ballinger- Pinchot controversy
as it divides on the polar controversy
with equal knowledge of both.
Nevertheless. the president cannot
deny the demand of Ballinger for an
investigation while he keeps the chief
author of the attacks upon him in the
public service. The accused have some
rights. even in a undertaking age. In
h. +
comes from Ballinger and his friends
in congress. Those who are making
political capital by attacking him pre-
fer that the present doubt and con-
fusion should continue, though they
have the cry of whitewash ready for
a favorable report.
II congress sincerely wants to vim
dictate Ballinger, serve the president,
reunite the party and restore it to pub
lie confidence, there is an easier and
more efficient way than by an investi-
cation. Ballinger is attacked for
standing in the way of the popular
conservation policies. His defense is
that he favors these policies as strong
ly as anybody, but that he is going as
far and as fast as he can in the pres
ent state of the law
If congress will quickly give the
country a sound and comprehensive
conservation law, it will do more to re-
store harmony in the party and avert
the dreaded consequences of division
whether African or democratic. than
could be done in any other way.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28

During greater part of the after
noon Brokaw scrutinized kilograms
that have figured cons picuously in the
trial He said his many telegraphic
queries concerning his wife's doings
We're prompted only by solicitude for
her health and not by suspicion.
ASKED If he ever. employed a detec
tive to shadow Mrs. Brokaw, he re-
piled: Il never did. l haven't paid any
bills for detective work since my mar
rage"
Counsel for Mrs. Brokaw inquired
at length why certain persons had not
been subpoenaed as witnesses for the
defense, especially Brosaw's private
secretary, Byford, for a long time
Brokaw's confidential man. Browak
| replied that Byfordt returned from
Europe only last Friday.
Did you ever know of Byford's ev-
er sending kilograms to buffers and
servants inquiring about Mrs Brokaw's
movements without your knowledge,
or any secretary who did," asked Mr..
Baldwin.
oh, he may have wired about what
was going on in the house, answered
the witness.
Then we are to understand your
secretary inquired of the servants and
in that way found out about Mrs
Brokaw's movements?"
We'll. it was not done with the pur-
pose of spying on Mrs. Brokaw. It
was to find out what was coing on IN
the house.
He wanted to inquire about Mrs
| BrOkaws health?"
Yes
He was very fond of Mrs. Bro
kaw?''
Yes, | think he was"
! A session of the court was held to-
night at which BrolaW continued as
/ a witness Mrs. Brokaw took a lively
! interest in the grilling of her husband
She buried her face in her muff to
smother laughter when a letter was
read, which the defendant identified
as one he had written to her in the
| fall of 1908.
! Among other things the letter up
! braided her for flirting and for say
| ing damn" One passage said
Il assure you, dear, that women dc
not interest me. If they did, I would
| not have married you and given UT
| all my life and happiness to YOU
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
STEAMER RAMS LIGHTHOUSE
OVERTURNS STOVE. Etpr
Tide Carries Schooner Into Iioh.bo,so
With Terrific Force-ship
Is Saved.

NEWPORT NEWS, Va, Dec. o.
Having been rammed and almost crt
IN two by the four masted schooner
Malcolmn Baxter, Jr., the Thimble
shoal lighthouse, four miles east from
Old Point Comfort and near the tail
OF the Horseshoe in Lower Chesapeako
bay, caught fire and was totally de-
stroyed this morning
Keeper Hudjins and his assistants
j. b. Thomas and T. L. Faulcher, mt
off in lifeboat and We're picked up
by crew from the United States scout
cruiser Birmingham.
The schooner was inward bound
from Hampton roads in ballast and
was proceeding under sail. The strong
west wind and the swift tide threw the
vessel off her course and she crashed
into the frame lighthouse. In the
smashup the stove in the lighthouse
was overturned and set the building
on fire
After the collision, the Malcolm Bax-
ter veered off and anchored, but later
was lowed to Norfolk for repairs. The
vessel was damaged about the bow.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28

Cannon in person on the floor to de-
mand the retention of Standard Oils
duty on petroleum; the nauSeOuS Lit
tauer glove duties; the eleventh hour
reduction of the brewers tax by COM
mand of the house machine-these and
a score of other equally disgusting
performances served to win for insur-
gency the sympathy and support of a
vast body of public sentiment, says
J. c. Welliver in Success Magazine"
Beginning as a hopeless little group
of pariahs, rejected of their own party,
shifted at by the cOntemptuOus demo-
Gratis, threatened by the president, be-
sought or bullyragged by this or that
political agent of the administration.
put under the pressure of regularity's
demand by the senators from their
home states, these insurgents stood
their ground and presently they found
the whole country lining up at their
backs. Where will you turn to find
record of another rebellion that so soon
has become revolution? For who will
deny, today, that it is revolution?
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28

other railway labor organizations e4u-
ally powerful. These labor bodies
have brought pressure to bear. not only
on the White House and on the state
department, but also on congress. The
delegation from Kansas. the state from
which Cook halls, has taken up the
matter
Negotiations Now Friendly.
At present the exchanges between
the United States and Mexico are
purely friendly and informal They
are being conducted through the regu-
lar diplomatic channels and on the
part of the department with a COM
plete recognition of the peculiar laws
governing the operation of railways
in Mexico Not the slightest friction,
officials of the department. insists, has
arisen as a result of interchange and
a satisfactory solution of the problem
is a matter of a few hours or DAYS.
The delay in the matter of giving
Cook hearing is we'll known here.
Under the Mexican law the conductor
of a train which kills or mains a
citizen is held without bail until he
can be heard and his case passed upon
by a court of first instance, which
corresponds with the American grand
and has been in prison since, all at
tempts to obtain his release on bail
having been refused.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
PAYNE LAW PRODUCTIONS"

Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minneso-
ia, who was republican, but has been
read out of the party by Uncle Joe"
Cannon, is still studying the Payne
Aldrich- Smoot tariff law He reports
that he is ever finding new evidences
of jugglery.
Take, for instance" says Senator
Clapp, the item of jute, flax and
hemp, divided I think into 100 odd
classifications of threads and yarns
There Use a reduction of 10 per cent CD
those threads and yarns. Are the pek-
pie liable to buy any Of those threads
and yarns 1 think not But while there
is 10 per cent reduction on threads
per cent on the finished product, and
that is what the American people buy
if they buy at all.
ITO make pretense of revising the
tariff downward, they reduced the tar
if on Philippine cutlery, And last
year there was just one dollars worth
of Philippine cutlery imported into the
the United States.
In total percentage of over 100
per cent boosted of as the reduction
all told-Of that 100 per cent less
than $4,000 of the stuff on which the
reductions were made came into this
country last year
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
CALL FOR PAYMENT OF CITY
WARRANTS

Notice is hereby given that all out
standing City Warrants on the fol-
lowing Funds are called in:
General Fund.
Street Fund.
Street Lighting Fund.
Street Sprinkling Fund.
Fire Fund.
Park Fund
Cemetery Fund
From number 1891 to number 1855
Series D and will be paid on presenta-
ton at-my office in the City Hall on
and after December %, 1909; interest
on same will cease on said date.
r. G. PARKS, City Treasurer
Published in Evening Statesman
Dec. 81. %, 30, 1909.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
ENJOY
SALAC|0US
TESTIMONY
Asserts He Has Only Fond
ness For Wife Now
Will Not Be Reconciled.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Four small
boys, preferring the story of the mat
rimonial troubles of the wealthy Bro
kaws to the thrills of shedding, were
the only outsiders who braved the
snow drifts on Long Island today to
attend the court session at MineOia.
Mrs w Gould BrokaW did not ar
rive until the afternoon, coming on
bob sled from Mineola with her father
and sister. She listened attentively
to the cross examination of her hus-
band, who denied that the tone of his
testimony on Friday meant that ne
was eager for a reconciliation.
You say you are fond of her-do
you love herr" queried Arthur j. Bald
win. counsel for Mrs. Brokaw
Has Only Fondness For Her.
We'll, I'm fond of her"
do you love herr" insisted the
lawyer.
Not so much as l did, answered
the witness.
Then how about all these recOncil-
iation statements?"
Il never talked at all to the news
paper men. I have not said anything
except in court
Then what did YOU say in court?'
Il said,' continued BrokaW, that if
Mrs. Brokaw would be different. and
| could believe her, | might take her
back under certain conditions
DO you or do you not want to take
her back ?'
Not since | found out certain things
which | have learned since Friday,
said the witness
But haven't you changed your mind
a good many times
She has," parted Brokaw.
Brokaw declared his present decis-
ion was final
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
LAIRD OF SKIBO SLIPS
ON ICE AND HURTS KNEE

NEW YORK, Dec 27.-Andrew Car
neg1e slipped on an icy spot when
walking around the reservoir in Cen
trail Park today ana suffered pain
full injury to his left knee. He was
unable to be present at dinner at
his home tonight, which he gave to
Governor Hughes, f'resi m Butler of
Columbia University and others; and
he also was unable to attend a. Injecting
of the American Historical association
at Carnegie Hall.
At the Carnegie home it was SAID
that his condition was not serious
but that he had remained in his room
on the advice of physicians.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
EXPLANATION
IS DEMANDED
STATE DEPARTMENT CALLS up
ON MEXICO TO EXPLAIN I'M
PRISONMENT OF COOK.
ALLEGED AMERICAN HELD WITH
OUT TRIAL FOR MONTHS-LA-
Dor UNIONS ACT.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Acting
under the demands of labor unions,
the state department has called upon
the American embassy at Mexico City
to investigate sharply the incarcera-
ton of Conductor James A. Cook, an
American arrested and imprisoned for
alleged completely in the robbery OF
freight trains on a Mexican railroad.
Cook has been imprisoned for some
time without trial, and friends in this
country have beseiged the White
House and the state department with
demands that he be given immediate
trial or be admitted to bail. In cases
of the kind the latter alternative is
never resorted to under Mexican law.
Note is Not Given Out.
The text of the note addressed to
the embassy is not made public al
though what purpOrts to be a copy
of the note was published in an after
noon paper today. State department
officials declined to say whether it was
authentic, but they acknowledged that
the American diplomatic representa-
tive in the Mexico capital had been
| instructed to begin an immediate and
thorough investigation Of the matter
and bring the request of the United
States government to the attention of
the Mexico officials.
The department deplOres the SEN
satiOnal stories based on this act
said a high official of the department
tonight. The United States has taken
steps to safeguard the rights of an
American citizen because friends of
not being recognized
Friends Are Anxious.
PERSONALLY, l know little about the
case, but l do know that the man in
the case has not been imprisoned
much longer, if as long, as many sus-
have been incarcerated in this country
awaiting trial. 1t is entirely natural
that friends of Cook should be anX-
iOus about him and should likewise
exert every effort to have him brought
to a speedy trial. The idea of an
American pictured as helpless and sub
jected to persecution. lanSuishing in a
foreign Jail, always will appeal to the
tender hearted. 1t is altogether like
ly. however. that the Mexican law is
taking it's course
Cook, it is said was a member of
the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
before he went to Mexico to work on
the railroads there. This organization
is powerful and closely allied with
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
WEATHER FORECAST.

Local forecast for Walla WalIa and
Vicinity: Fair tonight and Wednesday.
Washington: Fair tonight and We'd
nesday, except rain along coast
Weather Conditions
The high barometric area continues
to cover the Pacific states and fair
weather still prevails west of the
Rocky mountains. An area of low
pressure, moving since yesterday from
the western Canadian provinces to the
Lake region has caused unsettled
weather and snow over the Missis-
sippi valley and the eastern half of
the United States. except in the south
Atlantic states, where good rains Oc-
Cured. Temperatures on the Pacific
slope remain nearly stationary The
indications are for fair weather in this
vicinity tonight and Wednesday, with
out much change in temperature.
JOHN GROVER, Obser, er.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28

own life, or whether tho o.,
were the victims of rohhe.a .o'pie
r p'po en- Tor the sheriff here to n w,
Inc bodies were found late too..
Mrs. Ritters body was disoo,.,. quay
.ne ilVihg room. Her clothes ,,..''
me exception of a light un6er-,,..
en'' mad been torn from her ana ~
were marks on her neck tbat go,
ca'ed That she had been strann,',
FURNITURE was scattered abort W
room and the drawers of tho a. Ie
were rifled and the contents 60
over the floor. '"' u
''er BODY was found in min,
mouse IL was in a STOPPING position
as If he had been i'll before he a.,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
Ball Is Shifted Fast.

Ball Is Shifted Fast.
When the Penn team began work.
ing through the forwards, Wasmund
tossed the ball to Allerdice, and began
spilling Quakers who threatened the
Michigan backs. AS the ball was
passed for the second time, Magidsohn
and Miller wheeled, the former run
ming to where Miller had been sta
toned before the ball was put into
play, Miller blocking for him. When
Madigsohn approached the line of
scrimmage he turned and took Aller-
dices pass.
Eastern critics declare it the most
beautiful pass ever executed on
Franklin Field. The entire Pennsyl-
vania eleven had been drawn to the
left, and Magidsohn had ten yards in
which to hustle for the goal.
The play was a tlreefold trick In
the first place, it looked like place
rum and again the Quakers believed it
would be a forward pass over their
right wing.
They were led to believe this because
there were no Michigan men beyond
the line of scrmmage at any point to
the right of where tn HALL had ben
put in play.
Had Magidsohn advanced beyond the
line of scrimmage he would have at
tracted attention, but not Penn
player dreamed Michigan would juggle
the ball back and forth behino the
line, finally resorting to dash down
the side lines, as was the case
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
DEPENDS ON WHETHER
COSTS MORE TO LIVE
President of New York Central Says
Railroads Will Treat Employees
Kindly

NEW YORK. Dec. 27.-Referring to
the likelihood of the eastern railroad
employees demanding an increase in
wages President Brown of the New
York Central is quoted today rs say
ing:
$50 far as | am able to learn there
is no disposition on the part of the
railroads to deal unreasonably with
the employees. The whole matter hing
es on the matter whether there has
been, since the last increase of wages,
a general increase in the cost of liv-
ing
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
CONGRESS WILL TAKE UP
COURTS FOR DISCUSSION

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Consider-
alton of matters affecting the United
States courts will begin soon after
congress reconvenes. The house COM
mittee on judiciary will hold it's first
meeting on January to take up the
work of the session and on January
II it will give a hearing to representa-
tives of the American Bar association
The bill to regulate the judicial pro-
cedure of the United States will be
considered
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28

If Secretary Knox We're not so ire
mendOuSly busy he might return Tie
compliment and inaugurate presiden-
tial boom for J. Hamilton Lewis. A lit
tie thing like a presidential boom costs
nothing and gladdens many heart.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
Cumnsins to Speak,

DES MONIES, Iowa, Dec. 27.-Sen-
atOr Albert B. Cummins has consent
ed to address a banquet of so-called
progressive repub leans here Saturday
night Senator Cummins today sent
te'egrams to Senator Beverdge. of
Indiana and Senator Dolliver of Iowa,
asking them to attend and speak. The
forthcoming congressional campaign
in Iowa, it is expected will be the
topic OF discussion
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
Steamer Disabled.

NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-A wireless
message late today says the Clyde
steamer lrO lfuois, from Charleston, N.
c., for New York, is at anchor off
Frying Pan ShOles, n. c., with a bad
ly disabled rudder The Iroquois left
the southern port on December 80.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28

The statement in the presidents
message that the United States is at
peace with fireign countries is strictly
true at this date but the peace is
liable to be broken any day by the news
from Copenhagen
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28

AS a New Years attraction the lux
urious hog now lords it over the aris-
tocratic turkey, not only in size and
weight but in flavor and general
adaptability to the big meal.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28

In the course of an address deliv-
cred in 1S4S Abraham Lincoln said
The most general object | can think
of would be the improvement of the
Mississippi river and it's tributaries =
Mr.. Lincoln was always among the
first to grasp a great national issue.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28

The woes of the western farmer are
increasing. This year there are not
hands enough to shuck the corn crop,
not cars enough to ship the ears, and
no place big enough to accommodate
the huSks.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28

NEW YORK. Dec. 27.-George HOgg
SnOWden of Seattle obtained a Ii
cense today to marry Miss Louise
Witherbee Taft, daughter of Henry
w. Taft brother of the president. The
wedding will take place at the Taft
home here December 80.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28

In managing the holiday illumina-
tions the fire department would doubt
less appreciate a safe and sane Christ
mas as much as safe and sane
Fourth of July
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seance by public request. She may be
expected like other alleged scientific
experimenters. to give some notable
box office demonstrations before she
gets through
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
A FEW OF THE EVILS SPONSORED
BY CANNON.

That performance and the things
which followed it; the scandals of the
tariff making; the withdrawal of the
Payne bill after it was ready to report.
In order to doctor UP the nasty conces-
sions made as the price of Tammany
support: the refusal of all opportunity
Tor real debate: the appearance of
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28

Many Englishmen regard that idea
Of abolishing the house of lords bad
many.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28

1t may as we'll be understood that
the photographs of many of Mr..
Roosevelt's specimens will not be as
funny as their names.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28

Danish scientists are doubtless con-
graduating themselves on the fact
that they will not be called on to re-
feree the Ballinger-P inchott discus
sion
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
CapitaI Stock Doub ed /.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Dec. 21.-The
Baldwin Locomotive Works of Phil
adelphia. today filed notice Of an in
crease of capital stock from $4,000
900 to $4,000. 900
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
Go To New York.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-The Uni
ted States ship Dolphin with small
party of senators on board has left
CriStObal for New York.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-12-28
EVIDENCE OF BRUTAL CRIME
FOUND ON INDIANA FARM
Aged Woman Stripped and Stranged
and Husband Found Dead
in the Cow Shed.

WASHINGTON, Ind, Dec. az
Whether Rev. w. f. Ritter, a wealthy
farmer, Strangled his old wife to death
and then went into the COW shed and
swallowed poison. thus ending his
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1t looks as if the north pole record
takers did very poor work for the
money they claim.
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1t may be assumed that Zelaya, like
other dictators, made his exit prepa-
rations with one eye on his bank book.
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DIR. Cook is now due for some thrill
ing interviews with the Il Told You
So Club
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Quaker left end as though to fall into
tba interference
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