The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-06
THE COPYRIGHTED"
CONTEST WEAK AND
WOBBLY THESE DAYS

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name appears with thOs of district
No. 3. Mr.. Kennedy, when in Walla
Walla some time ago, signified his in
tention of going to work in the harvest
| fields, and while he is perspiring from
his exertions, he probably does not
realize the great and unexcelled op
portunities for getting a big prize
worth perhaps few paltry dollars
with much less work. 1t Is surprising
to note the promptness with which
Bliss friends have come to his sup
! port. Tuesday night he was credited
| with 1897 votes. but last night but 1890
appeared opposite his name. Bliss has
lost an average of three and one-halr
votes a day since Tuesday. We are
waiting with eagerness to see what
will be his count tonight.
He Sure Howled.
| The bunc manager last night, in ac-
cordance with the predictions of The
hotdlCSlIlclII, IloN leu IoliS anu louu, Dut
| it was not howl of delight. Far from
| it. That noise was no siren song, telling
of peace and bliss-it was a weird
wall for help, the distress cry that
may always be expected of such in
dividuals with the failing of copy
righted' and brilliant contests The
Statesman has met the shady work
of the bunc manager at every turn,
and if he fOndly imagines he can intim-
| idate The Statesman with threats of
information filed in the telephone Of
| fee" he has another think coming. 1t
was noticeable that the bunc manager
succeeded only in securing the state
ments of few disinterested people
whose names appear in the list of con-
testants, and who have announced they
| work of securing "ze grrrand prizes"
| AS a further evidence that the bunc
| contest is not taking" with either the
public or the young ladies who have
been forced into the game. an employee
of The Statesman yesterday saw at
| least four of the circular letters and
printed matter that were sent by the
bunc to young ladies, marked refused
at the postoffice. When paper falls
| so low in the estimation of the public
that they will not receive a, letter bear
ing it's return card, it is pretty good
indication that there is chicken in
the garden.
Please Don't.
| According to last nights issue of the
bunc information has been filed with
the telephone company charging The
Statesman with something or other.
| Why doesn't. the bunc manager take
| his information to the court house and
file it? Hasn't he been in the news
paper business long enough to know
that all such proceedings are carried
on the records at the county capitol?
The Statesman has it on reliable in
! formation that the interviews printed
last night were manufactured out of
whole cloth, but as a number of those
interested have asked that their names
be mixed with the disgraceful thing no
longer The Statesman bows in submits
sion to their distress. even though
proof can be secured.
Zone young man. employed by the
Statesman is trembling in his shoes
the law that he may find some man
ner in which aforesaid young man
mays be handled criminally The bunc
does The Statesman a royal honor in
assuming that it would be any advant-
age, in interviewing a person, to rep
resent that it was a bunc represent
ative speaking. Take a tumble! When
ever The Statesman boys want infor-
nation, they can secure it without go
ing to those lengths.
Four contest managers are already
in the city attempting to save the
'copyrighted'' fizzle from its ignomin-
Gus failure, and the chief has been
sent for. Unexpected developments
have arisen that were apparently
wholly unforeseen by the small army
of workers that resuscitated an old
city directory for the purpose of Sc
curing enough names to give the So