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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11
Ranid TranSit.

Rapid Transit.
It's ies' a little planet that we all are
Twin on.
To travel round it doesn't mean you'll
be a long time gone.
A neighbOr hacks his grip and goes a
thousand, miles or more
An you've scarcely learned to miss
him when he turns up at the
store
A-savin' "Howdy- do" and more'n
likely shalxin hands,
An tellin' bout the wondrous things
he saw in foreign lands.
There's one way off in Africa jes' for
a huntin' trip,
An one is hastenin' through Japan to
give dull care the slip,
An several's on the isthmus SEEM
how canal work goes,
An some maxim ready to explore the
Polar SHOWS
The folks that travel have completely
lost their old time dread.
You simply, buy your ticket an say
Let 'er go ahead!'
The friends an family used to haunt
the depot an the dock
An say goodbye" an mebbe cry
cause p2rtin' was a shock.
But now we simply say 80 long"
with hearts all free from pain;
You hardly bid farewell before you
shout Hello" again!
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11

other occult codes of intercommunica-
ton. Since the first announcement
Professor Pickering has declared that
for $780, 900 he can rig up the prelim-
mary apparatus and in three years be
ready to say "howdy."
But now comes Professor Todd OF
Amherst with a much less expensive
and just as promising a suggestion.
Professor Todd will go up in bal
loon with the most sensitive wireless
telegraph apparatus he can secure and
simply wait to catch any signals that
Mars may be sending out. This plan
will strike the ordinary person as be-
ing more in line with the fitness of
things, since the scientists are more
or less "up in the air" on the ques-
ton of possible communication with
Mars anyway. Professor Todd will cut
quite as imposing a figure and come as
near attracting the attention of the
Martians, perched up in balloon in
condition of frigid isolation, as VIII
Professor Pickering on the broiling
Llano Estacado of Texas working his
semaphore and photographs and the
rest Of his wig-wag apparatus. If the
Martians have any sense of hunor
they will surely get into communlca-
ton with the earth right away. Ca
mile F'lammarion declares that the
Martians are infinitely higher in the
plane of intelligence than the inhabi-
tants of the earth, and for all we know
they have been laughing at US for the
past thousand years or so.
Viewed seriously by a layman, the
scientific probability of communicating
with Mars is away below par. If one
can imagine a lightningbug perched
on the top of Pixies Peak trying fran
tically to catch the eyes of the people
of Kansas City with his little private
lighting system, some conception or
the difficulty of attracting the vision of
the Martians may be gathered. The
lightningbug would appear to have an
easy task compared with that of sig
mailing 35,000,000 miles away. Professor
Todd has the better of the argument
If he gets up into the terrific quietude
of the sidereal void and gets no wire
less messages, it will not be his fault.
He will at least have been like Barkis
-''Willin'.'
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11

me outside and the dust inside than
the dust outside and me inside driving
it out this beautiful weather.
She is the strongest woman on the
street, and when she sallies forth to
market or to meet ner husband, fairly
radiating with good spirits, the other
women sigh and say, Il wish / were
as strong as she is
They could be if they were as SEN
sible
A woman in the country is very
much scolded by her grown-up daugh-
ters for going off-often after a hard
| days washing or ironing-to ramble
over the hills in search of herbs.
You'll just kill yourself and you
don't want those old herbs anyway
they say.
LAS for killing myself, you aren't any
! of you as strong as l am" retorts their
| mother, and that's because get some
| thing better than herbs on the hills
! Most women do not have the natural
love of outdoors that men have Many
of them have to make a conscious eff
| fort to remember to get enough out
| door air, but it's an effort they ought to
make.
I think the husband whose wife tells
| him at night that she hasn't been out
all day would be almost justified in ad-
ministering corporal punishment.
Perhaps. though, the plan of one
| young couple that 1 know would be
| better.
He thinks a good outdoor walk every
day, one of the necessities of life, and
she has tendency to let ner household
| duties keep her from taking one, so this
plan has been instituted. They keeI
two little mite boxes on the mantel
! Every day that she takes her walk he
puts nickel in ner box, and every day
she neglects to take it, she puts one ir
his.
I l was happy to find on my last visit
that her mite box is growing heavy
and her cheeks rosy.
Isn't it expensive?" / asked him
shaking the nickel box she gave mt
TO heft
Aren't doctors bills?" he countel
questioned.
!. Rxa GoD-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11
Calhoun Trial Still On.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.-Rep-
resentatlves of the several banks in
which the United Railroads deposited
money subsequent to the earthquake
were called to the stand today in the
trial of Calhoun in an endeavor to
prove that 100000 was drawn from
the mint by TREY L. Ford and not
placed on deposit. The testimony in
Dictated that the money did not reach
any bank. Attorney Moore for the de-
tense tried to show through H. Ro-
setti, chief clerk of the Wells Fargo
Nevada National bank the cause for
the non-deposit, by getting a detailed
account of the banking conditions
prevalent during the days of the tenn
porary clearing house bank after the
fire.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11
Woman Murdered in New York.
NEW YORK, May 11.-What is /

NEW YORK, May 11.-What is be-
lieved to have been a peculiarly afro
cious murder was revealed last night
when the battered body of Miss Mary
Malone was found in the little room
she had occupied only one day in. east
Thirty first street. Last Saturday
night she had appealed to the woman
conducting the rooming house for shell
ter, saying that she was without funds
and had been elected from her former
home She was apparently well at noon
Yesterday when the mistress of the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11
Would Suicide.

SAN FRANCISCO. May lion the
verge of collapse, Gordon A. Dennis, an
army lieutenant, recently court-mar-
tailed and dismissed from the service
for ogling woman, entered the police
station last night and informed the
desk sergeant that he intended to COM
mat suicide. He was placed in cell
and given medical attention It is
expected he will cahnge his mind when
he regains his health.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11
INDIAN KILLS MAN
WHO CALLS HIM (WHICH"
Sam Shuguani Shoots Walter Williams
at Hobart, Alaska, and Holds
Town At Bay.

JUNEAU, Alaska. May 11.-Because
Walter Williams, an Indian who was
i'll, declared Sam Shuguani, also a ma
tive, witch" the latter stole into
Williams room at Hobart bay, shot him
through the head and then ran into
the street. saying: Il killed Walter
Williams" An attempt was made t.
capture the murderer but he escaped.
He is now armed and in the woods.
Officers are leaving here in a launch
to arrest him.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11

house served her with tea but when
young woman was found dead on the
bed with evidences of having received
a frightful beating. Great Welts on
her head and body indicated that her
assailant had used a club
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11
The arrival of Mr.. and Mrs. John d.

The arrival of Mr.. and Mrs. John d.
Rockefeller Jr., caused the rumor
that Mrs John D. Rockefeller, ST., who
Is suffering from an attack of pneu-
monia, was worse. Her physicians,
however, declare the report wholly un-
founded. They say she has been stead
lily improving for more than a week
and is now out of danger AS soon as
she is able to travel she will be taken
to her home in the Pocantico hills,
New York.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11
Kansas Gets Federal Office.

TOPEKA, Kan, May 1.-THE an
nouncement was made today by Gov
Walter r. Stubs of the appointment
of Representative Robert Stone of To-
peka as assistant to United States
Acknowledgement George w Wicker
sham at salary of $4,000. 1t is I'M
derstood that Gov. Stubs was given
authority to make the selection.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11
IT'S Up To MARS

Some weeks ago Professor Picker
ing of Harvard, one of the foremost
astronomers of the country, startled
the scientific and lay word by declar-
ing that for 100000 900 he could erect
a signal station which would enable
the earth to communicate with Mars,
provided only that the Martians were
able to understand photographic @
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11
Evening
Chit-Chat
BY RUTH CAMERON.

An hour a day of outdoor May air is
better than a quart of sulphur and
molasses or a barrel of most patent
medicines.
Nothing eXasperates me more than
to hear a woman say, as l quite fire.
quently do, Il haven't been out of the
house for two days" No excuse ex-
cept illness can justify such a state
ment. and l find that illness is more
apt to be the result than the cause of
that state of affairs.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11

Senator Beveridge of Indiana has
joined the faction hostile TO the Aid
rich bill on the republican side of the
senate and has called attention to the
growing revolt in his party against the
bill which he processes to believe
does not meet with the approval of
the president or large percestage Of
the republican party. The attitude of
Senator Dolliver, who voiced the SEN
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11
Hard to Please.

The pessimist in springtime
Maintains his jaundiced view.
The berry cake
He calls a fake
Because of berries few.
The pessimist in springtime
Is very quick to blame;
EmitS a stream
About the team
Because they lose a game.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11

timents of the tariff revisionists of
his party a few days ago, is shared by
Senators Nelson, Cummins and Elk
ms Senator Beveridge in entering
the fight questioned the source of the
finance committees information upon
which it based the schedules. He also
announced that he would speak on
the bill as a whole before the close of
the session.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11

beautiful jewel. days
of spring are here, it
is a positive crime
for women to stay
indoors as much as
they do-a crime
against their health,
their happiness, their
C ON p eX ion 8 and
their dispositions.
my husband says he
doesn't care if there
is dust in the house, -
said my next door
neighbor. He says
he WOIll0 artbpr nave
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11
Johnson Coninn Nest

SALEM, May 11.-Governor Johnson
of Minnesota, will make a trip west
this summer and deliver lectures at
the Seattle exposition August II and
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11

Will take several weeks. so that it will
take until the end of June before bust
ness will be transacted under the new
corporate name of Eilers Music
House.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11

THE OXFORD CAFE, 6
w. Main ST, place where you can
get the best merchants lunch in
the city for % cents. 5-11-6-11 oh.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11

WANTED-A GIRL TO ASSIST IN
homework No. 104 South Palouse
ST. Sill If chg.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11
TO LATE To CLASSIFY

WANTED-POSITION BY EXPERT
enced bOokkeeper. Excellent refer
ences. Address F. L., this office.
5-11-5-13 pd
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-05-11

he would arther nav,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-17
NETTIE QUILL BUSY
 UNLOADING HEAVY CARGO

With her aose showed into the bank at the Commerce Street landing. the Nsttie Quill Is being unloaded. having arrived at Montgomery yesterday morning with the largest freight load in the history of Alabama river traf- fic. Without a wharf, or stable land ing. the task of unloading the cargo of cotton ties Is heavy, and 1t will be ateatoday. probably. before the steam boat is divested of the load.
 The cotton ties were brought up on the steamboat, and on the three barges which the Nettie Quill lowed from Mobile. The merchant fleet will steam down the river tonight or Monday. and will carry a fair freight of merchan- disc to points between Montgomery and Mobile along the river.
 The Kettle Quill is the first steam boat to reach Montgomery for nearly a month past. No date is set for the next trip upstream. which will prob ably depend on the amount of freight received at Mobile for delivery to Montgomery merchants.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-17

sloss proximity te the city, six seres of which he planted in cotton. From . mum Der of good farmers who have seenfit, the estimates vary from eight to twelve bales: Mir. Hortman also has under cultivation half an acre in watermeions from which he has dis posed of fifteen two-horse wagon loads reaiixing net profit of $50. with more to sell. He has also disposed of 58S cantAioupes from stx rows thirty i've yaSds long and fed more than 200 damaged ones to his stock.
 R. F. Nance is critically i'll at his home and the worst Is feared at most
 W. II Berry. editor of The Eufauia Times, has been chosen secretary of the Commercial Club of the city to fll the vacancy occasioned by the removal of F. e. Everitt from the city. Mir :. Berry Is fast making many warm friends In Eufaula and the compliment Is regarded as an appropriate and nt- ting one.
 In their inability to secure tho ser vices of Hon. Henry D. Clayton. Judge A A. Evans has kindly consented 10 deliver the address at the unveiling of the Confederate monument in Clayton by the U. D. c. on the afternoon Of July 22.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-17
SELMA CITIZENS TALK
 OF BUILDING NEW WHARF

Selma, July -(Speeiai.l- IA large number of citizens assembled at the council rooms tonight to hear the proposition of the Birmingham and Gulf Railway and Navigation Company in regard to building wharf and warehouse on Water street in the building now used as a postoffice.
 A quorum of the council was not present but those members present formed themselves into a committed and heard the addresses on the ques- tion by J. L. Clay, W. 0. Agee and Congressman W. B. Craig.
 Messrs. Clay and Agee spoke upon the advantages which tn city would derive from accepting the propositi on and allowing the street car tracks to be run down Water street and Con gressman Craig spoke upon the meth cd of the Federal government in im- proving the rivers and of the high es- teem in which the Alabama river wa held by the Rivers and Harbors Com uittee The meeting then adjournes until o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-17
YOUNG MOTHER GETS
 POSSESSION OF CHILD

Troy, July --((Special. )-An inter- esting case was tried here today in the Probate Court, the case being that Of mother suing for the possession of her child.
 It seems that Miss Seifert, the maid en name of the mother, was married some years ago to Frank McCrea, their home being in Macon. Ga. About year ago they were separated and Mrs. McCrae entered suit for divorce. While the divorce proceedings were pending, she went to Savannah. Ga., where she entered a hospital to pre- pare herself for the profession of trained nurse. As soon as she left for Savannah, her husband sent their 5-year- old boy, Charles Seifert. to his brother. Charlie MeCraep of HruDdidGe It had been agreed between MT. and Mrs. Frank McCrea, that each should keep the child half the time until the divorce case was settled. July 6 Frank McCrea was assasslnated. and upon learning of this. Mrs. McCrae went to Macon to claim her child, but found that he had been sent 10 Brur~ didge directly after her departure for Savannah. She proceeded to Brun- didge. reaching there last Sunday night. She went to Charlie McCrae's home and spent the night there with her boy, and the next morning attempted to leave with her child, but was ar rested and the child taken from her.
 She then came to Troy and employed counsel, who filed petition for writ of habeas corpus. Writ was granted. and the case was set for hearing today be- fore A. c, Edmondson. Judge of Pro- bate. The child being in court. was awarded to his mother.
 Mrs. MoCrea left tonight with her boy for Savannah, Ga.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-17
CAPITOL HEIGHTS BOOST
 ING CLUB ORGANIZED

An organization. known as the Capi- toi Heights Boosting Club. was per. fected last evening at meeting pr the resident and nonresident property owners of the beautiful suburb held Tn the town hall of that place. The oh- feet of the club will be to stimulate greater building activities and to en- courage the construction of modern and artistic houses In Capitol Heights;
 J. s. Pinckard,. as mayor. of Capitol Heights, called the meeting to order last evening after which M. M. Tress- lar was elected chairman and Arthur D. Chiffon was appointed secretary.
 During the evening several enthusi- astic speeches were made. after which three committees were appointed. a committee on membership, entertain | rnent and permanent organization. Af- ter adjournment, refreshments were served. "a, The next meeting of the club will be held at the town hall on Thursday night of next week.
 Capitol Heights is one of the most beautiful and popular suburbs of Mont gomery, and the residents and prop erty owners are very desirous or ere ating a greater interest in the build ing of more homes, the embellishmnt of the lawns, In fact everything which will tend to beautlfying the place.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-17
WILL SEE DREDGE 'o PETTUS AT WORK

Indicative of the interest of Mont gomery merchants in the development work along the Alabama River. an ex- cursion down stream is planned for today. when several of the men who are associated with the movement to organize the independent boat line will be taken to view the work being ac- complished by the new steam dredge Pettus.
 The party will leave the landing at 9:3O o'clock this morning in steam launch, with Captain Ferguson of the United States Engineering corps in charge. The launch will go to the Pettus, and a practical demonstration of the work will be furnished. as the dredge will be in opera ton along the sand bars today. The party will re- turn at about noon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-17
Iessy,s Of infsrssf fo Montgomery
 and to ths Stats

of several days. she will have the two as her guests.-Birmingham Age
 Mrs. D. J. Dunn and children have returned from a visit to McComb, Miss.
 Miss Viola Slaughter. who has been the guest for some weeks of her uncle. MT. John Slaughter. at snow 3oun, has returned to her home in
 Miss Lottie Hooten. of Speigners, is visiting her cousin. Mrs. C.. A Me Daniel at Oak Park. spent Thursday with friends in the
 pr. and Mrs, Robert Goldthwaite have returned from a trip to Coden.
 Mir. and Mrs. P. A. Travis are spend ing several weeks at Coden.
 MT. and Mrs. Will stratford have re- turned from trip to coden.
 The friends of Miss Nimmo Green. who has been III in Birmingham, will De giad to know that she is much i'm proved
 Misses Evelyn. Mabel and Edith Stanfill of Berlin, are the guests of their sister, Mrs. C. A. Mcdaniel at Oak Park. They are en route to Win gard, to attend house party, and will also visit friends in Troy
 MT. and Mrs. William Wood, of Selma are the guests of MT, and Mrs. James c. cowan on High Street.
 Among the graduates at St. Joseph's College and Academy, Emmitsburg, Md. recently was Miss Mary Henry Ruffin. of Mobile. She is the daughter of Mrs. M E. Henry -Ruffin, one of the most Sistnsushsi literary women n ,,nsal nsa descendant of Thomas Jefferson, and she inherits the strength of mind of two great families, one of Virginia and the other of Ireland, her paternal grandfather having located in Mobile in the pioneer days of the state
 Miss LiIlie Belle Thompson has re- turned after visit Miss Alice May In Prattville and Miss Mamie Yarbrough in Grandview.
 Mrs. M NJ. Yarbrough has returned to her home in Selma, after visiting relatives in Grandview.
 Is visiting MT. George Waller, at the country home of his parents. Halcyon Hill.
 Miss Bessie spann of Talladega Is visiting friends in the city.
 
 Finest Iced watermeIons and Canta-
 MARKS MARKET.
 M
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-17
BIG DAMAGE SUIT FILED
 AGAINST GRAY HENDERSON

A suit for s10.0O0 damages was yes terday filed in the office of the Clerk of the City Court of Montgomery against Gray Henderson, prominent planter of Montgomery. who contracts for most of the prisoners convicted at the various sessions of the City Re- corder.
 Lucy HasiSin, in her petition for damages. alleges that she is the mother of Wilbur Sullivan, a minor, who was employed on the Henderson farm dur ing last June. and that on June ?, 1909. under the direction of Frank Debarde- laben, the agent for Henderson, Wilbur was severely whipped. and that as a result of such whipping, the boy died the following day.
 The mother. therefore, sues for s10.- 900 as damages for the loss of her son.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-17
PLAN COUNTRY CLUB.
Golf Links and Rifle Range Added to
 New FSuiIdinR

Anniston. July l6.-(special:)-Arc tect c. W. Carlton stated Friday morning that the plans for the Annis- ton Country Club are almost complete, a few alterations being necessary. and bids for the erection of the building will be opened within a short time Several hundred dollars have also been spent in improving the golf links and the rifle range.
 The club house will be situated on a small bluff. two stories high, one on ton of the bluff, the main building, and one story below. one of the chief at fractions to the building being the spacious balcony, 56 by 16 feet. The general reception room. 30 by 60 feet will be on the main floor and will be used for dances. banquets. etc. The ladies' dressing room. reception rooom. etc. will also be located on this floor. On the lower floor, will be the kitchen. showers, mems lounging room. locker room, etc.
 The plan of the building will follow the bungalow type of architecture, the color scheme being moss green, tile red, white and stucco.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-17
BIG CHECK FOR LIGHT
 BILL DRAWN YESTERDAY

Material evidence of the expense to which the city of Montgomery goes in order to attain its reputation as one of the best-lighted cities of the United States, is the voucher which was drawn out by the City Clerk yesterday to pay the monthly light bill of the city The voucher calls for $2,259.15.
 The monthly light bill of the city covers the expense of the 4OO-odd street arc lamps, and the lights burned in the offices of city employees, as we'll as the electric fan bills.