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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-12
Labor Unions Protest.

CHICAGO, Feb. ia monster
meeting of every local of organized Ia
Dor in Chicago and vicinity, to protest
against the Jail sentence passed upon
Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison, will
be a feature of Lincoln day in Chlca-
go. Resolutions will be adopted and
copies sent to every city and town OF
the country. with the suggestion that
similar meetings be held.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-12
TWO MEN WERE
ACQUITTED IN OREGON.
Clayton Smith, Who Shot His Father
ln-Law, and George Horseman.

LA GRANDE, Ore, Feb. 12.-Cla-
ton Smith, of Union, held for shooting
his father law, F. P. Launis, few
days ago, was discharged by the grand
jury late last night. The evidence
showed Smith to have acted in self-de-
Tense.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-12
JURORS CITED FOR
STANDARD OIL TRIAL
Federal Judge in Chicago Issues Order
for Veniremen to Serve in Rebate
Case Against Monopoly.

CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-Judge A. H.
Anderson, in the United States dis
trict court yesterday, issued an order
for venire of $50 men to appear
February % for services in the retrial
of the famous Standard Oil $29,240,-
900 fine case
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-12
JAPAN CELEBRATES.
Common crate Anniversary OF Grant
ing of Constitution to People.

TOXIC. Feb. 1.-THE people of
Japan are today celebrating In COM
memoration Of the granting of the con-
stitution Visitors from all parts OF
Japan are at the capitol.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-12

constitution IT assuredly viii now
hold that a jury should try me. Any
thing else is impossible in this coun-
try. A citizen acquitted OF crime can
not be sentenced by a Judge. without
an investigation according to law, to
perpe .ual imprisonment"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-12
OREGON LEGISLATURE
GRiNDS GRIST TODAY
Many Actions Taken But Little OF I'm
portance Accomplished.

SALEM, Feb. 12.-The house passed
the senate bill today creating two ad-
ditional supreme judges. Commits
sioners King and Slater, democrats
will be appointed. The senate passed
a number Of salary bills over the gov
errors vetoes including one increas-
ing the salary of the circuit judge at
Baker City from $4,000 to $4,000.
Senate bills were put through the
house requiring seats for motormen;
for a deputy clery of the supreme court
at Pendleton, and for an eastern Ore
gon experiment station.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-12
MILE OF PENNIES
TO HELP BUY PARK.
La Grande Women Have An Ambitious
Scheme to Improve Twelve Acres.

LA GRANDE, Feb. 12.-Five Hundred
dollars have been collected by the
women of La Grande, toward the pur-
chase and improvement of II acres of
land near this city, to be used for pub
lie park purposes. The project is to
cost $4,000 when completed and the
park will be the biggest of its kind In
the state except in Portland. The
Grand Ronde river flows by the tract.
which lies half a mile from this city,
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-12
COLLEGE Women Meet.

LEWISTON, Me-, Feb. 12.-Over a
hundred Young women from the col
leges and secondary schools OF Maine
gathered at Bates college To-Day 10
open the biennial session of the Maine
S ate Student Young Womens CHRIS
tan association. President Chase, OF
Bates will welcome the visitors this
evening"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-12
Republican Convention.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Feb. r.
Republican state convention to nom1-
nate two candidates for justice of the
supreme court and other minor offices
will be held in Grand Rapids tomorrow.
Over a Thousand delegates will be
in attendance and will take part in a
Linz oln celebration and banc5uet in the
evening
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-12
Cross.Countrv Run.

NEW YORK, Feb. metropolitan
cross country junior championships
will be decided tomorrow at meet
under the auspices of the Star Athletic
club. A three and one half mile trail
will be laid out, and the runners will
cover the course twice and never will
be out of sight of the spectators. The
senior ruin will be held a week from
Sa urday
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-12
Observe Georuia Day.

of General Ogelthorpe arc MS band
of oppressed debtors on the site Of
Savannah, February II, 1888, will be
celebrated in the usual macner by tire
Georgia society of colonial wars.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-12
Squash Tournament.

BOSTON, Feb. 12.-Teams from
Boston. Baltimore and Philadelphia
are entered today in the squash rae
uuet tournament of the Boston Attn
letic association to decide the inter-
city championship. Last years tourney
was held in Philadelphia and was won
bv the home team. The deciding games
will be played tomorrow.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-02-12

Wait for the cars at the Book Nook
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-11-12
DO you BELIEVE THIsp
story 10 the Eject That the stan
dnrd OH Company WIN Rival Cow.

story 10 the Effect That the stan
dard OH Company WIN Rival Cow.
The Standard Oil Company has de-
cided to drive the COW and the dairy.
man out Of business, says the New
York Press. Its skilled chemists have
discovered process whereby they
can make gilt-edge butter as a by
product of crude petroleum. II re.
ports are true, plans have been pre-
pared and contracts soon will be let
for putting up big buttermaking
plant as a new departure OF the Stand.
ard OIL works In the Constable Hook
section of Bayonne,
It was thought the limit had been
reached In the by-produet business
when delicate perfumes were extract
ed from kerosene. Until recently nc
one had an Idea the Standard oil had
designs against the butter and the
oleomargarine Industries, It is pre-
dicted confidently that Within a year
tho only butter on sale In the Amert
can market will bear the Standard
OIL label, and that petroleum butter
also will be an active and aggressive
competitor with creamery butter fol
supremacy In thu foreign markets.
Since the new process was discov
cred every precautlon possible ha:
been taken by the Standard OIL Oh
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cials to prevent the secret leaking. 1t
was only by accident 1t became public.
The story. which comes from Bayonne,
Is that the chemists and Standard Oil
officials were so elated by the discov-
cry that they made eight pounds Of
the butter and put 1t In a box to be
shipped to John ID. Rockefeller. When
It came to making out the express slip.
the term Petroleum Butter" was used.
That led to inquiries which finally
elected the information that the
Rockefeller corporation is going into
the buttermaking business. Nor did 1t
end with that. Assertion also was
made that the chemists, In the steps
leading up to the petroleum butter
discovery, also have perfected cheap
process by which they can convert the
kerosene into sweet milk, with a larger
percentage OF butter fat than cows
milk possesses. By running the petrol
cum milk through separators OF high
speed all the butter fat, or cream, is
extracted, That leaves the tanks of
the separators filled with rich and
wholesome self-pasteurized buttermilk.
II that Is true, the butter, cream, sweet
milk, buttermilk and cottage cheese
markets soon win be dominated by the
Standard OIL.
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fbEe1or neN sAcb,;y.5 8 of the ~ bsNoo1s'
klpch support The AIrsh/o
&sexos eNsyy IS -
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NIA Communication eor9s
iSafNee7 cayy

Zeppes ships however have amply demon
wind Zeppelin Hergese expedition
favorable conditions
in
wind directions He driven from his course
and drowned.
expedition with the
will threaten it in The
will provide difficulties
and the atmosphere throws
districts
which
these foes purely bal
engineering problem.
Fog enemy all lattud frequent
during his three
thick
Hgesl
considerably lies the fact that
the
the nghborhood OF the
Wemn discovered for the airship
observation the direction and
speed o flight
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MOST RARE OF AUTOGRAPHS.

That of Thomas Lynch, Jr., Signer
of Declaration, of Great Value.
What is the most expensive auto
graph you ever sold?" inquired the re.
porter,
. THAT of Thomas Lynch, Jr.," an
swered the dealer. The reporter look
ed perfectly blank. Never heard OF
him." he confessed.
well, he was a signer of the Dec
laration of Independence. He signed
it as proxy for his father, who was i'll
at the time. Soon after he went to
sea and was never heard of aagin.
Now, autographs of Declaration sign
ers are much sought by collectors.
None approach, in rarity those of
Thomas Lynch, Jr. In fact, so far as
| know, there is only one in existence.
This Is affixed to an autograph let
ter address by Lynch to George Wash
ington, which lends 1t additional value.
1t was owned at one time by Jared
Sparks, president of Harvard College.
Subsequently 1t passed to Thomas Ad-
dis Emmett, from whom bought It for
the sum of $4,000 | sold 1t to Au-
gustin DAILY, who was keen auto.
graph collector, for $4,000. Later, En-.
met repented Of letting the autograph
go from his possession, and secured II
from Daily for $3.50, presenting 1t af.
terward to the Lenox library. New
York, where 1t now is"
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-11-12
How to Wake a Farmer.

The foundation-stone of a nations
success is revealed In an article In
All Ireland Review. A friend of the
author was in Denmark. and was as.
tonished at the amount of wealth got
out OF so poor country by dairies
and by farming.
mo doubt" said he to a well-eda-
Gated Dane. the children are instruct
ed in the schools as to dairying and
farming"
~They are not" said the Dane. "but
they are taught the old Danish poems
(sagasl In the schools. That makes
good Danes of the children. and then
they become good farmers"
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WIDELY huOWu lOT
his socialistic views. In 1908 she was
In st. Petersburg on visit to her un-
Gle, Robert s. Mccormick, then ambas-
sador from the United States to Rus
sia. There she met Count Gizycki
man twice her age, with reputation
as spendthrift and rake.
The following year Count Gizycki
came to Washington and renewed his
acquaintance with Miss Patterson. His
wooing was fast and furious and the
girl was carried away by his polished
manner and the glitter of his title
Despite all objection, In two weeks she
married him. Her mother settled $780,
600 year upon her and she and the
count went to Vienna. Then the trou-
BILE began. The counts extravaganza
and gambling habits at the Austrian
capital plunged him deeper In debt
than before, and because of his dissi-
pations he became the mock of Eu-
rope.
In March. 1908, came the crisis. The
countess taxed her husband with his
wild habits and the nobleman knocked
her down with his fist They separat-
ed and she went to London with her
baby, the Countess Felicia, beginning
an action for divorce In Paris, a suit
which ultimately she won. In April,
1908, In connection with her suit, she
I 10 nn
ing the baby countess In charge OF a
nurse just outside the British capital
In the hope of stopping the suit for
divorce and of forcing more money
from his wife, the count made a rush
trip to England, stole the baby and
carried her to Vienna, where he Sc
creted her in one Of his castles Just
outside the city. The countess was
frantic over the loss of the child and
employed detectives by the score to
trace the baby, Once Felicia was 10.
Gated the authorities interposed 80
many barriers against the mother that
the count had ample time to carry the
little countess to q castle near st. Pc
tersburg.
: Meanwhile Joseph Medlll Mccormick
and another member of the Patterson
and Mccormick families were bringing
every influence to bear on the courts
OF France and Russia to recover Fee
licia legally 1t was not until a secret
compact, which never has been clearly
explained. was entered into with the
CEar, mainly through the work of for
mer Ambassador Mccormick, that an
imperial decree compelled the count to
give up the custody Of the girl, After
recovering her daughter the countess
hurried to Cherbourg and sailed for
New York City, From New York the
party hurried on TO Chicago. where the
Countess Glzycki and the little Coun-
tess Felicia will reside In future,
pleased TO have escaped from the tolls
Of a nobleman lost to all sense of de-
ceney.
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SEED OF THE VIOLET.
Flower blooms Twice In q SeasOa-s
Dnd

Flower Blooms Twice I'm Season."
Has an Explosive Pod.
The common wild violet affords one
of the most remarkable Illustrations
of the care and apparent forethought
of nature in preserving species, a
writer In the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat says. AS everybody knows, the
violet grows in the shade, in pastures,
woods and fields where the grass is
abundant and long. 1t comes up early
in the spring and flowers at a time
when the grass is most abundant and
succulent. OF course, 1t Is liable to
be cut down by the seythe, but much
more likely 1t Is to be bitten on by
grazing animals.
The violets that come in the spring
either do not seed at all or very spar
ingly. But In the late fall the plant
bears another crop Of blossoms that
are never seen save by the professions
al botanist. They are very small, ut
terly insignificant in appearance, and
grow either just at or below the sur
face of the ground. These are the
flowers which produce the seeds for
the next season. The flowers on long
stems blooming in spring are only FOL
show; the hidden flowers are for use
and the number of seeds they Deal
may be judged from the ease with
which a wild violet bed spreads.
When the seeds are ripe the pod ex
plodes, scattering them to consider
able distance, often to ten or twelve
feet from the parent plant, so that II
spite of It's boastful modesty the vic
let not only takes care of itself, bu'
becomes troublesome aggressor.
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Zeppelin have Joined forces for the dis
%Y@ covy Of pole arshp The expedition Is to be
made with the powerful Zeppelin vessel yet
n constructed A preliminary fights through the polar
carried Cross Bay the island OF
RA&ISH arctic 1910 Announce
thrilled and electrified Germany with
correspondent In the Philadelphia
nations struggled and died. Will
The Kaiser intense
branch Of science In which great
things from Zeppelinegesel expedition
the supervision Oh
meteorological expert Prof Hergese the %
rebuFed long heart
conservative scientist that they
attempting to find the pole Ihey aver
Investigate the unknown
regions OF the arctic" scientific explorations and
polar audes That sufficiently ample program
finding the powhc everybody IN the
well the real objective OF the expedition
Bay spzbegn to the pole Is easily
Zeppins arships Zeppelin H. accom-
its famous Whiuntde voyage across
will depend wholly upon
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poverty and ignorance rather than TO reeVe
the suferings of those who poor and ignorant
Miss Helen Goulds gifts likewise have been widely dis
trbuted She has spent than $100000O0 of the
fortune left her by Jay Gould her father Perhaps no
methods of moneymakng have been more widely con-
demned than those Of Jay Gould, but his daughter has
shown how great blessings come from the wise use
of money She has endowed schools and churches and
has given largely for relief and aid work among the sol
ders and sailors of the United States army and navy
Mrs Oliver H. P Belmont, the first wife of William
K Vanderbilt gave 100000 to the Nassau Hospital at
Mneola L. She has been actively interested in diet
kitchens for the poor of New York. Mrs. Belmont
is enid to mart of her fortune
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PEASANT AND THE DIAMOND.

Monster Stone Found By Antoine in
an Abandoned Prospect.
Let me give you the actual episode
Of Antoine. Antoine was so humble a
peasant that when he left Vierzon and
took up prospecting In South Africa,
nobody asked what his other name
was, Franklin Clarkins says in Every
body's. Having no capital save his
muscles, he asked leave to dig, on
shares, a claim on the Vaal River with
which one prospector after another
had become discouraged. Antoine got
a Kafir boy to help. The yield was
pitiful. He asked the boy to stop work
ing the center and try the side. When
the boy did not understand Antoine
impatiently drove his own pick in the
place designated.
Suddenly (says one who knew him
on that day. he was spellbound at
sight Of a large stone-a diamond. For
some moments he could not move and
could not speak. He feared 1t was an
illusion, like the mirage Of water
which appears to men long athirst. He
expected 1t to vanish If he winked an
eyelash. Collecting his energies, he
darted forward and clutched the stone.
Such was the tumult within him that
for two days he was unable to eat or
do anything but laugh and cry!"
Now, back home in Vierzon, where
he had been peasant, he sits, as you
may see, in comfort and content, with
glass replica Of the diamond on the
tip Of his weather vane, for the stone
itself weighed 2SS carats In the rough,
120 carats when cut and those who
purchased it paid hundreds of thou.
sands of dollars to possess 1t,
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.lxlMa> Science
N 1Nlss9=. Ap
8 |ssI.IflventiOf1 :

Germany has become the greatest
producer Of cocoa butter in the world
turning out about 1000 tons a year.
The best Turkish tobacco is grown
In the low mountainous region border
Ing the south shore of the Black Sea.
The entire fire department of Frank.
fort-on-the-Main Germany, Is to be
changed from horse to motor traction.
To prevent fraud in weighing, the
government Is having self-registering
scales built for use In customs ware
houses.
The paper on which the Bank of En-
land notes are printed has been made
by secret process In the same mill
since 1918.
A resident of New Jersey has pat
ented a tapering stiletto on which
there is a sliding gauge to regulate
the size of the holes 1t may make, to
save an embroidery worker from car.
rying a set of tools of different sizes.
Contrary to the general impression
that the country furnished by birth a
much larger percentage of aiding men
in all walks of life than the city, DR..
Frederick Adams Woods arrives at the
conclusion that 1t is the urban popular
tion which takes the lead In this re-
spect. He bases his results on the
birthplace statistics given in we'll
known volume containing brief biog-
raphies of notable Americans. TAX
ing the total urban and non-urban pop
ulations, he finds that the town shows
notably higher percentage of produc-
tiveness in the way Of talent. This he
regards as consistent with the laws of
heredity, since talent of all kinds
tends to seek the cities, and should be
expected, generally, to reproduce its
kind.
On of the most interesting achieve
ments Of Lieutenant Shackleton's polar
expedition was the ascent of Mount
Erebus, the most southerly of all
known volcanoes, by party led by
Professor David. The highest peak
has an elevation of 1920 feet. An old
crater, filled with feldspar crystals,
pumice and sulphur, was found at the
height of II 900 feet. The active crater
at the summit Is half mile in diam
eter, and 800 feet deep. 1t was eject
ing steam and sulphurous gases to a
height of 1000 feet when the party
visited 1t. The ascent was made in
March, 1908; in June the volcano was
very active, and photographs of the
eruption were made by moonlight
The neighboring volcano, Mount Ter
ror, was inactive.
OF course the ocean is not as old al
the earth, because it could not be
formed until the surface of the globe
| had sufficiently cooled to retain the
water upon it, but 1t seems chimerical
to try to measure the age of the sea-
Nevertheless Professor Jolly has under.
taken the task, basing his estimate
upon the amount of sodium 1t con.
tains to that annually contributed by
the washings from the continents. He
thus reaches the conclusion that the
ocean has been in existence between
so. 100000 and 17o.000,000 years. This
does not seem very definite determin
alton, but then, in geology, estimates
of time in years are extremely diff
ficult because OF the uncertainty OF the
elements OF the calculation. The most
that can be said of such results is that
they are probable.
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in advancing the of woman suffrage to which she
recently became convert. Her daughter, the Duchess
of Marlborough, formerly Consueo Vanderbilt Is also
known for her phllanthropes among the London poor
Miss Gulia Morosni daughter and heiress Of the fa
nous banker who passed away about ago. spends
large sums in aiding children in New York, especially
at Christmas time She gives largely also to charitable
institutions. Mrs. Harold F. Mccormick Of Chicago
formerly Miss Edith Rockefeller had much to do with
the direction of the charitable done by her father
John D. Rockefeller before she married and is said
to spend largely though quietly, now In aid of many
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Up to Date.

Drummer-So the coal oil got near
the butter and favored it, Ell? sup
pose you'll lose 1t?
Etorekeeper Jason-oh, no, stranger.
I've jjust put sign over 1t. Try the
New Petroleum Butter" and it II go
ing like hot cakes
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Perhaps the Happiest.

Minister made seven hearts hap
py to-day.
Parishioner-How was that?
Minister Married three couples,
Parishioner-That only makes six
Minister-Well you don't think
did 1t for nothing?-Llfe.
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title, none has been
a C C o mpanied by
more mental and
physical m l s Q r y
than that Of Flea
nor Patterson, OF
Chicago, and Count
Gizycki, of Russian
Poland. The shat
tered romance be-
gan six years ago.
Eleanor Patterson
was the educated
q n d sweet-faced
daughter of Robert
W. Patterson, pub
Usher of the Chica-
go Tribune, and a
sister of Joseph Me-
dill Patterson. a
young millionaire
uyida1u konWu FOR
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Men are usually willing to arbitrate
only when the chances are they would
be whipped In fight.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-11-12

When your ship finally comes In
the cargo will be more valuable for
your long walt.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-11-12

Your neighbors are very sure To
come down to your expectations.
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giving widely
proftaby
spent when usedf
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Real poverty may bring less misery
than marrying for money.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-11-12
ONCE MORE A FAILUREl

Another American Girl Finds a For
eign Title Burden.
Many as have been the disastrous
failures among marriages between rich
American girls and European men OF