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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-06-17
Dss Moiuss 4 Lincoln 0

Lincoln, June i7--Llncoln played
sioyenly bali and Des Moines won
without trouble By a score Of Z to 0.
Miller bad the Lincoln batsmen at his
mercy.
score. r. II. H.
Lincoln .a.. 600 600 000--0 6 z
Des Mones 03i O10 i0i--7 ~ o
Batterles--McAfferiy and Mason
Miller and Kearner,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-06-17

Baftlesville okla. June i7-A hom
~ and three singles In five times up
Ter TEX Jones about ellis how the
game went to Enid. Wolverton bad
J lame elbow but pitched the game
cut
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-06-17

NCA a . = u - stopped ii 20 minutes
sure with nr, Shonp8
~ Group Kennedy. Quo
test will sefcly prove
No vomiting, NO dis.
lrcsa. A safe and pleasingsyrup sQr. druggists
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
"The Alaskan"

A whole lot has been written about
Lora Lieb'.s automobile that the press
agent of John COrt's comic opera 1.-THE
Alaskan has said is carried by the
company for the prima donna's special
use. When it comes right down to
facts, Lora Lieb doesn't carry any au-
tomobile at all, and the press agent
is branded a liar. The nearest Miss
Lieb ever came to carrying an auto
mobile was when she hired one in Los
Angeles, Cal, recently, fand insisted
upon being her own chauffeur. After
she had backed into street car, gone
shooting through the plate glass win
dow of an artistic millinery establish
ment, ''skiddOoed' for more than a
block along the sidewalk of the prin-
cipal thoroughfare and ended by back
ing right up to the desk of the Hay
ward hotel, she wired Mr.. Cort to
make the agent behave himself, and
cried Quits" with a vengeance At the
keylor Grand Wednesday, Jan. -.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
ADJUSTMENTS
ashore Acres"

When the late James A. Herne wrote
his greatest play, "Shore Acres" he
evidently had in mind a desire to per-
petuate his fame as a play-WrltIng
author among those who had never
wandered from the precincts of nature
itself. Mr.. Herne was a student Of the
people: he knew that in the bosom OF
every man and woman there was
heart, that required but the simple
touch of nature to bring forth it's re-
sponsive echo That's why he wrote a
play so simple, so true to every ele-
ment of simple humanity, thus build
ing for him>elf a monument that time
cannot efface 'Shore Acres is play
that will live for years and years 10
come Archie Boyd has been selected
to play the great character created by
Mr.. Herne him self and if public ap-
prevail counts for anything, no better
selection could have been made. Mr..
Boyd has met and meets every re-
quirement Shore Acres will be seen
here at the Keylor Grand theater, Jan
uary % presented by a strong sup
porting company, of which Mr.. Boyd is
the head. Miss Dorothy Herne, the
youngest Of Mr.. Herne's three daugh-
tiers, plays the leading female part. The
company numbers some twenty or
more. Mr.. Boyd brings to the play an
assurance that it will be presented
not only by an excellent company, but
in a manner BETTING the play and the
occasion of it's revival.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
Jtion in due time and with due consid-

ton in due time and with due consid-
Grafton.
Demand for the improvement of any
snecial waterway or for the undertake
ing Of any special project, no matter
in what part of the United states II
may be is demand for backward
step in the vital work of waterway I'M
provement Acquiescence In the de-
mand would be an abandonment OF the
advance position which all poiltlcai
parties have taken. 1t has received
that endorsement not alone because
of an awakened public cause Of the
absolute and the conceded merits OF
a line of action on the part or the
government which in determining TO
improve the whole, under a policy, nee
essarily7 includes the Improvement OIL
each one of the parts of the whole
Whether a waterway is to be con-
sidered a minor or major consul
tuent in determining the question OF
Improvement, is a question for deter
mination by the constituted authorl-
ties of the country. That determine
ton is to be based upon the merits
Of the stream, it's tonnage bearing ca
pacity when improved, its general re-
lation to the question of transporta-
ton and it's relation to the determine
ton of all parties to utilize the natural
highways of trade and commerce, the
advantages of which have long been
| recognized but the Improvement OF
which has been delayed because OF
the old time, and the false. program
of "A Project; not a Policy"
In the reversal of that program and
in bringing about the adoption of the
program of "a Policy; not a Project
the National Rivers and Harbors con-
gress has been the leader and the per-
sistent advocate and that it's program
will become a settled part of the po-
Icy of the federal government is not
be doubted. That it would be adop-
ted was an assured fact from the day
on which the commercial, the indus
trial. the agricultural and the water
way association of the country, rep
resented in the National Rivers and
Harbors congress. forced the question
out of politics and placed it where 1t
rightly belongs-in the category of
economic questions of vital Importance
to all sections and to all interests of
the country.
As Senator Knox pOintedly and con-
vincingly said in his address on "The
Future of Commerce." the federal gov
eminent unquestionably entered into a
contract with the several states for
the improvement of their waterways
when it Invested them of jurisdiction
over the subject and took jurisdiction
to itself. That statement being incon-
testible, it is equally incontestible that
in undertaking the too long neglected
duty of waterway Improvement, the
government cannot look to any spe-
cial stream nor to any special pro-
ject but must begin and carry to COM
pletOn the work of waterway improve
ment under a board and comprehensive
policy under which no waterway will
be overlooked nor any waterway, nor
any special project, specially favored.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22

terance to the following, which can
| not but appeal as being somewhat tc
the point:
| Some ministers are scarder OF
public opinion than a populist is of a
barber shOr."
| "A conceited man is like a grass
hopper on a telephone pole, like a
/ bird that looks as big as an eagle
| but when YOU strip the feathers off il
| is the size of a humming- bird in a
rainstorm He's all front door-when
you open the door you're in the back
yard
MANY fellow goes to a theolog
ical seminary and gets filled up with
a lot of stuff that's no more use to
him than a cranes legs to a setting
hen. If our firemen had as little prac-
teal knowledge of conditions they
meet as have many of our ministers
this town would burn down before they
could get the hose on the fire"
IF it takes two and a half yards of
salt water to make a neclItie for a
Goldfish, how long will it take a lobster
to drill nine pearls in an oysters ear?
The answer is that no matter how
tired he is. an elephant can't sit on
his own trunk. That's the kind of
stuff a lot of our ministers are dealing
out for sermons
you can't put a man full of earn
estness on the sidetracll or make him
to go to the mat and take the count
He'll never wear out a cushion or the
seat of his pants waiting for a golden
opportunity
Zone thing l like about q bantam
rooster-he puts all he's got into his
crow. And he's got the spurs to back
it UP if it comes to a showdown
IF / didn't sweat out any more dol
lars fighting the devil than do some
of the ministers l know 1 wouldn't be
worth any more than they are
you've got to use tact. A man who
takes crOwbar to open an oyster or
a 13-inch gun to kill a canary bird is
not onto his job
eff the pure food law was applied
to sermons there'd be an awful mix
ture on some of these hOmiletic labels -
Who says that Billy does not know
why more people do not attend
church.-Yakima Herald.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
The Race Track Lobby,

The race track lobby which has in
vaded the Capital City to exert it's
every influence against the proposed
anti-race track gambling law, should
early be given to understand by the
legislators that it's efforts are in vain.
If there is any measure in which the
people of the state and organizations
of every character, almost. are over
Whelmingly and openly and emphatic
ally determined upon, it is the law
abolishing race track gambling and
pool selling at once, at this present
session. Not only must the lobby be
prevented from blocking legislation
but must not be even permitted to Sc
cure the elimination of the emer~
gency clause making the law effective
Immediately upon signature by the
governor. The legislature and the
state would cut a sorry figure pander-
ing to the race track interests in per
hitting the continuance of the evil
during the coming summer during the
progress of the great A.-Y.-P. exposi-
ton in Seattle. The legislature mus!
not compromise its honor and the good
name of the state in any such manner
as the race track interests will des-
perately seek ais a last resort.-Olym-
pia Recorder.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
A GREAT NEWSPAPERM A n


Today is the siXty-tirs anniversary
of the birth of William M. Laffan, edi-
tor and publisher of the New York
Sun. In the little old red brick build
ing where Dana once held forth as the
chief, Laffan now holds the fort and
directs the policy of a newspaper
which long ago became a national in
stitution. Here, in a pigmy edifice that
looks like a rude howell beside it's tow
aring neighbors of the Tribune and the
World, Laffan writes those sarcastic
editorials that have given the Sun in
ternational fame and branded its edi-
tor, in the minds of contemporaries,
as a good man to let alone.
Laffan is an Irishman by birth and
inclination. Quiet and peaceful in re-
pose. a lover of artistic and beautiful
things, he shows the fighting qualities
Of his race when aroused. Then his
motto becomes that of the Donnybrook
fair-"When YOU see a head, hit it.
And whether flippantly dismissing the
criticisms of a contemporary or pre-
senting his compliments to a presi-
dent of the United States, he is equal
ly in his element
Dublin was the birthplace of Mr.
Laffan; January %, 1S4S, the date. He
was educated in the Irish metropolis
Coming to America as a youth he be-
gan his career as newspaper man al
the age of 10. In 1872 he married
Georgiana Radcliffe, the daughter OF
Judge Daniel Radcliffe, of Baltimore
He is an authority of the arts, archi-
lecture and ceramics, and was are
editor of the Sun during the Dana
regime.
In a recent magazine article, viii
Irwin, formerly of the Sun staff, writes
| of Laffan as follows:
For seven years Laffan, the pub
| Usher. has stood in Dana'S place
From the time when he came on a
| art critic he was the best of friends
| with 1.-The old man. as the Sun viii
! know Dana until his generation is
dead Their lunches in the office
| alone with the office cat, We're an in
stitution in the old days. Latin served
| his time in many capacities. He wa.
| business manager when he took ovel
| the publication of the paper The world
knows him best. perhaps, for thos'
! little sarcastic editorials which sticl
like burrs under the collars of tn,
| Suns enemies. One traces him. too, il
the fighting capacity of the Sun edi
torial page, which makes other news
papers dread to get into war witt
| the Sun as greyhounds, bloodhounds
! retrievers and spaniels avoid trouble
with a bull terrier He is a pugna
1ious Irishman, whose words carr.
darts when he speaks, a lover of al
the arts and a collector in one"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
WALL STREET GAMBLING.

If every imam in America. if every
maker, policeman and judge who
have worried over race track betting
or penny ante. could read Frederick S.
Dickson's Wall street article. appear
ing in this months Everybody's, this
newspaper believes that a cry of in
dignation would go up over the land
which would put the stock exchange
out of business, and lucky indeed
would be the gamblers if the peoples
indignation stopped at that.
There have been many articles writ
ten on margin gambling. most of these,
however, have dealt with the bucket
shop rather than what is by courtesy
called Legitimate trading" In Mr..
Dickson's article, he shows that the
difference between these two forms of
stock gambling is a difference in de-
gree only, and that the lesser evil lies
on the side of the bucket shop.
You who hold up your hands in holy
horror at the mere thought of a two
by four game of chance, read this, and
ponder: +.
During the week ending September
IS. 1908, there was sold s56S,752, 900
worth of stock. and during the same
week $19,471,500 in bonds. In other
words. the value of the stock presumed
to be sold was over twenty seven times
the value of the bonds actually sold.
The total number of bonds reported
may all have been honestly sold, but
the total shares of stock We're just as
certainly not honestly sold. Most mem
hers of the New York stock exchange
will tell you that only about one per
cent of the sales of stocks is for actual
investment, the balance being sales
upon margin, invariably simply gambl-
ing contracts. But let us be conserva-
tive and acknowledge that one tenth
of the sales are for investment. If we
deduct ten FER cent. from the sales of
the week we have been considering, we
find that 5,01S40O shares We're dealt in
on margin an average of $50, 400
shares a day At ten points margin this
would mean that every day the sum
OF $3.50, 600 was riSked in gambling
contracts on the New York stock ex-
change. Take the most generous esti-
mate of winning orders, one out OF
four. and figure their margins. and We
find a gross lose in one day of $31S6,-
500. During 1907 the winnings of tn;
bank at Monte Carlo We're $780, 900
Wall street takes more than that from
its gamblers in two and one-half days
And yet governors. and legislators
and district attorneys, and police, ant
magistrates worry over the petty
gambling of the race-track, the trivia
operations of Dick Garfield, or the
newsboys who shoot craps on the sane
pile"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
The Hermit Crab.

The hermit crab is one of nature
freaks. Having no proper shell of his
own, he takes possession of the empty
house of a sea snail, Wrinkle or other
mOllusc. 1t is not true, however, that
he first kills and devours the owner.
There are always plenty of vacant
shells to supply him and his kind with
a dOmicile. Like any other crab. he
grows, and from time to time he finds
himself obliged to move into another
and larger tenement. He may not al
ways find one that suits him perfectly
when he wishes to make a change,
just like other people, but he must
take the best he can find. This will ac-
count for the fact that you often see a
hermit crob dragging about a dwelling
entirely too big for him.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
PRAYER and Prouress

The plan of Pat Lavey, of Vancou-
yer, to urge the ministers of Vapcou-
Yer and Clarke county to pray for the
advancement and prosperity of the
country, is alike novel and meritori-
Gus.
Prayer and progress ought to go
together. Men may question the effica-
cy of prayer in it's relation to both ma
terial and spiritual things Yet all men
pray in one way and another. Hope
is prayer. The good wish is prayer.
Moreover, there is the psychological
aspect of the question. If majority
of men in any community combine,
and wish, Or hope, or pray, if you
please, for a certain thing, they will,
as rule, realize that thing, if it is HUI
manly possible to realize it.
Hence, if the ministers of Clarke
county unite to pray on a certain day
for the advancement and prosperity of
the county, the Immediate and direct
result will be to fix the popular mind
on the particular thing desired, and
that cannot fail to do good in the
long run.
Thus, prayer, in The first instance
serving to concentrate and combine
public thought, viii ultimately consoli-
date public energies, and the thing de-
sired may be realized.
No matter what the carper may say
prayer even in it's material aspect, is
good thing and helpful thing
Seattle Post Intelligencer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22

there is a common railroad switch used
in unloading all kinds of goods, and
half the time the street is blocked with
box cars and dirty coal cars. 1t the
property owners Of East Rose street
want to pave, let them do so, las many
have better business establishments,
property and buildings than on TINS
end of the street. No property own
er has the right to impose upon 9TH
ers in his immediate vicinity by sign
ing a petition to load him with large
debt equivalent to one-half the valua-
ton of the property or more.
We will be compelled to serve an in
junction on the work as soon as the
right times comes, and thus prevent
the paving of Rose street from Fourth
to Seventh street.
Jan. 21, 1909. THOMAS j. ROSE
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
Objects to Paving.

Editor Evening Statesman: The city
council recently passed favorably on
paving district proposition, large in
its scope. and including this section of
the city. Property owners on West
Rose street are opposed almost to a
unit to the paving of Rose street from
Fourth to Seventh, for the reason that
property is generally unimproved, with
the exception of small dwellings, and
small shacks that bring in small rents
The location is not the best, the
street is in a good passable condition
even better thar many other streets
in the city. There is located on this
street the undesirable element :
Celestials and occupants Of houses OF
ll-fame, gas tanks and retorts.
From Sixth street to Thirteenth
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
wan Tor the cars at the Book Nool
Too Much for Him.

Poor fellow!" said the lady who
was being personally conducted
through the asylum. Poor fellow! He
is so handsome! He has such noble
features, such a splendid brow, such
an aristocratic bearing! What pity
that his mind has been wrecked Was
he crossed in lOve?"
No replied the attendtnt. Hes a
poet. It's very sad case. His friends
thought he was going to be the Ameri-
can Byron or Milton or something like
that. But one day he wrote a poem
which he called Lines to a Water
Fowl and sent it to a newspaper or a
magazine or something, and when it
came out it was headed, Lines to a
Water Bowl The shock upset him,
and he hasn't been right since."-
Chicago Record Herald.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
ALL PARTS OF THE WHOLE.

In the discussion of the question of
waterway improvement the sugges-
ton is sometimes made that Minor
improvements can wait" followed by
references to special projects as the
first that should receive attention from
the government of the United States
in the steps taken towards bringing
about navigable conditions at all sea-
sons of the year. The suggestion over
looks two facts of Importance. One
fact is embodied in the abandonment
of old time rule of the project with
out regard to a policy The other
fact is embodied in the automatic pro-
position that in the adoption of a po-
Icy all projects worthy of considera-
ton are component parts of the whole
with each bearing its constituent part
to the comprehensive whole and with
each receiving governmental atten-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
Mitchell! to Speak.

CHICAGO, Jan. 22.-John Mitchell
vice president of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor, who was recently con-
victed of contempt of court, is not in
bad standing with the humanitarians
and educators of the country. He has
been invited to address the national
child labor conferences tonight, and
will take for his subject. 1.-THE Trade
Unions War on Child Labor" The
topic this afternoon is Child Labor a
Menace to National Health
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
Bows Conferences.

LEWISTON, Me-, Jan. 22.-Several
hundred boys will take part in the
fourth annual Maine State Conference
of Boys, to be held in this city and
Auburn during the next tire days.
The sessions commenced today, the
list of speakers including some of the
most notable educators and clergymen
of this and other New England
states.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
"a Girl At the Helm.

Eleanor Kent, the latest addition TO
the east of "a Girl at the Helm Is
one of the musical comedy favoritas on
the Pacific coast. She is California
girl who began her musical studies In
Paris with Victor Capoul, codirector
of the Theater de TOpera. While there
she was engaged for the Castle Square
Opera company, and she sang several
times at the Studebaker. For one year
she was the prima donna at the Win
tergarten in Berlin.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
Why II Mas.

$50 you say this is a good watch
dog?" inquired the villag, postmaster
as he eyed rather obviously the monde
script canine.
"Deed he am. boss replied Rastus.
But if he was as good a watch
dog as you make out how is it you
want to sell him at alp"
"Yo' see, boss. it am dis way. In does
hard times 1 amt done got nuthin' to
watch '-IiDpincOttS
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
Editorials Of the People.

communications from it's
should be
necessarily publication but
written but side
made with the editor
not be of all communications
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22

the delightful musical play, "The Girl
Question" have just signed coh'i az
which will take it to Callforna anu
the Pacific coast for the second tiiie
this year. 1.-The Girl Question playeu
along the Pacific coast in september
to such enormous receipts and leIt
such a splendid reputation that 1t VIII
head that way again February 1st and
spend March and April on the Pacific
coast
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
, THE STATE PRESS
Sunday Agrees.

Sunday Agrees.
Someone has asked how religion
can make man happy hereafter
which shows every sign of having
soured on his stomach here?
OF course common sense tells peo-
pie that the trouble lies with the man
and not with the religion. or else it
has been interpreted wrong by the per-
son who administered the Dose In ad-
dressing body of ministers, the Rev.
Billy Sunday few days ago gave ut
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
"1he Girl Question"

Most theatrical stars and compan-
les think that trip across the con-
tlnent to California once a season is
about the limit of human endurance,
but the Askin Singer Co. owners of
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22

TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY
Take LAXATIVE BROMO Ouinine
Tablets. Druggists refund money if II
fails to cure. e. W. GROVES sigma
tura Is on each box. &c.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22
Weather Conditions.

The north Pacific disturbance mas
moved east to Montana and there has
been rapid rise in pressure in the Pa
cific northwest. Another area of low
pressure is central over Nevada and
Utah Rain continues to De gen
eral over the Pacific slope, being par
ticularly heavy in southern California.
High southwesterly winds prevailed
in the inter-mountain region. A de-
preston north of the Great Lakes
has caused precipitation in the lake
region and Ohio valley Temperatures
are much lower on the Pacific coast
and are higher in the eastern states.
The indications are for fair weather
in this vicinity tonight and Saturday
with colder tonight
JOHN GROVER, Observer.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-01-22

ONLY $16.50 PER ACRE FOR 1920
acres-all tillable; $40 in wheat
rented for one-t third. All fenced. 8
miles to station. Small improve
nents. Easy terms.