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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-29
PROMISING COLT
CUT TO PIECES

The keeper of this horse had just
taken his bride off after entering the
stable and while examining the feed
box permitted it to. rush past him.
Attempts were made to stop the horse
by various bystanders. but proving #
no avail, several people followed MIN
into the road where he soon ran into
the wire.
Prince Axworthy was recently pur
chased in Chicago by William Hogo-
boom and when shipped to this city
proved to be one of the cleanest bred
animals in the northwest. His breed
ing is traced from clean blood lines
and sired by Axworthy, with 3-year-
old record of 2:15 ga. he was herald
ed as being the coming sensation OF
the country.
His pedigree embraces some of the
most famous performers of the world
one of them being General Watts
2:O6 3-4, the fastest 3-year-old the
world has ever seen. Prince AK
worthy's dam was Brocade B. by BaroI
Wiskes.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-29
Motion for Continuance Is
Granted, But Only Until
Day After Tomorrow.
CROWDS THRONG
COURT ROOM TODAY
Mckinley, Hamlin, Corbin
Unable to Secure Bonds
Appear Handcuffed.

SAN FRANCISCO, MARCH 90
Great crowds, aroused by the arrest
Saturday of two employees of the dis
trict attorneys Office and three agents
of the United Railroads on suspicion
that they are involved in the theft of
evidence from the prosecution in the
trial Of Calhoun, president Of the
United Railroads, focked into the court
room this morning. Calhoun and
Heney failed to appear. The work Of
getting the jury continues.
The cases against the accused men
were continued by Judge Deasy until
Wednesday for arraignment. Frank j.
Murphy, Ruefs attorney was the only
defendant who announced that he was
ready for arraignment. ]. H. Hand
lon. claim agent of the United Rail-
roads: Luther Brown, chief of Cal
houn's protective agency; William
Abbott, Calhoun's chief of counsel, ar
rested in the scandal, appeared in
court with Calhoun.
Calhoun Trial Goes on.
The questioning of the talesmen
was conducted by Judge Lawlor,t and
later by Attorney Moore. For the de-
fense Assistant District Attorney
O'Gara took up the examination.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-29
Nav Festival.

Preparations for the big May festi-
val to be held in this city May 8 are
progressing nicely and according to
music leaders it will be the grandest
musical event ever pulled off in Walla
Walla. The second rehearsal Of the
May Festival Chorus will be held
tomorrow evening ,at 1880 o'clock in
Whitman college chapel. Professor A.
C. Jackson, director, says that the
very best musical talent in the city
has been interested in the enterprise,
but it is not too late yet to swell the
size of the chorus. He urges all who
are at all musically inclined to join
at once and begin work tomorrow
night.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra
has been engaged to assist Mr.. jack
son and the success of the undertaking
is practically assured.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-29
SAYS
HE WAS ROBBED
CLAIMS THAT TWO COMPANION s
LIFTED NEARLY 500 FROM
HIS POCKETS.

Henry McCanaughy and william R.
LeTrace, both well-known in this city,
were placed under arrest Saturday
night by Officers Buck and Wilcox,
and booked at police headquarters as
being suspected Of relieving Levi M.
Bracken of a sum of money, estimated
occupying cells in the city Jail, and the
at between $50 and 800. They are
prosecuting attorneys Office is in
charge of the case.
According to the story told the polio.
this morning by Bracken, who is a
sheepherder from Lewiston he had
stopped off in Walla Walla to buy a
suit of clothes before going to Pendle-
ton, where he is well known, to visit
with friends. He met McCanaughy
and LeTrace, former residents Of Lew
iston, with whom he was well acquaint-
ed, and the three proceeded to cele-
brate their meeting. Later, Bracken
went to the White House clothing store
to secure a suit, and when the deal
had been closed, he found his roll o
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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-29
MURDERED IN COLD
BLOOD FOR MONEY

bullet holes in his body yesterday in
the brush near his cabin at Summit
station on the old Puyallup line. He
was murdered in cold blood. The mo-
tive was evidently robbery. as his pock-
cts were rifled. His wallet, secreted in
the kitchen, was taken. He lived in
the cabin alone. 1t is believed he has
been dead for four days, as a shot was
heard then by U. G. Burke, neigh
boring rancher.
The body was found by r. w. Cody,
H. T. Denham and w. H. Eaton, who
were out hunting. Two bullets were
lodged in his head, one in his chest and
another in his left hand. Deputy sher-
ifs say they have a good clew.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-29
PENALTY
PAID FOR.
KILLING
Mrs. Mary Farmer, Murder
ess of Sarah Brennan,
Dies for Her Crime.
ELECTROCUTED IN
THE STATE PRISON
Confesses That She Did the
Deed, but Says Husband
Is Not Guilty.
ELECTROCUTED IN
THE STATE PRISON

AUBURN, N. Y, March 29.-Her
eyes half closed, muttering the pray
ers taught her by a priest, Mrs. Mary
Farmer, mother of a boy, aged two
years, walked to death in the electric
chair in the state prison here this
morning while her husband, James,
sentenced to die for the same crime,
paced the floor of a cell scarcely a
stones throw away. The woman
made a brief confession to a notary
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-29

public, admitting that she killed Sarah
Brennan a year ago for her property.
She sWore her husband is innocent.
The woman was supported by Mrs.
John Dunnigan and Mary German, as
the heavy door leading to death row.
opened. They were preceded by Fa-
ther Hickey, chanting prayers. The
woman took her place in the chair
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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-29
GOVERNOR
COsGROvE
SUCCUNBS
Death at Last Claims Man
Who Struggled lBravely
For His Life.
PASSED SUDDENLY
SUNDAY MORNING
After Recuperation Which
Allowed Inauguration
Strength Failed.

PASO ROBLES, March 29.-After a
recuperation which seemed to be a
forerunner of complete recovery, Gov
ernor S. G. Cosgrove died here yester-
day morning at o'clock, of Bright's
disease, from which he has for long
time been suffering. His death came
as a sudden shock, for although he
has been confined to his room for the
past two or three days, he had been
recovering rapidly and had expected
to return to Washington in a month oD
two.
The campaign for his election weak
ened him greatly and when he was
brought here early in January it was
thought he could live but a short time.
However, the baths and medical treat
ment improved him and he gradually
became stronger.
He felt so much improved that ne
risked the Quincy to Olympia seVeral
weeks ago to be inaugurated governor
Of Washington and take the oath OF
office. returning almost Immediately
TO Paso Robes This trip, however,
proved too much for his strength and
since his return here his condition had
gradually grown worse. For the past
two days he had been confined to his
room with Mrs. Cosgrova in constant
attendance upon him. Although II
was known that he was considerably
weaker Saturday, his death in the
early hours of the morning came quite
suddenly and unexpectedly to his wife
and DR.. Frank w Sawyer, the ply
sician in charge OF the springs, who
has been attending him. Cnlt few
hours before his death he seemed to
feel somewhat better again and re-
marked that he hoped soon to be able
to return to Washington and take up
his duties as governor.
The immediate cause Of death was
the failure of the governors heart.
The bouy Of Governor Cosgrove, ac-
companied by J. M. Anderson and wife
of Saettle, and the widow, left here for
the north at $50 o'clock this morning.
No funeral arrangements were made in
Paso Robles. They will probably be
in charge of Governor Hay and the
SON of the deceased.
Obituary.
Samuel Godlove Cosgrove was born
in Tuscarawas, Ohio, April 10, 1S47,
and lived with his parents there until
the outbreak of the Civil war, when he
ran away from home and enlisted with
the Ohio volunteers At the close of the
war, although his plans were bitterly
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-29
PRINCE A x w OR TIL Y
GETS FREE AND RUNS
INTO BARB WIRE
Animal Badly Injured and
Will Probably Die From
Injuries Received.

Owing to carelessness and negligence
on the part of the caretaker, Prince
Axworthy, the 2-year-old colt belong
Ing to a local horse woman, at present
In the racing stables Of William Hogo-
boom, yesterday was permitted to get
free from his stall and rushing into
the road nearby, became entangled in
barb wire fence, causing it to sus-
tain injuries that will probably result
in his death.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-29
DOCTOR N. G.. BI.ALOCK
SAYS WORK WILL
SOON BE BEGUN
Director of Field Work Is
TO Arrive in City.
TO Take Charge.

Anyone who is disposed to doubt that
the promoters of the Walla Walla &
Columbia Traction company do not
really intend to construct the line from
Dayton to Wallula may be convinced
of their erroneous judgment by a visit
to the Blalock fruit farm, through
which three distinct routes have been
surveyed during the past week, and
which are today being passed upon by
DR.. N. G. Blalock, VINO is at the head
OF the concern. 1t was announced this
morning that the BlalOck Fruit COM
pany, having purchased a number of
farms adjoining the original fruit
ranch, are desirous of having the line
cross their places, and to that end they
are assisting the promoters in secur-
ing the more favorable rights of-way.
Professor Tennatt, who is to come
from Boise to take charge Of field op-
erations, will arrive in the city today
or tomorrow, and as soon as he has
arranged his preliminaries actuai con-
struction work is to be started. The
initial grading operations are to be
executed below this city, and continued
to Wallula, the general belief being
lIldI lIc NOTluGTu Z lIOAl 1lCiC ~
Dayton is to be electrified as soon as
the Wallula portion has been COM
pleted.
Il have nothing to say for publica-
tion," said Dr. ~ G. Blalock this morn
ing. There has been so much hot
air. peddled already that we desire to
remain silent until we can show people
we mean what we saw"
He admitted, however, that ne was
going to spend today looking over the
routes surveyed across the Blalock
farm with the intention of selecting
that which appeared the more prac-
ticable.
Hill Is Interested.
Although disparaging reports have
been given out regarding the financial
backing of the Walla Walla & Colum-
bia company, mainly by promoters of
the Columbia & Walla Walla line. it is
! known to be fact that $5,000,O00 OF
real hard cash are behind the builders,
! and that the Hill interests are deeply
concerned relative to the completion OF
the Wallula line. That the Walla
Walla Valley Traction company is not
affiliated with the Northern Pacific and
can hope for no favors or courtesies
beyond traffic agreement, has been
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-29
Watching Castro's Movements.

CARACAS. March 29.-The report
ezuela, is supposed to nave sailed
yesterday from Bordeaux for La
Guarzia is watched with keen inter-
est. 1t is not thought that he will
land in Venezuela, as dangerous
demonstrations against him may be
expected in Venezuela. 1t is thought
he will go to Nicaragua, where his
friend Zelaya reigns. Castro's entire
fortune is in Venezuela, and it will
be lost to him if he fails to return.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-29
FOR
THE W.W.&C. ROAD


given out by officials since the rail-
way activity entered this section, and
with Howard Elliott, of the Northern
Pacific, taking a deep interest in the
progress of the Walla Walla & COlum-
bia road, there is every reason to be-
lieve that the Dayton branch is to be
electrified as soon as the lower portion
of the line is ready for operation OF
cars. This is strengthened by tne Fact
that construction work is to be con-
fined exclusively to the territory be-
tween Walla Wlalla and Wallula.
Power Site Secured.
Although the promoters are extreme
ly reticent concerning the power ques-
tion it is learned on reliable authority
that a power site, above Dayton, which
will generate power sufficient for all
needs of the company has been Sc
cured, and that it will be completed
some time this year, the preliminary
work being now under way. With the
acceptance of the route below the city
by President BlalOck and the arrival
in the city of Engineer Tannatt, the
WaIla Walla & Columbia will be ready
for grade work, and machinery cap
able of handling the operations is to De
secured Immediately.
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BIuestem, $1.10 to SLIP.
Turkey Red, s1.oo to $1.o2
Club, CSC to 98c.
Barley, $26 to $27.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-27
THE DAILY PRESS And
The LUMBER BUSINESS

falsehood and calculated to greatly
inflame the public mind. He said
the people had come to believe in the
existence of a lumber trust, bounded
only by the confines of the country
and compelling unreasonable prices
for every foot of lumber made.
Mr. Long does not exaggerate in
the slightest the conditions which ex.
list Whether or not they can be i'm
proved through the work of a press
agency will depend very much on how
the idea of press agency is carried
out. To what extent the newspapers
have created the state of public mind
which Mr. Long describes. or to what
extent they reflect a state of mind
created III some other way. is a ques
ton. There is no doubt but that be-
ginning with Lawson's sensational IL.
rades in one of the most enterpris-
ing OF the so-called popular magazines.
there swept over the whole country a
fad for freak literature. Every writer
was looking for something out OF
which he could create a thrill, and
every magazine was looking for the
writer who had been successful in his
search. The public relished what
was printed, and the circulation of
the most sensational of the publica-
tons increased by bounds. The daily
newspapers fell victims to the fad
for time, but were the first to show
symptoms of dropping 1T and for
quite while now there has been evil
dence on every hand of a gratifying
return to saner writing in all publ
cations making a claim of respecta-
bility.
During the craze the lumber busl-
ness came in for more than a full
share of attention, partly by reason Of
ignorance on the part of the public
of the true conditions under which
it is conducted and the high prices
that had prevailed for lumber as the
result of demand which the manufac-
turers and railroads were alike I'M
able to handle, but in some measure
due to other things. With the pass
ing of the frenzy of freak literature
there is opportunity for the lumber
people to disseminate many facts and
figures that will be very helpful, and
to insure their being duly considered.
A press agency rightly conducted could
carry on to advantage
of educating the people as
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-27
They DON'T LIKE
SAMUEL GOMPERS
FRENCH LABOR LEADERS SAY HE
CAN TEACH THEM NOTHING.

NEW YORK, July PA cable
from Paris says Samuel Gompers,
the head of the American Federation
of Labor, before leaving Paris for
Germany, addressed the central body
of French Labor Syndicates, and con-
trasted American and French organ
izations The Paris labor leaders
were not pleased when he criticised
their divided counsel and political
differences.
You Frenchmen," said Mr.. Comp
ers, bother over words. We concern
ourselves only with things"
When he was asked if he was an
anti-militarist he replied:
Yes, in the sense that I wish all
nations to dwell together as brothers;
but. in present conditions. when each
nation seeks the most powerful arma-
ment, we cant ask our nation to lay
down its arms
A prominent labor leader afterward
said that Mr.. Gompers was very in
teresting but didn't understand the
French labor movement He said:
Here We respect individual opin-
ion, while in America a select COM
mittee decides behind closed doors
the organizations action without Civ
ing individuals the opportunity to ex-
press their ideas. Mr.. Gompers
can't teach us. We prefer to manage
our labor movement in our own way
the French way"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-27
From the Southern Lumberman Of

From the Southern Lumberman OF
July "a:
A considerable part of the able and
timely address delivered at the recent
meeting of the National Lumber Man
ufacturers' Association at Seattle, by
Mr. r. A. Long, the retiring president,
was devoted to the unfavorabIe attn
tude of the public mind toward those
engaged in the lumber business. He
urgently recommended the establish
ment by the association of a press
agency to give to the public through
newspapers and magazines the true
facts of the business and the condi-
tons under which it is carried or.
Mr.. Long said that there is hardly a
paper in the country but which has
printed at different lines during the
last few years editorial or other ar
tcies, based on utter ignorance or
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-27

to the methods and cost of manufac-
turing lumber, the distribution and
narrow limits of the timber supply,
the intricate and vital relations be
tween owners of standing timber aud
the taxing power, and many other
things. Hardly an editor in the coun- |
try but who already realizes the I'M
portance and urgency of these ques-
tons, or whose hearty cooperation
cannot be counted on in disseminating
the real facts in preparing the people
for the ievitable developments of the
almost immediate future.
The most effective immediate steps
however, in allaying the prejudice of
which Mr.. Long complains, and Of
changing the attitude of many of the
most influential daily papers toward
Der trade, is a change in the method
and manner of conducting the proceed
ings of the lumber association meet
ings. Nearly all such meetings are
held in large cities, and hardly ever
do the leading papers fail to send re-
porters to cover the proceedings. The
reporter of daily paper is not the
editor and has nothing to do with
shaping the policy of the paper. He
is sent out to get an account Of any
happenings, or any meeting Of any
Importance. Not once in a million
times is he instructed to color his
story for any purpose. Not one daily
paper in ten thousand purposely 10
ceives. The men who control news
papers are of the same breed as all
others, no better and no worse
The reporter of a daily paper sent
to write up a lumber meeting knows
that his paper could not handle such
detailed report as the lumber papers
print. He would lose his job if he
brought in such a report. What the
representative of the daily paper
wants is the facts, but he wants to
know that he knows all the facts
whether his paper sees fit to use them
all or not. To admit the reporter Of
every newspaper who appears IN the
scene, to make him welcome. and to
feel that he is at liberty to go and
come as he sees fit then in the end
furnish him with such a succinct ac-
count of the facts as his paper can
use, and which he knows, or a least
has the opportunity of knowing con
tains the exact facts, is the proper
step. To tender him an account of
barred will not serve the purpose. 10
exclude him at all is mistake. 1t is
only to send him back to the man
who controls the paper, smarting with
resentment, and to excuse his failure
to get what he was sent after by eX-
aggerating the nature of the rebuff
he feels he has been given.
1t is here that a part of the publicity
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-27
ZACHARY IAYLOR'S DAUGHTER
DIES AT WINCHESTER, VA.

home in East Baton Rouge parish |
was elected twelfth president of the |
United States. Upon her fathers in
auguration, Mrs. Bliss entered upon
her brilliant social career at the capt
tai. In his recollections Colonel A.
X. Mcclure says of her:
"She was only "a years of age when
her father became president, and with
her elegant culture, sunny disposition
and admirable social tact, she was
probably, next to Mrs. Cleveland, the
most generally popular mistress the
White House ever had"
After her fathers term in the pres
idency Mrs. Bliss again resided in
New Orleans, and it was here that she
was married to Mr.. cambridge. After
the war they located in Winchester,
Va. Mrs. cambridge came on visit
to New Orleans a few years ago as
the guest of her neice Mrs. Walter
r. Stauffer The two little sons of
General Dick Taylor. who remained
at the Taylor plantation home with
their mother while their father was in
the Confederate service, died of yell
low fever, and with them passed the
last descendants of Zachary Taylor
bearing the Taylor name.-New Or
leans Item.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-27

work Mr.aLong urges could be most |
done. Its effect would be |
visible from the very start, and in
time would change the whole attitude
of many of the most influential daily
papers of the country from one of an
tagonism and distrust to one Of sympd-
vite confidence while withholding con-
fidence, and no organization or bust
ness man can invest its meetings with
| the appearance of secrecy without
| mourning a hurtful suspicion and dis
trust. Men who have nothing to con-
ceal have the right to meet whenever
and wherever they please, and to in
vite or exclude from their meeting
whomsiever they see fit. But it is
not question of right, 1t is 4 Ques
ton of expediency and prudence. The
men engaged in lumber manufactur
ing in this country have nothing t.
hide. They have everything to gaii
and nothing to lose from the fules
publicity being given to their opera
tons, and the first step toward secui
ing publicity of the right sort is t.
throw their meetings open to all IN
til this is done the man at tho head O
a press agency will find it harG t
| get accented Inv tho host 1rh1ina IN
the matter he is paid to write
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-07-27

this place, this spot then was the
rendezvous of all the early congress-
men. 1t was from this place that
many congressional funerals took
place in a day when a congressional
funeral was worth while and when
the old congressional cemetery was
alive and doing business"
What prohibition Kansas will say
when it learns that the red-headed
pride of Wichita has started his name
a laundering down the ages through
his revival of an almost forgotten in
toxicant will be worth hearing. The
worst of the thing is that Mr.. Muir
dock has not produced the timber
doodle recipe.-New York Sun.