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New York NIetaI NIarket

NEW YORK Jan. 2S.-There was a severe
break in London tin today, spot being quoted at
eI24 15s and futures at f126 lbs Cd. The local
market was weak and lower; spot quoted at
81. 81 u ar. .s215c-
1T f5S lis Cd and futures at f59 15s The local
market was weak and nominal. with lake quoted
1z614 121zc: electrolytic, 13.50013. 81 C;
casting, 1871 Assoc.
Lead unchanged at f13 is Sd in London
and at 4.1564.20c In the local market.
Spelter also unchanged in both markets,
being quoted at f21 12s Cd in London and at
5-05d5 10c in the local market
Iron was unchanged in London with Cleveland
warrants quoted at 46s 4lsd The local market
was unchanged No I foundry northern, SI7M
l7-15: No. ?. $16T5dl725: No. l southern and
No. do soft, Sl7.25a17.75.
New York Cotton Market
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Poultry and Game

No more western poultry came in yesterday,
put there was no urgent need for any, as retail
radesmen were well supplied with the five ear
loads previously received Receipts of domestic
livestock were 49 coops, the heaviest thus far
this week, and the market, while easy for large
chickens, remained very firm for fryers and
broiiers. which formed but a small percentage of
the arrivals. Dressed turkeys continued to sell
at wide range as to quality, and sales at the
outside quotations small and infrequent
Game continued firm limited arrivals.
Poultry (per dozen)-Hens, S50l5.5O for small
S6d7 for large and $500 for extras; young
ROSTERS, $I.50@9; old ROSTERS 81. 500l5 fryers,
S6@4; large broilers, S5G6; small broilers. $4.5
90; ducks. SIM9 for young and $566 for old !;
pigeons. S16l.z5; squads, S2.50G3; geese, 81 80
@3 per pair.
Turkeys (per lb)-Dressed, 1S026c
Game (per dozen)-Mallard ducks, seas can
yasbacks. seas; sprig, sage; gray ducks. $3n5:
zeal. $2;oo@350 widgeon, $2.50G3; small. SEA
..20; blaekJacks, 81: 50@3: gray geese, $3.509l
for large and $3.50 for small; honkers $5M7;
hare, $1.75@2; cottontail rabbits, $2@2. 80.
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NEW YORK, Jan. 2s.-Money on call easy at
1l1d2 percent; ruling rate and closing bid, q
per cent. offered at per cent.
Time loans dull and steady; 60 days 2A 6215
per cent; 90 days. 21z@2% per cent; six months.
per cent.
Prime mercantile paper, 3i5@4 per cent.
Sterling exchange firm, with actual business in
bankers bills at s.. S49064S5 for 60 day bills
and at 81 $3.50 for demand
Commercial bills. S4s4ss 64.s4x.
Bar silver, 51%c.
Mexican dollars. dc
Government bends steady; railroad bonds higher.
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MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS


SAVANNAH. Ca. Jan. s.-Turpenfine~Fir
81 re; sales, 2l4; receipts, So: shipments, 5.S15
hosin.Firm; sales. 2,S21; receipts. $50; ship
iaenls' - ss lo'0l6; stock, 173 T05. Quote: b. So;
~ SS.U9; b, S3.10; +, SIS. .l2l5 613.15; G. S3I5:
ID 30 40 l. S410; X, $5.15; NJ, 50. SO; n, S.. 50:
VIC, $6.45; WV Sc so
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Bufter Cheese ana E-y.

CHICAGO, Jan. 2s.O On the produce exchange
today the butter market was steady; creameries
22Q2Sc; daires, 21M25c. Eggs strong; at mark
cases included. 2SM31c; frsts. 31c; prime firsts
32c. Cheese strong at 14d16c.
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Northern Business

ances, $4S,014.
SEATTLE, Jan 2s-clearings, 81. 1893. 81: bal
anees, $92, ,565.
PORTLAND, Jan. 2s.-clearings s751. .5o4; bal
ances, SAG, ,25S.
SPOKANE. Jan. 2s.-clearings 5000, ,4ss bal
ances, $162, ,019.
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Foreign FUTURES
Northern wheat Market

UREGUN
PoRTLAND. Jan. s.-Wheat-Track prices
Club, 94c; bluestem, 81 O6: turkey red 95c. rod
Russian, 90c; valley soc.
WASHINGTON
TACOMA, Jan. Observation-Disclosures: Bluestem,
Sl.o5 Export: Bluestem, csc; club, 9Oc red,
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to 10 points higher. Hutton's wire says:
People who are now selling cotton are not
selling because they expected il, 900, 000 bale
crop, but because they believe that 13, 0O0,0O0
bale crop is not worth 10 cents"
Cotton-Spot quiet, 10 points higher. Middling
uplands, Zoe; middling gulf. l0.25c- Sales, 400
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Cash Grain and Provisions

CHICAGO, Jan. 2S.-Ihe leading cash QUOTA
tions were as follows: Flour, firm. No. spring
wheat. $1.0s91.1 10; No. 3, $103@10415 No. 2
red, $l.061a q 107: No. corn. 60A @G01ac; No
z yellow, 6032 @61c. No. 3 oats, white, 5Om52c
No. rye. 76c. Good feeding barley, eOc; fair to
choice mailing, 61@64c. No. / haxseed north
western. S1.6OA. Prime timothy seed SO. .SO6-
3. So Clover, contract grades, S9.15. Short ribs
sides Qoose), $s.3714 @S.75 Mess pork per bbl
$1TM1L121A. Lard per 100 lbs, 50. go. Short
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conditfon 81 the Trea.rrv

WASHINGTON, jan 2S.-Today's statement
Of the treasury balances In the general fund
exclusive Of the $50, ,O0O0 900 gold reserves shows
Available cash balance, $12S, ,2I2. .353; gold coin
SIC, SIC, $40.
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each; short wool, 4O665c each: medium. 10000
each; long wool, $16l l.j0: lambs, 15975c; horse
hides, salt, $2-50@2.T5 for large and s1.I5Q2 for
medium. IocgS125 for small and 25@5Oc for
colts; horse hides. dry, $2G2-25 for large and
$1.25@1.75 for medium. 5OcG$1 for small ard 25
@5Oc for colts; deerskins, dry Mexican, 2S93Oc;
tral American, 26@30c; goat skins, prime an
CORA. 75c4$I; medium, 4OG60c: large hair
goats. 25@35c; medium. zoe; small 0Ql5c-
Tallow-No rendered, AZ @5l5e; No. 2 51s
Wool-Spring clip (free) Humboldt. years sta
pie, 16@1ec; San Joaquin. T13@11c; southern
clip. northern mountain lfree). 71s@s1se; defec-
tive, 5qte. Oregon-Vs alley. Il 3 117c per ID.
Hops-Prlces 10 growers are from &c to 1Oc
per ID.
q Meat Market
There were no further changes in prices yes
terday.
Slaughterers' rates to dealers are as follows:
Beef-S@9e per lb for steers, 79Sc for
cows and heifers
small.
Nlutton-wethers. 11ai2e} ewes. lo@1Ie
per lb.
Dressed Pork (per lb)-1OG1O1sc for light and
'Ss'72e - livestock MARKET
The following quotations are for good, sound
livestock delivered in San Francisco, gross
weight:
Cattie-steers, No. l. &c; second quality, 4lsc:
third quality. 4c: cows end heifers. 33l Q4c for
thin. 202Ac; bulls and stays, 2l2e; thin bulls.
cai7es-5c per lb for light. 4lzc for medium
sheep-wethers. 5l5c per lb; ewes. &c per lb.
Lambs-GI61sc per ID.
Hogs-100 to 200 lbs. 66163sc; 200 to ESQ lbs,
512 @5%c; go to 300 lbs, 61s 051ac; bOars. 50Q
so per cent, stays 3eG40 per cent and sows 104
20 per cent or from above quotations.
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London CIoslng stoclss

Bar silver-Steady; % I3-16d per ounce.
MOney-22 @2% per cent.
The rate OF discount in the open market for
short bills IS 23z per cent and for three months
bills 2 I1-16Q2sI per cent.
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St r.ouf. WooI ,.,rt,..

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 2s-Wool unchanged. Com
mon eombing grades and clothing, 19623c;
light fine, 16@20c; heavy fine, 10@16c; tut
washed, 22@31c.
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SALES
%
Mining Sfoeks

SAN FRANCISCO STOCK EXCHANGE
Following were the sales on the San Francisco
stock and exchange board yesterday.
COAISTOCKS
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Neu YnrI. Money Marked

CALCUTTA, Jan 2s.-iIhe rate of discour
Of the Bank Of Bengal was raised from to
per cent
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Rank of EnpIond Rate.
Rank of bengal Rates

LONDON, Jan. 2S.-Ihe rate Of discount of
the Bank OF England remained unchanged today
at per cent.
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Butter. Cheese and Eggs

Unexpectedly light receipts and the filing of
some orders for shipment to the north were re-
sponslbIe for a reaction in the egg market yes
terday and all grades recovered the losses Of
the preceding day. There was some active buy
Ing of small parcels under the call on the ex-
change, but the total amount sold was not large
as few receivers cared TO part with their hold
1ngs except in regular trade channels. The stu
alton was just the reverse of the preceding day.
when a majority of the trade inclined to
favor the selling side of the market.
There was good market for choice butter and
all OF the extras and firsts received were closed
out of first hands without difficulty. Extras
were 12c pound higher sales at SEC. There
was no change In cheese.
Sales on the exchange were as follows:
BWter-10 cases of fresh extras at 361sc and
10 at 36c pound.
Eggs-5 cases of fresh extras at 3Sc, > at
3S1ae and % at SOC dozen.
Receipts were IS, 400 lbs butter, 10000 lbs
cheese and 465 cases eggs.
The following official quotations. estab-
l1shed by the sales, bids and offers the floor OF
the dairy exchange. Prices in the street, while
range from lac to &c higher. owing TO the vari-
Gus charges to be added.
Butter-Fresh creamery extras, S6c per ID,
firm do frsts, 3415c, firm; do seconds. 2Sc,
firm; local storage extras, 31c firm; storage east
ern ladies, 2315c firm.
Cheese California: Fancy fats, 1Sc per ID,
firm; do frsts, l21sc, firm; do seconds, l112c,
firm; fancy Young Americas, 1870, steady; do
hrsts, 154ac. steady; storage fats, 13c, weak.
Oregon: Fancy fats 14c, steady; fancy Young
Americas. Ice, weak; fancy eastern cheddars,
lie, steady; Oregon storage fats, 14c firm; do
Young Americas. 15c, firm.
Eggs (per dozen, cases included )-Calfornia
fresh extras 39c. steady; do firsts, 3715c, firm /;
do seconds, 361ac. firm; do thirds, 35c, firm; Sc
lected pullets, 35c, firm
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PORTLAND, Jan. 2s.-Butter-Clty creamery
store, 1S@20c.
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Eastern Livestock Market


SOUTH OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 2s.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts $500; market 10c lower. Western steers
$S.25G5.75; Texas steers, TO- range cows
and heifers, $2.75d4.50; Gamers, S2M3 stockers
and feeders. S2.15@5.50; calves, $3@750; bulls
and stays, $3@5
Hogs-Receipts 10000: market weak to &c
lower. Heavy. 5.95@6. %; mixed, $5S0@5. .95:
light, $5.70G6; pigs, $4.50G5; bulk of sales,
$5.75G6.
sheep-Receipts, 5000; market 1o015c lower.
Yearlings S5.7506.50; wethers, $4,000; ewes
S4.25G4s0; lambs. S6.50@7.4 40
1000; market steady. Native steers, s4 50@6 rs;
native cows and heifers. $2@5.75 stockers and
feeders $3.50@5.75; bulls, $3. .25@5; calves, $3.50
4650; western steers, $4Q6.40; western cows,
$3.25Q5.25.
Hogs-Receipts, 5000; market weak to &c
lower. Bulk OF sales, $5.50@6.20; heavy, SO 10
d6.25; packers and butchers, $5.90@6.20; light
So. 5066.05; pigs, 81. 50d5.30
Sheep-Receipts. 1000; market steady Nut
tons, $4-50G5.60; lambs. $6.25@7.55; range
wethers, $4G640; fed ewes $3@520.
CHICAGO. JAN S.-Cattle-Receipts esti-
mated at $780, best steady, others weak. Beeyes,
S4.20Q720: Texans. $420@5; westerns. $4,000
heifers, $1.S5@ . co. calves, $5.500S.
Hogs-Recepts, estimated at 10000; market
&c lower. Light. $5.50@6.15; mixed, $5.75M
g. 40: heavy, $5.S0@6.40; rough. $500 5.95; good
10 choice heavy, $5.954640; pigs, 81. 60@5.50;
bulk of sales, $6d6.30.
Sheep-Recepts. estimated at $1,000; market
weak TO 10c lower. Natives, So 40G5. To- west
ern, 3.406575; yearlings. S590@7; lambs, ma
tiyes $5.509T:75, western S5.50@775.
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Portland butter Marke

luluncapOnA tIax MARKET
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 2S.-F1ax closed a
$1.56es.
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New York stock List
E. F. Hutton Co., 49O California street,
members OF the New York stock exchange. fur
nish the following list Of bond and stock sales
yesterday:
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LOCAL MARKETS
Sam Francisco Monex nrarket

All local quotations FOR exchange yesterday re-
malned unchanged. Silver also stood the same
fIhe Bank OF England rate of discount remained
as before, at per cent
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Los Angeles Markets

Los ANGELES, Jan. 2s.-Receipts OF dairy
products and eggs were lighter today. giving a
firm tone TO the market, but there was an ad-
vance IN prices. Case count eggs sold for 34c
and candled stock was firm at 37c
Potatoes remained firm and jobbers are pre-
dieting further advances for next week. Cheese
beans and onions were steady but unchanged In
price.
More green vegetables were on the market
today than yesterday, which slightly weakened
it. despite heavy trading.
Produce receipts: Eggs, 16S cases: butter
$3.50 pounds; cheese, 376 pounds; potatoes 2 os6
sacks; onions, 20 sacks; beans, 10 sacks; sweet
potatoes, PAL sacks: apples, 8 boxes.
Eggs-Local ranch candlcd, 37c; storage se-
lected, 34c; case count 34c
Butter Creamery extras, T71Ac per lb roll.
selling price TO trade soc; creamery frsts. 671bc
eastern extras 6715c; cooking butter, &c per ib,
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New York Cotton Market
NEW YORK, Jan. 2s.-The market was 2
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Deciduous and Citrus Fruits

Business In the market for fresh fruits con-
tfnued to improve, but the improvement
slow and at time during the day there
any marked activity as far local trade
concerned, as buyers were not operating beyond
immediate wants. There moderate
buying of oranges for shipment the steamer
Alameda, leaving for Honolulu on Saturday, but
supplies of that fruit were still large at the
close OF business. Grapefruit and tangerines
were firm, with stocks pretty well cleaned up,
while lemons were exceedingly dull and weak
to prices The apple market was firm and some
dealers reported that tentative inquiries
being received from outside points. There was
nothing new in the other fruits.
Apples (per box)-Fancy Oregon Sptzenbergs,
$150@1.75; other fancy, 99c@S1.35; common to
choice 500l75c.
Pears-Winter Nellis $1.25@1.50 per box;
cooking varieties, 50@I5c.
Citrus Fruits (per boxl-Navel oranges, SEA
2.50 for fancy. S1.T5@2 for choice and SI.50G
1-75 for standard tangerines $1.25@1.75; grape
fruit $3@3.50 for seedless; lemons. $2.I5 413
for fancy, $2@2.50 for choice and $1.25@1.5O
for standards; lines $4M5.
Tropical Fruits-Bananas, 75cdS1.25 per bunch
for Hawaiian and S2@3 for Central American;
pineapples, $1.50@2. 90 per dozen.
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Egg Market In Nearby Counties

SANTA ROSA. Jan. 2s.-The quotations today
for eggs were SIC per dozen for choice and 34c
for seconds. The pleasant weather has resulted
in steady increase in the supply, and the pro
ducers are getting to market easy.
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DO 455s ....... 91lI Wis Central 4s 93
New York Mining stocks
Alice ...-...... Q 50lLftfle Chief
Bnston Sfnckn and Rnnda
THE COPPER STOCKS

BOSTON. jan. 2S.-The market was lower
and heavy foreign selling
COPPER CLOSE
The following list is furnished by E. F. Hut
ton Co.. 490 California street. San Fran
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Directory, COmstOcI< Mime
sroCK AND BOND ExCHANGE
THURSDAY. Jan. 2s-Io:so a.
UNITED STATES BONDS
nsz A. nfl 1

As or CO new = I3s or coup. .1OO9l
MISCELLANEOUS BONDS
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Beans and Seeds

Potatoes. Onions and Vegetables
The excitement in the potato market has SUBJ
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SALES
Morning Session

100 Giant Powder ................ 20. 90
50 Spring Valley Water Co.'S. so. T5
100 Spring Valley Water Co.. sc. %
$1,000 Cal Gas & FL 6 NJ & T IS. 91.75
500 Northern Cal Power 5s.-...... 93 10
$1,000 2 1st refdg As. ....... 96. 90
$1,000 Spring Val Wat gen mtge As. 81 90
Street
10 Hutchinson p 20 rQ O0
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-26
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Notice is hereby given that the City
of Walla Walla will receive bids up to
and including o'clock p. m, July q
1909, for the paving with either vitri-
fled brick, asphalt Warren's bitulithic
with bituminous base, Warren's bituli-
THE with concrete base, bituminous
macadam with bitumnous base, btu
minOus macadam with concrete base
Blome COmpany's GranitOd, and
avenue from the northwesterly line OF
East Main street to the east line OF
Bellevue avenue in accordance with the
plans and specifications adopted by
the City Council and now on file in the
office of the City Clerk.
All bids must comply with Ordinance
No. 1909 and with the requirements
for bids in such plans and specifica-
tiOns, and be accompanied with a GER
titled bank check on some bank of the
City Of Walla Walla as therein re-
CURED.
Bids and checks must be sealed
marked Bids for Paving Local I'm
provement District No. SO and ad-
dressed to the undersigned.
The City reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
T. D. S. HART,
City Clerk.
First publication in Evening States
man July II, 1909; last publication
July 26. 1909.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-26
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Notice is hereby given that the City
of Walla Walla will receive bids up
to and including o'clock p. M, July
p, 1909, for the paving with either
vitrified brick, asphalt, Warren's btu
lithic with bituminOus base, Warren
bitulithic with concrete base btumin-
Gus macadam with bituminous base,
bituminOus macadam with concrete
base, Blome COmpany's GranitOid, and
trapiod concrete pavements, of North
Palouse street from the north line of
East Rose street to connect with the
pavement on East Main street in &C
cOrdance with the plans and specifi-
cations adopted by the City Council
and now on file in the office of the
City Clerk.
All bids must comply with Ordinance
No. 1907 and with the requirements
for bids in such plans and specifica-
tions. and be accompanied with "a GER
tilted bank check on some bank of the
City of Walla Walla as therein re-
CURED
Bids and checks must be sealed,
marked Bids for Paving Local I'm
provement District No. ST. and ad-
dressed to the undersigned
The City reserves the right to re-
ject any or all bids.
T. D. S. HART,
City Clerk.
First publication in Evening States
man July II, 1909; last publication
July 26, 1909.
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CITY Frs NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the as
sessment Roll for Local Improvement
District No 3S under the provisions
of Ordinance No. 1885 of the City of
Walla Walla, entitled can Ordinance
levying a tax to pave gutter, curb, and
improve North Second street from the
bridge crossing Mill Creek to the
north line on Oak street the
same being Local Improvement
District No. SO, and providing
for the issue and sale of local I'm
provement bonds on said district to
pay therefor is now in my hands for
collection and that any assessment
therein may be paid at any time with
in thirty days from the date of the
first publication of this notice with
out penalty, interest or cost; also
that each property is hereby notified
that the first installment of each as
sessment is due and payable at the
office of the City Treasurer on the
18th day Of August, 1909. All prop
erty owners interested are hereby
notified to appear at my office in the
City Hall and pay same.
R. G. PARKS.
City Treasurer.
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Notice Is hereby given tnat the City
of Walla Walla VIII receive bids up to
and including o'clock p. m, July u,
1909. for the paving with either vltri-
fled brick, asphalt, Warren's bltuh-
the with bituminous base. Warren's
bitulithic with concrete base. b1tumin-
Gus macadam with bituminous base,
bituminous macadam with concrete
base. Blome Company's Granitoid, and
trapiod concrete pavements, OF East
Main street from the east line of Pa
louise street to the south line OF lsaacs
avenue. in accordance with the plans
and specifications adopted by the City
Council and now on file in the office
of the City Clerk.
All bids must comply with ordinance
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-26
A Royal Connoisseur.

James B. Laughlin, a wealthy col
lector of Pittsburg, recently d1scOv-
cred a hoax in his gallery and COM
PEELED "a dealer to refund the $4,000
that had been paid for $50 work of
art.
Mr.. Laughlin, as this episode
shows, is a cOnnoisseur Of no mean
ability. At a recent dinner he point
out out brilliantly the limitations and
the shallowness of court painters.
Then he laughed and said:
"a movement was on foot for the
alliance of King Charles of Wurtem-
berg and the Grand Duchess Olga Of
Russia An emissary of the Russian
court came to the young king, LAID
certain proposals before him and
submitted a portrait in oils of the
royal lady
King Charles, after a close scru-
tiny, said:
The eyes are too large and brilliant
the hair too abundant, the complexion
too f1ower-li like and the neck and arms
too beautiful altogether
"'But your majesty said the as
tonished Russian, you do not know
the grand Duchess
ono, said the king, but l know
court painters.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-26

In 1777 his popularity with the people
of his native colony was attested whe.
he was elected governor and at tn.
same time lieutenant governor of Ecv
York, being the first chief executive
| of the new state.
He held the office of governor Of
New York for eighteen years. He
was again chosen governor after
spending five years in private life, and
in 1904 became vice president of tn.
United States. He was reelected in
1908.
Clinton died in Washington April 70
1872, and his body rested in the nat
| ional capital until May, 1909, when il
was removed to Kingston, N. Y, where
it was finally inferred with ceremonies
that partook of a national character
1t is a coincidence that Clinion's
| birthday is also that of the state OF
| which he was the first governor, since
it was on July 26, 1888, that the state
convention in session at Poughxecp-
sic ratified the constitution of the
| United States, and New York became
the eleventh state in the union II
had been a stormy session. Alexander
Hamilton had made the greatest fight
of his life, backed by John Fay, Il r.
! Livingston and James Duane. TIE
opposition to the constitution, led by
j Governor Clinton, was equally ferrc,
for these men believed that the great
document would destroy the liberties
of the people, Since July 18th they
had debated, and the ten states thai
had already ratified were filed wiz
apprehension OYER the possible re-
suits, for without New York the union
could not be perfect Rhode IslaDa
and North Carolina, neither OF which
had yet ratified the constitution, could
be spared, because the one was -
small and the other so far south BM
New York was the great wedge that
would have divided the northern from
the southern states and have made
any government so situated a mcuf
disjointed affair. The federaljSfs
worked zealously, ard when the vote
was taken New York became state
by a majority of three votes, thidty
being for ratification and twenty-eey-
en- against it. 1t was such a nsomen-
tous step in the history of the coup-
try that couriers on horseback sosS
carried the news to other states, and
New York entered upon the missson
of proving the right to the name En-
pire State, given it by Washington IN
1884, when he referred to it as '.I.le
present seat of the empire"
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term of James Madison, was born IT
Little Britain, Ulster county, New
York, 10 years ago today,
When congress met in the eventfu
year of 1916, Clinton occupied seat
in that immortal assemblage. He vot-
ed in favor of the Declaration OF IN
dependence, but was summoned to ac-
tive service in the army as a brlgadler
,enarsI before the document was pre-
pared fer his signature.
During the times that tried mems
souls" Clinton was one of the most
pronounced of the advocates of COM
plete independence, but bitterly OPP
posed the adoption Of the constitution
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-26
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS.

Notice is hereby given that the as
sessment roll of the City Of Walla
Walla for the year 1909 has been
placed in the hands of the City Coun-
ell and that said roll is in the office
of the City Clerk in the City Hall,
for inspection by the taxpayers. The
City Council will sit as a Board of
Equalization commencing Tuesday.
August 4, 1909, at o'clock p. m. and
continue to sit as a Board Of Equali-
zation until the business of the Board
is completed. Taxpayers are also no.
titled that all complaints against as
sessments must be made in writing
and filed with the City Clerk.
T. D. S. HART,
City Clerk.
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