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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24

Firty thousand dollars has been
placed in the hands of the Whitman
college authorities oy Stephen H
Matthews of Spokane, unsolicited and
unasked for, this amount to be used
in the fast building superstructure of
a Greater Whitman. The news of this
benevolence reached the college yester-
day morning and later was officially
announced. The many who have been
striving for years to make Whitman
one Of the greatest colleges in the west
are overjoyed at this latest piece of
good fortune and feel, at least, that
their efforts have not been in vain.
This sum is to be used for the crea-
ton of fund known as the Stephen
H. and the Mary Mathews Scholarship
fund and according to certain stipu-
lations made when donated, it will be
invested under tine direction of the
board of trustees, the accruing inter-
est to be loaned to worthy students
who are in need of financial aid. To
stimulate business interest in the in
vestment, those who borrow from the
fund will be expected to pay a nominal
interest, the rate of interest and
amount of the loan to be determined
in each instance at the discretion of
the board of trustees.
Thus the endowment becomes a re-
volving fund the possibilities and far
reaching influence of which can hard
ly be overestimated. If not obvious at
first hand, the real significance Of Mr..
and Mrs. Mathews philanthropy can
Io tot xxrhn 10
fund is set revolving and mathemat-
ical version rendered. Invested where
it will reutrn eight per cent, the $50,
900 will have earned $4,000 at the end
of the first year, and with this amount
distributed among those students who
are in greatest need of a helping hand
figuring 5000 as maximum loan,
20 deserving young men or women
could be carried through the school
year. and on toward the goal Of their
ambitions. Fixing a per cent rate
for each beneficiary, the $4,000 used
by them would return to the fund $500
or enough to accommodate one more
student the following year. By fol-
lowing the revolution of the fund, it
will be seen that at the end of the
fifth year, Whitman college will have
$4,000 to offer those Of it's student
body who wish to apply for help from
the Mathews scholarship fund
Stephen H. Mathews, Whitman's
new benefactor, until a few days ago
was unknown to the college authorities
and the gifht was the result of his
own philanthropic impulses and came
as a great, glad surprise to the pro-
mOters of the yale if the Northwest
movement. Reading a newspaper in
terview from J. D. Neilan, the home
worker Of the Greater Whitman field
force, in which he set out the vital
features of the broad work in which
he is engaged, Mr.. Mathews became
interested in Whitman college. In
fact, so sincere was his interest that
he wrote the college officials asking
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24
WEDNESDAY, MARCH "a, 1909
GIVES WHITMAN
FIFTY THOUSAND

that he be given an audience. stating
at that time that if details could be
arranged, he wished to give financial
aid to the college in Walla Walla. An
audience with Dean Hendrick and Mr..
Neilan followed. Terms were. quickly
made and the munificent scholarship
created.
Biography of Mathews.
This modest philanthropist has been
a resident of the west but a compare
lively short time, having come to
Spokane some two years ago from
Iowa. Beginning as poor saddler
when but a boy Mr. Mathews has
fought the battles of life and won
how we'll. the world is just now be-
ginning to know. Mr.. Mathews life
Il was born at Jacksonville, I'LL
nois in 1888, and came with my par
ents to Iowa in the winter of 1910,
settling in Fairfield, the county seat
of Jefferson county. Here my boyhood
was spent and at the age of IS began
the trade of saddle and harness max
ing and followed that business for
several years.
I'm the spring of 1856 we moved to
Council Bluffs, Iowa, in the western
part of the state, which was then
very sparsely settled. While here /
continued to work at my trade, and
at times clerked in a general store.
In 1852 I enlisted in company K, goth
Iowa infantry, and served for nearly
three years and a half in the differ
ent grades from a private to the rank
Of brevet major. 1 was mustered out
of the service the latter part of 1865
at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Going
to ST. Louis, Missouri, I spent two
years on the detective force That kind
Of life not being agreeable to me /
resigned.
Returning to Council Bluffs I work
ed at my trade while, and then
bought out business and started for
myself and met with fair success. In
1870 / was nominated for sheriff on
the republican ticket but was left on
account of being on the wrong side
of the county seat fight. Afterwards
1 was appointed assistant departmental
revenue assessor for the western di-
vision of Iowa and held that position
when the office of revenue assessor
was abolished. I continued in my sad
die and harness business for a year
longer and then sold out my entire
holdings and went into the hardware
and implement business. I was sue
cessful in this venture and when OPP.
portunity offered 1 disposed of it and
since that time have followed the real
estate and loan business"
Speaking Of the Mathews gift,
Mr. Neilan yesterday said: "This is
but one of the several agreeable sur
prises which we expect to offer the
friends of Whitman college in the near
future Others like Mr.. Mathews have
heard of the great work we are carry
ing on and others like him have show
ed a marked interest in the movement
Before commencement next spring we
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24
Up-TO-DATE SPORTING NEWS

score, and when the whistle blew a.
the end of 20 minutes playing, tbs
score stood II to Is. After few min
utes discussion, both teams decided te
play off the tie, and the argument was
resumed. The business men played In
hard luck and although getting greai
many close shots for goal, they die
not succeed in landing any Then the
math priff, by a desperate throw from
the center of the field, landed the
sphere squarely in the basket, and the
game was won for the faculty. Final
score IA to II.
The game was goodnatured rough
and tumble mix-up. The weight of the
business men told for them, and they
wore their opponents out in the first
half. The crowd, which was a fair-sized
gathering, got their moneys worth,
and were kept in commissions by the
antics of some of the players. who en-
ployed the same methods in basketball
ploymep+ mig" Borleske, imagined
himself chasing down the field for an
out side kick or a forward pass and
bowled over all opponents that came in
his way. Blanchard and Apologize,
when they came together in the second
half. imagined themselves training a
squad of athletes, and employed the
dig, dig, Dig method The lineup was
as follows:
Whitman Faculty. Business Men.
Coleman Fisher
Center
Borleske, Apologize. Hill
Merriam Paine
Forwards
Bratton Jones
Blanchard Mclean
Guards
Tom butcher, referee.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24
ALMIRA FANS PLAN
BASEBALL LEAGUEi

ALMIRA, Wash, March 24.-The
baseball enthusiasts have organized a
baseball team for the season of 1909.
with Marsh Phillips manager. A board
of trustees was also elected, and a
motion passed to work for Washing
ton central league, to be composed
of team along the Washington Central
railroad, playing amateurs, with the
exception Of one hired player. Man
ager Phillips will correspond with the
other baseball managers along the line,
with the object of organizing such a
league. 1t is argued that better sup
port will be given each team in it's
home town by playing only home boys.
However, as it is difficult to always
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24
WHITMAN PROFs
WIN GREAT GAME
WHITMAN SCIENTISTS FIGURE
OUT METHOD AND WIN
THEREBY.
Defeated Almost HopeIessIy In the First
Half, Y. M. c. A. Is Nearly Pulled
Out by Apologize.

When plain, matter of-fact business
went up against intricate mathematics,
philosophy and augmentation, ii
proved inadequate, and the long-haired
professors of Whitman college carried
off the decision in the basket-ba arg
ument that was pulled off in the Y. M.
c. A. gym last night. The score at the
end of the dispute was IA to II for the
pedagogues and although the business
men made a great rally in the second
half of the contest, they could no,
overcome the weighty argument that
the book -wie, ders brought against them
early in the game.
When the two teams lined up it was
found that the ministry would be
pitted against an exponent of Shakes
peare, and that Dorsey Hill would eX-
pose his broad bulk to the onslaughts
of the mathematic professor. Dorsey
proved himself a basketball player,
however, by getting the first goal of
the game, and the only one that the
business men got during that half The
tall Rev. S G.. Fisher at center, was
no match for the nearly as tall Prof.
N. F. Coleman, and the latter got sew
eral goals IN Spi e of the tall minis
ter's utmost endeavors to stop him.
When the half ended the score was 10
to 2 in favor of the Whitman faculty.
Dorsey decided NOT to contradict the
willy math professor in the second half
of the game and allowed Physical Di-
rector Aplegate to take up the argu-
ment for him. The scoring changed
hands mainly in this half, and by APP
plegate's great work at forward, the
business men succeeded in tieing the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24
REFUSES
TO PLAY LINCOLN
Will Not Play Seattle Team After
Gaining Disputed Basketball


Gaining Disputed Basketball
Title.
BELLINGHAM, March 24.-Believ-
ing that his team lost the champion
ship Of Western Washington by the
partially Of the referee, Ray Low
man, manager of the Lincoln high
school basketball team, has written to
Principal Twitmyer. of the Bellingham
high, asking for the cancellation OF
the game. The local quintet, by de-
feating the Lincoln lads recently in a
hard fought contest, won the cham
pionship, and according to Manager
Lowman, the Seattle lads will not be
played again this year.
The charges made by Lowman are
many and he severely censured Phys
ical Director Wilson, of the local Y. M
c. A., who refereed. Although Prin-
cipal Twitmeyer vouched for every
member on the team being eligible to
play against Lincoln, Manager Low
man is in doubt as to one Of the play
ers and promises to investigate the
case.
Manager Lowman, in his letter, Of
fered to play Bellingham in either Sc
attic or this city, but preferred play
ing on the floor of the University OF
Puget sound in Tacoma. The MEM
bers of the local team state positively
that they will not play Lincoln again
With expectations of defeating the
girls quintet of the West Seattle high
school next Saturday night, the girls
basketball team of the local high is
practicing hard. The local girls have
succeeded in making a good record this
season and believe they will have no
trouble with West Seattle. The team
will leave here Friday night
Capt Hazel Mussulman announces
that the following girls will make the
trip: May Reasoner, Betty Brown, Lu-
cile Nichols, Esta Williams, Era
Franklin and Hazel Mussulman.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24
JUNIORS TAKE
CLASS H0N0RS
w. s. C.. UPPER CLASSMEN WIN
SERIES OF GAMES FROM
OTHER CLASSES.
Indoor Baseball Championship Taken
From the vet-Pharmic Team by
Easy Score.

PULLMAN. Wash, March ply
defeating the Vet-Pharmic indoor base
ball team, the junior class of the state
college has been awrded the interclass
championship for the present year.
The victory over the Phamics
made the third straight victory fol-
1910, in as many games played. The
score in their final game was Is to s.
leaving no doubt as to the honors be
longing to the juniors.
The tournament was started about
three weeks ago, the juniors defeating
the seniors, and the sophomores scor-
ing a victory over the freshmen. With
he teams thus narrowed down, the
juniors proceeded a week ago to ad-
minister a defeat to the sophomore,
letting them into the fina S. The Vet
Pharmics had gotten into the finals
by winning from the faculty ball team
and they were eliminated by the vic
tory of the 10 class.
The members OF the winning team
are Bunk Barnes, catcher; Scott Jack
son, pitcher; Osborne Swales, first
base; Eddie G. HolcOmb, second base;
Glaisyer third base; Woodbridge, right
shortstop; Leidl, left shortstop; Bobo.
right field; Crawford. left field.
This is the second year in which an
indoor baseball championship tourna-
ment has been held among the classes
of the state college, the first one hav-
ing been Won by the present sopho-
more class.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24
LA CONNER ALUMNI
BEAT HIGH QUINTET

Ia CONNER, March PA basket
ball team composed of Olaf Holt. Lin
coin highs crack center, George Dun
lap, Roy Bates and Carl O'Loughlln OF
the University of Washington, and
Warren Smith, all former students OF
the La Conner high school, defeated
the La Conner high five here last
night in the fastest and most exciting
game of the season by the close score
of 33 to 80.
Olaf Holt, La Corners former center,
was the star Of the evening, making
seventeen points, seven field goals and
three from foul. 1t was the last game
of the season here.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24
Michiuan Bu;Idfnu.

The Michigan building at the Alas
kaYukon Pacific exposition will be the
only state structure at the exhibition
opening at Seattle June 1, financed 10
cally. The money to defray the expense
of building and enter ainment was
raised by subscription in Seattle. A
large part of the lumber used in the
construction of the building was do
mated by Seattle lumber companies. the
officers of which are former residents
of MichigaO
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24
Government Buildings.

The group of Uni ed States govern
ment buildings at the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition will stand complete
May 1. The structure to house the dis
play from the Philippines is ready and
the Alaska and Hawaiian buildings are
fast nearing completion. The central
exhibit palace is one of the most hand
some buildings ever erected on the ex-
position grounds by Uncle Sam.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24
Weston Walks.

Edward Payson Weston, the famous
pedestrian, recently left New York for
the Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition at
Seattle and expects to walk across the
continent in ninety days. Weston is
now II years of age, but says that he
will be none the worse for his long
journey when he reaches the fair
rrO11pdC
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24
Canada Came First.

Three months before the opening ex-
hibits for the Alaska Yukon-Pacific ex-
position commenced to arrive in Seat
tie and in the first consignment, which
filed nine cars, was part of the display
for the Canadian government as well
as exhibits to be installed by several
eastern manufacturing concerns.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24
SPOKANE TO HAVE
"A MARATHON GRIND

SPOKANE, March Accompany II.
N. G. W., has opened entries for big
Marathon race, to be run in the armory
building April 2. The race will be
over the full Marathon distance, un-
der p. N A. auspices. A J.. Burn, of
Calgary, is the first entry. He was
sent to London last year for the Olym-
pic Marathon, and held the Canadian
championship in 1906.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24

Tom butcher, referee.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24

CINE power. This will give the public a
good idea of what is what at GER
tain price.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24

get good pitcher among the local
talent, it is the intention to allow each
team to play one salaried man.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-03-24
New Rules at Daytona ormond Races.

New Rules at Daytona Ormond Races.
FLORIDA BEACH, March "a
There are radical changes in the con-
duct of these races this season. One Of
the great events is a sweepstakes price
stock car race, the cars being handi-
capped according to price and not en-
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-20
WHAT is BACK OF THE STRIKE.

consider strike and mad the good sense
adjourn anything themselves they want TO
coming significant they
inquire have
complaint Evidently they know
everybody growls opportunities demands
satisfied with its lot But
they report Meanwhile the chance for the
professional agia n is quite
This things precisely agaors
began knife had nothing
about They seeking worked and laughed
money send By the
hundreds situation good
enough for them
profit promoting discomfort these
cheerful bore rings grown independently
wl7 Maxine had learned
necessary legal had frequented
ong money;
sowing dint printed
appeals personal solicitation opponents
play coolies
compelled
The majority begdge
going been inundated
pugnaeious minority
the criminal element ALSO
great group
organization of the japanese along
this this
ordering every they
heavily money planters
bank buying could
politics
community finally result
finally include of local
in Honolulu would
becomes emphasizes
against strikers what may.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-20
BACON, MARK TWAIN AND SHAKESPEARE.

The and
has tried his
puttg his readers smile
schools moving sphere
hardly
human philosophy and make potent of the learning his
should
the kind of works he signed
title TO mmortatymores singular
literary knbp between his books
philosopher something
dry didace spirit with that
been for the mind conceive both the
shakeeare aabsorbng intellect influenced
be admitted without in the eong
hut gathered gather light
which, without visible
riches that university
and that time;
an one had but to listen that vital
the had to teach Some listened
nothing Others listened
of
fact and of the knowledge
equaled brain
its bulk;
all his
of letters and always WILL What gold
ownS II had ceased
it, Bacon could not claim call
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-20

stated that that officer may be re-
moved and someone Substituted who
viii not feel inclined 10 make whole
sale arrests Of innocent people for
selfish purposes
Thanking you, Mr.. Editor, for this
SPACE IN your columns. We have the
aonor 10 be
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SANG HA PARK.
CLIO PYONG 70,
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Beautiful summer millinery for the
summer girl Miss Power, leader in
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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-20

PRESIDENT raft after hearing both
declared that
everybody
their exclusion suffrage
tha should
of suffrage in the South Possibly
best results of will
of of
nstit ion
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-20

little while Honolulu by
himself
short order 1t singular hluiaton among that the
they
while places the ones where
stranger the sharpest
10 Ensenada
have mounted pedestal Enenda
eered about him and was laid v
the heels Honolulu
the same suspicious character who
ne he focus Of Men of this
ought never to go globetrotting.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-20

Some Of the Army officers find their
immediate
the matter Washington This authority
american Nor
suspend the writ haheas to
executive could also issue
abroad by oc
The law o rule
had cable and it quite likely general arrives to
nand whole
eonhne the Governors military miitia
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-05-20

Mehemmed " is the Sultan in
that doesn't signify pair of black yet.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-04-23
WERE GAMBLING, THEN SHOT
One is Dead and the Other Dying
the Result.

Knoxville, Tenn.-Theodore Rose end
Dick Thomas were the principals in a
bloody tragedy enacted near Mentor, a
small station on the Louisville and Nash
vile, meager details of which have been
received here. Rose was killed end
Thomas lies at the point of death. 1t
is stated that the two men were gam
bling when a dispute arose and pistols
were pulled. Rose was shot four times
and Thomas in three places.
A coincidence of the tragedy is that
each man had previously killed a man.
Rose killed Harvey Birchfeld some IL
years ago and escaped arrest for more
than eight years, although once during
that period he was arrested but rescued
by friends, who took him away from the
officers by force. When tried for MUIR
der he was acquitted, as the principal
witness against him could not be found.
Thomas killed a mar six years ago, near
Townsend, but was acquitted on the
ground that he was shooting at another
party.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-04-23
W0MAN's WORK DISCUSSED,
Negro Was Also Considerd by the
Atlanta Conference.

Atlanta, Ga.-With mixed feelings of
satisfaction and regret the twelfth an
nual conference for education in the
south closed Friday. The satisfaction
was at the immense amount accom-
plished during the scholastic year just
terminated. The regret was that the
meeting, so pleasant and effective, was
so brief. Every member united in a dec
laration that never had the members ex-
perienced as satisfactory a meeting.
The early sessions of the closing day
were devoted largely to women and wom-
ans work is the problem that the con
ference is endeavoring to interest all
good citizens in solving. Women who
have devoted their lives to teaching or
to the study of those economic prob
lens which every community has to solve
some time or other gave to the confer.
ence members the benefit of their conclu-
sions. The negro was considered, too,
from the standpoint of the educator, and
some attention was paid to economic de-
velopments in connection with education.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-04-23
WOULD PROMOTE WATERWAYS
congressman Want Big Ships to En-
ter the Mississippi.

Westinghouse urge upon the navy
department the Importance of allowing
the larger ships of the navy to pass up
the Mississippi river so as to demon
strate to the nations of the world the
feasibility of using the great waterway
as an avenue of commerce, a delegation
of the members of the United States
senate and the house of representatives
from the States of Mississippi, Louis
lana, Arkansas and Tennessee called to
see Secretary Myer Tuesday. Owing to
the secretary's absence at the semi-week-
ly cabinet meeting, the delegation did
not confer with him, but will do so later.
They are especially anxious that the bat
tleship Mississippi shall be sent to
Natchez to receive the silver service to
be presented to hat vessel by the State
of Mississippi, and believe the occasion
offers an exceptional opportunity for
what they seek.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-04-23
WHEAT PIT HIT BY WHIRLMND
Fortunes Shift Like Sand-Klng Pat
ten Again Feature of Furry.


Chicago.-It was a day of tumult and
sharply shifting fortunes in the wheat
pit of the board of trade Thursday. July
wheat following a docile advance to q
high level, suddenly dropped an extreme
4 3-s cents. The pyramid" fortunes Of
small spectators vanished in a trice and
the day was saved from rout only by the
vigorous exertions of the bull leader,
James A. Patten.
Within the last fifteen minutes OF trad
ing Mr. Patten bought 5000, 900 bushels
of wheat for July delivery. The while
he chewed the stub of a cigar and ran his
fingers refectively over the unshaven
gray stubble which there has been no
time for him to emove from his face.
1t was Patten against the field and the
final gong showed that the former ap-
parently as mighty as ever. His pur-
chases and those of his followers, togeth-
er with the proft-taking of shorts, who
lost no time in securing the fruits OF
their bearish daring, caused a reaction OF
over a cent all along the line. But be-
fore this occurred the hoard of many q
small Spectator had gone.