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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-31
ALASKA STEAMER MISSING
FaralIon Unheard of for Almost a
Month-Steamer in Search.

SEATTLE, Jan. 30.--Anxiety is felt
here for the safety of the Alaska
Steamship company's steamer Faral-
Ion, which sailed from Valdez, Alaska
for ports to the westward. % days
ago, and has not been spoken since
she left
The Farallon is taking the run of
the mail steamer Dora, which came
to Seattle to undergo repairs and ar
rived back at Valdez today. 1t is the
intention of the owners to start the
Dora out in search of the Farallon at
once.
The Farallon is bound for Dutch
Harbor, with stops at Port Graham
and Kodiak. She should have report
ed at Kodiak January 6. Ten days to
Dutch Harbor and the same time for
the return trip is the usual schedule
for the steamer on this run.
If the Farallon is not reported with
in few days the revenue cutter
Scout, which is at Juneau, will be
asked to go in search of her
Four years ago the steamer Dora
was out SO days on the same run
She was blown south by the storms
and finally put into the strait of Juan
de Fuca with her coal supply exhaust
e6
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-31
STUDY TRADE RELATIONS
Delegation From Commercial Body to
Pay China Visit.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 30.-At the
end of an all day session during which
it was decided to send a committee
to the orient for the purpose of study
ing trade relations between China and
the states of the Pacific slope, the del
egates to the meeting of the Associat-
ed Chambers of Commerce of the Pa
cific Coats this afternoon elected the
following officers for the ensuing term:
Willis Booth, Los Angeles, president;
William L. Gerstle, San Francisco,
vice president; Chester w. Burks, San
Francisco, secretary treasurer.
Sixty members from the association,
to be chosen from among the eight
chambers of commerce affiliated, will
go to China in August. Captain Rob-
ert Dollar will leave for the orient in
February to make the preliminary ar
rangements for the trip.
The association Endorsed the uniform
bill of lading measure.
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years. BY this method we'll accepted
projects will stand a chance of COM
pletion within a reasonable period
whereas the bill of 1907 carried for
the upper Mississippi only 100000,
which sum, annually appropriated
would bring this project to compile
ton in about 40 years.
1t is thought that the improvement
of the Mississippi from Cairo to the
gulf will be treated in a similar man
IT. That a time will be fixed for
it's completion. say 20 years, and that
an appropriation of sufficient amount,
probably $4,000,000, as recommended
by the engineers, will be made which
will make the completion of the pro-
ject possible within the time limit.
An annual river and harbor bill has
been demanded by the National Riv-
ers ard Harbors congress since it's
organization in 1901. In season and
out it has fought for a yearly budget
dealing with waterway improvements
IS the only sure method of bringing
about the completion of projects with
in a reasonable time and the adoption
of the annual feature by the commit
tee in the bill shortly to be reported
is a tribute to the campaign of edu-
cation which the National Rivers and
Harbors congress, and kindred associ-
atoms has carried on so earnestly
In voicing his satisfaction over the
adoption of this new policy, for which
he has stood ever since he entered
congress, Mr.. Ransdell said:
Il am, of course, very much elated
over the annual features of the bill
and it's formal declaration that i'm
portant projects should be pushed to
completion as rapidly as possible con-
sistent with good business methods
The committee undoubtedly feels and
appreciates the work that has been
done in educating the people to the
necessity of inland waterway i'm
provements. The committee has al
ways desired to place it's bills upon
the high plane to which they are now
approaching, but up to this time it
has not had sufficient support from
public opinion to sustain it and hence
the committee has done the best it
could"
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REP. RANDE[L
IN WATERWAYS
GENTLEMAN FROM LOUISIANA
SAYS HARBOR BILL is
BEST YET.
New Measure VIII Call for Yearly
Appropriations and Requirs .
Time Contract Always.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 30.-(Special)
Il believe the Griver and harbor bill
to be reported early in February will
he the most comprehensive, business
like and satisfactory bill ever passed
by the Rivers and Harbors commit
tee In the words of the president it
will be the Inauguration of the new
system Of inland Waterways" In
these words Representative Joseph E.
RanSdel, of Louisiana, a member of
the committee and president of the
National Rivers and Harbors congress
set at rest rumors that have been
flying about to the effect that the bill
would fail to make generous provis-
ions for projects now on the books
Of the engineer corps.
Early in the sessions of the com.
mittee, particularly since the commit
tee has been in executive session, it
became apparent that the members
were very generally in favor of max
ing the river and harbor bill an an
nual one instead of biennial or tri-
ennial ones, as has been the practice
for a number of years past. The
members of the committee realized
that the old time method of sporadic
appropriations for special objects
should give way to a more intelligent
handling of the question of waterway
improvements and the bill which in
all probability will be reported to the
house early next month will mark the
beginning of a new order of things
relative to waterways.
The bill will carry a provision for
maintenance Of rivers and harbors
for only one year instead of two to
three years as formally, and it will
make radical departure in fixing a
time for the completion of projects
which have the endorsement of the
engineer corps. BY this method OF
treatment the yearly character of the
bill it is hoped will be established for
it will appropriate only for the cur
rent year and fix a. limit for the COM
pletion of distinctive projects.
To illustrate. 1t is estimated by
the corps of engineers that it viii
require about $20,000,000 to improve
the upper Mississippi from st. Louis
to st. Paul. They believe that about
$l,500.000 can be used annually or
this river which would complete the
project in 12 years. Hence it is ex-
pected that the bill will carry in the
1eighbOrhood of this sum in cash &c
he spent during the fiscal year end
ing June 80. 1911 and that each yeal
thereafter appropriations will be made
of a sum sufficient to finish in 1:
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-31
WALLA Wk[LA BOYS
MAKE GOOD SHOWING
PRESCOTT YOUTH WINS SWEEP
STAKES FOR COIN GROWN
LAST SUMMER
Misunderstanding Figured in First De
cision Month Aeo-Another Con-
test This Year.

PULLMAN, Wash. Jan. 30.-(Spec-
aL-In December, the results of the
reports of the boys corn growing con-
test organized in connection with the
0. r. & n. company's demonstration
train, which had been received up to
that time, were published Immediate
ly following the publication of the first
awards, letters were received from sew
eral of the committees who had meas
ured and weighed the contestants
corn, showing that their reports had
been incorrectly understood. The mis-
understanding arose from the following
facts: When the seed was distributed
to the boys they were instructed to
plant one-fourth of an acre of ground,
but some of the boys planted their
corn thicker than was intended and
did not have quite enough seed to plant
a full quarter of an acre. On this ac-
count the boys were all instructed
that if they so desired they might have
their committee measure off exactly
oneeighth of an acre, of such dimen-
sions (61X90 feet) as to leave a mar
gin on each side of two outer rows,
and harvest and weigh the corn from
this acre tract. The committee re-
ports were examined at the experiment
station and the yield per acre calcu-
lated on the basis of one-fourth acre
of ground unless the report showed
that the option of measuring and
weighing the corn from the one
eighth acre had been followed, and the
prizes awarded accordingly
Immediately after the publication of
these several awards several committee
wrote to Professor Thatcher, the dir
ect of the experiment station, that
the weight of corn which they had
reported was taken from the one eighth
acre of ground and that the yield
was, therefore twice as large as COM
puted by the experiment station men.
Some of the yields thus claimed SEEM
ed almost Incredible and the commit
tees were asked to sUbstantiate the
claims. Such affadavits have now been
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-31

WASHINGTON. Jan 31.-Although
the report of the mineral resources
and production of Alaska for last year
will not be issued until about May Is.
figures made available by the United
States Geological survey indicate that
the value of the Alaska crop" fol-
1909 will be approximately the same
as in 1908.
Close estimates place the value OF
the 1909 production at $20,200,0OO
practically the same as that of 1908
which was $2O,139,272 The estimated
value of the gold output of 1909 was
S19. 400. 900: that of 1908 was $19,292,-
SIS. The copper production of 1905
was approximately 100000 pounds.
valued at about $4,000; that of 1905
was 45S5,362 pounds, valued at $6O2,-
267
Probably the output of none of the
other mineral products, including ST =
yer. coal, marble and gypsuf, differed
greatly from that of 1908, When the
total value was $244,19S.
From 1880, when mining first be-
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The big movement westward this year
will be literally toward the districts
where men may become independent
producers under their wine and fig
tree"
The United States is rapidly over
taking France in grape production.
Already the Fresno district is credited
with the production of 100000, 900
of raisins a year, five ixths of the
United States total, yet only a few
of the owners of the big tracts have
cut their land up into 10 and 20 acre
units as ultimately will be done. The
annual income of the University of
California from the great Kearney
ra"ch, near Fresno, of 5,400 acres is
said to be $4,000 to $4,000, which ex-
plains the valuation put upon land
in that district of $3.50 an acre
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-31
HUMANITY SURGES THROUGH
CHICAGO EVER WESTWARD
Every Train Is Loaded With Persons
Looking for Small Tracts Where
They May Live.

CHICAGO, Jan. 30.-(Special)-
Trains leave Chicago loaded to the
platforms of the last extra Pullmans,
not only with tourists but with me-
chanics and farmers who are looking
up the region of small farms for in
tensive farming and elimination of the
help" problem. The trials caused by
the lack of competent help in the mid
die west. even more than the severe
winter has started radical changes,
dairying being on the wane through
out the Elgin butter district and the
zone of milk supply for Chicago. The
joint efforts of the Union Pacific,
Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe
railways seem focused upon the San
Joaquin Valley. now watered by the
irrigation bitches supplied from the
Kings river that has its head in the
Sierras. The clerk and merchant of
the cities have joined the homeseekei
movement, headed. however, toward
small tracts of irrigated lands, rather
than the hard work of the big farms.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-31
PEOPLE ARE
AFTER CHEAPER PLACES
Thousands Crossing Into Canada Be-
cause Living is More Reasonable
There

The cheaper cost of living in Can
ada than the United States, revealed
by the Investigations into relative pri-
ces of meat, vegetables and other ne
cess;ties now and one and tow years
ago, proves to be a homely but i'm
polling reason for the exodus to the
new lands of Western Canada. It
suddenly hobs up as a factor in the
migrations of Uncle Sans uneasy
millions which probably was not con-
sidered by officials of the Canadian
Northern and the Grand Trunk Pa
cifc in estimates that the total num-
Der of immigrants from the United
States would grow from the 100000
of 1909, to 125,OO0 in 1910. The cheap
est cuts of beef were found to be II
cents per pound in Detroit as COM
pared with 6 IL cents in Canadian
city of about the same size. Cabbages
were s to Is cents in Detroit as
against to cents in Canada, tur-
keys Is cents as compared to 20
cents, chickens Is as against II cents,
salt port 20 as against IS cents. While
the consumer in Detroit pays 35 cents
"a pound for butter, the consumer in
Alberta pays ony % cents, and in
other words, the farmer of Alberta
is getting more for the butter he sells
than the farmer near Detroit, a benefi-
cent condition which has been made
possible by the establishment of gov
eminent dairies along the new lines
of the Canadian Northern and Grand
Trunk Pacific by the Alberta govern
ment. Moreover plug tobacco, al
ways more or less essential in
farm work, costs two and three times
as much in the states as in the Do
minion. The cost of woolens and cot
ton fabrics has become so much higher
south of the international boundary
line than north of it as a result of the
tariff reductions under the Payne
bill that clothing does not begin to
cut into the household budget of the
settlers in Alberta, as it does every
where in the United States be it a
WOOL growing or wool-spinning section
Or not. The same is true as to shoes.
The result of the inquiry is likely
to increase the imports across the
line
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-31
POSTAL SAVINGS
PROTECTS FOREIGNER
Carter Foss Bills Carries Provisions
Aimed to Protect Wage Farmers
Savings.

CHICAGO, Jan. 30.-The pardon of
from the Polish National alliance,
which opposed the pardon, for postal
savings bank. This plea, filed with
the Postal Savings Bank league, urges
postal banks, both to prevent loss and
woe and tragedy to the small deposit
tor who is the greatest menace to
banks in their days of stress, and as
a protection to banks and bank de-
positors against the hysteria of fear
of the timid foreign depositors partic-
ularly
The guaranty of the United States
government would prevent any alarm
among the small depositors and they,
it has been found, are the menacing
as well as improbable element among
depositOrs of savings banks. The
pending Carter-Foss bills, urged by
President Taft, provides against with
drawals of large sums during panics
from commercial banks for redeposit
in the postal savings banks, deposits
receivable in any one month by Uncle
Sam being limited to 800. In the
plea of the Polish National alliance
sent to the Postal Savings Bank
league the statement is made:
I'VE consider the postal savings
banks as necessary for the people of
the United States, as they have been
found to be in other civilized coun-
tries. Life is the same everywhere
and what proved to be beneficial to
the people in Great Britain. France
and Germany cannot be detrimental
to the people of this country. 6
Banks as they are now are a
necessity of modern life and nobody
can do without them. But the small
man with his few hundred dollars.
which represent often the savings of
a whole life, cannot afford to lose a
cent. He wants absolute security for
his money and is entitled to it. The
absolute security, which the toilers
want and which they are entitled to,
can be obtained only by the means
of postal savings banks, which are
adopted by almost every civilized
country and which have to come in
this country, unless the wishes, and
the interests of the people are entirely
disregarded."
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ALASKA MINING
REPORT READY

gan in Alaska, to the close of 1909,
the total value of the mineral pro-
duction has been, in round numbers,
.s16S 900. 900. Of this amount the gold
mines have contributed about $751;
900. 900: the commercial value of the
silver output has been about $780,
600, and the copper production has
been about $4,70O,000. The remainder
is represented by the value of the
output of coal, gypsum, tin and mar
BILE.
The placer camps of the Yukon
basin were the scene of much mining
activity in 1909. Two new dredges
were put in operation near Nome,
materia. progress was made in con-
structing a railway up the Copper
River valley, and some work was
done on the railway to the Matan-
uska district The most significant
feature of the years mining opera
tons was the amount of prospecting
and devel 1pment work done on auri-
ficiOus Iodes in some of the placer
districts.
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received in all cases where the yields
..l.@u anouA, 10 more tnan lUo
bushels per acre, computed on the
Jasis of 70 lbs. of dry corn as a bushe..
All the cases in which it seems that
there could possibly have been any
error in computing the vie DIS have no
been settled by correspondence anG
affidavits, the following final awards
II the prizes for pest Yields are an
nounced:
Disqualification, Dorsey Hart
Prescott, Walla Walla county, 122
bushels per acre.
Walla Walla county-First prize
$40; Guy McGraw, Prescott, so bu.;
second prize, $780, Clifford Baird, Walla
Walla, SO blu. third prize, $40, Giles Cal
ahan, Waitsburg, 43 bu.; fourth prize,
$40, Albert Stimmel, Waitsbrrg. 81 BIZ
Whitman county-First prize, $40,
John Clark, Pullman, 100 bu. second
prize, $50, Warren Love, Garfield, So
bu; third prize,$20, Glenn Stricken
Colfax, 73 bu.; fourth prize, $40, Rich
ard Maynard, Colfax, 60 blu.
Garfield county-First prize, $40,
Ralph Fisher, Pomeroy, 81 bu.; second
prize, $50, Delwin Williams, Pomeroy
So bu.; third prize, $40, Emile Houk,
Pomeroy, AZ bu.; fourth prize, $40,
William Young, Ping, 81 blu.
Columbia county-First prize, Frank
Thompson, Dayton, 107 bu.; second
prize, $50, Robert Burris, Dayton, So
bu. third prize, MerWin Vannice, Day
ton, rs bu.; fourth prize, SO, Ralph
Warwick, Dayton, 6S blu.
The best ten ears of corn grown on
competing tracts and selected by the
boys, and sent in to the experiment
station were judged by a committee at
the time of the recent wheat con-
vention" and the prizes awarded as
follows
Walla Walla county-F'irst prize S.,
Guy McGraw, Prescott; second prize,
So, Giles Callahan, Waitsburg; third
prize, 81, no entry
Whitman county-First prize, So John
Clark, Pullman; second prize, So, Au-
brey White, St. John; third prize, So,
Marvin West, ST. John.
Garfield county-F'irst prize, S., Will
liam Young, Ping; second prize, So,
Ralph Fisher, Pomeroy; third prize, 81,
Emile Houk, Pomeroy
Columbia county-First prize, So,
Charles Heary, Dayton; second prize,
SO, Ellis Heady, Dayton; third prize,
81, Otis Rayburn, Waitsburg.
The results of this contest have been
so successful that further contests
along similar lines, but with other
crops on larger acreages, will probably
be inaUgurated for the coming sea-
son.
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organized in 1901 by Levi Ankeny,
Henry Corbett, E. G. and w. p. Craw-
ford and w. w. McCredie, and since
that time has been under the man
agement of E. G. Crawford as vice
president. The total assets of the
bank at the time of its last statement
to the comptroller of the currency
were $S15,000.
The Citizens National bank was or
ganized four years ago as a state bank
by T. III. Adams, Donald McMaster,
G. c. Gridley, DR.. n. j. Taylor, p.
Hough, F. NJ. Kettering, E. l.. French
and others, and was converted to a
national bank in January, 1908. AT
the time of making its last statement
to the comptroller of the currency the
total assets of the bank amounted to
$441944
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Dayton Personals

DAYTON, Wash, Jan. 30.-Mrs. Ed
M. Moody is spending a few days with
her parents in Huntsvi lie.
Harry w. King, a leading farmer of
the TukanOn, was in Dayton today
transaCting business.
b. f. Lowe of Moscow, Idaho, is in
Dayton attending to business interests
today.
James Shea, a we'll known farmer of
Prescott was here yesterday on bust
ness.
Donald Rockhill. of Turner, Wash
was among the business callers in
Dayton yesterday.
E. H. Leonard and little son of
Walla Walla are spending the day with
relatives in Dayton.
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Rector For Dayton Churcn

DAYTON, Wash, Jan. 30.-(Snooio,,
After being without a rect j.
several months, Grace Eniso,tpoor,
church, has secured the Rev Td pal
s. Cole of Waverly, Iowa. who with hGl
family arrived in Dayton yesterda,. ms rs
assume his duties. The Rev. MIR o. "
will succeed the Rev. f. NJ. Baum wbe
in October accepted a call from tbo
Church OF the Good Samaritan. Cors
wallis, Oregon.
Rev. Mr.. Cole is interested in orch
ardizing in the Touchet valley. Ho
comes highly recommended as an or.
ganizer and forceful speaker aud al.
though the membership of the Episco.
pal church here is not large, it is
tally enlarge the congregation.
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Services Are Successful

DAYTON, Wash, Jan. 30.-(Specia,I
Last night closed the fourth waek
of the Stephens evangelical meetings
at the Christian church and over :;
conversions have been made. Fiv.
were baptised yesterday afternoon
Great interest is shown and the at.
tendance is the largest ever recorded
at revival here. The Rev Mr.. Steph-
ems is an interesting speaker and his
sermons are in the highest religious
sense. The large choir under the di.
rection of Prof. A w. Shafer, of Walla
Walla, is a feature of the meetings.
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PAULHAN'S DEMONSTRATE
Flies Over Heads of Hundreds in Salt
Lake City Yesterday.

SALT LAKE, Utah, Jan. S0.-LOuiS
Paulhan, the French aviator made a
successful flight of ten minutes dur
alton at Agricultural Park today. He
reached an altitude of 800 feet, or
approximately 1900 feet above sea lev
ell
He made an average speed of about
80 miles an hour and INDUCED in much
graceful maneuvering, showing abso
lutte control of his machine, a Far
man biplane, No. 1, having fifty horse
power.
After the flight Faulhan expressed
his disappointment, as he was unable
to fly longer
He said that owing to the peculiar
atmospheric conditions he was unable
to reach a higher altitude. The flight
was made in a temperature of 35 de-
grees with a wind of five miles an
hour.
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ig'ble to membership. The purpose
of the organization is purely social.
Officers were elected and an enter
tainment committee appointed. This
committee will STRAIT to work at once.
Meetings will he hid on the last Thurs
day of each month. The officers are:
President DR.. c.. f. Eikenbary; vice
president, M. Gray; secretary-treas-
urer, A. W. Beeler. Four more vice
presidents will be chosen at the next
meeting. They will probably
ected from outside cities.
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Women Strikers Garry Bluff.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 30.-One Of
the largest manufacturers of shirt
waists in this city, whose operatives
are on strike, has applied for an
injunction to restrain the Ladies
Shirtwaist union from "picketing."
The manufacturers complain that girls
who prefer to work are in danger of
attack whenever they appear on the
streets, and that the strikers have
transgressed all bounds of decency in
their methods
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Miller Nav Not Live.

DAYTON, Wash, Jan. 30.-(SpeciaD
With his head and shoulders crush
ed, Ben Miller, Is years old, who was
injured while cutting trees. was
brought to Dayton last evening from
the Bue Mountains, a distance of -
miles over rough roads for surgical
attention. Miller's condition is crit
ical. His injuries include several Sc
we're fractures of the shoulder blades.
collar bone and arms. He may not
recover. His parents formerly lived
here but are now in Seattle it is said