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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
DAMAGE HAS NOT BEEN UNDERESTIMATE BUT
THE PEOPLE OF PARIS ARE HOPEFUL
FOR BETTER CONDITIONS
Plaglng is Worst Enemy With Which Authorities Are
Forced to Contend Several Are Killed
Attempts to Lynch.

PARIS, Feb. 3.-Although slowly, the
waters of the Seine are steadily fall
ing, and conditions are hourly impro-
wing. AS the murky waters leave the
flooded portions of the city it is seen
that the damage has not been under
estimated, but the people are inbued
with renewed hope and courage, and
the general feeling is one of rejoic-
ing.
Few cases of sickness have so far
resulted, and the authorities are do
ing everything in their power to
check-mate any epidemic. The peo-
PIE are cautioned against using water
that has not been boiled, and every
possible precaution is being taken to
prevent the spread of any disease
Two members of a gang of pillag-
ers were shot and killed today by the
police who surprised them looting
an abandoned house in the flooded dis
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
Persian Student Shoots An
American Girl and
Commits Suicide.
.UNREQUITED LOVE
CAUSE OF TRAGEDY
Would Not Fly with Ardent
Fastener and Double
Death Follows.

BALTIMORE, Feb. 3.-Miss Marie
Lowson, an American girl, was shot
and killed this afternoon by Elijah Ba-
ba Babal, a Persian Mohamedan, who
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the breast, at the University of
Maryland, Where both were students.
The double tragedy was the result of
a fierce love conceived by the Persian
and not requited by the American girl.
The difference in their races and relig
ious beliefs were obstacles impossible
for Miss Lowson to overcome.
The dark skinned Asiatic loved her
to desperation and pleaded with her to
fly with him at every opportunity. The
love of the Persian for MISS Lowson
was we'll known about the university
and it is said he overheard fellow stu
dents making jocular remarks about it
last night.
He sought the girl today, and after
exclaiming something in his native
tongue, which is supposed to have been
an expression of his love and a warn
ing to the object of his fatal affection,
he fired the shot that ended her life in
stantly He killed himself with the
same revolver.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
Cemetery
Ordinance
N0W dLQW

Mayor Eugene Tausick has approved
the cemetery purchase ordinance, ana
within five days after the publication
of the measure, it will become effec-
tive, and the mayor a,d clerk will enter
into contract with Mrs. Henrietta M.
Stone for the purchase of S3 acres "
ing just west of the present cemetery.
No papers were filed today in the
threatened injunction proceedings to
prevent the mayor and clerk from en-
tering into proposed contract, although
il is thought some action may be taken
bv property owners who are dissatls-
fled with the arrangement. These peo-
pie have several days in which to en-
ter the suit, but it is not known
whether they will take any action.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
COST OF LIVING ONE HARDSHIP

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-(Special to
the Statesman Increased cost of liv-
ing is only one of the hardships that
has accompanied high tariff rates.
Inferior qualities have come hand in
hand with increased prices, and there
is a growing sentiment that any con-
gressional investigation into the in
creased cost of living should be ac-
companied by a probe of the ques-
ton: "Why are the particular goods
receiving the greatest amount of pro-
lection constantly becoming poorer in
quality?'
That inferior qualities is true of
many manufactured goods is as we'll
known to the consumer as the fact
that the cost of living has increased
This is particularly true of all pro-
ducts of the steel trust, and so near
ly all manufactured leather products
such as shoes, harness, etc, and also
woolens and manufactured cotton
goods.
Representative Gilbert n. Haugen of
Iowa (republican) has for two or three
years been making an investigation of
the decline in quality of steel pro-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
Crawford Will
Represent the
Local College

Harold E Crawford of the junior
class of Whitman was this morning
chosen as delegate from Whitman TO
the conference of the northwest col
leges which is to meet in Portland TO-
morrow and Saturday. The election
was held Immediately after chapel this
morning in a special meeting of the AS
sociated Students called for the election
by President Borleske. Crawford was
assistant manager of football last year
and will manage the 1910 team OF the
varsity and as there are several points
in regard to the 1910 football schedule
to come before the conference it was
considered a wise move by many TO
send Crawford as the representation OF
the Missionary student body
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LAS result of having a monopoly,
or what practically amounts to that,
on steel products" says Mr.. Haugen,
the steel trust is gradually cheapen-
ing its products. Take barb wire for
instance. On my farm in Iowa there
is piece of barb wire fence put up
five years ago an other piece put up
thirty years ago The wire put up
thirty years ago is in far better con-
dltlon than that put up five years ago.
Last summer whi e inspecting con-
ditions on the Panama canal I had
another opportunity to note the diff
ference in quality of American made
steel goods and foreign-made steel
goods. There were two shanties COW
cred with corrugated steel roofing
which was supposed to answer to the
same specificati ms. One of the roofs
was made by French company and
put in position some Is years ago. The
other room was made in America, and
put in place within the last four or
five years. The French roof appeared
to be as good as the, day it was put
on, while the American made roof was
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
new FLAGSHIP
IS NOW READY

NEW YORK, Feb. Sit is announc-
ed that the new flagship of the New
York Yacht club, the auxiliary yacht
Aloha, which Commodore James has
had built at at Quincy, Mass, is now
practically completed. The new craft
viii be among the finest of it's type
in Atlantic waters.
The Aloha is 2O6 feet over all, 167
feet on the water line, 35 feet inches
beam, % feet lepth of hold, and Is
feet draught. She is bark -riggeG.
The height of her main mast is such
that she will just be able to pass
under the Brooklyn bridge without
having to house her topmact. In fact.
it is the bridges over the Fast river
which have curtailed her originally
contemplated spread OF canvas. for
the Aloha was designed exclusively
for off-shore cruising She spreads.
including her light sails, over 10000
square feet of canvas.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03

Veterans
To Feast

Elaborate arrangements are being
made by officers and members of Hen.
ry Lawton camp, Spanish American
war veterans for a proper observance
of Santa Anna day, the celebration
having been postponed this year until
next Wednesday, February 8.
One of the features of the observance
is to be big banquet in Germania hall
in the evening, at which members Of
the local camp will be present, in ad-
dition to members from Dayton.
Waitsburg and other cities of this sec
tion Department Commander T. M.
Mckinney will act as master of cere-
monies, and short addresses are to be
made by local veterans, as well as by
visitors and state officers, who have al
so announced their intention of being
present.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
Butterflies"
The Sophomore
Play This Year

lie present sophomore class of Whit
.'"'' nave decided to put on the play
""'"h as The Butterflies" as their
P9y which is to be given in accord
'''Ne with a tradition at Whitman
when calls for sophomore play to be
sven during the spring term of
SCHOOL. Virgil Bennington of Ritzville
"e OF the leading members of the So
'"o'Aore class will have the leading
bennington is d strong actor and
'~S mad much experience in amateur
''''IoaIs. He was captain of the
'1'hd football team last fall.
play Is being managed by John
r'-'e and will be presented at the
Grand some time in April, the
'e not having been definitely
'>'Oeo Miss Hugh Thompson who
SCch a success with the play put
'' 'ast gear entitled Brown of Har-
0'1 will coach the cast of .aThe Rut-
mes Miss Thompson is an artist
LIS line and the fact that she has
=, '''ed the responsibility to coach the
:, speaks We'll for the sucsess which
CLANS are sure to establish.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03

rusted through in places "
There was recently printed at the
request of Senator LaFollette, as sem
ate document No. 270, a statement of
the Carded Woolen Manufacturers
association, which shows that as a re-
suit of the high Payne -Aldrich- -Smoot
law rates, the people may expect in
ferior woolens:
'Of course, the American people will
be clothed with something" reads this
statement, in part, "even if the grow
ing and importation of wool materials
are stopped. If not wool, then with
something else Many of the carded
wooden mills which at one time made
all wool goods have, under the condi-
ii ms brought about by the tariff, been
turned over to the manufacture of
what is popularity known as cotton
Worsteds.' They are no longer card
ed wooden mills, but are turning out
vast quantities Of goods made chiefly
of cotton with a small percentage of
worsted. Figure shows a fabric of
this kind, composed of l 1-3 per cent
of worsted and SO 2-3 per cent of cot
ton"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
WANT CARRIER
IN PENDLETON

Federal Drug and Food Inspector
John H CARRIER who recently receiv-
ed notoriety in this city because of
his habit of using chloroform, is
wanted by the authorities in Pendle
ton on the charge of issuing no-fund
checks, according to word received
here this morning. CARRIER was mott
fled here that if he persisted in "dop
ing" himself the police would take
charge of him, and after being cast
into the spotlight, because of having
been fount in a stupefied condition in
a local hotel, the official left a week
ago last Monday for the Oregon town,
where he is said to have paid his
bills with no-fund checks drawn upon
the Bank of Montreal, of Spokane. He
is said to have turned a similar trick
here, although this has not been veri
fled.
Since CARRIER left Pend,eton, it is
said two of the checks have been re-
turned, bearing the ''no fund stamp
The two that were returned We're to
the ST. George hotel, and it is thought
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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
Paget
May Marry Mrs.
William Leeds

NEW YORK, Feb. 3-RumOrs of the
possible marriage of Mrs. William B.
Leeds, widow of the tin plate magnate,
to Captain Albert Paget, son of Gen
eraI Sir Arthur Paget were revived
today when it became known the
young Englishman was scheduled to
arrive this afternoon on the liner Ad-
riatic The captains mother is COM
ing with him. When Mrs. Leeds was
last in London, Lady Paget did much
in the social way for the pretty wild
ow who is reputed to be worth $780,
100000.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
Attorneys Clash Over the
Introduction of
Evidence.
TESTIMONY OF
DEAD MAN UP
Most of Morning Session is
Taken Up With An
Argument.

PORTLAND, Feb. 3-This afternoon
attorneys for the prosecution and de-
fense in the Hermann trial are battling
over the introduction of the testimony
of Former Secretary of the Interior
Hitchcock who is now dead, or some
statements made by him that as testi-
mony given in Washington, both direct
and cross examination.
Most of the morning session was
taken up with verbal struggle be-
tween Heney and Hermann over Her
manns Interpretation of the forest re-
serve law and the power of the presi
dent to exclude or include different Sec
tions of privately y-Owned land within
the outside boundaries of any proposed
reserve at will. Heney pressed Hermann
for his Interpretation of the meaning
of the law, or of his belief in the power
of the president in cerating the bound
aries or withdrawal reserves by proc
lamation under the forest reserve law
of 1891.
After much fencing he explained 1t
was his belief the reserve could be Gre
ated by a proclamation of outside
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
Sixty-Three Killed.

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 3.-According
to estimates made today, 63 miners lost
their lives, and between 80 and 40 were
seriously injured by the explosion that
wrecked the Paulau mine at Los Es-
peranZaS late yesterday. Fifty-two
bodies have been recovered from the
third level shaft number three, where
the explosion occurred. Rescurers are
today exploring the lower levels where
it is feared other bodice VIII be found.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
To Remodel
White eHOuSe

Permits were issued today by Building
Inspector William Me-z for the re-
modelling of the White House Cloth
ing store at Third and Main streets,
and for the erection of a $1,000 dwell
ing by G. S. Colegrave at Spring and
Maple streets.
Work on the Guichard block,
which is to be carried on by Bailey &
Lambert, is to be started at once, the
plans having been prepared for one
of the most attractive fronts in the
entire west. Italian marble and plate
glass is to be utilized in the repairs,
and the cost of the change is estimat-
ed at $4,000. This is the most impor-
tant permit issued in several months
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03

NATAL
DAY OF
SCHOOL
Whitman College Will Have
Big Celebration on
February 16.
MacDowell Hall, New Home
of Conservatory is to
Be Dedicated.

Preparations are now eing made by
the trustees and overssers of Whit
man college for the fitting celebration
of the fiftieth anniversary of the
founding of that institution and the
one hundredth anniversary of the birth
of it's founder, Gushing EeIs. The
on Wednesday and Thursday, Febru-
airy 16 and II. Invitations for this
event are being sent out to all friends
of the college and it is planned to make
this one of the biggest events of the
college year.
The program for Wednesday will
commence at s o'clock in the morning
when public services will be held in
the chapel Historical addresses as
follows will then be delivered:
Early Missionary activity in the
northwest" by Rev. NJ. A Matthews
D. D.
THE significance of Whitman col
lege in the life Of the Northwest" Will
liam Thomas Dovell, M. A.
At 1870 o'clock the annual meeting
of the board of overseers will be held
and at go o'clock in the evening,
reception will be given at the resi-
dence Of President S. B L. Penrose.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
Varsity Tenn
9 Has Returned

The Whitman varsity basketball
ceam Of eight players, manager and
chaDer..1e in the person of F. D. Apple
Gate physical director of the city Y. M
q. A, returned this morning over the
o R. x ~ from their trip into the
Willamette valley While on the trip
othe team played three games and came
home with one scalp. The game with
Nultnomah Athletic club was lost by
the colegians through Interpretation or
Che 4. A [. rules which the big club
men took, and to which the Whitman
men were not accustomed. This game
however makes no difference to Whit
4. alans standing among the colleges to-
ward the basketball championship.
Leaving from Portland. the Mission
aries went to Corvallis and played two
games there with the Oregon Agricul-
lural college team which last year won
SAe Intercollegiate championship. The
"SI OF these games was won by Whit
man IN a remarkable contest in which
whitman in the second half played q
wonderful uphill fight and nosed out
To the good by the close margin of three
points. The second game of the O. A. C.
series was taken in camp by the Beav-
''S' The third game between the two
schools viii be played in the Whitman
gymnasium in this city.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
MISSIONARIES
ARE MEETING

ST. LOUIS, Feb. 3.-What promises
to be one of the most enthusiastic
conventions yet held by the Laymens
Missionary movement begins in ST.
Sunday. Prominent men from all the
branches of business and professional
life are interested in the ST. Louis
meeting, which is a part of a general
movement looking to the evangelization
of the world
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03

Seventy-five men dead as a result of
the explosion Of the Colorado Fuel &
Sixty three miners dead at Los Espe-
renanzas, Mexico, as a result of the ex-
plosion in the Paulau mine late yes
terday.
Thirty known dead in the White
mine, BroWder, Kentucky.
the workings meets the warmer air
from the depths of the mine and the
contact tends to create explosive gases
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
JOHN MITCHELL SAYS MINE EXPLOSIONS OF
THE PAST WEEK ARE DUE TO WARM
90 AIR CLAsHING WITH COLD.
Saventy-five Dead at Primero- Sixty three Killed in
Explosion in Mexico-Thrty Lose Lives In
Kentucky Mine Calamity

NEW YORK, Feb. 3-John Mitchell,
former president of. the United Mine
Workers, one of the foremost mining
a.thorities of the world, today declared
his belief that the changeable atmos-
pEeric conditions usually prevalent at
this time of year, are responsible 20
oarge extent for the three great mine
disasters in America this week which
up 10 today have cost the lives of one
hundred and sixty eight men.
revision of the reports today shows
the following total loss of life:
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03

Divorce :
Granted

MINEOLA, L. l., Feb. 3.-Mary
Blair BrokaW today was granted sep
Grafton from her millionaire husband,
William Gould BrokaW, by Justice
Putnam of the New York supreme
court. Justice Putnam's opinion, filed
today, allows Mrs. BrokaW $4,000
yearly for maintenance and holds her
upon which the suit was
based, fully proven.
Mrs. Brokaw had demanded $4,000
yearly
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
Amateur Performance.

NEW YORK, Feb. 3.-The new the
atre will open it's doors for the first
time for an amateur performance to-
morrow, when young women prom
inent in society will take part in a
series of pantomimes for the benefit
Of the Music School settlement.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
DES MONIES HAS
MANY MEETINGS

DES MONIES, In, Feb. 3.-Members
of the Farm Grain Dealers association
convened today in annual session. More
than a hundred conventions will be
held in Des Moines this year and they
will probably bring about 100000 visi-
tors to the city.
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trict The officers pursued the loot.
ers to the bank of the river, firing
when they attempted to escape The
bodies were lost beneath the thin ice
on the Seine river The st. Cloud po-
lice engaged in a running fight with
the mob that was trying to lynch sew
eral pillagers The thieves were res
cued and the mob dispersed. Several
clashes between the so diers and pill
ayers are reported at Puteaux o
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
HEAR COAL RATE
COMPLAINTS NOW

FRANKFORT, KY. Feb. 3.-The
Kentucky Railroad commission met
here today to hear suggestions from
murrage rules for Kentucky. The chief
complaint is against the Illinois Central
Railroad whose coal rates are opposed
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-03
An Electric Franklin

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. "a figure
of BENJAMIN Franklin, outlined in ell
ectric lights, flying by an electric
string, an electric kite, will be a novel
feature of the electrical exhibition to
open in this city a week from Monday.
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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-04-18

man cars we're diverted to the rail-
roads and in other instances the Pull
man company paid all the operation
expenses Of the trains carrying their
cars. Since such a condition OF af-
fairs as this existed 1t was very diff
ficult to find out what was the actual
profit to the Pullman company.
1t was evident that the profit OF
operating the car was much larger
in most cases than the profit which
the Pullman company got from 1t.
Then the question presented itself
whether it was just for the Pullman
passengers to pay for the transporta-
ton Of the whole train and inciden-
tally the transportation of the day
coach passengers.
No doubt II will be some time be-
fore the general public can get the
benefit Of the reduced rates, even IL
upheld, because in the first place
only a very few rates were ordered
to be reduced and there is a possib-
ility that the court will order these
suspended until the case has been
decided by the court of last resort
This will probably delay the matter
for years. In the meantime other
complaints will be fled with the COM
mission covering other specific rates
but no one expects to enjoy the bene-
fits of such a reduction until there is
final court decision.
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the jurisdiction of the commission.
BY making such a note on their
tariff sheets the Pullman company
showed that it was expecting that at
some time such a case as this would
come up before the commission. 1t
has been intimated that the Pullman
company would avail itself Of the dis
senting opinions that were filed by
Chairman Knapp and Commissioner
Harlan, but upon a review of these
opinions there is not much OF practic-
al Importance II is believed, that the
Pullman company can make use of.
With the large extension of traffic
II is recognized that sleepers have
become more OF a public necessity
than a luxury and as such the public
should have some control over the
charges for this service. In other
words, the Pullman service is looked
upon as a hotel service on wheels,
which should be regulated for the
public good, but without cutting the
rates to such an extent as to take
property without due process OF law.
According to the testimony, 1t is
said, the Pullman company is able to
even bear greater reductions than
have been ordered. This fact was
brought out conclusively it is believ-
ed, in the contracts with the rail-
roads. In some instances, ii is said,
part Of the profits Of operating Pull
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PULLMAN CO WILL FIGHT
viii Ask Court to EnIoln Lower
Rates Order

Washington, April 1S.-Reliable in
formation has reached here to the
effect that the Pullman company viii
soon ask the Chicago courts to en-
join the reduction in their rates Or
dered into effect on June l by the
interstate commerce commission. 1t
is understood that the reduction in
the rates as a whole and the differ
entail on the upper and lower berths
which were ordered by the commits
sion will be contested both as to the
merits and as to the jurisdiction Of
the commission over these matters.
The chief point upon which the
Pullman company will base its fight
is the jurisdiction of the commission.
It was not until the passage of the
Hepburn Act in 1906 that it was ex-
pressly noted that the commission
should have jurisdiction over the
sleeping car companies and the ex-
press companies. Upon that basis
the commission forced the Pullman
company to file its rates as the rail-
roads have always been doing. The
Pullman company filed the rates but
upon each instance these tariff
sheets carried the note that the com
pany reserved the right to contest