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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
LARGE TOURING CAR RUNS
OVER TWO PORTLAND LADS
Superintendent of Portland Gas Com
pany Drives Heavy Machine
Over Youths.

PORTLAND. Ore, Jan. 1.-Two lads
We're run over by a large touring car
driven by III. M. Pabst superintendent
I! of the Portland Gas company in this
city late today One of the boys, Brian
Douglass, is seriously and perhaps fat
ally injured, the other, Alfred Smith,
suffered broken arm According to
Pabst, he with Ion Lewis and Scott
Brooke, two prominent business men,
Were going at fair rate of speed
when the two boys, darted across the
street from behind a building their
course carrying them directly in front
of the approaching car. Pabst put on
the emergency brake and reversed his
/ machine but though the troad on the
rear wheels was worn off, the car did
not come to stop until it had gone
nearly Is feet after striking the boys.
Pabst lifted the Douglass boy into his
car and hurried him to a hospital.
There the lad was found to be in a
serious if not critical condition. The
Smith boy, who at first did not appear
very much hurt, was afterWard taken
| to the hospital for treatment. Detec-
| tives sent to the place of the accident
to investigate the causalties reported
| that the accident was apparently un-
avoidable.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
WATERS SHUT IN RIVERSIDE
Heavy Rainfall Cut Off All Rail Com
nunication With the City.

RIVERSIDE, Cal, Jan. 2.-Tnis city
was completely cut off from railroad
communication with the outside world
today. as the result of floods and wash
outs. Soft roadbeds and spreading
tracks prevented the movement of To-
cal trains whenever attempts were
made to operate. The rainfall to date
for the season is 9 1-2 inches, which
is a new record to January /. The
Santa Ana river is nearly a mile
wide and from eight to twelve feet
deep. Hundreds of acres of Chinese
vegetable gardens are inundated. The
country road between Riverside and
Crestmore is 1nder ten feet of water
and the bridge of the Crestmore troll
ley line over the Santa Ana was swept
away.
Rain in Arizona.
PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. Rain has
been falling over Central Arizona in =
termittently since last Friday and is
continuing. Accumulated snow in the
mountains has melted and streams are
swelling. The normal flow of Salt
river is restrained by the Roosevelt
dam but tributaries this side have
contributed a sufficient volume to raise
the river four feet
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
No Damage Is Reported.

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 2-A1though
two earth quailes were registered by
the seismograph at the Tacubaya OBJ
servatory here yesterday morning, fol-
lowed by reports that the shocks were
severe in Yucatan kilograms from
there today are to the effect that no
damage resulted.
Officials of the observatory calcui-
ated that the shocks were from widely
different centers, the first being, they
compute, at least 1000 miles from
Mexico, and probably in the Pacific
ocean. The second much lighter than
the first. it is believed, is that which
apparently centered in Quintano, Roo,
Yucatan
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
CONGRESS HAS
MOCH LAB0R
MAPPED OUT
Legislators Will Begin Their
Work in Earnest This
Week Is Stated

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Concress
will begin business in earnest this
week. With the Christmas HOLIDAYS
behind them and with the preliminary
ante-holiday plans completed both
houses will start in with the intention
of keeping their hands to the plow
The senate is not so forward with
it's work as the house and the former
body may experience difficulty in find.
ing something to do in the first few
days of it's sitting But the house
calendar is well filled. Both houses
, will reconvene .on Tuesday, but both
will adjourn for the day out of re-
spect for the memory of the late Sem
ator McLaurin of Mississippi. Wed.
nesday will be calendar day in the
house and that body will again take
up the Mann bill for the reorganiza-
ton of the Panama canal zone. 1t is
believed this measure will be disposed
of in one day, and. with it out of the
way the house will attack the appro-
priation bills.
The army supply bill is ALREADY on
the calendar and by the time it is
passed will come the Qualifications
measure, the urgent deficiency, the
agricultural and the navy bills. Even
the sundry civil and the Legislative
bills are we'll blocked out in committee
Appropriation Legislation Ahead
Indeed, appropriation legislation Is
further advanced in the house than
ord :narily at this season, and it is the
opinion of experts that supply bills
xu,il 10
rapidly that the house can give them
almost continuous attention in the
next two months.
The senate committe on appropria-
tons soon will begin the District of
Columbia appropriation bill. Senate
COMMITTEES have not been as busy as
house committees and the senate cal.
endar is barren.
For the present adjournment of the
senate every week from Thursday I'M
til Monday may be expected.
Much interest is manifested in both
houses in the two announcements that
the presidents message on the Sher-
man antitrust law and the resolutions
of Senator Jones and Representative
providing for an investiga-
ton of the interior department and the
forest service will be presented on
Wednesday,
There is division of opinion as TO
anything will be accomplish
ed in the way of modifying the Sher-
man law this session. but everybody
is concerned over the terms of the
presidents treatment of the subject,
and his message will be read with un-
usual interest
On the other hand it is generally
that the Jones and
resolutions will be adopted
and the investigation will be entered
on in short order.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
VITAL STATISTICS.

LONDON, Jan. "A blue book CIV
ing a detailed analysis of the births
deaths and marriages in 1909 M
just been issued. The specially inter
esting part of the book is that whi~
deals with the marriage registers u
England and Wales.
Among the brides who found nus
bands over seventy were one ageu
nineteen, one aged twenty and tWo
aged twenty-one. Two old women
over seventy-five married men over
eighty-fve. In all seventy-seveh
women over seventy were married
Three of them found bridegrooms un-
der forty-five, twenty-six found part
ners under sixty-fve and forty Eight
married men as old or older than
themselves.
1t is pointed out that the number
of marriages unmade by the divorce
court is steadily growing each year
but at the same time there is large
increase in the number of divorced
persons who remarry. Here are the
figures:
1909. 1908.
Persons divorced ....... 1852 1,31a
Divorced persons remarked SIS 1903
There is still a tendency to increase
shown in the age at which men anf
women marry, the average age now
being ISIS years for the bridegrooms
and 1851 for the brides. In London
the average age is even higher, reach
ing 1856. for the bridegrooms. ana
26.98 for the brides.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03

in store-liberty or imprisonment
shall endeayor to meet it in the same
way / have struggled against the mis-
fortunes of the past two years.
(Signed) &c. W. MORSE"
A few minutes before the train left
Harry and Benjamin Morse appeared
for another farewell to their father
He embraced them and wept as they
left him.
Morse braced himself for the news
paper photographers but he said Moth
ing. He read a newspaper after he
had boarded the car. The train is due
in Atlanta at noon tomorrow.
Mrs Morse did not accompany hel
husband to Atlanta. Tonight Mrs
Morse said
Il am going to Atlanta tomorrow
and | probably shall live there unit
my husband is released. / will devote
all my time in getting up a petition
to that end In the past two weeks
| have received thousands of letters
expressing the sympathy of the writ
ers with my husband, and their read
mess to sign petition in his behalf
Morse Will Not Talk
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Charles w
Morse, New York convicted banker
who is on his way to Atlanta to be-
gin a Is year penitentiary sentence,
was in Washington Is minutes today
but he refused to see any one.
No personal friends of the convicted
banker were at the station but q large
delegation of newspaper men met the
train. Those who found the state
room were denied admittance.
Passengers on the same car with
Mr. Morse said that Benjamin Morse,
a son of the banker, boarded the train
at Baltimore and saw his father for
a few minutes.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03

played in American colleges is well
m the way to thorough revision. but
hat the present game would be re-
aimed with'changes and no other sub
+, tituted.
IT feel just as strongly as ever.
said Coach Stage, that the modern
scientific game of football should NOT,
md will not, be given up. also feel
hat the salvation of the game will be
in making it more Open" Stagg fur
her asserted that any impression that
the national experts favor reversion
20 Rugby on the adoption CT the asso-
citation game is false.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
MORSE GOES
TOSERvEH|S
LONG TERM
Convicted Banker Complains
Bitterly of Way in Which
He Was Tried

NEW YORK, Jan. with a su-
p-emc effort to be cheerful, but with
emotion occasionally getting the better
af him. Charles W. Morse left New
York today to begin Is years sent
fnce in the federal prison at Atlanta,
Ia. for violation CT the national bank
Ing laws.
Before leaving the tombs, where he
had been confined for the greater part
eG~~the- last year, Morse received his
wife and two sons and then the news
paper men,. He was too affected to
say anything but he handed out care
fully. prepared statement
The general understanding was that
his wife was to accompany him south.
Morse left Jersey City on the
birmingham flyer of the Southern rail-
way at 10: As O'Clock in custody of
Deputy United States eMarshals. The
party occupied stateroom.
Makes Drama attic Statement
Morses statement is bitter and dra-
matte.
Il am going to Atlanta to begin penal
Servitude under the most brutal sent
ence ever pronounced against a citi-
zen in civilized country" is his
opening sentence.
4 have hoped" the statement con-
tinues. with that hope which comes
from consciousness of my innocence,
that l will not have to close out for
ever the light and liberty of this world
under such an inhuman sentence |
have fe.t that the fact that | had paid
u fine Of $T.000,000 and served 4 year
in prison would satisfy the cry for a
victim and | have steadily believed
that the courts would be compelled to
give me new trial. WEel l learned
that the private detectives Of the prose
Cution were the keepers OF the jury
that the jury drank like men upon a
jauRt or holiday. Gather than citi-
Gems engaged i'm a serious service, and
that as the result two of them are
rendered unfit. 1 naturally hoped that
W3U,>. &c allowed another trial by an
other jury free of these hostile in
fuerCcs.
Rails at Jury's Conduct
cit seems. however, that the courts
intend to establish the practice which
makes rum drinking a part of a Jury
service and private detectives as the
custodians of a jury permanent in
stitution, BY this sentence and judg-
u,ent 1 may be brought to ruin; but
the damage done to me is not half
as important as the injury to the AID
ministraticn of justice l am now up
in years and must, with the passing
of time. pass also; but the record of
my conviction and the way it was
brought about will remain lasting
and dangerous example of a gov
ernment gone mad in search of vic
tim.
Whether / shall serve my full sent
ence. l am not able to say, much
depending upon how much the govern
mont at Washington shall look upon
it. / have great faith that all right
thinking men and women who know
OF me and my case and who realize
the iahumanity of my sentence will
make known their feelings to the presi-
dent Whatever the future may hold
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
Will Let Demands Rest.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-On behalf of
the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
and the Order of Railroad Conductors,
VIII CHI have made demands for higher
wages on all railroads east of the Miss
issippi, it was reported by their local
officers tonight that the demands
would lie in allegiance, so far as ne
gotiations with the companies are con-
cerred, until about January 90 This,
it was explained, was because the cleo
ton of local finance committees and
of officers, which takes place every
two years. was held last month.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
No Riot at CoIfax

COLFAX, Wash, Jan. 3. l d. M
(SpeciaD There is absolutely no
foundation for the report that this city
was the scene of bloody riot yes
terday evening Local officers fail to
account for such a report, which had
it that six men We're killed. On Fri
day. according to Deputy Sheriff
Common, the sheriff was called to ar
rest six riotous DRINKS at Maiden, a
new town on the Milwaukee & ST.
Paul. and this might have lead to
such g report The men were hilari-
Gus and serious trouble would have re-
suited had it not been for the prompt
work of officers. The men arrested
were members of the bridge construc-
zion gang and all were Americans.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
PAssos is NOT RELEASED.
Madriz Refuses Request of Zeiaya fol
Son-in- avs Release

MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jau. q
President Madriz HAS sent "a message
to ex-President Zelaya, replying to the
latter's cabiegram begging that Joa-
Quin Passos, his sOn-in-laW, be liber-
ated. Passos is now in the. hands OF
the authorities on a charge of misap-
p.ication CT state funds.
President MadriZ informs Zelaya
that skeleton treasury bills to a large
amount were found in the possession
of Passos, which he intended to have
signed privately. Zelayas explanation
to President Madriz regarding these
bills was that they were delivered to
Passos by suboecretary Of Finance
Castillon to guarantee an advance of
$4,000 made by Passos to pay the
first iEstallment on the Emery claim.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
WESTON TO WALK AGAIN
Aged Pedestrian to Make Transcon.
tinental Journey.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-EdWard Pay
son Weston, veteran pedestrian, an
nounced today that he will make one
more transcontinental walk, and that
he will get from ocean to ocean in
100 days.
Weston will start from Los Angeles
at o'clock the afternoon Of February
l and will be due in New York May
%. His hike from New York to San
Francisco early last summer took him
los days but on that journey he en-
countered long series of storms and
unusually hot weather. In conditions
are favorable this spring he is sure
that he can cross the United States
in 100 days.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
SWEEPING REFORMS STARTED
Athletic instructions at Naval Academy
Being Materially Altered

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.-Sweeping
reforms in the athletic instructions in
vogue at the naval academy are be-
ing undertaken by Surgeon General
Rixey. 1t TRANSFERRED today that Cen
eral Rixey has detailed Passed AS
sistant Surgeon Paul E. Mcdonald to
the academy to make thorough in
quiry into causes leading up to the fall
ure of upper class men to pass physi-
cal tests, although the men when adj
mitted to the freshman class were
compelled to pass most rigid eXami-
nation. One of the principal causes,
it is declared, was found to lie in the
system of training in preparing men
for athletic and field events. This
is to be changed, the gymnasium is to
be remodeled and an entirely new sys-
tenn of setting up drills is to be
substituted for that now in use.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03

here is stillsmueh concern felt by the
officials of all three Of the trans
continental roads reaching this city.
Fhe locg stretches Of roadbed are
washed away between Los Angeles
and San Bernardino on the route used
jointly by the Salt Lake and Santa
Fe. Salt Lake westbound trains are
now being held at victorville. Bar
stow apd Otis. and it is hoped to
bring them here on Wednesday. On
the Santa Fee conditions are partic-
ularly bad on both main lines. Near
Anahein. on the San Diego route, two
bridges are out and all traffic is stop
ped for several days. On the main
line between this city and San Bern
ardino, new tracks will have to be
laid for considerable distance before
trains can be moved. The large ce-
ment bridge at Olive station has set
tied, and is declared unsafe.
California Limited Stormbound.
The second section of the California
limited is held at Cajon. 1t was due
here last Friday. Trains / and Z,
both due here Saturday, are stalled
at BarstoW and train No. 8 is at Need
les. They will probably arrive here
Wednesday, Trains / and due here
today are held at Ashfork, Ariz. Tele-
graph communication along the Santa
Fe line has gone down east of Bar
stow and the full extent Of the dam
known. Two bridges over the San
Gabriel between this city and San
Bernardino are out.
Twelve persons who had been ma
rooned on a narrow strip Of land be-
tween two branches of the Santa Ana
river near Downey all night, when the
river cut them off from escape, were
rescued early this morning by MEM
bers of the Venice life saving crew,
Sheriff Hammil of Los Angeles oOun
ty Deputy Sheriff Matthewson and
Chief of Police Dishman of this city.
The persons rescued are:
Mrs. Bertha Armstrong and Mrs.
Sarah Wells, widows and sisters. and
a sen of Mrs. Wells, who lived to-
gether on ranch near the river; Mr..
and Mrs. William Paxton and their
two sons; MIR. and Mrs. Henry Moul-
ton and their three children.
Life Savers to Rescue.
Early this morning after vain eff
forts had been made to reach the
homes of these people during the
night in a boat taken to Downey by
Sheriff Hammil, Chief Dishman and
some deputies from this city, a call
was sent to Venice and the life saving
crew responded, bringing their heavy
surf boat on a fiat car. The boat was
launched before daylight. and after an
hour succeeded in crossing the turb
u .ent stream and reaching the ma
people Already their homes
were partially submerged and they
were in imminent danger of being
swept away in the raging flood. They
were safely landed. One of those who
themselves during the
night while efforts were being made
to reach the endangered people, was
Mrs. Henry T. Gage, wife of the newly
appointed minister to Portugal, who
braved the storm and waded through
mud almost knee deep to direct the
rescuers from the Gage ranch, which
is near the banks of the river.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
COMMUNICATION RESTORED
Stages Reach Valdez From Fairbanks
After Hard Trip

VALDEZ, Alaska, Jan. 2.-Communi-
cation between Valdez and Fairbanks,
which has been cut off since Decem
Der %, was restored today when three
stages arrived here from the Tanana
valley.
AS a result of 16 days storm which
ragged in central Alaska the snow has
been piled across the trail in drifts
II feet deep. The heavy snow was
followed by few days of mild wea-
Their after which there was q heavy
freeze causing a crust to form over
the deep drifts. Sixty men are now
at work opening the road through
ThompsOn's pass.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
Charged With Embezzlemens.

SEATTLE Jan. Fired 0. Vogel-
sang, who came to Seattle from Pitts
burg, Pa, several weeks ago and OPP
ened a tailor shop, is under arrest
here on a charge of embezzlement
placed by the Pennsylvania authori-
ties. Vogelsang, who was a salesman
for a packing company in PittsbUrg is
accused of embezzling several hundred
dollars from his employers. He left
Pittsburg in company with Miss Molly
Syres, whom he has since married. He
is being held pending the arrival of a
Pennsylvania officer with extradition
papers.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
Snow MeIts Very Fast.

PITTSBURG, Jan. within "a
hours, ten inches of snow in the AL
legheny and Ohio valleys have melt
ed and flowed into the Ohio river
However, there is slight chance of a
flood causing damage at this point.
1t is believed the present week will
see a resumption of navigation be-
tween here and Cincinnati.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
Youth Wrecked Train

UNION CITY, Ind, Jan. 2-Vernon
Piessinger, Is years old, of Anderson.
Ind, was arrested tonight charged with
having opened switch and wrecked
the Knickerbocker train on the Big
Four railroad at Dawn, Ohio, last night.
plessiager confessed, the police say.
and gave as his motive that he wished
to rob the passengers and go to some
seaboard town where he could Join
the navy" ~-~s -.----e.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
Marooned Party on Mt. Badly

CLAREMONT,l Cal. Jan. 2.-Three
members of the party of Is persons
who were m2rooned on the side of
Mount Badly last night, owing to a
landslide, reached here late today af-
ter climbing down the mountainside
over a trail cut by themselves. The
other members of the party will re-
main in camp on the mountain until
the old trail can be reopened They
have ample provisions and are in no
danger.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
Asks PRAYERS for Leopold.

BRUSSELS, Jan. 1.-THE archbishop
of Mechlen has issued charge invit-
ing prayers for the late King Leopold,
who, says the archbishop. by his re-
ligious marriage and eminently chris
tian death merits the prayers of all
good Belgians' and Catholics.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-03
Daz Calls on Zeiaya

MEXICO CITY, Jan. president
Diaz tonight called on Jose Santos
Ze'aya at the Palace hotel. where the
former president of Nicaragua has been
staying since his arrival. The visit
lasted nearly an hour.