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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-06
Disorderly Conduct.

Richard Parnell, a soldier station
ed at Fort Walla Walla, was arrest
ed at 11,40 o'clock last night by Of
fcer Bert Cashatt and booked at po-
lice headquarters on the charge of
disOrderly conduct. He was released
on S. bonds for appearance in police
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-06
Leaves for Lincoln,

A. Oppie was a passenger this after
noon for Lincoln, Neb., where he will
remain for some time transacting
business and visiting with friends.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-06
Fined $50,

Ollie Wilson, Who was arrested yes
terday morning on the charge of vag-
rancy was given hearing in police
court yesterday afternoon, and receiv-
ed fine of $50. which she is serving
in the city jail
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-06
Married Yesterday.

Mrs. Dell Bickelhaupt and Mr.. AL
bert E. Balch were married in the wo-
mems lobby of the Hotel Dacres yes
terday afternoon at $50 o'clock by
the Rev. NJ L. Sanders. Only. a few
friends of the couple were present and
after the ceremony, they left fAe@ city
for a brief wedding tour. They will
make their future home in Waits
burg.
Turner-Lee.
Married last night at s.: 80 o'clock in
the NJ e. parsonage by the Rev. NJ
l.. Sanders, Pearle E. Turner and Miss
Esther Lee, both of this city. Mr..
Turner is employed in the o. r. & N
freight office while his bride was at
one time a milliner in this city and
very well known and highly thought
of. Their future residence will be at
Eagan and Third streets of this city.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-06

Wanted-A loan of $4,000, 3 years
time. security $4,000 worth of land
within five miles of Walla Walla
Particulars. see Baxter Realty Co.
1-6-7 CHI
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-06

Buried This Morning.,
= The funeral of Mrs. James Clancy
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

The towers are well under way on both sides of the Kuskulana bridge, but 1t Is thought that trains cannot be running over the gorge much be- fore the first of the New Year.
 Axel Fast, who was called to Cor dova to attend court, was a return ing passenger Thursday.
 Subscribe for the Chitina Leader.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

Congressman Humphrey, at 8 big members in Seattle, recently, made the statement that he would do ev- erything in his power at the com ing session of Congress toward se- curing the recognition of Alaska's re- sources. We'll, we can wait and see, but in the meantime, keep on a yellin'. It won't hurt none."
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

Everyone should read Governor Clark's annual report concerning Alaska, which appears in the Cor dova Daily Alaskan this week. It's most interesting and instructive, giv-' ing statistics and data on many things with which every Alaskan should familiarize himself.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

Bowling is now in full swing in all the Alaska towns, challenges, big scores and club meets being reported in all our exchanges. That reminds us. There are plenty of bowlers in Chitina, and if some enterprising business man should install set of alleys, it would be the money.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

If you want any wood or coal haul ed see Frank Alba. Frank has con- tracted for plenty of dry wood, and can furnish you any length on appli- cation. He is after the business in freighting and hauling, and from the way he is rustling and advertis- ing there is no question but what he'll get his share. The Leader is printing letterheads and envelopes for him this week and he has secur- ed space among the Chitina adver- tisers in the Leader. Read what he has to say to you.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

Cats are in demand in Chitina. There is hardly a cabin in the town If occupied for any length of time, but what has its share of mice. The little pests are a sort of field mouse and can be found all over this part of the country. Food particles soon collect around the cabins and the little fellows do not hesitate to take up their abode with the Chitina resi- dents.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

Those of the train crews which were stopping at mile 40. are now at mile 146, few of the engines being laid off until after the Kusku- lana crossing Is finished.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

Now and then we hear a rumor of Chitina people patronizing mail order houses on the outside a little too strong for the good of the com munity. It's true, the living expen- ses here are a little higher than on the coast, but it's better to pay a few cents more on an article and keep the money at home than to send 1t to the outside, thereby benefitting no one in Alaska. Figure out the prices, freight rates, etc., and you'll find our merchants are giving you as square deal as possible
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10
nany Pertinent
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Now that the grand jury has ad- journed, few Chitina residents are congratulating themselves at escap- ing a summons.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

ling the capacity of the cable and eliminating the heretofore crowded conditions at the different cable sta- tions.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

c. M. F. Cole, who has been away for several weeks, returned on Mon day evening, and will again resume charge of his roadhouse at mile 133.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

Monday evenings train brought a number of Chitina people back from Cordova, who were down attending coutr.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

Erickson & Johnstone, partners in the Dean Basin mining property, left for Tonsina on Tuesday to pick up some tools they left there last sum- mer, having need of them at their mining property.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10
Local News

Mark Tatum, the we'll known old in the material yards as one of the foremen for the contracting con- pany, will be an outgoing passenger on the Bertha for Juneau. After a short visit there it is rumored he will return and take charge of some of the many promising looking quartz mines at the Mckinley lake district.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

The press of Alaska and the Alas ka-Yukon Magazine is coming out oc- casionally with editorials on the poor ly constructed game laws governing in Alaska. For some unknown req son the Alaska bear is protected. This is about the biggest fool law the game protectors ever made for Alas ka, for there isn't a prospector or old-timer in Alaska who will not say damn the bear" Within a few miles of Chitina only last fall a poor devil was nearly killed by vicious she bear, and many instances all over Alaska can be cited where men have been attacked by these too num- erous animals. Like the great sym bol of American liberty, the eagle, they are no good for anything we know of. They prey on small game end are so numerous that it will re- Quire many years to kill them off. Protecting these beasts is mistake and the law should be changed.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

M. Finkelstein, of the firm of Finkeltsein & Sapiro, arrived from Cordova on Saturday night and is now in charge of their Chitina store, MT. Sapiro returning to Cordova to take charge of their business there.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

now in charge of their Chitina store, MT. Sapiro returning to Cordova to take charge of their business there
 L. B. Erickson, who has been in charge of the water wagon, has sold his holdings to Happy" Cottner. Some of the boys say Erickson was on the water wagon as long as he could stand it anyway.
 N whouse & Go. have just receiv- ed a fine line of French chocolates and the freshest of candies for Christ mas. 12-10-tf
 H. H. McCutcheon returned Sat- urday evening from few days busi- ness trip to Cordova.
 Tuesday, Friday and Sunday are the days the train is now scheduled to leave Chitina, arriving here Mon day, Thursday and Saturday even ings.
 E. F. Gray, of Copper Mountain, was in town Monday awaiting tele- grams and mail. MT. Gray has temporary camp on the Strelna, near mile 146, from where there is a good trail leading to his mines. He says he mushed from the mines to 146 in four hours. On his return he will take some machinery back to the mines, which he has had stored at mile 133.
 Eddie Wester returned from Cor dova on Monday evenings train.
 Oscar Freedman, who returned from Cordova the first of the week, says he will now stay until the new hotel is finished throughout, which should not be later than the 15th
 It would be poor Christmas with out candy. Get it from Newhouse & Co. They have as good line as can be found in the states, just fresh from the factory. too. 12-10-tf
 While at his morning duties at the Chitina bar, Tommy Richmond found a whole dollar. He's afraid to ad- vertise it for fear the owner nigh. possibly see it in the Leader and lay claim to it and, of course. he would n't think of spending it. If you are shy the price ask Tommy for 1t. He has more money now than he knows how to spend.
 Earl Cutting, who was with the Katalla Company last spring, but with the contracting company's forces at the front this summer and fall, has received ninety days furlough and left the first of the week for a visit to his home in Saginaw, Michi- gan. Earl was recently promoted
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

According to a dispatch from Se- attle the Black Hand society is again at work. Must be a cousin to the Chitina hand, only here it's white. On one of the cabin doors on Chit ina Heights last week was painted a perfect hand in white, and, while it was undoubtedly an innocent prank by some friend of the inmates of the cabin, it gave the lady of the house an uneasy feeling. We opine 1t would have given the perpetrator of the joke something stronger than an uneasy feeling, could he have known that a big "six pistol" was pointed in his direction when the woman in the cabin heard him monkeying around the door in her husbands absence.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

Gus Thiele returned from Cordova on Monday evenings train, having been called as a witness at the re- cent term of court.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

A much better cable service to Alaska will soon be in effect. The cableship Burnside is now installing . duplex system by which means mes sages can be transmitted in both di- rections at the same time. thus doub-
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

Quartz seems to be the real thing all over Alaska these days. Valdez, Cordova and the recent finds along the Copper River way are not the only showings, as Skagway now boasts of having the fashionable stuff right in her back dooryard.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

The Copper River & Northwestern railway is now figuring on putting on a dining car service. Who said there was no up-to-date railroad ser vice in Alaska?
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

If the prices of meats keep on dropping, the Alaskan prospector can soon figure on a change from his old standby. the 'porky."
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

We heard an old-time Alaskan the other day tell of a positive cure for after effects of frost-bitten feet or hands. People of this country, and the colder states in Uncle Sam's do- main, often suffer from cri1b1ains, swollen or inflamed and itching sensation, which nearly sets the suf- ferer insane if no relief is found, and it is we'll to remember that the old Alaskan advises: Simply bathe the feet in port wine, a few applications of which will relieve the inf1ama- tion without a recurrence until pos sibly the following winter, when the operation can be repeated.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

Deputy Marshal Brown returned from a business trip to Cordova on Monday evenings train. He is soon to make another trip to Valdez, but will return in a few days, bringing with him his household effects, which he will install in his cabin here. When the cabin is ready he intends to give little house-warming, and we know it will be good one.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

J. Mercy, of Valdez, was an ar rival in Chitina this week. MT. Nor ey is connected with the Alaska Drug Co. and is a prospective locator here with a full line of drugs in the near future.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

Rudolhp Pohlner made a round trip to Cordova on business this week, to confer with his partner, Geo. Blouen, who is now in Cordova await in the license of the firm to start a saloon here. Rudolph says he thinks there will be no question but what the license will be granted.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

Charley Johnson, the machinist took run down to Cordova this week.
The Chitina leader., 1910-12-10

L. B. Erickson, who has been in his holdings to Happy" Cottner. Some of the boys say Erickson was on the water wagon as long as he could stand it anyway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
By Charles Somerville
Drawings by Irma Deremeaux

mouth instead of the hard, straight lips of the drawn,
gray face.
It was after their boy born that Kenny had
begun to take life seriously toiling and saving,
disconnected until he became foreman of the labor
had become subcontractor, and then never resting
until he full fedged contractor. Many even
ings he and his wife had sat making splendid plans
would be best for him to become doctor, lawyer,
or priest.
Kenny had made great deal of money. They
could easily have afforded more sumptuous quarters,
with serving maids and even small motor The
nearest to the requirement of the latter had been
motor cycle for the boy. AS for the other things,
they had grown used to the comfortable of the
modest apartment rooms subtly seasoned by long
residence with their personalities, and little Mrs.
Kenny would have none of serving maids, wondering
what in the world she would do with her time if she
had not her household duties to perform. She
gave the washing and drew keen sense of ee-
CANT affuence from that performance other women
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And Bernstein worked at night playing violin in
orchestra The very finest of plans suggested itself;
providing of course that Mrs Bernstein would prove
agreeable. The baby could stay the top floor at
night, and in the daytime after Kenny had gone to
his work of experimenting building operations,
she could have the little fellow all day to fuss ever,
to feed to coddle and fonde. Such a sweetly happy
smile shone her old face had not crossed
her lips for years.
IL then laboriously, with arms that sharply ached
in the effort bore the little stranger up five flights of
stairs to Mrs. Bernstein rooms.
When her knock answered and she entered,
she at first altogether abashed to find that Bern
stein still at home. She had not n her haste,
thought of that But it was he who opened the door.
He stared through thick, shining spectacles with his
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big bullying eyes at the baby. But then he smiled
and rumpled his long hair in his comlcal way, and
pink chin and said h-ee-coochee!" most cor
daily. And when the baby reached out and grabbed
his goatee he only smiled and allowed the little
to yank away to its hearts content, merely
observing:
"Himmel! Vun pull more and you git it ovid by
der roots you fiddle rascal!
"Oh my! Such a lofely baby!" cried Mrs. Bern
stein hastily putting the platter Of roasted meat she
with heavy agility coming forward her face beaming
with big smile and her hands lifted in astonish-
ment.
And when Mrs Kenny made herself clear regard
ing the plan she had formulated Mrs. Bernstein said
oh sure sure would huff it.
Bernstein nodded approval. "Sure she would, he
said, to keep her from loneliness when | am away
making der moosc." He considered And if he
cries BY der night-oh veil, if he cries"
He hasn't cried all day." said Mrs. Kenny anx-
iously.
Sure; but even if he does 1 guess snore louder
dan What he cries. l guess don'd hear him? Hey,
Lena?"
'Such noise my makes! laughed Mrs.
Bernstein. Such noise!"
Mrs. Kenny's conscience was not altogether easy,
if her heart beat much more regularly as she
went down stairs to her own apartment. She had
explained the presence of the baby in her home with
much in reservation She had told the Bernsteins
that she knew the young mother well and it would be
only matter of two weeks fearing that they mg ht
be chary of assuming what would in TRUTH appear as
a permanent contract Still the baby was safe for
two weeks at least and then-wel little Mrs Kenny
was only too happy to have solved the problem tor
that long When the two weeks were past she'd see
shed see then what could be done.
FOLLOWING this arrangement, every evening at
L six o'clock-kenny seldom got home before
seven but she had decided to run no risks-Mrs.
Kenny wrapped the baby securely in shawl, being
particular to do it in such that he could not
wildly wave his arms and legs. and then carried him
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come back for him tonight, or
quicker if get a job quicker. He's
all dressed clean, and here's his
bottle filled fresh" The girl had
paused with the baby poised to
be given over. will you do it for
me, Mrs. kenny"
The little old woman had simply
held out her arms for the baby and
said "Tut-tut!" answering the
girls thanks, and finally GOOD
luck to we. child" as the young
mother went away.
The indication now was plainly
that the young mother wasn't
coming back; that Mrs. Kenny
had been hoaxed into the care of
a strange baby by heartless girl
whose honest eyed. fresh COM
plexioned countenance had been a
lie. 1t was nearly half-past six in
the evening. Kenny would be
home very soon.
TITLE Mrs. Kenny had for
IL sometime fallen into the habit
of thinking of him as Mr.. Kenny"
She had ceased to be able to think
of him at all as he had been in the
old, old Ireland days, when there
were actually dimples in his rosy
cheeks and a flexible smile on his
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- haired Mrs. Tim Kenny sat in her comfortable
ground floor apartment in Harlem with the
baby that did not belong to her.
1t was not the behavior of the baby that worried
her. He lay on pillow on her lap with his tat pink
legs sprawled his fat fists softly clenched his tat
cheeks healthfully flushed and his big blue eyes
closed fast in Sleep Even the fact that the baby did
through the false pretenses of wretched young
mother, was not her source of particular worry
either She would have liked to have welcomed the
baby tender happy relief for her growing lonel-
ness.
1t was the thought however, of what her big hus-
band Tim would say and what he would DO When ne
found her in possession Of the strange baby that
brought all the startled concern into her mild blue
eyes, Of course he would smile grlmly at her gull
bility in receiving the curly haired, dlmnut1ve
stranger.
And really Mrs Tim Kenny could see for herself
no in the matte. being unanalytlcal nor cred
iting herself with the simple sweet, womanly inn
might have been expected to know better having
lived long in the big city and having read SO many
similar incidents of baby assertions recorded almost
daily in the newspapers Not in the least however,
had her sophistication come to give her warning
when the young slender mother stood before her,
holding the baby out and pleading to her.
1--WE heard about you Mrs. Kenny, the girl had
said. Eve heard ali about the kind things you do
for little children in this parish and how you haven't
got any children of your own since your boy died,
and 500 thought Id come to you and ask you to
do me this favor. l haven't got anywhere to leave
the baby while l go looking for work. can get
work, I'm pretty sure I'm experienced factory
to some institution and left him there and then had
hard luck getting work they might take him away
from me. I know girl lost her little baby that way
once. want you to keep him only Tor to-day. Ill
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might sitting gem bedecked IN
box at the grand opera.
But then there had come the
quarrel between the father and
son, from which little Mrs. Kenny
held aloof in terror and distress.
After the boy left home she had
been utterly unable, night after
night for many nights, to hold
back her sobs at sight of the
empty place at the table. At
this her husband scowled re-
peatedly, eating his dinner with
rigid lips and saying nothing
whatever to comfort her. 1t was
from that time that she had
begun to think of him as "Mr.
kenny
He, apparently, had ceased to
think of her at all. He came
home in the evening with only
silent nod for her, read the news
papers, smoked his pipe, some
times ran over estimates or other
business memoranda, and scarce
ly spoke word at any time, and
he had long abandoned his fare
we'll kiss to her in the mornings.
But her boy-that was the hard
was dead. He died in a Western {
pneumonia, stricken while workir
a car conductor-their boy, who
either doctor, a lawyer, or p1
buried out there in that distant w
did not know exactly where. She
to her sons grave to kneel and pr;
She was a very lonely little woma
THIS has been one of her brigh
l a long time. The preparatio
ner divided the time with some
many, many attentions to the /
swered all her endless expressio
resses with the most winning ane
NOR, chortling and f1inging his f
with mighty sweep, knocking he1
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~ AAAo StA - Ce&oAA Ci1iS
her with being an "easy
mark" and growing that
he'd not have a squalling
young one making his
evenings at home a bed
lam, before finally taking
the baby and delivering it
to Sergeant O'Hara at
the police station round
the corner.
She srnoothed the
baby's curls as they glis-
tened golden in the soft
light. And she thought
earnestly and rapidly on
what she might do to save
herself-and the baby.
Suddenly she remem-
bered Mrs. Bernstein on
the top floor. Mrs. Bern
stein was plump and
kindly, and she was white
haired and childless too.
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tacIes SO that they hung suspended
from one ear.
But how-how would Kenny &C.
cept this baby's presence in the
house? Only in one way, the little
woman felt sure, and that was thai
he would not accept it at all; woulc
probably tuck the baby ruthlessly
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1910-05-31
TIE :SLATIVE JOKER

"A joker in its simplest form
consists in a word or clause which,
introduced into proposed legislation
tilches away from the public it's
power to establish such laws as it
desires, either by emasculating an
enactment or by perverting the
sense and purpose of it. So writes
Samuel Hopkins Adams in the
American Magazine, and he cites
these instances of how the joker is
worked:
Sometimes it is one word, as
where the sale of piece of public
property to the lowest bidder was
once authorized. Sometimes it
may in here in that elusive character
the comma, as in the case of the
tariff clause of an old schedule
providing for the free entry of
fruit plants, where somebody care
lessly allowed a comma to creep in
between fruit and plants, there
by admitting millions of oranges
and lemons into the country duty
free and costing the treasury hun
dreds of thousands of dollars in loss
of imports. Nobody ever found out
whether this was a printers slip or
carefully devised scheme. Certain
it that is trainers of the schedule
never intended it.
Again the entire body of the
proviso may cOnstitute the joker by
purporting to carry one meaning
when it in reality carries quite an
other. Congress still preserves the
, tradition of the Irish representative
from Massachusetts who proposed
that March II be made a legal
holiday in celebration of thu" Boston
tea party. Several New Eng
landers whose zeal exceeded their
erudition warmly supported the
measure until some one pointed out
that March IT was much more
closely associated with the supposed
birth of the proposer's patron saint
than with the destruction of the
obnoxious tea, which latter, inded,
was a midwinter festival"