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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-30
Taken Suddenly III.

Charles Burnham. son of w. E..
burnham. us Chase avenue, was ia
ken seriously i'll at an early hour yes
teroay morning which necessitated his
immediate removal to st! Mary's hos
pltai' where his case was diagnosed
as severe attack of appendicitis.
yesterday evening he underwent an
operation which it is thought will
prove entirely satisfactory. At a late
nour last night the hospital authori-
Ties stated he was much better and
his ultimate recovery is assured
When Mr.. Burnham retired Monday
night ne was in apparent good
health
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-30
Patient is Better.

charles Burnham of this city, who
nc onerated on for appendicitis yes
.ordav in ST. Mary hospital H. re-
norted getting along nicely.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-30
Gypsies Drown
Crossing Ice

LUCIA, Province of ST. Petersburg,
March 30.-Fifteen gypsies were
drowned today in Lake linen, near
here. The wagons in which they were
.erossine the lake broke through the
ice.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-30
TOWN TOPICS
Infant in Hospital.

rho infant child of Mrs. Elsie De-
-;s WAS received at the Walla Wal
=, hospital yesterday afternoon for
.,,roical treatment.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-30
Leaves For Home.

Mrs Emma Hervey of Milton, who
-, been in the Walla Walla hospital
g.. sometime past for surgical treat
ant eft for her home today.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-30
Has Soda Fountain.

Inc Hawkins confectionery store.
East Main street. now boasts of the
most expensive soda fountain in the
city. The new fountain looks more
IKE an expensive piece of furniture
tnan thirst satisfier. Mr. Hawkins
purchased it at an exepense of ap-
proxlmately> $4,000, but it adds much
TO the appearance of the store
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-30
Permit for Improvements.

Building Inspector William Metz
Yesterday issued a permit for improve
ments on the new Drumheller building,
Second and Alder streets. The permit
issued was for $19,500, which sum is
being spent in the transformation of
the building into an office structure.
When the improvements were started
It was impossible to tell just what the
amount would be 50 the permit was not
issued at that time.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-30
Inqram Is Better.

! II. Ingram of Dayton. was taken
. vvaIla Walla hospital yesterday for
-.,rgicaI treatment, and is reported
,,;rp nicely this morning.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-30
Is VISITING Friends.

ROBERT Fortier, who underwent an
operation for appendicitis some time
ago IN the Saint vincents hospital of
rortiand is in town visiting friends.
Mr. Fortier is graduate of the Sno-
kane high school. he was ATTENDING HE
flrst year in Whitman college when
taken i'll. 1t is not known whether
MI. fortier VIII take up his work in
cohege again this year or not, his
'eachers hope he may be able to
choose course that will enable him
10 go ahead with his work this wear
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-30

reached such stage that lives OF white
residents are being threatened. Tribes
men are reported to have killed Rev.
B. X. Sheare, missionary at Cape Pal
mas
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-30
Sails for Names.

ALEXANDRIA, March 30-Roose-
welt sailed at o'clock on the .Prinz
Heinrich for Naples.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-30

II you want to buy or sell. see FOX
Rooms 8 and q. Barrett BuiIdinu.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-30

ARE you INTERESTED
in typewriters? If you are call at the
Office of the Washington Printing COM
pany and see the latest model Oliver.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30
Tragic Fate Long Pursues a Family

the present Cumming generation. was
a sailor Of Salem, Mass and went
down with his ship when Miss Cum
ming was young girl. Eer father
was blown to death in boiler ex-
plosion in Salem. He was merchant
and simply happened along wheal the
boiler let loose. Only parts OF his
body were recovered. One sister was
breaking wood over her knee when
she fractured her kneecap. The leg
was amputated but gangrene caused
her death. Another was killed by a
SNOWFALL in which a stone was i'm
bedded and third was caught while
packing trunk. The lid crushed her
head.
The unhappy fate of the family
seemed to descend to the branches, for
one of Miss Cummings nephews was
lost in the San Francisco earthquake
in one Of the collapsed buildings which
took fire. A brother Of this lad, En-
sign Matthews, had persisted on the
Maine in Havana harbor. These trag-
edies so preyed on the mind of the
mother, Miss Cummings sister, that
she became violently insane and is
now in Massachusetts asylum. Now
the last near relative of Miss Cum
ming is in a hospital, and it is impossi-
BILE to say whether she will escape
the family fate or not.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30
Big Job to Fill the Supreme Bench

In addition to judicial fitness, poll
tics and geographical qualifications
must be considered. Moreover, the
president is brought face to face with
a task which will be Of tremendous
Importance to the United States for
the next generation. With political
beliefs changing over night and great
er zeal in governmental supervision
being urged by the dominant party,
the court which President Taft must
reconstruct will pass on all the
changes in the organic laws Of the
United States which may be made by
congress.
The problem will not be solved
for the public until after congress
meets, as It has been definitely an
nounced ut the White House that no
judicial appointments would be sent
to the senate until the Monday fol-
lowing the reconvening of congress.
The president is also head over
heels in the consideration of the ap-
pointment of five additional judges Of
the circuit court, which will constitute
the new court Of commerce. In addi-
ton to these judicial vacancies there
are several district judges to be ap-
pointed. It is no stretch Of the
imagination to believe that the pres
ident will almost reorganize the fed.
eral judiciary before he leaves the
presidents office.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30
Society Soldier Out at Fort Mver

Myer created the biggest sensation
the army has had for long time. He
tried to get into West Point, but was
barred by age, and from the naval
academy because of his size. Then.
he enlisted in the cavalry, but that
did not suit his liking and he trans
ferred into the signal corps, where
he was promoted to be corporal.
At Fort Myer the dude soldier was
the envy Of his comrades and a par
ticular bore to his officers. After a
hard days drill, or the attendance on
some other military duty, Corporal
Myer would go to his bachelor apart
ments, have his valet rub him down
aad theT don the habiliments of
soAiety man. That night, perhaps, his
commanding officers would find him
in the same ballroom with themselves.
He had the entree' into the most ex-
elusive clubs, and it was a source of
much regret to Colonel Haversack
and Major Canteen that Private Myer
took precedence over them when it
came to getting the attention Of the
walters, ..--.l
The youngster rode and walked with
the fatrest OF Washington's bellies, and
had money to burn. He never did
anything to excite the anger of his
superiors except to play the dual role
OF q soldier and q dandy. too.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30
Everybody Helps to Make City Clean

sections. Wagons furnished by the;
city and by business firms were on,
hand to follow the workers and coli
lect the results of their labor.
Up one side of the street and down
the other they worked, cleaning the
street and parkings Of weeds and
papers and piling them for the wagons
to collect and cart away. And school
boys who had not been detained at
home to clean yards followed the
shovel and hoe brigade with brooms,
sweeping up the dirt the shovelers
had missed.
And the women were working, too,
While their husbands were cleaning
the streets, they were sweeping the
yards, picking up tin cans and pa
pers and cutting the dead weeds. In
all parts of the city women could be
seen, raking up leaves and trash and
even repairing fences. The churches
had men working cleaning and re-
pairing the property and the school
janitors were busy in the schoolhouse
yards.
It is the intention before long to
have the $4,000 school children of the
city organized into juvenile leagues
for the purpose Of assisting in this
work.
''This is only a staster," Mr.. Dean
explained. "All Of Kansas City, Kan,
Will be cleaned the same way"
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30
Refusal of Water May Cost His Life

up his scalp, which had been almost
completely torn of the skull: Max
we'll stood the operation well. AS he
Strengthened up ready to be assigned
bed Doctors Rosa and Silk offered
him glass Of water.
Il never use it," was Maxwelps re-
sronse to the proffered drink. The
physicians and the nurses regarded
the statement as joke. Next morn
ing the nurse offered Maxwell medi.
cine in the form of pills. A glass of
water was offered him to take with
the medicine, but Maxwell refused it.
He swallowed the pills without water.
The white Of an egg was prescribed
in the evening, but after inspecting
the food Maxwell declared he thought
there was water in it and refused to
take it.
Hospital attaches are in a quandary
as to what to feed the man, Mrs,
Maxwell says it is useless to coax
her husband to drink water.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30
Treasury Building Is Overcrowded

building, plans for which were drawn
by William T. Elliott, a surveyor. who
came to Washington in 1913.
The 30 granite monoliths, each of
which cost $500 and weighs 80 tons,
now stand in an unbroken row. They
are said to be the finest example of
their kind Of the stonecutter's art. It
required ten men, working 60 days, to
produce each of them, and solid train
of 80 fat cars brought them to Wash.
1ngton from the quarries in Massachu.
sets.
To make more space inside the build.
ing all the files of letters and docu.
ments will be stored in the old coal
vaults under the lawn on the Pennsyl.
vania avenue side, and new coal vaults
are being built on the side opposite the
White House.
The completed building, as it stands.
represents three stages of construction
The nucleus, located by Jackson, was
finished in 1912. The south wing was
finished In 1854. The north wing, fin.
ished in 1869, is on the side of the old
state department building.
The long colonnade of brown stone,
erected in 1864, deteriorated in the
southern climate and was replaced by
the present granite nlonoliths little
more than year ago.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30

WAsH1NGTON.- About two years
W. hence If passengers on steamers
entering Manila harbor and passing be-
tween the several small islands that
guard the principal port OF the Philip
pines should inquire with Indifferent
interest as to the name and use of a
small dun-colored rock. hardly discern
Idle any distance away and looking
much like an irregular shaped house
boat floating on the ocean, the will be
toid that they are looking at Ell Fraile
Island. Perhaps, also, they will be told
that the little island, scarce two hum.
dred feet square, is the most diaboli-
caliy effective fertilization of it's size
in the world.
for eighteen months army engineers
nave been directing the work of fortt.
tying what is intended as the backbone
or keystone Of the strong defenses in
Manila harbor. They have resorted to
plan suggested by a young engineer
officer after their superiors had thrown
up their hands in despair at the pros
poets OF attempting to fortify the rock
which showed its head above the water
for so small an area. It involves the
leVellng of the island almost to the sur
face of the sea and erecting a struc.
ture in the form of battleship deck
stripped for action. The artificial forti.
flying will be of steel and cement.
| The defenses of Manila bay entrance
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30
Tho Seven Worst Sermons.

AS one surveys the field OF pulpit
oratory for illustrations of sermon1o
incompetence, he will perceive that II
his subject is to be handled with any
high order of justice, he must dispos~
sess himself Of the personal equation.
Among the 81 sermons he was priv1-
legged to hear last year, there may:
have been 49, which he disliked, which
bored him or failed to produce q fut-
tering Of conscience, but these OF
themselves are not sufficient reasons
for bestowipg upon any of the 40 the
sinister distinction we have In mind
They may have been stupid sermons,
badly written, abominably- delivered
sermons, uninteresting, modifying, I'M
inspiring, un-anything which 9 sermon
may be, and perhaps generally Is: but
they were just meager, or common
place, or tiresone sermons, no more
nor less, certainly not Of an order OF
demerit to rank among the seven. For
to have won the distinction Of badness
in supreme degree. a discourse, like
person, must have violated one OF
the fundamental laws Of goodness, and
have clashed somehow with the eternal
verities. William Austin Smith. IN At
lantfc. sz5s
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30
Forging the Big Panama Canal Gates

my's mines or accidental explosion
might easily destroy them, the gov-
eminent has begun to build the gates.
The cost will be $5,500,000.
OF the 10000 tons Of steel required,
the heaviest single pieces will weigh
about eighteen tons. The thousands
of individual pieces, numbered and tt-
ted to go together as easily as chill
dren's blocks, will be shipped by
steamer via Baltimore and with them
will go more than four hundred skilled
structural steel builders from Pitts
burg to set them. The advance guard
of experts will leave here in Decem-
Der and the first work probably will
begin early in 1911.
The location of the As pairs Of gates
will be, 20. at the Gatun dam on the
Pacific side, II at Pedro Miguel, and
IA at Miratlores, near the Atlantic en-
trance. The gates are designed to
hold back water 47.4 feet deep in q
channel 10 feet wide, which means
a pressure of a million pounds. The
weight of single gate will be about
600 tons, and the dimensions are II
to 80 feet high, 60 to Is feet wide and
7 feet thick.
Each lock will be ample for ship
so per cent. larger than any vessel
at1oat. and it has been estimated that
as many as a hundred ocean ships
may be handled in a single day.
There are no locks approaching
these in size. The famous Suez
canal is a sea level affair and the few
great lock canals would have to COM
bine their gates to equal the size and
strength Of the great doors of Pan.
ANA
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30

Y ANSAS CITY, KAN.-The Armour
II dale district has set the pace and
now this city is going to be a spot
less town. An idea, circular letter
and few postage stamps did the work
in Armourdale.
Mr.. Dean, commissioner of parks,
selected the town-cleaning day and
then mailed the letters to all of the
business and professional men in that
part OF town, inviting them to meet,
properly equipped with implements.
at Shawnee park.
AS early as 1880 the Shawnee park
district looked like a brickyard dis
trict when mad-dog alarm has been
sounded. There were men of all
sizes and wearing all sorts Of working
apparel and carrying many descrip-
tons of implements. When all hands
had gathered around the bandstand,
it was found that the group included
lawyers, doctors, ministers and BUSH
ness men, and that they meant bust
ness.
The party was divided into three
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30
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100000 Us STEAL A GATE
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DITTSBURG, -Mischievous boys
L dreaming Of gates to be carried
away and future Halloween trophies
would not in the widest nightmares
imagine such enormous gates as are
being made in Pittsburg for the Pana-
ma canal.
They will be the largest gates in the
world. Any one Of the 90 of them
will be about as high as a six-story
building, as wide as many city build
>ings are (65 feet), and seven feet
deep or thick.
The structural steel that will go to
make them will weigh $4,000 tons, or
more than eight times as much as
was used to build the Eiffel tower in
Paris.
The mighty portals, designed to ad-
NIT worlds commerce from one
ocean to another, must withstand a
tide of criticism as we'll as a tremen-
dous pressure of water and possible
commissions Of earth. For years the
controversy over gates or no gates,
locks or sea level, has been the di-
viding issue of the canal problem.
In the face of fear in some quar-
ters that the foundations on the 18TH
mus are not sure enough for locks,
that earthquakes or water pressure
would dislodge them. and that an enc.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30

Suppose, then, that few companies
CT the Paris GARRISON mutiny. Do you
reply that even one company cannot
mutiny?
On the night of June 20, 1907, the
Seventeenth Of the Line, drums beat
ing, clarions sounding, marched from
Agade to Bezieres by the simple de-
clslon OF the common soldiers. Where
were the officers? They were not seen.
The official report of General Eaillour
states that the officers did not rise
to their obligations"
At four o'clock in the evening the
revolted company was met by six COM
panies of the Eighty-frst, commanded
by General Lacroissade, known for his
discipline and energy. Yet he allowed
the revolted 400 soldiers to pass. Cen
eral Coupilloud said in his report that
the disciplined and sure troops 'sef-
faced themselves" before the mu-
tineers.
Suppose. then, that a few COMPANIES
of common soldiers are handsomely
paid to nlutiny In Paris. They know
that nothing serious will be done with
such a good-sized body Of me-. II the
conspiracy fails. They pillage the
cartridge magazine; and with drums
beating and trumpets sounding, march
on the presidents house. Where are
the officers? Playing the races, ma,
king afternoon calls, or disappeared :;
but all the corporals and sergeants
are there; and they command.
Can't Fire on "Brothers."
BY telephone a loyal troop is yent
to bar their way. Civil war is close
Frenchmen are going to fire on each
other. But how? There is no shock,
Shall brother soldiers shoot each 9th.
er? The faithful troops open and per
NIT the mutinous ones to pass on.
Now the mutinous companies are IN
the Place de la Concorde. Their way
is barred by municipal guards on
horseback. Will they revenge out
ragged discipline? No, the municina1
guards gaily draw of into the side
streets. They will not fire on brothers
either.
Who will stop the mutineers from,
entering the Elysee? Not the 20 sol
d1ers on guard.
While the mutinous companies. with
out their officers, guard President Fal
Heres, the hundred incorruptible Re
publican leaders have already been en-
ticed into automobiles and kidnapped
as per program.
The hundred bought Republican
leaders fold their arms. A lot of labo,
syndicates declare for the king. The
Royalist conspirators take possession
Of the dispatch hall of the ministr,
OF the interior and few other cen
tiers Of the great centralized system
and a few thousand kilograms anc
telephone calls bring out the Royalis
crowd to hurrah while awaiting thu
entry, Of Philippe of France. Wha'
general will order Sire on them-anc
shed French blood?
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30

THE seven Justices Of the Supreme
i court of the United States, led by
the venerable Justice Harlan, called
on President Taft the other day to pay
their respects. This annual call OF
courtesy reminded the president of
duty which is uppermost in his mind
and occupying it almost to the ex-
clusion of any other consideration, for
the president is called upon to re-
model the highest tribunal in the land.
The president has appointed two
justices already-Hughes in place of
brewer, who died, and Lurton in place
of Peckham of New York, also dead.
These deaths removed Republican
and a Democrat, and their successors
were Of the same political faith.
Since then Chief Justice Fuller. q
Democrat, appointed from Illinois, has
died, and Justice Moody, Republic
an, Of Massachusetts, has resigned
because of ill-health. and President
Taft will have to fill these two va
cancies.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30

WHEN the small army of architects
" and artisans has finished the
work now in progress on the Uni
ted States treasury building, the beau
tiful old structure will show the first
material change since 1859. Architec-
turally it still will represent a pagan
temple, indicating, many folk say, the
American peoples worship Of money.
But visitors to the nations capital who
have not seen the treasury in 40 years
will find some changes for efficiency
and economy.
The nucleus of the present building,
located where President Jackson, irri-
tated by: the representation Of con-
gress in choosing a site, put his hick-
DRY stick down with a thump and ex.
claimed, Put 'er there, on that spot,
will remain unchanged, but the double
stone staircase leading up to the colon.
made on the Fifteenth street side has
been torn away. Architects said it
spoiled the beauty of that side of the
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30

M EW YORK.-Another is likely to be
~ added to the list of tragic deaths
IN the family Of Miss Adelaide Cum
ming of this city. She is now in .Bos-
ton, summoned there by a peculiar &C.
cident to her sister who, on her thirty
second birthday put on a new dress Of
the hobble-skirt variety, and as she
was going downstairs, tripped and fell
Her hip bone was broken and various
complications have set In which may
cause her death.
Miss Cumming is still young wom-
an, but misfortune has been with her
all her life. Her grandfather was
wrecked and drowned at sea; her
father killed in a boiler explosion;
one sister crushed by a trunk, anoth-
er killed by SNOWFALL and a third
by gangrene; nephew went down in
the Maine, another was killed in the
San Francisco earthquake, and their
mother is now insane.
James G. Cumming, grandfather of
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-11-30

American Gibraltar in Manila Bay

present the most picturesque as we'll as
the most complete set of Notifications
Uncle Sam possesses. Stretching
across the mouth of the harbor are
series of islands. The largest of these
islands and the one which will be used
as base of supplies for the others is
Corregidor, from which the first hostile
gun was directed against Admiral Dew
ey's fleet in 1898. On Corregidor the
army is installing q "A company post
Warehouses of a capacity to contain
supplies for whole year for 10000
men have been built. This island Is
considered impregnable from the sea
side.
But the most Interesting OF all the
islands is the Ell Fraile. at present a
tiny rock rising in a pinnacle $50 feet
above the bay. The shape of the island
will, as stated, be changed by means
Of steel and concrete walls which will
extend below the water line, to resem-
BILE the hull Of battleship. No sec.
ton of the island ground will be ex-
posed to fire. It will be surrounded
and covered over by steel and concrete
walls, about fifty feet thick on the
sides and almost solid steel on the top.
On the surface of this deck" two tur-
refs will be placed, each turret con-
tanning two l4-inch guns. Besides the
four large guns, four six.inch rapid
fire rifles will be placed in embrasures
at the seaward end, and like batteries
of small guns will be placed at other
points of advantage. Quarters will be
provided for only a sufficient number
of men to work the guns and machin.
cry. The cost Of this powerful little
fortress; the most dangerous fort of Its
size on earth, will be 100000, guns
walls, turrets and all.