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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-04
LIBERAL
GIVEN A HEARING

long exile in Siberia
Tchaykowski's reply will be an adj
mission that he belonged to the Social
revolutionary party. but denial that
he was a member of the general COM
mittee, alibis showing that he was in
England at the time he is said to have
been associated with the Peasant
league, and in America, when he was
supposed to have been agitating peas
ant revolt and urging the czar's assas-
sination and that the money he collect
ed in America was for the relief of ST
berian exiles.
Much of the governments evidence
was gathered by the missing spy, Azef.
In spite of the doubtful character of
this testimony and the strength of his
defense, conditions here are such that
an acquittaI is considered doubtful
With Tchaykowski, his disciple, Nine.
Katherine Ercshkovsky, will also be
tried.
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the line with and connecting to the
fifteen-inch sewer on Poplar street at
the manhole at the intersection Of Pop
lar and Sixth streets in the city OF
Walla Walla, in accordance with the
plans and specifications adopted Dy
the City Council and now on file in the
Loffice of the City Clerk and the provl-
sions Of ordinance No. 1926. Each bid
der must accompany his bid with a
certified bank check made payable to
the undersigned as a guarantee that IN
the event of the acceptance of his bid
he will enter into contract with the
City OF Walla Walla to construct said
sewer and give such bond as the Coun-
ell may direct for thesfaithful perform
ance of said contract Bidders are
hereby notified that they will be re-
quired to complete that portion of said
sewer from Sixth street to the alley
between Main and Alder streets on
Fifth street within two weeks from the
date of the signing of the contracts.
and to complete that portion of the
said sewer from Fifth street to the ten
feet west of First street with forty days
after the signing of said contract. Bids
and checks must be sealed, marked
Proposals for Construction of Sewer
IN District No. IL and addressed to
the undersigned. The City reserves the
right to reject any or all bids.
+. d. S. HART, City Clerk.
First publication in Evening States
man, February 4, 1910; last publication
February IA, 1910,
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PRESIDENT LEWIS SAYS
TROUBLE NOT EXPECTD
Jones Also Thinks Dove Will Hover
Over Approaching Conference
With Miners.

TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 3.-Hope of an
amicable adjustment was expressed by
Thomas L. Lewis, president of the min
ers, when acting, as temporary chair
man of the joint wage scale confer
ence of the operators and miners of
Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania dis
trict. which opened here today.
John H. Jones, president of the Pitts
bug Buffalo Coal company, and one of
the principal operators present, ex-
pressed a belief that paceable agree
ment would be reached.
After a disposition of preliminary
business, the conference adjourned I'M
til tomorrow morning, to await the
report of the credentials committee,
which deadlocked on admitting Illinois
miners in the absence of Illinois oper-
atorS.
President Lewis said that, when
miners and operators get together to
uplift the industry, there will be less
risk to investment and more safety
for the Workmen. He said that a de-
mand should be made of the rail-
roads that they pay mine owners moro
money for coal they consume, that the
latter might spend more money for
the protection of their employees.
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Swope were brought out when the
deposition of S. w. Spangler, an Of
flee partner, was taken by Frank f.
Walsh, representing DR.. Hyde. Mr.
Spangler told of the visits of an uni
Identified woman to the office and how
she brought broth for Colonel Swope
to eat. Mr.. Swope refused to eat the
broth, Mr.. Spangler said. The wit
ness also testified that Colonel Swope
took medicine containing strychnine
"A short time before his death Col
onel Swope told me he did not be
lieve he had long to live" testified
Mr.. Spangler.
1T was soon after he had quit
drinking. He said he did not expect
to live more than 80 days. l pressed
him for a reason for his belief He
said an uncle of his drank for many
years and when he quit his death fol-
lowed soon.
He did not have much confidence
in the average physician, nor did he
have much confidence in the curative
powers of medicine, although he took
much. When he took certain medi-
cine that contained elixir of iron,
quinine and strychnine he usually took
teaspoonful three times a day"
John G.. Paxton, executor for the
SWope estate, was giving his deposit
ton when the order stopping the ex
aminations came. James E. Vince
formerly secretary of the police board,
was preparing to give his deposition
TO the Swope attorneys when the order
was issued.
The decision OF the court came as
a result of the application of Attor
ney John M. Cleary, representing DR..
Hyde, for an injunction restraining
the firm OF Reed, Atwood, Yates,
Mastin and Harvey from taking depo
SitiOns
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ST. Paul Dead Mumnified.

CHERRY, H., Feb. 3.-While the
work of clearing the passageway be-
tween the main shaft and the escape
pit proceeded in the st. Paul mine.
sanitary methods of removing the 16I
bodies from the underground tunnels
and for disposing of the putrid water,
now in the lower levels. were agreed
on tonight by state and village health
officers.
1t was decided to pump tie seep-
age from the 500-foot level into a
tank in the 250-foot level. This tank
will be supplied with strong disin-
fectants so that the water will be
harmless before it is forced to the
surface, where it will run through a
tile sewer under Cherry to a creek.
Judging by the body found near the
air shaft, it is thought that most of
the corpses in the second level are
partly mummified. The corpse was
not identified.
General Manager Taylor of the st.
Paul Mine company today requested
Sheriff Sogalund of Bureau county to
send deputies to Cherry to prevent
any possible outbreak.
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SWOPE SAID
ECOULD'NT
LIVE LONG
Spangler Swears Aged Col
onel Had Little Faith in
Medicine

KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb. g.
Court action abruptly closed a day
of warm legal warfare in the Swope
case when Judge Herman Brumbach
of the circuit court today enjoined
attorneys representing DR.. B. G. Hyde
and the persons against whom he has
pending a damage suit for 100000,
from taking further dispositions in the
suits until the court has determined
the legal status of the claims of each
side.
Attorneys for both sides claim the
right of priority in taking dispositions.
The court probably will dispose Of
the question Saturday, and Monday
the conflict that waged SO fiercely to-
day will be begun anew.
New facts regarding the life and
habits of the late Colonel Thomas H
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Woman Kills Herself

SEATTLE, Feb. 3.-AlthOugh Mrs.
Frances Sominsky, the wife of a mine
foreman and the mother of six children,
died from taking carbolic acid Tues
day night, the coroner did not learn
of the wOman's death until he saw
the death certificate late today. He
Immediately started an investigation
and found that the woman had taken
the poison in a fit of insanity. No
action will be taken against the attend
ing physician for failing to report the
suicide to the coroner.
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against the bill. Mr. Spight said that
Chairman Green of the committee had
assured him yesterday that no vote
would be taken today. and that the
minority and those opposed to ship
subsidy would be given ample oportun-
ity 10 be heard before a final vote
was taken. Mr. Green informed Mr..
Spight after today's meeting that he
did not make any promise for Mr..
Humphrey and could not prevent the
latter bringing his bill to a vote.
Mr.. Humphrey said that ample con-
sideration had been given to the bill
and that, if it were delayed longer,
measure to take it's place would be
reported in the senate In reply to
this, democrats said that the bill had
been given no consideration by any
body and that it had not even been
read over in committee.
Today's hearing was the first given
and the opposition pointed out that
those heard today were in favor OF
ship subsidy but were opposed to parts
of the Humphrey bill.
The democrats desired TO offer sew
eral amendments, and Representatives
Sulzer Clark of Florida and Kuster-
man, had notified the committee that
they desired hearings on their own
ship subsidy bills. The action today
was a surprise to them, as well as
to the minority of the committee.
The executive session of the COM
mittee was characterized by tense feel
Ing. Democrats endeavOred to secure
an adjournment and to amend the bill
but We're voted down. An amendment
was offered striking out the subsidy
sections of the bill, but it was lost
However, Mr.. Humphrey turned q
deaf ear to the appeals, declaring inn
mediate action on the bill was imper-
alive. When the final vote was taken
it was shown that Representative
Humphrey had figured correctly on q
safe majority.
The open hearing given today to the
merchants association of New Yorl
resulted in a row between Mr.. Hum
phrey and Attorney James H. Dough
erty, representing the association. AZ
ter this, Mr.. Humphrey moved thai
the committee go into executive session
and consider the bill without hearing
further evidence.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-04
FARMERS CAN SAVE TROUBLE
Stamped Envelopes Would Eliminate
Trials of the r. r. D, Carrier.


Stamped envelopes are now held out
by the postal department as an ex-
cellent investment for patrons on
rural routes, because of the new
order, effective February Is, to the
effect that rural carriers will not be
required to collect loose coins from
mail boxes. 1t is also suggested that
stamp books be purchased by rural
patrons with more frequency than has
been the rule in the past. The stamped
envelopes, if spoiled in addressing,
may be redeemed at the postoffice for
face value, and by securing a guam
tity of these, the patron will elm
mate much annoyance and delay to the
rural carrier who has heretofore been
required to pick loose coins from mail
boxes.
The following letter on this subject
has been received by Postmaster E.
L. Brunton
In view of the extent to which the
practice Of placing loose coins in boxes
by rural patrons has grown, and the
delay in the delivery and collection of
mail and the hardship imposed on
rural carriers incident thereto, you are
iiIlOl iIlcO tiidl COi uSti y
10, rural letter carriers will not be
required to collect loose coins from
rural mail boxes.
Patrons should enclose coins in an
envelope, wrap them securely in a
piece of paper, or deposit them in a
coin holding receptacle, SO they can
| be easily and quickly taken from the
boxes, and carriers will be required
to lift such coins, and, where ac-
companied by mail for dispatch, at
tach the requisite stamps"
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Thirty-Four Funerals Yesterday.

TRINIDAD, Col, Feb. 3.-Thirty-
four funerals were held here today.
The gloom of the disaster in the
neighboring camp Of Primero settled
over this city, as the bells of the Holy
Trinidad church .tolled from early
morning until tonight.
The bodies of % Austrian, Hun
garian, Croatin and Italian victims
were taken from the morgue to the
church and thence to the Catholic
cemetery east of the city, in heavy
drays, headed by a band playing the
funeral dirge. Bareheaded miners and
women, many of the latter carrying
babies in their arms, trudged through
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gazine, at the witness, smiled slightly.
i Practically the entire afternoon ses-
sion was occupied with reading let
! tiers written by Cooke to Mrs. Ford
The letters were written in an extreme
Ily passionate vein and teemed with sal
! acious expressions and suggestions.
These expressions were of such ma
j ture that the Judge ordered them ON
! tilted in the reading.
i Frequent references were made by
Cooke to Comstock, who, according to
; the writer, was on intimate terms with
Mrs Ford. Several other persons were
mentioned, all of them, it is said be-
! ing on the same footing with the wO-
man.
! Attorney Thorndyke endeavOred to
force from Warmer a confession that
! his relations with Mrs. Ford had been
more than friendly. At the first di-
rect question to that effect Warmer
! laughed heartily and said: THAT is
absurd"
j Witness Filings Reply
! While being questioned about his
, expenditure of the embezzled money.
Warmer for the second time in the
day lost his extraordinary self con-
troll.
You say you are so years old and
that your defalcations probably ex-
tended for 25 years?" said Attorney
Thorndyke, for the defense. Then you
! have been stealing since you were
practically a boy?''
| Warmer replied in a high, shrill
voice:
II will not answer these questions
/ am not on trial"
One of the most startling develop
! mentS in the case came this after
noon, when Warriner under rigid pues-
tioning admitted that he had handled
funds placed with him for the payment
of rebates: that he paid out compar
atiyely large sums in rebates, and that
the simple auditing of his accounts al
any time would have disclosed his
! shortage to the company.
After testifying that Auditor p E
Hewitt had checked over his accounts
Warmer was asked by Attorney
Thorndyke:
| Then how did it come that he never
discovered this great shortage of
yCurs?"
That's for Hewitt to explain" was
/ the complacent answer of the witness.
Hewitt Won't Talk.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 3.-P. A. Hewitt
whom Charles l.. Warmer today tes-
titled was auditor of the Big Four rail-
] road during the latter's defalcations,
declined to discuss WARMERS state
ments that the shortage might easily
have been discovered
1t was learned tonight that Mr.. He
Wits connection with the railway end
ed on February 1. 1t is said that he is
to become auditor of the New York
Central clearing house at Buffalo
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The Lodge food investigation resolu-
ton was reported from the senate COM
mittee on finance and the fact that
it received much more prompt attention
than the resolution of Senator Ell
kins on the same subject was inter-
preted by the West Virginia senator
as discrimination against him.
He complained of the treatment and
asserted that it was intended to pro-
tect the trusts and the tariff against
the inquiry
Both houses will meet tomorrow.
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the snowy streets at the side of the
eaSkets.
The bodies of nine Japanese vic
tins were buried this afternoon with
out religious ceremony. Tomorrow
will be a repetition of the scenes OF
today, there being 10 bodies in the
morgue here today. A number are
unidentified. Stores OF the city We're
closed today. Many were draped in
black and flags were at half mast.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-04

REAPS GOLD
FROM VICTIM
Warmer Recites Tales of
Thefts Extending Over
Twenty five Years.

CINCINNATI, Ohio, Feb "A chain
of embezzlements involving three
men, extending over many years and
finally eliminating in the almost
wholesale footing of the Big Four rail-
road treasury, was the startling story
told by Charles L. Warmer, default
ing local treasurer of the road in
his testimony today in the trial of
! Mrs. Jeanette Stewart-Ford for black
mail.
Warmer represented himself as a
man pouring out gold with both hands
and in ever-increasing amounts to
keep sealed the mouth of the woman,
who through he infatuation for one
Of the accused embezzlers, f. S. Cooke,
! had learned the secret. Frank Com
stock, WARMERS predecessor as loca!
treasurer, was declared to be the
third man.
! According to the witness, when he
| assumed office as local treasurer in
| 1902 he learned that Cooke was short
| in his accounts $4,000. He also learn
ed that his predecessor, Constock was
short S10,500. He himself was a de-
faulter, and to prevent his crime be-
ing discovered. he engaged to con-
ceal the thefts of the two former Of
! fcials
| In the story of the gigantic theft
there is one question that has never
been definitely answered, and attorneys
for the defense today made another
futile attempt TO obtain an answer.
Vast Sums Are Stolen.
| What became of the $643.00O that
Warmer has confessed to have stolen ?
The witness declared that he had
paid approximately $16S,00O in black
mail, and that $4,000 had been stol-
On by others than himself The re-
mainder. $4,000, is explained by him
as having been lost in speculation.
Although he knew exactly the
amount embezzled and the approximate
amount Of hush money" paid. to all
Questions as to his investments he re-
piled that he could not remember how
much money he had put INTO any per-
jticular enterprise. He reiterated mon
enormously that he, could not recouart
until his questioners became discour-
LACED and abandoned their efforts.
A lurid light WAS thrown on the
strange tale when the letters IF Cooke
4 ~AA7' iOAO WCiS Ifdu ~ the court
In the letter Cooke wrote that 20. H
was threatening to expose him if he
cid not abandon Mrs Ford 1Varri-
ner stated that 20. H" stood for "Old
nag and was the name Cooke used
. Tor his wife in his communication tC
Mrs. Ford. In another letter. Cooke
ADVISED Mrs. Ford to have nothing to
DO with other men unless there is
big money in it,"
Mrs. Ford Breaks Down
In the reading of the letters Mrs
Ford endeavored to conceal her face
ana wept continually. When, however
her attorney began to question Warri-
: 'ner as to the extent of her intimacy
with him, she raised her head. an6
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-04
DEPARTMENT
GETS MAMMOTH SUM

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-The house
today passed the agricultural appro-
priation bill, carrying nearly s13,50O,0 900,
an increase of more than 100000 over
last year. This increase was chiefly
for the forest service, made necessary
by the addition of 26,52S,439 acres to
the national forests.
The senate devoted the greater part
of the day to consideration of the
postal savings bank bill, agreeing to
several amendments
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-04
SHIP SUBSIDY
BILL ACTED
0NFAv0RAb[Y
House Committee Decided
to Report Favorably on
Humphrey Measure

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-After a
short but torrid open hearing, followed
by an executive session of an hour
also filed with dissension, the house
committee on merchant marine and
fisheries today voted, 10 to z, to re-
port favorably the administration ship
subsidy bill, as introduced by Repre-
sentative Humphrey of Washington
Then republicans voted in favor of
the bill, and five democrats and two
republicans voted against it. The two
! boiling republicans" were Wilson OF
Illinois, and Swasee of Maine Repre-
sentative Hobson of Alabama. reported
to be for the bill, and Maynard of
Virginia against it, both democrats
We're absent.
Democratic members of the commit
tee were greatly wrought up over
what they characterized the railroad
ing" of the measure without consider
alton and opportunity to amend it, and
tonight they held a meeting in the
room OF Minority Leader Clark to
map Ous their future course against the
bill. 1t is expected the measure will
meet most stubborn opposition when
it reaches the house and that one OF
the hottest fights of the season will be
precipitated
Railroads Not Considered
Representative Spight of Mississippi
ranking democratic member of the
committee. VIII file a minority report
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bias will be received by the CITY of
Walla Waila up and including 3 o'clock
D. M. February Is. 1910. at which time
they wiil-be opened. for the construc-
ton Of a sewer beginning at a point ten
feet west of the west line of First
street in the alley between Main and
Alder streets. running thence west to
Fifth street. thence south to Poplar
street, thence west on Poplar street on
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-04
NOTICE 70 PROPERTY OWNERS.


Notice is hereby given to, all prop
erty owners in Water Assessment Dis
trict No. 5, F'igueroa Street and Bon
ME Brae Street that the assessment
roll for said district and the diagram
accompanying the same were filed in
the office of the City Clerk on the LIST
day of February, 1910; that the same
are open for inspection by the public;
that on the 18th day of February, 1910,
at the hour of 1880 o'clock, p. m. the
city Council will meet and sit to hear
appeals of all parties aggrieyed by
said assessment lat which time the
said city council will hear and deter
mine all questions that may be pre-
scented 10y the owners OF lots or par
cells Of land in said district relative
to the special benefits that will result
to each and as to whether each is
equitable and proporuonate to the
special benefits resulting thereto. All
complaints must be submitted in writ
ing
7. ID. S. HART. City Clerk.
First publication in Evening States
man, Feb 3, 1910; last publication
Feb. II, 1910. -
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NOTICE 70 PROPERTY OWNERS


NotaGe is hereby given to all prop
erty owners in opening of Garden
Street Assessment District No. 1 that
the assessment roll for said district
and the diagram accompanying the
same were filed in the office of the
city Clerk on the 28th day of January,
1910: that the same are open for in
spectiOn by the public; that on the
18th day Of February, 1910, at the hour
If 1870 O'Clock p. m. the City Council
win meet and sit to hear appeals of
ali parties aggrieved by said assess
ment at which time the said city
council will hear and determine all
questions that may be presented by
the owners Of lots or parcels of land
in said district relative to the special
bene6es that win result to each and
as TO whether each is equitable and
jroportionate to the special benefits
resulting thereto. All complaints
must be submitted in writing.
II. ID. S. HART, City Clerk.
First publication in Evening States
man, Feb. g. 1910; last publication
jTeb. II. 1910.
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PAGE EIGHT
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS.

Notice is hereby given TO all prop
erty owners In Water Assessment Dis
trict No. 4, Isaacs' Avenue, that the
assessment roll for said district and
the diagram accompanying the same
we're flied in the office of the city
Clerk on the goth day of January,
1910: that the same are open for in
spection by the public; that on the
18th day of February, 1910. at the
hour of 1880 o'clock p. m. the city
Council will meet and sit to hear APP
meals of all parties aggrieved by said
assessment. at which time the said
city council will hear and determine
all questions that may be presented
10y the owners OF lots or parcels OF
land. in said district relative to the
special benefits that will result to each
and as to whether each is equitable
and propOrtionate to the special benz
eftts resulting thereto. All complaints
must be submitted in writing.
PIT. ID. :. HART. City Clerk.
First publication in Evening States
man, Feb. 3, 1910; last publication,
Feb IL. 1910.
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Mrs. Ford Breaks Dom

In the reading of the letters Mrs.
Ford endeavored to conceal her face
ana wept continually. When, however.
her attorney began to question Warri-
ner as to the extent of her intimacy
with him, she raised her head, and
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Railroads Not Considered

Representative Spight of Mississippi,
ranking democratic member of the
committee. viii file a minority report