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The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24

FORCING SALE

PORTLAND, Ore, Feb. 23.-Alleg-
ing gross Encouragement Of the at
fairs of the Deschutes Irrigation COM
pany, Ohio purchasers of the first is
sue of bonds are for the second time
asking the United States court here
today for a receiver and for the sale
of all property under a foreclosure
of the trust deed to the Merchants
Savings and Trust company OF Port
land, given as security for the bond
issue.
In an opening statement to the
court today Attorney Louis G. Add1-
son, of Columbus, Ohio, practically
charged conspiracy to force the OHIO
investors in the reclamation project
out The lawyer asserted that Ohio
capitalists had furnished $359,00O for
the development of the Deschutes
project, which proposed to irrigate
214.911 acres of arid lands, valued at
over $2,O00,0O0; that the terms of the
mortgage had been violated through
failure to pay the last three Install
ments of interest, the issuance OF
second or collateral set of bonds and
the making of contract placing the
business of the concern in the hands
of Roscoe Howard and allowing him
a. commission of $40 to $3.50 per acre
upon all lands which the state AYERS
that at least one of the Oregon dir
ectors of the company was interested
in the Howard contract.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24
NOT so PROSPEROUS
Despite Reported Prosperity of coun-
try p. e. r. r. r. Shortens
Working Hours.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 23.-In the
midst Of the prosperity being reported
by railroads and business interests
generally came the announcement to-
day that the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad company had issued an order
reducing the working hours in some OF
it's departments because Of the slow
ing up of business. The official an
nouncement follows:
"On account Of falling off in volume
Of traffic and consequent loss Of rev.
enue, the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad company has issued orders re-
ducing the hours of labor in all loco
motive and car shops to eight hours
day, beginning on Monday. February
%. This will effect a reduction in
shop expenses Of about Is per cent.
The Reading employs thousands OF
men in these shops who have been
working an average of about ten hours
a day.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24

If mothers of every station were
bent upon disqua.ifying their daugh-
ters for what probably lies before
them, they could not go more jealous
~ To work to secure the evil end. Our
public and private schools and col
leges keep up the standard" so fierce
w that she who would rank we'll in
her class has not time to make pud-
ding or to hem a handkerchief dur
ing nine months of the year, and needs
the other three for recuperation. At
ter graduation. the girls harness is
stripped off, and she is turned into
the social pasture for a run that lasts
until she is caught and noosed for
life.
Work and trouble will come soon
enough. Let the young things have
their day." is talk that finds as much
favor among the poor as among the
wealthy
What do you mean to do with that
nice girl of yours?" asked l of my
laundress, who had worked hard dur
ing 10 years of widowhood to bring
up her boy and girl respectfully. She
must be about 15-isnt she?"
Sixteen. men, She's small, an not
strong for her years. But she's a
smart scholar at the school, they say,
an as handy with her fingers as you
could wish to see
She would make a capital lady's
maid" proceeded 1. cor would you
prefer to apprentice her to the mil
liners or dressmal<er's trade?"
The mother looked hurt and visit
full
"Indade, mem, an it's sorry I'd be
to see her a servant to anybody, or
in anything but a lady,ike business,
where she could be her own mistress.
She's wishful to be a music teacher,
or the loikes o. that. She's never had
to put her hands to dirty wurrk. I'd
"a rubbed me own fingers to the bone
first"
This woman had lived in this free
country eighteen years, quite long
enough to imbibe national ideas as
to kitchen and house work. Her
daughter left school at 16. She had
a smattering of algebra, history, rhet-
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24
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Exchange
In Behalf of Daughters

ORIG, chemistry and English literature
She could bound every country in Asia
and in Africa, and give the capital
city of every European nation; could
draw maps recite chronological ta-
bles, and had three quarters on the
piano" She could not have made a
loaf of bread or a gown for herse to
save her soul, but was slim of figure,
with a complexion like a paraffine
candle At II she married journey
man carpenter who took to drink in
half years time because he couldn't
havethings as man had a right to ex-
pect when he came home after
hard DAYS work" At 20. sickly,
unhappy slattern, with two puny chill
dren. she was more than half sup
ported by the daily earnings of her
faithful mother.
The wife of a well-to- do mechanic
told me in the presence of her daugh-
ter who was to be married the next
week, that Lucy doesn't like to have
ne say it, but she has never done a
days wash in her life. Ever since
she left school four years ago it's
ben go, go, go! all the time Up late
at night, and sleeping half the day,
and then getting ready to go out again
in the evening! It's to be hoped she'll
sober down when she has home and
husband to look after
A young woman who had had such
home training should have been able
to employ sorps of competent SER
wants and a housekeeper to look after
them Lucy went to live in neat
flat, furnished by her father, put out
her washing and ironing, and vainly
undertook to do her own work. With
out meaning to be extravagant, she
wasted her husbands income, and
worried him and herself with continual
mistakes and expensive failures. He
grew savage and intolerant of the in
efficiency which cost him dear. She
grew wretched peevish and delicate
under the pressure of tasks too heavy
for her soft muscles and cares that
"excruciated her nerves" The doctors
another expense-said she had no
stamina; gossips shook their heads
over the way girls have of breaking
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24

down early" Eighteen months ended
the unequal struggle. She and her
baby were buried together.
The untaught child had done her
best to repair the fatal blunder of
her education. So sure am I of this
in her case and that of a thousand
others that my indignation expends
itself upon the inconsiderate. or week
ly indulgent, or ambitious mothers
who let their daughters waste in use
less follies time that should be given
in part at least, to diligent prepare
ton for the calling to which they are
directed by nature and pubic senti-
ment. Not one girl in ten thousand
expects or is expected to pass all heI
life in the home of her girlhood. What
censure is too harsh for the conduct
of the parent who. ignoring this SOL
emn truth, fails to instruct her in the
practical details of the profession she
is almost certain to enter.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24
PLACE IS NOT SETTLED
Richard Denies That Any DeHnit.
Agreement for Jef johnson
Fight 10 Made.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2s-Ai-
though he admitted that in all prob-
ability the Jeffries- johnson fight
would take place in this city. Tex
Richard. in a statement given to the
press tonight, denied that a definite
agreement had been reached. He de-
clared that the reported conference
with Supervisor Herget, at which
such an agreement was said to have
been entered into, was nothing more
than friendly talk between Herget
and himself and said that Jack Glea
son, his fellow promoter, was not pres
ent. Richard said that owing to the
pressure of other business he had been
unable to meet Gleason in conference
as yet but that they would get to-
gether tomorrow when he hoped the
matter would be settled beyond ques-
ton.
The fact that Richard, Gleason and
Sam Berger, Jeffries' manager have
agreed to go to Santa Cruz, some 20
miles south of here, next Sunday to in
spect the quarters offered to Jeffries
as a training camp, is taken to mean
that Richard and Herget reached an
understanding during their stay which
will bring the fight here.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24
News of the DdY
In National Capital

the treasury
Congress appropriated good sum q
money to build locks in the Ouachita
river, Louisiana, and just when the
and the work could be. pushed most
rapidly, two Of the employees were
stricken with smallpox. There was no
time to appeal to Washington for ad-
vice. Neither of the men were resi-
dents of Monroe, two miles away, and
the parish Of Ouach:ta refused to bear
the expense Of caring for them. But
from the nature Of the disease it was
absolutely necessary that immediate
steps be taken to isolate the men, give
them proper medical attention, and
prevent the spread of the infection,
or the work would have to be stopped.
So the engineer in charge took the
matter upon himself He hired nurse
and doctor for the smallpox patients
and after about a month"; days, to
be exact-thev recovered.
Then he put in the bill. and a very
moderate one at that Board for the
two was charged at only so cents a
day; the nurse was paid $44 and the
doctors fees amounted to $50. The to-
tai bill was 1850. and the engineer
asked that this expense. incurred in
saving the lives of two men, and, Incl
dentally, saving thousands of dollars
to both the federal and Louisiana state
governments. should be charged against
the appropriations made by congress
for the Improvement of the river.
Did the argus eyed treasury auditors
see the matter in that light? Not by a
darn sight. Secretary of War Dickin-
son wrote an appealing letter setting
forth the facts, but the comptroller of
the treasury refused to pay the bill on
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24

the ground that there was nothing In
the contract OF embodiment of the two
men that entitled them to medical at
tendance or to subsistence when they
were not actually working.
The engineer is now wondering
whether he will have to pay the bill
out Of his own pocket and Secretary
Dickinson is scratching his head to
find some method by which this self
sacrifice to red-taDe may be avoided.
OF course the treasury officials were
acting strictly within the law in max
ing their decision But other somewhat
similar cases are constantly arising In
the various departments of the govern
ment and they form q strong argument
in favor of the appropriation by con-
gress of a special emergency fund
from which claims of this character
could be paid.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24
KILLS 10; DIES ALSO
Engineer Who Had Run Over 10 Per-
sons Crushed When Trains
Come Together.

STOCKTON. Cal, Feb. 23-Withis
a few yards of the spot where he ran
over and killed a man Christmas eve,
A. l.. Phipps, an engineer of 80 years
service, who has killed Is men and
one woman during his career, was
crushed to death today.
His herat was torn out and thrown
Is feet from the track
Phipps train, the rgular Southern
Pacific afternoon local for San Fran
cisco. was standing on the main track
at French camp, four miles south OF
here, waiting for siding orders. Pas
senger 124 came along and whistled
for Phipps to get out Of the way. he
was just getting into motion when the
engines came together. The ar
brakes on 124 had refused to work
Phipps stayed until the crash and
then jumped, to be caught and crush
ed. Several passengers received slight
injuries.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24

If YOU have either scrubs or thor
oughbreds it pays to give them some
care and attention. Provide comforta-
Bile quarters and feed them in the
right way. 1t will pay every farmer.
who has thoroughbred poultry, to Sc
lect few of his best shaped females
his best colored females, his best lay
ers, and mate them in a pen to them
selves with his best mae bird, one
that is strong in every point where
his females are weakest.
1t will pay him to buy one gooo
cockerel and pay several dollars for
him and mate him in this way, than TO
buy six or eight 81 cockerels and breed
promiscuously Set the eggs from this
pen and you will be surprised To note
the splendid results, and much better
results can be obtained in this way
than from promiscuous breeding from
the flock in general.
It will pay you to do this, even IL
for only one month each year during
tho Matching season A few birds
nroper,y mated will produce for you
more good birds than a hundred not
properly mated.
In selecting your breeding stock four
things must be considered.
/ Constitutional vigor.
2. Breed shape.
g. Color of plumage.
4. Laying qualities.
EVERYTHING else must be made sec
o,darv TO constitutional vigor. Oniy
healthy, vigorous specimens shoulo NC
need No deformed or uniformed
snecimens should be kept in any yard.
Neither should a fowl that mas oeeh
sick. though apparently completely re-
covered. be used to breed from DON'T
use young, immature blrds.
The breeder of thoroughbred stock
should learn what is the ideal shape in
his breed, and follow it as closely as
possible If you are raising Plymouth
Rocks. don't breed from one with
Wyandotte or Leghorn shape. If you
are raising Langshangs, don't breed
from one shaped like a Rhode Island
Red.
Most poultrymen. give color prece-
dence over shape, but this is mis-
take if you are breeding for practical
qualities. Select birds with as much
uniformity of color as possible and
let the male be strong in the points
where the females are weakest. as to
both co'or and shape.
Last, but not least, the laying quail
ties must be considered if you are to
make a success in the poultry business.
Either trap nest your breeds or watch
for those in the flock that you see
upon the nest most frequently. Mate
these females with a male bird from
a good laying strain. Incubate eggs
only from the best layers. Farmers
and poultrymen in general very often
destroy good laying strain OF fowls
that they have been years in building
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. 24.-Of-
ficials of the public health and marine
hospital service are alarmed at the
latest discovery Of their agents IN
California, that the wood rat is a car
rier of bubonic plague germs.
l. was known already that the COM
mon rat and the Beechy ground squir-
rel were both subject TO incestion ana
could transmit the dread disease TO
human beings, and this latest discovery
fills the scientists with a new appre-
hension lest the plague become epidem-
ic in the United States.
Already thousands of ground squir-
hels and rats have been slaughtered In
Alameda and Contra Costa counties,
California, to prevent spread of infec-
tion. It was in connection with the
campaign of eradication that the dis
coyery that the wood rat was equally
culpable.
This makes a new link in the plague
chain and alarms the scientists for
two reasons. First, the wood rat may
act as an intermediary in the trans
mission of disease to other animals;
and, then. because they do not ordina-
rily come in contact with squirrels, it
may be that some other animal, not
now suspected. with which they are
more closely associated. is also in
fected.
So far only one case of a pla
bearing wood rat, which is a native
and a different species from the true
rat. which is imported, has been dis
covered.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24
Ferdinand Fed BY Car.

ST. PETERSBURG. Feb. 23.-King
Ferdinand of Bulgaria and his party
arrived today at Tsarskoe-Selo, where
tonight they were the guests at prl-
ate dinner given by Emperor Mich
n.as. The state visit proper will be-
gin tomorrow when the visitors will
come to the winter palace in st. Pet
ersburg The visit is not 20 lnectcd
with the Balkan crisis.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24
People Prominent In
.....Public Paths. :. j..

| While Governor Hadley and Senator
Stone are having their little tilt in. the
famous Show Me" state, David R.
Francis, he of Worlds Fair fame, to
| say nothing of local distinction, is
planning a Little senatorial bit of STRAIT
| egg at the expense Of United States
Senator Warner. Some of his friends
Tin the adverse sense) say that Fran
els always wins what he starts out to
get because he knows how to jolly. Ger
tainly he is as up on the game of
shaking and saying pretty things
as was Hobson on the kissing game
| when he first started out to win the
graces of the ladies, with view to
having them make their husbands vote
for hin-and that's going some Now
with Francis hand shaking is a science
Long since he elevated it from the
ranks Of mere courtesy.
| Francis has the one-man graphing
record of the world He shook hands
with every voter in ST. Louis when he
was elected mayor of that city-being
but 81 years old at the time. And then
he shook hands with every voter in
Missouri at least twice, on the two oc-
casions when he was elected governor
of the state. And when President
| Cleveland made him secretary of the
interior, and he did his best to shake
every democratic voter in the country
Then he became president of the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition COM
pany. which held a near worlds fair
at st. Louis, and he shook hands with
every man of prominence that came to
! the fair, and dined with every civic
| organization in the United States-and
did his digestive share at each board
too. And then he made a tour of
Europe, and got the crowned heads
| by the elbow, while he told them how
old Mizzoo appreciated the exhibit of
horned toads said crowned heads had
sent to the show. And now he'll either
shake his way into the senate or the
members of Missouri's legislature will
get corns on their fingers
| Born SO years ago in Richmond
KY, Francis went to ST. Louis, where
he had rich relatives, when he was 16
! years old. Graduating from Washington
university, he fell in love- changed his
plan Of studying law, and became a
grocer in order to marry. The grocery
promptly failed, but Francis went into
the grain commission business and
piled up fortune that has continued
to grow. A large part of the success
of the st. Louis exposition was due to
his untiring work, for he gave his time
to it utterly for months on end-not to
speak of good many thousands of
/ dollars. He is suave, smooth, and cour-
teouscan and does work all day and all
night when he takes a job; is a clever
speaker and a good business man. He
always likes to do things the polite
way, but when that is barred he does
them the other way. One of the
things that Missouri likes about him
| is that he likes all the good things of
life
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24

Four things are necessary FOR sue
cessful poultry culture: D
l. Good stock.
.. Good feed.
8. Good houses.
4. Good care.
Make a grain mixture of corn, wheat
oats and kaffir corn and feed two
quarts to every forty fowls every
night and morning. If you haven't all
of these use what you have.
Cover the floor OF your poultry hous
with a straw litter a foot deep. aud
throw the grain in this and let the
folws work for it, The hen is happies ST
when busy and the busy hen is the
healthy and laying hen.
Make a dry mash of 100 pounds OF
bran, so pounds of cracked corr. 81
mounds of ground alfalfa, so pounds OF
drv beef scraps, Is pounds of linseed
nj, 10 pounds of charcoal and two
mounds of salt. Keep this mash in d
homer where YOUR fowls can get AL
tbey want OF it m any time. Supply
grit in some form.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24
Ship Reported Capsized.

PORTLAND. Ore, Feb. 23-It is
reported that private cablegram
was received here today from London
by a local grain exporting concern
to the effect that the British ship
Claverton capsized and sank yester-
day while being towed from Ant
Werp to New Caste on Tyne and
that all hands were lost. Asked to
confirm the receipt of the cablegram
he manager of the company denied
any news whatever on the subject.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24
Aged Negro Assaults Baby.

DALLAS. Texas. Feb. 23.-Alfen
Brooks, a negro So years old, was ar
rested today charged with attasklne
Mary Bullens, white girl three ys@s
old: The child was found in q sarh
in critical condition.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24

The well known fact that govern
ment red-tape sometimes runs to ex-
tremes is well exemplified in a fragrant
case Just decided by the comptroller of
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24

Milk fed to poultry in all forms pro-
duces good results.
1t will pay you to get an incubator
and get out a few early chicks. and II
you get an incubator. buy good one
Where you find filth you find ver-
min-lice and mites. These two things
cause host of diseases, and right
here is where the losses begin.
Biddy can stand cold better than a
draft in her house. She had better
roost on the fence or in the trees than
to roost in a house with a big crack
near the sleeping quarters.
No matter where you live poultry
can be made profitable. If for no 9TH
err purpose, it pays to grow fresh meat
and eggs for your own table.
Too many people in starting into
the poultry business expect too much
1t is strange how much some people
expect from their fowls and how lit
tie they do for them.
Clean up your premises, WnlteWdSil
the poultry houses and coOps, make
new nests, and get ready for sue
cessful season.
1t it is simply eggs that you want
don't allow a male bird with your fe-
males. They will lay more eggs, the
eggs will remain fresh longer, and the
hens consume less food.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-02-24
Wuma the ;, : 90 zEa
..:::;SmQu Farmer
By Uncle Hymn.
Poultry for Profit

up by importing new blood, and get
ting male birds from a flock that has
poor egg record. You can absolute. v
destroy the good laying qualities OF
your flock by careless mating in this
double the egg record of your flock
by selecting male birds from hens and
pullets with high egg records Sort
out the drones and breed for higher
egg production.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-10-04

Have recent political developments
opened the eyes OF standpatter Jim
Harris, he republican state chairman
A few weeks ago Jim expressed a sena-
ment to the effect that Roosevelt might
migrate to a very hot place. as far as
he was concerned. A democratic
newspaper man heard the remark and
printed Il and then lin wired Teddg
that be didn't say It. During tho past
few weeks every wind has brought It'd.
ings Of insurgent victories and now Il
is reported that Jim has actually IN.
yiied Teddy 70 come down and make
a few speeches IN Oklahoma When
Vice President sherman made bis tour
OF the state he gave Out the informa-
ticn that there "aint no insurgents.
just as sure as Roosevelt comes me
mean democratic newspaper will snriog
a deadly parallel" between the utter
ances Of these two eminent oracles.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-10-04

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E. J. Kelly to Naomi Brown, 1910.
sll0, lots ! and 2, block 33, Alex
L. A. Sanders and wife to G. Sshlot-
terbecls, 929-lO, $1,000, NV NV sw
22-7.7
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Good, s-24-lo, 800. nlz sw NV 1867.
Lilly Potts Noahby TO w. r. Dennis,
9-27-l0 81, lots ] and and sw Sc NV;
ne ] Oacres lot 3; ne sw; lot 4; Sc sw;
Sc 10 acres lot 1886
Matilda q. Wright and husband to
Jeff Young, 9-2s-io, $4,000, s5s Sc 6; M
lot 3; nv lot 49,; nlz eh lot IA, 7.
3n-7w
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Moore, 7-22-1o, se.75O, NV ne: VIZ ne
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John Christian and wife to N u
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24-4-6.