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i» mm 5 f For Infants and Children. |SfOII|Al The Kind You Have : p,| Always Bought As- ■ J -'•'••Dili :UP.f>iUcFi\xjandßegu!a- ■' f .bluinacte and Bowels of g JjQQjng £]ja # URcstContains neither i p X m im >!nrphinc norMiiicral. ■ 01 Affi f\\j N vHCOTic. kfiVi \s \^[\^ I .ill Ifl i X ivfrrConslipa- |j ft/* II S 6 ach, Diarrhoea 1 I laX ions .Feverish- % I I* A t£i^ ER |VJ r For Over I Thirly Years g=ICASTORIA ▼Mr C»NT»MW COMI»»NV. NEW YORK CITY. KEEP KOOL! KEEP KOOL! KEEP KOOL! ELECTRIC FANS AT COST j that we have an overstock of fans we will close them out at actual COST. This offer will last through the month of II A.JJG-Tim'^ I WALLA WALLA GAS AND ELECTRIC CO. HITS AND MISSES. -—Does your wife miss you You are away from home? ggles-—No; but she frequently ' * when I'm home. s~Why, how's that? ggles—Her aim isn't accurate. Small Loss. "You've destroyed my peace of mind. Bessie." said tne despairing 10 "It can't do much harm, John." re plied the truant lass, "for it was an amazing small piece you had. any way." the: evening statesman, Friday, august 14, 1903. THE PACIFIC iRTWEST LOOKING AFTER THE CHILD LABOR CASES. Labor Commissioner Blackman In vestigating Charges Recently Filed With Him. Tacoma.--William Blackman, state labor commissioner, arrived in che city Wednerday to look into certain charges preferred by citizens here declaring that the recently enacted state law against child labor was be ing violated. Mr. Blackman has but once before had to look into alleged violations of this law, which prohibits children under fourteen being em ployed in factories and manufactories of the state, and strangely enough the other case was in Pierce county too. it was some two weeks ago, and at Puyallup. and on investigation by the commissioner it was found that during the berry season little girh; between 10 and 11 years of age were being employed there i:i packing strawberry boxes, while a little lad of nine was discovered with hammer and nails dilligently occupied in nail ing cases. Under the advice of the county prosecutor there was no prosecution, the employer agreeing instantly to dismiss the children and never again hire any one under the prescribed age. Some fourteen infringements of the ten-hour law for women and girls have been lately brought into the courts by Mr. Blackman, of which fourteen eases but two were lost — one in Seattle and the other in Spo kane. Said Mr. Blackman of the case in hand: "Yes, that is my purpose here. Proper complaint has been sent me that child labor is be ing employed in the facto ries of Tacoma, and I am here to look it up. I have spent several hours today looking into the matter, but I cannot express an opinion at this time. You see there are various circumstances to be taken into con sideration. For instance, by one of the provisions of the law in case of a family in stress of circumstances it is allowable for a judge of the supe rior court to permit children between twelve and fourteen to be employed in the factories. No. I cannot tell at this time whether or not a prosecu tion will be necessary, but you may say that if conditions are as repre sented to me, the law will he invoked, and soon." PAT CROWE LIVED MONTHS IN SPOKANE Spokane.—S. A. Doile. a private detective of this place, is authority for the statement that Pat Crowe, the much wanted kidnapper of the Cudahy child, has been living in this city since about the first of June and up to a few days ago. Doile says that while here Crowe went under the name of McMahon. He says the man rented a house on June 4. that he was accompanied by a woman and another man with a gruff voice, who answers to the de scription of the man who guarded the Cudahy child. McMahon, he declared, answers the description of Crowe in all particpu lars of personal appearance, and even to speaking French. According to Doile, McMahon told many wild stories of who he was. where he came from and where he was going. When McMahon and his compan ions finally left the city they sold their furniture to two different parties. Doile wrote to Omaha and found that the reward of $50,000 had been withdrawn, but at the sarnie time the police were anxious to get the man. Doile did not make the arrest be cause he says he did not have enough evidence to warrant. Those Tired Feet... Should be flitted with a pair of our Resilio shoes, cushioned soled and ven tilated. The easiest and best shoe for warm weather we have ever had. Don*t say they are a joke but come in, put on a pair, try them in our store and if not as we say don't take them. Can we show them to you. The Gash Shoe Company. C. N. HATCH, Mgr. Steurcl Daiidinj, Cor. Third titf Sail. "THE CALL TO ZION." Australians Heard It and Abandoned Their Business and Momes. Vancouver, B. C. Aug. 14. —On an Australian steamer three pilgrim.- have just arrived in this city who are examples cf mediaeval times despite the fact that it was a twentieth cen tury railway train that took them on their way as quickly as they could make connections. They are Mr. and Mrs. Haines and Mr. Lar.dah, from South Australia, where John Alexander Dowie's mis sionaries have been especially active during The past few months and where a t ; upwards of 200 converts are stated .. \,? making preparations to follow them to the city of Zion. Bowie, it will be recalled, lived in Australia and served his apprentice ship as an evangelist under the South > i n Cross. Recently he has been push inng the propaganda ef Dowieism in that country with the aid of six special lieutenants, with the result that the Australian steamer coming to this port has several disciples on their way to Chicago, or, rather, the adjacent city that the Dowieites have built on faith and the shores of Lake Michigan. On the last three voyages of the American Australian boats upwards of sixty have come across. Neither Mr. Haines nor Mr. Landah remained long enough to adjust thoroughly their affairs after receiving "the call to Zion.*' They abandoned a good busi ness and established homes. OIL DISPLACES WOOD. Oregon City Paper Mills Preparing for Change. Oregon City. Or—The Oregon City paper mills are preparing to substi tute oil for cord wood as a fuel. With in another half year the Crown Mills will be using oil as a fuel, having be gun the changes necessary to the in stalling of the new heating system. The management of the Willamette Mills anso contemplates the substitu tion of oil for wood and will make the change within a few months Crude California oil is much cheaper than cordwood, which is not only be coming more scarce, but more costly as a fuel. The installing of the new system is comparatively inexpensive since it requires only the buildinng of storage tanks so that the change is quite an economical step by these large factories. The Crown Paper company has be gun the building of an underground concrete storage tank, with a capaci ty of 10,000 barrels. By menus of pumps the oil wil] be conveyed to the boiler-room. The substitution of oil for wood by these two large paper mills mean much to the local wood market. With the decreased demand that will follow for this fuel, its mar ket value will doubtless depreciate. The two paper mills have annually consumed 43.0110 cords of wood. The supply has been obtained largely from Clackamas county. Wood chopping crews have been employed by both companies, which have also purchased other wood under con tract. The cost to the companies have av eraged probably $2 a cord, if not more. This demand and the ready market for the wood has served as a stimulus in keeping up the price of cordwood. and the smaller consumers will likely profit by the abandoning of fir wood as a fuel by these corpo rations. It is the opinion of many that this action on the part of the paper com panies will accelerate the building and operating of the proposed West Side motor railway, with Portland as the terminal point, as a means of getting the wood supply of this sec tion to market. A line of electric street railway is now in operation be tween this city and the timber dis trict south of the city, and the sur vey is being made for the proposed extension of the line from this city via Oswego to Portland. In dispensing with wood for fuel, the distribution annually of $100,000 by the paper mills will be missed by laborers and business men of Oregon City and Clackamas county. TWO-DAYS-OLD BABY ABANDONED BY MOTHER Spokane.—A bright-faced brown haired, blue-eyed, white male baby, not more than two days old, waa found on the front steps of the Beth lehem church. Rev. J. S. Payne, pastor of the church, who resides with his wife in the rear of the edifice, took temporary charge of the infant and cared for it until the arrival of repre sentative from the Salvation Army home. Where the baby came from, where the mother of two days is hiding and where she gave unto the world the child who last evening presented to a church of God are unsolved mys teries. EXODUS OF U6KS TO THE NORTHWENI Is Eeing Planned By a Modern Moses Who Holds Pastorate At Tacoma. Taeoma. Aug. 14.—Rev. j. E. Dav idson, pastor of the Mount Olivet Baptist church, who went to New Or leans about two months ago to bring back a number of negroes to colonize in the Puget Sound country, arrived here Thursday morning with twenty five colored men. He announces that the men he is bringing are far mers and will make homes for them s' ivts as gardeners or fruitgrowers and farmers. This party is tiie van guard of a big movement of colored people from Louisiana and Mississ ippi and other southern states, who will migrate to the Pacific northwest as fast as they can get their affairs arranged and come. Rev. Mr. Davidson is acting in har mony with a colored organization which has its headquarters in Boston and has undertaken the gigantic pro ject of depopulating the entire south of negroes, it being the impression among the leaders of the organiza tion that the feeling existent to war! the colored race in the south is in imical to their development as a pro gressive people. When the organi zation was formed in Boston, which was about May 1 of this year, it was decided that the southern headquar ers of the society should be in Georgia but the precise location was to be kept a secret in fear of mob violence, though the people of the south so far as interfering with the movement, asserted that they would be willing; to lend a hand to assist the society in its efforts to rid southern commun ities of their plethoric colored popu lations. Through colored ministers, colored attorneys and business men who lived in the south and whom the society tried to interest in the move ment, efforts have been made *o gather negroes together from many different parts of the south. According to press reports sent out from Boston May l' 7 last, the organi zation, which was formed without a name, had decided that the first body of emigrants, which the leaders of the movement declared would num ber approximately 5,000 people, would land in Boston about the first of July. However, owing to the many lynch ing of negroes iv northern states and race wars in Indiana and Illinois, which appeared to make the north as undesirable as the south as an as ylum for the colored race, the society met with some little friction among its own people. Friends of the colored race claim that the Pacific northwest region is the most favorable portion of the country to which the colored emi grants can go, the climatic conditions here offering no great extremes of cold, which many of the negroes of the south fear when called upon to remove to a northern state. CHILDREN TRY TO CALL MOTHER BACK TO LIFE Sad Case of Destitution Is Reported Authorities in North Yakima. North Yakima. —A sad case of des titution, sickness and death came to light w r hen Coroner Frank was called to take charge of a family named Woolery in the southern part of th»- city. Mrs Flora M. Woolery died Sunday evening, after a week's sick ness. Her husband is sick with con sumption, and is unable to work to support his family. Undertaker Ses sions was called in. and when he ar rived at the home found seven child ren there without a bite to eat. Three of the eldest children were leaning over the deathbed of their mother in an effort to call her back to life, while the other children slept, un conscious of their surroundings. William —You must remember, my dear, that my taste is better than yours? His Dear Wife —Undoubtedly, when we come to consider that you married me and I mfirried you. It takes a shrewd man to dispose of his property in a way that will shut out the lawyer as well as his relatives. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local application as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deKt ness. and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lin ing of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumb ling sound or imperfect hearing, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its nor mal, condition, hearing will be de stroyed forever:nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is noth ing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh) that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circu lars, free. _ . ' _ F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. 0. Hall's Family Pills are the best Sold by druggists. 75c. MALTrtOTJO where materials arc produced. The lowest priced roofing made.; Lasts longer than alt J others. It is weather and water-proof and fire resisting. Seni for booklet. I The Paraffine Paint Co. I * an Frmcisco, Seattle, Portland, Los Angelei l)tnv er, Colorado. The Drumheller Co.. AgU. J. H. TIMMONS TRANSFER All manner of freight, goods and musical instruments handled with care. All orders promptly attend ed to. Forwarding freight a spec ialty. Office at Watson's Cigar Stork. We buy second hand goods at a fair price and sell Second-Hand Hoods at a fair price. We have bargain*. STARNES & CO. 226 and 22S West Main St. CITY BREWERY WALLA WALLA. WASH. Stahl's Celebrated Beer LEADS ALL OTHERS. NUH N OTHER. BOTTLING WORKB IN CONNECTION. MRS. J. H. STAHL, Prop. Brewery on SecoHd St. Phone 22. How Abut Your I SUMMER fSUIT? WHY NOT ORDER NOW ? w I have some excellent fabrics to show You kuow the superior quality of my work. A. MELLIN The Leading Men's Tailor. i4Y 2 E*ist fiain. In Old Library Building. CIGARS TOJ3AOOO FRUITS GEO. H. SMITH Prop;; 10 l-J South Third St. Livery, Feed and Boarding STABLE RUBBER - TIRED CABS. BAGGAGE and EXPRESS. BRYAN BROS. SBCOND Ot HLDER STRB9TS. Plione Msiin 00. % You want a position? You want to hire help? * j£ Then advertise in the classl- J I fled columns of the Evening j £ Statesman. Largest circulation. 5 Ethel —Yes! The poor chap haa lost his money but not his friends. Edith —Ah! That is what you might call a double misfortune. OA9TORIA. tea th* King yon Haw Always lotigk