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+ EXCLUSIVE AFTERNOON * + UNITED PRESS TELEGRAMS + + GIVES THE EVENING STATES- ♦ + M AN THE VERY BEST. * + + + ♦♦♦♦ + ♦♦ + + * + + EIGHT PAGES STANDARD OIL IN SUPREME COURT Industrial and Commercial Life Discussed Today "KNOW YOUR CITY" CONGRESS OPENS WEEK'S WORK. A. M. Cation Chairman of Meeting —Good Talks By Speakers. The Know Your City" congress be gun another week's* program this af ternoon, when Chairman A. M. Cation called the meeting to order in the Y. M. </. A. auditorium at 3:30 o'clock. "Industrial and Commercial Life" was th' 1 subject up for discussion, and was ably handled by the speakers of the day. A fair sized crowd attended and the .- wi re unusually good, dealing Wiiii tii>' different questions of indus trial and commercial life of the city. Owing to the fact that he was sud denly called away from town, J. M irford was unable to preside over t.:. meeting, But M. Cation con sented at the last moment to take and lrmdled the meeting excel lently, making a pointed address in opening the session. Mr. Cation said, in part: "Very few people realize what the word '.Manufacture" means, and .ly anyone ever gives the subject a passing thought. Without manufac tories we would soon revert back to borigines. The houses' we live in aad the clothes we wear—in fact near ly everything that makes civilization (in almost be credited to the manu facturer with his brains, his skill and tug machinery. ' 1 >ur skill in the manufacturing line las done more than any other one thing to make the United States what it is at the present tie. "la the northwest we are handi- Mexicans Ready lo Start Fight SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March 14.— ' Mexicans at Falfurias, Texas, are | igreatly excited over the killing of a ] countryman by Dave Dolan, an Ameri can, in a duel Saturday night; and the troops are held in readiness here to S° to the scene to protect Americans from the threatened attack by the : Mexicans. Dolan is in jail. He claims n e fired in self-defense. Jack Johnson Badly Bruised RACINE, Wis., March 14.—Jack the prize fighter, is suffer - m many bruises today as a re an automobile assident in which and his wife were thrown from their - yesterday while on their way Milwaukee to Chicago. Johnson riving. The machine skiddo I th w >u'd have been badly hurt : : . not landed in a snow bank. Women Have Bank For Themselves LONDON, March 14.—A branch of irrowa bank, run by women, op fn-Hl lure for business today. Over B depositors are in the books unique institution already. No allowed to opm accounts with bank. The on'.y male employe is a Messenger. Killed Two Sons ftnd Shot Himself NEW YORK. March. 14.-Despon t)^ ncy ls Su PPosed to be the reason for c de «d of Hermann Moritz, who shot *»* sons to death, set fire to the com tUr " ed * fir * a ' arm and then J mm,tted suicide last night, Moritz 35 a r « tired real estate dealer. The Evening Statesman ORDER IS IN VAIN QUAKER CITY WAGON DRIVERS WILL NOT GO ON A STRIKE AS DIRECTED PHILADELPHIA, March 14.— The general order issued by the central la bor union to milkmen and bakery wa gon drivers, and others who deliver necessaries to quit work, was not gen erally obeyed today, the majority re maining at work. There is some pos sibility that a conflict of authority be tween local and national labor leaders may result from the order. In most trades, the international organizations have ordered the men to remain at work. capped when it comes to factory de velopment as* carried on in the east. Raw material, on account of excessive freight rates, is expensive; skilled la bor is scarce, high priced and hard to get. After paying the excessive freight rates and higher cost of skilled labor, the product': costs so much more than the eastern that we are barred from the markets of the world and are compelled to confine our selves to the markets of the northwest. "The problem, however, that con fronts us is the up-building of our own city of Walla Walla. We have the lov liest city, and rightly named 'The Gar den City of the Northwest' and it is up to the citizens of this city to de velop it; and it will be exactly what our people make it. We cannot have a city of importance without pai'ed streets, excellent public schools and colleges, and all of the other improve ments that go to make life worth liv ing. If we do not keep up civic im provements our progressive and enter prising citizens will seek other locali ties wheer they can get all of the im provements. We can never expect to make of Walla Walla a large manu facturing center, liKe some of the east ern or middle states; we can, however, develop our industrial enterprises. "To sum it all up we can develop and enlarge our creamery, our fruit canning, our laundries, our magnificent packing institution, our farm imple ment factories and all other industries that are now struggling along in a small way to make their business suc cessful. As the years go by every pound of fruit, good, bad and indifferent, will be utilized and turned into cash. The straw from our grain fields instead of being burned and otherwise destroyed will be utilized for different purposes. (Continued on Page Four) * BOBBIN II WINS CUPS. * 4» LONDON, March 14. —Harry 4» 4> Payne Whitney's "Bobbin II" + 4» won the stake race today at the * ♦ opening of the racing season in * «|» England. Americans won a 4" ♦ large sum. * ♦ * ++*+*+++ + *_* * * * UNITED STATES MAY BE FLOATED CHRISTIANIA, Sweden, March 14 The steamer United States, which went aground near here, is being lightened today and it is believed she will be floated safely unless a gtle springs up. The ship was enroute from Copenhagen to New York when she grounded in a dense fog. The pascsengers were taken off by other steamers. WALLA WALLA'S PIONEER NEWSPAPER-ESTABLISHED 1861 , WALLA WALLA, WASHINGTON, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1910. SHIP BILL IS NO HELP Assertion That Trade is Close on Subsidy- Proven Wrong. SUBSIDIZED LINE PROVES ARGUMENT Exports to England Have Increased But 25 Per Cent. WASHINGTON, March 14.—(Special to the Statesman.)— Although it is not generally known, Uncle Sam now sub sidizes a few mail steamship lines. Our heaviest subsidized line is from New York to England. If it is true ,as the advocates of the Taft-Humphrey sh:'p subsidy bill as sert, that trade follows subsidies, why s it that our exports .to the United Kingdom in the ten years between 1897 and 1907 increased but 25 per cent, while our exports to nine countries to which we have no subsidized lines in creased, from 105 to 4900 per cent? This is only one of the points show ing that trade does not follow subsidies made in the report of th e minority of the committee on merchant marine and fisheries, and submitted to the ho\ise by Representative Spight of Mississip pi, who is one of the best posted men in the country on shipping subsidies. While our exports to the United Kingdom increased but 25 P er cent., our exports to countries to which v have no subsidized lines, increased as follows between 1897 and 1907: Turkey, 4900 per cent. Austria-Hungary, 275 per cent. German, 105 per cent. Italy, 181 per cent. Canada. 181 per cent. Chinese Empire, 115 per cent. British East Indies, 125 per cent. Japan, 196 per cent. Egypt, 200 per cent. "These figures," declares the report of the democratic members of the com mittee on shipping subsidies, "are elo quent in support of our contention that no good can come of a further exten sion of the Act of March 3, 1891," (the act under which the mail line to Eng land is now subsidized by the United States.) The minority report does not content itself with showing the futility of ship ping subsidies. It provides a way to build up our declining merchant ma rine without any cost whatever to the taxpayers, by extending American reg istry to ships built abroad ,and by providing for a reduction of five per cent in customs duties on goods carried in American bottoms. The Spight bill provides, however, that foreign-built vessels to which American registry is extended, must be owned wholly by citizens of the United States or cor porations whose stockholders are all citizens of the United States, and shall not engage in the coastwise trade. These provisos are for the benefit of American ship builders. "Free ships." says the minority re port, "can hurt no business or interest except the steel trust. It will do no injustice to this greedy corporation, but simply take from it a part of the unholy gain which it has been so long exacting from its helpless customer.-. Tt has been abundantly shown that steel products which enter into the construction of ships have been deliv ered in foreign yards, after paying land and ocean freights, much cheaper tna* was charged our home buyers. "This section will compel the steel trust to compete with the foreign pro ducers, to the great advantage or American shipbuilders and ship owners. "We propose to break the 'strangle hold' of the steel trust by admitting free of duty all foreign products to be used in building ships f\ any pur pose, foreign or domestic. We shall (Continued on Page Four.) PUBLIC TURNS EYE ON COURT Supreme Tribunal Is To Hand Down History- Making Decisions. STANDARD OIL CASE UP TODAY Corporation Income Tax Is Brought Up in Vermont Case. WASHINGTON, March 14.—History will be made by the United States su preme court this week, and the eyes of the nation will be upon that tri bunal of last resort. The cases to be heard today and on the succeeding days of this week will stir the founda tions of the commercial world. The government suit for the dissolution of the Standard Oi! company and the test of the constitutionality cf the cor poration tax are both on the calendar for today. Not less than 10 cases growing out of the corporation income tax provi sion of the tariff law are before the United States supreme court, and seven of these, including the typical Vermont case of Stella P. Flint against the Stone-Track company, are assigned for argument today. The decision in the Vermont case, it is declared, will affect a great ma jority of the corporations in the Unit ed States. Maxwell Evarts, of New York appeared before the court as counsel for Mrs. Stella P. Flint, of Windsor, Vermont, who instituted pro ceedings in the federal circuit court in Vermont, as general guardian of the property of Samuel N. Stone, jr., a minor, against the Stone-Tracy com pany, a general retail mercantile cor poration of Windsor, Vermont. Part of the property of the minor consists of shares in this corporation. It was sought to enjoin the corporation from making a return of its net income, as required by the corporation tax pro vision, and from paying the tax, if levied. The Vermont court ordered the bill mismissed. The case has reached the court in record-breaking time. An injunction vva s sought in the United States court for Vermont, a demurrer filed the same day and at once sustained and the case was hurried to Washington within two days of the time it was filed. The principle objection to the law as urged in this case are as follows: First—The tax is a burden upon a franchine granted by the state of Ver mont, and is based upon a prerogative and function of sovereignty belong ing to the state and never relinquish ed. Second—lt is a violation of the fifth amendment to the federal constitu tion, which protects a citizen against being deprived of property without due process of law, in that, through the publicity of its business, the pri vacy of the corporation's affairs will be largely destroyed and its chief competitor, a general store operating as a partnership, and all others, will be able to gain an intimate knowledge ,f the company and its trade secrets, while no corresponding publicity will be permitted to the corporation. By season of such unjust advantage the corporation is dangerously threatened, and will be compelled to surrender its charter to the state and go into vol untary dissolution. Third —The tax is unconstitutional because the private property of the corporation will be taken for public use without pust compensation and without any compensation whatever, in that it s private books, records, etc., are taken for publication by the col lector of internal revenue and given to the public. The corporation will have no right against unreasonable (Continued From Page Four) SAYLER MURDER CASE IS NOW UP Famous Illinois Killing Is Being Heard in Watseka. WIFE AND MILLER ACCUSED OF DEED History of Sensational Crime, Said to Have Been Justified. WATSEKA, 111., March 14—The cases of Dr. William A. Miller, Mrs. J. B. Sayler and John Grunden, indicted for the murder of J. B. Sayler, a banker at Crescent City, HI., Sunday, July 11, was called in the Iroquois county court for trial today. The state will answer ready and It seems probable the defense has agreed to go to trial. So far the defense has not shown its hand, but the belief is general here that it will be content to allow a jury of Iroquois county citizens to pass on the case. There has been no murder in Illin ois in a quarter of a century which has attracted so much attention as the Sayler murder. J. B. Sayler was a wealthy banker living at Crescent City, eight -miles from here. Lucy Sayler, his' wife, the central figure in the tragedy which broke up two homes, went to Crescent City many years ago as the bride of the banker. Her beauty and vivacious ness attracted a large circle of friends. Dr. William A. Miller, a young physician, came to Crescent City from Pennsylvania. He and Mrs. Sayler were thrown much in each other's company, Mrs. Sayler accompanied the physician on riding trips and her husband knew this. Early last year Miller's friendship for Mrs. Saylor is alleged to have been commented on, and it is said friends of SaylOr went to him and advised him, for the sake of his daughter, to put a stop to their acquaintance. Neighbors say that there were many harsh words between them, but no open rupture until the evening of July 11. It is stated that early on this evening Sayler and his wife had a prolonged argument which ended by Sayler leaving the house for several hours. When he returned, Dr. Miller, John and Ira Grunden, father and brother of Mrs. Sayler, were at the banker's home. Sayler seated himself in the front yard and at about 11 o'clock, so testimony at the inquest showed, he was called into the house to join in a game of cards. What actually transpired after he entered that room was not made clear. It was established that Sayler was found dead some time later, and Dr. Miller admitted he shot him, saying he acted in self-defense. At the inquest, it was alleged that when Sayler opened the door he took up an ax from the parlor flodr and started toward Doctor Miller. The con dition of the room indicated that they fought desperately. There was blood on every chair and walls and pictures were bespattered, and there were two bullet holes found in the walls. Say ler's body was found wedged behind a couch, where witnesses say he fell af ter receiving the mortal wound. As near as could be determined by the coronet the shooting occurred be tween 11 and 12 o'clock and about two hours later the sheriff was notified at his home in Watseka He drove to Crescent City at once, and placed Mrs. Sayler, Doctor Miller and the Grun dens under arrest. The inquest was held t wo days later and excitement was intense. A great crowd of people surrounded the jail at Watseka and hooted and cursed the accused and demanded their lives, but the sheriff dispersed the crowd. On the night of the murder Mrs. (Continued On Page Five.) Final Stage Of the Long Legal Strife ACTIVE IN THE ORIENT JAPANESE RESTIVE RUSSIANS TAKE UP MILITARY ATTITUDE. TOKIO, March 14—Dissatisfaction over the alleged submissive foreign policy of Baron Komura resulted today in the formation of a strong constitu tional-democratic party. The leader of the party remarked upon the growing hostility of America and advocated a Russo-Japanese alliance. Russia Active. LONDON, March 12.—Russia has de cided upon a military course in the far east according to dispatches re ceived here today from St. Petersburg. That move, according to military ex pears, can mean but one thing, the im minence of another war. In view of the apparent agreement of Russia and Ja pan on the Manchurian policy, it is be lieved Russia intends to make war on China. Corporations to Have Good Freina WASHINGTON, March 14.—Presi dent Taft today nominated William S. Kenyon, of lowa, for assistant attor ney general of the United States to succeed Wade Ellis, Kenyon is now general attorney for the Illinois Cen tral railroad. President Back. WASHINGTON, March 14.—Presi dent Taft returned here today from Pittsburg, where he attended the fune ral of Thomas McLaughlin, brother-in law of Mrs. Taft, whp committed sui cide Friday. Mrs. Taft is recovering today from the shock. Shoots a Man Who Was too Friendly SAN PEDRO. Calif., March 14 — Georke W. Jefferson shot and killed Melvis Anson early today in front of the Anson house. Jefferson declares the shooting was due to the victim's undue friendliness for Jefferson's wife. He said he had warned Anson repeatedly. + COOK COMING. + + NEW; YORK, March 14.—1t * ♦ is rumored here today that Dr. ♦ ♦ Cook, the discredited explorer, + ♦ and his wife, intend to sail for + + the United States from Rio Ja- + ♦ Nero March 18. ♦ lender Heart Brings 1 rouble NEW YORK, March 14— Eecause he stopped to save the life of Mrs. Angeline Cassello, who was surprised at her bath by the intrusion had faint ed, James Ferrick, a burglar, is in jail here today. Ferrick was ransacking the Cassello home and stepped into the bathroom. The woman fainted. Ferrick started to leave the house, but realizing that Mrs. Cassello would drown if left un conscious in the filled tub, he returned and pulled the plug to drain it. He then hurried down the fire escape, but was nabbed by an officer and identi fied by soap suds on his coat sleeve. ♦♦♦♦♦++++♦♦+♦+# ♦ a classified ad, in he> ♦ evening statesman will * ♦ sell it for you. you'd ♦ ♦ better try. ♦ *♦♦♦*♦ + ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ SEVEN DAYS PER WEEK. CASE APPEALED FROM FEDERAL COURT AT ST. LOUIS. v Rockefeller Foundation" Neat Trick to Turn Public Opinion. WASHINGTON, March 14 — The * final Stat* of the three-year legal struggle between the department of justice and the Standard Oil was reached today when argument was be gun before the supreme court. The case was appealed from the de cision of the federal circuit court at St. Louis, which ordered the trust dis solved. John G. Milburn opened argument for Rockefeller company. The court hag granted three days for each side. The government contends the Stand ard is a monopoly in restraint of trade. Argument and submission of the dissolution suit to the supreme court is attracting special attention in ciew tt the recent introduction in the senate of the Gallinger bill providing for the "Rockefeller foundation." The statement is freely made that the "foundation" proposal may have been introduced just at this time for the purpose of creating public senti ment. The announcement that Rocke feller proposed to donate his enormous fortune to charity and the welfare of the human race coming at the time of the final hearing of the great suit »'s believed by many to have more than its apparent significance. Suspect Murder After Robbery BOISE, March 14.—Wholesale murder following a robbery is suspected in the burning to death early today of Theophil Thoni, his wife and two daughters in a fire that destroyed their home, six miles west of Twin Falls. After the house was consumed, the four bodies were found in the ashes by tho neighbors. Thoni recently arrived from Nebraska. The sheriff is searching for two horsemen seen leaving the vicMnity. ROOSEVELT IS IN KHARTOUM KARTOUM, March 14. — Colonel Roosevelt arrived today at Gordon's tree, a few miles * julh and the official entrance into the city is panned for this afternoon. Upon reaching the city Roosevelt will proceed to the palace of General Wingate Sirdar of the Egyptian army and from there will go to the railroad station to meet Mrs. Roosevelt and his daughter. BUILDING BURNS PROPERTY SAVED BURLING AME, March 14—The fashionable country club building burned yesterday with a loss of $35,- --000. Although a number of rare tap estries and several paintings were lost in the fire, most of the contents were saved by the efforts of the millionaire members. GREAT BLIZZARD IN THE EAR EAST TOKJO, March 14. —A great blizzard raged along the eastern coast of the island of Mondo, Saturday night and 'yesterday and the fate of thousands of fishermen is unknown. It is estimated that one hundred and twenty fishing boats have been wrecked. A warship has gone to search for possible s-irvi vors.