Newspaper Page Text
PAGE POUR ME EVENING STATESMAN Established 1861. Official Paper of Walla Walla County Published by THE STATESMAN PUBLISHING CO. PERCY C. HOLLAND. Mgr. entered at the Postoftice at Walla Walla Walla, Washington, aa Second class Matter. """ SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Dally- On* Tear, in advance, by mail.. .|B.to Bix months, in advance, by mail.. $S.ot One Month, by carrier BO cents One Week, by carrier 15 cents WeeVJy— One Y-tfur. In advance, by mai1...51.00 Six Months, in advance, by mall.. ( SO cents fbe complete telegraphic news service printed in these columns is fur nished by SCRIPPS' NEWS ASSOCIATION sa«" is by far the best report published In Walla Walla. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS: Copy of change of advertisement must bo delivered to the business of fice by the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. to insure insertion in the issue of even Jate. NOT AN EDIFYING EXAMPLE. P. C. Holland, proprietor of the •Statesman, promptly paid the fee of $221.33 charged by an ('alleged lawyer of this city for one round trip as a messenger between his office and the court bourse, but Mr. Holland's mod erate bill of $28.50 against the said lawyer-messenger for the publica tion in six issues of a legal notice nineteen inches long is still unpaid. No One who knows anything about the usual cost of such publications will assert that the charge made by the Statesman was excessive. Nobody can truthfully say that the charge made by the lawyer for the nominal service performed was not extortion ate. Yet it was paid, but the man who got it shows no disposition to pay an honest debt. This alleged lawyer is a man who professes rare Christian grace and virtue, yet he does not hesitate to repudiate a financial obligation that would be promptly acknowledged and paid by any honorable person, re gardless of religious pretensions or even by a heathen Chinee. It is not an edifying example of business pro bity and integrity to be set before the young men of this city by the vanuted leader of the Y. M. C. A. TRUSTEES AND DIRECTORS. Jacob H. Schiff's admission that he was a dummy director in the Equit able, while it was not news at all, shocked people just the same. They did not expect a man of Mr. Schiff's weight in finance to come upon the witness stand and confess that he was content to be a director who did not direct. There can be no doubt about the facts because Mr. Schiff, who ought to know, admits them. He says the Equit able was in the hands of its execu tive officers, who could have stolen it blind without the trustees finding out anything about it. Evidently they did ,ry and evidently they were dis covered, not by any watchfulness on the part of the trustees, nor by any alertness upon the part of the insur ance commissioner, but by an "unfor tunate quarrel" among themselves. Mr. Schiff has cast more doubt upon the safety of companies which have large and showy boards of directors than any other man who has testified. The question raised as regards trus tees in these investigations is. of what use are trustees anyway? When asked by Mr. Hughes this question, Mr. Schiff replied: "I believe they are of very little use." Mr. Schiff's idea is that the execu tive officers ask the advice of the trustees only when they want it; that is to say, when they have up a ques tion upon which they would like to divide the responsibility. If the exe cutive officer wishes to do wrong, to conceal any transaction from the di rectors, Mr. Schiff believes he will have no difficulty in doing so. Mr. Bigelow robbed a big national bank in Milwaukee under the nose of the directors. The Guaranty Loan company fell apart in Minneapolis, and the trustees came up and testified that they knew nothing about it. In stances could be multiplied to show how financial institutions have been DIAMOND RINGS £ rom ou l ver> of mond Rings will be promptly executed ruined by the failure of directors to direct. There is, of course, another side. The public doesn't know how many times financial institutions have been saved by perhaps but one man raising a row in a board of trustees and insisting on the officers doing some things differently. There is necessarily no publicity given to these facts, but they exist. If they could be published they would go far toward showing that a properly constituted board of trustees is not, as Mr. Schiff declares, merely for the purpose of complying with the forms of law. The great difficulty in the Equitable was that it had so many trustees who were not in any proper way interested in the business. Other companies are in the same predicament. They have on their boards a lot of men who have been brought in merely for advertising pur poses, and who know nothing or care nothing about the conduct of the busi ness. If this class of trustees could be afforded an opportunity to make the acquaintance of the inside of a jail when something goes wrong there would be less of them hereafter. THE AMERICAN HAPPY FAMILY. When Mr. Witte attended that New York dinner before his departure he was seated beside H. H. Rogers and told the billionaire that he admired America because the politicians, finan ciers, laboring classes, business men, ministers —all dwelt amicably to gether. H. H. laughed and told Mr. Witte the story of P. T. Barnum's "happy family.*' This family consisted of a lion, a tiger, a bear, a wolf and a lamb, all penned together in one cage. " Remarkable,' a visitor said to Mr. Barnum. '"Remarkable, impressive, instructive. And how long have these animals dwelt together In this way?' "'Seven months,' Barnum answered; 'but the lamb has occasionally to be renewed.' " The Cincinnati Enquirer, which tells the story, considers it an instructive commentary on Wall street and a cur tain variety of business ethics. AMERICAN NAME TARNISHED. In his address of welcome at the one hundred and fifty-second open ing of Columbia university, President Nicholas Murray Butler took occa sion to point out the forcible illus trations now being afforded the rising generation of the difference between reputation and character. The Amer ican people are receiving some painful lessons in practical ethics, as Presi dent Butler says, and of late we have been watching reputations "melt away like snow before the sun." President Butler had in mind, of course, the insurance scandals. There has, indeed, been matter brought to light to make an honest man blush. Hamilton W. Mabie, another Ameri can, whose patriotism and cleanliness of thought none will deny, even 'hough he may not rank as a financier, has just returned from Europe. Cur rent scandals in commercial life, he says, are the talk of the hour in Eu rope, and it is a matter of shame to my American to hear his countrymen referred to as swindlers and sharpers. Mr. Mabie fears that our business prospects and the respect in which our financiers have heretofore been held have been changed. Today in England, Germany and France, the American, when finance is discussed, must be prepared to meet the faint smile and quiet sneer of con'empt. This is a penalty we have to pay for the wrong doing of the big men of the American money world, who have long abused confidence reposed in them and managed their trusts for their own profits rather than for the benefit of the people they represented. It will not do, however, to take a too-hopeless view of this situation. America has no monopoly of crooked ness in finance. It is true that it is hard t6 recall a time when in foreign affairs so many names of prominence were besmirched as in the present New York disclosures, but England has had her Hooleys of recent date, and Ger many her scandals, and as for France, she i s the last one entitled to set up as critic. Principally, however, the saving feature is American public opinion. No man can for a moment doubt that the people of our country are right. If men who hav e sat in high places must fall, if family names long hon ored must have the stain of thievery put upon them, if reputations long considered the most honorable must be punctured through and through with graft and deceit it is better it ShOllM nil f.nm _ „♦ , THE EVENING STATESMAN TUESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1905. be noted that public opinion is not in favor of sparing anyone, but clamors rather for full exposition of all the iniquity and the throwing out of the grafters and thieves. Fundamentally the consideration is one of the honesty of the people, and this permits of only one view. It may be that the high places have been filled, and the prizes grasped by men unworthy to. have them, but the peo ple will force them out, and the busi ness structure in our country will re main founded upon honesty. John O'Donnell, an Irish member of parliament, has gone to jail for three months rather than pay 11000 for making an inflammatory speech. We don't blame him for going to jail. Few "inflammation" speeches are worth 100 tons of coal. President Angell, after forty years, is still willing to advise freshmen to keep away from the saloons. This is because in forty years neither the sa loons nor the freshmen have changed appreciably. What Mr. McCall was really after was to insute the republican party's life. Dr. Dowie, from El Paso, declares that he is not paralyzed. We are very glad to hear this, but when you consider the brand they sell in Texas, it is rather surprising. Work on the Panama canal is again at a standstill. Laborers from Marti nique refuse to be vaccinated. The scoundrels evidently prefer to get sicl* naturally. If Russia is in earnest about drop ping competent officers from her navy, she should send for Togo. He has a way of getting the drop on them. The insurance investigation wishes Senator Depew to tell all he knows. May we*be permitted to express the feeble hope that this does not include the anecdotes? The investigating committee of the New York legislature failed to ask President McCall what he thought of Tom Lawson, and so missed a treat. AMUSEMENTS Keylor Grand Another crowded house attended Walla Walla's popular stock theater and applauded to the echo the pro duction of "Michael Strogoff," and tonight being the last evening per formance of this sterling play an other big house will certainly be on rand. Mr. Redmond reports the largest Tuesday sale he has yet en joyed. On Wednesday afternoon the usual bargain day matinee will be given, and as the price of admission is but 10 cents to the entire body of the house for adults as well as children, another big matinee is expected. Beginning Wednesday night Man ager Redmond will present Joseph Jefferson's own version of the world renowned "Rip Van Winkle." It has been truly said that "plays will come and plays will go, but 'Rip* goes on forever." No better play has ever been presented than this beautiful ro mance of the Catskills. The title role is in the able hands of Ed Redmond, and judging from the flattering notices taken from daily papers of other cities, where the play has been enjoyed, Walla Walla friends of Mr. Redmond have a pleasant sur prise in store. A brisk demand for seats is a good omen and foretells the crowd that will be on hand to en joy a revival of this king ofp lays. Never has there been a drawing that has created the interest centered in Mr. Redmond's latest idea, "the baby buggy." Hundreds of numbered coupons are being given out and eagerly taken by patrons of the Red mond company, and the fact that the winner must come upon the stage and wheel the prize across before the eyes of the audience shrdl shrdluuu eyes of a curious public—it takes nerve to do this and it goes without saying that a packed house will be on hand to applaud the winner. Dressmaking. Mrs. Hetty Green, the noted finan cier, was talking about the vicissi tudes of housekeeping. "Accidents occur in housekeeping," she said, "as distressing and horrible as any in the world of finance. "A woman of Bellows Falls gave a party last year. Pie was served at the party, apple pie, with the crust very prettily ornamented. "The woman called the cook into the dining room. " 'Mary,' she said 'this crust looks very nice. How did you scallop it so beautifully?' - . . "'With your false teeth, mum,* the cook answered. A MATTER OF HEALTH ffiM POWDER Absolutely Pure HAS MO SUBSTITUTE A Cream of Tartar Powder, free from alum or phos phatlc acid t'ftOYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. CHOICE MISCELLANY The Miaaing Chicken*. A banker In a western city bought some chickens of a ranchman and told the man to deliver them at his house. When he went home at noon his wife met him at the door and told him, with great consternation, that the man brought in the chickens as he had promised, but instead of putting them In the henhouse had left them on the lawn, and they had all disappeared. Forgetting his dinner, he started off in no very amiable frame of mind In pursuit of the missing fowls. After scouring the neighboring alleys for tome time he came back triumphantly driving the lost chicks. When in a few days he met the of fending ranchman he demanded se verely: "What did you mean by leav ing those chickens on my lawn the other day? I hunted the neighborhood over for them and then could find only eleven!" "You did mighty well," was the mild reply. "I only left six."—Grace M. Crawford in Harper's. Garfield Could Work. President Arthur T. Hadley of Yale likes to tell his college boys and other boys the following story about Lin coln and Garfield: When Garfield was a colonel he drove the Confederates out of a part of eastern Kentucky with great celerity. President Lincoln heard of the result and said to a friend iu Washington, "Do you know why Colo nel Garfield was able to do at once what all the other army commanders have waited weeks and months with out doing?" "I suppose," was the response, "you would say it was because he never went to West Point." "No," said Lincoln. "He would have been a still better soldier had he gone to West Point, but the reason that made him do what no man from West Point could do and do it promptly was because when he went to college and when he was in college he knew what it meant to work for a living."—Cleve land Plain Dealer. Rachel's Sinter Still Lives. Comparatively few persons are aware that the once great actress of the Co medie Francaise, Rachel, who died so far back as 1858, has a sister still liv ing In Paris. This sister, Mile. Lea Fe lix, was hurt in a carriage accident re cently, but is now getting better. Mile. Felix retired from the stage fifteen years her last appearance being as Joan of Arc in Barbier's drama at the Porte St. Martin. She always re tained her family name of Felix. Mile. Rachel, the great tragedienne, had four sisters and one brother. All her sisters were actresses, like herself, and had considerable success in the profession. Lea Felix is in all probability the only one of the sisters now living. Coat of Keeping Beautiful. "To beautifying madame's visage, three sittings a week during one month, £12 ($C0); one month's massage of throat, £12; one bath of triple ef fluvia for beautifying the limbs, £2; one bottle of liquid white for the com plexion, Bs.; one month's antiwrinkle treatment, £4; one month's ditto for figure, £12; two more months' of same, £16; second bath of triple effluvia, £2; 'third ditto, £8; two more months' antl wrinkle treatment, £8," etc. Such are the Items in a bill for £69 10s. sent in to Baroness de X. by her masseuse. Of this amount £32 had been paid al ready, but the much massee lady re fused to settle the balance.—Paris Let ter to London Telegraph. ♦■ If you want good Job Printing ♦ -•■ bring your orders to the States- ♦ ♦ man office. Quality of work and ♦ ♦ prices both right. ■♦ Failings Music Store Removed to No. 9. south 4th Street, near Dacres Hotel. Big discount on every instru ment in the House. Stand ard, White and Domestic Sewing Machines at one-half price for SATURDAY ONLY Phone Main 392 GIVES HER LIFE. Butte Mother Dies of an Electrical Schock. BUTTE, Mont., Oct. 10.—While as sisting in the rescue of her 13-year old son, who had been made uncon scious by an electrical shock, Mary Jane Price, a well known resident of Butte, was electrocuted last night. The boy was seriously burned, but is ex pected to recover. Samuel Price, husband of the dead woman, suffered a severe shock while dragging the boy's body away from Vlif ft itt ib ib m - Vfc m p ii oil m \b ft * * \b M # Vlif vl/ Vlif VI/ ft ft f PRINTING ] * \ That Talks J * WALLA WALLA IK Vl* \|/ Vlif VI/ \l/ Vlif VI/ VI/ ft Vlif VI/ VI/ VI/ Vlif VI/ VI/ VI/ VI/ VI/ VI/ VI/ VI/ VI/ VI/ VI/ VI/ VI/ VI/ VI/ VI/ Vlif VI/ Vlif VI/ Vlif VI/ VDf \l/ Vlif VI/ VI/ VI/ VI/ Vlif Vlif Vlif \l/ Vlif Vlif VI/ Vlif VI/ Vlif Vlif Vlif Vlif Vlif Vlif Vlif Vlif Vlif VI/ CURRY OPTICAL PARLORS D !E~ Have modern appliances for accurate Eye testiii)?. Can fit si&t^^^^k any eve that will respond to light. Eyes Examined Free. Third year in Walla Walla. * _ MR. AND MRS. H. C. CURRY Eye Sight Specialists I J Cor. 4th and Main Sts. Phone 345 Dacres Bldg. II | I COLGATES J Floating Bath Soap f Is the best soap we have been able to buy for the money. f We have just received another shipment and have it on dis- A play in window. Remember it Floats. Try it. Only sc. 4 JE>. Xv. SMALLBY ♦ Tlie Pioneer Drug- Store + 6E. Main St. Goods Delivered Free of Charge Phone 137 ♦ A Real Fair This Year » g Better Than Ever Before The Twelfth Annual Spokane Interstate Fair October 9 to 15.1905 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Wonderful Displays of PAIN'S FAMOUS PYROTECHNICS, pre senting "THE PALL OF PORT ARTHUR" in Flaming Fireworks LARGER EXHIBITS in EVERY DEPARTMENT of the FAIR MEN'S RELAY RACE during the Whole Week. EIGHT Entries The FINEST SHOW of LIVE STOCK ever held in Washington UP-TO-DATE Vaudeville Program Every Afternoon and Evening Beautiful FRUIT DISPLAYS for BIG CA«H PRIZES FIVE or MORE EXCITING RACES DAILY SPOKANE KENNEL CLUB'S Big Annual Dog Show INDIAN VILLAGE and INDIAN RACES and DANCES REDUCED RATES and SPECIAL EXCURSIONS ON ALL RAILROADS Concessions for Sale HOWELL W. PEEL, President. Write for Premium List and Race Program ROBT. H. COSGROVE, Sec. & M«r. the wire, and Arthur Marrick » M knocked down by the current of e ie» tricity wh 'e attempting t G rescue Mrs Price, and seriously burned. Children playing about the yard i n the afternoon hooked a section of >, ing wire over a wire carrying 22 0 l volts of electricity used to reed "ir c lights, and the power was not turned on until a short time before the acei. dent. Boys had played with the d ing length of wire during the day ttm* The Statesman prints todays news today.