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The STATESMaF
VOLUME XXXII.
Ml OF COMMISSIONERS NEIL 1 REYNOLDS WAS MADE PUBLIC TOM
m BALKED
ON RATE BILL
Objects to Bill as Amended
in Conference
IT MAY BE WITHDRAWN
Will Probably be Sent Back to
Conference for Tinkering
—Burton Resigns
WASHINGTON, June 4.—The con
lVrenee report on the rate bill will be
ivjecteil by the senate unless it is
withdrawn, so a republican senator
.-.iid today. Objection is made to the
lii'use -incorporating new matter. The
si-i ;»tf conferees will be asked to with
draw the report.
Tlic house today passed the Burton
l'ill to preserve Niagara Falls by lim
; ins: the amount of water to be di
vrtfd for power purposes.
Senator Burton Resigns.
ToPEKA. Kas., June 4. —Senator
Kirion resigned today after a con
t'Vim' with Governor Hoch.
C4NFIELD CAUSES STIR.
R ch Gambler Buys Residence in Fash
ionable Neighborhood. -
NEW YORK. June 4.—Richard Can
fi'ld. the gambler, lias purchased for
v '0.000 the residence of East Fifth
- ■ rcet, one door from E. H. Harriman's
1: liio. That fashionable neighborhood
i< stirred. It is said that John D.
Rockefeller owned the property. It
will not Vie used for a gambling house.
REPAIRING POWER PLANT
Electric Company Rushing Work
Willi All Possible Speed
ILL BE 111 OPERATION BY JUNE 10.
COMPANY YESTERDAY SENT OUT
CREWS AND MATERIAL TO
REPAIR DAMAGE.
The Northwestern Gas & Electric
»"nipany is rushing with all possible
--(•ted repairs on the damaged power
I ant and pipe line on the Walla
alia river. Yesterday 10,000 feet of
bridge timber for a new bridge across
tho river at the power plant, to re
i'--tee the one washed out by Wed
-day's ood. was delivered on the
>und. A crew of about 20 bridge
< .ivpcnters was also sent out yesterday
• > ! work on the new structure was
' • unit-need last night. Nick Lawson,
• s u]vrintendent of construction, is su
' -'intending repairs at the plant and
' xj'ects to have the bridge completed
! ' v Wednesday so that material for re
i iiring- the power house can be sent
across the swollen stream.
Repairing the Roads.
F:je company has put a crew of 30
to work repairing the roads be
'-'■een the power plant and the Roberts
h so that material for repairing
flume at the intake can be rushed
as fast as it can be delivered by
raetors. Superintendent Lawson
' v l"ots that the roadway will be re
• ired by Thursday and the sections of
flume washed out replaced not later
The evening Statesman
than next Sunday. The pipe line was
cut in two places but the breaks can
easily be repaired, and little delay wiil
be occasioned on this score.
Change Creek Channel.
Before repairs at the power plant
can be effected, it will be necessary
to change the channel of the creek which
now flows directly beneath the north
end of the power house. The force of
the floo£ at that particular point was
something terrifflc. Paul Young, fore
man at the electric plant, said yes
terday. In front of the power house a
strip of ground 80 feet in width was
washed out between 2 and 5 o'clock
Wednesday morning. The foundation
under the north end of the building
was washed away for a distance of
about 20 feet, allowing the cement floor
to give way under the heavy weight of
a battery of six transformers. Four of
the transformers dropped into the
creek. One now lies buried under sand
and water 50 yards below the plant.
The others are partially submerged
close to the plant. Superintendent
Young believes that two of the trans
formers can be repaired and placed in
use again and that the plant will be in
operation by June 10. A concrete re
taining wall will be built along the
north side of the power plant to guard
against any future floods.
MEET FiIST TIME IN 40 YEARS
M. C. Driskell and S. S. Levering, Old
G. A. R. Veterans Hold Jollifica-
tion Meeting Today..
To have lived as neighbors before
the war, served all through that bloody
conflict in the same company and
regiment, honorably discharged about
the same time, and to have met in
County Clerk Dorsey Hill's office today
for the first time since those eventful
days, was the unique yet happy ex
perience of M. C. Driskell and Squire
S. I,evering. The two old veterans
chanced to meet at the clerk's office
this morning while they were waiting
to have their pension certificates ac
knowledged.
The inability of the clerk to quite
understand the way Mr. Levering
spells his name attracted Driskell's at
tention. Closely scrutinizing Mr. Le%'-
ering's face for a moment he recog
nized his old neighbor and comrade
although 40 years had elapsed since
they had last seen each other. The two
old veterans held a jollification meet
ing in the clerk's office and spent
nearly a half hour talking over war
times and the days they had lived as
neighbors. Both the old veterans served
in Company C. 18th regiment, Kansas
cavalry, and saw much active service
until they were finally discharged in
1867. After leaving the service they
drifted to different parts of the coun
try and never saw each other again
until they met in Clerk Hill's office to
day.
Mistake Is Duplicated.
PITTSBURG, June 4. —Almost on the
same spot and almost in the same man
ner as he had killed a man less than
three years ago, Archibald Duff, one of
the wealthiest men of Clairton, a su
burb of this city, was killed early Sat
urday morning by his son-in-law, A.
M. Burd. As the coroner's jury exon
erated Duff for the crime he had com
mitted. so he, with his last breath
summoned a justice of the peace and
made a deposition exonerating his
son-in-law from all blame for his
death.
On Saturday morning Duff arose
about 1 o'clock, intending to take a
walk. Recently there had been bur
glaries in Clairton and the town was
on the alert. When Mr. Burd heard
someone moving in the house he im
agined burglars were about and secur
ing his revolver ran out into the hall
way. In the dim light he saw the out
lines of a man. He called to him to
throw up his hands, but there was no
reply. He pulled the trigger just as
Mr. Duff was about to tell who he
was. The bullet entered the old man's
abdomen and he fell unconscious on
the floor, dying shortly afterward.
THE EVENING STATESMAN, WALLA WALLA, WASHINGTON. MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1906
REIOLIG REVEUTIONS WIDE
INDESCRIBIBLE FILTH FOUND
DISREGARD FOR SANITATION IN PACKING HOUSES
Meat Rolled on Dirty Floors Soaked With Slime and Reeking With Expectorations
From Men and Women Suffering From Tuberculosis-President Calls
Upon Congress for Legislation to Protect Public Health
WASHINGTON, D. C.. June 4—Hor
rifying revelations almost beyond be
lief are made in the special report on
Chicago packing house conditions by
Commissioner of Labor Neill and
Special Agent Reynolds of New York,
submitted to congress today by the
president. In a special message ac
companying the report, Roosevelt de
scribes the conditions as revolting and
urges immediate drastic legislation ac
cording to the Beveridge amendment.
The report is not nice reading. Its
statements are sickening. It shows
that the packers generally displayed
disregard not only for sanitation, but
even for decency. The report says that
the stockyards pavements are mostly
brick filled with manure and refuse
and not properly cleaned, slimy and
malodorous when wet and dusty when
dry. Stock which died enroute were
thrown on the platform.
Some privies were situated at such
a distance from the work rooms that
men would relieve themselves on the
killing floors or in the corners of the
work rooms. Hence in some places
urine fumes and the nauseating odors
arising from the dirty blood-soaked
and rotting wooden floors were fruit
ful culture beds for disease germs of
men and animals.
The investigators found absence of
cleanliness everywhere in handling of
meat. The report says that workers
climb over heaps of meat and select
the pieces they wish. Frequently they
throw them upon dirty floors beside
CANVASS COUNTY'S DAMAGE
Commissioners Met Today Anil Went
Over Loss Sustained by Floods
MANY BRIDGES ARE WASHED OUT
WAITSBURG IMPROVEMENT CLUB
MET WITH BOARD ON ROAD
MATTERS TODAY.
The county commissioners met in I
regular monthly session at the hall
of records this morning. Most of the
forenoon was taKen up in canvassing
the damage to bridges and county
roads in various parts of the county
by Wednesday's floods. Road Super
visor Lanning reported the destruction
of the Lowden and Whitman station
bridges and the damaging of several
other smaller bridges. A number of
roads adjacent to the Walla Walla
river and Mill creek were badly washed
out and it will take considerable time
and money to repair them.
Waitsburg Delegation Here.
A delegation from the Waitsburg
Improvement club met with the com
missioners this afternoon and took up
the matter of opening the Shell road
between Waitsburg and Bolles Junc
tion. The proposed road passes
ESTABLISHED 1861
the benches. In cutting meat on the
bench the meat is usually held against
their aprons, which as a rule, are in
describably filthy. Men were seen to
stand on meat tables with shoes cov
ered with filth. At lunch hour they
were seen to sit on the spot where
meats were cut under the superin
tendent's eyes.
The interior of the buildings is
mostly of wood. The floors are usually
of wood, soaked and slimy. The rooms
are poorly lighted, illy-ventilated and
many are without windows. Syste
matic ventilation is not found any
where. But one porcelain receptacle
was found for meats. The sanitary
conveniences for employees show the
employers' indfference to cleanliness.
The retiring rooms adjoin the work
ing rooms and are usually cut off from
the latter by low partitions. Many are
without side air openings. A condition
that affects most directly the cleanli
ness of food products is the frequent
absence of lavatory provisions in pri
vies. The washing sinks are all small
and dirty, neither towels nor soap be
ing provided. Many women return di
rectly from these closets to plunge un
washed hands into meat products such
as sausages.
The report says:
"We saw meat shoveled from filthy
floors, piled on tables rarely washed,
pushed in rotten box carts, always
gathering dirt, splinters from the floor,
filthy with the expectorations of tuber
losis and other diseased workers. As
an extreme example of the disregard
through a number of farms and it will
be necessary to secure the consent
of the farmers enroute before any de
cisive action is taken. The present
road from Waitsburg to Bolles passes
over several high hills and in the win
ter makes traveling both difficult and
inconvenient. The Waitsburg delega
tion was composed of Mayor J. B.
Caldwell, W. F. Pool, H. D. Conover,
Matt Breeze, D. V. Wood, Joel Woods.
J. D. Laidlaw and Emmet Henderson.
SAY HE IS ACTUATED BY SPITE
Packing Officials Say That Roosevelt
Is Miffed Because Demores
Scheme Failed.
CHICAGO, 111., June 4.—Packing of
ficials today stated that President
Roosevelt is inspired by personal ani
mosity due to the fact that he lost
heavily in Marquis Demores scheme
to establish a rival packing house.
The scheme fell through in the '80's. A
packers' representative refusing to be
quoted by name, said:
"The export meat trade of' America
is now ruined with the possible ex
ception of England, which is the
largest meat consuming market in the
world and wnich will undoubtedly now
view our meat with suspicion. Ger
many is certain to exclude American
meats. The kaiser is watching for the
opportunity. The Germans favor South
American countries.
of the employees for cleanliness in
handling dressed meats, we saw a
killed, cleaned and washed hog
started to the cooler fall from the slid
ing rail to the dirty wooden floor,
slide part way into the filthy men's
privy, picked up Uy two employes and
placed on a truck and carried into the
cooling room, no effort being made to
clean it. A radical defect in the pres
ent system of inspection is that it
does not go far enough, confined
to passing on the health of animals at
the time of killing. There is no govern
ment inspection in the preparing of
sausages or other products although
they bear labels statiTig that they are
"government inspected."
This phrase on the labels and the
phrase "quality guaranteed" beneath
the inspection mark are pronounced
unwarranted and unjustifiable. The re
port states that inspectors do not
know what else may have been placed
in cans in addition to "inspected meat. '
The report refers to the mistreat
ment accorded employees, especially
women. It closes with a number of
recommendations which are covered in
the president's mesage. The president in
his message threatens to destroy pack
ers' foreign business should congress
fail to provide federal inspection of
meats through all processes. The fail
ure to pass this legislation, the presi
dent says, will compel him "to order
that all inspection labels and certifi
cates on canned products shall not be
Meet first time.
ANOTHER REWARD OFFERED
Wife of Missing Milkman Offers
$50.00 For Information
IS ALMOST DISTRACTED WITH (NBETT
BELIEVES THAT HE IS MERELY
WANDERING ABOUT THE
COUNTRY DEMENTED.
Worried almost to distraction over
his disappearance, Mrs. John Carroll,
wife of John Carroll, the aged milk
man, who disappeared from his home
last Wednesday night, has offered a
reward of $50 for information that will
clear up the mystery. Mrs. Carroll
cannot bring herself to believe that
her husband has met death in Garri
son creek but thinks that he is simply
wandering about the country some
where and may be found before he
succumbs to exposure and hunger.
Sustained Hard Fall.
Mrs. Carroll stated this morning
that the night her husband disap
peared, he stayed in the yard until
after 11 o'clock. He was slightly the
worse for liquor and refused to go
into the house. This was something
unusual for him and Mrs. Carroll be
lieves that he became temporarily de
ranged and wandered away. It has
devoloped that Carroll sustained a
severe fall on the pavement before re
turning to his home Wednesday night.
He was endeavoring to get into his
milkwagon and accidentally slipped off
the st?p, and fell on his head. He
was slightly dazed by the fall but
rapidly recovered and appeared to be
all right when friends assisted him
in his rig and started him home. Mrs.
Carroll believes that the force of the
blow might have been much more se
vere than it appeared and caused
temporary insanity.
Another Search Yesterday.
Friends yesterday visited the head
of Garrison creek where it leaves Mill
creek with the intention of shutting off
the flow so that a search of the bed
below the city might be made, but it
was found impossible to dam up the
creek owing to the large amount of
water now flowing into it from Mill
creek. Searching parties yesterday
inspected a number of drifts below the
Carroll place but did not find any trace
of the missing milkman. A further
search will be made tomorrow by vol
unteers who will gather at the house
of Andy Taylor on Pleasant street at
8 a. m.
The local Grand Army committee held
campment and the auxilliary bodies,
pany, where every visitor will be ex-
PAYS WALLA WALU A COMPLIMENT
Editor of Echo Register Predicts 50,000
People Here in Next
Decade.
Last week A. D. Cridge, of the Reg
ister, visited the cities of Walla Walla,
Free water and Milton on business,
says the Echo Register.
In Walla Walla W. C. Taylor showed
the editor around the adjacent coun
try. which is developing very rapidly.
The city is progressing along modern
lines, and its broad streets, green lawns
and many substantial buildings show
to the visitor that the city is sure to
reach the fifty thousand mark which
its business men have set for it by
the close of this decade. It only needs
railroads to become the principal city
in the northwest.
Bugs from Europe.
NEW YORK, June 4.—The brown
tailed moth must go. He has refused
to go peaceably and now congress has
voted 1100,000 to hasten his departure.
The brown-tailed moth first came over
here as an immigrant to assist Profes
sor Trouvelot, a French scientist, in
his experiments with silk-producing
insects. The caterpillars were netted
on a shrub when a severe storm broke
forth, releasing them from captivity
and scattering them to the four winds.
The pest spread rapidly until now it
is almost national. New England is
a particular sufferer, however. There
are whole orchards ruined yearly by
the pest.
Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the bureau
of entomology. United States depart
ment of agriculture, has just returned
from Europe with the news that more
than 5,000,000 parasites will arrive dur
ing the summer guaranteed to eat up
the brown-tailed to the last hair. A
bill passed in congress last week gives
$100,000 for the prevention of the fur
ther spread of the moth in this coun
try.
To Give Million for Charity.
NEW ORLEANS, June 4. —John D.
Rockefeller will give another million
dollars to charity. The announcement
was made here by the Rev. Dr. Craw
ford Jackson, of Atlanta, chairman of
the Central Juvenile Protectory com
mittee, that that amount would be
given by the oil king for the erection
of reformatories in the United States,
provided the money would be spent in
the south as well as in the north.
Fatal Street Car Accident.
SAX JOSE. Cal., June 4—An inter
urban car jumped the track on a steep
hill on the outskirts of Los Gatos this
morning. John Davis was killed and
Dick Farrell. a San Jose contractor,
was badly injured. Others were slight
ly hurt. A defective rail was the cause
of the accident.
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GORMAN DIED
THIS MORNING
Maryland Senator Stricken
With Heart Failure
WAS DEMOCRATIC LEADER
Death Occurred at Home in Wash
ington- Senate Adjourn* in
Respect for Memory
WASHINGTON, June 4.—Senator
Arthur Poe Gorman died at his home
here at 9:16 this morning of heart
failure. He was ill several weeks. His
death was not expected. His burial
will occur at Laurel, Maryland, prob
ably next Wednesday.
Arthur Poe Gorman was born In
Maryland nearly seventy years ago.
His first glimpse into public life was
as a page in the senate. He studied
law in Baltimore, and soon after being
admitted to practice became a dem
ocratic leader. He was serving his
fourth term, not consecutive, in the
senate. His name has been frequently
before democratic national conventions
as a candidate for the presidential
nomination. His most distinguished
public service was his defeat of the
Force bill. President Benjamin Harri
son's pet measure, by his skillful par
liamentary tactics.
Gorman's Son May Succeed Him.
BALTIMORE, Md„ June 4.—lt is
reported that Governor Warfleld will
appoint Arthur Poe Gorman, Jr., to
succeed his father. Such a step would
restore harmony among the democrats.
It is rumored that Admiral Schley may
be a candidate before the next legis
lature for Gorman's seat.
E. CHESTER KEEL RESIGNS
Served His Connection With
Bulletin Today
WERIER RUPP TO OE SUCCESSOR
KEEL HAS DISAGREEMENT WITH
THE MANAGER ON POLICY
OF PAPER.
Owing to a reported disagreement
over the policy of the paper E. Chester
Keel, city editor of the Evening Bul
letin, handed in his resignation today.
It is reported that Werner Rupp, now
employed on the Tacoma News will be
Mr. Keel's successor. Mr. Keel will
probably go to Portland where he has
several good newspaper situations open
for him.
According to good authority Keel
and the managing editor of the even
ing sheet have not been working in
harmony. It Is said that Keel did not
favor the policy adopted by the paper
of making all the stories printed daily
of a sensational nature, and advised
that the paper be toned down. The
managing editor, it is claimed, took a
different view, and as they were no
longer able to agree, Keel decided to
quit.
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