The Evening Statesman from Walla Walla, Washington • Page 2

RUSSIA AS OUR RIVAL She Is Onr Eastern Markets OFifiRH'ILTIRE REPORTS Successful Experiments In New Crops for the Philippine Islands. Washington, Oct. is threatening the American market for flour and lumber in the orient, ac cording to advices of our representatives in that country. In economic conditions Russia has every advantage in being able to furnish these two staples of the northwest, and the day is not far distant when she will be our most active competitor. In fact, she is now making headway in China, and in time the Russian trade will be extended to other Asiatic countries, and the lumber and flour shippers of the middle and far west will have to hustle to keep themselves from being barred out altogether.

This danger is pointed out in a special report by Henry B. Miller, consul at N'iu chuang and Manchuhia. In regard to lumber, he says that most of the timber coming into Manchuria is for the Russian government. Considerable has come to Dalny, Port Arthur and NiU chuang from America during the first half of the year, but competition from Siberia and the Yalu is likely to drive out most of the American lumber. The lumber from these places is.

fairly good for building purposes, hut it is not the equal of Pacific coast pine, especially for bridge timbers. As to Sour; the report says that the imports of that staple were less than in any year since me importation began, and the Russian occupation is likely to result in a great extension of the (ultivated area and a consequent large increase in the production id' wheat, which will in time meet all the demands in that section. In Manchuria the Chinese government did not permit the export of wheat, millet or grain of any kind to a foreign country, but the- Russian administration removed that embargo and as a result large quantities of grain have been exported to Japan and Korea in the pasi three years. This shows the possibilities of the country in the way of grain production and it is. in the opinion of our representative, bound to result in a loss of trade to America.

New Crop For Philippines. The Philippine bureau of agriculture has forwarded to the bureau of I insular affairs, war department, a re- on the introduction and distribu- I tion of seeds and plants in the is- I lands which shows that much has been i done in the way of introducing new food and forage plants, as well as new fruits and other growths of econ- imic value. The experiments already conducted demonstrates that many garden vegetables of northern origin may be grown in great perfection in the Philippines. Experiments have been tried with artichokes, asparagus, beans, peas, beets, cauliflower, celery, sweet corn, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cucumbers, egg plant, endives, garlic, leeks, lettuce, muskmeions. watermelons, okra, parsnips, peppers, radishes, rhubarb, -salsify, spinnach.

squash, tomatoes and turnips. The results show both success and failures. As was anticipated, the results secured, by the bureau were better than those obtained by the natives who had secured seed for experimental purposes. Peats grow well in many places, while peas gave less satisfactory results. Experiments with pumpkins, cucumbers and melons show a long record of disaster, all practically confined to the ravages of insects or fungus diseases.

is thought that by planting during the dry season and by irrigating, better results may be secured. Egg plants, tomatoes and peppers all of unrivaled size and excellence were generally reported both by natives and by the government agronomic stationes. Okra. of tropical Asiatic origin, has given universale go results. The profitable production of beets, turnips, lettuce, endives, spinach and radishes has been demonstrated and is assured by an intense high-forcing system pursued from the day the seed is sown until the crop is secured.

Among oil-bearing seeds, sessamum rape, peanuts and sunflower have done well and there seems to be a valuable future for them in the islands In the bureaus trial grounds at Manila a limited number of Japanese plums, loquats, persimmons, chesnuts and grapes have been tried, together with Japanese types of citrous fruits and a few pomegranates. The grapes and persimmons have made a good start and the progress of the citrous fruits and pomegranates has been of the best. Experiments with textile plants have been confined to cotton and jute. While the former has given good results, it is a question whether the native grower has an adequate conception of the standard crop requirements of cottojj-growing countries. Jute promises to give excellent returns and it is tne opinion of the bureau that the export trade of British India in this fiber, amounting to annually, could be largely diverted to the Philippines.

A number of varieties of coffee have been imported from Java and distributed to planters interested in the attempt to rehabilitate the coffee industry, and the bureau has raised many thousands of young plants which will be set out under its own direction. Fine varieties of tobacco seed have been distributed in the famous Isabela and Cagayan tobacco districts. With the experience gained from these first trials as to the best soil; the best time for planting and methods of cultivation, fruit, forage and other crops will be materially increased and add to the agricultural wealth of the archipelago. DAYTON'S TURKEY SHOOT. Dayton, Oct.

Dayton Gun club will give their sixth annual turkey shoot at their grounds on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 25, and 26. All entries must be made with the secretary before the first event is shot. After deducting actual expense of markers, all entrance money in each event will be expended for turkeys and the same divided accorinig to the conditions of each event, or the money will be divided at the option of the winners. A comfortable room and fire will be provided for, the shooters and an officer will be present to see that every possible precaution is taken to prevent accidents.

Wednesday, Nov. 25th, 1903. Event 1. open to members of Dayton Club only. 5 shots, 100 yards, off hand, standard American target.

Hunting rifles. All black powder guns smaller than 45 calibre barred. Scratch Ward, Dickinson and C. F. Miller.

Allowed 3 Godman, Barclay, Ellis and J. G. Miller. Allowed Baker and Carr. Allowed 10 Gilham, Gihnour, Follett.

Fouts-. Entrance. 5 men to win. Division 30, 25, 20, 15 and 10 per cent. Event open only to members of Dayton Gun club.

5 shots, 200 yards, with rest, standard American target, hunting rifles, Miller's and long guns barred. Handicap entrance and division same as in Event 1. Event 3. to shots, 100 yards, with rest: German ring target. Any rifle, sight or pull of trigger allowed.

Kntranee, $2. Division 40, 30. 20 and 10 per cent. Event to shots, 40 yards off hand or 60 yards with rest. String measure.

Any rifle, sight or pull of trigger allowed. Entrance, $2. Division 50, 30 and 20 per cent. Event 4 to be shot at same time as preceding events at a different set of targets. Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov.

25. Event 5. to shots, 200 yards with rest; German ring target. Any rifle, sight or pull of trigger allowed. Entrance, $2.

Division 40, 30, 20 and 10 per cent. Event 6. to shots. 100 yards with rest. String measure.

Any rifle, sight or ppll of trigger allowed. Entrance, $2.50. Division 50. 30 and 20 per cent. Event 7.

to shots. yards off hand. German ring target. Any rifle, sight or pull of trigger allowed. Entrance $2.

Division 40. 30, 20 and 10 per cent. Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.

When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed, Deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous services. 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 circulars, free. F. J.

CHENEY Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Halls' Family Pills are the best. "This merger question must be pretty important after all." "What makes you think so?" "Well, I see the federal courts are deciding it both ways." THE EVENING STATESMAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1903. OLD RECORDS DISCOVERED Valuable Documents Among Rubbish In State Armory Building.

Olympia, Oct. Librarian Gabel and Adjutant General Drain have been going over a lot of old records discovered among the rubbish in the state armory building and have unearthed some papers and documents that they consider of historical importance. The letters and papers date back to 1853 and 1854 and there are some autograph letters that will make a valuable addition to the collection of historic articles and curios that the state librarian is attempting to get together for a department in the library. Among the autograph letters found is one signed by Jefferson Davis, who in 1853 was secretary of war. This letter acknowledges the receipt from Governor Isaac I.

Stevens of his reports of the survey of the northern railway routes with which Governor Stevens was commissioned in 1853. In that year Governor Stevens discovered the Marias Pass now utilized by the Great Northern in the Rockies and the Mullan Pass now traversed by the Northern Pacific He also explored the passes of the Cascades. His report to congress was that the northern railway route was practicable and his statements were enthusiastic as to the undeveloped resources of the region. The discovery of this important letter from Jefferson Davis has called to mind that November 25 next will be the fiftieth anniversary of the first arrival of Governor Stevens in Olympla after his exploration of the region from St. Paul to Puget Sound.

It has been suggested that a celebration of tne day be arranged. The letter from Jefferson Davis is as follows: War Department, Washington, Feb. 28, 1554. Sir: I have received your several reports, including those dated as late as the 2d ultimo. Such of them as arrived prior to the 6th instant were communicated to congress, as required by law, on that day, being the first Monday in this month, and though necessarily incomplete and uncertain as to results, will at least manifest the energy and ability which have characterized the prosecution of the survey entrusted to you, and which are fully appreciated by this department.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant. JEFFERSON DAVIS, Secretary of War. Govt. I. I.

Stevens. Olympia, Wash. Terry. The above letter is not the only matter of importance discovered among the musty records, the existence of which had been forgotten. Among -din were found the muster rolls of the volunteer companies that took part in the Indian wars of the '50s, and a large amount of interesting correspondence between army officers and the war department relative to the suppressing of the Indian outbreak.

When placed in shape so that they can be perused the documents will undoubtedly prove valuable as historic references. SCANDALS BOTHER POLITICIANS. Postoffice Department Drops Minor Clerks From the Rolls. Washington, Oct. postoffice department has "discovered" that many clerks, confidential and otherwise, that were in the bureaus from which chiefs have been ousted, should be "dropped from the rolls." This is an edifying second thought of the persons in charge of the investigation and the result of it will be that many clerks that had stock in companies directed by their chiefs, clerks that acted as stock depositories for their chiefs, that made visits to manufacturers, clerks, male and female, that went on long jaunts with the bureau chiefs, will have their services dispensed with.

It is officially claimed that "all the big fish have been caught." There rs no explanation, however, of the fact that clerks that obeyed orders of chiefs of bureaus are to be dismissed, and that the officials higher than bureau chiefs are neither to be indicted nor criticised in the report of Mr. Bristow. Report Nearly Ready. That report will be given to the public before October 20 and will be used as republican campaign material. In order to push the campaign along statements are issued today that the "Whole postoffice department i to be investigated." That statement is for the purpose of making a congressional investigation, when necessary, but there is not the slightest question that the procampaign politics investigation will not prevent a congressional investigation.

It is evident that the people with the pull in the postoffice will investigate neither their friends now in of-' flee nor those that have recently been in office. Efforts are being made to prevent any publication of a transaction that took place at the time of the removal and subsequent reinstate, ment of Inspector Gilmer, who exposed the irregularities in the Washington postoffice and who was called off when about to attack the New York postoffice and the postoffice at San Francisco. Important Development. This, is one of the most important developments of the whole postoffice department investigation. It has been stated that Mr.

Gilmer was on the right track when he went into the postoffice department and was getting without protest the right kind of records to expose wholesale irregularities. It was said that efforts were being made to induce Mr. Gilmer to sign a written statement to the effect that he was mistaken in his first findings. Who were connected with this effort could probably be ascertained only by congress. It is significant, notwithstanding the suppression of Mr.

Gilmer and what he was working on in the auditor's department, that the auditor Capt. Castle, had resigned and that the resignation was accepted without comment by the postoffice department. CHILD MAKES PEACE. Jack London and His Wife May Be Reconciled. San Francisco, Oct.

13. is a strong probability that Jack London, the novelist, and his wife, will be reconciled at the bedside of their sick child. Incompatibility was the cause given for separation, and there seemed to be no great explosion of wrath on either side. Mr. London moved into a flat at 1621 Telegraph avenue, Oakland, got into the midst of his books, and pegged away on another volume which would make him re famous, and bring in more money.

It was presumed that a sort of "Call of the Wild" would slowly' lure him back to bachelor ways. Mrs. London took Joan, the 3-yearold daughter, and Bess, the baby, and made her home in a little flat at 330 Twenty-fourth street. Friendis did something toward reuniting them, but both said: "No." He was too busy with his new book, and she was disappointed in the way he had acted toward her. Last Monday little Joan was taken ill with pneumonia.

On Tuesday the child was worse, and then the father was summoned. He at once left his study, his books and his work and hurried to his wife's home and to the child's bedside. That night the doctor shook his head. He did not think tne child could live until morning. And in that strain and time of sorrow husband and wife came very close together.

The friends are sure a reconciliation will be effected. COULD NOT SEAL HER LIPS WITH A KISS Cheney Woman Ha Objections to the Preacher's Explanation. C. A. Prouty, the Cheney woman who was kissed against her will by Rev.

W. C. Hamley, has taken exceptions to a recent statement made by the preacher, in which he seeks to belittle his offense, though admitting that he kissed the woman. Rev. Hamley recently left Cheney after admitting the theft of a paa- of trousers from a Cheney store, also after trying to pledge the woman and her husband not to say anything about the affectionate embrace which he bestowed upon the woman, during the absence of her husband.

Rev. Hamley has accepted a call to Marysville. Wash. The woman, in a public letter, says: "He insulted me the first time he called. He gave the little boy 5 cents to go and gather some flowers, and as soon as the boy left the house he came to where I was sitting and threw his arms about me and kissed me.

Mr. Hamley seemed determined to accomplish what he attempted to do while he was at our house. He held me by main strength. He kept begging me to kiss him. and put ray arms around him, which I refused to do.

I have not told the worst of Mr. Hamley's talk yet. Mr. Hamley is not a man of God. and is not to be trusted." Hamley said the theft of the trousers was an absent-minded pleasantry.

GIRLS GIVE UP FIGHT. Striking Telephone Operators In Spokane Apply for Old Positions. making a hard fight for more than two months, during which time they held almost daily sessions, the striking telephone girls have given up in despair and will disband their union. Some of them have applied for their old positions, while others have taken up different employment. The girls are very bitter against the other unions, claiming that with the exception of the linemen, who were themselves on a strike, they were given no assistance.

Read the ads in the Statesman. ANOTHER SMOOTH SWINDLER Works a Confiding Seattle Hotel Proprietor To the Amount of $150. Seattle. himself to be a traveling auditor for J. Pierpont Morgan, J.

B. Matthews, alias Ford, now under arrest, is thought to be one of the boldest hotel swindlers who have visited the west. The man is charged with passing forged checks on A. A. Seagrove, proprietor of the Occidental hotel.

It is the belief of the police that Matthews did similar work in Tacoma. and that Mr. Seagrave is not the only one of his Seattle victims. The means by which he is said to have gotten $150 from Seagrave are almost identical with those used by a widelyknown hotel swindler who has been at work throughout the western states this year. The police are now investigating in the belief that their prisoner may be this man.

Matthews has been staying at the Occidental for some time. He told the proprietor and clerks that he was here for Morgan and audit the accounts of steamship lines on this coast. He said he wanted to stay at an up-town hotel to avoid the annoyance to which he would be subjected in a hostelry in the business section as soon as his identity leaked out. He was reticient to form acquaintances. He was slow to talk of himself or of his affairs.

He made no advances. He was out during the day. At times when he returned in the evening he would relax just a little. On such occasions he would drop a remark or two about the business which had brought him here. Got a Street Car Pass, But he talked a tittle.

Once he did lapse into reminiscences about his home near New York. Then he told Mr. Seagrave how his little daughter came into the city, and, while in the office ran across Morgan. The giant of finance, he said, gave the little girl a pass on all the street car lines of the city. Thus, bit by bit, Matthews got everyone much interested in him.

In a moment of abstraction he hinted to Mr. Seagrave at a plan of Mr. Morgan's to buy many steamships om the coast. As though rather dismayed at such a lapse of discretion he immediately closed his mouth and remained silent for some time. By the time the night clerk came into Mr.

Seagrave's room two weeks ago with a $50 check signed by Mr. Matthews, the proprietor of the Occidental hotel thoroughly believed in the quiet, well-dressed stranger, as did everyone pise about the place, and. incidentally, one or two ladies whom Matthews had met. Three $50 checks in all were cashed by the hotel. One has alreadycome back with the statement from the New York bank on which it was drawn that Matthews had no account there.

It is not known whether any more work of this kind was done by Matthews A IF CARPETS need cleaning or mending, 5 BED-SPRINGS need restretching, FURNITURE needs repairing or you i desire a new Hattress, suppose you 2 phone us about it. We will call; for 3, and deliver goods. 4 2 I THE O. K. I UPHOLSTERY GO.

CORNER FIRST AND ALDER. i Phone Black 1 I throughout the city. He was arrested last evening by Detective Frank Kennedy, who investigated the case. Kennedy found that the man had also used the name of Ford. MAJORITY OF TWO.

Conservatives Control Provincial Legislature. Vancouver, B. Oct. official recqunt in Feraie finally determined the last constituency in doubt the legislature of British Columbia. Ross, conservative, had been declared elected by five votes.

A number of ballots had been thrown out and the liberals claimed that these should, properly be counted for Smith, liberal. The recount, however, confirmed Ross in his seat by a majority of seven. By the settling of this disputed seat, the government will have controj of the legislature. The parties now stand in the house: conservatives, 22; liberals. 17; socialists, labor, l.

The conservative government thus has a majority of two over all others. It is reported that the socialists will act with the government. Husband (losing all why are you forever bothering me for money in this way? Wife suppose it's because I can't think of a better way. Stomacb Troubles cured by Under all curable conditions Mr. D.

Kauble of Mrs. W. W. Lay- Nevada, 0., was ler of Hilliard, cured by Kodol A was cured of stomach Jmk of Chronic trouble which Dyspepsia by FOR SUE BY L. TIUHI..