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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
cash payment, balance can be paid
quarterly.
Lyman Land & Loan Co.

cash payment, balance can be paid
quarterly.
Lyman Land & Loan Co.
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$1,15o will buy Groom house, nearly
new, cellar, well, coal house, good
chicken yard. Will sell this prop
erty on easy payments If desired.
Located in north and east part of
town.
Lyman Land 4 Loan Co
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$1,1oo, good Groom house, with
basement, good well, convenient to
school on South B street. Proper
ty would rent for s12 per month.
Lyman Land Il Loan Co.
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$1,000 will buy Groom house, well,
cistern, cellar, cement walks, cor
ner lot, convenient to Iowa Central,
would rent for $12 per month.
Lyman Land & Loan Co.
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$1,000 will buy a house of 6 rooms in
good condition, city water, sewer
connection, east trent, convenient
to Iowa Central, cement walks.
With $500 cash payment, balancs.
can be paid monthly at SIS per
month.
Lyman Land & Loan Co.
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$500 will buy new one-story cot
tage OF rooms, cellar, barn, coal
house, well, cistern, tho east part
of town, just off of paved street.
Lyman Land & Loan Co.
$1,000 will buy nice Groom house,
cellar, barn, well, on street car line,
east part of town, easy terms. Very
desirable.
Lyman Land & Loan Co.
$1,000 will buy Groom cottage, with
attic, bath room, cellar under all,
located central, blocks from High
avenue, near street car line. This
is a nice home.
Lyman Land & Loan Co.
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$500 will buy a nice one and one
SUI hOuoS VI IOOIQ5, DullC
1900, city water, cement walks,
barn and horse lot, two blocks from
school, east part of town.
Lyman Land & Loan Co.
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$500 II used at once will buy an g.
room house with furnace, cellar,
barn, well, cistern, lot, about
z blocks from e.
Lyman pan Co.
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$1,000 will buy a house.
new, with bath connec-
ton, cellar under coated
on car line, conyen, DOL or
Penn college.
LyH C Loan Co.
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$500 will buy a house OF 10 rooms.
2 bath rooms. furnace. cellar, CO.
ment walks, fine location, about 4
blocks from square, east.
Lyman Land & II
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
LIGHTNING DESTROYS BARN.

Ida County Farmer Meets With a
Heavy Loss.
Ida Grove, July 1.-THE barn on
the farm of F. l.. Hadlock, four miles
west Of town, was struck by light
ming and burned to the ground. Four
head of horses persisted in the flames.
The insurance is $500.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14
Lyman Land & Loan Co.

$1,000 will buy new one-story cot
tage of rooms, cellar, barn, coal
house, well, cistern, the east part
of town, just off of paved street.
Lyman Land q Loan Co.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

$1,000 will buy Groom cottage, with
attic, bath room, cellar under all,
located central, 2 blocks from High
avenue, near street car line. This
Is a nice home.
Lyman Land & Loan Co.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

$1,000 will buy house of 6 rooms in
good condition, city water, sewer
connection, east trent, convenient
to Iowa Central, cement walks.
With $500 cash payment, balance
can BE paid monthly at SIS per
month.
Lyman Land a. Loan 10
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

$1,000 will buy a Groom house, well,
cistern, cellar, cement walks, cor
ner lot, convenient to Iowa Central,
would rent for $12 per month.
Lyman Land & Loan Co.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

$1,1oo, a good Groom house, with
basement, good well, convenient to
school on South B street. Proper
ty would rent for $12 per month.
Lyman Land Il Loan Co.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

$1,15o will buy Groom house, nearly
new, cellar, well, coal house, good
chicken yard. Will sell this prop
erty on easy payments If desired.
Located in north and east part of
town.
Lyman Land n Loan Co
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

$500 will buy house Of 10 rooms.
2 bath rooms. furnace. cellar, CO.
ment walks, fine location, about 4
blocks from square, east.
Lyman Land & II "a
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

$500 will buy a nice one and one
half story house of Z rooms, built in
1900, city water, cement walks,
barn and horse lot, two blocks from
school, east part of town.
Lyman Land & Loan Co.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-07-14

$500 If used at once will buy an g.
room house with furnace, cellar,
barn, well, cistern, lot, about
z blocks from e.
Lyman pan Co.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-11
ELECTRIC RAILWAY FROM
SAN JOSE TO PAIIO ALTO
Santa Clara Valley Transit Company
Incorporates With a Capital
of $1,000 600

SAN JOSE, Feb. 10.-An electric
railway between San Jose and Alviso
and '?alo Alto is now believed to be an
assured fact. Articles incorporating
the Santa Clara Valley Transit Com
pany We're filed with the County Clerk
to-day. The capital stock is placed at
$1,000, 900. of which SIS, 900 has been sub
scribed. The directors are F. NJ. Lock
wood and ]. a. Mehling. who subscribe
S24,5OO, and V. a. Scheller. w. c. An
drews and A. d. Cutler, who subscribe
500 each
The object of the company is.to con-
struct an. electric railway from San
Jose to PalO Alto, with branches from
the main line to the San Francisco Bay
and Milpitas. and also road between
this city and AlvisO. The total length
of the road is given as twenty-five
miles.
A right of way over the entire dis
tance has been secured. That Messrs.
Mehling and Lockwood mean business
is shown by the fight made to prevent
them from getting a franchise in this
city. Twice they were outbid for a
franchise by E. d. Crawford of GiIroy.
who is said to have been representing
the Southern Pacific Railway, and who
each time refused to pay the balance
on the franchise. Two weeks ago the
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-11
Y ANDALS WORK
IN SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Feb. 10.-Lives of passen-
gers and train men on the Interurban
electric line between Seattle and Ia
coma were endangered Sunday and
Monday nights by several attempts to
wreck trains. Planks, ties, rocks and
tcee limbs were lashed across the rails.
but by strange good fortune and be-
cause of the %atchfulness of the mo-
tormen a disaster was averted.
Sunday night a Renton incoming car
struck a three-inch plan tied to the
rails. The heavy wheels cut this in
two and the car passed on without in
jury. Later the same evening three ties
with large bowlder were lashed
across the track. The motorman of the
outgoing Interurban train caught sight
Of the obstruction ahead of him and
brought the train to a stop within a
few feet of the timbers
Monday night the attempts were re-
peated. A heavy tree limb was tied to
the track. 1t was seen in time and was
removed by the trainmen. A stone was
suspended by large cord from the
trolley wire on the South Seattle line.
This hung directly over the center of
the track When the motorman of an
incoming Georgetown car saw the rock
it was too late to stop his car. He shut
off the power and turned on the brakes,
then sprang back just as the crashing
of glass came. The big window in
front of the vestibule was splintered
but no further harm was done. The
wheel of the trolley burned the cords
and the stone fell on TOP of the car.
A lookout for the train wreckers is
being kent by officers.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-11
WESTERN PACIFIC BUYS
THE TESLA RAILWAY
New Deal Indicates That Proposed
TranscOntinentaI Line Will Pass
Through stockton.

STOCKTON, Feb. 1O.-A deed con-
veying to the Western Pacific Railroad
Company the property of the Alameda
and San Joaquin Railway Company,
commonly called the Tesla coal road
running between Stockton and Tesla,
a distance of about thirty miles was
fled with the Recorder of San Joaquin
County this afternoon. The considera-
tion is given as $40. First mortgage
bonds of the Western Pacific Railroad
Company 20 the Bowling Green Trust
Company Of New York for $50 600, 600
We're also recorded. The Tesla Rail-
way has one of the finest roadbeds in
the West and has quite an equipment
Of rolling stock. It taps a belt having
an inexhaustible supply of gravel, coal.
clay, glass sand, magnesia ore and
lime rock. In addition to the railway
interests the Tesla people have a
briquette factory, a cement works
brick and pottery works, pipe works
and lime kilns, and the town of Tesla
at the southern terminus of the road
is practically the property Of the same
interests, of which w. J. Bartnett.
president of the Western Pacific Rail-
road. is the president. It is under
stood that the property mentioned will
become the property of the Western
Pacific road, which will pass through
Stockton on Ophir street.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-11
FRANK JOSEPH TILLMAN,
CAPITALIST AND PIO-
NEER, WHO DIED SUNDAY.
Frank Joseph TiIIman,
Retired Capitalist,
Dies.

Yesterday another of San Francisco's s
pioneers. Frank Joseph Tillman. was
laid to his final rest, the funeral TAX
ing place from ST Boniface's Church
on Golden Gate avenue. 1t was at
tended by a large concourse of old
time residents and many Of the later
generation. the deceased having been
well known among the former and the
family having a wide circle Of acquain-
tances and friends.
Mr.. Tillman died last Sunday at the
family residence, 1915 Larkin street,
old age being the cause.
The deceased was one Of the sue
cessful business men of early days,
having acquired a fortune in the safe
business. He was born in Arnesberg,
Germany, in 1919. and came to Amer
lea in 1899, settling in Philadelphia. He
subsequently resided in ST. Louis and
Vicksburg, and in 1S49 left New Or
leans on the clipper ship Alexander
McCame for San Francisco. Here he
engaged in lCcksmithing at MOntgom-
cry and Washington streets and his
place was burned in the fire of 1851.
The same year he obtained the agency
for a large Eastern safe concern and
opened q business at 31S Battery street,
in a building which is still standing
and which was owned by him at the
time of his death. He retired in 1873.
Mr.. Tillman was one of the first 1i-
rectors Of the Sutter-street Railway,
of which he was also one of the pro-
moters. He was a member of the Vigil
ance Committee of the early days and
one of the founders of the Society Of
California Pioneers.
The deceased left an estate estimated
to be worth more than 100000, and
consisting of stocks, bonds and city
realty.
Besides n wife, Mrs. Annie Tillman,
there survive seven sons and daugh-
ters-Sister Mary Evangelist and
Harry, Dr. T. j., DR.. T. E., Josephine
and Louise Tillman and Mrs. A. Penner
Briggs of Victoria, =. c. Dr. T. f.
Tillman and his sister Josephine are at
present in Europe.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-11
DEATH DARKENS
CHICO MYSTERY
Miss Eva MOak. Young Woman
Who Was Shot by Unknown
Man, Succumbs to Injuries
NO CLEW TO MURDERER
Victim Protests That She Was
Not Warned and That She
Did Not Know Her ASsaiIant
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CHICO, Feb. 10.-Miss Eva Moak, the
young lady who was shot down in cold
blood at her mothers ranch, seven
miles from this city, died to-day at
noon. The shock and loss Of blood from
the severad artery in her right arm are
given as the immediate cause of her
death.
The entire tragedy is shrouded in the
deepest mystery. The young lady de-
clared positively time and again that
she did not see the party who shot
her, and had no idea who her assailant
was. She had been in the barn for
some minutes when the shots were
fired. 1t was some time after she had
ran fainting into the house before any
one approached the barn, thus a party
secreted there would have had ample
time to escape unseen.
To-day officers found the marks of
three bullets in the roof of the side of
the barn, and Constable Handman
found a bullet very much flattened on
the ground beneath these marks. 1t
was that of a 38-caliber revolver. To-
day a blood stain was found on the
side of the barn opposite which the
wounded girl made her escape. 1t was
on the side of one of the small win
dows, and looked as though some one
with a blood-stained hand had clam
bered through this window.
AS it is not within the range of vision
of parties at or about the houses, the
theory is advanced that the murderer
made his escape through this window.
AS to the blood, two theories are worth
considering-either her murderer shot
himself accidentally in his hurry to
pocket his weapon and escape, or he
struggled with the girl after she was
wounded. The last is contradicted by
the young lady's own testimony, as
we'll as by the fact that no blood was
seen upon the hay. such as would have
been the case had she remained many
seconds after being shot.
Sheriff Wilson and District Attorney
Sexton came over to-day and remained
in Chico. An inquest will be held on the
remains at 10 o'clock tomorrow, but 1t
is not believed that any new evidence
will be produced.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-11

Dr. Hartman receives many letters
from Catholic Sisters from all over the
United States. A recommend recently
received from a Catholic institution in
Detroit, Mich, reads as follows:
DR.. S. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio:
Dear Sir: The young gIrI who used the
PerunG was suffering from ioryngItis and
loss of voice. The result of the treatment
was most satisfactory. She found great
relief and after farther use of the medicine
we hope to be able to say she is entirely
cured. SIS ters of Charity.
This young girl was under the care of
the Sisters of Charity and used Peruna
for catarrh of the throat with good re-
suits, as the above letter testifies.
From a Catholic institution in Central
Ohio comes the following recommend fron1
the Sister Superior:
Some years ago friend of our insti-
tuition recommended to us Dr. Hartman s
Peruna as an excellent remedy for the
influenza, of which we then had several
cases which threatened to be of serious
character.
We began to use it and experienced
such wonderful results that since then
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-11
SHOWS A GREAT GAIN
IN ASSETS AND SURPLUS
Statement of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company Gives Evidence
of General Prosperity of Country.

Insurance Company Gives Evidence
of General Prosperity of Country.
NEW YORK, Feb. 10.-In the face of
the general depression in financial cir
cles and the shrinkage in industrial
and other securities no better evidence
of the general prosperity of the coun-
try and the thrift of the people could
be given than is contained in the re-
Gently published statement Of the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance Company.
This company shows a great gain in
assets and Notwithstanding market de-
preston a handsome gain in surplus.
1t issued in 1908 1898, ,SS9. .074 of new in
surances, larger amount than that
issued by any company in the world.
1t has done this for the last ten years.
1t has 7.523,915 policies in force, which
is a larger number than is held by all the
ether regular life insurance companies
in American put together less one;
equivalent to policies on one-tenth of
the total population of the United
States; greater than the combined pop
ulation of twenty mine States and Ter
ritories, or, as the reports put it, great
er than the combined population of
Greater New York, Chicago, Philade1-
phia Boston and st. Louis. When one
realizes that an average of one out of
every ten human beings-men, women
and children-one passes on the street
is insured in the Metropolitan Life the
widespread beneficence CT this great
company can be appreciated.
The income of the Metropolitan Life
in 1908 was $40, ,SS7 S04 II. and il paid
out to policy holders and added TO its
reserve fund S9s,5s2 76 every business
day of the past year, The company
now holds assets of Sl05 .656, 81 60 for
the benefit of its policy holders and a
reserve fund consisting of capital and
surplus over and above every liability
of s10,691, 1872.
The success of the Metropolitan has
been so great that it recently an
nounced a special dividend, which will
amount TO about 100000 lin addition
TO over four and a half millions paid
in the past seven years., for certain
classes of policy holders who had con-
tinued with the company, a dividend
not nominated in the insurance con-
tract, and which is windfall to the
policy holders. The growth of this
company, from $63, 900 600 in 1883 to
81 ,342 3S1,457 of insurance in force in
1908, is one of the wonders Of the in
surance world.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-11

Peruna has become our favorite medicine
for influenza, catarrh, cold, cough and
bronchitis"
Another recommend from Catholic in
stjtUtIon of one of the Central States. writ
fen BY the Sister Superior, reads as fol-
lows:
"A number of years ago our attention
was called to DR.. Hartman's Peruna, and
since then we have used IL with wonder
full results for grip. coughs. colds and
catarrhal diseases of the head and stom-
3ch
For grip and winter catarrh especial
ly it has been of great service to the IN
mates of this institution"
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-11
DIES FOR LOVE
OF AN ACTRESS
lEpg2H 98.is -~-
George A. Yielding Shoots
Himself at the Door of
Florence Roberts Room
WANTED TO BE AN ACTOR
Young Man Had Been Given
a Trial in Some Minor Parts
in the Company, but Failed
WANTED TO BE AN ACTOR

SPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 10.-In a fit
of dependency because he could not
secure an enga cement with the Flor
ence Roberts theatrical company now
playing in Spokane, George A. Yield
ing, an actor recently with the Paul
Gilmore company, stood before the
door of the actress room at the Hotel
Spokane this afternoon and blew out
his brains with a revolver. He fell
against the door, expiring instantly,
while the actress went into a swoon
Yielding was formerly an engraver
and is said to have a divorced wife in
Rochester, n. Y. He followed the
Roberts company for some time, ap-
parently infatuated with the star, and
was given some minor parts, but failed
in them. Miss Roberts discharged him
and he Joined the Gilmore show in
Portland.
He appeared in Spokane to-day and
was most importune in his pleading to
be given another trial. He threatened
to kill himself unless taken on again.
A detective was assigned to watch him
as it was feared he might do harm to
the actress owing to his wrought up
state of mind. This afternoon Yielding
walked rapidly down the little hall
leading to Miss Roberts room, while
the detective was standing in the par
lor near by, and committed his rash
deed before the officer could reach him.
Yielding was about 81 years of age
and was of a strangely morose disposi-
tion for an actor. He had been paying
considerable attention to Miss Roberts
whenever opportunity offered while a
member of the company, and 1t is said
he was discharged as much on account
of his unwelcome attentions as because
he was not a good actor.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-11
WOULD RATHER MARRY
THAN GIVE UP $1,000
san Jose Woman Proposes. Rejects,
out Yields When Breach OF Prom
ise Suit Is Threatened.

SAN JOSE, Feb. 1O.-Mrs. Giacinta
Grassi, a comely Italian widow, gave
her hand in marriage to-day to settle
a $1,000 breach Of promise suit. A few
weeks ago Michele Grassi, her brother
1n-law. came here from New York at
her request to marry her. A year ago
Mrs. Grassi's husband died. leaving her
a small fortune. Besides cash, she has
home in this city and a ranch In Ven
tura County. The widow was told her
brOther-fn-law was as good as his dead
brother and would make her an ideal
husband. She at once wrote to New
York and asked him to come and
marry her. He responded at once. Mrs.
Grassi was not pleased with his looks
and when she learned he had no money
she refused to marry him.
Michele Grassi at once brought a
breach of promise suit demanding
$1,000 for his damaged affections. The
widow concluded she would rather we'd
than pay $1,000 and they were married
by a Justice Of the Peace to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-11
MUST PAY CREDITORS
OR GO TO PRISON
Clothing Merchants Make False Re-
turns in Bankruptcy Case and
Are Arrested.

TACOMA. Wash, Feb. 1O.-This
afternoon Federal Judge Hanford in
the bankruptcy proceedings against
Samuel Isaacs. a clothing merchant Of
Seattle. and Alexander Isaacs. a cloth
ing merchant Of San Francisco, ad-
judged them guilty Of contempt in dis
Obeying a court order and remanded
them 10 jail until they pay certain
moneys TO their creditors. Neither Of
the Isaacs brothers was present and
warrants were issued.
The case dates back two years, at
the time when the Isaacs made an as
signment here for the benefit Of their
creditors. A large number Of credit
ors refused 70 accept their settlement
and fled an involuntary petition in
bankruptcy. The referee reported TO
the creditors that Samuel Isaacs had
goods and chattels to the amount of
$1,000 that he had made no report of
and that Alexander Isaacs likewise
had $1,000 in goods and $1,000 cash.
Referee Worden ordered them to
pay to the creditors $4,000. They re-
fused and appealed to Judge Hanford.
He confirmed the decision Of the
referee. In his opinion to-day Judge
HanfOrd stated that there had been a
certain amount Of property unaccount-
I'd for; that the Isaacs were asked TO
account for it and had refused to do
so and had refused to make an ex-
PLANTATION. The court held that the
books kept by the Isaacs did not
clearly show their financial standing.
Tn conclusion he ordered both men to
be arrested and placed in the Tacoma
jail until they pay over the money as
ordered.
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-11
James Moore Is Dead.

James Moore. for twenty-six years
in the employ of the Nevada National
Bank, died suddenly yesterday morn
ing at his residence in Ross Valley.
Marin County, of neuralgia of the
heart. Moore had been ailing for but
two weeks and on Tuesday last was up
and around. He complained to his
friends of pain in the region of his
heart. Tuesday, when he was able to
be up, he said he expected to return
to his work the next day. Moore was
a native of Ireland, 54 years of age.
and came TO California many years
The San Francisco call., 1904-02-11
SAN JOSE MERCHANTS
DISCUSS PROGRESS
Five Hundred Citizens Meet at a Ban
quet of Merchants Association
and Chamber of Commerce.


SAN JOSE, Feb. 1O.-Nearly 500 of
San Jose's most prominent business
men feasted together this evening and
spent several hours in discussing the
needs of the city. 1t was a representa-
tive gathering and one from which
much good TO the city will probably re-
suit The banquet was given by the
Chamber of Commerce and the Mer-
chants Association and was solely for
the purpose of creating a more friendly
feeling and bringing all the factions
and cliques together in. united effort
to advance this section. The lodge and
banquet rooms of the Eagles were Sc
cured for the purpose. Palms and flags
decorated the place. A reception COM
mittee of fifty, with Joseph II. Rucker
as chairman, was present to receive
the guests. At o'clock the party sat
down to the banquet. George B. Nc
Kee was POSTMASTER. Above his seat
were the words Cooperate for
Greater San Jose" The Introductory
address was made by Mayor George D.
Worswick, followed by the following
toasts: Merchants Association" j.
p Jarman; Chamber of Commerce,
]. d. Radford Progress" r. r. Syer;
Greater San Jose,' V. A. Scheller. T.
w. Dohrmann, founder of the San Jose
Merchants Association, also addressed
the gathering.
The menu was an elaborate one, and
there was a musical programme rem
dered by D'Ablaing's orchestra.
Following the banqeut there was
reception, which lasted several hours.
Cigars and wine were passed around.
A committee of arrangements con-
sisting of the following had charge of
the affair: w. Trinkler (chairman),
Alexander Hart. DR.. Benepe, " Koch,
c. J. Cornell, H. Doerr. w. M Black,
II. Bercovich and M. W. ]. MacauIay.