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Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
Confidence in Marconi

Col Y. G.. Henshaw, director of the Bell Telephone
Company, is president of the Wireless Telegraph
Company of Canada. This fact Is significant for
many reasons, it being practical acknowledgment
the part of Colonel Henshaw that the, telegraph
is bound to give way before the superior advantages
OF wireless In the future there will be need
of the old line telegraph, the Marconi will cover
the whole civilized world stations being established
where 1t is impossible to operate the telegraph The
present local telephone system will probably not be
affected, but Marconi will doubtless encroach upon
the business of the long distance lines These reasons
doubt induced Col. Henshaw to make liberal in
vestments in Canadian Marconi
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06

acquainted with my assistants. In two
or three weeks I shall be able to give
to the public the plans upon which
am working for the betterment OF the
institution under my charge"
If Charles Lummis is not worrying
about what the council is going to do
there are other public officials who are
Mayor McAleer has a steadily increas-
ing anxiety. Several of the council
men would like to know exactly where
they are going to stand tomorrow
morning when Oscar Lawler relieves
himself of his stored up attacks on the
mayor in behalf of the four library
directors who have been so much with
in the limelight and the wire pulling
of political wise club women.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
The harConi Wireless Telegraph Company Of Canada Endorsed
by the Canadian Government
The Need Of Haste

Bear in mind that 1t is yet to be re-
corded when an electrical enterprise
lost it's investors money. Marconi Sc
curities will dosfor you what Bell Tele-
phone, Atlantic Gable, etc. have done
for others. Write us, or if possible
call at our office tomorrow and take
advantage of the present price-$5 a
share The English Marconi stock
originally sold at SIS share, has since
brought $22 on the London Stock Ex-
change.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
C0NFESSES MURDER AFTER
TWENTY-THREE YEARS
Man Sentenced to Death for q Crime
That Had Long Been
Eordoffcp
Special cable to The Herald.

Forgotten
Special Cable to The Herald.
LONDON, Aug. 5.-John Appleton, a
mason, was sentenced to death at Dur
ham assizes for a murder committed at
PITY Me, near Durham, twenty-three
years ago.
While miner named William Ledger
was seeking work he was attacked,
robbed and thrown into a. small road
side stream, where his body was found
several days afterward.
Inquiries failed to discover his MUIR
derer, and the case was forgotten un-
til last March, when Appleton, who Is
a native of Great Yarmouth. confessed
to the crime and said that he had an
accomplice named Harry Earnshaw,
who died seven years ago.
Appleton added that his connection
with the tragedy began to worry him
some years ago and eventually he took
a quantity of drink to drown his fears,
and then gave himself UP.
Afterward, however, he denied on
oath that he had anything to do with
the murder. He acknowledged that
parts of the confession were true, but
said he had met with an accident to
his head many years ago and when in
drink he sometimes thought he was the
murderer.
Although it is twenty-three years
since the murder was committed, near
ly all the important witnesses called at
the inquest gave evidence yesterday,
including the doctor, the village con-
coachman, who, as a boy, found the
body.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
TELEPHONE SERVICE is
TEMPORARILY CRIPPLED
Bursting Water Main Floods Exchange
Putting 1000 instruments
Out of Use

More than one thousand telephones Of
the Home Telephone company were
rendered temporarily useless yesterday
afternoon by the flooding of the ex-
change at Hill and Third streets, caused
by bursting water main opposite the
exchange.
Employees of the Edison company
were laying conduit beside twelve
inch water main. The service pipe to
the Home telephone building broke at
the connection and the water flowed
into the excavation and into the conduit
of the telephone company, drowning
the wires. After nearly two hours the
water company succeeded in shutting
off the water The Home company at
once set to work to correct the trouble
1t is expected that all lines will be in
operation this morning.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
SCOTT WILL BALLAST TRAIN
TO KEEP 1T ON THE RAILS
MINER HAS PLAN FOR WEIGHTING COACHES
Death Valley CrOeu Says When He Starts East in October
He Will Fill the Baggage Car With Sand and
the Trucks With Lead

II "scotty." the millionaire miner and
cowboy of Death valley, duplicates his
fast trip to the east, as he has repeat
edly said he will do within the next two
months, lead and sand will play an i'm
portant part in lowering the record time
which the coyote" special made a
month ago.
II have fully made up my mind to
charter another special train for the
east" said 'scotty' yesterday. II ex-
pect to get started sometime about the
middle Of October, and when I do 1t
will be a straight shoot through to New
York city.
1.-THE run can be made in fifty-six
hours. The way 1 have it figured out
we can make the entire distance in
ffty-three hours and thirty minutes,
but am going to give little leeway In
case of accident or delay. The Santa
Fe will carry me from Los Angeles to
Chicago in forty-two hours and thirty
minutes, If 1 know anything about rail-
roading and the making Of fast time.
From Chicago to New York, an official
of an eastern railway has guaranteed
to give me a train which will be able
to maintain a speed of over eighty miles
an hour. On the run of the Santa Fe
special we lost an hour and thirty
minutes in dead time.
Sandbag Special
"This is going to be the makeup of
the next special. There will be no diners
for me. Wen carry the grub in dinner
buckets and the champagne in the
water coolers. A dining car is too
blamed light and then it is not balanced
right. The train will be made UP of
baggage car and two Pullmans. The
baggage car will be half filed with
sand bags and on the trucks of the
Pulmans we will load two or three tons
of lead. L guess that will hold us for a
while.
1.-THE last trip we made 1 was black
and blue from the way 1 was tossed
around by the rocking of the cars. The
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
Great Development

Wireless telegraphy. most wonderful of electrical
Inventions has long since gone past the rudimentary
and experimental stages. There less than
eight Marconi stations in active operation the At
lantc coast three in Alaska working uninterruptedly
200 miles mountains The Pacific Coast, the West
indies and the Philippine Islands to have Mar
conf stations The Hawaiian Islands communicate
regularly with incoming and outgoing ships News
papers the world have adopted the system fa
citate water front correspondence The last American
cup race-Shamrock III Columbia-was reported to
New York papers by wireless. It's practical utility In
warfare has been demonstrated in the Boer war and
during the present Japan Russia conflict.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
CHARGES HUSBAND WITH
THREATENING HER LIFE
Former Wealthy Man Is Arrested
Upon Complaint of Wife, Who
Fears Him

George Prewett was arrested yester-
day by Detective Jones on complaint of
Mrs. Prewett that he threatened to
murder her Friday at their home on
Maple avenue. Mrs Prewett says her
husband came home in state of in
toxication and threatened her life.
Detectives say that Prewett was for
merly a wealthy man but in the past
few years he has been drinking heavily.
Mrs. Prewett says she has been COM
PEELED to keep roomers and put her
children to work in order to earn
living.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
YOUTHFUL SPECTATOR
OF CRAP GAME JAILED

While watching a crap game on
Fifth street, near Broadway. yesterday
afternoon Hyman Masenter, 100 East
Fifteenth. street, was arrested and ta-
ken to the detention home. The lad is
10 years old, and when taken to the po-
lice station pleaded with the officers to
be released, as he said he was in no way
connected with the game.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
.SILESIAN COUNT
IN NOVEL SWINDLE
Gets Pianos on Credit and Sells Them
After Taking off Makers
Names

LEIPSIG, Aug. 5.-An aristocratic
swindler in the person of Count Con-
rad Alexander Colonna Waleski has
been arrested at Leipsig. The count
is a member of a well known Silesian
family. He recently turned his atten-
tion to grand pianos. which his high
sounding title enabled him to obtain
on credit.
From these pianos he removed the
name plates of the manufacturers and
substituted other names of foreign
manufacturers. In this was he sue
ceeded in deceiving several firms and
he is alleged to have disposed of many
instruments. His tactics, however,
were finally discovered and his lucra-
tive and novel industry brought to an
end.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
Fast Trims TO CATALINA

On the Salt Lake Route leave Los An
geles at 7:40 and a. M, 1890 p. M,
daily except Sunday; on Sunday only
at 8:45 a. m. Extra boat on Saturdays
connects with train leaving Los An
geles :25 p: M. same convenient sched-
ule returning. Passengers travelling on
the Salt Lake Route get first choice
of steamer accommodations in addition
to beautiful seashore ride from Long
Beach to San Pedro.
Information $50 South Spring street
Both phones 352. First street station,
Home 400, Main 4095.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
sTABS NEPHEW IN FIGHT
OVER ACCOUNTS OF CLUB

b. ]. Solomon, 59S Commercial street,
was severely stabbed by his uncle, in a
fight at the New High Street club yes
terday afternoon. Solomon refused to
give the name of his uncle, but said
that he is secretary of the club of
which his uncle is president. and that
The quarrel arose over the accounts of
the club.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
Uses for Wireless

In addition to its applica-
tion to the needs of CONNER
cial intercourse, the wireless
telegraph promises to become
of extensive use to the world
in the gathering and dissem-
ination of meteorological in
formation at sea, in private
lines of communication be-
tween offices and dwellings,
workshops, factories, etc,
and in time of war for the
transmission of orders and in
formation.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
SAN FRANCISCO WOMAN
DIES AT ALPINE TAVERN

Mrs. Jennie r. Ten Winkel of San
Francisco died Friday evening at Al
pine tavern, after an illness of several
months. She was the wife of Frank w.
Ten Winkel, Pacific coast freight agent
OF the Michigan Central railroad at San
Francisco, and had been sojourning at
the tavern for several months. hoping
to be benefited by the climatic condi-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
FOUND DEAD IN BED AT
SALVATION ARMY HOTEL

Thomas Conley was found dead in
bed at the Salvation Army rest yester-
day morning, death resulting from
dropsy He went to the hotel Friday
night in apparently good health. On
his person was found receipt given by
a saloon keeper for 5000, which Conley
deposited some months ago. 1t is said
that Conley formerly lived at San
Bernardino.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
Electrical Money-Mdkers

At one time there was none so
rich as dared invest in Fields
chimerical cable scheme; yet
some there were who were just
fools enough to let Field have
their last dollar to waste on his
impossible cable. The grandchil-
dren of these supposed fools still
enjoy the fruits of that folly
steam yachts, automobiles, game
preserves, country villas.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
LUMMIS NOT WORRIED;
IS BUSY IN HIS OFFICE
New Librarian Says That as an Of
ficiaI the Councils Action Is Inn
material to Him

1T is entirely immaterial to me from
an official standpoint what the action
OF the council may be in regard to The
library question" said Librarian
Charles Lummis yesterday as he sat at
his desk in the public library. "As a
citizen. l am Of course taking citl-
zen's interest in the question" he
added, but nothing more.
"At present ara occupied in getting
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
HlNLEY ASSAILED
ON EITHER SIDE
THREATENED IF HE COMPLIES
WITH ElGHT-H0UR LAW
CONTRACTORS SEND LETTER
Street superintendent Is Warned
That inspectors Must Be on
Duty Ten Hours Day for
Passing Work

City Attorney Mathews was asked
yesterday by representatives of the
Labor council to have warrants taken
out for the arrest Of certain city
officials and contractors for their al.
legged violation of the state law in re-
gard to the eight-hour day.
Job Hartman of the Labor council
as the legal representative of the Ia
boring men with representatives spent
a large portion of the afternoon In the
office of the city attorney.
Mathews declined to take the action
which was urged but did go so far
as to call up City Prosecuting Attor-
ney George Beebe over the telephone.
Mr.. Beebe was on the eve of his de-
parture for Catalina to be gone over
Sunday and action was postponed until
Monday when the question will be
placed before the council.
No sooner had the City Attorneys
visitors taken their departure than
Street Superintendent Hanley rushed
into Mr.. Mathews office to place be-
fore him a communication which he
had just received.
AssaiIed on Either Side
The master of the highways was in
no mood for joking. The Labor council
has violently assailed him for permit
ting contractors to work their men
over the eight hour limit as well as
city employees, and now comes con-
tractor with a statement to the effect
that the law does not apply to his men,
under the Vrooman act, but only to
Hanley's inspectors. If Hanley does
not have his inspectors there ten hours
in the day to make an inspection, and
if the contractor is hampered in his
work by the street superintendent
failure to do so, Hanley is given due
warming that he and his bondsmen
will have a damage suit upon their
hands. The communication is as fol-
lows:
"Mr James Hanley, Superintendent of
Streets:
Dear Sir:
1--WE are advised by our attorneys that
the provisions of the statute which pro-
eight hours day upon public works
does not apply to work being done un-
der the Vrooman act, except as to the
inspectors which are appointed by the
city.
you will please take notice that un-
der the contract for paving Washing
ton street, from Figueroa to Norman
die, we shall begin work on Monday
morning, August Z, and continue there
after, working ten hours each day un.
is completed.
I'VE are willing to pay your inspec-
tors on the basis of eight hours a day
for days work. If you can not work
them more than eight hours at one
time, we hereby demand that you put
a second inspector on the job at the end
of the eight hours each day, so that we
will not be retarded in the work. If
the inspectors are not furnished as
contemplated by the Vrooman act and
the specifications of Los Angeles for
doing city work. and we are thereby
retarded in the work under our con-
tract to our damage and loss, we will
undertake to hold you and your bonds
men personally responsible for any
damage we may suffer by reason of
your failure to have the work inspect
ed as the same progresses.
yours very truly,
"FAIRCHILD = GILLMORE-WILToN
COMPANY,
~. A. FAIRCHILD, Pres"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06

Eight years before it
had ever earned 81,
Edison electric light
stock sold at $4,000
for a $100 share; yet
purchasers at that
price made money,
and now practically
control the great
General Electric
Company that has
made so many mil
lionaires.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06

extra weight will keep the cars on the
track and will enable us to make a
higher rate Of speed.
Talk about making fast time. That
engineer Finley. who pulled the train
to Barstow, knows more about getting
speed out of an engine than any other
man on the entire Santa Fe system. He
always uses good judgment. He let her
out as fast as she could go on the
straight of ways and used the air when
we struck the curves"
Scott remains a mystery even to his
most intimate friends. He has a suite
of rooms at the Hollenbeck, but he is
not staying there other than to show
up once in a while. when he is not too
busy at the Iollenbeck bar, to shake
hands with the hotel desk clerk
Collects His Mall
He made the rounds Of the hotels yes
terday, gathering up his mail which
had been collecting for the past three
weeks. At the Angelus was large
packet of letters addressed to him and
at the Lankershim there was almost an
armful of communications.
Since his return Scott has been MAX
ing it a point to read all the letters
which come to him. They are upon
almost every conceivable subject, one
from Methodist minister from a town
in Iowa particularly pleasing him. The
explained that as, from the
accounts, Scott is a young
man, he of the long cloth felt it his
duty to admonfsh Scott that life is but
a fleeting shadow and money hard to
get. Also, that if what he had read was
true, Scott must be wasting his life in
riotous living. The minister urged that
he would listen. to a kindly word of
warning and mend his ways.
Never asked me for a cent, either"
said Scotty as he finished reading the
letter. His advice is worth 'fiver,'
anyway, but 1 hope I am not as far
gone as he must think 1 am"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
SUNSET BEACH TO HAVE
AN IMMENSE NEW WHARF
Contract Awarded for Six-Hundred
Foot Pier to Be Finished by
October /

Sunset beach is to have a 600-foot
wharf. the contract having been let last
Thursday, and the contractors are un-
der bond to complete the pier by Oc-
tober 1.
Piling to be used in it's construction
will be shipped from Portland, and
work will begin Immediately. the con-
tractors expecting to have the pier COM
pleted by September Is.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06

ton. Mr.. Ten Winkel was at the bed
side of his wife at her death, and will
take the body to Detroit, Mich, their
former home, for interment
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06

Fancy any one pro-
posing to sell you
stock 20 years ago in
a scheme to harness
the power of Niagara
and send it by wire
hundreds Of miles to
the point of use
would you have
bought it? Not likely.
If you had you would
be rich beyond the
dreams of avarice.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
The Public Wants It.

If the company could extend its sys-
TEN as rapidly as the public demands,
there would now be a Marconi office
i'll every town where there is a West
ern Union, Dominion or Postal Tele-
graph office. Such extension and de-
velopment is necessarily a growth of
successive stages, and it is in such
growth that the enormous profits will
come to those who identify themselves
with the company now.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06

Stocks in other electrical en-
terprises Of similar revolu-
tionary character have en-
riched investors; witness the
electric telegraph, the cable,
the telephone, the electric
light, electric traction, electric
power transmission, and all
were equally as wonderful and
unbelievable at the beginning
as wireless telegraphy is now.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
The Foundation Of a Fortune
Officers and Directors

President-coI. F. C. Henshaw, Director Of Nelson's
Bank, Montreal, Bell Telephone Co.. Etc.
Vice President-Gugelmo Marconi, inventor of the
Wireless Telegraph.
Second Vice President. D. Oppe, Vice President
and General Manager Marcon Wireless Telegraph
Co. of America.
Secretary-H. g. Mathews.
General Manager-Malor George w. Fishback.
Andrew A. Allan of the Allan Steamship Company.
j. N. Greenshieds X. Co. President of the Shawinigan
Water and Power Company.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
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Los Angeles herald., 1905-08-06
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-10-13

Manager Barkhausen of Pioneer Mill,
and NJ. NJ O'Shaughnessey who is con-
structing the Kohala Ditch, both pas
sengers on the Alameda, both say they
were warned of the wreck by a Gypsy,
and both remembered the warning as
soon as the vessel struck the rocks. But
the warning did not seem to impress
them sufficiently at the time it was
given, to cause them to heed it. So
what is the use of prophecy without
faith in the hearer?
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-10-13

The Advertiser is quite willing to
supply "all the evidence it has been
claiming" Now, will the Star, which
boasts in one column of it's civic virtue
and in another of the superior ability
of its reporters to enter Honolulu's
gambling places, put its own knowl-
edge at the disposal Of the supervisors
and the grand jury? Or does the job
work subsidy prevent?-Advertise
Again The star seems to have smoked
the Advertiser out. Congratulations
are due us, if the evidence amounts to
anything, for having apparently caused
the Advertiser to change its mind and
give the evidence it claimed to have. 1t
will be remembered that the paper
made the statement that the gambling
game here in question was run by the
man now accused. Let us have the
evidence and a notable gambling con-
viction will follow. AS for the rest of
the paragraph above quoted, The Star
has never boosted of the superior
ability, or any ability at all, of its re-
porters to enter gambling places in
Honolulu,-it merely limited that the
Advertiser reporters failure to do so
indicated either reportorial incompe-
tency or that it is harder in Honolulu
than in other cites.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-10-13

by the misunderstanding of a clerk. IT
is well to have decided to abandon the
secrecy, but there should never have
been any, from the very start The
Treasurer should have taken the mat.
ter into his own hands and made the
hearing public, without consulting any
one. AS for the statement that no sec
recy was intended yesterday four
newspapermen called in succession at
the closed office where the hearing be-
gan, and were turned away, ana this
mornings Advertiser, published the
day after the session, was unable to Sc
cure an account of the proceedings.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1905-10-13

day state that Governor Luke Wright
of the Philippines would retire Deem
Der l. The coast files arriving by the
Thomas give hints of this event and the
probable reasons leading up to it,.
Wright according to these articles is
not the collier" of the native that Taft
wants. General James F. Smith, who
went through here in command of the
First California regiment at the begin
ming of the Spanish War is said to be
slated to succeed Wright. The follow
ing is what the San Francisco Bulletin
says of the matter:
The opinion has been expressed by
prominent members of the Taft party
while in San Francisco the other day
that General James F. Smith, who is
on the Supreme Bench of the Philip
pines, will likely be soon the Governor
of the Philippine Islands, for there is
good reason for the belief among them
that Luke e. Wright of Memphis,
Tenn, the present Governor, will be
asked by President Roosevelt TO resign.
on the recommendation of Secretary
of War Taft.
Governor Wright is expected to ar
rive here in November on his tourney
to his home in Memphis, and also to
Washington, ID. c. 1t is given out that
he is making the trip for change Of
climate and scene and to be present in
Washington at the opening of bids for
the construction of the projected sys-
tenn Of railways through the islands.
The true reason for his visit, however,
is said by the Senators and Congress-
men of the Taft party, to be his retire
ment from the governorship of the ISL
ands.
1T seems from the conversations on
the subjects Of the Philippines in the
distinguished official party that Taft is
not satisfied with the administration of
Wright, who has rather antagonized
the Filipinos than pacified the infuen-
tial class with government policies. The
result is a widening of the breach
which must be closed at once, in the
estimation of the Secretary of War.
Rumor has it, too, that Wright is not
without certain prejudices against the
dusky Filipinos because of their COLOR