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Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
SIXTEEN OIL TANKS AT
BAKU DESTROYED BY FIRE
EMPLOYERS Grant Hour Question but
Matter of Wages Is Still
Unsettled

BY Associated Press.
BAKU, Jan. S.-A big fire, presuma-
bly, of incendiary origin, today de-
stroyed sixteen tanks on the Nobels
camps and several adjoining proper
ties.
There has been no actual hghtlng
since January 5, when collision oc-
Cured between strikers and Cossacks,
and six workmen were killed and Two
Ccssacks and thirty workmen injured
The strike has been in progress since
December 26. The original dispute was
over hours and wages. The first few
days of the strike there was no trouble
but on December 20 crowds threatened
the guards stationed about the ref1n-
ing works and Cossacks were called
out. Many men were injured in de-
sultory fighting between strikers and
soldiers at various points.
The managers have expressed
willingness to meet the strikers part
OF the way. The hour question has
been conceded to the workmen. who are
granted a nine and one-half hour day.
with an eight hour day preceding hol-
idays.
The train service which was inter-
rupted was resumed January 2.
The wage question still remains un-
settled the men demanding $40 TO
S1150 a month. A big meeting at
which it was decided to continue the
strike led up to the fighting on jan
UN,.n1IlnIa &c hraUinp and the
telephone service is again Interrupted.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
PEABODY WILL
MAKE AEON TEST
WILL NOT YIELD TO ADAMS
WITHOUT A FIGHT
Democrats In Senate viii Oppose
Confirmation of Governors
Nominations for Supreme
Court Judges
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
DENVER, Jan. S.-A hot fight is eX-
pected in the senate when the nomina-
tions of judges in the supreme court
made yesterday by Governor Peabody
come up for confirmation. The Demo-
Gratis held a caucus tonight, and at its
conclusion declared that they would
fight the nominations to the supreme
bench of Bailey and Goddard with all
their power. They claim, moreover,
that with the Republican senators,
Campbell and Delong voting with them
they will be able to prevent the con-
firmation.
The Republican leaders declared this
afternoon that they had received per-
sonal pledges from enough Republican
senators to insure the confirmation of
the two men. They were not, however,
over confident of the issue and ad-
mitted that there would be something
of fight before the confirmation was
made.
1t is Governor Peabody's present in
tention to contest the election of Gov
ernor-elect Adams. Under the law he
cannot file notice of contest before the
sixth day of the session, which will be
tomorrow. He has, however, several
days in which to file his notice of con-
test, and he may not do so until after
the inauguration of Governor-elect
Adams.
The latter said today:
"I do not know whether Governor
Peabody will make contest or not, but
/ expect that he will. I am in a much
better position for such a proceeding
now than l was two days ago. At that
time the investigation was confined by
the court to the city and county of
Denver. Now it includes the whole
state, and / feel confident that the
Democrats can show as many or more
fraudulent Republican votes in the OUT
lying counties as the Republicans claim
we're cast by the Democrats in Denver.
| am certain of the result If the entire
state is brought into the contest, as it
must be If Governor Peabody decides
on such course"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
WOMAN'S ASHES WILL
BE STREWN ON THE SEA
DAUGHTER to Commit Mothers Mortal
Remains to Deep Following
Cremation
Bv Assoclated Press.

By Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. Mo-, Jan. s.-Fol-
lowing the cremation of her body in
st. Louis the ashes of Mrs. Sarah
Finney of Kansas City will be scat
tered on the bosom of the Atlantic
from shore to shore, from the deck of
an ocean liner.
Mrs. Finney died at the home of her
daughter Mrs. Frances McNiceol of
this city. Her last wish was that her
corpse be cremated and the ashes kept
until next summer in an urn in her
daughters room and then committed
to the deep.
Mrs. McNiceol says that her
mothers every direction will be car
ried out to the letter.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
PRISONERS CELEBRATE
Russian Captives Hold Services in
Honor of New Year
BY Associated Press.

By Associated iIesS'
HEADQUARTERS OF THE THIRD
JAPANESE ARMY, Jan. s, via Fusan.
The Russian prisoners while wait
ing today at Changkintzu, a railway
station for Dalny, celebrated the ap-
proach of their New Year Religious
10 o'clock and the assemblage of pris-
oners was addressed by Russian
priest in full canonicals. After the
services there was music and dancing
on the open ground in front of the
station.
The S-year-old daughter of Russian
officer was among the prisoners.
Fifty per cent of the officers are go
ing TO Japan.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
VESSELS SINK IN GALE
OFF COAST OF BRITAIN
Stella Maris and orls Collide and Go
Down But Crews Are Saved

LONDON, Jan. S-Stormy weather
still continues on the British coast and
several shipping casualties are re-
ported. The Glasgow steamer Stella
Maris collided off Holyhead with the
Spanish vessel oris and both sank. The
crews were saved in the boats after
drifting all night.
The Belfast schooner Dispatch col
lided with the Sunderland steamer
Dllington off Ramsgate this morning.
The Dispatch was towed into Rams
gate. but the Dillingham; is believed
to have sunk with her crew of ten
men. Several other vessels were driven
ashore at different points. their crews
being rescued with great difficulty.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
WILL FIGHT FOR FLINT
Delegation of Los Angeles Supporters
to Arrive in Sacramento Today
nv Aeeooiatad prasv

10 ATTiVe IN sacramento loday
BY Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO. Jan. S.-That a
strong fight is to be made on behalf of
Frank p. Flint before the senatorial
contest is concluded, was evidenced to-
night when it was given out that a
large delegation of his supporters from
Los Angeles are to arrive in Sacra-
mento tomorrow morning. Among the
visitors from the south will be Motley
ii. Flint brother of the candidate,
who is postmaster at Los Angeles;
James Campbell. city treasurer OF Pas
adena. and a number of other innuen-
tial men.
Nearly all the members of the cleo
toral college have arrived and are busy
in concluding arrangements for the ex-
ercises to be conducted tomorrow after
noon. II was decided tonight that Will
liam S. Wood is to be the chairman OF
the exercises and that Richard Melrose
is to be the messenger who will carry
the electoral vote to Washington.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
LOCAL

Italian murder suspect believed to have
made confession to the police.
New York contractor says builders are re-
sponsible for dirty streets In Los Angeles.
Jacob A. Riis discusses slum evils OF Los
Angeles and says Y. M. g. A. Is the remedy.
ROYAL Arch scored by speaker at Progress
slve clubs meeting
DR. Prank ID. Talmage shows need OF ac-
tive work In 'half-way churches"
Largest poultry exhibit ever held In the
west To open in Los Angeles tomorrow.
Brownson home IS dedicated by Bishop
Rain drifts in from the sea as predicted
by Forecaster Franklin.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
Persia Pays Mlssionary's Widow
BY Associated Press.

BY
WASHINGTON. Jan. S.-Information
has reached the state department that
complying with the insistent demands
of the United States the Persian gov
ernment has made to the widow par
tlal reparation for the murder of the
Rev. Benjamin w. Labarree, an Amer
lean missionary, by gang of fanatics
and has promised that all the guilty
persons involved in the crime will be
punished.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
stOesseI Starts for Home Soon

BY AssOcIateu fItss'
WASHINGTON, Jan. S.-rhe Jap
anese legation today received the fol-
lowing cablegram from the office at
Toxic, under date of today:
General Nogi on Sunday reports
delivery of Russian prisoners uader
capitulation was completed Saturday.
The total number of prisoners was
(Continued ON Page Two.)
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
Idaho's Metal Production

BOISE, Idaho. Jan. S.-Advance
sheets of the annual report of State
Mining Inspector Bell shows the metal
production of the state during 1904
reached $22. sSS. .299, an increase of ST.
7S2,919 over 1908.
OF this production $1,S45.S2S was In
gold, $1O55s.1S in silver, s9729, 425 in
lead and $7O4,S6 in copper,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09

1-Bard's chances look brlshteS
2-statehood bill leading topic.
3-ReIigious services.
4-Editorial.
5-City news.
6-Sports.
7-Mlning news.
e-9-Classified advertisements.
1o-Theatrieal news.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
TWENTY-FOUR PERISH
IN BLIZZARD IN ALPS
Fourteen Lives Lost In the Famous
st. Bernard Pass
BY Associated Press,

BY Associated Press'
GENEVA, Jan. SIT is said that
"a persons lost their lives in the noun
tsins during the recent blizzard, four
teen of the casualties being on the st.
Bernard pass.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
EASTERN

Statehood bill will be chief topic of dis
cussion in senate the coming week.
British steamer Zambesi reaches New
York after a perilous voyage
Bettlna Grard, actress, dies OF pneu-
monia-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
LOwther % Succeed Miner

BY AHsOcIdttd FfcsS
LIVERPOOL. Jan. S,-The Post hears
on good authority that j. w. Lowther
M. r., will succeed Lord Miner as COM
missioner to South Africa in April
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
EoREIaN

Poland on the verge of revolution
Minister Lamsdorff believes Russia can
honoraby receive Japanese peace proposals.
Bandit Rascul wants responsibility OF
protecting foreigners In Morocco.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
COAST

Peabody will contest election OF Adams
i'm Colorado.
Bards chances for securing senatorship
becoming brighter
Advertising men open convention IN
Fresno.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
THE DAYS NEWS
FORECAST

Southern California: Showers
Monday, tight west wind. Maxi
mum temperature in Los Angeles
yesterday, 81 degrees; minimum,
49 degrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
Denounces Traffic

When Mr.. Phillips had finished CIV
ing the statistics the speaker of the
afternoon, Rev. C. c. Pierce of the
Memorial Baptist church, was intro
duced and took up the subject OF
compromise.
I'VE cannot afford to let any part
of the liquor traffic remain" said the
speaker. "It must all go and 1 do not
think that it will cost any more to
get rid of it all than half of it. Com
promise is moral treason both to God
and the city and the liquor traffic is
all bad and no good. We have hard
fight before us but we can accomplish
1t if we will get down to work and
strike at the root of the evil.
I'VE pick up the papers each Mon
day morning and read that people
have talked the day before of the
second coming of Christ, and all the
things that can be thought of, but We
do not find that any one has touched
upon the problems of our city, the
things which are striking at the very
life of the place.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
NO COMPROMISE;
(. SALOONS MUST co
PRoHlBITI0NISTS TO INVOKE
REFERENDUM
LIQUOR TRAFFIC DENOUNCED
New Organization Formed to Fight
Sale of lntoxicants-All Tenn
perance Workers Asked
to Join
mo compromise"

mo compromise"
This is the slogan which was adopted
by the body of citizens which resolved
itself into the Los Angeles Prohibitory
union, with the avowed intention of
forcing the liquor traffic in Los Ange-
les out of existence during the pres
ent year, at meeting held yesterday
in Fraternal hall
Rev. Wiley j. Phillips called the
meeting to order and outlined the
platform of the proposed organization
showing the number of saloons in Los
Angeles and the amount of money ex-
pended in them during each year and
giving list of the things that could
be. done with the same amount OF
money
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
Numerous Blind Pigs

'There are two nundred licensed sd
looms in this city and about 247 blind
pigs" said Mr.. Phillips. "Allowing the
number to be two hundred and accord
ing to the recent estimate of G. d.
Willard that an average of sixty dol
lars per day Is taken in over the bars,
the annual waste in our city amounts
to the enormous sum of $3,756,000. Just
think of the good things this money
would purchase. Money enough to en-
COW all the colleges of Southern Cal
ifornia, and all the homes and charl-
table institutions, establish free public
baths, lay out fine roads and boulevards
to all the outlying towns, build two high
schools, a public library and grammar
schools enough to do away with all the
'shacks' now in existence, clothe four
thousand men and women, establish
scholarships in the best universities i'll
the land and pay the city of Los An
geles for loss of license fees. We could
take care of fifty policemen who would
be out of work. we could pension flve
Judges who would have nothing to do,
pay city and county loss sustained by
lack of a chain gang, pension each OF
the 500 men directly connected with
the sale of liquor each year until they
could become selfsupporting, start d
bank account for 500 wives and chill
dren of drunkards and still have
enough to buy $4,000 worth of fools
caps to put on the heads of the peo-
pie VINO think the saloon is a financial
benefit"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
To Invoke Referendum

Whereas. 1t is the sense of this
meeting that the time has come to
prohibit the manufacture and sale of
all alcoholic beverages within the mu-
ricipality of Los Angeles, and
Whereas. Under the initiative and
referendum features of our city char
ter, 1t is within the power of the peo-
pie to have such a question submitted
to them at any time, when a certain
percentage of the voters so express
themselves by petition. therefore be 1t
b Resolved, that for the purpose of hav'
ing such an amendment to the city
charter as shall prohibit the manufac-
ture and sale of all alcoholic liquors as
a beverage, submitted to and carried by
the people, we do here and now organ
ize the Los Angeles Prohibitory union.
That membership in this organiza-
ton shall be free and any and every In
dlvidual. society organization or
church In this city are hereby cor
(Continued ON Page pwO)
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
No Compromise

LET us remember the slogan no
compromise" and say down with the
saloon, now at once and forever. 1t
must go in this the year of our Lord
1905. If we will all get to work and real
ize that no one special organization, no
w. IT. u, no Prohibition party, no
anti-saloon league, but the people of
Los Angeles are the ones who are go
ing to do it. 1t can be and will be.
The people of this city can rise up
and strike at the root of the evil so
that in six months there will be moth
ing left of it,"
After Mr.. Pierce had finished speak
ing the question OF organization was
taken up and resolutions We're pro-
posed by Fred f. Wheeler in part as
follows:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-27

John D. Rockefeller had a man of
equal ability as his son?
New York is full of examples of the
reverse order in heredity. Commodore
Vanderbilt was a financial giant. His
son, William H., was a man of strength
and good ability. He only lived nine
years after the commodore, yet he be-
came the richest man in the world.
His son Cornelius was painstaking
man of average ability, and his son,
William K, has developed from a
pleasure-seeking youth into a fussy,
but not especially able administrator.
None of the younger generation of the
family shows business ability or in
terest except the disinherited Cornell
us. Jay Gould was malign power in
his way. Morally far better man
than his father, George Gould is an
amateur in railroad management be-
side such men as Hill, Yoakum, Cas-
satt, or even Stuyvesant Fish. c. P.
Huntington's chief heir is interested
in old books, poetry and Spanish lit
erature. There is one and only one
family fortune of commanding propor-
lions now in the third generation,
William Waldorf Aston is a far richer
man than any Vanderbilt. =:
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-27

SAoA 6o'ol A1AeuI. AS ue Is president
of the Prudential Insurance company
he is supposed to be thoroughly con-
versant with the good and evil in the
present insurance system and the
study he has given the question ought
to enable him to prepare good bill.
Mr.. Dryden is distinguished look
ing gentleman and seems to fit in his
surroundings in the senate chamber.
He is tall and slender, faultlessly
dressed and of digniffed, courteous de-
meanor. He stepped: at one huhd from
private life into the highest Legislative
body in the world. He can, make
good speech, his language is Well cho-
sen, pure and direct. In spanking of
hts election to the senate a few days
ago, he reiterated statement he made
at the time, that he did not owe his
political preferment to: his wealth, al
though he is one of the wealthiest men
now in the senate.
Mr.. Dryden holds a diploma from
Yale college, but he never graduated
there. He prepared himself for the
college course by teaching and studied
at Yale for two years, but was COM
PEELED to leave in his junior year. Long
afterwards, when he was well up in
the fifties, the faculty at Yale restored
his name to the rolls, just as though
he had finished his senior year, and
conferred upon him the degree of mas
ter of arts.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-27
Yet the year numbers ending in

Yet the year numbers ending in
seven have been prolific Of panics. Go
over the list: In 81 the great panic;
In '57 the panic that followed the ex.
pansion uponSnew California gold: in
~ the panicwhen railroad riots made
Pittsburg seat of civil war; in ,87 q
small panic; in '97 lingering depres.
sion holding over from 1893. Wall
street devoutly studies the works Of
Jacob Benner. an Ohio farmer who
has explained the ebb and flow of
booms, flush times, panics and the like,
as being inevitable as the tides. Wall
street believes in the '7-year panic
theory, and doubles expects it to fall
out as Mr.: Rockefeller may and may
not have predicted But the street
isn't talking about panics. If every
Wall street man has an article of i'm
pl1cit faith it is in his own ability to
get out from under" when anything
happens.
Here is the theory: Prosperity, over
production, reckless expenditure, gen.
eral gambling and speculation, smash,
depression, economy, gradual revival,
prosperity again-theA the story all
over again. If the panic does hit us,
1t will be because Of the roaring time
of stock gambling which the most
reckless spirits in the street are trying
to foment. "Jim" Hill is right. The
country is prosperous and would be
more so if the people would stop gam
bling. .@
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-27


There is one young man, working in
Wall street, of COURSE who illustrates
why the state grows. He "commutes"
right across it. He lives in Philadel-
phia,> where his family is notable and
his clubs exclusive, and he travels go
miles to and from business in just two
hours each way. His home connections
are valuable to him in business way.
Midway, or a lit: farther west, he
passes each morning a line that i di:
vfdes the ordinary traffic of commuters
west and east. You can live almost
anywhere in central Jersey and go to-
work in either New York or Pniladel-
phia in an hour. Farther north and
south are the beaches and the hills for
summer colonies. The state grows fat
with the money other states send into
it It has the best roads in the union,
excellent schools. The taxes are light,
the state getting E!ost Of its money
from chartering pirate corporations,
and the commuters pouring into the
suburban towns to help out on local
taxes. -. 3=. -
The trolley lines that connect the
two big cities are now fairly numer-
GUS. Along them and the trunk lines
will soon be an almost continuous VII
lage. Take the line from New York to
Philadelphia, extend It 50 miles north
east and southwest and you have the
axis Of the worlds greatest center 81
population not SO very many years
away now So
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-27

house, young William G. Rockefeller
being slated for that post Of power.
Individuals are not dangerous in this
country. Institutions are. If young
John Rockefeller tried to continue his
fathers marvellous career, ADLER,
stronger, more INSCRIPTIONS men
would throw him down and take his
money away from him. He may safely
invest what he will have upon his faith
er's death, and no one will fight his
inert mass of money. But anything
like business activity would bring him
into competition with the best brains
of the world. 1t is no disparagement
of young John to say that his brains
are not in that class. William G., Jr.'s,
are more nearly up to the standard,
but even he may wake up some day 20
years hence and find new man out of
Cleveland or Kansas City the master
of the financial world. Nay, some
acute judges think that they can name
the man even now. in that strong
jawed son of Virginia, Thomas F.
Ryan.
Mr.. Ryan is not one of Americas
richest men, but what of that. Neither
was the elder Rockefeller 40 years ago.
Ryan is only 81. He is power in
great trust company and in New
York's third biggest bank He is the
power in local gas and electric fran
chise corporations. He is the power in
the tobacco trust. He controls con-
siderable railroad system. He owns
the Washington Insurance company
He controls the great Mutual Assur-
ance company through his banks and
it's directors. He has just bought the
stock of the Equitable, putting in Paul
Morton as president. If any one of his
projects fails-and none has ever yet
done so-he has other resources. New
York may clip his life insurance wings
by legislation, but he will not have
lost by his brief venture in it. He
CANDLES on certainty, He sticks at
nothing, as he proved when he had his
trust company lend 100000 to his
Office boy when he needed the money.
Yet he can persuade men as shrewd as
Grover Cleveland that he contemplates
only public service in buying up the
control of insurance companies which
have hundreds of millions of assets.
In one sense he does contemplate a
public service. Any insurance COM
pany that he controls will be we'll con-
Quoted
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-27

According to the latest news from
Berlin the kaiser will before very long
have chance Of appearing in new
role-as a grandfather. The happy
event is expected early next year
Meanwhile the young crown princess
is the most popular person in Berlin
her light-hearted, unaffected manner
Is irresistible, while all her dainty
French frocks have set the hof damen
thinking Her influence over her hus
band is most remarkable: no Longer
listless and indifferent he looks .
lively and as happy as herself. He Ii
much interested In polo In Germany.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1905-10-27
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