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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08
BIG CEREAL PLANT BURNED.
Two Persons Lost Their Lives - Loss
Estimated at S1.5OO.OOO.

The plant of the American Cereal Com
pany, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, the largest of
its kind in the world, comprising two entire
blocks of brick and iron structures, was de-
stroyed by fire last night, with the excep-
ton of small group of cooper shops stor-
age and packing rooms The loss is esti-
mated at 81 800, 600, with insurance esti-
mated at nearly $1,OOO0OO. Two persons
are known to have lost their lives in the
fire.
The dead: Joe Hollngsworth, Parnell,
Iowa, and an unknown man.
Hollingsworth was blown out of the build
ing into the street by an explosion.
1t is feared several others lost their lives
but this is not definitely known. A man
who was at a window fell back into
the flames.
The fire started in the hull-grindine room
of one of the elevators, and a sheet of
fame enveloped that structure. In ten
minutes more the flames had crossed the
avenue to the mill group of buildings and
the fremen were powerless to prevent the
spread of the flames IN either drec ton.
Tie fire burned northward against the wind
slowly in the milling group and southwark
with the wind, in the elevator group, with
fearful rapidly. Five-story brick walls
crumbled and fell with a roar heard for
many blocks.
The cereal mill employs in the neighbor-
hood of 500 men and the loss Will be a seri-
Gus blow to the city
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08

ford's room had been made. He said:
II made the first analysis alone. and In
ten grams of the bicarbonate of soda l OBJ
tanned n-hundredths of a grain OF
strychnine. The second analysis made In
conjunction with DR.. Edmund Shorey,
chemist of the United States agricultural
station. In ten grams of the bicarbonate of
soda obtained thirteen hundredths of
grain of strychnine In the third analysis
of the same amount of bicarbonate of soda
we secured fourteen-hundredths of a grain
of strychnine. By calculation, we estimate
that in the bottle were forty three grains of
bicarbonate of soda, and that the bottle
contained half a grain of strychnine. The
methods of analysis used in the last expert
ments were more reliable.
I'VE examined a portion of the contents
of the stomach with negative result for
strychnine. we further examined one kid
ney, and some of the contents of the inteS-
tines, but were unable to separate any poi
son from the substances, yet we obtained
the color reaction characteristic of strych-
nine. We then combined all the remaining
organs, including the liver and found that
a test of an extraction gave the same re-
suits as the intestines, namely, the color
reaction indicative of strychnine. The test
we used is known as the fading purple test
and so far as | know it Is the most reliable
test. The color reaction we obtained is not
produced except by strychnine.''
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08
Novel Method of Fishing.

The fishermen on the western shore of
Chesapeake bay have engaged durings the
past month in a novel method of fishing
that has proven quite successful Large
holes have been cut in the ice in the bays,
and small streams emptying into the Ches
apeake, and with crab nets the fish have
been dipped up by the hundreds. Some
claim that the fish were alternating on the
bottom and We're caught when asleep;
others that the hole in the ice attracted
them to it, and made them easy prey to the
fishermen, but be that as it may the fish
were caught in quantities. Perch rock
bass, trout and other varities We're cap
tured by this means and shipped, to the
northern markets, commanding big prices.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08
INSISTS ON A DIVORCE.
Buffalo Bill' Says Reconciliation
With Wife impossible.

During the course of his deposition in his
petition for divorce William F. Cody (Buf
falo Bid declared at Omaha, Neb., yester-
day that he could not accept any reconcile
ation with Mrs. Cody and declared he would
have absolutely nothing to do with her in
the future This declaration was made as
the result, Colonel Cody stated, of Mrs.
Cody having charged him with being the
murderer of their daughter Arta and an
nouncng publicly that she would denounce
him over her grave.
Attorney Ridgley, for Colonel Cody, stat
ed tlrat Mrs. Cody had not been sincere in
her expressed wish for a reconciliation ana
in making it had placed such conditions on
her acceptance of such an event as to pre-
clude any chance of Codys accepting them
Ridgely stated that the colonel had sent
DIR. Powell to Mrs. Cody in the hope OF ad-
justing their differences, and that she had
re ceived Powell in manner that mace IL
impossible for Cody to further consider any
overtures from her or to himself make any
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08
Minister Proven a Periurer.

Rev. Benjamin w. Ashley, a minister of
the Christian Church, residing near New
port Tenn, was given sentence of fifteen
months in the penitentiary In the federal
court at Knoxville, Tenn, yesterday for
violating the pension laws.
In Investigating his case a pension ex-
amner discovered that he was a bgamist
After Ashley had been placed on the pen
sion rolls North Carolina woman claim
ing. to be his wife made application for
division of the pension. Ashley swore she
was not his legal wife, but that his wife
was Tennessee woman. Investigat ton
proved that Ashley married his ..rst wife In
1865, and had never obtained divorce, but
had abandoned her thirty years ago, mar
rying a second time after coming to Ten
nessee to reside. He pleaded guilty to per-
jury, and may be prosecuted for bigamy
when he has served his federal sentence.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08
Engineer Caused Clifton Wreck.

The result of the investigation of the Cliff
ton, Pa, wreck last Friday evening, in
which seven members of the Ohio Engi-
neers' Battalion were killed and thirty-two
were injured while going to the Inaugural
ton from Cleveland, was made known in an
official statement by the Pennsylvania Com
pany at Pittsburg yesterday. The failure
of the engineer on section three to observe
the rules, the company alleges. was respon-
sible for the collision with the second sec
ton.
According to the statement the engineer,
who has been dismissed from the service,
testified that because of drifting smoke
from a passing train he failed to see the
signal west of Clifton, and Notwithstanding
this, he made no effort to stop until it was
too late 1t was found that all signals dis
played the proper indications.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08
Wireless Telegraph Stations.

A chain of wireless telegraph stations
now extend the entire length of the Atlantic
coast, and information as to weather con-
ditions, news of passing shipping, wrecks
and the like will be sent out daily. The
station at Key West has just been COM
pleted, and this completes the chain south
of Cape Hatteras. From Key West mes
sages will be flashed to Cape Hatteras or to
Cape Henry, and so throughout the coun-
try The results obtained at the Key West
station are said to have been unusually
fine and the station has been In commune
cation with vessels at sea within 151 miles
of New York and has also talked with the
stations on the coast The wireless sta
tions will, it is stated, be extended to Pan
ANA.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08
THE STANFORD DEATH MYSTERY
Honolulu Chemists Report Result of
ANALYSIS of Soda

High Sheriff Henry told the correspondent
of the Associated Press at Honolulu yester-
day that the chemists, in a test of the con-
tents of Mrs. Stanferd's stomach, had
found a color which indicated strychnne
poisoning, and that they would so testify
at the inquest. He added that the chem
lists had found strychnine in the bicarbonate
of soda of which Mrs. Stanford partook on
the night of her death. and that they would
so declare to the coroner's jury.
When the inquest was resumed yesterday
the first witness called to the stand was r.
A. Duncan, food commissioner and chemical
analyst to the board of health. He testi-
fed that three analyses OF the bottle OF
b.carbonate of soda found In Mrs Stan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08
Capt. Ahearn's Testimony.

Captain Ahearn. chief of the forestry bu-
reau, says: Much has been said for and
against the Filipino as a laborer When
one is well acquainted with the native it is
not hard to learn the true inwardness of the
difficulties of the labor problem. In the first
place, the Filipino Is apt In learning his Job
will do good work when properly supervised.
and as rule will continue to work if he is
treated with some consideration. The per
sonal relations between the white suner-
visor and the native have much 10 do with
the case The native is accustomed to GER
tam thlnss that are simple and inexpensive
but very necessary to him. He likes tn
have his family and his fighting cocks near
him; he Is fond of music, of his church and
of his people; in fact, he is fond of all social
pleasures, and will work hard if he secs
pleasure ahead. In the islands there have
been number of instances where we have
employed several thousand natives under
one management and where every consider
atlon WAS SHOWN them, and the results have
been most gratifying. At the rock quarries
near Mariveles the workmen have their fam
Ines with them; they are provided with good
houses good food and are treated justly and
given their wages when due The denot
quartermaster OF the army in Manila en-
pioys between 1000 and 1000 natives. and
reports very favorably on the work rem
oered- The engineers building the electric
tramWay IN Manila report that the cost of
laying each hundred feet of track ayera ees
less than elsewhere, that the work is done
wen ana the labor satisfactory, and that
there is not the slightest difficulty in keen
ing the men at their work. The record
made Tor coaling ships in Manila bay by the
native Filipino was better than that of the
Chinese or others employed in a similar ca
pdcity.
The native Filipino will learn modern
logging methods quickly and well: he is
Keen at handling machinery. but needs
some one 10 look over his work occasion
any The wages paid are of little cons:d-
Grafton TO the native; he may work for one
man al - cents day and refuse TO work
Tor another for 81. His employer may owe
nm several weeks wages but il he is
treated unjustly or his feelings are injured
he may disappear and never demand the
wages due. If company concentrates op-
eratioTs on large scale the difficulty Of
securing sufficient number of Iab6rers
viii be minimiZcd by starting in well Give
each family small native house; bamboo
is cheap They should have their church.
their assembly hall, cock pits music and
those little comforts which can be secured
at small expense"
While the opinions ! have quoted are in
measure consoins TO those who have been
concerned about the lack of labor in tbs
Philippines. they prove at the same time
that the conditions there are not favora b. e
TO the prosecution of large enterprises, and
that before the public improvements that
are contemplated can be carried out some
thing will have TO be done TO increase the
labor supply and make 1t more reliable.
The only way to do this is to admit Chinese
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08

Announcement was made in st. Louis yes
terday that the United States Treasury De-
ceipts from duties paid on foreign exhibit
at the worlds fair.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08

Edward e. Davis, aged fifty-one years. a
wealthy merchant of Augusta, Me-, and
president OF the trustees of Storer College,
Harper's Ferry, who has been spending the
winter there with his wife. died suddenly
yesterday. The remains will be taken
Thursday to Maine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08
LIEbERMANK & HAWN,
1903 F STREET NV.
Exclusive Agents.

alAlAIA13 .lAlASASAS q
FOR SALE-ONLY A FEW
left of these attractive press
brick houses, with heavy stone
trimmings, containing six
rooms and tiled bath, porcelain
tub, large cellar, furnace heat, a
good yard, with paved alley,
electric gas lighting, cabinet
mantels. The first floor finish
ed in hardwood-second floor
woodwork is oiled mo paint to
hide defective woodwork, and
have a nice twostory porch III
the rear. No. IoI7 Fla. ave.
ne. is open all day and Sunday,
in charge of one OF our repre-
sentatives, who will be glad to
show them to YOU.
These houses are cheap for the kind In
this location at $3.50. They can be
each month that win not be more than
the rent
3. +. SAUL CO.,
9TH and L SITS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08

Thousands of situations have been OBJ
tanned through the want columns Of The
Stax.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08
why Pay
House Rent?

House Rent?
Why not own your home,
be independent and enjoy
the best things of life?
Price, S4,35O.
We've a snug little home
that will just fit a family
like yours-amd the prices
and terms will just fit your
finances.
A little down and a trifle
each month - and your
home is paid for.
Six rooms, bath and large cellar;
furnace heat; tiled vestibule and
bath; cabinet mantels, mirrors and
large alley.
See us about this. 1t costs moth
ing to talk it over with us.
They contain everything that go
to make home complete, and are by
far the cheapest houses on the mar
ket today, and are located on the
best street in this section-O street
Just east of the circle at North Capt.
tol street. No. u 9 street is heated
and open all day and every day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08

A Merchant Recently Remarkedi
"The men who go to work
at s o'clock in the morning
get up at 7; those at 9 get up
at 8, and SO on; and it is my
observation that men do not
have time to read advertise
ments in the morning"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-08

coolies which is forbidden by the exclusion
law and Congress will not listen for a mo-
ment to any suggestion looking to its mod
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-27
BRUTALLY ASSAULTED
BY TWO HlGHWAYMEN
John A LascaiIe Held Up and Robbed
While or His Way
Home

John A. Lascalle. middle aged ma
chlnist, who resides at 703 San Fer
nando street, Uas held up and robbed
of $40 by two, strong arm men some
time early Saturday night. Just where
the hold-up occurred is not known, as
Lascalle is not able to say.
Lascalle was on his way home when
he was stopped by two men, one Of
whom asked him for a match. After
he had complied with the request one
OF the men struck him with his fist
and knocked him down. Lascalle
started to call for the police, when the
other thug hit him over the head and
rendered him unconscious.
The senseless man lay In the street
for nearly six hours before he was
found by a passerby. He was sent to
the receiving hospital. where the
physicians dressed bad cut over the
right eye and a bruise on the side Of
his face.
Lascalle is unable to describe his
assailants.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-27
TOUCH OF REALISM
IN GRAND s BILL
FEATURE OF PRODUCTION IS
P0Ul TRY SHOW
Without Chickens, Ducks and Hay
rick Play Entitled "The Hills
of California" Would
Fall Flat

To put the best features of "The
Hills of California" this week billed
at the Grand, first, mention must be
made Of the poultry show and hay rick
in the section act. Without these
touches of realism, that grew in inter-
est as the act progressed, there would
be little else to say of this Californian
drama, with its conspicuous non-justi-
fication of the title.
But to go back to the poultry: there
were some chickens and ducks and q
bantam rooster One maternal-looking
hen made the gallery yell by walking
into the footlights; the little bantam
with sublime disregard of odds, tack
led the biggest rooster in the bunch
and pursued him to the top of the gen.
uine hay rick. In fact, there was about
to be blood-shed on the hay rick, but
for "old Amos" spelling his own fine
spiel and parting the combatants. The
house yelled and the play stopped; but
the management declined an encore.
In the final farm yard scene the poultry
was suppressed. Poultry is a great
care.
To get to the other features: Frank
Bacon in a piece with a few grains of
sense and continuity might make some
thing of mis- talent for character work;
as the much-wronged foolish old farmer
of this melodrama, he did the best he
could, which is saying very little. Jane
Weldman in two other small character
parts deserves credit for also doing the
best she could with her lines. Clair
Sinclair, with a throaty voice and hor-
ribly elongated vowels, essayed to mur-
der the leading sobbing feminine role,
but unfortunately was not quite able
to kill It,
There is strong plea for the Saliva
ton Army in this play. full as it is of
army uniforms; the gallery howled
long and loudly over this dissertation.
So slight Is the excuse for it's introduce
ton, 1t rather fosters the supposition
that the whole piece is being backed
by the army that should be in better
business.
However, If the management can at
each performance produce the bantam
and his sworn foe, the huge rooster,
the sporting element and others will
continue to patronize the play as long
as 1t is in town.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-27
al Trovatore" in Costume

This is the last week of Ellery's band
at the Chutes. 1t will play every night
in the theater at the park, giving spe-
oial programs each evening.
Tonight the program will be made up
Of music by Verdi and will include Sc
lections from aida" "Rigoletto,"
"Aroldo" and lombard" with a
trumpet solo from 81 Due Foscari," {"
played by Signor DeMitrls. The second
part of the evening will be devoted
to a performance OF the tower scene
from the fourth act of I'll Trovatore,"
which will be sung in costume by Mrs.
Alice Dorm, soprano, and Signor Buzzi,
tenor. There will be chorus of thirty
six voices. Special scenery has been
painted for the occasion.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-27
conreid Opera Company

This morning at the Union Pacific
ticket Office the single seat sale will
open for the coming engagement of the
Conreid Metropolitan grand opera
company. The season ticket sale closed
Saturday evening, and all seats previ-
ously held for season subscriptions that
were not taken are on sale this morn
ing.
In their order the operas to be Of
fered are Richard Wagner's "Parsi-
fal," in all the scenic, vocal and
dramatic glory that have made these
performances in New York matter of
world wide record. The cast is the
original New York one, including
Fremstad and Burgstaller. The Sec
ond opera will be Donizetti's MASTER
piece, Lucia di Lammermoor, pre-
senting the greatest of all living tenors,
Caruso, Nine. Marcella Sembrich, Van
Rooy, Journet and others.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-27
BOY IS ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
While Hunting Rifle Is Discharged
and Injuries Lad

While out hunting with friend on
the Boyle Heights hill yesterday after
noon r. Adomson. a 15-year-old boy,
who resides at $40 San Julian street.
was accidentally shot in the mouth by
a 22-caliber rifle, held by Frank Nick
ems, his companion.
The boys were walking along in the
bushes about fifteen feet apart, when
suddenly the rifle which Nickens was
carrying was discharged. The bullet
hit Adomson in the mouth and ranged
inward, cutting the roof of the palate
and tearing away the flesh.
Adomson was removed to the re-
ceiving hospital, where the police sur
geons probed for the bullet, but were
unable to locate it. 1t is thought that
while on the way from the scene of
the accident to the receiving hospital
young Adomson swallowed the lead.
The injury is not serious
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-27
At the Burbank

Ten Nights In Barroom" opened d
weeks engagement at the Burbank
theater yesterday afternoon to crowd
ed house.
The drama of drink is apparently an
old friend with a considerable portion
of the population and they could not
we'll overlook 1t.
1t may or may not be considered a
compliment to say that William Des-
mond does not make very realistic
drunkard. The others of the cast found
opportunity for the display of some
excellent talent. Little Fay Banter
was charming feature of the per-
formance
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-27
BODY WAS HANGING TO TREE
Corpse of Unidentified Man Diseov-
cred at Toluca

A telephone message to Coroner
Trout yesterday afternoon conveyed
the news that the body of a man had
been found hanging to a tree about
two miles north of Toluca. 1t had ap-
parently been there for some time, as
it was in an advanced stage of de-
composition.
Deputy Sheriff Fred weddington was
sent to Toluca and will return this
morning with the body.
There was nothing on the person of
the deceased to prove his identity. 1t
is supposed by people living in the
vicinity that the body is that of a
tramp. who was seen in that neighbor-
hood a few weeks ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-27
PRESIDENT ORDERS
COMMISSION WITHHELD
Former Wife of New Consul to
Zanzibar Makes Appeal to
Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, March 26.-On COM
plant of his divorced wife. the commits
sion Of DIR. Frederick McMaster of New
York, recently appointed consul to Zan-
zibar, has been held up by direction of
President Roosevelt until an investiga-
tion has been made.
The letter of Mrs. McMaster charges
her former husband with desertion and
non-support and says in consequence
she has been Obliged to earn a liveli-
hood as a saleswoman in a New York
dry goods store.
Or. McMaster it is understood. has
remarked.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-27
Barry at Simpson Auditorium

Richard Barry, the war correspond
ent who will deliver his lecture on
Port Arthur at Simpson auditorium
tonight, win not again be heard in
Southern California. This will be his
first and only public appearance in
Los Angeles and win be made in re-
sponse TO the desire OF large mum.
ber who were unable because OF the
crowd to get into the Womans club
house, where he made his first ad-
dress last Friday.
The extraordinary scope OF his lee
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-27
Mason Onera House

The reserve seat sale opens this
morning at the Mason theater for
Charles Frohman's presentation of
Lionel Barrymore in Augustus Thorn
as clever comedy, THE other Girl
The engagement opens on Thursday
evening for three nights and a Sat
urday matinee.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-27

ture and its direct, incisive revelation
of war conditions is the most intimate
account of the great conflict that
America has yet had.
Mr.. Barry sails again for the war
zone on April 10. After tonight he
makes but two more public appear
ances, one in Seattle and one in Bell
ingham, Wash.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-27
Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra

The sale of seats opens today at the
Mason box Office for the sixth concert
of the Symphony season, which takes
place next Friday afternoon at 8
o'clock. The soloist will be Harry
Clifford Lott.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-03-27
Sse.sO TO NEW YORK
INCLUDING sLEEPER

is saved by using the elegant excursion
cars. personally conducted. via Sunset
Piedmont Air Line. Diner all the way.
meals a la carte. Ask Southern Pa
cine agents or Grove Ketchum. No. 2O7
West Third street. Los Angeles.