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Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10

nearly every door is the entrance to
thirst parlor. The exceptions are two
Chinese restaurants This block Is
known as Whisky row" and seems to
be the center of gravity with every
cowboy, prospector and miner that
comes to town.
Nearly all these saloons are equipped
with complete gambling outfits Faro,
roulette, craps, stud poker, policy
wheels-in fact, the entire brood Of the
tickle goddess. In addition to these at
fractions concert hall features are in
the inevitable soubrette, seriocomic
singer and dancer and a few stately
pharmaceutical blondes whose derelict
soprano" voices had seen better days.
Thanks to the chemist, they are all at
tractive and decidedly good looking.
After they have finished their stunts
they mingle freely and line up to the
bar with the rough and ready looking
men in front. These Delilahs, working
in conjunction with John Barleycorn.
are supposed to have some liberating
effect on the financial prudence of the
customer. which rebounds to their credit
when the lights are low and the cash
register is counted.
The gambling tables are always
crowded. The gaming passion is strong
in elemental men-much stronger than
desire for red liquor. I have studiei
the blanched, eager face of the faro
fiend'' and the nervous and suppressed
excitement in the eyes CT the young
fellow at the roulette wheel, but the
faces that interest me most are those
and hardened. Theirs are faces with
out blood-without pity. Their human
ity has been frozen out of them. They
don't seem like human beings actuatea
by emotions like the other men around
them. They look like what they are
mere calculating, mathematical ma
chimes with the percentage in their
favor. They have seen human nature
at it's best and it's worst-generally its
worst. 1t has made them callous and
cynical. and they look with contempt
al she fools of fortune in front of the
tables.
Prescott is policy mad. Everybody
plays policy. Not to play policy in
Prescott is to proclaim yourself ten
derfoot. Drawings take place every few
hours. It's a "piker's" game-hence
It's general popularity with the rank
and file.
Five years ago when of this article
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10
Mr.. Lundsren's Illustrations

Those who have read William Allen
Whites ION Bright Angel Trail" which
accompanies the wonderful reproduce
tions in full color of Fernard Lungren's
eight paintings Of the Grand canyon Of
the Colorado in the September Nc
Clure's will be interested to know that
Mr.. Lungren is the artist spoken of in
the opening paragraph of Whites great
descriptive story:
IAN artist who loved the wilderness"
he says. brought his bride to the hea
of Bright Angel trail 1t was night
when they came to their journeys end.
and the man persuaded the woman not
to look upon the Grand canyon until
morning When the sun was high, he
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10

agent, who thought there were at least six
women on the haystack and he said: What
will all you people up there on the haystack
settle for in lump, for | am in IA hurry"
The fat woman caught on at once and said:
1--WE will all settle for $1,000" Then she
yelled, and the agent thought her back was
broke, and he offered $500, and she cried and
said will go you" and he made out check,
and the fat woman mad some more Mysteries.
had watched the settling all around, and
| told pa to be deaf and dumb when they came
to him, and just point to the seat of his pants
in front and buttoned tip behind, and look as
though he was suffering the tortures of the
inqusiton, and let me do the talking, and |
would make the old railroad go into recev-
ers hands.
So pa said "You are the boss" and he
looked so pitifu1 that | almost cried.
When the near-sighted claim agent came
to pa told him that pas last words were to
beg to be shot, and the man looked at pas
pants and then at his face, and said: What
hit him? That's the worst case ever saw in
a railroad wreck.
Put my handkerchief to my eyes and said
We'll, when the shock came, pa was all right,
as handsome man as you would often see.
| think there must have been pile driver on
the train that struck him, and changed sides
with him. knocking his stomach around on
the back side of him and placing his spinal
column around in front of him, where his
stomach was, and causing him to lose the
sense of speech. Think of a midde-aged man
going through life mixed up in that manner,
having to sit down on his stomach and having
his backbone staring him in the face How
does he knew when he takes food in his mouth
that it can corkscrew itself around under his
arm and eventually find his stomach? How
man can be ground and twisted, and mauled,
and stamped on by reckless locomotive with
crazy engineer and drunken fireman, rolled
over by box cars and walked on by elephants
and still live, is beyond me- AS he told me
before he lost the power of speech not to be
too hard on the railroad company though
some railroads would be glad to pay him $2o,-
600 and no questions asked, he begged me-
as heir to his estate, to let you off for paltry
$4,000.
Pa made up the darndest face, and groaned
The agent called another agent and they whis-
pered together and finally the first one came
to me and asked pas full name, and then
the two of them got out fountain pen and
they made out check and he said: "This is
the first case in the history of railroad wreck
ing that the agent has not had the heart to try
to beat the injured party down. This is GER
tainy the most pitiful case that has ever been
known, and if your father ever comes to his
senses YOU can tell him he is welcome to the
money"
The agents shook hands with pa and | and
went away to their train and pa winked at
me, and wreckng train came and we got on
a special and got to Pttsburg before break
fast, and pa is going to buy dog out of
the money.
Gee, but there is all kinds of money in the
circus business. Pa is going to wear his pants
hind side before until we get out of Pittsburg.
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got out of our car and they let it burn, to
light up the scene, and pa and | and the boss
canvasman went along the ditched train and
helped people out The giant was in two
upper berths and he got one leg out of the
transom over one BERTH and one leg out of the
transom over the other berth, and we pulled
his legs, but he couldn't make it, so pa took
the AK and made both berths into one and
got him out
The giant shook himself and started on
across the marsh but he mred up to his
neck, and farmer who heard the noise came
to order us off his hay field for trespass, and
yelled Here's head of some of your per
formers cut off away over here" and he was
going to bring it in, when the farmer found
the head was alive, and he ran away from it.
In an hour we had everybody OUT and made
beds for them by spreading out hay cocks,
and nobody seemed to be hurt so very much
We heard a locomotive whistle UP the road,
and some one said the relief train was coming
who was with us said: "Relief DOCTORS moth
ing. That is tranload of lawyers and claim
agents to settle with us. The doctors will not
come till tomorrow Now, everybody pretend
to be hurt awful bad, and strike the sharks
for $4,000 apiece, and come down to $Ioo, if
you can't do any better"
Good Samaritans
1t was getting daylight and the relief train
stopped, and the good Samaritans came wad-
il Q into the hay marsh, bent on settling with
us cheap. The first lawyer asked the principal
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"His assailant did"

HIS aSSallant did,.
rs it possible? How strange that you
should remember this after the subject
had been nearly forgotten"
II draw five thousand a year for in
formation and typewritng."
Can you say who wrote The Bread
winners'?"
THE author"
(which is flrst-the chicken or the
egg?"
ITS a seesaw; sometimes the chick
en-, then the egg; then the chicken, then
the ega."
zone thing more-is that clock right
up there?"
That clock is not only right up there,
but that clock up there is right"
Thank you. This company is very
thoughtful to employ you for the con-
venence of its customers. Good day.
In this queer chatting, wherein the
clerk had not been disgraced, the jester
had been prompted by the legend on the
wall. 1t read
Questions answered here"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10

blindfolded her and led her out of the
log hotel that stood upon the brink of
the precipice to point of rock that
overhangs the abyss. . IF
you ever try to paint that, I'll leave
you!' she told her husband when she
was allowed to see the wonders at her
feet. William Allen Whites reference
ends with Mrs. Lungrens words. The
pictures themselves tell the rest of the
story"
Mr.. and Mrs. Lungren, who came to
live in Los Angeles two years ago, have
taken a leading place in the artistic
and social life of Southern California.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10

IL, ana thought lie Was DIT d Ddllquel, anu lC
said "that sauterne is not fit to drink"
Bearded Woman Yelled
Then when the bearded woman yelled that
the fire had almost reached her whiskers and
would nobody save her, pa began to get ready
to move on, cause he concluded he hadn't
been riding goat after ALL and he told me to
hand him his pants Pa is a man that will
never go out among people, no matter how
dark the night is, without his pants, and |
admire him for it. Some of THE circus men
didn't care for dress that night, but got out
Just as they were, and the result was that
when daylight came they had to tie hay
around their legs.
Our car was bottom-sde up, but | found
pas pants, and he got his legs in, and | but
toned him in, but | felt all the time as though
had buttoned them in the back so the seat
was in front, but the fire was cracking, and
pa pushed me out of a transom and then he
crawled out, and we sat down in the mud.
The bearded woman came next with her
whiskeTs done UP in curl papers, and then the
fat woman got one foot through the transom,
and she couldn't get it back in, and the train
hands got an AK and were going to cut her
leg off, and save one foot, at least, when pa
got a move on him and took the ak and broke
out the side of the car and got her out. Eight
or nine men lifted her tenderly onto stack
of hay, and she wrapped it around her, cause
she left her clothes in her berth.
1t Was a Sight
Well, it was sight when the people were
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10
It has come at last.

1t has come at last
Everybody about the show expects that
the show has got to have a railroad wreck
every season, and all hands lay awake nights
on the cars to brace themselves for the shock
Sometimes it comes early in the season, and
again show goes along till almost the end
of the season without a shake-up, and fellows
think. maybe there is not going to be any
wreck, but the engineers are only waiting till
everybody has forgotten about it, and then,
biff, bang, and they have run into another
train, or been run into, and you have to be
pulled out of a window by the heels, and laid
out in marsh until the claim agents can
settle with you
| always thought in reading of railroad acci-
dents that the railroad sent out special train
load of doctors and nurses to care for the in
iured, but the special train never has doctor
until the lawyers give first aid to the wounded
in the way of financial poultices for the Grip
pies People in Our business on to the
railroads and we work them for all there is
in it and the man that is hurt the least makes
the biggest howl and gets the biggest slice OF
indemnity. Some circus people spend all their
salary as they go along, and live all wnter on
the damages they get from the railroads
when the wreck comes
Train Whooping Along
whooping along at about 90 miles an hour,
Oh a hippity-hop railroad in Pennsylvania,
and the night was hot, and the mosquitoes
from across the line in New Jersey were sing
ing their solemn tunes, and pa, who attended
a lodge meeting that night at the town we
showed in, was asleep and talking in his sleep
about passwords and grips, and the freaks
and trapeze performers in Our car had got
through kicking about how the show was run
ming into the ground, when suddenly there
was terrific smash-up ahead, an engine boiler
exploded freight of dynamite on side
track exploded, and there was a grinding and
humping of the cars. Then they rolled down
a bank over and over, so the upper berth
the whole business stopped in a hay marsh
and the bilge water in the marsh leaked into
the hold of our car; people screamed and
some one yelled Fire" and | pulled on pa
till he woke up.
| thought PAS head was all caved in, be-
cause he talked nutty. The first thing he said
was: Say l, pronounce your name, and re-
peat after me-, and then he said Il promise
and swear that l will never reveal the secrets
of this degree" and then the conductor pulled
pas leg and said: Crawl out of the window,
old man, cause the train is in the ditch, the
car is afre, and if you don't get out in about
a minute with the other freaks, you will be
burnt offering"
Pa said you couldn't fool him, cause he
knew he was being initiated into the 20
steenth degree of the masons, and he guessed
he could tell degree from a train wreck
cause the degree was darn sight worse than
wreck, but the conductor took one of those
long glass fire extnguishers and sprinkled the
medcated water on the freaks in the next
berth, and then turned it on pa, and pa tasted
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10
lf-HE HANDBOOK OF PRINCE
TON" by John Rogers Will

{ Il
TON" by John Rogers Will
liams, is a book that will bring
back pleasant college memories to the
alumni of the famous university, but it
will do something more. 1t will kindle
ambition to enjoy the educational ad-
vantages offered by this historic insti-
tuition, which had it's origin in the
log college founded in 1926. The author
has brought to his work fine interest
and appreciation which make the
volume most fascinating. The text is
printed on broad margined pages of
Irish linen paper and the book is sump-
tuously illustrated. Woodrow Wilson,
LII. D., president of the university, con-
tributes the introduction.
THE HANDBOOK OF PRINCETON.
BY John Rogers Williams. New York:
The Grafton Press.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-10
A GENIUS

He knew the arts from A to Am
persand,
And delved deep shafts in mines
of classic lore
His torch of learning lighted
many a shore
From Hoboken to distant Samar-
cand.
A modest man withal, and suavely
bland,
You marveled you had not known
him before;
But when it came to settling up
the score,
Twas not so difficult to understand.
For, with his university degree
And knowledge, that like facets
of a gem
Shone from his conversation, ray
besprent,
1t was, alas, the saddening truth
that he
Did not possess, to save him or
condemn,
The segment of solitary cent
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it, and thought he was at banquet, and he
said "that sauterne is not fit to drink"
Bearded Woman Yelled
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Well, it was sight when the people were
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-05-23
SMALL FIGHTS OCCUR
MINOR COLLISIONS IN PROGRESS
BETWEEN RUSSIANS AND
JAPs IN nANcHuRIA.
CARS TROOPS ASSUME OFFENSIVE VI
REPULsED IN ATTACK ON TANG
SHED AFTER LOSING SEW
ERAL HUNDRED MEN.

Toxic, May 23.--Imperial army
headquarters makes the following an
nOuncelnent:
In the direction of Changtu on May
20 force of the enemy, consisting Of
over battalion of infantry, regi-
ment Of cavalry and two guns, made a
detour to the eastern height of San
taokou, eight miles east of Changtu,
and from the vicinity of a coal mine
ten miles east OF Changtu at so
o'clock in the morning commenced a
bOmbardment
Subsequently another Russian force
with four guns appeared on the north
ern height OF Chinyangpao and at
p. m. two battalions OF the enemy ad-
vanced from the eastern side of the
village, but were repulsed.
Another mixed force of the enemy
entered Erhshihlipao. where they set
fire to the village and fetreated.
"A body of the enemy's cavalry,
dismounted, attacked Tangshed, on
the right bank of the Liao river, thir-
teen miles southwest of Fakumen, on
the morning of May 20. After an en-
gagement lasting two hours the enemy
retreated in disorder toward the south
west, abandoning 900 men killed and
wounded.
Except these collisions between
small forces the situation is otherwise
unchanged.'
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SHORTS ANXIOUS TO COVER.
SHARP ADVANCE IN PRICE OF
WHEAT AND CORN FOR
MAY DELIVERY.

Chicago, May ga stampede of
shorts advanced the price of corn for
May delivery precisely cents
bushel. 1t was current gossip that
the May option is practically "cor-
nered" by few prominent traders. A
desire to avoid possibly greater loss
than already incurred was the cause
Of the urgent demand from those who
were on the wrong side of the market.
The May delivery opened at 53 cents.
The price quickly jumped up to So
cents bushel. Realizing sales caused
a reaction to 571a cents.
A somewhat similar situation devel-
oped in the wheat pit. On an active
demand from shorts the price of wheat
for May delivery was forced up 4
cents bushel Much Of the gain was
subsequently lost on profit taking.
May wheat opened at SO cents After
advancing to $1.03 the price dropped
to $1.011&
After the early bulge the market
quieted down considerably Under
continued profit taking the price of
May corn sold off to 561a cents. The
wheat market also lost much of its
bullishness. Final quotations on May
wheat were at $1.01, net advance for
the day Of cents May corn closed
at 5GB cents, gain of AZ cents.
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Washington, May 23.August w.
Machen, under sentence for two years.
in connection with pos.-
REsENTs ADMlRlNG CHANCES.
Handsome IVA Girl Fined for chas.
tising Man.

Vinton, Ia, May 23.-Vinton has Off
cially set its stamp of approval upon
a man flirting with good looking girl
and hereafter any young lady who re.
sents the admirations of man by
physical demonstration will have to
suffer the penalty which has already
been e1emplifed.
Miss Olive Evans, a handsome young
woman OF twenty-one years, is the first
to feel the force Of the unwritten law.
But a few days ago she set upon and
beat with an umbrella AL Maxwell, one
of the most respected citizens of the
community. He caused her arrest.
She was arraigned before Justice
of the peace and there claimed that
MAXWELL had looked at her with a
meaning blink of his eyes. xhe prose
cutting witness said there was no harm
in his unconscious blink and the young
woman was accordingly sVned So and
costs with the admonition that she
should not resent with physical force
admiration for her personal charms.
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SAID TO Be IN The PACIFIC
RoJESTvENSKY is BELIEVED TO
HAVE GIVEN FoRMosA A
WIDE BERTH.

st. Petersburg, May 23.-There is
an air of expectancy at the admiralty
which indicates that news of impor.
tance regarding Admiral Rojestven-
sky's feet is awaited at any moment
Officially no information regarding the
admirals whereabouts is volunteered,
the officers making no concealne1I of
the fact that they are not in the secret
of Rojestvensky's plans, but the .--...s u.
ity entertains no doubt that the Rus
sian feet is now steaming towards its
ultimate destination. While there is
no official confirmation of the Hong
kong report that Admiral Rojestyen-
sky's feet has passed through the
Bashee channel it is credited by those
who have insisted from the beginning
that Rojestvensky will give the island
of Formosa wide berth to the west
ward. The admiral, it is claimed here,
has had ample time to reach the Pa
cific since he left the waters of Indo-
China.
The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1905-05-23
SIX MEN BLOWN TO ATOMS
HOOKING VALLEY LOCOMOTIVE
BOILER ExPLODES AT
COLUMBUS, o.

Columbus, O.. May 23-The boiler
of an engine that was standing near
the Hooking Valley railroad round
house exploded during the afternoon
and instantly killed six men who were
at work nearby.
The building was damaged and
quantities of the debris were scattered
for hundreds of feet in all directions.
The men who were within range of the
explosion were thrown high into the
air. The dead are: Fred Shuttle,
helper hostler; Ames Speakman, help
er hostler; Jack Davis, hostler; Fred
Crumley, boss hostler;' john Birming-
ham, laborer: Carl H. Hand cleo
trician.
The bodies of the six men were man
gled, arms and legs being scattered in
all directions. One man is believed to
have been blown into the river and is
not accounted for.
Portions Of the engine were blown
100 feet distant, while other parts of
it, weighing tons, were found 800 feet
distant. Four other engines standing
beside it We're wrecked.
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CATTLE RusTLERs ACTIVE.
Reaping Rich Harvest on Ceded
Rosebud Lands.

Reaping a Rich Harvest on Ceded
Rosebud Lands.
Sioux Falls, S. D., May 23.-Daring
bands of cattle and horse "rustlers'
are reaping a rich harvest. making
frequent raids on the hundreds of set
tiers who recently occupied the ceded
lands of the Rosebud Indian reserya-
ton. Not even the cattle and horses
belonging to Eastern society bellies
who are holding down claims" in the
ceded lands are safe from the raids of
the outlaws.
Recently the "rustlers" have be
come very bold in their operations,
making many of their raids in broad
daylight and in proximity to the cities.
The "rustlers," whose depredations
are at present proving costly to the
settlers on the ceded Rosebud lands,
appear to have selected the country in
the vicinity of Burke, one of the new
towns, as their principal field of op-
eratiOnS.
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ed and the soldiers aid:.. once are oc-
cupying the courthouse, with field
piece i'll readiness for action. Sixty
special deputies also are on duty.
The Japanese have forced the Ko-
rean laborers to strike, threatening to
kill them if they continue to work.
1t is stated that the Japanese OBJ
jected to the head overseer because
he is Russian
High Sheriff Henry intends to occu.
py the camps of the strikers and to
arrest the ringleaders.
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RESIDENTS USING BOATS.
Section OF North La Crosse, Wis, Un-
der Water.

La Crosse, Wis, May 25.-The Mis-
sissippi river has risen six inches dur
ing the day and two feet in the last
three days and is still rising slightly.
In North La Crosse a large section is
under water, people going about in
boats where the land is usually dry,
and number of manufacturing indus
tries are greatly inconyenienced and
can only be operated with difficulty
Should the water rise another foot a
number Of factories both on the North
and South Sides will be closed. The
country districts are hard hit, large
sections both on the Minnesota and
Wisconsin sides of the Mississippi be-
ing cut off from market. The bridge
between Onalaska and French island
is under water.
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NEW PEACE
CONF FERENCE E
Mayor Dunne, Aldermen and
Express Managers Meet.
Strike Spreads.

Chicago, May 23.-While the strike
is spreading rapidly in the lumber
districts today, anew peace conference
attended by Mayor Dunno, a commit
tee Of aldermen and man ayers of seven
express companies is in progress at
the city hall. Atthe same time active
preparations are under way for the
possible ordering out of troops to
quell the anticipated riotipg in the
lumber districts.
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Ohio Monuments at Vickshuru.

Vicksburg. Miss, May 23.-Forty
monuments erected by the state Of
Ohio to its soldiers who fell in the
siege of Vicksburg were dedicated in
the National Military park here dur
ing the day. An address by Governor
Herrick was listened to with marked
attention and his reference to the
family quarrel" Of those who wore
the blue and the gray was loudly
cheered.