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Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-24
TROUBLES IF SALT LAKE
 LINE

LOS ANGELES, May 22-The San Pedro. Los Angeles, and Salt Lake road has not all its own way in the southern country, according to the ledge of the state of affairs in Los An geles, and from all accounts the new lIne is experiencing a great deal of difficulty by the obstructive tactics of the older lines.
 In other words there is disposition on the part of the Santa Fe, and what is stranger still, on the part of the Southern Pacific. to shut out the new line from enjoying a share of the busi- ness in the way of freight.
 This can easily be understood as far as the Santa Fe is concerned, but the mystery is in the action of the South ern Pacific not allowing the Salt Lake line trackage facilities. This road is regarded as Hartman property, and as yet the Salt Lake road has no arrangement with the Southern Paei- fife to sends it's ears over the tracks of that company.
 The only suggestion as to the cause Of this is that the freight men of the Southern Pacific have refused this pri- vilege, because it would cut down their showing by the Fl Paso route. It is well known that when freight is ship ped out of Los Angeles the Union Pa eific is the preferential road, but while this would increase tine earnings of the Union Pacific it would natu- rally cut down the business of the Fl Paso line.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-24
Reyes R0bleS On Tri@l For PiIfering
 Pocket
Testimony Is Tangled And Case Hangs
 Fire

The Red Light sa'ooH robbery ease, in waieh Alberto Noi-ra claims to have been relieved of a purse contain ing S1lO, also a ai,mond ring, came up for hearing yesterday before Judge Talbot. For the county. Assistant Prosecutor Pattee was in attendance. and J. $. Gales acted as interpreter
 The matter seems a muddle through out Reyes Robles, charged with having stolen the money and ring, de- Gberately laying the crime of stealing the purse upon one Cruiz, Mexican whom Robles says took the purse while the three were playfully wrestling. A Mexican barkeeper in the place is like wise under suspicion, and the entire testimony of half a dozen witnesses given yesterday was a mass of contra diction.
 Robles claims that he saw Cruiz take the purse, and that the barkeeper said it was a lie when Robles told him No jera lost S11O; that there was but $45 in the purse. Despite earnest exam ination, nothing definite could be learned from those concerned, one con tradicting the other. There seems little or no doubt that Noiera lost his purse and ring at the hands of his quondam friends, but straight story eff the affair thus far cannot be ob- tained
 In view of the unsatisfactory condi tion of the case as to the testimony, Attorney Pattee requested Justice Tal- bot to remand Robles and the barkeep CT to custody, and again look into the matter on Thursday of this week.
 The impression derived from the con fiieting stories of the several suspects is that all concerned were in, and that the money may have been divided among them. No trace has yet been had of the purse of money nor of the missing ring.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-24

Time is a dial which has no hand except when we advance.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-24
He Is To Stand Trial For 3 Third
 Time
Court Is Asked To Sgt Day For The
 Hearing

Yesterday. after the dismissal of the present trial jury by Judge Sloan, Prosecuting Attorney F. E. Ellin- wood made the rather startling au- nouneem mt that it was the intention of the county to at once take up the prosecution of ex-County Treasurer J. P. Storm on the second in lictment at the June term of court. and request ing Judge Sloan to set time for inc hearing, end the issuance 3f a venir. for jurvmen. from whom to select 9 trial body to hear the ease. He cS plained the prosecution would be based upon the Soc,ud indictment of en- | bezzlemen7. The time fer hearing will be set hy the covrJ at n early date. and it is the intention of the pro seeution to arrange all details for the hearing to take place at the June term. To many residents of the county this will prove startling news, as the i'm pressiOn seems to have gained cur rency that the Storm case had be- come a matter of past history. Among the knowing ones, however, this step on the part of the prosecution is not surprise. and it was said, late last night, that such action had been de- cided upon immediately after the yer diet of acquittal on the first count had been returned by the jury, which heard the ease during the present term.
 While this action of the prosecution seems to have been kept sub rosa since Storm s acquittal, it isplain from inquiry made, that the county proseeu- tion had no intention of calling it quits, simply because he had been ae- quilted upon one charge in the general indictment.
 When seen last night, District AttOr ney EIlinwood said he had simply giv- en notice of his intention to prose cute Storm on a second charge, or in dictment. for embezZlement, in time to allow of it being brought up at what is termed the "continued term of court, next month. When asked as to the specific charge in the pro posed prosecution, the attorney re piled:
 "They are all the same. It is a plain indictment for embezzlement un- der one of the two charges still pend ing against ex-Treasrer Storm. announced our intention to the cOur! today, and requested that time be set for the hearing, and for summon ing jurors"
 He seemed to speak of the step tai en as matter of course, and one f the usual course of his duties as tn prosecuting attorney for the county.
 Friends of the ex-treasurer, ana those most familiar with his defensC declare the coming legal battle will be lost time, and expense to the pre- secution. while opinion generally is based on the theory that the county knows what it is doing. and will leave . no stone unturned to bring about 
 All that is thus far made public is that the prosecution wishes to bring the ease to trial without delay, and believes itself in a position to make fight.
 It is understood that June II has been set as the time for the hearing.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-24

You can live without the Journal Miner, but why should you?
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-24
TRIAL JURORS DISMISSED.

Judge Sloan yesterday morning dis missed all the trial jurors called to serve during the May term, and many of the out of town residents left for their respective homes.
 Others will return today, few re- maining over to transact personal bus mess. Fees were allowed nearly all jurors during the day.
 The case of theft against Tyler and Mason, charged with having stolen a zither, was found to be one of petty larceny, and was remanded to the jus tice court. This was to have been the last jury case to be heard at the pre- sent term.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-24

When we can stand still and. looking backward over the pains and anguish of the years, say ''I am strong, and beca1se l have suffered '-then time has folded up its almanac and our first birthday has begun.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-24
ADJUDGED INSANE.

James Howey. an aged resident of the Verde valley, was yesterday ad- judged insane before Probate Judge Hicks, and ordered committed to the territorial asylum for treatment. Doe tors W. T. Smith and W. E. Day were the examining physicians.
 Three neighbors of the unfortunate man, Messrs. Peter Strahan, James Page, and Charles Willard, all well known ranchers, gave testimony as to Howey's actions for many months past. All gave it as their opinion that the man was insane and unable to care for himself. He will be conveyed to the asylum at Phoenix at an early day
 You can live without the Journal I,,-A
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-24

Blasphemy is very often mere plea for contradiction. It is despair chal- lenging an unaeknowledged hope.
Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-05-24

As we leave youth behind, laughter becomes less frequent, but the smile Of seasoned experience is tn habit of gentle old age.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-06
PEACE TREATY
DULY SIGNED
GUNS ROAR AND BELLS RING
OUT ACCLAIM
DELEGATES ALL SHAKE HANDS
Signatures Are Appended and Russia
and Japan Recorded as Being
at Peace Amid Solemn
Silence
DELEGATES ALL SHAKE HANDS
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
PORTSMOUTH. N. H, Sept 5.-The
treaty of Portsmouth was signed shortly
before o'clock this afternoon in the
conference room of the navy general
store at the navy yard. The firing of
a national salute Of nineteen guns was
the signal which told the people of
Portsmouth, Kittery and Newcastle
that the peace of Portsmouth was an
accomplished fact, and the church bells
in the three towns were soon pealing
forth joyful refrain.
For forty-seven minutes those outside
the conference room anxiously awaited
the signal Suddenly an orderly dashed
to the entrance of the peace building
and waved his hand to the gunner a
few feet away, and the opening shot
Of the salute rang out of the clear air
of the soft September afternoon. pro-
claiming peace between Russia and
Japan.
1t was just S:45 when the plenipoten-
tiaries entered the conference room
from their respective offices. They
merely bowed to each other and took
their accustomed seats at the long
table around which their negotiations
have been conducted.
AS soon as the delegates had taken
their seats Mr.. Sato left his chair and
went to M. Whites side with the Jap
anese copies of the treaty which he
placed before him. At the same time
Mr.. Plancon placed the Russian copies
of the treaty before Baron Komura.
Almost at the same moment the two
selected pens from the center of the
French and then to the English text.
The copies were then signed by Baron
Rosen and Mr.. Takahira. Mr.. Sato re-
turned the Japanese copies for the sig
natures of Baron Komura and Mr.. Ia
kahira. M. Witte and Baron de Rosen
affixed their signatures to the Russian
copies, and the treaty of Portsmouth
was signed, the ceremony being COM
pleted at $3.50.
Up to this moment no word had
broken the silence of the room. Throw
ing his pen aside, M. Witte, without a
word reached across the table and
grasped Baron Komuras hand. His
conferees followed, and the Russian and
Japanese officials remained for a mo-
ment in silence, their right hands
tightly clasped across the conference
Continued on Page TvO)
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-06
FAST FREIGHT CRASHES INTO
PASSENGER
MANY OTHERS BADLY INJURED
Pullman TeIescoped, Chair and Tour
LIST Cars Demolished by Rear
End Collision In
Colorado

By Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo, Sept. 5.-More than
a score of persons injured In a wreck
on the Burlington railroad late last
miles east of Denver, were brought to
this city today and placed in st. Luke's
hospital. Four persons were killed in
the accident and several of those in
jured may die.
The dead: Albert Whitaker, Chill
licothe, Mo-; NJ. Mccormick, Chilli
cothe, Mo-; E. L. Vaughan, colored
porter, Philadelphia; John Lindsay
colored cook. Philadelphia.
Fast freight No. II, westbound, 60
ing at the rate of about twenty miles
an hour crashed into the rear Pull
man car of a section of passenger
train No. 13, the st. Louis flyer, which
had stopped to take water. This car
was telescoped and split through the
middle. A tourist Pullman car, a chair
car and five freight cars were also
wrecked.
The persons killed were in the rear
Pullman and many of the injured were
in the tourist car. Among the occu-
pants of the rear Pullman were the
officers of the Red Mountain Mining
company and capitalists from the east.
who were bound for Western Colorado
and Utah to inspect mining properties.
E. A. Mellin, engineer of the freight
train, stuck to his post until the crash
came, but was not seriously injured.
The responsibility for the collision has
not yet been fixed.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-06
ONE MAN KILLED AND SCORES
SERIOUSLY INJURED
FRENzIED HORSES STAMPEDE
Crowd of Twelve Hundred Persons at
RichfieId Fair Scattered, Over
Two Hundred Persons Fall
ing Senseless
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
RICHFIELD. Utah, Sept, 5.----Atlas
Bean was killed, his cousin. Dwight
Bean. was perhaps fatally injured and
a score of others were more or less
seriously injured by bolt of lightning
which struck in the center of crowd
of probably 1900 persons who were
watching the horse races at the Rich
field fair.
More than 200 persons were thrown
to the ground and most of them were
insensible for several seconds. Horses
tied to hitching posts near by broke
loose and stampeded in all directions.
Several of the injured are not serious.
Dwight Bean, Darius Nelson and
Thomas Brown were insensible from
the effects of the electric bolt when
taken to their homes.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-06
HILLS ARE MOVING
AS IF ON WHEELS
Great Volcanic Outbreak In Samoan
Islands Has a Remarkable
Result
By Associated Press.


BY Associated Press
HONOLULU, Sept. 5.-The steamship
Sierra, which arrived here today from
Australia en- route to San Francisco,
reports a large volcanic outbreak on
the island of Savaii in the Samoan
group, which, it is stated is very ex
tensive The outbreak is ten miles
south of Matautu and has created a
new mountain estimated to be nearly
1000 feet high.
The lava flows from the base of this
mountain a distance of several miles.
Travellers report that five or si;G hills
are moving apparently on lava founda-
tions. Some have advanced several
miles from their starting place, indi
eating a vast molten lava area be-
meath.
Ernest Nell and George Furlong,
who visited the scene, say that many
million tons of lava are being elected.
The hills are now moving very slowly
and the lava is solidifying on the sur
face. This will eventually stop their
further progress. which threatened
much fertile territory. The natives
have held gatherings and had decided
to abandon the threatened towns, but
having become assured that there is no
danger of loss of life, they are settling
down again.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-06
MAE WOOD FILES
GRAVE CHARGES
ACCUSES PROMINENT STATE
OFFICIALS
FOREIGN C0NSULS INVOLVED
Claims That j. Martin Miller Obtained
From Her "Love Letters Of
Boss" Under False Repre-
sentations
FOREIGN CONSULS INVOLVED
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-Miss Mae
Wood of Omaha has filed with the state
department charges involving certain
persons therein. This was officially adj
mitted today, as well as the fact that
the charges have been under investiga-
ton for several weeks.
Who Is involved the state department
officials will not say, but it is under
stood that the persons in question are
j. Martin Miller, appointed consul at
AK la Chapelle, Germany, last spring,
and Robert ]. Wynne, consul general
at London.
The former is alleged by Miss Wood
to have obtained from her, by false
representations, love letters of a
boss" She asserts that the latter made
use of her influence with Platt and
others in congress to advance his own
interests.
Miller has returned from AK la
Chapelle because the German govern
ment would not sign his exequatur on
the ground that he has written GER
tain articles hostile to Germany.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-06
DAYTON s SLAYER
GAINS FREEDOM
MEEK ACQUITTED ON GROUND
OF SELF-DEFENSE
EXCITEMENT IN SAN JAClNT0
Friends Crowd Around as Verdict ls
Announced, and Wife Weeps
for Joy-Four Shots
Fired
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
RIVERSIDE, Sept. 5.-San Jacinto
is as much excited over the outcome of
the preliminary herring of Jack Meek
was last night over the actual shooting.
Meek was cleared of the charge against
him on the ground of self-defense. JUS
tice Of the Peace Vaughter, before whom
the preliminary hearing was held, to-
night rendered his verdict shortly be-
fore o'clock and Immediately after
ward there was a scene of great excite
ment in the court room. Friends of
Meek crowded around to wiring his
hand, while his wife, who had been by
his side all through the trial, wept for
joy.
Although the seriousness of the
tragedy had led the great majority of
the people to look for his binding over
to the superior court for trial, still
there were a few who had entertained
the idea throughout that he would go
free.
The coroner's jury, which sat this
afternoon, brought a verdict to the
effect that Dayton had come to his
death from a bullet fired by Meek,
but did not fix the blame.
At the preliminary hearing it was
brought out that Dayton had made the
first motion to draw his gun, that he
had been heard to make threats against
the life of Meek, that he had harbored
the deepest animosity toward the de-
fendant ever since the quarrel of a
week ago, which resulted in the dis
charge of Meek from the construction
gang and since that time had gone
heavily armed. Meek, as one of a
family which has lived in the San
Jacinto valley for almost twenty years,
had many friends to plead his case,
while Dayton, known in the valley only
since he had commenced work on the
construction of the telephone line to-
ward Riverside. had hardly more than
a few acquaintances.
Four bullets were found in the body
of Dayton, three in the body and one
through the head, the latter evidently
the fatal wound. AS only four shots
were fired Dayton evidently did not get
even a shot at Meek.
Sheriff Coburn, District Attorney
Lyman Evans and County Coroner
Dickson, who all went out today to at
tend to the case, drove home to River
side this evening.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-06
PHILADELPHIA REVISES
HER LIST OF VOTERS
Discovery of Sixty Thousand Illegal
Registrations Gives Rise to un-
precedented Precautions
BY Associated Press.


BY Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5.-Under
unusual conditions the assessors of the
1109 election precincts in this city today
began the extra assessment for the
purpose of making corrections in the
lists made up last May. Under in
structions from Director Porter of the
Department of Public Safety who
acted upon the authority of Mayor
Weaver, a policeman was stationed at
each polling place to guard against
possible fraud in the revision of the
assessors lists of voters.
The policemen were aided in this
work by representatives of the Demo-
cratic party and of the City party, a
reform organization opposed to the
methods of the regular Republicans. It
is estimated by the police that nearly
$4,000 names were stricken from the
lists today.
Recently a house to house canvass
of voters was made by the police, the
Democratic and City parties and at its
conclusion DIR. Potter announced that
the police had found more than sixty
thousand Illegal registrations.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-06
CYCLONE PLAYS HAVOC
IN THE VISAYAS GROUP
SapaiI neports Government House and
Dwellings Destroyed and Cocoa
nut Groves Seriously Injured

Sopdii 'aSpO'ho iiNhSS anu
Dwellings Destroyed and Cocoa
nut Groves Seriously Injured
BY Associated Press.
GUAM, Sept. 5.-The town of Sapail
was badly damaged by a cyclone
August 27. The American naval collier
Supply and the German steamer Move
have been dispatched to the assistance
of the inhabitants.
The government house and a number
of dwellings have been destroyed. The
cocoanut groves have been badly in
jured and it will take two years for
them to recover from the effects of the
storm.
There has been Ao loss of life and
there is no immediate need of assistance
to the inhabitap>s of the town.
Sepail is a, Town of 1880 inhabitants in
the province of Capiz. in the island of
Panay, one of the most important ISL
ands of the Visayas group. There is
large export trade from this island,
principally in manufactured fabrics,
rice and copra.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-06
SANTA FE ON TRACK OF
THIEVING OPERATIONS
Telegraph Operators in Colorado Ac-
cused of Stealing Tickets From
Packets and Selling Them
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
Topeka, Kas., Sept. 5,-oficials Of
the Santa Fe are worried not a little,
it is said, over what appears to be sys-
tematic scheme of robbery that is being
practiced in Colorado by telegraph
operators acting as ticket agents. Sew
eral thousands of dollars. it is claimed,
have been lost by the railroad in the
tickets. The night operators at Lamar
and at Las Animas have been arrested.
The method is to remove tickets from
the bottom of the packets, sell the
tickets and destroy the stubs. The pro-
ceeds from the sale of these tickets
were then pocketed.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-06
PLUTOCRA7S IN
POKER DEBAUCH
PLAY LASTS THE VOYAGE AND
ANTE is $1OO
$4,000 LOST AT a SITTING
Mammoth Financlers Gamble Contin-
uously From Bremen to New
York, me Losing Steadily
From. Start to Finish

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-Stories Of one
Of the biggest transatlantic poker games
played in many years were told by
passengers on the North German Lloyd
liner Kaiser Wilhelm II on her arrival
here today from Bremen.
According to accounts an almost con-
tinuous session took place behind the
locked doors of a certain stateroom,
during which several hundred thousand
dollars changed, hands. At the table
were three financiers representing be-
tween them from $500. $1,000 to .$4O0,-
100000. The ante was $1oo. No one pur-
chased less than $4,000 worth Of chips
at time, and the limit of the betting
was presented by the stateroom ceiling.
1t was said that one of the group lost
steadily from the start, and at the final
game, which lasted until late last night,
he left the table more than $4,000 loser.
All the passengers were talking of the
game except the alleged participants,
and they seemed the only ones who had
not heard of 1t.
Among the passengers on the Kaiser
Wilhelm II were P. A. B. Widener, the
railroad magnate Of Philadelphia; H..
c. Frick of Pittsburg, George Westing-
house, one Of the newly elected trus-
tees of the Equitable Life Assurance
society; Samuel H. Cramp of the ship
building firm, e. V. w. Rossiter, former
President Ramsay of the Wabash rail-
road, Randolph Guggenheimer and
Charles r. Flint.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-06
THROWN FROM AUTOMOBILE
AND KILLED INSTANTLY
BY Associated Press.

BY ASsOcIdIeu FTesS
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 5.-While en-
route from Atlantic City to Philadel-
phia today in an automobile, Neill
Wolfe, secretary and treasurer of an
automobile company OF this city, and
Miss Marie Hamill his financee and
daughter of wealthy Germantown
manufacturer, were thrown from an
automobile on bridge over the West
Jersey & Seashore railroad, near Atoo,
N. j., and hurled thirty feet to the
tracks below. Miss Hamill was almost
instantly killed and Mr.. Wolfe died
soon after
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-06
THIS CONDUCTOR HAS
RECORD FOR GALLANTRY
Has Train Stopped and Backed in
Order to Find Young Woman's
Purse

Special to The Herald.
COLUMBUS, Sept. 3-The crew of a
Cadiz branch railway train now holds
the record for gallantry to the fair in
distress
Miss Pearl Field of Columbus, a
niece of AL G. Field, the minstrel, left
her pocketbook at the Cadiz junction
station today when on her way to visit
friends, and did not discover her loss
until the train had started She made
known her loss to the conductor, and
he stopped the train and ordered it
backed to the station, where he and
the trainment searched for the missing
pocketbook, and on finding it restored
IL to it's owner.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-06
SHOOTS HIMSELF IN
HOSPITAL IN BUTTE

BY AsSociated Press.
BUTTE, Mont, Sept. Be. B. Ewing,
claiming to be a brother-in-law of eX-
United States Senator Cockrell of
Missouri, shot himself through the head
at a hospital here this afternoon. He
moved here three days ago from yell
lowstone National Park, being sick. He
had drawn check on the Clark
Brothers bank at Butte for 800, in
part payment of a bill for board in the
park. He was not known there and
had no funds in the bank. Ewing was
forty-five years of age.