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The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1906-12-25
sAlLsoAT cAPslzEs.

KINGSTON. jamaica. Dec. 2s.--A
saii-bcas with twenty-five persons on
board overturned this morning near
Montego Bay sixteen Of tho party
were drowned.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-06-07
One Lesson of the Earthquake.

If arguments were needed to show
the ACCESSIBILITY of an investigation
of structural materials, it is
supplied by the recent earthquake
in California. What buildings best
stood the shock is a question of very
great practical interest. Why they
endured when others fell is food for
thought to builders all over the
country. In this connection it is
interesting to note that the Apprais-
ers building in San Francisco,
where the United States Geological
Survey maintains local office, is
one of the few business structures
in that city which was uninjurcd
either by shock or flame. Charles
G. Yale, special agent of the Survey,
reports that little plaster has fall
en- but that the building is probably
the only one in the city that shows
not single crack in its brick walls.
This may be due to the fact that the
foundation consists of a six foot bed
of solid cement, placed upon thou
sands of piles and that the bricks
are put together with cement in
stead of mortar. The walls are
thicker below the sidewalks than
above them. When the building
moves, it moves as a monolith, and
while the vibration is considerable,
no damage has been done except tc
the plaster.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-06-07
OLD TIME STAMPEDE
TO PLACER DI6GIN6S

Bill Nye did his best funny work
when writing for the old Laramie
Boomerang. When he began grind
ing out his stuff for literary syn
dictate at so much line, it became
stale, flat and Improbable. Good
wins Weekly OF recent date re-pub-
lished the following from an old
copy of the Boomerang, which is a
pippin:
A number of years ago there
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-06-07

was a stampede over on Brush
creek, beyond Last Chance, where
there were some good placer dig
yings, and three or four of us load
ed up a grub-stake and went over
there. Albert Walters was one OF
the outfit, and he took along big,
hoarse, blue jackass that we called
'sPrima Donna. - We packed our
grub on Prima Donna, and our
blankets and cooking utensils on
smaller jack that we called 'Ba- +
laam. - Sometimes BALKAN would \
wander off to windward, and the
Prima Donna would drift to lee
ward, and when we got ready to
camp, the grub would be in southern
Wyoming and the bedding would be
in northern Colorado. They inter
fered good deal with the harmony
of the trip, for we were all the time
tormented with doubts about
whether we'd better follow Balaam
and the pillow shams, or take the
direction of the Prima Donna and
the grub.
One day we left camp and pros
pected until night, and when we
got back the Prima Donna had
sampled the supplies. Nobody
knows, unless he has passed through
it, what a mournful wreck healthy
jackass can make of a grub-stake, if
he turns his attention that way.
Albert felt grieved and hurt. When
man has worked hard all day and
comes home to find his bill OF fare
gone, he loses his self-control. So
Albert tied the Prima Donna to
little cottonwood, and wore out an
old pick-handle on her. Well, one
d ~ Albert went up on the side
the canon t. bring down some traps,
and among the rest big bear skin,
so he took the Prima Donna along.
The bear skin was dry and hard and
as flat as a postage stamp. Albert
laid it on the Prima Donna with
the legs sticking out four different
ways for Sunday, and the BEARS
nose sticking forward between the
Prima Donna's ears. Going down
hill, the bear skin showed forward
so that most of its weight was on
the Prima Donna's bump of ideal
ity. l never saw a jackass that
seemed so excited and apparently so
cursed with a vague unrest as she
was. She wanted some one that
she could go to with her great sor-
row. She yearned for comfort and
sympathy. So she came down where
| was with bunch of horses. The
horses had met the Prima Donna
before. Most all of them had places
kicked off by her, and the places
hadn't got well yet. They didn't
seem so tickled to see her as she
thought they would be. They saw
her coming through the timber with
a BEARS head looking out between
her ears, and they went away.
There didn't seem to be any delay
ed to think the crisis had arrived,
and they just simply lit out.
The Prima Donna had something
on her mind that she wanted to
communicate, so she went with
them. She yearned to pour out her
woes to them and be soothed. She
wanted to look up into their eyes
and tell them of her 1ife's sorrow,
so he went along with them. Some
of that band of horses are going yet.
1t was only about sixty miles into
town, and we thought that little
vigorous walk after our sedentary
life would do AIS good. So we
walked in. When we would get
fatigued, we would sit down by
the road and recall some pleasant
little "reminiscences of the Prims
Donna, and it seemed to do us good.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-06-07

If you wish TO buy, sell or trade,
want to rent house, or have one
to rent, want work, or to hire work
done, or anything you wish to know
or wish others to know, advertise
in MAVERICK. For rates apply
at office or TO ]. A. Purtill.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-06-07
REMEMBER
Record, 2:15 IA
Registered Number, 284O4

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by Boy 844; first DAM Remembrance by George
Cherry Prince
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privilege.
Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1906-06-07

Base ball goods at Pascoe's.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21

ing Frailey's hand away. I'll not shake
With You yet. You've got it on me too bad
for that. We've got to even things up
before we ever pump paws again.
What do you mean by evening things
IMP inquired Frailey, surprised.
~ mean this said Wardman, I mean
hat the score between you and me, pard'
is way ag'in me. You've got the big balance
on your side.
.'Forget it, jack put in Frailey, gener-
o1sly. 4 amt holding no malice. You
know that. It wasn't your fault. Every
body knows that. Quit bothering about It.
Nothing ought to break us two up-nothlng
can We've been bunkies too long Tor any
that's all right, pard.' said Wardman,
hut I lust naturally can't go through life
with the balance all over yonder on your
AIDE. | want your wife 10 cut me up the
same way my wife cut you up. I've got
pothinr TO say about what l think OF the way
nv wife did YOU. IdOn't talk about women.
B,It this thing has got to be squared up
Your wife has got 10 cut me up to square It,
NeR.' r.,uov
,;.;Do from his seat. Never! Not on your
AlN " 49,
life, jack Never that!
..But, by holl, yes!' said ardman, and in
a twinklinG both Frailey and his wife were
under Jacks right hand gun. He had pulled
the Unn Ike a flash. I want you to put
yourself in my place, ohum,' Wardman went
On quietly, keeping his gun on Frailev and
his wife. You could never stand my having
n on YOU the way you've got it on me. 1t
wouldn't let you sleep at night. 1t doesn't
let me sleep. Your wife has got to cut me
no to square this thing, or by blazesl I'm
going to do a Job OF four handed killing, and
IN be one Of the fourl'
= with his left hand Wardman drew a raw
hide from where he had thrust it down his
left trousers leg at the belt, and tossed IL
on the table.
Annie he said 20 Mrs. Frailey, I hate
10 put you to this. But It's right. 'Quita
cut ned up when there an any call for
IL. There Is call for your cutting me UP
10 make the thing hunk. It's got TO be
thataway.
Mrs. FraiIey was sobbing in her hand
kercnIef, and Frailey looked sore. but
wardman kept the gun on him, and he could
see that his old pal was in a desperate frame
Of mind.
81 can't do itsJackl' SObbsd Mrs. ErAi-
icy.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21
Greatest Achievement

the Sterling Combination Playerpiano.
This artistic triumph gives you all
artistic Sterling Upright Pianos to play
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21
DYING PEARLS.
The Fate OF Necklace Once worn by the
Wife OF NJ. Theirs.

In the Louvre Museum at Paris is to be
seen a pearl necklace on its deathbcd. Not
literally on a bed. but on a velvet cushion.
IL IL the great necklace left by the great
diplomat and statesman, Theirs, which once
belonged to this prominent statesman's de-
ceased wife. IL is mounted In an unostenta-
tious style and has no value as an article de
Vcrtu beyond the former value Of the pearls.
which was about $50. 900. IL consists of las
pearls in three rows. which weigh altogether
1907 grains. The largest three pearls weigh
10, 30 and 81 grains.
The pearls OF this necklace are destined to
die, says the Deutschc GOidschmicde ZcitWnD.
as they are gradually losing their lustre from
day to day, aud will during the next few
decades turn as black as the faded roses or
the much handled wreath. But why? Be
cause pearls will only retain their original
lustre when they are worn by beautiful women
and come In frequent contact with the warm
skin Of the weArer.
When q pearl necklace is removed from
the neck, where II has been exposed TO a
high temperature. and Is placed In n cold
marble tablet, which is Of about one-half Of
such high temperature. IL may be justly in
fcrTed that the scales OF the pearls will con-
tract and lose some az their brilliancy. When
pearl necklaces are habitually placed on
velvet cushions after having been worn this
circumstance may also well contribute to
the detriment OF the beauty Of a pearl, while
the chemical composition Of the color may
be an additional factor in this direction, not
to overlook the elects OF a strong light.
The management OF the Louvre Museum
has held this necklace OF NJ. 1hiers In high
esteem. and II has probably noticed the grad
ual deterioration with serious concern. The
lack Of authority to do 20 has no doubt pre-
vented the board OF managers from taking
the responsibility OF ex Experimental steps adj
viSed by competent experts 70 save this neck
lace from further deterioration.
How long pearls do live-thaN is. retain
their lustre-hAs not been determined. Ex-
aDnples do exist where pearls have retained
their beauty for several hundred years. On
the othe, hand. IL has also been demon
strated that under adverse treatment pearls
will die quickly, justifying the proverb. You
must not throw pearls TO ~ wine"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21
Sheet Music Free.

I'm sorry for you, Annie. but it's got
to be done, all the same replied Ward
man. Ned sees that I'm right. he'd de-
mand the same thing in my place
~ won't let her do it, said Frailey
jumping to his feet. I don't stand for my
girl doing anything like that. IL would
shame her for the rest of her life, no matter
il she did it under the gun. l don't stand
for my girl being shamed. You go ahead
and shoot
"Frailey told me only the other day that
he really expected that Jack would kill both
him and his wife. But Wardman gave him
self a shake and pulled himself together.
IAN right, mate he said, I'll give in
a bit, but I'm a-telllng you that IT'S the
last I'm going to give in, n it's your
me up yourself
-Frailey was convinced that his old
friend had brooded so much over the thing
that he had become deranged. and Ward
mans suggestion a. him a chance to
save his wife's life as well as his own.
HAS this thing got to be done, Jack7'
Frailey asked Wardnan. Will Il make you
feel right7 Is il the only thing that II make
THE only thing replied Wardman
hoarsely. Pick up that whip and cut me
-Frailey took up the whip. His eyes
were nlled Win tears Wlen ne tOl0 me
about It last month after Jack had been
Si gave him two cuts, one left and one
right, across the face with the whip and
then l laid IL down. he told me. He never
moved and he had the gun on me all the
time. The blows could never have hurt
Jack like they hurt me in giving them to
him. had to do II, for the poor old loco
domhrey was worked up to the swapping
point and he'd have killed US both IL I
hadn't done 1t. When | laid the whip down
on the table Hftsr those two cuts ! thought
he'd let me OF.
Again he said. though. Pick It up
and cut me again
~ gave him two more cuts. and then I
tossed the whip into the fireplace.
couldn't ave hit him again II my life and
nv wife's life did depend upon IL.
]''It's all right. bunkie.' said Jack then,
and he stuffed his gun a nto his belt
and held out his hand. We shook hands.
and then he shook hands with my wife,
who was still crying. Then he walked out
and went home. The people who met him
on the street and saw the bleeding welts
ON his face figured that his wife had cut
him, and they were very sore to think that
she'd do two horsewhipping Jobs IN two days.
one Of them on her own man. But Jack
never let on to anybody how he had got the
welts. A fow months later Jacks wife
tried To kill him with a dirk IN q re Of rage.
and he had to sand her hack TO her people
IN Te1as. Thsn he cams 70 live with IN.
wife and ] had until the day q he dsash.'s
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21
2 Cabinets

Handsomely carved mahogany
cabinets, latest design. large size,
superior in every sac *
way. Sale price lO."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21
$50 Cabinets

Solid mahogany, marquetry inIaid,
self-opening doors with sliding
drawer, very choice %On m
grade. Sale price. ~.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-21
InnsRmOst NutmsEIa.
.'rom ne Hartford CouraRt.

Our business. artistic. literary. social. religious
and charitable circles move together IN q happy
blending Of parts that makes OF the whole q JOY.
Gus harmony wen suited - Ne beauty and fyeedorn
Of euE cry ME. For this reason wa are aiow 10
adopt anything -asw-; the outsider. while wei
coma. b questioned before he " sdaliisd.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-04-21
STORES BROKEN
OPEN To GET FOOD
FOR FAM|SH|NG

San Francisco. April 2l.-The work OF
relief was started early yesterday. A big
bakery I'm the saved district started its
ovens and a. ranged TO bake 5000 loaves
OF bread before night Thousands OF peo-
pie were In line before the California
street bakeries. The police and military
were present In force and each person was
permitted TO take only one loaf
The homeless people in the parks and
vacant lots were provided for as speedily
possible.
The destitution and suffering m inde-
scribabe Women and children who had
comfortable homes a few days ago slept
If sleep came at all--on hay on tho
wharves on the sand lots near North
beach, some of taaem under the uttle tents
made OF sheetinEs, which poorly protected
them from the chilling ocean winds
The people in the parks are possibly
better on in the matter Of shelter. for
they left their homes better prepared.
Instructions were issued by Mayor
Schmitz TO break open every store con-
tanning provisions and TO distribute them
20 the thousands under police supervision.
The Young Mems Hebrew Association
hall. near Golden Cato park has been
stocked with provisions for the use Of
the needy victims in the adjacent fields
Both the mayor and Chief OF Police
Dinan. when asked for statements, eS-
pressed themselves as thankful that the
fire was virtually controlled. Chief pinan
said tnat the order in the city a.stonished
him. He thought 1t dne 20 earlier Sc
we're measures taken by the soldiers and
police In shooting down Offenders.
Two men were shot and killed yester-
day morning. Patrolman Flood, on enter
Ing his home, encountered a stranger,
who attacked him. Flood shot him dead.
Special Policeman Snyder killed a man,
but the details are not known
The only bank In the ruined district that
escaped destruction was The Marke,
street bank. at the corner OF Seventh and
Markett streets. II is I'm the gutted Granu
building, but the flremen saved. tho
ground floor. II will pay out money lust
as son as IL hears from the clearing house
officials
A corner Of the city near the Pacific
Mail wharves at Second and Braman
streets was not ruined, and the Sailors
Home is intact
The fire now burning is all east or Van
Ness avenue and north OF California
street. II will burn itself out down to the
north beach water front.
The Postal Telegram company restored
Its cable connection with the Orient by
establishing a station at Ocean Beach,
but there is no service yet for delivering
messages there
Thousands OF members OF families are
separated and with no means OF learning
one another's whereabouts The police
have opened UP a bureau or registration
TO bring relatives together.
IL is impossible 10 obtain n vehicle ex-
cept at exorbitantt prices. one merchant
engaged a tcamster and horses and wag-
on, agreeing to ay 500 an hour. Charges
OF $40 for carrying trunks few blocks
were common. The police and military
seize teams wherever they require them.
their wishes being enforced at revolver
points II the owner proves indisposed TO
comply with the demands.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-04-21
SHELTER, FIRST FOR THE
SICK AND THE DELICATE

In the shelter tents they are placing
first the sick, second the more delicate
OF the women and third the nursing
mothers
Yesterday afternoon Gen. Funston or
dered all the dead buried at once IN a
temporary cemetery in the Preside
grounds. The recoveres bodies have been
carried about the city ahead OF the
flames.
Many were lying in the city morgue
until the fire reached that, then II was
Portsmouth square. until Il grew too hot i;
afterward they were taken TO the Pre-
sidio.
There was another stream Of bodies
which had lain In Mechanics Pavilion at
first and had then been laid out in CO.
lumbia square, in the heart OF a district
devastated first by the earthquake and
then by fire
The condition CT the bodies was be-
coming a gerat danger. yet the troops
had no men TO spare 10 dig graves and
the young and able bodied men are main
ly lighting on the fire line OF utterly ex-
hausted.
II was Funston who ordered that the
old men and the weddings should take
this wor kin hand. They did IL willingly
enough. but had they refused the troops
on guard would have forced them.
II was ruled that every man physically
capable OF handling n spade or q pick
should dig for an hour When the first
shallow graves were ready the men. un-
der thu direction of-the- troops, lowered
the bodies several in a grave; and a
strange burial began
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-04-21
WOMEN kNEEL WHILE PRIEST
READS BURIAL SERVICE

The women gathered about crying;
many OF them knelt while a Catholic
priest read the burial service and pro-
nounced the absolution. All the afternoon
this went on. IL is impossible 10 learn
here how many bodies were disposed OF.
Representatives OF the city authorities
took the names OF as many OF the dead
as could be identified and the descriptions
OF the others. Many. OF course, Will
never be identified.
A story comes over OF one young girl
who had followed for two days the body
Of her father. he only relative It has
been taken from "A house on Mission street
to an undertaker's shop, just after the
quake
The fire drove her out with her charge
and IL was placed i'm Mechanics Pavilion.
That went. and II has rested for day at
the Preside. waiting burial. With many
others she wept on the border OF the
burial area while the women cared for
her.
There has been another side 10 the work
Of the troops. The looting grows and with
the irrita ton OF burning nerves the men
become more impatient OF looters and
lawbreakers. There have been mistakes
and there have been excessons OF author
ity.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-04-21
In the Busine SIS Center.

the day suggesting appropriations In be-
half Of the state, but after the house
adopted resolve appropriating 100000 II
was found that the constitution prohibited
expenditure OF the states money for the
purpose, and II is likely that the plan Of
legislative appropriation will have TO be
abandoned and the entire amount raised
by private subscription. Late last night
Gov. Guild and Mayor Fitzgerald gave
out statement which said that neither
at the time OF the Johnstown or Galveston
floods or the Chicago and Boston fres
had n direct gift been made OF public
funds, and the question was raised that
such contribution be raised by taxation
was unconstitutional
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-04-21
Junction 3rd ard Market Streets

100000. The were several other instances
OF shooting for robbery
Mayor Schmitz, Gen Funston and the
operators OF the telegraph companies all
agree I'm saying that the fire. while still
burning. will probably spread no further.
but win burn Itself out.
When the fires had passed the last
stand OF the soldiers and hremen at Van
Ness avenue and had leaped across the Is
blocks OF fine residences which they mao
blown up with explosives from the Pre-
sidio stores, IL had now "A lot OF rrame
houses 10 work on. interspersed only with
n few brick and stone dwellings.
EAST WIND HELPED THE
WORK or THE EARTHQUaI<E r.
The wind was blowing from the east.
That east wind has combined with the
earthquake to help this calamity For at
this seaseH-eS the year the trade wind .s
usually blowing straight from the ocean.
Had this wind prevailed the fire must
have been kept I'm the business distric;,
which was lost from the first But in this
time. when all the forces of nature seem
ed to be working wrong, the trades stop
ped and an east wind sprang up.
Only now and then gust OF the trades
seemed to prevail owed IL and whirl the
first rush had missed
AaEorO- ef- atmA. ruraged Caf C5ttru sH
There was an east wind blowing last
night, when the soldiers. after dynamt-
ing the fringe OF Van Ness avenue. saw
their work go for nothing and prepared to
herd the people out OF the residence dis
trict into the Presidio.
The fire was running along broad
front. and spurs OF Il had reached Octavia
street three blocks beyond, when up
came a strong western trade wind. There
was a little water In the district Every
man took new heart and worked to help
the wind.
NO GREAT BURSTS or FIRE
or TERRIBLE wHIRLs OF FLAMES
This is a curious fire. Remember always
that nine-tenths OF the wood involved is
redwood, which burns with a smouldering
fire. There have been no great bursts OF
fire; no terrible whirls OF flame: only a
steady, determined. persistent advance.
So the workers saw this sullen flame turn
backward and beat itself out on the ruins
over which IL had passed
The turn Of the fire, however. completed
the destruction OF the poorer quarters,
yer which a fatality seemed 10 hang. For
it had passed by the greater part OF Tel
egraph Hin. that sudden eminence which
run the small dwellings OF the Italians.
1t had however, extended UP the valley
region between Telegraph and Russian
Hills.
Inc turning west vino bieW tnis tongue
OF fire back upon the slopes OF Telegraph
Hin and that burned all day yesterday.
with plenty OF water and with fresh
fire force this region could hardly be
saved: as Il Is. there IL nothing to do but
get the Italians out OF their houses and
let 10 burn
The troops had the greatest difficulty
In handling the people at this Joint; for
the fire was mainly between them and
most OF the open spaces which were the
OF the people. Some were piled
into Washington square a small park al
tho foot OF the hill. but most OF them were
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1906-04-21
LIFE CHEAP FOR THOSE WHO
DO NOT OBEY MILITARY LAW

one man was shot in the burned Mis-
drinking water which had been brought in
at great trouble for the thirsty people
packed into Columbia Park. IL Is said
also that n bank clerk. searching the
ruins OF his bank under orders. was killed
by a soldier, who thought that he was
lootng. Life Is cheap now for those who
do not respect military rule on the edge OF
the burning district.
Admiral Goodrich's feet Is here. Yes
terday he anchored of the Preside sand
landed at the. Presdio wharves all the
Jackets not needed 10 guard ship There
are now 90o0 soldiers OF all arms. ma
rines and bluejackcts az work.
The fresh men arc needed and the ar
rival Of the troops from Monterey and
down the coast will be welcome.