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Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-16

erty is the east forty feet of the north
east corner of Ninth and Hill streets.
1t was purchased by the Hamburger
Realty and Trust company In May, 1905,
for $3.50 a foot, or $4,000, and Is now
sold by them nineteen months later at
a profit of $4,000. In other words the
property has almost trebled itself in
value in a year and a half. 1t is re-
ported that the property across the
street from this piece has been sold for
$500 a foot, based upon the Ninth
street frontage, so that this sale at this
price is about 25 per cent under the
market price.
S. S. Federman sold to George H.
Rector and associates, through the
agency of A. T. Jergins e. Co., the
southeast corner of Washington and
Toberman streets for $4,000. The lot
is 142x145 feet in size and the consider
alton consequently is at the rate of
$175 a foot for the Washington street
frontage. There are no improvements
on the property.
A. D. Chipron has purchased from
J. Ross Clark, through w. B. Merwin
& Co., the southeast corner of Ninth
and Grand View streets %or $4,000. The
lot has a frontage of $50 feet on Ninth
and seventy-five feet on Grand View
The new owner intends to cover this
entire ground space with three-story
flat building.
Colson, Bryon e. Donnell sold for
Mrs. E. H. Nichols to e. G. Hahne a
lot on the west side of Olive street,
between Ninth and Tenth street, 60x165
feet for $54,00O or on the basis of $500
foot There is an old two-story frame
house ON the lot, but the value of this
was not taken into consideration. This
property was bought by Mrs. Nichols
in 1888 for $2500. Mr.. Hahne, the new
owner, refused an offer of 100000 for
the property Immediately after acquir-
ing possession Of it.
Colson, Bryon & Donnell also sold
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-16

water for the town of Moiave is taken
from this land.
Also section 8, township II, range ID,
$40 acres; section IL, township IL, range
ID, $40 acres, grazing land, no improve
ments; south half of northeast quarter
of section 30, township II, range IL, sit
uated four miles south of Mojave.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-16
Real Estate and
Classified Section

Of which are in vines. About year
ago James J. Jeffries, the pugilist, me-
gotiated for the purchase Of this prop
erty. The price asked at that time
was $4,000, but Jeffries considered this
too high and the deal fell through.
M. r.. Johnson g. Co. have purchased
from A. V. Handorf, through Mr.. EN-
erson Of p. A. Stanton's office and
e. G. G. Tatum, eighty acres on Forty
eighth street and the Grand avenue
electric railway extension. The car
line divides the tract In the center.
A well on the property pumps 200 inches
day. The tract is near the recently
purchased site for st. Vincents col-
lege. The price was $4,000, or $1625
an acre.
Nj. e. Johnson G. co. also have pur~
chased from the Artesian Water COM
pany sixteen acres on West Jefferson
street for $4,000. This tract imme-
diately adjoins the forty acres bought
about five months ago from George
r.. Murdoch for a local syndicate. The
entire fifty-six acres will be subdivided
and placed on the market under the
name of the West Jefferson and Sew
enth avenue tract.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-16
BUILDING DATA
FOR DECEMBER
PERMIT GRANTED FOR ONE
TEN-STORY BLOCK
Hiuh Prices for Lumber and Other
Material Given as Cause for
Apparent Slump in
Activity

with one-half Of the month of De-
cember gone the statistics from the Of
flee of Chief Inspector BaclSus show
that 267 building permits were Issued,
authorizing Improvements valued at
s598,29S, one permit being for the ten
story steel building on the southwest
corner of Temple and Spring streets,
for the International Savings bank, this
improvement to cost $175,000. Various
causes are assigned for the present
comparative inactivity-the holidays,
frequent elections, the weather and
high prices for building material
Nevertheless, the showing is credit
able, all things considered. 1t is prob
able that December will finish in good
STYLE with building valuations exceed
ing one million dollars.
Classified Statement
Below is the official statement of
building operations in Los Angeles, dat
ing from December /:
Permits. Value.
Steel frame ...,....... $175 900
Glass G ..........,.... 13 125 S61
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-16

the property at 142 Pico street for L.
c. Woelz to r. Macarthur and asso-
ciates for 100000, realizing a profit of
$4,000 for the seller inside of sixty
days. The lot is 50x15O feet in size and
is improved with a ten-room house.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-16
Grand total
s6aa2as
Improvements BY Wards
RECENT DEALS IN ACREAGE
Dillon Ranch of 42o Acres Near Bur.
bank Sold for $3o, o,ooo-Acre-
age South

1t Is reported that the property
known as the Dillon ranch, near Bur
bank, has been sold to DR.. Brizzelle
for a stated consideration of $4,000.
There are 420 acres in the tract, 1877
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-16

"He is perfectly lovely--so different
from any man ever met"
"He must have proposed to you"-
Filegende Blatter.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
A VERSATILE GENIUS
Oscar Hammerstein, Impressario.
and His Achievements as a
Public Entertainer.

oscar Hammerstein. who proposes to
give productions Of grand opera In
New York on a magnificent scale and
yet at prices within the reach OF the
masses, believes in legacies. He wants
to leave a legacy to the people when he
dies. Others have left libraries and
colleges and hospitals and art galleries,
but nobody seems to have thought of
leaving a home of music. an educator
Of musical taste, at theater prices
This Is what he hopes the Manhattan
Opera House, which he is now building,
will be. 1t will be a rival to the Met.
ropolitan Opera House. which has new
err had a rival before. Its existence
will mean competition for the services
% the great operate singers, with o
responding benefits to the pockets of
the latter, and Mr.. Hammerstein prom
ises that the works produced at his
opera house will reach a high standard.
The impresario is n of the most
versatile men In the theatrical world.
He has made fortunes and lost them
several times. He has built some half
dozen big amusement places in his
time and has won distinction In vari-
Gus ways as a purveyor Of public en-
tertainment. Mr.. Hammerstein came
to this country from Germany before
he had reached his majority and land
ed In New York penniless and friend
less. He found employment in a cigar
store and learned to roll cigars. One
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05

day he thought out a machine which
would make a hundred cigars while a
man was making one. He had beer
getting married about that time, the
rent was due, and he had no money
with which to pay 1t. There was very
little in the cupboard. though the Ham
mersteins were good eaters. Neverthe.
less he came home to a scanty meal
with a cheerful countenance, for on
the table in front of his plate he laid
q certified check for s6S,000, the sum
realized from the sale of his invention
He afterward made over 5000. 900 from
another cigar making invention, and he
has invented and patented many other
devices, some forty in all; has built
apartment houses, composed operas
and tried his hand at a variety of other
things. This colloquy once occurred
between him and an interviewer:
"How much do you sleep?"
"Four hours q day"
HAnd eatr'
"a banana for lunch, breakfast and
dinner very light and simple. My ex-
penses come easily within S1.50 a day"
Drink 2"
mot at all. No likee. Never drank
q glass of champagne in my life. New
or touched a card, either. OR bet at q
race track or insured my life"
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
MAY 5, 1906.
ALCOHOL MAY PROVE
a CHEAP FUEL,

The prospect of the removal OF the
tax from alcohol when denaturized. so
as to be unfit to drink or for medicinal
use. is exciting lively interest in manu-
featuring and industrial C relies. Cheap
alcohol would. in that case, be en-
ployed in many of the arts from which
it is now excluded. owing to its prohibi-
tory cost. And its general employment
as a fuel is predicted. Chemists say it
would be without a rival for engine
as no other fuel could com.
pete with il if the high tax were re.
moved. Aud, according to a prominent
beet-sugar manufacturer. alcohol may
bs made from beet pulp at a cost OF
only 10 cents a gallon. IL may also be
made from many other agricultural
waste products. so the removal of the
tax would be a great help to the farm
ing industry.
In California, says the Sacramento
Bee, thousands of IONS of damaged OF
poor fruit, now thrown away. could be
converted into alcohol. if the tax were
abolished, thus effecting a saving to the
growers.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
News Notes Of The California Disaster

San Francisco May 3-The commercial banks belonging to the
Clearing House Association have arranged to open for new or
especial" business The arrangement is to receive all deposits that
customers may desire to make on new accounts. The ~depositors
NAV check out these new balances without restriction or limit
This plan for new or special business was adopted in Oakland
and other parts of Alameda County and so successful was it in its
operation that the banks have now resumed regular business and
are receiving more money than they are paying out.
The savings banks are most anxious to resume business, but
they are unwilling to jeopardize the interests Of their depositors by
opening their vaults a moment before it is quite safe to do so. The
contents of several vaults mot savings banks) have been prema-
turely opened, and have been destroyed.
A large proportion, if not a majority Of the business men who
were thanking their lucky stars during the big confagration that
their valuables were inclosed in "freproof" vaults have awakened
to a desperate realization of the unquestionable force of the San
Francisco fire. Within the past 70 hours there have been SIC
safes and vaults opened by permission in the district east of Powell
and north of Market streets, and in no more than sixty per cent of
these instances were the contents found intact
In many cases a pile Of ashes represented thousands of dollars
worth of accounts.
While it is difficult to give exact figures as to losses and insur-
ance in connection with the fire which devastated such a large por-
ton of San Francisco, close estimates have been compiled which
show that the actual property loss will be close to $3.50 100000.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
Nevada Politics Warming Up al the Capital
From the Carson News.


State Controller Davis has returned
to Nevada long enough to write a half
column article in this mornings APP
peal in which he mingles abusive
epithets with misstatements of facts.
Even the literary genius Of the Sage
brush Ajax" cannot venee his argu-
ment into anything like a semblance to
discussion of the matter at Issue. He
does not deny the statement in yester-
days News, which was to the effect
that
1.-THE State officials Of Nevada. with
several honorable exceptions, are a pack
of renegades. They are never within
hailing distance when they are needed.
They draw salaries for services they dc
not perform. They sought offices
which they fill by means of proxies
whose wages are paid also by the tax.
payers. They issue proclamations,
supposedly signed by the proper Of
ficials, or their deputies, and close up
the financial institutions of the State
by means of orders which are not
legally made"
The News does not for a moment feel
that the proclamation was wrong. IL
was a splendid document, written by a
very able man, who. by the way, is
neither q Governor nor the SOL of a
Governor.
1t was not issued from the executive
chambers, because there was nobody
there or within scores of miles of there
who had the right to issue such a
proclamation. The document was
written in Reno and was taken to a
farmer off in the wilderness. who re-
moved his corncob pipe, stroked his
beard wisely, adjusted his necktie-po
that's a mistake. for he wears none-and
then signed his name on a line indicated
by the finger of the author of the proc
lamation. who. by the way. is a
private citizen who takes more interest
in the welfare of the State than all its
present alleged Governors rolled into
one.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
BANKS ALL RESUME BUSINESS
Governors Proclamation Was Ig-
nored and All Nevada Banks
Are Again Open.

Last Saturday Governor Sparks is
sued a proclamation recommending
that the banks of the State remain
closed from the 2sth of April to and in
Guiding the 9Th day Of May. The
managers of the Nevada financial IN
situations did not consider it necessary
to remain closed any longer aud re-
sumed business as usual IN Monday.
The banks at Tonopah. Goldfeld.
Bullfrog aud Manhattan did not open
until Wednesday. owing to the fact
that it required two additional days
for the necessary coin to reach those
places.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
Hartman Not Opposed to Canal.

At Seattle. Wash. last Monday night
e II. Hartman, president Of the Union
Pacific and allied lines. addressing an
audience of Seattle business men.
denied that he is opposed to the Pana-
ma canal. but warned the people
against what he termed the 'anti.rail-
road agitation" which is now SO pro-
nonnced throughout the country. He
said that while water transportation
shonld be encouraged, the people must
NOT forget land transportation, which
IL OF greater importapce. This Is
Harriman's first public utterapce on
the subject Of the Panama canal
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
Fairyiew Miners Union,

A miners union has been formed in
Fairview district. Churchill County,
with these wage rates: Skilled labor.
Sc per day; raising and sinking lin wet
places, 8 so per day; shaft work after
first fifteen feet. s. per day; all other
work in dry conditions. including sur
face work. $3.50. Eight hours consti-
tute a days work.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05

The Appeal would like TO enquire OF
the News how many defalcations have
shown up since the Fusion party has
been in charge of the Sta.e govern
ment? No one has eyer heard of any,
and the News man says as much for
the time when the Republicans had the
running Of the government and man.
aged 10 lift about 5000. 900 from the
School Fund? Was he mere when a
numbsr Of prominent Republicans lifted
about q 800, coo from the United States
Mint for which some of the gang
cracked rock in our local penitentiary ?
The Government closed the mint as
they were unwilling to trust Nevada
Republicans in an institution where
there was so much money lying about
The News is still yelling about officials
who do not remain in Carson 365 days
III the year. The only Republican
officials who ever remained in Carson al
he year round were the two who were
sentenced for seven years to the Carson
penitentiary.
! The News has discovered that one Of
the Capitol gates is off its hinges. 1t
was knocked off by a Republican team.
ster who wa hauling wood. He caught
sight of the News editor on the street
aud was SO embarrassed hat he couldn't
drive straight.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05

Francisco on the morning of April
is that President E. II. Harriman has
made a rate of II cent per mile to all
refugees aud the abolition Of free trans.
portation has stopped the exodus.
On May ! the list of dead aud missing
at Santa Rosa, CAL, had run up to a
total of n and the last body found was
that of Mrs. Augusta s. Rodgers. a
dressmaker, with apartments over the
Novelty Theater. She was killed in
the collapse of that building.
The San Francisco Real Estate Board
passed resolutions the other day pledg.
ing its members to speak hereafter of
the disaster as 1.-THE great fire" instead
of ''the great earthquake" Nob-dy
seems willing 10 admit that much harm
was done by the earthquake, although
there are signs still exisfiug that it
must have been considerable,
Fifty Chinese owners Of property in
old Chinatown in San Francisco have
decided TO rebuild on the sites where
their buildings were destroyed. Legal
advisers of the Chinese. the Chinese
Consul General and the Vice Consul
give il as their opinion that the owners
or lessees of land in Chinatown cannot
be deprived of the right to rebuild if
they SO desire.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
BRIEF AND BREEZY PARAGRAPHS

In disasters like that at San
Francisco, we learn what stuff the
fire insurance companies are
made of.
Undoubtedly MI. Carnegie will
do something handsome as soon
as his attention has been called
to the incident.
The authorities who say that
Funston did nothing at Bagbag
will have to admit that he was
on hand at Frisco.
The fire insurance companies
have been hit pretty hard, yet it
is for just such cases that they
have been made and provided.
Admitting that the use of the
weapon is reprehensible, there
are times when it is hard to feel
sorry that Tillman keeps a pitch
fork handy.
Then there is Boston. 1t has
not had much experience in deal
ing with earthquakes, but it is in
a position to sympathize with
any city that has acquired a large
burnt district.
In an emergency like that al
San Francisco, this administra-
tons skill in cutting through
numerous thicknesses of red tape
at a blow, is distinctly valuable
Hint to the generous foreigners
who wish to contribute aid to
the California sufferers 1t is
not really necessary to ask any
body's permission. Send it along
State laws and court decisions
on the divorce question are sc
conflicting that the country will
eventually have to revert to the
old limitation of one wife for one
man.
In discussing the courts, Presi
dent Roosevelt being a blum
man, does not see the necessity
of taking a spin around Robin
Hoods barn in his automobile
in order to make his meaning
clear.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
ANNOUNCEMENT

1t is gratifying to state that communication has
been established with my hide firm, Messrs. W..
b. Sumner & Co., whose place of business was
at 600 Front Street, San Francisco, before being
wiped out by fire. Their temporary quarters are
at 2207 Scott Street, and business will be re-
sumed as soon as shipping facilities are restored.
IN the meantime my agents, G. S. Garcia of
Elko, Mayer & Mccall OF Deeth, Hylton & Will
Jams OF Lee, and Hylton q Hanna Of Shelton,
beside my travelling buyers, will take all stock
offered them. Trusting to be favored with your
business In the future as in the past, I re-
main, Yours most truly, FRED t. DOLL,
Wool and Hides, Elko. Nevada.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
Mills For BullfrOg.

Advices from Salt Lake say it is posi-.
lively known that orders have bean
placed for materials for building M
fewer than five mills with which to re.
duce the gold bearing ores of the BuD.
frog region, toward which the raisa
the San Pedro are advancing at the
rate Of more than a mile a day.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
Killed Himself Over Gambling Losses

Killed Himself Over Gambling Losses
William Jeffrey. aged 3S years, one
Of the most prominent young ranchers
of Churchill County. killed himself
Monday, firing a revolver bullet through
his brain while at his home four miles
south Of Fa'lln. Death was instan-
aneous. Mrs. jeffrey and her two
children were absent from home at the
time and the dead body lay in the
Jeffrey kitchen for several hours, being
found by a squaw, who reported the
matter. Jeffrey had been drinking
heavily and had lost a large sum at
gambling. He was respondent aud to
save himself from threatened financial
embarrassment took his life.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
New Diamond Drill.

Mining men are watching with in.
terest an experiment Of George WING,
field and others of Goldield who havs
spent $4,000 on a diamond drillipg
outfit with which they intend to pros.
pect to a depth Of 1900 feet on Colum.
bia Mountain. BY mean Of the driIl
they expect to determine the character
of the ore that lies at great depth ON
their claims and also will prospect for
hidden lodges on leased and virgin
property.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05

Despite all s~peculations concerning
Secretary Taft's availability for the
Republican nomination for the presi.
dency in 1908. it can be said on the
highest authority that he has given up
his presidential aspirations and will &C.
cept Roosevelt's offer Of an appoint,
ment as associate justice of the United
States Supreme Court to take effect
about October /.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
Carson Appeal to Change Hands

The Carson Appeal viii shortly pa..
under new management. Irwin Levi,
Of the Los Angeles Times will tai.
charge OF the paper as a lessee and ,
number Of improvements will be mad
In the meantime through a mutual
agreement between the News and N.
Appeal the former will hereafter an.
pear as a morning paper and the lat,e,
as nh evening paper.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05

Nevada taxpayers would be saved
considerable burden if the salaries of
absentee officials were to be cut off
while they were away from their post
of duty. They ought to be ashamed to
take the money. anyway. But anybody
who would stump the State and move
heaven and earth to get an Office that
he didn't intend to attend to is GER
tainly a sort of characterless character
who would be ashamed to feel ashamed.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05

Congressman Hearst asked Congress
to appropriate 81. 500. 900 more for the
relief of San Francisco. the money to be
expended under the direction of the
Secretary of War.
There was another shock OF earth
quake at San Francisco Tuesday. May
/, at 1902. p. m. 1t was slightly felt In
the city, but down the peninsula as far
as Palo Alto the shock was very severe.
The suggestion which was made to
Congress to guarantee the 5000. 900. COO
in bonds to be issued for the rebuilding
of San Francisco found but little favor
in Washington aad was not endorsed
by the California delegation.
The home Office of the Scottish
Union and National Insurance Co. al
Hartford, Conn.,, has received word
from its agents in San Francisco to the
effect that the comrany's losses as the
result Of the fire there were $40. 000. 900.
Two slight earthquake shocks at an
interval of an hour were felt in San
30. They were of the same nature as a
dozen other shocks that have been
felt since the big quake of April IS.
No damage was done.
Every indication is that the rush of
the refugees from the Pacific coast east
ward is virtually ended. The report
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05
LIST OF UNCLAIMED LETTERS

REMAINING IN THE PoSTOFFICE AT
Eureka, Nevada, on the 30th day Of April
1906. Persons calling for any of these letters
will please say: Advertised, May 5, 1906.
4. b. Bailey +. A. Fails
Mr.. Hamilton.
G.. L. BR0Y, Postmaster.
The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1906-05-05

Dreams, books. are each a world. ana
books. we know,
Ara a substantial world. both pure and
good.
Round these. with tendriis strong a.
flesh and blood.
Our pastims and Our happiness VIII grow.
Wordsworth