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Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-16
SIX-DAY BICYCLE
RACE IS FINISHED
ROOT AND F0LGER SECURE
VICTORY
Excitement Attends Closing Scenes
Of Great Endurance Contest.
Fall to Break Previous
Records
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-Root and Fol-
ger first, Downing and. Hooper second,
Rutt and MacFarland third.
These men we're winners in the six
day bicycle hace concluded at Ma ison
Square garden tonight. The last mile
was ridden by Folger, Downing and
Root, respectively for the three first
teams. The time Jas 2:17. The dis
tance covered by e eight teams re-
naming was 90 miles and two laps
At the finish the riders were 441
miles and two laps behind the record
set by Miller End Waller for the same
number of h, ''rs IN 1899. The same
team won last years race, Rutt maxi
ing the final dash. The order of finish
of the other teams follows, the partner
riding the las mile being placed first:
Fourth, Mcdonald, Somerville and
Coffey, Boston; fifth, Melting, Canada,
and Logan, Irelanu; sixth, Clark and
Pye, Australia; seventh Downey, Chel-
sea, and Moran Boston; eighth, Geor-
get and Georget, France.
At 1906 o'clock when the 144 hours of
riding had been completed all except
the leaders were, according to the rules,
retired from the track. Those retired
were Walthour and Bedell, and Breton
and Samuelson, both teams having
failed to make up the one lap lost
earlier in the race. This left eight
| teams, Just one-half of the original
starters, to fight out the finish at one
| mile.
The eight riders were sent away in a
good start, and the final dash of ter
times around the tract proved to be q
whirlwind ending. Folger took tht
lead at the start and never lost it, al
though hard pressed by Downing, who
kept on almost even terms. AT times
only those at points of unusual vantage
were able to tell positively who was in
| the lead.
WaIthour Withdraws
Folger, however, ..eld his slight ad
vantage to the end, winning b. mar
| row margin from Downing, who in turr
was closely pressed by Rutt. The
others finished in a bunch.
The wind-up furnished sport thai
under ordinary circumstances would
have brought the crowd that packed
Madison Square G, den to suffocatior
to its feet in a wild demonstration. The
retirement of Walthour and Bedell, and
the fact that they were not allowed
several laps which the spectators be-
| ieved should have haen given them
resulted in such dissatisfaction that the
least enthusiasm of the week was man.
| fested at the end of the contest.
When the retiring teams were or
dered from the track there were shouts
of unfair rulings. Excitement was in
| tense when the final squirt began, bu
| the applause with which the start was
made grew fainter al-7 the announce
ment of the victory of Folger and Rut
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-16
ALL STARS DEFEAT
MILITARY FOOTBALL TEAM

The All-Star Prep football team de-
feated the Los Angeles Military acade-
my eleven on the latters grounds yes
terday by a score of % to 0.
Features of the game were the play
ing of Crandall, fullback of the ALI
Stars, and Taylor, right half of the Mil
itary team.
The winning eleven was composed of
players from St. Vincent, Yale school,
Hoover streets, Pico streets, Belmont,
Boyle Heights and Polytechnic.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-16
STAR BALL MEN
BATTLE TO-DAY
Game Postponed from Last Sunday
Will Occur at Chutes
Park This After
noon

Providing Jupiter Pluvius does not
interfere this afternoon Stockton and
San Jose wiH meet for their post-season
baseball game at Chutes park. The
final contest was postponed last Sunday
because of rain, and local fans were
deprived of witnessing the star diamond
experts in action.
Hal Chase is to hold down first base
for the San Jose team, while Frank
Chance will perform in like capacity for
the Stockton nine.
The line-Ilp will be as follows:
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-16
OAKLAWN JOCKEY CLUB
OFFICIALS APPOINTED
IN Associated Press.

CHICAGO, Dec 15.-The following
officials have been appointed by the
board of stewards of the Western
Jockey club for the winter meeting Of
the Oaklawn Jockey club at Hot
Springs, Ark, beginning February 4:
Judges Frank j. Bryan and Clarence
Mcdowell; starters, A. b. Dade and
Mars Cassiday; secretary and handi-
capper, E. w. Maginn.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-24
HERRIoTTs STRONG PoslTloN.

Council Bluffs Nonpareil.-Whilet the
other candidates for governor are busy
explaining, Hon. John Herriott Is
forging right ahead with the immense
advantage that inures to the candi-
dacy Of any man for any public Office
when such man has the unquestioned
and unquestioning confidence Of the
public. Judge Smith, in his notable
letter in support of Mr.. Herriott, ex-
pressed the honest sentiments Of hun
dreds and thousands of republicans in
the ninth district and throughout the
state when he said: II am for him
because of his record of fidelity to ev-
cry public trust through his long
course Of years.
John Herriott has nothing to ex-
plain. His record as a republican and
as public servant Is irreproachable
And he has not only been a passively
public official, but he has been active.
He has accomplished results after
hard fought battles. John Herriott
was the author Of the movement for
just railroad assessment and it was he
who pushed that movement to sue
cessful issue. This service is appre-
ciated the more because Herriott has
not gone about blowing his own horn
to the exclusion OF all other sounds in
the forum. He simply did his duty as
an honest mand and faithful public
official. That's the sort Of conduct
that would become a governor.
BY the force Of his sterling charac-
ter and clean record, and by virtue Of
the serenity and calmness that sur
rounds his candidacy in this time of
hysteria and elimination and recrim-
ination, John Herriott looks like safe
refuge to that large element of the
party that is concerned chiefly with
the security Of the peoples interests
and with intraparty peace.
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For ways that are dark
And tricks that are vain

The heather Chinee is pecooliar."
And for nerve. Dispatches tell us
that on Thursday, while fires were
creeping through every street in San
Francisco, bearing down upon China
town, several Cinnamon sat in a grimy
room and played fan tan until they
We're forced to leave because the very
building in which they were gambling
caught fire. Now there will be les
sons Of all kinds drawn from the San
Francisco calamity. There will be
scientific lessons, moral lessons and
doubtless immoral lessons, but it re.
mains for the Chinaman to furnish a
problem in the workings of the hui
man mind. Whether those fan tan
players were brave, ignorant, careless
of their lives, just "nervy," or simply
wrapped up in their play, is problem
that could no doubt furnish food for
argument, thought and discussion.
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and the desired Of other en-

empire and the desired Of other en-
pires.
Toxic was overwhelmed by earth
quakes in 1903 and 1855. but was re-
built time and again on Toxic bay.
1t is the political center of another
great empire and one of the largest
and most prosperous cities in the
world.
In location, strategically and COM
mercially considered. San Francisco is
not unlike Constantiople or Toxic.
The great city of the Pacific coast will
be at the Golden Gate or on San Fran
Icisco bay. earthquakes or no earth
quakes. San Francisco has had a life
as a. city of only fifty-six years. It
grew from struggling town of 10000
inhabitants in 1850 to city forty
seven square miles in extent with a
population of 342,O0o in f1fty-years.
The heart of the city, covering eight
or ten square miles, has been Destroy
ed, but the men who gave San Fran
cisco power, wealth, and influence are
alive and the great interests that have
contributed to the development of San
Francisco and California are only
temporarily crippled.
Chicago. New York and a hundred
other cities are reaching forth helping
hands with more than promises In
them. All the signs point to the
quick restoration Of order, to the
prompt reorganization of resources,
and to the rebuilding OF the city.
AS to another earthquake, no one can
tell. San Francisco may never have
! another such visitation as that of
Wednesday. But no city is immune in
this particular. The London Standard
of yesterday morning, referring to the
, disaster at San Francisco, said: 1--WE
are well convinced that there will not
be lacking in this land, SO happily re-
moved from these sudden calamities,
an impulse to succor our brethren in
Distress The plain inference is that
England Is beyond the earthquake
belt, and cannot have any other disas-
ter as that which overwhelmed San
Francisco.
The truth lis that England has had
more earthquakes than San Francisco
had previous to Wednesday. There
were severe shocks in 1889, 1142, 1874
and 1918. In the earthquake of April
6, 1880, many buildings in London
We're wrecked, among them st. Paul's
and Temple churches. There were
earthquakes in England in 1850, 1852,
1871 and 1884, each doing considerable
damage.
Pekin, China, lost hundred thou
sand inhabitants in the earthquake Of
1881, but has not been materially In
jured by earthquakes since. Cairo, in
Egypt, lost half its houses and 10000
of its inhabitants in 1854, but has had
no disaster of the kind since.
The presidents of the past do not
sustain the contention that San Fran
cisco more than any other city Of the
earthquakes On the other hand, the
record of earthquakes is favorable to
the city that just now has the SYM
pathy Of the whole world.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-24
TRADE GROWS IN CUBA.

Cuba's future is growing brighter as
the people learn the real benefits of
popular government aud learn also to
govern themselves wisely. The con-
gress of the new republic has a gov
eminent majority in both of it's houses
and it is expected that there will be
no more obstruction to wise legisla-
ton such as has characterized and
weakened previous congresses.
The commerce of Cuba is growing
and the people are correspondingly in
a better financial situation, though
some of the crops show slight de-
crease. President Palma says that the
sugar crop on March l was 2o5,7s3
tons smaller than the crop of 1905 on
the corresponding date. The tobacco
crop had suffered a decrease of % per
cent. The price of sugar was low, and
this would necessitate state assistance
for agriculturists in all possible ways
Last year $4,000 immigrants arrived
in Cuba and the president said that
with state assistance the number could
be largely increased.
During 1905 the islands importa-
tons reached s94,S06, $685., against ST.
028,314 in 1904, not including money
imported, which amounted to over
$S,000,000, as compared with over
s5,00o,000 in 1904. Imports from the
United States were of the value $42,-
$4,000; from Great Britain they were
S13,424,000: from Spain, $1O,356,O00.
The exports amounted to $11O,0O0,OOO
against sS9,O00,0O0 in 1904. Exports
to the United States exceeded $95,OOO,-
900, and to Great Britain $5,000,0O0,
and to Germany nearly s4,0OO,O0O.
The United States takes IS per cent
of all of Cuba's exports, but supplies
Cuba with less than As per cent of its
imports. Great Britain sells two and
one-half times as much goods to Cuba
as it purchases from that country.
The same is true of other countries.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-24
WHAT AN EARTHQUAKE MEANS

Chicago Inter Ocean.-The destruc-
ton of the business district of San
Francisco means just what the de-
struction Of Chicago meant In 1871.
Earthquake and fire have turned a
great center of business activity into
q desert. Property is gone, assets
have lost value, and all the machinery
Of organized commercial and Indus
trial activity has been destroyed
In Chicago there was only fire to
deal with. In San Francisco the dread
Of another earthquake becomes a
handicap on reorganization, because
among the disheartened and distressed
people 1t will be natural to assume
that what happened on Wednesday is
likely to happen again.
The truth Is, however, that earth
quakes have changed the destiny Of
only a few Of the wv.,d's great cities.
Constantinople, as beautifully situat-
eded as is San Francisco, was shatter-
ed by earthquakes in 557, 936, 1909,
and 1900, but it still stands on the
Golden Horn. the capital of a grea
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there had been no suspicion of the
laws delays or technicalities inter-
posing to thwart the ends of justice,
there was nothing but a brutal display
OF savage lawlessness, disgracing not
alone the community which tolerated
1T, but the entire country.
The Springfield lynching was a dis
play of the elemental baseness which
links the human animal to the brute.
1t was a return to conditions which
modern, nay, even primitive, civiliza-
ton has displaced. 1t was defiance
OF the fundamental principles of order
and law which have made the struct-
ure Of society possible. 1t is an evil
which, unchecked, will work disaster
to the foundations of American civil.
cation, and unless the American PEG.
pie face and combat the danger they
must accept the shame and the peril
Of failure.
The American people are not alb
solved from the obligation to maintain
the law by the fact that the problems
involved are difficult. Even though
the solution shall lead to a recasting
OF the whole theory upon which the
negro and the Caucasion races have
hitherto lived side by side in this
country, it must be sought; else our
government is failure and our vaunt-
ed boast of system based on law IS
a hollow moclery. Until some sys.
TEN can be evolved under which the
perpetrators Of such crimes as those
which have just disgraced the state
of Missouri can be brought to swift
ond oorfoip i1,ct; o,,e,l J>r er,o II
hope of a remedy. Where local pas.
sions can be so inflamed as to lead to
or threaten a race war of extermina,
ton, or to obstruct with force the or
derby processes of the law, there
needs to be brought to bear the pres
sure of a wider and more powerful
judgment, a more potent force of pub.
lie opinion in support of law.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-24
THE NATIONS DISGRACE.

In the confusion that has followed
the earthquake at San Francisco sight
has practically been lost of the race
war at Springfield, Mo-, and, appar-
ertly Springfield itself has dropped
the feud for the time being, astounded
by the greater occurrence, the major
tragedy, on the Pacific coast.
II the affair at Springfield could be
forgotten completely the country
should be glad, but it cannot be and
1t has made dark blot upon another
page of Americas history, bloody
blot that will not erase. Every act
Of lawlessness, no matter whether by
the Ignorant or the intelligent, the
black or the white, is a step to the
rear, a blow to progress. Without
law there is no country and hence no
progress. 81.
At Springfield the lawlessness was
appalling. The fact that the three
men who were butchered by the mob
were in all probability innocent of the
crimes of which they had been sus-
pected does not really affect the prin-
c.ples involved, nor does the fact that
these lynchings were accompanied by
an exhibition of savagery and bestial-
ity add a distinct cause for our abhor-
renee of the crimes. The unspeaka-
BILE brutality displayed at Springfield,
presumably by American citizens, may
indeed arouse greater degree Of de-
testation than if the victims had been
hanged or shot, but what is needed S
so universal a condemnation of the
whole practice of lynching that the
American people shall not rest until a
remedy is found and this stigma
wiped forever from our civilization.
1t is no excuse for lawlessness to
urge that ineradicable race antagon-
ism and the horror of a nameless
crime are often at the root Of such
violations of the social order. These
but add to the gravity of the problem
and increase the necessity of meeting
it. America will have to set her own
house in order before she can con-
sistently pose as the friend of human
ity the world over. Our intervention
to protect the oppressed in distant
lands becomes an utter farce when
Turk or Russian or Belgian admins
traitor inI the heart Of the Congo can
point to- the burning at the stake of
negroes jim the center of the United
States. I'm the case at Springfield, as
in too MANY others like it, there had
been moi failure of justice. The ma
chinery pf the law had been set In
motion 10 hunt down the criminal,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-24
LESSONS FROM GERMANY.

German ideas as to motor cars and
other points in railroad work are going
TO be adopted by an Iowa railway COM
pany. The Burlington is now erect.
ing German motor car at the Aurora
shops and expects to use it and others
similar on branch lines and wherever
competition with electric lines must
be met. The people along the branch
from Fort Madison to Ottumwa have
long waited for such an improvement
to be inaugurated and they now have
reason to feel encouraged. The car
formerly intended for use on the Fort
Madison line did not turn out to be a
success and the one now in course of
construction was chosen only after
much Investigation in different parts
of Europe.
The car now building at Aurora will
be used for extensive experiments and
if it proves as satisfactory as the re-
port seems to indicate, many other
similar vehicles will be constructed
for use throughout their western
branch lines. The report which led
the company to adopt the steam motor
was made by Max Toltz, formerly Of
tie great Northern and Northern Pa
cific railroads. He was engaged more
than a year ago to make an investiga-
ton of the types of motor cars in use
in Europe, with a view to ascertain
ing whether there was anything which
would assist the road in solving its
branch line problems and trolley
competition.
Previous to sending Toltz to Europe
the company made extensive expert
ments with a gasoline-electric motor,
only to discard that form of car. The
adoption of the steam motor is espe-
cially interesting at this time, when
quite number of the western roads
are turning to the gasoline-electric mo-
tor either of the Strang or a similar
type. 1t is stated that the motor
which the Burlington is constructing
probably will use crude oil as a fuel
ana will be built to carry between fifty
and sixty passengers. 1t is Of a type
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has sustained a great disaster can
Withstand the Ioseo,

mas sustained a great disaster. can
Withstand the losses.
san Franc1sco's people deserve and
are being given great credit for the
bravery with which they are fighting
against encouragement It is not too
soon to say that San Francisco will
shake off her ashes and sackcloth and
rise greater and grander as a result of
the awful calamity which has over.
taken her. Like the tabled phoenix,
the city is to come out of it's fiery or
deal purified and glorified and more
beautiful than ever.
The indomitable spirit of the people
is manifest in the darkest hour of the
city. Before the embers of the thous-
ands of ruined buildings have died out
the work of reconstruction will be be-
gun. Ambitious plans for a new city
are already being framed amidst the
misery of the conditions which prevail
everywhere. Men whose visible wealth
was swept away in feS short hours
are today filed with boundless de-
termination to recoup their fortunes
and contribute their efforts to the re.
juyenation of the city of their abode.
A. correspondent, writing yesterday
from San Francisco, says:
mo evidences of weakness can be
seen among the crowds of stricken
people which have been forced to seek
shelter in the parks beneath tents. and
suffer the pangs of hunger and the tor
lures of thirst for over forty-eight
hours. The fortitude displayed on ev-
cry side must command universal adj
miration. Mingled with this fortitude
is the sense of gratitude toward the
nation and its people for the generos-
ity shown at such a trying hour. The
people of San Francisco realize that
their SORROWS are the sorrows of all,
and are imbued to the utmost with the
idea that they shall make due recogni-
ton by their future course of action.
Mayor Schmitz reflected the spirit
of the people today in a telegram he
sent to President Roosevelt acknowl-
edging the generosity of congress in
making an appropriation of 81 100000
for the city's relief. He proclaimed to
the world that the work of rebuilding
would begin as soon as the fire ceased,
and that the city would provide capital
for the reconstruction of it's public
buildings and its water system. He
also expressed the hope that the gov
eminent would provide ample appro-
priations for the rebuilding of the fed
eral structures destroyed"
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arrested with two marked bills In his
possession. Most postoffices work the
clerks too hard, however, to allow one
of them to take his time and choose
what kind of money he will steal
Buffalo Express.
Awful suspicion that we are deca-
dent is forced upon one when 1t 10
noted that In 1877 a man robbed a
Brooklyn bank of 100000, while nigh
to thirty years after his son tackled
the same institution and only gets
away with $34,00O.-N. Y. Evening
Telegram.
The board of education Of Pekin.
China. proposes to stop the practice Of
foot binding by prohibiting the sale
of small shoes. Foot binding in Chi.
cago should also be discountenanced.
No woman with a number nine foot
should be permitted to squeeze the
member into a number six shoe.-Al-
bany Express.
Rastus johnson has been arrested
at Anaheim, charged with stealing
chickens. Caught with that name and
red-handed, Rastus might just as well
plead natural chicken appetite" in
the sentence will probably expire q
little this side Of the watermelon sea-
son. Long Beach (Cal.) Press.
Montclair N. Y, is very much ex-
cited over the fact that colored wo-
man afflicted with smallpox rode
around the town In one of their troll
| ley cars. A smallpox germ in Brook
Ign trolley car wouldn't create any
!. commotion at all. 1t would s,r,.
merge with the other germs ss,ssS -
etc, and get lost in the shuttle. ~
Brooklyn Times. U (.
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which Is being used extensively and
successfully on German railways. The
Burl1ngton's information is that the
gasoline-electric motor has been tried
In Europe and found wanting
Upon further recomme ndation of
Toltz, the company is having Smith
superheaters put in two new freight
engines which are being constructed
by the Baldwin Locomotive Works 1t
is said the use of these devices will
effect a saving Of fuel amounting to
between Is and 80 per cent, it being
possible for the steam to be heated to
600 degrees and dried, whereas the
usual maximum is 300 with the steam
saturated with water.
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All c., M. & st. p. and WabasF, trains
depart from Jefferson Street Union
depot. J. p. WHELAN, Agent.
c. M. & ST. p.

No. Going East Via Cut on. Time
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12a-washington. Mnscatine, Dav- -
-, export and Chicago So. .12 :os a. m.
Going West. 4
sa-Kansas City and Interme-
ste ci,i;;,;:.::t, 1923 q. NJ.
sior Springs and Kansas City 2.f4 m
ssb-C hillicothe freight 1890. roo a. M ~.
-ChillIcothe freight ....... ~ 100 Q. m.
89a-C hillicothe freight $3.50. 1910 4. m
Going East Via Marion. -
lOb-Marion, Cedar Rapids and In
losb 5eEmeaIaae Cedar Rapids ana l;'S NJ
Intermediate ......... 6:4S b. m
eSb-Marion freight 80. ...... $40 4. n.
Coming West Via Marion.
sc-Marion, Cedar Rapids and In.
1osb-Marion, Cedar Rapids and IN no : u.
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Monday. =.