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Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-30
TWO MURDERED
EVERY MONTH
RECORDS SHOW a. KILLED
DURING YEAR
Five Violent Deaths In July and the
Same Number in September.
Fate Of Those Who COM
mitted Crimes

Twenty-four murders have beer
committed in Los Angeles county dur
ing the past year according to the rec
ords of the county court mouse aho
coroner's office. ,., l.. A..
new year occurring in January, the
first being a feud resulting in shoot
ing during a Mexican row ana the sec
ond the horrible and lamentable death
of Mrs. Cloe Canfield.
Eebrrary and March noted a Cessa-
tion of tragedies, only to be followed
bv two other murders occurring dur
ing April, two during May, one being
the much talked of and still mysterious
murder of the mulatto, James A.
Logan, at Pasadena.
In June the mysterious death of Jesse
Wilcox. a young street car conductor,
gave morbid people a topic of conver-
sation and it was followed by the muir
der Of Mrs. Arvilla Skunk.
The murder of Joel Scheck by Ernest
Stackpole and the completely of Mrs.
Scheck in the horrible affair proved
one of the sensations of the year and a
creditable piece of work to city police
and county court officers.
The murder of Glade Besold, giving
the grewsome details of the woman's
lonely death in the Temescal canyon
and its later developments, the Hudson
murder, the Maisono, Smilde and Mar
tinez murders gave July a record of
five killings, which September dupli-
Gated.
BY some trick of fate the summer
months furnished more than two-thirds
of the murders of the year
Following is a list of the murders
committed during the past year, the
details and the fate of the slayers:
List of Murders
Antonio La Piano-Killed January 10
by gunshot wound inflicted by Phil
lipi Giardini. Piano was native of
Italy, 20 years of age and a laborer.
He was killed during a drunken row OH
Enterprise street Self defense
proven.
Mrs. Cloe Garfield, wife of Charles
Garfield, the millionaire oil king of
Los Angeles-Killed January q at her
home on Avarado street by two gun
shot wounds inflicted by Morris Buck.
Buck is now under sentence of death,
awaiting a verdict from the supreme
court on his plea of insanity.
Faro Amato-Eilled April 10 by gum
shot wounds inflicted by unidentified
assailant during a fight at Eighth and
Wilson street. He was 35 years of
age, native of Italy and lumber
man by trade.
Frank Perkins-T<illed by knife
wounds April 10, inflicted by Perry j.
Horner, a miner during a row over
board bill. Perkins was proprietor
of an East First street lodging house.
His slayer is now serving a ten-year
term in states prison.
Nat Pillsinton-Killed May 16 by gun
shot wounds inflicted by James KEEL
logg during fight over woman on Santa
Fe avenue. Kellogg is now, serving
time in states prison. Both men were
negroes.
James A. Logan, mulatto--Killed May
Is by knife wounds and slug blows in
ficted by unidentified persons. ]. c. C.
Jaxon, negro of Pasadena, arrested,
charged with crime, but acquitted.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-30
STEALING A SPANISH ISLAND
Amazing Story of German Intrigue Is
Just Coming to Light
Now
Special Cable to The Herald.

Special Cable to The Herald
BERLIN, Dec. 29.-An amusing story
of plot for the seizure of Germany
of the Island of Fernando Pc, belonging
to Spain, is published by the Koelnische
Volkszeitung.
The plot is said to have been revealed
by Herr Erzberger, prominent deputy,
at at recent confidential meeting of the
budget committee of the reichstag.
According. to Herr Erzberger, DR.
Semler, prominent Liberal deputy,
approached German colonial adven-
turer named Gorne in 1904 and made
this extraordinary proposition. Gorne
was to settle in Fernando Po and start
farm, or any commercial enterprise
he liked. The Deutsche bank, which is
in close touch with the German govern
ment, was to lend him 10000 for the
purpose.
After settling in Fernando Po, Gorne
was first to provoke a dispute with
the Spanish authorities, and then to or
ganize a rebellion for the purpose Of
obtaining possession of the island. A
German consul, who would be appointed
Immediately after his arrival, would in
tervene, and the support of his govern
ment would be forthcoming.
DR.. Semler, who is a member of the
budget committee, admitted at the
secret meeting referred 20 that he had
conducted negotiate with Gorne in
1904, but declared he could not remem-
ber the details of the conversation.
The budget committee decided, to re-
gard Herr Erzberger's revelations as
confidential, but a member of the COM
mittee apparently disclosed them to the
Koelnische Volkszeitung.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-30
First Dividend Will Pay the
Cost Of the investment

This is our third promotion and only
gneer and after carefu consideration by ourselves.
The investor in Jumbo Leasing and Development
treasury shares at 25 holds advantage
over those intIesed mining enterprise that
producing basis has opportunity
which are sure to follow for those who
present price. - ~
Jumbo Leasing and Development company a permanent
for the mining
of Nevada especially in
the and mineral to
mining business
of two full mining claims
district These claims
valuable in that district
active development lease
Incorporated authorized capitai
of $1,00O00O divided
shares
properties free from inde -
Development is being on lease ana
promises net the mion
dollars in profits based present production 0'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
CROSSED WIRES CAUSE
CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE

Portland. Ore. June ia special u
the OregOnian from Oregon City states
that FIVE originating from crossed wires
in the Portland station dill immense
damage 10 the plant Of the Portland
General Electric company at Oregon
CITY Three of the largest dynamos
were destroyed. two others we're ruined
~ water and a large switchboard was
turned out. An estimate OF tho damage
cannot be made before tomorrow. The
accident happened about O'Clock and
in almost an instant the streets Of
cortland and oregon City. which de-
TeCd on this plant for light were tn
S1Tkness. The interurban rail service
between Oregon City and Portland and
the street railways in Portland were I'm
corrupted for more than an hour and
half Temporary arrangements have
been made for street lights end fer rail-
way power but IL viii be several
months sforc the electric company Will
b able to resume fun operations.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
NEW CABINET
CLOSE At HAND
Russian Ministry Has Appar-
entity Reached the End
n OF Its Tether.

ST. Petersburg, June i0-In spite Of
the official denial. belief that the retire
ment Of the Goremyzin ministry is near
at hand Was reasserted today BY the
Reich, the constitutional democratic or
gan, which apparently is looking for
ward hopefully to the installation of q
CABINET more IN harmony with the low
er house Of parliament
Ihis nope apparently springs from the
bellet that the ministry is about to 20
10 smash through internal discussions
over the grariap program of Minister
Suehinsky concerning which there has
Deen much gossip lately. Members OF
me CABINET, however. assert that seri-
Gus discord has not manifested itself
The project Of NJ. StiChinsky has not
yet been submitted to the ministry in
toto, and preliminary discussion Of It
realized no strong current against it.
Executions Suspended.
The liberal organs also give credit to
a report that the emperor in difference
10 the sentiment Of the lower house. has
decided to suspend executions pending
the enactment Of law aboIIshiug
them; but the Tumor finds answer in
the dispatches from Warsaw. where
che man was hanged Saturday for an
$3.50 vi q poticSiiioli' anu AtuE nav y
been condemned to death for sacking
the township treasury. and from Riga
where q COurt-martial of thirty-six
members Il the fighting band Of revo-
IutiOnists has condemned to death sew
en- men. among them being the leader
known throughout The whole of the Bal
tic provinces as Napoleon" and TWEEN
" TO imprisonment from three TO fifteen
yea.s.
The ele5 tiUns IN the Caucasus are
everywhere going IN favor # the social
democrats.
The agrarian d5orders are steadily
spreading in widely separated locali-
ties, and the government. though Il
hoastcd of its ability to prevent dis
tUrtances this year, is unable to cope
with them
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
THREE BOMB THRoWERS.
Attempt to Explode Dynamite in
Heart of New York.

New York. June 10.-An attempt was
made tonight to explode a bomb in man.
hole Of the Iuterborough Rapid Transit
company in front OF the power-house at
East Seventy-fourth street which fur
nishes current TO the subway. One man.
Joseph Bartky, - years of age. was ar
rested. the police say. as he was about
TO light the fuse Of the bomb AS it lay
on the manhOle cover Two companions
Who were with him escaped. On Bartky
were found three other bombs all being of
Uniform size. The shape Of a baseball but
4 little larger. The prisoner declared that
he and his friends had found the bombs
at pleasure resort today and brought
in trent Of the power. house to do this.
As the feed wires which ross through
the manhole in question carry the main
current for the subway. q wrecking of
'he hole would probably have put the uu-
foreground road QUE Of commission for
many hours.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
THE NEWEST POSE,
Denver Republican,

tDenNer RepuDucan.l
If you've tried to make q hit
With a kindly sort n wit.
And you find you cannot score with hu.
NOR mellow.
Try another tack instead
Be a bear with q sore head
Be a regular Bernard Shaw Of a fellow.
Tell the world that black IS white.
And that day is merely night,
And that moonlight is but lamplight. fit.
tered yellow.
Break divine and human rules,
Call all other people fools
Be a regular Bernard Shaw OF a fellow.
When you start to Criticse.
Curse all art beneath the skies.
And your advertising very soon will tell
oh;
Do not stop your game half way
Kick and bite and cut and fay-
Be a regular Bernard Shaw Of a fellow.
It's the very newest pose
You should catch Il, ere ft goes:
Just paw the air and snort and sniff and
below.
While the public thinks its great.
WELD your hammer. roast, berate-
Be a regular Bernard Shaw OF a fellow.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
Popular Errors.

The young man in the bureau Of infor-
nation SAID with a sign:
Popular errors, Ike the sands of the
seashUrc, are innumerabie. For instance
People believe in the sign, 'TrespAss-
ers will be prosecuted They think a
trespasser. like a thief. can be arrested
and imprisoned He cant. though. He
can only be sued for any damage he
nay do.
People believe in the saying. The
darkest hour Is just before the dawning
That saying is poetry. and there is in u
about as much truth as most poetry con-
tains. The brightest hour isn't the one
Just before the sunset. Is tt? BY the
same token. the darkest isn't the one
preceding sunrise.
People believe that the hair. after t
has been cut, should be singed, so as to
seal up the ends, ami prevent the nutri-
ment from escaping They think each
hair is a hollow tube. That is not the
truth. Each hair Is solid and there is no
Uutrimeut in il that can escape when il
is cut / had my hair singed regulars
Cnce q month for eleven years. and look
at me nOW-as bald as an egg
People believe playing with hoptoads
causes warts. / never touched q hoptoad
but I was as warty a kid as you could
wish to see.
People believe crabs are latest at che
full Of the moon. They only buy them
all that time. Are you latest at the full
Of the moon? No And why should you
be? Why should a crab be, either? These
popular errors. Gett'
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
Razor strop Thermometers.

The temperature has reached %. J." said
the barber; ct can't use this Russia
leather strOp any more "
He consulted the thermometer in the
next room and found IL at o.
81 knew IL was over -. - he continued.
Tho strop Informed me. \ Russia
leather strop makes a good thermome-
ter. for at certain extremes OF heat and
cold IT ceases to work right. In winter
or summer. when your strop goes back
or you, you know how cold o. how warm
1t Is;
These Russia leather thermomete-
strops are almost Impossible to get
though, nowadays. They cost from s. 10
$40 apiece and the chances are that they
are limitations at that The real thing IL
no longer imported from Russia. The
fake has suppiant "a IL.
Here is a genuine Russia leather strop
II cost me 81. for I imported IL in the
raw state. I got from Siberia a piece Of
tanned hide. and in Oregon 7 had the
hide made into strops They were ali no
good. The leather was perfect as thick
as a blanket. and so fine YOU could not
tell which way the grain ran: but tile
Oregonian concern cut It wrong. The
strops were off. somehow. None Of them
ever worked
It had one good Russia leather strop
ten years ago. 7 paid S12 for If For its
duplicate 7 would paw 80 any dav
Since IL is almost impossible to bu,
genuine Russia leather strops. most Of as
BARRIERS buy horse hide ones. They are
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
coULoN'r kEEP LIZ ouT.

cleveland Plain DcalerD
Il had p curious dream" said the
youngest member Of the Aero club II
thought I died and went 10 heaven
A curious dream. indeed said the old
est member
Yes OF course. 7 vent IN in my bal
loon ana impelled by . favoring breeze
landed close 10 ST Peters feet who are
YOU? he asked. I told him and he shook
ihs snowy head. Your record is too well
known ne SAID. ~ cannot enter this
IN me anChor. sEs for the hint I
said and rising iu my balloon over the
walls Of Jasper. I dropped lightly on the
principal gold-payed ACKNOWLEDGMENT
the sudden bump awoke me
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
HER WEAK POINT.
lrhIcaen Nensl


The dream of suffrage had been real
feed. There were female police. After
8 desperate struggle one Of the brave
lady cops had arrested two porch
climbers single-handed-
Don't dare to resist" she Kissed: IF
You do I shall shoot"
There was an ominous click.
Don't shoot, lady" said one OF the
porch climbers suavely; Eve won't re-
sist but I just wanted to tell yer dat
during the row yer hair got mussed an
Yet hat amt on straight"
The lady cop flushed with embarrass-
ment
Gracious" she exclaimed. Where
can / find a mirror? T could never
think Of going along the street like
this Wait here until I return"
And the porch climbers slipped off in
the shadows, while the LADY COP
went 20 find a mirror.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11

said the man to the clerk won't touch
them
And the clerk picked up the rings and
ere was nissins-a 81 900 one
Wei, they accused the man. OF course.
but his defense was that he hadn t
touched a ring from the start. They sent
for cop, and the cop. in the boss pri-
vate office, searched him, TO no effect
Then they sent for me.
Il listened to the whole story carefully.
Then I looked at the man.
Hello. Slippery SAM I said. Sit
down and take off your shoes
. Curse you - said the thief, as he per-
ceived the game was up.
His right shoe had a hollow heel filled
with beeswax. In the beeswax the miss
ing ring was in1bedded."
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
The Bureau Of Information.

The average brick house lasts 100 wears.
Roquefort cheese is made OF sheep S
milk
spring.
A diet Of brown bread and fruit cures
obesity.
Digging is said TO he the wholesomest
exercise known.
Among mankind there are sixty-seven
deaths and seventy births each minute.
Crime increases and diminishes with
the rise and fall in the price of bread.
Golf balls used to be made Of g hatfUl
Of feathers compressed in an alum-cuTed
cover of leather
The number Of hairs on the head can
never be increased. out only their thick
ness. That is why there is no cure for
the totally bald.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
A QUESTION OF AGE.

IIW0 aII-II-dW oVG|IaIUT-T
Despite the fact that he is the oldest
man I'm the senate. Mr.. Pettus Of Aiaba-
ma carries his years lightly. and few per-
sons unacqUainted with the facts would
imagine him to be as old as he is.
It is related that one day the senator
observed an aged man painfully making
his way across crowded street The
Alabaman. who was on the sidewalk.
FASTENED to his assistance. When they
had reached the other side. the old man
was profuse in his expressions of appre-
citation. Il trust sir. said he with q
wan smile. that when YOU reach my age
you'll meet with many such kindly gen
tlemeu as yourself
How old are your asked the senator,
smiling.
''Seventy-one." was the reply
NV friend observed the senator, Il
am 81
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
To Keep Young-Drink Sour MIR.

Z We'll. But LOT q superb perfect SAEOp,
/ you must go to Russia
/ To Keep Young--Drink Sour MIX.
sour milk will ward off age This be-
I lief, which Old-fasniOned folk have held
I for generations, now receives the sane
I ton OF science. the sanction Of the lead
il = baCteri0lOgists of Europe
The speaker, physician. poured from
a C5rafe a glass Of thick. white fluid. I'M
inviting, lumpy-
Try thai" he said 1T is Bulgarian
sour milk. The taste is disguised
The taste, indeed, was not unpleasant
1t suggested mushrooms.
'Old age is a disease the physician
continued, which sour milk promises to
ward off for thirty for forty years. An
atomists have always held that man
should retain the VigOr Of his prime until
the age Of % or 10O. Now that we reccg-
nize senility as a disease (as an unnatural
instead of a natural cOndition), and now
that We are fighting senility instead OF
submitting TO it, perhaps in the next cen
fury the average man Of 90 Will be US
hale and spry as the average man Of %
The philosophy OF the thing7 Well.
the philosophy of the thing, put simply,
is this:
Inside us. from our birth live a host
Of evil germs-little beings with the pow
er 10 turn our hair gray. to clog our liver,
to stiffen our joints and muscles, to dim
our vision and so on I'D to the age Of
90 or so there are good germs in our
blood which keep the evil ones ir check.
But at 40 the good germs seem to lose
heart They weaken and diminish. The
evil germs multiply and strengthen. And
IN this war between the two, as the evil
faction gains ground, old age gains
ground.
Sour milk. filled with germs of fer
mentatiOn, inJroduc s these germs into
cur blood, and they at once turn and
fight for US against the evil old-age
germs. The more fermentation germs we
take in-the moro sour milk we drink
the better we keep the old-age germs I'm
subsection, and the longer We ward off
senility.
The leading scientists Of the world to-
day drink sour milk regularly. And many
OF them, at 80 or s., are as young. to all
intents and purposes, as q man of 10.
In Bulgaria sour milk is daily drink
Of the people. Sour milk Is 10 Bull
earian what beer is 10 q German. And il
is a fact admitted everywhere that the
Bulgarians are the lCngeSt-lived people
In the world"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
A BanefuI Modern Influence.

THE influence Of these here golf girls. -
said old Farmer COrnhgsk. spells ruin.
downright ruin. Take my darter Sal for
sample. SAILS got a-holt o. sech COL
durn fancy golf girl notions tibet. by
jinks, it's all I can do any more to cit
her out O bed by in the mornin' Along
o that, it's nigh on to impossible to
make her milk the COWS and feed the
pigs and chickens fore breakfast, an
last week she actually kicked cause 7
told her TO clean the stable.
IT'S all these tarnsi golf girl uotionz
SaPu be raisin' thunder next II I don +
let her quit work sharp at SHUTDOWN"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
Where the Sea Disappears.

An American girl was recently over
taken and drowned by the incoming tide
or the west coast Of France. A trans
planted Breton said Of this fatality:
Can you, who see your own tides
crawl in at the rate Of ten feet or so an
hour. imagine tides racing like wild
white horses up the flat sands at the rate
Of half a mile a minute?
The extraordinary flatness Of our Bre-
ton &C asts gives us treCe phenomenal
tides. The sea, in certain places does not
rise and fall It appears and disappears.
You have a vast and flat plain Of sand
At a set hour the sea rushes in. white
wild, submerging this vast plain. At a
set hour an unseen hand sucks back the
waters-back thirty. forty. fifty miles
and nothing is visible but the plain Of
pale sand again.
Woe unto such as walk on this desc
late plain when the tide begins to rise
for they must drown. Nothing can save
them
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
DR.. VAN DYKE ALSO
CONDEMNS MUCK-RAKEF

Princeton. y J.. June 10-The bacca-
laureate sermon uf Princeton's commence
ment was delivered TODAY in Alexander
hall BY Dr. Henry Van DYKE
Voices OF despair are heard he said.
crying that aU Is rotten On the other
side he said conservative and soothing
voices are heard protesting against the
tempest. He condemned the muck rak-
err and said
If indeed the age be critical. suspicious,
CensoTious let us then strengthen our
selves by the cont1giou Of virtue 10 Dlay
the better part Let as cast in our lot
rot with the destroyers. but with the full
filters
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
TO A MILLIoNAIREss.

birmingham (Ala) -Herald.)
Sweet Susie. Say that youll be mine,
7 seek you for yourself alone.
A SumptuouS fife does not Suit me.
I could not $stand 10 be a drone
And yet. II you Should wont TO Show
The wealth Of your affection. sue.
70 umiEft employ theSe dollar marks
And I won't fuss at you.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-11
Rigging a Thimblerigser.

'.Thimbleriggin', or the she'll game. Is
said the satlOr-'its' the same thing
three halves Of English walnut shells and
Last time I went to The races with
Uncle O'Musgrave, the actor, he was
dressed like a divine. he had no real
reason to be dressed SO. 1t was just a
whimlet O. hisn.
"A man with a shell game outfit lit on
uncle the first thing lie put Up his little
table, got out mis- pea and three walnut
shells and says, Singsong:
Here he is. the little joker. Now YOU
see him, and now you don't Which shell
is he under? That one? Correct. The
boy guessed right the very first time
But gentlemen. I'm bettin' to ], all the
same, that none o ye can find the little
joker
1t looked easy. The thimblerigger
would put the pea under a shell you L
bet it was there, and, by crinus Il woui {
be somewhere else.
a young farmer lost s. and went away
cryIn'. Then Uncle O'Musgrave stepped
Brother he says. 7 am sorelv
tempted to essay this worldly game
Do So says the swindler. It's an
easy thing for an dedicated man to beat q
SO uncle watched the pea. but dol
lar against five it was under No. she'll
lifted the she'll UP, ,snd-there she was
Uncle had won.
The thimblerigger looked amazed. He
thought he had made some mistake
- Try 1t again he says. Win another
five spot, DR.. Dowie'
SO again my uncle bet. and again he
won. The gambler swore like fury as
he paid 80,
cstiu'. Do We dare to bet me SIS to SIS
that We can find the little joker a third
time?
a sure says Uncle O.Musgrave. And
he wins again.
It's mistake" yelled the gambler
when uncle turned up the pea.
Not at all says uncle. pockCtin' the
money. No mistake about it You see. 1
always carry me own pea, TREND
The peas are soft balls c. rubber that
YOU can hide under your thumb nail
Uncle, with one o. them balls. done tho
thimblcrigger out o. S35 in great shape"