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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-02-01

itar blade. lfe.is stunned. His
men rush to the rescue. One is
wounded the rest take to their
horses BY this time the alarm is
sounded and the Sultana's serv.
ants come rushing in. Nicola
gains his horse aud reaches Vul-
turesti more dead than alive. All
that night he losses and mOans:
"NNretch that am! All, woe. all,
woe, is me! Such a woman! Such
eyes! God have mercy on mew He
calls Nasili. "Vasili, my faithful
one, ] have come back covered
with shame and disgrace. Vasili,
III give the three ducats if thOu'lt
counsel me once more"
yea, master, / know it all. A
superb creature, the Sultana; but
! also know that my second coun-
sci will be worth five-six ducats."
"Speak, Vasili, speak"
"When my master wins the Sui
tana he shall want to give old Vas
iii six times-yea, twenty timesas
many ducats. | will bring Cessna
RacOare; he will do your work.
At the name of Cessna Racoare"
Nicola starts. "Be it so, )" he nut
ters.
On the third day after this in
terview Cessna appeared. He was
clad in close-ftting fustian,
heavy boots and a Russian cap
well drawn over his head. His rifle
slung across his back and leading
his horse, he leisurely and sullenly
approached Nicola, who sat un
der the linden smoking his pipe.
Vasili whispered into Nicolas
ear:
. "LoOk at him, master; that fell
low will fetch you the devil him
self"
Nicola stares at Cosma; then
the latter says; "God be with |
you"
AS if waking from a dream,
Nicola answers: "The same with
thee"
"TbOu knowest what ! ask Of
thee; well, then, what is thy
price? viii fifty ducats satisfy
thee?"
EYES," answers Cessna.
"Vasili, go fetch my money
pouch"
"No, not yet; when shall have
my task you can
pay me. ! bring you the woman;
you pay me the money"
So saying, Cessna walked into
the garden, wrapped his cloak
about him and threw himself on
the grass.
"He seems the right man for
ny work; a weight is lifted off my
leart," murmurs Nicola.
AS night drew near Cessna tight
ned his stirrups and mounted his
horse. await my return III
he meadow, master" and away he
lew like an arrow.
The full moon 1ickered through
he fog, enyeloping hills and for
,st in a gossamer shrOud. Only |
he clatter of the horses feet
,roke the dead silence. On reach
ng Frasini he found the outer
rates locked. After repeated
,nockings a voice from within
ried: "WhO is there"
"Open the gate" Numbered
josma.
Then, inpatient at the delay, he
.alls out. at is /, Cessna Ra-
Oare."
A light is seen fitting by, then
he sound of voices, and at last the
otis are withdrawn. Cessna en-
ers. He finds the house door
pen. "A woman without fear"
e mutters. His steps resOund
trough the long, dark corridor.
door is thrown open and there
n it's threshold stands the Sui
ma, radiant as before, clad in
hite, and flowing hair, her hand
.utching the scimitar. =
"Who art thou? What seekest
lou here| she cried. :,
81 came to carry you off and take .
on to Nicola Zamfiride," an
yered Cessna. =
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-02-01

A passenger trains daily. Through
services to and from Chicago, Mat
toon, Evansville and Cairo without
change. j. B. MALLON, Agt.,
Hopkinsville, Ky
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1906-02-01
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23

mining almost inconceivabie tonnages
Of ore. In the superior iron deposits
a single shovel has loaded 41i0 tons
from the stock pile in 1886 minutes.
Three shovels have loaded $4,000 tons
from the natural deposit in ten hours,
and many other equally remarkable
records have been made.
Forty pounds Of black sand taken
from Placer, Josephine county, Ore
gon, yielded oversize on 10-mesh screen
18 pounds ounces, which in turn
yielded 1874 grams of gold nuggets.
The undersize, through 10-mesh
screen, yielded 11.6 grams of nugget
gold. The total weight, 25,S54 grams,
would be worth, II pure, s16.s4, giving a
value per ton Of sS42.
It is quite probable that recent esti-
mates Of iron ore reserves over the
world and particularly in the United
States do not sufficiently take into ac-
count the low grade deposits Of iron
ore. It Is more than likely that lower
and lower grade deposits must and will
be worked and that the economics of
iron mining will undergo great changes
in the next decade.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
BONIFACE GETS POINTERS
IN LOS ANGELES HOTELS
MAJESTlC'S OWNER TO BUILD
NEW HOSTELRY
Gustave Mann Figures on Erecting
100000 Structure and Working
His Forces on Ediflce Twenty-four
Hours Continuously

Gustave Mann, proprietor of the
Majestic hotel, San Francisco, is in
Los Angeles with his architect, Ernest
Coxhead, to observe the construction of
the hotels here.
He intends to erect a 320-room hotel
across the street from the Majestic on
the southwest corner of Sutter and
Cough streets. The new structure will
be the finest hotel in San Francisco
when 1t is completed, and by working
three shifts of men twenty-four hours
a day the hotel will be finished in eight
months.
1t is to cost $500, O0O
Mr.. Mann is staying at the Alexan-
dria during his visit to Los Angeles.
He said yesterday:
II have the greatest possible amount
of confidence in the future of San
Francisco. I believe that the new San
Francisco, which is even now being
built, will far surpass the old city in
beauty.
when the city was destroyed the
Zinkand cafe, one of my most valua BILE
properties, was burned. The faith
which has made me build the Majestic
and the Zinkand has been the factor
which causes me to build a new hotel
of the size that the enterprise is to be. -
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
PUSHING TRACTION PROJECTS
San Bernardino Valley Work Is Going
Ahead Rapidly

The traction officials in San Bernar-
dino are considering plan to build a
loop line in the northern end of the city
on Base Line and e streets to connect
with the present d street lire. which
would avoid the double tracking of D
street line. BY that plan 1t would be
possible to operate cars in that portion
of the city and also to handle the inter-
urban cars from the Arrowhead line for
years without double tracking.
The traction officials have also about
completed the right of way for the
Riverside extension of the lines of the
San Bernardino valley Traction COM
pany from San Bernardino. The ques-
ton Of crossing with the Southern
Pacific at Cotton has been taken up
by the officials of that company and it
is expected to have the matter adjusted
within a month.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
WELCOME ADVENT
OF IRON HORSE
THE SALT LAKE SYSTEM HAS
WORKED WONDERS
Southern Paeflcs Refusal to Accent
Lumber Because Of Congestion
Embarrasses Certain Inter.
ests-Traetion News

E. r. Stewart, owner of the Stewart
ranches near Las Vegas, which with
the ranches at Parump and Manse, are
the oases on the great southern Me-
Vada desert, tells of the wonderful de-
Velopment In Los Angeles trade terri
tory-Nevada.
Mr.. Stewart, like many others, re-
marks that had the San Pedro, Los
Angeles e. Salt Lake system been built
twenty years ago the desert sections
would now bloom.
Senator Clark and General Manager
Wells recently inspected this district.
in which much interest centers be-
cause the Las Vegas e. Tonopah, the
branch of the Clark line from Las
Vegas to Bullfrog, is being rushed to
completion.
Before the advent of the railroad we
who lived in the Las Vegas district
were just like Robinson Crusoes away
off on an island" said Mr.. Stewart.
The building of the railroad will
bring hundreds of people to the south
ern Nevada desert and get the results
of the extensive mining development
out.
There is quite a mining boom on in
Las Vegas and vicinity at the present
time. Mining is looking up, not only
in one zone, but all over the southern
Nevada country, from the Las Vegas
wash as far south as the Needles. 1t
is the best mineral zone l was ever in,
and have been in the best camps that
Colorado ever boasted of.
when | say the best mineral zone
L mean that more mineral is shown
and in larger veins, and all that is
needed is development"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
LIKES THE EFFORT SYSTEM
Harrington Emerson, Who Devised II,
Wits Santa Fe Shops

Harrington Emerson, consulting en-
gineer tc President E. P. Ripley of the
Santa Fe railroad and the personal
representative of a number of Holland
stockholders in the railroad, is looking
over the shops at San Bernardino and
investigating conditions generally.
Emerson is the author of the Emer-
son premium system, or Individual eff
fort system, as it is known in some
quarters, now in use in all the shops
of the Santa Fe system and which is
said to be working satisfactorily, hav-
ing to great extent solved the prob
lem of reducing the cost of maintain
ing running expenses and at the same
time permitting the shopmen to in
crease their salaries. The effect is,
however, to reduce the number of men
employed, as the men do more work
and make more wages.
The system has worked so satisfac-
torily that it is being extended to ev-
cry department of shop work all over
the entire Santa Fe system
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
NEW TRAIN SHED WRINKLE

We'll, said a stay at-home Manhat-
tanite, I've been travelling again; and
this time 1 got as far away as Orange,
N j., by the Lackawanna railroad, and
on this trip 1 discovered two things that
were new-to me, anyway.
"One of them was the new train shed
that the Lackawanna folks are putting
up in Hoboken. There may be a mil
lion such train sheds in various parts
of the world for all know, but 1 never
saw anything like it before, and as far
as | can see it's bird
Instead of building a great lofty
train shed. with giant high springing
arches supporting single soaring
widespreading roof covering all the
station tracks, they are putting up
here train shed with roof composed
of series of comparatively low arches,
each covering only two tracks and the
platforms on either side of them but
these arched roof sections, ranging
side by side and joining, form all to-
gether a continuous roof over all the
tracks.
"The train shed is, Of course. of iron
and steel construction, while the
greater part of the roof of each section
is of glass, as might have been ex-
remarkable uniform feature of all the
roof sections appears.
"Over each and every track in the
station there is a long, continuous slot
In the roof which comes directly over
the top of the smokestack of any loco
motive that might be on the track be-
meath, so that on whatever track In 1t
or In whatever part OF the train shed
an engine might be standing the gases
and smoke from its stomkestack would
be discharged not into the station, but
up through that slot in the roof above
1t into the outer air.
II am not railroad man, but /
should say that this must be the very
latest and most up-to-date thing In the
way of train sheds.
THE other new thing saw yas a car
window that you don't have 10 push up.
In a car fitted with windows OF this
sort you find projecting inward from
the side OF the car just below the win
dowsill two little metal punch pieces
like those you find on the bottom of a
stick OF some window shades. You
press these two little punch pieces to-
getheT between the thumb and finger
and up flies the window, or you can
stop the window wherever you want to
by releasing your hold on them. To
me, anyhow. this automatic car window
was an interesting novelty. New York
Sun
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
MERGING WITH LOS ANGELES

The Los Angeles city and county con-
solidation plan will have to be side
tracked for a time. That fact is gem
orally recognized. Governor Pardee
made the sidetracking necessary by his
refusal to permit legislation needful for
the consolidation project. No headway
on the consolidation line can be made
until the legislature approves a con-
stitutional amendment bearing on the
subject, which amendment will have to
he subsequently ratified at a regular
biennial election. That situation prac-
tically shunts consolidation until after
the election of 1908, and possibly much
longer
Fortunately, however the syco-
phancy of Governor Pardee in turning
down Los Angeles at the command of
his political bosses in San Francisco,
does not estop this city from one of the
chief objects sought to be attained by
city and county consolidation. The
plan for simplifying local government
In city and county, with all its eco
nomic advantages, is postponed per-
force. There is no obstacle, however
in the way of carrying out the plan for
the jointure of Los Angeles and the
harbor cities, together with the inter-
mediate territory.
Neither Los Angeles nor the harhor
cities can afford TO wait for the tedious
process of obtaining legislation needful
for consolidation. All the communities
involved would be benefited immensely
and Immediately by a union making
Los Angeles part of a harbor city, and
that would give to the present harbor
cities the protection and backing neces-
sary for their development
But Los Angeles is less vitality con-
cerned than the port cities in this mat
ter. With Los Angeles the issue is only
question of time, but concerning San
Pedro and Wilmington it is a question
of existence. This aspect of the ques-
tion is revealed, in an interview with
a member of the consolidation COM
mission published in Fridays Herald
The commissioner says: San Pedro
has the harbor at present, but unless
a decided change in conditions is
brought about before long 1t is likely to
find'its harbor in the hands of a state
commission"
That is the danger as pointed out
above that would be obvated by "the
protection and backing" Los Angeles
would give, the potency of which is
unquestlonable.
1t is obviously the better policy, there
fore, to drop the consolidation project
temporarily and instead push the plan
of the jointure between Los Angeles and
the port cities. including the inter-
yening territory. There is no need for
special legislation as prerequisite
to that plan. To accomplish such a
merger 1t Is necessary only that the
people OF the several communities
oficially declare their wish therefor by
the voting process.
Los Angeles is ready for the question
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
coMPLIcATEs LUMBER TRADE
Espee Portland Agents Ordered to
Refuse to Accept Cars

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 22.-The
Southern Pacific has issued an order
to its agents in Portland to refuse all
lumber consigned to this city.
The railroad officials say there are
about 5000 lumber cars waiting here
to be unloaded and they cannot con-
sign any more of the material from
the north till these cars have been
emptied.
According to the Southern Pacific
officials, the congestion of freight here
has caused a great shortage of cars in
Portland They say it is very hard for
them to handle their freight business
in the north, owing to the conditions
existing in San Francisco
This state of affairs will make it diff
cult for the contractors and others to
obtain lumber.
The strike on the water front tied up
the lumber trade greatly, and now that
the Southern Pacific refuses to haul
the material from the north the situa-
tion is even more complicated.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
OPERATES ON HILL ROADS
Northern Express Company Formed by
Railroad Officials

A new express company has been or
ganized at st. Paul. known as the
Northern Express company, and is to
constitute a consolidation of the Great
Northern and the Northern Pacific ex-
press companies.
1t will operate over all the Hill roads,
including the Burlington.
The officers of the new company are
all officers of the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific roads. j. M. Hanna
ford, second vice president of the North
ern Pacific, is president, and j. II. Hill,
vice president of the Great Northern, is
treasurer.
The Burlington has a contract with
the Adams Express company, which will
soon expire. 1t will not be renewed, but
the new company Will succeed to the
business on the Burlington
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
NICE TO OWN SANTA FE STOCK
Eleven Per Cent Interest in Sight on
Common

Santa Fe railroad stock is pretty good
paper to have slowed away in your
little black box.
For the fiscal year of 1906 the reports
of the Santa Fe showed earnings on the
common stock equivalent to 5.92 per
cent.
Those who are intimate with the con-
dition of the road say that the report
for the year 1906 will show that the
earnings of the Santa Fe will give over
II per cent in the common stock.
The next dividend action on the COM
mon stock will be taken on the first
Wednesday in October and the earnings
seem to indicate that one Of per cent
will declare in the common stock
The total earnings of the Santa Fe for
the year ought to come up to 13 per
cent on the '$102, 100000 Outstanding COM
mon stock.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
SHRINERS COUNT ON
TWO THOUSAND GUESTS
FIELD AND AQUATIC SPORTS TO
MARK NEXT OUTING
Coupons viii EntitIe Guests to a
Series Of Treats From Skates to
Launches and From Beach to
Dancing Pavilion

Everything in the way of entertain
ment and amusement that the resort
affords has been included in the ar
rangements of the visiting Shrlners
club of Los Angeles for the organiza-
tons first annual outing, to be held in
Playa del Rey next Saturday.
Charles Hathaway, president of the
club on the strength of his word that
no fewer than 1000 persons would attend
the affair, has induced the railway peo-
pie to put a special rate into effect for
the day. and with every transportation
ticket will be included coupons emitting
the holder the free use of roller skates
bathing suits and dancing pavilion, as
well as launch rides and row boating.
There will be an open program Of field
and aquatic sports and there will be
special events for members of the cluE
only.
Los Angeles merchants have contrib
uted literally in the matter of prizes, a
handsome leather Shriners' pillow from
Samuel e. Faroat heading q long list
which includes merchandise of almost
every description.
The following committee has the ar
rangements in hand: Charles Hatha-
way, ]. l. Walker, r. G.. Craig, C. w
Lyke, e. D. Hyde, o. F. Crockett, w. H
Phelps c. C. Adams, H. D. Underwood
A w. Crawford, ]. N. Gage G. S
Crump, H. w. Frank, l.. f. Clawson
e. p. Lapham Leo Younsworth, 1. D
Sedgwick. A. G. Lowe, C. F. Hurd, J. q
Adams, j. Jepson. DR.. G.. C. Clark, S. 3
Cooke, 7. Lowenstein, DR.. w. A. Smith
d. w. Coat, Marco Hellman, Stacy
Lamb, ]. Klipper, A. E. Moro, G.. n
Sceets, Charles Rainier. ]. Conlisk, T
Chester, F. A. Butler and ]. w. Som.
merville.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
SAN FRANCISCO GRAFT

1t begins to appear. from recent de-
velopments, as though some Of the
grating which has been so characteris-
tic Of the Ruef-schmitz regime in San
Francisco were coming to the surface.
The stencil from the recent row in the
police board should be unbearable.
With the odor also arise distinct and
specific accusations of graft against
schmitz-which of course include Ruef.
These have kept this precious pair
lodging nightly, but as nearly every
day brings a fresh broadsde this
doesn't seem to help the mayor and
his master much.
The expose came about through row
between the mayor and former board
member. henchman and supporter.
which is its weakest point. still. the
secrets Of these Vaccinations could
hardly have been revealed save through
some such method. So they must be
taken on trust, of course; one must
hold ones nose over their source while
at the same time admitting their very
evident truth.
Ex-Commissioner Reagan, who refus-
ing to do the mayors and the masters
bidding, refused also to resign and was
fired" is the source of the present dis
closures. Mr.. Reagan says specifically
that he was let out because he wouldn't
go in on a Schmitz- z-Ruef scheme to
mulct saloon dealers $25 a barrel on
fhpfr x2l1fclfy for he
The mayor says "'tain't so"; that
Reagan was in business that per-
mitted saloonists to purchase supplies
from him. Mr.. Reagan's Irich gets up
and he asks pointedly about several in
cidents when he had to "stife his con-
science" in order to permit Of Schmitz-
Ruef hold-ups-notably that of the
French restaurants, when they were
ordered closed, and IT cost them $50, 600
to learn from Lawyer Abe that they
might reopen a. hotels" He notes
many cases wherein lists of licenses
were made UP in the mayors office and
passed out, typewriter, to the COM
missioners for approval-and they dare
do nothing else. Other pointed Incl
dents of like care f-r their action and
labor saving by Gchmitz and Ruef are
quoted, and then the assurance is given
that only a beginning has cen made;
that Reagan hasn't really started.
All of which must be very refreshing
though not at all novel reading for San
Francisco All of it was told freely
during the last mayoralty campaign,
when, despite it, Schmitz (anG Ruef)
was reelected The only gratifying
thing about the present rehas is that
it confirms on the word of a participant
the tales of graft and unlimited rotten
ness which were practically known be-
fore the hold-up of the French cafes. the
bilking of the saloons, the robbery of
dissoute women, the fattening on their
miserable earnings and the incessant
levying of tribute wherever a dollar
could be wrung out.
Mr.. Reagan may have only tolerable
motives in his expose: the muck may
besmear his own hands also. But he has
done some real service in confirming
on the word of an accessory what every
one already knew by hearsay evidence.
And what mess of filth he has stirred
up! What a charming candidate for
Republican governor the Schmitz- Ruef
hydra will make,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
For SANE PEOPLE TO PONDER

When the municipal ownership expert
from Glasgow investigated conditions
in Chicago, at the instance Of Mayor
Dunno the glst of his conclusion was
this: "Chicago is not fitted for success
full municipal ownership" The funda-
mental elements which make such own
ership a success In the Scotch city, as
pointed out by this expert, are lacking
in Chicago. II is said that the expert,
after his return to Glasgow, expressed
his conclusion i'm a figure of speech
peculiarly appropriate: You might as
we'll try to make a whistle Of a pigs
tail as to make public ownership Of
utilities successful in Chicago"
What constituted the impossible OBJ
staole, as seen by the expert, resulting
from the difference in conditions OBJ
served in the two cities? There is no
such thing as graft in the municipal
affairs of Glasgow" said the Scotch
man, leaving It to be inferred that there
was no such thing in Chicago as munic-
ipal management without graft. He
alluded to the dominance Of political in
fluences, with all the venallty appurte-
nant thereto, as fundamental and in
surmountable obstacle to successful
public ownership. And as such basic
conditions are found in other American
cities, to greater or less extent. the ex-
pert's conclusion concerning Chicago is
APPLICABLE to all of them.
However, the people of this country
seem determined to try the experiment
Of municipal ownership of certain pub
lie utilities. This movement should not
be allowed to fall into the corrupt hands
of Hearst and his riotlng myrmidons,
but should be guided along safe and
sane channels by responsible and think
ing men of affairs who have no axes to
grind or political aspirations to foster;
and 1t should be remembered that the
experience of Philadelphia tends to
prove that municipal ownership, with
private operation under the safeguards
of adequate municipal regulation. is as
far as the experiment can safely go in
this country under present conditions.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-23
NEW ENGLAND AMENITIES

Two New England farmers met al
the postoffice one morning.
"Mornin' ST."
"Mornin' JOSH"
my hoss is ailin', ST. What did you
feed you'rn on when he wus ailin'?"
"Benzine, JOSH"
"Mornin' ST."
"Mornin' JOSH"
Two days later:
"Mornin' ST."
"Mornin' Josh"
Say 81, my hoss died.
80 did mine, Josh"
"Mornn' ST."
"Mornin' Josh. Everybody Maya
zine