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Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
NEGROES
FIRE ON
WHITES
Mississippi Militia Is
Called to Quell
Riots
Serious Race War Feared
in Southern
States
Two Men Reported Killed In Race
Uprislng-Negro Shoots officer
Who Attempts to Ar
rest Him
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
MERIDIAN, Miss, Dec 24.-Accord-
ing to reports received here tonight the
negroes for miles around have congre-
gated in the town of Wahlak, forty
miles north of this city, and all during
this afternoon have paraded the streets,
threatening vengeance on the whites
because of the killing of one negro and
the wounding of another by con-
ductor of passenger train of the
Noble & Ohio railway yesterday morn
ing while the latter was attempting to
quell disturbance aboard his train.
At Wahlak scarcely more than
twenty-five white people reside, ond in
response to plea for protection bat
terry l and ompany D of the state
militia, stationed in this city, have been
ordered to proceed to the scene with all
dispatch.
They left on board a speci u train
and should reach Wahlak by Midnight.
The battery carried a Gatling gt n and
all the men are heavily armed.
At $3.50 a. m. message from Scoo, a,
the first station south of the scene of
the trouble. stated tl-at a clash had
occurred between the races with the re-
suit that two white men were killed
| This report, however, is not verified,
although railroad officials admit re-
| ceiving message detailing some ad-
| ditional trouble.
The trouble yesterday morning took
place between Wahtak and Scooba in a
| fight between two negroes. Conductor
Cooper, who was in charge of the train,
attempted to separate the combatants
when he was attacked by a negro
known as Spencer.
After receiving several knife wounds
Cooper fired on his assailant, seriously
wounding him, and killed an unknown
negro.
When Wahlak was reached Spencer,
though badly wounded, left tie train,
and when Constable O'Brien of that
place attempted to arrest him the negro
shot the officer.
Spencer then escaped to the woods
with posse in pursuit. At last reports
the negro had succeeded in evading his
pursuers.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
PLEADED GUILTY, BUT NOW
DEMANDS TRIAL BY JURY
BY Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 24.-Aleging
that when he pleaded guilty to the MUIR
der of NJ. Munakata, the manager Of a
local Japanese bank, he was of un-
sound mind, and that the plea was en-
tered without due deliberation through
inadvertcnce and ignorance of the law
and facts, Louis Dabner, through an
attorney, today filed a motion with
Judge Carroll Cook to withdraw the
plea of guilty and substitute one of not
guilty.
Whether the granting of such a mo-
ton Is sanctioned by law will be argued
before Judge Cook Thursday morning
at 10 o'clock.
In support Of his attorneys motion
Dabner was placed on the witness
stand. lie swore that he was Is years
old; that until ten months ago he had
been guided solely by his fathers ad-
vice, and that when he confessed to
his share in the killing Of Prietzner
Friede and Munakata he had intended
to convey the meaning that he was
present with Siemsen when the MUIR
ders we're committed.
The testimony of William Dabner, the
father of the young man, was even
more remarkable. He swore that GER
tain attorneys had advised him that If
his son pleaded guilty he would still be
entitled to a jury trial and would es-
cape the death penalty.
The courtroom was crowded today
with men and women who struggled
to get a glimpse of the young man
who is charged with participating in
the crimes that terrorized San Fran
cisco few months ago.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
INSANITY PLEA
SAVES MURDERER
Youthful Slayer of His Parent Saved
from the GalloWs, but Will
Be Sent to insane
Asylum

BY Associated Press.
SPOKANE. Wash. Dec. 24.-"Not
guilty by reason of insanity" was the
verdict returned today by the jury in
the case of Sidney Sloane, the 1S-year-
old boy charged with the brutal mur-
der Of his father, James F. Sloane, a
pioneer merchant of Spokane.
The trial, which lasted five weeks,
was the longest and most sensational
ever held in a Spokane court.
1t was clearly proved that on the
night of August % the boy came be-
hind his father, who was eating a
midnight lunch, and struck him six
terrible blows on the head with an
AK. He then took money from the
dead mans pocket, picked up the
corpse, carried it down stairs, loaded
1t into a wheelbarroW trundled it
about two blocks and dumped the body
of his father in an alley. Returning,
he made a clumsy effort to wash the
blood from the rugs and floor of the
room. He ate part of an apple and
calmly went to bed. When the body
was found next morning the son was
arrested and confessed the crime. He
said he became enraged at the things
his father said about his mother
The defense claimed the boy had
shown signs of insanity from infancy.
After the verdict of mot guilty"
young Sloane arose as if to leave the
court room, but was stopped. His at
torney, f. c. Robertson. desires that
the boy shall be sent to the insane
asylum and this doubtless win be done.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
RESCINDS ORDER TO
CLOSE OIL WELLS
By Associated Press.

MUSKOGEE, I. T., Dec. 24.-Indian
Inspector j. George Wright yesterday
received notice from the interior de-
partment resembling the recent order to
shut down all oil and gas wells in the
Usage nation. The wells, with the ex-
ception OF three, were closed by depu-
ty marshals a few days ago.
The first order followed an investiga-
tion by the government, it being
charged that over 1890 acres had been
leased to one company or operator,
which Is against the rules and regula
tions of the department.
The order resembling the recent order
from the interior department would in
dicate that the department Is either
convinced that the oil men are operat-
ing in good faith. or that the depart
ment is waiting for more information.
The latter is more likely, as the Indian
inspector is preparing a report on the
oil and gas situation in the Usage ma
tion at the request of the secretary 'of
the interior.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
THREATEN RETALIATION IF
FORCED TO CLOSE SALOONS
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-,rhe Tribune to-
Gay says:
A puritanical Sunday for Chicago
with idle street cars and elevated rail-
roads out Of commission and no news
pepers and Sunday theaters or even
sacred concerts is the retaliation threat
ened by Alderman Michael Kenna If he
IS forced to close his saloons on Sunday.
This will be the last resort II the al
derman and other saloon keepers are
compelled to close on Sundays. It will
be taken II Mayor Dunno is directed to
obey the state law under the manda-
mus proceedings In Judge Frost's court
next Friday.
The alderman will be backed to the
fullest extent by the united societies
for local f-government.
Resolutions demanding a provision in
the new city charter for home rule on
the Sunday saloon question was
adopted at a large mass meeting of
Bohemian citizens held yesterday.
Mayor Dunno and Alderman Kenns
will be compelled to show reason in
Judge Frosts court next Friday why
the mandamus should not be issued on
petition Of the Sunday Closing league
The most interesting thing in connec-
tion with the fight between the liquor
interests and the personal liberty or
ganization on the one hand and the
reformers on the other is the announced
declaration of an intention, as a final
resort, to invoke the blue laws of IL
linois. If the broad principle that the
cosmopolitan population of Chicago has
right to drink its beer on Sunday is
beset too sorely.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
WRECK VICTIMS NOW
NUMBER F0RTY-FIVE
BY Associated Press.


ST. PAUL, Dec. 24.-So far as the Off
cials of the 500 line have been able to
learn, they say only nine We're killed
in the wreck at Enderlin, N. D., Sunday
morning.
1t was reported late this afternoon
that two of the injured had died, MAX
ing the total death list eleven, but the
Associated Press was informed this
evening that this report was untrue.
The latest report received indicates
that forty-flve persons We're injured,
and of these twenty-four were classed
among the seriously hurt but 1t has
been almost impossible to learn the
extent of their injuries, as the railroad
officials refuse to give out the informa-
tion.
The coroner returned a verdict bold
ing the crew OF the freight train re-
sponsible for the wreck and severely
censuring the 500 road for alleged neg
ligence in placing inexperienced men
in positions where their failure to per-
form their work properly had resulted
in considerable loss of life.
In the list of passengers who were
subjects of medical attention appears
the name of Madge Langland of Deco
rah, Iowa All the other injured, num-
berng twenty-three, are residents Of
Minnesota North Dakota and Canada.
The revised list Of the dead is as fol-
lows:
II. j. VOLKERING, Annamoose,
D. F. BEREsFoRD, Medicine Hat,
Canada.
HER AN ROSEBAUM, Velva, N. d.
w. r. DANIELSON, Sheldon. N. ID.
NEILS HANSEN, Kenmare N. ID.
OLE THOMPSON, Tarbuck.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
Eighteen Injured in
Southern Pacific
Wreck
Coaches Plunge Seventy.
five Feet Down En-
bankment
Holiday Crowds Shaken Up In Aeei-
dent at Birmingham Siding,
Near San Jose-None
Are Killed
BY Associated Pross.

BY Associated Pross.
SAN JOSE, Dec. 2-Eighteen per-
sons were injured, several of them seri-
score passengers severely shaken up
this morning at 10 o'clock when two
day coaches and the baggage car of
Southern Pacific train No. 502, bound
for Oakland to Wrights, left the track
on a curve near Birmingham Siding
and plunged seventy-hve feet down an
embankment.
That many were not killed outright
is due to the fact that the train had
slowed down before it struck the curve,
where it is supposed that spreading
rails caused the accident.
The baggage car and engine had
passed safely around the bend, when
the second car broke its coupling and
plunged down to the river channel, fol-
lowed by the smoker and chair car,
both of which were we'll filled with
passengers.
The baggage car was thrown over a
hundred feet from the place where it
left the rails and turned over on its
The passenger coaches slid gently off
the right of way seventy-five feet be-
low the track.
Many were able to find their way out
of the wreck, crawling through broken
windows or along slanting ceilings to
the doors.
The injured were removed in the bag
gage car, which remained on the rails,
to- Los Gatos, where the Lyndon hofel
was thrown omen to them
Among the injured were:
e. H. Stoldt, San Jose; Mrs. e. H.
Stoldt, both painfully injured; Mrs.
Mary Howard and Willis M. Howard.
mother and son. Oakland; Baggage
man Howard Antrim T. ]. Evans,
Wrights; Mr.. and Mrs. George A Muir
ray, Oakland; ]. ]. Ade, San Francisco;
Miss Martha Behrens, San Francisco;
Mrs. Sillivey, Eva; ]. Bashford, Con-
ductor Sam Davis, Misses Ida and &C.
neva Pattiani, Oakland.
None of the last named received any
more serious injuries than cuts and
bruises and all received prompt medi-
cal attention at Los Gatos.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
RUFF AND OMAN ARE
ARRAIGNED IN COURT
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 24.-Chief of
Police jeremiah f. Dinan and Abraham
Ruef were arraigned before Superior
Judge Dunno today. Few spectators
were present in the court room and
only the formalities of the law were
complied with, the indictments being
read and the defendants answering to
their names. Judge Dunno then set
next Thursday as the day upon which
Chief Dinan and Mr.. Ruef are to plead
to the charge of conspiring to conduct a
resort at $50 Jackson street in alleged
defiance of the la and to the menace
of public morals.
On Friday next Chief Dinan will
plead i'm regard to the separate charge
OF perjury for false evidence given rela"
tive to the case before the jury and
upon which he was also arraigned to-
day.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
KILLED BY CAR ON
CHRISTMAS EVE
Father, Bearing Gifts TO His Baby
Boy and Girl, Struck by
Trolley and Dies In
stantIy

Bearing in his arms Christmas gifts
little Christmas tree he was taking
home to cheer their hearts, william
Campbell, bartender employed at the
saloon of w. H. Moore, Thirty eighth
and Alameda streets, was struck and
instantly killed by Slauson Junction
flyer at Thirty eighth and Long Beach
avenue at o'clock last night.
BILLY" Campbell, as he was familiar
ly known by his friends, was 80 years
of age and has been a resident of this
city for a number of years.
He lived with his wife and two chill
dren at Sixty-second and Home and
was on his way to his residence when
he was struck by the car. s
y He had passed the evening down
town purchasing presents for his wife
and children and bore them in his
arms.
It was his intention, as stated to his
friends, to surprise his children with
the Christmas tree. as they wanted
one. but he had refused to purchase
any up to last night.
According to spectators Campbell
was crossing the street when he saw
the flyer approaching.
He evidently thought he could pass
in front offit and stepped forward to
do So
AS he stepped on the track the car
came down upon him full speed and
he was thrown high into the air and to
one side.
The body was taken to Pierce Bros
undertaking parlors, where an inquest
will be held tomorrow
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
SENATOR STONE STANDS
WITH THE PRESIDENT IN
BROWNSVILLE TROUBLE
BY Associated Press

ITtSS
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Dec. 24.-SenatOr
William stone believes that President
Roosevelt did right In discharginG the
negro soldiers at Brownsville.
81 am glad to have an opportunity to
say this, but 1 wish to be understood d
right" he declared last night. 81 have
not looked into the legal phase of the
matter. 1 am not ready to give an Opin-
ion on that. But so far as the senti-
ment concerning 1t. 80 far as the offense
itself, 1 am in hearty favor of the step
taken by President Roosevelt and Sec
retary Taft"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
MYSTERY OF
WOMAN SOLVED
'"WiVes" Confess knowledge of Derey-
Ian's Motives-Connect with
Revolutionary Party Caused
Her to Assume Mae Role
BY Associh ed Press

By Associi1 ed Press.
CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-The three days
wonder growing out of the discovery
that Nicolai Dereylan, for years a
clerk to Baron Schlippenbach, Russian
consul in Chicago, was woman, a
discovery only made after her death
in Phoenix, Ariz., was solved yester-
day by the admissions of the two wo-
men with whom she lived as "hus-
band"
The motive for Dereylan's masquer-
ade which has been kept up for fifteen
years is mixed. Part of it dates back
to her early affair with girl in South
ern Russia. at the fist period of her
assuming manhood" and part of the
explanation is found in her connection
with revolutionary bunds in this coun-
try and in Russia.
Mrs. Eugenia Bruchullis Dereylan s
first wife," and Mrs. Anne Dereylan
both unbosomed themselves yesterday
in explaining the mystery"
There was no great secret dating
back to All affair" with nobleman
in Russia. The woman, Dereylan, was
of the common class of the southern
part The 11-year-old boy who has
been reported as being the read child
of the Dereylan woman Is in reality,
as Mrs. Anne Dereylan has stated, her
own child. The boy is the son of Jo-
seph Armstrong, her former husband,
and the register of the birth is in the
city hall: Armstrong appeared and
claimed the fatherhood. The reported
kidnapping" of the boy is a fiction, ac-
cording to Mrs. Dereylan.
The idea of posing as man grew
gradually with the Dereylan girl.
Trouble with her parents o. er a revo-
lutionary secret, drove her from the
home in Elizabetgrad when IS years
old. She went to the new town of
Kamnyets and there, as man won the
love of young girl, Jenya Vassilo-
witch.
Throughout all her life in America
as a man the romance clung to her
There was a diary, which Mrs. Bru-
chulis revealed, telling all the details
of this sad romance. 1t told of how the
Dereylan girl lost the love of Jenya,
referred to as my angel GIRL, through
an affair with a girl of the Neva quar-
ter in ST. Petersburg.
During the years of her double life
in New York and Chicago, and the
City of Mexico, letters constantly went
back to Russia to the "angel girl" The
girl wrote pitiful letters begging to be
brought TO this country, saying that
she would be good and true and at
one period Dereylan tried to induce
her friend. Francis Bruchulis. to mar
ry her old Sweetheart" Der eylan fled
from Russia to, escape the importuni-
ties of yenya
In tks City of Mexico Dereylan was
aid to Adolph Devreschnitz, for years
acting as Russian charge d'affaires.
After the death of Devreschnitz it was
n fIof tI,aIg
For a short time in that city Dereylan
lived as a woman, but on leaving for
New York assumed the dress and role
of a man.
In New York, feeling secure of her
deception, she married her first "wife"
and from there the story proceeds to
Chicago.
Dereylan's connection with the rev.
olutionary party is seen in her pres
ence at meetings of the west side bund
and the numerous dispatches sent to
Rui ,ia.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
RACE WAR FEARED IN ATLANTA
Mayor Offers Reward for Poster OF
"k. X. r." Notices

M m m NOtICCS
By Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga, Dec. 24.-To avoid d
possibility of any repetition of race
rioting in this city Mayor Woodward
issued an order closing all saloons in
the city at o'clock this afternoon, to
remain closed until Wednesday morn
ing.
For several weeks indefinite rumors
have been heard that Christmas was to
be made the occasion of an attack upon
the negroes in Atlanta.
No such rumor could be traced to
an authoritative source, but the effect
has been to drive many negroes from
the city.
Several "K. K. X" notices were post
ed on the streets Saturday morning
last.
While no serious consideration has
been given to these a reward of 5000
was offered by Mayor Woodward for
evidence to convict any person of post
ing these or in any way melting to riot.
The law requires that all saloons be
closed on Christmas day, but never be-
fore has the law been put in force on
Christmas day.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
INTER SLAIN COUNT
WITH FAMOUS DEAD
BY Associated Press.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 24.-The
funeral of General Count Alexis Igna-
tief, who was shot and killed at Tver
on December %, will take place on De-
cember 26. The body will be inferred
in the Alexandianevsky monastery, one
of the three largest resting places in
Russia for the country's most famous
dead.
The widow of Count Ignatief has
received kilograms of coincidence from
the emperor and empress of Russia and
from several of the crowned heads Of
Europe.
The murder of Count Ignatief has
caused CONSERVATION among number
OF ex-ofticials of the Won Plehve and
Spllaguine regimes who have retired
from the field of active administration.
They now fear that their past rec
ords Will expose them to the same
danger of belated retribution.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
WOMAN SAID TO HAVE
MURDERED 12O INFANTS
BY Associated Press.

PARIS. Dec. PA midwife, living in
the Vivienne quarter has been arrested
on the charge of systematic murder of
new born infants.
The attention of the police was at
tracted by the fact that no deaths of
children were reported from the estab-
lishment and an investigation resulted
in the discovery that the midwife
with the completely of a servant, had
cut up and burned the bodies of the
children in a big stove in the dining
room of the midwife's residence.
The evidence obtained indicates that
100 children were murdered by the wo-
man.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
THhEE KILLED IN
HEAp7ON COLLISION
BY Associated Press.

ROCHESTER,, N. Y, Dec. IA
light locomotive collided with a pas
senger train on the Buffalo, Rochester
and Pitrsburg railroad near Eagle to-
day
Michael Linn, of Rochester, engineed.
and Henry Gath fireman OF the pas
senger engine, were killed. Geo. Me-
Nally of the light engine vas badly in
iured and e. Palmer, fireman of the
light engine, is reported to have been
killed.
The smoker and baggage cars We're
smashed and the coaches were hurled
from the track but no passengers were
injured.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
YAQUI INDIANS ON RAID
MURDER EIGHT MEXICANS
BY Associated Press.

TUCSON Ariz., Dec. PA special to
the Citizen from Nogales says that the
Yaqui Indians are again on the war
path. They are said 20 have attacked
a station on the C. Y. r. & P. named
Lencho Saturday night.
Eight Mexicans were killed and sew
eral more wounded. An American sta
ton agent named Thompson and his
Wife were saved by the timely arrival
of work train. The report is con-
firmed by railway officials in Tucson.
which is the headquarters of the road
There are unconfrmed reports of other
killings last week.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
WILL CONSULT ABOUT
JAPANESE TEST CASE
BY Associated Press.

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 24.-United
States District Attorney Robert Il. Dew
lin has gone TO Washington in response
to a telegram from Attorney General
Bonaparte, who summoned him there
for consultation, presumably in con-
nection with the Japanese question.
Mr.. DeYlin's sudden departure for the
east yesterday morning did not become
known until today. At the office OF the
United States district attorney nothing
was given out about Mr. DeYlin's mis-
sion beyond the statement that he had
been summoned 10 Washington by At
torney General Bonaparte, who desired
~ consult with him ON some matter.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
WIN Select Best Army Pistol

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24,-Seeretary
Taft has appointed a board of officers
to meet January 15 at the Springfield
armory Springfield, Mass for the pur-
pose of ascertaining a design of auto
matte pistol or revolver best adapted to
fulfil the requirements of the military
service.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
Promotlons Tor chrIstmas

SYDNEY, Dec. 24.-Among the
Christmas army promotions is that of
Col. Andry, who was a member of the
court martial which retired Colonel
now GeneraD Picquart, the war min
ister
Andry is promoted from general Of
brigade to general OF division.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
WOMAN is STRUCK
BY AUTOMOBILE

A woman giving her name as Mrs.
Fem, who lives at Huntington Park,
was struck by an automobile at Sixth
and Main streets last night just as she
was coming from the Pacific Electric
depot She tainted from fright before
she was hit and could give no eXplana-
tion as to how the accident occurred.
She was only slightly bruised. but was
taken to the receiving hospital.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
COLD WEATHER AND
HIGH WINDS CAUSE
SUFFERING IN EAST
BY Associated Tiess,

NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-The
coldest weather of this winter
came today, when the thermom-
eter went down to 8 degrees. A
keen northwest wind, blowing
twenty miles an hour, added to
the suffering.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
ENTIRE SOUTH HAS
SEVERE COLD WAVE
By Assoeiated Press

WASHINGTON. Dec. 24-According
to Forecaster Henry at the United
States weather bureau the present cold
wave will continue for at least three
days.
Heavy frosts have been reported as
far south as Tampa. Fla, where the
temperature tonight was 2S above zero.
The cold wave extends throughout
the southern states
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
I-schools are out of fuel.

1-schools are out of fuel.
2-Trains collide in dense fog.
3-owens river commission reports.
4-Editorial.
5-city news.
6-sports.
7-5ryan will be given recepto',
s-Markets.
9-Classified advertisements.
1o-"Her Great Match" strikes no fire.
COAST
Miner Hicks will enjoy Christmas tree
with his rescuers.
Eighteen injured in Southern Pacific
wreck.
Serious race wars start in south.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
THREE WOMEN SURROGATE
WHILE BAKERY BURNS
BY Associated Press.

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio, Dec. "a
Fire that started in Ira Hillman's bak-
cry burned the upstair sleeping apart
ments.
Three persons were suffocated, Mrs.
Ira Hillman, aged 27; Catherine Hill
man, aged 2, and Elizabeth McCore, 1S
years old.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
RIshop Mccabe Inferred

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-The funeral of
the late Bishop Charles c., McCabe was
held today at the First M. n. church at
Evanston. The interment was In Rose
Hill cemetery.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-25
THE DAYS NEWS
FORECAST

For Southern California: Cloudy,
unsettled weather Tuesday; light
west winds. Maximum temperature
in Los Angeles yesterday, n de-
grees; minimum, 81 degrees.