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Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-09
DRAWS LESSON
FROM EXPLOSION
INSPECTOR SEEKS REFORM
LEGISLATION
City counclImen View Wreck Made
by Igniting Low Flash OIL in
Tank Back Of Poto-
mac Block

In the explosion of a tank of fuel
oil in the rear of the Potomac building
yesterday morning. Oil Inspector
Blackmar has found an object lesson,
and during the day he took the legis-
lative committee to the scene of the
disaster and with scarcely a word
pointed in eloquent silence to the havoc
wrought by low flash fuel oil stored
In tanks.
Four weeks ago Blackmar presented
an ordinance to the city council pro-
viding for high flash test for fuel
oil stored in tanks, and the prohibition
Of the storage of any kind of oil fol
fuel purposes The ordinance was re-
ferred to the legislative committee and
this committee has so far failed to
lAct on it, claiming that 1t is a measure
favorable to the STANDARD Oil COM
pany toward which the Legislative
committee harbors the resentment OF
the general public. Blackmar claims
that the Standard is by no means the
only company doing business in this
city that can furnish a high flash OF
for fuel purposes.
The ordinance proposed by Mr.. Black
mar was for the purpose Of preventing
just such accidents as occurred yester.
day morning. Blackmar declares that
had the storage tank been inside of the
building, or in the basement, the en-
tire building would have been blown
to pieces.
Mr.. Blackmar made test of the
oil stored in this tank yesterday morn
ing and found it flashed at 112. His
recomme endation is that oil for storage
flash not lower than 100. He declares
that the oil in this tank was of ex-
cellent quality but too low in flash for
storage in such large quantities.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-09
VIRGINIA HAS CHILD PoLYeLoT

BASIC CITY, Va. Sept. S.-Miss Bes-
sic Doyle. daughter of a well known
iron manufacturing man here, is the
most accomplished linguist in the state,
and she is but years old.
Her father is a French scholar and
taught her the Language; her mother,
who is of German descent, instructed
the child In the tongue OF the father
land. and the Swedish muse carries
ON the communication with the tiny
charge In a scandinavian dialect. But
with six languages. including English.
the little girl is not satisfied. and she
declares she will master the Russian
tongue within a year, the Jewish SER
want being her instructor
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-09
WILL GIVE LECTURE TO
BIOLOGICAL SECTION

The biological section of the Southern
California Academy of Sciences will
hold its first annual meeting for the
year Monday night, September 10, at
O'Clock at the Pacific College of Os-
teopathy at Mission and DAILY streets.
The meeting will be addressed by
Prof. Miller of the State Normal school
His subject will be THE Life History
and Physiology of a California Sala-
mander Recently Taken Near Los An
geles."
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-09
APrOposition
Positively
Unparalleled
A SearChIight Town
Lot With Each 1000
Shares of Minind
Stock /!

The Duplex Extension Mining
Company will give a lot in the
Duplex Extension Addition to
the city of Searchlight to each
purchaser of one thousand shares
of Duplex Extension Mining
Company stock. This new addi-
tion is less than ten minutes
walk from Searchlight postoffice.
This property will be plated
at an early date and each pur-
chaser of one thousand shares
given ticket emitting him to a
lot. All mineral rights reserved.
The lots will be Is by possibly
100 feet. The Brockrnan Mines,
adjacent to the Duplex Exten-
sion, together with our proper
ties, will form the nucleus for a
fine addition to this fast growing
city of Searchlight, queen of
Southern Nevada.
The Duplex Extension Mining
Company reserves the right to
increase the number of shares
requisite to entitle purchaser to
a lot in the addition at any time
without notice. But this is our
offer now:
Los Angeles herald., 1906-09-09
To every purchaser Of one
thousand shares of Stock,
either for cash or on the in
stallment plan, a ticket for one
of these Lots. All who now
hold as much as one thousand
shares of this Stock will also
be entitled to a Lot.
be entitled to a Lot.

Duplex Extension Addition
will be surveyed and plated,
when parties owning these tick
cts will make their claims ac-
cording to the ticket number.
Lots in the town of Search
light are now selling at from
$4,000 to $4,000 each; the rail-
road is approaching, and higher
prices are inevitable. The COM
ing of the railroad, the activity
in the mines and development
work on this fine property will
enhance the value of the lots
which we are giving to the pur-
chasers of stock.
We have employed Mr.. Paul
Eyssenhardt to sink on the ledge
of the Duplex Extension Mining
Company and to report from
time to time progress and pros
poets. Proceeds from this offer
extraordinary go into develop
ments.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-18
The News of the Week


Jacob Hengri, residing north of Mil
ledgeville, H., committed suicide be.
cause his wife persisted in moving
from the country to Savannah.
An unknown man, who walked down
the main street of Hoboken kicking an
American flag along in the dirt, was
mobbed by indignant citizens, dubbed
by policeman, sentenced by court
and put to work breaking stones in a
penitentiary before the day was over
Using a straw to prevent disfiguring
her face, Mrs. Emma Reybert, wife of
printer, in the solemn quietude of St.
Phi1omena church at Cincinnati, com
mitted suicide with carbolic acid. She
died few minutes after being found,
but her identity was not established
until after midnight. Dependency be-
cause of her health is believed to have
been the cause of the suicide.
Twenty county Jail prisoners, com
posing the squad used in cleaning pub
lie streets at Washington, Pa, went
on a strike which lasted until they
We're supplied with their daily allow
ance of tobacco. Heretofore the coun-
ty commissioners had supplied the
prisoners with tobacco, but an order
was issued that no more be furnished
The sheriff appealed to the commits
sioners, who rescinded the order
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-18
Casualty List

The explosion of the boiler of the
feed and saw mill at Mystic. Iowa,
blew c. Il. linn over 200 feet, killing
him instantly.
Grin V. Love, a wealthy lumberman
of MehoopaIy, Pa, and his son, aged
eighteen, We're drowned in the Susaue-
hanna river at Meshoppen.
The indiana polls limited of the Wa
bash Valley Traction line collided with
an express car at Huntington, Ind,
killing Motorman c., F. Murphy of Fort
Yane and injuring several passengers.
Fire at Yakima, Wash, caused a
loss of $150,000 in the shipping dis
trict The Northern Pacific freight
depot and the Yakima Produce com
pany We're the heaviest individual
losers
While five men were crossing the
Montmorency river above the falls
near Quebec. in a boat, one of them
became frightened and leaped over,
upsetting the boat. He managed to
swim ashore but the others drowned.
A fire causing a loss estimated at
100000 occurred in the wholesale bus
mess section OF Gay street, at Knox
Vile. Tenn. The chief losers are Lit
tlfieled & Steere. candy manufactur-
ers, in whose establishment the fire
started; Mcmillan, Hazen & Co., shoe
company, clothing manufacturers.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-18
Notes From Washington.

President Roosevelt has signed the
bill recently passed by congress pro-
yiding for delegate in the house
from Alaska
The state department received the
following cablegram from the Ameri-
can consul al Hanku, China: I'm
mense flood in Human province. Great
loss of life and property. All foreign
ers safe"
message was received at the navy
department from Rear Admiral Har-
rington, commanding the navy yard at
Norfolk, saying that the battleship
Rhode Island, which ran aground Off
York Spit last week, is now lying off
Yorktown, uninjured.
The Panama canal commission had
$4,000 employees on its rolls during the
month of April. Five thousand of these
were paid in gold and $4,000 in silver.
The number of men at work exceeds
by 5000 the greatest number the
French company ever had in it's en-
ploy.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-18
DARK PRACTICES OF OIL TRUST.
Company Stopped al Nothing to Kill
Connection. Saws Witness.

Competition, Says Witness.
| Chicago, May 15.-The investigation
of the interstate commerce commits
sion into the relations between the
Standard Oil company and the rail-
roads was concluded Saturday after
noon as far as this section of the coun-
in Cleveland May "a.
| F. S. Hibbe of Peoria, for thirteen
years an employee of the Standard Oil
company, told the interstate commerce
commission a number of tricks of the
i trade" that We're used by statesmen
and agents of the Standard Oil com
pany.
The witness named five towns in Hi
nois where he had convinced Gus
toners by trickery that the oil of the
Standard company was superior, when
as a matter of fact it was inferior.
Trckery Still Practced.
"Do the agents of the Standard Oil
company still practice the tactics you
have mentioned in meeting competi-
hon?" asked Attorney Monnett.
yes, they are doing it to-day" re-
piled the witness. They pay rebates,
bride people, cut the price and substi-
tute an inferior quality of oil, and, in
fact, do anything necessary to get
business and put the competitor out of
the way"
The witness then detailed plan he
had used to make trouble and expense
for the Standard Oil company.
He would induce business man to
give him fake order for oil and
then show it later to agents of the
Standard Oil company, who would
give the man a cash present in order
to get him to buy oil from the Stand
ard Oil company, On cross-examina-
ton Attorney Miller asked:
Abandons Dirty Game.
"Are you working any of these
games you have described, now that
you are working for an independent
company"
mo. I do not have to stoop to do
the dirty things ! learned while in the
! employ of the Standard Oil company, y
replied the witness.
Mr.. Hibbs gave the names of men
whom he had bribed to give up infor-
nation of the business of the competi-
tors, and on cross-examiAation de-
ciered the Standard Oil company is
doing all of those things to-day"
Other witnesses told of bribing en-
ployes OF railroads and manufacturing
companies, and an instance was re-
lated where wire and nail mill in
Indiana was compelled to shut down
because grit had been placed in the oil
purchased of an independent concern
at the instance of salesman of the
Standard Oil company.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-18
on&ress.
~ Re,ume Of the Weeks
Proceeding.
Tuesday,.

Washington, May 9.-Aside from a
few minutes devoted to the reception
of the Allison amendments to the rail-
road rate bill and half hour given
to routine business the senate devoted
it's entire session yesterday to an in
effectual consideration of the Elllins
amendment prohibiting common car
riers from engaging in mining coal or
in the production of other commodi-
ties in competition with shippers. The
body adjourned at o'clock in a state
of confusion as to the exact subject
before it. The disorder was due to
the fact that number of substitutes
for amendments to the original amend.
ment were offered
The house devoted the day to tbs
naval appropriation bill and accom-
plished the reading for amendment of
the first fifteen pages. Several topics
incident to the measure were dis
cussed.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-18
Saturday..

Washington, May IA. = The senate
proceedings Saturday included a SEN
sational statement by Senator Till
man, covering the details of his and
Senator Bailey's negotiations through
ex-senator Chandler with President
Roosevelt regarding the rate bill, and
an attack upon the president by Sena-
tor Bailey.
Senator Lodge replied to Senator
Tillman for the president, denying the
South Carolina senator's allegations,
and Senator Carter defended the chief
executive against Mr.. Bailey.
Mr.. Tillman said that the president
had referred slightingly to Senators
Knox, Foraker and Spooner, and Mr.
Lodge replied that the president had
characterized this statement as a
falsehood
The actual accomplishments of the
day consisted of the completion of the
consideration of the Allison amend
ment, covering review by the courts Of
the orders of the interstate commerce
commission.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-18
Crimes.

Rev. G. Stewart Balm, who is in Jail
at Waterloo, N. Y, accused of setting
ire to his church, which was destroyed
March 6, claims that if he did the deed
It was a sort of Jekyll-Hyde proceed
ing.
Sam Sims, negro who Killed the
morse upon which Constable Lamar
Hendricks. who was attempting to ar
rest him, was riding, was taken from
his captor and lynched near the pub
nc road about six miles west of Jack
son, Miss.
Driven to desperation by suffering
from Bright's disease, Edwin w. Clark
Of New York, for thirty years mem
Der of the cotton exchange and man
Of wealth, shot and killed himself. He
was distantly related to the Vanderbilt
and Duer families.
In a desperate pistol fight at New
Point, Ind. Pleasant Land was shot
aad almost instantly killed, and his
brother, Winfield Land, was shot
through the head, dying a few hours
later JEFF Williams was shot also
and is not expected to live. Garfield
A. Williams and William Hare, the 9th
sr participants in the affair. were not
injured and are now in the county jail
At Greensburg. The trouble followed
1 drunken quarrel.
Over 500 citizens Of Franklin county
Miss, including the sheriff, charged
with being members of an alleged
'Whitecap" organization. pleaded
guilty before Judge Niles on the charge
Of intimidating government home
steaders, and were each assessed the
minimum fine of $25.
A tragedy was enacted in Preble
county, Ohio. Isaac Mackey, aged
sixty-fve, crushed the skull of his
brother, David Mackey, aged seventy
ave, with Ratchet, and then took poi
son in an attempt to end his own life
The assailant died, and his victim sur
vived him only few hours.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-18
FRISCO loss is $113,441,595
NEW YORK INSURANCE DEPART
MENT MAKES FIGURES PUB
Llc-QUlET SUNDAY.

Albany, n. Y, May 14-The state
insurance department last night made
public the figures showing the losses
in the recent California cont1agratlon
of the fire and fire marine insurance
companies doing business in this state
and reporting to the department. They
showed estimated net losses to total
of s113, ,595.
Breaks in Reservoirs.
San Francisco, May Is. - One OF
the causes of the destruction of the
great portion of San Francisco was re-
vealed yesterday when Mayor Schmitz
and Engineer Schusseter of the Spring
Valley Water company, accompanied
by other officials, made trip down the
peninsula to inspect the huge mains of
the water company, which furnished
the city's water supply from Crystal
Springs and other lakes.
Several big breaks were found in
the maths and thus was explained the
reason why the city was without suf-
ficient water supply to fight the flames.
The reservoirs of the company were
found to be absolutely safe and most
OF the connections were re-established.
The city is now receiving a supply
of water amply sufficient for domestic
needs and fire protection in the I'M
burned districts.
yesterday was one of unusual quiet
Ad beyond the arrest of Policeman w.
Cooney, who had secured a supply
liquor, there was virtually nothing
TO disturb the Sabbath
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-18
From Other Shores.

The governor general of Ekaterino-
slav has been assassinated by six per-
sons who fired volleys from revolvers
at him and escaped.
The barcelona police discovered an
anarchist conspiracy. There have
have been sixteen arrests and eight
bombs have been seized.
The London Daily Telegraph's St.
Petersburg correspondent says it is re
ported that Count White may be APP
pointed Russian ambassador at Paris.
The LONDON Times correspondent at
st. Petersburg says he is able to state
positively that Emperor Nicholas in
tends to select future ministers from
the national parliament and that the
Goremykin ministry is merely transi
tional
The typhoid epidemic is practically
stamped out in Mexico City, only two
cases and one death being reported.
plishcd is shown by the fact that since
Oct. there We're 1872 cases and 1888
deaths.
Archbishop Ireland left Rome.
charmed with the complete success OF
his visit. He has gained the friend
ship of the pope, who looks upon him
as an old friend, and the admiration
and esteem OF many members OF the
sacred college.
Walter Wellman has received the
consent of Norway to the establish
ment of a wireless telegraph station
at Hammerfest in connection with his
polar expedition. Mr.. Wellman is GO
ing to Paris for the purpose of testing
he airship which has been constructed
there for use in the Arctic regions
The body of man who assembled to
the second landing of the Eiffel tower
in Paris and jumped off and was kill
ed on the floor below, has been identi-
fed as that of August Braun, born in
Germany, naturalized an American cit
zen and formerly resident If Cincin-
natl. Braun's suicide is attributed to
mental arrangement.
The results of the French election
are considered chiefly important in
confirming the policy which the gov
srnment has thus far pursued. Out of
6Ol constituencies the government
mas carried 262 and the opposition 1863.
In 1856 districts there will be reballot-
ings The results in colonial districts
have not yet been reported.
1t has become known that the au-
thorities of San Domingo discovered
a plot to assassinate President CAGE
res as he was leaving the theater
Several arrests have been made. Shots
were exchanged last night near the
city between rural guards and sup
posed revolutionists. The city and
its surroundings are calm now.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-18
Domestic.

Word has been received at Lincoln
Neb., that W. j. Bryan is quarantined
in the desert on account of an out
break of the bubonic plague near Suez
A remarkable case of longevity is
disclosed in death notice announcing
the demise of Mrs. Betsy Ware. aged
1877 years. She lived in Spottsylvania
county, Va.
Chicago's freight handlers are pre-.
pairing to insist upon geenral adj
vance Of wages for all classes OF work
men. beginning June Is. A strike in
volving 5000 men is threatened.
The board Of bishops of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church issued an appeal
to the Methodist churches throughout
America, asking for jubilee gift of
s250,000 for carrying out the work of
ChristianiZing India.
William c. Owen, Shakespearean
comedian who had appeared in compa-
MES with Booth, Mccullough, Forrest
and Mrs. Fisk. died in New York He
was sixty years old and had been on
the stage for forty years.
Elizabeth Gates, ia years old, said
to be the olderst person in the state, is
dead at. Brunswick, Ga. She had been
married three times and leaves four
children, twenty-three grandchildren
and nineteen Observation-Disclosures.
r. M. Smoot. who was in the plot
to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln
and who sold to John Surratt the boat
with which 1t was intended to convey
Fort Smith, Ark, aged seventy-three
years.
c. H. Mead, general foreman OF the
car shops of the Iowa Central railway
at Marshalltown, Iowa, has been APP
pointed master car builder of the Pan
superintendent of motive power and
machinery
An epoch in the history OF irrigation
| in the West was reached when water
was turned into the first section of the
] interstate canal near Whalen, Or. The
portion Of the canal operated Is forty.
| five miles long and cost about 100000
| The two remaining sections will cost
about the same, and the reservation
reservoir and lateral systems, which
are being constructed by the govern
ment, will bring the total expense up
to s3,50O,O0o An area of approximate
ly half million acres will be reclaim
ed.
Consumption, due to illness con
tracted in the Philippines. caused the
death in New York hospital for con.
sumptives of Nicholas D. Moylan, who
laid claim to the distinction of having
fired the first shot in the engagement
of Admiral Dewey's famous squadron
! IN Manila bay, which ended in the de
struction of the Spanish feet.
| The business of James A. and VIII
] lam II. Everitt, the seedmen OF
dianapolis. who recently announced
that a combination of 100000 farmers
had been formed to hold their wheat
until 1t should bring 81 bushel, has
passed into the hands Of q receiver
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-18
TOTS PERISH IN FLAMES.
Repeated Efforts at Rescue Baffled b.
Flames.

Pittsburg, May 15.-ln fire that de-
stroyed the residence of Marcus A.
Woodward at Clifton, two children.
Margaret, twenty-one months, and
Marcus, eight months old, were
burned to death. The charred bodies
were found in the ruins. Repeated eff
forts to reach them were baffled by the
flames before which bucket brigade
was helpless.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-18
Wednesday,.

Washington, May 10.-The senate
spent the greater part of the day
again in the consideration of the ques-
ton OF divorcing the production of
coal and other commodities from their
transportation and closed that branch
of it's work by adopting modified
provision.
When the senate adjourned there
was a general feeling that the rapid
work of the latter part of the session
presages the early final disposition Ct
the bill.
After spending the greater part of
the day discussing it, the house yes
terday passed an amendment authorz-
ing the secretary of the navy to go
into the open market to purchase
anchors, chains and cordage, should it
be demonstrated that those articles
can be purchased cheaper than they
can be made at government navy
yards.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-18
koMuRA TO LONDON.
Report that Hayashi is to Be Foreign
Minister.

Toxic, May Is. - The newspapers
here assert that Viscount Hayashi, am
bassador to Great Britain, has accept
ed the foreign ministry and Baron Ko-
mura the post of ambassador at Lon
don. There has been no official an
nouncement pending the arrival of
Premier Saionii, who will return to
Toxic to-day from tour of Manchuria.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-05-18
LuNATIcs FIND CORPSE.
Body Of Suicide Found Hanging to q
Tree Near Ferrus Falls

Fergus Falls, Mimi, May Is. - The
body of Johannes Holder was found
hanging in some woods near the state
hospital here by some insane men who
We're out for exercise. 1t is clearly
case of suicide. Holder was promi-
nent farmer and there was no cause
known for the act. He had been miss
ing since Wednesday.