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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-26

lying in a ditch with a Mauser and
Joking with his andinos as he fired.
At the news that he had no more am
munition, Castro jumped TO his feet,
shook himself and calling to his men,
before they fully realized what had
happened, led them whooping down
upon the center of the enemy.
His whole army followed. even camp
followers and women joining in the
mad rush. He was the first man i'm the
enemy's lines. with a rifle in one hand
and machete in the other. Matos' men
broke and fed, and when night came
5000 dead were lying on the field. but
revolution as a means to political pow
er was stamped out in Venezuela for
just so long as Castro lives
Meanwhile. as he crushed discord at
home he had withstood the armed men
aces Of England and Germany, and
the decision of arbitration tribunals
fully INDICATED his contention that. al
though some of the claims presented
were right and proper ones. the great
majority only existed in the magma
tons Of those who presented them
When the Matos revolution was at
it's height. one of the few accurate Oh
servers who have visited Caracas.
wrote of the position of the country:
Business is at standstill, the city is
empty, but for beggars and country
folk who have fed from desolated es-
tates. Trade is dead, money is unsafe
and valuable property is worthless be-
cause insecure. The state of affairs
will continue until Castro suppresses
the revolution or is suppressed by it."
The above quotation shows better
than long argument what a task Castro
has had to grapple with. With a ruined
people and an impoverished country
he managed, how no one exactly
knows. to keep his foreign engagements
and to pay off a heavy load of debt.
the legacy OF former administrations.
AS he himself somewhat irreverently
wrote in message to congress, ''his-
tory will say of me as of our Savior.
that with five loaves 1 have fed 5000
people"
Castro Is fond Of comparing himself
to the Deity. On a recent tour through
the states he publicly reminded the
bishop Of Ciudad Bolivar that God had
made heaven and. earth in six days and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-08-26

here of glass works, furniture factories
and starch factory. While nothing
very definite has been accomplished in
this direction the attention Of eastern in
vestors has at least been directed to the
state. and it is not unlikely that tangible
results Will follow later on in at least
some of~the matters in which CORE
spondence has been carried on. The as
sociation was largely instrumental in the
extension of electric lighting to Sandy,
and that town has been duly grateful for
it's efforts
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Many Matters Taken Up.
CASTRO, THE RIDDLE OF
AMERICAN REPUBLICS
Continued from Page 2.

company placed its line at his disposal
and organized a service of information
whereby he was kept posted on every
move of the government troops The
company went so far as to refuse to
transmit Castro's messages. and even
violated the secrecy of his commanders'
kilograms.
1t looked very much as if Matos
would succeed, and after the fight had
been raging for months he was prac-
tically in possession of the entire coun-
try. Yet Castro did not move from Ca
racas. He waited till Matos was in
easy reach Of the capital at La Victoria.
Caraquenians expected every day to
hear that the final advance had been
begun. The main body of Castro's
troops had been sent to meet Matos
and only few hundred men remained
One afternoon at the hour when Cara
quenians love to cOngregate i'm their
cafes, Castro, who never surrounds
himself with guards. strolled into La
Francia alone. He was at once sur
rounded by groups OF men who wanted
TO know If it was true that Matos, with
10000 men, was at La Victoria. Castro
was pleased 70 intimate that he be-
Heved that was a fact, but he intended
going out there himself on the morrow
and would wipe them out for good.
Victory at la Victoria.
He kept his word, but If ever fight
was won by sheer bravery II was that
one. For six days, in a temperature
of 116 degrees, with less than 1000 men,
Castro held a little eminence against
the fiercest hand-to-hand onslaught
OF more than twice the number of we'll
armed, carefully drilled troops They
say he slept less than twenty hours
during the whole time but ne infused
such confidence into his men that they
seemed almost as indefatigable as him
self. But If his men held out, their am
munition was limited, and when all was
blackest, a general went in search of
\Castro to tell him that the last wagon
twas come up. He found the small
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self obeyed, and seems to dominate the
women he comes into contact with as
completely as he does the horses he
rides Their every movement is di-
rected by his brain
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the association is now $40, which is di-
Nlded into five classes according to the
the club in the interim between meetings
IS carried on by nine committees which
handle all matters in their respective
lines.
Men Who Do the Work.
The president. Orson H Hewlett. has
been active in all matters pertaining TO
the work of the association. He has at
great time and expense been foremost
in everything which could advance its in
terests and those of the business inter
ests OF the state. The same may be said
Of the other officers. The roster of the
officers is as follows: President, Orson
n. Hewlett, vice president, George S.
McAllister; secretary. Nephi L. Morris:
treasurer, Charles o. Harris. These, with
the following, comprise the directorate:
George Austin, William Bowen, John R.
Bruff. John @. Critchlow, William G..
Lambert. L. r. Martineau. o. r. Mere
from. J. r. Valentine, George A. Whita-
ker; Orvin A. Morris. assistant secretary
and manager.
Directors meetings are held in the as
ISOLATION headquarters every alternate
Saturday evening. The office business is
stenographer.
The nine committees which carry on
much of the real work are composed as
follows:
Executive-John r. Bruff, chairman;
Iheodore NyStrom and j. r. Valentine.
Industries-George S. McAllister. chair
an; William Bowen and John Montgom-
cry.
Membership-WiIli G. Lambert.
man; George A. Whitaker and William
Bowen
Legislative-Nephi L. Morris. chairman;
George A. Whitaker ana William Bowen.
Legislative-Nephi l.. Morris, chairman;
George Austin. John 9: Critchlow. c. o.
Harris and Theodore Nystrom.
Findnpe-I Valentine chairman
John Montgomery and L. R. Martineau
Railroads-George A. Whitaker. chair
man; o. r. Meredith, William Bowen
William G. Lambert and John R Bruff
Auditing-Theodore Nystrom. chairman:
George s. McAllister. chairman; William
q. Lambert, Nephi l.. Morris.
Recently an agreement was reached
with the Desert Agricultural & Manufac-
turing association and the Salt Lake
Real Estate association whereby a joint
exhibit OF Utah products and manufac-
lures will be arranged. Quarters have
been secured in the Swan building re-
Gently erected on Third South, and the
three associations are preparing to move
into their joint quarters.
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"Get Acquainted" Excursions.

Get acquainted excursions have
been held to the following points: LO-
gan. Jan. "a. by the oregon Short Line
Nephi, March :. by Salt Lake Route
Manti. April 26. Denver & Rio Grande
Ogden. June 3. These excursions were
largely attended and productive of great
good.
The question of mail order business was
one Of the subjects handled by the asso-
citation during the year, and efforts have
been made TO stop so far as possible the
1encroachments of outside firms carrying
on this line of business so detrimental to
merchants Of the state Much was also
accomplished in the matter Of having
done at home printing which in many in
stances had been taken away from the
state.
In conjunction with the Commercial
club and the Salt Lake Real Estate as
ISOLATION the matter of fake advertising
RID merchants from annoyance and loss
from this source. = A committee was
appointed. consisting of a representative
of each of these organizations whose en-
dorsement is necessary before members
of any of the three organiza tions will
consider any advertising proposition
Cards to this effect were supplied and
now hang in many places Of business.
This committee is com posed of Fisher
Harris of the Commercial club J. L.
Perl1es of the Salt Lake Real Estate as
ISOLATION and Orvin Morris of the Manu-
facturers' association.
Inc doSuCidlAOu ndu an excursion 10
Murray Dec H. and March u again
went there and organized the Murray
Business Mems league.
A new publication is shortly to be is
sued by the association which will show
the names of all members connected with
il. giving a brief description Of their
business.
Two membership meetings were held
during the year, at which reports of the
financial condition of the association and
its past and present work were given
Both Of these resulted in an increase of
mem bership. The total membership of
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-04
SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS.
Annual Meeting to Be Held at New
Willard This Evening,

Arrangements have been made for the
regular annual meeting of the Society OF
Colonial Wars of the District Of Columbia,
to be held this evening at $50 o'clock at the
New Willard Hotel. officers are to be elect
ed at this meeting for the ensuing year and,
in accordance with the rules Of the organ
ization, the candidates as nominated by the
nominating committee have been commu-
nicated to the members, as follows:
Governor, DR.. Marcus Benjamin; deputy
governor, William Van Zandt Cox; lieuten-
ant governor, Judge Job Barnard secretary,
Lewis Painter Clephane; treasurer, John
William Henry; registrar, DR.. Albert
Charles Peale; historian, Maj Gilbert
Thompson; chaplain, Rev. Roland Cotton
Smith; chancellor, Walter Collins Clephane
surgeon, DR.. James Bayard Gregg Gusts
gentlemen of the council for the term expir-
ing December. 1909, Gen. Walter Wyman
Col. William Baker Thompson, Thomas
Hyde; delegates to the general assembly
Gen. Walter Wyman, Col. William Baker
Thompson, Thomas Hyde. Dr. James Mil
ton Flint, DR.. Marcus Benjamin; committee
on membership, DR.. Albert Charles Peale
chairman: Robert Connell Robert Atwater
Smith. DR.. Charles Ford Langworthy, DR.
Ira Warren Dennison committee on his.
torical documents, Maj. Gilbert Thompson
chairman; Allen Richards Boyd, James
Brainerd Taylor Upper, Henry Peter Re-
nouf Holt and DIR. Frank Austin Swart-
won't,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-04
THREAT TO KILL GOVERNOR.
''Black Hand" Says Two European
Rulers Must Also Die,

ST. PAUL. December 4.-Mayor Smith of
st. Paul received letter warning him of
the intended assassination of Gov. Johnson
by the Black Hand.
The letter adds that the same fate has
been decreed for two European rulers, to
assassinate whom two members Of the band
will soon go abroad.
many misspelled words, and contains thir-
teen names of Italians said to be in the
band. 1t recites that the members came
from Calabria, Italy. to Utica, N. Y. Some
of them were once convicted, 1t says, in the
Reggie Calabria." court in Italy, and
they have since used Black Hand methods
to procure money from Italians in Amer
lea
The letter requests that the mayor COM
municate with the New York police and
the Reggie Calabria" to determine the true
facts. Mayor Smith has referred the mat
ter to the Italian consul at Chicago and
Chief of Police j. ]. O'Connor of st. Paul,
who last night had detectives rounding up
the Italians of this city.
IF any Italians break loose in st. Paul. y
says the chief. there will be some killings
right from the start. We will treat them as
mad dogs and investigate afterward.'
Gov. Johnson. far known, has never
offended any of the Italian race. He says
at the capitol today. He is averse to a spe-
cial guard.
The thirteen Italians named in the letter
are being hunted by the police, and it was
said tonight that five of them had been To-
Gated and are under surveillance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-04
OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION.
Southern Railway Company to Deter.
mine Responsibility for Accident.

The official hearing to determine the re-
sponsibilty for the accident on the South
ern railway near Lawyers. Va, last Thurs
day morning, in which President Spencer
OF that road lost his life. will begin tomor-
row morning In the general offices of the
company. at 1900 Pennsylvania avenue. 1t
is probable that General Manager Ackert
will be in charge. and that Assistant Cen
eral Superintendent Coapman will assist
him.
Operator Mattox. who had charge of the
signal station at Rangoon. Va, and whose
testimony is awaited with interest by the
officials. is expected in the city either to-
night or early tomorrow morning. 1t is
stated that Mattox says he allowed No 81
into the block only after he had received a
cleartrack signal from Operator Jacobs at
Lowyers. 1t Is understood that Operator
Jacobs denies that he gave the clear-tr
signal
The officials of the Southern railway have
not as yet decided whether or not the hear
ing will be public. but II is believed they
will come TO a decision on this point this
afternoon. Col A. p. Andrews. first vice
president and acting president OF The road,
will return to his home at Raleigh. N. c.,
this evening. After a day or so at home he
will return to this city to take up the du-
ties of the late President Spencer until his
successor shall assume the duties of the po-
sition.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-04
Protection Of Oyster Beds.

The Maryland oyster police schooner Bes-
sic Jones, Capt. George w. Maddox, is Wig
orously enforcing the regulations for the
protection Of oysters on the beds in the
lower Potomac. and in the past week, ac-
cording to a report coming from Leonard
town. Nd. Capt. Maddox arrested the mas
tiers Of nine vessels on the charge of violat-
ing the oyster culling law. having aboard
their vessels oysters smaller than are al
lowed The oystermen were taken before
a magistrate at Leonardtown and It is
stated that fines were IMPOSED as follows:
Schooner Magnolia, Capt. William Dor
man, fined $50; Thomas Grisset, R. L. Rose
and Frank Thomas, tongers each fined $40;
schooner Annie Sherman, Capt. G. w. Gov
ington, fined $25; schooner Lottie Leach,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-04
Personal to River Men.

Mr.. Austin Adams of Fort Washington
has removed the mast and sail from his
auxiliary power launch Elizabeth and will
equip her for service as power boat ex-
clusively The Elizabeth will be used fol-
cunning trips on the river while the weathe,
continues favorable.
The power launch Stella, belonging to Mr.
j. H. Nicholson of this city, was out al
Cumberlands boathouse yesterday for q
short while, having leak in her stuff1ne
box caulked and some other repair work
about her propeller DONE The Stella will
be launched again as soon as the tides
make high enough to float her.
The large bugeye launch Javelin, one OF
the largest of the feet of pleasure craft
enrolled in the local yacht clubs, returned
to port a day or two ago from trip ex-
tending over two months. On the cruise the
yacht visited points on Chesapeake bay and
its tributaries, and made trips on the coast
1t is stated she will now lay up for the win.
ter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-04

only to herself lived the life OF a recluse
for the last eight months In q small and
poorly furnished third-story back room over
q store at No. POI Sd avenue, and there she
was found dead in bed yesterday morning
with a rosary clasped to her bosom. An
open gas jet told the cause and there Is lit
tie doubt In the minds OF the police and
Mrs. Mary Oesterle. who keeps boarding
house at the place. that the aged woman
committed suicide.
Mystery surrounds the case. Bank books
on the Bowery Savings Bank and the Bank
of Savings, found In the ROOM showed that
Miss Gore had to her credit in those nsti-
tutions more than si',GOo, and 1t was
learned that she owned several buildings in
10th street near st. Marks Church: yet,
according to Mrs. Oesterle. she had not
paid her room rent of 81 so a week for four
weeks. although on November 9 she drew
$50. The police of the East 22d street sta
ton are eager to find out what became Of
this money.
Another peculiar feature Is that Miss
Gore was visited in her room nearly every
week by fashionably dressed young women,
never betrayed their identity to Mrs. Oes-
terle It Is believed that some connection
exists between these mysterious visitors
and letters to the aged woman which were
from Miss Gertrude Therry Of No. 1914
Washington Park place. Chicago and was
addressed, Dear Auntie," and mentioned,
among other things. that elsie is boarding
at No. West SD street"
Inquiry at that address brought to the
door an elderly woman. who said sharply
that nobody named Elsie lived there or had
lived there In the next breath she ex-
claimed: "Oh, I know all about the case,
but I've got nothing to say. Go to No. 8
west 93d street, and you'll find out all
about it. 1t happens, however, that where
No West 93d street should be is q va
cant lot, the first number on that side Of
the street being No. 10.
Mrs. Oesterle said that when the woman
came to the place to engage a room she in
sisted that it should be inexpensive. Her
trunks revealed a wardrobe of costly silk
and satin gowns. rare laces and other val
liable articles of wearing apparel. Mrs.
Oesterle said her ledger had told her that
she had travelled extensively in Europe and
that she was native of Montreal, where
she had several nieceS and nephews, but
that was all she revealed of her antece-
dents.
When none of the relatives had appeared
late in the afternoon the police took up an
other clue In the shape of a newspaper
clipping found on the woman's bureau. This
contained a picture of Victor Stanley, as
sociate counsel for the Association Of Civil
Service Employees of America, and caption
to the effect that Mr.. Stanley had been the
moving factor in the passage of a bill in
the New York legislature last July affect
Ing the civil service employees of the state.
Mrs. OeSterle said the woman had told her
one OF her nieces was the wife of Mr.. Shan
ley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-04
Amending the Copyright Laws.

Hearings on the Currier bill, amending
the copyright laws of the country, will be-
gin next Friday before the House commit
tee on patents. and the bill will probably be
ready for presentation to the House some
little time after the Christmas holidays.
Mr.. Currier hopes for its passage at this
session. The bill is designed to give much
greater privileges to authors. Prominent
composers have complained bitterly that
the mechanical musical instrument manu-.
facturers are defrauding them, but on the
other side the charge is made that New
York composers have already made con-
tracts to sell their copyrighted music to
one or two concerns. and that il the COM
posers secure the desired legislation many
manufacturers of mechanical players will
be forced out of business.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-04
NEWS ITEMS GATHERED
ON THE RIVER FRONT

The Norwegian bark Memento was yes
terday locked at Bryan's pier at Alexan-
drfa to begin the unloading of cargo Of
bones, which will be ground up for CONVEX
sion into high-grade fertilizer The bones
were taken aboard by the Memento at Con-
cepcion, Uruguay, some time during the lat
ter part of last August, and after getting
out of the River Platte, where the vessel
was delayed by contrary winds for three
weeks, she had uneventful trip up the
coast.
Arrived: Schooner r. Mason, cordwood,
from a river point, for dealers; schooners
Goldie c.. Blue Bell, Rena Cox, Lady
Franklin, Fair American, Lydia Vernon and
Susan Lamberton, oysters from Potomac
beds; schooner Two Sisters, household
goods from a river point; tug Martin Dali
man, towing two scows laden with brick
and two with clay from Broad creek; sloop
Water Lily, oysters at Alexandria; tugs
Marion Cameron, j. T. Selectman and Pow
hatan, with tows of scows from river
points; schooner Silver Star, cordwood from
the lower river; bugeye-yacht Javelin, Cap
railroad ties, James creek canal; tug Peer
less with two coal-laden barges for George
town dealers; schooner Belmont locust
slabs. at the Alexandria shipyard. for ship
ment by rail to point in the north.
Sailed: Barge White Wings. laden with
street sweepings from Alexandria for Not
ley Hail. schooner Mary Ann Sheal, light
for Alexandria to load merchandise for a
river point; schooner Alethea, for a Vir-
ginia port to load lumber for Baltimore;
schooner Sidney Jones, for the lower river
to load back to this city.
Memoranda: Barge Rebecca Mclean has
been chartered to load lumber on the Rap
pahannock river for Philadelphia; barge
Howard, now at Alexandria, has been char
tered to load sulphur rock at Quantico for
Baltimore; schooner Helvetia sailed from
Rockland, Me-. for this city with a cargo of
stone from Blue Hill, Me, December 2;
barge. Bohemia is on her way from Balti-
more to this city with a tow of coal-laden
barges
The steamer Callahan Of the Washington
Alexandria ferry route, which has been laid
up at Alexandria for two weeks or more
past undergoing repairs, was brought up to
this port yesterday evening She will not
go upon the ferry route for several days
longer, as her machinery is receiving
thorough overhaulng.
The old schooner Alethea, which lay sunk
in the harbor here for several weeks, but
which was raised and repaired, attempted to
leave port yesterday, but her i'll luck fol-
lowed her. She had hardly cleared the har-
Dor when a sudden flaw in the wind struck
her and blew her jib and foresail into rib
bons. She had to secure new sails before
resuming her voyage.
The sloop Belvedere. belonging to Mrs.
Greenwood of Alexandria, which has been
lying at anchor at Jones Point for several
weeks past, was blown from her moorfngs
in the gale Of Saturday last and has not
been recovered.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-04
Dredging for Wharf at New Plant.

A large bucket dredging machine belong
ing to the Potomac Dredging Company was
yesterday brought up to the new pier of
the Firth-Stirling Steel Company, below
Giesboro Point, and started the work of
deepening the water in front Of the pier to
the channel bank. 1t is stated that good
deposit of building sand has been found at
the pier, and the material excavated from
the river is being screened and placed on
scows to be brought to this city for use in
building operations here. The wharf of the
steel plant is located fifty or more yards
from the channel bank. and before YES
sells Of any draft can land it will be neces-
sary for several thousand cubic yards of the
river bottom to be transported to some
other point