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The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-11
International Pence Congress.

New York, Dec 10.-On invitation of the American Peace society. of Boston. a number of men and women of New York and other cities met at the City club to-day to consider the advisability of holding national arbitration and peace congress in this city next spring
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-11
BiGLoW ELECTED CAPTAIN
VIII Lead the Ell Football Team Next
 

Year.
 The eighteen men who made "" in either the Princeton or Harvard games this fall met In the Yale gymnasium last night, and elected L. H, Bigelow, 3d. of Montclair, N. J. captain for next year. Blgelow has played on the team three years. It was stated that the election was unanimous.
 The players who voted were Captain Morse, Forbes, Paige, Brides, Hocken- burger, Erwin, Bigelow, H. Jones, AL cott T. Jones, Dimes, Knox, Veeder, Roome Bomar, Werneken, Stuart and Linn,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-11
south Sea Islands Agreement.

Washington, Dec. 10. - President Roosevelt to-day sent to the senate in executive session ar agreement of the powers to prohibit the sale or importa- ton of fire arms opium or intoxicating liquors to the South Sea Islands.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-11
Treaty With Abyssinia to be signed.

London, Dec. 1O.-The Anglo-French- Italian treaty with Abyssinia is about to be signed here, with King NGenelik' s approval, the terms having been official ly communicated to the powers.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-11
GlLLETTE'S MOTHER THERE
PRESENT WHEN SON IS SEf-
 FENCED TO DEATH.

Die in Electric Chair Week of Janu-
 ary 2S Unless Appeal Acts as stay 1 Mrs. Gillette to Report Future Pro-
 ceedings fer Ty-o Pnpers--Could Not
 Have Got to Herkimer Without
 Their AsslstEnce.
 Herkimer, N. Y, Dec. 10,-Chester E. Gillette at twenty-three years of age, the convicted slayer of Grace Brown, his sweetheart was sentenced to death to-day by Judge Devendof. Unless the expected appeal to a higher court acts as a stay of execution, Gillette will die in the electric chair at Auburn prison during the week beginning January 2S.
 The court room was crowded to it's capacity to-day when Gillette was ar raigned The prisoner, however was not the only object of curious eyes. His mother was in court near him. She had arrived from Denver during the night and startled the authorities and public alike by declaring that she had come to report the trial for two newspapers. At first the authorities questioned her identity, and she offered a specimen of her handwriting, which corresponds with that of the letters Gillette had received from his mother. In court Mrs. Gillette surprised every one by calmly sitting through the pro- ceedings as her son was sentenced to death, and later writing a business-li bulletin of the news for the papers she represented.
 She refused to submit to lengthy interview, because, she said, her views had been sold to papers that would pay her for them
 She pleaded with other newspaper correspondents to use her gently in their stories, offering, as an excuse for her willingness to serve her papers, the statement that she would not have been able to have got to Herkimer in any other way
 Gillette's iron nerve remained with him, and he stood with thorough calm and argued with the judge why sem tence should not be passed. When his objection was set aside and sentence pronounced he coolly took his seat. Fifteen minutes afterwards he was playing cards in his cell with his guard.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-11


 His Wife Ever Wrote That ChOate
 and Porter Were Not Proper Persons
 to hc mbassadOrs-AnOther Letter
 Published Revealing Some of the
 Presidents Secret Feelings.
 Cincinnati, o. Dec. 10.--Mr. Bellamy Storer former United States ambassa- dor at Vienna, this afternoon gave to the Associated Press the following statement in reply to the letter of Pres ideat Roosevelt made public yestar- day:
 My letter to the president and his cabinet was written for the cool, de- liberate judgment of men who should be kept informed of the true facts in the conduct of the administration It was not written for the public, nor hur- riedly given to tha press to anticipate public opinion.
 It stands, when taken in full, as my statement, and should be taken as an entirety, and as such I ask its calm perusaL In itself, 1t is an answer to many things the president has seen fit to say but as now the matter has been put forward by Mir Roosevelt l feel compelled to speak.
 There was no need of violent and ln- sulting adjectives to show that the president dislikes me, and did not wish me to remain in the service, or to re- tire from it in any customary way
 While the past has shown that few men can differ with either the wishes or the memory of Mir. Roosevelt, without at once becoming a scoundrel and a liar, must make some comments on what he has given out at the White House.
 That anything was ever written by my wife to the effect that Mir Ch1ate and General Porter were not proper persons to be ambassadors is news to both of us. For both these distinguish ed men we have and have had nothing but respect and good will, personally and officially It would have been an honor to any one to take any post ever filled by either of them after they ceas- ed to occupy It. And the only feeling possible Is one of regret that both of them have been lost to the public ser vice since Mir Roosevelt was elected.
 "As to Mir Root, the press of 1901 was full of statements that he might not be ableto remain in the cabinet on account of i'll health, and would be succeeded by General Porter, which would leave Paris vacant.
 Il give in full a letter from the pres- dent in answer to what he said was written by my wife. I do this both be- cause it is a letter for him to be proud of from it's full appreciation of emn- ent men Ca part from any reference toI myself) and also to show that my wifes letter, to which this was an an- swer, now spoken of only with a sheer, was considered differently by Mr Roosevelt at the time 1t was received:
 ''Bxecutve Mansion,
 Washington, D. C., Oct 1, 1903.
 My dear Maria:-You need never be afraid of writing me or of asking any thing. If it is in my power to grant It l shall do so If for any reasons,
 Continued on Third Page.)
The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-12-11
B;LLANY STORER SLAPS
 BACK AT THE PRESIDENT
CRITICTSES HIS USE or VIOLENT AND INSULTING AD-
 JECTjVfS

Past Has shown, He Says, That Few Men Can Diner With Either the Wishes or Memory of Mir. Roosevelt Without nt Once Becoming a scound- rel and 2 Liar--DenleS That He OI His Wife Ever Wrote That Choate and Porter Were Not Proper Persons to bc bassadOrs--Another Letter Published Revealing Some of the President's Secret FeeIlngs.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
COMMISSION AIDS
CONVENTION WORK
DELEGATES NEED NOT WAIT
FOR VALUATION
Bond and Guarantee viii Cause Waiv.
ina Of Round-Trip Ticket
RuIe-General Rail-
road News
Bv Associated press.

BW ASSOCiated fTeSs.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-Complaint
has been made to the interstate COM
merce commission that in many in
stances persons desiring to attend con-
ventions on the particular day are pre-
vented from promptly returning to their
homes because the minimum number of
round trip tickets required has not been
presented for validation.
The commission expressed the opin-
ion chat it would not be unlawful or
improper for carriers to accept a satis-
factory guarantee or bond of an asso-
citation or society for which the round
trip trip is made, that the minimum
number of tickets will be validated or
the difference between the reduced
rate and the full rate paid by the as
sociation or society, thus permitting the
prompt valuation of tickets and re-
duced trip rate IL being understood
that IL the specified number of tickets
shall not be validated the society will
be required to pay the difference agreed
upon"
The commission also announces an
extension of time in the application of
the rule governing through rates which
exceed the sum of locals.
The commission previously ruled that
carriers make use of the rule until De-
cember 10, 1906, but carriers may make
use of the rule "until further notice"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
Railroad Notes

The Southern Pacific is preparing to
build large new hospital in San
Francisco, and it is said that land cost
ing 100000 has been bought as a site
The company lost large brick build
ing in the great fire of last April.
Railroads centering in Chicago have
organized the Illinois Freight associa-
ton, to supervise the making of freight
tariffs on interstate shipments. The
chairman of the association is w. H
Hosmer, and Horace Tucker is secre-
tary.
According to the New York Herald
certain railroad interests are not salts
fled with the bill of Representative
Esch, introduced in congress last year.
to require the use of the block system
on American railroads, and will have
another bill introduced.
1t is stated that the Southern railway
has determined to stop operating it's
fast mail between ashington and New
Orleans because it lost too much of its
subsidies through forfeits. Under the
contract the company is to lose so much
| by every minute of lost time. This was
deducted from the $4,000 set aside for
the subsidy.
A report comes from New York that
Chicago men are there for the purpose
of closing sale of the Walsh railroad
property, now held by the Chicago
Clearing House bank, and as near as
can be ascertained probably the New
York Central will take control of the
Chicago Southern and Southern Indi-
ana road. High financial advice sug-
gested the feasibility and desirability
of such a purchase as an addition to the
Vanderbilt line.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24

statement that early in January train
schedules on that road will be sum
ciently reduced to enable the company
to live up to them.
Mr. Finley says that, owing to the
crowded condition Of some single track
lines and the double track work the
road has found II difficult to keep its
trains on time and that for this reason
the time of many passenger trains will
be reduced.
EIe also states that the road will shor-
ten its operating divisions, increasing
the number from fourteen to twenty
seven, each to be in charge of superin-
tendent. Men now in the service of the
company will be promoted to the posi-
tions thus created
Mr.. Finley states that in deciding to
take this action the company is devel-
opins and making effective policies
initiated by the late president, Samuel
Spencer.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
WOMAN BREATHES
CHLOROFORM
PREFERS DEATH TO LIFE
WITHOUT LOVER
Feared Her Parents Would Object to
Her Marriage, and Attempted
Suicide, but Will Re-
cover

Fearing the objection of her parents
to her marriage to a young man with
whom she had been in love for several
years, Miss Ester Crespena, a beauti-
full young Spanish woman, endeavored
to commit suicide by inhaling chloro-
form in a room at 32S13 East Third
street at 8 o'clock yesterday morning,
and had it not been for the prompt
medical attendance which was given
her. would probably have died.
Miss Crespena is a young woman
with a wealth of black hair and flash
ing dark brown eyes, She is "a years
of age and has been employed for some
time by Arthur l.. Halves, an attorney,
at his home at 943 South Burlington.
Some time ago she met young man
whose name she has steadfastly refused
to divulge. Each night she left her
room, it is said, and with him took long
strolls, and it is supposed talked of
happy days to come when, as husband
and wife, they would share the same
cottage and be happy in each others
company.
But then came the thoughts of her
parents. Would they consent to the
marriage? She felt sure they would
not and so, overcome with the thought
that she must give up her young lover,
the girl at last decided that death was
preIerdDle. saturday nlSnJ Sne left
the home of Mr.. Hawes, stating that
she would return later. She did not do
so, and yesterday morning many in
quiries were made. They came word
from the police station that the young
woman had been found in a rooming
house nearly dead from inhaling cho-
roform, and that she was at the re-
ceiving hospital.
Later her mother and father We're
notified and at once came to the hos
pital to see their daughter They said
she had not told them of her young
lover, and that the first news they had
received of him was when word had
been sent them by the police. They at
once requested permission to have her
removed to their home at 626 North
Bridge street, and late in the afternoon
she was strong enough to be taken
there, and an ambulance was called for
that purpose.
Her father said he had no objection
to the young woman getting married,
providing the young man was worthy
OF her. so 1t is probable that out of
the pain the young woman has suffered
will come what she has so long wished
for.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
ELECTRIC LINES IN WEST GROW
Northern Colorado to Be Gridironed
with Roads
BY Associated Press.

by Associated ETeSS-
DENVER, Dec. 23.-Within two years
Northern Colorado, between Denver
and Fort Collins, will be gridironed
with electric lines and the trains pro-
PEELED by electric motors will be run
ming over the Tramway's third rail into
a Colorado & Southern station to be
erected at Eighteenth and Broadway.
Officials of the Colorado & Southern
have confirmed the statement made by
William G. Evans before the members
of the real estate exchange that the
Colorado & Southern had completed
plans for a double track electric line
between Argo and Fort Collins, touch
ing Longmont, Loveland and other in
termediate points, and that an arrange
ment had been made between it and
the Tramway by which the Colorado &
Southern's electric trains would be run
from Argo into the heart of Denver's
business section over the Tramway
tracks.
The line to Boulder will be in ope-
ration by September l. 1907, and Fort
Collins and other Northern Colorado
towns will be reached some time within
the following year.
For the time being Greeley, Ault
Windsor and some other prosperous
towns do not figure in the plan, but
they will be included eventually.
The cost of this system will be ap-
proximately $3,000000. Much of the ma
terial and equipment have been con-
tracted for.
1t is understood that the Colorado &
Southern officials who led the fight
against the Evans-Moffat interests are
to be sidetracked, and that the Colorado
e. Southern and the Tramway will work
in perfect accord in the future.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
COULDN'T STAND FOR "THRU'
Rock Island Road Abandons Spelling
Reform
BY Associated Press.

WATERLOO, Iowa, Dec. 23.-The
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific rail-
road has decided to abandon the cause
of spelling reform.
When the president issued his orders
to the executive departments to adopt
the spelling prescribed by the spelling
reform commission in a list of 300
words, the Rock Island decided to adopt
it as the spelling to be used in train
orders, car reports and other official
correspondence, and the employees were
instructed to familiarize themselves
with the Rooseveltian photography.
All went we'll until the railroad off,
cials found that under the revised edi-
tion of the spelling book they would
have to designate their fast trains as
thru" trains. This caused a revolt.
So the simplified spelling order has been
rescinded.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
Chicago Depot by 1912
to The Herald.

opSCldi W lie I1SIdlu.
CHICAGO, Dec. 23.-The Chicago &
Northwestern railroad will build $780,
100000 depot in Chicago. Since the an
nouncement that such a structure was
contemplated a great deal of opposition
from property owners in the vicinity of
the location of the proposed new sta
tion developed, and an effort was made
to block the enterprise in the city coun-
Gil. The ordinance permitting the con-
struction of the depot came up for the
consideration of the aldermen and it
passed the council by large majority
The ordinance calls for the depot s
completion by 1912.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
GREAT NORTHERN WANTS MEN
Employment Bureau Fails to Fulfill Its
Mission
, The Herald.

Special 70 The Herald
CHICAGO, Dec 23.-How to secure
efficient help for railroad work i'm the
northwest is a problem that is troubling
railroad officials. Oakley d. Johnson,
representing the employment bureau
of the Great Northern, has been in Chi
cago "A week trying to get competent
brakemen and switchmen. He has Sc
cured only twenty-five men, and needs
100 more. He is offering brakemen
from $2.33 to s2.55 for 100 miles, which
under present conditions amounts to
more than S1O5 a month, with free
transportation to st. Paul. He has es-
tablished an employment office and says
he is finding great difficulty in getting
competent men.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
FIRE FIGHTERS
ARE HAMPERED
WATER SUPPLY FAILS AT A
CRITICAL TIME
More Than Eighty Thousand Dollars
Damage Done to Wholesale Pro-
duce District by Early
Morning Blaze

Eighty thousand dollars Is the esti-
mated loss i'm the disastrous fire which
occurred on East Third street near
Central avenue at 4 o'clock yesterday
morning, and IL was only the prompt
action of the fire department which
kept the loss within this limit.
For time 1t looked as If the entire
district would serve as food for the
flames but within an hour after the
first alarm was turned in the firemen
had the blaze under control and this IN
spite of the fact that the men were at
one time left nearly helpless owing TO
the lack of water.
The fire was discovered by Patrolman
Kennedy while he was in the alley
back of the Bon Ton Produce company
at 500 East Third street. At that tlme
the roof of the building was blazing'
and by the time the engines hau ar
rived in answer to Kennedy alarm tne nae
West Coast Produce Co.. 619 and 62l
Fast Third street. Crown flour mills,
628 and 625 East Third street; Bon Ton
Produce company Allay & Layton, 6Oo
TO 6O7 East Third street; Santa Rosa
saloon. Del Monte mills and a roomlng
house on Central avenue near Third
street, were all burning
Water Gives Out
All the engines SOutli VI
were called into action, but soon atter
they arrived the water supply gave out
and the men were left with almost no
means of fighting the flames. The rea-
son for the water giving out IS uneX-
plaincd. but the fact that II did nearly
caused the destruction of the entire dis
trict. ,.,4
The origin of the fire is unknown put
II is thought it was caused by sparks
from a passing engine falling on the
roof of the West Coast Produce COM
pany. 1t had gained great headway
before it was discovered, and IL was
only by the greatest efforts that other
buildings nearby were saved.
The United Produce companys ouliu-
ing at Second and Central was sllghtiy
damage by the fire, but the loss VIII
be small although it appeared Tor
time as if this siX-story bulldlhg
would go as we'll as the others.
After the fire it was found that
large safe owned by Allay & Layton
had fallen through the floor OF the
building. The door of this sate nao
been left open and $500 in bills and sill
yer was scattered on the foor' put
none of the money was burned.
The owners of the different stores
were notified of the fire by the mem
bers of the merchants fire dispatch,
and were ali on the scene soon after 1t
was discovered.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
NEW ROAD SOON COMPLETED
Kansas City, Mexico G. Orient Adds
Mileage
BY Associated Press.

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 23.-The Kansas
City, Mexico & Orient railroad, pro-
jected from here to Topolobambo bay
will be running trains from Kansas
City to San Angelo, Tex, distance of
Ill miles, by October 1907, according to
a statement made today by President
E. Stillwell.
Out of 633 miles in Mexico over $50
miles of road are now in operation.
In the United States the railroad is
nearly graded from Emporia, Kas., to
San Angelo, and 27S miles Of the track
is in operation
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
LEDYT CAFE

bear In mind there are big, broad en-
frances on Third and Main, and that all
Ascot Park and Pasadena cars pass the
doors.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
Yardmen Get Wage Increase

BY ASSOCIated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23.-Officials of
the Long Island railroad today signed
an agreement with representatives of
their yardmen by which the latter will
receive an increase from the present
wage scale Of S1a to AZ cents per hour.
This action removes the Long Island
road as factor in the demand for a B.
cents an hour increase which the roads
involved agreed yesterday to submit to
arbitration
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24

Besides the unsurpassed cuisine. best
service, delicious music and brilliant
after-theater gatherings at
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
Secures Small Haul

A burglar who entered the home of
Mrs. M. A. Buckner, 745 South Los
Angeles street, early last night was
poorly paid for his trouble, for he Sc
cured no other booty than an empty
revolver.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
SOUTHERN TO REDUCE TIME
Will Make Its Schedule Possible OF
Living Up To

Southern railway representatives in
Los Angeles have received notification
that w. w. Finley, the new president
of the company, has made an official
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24
1uiSite Xmas Gifts

Beautiful gifts bewderng profuson assembled
Necwa Hosiery Cloves Suspend Muers Hats Shirts Underwea
Night Shirts Canes Umbrellas Suit Cases. Collars Cuffs Full
Cravenete Rain Coats
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-24

us life in the mills hard for the
operatives?"
We'll naturally; it is one of grinding
toll"
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-09-19
MR.. HUGHES RETURNS.

Congressman James A. Hughes
returned to the city yesterday after
an absense of several weeks, and
will remain close about headqlar-
tiers until after the election.
Mr.. Hughes has completely recov-
cred his health, and is in the best
of spirits. He believes that Repub.
llcan success throughout West
Virginia is inevitable, and that not
wlthstanding the fact this is one of
the proverbial "off" years, RepubIi
can majoritles throughout the State
Will be surprisingly large.
While conditions in the Fifth dis
trict are such tina: Mr.. Hughes
could easily sit still throughout the
campaign and be assured of a good
majority, he is not that kind and
will exercise every diligence that
the show ing in his district he as
creditabie as it has always been
under his reputation as vote getter
and means that the result of the
coming election shall fully sustain
lt.-HuntlngtOn Dispatch, Sept. Ii
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-09-19
What Women Will Wear This Winter.

Discussing suitable costumes for
business women In The New Idea
Woman's Magazine for October,
the writer of the article remarks:
"The reaction to very dark colors
which distinguishes this season
from its several predecessors will
have the full approval of all those
women who have to consider the
practical before all else. 1t may
be said, however, that in spite of
the profusion of lace and furbelows
lavlshed on summer styles, there al
ways is an undercurrent of sim
plicity and sensibility sought by the
conservative element, on which in
great measure the best business
women belong. Not only deep
navy blues, ruby shades of red,
and the old-fashioned bottle greens
which are being revived, but black
IN combination with myrtle green
and autumn colors produce effec s
which are in keeping with the
sOmber color scheme.
Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-09-19
Hugh Brown Goes to COLLEGE.

Mr.. Hugh l.. Brown, the former
editor of The Times, has matriculat-
ed at Emory aud Henry College
If he doesn't lead the procession
out there, your Uncle Nike will be
badly fooled. There was weeping
and waillng, gnashing of teeth and
snatchlng out of hair among the
women folks when Mr.. Brown
waved us all a fond adieu lat
tuesday morning from the rear end
OF Pnllmau.-Rural Retreat (VaD
Times.