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Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
IDENTIFIES MURDERED MAN
Body Found at Black Diamond Now
Known to Be That of
J. o. johnson
By Asec riated Press.

STOCKTON, July 1S.-The man
found dead in the water at Black Da-
mond Sunday morning supposed to be
a Stockton man, has been identified by
his brother, Nicholas Johnson of Fruit
vale, as ]. O. Johnson, sailor living
at 10 Shotwell street. San Francisco.
His face was bruised, there was a
cut on the back of his head. his watch
was gone and in his hand was a pocket
knife half open, indicating that he had
been murdered and robbed
The body is at the morgue in
Martinez.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
SCALES FOUND
TO BE FAULTY
NEW YORK ICE MEN MAY BE
PROSECUTED
Many Scales confiscated Are Said to
Have Shown From 20 to 40
Pounds Against Purchasers
in Every 100 Pounds
Special to The Herald.

optClll " ne tlcl tilNs
NEW YORK, July 1S.-As a result of
$50 inspections the bureau of weights
and measures in the city hall today
contiscated seventy-eight set scales
from ice wagons. The captured scales
are held as evidence when the corpora =
ton counsels office gets ready to pros
ecute ice vendors.
Patrick Derry head of the bureau
sent twenty inspectors out at the be-
ginning of the week to investigate COM
plants that dealers We're robbing the
poor who bought from them More
than so per cent of the confiscated
scales show from twenty to forty
pounds against the purchaser in every
hundred pounds. Several wagons
from which the scales We're taken bore
the name of the American Ice COM
pany, but the greater number Were
taken from small dealers who Were
selling from open carts.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
SECURITY COMPANY FAILS
Baltimore Concern Doing Business,
However, in San Francisco-Com-
missioner Wolf Notified
Rv hssocia ted Press.

Ev Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. July 1S.-It was
not until today that Insurance Com
missioner Wolf received official notice
of the failure of the Security Insurance
company of Baltimore, although the
concern was declared bankrupt in it's
home city more than a month ago.
Commissioner Wolf says that agents
of the company have continued to do
business in this state since bankruptcy
was declared.
The Security was one of the "six-bit"
companies, and according to Informal
tion received by Mr.. Wolf it's affairs
are in bad shape.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
AMEER FAVORS EDUCATION
Declares Hieh-Born Officials of Af-
ghanistan Must Become Enlight-
ened or Be Discharged
BY Assocla ted Press.

BY Associated Press
LAHORE, India, July 1S.-The ameer
of Afghanistan has issued a notable
pronouncement on the subject of edu-
cation in his domains
He says education is retrogressing
but the fault is not with the teachers
but with the government officials, who
discourage aducation, dreading its lev
cling tendencies.
The ameer worms the high born Of
fcials that they must either change
their attitude in this connection or be
discharged. Henceforth, he says, edu-
cation will be the sole path to state
service.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
BANKER COMMITS SUICIDE
Martin Flynn of Des Moines Becomes
Despondent Owing to III
Health
Py Associate Press.

DIES MONIES, July 1S.-Martin
Flynn. president of the Peoples Saw
ings bank of this city, shot himself in
the head at down town drug store
early today. cling almost instantly. Ill
health Is the supposed cause.
Mr.. Flynn was prominent throughout
the west as a breeder of shOrthorn
cattle.
He also gained prominence as a civil
engineer for the Santa Fe in building
a tunnel which begins in New Mexico
and ends in Colorado. He was 60 years
of age.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
TWO INSANE WOMEN
KILLED BY A MUTE
b. A ssociated Press.

E% ASSoclated PreSS.
SCRANTON. Pa, July 1S.-Ignatiz
Krewseyp, a deaf and dumb Pole, ran
amuck at the Hillside home this morn
ing, and before he was overpowered
had killed two women patients and
mortally wounded one of the keepers.
Krewseyp rushed into the doctor S
office during the momentary absence
of the keeper and seized an amputation
knife with a blade ten inches long.
Keeper Davis ran after the maniac
and was stabbed through the chest.
Krewseyp then ran upstairs and
stabbed and killed two women patients
before the knife was knocked from his
hand.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19

The presence of mind of e. Hennes-
sey, engineer on No. Z, west-bound
overlarI Santa Fe train, and the
prompt action of Engineer j. C. Love of
No. east bound, yesterday prevented
what might have been one of the worst
accidents of recent times.
At Meadows a small station just
west of San Bernardino. the trains
We're ordered to pass each other. When
No. 8, the east-bound limited, ap-
preached the siding upon which No z
the west-bound train was waiting, the
engineer of the former attempted to
slow down in order to let his brakeman
throw the switch which would pass his
train on the main track. The air
brakes refused to work and the two
trains collided head on. with the result
that the engines were telescoped and
the persons mentioned injured.
When the engineer of No. saw that
the other train was not under control
he started backing his train out of the
siding upon the main track, and al
though he succeeded in backing more
than 100 feet, the other train was COM
ing too fast and the collision occurred.
Both engines were reduced to scrap
iron. but the coaches were not wrecked.
Passengers in a Panic
When the shock occurred scene of
indescribable confusion added to the
horror of the moment. Women in a
frenzy of fear attempted to leap from
the windows of the coaches, and had
it not been for the presence of few
cooler heads among the throng, the re-
suits of the accident might have been
much more serious than they We're.
n hnth traiOc mir q
majority of the passengers and men
thrust women aside in order to get
to the windows. Several of the
frightened persons were cut by window
glass, which they broke in an attempt
to escape through those apertures.
Miss Pearl Morris, one of the injured
passengers on No. 7, came on to Los
Angeles and is now t the Rosslyn
hotel. Miss Morris, who was not Sc
verey injured said
"Since leaving Cedar Falls Iowa
which is my home, ] have been in four
wrecks. The first was at Kansas city.
There the train ran off the track and
! was DELAYED five hours. The second
was al Dodge City, Kas., where we
were held up by a freight train off
the track. There we waited four hours.
At that time six trainmen were injured,
all of them seriously. When we passed
the scene of the wreck | saw the engine
of the freight train in the ditch.
"A washout between La Junta and
Trinidad held us up for day The
rainfall there at that time was terrible
The water seemed to come down in
chunks. Then the last was at San
Bernardino. I was not injured very
badly, although ! was shaken up more
than was comfortable | was in the
lavatory at the time of the shock and
! was battered around for a few sec
I
Pullman where | was was very Sc
verely shaken up and was taken out at
San Bernardino and sent to the hos
pital. where she was taken care of
by .Dr. Baylis.
Il certainly had a fine time getting
our here, and now that | have sue
"eedeG in arriving 1 hope the chain
Of accidents will cease. l am much
relieved, however. to think that the
journey is over"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
WATERWAYS NOW SECURED
Deeds Placed on Record Transferring
Valuable Property to the
United States
Nv AesncIoted Prese

by ASSOc'ateu fFeSS.
PHOENIX, Ariz., July 1S-Deeds
were today placed on record, transfer
ing to the United states Of America
title to the property of the Grand Canal
company, Salt River Valley Canal com
pany Maricopa Canal company and
the Water Power Canal company.
Two or three weeks ago title was
passed on the property of the Arizona
Water company. This completes the
transaction of the i trchase by govern
ment Of the main distributing water
ways on the north side Of Salt River
valley, enabling the latter to proceed
with the building of a diversion dam
and the reorganization of the entire dis
tributing system for irrigating the val
ley under equitable government direc-
tion.
Roosevelt storage dam is up Salt river
fifty miles above the proposed diversion
dam.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
COMPANIES INCORPORATED
Capitalized at $4,000 and
100000, Respectively
IN Assnciate1 1 Press.

by ASSOCla tel PlesS.
SAN JOSE, July 1S.-Articles of in
corporation of the Peruform Manufac-
turing company to manufacture anti
septic gauze at Mountain View were
filed today, the stock of 1924. 900 being all
subscribed by E. T. Johnson, c. o.
Gates and NJ. j. Gates of Mountain
View,
The Santa Clara Fruit and Land
company today filed articles of in
corporation with a capital of 100000,
of which $35, 900 is subscribed by we'll
known local business men, to buy and
sell fruit.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
STEAMER CHINO GOES ASHORE
Pounds to Pieces on Shelter Cove, One
of the Dangerous Coast
Points
Rv AssocInted Press

EUREKA, Cal, July 1S.-While COM
ing up the coast in a dense fog last
Monday the little steamer Chino, for
merly the Alice Blanchard. went ashore
at Shelter Cove, and is now slowly
pounding to pieces on the rocky point
that marks the dangerous strip Of
coast.
With her bottom smashed and leak
ing badly there is no chance to save
the little craft. The crew walked ashore
easily at low water and are now await
ing a steamer to convey them to San
Francisco.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
SHIPS SAILORS TO COAST
Non-Union Men, However, Are Pre-
vailed Upon to Desert Agents
at Stockton
Nv Aeenciofnd Pres

By Associ" ted Press
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1S.-Secre-
tary Furuseth Of the sailors union said
yesterday that he had positive informa-
tion to the effect that the United
Shipping and Transportation associa-
tion Of San Francisco had. by their
agents in Chicago. shipped from that
city last Wednesday 104 men to be
placed on board vessels in this port.
OF this number he says forty left
the train before it reached stockton,
Cal, and at that place all drew out
but six.
These latter, he says, wanted TO get
away, but were forcibly restrained
from doing so by the men i'm charge
of them; that thus intimidated. they
reached this city and have been put
to work. They were all unfamiliar
with the sea, being made up of labor
ers, teamsters and farmers
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
MISSING WOMAN Is FOUND
BY Associated Press,

by ASSOClateu PIess.
SAN DIEGO, July 1S.-Mrs. Sarah
Hoeslech, who escaped from a santar-
ium in this city ten days ago, was
found this evening in Pound canyon,
near the high school, She was dressed
in part i'm male attire. She resisted
capture stubbornly but was finally
compelled to yield, Just how the un-
fortunate woman has managed to sub
sist since she left the sanitarium is a
mystery.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
AGREE TO
END LIV ES
Two Girls in Suicide
Pact Die
Edna Shunk's Friend
Takes Acid
Friends Believe Agreement Was Made
In Ohlo-Young Women We're
Chums and Both Engaged
to Marry

Special to The Herald.
CINCINNATI, Ohio. July 1S.--That
suicide pact existed between Miss
Cora White aged IS, of Marion, Ohio,
and Miss Edna Frances Skunk, aged
II, of Los Angeles, Cal, is the belief
of many of the friends of the girls
who were chums when Miss Skunk
lived in Marion, and the belief also is
shared by some of the relatives of Miss
White and the Marion officials.
After going to Los Angeles to live
Miss Skunk visited in Ohio when the
girls We're much together Both were
engaged to be married and both died
from drinking carbolic acid within a
few days of each other.
Today Coroner Brady of Marion.
cousin of Miss White, rendered a ver-
dict to the effect that she came to
her death by drinking carbolic acid
with suicidal intent. At the same time
word arrived from Los Angeles that
Miss Skunk, her most intimate friend,
had died from carbolic acid poisoning
Miss White left a note in which she
begged forgiveness for the act she
was ABOUT TO commit, but threw no
light on her reason for self-destruc-
ton.
o. G. Johnson, a well known busi-
ness man of Marion who was engaged
to her, denies that he quarreled with
his fiancee, and the secret is locked
in the coffin of the girl who was buried
today.
Friends say that she often expressed
n dread of her coming marriage.
1t is believed here that during the
time Miss Skunk was visiting in Ohio
the suicide pact was arranged.
When seen last night, Mrs. Elmira
Skunk, the mother of Frances e. Skunk
who recently committed suicide, said
her daughter had visited Marion, o..
and had known both q. G. Johnson and
Cora White. Mrs. Skunk said she had
not heard of the suicide of Miss White,
and she was much surprised when told
of 1t.
When asked If she thought her
daughter had a pact with Miss White
to take her own life she said she did
not think So but she seemed os if she
did not wish to discuss the affair.
Mrs. Skunk said her daughter had
been away from home several times
during the last year. and she said she
believed she had once gone to their
former home in Marion, O., last spring.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
Fields Property Appraised
Nv Ass0ciated Press,

NEW YORK, July 1S,-The appraisal
of the property owned by the late
Marshall Field of Chicago i'm New York
state filed i'm the surrogate's court to-
day, shows that he had personal prop,
erty here valued at $5, $40, 4O5 and rea
estate valued at $246S,75O.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
NEW RAILROAD PROJECTED
California Midland viii Run From
MarysVlle via Nevada City
to Auburn
IN Assoclated Press.

by AssOCIateu Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 1S-The
California Midway Railway company
was incorporated here yesterday with
capital of $3,O0OOOO and $4,000 paid
in, The road is to run from Marys-
vile Yuba county, in general north
easterly direction over a practicable
route to Nevada City, thence south
ward to Auburn. Placer county coy-
ering a distance of seventy miles.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
Inspects Packing Plants
~ Assoclnlel Press.

ST. PAUL, July 1S.-Secretary of Ag-
riculture Wilcon made a personal in
spection of the South st, Paul packing
plants today. II is said conditions We're
found very favorable.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
ERUPTION Continues
BY Associaied Press.

PALERMO July 1S,-The eruption of
Stromboli continues with undiminished
force. Mount Aetna, after a long period
of quiescence, is emitting smoke.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
Signs Proclamations
Ry Associat ted Press.

NY ASSOcld leu t-Iess
OYSTER BAY, July 1S.-President
Roosevelt today signed roclamations
creating the Heppner forest reserve in
Oregon and the Binnacles forest reserve
In California.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
THE DAYS NEWS
FORECAST

Southern California: Fair on
Thursday, with fog in the norn-
ing; fresh west winds. Maximum
Temperature in Los Angeles yes
terday, 78 degrees; minimum, 60
deqrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
REFUGEES LEAVING SocoRRo
Alarmed by Severe Tenblors, Citizens
Seek Safety in Flight

D. Seek Safety in Flight
BY Associated Press.
SANTA FE, N. NJ, July 1S.-Two
more earthquake shocks occurred at
Socorro this morning. The shocks were
felt distinctly as far south as FL Paso,
Tex, where yesterday a street car was
thrown from the track by shock.
Refugees from Socorro and other
towns in the Rio Grande valley are
daily coming to Santa Fe and Albu-
querque.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-19
Appalling Loss of Life
Is Narrowly
Averted
Several Persons Are Injured In Crash
and Panic Which Follows COL
lision-Air Brakes Fall
to Work
The Injured

Mrs. Emily Waiser, wife of the Pull
man conductor of Los Angeles, par
alyzed from waist down, back severely
strained.
Miss Pearl Morris, Cedar Falls Ia,
contusions about the head.
- Turner, negro, left hip broken.
H. r. Preston, fireman on one of the
colliding engines, left leg broken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-09
DEAD WOOD MUST GO.
Secretary Root Will Institute Reforms
in His Department

Washington. Feb. 9.-The Post to-
day says:
Secretary Root is about to reorgan-
lie the state department and put 1t on
business basis. He will apply me
same remedy to the consular service
Inemcient and incapacitated clerks are
to be dismissed and a corps of active
alert and competent clerks substituted;
Red tape is to be ruthlessly cut ana
antiquated methods superseded by
those. more consistent with Mr. Root
notion of what a great department OF
the government should be.
This plan Of the secretary, of state
was unfOlded 10 the house subcommll-
tee on the legislative appropriation bill
at an executive session. His ideas met
with the cordial approval of the COM
mittee. MI Root told the subcommit-
tee he had detailed two Of the best men
I'm the department to study depart
mental methods. Tt was discovered by
members for the first time that there
was an emergency appropriation of
$4,000 appropriated year after year
since the Spanish war from which
emergency clerks had been paid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-09

A prominent county official, who has
a vast store of experience from which
to. draw, was entertaining a group of
friends by relating some amusing in
cidents regarding insane persons.
He stated that those who were
known as funny crazy" seemed to
have an acute though perverted sense
of humor and by their actions and
ludicrOus remarks often provoked risi-
bility among their keepers. To illus
trate this fact he related the following
amusing stories:
visitor strolling through the halls
of an asylum. pulled out his watch and,
comparing the time with the clock on
the wall asked of a man whom he sup
posed was an attendant. rs that clock
right?' The insane man gave him a
whitening look, then replied. "Of
course it isn't right It wouldn't be
here if it was.
Upon another occasion a patient
who had escaped from his keeper.
wildly pursued a preacher through the
streets. The worthy minister. thor
oughly frightened. dashed up one
street and down another. through al
leys and across lots but could not lose
the madman. Finally he espied a fire
escape and mounted to the top of a
five-stOry building. He was Just con-
graduating himself upon his escape
when his pGrsuer appeared. The min
lister, thinking that his last moment
had come dropped to his knees. The
insane man, greatly excited. rushed UP
and tapping the crouching figure upon
the shoulder, shouted Tag you re
iti'-Los Angles Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-09

want to tell you one more story,
the story of the lost opportunity.
Young people don't realize the full
sadness of if. but who of us older peo-
pie doesn't know the pathos of the lost
opportunity In the village which is
a suburb of New Bedford a friend of
mine took me to the dedication of a
town hail and pointed out to me a
bronzed and wealth err beaten old man
over 80 years old.
do you see any passion in that old
MANI" said he to me.
You don't; well. 1 can make him a
perfect volcano to you. III just men
ton him something very casually"
And he did.
Well. that old man suddenly gave
vent to an outburst of profanity such
as had never heard in my life before.
I listened to him with the delight with
which one listens to an artist. The
cause of it was this: When that old
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-09
NOT A PATENT MEDICINE.
Hyomei a Scientific Treatment for Ca
tarrh by Breathing Nfedicated Air.

HyOmei a Scientific Treatment for Ca
tarrh by Breathing NIedicated Air.
Ever since Hyomei has been known.
its formula has been given to physicians.
druggists, and. in fact to all intelligent
people who could appreciate the true
merit of the combination of healing
gums, oils, and balsams. of which it is
composed.
Many leading physicians endorse
Hyomei and prescribe it for catarrhal
troubles. In fact, quite few of them
use it themselves to break up a cold and
prevent pneumonia. They regard it as
a natural, yet scientific way of curing
catarrh
Breathed through the pocket inhaler
that comes with every outfit. Hyomei
destroys all catarrhal germs in the air
passages of the throat and nose. soothes
and heals the irritated mucous mem
brane and effectually drives from the
system all traces of catarrhal poison.
No one should cOnfound Hyomei with
the patent medicines that are advertised
as catarrh cures. 1t is as superior to
them all as the diamond is more val1la-
bic than cheap glass
The complete Hyomei outfit. consist
ing Of a neat pocket inhaler. a medicine
droPper, and a bottle of Hyomei costs
but 81. and extra bottles can be obtain
ed for 80 cents, making it the most eco
nomical method of curing catarrh. as
well as the most reliable.
If you cannot obtain Hyomei of vour
dealer it win be forwarded by mail.
postage paid. on receipt of price Write
today for a free sample bottle and oon-
sultatiOn blank that VIII entitle Won to
services of our medical department
without charge. The r. T. Booth Com
Dan5s Hyomei Building, Ithaca. n. Y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-09
"a. r. BROWN" IN TOPEKA.
Registered ri The Copeland and Then
Dropped Out of Sight.
"a. R. Brown. Garden CITY. "


This is the entry which appears on
the register at the Copeland hotel. 1t
was put there about noon today by a
tall, slim man, in pepper and salt
suit who Immediately went into the
dining room, ate his dinner, and
"hiked."
Is this the mysterious A. r. Brown"
who returned to the treasury $1,000 to
cover q deficiency in Garden City bond
coupons, after the shortage had been
unearthed by State Accountant Row
EFT? 1t will be remem bered that the
only thing that anybody has ever been
able to discover about A. r. Brown is
that he sent the money by mail to the
state treasury.
Il was in charge of the desk when
this name was put on the book" said
James Chappelle, the proprietor of the
hotel. 1.-THE young man came in with
a suit case. set it down with the other
baggage. and registered. I was busy
a the time. and did not notice the
name until the man had gone into the
dining room. Then i tried to identify
him and couldn't because he had taken
off his hat He left the hotel right
after dinner, and has not yet returned F"
The general impression seems to be
that some of the good natured practical
jokers of Garden City are having a lit
tie fun with the innocent people of
Topeka
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-09
COUNCIL TAKES IT BACK.
Committee Doesn't Want to Give Light
Plant to Waterworks Board.

Opposition developed last evening in
the ways and means committee against
submitting to a vote Of the people at
the coming election the proposition to
place the management of the water
works and the city electric light plant
under one board of commissioners. The
committee decided to recommend
against the resolution instructing the
mayor to call the special election. Not
until the city has voted $4,000 bonds
or some such sum for the betterment
Of the plant does the council wish TO
make such a change as contemplated.
I'VE don't want to burden the pres
ent board of waterworks commission
eIs with the management of the plant
III Ill they have enough funds with
which they can carry on some sore of
policy of betterment. AS it is now the
plant might as well be run under the
care of the council. The board of Wa
terwo1 ks commissioners have a good
deal to do and there is no use in piling
up more work upon them unless they
have money to carry out things and
place them in businesslike shape this
is the expressed opinion of William
Green, chairman of the council commit
tee on WateIWOrkS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-09
WORLDS GREATEST SKATER.
Marshall lack Here TO Give an Exhi-
bitiOn Tonight.

Marshall Jack, the holder of the
worlds championship medal for silt
roller skating, will be at the rink to-
night and Saturday night to give exhi-
billions.
lack does numerous tricks on stills
and is wonder in his line. On the
ordinary skate he is an expert, and / is
ability to travel over the fooc L-tWcln
sixteen bottles without touching them
with his feet, and his two minute toe
spin are his particular specialties in
skating. They are unequaled by any
other professional.
In order to secure Jack for the Kan
sas circuit. which includes Wichita,
Wellington Salina and Topeka, Webb
and Williams were compelled to sign a
contract for a ten days engagement.
He has been at these towns and the
press notices which have followed are a
chorus of praise.