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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-21
BOSTON MAN GIVES 100000.

4 Los Angeles. April 20.-Late this q
+ afternoon telegram was received 4
y at the chamber of commerce ad- y
= dressed to F. w. Henshaw, aSso- =
= ciate justice Of the supreme court 4
y of California, from c. J. Burrage, q
= a wealthy oil dealer of Boston, au- y
y thOrizing Henshaw to draw on p
4 him for $4,000 to be devoted to =
y the San Francisco relief fund. y
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CAUGHT LIKE
RATS IN TRAP
HapIess Victims of Chinese
Lust PeriShed in Gloomy
Subterranean CaVernS.
THEIR BONES INCINERATED
HORRIBLE STORY WILL NEVER
BE KNOWN.

Los Angeles. April 20.-"Strange is
the scene where San Francisco's Chi
natown stood" says w. w. Overton,
who reached Los Angeles today among
the refugees. No heap of smoking
ruins marks the site of the wooden
warrens where the slant-eyed men OF
the Orient dwelt In thousands. The
place is pitted with deep holes and
scared with dark pasSageways from
whose depths come smoke wreaths. All
the wood has gone and the winds are
streaking the ashes.
Men, white men, never knew the
depth of Chinatown's underground
city" says Mr.. OvertOn. "They often
talked of these subterranean runways.
And many Of them had gone beneath
the street levels, two and three stories.
But now that Chinatown has been I'M
masked, for the destroyed buildings
were only a mask, men from the hill
side have looked on where it's inner
secrets lay. In places they can see
passages 100 feet deep.
THE fire swept this Monaghan sec
ton clean. 1t left no shred of the
painted wooden fabric. 1t ate it down
to the bare ground and this lies stark.
for the breezes have taken away the
light ashes. Joss houses and mission
schools, grocery stores and opium dens,
gambling hells and theatreS-all of
them went The buildings blazed UP
like tissue paper lanterns used to when
the guttering candles touched their
sides.
Saved Their Opium Pipes.
From this place l followed the fire,
saw hundreds Of fTight-crazed yellow
men flee, In their arms they bore their
opium pipes, their money bags, Their
silks and their children. Beside them
ran the baggy-trousered women, and
some of them hobbled painfully.
But these were the men and women
of the surface. Far beneath the street
! levels in those cellars and sageways
were other lives. Women who never
saw the day from their darkened pris-
! ons, and blinking jailers were caught
like rats in a huge trap. Their very
bones were eaten by the flames
And now there remain only the
| holes. They pit the hillside like a null
ttude of ground swallow nests. They
show depths which the police never
! knew. The secrets of these burrows
! Will never be known. for into them the
/ hungry fire first sifted its red Goals
and then licked eagerly in tongues OF
/ creeping flames, finally oblitera ting
everything except the earth itself"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-21
MATINEE NETS S1,O6O.5O.
of "a Message From
Mars Brings Big Returns.

The matinee of "A Message from y
. Mars" given at the Salt Lake =
y theatre, by consent of David Proc y
y tor and the management, netted 4
= $1.060,50. There was no expense
y attached to the performance, y
= everything being donated y
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Maecabee Relief Fund.

Helena, Mont, April 2O.-David p
Markey of Michigan, supreme COM
mander of the knights of the Macca-
bees who is here, today telegraphed to
San Francisco to draw on the supreme
tents general relief fund for money
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-21
Pledge From HoId-overs.

In accordance with the sentiment OF
the meeting Governor Cutler yesterday
afternoon sent letters and kilograms to
the nine hOldOver members of the state
senate asking them if they would vote
to reimburse private donors in the event
$4,000 was raised here for the San Fran
cisco relief fund. If the responses are IA
vorable Governor Cutler viii at once set
about raising the sum mentioned. The
meeting yesterday pledged $1,000 to the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-21
BARKER GETS GOOD POSITION.

J. S. Barker, formerly Of the Knuts-
ford hotel, is now earning three times
his former wage as a result of a Mich
Dept Inter. Com. School. If you want
advancement, call and see US. Is w.
End So. A. z. Neslen, Rep.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-21
RooseveIt's Gift.

Washington. April 2O.-President
Roosevelt today contributed $1,000 and
Senator Knox $500 for. San Francisco.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-21
Calls for Private Relief.

Following the meeting at the Deserer
National bank. Governor Cutler issued
the following proclamation, urging private
citizens and commercial and civic bodies
in Utah to make contributions:
Whereas. A most terrible calamity has
come to our neighbOr state. California
caused by an earthquake on the morning
of Wednesday, April IS, 1906 followed bv
a terrible cOnflagratOn. resulting in an
appalling loss of life and property in San
Francisco and vicinity. and
Whereas, There is immediate and
pressing need for assistance in order thai
the thousands left homeless and now sIIf-
fering for the want of food and shelter
may be given SuccOr,
Now, therefore, L, John G. Cutler gov
ernor of the state of Utah. do hereby call
upon the mayors and city councils town
boards. and all civic organizations in the
state of Utah, to meet at the earliest
possible moment and organize relief com
mittees to raise funds to send to the suf-
fering of our sister state.
In testimony whereof L have hereunto
set my hand. and caused the great seal
of the state of Utah to be hereunto af-
fixed at Salt Lake City, this 10Th day of
April A. D., 1906
JOHN c. CUTLER,
''By the Governor.
&C. S. TINGEY, Secy. of State"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-21
Appeal to Montanans.

The Southern railway will carry sup
plies free.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-21

necessary to take care of the needy
members of the order in the Bay city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-21
Given the Preference.

These orders are that San Francisco
is to have precedence at all points over
all classes of business I have ordered
the collection and immediate dispatch
of supplies from Los Angeles, Sacra-
mento, Oakland and other points. All
other shipments that may be given to
the Hartman lines for transportation
to San Francisco will, of course, be
handled without charge of any kind to
the shipper. I am OF the confident
opinion that San Francisco will be rap
idly rebuilt and will be a greater city
in the future than it has been in the
past.
Il am going through as rapidly as
possible on a special train in order to
see that my orders are carried out and
to aid in their execution as much as 1
possibly can by being on the ground
n1vSeIf.''
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-21
Supplies Rushed Forward.

The Union Pacific general Office re-
ports that the supplies already sent the
line are as follows:
April 19-Omaha, three baggage cars
loaded with stoves and pipe; Denver
one baggage carload of bedding, pOta-
toes, canned goods and flour Cheyenne,
one baggage car of government sup
plies, tents, etc.
April 20-Greeley, COlo.-Ten cars of
potatoes and two cars of flour; Lu-
cerne, Colo, six cars potatoes; Fort
Collins, one car flour; Omaha, four
cars beans, rice, -four, canned fruit
coffee and corned beef, one car govern
ment tents; South Omaha. one car salt
meat; Denver, fifteen cars provisions,
etc: Fort Riley, Kansas. three bag
gage cars government supplies, tents,
etc.
The tents of the Nebraska national
guard have been sent by express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-15

ment of the stockholders meeting and
reelected retiring officers as follows:
President, Robert T. Lincoln; vice
president, John S. Runnells; secretary.
A. S. Weinsheimer; treasurer. G. r.
Brown
An unusual feature of the meeting
was the attendance Of J. Pierpont
Morgan. William x. Vanderbilt. Fred
Webb of New York. All of the other
directors were present with the ex-
ception of O. S A. Sprague, who is in
California.
lars OF stock worth $3.50 a share fur
nishes climax Of eight years OF
enormous profits The surplus at the
close of the fiscal year, July 81, 1906.
stood at $27,122,020 This had been
accumulated since August, 1898 and
1t followed a surplus almost as large,
disposed of at that time. Profits since
then have continued at an astonishing
rate, though patrons of the companys
sleeping cars pay the same old prices.
A Great Profit Garner
AS a profit Garner the record of the
company shows that in August, 1898,
the capital stock was Is million doll
lars. The then holders received
stock dividend of so per cent, which
brought the capital up to "a million
dcllarsv This stock distribution of the
par value of 18 million dollars cost
shareholders nothing. and rs per cent
of the profits had been returned on the
sleeping car business.
When the time came recently to
divide the immense profits of the COM
pany the directors were embarrassed
by the size of the sum of which they
had to dispose. They knew what to
do with the money, but they feared the
effect of public sentiment should such
a big profit be divided as a straight
dividend The subterfuge of Issuing
the profit as stock for which nothing
was paid was then hit upon.
At the meeting of the directors
which was held before the general
meeting of the stockholders, Charles
= Sweet was elected director in place
Of Frank O. Lowden. resigned. The
other officers of the company were re-
elected. The erection of a steel plant
to cost 100000 was recommended.
After the meeting President Robert
T. Lincoln declared that the stories
circulated regarding his intention to
foundation. He declared that he had
not contemplated at any time giving
UP his present position.
The annual statement Of the Pull
man company for the fiscal year end
ing July Sd. 1906. follows:
Total revenue. $29, SAP; total ex-
penses of operation. SIS. 4,740: de-
probation on cars and reserve for de-
probation on all the property of the
company. $2.609, APP: dividends de-
clared, $5.919.S84; proportion of net
earnings Of cars paid associated in
this, S744,421; net surplus $4,970..
014; surplus brought forward, $22,-
1886; surplus. $27.122.O2O.
The number of passengers carried
during the year was 16,253.947. Dur
ing the previous year the number
was 14s969,219.
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mo - no itI III
HOPPE PUTS BAN ON JAKE.
Wizard Is Barred by the Boy Be
cause of fsCheap'' Prices.


Chicago, Nov. 15.-Jake Schaefer, wiz
ard of the cue, finds himself in the
strange position OF being under the ban
with Willie Hoppe, boy champion. The
veteran of nearly forty years service
as an exponent of the gentlemen's game
has been blacklisted by the kid" Of
a brief two years standing because he
accepted an exhibition date at a cheaper
rate than Hoppe had demanded for the
same services.
Philadelphia's Casino room wanted 10
secure Hoppe. Schaefer and Sutton for
exhibitions. The management ap-
preached Hopes father, who is the
boys manager and he demanded $500
the room and the management started
negotiations with Schaefer and Sutton
separately. Neither knew of Hopes
terms and each asked $3.50 for the two
nights, or just half what Hoppe want
ed. OF course they were engaged and
when Hoppe heard of it he was wild.
Hoppe at once advised the Chicago
office of the big manufacturers, de-
manding that Schaefer call off the ex-
hibition and stating that if it was play
ed Hoppe would bar Schaefer in future
calculations. Jake only laughed and
then went to Philadelphia, where he
played great billiards, defeating SUIT
ton. But he is under the ban just the
same.
Hopes methods are becoming the
laughing stock of the country and it is
said he attempted to get a date at
Harry Davis fine new Pittsburg room
where Sutton and Schaefer are now
playing. But Davis said he did not
want the boy and his Troublesome faith
er at any price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-15
SEES CHANCE OF A o-ro-o SCORE.
Football Coach Roper From Princeton
Discusses Yale-Tfger Game.

New York. Nov. 15.z"I would not
be a bit surprised If neither Yale nor
Princeton was able to score and the
game resulted in a O-to-0 tie.
This declarat ton by Head Coach
Roper of Princeton was made after
the West Point game. and after he had
learned the issue of the game at New
Haven. There is a general belief that
scoring is possible only on trick plays
and on mistakes in handling kicks,
and therefore absolutely uncertain.
Roper is not alone in his opinion.
Understand me- he continued, Il
am hopeful of winning, and am salts
fed with the general development of
the team, but to gain ground against
such a defense as Yale will unques-
tionably show will be very difficult,
and 1 have not seen evidence of such
ground gaining ability in any team.
Neither hare 1 seen a team that be-
lieve can penetrate our defense in the
condition it viii be. OF course, there
is always the possibility of any team
getting off a long run from fortuit-
Gus combination of circumstances or a
muff of a blocked kick or tumble,
producing a score. Tt is by taking adj
vantage of opportunities like these
that hope we will win. but the fight
is going to be much harder than is
generally expected.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-15
MAY LEASE ILLINOIS CENTRAL.
Hartman would Guarantee Per
Cent Dividend to Union Pacific.

rumor has been set current to the
effect that it was E. H. Harriman's in
tention to bring about the lease of the
Illinois Central by the Union Pacific
and to guarantee Z per cent yearly
dividend from the stock of the former
road
Not much credit is given to the re-
port that Mr.. Fish. until recently.
president of the Illinois Central road,
proposes to contest the legality of the
election Of Mr.. Harahan on the
grounds that some of the directors
who voted were not residents of Illi-
nois. The majority of the board of
directors Of the Illinois Central COM
pany are not and have not been resi-
dents of the state of Illinois and If the
action of the directory in electing Mr..
Harahan president of the company
was Illegal then every act of the pres
ent board of directors was also H.
legal. 1t has been several years since
the majority of the members of the
board have been residents of Illinois
and If Mr.. Fish brings up one case
and makes a fight on it. other cases
may be brought up. Indications at
the present time are that there viii
be a prolonged contest for Supremacy
with Mr.. Hartman possessing a great
advantage. He is in the saddle with
Mr. Fish on the outside
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CANS WAS FISH CLEANER.
Great Boxer Started His Career at
Baltimore Theater.

Baltimore, Nd, Nov. 15.-The pres
ent prominence of Joe Cans in the
fighting world is due entirely, to a Its
tie fight he engaged in some thirteen
years ago by which he was raised from
the lowaly depths of a fish cleaner in
Baltimore9tO the fstic fame he is now
1t is~nor~ commonly known that he.
was before a cleaner of fish in Balti-
more. with no Ideas of the fame and
wealth awaiting him, but It is true
nevertheless His first experience 4
with the gloves on came about like
this: After the usual performance at
Kernan's Monumental theater In Bal
timOre boxing show was held, and
before the star bouts OF the evening ,
were contested a fight between ne
groes was given called a battle royal {
They we're amateurish affairs in
which every negro of Baltimore who
had fighting aspirations would enter. :
They made a hit with the crowd and
the battles royal continued. The al
Turing sum of 50 tempted Cans and
one night he applied for an entrance to /
the battle royal" After much ques-
tioning and warning he was entered I
into one of the fights.
From then on his strides have been
large and fast. He won that fight
easily. for even then he had the same (
queer style and the same punches sht
now possesses.
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'F 7:ss 1 sSt d Jones and MCLEAN 7 7 f Boon

the line. Mi1s6dr short Of .s,,ns q
and it will be impossible to fiji the
hole he has left in the line. There isl
fear that many of the Tigers. who are
now on the hospitakzsfaf will not have
recovered by next Saturday The.
the great number Of injured men. and
the coach has been afraid to use theS
sound players i'll scrimmage
M1ssourfs hospital list Is as fol-
lows: Miller, injured ankle, out Of
game for season. Rutherford, quarter
back, injured back; Tidd, Quarter
back, sprained ankle; Carothers, full
Driver, end, weak knee; Douglass, end,
sprained ankle: Jewett, left half back,
bad ankles; Morrow, half back; Liv-
ingston,i tackle; Kurtz, guard, and y
SWitzer. full back. minor injuries.
There will be no scrimmaRe work
this week. and possibly none during
the rest of the season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-15
RAILROAD NEWS.
The Pullman "MelOn" Has Been
Sliced and Divided.
The 26 Million Dollars in Profits
Distributed.
STOCK GIVEN GRATIS.
&c Shares to Every One Holding
100 Shares.
Chicago Put in Claim for )
Million in Taxes.

Chicago, Nov. 15.-With the corpora
ton counsel, Mr.. Lewis bombarding
them with demands for the payment Of
million dollars in alleged evaded tax,
the stockholders OF the Pullman com
pany met in Chicago and quietly sliced
up a &c million dollar stock melon"
It was voted to capitalize this amount
of the comPany's q million dollars sur
plus and to issue the stock to the
stockholders without cost, thus bringing
the, total capital of the company up to
100 million dollars.
This free stock distribution is equal
to Sc per cent Of the present outstand-
ing capital. which amounts to Il million
dollars. The city's demand for taxes
consisted of a formal notice served on
the stockholders that they will be liable
individually for their shares of the as
sessment which Colonel Lewis is en-
tzatiOn to Impose on the 20 million dol
lars.
How the Company Evaded.
n his notice the corporation counsel
asserts that the company evaded as
sessment on this surplus on the mis-
representation that the fund represent
ed dead cars and old cars otherwise
taxed 1t also contained the threat
that the city win sue each stockhOlavr
for his share of the tax, if it shall be
imposed
The stockholders at their meeting re-
elected the retiring directors. with the
exception of Frank O. Lowden Mr.
Lowden has gone into politics and
deemed it unwise to be identified with
such prosperous corporation as the
Pullman company He therefore sold
his stock and was succeeded on tho
board by Charles S. Sweet
Lincoln Not to Retire.
The directors met after the adjourn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-15
Piles
Seattle Gentlemen Cured With Less
Than Box by the Pyramid
Pile Curc.
Anyone Can Easily Test It and Provo
1t, for q Free Sample is Sent by
Mail to All

Anyone Can Easily lest 1t and Provo
1t, for a Free Sample is Sent by
Mail to All.
Seven out of ten readers of this paper
are tortured with piles or some form OF
rectal disease. You are, or you would
not be reading this article. Thirty
years ago doctors carried a lancet in
their vest pocket and bled people for
all sorts Of diseases and bled them hard
sometimes a quart at a time. It was
the fashion then All that is changed
nowadays and a doctor with a lancet
would be considered a curiosity
Five years ago doctors .'cut OUT
Piles wherever they got the chance.
All that has been changed since the
marvellous soothing, healing and cura-
have become known
BY every mail we get letters Ike
this:
wishing to give credit where credit
is due, I feel it my duty to humanity
as we'll as yourselves to write YOU re-
garding your pile remedy. I have not
finished my first box and am now well
After the first treatment of Pyramid
Pile Cure. the soreness left. and the
swellings have kept decreasing. II also
used your pills and am feeling like my
self again Thanking you kindly. 4
am yours truly, c. Crowley ITO 9th
Ave. Seattle, Wash"
r. YOU want positive proof OF the err
ative value Of this remedy send to the
pyramid Drug Company, 81 Pyramid
Building, Marshall, Mich. You will re-
ceive free trial package by return
mall Try It, then go straight to your
druggist, get a Scot box and get well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-15
ALL RECORDS BROKEN.
Railroads Are Making Unprecedented
Purchases of Equipment

PURCHASES Oh equipment.
Chicago, Nov 15.@The large pur-
chases of equipment which have been
announced within the last few days
BY Western railroads indicate that all
records relating to increases in equip
nent will be smashed this year. The
Wa bash expects within a few weeks
to make contracts for $12,320, 900
worth of new cars and engines and the
Northern Pacific han just made pub
lie it's purchase of $7.70O.00O worth OF
new freight cars.
The Burlington has begun to re-
ceive $5,558, 600 worth of new locomo-
tives and cars. the orders for which
will not be filed until next year. The
Santa Fe has in orders for $4,000, 900
worth OF cars and locomotives. Add
ed to the recently announced orders
by tho Hartman lines aggregating
$21.56O, 900 and by the Rock Island
amounting to 100000. this makes
S61. 1880 600 in orders which six West
ern systems have placed, practically
all of them for delivery early next
year. Other roads are making pur-
chases on a similarly large scale which
they are not yet ready to announce
Family Meeting of Rock Island.
A family meeting of passenger ofri-
cials of the Rock Island-Frisco system is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-15
RAILROAD employees MAGAZINE
New Monthly Sheet to Be Distributed
to $1,000 Snnfa Fe Men

1t is rumored that beginning with
the first of December the employees of
the Santa Fe are to have a magazine
published exclusively for the Santa
Fe employees of all departments of the
company. The proposition is being
promoted by Santa Fe empIoye and
the rumor is confirmed by reliable
parties at the Santa Fe offices.
The road itself or the officials, have
nothing to do with the publication of
the magazine. The prospective pub
fishers. although now employed by the
road, If the plan is carried out. will re-
sign their positions and give their
whole time to the publication Of the
magazine II will be known as the
Santa Fe Employees Magazine" and
will be delivered gratis to every en-
plOye. The object is to make the ad.
vertising cover the cost-of publica ton.
The magazine will contain gossip
and things of interest among the en-
ployes all over the system. current
railroad news and articles on topics of
interest among the different depart
ments of the road.
The employees of a number of east
ern roads have similar publications
which arc being made a success. There
are SIS. 900 employees in the various de-
partments of the Santa Fe system and
operating as it does 10000 miles Of
road in fourteen states and territories,
there is every reason to believe that
the employees can have a magazine that
VIII not only be interesting to them
selves but to outsiders as we'll.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-15
Santa Fe Again Accused.

Complaint has been fled against the
Santa Fe railroad and connecting lines
before the interstate commerce commits
sion by the Commercial club Of Roswell
\ NJ, and other organizations of the
Pecos valley. charging that this locality
was being Disseminated against in the
question Of rates. 1t is charged in the
petition that the Santa Fe absorbed the
PecOs Valley railroad after il had been
built by private individuals. and ever
since the rates have been SO exorbitant
as TO greatly retard the DEVELOPMENT Of
the various cities along this line
A comparison of rates to common Texas
points from the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers to Chicago, St. Paul. and Mime
apolis is given which shows that though
the distance IS about the same the rates