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Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
Long Beach Bride Is
Near to Death
Doctors Work Tor Hours
to Save Life.
Mrs. George w. Spicer Takes LethaI
Potion, and Tells Husband to
Come Home Quick, as
She Is Sick
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
LONG BEACH, Oct. 5.-For two
hours tonight Mrs. George w. Spicer,
the one months bride of prominent
attorney, lowered between life and
death, while two of this city's best
physicians worked over her to save her
from succumbing to a large dose of
carbolic acid At o'clock tonight she
was pronounced out of danger.
Friends and relatives of the young
woman deny that there was any inten-
ton of suicide on the part of Mrs.
Spicer, but the fact that a tablespoon
full of the acid was missing from the
fresh two-ounce bottle and the state
ment of neight~-- that the married life
of Mr.. and Mrs. Spicer has not been a
happy one has led some of those living
in the immediate vicinity of the Spicer
home, Fifth and Cedar streets, to doubt
their assertions.
Talks to Husband
Mrs Spicer was found by Mrs. Hugh
G. Wilson, who lives In the house i'm
mediately adjoining, about 7 O'Clock.
Mr.. Spicer called up Mrs. Wilson over
her telephone and requested her to tell
his wife to come to the telephone. Mrs.
Wilson went to the Spicer home to
deliver the message and found the house
in darkness. She called several times,
but receiving no answer went through
the house, calling loudly. Mrs. Spicer
finally answered her, and Mrs. Wilson
k1l.I NJ he, nm
the telephone Mrs. Spicer followed her
and talked to her husband several min
utes and Mrs. Wilson overheard her
tell him to come home quick as she
was very sick. 1t was noticed that she
was quite pale, and in alarm Mrs. Will
son followed her back to her own home.
There, according to Mrs. Wilson, Mrs.
Spicer confessed to her neighbor that
she had not been feeling we'll and had
taken the carbolic acid. She begged
Mrs. Wilson not to send for ply sician,
but Drs. Hamman, and Holden were
quickly summoned, and for two hours
they fought the effects Of the poison
INCREASINGLY.
Spicer arrived after the doctors had
been working over his wife for some
time, but refused to say anything about
the affair. He admitted that his wife
was very sick, but refused to discuss
the question any further.
Plays Trick on Wife
Neighbors say that Tuesday night
Spicer came home very late and pre-
tended to his wife that he had taken a
drug that would kill him in few
hours The same authorities say that
Mrs Spicer became hysterical and that
her nervous condition was increased by
! Spicer discharging a revolver at the
q unf0 ne
sons in the neighborhood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spicer were married at
Mount Pleasant, Utah, September 8.
Mrs. Spicer was Miss Mabel johnson,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. johnson
of that place.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
New Orleans Visited
by Heavy Blows
Six Persons Killed, Nine
Fata ly Hurt
Damages Over a Million in Three Par
ishes, 300 Buildings Suffering.
Path Of Destruction
Eight Miles Long
By Associated Press

BY Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 5.--This region
was today the center of cyclonic dis
turbances, at least three of which were
tornadoes and caused loss of six lives
with nine persons fatally injured.
About daylight heavy storms broke
within 100 miles west, north and east of
New Orleans.
Tonight reports of sugar cane and
cotton crops blown down or sugar mills
demolished are coming in from this Sec
tion.
The. damage, including that done in
New Orleans, is placed at over 81, 000 900.
The worst of the tornadoes was north
of New Orleans, where between $50
and O'Clock it devastated portions of
three parishes. New Orleans was Wis
tied by anothed tornado, and a third
passed northward of Biloxi on the gulf
coast
Kills Two Women
The first tornado struck West Baton
Rouge parish about O'Clock, killing
Mrs. Theodore yoret and her daughter.
Mrs. White.
Baton Rouge was slightly damaged.
In ST. James parish one woman, whose
name has not been learned was killed,
and Mrs. H. R. Webber and daughter
Mrs. John Meyer. and a negro are re-
ported fatally injured. Fifteen build
ings were blown completely down in
this parish.
At Pontchatoula, which the tornado
reached about o'clock, George Hawes
and son and daughter were killed by
the collapse of their house and another
child of the family was fatally injured.
A negro was also fatally injured there,
beside injuries to dozen other persons.
Fifty Injured
The third tornado struck New Orleans
about O'Clock. Although no lives were
lost here property damage reached
$5UO, 900 and about fifty persons were in
jured, one fatally. Fully 800 buildings
were damaged, about sSventy-five being
blown down. Most of the damaged
buildings were negro cabins, and it
was here that nearly all of the injuries
occurred.
The path of the tornado through the
city was about eight miles long, enter
ing from the Mississippi river at Audu-
bon Park and travelling northwest to
Marengo and Carondelet streets and
then after a circuitous course to Gar
vier and Magnolia streets it passed
northward out of the city. In places
the storms path was about thirty feet
wide and only at two or three points
did it reach 100 flct.
The tornado here appeared at dis
tance as a cloud sweeping the surface
of the earth. It's course was undulat-
ing, some buildings being skipped as it
bounded skyward. Frequently it de-
molished verandas and fences on one
Continued ON page two.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
MASSACHUSETTS ASKS
SOME TARIFF CHAN GES
By Associated Fress.

BOSTON, Oct. 5.--A blow to ir,a:ce-
diate tariff revision and to the cham
pions of Increased reciprocal trade
schedules, led by Eugene N. Foss. was
delivered today at the Massachusetts
Republican convention. which adopted
without remonstrance a platform call
ing for such tariff changes as might
be found necessary from time to time.
with the understanding that they be
applied to all sections of the country
posed entirely of men now in office,
is as follows; Governor, Curtis Guild,
Jr.. Boston; lieutenant governor. Eben
S. Draper, Hopedale; secretary of state,
William Malone. Boston, treasurer and
receiver general. Arthur b. Chapln,
Holyoke; auditor, Henry e. Turner,
Maiden; attorney general. Dana Ma
lone. Greenfield.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
Find 20 Bodies at
Bluefield Mine
Twenty to Two Score
Not Az ccOun ed For
Graves Are Being Dug in Cemetery
Where 200 Victims of 1884
colliery Horror Are
Buried
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
BLUEFIELD, w. Va, Oct. s.
Twenty-nine bodies have been recov-
cred from the west fork of the Poca-
hontas collieries company mine at
Pocahontas, Va, and a conservative
estimate places the total number of
dead at from AZ to 70.
The rescuing party reached the
scene of the explosion butthe immense
amount of debris and wreckage has
hampered the search for bodies.
There is nothing authentic to be
learned from any source as to the ac-
tual number of men who perished in
the disaster. Usually there are about
100 miners in the section affected by
the explosion exclusive of the drivers,
trappers and track men. The only way
to tell how many are missing would
be to make a complete census of the
company's employees, but the excite
done. ~
1t is said tonight that it will take
ten days to clear the mine of wreck
age and slate.
The most fortunate feature of the
catastrophe is the fact that the mine
did not take fire. The management
tonight gives the figures at 81 dead,
already recovered. and 20 missing and
believed to be dead.
Near 200 Other Graves
A large number of men were put to
work this morning digging graves In
the same cemetery and close to the
spot where in 1884 over 200 miners who
had perished in similar explosion
were buried.
At the improvised morgue Hungar-
ians, Italians and negroes thronged
to identify the dead and as fast as
this was done the bodies were placed
in coffins and removed to their homes.
Enormous crowds gathered here from
all over the vast coal field.
The mine tonight is reported free
from gas and is safe for the relief
parties to work in.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
8 Dead, 40 Hurt in
Philadelphia
High Buildings Nearby
Are Shaken
Explosion Occurs While inspectors
Trace Source Of Leaks in Gas
Malns-Rans Save Many
Lives
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA Oct. 5.-Eight
men were killed and nearly two score
persons injured today by the explosion
of Illuminating gas in the Market
street subway at Sixth street. High
buildings were shaken and for block
on either side nearly every window
was shattered. The street caved in,
halting traffic.
Fire followed the explosion, but did
no damage to neighboring buildings.
The loss. it is believed, will exceed
100000.
The dead:
John Lawlers, aged 35; timber fore
man.
Frank Leans, 4S years of age, en-
ployed by the United Gas Improve
ment company.
Cato Begnino, 35 years old, Pitts
burg. laborer.
John Scott, laborer.
Frank Beidleman, As, tailor.
Frank Croller, laborer.
r. Capero, laborer.
John Pacey, carpenter.
Beidleman was killed by flying de-
DTS. LedHS ana beBIllIlO Qleu Ill Un6
hospital. Croller's body was recovered
from the excavation late this after
noon.
The subway is being constructed for
the Philadelphia Rapid Transit COM
pany. Yesterday workmen discerned
the odor of gas and the United Gas
Improvement company, whose con-
duits run through the tunnel was no
titled. Leans was sent by the com
pany TO repair the leak 1t was while
he was making his investigation at
6:35 o'clock this morning that the ex-
plosion occurred.
Heavy rains last night partly filled
the tunnel with water and stopped
work, otherwise there would have beer
a large force in the subway and the
loss of life would probably have been
heavy. There were comparatively few
persons in the neighborhood owing to
the early hour Trolley car passengers
and pedestrians were among the in
jured.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
TWO PLUNGE TO
DEATH, ARMS
LOCKED
BY Ar-ociated Press

BY Ar-ociat ted Press
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. g.
Clutched in each others arms. two
young men fell from the fourth story
of the Lake Shore railroad office
building and were hurled to their
death on the pavement below at 5
o'clock this afternoon.
The dead men are ]. V. Bunts, aged
S0 and Harry Wilfrid. aged II years,
both of whom were clerks in the office
of the superintendent of motive power
of the Lake Shore railroad. Bunts
was killed instantly and Wilfred died
in an ambulance while being conveyed
to a hospital.
During their flight through the air
neither relaxed his deathlike grasp
and each held to the other till the
bodies struck the pavement.
1t is stated that the two men were
on the best terms and good-naturedly
banded words over some work in
which Bunts wantetd Wilfrid to assist
him. They playfully started to wrestle
and as they reached the window they
slipped and both fell over the low sill
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
S EISM OG r Apis
TELL STORY OF
TEMBLOR

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.-The weather
bureau today issued a bulletin an
nouncing that the bureaus seismo-
graphs recorded another great earth
quake" beginning at 9:05 p. m. October
1, but that the earthquake probably
was not disastrous. The official bulle-
tin follows
1.-The seismographs at the weather
bureau recorded another earthquake,
beginning about hours minutes
p. M, 75Sth meridian time, October l..
The distinctive features of the record
consist in the long duration of the
earthquake and especially the long
duration of the relatively strong mo-
ton.
"The amplitude of the strong motion,
as recorded at Washington. was only
about 3 of a milimeter, which is very
much less than i'm the case of either
the San Francisco or the Valparaiso
earthquakes.
"The record indicates, however, that
the disturbance was at a great dis
tance from Washington; i'm fact, almost
at the Antipodes or within an indefinite
region In the Indian ocean Yesterday
from Australia
"There Is evidence from the records
that this Is another great earthquake.
1t would seem unlikely that II was es-
pecially disastrous In view Of its pos
sible location In the bed Of the Indian
ocean II might, however, have been
accompanied by strong tidal waves.
"Advices have just been received
from the London Daily Mail that a
great earthquake has been recorded on
the seismographs at Perth and sydney,
Australia. which are not far distant
from the estimated origin as deduced
from the Washington observations.
(Signed) WILLIS l.. MOORE,
"Chief Weather Bureau"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
THINK SUSPECT
is REALLY
SIMPKINS

BY Associated Press.
BISBEE, Ariz., Oct. 5.-A man whose
name is as yet unknown, but who is be-
lieved to be Simpkins, the Western
Federation of Miners member connect
ed by the authorities with the dynamite
murder of Governor Frank Steunenberg
of Idaho, is under arrest at Cananea.
Sonora, Mex, and is being held there
by request of the Arizona rangers.
The prisoner is said to answer closely
the official description of Simpkins.
Captain Tom Ryning of the rangers,
who returned today from Cananea, so
states, but he is not positive of the
mans Identity
Captain Ryning has sent for a man In
Arizona who is we'll acquainted with
identify the suspect.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
WOULD MAKE STREETS SAFE
San Francisco Official Proposes an
Examination for All Drivers
of Vehicles
By Associated Press.

Sy Associated FTeSS
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5.-Super-
visor ]. F. Kelly will at the next meet
ing of the board of supervisors intro
duce an ordinance to the board of su-
pervisors that will compel all the driv-
ers of vehicles propelled by any power
to appear before a board of examiners
and pass an examination before it will
be permissible for them to operate
their conveyance.
The same board will hold every man
obtaining permit from it to operate
vehicle, whether it be a street car
of an automobile, personally RESPONSE
BILE for all the accidents that might oc-
cur and be in any way attributable to
him.
supervisor Kelly's plan in short is to
inaugurate a board that will operate
just as does the investigating commit
tee under the federal government in
control of hulls and boilers
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
ARREST TIL /. FIRST
OF ATLANTA
RIOTERS

ATLANTA, Ga, Oct. 5.-The first ar
rest in connection with the riot of Sat
urday. September %. which resulted in
the death of eighteen negroes and one
white man, was made today
walter Edmonds, a butcher was
placed In Jail on grand jury indiet-
ment charging murder.
In one true bill found b. the grand
jury. after an investigation Of the kill
ing of the county policeman, Heard,
at Brownsville September 2S, sixty
negroes were indicted on the charge OF
murder.
The grand jury returned sixteen bills,
all of which, Il Is understood are
against white men, charging rioting.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
TW ENTY-FIVE GO
DOWN WITH
BRIDGE
B. ssociated Press

r. associated Press
MENOMINEE Mich. Oct 5.-While
a party of 25 students of oconto,
Wis, high school were standing on a
foot bridge of Oconto Falls Wis. to-
day, watching the falls. the structure
collapsed. hurling the whole party forty
feet into the stream.
w. Ballou aged IA years was killed,
and Viga Sentl, Hazel Denisen and
Frank Donley seriously injured
Professor Newcombe. the Instructor,
was badly hurt, ana several others
slightly injured
The bridge Is 200 feet long, but the
water in the stream is only three feet
deep.
Twenty-five other students had left
the bridge just before 1t fell.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
PORTLAND GRAIN MEN
SAVE THEIR MARKET 7

PORTLAND, Ore, Oct. 6,-While they
are exasperated by the stand taken by
the local grain handlers in demanding
a higher rate of pay than is received
by the union men at Seattle and Ia
coma, the exporters declare that wheat
trict..
Balfour Guthrie & Co. ha ordered
the French bark Vile de Mulhouse to
leave Tacoma for Portland in tow, and
she will arrive Monday
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
CANADIANS FEAR
STEAMER is
MISSING

BY Associated Press.
ST. JOHNS. N. f., Oct 5,--Uneasiness
is beginning to be felt here because the
fishing steamer Adventure, which sailed
early in August for Hudson. is more
than two weeks overdue.
The vessel carried the Canadian ex-
pedition which win establish new
mounted police posts along the bay and
provision existing posts.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
Favor Universal Penny Post
v AasoclaIed Press.

BY AssOcIatcd Press.
MILAN. Italy, Oct. 5.-The Interna-
tional Congress of Chambers of Com
merce. in session here, voted nes rly
unanimously in favor of univer al
penny postage after an address ly
John Henniker Heatc1 M. p, who
carried the imperial penny postage
scheme through the British house Of
commons in 1893.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
Saving the steamer Santa Ana

by AH8UCIU tuU EVo7
SAN FRANCISCO Oct. 5.-The mer-
chants exchange has received advices
from Seattle to the effect that the
steamer santa Ana, which returned to
Clallam bay IN a disabled condition
after having started for Valdez, Alas
ka. is reported 10 be humping heavily.
The tug Pioneer has SO far been unable
to reduce the water In her hold.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
BULGARIANS AND
TURK PATROL
CLASH
By Associated Press

BY Associated Press.
SOFIA. Bulgaria. Oct 5--A Turkish
patrol that attempted to cross the Bull
garian frontier near Philipopolis has
been repulsed by the Bulgarian out
posts.
A Turkish officer was killed.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
FoREcAsT:

For Southern California: Fair
Saturday; light north wind. Maxi
mum temperature in Los Angeles
yesterday, "a degrees; minimum, 81
degrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
Senior Pas Is introduced

BY Associated Ffess.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.~senor Jose
Rosa. Pas, the new minister to the
United States from Salvador and Hone
duras was presented to President
Roosevelt today.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
New spanish Loan Rumors

MADRID, Oct. 5,-The reports that
a new Spanish loan Is being negotiated
in Paris and London are officially de-
MED.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-06
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-30
Dreamed the Safe Combination.

Charles Farrell s dreams may not be
so fantistic as some, but they have been
proved to be accurate at least. One of
them yesterday opened the old safe,
which has stood for the past sixteen
years; tightly locked and with the com.
bination forgotten, in the Mayor IS Of
fee.
Various clerks and messengers in one
administration after another have tried
their hands at the old safe, but they
could never do anything with it. 1t
was locked and it stayed locked The
safe is said TO be one Of the first fitted
with combination lock to be installed
IN the city, and it was used for long
time in connection with the police court
IN the days when the Mayor held the
daily hearings.
Yesterday Farrell entered the Office
with the announcement that he had
dreamed the combination. Amid the
derisive gibes Of others in the office he
tried his ''hunch" and, greatly to the
astonishment of everybody, it worked,
the bolt slid back and the door opened.
Gazette Times.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-30
STEPS TAKEN FOR
COMPETENT EXAMINERS
To Guarantee Financial Safety
of National Banks Intent
of Proposed Law.

CHICAGO, Sept. 2o.-Compctcnt
bank examiners, whose inspection of an
institution will be a guarantee of its
financial safety are provided for IN a
bill TO he introduced at the next session
Of the State Legislature by Representa-
tive John Z. McGo0rty of the First dis
tricC who holds that the present system
of examinations is worse than none.
The measure will be a final blow TO
the perfunctory examination of banks
by State officials It's most important
provisions will be; Fee system TO be
abolished and bank examiners TO re-
ceivc a sufficient salary TO secure men
of ability.
Bank examiners to be certified pub
lie accountants and to be retained per
mancutly under civil service
Assistants in sufficient number to be
provided and they must be experts on
value of listed and unlisted securities,
mercantile collateral or real estate and
also experts on handwriting.
Examination 10 be not only thor
ough audit, but TO include valuation Of
all securities held as collateral.
Loans TO stockholders to be itemizcd
as part of the report
State Auditor to have power to close
banks Immediately and dis
cretonary authority in refusing char
tcrs.
Directors to be live men. not dummies
and to be required TO certify in writing
To the gcnuineness OF notes and other
securities.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-30
Portland Officer Likely to Have
Trouble TO Take Back the
Morgans.
MYSTERY FRITZ ROBBERY
NOT YET CLEARED UP
Portland Deputy Sheriff De-
clares Both Arrested Persons
Have Bad Records.

Joseph Day, the deputy sheriff, of
Portland, Or, arrived in Salt Lake Sat
urday and will, as soon as ho can get
the necessary papers, take tho pris.
oners, Harry Morgan and Leora Nor
gan, now being held here, to Portland
Tor trial. That is, he thinks he will.
AS matter Of fact, the police Of
Salt Lake have at no time since the
arrest OF the Morgans had any legal
right to hold them. From the hour of
thelr arrest Chief of Police Sheets has
made every. effort to get some tele-
graphic authority from the police Of
Portland that would Justify him in
holding the prisoners. Strange to say,
The latter have been perfectly willing
10 remain IN Jail until the arrival OF
the officers, being apparently confident
that no extradiiion papers can be
secured to take them out of the State.
The case IS full of mystery and the
prisoners have contributed absolutely
nothing toward clearing it away.
Both Have Records.
Day is a garrulous individual who
was fired from the Portland police
force, according to his own account, for
'lncompetency.' lie is known all
over the continent by sheriffs and DO.
lice chiefs. He has a tale to tell of
the Morgans which would make first
class dime novel.
Day says that Leora Morgan, alias
Alice Adams, the woman now in iail
here, is not new hand at the grand
larceny game. She, according TO Day,
recently served a term in the Reform
atory at st. Cloud, Mimi, for that
crime. Her consort, Harry Morgan, is
also an ex-convlct, having lately com
pleted term for grand larceny at the
Renltentlary at Walla Walla, Wash
lie IS said to have earned u livelihood
after the expiration of his term as a
stool pigeon for the Portland police.
Somewhat Different Story.
Day says that the robbery of the
butcher, Fritz, by the Morgan
woman, was not committed in
a hotel, as previously reported, but in
a public street of Portland where she
deliberately picked his pockets. tax
ing away from him something like
$4,000. The rest of the story, when
stripped of its peculiar features. does
not differ materially from that already
published regarding the theft of the
money and the long pursuit OF the
Morgans which ended with their ar.
rest III this city last Wednesday. The |
indications are that the extradition of |
this pair will be fought bitterly in the |
courts, Day says himself that he does J.
rot expect to get away from Salt Lake
Tor at least ten days. There are others
who do not believe he will ever be able
TO get away with these prisoners New
leyelopments are expected today
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-30

Lake George NJ, Hanson moved an
amendment to insert clause reonir;nr, n
an indofsement of the State Rcpublica6S
candidates, which carried. eu"i''un