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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1906-02-27

Physician and Surgeon. Office owe:
Nye and Ormsby County Bah@.
Office Hours.-A. M. 10 to 1l;
p. M. 1 to 3; p. NJ. to 8.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1906-02-27
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Physician and Surgeon, Once opposite
the State Capitol, Cor. King and
- carson Street, Residence, Judge
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. WM. J. clRcE, N. o.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1906-02-27
A. C. WINTERS.

3 TNo hoists. an air com pressor, two
rock crushers, ventilation fans and
lights will be installed at the North
Rapidan mine at Como
i Be in time and select winter suit
II rcc Platts.- He !tarantees =. per
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
WOMAN A BASEBALL UMPIRE
Special to The Herald.


WASHINGTON, May S.-What has
happened to the men of America and
what's going to become of the homes
of this country?
The census bureau has just sent in
a report that is enough to cause each
separate hair to stand upright on the
head of every man and every woman
who's really interested in home and
mother.
There are so many women making
their own livings in the United States
today that the increase in the feminine
population can't keep up with the
game. This is what the census re-
port says about this strange state OF
affairs.
There are over 100000 women and
children making their own livings in
the United States today. The census
bureau shows that in 1900 there were
over 5500.000 women and children in
this country supporting themselves.
Women were found In all but eight
of the 1908 kinds of employment sched-
uled by the census.
Steeple jacks and baseball Hmpires
were found among women, but there
were no women soldiers, firemen, sail
ors, street car drives, firemen, roofers
and slaterss- steam boiler makers and
brass workers. The rate of increase
in the number of women wage earnerf
was greater from 1890 to 1900 than the
rate of increase in the female popula-
lstion
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
DEFAULTER WILL RETURN
crookston, Mimi, official, Considered
Dead, Expects to Reimburse
His Bondsmen

CROOKSTON, Mimi, May S.-News
from source considered reliable has
been received here that Joseph Mat
thews, who, as deputy treasurer of
Polk county. defaulted to the extent
of about $4,000 and who was thought to
have died in a London hotel in 1898. is
alive and expects soon to return to
Crookston to reimburse the bondsmen
of County Treasurer Beaudry, who
settled with Polk county.
Matthews disappeared in 1898. A man
was found dead in London hotel.
Matthews watch and ring were found
upon the dead man. together with
papers. Now it is thought that Mat
thews was in London at the time and
changed clothes with the dead man to
confuse identification.
Mrs. Matthews collected $4,000 life in
surance and has remarked.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
CAR MAKES HUMAN PIE
Crashes Into Lithograph Wagon and
Covers Persons With Paste
and Batter

Special to The Herald
NEW YORK. May 8.-Perched on the
box of a wagon of an amusement COM
pany carrying cargo of Autographs
and sundry barrels of soft PASTE the
combination of which on various wall
spaces and fences was soon to entice
the lover of melodrama, George Sulli-
van and George Batters, both expert
wielders of the big brush, turned un-
warily into One Hundred and Eighth
street at Lexington avenue recently ana
a sticky tragedy occurred.
Chatting gayly of matters theatrical,
the duo of bill posters did not observe
that car was bearing down upon them
and when they became aware of the
fact they were forming a part of pic
ture that paled the Intellectual colors
of all the "eight sheets" they had rolled
up in their wagon. They were conspicu-
GUS features of situation the piece de
resistance of which was paste, and in
cidentally a dozen or more other per-
sons were involved In the mixture.
When the wagon turned the car hit 1t
so hard that Sullivan, Batters and the
barrels of paste went sailing skyward.
The real disaster did not occur, how
ever, until they came back to earth.
The barrels had been split open in
transit and their contents exuded so
pick themselves out. Harry Clark,
motorman of the car. was interrupted
in the middle of an expression of opin-
ion by a gluey contribution in the face,
and Benjamin Graham. 81 years old,
who had chosen an inopportune mo-
ment to cross the street, was carried
down by the pasty shower.
At the instant of the explosion vari-
GUS persons who had been looking at a
passing parade stopped to laugh, but
1t was only for the instant. They, too
were presently caught and attached to
the sidewalk. 1t required a force OF
rescuers with chisels and shovels to
excavate the victims. Then it was
found that only Sullivan and Batters
had been hurt. Collision with the paw
ing stones before the softer consistency
of the paste had landed gave them q
few cuts and bruises. Then everybody
went hcme to bathe.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
KEENEST MEN WATCH
TERRIBLE TERRORlSTS
FLOCK TO ST. PETERSBURG TO
NATIONAL PARLIAMENT
Earnest Duel In Progress Between
Police and RevolutlonIsts to Guard
Against Assassination Of Marked
Men at Capital
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
ST. PETERSBURG, May AL
though there are few surface indica-
tions of the fact that an earnest duel
Is in progress between the police and
terrorists and revolutionists, who are
thronging to the capital alert for an
opportunity to strike at Emperor Mich
olas or other marked men among the
officials gathered here for the opening
of the national parliament, precaution-
ary measures on an extensive scale
have been taken.
The police have been reinforced by
the keenest men from interior cities.
A mass meeting of the BLACK Hun
dreds" held yesterday under the presi-
dency of M. Dubrovin poured oil on
the flames by exacting an oath from all
present to the effect that If parliament
Is found to consist Of traitors" they
will offer their lives to protect the
autocracy. No better evidence Of the
feverish haste Of the government to
strengthen it's defense at all points be-
fore the assembling of parliament
could be given than the fact that
twelve columns of the Omcial Mes
senger today are devoted to ukases and
orders.
The emperor has yielded to the de-
mand of the Russian people of the
Baltic provinces and Poland, where
no elections have been held, granting
two seats in parliament to each. They
will be selected from the purely Rus
sian inhabitants. Thirteen members
are also assigned to Central Asia,
Samarkland, Russian Turkestan and
Syr Darya, Asiatic Russia. with the re-
striction that they elect one Cossack,
six for the Ussur South Siberia, and
Trans -Baikalian provinces, and one for
Yakutsk, East Siberia.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
MEXICO INCREASES ITS
PURCHASING POWER MUCH
HEAVY EXPORTS DUE IN PART
TO RAIL EXTENSION
City of Mexico Bank Opens, Swelling
Canadian investments to Fifty
MiIlions-SeveraI Thousand Chi
nese Imported by Kansas City Line
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CITY OF MEXICO, May S.-The
treasury department publishes statis-
tics of imports and exports for the first
half of the fiscal year. The imports in
the standard Mexican currency
9nounted to $S6,796,214, showing a net
decrease of $1,794751 over the cores
ponding period of the previous fiscal
year. But exports amounted to $751;
S64,507, showing a net increase over the
corresponding period of the previous
fiscal year of $S7OS5,2S4, an increase of
nearly 40 per cent.
There was a heavy increase in gold
and silver and vegetable exports. The
heavy exports indicates greatly in
creased purchasing power of the coun-
try and is due in part to railway ex-
tension.
The local branch of the Bank of
Montreal opened for business, Manager
Stewart having arrived from Canada.
1t is estimated that the Canadian in
vestment here is now close to $50,000,-
600 gold.
Three hundred Chinese laborers who
landed at Salina Cruz, the terminus OF
the Tehuantepec railway, left over the
Mexican Central railway for Chihua-
hua, where they will go to work on the
Kansas City, Mexico G. Orient railway
This road will bring in several thou
sand Chine ese laborers. being unable Ia
obtain enough native labor.
Vice President S. r. Nickerson of the
Mexican Central railroad has arrived
on visit OF inspection.
A sensational trial involving persons
of great wealth and high social stand
ing will begin In public this week An.
drew Couttelene and his nephew Fran,
cisco Rangel Couttelene are accused OF
the murder of Gustav Stein. an old ant
noted capitalist Of Oaxaca City anC
formerly German consul there. Stelr
at the time of his death had an import
ant mining deal pending with Georg,
Fred Williams and other Boston peo
pie, which was subsequently perfected
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
NOVICE GOES MAD IN CONVENT
Maniac Says Twenty Years Service
For God Is Enough and
Would Quit
Special to The Herald.


MANIToWOC, Wis. May S.-Brand-
ishing kitchen butcher knife and de-
claring that she had served God for
twenty years and now intended to
serve another master. Ella McCarty.
a novice at the st. Francis Catholic
convent west OF this city, severely
slashed five of her companions about
the face before she was subdued to-
day. She is insane.
One OF the novices who was cut had
her nose nearly severed from her face
and may die from the injury. There Is
much danger that the other victims
may get bloodpoisoning because the
knife used was old, broken and rusty.
Miss McCarty Is probably thirty
seven years of age, and had been at
the convent since September, coming
here from Quincy, ILL.,, and seeking Ia
become a nun. The attack which she
made followed a conversation In which
1t was suggested that she leave the
convent, the belief being expressed
that she did not have the vocation
This afternoon she became so violent
that II was necessary to tie her 10 q
cot with straps. This was after the
attack on the novices and while DIR
Meany. a physician. WAS attending her
Victims
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
RELIEF WORK CONTINUES
Citizens Committee Fund Amounts
Now to More Than Quarter
of a Million Dollars

That Los Angeles is still taking an
active interest in the San Francisco
sufferers is made apparent by the state
ment of the citizens relief committee
issued yesterday. which shows that
there are many supplies being gathered
for those who lost their all in the fire.
The need is still existent, for there
are many still to be fed and clothed
and further donations are solicited by
the members of the citizens relief COM
mittee. The total cash subscriptions to
date amount to $227,017.54
All of the fruit sold by the California
Fruit Growers exchange in the east
for the benefit of the fund was trans
ported free OF charge by the transcon-
tinental lines.
The committee sent north yesterday
one carload of groceries, one carload of
clothing and quantities of tools.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
GIGANTIC LAND
DEAL PROJECTED
LOS ANGELES MEN WILL
DEVELOP MEXICAN ACRES
Articles Of incorporation Are Filed
and Capital stock Is Placed at
st2,5oo,ooo-colonlzation a
Feature Of Plan

t1ne Of the most gigantic land deals
that was ever made In the southwest is
one that Is now being pushed by some
prominent Los Angeles men. Articles
OF incorporation were fled yesterday
and the men who were named in them
as directors are among Los Angeles
best known business men.
The capital stock is S12,500,000 and,
although only $1,000 has been sub
scribed It is said that more money in
large amounts will be forthcoming as
soon as II Is needed.
The company will be known as the
Sinaloa Land corporation, which now
controls several million acres Of Mex
lean lands. The local men became in
terested only after r.. p. Probasco had
been to Mexico and, after thoroughly
examining the land, reported favorably
upon its purchase.
Some Of the land was obtained by
trade, some by government conces-
sions and the remainder by purchase.
Nearly the whole state of Sinaloa is
Included. For surveying the land the
Mexican government granted the COM
pany one quarter section out of every
section. The company has now OBJ
tanned the remainder of the land.
Incorporate for Many Purposes
Nearly every company is incorpor-
ated for some specific purpose, but this
one is for a large number Of pur-
poses. The land is said to be situated
in such a way as to make it favor
able for navigation purposes and
steamship lines will be established.
Some Of the land will be valuable
for sugar and coffee plantations and
will be cultivated for these purposes.
Large tracts of timber are also in
cluded and it is planned to erect large
saw mills for developing them.
The company now owns little en-
pire and it will be governed almost
as such. Nearly as many industries
will spring up as are known in all of
Mexico. Among the most valuable as
sets that have been secured are the
large mineral deposits.
Will CoIonize
Colonization schemes will be worked
out on a scale that will make all for
lner attempts at colonization look
small Some of the land will be sold
to the settlers at a small pricee with
the provision that they develop and
improve it. An attempt will be made
to dispose of the land in the best man.
ner for the interests of the company
whether it be to sell, lease or work II
themselves.
The directors of the company are:
A. j. Wallace, r. P. Probasco, e. j
Marshall E. T. Earl, George P
Thresher, Charles H. Rowland. j. c,
Drake George 1. Cochran, w. W. Beck
ett, w. C. Patterson, Charles r. Drake,
Gail B. Johnson, John B. Miller. Ar
thur Let's, Lee A. Phillips ]. r.
Haynes, Isaac Milbank, Warren Gill
lelen and May K, Rindge.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
cHAs. sPIER SHOT HIMSELF
Conclusions Of Police In The latest
Staten Island Mysterious
Death
Nv Aeeociated Press.

ANNOClhNNu
NEW YORK, May s.-Pollce officials
who have been investigating the mys-
terious death OF Charles T.. Spier, con-
f1dential agent OF II. II. Rogers, who
was found dead In his home at Staten
Island yesterday, said today that the
evidence Indicated that Spier commit
ted suicide.
Mrs. spier had informed the police
that spier left his bed chamber to go
to the dining room In search OF bur
glars and that she heard shots Ex-
cept that the things In the dining room
in which the body was found were dis
arranged the police say there Is moth
ing about the house to Indicate the
presence Of a burglar. One door was
found unlocked, but without signs OF
having been forced, and an active bull
dog which accompanied Mr.. Spier to
the dining room took no part in the
reported duel with a burglar, II there
was one.
on the other hand the police have
ascertained that one month before mis-
death Mr.. Spier had insured his life
for $4,000 and had been obliged to dis
count note for 1887 to pay the pre-
MUM on one Of the policies when it
became payable last Saturday. The
policies were payable regardless of
the cause of death and the beneficiary
had been changed from Mrs. Spier to
trustee OF his estate.
The police have discovered also that
judgment in bankruptcy for $50, $50
had been outstanding against Mr.. Spier
and others since February. These judg-
ments were entered after the Yetman
Transmitting Typewriter company. of
which Mr.. Spier was president, went
into bankruptcy.
Coroner Matthew Cahlll said that he
is positive that the wound which caused
Mr. Spier's death could not have been
inflicted by himself and that Mr.. Spier
was undoubtedly murdered.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
PUSH NEW LINE FOR MEXICO
viii Connect the States of Chiapas
and Tabasco In the
Republic
BY Associated Press.

CITY OF MEXICO, May S-The
of Chiapas, to San Juan Baptiste. cap
ital of the State of Tabasco and on to
Canfpeche, capital of the state of the
saRe name, is practically completed.
This road will be standard gauge and
will connect at Yucatan with the
United railway, an important local sys-
tenn of the road.
The new road Will be known as the
Mexican Pacific and 1t will unite Pro-
gresso with Tonala, on the Pacific
coast.
The extent of the line is 1900 miles
and the estimated cost $25,00O,0 gold.
The government is said to look with
high favor on the project and will
European capital.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
MANY STEAMBOATS, FOR SALE
Government to Dispose Of Its Missouri
River Fleet at an Auction
Sale
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
SIOUX CITY, Ia, May S.-"What am
I offered for this stanch old steamboat,
which has served Uncle Sam so faith
fully?" This question with many vart-
atoms of it, will be heard within the
year, when practically every govern
ment craft on the big Muddy which
is capable of being fioated will be sold
under the hammer by Col. James B.
Quinn OF this city, chief of the govern
ment engineering Office for the Missouri
river.
And then will close heroic effort to
conquer the ficklenesS and treachery of
the old Missouri river. Congress some
years ago became discouraged after ap-
propriating millions to make the giant
stream navigable and keep it SO, and
has refused to make further contribu-
tions to be sunk in its turbid waters.
The feet of boats equipped for snag-
dragging the trees and logs from
it's ever changing demonstrating no
money for maintenance, has been
hauled on the banks along the river,
between the Usage river and Great
Tails, Mont. The boats are rotting, and
Col. Quinn, with the sanction of the
war department, will have them
brought to the government ice harbor
in the Sioux river here and sold at auc-
ton.
There are a score of these boats,
many of them large and roomy. Some
are not fit for the water and will be
pulled to pieces and the lumber sold.
One of the most notable of these craft
is the Josephine, which is dry docked
here. This boat, under the command of
Capt. Eagin of 706 Pearl street. Sioux
City, carried Gen. Carter and his brave
men as far as possible on their expedi-
ton to tie Little Big Horn country,
where that memorable massacre oc-
Cured. Later the same boat helped
transport the troops sent to avenge the
death of the gallant Custer and his
men.
The railroads have driven the
freighter from the Missouri river, and
none but tiny packets ply now between
local points. Navigation has always
been attended by difficulties of magni-
tude, owing to the variable stage of the
water and the alterations in its chan
mel. In twenty-four hours the channel
has been known to change more than a
mile one way or the other. 1t is a ira
dition that freighter lies buried every
mile from st. Louis to Mandan, N. d.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
GIRL DISAPPEARS FROM
HOME IN T0LUCA
PARENTS FEAR SHE HAS BEEN
KIDNAPPED
Police Have Good Description Of Sup
posed Abductors-Father Places
Blame on Brother-ln-Law-Mo other
Stricken With Grief

Grace Grove, the 1S-year-old daugh-
ter of NJ. d. Grove of Toluca, is said
by her parents to have been abducted
by man and two women, who repre-
sented themselves to be friends of the
family and who were sent to bring her
to Los Angeles yesterday afternoon.
During the afternoon Mrs. Grove and
husband left Toluca for Los Angeles.
At o'clock a Smooth-faced man with
two women rode up to the Grove farm
house and gave Grace note which
stated that her mother was seriously
injured in Los Angeles and for the
girl to come at once. Miss Grove i'm
mediately got into the automobile and
was whirled away toward Los Angeles.
An hour later Mr.. and Mrs. Grove ar
rived home and found a note near
where the girl got into the car. which
read: Grace: Mamma Is badly. in
jured. / am here. These people will
bring you here. Papa" When Mr..
Grove saw the note he thought he saw
a similarity between it and letters that
had been written by Joe Lockard of
Hollywood to Mrs. Grove, who is a
sister of Lockard. Mr.. and Mrs. Grove
went to Hollywood where they found
plicated in the kidnapping of their
daughter. Lockard denied knowing
anything about the affair. Finally he
consented to come with Mr.. and Mrs.
Grove to Los Angeles. where the case
was laid before Desk Sergeant Dickson.
Lockard has been employed in a Holly
wood livery stable for some three weeks.
A good description of the man and
women in the automobile is in the
hands of the officers, who are investi-
eating the facts concerning the rela-
H--A- -1I--
Grove. The 'grief-stricken father and
mother are fearful lest she has been
the victim of a plot to place her In
some house of ill-fame
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
MEETS DEATH
UNDER WHEELS
MAN STEPS FROM CAR IN
FRONT OF AUTO
Carl 5eroth Killed an Instant After
He AIlghts From a Pleo
Heights Electric
Car

Carl Beroth, a tailor boarding at
14l5 West Twelfth street, was run
down by sightseeing automobile
yesterday afternoon at Pico and VAL
encia streets and almost instantly
killed.
Beroth alighted from westbound Pico
Heights car No. 305 while the car was
In motion and failed OF see the big
motor car, which was driven by w.
II. Davis of 244 South Grand avenue.
The chauffeur at that moment made
turn to avoid running into the car
and struck the man, hurling him to
the pavement. The car crew rushed
to the side of the unconscious man and
sent for medical aid, but Beroth died
almost instantly.
The body was taken to Pierce Bros
undertaking establishment, where 1t
was found that the victim had sus-
tained severe fracture Of the skull,
besides numerous bruises and lacera-
tions.
According to eyewitnesses, the
car crew were not to blame.
The man seemed to be in hurry to
alight from the car and stepped off
while it was in motion.
He did not look back of It but start
ed for the sidewalk. when he was
struck by the automobile.
Tries to Stop Auto
w. H. Davis. driver of the machine,
said that he was going at a rate of
less than ten miles an hour on Pico
street, directly behind the car.
Just before 1t slowed up, he turned
to one side in order to pass the car,
and as he did so, Beroth walked di-
rectly in front of the big auto. Davis
Immediately applied the emergency
hral lro md In nrtc 70 CT n htc
motor, injured the mechanism. The
big automobile was brought to a stand
still about twenty-five feet away.
Mrs. NJ. J. Vallon, 14O3 West Pico
street, who witnessed the accident,
said:
"The man had just stepped from the
car and had no time to get out of
the way of the automobile. 1 was
standing on the corner when someone
screamed, and turning, 1 saw the ma
chine pass over him. / started for
the scene and when l reached there
found that the car was at a stand
still; the automobile had also stopped.
The man was lying near the curb.
was the first to reach him but he was
dead. His daughter was sent for and
when she arrived the body was in the
same position in which it fell. 1 am
sure that the car men were not to
blame IN any way.
Thinks Man Was Careless
Deputy Coroner Summerfield made
an Investigation and came to the con-
clusion that no blame attached to
anyone
From what he could learn, he said
that he believed it one of those un-
fortunate accidents that resulted from
carelessness on the part of the de-
cedent
Patrolman johnson of the university
sub-station reported the accident to
Captain Bradish.
He said that the automobile was
not going faster than eight or nine
miles an hour and the driver ap-
parently could not avoid hitting the
man. He believed that Beroth failed
to exercise due caution in looking be-
hind him as he swung from the car.
The inquest will be held tomorrow
morning at Pierce Bros morgue, and
a number of witnesses have been sum-
moned.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
TABLE THE MORGAN BILL
Provides for Sea Level Canal Except
Through culebra, Where Locks
Are Wanted
BY Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, May S.-Senator
Morgan's bill providing for a sea level
canal for the isthmus except through
Culebra where he proposes, locks, was
ordered placed on the table today by
the senate committee ON interoceanio
canals.
Mr.. Morgan gave notice that he would
accept the substitute from the commit
up the bill.
The action OF the committee is in ac-
cord with its decision not TO consider a
bill determining the type Of canal but
to permit the president TO proceed to
the construction Of lock canal under
the SDo0ner act
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-09
Castings Fall on Man

STOCKTON. May S.--James Trethe-
way, a machinist, sustained an aeci-
dent today which is expected to cause
his DEATH He was unloading some
heavy iron castings at the Santa Fe
depot when he slipped to the ground,
the iron mass falling upon his head
and fracturlng his skull
The man has wife and daughter.