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Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
Discuss Public Building Bills

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.--At' today S
meeting OF the committee on public
buildings, subcommittee were an
nounced and Il general discussion Of
bills was begun. Members already
have introduced building measures pro-
viding for an expenditure of about $40,-
100000. The members of the committee
are agreed that a bill carrying an ap-
propriation of more than $14, 900 is
wholly out of the question. 1t is ex-
pected that before the end of the ses-
sion appropriations sought for new
buildings will aggregate $75,000,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
BURGLARS BLOW OPEN SAFE
Secure $541 ir Office of San Francisco
Building Trades
Council
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12.--The safe
in the office of the Building Trades
council on Mission street was blown
open some time last night by burglars,
who secured $541 and made good their
escape. After the handles and hinges of
the safe had been broken off, appar-
emily with a sledge hammer, it is be-
iieved that nitro-glycerine was usel To
secure the treasure
After completing their work the rob
bers rolled the safe out of sight from
the street and made their escape.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
Merchants Favor Consular Bill

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. -. 49, The
board of directors Of the Merchants
exchange has passed u resolution in
dorsng senate bill No. 1341 providing
for the reorganization and American
ization of the consular service of the
United States. The resolution requests
the senator's from California to support
the bill as it will tend to put OH a
better footing the personnel of the cou-
sular service of the United States and
be of greater benefit to the commercial
interests of the United States"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
MISSOURI TO DROP SUIT
Vandiver Will Probably Give Up At.
tempt to Gust the New York
ife
By Associated Press.

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 12.-Aiter a lengthy
conference with f. w. Lehman, spe.
cial counsel retained by the Missouri
insurance department, State Superin
tendent of Insurance w. d. Nandiver
today said his suit to oust the New
York Life Insurance company from do
ing business in Missouri probably
would be rescinded as result of the
retirement of President Mccall and the
restoration of the $3.50 given to At
torney Hamilton for legal services.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
TEXT OF TREATY PUBLISHED
British Government Makes Public the
Recent AngIo-Cuban Agree
ment
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated PresS.
LONDON, Jan. 12,-The government
has issued the text of the Anglo
Cuban treaty providing for reciprocal
freedom of commerce and navigation
between the two countries" for the
period of ten years, after the ratiiica-
tion of the treaty which was signed at
Havana May IA, 1905. and still awaits
the approval of the Cuban senate.
The publication was decided upon by
the late government to show the pow
crs interested that the treaty is one
TO which nobody could object.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
TO ISSUE S1,500,OOO BONDS
Central California Traction Company
Building New Stockton EIec-
trio Line
BY Associated Press.

ny hSSOGldlcu ICES.
STOCKTON, Jan. 12.-The Central
California Traction company directors
in San Francisco yesterday authorized
a bond issue of $1,5O0,000 to build and
operate the new Stockton Electric rail-
road system and the interurban lines
projected.
Eight and one-half miles of track
have been laid in Stockton by the COM
pany this winter and franchises call for
extensions to Lodi and Woodbridge in
the northern part Of the county.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
Schooner capsizes; Crew Missing
BY Associated Press.

NORFOLK, Va. Jan. 12.-The
schooner Samuel l.. Russell OF Norfolk
lies capsized in lower Chesapeake bay.
Her crew of five men is missing and it
Is believed have been lost. The
schooner, lumber-laden, sailed from
Norfolk for Baltimore Monday night in
tow Of the tug Volunteer.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
Captain Montgomery to Be Examined

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-Capt. Ben
jamin f. Montgomery of the signal
corps has been ordered to appear be-
fore the army retiring board at San
Francisco for examination. He formcrlJ
had charge of the telegraph service at
the White House.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
Storm Sweeps Northern Coast
BY Associated Press.

SEATTLE, Jan. ia severe storm
is now reported to be sweeping along
the section from the Columbia river
north as far as Dixon's Entrance, Alas
la. For the past three days vessels
arriving from the straits of California
have reported a severe storm off Cape
Flattery.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
DR.. c. H. Chlsmorc, San Francisco
AMERICANS TO BE SHOT
Mexican Supreme Court Declines Stay
of Execution in Case of In
surance Murderers
BY Associated Press.

Ell PASO, Tex. Jan. 12.-The SUI
preme court of Mexico, according to
information received here. has declined
to grant a stay of execution in the case
of the three Americans, Mascon, Rich
ardson and Harle, recently sentenced at
Chihuahua to be shot for numbering
people in order to secure the insurance
on their lives. Executive clemency
will now be asked
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
Merchants Appeal to President
Bv Associated Press.

MILWAUKEE. Wis, Jan. 1.-THE
National League of Commission Mer-
chants at the closing business session
this afternoon adopted a resolution ad-
dressed to President Roosevelt pleading
support i'm his efforts for the abatement
OF the transportation evils.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
DEATHS OF THE DAY
Mrs. Lucy E. Polk, Raleigh, N. C.
Bv Associated Press


RALEIGH. n. c., Jan. ia dispatch
from Warrenton, n, c., tells of the
death there yesterday of Mrs. Lucy B
Polk, the venerable widow of Col. Will
liam II. Polk and sister-in-law to
President James X. Polk. She was
buried at Wauenton today.
DR.. c. n. Chismorc, San Francisco
BY Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12.-Dr
George II. Chismore, IL prominent ply
sician of this city, died yesterday at
his residence on Sutter street. He was
native of Ilion N. Y, 66 years of age
William Gruenhasen, San Francisco
BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 12.-William
Gruenhagen, a merchant of this city,
died here yesterday. He was so years
of age and a native Of Milwaukee.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
Former Auditor sherricl< Arrested

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Jan. 12.-
David e. Sherrick, former auditor of
state, was arrested today on two addi-
tlonal indictments charging him with
embezzlement and conspiracy to COM
nit felony and trial set for February
J. Bond was given in the sum of $4,000,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
Isabel cavendish Secures Divorce
BY Associated Press.

LONDON, Jan. 12.-Isabel Cavendish,
better known by the name of Isabel
jay, formerly leading woman of the
Savoy theater. secured a divorce today
from II. S. Cavendish, the explorer, on
the ground of cruelty and misconduct
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
BigeIow to Testify Thursday
BY Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.-Poultney
Bigelow has notified the committee on
interoceanic canals that he will appear
before the committee at 1910 next
Thursday morning to testify regarding
canal conditions.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
AGAIN DEBATE ON
PHILIPPINES BILL
(Continuea from Page oneO

White House, Mr.. Pou expressed great
regret that hysteria had been INDUCED
in to magnify that incident.
At 4;55 the house adjourned until II
q. IN. tomorrow.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
Not Payable From County Funds
I.Y Associated Press.

SANTA ROSA, Jan. 12.--This after
noon Judge Seawell rendered an opin-
lon upholding the validity of the act
passed in 1905. which provides that city
or town recorders or marshals cannot
he paid for services from the county
funds
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
Date for Woman Suffrage Hearing
BY Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Jan. 12-February 10
was fixed today by the house COM
mlttee ON judiciary as the date for Il
hearing on the proposed constitutional
amendment providing for woman suf-
frage.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13
Mrs. Cost Acquitted
BY Associated Press.

MURFREEsBoRO, ILL.,, Jan. H.
Mrs. Clemma Cost, who was at one
time a domestic in the home of Gov
ernor Charles S. Deneen in Chicago,
was today acquitted on a charge of
having murdered Tony Bossi, an Ital-
ian
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-13

glasses of beer less alcohol ntoxicae
than wisey glass of ardent spirits Many prohbition
beginning recognize beer the greatest drink
of the age.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-07-07
.LYNCHED The negro
he Rad COMMITTED AN ASSAULT
ON A WHITE GIRL.
Mob at Chickasha, Indian Territory,
Captures Wretch after a Long
Chase-ls Identified by Victim-He
Voluntarily Confesses and Is Drag
ged to Handy Tree and Executed.

Chickasha, l. T., July "a negro
who committed a criminal assault
upon the 16 year old daughter of Ira
Robertson near Womack was captured
and after being taken back to the
scene of his crime was hanged ana
burned near the spot where he com
mitted the crime. He confessed his
crime and offered no resistance to the
mob. To one person the negro gave
his name as Cliff Mays of Marshall,
Texas, and he told another that it was
Will Newbright of San Antonio. BY
the time the negro was overtaken
near Bradley fully 400 men had joined
in the chase and soon after the cap
ture the march to Womack began.
When the Robertson home was reach
ed and the negro was brought before
the assaulted girl she said at once:
That's the one," and the negro re-
piled: Yes lady, I'm the one. Gen
tlemen, | admit the crime"
The mob then proceeded with their
victim past the spot where he had
committed his crime and to a tree in
the road on the bank of Walnut creek,
where a rope was thrown over limb
about Is feet high and the other end
knotted about the mans neck. He
was given an opportunity to speak
and again he confessed his guilt; and
after a fervent prayer to God for for
giveness he was drawn into the air to
die by strangulation. Before life was
extinct the body was lowered to the
ground, logs and brush were heaped
upon it and the mass ignited. For a
moment the body writhed, a few
groans were heard and the flames
completed their work. Two hours la
ter the charred body was buried unuer
the same tree, under direction of a
deputy marshal from Purcell, who had
been thwarted in his efforts to take
the negro from the mob.
Miss Robertsons condition is not
serious.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-07-07

OF a popularity Of the stock dove
Mr.. Selous writes: when these birds
fight they constantly interrupt the
tiow of the combat by bowling in the
most absurd way, not to one another
but generally, SO to speak, for no object
or purpose whatever, apparently, but
only because they must do 80. The
fact is, the bow has become a formula
Of courtship and as counting and fight
Ing are intimately connected the one
suggests the other in the mind of the
bird, who bows, all at once, under a
misconception."
Certain birds get their names from
St Peter According to a writer: 1.-THE
petrol I'm German 'Petersvogel,' Pc
ter's bird, a bird that skins the
waves, is named after the apostle who
walked upon the waves of Galilee. But
the parrots is a less simple case. In
Spain and in Portugal, as in France,
the word corresponding to parrot al
most certainly represents little Peter
"a familiar name playfully applied
because Peter was 80 common a Chris
tan name. Similarly house sparrow
Is nicknamed 'pierrot' in France"
An Englishman, Edmond Selous, has
been watching doves at play and In
combat. OF the habit of billing" in
which 80 many birds engage when
they are nesting, he says: where
birds now merely BILL they once, In
my opinion, fed each other-or the
male fed the female-but pleasure
came to be experienced In the contact
alone and the passage of food, which
was never necessary, gradually be-
came obsolete. l think it by no means
improbable that our own kissing may
have originated in much the same
way; and that birds, when thus bill
Ing, experience the same sort OF
pleasure that we do when we kiss
must be quite obvious to any one who
has watched them"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-07-07
Favors Portland & Seattle Road.

vancouver, Wash. July ga decis-
ION In favor of the Portland q Seattle
railroad and against the Columbia VAL
ley railway has been rendered by Judge
w. W. McCreedie of the state district
court in the case involving the right of
way down the north bank of the Col
umbia river.
The Columbia valley road is, how
ever, to be allowed to construct a line
over the Portland q Seattle's right of
way, providing 1t does so within a rea-
sonable time. The case will be ap.
pealed.
The suit grew out of an attempt on
the part of the Portland & Seattle's
right to condemn right of way over
lands belonging to the Columbia Valley
road. A defense was set up that the
property had already been dedicated to
railway purposes and condemnation
proceedings could not lie against it.
The Portland & Seattle attacked the
good faith of the Columbia Valley
road, declaring that it merely was en-
deavoring to obstruct the Portland &
Seattle in the contrsuction of its rail.
road. Both companies are at present
actively constructing railroads down
the north bank OF the Columbia.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-07-07
news OF The WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National.
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Secretary Root will accept the
of his trip along the west coast of
hospitality of Chile and make part
South America in a Chilean warship
1t is reported thai President How,
ard Elliott of the Northern Pacific
railway has rendered his resignation
and that it has been accepted.
Nine deaths and half hundred
| heat prostrations were recorded Sat.
urday in Chicago as a result of the
second day of broiling heat.
Queen Alexandra Saturday after
noon received Mrs. Whitelaw Reid
and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth in
audience in London.
The president has signed the rail.
road rate bill. He also signed the
immigration bill and the bill for the
construction of lock canal over the
lsthmus of Panama.
The troubled life of the Baltimore
Herald came to an end Sunday, when
it printed a brief notice that it would
be published no longer.
The failure of the White-Dunham
Shoe company, boot and shoe manu-
facturers of Brockton and Boston, is
announced. The liabilities are esti-
mated at about 100000 and the as
sets at slightly over 100000.
Judge Thomas p. Hawley retired re-
Gently from the federal bench in
Nevada after "a years service on the
state supreme ana federal benches.
No successor has yet been appointed.
The popularity contest of the TO-
| 600 club was won at Nelson, B. c.,
| by Mabel McCandlish, who gets a free
| trip to the coast cities and Spokane.
Former Foreign Minister Delcasse,
| Of France, on the invitation of many
of his American friends, has planned
to visit the United States.
Reports from over Kansas state
that severe electrical storms have
visited many sections and great
damage has been done by lightning
Telephone lines are in bad shape and
wheat harvest will be delayed.
| Mrs. James M. Guffey, wife of Col
onel Guffey, national state commmit-
teeman and democratic state leader of
Pennsylvania; Elsie, her daughter
and Christ Thase, the family coach.
man, are in a serious condition as the
result of an accident at Pittsburg. The
accident was due to the coachman
being overcome by heat and the team
| onhtnS o"S~Sse-
Hon. Charles Warren O'Connor
} known as "The OQonnor don," lore
lieutenant OF County Roscommon ant
for 20 years member of parliament
QiberaD for Roscommon, is dead. He
was born in 1888.
The battleship New Hampshire was
launched at the yards of the New
York Shipbuilding company at Cam
den, N. j., recently.
Senator Burton denies trying to Sc
cure an executive pardon in case of
his final conviction by the supreme
court of the United States.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-07-07
ODD COLONY IN PARAGUAY.
Community Modelled After Edward
Bollamy's Looking backward.

| backward.
A community which closely approx
mates Bellamy's Looking Backward
Us Cosme, little settlement near Asun-
cion, Paraguay, described by William
Latmann In the Lelpsic Grenzboten.
Equality, democracy and community
or wealth and work are the principles
on which 1t was founded In 1894 by A
| spit In a colony OF Australian emil.
grants to Paraguay. THE houses Of
the settlers lie together and form n
small village and are small, pretty and
clean. They have only one story and
are built of boards and shingled or
rooted with mazega grass. The roof
hangs far over the side walls and Is
supported by posts, detail which al.
lows for a vida veranda-most wei.
come adjunct In hot weather. On one
side of the house Is a small outbuild.
Ing which contains the kitchen, and
every house has It's garden. Little
plantations Of sugar cane lie between
the houses and the gardens.
up to the present the dwelling
houses cover only quarter of the
space which has been reserved for the
village, and when Herr Lacmann visit
ed the place there were some twenty
houses occupied and 108 in course of
erection. In time the buildings will
form a great square, which will lie
about large open square. In addition
number of smaller public places have
been provided for, which will lie, as
those already in existence, between the
houses. There Is an absolute commu.
nifty Of goods in Cosme, the only excep-
ton being that objects of household or
personal use-furniture, cooking uten.
s1ls, clothing and food-remain the
property Of their users. When one en-.
ters the colony he must bring his en-
tire property in with these exceptions
When, however, one wishes to with
draw he does not receive back the
amount Of his contribution, but only
the amount which corresponds to his
share for the last working period"
Every one must go through a proba-
tionary period of one year, and before
this period Is completed no member.
ship Is obtained nor any contribution
Of goods made. Every applicant upon
entering must pay into the treasury
S25 for each adult member of the fam
lily and half of this amount for each
child. If then the probationers decide
not to remain in the colony their ex.
penses to Buenos Ayres are paid, but
this Is not done unless the applicant
remains in the colony three months
The only requirements are that the
applicant be strong and healthy. "Un-
der no circumstances are colored per.
sons admitted"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-07-07
sPoKANe's LEADING THEArERs.
"Parson Jim" at Columbia Theater--

"Parson Jim" at Columbia Theater--
An interesting story of the honest
seafaring folk of the New England
coast is "Parson jim" which will be
the Offering of the Byron Douglas com
pany at the Columbia theater for the
week beginning Sunday evening. The
four acts of the play are laid in the
fishing hamlets of the Massachusetts
coast, and a pure salt tang pervades
the entire piece. e
The chief interest of the play cen
Parson Jim of the play. Fairchild il
parson in nickname only-the so
briquet having been bestowed on him
in his younger days, when he was
noted for his repeated escapades. In
later life, after course on the sea
under his father, he settled down as
staid member of society and en-
gagged in boat building but he was
never able to shake off the appellation
given him in his youth.
At the time of the opening OF the
play, Parson Jim is a prosperous boat
builder, who has thrown his past be
hind him He falls in love with his
foster sister, Edna Fairchild, and the
story of his love forms one of the
most interesting stories of the play.
The girl falls in love with gay young
New Yorker, with nothing to recon-
mend himself but his good looks, and
who starts in to break the girls heart
Parson Jim, however, saves her from
final disgrace and unhappiness.
Next week the company will pre-
sent the dramatization by Wilkie Col I
Inns of his own famous story "a New
Magdalen."
Miss Ruth ST. Denis, whose mystic
Hindu dances recently created sen
sation in New York, arrived in Lon
don a few days ago and will shortly
appear at one of the West End thea
| tprs
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-07-07
DRAWING FOR LANDS
CROW INDIAN RESERVATION

Billings, Mont, July 3.-The draw
ing for lands on the Crow Indian reser
walton began at 8 a. m. here Monday.
Number was drawn by o. d. Will
iams, section foreman of Custer,
Mont. The drawing proceeded with
remarkable rapidity. About $500
names were drawn. Gerald O'Grady,
Edward Becker and Horace Williston,
boys, were chosen from the crowd to
draw the numbers from the big wheel,
resembling big churn. The tickets
were placed in the box and thoroughly
mixed by several turns of the wheel.
Mrs. Joseph Artery of Butte was the
first woman OF draw. She got number
26. A Brown of Atlanta, Ca, who
drew No. 587, was the most remote
resident to draw.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-07-07
cLIDDENs ON AN AUTO TOUR
Have Been Travelling for Last Five
Years,


Chas. j. Glidden, veteran automo-
bile tourist, and founder of the trophy
tour bearing his name, has reached
Chicago on his way home to Boston.
Mr.. Glidden and his wife sailed from
Japan last month, where they closed,
Tor the time being, their remarkable
automobile tour of the world, return
Ing to this country to spend the sum
mer. Since 1901, when Mr.. and Mrs
Glidden started on their travels, they
have visited 80 countries and have
covered In their motor car approx
mately $4,000 miles.
1t is Mr.. Glidden's intention to con
unue his travels until SO countries
nave been visited and about $4,000
miles of highway have been covered
Dy his car. He estimates that the
TOUR as planned will not be com
pieted until 1911, by which time he
expects to have seen more of the
world and its people than any Other
living person.
During their travels Mr.. and Mrs
uhaden have had many unique ex
periences and have been entertained
y monarchs and princes, ranging II
.hnuence from the king of the Ffjis t.
gorgeously robed maharajah of al
.nuiah state. The tourists have
passed countries where white men arr
oe'uom seen, and where their motto
sar is regarded with awe, as a super
natural fire breathing monster.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-07-07
Cananea Maintains Order.

Reports from Bisbee, Ariz., say mat
tiers are quiet at Cananea, the only
disorder reported for the past week
being an attempt upon the life of Ben
Bond, an American ore contractor,
who was shot at from ambush, though
not hit. Bond had been active in
quelling the disturbances last month
and threats have been made by the
striking Mexicans against his life. A
garrison of Mexican infantry is re-
tanned around the mine.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-07-07
c. E. Elect Ol4cers.

The Christian Endeavor Convention
of Northern Idaho and Washington
elected the following -sa~---' r. Fa~
gar Barth of Seattle, state president
Minnie A. Gibbons, Tacoma, state
secretary; George p. Frost, Lewiston,
treasurer; vice presidents, Clifford
Wright, North Yakima; w. j. Nc
Kean, Spokane; Mr.. Thompson, Ia
coma; superintendent of quiet society
work. Rev. Samuel Harris, Standpoint;
missionaries, Rev. N. E. Beach,
Charleston; supt floating work,
Mr.. Bloxam, Bellingham; superin-
tendent good citizenship work, Carl
H. Reeves, Seattle; correspondent,
Miss Cecilia H. Nader, Walla Walla;
junior superintendent, Mrs. H. K.
Ryan, Spokane.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-07-07
Public printer Investigates.

Public Printer Charles A Sitting
has directed an investigation of the
public printing Office to ascertain the
cause of delay in returning the omni'
bus public building bill to the senate
and whether the public printer could
be held responsible for Lne retention
in the public building bill of the item
appropriating 100000 for the pur-
chase of lands in Washington for pub
lie buildings, after it had been thrown
out by the house.