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Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
Reports Not Exaggerated

"The Los Angeles papers instead of
eXaggerating reports are giving mild
details of the actual horror of that
bloody hell. The story of that first
shock has been told too often to dwell
upon it, but it didn't cause the great
damage.
II was in the st. Francis at the time
of the earthquake and with many
others dashed to the streets. | then
went back to the hotel and dressed
| Then 1 went to the streets again. All
was confusion. Men, women and
children were wandering about in the
most pitiful disorder, many of the little
ones crying for their mothers and
fathers. But soon even the cries of
these youngsters were stilled either in
the awful roar of the falling walls and
exploding dynamite. With the hand of
the great grim terror tugging at their
hearts the little ones stood like lambs
at the slaughter and gazed with great
wide eyes at the approaching flames.
Rescued, Then Killed
"As I passed down Market street
saw one youngster striving to move a
bunch of toys. She was all alone and
trudged along in the crowd, her tiny
golden crowned head bobbing up and
down.
"At the corner of Fifth street the
CFOWu oWGpI W Tile gutter ana d
policeman dashed to her rescue. Hail
ing an eXpressman he sent the child
away. But it was the little ones last
| journey for not more than block away
wagon, baby and driver were buried
beneath a falling wall. 1t was there
that | missed death by fraction of a
| foot
Soldiers to Rescue
"Then the soldiers came. I have read
of scenes of distress before where
Uncle Sans bluecoats appear on the
scene in time to win out, but I don't
believe ever witnessed a more beauti-
full sight than when the cavalry swept
into Market street and charged down
to the rescue of the crazed thousands.
Backward the people were driven,
fighting against their own safety while
the soldiers with the calm, cold patience
of discipline faced death in a thousand
forms to save the lives of others.
Goes Mad at Sight of Dead
"At one point where the fire had
ragged thickest ] was hurrying toward
the ferry in the hope OF reaching oak
land 1t was almost impossible to tell
street names in the fire.
/ II saw many bodies lying in cutters
near the Call building, but paid little
attention to them. Suddenly I felt
someone brush against me and noticed
woman hurrying along. She was a
middle aged woman and her face was
drawn with fear and suffering. She
looked neither to the right nor left
until suddenly she noticed body lying
almost at her feet. For a moment she
stared at that still mass of horror and
then she moved toward it, She slipped
her hand under the head and turned
the young face of the man toward her.
without seeming to notice the pitifully
| limp body mangled and crushed in q
i terrible manner, she leaned over and
patted the white dead face with her
hands and looking long at the Midea
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22

We Keep the Best Fountain Pens
Conlklin lf-Filling Fountain Pen.
It's clean and vigorous, always works
and takes care of itself. Waterman
ideal and Marshall Fountain Pens
equal--only different. you'll llke
them ali. Sanborn, Vail & Co, S57 S,
Broadway.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF
pAY RENT mo- YOURSELYES

PAY RENT TO YOURSELVES
If you own a lot we will furnish all
|he money and build you a house. You
han pay us back like rent. Inquire at
,ur office FOR particulars. Ask for a
zee city map. The Hurck-Gwynn Co,
pc South Broadway.
I The old reliable cleaning and dying,
siO south Broadway. Blocking felt and
Ranama hats a speciality.
phone your orders for the Glen Rock
fountain Springs water to Sun Drug
~, No. 3 lDean'sl, Both phones $50.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-09

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Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-09

Package "Baby" Oatmeal .........t Toe
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3-lb box Gloss Starch ............2Oc
b cakes German Borax Soap ......2Jc
Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-11-09

o cakes best Toilet Soap. ....... 25c
Bottle best Ext. Vanilla OF Lemon loo
Box pure Pepper 49,.
Box pure Mustard. =. .........1Oc
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13
A HISTORIC SHELLFISH.
The Purpura Was Quite a Factor IL
the WORLDLY Civilizations

A small sea creature has done lot
to assist the development of civillza-
tion. 1t is known as the murex or
purpura. From it the Phoenicians
manufactured the Tyrian purple, the
origin of their wealth and prosperity
As each shelitish yielded but one drop
of the dyeing material and as 300
pounds were needed to dye fifty pounds
of wool the home fisheries became in
time exhausted. Then, finding it neces-
sary to seek a supply elsewhere the
traders started on the first voyage of
discovery ever made. Owing to this
voyage the Mediterranean, with all the
countries that surround it, was dis
covered
Through this small creature also the
first colonies We're founded. The Phoe-
nicians, finding it impracticable to
bring home large shiploads of the fish,
built Mt those spots where the raw ma
terial abounded factories, which gradu-
ally developed into permanent settle
mentS.
And as many of these colonies were
founded on Grecian islands the apt
natives quickly acquired the arts and
Industries of their visitors, which were
soon diffused throughout Greece, and
the hrst seeds of civilization were
sown
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13
CHARGED With IM-
PERSONAHING OFFICERS

Ammon Weller, Scion Boyer, Ira
Hughes and Arthur Cherry, four young
men, of Union Corner, came over to
Danville Saturday night and had the
time of their lives. In a nutshell the
boys, none of whom are much over
twenty one while in Danville imbibed
Il little too freely and as consequence
were soon half seas over, in which con-
dition they fell victim to the mach
nations of designing persons and had
trouble of all sorts. They did not ar
rive home until Sunday morning, when
one found himself minus gold watch
and sum of money. The aftermath
of the affair took place Monday, when
our two policemen put in full day
looking up two young men of our
town who are accused by the two
young farmers of having impersonat-
ell police officers and endeavored to ex-
tort money and valuables from them.
One arrest was made.
Two of the young farmers accord
ing to their own confession were in
no condition Saturday night to know
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13
pEnNSYLVAN|A
/ RAILROAD
Schedule In Effect Jan. |, 1896

Trains leave South Danyillc as follows:
For CatawiSsiI. East Bloomsbury NeSconcc,
Nanticoke, Wilkes-Barre Pittston Scran,
ton and Intermediate stations, ali a. m,
daily. " '
For Sunbury and intermediate stations 900
a. M ana 75l p m. weekdays, and i.3l D. m
9ally. For Sunbury only, l2.l0 p. IN. We elk
For fottsvllle, Reading and Philadelphia,
az ~ IN. ana 2.2l p. IN. weekdays.
For Ilzieton, I'll and l0l7 a. M, 2.2l and $50
p. ~. weekdays.
For LowiSburs, Wlliamsport, and Lock
haven, AUO q. M, l2.t1 and i.3l p. m. week
uhNs; Iof Williamsport and Intermediate
,Slhiinns, ~ p M, weekdays.
For beiiciunlc, Tyrone, Phiiipsburg, Clear
held, and Pittsburgh, 800 a. ni., ANA l2l p.
m. wCCt-,ayS. -
FOR Harrisburg and intermediate stations 9CO
a. m, l2.lO, l.il, and 7.ll p. M, weekdays;
i.3! p. M. sundays
For Phi adelphia (via Ilarrsburg) Baltimore,
ana Washington, 9.OOa. M, T.. 10 and Isl D.
m, weekdays i.3l Baltimore only) p M,
For PittShurg (via Harrsburg) 800 a. M, ~ 10,
5.5l, ana I3l p. m. weekdays; 4.3i D. M
sundays; (via LewiStown Junctiun) uCOa
m, ana =. 10 p M, weekdays; (via Lock
iaNen) $40 n. M, ana II 10 p. m, weekdays.
agents.
W. W. ATTERBURY, j. r. WOOD,
General Manager. Pass'r Ira fiic Mgr
GEO. W. BOYD, General Pass'r Agt.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13
DOWIEISM
SUFFERS

n HAT amazing charlatan, John
~ Alexander Dowie, who has
made himself notorious, if not
famous, by impressing upon thous-
ands Of people snblime faith in his
own strong personality, a faith which
was even sufficient to persuade them
that he was John the Baptist return
ed to earth-that truly amazing char
latan has at last been exposed before
his followers so effectively that they
have unanimously resolved to follow
him no longer, and have deposed him
from his high estate.
Now that he has fallen, there will
probably be interesting revelations as
to Dowie's methods but it will ever
be a matter of wonder that an impost-
or Of the Dowie kind could succeed so
thoroughly and so long in this en-
lightened age, and in this highly
practical and material nation. Hard,
keen common sense is supposed to be
the chief national characteristics, and
yet we have furnished the world this
spectacle of Dowieism, which clearly
belongs to the heart of Asia, or to the
Arab lands Of Africa, where men con-
tinually look for prophets, and follow
false ones to all extremes of folly.
Perhaps Dowie was good for our pride
in thus proving that our own race is
as vulnerable as any other to the kind
of craze that makes a mockerv of sane
religion.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13

-THoMAs A. Edison, who has
just grounded his fifty-ninth year,
said the other day "that the world is
now on the threshold of another Won
derful era-a golden electrical age. "
He asserts that the discovery of Il
direct process for harnessing the en-
ergy stored in coal will be made and
marketed during his lifetime. He ex-
poets to live long enough "to see the
air populous with ships, to hear of
many nautilus speeding under seas,
to witness the arrival and departure
of three-day ocean liners, to board
trains operated at Il fraction of their
present cost and far exceeding those
of today in speed, to perhaps discover
the secret of life in radium and to see
the automobile become the dray and
carriage Of the world"
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13

Farmers and Others, particularly those
living on the Rural Delivery routes,
should have printed stationery as well as
business men. 1t is not only more busi-
ness like to send letter with name and
address printed on the notehead and en-
velope, but it insures the return of the
letter in case it is not delivered. We
are especially well equipped to do this
class of printing and can do it promptly
and neatly We will supply $50 note
heads and $50 envelopes, extra quality,
for Sl.50, or 75c for either one lot. This
is cheaper than you can buy the paper
and envelopes regularly at retail stores.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13
GRANT HERRING, ESQ.

Extracts of letter sent to each of
the voters of Columbia county by
Hon. Grant Herring, candidate for
the nomination of President Judge of
this district:
"For the information of those who
are not personally acquainted with me,
it may be proper at this time to say
that | was born at Lime Ridge, in
Centre township, Columbia county,
on the 10Th, of May, 1862. | have
lived in Bloomsburg continuously
since the Fall of 1875, attending the
Bloomsburg Normal school four years
and afterwards Lafayette College, at
Easton, Pa, four years, graduating
from both institutions.
81 then read law in the Office of the
late Judge Ikeler and was admitted
to the bar in February, 1885. On
the day of my admission | entered in
to partnership with Mr.. Ikeler and
was with him until he was elected to
the bench of this district in 1889. |
was fortunate in not having to wait q
number of years, as most young law
yers must, for an active practice. Mr..
lkeler's health not being good in
1885, | was compelled to take a great
share of the practice Immediately af-
ter my admission; and ever since that
time, covering period of almost
twenty-five years, | have been active
ly engaged in trying cases in all the
courts of this and neighboring coun-
ties, as well as the Superior and Su-
preme courts of the State.
'In 1898, upon the death of Judge
lkeler, the Governor of the common
wealth appointed me President Judge
of this judicial district. While upon
the bench | conducted the business of
the courts of this district and presided
over the courts of Schuylkill, Carbon
and Lackawanna counties. When
my successor was chosen | again re-
sumed the practice of the law, to
which | have devoted my best ener-
gies ever since. For four years | was
Senator from this district, represent
ing the counties of Lycoming, Sulli-
van, Montour and Columbia. This
was the only office to which | have
ever been elected, and no one was a
candidate against me for the nomina-
ton in Columbia county.
I'm 1898 the President of the
United States appointed me to the
Office Of Collector of Internal Revenue,
with headquarters at Scranton, for
four years.
II have always had the best of
health, never having been sick a day
in my life, to my recollection. With
this ripe experience as lawyer, judge
and public officer, requiring special
legal training, added to an industrious,
upright life and sober habits and
fearlessness to do the right as | saw
it, | now ask for your support for
President Judge of this district.
"This office is the highest in your
gift. By your votes you place in one
mans hands the rights of life, liberty
and property. To properly safeguard
these rights of yours, it is essential
that a Judge should be a man of the
highest character the ripest expert
ence, the widest knowledge and the
purest motives. He should bring to
the office no preiudices and should
perform his duty fearlessly before God
and man. Such will be my aim, if
you choose to honor me with your
confidence and support"
Sincerely Yours,
Grant Herring, Esq.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13
A New One.

ANTHONY TOWNSHIP, April 3,
Mr.. EDIToR:-I was so confound-
ed put off bi mi selfe dat / am going
to told you about John Lauterbox
Carrying on bout the lection. He
wants our Bill and my friend jerry to
told there opinion of de feeling of dem
and dere trends. Our Bill he goes
on like a roarm line. Jerry and | was
talkin. He said just wait, de time is
comm if we don't put our foot down
votin for de old Office binders we will
have to leave de form and go to de
back woods becaus de old folks had
all the privilege in de world. Dey
had de publick road all to dem selves.
Now de tellfone takes dc side walk
un de troly takes de mitdle un de
farmer dakes de ditch, spshly ven
dem otobile wagons kums along. Now
jerry says, Ely, look here, Cochran,
Belmeyer, Herin, Amman are men
of goode management, but John he
wants half of de world to kun out for
Office. Now look ven Clarance run
for country comishner-a good in
teligent man-un got sot back. My
feeling is go for de best man. Where
is Lloyd un Clell Deal, Gorg Kotner ?
Now l hope We will all be in one
mind on de day of de lection. jerry
said all rite | will be with you but
don't let on to John Luterbox ven he
Gums around. We want fair play.
Veil, Ely, diner is ready come in.
ELY.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13
A SYMPATHETIC
VOLCANO

= HAT volcano is acting in entire
" consonance with the worlds un-
rest; though to be in proper
play it should be over here, where un-
rest seems to be more fashionable than
along the Mediterranean. 1t is a lit
tie late for the Russian turmoil or the
Moroccan trouble, but it may be an
advance messenger of Il Turkey cary
ing, or some other European national
smash.
If it was over here we might be
sure it was acting throuhgh sympathy
with Dowie in his war with his wife
and people, or Roosevelt with his
party, the insurance officials with
their lambs, the railroad chiefs with
the public in general, the coal opera
tors with their miners, or the other
too numerous to mention fare-ups in
government that are giving us so
much to worry over.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13

EVERY man, woman and child
in the United States has, or ought to
have, $3l.73 in cash, according to a
statement sent out by Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw, at Washington. There
are now, he says, S4, 1914, 600 people
in the country and 81, GIL, ,302, 5O3 in
actual money in circulation. This
gives old "Per Capita S31.73. If
there's any one who hasn't got that
much money in his clothes it is be-
cause somebody else has his share.
Six million dollars in gold vanished
from circulation during February.
There is still enough to give every
human being in the United States
$3.50.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13
GA - IT on
Bears The n The Kind You Have Always Bought
'ls1a'''' sf &ZzZzzzM
Tobacco Far Better Than Land.

At recent meeting of the tobacco
growers the declaration was made by
President Herr that last years crop
was the best ever raised in Lancaster
county, and that it sold at prices that
yielded more than the value of the
land on which it was grown. There
will be largely increased acreage
Couldn't we raise some of the valu-
BILE weed in Montour?
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13

sesness He The people with The single purpose Of
serving the popular welfare.
Mr. Cochran has served three the Senate having
elected in 1894 His election in 1902 practically unani
mousy candidate having been named by opposing parte and
is likely that history will repeat itself this year.
The good people of Monour will be delighted to of Mr.
Coran and his increased physical conditions for
weighed the balance and found wanting" and
reelection will be just reward for fidelity the past
and token apprecatve constituency We trust the Demo-
the districts will unite bringing forth the very best
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13

Mankind is suspicious" said a
chemist OF the board of health. "Only
last week a wealthy clergyman sent
me a piece of pie for analysis. He
suspected that his daughter, beauti-
ful and good girl, wanted TO put him
out OF the way. The pie contained, of
course, none but the usual ingredients.
Some people send me pickles, sauces.
placklngs-prottable and widely adj
vertised compositions that they want
TO learn how TO duplicate and ,yend
themselves.
There isn't Il well known patent
medicine that hasn't been submitted
to me for analysis twenty or thirty
t1mes."-New York Press.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13

III health recently threat
ened to force the Senator out of
the work of active politics, but a
recent vacation in the South has
greatly improved his physical con-
dition, and he returns to the peo-
pie equally the same active and
influential official. He has served
this district long and faithfully,
and is above and beyond the petty
jealousies which impair the use
fulness of so many men in public
life. He is equally free from the
selfish. motives and sordid pur-
poses which destroy the influence
of otherwise worthy men. In
other words Mr.. Cochran is an
ideal senator-above suspicion,
exempt from avarice and beyond
the reach of the evil passion of
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13

WAETFD:-D District Managers to
post signs, advertise and distribute
samples. Salary $500 weekly, SO 90
per day for expenses. State age and
present employment. IDEAL SHEAR
co, 80 Randolph ST., Chicago.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13
.'.TnE AVERAGE man does not %

-"THE average man does not get
his due, observes Mack Gretchen.
"The hero of the moment is applaud
ed beyond his worth, but the plain
plug citizen who struggles along with
his load because it is his duty and the
proper thing to do is unnoticed Often
he is more of hero than the one who
plays to the grandstand." This is
often remarked, but soon forgotten.
Occasionally terrible disaster like
that of the French mine horror calls
attention to those who daily take their
lives in their hands to keep the world
a-moving.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13
j EssE NJ. HoSrETrER. a fnrmI

-JEssE NJ. HosTErTER, a former
teacher in our public schools and a
pronounced Democrat, even having
run for the office of j. of p. on the
Democratic ticket in the Fouth Ward,
has announced in Perry county as a
candidate for Member of Assembly on
the Republican ticket. jesse changes
his politics to his own convenience.
If Perry county was Democratic then
he would he Democrat. The Re
publicans Of that county will find the
man for that Office in our old friend
John S. Eby.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13
Hon. j. Henry Cochzan

M this take pleasure the of Hon. j.
1 Henry Cochran Wlamsport for State Senator this
Senatorial District composed of the counties
If Lycomng, Sullivan Columbia and Montour
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13

FOR SALE-At a bargain; one
Mosler Bahnann & Co. Safe cost
Sl25; will sell same at $50, weight of
safe 1900 to 2000; apply to Charles
Woods 219 Mill St., Danville, Pa.
Danville intelligencer. [volume] (Danville, Pa.) 1859-1907, 1906-04-13

Published every Friday at Danville, the
county seat of Montour county, Pa, at Sl.00
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vance; and no paper will be discontinued
until all arrearage is paid except at the
option of the publisher.
Rates of advertising made known on APP
plication. Address all communications to
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

Many other Jews took the same
methods of getting out of Russia.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04

ting evidence against him. He Is the
man who set forty fires in Chicago In
one day and who was able to elude the
police of that city for a long time.
The very nature of the crime makes
it hard to find the author, say the po-
lice, and by the time the officers begin
to round up suspicious characters lurk-
ing about one fire another fire breaks
out in a different part of the city.
Several Theories Advanced
While Fire Chief Lips Is inclined to
believe that the recent fires are the
work of a pyromaniac, another theory
that is held by some of the police Of
ficers is that they were started by an
organized gang Of crooks, who hope
to profit by the excitement attendant
upon a fire and ply their vocation of
picking pockets and breaking into
houses. Another theory is that some
body with grudge against the fire
department is taking this way of get
ting "even."
The five fires of Friday night and
yesterday morning were all incendiary,
according to the police. The first alarm
was at o'clock for barn fire on
Marchessault street. An hour later
the largest fire of the night occurred
at Pico and Figueroa streets. Fire
broke out In the planning mill of w. r.
Phelps and extended to the fuel and
feed yard of Clark Brothers. At II
o'clock there was a small blaze in the
rear of the store of G.. H. Stoll & Co.,
447 South Los Angeles street.
The midnight fire in an alley back of
the Monarch store. 25S South Main
street, showed the most evidence of
incendiary origin.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-04
DRAGNET OUT
FOR SUSPECTS
POLICE Determined TO RUN
DOWN INCENDIARIES
Chief Issues Orders to Round Up All
Midnight Loiterers In the Hope
Of Breaking Up the
Gang

The police are making every effort to
causing the fire department so much
trouble for the past few weeks, and a
number of men have been taken to
the station and subjected to search
ing examination.
About 3 o'clock yesterday morning a
young man giving the name of James
Bradley was arrested by Patrolman
Hosick and booked on suspicion of be-
ing implicated in the fires of Friday
night. Bradley said he came here from
Chicago a few days ago and was look
him in an alley leading from Fifth
picious.
Chief Of Police Auble has given in
structions to all of his men to keep
a sharp lookout for all suspicious char
acters and to round up all midnight
loiterers in alleys and back streets.
Working on Faint cIews
The detective department has sew
eral men investigating the cause of
the fires of Friday night and they have
a partial description Of two men who
We're seen in the vicinity of Pico and
Figueroa streets just before the fire
broke out in the Phelps lumber yard.
The police hope that the men will
show their hands more openly and be-
come bolder through immunity from
detection.
If the notorious August Hansen of
Chicago is working here the depart
ment may have great difficulty in get