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Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-10
Announces at Homo DAYS

Mrs. James Bert Stearns has moved
from sol West Twenty-eighth street to
1852 Monmouth avenue. She will re-
ceive her friends there the second and
fourth Wednesday Of each month.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-10
THE CITY

Strangers are invited TO visit the ex-
fifbit Of California products at the
Chamber Of Commerce building, on
Broa dway, between First and Second
streets. where free information will be
given on all subjects pertaining to this
section.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-10
HoosIers EeeI slIaht Shock

BY Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May 9-Cer-
tain sections of Bartholomew and
Shelby counties felt slight earthquake
shock yesterday.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-10

The Herald will pay $40 In cash 20
anyone furnishing evidence that VIII
lead to the arrest and conviction OF any
person caught stealing copies OF Tne
Herald from the premises Of our pa
irons THE HERALD.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-10

II you want 10 80 east. G: Haydock.
Agent Illinois Central r. r., 2S s. Spring,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-10
Relief Fund Totals s22o,s43

Yesterdays total for the San Fran
cisco relief fund in Los Angeles was
1928, ,s43.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-20
a sKY-sCRAPING AFFAIR.
(By Donald Allen

It was a fact well known in social
circles in Traverse City that Mr.. Henry
Harrington Hawkins and Mr.. r. Ogden
WATERBURY were rivals for the hand
of Miss Kate Barstow but 1t was only
known to three or four people that the
AFORESAID handsome young girl had al
ready piiEhted her rroth with Burt
Rayl, manager of the big department
store, and that when the marriage
came off he was to have an interest
in the business.
Mr.. Hawkins was a young man Of
aesthetic tastes. He. was a law stu
dent and wrote sonnets to himself, and
his income was So a week. Mr. Win
terburv neither had aesthetic tastes nor
wrote poetry. He was employed by a
firm publishing a State Gazetteer, and
he therefore called himself literary
man and tried to make his salary of
ST. per week carry out his assertions.
If Burt Rayl had been of a jealous
disposition there would have been no
rivalry between the other two But
he was not, and as Miss Kate was be-
ing kept in caramels and roses by the
rivalry, and as good-looking girls are
as prone to mischief as palmer ones,
she lei matters go on.
She knew. of the rivalry, but she took
no notice Of it. Both young men-were
treated alike They had been friends
up to the occasion of a certain lawn
party, when both fell in love. From
that time on 1t was enmfty They
passed each OInSr IN the street TO glare
and mutter. They sat together in the
Barstow parlor with the young lady
making a good third and smiled and
smiled, and yet wished each other
dead If one got away early in the
evening for game of croquet with
the object of his affections. the other
waylaid him on his homeward way and
hit him in the back with stones. If
Miss Barstow attended a sacred concert
with Mr.. Hawkins it was Mr.. Winter
bury's turn to throw missiles. Their
love for the girl was broad and deep
and long and desperate. Neither Of
them stopped to figure on the cost of
pork or potatoes or the price of house
to rent. That would have been abas-
ing their love.
Things went on. Things go on, even
if people are in love. Traverse City
decided to hold a county fair. All the
big hogs, fat cattle, old ganders, fancy
bed quilts, gigantic pumpkins, over
grown cucumbers and three-legged
calves in the county were to be exhib-
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speak, Jay painting. experimenting yet
expecting his reappearance. In q Few
seconds he moved again, as knew
he would, and re-entered the revealing
streak OF light. He was nearer me
now My bed was In It's rays Closer
he crept and closer until he bent over
me. His fumblng hand was on my
chest, his touch cold as the grave 1
felt it pass my throat and clutch my
shoulder. A mistake I told myself
was its goal Then a voice, piti1ul and
low, sighed at my ear and a whisper
doated on the still night air.
"Oh, wake up, wake up and help
mel am not dead, but, oh, so cold, 50
cold!'
All! The cunning OF the deedi so
he might say, but I knew better! Ny
bed, my life, my comforting warm
blood were what he sought. Why else
should a dead man walk and whine,
and try to rob the living? I must be
on my guard and lie still. biding my
time. We two we're alone in the
world-he and 1.-The quick and the
dead! There could be naught but en-
nifty between US, and there was no
one in this lone night to come to my
aid.
Though my fears and senses thus
ran riot. my body lay bound as with
bands OF iron. I could move no more
than an eyelid. Again the chill dut-
tering fingers passed over my face. In
another second they would be at my
throat, slowly relentlessly pressing
the life out of me. With a mighty
effort I struck out wildly and blindly
with a strength born OF fear. My
clenched fish penetrated-or seemed
to penetrate-the ghostly white fig-
ure IN front of me. I have a faint
recollection OF a distant. mufhed thud,
and then, where the dead man had
stood, was empty space.
Breathless and with the dew Of ex-
ertion on my brow I lay still. Where,
I wondered, had learned that this
was the way to deal with such in
truders? I could not recall, but it did
not signify. It was enough that I
had prevailed and the body had fed.
Dead men should keep their place.
The soft warm bed for the living
trestles. bier and grave-clothes for the
dead Perhaps. now that he was gone.
I should sleep-the peaceful, restful
slumber for which yearned.
And for a time I seemed to sink
into repose, for my dream faded and
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understand him. He is dead now, poor
wretch, right enough: but, If you force
me, I shall have to testify that the
cause of death was violence, not dis
ease. Fortunately his coffin is ready,
and as the certificate was made out
yesterday there Is no need to say
a word We are both ready to hush 1t
cause I should not like to see an Eng
lishman tried and condemned, as you
certainly would be here if it got known.
Pull yourself together and help US to
get the body into the coffin. There is
no time to lose. The burying- party
viii be here in half an hour. Thank
your stars the man was q stranger
Russian I think-With no friends here
Who knows what relentless fate drove
him to meet his death in this luckless
way? Kismetl What's written is
written. I'm a bit of a fatalist you
see. But the gods help those who help
themselves. Let's be doing'
So the blunt. true hearted Briton
from my horror. How I ever brought
myself to touch the murdered man
for if they were right tllfs he certainly
Was-I do not know Between US the
hideous task was soon done and the
coffin made ready for removal The
innkeeper and the doctor were the
only followers. When the simple cere-
nony was over they told me that my
secret was safe; but six feet of ceme-
terry earth cannot stif7e the voice Of
remorse which calls so loudly. And
yet at times can hardly believe that
my terrible awakening to the reality.
the doctors statement and all that
followed were no part Of the same
awful dream.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-20

left me. But gradually, almost i'm
percepubly, my tormenting fancies re-
sumed their sway. The air was charged
with trouble, the silence was broken,
the peace had fed. Strange cries and
murmurings disturbed me, though I
knew not their purport- I would shut
my eyes and lie az If dead. It might
be that the dead man-if It were the
dead man-would leave me if he
thought that I too were of his world.
No good He was there. His shadowy
outlines stood between me and the
light. Would he never leave me-
What a fool Good heavens, what
fool thus to rush on his doom! If he
would have it he must. and bear the
consequences. Take It then-that and
thatI He was down, and out Of bed
and on him, my fingers on his throat,
his head between my hands. This
time there should be no mistake. I
would batter his head on the ground
till he cried for mercy. Thus and thus
and thus! All, he was quiet at lastl
I had done for him I crept back to
bed and slept unmoved til morning
This then was my dream, as vague
and visionary and yet as painfully real
ssttc q sbad dreams sometimes are, but
nothing more. In the Measuring morn
ing light smiled to think how It weird
throes had held me through the long
dark hours. The fever had now left
me. I was calm and in full possession
Of my senses, though weak as a child.
Standing by my bedside were the kind
hearted little Swiss of last night and
another man. who I at once saw was
the doctor he had promised me. The
latter was English. His nationality was
seIf-evident even before he spoke. In
his hand he held glass, and his looks
were strangely perturbed.
Drink this, my dear fellow, drink
this he said. land make an effort to
pull yourself together! You must for
your own sake"
pushed the glass from my lips
impatienty.
'sAll right" I said, struggling to
sit up and laughing from the sheer JOY
Of finding the fever gone. But give
me a minutes timel I'm not so bad
as all that I was last night, I admit
and but for the hospitality OF Monsieur
Falkon here, who took the stranger in,
don't know where should have been
this morning BY the way" I added,
as memory came bsltingly back to me,
wasn't there some one who took that
long journey yesterday What was it
Oh, now I remember. A jolly bad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-20
It Didn't work.

A young man, finding himself IN the
train without matches or cigars, cast
about for some way of wheedlinS both
out of his fellow traveller. He therefore
leaned across and asked pointedly.
Excuse me, sir. have you q match 20
carefully extracting the last lEcifer,
and handed It to the young man. who
laid It on the seat beside him, and
then took out his cigar case. regarded
it with we'll simulated surprise and
said;
Hang It! 7 have no cigar, either,s'
How lucky: now you won't want
the match. viii you - said the other,
carefully picking It up and restoring It
to his pocket.--TI Diavolo Rosa.
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dream he gave me. Regular night
marel / thought I punched his head.
What? What do you say %
left OF suddenly. The doctor was
mutterings and his hand was shaking
visibly. while both his face and that Of
the hotel proprietor were those OF men
who had looked on a. tragedy at close
quarters. Again struggled to rise
but my strength was insufficient, and
again the doctor pressed the draught
he held on me.
For your own sake you must, he
repeated. Mr.. Falkon and I Will do
our best to pull you through, but you
must help yourself and US Tell US
what happened last night?''
Something IN his voice made me
drain the glass. and with the drink
came strength and q. recurring sense
Of irritation at his persistency.
There Is nothing to make such a
conIounded russ overi. I said ifr1ta-
bly, II had a bad go OF fever-not
the first by long chalks, and prob
ably not the last. / turned into bed
and slept 1t of. But 1t was deuced
unpleasant while it lasted. Hot fit
cold shivers, and bad dreams, wherein
my companion. the dead man, figured
largely. BY the way, what's hap
pened to the poor beggar?" I asked.
as glanced at the bier. which was
empty. You've moved him already,
1 see
Then in a few words they told me.
They had found him in a corner of
the room-a CHASTITY, telI-taIe sight
his face bruised, a necklace of black
hnger-marks round his throat, his
head battered in. And this, they said
was my doing. my handiwork!
My doing!" I cried. in fncredulous.
indignant horror. do you think I
would drag a dead man-a man had
never seen before-of his bier and
batter him about like that for the fun
of the thin~2 What monster 50 xr041
take me for? Englishmen know
have a bad name in this country, but
I confess I should never have expect
ed q fellow-countryman to accuse one
of such wanton brutality"
got no further. The doctors
strong hand was clapped on my
mouth.
BE stilll' he said. "Be still, If you
wish US to save youi The man was
not dead He was thought to be and
left for dead. He must have recov-
cred in the night and tried to rouse
you. and you. being delfrious. didn't
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tied, and one enterprising individual
bought the privilege of setting up
Ferris wheel on the grounds. II was
one that had seen its best days at
seashore resort and was longing for
a rest.
When the fair opened of course
everybody was there. That meant that
Miss Kate Barstow and Mr.. Hawkins
and Mr.. WATERBURY were there IL
also meant that when Miss Kate saw
with it and expressed her desire to
make the circuit and get a view of
the country for miles around.
The rivalry had become desperate
by this time. Each rival felt that a
crisis was at hand. Each proposed
to make that circuit with Miss Kate
and to have his fate settled before
they had left the car.
Now the law student showed his
fine Italian hand. He went to the own
er of the wheel and had a private con
versation Later on he borrowed $40
and passed the bills over to the man.
The transaction had hardly been
closed when the literary editor of the
Gazetteer appeared. He spent some ten
minutes watching the machinery oper-
ating the wheel, and then he had a talk
with the owner.
There were many winks and smiles,
and more money passed. It was after
the last trotting race that the rivals
and the girl they loved approached the
wheel. Each intended to make the cir
cult with Miss Kate and leave the other
on the ground Each had also planned
that in case he got left the fact should
not give the other any advantage On
the contrary, it should be bad for him.
It can't be said that the girl had an
intuition, but this much is certain, that
in the crowd and crush around the car
she so managed that Mr.. Hawkins had
as a partner a very fat woman whose
husband was a nervous little man who
dared not make the trip, while Mr..
WATERBURY found a little later that his
companion was an old maid of forty or
more who wanted to fall in love.
The rivals were thirty feet high
when they discovered the mix-up. and
there was nothing to do but go onward
and upward. Miss Kate smiled and
waved a hand at them, but that only
increased the pain The owner of the
wheel had been closely watching
things, but after half a minute he
shook his head and muttered.
Hanged if I know what to do. ]
have forgotten which I was to keep
UP there They have gone and mixed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-20
The
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-20

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and outlined with a strip of the inser-
ton, was set. The lower part of the
blouse was trimmed by row of the
insertion let in, IN points, the sleeves
being similarly decorated. The lower
part of the sleeves were finished by
deep band made Of rows of insertion
and lace ruffies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-20

The design shows a simple and eff
fective way to make a white blouse Of
null or fine lawn. Wide embroidery
was used down the middle of the front
and down the middle of each sleeves,
inch-wide valenciennes being used in
combination. This narrower lace was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-20

Lingerie blouse Of white lawn, lace
and hand embroidery, and skirt Of
CLOTH made with a triple yoke and
plated panel In front
The blouse was inlet with narrow in
sartl0n, in the form OF q deep-pointed
yoke. down each side Of which a point
"a hsno Of lawn. -enbroldere
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-04-18

history many know and which is
interesting in every detail.
When the civil war broke out
there lived near one of the best
known Southern cities family of
wealth and culture. who enjoyed
the best society of the Southland.
There were but four III the house
hold, the father, mother and two
boys, the younger about II years
and the older IS. 1t was on a cold
night during the first winter of fhe
great war that band of maraud-
ers claiming to be a portion of the
Northern army surrounded this
Southern home, set fire TO it and
when the family ran out in their
night clothes they captured all but
the oldest boy and made them
prisoners, refusing to let them have
any more clothes, and thus leaving
them exposed to the cold and
stormy winter night ait. The two
parents and the younger son were
soon taken from their captors and
returned to their plantation to
rebuild their home, but the son
who had escaped capture, but who
saw how his old mother and father
were kept out in the freezing night
and not allowed more clothes,
swore vengeance upon the head of
every member of that band of
He joined a company
of bushwhackers who made it their
purpose to kill every one of the
Northern band. What they did
history has recorded. When the
war ended this young man went to
his home, but he could not stay
there, for a price was upon his
head. He remained at home, how
ever, long enough to kill another
Yankee. One night while he was
there one of the Northern troopers
walked in the house and demanded
a nights lodging. He got it-a
bullet through the brain.
The son left again that night
Just after he had done the killing
and came to Texas. There were
of men after him. He
came to the home of some relative
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-04-18
Excursion Rates.

Account United Confederate
Veterans reunion at New Orleans,
La, April rs to 27, 1906, the Gulf
Coast Line will sell round trip
tickets April 81 and %, limited to
return May 8, as follows:
Brownsville, S17. 20; Samfordyce,
1905; McAllen, 1850; Harrington,
1915; Raymondville, 1880; Sarita,
1880; Kingsville, 1866; Robs-
town, 1926; Refugio, 1906. These
tickets apply only via Sinton and
Houston. Rates via Corpus Christi
will be 20 cents higher.
Account of Spring Carnival and
Battle of Flowers, at San Antonio,
April Is to 81. 1906, will sell round
trip tickets April IA to p inclusive,
good to return April q, at S10.S5.
Children, one-half of adult rate.
Account Thirty Third annual
convention Knights of Pythias at
Galveston, April % to %, round
trip tickets will be sold at $500.
Dates of sale, April p and %.
limited for return April %. Chill
dren half rate.
Until further notice the St. L.
B. & NJ. railroad will run excur-
sions every Saturday from Browns
vile to Corpus Christi, good to re-
turn the following Monday, at rate
OF 4.75 for the round trip.
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-04-18

in Texas and remained about two
weeks, but one night disappeared j..
Events proved that he stayed at
another house for more than two
years, during which time he was
restless as a Gagged lion. His room
was in the garnet and when COM
pany came to tho house he stayed
in his room for conceallnent The
family soon grew suspicious of
him, and so one night he left the
house. They never saw him again,
but he was traced up until five
years after that time. From then,
however, until the time that he
died unknown out in the cattle
country no one has known where
he was.
This man succeeded in wreak-
ing vengeance III blood. No one
knows how many men he killed in
battle, but one who was in the
band with him and who knew him
well said that he cut a notch on
the butt Of his musket for every
man that he killed off duty.
When the war ended the old gun
had 10 f7OtCi1eS CI1t in If
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-04-18
How'S This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
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not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure.
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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-04-18
STORY OF A LOST CAREER.
Southern Refugee Posing as Plain
,COwpuncher Died After Twenty
Years Service on Big Western
Cattle Ranch.

The following story comes from
Minera. Texas, in dispatch from
that place to the Houston Chron
icle:
A life of deepest romance came
to its end a few weeks ago when
an elderly man was found dead out
on one of the great West Texas
ranches. The man had been en-
pIoyed as a common COW puncher
by the ranch for more than 20
years. and yet no one who had
worked with him and been by his
side from the time he came to West
Texas until the time he was found
dead knew his history. In his
younger days he was an extremely
handsome man. Full six feet tall,
black hair and eyes, and with man
nezs that won him many friends.
He seemed to be a man of good
education, and who had once been
In the best circumstances of life,
so with all this and the fact that
he was an extremely restless man,
who talked very little, led the
ranchmen who knew him only by
the name which he called his own,
to believe that he had led a
romantic life, and yer they did not
know, so that when he died away
out on one OF the big ranches he
was buried in a lonely spot where
III two years there will be no grave
marks.
Your correspondent had known
this man history for many years,
but did not know that he was still
alive. The description given by
those who had been with him in
his last years, however, proved
sIiu to be the same person whose
The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1906-04-18

The railroad commission has
given out a statement showing the
number of passes issued by the 80
leading railroad companies of the
state for the year ending Deem
Der 81, 1905. The statement shows
the total to be 448, 4S6, of this
number 1916 were annual, 12,-
$40 time passes, $40, $50 trip passes.