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Gainesville daily sun. (Gainesville, Fla.) 190?-1938, 1907-04-16

Philadcithia, April 1.-THE I'm
coin SAVING and Trust company. 81
this city closed ~ doors Wednesday.
The eonpany u one q TIE city de-
pooliofica
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
MORE BOXES OF GOLD
And Many Greenbacks.

325 boxes of Gold and Greenbacks
will be sent TO persons who write the
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.. Give name and account of one or
more coffee drinkers who have been
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8. Do you know any one who has
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a. Did you set such person right
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3 Have you ever found better way
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and beginning at that time when actual
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Be honest and truthful don't write
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Their decisions will be fair and final.
and neat little box containing q SO
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
HAD To HAVE
4 TURKISH BATH
Miss Rose Shuman Comes
Clear From G0IdfieId to
Get Cleaned Up.
MILLION Is HER GOAL
GETS A SHAMPOO AND FEELS
LIKE NEW WOMAN.
MILLION is HER GOAL

Three hundred miles for shampoo and
Turkish bath is going some. but that's
the distance made by Miss Rose Shuman,
a Goldfieid stock broker. for the purpose
of getting cleaned up with real water
of course there were some other things
| wanted" said Miss Shuman when she
told of her trip. but after all the thing
| was most homesick for was the sham
poo You know YOU can do with the kind
YOU get down there just a certain length
thing else
Miss Shuman is one of the few women
VINO have gone down TO the mining town
purely as speculator. She IS doing a
sort OF intermediary brokerage business
there, having a big list of spectators
among her close friends in New York. for
whom she studies the Goldfield market
and whom she. keeps posted on affairs
there IN general.
She is a handsome. well-groomed wo-
man, of pleasing address and manners
and faultless in her dress; she makes &C
quaintances readily and she boasts that
she has made herself familiar with all
lines of the mining industry since her adj
vent in the GOldfield camp last Christ
mas She has been at the Knutsford
for a few DAYS but has been entertained
by Salt Lake friends she knew in the
east, among them the Siegeis and the
Hanauers.
Wants a Million.
I have made some money OF course
she says. but / shall never be contented
to leave G0ldfield till ! have cleaned up
a million And I expect to do it, too. You
know | think il takes a certain amount
Of ignorance TO be a winner. think the
careful soul Will seldom make a stake,
while the one who knows little of the
dangers of speculation will win every
time It's the old idea of fools rush in
where angels fear to tread and / mean
to be a wise fool. and make a winning.
I'm not MAILING an idle boast when i say
mean to make a million. a woman
has just as good chance If she's the
right kind of woman as a man has A Wo-
man has the water right down there, and
she's making barrels of money. She su-
perintends the thing herself and watches
her help to see that they DO the right
thing. and she's getting her reward LOT
her diligence lust watch me for while
and I'll show you that I'll come back TO
Salt Lake with a cool million and snow
my friends that I mean what L say
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
Statement Regarding the Alton.

At the adjournment of the hearing of
the Interstate commerce commission the
appended statement was made public in
behalf of f. H Hartman and his asse-
ciafes:
In view of the recent widespread mis-
understanding of the figures OF the Chi
cago & Alton capitalization, it seems well
to set forth the actual facts in concise
form:
'sThe syndicate paid for its holdings of
Chicago & Alton stock about s39 000.0 900.
Less cash dividend, s6.5oe.0oo. Total. ss2.-
10000. The cost of half of the st. Louis
4 Northern Short Line was about 5000
600. Old Chicago g. Alton railroad high
interest bearing bonds which had to lie
refunded at cash cost of about SO 900 900
New money provided and expended for
So. 10000. Totaf cash outlay. about &c.,
0ooGO0
''The following securities have been is
sued: Three per cent bonds, ssa, 10000:
equipment bonds. $16.000.o0o; I per cent
preferred stock. e.455.0oa, per cent
common stock, SO 81, 800.
Showing a capitalization in round fig
ures of slos0D.Wo. or about s4l,ecoeoo
above the cash outlay.
This capitalization must, however, be
looked upon in the light of the fact that
il consists CT low interest bearing secur-
tiles. which were and are not saIable at
anywhere near par and of which $1,000 90
was common stock on which no dividends
were ever paid.
"At the time of the acquisition of the
Chicago & Alton the charge for interest
on dividends amounted 10 about s, 900.-
0oa. against present charges of about So
eoo.oga difference OF 81 -2o0.e eco. which Is
almost exactly ) per cent on the 81. 500 coo
of new money put into the property.
To Representatives of the Associated
Press. Stiayvesant Fish said he would
make no statement concerning Mr. Ha1-
FimaB's testimony.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
HARTMAN RESERVED
REGARDING HIMSELF
Continued from Page

AR kellogg endeavored to have the
witness admit that the Rockefeller trans
fer was merely an evasion. but Mr. Har-
riman would not do so. The transaction
was TO protect the property, he insisted,
against speculative raid that threatened
the control.
He admitted that Mr.. Rockefeller was
paid & per cent commission or 1861 80 on
return of the stock
Story Told at the Time.
AIR. HaTriman's account of last Augustus
famous delayed dividend announcement
came in answer to Mr.. Kellogg's uues-
lions about the failure of the Pacific
roads to reduce rates. When he reached
the matter of the delayed dividend an
nouncement, Mr.. Hartman broke in: Il
will tell YOU about that and without
further questions he told the story of that
episode.
He said the question of earnings first
came up. at the July directors meeting,
and the estimate of earnings was so sur
prising that ne asked them to consider
the question OF dividend If the actual
figures came up to the promises. The
Southern Pacific meeting was held in the
morning and the Union Pacific meeting IN
the afternoon. The Southern Pacific first
declared a dividend of 2la Der cent Il
per cent of which went to the Union Pa
cific. tho owner of that much stock Then
the onion Pacific dividend OF ) per cent
per cent traffic earnings and per cent
from investment earnings. was declared
the directors deciding to pass it to the
executive committee for approval and an
rouncement, which was customary
The meeting of the executive commits
tee was scheduled for 10 o'clock the next
morning. but Mr. Hartman said he could
not be present on account OF "A funeral
lt was late when the executive commit
Zee got together BY the time the com
mittee had passed On the matter il was
after O'Clock in the afternoon. and the
question then arose whether the an
nOgncement of the dividend should be
made public at once. thus giving the
London market the full advantage of the
situation. or whether IL should be deferred
until the following morning. II was de-
cided 10 adopt the latter course, and the
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
RESIDENCE TRACT IS SOLD
Real Estate Concern Buys Up Sew
eral Acres in Southeast
Part of City.

The salt Lake Real Estate & Title
company yesterday purchased forty resi-
dence lots in the immediate vicinity Of
Tenth South and Ninth East streets from
Oscar Hunter for 81, zoo The company
also purchased two acres of property on
Eleventh East street. between Tenth and
Eleventh South streets, from Henry
Squires for S3.0G
The company has made several large
sales of residence property on the north
east bench during the week. Through
this agency George Z. Romney yesterday
purchased a Hsx20-rod lot on Brigham
street. between Seventh and Eighth
East streets from ROsina Weir.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
How the System Spread Out.

Commissioner Lane then began a sketch
of the foremost requirements of the
Union Pacific under Hartman. He be-
gan with the issuance of the 800, 600 600
in bonds and traced its purchases out ia
Portland on the coast, to the Orient by
steamship lines. back 10 San Francisco,
to Ogden. to New Orleans. to New York
by steamships. into the Northern Pacific
and out again, into the Alton. the Illi-
nois Central, the Santa Pc. the Balti-
more & Ohio and the New York Central.
His face paled and his voice grew more
impressive as he continued the wonderful
recital.
He faced the witness and pausing for a
moment. said:
Where is that thing going to stop?''s
The master operator smiled and then
somewhat nervously said:
Il don't - Think it has stopped
don't think we have any more-I would
go on if ] thought We could realize some
thing more than we have got from these
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
DIES OF MENINGITIS.
Young Man Succumbs After Five
Days illness.

John Dunn Sterling died early Tues
day morning from cerebrO-spinal menin-
gifts, after being sick five days He had
been unconscious since o'clock Saturday
morning.
The deceased was a native of Salt Lake,
being y years old. He was machinist
employed in the Rio Grande shops, and
leaves young wife and two small chill
drsn.
The funeral will be held from the chap
ell of Joseph Z. Taylor's undertaking eS-
tablishment at II o'clock this morning.
and will be private
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
Losers by the Fire.

A dainty dinner dish and a luxury
for light uncheOns-MOUNT'S Pork &
Beans.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
TheyAII Want
Dutch ChOCO-
IdteSdnd Nc
DOndIdWdntS
Them to
And lie Is Do
inc Ills Best
To Meet the
Demand.

1t is new idea in Chocolate max
ing.
1t tastes direrent-better.
And then it is only S0c and coo box.
Take her a box Of Dutch chocolate
bonbons and see her eyes sparkle.
Mcdonald makes chocolates .exclu-
sively, but makes every kind. including
Bitter Sweets, the highest priced, high
est quality in the world
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
No Admissions Made.

committee did not make the announces
ment until the following morning
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27
GAVE HER LIFE
TO SAVE OTHERS
Mrs. Emma Stewart Overcome
by Smoke While Spreading
Alarm of Fire.
GERMAN BUILDING BURNED
FAT BROKER RESCUED BY SIX
FiREMEN.

Los Angeles, Reb. 26.-Fire which had
ns origin by spontaneous combustion in
the basement of the Fair Novelty store
In the five-story brick German building
at 226 South Spring street, shortly after
] O'Clock today. gained great Roadway
before it was extinguished caused the
death of one woman, seriously eGdan-
gered the lives of several others and
caused a property loss OF many thOus-
Rnds Of dollars The fire department had
a difficult fight and only after the great
est effort succeeded IN preventing the
spreading OF the flames above the second
story.
Mrs. Emma Stewart, 563s Pasadena ave-
nue., an emplOye of the German COM
pany. with offices on the fourth floor.
WAS overcome by smoke. while attempt
the building and was unconscious when
found by Z. r. Savage. a newspaper pho
tographer, who carried her 10 the street.
Physicians failed to revive her and she
died an hour later.
Broker Saved by Firemen.
The firemen performed many heroic res
cues.t Upwards OF dozen persons were
taken down the fire escapes and the fire.
mems ladders from the offices in the
upper part OF the building Seven were
unconscious and with difficulty revived.
John G.. Brubaker a mining broker. was
overcome in his office on the fifth floor.
Brubaker weighs 900 pounds and six fire
men lowered him with ropes around his
body from the window. He was revived.
Mrs. Phoebe King, a stenographer, was
also taken out unconscious. Had the fire
occurred at any other time than the noon
hour. hundreds would have been caught
in their rooms and doubtless more deaths
would have resulted.
Losers by the Fire.
Following are the principal losers by the
fire.
NJ. l.. Germain, owner of the building;
the Fair Novelty store. Morley * Step
hens, furnishing Morley's billiard parlors,
Dan Jerrue, liquor store: the railroad Of
fees of the Chicago, Burlington & Quin-
cy. There are many other minor losers.
Among those having offices in the build
ing, and who will suffer loss from smoke
and water. is United States Senator
Frank P Flint whose law offices were
located there. The building was an old
one, having been built seventeen years
ago. 1t is valued at $4,000 and is in
sured for 500 90
The fire was in the exact center of the
business section of the city and traffic
OF every sort was tied up for hours. Scott
Edwards a horSeman. was injured about
the head during the fire and removed TO
the receiving hospital
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-02-27

Mr. Hartman proceeded in his MARIA
ton without interruption until this point
He spoke deliberately and without hesi-
tation. Mr.. kellogg questioned him
closely in an apparent effort to elicit some
admission of motive in the delay in the
announcement but Mr.. Harriman's re-
plies were direct. He admitted that the
delay in the announcement was unusual.
but said that the occasion was unusual
ut WAS staggering" said Mr. Hartman.
1T marked an epoch. but if | could have
been present at the hour for which the
executive committee meeting was sched-
uled the announcement of the dividend
would have been made in the usual way
the morning after the directors meet
ing"
Commissioner Lane asked what Mr.
Hartman knew about the buying OF
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific stock
on the market between the time the d.
rectors decided on the dividend and tine
time il was announced.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-14
LARGE BOND ISSUE
PLANNED BY NEW
LINE
Northwestern Pacific Is to
Raise Money to Build
It's Road Into Eureka
ACTION WILL BE
TAKEN IN MARCH

meeting of the stockholders of the
Northwestern Pacific Railroad Company
Will be held In the Flood building ON
March ~ TO act upon the proposition
10 create bonded Indebtedness of
$3S.O0O,000- The money to be thus
raised Will be used i'm the construction
OF the links necessary to complete the
railway from the Marin shore to Eu-
reka. A portion of the bond issue will
be used to retire the bonds of the
subsidiary roads owned by the corpora
ton and the balance will he devote d
10 new construction.
The report that part of the sum was
TO be used for the purchase of ter
mi1al facilities at the foot of Van Ness
avenue was denied yesterday by OFF,
Gals of the company.
The Northwestern Pacific was formed
by the Santa Fe and the Southern Pa
ctfc to build a joint line to Eureka.
in addition branch lines will be con-
structed in the northern counties
The plan of the company is to float
the bonds as soon as the issue has been
authorized and then to press construc-
ton work through to completion
Northern California will soon be the
busiest spot on the railroad map. The
Southern Pacific already has a large
corps of men at work near Redding
where the coast cutoff is being con-
structed. Work has been impeded by
the heavy fall of snow. but will be
resumed as soon as the weather per-
mits.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-14
HIS SKIN NOW FINE
AND SMOOTH AS SILK

II wish to inform you that you.
wonderful Cuticura has put q stop to
twelve years Of misery / passed with
nv son. AS an infant i noticed on
his body q red spot and treated same
with different remedies for shout five
YEAR. but when the spot began 70
get larger ] put him under the care
Of doctors. Under their treatment the
disease spread TO four different parts
OF bis body. The longer the doctors
treated him the worse it grew. During
the day il would get rough and form
like scales At night It would be
cracked, inflamed, and badly swollen,
with terrible burning and itching.
When think Of his suffering. it nearly
breaks NV heart. His screams could
be heard downstairs. The suffering
Of nv son made me full Of misery. j
had no ambition to work, 70 eat, nor
could i sleep.
"One doctor told me that my sons
eczema was incurable, and gave il up
for a bad job. One evening / saw an
article IN the paper about the wonderful
Cuticura and decided 10 give il a trial.
Il tell you that Cuticura Ointment
is worth its weight IL GOLD, ano when
had used the first box Of Ointment there
was 8 great improvements, and by the
time j hao used the second set OF Cuti-
cura Soap, Cutioura Ointment, and Cuti-
cura Resolvent nv child was cured. He
Is now twelve wears old. and his skini is
rs fne and smoothas silk Michael Stein
man, Sumner Avenue, Brooklyn,
N. y, April Is, 1905.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-14
BOY IS VICTIM OF
BRUTAL THUGS

Charles Meyers. q boy living at the
corner of Lombard and Devisadero
streets. was brutally attacked last
night at the corner of Cough and Nc
Allister streets by a trio of thugs.
wi4o, after taking bis purse. containing
SIS, and beating him into insensibility
boarded passing outbound McAllis-
ter-street car and escaped.
The affair occurred about o'clock
in the evening. Meyers was rounding
the corner into Cough street when the
thieves stepped out of doorway and
commanded him to turn over his valu-
ables- Without waiting for him to
comply with the request two of the
thugs began to beat the lad on the
head and shoulders with clubs while
the third went through his pockets
When they were satisfied that they
had all his money they departed on
car that was passing. leaving the vic
tim unconscious in the gutter After
the escape of the assailants Meyers
recovered and hurried to the Central
Emergency Hospital where he was
treated for a badly cut lip and LAGER
atoms of the scalp. The police are
working on the case.
F. H. Wagstaff of 81 Sanchez street
has reported to the police that on Sat
urday night he was held up on Steuart
street, between Mission and Market
and robbed of $40 by a lone footpad.
Wagstaff was given an ugly smash
on the eye He is able to describe the
thug as being about rs years old
clean shaver and wearing a black felt
hat Detectives MCGOWAN and Conner
are working on the case.
James Willis, sailor, was held rp
last night shortly after o'clock by
two men. who, after giving him a Sc
we're beating. relieved him of $12 cash
and made their escape. The holdup
occurred at the corner of East and
Folsom streets. No arrests have been
made.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1907-01-14
BELIEVE LIBBY IS
VICTIM Of
CRIME
Police Hold Men Who Took
Dying Man With Frac-
tured Skull to Hospital
BARTENDER'S STORY
INVOLVES THE PAIR

Willis Libby is in q dying condition
st the Central Emergency Hospital,
ana Percy Wolfe and F. W. Mead, who
night before last took him TO the in
stitution. are being held, one at the
O-Farrell street, the other at the Bush
street station. The police detectives
are searching for some means 70 un-
ravel the mystery that surrounds the
fair
when the two men took the dying
rn .nto the hospital they represented
t-emselves IS samaritans who had
iIed Libby up after he had been
tnrt. They were on the point Of leav-
fng when the surgeon in charge be-
came suspicious and notified the po-
Evidence gathered yesterday tends
to show that Libby's injury. a frac-
tarrd skull. was not received in fail.
a. stated by both Wolfe and Mead. The
story told by the bartender IN
BOhus saloon, corner OF Eooy
and Buchanan streets, near where
Libby received his injuries, points 10
the fact that Libby was injured during
e quarrel. A broken bottle and pool
az blood where the man was picked up
suggest the story.
Mead who IS chauffeur says ne
thought his companion was deputy
sheriff and he was acting under orders
from him when he pursued the man
who Is now lying in the hospital
Wolfe passed me while we were
chasing the man and struck him blow
on the head" said Mead yesterday.
Ie fell and seeing that he was badly
injured we put him in the auto and
took him to the hospital, I never saw
either Of the other men before until
last night
Wolfe still stands by the story told
- 41-.@
Lfbbv's injuries were received IN q tall.
The story Of Max Geistlich, bartender
in the saloon in which the three men
met earlier in the evening, is the clear
est
Libby who was sober, was talk
ing to me over the bar last night said
the bartender yesterday, when
chauffeur and another man entered the
door and asked for 2 bottle OF water.
Libby and another customer were shak-
ing dice for cigars at the time and
was filing the bottle with water. The
man. whom I have since learned was
Wolfe. came I'D and began TO talk.
Libby resented the intrusion and Wolfe
started an argument with him. Libby
quietly picked I'D his money and with
drew. being quietly followed by Wolfe
and little later by the chauffeur.
"A few minutes later a passerby
stepped in at the door and asked who
the injured man was who had been
taken away in the automobile. That
was the first intimation I had that any
thing was wrong. Then I notified the
police"
Detective Tom Gibson SAYS that
Wolfe has been in trouble before. Libby
was foreman Of the Buckingham
Hecht Shoe Company for q number Of
wears. His marriage to Mrs. Matte
Schultz = voUsg widow Of 1855 Turk
strect TO have occurred next
Thursday The prospective bride has
been in 2 state bordering on collapse
since learning Of the condition Of her
fance.