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Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-14

e. e. Stephens, member OF the Long
Beach fire department. left last weeh
for Mexico. He will take charge OF the
steel works of the GauymasS & Mexico
railroad. stephens work Will require
more than a years time.
Crossing the railroad tracks at the
foot of Chestnut avenue Mrs. M. L.
Deering, 10s Chestnut fell, sprainins
her left ankle. She will be unable TO
walk for several weeks.
q. S. stone and family left yesterday
in their automobile for Cucamonga'
where Stone recently purchased large
orange ranch and a residence. Here
after the family will make their home
In Long Beach only six months OF eacn
year. Mr.. Stone has not severed his
connection with the firm of Stone q
Traux.
C. e. Rodman, formerly Salt Lake
passenger agent here and afterward
commercial agent for the road at Ter
minal Island has been appointed
freight agent at Goldfield, New. for the
Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad.
The Golfer dam closing the Naples
canals Is being taken out and the
canals will be thrown open to the
ocean The water now enters at hign
have been removed.
At the annual meeting of the Long
Horn Mining and Milling company w.
T. Andres was elected president u.
SturRes-Saunders of Los Angeles, vice
president, and Walter Desmond secre-
tary and treasurer. Directors chosen
were C. F. Tadlock, Pomona, and s. Nd.
Craddock of Orange.
]. G. Waterman of 1898 East Second
street and Lou Hunsaker of the same
address have made threats to bring suit
against the city health officer, DR.. W.
Hartman Jones, for quarantining the
house for three weeks when Water
mans child was Ill. They assert that
Jones said the child had smallpox, but
that they had been reliably informed
otherwise by other physicians. They
claim that they should receive damages
to the extent of wages they lost while
auarantined. Dr. Jones says their
charges have no weight and that the
child's condition warranted the quar-
antine.
In his report to the city council on
the subject of the recent decision by
Judge Conrey In the West Long Beach
annexation matter City Attorney Skin
ner urges that the case be appealed and
expresses confidence that an opposite
ruling can be secured If this is done.
He accuses former City Attorney Carl
Monk and others of having treated him
unfairly in withholding information re-
garding certain evidence he might have
secured to show that Illegal voting was
done on the San Pedro side.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-14

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Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-14

C. e. Rodman, formerly Salt Lake
passenger agent here and afterward
commercial agent for the road at Ter
minal Island, has been appointed
freight agent at Goldfield, New, for the
Las Vegas & Tonopah railroad.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-14

The Golfer dam closing the Naples
canals Is being taken out and the
canals will be thrown open to the
ocean. The water now enters at high
tide and the whole dam will shortly
have been removed.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
HINDUs DRIVEN OUT.
Meb Raids Mill Workers in Washing.
ton State.

Six badly beaten Hindus are in the
hospital at Bellingham, Wash, 400
frightened and half naked sikhs are in
Jail and in the corridors of the city
hall, guarded by policemen, and some
where between Bellingham and the
British Columbia line $50 natives of
India, beaten, hungry and half cloth.
ed, are making their way along the
Great Northern railroad bound for the
Canadian territory and the protection
Of the British fiag.
The long expected cry, Drive out
the Hindus," was heard throughout
the city and along the water front
Wednesday night. The police were
helpless. Authority was paralyzed,
and for FIVE hours a mob of half a
thousand white mel raided the mills
where the blacks were working, bat
tered down the doors of lodging
houses, arS dragging the invaders
from their beds, escorted them to the
city limits with orders to keep on GO
ing.
The trouble started at G and Holly
streets. a district with Indian lodging
houses. The houses were cleaned out
and the denizens started on trek for
the Canadian line.
The mob then swept down to the
water front. and mill after mill was
visited, the white employees joining
the mob, and every black man was
hustled outside
Here the police suggested that the
undesirables be taken to Jail. This
was hailed with delight, and the
blacks were hustled along. From this
time on very few were beaten, the
bloodthirstiness of the mob seeming
y having been satisfied during the at
tack on the lodging houses.
The mob kept up it's work along the
water front until early Thursday
morning, when Larsons mill at What
com lake was visited and 100 blacks
brought in from there.
Four women were found Thursday
morning among the crowd in the city
building.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
ROUGHLY USED BY A CROWD.
Artist Earle i'm Danger of Tar and
Feathers

Ferdinand Penney Earle, an artist,
who sent his wife to France, her old
home, to secure divorce in order that
he might marry another woman, re-
ceived a sorry welcome when he re-
turned to his old home at Monroe, n.
Y, Wednesday night, after bidding his
wife farewell at the steamer. Earle
was met by crowd of villagers as he
stepped from the train, who insulted,
then hooted him and finally dragged
him from his carriage and into the
muddy street of the village. Earle
cOurageously faced his tormenters and
exhorted the crowd in a vain attempt
to vindicate himself, and then, goaded
for an instant by the insults of the
people, seized a carriage whip and
slashed at the crowd. A man snatched
the whip from the artists hands and
bystanders state he struck him a sting
ing blow. Further trouble was pre-
vented by the arrival of officers who
forced Earle to drive to his home,
though he persisted in trying to eX-
plain his views to the angry crowd.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
CASE is A MYSTERY.
Death of Cleveland Banker Puzzles
Officers.


The wife of John J. Phillips, the
coal operator, banker, broker and club
man, of Cleveland, who was shot and
fatally injured in his home, is under
guard in her home. The officers who
caused her arrest after the funeral of
her husband regard her as being in
too nervous a condition to be taken
from her residence and questioned.
Before Phillips died he told the
physicians and officers that he had
started down stairs to get a bottle of
beer and that as he turned on the
light a burglar shot him. This story
was declared by other members of the
family to be true. The police, how
ever, discredit the explanation. Al
explanation that is given general Gre
dence is that Phillips committed sui
eide because of business reverses and
that the family knows this to be the
case.
Phillips was shot about 1 o'clock.
The police were not called. for three
hours later. Mrs. Phillips said that
the burglar remained in the house for
two or three hours after the shooting
for plunder. Chief Samberger, of the
police department of East Cleveland,
the suburb in which is the home of
the Phillips family, discredits this
story.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
BRULE LANDS IN DEMAND.
Many Inquiries Received Regarding
New Tract for Settlers.


The officials Of the government land
office in Pierre are receiving hundreds
Of letters Of inquiry every day in re-
gard to the opening of the $4,000 acres
Of land in the Lower Brule reservation
This tract has been transferred from
the Chamberlain to the Pierre land
district from the fact that it lies With-(
in a few miles of Pierre and long
distance from Chamberlain. There
will be no long delay from the time of
the beginning Of the registration until
those who secure filings will be allowed
to make the same, as the drawing will
be held Immediately after the registra-
ton and the claimant be allowed to file
at once, the whole transaction being
carried out at the land office in Pierre.
The question of securing natural gas
settled by the well at Mcclure, which is
used to light and heat the ranch on
which it is located and gives a bOunti-
full supply of water at all times. In
many sections the question of such
wells is yet one of theory, but on these
lands it is assured as the Mcclure we'll
is on the edge Of the tract to be open
ed. A sawmill just over the border
of the tract will supply the settlers
with cottonwood lumber at a reasOna-
bic price for the putting up of their
hnil6inCG
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
TRY TO DITCH EXPRESS.
Wrcckcrs Fail to Throw Fast New
York Train from Track.

Train wreckers were at work near
Scott Haven and Suterville, thirty
miles east of Pittsburg, Pa, Wednes-
day night. Spikes were drawn from
the rails for the purpose, it is be-
lieved, Of wrecking the New York ex
press. The wreckers evidently were
deceived by number of other freight
and passenger trains during the even
ing and the New York express passed
the point before the spikes were with
drawn. A fast freight which followed
was not so fortunate, however, When
the engine struck the rails they turned
over and the engine and twelve cars
were derailed. The tank of the engine
is in the Youghiogheny river. The
fireman and engineer escaped injury
by jumping.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
MAIGLED IN WRECK.
Twelve Persons Killed Near Cedar
Falls In

At 1890 o'clock Friday morning
northbound passenger No. Z on the
Chicago and Rock Island road was
wrecked three miles north of Cedar
Falls, Ia. Twelve men were instantly
killed and nine were seriously injured,
several of whom probably will die.
At the time Of the wreck the train
miles an hour. A freight was side
tracked on the switch waiting for the
passenger to go by. AS the ens,ne
struck the switch 1t jumped the track.
telescoping the baggage and smoking
cars.
List of the dead: c. b. Oliver. Wa
terloo; John w. Watson, Waterloo;
William Goodwin. Waterloo; ]. d.
Lanpher Shell Rock; Roy Johnson,
Dixie. Ia; b. NJ. Christie. Minneapolis;
Fl. J. Barron. Beamer, Ia; Tifoda
Laza, Hammond, Ind; j. A. Merrill,
Charles City, Ia; two unknown Ital-
ians; one unidentified boy, about 20
years of age, carrying school pin with
letters III. H. S." and a ticket for
Chicago; believed to be Ernest Love-
joy, of Faribault, MINI.
Names of the injured: DR.. o. j.
O'Keaf, Marble Rock, Ia, neck brok-
en- and internal injuries; w II. Mey-
ers, of Burlington, baggageman; arm
and ribs broken; condition critical; j.
A. Newell Finchford, H.; Central
conductor; arm cut off, both legs
crushed; may die; John Show, Water
loo, cut on head; j. H. Douglas, Wa
terloo, collar bone and right arm frac-
tured; j. L. Mason, Cedar Rapids, en-
gineer; head bruised; l.. Mcmahon,
Cedar Rapids, fireman; A. L. Welliver,
Cedar Ranids, legs gashed and bruis-
ed; B. II. Merdin, West Liberty, postal
clerk; right arm torn and federated.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
KING IN QUEER MOVE
TRANSFERS GROWN INTEREST
IN CONGO STATE.
As Monarch Himself Is known to
Hold an Interest in tie Concern the
Deal Has Created a Sensation In tho
Belgian Capital.

Z King Leopold made another mo-
mentous move in the Congo question
monday by turning over the domain
of the crown in the Congo independ-
ent state to a joint stock company in
which he is alleged to be Interested
This is the most important section Of
the Congo. 1t is ten times larger than
Belgium and was to have reverted 10
Belgium with annexation. Its trans
fer deprives Belgium Of the most prof
liable part OF the Independent state.
The decree ann~ uncing the trans
fer, which appeared in the official bull
letin, caused a sensation, it being gem
orally accepted as endangering the
success OF the commission appointed
recently by King Leopold to negotiate
treaty annexing the Congo inde-
pendent state.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
A BANK SAFE is CRACKED.
Robbers Secure $500 i'm Raid at Wa
tcrtOWn,

While one masked man held part
of the population of Strandburg, in
Grant county, at bay with his six
shooter three confcderates broke into
the bank of that town and got away
with $500. The burglars entered the
building by breaking a rear window,
got inside Of the vault with sledges
and blew the safe open with nitro
glycerin.
The noise attracted several citizens.
but as fast as they appeared unarmed
they were covered by the man on
watch Whenever a light appeared in
"a window the guard snuffed it out with
a bullet.
! The robbers got away, riding in a
northwesterly direction. A pursuing
posse has been organized, but as there
is no clew to the identity of the band
the likelihood of their being caught Is
small
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
The News d South Dakota
GRAND JURY AT DEADWOOD.
Five Indictments Against Indians for
Sale of L;CuOr


With Judge John F.. Garland, of
Sioux Falls, on the bench, the United
States district court is in session at
Deadwood. While no important cases
are on the docket the session promises
to last nearly two weeks and is MEM
orable for its size, as there are over
400 witnesses and others connected
with the term there and more on the
way. 1t is the official opening of the
handsome new federal building in
Deadwood.
The grand jury on it's first sitting of
a few minutes returned five true bills,
all against Indians. Shorty Thigh,
William Fine Eyes and Stone Arrow
are each indicted for bringing liquor
onto the Rosebud reservation, and over
fifty Indians are there to testify in the
cases. Peter Soldier is accused Of
stealing suit of clothes from anoth-
er Indian on the same reservation,
while Roam Horse is indicted for al
leE@d horse stealing. Several other in
dictments, especially in a number of
cattle rustling cases, which L. S.
Marshal Bullock has been tracing, are
five men indicted, all having pleaded
net guilty, will be tried at once.
One case that promises some impOr-
tarce, the trial of George B. McPher-
son, charged with illegally fencing L.
$50 acres Of government land in the
southeastern part of the state, went
over until the next term at Sioux
Fails
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
DIES DURING A QUARREL.
Excitement Kills Wealthy Water
town Man.

In the midst of a heated quarrel
with his wife NJ. d. Flint, aged 65, a
wealthy wholesale liquor dealer of Wa
tertown. dropped dead, overexcitement
inducing heart failure. The cause was
dissatisfaction with the management
of a hotel owend by Flint, and Mrs.
Flint demanded the discharge of the
housekeeper. In refusing Mr.. Flint
said he would never go home again.
Outwardly calm the husband made a
dignified bow, saying, Mrs. Flint, I
am through with you" A moment
later. while telephoning for the chief
of police, he fell dead.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
WARNING TO FIRE CHIEFS.
State Marshal Crafts INSTRUCTIONS or
Use of Gasoline,

Fire Marshal Craft, of Pierre, Is
sending out a letter Of warning to fire
chiefs all over the state cautioninE
them in their Investigations Of the
storing and handling of gasoline. In
the letter he reports sixty-nine fires in
the state since the 1st of July, or
which eight have been traced to the
careless handling of gasoline. The
city of Huron reports five fires, three
started from gasoline explosions. In
one case a fire was started by man
pouring gasoline from one can to an
other while holding a lighted pipe in
his mouth, showing that the gas from
gasoline can be exploded from a coal
as well as from a blaze. The mar
shall urges the greatest Of caution in
the storing of gasoline and asks that
those who handle it shall keep it in
open, detached buildings to allow the
escape Of the gas arising from 1t, in
stead of allowing it to be confined
where it may explode with danger to
firemen in case of their being called
upon to fight fire.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
OWNERS MUST STAND LOSS.
State Cannot Pay for Diseased Meat
Ordered Killed

In old territorial days the legisla-
ture passed a b:ll providing for pay
ment by the territory in cases of horses
which were killed by order of the
health authorities on account Of CLAN
dcrs. But the session which passed
the law stopped at that point and
made no provision for supplying the
funds for carrying it into effect The
state board has at several times dis
.cussed the advisability Of making
levy for that purpose, but no action
has ever been taken. While John l..
Pyle was attorney general and MEM
Der of the assessment board, he gave
the board his views of the law as un-
constitutional
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
SPRECKLES ON SUGAR TRUST.
Western Magnate Denies Having In
tereSt I'm HfAemeyer Concern.

tereSt In HisAemcyer Concern.
John ID. Spreckles, president of the
Western Sugar Refining company, tes-
tiefid in San Francisco Saturday be-
fore United States Commissioner
Richards in regard to the relations
American Sugar Refining company, or
New York, the so-called Havemeyer
sugar trust. 1t was established by his
testimony that Havemeyer and his
men own a large block of stock in the
Western Sugar Refining company, but
he denied either he or his father,
Claus Spreckles, had any interest in
the American Sugar Refining COM
pany. He declared the price of sugar
on the coast is held low enough to
prevent competition from Havemeyer,
except in a few special grades, which
the Western does not make.
Spreckles' testimony is to be used in
the suit brought by the receiver of the
Pennsylvania Sugar company against
the American company for $4,000
900 damages as 9. result of the Have
meyer interest getting control of the
Pennsylvania concern and shutting
down the plant. One suit is both tor
conspiracy and violation of the Sher-
man antitrust law and brought in the
United States district court of New
ynrlr
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
CLASHES WITH SUPERIORS.
President of Letter Carriers AssOcia-
ton Forced to Retire.

President Holland, Of the National
Letter Carriers association, an
nounced to the national convention at
Canton, o., that he would not be
candidate for reelection. This step
was taken in response to an expressed
wish of the postal department as out
lined in an address before the conveu-
ton by First Assistant Postmaster
General Hitchcock. 1t was charged
that Holland had violated a rule of
the department in lobbying in con-
gress for legislation favorable to the
carriers, after having been requested
by the president not to do So
The convention voted to pay Hol-
land $40, 900 at once and $5,-
900 within two years. This action is
taken to mean that Holland will either
voluntarily resign or be forced to re-
sign as a Boston mail carrier.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
WAR ON MITCHELL GAS PLANT.
Citizens Will Seek Injunction to Pre-
vent Operation.

When the gas plant of the Mitchell
Gas company partially blew up the
other night as the result of the eXplo-
sion of a small piece of carbide left
in one of the tanks, the citizens living
in the immediate vicinity at once drew
up petition asking the city council
at it's meeting to abate the plant as a
menace to life and property. Owing
to the plant being in the hands of a
receiver the council was pOWerleSs to
take any action. but the citizens were
notified to commence their action in
the federal court at Sioux Falls and
the city would stand the expense.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
KILLED IN FIGHT ON TRAIN.
Workman Is Shot to Death Near Aber-
deem.

A quarrel on a westbOund Milwau-
kee train near AndOver resulted in one
man being killed and another badly
wounded, perhaps fatally. The dead
man is William Waldo, and his home
is believed to have been at Minneapo-
lis. The name of the wounded man
is not known. The tragedy occurred
in a workmen' scar filled with men for
extension work. Ed GilmOur was fir
ing shots from a window and the man
who was wounded took his gun away.
Waldo interfered, it is said, and stab
bed his opponent The latter fired in
self-defense, the bullet striking Waldo
in the head. The man who was stab
bed and Gilmour were taken off the
train at AndOver and Waldo died near
Aberdeen while being taken to that
city for surgical attention. The body
was shipped back to AndOver
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
HIS VOICE "F'ROZEN UP"
DakOtan Loses Power of Speech After
Visit to Gold Storage Plant.

When Thomas White thaWS out he
may be able to speak again above
whisper. AT present he can scarcely
make himself heard, although he has
never suffered with any throat trou-
BILE in the past. While in Omaha re-
Gently White, who is a pioneer OF
Butte county, went with several others
into a large cold storage vault. He
left for hGmG that day and found
few hours later that he had lost his
voice White recalls that many years
ago his mother had a similar expert
ence and only recovered her voice
when she was startled by something
falling on the floor beside her. White
is applying hot applications and is
bOpeful
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
SOLDIERS RAID A JAIL.
Surprised by Fire of Officers They
Quickly Scatter

A mob of nearly fifty soldiers of the
farriers' school at Fort Riley went to
Junction City, Kan, about 10 o'clock
Sunday morning for the purpose of re-
leasing a comrade who was confined
in the county Jail. The sheriff and the
city police were notified of their COM
ing and from positions in the win
dows above the Jail opened a fire that
quickly dispersed the mob as 1t sought
to force an entrance. The authorities
at fort Riley placed guards at the
Jail and are aiding in the efforts to
find the members of the mob Two
arrests have been made. No one was
shot
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
LOST IN THE FROZEN NORTH.
Three of Arctic Expeditions Are Be.
lieyed to Have Perished.


News of loss of the schooner Ouch
ess of Bedford, ship belonging to the
Anglo-American arctic expedition,
which hoped to find a new continent
north of the Mackenzie river, was
brought to Attabasca, Can, by Alfred
Harriosn, who has been in the arctic
circle two years and came on the
steamer Midnight Sun.
Harrison said Ernest Stefanson, of
Harvard university, after whom the
expedition had been called, himself
brought the news of the loss of their
boat to Herschell island. He also
brought the news of the disappear
ance of three of the party and express
ed the fear that they met death in the
frozen north. The missing men are
Capt. Mikkelson, a Dane; Ernest Lef-
fingwell, of Chicago, and ]. NJ. Marks.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
University Is uOnOrCfl.

The college of law of the University
OF South Dakota has been admitted to
membership in the American Associa-
ton of Law Schools. a .cOrding to a
letter sent by Dean Thomas Sterling.
who has been in attendance at the
Portland, Me-, meeting this year.
The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-09-12
UNEASY AS TO IRELAND.
British Government Taking Precau-
tions Against an Outbreak.

That the government is apprehen-
sive with regard to the coming winter
in Ireland and is doubtful regarding
the loyalty Of the constagulary since
the Belfast agitation is revealed in the
present strenuous efforts to recruit the
force. The number of the constabu-
larry has been steadily decreasing for
the past four years. The authorities
have set aside part of the Dublin
military barracks as additional quar-
ters for the men, and to the consta-
bles and officers throughout the coun-
try there has been sent a circular in
strucing them to make haste to secure
suitable candidates