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Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10
PSEUDO "SCOTTY" M0URNS
Long Beach Man Robbed of His Purse
While Throwing Change to
NewSbovS

William Kitchen of Long Beach was
doing a little "Scotty" stunt at Fifth
and Main streets last night by tossing
coins to a crowd of "newsies' assem-
bled in the street to scramble for the
money
One of the newsboys evidently took
him for a millionaire striving desper-
ately to relieve himself of his burden
of wealth. for after Kitchen finished
scattering his Chicken feed" to the
newsboys he found his pocket empty
which before had contained a purse
with $40
He reported his loss to the police,
but he had no idea who was the thief.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10
NEW MINING CAMP
SWEPT BY HURRICANE
BY Associated Press,

DUTCH CREEK, New, Jan. 9.--This
new mining camp on the shore of
Walker lake in Esmeralda county is
just recovering from the effects of a
hurricane which Frustrated most of the
tents ana the temporary buildings and
wrecked several launches. The struc-
lures now being built are all comfort
able and some are quite substantial,
including a large lodging house.
1t is estimated that the population
the summer. Cottonwood Creek, with
many good gold prospects" is only
a mile and a half north of here and
there is no lack of water or wood.
Eastern capital is being invested in
this section and the outlook for the flu
ture is most promising,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10
BUSY THURSDAY AT
CITY HALL TODAY
MEETINGS WILL BE IN SESSION
AT ALL HOURS
Park and Fire Boards viii Organize
In the Morning and Health Board in
the Afternoon-Gas Inquiry Is Pro-
posed

This will be busy Thursday at the
city hall.
This morning at $3.50 o'clock the park
commissioners will meet and organize
their new board.
At 10:30 the new board of fire COM
missioners will assemble.
The committee of the whole of the
council will meet during the day and
among other things will discuss the
proposed commission to inquire into
the gas situation.
The board of health will meet in the
afternoon.
The civil service commission failed
to get together yesterday afternoon
and will meet today instead.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10
MEAT BARON FOUND
GUILTY BY JURY
BY AesocIated Press.

PHOENIX. Ariz,. Jan. as. ]. Tri-
bolet, a meat dealer, one of the men
indicted for violation of the Sherman
antitrust law, was found guilty by a
jury this evening.
The case Of p. Il. Hurley was dis
missed because of the fact that he
gave testimony at the trial For the pros
ecution.
This is the first conviction in the trust
cases. Some have been lost and others
were referred to the next grand jury.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10

the small dealers come in with their
wagons to get as much as they wanted.
The big dealers supplied all they could,
but even they could not distribute it fast
enough. Private persons kept calling
us up and asking us to let them seno
teams to get coal.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10
JANUARY CLEARANCE SALE
Ok For Boys Waists
ZOk Worth soc

Are shirt and blouse waists for boys
TO II years; are Of best percales,
cheviots and cotton coverts; have
small roll collars; one pocket, light
or dark colors in figured red and
navy. Second Floor
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10
, - For Boys Caps
10Y Worth soc

A big assortment and they are
all wool; there are golf shapes,
Norfolk, sailor and Rob Roy;
i'm plain, red, navy, black
and fancy mixtures; come i'm
all sizes.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10
Police sergeant Dies suddenly

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9.-Sergt.
Richard Bidwell of the police depart
ment died suddenly yesterday from
apoplexy. He was native Of Wis
consin.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10
DEATH CLAIMS
MODEL YOUTH
Sole Support of Widowed Mother Suc-
cumbs to Illness Which Is Less
Than Twenty-four Hours
Duration

Augustus Woods, aged II years, died
yesterday morning ..fter an illness of
less than twenty-four hours at the
home of his mother GA South Hope
street.
The young man had been in the en-
ploy of G.. M. Staub, the shoe dealer.
one year and half. He complained of
a chill Tuesday morning at IL o'clock
and he asked to be relieved from work,
thinking that nothing was serious and
that he would soon return to his post
again, but it was his last parting with
the management and his fellow en-
ployes of the store, where he had so
faithfully devoted his time and energies.
He continued to grow worse and at
O'Clock in the afternoon became un-
conscious and remained so until his
death at $3.50 O'Clock yesterday morn
ing.
The young man was born in San
Diego where his father DR.. Woods,
was a practicing physician at the time
of his death The family came to Los
Angeles and Augustus was employed
in the Broadway department store for
a time, giving excellent satisfaction,
and from there he went to work in the
Staub shoe store.
Mourned oy Fellow Clerks
HE was an exemplary young man."
said one of the clerks of the store last
evening, honest and upright. and tried
to do his best at all times. To look at
it in one way, ii seems a shame that
a young man like him should be taken
away when so many worthless young
men are allowed to live and bore the
lives of respectable people. We We're
talking 1t over among ourselves today
and said that Gus was too good to live.
He was always prompt with his work
and he was beloved by the management
and all of us. He had been promoted
from a stock boy to a full-fedged
salesman, receiving his last promotion
a short time ago. He saved his money
and gave 1t 70 his mother He was her
sole support and was much devoted to
her and was unlike so many who were
out for good time, regardless of their
mothers or homes. His mother was
the pride of his life and he showed 1t in
all his actions"
Mrs Woods was Frustrated with grief
at the sudden death of her beloved son, !
and last night she was in a serious |
condition and fears were entertained of
her recovery.
The body was taken to the parlors Of
Overholzer e. Mills. Late last night il |
was thought that the interment would |
be made in San Diego by the side of
his father.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10
Now Question of Transportation

Permission was granted and they
sent their own teamsters. When the
eXpressmen saw that they were so much
in demand they quickly raised their
prices. Of course We can't touch them.
The only way we can prevent their
charging excessive prices is by getting
enough coal and teamsters of our own
here to supply everybody, and we are
getting nearer that state every day.
THE coal question has now resolved
itself into one Of transportation and dis
tribution. The impossible condition of
many of the roads makes 1t very diff
cult to dispense coal, and there are not
wagons enough to haul it, This part of
the fuel problem is up to the weather
man.
''As for the railroads, they are giving
us as many cars as they can spare.
Tuesday fifty more carloads of coal left
the New Mexico mines and more will
follow right along. believe the fuel
famine is practically over"
At the Santa Fe Office the situation
does not look quite so favorable. Wash
outs in the south have tied up the
trains, and the company's representa-
tives stated last night that no trains
were expected in during the night, and
possibly none tomorrow.
High School Poorly Heated
AS in days past, the school officials are
being kept on the anxious seat, wonder
ing whether they will have enough fuel
to keep the schools going. At one time
yesterday afternoon 1t seemed as if
almost score of schools would have
to be closed today for lack Of coal.
All last week the board has had teams
hauling coal from the schools which
were so fortunate as to have coal TO
those which had none. AS result, the
coal is giving out all around, and yes
terday afternoon things looked dark.
After considerable trouble a dealer was
at last found who agreed to furnish a
sufficient supply of coke at $3.50 ton.
The school officials accepted his offer
with haste and the schools will continue
in session.
At the Los Angeles high school a
great deal of trouble has been ex-
perienced during the past few days by
water getting into the basement. Sun
day night the rain soaked through the
ground and got into the oil tank, rem
dering this fuel unfit for use. AS a re-
suit the school had to close Monday
morning while 1t was being pumped
out. According to the pupils, the oil
now being used must be two-thirds
water, as the heat In the building is
practically nil. Yesterday the damp
ness caused by pools OF water in the
basement, the poor supply Of heat fur
nished and the few pupils on hand
to be instructed led to shortening the
school session.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10

Everything you want you will find In
the. classified page-a modern eneyclo-
pedia. One cent word
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10
HARTLEY, FREED,
SEEKS JUSTICE
PASADENA ENGINEER WILL DE-
MAND BALM
Held Two Months on Government
Charge That Did Not Stick-WeII
Known Californian Feels
Resentful

Capt. Charles Hartley, the civil en-
gineer of Pasadena, after two months
confinement in the county JAIL last
night walked forth free.
The government could not make its
charges against the man stick and w.
Herbert, who it Is claimed alleged that
Hartley had gotten money from him
under false pretenses, admitted that he
had only loaned the funds to Hartley.
The government charge was that Hart
ley had represented himself as an officer
of the federal secret service.
The warden and superintendent of the
Oregon penitentiary at Salem were
brought to Los Angeles to testify that
Hartley was an ,eX-convict but went
back north The accused man was pre-
pared to show by the pay roll of a min
ing company, he says, that he was near
here all the time drawing his pay.
Hartley says that his present imprison-
ment was his first and that someone
will have to suffer for the injustice
done to him.
Known Along Coast
Hartley is known to mining, railroad
and engineering men along the Pacific
coast from Alaska to Cape Horn. He
laid out the original plats of North Pas
adena, he says, helped on the Pasadena
SC"Si SS olSii I%lBlliNCi Scl oCli
and was principal engineer in laying out
routes for several South American rail-
roads, including the connecting links
between Chile, Ecuador and Peru and
Argentine republic.
II am free again and I will be vim
dicated," said Capt. Hartley last night.
"They said was a bigamist, eX-con-
vict and what not and that my parents
still lived.
"Now. my parents died twenty years
ago and are buried in Sacramento.
my first and only wife was killed
beside me in bed in the Russ House,
San Francisco, when a beam fell and
struck her on the forehead on memor-
able April 18. She was buried next day
in the odd Fellows cemetery by Simms
& Simms. 1 married her in Chipping
ungo. Guatemala, November 10. 1899.
"rhey had me making love to and de-
ceiving rich women in Pasadena. 1 was
friendly with the woman with whom L
rented my room, and on that they based
a romance.
II have not been fairly treated, but
expect to stay right here in Southern
California, where l spent most of my
life"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10

Everything you want YOU will find in
the classified page. One cent word
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10

Everything you want you will find in
the classified page. One cent word.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10
Cd 0E For Boys Suits
DA.TO Worth to $3.50

Fine quality serge in sailor blouse styles
for boys from 2is to 5 years. have deep
sailor collars, combined lined detachable
shield front of heavy black gros grain
silk; pants straight cut; lined throughout
and come i'm navy, brown, tan and gray.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-10
CO no For Boys Coats
DO.IO Worth $500

Are for the little fellows from 31h to
8 years; made OF the best quality
covert cloth; box style; broad lapels,
short collars, double breasted; have
large brass buttons and silk EN-
blems on sleeves.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-11
MUCH PLEASED WITH NEW HOME
s. 1. Barnes Appreciates the Advan-
 tages He Finds Here.

s. l.. Barnes of Cresco, Ia., who recently bought the Garden farm near Dallas through the real estate firm of Dennis Kelly x Strattou, arrived last week, and took possession cf the place, which he is now putting in con- dition for the occupancy of his family, which will arrive soon.
 MT. Barnes says that some of the people of Iowa think it re- marka ble that any man should be able to find anything in Arkansas that would please him, but says that he is more than pleased and expects to sperd the rest of his days here.
 He speaks particularly of the pure, health-giving water, the braciug air, cool nights and free dom from annoyance of mosqui- toes.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-11
Every Citizen Interested.

The indiscriminate cutting and de- struction of our forests, by reason of it's effect upon the soil, climate and topography, is the direct cause of disastrous results which are ot finan- cial interest to every citizen and to every community. The person who lives many hundred miles away from a forest, and whose property has been destroyed by the floodwaters of some river, does not always real ize that it was primarily the destruc- tion of the forest covering at the headwaters of that river which was the direct cause of the floods. For estry.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-11
WOULD INFLUENCE THE NEGROES. Whiskey Interests Give S8,000 to the
 Colored Suffrage League.

Muskogee, 1. T., July 7.-One of the most prominent Republi. cans in the new state stated here yesterday that the managers of the whiskey campaign in the new state had advanced SS,000 to the state organization of the Colored Suffrage League of the state for the purpose of conducting an auti-constitut;on campaign, ard that more would be forthcoming If needed. It is pretty certain tha; the negroes of the state will vote az ainst the constitution, if they are organized, because they do not like some of the suffrage features, and tbis money is being put up by the anti-prohibition forces to defeat statehood. It is estimated thatthe negroes have 30,000 votes in the state.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-11
Truly a Rare Surprise.

Yes, said a railway claim agent in New Orleans, I've come across queer things sometimes. The queer est thing in my experience was the case of a minister. This man was hurt in a rear-end collision and we gave him 5000 damages. At the end of the year we got a letter from him that ran something like this: My salary is 5000, and the acci- dent caused me to lose it for a twelvemonth. My medical expenses were S750. My board at a noun tain sanitarium for six months was $850. Other expenses due to this accident were, in round numbers, $l ,000; total, $4,600. You gave me 5000. Now l am back in the pull pit again as well and strong as ever. and have $400 of your money on my hands. Not being entitled to that sum, do what any other min is'er would do in my place return the money to you as per check in- closed. How was that for hon. esty?" said the claim agent. The ministers are a wonderful lot. We sent the $400 back to this poor min ister and he it to charity in our name '
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
New York Prs

4NtN iRhN t'N0s
 The average man thinks he is good if he keeps out of jail.
 A girl can support herself and a large family by marrying.
 A woman's idea of tight lacing is when somebody else does it.
 A conscience is something you never have when you ought to.
 Son chow children make you think of eating their way into heaven.
 It's a poor joke that won't find somebody to try to work it off for his own.
 Boys have to be graduated from college so as to begin to get an education.
 A man can have very nice sum- mer vacation unless he goes away from home.
 When a man writes a girl a love letter she knows he means it md he thinks he does.
 A woman likes to think her hus- band could be a bad man if he didn't love her so much.
 Bills are very useful things to teach you how easy it is never to have any money left.
 There's hardly anything that makes girl hate you more than not to call her freckles tan.
 The worst thing to a girl about being a wall flower is everybody is going to tell about it.
 Most men make more fuss over having their wives sit in their laps than over heavy dumbbell exercise. You can tell when girl is inter- ested in a man by the way she pre- tends to him that other men are interested in him.
 You can never make a man be- lieve he is comfortable unless he is wearing something that makes his wife ashamed of him for it.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-11
SERIOUSLY STABBED AT JANSEN
A Carousal Results in William Murphy
 Being Cut by James Nations.

Jaussen July 5.-A hght a' Jaussen yesterday resulted in the serious cutting of William Mur. phy by James Nations.
 During the late hours of the evening a number of those attend ing a dance showed signs of too much drinking, and after the ma iority of the crowd had dis- persed the drinking crowd started from the picnic grounds toward the station. Al least fifty men and boys were cougregated there, and Murphy and Nations soon got into an alteration. Murphy is said to have struck Nations several times with club, when Nations quickly ended the fight by stabbing Murphy eight times about the head, shoulders and abdomen.
 Murphy then ran nearly two blocks from the station to the Janssen hotel, where he yelled for help and fell on tue porch amidst the hotel gue,ts, who were waiting for the night train It is thought he will die.
 Nations made his escape. Ht is son of Dan Nations, a wei known farmer near Jansen. Murphy was an employee ol the Howard County Lumber Com panv and his relatives live 1T Springfield, Mo.
 Aside from this the Fourtf passed off quietly and pleasantly to the many visitors and residents LATER. Murphy is said to bt recovering.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-11
TO REAP, WE MUST SOW Mena needs a summer hotel.

Mena needs summer hotel.
 That statement is almost as old as Mena. and yet. year by year, Op- portunity passes the city by in the going of hundreds of seekers for health and comfort to other and less favored places that have made preparations to care for their guests
 As the next best thing in lieu of hotels to care for those who apply for accommodations Hal l.. Nor wood, president of the Commercial Club, requests citizens who can pro- vide properly for guests to notify him of what they can do, or leave such word at the office of The Star.
 In these days when every big pa. per has it's reports of deaths from heat prostrations, people turn anx- ious eyes toward localities more favored by Nature.
 If the people do their part by simply preparing to use the advan- tages that this city possesses, they will reap an increasing reward every year.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-11

it as text to claim from the coun- try's vast open spaces are being reserved" from the people, and thousands of citizens have been de luded by their spacious oratory into the mistaken belief that there has been mysterious and sinister with drawal by the President, from
 he public ownership, of something that ought rightfully to belong to the public.
 Consider this quotation, for ex- ample, from Senator Hepburn, one of the most active advocates of for est destruction: They will come and surround you with one of these beautiful estates this waste ot idleness and unprofitableness this game reserve" By which he means the National Forest. In this one sentence are four radical misstate- ments. The National Forest is not, in that sense, an estate" it is not a waste of idleness, but an enter prise of industry for the nations benefit by the forest rangers; it is not an area of unprofitableness, but of actual productiveness; and it is no more a game reserve" than the Atlantic ocean or the desert of Sahara. Because various private interests seek to destroy the vast forests of the rest of the country as they have already largely destroyed those in New York, New England and Pennsylvania, the senatorial and other representatives of Prospective Grab lament that the National For est is an unjust reserve. It is a reserve" only in that it reserves what is the property of all from becoming the property of a few. Homesteads may be established on 1t. Mining claims may be located Tn it. Cattle may graze on it, timber may be cut on it; not ruthlessly, 1t is true, but under the regulations of those whose business it is to preserve the forests. No right is abrogated save the right of wanton and whole sale destruction. And if the na- tion's forests are to be preserved for an inheritance of commercial, esthetic and patriotic value, it is high time that the public should look behind the film of oratory of it's Heyburns and its Fultons and recognize the armed distraction that threatens it's domain. Golfers.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-11
A FLING FROM BRYAN.
Says More Backbone in Washington
 Would Settle Jap Question.

Warsaw, Ind, July 7.- Will liam J. Bryan, speaking at a Chautauqua assembly here yes. terday, claimed the credit for the reforms instituted by MT. Roose. welt and declared there was not a member of the Presidents cabinet who agreed with the Roosevelt policies. Referring to the con troversy between the United States and Japan, MT. Bryan, who, on his trip around the world, visited the Eastern empire, said a little more backbone at Wash ington would settle the differences for all time to come without a conflict between the two nations.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-11
IN DEFENSE OF TRAINMEN

The Trackman, published in the interest of the National Union of Railway Trackmen, is making a hard fight to force the arrangements of railroads to better maintain the tracks under their control.
 Many photographs are published showing rotten ties, split rails, burned and broken ties, points where grave danger exists of falling rock, landslides, etc, and where no effort is made to protect the travellers or trainmen by maintaining system of patrols.
 It is conceded that should these obvious evils be remedied, there would probably be smaller dividends, but it would be sure to result in fewer passengers and trainmen being killed in wrecks due to defective tracks. and fewer innocent and over worked employees would be charged with causing wrecks.
 The Union has filed complaints against the Missouri Pacific in Kan sas and Missouri and has entered upon campaign that can but result in the protection of both railroad men and the public.
The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-11
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The Mena weekly star., 1907-07-11
The Nations Forests.

Man lives not by bread alone, but chiefly catching words, observed Stevenson. We are reminded of of this astute observation by the harm which has already resulted to the public interest from one well ment misnomer. Forest Reserve as an official term has happily passed into the limbo of the obsolete, and in its place has arisen the truer phrase, National Forests" bat in the mean time scores of interest serving politicians have seized upon