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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-07
The Real Thing.

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-07
Every Lot a Bargain.

These lots are offered now low prices and very easy
Of payment They bargains now, and being
rapidly taken by Rchmonde Here you have pleasant
healthy home away from the dirt and hustle Of the city
Be independent and save money If you will investigate you
will be convinced that this the place to buy home sites, either
for present future use or rapid rise in values.
door. Act at and enjoy the benefit Of this offer
Poor Rent Payers,
You need someone ynpathize with you Why don't you
pay your had-earned money on your own 'Home, Sweet
Homen9 Some Of you haven't the ambition inclination to
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-07
Real Estate For Rent,

FOR RENT.
25o5 Kensington Avenue.
1912 Hanover Street.
1909 West Avenue.
els North Seventh Street.
6l6 North Seventh Street.
426 North Elm Street.
1913 West Main Street.
10 North Harrison Street.
6Sb North Eighth Street.
A. J. CHEWING COMPANY.
, 1907-01-03
Stirling Is Named.

e. II. Hartman in a circular an.
nounces the appointment of II. j. Stir
ling as auditor of the Union Pacific,
thus bearing out the statement made
by General Auditor Erastus Young of
the Hartman lines that he did not
know what was to become of Mr..
Stirling. whom the Oregon papers said
was coming to Omaha, says the Omaha
Bee. According to the circular, all
subordinate officers of the accounting
department Of the Union Pacific will
in the future report to Mr.. Stirling.
The Office of assistant auditor, held by
Ralph Blaisdell, is abolished and Mr.
Blaisdell goes to the Oregon Railway
and Navigation company, to take the
place of auditor vacated by Mr.. STIR
ling.
, 1907-01-03

olutions, copies Of which are sen I'M
der the seal Of the lodge to other lodges
of the same order and similar orders,
and 70 the congressional representa-
of the various states in which the
lodges are situated. Such resolutions
have been adopted at a number Of
points on the Union Pacific and other
roads Of the Hartman system. They
speak the sentiments of a large ma
jority of the members. 1t is said.
, 1907-01-03

Delegates from the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, representing all
lines in the district west of Chicago,
met with officials of the railways there
yesterday to further discuss their de-
mand for an increase in wages and an
eight-hour-day scale. Grand Master
Stone acted al spokesman for the engi.
neers.
1t is probable the increase in wages
will be allowed, but the eight.hour
work-day will be warmly contested by
the railways.
, 1907-01-03
Say Death List Only Thirty.

Topeka, Kas, Jan. 3.-Rock Island
officials here today insist that only
thirty persons were killed and thirty
others seriously injured in the COLI
sion of two fast passenger trains on
that road yesterday, near Alma, Kas.
The officials declare that the state
ment attributed to the conductor of
train No. 20, that he had tickets for
~seyenty-six M~exicans, is a mistake.
They assert that at most there were
not over thirty-fve Mexicans aboard
the Inflated train.
, 1907-01-03
MOTHER OF EVELYN NESBlT
SAYS LATTER SUFFERED AT
HANDS OF HUSBAND
IN CRUEL WAY.
Mother viii Go on Stand and Her
Evidence Will Not Be In Favor of
Her Son-in-Law-Mabelle Gilman
Buys Place Near Paris Much
Handsomer Than Country Estate
OF Countess Boni de Castellane's.

P%ittsburg, Pa, Jan. 3.-Mrs. Holman,
mother of Mrs. Harry Thaw, states
today that she will testify in the COM
ing trial. but that her evidence will
not be in Thaw's favor She says she
cannot forget, if the wife can, Thaw's
cruelty to the girl before he married
her and the many ~beatings Evelyn re-
ceived at his hands. Mrs. Holman
says she would have had Thaw ar
rested but for the peacemaking efforts
of Sanford White, who wanted to pre-
vent a scandal.
, 1907-01-03
KILLED ON
HONEYMOON
NEW YORK MERCHANT WITH
BRIDE VICTIM OF CRASH ON
THE WYOMING DIVISION.
Los Angeles Limited Runs Into Rear
of Overland Limited at Brule,
Observation Car Being Reduced to
Heap of Wreckage and Many Pas
sengers lnjured-Railroad News.

Word reaches the city that train No.
s, the Los Angeles Limited, crashed
into the rear of train No. 2, the Over
land Limited, last night, near Brule,
Neb., sixty miles west of North Platte,
one passenger being killed and others
injured. The observation car of the
Overland train, n of the finest
cars in the service, was smashed to
kindling and the whole train was more
or less damaged. The cause of the
accident was not stated here, but it is
presumed that No. 2, which was ahead,
had stopped for something and that
the Los Angeles train had run into it
from the rear. Both trains were run
ming late, passing here several hours
behind time yesterday.
Several Persons Injured.
A special dispatch from Cheyenne to
The Republican says that train No. s
was running at such high speed hat
it could not be stopped in time to avoid
colliding with No. 2, and at the time
of the impact it was running at fifteen
miles an hour. One passenger, named
Hastings, a merchant of New York,
was killed, and fifteen or twenty 9th
ers were injured.
Cheyenne Ladies on Train.
Two Cheyenne ladies were on the
train, but they were not injured. The
observation car wa entirely destroyed,
and it was in that that most of the
injured were riding. The whole of
the Overland Limited train was de-
rallied, but the train was at a station
and other trains have been able to
run around the wreck. 1t was still
there when the west-bound trains
passed in the night.
Was on Honeymoon Trip.
A Western Press dispatch to The
Republican this afternoon says that
Edward Hastings, the New York mer-
chant killed in the wreck. was return
ing with his bride from a wedding tour
to the Pacific coast, the wife being
uninjured. The whole train was prac.
tically destroyed. 1t is believed that
none of the injured will die.
, 1907-01-03
Three Trains On a Block

Washington, Jan. "A prominent Of
fetal here says that while he was talk.
ing with President James ]. Hyde in
New York last evening, that magnate
made this startling statement, "of late,
l never start on a railway journey
without wondering if it will not be my
last. The enormous increase of traffic
has made it common practice for roads
to allow three trains on a block at the
same time. Practically they run on
sight, The danger is beyond express.
sion"
, 1907-01-03
Cannon at White House.

Washington, d. c.. Jan. 3.-Speaker
Cannon is a frequent visitor at the
White house. He was there with
Longworth all yesterday afternoon,
and called again today. Uncle Joe's
boom for president, which languished,
is on again, and as the Taft boom is
considered by some a thing of the
past, the wiseacres declare that Speak
er Cannon is being seriously consid-
cred as the Roosevelt favorite for the
succession.
, 1907-01-03
BUYS INTEREST IN
BIG CLOTHING STORE.

A deal vas closed last night, where
by C. H. Woodruff of Salt Lake City
transferred his interest in the Wood
ruff & Terry Clothing and Shoe com
pany of this city to Carl Wagner, and
Mr., Wagner assumed his position in
the store this morning. The company
is incorporated and no changes were
made in that direction. the largest
shareholders being Frank j. Terry and
Mr.. Wagner. A better business team
1t would be hard to find in the state,
and that the young men will meet with
success leaves no room for doubt.
, 1907-01-03
PREPARING FOR WAR
IN FORE RIVER YARDS

ed States every month, as well as sub
marines and other equipment. Work
on this is being done under the super
vision of Japanese naval officers and a
number of Japanese apprentices are
being employed on the work in differ
ent parts of the yards.
, 1907-01-03
SAID THAT CONGRESSMAN WILL
THREATEN SENATE WITH
CUTTING OFF BILL IF
OWN PET FAILS.
Have Decided to Recommend Passage
of Law Granting Increase of Sal
airy to Members, and If Senate
Balks, House Mil Cut OFF Added
Pay for Vice President and Speak
er-cannon Boom Reiuvenated.

Washington, D. c., Jan. 3.-lt was stat
ed here today that at last congress
men have screwed up their courage
and will vote for increase of pay for
themselves. The appropriation COM
mittee of the house agreed to recon-
mend the increase to the senate, and
will ask that the pay of congressman
be raised or that the proposed increase
for the vice president, speaker and
cabinet officers be cut out. 1t will
doubtless be one or the other.
, 1907-01-03

H. Paulson, connected with a cement
gang going today from Hanna to Sny,
der, Colo, was injured by his head CON-
ing in contact with the window of a
car just as the train entered the yard
this afternoon receiving a cut on the
forehead. He vas treated by DR.. Stew
ems, local surgeon for the company,
later joining the outfit in the yards.
The foreman of the gang is ]. P. Keogh.
, 1907-01-03
HORSES NECK BROKEN
In RUNAWAY TODAY.

A team of six horses attached to two
empty hay wagons ran away on First
street this afternoon, ere of the horses
meeting instant death. 1t ran against
a coal shed lei the round house and
its neck was broken. The driven was
unable to control the team, the horses
taking fright at a passing train.
, 1907-01-03

Quincy, Mass, Jan. 3.-While dis
patches from the east are %variously es-
timating the extent of the war prepar-
ations by Japan, the echo of the prepar-
atoms can be heard within twenty
miles of Boston. Thousands of dollars
are being spent in this section every
month, particularly in the Fore River
Ship Building company's plant here,
for war equipment.
Japanese officers Supervising Work.
Machinery and other parts for war
ships are going forward from the Unit
, 1907-01-03
BUYS beautiful ,lIlia.

Paris, Jan. 3.-Mabelle Gilman has
deserted her beautiful place in the st.
Cloud suburb and purchased lovely
grounds and a villa near Terriers. a
much handsomer place than the lux
urious home of Countess Bcni de Cas-
tellane. Miss Gilman paid nearly
100000 francs for the place, as the rec
ords filed today show.
, 1907-01-03
Ruled Asalnst Corporation.

Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. 3.-Judge Lands,
in the United States district court, to-
day overruled the demurrer of the
Standard Oil company to the eightiin-
dictments pending against that corpo-
ration, but sustained the demurrer as
to two other indictments because of
technical defects.
, 1907-01-03
Bids Were Too High.

Washington, Jan. 3.-The secretary
of the interior, on the grounds that the
bids were excessive, has rejected those
for gates for the Shoshone and Path
finder dams in Wyoming. They were
$500 and $4,000. The engineers are
authorized to receive informal propos-
ais for the manufacture of the gates.
, 1907-01-03
PETITION FILED FOR
PROBATE OF WILL,

A petition was filed in the Office of
the clerk of the district court this
afternoon for the probate of the will
of August TRADING, who died Novem-
Der rs, at his home at Wayside. The
contents of the will were not made
public, of course.
, 1907-01-03
VIII succeed Cassatt.

At a special meeting Of the board Of
directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company, held at Philadelphia yester.
day, James McCrea. vice president of
the Pennsylvania Railroad company, in
charge Of the lines yes of Pittsburg.
was elected president to succeed the
late 4. J.. Cassatt.
, 1907-01-03

The office of auditor of the Union
Pacific Is a new one, being formerly
held eX-oflcio by E. Young, who is
stepping out to make room for Mr..
Stirling. Mr.. Stirling is an old-time
employe Of the Union Pacific and was
chief clerk in the auditing department
at Omaha when A. d. Van Kuren was
auditor and succeeded him as freight
accountant. He was then made audi
tor of the Oregon Railway and Naviga.
ton company and is now returned to
Omaha.
, 1907-01-03
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
CANCELlING WARRANTS

The board of county commissioners
was at work in the treasurer's Office
this afternoon, checking up and can
ceiling county warrants. The board
will meet again on Monday to deliver
the county into the hands of the new
board, Messrs. Jones and Corthell re-
firing in favor of Messrs. Broadhurst
and McGill. James McGibbon is the
holdover member Of the board.
, 1907-01-03
CHECK RECEIVED FOR

The county attorney this morning
received a check for $3.50, the amount
of fine and costs assessed against the
Gloucester Fish company for selling
Goldfish here treated with boric acid.
Other cases are pending against other
have not been received. The case
against the vinegar company has been
argued in the district our and Judge
Carpenter has the matter under ad-
visement.
, 1907-01-03
HAS JURY CASES
FOR MONDAY WEEK.

Judge Carpenter has some jury cases
set for Monday, January IA, at Lander,
and is not looked for before the Mou-
day following, at the earliest. He was
at Casper the last of last week, return,
ing to Lander to continue his work
there.
, 1907-01-03
CONTRACTS ON SATURDAY
FOR NEW CUTOFF.

So anxious is the Union Pacific to
complete the proposed cutoff around
Athol hill on the Cheyenne-Denver
branch of the o a that contracts for
the grading will be awarded on Sat
urday of the present week and active
construction work will be commenced
before January 10. says the Cheyenne
Tribune.
, 1907-01-03
Wanted to See Wreck.

1t was merely because Roy Swartzer,
a young telegraph operator, wanted to
see a train plunge into a river that he
caused the wreck of an Oregon Short
Line train at Paterson, Utah, and the
instant death of Engineer Merely and
serious injuries of two other trainmen.
Swartzer has confessed that he alone
caused the wreck. Five farmers who
, 1907-01-03

were arrested yesterday have been re.
leased, though they admitted they had
recently tempered with the block sig.
nails at Paterson and stopped freight
trains that they might steal coal from
fiat cars. Some of these farmers proba.
bly, will be re-arrested.
, 1907-01-03
Taft Thanks Hartman.

Washington, Jan. civilian H
Taft, president of the National Red
Cross, sem a telegram to E. H. Harri,
man accepting, with sincere thanks"
his offer to transport supplies to the
starving people in China.
, 1907-01-03
SHORTER COURSE AT
UNIVERSITY BEGINS

The shorter course in agriculture at
the university began yesterday with
two students enrolled, and more have
signifed their intention of joining for
the six weeks training. This is not
the regular twelve weeks course in
agriculture.
, 1907-01-03
GOVERNOR FOLK OF MISSOURI DE,
MANDS REDUCTION OF PAS.
SENGER RATES IN THAT
COMMONWEALTH.
Declares That Seventy-five Per Cent
of Premiums Paid to Insurance
Companies Should Be Invested in
Missouri, and Urges State Control
of Gas, Electric Light and Tele-
phone Companies Charges.

Jefferson City, Mo, Jan. Slower
lature, demands that 10 per cent of
the life insurance premiums paid must
be invested in Missouri, that the state
control gas, electric light and tele-
phone charges, and that the railroad
fares be cut to 2 cents a mile.
, 1907-01-03
Position in Coal Office

Bruce Jones, son of Mr.. and Mrs. c.
H. Jones of this city, has secured a
splendid position in the auditors office
of the Union Pacific Coal company at
Cheyenne, and is now at work in that
city. He is in line for promotion al.
ready.
, 1907-01-03

New York, Jan. 3.-Dr. Strong, dis
cussing yesterdays Rock Island wreck
in Kansas, in which t~hirty-fve were
killed and forty mangled, declared,
"The railroads kill over 5 ,OOO people
a year"
To Protect Travelling Public.
DR.. Strong is president of the Ameri.
can Institute Of Social Science, which
is meeting here in the hope of doing
something for the security of the trav.
cling public. Said the doctor:
Under Sentence of Death.
Tens of thousands OF people are now
under sentence Of death in the United
States. They are hourly awaiting the
end which may come at any minute,
, 1907-01-03
GETTING THE RUN OF
r.

County Treasurer-elect Harry May
nard was at the t~reasurer's office this
afternoon, getting acquainted with the
run of things, preparatory to assum-
ing the duties on Monday, when the
new fiscal year begins.
, 1907-01-03
Cattle From the West

Floyd Norris of Walden arrived to-
day with a trainload of cattle from
Opal, Wyo., and points around there,
bound for the eastern markets. The
cattle are to be unloaded and fed here.
, 1907-01-03
TEACHERS MEETING
AT EAST SIDE SCHOOL,

A teachers meeting was held at the
East Side school yesterday afternoon,
the discussions being along the lines
of the everyday work of the school.
Little new matter was discussed at
this time.
, 1907-01-03
Conductor Buys Home.

Conductor Ed T. Murphy today
closed a deal for the purchase Of the
property at 10 Second street, buying
1t from John II. Lewis of Rock River,
and he and his family are now occu.
pying the premises.
, 1907-01-03
No Settlement of Strike.

Goldfeld, New, Jan. 3.-The Miners
unions have rejected the operators
proposition and the strike is farther
than ever from adjustment.
, 1907-01-03
OPPOSED TO
BILL NO. 5|33
RAILROAD MEN ARE EXPRESSING
THEMSELVES UPON THE La
TOILETTE MEASURE.
Fear 1t Will Have III Effect Upon EN-
ployes of Railroads as Well as the
Business interests Of District Ter
minals - Railroad Organizations
Opposing Under Seal.

The bill introduced in the senate by
Senator LeFollette of Wisconsin and
known as senate bill No. 5133, limit.
ing the hours of labor for trainmen on
railroads to sixteen ana providing that
each shall consume ten hours in rest
between runs, il meeting with u good
deal of determined opposition here and
elsewhere, particularly among train
men, who are against it in large ma
jority. Nearly all express themselves
as opposed to it. Some of the engine
men, however, are not so outspoken in
their opposition and some there be OF
this class who squarely favor it. A
railroad man, in a letter to other rail
road men, received here this morning,
gives his ideas "of the pernicious re-
suits that will reach us through the
adoption of the bill. You should make
extraordinary efforts in the next thir-
ty days to enlist protests from not only
employees, but the mayor and citizens
Of district terminals now existing and
influential business men of all classes.
Keep the matter stirred up and going
until the bill comes up for passage"
Will Rearrange Terminals.
Some of the arguments used against
the are hat it will tend to a
Encouragement of the district terminals
Of many of the western roads. The
men may be kept on duty for sixteen
hours, covering in nearly every in
stance districts from 100 miles long
up to $50, ana bringing about such a
shifting as will upset the plans Of many
engaged in business and depending for
a certain portion Of their trade upon
the railroad men at the terminals. A
passage from one letter reads as fol
lows;
Fines for Officials.
Every violation of the law subjects
both the company and the Individual
official who permits an employe to
work more than sixteen hours or to re,
sumo work without taking for himself
ten hours rest to a fine Of $1,000"
That would go pretty hard with
some of the officials ri the Wyoming
division, who do not receive salaries
large enough to justify many fines for
that amount in the course Of a year."
remarked a conductor this morning.
Another paragraph may have some
bearing upon the feelings Of men here.
abouts:
Will lnjure Business World.
The proposition to restrict effort to
surmount occasional congestion Will
fall directly on the business world and
nowhere else except uron the employees
of the railroads. The mechanic who
desires to rise above the common leveI
well knows that his ear must be obliv,
Ious to the shop whistle"
The different bodies of traInmen are
taking the matter up and passing res
, 1907-01-03
Ready for Investigation.

New York, Jan. 3.-Everything is in
readiness for the investigation of the
Union Pacific and its allied systems,
which will begin here tomorrow. Mr..
Hartman will appear early.
, 1907-01-03
PREFECT is KILLED.
Head of Police Department of Russian
Capital Assassinated.

st. Petersburg, Jan. 3.-Maior len
eral Van Der Launitz, project of police
of st. Petersburg, was shot and killed
by a young man at the institute of
experimental medicine this afternoon
, 1907-01-03
Heard Governors Last Address.

Denver, Colo, Jan. 3.-At 2:30 this
afternoon the legislature convened and
listened to the annual address of the
retiring governor, Mcdonald.
, 1907-01-03

No matter how skilfully you may
have played your part in any of the
games of life, you are judged only by
this test: did you win?"
, 1907-01-03
NORTH PARK STAGE
SUFFERS BREAKDOWN.

The North park stage, leaving here
this morning. in charge of Sid Law
renee, broke an axle at the railroad
crossing and was forced to return to
the office. Later another vehicle was
secured and the driver left not much
later than his schedule. No other
damage was done than the breaking
of the axle. which was defective.
, 1907-01-03

When you are laughing at the mis-
takes of another, think OF what may
call you to action in the same nature
of proceedings in the future.
, 1907-01-03
PRESIDENT STRONG ON
YESTERDAYS WRECK

which surely will come before the end
of the year, for the railroads kill over
a thousand men, women or children
every week.
, 1907-01-03
Borah as Idaho Senator.

Boise, Idaho. Jan. 3.-W. E. Borah
will succeed Dubois as United States
senator from Idaho.
, 1907-01-03
CHINESE PHILOSOPHY.

Abstinence from talking to ones
self is the best way to see how alb
surd 1t seems in others.
, 1907-01-03

The Republican Is the best aiyertih
ing medium In the city and county TO
1t reaches all the people.
, 1907-01-03

No one really hates o If you are
not doing much in the world, and If
every one is pleasant to you you are
not getting very far from the beaten
path.
, 1907-01-03

! Remember, when some one seems
to be much %overjoyed at seeing you
after an absence, that it may be only
the o~utbreaking Of the p~ent-up pleas
ure he felt at your absence.
, 1907-01-03
HEAD OF AMERICAN INSTITUTE
OF SOCIAL SCIENCE SAYS
RAILROADS ANNUALLY
KILL THOUSANDS.

Declares That Tens of Thousands Are
Under Sentence of Death in United
States, Hourly Awaiting End
Which May Come at Any Minute
New Yorker Leaves Home With
Feeling That He May Not Return.
, 1907-01-03

Remember that your ability is rated
in the worlds clearing house by the
things you have accomplished, not by
what you meant to do.-Wing Tu Foo,
eminent Chinese scholar.
, 1907-01-03

Old books rebound ut The Repuhli.
ean bindery.
, 1907-01-03
STATISTICS PREPARED BY THE
STATE BOARD OF CHARITIES
AND REFORM FOR
TWO YEARS,
Transactions of P~enitentisry, State
Hospital for Insane and Wyoming
General Hospital In Pamphlet
bany County Jail f5- Past Year,
Showing Arrests.

The biennial report of the state
board of charities and reform is now in
the hands of the printer, and will be
out by the time the legislature con,
N next week, and 1t will be includ.
ed in the state reports to be submitted
to that body. 1t is one of the most
comprehensive reports ever issued by
that body, and shows the work of the
board for the two years. In it are in
cluded the reports of the superintend-
ents of the different institutions under
the car of the board. The state board
of charities and reform consists of Gov
ernor Bryant b. Brooks as chairman,
State superintendent Thomas T. Ty-
nan as secretary, Secretary of State
Fenimore Chatterton, State Treasurer
William c. Irvine and State Auditor
Leroy Grant. Only two of these mem
bers, Governor Brooks and Auditor
Grant, will be members of the new
board, Messrs. Chatterton, lyman and
Irvine retiring with the present year,
to be succeeded by William r. Schnit-
ger, A. d. Cook and Edward Gillette,
he incoming officers
, 1907-01-03
JAPANESE BUSY NEAR BOSTON
GETTING OUT MACHINERY
FOR SUBMARINE AND
OTHER VESSELS.

Work Being Done Under Supervision
of Japanese Naval Officials and
Many Apprentices of That Nation
at Work-secretary Taft Sends
Thanks to President Hartman for
Aid Proffered Red Cross Society.
, 1907-01-03

Daily Republican. so cents a mon.h.