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New Ulm review., 1907-05-15
DEATH LIST Grows
IN HONDA Horror
THIRTY-FivE ARE DEAD ANE
MANY OTHERS PAINFULLY
INJURED.
Many Women Meet Horrible Death.
-Scalded Bodies Are Taken From
the Debris Shriners Do Ileroi,
Work.

Santa Barbara, CAL, May 13.-Thir
ty-five people lost their lives in tht
wreck of the Shriner Special al
/ o .da, a small town on the Southern
Pacific Saturday. At first the death
list was reported as 20, but several OF
the wounded have since died, and the
total has been increased by 15. Out
side of the train crew, all of the vic
tins Of the catastrophe we're member,
of the Ismalia temple of Buffalo ant
the Rajah temple of Reading, Pa.
The train carried 145 members o.
these two fraternities. Among the
dead was Alonzo B. Rogers of ST
Paul, a Pullman car conductor.
The wreck was caused by a defec
tive switch and the train was running
at the rate of 30 miles an hour at the
time. The coaches were smashed te
pieces by the impact.
twenty-five of the dead are al
Santa Barbara and ten at San Luii
Obispo. More than score were in
iured, many of whom will die. The
| Injured are at the sanitariums at Sar
Luis Obispo,
Train Making Terrific Speed.
| The wreck occurred exactly at 2:3s
o'clock, one hour and forty five min
utes after the conclave visitors form
ing merry party, had spent all the
morning sightseeing in Santa Bar
bara. The statement that the trai1
was making a terrific speed when il
struck the defective track is borne
out by the fact that it covered the 6:
mile of curves and crooked tracl
between here and Honka in exactly
100 minutes.
There was no warming Of the i'm
pending calamity. The special plung
ed upon the defective switch, and il
an instant the big locomotive, bag
gage car, diner and Pullman coupled
with it were hurled together in hug
heap of wreckage. The engine sho
forward on the broken track, tearing
up the rails and ties and twisting tn
huge iron spans into fishhooks. TIL
baggage car half buried itself in tn
sand on the right side Of the locomo
tive. 1t was smashed almost
kindling wood.
The dining car, in which we're 8
s persons eating their monday meal
leaped into the air and was throw
directly on top of the demolished lc
comotive. Nearly every person i
this coach was instantly killed. Score
were scalded by steam escaping fro1
disconnected pipes in the kitchen {
the diner.
Scene lndescribable.
The terror and turmoil of the seen
was indescribable. Many of thos
who escaped instant death by tt
first impact were crushed by the res
coaches hurled upon the wreckag'
Others, pinioned in the debris, wel
roasted alive. The wreckage caugf
fire from the Goals of the engine, bl
was extinguished in a few minutes b
the passengers who escaped injury.
New Ulm review., 1907-05-15
DOTS AND DASHES.

About $50 journeymen plumbers of
Toronto decided to strike On Wednes-
day. They demand an increase of 71a
cents an hour.
w. R. Fulton, who Friday night
made an attempt on the life of his for
mer wife at Wichita, Kas., committed
suicide early Saturday by shooting
himself. The woman is not danger
ously injured.
The strike in the oil fields at Sara
toga, Tex, is off and the men are re-
burning to work. AS a result of the
settlement Of the strike in the south
east Texas oil fields an "open shop"
prevails at Spindle Top, Saratoga and
Batson.
A car of the Montgomery Traction
company in the extreme southern edge
Of Montgomery, Ala, struck a stick
Of dynamite and was completely shat
tered. The motorman and conductor,
brothers, named Brunsen, were slight
y injured.
New Ulm review., 1907-05-15
Rin Fire in Bradenyi.le. p,

Latrobe, Pa, May 11.-Fire of un.
known origin which broke out in the
Saxman Supply company's stable at
Bradenville Friday destroyed, to-
gether with the stables, the com.
pany's warehouse and meat market
and the residences of George Saxman
George Flickinger and Patrick Skelly
Tha tctaI lass viii reach $4,000
New Ulm review., 1907-05-15

Commander Evangeline Booth, head
of the Salvation Army forces in Amer
lea, has left New York city for an ex
tended tour in the west, visiting St.
Louis, Kansas City, Des Moines, Pc
oria, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles,
San Jose, San Francisco and Seattle.
The one hundred and nineteenth as
sembly of the Presbyterian church in
the United States of America will
convene on May 16 in the Broad Street
Presbyterian church, Columbus, o.,
with delegates from the Cumberland
Presbyterian churches as regular dele.
sates.
New Ulm review., 1907-05-15
every woman WIN Be interested.

If you have pains in the back, Urinary
Blaeder or Kidney trouble, and want GER
try Mother Gray'ss Austraiian-Leaf. It is
VI safe and never failing. monthly regula
Tor. At Druggists or by mani ,c % GENTS
er GrayCo., LeI2oyy N. Z.
New Ulm review., 1907-05-15
He Went.

Boreleigh (at 11:45)--Ah, Miss Critic,
you have such sweet, retiring dispo-
sition
+ Miss Critic (yawning) g)-You fatter
me, Mr.. Boreieigh, but must confess
to slight disposition to retire.-Puck.
New Ulm review., 1907-05-15


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DR.. Kilmer's Swarnp=Root is not rec
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who have not already tried it, may have a
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bottle.
New Ulm review., 1907-05-15

cures made by DR..
Kilmer's 5 Swamp-Root,
the great kidney, liver
and bladder remedy.
1t is the great medi-
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covered after years of
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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
&. - Nj ttorings y~
c. .:JGl:*


Why the world breahes Thaw trial? it because the
Thaw has been reduced the fdamenThe OF It.
1t with all kinds
women beautiful perhaps ugly
and painted
to look
law he
Heaven help the women Heaven help them ALL 1t the midday
In the trail of the pendhri picking
aaey In the held
drawing their lest they touch
cuts with the hiss that hurts. Hah report!
The
mingled There would This
is ground
Here, Honor the captive
prsed with the They
charity in hate and frolcoh
for love.
them Baif TRUTH the whole truth, and
nothing but the be
Let the probe into the proceed
whether he harbored the udimen chivay his oddn
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
DID HUSBAND PLAN REVENGE
Special Correspondence to The Press

Special Correspondence to The Press
NEW YORK, Feb. 4.-As a sus-
pect in the mysterious murder
case, resulting from the shooting
of DR.. Charles Wilmot Townsend, a
prominent tSaten Island physician,
the police are holding a little, wiz
ened faced man, scarcely over five
feet high. He is John Bell, a
trolley conductor, who was arrest
ed after he had made an attempt
to hide.
Later his name was disclosed,
and the circumstantial case they
have against him was considered
So strong that the police have
abandoned all other calculations.
Townsend was killed between
and O'Clock on the morning of Jan.
26, 1907. The man who committed
the homicide entered his bedroom,
where he lay beside his wife, Or
dered him to get up and then shot
him. On the evening Of Jan. %,
1906, just a year before the killing
of the doctor, the prisoners wife,
young girl with whom he had
eloped two years before, was taken
i'll. DR.. Townsend was called and
she was removed to hospital. The
doctor Immediately operated, and at
o'clock the following morning she
died.
Bell has been torn with sorrow
and anguish ever since here death,
and it is alleged that he has talked
bitterly against the surgeon.
If Bell killed Townsend, the po-
lice claim, the deed was planned in
"a manner dramatic in the extreme.
A year after the death of his wife,
almost to the minute, the physician
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
THE
DITCH DIGGER

John F. Stevens, the man who
will supervise the building of the
Panama canal, now Shonts has quit,
was born in Maine in 1853. He made
UP his mind at an early age to be
civil engineer and at 81 had pre-
pared himself so well that he at
once secured work, and for two
years was assistant city engineer of
Minneal oils, MINI.
In 1876 he entered railway SER
vice, where he made the reputation
that secured his selection as chief
engineer of the canal. He advanced
steadily from minor positions in the
railways of the west. He was at
various periods with the Sabine
Pass & Northwestern, Denver &
Rio Grande, Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul, Canadian Pacific, Duluth
South Shore & Atlantic, and the
Spokane Falls & Northern. Then
he became chief engineer of the
Great Northern.
His most remarkable achieve
ment is regarded as the surveying
Of the Great Northern extensions
70 the Pacific coast, which ]. j.
Hill refers to as the acme of engi-
neering pluck and ability.
He was general manager of the
Great Northern when he left that
load, and afterward became chief
engineer of the Rock Island, and
later was fourth and second vice
president, respectively, of that
| road.
When appointed chief engineer
of the canal he had already en-
gagged with the government to visit
the Philippines to report upon the
feasibility of building thousand
miles of railroad in the Islands.
Stevens home is in Chicago. He
is married, and the Oldest of his
three sons has also entered upon
the career of a civil engineer.
The new chief of the great Pana
ma canal project will be strictly
1.-The boss on the job"
Stevens intends to let the ma
hogany furniture in the canal com
missions fine offices shine pleas
antly for the clerks and those who
perform the heavy standing
around
But as for Stevens, he will dis
the canal, with headquarters any
where on the isthmus between
Colon and Panama City.
Stevens is now recognized by the
president as dynamite in rubber
boots. The chief engineer chafet
under the leadership Of man witt
Shonts' ideas of organization an(
now that he is free and in full
charge of the great work it is be
lieved that there will soon be stir
ring news from Panama of RAPID
fire methods and fast progress.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
WILL ERECT SIX
STORY BUILDING

The Genesee building on River
side between Post and Lincoln SITS.
has been sold to Malloy Bros. and
A. G. Hanauer, with the site, a so
foot frontage of Riverside, for a
consideration of $4,000. When the
present leases on the property ex-
pire the purchasers announce they
will replace the old structure with
a five story Office building, repre-
senting an investment of approx
mately 100000.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
CHICAGO SURE
To LOSE

In order to perfect arrangements
for the beauty contest in which Spo-
kane will compete with Chicago, F.
E. Goodall, president of the cham
Der Of commerce, will make trip
to the latter city next week. The
Chicago Tribune is printing photo
graphs of the most beautiful women
of that city and when it has picked
out the best the Windy City has to
offer Spokane proposes to show
those people what really beautiful
woman looks like by photographs Sc
lected here. Mr. Goodall will meet
Mayor Ounce and Editor Kelley of
the Tribune for this purpose,
settling details of the match in
which Chicago is listed as sure
loser.
Probably quartet of beauties
will represent the Inland Empire
against four from Chicago.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04

HONOLULU, H. l., Feb. 4.-The
eruption of lava and fire from
Mauna Loa is increasing. and more
than one flow has reached the sea.
A new flow extends over 80 miles
OF waste land. 1t is moving at the
rate Of 80 feet an hour, is Is feet
high and half a mile in width.
Volcanic eruptions and lava flows
are not feared in Hawaii They
have been happening since the be-
ginning of the islands. Outbreaks
from Kilauea and Mauna Loa, the
two active VOLCANOES of the islands,
are looked on as safety valves
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04

against destructive seismic activity.
The present outbreak began Jan.
9. Over the mountain there spread
vast curtain of smoke. A vast
column of light reflected against
the smoke and illuminated tho en-
tire heavens. 1t was visible for
many miles in every direction
During the day the appearance OF
the outbreak from a distance is of
a great pillar of smoke rising from
the top of the mountain.
Excursions from all parts of the
islands are being organized to go
and see the wonderful spectacle.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
Teeth GATHERING
At TIE CITY NALL

There are wailings and chatter
ing of teeth today at the city hall
on account of the cold. 1t is said
that the janitor's force let the
building get cold over Sunday and
don't begin to heat up until Z
O'Clock Monday mornings. The
Office forces begin work at s o'clock
and are compelled to SILVER until
the building is heated. Complaints
lodged this morning with the board
of public works may call the janitor
on the carpet.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04

A1CZzRDA .G5zLINGEP
portant office Of commissioner of
the general land Office at Washing
ton.
The post is probably the most i'm
portant in the department of the
interior, as nearly one half of the
business of that department goes
through the land Cfice. In view
also Of the gigantic land frauds
which have caused such anxiety to
the national government the presi-
dent has been greatly concerned
over his inability to secure man
equal to the high standard of intelli-
gence and integrity which he had
set for the holder Of this important
Office.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
] TELEGRAPH TIPS

Stockmen in Montana estimate
the blizzard prevailing there may
cost them more than half of their
livestock. In the northern part of
the state stock are dying by the
hundreds, unable to find shelter
from the fierce gale. There is more
than foot of snow On the ranges.
Duplicate bill to regulate salmon
fishing on the Columbia river have
been prepared for introduction in
the Washington and Oregon legis-
latures. Fishing matters between
the two states will be adjusted by
joint committees.
C. Charles, express messenger,
was crushed to death in a wreck
on the Southern Pacific near Dun
ming, Cal, yesterday. Three tramps
are reported to have been killed. A
number Of trainmen were injured
Uldrich HudgOn, an unlimited
guest at a wedding in New York,
blew out his brains in the crowd
Just before the ceremony. The
wedding was performed as soon as
the coroner concluded his inquest.
A woman and her two children
were found frozen to death in a
Grand Rapids tenement house. An
other child was almost dead from
the cold.
While fire ragged all around them
100 telephone girls stuck to their
posts in Chicago last night until or
dered out by the fire chief. A six
story building next to the tele-
phone exchange was burned.
An army sergeant's refusal to
| obey orders to attend church has
been upheld by the judge advocate
| in the Columbus, o., case. He
holds such orders unconstitutional
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
LIQUOR BREAKS UP HOME.

Catherine Valentine was this
morning granted a divorce from
her husband, Bernard c. Valentine,
on the grounds of non-support and
drunkenness. She was also given
the custody of her child.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
ASKS CHANGE OF VENUE.

Densmore Ferguson this morning
filed a petition for change of venue
to Whitman county in the case OF
Jacob n. Rice VS.. T. Densmore Fer
guson and the Charles Dickens
Mining & Milling Co.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
WORKING ON NEW LINE.

About May I between 5000 and
1000 men will be engaged in rail
road work on the Portland-Seattle
line near Cheney. Two locomo-
tives and a large steam shovel be-
gan work near Marshall junction
few days ago, under the supervi-
sion of D. A. Rankin.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
RANCHER POLICEMAN KICKS

Patrolman James Logan will
leave for Colfax, Wash, tomorrow
evening to contest a new county
road which the commissioner there
are planning. Logan says the new
highway will cut up about 10
acres Of his ranch.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04


more than year ago, in December,
1905, the first whaling station was
established on north Pacific shores,
yet the north Pacific ocean has al
ready proved itself the greatest
whaling district of the world, and
the whaling industry is leaping to-
wards the head OF the list of Ameri-
can industries.
During the first seven months
after the establishment of the first
station the whaling company clear
ed $257,110, and this news spread
ing, whaling stations began to
spring up all along the Alaskan
shore.
Since the invention, some 30
years ago, Of the swlvel-mounted
harpoon, the whales chances of
safety have been greatly lessened.
The whale is shot with the harpoon,
in the point of which is concealed
an explosive bomb, timbed to ex-
plode two seconds after the har-
poon has entered the whale.
The profits of whaling are i'm
mense. The chief products are
whalebone, whale oil and amber
girls. From the ambergris IAN ex-
erection from the stomach OF a
whale) alone, which is used as the
basis of all French perfumes. the
hunters get 1872 an ounce, and the
sperm oil is also very valuable.
A whale story, often told, is thai
of two miners prospecting. who'
while walking along the Alaskan
beach. came upon a great mass OF
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
SOLDIER SAYS Ne WAS
ROBBED OF $40O

A. B. Johnson, age GO, an ex-
soldier en- route to Los Angeles,
Cal, was robbed of S44O yesterday
afternoon. He told the police he
suspects Ed Christensen, bartender
at the Inland saloon. Johnson was
drunk when he made the report and
the police take little stock in the
story. Christensen denies the
theft. The money was in a purse
with railroad tickets. Johnson went
TO sleep in a chair, he says, and
when he awoke the purse and
contents were missing.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
LOSE THEIR INFANT SON.

Rodney Farr died at his home,
1872 Sherman ST., yesterday of
bronchial pneumonia. The deceased
Is the infant son of Rev. and Mrs.
Robert Asa Smith, of the Bethel
Presbyterian church. Funeral SER
vices will be held this afternoon at
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
breathed his last.

breathed his last.
To strengthen their belief that
they have their man, the detectives
have produced a letter, discovered
in the house in which Bell was ar
rested. 1t Is addressed to his
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
DIVORCE FOR CRUELTY.

A divorce was granted Jessie M.
Volkert from Edward c. VOlkart
this morning with custody OF their
child. Cruelty was charged.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04
BALLINCER
THE MAN

SEATTLE, Feb. 4.-Richard A.
Ballinger, ex-mayor of Seattle, is
the man who has been chosen by
President Roosevelt to fill the i'm
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04

2:30 O'Clock from the home. Rev.
]. H. Shields will ofiiciate. Inter
ment will be made in Paramount
cemetery.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04

the Spokane Pfsss delivered &,
ycur house fer Csc a month. Teie
Ihone Main 375.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04

greasy pulp. They made camp and
began using the substance to grease
their boots and the harnesses of
their dogs. Another man, who
knew the appearance of ambergris,
came along and told the prospectors
that the great mass of pulp they
were dipping into for boot grease
was worth $32 an ounce. Needless
to say, the prospectors stopped
greasing their boots with the sub
stance and busted themselves pack
ing it for the Victoria market,
where they sold it at the figure
named.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-02-04

JOHN BELL, THE SUSPECT IN
A MYSTERIOUS STATEN ISL
AND HOMICIDE CASE THAT is
FULL OF DRAMATIC ELEMENTS
brother Howard. In it the prisoner
refers to his dead wife and writes
in a manner that seems to indicate
that he contemplated suicide. The
police look on Bells reckless condi-
The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-12-14

"Mr. Cooke was related to me, and
was appointed by me as chief deputy
sheriff, taking charge OF the books
and succeeding Mr.. John Il. Parker
son as my office man, bookkeeper. etc.
in the year 1901. At his suggestion
and that Of DIR. II. J. Sanders. VINO was
a mutual relative of ours, the account
kept DIT the bank was changed from
my name to that of r. L. Cooke. chief
deputy, it being the intent to give him
absolute financial control of the Office;
and in compensation for his services
he was to get one-half Of the net
profits of the office.
when the shortage first developed.
I thought it was due to the fact that,
in nv carelessness, / had overdraWn
my personal account with the office,
and got busy to raise the money to
make it good.
Seeing from the balance sheets as
shown to me by Mr.. Cooke that my
overdraft did not cover the entire
amount of the shortage, l insisted on
his assuming responsibility 1or oHe-
half of the deficit.
."rhe matter OF his not giving me a
square deal as my office man. book
! keeper and cashier did not then occur
! to me. DIR. II. J. sanders was ap-
peal,d to by Mr.. Cooke 70 advance
| him the money. He came 70 Franklin
q l.,
with me and Robert Cooke. | had
| been reelected to office. expected 70
| qualify shortly, and to reappoint Mr..
| Robert Cooke as my chief deputy. with
, the same authority.
IL demanded that Robert Cooke
should pay one-half Of the deficit. and
DR.. II. J. Sanders gave him 50. o.
and took his note for it. l refused TO
F! jrydprSe the note, as I said plainly that
ro1A h<
towards me he owed that amount. Or.
III. 7. Sanders asked me would ! agree
| In Mr.. Cooke died during the next
four years of my office, to assume the
then unpaid balance on the note and
| TO pay it out. 49,. i.
all I ever agreed to do. When l quail
fled in June. 1904. under my new
commission, Immediately recon-
missioned Mr.. Cooke, and he continued
in my office in sole charge until the
latter part of that month, when l dis
charged him. Mr.. Robert Cookies
grievance against me is this disSnarGa.
1k11ssA,pD-s.afiders. grievance against me
|\yas that l did not assume the note
Aue to DR.. Sanders by Mr.. Cooke when
dNlischarged Mr.. Cooke.
I N.Beins worried great deal about
- whole shortage, and having to
ihc 50 much money. 1 kept thinking
raiseN H. l finally put a man in the
about tor the sole purpose Of going
office " books, but with instructions
over ,, Interfere in any way with Mr..
not fu kho, during the time the man
Cooke! in-, continued in sole charge
was WosNcc.
OF the oftiS eTnentS and explanations
The stat by this man convinced me
given to me " that had not gotten a
go thoroughly from Mr.. Cooke, even
square deal Fad put up. through DR..
though he h lalf of the deficit. that |
one Islshed into the office and
got mad and ri rged Mr.. Cooke.
abruptly dischA2 now how our money
II can't tell hen, but I saw that, if
Citations stood Everything on his state
paid to him ef me as an overdraf1.
nent charged to- Aharged to everybody
nd everything cE tin have a shortage
lSe. he would nd that. getting one
. account for. 1OdtS OF the Office.
ali Of the net