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Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1907-07-13
ICE PLANT BURNS
Armour Car Lines Mammoth Refrigerating
Station Totally Destroyed with Seven
Hundred Tons Of Precious Ice
SERIOUS FAMINE THREATENED
Refrigerator Car Service Crippled and Out
look for Local Relief Not Bright

of smoudering ruins chaos of twisted mighty
oione wheels today forms pathetic picture where yesterday
Las industrial establishment big
factory and icing station of the Armour Lines The plant
2O construct and the loss complete together with 700
OF ice
730 o'clock Thursday night the shrek whistles
the popuace witness the calamity yet
Las Vegas before could be sounded the great build
ing enveloped in flames.
The fire spark engine room superinten-
dent workmen present efforts
operate big 500gaon pump but
treat before the hose could be put in action
Chief Ls several fremen and on
the but little could be done the lack
Luck the big
dences n the immediate vicinity.
The building made terrific blaze that
big underground oil tanks by would explode ap-
parent would continue for hours and
missioner Hawkins authorized the appointment
for night BY II o'clock the big had nearly
sumed but a hot fire still ragged in the ruins.
IMPORTANCE OF PLANT
icing Salt Lake road between
Lake City supplied Vegas and other desert
d about and with daily capacity
able the demands upon it
Its loss crippng enterprises
dealers produce distress individuals and iSoSt tt s
service.
recently been shipping Southern California the out
k for importing ice conditions encouraging
Unless ice forthcoming BOgg and Companys Ice cream
factory Tuckfeds Soda fountains and saloons will be
put out of commission
When the Friday found that several
tons of ice had to last the community
for two or three DAYS successfully handled The ice
Friday afternoon delivering fresh roasted Ice
front the live Goals.
PROBABILITIES OF REBUILDING
1t reasonable to suppose that the plant will be rebuilt here
soon possible right alone is sufficient support Tor t
% On ton of this are the conditions location the junction with
III nd least of
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1907-07-13
Senator Denton

Carson City News says; }. a. Den
ton, former senator from Lincoln county
arrived here yesterday from Callente
and will appear tomorrow with the
governors staff in the great parade.
This is the first opportunity Mr. Dem
has had to appear as a member OF the
governors staff and he journied over
fifteen hundred miles in order to at
tend the Carson City carnival and
appear in the parade.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1907-07-13

hoe Fuller, Montselier, Idaho
Thos Douglas, q -"
G T Keene, Rhyolite
G H Smith, Salt Lake
| Greenleaf, Beatty
Geo Timmins, Sterling City
A Mcguire, Rhyolite, New
NJ ii Kern and Son
Mrs w Bullard
Mrs W ID Swain and family
II Argensinger, San Francisco
X g O'Shea, Los Angeles
W F Schnebly, Los Angeles
John o Stone
Frank A Blake
III Burris, Los Angeles
Eugene Gutierz
Jack Curtin
w II Lambert, Los Angeles
J F Phelan, Rhyolite, New
NJ Marley
NJ Metzger. Los Angeles
+ W Bellamy, Arapahoe, Neb
c NJ Kelly, Searchlight
Jas z Sprunt, Salt axe
| c Thoresen, Logan, New
VIM Hewett and wife, Gnldfield, Ney
Jay W Swain, Long Beach, Calf
w p Shull, Los Angeles
Mr. and Mrs Ace Church, Rhyolite
A ii Griswold, Los Angeles
Calvin Johnson, Chicago
+ l. Phelps, Greenwater
J l. Zimpleman
NJ $ Hubert, Los Angeles
Mrs W Wilson, Rhyolite
\ X Talamantes, Salt Lake
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1907-07-13

Mining Deeds at The Age office.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1907-07-13
PLANT VEGAS & MANUFACTURING co. AT LAS
VEGAS, DESTROYED FIRE THURSDAY NIGHT

appeared in this paper so it is sufficient
merely to state that the eaTFigf Tigff aid aid hcoh-
after be operated on HS.,omic scale, in
creasing production. while decreasing
the proportionate expense OF operating.
With this policy enforced the Potosi
should become one of the biggest and
best paying mines south of Goldfeld.
Las Vegas age. [volume] (Las Vegas, Nev.) 1905-1947, 1907-07-13
Death Results

Bert Monger, "A fireman on the l.. V.
x T., looked into the oil tank of his
engine with lighted lantern and was
fatally burned by the resulting explo-
sion, at Beatty on the morning of July
4th.
He was brous hit to Las Vegas Hos
pital, but becoming delirious, he was
Angeles. Where ne IN. Saturday to Los
noon from uremic poisoning.
He was about % years of age and had
no family. His father in the east was
notified.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-07-25
Snarls of a Sloppy Sophist
by PETER PRY SHEVLIN.

The commuters sentence Is never
commuted for good behavior.
The inspiration of our best litera-
ture is: II need the money"
When the worst comes to the
worst, it's best to make the best OF
it.
The thing that causes dread OF
spring is not spring poets, but the
uuips printed about them.
A man who worships woman has
a religion that kills all his desire to
ever become free-thinker.
Some men point out the silvery
lining in cloud; then they borrow
your umbrella before the rain starts.
If wife makes her husband jeal-
ous-the divorce-court; If she lacks
the power to make him Jealous
ditto!
It's wrong to say society makes
woman deceitful. When in decoi-
lete gowns they don't try to conceal
much.
A philosopher Is the bee who fur-
nishes the humming, while the other
bees are hustling too hard to inter-
polate music.
A girl realizes that this Is the
last call for roposals--unless the
June marriage is to be rushed with
indecorous haste.-From Judge.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-07-25
Slang.

In paper contributed to Putnam's
Monthly recently Herbert Paul, an
Englishman, deplores the decadence
of the English language. He thinks
he may be forgiven a passing qualm
when he finds such phrase as
"queering the pitch" in the leading
columns of great newspaper which
used to be fountain of classical
English" He is not so futile and
pedantic as to wage war against
slang. But its proper place is surely
private conversation"
Is it? We ourselves are moved to
record a passing qualm. Only the
other day in household where the
Lares and Penates were shipped di-
rect from the Athens of America, we
overheard a conversation between a
nice old lady and the ten-year-old
daughter of Radcliffe graduate. 1t
bore somewhat remotely upon the
virtues of thrift, and so we cannot
be quite sure whether the old lady's
manifest bewilderment arose from
the Rrelevance or the phraseology of
the child's impulsive avowal. I'm
going to plant all my dough In y
bike. Life.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-07-25

Thanks to the perseverance OF a
number of prospecting youngsters,
residents of Haddington and Over
brook may now have daily suppers of
choice frogs legs. A veritable mine
of frogs was discovered week ago
by members of a juvenile baseball
team who were playing near Sixty
third and Market streets. A fly ball
was knocked into ditch, and the
fielders who chased it found fully
two dozen frogs holding convention
on the shore of the little stream. The
game was stopped and the boys got
busy in the ditch with their bats.
More than half hundred frogs were
captured in the first raid. They
were made ready for the market by
the youngsters, who had little trouble
in selling them at fifty cents a dozen.
Since the discovery the boys have
been prospecting daily, and hundreds
of frogs have been gathered in dur
ing the last few days. Unfortunately
for the discoverers, the news has
spread, and now the frog fields have
been invaded by so many youngsters
that the price has been cut down.
Philadelphia Record.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-07-25
The First Astor and tho POet.

John Jacob AstOr and his son riSldly
attended to business in the same oilice
"a little one-story building In Prince
street, Just east of Broadway. Their
constant companion there was FitZ-
Creme Haleck-Marco BoZzaris Hal
eek. Halleck became clerk for Astor
IN 1882 and worked seventeen years.
The employment, he himself said, was
not profitable but permanent" Astor
warned him when he began not to
talk to anyone of his wealth. The twp
men became great friends. Ilallcck
spent months with his patron ut his
country seat and became one of the
trustees of the Astor Library. The
poet frequently rallied the old man on
his wealth. "Why, Mr.. Astor," he
would say, "If l had 5000 a year and
was sure of it l would be content"
The great landowner took him Mt his
word, and in his will, much to the
amusement of bohemian New York,
left HaIleck an annuity of $2OO.-Bur-
ton J. Hendrick in McClure's.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-07-25
Strange Disappearance
of the American Horse
By II. HOLT-LOMAX.

Air-Ships and motor-cars may lead
In time to the second disappearance
Of the horse, which once before be.
came extinct in North and South
America. Over three centuries ago,
at the Spanish Conquest, there was
not to be found in the New World,
so it has been practically proved,
single animal that answered to the
horse. Horses, indeed, which the
Spaniards brought with them to
mount their cavalry were objects at
first of great terror to the natives,
who took them to be four-legged su.
pernatural beings come purposely to
aid the conquerors. Yet recent re-
search by the Whitney Mission has
established beyond doubt that long
before Columbus the Americas were
overrun by horses from the noun
tains of Alaska to the plains of Pata.
gonia.
In 1926 the chance discovery in
New Jersey of an equine fossil OF an
unknown kind led to more method
ical investigation Of America, with
the result that prehistoric horse
bones have been found in California
and Oregon; between the Gulf Of
Mexico and the Carolinas; in Texas,
Florida, and the valleys of Mexico;
in the basin of the Mississippi and on
the western slopes of the Rocky
Mountains. Horses, too, must have
In th;c country o.
vious to the appearance of man; re-
searches having brought to light their
fossilized remains mixed up with pot
terry and the stone arms of cave
dwellers.
How is 1t. then, that the equine
race, represented in America by kinds
of fossil considerably more numerous
than in Europe, came for time to
vanish from this country to reappear
thousands of centuries later with the
Spanish Conquest? For but a CEN
tury after Cortez there were already
in existence herds of wild horses in
the regions of the Plata and the prai-
ries Of the Far West.
by some this temporary extinction
of the American horse has been at
tributed to the increasing cold and
the encroachments of the glacial
hemisphere. 1t Is certain that the
elephant and camel disappeared at
the same time. Another eXplana-
ton is that the horses succumbed to
malady such as the "rinderpest' IN
South Africa. Again, what brought
about this exodus may possible have
been a species of the present-day. Co.
lombian vampire bat, which sucks the
life blood of its victims, and In the
districts it infests prevents the horse
being used as a beast of BURDEN
Harper's Weekly.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-07-25
A CURIOUS TALE.

The natives tell curious tale OF
the Semliki River, in Africa.
Away down stream, in the recesses
of the impenetrable forest on It's
banks, is said to exist an uncanny
creature with the body of a huge.
unwieldy monkey, and q mans face
of revolving cunning, framed in lCaS
coils of coal-black hair.
After sunset, at the hour when
the villagers living on the river banks
are in the habit Of going down to
fetch water for their evening meal,
this creature turks among the eddies
near the place, waiting for his prey.
AS soon as an unsuspecting man
bends down to fill his pitcher, the
monster puts up long, hairy arm,
grasps him and drags him below the
surface.
There it twists round the unfor-
tunate mans head, hands and feet,
and lifts him above the water for his
comrades on the bank to see his sorry
plight This done, it sinks again
from sight and swims down stream
with its victim-always below the
surface.
Arriving at last at it's lonely forest
home, the monster lands the unhappy
man and throws him, unconscious,
on the ground. Then, searching for
a banana plant, it picks off strip OF
leaf rolls 1t up and thrusts 1t down
its victims throat to make him vomit
up the water he has swallowed. This
saves him from drowning to become
the slave of his captor, for whom ne
labors from morning to night.-pe-
troit News-Tribune.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-07-25

A blacksmith at AsWarby, near Sica"
ford, has made most curious discoy-
cry.
He received from neighboring farm
stead harrow for repairs, and Willie
these were being executed n twenty
two carat gold wedding ring was
found sticking on to one of the teeth
of the implement. 1t is supposed that
the ring was lost on the land and that
it was picked up by the harrow in the
course of its work.-ReynOlds' News
paper.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-07-25
HE COULDN'T.

Dealer-"This will be three dollars
and forty-seven cents.
Poet-"Exactly; three dollars and
forty-seven cents. l shall have to get
1t charged-unless (hesitating)-
unless you can change a ten-thou-
sand-dollar bill. ll."-Somerville Jour-
ual.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-07-25
Big Undertaking.

"Allow me. before l close, to repeat
the words of the immortal Webster"
) Foddershucks lin stage whisper
"My land! Meria, let's git out O. here.
He's a-goin' ter start In on the diclion.
aryw-Cleveland Leader.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-07-25

The fewest deaths occur in the
hour following meridian and mid
night.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1907-07-25

Cement sewers and cement pipes
are displacing brick and terra Gotta. /
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-19
FRIGHTFuL SLAUGHTER In
AMERICAN Mines INCREASES

jared in the coal mines of this colIn-s
try and that the number of these ac-5
cidents caused directly or indirectly
BY mine expI osions have been steadi-
lys increasing 6. It is also indicated
that this increase has been due in
part to lack of proper and enforce
able mine regulations; in part to lack
Of reliable information concerning
the explosives used in mining, and
conditions under which they can be
used safely in the presence of gas
and dust encountered in the mines;
i'll part to the fact that in the devel-
opm rent of coal mining not only is the
number Of miners Increasing, but
many areas from which coal is b ling
taken are either deeper or farther
from the entrance where good veliti-
ration is more difficult and dangerous
air and accumulation of explosive gas
more frequent. =
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-19

Washington, 2. 9. Dec. 1s.- The
coal mines of the United States are
killing three times as many men per
1000 employees as those Of most Eu-.
ropean countries In the last II years
%, $40 men have given up their lives
in the mines Of this country. AS
many violent deaths have occurred in
the mines during the last six years as
during the preceding IL years. The
number Of fatal accidents each year
is now double that in 1906, the dead
numbering 2,O61, and injured 1880.
These terrible facts have been CLEAN
ed by government experts acting un-
der orders from Secretary Garfield OF
the interior department Joseph A.
Holmes, an expert, says:
The figures given in this report
indicate that during the year 1905
nearly 1000 men were killed or in
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-19
Il MURDERED
BY YAQUI REDS

Nogales, Ariz, Dec. IS Information
just received here tells Of the fright
full murde Of IL nne by d band Of
$50 Yaquis Indians. fortyfiye miles,
southea st Of Magdalena, state Of Som
Ora, Mexico, last Wednesday z. =.
Mcintyre and a party Of mining men
Of this section have arrived from the
scene where they viewed the remains
Sof the murdered men
The Yaquis CAPTURED q party Of tliif-
teen men. Among the number wa
Jose Fernandez son of President Fer
nandez, Of the town Of Ialcurps, and
owner Of the mescal plantation, where
The killing occurred.
The others were Mexican laboreTs
on the ranch and some Canea miners
looking for work One American was
among the number. but he was res
csled by the men, who told him they
we're Americans The Remaining
Twelve were stripped naked, stood up
against trees and shot through the
head The band Of ssa,li u reported
on the warpath-
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-19
Of Belgium Seems 10 Have
Received I Lemon
From Parliament
His H COMO Treaty! Will Be
Killed Il MOI Withdrawn
Ministry
ClOse DisseGtiag Of II Shows
Cream llf Congo Would
Have Been Kings

Brussels, Dec. IS lowing care.
full examination Of the complete text
Of the Congo annexation treaty, which
has just been published here, liberal
members OF the chamber Of deputies
voted unanimously in caucus today 10
oppose the treaty on the ground that
the conditions therein set down unduly
limit the sovereignty Of Belgium and
disregard Belgium nights. As the
government had counted upon liberal
support 10 pass the biI against the y
opposition Of the socialists and some
conservatives there is prospect that
the treaty viii be withdrawn and that
the government will thereafter re-
sign. sss
| A detailed study OF the complete
treaty, including the VoIuminons ad-
denaa, produces very diaerent i'm
| preston from that which was obtained
by the public from the rosy official
| forecast given out on December 8.
/ It is now plain that King Leopold re-
| tains powerful interests in the crown
| domain which is the richest and best
part Of the Congo. II
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-19
Issue Address 10 Organized
Labor Which Sounds
Like Johann Most
Hands q Few to Nevada Gov.
ernOr and Mine Own
efS in General

Denver, Colo. Dec. 18--In an address
issued to-day by the executive commit
tee Of the Western Federation of Mir
ers, labor union men are urged to raj
Nv to the defense Of the officers and
members Of the Federation charged
with the murder Of former Gov. steu-
enberg Of Idaho, and other crimes and
TO the defense Of the Goldfisld miners
on strike. J} III
The address declares the financial
stringency was caused by the opera
:tions Of tsfrenzied financiers" and is
being taken advantage Of to shut
down the mines Gov. Sparks Is re-
ferred to as sp,Ippet of the mine
owners and as plant tool of the
capitalistic interest in its efforts to
crush organized labor. Z
President Charles III. Meyer Of the
Federation, and Geo. A. Pettibone,
now on trial at Boise, are declared in
the address to be, marked out for
slaughter, by the cruel despotic rule
of capitalism, whose only ain, is to
crush the Federation that the mine.
owner may rise trump antly over out.
ragged h6manity, that labor may be
bound hand and foot, and that the last
vestiges Of American liberty may be
summarily annihilat ted. = rs
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-19
GLENULLIN WOMAN Is
CHARGED WITH DEATH OF
YOUNG Girl BY ABORTION
Medical Aid Is Not Summoned Until Few Moments Before
Girl Died.COrOReF's Jury Finds Woman
tuilty Of Criminal Operation

arrived here Tuesday morning and at
once empannelled jury. The coron-
er's hearing was not concluded until
Wednesday morning, when 1t returned
the above verdict and the prelimin-
airy examination before a justice fol
loved at once.
The name Of a certain man in this
place was mentioned at the inquest
and it is probable he will later be
brought into the case.
Miss Classen was just Is years Old
and had borne good reputation. Mrs.
stelter, it is runored. has been credit
ed with such actions before, and con-
siderable indignation is felt here
against her. The girl had had no med
icaI attention before Dr. Benson was
called. and it was then too late.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-19
Treasurer | Walker [ Of 4 Con
ReciiCut Bank Is Finally
Rounded Up
He Got IVA, With $ !
and Has Lead Officers
a Merry Chase

New York, Dec. I8 The Pinkerton
Detective Agency in this city cenfirM
ed tonight the report that William 2.
Walker, the absconding treasurer OF
the New Britain, Conn, Savings bank,
had been captured at Ensenada, low
er California. Positive Identification
has been made and Walker has con-
scented to return to Connecticut with
out resort to extradition proceedings.
walker was arrested at mining
camp $50 miles from Ensenada, lower
California, which is Mexican terri
tory, yesterday. He was taken by a
Representative of the detective agency
at Los Angeles, assisted by a party Of
Mexicans. s.5 IA VI.
The arrest of the former banker was
brought about Indirectly by informa-
tion furnished officials of the New
Britain Savings bank by. the United
States consul at Ensenada. The con-
sui had seen pictures Of Walker and
recognized the fugitive when he ap-
peared some time ago in Ensenada.
Before his capture could be effect
ed Walker apparently suspected that
his identity was known, and fed to
the mountains in the vicinity of En-
senada. Walker is 81 years of age
and had long held an enyiable posi-
ton in business, social and church
circles of New Britain. On February
10 he disappeared and soon afterwards
it was discovered that s665,000 worth
of securities had been stolen from the
| bank. Walker was also treasurer OF
the Connecticut Baptist Convention
and after his fight it was found that
! 5000 of the conventions funds had
/ been stolen. -
lat meeting of the convention at
Putnam, Conn, on October Is, last, il
was announced that Walkers shortage
had been made up by others. t
Walker had been one of the most
prominent Baptists in the state and
at the convention a PRAYER for his
ultimate salvation was offered.
/; On Sunday night following his dis
appearance, his son in New Brit.
| ain received a telegram from this city
saying his father had been injured and
removed to hospital. Inquiry al
nolice headquarters failed to discov
er such an accident as, described il
the telegram and the police became
convinced that the message had beer
, sent by Walker himself. Walker:
son, accompanies by officials of thu
bank, came here that night and thei
failure to find Walker led to an in
vestigatfon Of the institution and dis
closure of the shortage.
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-19

Glenullin, Dec. Is Mrs. May Stel-
ter, a married woman Of Glenullin, has
been held to the district court on
bonds Of $1,000 on a charge of man
slaughter in the second degree.
This action followed the verdict
Wednesday Of the coronAr's jury on.
the death Of Miss Anna H. Classen,
who died Monday night as a result, it
is charged OF an abortion performed
by Mrs. Stelter. f5 s III. ~
Monday night DR.. Benson was cali
ed to the home Of Miss Classen to at
tend her, but the girl died almost as
he entered the house. A brief exaniin,
alton Of the corpse showed the cause
3of death and the doctor at once sum.
moned Coroner Stark Of Manian, who
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-19
We'll!
Chicago Judge Discovers State
Law Is Superior to
City Ordinance
.SaI0Dnkeepefs Who Keep
Open Sunday AstOUnded
at Such | PRESUMPTION

Chica SO. III, Dec. g. Judge Heap
OF the municipal court, rendered a
sweeping decision today in favor Sof
the prosecution against sal onkeep-
ers for violation Of the Sunday clos
ing law
He declared that the defense in
such cases cannot introduce as part
~ its case city ordinances giving sa-
ioonkeepers the right to keep open
bars on sunday He asserted that
the state law is supreme and that
the city council cannot properly pass
an ordinance which conflicts with
any act of the state legislature.