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Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
TEXAS

GALVESTON, Sept. 20.-The strike of
the Southern Pacific dock workers ended
last night The steamship company had
250 negroes at work on the wharves and
was bringing more negroes daily. The
strikers saw they would be replaced by
colored labor and at the solicitation OF
the citizens committee decided to work
at the old scale of wages. The company
made some minor concessions. but the
wage scale remains unchanged-3O to 40
cents per hour.
MORGAN, Tex, Sept. 2O-O ]. House. a
brakeman on the Santa Fe met death in
a terrible form while making coupling
of freight cars. While between the cars
he fel. squarely across the rail and the
moving train ran over him. cutting him
in two. He lived at Temple, where he
had a. family, and the body was taken
there.
AUSTIN-The attorney general ap-
proved for registration $4,000 1886 per
cent schoolhouse bonds of the independ-
ent school district of Blanket Brown
county.
CAMERON-J. 7. Langley came near
losing his life while swimming in Little
river near Minerva He and his wife
went into the river for a swim. and ne
was seized with cramps. She rushed out
to try to find help. A small boy was In
with them, and he waited till Mr.. Langley
sank for the tnird time. and then dived
down where the water was twelve feet
deep and rescued him from the bottom,
and swan with him for about fifty rect
to the bank, where Mrs. Langley was
standing. and she rescued the boy and
they then resuscitated him.
SAN ArSTONIO-A wildcat invaded san
Antonio and attacked a horse at 9U2 Ma
son street. one of the most thickly set
tied portions of the city. The police were
at once summoned and the wildcat killed
after attempting to spring on the officer
How the wild animal found it's way into
the heart of the city is mystery.
BREMOND-As stock car with two race
horses in 1t was set out on the sidetracK
the car being brought from Marlin going
to Beaumont. Two men In the car at'
tending the horses about sundown were
cooking supper on a gasoline stove, whicf
was overturned, igniting the hay and en-
tirely burning up the car and horses.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
NEW YORK


NEW YORK, Sept. 2o.-Even IL the
navy should be engaged elsewhere. New
Yorkers need have no fear Of their nome
in case of an attack by warships OF
hostile country, according to MAJ. Sen'
Frederick d. Grant, commanding the oe-
partment of the east. While Gen. Grant
declines to make any comparisons be-
tween the work of the navy ana army
runners in the forts he did say this:
"I am convinced that the gunners in
the forts in my department can shoot
SO we'll that they can put warships out
of action fully as fast as they can come
against them"
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.-Louis Carron, 3S
years old, of 0S1 Third avenue was held In
$500 bail by Magistrate Cornell In the
West Side court on charge OF attempt
ing to assault 5-year-old Annie Whalen
of 242 West Sixty-seventh street. He was
seen with the child at the foot of West
Sixty-seventh street by Detectives Davies
and Boyle, who, after watching him for
several minutes took him into custody.
LOCKPoRT-The price Of anthracite
coal has jumped % cents ton in Lock-
port and is now retailing at $3.50. Dealers
are claiming that another raise is not
improbable as the result of the attitude
of the Pennsylvania railroads in refusing
to let their owrfDcars run off the lines
and necessitating the transfer of cargoes
at junction points.
CASTILE-The tax roll Of school dis
trict No has been completed and Will
be placed in the hands of the collector.
The amount to be raised this year Will
be $4,000, which is about so per cent higher
than last year.
KENMORE-Philip Landel who now
holds the office of commissioner of high
ways for the town Of Tonawanda, is out
to win the office of supervisor of the
town. PHIL as he is commonly known
has been lifelong Democrat, and his
friends say he has sure thing.
WHITE PLAINS-Because she could
not bear to have the body Of her only
son removed-to a temporary grave pend
ing the completion of the family vault
Mrs. Robert d. Ryan of this village per-
suaded her husband to have his body
embalmed and to keep it at their home
till the vault should be ready to re-
ceive It,
The body, in it's coffin, has been kept
in the parlor of the, Ryan home since
the embalming August 30. the day fol.
lowing the young mans death.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
GEORGIA

ATLANTA, Ca. Sept. 20.-Representa-
tive citizens of Griffin Gainesville, Ma
rietta and Cedartown have filed with the
railroad commission petitions urging the
immediate restoration of telegraph serv-
ice in the respective cities. They claim
that the local offices have been closed
since the middle of August, and they re-
cite that financial loss, injury and incon-
yenience have resulted. The commission
received the complaints Friday morning
and will notify the two telegraph com
panies to appear at an early date to show
cause why the offices. should not be re-
opened at once. While none of the petit
tions say as much, 1t is presumed that
the offices in the cities named have been
closed as result of the telegraph strike.
SAvANNAH-The entire south seems in
a fair way, if report be true to suffer
greatly during the coming winter tourist
season because of determination on the
part of the railroads to take off the fine
through fast passenger trains that run
between New York and Jacksonville.
COVINGTON-Charl R. Rogers, one
of Newton county's most progressive
farmers, tells of strange freak played
by lightning at his home. Lightning
struck and tore into splinters the tele-
phone without damaging the plastering
or the wall. The bolt crossed over to a
bed in the center of the room, where the
children were sleeping. 1t ran up and
down the headboard and sides, of the
bed and dropped children and bed Clothing
to the floor uninjured.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
TENNESSEE


KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Sept, 20-Charles
DeArmond was arrested for the murder
of BERTHE Kirby, who died on Central
street. The girl was one of the unfor-
tunate class and lived with DeArmond
who was cocaine fiend. The verdict OF
the coroner's jury was that she came to
her death from the use of cocaine, which
DeArmond forced her to take, and blow
upon the neck inflicted by DcArmond.
NASHVILLE-At meeting of the or
phans' brigade at Glasgow. KY. a reso-
luton was adopted looking to the celebra-
ton in June next Of the hundredth ami
versary of jefferson Davis birth and the
pres servation of the house in which Mr.
Davis was born in Todd county, Kentucky
TYNER-The county high school began
here. A large crowd was out to witness
the opening exercises. Thirty-six pupils
were enrolled. Profs. j. w. Abel and
Bright and patrons of the school are al
exceedingly well pleased with the pros
poets for a good school. County Super
intendent Brown was present and made q
speech.
KNOXVILLE-At the meeting of tbs
executive committee OF the East Tennes
see Poultry association ninety additiona
coops over last year were ordered. Tht
coops of the last show cooped 1000 birds
the additional coops will give room fol
800 more. This show will be held In Janu-
ary and promises to be one of the largest
ever held In this city.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
ALL OF THE LATE NEWS FROM YOUR OLD HOME STA7E]
WYOMING


ROCK SPRINGS, wyo.. Sept. 2o.-Forty
men were injured, twenty of them seri-
ously, by an explosion of coal dust In
mine No. 10 of the Union Pacific Coal
company. The explosion was caused by
a string of five runaway cars, which
dashed down the slope on the rails for
200 feet, jumped the tr1--s and continued
several hundred feet farther on the floor
of the slope, raising a dense cloud OF
coal dust. At the mouth of entry No.
forty miners we're waiting to be hauled
to the surface. Their lamps ignited the
dust cloud and a terrific explosion oc-
CURED.
The survey for the automobile road
which is to be constructed between this
place and Fayette has been completed.
SARATOGA, Wyo.. Sept. 2o.-C. d.
Buchanan has departed for jamestown.
where he will exhibit a wagon brake of
his invention during the remainder of
the exposition. He hopes to get the war
department interested In it.
AS the result of conference between
Alfred F.. Potter, representing the ma
tional forestry bureau. and the Carbon
County Wool Growers association, fewer
sheep are to be ranged In the Sierra
Madre forest reserve during the coming
year. Potter has completed an inspection
of the reserve and announces that toe
many sheep are grazing there for the
good of the forest. Otherwise he Is
pleased with conditions in the reserve.
LARAMIE-Miss Lottie Lambrecht of
Ft. ,Lupton. Colo, and ]. Ralph Bennett
of Marshall. Wyo., were married here
The bride is the youngest daughter of
Chris Lambrecht. wealthy ranchnan
residing on 400-acre estate one mile
northwest from Ft. Lupton.
The groom is stockman, owning a
ranch near Marshall. He was formerly
engaged in the stock business near Ft
Lupton.
CHEYENNE-Ray H. Pressler. who
killed Policeman G. Il. Edwards, and
who was sentenced to thirty-five years
Din the penitentiary for the crime. has at
last broken down and is practically
nervous wreck.
'BAGGs-The remains of John Gushart
were discovered few days ago in the
Lyer's pasture. The body had been
badly mutilated by wild animals. GUS
hart disappeared last winter while en-
route to visit a friend Overtaken by
storm and probably lost, he sank down
and perished.
| DOUGLAS-Busines will be suspended
here September 10, while 800 to 400 Doug
las people, with the Douglas band, attend
Douglas day at the Laramie county fair
at Wheatland.
| THERMOPOLIS-Bob Mulkey has been
taken to the county Jail at Lander to
await trial on the charge of numbering
Joe Passha, a Syrian, in the Hollywood
saloon. Mulkey, it is alleged. took Of
fense at some remark made by the Syrian
and selling an automatic rife from be-
hind the bar fired four shots into his
body. Passha died several hours later.
Mulkey fed and was caught short time
| later near town.
PINEDALE-The Fremont Lake Irri-
CATION company, which is backed by Den
yer capital, is making rapid progress in
the construction of the Fisher ditch and
the canal will be carrying water to $500
acres along Pine creek before winter sets
in. The reclamation Of this land will
begin next spring.
| GEBO-The first shipment of coal from
the new mines here was made yesterday
and was consigned to Montana.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
MONTANA


LIVINGSTON, Mont. Sept. 2o.-All of
the boilermakers and helpers in the
Northern Pacific shops here, the largest
in the northwest. struck upon the failure
Of a committee at St. Paul to secure
wage Of 461s cents an hour and nine
hour day. More than $50 men are out
here on this one division It is expected
that all OF the Great Northern boiler
makers in Montana will strike.
BUTTE-A careful canvass of condi-
tions indicates that out of the 10000 men
employed in and around the mines not
more than 40O0 less than one-third. will
be out of work when the maximum cur
tailnent Is made. and of these the vast
majority are not the heads of families.
Neither the Clark nor the Heinze proper
ties have made any reduction in their
number of employees. Superintendent Tom
BRYANT of the Clark properties states that
no reduction of forces has yet occurred
in the mines under his control
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
NEBRASKA

FREMONT, Neb., Sept. 20.-The Rev.
w. H. Frost, rector of St. James
Episcopal church, outwitted David B.
Richardson, an alleged swindler, and
handed him over to the police. Richard
son made preliminary calls on ministers,
arranging for a baptismal service. and
later returned to report a distressing ac-
cdent Under this plea he would obtain
funds.
LINCOLN-Following the publication OF
the fact that the railroad commissioners
were seriously contemplating the arrest
of Burlington officials on charges of vio-
lating the orders of the board. Freight
Agent E. C. Spens of Omaha made a
hurried trip to Lincoln to assure the COM
missioners they were needlessly exercised
about the attitude of his road on western
freight rates.
OMAHA-Kid Wedge the once well
known western prize fighter has just been
appointed pastor of the First Presby-
terian church at Barnston. Neb.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
LOUISIANA

BATON ROUGE, La. Sept. 20--The Sec
ton In which President Roosevelts pro-
ysosed hunt will probably take place is
near here and Is almost primitive In Its
wilderness In addition to bears occa-
sional panthers and some deer are still
found in this country. The Choctaw
swamp, one of the best bear hunting pre-
serves In the state is In many respects
semi tropical jungle. The obstacle 1t nas
presented to civilization and settlement is
witnessed by the abandoned line of the
Louisiana Central railway as well as by
animals and dense growths. There are
also many other parts of Louisiana where
the president might find good bear hunt
ing.
NEW ORLEANS--A new passenger sta
ton costing $150.00O will be erected at Mo-
bile by the Louisville e. Nashville. which
has successfully resisted the efforts of
commercial interests there to force its
tracks into the new 100000 union station
recently completed by the Mobile & Ohio
and the Southern. The Louisville & Nash
vile claims that removal of itPstatior
from it's present site in the downtown sec
ton to the union terminal, three miles
away, would incommode the travelling
public.
The British consul stationed here has
cabled Liverpool that the levee workmen
the screwmen and longshoremen are very
obdurate in their strike and In their de
mands on the steamship agents, and tina
there is little chance for compromise
He has advised the European government
and in that way the shipping agents Q
European and British ports. that there vii
| in all probability be general tieup of tn
New Orleans docks because of the att
| tude of the cotton workers.
| Sailors belonging to the steamships Yu
catan and California are loading thes
| ships today. Since the strike of the long
| shoremen, which has tied up PRACTICAL
the entire river front SO far as the mer
chant marine is concerned, there has bee
| no loading of vessels.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
CONNECTICUT

PLAINvILLE, Conn, Sept. 2o-The
north-bound passenger train on tne
Northampton division of the N. r., N.
III. e. H. railroad ran into treisn.
train that was switching at the local
freight Yards, and one of the freight
cars was derailed delaying. traffic ior
several hours.
NORwICH-Charles K. Crary, rural
free delivery carrier. was Instantly hnisu
by being thrown from his carriage.
while on his return from Preston ms
horse took fright and ran away. Strih-
ING a boulder at the side of the road
the carriage turned over and Crary was
thrown heavily to the ground, breakins
his neck.
PIJTNAM-The case of the state against
David Carroll of Chaplin, who was
charged with breaking and entering
August 70 the office of the international
7 ,eather company in Chaplin, and steal
inc sSS from the safe, came to sudden
and this morning in the superior court,
Judge eager nolled it at the request
of States Attorney Searls.
NEW LONDON-Steamer City OF Low
oil broke a shaft on the way up from
New York off Huntington, l.. l., but was
able to proceed by use of the other shatt
and arrived here several hours late. Inc
CITY of worcester will take her pace
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
MASSACHUSETTS

LYNN, Mass. Sept. 20. Charles
Humphries, a member OF chemical 2, was
overcome by smoke while cropping about
in the apartment of Daniel Green at n
Collins street, which was afire, seeking
the members of the family who were sup
posed to be in there None of the family
was at home and 1t was Humphries who
had to be rescued.
WALTHAM-The failure of the brakes
to work caused collision between a big
Boston and Lexington car and one OF
the Newton street railway, near the
car barns.
BOSTON-Alfred Bickford alighted from
his milk wagon In Quincy to remove a
wire from the street, and as result
is in a critical condition at his home
on North street, with two badly burned
hands. Physicians say thae shock may
prove fatal
NoRTHAMPToN-'I am feeling bad"
said Miss Myra e. Kingsley, a promi-
nent music teacher of Westhampton, as
she entered the office of DR.. James NJ.
Fay of this city. Hardly had she uttered
the words wnen she drew forth a bottle
containing carbolic acid and swallowed
the contents. She fell to the floor and
soon died.
--while--desponde Miss
Annie Ahren, aged 40. drank oxalic
acid here. She was found dead in her
room soon afterward.
WORCESTER-Enoch r. Towne the
Oldest city clerk in the United States.
announced that he would lay down The
burden of public Office Monday. HIS son.
w. Henry Towne. will probably succeed
him
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
IFlFTY-FIvE YEARS
IN SOLITARY CELL

K MEANWHILE, Pa, Sept. 20.-Henry =
4. Lehna. who less than a month ago =
4. waylaid Alma Whitehead, the IA 4
4 year-old daughter of the Rev. r. y. i
J. Whitehead and kept her in woods i
i all night, was given the most severe !.
i sentence ever a prisoner received In !
4. Crawford county. Judge Frank J. 4
4. Thomas, in criminal court. sentenced i
!. Lehna to fifty-fve years imprison- 4
4. ment in solitary confinement In the 4
!. Western penitentiary. !
i Lehna had pleaded guilty and =
Z thrown himself on the mercy OF the !
!. court The limit for criminal as !
!. sault in Pennsylvania is fifteen years =
i imprisonment Lehna admitted that i
!, while he had the girl In his power =
i three assaults we're committed. lie =
!, also admitted that he had taken % \
!. cents in money from the pocket OF !
!. her dress. =
i, On the three charges of assault 4
!. Lehna was given the limit of ffteer I
+ years EACH ard he was also given !
:. ten years additional on a charge of !
i. highway robbery for taking the % 4
I. cents from the girls pocket. Lehna !
i. is 40 years of age and will scarcely !
i live to serve out his sentence. !
\ Lehna was wanted by the West Z
< Virginia authorities for having COM !
4 mitted a similar offense on Nellie !
!. OFT, a 14-year-old girl of Ridgeley, \
X w. Va. In the latter state the PEN !
!. atty for such an offerse is death. (
i. The West Virginia authorities want \
!. ed to take Lehna there for trial. and !
+ he decided to plead guilty to the 4
i charges here. I
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Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
MINNESOTA

ST. PAUL, Sept. 2O-Interstate Com
merce Commissioner Knapp was in st.
Paul yesterday, it is understood, with a
view Of getting information regarding
the trouble between the Great Western
railroad and it's machinists, who have
gone out on a sympathetic strike with
the boilermakers and who are also ask
ing for an increase in pay of about 8
cents an hour. 1t is said that Mr.. Knapp
has been brought In under the Erd-
man act which permits the members Of
the Interstate commerce commission to
act as arbitrators In labor dispute. 1t
Is understood that the Chicago Great
Western requested this mediation.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
UTAH

SALT LAKE, Utah, Sept 20.-Sophia
Powers has begun suit in, the district
court against the Utah Light and Rail-
way company for $1,000 damages for
alleged personal injuries. Plaintiff alleges
that on February last, while she was
alighting from car at G street and
Sixth avenue, she was precipitated into
an open trench made in the street by the
company Her back and one of her hips
were wrenched severely, she says, and
she was also rendered unconscious.
RICHFIELD-During the past week A.
B. Williams closed a deal whereby he
has disposed of his half interest in the
Reaper, a weekly newspaper published
in this city, to ]. E. Hanway of Salt
Lake. The new purchaser will take charge
of the property as soon as he can close
up some business affairs in Salt Lake,
probably some time during the coming
week.
PROVO-John A. Croft and Leonora I.
Carter of Eureka were married By
Deputy County Clerk Kartschner.
Miss Hattie Dixon of this city was
married to G. w. West of San Bernardino
at that place.
Emil Maeser is down from Salt Lake
comforting with the Brigham Young Uni
versity Alumni association in regard to
matters connected with the proposed me.
mortal building to be erected in honor oi
the late DR.. Karl G. Maeser.
Mrs. Annie Seamountain Davis, wife OF
Sidney Davis of Salt Lake, died from an
affection of the heart.
OGDEN-The faculty of Sacred Heart
Academy in Ogden is jubilant over the
greatly Increased attendance at that ex
cellent institution of learning in the two
weeks of this, the thirtieth scholastic
year of the school. The number of board
ing students is higher than ever in tbs
history of the school, and the large room
that was formerly occupied as the studio
has had to be converted into an ad-
ditional dormitory. The studio is being
removed into smaller, but still spacious
quarters.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
VIRGINIA

NORFOLK, Va, Sept. 20-To rehabili-
ate its treasury the greater council of the
Improved Order of Red Men. In six.
teenth annual session here today, re'
duced the mileage to members OF the
great council after its session from ten
to eight cents. Ns
PETERSBURG-At the parsonage OIL
Market street Methodist Episcopal church
Miss Blanche Morris was married to Ar
thur Berry by Rev. w. H. Edwards.
WINCHESTER-Wor repaired tina
break in the water main that supplies
Berryville, Clark county. Berryville has
been without water for nearly month,
caused by break in the pipe at the
Shenandoah river
ROANOKE The Norfolk and Western
Railway company has taken over the
Catawba Valley railroad, line 10 miles
long. running from Salem Va, to the
silica beds in Craig county The roadbe1
has been built by the Salem Glass Manu-
featuring company
WINCHESTER-Eludi the vigilance
of her parents, pretty Ivy Kern, the 16-
year-old daughter of Howard Kern, depu-
ty sheriff of this county, eloped to Charles
Town, w. Va, and was married.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
IDAHO

MACKEY, idaho. Sept. 20.-The smelter
here has closed down and the ores which
have been treated here are now sent to
the big smelters at Garfield. The ship
ment of ore to the Garfield plant is an
experiment, and is for the purpose, OF
trying out the ore. The Garfield smeiters
need flux and the product here appears
to fill the necessary want. In any event
a deal has been made wherein the ores
from the mine here will go to Garfield
for thirty days. and if they prove to be
what, is needed shipments will continue
indefinitely.
BOISE-Papers in the pleadings on be-
half of John I. Wells and Patrick Downes,
two of the persons indicted last spring
for timber land frauds, were served upon
the attorneys for the government The
pleadngs were motion to quash the in
dictment a demurrer and two pleas In
abatement. The pleadings were the same
as those fled a few days ago in behalf of
Frank Martin.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-21
COLORADO

GREELEY. Colo. Sept. 20.-Invitations
are ont for the wedding of Miss Myra
Wolfenden, daughter of Thomas Macy,
IN Jesse Wilson. bookkeeper for a mining
Arm of Denver, to take place here sep
tember "a.
A freak bat captured by a schoolboy In
an old harm was presented to the museum
of the state normal school. The bat is
of brick red color, Is alive and considered
great curiosity.
GEORGETOWN-Jo w. Mclean OF
Golden has filed suit in the district court
of Clear Creek county against the county
commissioners asking judgment for 81
las. .33. Plaintiff alleges that he is the duly
appointed water commissioner for the
counties of jefferson, Arapahoe and Clear
Creek, and that from March 81, 1905, TO
August 1, 1907. hAput in 6SS days In the
performance of his duties, for which ne
claims the legal rate of 50 day.
DELTA-The Western Slope Veterans
association, which has been in session
here. has enjoyed one of the best meet
ings in its history. Among the other mat
ters of business transacted was the selec-
ton of Fruita as the meeting place for
next ear
I,OVEI,AND = The Loveland public
schools opened with an enrolment of 1854,
of whom 154 are high school pupils, an in
crease over one year ago. There are "a
Instructors in all departments. Until a
new building is completed 1t will be neces-
sary to locate several classes in the base
ment of tie Washington building, while
others will have only halliday sessions.
This is the first year the enrolment the
first day reached the 1000 mark.