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The Penn's Grove record., 1907-03-15
Honduras Gained Victory

Advices from Honduras confirm the
reports of a N~icaraguan defeat at
Namasiquo, and say that the Hon
durans were victorious in an action
at Tuguare.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-03-15
Manufacturing is Active,

Manufacturing is active the coun-
try over and finished lines of iron
and steel are as brisk as heretofore.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-03-15
Kidnapped

Ezra Morehouse, formerly a preach
er, was arrested in Lima, Ind, for
taking his daughters away from their
mother in Kalamazoo, Mich.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-03-15

Unprecedented Business Activity.
1t is significant that business
placed in most lines and sections dur
ing the last two months exceeds that
of a year ago-a very active period.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-03-15
Germany Announces African Peace.

GefI1any AIFIcan Peace.
Herr Dernburg announced in the
Reichstag that the German Govern
ment expected to declare peace es-
tablished in Southwest Africa on
March 81. and to adopt the conscript
system in the colony.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-03-15
Green Stuff Scarce.

The season has been so cold in the
South that hardly any green stuff is
being forwarded from there.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-03-15
TWENTY-FIVE MEN DROWNED.

Only Two Saved When Boat Cap
sized in the Sacramento.
Redding, Cal.-Twenty-four Greek
laborers started to cross the Sacra-
mento River in a boat at Pitt. The
boat capsized and twenty-five of the
men were drowned.
The men were employed by the
New Delmar-Pitt Railroad.
The Penn's Grove record., 1907-03-15
2-CENT FARE FOR KANSAS.

House Passes the Senate HiIl-Three
Mileage Books Provided.
Topeka, Kan.-The House passed
the Senate Two-Cent Fare DILL.
1t provides for 500, 1000 and 1000
mile-books, and 20O0-mile books to
be interchangeable.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-19
GAS COMPANY WANTS
ASSESSMENT REDUCED
Employees Testify That Electrical
Equipment Is Assessed at Much
Higher Than Rival Companies
Without Cause

Most of yesterday afternoons session
of the city equalization board was taken
up in hearing the protest of the. Los
Angeles Gas and Electric company
against Assessor Walter Mallard's as
sessment.
Secretary R. NJ. Adams, Superintendent
o. c. Miller of the conduit department,
Superintendent E. r. Northmore of cleo
trical distribution, Tax Agent H. G..
Johnson and Assessor Mallard testified,
Attorney George p. Adams representing
the gas company and Deputy City At
torney Emmett p Wilson the city.
AS at the county boards meeting an
effort was made to put the assessor on
the defensive, which course was COM
batted by the city.
Mallard said that he had followed the
rulings of the courts in assessing the
franchise at the difference between the
market value of the stocks and bonds
and the tangible property.
The company's electrical chiefs testi-
fled that the company had ten miles of
conduits here, the Edison company ten
and one-tenth miles and the Pacific
Light and Power company II 14-1OO miles.
In the overhead pole and wire distribu-
ton the ratio was SO7 PIG and 70 miles
for the same companies relatively, the
Los Angeles company leading.
1t was charged that the assessment
was made at $1247 a mile for the Los
Angeles, $514 for the Edison and 1920 for
the Pacific, though they were equally
valuable mile for mile.
The hearing will be resumed early to-
day and continue late.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-19
VETERAN SPENDS FIFTY
CENTS IN Rl0T0US LIVING
Has Temerity to Ask for More, and
and His Guardian objects on
the Ground of Waste
fulness

Half a dozen lawyers and fully twice
as many interested relatives was the
formidable array that filed into the pro-
bate court yesterday to hear the COM
plant of Horace Darling, a Civil War
veteran, against his guardian, Eli New
som.
Darling, who is rs years old, was de-
clared an incompetent, and a guardian
was appointed for him some time ago.
The old soldier claims that the
guardian is too stingy with him and
wants to have the judgment of incom-
potency set aside SO that he can manage
his own affairs.
Darling receives a pension of $50 a
month, which under a federal statute he
is required to share equally with his
wife, she living apart from him.
AS he was not in court yesterday
Judge Rives ordered continuance of the
hearing until July 25, when an effort
will be made to have the old man appear
in person.
In an accounting of the estate Guar
dian Newsom said that he once gave his
ward so cents, which he promptly spent
in riotous living"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-19
CoACHMAN ACCUSED OF
SEEING THINGS AT NIGHT
HEARS STRANGE SOUNDS AND
SUMMONS OFFICERS
Van Nuys Residence Is Found in Per-
feet Order, and Watchful Coach
man Regains composure
and Assurance

The private burglar alarm ana the tele1
nhones from the l. N. Van Nuys residence
at 1445 West Sixth street sounded an
alarming tattoo in the detectives once
at the central police station last night
Detectives Home, Mccain, Busse' Car"
RON and Mcnamara, with half dozen
patrolmen, were promptly dispatched to
the house =,
The officers took an automooile ana al
the regulations on speeding through the
streets and over crossings were broken
score of times.
When the officers arrived at the van
Mugs home they surrounded the place
and with drawn clubs and revolvers pro-
ceeded to make an investigation.
In a rear room, shivering with excite
ment, they found the family coachman.
He announced that there was or mad
been burglars in the place. or at least
he thought there was or had BEEN
An investigation of the mansion showed
all the rooms in proper order, the FUR
niture covered with dust cloths and every
thing put away in good shape.
There were no signs of burglars. The
family is away for the summer and the
caochman is in charge as caretaker. He
became alarmed at an unusual noise and
turned in the alarms.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-19
SUES COMPANY FOR
FRIGHTFU!L INJURY
MRS. BALL RECITES SAD STORY
IN COMPLAINT
ALLEGES She Was Literally Torn from
an Auto by Sagging Street
Car Wires at
Night

Relating tale of suffering and physi-
cal injury that it would seem impossible
for human being to endure and still live,
Mrs. Eunice Ball. who was hurled from
a moving automobile by low hanging
trolley wires at the corner of Ann and
South Main streets February 8, began
suit against the Los Angeles Railway
company for damages aggregatfng Sl3,OOO
Yesterday in the superior court.
Because of living apart from her hus-
hand. from whom she is separated but
not divorced, Mrs. Ball claims that she
is forced to earn her own living and that
her injuries are permanent, thus depriv-
ing her of a means of livelihood.
In the complaint 1t is set fotrh that
the railway company had removed the
wires about a block distant from the
scene of the accident to permit the pass
are of a house that was being moved
through the street. The removal of the
wires. 1t is alleged, caused those at Ann
and Main streets to sag low, ana as no
lights were displayed the plaintiff
chauffeur was unable to see the obstruc-
ton In the darkness at o'clock in the
morning.
The plaintiff claims she was sitting in
the front seat of the auto, which ap-
proached the corner at moderate speed,
and that Sne was StruCh NY ING AZ" w"
with such force as to hurl her from the
seat. twenty feet to the curbstone. She
was knocked senseless and the wires tore
pieces of flesh from her face, broke her
nose in such manner that the bridge
had subsequently TO be removed, leav-
ing a lasting Disagreement to her once
beautiful face
When taken to the hospital 1t was found
that a portion of her left eyelld was miss
ing and a scalp wound that extended up
ward from the left temple to the crown of
her head required twenty-seven stitches.
Her head has at times since become
numb and several attacks of vertigo have
resulted.
Besides the laceration of her head and
face it Is further alleged that the plain
tiff was painfully injured about the pouy
and suffered severe internal injuries that
have caused serious chronic complica-
tiDnS
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-19
SETS DATE FOR TRIAL
OF RAILWAY OFFICIALS
Street Car Men Demand Juries, indi-
eating That a Fight viii Be
Made from All
Points

The street car men arrested Monday on
a charge of operating cars without fen
ders were arraigned before Justice Fred
erickson yesterday. All pleaded not guilty
and asked for a jury trial.
]. Mcmillan, the general superintendent
of the Pacific Electric and Los Angeles
Interurban lines, was arraigned on two
counts and one trial was set for August
70 and the other for August 10. Robert
p. Sherman of the Los Angeles-Paci1c
line was told to appear for trial August o.
1t was expected the street car men
would demand a trial by court, for they
are expected to wage a long, technical
legal battle, but the choosing of jury
would indicate that they are going to
fight the case on fact as well as on tech
nicalities.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-19
THEFT OF LEMONS
WILL BE STOPPED
RESIDENTS OF HOLLYWOOD ARE
UP IN ARMS
Wholesale Outrages Against the Crow
ers Results In Shotgun
Guard over Many
Orchards

Aroused by the loss of hundreds of
boxes of lemons, Hollywood growers OF
the citrus fruit are beginning to take
active measures to protect their crops
from the depredations of proving
thieves who have been reaping a harvest
not their own during the past two
months At several of the orchards
guards are being stationed, armed with
shotguns loaded for bear" and the next
thief who tries to appropriate load of
fruit which he has not helped to raise
will meet with warm reception.
Almost all the growers through the
Cahuenga valley have suffered to a
greater or less degree during the past
two months. r. H. Jones, whose or
chard is situated at Seward and Foun-
tain avenues, had his wagons all loaded
ready to haul the fruit to the produce
exchange the next morning. During the
night thieves, evidently provided with
wagon, took eighteen boxes of lemons
from the owners wagons. Mr.. Phillips,
another grower, had much the same ex-
perience and lost several boxes. From
the orchard of c. H. Soules the mis-
creants took eight boxes. At another
place they found the wagons loaded for
the next morning standing on back
street and emptied half the lemons from
each box into their own conveyance. w.
o. jackson of Prospect avenue is another
grower VINO lOSI many boxes OIL 1rult.
The climax came about week ago
when widow, owner of Hollywood
orchard, who had her entire crop picked
and ready for market, was robbed. Dur
ing the night the marauders came and
stole all but two boxes.
The growers are of the opinion that
the thieves have spies stationed around
the lemon district, and when they see a
load of empty boxes going to an orchard
thaU watch the nlara and raid II the
next night.
The continued depredations have at
last so aroused the growers that guards
are being stationed and the thief who
strikes a guarded orchard unawares will
probably cease his pilfering for a while.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-19

tongs have already made preparations for
death.
So serious has the situation become that
a consultation at which 1t was discussed
was held last night in the office of Police
Captain Broadhead between that officer
Mayor Haraper and Police Commissioner
Nathan Cole. 1t was decided to do all
possible to prevent any outbreak, and all
Chinese found bearing arms will be ar
rested and questioned at the central sta
ton.
The police are said to have stirred up
a feeling against them by removing from
Apablasa street a fortune teller who was
thought to be a spy in the employ of
Chinese not belonging to any tong, but
who favor the Hop Sings. This man was
looked upon as q dangerous character by
the police and was removed for that
reason.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-19
FOREMAN KILLED BY
SPEEDING BEACH CAR
w. D. HALLIDAY HURLED TO
DEATH AT GRAHAM STATION
Falls to Notice Approach of Electric
and Steps from Place of
Safety to His
Death

w. D. Halliday, foreman of construc-
ton for the Pacific Electric, was instant
ly killed by being struck by Newport
Beach car at Graham station at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning.
Halliday was standing behind tele-
graph post when the car approached. His
mind was evidently occupied with other
matters, for as the car drew near the
foreman stepped to the track. The mo-
torman made frantic efforts to bring the
car to a stop, but he was too late.
Halliday lived with his wife at SAG Mis-
sion road. His only child, boy, died
few months ago.
The body was brought to Los Angeles
and taken to Pierce Brothers undertake
ing establishment. where an inquest will
be held this morning.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-19
RAILROAD MAKES REDUCED
RATES TO PEACE CONFERENCE

AS an incentive to attendance at the
industrial peace conference, which will be
held in San Francisco July %, "a and %,
the Southern Pacific Railroad company
will make special rates for excursionists
who attend the conference. A rate of
one fare and a third for the round trip
will be in force until July 20.
Tickets will be issued on the receipt
certificate plan. Certificates. after being
certified to by the secretary of the con-
ference, will be honored for a return trip
at one-third rate. Certificates must be
presented to some agent in San Fran
cisco between the 23d and 9th.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-19

Knicker-I hear that there was a rail-
road accident.
Bocker-Yes. a whole day passed with
out the president making a speech
against them.-New York Sun.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-19
Card of Thanks to
LOS ANGELES, Cal.
July 10, 1907
w. FRANK FISHER.

Recorder l.. A. Lodge No. 55:
My dear sir: desire to express to you,
at this time, my sincere thanks for the
prompt payment of the beneficiary of
$1,000 due me on the death of my husband,
and also for the kind care and attention
shown him during his last hours and to
me in my sad loss.
Again thanking you for all you have
done and Wishing increased success to
Respectfully yours,
(signeO MARY ADELIA GUTHRIE.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-07-19
WOMAN WHO PROTECTED
FRIEND MUST STAND TRIAL
Evelyn Ferguson, Alleged to Have
Shot George Wilson Because He
Was Attacking Her
Companion

The preliminary examination of Evelyn
Ferguson, on a charge of assault with
intent to commit murder, was in Justice
Chambers court yesterday continued I'M
til July 80 in order that the complaining
witness may be in court.
Miss Ferguson is said to have shot
George w. Wilson in the back in row
which occurred in the lodging house at
526 West Sixth street last June.
Former Patrolman Charles II. Norris
was mixed up in the affair in an I'M
favorable light and was dismissed from
the force by the police commission after
a trial. He did not appear on the witness
stand yesterday.
The evidence introduced by the prose-
cuton yesterday showed that all of the
people concerned in the trouble had been
drinking and were very much excited.
1t was stated that the reason that Miss
Ferguson interfered when Wilson was
pummeling Grace was that she knew that
doctors had told Miss Rhyme that she had
weak heart, and the any excitement or
strain might cause her death.
Believing that her friend was in danger,
Miss Ferguson is said to have taken the
quickest means possible to get Wilson
away from her.
Witnesses yesterday said she shot him
in the back and was only-restrained from
further violence by Norris, the discharged
patrolman.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-05-25
w. "A. Dubard's Candidacy.
To the democratic voters OF the 2Sth
Senatorial District:

To the democratic voters OF the 2Sth
Senatorial District:
Having heard that Mr.. Harper,
my opponent, was making harsh and
damaging charges against me and
without knowing or even asking
what they were, l waited until l met
him, when upon request he made and
signed the following statement:
'These are the things that l have
said about Mr.. w. M. Dubard in my
canvass: Ask Mr. Dubard if he is a
democrat; he failed 60 answer on the
stump eight years ago. II he says he
is, then ask him if he was democrat
in Carpet Bag period. l have said
that he run for the legislature on the
republican ticket and was defeated
for the nomination by a republican
negro and that he was out until
eleven or twelve o'clock at. night with
Lincoln, Kelly and Price teaching the
negroes how to vote the republican
ticket. All that | have said of him,
or charges made against him, are
based and grounded on the truth Of
the above. Frank III. Harper"
Witness. T. J. Brown.
Thereupon | secured the following
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-05-25
Miss Norwood OH Decoration
DaN.

We should indeed thank God that
we have had the sweet privilege of
meeting together this beautiful Sab
bath morning for the purpose of
worshiping our God and in memory
of our dear loved ones, who are now
dead. We are indeed thankful that
we have the kind spirit Of nature
that binds us so closely together in
this life, and causes us to weep, when
God sends his death angel and calls
our loved ones home. Yet we rejoice
in the spirit of hope, for we know
Christ died, was buried, and resurect-
ed on the third day and that he has
said in his blessed book, that we also
should be resurected at the last day,
and as we pass sadly around the
graves of our dear relatives and
friends today let us rejoice in the
hope that we will meet them again
when we meet our blessed Savior.
AS we look upon the silent cemetery
this morning let US try to reflect
over the lives of our beloved and call
to memory some sweet influence that
they welded over our life or the
lives of others, while they walked
with us here upon earth.
Then it is our great duty to care
for our cemetery, the place Of our
dead. We should think upon them
as sacred ground and we should visit
them and place sweet scented flower
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-05-25
Solve These Riddles.

l. Why is loaf of bread on tie
top of the Eiffel Tower like a race
horse?
?. Why is an acquitted prisoner
like gun?
3. Why are horses little needed in
the Isle of Wight?
4. Why can negroes be safely
trusted with secrets?
5. Why was Uncle Toms Cabin -
not written by a female hand?
6. Why is bridegroom often
more expensive than q bride?
:. What is the difference between
a person late for the train and a
school l-mistreSS?
8. Why may carpenters reasonably
believe there is no such q thing as
stone?
Answers to riddles given last week
l. Construct a fifth.
>. Because it draws and colors
beautifully.
;. The SwellS Of the ocean.
t. One loves cot and parrots and
the other loves Pat and carrots.
3 Because he is pretty sure to be
riddled to death.
6. Because there is host put out
and not one guest. (gueSSedD.
I. One is to be well shaken before
taken and the other to be taken and
then shaken.
s. Smiles, because there is a mile
between the first and last letters.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-05-25
Relief from Rheumatic Pains.

Il suffered with rheumatism for
over two years" says Mr.. ROLAND
Curry, a patrolman, of Key West,
Fla. Sometimes it settled in my
knees and famed me so / could hardly
walk, at other times it would be in
my feet and hands SO l was incapa-
ciated for duty. One night when l
was in severe pain and lame from it
my wife went to the drug store here
and came back with a bottle of Cham
berlain S Pain Balm. | was rubbed
with it and found the pain had nearly
gone during the night. [ kept on
using it for a little more than two
weeks and found that it drove the
rheumatism away. | have not had
any trouble from that disease for
over three months. " For sale by End
Glass Drug Store.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-05-25

upon the little mounds that hold the
decayed bodies Of our loved ones. In
placing these beautiful flowers upon
the graves Of our friends, we do it
with the emblem Of love for it is the
only way that we can show to the
world that we have not forgotten our
dead, but still hold their memory
dear.
Then let us think upon our own
lives and see whether or not we are
prepared to meet this death which
we know is sure to come, and let us
try to so live that when we have
passed away and friends are passing
around our graves that they may be
able IS say that our lives were well
spent. We trust that none of us
have met here today for any purpose,
but to worship the living God, for
indeed this should be religious SER
vice and a solemn occasion.
AS we walk over, the silent city of
the dead, let US not be thinking of
the vain and foolish things of this
world, but let US think those dear
lives, who once walked with us here,
and whose bodies are now sleeping
beneath the sod
Now let US place sweet flowers
upon each and evey grave and we
trust that when we are gone, friends
will care for our graves and Strow
sweet flowers upon them.
WILLIE NORWOOD.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-05-25
statements:
Elliott Station, Miss, May IA, 1907
am we'll acquainted with the poll

Elliott Station, Miss, May IA, 1907
l am well acquainted with the poll
tical conditions Of the Carpet Bag
period and was an active participant
in the political struggles of that per!
iod. Mr.. w. Nj. Dubard did not af-
fliate with them nor was he charged
with any sort Of political wrong until
at the convention Of 1877, when he,
with others, bolted the convention in
the interest of Captain M. X. Mister.
Il. B. Williamson.
We subscribe to the above state
ment of Rev. II. B. Williamson. Un-
til the convention of 1877 Mr.. w. M.
Dubard was in perfect accord with
the democratic party.
W. G. Penn, J. b. CrOwder, J. E.
Hughes, w. e. Smith, H. b. Pea
cock, w. Beard, w. b. Winter, Jas.
r. Heath, r. M. Mason.
The above named gentleman are
we'll known citizens, of Grenada
county, than whom for truth and
veracity none stand higher. They
signed these statements not as my
friends or partisanS, but as high
minded men who are unwilling that
injustice should be done any man.
They speak what they know to be
true and what l know to be true.
l was never a candidate or applicant
for office of any kind or character un-
til 1889, when, even after l had
withdrawn, | received a large sup
port in the democratic convention.
With only the further statement
that for more than twenty years l
have actively participated in all the
democratic primaries and conventions,
without single break, and that too,
without challenge or objection, l wait
the time with pleasure when | shall
have an opportunity to meet the peo-
pie in public and there state facts,
leaving them to do what they con-
ceive to be just and rightr l have
nothing to hide. Respectfully,
w. M. Dubard,
Candidate for state senator.
Grenada, Miss, May 20, 1907.
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1907-05-25
Acreage Value of Southern Crops.

The strength Of the Southern ag-
ricultural situation is illustrated in a
comparison of the value of crops per
acre as given by the census of 1906.
Though the value of agricultural pro-
ducts has very largely increased since
hen the relative valuations per acres
are about the same, and these official
figures illustrate the possibilities of
the South as compared with other
sections. Taking the entire country,
the general average value per acre for
different crOnS WAS as follows: