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Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22
MINING SHARES
CROW POPULAR
Gold and Copper Stocks Find Quick
Sales in Los AngeIes-ln-
vestors Capture Big
Blocks

THE man who says Los Angeles is
poor mining town does not know what
he is talking about" said a heavy in
Vestor in Nevada good things yester
day. "A year ago it was like looking
for hens teeth to find a man who had
lived long in Los Angeles who would
buy any mining stock. The reason for
this was that Los Angeles had been vic
timized by cumulative credit companies
and wildcat mining promoters, and be-
cause the public of this city at that
time had not been educated in the min
ing industry and were not capable of
separating a good proposition from the
wildcats they were easy prey; but Los
Angeles has changed since then, and
today she is in touch with the mining
world, and the electric wires centering
in our city convey quotations on mining
stocks the same as on railroad stocks
and other Wall street securities
AS a sample of what the legitimat te
brokers and stock and bond men of
Los Angeles are doing for the public
attention is directed to the record of
the F. A Mcdonald company in the
sale of Daisy Extension, Mohawk. jr.,
and Manhattan Wisconsin stocks. TINS
firm was foremost among the local
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22
HARTMAN MAY
BUY SCHOOLHOUSE
SOLUTION OF OLIVE STREET
OBSTACLE SUGGESTED
Board of Education Will Meet Today
to Discuss Proposition to Sell,
Thus Helping Subway
Scheme

Hartman may contribute a large
sum to the Golfers of Los Angeles
school treasury.
He wants the Olive street public
schoolhouse site badly and the board
wants his money Both are agreed on
that.
1t is merely a question of "How
much?"
Harrimans gigantic subway will
pass directly under the Olive street
school when it parallels Fourth street.
The engineers are anxious to keep the
roof of the tunnel as near the surface
of the street as possible in order to
save the cost of boring deeply. and it
is only a question of figuring which
viii be cheapest-to buy the whole
school plot or to sink the tunnel few
feet and necessitate a corresponding
deepening of grade all the way.
Hartman engineers called at the
school board offices yesterday, exhibit
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22

brokers in advocating the listing of all
mining stocks on the San Francisco
mining exchange, and thereby wedding
out the wildcats and dead propositions
the stocks of which were being fioated
| in Los Angeles.
This company promoted Daisy Exten-
sion at cents per share and it Is
now selling on the San Francisco eX-
change at 10 cents bid and II cents
asked. This success was followed by
the tremendous sale of Mohawk, jr.
100000 shares being sold in five days
and which was also promoted at cents
and is now selling on the exchange al
from to 10 cents.
In Sundays papers the F. A. Nc
Donald company announced that they
would open the sale of Manhattan Wis
consin at cents per share Monday.
Yesterday morning the entire first al
lotment of $4,000 shares was oversub-
scribed the first hour of the sale, and
the second allotment of $4,000 was sold
by o'clock in the afternoon, making a
record sale of 100000 shares in a single
day
Who now can say that Los Angeles
is poor mining town?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22

and submitting ordinances in each case.
The report was favorably received
The street ordinances include:
Widening Thirty-eghth street, from
Figueroa street easterly.
Opening Thirty-nnth street. from
Compton to Long Beach avenues.
Sewering Adair street, from Twenty.
first to Twenty-second.
Improving Third street, from 10 feet
west of Trinity street.
Improving Avenue Sixty-one, from
Mesa avenue to Aldama street
Improving Eighteenth street, from
Arapahoe to Hoover.
Sewering Western avenue from
Adams to Twenty-s streets.
Sewering Lucas avenue. from Mary
land street to Hartford avenue.
Sidewalking Bailey street, from New
Jersey street to Brooklyn avenue.
Sidewalking Maryland street, from
Bixel street to Lucas avenue.
Improving Bunker Hill avenue from
Alpine to New Depot street.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22
GOULD PICKS EASY GRADES
Will Cross Sierra Nevadas by Very
Gradual Ascents

Engineers connected with the Western
Pacific surveys and construction have
made public the grades that will pre-
vail.
The great feature of the Western
Pacific is its grade system, the grade
being limited to per cent-52.S feet per
miles.
1t seems incredible that the Sierra
Nevadas should be crossed with so light
a grade, but it is nevertheless a fact.
There are 100 miles of per cent grade
between Oroville and the summit of
Beckwith pass.
Most of the grades through Nevada
and Utah are much less than per cent.
There are no bridges of any magni-
tude on the line. The Sacramento river
is avoided by the use of the Altamont
and Stockton route, and the only large
river crossing is that of the American
river on the north edge of the city Of
Sacramento.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22
Got His Raise

A year ago a manufacturer hired a
boy. For months there was nothing
noticeable about him except that he
never took his eyes off the machine he
was running. A few weeks ago the
manufacturer looked up from his work
to see the boy standing beside his desk.
"What do you want?" he asked
Want my pay raised"
What are you getting?"
Three dollars week.
well, how much do you think you
are WORTH"
-Four dollars"
you think so do you?"
Yes. sir, an I've been thinkin so
blamed busy l haven't had time to
speak to you about it.'-Army and
Navy Life.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22
TO CONNECT WITH
SAN DIEGO LINE
TEXAS & PACIFIC TO ENTER
ARIZONA
Gould Interests Back of Latest Project
to Reach California-Easy
Grades for Western
Pacific
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
Ell PASO, Tex, Jan 21.-The Times
says it is informed that the Texas &
Pacific will begin early this summer
building a line west from El Paso to
connect i'm Arizona with the line to he
built from San Diego east into that ter
ritory, and that the Gould interests are
back of the project
The survey for new line from IGl
Paso to Kansas City, known as the
Kansas City Short Line, has begun,
and it is said the construction of the
road will begin this summer.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22
RAINS PROMPT ACTION
ON STREET BETTERMENTS
BOARD RECOMMENDS PAVE
MENTS AND CULVERTS
North Main, Spring and First Streets
\IiII Get Attention-Drainaee to
Southern Pacific Company's Right
of Way Planned

The heavy rains of last week and
the reaction therefrom has flooded
the board of public works with new
measures to prevent a recurrence of the
street and sewer troubles and to make
neighborhoods more slightly and mud
proof.
Action was taken favorably yester-
day by the city council on a batch OF
recommendations of the board which
will be of much benefit to many To-
calities.
The report in part is:
"The board recommends adoption of
a resolution of authorization for re-
pairing the pavement on North Main
street from First street to the Plaza
on Spring street. from First street to
northerly terminus. and on First street.
from Broadway to Main street under
the emergency provisions of the city
charter.
THE board recommends the adoption
of a resolution authorizing the con-
struction of culverts at Ninth and
Hawthorne streets, in order to provide
proper drainage at this intersection
The railway company will be expected
to pay its proportionate part of the
construction of these culverts, and the
board desires to proceed at once to
have the said work done under the
emergency provision of the city char
ter.
"The board has found that it is
necessary, in order to provide suit
able drainage for storm water on
Twenty-ninth street, Paloma avenue
and Central avenue, to reconstruct &
portion of the gutter and pavement or
Central avenue, to drain the water
southerly from Twenty ninth street tC
the Southern Pacific Railway com
pany's right of way. Plans have beer
prepared by the city engineer for this
change and the board recommends the
adoption of resolution authorizing
it to proceed under the emergency pro-
vision of the city charter to have this
work done"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22
ed their plans and sounded the senti-

ed their plans and sounded the senti-
ment of members in turn.
Because of the neglect or inability
of Harriman's representatives to Sc
cure the right to go under this school
the entire $5O0O,00O subway project
slumbers. The city attorney is with
holding official publication of the or
dinance offering the franchises for
sale because he has been misinformed
as to the rights of the company to
proceed under private and public prop
erty.
The board is expected to meet today
and more than one member is of the
opinion that Hartman should offer
$1,000 foot for the plot or $124000 and
then do as he likes over and above
ground. He can get the ground for
that.
Directors say that the school lies
directly opposite the proposed s1,OO000O
SkyScraper station and office building
which is the keynote of the Hartman
plans, and that $125, 900 is a small sum
to stand in the way of the chain of
improvements which will link Holly
wood and the beaches as closely to the
business center as Eastlake and West
lake parks seem now.
Trainloads of steel. cement and rock
will be en- route to Los Angeles with
in a few weeks after the subway ex-
cavating begins at four different points
on the Fourth street route, and every
day lost means thousands of dollars
wasted, say contractors
The school board expects today a
proposition from the Los Angeles-Pa-
cific and Interurban interests. which is
but another way of saying from Har-
riman."
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22

"Did you hear that noise? What can
it be?" demanded the janitor of the
fashionable apartment house.
His wife went out into the hall and
returned. at was nothing but a rat"
she said.
"Ah," sighed the janitor, greatly re-
lieved 81 thought it was child
Bohemian.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22
Keep Corners Clear

This provides that it shall be unlaw
full for any person to hitch any horse,
mule or other animal or leave stand
ing any bicycle, automobile, wagon or
other vehicle on any street upon which
street cars are operated within sixty
feet of either side line of any street
crossing or terminating in such street.
Violation of the above is made a mis-
demeanor and punishable by fine not
exceeding $50 or by Imprisonment not
exceeding twenty-five days. or by both.
The purpose of this bill is to leave
clear space at corners where pas
sengers get on and off cars, so that
both the passengers and motormen
may have an unobstructed view and
be free from danger of passing traffic
while embarking on or alighting from
cars.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22
Paw Attention. TO Your Eyes

Your eyes are too important to be
trifled with. II they need attention
do It now don't wait Pay visit
to the optical department, third
floor, and have your eyes tested
free. A registered optician in charge.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22
STREET BETTERMENTS
ARE PUSHED FORWARD
CITY CLERK SUBMITS BATCH OF
ORDINANCES
Improvements on 38th, 39th, Adair,
Third, 31st, 61st, 18th, Western,
Lucas, Bailey, Bunker Hill and
Maryland Contemplated

City Clerk Harry Lelande reported q
number of street measures yesterday
against which no protests had been filed
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22
Brakes for Trailers
Warning to Teamsters

Another and shorter ordinance pro-
posed is entitled "An ordinance amend
ing ordinance No. 1885 new series),
entitled An ordinance regulating the
use of bicycles, automobiles and other
vehicles and the driving of horses and
other animals in the city of Los An
geles,' by adding a new section to be
designated as section 3h."
This measure makes 1t unlawful for
driver of any wagon, automobile or any
other vehicle to unnecessarily delay or
obstruct street cars; providing, how
ever, that vehicles of the fire and police
departments shall have right of way,
and hospital ambulances when re-
spending to call.
The third measure is an ordinance
regulating the standing of animals
and vehicles upon the public streets
of the city of Los Angeles within a
certain distance Of street intersections
and examinations.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22

PANAMA, Jan. 21.-A mass meeting
to inaugurate steps for the relief of
the Jamaican sufferers was held here
today. Liberal subscriptions were made.
Committees We're appointed to collect
and distribute a relief fund.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22
Tn, Sale Of White SILK,

Is the most remarkable silk occasion
the Broadway has ever known. More
white silks than we have ever shown
before at one time out at lower
prices, and they are being snapped
up as quick as a flash.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22
TO MAKE TRAVEL
LESS HAZARDOUS
ACCIDENT COMMISSION FRAME
NEW ORDINANCES
Provide Full Stops and Tests on Hills
and Crossings - Tracks and
Corners Must BE Kept
Clear

More ordinances affecting street car
traffic were introduced In the city
council yesterday at the instance Of
the accident commission appointed
under the last administration to study
the question of preventing street car
accidents. They were all referred to
the committee of the whole, which
meets next Monday at 10 a. m.
They are lengthy documents their
tenor being explained to the law maxi
ers on behalf of the commission by
Rev. Bert Estes Howard in the pres
ence of the commissioners. The first
ordinance proposed has seven sections,
which, abbreviated, may be explained
as follows:
Section makes it unlawful for any
one operating a street railway to allow
car to cross any intersecting street
car or steam railroad track, where
there is no gate or flagman. without
coming to a full stop at least ten feet
from the crossing.
Section makes 1t unlawful for street
cars to descend a hill or grade of more
than 4 per cent slope without coming
to a full stop and testing air brakes
before starting to descend.
Section 8 makes it unlawful to run
street cars closer together on the same
track than twenty feet, except in the
case of trailers. But when more than
two cars in succession on same track
are stopped by accident or obstruction
the above applies only to third car or
every second ar alternate car after the
third.
Brakes for Trailers
Section 4 makes trailers unlawful ex-
cept when equipped with automatic
brakes.
Section 5 makes it unlawful to run
cars without stopping for passengers
unless displaying sign or transparency
Take Next Car or words equivalent
Such signs or transparencies to be IL
Illuminated after sunset.
Sections 6 and makes unnecessary
talking to a motorman unlawful and
requires the posting Of notices to that
effect.
Violations of any provisions of the
ordinances are made a misdemeanor
and punishable by fine not exceeding
500 or imprisonment for not more than
fifty days, or by both.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-22

IL BARS SOAP 25c--Its good soap for
laundry purposes.
ROLLING PINS 3oc--Made from German
porcelain.
The Forrest City times., 1907-02-01

by druggists, in fifty cent and one-dollar size bottles. You may have a sample bottle :f
The Forrest City times., 1907-02-01
Repeal the Pension Act.

MT. Editor: In 1861, on April l4th, when the first guns of the civil war were fired at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, my brother and l, in con- pany with eight first cousins, left happy homes in Tennessee, and enlist ed for life or the war. One was killed at Murfreesboro, Tennessee; one at Layerne, Tennessee; my brother at Franklin, one at New Hope Church, Georgia; two died in the hospital, lost my right arm at the shoulder joint, at Chickamauga, Georgia, and only three of the ten were unhurt, and those three and I, with my one arm still remained in the service and surrendered in North Carolina at the end of the war, under Joseph F.. John son.
 Now, not only in behalf of the mem ory of my own family, but the thous- ands who left happy homes and fol- lowed the immortal Albert Sidney Johnson, Joseph F. Johnson, Robert F. Lee, Pat Cleburne, and many other generals who fought in the army of Tennessee and Virginia, l ask and demand that the present legislature repeal and with indelible ink eradi cate the present confederate pension laws of Arkansas They are a dis grace to the state, an insult to the memory of our sainted dead, black spot on the fair escutcheon of the few living eX-rebs, and last but not least, it makes the mothers and women of the eos blush with shame to see that the demagOgue politicians cared so little for them and their soldier boys as to enact the present pension law
 If in your judgment you think Ark ansaS is able and should help main tain the old soldiers, why then pass a decent pension law. In my opinion no man that followed Lee, the Johnsons, Forrest or Morgan for four years, did or ever will get a dollar, though he may be like me with only one arm and no legs. A soldier of the eos has too much manhood, too much pride, too much self respect to swear that he and his wife are imbeciles and too
 lazy to make living for the pitiful sum of sl0 to S75 pension that he might get under the present political demagogue pension law in Arkansas.
 Here l am with one arm and no legs.
The Forrest City times., 1907-02-01
DURBOROW-LEWIS
Genial Iron Mountain Operator and Pretty Forrest City Girl
 Married at Helena.

MT. John Mcclellan Durborow otherwise Max or Maggie" the handsome and genial operator at the Iron Mountain depot, and Miss Lulaf Florence Lewis, daughter of MT. and Mrs. II. W. Lewis, who reside north west of town, just outside the city limits, were happily married in the presence of few friends at the resi- dence of MT. and Mrs. Fred Dauer, friends of the groom, at Helena, Ark ansas, last Sunday afternoon at 3:3O o'clock, Judge Polk officiating.
 The happy couple went down on the morning train, were married, return ed the same evening, and now have apartments in the Long block, where they are at home to their friends.
 The event was quite pleasant sur prise to the relatives and many friends of the happy twain, and is the occasion of many good wishes for their future happiness and prosperity They are deserving of the richest blessings of q kind Providence, and The Times hopes their highest ambi tions and their fondest love dreams may be fully realized.
The Forrest City times., 1907-02-01
Home of BwampRool

pamphlet telling all about Swamp-Root, including many of the thousands of testi- monial letters received from sufferers cured. In writing Dr. Kilmer & Co.,, Binghamton, N. Y., be sure and mention this paper. Don't make any mistake. but remember the name, Swamp oot. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, and the ad- dress, Binghamton, N. Y., on every bottle.
The Forrest City times., 1907-02-01
E. DUNCAN KILLED.
Struck on the Head by a Falling
 Limb-Death Ensues.

"Lige Duncan was killed by fal- ling limb" was the astounding news that rapidly spread over the city early yesterday morning. It was so shock ing and unexpected, that his friends could scarcely believe it nor realize its truth.
 MT. F.. Duncan recently moved with his family to Linden. He had been engaged in the timber business for many years, and was an experienced wo0dsman. On Wednesday afternoon, while engaged in cutting a tree in the overflowed district about ten miles southeast of the city, the strokes of his axe dislodged a large dead limb some twenty or thirty feet above his head. It fell, and glancing from the trunk of the tree struck Mir. Duncan on the head He was in a dugout at the time of the terrible accident and was unable to get out of the way of the falling limb. One of his helpers who was nearby came at once to his assistance and rescue. and conveyed him to his home. He was conscious and suffered terribly while on the way to his house, but rapidly grew worse, and died yesterday morning about } o'clock, despite the efforts of his fam fly and physicians to relieve him.
 The remains were laid to rest in the beautiful Wyld's cemetery today, and were followed by q large number of sorrowing relatives and friends, who paid their last tribute to his memory.
 Lige Duncan, as he was familiarly known and called, was well and favor ably known by nearly everybody in St. Francis county, and had always been a true friend of The Times and it's editors, having been a subscriber for morethan twenty years. We, in com- mon with his family and large circle of other friends and acquaintances, regret exceedingly his sudden death. He came to St. Francis county in 1850, and for many years resided near the Cut Otf He leaves a wife and two sons to mourn their loss, and wonder at the inscrutable ways of Him who doeth all things well.
 To them The Times extends a sin cere and heartfelt sympathy in their great bereavement. He was a good husband and an indulgent father, a liberal proyider, and a safe counsellor, who will be sadly missed in their home.
The Forrest City times., 1907-02-01
aying every year to support men who

aying every year to support men who never heard a Yankee bullet, but were foraging in the "tater" or tur- nip patches of widows, whose hus-
 ands were killed under the John
 sons, Lee, Forrest or Morgan. Now. as to myself, l would not accept a pension under any circumstances, for were I to lose the one arm that I now have, I could make good living in Arkansas for myself and family, but I do believe the man who lost foot or leg, hand or arm, should be paid a pension whether in indigent or af-
The Forrest City times., 1907-02-01

Gentlemen's silk munlers a swell line just received at the Fursell- Graham-Alderson Company.
The Forrest City times., 1907-02-01

Save your faces for Moose and let him photograph them because he will be making them after March l.
The Forrest City times., 1907-02-01
MORE LOCAL.

MT. II. +. r. German, who has been the efficient cashier for the Light & Water Department of the city government for several months, has resigned, and accepted position with Mr. E. k. Norton, the stave man at Benton, Ark. We wish him suc- cess in his new field. MT. John Grob- myer has succeeded MT German as cashier. John is all efficient account ant, and will no doubt make good in his new position. We hope he will find the work to his liking and wish him success.
 Gentlemen's silk mullers-a swell | line just received at the Fursell- Graham-Alderson Company.
 Mr. T. R. Hoshall, of Franks town ship was in town yesterday on buSi- ness, and gave us pleasant call. He saw in The Times of last week about the big hog that was killed by Har- | rison Robertson last week which weighed 445 pounds at seventeen months of age. He says that was no hog at all: that he killed two last Monday that were only fourteen months old, and one dressed 395 and the other 3S0 pounds. They had been fed on corn and would have weighed more than 400 pounds last Christmas. but have fallen off since.
 Save your faces for Moose and let him photograph them because he will be making them after March l.
 Bright's Disease is more dreaded by physicians than any of the serious disorders with which they have to deal because Of its insidious and ma lgnant character. If prompt action were taken when headaches, urinary disorders, digestive troubles first ap- pear, much suffering and sorrow would be ayerted. Prickiy Ash Bitters will qulckly stop the spread of the disease. qulet lhe lnilammation. heal the kid neys and bladder, strengthen and regulate the liver, and drive poisons a,lq impurities out Of the system. J. I. Sanders. special agent
 Tie Swellest line of Valentines ever shown in Forrest City may be seen at the Newsstand.
 The examining trial of S. L. Mack ana wife, charged with the murder of Bird Usher, an account of which was published exclusively in The Times of last week, was held in the sheriffs office Monday and Tuesday, Squire sanders presiding. W. W Hughes, of Marion, and Assistant Prosecuting Attorney C. R. Mathis, of this city, conducted the prosecution, and ". J. Lanler appeared for the defense. The testimony was clearly in favor of the defense, the case was submitted with out argument, and Squire Sanders dismissed the defendants During the triaI Mack admitted that he was not married, and was held by the court on charge of illegal rehabilitation. 10 when he plead guilty, and asked the leniency of the court. Squire Sanders fined them each s25 and costs.