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Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-11
SUMMARY OF THE News
FORECAST
For Los Angeles and vicinity:
Fair Monday; light west wind.
Maximum temperature yesterday,
65 degrees; minimum, 55 degrees.
FORECAST
LOCAL


crazed by insomnia Mrs. w. R.
Slaight shoots self through head.
Walter Anson, accused of robbing
three houses In night, captured, arter
chase; through woman's instinct.
Interruption of holdup men saves H.
C. Stilwell 5000 and watch; pair escape
with SIS.
Invalids saved at last moment in early
morning fire in sanitarium; rescuer IN
iured Fortune in bills destroyed.
Launches collide and float overturns
in rush of thousands to visit battle
ships off Long Beach; scores in danger.
italian government demands return
of rare relics from Roman excavations
from Los Angeles tourist.
Friends of accused alleged Mexican
revolutionists plan mass meeting in
their behalf.
Horse, maddened by paper, dashes
off, leaving girl and men injured.
L. A. Mesmer. prominent citizen and
son of pioneer of Los Angeles, dies.
View of love presented by novels and
drama false, trashy and unreliable,
says DIR. Henry.
FOREIGN
AS result of Emperor Williams visit
to England ttiouble arises In the great
English fleet; admiral and commander
clash. -
Demand for gold continues strong In
German capital -
Friends of Secretary of War Taft in
London express wish that he Will visit
that city.
American cruisers are given big re-
ception at Rio Janeiro
Municipal elections in Italy are I'M
portant; clerical forces lose.
Disastrous floods cause big damage
in Italy
Pope sends benediction to dying
official of the italian government.
Accused Italian stirs up an ugly
scandal in Milan.
COAST
Skeleton of man killed in 1889 near
Redding is identified.
Street car conductor in Oakland muir
ders his young wife and kills self.
One boy is killed and two injured
while hunting ducks at Yreka.
Mexican bankers will hold meeting to
discuss financial situation.
EASTERN
Chicago attorney outlines currency
and corporation reforms to President
Roosevelt
Work of preparing great battleship
way ~
Financial situation in New York and
other eastern cities is clearing.
Two Kentuckians quarrel over eiec-
ton bet and fight duel; one Is killed,
the other wounded
Butler tries to kill son of New
York millionaire.
First snow of the season falls in
Nebraska.
The Washington herald., 1907-09-15
SCHOOLS FOR TRAINING OF DIVERS

and screws on the shoulders 30 tightly
that the water cannot penetrate the joint
Air Is pumped down to him by a pipe
made Of canvas. and rubber and outlet
valves, which only open oUtwardly, are
placed ct convenient places 70 permit
the vitiated air 70 escape These valves
are extremely important. as by them the
diver can regulate his supply Of air.
In addition TO THIS pipe the diver has a
lifeline enabling him 70 communicate
with his assistants above water. This
was formerly done by a series OF con-
certed tugs or jerks on the line, but the
method IS being superseded as a means Of
communication by the telephone, the
wires being conveyed by the lifeline. lie
therefore touches the button and talks
as If he We're In the city.
Another great improvement is the use
Of the electric lamp. though in some West
Indian waters a diver can see clearly FOR
some distance. In other waters again the
darkness is intense twenty or thirty feet
down The weight Of the dress is eX-
traOrdinary and is necessary to enable
the diver 10 maintain his stability. His
helmet weighs considerably over a quar-
ter Of a hundred-weight, and his boots
taken together, about as much, while Il
these be not sufficient, ne claps lead upon
his shoulders
The Washington herald., 1907-09-15
CLOSING OF MOSCOW BOOKSHOPS

country to-day, yet It is for this class
alone that the government still per-
sists in passing arbitrary relief bills"
the latest Of which is the new election
law. Eighteen months ago a raging flame
Of popular Indignation would have swept
across the length and breadth CT the land
To-day everything is received with a
shrug of the shoulders and an expression
Of confidence in the future. Despotic
edicts of local officials are no longer
heard with a scowl, but with tongue in
cheek.
The prisons and police lock-ups are filed
to suffocaton; executions by martial law
take place by threes and fives every day;
long trains Of exilcs TO remote corners
OF the empire leave Moscow every few
days; no man may speak above his
breath any Of the opinions which ninety
nine men out Of every hundred have held
for a year past. and spoken Of without
reserve up TO a week ago; newspapers
appear in the form Of sheets Of adver-
tisements. the rest blank, or use the Ian
guage Of the Sphinx, or even cease alto
gether-eveTything, in word, is going
on as in the good old times.
But the people bear themselves with
confidence. exercise caution without fear.
and 10 longer rage impotently. II am
not very greatly mistaken, this is no more
the Russian good nature'-by which is
really means what we call either apathy
or stupidity-but a new feeling altogether
in Russia The people have been con
fstitutionalized. and nothing else matters.
Whatever the bureaucracy may do, the
end viii be the same; in fact, the more
glaringly bureaucratic they show them
selves now the sooner that end will come.
I happened 10 witness IN one OF the
principal streets Of Moscow recently the
The Washington herald., 1907-09-15
Instances of New Feeling Among
Russian People,
Literature that Is Read and How
IL Is observation-disclosures Power
and Infiunce of the Mobiles.

It IS not two years since the Gar prom
ised over the sign manual political free
dom 20 his people. and in that short space
Of time the whole face Of Russia has
changed. SO Tar as the people of Russia
are concerned, writes the Moscow CORE
spondent Of the London Evening Stand
ard. the old regime is still in full force.
yet the people have ceased to be i'm
pressed with a sense Of their servile con-
dition. They no longer react, as the sci
enlist says, to the biting acids OF ar
bitraTy tyranny.
Those who know and yet despise the
Russian people-and they are mostly
themselves Russians. but OF the ancient
caste OF MOBILES" es"-explain the change
as due to that pre-eminent quality Of the
Russian, good nature. otherwise an
infinite capacity for sufferance. 4, is
upon this traditional quality OF the Rus
sian people that all the schemes OF re
form" propounded by the government
are ultimately based. They all presuppose
that the Russian will continue forever 20
suffer the whips and scorns of a caste
which was practically destroyed forty
years ago at the emancipation.
The mobiles" of Russia, as such, have
very little power and influence in the
The Washington herald., 1907-09-15
Science Helps Them to Work at the
Bottom of the Sea.
Use Of Electric Lamp and Life Line
Great Aid to Men
. Under Water.

The admiralty trains divers, and every
British war ship carries at least one
representative Of the craft and frequently
more. There are training schools at
Portsmouth, Devonport, and SheeTness,
says the London News.
One Of the difficulties with which divers
have to contend is probably not realized
by a landsman, namely, that the greater
the depth the greater is the pressure Of
water on the mans body. and the greater
the labor and exhaustion of working
The naval authorities limit their men TO
depth OF 20 feet. The greatest depth
30 which q man has descended IS said by
Siebe 70 have been 2O4 feet and the pres
sure at that depth wss extraordinary,
namely, SS5z pounds 20 the square inch
One wonders how any human being could
stand It. Twelve fathoms. or about 20
feet, would be enough for most men. The
ears and nose would probably begin 10
,}.sad and the pressure on the head would
be very serious. a practiced diver can,
Of course. descend much deeper without
such unpleasant sensations.
His dress costs more than a hundred
pounds; it is of tanned twill and rubber
and made in one piece. with a big open
ing at the neck. The helmet Is OF copper
The Washington herald., 1907-09-15
STARTED FRENCH WALKING.
DIR. TrOnchin First TO Urge PHriSIHns
20 Take Constitutional.
From The Westminster Gazette

From the Westminster Gazette.
The celebrated Dr. Tronchin, friend of
Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot, was the
inventor of walking. In France until his
epoch G7c4-SD the leisured class never
walked either for health or recreation.
Walking was only practiced by the Tiers
Etat. Folks footed it from one place TO
another simply because they possessed
neither coach nor sedan chair. Dr. Tron-
chin. an initiator in many other respects,
induced 'les elegants ct les elegantes, -
writes a historian to take what is now
called a constitutional To stroll abroad
was named 'tronchiner" after the In
ventOr. and for their airings both sexes
had special costumes and shoes. the lat
ter being more especially necessary. The
verb 'tronchiner," by the way has not
had the fate Of our Ito boycott" having
passed into disuse long ago.
The Washington herald., 1907-09-15

ceremony of closing a bookshop," one
of the favorite police methods Of repres-
sion. The district chief Of police was af-
fixing his seals to the door in the pres
ence CT an amused crowd while sotto
voce passed around good humored re-
marks which may be rendered AT It
again." The same old game" and the
like
In fact. people rather pitied the police,
the ordinary police. for their futility. The
ordinary police rather pity themselves.
They have secured pretty Sood pay by
threatening strikes in the last year, but
they are still under the orders Of the
secret political police, or gendarmerie.
the blue pigeons. whom all Russia
hates. fears, and despises. II is by or
derS based on gendaTmerie spies infor-
nation that bookshops are shut and al
most every other act of senseless tyr
amy IS carried out. These are the Of
lcials who spend lavishly the resources
of an impoverished treasury in creating
political crimes" and Incidentally demor-
alizing the public by their universal spy
system.
The other day I saw couple of izvos-
ciki (the Russian ''caby )-here boys
refuse two fares in succession, and scent
ing. something interesting, -contrived 20
hear the following suggestive exchange
Of ideas: d"
What do you get, then?" Eight ru-
bles day (Which is a fortnight's wages
for his class of work.. 80 do I until
I traced So-and-sO. and now they give
me ten rubles a day" They were DO
lice spies. and could afford TO neglect
fares under the circumstances.
Another class Of people whose occupa-
ton enables them to hang about the
streets indefinitely is the beggars. and
in spite Of the strictest orders against
allowing beggars to loiter, their number
has never been so great as now, nor diH
the regular ordinary police ever pay so
little attention to them.
The Washington herald., 1907-09-15

skirt are Joined with a belt, the waist
consisting Of a deep yoke and full body
part. A deep bertha such as small girls
wear with much becomingness completes
the frOck. and may be prettily trimmed
with lace If desired. Full-Iength and
shorter sleeves are provided for In the
pattern, the latter being finished with a
narrow hand Of material or lace. such
a dress might be made Of any seasonable
material and serve any season Of the
year. For the medium size yards Of
S2-inch material are needed.
Sizes. 4 s. s. 10, and Z years.
a pattern of this may be obtained by
inclosing 10 cents IN stamps and ad-
dressing Pattern Department, The
Washington Herald. 734 Fifteenth
street northwest, giving number (26S5l
and size wanted.
The Washington herald., 1907-09-15
The Real Oriental Question.

From the indianapolis News.
E The presence Of Orientals competing
or working IN this North American conti-
nent will not be submitted to-nor we
should say In any British colony That
is tho real question that wise statesmen
ship In England and this country has
got to face.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-01

WANTED: 10 men in each state to
travel, distribute samples of our goods
and tack signs 5 ,lary sS5 per month;
50 per day for expenses. SANDERS CO.,
Dept p, 46 jackson Boulevard. Chica-
go, Ills. lib
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-01
Summons for Publication.

In the Superior court of the State of Wash
ington in and for Nittitas County.
Mayettu Sumner plaintiff vs., Harry f. sum-
her defendant
The STATE of Washington to the said Harry +.
Sumner defendant: You are hereby sum
moned to appear within sixty days after the
to wit. within sixty days after the 18th day of
January 1907 and defend the above entitled ac-
tion in the above entitled court and answer the
complaint of the plaintiff. and serve a copy of
your answer upon the undersigned attorney for
plaintiff at his Office below stated; and in case
of your failure to do. Judgment will be
rendered against YOU. according to the demand
of the complaint. which has been filed with the
clerk of said court.
The object of this action is to dissolve the
bonds of matrimony now existing between the
plaintiff and defendant. and to award the
custody of the minor children to the plaintd.
T.. f.. WAC Err,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Pc. address, Ellcnsburg kittitas county
State Of Washington, 36vu
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-01
BANKERS RESERVE LIFE COMPANY of

Omaha, Nebraska. All policies are re-
served by a deposit on approved secur-
ties. Its Policies Are Not Exceled in the
World. Its cheaper than fraternal in
surance and better investment than a
deposit in a Savings Bank. w. A.
TliON AS, local agent Headquarters
Ut Dawn Office. tiff
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1907-03-01
Bros,

Dealers in Produce and Poultry. High
est market price paid for hides and
pelts. Pine street
ONE BLOCK NCRTH OF NEW II. O
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
MAY MOVE q. W. SHOPS.
Railway Officials May Strike Blow at
Oe!v,ein.

Railway Officials May Strike Blow at
Oe!wein.
,s.efs Moines.--It is announced from
O.oT4tative source that the strike
NOW tying UP the Great Western rail
way shops at Dubuque, Oelwein, st,
Paul and other points will result dis
a$trously to the town Of Oelwein and
adyantageously to Des Moines, Du'
buque, Fort Dodge and St. Paul.
The company is determined to pro-
tect itself against what it terms the
unjust demands of the men. 1t has
declared that the walkout is unrea,
sonable and has not the support OF
even the sympathy Of the other organ
izations represented in railway work
The plan of the Great Western in
brief is thus: 1t is proposed tt dc
away with the big shops at Oelwein
wherein are employed 1000 men, and
place them at the four points named
Signs Of increased activity are not
iceable at the small shops of the roaG
here and advices from Dubuque state
that three cars are located on the sid
ing at the Dubuque shops where thirty
machinists and boiler makers are OF
strike. New men, who are being car
ed for on the grounds, are at work
The railway company, 1t is asserted
is determined to have nothing to d.
with the strikers. They made them
they assert, all the concessions tina
reasonably could be asked-all tina
was asked by and granted to othe:
railway workers.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
EDITOR GRANTED NEW TRIAL

Logan.-A. H. Sniff. editor of the
Harrison County News at Missouri
Valley, convicted of murder in the
second degree for killing Mort"
Brundige, was granted a new trial by
Judge Green, the motion filed by his
attorneys being unopposed by counsel
for the state. The date of the new
trial has not been fixed.
Shifts appeal for a new trial was
based on objections to Attorney L. 7.
Genung's address to the jury in sum
ming up the evidence for the state,
1t was alleged that Genung went out
side the evidence and recounted in.
cidents in the life of the %defendan,
which had no bearing on the cast on
trial. 1t was also alleged that the
jury's verdict was the result of pas
sion and prejudice. No opposition
was made to the granting Of the mo
ton.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
DOCTOR sTABs HIMSELF.
DR.. Getz of MarshaIltown Now In
Iowa City Hospital.

Iowa City.-Dr. H. L. Getz, former
mayor of Marshalltown and at pres.
ent president OF the school board in
that city, stabbed himself in the left
side with an amputating knife on the
West Liberty depot platform. He
was at once brought to the state uni.
versity hospital where he now lies
in a very serious condition.
The cas- seems to be one of men.
tai collapse, which, together with a
fear of a return to the state hospital
for the insane at Mount Pleasant,
where Mr.. Getz has formerly been
treated, caused the man to stab him.
self after threatening the lives Of
several people about him.
He said he never would go back;
that no one could make him; that
they treated him like a dog, and
' other statements of the kind.
A telephone call was sem to Mar.
shall Wiley of West Liberty and he
came hurriedly to the depot. He
walked toward DR.. Gctz, who con.
tinually backed away from him.
Don't you touch me. You can't take
me-" he said. Marshal Wiley told
! him that he didn't want to take him
and that he only wanted to talk to
him. He advanced and Getz retreat.
ed and they covered considerable dis.
tance-the marshal attempting to
calm the excited man, who still held
his knife in his hand. Wiley finally
succeeded in getting within about
six feet of Getz, when he placed his
knife on the inside of his coat. Mr..
Wiley thought he was placing the
knife in his pocket and would give
himself up, but instead he thrust the
knife into his left side just below the
heart. He never changed c%ountenance
and looked the marshal directly in
the eye all the time he did the deed,
Getz braced himself for a moment and
then threw the knife at the feet OF
Mr.. Wiley. The wounded man was
helped into the depot and medical
aid summoned. The wound bled pro.
fusely. The doctor is said to be a
victim of the morphine habit.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
PROSECUTOR IN HEARING OF
STANDARD CASE, CHARGES
TRUSTEES STILL CONTRIB.
SHREWD SCHEME TO
AVOID
Witness TiIford Questioned by Attor-
ney Kellogg as to Deal with the
Peoples Gas Company Of Chicago
and Indianapolis Gas Company.

New York, Sept. 24.-At Mondays
Standard Oil hearing before Special
Master Ferriss Attorney Frank B.
Kellogg for the government took up a
new line of inquiry and asked w. H.
Tilford, the witness, if it were not a
fact that the only stock Of the twenty
subsidiary companies distributed be-
tween 1892 and 1899 was 474,619 out of
972, 500 shares which were allotted to
certain stockholders, including John
D. Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler, H.
H. Rogers and fourteen other stock
holders. Mr.. Tilford said he did not
know.
Says He Will Show Stock Deal.
MI. Kellogg said he purposed show
ing that, in order to avoid the injunc-
ton of the court preventing the voting
Of trustees certificates for a major
ity of the stock of the subsidiary COM
panies and that they as individual
stockholders still maintain control of
the company. Mr.. Tilford did not
illuminate the issue which Mr.. Kel-
logg desired to make clear and Mr..
Milburn i%nterposed that the records
were sufficient evidence. The witness
was unable to say whether these
474,619 trustees certificates were the
only certificates liquidated after 1892.
Mr.. Milburn then took up the cross
examination of Mr.. Tilford, who testi-
fed that the Standard Oil company
had about 5000 stockholders.
Chicago Contract Brought In.
Earlier in the session Mr.. Tilford
testified that the Manhattan Oil com
pany of Ohio had sold to the Standard
company 754 tank cars between 1899
and 1901. The purchase was made
for the Standard company by a sub
sidiary company, the Union Tank
Line. Mr.. Tilford could not say wheth-
err the Standard made any contract
to supply certain gas companies with
oil when it took over the Manhattan
Oil company.
"As a matter of fact you don't know
that the Standard made a contract
with the Indianapolis Gas company
and the Peoples Gas Light and Coke
company of Chicago?"
Eyes, such a contract was made in
$780," said Mr.. Tilford.
"And was not that contract made
because e. G. Benedict and Anthony
N. Brady would not sell the Manhattan
Oil company unless gas companies
guaranteed a supply of oil for
ten years?"
II don't know that the contract was
made for that reason" answered Mr.
Tilford. 81 know the contract was
made for two years"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
HOG CHOLERA is SPREADING.
Disease in Worst Form is Ravaeina
Herds Near MarshalItown.

ncTCS Near MdFSndIllOWn.
Marshalltown.-Hog cholera in its
worst form form has stricken herds
of this country, most of them being
On farms between unls city and Lee
grand. Hogs are dying by the hun
dreds, and the indications are that
entire herds will be wiped out be-
fore the disease can be checked.
Albert johnson of Lynnville, who
owns a large stock farm managed by
Carl Meredith, three quarters of a
mile northwest of Legrand, is the
heaviest loser so far, 232 head, OF al
most his entire herd, having died.
Roy Elery, southeast Of this city, has
lost sixty head out of a herd of sew
enty-fve. Ellis Baily, just southeast
Of town, has lost twenty-four head,
and 3. J.. Robb, a neighbor, eighteen.
J. R. Bradbury, John Rank, Carver
Ferguson and several other farmers
have sustained losses varying in size.
An examination Of the carcases proves
that cholera is the disease with which
the animals have become infected, al.
though for a time the disease was
pronounced lung fever.
The Texas fever situation which
prevails in the southern part of this
county near Rhodes, in north Jasper
and eastern Story counties, is still
prevalent. While the disease is not
making any great Roadway. cattle are
dying, and the disease has not been
stamped out by any means. 1t is
thought that a frost will check the
disease, as it is said that cold weather
kills the tick that infects the AMI
mails by burrowing through the hide
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
REscuEs CHILD FROM WELL.
Perry Girl Goes Down After Drowning
Child.

CnlIQ.
Perry.-Descending into a deep
we'll after the fashion of a chimney
sweep, Miss Nell Van Leuvan of this
city had a miraculous escape from
drowning, having risked her own life
in an effort to save that Of little Phil.
lip Reed, two and one-half years old,
who had fallen into the we'll.
The child. with his sister Rather.
inc, 5 years of age, were playing in
the back yard at the home of T. R.
Phillips, where Miss Van Leuven had
taken them to spend the afternoon
The baby climbed onto the platform
of an old well, when a couple of
planks gave way, allowing him to
plunge down a distance of fourteen
feet into about six feet of water. The
little girl ran into the house, scream
ing and told that her brother had
fallen into the water. Miss Van Leu
a as soon as she had taken in the
appalling situation, with rare presence
of mind, jerked aside the remainder
of the platform and descended into
the well by means of her hands and
feet and main strength. The we'll
was walled up with brick and is less
than three feet across.
Miss Van Leuvan succeeded in
reaching the child and keeping his
head above water until Mrs. Phillips
and daughters procured a ladder and
lowered it into the we'll. The plucky
young woman reached the top with
great difficulty, and handed the al.
most lifeless baby to Mrs. Phillips.
who soon resuscitated it. Only a few
seconds longer and it would have been
dead. The pieces of plank had fallen
into the we'll first and the little fellow
had evidently held onto them a con.
siderable length of time.
The mother Of the Reed children
died about a yea ago, and it was her
last request that Miss Van Leuvan
should take the little ones and care
for them. Their father resides Ia
Coicssdo.
Tbs people of Perry think Miss Van
Leu II is entitled to a Carnegie
medal.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1907-09-26
Insane Convict Free Again.

Marshalltown.-Word received here
by Clerk of Courts Lounsberry
from Supt. w. P. Crumbacher of the
state hospital for the insane at indie
pendence tells Of the escape of Burt
Morgan of this city, an insane ex-con.
Wet. Morgan has escaped no less
than five times since his transfer
from the penitentiary to the insane
asylum, and twice was recaptured. in
this city and returned to the asylum
He escaped only a few weeks ago and
was taken at Boone and returned tt
the hospital.