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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
GOVERNMENT SUES 70
RECOVER BIG TRACT
John A. Benson, Convicted of Land
Fraud in San Francisco,
Figures In Civil
Action
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.-John A.
Benson, awaiting sentence in connection
with the land frauds, figures in suit
filed today on behalf of the government
in the United States circuit court to
recover $500 acres of land in Tulare and
lnyo counties.
The defendants in the suit are w. H.
Nelson, administrator of the estate of
the late Patrick Reddy; Sybil Coleman
administrative of the estate of Mrs. Milly
Reddy; Mrs. M. G. Reddy, John Reddy,
Katherine Mahon, G. L. Hovey and
Thomas B. Walker.
In the petition filed by Assistant United
States District Attorney Clark the gov
eminent alleges that John A. Benson
fraudulently obtained the lands from the
widows of Patrick Reddy and his partner,
A. r. Conklin.
1t appears that in August, 1900, Mrs.
Reddy and Mrs. Conklin conferred with
Benson and his attorney, ]. c. Camp
bell
Benson agreed to take the land at the
rate of $3.50 an acre and pay for 1t within
ninety days. The deeds were transferred
to Benson in January, 1901. c. L. Hovey,
who claimed to have power of attorney,
gave deeds to the department of the
interior and took In return 200 acres of
the land. This later was transferred to
Thomas B. Walker, according to the
complaint.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
DOWAGER EMPRESS FEARS
REVOLT BY THE PEOPLE
Calls Foremost Advisors to consuIta-
ton in Summer Palace--com-
mander-in-chief of Army
Attends
By Associated Press,

By Associated Press.
PEI<IN, Aug. 3O.-With the arrival of
Yuan Shi Kali commander in chief Of
the Chinese forces, there began in the
summer palace today an unusual series
of deliberations concerning the condition
of the empire. The dowager empress
has assembled her most important and
influential advisers and the arrival of
Viceroy Chang Chi Tung, who came on
q pilgrimage from Hankow, was sur
rounded with secretaries.
The imperial family believes, and the
government fears, that the Chinese race
is sbent upon unseating the Manchus
The imperial family is of Manchu ORR
gin. All the previous devices adopted
by the throne to remove the existing
distinctions between Chinese and Man
chus having failed the throne now con-
templates the amalgamation of the two
races and this purpose led the throne
recently to call for suggestions from the
Memoriahsts.
The four main points are: First, the
disarmament of the army, the abolition
OF their pensions and the submission of
their officers into the regular army; Sec
ond, the daughters of Cinnamon of the
upper classes will be eligible to marry
into the imperial family and this prom
Uses future Chinese Manchu emperor;
third, females prevented to bind up their
feet and thus remedy the appearance
between Chinese and Manchu women.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
SAN FRANCISCO FIGHTS
DREAD BUBONIC PLAGUE
No New Cases Reported and Authori-
Ties Think There Is No Danger.
Patients to Be Removed
from Hospitals

By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. SO.--There have
been no new cases Of plague discovered
and the health authorities express conf
dence that there is no danger of the
spread of the disease.
The local board OF health was in ses-
sion today and discussed ways and means
to remove the patients from the city and
county hospitals so that the buildings
may be fumigated.
It was decided that no matter what
the reply of the war department is to
the request for tents. the patients must
be removed. The United States marine
hospital authorities and the local board
Of health are acting in complete har-
mony. DIR. Long of the Marine hospital
corps, who has had experience with bu-
bonic plague in the Philippines, is look
ing after the federal interests, and DR..
Wherry. who Is noted for his knowledge
Of the disease, has been appointed bac-
leriologist by the city.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
IS DIE WHEN
CARS CRASH
MANeLED BODIES ARE CRUSHED
UNDER WRECK
ILLINOIS RAILWAY SCENE OF
AWFUL ACCIDENT
Motor Train and Trolley Coach Collide
Head on-List of Injured
Numbers Half
Hundred

t3y Associated fre5s.
NATION, ILL.,, Aug. 30.-Fifteen per-
sons were killed and about fifty injured
in head-on collision between an inter-
urban motor express train and traction
car on the NATION & Charleston electric
line at 1890 o'clock this morning.
The crash occurred on sharp curve
one mile west of Charleston. The con-
fusion of orders received over the tele-
phone is said to have been the cause of
the accident.
The cars approached each other at a
high rate of speed and the impact was
so terrific that the motor car was tele-
scoped by the traction car. There was no
warning, and few passengers had time to
escape by jumping.
The passengers, nearly all of whom
were en- route to the fair at Charleston,
were crushed or MANNED where they sat
in the cars. Some of them who escaped
and who were able to speak say the
scene at the wreck was gruesome.
The dead and dying were crushed to-
gether in a mass. Some were shrieking
with pain, and children were crying for
mothers who were thought to be among
the dead.
When the news of the wreck reached
NATION special cars were hurried to the
scene, and the dead and injured were
pIouSuL " tHo HUI Suo anu AoSpiIdi hoio'
Some of the injured are in a critical con-
dition and there is little hope for their
recovery.
The line on which the disaster hap
pened Is but twelve miles long, running
between NATION and Charleston, ILL.,, and
is but single track
Telephones are placed every few miles,
at which orders are transmitted to the
conductors and motormen of the cars
passing over the road
misunderstanding of one Of these
telephone orders is said to have caused
the disaster today.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
JAPANESE SEALING
VESSEL GOES FREE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FINDS
FOR PoAcHERs
Schooner Nitto, Members Of Whose
Crew Were Caught in the Act,
Is Allowed to Depart by
Authorities
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-After careful
consideration of all the facts concerning
the seizure and of the subsequent pro-
ceedings to forfeit the Japanese schooner
Nitto, alleged to have been engaged in
Illegal sealing operations in Alaskan
waters, the department of justice has dis
approved of the forfeiture action. The
Nitto, therefore, will be turned over to
her crew and permitted to depart from
Unalaska.
The proceedings instituted by this gov.
eminent involved the crews of the jap
anese schooners, the Kaiwo and Nitto,
individuals of both crews having been
caught in the act of taking seals within
the American water boundary, These men
were convicted and the remainder of the
crew acquitted.
libel was filed against the schooner
Nitto, although the Kaiwo was released.
This libel proceeding the department Of
justice now has abandoned
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
MOROCCO TO
PAY DAMAGES
FRANCE WILL DEMAND ALL
EXPENSES OF WAR
TWELVE THOUSAND MooRs AT.
TACK EUROPEANS
TrIbesmen Draw Enemy Into a Trap
and Surround Them-spahls
Cut Their Way
Through
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
PARIS, Aug. SO.--It is stated that the
reports that France will insist that Mo-
rocco shall pay the heavy expenses result
ing gfrom the French military and naval
action In the latter country appear to be
correct. The expenditure is increasing
steadily, and Germany, Great Britain and
the other powers of Europe, are under
stoodato be in sympathy with Frances
attitude
1t is also stated in well-informed cir
cles that the other powers intend to de-
mand payment for losses sustained by
their subjects in Morocco.
According to the latest advices, the
French losses August 2S were three men
killed and twelve wounded. The killed
included cavalryman of the regular
Algerian force, who was decapitated and
whose head was carried off by the Moors.
A detachment of the aerostatic corps
has been ordered to start from Meudon
to Morocco.
CASA BLANCA, Aug. 3o-During the
fighting between the French forces and
the Moors yesterday near the French
camp, the Moors at first retreated and 1t
was believed that the engagement was
over, when suooenly the enemy reap
peared in great force in two directions.
The Spahis and irregular Algerian cav
airy found themselves almost surrounded,
but formed a square and fell back until
reinforced In the meanwhile the French
warships showered shells among the hills
sheltering the enemy The engagement
lasted three hours.
The line of battle extended over two
miles and it is estimated that about 1000
Moors were engaged. The loss of the lat
ter is not known but is believed to have
been heavy as French officers found
the bodies of twenty Moors in one road
way. The French loss was fifteen killed
or wounded. The cruisers Gloire and
Guerdon today bombarded the beach be-
yond Casa Blanca, where the force of
Moorish cavalry gathered but was soop
dispersed by the warships
Fire broke out yesterday in the Arab
quarter in Casa Blanca. 1t was put
quickly out by the French soldiers. A
few uninhabitable houses containing
grain and straw were destroyed. Native
troops, supported by artillery, went out
Tuesday afternoon ard dislodged small
parties of Arabs who had ambushed them
selves in the vicinity of the French camp.
Casa Blanca is the only port open to
shipping during the season of heavy
storms which is now approaching. Three
thousand French troops are to be MAIN
tanned at Casa Blanca and a thousand
tnore1 distrihutetis between Mazagan. Safia,
n 4sifd Mogador. At the same time
the karsliips Will continue to patrol the
coast
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
FO0TPAD BREAKS VICTIMS
JAW; TAKES VALUABLES
San Francisco Barber Nearly Killed.
Left Lying SenseIess on the
Street-Assailant
Escapes
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9O.-Felled by
one blow from a slungshot in the hands
of a powerful footpad, who with two
others attacked him at Buchanan and
Oak streets at an early hour this morn
ing, Morris Barron, proprietor of bar
Der shop, was robbed of diamond horse
shoe pin valued at $500 and 800 in COIN
His jaw was broken by the blow of his
assailants and he was left for dead
where he fell in the street.
1t was daylight when he regained con-
seriousness. The identity of his assail-
ants is not known.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
HOMESICKNESS LEADS
RUSSIAN TO DEATH
Officer Who Led MutIny Works Two
Years In New York, Yearns for
Native Land, Returns
and 10 Hanged
~ Associated Press.

I;y Associated Press
ODESSA, Aug. 30.-Matushenko, the
Russian non-comissioned officer who led
the mutiny on the battleship Kniaz Po-
temkine, and commanded that vessel on
its sensational cruise about the Black
sea In the summer of 1905, was hanged
last evening at Sebastopol, to which
place he was secretly removed after his
arrest here August %, and where he was
tried before court martial and sentenced
to death.
After abandoning the battleship at
Kustendje, Roumania, Matushenko went
to New York where he worked for two
years in an iron foundry. Homesickness
led him last June to return to this city,
where the attention of the police was
directed to him and he was arrested with
other members OF a revolutionary organ
ization which had been formed under his
leadership.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
PEACE is IN SIGHT
FOR CENTRAL AMERICA
Three Governments Respond to Plea
!. Of Presidents Roosevelt and
Dlaz That Anlmosltles
Be Dropped
81 Associated Press.

b. Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Aug 90.-Responses
have been received from Nicaragua,
Costa RIGA and Salvador to the message
of President Roosevelt suggesting a con-
ference of representatives of the Central
American states as a means of bringing
about permanent peace between these re-
publics.
1t is stated that these responses UNI
qualifiedly approve the movement toward
permanent peace suggested by Presi-
dent Roosevelt and President Diaz, and
it was not doubted that the other two
American governments will join the
movement.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
S. P. MAY ELECTRIFY
ROAD OVER MOUNTAIN
Engineers Studying Plan to Change
Motive Power on Section Between
Sparks and RockIn on Sac
ramento Division
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK. Aug. SO,-The Southern
Pacific company, through Vice President
Kruttschmitt, director of maintenance
and operation OF the Hartman lines, has
requested Frank J. Sprague to associate
himself with A. II. Babcock, the electric
al engineer of the company, In study
of data bearing on the question Of
feasibility of electrifying a part of the
Sacramento division of the Southern
Pacific system, namely the section from
Rocklin to Sparks, to prepare a general
plan of electric traction and to submit
this to board which is to deal with the
subject.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
MINISTER'S UNION IS
BARREDFROM PARADE
BREWERY WORKERS REFUSE TO
AFFILIATE
Beer Makers Say Preachers Agitation
Against Saloons Hurt Business.
Pastors VIII Have No Part
In Labor Day
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
LA CROSSE, Wis, Aug. 3o,-The min
listers union, organized only few weeks
ago and soon after affiliated with the
Trades and Labor assembly, was official
ly cast out yesterday by that body and
refused permission to march in the Labor
day parade.
This action was the result of COM
plants by the brewery workers, who
claimed that the recent agitation against
the saloons had resulted in an injury
to the Brewery workers union.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
TWIN BABIES SELL IN
MARKET FOR $40 EACH
italian Parents offer Infants for Sale.
They Find Purchaser, but
Police Stop the Trans
action
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
LONDON, Aug. SO.-A Rome dispatch
brings a story of an attempted sale of
children in the market at Avellino. A
peasant and his wife brought two of their
children, twinsr- months DID, ana IN
omen market offered to sell them for $40
each.
The babies were plump and healthy and
were bought by man who offered the
price required He was taking the chill
dren away when the police stepped In
and arrested both buyer and sellers.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
George uImer Kills Himself

By Assoclated Ffesa.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 3O.--George S.
Timer, superintendent of the California
and Hawaiian sugar refinery at Crockett,
killed himself yesterday at that place by
shooting himself through the heart with
a revolver. 1t is claimed that his mind
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
EMPEROR PICKS OUT
HUSBAND FOR DAUGHTER
Princess Victoria of German Royal
Family to Be Married to
Prince Leopold of
Battenberg

BY Associated Press
LONDON. Aug. SO-Emperor William,
1t is understood will arrange marriage
between his only daughter, Princess
Victoria, and his cousin, Prince Leopold,
son of the Princess Henry of Battenberg.
Princess victoria is Emperor Williams
youngest Child. She is Is years old. Her
intended husband, Prince Leopold, is 49,
He is the queen of Spain's brother.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
Jealous Of squaw, kIIIs Man

EY ASSOCIATED FreHH.
TACOMA, Wash. Aug. SO.-Archie
Mitchell, an Englishman who for twenty
years has followed longshoring, entered
his cabin on the water front at Old
Town about o'clock last night and,
finding James Nelson, a fellow longshore-
man, in company with MitchelPs squaw
wife and another squaw named Jennie
Wiley. the three being in a drunken
stupor seized an ak and killed Nelson
as his victim slept
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
Prince Wilhelm Has Busy Day

BY Associated P-ess.
NEW YORK, Aug. 3O.-Prince Wilhelm
of Sweden's third day in New York was
no less busy than the preceding two. He
was whirled through the streets in a
huge automobile saw the rehearsal at the
hippodrome and went fearlessly behind
the scenes and had his photograph taken;
visited the Stock exchange and ]. P.
Morgan's banking house, and tonight was
the guest of New York's Swedish colony
at a banquet at the Hotel Astor.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
VENERABLE ARCHBISHOP
is CLAIMED BY DEATH
PreIate, IS Years Old, Who Has Served
Church in Boston Since
1s45, Passes
Away
By Associated Press.

By 4ASSOCIHltU KIeSo' :
BOSTON, Aug. 9O.-The venerable Arch
bishop John G. Williams of the Roman
Catholic archdiocese of Boston, who re-
turned from Rochester, NJ Y, last week,
where he was taken seriously Ill, was in
such serious condition today that the last
sacrament was administered to him, and
this afternoon he was reported to be
failing rapidly. He died tonight.
The archbishop's illness was due to
stomach trouble He was So years old and
had been In the ministry since 1876, all the
time in this city.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
THEY R0UT WHITE FLY
AND CHASE Him AGAIN
Horticultural Experts Stamp Out Pest
at Bakersfield and Pursue 1t
In the Direction of
PortervllIe
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
BAKERSFIELD, Aug. 30-Stephen
Strong, horticultural commissioner from
Los Angeles Frederick Maskew and two
of the corps of the commissioners Of en-
tomologists who assisted in the campaign
against the white fly, paid another visit
to this city.
Apparently all the insects here have
been eradicated.
The entomologists left for Porterville to
start search for the insect in that
vicinity.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
JOHN D. GETS $73
MILEAGE AND FEES
Standard OIL Maenate Paid for APP
pearIng as Witness in Suit
Against His Company
in Chicago
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press
CHICAGO, Aug. So.-The witness fees
and mileage of John d. Rockefeller,
claimed by him for his appearance before
Judge Lands in the federal court some
weeks since, were paid today.
A check for $73 was mailed to Mr.. Rock
efelers home in Cleveland.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
RIVER
FOR THE DEAD
BODIES OF BRIDGE VICTIMS NOT
RECOVERED
Accident at Quebec Costs Lives of
Scores-Dominion Authorities
Will Make Rigid In
vestigation
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
QUEBEC. Aug So.--Although twenty
four hours have elapsed since the Quebec
bridge crashed into the st. Lawrence the
three score of bridge workers are still
held in the meshwork of debris at the
bottom of the river.
A roll call held this afternoon confirmed
the early estimate of the loss of life.
Seventy mine men failed to answer to
their names and were not among the in
jured at the Tevis hospital. Fifteen
bodies lie at the morgue awaiting the re-.
suit of the coroner's inquest.
Of the total of seventy-nine dead or
missing sixteen killed were American
mechanics Some Of the bodies of the
unfortunate men can be seen below the
surface of the water tightly wedged in
an inextricable network Of steel, where
1t is utterly impossible to reach them.
At daybreak half dozen tugs began
search of the st. Lawrence river for the
victims of last nights catastrophe. The
roll of death caused by the collapse of the
great cantilever bridge numbers at least
seventy-five and may reach eighty.five.
Up to an early hour today less than
twenty bodies had been recovered.
The terrific drop of the great steel struc-
ture from 1870 feet above the surface of the
river crushed the bodies of many of the
workmen in frightful manner, and 1t is
feared many will never be found. Many
of the dead were Americans brought here
by the Phoenix Bridge company of Penn
sylvania, which had the contract for the
iron work on the bridge.
Among the known dead are B. A. Gan
sci, general foreman for the Phoenix
Bridge compan; Chief Engineer Birks,
Fireman Davis of the bridge switch en-
engine; John w. HALEY, fireman; Jim
Idah, Indian foreman; about thirty
Caughnawaga Indians employed as labor
ers; Victor, James and Henry Hardy Of
New Liverpool, Quebec, brothers; Will
fred Proulex of New Liverpool, Quebec,
and Seephrian La France of Quebec.
Early this morning rowboats were sent
out to examine the superstructure show
ing above the water near the shore to as
certain If any of the workmen We're i'm
prisoned in the mass of twisted iron
work. None was found alive. just below
the surface of the water two bodies were
seen, but 1t will be impossible to reach
them until the tide goes out.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
Killed by Train

BY AsHocluteu f-Ie55.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. s0.--J. Forman.
a resident of Modesto. was run over and
killed yesterday by the engine of local
train in Oakland.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
FORECAST

For Los Angeles and vicinity;
Cloudy today, probably showers;
fresh south wind.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-31
Investigate Accidents

Both the local and dominion authorities
have taken steps to investigate the cause
of the disaster and endeavor to fix the
responsibility. Some of the workmen ex-
pressed the belief that the pier gave way
under tremendous strain of the over
hanging steel work
M P. Davis of Ottawa, the contractor
who built the piers, made hasty exam
nation last night, however, and reported
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Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1907-09-26
W kanale Zone.

Wysoka aagroda p}acone spra-
via moona pokuse u naszych mlo':
dyych rzemieslnikhw ably ukyc prze~
moey wiejkiego robotnika uzY-
'technege do budowanla Panama
..skieso kanafu. Wielu powstrzy~
mule sic iednak sobawy febry i
malaryi. Jestto rsz w,adomo -ci,
kt6rzy usywaja Electric Bitters,
kt6rzy tam ida bez tel 'obawy,
wledza debrze il So zabezpieczeni
pred mala ryczne] choroby E.
lectric Bitters pod reka, Leczy "a
,trucie krwl takze, z6}clowosd, s}a-
bosch 4o}adka, wetroby merck.
Gwarantow ane przez M J. Kowa~
lewskiego, .aptekarzs' SOC.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1907-09-26
Pr6ba kt6ra leCzy.

Jest to spr6bowanie Bueklena
mascl arnikowej. Jest to ,~nsjszcze-
,liwsza k ombinaoya kwiatu arhiko.
wego l leczniczego balsamu kle-
,iykolwiek proponowanego. Niema
r6znicJ jak d}ugo rama Tub awrz6d
Jest ia ma66 60 wylecsy. N spa
lenia, o~parzenia, -~skalecsenia :'rany
Iub guy jest to jedyne lekarstHo
Gwaruntowane przez M. J. Kowa-
,ewskieeo, aptekarsa ascent.
Wiarus. (Winona, Minn.) 1895-1919, 1907-09-26
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