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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
PR0SPECT0RS FIND NEW
GEM OF RARE, VALUE
At First Believed to Be Sapphire Stone
Proves to Be of an En-.
tireIy New Va
rlety

BY Associated Press
BERKELEY, July G.-A new gem Of
great beauty has been discovered in the
southern part of Mount Diablo range
near the Benito-Fresno county line. by
Sanders and Hawkins, two young mer
who were prospecting in those parts. The
stone was supposed to be sapphire.
Cursory examination, however, revealed
the fact that the mineral did not possess
the usual qualities of sapphire, and 1t
was therefore referred to the geological
department at the state university. Prof.
George d. Louderback today published a
bulletin giving the results of his examina-
tion of the stone.
The new gem is a clear transparent
stone of attractive blue color that in the
deeper color portions shows a distinct
violet tint. Compared with the long
known standard blue gem the sapphire
it may be said that it rivals the latter in
color and excels 1t in brilliancy though
it is not hard. However it is harder than
an opal or moonstone and is about equal
to chrysalite. The color which is the
most attractive proportion appears to be
quite stable
Prof. Louderback says the stone may
be heated to bright red and maintained
at that temperature for five minutes. but
on cooling down the color will appear
unaffected.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
Believe She Was Murdered

DeHeN0 one was muTuSTcu
CHICAGO, July 3l.-C. A. Coey, who
has been prominently mentioned in the
newspapers following the suicide of Laura
Matthews at Colorado Springs, held a
conference today with Mrs. Jennie Mat
thews, the mother of the girl, who arrived
here today from Kansas City. At the
conclusion of the interview both of them
declared that in their opinion the girl had
been murdered
Coey said he had traced the telegram
alleged to have been sent to him by Miss
Green, the nurse of Miss Matthews, and
was sure she did not send it. He further
said:
II believe that Miss Matthews death is
a plain case of murder. In my opinion
Rumbaugh committed the deed and sent a
telegram calculated to cast suspicion on
me as being the cause OF the girls death.
About ten days ago 1 wrote Miss Mat
thews a cheerful letter and she was talk
ing of returning to Chicago. Rumbaugh
was evidently afraid of losing the girl"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
BURGLARS REIGN ENDS
IN SAN BERNARDINO
Officers Arrest Man and Wife, Search
Their Home and Find Loot
Valued at Thousands
of Dollars
snecial to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
SAN BERNARDINO, July 31.-Mr. and
Mrs. NJ G. Place and a man who gives
his name as Baker have been arrested
here charged with robbing scores of
houses.
officers searched the home of the couple
last night and discovered nearly all the
articles that had been stolen. This con-
sisted of silverware, silks and other dress
goods amounting in value to several
thousand dollars
Place and Baker, whose right name is
said to be Williams, have been en-
ployed by the Santa Fe until recently.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
NCENDIARY SETS FIRE
TO PAR0CHlAL RESIDENCE
Attempt Made to Destroy Church Rec,
cords at Santa Barbara-Priest
AWakes and Gives General
Alarm
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SANTA BARBARA, July S1.-An incen-
diary started a fire at o'clock this morn
ing at the parochial residence of the
Catholic church of Our Lady Of Sorrows
at State and Figueroa streets. The blaze
was set outside. A bottle of coal oil was
found near where the fire started and
the ground was soaked with OIL
The motive was evidently to destroy the
church records which were kept in room
above where the fire was set. The police
are investigating and have clew. One
priest was awakened by smoke and gave
the alarm, waking others in the house
The fire worked through the outer wal
into the parlor and up through the
rafters to the second floor and into the
room where the records were. The blaze
was extinguished.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
Train Wrecker confesses

BY Associated Press.
BUTTE, Mont, July 31.-George Tower,
under arrest here for completely in the
holdup of the North Coast limited on the
Northern Pacific May and the murder
of Engineer Glow, today confessed to
knowledge of the crime. He lays the
murder to a suspect held at Columbia
River, Ore.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
ABSENCE OF VENIREMEN
DELAYS HALSEY CASE
Fifty-three Out of Sixty Present Valid
Excuses and Are Dismissed.
Trial Is Continued
Until Today
Rv Associated Press.

By AssOCIdIeu fIesS'
SAN FRANCISCO, July S1.-The work
of selecting a jury to try Theodore ".
Halsey of the Pacific States Telephone
and Telegraph company on charge of
bribing Supervisor Lonergan in the sum
of 5000 to vote against a franchise for
the Home Telephone company will not be
begun until tomorrow morning.
Judge Dunno was forced to continue the
case for one day because there were avail
able only seven veniremen of the venire of
sixty summoned in the court Monday, the
other fifty-three having presented valid
excuses why they should not serve, and
the second venire of 100 not having yet
been returned.
Examination Of veniremen cannot be
begun until twelve are seated in the jury
box.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
Coming for Prisoner

~ AssOCIdttu tIes5'
SAN DIEGO, July 31.-sheriff Cox of
Stephensonville Tex, started last night
for San Diego to take back with him
Arthur Stel alias A. ]. Morris Of that
place, who is charged with selling mort
gagged property and who is also said to
have married a pretty widow at Fort
Worth after leaving wife and three
children in his home town.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
YOUNG HUNTINGTON BARRED
FROM ATTENDING FUNERAL
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
VERSAILLES July S1.-The request of
Henry Huntington, who last Sunday shot
and wounded his two sisters and two
brothers. at the bedside of his dying
father, to attend the funeral of his father
today has been refused by M. Hirsch. the
examining magistrate, on the ground that
his presence probably would result In a
scene.
The condition of Alonzo and Elizabeth
Huntin gton Is more serious today.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
TO Yosemite by Bail, Only S12 for the
Round TriD

During August To-day round trip tickets from
Merced to the hotel and camps in Yosemite,
via Yosemite Valley r. r., will cost you only
S12 about one-third the stage fare of past
years. A quick, comfortable trip of unequaled
scenic beauty, through the picturesque Merced
river canyon. The snow-clad peaks. majestic
waterfalls and waving pine forests Of Yosemite
await you Fine trout fishing in the canyon
and valley. Daily train from Merced at 2:30
p, m. Write o. w. Lehmer. traf mgr. Mer-
ced. CAL, or H. H. Vincent. 55S S. Spring St.
Los Angeles
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
FAST TRAIN DERAILED;
ONE DEAD, ONE DYING
Engine and Two Coaches Jump Track
Near Jonesboro, Illinois,
Causing a Serious
Accident
By Associated Press.

BY Assoclated Press
JONESBORO, Ill, July S1.-The engine
and two coaches of a fast southbound
Mobile & Ohio passenger train were de-
rallied between here and Mill Creek this
afternoon, killing Edward Williams OF
jackson, Tenn, and probably fatally in
juring Engineer A. A. White of jack
SON.
The engine turned over and Engineer
Wilde was scalded. Several passengers
were badly bruised, but none seriously
injured.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
BANDIT RAISULl THREATENS
TO KILL SIR HARRY MACLEAN
BY Associated Press.

TANGIER, Morocco, July Sion re-
quest of the British minister, following a
letter from Sir Harry MacLean, stating
that Raisuli, who holds him prisoner
threatens to kill him unless government
troops are withdrawn from the Eiknes
territory. Mohammed Gabbas, the min
lister of war, today ordered the suspen-
sion of all operations against Raisuli.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
Two Die in Fire

GREENPORT. l.. l., July 31.-The
American fisheries company plant at
Promised Land eighteen miles east of
here was destroyed by fire today. Loss,
SSO0.00O Two lives were lost.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
Moraan Buys santa Fe Bonds
Rv Associated Press.

by
NEW YORK, July S1.-The Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad company
has sold to j. P. Morgan & Co. the por-
ton of the $26,O00,OOO convertible per cent
bonds recently issued which were moi
taken by the stockholders. 1t Is esti-
mated that the stockholders have sub
scribed at par for slightly more than
$11 ,000, 900 of the issue.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
Big Celebration in Boston

b AsSOcIateu Pfess.
BOSTON, July 31.-Ten thousand men
marched through Boston's streets today
In a civic and trades procession, which
was part of the New England day
celebration.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
SAY ACTRESS
KILLED SELF

CONTINUED from Page one)
boarded a train for Colorado Springs to
join Miss Matthews.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
TELEPHONE OPERATORS
ORDERED TO STRIKE
Rocky Mountain Bell Company cIassed
as Unfair and Employees
Are Prepared to
Walk Out
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
BUTTE, Mont, July 31.-The Montana
State Federation of Labor today declared
the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone COM
pany unfair and ordered out all of the
operators nj the state affiliated with the
organization. Every trades council in the
state will be advised of the action and
directed to boycott the company.
This action grows out of the strike of
>linemen in Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and
part of Montana.
Girls Out on Strike
NEW YORK, July 31-The Shirt Max
ers' union yesterday sent out a strike
picket committee of 100 girls. This is said
to be the largest picket committee of girls
ever sent out. The union is fighting the
Shirt Contractors association, which has
locked out 1900 of the members The girl
pickets were sent to shops throughout
Manhattan, Brooklyn, Brownsville and
Bayonne.
Want Shorter Hours
SCRANTON, Pa, July 31-Seven hun
dred operatives at the Empire and Klotz
mills at Simpson, near here, have quit
work, making the total number of silk
workers in the Lackawanna valley idle
through their strike 400. Less than 1000
remain at work and the strike, it is be-
lieved, soon will involve them. The oper-
atives are striking for a shorter working
day.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
$3.50 Art Squares s3.4S

Our S-ply Royal granite floor cover
ing, which cannot be equaled Tor
service; smooth face, easy to keep
clean; colors guaranteed; splendid
for beach use; all colors and pat
terms; the $3.50 size cut to $S45; all
sizes and prices reduced proportion
ately.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-01
$3.25 1I-4 Blanket $500
. $3.50 Wool Blanket $3.25
$l.OO Feather Pillows Sic

A Thursday pillow special is our all
pure feather pillow; absolutely sani-
tary cured and odorless; heavy
feather proof covering; full g.
pound regular size; this is special
lot to be closed out and at this
price will interest rooming house
keepers and people fitting out beach
cottages. Remember regular $l.oo
pillow sic apiece.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-23
FAMOUS LIFE A

Divorce ends the Iasty Marriage of
Mrs. Yerkes-Mizner.
Mrs. Yerkes-MiZner is again Mrs.
Yerkes, having secured a decree Of di-
vorce from her second husband, Wilson
Miner. Her sudden marriage to the
latter Inc her speedy divorce have add
I'd a sensational denouement to famous
life romance. Mrs. Yerkes was Mary
Adelaide Moore, the daughter Of a
chemist. She was the second wife of
Charles II. Yerkes, the multi-million-
aire, banker and traction magnate. At
the time of her marriage Yerkes was a
broker IN Philadelphia. When his firm
failed it was found that he was in debt
to the city for bonds sold on account.
Neslecting to make the city a pre-
ferred creditor, he was sent to jail, but
subsequently released and the sentence
declared illegal.
He made a fortune out of Jay
Cookies failure and went to Chicago.
There he exploited street railways,
bought newspapers and manipulated
the municipal government to a degree
that the tow became unhealthy as a
residence for himself and his wife.
Mrs. Yerkes went to New York, built
a palace on 9Th avenue and tried to
break nto society; Mr.. Yerkes went
to London and captured franchises for
underground tubes, constructed electric
railways and heaped up more millions
and more scandal. He estranged his
wife, who remained in New York and
surrounded herself with q circle of
friends. none of hon was able to
open the charmed door Of social recog-
milton. Her house became the Mecca Of
artists and writer's, politicians. and rail
way officials, and her entertainments
were lavish. Suddenly her truant hus-
band returned to America to die. A
beautiful ward watched over his last
moments IN shared his dying hour
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-23

a number of the farmers of Orange
county, n. Y, have organized an associa-
ton called the Orange County Union, it's
purpose being to cut out the middleman's
profits and sell direct to consumers. To
this end they would form a company
composed exclusively of members of the
union and operate a large exchange in
Newburg, selling farm and garden pro-
zee slightly below present prices. ~"
secure the cooperation of the labor .
tcrests the farmers have asked to join the
Central Labor Union. The novelty of this
proposition has proved somewhat puz-
zling to the labor leaders, and a commit
tee has been appointed to look into the
matter. The union men of Newburg are
enthusiastic over the project, but are not
a little per-plexed as to the proper way
of labelling the products of the farmers
organization. rE@
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-23

print the news that the 'cooing" MiZ-
ner had already begun to ask saucily
for money Rumors waited u Of the
portals of the art palace that Wilson
demanded !: cool million-that's all.
Separation followed and the six-foot
bridegroom went back to the mines.
Airs. Ycracs-NiZner, too, disappeared,
but the directions taken by the es-
trangel couple were not the same. 1t
was said that Miner tried to effect n
reconciliation. that he again and again
bombarGed his wife's abode in Chicago,
but her love had cooled. She sued for
divorce, but the papers suddenly dis
appeared. Vague hints of the return
Of the dove of peace waited around the
public prints. only to vanish in thin
air. The divorce went on-Mizner
went to Europe and to his whilom wife
was restored Ter erstwhile name
Utica Globe.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-23

of over $4,000. Gov. Charles e. Hughes
with his military staff will taxi part in
the ceremonies and President Roosevelt
and former President Grover Cleveland
have been invited to attend and speak.
Military parades will be a feature of The
occasion.
Buffalo's Old Home Week will be a
succession of civic and military pagan
try, carnival, sports and games, and the
Electric City will be ablaze with twink
ling lights and patriotic decorations. For
mer residents of Buffalo are asked to
send their names and addresses to James
w. Greene, chairman Old Home Week
Committee, Buffalo, N. Y. A beautiful
souvenir invitation will be mailed to each.
The railroads will offer excursion rates
to and returning from Buffalo.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-23
From Far and Near.

Fire in Manila burned 12O native
houses, making 600 persons homeless. A
heavy rain quenched the flames.
Cardinal Domenico Svampa, archbishop
of Bologna, Italy, is dead. He was born
in Italy in 1851 and was created a car
dinal in 1894.
George Peyton, bartender at the Hotel
jackson in Elyria, Chic, was cremated
in a fire which destroyed a two-story an
mex OF the hotel. Many guests fled in
their night clothing from the burning
building.
Seven persons were injured, one of
them probably fatally, by an automobile,
which left the track on the course of the
Endurance Derby at Brighton Beach.
In answer to a call by j. w. Van
Cleave, president of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers Of the United
States, organizations of employers met in
New York with a view to creating a fed
Grafton of the same.
Warrants were issued in Charfestown,
w. Va, for the arrest of seventeen strike
sympatbizers. who took pare ia street car
riots. Women and children, who took the
part Of the striking car men, were promi-
nent in the riot.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-23
y,pIis Kills Furniture Trust.

On the same day that Judge Lands
fined the Standard Oil Company he issued
a perpetual injunction restraining the
American Seating Company from operat-
ing as a trust. The concerns operating
under this name had been found guilty of
violating the antitrust law by combin-
ing to monopolize the school furniture
business through agreements with school
boards throughout the country The or
der was not fought by counsel for the
trust, as it was commended that the prac'
tices complained of had been stopped.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-23
THE WAR ON MOSQUITOES.
by Persistent Effort New Jersey Has
TrturnpIed Over the Pest.

tTEUE IA DIeu oNST La 1est.
BY the Intelligent expenditure of what
"N7ln like ahsurdly small sums Of money
when compared with the supposed diff
Guilty Of the task TO be performed, several
of the parts of New Jersey that have
long had Il national, if not an internal
tional, disrrputc for the number and vo-
iacity Of their mosquitoes have been pcac-
tically cleared of the dangerous pests.
The suggestion that the great Uackcn-
sack Meadows could be freed of the in
ScctS, and the joys of summer life in the
cities around them thus be vastly in
creased, was received with derision, and
almost with indignation, only a few years
ago. Yet Il few thousand dollars spent in
digging bitches has lone away with the
%Stacnant pools in which alone the mos
quitoeS could breed, and they are no more
except in the benishted Owl where the
people lack either the sense or the energy
or both to avail themselves of the relief
so close within their reach. Incidentally
and it is incidentally-a lot Of worth
less marsh has been turned into good dry
land.
What has been done or and around
the IIackensack Meadows can be even
moro easily done almost anywhere else. 1t
ought to be as disgraceful-indeed, it is
as disgraceful-for a town to have mos
quitoeS as it is for 4 town to suffer from
an epidemic of typhoid or diphtheria, for
the mosquitoes, too, are "preventable,
and their presence anywhere convicts
their human victims either of gross ig-
noranCe or of criIninal carelessness. And
always it should be remembered that the
use of oil in a mosquito campaign is JUS
tifiable, if at all, only as a temporary ex-
pedicnt, to be resorted to only for instant
effects while the real work of eXtermina-
ton is in course of preparation and per
Torrance.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-23

Magazine. Though a photographic
record constitutes a true picture of the
voice, it is not distinct enough to be
d~eciphered by mere inspection.
This Photographic monograph or
neutrality-suspicious. invented by Herr
Ltuhmer affords a far more character
istic graphical rendering Of spoken
words. In this apparatus an electric
arc lamp inserted in the circuit of u
microphone is made to give out a radi-
alton the intensity of which CORE
spondes to the sound vibration in the
m%icrophone, this radiation being fixed
phot0graphically on the film running
past in front of a narrow slot. By a
convenient inversion OF the whole
process. the original sound can then be
reproduced from the Photographic
record"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-23

they are in rebellion against is favoritism which gives q
chance to one man to move his goods and not to another;
which gives one man one set of terms and another set to
his rival: which makes one man rich by giving him
access to the seaboard and drives another man into bank
ruptcy. or into combination with his more successful COM
petitor.
1t is a revolt against all the influences which have
grown out of an unlicensed freedom and of a failure
TO recognize that these great privileges, so necessary for
public welfare, have been created by the public for the
public benefit and not primarily for private advantage.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-23
, Nex E,unaation Method.

The Literary Digest quotes from a for
eign engineering paper the description OF
a new method of making foundations now
used in all sorts Of conditions. 1t is
known as the compressed system. 1t con-
sists in making holes through the soft
soil down to the hardpan by means of a
tapering arm, which rs forced down like
a pile driver, and then filling these holes
with stones rubble in successive lay
ers, each of which is firmly rammed
down. TIL result is to produce a mono
lithic block Of great strength. No ground
is remove in the boring of the shaft, the
sides of which acquire great compact
neSs a
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-23

Preliminary returns indicate a winter
wheat crop Of about 4O9, 100000 bushels,
or an average of 14.G bushels per acre.
as compared with 1871 bushels per acre
last year. This preliminary estimate of
the yield of winter wheat n the esti-
mated acreage on which it is based are
subject to revision and correction when
the final estimates of the bureau are made
next December,
The following table shows the estimat-
ed average yield per acre in each of the
eleven principal winter wheat States in
1907 and 1906, the figures for 8 0 being
| the final estimates issued Dec. 20:
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-23

The average quality of winter wheat
is 9O.5.
The average condition of spring wheat
on Aug. ! was 79.4, as compared with
! S7.2 last month, 500 on Aug. i, 1906,
Sa.2 on Aug. 1, 1905, and a ten-year aver
age of S3.4.
The average condition of the oat crop
on Aug. / was 75.6, as compared with 81
last month, S2.S or Aug. /, 1906. sos on
Aug. l., 1905, and a ten-year August aver
age Of $40.
The average condition of barley on Aug
i was S4.5, against S4.4 one month ago,
9O.3 on Aug. 1, 1906. $50 IN Aug i,
1905, and a ten-year average of Sc.
The average condition Of rye at time
of harvest was $50, as compared with
S9.7 one month ago. Dos on Aug. 1, 1905,
92.6 on Aug. 1, 1905, and a ten-year ave..
age of SS.5.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-23

with the rightful spouse. Yerkes left
his ward a palace in New York and a
huge fortune; his wife, a life interest
in many millions.
1t was just after Christmas day
1906, that Yerkes died at a New York
hotel. In a little over n month the
tongues were set a-wagging by the an.
nouncement Of the rich widows sudden
marriage to the young California mine
~prospector and gentleman OF fortune
Wilson Miner. The ceremony was Sc,
cret, and was not revealed until two
days after it occurred.
The papers hummed with the affair
but within q week were obliged tt
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1907-08-23
Chacago,. Male Death Rnte.

Health Commissioner Evans of Chicago
In a recent bulletin makes the statement
that in the asst seven months of 1901
about 10000. men died, as compared to
5000 women, and that the death rate as
between men and women is now 3S per
cent, as compared to 10 per cent twenty
years ago. He attributes the cause OF
this to the strenuous life of the average
Chicago citizen, c~ontributory causes being
the quick lunch, constant exposure ana
care~lessness. The oaly remedy in MS
opinion. is a return to the simple life OF
our fathers.