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Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
MAINE

BRIDGTON, Sept. 1.-Camp Wyonego-
mic sent large excursion party into the
White mountains 1t consisted of two
four-horse teams for the excursionists,
another for the baggage, while, several of
the party went horseback AS usual
Charles E. Cobb accompanied the tourists
and camp will be made in the usual places
along the way.
Mrs. William C. Bridham left town last
week for visit to her old home at
Phillips.
JEFFERSON-Wit pomp and pagean-
try. jefferson today celebrated its centen-
nial. The great feature was the dedica-
ton of a monument to the memory of the
thrifty and sterling, pioneers who came
into the Maine wilderness 100 years ago
and founded this grand old town. This
memorial is thiry-ton boulder, which
rests in front of the old Baptist church on
the hill. Thither it was drawn from the
shore of the pond nearly two miles dis
tant by twenty yoke of oxen.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
ALABAMA

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Sept la dele
cation of railroad employees, mainly from
the Louisville & Nashville, visited Fed
eral Judge Jones and asked his advice as
to threats made by the state to arrest
them il they violated the reduced freight
and passenger tariff laws, which have
been suspended by injunction of the fed
eral court
Judge Jones assured the men they
would be protected In the federal courts.
He said they would be released on writs
of habeas corpus and that state officers
arresting them would be punished.
HUNTSVILLE-The total fines in the
city court on recent day amounted to
$1O5, the largest for one day in the last five
years. Win Clay, Fan Scruggs, Ben
Rodgers and Lula Scruggs, negroes got
on spree and created great disorder.
The city collected $S5 from the four. The
remaining $40 was contributed by Ezra
Brown and Lee Cullom, hailing from At
lanta, who were charged with vagrancy.
TUSCALOOSA-Muc interest centers in
the announcement that appeared in the
local papers of the coming marriage of
Miss Maggie Ryan of this city and j. M.
Maloney also of this place Both of these
young people are quite popular here. and
their marriage will be a social event of
much interest Miss Ryan has lived here
all her life, Being the daughter Of w. A..
Ryan, one Of the most prominent citizens
of the county
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
NORTH CAROLINA

CHARLOTTE. N. c., Sept. l-Pursued
through three states by an angry father
who was only twenty miles behind her
all the way, Miss Julia Jackson Christian,
the only living granddaughter of stone
wall, Jackson, the famous Confederate
general, eloped and was married to =.
Randolph Preston. lawyer and mem
Der of the legislature.
The pursuit began at Atlanta and with
Miss Christian on the first section and
her father on the second, was continued
through Georgia, South Carolina and well
into North Carolina.
ASHEVILLE--Judg Pritchard In the
United States circuit court in a long
expected opinion, announced in the rate
case of the Southern railway against the
commission and the attorney
general of North Carolina, upholds the
jurisdiction of his court in issuance of
the recent injunctions against officers
during the railroad rate controversy and
declares that the suit is not one against
the state within the meaning of the
eleventh amendment to the federal con-
stitution
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
STRANGE OUTFIT TRAVELS
IN NOMADIC STYLE

!. BUFFALO, N. Y, Sept. LA fine \
! economist is Wilhelm Kraf, formerly :
! of Illinois, late of La Sale, the River =
]. road, and intervening stations, post :
J. Offices and dugouts. Leading an OK =
!. and a COW which were hitched to :
!. wagon loaded with all his earthly =
= belongings. Wilhelm passed through :
\ Buffalo. Besides helping to haul his =
!. wagon, which bears the legend y
!. Twentieth Century, Ltd" the COW i
! Yields milk. =
\ Asked about himself as he and his i
! strange outfit were held up by +
!. curious crowd at the corner of WASH y
!. ington and Seneca streets, Wilhelm :
!. told this, in substance: 4
!. Two years ago he bought the COW !.
! and OK trained them well together, i
!. and took the long trail east from llli- J.
i nois, He says he is not particular j.
I. where he lives, and as he is one of 4
!. the men ''who want but little here 1.
\ below" his lack of anxiety regarding !.
i. his abiding place is not inexplicable. +
j. A cheerful nomad is Wilhelm Kraf. !.
!. very mornin' have fine coffee !.
j. he told a reporter, land / sell de milk :.
!, from de COW for bread Then l let !.
i. my team eat long the road, and j.
! long as 1 is used right l stay round !.
i quite awhile long. When L trave, l i.
i go two miles hour !.
i The traveller knows this part of the !.
1. country all right. Asked if he were !.
+ go along the lake, and that he re- !.
! membered place called Silver Creek J.
/ i j. !. j. i !. 4 1. X y i j. !. j. !. i \ !.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
COUPLE WED AT CORNER
WHILE CROWD LOOKS ON

!. ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Sept. lit Is sell +
+ dom If ever you find them together J.
!. the Time. the Place, the Girl j.
4 But William Dorsey did. He had i
! the girl, and he held her tightly, too, !
i so she couldn't get away. The time, \
! being close on high noon. was pro- =
i pitious, and he didn't propose to +
!. waste any of it. And any old place +
4 was good enough, so he chose the =
l. pavement at the corner of Market I.
4 street and Twelfth. There, with +
! hundred pedes trians as witnesses and !.
l. well wishers Mr.. Dorsey who is !.
+ gentleman of color from Chicago, j.
1. with his rabbit foot clasped closely +
!. in one hand and the other wrapped i
!. around the dusky palm of Mary Nc 4
!. Bride from Alabama, took unto him 1.
!. self wife, where all the world could !.
!. see. +
i The pair arrived in st. Louis Mon !.
4 day morning. Their first visit was up !.
/ to the marriage license clerk. Fixed +
!. up with their license, they started i
]. forth on quest for a justice. At the !.
\ corner mentioned they met a negro, !.
i whose garb suggested him to be the \
]. sort of man they wanted. Inquiry !.
! proved him to be Rev. F. M. Overton, !.
i pastor of the Jones chapel. They in !
4. duced him to marry them on the 1.
i spot +
i 'As good a place as any" said the !:
i prospective bridegroom. \
!. !. j. !. !. !. !. 4 + ! !. i. + !. i i i X
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
MISSISSIPPI

JACKSON Miss, Sept. 1.-The business
and financial egents of the Farmers
union, 5000 strong in Mississippi, met
here behind closed doors with Commits
sioner of Agriculture Blakeslee. 1t is un-
derstood that the matter under discus
sion was the rrse of cotton bagging as a
substitute for jute as a wrapping for the
cotton crops of the future.
1t Is announced here that at the end of
his term Governor Vardaman will take
editorial charge of a new paper to be es-
tablished by Joint stock company which
is in course of organization, the capital
stock to be $4,000. Commissioner of Agri-
culture Blakeslee is said to be at the head
of the enterprise. his associates being
Garrard Harris and j. w. Church.
kilograms were received here today
from Federal Judge Niles stating that he
had dismissed the injunction suit brought
by the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Rail-
road company against the Cumberland,
Telephone company to restrain them in
the erection of poles and wires along
their right of way in the state of Mis-
slssippi
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
ALL OF THE LATE NEWS FROM YOUR OLD HOME STATE
CONNECTICUT

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Sept 1.-Sachem.
a Yale-Sheffield senior society chapter
house, which was just completed and
would have been occupied for the first
time this fall, was destroyed by fire. The
building cost $4,000.
Last June at commencement there was
graduate reunion in the building. the
first Yale event ever held there
1t is believed electric wires caused the
fire.
NEW LONDONDERRY strumble of
Brooklyn, eighteen years old. who was
Visiting his grandparents here, attempted
to swim across the Connecticut river
lie was caught by an undertow and
drowned The body was carried under
lighter and is still missing.
NEW HAVEN-In railroad circles here
the report that the government is making
an investigauon OF the alleged illegality
Oh the proposed merger of the New York.
New Haven & Hartford Railroad comnanv
and the Boston & Maine is not regarded
as serious except as such Investigation
might be followed by positive steps TO
prevent the merger.
MYsTIC-Business preceded discussion
of peace topics at the universal peace
conference In Mystic Grove and President
Alfred H. Love of Philadelphia was re-
elected.
BRIDGEPORT-Sever f1remen were
cut by falling glass and damage by fire
and water to the extent of about $4,000
resulted from a blaze in the Court street
annex of the Barnum-T Thompson building
on State street The furniture firm of
N. Buckingham &c Co. suffered to the ex-
tent of $4,000. The other $4,000 is on the
building.
the New Haven Yacht club told of the
burning of the yacht Red Skin III,
schooner owned by Ralph j. Leavitt, and
enrolled in the local fleet. An explosion
occurred while the yacht was at anchor
at Argyle, N. S., and all on board had a
narrow escape from death.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
UTAH

OGDEN. Utah, Sept. 1.-fred ]. Stru-
bel of the H. Levy Slaughtering COM
pany of San Francisco returned from
Reno, where he has been loading lambs.
He shipped something over 1000. He also
loaded $500 fat wethers at Golconda, New.
He says it is easy to get sheep, but hard
to get cars.
BINGHAM-Thomas Bufford, an old
timer in camp, dropped dead in a saloon
at the Phoenix mine. Bufford was a ma
tive of Jersey City, N. j., and was un-
married. Nothing is known of his rela-
tives Until two weeks ago he had been
driving team, but he became so weak
that he was unable to work, He recent
ly took the Kelley cure, and the physi-
clan called stated that this weakened his
heart. He was about so years old.
SALT LAKE-The American Mining
and Power company has filed its articles
of incorporation with the county clerk.
The company owns claims in the Ameri-
can Fork mining district. The capital
stock is 100000, divided into shares of the
par value of 10 cents each. The officers
are: President, Tom d. Pitt; vice presi-
dent and general manager w. A. Sid
ney; secretary and treasurer, G. r.
Cleaveland. These with B. B. Haywood
and Thomas Homer compose the board
of directors.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
PENNSYLVANIA

JOHNSTOWN, Pa, Sept. IA storm
that approached the dimensions of a cy-
clone did great damage in Somerset
county. One woman sustained serious in
juries, and in the vicinity of Boswell,
near here, path 500 yards wide and a
mile long was swept by a terrific wind
Houses and barns were destroyed and the
growing crops leveled. Mrs. David Pc
terso- was probably fatally injured when
her home was blown down. The tracks
of the Pittsburg, Westmoreland & Somer-
set railroad were washed away in a num-
her of places tying up the road.
YORK-Mrs. Elizabeth Boyer of Muddy
Creek Fork and wife of colored farm
laborer is attracting considerable atten-
ton in medical circles about here on ac-
count of a strange phenomenon which is
coming over her. She has changed from
a coal black color, to a beautiful white.
The metamorphosis has been taking
place during the last five years, but only
became noticeable lately.
MISUNDERSTANDING hre husband s
office Mrs. Michael B. Fahey, wife of a
local wholesale tobacco merchant, de-
tected a negro stealing money from the
safe Grasping a revolver that lay on the
desk Mrs. Fahey covered the burglar un-
til the police arrived.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
SOUTH DAKOTA

MITCHELL, S. D., Sept. 1.-The Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad,
after putting off proposed Improvements
requiring the expenditure of many thou
sands of dollars, has at last authorized
the beginning of the work A letter was
received from w. E. McKenna, second
vice president of the company, announc-
ing that the work would be taken up at
once. SMlssi
SIOUX FALLS-Recent dispatches have
been sent outfsfrom this city warn
ing the peopfeXSof the state of the
presence in South Dakota of num-
Der of expert cracksmen, who con-
ceal their Identity by posing as harvest
hands and mingle with the genuine har-
vest hands.
MITCHELL-The burning bluffs" To-
Gated across the Missouri river from
Wheeler, in Charles Mix county, have
attracted the attention of the citizens in
that vicinity because of their increased
action. Some twenty years ago the earth
cracked open at that point on the river,
where high bluffs abound, and through a
half dozen assures came volumes or
steam and the odor Of burning sulphur.
Up to the present time there has been
no investigation of the burning bluffs to
see what was the cause of the disturb
ance.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
COLORADO

PUEBLO, Colo, Sept 1.-The public
has received two notes within the past
week stating that a three-day-old infant
is at the bottom of Lake Clara in the
Mineral Palace park. The chief will at
once start an invest ltion, although 1t
is his opinion that the notes are lne work
of some would-be joker. The first note,
which was turned over TO the police
about a week ago. isve instructions to
the park attendants to drag the lake and
find the booy of the baby. Today an
other noe was found, which read: why
don't they drag and get my poor little
baby out of the ,lake?"
The coroner's jury in the case of Fred
Fisher, who was killed by George Fox
north of the city, decided that Fisher
came to his death by a gunshot wound
at the hands of George Fox, but that the
said shooting WIS accidental.
COLORADO SPRII. .GS-The county
clerk has granted the following marriage
licenses: Earl S. Mosley and Laura A.
Grove, Denver; A. Clarence Probert, Ma
lima, Colo. and Emma Wandsmider. Chi
cago; Carlos E, Muggleton and Daisy M.
Pursley, Colorado Springs; George l..
Bender and Lenore Robinson, Colorado
Springs; r. Emerson Van Horn, Colorado
Springs, and Elizabeth Sampbell, Cadil-
lac, Mich.
BOULDER-Th funeral of the late Fe-
lix Monroe will be he.u from the resi-
dence of the parents in this city. The
Masons will have charge. The Woodmen
of the World and the Woodman circle
will also attend.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
LOUISIANA


ABBEvILLE, La, Sept. Mrs. Carrie
Birdie Hoffpauir, aged is years, eldest
daughter of Deputy Sheriff Otis Hoffpauir,
died at her fathers home. She had been
i'll only a few days, and her death comes
as shock to the community.
ABBEvILLE-Theog Hebert. an old
and highly esteemed resident of the Sixth
ward, died at his home near Kaplan, at
the age of II. He suffered stroke of
palsy some years since. which rendered
him an invalid.
LAFAYETTE = The first Wilkinson
meeting in this parish was held near
Carencro by the planters of that COM
munity at the home of Horace Guilbeau.
o. H. Breaux was elected president, with
Adam Sonnier, Armand Guilbeau, S. j.
Bretux, Antoine Conque and Capt. VIM.
Hargroder of Carencro and DR.. l.. A.
Guidry of Coulee Croche. The meeting
was addressed by Ben Builbeau of Sun
set and Judge Julien Moulton of La
fayette.
CROWLEY-Prof. w. r. Dodson of
Baton Rouge, director of Louisiana ex-
pertinent stations. is spending several
days here looking over the work of the
Crowley rice experiment station, which
is In charge of ]. B. Dodson.
NEW ORLHANS-The postoffice author
tiles here are in receipt of an official re-
port from C. c. Harbin, postmaster at
Bobbin, Texas, that his Office was robbed
OF considerable sum of money while he
was in the adjoining room taking break
fast. Inspector Munro has detailed spe-
cial man to the scene.
NAPOLEONvILLELT budget COM
mittee of the police jury held meeting
and drew up the parish budget for 1908
and will report to the police jury at their
regular meeting to be held in September.
The work undertaken by the road men
OF the parish of cutting and filling in the
lot has been completed and the yard is
now ready for the opening of the school.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
MINNESOTA

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. Sept IA fine
of $4,000 was imposed upon the Chicago,
St Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway
company and its former general freight
agent, Hiram M. Pearce. ordered to pay
a $1,000 fine by Judge Page Morris in the
United States district court. The Omaha
read, conformity with it's former general
freight agent. was convicted in the same
court, April H. of granting rebates to
the Spencer Grain company.
WINONA-The crop report for the ter
ritcry along the Northwestern road west
of this city says: Weather conditions in
South Dakota have been ideal, except for
a light frost near Watertown, which
caused no damage. The harvest is COM
pleted in both states except flax and corn.
Corn is doing nicely, but is very late
and will require three weeks more. Flax
is practically secure; fully 60 per cent
of 1t is harvested or ready and the re-
mainder is very near maturity
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
IDAHO

BOISE, Idaho, Sept. 1.-Recently a
local paper stated that Harry l.. Day,
one of the largest independent mine own
ers in north Idaho, would seek the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor next year,
but Mr.. Day has just come out with a
statement to the effect that he would
under no circumstances be a candidate
for any office within the gift of the peo-
pie of Idaho at any time He said he
would not change jobs with President
Roosevelt.
MULLAN-"You will never hear from
me again unless make a fortune" This
was the message left by c. Paulson for
his wife, when he deserted the woman
and two children after failure in business
here. A few days ago Mrs Paulson re-
ceived letter urging her to at once join
her husband in Lovelight New. Without
delay Mrs. Paulson started with her
children. Today a message was received
from Lovelight announcing the suicide of
Paulson. NO details were given.
WALLACE. G. Cox, who on August
8 broke his spine in fall from a wagon,
died at the Wallace hospital. Mr.. Cox
conducted a boarding house at the Fir
mill near Old Mission. He had just re-
turned from Cataldo with load of gro
ceries and was about to alight from the
wagon when the horse started up with
a jerk, throwing him to the ground. He
was treated at home for awhile. the ex-
tent of his injuries not being known.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
MICHIGAN


DETROIT, Sept. Held fast in a
switch on the Grand Rapids & Indiana
railroad tracks Edwin Boyd, Kalama-
zoo boy aged II, had a narrow escape
from death. Boyd sat down on the tracks
and the towerman, not knowing he was
there, threw the lever. The closing rails
caught the boys clothes and held him in
the path of an oncoming train. The lads
mother heard his screams and made fran
tic efforts to attract the attention of the
towerman.
SAULT STE. MARIE-Announcem
was made that the court martial held
here to try Private Cyrus Gillette of Fort
Brady, who accidentally shot and killed
Miss Elizabeth Cadenhead of Fergus,
Ont, last July, returned verdict of
acquittal.
PENTWATER-In a double drowning
accident in Bass lake near here Mrs.
George Grove and son Raymond, aged IL,
of Chicago met death. Mrs. Grove and
son were sailing in a boat with Mrs.
Henderson and son from Chicago, who
were guests of the Groves at their sum-
mer cottage. A sudden gust of wind
overturned them. Young Grove, who was
a good swimmer, dove after his mother
and never came up again. Mrs. Hender-
son and her son succeeded in gaining the
overturned boat nd clrmg to 1t until
rescued.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
NEW YORK

ITHACA, N. Y, Sept. 1.-Former Police
Chief Albert Niedeck died, aged IA years.
He served in the Seventy-fourth New
York volunteers during the Civil war and
was wounded five times in engagements
as a member of General Sickles brigade.
Chief Niedeck held the office of chief
of police for seventeen years. He was
well known among three generations of
Ithacans and score of classes of Cornell
students.
ROCHESTER-Wh was perhaps the
most disastrous fire the Buffalo, Roches-
ter & Pittsburg railroad ever suffered
occurred here, when the local roundhouse
on West avenue was completely gutted
by fire and fourteen engines in 1t de-
stroyed.
PORT JERVIS-Miss Helen Gasherie of
Brooklyn, who has been spending the
summer at Roscoe, Sullivan county, has
the honor of catching the largest trout
captured in that county this season and
the only one taken in Lake Nick emma
in fifteen years. The trout weighed three
and a quarter pounds.
BUFFALO-Dr. Gonzales TBrien Of
Barcelona, Spain, while changing -car6f
here lost wallet containing, s000 worth
of jewelry, $500 in letters ofEcredit and
$1,000 in cash. A. M Merritt,Va trainman
of the New York Central, returned the
property saying he found it on the seat
just vacated by DR.. O'Brien in another
train. The trainman received liberal
reward.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
OREGON

PORTLAND Ore, Sept. IA movement
to have the city construct a subway
throughout all the streets in the business
district to contain telegraph, telephone
and electric wires, sewers and gas pipes
arc all other wires and pipes that may
be laid, has been inaugurated at meet
ing cf the council.
ASH S1CRIA-Eight bonds for deeds by
which persons owning property In the
Nehalem valley agree to give rights of
way for the Pacific Railway & Naviga-
tion companys proposed road were filed
for record in the county clerks office
The bends are on condition that the road
is completed and in operation before
January /, 1910.
SALEM-George W. Jones, who has
served six years as superintendent of the
Oregon state school for the blind, left
today for Jacksonville, ILL.,. where he has
accepted the superintendency of the state
blind school at that place.
THE DALLES-Alone in his cell in the
Wasco county Jail, filled with astonish-
nent and remorse, Thomas Hale, who
shot and killed Tom Mcconnell, sheep
herder, in the barroom of the Columbia
Southern hotel at Shaniko, sits and Won
ders how it all happened.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
WYOMING

EVANSTON, WYo., Sept. 1.-Charged
with poisoning her husband. with her
daughter Annies aid, by giving him a
plum pie to eat with strychnine in 1t, Mrs.
James Bruce and the girl have been ar
rested for murder. They live at Smoot,
nearby Mormon settlement.
NEwCASTLE-B. F. Russell was
shocked when he picked up an eastern
paper and read an account of the death
of his father at the old home in Glen
wood, Iowa. The telegraphers' strike had
prevented relatives notifying Russell of
his fathers death. Russell left at once
for his old home to attend the funeral.
smelter of the Penny Wyoming Copper
company has been blown in and is now
producing matte copper. The plant. which
was destroyed by fire four months ago.
was reconstructed on the fireproof plan
in ninety days.
MONARCH-Joe Pollard, employed on
the tipple at the mines of the Wyoming
company here. got his right hand caught
in the machinery and the member was
crushed off. He was thrown from the
tipple and fell forty feet to the tracks.
being seriously injured by the fall.
CHEYENNE - Jack Anderson, whose
wife died of scarlet fever. broke quaran-
tine and has disappeared. 1t is thought
he went to Grover. the home of his wife's
parents. Descriptions of Anderson have
been sent to all nearby towns.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-09-02
OHIO

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 1.-While re-
placing a belt on a pulley at the paint
plant of the Ullman-Pnilpott company,
1892 Merwin street, N. W., Martin Sitting
was caught in the betting ana whirled to
death One of the mans shirt sleeves
became caught and his entire body was
drawn between the belt and pulley and
horribly crushed. The right leg was
completely severed from the body in ad-
dition to being fractured in a number of
places.
ASHTABULA-Jeff Jensen, Dane of
this city, has resigned his position with
Fargo Bros, dairymen, after twenty
seven years. Every day during that time
he drove a milk wagon in Ashtabula and
never a day did he miss covering his
route. Jensen came to Ashtabula from
Denmark and is now close to 60 years old.
DELAWARE-Afte nineteen years of
mourning for each other, Jacob Kinnel,
sr and Jacob Kinnel, jr. met in this
city recently. The son left the city twen-
ty wears ago. After the Irst year, re-
ceiving no answer to letters written
home he supposed his father had died.
KENT-Cards were sent out announc-
ing the marriage of Miss Dorena Rock
well, daughter of o. S. Rockwell of Kent
to Charles M. Raub of Brooklyn, N. Y.
The wedding took place in Trinity cath
edral. Cleveland, August 6, and was kept
secret