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The daily tribune., 1907-07-24
A new
HANGING
DEVICE

Pittsburg, July 2i---To save the
nerves Of tender hearted officials,
Sheriff A. D, Gumbert, formerly a
pitcher OF the Chicago national league
baseball team, las successfully put in
to usa self-hanging devise of his
own Invention.
The device was tried on Bowling
Grean, u negro wife murderer, who
went singing to the gallows.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
S. P. TO AVOID
FREIGHT DELAYS
General Manager Calvin Reports That
No Conspiracy to Favor Ger
tain Shippers Has Been
Found
BY Associated Press.

by Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.-Vice
President and General Manager e. Il.
Calvin of the South. n Pacific company
announces that a thorough investiga-
tion, following reports that employees
had privately organized system for
eXpediting movement of freight over
Southern Pacific lines in return for
bribes, has been completed, and shows
that there is no such organization. lii
the great rush of business to the coast
hundreds of cars at the eastern foot
of the Sierras are made up into new
and shorter trains to take over the
mountains. A few shippers. impatient
at the delay, who have been sending
out men to find out about their cars,
bribed one of the yardmasters at
Sparks, New, who in making up trains
could give preference to certain cars
instead of following the rule that cars
should be taken out in the order of
their arrival.
The practice was not carried on eX-
tensively, but was confined to a few
shippers. There is no ring of en-
ployes, anC the guilty yardmaster has
been discharged.
Vice President Calvin states that the
congested conditions along the Ogden
route have beer greatly improved and
the delay at Sparks, due largely to the
heavy washouts of the spring and the
fact that the Southern Pacific had to
handle all of the Salt Lake roads busi-
ness for two months, will from now on
be practically obviated.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
ORCHARDS STORY
STRONGLY REFUTED
tcOntlnued from Page one.D

mands of the strikers at Cripple Creek
and continued to work with union men.
In picturesque language and real good
humor Amolc told how after he was
first driven from the district he
sneaked back to get his furniture, only
to be rounded up by the militia. The
soldiers released him but nc was set
upon by a party of armed, masked
men of the Citizens alliance. He tes-
titled that they took him six miles out
side the town and there cruelty whip
ped him with revolver butts and a
blacksnake.
Judge Thereon Stevens, now of Gold
field, New, but once of the district
court of Telluride, traced the history of
the relations between the courts and
the soldiers in the troublesome days
Of the strike. He testified that when
the deportees tried to use the injunc-
tion to get back to their homes, the
governor returned the district to the
control of martial law and that the
writ of habeas corpus and subsequent
order for arrest for it's disobedience
against the military authorities in the
case of Charles II. Meyer were both
disregarded by Gen. Sherman Bell and
Capt. Buckley Wells. Tie judge
thought things had been very quiet in
Telluride district, but under cross-ex-
animation said that some men had been
killed in an attack on the Smuggler
Union mine and that subsequently
Arthur Collins, manager of the mine,
was murdered.
There was also showing that De-
tective Lyte Gregory had beaten Off
GERS of the United Mine Workers and
the defense explained that this was
offered as the foundation for the
claim that somebody besides the fed
Grafton might have desired his death.
-3-~S-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
MINE CLAIMANT
IS SHOT DEAD
Western Union Guard Killed in Yard
at Oakland-Friends Believe His
Enemies in GoldfeId Are Re-
sponsibe for Shooting
BY Associated Press.


OAKLAND, Cal, June 29.-Did
George SINNERS, guard for the West
ern Union Telegraph company, meet
with an accidental death in the Soutn-
ern Pacific yards at Peralta street early
this morning, or was he murdered?
There are those of his intimate
friends who believe that the circum-
stances surrounding his strange death
should be fully probed. They point out
the fact that on two occasions at least
SINNERS life was attempted.
Shortly after 8 o'clock this morning
other guards ir the yards of the West
ern Union Telegraph company heard
a pistol shot They rushed in the di-
rection from which the sound same and
found SINNERS lying in pool of blood.
He died half an hour later.
Just before the accident SINNERS had
Leen seen talking with a stranger. 1t
may be that in STOPPING over to pick
up something from the ground that the
revolver fell from his pocket and eX-
ploded.
SINNERS is not an operator. He be-
gan serving as u guard when the recent
telegraphers' strike began. The dead
MAJ has lived in Oakland off and on
for twelve years, and had a residence
here until lately, when he began living
at No. 1929 Franklin street, with a
friend, r. Van Houton.
He was 80 years old, and has a
brother in Ohio, and sister in Iowa,
both of whom have been notified of the
tragedy. Intimate friends of SINNERS
are sincere in their belief that the man
met with foul play. The dead man
was one of the three lessees of the
famous Mohawk mine, his share being
Llleged to be about S450,000.
The claim and the fight he has made,
these friends say, made him a host of
enemies, some of whom have on two
occasions recently in Goldfeld at
tempted his life.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
TWAIN AGAIN IS
GUEST OF HONOR
American Humorist Greeted by $50
Members of Savage Club in
London-Pays Tribute
to Oxford
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
LONDON, June 29.-Marll Twain was
the guest of honor tonight at ban
quet at the Mansion House, at which
the lord mayor had as his guests $50
members of the Savage club and others,
including Lord Chief Justice Alver-
stone and DR.. Fritjof Nansen and Sir
William S. Gilbert.
Mark Twain, replying to the toast
to the honorary life members of the
Savage club, entertained the party with
several stories of American humor
which highly amused them. Conclud-
ing he touched more serious note,
saying:
And now l am going home in. a
week or two across the ocean once
more. | came over to get an honorary
degree from Oxford. / would have en-
compassed the seven seas for an honor
like that-the greatest honor that has
ever fallen to my share.
We'll, l am young in spirit but old
in flesh and it is not likely that |
shall ever see England again, but I
go with the recollection of a gracious
and kindly welcome, for which | am
grateful"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
WINE FRAUD BILL
HELPS GROWERS
French Government Takes Measures
to Aid Farmers by Suppressing
observation-disclosures to Avoid
Riots in Future
BY Associated Press,

BY Associated Press.
PARIS. June 29.-The government to-
day promulgated the wine fraud bill
which was passed by the senate last
evening, which desired TO correct
number of things complained of by the
discontented wine growers in the south
of France. The bill, it is hoped, will go
long way toward removing the feeling
of discomfort in the recently disturbed
district.
The new measure requires, among
other things, that all of the wine
growers make an annual declaration
at the mayoralty of their commune of
the acreage cultivated and total guam
tity of wine produced and in stock,
and whether it is intended for sale or
otherwise, the government being of the
opinion that when in possession of this
information 1t will be in position to
keep track of the wine from the grow
ers to the dealers, thus preventing
watering.
The measure restricts the market for
alcohol produced from grapes and
beets, which resulted in the introduce
ton of the bill providing for an in
crease in the duties on petroleum with
the object of stimulating the use of
alcohol for illuminating purposes.
The finance minister is also prepared,
as an inducement for the wine growers
to abandon grape growing in favor of
other crops, to remit the land tax in
| such cases for five years. The govern
ment advises the organization of wine
growers to regulate the output and dis
continue the manufacture of poor wine
and urges the growers to assist the
government to suppress the outside
| frauds by themselves exposing whole
sale buyers who refuse to purchase
products unless adulterated to suit the
market,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
UNIONS RALLY TO
MEMS DEFENSE
Brick Throwers, Arraigned in Court
Are Well Provided with Attor-
neys-Strike Breakers
Released

| BY Associated Press.
| SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.-The nine
men indicted by the grand jury for
throwing bricks at street cars and at
tacl5ing a car near the Chutes will be
defended not only by the Carmen
union but by the'Union Defense league
as well. This was announced TINS
morning when the defendants were
brought into Judge Cooks court, where
Judge Gaddis of Yolo county is sitting
in the absence of the local jurist.
Edward f. Moran appeared as at
torney for the defense He is retained
nv the Carmen's union and declared
that no exception will be made, even
i'm the case of Peterson, who will be
placed on the same footing, as far as
funds go, as the other defendants.
Peterson is the man from whom
CAPTAIN Colby is said to have obtained
the confession which implicated his
companion
E. l.. Kirk is retained as supreme
counsel to assist in opposing the prose-
Cution by the Union Defense league
which secures it's funds by contribution
from all the unions. William IA. COOK
of the district attorneys office an
nounced that the prosecution would be
conducted by r. Porter Ashe.
All the nine men but one who had
deposited bail were brought into court
handcuffed two by two. one OF the
prisoners was weeping bitterly ana
continued to do so all through the
proceedings. which We're short. A num-
her of union men were in court, but
the crowd was quiet and orderly
No action was taken in the cases,
except to set the arraignment for July
s, by which time Judge Cook will have
returned.
The Garments union recently offered
reward of $500 for the arrest and con-
viCtion of any one caught in acts of
violence against cars or employees
Philip Landau and James Ferguson,
ST. Louis strike breakers. who took out
the first cars to run on Turk street
after the declaration of the strike,
were discharged by Police Judge Weller
this morning on charges of assault to
of shooting w. NanderVort, a newsboy,
at Richard Earle.
The judge regarded the evidence in
sufficient to hold the men.
Adiutant General Lauck and the
other members of Governor Gillett's
staff. with the exception of Colonel
Wilhelm, who soon after the beginning
of the street car strike established
temporary headquarters in the Ferry
building, will return to Sacramento this
afternoon, their presence in this city
being thought no longer necessary.
Colonel Wilhelm will remain to keep
the governor informed regarding the
situation.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
NEW LAW MENACES
FRUIT INTERESTS
PROHIBITION OF SULPHUR A
HARD BLOW
Governor Gillett TeIegraphs Govern
ment Officials, Urging Them to
Hold Up Further Legis-
latlon
in Associate ted Press.

By Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, June 29-Califor-
MAS dried fruit interests are doing
considerable worrying over an act
passed by the last congress which for
bids the use of sulphur i'm all food
products. Already the bill has been
signed by one or two of the govern
ment departments at Washington, and
combined efforts are made in this state
to prevent the act going any further
and becoming a law.
Sulphur is used in California to dry
every variety of fruit. and it is de-
clared If such a law were put in force
and the use of sulphur prohibited it
would cause untold losses to Califor-
MAS fruit men,
Governor Gillett sent the following
message to President Roosevelt last
night:
"Presdent Roosevelt, oyster Bay,
N. y:
Am informed that secretary of ag-
riculture has signed an order concern-
ing use of sulphur in food products
which, if no exception is made to our
dried fruit industry, will inflict great
loss to California. order is now await
ing signatures of the secretary of treas
urey and secretary of commerce and
labor Our state wants to be heard be-
fore order is finally signed. Can it be so
arranged? j. N. GlLLEIi
Governor of California;
Similar messages We're sent to the
secretary of commerce and labor ana
the secretary of agriculture.
A reply was received from James VIII
son, secretary of agriculture, by Gov
ernor Gillett this afternoon stating ac-
ton will be deferred until representa-
tives arrive in Washington to talk over
the matter.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
CALHOUN FIRM
AGAINST UNION
President Of United Railroads Says
Positions Are Open to Former
Employees Only as Indi-
viduaIs

SAN FRANCISCO, June 29.-Presi-
dent Calhoun of the United Railroads
today dictated the following statement
to set at rest rumors springing from
his meeting of yesterday with union
leaders that a settlement of the street
car strike was at hand:
"The position of the United Railroads
has changed in no particular in regard
to the so-called car mems union. There
is not the slightest hope for the So
called car men that this company will
ever permit them to re-enter its serv-
ice except as individuals. 1t is a fact
that large number of the former en-
ployes of this company did not desire
to strike, and would long since have
returned to work except for fear of
bodily harm not based on idle grounds,
but upon actual threats. The most out
rageous coercion has prevented these
conservative men who were formerly
employed by the company from apply
ing as individuals for unemployment.
1.-THE company holds only the kindli-
est feeling for these old men and has
always been disposed not to hold them
responsible for the strike and to permit
them as individuals to return to work
on the company's new scale of wages
which is from 25 to SO cents an hour,
in accordance with years of service
1.-THE company recognizes no car men
in San Francisco except the men on it's
cars. 1t has more than 1000 permanent
platform men now employed at % cents
an hour, and new men are applying at
an average of about twenty-five a day
There will soon be no vacancies open
to the company's old employees at ALL
Under no circumstances will men now
on the company's cars be discharged to
make place for former employees.
'I received day before yesterday an
application from the representatives of
the former shop mon asking permis-
sion for them to come back to work.
but / was compelled to answer the ap-
plication with the statement that there
we're no longer any vacancies in the
Eompany's shops"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
ARMY PROVIDES FOR
UTE INDIAN RENEGADES
By Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, June 29.-The ques e
tion of the future of the Ute Indians
who left their reservation last winter
and have been held by the military at
Fort Meade, S. D., has been settled so
far as the war department is concerned.
according to Secretary Taft. He found
that the army officers had adjusted the
matter for themselves by giving the
Indians food supplies to last them to
the end of the fiscal year placing them
on the Cheyenne river south reservation
and forming an Indian bureau so that
they would return to its charge after
that date.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
INDIAN KILLED BY
MISSI0NARYS POSSE
BY Associated Press.

PHOENIX, Ariz. June 29.-News was
received of the killing of an Apache
Indian this afternoon on the Mcdowell
reservation, twenty miles from here.
The reservation is under the direction of
superintendent Goodman of the Phoe-
nix Indian school and under the per-
sonal charge of w. H. Gill. missionary
and sub-agent. For some offense Good
man instructed Gill to force the Indian,
now dead, off the reservation. A posse
attempted to enforce the order, when
the recalcitrant fired. wounding an In
dian. The posse returned the fire and
the recalcitrant was killed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
BOYS AND GIRLS ACT
AS "COPS" FOR FOURTH
BY Associated Press.

Dy AsSocld~Su lSSo'
CHICAGO, June ga dispatch from
Council Bluffs, Iowa, says:
Chief of Police Richmond has struck
upon a unique scheme to prevent the
premature celebration of independence
day by deputizing boys and girls to act
as special police.
A long line OF youngsters lined up
yesterday and received appointments.
Each was required to take the regular
oath of a patrolman and the young
sters were assigned TO specific districts.
The novelty of having the power of
arrest over the boy in the next block
has appealed greatly to the youngsters.
The saddest words
OF tongue or pen
Are: Put your heaV-
les on again.
Milwaukee Sentinel
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
ARRESTS FIVE ASSAYERS
FOR STEALING "HIGH GRADE"
BY Associated Press.

GOLDFiELD, New, June 29.-Chief
constable Claude Inman arrested five
assayers this afternoon and recovered
1900 pounds of high grade alleged to
have been stolen from the Little Flor
ence and valued at $4,000. The men
under arrest are NJ. j. Smith, S. H.
Prince, c. j. Trask, Henry Lutzen-
heiser and Fred Lutzenheiser. All gave
bail in the sum of $1,000 and Justice of
the Peace Solomon set the cases for
hearing on July 12. 1t is expected that
more arrests will be made within a
few days, the men who actually stole
the rich rock being under surveillance
Constable Inman has been working
on the case for some time, having been
notified of the thefts of ore by the
management of the Little Florence.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
GERMAN WILL TRY TO
CROSS AFRICA IN AUTO
By Associated Press.


BERLIN, June 29.-Lieut. Graetz of
the Persian army will leave here soon
to make the first effort to cross Africa
in an automobile. He proposes to start
from Dar- -Es-Salaam on the east coast
about August 10, riding through Ger
man Southwest Africa to Swakopmund.
He proposes to make the journey in not
less than six weeks. He will drive a
specially made 45-horse power car with
very heavy wheels and compartments
for holding SUFFICIENT gasoline for 1000
kilometers. 5N
Graetz will also provide himself With
a big larder. Accompanying him will
be machinist, a cook and negro SER
want. He will have an elaborate pho
tographic outfit.
The kaiser is said to be much in
terested in the venture and has desired
that a report of the trip be made to
him.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
ACCUSED OFFICIAL
SURRENDERS HIMSELF
BY Associated Press

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 29.-Charles
F.. More. the missing member of the
board of public service, who disap-
peared in March last after the grand
jury had returned an indictment
against him for accepting a bribe in
connection with the Broad street paw
ing scandal and for selling material to
the city from firm in which he was
interested, appeared at the court house
today and gave himself up. He had
been in Canada since his fight and ar
rived here last night.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
SCHENCK WILL
NOT RESIGN
CONTINUED from Page one)

Sparks and Officer Barnes brought be-
fore him and severely lectured them for
their actions, and sent special officers
after Schenck to bring him to the city
hall They failed to find the commits
sioner.
Most of the witnesses agree that
Schenck was under the influence of
liquor, while the police say he appeared
to have i,nbibed some drink, but was
not in maudlin condition.
Both Sides Busy
Efforts were made by many friends of
Mayor Harper last night to urge him to
accept Commissioner Schenck's resigna-
tion at once. The mayor left the city
hall, saying he would act as soon as he
saw Schenck. Those near to him say
his mind is made up and that there is a
vacancy in the commission now.
Some of Schenck's friends urged in
his behalf that Police Surgeon Quint
told several friends that he detected no
liquor on the commissioners breath and
that his conduct was possibly due to
nervousness. Schenck has been in
terested in a number of business deals
and his family has asked him to take a
run into the mountains and forget busi-
ness cares for a few weeks.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER
Is GUARDED CLOSELY
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK, June 29-Dispatches
from Plttsfield, Mass, report that Mrs
F. Parmalee Prentice, who is at Onata
Farm for the summer, is entertaining
her father, John d. Rockefeller, and the
estate is under strong guard, presum-
ably to prevent Mr.. Rockefeller being
disturbed by process servers.
The dispatch states that the lake
front of the property is patrolled by a
launch and that reporter who drove
out TO the place, which he found guard
ed on all sides, was informed that he
could not approach the house.
Mr.. Rockefeller arrived at Onata
Farm late Thursday night.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
Negroes Not Progressing

Continuing, the governor said:
ANY plan for the negroes which fails
TO recognize the difference between the
white and black races will fail. The
honest student of history knows that
the negro had full opportunity for gene
rations to develop before the days of
slavery; that the negro race was i'm
proved by slavery, and that the ajor-
ity of the negroes in this state have
ceased to improve since slavery. Few
have been helped by books. All have
been helped who have been taught or
made to work.
THE negro child should be taught
manual labor and how to live. The me-
gro teacher should be selected less by
book than by character examination.
Racial differences cannot be overcome
by misguided philanthropists.
Superiority does not justify cruelty.
The man who breaks the law to punish
q criminal is himself criminal. There
is no place in Georgia for riots and
mobs 1t is the duty of the governor to
exhaust the power OF his office to en-
force the law and to prevent lynching,
and | shall perform this duty. l recog-
nize the duty of the white man to be
absolutely just to the negro"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30
HOKE SMITH
WANTS REFORM
Continued from Page one>

or any state, on. account of race, color
or previous condition of servitude.
The state of Georgia, he maintained,
has the right to fix a legal standard
the qualifications being required of all
without reference to race or color. This
amendment, he suggested, should di-
vide the voters into six classes, as fol-
lows:
First-All persons who served in any
war of the United States, the Confede-
rate states or the state of Georgia:
Second-Their lawful descendants;
Third-All persons of good character
who understand the duties Of obliga-
tions of citizenship; or,
Fourth-Can read and write correctly
in English any paragraph of the federal
or state constitutions;
Fifth-Owners of forty acres of land
on which they lived; or,
SiXth-OWners of $500 worth of tax
| able property in the state.
THE right to qualify under the third
provision" Gov. Smith declared, would
expire January /, 1910, and the first and
second provisions on January l. 1915.
Any person qualifying under the first,
| second on third provisions is qualified
| to vote for life, unless he fails to pay
his taxes, commits crime or does some
act subsequently to prevent his voting
| The regulation of party primaries,
the speaker said, should be transferred
to state officers, chosen by the legisla-
| ture or governor.
Discussing the control of railroads
and public service corporations, Gov.
Smith said:
"It is especially important at this time.
| when many are ready to transfer to the
national government all such control
| that the state should show it's capacity
! to meet it's part of the responsibility"
| He advocated increased power for the
state railroad commission and urged
| that the courts should not interfere
with the commission by restraining
orders. The finding of the railroad COM
mission, he said, should not be sus-
pended by the eX-parte affidavit of a
railroad official.
Control of liquor traffic by local OPP
ton and protection of dr." commune
ties from the jug trade was urged.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30

Everything you want you will find in
the classified page One cent word.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30

II you want to go east. C, HaydocK.
Agent Illinois Central r. r.. us w. sixth.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-30

A< FIVE ACRES OF GIGANTIC BIRDS.
ogf4I siFS EAST LAKE PARK