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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08
MOTORIST is
TO RACE FROM
N. Y. TO PARIS
PLAN 10000 MILE CONTEST
IN AUTOMOBILES
Start Will Be Made Next Wednesday
and First Lap of Journey viii Be
Across America to San
Francisco
BY Associated Press

BY Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 1.-THE first of
the foreign teams scheduled to start
in the New York to Paris automobile
race OH Wednesday next arrived today
on the steamship Kaiserin Auguste
Victoria, and it's members were met at
the pier by a group of enthusiasts and
officials connected with the contest.
The team is to represent Germany
in the daring enterprise and is COM
posed OF Lieut. Keppen of the fifteenth
infantry, imperial army, and Engineer
Hans Knape, also of the German army.
-Four French teams and one from Italy
are on board the steamer Lorraine,
which will dock tomorrow With their
arrival the last of the details of the
contest will be decided upon. Four
American cars have been entered, with
the possibility that two or three others
may be added
The race will be the most difficult
test to which the automobile has ever
been put. When it was first suggested
many persons looked upon 1t as an
impossibility. but as the plans were
worked out the feat appeared more and
more feasible.
The success of the Picking to Paris
race made a more daring journey pro-
posed from New York to Paris by way
of Boring straits and across the frozen
lands of Siberia, attractive in its scope
and dangers. The contest was pro-
jected by the French newspaper LIE
Matin and has been finally arranged
with the cooperation Of the New York
Times.
rhe start will be made from Times
square at Forty-second street and
Broadway on Wednesday next, Feb
ruary ~, Washingtons birthday, at IL
q. IN. The route lies across the Amer
lean continent to San Francisco, where
the machines will be transported by
steamer to Seattle and thence to Val
dez, Alaska. Debarking at Valdez the
racers will set out over the snow packed
roads and ice-covered rivers of Alaska
for 1100-mile trip to Nome. AT Nome
it will be necessary to ship on another
steamer across the straits to East
Cape Siberia. where stretch of l1,45O
miles faces the drivers. Altogether the
journey will amount to about 10000
miles. nearly $4,000 being made in the
machines.
The contestants will be accompanied
from New York by a great cavalcade
of automobiles and at various points
along the route across the United
States local drivers will act as pilots
and escorts.
Leaving New York the automobiliSts
will pass through Albany. Utica, SYRIA
cuse, Rochester, Buffalo, Erie, Cleve-
land, Toledo, Chicago, Council Bluffs,
Omaha, Cheyenne Green River, Ogden.
Winnemucca, Reno, Goldheld, santa
Barbara and San Jose, the southern
detour from Reno being made neces-
sary by the impossible condition of the
Sierras at this time of the year. The
trip to San Francisco is expected to
consume not more than twenty-six to
thirty days.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08
What They Can Do

DR.. Norman Bridge, the last speaker,
directed the attention of the club
women to some things that they, as
members of club numbering over 1000
members, could assist in bringing to
pass.
Certain laws should be passed and
then enforced. and to this end the aid
of the women was invoked. The law
against expectorating on the streets
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08
METHODS OF DEFENSE IN
MURDER TRIAL ATTACKED

CHICAGO, Feb. IA bitter denun-
citation of the tactics of the defense was
the keynote of the address or Assistant
states Attorney Day, who began the
concluding arguments in the trial Of
Mrs. Dora Mcdonald, charged with
killing Webster Guerin, this afternoon.
He made charges of perjury. treachery'
prejudice and bribery against the OPP
posing witnesses and counsel.
There was no hint of the death pen
atty in Mr.. Days address. He asked
the Jury to find the woman guilty OF
murder, but gave 1t to be understood
that a penitentiary sentence will satisfy
the prosecution.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08
JUDGE CONSIDERS CASES
OF MEXICAN REVOLUTIONISTS


SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 7.-Federa'
Court Judge Ross today took under
advisement the case of Ramon Flores
| Magon, Antonio Villareal and Librado
Riviera, who are seeking to be re-
leased on writs of habeas corpus.
The three Mexicans were indicted ir
Tombstone for plotting to organize an
armed force to march into Mexico and
overthrow the Diaz administration.
They were arrested in Los Angeles last
August and have been fighting extra
dition since.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08
Steamer on Coral Reef

~ AasOCIa0eu I
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. Further
advices today regarding the wreck Of
the steamer Anselm state that the YES
sci is on Sergeant's key, a coral forma-
lion fifty miles southeast of Belize,
british Honduras. All of the passen-
gers and crew are safe, but the cargo
will probably be almost total loss,
ana the chances for saving the steamer
appear small. The Anselm was valued
at 100000.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08
DEMURRER AGAINST INDICTMENT
is oVERRULED BY COURT

Judge Conrey OF the superior court
yesterday overruled the demurrer to
the indictment returned by the grand
jury against C. w. Beard, charged
with perjury in connection with the
Sarah Johnson will contest.
A motion to set aside the Indictment
on technical grounds was filed by
Boards attorney, and this will be ar
gued February IA
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08
Rate War Is Ended

BY NSsOclatFH FTess'
LONDON, Feb. THE official heads
of all the steamship companies en-
gagged T. transatlantic passenger traf-
fic made an agreement late to-
night which ends the recent rate cut
ting and by which the companies un-
dertake to maintain certain rates for
all classes of passengers. the figures OF
which will be made public shortly.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08
Petroleum stolen from Cars

BY ABEOcIdIeu FTths
TIFLIS. Feb. THE state treasury
has suffered loss of 100000 gallons of
petroleum through systematic robbery
of tank cars on the Transcaucasian
railroads with the connivance of en-
rioyes. The. cars were tapped between
way stations and barrels filled with
oil were carried away and sold at Yeiz-
aVethOl
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08
PRACTICES WITH REVOLVER
BEFORE SHOOTING AT WIFE

DENVER, Feb 7.-Mortally sick with
consumption and insanely jealous,
Jacob Koretzky practiced shooting at a
target with a revolver for several days
in preparation for the murder of his
wife, Rebecca, whom he fatally wounded
on a street in this city last evening.
After shooting his wife Koretzky sho'
himself in the head.
Husband and wife died last night at
the hospital.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08
Confirms Sentence of Death



SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. THE SUI.
preme court today affirmed the sen
renee of deaht in the case of Edward
Manasse, convicted of the murder OF
John C. Cook in Sacramento December
%. 1906. The court held there had been
no errors committed at the trial In the
Sacramento count court.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08

LONDON. Feb. 7.--Charles Frohman
has engaged company of Irish play
ers formerly belonging to the National
Theater society of Dublin to produce
Irish peasant plays in New York.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08
DEMOCRATS FRAME
NEW BANKING BILL
CONTINUED from Page one1

men If they were to pay the price"
suggested Mr.. Sherman.
Mr.. Knapp replied: THE roads, be-
lieve, can get men in a reasonable time
II they pay enough for them"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08
German Banker Disappears

BY AssOcIUteu FTess'
BERLIN, Feb. 7.-Siegmund Fried
burg, a private banker and owner of
a financial newspaper, the Investors
Adviser, has disappeared. 1t is said
he has liabilities amounting to 100000.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08

Are you going? Baby show, given by
Pacific camp No. 1862, Modern Wood
men of America, Thursday night teD-
raary Is. at Mammoth hall, 517ls South
Broadway
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08
REPUBLICANS PLAN
FOR CONVENTION
Coliseum in Chicago Will Be Arranged
to Accommodate a Host of
Delegates, Visitors and
Newspaper Men
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.-Chairman
Harry S. New, Secretary Elmer Dover
and other members of the subcommittee
of the Republican national committee
practically have completed the arrange
ments for the national convention to be
held in Chicago next June.
The convention will assemble in the
Coliseum-the scene of many historic
gatherings-which was designed and
erected with special reference to the
needs of political convention. In the
opinion of Secretary Dover, while ar
rangements for previous conventions In
the Coliseum have been excellent, they
will be better this year than ever be-
fore. As planned now, the Coliseum in
June will be the most complete con-
vention hall in the United states, al
though one or two other halls are
larger.
The most radical of these improve
ments is an entire change in the seat
ing arrangements. The platform, In
stead of being at the center of one side
of the Coliseum, will be at one end
This will not decrease the number or
seats, but will permit all who occupy
seats both to see and hear the pro-
ceedings.
The total number of seats, according
to present plans, is ll,VlI, WHICH, AL
cludes the seats provided In the balcony
that extends around the hall. On
raised platform above the floor or the
auditorium will be provided seats for
the chairman and secretaries of the con-
Vention and fifty-six seats for members
of the national committee. The section
Immediately in the rear of the platform
provided for specially invited guests
will contain 1926 seats.
Directly in front of the platform and
extending on both sides of 1t are the
sections provided for working members
of the press. These sections will give
desk room for 416 writer's, nearly 100
more than were provided for at the last
convention.
DENVER, Colo, Feb. THE local
committee of the Democratic national
committee, having in charge details
for entertaining and quartering dele
gates and visitors during the Demo-
cratic national committee meeting in
July, announces there will be no ex-
cessive charges permitted for hotel and
other accommodations. The committee
also wishes to assure the public that
Denver is able to furnish quarters for
an enormous crowd, and that all who
visit the city next July will find COM
Portable sleeping places at reasonable
prices. The committee points to the
manner of handling the G. A. r. con-
vention several years ago, when up
ward of 100000 people were guests or
the city, as proof of this assertion
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-08

To go to Redondo and see the Model Starr
wave Motor and commercial plant being
built there.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-27
WANDERS FAR BEING
VICTIM OF TRANCE
RICH PENNSYLVANIA FINDS
HIMSELF IN HOSPITAL
Forgets His Identity and Travels
Thousands of Miles, Being Finally
Arrested by San Bernar-
dino Officer
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN BERNARDINO, Aug. &c.
James e. Gray, q wealthy resident of
Sewickley, Pa, woke in the county
hospital last night to find himself un-
consciously in California, having wan
dered the country tver without know
ing it, He was taken to the hospital
by Special Officer Bigger, who had
been ~called to the Roanoke hotel to
inquire into his conduct.
Gray had been a guest of the hotel
several days. While he seemed to be
in a drowsy ct ndition, nothing was
thought of the matter until yesterday,
when hs was found parading the
streets in the clothes of the bus driver.
He had broken into the busman's room
and appropriated his clothes, even to
his shoes, leaving his own in exchange.
Officer Bigger encountered the
strangely dresseu man, for the bus
mans trousers came only to Gray's
knees, the latter being six-footer,
while the driver is a man of small
stature.
Gray readily returned to the hotel
and restored the clothing, but later
picked up a grip, and, going to the
street, appropriated horse and car
riage. Realizing that the man was in
no mental condition to be at large the
officer took him to the county hospital
While there Gray suddenly came out
of the spell which seems to have fallen
upon him. He explained that he had
left home unconsciously and had ar
rived first at Chicago, where he found
himself in a hospital Being dis
charged from that institution he sup
posed he was taking the train to his
home, but he unconsciously boarded
the California Limited. He was not
aware of his whereabouts until his
sudden awakening at the county hos
nifaI
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-27
QUEER DELUSION
HAS TRAGIC END
ST. LOUIS MAN INSANELY FOND
OF NOISES
cLAMoRMANlAC SWALLOWS DOSE
OF loDoFoRM
BoiIermaker's Passion for Sound Leads
to imprisonment - Finds Jail
Too Quiet, Which Causes
Him to Rave

By Associated Press.
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill, Aug. 26.-The
possible climax to the strange case of
Robert Caulfield, a boilermaker, who is
suffering from clamormania-a passion
for noise-came last night when he
swallowed two ounces of iodoform at
the city Jail, Belleville, where he had
been taken following a desperate
struggle with a policeman on street
car.
Caulfield is in the county hospital.
His chances for recovery are slight.
Monday night the boilermaker was
found near the Broadway viaduct, un-
conscious. He was taken to st. Mary's $
hospital.
The quietness of the place caused him
to rave necessarily, and it was decided
to take him to the Belleville hospital.
Handcuffed and in company with a
! oliceman, Caulfield was placed aboard
a car. AS soon as thetcar entered the
quiet country district he became vio-
lent and attacked the policeman. In
the car filled with passengers the two
men battled on the floor.
During the struggle the handcuffs
broke and Caulfield beat the officer
over the head with them. After fifteen
minutes the policeman overcame the
clamormaniac and later landed him in
jail.
Five minutes after he was locked UP
Caulfield swallowed iodoform.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-27
MINERS LOCKED
IN FIERY TOMB:
30 SUFFOCATED
TWENTY-EIGHT DEAD BODIES
TAKEN FROM SHAFT
HAILEYvILLE, OKLA DISASTER
AN APPALLING ONE
Believed List Of Fatalities VIII Reach
Thirty-two-some of Men Incin-
Grated = Rescuers Have
PerlIious Experience

By Associated Press.
M'ALESTER, Okla, Aug. 26.-More
W than thirty miners were suffo-
III Gated in Hailey-Ola coal mine
No. 1 at Haileyville. fourteen miles east
of McAIester, this morning, when IRE
destroyed the hoisting shaft and ar
shaft, and cut off air from the men
Twenty-eight dead bodies were
brought out tonight ,followind fye
hours battle with the flames.
1t is believed that several more VIII
be found. twenty-five mules were suf-
located and some Of their bodies Were
burned.
Explorations into the channels this
afternoon revealed the fact that none
of the men met death by burning, but
that all Of them were suffocated.
Search Is Delayed
It is impossible yet for the rescuers
to get far from the base of the mine
shaft, and it probably will be twenty
four hours before a thorough search OF
the entire mine can be made. Some or
the channels are three-quarters Of 3
miles long.
After the entombed miners had gone
down on the cage a fire broke out, oc-
casioned by the ignition of a barrel or
oil which a miner was trying to dis
lodge. The flames spread at once TO
tn, hosting shaft and the air shaft,
and all communication with the top
was at once cut off.
The first intimation the people on
top of the ground had of the trouble
was the flames and smoke coming out
Of the top of the shaft.
Many Rush to Rescue
Hundreds of miners rushed to the
scene and tried to get into the air
shaft, but this was impossible, as flames
and smoke were coming up that way
with such fore as to drive them back.
Then an effort was made to operate
the cages running up and down the
hoisting shafts, but 1t was found the
cages, cables and guides had been
burned.
There was absolutely no help for the
imprisoned miners. The Haiiey-Oia
mine is owned bv DR.. d. M. Haley.
James Elliott and number Of Chicago
and st. Louis capitalists, among whom
are several directors of the Rock IS,
Frisco system.
The property loss cannot be estimated
at present, but may reach $4,000. The
mine is one of the most valuable in the
southwest.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-27
FIGHT
S. P. EXTORTION
INTERSTATE COMMISSION TO
HEAR COMPLAINTS
LANE MAY INVESTIGATE SWITCH
ING CHARGES
Merchants of San Francisco and Los
Angeles Seek Relief from Heavy
Burden Placed on Them by
Railroads

There is relief in sight for the mer-
chants of Los Angeles long oppressed
by the Southern Pacific railroad.
Franklin K. Lane of the interstate
commerce commission, it is expected,
will speedily take up the question of
switching charges which have been a
burden to the business men of this
community.
According to advices from. San Fran
cisco, the interstate commission will
hear the complaints of the San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles merchants and
importers against the Southern Pacific
and Santa Fe railroads for charging
them switching tolls for moving cars
on to private sidings.
One of the interstate commerce COM
missioners, probably Franklin X. Lane,
is expected in San Francisco within a
few weeks. 1t is estimated that SWITCH
ing tolls aggregating over 100000 in
the two cities are involved.
1t is stated that the commissioner
coming to look into the complaints will
first stop at Reno, New, and hear the
complaints which have been filed by
Reno merchants against the Southern
Pacific for what they claim is too high
a rate on goods shipped to them from
the east. Reno merchants want the
same rate that San Francisco and Sac
ramento merchants enjoy.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-27
fire ADDSfTO 1
FATAL HORROR
OF BIG FLOOD
AUGUSTA, GA, DOOMED BY
FLAME AND WATER
S5oo,ooo DAMAGE DONE ALREADY,
is ESTIMATE
Business District in Great Lake from
Six to Ten Feet Deep-Three
Deaths in City, Many
Elsewhere

By Associated Press.
4 TLANTA, Aug. ga long distance
u telephone message from the Asso-
ciated Press correspondent at Au-
gusta says that city is completely un-
der water.
In the downtown portion business
houses, telegraph and newspaper Of
fees are completely demoralized.
There were three deaths in Augusta
today, two whites and one negro. No
names could be secured.
The damage, it is estimated, will
reach S500.000.
At $3.50 tonight it was learned through
the single wire of the Georgia Railroad
company, working partly into Augusta,
that the large cotton warehouse and
wholesale grocery warehouse of the
Nixon company were burning.
Depot Deeply Flooded
The union depot is under ten feet of
water and in the prominent residence
district the water stands six feet deep,
and slowly rising.
The Sacred Heart church is in six feet
of water.
The report of the fires in the Nixon
warehouses cannot be confirmed.
A telegraph operator said he could
not get near on account of the water,
but that the fires were burning the big
warehouses.
A special from Camden, S. c., reports
two lives lost and nineteen missing as
the result of the washing away of the
steel bridge over the Wateree river at
that place. Wire communication has
been destroyed, and it is not possible at
this time to verify the report.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-27
AGED JURIST WALKS
FAR TO FOIL DEATH
ST. LOUIS AUTHOR HAS HAIR
ROWING EXPERIENCE
Lost in Glacier Mountain, 74-Year-old
Man Prevents Freezing by
Staggering for Two
Days
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
ESTES PARK, Colo, Aug. 26.-After
wandering helpless and dazed in the
mountains without food and shelter for
nearly forty-eight hours, Roderick
Emile Rombauer, a st. Louis turist and
author, staggered into the Drake hotel
at 10:30 today.
For two nights and two days the
Judge had been aimlessly seeking the
trail, and was half dead from ex-
posure and ready for the care of ply
sicians when he found shelter here to-
day.
With careful nursing Judge Rom
bauer, who is IA years old, is expected
soon to recover.
Afraid to lie down for a rest lest he
would freeze to death. Judge Rom
bauer had kept constantly going since
he separated from the members of the
party with which he started from Hal
let glacier and which he left to make
the ascent of Bages peak Monday noon.
The Judge is believed to have wan
dered thirty miles or more.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-27
ISOLATED BRIDE
INCITES MURDER
ELEMENTAL PASSIONS BACK
OF ATR0Cl0US CRIME
Thlrteen-Year-oid Son Sees Father
Struck Down with an AK and
Aids in Disposing
of Body
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Aug. ga special cable
from Valdez, Alaska, says:s
Elemental passions aroused in the
bosom of an unwilling bride far from
the limits of civilization on the little
island of Afognak eliminated in one
of the most atrocious murders yet re-
corded, according to the confession of
Macrena Kavorsoff, who induced the
man whom she loved to kill her nus
band.
Both principals are now under ar
rest at Afognak, from which place
they will probably be brought to VAL
dez for trial before the district court
Peter S. Kavorsoff was a woodsman
who recently had been married to 49,
year-old girl in the local Greek Catholic
church They went to their home at
Ouzinky, where the bridegroom, who
was much older than his wife, had a
small farm. The bride hated and
feared her husband.
Pestriakoff succumbed willingly to
the imploring and felled Kavorsoff with
a heavy ak.
The only witness to the terrible
tragedy was the dead mans 13-year-old
child by former marriage.
Boy Forced to Aid
Macrena intimidated the lad and
compelled him to assist her in dispos-
ing of the body. Then the slayer and
the woman fed. Kavorsoff was missed
soon afterward and through the boy it
was first learned that he had been
killed. The fleeing couple were over
taken and lodged in jail. Two days
later the woman broke down and ad-
mitted the crime.
She tried to justify it, however, by
making charges of extreme cruelty
against her husband, who had belonged
to the uncouth descendants of the
former Russian peasantry. Because Of
her youth there is much sympathy ex-
pressed for the woman.
PestriaL off has no regret for the part
he played, rather glorifying in the
deed because, he says, he sought to
deliver the woman, whom he loved,
from the terror she was living in.
1t is believed he will plead justifiabe
homicide on the ground that the dead
man, knowing his attachment, had
threatened Pestriakoffs life.