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Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
COAL BUSINESS SHOWS
DECIDED IMPROVEMENT in
RECENT COLD SNAP

ST. LOUIS, Jan. 29.-With the Their
momete~ at u degrees above zero, st.
Louisans tried their best to keep com
Portable today. with the fuel supply
shortened by the usual midwinter rush
for coal. Aside from the shivering.
hurryins meE and women, going 10
and from the business and office build
ings in the business center, probably
the most striking feature was the end
less procession of coal wagons diverg-
ing from the E9ds bridge. This coal Is
brought from Tie East ST. Louis yards
by thousands of wagon loads daily.
The shopping district was not as
tustling as usual, as those who could
postpone purchases did so. At the
areas where the winds had full sweep,
such as along Twelfth street, the pic
ture was exceedingly wintry. This
wide plaza-like connection between
the city hall and Washington avenue
contrasled to the usual appearance Of
that district when Old Boreas does not
put his chilling clutch on the city.
Hotel corridors had more chair
warmers than usual Faust's could not
hold them all, and the big union sta
ton looked like convention time. Most
Ct the Democrats went straight to the
Iaclede hotel to get warm, In argu-
ments II not otherwise, while not
vacant seat was to be had at any Of
The library rooms. 1t was apparent
that men We're looking for warm places
TO larry a while.
Out at Forest park. the old Worlds
fair site. where the cold is always
more pronounced than in the city.
here were few autos and turnouts to-
day. and the few reminders of the big
sair II, wretched and dismantled
buildings looked eheerless indeed.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
THERMo. ETER AT ZERO
CHICAGO FEELS WINTERS
HAND IN EARNEST

CHIC AGO, Jan. 29.-With the ther-
mometel at zero, after the muggy,
grip-lader weather of the last few
Gays, the downtown streets were al
most deserted today. Only those whose
business forced them dared to brave
the biting cold and the swirling snow.
The wind from the lake was bitter, and
mot one of the usual fashionable
throng could be seen on Michigan ave-
nue. or Lal, Shore drive. The driving
blast dashed the snowflakes against
the big windows of the Auditorium
and the Annex and other lake front
hotels, and only now and then could
the Disconnected millionaires in the
Chicago and Athletic clubs see the
white-ca ppeF waves OF the surly lake.
The wind that blows constantly
around the Masonic temple increased
to gale proportions, and with every
gust blew carfuls of snow into the
faces If unfortunate pedestrians.
River traffic is suspended and not a
bridge turned all day.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
SEVERE ELECTRIC STORM
TURNS HOUSTON STREETS
INTO RAGING TORRENT

HOUSTON, Tex.-One of the sever
est rain and electrical storms ever seen
in this city and surrounding country
began late this afternoon and contin-
ued until a late hour tonight. The
storm started about 2 o'clock when a
slight drizzle began falling. Two hours
later the rain was falling in sheets
while the lightning flashed with a
luridness that lighted up every obscure
corner of the city. Many of the stores
along Main street, Preston and Con-
gress avenues were flooded. the rain
beating into every small crack or OPEN
ing. notwithstanding the wide protect
ing awnings.
From Travis street the water poured
down Texas and Preston avenues into
Main street and there formed into a
veritable millrace which emptied into
Buffalo bayou along the north side of
Commerce street A large number of
launches and pleasure boats We're torn
from their moorings. some of which
lodged against the piers of the San
Jacinto street bridge. Others were car
ried further down stream and 1t will
be impossible to recover them before
they reach Harrisburg, fifteen miles
below this city.
The large steamer Lawrence, moored
here during the winter, was somewhat
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
MINNEAPOLIS CENTER OF
COLD WAVE THAT HAS
CRIPPLED NORTHERN STATES

MINNEAPOLIS-Th city is in the
grip of a cold wave that extends over
Minnesota, the Dakotas and into Wis
consin and Iowa. Officially the great
est cold has been 20 degrees below zero,
but street thermometers have gone be-
low that, the big Voegeli instrument in
the heart of the business district show
ing registration OF % below
There is little snow and as result
the cold has penetrated the ground to
a depth which has made frozen gas
mains common all over the city. Both
Minnehaha and st. Anthony falls are
frozen over.
Ice yachtmen are jubilant, as recent
thaws made the ice on Minnetonlka too
soft for their favorite sport. This
freeze, however, has given them a fine
surface, and unless snow follows
quickly the ice yacht club will be a
favorite resort as soon as the weather
moderates.
There has been some suffering IN
fact. more than usual under similar
conditions, as the warm weather ear
ner in the month had made people
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
BAPTIST YOUNG PEOPLE
TO HAVE BIG RALLY
Program Is Announced for Five Adj
dresses and Responses, to Be
Given in Berean Hall To-
morrow Night

A Baptist young peoples rally will
he held in Berean hall, Temple audi
torium, tomorrow evening. The fol-
rowing is the program of the rally;
1880 p. m.-Congregational singing,
led by Rev. E. II. Emett.
7:45-Devotional responses Rev. w.
II. Walker. jr.
7:55-Address of welcome, President
Mattison B. Jones.
S:1O~Response. Rev. E. r. Brown.
Offering.
8:2O-Addresa, "What the Church
Has to Offer Young People," Rev. A.
S. Phelps.
Ought to Give the Church." Rev. j. @.
A. Henry, D. d.
9:OO-Address, young People and
city Missions Rev. F. w. Reynolds
superintendent Baptist city missions. -,
g:2O-Address, Awake! Awake!"
Rev. c. G. Pierce.
9:40-Adjournment.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
NATURE SMILES ON SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA;
FROWNS ON FRIGID, STORM-BOUND EAST

friends, of our folks "back east" We
did not consider that for four long
months they have been freezing, hug
ging the big coal-blast heaters, or
crouching in the corner against the
radiators, or wrapping sacks about
their feet and wading, plodding through
cutters of slush, ice or mud; beating
their arms to keep warm; going to bed
at p. m. to avoid freezing; bundling
up with ten-yard searfs, ear, nose and
neck mufflers and big fur caps and
overcoats; lodging formidable hail
stones behind a lamp post; shivering,
chattering, dancing in from of a red
hot CRATE to keep warm, while grand
pa melts the ice chunks from his
beard and grandma unbuckles his
overshoes and gets the snow out of his
clothing before it vets him.
But, although we forgot the condi-
ton of those back home" we were
not slow to appreciate our own mag
nificent weather, as was atteSted by
the fact that broadway, Spring and
Main streets were swarmed with happy,
smiling, jovial multitudes that didn't
seem to be doing anything except "just
enjoying the sunshine.
And it was a day that anyone could
well enjoy, however callous or stoical,
for no heart could be so hardened that
the beauty of such a day would not
revive it.
Days like yesterday make poets,
dreamers of us all. We look at the
world through new green goggles, and
the spirit of nature imbues us. The
song Of the birds, the beauty Of the
poppy field, the inspiration of the gar
dens, the azure of the sky. the fervent
gold of the sunbeams awaken the
sweetest thoughts and fancies of our
hearts and we commune unconsciously
with the latent, mystical spirit of the
universe-the soul of the flowers and
sunlight.
Sounds from the Farm
Out in the rural districts there is
familiar springtime sound. A protract-
ed thud, thud, thud. A sort of non
descript noise, we call it.
We hear it very clearly in Southern
California after rainy season. 1t is
not exactly tuneful, yet it is always
harmonious, for 1t means prosperity,
fertility, cornucopian crops, excessive
harvests.
1t is the sound of the corn, wheat,
barley, oats. rye and millions of vege-
tables sprouting up from the ground
simultaneously.
If you watch them while, with a
tape-measure. you may discover how
fast they grow. Watch closely and
count the inches. Only you must
count rapidly, and If it happens to be
a pumpkin vine you must run to keep
up with it. for in Southern California,
after heavy rain, the vegetables get
busy and the wheat and rye run races.
The pumpkin and watermelon vines
try to beat each other to the fence
posts.
If the rain is general there are no
They all reach the post to-
gether
That is why Southern California
farmers are wearing the broadcast of
all the broad grins on Broadway. If
he has been farming here very long he
may also wear broadcloth.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
OVER so OUT OF IS MEN
LEAN TOWARD SOCIALISM
Two-Thirds of Jury Panel Exhausted
Before Neutral Six Are Found
to Try James Callahan,
Paper Seller

More than two-thirds of the venire
of seventy-five talesmen from which Is
TO be drawn a jury to try James Cal
lahan, who sells socialist papers and
was arrested on a charge of disturbing
the peace, were disqualified in Police
on account OF their socialistic belief,
this preventing them from being able
10 render an impartial verdict. The
Jury was finally selected without hav
ing to draw q new venire, although, at
one time it looked as if every man
would be excused.
If this is criterion, the Socialist
party Is well represented in Los AM
geles.
Court adjourned at o'clock and Cal
Iahans case will probably be con-
cluded today.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
Boreas, in His Fiercest Temper,
Wreaks His Rage with Ice
and Snow and
SIeet
MI Ew YoRK-Gotham is gasping in

Nj EW YORK-Gotham is gasping in
v a swirl of sifted snow tonight.
- This is the characteristic accom-
paniment of a noreast coaster and it
is like sifted sugar-dry and solid
and when it fills the hard streets and
sidewalks the traction power of We
hicles is less than the ability of men
to make progress. Up and down Fifth
avenue from Madison Square to Fifty
ninth street the street has been kept
clear by innumerable orderlies with
shovels, but elsewhere the streets are
not receiving adequate attention for
the usual amount of traffic. Broadway
is truly the great white way, though
private enterprise has supplemented
Tammany industry" and traffic is
making it's way, but with labor.
So far the storm has not interrupted
the surface cars, though a year ago
about this time the same sort of snow
fell for twenty-four hours and so tied
up traffic that 1t took a cab an hour
to get from the ST. Regis to the Forty
second street station. And then some
didn't get through at all. Surface lines
ceased operation. This is the kind of
a storm that reminds New Workers of
the summer days when the air palpl-
tates between the superheated build
ings and reminds them that, on the
average, they are having moderate
weather.
The effect of the storm on the poor
and unemployed has not been generally
ascertained, but there is no doubt but
that, with the conditions as they now
are. the thousands of homeless aEl
destitute will suffer tremendously. Re-
lief agencies are busy extending such
comfort as they can, but of course
their work is impeded by the severity
of the storm. Tonight there is some
abatement in the severity.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30
ICE GORGE LETS GO
AND RIVERS RUN FULL
OF DANGEROUS ICE

PITTSBURG, Pa.-The ice gorge in
the Youghiogheny let go at 10 o'clock
this morning. carrying with it coal
landings and cutting down the tow
boat Boaz No. 2, which was tied up at
the Duquesne crossing. The loss other
wise was not material, as the river
men were generally prepared for it,
The temperature rose to Is degrees
at o'clock this morning and the
weather has been moderating since.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

damaged by being battered against the
wharf, and a number of men were put
to work to keep the boat from sinking.
Street car traffic was suspended dur
ing the progress of the storm and thou
sands of people crowded the business
portion of the city waiting for the rain
to subside.
Reports from surrounding towns
show the storm to have been general
and much damage is thought to have
resulted.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

careless. All the fuel companies have
put extra teams to work and are hur-
rying out deliveries of coal in re-
Spouse to urgent demands from all
quarters of the city.
All trains arriving in the city are
late and attempts to maintain the
usual street car service have been
abandoned. Cars are running slowly
In fear Of brittle rails.
A considerable district was dark last
night, owing to the freezing of a gas
main.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

Mr.. Il. p. Chamberlain Of Clinton.
Me-, says of Bucklens Arnica salve:
ut does the business; have used it for
piles and IT cured them. Used II for
chapped hands and 1t cured them. APP
piled 1t TO an old sore and It healed II
without leaving a scar behind" 25c ct
Deans drug store.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

II you want TO 60 eaar. O. Haydock.
Agent Illinois Central r. r.. ia ". eth.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-30

w HILE the mercury in the east is
w knocking the bottoms out of the
w thermometers and digging holes
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
BRING ON YOUR FREMoNTERS
Goat viii BE Ready for Them at
the Den Next Monday
Night.

Arrangements have been ABOUT completed
for the big meeting at the Den Monday
night. which will be Fremont night. The
Omaha delegation which was sent to Ere
mont 10 stir up the lions OF the capital OF
Dodge county has returned and brings good
reports to the effect that a great crowd is
coming.
The Fremont contingent will come down
to Omaha on a special Union Pacific motor
car. for which arrangements we're com
pleted Thursday morning. This car will
leave Fremont at Sis Monday evening.
reaching Omaha at 7:15. The party will
be met at the Union station by the Omaha
knights and taken to the Den b. street
cars and given luncheon there before the
initiation ceremonies, as it will be i'm
possible for the Fremonters to secure
luncheon Monday evening before leaving
Fremont for Omaha. over 100 Fremonters
have expressed a determination to be pres
ent.
Arrangements are still in progress for a
big list Of Entertainments for the carnival.
The Air Dome theater will be operated in
conjunction with the carnival as a vaude-
vile show.
Abe Ehrlick has been secured to give the
finish Of the Merry Widow Extravaganza
which will be one Of the great events OF
the carnival. California Frank has secured
MADAME Somerville's dancing horse, Co
lumbia," and the "bucking donkies." Halls
animal show. which has been creating such
a furore at Pabst's gardens in Milwaukee,
will be another of the big attractions.
City Clerk Dan Butler, who will have
| charge this year OF the Ak-Sar-Ben parade,
wants eighty-seven men for floats and
eighty horses TO pull the floats. and as
many men to ride them. Mr.. Butler says
that as the time is limited. all applications
should be in by next Monday.
Councilman Brucker, John Drexel, Charles
Karbach and E. L. Potter went to Ere
mont Wednesday in the interests Of the
Ak-sar-Ben and announce that the city
to the north will send 100 men to Omaha
next Monday to proclaim their fealty to the
king.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
ROMANCE ENDS in DISCoRD
Mrs. Francis Garner Ellison Leaves
Husband of One YeRr and Rents
Separate Home.

An end 20 the romance that led to the
marriage of Captain Franc J. Ellison and
Mrs. Olive B. Garner a year ago last April
came Wednesday when Mrs. Ellison left
the house at 22 South Twenty-ninth ave
nue.. where they had been living, rented
apartments OF her own and began a re-
plevin suit in county court to get pos
session Of the household furniture. Under
direction of Constable Hensley the writ
was served Thursday and the goods were
moved to Mrs. Ellison's new home.
Friends OF Mrs. Ellison say she has
found II impossible to live with her hus-
band and a divorce suit is expected to fol-
low. The furniture Mrs. Ellison secured
under the writ OF replsvin was that which
she a when she married Captain Eli
son. April -, 1907. II was stated by Mrs.
ElIison's attorney that Captain Ellison
had refused to give up the goods until the
legal action was taken.
The marriage OF Mr.. Ellison and Mrs.
Garner. widow Of a former prominent ex-
press transfer man. caused considerable
surprise among her friends, She was
about ten years his senior. After the mar
rage they lived for some time on a chicken
farm near Benson, but later moved into
the city.
Ellison was for some time superintendent
Of one OF the two humane societies in
Omaha, but this organization suspended
about the time OF his marriage.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
TEN THOUSAND HYMEN FEE
That IL sum Total OF S~avidEe's Earn
inEs I'm sixteen Hundr and
Sixty-EtEht Marriages.

when Charles W. avidge spoke the little
piece which welded Miss Retts Stevens
and Leroy Morris Of Logan, Ia, Thursday
he balanced his books and announced that
II was No. less, and the cash account
showed he had collected an even $1,000 for
marriages during his ministry Of nearly
thirty years.
This is an average OF a little more than
$500 per annum for the minister and he has
received on the average Of t.ss for each
emo
AS Rev. savidge always has had the rep
utation, borne out by the record. OF per-
forming more marriage ceremonies than
any other preacher, and IL is said a Bow
ling Greene would spring up wherever he
moved, it will be seen that even with a
big business a minister does not get rich
when following the modern inclination Of
professional men Of specializing.
Rev. Mr.. Savidge has specialized. But
at 1898 per annum his speciality does not
yield an income which would cause any
minister to become opalent in a lifetime.
Though the minister says he has the &C
count Of how much he has made. the
amount Of a minister's expenditures are
not kept where moth and rust creeps in
and corrodes the books, but the minister
says not a cent of the $4,000 ever has beer
expended in a cause which would cast a
shadow on the pure white disc OF morality
Does it pay a young man to enter the
ministry and make a speciality Of marrying
people" the minister was asked.
Not unless he first marries someone
with plenty Of money" was the seriou,
reply of this man who has drawn enough
people about hymen's altar to make up q
Rood-sized CONGREGATION.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
JUDGE LESLIE MAKES HIT
Refusal to Let Old Man Marry Dung
Woman Brings Thanks from
Formers Family.

Judge Leslie's refusal to marry or even
issue a marriage license to Lombard
Alderman, aged "A years, and Miss Marie
Alderman, a young woman of p years,
Monday, has brought TO the Judge a
letter from relatives Of the old man thank
ing him for declining to tie the knot. Mr..
Alderman is a wealthy farmer living near
Herman with nine step children and five
living children. AS the letter received by
the judge was personal he withheld the
name OF the writer, but 1t was a member
Of Mr.. Ackerman's numerous family.
Mr.. Alderman brought his bride clear
from Switzerland to marry her. The couple
was accompanied by a relative Of the bride
to-be, Chris Wachter Judge Leslie de-
clined telling Mr.. Alderman he had better
go to Herman, where he was known, to
have the ceremony performed.
The letter received by Judge Leslie is
very protuse in its tharks. II says Mr..
Ackerman's relatives had given him a home
until he went to Switzerland with Wachter.
The family, he says. was taken entirely
by surprise when the news came through
the daily papers that Mr.. Alderman had
applied for a marriage license.
After thanking Judge Leslie for hi.
action the letter says:
III every Judge would do likewise /,
would be a blessing to humanity"
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
MORE FUNDS IF OLD LEVY
Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars Extra
from 1907 Rate.
THIS IS WHAT COUNTY WOULD GET
Valuation his Year T. Nearly Two
Million Dollars More Than Last
Year, Hence the Increase
I'm Total.

II the levy for county purposes lie the
same as 1t was last year. approximately
S25,00 more would be raised than was pro-
.duced last year, owing to the increase in
the valuation Of property.
Figures compiled by County Comptroller
Solomon for the County Beard Of Equaliza-
ton show in detail the Increases in the
various funds II the levy is left as it was
last year. The board had a meeting Thurs
day morning. but transacted no business,
adjourning until Saturday, when 1t is hoped
the report from the state board will be
available and the county levy can be made.
The levy last year was ia mills. The
valuation in 1907 one a one-fifth basis was
S52,5l6. 25s: this year It will be S4. $4,000.
The same levy as last year would produce
an increase OF Sl7,5S in the general fund,
t2.s3S in the road fund, S3 in the bridge
fund. $2,546 in the bond sinking fund and
1891 in the soldiers relief fund. The levy
last year produced S4O3, 201 80 in all funds
and the same levy this year would make
S42T. 40.
The report also shows the comparative
condition of county finances on July 81.
1870, ana the same date in 1905. The avail
able balances in the various funds on the
two dates are as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21

managements Of the exposition to have a
number Of distinguished persons In Omaha,
several from abroad. during the exposition.
and the outlook now is for a large rumber
Of foreign exhibits. Argentina will pratici-
pate. The Argentina farmers are among the
chief competitors OF the grain growers OF
the United States in the markets OF the
world and. during the last few years, have
succeeded In securing more and more OF the
grain trade OF Europe because OF the type
Of corn which they are growing. The Ar
gentina farmers have produced a hard type
OF flint corn which natures and dries out
well. II can be shipped to Europe with
greater safety than the corn in the United
States. even though II crosses the equator
on the way to market. The lack Of mois-
ture In the Argentina corn is one OF its
greatest advantages over corn growth In
the United States, and this corn will be eX-
hibited at the corn show and compete for
the prizes.
There is now a possibility 81 several we'll
known railroad presidents being present,
one of whom will probably deliver an~ad-
dress. Traffic officials of all the railroads
in the west are planning to come iI pri-
vate cars, which will be parked, and the
railroad men will spend several days at the
National Corn exposition.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-21
DIAz At CORN SHOW
Son of Mexican President Will Visit
National Exposition.
OTHER FOREIGN CELEBRITIES
Distinguished MexIcRns Are Inter
ested in Development of AEricul-
turaI Resources and VIII
Come for Information.

Mayor Porfirio Diaz, ir., son Of President
Diaz OF Mexico, will visit Omaha during
the National Corn exposition in December,
and prominent Mexicans are planning to
make an exhibit.
The son Of the chief executive OF Mexico
will come to the big corn exposition In
company with Lie. Luis GOrozpe OF Mexico
City and Zeferino Dominquez of Pueblo.
Mex. The Mexicans are prominent in their
work Of developing the agricultural inter
ests OF Mexico. and during the series Office
lures to be given in connection with the
National Corn exposition, Lie. Luis Gorozpe
will deliver an address on Agricultural
Conditions In Mexico
Though Lie. illus Gorozpe speaks the
Spanish language f~luently, he will give the
lecture in the English language, he writes,
If 1t is possible for him to work out the
TRANSACTIONS as he wants to do, otherwise
he will speak in Spanish and an interpre'
ter, who will accompany the party. VIII
Is a pleasing speaker, will translate the
address.
The arrangements to nave the distin.
guished guests present has been made
through Prof. NJ. L. Mosher, formerly OF
the Iowa Agricultural college, now inter.
ested in Mexico.
Many Noted Foreigners.
Arrangements are being made by the