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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-28
NEBRASKA

SIDNEY, Neb., Jan. 27.-The $4,000
registered school bonds of Sidney dis
trict No. l were received from the state
auditor. The bond are issued for the
purpose of building an addition to the
high school building and are in de-
nominations of $500. running from one
to twenty years, optional after five
years, drawing per cent interest.
Plans and specifications have been pre-
pared for the new building and the
board of education is anxious to rush
the work Willie this splendid weather
prevails.
BLUE HILL.-Rev. Mr.. Buechner
has rendered his resignation as pastor
of the st, Paul Lutheran church here
and asks to be released from the duties
in about three months. This move on
Rev. Mr.. Buechner'5 part has come as
a. surprise to the most of his friends
here. The climate does not agree with
him. He will go to Canada and en-
deavor to form a congregation there.
REATRICE.-A man named Howe
was brought here from Wymore and
placed in the county jail. He was fined
$500 and costs for assaulting his VIE.
FRIEND.-A 14-year-old son of Peter
Obbody, a Bohemian farmer residing
eleven miles south of Friend, lost one
of his legs while driving the horse
power of a corn shelter. Local physi-
clans amputated the limb just below
the knee.
TANTON.-Hoehne Brothers COM
menced excavating for their new black
smith shop. The contract calls for a
$4,000 structure, to be of brick ana
strictly modern in every particular.
They expect to have the building ready
for occupancy in three weeks. and the
work of construction will be pushed
rapidly to completion. The building is
to replace the frame structure which
was burned last week.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-28
JAPANESE ARE SUSPECTED
OF PLOT TO STEAL MAPS
Bullets from Rifles of Guards Brighten
Robbers from Armory
in San Franz
cisco
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27.-Bullets
fired with deadly intent by national
guard sharpshooters early yesterday
morning frustrated a second attempt
to rob the armory of companies K ana
M, Fifth infantry, of the national
In the building, which is located at
Buchanan and Waller streets, are kept
valuable military maps of San Fran
cisco's coast defense and Typographical
plans of the peninsula.
That the attack on the building was
not burglars ordinary operation
seems apparent from the persistency of
the mysterious visitors. Early Satur-
day morning and again in the darkness
of Sunday morning two men tried to
gain an entrance into the premises.
Fearing that third attempt might be
made, the officer in command ordered
the guard doubled last night. Armed
men watched the premises from night
fall Sunday until dawn this morning.
From the descriptions of the tres
passers furnished the officers of the
regiment by the sentries the authorities
are working on the theory that Jap
anese spies were seeking to gain en-
trance to the secrets of the armory.
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IOWA

MUSCATINE, Ia, Jan. 27.-After liv-
ing for more than a quarter of a CEN
fury as one of the most respected citi-
zens of Conroe, Tex, William Pickard
has been placed under arrest, charged
with the murder of w. S. Teets, which
occurred twenty-eight years ago at
Teets, small town south of here.
Governor Cumnins has issued a requi-
sition for Pickard and he will be
brought here as soon as possible.
WEBSTER CITY.--Fire which broke
out in the middle of row OF seven
tenement houses at this place, due to
children overturning a kerosene lamp,
did $4,000 damage, the fire department
by heroic work preventing the destruc-
ton of the houses.
After Mrs George Bierman thought
her family had been rescued she dis
covered that her infant was still in the
burning building. Firemen rescued it,
fast asleep, as it was picked UP from
Its crib.
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MISSOURI

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Jan. a.
Governor j. w. Folk gave out an
nouncement of his candidacy for the
United States senatorship to succeed
w. J. Stone. The governor said he
would open his campaign with speech
in st. Joseph the first week in Feb
ruary. While 1t has been believed for
months the governor would enter tIe
senatorial contest there has not before
been an official statement from him.
NEVADA-John Calumet, an aged
resident of this city, was killed by
walking from an upstairs porch at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. B. 0. Dixon.
He was a sufferer from asthma and
walked out onto the porch during the
night to get fresh air.
MARSHALL-The total vote cast at
the local option election here was the
largest vote ever polled. The drys won
by a majority of FOG. The drys polled
SAG votes and the vets 44O.
SEDALIA-The Missouri Pacific Rail-
way company announced that it will
ABANDON the special train that for
nearly two years has carried 700 men
to and from their work daily to the
company shops two miles east of the
city No explanation is given other
than that 1t is to reduce expenses. Inc
train was put on because of threat OF
the men to quit work unless free trans
portation was provided.
ST. LOUIS-The dead body of Rev
John F. REGISTERING, a retired Lutheran
clergyman, aged rs years, was found
lying beside a pit of the clay mines al
Pierce and West Park avenues, in
Cheltenham, a suburb. A bruise on the
side of the head and the facts that hi
gold watch and gold-headed cane were
missing gave rise to the theory that he
had been murdered and robbed.
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YOUTH CAUGHT STEALING
BOTTLE OF REAL WHISKY

Accused of attempting to steal a bot
tie of high-grade whisky, which was
placed on a counter among several
bottles of display brands of liquor, w.
A. Cook aged about 20 years, was ar
rested by Officers Hawley and McKen-
zie last night at 10 o'clock in liquor
store at 118 South Main street, and is
alleged 70 have been caught with the
pocket.
The proprietor of the store swore to
the complaint, and the boy was locked
up in the city jail. He will be ar
raigned this morning.
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AMEND NEWLY PASSED
PRIVATE STABLE ORDINANCE

The council yesterday amended the
recently passed ordinance restricting
private stables to keeping no more than
four horses.
Representatives of the Greenfield
dairy on Pico street said that the ordi-
nance ould work a hardship on the
newl yestablished pure milk industry.
1t was decided to amend the ordi-
nance to exclude the section of the city
where the Greenfield stables stand.
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TAX COLLECTIONS NEARLY
MILLION AND THREE-FoURTHS

City Tax Collector e. e. Johnson s
Office closed last night with over S4I,-
900 additional added for the day to the
first installment of city taxes.
Despite the rain the taxpayers crowd
ed the city hall all day, though most
of the payments were of small amounts.
Up to Saturday night d,714,423 had
been collected on the present tax, thus
making the total to date nearly mill
lion and three-quarters.
The entire tax will amount to $3,010,-
ISL after the second installment comes
in.
Last year at the final date before de-
linuuency 81, S57 had been taken in.
Total collections for last year were
So, 1876, 27S, but this year they will pass
the three-million mark because of the
increased wealth and assessment of
Los Angeles.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE

MANCHESTER, N. H., Jan. 81
Many Manchester saloon keepers are
demonstrating against new order
which the police say originated with
the state license commission and which
forbids persons lettering for any length
of time in saloons.
The order was given to all saloon
keepers by the police department, and
since that time the officers have kept
a watchful eye to see that 1t is obeyed.
The police say that the order is in
tended to keep loafers and Migrants
out of the saloons
ROCHESTER.-The first drowning
accident of the season took place here
when Euclid Tremaine, the 1S-year.old
son of Mr. and Mrs George I. Ire
maine, fell through the ice into the
current of the Cocheco river while
skating Herman Clark, member of
the firm operating the Rochester wool
en- mills, was himself rescued while at
tempting to save the lad.
The accident was witnessed only by
Mrs. William Wright, who called the
others but when Mr.. Clark arrived the
current had carried the boy down.
stream, where he could be discerned
beneath the ice.
CONCORD.-Charged with the en-
bezzlement of $3.50, Postmaster Leon p.
Sampson of Hanover, who confessed to
the stealing after telling a thrilling
holdup story to the police, was ar
raigned before United States Commits
sioner Burns b. Hodgman. He pleaded
not guilty, waived examination. and
was held in bonds of $1,000 for his APP
pearance at the United States district
court at Portsmouth on March Is next.
Previous to his arraignment the pris-
oner told the Rev. f. L. Janeway, pas
tor of the Congregational church at
Hanover, where he attended, that spec
ulation in mining stocks was the cause
of his downfall.
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MN contest Case Realns

A Jury was selected yesterday in
Judge ,BrdwelPs curt to try the con-
tested will case of Robert Carithers
against Mrs. Della A. Carithers, widow
of William A. Cs-rithers, who died Oc-
tober IL, 1906, leaving an estate valued
at from $4,000 TO $4,000 The taking
of testimony had not begun when court
adjourned.
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CONNECTICUT

WINSTED. Conn.,, Jan. 27.-Edward
Doolittle, seven, of Riverton, attacked
his mother with an axe because she
refused to give him money with which
to buy a sled. Fortunately the blow
only tore her dress She overpowered
him, tied him in a chair and called
a constable.
GREENWICH-Char T. Hotaling,
the fighting tree warden, who single
handed put to flight six marauding
Western Union telegraph linemen who
were mutilating trees on the estate
of I. N. Phelps Stokes, met his
Waterloo at the hands of the Widow
McCracken of Byram Shore. She is
bank and other New Workers.
With cobblestones in each hand and
with her twenty five-year-old son like
wise armed, Mrs. McCracken drove off
five of Hotaling's men who tried to
trim trees on the highway in front of
her nome She mas gathered huge
pile of cobblestones in her front yard.
and awaits attack by the posse which
Hotaling is said to be raising.
NEW HAVEN-Four white mice
dangling from long strings attached
to fish poles dropped into the pit of the
Hyperion theater tonight while the
Y ale promenade girls were listening
to the Glee club concert.
The white mice were alive and the
girls shrieked at the sight of the wrig-
Cling animals. A trough house COM
mittee" had been elected by the Shelf
field freshmen to arrange for little
entertainment on the side" and this
was the entertainment the committee
arranged.
Following custom the freshmen sat
in the top gallery ana hooted all
through the performance.
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Damage Suit eebun

Suit was yesterday begun in the SUI
perior court by Mrs. Emma May John
son against the Los Angeles-Pacific
railway. She alleges that the company
was negligent in July, 1906, when she
nue., which, she says, has rendered her
permanently injured. Damages in the
sum of $4,000 are asked.
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Wetmore Takes Oath

BY Associated Press
WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.-George P.
Wetmore today took the oath of Of
flee as United States senator from
Rhode Island.
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out Of Place

II found fly in the soup just now,
waiter; that was a mistake, suppose?"
ooh, yes, sir; it should have been In
the currant cake, sir!"-Yonkers States
man.
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The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-12
A Horrible Disaster.

In one of the most horrible catastro-
Plies of ecent years, 164 school chill
dren in q suburb Of Cleveland, lost their
lives on Wednesday morning last. The
front door was said to be locked, and
the three-story building was full Of
children. Originating from an over
heated furnace, the building "a DOR a
mass Of flames. The teachers made
heroic efforts 10 marshal the children
to safety, but they became panic. striker
at sight of the flames and smoke.
Many of the children will never be iden-
titled, and the scenes Of heart broken
and frantic parents searching for their
loved ones was most pathetic. One
mother saw her boy &C the window. Sc
curing q ladder she BROKE the glass
caught the boy by the hair, when the
flames swept over them, burning the
boys hair and allowing him to sink back
into the fry furnace.
The fullest investigation will be made
AND responsibility fixed.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-12
Gerton News.

Miss Maude Barber of G~erton, spent
Saturday night with Misses Lizzie and
Walker Fireman. of Middle Fork.
Miss Mollie Merrell has gone to the
beautiful city of Hendersonville.
Miss Mamie Sinclair took supper with
Miss Maude Barber, Sunday night, and
had a fine time.
The Sunday School Nc Bear Wallow In
getting along nicely with their work.
Under the leadership Of Mr.. 3. G. Free
man we r having a very large
attendance.
Miss Mamie and Master Luther Sin
clair spent Friday night with their I'M
Gle 3. B. McCabes, Their cousins, Mis-
ses Alkaline and Ethel McCabes oame
home with them and spent saturday
night.
Zeb OWenby who is going to school at
st. Paul, came home to see his parents.
He has just recovered from the mumps.
8. 81. Freeman has gone TO spend o few
days with his sister at Bat Cave.
Messrs. Wess and Claude Freeman OF
Bat Cave came up here last week and
bought q COW from g. Nj. Sinclair.
Fl. NJ. LYDIA was over Sunday. He /
a good worker In our Sunday School
We are glad to have him with us.
BEATRICE & LUCILLE,
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-12
Horse Shoe

The thrifty farmer and laborer have
come through the SHOWS. sleet and slush-
es lately incident to this section and are
meeting these balmy spring days with q
laugh and a song. for there is q surplus
of corn, hay, potatoes and general pro-
ducts in the hands Of the more indus
trious and careful; we are bouyant in
spirit and anchored in hope; IL we can
! not reach the increased prices of ferti-
lizers and farmers conveniences with
out the mortgage brace, we know how
to economic; well leave the shot gun
in the rack and the hound In the ditch,
and If we have not the two horse power,
we'll use the single horse or the OK and
If practically possible, let's allow the
chestnut wood to grow in the forest next
summer and see the sun rise and set
from the handles of the farmers imple-
ments.
All these individual difficulties We are
now up and ready to meet; but withal
there are local and debatable questions
with US yet unsolved. Some of these
questions we are o hearing discussed
o from the rostrum nor even bv the
boys debating society. But by all of us
who are more painfully interested than
either the practical politician or the
boys,
These questions are being stated thus
wise: Resolved.
"That u taxes be lighter or u
roads better"
THAT we support no county chain
gangOr travel better roads"
"That some of our public schools in
this immediate section be rigidly i'm
proved"
We Horse ShOer's are not pessimists
or kicke-s, but these interests being
vital to u public life, cast them out as
seed upon the surface.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-12
Around Edneyvillo

BORN-To Mr.. and Mrs. Dock Gillian,
a son. Mother and child are doing
nicely.
MI. Tourney Edney of Ashevillo. is
spending q few days with his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. 81. NJ. Edn0y.
Mrs. J. H. Byers died ct her home
here On Thursday, after n long illness.
She was buried on Friday.
Ernest Justus of this place went tC
Hendersonville Monday on business.
Mrs. Lizzie Presley who has beer
very i'll for some time ID improving.
Misses Minnie Rhoades and Birdie
Moss spent Sunday with Misses Mollit
add Matte Justus.
w. NJ. EdneY is making preparation
for his meat next year. He has bought
q pig.
Mrs. Mary Jones Of South Carolina
has moved into her new residence a
Edneyville.
Eual Justus has been on the sick lis
for the past four weeks.
BLUE EYES
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-12
Bear WAllow.

T.B. Conner of Hendersonvills visited
bis friends here Sunday.
Joe Conner of Old Fort, 10 visiting his
father at this place.
We are expecting Ernest Oates home
in a few days from the South.
1t is a mistake about Prof. ]. A,
Hall starting a school at Middle FORK.
r. T. Oates has been on the sick list
for the past few days.
c. Oates is at home from the South.
Mrs. WIS Grant is visiting her daugh-
ter, at Gaffney, s. G.
The weather is fee at this place and
The roads are getting good and we are
thankful for it all. AFRIEND.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-12
Flat Rock

The Trident Hosiery mill has just
received an order for rs, 600 dozen hose.
There is to be q Union Church erect
ed in East Flat Rock in the near future
The three year old child Of Merrill
PIcklesimon died at the home Of Mrs
Fred Floyd last week.
Miss Charlotte Young spent last Sat-
duray and Sunday in Ashcville.
The Aid Society will entertain at the
school building Friday night, March Is,
beginning $3.50, for benefit Of the school
All interested are cordially invited to
attend. Admission 10 and Is cents.
A. L. Bassett and P.W. Hart say they
are going to improve the sidewalk from
Ton Loundes' store to the postofice,
much needed improvement.
DIR. Guerard Is seriously i'll.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-12
MAXWELL.

We are having a rage of measles and
humps around this section but think
they will soon be over with. w, E.
Maxwell's family ar just getting vel.
with measles.
g. w. Conner Is erecting q hotel q
the foot OF ''Big Bear Wallow" Mt.
G, O. Maxwell is building more to his
store and will put in . full stock o.
goods this summer.
CT. Freeman has been sick for q few
days but is improving.
Fred Edney is looking somewhat bet
| ter since be came back to Carolina.
MARSHAL Ridge was covered with anx
ious men aud barking dogs n day las
week, after a fox. but Alasl the fox wa
too sly for them. DAFFoDILL.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-12
P1e-sTY OF COTTON Field.

The old Mosaic Laws forbade the use OF
pork IN any form, and modern science has
confirmed the wisdom of the patriarch In
making this Law. The flesh Of the hog is in
digestible; 20 is the fat. Food prepared with
lard is unwholesome. To meet the demand
for a cooking fat that Is pure and easily d.
gested. The n. K. Fairbank Company.
Chicago. have put on the market o shortening
called COTTOLENE. made from refined veg
etable oil. This cooking fat can be used In
any and every way that lard now is. and can
even be used in place Of butter in making
fine pastry. Contrast the source Of 1ard-the
filthy pig-sty. with the source of COTTO-
|LENE-the pure. white cotton boil. and one
can readily understand the great demand for
this pure. vegetable shortening in preferences
70 the fat OF thehog.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-12

BORN-To Mr.. and Mrs. Dock Gillian,
a SON. Mother and child are doing
nicely.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-03-12
h 37nd at Fruit
land.

The Phi Chi Literary Society of Fruit
land Institute celebrated WashinRton's
Birthday in a very ~appropriats manner.
The program was rendered in q way
that reelected much honor upon the
young men. The perfect ease with
which the characters in a Fadher din
cult play were impersonated indicated
that some native talent and faithful
practice had been combined to give
SO pleasing a result The rendition of
the declarations wa with unusual pow.
er and q degree of excellence unlocked
for in schoolboys. Among the best
features of the evening were the quar-
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tets.
The perfect attention Of a large aud.
ienoe proved the success of tie society
on this decision.
PROGRAM
I. Address. 1890. DR.. Geo. Wharton
2. Hail Columbia. !. Phi Chi Society
). Defamation Liberty and Union
Smith
4. Quartet Flowers OF Junetime, Mes
sra. Wharton, Station. Frank Whitaker
and Hart.
5. Defamation WaShlngton.".".~.-F.
p. Drake.
6. Quartet Brother Jonah.
z. Recitation When Father MIXED
the Cow ..."..."... .Clarebce eagle
8. Play The Heroic Dutchman of
'76."
Evening journal., 1908-03-03
Birthday PARTY.

A birthday party was given in honor
of S. Howard Atkinson on Saturday
evening at the home of his mother. No.
1927 Railroad avenue. Those present
were the Misses Sophia Gillespie,
Sophia Dougherty, Cassie Frugoi, Nell
lie Frugoil. Jennie Mclaughlin, Alice
Werner. Laura Keolig, Catherine
Hooven. Anna M. Atkinson, Mrs Anna
NJ Hooven, Clara Hooven. Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Keolig, Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel +. Atkinson, Mr. and Mrs.
Samuel H. Atkinson. William Keolig,
John Smith, Daniel Atkinson, John
Rienhoiltz, Edgar Broadbent, Frank
/ iPolster, Samuel Esbenshay, Joseph
Farren, RoSert Werner. George Jones,
Willard Wolf. Jean Lux. George Joyce
William Atkinson Carl Woodstock
Dallas Hooven. Leonard Camp. VIII
liam Vandever, John Kelly. Frank
Lenoff Howard Brown, George Brown
Evening journal., 1908-03-03
ANDROSCOGGIN
ON TRIAL TRIP

From the docks Of the Pusey and
Jones Company. at 10 o'clock this
morning, the new cutter Androscoggin.
which Is building for the United States
Revenue Cutter Service, left on a trial
trip down. the Delaware.
The vessel will be given an endurance
run and her machinery tested, there
being no speed requirements attached
to the contract. and while out viii have
her compasses adjusted. The trial is
in charge Of the Pusey and Jones
Company. as the boat has not~as yet
been turned over 10 the government
The Revenue Cutter Service IS rep
resented on the trip by Captain w II.
Gushing. who viii have command Of
the Androscoggin; Captain Charles A.
McAllister, engineer in charge of tie
United states Revenue Cutter Services;
Chief Engineers H. Kaischam and G.
NJ. Green and Lieutenant William
Wheeler. Lieutenant Wheeler. who is
an expert compass adjustor, will have
charge of the adjustment of the ves-
sers comnasses. The Androscoggin is
Of 1900 tons displacement and is the
largest of the three vessels under con-
struction, the others being the Snoho-
mish, 1000 tons and the Dewey, 800
tons
Evening journal., 1908-03-03
Hac a Barn Party.

A barn party was given by the
Ramblers at the home of the Misses
Willard, No. West Twenty-fourth
street. on Friday evening. Their parlor
was given the appearance of a barn by
decorating with straw. corn fodder,
vegetables and corn. Wooden boxes
and milking stools were used for seats.
In one corner Of the room a spring
was arranged and filled with lemon
ade. Lanterns were used for light
The scene was very pretty and unique.
the young women aeing dressed as
millSmaids and the young men as
farmers. When all the guests had
arrived a march was played by Ms.
William H.. Weldin. who furnished
music for the evening. and each one
marched into the barn ready for an
evening of frolic and song. Dancing,
singing and games of all kinds were
INDUCED in There was a corn shelf
ing bee by the young women. A sup
per was prepared by one of the lead
ing caterers. which was served at mid
night