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Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07
GIRL ENDS LIFE
BY POISONING
CASHIER, ILL, DESP0NDENT,
KILLS HERSELF
Disheartened by Unsatisfactory Love
Affair, Edith Rankin Goes to her
Room and Swallows Fatal
Potion

Despondent because of i'll health and
a love affair which terminated unsat-
isfactorily, Edith Rankin, 20 years old,
employed as night cashier at Yerkes'
restaurant on South Broadway near
Second street, committed suicide yes
terday morning about 11:S0 o'clock
in her room at 322 South Flower street
by drinking quantity of caustic soda
solution.
The girl came to Los Angeles almost
a year ago. She was in poor health,
but soon after her arrival began to i'm
prove. She was of melancholy tenn
permanent. however, and this with the
night work soon made inroadS on her
health.
Monday evening she reported for
duty at the usual hour. Her manner
was the same as always and she
greeted her friends and the customers
with smiles. Later in the night her
unusual cheerfulness caused the en-
ployes to note the change in her man
ner and several remarks were made
concerning it.
Yesterday morning when she was re-
1ieved by the day cashier she ate a
light breakfast and went to her room.
Her unusual activity in arranging her
belongings attracted no attention
among the occupants of adjoining
ing along the hallway.
She closed and locked the door of
her room. Not 'ong afterward Mrs.
Pauline Schultz, the landlady, was
passing along the hallway and heard
groans emanating from the room oc-
cupied by Miss Rankin. Mrs. Schultz
knocked on the panel and asked if she
could come in. She received no re-
Spouse and in a louder tone called
out and asked what was the trouble.
Then, hearing nothing but muffled
groans, she tried to open the door, but
the lock refused to respond to her
blows. Finally she forced the door and
found the lifeless body of the young
woman on the bed.
On the floor near the bed was a
glass containing a sediment which was
found to have been a solution of caus-
tic soda.
The woman left two notes. one in
German and the other in English. The
latter reads as follows: 81 have no
one interested in me back east and am
a stranger in the west. Am sorry to
have to cause this trouble to the
county, but Ill health prompts me to do
this. Please do not write anyone
about me, for no one will know or
care. EDITH r.
The note was written with a pencil
on the back of plain envelope.
The letter in German asked that her
personal effects, consisting of rings
several trinkets and some clothing, be
sent to Anna Ewing. 675S Wentworth
avenue, Chicago. This woman is
thought to be sister of the dead girl
Miss Rankin came to Los Angeles
almost a year ago from Fort Wayne
Ind, but had lived in Chicago for a
number of years.
The body was taken TO the under
taking establishment of Pierce Bros.
Detective Grant Roberds is investigat-
ing the case and it is probable that he
will turn his information over to the
coroner who will sign a certificate of
suicide without holding an inquest.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07
Receipt That Cures
Weak Men-Free
Send Name and Address Today--You
Can Have 1t Free and Be Strong
and Vigorous

have in my possession prescription for
nervous debility. lack of vigor. weakened
manhood. falling memory and lame back,
brought on by excuses. unnaotural drains
or the follies OF youth. that has cured SO
many worn and nervous men right in their
own homes-without any additional help or
medictneA-that I think every man who
wishes to regain his manly power and virtl-
ity. quickly and quietly. should have copy.
So I have determined to send a copy Of the
prescription. free of charge. in plain. ordi-
nary sealed envelope. to any man who viii
write me for It.
This prescription comes from o physician
who has made a special study of men. and
am convinced 1t is the surest acting COM
bination for the cure OF deficient manhood
and vigor-failure ever put together.
think owe 1t to my fellow man to send
them a copy in confidence. SO that any man.
anywhere who Is weak and discouraged with
repeated failures may stop drugging himself
with harmful patent medicines. secure what
believe Is the quickest-actins restorative,
upbuilding. SPOT-TOUCHING remedy ever
devised. and himself at home quiet
ly and quickly. Just drop me line like
this: Mr.. A. e. Robinson. 4ose Luck bldg,
Detroit Mich. and will send you copy
of this splendid receipt In plain. ordinary
sealed envelope. free Of charge.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07
PAINTERS CLUB TO GIVE
FIRST ANNUAL EXHIBITION
Display viii Open at Blanchard Hall
Thursday Morning-Great Variety
of Characteristic California
Talent Manifest

The first annual exhibition of the
Painters club at Blanchard hall this
week will surprise Los Angeles art
lovers with the high character of the
paintings and drawings shown. They
possess all the variety characteristic
of California, but, from oils to black
and whites, there is a uniformly high
standard that is extremely pleasing.
In fact the committee has been COM
PEELED to hang some really fine work
where the light does not do justice
to it.
The exhibition will open Thursday
morning and continue until October
49, Twenty members of the club are
exhibitors, all Los Angeles artists.
Landscapes and ocean scenes predom-
mate in the subjects, but there are
some characteristic California paint
ings, especially the Chinatown studies
of Charles A. Rogers and Martin ].
jackson
William Wendt, Norman st. Clair,
David Dunn, j. w. Thesis, Frank Ell
vim Evans and a number of others
contribute some charming landscapes.
A portrait study by II. Puthuff, char
coal studies by F. r. Liddell, pencil
sketches by A. Clinton Conner and
Others are among those already hung
on the walls of the ART hail on the
fourth floor of Blanchard hall, where
the exhibition will be held.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07
THREE POMONA SALES
MAKE $4,000 TOTAL

J. A. Fitch, we'll known realty
dealer of Pomona, reports the sale for
G. E. Sumner of Los Angeles to Peter
Hoop of Pomona of a block in that
place for approximately 100000 cash,
Fitch has also just sold for H. S.
Valtrath to F. d. Parker a 16-acre
orange grove at Nineteenth street and
Euclid avenue in the Upland district.
The purchaser has recently come here
from Kansas City. The price paid was
100000. Grove is in excellent con-
dition. Trees are IA or Is years old.
Last crop yielded 5000 boxes. Grove
will do as well this year, it is believed.
Parker buys for a home.
c. T. Larbeer, secretary Mutual
Building and Loan association, has sold
through the same agency nearly nine
acres of orange grove property at Po-
mona to Charles Tyler for $4,000. AS
part payment Tyler gave a residence
on North Garden street, Pomona,
valued at $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07
WILL NAME DELEGATES TO
CONGRESS AT WASHINGTON
Directors of Municipal Waterways AS
sociation Will Meet Tomorrow and
Select Their Representatives
at Annual Meeting

At the regular meeting of the direc-
tors of the Municipal Waterways asso-
citation in the Tajo building tomorrow
the selection of delegates to the annual
meeting Of the Rational Rivers and
Harbors congress at Washington, d. c.,
December 8-11. will be taken up. The
association has an invitation to send
as large a delegation as it sees fit.
The Los Angeles harbor and aqueduct
projects will be discussed at the meet
ing.
Officials of the rivers and harbors
congress have written to President Jo-
seph II. Call of the Municipal Water
ways association since the publication
of his address on harbors and railways
congratulating him on the ability
shown in his argument for free har-
bOrS.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07
CITY HALL NOTES

N. Schwegel, restaurant inspector,
was yesterday appointed special police
man without pay.
The council met yesterday afternoon
and passed the ordinance of intention
for a portion of the improvement on
Sunset boulevard.
The petition of the State Spiritualist
association asking the police commits
sion to recommend the passage of an
ordinance to prevent takers advertising
was referred to the city attorney with
out recommendation.
The police commission was yester-
day notified that the council had trans
ferred $3.50 from the general fund to
the police department to pay for street
work in front of city property.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07

1.-THE Clansman" on it's presentation
at one of the local theaters during
the latter part of November.
Mr.. OFT said he did not represent
the theater, author, the company pre-
senting the play or anyone else d.
rectly interested in its presentation,
but acted entirely on his own respon-
sibility.
He said he was a friend of the au-
thor, Rev. Thomas w. Dixon, and
knew what he was trying to portray
in the book and play. He said the
Objectionable features on which the
negroes based their protest against
the presentation of the play did not
occur on the stage, but were left sole
ly to the imagination of the audience.
The negroes have asked the mayor
to take action looking toward sup
preston of the play in Los Angeles.
and he has promised to investigate
the matter.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07
SAY THEY EXPOSE FAKES
AND TEACH PSYCHIC ART
Men and Woman Arraigned for Con-
Quoting Entertainment on South
Hope Street Without Hav-
ing License

B. S. Garrison, G. E. Baxter and
Marie L. Andre, alias Madame Clark,
who were arrested yesterday morning
by Patrolmen Beaumont and Busse,
charged with giving seances without
having license, We're arraigned ir
police court yesterday afternoon and
their trial set for October 13.
Garrison and Madame Clark assert
that they expose fake spooksters, and
do not pretend to be mediums. Their
only claim is that they entertain with
such demonstrations as are given by
persons who declare themselves to be
clalrVoyants and materializing me-
diums. They say they teach the gentle
art OF psychic phenomena. Baxter is
their pupil and assists at the enter
tainments.
All three are accused of conducting
entertainments at 1922 South Hope
street without having a Icense-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07
ParIor Car to San Joaouin YnlIer

between Los Angeles and Fresno from Los
Angeles daily at 1885 a. m. and from Fresno
at $50 a. m. now carry paror car between
those points. A ride through the San
Joaquin valley by daylight and over the
Tehachapi Loop is thus made one Of greater
enjoyment. Details of this new service may
be obtained at ticket offices, 600 S. Spring
ST., or at Arcade station, Fifth and Central
avenue.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07
So for 81

For every dollar paid up to $50 as
first payment we will give a receipt
for twice the amount on any piano
purchased this week. The big exclu-
sive piano house. Open nights. Bart
lett Music Co., 231 Broadway. OPP. city
hall. 9-27-x
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07
DESIRES "THE CLANSMAN"
TO APPEAR UNHINDERED

Charles w. OFT son of former Su-
pervisor Oft, appeared before the po-
yesterday afternoon and asked that
nothing be done to interfere with
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07
DECLARE DANCE
HALLS MUST GO
SUNDAY REST LEAGUE BOUND
NOT TO REST
viii Ask That Existing Ordinance Be
Repealed if Supplementary Petl-
tions Should Prove to Be
Sufficient

If the plans of the Sunday Rest
Ireland declares they will be, the dance
hall referendum will be defeated any
way it turns.
The city clerk yesterday reported to
the circulators of the referendum that
2073 bona fide signatures, in every re-
spect complying with the law, were
found after checking the petition The
number necessary to compel action by
the council is 2179. OF the 1915 names
on the petition more than half were
thrown out for one reason or another,
although the city clerk, officially.
knows nothing of the wholesale forge
ries practiced.
Mr.. Ireland said yesterday that many
of the petitions bearing a large num-
ber of the signatures that have been
adjudged correct are faulty, in that
they are signed at the bottom by per-
sons who sWore falsely in making the
affidavits. These affidavits declare that
the men signing them know personally
that the names on the petition are the
genuine signatures they purport to be-
Mr. Ireland said many of these affi-
divits were made by persons who did
not know personally that the sigma
lures were genuine, and that this fact
invalidates a great many of the names
which the clerkshas passed. This mat
ter will be pressed if the dance hall
people insist on the referendum and
other measures which the Sunday Rest
league will try are not successful.
F. H. Solomon of Morley's Grand
avenue dance hall is circulating more
petitions supplementary to those de-
clared insufficient, and has ten days
from last Monday in which to file
them. Should these supplements make
the referendum sufficient the Sunday
Rest league will go before the council
and ask that the ordinance on the
books, for which it is sought to invoke
the referendum, be repealed.
Will Ask Special Election
When this ordinance is repealed the
Sunday Rest league will circulate an
initiative petition, under the charter
and with the charters machinery for
such petitions, asking that special
election be called to vote on a dance
hall ordinance which shall be even
more drastic than the one the refer
endum seeks to repeal.
The new ordinance will be similar to
the one the Sunday Rest league first
presented, which will stop entirely all
dancing on Sunday and prohibit the
sale of intoxicants and the attendance
of minors under IS years of age. The
ordinance now on the statute books,
the operation of which the referendum
has delayed, permits clubs to have
their dances on Sunday and serve in
toxicants if they choose.
Should the council refuse to repeal
the ordinance and give the initiative a
chance the Sunday Rest league will
take the matter into court and prose-
cute all persons guilty of forgeries, OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses,
perjury in the matter of swearing
falsely to affidavits, and every other
crime connected with the circulation
of the referendum petitions.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07

A real estate advertisement sells one mans
property before another mans FOR SALE"
placard has even commenced to gather dust
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07

If there's something useful which you can
teach-even for "A small part Of your time
a want ad will keep you busy.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-10-07
Hear the Figaro Ouartette

One OF the cleverest string quartettes
tnat ever toured this country. They
play all the favorite operate selec-
tons as well as the popular songs
of the day. They play In the Music
Department every afternoon from 9
TO 4:30. Third floor.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-06
PROPOSITION TO COIN
ALL AMERICAN SILVER

proiect which Il is believed would
mean a considerable addition TO the mar
ket for silver has been laid before Lieu
tenant Governor Harper. says the Denver
News 1t relates to the question OF a
union among Canada, the United States
and Mexico. which might also afterwards
be made to include the Central and South
American republics. similar to the Latin
Union, for the express purpose OF issuing
a common currency and coinage.
John Stewart OF New York City sets
forth the plan fully in a letter, and asks
the views of Harper as to the establish
ment OF an organization TO agitate the
subject and to try to secure government
sanction.
such a union would mean the yearly
minting of a certain value OF subsidiary
coins half dimes, dimes. quarters and
half dollars. which would pass current IN
all countries belonging to the union, says
Mr. Stewart. II have discussed the mat
ter with the authorities of Canada and
the United States in an incidental way
and believe that such a project. IL widely
agitated. would receive government sane
ton. Would you kindly write to me your
views on the subject? 1 am addressing
YOU for the reason that the consumma-
ton of such a project would mean a con-
siderable addition to the market FOR Sill
Yer.
1T seems to me that, after thoroughly
familiarizing the people of the proposed
union with the idea. IL would not be diff
ficult to bring about government sanction
of the iGea OF forming an international
commission to discuss the subject"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-06
Phoebe the Coming Nevada Camp.

| have a few meritorious mining
properties to be had at the right price
Cali and see ]. S. Free. 331 d. F. Walk
or block. Phone Bell, 2491.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-06
AFTER PLACERS
/. IN GRAND COUNTY
Colorado Operators Examine
Wilson Mesa Gravel Dep0s-
its in La Sal District.

During the past week. Rem Hatch of
Grand Junction has been plotting bunch
of Denver and Grand Junction capitalists
over Wilson Me:a, says tire Grand Valley
Times. In the party were LiSe Bosser-
nan and Henry Gelhared, formerly own
ers of the c. ado Pstk ing x Provision
company; LeoI LeFevre. well-known
Colorado capitalist, and DR.. G. b. Roster,
formerly of Kansas City, who has been
operating oil properties around Grand
Junction for the past year or So
The principal object of their visit to the
mesa was to examine some placer ground
owned by Mr.. Hatch and J. II. Shafer,
! which is considered among the richest
ground on the mesa. They came in during
the early part of February 10 examine
this property, owing to the large amount
of snow were unable to make much or
a test This time good test was made
and the parties will return In about a
month, when ii is expected they Will
make a deal for the Shafer and Hatch
property.
They examined the Wilson Mesa Placer
cOmpanys holdings and it is probable that
this property will also be purchased. In
fact it Is understood that these men de-
sire to get possession of enough ground
on the Mesa TO pay them to put in eS-
pensive machinery and work the placer
on large scale.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-06
United States Deposits.

Although the United States is the larg-
est manufacturer and consumer OF asbes-
tos products in the world, the asbestos
used in it's factories comes almost wholly
from Canada. The quantity mined in the
United States is insignificant, the total
output for 1907 being only 6oS short tons
the smallest annual production since 1870
The cause of the decline is found in the
better quality and the greater abundance
and accessibility of the Canadian aSDes-
tos. which completely dominates the IN
dustry in the United States.
Nearly all of the domestic output comes
from the Sail Mountain and Hollywood
mines i'm Georgia. which is the only state
that furnished asbestos for the market
in 1907. These mines are described ana
their production is discussed in report
by Mr.. J. S. Diller on the production OF
asbestos in 1907. which forms an advance
chapter of Mineral Resources of the
United States, 1907" just published by the
United States geological survey.
Mr. Diller discusses the mineral Gener-
ally and takes particular note OF the de-
posits in the United States. Virginia,
which has been a producer for years.
failed to show any output in 1907, its
mines and mills having been closed. The
formations that contain asbestos in can
ada extend into Vermont. where large
enterprise was started several years ago,
but soon proved unsuccessful Texas pro-
is used locally in the manufacture of
asbestos paint. Deposits that may prove
valuable are found also in wyoming. Ari-
iona and California. but none of these
have vet been exploited
Copies of Mr.. OILERS paper can be OBJ
tanned from the director, United States
geological survey, Washington.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-06
MINING ENGINEERING FEAT.
Shaft Constructed Above Ground and
Made to Sink of Its Own Weight.

Mining engineers have performed an in
senious and gratifying feat in literally
sinking a mine shaft near Wilkes
Barre, Pa. In an illustrated article in the
July Popular Mechanics. William c. Rich
ardSon describes the construction as fol-
lows:
"A shaft wall or caisson of reinforced
concrete is being built above ground and
allowed to sink by its own weight through
the soft soil. in which are layers of gravel.
quicksand and clay, until solid rock is
struck some eighty feet below. When the
rock is reached il will be quarried out in
the usual way, and, should not the cutting
shoe find level resting place. it will be
blocked up and all the interstices poured
full of cement to form watertight joint.
The total depth of the shaft, as now con-
templated. will be 800 feet.
I'm sinking the shaft the first opera
ton was to construct a steel cutting shoe.
oblong in shape. fifty-nine feet six inches
by twenty-eight feet. Its outer extremity
was of half-inch steel, about thirty inches
high To the inside of this, about eight
inches from the bottom. was riveted a
half-inch steel horizontal plate, two feet
wide to act as a shelf for the concrete,
which tapers from a width of "A inches at
the bottom TO seven inches at the top.
First a pit. fifteen feet in depth, was
dug. into which the cutting shoe was
placed. the bottom of the pit being made
perfectly level to receive it. The mods or
forms for the concrete were erected on the
shelf within the shoe and the walls built
twenty feet. When these became suffi-
GENTLY hardened the earth was dug away
from within the shoe. and the weight of
the walls forced the steel cutting edge
gradually downward. BY placing the
moids on top of the hardened walls and
repeating the operation. the cutting shoe
has been driven down until 1t is expected
that the entire shaft will be completed In
time for coal to be mined next winter.
In ALL some 1900 cubic yards of con-
crete and las tons of reinforcing steel will
be used i'm the walls. which will be car
ried up fifteen or twenty feet above the
ground so that, even when the surround
ing fields are under water there will be
no danger of the river entering the shaft.
When completed. the shaft VIII be d.
vided into three sections, the first to ac-
commodate two cages for hosting coal.
the second for a pump and ladderway.
and the third for an upcast airway. 1t is
estimated that the cost of the shaft Will
be 500. 900. of which the concrete work VIII
cost about $4,000 Two powerful ventilat-
ing fans. each with a capacity OF $50. W
cubic feet of air per minute. Will be IN
stalled one for regular use and the other
for emergency cases.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-06
ASBESTOS AND ITS USES.
interesting Paper on Subject Pre-
pared by Geological Survey.

The sporadic use of asbestos can be
traced back TO ancient times. but IL was
not until about forty years ago that in
vestigations were begun in Europe 10
1eyelop its application on a commercial
scale. About the same time specimens of
fine Canadian asbestos were exhibited
abroad In 1873 fifty tons were shipped
from Canada TO England, and after that
date the advances in the application of
asbestos in commerce became rapid.
Asbestos was at first used only for spin
ming and weaving. to make incombustible
thread yarn. rope and cloth; and this
use has continued to be its most import
ant appiication ever since the days OF the
Greeks and Romans. OF late. however.
A has been widely used I'm the electrical
arts as a basis of insulation which must
Withstand rather high temperatures, and
also as a fibrous binder for great num-
Der of insulating compounds IL is prac-
tically the only fiber of a refractory ma,
ture that Is at the same time an electrical
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-06
Wasateh Summer Resort.

Hotel. family cottages for rent. Stage
leaves McHenery's livery stable. MUIR
ray. daily. $3.50 a. m Extra stage Sat-
urday evening and returning Monday
morning Round trip $l-50. John Star
ley, manager.