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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-08-27
CONGO TIRE iTY IS
ADOPTED At Last
FREE STATE WILL BE ANNEXED
TO BELGIUM IN THE NEAR
FUTURE.
Bitter Struggle cioses-Atroeities and
MaIadnlnlstration In King Leo.
pold's Realm Now Probably will
Come 70 an End.

Brussels, Aug. 21.-After several
months Of bitter struggle, the chamber
Of deputies Thursday adopted the
Congo annexation treaty by SO votes
20 55, and although this action prob
bly, will insure the solution Of the
reat Congo problem, there still re-
lains open the important question OF
!elglum's financial responsibility.
This action on the part of the
,hamber had not been expected and
at the last moment nearly caused the
collapse OF the cabinet. During the
first reading recently of the colonial
hill, which provides for the admins
tration of the Congo independent
state, and which, with the treaty, was
adopted Thursday, Herr Woeste.
.eader of the Right, secured the adop.
ion of an amendment relieving Bel.
,ium of the responsibility of guaran-
teeing the payment of the interest on
he Congo debt. but the government
lade a determined effort to secure
he restoration of the stipulation that
belgium would make advances to
Congo in case of necessity. The gov.
ernment was defeated in this, how
ever, and 1t was generally believed
that the ministers would be forced to
resign.
Treaty and Bill Conflict.
At the conclusion of a long meet
ing of King Leopold and the members
- l. l.. a that
he ministry would not resign, the
government temporarily accepting the
chambers action on the financial
question. II was pointed out, how
ever, that a direct contradiction exists
'etween the treaty and the colonial
lill as voted, the treaty shouldering
he financial responsibility while the
bill rejects It.
II is understood that the govern
ment will make an effort in the senate
10 amend the bill so as to reconcile
the provisions of the two. Among the
important notifications of the original
articles of the bill are the abolition of
forced labor and the prohibition of
members of the Belgian parliament
from exploiting Congo concessions.
Annexation 10 Assured.
The passage of the Congo treaty
means that the annexation of the
state to Belgium is now practically
assured, as the senate and King Leo
pold are ready to lndorse the bill. The
personal rule OF King Leopold in
Africa is now drawing to close-in
the future he will have nothing to do
with the state which Is TO be admins
tered by Belgium-and the hope Is
widespread that here will now be an
end to the atrocities and maladminis-
'ration in this part of the world
which, for years past, has been a sub
ject Of investigation and bitter com
plant by humanitarians all over the
world
Governments became deeply inter
ested in bringing about the introduc,
tion of reforms in the Congo and II
became known last year that Great
Britain and the United States had
about decided to interfere in the
Congo administration unless the situa-
tion there improved
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-08-27
Mrs. WardweII, Leper. Eso.n...

Tombstone, Ariz., Aug. 20.-Mrs.
Wardwell, the quarantined leper,
widow OF Gen. Wardwell, escaped
from her quarters about midnight
Tuesday night and is supposed to
have boarded a Southern Pacific train
for California.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-08-27
WeII.Known Iowan pIes suddsnlx.

Marshalltown, Ia, Aug. 21.-George
r. Estabrook. for Ave years a member
of the state Republican central com
mittee from the Fifth district, and sec
retary Of the Fisher Governor com
pany. died suddenly Thursday morn
ting OF hemorrhage OF the brain.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-08-27
Kansas Banker Fan. pead.

Trinidad, Col. Aug. 21.-P. o.
Ayers, aged 65, president of the First
National bank OF Coffeeville. Kan.
dropped dead Thursday at Stonewall.
summer resort 40 miles west OF
here. where he was spending = vaca-
tion.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-08-27
Veteran Lake Captain Dead.

Algonac, Mich. Aug. 2i.-Capt.
Charles X. Jackson, II years old, a
great lakes sailor Tor more than so
years. died at his home here Thursday.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-08-27
The Indian empire has the cheapest
postal service In the world.

First Burglar-well, did you get
anydnkp
Second Burglar tdisgustedly)-Nah
the bloke who lives ere 10 lawyer.
First Burglar-That's ard luck.
Did yer lose anyank p-The Sketch.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-08-27

In the course of year ground
worms will bring to the surface about
10 tons of soil to the acre.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-08-27
few TROOPS LEFT
IN SPRINGFIELD
GOV. DENEEN ORDERS THREE
MORE REGIMENTS TO
THEIR HOMES.
Blacks In Terror Again, Fearing Re-
newed Attacks When Soldiers co
Private Klein Is Released on Bail
at kankakee.

Springfield ILL.,, Aug. 20.-Only two
regiments Of state troops will be left
in Springfield Thursday night. At d
conference in the governors Office
Wednesday night it was decided to re
lease the Second infantry form riot
duty Thursday, in addition to the
Third and Fifth regiments whose de
parture had been scheduled to follow
the release of the First and Fourth
regiments Wednesday.
Terror prevailed in the homes OF
Springfield negroes Wednesday right
The departure Of two regiments OF
infantry and the announcement that
three more organizations would be
sent home Thursday caused consterna.
tion among the colored residents.
Scores Of the terror-strlcken blacks
sought refuge in the arsenal. Early
in tia evening almost twice as many
applications for shelter had been re.
celvsd there a. on previous nights
and about 300 negroes curled up in the
corners Of the balcony sleeping on
the noor or curled up in chairs.
Ne Danger, Says Gen. Scott.
Adjt- Gen. Scott insists that there
is no good ground for the fear Of the
negroes.
There are plenty of troops here, "
said he. THE force that is available
can certainly protect the city against
any mob that may form. Then, too,
the presence OF the large body OF SOL
diers was irritatins some sections Of
the community and there was an eIe-
ment OF trouble there that could not
be overlooked"
Witness Shot by Accident.
Springfield, ILL.,, Aug. 2l.-Spring
aeld was infamed Thursday night by
a report that Rolla Keys, a l7-yearold
boy who testified before the specia
grsnd Jury when that body indicted
George Richardson for an alleged as
sault upon Mrs. Mabel Hallam, had
been shot by friends of the accused
negro.
Before the rumor had time to spread
far, however, II was learned that the
shooting was accidental. the wound
Having been inflicted by bullet from
y revolver belonging to a companion
Of Keys The boy is so seriously IN.
jured that he may not recover.
Ten indictments against two of the
alleged mob leaders were returned BY
the special grand jury Of Sangamon
county late Thursday. Six of these
are against Abraham Raymor and four
are against Kate Howard. Raymor Is
charged with murder, four cases OF
malicious mischief and one Of riot
The charges against the Howard wom-
an are for malicious mischief and are
Identical with those against Raymor
on these counts
Klein Released on Bail.
Kankakee. ILL.,, Aug. 22.-Private ,Jo-
saph b. Klein of the First regiment, J.
\. g., charged with killing Earl Mel.
son with bayonet here last Satur.
CAV while en- route TO Springfield, was
brought into Justice c. H. Mead
court Friday afternoon. He waived ex
animation and was bound over to the
grand jury. He gave bond of $4,000
furnished by a surety company, and
was released and returned to his home
in Chicago.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-08-27
nILLsBoRo MARKETS.

by The Union Grocery co
HILLsBoRo. August 25, isOs
Retail Grocers.
BUYING PRIoEs
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13
BEAUMONT SALES
RUN $3.50 A DAY
TWO WEEKS IN DECEMBER GO
IN EXCESS OF $4,000
HANDSOME TOTAL OF 1922, 700 IN
FOURTEEN MONTHS
Farm Loan Company Takes Shape
with $4,000 for nVestment-Ger-
man Colony organlzes-Eight
New Houses

Uninterrupted demand for Beaumont
lots and fruit acreage is shown by re-
ported sales for the week totaling $500,
making the aggregate for The first two
weeks of December in excess of $14,-
000 This raises the gross business for
fourteen months to $322,000, an aver
age of $4,000 a month, or over $3.50 for
every day Beaumont has been on the
market.
Indicating the substantial character
of buyers, one nurseryman, A c. Stow
ers, of the EnglChardt-Stowers Fruit
company, has received in thirty days
contracts to plant over 200 acres of
apples, pears, peaches, cherries and
other fruits. Nearly 5000 berry bushes
of different kinds will be set out by the
same firm. Three other nursery firms
have also booked many orders.
Alfalfa planting has started on
large scale, this culture having been
initiated by the Beaumont Land and
Water company who are employing
their surplus water to grow it. Pea
nuts are planted in March and har-
vested in October, after which onions
are planted on the same ground, Civ
ing two crops a year. Wide areas are
also being set to grapes, this product
having been popularized by the high
prices obtained by the growers this
season, due to the heavy percentage of
saccharine matter in the grapes.
Directly resulting from the company's
efforts to found a colony of thrifty Ger
man farmers in the Cherry Valley
tract three families, headed by George
Reg of La Mirada, have bought tracts
of from five to fifteen acres each, and
are already preparing to actively farm
the land. Each family will erect
substantial home, barn and other i'm
proVements.
In addition to eight new houses now
in course of construction in the Cherry
Valley and Cherry Valley West tracts
ten cottages and business blocks are
going up in the townsite. Mrs c. B.
Eyer has ordered two new cottages,
making four she has built; e. Aungst
will build a large two-story residence
at Eighth and Magnolia streets, and
Robert Curler a five-room cottage,
making three he has erected in the past
four months.
Arrangements to establish a large
farm loan company are about com
pleted whereby over $4,000 will be put
within the reach of homeseekers to buy
farm implements, erect buildings and
secure live stock.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13
STATE AND BUILDING NEWS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WEST NINTH STREET
LOT AND APARTMENTS
ARE SOLD FOR $4,000

r. Fred Vogel sells to Tom M; Wolf
through the real estate firm of A; L.
Jergins & Co, the property located at
122S to 1882 West Ninth street, lot 1879
feet frontage by 100 feet in depth, I'M
proved with a modern four-apartment
1iat building, two five-room and two
six-room flats; also a modern nine
room house in the rear of the two hrst
named buildings, consideration $4,000.
This property was purchased by Mr..
Wolf as an investment, as 1t is paying
at the present time little over per
cent on the investment, and being 10
Gated on one of the best east and west
cross-town streets and in the path OF
the business growth Of the city, 1t is
figured that the future increase in
value. with the present rate of inter
est, will prove a very handsome in
vestment.
Another sale reported by A. T. Jer--
gins &, CO. is the southeast corner of
Orange and wiltshire place from r. r..
| Hunt to George r. Cline, lot 6Oxl6O feet,
| consideration $4,000
Cline is now having plans prepared
for a ten-room residence, to cost about
$4,000 when completed, which he in
| tends to erect upon this site.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13
FOUR FINE HOUSES
NEAR COMPLETION
DORCHESTER STRUCTURE TO
COST $4,000
EIlzabethan style of Architecture viii
Be Worked Into Handsome Build
Ing Finished In Peruvian
Mahogany

Althouse Bros, one Of the most prom
inent building firms in Los Angeles,
have again resumed building opera
tions and have at the present time
several large houses under course of
construction and are completing plans
for a number of other beautiful homes
to be erected in the immediate future.
They will complete the entire block be-
tween Sixteenth and Dorchester streets
on the east side of Manhattan place,
one Of the above mentioned houses be-
ing located on the large southeast cor
ner OF Dorchester and Manhattan, S5x
$50 feet.
This will be magnificent three-story,
twelve-room residence Of blue brick,
wood and cement, in the Elizabethan
style of architecture. Interior finish
in Peruvian and tabasco mahogany,
curly burch and quartered white oak.
Walls to be hung with French tapes
tries and silk hangings. Floors of quar-
ter-sawed oak and select white maple.
Ceilings beamed, walls paneled, with
wood frieze above. Windows of plate
glass. Fixtures especially designed for
this house of beautiful design. Swell
front, built-in buffet, finished with
large French bevel plate glass mirrors
and exquisite art glass set In hard
metal Reception room with cedar
closets on second floor, also large sun
parlor on the south containing many
windows. Billiard room, trunk room
and servants room on third floor
House will contain two large baths fin
ished in tile and white marble: three
toilets, three mantels of old gold brick
and Gruby tile. Large buffet kitchen
and buffers pantry. Large cement
basement equipped with complete laun-
dry; also fruit cellar, store room and
furnace room. Large two-story garage
] containing separate servants quarters
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13
Eucalyptus Area Will Be Increased
by 10000 Acres During Next Spring

quate hardwood supply. The largest
single plantation is that of the Santa
Fe railway, which has planted about
700 acres and proposes to increase the
area to 5000. The next largest is that
of the Eucalyptus Timber company
which will plant 1900 acres the com
ing year, making over 1000 acres which
II has planted in one district, which will
be ample in few years to support two
first-class saw mills in operation. Ii
is planned to increase the acreage
planted each year.
eve have now figures on the yield
of eucalyptus that may be regarded as
official. No tree has ever been studied
so much or so thoroughly. With the
object of informing the public and pro-
tecting investors, the Forestry Society
of California, cooperating with q. 4:
Lull, the state forester, has gathered
data from groves all over the state.
It's inquiries have been minute and
careful, and it's conclusions may be re-
garded as absolutely conservative and
reliable. It's figures show that an acre
of commercial eucalyptus at ten years
of age, rightly located and rightly
handled, should produce 100000 feet OF
lumber, board measure. The stump
age value should be at least S25 per
1000 feet, or $2500 per acre for ten
years growth. And the cost to the
grower on the most liberal estimate
cannot exceed $3.50 per 1000"
1t is predicted that eucalyptus grow
ing will in a few years make Califor-
mia an important manufacturing state
especially for cooperage and furniture
and that the day is not distant when
Los Angeles, instead of importing
these articles largely from distant
points, as she does today, will be ship
| ping them east by trainloads.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13
WEST SIDE ACRES ARE SOLD
TO LARGE LUMBER COMPANY

DeKalb Spurlin of the Washington
Street Mill and Lumber company has
Just concluded the purchase of SIX
acres at the corner of West Sixteenth
and Concord streets. This property
will be turned into an extensive lumber
ward, having the capacity Of supplying
the entire western portion of the CITY,
The washington Street Mill and Lum-
Der company has been in existence only
about six months, but in that time the
demand upon them for building mate
rial has been so great that they ma
their present quarters entirely made
ouate. Their new home is located just
west of the city limits and adjoining
the many new tracts that are being
built UP rapidly with the most beauti-
full homes in the city. The growth OF
that section of the city has been phe-
romenal, and there has been a long felt
want of a thoroughly supplied lumber
ward.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13

s125,000. New businesses have been
started by merchants from almost
every state in the Union, baker haV-
ing come from Chicago; milliner from
Ohio; laundryman from Colorado, and
a planning mill owner from Kansas. The
infant industries at Beaumont are a
marked indication of the growth and
prosperity of the town, which, like Red
lands and Riverside twenty years ago,
is just beginning to develop and eVo-
Lutte into a city.
The cement block building shown
above is the property OF Mrs. M. NJ.
Fisher, and is one of 1876 new buildings
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13

IN HE area of the eucalyptus groves
of California will be increased by
Il 5000 to 10000 acres during the COM
ing spring. This is the estimate OF +.
D. Cornell, secretary of the Eucalyptus
Timber company, who has given much
time, thought and study to commercial
eucalyptus and Is Thoroughly poste C on
ell phases of the promising new Cali
fornia industry. The encouragement
which the business is receiving insures
the planting of larger acreage each
year for many years to come.
Cornell said yesterday that the de-
mand for seedlings for planting next
March and April is much greater tnah
the supply. His company has in IT'S
nurseries near the city 2,25OO00 young
eucalvntl ready for planting in the
snring. 1t could readily sell them all
and twice as many more If 1t had
them. but will sell none planting them,
Instead. on it's lands in Tulare county.
Ha mentioned other concerns, one OF
which has a million trees in its nursery
stock, and others with 100000 4oO'OOV
and 200, 900 respectively. All these trees
and others in smaller quantities WIN De
placed In eucalyptus groves IN rev
months. .,..,..
TucaIyptus companies are multiply
ing RAPIDLY. There are now about
TWENTY-FIVE in the state and new ones
are being organized all the time. Only
small proportion of them are push
ing their business actively, but If all
should press it to their utmost there
could be no danger OF overn so
euealypti a year for the next ten
years" said Cornell, "and at the enc
Of that time 1t would still lack more
Ethan 1t does today of having an ACE
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13
Sales In Southwest

The Mccarthy company is having a
brisk demand for its five and six-room
bungalows, and also for $500 building
lots in the southwest portion of the
city. Among it's sales during the past
week are:
lust completed on lot II, block 1, in the
Mccarthy Company's Greater Los An
geles tract, on East Sixty-fourth street,
near Main street, for $2400.
To o. Buck, siX-room cottage on
South Park avenue, near Sixty-sixth
street, in the Mccarthy Company
Greater Los Angeles tract. for $500.
TO L. A. Fontan, two 40-foot lots on
Sixtv-eighth street, lust west of San
Pedro street, in the Mccarthy Com
pany's Greater Los Angeles tract, for
S500 each
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13

erected in the past fourteen months.
The Fisher block is occupied by Mr..
Wallace, a jeweler, who has come from
North Carolina, and the upper floor
accommodates a dentist, the first in
the history of Beaumont. Cement
blocks for this building were made in
Beaumont, there being two yards for
this class of manufacture. Seven con-
tracing and building firms are now in
the field, and at times twenty-five car
penters are employed. 1t is claimed
that Beaumont's building record is the
top-notcher for any town of its size in
the state of California.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13

trade, inscribed a one-sentence opinion
of Beaumont, which were found to be
uniformly favorable. The editors
stayed two hours and were driven over
the ground and served with an old
fashioned country dinner.
Beaumont's first drug store, shown
above, has just been opened by Rob-
ert Fulton, an old-time pharmacist of
Los Angeles. Mr.. Fulton has put in a
$1,000 stock and IS already doing a
profitable business. Fourteen months
ago Beaumont had only three stores
and now 1t has over forty merchants
carrying aggregate stocks In excess of
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13
100 Acres Sell for $4,000

At San Diego a tract of 100 acres in
Ocean Beach is said to have been sold
by the George w. Crane estate to
Maurice Hall at stated price of $S7O0O
The plan is to subdivide and improve
and put the lots on the market as
soon as the court approves the sale
Another deal of Importance Was that
of the Adam Witcher mattress factory
to Frank A. and Ray A. Garretson
and w. B. Hinson for $4,000. They are
forming a company With $4,000 to run
the plant, and will erect brick build
ings.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13
Ranch Sells for $1,000

On Wednesday of last week sale
of fine proportions was made at Po-
mona. A ten-acre orange grove facing
San Antonio avenue was sold by b.
L. Olds to Joseph Webb & Son at re-
ported price of 1000. The buyers re-
Gently came from Syracuse, N. Y, and
with their families will make this their
home
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13

amel and alpine work. Buffet kitchen,
large buffers pantry, large screen
porch, three toilets, extra large linen
closet. cedar lined. Each bedroom
equipped with spacious closet contain
ing built-in hat and shoe boxes, also
electric lights.
Interior finish of Australian mahog-
any and select white maple. Floors OF
quartered oak and curly birch. Extra
large beams on ceilings, walls In din
ing room paneled in leather, with plate
rail- above, supported by fancy brack-
cts. Bedrooms finished in white en-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13

and chauffeTs room in rear Grounds
will be laid out and decorated by ex-
pert landscape gardener. rms proiposnrccSS6,
when complete, viii cost from $Ao'0VV
to $4,000.
Another Beautiful Home
Another beautiful home on the south
west corner of Cimarron and Twenty-
third streets is almost completeu; Ills
tvvo-story stone and frame residence
contains ten large rooms. including hve
bedrooms, two large baths, one on each
aooor. finished In tile, ivory, white en-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13

IN HE party depicted in front Of the
Summit house at Beaumont COM
Il prised los members of the Southern
California Editorial association, who
visited Beaumont in a special train on
November II in connection with their
2s4-mile promotion trip to the eastern
boundary of California. Nearly every
important publication in Southern Cali
fornia was represented. and before
leaving Beaumont each one OF the
party, at the request OF the board of
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-12-13

The town of Hemet is in need Of additional
school facilities, and either additional rooms
win be made 10 the present grammar school
or a new building Will be erected.