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Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
LOCAL

Edgar A. shouse, former society man of
Louisville, Ky, sentenced TO one year in
San Quentin by Judge Davis.
Rivalry between f. ]. Baum and Charles
Stuitz ends in censure for former and dis
charge of latter in police court.
Miss Gwendolyn p. Francis OF 1899 Second
avenue commits suicide by drinking oxalic
acid
Three japanese and an Italian stabbed at
San Pedro street market in row over three
punches of carrots.
Fine collection OF rare books archi-
lecture stained glass and decoration OBJ
tained by the public library.
Ralph j. Leavitt, Automobile man, released
from custody on charge of manslaughter at
Seattle.
Henry c. Faulkner given right by Judge
to see baby daughter after estrangement of
two years.
Newell II. Mitchell of the Fifth ward is
the latest candidate for nomination as men,
ber of city council
Work of dredging at San Pedro harbor
already rs in active progress.
4 San Pedro and Los Angeles will Join
hands at big ratification at harbor Wednes-
day evening.
Prince Rupert, terminus OF Grand Trunk
Pacific, said to be latest boom town in the
far north.
Mother OF young and beautiful Pasadena
sanity charge.
Y NJ C.. A. to observe open house Sept. 1
in celebration of first anniversary in new
home
Railways seek new routes into San Pedro
as result OF harbor plans.
Strike on aqueduct threatens to tie up
entire line OF work.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
SOCIALIST WILL
DEMAND ACTION
FRENCH WANTS AMERICAN
STOCKS LISTED
Movement for Reciprocal Arrangement
Between Washington and Paris
Concerning Listings and
Tariff to Be Urged
IBY Associated Press. /

PARIS, Aug. 21.-The Humanite, to-
day, published an article by M. Jaures,
the socialist leader, in the chamber of
deputies, in which the writer explains
his proposal to interpellate the gov
ernment regarding the proposition to
quote officially in France, American
speculative stocks, but notably the
common stock of the u. S. Steel corpor-
alton.
This Interpolation will come up in
October. M. JaureS charges that, under
the guise of obtaining for France the
minimum rates under the new Amer
lean tariff, the French government con-
templates permitting the listing of
Steel common on the Paris bourse.
This, he contends, is a result of the
raid on French savings by American
spectators who long have been anX-
ious to get access to French money.
Irrespective OF the chances of heavy
losses through speculative investment,
which M. Jaures considered likely, he
insists that the policy of allowing
French money to go abroad to Russia
and other foreign countries is wrong,
as this money is needed in France for
the development of French industries
and the amelioration of social condi-
tions.
He declared the settlement of the
tariff differences between the two coun-
tries should be in accordance with the
interests of the two states, irrespective
of outside interests.
In regard to the above, it is semi
officially denied in Paris today that the
question of listing the shares of the
Steel corporation ever has been the
subject of negotiations between France
and America
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
EASTERN

Negro Business league in sessionsat Louis
VILE, KY, shows difficulty Of keeping blaci
servants from attending funerals or circuses
Three more persons killed in automobile
races at new speedway at Indianapolis anc
two are injured seriously
Transmssissipp congress at Denver ad'
journs sine die and short session will be held
in November, 1910, at San Antonio Texas
Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw issues another
protest against sons treatment. Is answered
by head Of Matteawan asylum.
Workingmen strike at Pressed Stee
Car company's plant in Schoenville, Pa.
alleged to have tried to blow up office
building of company
Expelled West Point cadets are in New
York hoping for reinstatement through ap'
peal to president,
Government photographers announce dis,
covery of method for measuring height ano
length of ocean waves.
Attempt of four Indian girls to escape
from Haskell institutions leads to story
that traffic in squaws sxists.
Famous Incubator baby" Marion Bleak
ley, stolen from smothers home as Gilman
to stormy history.
Sympathizers with strikers at Pressed
Steel Car companys works in Pittsburg at
tempt to blow up stockade at plant.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
WOMEN ENGAGE
IN CLASH WITH
THE MILITARY
STRIKE AT PRESSED STEEL CAR
WORKS BECOMES GRAVE,
ATTEMPT MADE TO BLOW UP
OFFICE OF PLANT
Mills at SchoenviIIe, Pa, in Danger of
Being Demolished by Sympathlzers
with Strlkers-Many Per-
sons Injured
tBy Associated Press

n nITTSBURG, Aug. PA night of
wild riotlng among the striking
Il workingmen closed the week at
the Pressed Steel Car company's plant
In Schoenville.
A daring attempt, partly successful,
to blow up the office building of the
company was made. This was the sig
nal for serious clashes between state
troopers and strike sympathizers, in
which dozen or more men were in
iured.
Shortly after 10 p. m. 500 women and
children gathered about the companys
restaurant in McKees Rocks and were
partially dispersed by mounted troop
ers. One woman stood out of the mob
and, drawing a gas pipe loaded with
powder threw 1t at the feet of troop
ers horse. The bomb failed to ex-
plode.
The crowd of women was finally dis
persed when fire hose was played on
them.
While the angry women swarmed the
streets a concerted attack was made
on the company restaurant from the
rear, and attacking the negro cooks
with ladies', cooking spoons, etc, about
fifty women beat an entrance into the
kitchens of the establishment and made
off with the potatoes, onions and even
cauldrons of steaming soup.
Near a viaduct over the railroad
tracks strike sympathizers gathered
and began stopping street cars. Three
men could not satisfactorily explain
their presence in McKees Rocks and
were bodily hurled through car WIN
dow. When the men fell from the car
members of the mob on the street at
tackled them. The men were dragged
to the edge of the viaduct, fifty feet
below which lay the tracks of the rail-
road. and only escaped being thrown
over by the arrival of troopers.
Try to Blow Up Plants Office
Late tonight an attempt was made
to blow up the Office building of the
car plant, a three-story frame struc-
ture erected close to the stockade near
the company house. Nitro glycerin
caps were thrown over the stockade
and over twenty feet of basement rocks
supporting the office building was torn
| away by the force of the explosion.
There is no clew as to the identity of
the men responsible for the deed.
A street car from Pittsburg was at
tackled by strike sympthizers and q
dozen persons aboard the car were Sc
verely beaten and finally rescued by
troopers.
At midnight the situation was quiet,
but ominous. A charge of peonage was
formally made late today against
Frank N. Hoffstot, president of the
Pressed Steel Car company, and Sam
uel Cohn, head Of the service bureau
at the Schoenville plant.
In an affidavit sworn to by Albert
Vamos before United States Commits
sioner Lindsay the charge is made that
Hoffstot and Cohn arrested, held and
returned the complainant to a condi-
ton of peonage."
Vamos alleges he was brought here
in complete ignorance of the state of
affairs at Schoenville. He AYERS when
he made an attempt to escape from the
plant, first asking permission from Cohn
to leave, he was beaten so severely he
had to go to a hospital
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
DISCUSS DRAFT OF
UNIFORM LAWS FOR
CONTROL. OF TRUSTS

DETROIT, Aug. 21.-A uniform state
corporation law, which will prevent cor
porations from taking out charters in
states where there are few If any re-
strictions, and then carrying on opera
tions in a state where it would have
been impossible to get the original char
ter, was under consideration today by
the commissioners on uniform state laws,
who are In session here, preliminary to
the convention here next week of the
American Bar association.
The commissioners make report of
their recommendations to the bar assO-
Citations and to the legislatures of the
various states which are represented.
1t is expected also that uniform mar
riage and divorce laws will be drafted by
the commissioners for submission to the
state legislatures.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
.SCAFFOLD COLLAPSES;
FOUR WORKMEN HURT
Laborers Hurled Sixteen Feet Into a
Pile of Bricks and Broken
Rock-One Is Fatally
Injured

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21.-Michael
Newman, a bricklayer and three fell
low workmen were hurled sixteen feet
to pile of bricks and broken rock to-
day when the scaffold on which they
were working collapsed.
Newman struck on a projecting tim
ber, which gashed his thigh and frac-
tured both legs. His condition is crit
ical.
Edward Dickinson suffered a broken
leg and the other two men escaped
with cuts and bruises.
When the men fell the bricks and
mortar with which they had been
working came down on top of them,
and 1t required quick work by the 9th
er employees about the building to dig
them out.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
NO cLEW TO KIDNAPERs
FOUND BY STATE POLICE

KANSAS CITY, Kas., Aug. 21.-The
kidnapers of Marion Bleakley, the lit
tie 5-year-old girl taken by force from
the home of her parents today in To-
peka, are still at large and tonight Off
GERS are securing the country.
A message to the chief of police this
afternoon stated that party in an
automobile answering the description
of the kidnapers had been.seen eight
miles south of Lawrence.
Kansas City officers are watching the
approaches to this city in an effort to
head off the kidnapers before they get
out of Kansas.
1t is believed the kidnapers intend
to get out of the state as quickly as
possible, in the belief that the court
order of the Kansas supreme court, by
which the mother Mrs. Charlotte
Bleakley, had been keeping the child,
will be invalidated in another state.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
PASSENGERS ON SHIP ARE
BULL FIGHT SPECTATORS
Animals Stampeded on After Deck by
Fright at Aligators Engage in
Bloody Conflict

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21.-Passen-
gers on board the German ship Ella,
which arrived in this port yesterday,
were the spectators at a real bull
fight en- route.
While the vessel was rolling in a
heavy sea several Mexican bulls, con-
fined In stalls on the rear deck, became
frightened at the swapping of some al
ligators travelling with them and break
ing from their stalls commenced a
sanguinary battle which did not end
until the deck was so slippery with
blood that they could not stand.
The biggest bull of the herd was sim
gled out by the others as special OBJ
ject of attack and, although he flung
his assailants off time after time, he
was finally borne to the deck and
killed by his mates.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
SAILOR WHO KILLED MATE
IN PRIZE FIGHT ACQUITTED
Naval Authorities Discharge Accused
and State Authorities Rearrest
Him for Civil Trial

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. - mot
guilty" is the verdict of the naval
court which tried Davis Williams, the
negro mess attendant of the battleship
Vermont, who caused the death of a
brother sailor as the result of box
ing match and who was tried for man
slaughter.
News of the acquittal was received
at the navy department today through
a dispatch from Rear Admiral Schroe-
der, commanding the Atlantic battle-
ship fleet, now engaged in target prac-
tice off Cape Henry.
In consequence of the verdict Will
Jams will be turned over to the Georgia
authorities who want him for trial on
a charge of assault and battery with
intent to kill.
This alleged offense was committed
before his enlistment in the navX.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
VIOLINIST DROPS DEAD
WHILE PLAYING FAMOUS
SCHUMANN TRAUMEREI

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21.-shOrtly
after midnight today Paul Schmidt, first
violinlst in RIGGS orchestra, dropped
dead as he was rendering schumann's
"Traumerei."
The orchestra was playing in "a down
town cafe early in the evening and
Schmidt had complained of feeling Ill.
The dramatic death of the musician
occurred when the big cafe was crowded
with after-theater diners and the women
in the crowd were yisibly affected.
A physician who was summoned de-
clared the ViOiinist died Of heart failure.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
Blackburn Tenders Resignation

LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 21.-The
Times publishes a dispatch today
from Washington declaring that Gov
ernor ]. C. Blackburn of the Isthmian
canal zone has rendered his resigna-
tion to President Taft. The dispatch
says the Kentucky ex-senator has
written Mr.. Taft that he is weary of
his exile.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
Guilty of MansIauahter

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21.-After
deliberations lasting nearly twenty
four hours the jury in the case of
James o. Young, charged with the
murder of Patrolman William Helms
last year, returned verdict of guilty
of manslaughter today, with a recon-
mendation for mercy. Young was
jointly charged with his brother
Thomas, who is now serving a life
sentence at San Quentin.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
COAST

Engine and baggage car OF train neal
Spokane plunges through trestle weakened
by fire. and engineer fatally injured; no one
killed.
Court of appeals at Sacramento confirm:
decision OF lower court in dismissal of ibe
suit against Los Angeles newspaper
Scaffold In San Francisco collapses and
four workmen thrown sixteen feet into pile
of brick and rock; one fatally injured
Program of national conservation congres;
does not contain name of Secretary Ballin-
ger; cabinet officer may be absent.
j. B. Stetson, head OF street railway and
member OF Holbrook- Merrill l-Stetson com
pany, rs dead.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
Rndies Not Recovered

BURLINGTON. Iowa, Aug. 21.-The
bodies of the victims of last nights
accident, when the launch Naughty
Girl was burned during a fireworks
display on the river, have not been
recovered. The dead number three,
Mrs. Marshall Jordan and Mrs. l.. Con-
verse. both of Mount Pleasant, Iowa,
and the son of Charles Lee, a proml-
nent business man.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
San Francisco Woman Arrested

DIES MONIES, Iowa, Aug. 21.-Mrs.
Nellie Reynolds, a stylishly gowned
woman who says she is a Spanish ac-
tress and that she came to Des Moines
from Kansas City, was arrested, along
with her daughter Marie, II years old,
here today charged with bold thefts in
fashionable homes yesterday of dia-
monds worth $780, The police say the
woman has worked in Kansas City,
Dallas and Galveston. She gives her
home as San Francisco.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
rraln Wrecked; EnaIneer kiIIed

PITTSBURG, Aug. 21.-Engineer ].
p. Robinson was killed tonight when
his train on the Erie and Pittsburg di-
vision of the Pennsylvania railroad
was wrecked at Youngstown, o. When
near Youngstown the engine left the
tracks and turned turtle. No one ex-
cept Robinson was injured. The cause
is not known.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
FOREIGN

Wellman's balloon explodes a short time
after the airship was started from Spitzber-
gen, Norway, on its trip to north pole.
Cen Booth. commander in chief of Saliva
tion army at London, may lose his eyesight.
storm at Rheims. France, prevents pre-
lininary aeroplane tests; week of aviation
opens today.
Socialist leader in France will interpellate
ministry regarding proposal to list Ameri-
can stocks on bourse
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
Murderer Is LYnehed

BLUEFIELD, w. Va, Aug. 21.-News
reached here tonight from Rock, w.
Va. that w. H. Oakley, paymaster of
the Franklin Construction company,
had been shot to death by an unknown
man and robbed of $4,000. The murderer
was pursued by a posse captured and
lynched, according to the report.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
Detect Deficit at Penitentlary

PITTSBURG, Aug. H.-Detection has
been made, 1t is alleged, of a deficit
of $4,000 by a board of auditors ap-
pointed to fix the financial status of
the Western Pennsylvania penitentiary.
The Investigation was started by a
number of bankers now serving time
in the institution. The $4,000 is ac-
counted for in the bookkeeping.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
INCUBATOR BABY
IS STOLEN FROM
HOME OF MOTHER
GIRL WITH STORMY HISTORY
KIDNAPPED
BOY GUARDIAN BEATEN OFF BY
aRAZEN CHILD sTEALER
Marion BeakIey, Famous for Having
Been Preserved from Death by
"Baby Incubator" Is
Carried Away

KANSAS CITY, Aug. 21.-Narian
Bleakley, who was kidnapped at Topeka
today. was recovered by officers here to-
night. Three of the alleged kidnapers
were arrested with the child in their
possession. The fugltives were taken
from a passenger train upon its arrival
here.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
Russia orders srbmarIne

ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 21.--As a
result of the submarine competitions
held here in July the admiralty has de-
cided to order submarine of the Hol-
land model. The boat will be built at
perVisiOn.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
Forest Fires Raqe

WINNIPEG. Man, Aug 21.-Forest
ares now raging in British Columbia
are assuming the proportions of the
ire that destroyed Fernie lest year
One town has been destroyed.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-22
THE NEWS SUMMARY
FORECAST

For Los Angeles and vicinity: Fair
Sunday; light north wind, changing to
south: Maximum temperature yester-
day, 81 degrees; minimum, so degrees.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-02-11
GRADATIM CLUB
Entertained By Mrs. If Cooper,
Former Member, Passes a
Pleasant Afternoon

Wednesday afternoon Feb. 3rd. the
Gradatim Club was invited to meet
with Mrs. j. +. Cooper, a former
member of the club.
The members of the cluband guests
arrived early and the meeting was
called to order promptly at half past
two O'Clock.
After the program for the after
noon was completed, Mrs. Cooper as
sisted by Mrs. Ingram, Miss Cooper
and Miss Hattie Erwin, served de-
.licious and substantial supper. A
merry hour ensued, every one having
a royal good time.
At the suggestion Of the members
an impromptu yell in honor OF Mrs.
Cooper was given with. right good
will.
At about six o'clock the company
separated, having thoroughly enjoyed
the hospitality of Mrs. Cooper.
Mrs. H. b. Gates, sister OF Mrs. Il.
J. Lewis, was the out of town guest.
The Gradatim Club will meet with
Mrs. w. A. Morse, Wednesday, Feb
Il. FED. SEC.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-02-11
BLIZZARD FROM NORTH
Strong Gale Fills the Air Full of Fly
ing Snow and Materially Re-
tafds Business
TEMPERATURE AT ZERO
Northern Pacific Passenger Train
Stuck in Drift Near Glenw0Od-
Other Trains DELAYED

The street cars didn't run in Sauk
Centre Tuesday. One reason was
that blizzard No. struck town about
eight O'clock in the morning and
howled and ragged all day long. There
were other reasons why the electric
line wasn't in operation, but that
was the main one.
In some respects the storm was
worse than the one of two weeks ago.
More snow fell but it was light and
dry and did not pack SO hard in the
cuts and on the sidewalks. The wind
blew just about as hard but the cold
was not SO intense. At eight o'clock
in the morning, when the blizzard
had gotten fairly under way, the mer-
curry stood at zero. 1t got a little
higher during the day but along about
five O'Clock pair of beautiful ''sun
dogs" appeared in the western sky,
indicating drop. The drop came all
right, but not big one. At eight
O'Clock Wednesday morning the mer-
curry stood at zero. AS the day adj.
vanced the temperature rose; the sun
shone brightly and the COOL crisp air
was invigorating.
The railroads suffered froih the
storm but not as much as during the
last one The Great Northern got all
its trains through on Tuesday, the
eastbound local and the branch line
trains running on time. The west
bound locatand both Flyers were be.
| hind materially. The east bound
Flyer arrived four hours late and the
branch line was held here for it.
Wednesday the schedule was more
nearly adhered to.
The Northern Pacific passenger
train started from Morris on time for
it's run to Little Falls Tuesday morn
ing. When within a mile and a half
of Glenwood it stuck i'm drift and re-
mained there until relieved over
twenty-four hours later. The snow
plow cleared the track on Wednesday
and traffic was resumed.
Telephone and telegraph commun-
ication was not interfered with here
as was the case i'm the former storm.
The streets were banked high with
drifts all over the city. Those living
or doing business on the east side OF
the streets had high drifts to clear
away, while those on the opposite
side who suffered from the preceding
storm, gazed smilingly Oh walks swept
clean by the wind. The rural mail
carriers had a hard time of getting
out over their routes Oh Tuesday and
"Wednesday.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-02-11
Gain in receipts by the
Bjorge tonnage tax methodist, ,014.s15

1t may be objected to this that un-
der the proposed system the mining
companies would have to pay unjust
and oppressive taxation. In order to
show whether or not this is the case
it will be necessary to compare the
rate they now pay under the present
system for all purposes with the aver
age rate paid on all classes Of property
In Minnesota. To make this plain a
table has been prepared giving the to-
tai assessment on practically all min
ing property in school districts in st.
Louis county where mines are located
in 1907, the tax paid thereon and the
rate OF taxation in each school dis
trict. The average rate actually paid
by mining companies is found by di-
viding the taxes paid by the assessed
valuation. To this is added the state
rate. The computation shows that
the average rate of taxation paid for
all purposes in 1907 by mining COM
panies operating in these districts of
st. Louis county was 9.56, while the
average rate paid throughout the
state was 25.9l.
Valuation and local rate Of taxation
on mining properties in St. Louis
county 1907.
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-02-11
llNCOLN'S GETTYSBURG ADDRESS

remarks the dedication National
etery at Gettysburg November 49, 1863
"FOucOre fathers brought
this continent nation conceived liberty and dedicated to the
proposition that all men created equal
Now engaged in great civil testing whether that
dedicated
We battlefield OF that We ded
their lives that that nation might live 1t altogether fitting
and proper that should do this.
dedicate
ground The living dead
above
The world will little long
it what they did 1t
living dedicated the unfinished
to be here dedicated to the remaining before that from
deyOtion
resolve that these dead shall not have died that this nation
the people, by the people and for the shall perish
the EARTH"
The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-02-11
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

selfish ambition and cruel despotism.
Their place is assured them in the
grateful memory of their countrymen,
and sad indeed would be the day that
should witness Americans unmindful
of the names and deeds of George
Washington or Abraham Lincoln. In
making George Washington nature
seems to have chosen the largest
mould of the old-world life and civil
ization, while Lincoln stands alone,
the splendid product of virgin soil,
the type and product of splendid re-
publicanism.
After reviewing LincOln's humble
origin and the trials and struggles of
his youth the speaker went on
to say that the martyr president lived
near to natures heart and was ever in
touch with, the common people. He
won the uubounded affection of the
men behind the plow, in the woods
and on the market place, so that when
he was nominated for the presidency
he had the people behind him. Po-
litical bosses recognized this fact and
vainly imagined that they could easi-
ly manage Lincoln and thus get close
to the people. The soldiers knew he
was their friend and yenerated him
accordingly. His simplicity was in
fectious. There was no question as
to his sincerity. All men who really
knew him believed in him. There
was never president of this republic
who was better fitted to be the ruler
of the common people. He seemed to
be everybody's friend.
The people reverenced Washington;
they loved Lincoln. That sallow,
shrivelled, homely face, that ungainly
bulk of six feet and four inches, those
abnormally long arms and legs, might
be the subject of ridicule, but they
did not hide but rather enhanced,
when once he was known, the inward
grace and benevolence of his ''Great
Heart"
Like his nature, his humor was SYM
pathetic. His. wit never left a sting.
His anecdotes were not senseless stor-
les; they had point and purpose.