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Mexico Missouri message., 1909-03-04

A Resolution.

three of the Original Town Of
Mexico, Missouri, from the west
line Of Jefferson street west TO the
East line of Washington street
and TO curb where necessary the
north and south sides thereof
along the distance 50 to be paved.
Be it resolved by the Council
Of the City of Mexico, Missouri,
as follows:
Section !. That the Council Of
the City of Mexico, Missouri,
deem it necessary to pave with
frst-class yitrifed paving brick
or blocks the alley way in Block
three Of the Original Town of
Mexico, Missouri. from the West
line Of jefferson street to the
East line of Washington street,
said alley to be paved full width
thereof Of II feet. The width of
the said alley and the material
and plans of said improvement
are more particularly shown by
the diagram. plans aud specii-
cations for said improvement
fled by the City Engineer with
the City Clerk. Said paving to
be laid to the established grade.
Sec. ,. That the Council deem
it necessary in view of the pro-
posed Improvement of the alley
lway in Block three of the Original
Town of Mexico, Missouri, to curb
the north and south sides thereof
where there are no buildings to
serve for the same with white
oak lumber two and ouc-half
inches thick by twelve inches
deep, and as is more particularly
shown by the plans, diagram and
specification of the City Engineer
fled with the City Clerk.
Sec. 3. That the cost of said
improvement so declared as nee,
cssary TO be done in sections one
and two hereof shall be paid by
lcvyiug a special assessment on
all lots and tracts of land front
ing on or abutting on said alley
along the distance so to be i'm
proved, in proportion TO the from
fpet thereof abutting on said i'm
pfovement as provided by an ac
} of the General Assembly of tn,
State of Missouri, approved Mch
| p, 1901, and found at page 63 o
= the Laws of Missouri for 1901.
See. 4. This resolution shall b.
} published for two consecutive
, weeks in the Mexico, Missouri
! Message, IA weekly newspape
: printed and published in the Cit.
( pf Mexico, Missouri, and il
| majority of the resident owner
t of property liable to taxation 70
!, said improvement so declared a
necessary to be done by thi
c resolution, at the date of the pas
e sage hereof who shall own
i majority Of the front feet owne
r by residents of the City of Mex
y co, abutting on said portion O
a said alley to be improved as afort
5 said, shall not within ten day
r thereafter file with the City Cler
S of this City their written pr0tes
$ against said improvement, tn
: City Council of the City Of Mex
a co, will cause a contract for sal
d work to be let to the lowest an
g best bidder on the plans an
e specification, substantially as s
, made for said improvement. Sal
$ improvement to be completed nj
k later than Dec. /, 1909.
It See. 5. That said work and in
e provement and the taxation Their
4 for shall be done and made
I accordance with the chart,
i and ordinances Of the City
n Mexico and the laws Of the Sta
y of Missouri relating to and pr
= yiding for said Improvement.
It +. D. GRAHAM,
n President Of the Counei
Il. D. GRAHAM,
A. Nave
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-03-04

Emet Davis, who for several
weeks has been visiting his
parents, Prof. and Mrs. s. It.
Davis, near Mexico, returned
home last Saturday.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-03-04
ClY Ccrl,.
seai
A Resolution.

the west line Of Washington
street, west, TO within ten feet of
the west line of Morris street in
the City Of Mexico, Missouri, and
to curb the North and South
sides Of said street along the dis
lance so TO be paved.
BE it resolved by the Council of
the City of Mexico, Missouri, as
follows;
Section l. That the Council
of the City of Mexico, Missouri.
deem it necessary to pave with
iirst-class yitrifed paving brick
or blocks that portion of
Monroe street lying and being
and situate between the West
line of Washington street and
to within ten feet of the
west line of Morris street in
the City of Mexico, Missouri. said
street from the west line Of Wash
ington street TO the West line of
Clark Ave. to be paved the width
of 40 feet in the center thereof
and from the West line of Clark
Ave, West, TO within ten feet of
the West line OF Morris street.
the width Of thirty feet in the
center thereof, that is to say.
fifteen feet ON each side Of the
center line OF said Monroe street.
The width Of said street and the
material and plans Of said inn
Iprovcment are more particularly
shown by the diagram, plans and
specifications for said improve
mcnt filed by the City Engineer
with the City Clerk, said paving
to be laid to the established
grade.
See. ,. That the Council deem
! il necessary in view of the pro-
posed Improvement of that por-
ton Of Monroe street between the
west line of Washington street
and to within ten feet of the west
line of Morris street in the City OF
Mexico, to curb said street along
that portion so to be improved
and along the North and South
sides of said pavement the full
length thereof with frst-class
concrete curbing as is more par
ticularly shown by the plans
diagram and specifications now
on file with the City Clerk, flee
by the City Engineer.
= See. 3. That the cost of sail
Improvement so declared as nee
? essary to be done in sections on,
{ and two hereof, shall be paid b,
= levying a special assessment on al
{ lots and tracts of land fronting
e and abutting on either side o
]. said Improvement along the dis
I tance so to be improved and il
proportion to the front foot there
e of abutting on said improvement
e as provided by an Act of the Gen
! eral Assembly of the State o
+ Missouri, approved March 2I
y 1901, and found at page 63 of tn
a Laws Of Missouri for 1901.
s See. 4. This resolution shall b
r published for two consecutiv
S weeks in the Mexico, Missoul
S Message, weekly newspape
3 printed and published in the Cit
a of Mexico, Missouri, aud if
d majority of the resident owner
/ Of property liable to taxation f.
4 said Improvement so declared Z
> necessary to be Done by this RET
$ olution, at the date Of the pa
k sage hereof who shall own
st majority of the front feet owne
e by residents of the City, abuttin
l. on said portion of said Monrc
d street to be improved as afor,
d said, shall not within ten day
d thereafter file with the City Cler
70 Of this City their written prote
d against said improvement, Il
1t City Council of the City of Mex
co, will cause contract for sal
a. work to be let to the lowest an
O. hest bidder on tha nIans mn
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-03-04

o. Il. Jones and family have
moved to Mexico from St. Louis.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-03-04

Mrs. Bert Luckie Of Mont
gomery City, is ,eiy in. She is
a daughteriof Dr. and Mrs. J. D.
Iawkins, Of this city.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-03-04

J. b. Martin is in Washington
City attending the Inauguration
Of President-elect Taft.
Mexico Missouri message., 1909-03-04

Miss cordie Mundy is visiting
friends in Texas,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-27
VETERAN DOCTOR
CALLED BY DEATH
George Heron Has Prac-
ticed Medicine Here Over
Forty Years.

DR.. George Heron, for more than forty
years engaged In the active practice of
medicine in washington and who num-
bered among his patients some OF the
most prominent people in the social and
political life of the Capital. died al his
residence. 1915 Ninth street northwest,
at o'clock this morning. DR.. Heron
had been in good health up TO last
Monday, when he suffered stroke Of
apoplexy, from the effects of which he
never recovered. His death came with
his family gathered around his bed
DR.. Heron was one of the best known
and most successful homeopathic physi-
clans in the city. His long residence
here. and his venera pie appearance
made him a welI-known figure in the
Capital, while his many charities made
him host Of friends.
He was born IN Newark. \. J., sew
enty-two years ago. but came to this
city IN 1861, at the outbreak OF the civil
war. as a volunteer in the First New
Jersey Infantry He has been a resi-
dent OF Washington since the close Of
the war.
AT the time or the famous Early
raid" DR.. Heron was selected as one Of
the band to guard the Treasury from
the threatened attack. Later he was
employed as clerk in the Treasury De-
partment. and also in the Pension Of
fee.
Dr.. Heron studied medicine in Column
bian College He graduated with=high
honors in 1859 and Immediately began
the practice of his profession, in which
he achieved high success.
AS vet no definite plans have been
made for the funeral, but the tentative
arrangements are TO hold services at
his residence. 1915 Ninth street north
west. on Tuesday morning. and take the
body 70 Arlington for interment.
He was prominent member Of many
medical societies, and also Of the Grand
Army of the Republic
HIS wife and two sons, DR.. William II.
Heron. physician of this city, and
Louis ". Heron. survive him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-27
WAGE QUESTION
IS NOT INVOLVED
Dispute Hinges on Sunday Runs
and Suspension of Several
Employees.
Facts of Street Car Strike
in PittSburg.

Lines Affected - street Railways
system which controls all lines
In city.
Lines Runnins-Interurban HAIL
ways, including the PfttsburE
aud Butler Harmony and New
Castle systems, may become in
vOIved. Beaver Valley line en-
PIOyes aIready pledged 20 sup
port strikers.
Points of Dispute-sundny runs.
Complaint over suspension of
employees for alleged EnfraetIon
of rules.
Plans of CompaRy-No EFFORT viii
be made until Tuesday 10 break
strike, when effort viii be made
TO resume traffic
Employees Anectea-over 1000.
Cars Tdle-0ver 1900.
Eject OF strike-DeIIvery of news
papers handicapped. Church.
EOers delayed. Excursions called
on. Railway companies run
shuttle cars 10 handle crowds.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-27
CHINANAN IS HELD
FOR MURDER PROBE
Celestial at Chandler, Okla,
Fits Description of
Leong Ling.

CHANDLER, Okla, June 27.-New
York authorities today telegraphed
Sheriff Martin to hold the Chinamaa ar
rested as a sigeI murder suspect for
further Identification.
The Chinaman, who fits In nearly
every detail the published description of
Leong Ling, charged with killing Elsie
Sigel. was arrested in restaurant BY
Sheriff !. E. Martin, and. after posing
for a photograph and undergoing a grill
at the hands OF the authorities. was
locked up. The suspect denies that he
came from New York, but says his
home is In st. Louis. He wears a straw
hat similar to that worn by Leon. which
was made In New York, and in his coat
pocket was found physicians prescrip-
ton blank from the Lawrence CurIos
Prescription Pharmacy, of f65 Hudson
avenue. Brooklyn. n. Y. bearing the
name Of T. Campbell Takamini. NJ D..
1s2 High street, brooklyn.
Letters in his possession show ad-
dresses in Philadelphia and Cincinnati,
and were written IN Chinese.
Il know nothing of the Sigel muir
der. he pleaded to the sheriff in per-
feet English. My home is in St Louis,
and I was on my way to San Fran
cisco. stopped here to eat and ex-
pected to take the next train for the
West"
The man is roughly dressed. and ap-
pears to have been travelling on freight
trains. He came TO Chandler on a
freight.
NEW YORK. June 27.-The identified
tion by James Halstead, a cabman. Of
the trunk in which Elsie Sigefs body
was found as the same one which he
had hauled from Newark back to this
city on June 10, twelve hours after the
girls murder. has resulted. the police
say, today in placing the burden of the
crime absolutely on Leong Ling's Shout
ders.
The detective bureau is probing every
available clue to Leong's wherea bouts.
but so far they have not been able 70
get on his trail.
1t was early this morning when Hal
stead made the identification or the
trunI He told the police that Leong
paid him s. to haul the trunk from
Newark to an address on Eighth ave
nue., near Forty-ninth street, supposed
to De the house in which the body was
lbuHu lAAtks anu II SIMS the 4NtMdth
Chinaman, has told the police that
Leong Ling brought the body TO his
restaurant on June and kept il there
twelve hours before taking IL away.
What have you got in this tTunk7''
Halstead claims ne said TO the China
man.
Nothing but Clothes" the chinaman
replied
The trunk was lifted to the top OF
the cab. and Halstead drove to Jersey
City, where he took the Twenty-third
street ferry to Manhattan
The Chinaman in the cab. according
to his statement. went into the build
ing and came out with another China
man. The two then carried the trunk
upstairs.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-27
YERDUN CAPTURES
THE GRAND PRIX
Famous French Horseracing
Classic Event Run in
Downpour of Rain.

PARIS. June Pin downpour Of
rain Verduu won the Grand Prixs the
classic of the French turf. today at
Longchsmps; Kebslie was second, and
Union third
greeted the great throng that journeyed
from this city to witness the race In
order to prevent a repetition Of the dis
orders which have marked the last few
races owing to the strike of .he stable
boys, a heavy force OF fsndarmes
guarded the route and on each van with
the racers were six arpeed policemen
with orders to shoot at IL. first hint Of
trouble.
In the grandstand were many prom
inent Americans.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-27
CALL Of THE EAST
Transported TO
NEW YORK SLUAS
Oriental Kindness and In
dolence Stronger Than
Occidental Activity.
SERIOUS PROBLEM
; CONFRONTS GOTHAM
Workers in Chinatown Divided as
to.Best Way of Remedy
ing Evil.
Hon the Lure Caught One
american Girl

Love these ChineseF why, what
do i care for thems have grown
to hnte them. But the "dope" is
the thing. IL makes you forget.
7 came Down here first on . lark,
tell you-tO see the tovvE. We
thought IL would be the proper
thing TO take in the sIums. Some
ho.E the sight fascinated me. II
WINS all so queer and strange.
these jaBbering Cinnamon, the
happy looks upon their faces as
they lay smoking, those long,
queer pipess their apparent easy
life, nothing 10 do but lie and
smOESe-and dream. A night or two
later got a girl friend 90 come
with me.
We came across a woman who
was then IiHiHE-and Is yet, sup
pose-tke kind of life 1 am now.
She asked me, perhaps for polite
ness, perhaps for another reason
TO try the @dope.s Well. I don't
have TO talk aboEt all the rest. II
WAS such a strange, queer feeling
that I tried II again snd then
again IL Was nothing but living
suicide that committed, I guess.
You see where am now.
"CHIN AToWN NELL.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-27
By THEODORE H. rILLER.

From the opium dens and the
squalid quarters in New York s
Chinatown more than 100 white
women and girls have been driven
by the police within the past six
weeks. Perhaps fifty more remain
on promises that each will produce
marriage certificates by July I. This
done, the reformers can but leave
them to their fate.
Brutality frank must seem a state
ment ike that-unless you have
been made to realize even worse.
Woven about such a statement is an
almost incredulous story of the
tragic fascination exerted over hun
dreds of American girls by this I'M
derworld Oriental atmosphere. Be
they missionaries, curiosity seekers.
OF women already of the outcast the
result is the same-the Orient
charms and holds the Occident.
Stunning Party
The Entering Wedge
~You likee that? Takee home"
A sleek, Americanized Chinaman
stood on one side OF the counter, a
white girl on the other. A costly
piece of bric-a-brac was between
them. She took it home, and the
next night she went sightseeing
again, and then again. Today she's
Ccontinued on Fourth Page.)
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-27

Officers Now Believe Man
Extorted Money Till
Woman Rebelled.
b. IAMEs az, ".

ST. MICHAELS. Nd, June 2s.-The
body OF Robert (. Eastman was buried
THIS morning near his bungalow where
he is supposed - nays murdered Mrs.
Eeith Mayo Woodill week ago today.
While his body was being inferred
without a relative or friend present his
chorus girl wife. Vinpie Bradcombe.
was in Easton. only twelve miles away.
and she was not at all concerned about
being at the funeral. With her sister.
Mrs. Don, she drove to St. Michaels
this afternoon for the purpose OF claim
ing her husbands property. She did
not wear the robes of mourning, and
her bright costume was but another
garish touch to this entirely unpleasant
picture.
At $50 o'clock this morning the funeral
procession left st. Michaels bound for
the bungalow, where a grave had been
dug yesterday in the grove Of pines sur
rounding the building. The procession
consisted of the hearse carrying the
body and the two undertakers. two
buses. and an automobile filed with
newspaper men and a wagon carrying
the grave diggers. It took an hour TO
make the trip to the bungalow. which is
three miles from St. Mschaels. At the
grave a crowd Of fifty persons from the
immediate neighborhooi had assembled.
Buried Unmourned.
They laid him in the grave. while rot
one person was there tomourn. Only the
eyes of the morbid end the curious
saw the last rites over his body. After
the coffin had been lowered, Mr.. Rat
cliffe. one Of the undertakers. looked
around little uncertainty and said:
Somebody ought to say something"
To this there was no reply, and Rat
clife turned 10 James Sutton.
mt. Sutton. as you are a member of
the church. can't you say something's"
Sutton stepped forward, and while the
little crowd stood with barred heads, he
repeated the Lords Prayer. That was
all.
The dead man was laid with his head
to the northwest. and his feet at the
foot Of a young pine tree. scarcely
twenty feet from the room in which the
murder is thought to have taken place.
The bungalow itself has been stripped
OF all its furniture by the sheriff of the
county preparatory TO settling the little
estate.
All Now Believe.
II is now conceded by practically
everybody familiar with the circum-
stances that this smooth stock swindler
ard fugitive from justice murdered Mrs.
Wuodill. that his letter claiming she
had been killed by a drunken woman is
nonsense, and that one Of his chief mo-
tives for the crime was his desperate
need OF money. This man had been a
gambler all his life. ard there ere indi-
cations that he had extorted money
from her until at last she refused to
give him any more.
That at some time she had known
Eastman is the story told here today
by j. c. Rosenthal. the New York law
yer who defended Eastman when he
was up for swindling.
1t seems almost incredible that East
man. man OF the world as he was. muir
dered the woman for the $500 worth of
jewelry which she is thought to have
worn at the time. but it must be remem-
bered that Eastman had been hunted
lContinued on Third Pags.l
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-27

PITTSBURG, Pa, june a.
For the first time in nineteen years
Pittsburg has traction strike on its
hands.
Since 5 O'Clock this morning not
car has moved in the Pittsburg
Railways Company's system, which
reaches to Bellevue and Avalon in
one direction and to McKeesport.
Braddock, Homestead, to Carnegie,
McKees Rocks, to CoraopoIis and to
Ia score of more or less populous
towns embraced in the greater Pitts
burg territory.
From midnight until ) O'Clock
there was a constantly diminishing
number of cars operating as the
crews received the strike order at
the various division points, and in
consequence deserted their cars
after running them to the barns.
Only the cars of the interurban
systems, not controlled by the
Pittsburg Railways Company, are
running this morning. The Pitts
burg and Butler, Harmony and
New Castle systems are not yet af-
fected by the strike, but the men
on these lines may become in
volved in the dispute. The Beaver
Valley Railways Company. con-
trolled by the Pittsburg Railways
people. viii in all probability join
the strike before night.
Stand By Strikers.
The operatives on this system which
connects the prosperous Beaver valley
towns of Beaver Beaver Falls, Roehes-
ter. New Brighton. Swickley. and sur
rounding centeTs. already have voted
TO stand oy the employees OF Pittsburg
Railway Company, and it is expected
that by tomorrow morning no ears viii
be running in the dowR-river territory
The Charleroi and the Washington
and Canonsburg systems. directly con-
trolled BY the Pittsburg Railway Com
pany, are almost certain 10 become in
vOlved in the trouble. and prospects that
trafflc on those INES VIII be tied Up
before twenty-four hours are. ominous.
The men have been figuring that the
CON pany can III afford a strike, because
Of opening Of the new baseball park.
the approach Of the Fourth of July,
the prevalence Of school picnics at the
park, and the general big patronage
which traction ears enjoy at this time
Of the year. The company believes that
IL can stand a strike now better than II
could have weathered one a year or 50
ago, when thousands OF men were out
Of employment. and would have added
10 the excitement ana danger OF riots
on the streets. and that a strike, even
in Apr2, would have gone harder with
the company than a strike now. when
the mills a re running pretty nearly full,
working day and night
No Question of Wages.
No question OF wages enters into the
dispute. The points at issue relate TO
Sunday runs and complaint over the
suspension of several employees for al
legged infraction OF certain rules. The
employees insistence On higher pay was
dropped two weeks ago when it was
believed that the company and the men
would get together and arbitrate the
difficulty. Each side accused the other
Of acting unfairly. The chances are for
a long drawn out strike. with its posi-
bilities OF violence and bloodshed
Supt. J. d. Gallery OF the company
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-27
HOTEL EMPLOYE
GETS A FORTUNE
Chicago Fireman and His Sister
Left 100000 by Relative
in Denmark.

TOLEDO, Ohio, June 27.-James John
son, formerly fireman employed In the
Body House at so a month, has iust
returned from Denmark. where he veri-
ned a recent cablegram that he ana his
sister. Mrs Nora Meyer. OF Detroit.
were heirs to an estate IN that .ountry
valued at 100000.
Johnson left here last April. after
learning that he was one OF the heirs
TO the estate.
Having no funds. he worked his way
across the ocean as fireman on one of
the liners Johnson and hts sister left
here today for Denmark to claim the
money
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-27
SOCIALISTS MEET;
DISORDER FOLLOWS
Minister of War Attacked and Col
lection Taken for Dismissed
Postal Officials.

PARIS, June IA telegram from
Lemsls says there was great disorder
there this afternoon at a Socialist
meeting.
A soldier in uniform attacked NJ.
Picquart. minister of war. and also
spoke in favor OF trade unionism.
lie took up a collection for the postal
officials who were dismissed because of
the recent strikes
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-27
FEAR IS EXPRESSED
FOR REDS HEALTH
American Ambassador Forced to
Leave London to Re-
cuperate.

LONDON, June Eliminate friends
of Whitelaw Reid express great anxiety
about his health, Ten days ago the
ambassador, who was suffering from A
severe cold. was forced to leave London
for his country place. where he placed
himself under the care OF ply sicians
II is now reported that r cid will
probably leave England for home in
the near future.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-06-27
NEW YORK BUILDING
COLLAPSES; 2 DEAD

NEW YORK, June IA four-story
building at i3S West Twenty-sixth street
collapsed early this afternoon.
The special reserves and the FIRE de-
partment were called out.
Two persons are reported to have been
killed. ----....,...