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Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
ORANGE GROWERS ARE
ALARMED BY FREEZE
IN SOUTHERN STATES

WASHINGTON, Dec. SO.-The ex-
treme cold wave now prevailing
throughout the south, extending as far
as Miami Fla, while it does not near
ly reach cold weather records for that
section, nevertheless is causing con-
siderable anxiety among the orange
growers. In the opinion of the wealth
er bureau officials, the present cold
snap will not have a considerable ef-
feet on the orange crop.
Freezing weather was recorded in
the south last night as far as Jupiter.
There the thermometer registered as
it's minimum 2S degrees. Today was
the coolest day of the coldest Decem-
ber on record in the vicinity of At
lanta, Ga.
The present cold snap approaches
that of fourteen years ago, when 1t
was 5 degrees below zero at Talla-
hasse, Fla.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
MANY ARE INJURED
IN TENEMENT FIRE
FIVE MAY DIE AS RESULT OF
BIG BLAZE
Prompt Work of New York's Flremen
Prevents Many from Leaping to
Death During East Side.
Panic

NEW YORK, Dec. SO.-More than a
score of persons were injured, five of
them perhaps fatally, at a fire which
swept a big double tenement on Bel
mont avenue, East New York, today
six of the injured were firemen, who
were overcome by smoke and hurt in
aiding imperiled persons in the blazing
structure.
some Of the tenants escaped to the
adjoining buildings, but when the fire.
men reached the scene the fire escapes
and the upper windows were crowded
with panic-stricken people ready to
jump.
All were restrained and rescued by
ladders except one woman, who jumped
from a second story window and was
seriously injured.
In one room family of five for
eigners was found unconscious and car
ried to safety. A dozen persons were
taken to hospitals suffering from smoke
inhalation and burns.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
TAKEN UNCONSCIOUS
FROM COAL CAVERN
MINE SUPERINTENDENT HAS
NARROW ESCAPE
Man Who Risked His Life to Save
Shot-Firer Is Rescued from
Gas at Point of
Death.

McALESTER, OKLA, Dec. SO.-After
having been entombed twenty hours in
a smoke-filled cut Of the Bolen- Barnel
company's coal mine, Superintendent
John Brown was rescued alive but un-
conscious this morning. Had his res
cuers not reached him Brown would
have died in another hour. AS 1t is his
condition is serious.
Brown, well known mining man oi
Hartford, Ark, risked his life In an
attempt to rescue Angelic Asnicar, a
shot-firer, who was entombed follow
ing an explosion in a lower level of the
mine late Tuesday.
Brown apparently had not reached
even close to the point where Asnicar
had been overcome, when he himself
succumbed to the foul gases. The shot
firers fate still remains unknown.
Brown was known to have passed the
first landing safely and to have en-
tered the smoking channels beneath.
Some of these channels have no air
courses as result of the explosion.
Party after party, however, volun-
teered to go after Brown, and the at
tempt at his rescue was kept up until
just at daylight one of the men
stumbled upon the superintendent s
body, few yards below the first level.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
TECHNICALITY ONCE MORE
REVERSES COURT ORDER

SACRAMENTO, Dec. 30.-The third
district court of appeals affirmed the
decision of the Mendocino superior
court today in the case of Robert I.
Polk against Edward Sleeper for pos
session of swamp lands. Polk APP
pealed. Samuel Pierce's attempt to
secure release on habeas corpus after
conviction in Glenn county for selling
liquor unlawfully was defeated in the
same court. Pierce contended the
word for was wrongfully inserted
in the complaint when it should have
been "or." The court agrees with
Handwriting Expert Kytka that the
letter "f'' was inserted to make it read
"for"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
NEW INDICTMENT AGAINST
MRS. STEWART-F0RD FOUND
Second Bill Returned to Cure Possible
Defects In Similar Charge Made
Several Weeks Ago

CINCINNATI, Dec. 30.-A new in
dictment against Mrs. jeanette Stew
art-Ford, charging blackmail, was re-
turned by the Hamilton county grand
jury today. 1t is designed to cure
possible defects in the similar charge
returned several weeks ago, the
woman's attorneys having attacked
the first indictment in court.
Charles Warriner, former local
treasurer of the Big Four railroad,
who is under sentence of six years
Imprisonment for embezzlement, was
summoned to the grand jury room two
hours before the bill was returned.
The incident on which the new in
dictment is based is alleged in the bill
to have occurred November 1, 1902.
Mrs. Ford is charged with having de-
manded $4,000 from Warmer on that
date. threatening exposure of his
short -ge if he refused her demands.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
U. S. DISTRICT ATTORNEY
IN WASHINGTON RESIGNS
Federal Officer Voluntarily Yields His
Office in Order to Take Water
Power Case

SPOKANE, Dec 30.--A. G. Avery is
no longer United States district attor-
ney for the eastern district of Wash
ington. At his request the office has
been turned over to Joseph b. Lindsey.
his assistant.
Mr.. Avery wrote Senator Piles he
would be unable to serve in the interim
OF the appointment of his successor and
would not be a candidate for reap
polntment.
The appearance of the firm of Post,
Avery & Higgins as attorneys for the
Washington Waterpower company in
the "overhowed banks" hearing at
Coeur d'Alene, gives rise to a protest
by Clarence Boutelier, a reservation
Indian, and the severing of Mr.. Avery S
connection with the government before
the hearing was brought out today.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
FIREMEN SAVE REFINERY
AFTER TEN-HOUR FIGHT

NEW YORK, Dec. 3O.-A fire which
threatened to destroy the $40, 100000
plant of the Standard Oil company in
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, was got under
control after ten-hour fight this
morning. The blaze started with an
explosion in one of the thirty-thou-
sand barrel storage tanks.
The watchmen turned in an ALARM
and routed out the emergency night
force, which set about emptying the
forty other tanks scattered about the
plant, which occupies two large blocks.
The firemen prevented the blaze from
spreading beyond the tank where the
explosion occurred. They suffered Sc
Verely from the cold.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
MONTE ATTELL WINS

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec. 30.-In a
mo decision" ten-round contest here
tonight Monte Attell of San Francisco,
bantam champion of the world, won
the decision of the house" over Jimmy
Carroll, also of San Francisco. Frankie
Edwards of San Francisco had all the
better of a six-round bout with Dan
O'Brien of this city. This was O'Brien's
first appearance as a professional. He
made a good showing, but was no
match for his more seasoned opponent.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
BIG FUEL COMPANIES WARN
COAL CARRYING RAILROADS
Dealers Declare conflscation of Sup
plies Resulting in Damage to Con-
sumers Will Be Punished

CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-Nearly all of
the big coal companies in Chicago
have served notice on the officials of
coal-carrying railroads that any con-
fiscation of coal that results in dam
age to a consumer will be severely
punished if the law can be invoked.
This Is the latest move of coal dealers
in an effort to insure delivery by the
railroads.
pred IJpham, president of the City
Fuel company, said: II think an
actual famine of coal in Chicago is
well nigh impossible, because there is
such an enormous amount of coal in
freight yards. II the trouble were at
the mines instead of in Chicago 1
would view the situation with some
apprehension"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
HUGE SNOW BANKS ASSURED
QUAKER CITY FOR SOME TIME

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 30.-The ar
rival of a severe cold wave from the
west last night destroyed all hope of
the speedy clearing away of the i'm
mense banks of snow left here from
the record-breaking fall of last week
The minimum temperature recorded
today was 10 above zero and partially
melting snowbanks were converted into
huge masses of Ice.
All through the state severe cold
weather is reported. the thermometer
registering as low as 8 below.
The Schuylkill river here is frozen
over, and the government engineers
engaged on a survey of the Delaware
river have been obliged to discontinue
work
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
JUDGE SAYS MAJORITY
WIPES OUT EARLY SIN
Man Sentenced to Penitentiary for Es-
cape from Service in the White:
Reform School Is Released

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3O-Rafael
Barsi, a commission merchant of this
city, who was arrested recently and
sentenced to the penitentiary after he
had been fugitive from the Whittier
reform school for seven years, was
discharged from custody today on a
writ of habeas corpus.
Barsi, while still a minor, was con-
fined in the reform school on a charge
of assault to kill, but escaped. The
court of appeals held that he could
not be sent to states prison for a
crime committed when he was a
minor, and that having attained his
majority he could not be returned to
Whittier.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
TRAIN HEATERS FREEZE AND
FIRE LATER CAUSES PANIC

COLUMBUS. Ohio, Dec. SO.-The
Cleveland, Akron g. Columbus train
from Cleveland arrived six hours late,
having been frozen up ON the way.
The heaters became frozen shortly
after 1t pulled out of Cleveland.
During an effort to thaw out the
pipes beneath the Pullman cars one
car caught fire, and it was unnoticed
for a time, the breeze tanning the
flames. The car was full of smoke in
short time and the passengers were
panic stricken.
The train was stopped and the pas
sengers transferred in their night
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
NEW YORK HAS coLDEsT DAY
OF YEAR; SCORES OVERCOME

NEW YORK, Dec. s0.-New York
ers awolxe this morning to find the
coolest day of the winter upon them.
Six degrees above zero was regis
tered by the official thermometer at
a. m. At a. m. Z degrees was re-
corded. Many persons We're overcome
by the cold and the municipal lodging
houses and the police stations were
crowded with persons seeking shelter.
Reports from northern, central and
western New York show correspond
ingly severe weather.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
eorges Formed

ST. LOUIS, Dec. 30.-The recent cold
weather formed ice gorges in the Mis-
sissippi river last night from Chester,
ILL.,, seventy miles above here. to st.
Louis. The weather bureau, however,
sees no danger from floods at present.
Gorges began forming north of st.
Louis today. The extremely low stage
of the river will prevent damage from
flood and ice melting.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
Felony Charge Reduced

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3o.-Joseph
e. Birmingham, manager of the sill
verware department of Shreve e. Co.,
accused of grand larceny, appeared
today before Judge Weller of the police
court. The charge against him was
reduced to misdemeanor-e embezzle
ment He was released on 500 bonds
and his trial set for tomorrow.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
TUGS TRY IN VAIN TO KEEP
OHIO RIVER OPEN TO BOATS

CINCINNATI, Dec. 3O.-For the first
time in seven years the Ohio river at
this place is frozen over today, eX-
cept for a small space in the local
harbor
Tugs are plying up and down the
harbor in an effort to keep it open.
over $1,O00,000 worth of river proper
ty is in jeopardy. The minimum tenn
perature today was 3 below zero, which
is the coldest of the winter, Much suf-
fering is reported among the poor.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
Blockade Ties Up Coal

TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. SO.-Continued
blockade in the railroad yards has
tied up miles of loaded coal cars need
ed in the northwest, their destination
1t was said today that 5000 or more
freight cars were in the local yards,
more than half of them loaded with
coal.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
Gasoline Tank ExpIodes; Man Burned

HARRISON GULCH, Cal, Dec. 3d.
The gasoline tank in the assay office
of the Midas Mining company here ex-
ploded yesterday afternoon, resulting
in a fire which destroyed the assay
office and melting room, and seriously
burned Assayer Roy Hallet. He was
hurled across the room and barely got
out before the building was destroyed.
Loss, $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
KUTCHOS LOSES IN
BOUT WITH CORBET7

SAN DIEGO, Dec, sO.-"Red" Corbett
was given the decision tonight after 20
rounds of fighting with Mike Kutchos Of
Los Angeles. Both boxers are bantam
weights and afforded much entertain
ment for the crowd present.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
Gov. Mickey's Condition Unchanged

OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 9O.-The condi-
ton of former Governor John H.
Mickey, who is critically i'll at his
home at Osceola, Neb., was reported
today as showing no decided change.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
cumberIand River Frozen

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. S0.-For
the first time since 1898 the Cumber-
land river at this point is covered with
a thin coating of ice. The government
thermometer early today was above
zero.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
Zero Weather in Virginia

WINCHESTER, Va, Dec. 30.-Zero
weather prevails in northern Virginia,
for the first time in several years.
Railroads are in bad shape.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
Painter to Speak

A. Montgomery, the painter, has been
asked to speak at the First Presby-
terian church of Alhambra Sunday
night on Religious Art"
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
Coolest in Five Years

NORFOLK. Va, Dec. SO.--The cold
est weather in five winters was re-
corded here today when the tempera-
ture dropped to is degrees.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31
Fire DAMAGES $500 Bales Of Cotton

GALVESTON, Tex, Dec. S0-Fire
which threatened at one time to assume
serious proportions broke out at pier
No. IL today and damaged about 2300
bales of cotton. The loss is $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-31

The Angelds grill has excellent serv-
Zee and better food. Fourth and Spring.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-02-12

When living in New Salem,
Lincoln clerked in a grocery
store and was so careful about
giving each customer his mon
ey's worth that he won for him.
self the name of Honest Abe"
The Lincoln family once moved
from Gentryville, Indiana, to
Decatur, Illinois. Their house
hold goods were packed in an OK
wagon which Abe was to drive
through. Young Abe, who the
winter before worked in groc-
cry store, invested all his money
in needles, pins, and other do
nestle necessities, and peddled
as he passed along. He made a
profit of about one hundred per
cent.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-02-12

''Keep Your Eye Pasco'' and watch Tacoma Crow
may have been without significance catch expressions
to catch the town lot boomer to sell few lotsbut
if the Republican politician does not keep his eye State
Senator w H. Paulhamus he need not be surprised wake
up bright morning and learn from his morning paper
that Paulhamus is the foremost of the state You
doubtless will say this time that this newspaper
clap trap much per- but if you do you either ignorant
of the facts you talking your prejudices That
Senator Paulhamus is slowly but surely working himself to
the front in ways than this state may be
by the systematic methods he time time gone
after things On coming to this state he for time followed
the calling of bank clerk, then he did short political
and for while chief deputy sheriff of Pierce
county in this he future for himself and
quickly gave up and took whatever money he had and
went to Sumner and bought him tract of land using the
vulgar expression Of the street, event to it, In eight
years he has put it in the highest of cultivation
of any ranch the Sound From its proceeds he has be-
in all of those things that building up that farming
community. AS president of the Shippers Association of
that community he is in touch with every in the valley
and is likewise in touch with every commission merchant
coast AS president Of the Puyalup Fair
Association he has proven gigantic Some two
years ago decided to make effort to the State
Senate that he might do for the community in which
he lived He that and succeed in his undertaking
He was reelected last fall In the Senate Mr. Pauhamus
must reckoned with whether the faction with which he
works be in the majority the minority He is pleasing
aabe gentleman and is therefore of the most popular
lawmakers now at Olympia.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-02-12

The author of the "Elsi
Books" Miss Martha Finley, has
ended a busy beneficial life at
the ripe age of eighty-two
years, She wrote under the
nom de plume of Martha Far
quarson" and was the daughter
of DR.. James R. and Maria The
resa Brown. After being edu-
Gated in the select schools of
Philadelphia and South Bend:
Miss Finley taught school for a
time. She then took up news
paper work in Philadelphia and
lived there for several years.
writing Sunday school books in
her spare time. Almost every
schoolgirl in the country for two
generations back has known and
loved elsie Densmore," the he
roine, from babyhood to the time
when she became Grandmother
Elsie"
Miss Finley was born at Chill
cothe, Ohio, on April 26th, 1928.
Her girlhood was spent in South
Bend, Ind. She had lived in
Elkton for the lsat thirty years
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-02-12

He was very fond of speech
making and attended all the
trials of the neighborhood and
frequently walked fifteen miles
to attend a neighboring court.
In law he was singularly con-
scientious, his first effort being
to try to arrange matters out of
court; nor would he assume a
case that he felt was not found
ed upon right and justice,
He could repeat with effect all
the poems and speeches in his
various school readers. He could
initiate to perfection the sermons
of the wandering preachers who
ctme to his town,
1t is said that there was not a
housewife in New Salem but
who was gladsto put on an ex-
ira plate for Abe Lincoln, for
while they were preparing the
meal, he wasgeither rocking the
baby to sleep, telling the youngs-
tiers stories, helping to pull a
wagon wheel out of a mudhole
or rendering such assistan &C a
the occasion suggested.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-02-12
w. Fl. PAULHAMUS.

Although never a member of
any church, he placed his reli-
ance for support on the Almigh-
ty Being and often asked that
prayers for his success be
made.
Lincoln was subject to melon
oholia and at such times gener-
ally isolated himself from his
friends. His physicians attribu-
ted this to his poor digestion and
torpid liver.
He was a remarkably strong
man as we'll as a tall one and
was in the habit of measuring
his height and strength with
those with whom he talked.
He was a skillful and power
full wrestler, but though fond of
the sport, scorned dishonest
means to gain an advantage over
n opdonent.
1t is known that Lincoln once
split 400 rails for every yard of
brown jeans, dyed with white
walnut bark, that would be
necessary to make him a pair of
trouo erS.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-02-12

Lincoln's object in conducting
the great civil war, was to save
the Union at any cost.
His patience was superabund-
ent and he treated even those
who differed from him wit h lie
spect and kindness.
When a lad he was often en-
pIoyed by his neighbors as a
hand" at Is cents a day, which
sum was paid to his father,
While not by any means, a.
handsome man, Lincoln was of
extraordinary appearance measu-
ring six feet four inches, in
height.
He was a man of very strong
affections and loved his mother
and his first love so tenderly that
their deaths often saddened him
preceptiably.
He was a temperance man and
never departed from his belief in
that direction even when the
custom of the times made his re-
sistance strenuous.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-02-12
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS
MEMORIAL.

F. The Sunday Forum of Seattle,
an organization of Afro-Ameri-
cans, will hold a Lincoln-Douglas
day next Sunday afternoon and
Rev. VIM. Osborne will deliver an
address on Lincoln; Mr.. j. w.
Gray one on Douglas, while Rev.
j. N. Wallace will review the re
suits of the lives of the two great
benefactors.
1t IS more than remarkable that
two such master minds should
have seen the light Of day in the
same year, the same month, and
so close to the same day of the
month and that they should work
after maturity along the same
channels, yea, work for the same
great cause.-the emancipation of
the slaves of the United States.
No other man in all the history
of the United States, if even the
world, rose from such humble
quarters with so few opportuni-
ties to the topmost rung Of the
ladder of fame as did Abraham
Lincoln. No other man in all the
world, who rose to such power
and influence abused that power
so little as did Abraham Lincoln.
That an all wise God created him
for the express purpose of enamel
pating four million human beings
is verify believed, and that Abra
ham Lincoln was more a god than
a man is likewise verify believed.
Angels go in pairs, and so the
birth of Frederick Douglas, or the
man who bore that name, was the
completion Of the Creators work.
Douglas came out of the enslaved
and served well the divine plan
of Him who doeth all things well,
to stir the souls Of the men who
opposed slavery to rally to the
call of Lincoln to make war and
finally overthrow the accursed IN
stitution.
What man in all the wide world
could emerge from centuries OF
bondage, lead the war for his own
freedom, live to enjoy not only
freedom for himself, but to see
four million brethren enjoy the
same privilege, and further still,
become truly great among those
who had enslaved himself and his
ancestors, except Frederic
Douglas? That Douglas was no
less a god than Lincoln is so ap-
parent that he who runs may read.
AS the years go by the lives OF
Lincoln and Douglas seem more
and more inseparable. This
strange affinity at it's beginnings
seemed to have been the direct
opposites, which, according to
natures law, owing to their pow
erful magnetic propensities, soon
began to attract rather than repel,
and the coming together OF these
forces resulted in human slavery
the world over being so badly de-
moralized that it is no longer
recognized even among savages.
The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1909-02-12
FACTS ABOUT LINCNLN

Abraham Lincoln had story
for every occasion and illustrat-
ed every thing by anecdote.
He welded the ak from the
age of ten till he was twenty
emo.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-15

471S3.12 6666.00 850S7S 470l12 26604
Fund Total 1079270
Dog Fund Total 10000
Grand Total 4SSs138
RECEIPTS
Twship Tuition School Road Poor Dog Bridge Total
Fund Fund Fund Fund Fund Fund Fund
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-02-15

L. H. MATPERN.
PHILIP MLAUGHLIN,
CHARLES CHICK.
Members of the advisory board.