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Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-15
FINANCIAL

LOS ANGELES, jan 14.-Bank clearings
were $685. 327 .01, against ST. 63e 90014 for the
corresponding date last year, an increase of
SSI6'426 81 Following is comparative state
ment:
1908. 1907. 1905
Jan. ST. 500, 1897 40 81 1892 41s.56 asa 1893 SO
Jan. H.. 296S, 52z. SO 1,549 343 26 2257 511 10
JAM b.. 1858, 1854 % 1887 564.11 2S26 2SS .oS
JAM A.. 1858, 1877 OF $780, 90O.14 26O7, POS. 81
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-15
CITRUS FRUIT REPORT

NEW YORK, Jan. 14-Four cars navels five
cars lemons sold. Navel market improving,
higher. Lemons in good demand at prevail
ing prices Weather unfavorable
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-15
FLOUR AND FEED PRICES
AT LOS ANGELES MILLS

The following quotations prevail at the Cap
' MEALS. PER 100 LBS. IN SACKS
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-15

Rolled wheat in bbIs. net VT. rs Tbs. Dbl. "a %
Rolled wheat in sacks, net W.T.. so lb. SIX / so
Buckwheat -four Cbulk seamless SIX. 100 lbs) A. Is
Buckwheat flour pure (bulk seamless
sacksl 100 lbs $50
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-15
Retail Prices

Following prices for leading articles Of
consumption prevail at the Los Angeles
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-15

Special service to The Herald by ]. c. Will |
son, member Chicago Board Of Trade, Hotel /
Alexandria, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1909-01-15

New. York Bonds

NEW YORK Jan 14-The following
the closing quotations today:
u S rfdg Is reg .102% Jap AIS I'd SER. 69A
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
No Hope for Several Hundred
Men Entombed in Mine
! at Cherry, IL
BIG PILES Of BODIES
Exploring Parties Unable to Re.
move Them, as Fire Has
Broken Out Anew.

Cherry, ILL.,, Nov. 16. Nothing lives
In the st. Paul mine. The shafts and
drifts were partly explored by men
wearing oxygen helmets. They met
great piles of bodies, but were unable
to remove them.
The unsealing of the main entrance,
however, caused the fire to flare up
again in the miles of soft coal tun-
'nels. The alright cover again is
over the opening and hope is dead
even in the breasts of the dazed, pray
ing women who keep alight the front
room lamps in the rows Of cottages.
Jim Steele, mine superintendent,
makes the startling admission that
every man may have been alive when
the mine was first sealed after the
fire and they persisted within two
hours A union official charges that
the sealing was done without regard
to human life.
Carbonic acid gas is to be pumped
under high pressure into the mine for
the purpose of sitting the flames. For
the same reason that fire would cease
burning in an atmosphere of carbOnic
acid gas a human being would suffo-
cate. The people of Cherry know this
to be fact. The proposal to pump
the gas into the mine is but one more
blow, striking hope that already was
PROSTATE.
Mine a Death Chamber.
And with this practical certainty
that the St. Paul mine is one vast
death chamber comes the fear that
earlier reports of the number Of vic
tins may have been too small. It is
now regarded at the mines mouth as
probable that the number of dead will
exceed 500. This is in the face of the
official statements issued that the VIC
tins of the disaster numbered 80.
On Saturday night, following the
entrapping of the men, it was an
nounced that 4S4 had been caught In
the depths. A house to house can
vass resulted in the names of 256'
men and boys known to be in the
mines being ascertained. But the
payrolls show that there we're 1913 in
the mine when death began to riot
there and the payrolls contain the
names only of day laborers. w. w.
Taylor, general superintendent of the
mine, admits fear that the dead may
exceed 400 and a high official of the
mine, who is in a position to know the
facts, told reporter that there were
585 men of the morning shift in the
mine and preparing to quit work when
the fire broke out
Only few cagefuls were taken up
to safety.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
IN CRASH OF TR0 L [, CARS
fourteen People Are Killed Near Van.
s couver, B. G.

COUVeCS p " a5tssS S#E2
Vancouver, Il. c.. Nov. IA run
away freight car crashed into a
crowded passenger car on the British
Columbia Electric Railway company's
tnterurban line Fourteen persons
were killed, including the motorman
and conductor of the freight car. The
passengers were mostly workingmen.
The passenger car left the Van.
couver station just behind an cleo
trio freight train consisting of loco
motive, box car and flat car, laden
with heavy timbers, fifty or sixty feet
long and a foot thick.
Three miles out, at the head Of a
grade which the freight cars had just
assembled, the coupling of the lumber
car broke and caused the lumber car
to start back toward the city. BY
this time the passenger car, quarter
Of mile behind, was just leaving
Lake View station, short distance
beyond the city limits. The runaway
lumber car dashed into view at a
speed which left Motorman Thoburn
no time to move. When the impact
occurred the heavy timbers of the
fiat car slid forward and ripped the
passenger car level with the floor.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
White Man and IegIO Strung
Up at Cairo, IL
ONE OF The BODIES BURNED
Woman Applies Torch d 70 o.. Funeral !!
Pyre Of Colored. Man.

Cairo, ILL.,. Nov. 1.-Two men, one
Z negro, the other white man. were
lynched on the streets Of Cairo by an
Infatuated mob. 4
Under the glare of 100 electric lights
In the center of the business section
Of the city. Will James, negro, who
is said to have made a confession of
his participation IN the murder of
Miss Anna PeNy, whose dead body
was found in an alley last Tuesday
morning. was strung up to an i'm.
mense steel arch that spans Eighth
and Commercial streets. the most i'm
portant corner in the city. In his
confession James implicated another
negro named Alexander. In his con-
fession James told of his assault on
Miss Pelly and declared Alexander
had some of the jewelry taken from
her. 's-...~.
As soon as the negro finished, a
man who had climbed to the top of
the arch turned on the electric lights
and a rope was thrown to him. He
dropped it over the arch and an end
fell to the surging crowd. Many wo.
men seized the end and tugged with
the men.
While the mob was giving vent to
it's expressions of Joy at the fate Of
the wretch who was swinging from
the tall arch the rope around his
neck broke. The negro fell to the
ground. AS he lay writing there beg
ging for mercy a dozen shots were
fired. Most of them found their mark.
The negro had been shot to death.
A woman sprang forward and max
ing her voice heard above the tunult
she cried: "Rurp him."
Negroes Body Is Cremated.
A hundred men seized the rope still
attached to the negro's neck and he
was dragged through mile Of Cairo's
principal streets to the scene of the
murder. Here an immense bonfire
was built and the body thrown onto
the flames.
Here the woman once more was to
the front. 1t was her hand that ap-
piled the match to the pyre. The
flames lighted up almost in an in
slant. The mob of men, some women
and many boys of tender years.
watched and cheered and exulted as
they saw the body of the unfortunate
negro burned to a crisp,
Then, drunk with the sight Of blood
and with the realization of its own
power. the mob, reinforced by this
time, moved again on the Jail. Pos.
session was easily gained.
Henry Salzner, white man. &C.
cused Of the murder of his wife. was
dragged from his cell. He pleaded
for mercy and protested his innocence.
but the spirit of fury was in the mob.
Salzner was taken to a nearby tele.
graph pole and hanged.
Soon afterward the local militia was
ordered out and with the coming Of
the soldiers the streets. began to clear.
The lynchings in Cairo, horrible and
brutal as they were, are the first in
the state of Illinois since the race
riots in Springfield a year ago last
August. L.aw-abiding citizens are
paralyzed at the audacity and the
blood thirstiness of the mob. They
are doing everything possible to re.
store order, but the mob is drunk now
in more senses than one
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19

residence in the Rue de Vanguard.
Nine. Steinheil was found gagged and
bound to bed Nine Steinheil gave
a description of the alleged assassins,
who, according to her story, numbered
four. including a red-haired woman
Later Nine. Steinheil told many con
ficting stories and was herself ar
rested and charged with the crime
The motive WAS found in her hatred
for her stepmother and a desire to rid
herself of her husband in order that
she might marry Maurice Borderel, a
wealthy merchant, who had become in
fatuated with her.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
TUG FINALLY RESCUES CREW
But Steamer Hoyt Will Probably Be a
Total Loss ..---

Duluth, NOV. 16.-After two days of
fruitless endeavor to reach the steam
er Hoyt, which was driven onto a
sunken reef by the storm on Lake
Superior off Otter island, the tug
Helm finally succeeded in reaching
the wreck and took the crew aboard
The crew suffered terribly. A gals
blew from the northeast, accompanied
by binding snow storm, and waves
dashed over the vessel. sometimes six
feet above her decks. With the boat
in utter darkness and pitching violent
ly about in the breakers and with the
pillows washing over her the men
were exposed to the greatest hard
81 fps.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
R0BBER SHOOTS THREE MEN
Kills One and Sadly Wounds the Oth-
er Two,

er Two.
Louisville. Ky, Nov. !2.---Wi:h re-
volver in each hand. d young man who
has been identified as T. J. Hail of
Louisville. son of i dealer in second
hand furniture, entered the Merchants
National bank a. New Albany, Ind,
and after commanding every one to
throw up his hands and "get into the
vault" began shooting.
]. Hungary Fawcett, cashier of the
bank, was shot through the chest and
neck and died almost Instantly.
John K Woodward, president of
the bank. was shot through the liver
and intestines perforated; condition
serious.
James R. Tucker, negro chauffeur of
Louisville, was shot through the body;
probably fatally.
The bandit was identified as Thorn
as Jefferson Hall. and. according to
William J. Hall, his father, he is but
seventeen years old
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
NINE. STE|NHE|l FREED
Jury Renders Verdict in Sensa.
tiona| Murder Case.

Paris, Nov. 14.-Mme. Marguerite
Steinheil, the tragic widow, was &C.
quilted at an early. hour this morning
by jury of the charge of numbering
her husband, Adolphe Steinheil, the
painter, and her >stepmother, Nine.
Japy.
The murder Of the distinguished
painter, Adolph Steinheil, and his
mother-in-law on the night of May 81,
1908, caused sensation in Paris They
were found strangled in the artist g
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
Cnicaqo Live Stock.

Chicago, Nov. -Cattle-Beev
$3.90@9.2O; Texas steers, $3.75@4.S0;
Western steers. -$4.25@7.50; stockers
and feeders, s9.10@5.25; cows and
heifers, s2.1O@5.70; calves $625@S SO.
Hogs-Light, $760@81O; mixed, $775
@S.2O; heavy, s7.75@S.25; rough,
$7.75@7.90; good to choice heavy,
$7.9O1b8.25; pigs, $6.iO@7.75; bulk OF
sales $795@S.15. Sheep-Native,
$2.eo@5.25;; yearlings, S5@6.4o; lambs,
s4.75@160.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
St. Paul Live Stock.

st. Paul, Nov. 15.-Cattle- to
choice steers, $6.75@7.50; fair to good.
$5.OO@6.75; good to choice COWS and
heifers, $425@5.25 veals, $3.50; @675.
Hogs-$7.5O@S.00 Sheep-Wethers,
$45O@5.O0; yearlings, $5.25@ 600:
spring lambs. $6.50@7.05.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
chicaoo Grain and Provisions

Chicago Nov Wheat-Dec
$1.071a; May, $1.05as: July. 97Ac
Corn-Dec., 6okc; May 61%c; July
61Ac. Oats-Dec. 39hc; May, 42@
42Ac; July, $3.50. Pork-Jan., $21. /;
May, $2O5O Butter-Creameri rs u
May, S2O.50 Butter-Creameries, 26H
Poultry-Turkeys Ice; chickens
121lc; springs. 1870.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
GRAIN AND PROVISION PRICES
MINNEAPOLIS Wheat.

Minneapolis, Nov. 15.-Wheat-
Dec, $1.O5@1.d5A; May, $1.o5A;
July, $106. On track-No. 1 hard,
$1.07k@108A; No. Northern, $1.07
@1.O7%; No. 2 Northern, $1.050
1.05A. =
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
POWDER MILLS BLOW. VI
Three Killed and Seven Injured by
Explosion.

Wilmington, Del, Nov. 11.-With a
deafening report and shock which
caused the whole city and much of
the surrounding country to tremble a
press mill and a grinding mill at the
powder works of the Du Pont com
pany west of Wilmington exploded
Three workmen we're killed and sever
injured
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
BOY R0BS BANK SECOND TIME
Shoots Himself When Cornered b,
- Pursuing Posse.

SHOOTS Himself When Cornered by
49,. Pursuing Posse.
Eudora, Kan, Nov. 13.-Driven to
bay by an armed mob, Earl Bullock,
the seventeen-year-old bandit of Law
renee, Kan, who twice within the past
month has robbed the Eudora State
bank, murdered a policeman and shot
another man, probably fatally wound.
ed himself in an attempt to commit
suicide here. r'~.-.*- .&
Bullock's attempted suicide followed
his second robbery Of the bank here
and his shooting Of Fred Starr. cash.
Ter of the Kaw Valley State bank OF
Eudora, who was in the bank with
his days clearings.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
Duluth Wheat and Flax

Duluth, Nov. 15.-Wheat-To arrive
and on track-No:1 hard, $1.0S1s; No.
/ Northern, SLOTS; No. 2 Northern,
$1.055s; Nov, $1.063a; May, $1.055s.
Flax-To arrive and on track, $685.;
Nov, $181%; Dec, $1.7S%; May, ST.
1871. -..-~
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
| MUCH POULTRY DESTROYED
Eleven Thousand Chickens Perish, in
Kansas Fire.

Hutchinson, Kan, Nov. 11.-Eleven
thousand chickens were burned to
death in FIRE which destroyed the
plant Of the United States Packing
company. here. Loss, $50.0OO.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1909-11-19
RESULTS ON THE GRIDIRoN

Lawrence 5 Beloit 0. 3
Chicago 6, Cornell s.
Yale II, Princeton 0.
Missouri %, Drake 6.
Carleton II, Hamline 6.
Shattuck Is, st. Johns O.
Notre Dame 46, Miami 0.
Harvard IL, Dartmouth 8.
Minnesota 81, Wisconsin 6.
Manchester 5, st. Cloud 81.
Illinois 35, Northwestern 0.
Michigan II, Pennsylvania 6.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-19
1T DIDN'T PAY.

1t is said that Charles W. Morse,
with fifteen years in a federal prison
staring him in the face for violation Of
the banking laws. will don the stripes
a financial wreck. Three years ago his
wealth was placed at $22,0O0,O00, in
round numbers. Today he has less than
the average weIl-to-do citizen. The de-
voted wife has sold her jewels, sables,
silver. china, paintings and some of her
household furniture in order to raise
money to pay the lawyers and neces-
sarx- expenses in connection with the
trial OF the frenzied financier. The
mansion on Fifth avenue is for sale
and the servants have been discharged.
In the old days, when a man had SC
cumulated a comfortable fortune after
years Of honest effort, he was content
to retire, in most instances, and enjoy
the fruits of his toll. One hundred
thousand dollars was sufficient for the
purpose, and the man who had amassed
a million was regarded as having en-
tered Fortunes fairy land. All this
has. passed away. Instead of the mil
lienaire il is tbs multi-millionafre in
these days of special privilege and
graft. Morse, with his 500 900 600, was
not content and reached out i'm every
direction in the mad effort to turn more
golden streams in his direction. He
failed. and the prison door has closed
upon him. Charles Barney, who in
herited great wealth and added mil
lions to it, Travelled the same road in
company with Morse, and when the
crash came put a bullet through his
brain.
There is some sympathy for Morse on
account of the fact that the crin~ of
which he was convicted has been COM
mon enough in times past in New York
financial circles. and he seems to have
been selected as a sort Of scapegoat for
his class, but The fact remains that he
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-19
1 LEGISLATIVE IDiOCY-

Utah is not alone in her misfortune.
The men who were elected by the peo-
pie of the state of Nevada. while pro-
Tossing TO obey the mandate regarding
reform measures, have bedeviled the
anti-gambling bill in order to play poll
tics Bridge whist was included in the
law which makes banking games a
misdemeanor. punishable by $500 fine
or six months in Jail
From Carson, the capital of the state
comes the news that the result is
deemed a doubtful victory by the OPP
ponents of gambling. Politically it is
regarded as a Republican coup in the
interest of Senator George s. Nixon's
candidacy two years hence to succeed
himself"
How like the legislature Of Utah, the
members of which stand ready to sacri-
fee the material welfare of city, county
and state in the interest of Reed Smoot
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-19

who hold the same relation to other
trusts that he bears to the paper man
ufacturers.
The Payne bill. as introduced, pro-
poses a reduction in the tariffs on lead,
on wool and on lumber; it proposes to
remove the duty entirely from hides, in
compliance with the demands of the
New England shoemakers. Generally
speaking, the most important reduc-
tions suggested fall upon the western
In lumber duties will affect New Eng
land to some extent. As a question of
mathematics it could probably be
shown that the proportion of redue-
tons is exactly in proportion to the
influence in congress of the various sec
tons of the country.
One most important section is devot-
ed to reductions on iron ore and on
products of iron and steel. Generally
speaking, the heaviest reduction is
scheduled for the raw materials, iron
ore and scrap iron. The duties on steel
rails. rail bars and fish plates are cut
in two. and steel plates suffer small
cut Just what effect this might have
on the industry or on conditions in the
states where the manufactures are To-
Gated can not be estimated directly. If
Mr.. Carnegie's testimony is to be be-
lieved, it should not result in any great
depression, since the steel trust has for
a long time been able to undersell
Europe in it's own field. and at a profit.
1t is unlikely, however. that the steel
trust and the independents will over
look such an opportunity as a tariff
reduction would afford them to reduce
wages and throw the onus of discon-
tent on the change in the tariff.
No matter what is done. there viii be
uncertainty and delay in the resump-
ton of bushes on large scale until
the tariff question is settled. Arguing
from previous experience and the
known revenue needs of the govern
ment, it is probable the senate will de-
prive the bill of any real reform fea-
lures it may have now and leave the
duties about as they were, except in
such schedules as have comparatively
little political influence behind them.
1t is probable hides will go on the free
list. because Aldrieh and Hale come
from the shoemakers' country; wool is
likely to suffer, and lead. being largely
a product of the mountain states, with
very few representatives of great in
huenee in either house, may get a re-
duction. The lumber interests. being
compactly organized and maintaining a
powerful lobby in Washington, stand q
good show of defeating any change.
Until recently they were confident they
could secure an advance in the lumber
duty, and were discussing gravely just
how much of an increase they. would
demand. The Payne bill, however, in
dictates a miscaleulation somewhere and
may modify their notion as to what
they viii or viii not accept.
Altogether. the Payne measure pro-
poses substantial reductions in some
important schedules. If it is intro
duced in good faith. and not with re-
lance on the senate to emasculate it,
there may yet be some little relief from
tariff exactions. though the senate S
record hardly justifies even that small
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-19
RIDING TO A FALL.

Now that the federal bunch has
damned through one of its two pet
measures in the legislature, the rip
per" liquor bill, and has the ripper
FIRE and police commission law well IN
der way. the people of Salt Lake have
a pretty exact line on what their fate
is to be. At this writing it is not
known whether the governor viii veto
the Des MOines bill or not, but the pre-
sumption is he will kill it. In any
event. he and his associates of the
Smoot machine mean to seize the. fire
and police departments of the city, if
he law viii permit; and they are try
Ing to take unto themselves The control
IF every saloon and Iquor-selling
agency in the state requiring a license.
Under any sort of administration,
even the best, such a program would
be obnoxious because it defies every
right of local self-government, -concen-
trates a vicious power in the hands of
authorities not responsible to the To-
calities governed, and subverts the car
dinal principles of American life. In
the hands of the Smoot machine it re-
quires no lively Imagination to foresee
what will happen. The men who domi-
nate the machine are so crooked they
can't get a collar TO fit unless it has
been run through a fiuting machine.
They hold no allegiance to the people
no responsibility to anybody but them
selves. Their sole purpose is the ag-
grandizement of the machine, the &C
emulation of political loot and the
perpetual control of government ma
chinery in city, county and state. Cor
rupt as Tammany. constituencies as the
Pennsylvania Republican machine,
they VIII stop at nothing to further
their ends. They have thrived so long
they have grown aUdaciOus beyond be-
lief: and this time their audacity has
carried them TO lengths that promise
their undoing
1t is unbelievable that the real Re
publicans of Utah will longer tolerate
the combination of the machine and the
liquor interests that has dominated the
legislature It is absolutely certain the
people of Salt Lake viii resent and de-
feat at the first opportunity the men
who have treated the city so cOntemp-
tuously and taken over its chief func-
lions as an asset of the machine. If
the bunch that dominates the party in
power had tried it could not have sue
ceeded better in paving the way for its
own undoing in the next city election
and in the elections to follow.
Even a complacent, deluded following
has bounds to its complacency, and the
federal bunch has proved to its most
ardent supporters that they have no
right to be considered as compared
with the liquor dealers. and that they
have 40 business to ask anything but
the privilege of voting for such men
and measures as the machine may see
NJ to present.