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Nevada State Journal from Reno, Nevada • 3

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MONDAY AUGUST 16 1909 PAGE THREE NEVADA STATE JOURNAL WRECK DEAD NUMBER TEN Ohe More Death As a Result of Collision of Trains 3 COLORADO SPRINGS Colo Aug 1 5 With the (Jeath McCreary of Dallas Texas at the St rancis hospital this morning the number of fatalities resulting from the wreck on the Denver Rio Grande yesterday morning was increased to 10 None of the numbering close to two score in the local hospitals is believ ed to be in a critical condition Engineer Iessig driver of the head engine hauling the north bound train whose passengers alone suffered death or serious injury disappeared immediately after the wreck and it was feared for a time that he had committed suicide Ife was found at his home in Denver today He ap peared greatly worried and offered no reply to questions regarding the cause of the accident John Gossage fireman for Lessig was the only one among the six en The immense clouds of hissing steam escaping from the battered hulks of three huge engines as they lay in the deep ditch east of the track and the heat of the unquenched fires in the engine boxes wasted their de structive force on the grass and weeds The distance between the engines and the combination car in which dead and wounded lay was sufficient to re move all danger of fire otherwise many of the victims of the wreck helplessly entangled in the tuins of the car would probably have been caught by the flames before they could bo extricated Tho loss to the Denver' Rio Grande Railway company aside from the claims for death will amount to about $75000 Traffic was resumed within a few hours after the accident ginemen to meet death The wreck occurred within sight of his home and his wife who was standing in the doorway watching the train go by witnessed the accident She was among the first to reach the scene and her grief was pitiful Of the many features of the acci dent which served to prevent even greater loss life and death unde the most agonizing circumstances none was more fortunat'e as it turned out than that the collision occurred on a curve This served to throw tha engines to each side of the track and the forward coaches of the two trains which were the only cars derailed were thrown to the inner side of the curve ATTORNEY McCARRAN BACK ROM CONVENTION Attorney II McCarran terri deputy of the Knights of Clumbus of Nevada returned Saturday night on the Limited from the national con vention of the Knights of Columbus at Mobile Ala after an absence of nearly three weeks Mr McCarran traveled through 21 state on his itinerary but says Ne vada is still good engough for him and that there is no climate that ex cels that of the sagebrush state convention was a revelation to said McCarran yesterday in de scribing the trip were over 2000 of tch best and most represen tative men in the United States in the convention city and that southern city could not find enough to do for us trip was an inspiration and an education and 1 have brought back with me information out only for the members of the order but a wider in sight and realization of the magni tude of this wonderful country of While in Mobile Mr McCarran was one of a class of several hundred members who were initiated in the highest degree of the order CROWD GATHERS WHEN W0MN RUNS ON STREET or beating a woman who ran nnt of his office to the side walk Dr on a charge of disturbing the peace' He gave bail in the sum of $20 and was released The woman was also arrested and gave bail in the same amount The scene which caused the arrest was witnessed by half a hundred per sons who saw the woman run half dressed from the hallway at 215 Vir ginia street with hair streining pur sued by the physician She bore the of rough treatment TAX RAISES RUMPUS 1 ST LOUIS Aug 15 A contest be tween the Wholesale Liquor association and the state authorities is presaged by the attitude of each on the new tax which goes into effect tomorrow The wholesalers have announced that they will contest the graduated license scheme on the ground that it is unconstitutional The tax runs $100 and upward those dealing in 5000 gallons of less each year paying the minimum Plan for Labor J)ay Wallace Evans of the Machinists' PRETTY CHINESE GIRL MURDERED Went to New York a ew Years Ago rom San rancisco NEW YORK Aug 15 China town was excited today oh discovery of the murder of the most bpautiful of the few Chinese women in New York Bow Kim 21 years old who same here from San rancisco a few years ago with an Americanized Chinaman Chin Len 31 years old Just as the usual Sunday night revelry was quieting down Chin Len dashen out of a tenement house at 1 7 Mott street crying woman has been The street filled with loitering Chinamen and parties of American all of whom quickly recalled the sensa tional murder of Elsie Sigel was thrown into excitment A pliceman and a detective hurried into th house under Len's direction In the bedroom the murdered woman lay on the floor stabbed in a half dozei places Her slender neck was ringed with bloodmarks indicating a struggle with her assailant and be side her lay a blood crusted hunting knife It was evident that the woman had been dead for two or three hours On the stairs were found traces of blood and also on a door leading to the store of Yuen Chin Co on the ground floor Three Chinamen were arrested although they denied any knowledge of the murder Six Amer ican women who declared themselves to be the wives of Chinamen were found in the house and arrested but none would admit any knowledge of Bow Kim's death Len's account of himself yas that returning at 2 o'clock in the morn ing he found the body on the floor No formal charges have been made Kills Herself and Hables CHICAGO Aug Mrs Mary Handzell today committed suicide and att he same time asphyxiated her three boy babies She had carefully bathed and dressed the children one four years the others two years twins and carried them into the bathroom where she had closed the door and Aurned on the gas The smell of gas awakened her husband Joseph Handzell and when he broke open the door of the bathroom he found the four bodies The twins were wrapped in a quilt and placed in the bath tub while the elder boy was clasped tightly in his mother arms Italian Cruisers Sail ROME Aug 15 The Italian cruisers rancesco errucio Varez Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giovanni Bausan sailed today for Crete and will be followed late tonight by the battleships Regina Elena Napoleon and Vittorio Emmanuel III Ixxkiiig for Hain WASHINGTON Aug 15 Con ditions indicate that the drought in the corn growing section of Kansas Missouri and central and southern Illinois will be broken about the mid dle of the present week and that the rains of that period will extend over the entire corn and spring wheat dis tricts OICES RENO POWER COMPANY ARE SEPARATED Begining yesterday mornitjg the offi cers of Reno Traction company and the Reno Power Light arid Water company were seperated and here after the two departments of the com pany lately acquired by tho Hammon the Dredger King will be operated under separate management and sup ervision George A Campbell manager here tofore of both companies will here after confine his duties to the super vision of the rower Light and Water company while A Miller has been appointed to take charge of the Trac tion company Manager Campbell will remain at his office in the Saturno building while Manager Miller wTH have his offices at the car barns on ourth street It is understood that Manager Camp bell will be given heavier responsibili ties BIRTH IN SESSION AT DENVER DENVER Aug 15 Steps to pre vent hardships that might result from a too strict enforcement of the United States immigration laws were taken today by the executive council of the Independent Order of B'Nai Brith in session here A special committee was appoint to confer with federal immigration officials with a view to aiding Jewish immigration The committee selected Washing ton for the convention city GETTING READY OR RHEIMS rance Aug 15 Huge crowds today thronged the aerodrome as a foretaste of next open 3 3 LUCANIA IS BADLY DAMAGED Bad ire Breaks OiH Vessel looded and liz Submerged LIVERPOOL Aug 15 The Cu nard steamerf Lucania lies sub merged tonight at the Huskisson dock seriously damaged from a fire which broke out on board Saturday even ing The flames are supposed to have originated in the saloon kitchen The flames gradually worked for ward until they reached the steer age consuming every particle of the woodwork and they played havoc with the forehold The heat was tre mendous and the flames shooting high from the vessel attracted thous ands of persons to the river where they remained throughout the night At 3 this morning it was decided to flood tho vessel by ad mitting water from the deck Soon she heeled over and her funnels came in contact with tho cranes on the dock and were badly damaged A half dozen firemen who were on the gangway at this time were thrown into the river but all were rescued A fleet of tugs pulled the liner upright and held her until she settled finally on the mud bottom It was 10 o'clock this morning be fore the fire was under control The second class quarters and the whole after part of tho boat including the engine room escaped injury and comparatively little damage was done to the exterior of the vessel Her upper part is considerably above water The first saloon skylights were destroyed and the decks for ward arc badly buckled Some of the hull plates were warped by the heat CEREMONY UNITES GOUPtfJT RENO Raine orkner Wedding Ends Romance of Nevada Young olks A pretty wedding ceremony united James Raine of Palisade and Miss Gussie orkner of Reno yesterday af ternoon at 5 o'clock when Rev Mears of the Congregational church pronounced the words that made them man and wife The wedding took place at the home of the bride's parents Mr and Mrs orkner 423 Nevada street in the presence of the immediate rela tives and a few of the intimate friends of the parties Miss orkner is a popular and charming young woman 'who has re sided in Reno all her life Her hus band is in business at Palisade The couple left on No 24 for Ta hoe last night whore they will spend the honeymoon making their home af terwards at Palisade RUMORED MURDERO A SQUAW PROVES AN ERROR Great excitement was created yes terday at the police station when a frightened woman telephoned that a Mexican lias stabbed an Indian squaw in the back and killed her The woman was so agitated that it took some time to find where the light occurid but it was finally learned that it was somewhere near the re duction works The police left in the patrol wagon and after an hour's search found that a party of Mexicans and Indians had engaged in a fight near the reduction works but the kitchen utensils were the ewapons used and the only dam ageage was done to a number of fry ing pans and kettles with minor inju ries to a number of squaws One Mexican and two squaws were locked up over night Greek Gives Advice ATHENS Aug 15 The entire Greek press advises the Cretans to lower the Greek flag over the fortress of Canea and not show defiance to the protecting powers Try this! It is a recipe for cleaning straw hats Make a stiff suds of Ivory Soap and luke warm water Apply with a brush Rinse with a sponge and clean water Dry with a towel I Now look at your hat is as good as new Ivory Soap 994Aoo Per Cent Pure union at Carson and Harry Gifford of the Typographical union there came to Reno yesterday to confer with the committee apointed by the Central Trades Kibor Council of Reno con cerning plans for tho celebration of Labor Day at Carson ing of during which aeronauts from the United States ranco Italy and Austria will compete for various prizes chief of which will be the international cup given by Jas Gordon Bennett Entries number 38 and the meeting promises to be the greatest sporting event of the year Headquarters for ancy Ice Cream and Ices at MANHEIMS Kearns Ic Cream Co Delivered to any part of city Phone 487 123 Virginia OR SALE OR SALE Boardint house in mining town 30 steady boarders at $35 per nmnth cause for selling owner is coming in for school or address Journal 5820a21 ARM OR of Reno a few luile'sf 100 'acres all under its own water all good cultivable land now in onions vegetables and alfal fa average yield to acre 15 tons onions 7 of potatoes 4 of alfalfa Price $15000 $8000 cash balance at 7 per cent Bonhrtm Co 32 2d St 5821al8 Amiddle aged woman to keep house and care for an invalid out of town Phone 1383 5S19alS OR RENT Six four room nicely furnished cottages 128 Stevenson street 5817a27 NEW AND NEAT Seven room house just finished Nob Hill for rent at $40 fine furnished house $40 pretty furnished cottage with lawn $2750 large furnished house $100 houses and flats up ree water and sunny skies with all of these Bonham Co 32 Second street 5818al5 OR SALE Good second hand pi ano at a bargain Mariner Music Co' 38 West Second street 5816al7 OR SALE urniture for 5 room house by piece or as a whole 331 Ralston street 5Slla21 OR SALE Young and sound mare work single or double weight 950 bargain 453 Ridge street Phone 978 5S13a21 OR RENT Nicely furnished rooms also rooms for light housekeeping furnished and unfurnished 444 Roberts street 5S12a21 II? ANYONE knowing the where abouts of rank f' Dixon will no tify his mother Mrs A Wainan 1 328 National avenue San ran cisco Cal it will bo greatly ap preciated also paid for their trouble 5804al7 OR 10 CENT PARCEL DELIVERY Phono 212 5441jytf OR SALE $150 will take a nearly new upright piano Must go at once Address care Journal tf OR RENT nicely furnished rooms In private home cool and pleasant: use of bath and phone reasonable and homelike 323 Ralston St St Agnes Society at Moana The ladies of St Agnes Society will hold a social and business meeting at Moana Springs on Monday after noon hTe ladies will please take the 2 o'clock car to tire springs where the afternoon will be spent A large attendance is requested 5740al6 Whiskej' that Is WHISKEY Seven twenty years old at THE LOUVRE S240xtf caller and around up" said the puzzled of th one of the was of that St whom very interest Ralston between would weeks A 8tn of peauty ta a oy orere TOO LATE TO CLASSIY care the the shape that proves the quality of LOGAN DALE CO Reno Nevada Distributors woman become his and was and five were Twenty seventh Burke CLOTHES THIEVES OPERATE IN UENO Says Street George has street is in Eighth and TIN SOLDIERS CHARGE CROWD WITH BAYONETS BEATS CAPTAIN DEMENTED WOMAN CARED OR BY THE SHERI to retreat The police WHITE WOL EXPLAINS NATURE HIS WORK to she room West family loft yes where they will bladder remedy be cause of its remark able health restoring properties Swamp Root fulfills almost and CI 1 IGNORES CAEELLERO A DAINTY KITCHEN SINK The kitchen sink can be kept as clean and dainty as a tea and why should it not be? A spic and span housewife insists that her dnk shall be as clean as the china washed in it The problem is simple merely rluso tho sink thoroughly with warm water and Gold Dust after each dish washing Make this suds the dish pan and thus remove the last par iclo of grease from that much used utensil Gold Dust has the peculiar quality of dis solving and grease It is therefore valuable not only for keeping the sink and pans sweet and clean but for keeping the sink an pipes clear These will never become clogged with greaso if Gold Dust and plenty of hot water bo used "jr washing the sink each morning and evening Two Instances of Theft Reported to Police of Dep redations of Burglars The Nevada State Journal bant Ads give results taken' where corn fortable errel procured William Levy and terday for the coast remain several days Is Bad complained a bad condition Eleventh streets rg on the work "1 will never give out any more formation said drawing himself grandiloquet rir flourish suh Instultcd 1 anybody doubts commission from his governor of Two Needed Henry Higgins well known in Reno ami Carson ami head melter at the mint there must undergo another op eration at San rancisco for appendi citis Recently Higgins was operated upon but it was found after explora tion that his condition was such that another operation would be necessary before the appendix can be removed been talking to Reno and crowd ci owd The riot became general and the cap tain of the com first duty is to ferret out I find it any way to send the hose Dr White Wolf is a ing man He is not very tall but when he walks the streets in a long black Prince Albert coat an I somber clothes to match with a round black hat set on one side of his head 1 eoplc turn to look at him It was White Wolf who was ly quoted as stating that he fieial maximum temperature of the highest of the here today hile atory points in Kansas reported tem pertures as high ns 99 James Mc Brcen a veteran at the national sol home Leavenworth Kansas died here from the heat The theft of clothes in two instan ces was reported last night to the police and the department is inclined to believe that the city is in for a sea son thieveries and unlawfulness as the result of the advent of the folow ers of the race meeting that will open soon in Reno While the horsemen are in no way held responsible for the law breaking it is known that the crowd that follows at the heels of a race meeting without having any con nection with the owners is one to be watched Louis Grosman of the Indart hotel reported yesterday that his room had been entered and two suits of clothes and several shirts had been taken He had no idea as to the identity of the thieves Last night Lloyd Hamilton an actor now in the company re ported the loss of a suit of clothes and a pair of full dress trousers from his dressing room at the Wheelmen Hamilton joined the Ellefords last Monday and left in his dressing room a light brown or tan suit of clothes of the late style practically new and a pair of full dress trousers with wide braid on the seams at the side Last night Hamilton found that the clothes had been taken and he report ed the loss to the police then con to charge tha bayonets The the soldiers White Wolf who like the white wings of the old song see grow was a guished although rather late at The ournnl office JSaturday he explained that lie had en much ask He will sloned proper SACRAMENTO MAN SENDS IRE ALARM TO RENO Irish Remember amine Year QUEBEC Aug 15 In the pres ence of about C000 Irishmen the monument dedicated to the families of the Irish famine of 1S47 by the Ancient Order of Hibernians was un veiled today sit Grosse Island where several thoug and Irish immigrants are buried the state detective up proudly with a iml a Mulberry Sel have teen insulted in for the i i soldiers all less bruised seriously iinjured Mrs Anderson Entertains On teh even of her departure fot Santa Cruz and the coast resorts Mrs Anderson gave a dinner party las' night to a party of intimate friends ar a down town restaurant Mrs Ander son will join her daughter Botella Santa Cruz and will remain away until the school term opens in Reno Editor Ilawnrth Visits Haworth the editor of Austin Reveille who has lately join ed the meek and subjugated ranks of the Benedicks was in Reno yesterday with his charming bride this shape for over three ever since thp completion of In conection with the story Cap tain Cox superintendent of the Nevada state police has advised that White Worf has no connection with that organization and is not work ing for the state police CHICAGO Aug Twenty per sons were injured here tonight when a company of Polish sharp shooters returning from a picnic charged a crowd of people with their bayonets The troul le started when one of the officers hit a boy with his sword when the youngster did not get ou of the way quickly enough This en raged the crowd which had 'gath ered to see the soldiers and the ns surrounded am demanded inally attacked the The captain company which 20 men their outnumbered Sheriff errel was called rida night to place under restraint Mrs Birteh an elderly woman staying a' the house of Mrs Shearer 417 West Second street when the manifested signs of having demented over religion Mrs Birteh was county jail building placed in cared for a nurse for her who has been in at tendance day and night The sheriff has notified relatives ot Mrs Birteh at Dodge Center Minn and expects directions as to her today of 97 ear was recorded call was sent thev arrived of the Tx'o Levy's Leo Levy city editor of The Jour nal has gone to the coast for a 10 outing a hump in the i the street has because of laying the watermains has not been rolled down leaving roadway He says been in months the new water main that 1 have a excellency the slate lit him suh show that I am a duly commi officer and that I have credentials never stated that I police officer 1 am not with any stat' county of flee detect crime whereM to assist the officers in planation mother of the boy tain with a stick ordered his slated about Do You Get Up With a Lame Back? Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable Almost everyone knows of Dr 3wanin Roct the great kidney liver and coming rheumatism pain in the back kid neys liver bladder anil every part cf the urinary passage It corrects inability to told water and scalding pain in passing itr bad effects followingvse of liquor wine ir beer and overcomes that unpleasant aecessity of being compelled to go oftenhrough the day and to get up many Jmes during the night Swamp Root is uct recommended for everything but if you have kidney liver ar bladder trouble it will be found just the remedy you need It has been thor aughly tested in private practice and has moved so successful that a special ar aiigcment has been made by which all eaders of this paper who have not al eady tried it may have a sample bottle sent free by mail also a book telling more about Swamp Root and how to and out if you have kid ney or bladder trouble When writingmenticn padiim this rencrous offer in this paper and send vonr address to xsaSgg Dr Kilmer Co Home rsamp luu Binghamton The regular fifty cent and one dollar fize bottles are sold by all druggists make any mistake but remember the name Swamp Root Dr Swamp Root and tlie ad dress Binghamton on every bottle is a state connected i of 1 and and that Chief Burke of the Reno police had a peculiar experience yesterday when a man in Sacrament mistook office for the fire offie in that city telephoned in an alarm The chief answered the phone was told in an excited voice that there was a fire on Twenty seventh street a "right town is burning voice "Where did you say ond asked the fieial not Second street Twenty second street on Twenty seventh the voice there is no street in said Then t'ne other man found that he had off I am on the fire is the secretary of sttae elix Guuraud'a Oriental Magical soauvirier Remove! Tan Hrnplo reckes MtL Rasa snA Skin ana tverr on beauty and ie fie? (iPiectinn It has stood the teal of 6o yi ars and so ha mics? ve taste It is propeJy made Accent nocountpr felt of eimilar name Dr A Savre said to a lady of the bant tun (a patient you ladlci wtD use tbenn 1 uicuu Gournd Creiw? as the least harmful of all to? akin or sale by all and ancy GouJi Dealeic in the United States Canada and Europe fE3BLHCPUKSPra3 37 Gral Jores Sb at Mew to If the Box Green It a PUCK PUCK THE BETTER THAN CICAR with the Havana taste If the filler of Shane goes with quality and never without PUCK seasoned long leaf Puck couldn be made in imported shapes the combination of the vell selected long leaf filler the delicate binder and the imported Sumatra wrapper that creates that soft Havana taste You never saw a Two shapes both five cents nickel cigar that even looked so good Bl Cream cr a 3 3 fol 1 I fi kd 'i I toe srrrEB tiki am cigar IP 9 "7B lb '4vi I V'7 Ifc rVi "7 Bw Ol A 7 fl jar Kai 4.

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