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University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository Las Vegas Daily Optic, 1896-1907 New Mexico Historical Newspapers 6-28-1909 Las Vegas Optic, 06-28-1909 The Optic Publishing Co. Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/lvdo_news Recommended Citation The Optic Publishing Co.. "Las Vegas Optic, 06-28-1909." (1909). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/lvdo_news/2704 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the New Mexico Historical Newspapers at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Las Vegas Daily Optic, 1896-1907 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. c WEATHER WANT ADS FORECAST. PAY WELL Try One In Ths Fair tonight Optic S v and Tuesday And Be Sure. VOL. XXX, NO. 204 EAST LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO, MONDAY. JUNE 28, 1909 FIVE O'CLOCK EDITION. from Major Rankin. It read: signed to the district. It Is bald "Irene died at 8 o'clock. Mrs. Whlt- never before has the place bepn so IS STRICKEN more will start with boly tomorrow. AWFUL HEAT LEON LING crowded and most of the caller are NO LET DP Will advise train." overheard discussing the Sigel trage Father Collaps dy. While the first two telegrams had in a measure prepared Major Whlt- FORMER VEGAS GIRL WHILE IN more for the .vorat, yet he had by WARPS' MAY BE BECOMES A BRIDE IN TARIFF no means given np hope that a change for the better might take News has reached the city of the place, and the third message announc marriage of Homer Milton Rhorer to ing Miss Irene' death, was a great DEAD Miss Maud Estella Stoner in Kan FIGHT SURF shock. He broke dowr. completely RAILS sas City, June 19. and since has been alir est inconsol- The young woman retlded In Las able from grief. Dr. J. M. Cunning- Vegas for many yeais ard is popular ham, D. T. Hoskins and other inti- ly known here. She has been ab- OVER-EXERTIO- CAUSES DEATH STRANGE FREAK OF SUN'S RAYS THIS IS LATEST THEORY OF PO- SENATORS SEEK RELIEF FROM mate friends of the family were Im- sent from the city about four years, CAUSES TWO RAILROAD LICE IN SIGEL MURDER SWELTERING HEAT IN WHITE OF MISS IRENE WHITMOPE mediately notifleof Miss Whitmore's attending school in St. Josenh where AT LONG BEACH - death and these to the WRECKS MYSTERY she lived with C. CLOTHES i hasterei her mother. Mrs. J. Whitmore liome to offer whatever Stoner. She Is the youngest daught consolation they cojld. The news er, and the only sl'igle one left, of TRAGEDY SHOCKS FRIENDS COLORADO FAIRLY BAKING KILLED BY JEALOUS RIVAL PRESIDENT LEADS spread rapidly and yesterday and to- a family or six girls. VICE day it was the chief topc of conver- Mr. Rhorer is an e'evator construct ' Miss Whitmore's friends SEIZED WITH CRAMPS WHILE IN sation. YESTERDAY WAS HOTTEST DAY BELIEVED THAT CHUNG 8IN or and makes his headquarters In HE APPEARS IN AN ALL DUCK share, in a great measure the grief Kansas Offr. BATHING WHICH CAUSES IN TEN YEARS IN THAT ' MIGHT HAVE MADE AWAY TO HAT AN 3 , of the in their hour of af SUiT.EVEN parents " PARALYSIS fliction. STATE WITH GIRL'S SLAYER ATTORNEY GENERAL GIVES SHOES Sad Ending of Outing SENATE COLD SHOULDER The death of Miss Whitmore cut END CAME IN HOSPITAL WAVE SEEMS GENERAL STRANGE TRUNK MISSING Washington, June 28. Attorney ALDRICH GETTING MAD short the stay of Mrs. Whltmore and General Wickersham has refused to Miss . Florence Hoskins at the sea- send the. senate the files in the de-- ARE DETAILS OF ACCIDENT shore, where they had planned to WEST AND SOUTHWEST IS SWEL MORE THAN LIKELY BODY OF partment cf Justice, relating t the BELIEVES UNNECESSARY DILA remain until 1. It likewise LACKING BODY BEING August TERING WITH NO RELIEF CHINAMAN WAS SHIPPED trial of Dr. E. B. Perrin, charged TORY TACTICS ARE BEING ' has brought grief to every other BROUGHT HOME IN SIGHT AWAY IN IT with conspiracy to defraud the gov USED member of the Las Vegas colony now ernment in California timber land in in like summering California for cases. The data demanded In con- Mies Irene Whltmore is dead. This were 28. 28. failure 28. outings of this kind, all thrown Denver, June Tho hottest day New York, June The to nection with the nomination of Robert Washington, June The extreme news from Beach, more or less. Not the least find trace of Leon lea.it, the heat forced most of the tenaturs to shocking Long together in ten years wllth the mercury re- any Ling Devlin to be TJ. S. district attorney, touching part of the tragedy either, police to believe a new theory that in the chamber clad in Calif., contained in a brief telegram gistering 98 dagrees In .the shade, for the northern district of California. appear today is the fact that Miss Whltmore was Leon was killed by the same hand white. But the heat did not deter received shortly after 8 o'clock yester- caused the of rails en Action on his nomination was there understood to be engaged to Richard displacement that killed Miss SIgel. It is further them from action on tariff meas- day morning by the father, Major fore put off until fall. Devine, of the San Miguel National the Denver and Rio Grande railroad believed the of was ures. Vice-Preside- Sherman ap- A. H. Whltmore, from Major R. C. body Ling placed bank. Mr. Devine left only last Sat- yesterday afternoon, throwing (three in a trunk and away. This in a white suit and Rankin, a former resident of this city shipped LIFE IMPRISONMENT FOR peared many the of h!s an east is the of were likewise: and an intimate friend if the family, urday, day fiancee'sdeath, coaches of bound passenger theory strengthened by story BLACK HAND LEADERS members attired for a trip to the Pacific coast to visit train into the ditch at a trunk shipped to Schenectady and Senator Clapp, when the corporation cast a pall of gloom over the entire Salida, twenty Washington, June 28. Imprison Miss Whitmore and her mother, go- miles from Denver. thence to Cleveland, Ohio, where it tax measure was brought up, urged an city. No one, not even the father, Eight persons ment for life is the penalty which via Denver. his I was trace of. of rea-- heart-breaki- ing Yesterday upon were A few hours lost This line amendment eliminatingfrom iht mea w,as prepared for such seriously injured. Representative Kennedy of Ohio pro un- arrival in that city he was handed' two on soning throws out the evidence of sure the of to own news, which at first was almost later an engine and coaches poses shall be Inflicted on of right corporations a him of Miss Whit- see-wer- e agents - was But telegram, telling a Colorado Midland train j Chung Sin, who told the story of stock in other believable, bo sudder- it. passenger the black hand and kidnapers who use companies. more's sudden death. Ke cancelled of 'r'S L4riS in the room with the In connection with, same meas- subsequent telegrams, hlch follow- derailed Inside the city limits body the mails of the united States for the his trip and started for this city of Miss The if Ling ure Senator Culberson a ed closely, confirmed Miss Whitmore's Denver, also by hea; twisted rails. Sigel. police say their nefarious He in proposed on the first train, arriving .here, on have one of the pwposes. has modification wheretiv the mav death, although no particulars were Heat Wave General - I'3 dea. they slayers troduced in the house a bill spnatj No. 3 this , providing save that while bathing in the morning. Chicago, June 28. The heat waveand can lay their hands on the other obtain possession of the information given, A Lovable Girl such punishment. The bill provides was seized with cramps, continues over the entire 'country In fl" minutes.' gathered by the commissioner ot in- surf she Miss Irene Whitmore was in that recipients of such mall wh fail removal to a hos- born with much suffering in the eastern! Tried to Hide Body ternal revenue, concerning corpora- - , necessitating her to turn it back to the postmaster far Elizabeth, N. 1SS5, cities. Four deaths in this re. That Lug, th supposed muHerer, pital, where she became paralyzed, city investigation shall be liable to ?100 coming to Las Vegas with her par- - i made to of death ensuing shortly afterwards. attributed Ito the heat. Philadelphia several attempts dispose fine. Senator Aldrich is nettled at the Mrs. Whltmore was with her daught- ( Continued on Page 4) and New York are suffering greatly! the body of his victim, Elsie Sigel, delay to force tariff legislation to the ad- wa discovered a er at the time, they having gone to and many thousand? are taking through further front, and accepted the . amendment of ithe to of Sin,' his room OHUHITE Senator cot- Long Beach several weeks ago to vantage beaches, sleep at questioning Chung OUTRAGE. by McLaurln, whereby SECOND ASSAILANT ' who told of the murder of ton spend the summer, accompanied by nfght mate, has bagging is placed on the free of the girl In Ling's room. He sail Ling BAFFLES POLICE list Miss Florence Hoskins, daughter NOW BEHIND BARS D. T. Hoskins, of 'his city. Mrs. PRESIDENT ASKED TO had carried the trunk containing the The action of the senate will merely all over New ana have cot- Whltmore and Miss Hoskins left Los PARDON YOUNG WOMAN body lorn attempt Chicago, June 28.