VOL. XXXXIII. THE MODERN STORE- Curtains and Draperies. \ Some Special Offerings this Week. | Excellent Values in Millinery Oor curtain stock is the most extensive we have ever shown, and prices lower than ever before ? SWISS RUFFLED CURTAINS. ; <4 Special numbers, beautiful effect* 35c. 50c, 63c. 75c. fl to $l5O per pr No'tinirhain Curtains, 35c. 50c 63c, 75c, SI.OO to $3.50 per pair. - Plain and Unfiled Brussels Net Curtains, triinoied with pretty durable lace and insertion. SI.OO. $1.25. $1.50 to $2 50 per pair. , Irish Pointe Curtains. $1.75, $2.00. $3.00 to $8 00 per pair ; Tapestry and Rope Portieres $1 75 tn $7 50 per pair. ; SPECIAL FOR TIIIS WEEK 1500 yards fine Cartain Swisses. 36 inches wide, worth 12$ c to 15c yard, at 10c. A dozen pa'terns to select from. * NEW MILLINEBT IN FULL BLOOM. •; Time to get your new hat See what we are showing at $3 00 to s•> 00, all the popular colorings and newest shapes. Children's Caps and Wash Rata just in. A splendid assortment » EiSLEk-MARDORF COfIPANY, ooi ] LL\ Samples sent on request. OPPOSITE HOTEL ARLINGTON. BUTLER. PA SPRING STyteS 4 i AND IN 1 SUfWfIIER FOOTWEAR. 9 NOW CODING IN. || Shoes for occasions 3 Shoes for the mechanic 2 Shoes for the farmer S Shoes for everjjbod;} Each and every pair in its class the best that money ggj will bu j. §| Get your pair at g HUSELTON'S I Opp. Hotel Lowry. 102 N. Main Street. I I Patterson Bros. | (Successors to Brown & Co.) © Furniture and Carpets. | We respectfully solicit a share of your © patronage. ® 1 New goods arriving daily, inviting ® your inspection. @ 136 N. Main Street, Butler, Pa. @ x Duffy's Store 1 Not one bit too early to think of that new Carpet, orß perhaps you would rather have a pretty Rug—carpet■ size. Well, in either case, we can suit you as our Car-H pet stock is one of the largest and best assorted in But- ■ ler county. Among which will be found the following: m EXTRA SUPER ALL WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS. I Heavy two and thrto ply 05c per yd and npl HALF WOOL INGRAIN CARPETS. ■ Best cotton chain 50c per yd and up^H BODY BRUSBELS. 1 Simply no wear oat to these $1.85 yd H TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, M Light made, bat very Good 65c per yd up STAIR CARPETS §g Body and Tapefttry Brussels, Half and All Wool Ingrains. M HARTFORD AXMINSTERS, M Prettiest Carpet made, as durable too $1.35 H RAG CARPETS, enuiue old-fashioned weave. MATTING, Hemp and Straw. p| RUGS-CARPET SIZES. ■ \x minster Rngs. Beauties too $22 each and upß Brussels Rugs, Tapmtry and Body sl2 each and u(. B Ingrain Druggets. All and Half Wool $5 each and up H Linoleums, Inlaid and Common, all widths and grades. pi Oil Cloths, Floor. Table, Shelf and Stair. Ltce Curtains. Portiers, Window Shades, Cartain Pole}; Small Hearth Ej Rugs, all styles and sizes. k3 Duffy's Store. I MAIN STREET, BUTLER. 1 .j I 816 LOT! { i Specially lew Priced. All New Patterns. |t H We sell our border by the bolt same price |l f| as wall and celling. * 9 • __ffi 1 E£yfh Bros., 1 NEAR COURT HOUSE. iti THE BUTLER CITIZEN. Pickers Footwear | { /gg| A Grand Display of Fine g Footwear in all the N * fflr Xf ftm We are showin ß man y fi < ifn styles in Ladies' Fine Shoes pj fords in the latest styles. Big bargains in Men s kj rJ %L .J& anc * B °y s ' wor^in 8 shoes. | JOHN BICKELS MEN r. i Won't buy clothing for the purpose of fjli • hri | lj spending money They desire to get the 4Li /7/ 7\i If best possible results of the money expended. it! %*■_ \ 'f Those who buy custom clothing have a iJz-J y/Ukf \ W fr*,- JJj right to demand a fit. to have their clothes Till. flj'J'fi correct in style and to demand of the V| seller to guarantee everything. Come to / Alf II us and there will be n}thing lacking. I ■ have just received a large slock of Spring I! »\\ S&CxilMfc. i and Snmmer suitings in the latest styles, J shades and colors. j \ r yf J k&w'- til i G. F. KECK, 1 WPMf J MERCHANT TAIfcOR, V| J| 'h 142 N. Main St., Butler, Pa L UJ tr / The Great $5 Clothing Sale is on again this month. But that will end it —no more after this month. Garments for which we would ask full price under norma! conditions. No matter how little the price, its a high standard that rules here —annoyingly so to those of our com petitors who even attempt to match the values presented. This $5.00 Clothing Sale Is a ..Mighty Strong Proposition. buys choice of several hundred rattling good suits and overcoats that cannot be matched in any other Butler store in season or out of season for less than $lO to $12.50. SCHAUL& LEVY 137 South Main Street. Butler, Pa. | Spring and Summer Millinery. | 2? Everything in the line of Millinery can be found, fp •g the right thing at the right time at the right price at g! I ROCKENSTEIN'S J jg Phone 656. 148 S. Main St. f J. G. & W. CAMPBELL, j| BUTLER, PA. || BUTLER ___ v The following graduates Of the Ilutlor liuslws.s College kiavo Junt accepted positions as follow:,: .f If. Alexander, lxKjkk«« , i»<-r, Wahash li. It. Co., lay Thompson, Ht4-nofcraph<>r. V. S. lii*v©!opmc*nt i-0.. itli Ave.. I'itUhnrK; Emma liurr. stenographer, IMttsburK li*;diu;tloii Co.. New Kensington, Pa.: Pearl ftnyder, The ft rati ittreel Oft., Ptttabarfi; K. P Frederick, i*t< r,<wrapbi r. Wabash B. K. 00., Plroibnrg; BoMDDft Mr.Lautclillu, steuogratiher, lialrd Miurlilnerv C<»., Pittsburg; Anna Uunday, Htenographer, • Halvage Hefurlty Co., Plttftbarg; 4th Ave ; Winifred Shaffer, better position, stenographer. [ (jermanla Hank Bldg.. Pittsburg. Voung meu and women, ICKSI' LTH TALK. Attend a Hrhool that I>OEH secure po*i j tlons find (iUOJ> ones for Its trrartnates. HOM!'' s< liOolh PUOM ISF! w«* I'EUKOUM. Four j llfji' Sa« inauy <*aiU a-> w«* ran fit 1. < <»rne in and the lettern we shall be plo&hed to 1 show them to you. Now Is the time to enter. SPRING TERM, APRIL 2, 1906. May enter ANY time. Catalogue and circulars mailed on application. Corresponded u Invited. Vlaltors ALWAYS welcome When lu liutler, pay us a visit. A. F. REQAL, Principal, Butler, Pa. BUTLER, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 20. 1906 Si FRANCISCO iil HISTORY Stricken City Long Permeated With an Air of Romance. IN THE DAYS OF VIGILANTES How the Metropolis of California Was Purged cf Disorder—Lynching of Casey—The Days of the Forty niners—Town Depopulat ed by the Rush cf Gold Seekers. SAN FRANCISCO, the earthquake stricken city, has long been per meated with an air of romance and adventure. Nowhere may one turn without being reminded of the legends that have been woven around the forty-niners and their im mediate followers. The names of the streets and of the business blocks, such as I*earney, Sutter, Montgomery, l)u --pont. Flood, Crocker and Sharon, bring to the mind of the visitor long forgot ten stories of riot or adventure and of fortunes whose vastness once excited his wonder or made him incredulous. The site of the city was first visited I>3* Europeans In 17<i:i, and In 1775 Bu careli ordered a fort, presidio and mis sion founded on the bay. One year later, the year of the Declaration of Independence, the Sp mish settlers be gan the work, and when Vancouver, the explorer, visited the place In 1792 the presidio represented the military authority, while ihe puei.'lo and mis sion stoo 1 for the .i.il and religious factors respectively. The mission was secularized Ui 18:i4 and a town laid out the year following. In 184G an American man-of-war, un der command of Commodore John B. Montgomery, entered the harbor and hoisted the ,-t.ii e::d strip ■ over the town. Mexico, wh'ch succeeded Spain as the owner of al.' was then at war with the United States, and the act of Commodore Montgomery ended her dominion over Si i'ra nclsco. Montgomery r.ppoln J Lieutenant Washington A. IJartlett to 1> • Frisco's first alcalde, or mayor. unU • the new regime. Under Spanish and Mexican rule the town was a sleepy, uuprogress ive place, but with the coming of Arner 'cans and the discovery of gold In 1818 there came an era of growth and hus tle. Tills did not eventuate at once, 'or the first news of the discovery of rold practically depopulated San Fran Msco. The town was smitten as by a plague, •rui one historian thus describes what happened: "Its houses were left unoc cupied ate I unprotected, its former trade eeas.»J, Its lots fell to a small pari of tfcclr value, its two weekly newspapers were suspended, and the town, deserted by the bulk of its in habitants, was at one time without u single officer clothed with civil author ity." After the first rush to the gold dig gings the town began to regain its lost ground, and ere long the influx of gold seekers gave quite an impetus to its growth. The town was Incorporated In April, 1850, and the first common council elected proceeded with diligence to plunder the city 7 treasury. The same year the state was admitted to the Union, nnd when the steamer Ore gon brought the news—there was no telegraphic communication in those days- business was entirely suspended and the entire population rushed to the wharfs to welcome the harbinger. The town had about 10,000 inhabitants at that time, and when the people were Informed that the sigual flags of the Oregon indicated that California was a sovereign state of the United States of America "a universal shout aro'/e from MAfiKET STREET FROM SECOND STREET WEST. SAN FRANCISCO HARBOR. 10,000 voices on the wharfs, in the streets, upon the hills, housetops and the world of shipping in the bay. - ' In its early history the city suffered from several disastrous fires. Between December, 1849, and Juue, 1851, six conflagrations played havoc with the growing young town. Better buildings were planned and several fire compa nies were organized. These were steps iu the right direction. It was also dis covered that the fires were started by criminals who profited by the confu sion. This fact and the inefficiency and corruption of the city government led a large number of citizens to organ ize the famous vigilance committee which ruled the place in 1851. Quite a number of crooks were lynched by the committee, others were driven out, like John Oakhurst, the leading figure in Bret Harte's "Outcasts of Poker Flat," and the city went through a pu rification process that was of great benefit to it. The aspect of San Francisco at this time was not inspiring to inflowing gold seekers. It was a straggling med ley of low, dingy adobes, frail wooden shanties, born in an afternoon, with a sprinkling of more respectable frame houses and a mass of canvas and rub ber habitations. It was mainly a city of tents, rising ia a.crescent upon the shores of the cove. From Clark point it skirted the laud to Telegraph hill, along the Clay street slopes, tapering away to the California street ridge. The larger nuinl>er passed to the south west shores of the cove, beyond the Market sfreet ridge, a region sheltered from blustering winds and provided with good spring water and named the Happy Valley. Stockton street, stretching from Sac ramento to Green streets, presented the neatest cluster of dwellings, and Powell street was the abode of churches, for of the six churches in existence in the middle of 1850 three graced its sides and two stood upon cross streets, within half a lilock. Mason street, aljove It, was really the western limit of the city, as Green street was ths" northern. Beyond M.'.son street ran the trail to the Preside, past scattered cottages, cabins and t-jeds, amid dal lies and gardens, with a branch path to the Marine hospital, on Filbert street, and another to the North Beach anchorage, where speculators were planning a wharf to attract settlement. Aftc-r the vigilance committee dis banded the criminal el iueut became bolder, and iu ISSO the crime and cor- j ruption in the city had become lntol- 1 enable to those who wished to live a ; decent and orderly life. " When Editor ! King of the Bulletin, who had de nounced the tiiug>', was murdered by James P. Casey, a new vigilance or ganization was created, and in a few days Casey and rinother murderer named Cora were execut vl In front of the committee's headquarters. Many lawbreakers were later put to death, and the regime of the California "bad man" came to an end. It has been asserted that San Fran cisco Is the most cosmopolitan city iu the world, and by cosmopolitan Is meant a population from ail parts of j the world. Not long ago the records ; indicated that 4" per cent of the peo ple of the city were born in foreign ■ lands, not In two or three different j countries, but In practically every land ! under the sun. According to the na tlonal census reports for 1890, San Francisco had a total population of 298,997. Of these 172,180 were native ( born and 120,811 were born outside of the United States. Fully half the grown persons in the community re- j moved to California from alien lands, while a large percentage of the other half and of the general body of chil dren were of foreign parentage. In 1900 San Francisco had a population of 342,782, of which 34.1 per cent was foreign born. San Francisco has long been famed as one of the "wide open" cities of the United States. As in the days of 1849, the gambler devotes himself to his vocation with little interference from the authorities. Prior to the earthquake two of the most prominent corners in the city were occupied by gambling dens. One of them, known as the Cafe Royal, has been a veritable gold mine for its proprietors. The California supremo court has rendered a decision to tho effect that ! the KJiiuqof draw poker Is not :i game j of chance, lmt involves"jiiilffment nntl | other elements as well as chance or luck, and because of this decision these places are permitted to l>e maintained. They are frequented by a hard loo'.c --! in« crowd of meu, and many scandals are told associated with these places. A visitor's life is probably s;ife In these res >rts. lint his money is not. It is said that the son of the premier of British Columbia was fleeced of 5P..100 in the Cafe Royal a few years ago. He tost $1,500 in cash, but stopped payment on $7,000 iu checks. San Trancisco has forty-seven square i miles of territory, or about 30.000 j acres, within the municipal limits. The j finest residences are on Xob hill and Pacific heights, lioth of which districts command magnificent views of the bay and the Golden Gate. The city has six large parks and twenty-two small ones, and Golden Gate park oc cupies over 1,000 acres. LONG USED TO EARTHQUAKES Golden Gate Metropolis Has Been Shaken Often In tkz Past. PRESENT WORST EVER KNOWN Some of the Skyscrapers and Other Buildings Destroyed Magnificent City Hall In Ruins—Fires Ar rested by Dynamite—Earth quake of 1868 Described by Mark Twain. THE recent disastrous earthquake extending over so largo a part of the Pacific coast region and wrecking such an extensive section of the city of San Francisco was not the first of these catastrophes known in the western metropolis, though by all odds the most damaging. For many years the municipal au thorities refused to permit tall build ings iu the because of the fear of earthquakes, several of which had al ready l>eeii experienced. Finally the Interdiction was removed, however, and a number of skyscrapers resulted. Prior to 1890 there was hardly a building iu excess of five stories and only a few of that height. Today there Is one eighteen stories high and quite a number from twelve to fourteen stories. In the spring of 1898, al>out 10 o'clock one night, the city had a seismic shock that put to test its high structures. It was the worst earthquake since 1868, when for eight or nine blocks on the main street (Market) the ground was cracked open several Inches. In the upheaval of 18i>8 the tail build ings were given a fearful shaking, and some of their occupants were made dizzy and sick. The structures were uninjured, and ever since that time there has not been so much question of the safety of high buildings of mod ern construction—that is, buildings of structural iron frame and facings of pressed brick, terra cotta or stone. It was M. H. De Young, the proprie tor and editor of the Chronicle, who was the pioneer in this respect. He met with opposition from the munici pal authorities fourteen years ago when he decided to erect a ten story house for bis newspaper. It was believed to be a dangerous undertaking because of the earthquake fear, but Mr. De Young won out and thereby set an example of enterprise to other wealthy men who have since built more tall buildings. For Instance, I). O. Mills, the New York banker, who owns a great deal of San Francisco property, has one of the tallest and finest structures In the city. Clans Spreckels, known throughout the country as the sugar king and the - Mi- ft*' . . y t" P^^t^sSfc—«' ~ZIUL • > ~^^!*^ lw ™^™ ll ™' eill^^^ CITY HALL, WHICH WAS VSEZ23B. ■j — . IhhSk flPi ml-.. :^^^9ttßUM6k' " * Hj S 1 . THE CALL BUILDING, ALSO DESTROYED. richest San Franciscan, owns n build ing seventeen stories high, commonly known as the Call building. On three of the corner sites, where Third street Intersects Market, Is located the great Spreckels building, the home of the Call; the L>e Young building, the home of tbu Chronicle, and the Hearst build ing, occupied by the Examiner, the three great Pacific coast newspapers having contributed handsomely to the building development of San Francisco in recent years. The city now has Its shore of tall buildings, one being eight een stories In height. The major part of them are eight, ten and twelve sto ries, the eight storied being most nu merous. The Call a«d Examiner buildings were almost totally destroyed In the earthquake and many other skyscrap- CPJ were severely shaken, cracked and damaged. One of the chief buildings which col lapsed was the new post office. This was a substantial structure of granite, costing to exceed $3,000,000. While Cot striking from au architectural Standpoint, the postofflce was Impress ive from its masslveness. The I'ostal building was badly dam aged, and tlio operating room was a wreck. I'ower of every kind was de stroyed, and there were no lights, ei ther gas or electric. Neither the Pal ace hotel nor the St. Francis was de stroyed :IH far as the framework goes, but the Inside plastering and decora tions were greatly damaged. The business section of the city from Market street to Mission street and froui the bay back wa.i almost com pletely wrecked. The most conspicuous building In San Francisco, tin? city hall, is almost totally ruined. It cost from so,o<K),oou to $7,000,000, took twenty-live years In construction and was surmounted by a dome 332 feet high. It was thought to be very solidly constructed, being built substantially of brick, with the walls covered by cement. The Interior of the dome was decorated with ex pensive marbles taken from the Pa cific coast mountains. Another very fine building, which cost over $5,000,000, Is the splendid ho tel erected by Mrs. Herman Oelrlehs on fashionable Nob hill. Mrs. Oelrlehs, who Is a daughter of the late Senator Fair, has shown line taste In the ar chitectural {dans of Fairmont, the ap propriate name of the new hotel. Been from the bay this structure, with Its classic outlines, makes the l>choldcr think of a Greek temple. White and graceful. It looms above the busy mar ket places, the great wholesale district, the crowded business section and pic turesque Chinatown, which, by the way. Is fast disappearing owing to the encroachments of commerce and the dwlislling of tlie Chinese population. Other in posing edifices, many of which have been more or less severely Injured, arc the Hotel St. Francis, the Palace fiob I, the Hall of Justice, the Mutual Bank building, the Pacific Mu tual I.lfe building and the Callaghan building, the greatest property dam age resulted in the manufacturing dis trict and the greatest loss of lift* In the tenement house district. The chief street of the city is Mar- j Let, running diagonally for many miles. ! The destruction of many of the depart- | mont stores and other buslucss blocks on Market und Mission streets was ul- ' most complete. Fire added to the hor- ! No. 17. i mains had been bilrsf" By" tfie sbotß, the tire department was helpless. Th« flames ate their way along Market street, and other fires started In differ ent parts of the city. As the earthquake occurred but a little after 5 o'clock In the morning, practically the entire population was In bed. Men and women rushed wildly forth in their night robes and fled In panic through the streets. Many were caught by the falling roofs and walls, and In the poorer districts the tene ments collapsed like eggshells, crush ing and suffocating their Inmates be fore they had time to escape. In many cases flre finished the work of death, catching the victims as they were pinned still alive under the debris. To arrest the spread of the flre along Market street many buildings wero dynamited. Tlio track of one railroad was de pressed four feet or more for a dis tance of three miles. At one point la the city the earth cracked open for a distance of six feet, leaving a yawning chasm of fathomless depth. The destruction of all telegraph wires, except one belonging to the Postal union, made It almost Impossible for ; the stricken city to communicate with the outside world. The severe injury to the Western ITnlon and Postal of fices, also the Associated Press, greatly added to the difficulty. The practical destruction of six or eight blocks, coupled with the Immense loss of life and damage to property throughout San Francisco and the en tire coast region, makes this the worst earthquake disaster In American his tory, exceeding even the historic Charleston earthquake of a few years ago. Sail Francisco has suffered from many slight seismic shocks, one of them occurring about a year ago. At that time a long article appeared In one of the papers, signed by a pro fessor in one of the observatories near by, stating that there was no partic ular danger from these tremors of the earth's surface. The coast region, ac cording to this writer, was newer than parts of the country farther east and was therefore settling. He said peo ple should feel no alarm, as nothing serious was liable to happen. Evidently the earth's crust in the Golden Gate region has been doing some more "settling." The most severe earthquake San Francisco has known prior to the pres ent one was in 1808. Qjilte a little damage resulted, though nothing re motely comparable to this. It was tha ISGS tJmkeup that was made famous by Mark Twain. The most surprising thing the genial Mark saw nt that timo was tlie opening up of the celling of his room, the lips of the orifice work ing to and fro like a mouth and a ttficlc slipping through and held in slon, like one lone tooth ou the Jaw mt an old man. The last earthquake that occurred lb San Francisco was In January, 1000. Several distinct shocks were felt early In the morning, causing the vibration of buildings all over the city. The chief building affected was the St. Nicholas hotel, which was severely shaken. The walls collapsed In cer tain parts of the structure, guests were thrown out of their beds and furniture was destroyed. In 1904 there was a severe seismic disturbance lu Los Angeles, which WM felt throughout the city and for-V radius at several inllea around. _ \
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