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Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

The city assessor declares that there is not a de-
parment head in the city hall who will prefer charges
against except in very grievous cases. That
is to say, city hall man is safe if his derelicton is
simply grevous, not very grievous. If that is
there is not head of department in the city hall
that does not deserve political decapation.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28
FRANCIS MURPHY MEETING

Power in You" will be the topic of
Francis Murphy at the service in
Blanchard hall tomorrow evening.
Carlisle Wynne will preside, and ad-
dresses will be made by Messrs.
Wynne, Grooves and Feroat. The Y.
NJ. c. A. will furnish music. j. w.
Eccleston will have charge of the
vocal music.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

The lighting combine realizes that it made
mistake in supposing it could play the role of czar
with the Broadway business men, it is accustomed to
doing with its victims in other parts of the city. A
nonmonopolistic lighting service is sorely needed in
Los Angeles and the ongsuerng public hopes it
will be supplied.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

Next to the "the of the hour" on whom
public attention in Russia the Greek church
priest Father Gopon. This strange character appears
to be of the type of Peter the Hermit, the who
aroused all Christian Europe led crusade against
the Saracens in 1895.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

regard to the resignation of the superintendent of
Whittier school of the trustees reported
saying. None of the trustees has any official know
edge of any alleged misdoings" That is a negative
statement which carries with it the affirmative propos-
ton that of the trustees have knowledge
in the case that is lacking only in the official stamp
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

Quakers" recently arrived in Los Angeles and it is
reported that $4,000 of the sect preparing follow
If they come anywhere near deserving the which
is commonly given in America to the Society of Friends
they will be welcome in Southern California.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

San Bernardino calls" Wizard Burbank's claim as
first producer of the spneess cactus by showing such
a plant in the Santa Fe park in that city, which has
been growing there for five years But why bother
about the spneess cactus? The crying want of the pres
day is the production of graftess variety of egs
lator
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

San Dego's charter amendments were ratified in the
senate practically without opposition. There can be
neither cause nor excuse for hesiancy about similar
action in regard to the Los Angeles amendments The
corporations and their Republican machine allies are
scheming TO defeat ratification, in opposition to the
almost unanimous wish of the people of this city
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

The erratic Express makes the ridiculous declara-
ton that "he mayor owes it to the community to de.
clare himself unequiyocally this point" meaning
whom he will appoint the board of public works
under the charter amendment now before the legisa.
lure What has the mayor to do with the matter at
this stage? He can do nothing officially until the
amendment is ratified II is the duty of the legislature
to pass upon the amendment and 1t indorses It the
mayor will take action at the proper time. Prior to
that stage 1t is sheer mpudence to demand that he
shall do anything in the premises and he would be
Justified In kicking out Of his ONCE any person who
should personally broach to him the suggestion made
BY the Express.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28
PATTERN NO. A0i1

A paper pattern of this garment can
be obtained by filling in above order
and directing it TO The Herald's pat
tern department. 1t will be sent post
paid, within ten days. on receipt OF
ten cents.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

The weather bureau at Washington claims that four.
films of the predictions for the United States
rect In Southern California the forecaster sure
of a nearly clean of hits six months at a time
by sticking to the fair weather. outlook.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

Complaint has been made that street department
inspectors in the house moving service have not
civil service examinations For the sake of their fami-
lies it be hoped that they have not also been
lectful about taking out life insurance policies.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

Railway officials say that 65 per cent of the tourists
who come to Los Angeles women. It is explained
that busy in the their wives and families
to Spy out the land" 1t is excellent judgment No
fails to note and appreciate the glories of the
sunland
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

At last the that the automobile is not in
the class of institutions that "cut ice" In Pennsy
vania town an auto has been made servicabe in
mereal ice cutting for storage. The machine may yet
be adapted to the business of ice manufacture
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

The terrible winter weather in the east has stag
mated the orange market and large quantities fruit
in the markets and in transit will be loss Forward
ing will stop at of course until conditions
east change.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28
Shakespeare Club

Mrs. Ida Meacham Strobridge, the
well-known writer, will address the
Pasadena Shakespeare club at the
meeting this afternoon on the subject
of "Books."
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

The Washington Post says: ut is proposed to
train monkeys to pick the California prune CROP Why
not? We train donkeys to pick the way on the
mountain trails and there is only the difference of
letter between them.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

1t is said that the parasite imported into California
to kill the Goblin moth is doing we'll that it is
pected to millions of dollars in orchard products
Can't it be trained to get after the moths that roost in
our "best suits?
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28
THE HERALD's CITY CIRCULATION

THE HERALD's CIRCULATION IN THE CITY OF
Los ANGELES is LARGER THAN THAT OF THE
EXAMINER OR THE EXPRESS AND SECOND ONLY
TO THAT OF THE TIMES
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

Read about the blizzards and the zero temperature
in the east the reported of people freezing
death and the intense suffering in many states and
then from the sunny side TO the shady side
of Los Angeles street for the sake Of comfort
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

Tourists pouring into Los Angeles from the east
escaping from the many discomforts of tempera
ture to warm sunshine and sweep Of deep green
vegetation. Never the landscape hereabout more
charming than II is now.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

The census bureau announces that during the last
year 507O554553 telephone messages sent in the
United States. Statistics not given concerning
either the number the character of made by
persons who 'heoed" in vain TO central"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

The Santa Fe railway statement for December shows
gross receipts Of $6OOOOOO and 100000 earnings
So profitable business would to warrant con-
cession to orange shippers and others.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

In speaking of the heavy cost of university educa.
ton In these days. eastern newspaper suggests that
it is cheaper for young to work his way up in
politics and get a degree conferred upon him free
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

The beef trust has peculiar way of making its ac-
count of receipts and balance 1t has lately
been paying much less than formerly for cattle but
'evens up" by charging more for beef.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-28

The suspicion is said to be growing that it was not
the presidents popularity much as the brewers
money that carried Missouri for the Republican ticket
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-28
THEATER FIRE KILLS FOUR.
Tenants of Building Are ~SurOcate'

Tenants of Building Are unOcated
by Smoke at Lorain Ohio.
-Four lives were lost III a fire which
destroyed the Overlook theater in Lorain,
Ohio. The dead are: James Dwyer, %;
Mrs. William Marsh. "a, and her W
children, Grace, aged 3 years. and Cliff
ford, aged Z months. The Marsh fam
lily had apartments in the front OF the
building on the third floor. William
Marsh was stage manager for the the
alter. Dwyer, another employee Of the
theater, slept in the basement, where
the fire originated, from which escape
was cut off. Mrs. Marsh and her chill
dren were suffocated by the smoke which
poured up the narrow stairway. Ihe
loss on the theater, which was COMPARE
lively a new one. is $4,000. The loss
on the entire building is $4,000. The
theater was owned by the Ver5eck
Amusement Company of Oil City, Pa,
and leased by II. III. Dykman of Elyfla,
Ohio. A dozen persons living in the
building had narrow escapes from being
suffocated. The fire department did not
have a ladder sufficiently long to reach
the windows where the imprisoned per-
sons were and William Schultz. a mer-
chant, climbed to the top of the longest
ladder, IA ised and held a second ladder
to the window where the frantic men ana
women were waiting for help. They
climbed down the improvised escape and
Schultz stood in his perilous position for
thirty minutes while the descent of the
tenants was made over his body. Eight
persons were rescued in this manner
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-28
AFTER FIVE YEARS WAR.
Kansas Has at Last Won Victory
Over Prairie Dogs.

Kansas is almost at the end of a war
of five years duration on the prairie
dogs. The war began Immediately after
the session of the Legislature in 1901,
and has lasted until the present year.
The authorities who have been in com
mand of the States forces now believe
that they have the fight won and that
the prairie dogs in Kansas are nearly
extinct. While the war of determination
has been waged against prairie dogs. it.
has also been directed against the pocket
eophers. The prairie dogs infest the
western end Of the State and the pocket
gophers destroy crops in the eastern
third of Kansas.
Five years ago the depredations of the
prairie dogs and pocket gophers reached
a point where the commissioners of the
various eastern counties offered rewards
for the gophers, and the Legislature of
the State appropriated $1,000 to be used
in conducting experiments which would
result in the discovery of a means of
Kidding the State of prairie dogs. The
first appropriation was made by the Leg
%islature of 1901. and the second appro-
p~riation was made in 1908. The State
duthoiiiicS uettTlulHeu u uHu al nHeduS
of Kidding Kansas of the rodents. When
the fight began in 1901, u. L. Lantz,
field agent of the State Agricultural
college, made an investigation, at the
end of which he reported that 100000
acres of land, or as much land as the
State owned, was made useless by the
invasion of the prairie dogs.
The war against prairie dogs probably
would not have started had it not been
for the campaign of the cattlemen Of the
western counties. The prairie dog is
subject to periodical occurrences of con-
tagious diseases. These diseases carry
off the animals with great rapidity, but
until 1901 the rodents had been free
from the diseases for three or four years.
As a consequence, they had increased
until they were 4 menace To- the ranches
in the western counties.
Experiments conducted by the State
| Agricultural college showed that carbon
disulphide and strychnine were the most
effective poisons which could be used
in the wal for the determination of the
prairie dogs. The State sent a number
of men into the field and spent in the
neighborhood of $4,000 in exterminat-
ing the dogs, and it is claimed that the
State is practically free from them now.
In many instances IL or 20 dead dogs
were taken from one hole after the poi
son had been applied by the State
agents.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-28

Plymouth, Brooklyn, that Paid
Beecher $4,000 a Year, I'm Debt.

Plymouth, Brooklyn, hat Paid
Beecher 100000 a Year, I'm Debt.
Historic Plymouth church has come to
such financial straits that a meeting was
leld the other night in Brooklyn to de-
wise ways and means to increase the
revenues. which have so dwindled as to
show a deficit in the last year. against a
surplus thirty years ago, when Henry
Ward Beecher was paid a salary OF
SlOO,OOO. The meeting was in no sense
a reflection on the ministration OF DR..
HD'is. but rather an Endorsement of his
unairing efforts in the face of extraor-
dinarily adverse circumstances. The OLD
Brooklyn Heights families who were the
mainstay of Plymouth have disappeared
through death or removal. This was ID
part the explanation made by Deacon
5. V. White, who presided over the
meeting. at which DIR. Hills, Gen. Hora-
ito G. King and Col. William G. Beech
er were the most striking figures. The
deficit in the Plymouth exchequer from
1000 to 1905 was $4,000. For the pres
ent year it has been 81 900. Benjamin
f. Blair, who read the financial state
ment, outlined a plan which he believed
would bring in greater revenue. There
are now ~forty-six pews, he said, which
are expected to produce $11 900, but pro-
duce only $1,000. because occupied by
strangers, who do not contribute. DIR.
Hills said his salary was $4,000 and
he received about $4,000 from a syndi-
cate which prints his sermons He ex-
pressed willingness to bear his share
of the burden.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-28
PANIC RULES RUSSIA.
GENERAL STRIKE LAUNCHED
AND WORST is EXPECTED.
TrafHc Is P~araIyzed and Armed Re-
volt Spreads-Burring Palaces
Light shores of Baltic for Forty
MiIes-Mutfneers Burned.

The gloom which has settled over
Russia is the deepest the country has
ever known, and the outlook the most
desperate. The palaces of the nobility
are blazing from st. Petersburg to
Odessa, and the mutilated bodies of
the partisans of the Emperor fill the
bitches of country roads and the gut
tiers of the streets of the rebellious
cities. Mobiles who have been able to
escape the vengeance of the peasants
in the country and the pr0letariat in
the town are fleeing to the frontiers,
leaving memorial halls and wide es-
tates as loot for the now fully aroused
people.
The memory of centuries of oppres-
sion SEEM to stir the masses to mas
sacres of the most revolving cruelty.
Believing that each blow struck the
nobility reaches the despotic govern
ment, the peasants are striking deep
and sure. On all the snowy reaches
around Riga mobiles have been slain
by scores, their bodies thrown to the
vultures, and their ancient castles
made scenes of orgies of drunken
peasants. The lands of the richest es-
tates are divided among the men who
drive away or kill the former owner.
the rich tapestry, furniture, pictures,
and carpets go to peasants huts, and
the castles are destroyed.
Sailors on the Baltic Sea declare
that the coast of Livonia for forty
miles north of Riga is lit with the
flames of burning estates. In Riga
hotels down to the meanest lodging
houses are crowded with persons who
bear the highest names i'll Russia.
who have been glad to escape from
the Infatuated mobs with their lives.
From all other portions of the I'M
happy empire come reports rs awful.
Wherever the flag of revolution is
reared even the soldiers sworn to
serve the Car flock around it. In
N~ladivostok the most terrible cruelties
are being perpetrated alternately by
the loyalists and the mutineers, which
ever has the upper hand at the time.
Three times has the city of Takum.
i'm Courland, changed hands. each time
after n desperately fought battle be-
tween the troops n the newly formed
provisional government.
st. Petersburg Strike Starts.
The general strike started in st.
Petersburg very tamely. In the cen
ter of the city the shops were not
closed. the proprietors having received
guarantees that if they remained open
they would be given ample protection
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-28
TRAIN wRECKERs TRY AGAIN.
Santa Fe's No. Il Is thrown from
Track and Two Men Killed.

SANTA ECS W. IL h lnTo"h
Track and Two Men Killed.
For the fourth time in little more than
q year an attempt was made early the
other morning TO wreck passenger train
No. IL on the Santa Fee railroad. The
attempt was made at Lang. eight miles
east of Emporia, Kan, almost at the
same spot where the train was ditched
by wreckers last May. In that attempt
several persons were killed. This wreck
resulted in the death OF two men. the
engineer and an express messenger. That
a deliberate attempt was made to wreck
the train is not doubted by Santa Fe
officials. General Manager j. E. Hurley
said: I'VE have positive information that
the bolts, angle bars. rail joint fasten-
ings, and spikes were removed by some
one with malicious intent. My conclu-
sions are that the work was done by
some one who was sent from a distance
to do it." Currency to the AMOUNT of
$4,000. $1,000 in gold and many thou
sand dollars worth of jewelry were de-
stroyed by the burning of the express
car
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-28
Map Showing Russian Districts in Revolt and Cities Where Clashes
with Loyal Troops Resulted in Bloodshed.

Twenty-four railway cars were de-
molished and all the soldiers in them
were killed or badly injured when
rebels blew up a train with troops sent
to quell the rebellion in Livonia, near
Stockmannskof, a railway station. The
rebels also wrecked with dynamite
one or two trains sent to give assist
ance. General Andronikoff and many
soldiers were killed.
A umo is in circulation that the
insurgents in CORTLAND have seized
Windau. Friedrichstadt, Pratzenburg,
Holdingen and other places. and that
a popular tribunal at Kopenhouzak
has executed several officials.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-28

and that any deputation of strikers
seeking by threats or force to compel
the closing of the shops would be in
stantly arrested. There was. how
ever an impressive demonstration in
the industrial sections.
The main interest i'm the strike of
the railroad men conferred in the War
saw station, where the government
was to make Il test of its ability by
moving a train forlBerlin. The depot
was packed with troops. There was
Il wild hurrah, accompanied by a roar
Of escaping steam, and a few minutes
later the railroad men walked out OF
the yards in a body.
The authorities, however, were pre-
pared and after a delay of ten minutes
a locomotive manned by soldiers of a
railroad battalion backed into the sta
ton and was coupled to the waiting
train. which was crowded with peo
pie seeking to depart from the uniap
py country. Lines of soldiers with
fixed bayonets fianked the train and
an official with four soldiers entered
the carriages and thoroughly searched
them in order to ascertain If suspi
cious persons were on board. Twenty
soldiers entered the baggage cars
while another detachment was scat
tered through the carriages. The trair
then pulled put. An extra car loaded
with wrecking apparatus was attached
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-28
News of Minor Note.

The main building of the Pittsburg
steel hoop works was destroyed by ire
The loss is $4,000.
Frederick Bachman of New York, IS
years old, said to have been an accom-.
plice liz a $1,000 robbery, was arrested
in Milan, italy
Because her husband refused to kiss
her before going to work Mrs. Wesley
Peyton at Charleston, w. Va, shot him.
inficting a dangerous wound.
Italy has accepted the proposition OF
Spain to hold the Moroccan conference
at Madrid instead Of at Algeciras. 1t
is now expected that the representatives
will meet JAM TO-
Henry Labouchere, the ~wellknown
London editor and liberal member of
parliament for Northampton, will not be
a candidate for reelection to parliament
at the coming elections IN account of ad.
vancing age. He first entered parliament
forty years ago.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-28

when old Queen Charlotte was not only
Kissed and insulted. but even pelted with
offal while on her way from st. James
Palace to what was then known as
Buckingham House (now buckingham
Palace). The mob even went So far as
TO stop her sedan chair, and there is no
knowing what might have happened had
not the homeliest of all of England's
long line of queens let down the glass
of the chair and apostrophised the mob
with the following words:
Il am 40 years of age: ! have been
30 years Queen of England, and l never
was insulted before"
Her anger, her absolute fearlessness.
and at the same time her wonderful
dignity. turned the temper OF all those
of the mob within earshot. The misses
were converted into cheers, and it was
amidst the plaudits of the crowd that
the sedan chair continued its way IN
obstructed to Buckingham House.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-28
NEW YORK DOCKS ON FIRE.
Ferry House OF Lackayvanna Road
Burned-LOss $780, 900.

FIre started in the offices of the Della
ware, L~ackawanna and Western railroad
at the foot of West Twenty-second
street. New York. 1t spread rapidly to
the offices of the Central Railroad of
New Jersey and the ferry house on the
south. The fire soon was brought under
control and the ferry houses of the Erie
and the Pennsylvania railroads were out
of danger. The ferry house of the Del
aware. Lackawanna and Western was
in ruins and almost n complete loss.
while that of the Jersey Central was
badly damaged. One shed and section
of the dock belonging to the Erie rail-
road also were partially burned. The
loss was $780, 0O.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-28
CRIPPLE KILLED By ROBBERS.
Thieves Then Loot FarmhOus
While Brother Is Seeking Help.

Hugh Mccoy, n cripple. aged 40 years,
was shot and instantly killed by two
thieves while he was sitting at the kitch-
en- ind of his home Gu a farm two
mics from Darlington, near Beaver
Falls, Pa. Two shots were fired through
the window, the gun being held SO close
as to rowder-burn him. Robert Mccoy,
a brother, witnessed the murder and,
after a desperate battle with the burg
lars, escaped and spread the alarm. Dur
ing las absence the burglars looted the
house and secured about $500 in cash.
The brothers lived alone on the farm.
and recently received 5000. the first
money in payment for their property,
which they had sOld.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-12-28
AMERICANS SLAIN IN wILDs:
Three Thought to Have Been Killed
by Indians on Island.

Fenton r. McCreery, charge d'affairs
of the United States embassy in the City
of Mexico, has been urged by the State
Department at Washington to enlist the
cooperation of the Mexican government
in ascertaining the fate of three Amer
leans who went to Tiburon Island. in the
Gulf of California. in June to study the
character of the Fri Indians. Nothing
has been heard from the party since
July, and it is feared the men either
have been captured or put to death by
the Indians. The expedition was com
posed of Olan Rails of Kansas City,
Thomas Grindell of Douglas. Ariz.. and
David Ingraham of New York, with two
Mexicans as guides. 1t was planned to
return to Hermosillo July Is. Efforts
have been made to locate the party, but
without success.