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Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
ALLEGED F0RGER FROM
SHANGHAI is ARRESTED
ARRIVES IN SAN FRANCISCO ON
STEAMER KOREA
Young Man Is Ernest r. Horwitz and
He Has Been Representing a Fill
pino Tobacco Firm In China-De-
cares He Is Innocent of Crime
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17.-When
the steamer Korea arrived from the
Orient today the police arrested one of
the passengers, a young man who had
been travelling under the name of
Charles Ferguson. He later admitted
that he was Ernest 3. Horwitz, recently
of Shanghai.
The arrest was made on cablegram
from American Consul General Rodgers
at Shanghai, China, that Horwitz was
wanted there on a charge of forgery.
He was accused of forging n check for
91S0 taels on the Hongkong and Shang-
hal bank of Shanghai.
He denied having committed forgery,
but admits he did something to spite
his brother-in-law in Shanghai.
He would not say what this was. but
declared it was not forgery.
He said he had been promised a
chant in Shanghai, which he was to
take to Russia, and his brother-in-law
had agreed to become his surety, but
at the last moment backed out and
destroyed his credit He left Shanghai
about three months ago and had been
travelling in Japan, buying and selling
goods.
He had been representing a Filipino
tobacco firm in China. His father, he
said, is in business in the City of
Mexico and his uncle is one of the lead
ing druggists in New York. He had
been backed by M J. Connell G. Co. of
Seattle
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
TRADE WITH PHILIPPINES
Report Just Issued Shows Increase of
Five Million Dollars During
Past Year
BY Associated Press


WASHINGTON. Dec. 17.-Estimates
made by the bureau of statistics of the
department of commerce and labor,
based on the returns for ten months
ended with October are that the aggre
gate commerce between the United
States and the Philippine islands for
the calendar year 1905 will amount to
about $20,000000 against about $15,000,
600 in 1904 $l0,000,000 i'm 1900, $4,000, 900
in 1898, and a little more than $4,000 900
in 1897. the year prior to the American
occupation.
Prior to 1899 the exports from the
United States to the Philippines, the
bureau reports. showed never exceed
ing a quarter of n million dollars, while
the present year they will aggregate
nearly $4,000, 900.
Imports from the islands which
ranged between $4,000,000 and IS, ,O00 900
per annum prior to 1899, were in 1902
$40, 600 900: in 1908 2,0OO,O 900, and i'm 1905
will be about SAL 100000, according to
the bureau estimates.
The imports in 1905 are chiefly hemp
and sugar Hemp imports for the first
ten months in 1905 amounted to $10,-
376, 52S and sugar $2.212.249.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
DECLARES MUNICIPAL
OWNERSHIP A DREAM
SPEAKER SEES NO LIKELIHOOD
OF coNsUMMATIoN
Osborn Tells Hearers Carter Harrison
and Mayor Dunno Were Elected on
impossible Platform and Says Wis.,
ionaries VIII Be Disappointed

1.-THE collective ownership and opera
ton of all the material instruments of
production is what we want and a
great many people tell us that this can
never be brought about" said ]. b.
Osborn in addressing an audience
largely composed of Socialists in Metro
politan hall last night. people claim
that there is not money enough in the
world to buy these means of produc-
ton, and that to take them without
paying for them would be unlawful,
unjust and unconstitutional. II seems
to me that it would be quite impossible
with the present money system for
society to acquire the means of pro-
duction and pay for them. Take the
question of municipal ownership of pub
lie utilities and we will suppose that
San Francisco, New York, Boston, Chi
cago, st. Louis and other large cities
would at about the same time want to
sell municipal bonds for the purpose
of taking over from private ownership
the property of municipal corporations.
The amount of money would be so
enormous that it would be almost i'm
possible to obtain it. And in no case
could it be obtained without the con-
sent of the capitalist class, and they
would not consent unless they were
thoroughly satisfied that municipal
ownership Of public utilities was in
their interest and the the interest of
capitalistic property
"Seven years ago the city of Denver
issued $4,000, 900 worth of bonds for the
purpose of acquiring the Denver Union
Water company's plant, but the capt.
n G. ho
water company is still private prop
erty.
Garter Harrison was elected mayor
of Chicago on a municipal ownership
platform and at the end of his admin
istration that platform had not been
accomplished.
Mayor Dunno was elected on the
same kind of platform, and in my
opinion, at the close of his official ad-
ministration, Chicago will not have
municipal ownership of the street rail-
roads, etc.
Property has only one value, and
that is its profit earning or dividend
paying capacity, and no political party
representing the capitalist class is go
ing to enforce any law or program that
will destroy the value of capitalist prop
erty. Many state constitutions have this
language: The law of eminent domain
shall never be abridged or so construed
as to prevent the Legislature from
taking the property and franchises of
incorporated companies, and subJecting
them to public use
every state, according to law, has
right to regulate the fares and
f1eights of railroad corporations, tele-
phone, telegraph and express COM
panies.
But this principle of law Is not en-
forced in any city or state in the Union.
am convinced, beyond all doubt, that
the law is today and has been through
all history, the rule of the dominant
class in society. What is In the interest
of the ruling class is lawful, moral and
just, and anything opposed to their in
terest is unlawful, immoral and uncon-
81 itutional"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
PYRoMANIAc AGAIN At WORK
Ventura Citizens Alarmed by Persist
ent Attempt Of Barn Burner to
Destroy Property

Special to The Herald
VENTURA, Dec. 17.--Citizens Of Ven
tura are becoming alarmed over the ex-
istence Of a pyromaniac who has been
operating here for the past two months.
During that time no less than dozen
fires have occurred, some with serious
results, and others have been discov-
cred In time to prevent loss. In several
cases phosphorus, wrapped in damp
cloths was found. thus telling the
method used This morning. at little
after midnight, the barn on the old
Clay place on Oak street was found to
be on fire. With a little effort the fire
was extinguished.
At o'clock another alarm was given.
This time II was the old warehouse at
the corner of Chestnut and Front
streets, owned by r. G. Allyn of Los
Angeles and occupied by the Channel
Commercial company. The building
and contents were total loss, without
insurance.
Public sentiment is strong and there
is talk of instituting a thorough and
systematic watch until the offender is
captured. Two attempts have been
made to burn the same building-a
barn ON Ventura avenue.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
FRANCE TO HAVE
NEW PRESIDENT
SUCCESSOR TO LoUBET TO
BE CHOSEN SOON
There Are a Number Of Candidates,
of Whom Fallleres, Doumer and
Bourgeois Are Most
Prominent
Special Cable to The Herald.


PARIS, Dec. 17.-In a little more than
a month the national assembly will
meet at Versailles to elect a successor
to Loubet as president of France, and
for the first time i'm the history of the
republic the spectacle will be offered of
two living presidents, one still in power
and the other duly elected to succeed
him and surrounded by all the prestige
to which his election entities him.
OF candidates for this prominent Of
flee, three are foremost In public opin-
ion-Fallleres, president of the senate;
Doumer. president of the lower cham
ber, and Leon Bourgeois at one time
minister of finance.
Notwithstanding the boom started in
the foreign press in favor of Fallieres,
it is the general opinion here that
Doumer has the best chance. He is
compared to Roosevelt as a statesman
and, like the American president, has
written a book of his experience while
governor general of Indo-China and en-
joys above all diversions a ride on
horseback
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
BUILDS TRACK DESPITE
LAND OWNERS PROTEST
SACRAMENTO SOUTHERN LINE
CLOSES GAP
Fence Erected by Proprietor of Tract
is Knocked Down and Road Built.
City Trustees Will Make lnves-
tigation
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Dec. 17.-The last
small gap of the water front facing
sacramento was closed today by line
of track laid by large force of Sun
day track builders employed by the Sac
ramento Southern railroad. a corpora
ton connected with the Southern
Pacific company, in the face of the OBJ
structton in the shape of a fence and
the strenuous objections of f. A. Miller
who claims the land upon which the
levee stands The gap was 45O feet
wide, and Mr.. Miller had been dcker-
ing to sell his land to the Western
Pacific railroad for a freight depot on
the water front. He asserts that the
move was made by the Southern Pacific
company to prevent the Western Pa
cific from getting to the river in or near
this city.
The city officials knew nothing of the
building of the me- track until it was
finished, and as far as any of them
know the railroad company had no
legal right to build upon the levee.
The land on which the track was
built is outside the city limits and is
owned by private parties, who gave or
solu the CITY an easement Tor leVee pur-
poses.
1t is upon this easement that the
track was built. Clinton l.. White, one
of the foremost lawyers in the city and
a recognized authority on titles to water
front property. holds that the title to
the land is vested in the owner and
that the city has a levee there by
sufferance only.
Miller owner of The property built "A
fence across the levee, which was
buttcd down by the construction engine.
He laid a complaint with Division Su-
perintendent r. r. Jones of the South
ern Pacific company. which was about
as successful as the fence.
1t being Sunday and the court house
closed Miller did not apply for an in
junction, so the track was completed.
1t is likely that the city board of
trustees will investigate the matter to-
morrow night.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
DEBATE WILL Be
OVER INSURANCE
EXTENDED DISCUSSION IN THE
HOUSE EXPECTED
Committee Work viii Continue In the
Observation-Disclosures Tariff Bill
and Statehood Measure to
Be Reconsldered
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.-THE four
days before the holiday adjournment
will be dedicated in the house to furth-
er discussion of federal control of in
surance and to completing the enact
ment of the Panama emergency ap-
preparation. There are many members
who desire to talk about insurance.
Speaker Cannon has concurred in the
general view of the house that the
presidents message furnishes as good
a basis as anything else for this de-
bate.
Many members will not wait until
Thursday to return to their homes for
the holidays.
Committee work will progress during
the debate. The ways and means COM
mittee will continue it's hearings of the
Philippines tariff and the appropria-
tions committee will begin the prepara-
tion of the District of Columbia ap-
preparation bill. The statehood bill Is
to be perfected but will not, under the
present plan, be brought into the house
until January wherein it is expected to
constitute the first business.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
WHITES RESIGNATION NEAR
May Be Succeeded by Count Alexis
lgnatieff
By Associated Press.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. II, 1880 p.
ma report that Count Witte has re-
signed is in circulation, but 1T is false.
1t may, however, become true at any
moment and Gen. Count Alexis Igna-
tieff is being held in reserve.
A close friend of the premier tells the
Associated Press that Count Witte had
no faith in the policy of Minister of the
Interior Durnovo and only consented to
1t OH condition that 1t should be con-
fined to legal means. The same in
formant says that an official commune
cation declaring a resort to legal meas
ures to be the policy of the govern
ment will be issued tomorrow. 1t is
the opinion of many Liberals as well
as revolutionaries that with the first
discharge of cannon Count Witte will
CO." They say 1t matters little whether
the premier is or Is not in sympathy
with the policy of reaction, he cannot
shirk responsibility for it. A prominent
parsonage said to the Associated Press:
THE step toward reaction marks the
beginning of the end and the policy
which has been inaugurated is bound
to fail.
"The governments task will not be
merely the arrest of a small group of
leaders, but that of the whole popula-
tion. The powers conferred on the
provincial authorities by the imperial
ukase is tantamount to a declaration of
martial law throughout the country and
the irresponsible repression which the
officers of the old regime will be sure
to commit when let loose can only serve
to fan the flames"
The Russ expects to come out tomor-
row under its old franchise as the
Molva, meaning Fame"
News from the interior tonight is
very serious. The revolt in the Baltic
has spread southwark to the province
of Kovno, on the border of Poland
which belongs to the old kingdom of
Lithuania. The rebellion In Kursk is
beyond control and the government has
information that big uprising is in
course of preparation in the Ural re-
gions.
An officer who has just returned from
Manchuria told the Associated Press
that a spirit of mutiny prevailed among
a large portion of the army and that
the prisoners from Japan had been
saturated with revolutionary ideas by
agitators during their captivity and
were ripe for open rebellion.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
TOXIC HoNoRS SOLDIERS
First OFFICIAL Celebration for Army
Which ls Home From
ManehurIa
BY Associated Press.

by AbsOCiaIeu tTeHS.
TOXIC, Dec. II, 2 D. m.--The first Of
fetal celebration by the city In honor
of the soldiers that have returned from
Manchuria was held today. Field Mar
shal Oyama and Gen. Kuroki, together
with their respective staffs, were guests
of the guards division. Soldiers Of all
arms In field uniforms, 10000 strong,
with twenty-four guns, marched from
Hibiya to Uyeno park, a. distance of
three miles. All street car traffic was
suspended during the march. Despite
the unfavorable weather which pre-
vailed there was much enthusiasm
the shattered battle flags eloquently
testifying to the ordeals through which
each regiment had passed. A formal
ceremony was held at Uyeno park in
which the mayor of the city made an
address congratulating the Manchurian
army on its victories.
The expenses of the celebration were
betrayed by voluntary contributions
The event was Unprecedented in that
1t was the first time that Toxic saw
such a large army marched through her
streets at one time.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
TARTARS KILLED 1000
Details of Massacre OF Armenlans at
ElIzabethpol Depict Terrible
Scenes
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
PARIS, Dec. ia dispatch 10 the
Journal from Trebizonde, Asia Minor,
dated December IA. describes the
atrocities committed at Elizabethpol
in the early part of December. 1t says
that the Tartars attacked the Armeni-
ans December 2. The latter offered re-
sistance and endeavored to send their
families away. but all the fugitives
were massacred.
Street fights followed, and then came
house-to-house conflicts which lasted
for several days.
Finally the Tartars set fire to the
town, which is now mass of ruins.
The dispatch says IL is impossible to
count the dead, the number OF which is
estimated at 1000.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
STEALS WATCH; MISSES $500
Man Falls Asleep on Grass PIot-Pick-
pockets Take Valuable Gift but
Fall to Find Treasure

While asleep on the lawn of the Ar
cade depot late yesterday afternoon,
Elton Pendleton of Santa Monica was
robbed of a valuable gold watch; but
the thief overlooked 5000 in the mans
vest pocket just above the watch. PEN
dleton was partially awakened and
thought he felt his watch being taken.
Following behind an unidentified
man, Pendleton staggered for nearly a
half block crying in a thick voice that
the stranger had just relieved him of q
valuable watch. Pendleton and the
stranger were arrested by Patrolman
Block and sent to the central station in
charge of Patrolman Craig for investi-
cation.
Pendleton says he had been drugged
early in the day and in a semi-conscious
condition had wandered to the Arcade
depot, where he fell on the grass. Sew
eral hours later he was awakened bN
the stranger, who was bending over
him and extracting watch from his
pocket. The Santa Monica man claimed
that he saw stranger take the
watch and pass it to another man.
Think PendIeton Mistaken
Pendleton says that after the robber
had taken his watch and given it to
companion the second party disap-
peared and the robber coolly walked
away. 1t was then that the Santa
Monica man claims to have realized
what was taking place and at once be-
gan to follow the accused man.
According to witnesses, small crowd
was soon attracted by the cries of the
man. whom they supposed to be intoXi-
cated, following well dressed man ac-
cusing him of stealing watch. The
IN
flee, but walked toward patrolman.
He submitted to arrest and later, when
questioned by the detectives, told a
story the officers were inclined to be-
lieVe.
One OF the queer features of the case
was that Pendleton carried 5000 in cur
rency In an outside vest pocket and the
money was not taken. This added to
the fact that the supposed pickpocket
proved that he was i'm the employ of
wholesale house, convinced the off,
GERS that Pendleton was mistaken.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
STILL SURVIVES FALL
In San Francisco Still Clings
to Life
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1.-THE
surgeons at the county hospital have
Leen marveling today at the tenacity
with which the feeble spark of life
continues to flicker in the crushed and
shattered body of young Mrs. w. j.
Kenney That she lived at all after
her awful fall is also a cause for
wonder. In her conscious moments
she repeated her earlier story that she
had quarreled with her husband. from
whom she had separated, and that he
had hurled her from the fifth story
of the United States hotel. Her jaw
and arms We're fractured and she was
internally injured.
The doctors say she canot live
through the night.
She is % years old and became a
waitress after separating from Kenney.
who is a private detective. She said
her maiden name was Alice A. Selby
and that she was born in Virginia.
She has lived in number of eastern
cities.
Kenney has been arrested and the
police say he will be charged with
murder upon her death. He denies
that he threw her through the window
but admits that they quarreled be-
cause she refused to return to him.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
CONFESSES MURDER OF
AN AGED PAWNBR0KER
MONTANA YOUTH ADMITS THE
CRIME
Great Falls Young Man, Aged 19, I'M
plieates Several Prominent Resi-
dents Of the Town in This and
Other Deeds
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
GREAT FALLS, Mont, Dec. ia
special from Lewistown to the Tribune
says: James Sherman, aged 10, man
ager of the Argus Publishing COM
pany's stationery department, who was
recently arrested on suspicion of brut-
ally numbering Sam Studzinski, an
old pawnbroker, August %, for the
purpose of robbery. has confessed, i'm
plicating Dr. f. A. Long, dentist,
Walter Gooch. formerly night marshal
of the town, and Russell Hortop and
David Atchison, young men Of the
town, In the murder, as well as in a
postoffice burglary and many other re-
cent burglaries of the town.
The jewelry stolen from the Stud
zinski place was recovered today from
a place where 1t had been cached by
Sherman.
Roy E. Ayers, county attorney who
has been active in solving the murder
mystery, today made public the fact
that an attempt was made December
to poison himself and wife, 1t being
his theory that the attempt would put
him out of the case by killing or fright
ening him. Mr.. and Mrs. Ayers were
away from home until 2 a. m. and
when they returned found the house
had been entered. When Mrs. Ayers
took a drink from a bucket of water
she noticed a peculiar taste and an
analysis by a chemist revealed the
presence of large quantity of strych-
nine in the water.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
LITTLE WORK IN SENATE
Nothing of Importance Expected Be-
fore Christmas Holidays


WASHINGTON, Dec 1.-THE senate
will meet the wishes of the house for
an adjournment for the Christmas holi-
days on Thursday next Meantime
the senate will probably content itself
with comparatively little work unless
there should be difficulty in agreeing
with the house on the terms of the
Panama canal emergency appropria-
tion bill. That measure will go to a
conference committee early in the week
and there will be united effort to reach
q conclusion before the holiday adj
journment. The action of the senate
in attempting to eliminate the bond
provision and make a separate law of
it will probably be the principal bone
of contention in the conference COM
mittee.
The reorganization of the senate
committee will be announced Monday
or Tuesday. Senator Gallinger will
make an effort during the week to
have the merchant marine bill made
the unfinished business, not with a
view of securing serious consideration
of 1t before Christmas. but with the
end in view of having 1t in position to
be pressed when congress reconvenes.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
SUSPECT WOMAN OF ARSON
Lodging House Fire in San Francisco
Imperls the Lives Of Six
Persons

BY Nss0Ciated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17-Mrs.
Naomi G. Morgan is in the city prison
pending an investigation into a fire
this morning in her lodging house, 402
Geary street. Prompt work by the fire
department prevented the destruction
OF the building. The fire marshal found
that coal oil had been poured on cur
tains, carpets, walls and beds. Then 1t
was discovered that holes had been
bored in the floors of three of the rooms.
the ones in which the fire broke out
and that more oil had been poured into
these holes, lodging between the ceiling
of the floor below and the floor of the
upper story. which are separated by Il
space of nearly three feet
The lives of six persons living in the
house were 1mperiled by the fire.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
AnseIenos in San Francisco
By AssOciated Press

SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. H,-Phineas
Newmark. a prominent business man
of Los Angeles. Is registered at the
Palace.
II. IL. Ingram, general superintendent
of the Southern Pacific at Los Angeles,
arrived yesterday and is guest at the
Palace.
Mr.. and Mrs. Il. Avery Mccarthy are
registered at the Palace from Los An
geleA
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
TO PURIFY ELECTIONS
Seth Low Writes to Governor Higgins,
Making Suggestions for
Legislation
BY Associated Press.

ALBANY, N. Y, Dec. 1.-THE exec
utive committee of the Association to
Prevent Corrupt Practices at Elec-
tions," of which former Mayor Seth
Low of New York is chairman, gave
out here tonight a letter which has
been sent to Gov. Higgins, suggesting
legislation for the publication of cleo
tions which the committee regards as
desirable.
Attention is called to the fact that
bribery is alleged to be rampant at cleo
tions in many parts of the state and
it is asserted that the explicit anti
bribery provisions of the penal code
are disregarded, because no person has
motive for their enforcement suffi-
cient to make him invoke the criminal
laws against one who may be a neigh
Dor and a friend
Los Angeles herald., 1905-12-18
SPREE COST HIS LIFE
Man Gets Drunk and Lies in Camp
Fire for Hours Without
Awakening
BY Associated Press.

BY AHSoCIdIeu f'IesS
MARYSVILLH Dec. 17.-Michael
Day, aged 81 years. died at the Sutter
county hospital last evening after suf-
fering a week Of torture. After a
drunken carousal with two other men
on the river bank Day rolled into the
camp fire and lay there for several
hours until his companions awakened
from their drunken stupor and found
him. His flesh in places was cooked to
the bone and only his head escaped
scorching or burning.
He was so drunk that he made no
outcry while being burned and knew
of what had happened.