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Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

% THEATRICAL announcement
M made this season has been Of
' such Importance to Los Angeles
as the word that Mrs. Fiske is to pre-
sent Leah Kleschna" at Temple audit
orium. This has been unquestionably
the greatest play of the season in New
York.
c. M. s. Mcclellan, the author, hawked
the play about the country for months
and no manager would accept 1t until
Mrs. Fiske took 1t and gave the theat-
rical syndicate the worst shock OF Its
existence by carrying off the honors OF
the year with something they had
"refused with thanks" The play is
now being produced in London where
its success is as great as 1t was in
New York.
Mrs. Fiske Is one of the anti-syndt-
cate stars who must find accommoda-
tions in any old barn handy because
of the corner in theaters. 1t will prob
ably mark the last event in the history
of Temple auditorium.
other good thllBS are dlso Ill s'oi'
for Los Angeles as the syndicate an
nounces John Drew and Nat Goodwin
for next month
e. d. Price of the Belasco theater
writes from New York that he has
secured a long list of the years metro
politan successes for production at the
Belasco. He hints also that negoti-
ations are under way for securing
several valuable additions to his stock
company.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

Financier."
BELASCO THEATER - advance
Announcement. At the Belasco for
the week beginning Monday evening,
the play made famous by Annie Rus
sell, 1.-THE Girl and the Judge" will be
presented. 1t is an absorbing story of
the love of the girl for "the Judge"
before whom she appears during the
suit for divorce between her mother
and father. Miss Margaret Langham.
who last week displayed wonderful
talent as the sewing girl Liza, will
have the part of 1.-The girl" Miss
Langham was understudy for Miss
Russell in this part during the two
seasons in which that star appeared
in the role and consequently Miss
Langham will give a finished perform
ance Joseph Galbraith will play the
part of "the Judge" Thomas Oberle
will have one of the strongest parts of
his local career and the others will be
suitably placed.
BURBANK THEATER - advance
Announcement. 1.-THE Imperial High
way" a romantic drama by Harry ID.
Cottrell, author of "In South Carliney'
and "The Financier," will be the at
traction at the Burbank theater for
the week beginning this afternoon. The
scenes Of the play are laid in the fanci-
full empire of Zenobia at the present
time, and two of the more prominent
Characters in the tale are Empress
Euphrene and Jack Melville. a hand
some young American, whose visit to
the country was made in search of ad-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

venture. He meets the young empress
and falls deeply in love with her-that
is, from distance. Her emperor is
a cruel, hard hearted ruler, profigate
and libertine, Empress Euphrene, new
er for a moment faltering in her fidelity
to Ponchas, the emperor, does not look
with eyes of favor upon the affection
of the young officer. In the meantime
the emperor meeting Jacks sister by
accident in the old tower of chateau
to which she had gone to meet her low
er, seizes her in his arms and she is
only saved by the timely arrival of her
fiance. She escapes from her lover and
supposedly ends her life in the river.
Jack comes upon the scene and learn
ing of the outrage rushes off in pur-
suit of his sisters traducer The bal
ance of the story tells of the sister, S
recovery and the emperor's death from
an unsound heart.
ORPHEUM (Advance Announce
ment)-Mme Slapoffski, the soprano
who made such a hit at the Orpheum
last season, returns next week with
eastern laurels. She made her Ameri-
can debut at the Orpheum and has
since been we'll received everywhere.
Lavender and Tomson will present a
funnyism entitled "A Touchdown" in
which young woman mistakes typi-
cal pug for a football player and en-
deavors to lionize him. Les Dahlias,
Partisan novelty dancers, will make
their first Los Angeles appearance.
May Vokes will continue in 'rhe Mod
ell Maid" for one more week. Ed Blon-
dell and Julia West will introduce new
eccentricities in 1.-The Country Visitor. "
Klein, OFT Bros. and Nicholson will fur
nish new music and William Tomkins
will have some new topical talks Mo-
ton pictures win complete the bill.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE advance
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21
The Weeks Bills

MAsON-"The Financier."
BFJAsCO-"The Girl and the Judge
RtIRBANI<-'The Imperial Highway
ORPHEUM Vaudeville.
cRAND-"Fast Life IN New York"
FISCHER S--Vaudeville
NGEbUs--Vaudeville
CHUTES-Band concert. Zoo,
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

Announcement)-"F Life in New
York" one of the most successful of re-
cent melodramas, in which Julian Rose,
the vaudeville star, appeared in New
York for several months, will be seen
for the first time on the coast at the
Grand for the week commencing with
Sundays matinee AS it's name implies,
this piece deals with the dizzy doings
of dashing danes and daredevil des-
peradoes, as well as the sorrows, self
sacrifices and subsequent successes of
soulful Sister Seraphine, and the trou-
bles, temptations, tortures and termin-
ating triumph of tall, truthful, tender,
terrible Thomas!
CHUTES.-(Advance Announcement
On Sunday afternoon the biggest sur
prise of the amusement season-as well
as the highest priced attraction which
the management has ever played-will
be given to the patrons of Chutes park.
1t is of musical nature, and the con-
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21
Coming Attractions

MASON OPERA HOUSE-(Advance
Announcement. Barney Bernard will
make his local debut as star in THE
Financier."
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

of the public lectures, will be devoted
to the subject "The Secret of the Ages"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

variably failed to secure the coveted
decoration.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-05-21

% THEATRICAL announcement
M made this season has been OF
such Importance to Los Angeles
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-08
KILLINGS ON THE RAILS.
Three Months Record of Preventa bic
Accidents on Railroads.
Ipdianapnlis NauyS


The Interstate Commerce Commission has
issued its regular quarterly bulletin Of the
railway slaughter of the country The
figures for the first three months of this
year thus given are 1,7S7 collisions and
1921 derailments-a total in three months
of more that 5000 accidents OF the kind
classed as preventable. The moral that this
points is so plain as to need no speclfica-
tion. These accidents" killed 232 people
and wounded S71S. II the country had had
a battle with such a casualty list It would
be the topic of the time. But this casualty
list is received in a way that is illustrated
by the statement of the secretary of our
State Board of Health. In nine days six
people died In New Orleans OF yellow
fever in the same time eleven died in
Indianapolis OF tuberculosis and nothing
was thought OF it-yet one is as presentable
as the other. Similarly when we kill our
hundreds and wound our thousands by pre-
ventable accidents In the course of railroad
travel nothing is thought Of it; we aecejt it
with the indifference of the oriental to
what he thinks is fate.
But besides these things the railroads did
others according TO the commissions re-
port. In other ways than by derailments
and collisions they killed and wounded peo-
Pile so that the total for the three months
was 900 killed and 1887 injured.
II has been signally demonstrated of late
that this awful slaughter is in large part
the result OF pure .recklessness and care
lessness, because one OF the best roads in
the country suffering from an accident an
nounced that II had made specific changes
In it's track equipments and further safe
guards-setting out at length the things
that It had done to insure safety All
which, OF course, was confession that the
unsafe condition had been allowed to pre-
vail until an unusually bloody engage
ment" suggested greater care.
| Il remains to be said that this record In
creases yearly; that is that each year we
| have not only more accidents than the pre-
ceding year, but more in proportion TO
travel. In marked contrast with railroad
trafic in Great Britain. The difference
cannot be on account OF stupidity; It must
be on account of recklessness,
The conclusion Of the whole matter Is
this: There will be no change in anything
until the people rise in their wrath and by
their courts inhict such punishment that
roads will be careful. That is what is
taught us by the history Of other countries.
Punish railroad accidents severely and the
result will be a reduction OF them to a
minimum. Human nature does not suffer
sea change by coming across the At
Iantic. Like causes produce like effects
anywhere In civilization.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-08
HORTH rHLNKING ABOUT.

The agitation against the Standard OIL
winter and resulted in the passage of
laws designed to protect the independent
refners and operators in the oil business
has precipitated contest that will end
with the building of pipe line from the
Kansas oil fields to Port Arthur. The
building Of a branch line from the Kan
sas oil fields to st. Louis and the con-
struction of a refinery there is also con-
templated as a sequence to the battle
against the Standard Oil.
The new pipe line, 1t is anticipated,
will go far toward relieving conditions in
the whole of the southwestern field. 1t is
the intention of the gulf pipe line people
to begin at once the construction Of stor-
age facilities throughout the field to the
capacity of more than 100000 barrels,
so as to enable all the plants which have
been taken over by a Pittsburg syndi-
cate to run full time.
The pipe line to the gulf will be a little
more than $50 miles in length and its
construction will involve an outlay of
about $6,5O0,OOO. The gulf pipe line con-
solidatiOn begins business with one-third
of the estimated production of the Kan
sas territory, but the Standard Oil COM
pany will still control much the greater
part of the output. Why cannot the
Omaha Commercial club take prelimi-
nary survey of the situation and ascer-
tain whether pipe line between Omaha
and the Kansas Oil fields is feasible and
whether, If it is feasible the necessary
capital can be interested in such a pro-
ject?
1t is an open secret that the greatest
advantage Kansas City enjoys over
Omaha is cheaper fuel In the matter of
coal the difference between Omaha and
Kansas City is 81 per ton, but Kansas
City not only has cheaper coal, but it
also has, or will have within very short
time, direct connection by pipe line with
the Kansas oil fields and with the nat
ural gas region.
With a pipe line to the oil fields of
Kansas and eventually a connection
with the oil fields of Wyoming, which
will by far exceed those of Kansas when
they are developed, the future of Omaha
as a great manufacturing center would
be assured for all time. 1t would seem
to us that these things are worth think
ing about.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-08
FoR 4 NEK EXCLUSION TREATY.

Our government has been informed
that the former Chinese minister to the
United States, WI Ting Fang has been
put by the imperial authorities of China
in sole charge of the negotiations look
ing to the renewal of the exclusion
There have been intimations that the
former minister has been largely instru-
mental in promoting the boycott move
ment against American goods, and this
will not be regarded as incredible by
those who are aware of the fact that
while in this country he repeatedly and
earnestly expressed his opposition TO the
policy Of Chinese exclusion. Being very
familiar with affairs here especially
commercial affairs, WI Ting Fang
would be very likely to counsel his
countrymen to strike at our trade as the
most effective means of securing favor
able consideration for the demand that
the exclusion policy be modified
1t is stated that the present situation
is causing the administration some ac-
tive concern. Reports have reached
Washington that the movement in China
against Americans is spreading and that
an ugly rancor against citizens of the
United States personally is being
brought into existence through the dis
tribution Of inhammatory placards pic
turing Cinnamon being pursued and NAL
treated by mobs of Americans. : So far
as the administration is concerned, it
has done all that can be done at present
to placate Chinese feeling. The exclu-
sion law is not now being as rigidly en-
forced as before the presidents order re-
garding 1t to the immigration authorl-
ties. But the more moderate course
adopted seems to have had little effect
upon the Chinese, If reports correctly
represent the situation.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-08
PERMANENT REFORM THE NEED.
National Supervision of Life InsUr-
ance Business.
rrriln

Public supervision of the insurance bust
ness is in the United States a function
of the state governments. The states have
officials usually known as superintendents
or commissioners of insurance, whose duty
1t is to inquire into the condition and meth
ods of the insurance companies doing busi-
ness in their respective states and to take
steps to compel amendment of their con-
duct or order them off in case 1t be found
that they are misbehaving.
The men who have been appointed or
elected to these offices have usually been
selected, not because of their expert knowl-
edge Of the insurance business-they gem
orally have had none-but for purely politi-
cal reasons. They usually have been chosen
for short terms, so that, commonly. they
have left office just as they were becom-
ing competent. The company investigated
has to bear the cost Of the examination.
The state commissioner, or superintendent,
on going to New York, or wherever the
company's headquarters are. has been re-
ceived by its officials with open arms, and
any little details which might arouse the
visitors suspicious were skllfully con-
cealed while apparently all the facts re-
garding the company's condition were laid
before him with engaging frankness. No
effort was spared to make his labors light
and his stay pleasant. Usually he has re-
turned home convinced that he knew all
about the company examined. while. as a
matter of fact, he was as ignorant of the
true inwardness of It's affairs as when he
came. ais has not been the result OF all
investiga' .ons but IL has been the result
Of most of them. The consequence has
been gross mismanagement and frauds In
the insurance business.
1t is proposed now 10 make an investiga-
ton of a different sort. Instead of the
| commissioner OF one state going alone,
| four-those OF Tennessee, Wisconsin, Ken
| lucky and Minnesota-intend to descend
| on the big New York life insurance COM
panies in a body. They say they intend
to make a thorough examination, and, by
working together and prohting by one an
| others suggestions and experience, they
\ should be able to get valuable results.
! But a single investigation by any num-
| beT OF states, though never so thorough
will hardly be sufficient to appease the
popular demand for more stringent regula-
! tion of the life insurance business which
| the Equitable scandal has evoked. A
strong sentiment in favor Of federal con-
| troll Of this business is springing up. The
| best way for the states TO check the growth
/ OF this sentiment is by reforming their in
! surance departments and making them per-
| manently efficient branches OF their gov
| ernments instead Of soft berths for politi-
clans.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-08
sAKHALIN A TRAGIC ISLAND.
Most violent of Russian Prisoners
Sent There from Siberia.


Most Violent of Russian Prisoners
Sent There from Siberia.
Pail Mall Gazette.
Sakhalin, the island which Japan has
taken, or rather retaken, from Russia Is
the place to which Russia sent its violent
convicts. The convict at Siberia has some
liberty to console him for his detention, but
the convict in Sakhalin none. When a
party of convicts (having been pronounced
violent" by the governor of the Siberian
station) is landed at Sakhalin the process
sion to the jail is as follows: First among
the prisoners come men with fetters on
their legs and linked together in pairs, the
clanking of their chains making lugu-
brious noise. Next come half a dozen
men, each without fetters, but secured by
the hands to a long iron rod. Then follow
female prisoners and after them the most
affecting part of the whole-the wives and
children who have elected to accompany
into exile their husbands and fathers. Be
hind them rumble "telegas," or rough
wagons, wherein are transported baggage
and those children who are too young or
infirm to walk
When on the march the prisoners are al
lowed three pounds of bread and one-half
pound of meat each day, and they are not
forbidden to receive aims. But when they
arrive at their destination their lot is a
pitiful one. Their cells are damp and
fungus covered, their food is less than the
allowance during the journey and their
work in the salt mines is most exhausting
Many Of the prisoners are very ignorant.
Few of them can read excepting the eau
casions, but they are all put to the same
laborious work and in the event OF their
being physically unable to perform their
allotted tasks their punIshments are very
cruel. The English cato -nine-tails" is
nothing to the terrors OF the "bodiga." "
In this instrument Of torture the prisoner
is so fixed that he can neither move nor
cry out and wire thongs bound at the end
with pointed tin strike his back at fire.
quent intervals.
Other tortures to which prisoners are
subjected are too dreadful to write about,
and during all these tortures the prisoner
is prevented by gags from obtaining even
the poor relief of a scream. Surely the
horrors of the salt mines OF Iletskaya are
nothing compared with the denominations OF
Sakhalin.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-08


There is no doubt that a very power
ful financial influence is being exerted in
behalf Of peace In the far east. II is
pointed out that the great banking in
stitutions of Europe have been boarding
gold, Of which their holdings have in.
creased during the past six months by
some S132, 100000. This is regarded as
one Of the surest indications that peace
agreement will be reached at the Ports
mouth conference. The view is that the
accumulation is clear evidence Of a
preparation for the large financing which
will be necessary on the declaration of
peace. 1t is believed to mean that the
great financial institutions Of the world
expect a definite and practical result
from the peace negotiations.
So far as Russia is concerned, IL is
well known that she can raise no more
money from foreign loans for continuing
the war. When the French bankers pos
itively refused to consider another loan
for war expenditure that closed the
money markets Of the world against
Russia. She can obtain little more
money at home and with a war expendi-
ture amounting to at least a million dol
lars a day there is manifestly in the
financial situation the strongest possi-
BILE argument for peace. With the war
ended the Russian government can get
all the money it may wish to borrow.
As to Japan, she has had no difficulty in
negotiating loans and today the money
markets would eagerly take any amount
the Japanese government might ask for.
That the financial influence will be
more or less potent at Portsmouth, par
dcularly with the Russian plenipotenti-
aries, is not to be doubted. 1t may, in
deed, be the consideration of greatest
weight with the cars ENJOYS, who must
have learned since they left Russia-and
there is reason to believe that they
have sought information on this point
how difficult, If not impossible, It would
be for their government to secure any
money for expenditure in war.
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-08
Personal NOTES.

Alexander r. Williams, who was known
throughout the United states as tho
"Evaporated Fruit King" has just died
at his home in sodus. n. Y.
Green bugs with pink legs and gray
whiskers are causing much trouble at Terre
Haute, Ind The Terre Haute highhal is
wonder in producing a variety Of color
tones.
j. Howard Larcomhe, at one time an
associate Of Thomas Scott the railroad
king and also Of Andrew Carnegie is
now working as a clerk in the Pension
Office at Washington.
Because he once saved his uncle's cat
from the unkind attentions Of gang Of
small boys, Joseph Figari. New York
fruit dealer, is returning to Italy to col
lect $4,000 inheritance.
Mrs Chadwick's creditors are to re-
ceive dividend of mills on the dollar.
It is said that Mr.. Alexander Of the
Equitable has lost forty pounds of flesh
since his troubles began.
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon has accepted
the invitation Of University of Illinois TO
preside at the Federal day meeting. Oc-
tober II, in connection with the installa-
tion of Edmund ]. James as president Of
the university.
DIR. Joseph Spencer kennard Is 10 nave
the distinction OF being knighted by the
king Of Italy at the next levee. Or. Ken
nard recently removed from Philadelphia
to Tarrytown N. Y, and his novels in the
italian tongue have received greater roy
alities than any novelist, save DAN
nunzio.
The grave Of William Hurry who on
July 1, 1776 rang on the old liberty bell
the peal that proclaimed liberty through
out the land, has been found in the burial
ground OF Pine Street Presbyterian church,
Philadelphia The Daughters OF the Revo.
luton, Colonial Danes and Sons OF the
Revolution have taken II in charge and
the plot will be put in good condition and
cared for.
Sergus Witte, the czars penpotentiary
in the peace conference to be held at Ports
mouth, N. H. is said to be the handsom.
est of Russia's notable men; indeed, he is
thought to resemble the magnificent Alex
ander III father of the present czar. He
is a very large man and remarkably well
proportioned AS straight an arrow, he
carries himself with a consciousness of his
superiority that is most irritating to a good
many people in Russia and is overwhelm-
ingly oppressive to the masses
Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-08

should draw upon her the hostility Of
western powers would place her in a
most dangerous position. Whatever ef-
forts japan may make to protect Ash
attic countries against foreign aggression
and to advance their material growth
will be for the good OF the world. There
could be no reasonable objection to an
Asiatic policy modelled upon our Monroe
doctrine, which does not interfere with
the commercial relations of the countries
to which It applies with other countries
and simply safeguards their territory
and their political institutions. The
United States would hardly hesitate to
acquiesce in such a policy in the far east