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Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
REBUKES
CITY COUNCIL
DISAPPR0VES OF DILAT0RY
TACTICS
Urges Municipal Legislature to Be
Prompt In Meeting at Hours
Prescribed In Rules Of
the Body

The city council was roundly scored
yesterday morning by the Municipal
league for failure to hold sessions at
hours required by law. The members
of the council sheepishly admitted that
the rebuke was deserved and promised
to do better in the future.
The council has never been over
prompt in opening its session and dur
ing the last few months has been grow
ing worse in this respect. The meet
ings are scheduled to be held at 10
o'clock Monday morning and O'Clock
Monday afternoon, but lately it has
been IL o'clock in the morning and
o'clock in the afternoon before any at
tempt has been made to meet, and this
has frequently proved a serious incon-
venience to persons who neglect their
business to be present at meeting
when some problems affecting their
districts are up for consideration.
In resolution to Theodore Summer
land, president of the council, the
municipal league said:
LAS you are no doubt aware, people
who have business with the council are
very much annoyed at the delay and
irregularity of the council meetings.
Instead of calling the meetings at 10
a. m. and 2 p. m, as the rules of the
council provide. they are never called
before 10:30 and 2:30 and frequently
adjournments are taken for lack of a
quorum.
"The Municipal league believes that
1t Is entirely within your individual
POWER, as president of the council, to
put a stop to this bad practice, and
1t urges that you adopt the following
policy:
Let the time be fixed at which the
council will regularly meet. II 10
o'clock and o'clock are too early, let
1t be 10:30 and 2:30, but change your
rules so as to correspond, so the pub
lie will not be misled.
AT exactly the hour set, without a
moments delay, you take the chair and
call the meeting to order. Let the
clerk call the roll and enter upon his
record those who answer to their names
In person, those absent on leave and
those absent without leave. If there
is no quorum, declare an adjournment
to sometime not more than fifteen min
utes in the future, and then again take
the chair and make a second record of
who are present and absent.
"The Municipal league will compile
and publish, once a month, an attend
ance average for each councilman,
based on the record thus kept The
league will also send a memorandum
of this attendance to each daily news
paper and it will, no doubt, be gener-
ally published.
Kindly let us know as soon as possi-
BILE whether you regard this plan as
practicable, and if 50, we would sug-
gest that you give official notice to
that effect at the next meeting of the
council.
copy of this letter to each member of
the council and to the city clerk"
The council unanimously adopted the
resolution aud it was at once put into
effect by the president calling the af-
ternon session for 2 o'clock.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
SAYS HUSBAND is A GAMBLER
Woman Tells Story of Desertlon by
Spouse-Granted Decree
of Divorce

After twenty years of married life,
Mrs. Catherine 1. Pierce of Los An
geles, yesterday decided that single
blessedness might, under certain cir
cumstances. be far preferable to the
life of married woman, and accord
ingly asked Judge Wilbur in depart
ment eight of the superior court for n
decree of divorce from Irving L. Pierce
MY life was that of the gamblers
mate" said Mrs. Pierce yesterday on
the witness stand. I'VE were married
in New York in 1885. My husband. as
very soon learned, was a gambler
by profession, and he went from place
to place trying his luck.
"In Los Angeles, five years ago, he
deserted me. 1t was New Years day
and he left the house and never came
back. He is now in Alaska, and still
gambling
The decree was granted.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
DISAPPEARS WITH WAGON
Horse and Vehicle Found Later, but
C. w. Carey, New Laundry Driver,
Cannot Pc Located

G. w. Carey, young man from Chi
cago, was hired last Thursday by the
Los Angeles Laundry company as
driver for one of their wagons. lie
was instructed to accompany one Of the
old drivers Friday morning to learn
his route, but went to the stable at m
early hour and took out the team with
out waiting for the regular driver
This was the last seen of him by the
company employees.
Later in the afternoon the Los An
geles- Pacific Express company tele-
phoned to the laundry company that
its wagon was on their premises, wher'
It had been left that afternoon.
Another telephone call from Half
mans yards ON Buena Vista street
gave the information that the horse
had been left there by a man who Was
evidently insane.
A warrant for the arrest of Carey
has been issued, but he has not been
located.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
WILL BUY VOTING MACHINES
City Council and Supervisors Agree
Upon Plan for Purchasing New
Eduipment

When the next election is held in
Los Angeles it is probable that every
vote cast will be handled by voting ma
chimes. The city council yesterday
voted to pay half the cost of 103 new
voting machines to be used in the city,
the board of supervisors of the county
government paying the other half.
These machines will cost about 500
each and the city's share of the eX.
pense will be about $4,000.
At a joint meeting of the board of
supervisors and five members of the
city council last week the question of
buying these machines was agreed up
on. There now are thirteen votius'
machines in use and with the new sup
ply there will be one for each pre-
cinct with a few left over in case of
emergency. These machines cannot pe
delivered for year and their cost will
come out of the next appropriation.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
CITY SUFFRAG|S7S
CHOOSE LEADER.
MRS. MARY KINNEY SUCCEEDS
LATE MRS. OSBORNE
Delegates Chosen to Attend County
ConVention-Representatlon
Will Be Had at State
Assembly

Mrs. Mary A. Kinney was chosen
to succeed the late Mrs. Mabel ".
Osborne in the presidency Of the Los
Angeles City Equal Suffrage associa-
tion at meeting of that organization
held yesterday afternoon at the Wo-
mans club house.
Mrs. Kinney has been prominent in
various occasions has occupied the
chair during the absence Of Mrs Os-
borne. She is prominent In reform
president of the w. G. T. U. She Is
at present at the head of the South
ern California branch of the work
and Is also a prominent member Of
the Wednesday Morning club.
Resolutions of regret over the death
Of Mrs. Osborne were passed and a
copy will be sent to the mother of Mrs.
Osborne, Mrs Bates.
Delegates were elected to attend the
county convention which will meet in
the Woman's club house October 70.
The presidents of the eight ward clubs
and eight others, Mesdames Eliza Tup-
per Wilkes, Charlotte Wills, Caroline
M. Severance, Rebecca Spring, E. H.
Howard, H. G. Wadleigh, Pickett, Ed
wards, Moore, Paine, Phillips, Nc
Cracker, Garbut, Stark, Matherne,
Hunter and DR.. Kate Wilde were
chosen.
Arrangements were also made for
sending delegates to the state suffrage
convention to be held in San Francisco
October 20 and 81. Among those al
ready chosen to represent the organ
ization are Mrs. e. H. Howard, Mrs
Bates, Mrs. Lucy Pile Little, Miss Jes-
sic Anthony and Miss Fanny Wills.
The resignation of Mrs. Alice Broad
well as corresponding secretary was
accepted.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
THROWS STONE INTO A CAR
Albert K. Moore, Negro Lad, is Fined
SIS for InduIsng in Danger
ous Pastine

Albert X. Moore was fined SIS by
Justice Pierce yesterday on a charge of
disturbing the peace, preferred by
Deputy Sheriff Bert Franklin.
Moore, in company with several men
older than himself, went to Il meadow
near the Redondo tracks and Western
avenue Sunday afternoon, and while
the men opened keg of beer the boy
threw stones at a rail fence nearby.
One of the missiles struck a Redondo
car, crashed through the window and
hit a passenger in the face.
The passenger could not be found, and
the deputy sheriff made the arrest and
swore to the charge.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
NOT ONE CENT IN ID YEARS
Mrs. Josephine 3. Hatch Secures a
Divorce on Ground of Failure
to Provide

Mrs. Josephine B. Hatch, a Los An
geles manufacturer of fashionable toilet
articles yesterday petitioned for de-
cree of divorce from Charles r. Hatch
before Judge Trask in department five
of the superior court, charging neglect
and failure to provide.
The couple were married in the east
twenty years ago. According to the
evidence of Mrs. Hatch, her husband
had not given her one cent for her
support during the past fourteen years,
and during that time she had made her
living by the manufacture of toilet
articles.
She deserted him several years ago.
The decree was granted.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
PASADENA JUSTICE RESIGNS

Roscoe P. Congdon, justice of the
peace of Pasadena, yesterday rendered
his resignation to the board of county
supervisors, asserting as a reason that
his business as an attorney demanded
his entire time. 1t is alleged by friends
of the young justice that a recent dis
turbance between the mayor of Pasa-
dena and the justice is in a great
measure responsible for Congdon's de-
sire to quit his office.
The resignation was taken under ad-
ViSement.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
GETSNO BUSINESS
WITHOUT 'M0OS|C'
MERRY Y-GO-R0UND OWNER IN
DIRE STRAITS
Ordinance Recently Passed by Council
Reduces Old Man. to Poverty-HIs
PitifuI Plea Wins Friend In
President SummerIand

Out of bread. out of money, out of
business and can't get out of town, is
the embarrassing situation in which
Thomas Watkins has found himself as
result of an ordinance regulating
rry-go-rounds passed at last weeks
meeting of the council.
Watkins appeared before the council
yesterday to plead his own case, and
in broken English told of the direful
straits in which he found himself since
the council had decreed that a merry
go-round should not exist within 300
feet of a dwelling, and that no music
should accompany 1t.
Der little schildrens will not come .c
my merry-go-round mitoudt der
moosic," faltered the shabbily clad old
man, land der vas no blace in der city
where / may put my machine midout
being closer dan 300 feet to a house. ]
can't make no moneys and I can't get
oudt Of town midout my machine. /
can make der moosic not so loud If you
will only let me run der merry-go-
round"
SummerIand Has Tender Heart
At this point In the recital of his woes
President of the Council Summerland
took off his glasses and wiped them
vigorously and then blew his nose until
the sound re-echoed through the coun-
Gil chamber.
The president of the council has a
heart as soft as wax and his sympathy
is always with the under dog.
1T run the machine in der Seventh
ward for eight weeks und no vun
kicks continued Watkins. "I move
him to der Fourth ward and dey kick
in two days"
The Fourth is Mr. Summerland' 8
ward, and this inuendo struck home.
well have to give the old man some
relief" said Mr. Summerland. Lets
take a reces for five minutes and talk
it over"
The city attorney and all his assistants
were called into the council chamber,
and Mr. Summerland and Watkins lob
bied among the individual members of
the council. The councilmen consid-
cred it a huge joke, but it meant bread
and butter and small beer to the oper-
ator of the merry-go-round, and when
the decision was finally reached that
the council could take no action on the
question the old man appeared heart
broken.
go ahead and run your machine
without the music and I'll stand re-
sponsible for it," said Mr.. Summerland
in desperation.
Even this was a concession that he
had hardly expected, and Watkins left
the council chamber a happier man
than when he had entered it.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
For Two and Two For

The Wife-It is very strange, dear. Be
fore we were married l used to love the
odor of your cigars, and now / simply
cannot bear 1t.
The Husband-There's nothing odd
about that. When l had only myself to
take care of 1 could buy good cigars.
Now 1 have to smoke two-fors.-Le Rire.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03

Missouri, according to the United States
fish commission, is the greatest frog pro-
ducing state in the Union. The commits
sion recently began an investigation to
learn the best methods and find the best
places for frog propagation. The experts
employed on the work have found Mis-
souris climate to be better adapted to
the raising of frogs than that of any
other state. Arkansas comes second
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
Naturally

Patient-WelI, doctor, do you think I'm
getting we'll all right?
Doctor-Oh, yes: you still have a good
deal of fever, but that doesn't trouble
'"Of course not II you had a fever it
wouldn't trouble me."-Le Journal
Amusant.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
Please Take n Peep

In our window and then come in to the
Art Gallery and revel among the pictures.
We are ali ready to welcome you to this
department. The chairs are easy and the
collection of Oils, Pastels. Water Colors,
worth your while. Look as long as you
like. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 357 South
Broadway.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
SCOTT'S EMULSION
SCOTS Emulsion
SCOTS Emulsion
SCOTS Emulsion
SCOTS Emulsion
SCOTS Emulsion

the old story, told times
without number and repeated
over and over again for the
last thirty years. But it's
always a welcome story to
those in need Of strength and
health. There's nothing in
the world that stops wasting
diseases as quickly as Scott's
Emulsion.
SCOTT & BOVINE. 400 Pearl Street. New York.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03

insurance Company in acknowledgements
of contribution to the fund being
raised to fight yellow fever in Vicks-
burg and vicinity:
CITIZENS COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC
HEALTH.
Col J. J. Hayes Chairman.
S. N. Collier, Esq, Secretary.
Vicksburg, Miss, Sept. %, '05.
Mr.. Richard A. McCurdy, President of
the Mutual Life Insurance Company
of New York, New York City.
Dear Sir:
Your highly valued favor Of the Sth
instant was duly received and in behalf
of our Committee I desire to tender
you our sincere thanks for your prompt
response to our request for aid.
Your reply was all the more accept
able for the reason that several other
large Life Insurance Companies de-
clined to aid us, on the ground that
they did not feel authorized to use the
Society's funds for such a purpose.
1t is hard for us to understand how
any Company can fail to take the same
view of the matter which you do. Our
Association is an organization of busi-
ness men here who are undertaking to
fight the yellow fever under the direc-
tion of the Marine Hospital Service. 1t
Is not a charitable organization in any
sense but rather commercial body,
and it seems to us that no one is more
largely interested than Life Insurance
Companies in the fight we are making;
the loss of the smallest policy holder
would cost any Life Company much
more than the subscription for which
we ask. We can conceive of no invest
ment that a Life Company could make
which would yield such large returns
While it might be argued that a Life
Company would establish a precedent
by contributing to a fight of this kind
at one place and be, in a measure,
obliged to respond to similar requests,
we think that, as a business invest
ment, the Company could do nothing
which would advance it's interests and
those of it's policy holders so much as
to contribute to stamping out an cpl
demio of yellow fever in every COM
munity where it has policy holder.
We beg again to thank you for your
letters and contribution.
We are glad to report that the fever
is making very slow progress here and
we have every encouragement to think
that we shall be able to hold 1t in
check by the vigorous measures which
are being carried out under the direc-
tions Of the Marine Hospital Service.
Yours very truly,
]. j. HAYES.
(Trom New York Tribune.)
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
THEY CAME, COVERED WITH
MORTAR

+ Police Judge Austin almost lost :
I his temper yesterday afternoon.
q He had sent the bailiff four times ,
I for Patrolman Glenn and Police .
! Surgeon Bonynge, who were prin- J
+ clpal witnesses in the case of Ed
Williams, arraigned on the charge
Z of vagrancy. At last the judges .
+ patience wore out and he leaned .
+ over to the court bailiff and said: !
I Bring those men If you have to
put them in irons"
/. The bailiff obeyed. Covered with !
|. mortar from head to foot the two !
I delinquents We're brought into the .
/ court room. One look was enough
/. for the judge-he understood. !
( While ascending the stairs to /
+ the temporary court room DR.. !
Bonynge and Officer Glenn were I
literally buried beneath a hod of (
4 mortar, which had slipped from !
/ the hands of hod carrier. !
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03

Generally friendly compromise is
based on the fear you will get some
thing worse IL you don't.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03
LIFE INSURANCE
AND YELLOW FEVER
MutuaFs Contribution to the Vicks-
burg Public Health
Camnainn

Col. J. j. Hayes, Chairman of the
Vicksburg, Miss, Citizens Committee
of Public Health, has written the fol-
lowing letter to Mr.. Richard A. Nc
Curdy, President of The Mutual Life
Insurance Company in acknowledgment
of a contribution to the fund being
raised to fight yellow fever in Vicks-
burg and vicinity:
CITIZENS COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC
HEALTH.
Col: j: j.. Hayes, Chairman.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-10-03

(From New York Tribune.J
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-17
GUNNERY is MARVELLOUS.
Thirteen Shots a Minute Land, IA
Shots Fired.

New York, June 10.-All records for
shooting with five inch guns were
broken by four gunners Of the first
class battleship Kentucky on the
northern drilling grounds, 20 miles
outside Sandy Hook, last Thursday.
One gunner, with IA shots a minute,
hit the target 10 times. The second
gunner fired 10 times per minute and
hit the target each time. Two other
men had each IL hits out of 10 shots
a minute. The range was 1000 yards,
and the target was 81 feet by II feet,
consisting of a painted muslin screen
and floated on a raft.
Rear Admiral Evans, who was in
command of the squadron, said:
eff the squadron had been firing at
an enemy, there would have been nc
enemy in half an hour"
Rear Admiral Evans said that the
squadron also established a new wire
less telegraph record for warships. He
said that while at Newport News the
Kentucky communicated with the
cruiser Maryland off Cape Cod, Mass.
500 miles away. An so word message
was received without break.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-17
Private Car Lines.

The railroads seem very willing to have
the private car lines brought under
the jurisdiction of the Interstate Com
MERGE Commission. A railroad presi-
dent is authority for the statement that
lines are paid mileage, without dis
elimination, and the question of ex-
cessive charges is matter for the ship
per to settle with the car lines, so long
as there is no law to govern their rates.
Car milage paying has been decided to
be as legal as the payment of rental for
property.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-17
GROWS WIRELESS POTATO.
Can Supply New Tubers at Any Sea-
son OF Year


A Great Falls, Mont, man has pro-
duced potatoes without vines, and as
serts that he is now able to supply
new potatoes for the market at any
season of the year. The inventor will
not reveal the process in detail. He
has conducted his experiments in a
box AXIS feet, in which mere is a steam
coil for heating
He states that he has succeeded
after much experimenting, in perfect
ing a compound resembling soil that
when heated is fertile field for the
development of plant life. In layer
of this compound he plants potato
eyes, then another layer of the COM
pound with more potato eyes, and so
on until the box is filled. He claims
that in this compound potatoes grow
without any portion of the vine or
sprout appearing above the surface;
that all growth is in tubers and that
it is not necessary for either light or
air to reach the potatoes at any stage
of their growth, elements in the com
pound serving the purpose of oxygen
At first the potatoes, when exposed
TO the air, rotted quickly, but now
this has been overcome, he says, and
his experiment is an unqualified sue
cess after many years. Those who
saw the box he exhibited showing pc
tatoes in varying stages of growth
were greatly impressed with the re
suits. A Chicago man has offered hin
100000 for his inventions, he says.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-17

There is a curious burial custom
among the Mordovinians, who inhabit
the middle Volga provinces of Russia
and are professedly Christians. They
believe that a relative 40 days after
his burial returns to his old home.
Failing his visible return the next Of
kin personates him, dressed in his
clothes, and processes to deliver SOL
emn messages from the other side Of
the grave.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-17
Admiral Rojestvensky.

Fifty-seven years old, Admiral Pc
trovitch Rojestvensky has long borne
the reputation of being one of the
most cool headed and scientific naval
officers in the Russian service. He
became a popular hero in the Russo
Turkish war; when he distinguished
himself in 1877 by an attack. under
Baronoff, on the Turkish ironclad in
his gunboat, the Vesta. He had made
gunnery his special study, and was
one of the most brilliant cadets in the
artillery academy.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-17
BAD SHELLS AND POOR FOOD.
Russian Ships Said to Have Been
Handkerchief

Russian Ships Said to Have Been
Handicapped.
The st. Petersburg telegraph
agency has received a dispatch from
it's Shanghai correspondent, who as
serts that not only were the Russian
ships so short of shells that they
could indulge in but three target prac-
tees after leaving Libau, but that dur
ing the battle of the sea of Japan
many projectiles either fell short or
failed to infiict damage on the Japa-
nese vessels.
A number of mutinies occurred dur
ing the voyage of the Russian squad
rons, especially on the battleship Orel
and the converted cruiser Ural, owing
to the quality of food served to the
crews.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-17

Assemblyman Tighe's letter should be
uous life.
Hon. John Tighe, No. 90 Remsen St.,
Cohoes, N. Y, Member of Assembly
from the Fourth district, Albany coun-
ty, n. Y, writes as follows:
"Peruna has my hearty Endorsement
as restorative tonic of superior merit.
At times when 1 have been completely
broken down from excess of work, so
that my faculties seemed actually at a
etandstill, Peruna has acted as heal
ing restorer, starting the machinery of
mind and body afresh with new life
and energy.
81 recommend 1t to a man tired In
mind and body as tonic superior to
anything 1 know of and well worthy
serious consideration. ~. Tighe.
Excess of work so common in our
country causes impaired nerves, lead
ing to catarrh and catarrhal nervousness
"a disease that is responsible for hall
of all nervous troubles.
Peruna cures this trouble because it
cures catarrh wherever located.
If you do not derive prompt and sat
isfactory results from the use OF Peru
ma, write at once to DR.. Hartman, Civ
ing full statement of your case, and
he will be pleased to give you his valu'
able advice gratis.
Address DR.. Hartman, President Of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, .
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-17

Edmond Beall has been elected may
or of Alton, Mo-. his plurality being
10 votes. Mr.. Beall owns what are
known as the "Storknest" flats, which
he prefers to rent to families with chill
dren. His ideas in regard to this mat
ter won him many votes, nearly all
the married women in town having
been workers in his behalf.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-17

Farmer Geehaw-You folks seem to
like your new parson.
Farmer Giddap-Yep; he's a practi-
cal man. He reached us in the midst
of a turrible drouth.
Farmer Geehaw-An' started in to
pray fer rain, l s'pose?
Farmer Giddap-No; he didn't. He
got up a Sunday school picnic.-Louis'
Vile Courier Journal.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-06-17

Kansas City continues to grow as
hog market. March, the first spring
month, is ordinarily quiet month in
the hog pens, but the past month was
an exception to this rule. Trade in
hogs showed good life from its open
ing to it's close. The total receipts
were 25S, 4O4, against 199,S52 last year.