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Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02

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Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02
MANY AU7O|STS
ARE ARRESTED
MOUNTED OFFICERS MAKE A
BIG HAUL
TWenty-Nine Men Are Charged With
Violating Speed Ordinance on
Highway Between Los AM
geIes and Pasadena

Twenty-nine speed maniacS in large
touring cars were victims of Mounted
OFFICERS Mojonier and Berchtold yes
terday afternoon. This is the largest
haul yet made. On Pasadena avenue
the policemen on the motorcycles spent
the greater part of the day and many
wealthy and prominent citizens of the
city were caught violating the speed
ordinance.
On orders from the captain Of police
the officers betook themselves to their
motorcycles early In the day and visited
Pasadena avenue. Hardly had they
reached their destination before they
were forced to trail two large steamers
that were endeavoring to burn up the
road"
No opportunity was given the police
men for rest until late in the after
noon. A score and nine auto drivers
were run down by the officers during
the course of six hours and others say
that many more could have been ar
rested If the detail of officers had been
heavier
Heads of the police department are
more than pleased with the clever work
of Officers MoJonler and Berchtold
who had been detailed on motorcycles
to stop reckless autoists from using
public highways for speedways. The
offit have made arrests regardless
of whom drives or owns the machines
violating the speed ordinance.
Victims Grow indignant
Those arrested by Mojonier and
Berchtold yesterday are: H. Weiss,
2711 Budlong avenue; G. G.. Clineburg,
w. w. Watts, Il. G. Wilhelm, F. B.
Nickerson, A. j. Martz. w. c. Nevin,
Paul Koechlin, o. T. Zahn, w. Il. Cor
nett, Harry c. Turner, d. NJ. Lee, A. B.
Austin, p. Whiting, Mat Lubb,, j. L.
Need of Hollywood. N. B. Church, r. p.
Hillman, f. P. Fluffy, ]. B. Pell, D.
Ferguson, F.. c. Barker of 639 South
Grand avenue. B. j. Kuhl. h A. Erwin
OF the Van Nuys. d. C. McCan, c.
Stumpf, G. johnson, L. Alderman, #.
L. Forester.
The police say that Nevin has
been arrested twice previous to
yesterday and faces Jail sem
tence or a very heavy fine, left by the
law to the discretion of the Judge,
Nevin was indignant at the officers
when he was arrested, according to the
statement of the witnesses.
Kuhl was arrested the second time
yesterday and displayed great indigna
tion that the officers should nave
troubled themselves concerning him.
The policemen say that they will ar
rest all who violate the ordinance as
long as their present orders stand.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02
DISCHARGES SHOTGUN ON BUSY
CORNER; HITS ONE PEDESTRIAN

Fred Hanawinckers celebration of
New Years day took a peculiar turn
early last evening when he stood at
the corner of First and Main streets.
pointed shotgun toward the opposite
side of the street, and pulled the trig-
ger.
Hastings, an employe of the southern
Pacific company, received consid-
erable part Of the charge from Hama
winckei's gun. Hastings was wounded
In the legs, arm. ear and hand.
Hannwinckel is an employe OF the
street department Of the city. Accord
ing to the police he was intoxicated
and had no designs on the life of Has
tines or that of any other pedestrian.
Before aid could be secured Hastings
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02

bled considerably, but his injuries are
not regarded as dangerous
After the accident Hastings said. 81
was coming down Main street ano
stopped on the corner to light my
pipe. heard an explosion and felt
the shot strike my body. I felt nc
discomfort for some minutes after the
shooting, but then the pain was in
tense looked over across the street
and saw the man with the shotgun and
! went over and asked him why he
shot me. He said he thought the gun
must have gone off in his pocket. Hs
seemed to be very drunk"
Hanawinckel was taken to the police
station and locked up. He was much
frightened and reiterated the state
ment, "0h, l hope he won't die"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02
PRINTERS REFUSE
To MEET DEMANDS
EMPLOYERS SAY THEY CAN
SECURE MEN
Prevailing Sentiment Is That Shops
Will Close Rather Than Give
"Nine Hours Pay for Eight
Hours Work"

The strike situation of the printers
employed in the local job printing es-
Establishments was in a condition clear
ly defined yesterday. The sentiment
among the employing printers Is that
they will shut up their shops before
they will submit to the demands for
"nine hours pay for eight hours
work." as they call them.
One employing printer said last Sat
urday that there would be little trouble
In getting all the printers necessary
and that the only thing the employers
had to fear was the possible scarcity of
pressmen. which he did not think would
be serious enough to cause any shop
to have to shut down.
This seems to be the prevailing
opinion among the employing printers.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02

printing Offices in the city. Recently
IL Typothetae firms anticipated the
strike by locking out their hands and
they claim to have more than filled
the places of the union men.
Every one of our 1900 members.
with the exception Of rs, answered to
the eight hour day roll CALL" was tina
joint report given out today from three
union meetings.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02
CONTRACTS IN BALTIMORE
No Trouble Expected Until tho Latter
Part of February

BALTIMORE, Jan. 1.-Contracts thai
exist between the employing printers
OF this city and the Typographical
union will not expire until the latter
part of February, and no trouble be.
tween employers and employees is an.
ticipated before that time. The COM
positors here make $500 a week and
work nine hours day, and there is
said to be much dissatisfaction among
the men.
No predictions are ventured, how
ever, as to what will follow the ex-
piration of the present contract.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02
Washington Strike Begins January

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-Because OF
a special agreement between the Ty-
pothetae of Washington and the local
typographical union, January 4. and not
January /, is the date when the de-
mand Of the union that all shops be
closed to non-union men and placed
on an eight hour basis to be enforced
here. Most of the printing establish
ments in Washington are standing to-
gether in their opposition to the de-
mands of the union.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02
To Prove What SwampRoot, the Great Kidney Remedy Will
Do for YOU, Every Reader of The Los Angeles Herald
May Have Sample Bottle Sent Free by Mail.

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Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02
TYPoTHETAE is FIRM
Only Those Not Members in PhiladeI-
phia Yield
by Associated Press

Ry Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1.-Twenty-
four of the 100 printing firms in this
city have signed the agreement giving
their employees an eight hour work day.
These firms are not members Of the
Typothetae, the master printers or
ganization. The firms belonging to the
Typothetae refuse to concede the
shorter work day.
Although the printers strike, which
is national in scope. begins today its
extent will not be known until tomor-
row, because of the holiday There are
1900 members of the Typographical
union employed in the book and job
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02
Marine Engineer Found Dead

BY AsSocIated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jans 1-James
found dead in his bed at 1899 Market
street yesterday. Death is thought to
have resulted from heart failure. He
was 55 years OF age.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02
Strike Begins in Providence

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Jan. IA
strike of the union compositors of the
book and job printing shops, about 45
in number, occurred today because
their demands for an eight hour day
were refused.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02
Louisville Printers Walk Out

LOUISVILLE, Jan. 1.-Sixty job
printers, members of Louisville Typo
graphical union, went out on strike
today for an eight hour day and union
offices.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02
Eight-Hour Day in Columbus

COLUMBUS, Jan. 1.-Twenty-one
job printing offices in Columbus today
granted the eight hour-day.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-02

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Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-30
GREAT BOOM FOR LAWYERS
Huge Volume Of Litigation Over Fire In
suranoe Claims in San Francisco.
WEIGHING COMPANIES CALLED INTO COURT
Number of Needy People Steadily
Enthusiastically of Labor,
High Wages and Cost
>.~ of Living.

The legal profession Of San Francisco
Is assured an era of prosperity as long
profitable as that which skilled labor is
reaping from the reconstruction of the
city. A great volume of litigation, grow
ing out of fire insurance claims. is pour
ing in upon state and federal courts and
bids fair to clog the wheels Of justice. 1t
Is said that 5000 suits will be brought
against German companies which have
sought to wiggle out of their liability.
The losses of policyholders who looked to
Austrian and German companies for pay
ment are estimated at s2o,OOo,0oo Many
policies have failed to furnish any data to
guide those who are trying to recover.
1t viii be necessary not only to bring
these nations in the United States circuit
court in San Francisco, but to carry the
litigation into the courts of Germany and
Austria. In setting UP immunity under
their policies the German companies are
urging that the earthduake clause absolves
them.
plan has been adopted by the organ
ized policyholders to collect on policies
on a contingent fee. No polieyholder is
required to make any deposit OF payment
OF any kind, as It is explained, until the
company that owes the losses has been
compelled to pay. All the organizations
of polieyhoiders' have come to the conclu-
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-30

the advance in the cost OF building mate
rial than to the rise In wages. Any con.
tractor would have told him to the con-
trary. Contractors are refusing work
every week because they cannot be sure
of skilled mechanics, even at present high
prices, and they can't tell when the men
may strike for higher wages.
I'm most lines OF materials top prices
have been paid, but there seems to be no
top In wages. In many trades there is a
great scarcity of competent ment Mastor
plumbers complain that though they arc
paying IS a day to 1ourneymen, with 81 a
day 70 helpers, they kcapnot get men to
finish Their contracts.@ Scores of good
plumbers can get steady work here, and
the demand is sure to increase as big
buildings are begun,
what property owners object to strongly
is the ardent desire of labor unions to con-
tinue present conditions OF shortage and
high prices, Men who wish to build say
that unions should abolish Saturday half
holidays and permit Sunday or night work
at small. advance over regular wages,
instead OF exacting double pay, as at
present. Others are In favor of abolishing
the strict rules for an eight-hour day and
permitting men to work ten or twelve
hours at the regular hour rate. These men
claim that there is sure to be more work
In San Francisco than men to perform 1t
for at least two or three years. and 1t is
folly to adhere to ordinary union rules
made for natural conditions. What is
needed here is to rebuild the city as speed
lily as possible. II work that would ordi-
narily require five years can be done in
three years, the night work and Sunday
work should be permitted to anyone de-
string to do II.
The total increased cost OF living is
largely exaggerated The only difficulty is
for workingmen to find houses, but by
going across the bay to Oakland moderate
rents may be paid, and the cost of reach
Ing Oakland is little more than to reach
the districts near Golden Gate park"
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-30
""How / FOOLED NY BOSS
story of the Young Man who
Boasted of His Ability to
"SoIdier."


On a street car recently overheard
ine-looking young man OF about twenty
ne, telling two companions how he man
aged to cheat his employer out of an hour
and halfs time every day for over
year. This Is the substance of what he
aid:
and got, on an average. only about five
md half hours sleep a night This not
being sufficient. he managed to sleep an
hour and half each day during busi-
less hours
He went on to describe a large door
situated Just back Of the private ONCE
IN the store, which. when open, cut on
1uite little corner OF space in such a
way that he could seclude himself there
without danger of being seen. In this se-
eluded corner, seated In a chair. he took
a nap OF an hour and a half each day.
One Of his companions asked the young
man how he mana ged- to avoid detection.
He replied that the door opened into a
nassageway. and was never closed In the
daytime; that the boss never had ocea-
sion to look behind II. and that he would
not be likely TO miss one clerk among so
many; and that even II he did. there was
always someone who would give the sig
nal So together the young men man
aged TO cheat their employer out OF the
equivalent Of one mans entire time.
had been admiring this young mans
striking appearance before he told his
story. He had a splendid head. and a
very strong face. and had said 20 my
self. How / wish could tell that young
nan what great possibilities are before
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-30

sion that neither the Transatlantic. North
German of Hamburg. Rhine. and Moselle.
nor the Austrian Phoenix Of Vienna will
pay in full or a substantial percentage un-
less compelled by the courts.
The lawyers who are handling these suits
say that the German Austrian and Amen-
can federal courts will be clogged with
litigation OF this kind. Suits In Germany
must be brought individually and not on
assigned claims. Dispositions in thousands
Of cases win be taken in San Francisco.
Scores of lawyers may be employed In the
trials OF suits. Every sort of question con-
cerning the validity Of earthquake clauses,
the validity of insurance as an asset and
the actual cause of the several fires that
occurred in San Francisco, burning up
mercantile and residential districts last
April, will be thoroughly threshed out and
become the basis of judicial decisions on
both continents.
The Irony of Fate.
Judge Robert j. Tobin, one of the found
ers of the Hibernia bank of San Fran
| cisco, secretary of that institution for
| forty. years and one of the best known
| financiers on the coast, died recently, after
| a long illness. 1t was the irony of fate
that, in his last days a foolish run was
| begun on the bank In which he took so
much pride. This run soon stopped, as the
bank has the largest reserve of any on the
coast. 1t is suspected that ''welching" in
surance companies which the bank had ex-
posed melted the run for revenge. One
good result OF the exposure of the methods
OF the London and Lancashire Fire Insur-
ance company by the Hibernia bank is
that this big English company has agreed
TO settle all claims at s5 cents on the dol
lar. The Hibernia bank. which established
an agency to collect the insurance of Its
clients. found that the London and Lam
cashire had induced many poor depositors
TO accept 10 cents or so cents on the dollar
while 1t refused to pay larger claimants
The bank promptly advertised this fact
and announced that IL would loan nc
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-30

money on property insured in this COM
pany. This boycott so inquired the London
and Lancashire that It decided to pay prac-
tcally in full and has asked the Hibernia
bank to lift the boycott.
Few I'm Active Need.
That the percentage OF needy sdweilers at
the various permanent camps in San Fran
cisco is exceedingly small is demonstrated
by the fact that wherever the food kitch-
ems have been ordered closed. and infor-
nation circulated that the needy would be
cared for at the Speedway, only few
persons have applied to be Atransportedsto
the latter camp. With the closing of the
kitchens at Dudoce park and Washington
square, out of the go individuals who had
been fed at the restaurant. only seven APP
piled for shelter at the Speedway.
Rudolph spreckels. chairman of camps.
says; 1T only goes to show that the edlct
ordering the discontinuance of kitchens
was justified and 1 firmly believe that
when all the restaurants have been closed
II will be found that Ingleside will be more
than ample to accommodate all in need OF
help. We will then make the Speedway
one OF the self-supporting camps. Accord
ing to the plans Of remodeling the Ingle-
side buildings, we shall be able TO. care for
something like abOo refugees but my pres
ent opinion is that not more than SO will
want our aid"
The Labor situation.
The New York Tribune correspondent al
, San Francisco has this to say of the labor
situation:
''The promotion committee and Other
bodies have been active in spreading
throughout the east news that San Fran
cisco today offers the best market fol
skilled labor In this country. Various trade
unions however, have counteracted the In
| fluence OF this advertisement by declaring
that the high cost OF living more thar
counterbalances the advance in wages
The secretary OF the Building Trades asso
citation has even declared that the In
creased cost of building lis due far more Il
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-30

him II he is only equal to his opportun-
ity." Yet, on the very threshold Of his
career he was systematically cheating his
employer and glorying in his cleverness
in doing It.
There are tens of thousands of men in
the great failure army today, who thought
they were getting the best of their en-
ployer in their younger days because they
clipped their hours, shirked their work.
They thought they were going to get on
in the world just you do; but, before
they realized It, they had fastened upon
themselves the habit of cheating, of de-
ceiving, until they gradually became 80
dishonest that they not only were not pro-
NOTED, but either lost their positions as
well, or, when they started in business
for themselves, lost their credit their
standing, the confidence of others ana
gradually went to the wall. or landed in
the penitentiary.-O. s. Marsden in Sue
cess.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-30

to cling to one or several thoughts with
persistent tenacity. In this event he wears
out particular cells OF his best friend, and
where this habit is maintained he often
becomes a nuisance to his friends and fam
ny by developing into. what Is termed a
crank and at times he, exhausts these
same cells In this manner and lands in the
asylum. s-' ta l#- s.ec
Most people use their brains too much,
either in utter idle waste or in overeoncen-
trated work. and when their best friend
ing signs of fatigue they ply 1t with stim-
ulsnts which science or the distillery have
placed at their disposal Even under these
mean circumstances the brain, disgusted
though IL Is with such shabby treatment,
goes on doing the best II can for its owner
until temporary .insensibility, insanity or
death ensues
"It will be found that cooperation with
the brain In the process OF stilling thought
Is not as difficult as would be supposed, for
the brain will remain quiescent IL you will
only permit II, and become strengthened
thereby, just it will respond to the limit
of exhaustion when called upon. This
theory is very easily evolved into successfm
practice and commend IL TO men of active
will be found to lessen nervouse tension,
soothe the temper, promote appetite and
produce good nature in otherwise nervous,
toucy and disagreeable people washing
ton Star go
Omaha daily bee., 1906-09-30

ing effect such q mental process produces
upon his physical being. He really speaks
a greater truth than either he or the audi
ence takes in, for thinking is an effort, be
the thought in itself ever so frothy and
ephemeral, and could we lessen the process
of thought at will, as an engineer applies
the air brakes 10 his train. much OF the
trouble and disease In life would vanish
like the meadow vapor before the rays OF
the rising sun. at
1T is this impossible process entirely to
still what is called the thinking process
which is one OF the most interesting studies
OF the specialist, for 1t is plainly speak
ing, the inability of the individual to elm
mate certain thoughts. or a certain
thought. from the brain cells. or TO still 1t
into inactivity, which fills the insane asy-
lums, produces nervous wrecks in other
individuals and causes trouble, confusion
and chaos all around In everyday life.
persons to whom this fact appeals
should endeavor to take their own brain
into communion with their own selves, to
set 1t up as another person with whom
they may hold converse, and the objective
and subjective mind admits of this through
conscious action and in some happy and
fortunate individuals through unconscious
action.
"A little practice will make this possible
to the student, though his progress will
be by degrees and not in one jump He
should first understand that thinking is
largely matter Of habit. that the brain IL
one OF the most willing organs in his body
at his command. and, honest and faithful
as It is to him, will respond to his calls
upon 1t. He should therefore give it az
much needed rest as possible by the process
of sleep and during waking hours by moi
calling upon It for thought except wher
necessary. The average person will put ir
tremendous amount of unnecessary
thought effort upon the simplest everyday
matter OF life.
Again, he will allow his objective minC