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Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-29
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By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
DENVER, May 2S.-Nearly $50 dele
gates were in attendance at the OPEN
ing session of the thirteenth annual
convention of the western federation
of miners. which assembled here today,
and many of them hold proxies from
unions which have sent no delegates.
j. C. Williams of Grass Valley, Cal,
acting president of the federation,
called the convention to order. The
sessions will be executive, as in pre-
vious years, unless otherwise ordered
by the convention itself. In many re-
spects this is the most important con-
vention of the federation since it was
organized at Butte, Mont, thirteen
years ago.
1t is tacitly agreed among the mem
bers that Charles H. Meyer, president,
and William d. Haywood, secretary and
treasurer, who are inJprison in Idaho
awaiting trial on the charge of COM
plicity in the assassination of former
Governor Steunenburg, will be re-elect-
ed No other candidates for these Of
fees have been mentioned and the elec-
tion of Meyer and Haywood is expected
to be made unanimous.
President Welcomes Delegates
At the opening session this morning,
yer trades and labor assembly, deliv-
cred an address of welcome, to which
responses were made by some of the
officers and delegates.
In his address to the delegates, Act
ing President Williams referred to the
Incarceration of President Meyer Sec
retary Haywood and George A. Petit
bone i'm Boise on the charge of COM
picity i'm the Steunenburg murder, and,
holding button such as was worn by
each of the delegates. he read there
from: Their only crime is loyalty TO
the working class"
Upon this convention, he declared,
depended the future of the Federation,
and it is for the delegates assembled to
form the destiny of the metallifarous
miners.
After the appointment of a commit
tee on credentials a recess was taken
until afternoon.
Before adjournng today the follow.
ing resolution was sent to Haywood,
Mover and Pettibone:
I'VE, the delegates of the Western
Federation of Miners, I'm convention as
sembled, send greeting and unanimous
ly express our confidence i'm your in
nocence.
(Signed) JAMES KIRWIN,
Acting Secretary"
--s-ss---
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-29
FIGHT TICKETS
BEING REDEEMED
FANS RECEIVING RETURN OF
MONEY
only Those Who Are Believed to Be
lmposters Are Refused-Me-
Carey BIsmes Herrera
and Jacobs

As fast as the fans present their
claims. the Pacific Athletic club is
paying off holders Of tickets for seats
at the Nelson-H Hoorahrah fizzle Friday
night
Regardless of the fact that many of
the fans have no checks for redemption,
the club officials and Manager Me-
Carey are so anxious that everyone be
fully satisfied that they are paying off
all claims without serious question,
and although 1t Is expected that this
operation will require more money than
was taken in at the seat sales, every
honorable effort will be made to do the
square thing because of the future of
the sport.
McCarey was at his office yesterday
presenting visible evidence of the wear
and tear effect upon him of the sights
and scenes of the Friday night flzzle,
but he was as game as ever and the
only time he hazarded smile of at
tempted a guffaw was when someone
suggested the possibility of i'll effects
upon the sport because of the nasty
mess caused by the Mexican and his
manager
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-29
McCarey Not to Blame

McCarey Not to Blame
The bearing of McCarey, Nelson and
Nolan throughout the affair has served
n double purpose and incidentally add
ed to their laurels as honorable par
ticipants and promoters of the sport
1t was argued for q time that Nc
Carey was partly to blame for the
fiasco because he failed to provide more
than one pair of scales for the fighters
TO weigh in on. That this contention
is erroneous is proven because Nc
Carey had no more right to interfere
or even suggest anything regarding the
Weighing in business than did any out
slider. That was for the fighters and
their managers to arrange and they
only had any authority i'm this matter.
Il took up Herrera when he could
not get OH elsewhere and pushed him
to the front, making him a champion
ship possibility" said McCarey yes
terday. 81 counted greatly upon his
and gratitude and expected
him to deal honorably with me, and
would have bet $4,000 that he would
not give me the worst of it.
81 could have given Kid Herman the
fight with Nelson, but instead / gave
it to Herrera. My reward has come
and it begins to appear as if 1t had
not all reached shore yet. Herrera
and Jacobs have cost me a tidy sum
and forced me to lose thousands where
/ should have profited in an equal
but L have squared ac-
counts and the entire loss is charged
up to Experience, that dear old teach
er of us all.
mo, just now 1 am not considering
Herrera for future fight dates and un-
til 1 become crazy with the heat l am
real sure L shall not do so. / don't so
up against the same game twice after
getting what was handed to me Friday
night.
"They say 1 should have had more
than one pair of scales in my office
for the boys use, but it would have
made no difference. The scales were
all right until Jacobs examined them
and if there had been one hundred pail
there he might have examined them all
and if he and Herrera intended to job
the fight they would not have weighed
in under any sort of circumstances.
Had Herrera and Jacobs wanted to
do the square thing they could have
in as did Nelson, at some other
place. What is fair for one is fair
for another And if Herrera had want
ed to do right he would have accepted
Nelson's offer to fight at 140 pounds.
1t looks queer to me. You know what
/ mean?'
Herrera Loses Friends
1t looks queer to lots of others, too.
Even the stanshest admirers of the
Mexican previous to Friday night now
admit that he exhibited streak of
yellow they would not have before
credited him with possessing.
1t has developed that his refusal to
weigh in was not stubbornness, but
because he was over 140 pounds and
could not, therefore. accept the propo-
sition of Nelson to fight at that weight,
which is nine pounds over the stipu-
lated weight.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-29
PIrrssuRe's GAME POSTPONED

BY Assoclated Press.
PITTSBURG, May 2S-Pitrsburg-
Brooklyn, no game; rain.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-29
May Fight Nelson

McGovern it is not improbable that
Manager McCarey of the Pacieic Ath-
letic club will make an offer to Nc
Govern to go a route with Battling
Nelson IN Los Angeles for the Fourth
of July date, which is yet open.
McGovern has not been seriously con-
sdered since Young Corbett took his
measure for the second time and the
opinion of the press that Nelson had
the better " the slx-round argument
with him in Philadelphia recently was
accepted as final to the curtain act for
the Brooklyn boy.
However, no decision was rendered
in this battle and the question of su-
periorty is yet an open one with the
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-17
INVENTOR SAID
TO Be INSANE
SWINGS IN HAMMOCK TO TEST
AIR
Accused Of Whipping Little Girl Un.
merelfully While Mother lie Away
from Home Working to
Support Him

As a sequel to trial on detention
home charge before Judge Wilbur of
the Juvenile court. several days ago,
William Huff father Of little Isabel
HUFF, a detention home ward was
yesterday found guilty of an insanity
charge and was ordered sent to Pat
ton Insane asylum by the commission
in Judge Gibbs department of the su-
perior court.
Last Friday during the trial of ju-
venile cases, little Isabel Huff was
called before Judge Wilbur and on a
complaint from representatives of the
humane society in San Pedro was re-
manded back to the detention home so
that the case could be further inves-
tigated.
At that trial it was alleged that the
little girl was being ill-treated at her
home in San Pedro, that her father
had acted in an inhuman manner in
whipping her for minor offenses and
that the father refused to work to
support the children.
In court 1t developed that the mother
was a hard working woman, who was
devoted to her husband and her chill
dren and who spent most of her time
away from home, working, while the
husband spent the most of his time
swinging in a hammock in the front
yard of his residence.
When Huff was called to the stand
and interviewed by Judge Wilbur his
statements were so peculiar and his
fancies about the inventions he was
about to turn loose upon the world,
so weird, that an insanity complaint
was filed against him.
Yesterday he was taken before the
commission in department two for
examination.
Was Mechanical Engineer
From this mans statements. accord
ing to the report of the physicians, he
must at some time have been an ex-
pert mechanical engineer back in Chi
cago, where he formerly lived. So
long as he discussed ordinary ma
chinery he managed very well with
his statements, but when the ply
sicans finally asked him about his
own inventions or about inventions
upon which he claimed to be at work
he became excited and talked non
sense about the most unheard of ma
chinery. He told the examining officers
that he was experimenting with air
currents and that was the reason he
spent most of his time swinging in
hammock.
He made unusual statements
about the world and about the rela-
tion Of the sun to the world, and finally
announced that he owned a great
portion of San Pedro but that many
people there had conspired against
him.
Several weeks ago it was alleged that
Huff attacked his wife and beat her
until her face was a mass of scratches
and cuts. AS further testimony to the
effect that Huff had made threats was
received, the board of examiners de-
cided that the best thing to do would
be to send Huff to the insane asylum.
The mother, according to the state
ments of many witnesses, has been
practically supporting the family all
along, so that there will be but little
hardship worked by the fathers alb
sence so far as the financial condition
Us concerned.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-17
YOUTH IN SERIOUS TROUBLE
Said to Have Been Guilty of Break
ing Postal LaWs-DscoVered
With Marked Bill

While shopping in Spring street
dry goods store Monday afternoon, Miss
Carrie B. Waldron Of 1904 East Twen-
ty-third street lost a purse containing
$S, a watch and a locket.
Miss Waldron reported the occur
renee to the police yesterday and says
she is convinced that the purse was
stolen while it lay on a counter be-
side her. She says she observed a
well dressed woman near her appar-
emily occupied in examining some
dress goods, but when she looked for
her purse she found that both the
woman and the purse had disappeared.
This incident of purse grabbing, If
such 1t is, is one of many that have
been reported to the police within the
last few weeks. all said to have been
done by well dressed women, and it is
the conviction of the police that a
gang of professional woman thieves are
systematically at work among the de-
partment stores of Los Angeles in
the guise of shoppers.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-17
NOT A PLEASING PARALLEL

The governmental situation IN the
two counties OF San Francisco and
Los Angeles has points of similarity
that are not pleasant for people OF
the southland to contemplate. The
difference is in manifestation rather
than in basic character.
In San Francisco the allied power
of railway monopoly and machine
politics dominates all phases Of public
affairs, while in Los Angeles that
power is thus far clrcumscribed. That
is to say. while the grip Of such
power Is tight in the northern city It
is not riveted and clinched in the
southern city. In Los Angeles there
is not even a suggestion of the neces-
slty for resort to such heroic meas
ures as n committee of safety"
But the social and moral condition
Of San Francisco, resulting from the
corrupt government of the city, does
not differ essentially from the condi-
tions disclosed in the attempt to pro-
tect public interests in Los Angeles
county at San Pedro harbor.
A striking instance showing the
power of railway monopoly over pub
lie affairs is seen in the method neces-
sary to attempt the consolidation of
Los Angeles city with San Pedro and
wilmington. Corporate influence was
recognized as potent enough to thwart
the purpose of forming connecting
link between Los Angeles and the
harbor cities. In order to accomplish
the plan devised by the chamber of
commerce it was absolutely necessary
to spring the project so quickly that
the harbor grabbers and their allies
had no time to interpose their power
full influence.
The same elements that control the
city and county of San Francisco, and
which have brought about conditions
bordering closely upon the vigilance
committee level are making ominous
headway in Los Angeles. This city is
far from the level of degradation that
San Francisco has reached but the
same leaven that is destroying the
northern metropolis is working in the
metropolis of Southern California.
Let not the people of Los Angeles
city and county delude themselves with
the idea that the southland is immune
from such conditions as are presented
now in the northland. The same devil
grass that has nearly destroyed the
lawn of San Francisco, tmetaphorically,
is making rapid headway in the Los
Angeles lawn.
copious flow of non-partisan bal
lots on election day is the only means
Of killing that devil grass"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-17
WOMAN THIEVES AT
WORK IN LOS ANGELES
GANG OF PROFESSIONALS is
THOUGHT TO BE HERE
Systematic Robberies, Of Which
Women Shoppers Are tho Victims,
Are Believed to Be Almost of
Almost Daily Occurrence

Five reports were made to the police
yesterday of valuables stolen by sneak
thieves.
While the family of F. Il. Copley,
2015 Sacramento street, were absent
from their home Monday, thieves en-
tered the house and stole a small saw
ings bank containing small coins to
the amount Of about $25.
L. A. Mays, 649 Towne avenue. re-
ported that valuable watch belong
ing to him had been stolen from his
coat hanging in building upon which
he was working as a carpenter Mon
day.
George Clark, 216 Winston street,
said that his watch had been stolen
Monday by some one who had broken
into his room.
A suit of clothes, pair of trousers
and two razors were taken from the
room of Thomas Hanley 1917 VIII
mington street, Monday.
f. j. villa, a harnessmaker at 5045
West Seventh street, reported that
thieves had entered his place sometime
Monday and stole thirty-one separate
harness tools.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-17
SNEAK THIEVES ARE ACTIVE
Five Victims Report Their Losses
to the Police De.
partment

1t is probable that the case of Jo-
seph Hood, the 20-year-old high school
graduate who was arrested Monday
night on charge of writing a threat
ening letter TO a woman of the city
will be taken to the federal court, ow-
ing to the fact that his offense involved
the United States mall
Hood, who lives at 1143 Fedora street
is accused by Jennie Logan of 381
New High street of having written her
a letter in which he threatened to
do her harm If she did not send him
$40 by return mail.
The woman reported the matter to
the police at once, and a marked $40
bill was sent to the young man ac-
cording to his instructions.
Monday night Detectives Chapman
and Rico discovered the marked bill
in the possession of Hood, and when
confronted with the evidence against
him, he is said to have mad a COM
plete confession to the officers.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-17
Mr.. BELL ON LABOR

@ On Saturday night, September
@ 20, Hon. Theodore A. Bell. Demo.
O cratic nominee for governor, nd
9 nations of this city, who had
9 given him n great reception. IN
@ the course of his speech Mr.. Bell
9 saids
@ 81 have always believed that the
@ chief executive OF the state should
9 not and cannot be the representa-
O tive of any special class.
@ $50 for that reason 1 will not
@ say if 1 am elected will be the
9 special representative of labor, for
@ IL did you would not believe me,
O and If 1 did would be unworthy
@ to hold that office.
@ 81 have taken this nOmina tiOn
@ from the labor party as a great
@ compliment to me. 1 have not
@ been an agitatOr or demagOEue
@ with them. / have simply told
@ them my views of labor conditions
@ and what 1 mean to do.
@ "They have exacted no pledge
@ from me. They have simply asked
@ me TO give labor a square deal. 1
O would have done that even had
@ they not asked me. For had 1
@ felt otherwise toward labor, or
o any other class, would have felt
9 unworthy to accept the nOmina-
o tiOn.''
% @ 100000 @ 10000 9 @ ~%<
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-17
SAYS PIPE TRUST EXISTS
Price of Mains for Water Department
Leads Superintende to
Conclusion

From the figures for pipe which he
has received in bids opened by the
ater partment, Superintendent Null
holland is convinced that a combination
exists among the makers of pipe, and
as a result the city will have to pay
$4,000 into the Golfers Of the combina-
ton.
The contract for the years supply
of pipe was awarded yesterday to the
dry company. When the total amount
to be used was computed 1t was found
that the city Will have to pay $i55, 900
for its pipe supply this year. Last year
practically the same amount was used
and 1t cost but $4,000 With every
indication tending toward the reduction
in the price of pipe the fact that II Is
higher convinees Mr.. Mulholland that
"a trust exists.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-17
MAY COMPROMISE
ON NEW HOSPITAL
OFFICIALS LOOK OVER PEST
HOUSE
Board Of Public Works Says II viii
Not Spend Any More Money
and Health Commissions
ers Echo Them

Members of the board of public
works and Health Officer Powers went
to the detention hospital in Chavez
ravine yesterday afternoon to again
go over the ground and see what was
needed before the board of health will
accept the establishment. A compro-
mise is expected in a few days.
The board of health has positively
refused to accept the hospital in its
present condition, although the build
ings have just been completed. The
health commissioners declare that in
the first place it is not suitably ar
ranged for hospital for the care of
smallpox, and that, anyhow, it is fall
ing to pieces in places where the work
has not been completed more than a
few months. They fear that If other
parts of the work are as inferior as the
parts that have disintegrated appear to
be they will have a dilapidated
old wreck on their hands before they
have had chance to use 1t. The con-
tractors, however, have promised to
replace the cement work that has fallen
to decay.
Necessities Lacking
The board of health also complains
that many things that are necessary for
a smallpox hospital are not included in
the $56,OO0 white elephant that the
council has thrust upon them. The
board of public works has declared that
that department will not expend one
cent in doing any more to the hospital.
The health board is as emphatic in it's
declaration that it will spend no money
for the institution.
Health officer Powers is ready to ac-
cept the buildings, not because he
thoroughly approves of them for the
purpose for which they are intended,
but that he fears smallpox might break
out at any time, and except the old
pest house, which is totally unfit for
such purpose, there is no place to take
the patients.
The health board has little sympathy
with the new hospital. That depart
ment was not consulted when the hos
pital was planned, and has had nothing
whatever to say about 1t since 1t has
been In the course of construction.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-10-17
THE ISSUE BOILED DOWN

Shall the voters of this state hence
forth be deaf, dumb and blind to the
controlling power of the Southern Pa
cifc railway in the political affairs of
California?
That is the real issue to be decided
in the election just three weeks hence.
If a plurality of California voters
favor a continuance of present condi-
tions, as indicated by their ballots, con-
slstency will demand that they for
ever after hold their peace" on that
subject. The situation will be of their
own creation and they should accept
the responsibility without a murmur.
Now is the accepted time and now
is the day of salvation" from the
tyranny of railway boss domination in
California The opportunity is Offered
now for a complete riddance of such
bossism. Unless advantage be taken Of
that opportunity at the polls on NoVem-
Der 6, all will be lost and the grip of
the octopus will be tighter than ever
before.
1t may be the chance of a lifetime
| that is hanging in the balance now.
While it is possible to break the grip
next month, failure to do so may
destroy any future hope of escape.
But if the voters decide to let that
grip close still more firmly on the po-
litcal throat of California, let us there
after hear no more complaints about
railway tyranny, Voters who bend their
necks to the yoke deserve no sympathy
for the chatting that follows. They
should subsequently take their medi-
cine" without grimaee, mum as an
oyster and patient as lamb.
There are only a few days remaining
in which to consider the situation here
presented. Now or never, substantially,
is the question which voters must de-
eide in regard to the opportunity af-
forded for release from Southern Paci-
fic control. And IL must be remembered
that the voter will act with full
know edge of the situation when he
casts his ballot. He cannot afterward
plead ignorance of conditions. The is
sue now presented is as plain as the
meridian sun.
All circumstances are peculiarly ia
vorable for the defeat of bossism and
machine rule In the coming election.
The representative of untrammeled
control OF public affairs, both in the
state and In the county of Los Ange-
les. are men OF unimpeachabIe fealty
to the interests Of the people. on the
other hand, the machine-made candi-
dates wear the collar of their political
masters ana are mortgaged politically
for all they are worth.
Itis said that Man is the architect Of
his own fortune" 1t might approprl-
lately be said, also. that community