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Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
DRESS DRIVES TO DIVORCE
New Jersey Man Seeks Legal Separa-
ton Because He Can't Stand
Wife's Vivid Clothes
special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
HOBOKEN, N. j., March 1S.-If
wife persists in using color distasteful
to her husband in the decoration of her
home, her costumes, the dresses of her
children and even the blanket of the
pet dog, is this sufficient grounds for
the husband to seek divorce?
That is the question that the vice
chancellor will be called upon to decide
i'm Il suit that will be brought by
Thomas Frederick Won Schless. The
couple were married eight years ago.
Up to four years ago they lived happily.
One evening the wife came in with
fiery red dress.
II don't approve of that color" said
the husband.
1T is in style, and 1 will wear it," re-
torted the wife.
mot if [ know it," said the husband,
and the first serious difference in the
married life of the couple had its be-
ginning.
Every day the red dress came up for
discussion until enraged, Mrs. Won
Schless said that she would see who
was boss. She bought yards of flaming
red cloth and in a few weeks all of the
children were wearing red dresses. She
had red turbans made for the girls and
a red cap for the boy. Red slippers and
stockings came next, and one evening
on his return from work the father had
his anger lacked up to another fiery
degree when he found that in his alb
sence paper hangers had covered the
paror walls with red wall paper.
This drove the husband to court.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
IMPORTANT CASE DECIDED
Riverside Hears Decision in Litigation
Involving Street and Sewer
Assessments
SnecIal To The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
RIVERSIDE, March 1S.-Judge Mon
roe of Los Angeles, sitting for Judge
Noyes, announced orally his decision
yesterday in the case of Ilbbet VS.
Mccormick & Ormand.
This was an important action from
the fact that if plaintiffs contention
had been sustained all street and sewer
work done here under the Vrooman act
would have been illegal and the con-
tractor would have been unable to col
lect for the work.
Judge Monroe ruled that the assess
ment was' invalid from. the fact that
the map did not show fushtanks
which were charged for. This phase of
the case was not touched upon by the
attorneys of either side, and under the
courts ruling the contractors can make
q new assessment and collect the entire
bill. The assessment is declared legal
in all other respects.
From bellboy to hotel manager is the
rather swift transition experienced by
Byron Hester, for couple of years a
"bellhop' at the GlenWood hotel. His
mother has purchased the Mason house
i'm San Francisco and has written to
Byron to come north and take charge
of the hotel. His associates in the hotel
gave him an enthusiastic sendoff.
E. p. Clarke. president of the River
side chamber of commerce, is in re-
ceipt of a letter from General Manager
Wells of the Santa Fe relative to bet
ter train service on the San JacintO and
Elsinore branches. Mr.. Wells said that
one or two additional trains would be
put on and the service improved gener-
ally. One train to San Jacinto will be
run direct from Los Angeles. The i'm
proved service begins this week.
The rain for the six days storm
was 1867 inches This is total of 9.S6
inches for the season.
The city trustees will appoint build
ing inspector tomorrow. The candi-
dates for the position are II. A. Pulls,
Karl Carlton and G. II. Vossburgh.
d. r. Mcclure has bought of r. Nc
Kenzie seventy-eight acres of alfalfa
land and the Mckenzie home on Mag
nolia avenue
II. j. Horn, president of the Northern
Pacific railroad, accompanied by Mrs.
Horn and party, are here in their pri-
Vate car.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19

at the beautiful Church of the Angels,
north of Garvanza, Tuesday, at 10
a, m.
Former residents of New Jersey will
meet at the office of Yearian 81 Davis
tomorrow evening for the purpose of
completing an organization for social
purposes. Several prominent citizens
of the Jersey state will be present.
Prof. George f. Hale of the Carnegie
Solar observatory at Mount Wilson,
gave an interesting address last night
at meeting of the Velley Hunt club.
He spoke OF the coming difficulty of
transporting the new lenses to the
summit of the mountain, but did not
tell how the work is 10 be done.
The fire department responded at 5 80
this afternoon to call from No. 249
Marengo place. The fire proved to be
confined to the chimney and needed
only care to prevent its spreading TO the
roof. None of the fire fighting APP
partus was used and the loss to the
house is merely nominal.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
PARKHURST FLAYS
MORO MASSACRE
DIVINE R0ASTS ROOSEVELT
AND WOOD,
Says Achievemtn No More Brilliant
Feat of Arms Than the
Smoking of Rats Out
of a Hole
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, March 1SS-In his SER
mon on the relation of the so-called
Christian nations to the pagans, the
Rev. DIR. Charles H. Parkhurst re-
ferred today to the recent killing of
Moros, and President Roosevelt's con-
gratulatory dispatch to Gen Wood.
Consider" he said, "the easy and
self satisfied way in which we regard
the moving down of the savage and
semi-saVage in the Philippine islands
when they stand in the way of the ma
tional purpose of which, after eight
years of benevolent assimilation we
have just had Il most startling and
heart-rending example in the lombard
ing to death of six hundred men, wo-
men and children. collected in a crater
in the Moro islands.
"There are two things to be said
about the jubilant congratulation sent
by the chief executive to Gen. Wood
The first is in reference to the desig-
nation of the performance as brill
liant feat of arms. Basing our esti-
mate on the report made by Gen.
Wood, it was no more "a brilliant feat
of arms than smoking bees out of a
hive or rats out a hole.
But a far sadder feature of the exec
utive communication to Gen. Wood is
that it contained not one word of
sympathy, not ole word of tender dis
tress of the indiscrminate slaughter
perpetrated in honor of the American
flag
1--WE have been taught to believe
and we like to believe that the presi-
dent has Il great heart.
"And so l prefer to think of that
cablegram, composed as 1t was in the
presence, practically of mangled men,
torn women, armless and headless
children-I prefer to think of it not as
being the expression of the man Roose-
velt but of the President Roosevelt in
whom officially the heartlessness and
the greed of undegenerate nationality
is functionally represented. I want to
find a way out for Roosevelt, for the
performance on Jolo island has
ghastly look and the cablegram
matched it,
with the exception of the mainten-
ance in the south of negro slavery
there has been. 1 should say, nothing
sadder in our history, than the nation
al attitude in which we today stand
as toward the little brown people of the
Philippine islands"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
OCEAN PARK HAS BAD DAY
Sand Covers the Tracks of the Los
Angeles Pacific Railroad
Company
Special 90 mic Herald.

OCEAN PARK, March 1S.-A strong
sand-laden wind which intermittently
swept the city today made conditions
for business or pleasure decidedly un-
favorable and merchants who after one
solid week of bad weather had looked
forward to change, were forced to
watch the almost simultaneous arrival
and departure of car after car of Visi-
tors who did little more than give the
city a passing glance, although under
other conditions might have been eX-
pected to spend the day in this vicin-
ity. Along the ocean front the sand
was blown in drifts against the sides
of cottages and in places the board
walk was lost sight of. The tracks
along the Playa del Rey division of the
l.. A. p. electric line were alternately
covered or swept clean of sand by the
force of the wind, which in that section
has a clean sweep.
Construction Manager Robert Arm
strong of the Abbot Kinney company
left for San Francisco, where he will
enter into negotiations for the pur-
chase of a steamship which it is re-
ported is to make regular trips be-
tween Venice and nearby ports. The
craft in question is a steamer with
seating capacity for two hundred pas
now under the control of the
Seattle steamship company, DuI IOTIn-
erly employed in traffic along the
Hawaiian islands.
Mrs. NJ. Corneia Hellekin, who with
her accomplished daughters. Miss Clara
Hellekin and Mrs. Mary H. MacBen-
nett, recently engaged a cottage on the
ocean front, was yesterday called to
her home at Ft. Wayne. Ind, by the
serious illness and subsequent death of
her mother.
Among the important realty deals
during the latter part
of the week were the following sales
through the agency of John A. Worth
ington at 80 WindWard avenue:
Thirty feet of frontage on Thornton
street, price $2OOO sold for John B.
CornwelI; the cottage at 149 Grand
avenue. price $4,000, sold to Anna Nc
Donald; two lots in block d, Ocean
Park Villa tract, $500 each.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
SANTA MONICA PUBLICITY
Committee of Sixteen Will Be Named
by Beach City on Wednes-
day Night
Snecial to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
SANTA MONICA, March IS. - The
committee of sixteen for
which provision was made by the local
board of trade at its meeting is to be
appointed at a general assembly at the
Ocean Park casino next Wednesday
evening and will be representative of
the entire bay section.
The committee which has been Sc
lected will consist of the following well
known citizens: Santa Monica-W. l..
Hull, f. II. Taft, r. H. Dudley, c. d.
Middlekauff, w. S. Vawter, Rev. j. d.
II. Browne, H. X. Goetz, ID. G. Holt and
Roy Jones; Ocean Park and Venice
NJ. r. King, Hon. II. Dorsey Patton,
Frank Baker, w. S. Rennie, j. G..
French, Walter Wheat, David Evans,
Charles ll. Lovelace and II. G. Smith.
1t is understood that w. |. Hull, pres
ideut of the board of trade, and Judge
Marvin r. King of the Ocean Park
Community league, will be ex-officio
members of the committee.
The local lodge of the Knights of
Columbus did honor to st. Patrick in
fitting style at Columbia hall.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
VENICE LIONS MAKE BREAK
Escape from Midway Animal Show,
but Are Recaptured-Precau-
tions Against Recurrence
The Herald.


VENICE, March 1S.-It became
known that two ferocious lions were
narrowly prevented from escaping
from the Midway animal. show last
evening and that as a precaution
against a recurrence of the scene
which followed in bringing to bay and
penning up the enraged beasts, a new
system of runways and the instala-
tion of automatically working locks
will give place to the present arrange
ment The lions which caused the
trouble are known as Sultana and
Juliet and are the largest and most
valued animals in the animal exhibit.
AS is the custom, j. f. Canihac, one
of the trainers, had released the lions
preparatory to leading them to the
stage for exhibition purposes and by
what appears to be a carefully laid
plot on the part of the animals they
made a united break for liberty, run
ming to the hack of the inclosure and
without hesitation springing bodily
against and breaking through a stout
board door, and bringing up in a
loosely boarded inclosure, where they
We're captured with considerable diff
Guilty.
Had the animals been afforded their
liberty for a few minutes after their
break for freedom, it is said that they
would have forced an exit through the
| fence and that their capture might
have occupied weeks and would have
resulted seriously otherwise.
Miss Louise Bennett won first prize
! in the woman's bowling tournament,
concluded on the local alleys Miss
Irwin and Mrs. Mooers tied for second
honors.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
NINE-LIVED CAT BEATEN
Georgia Woman Tells How She Was
Beaten to Death Yet
Still Survives
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
ATLANTA, March 1S.-Emma Byron,
according to the story she told to the
recorder yesterday afternoon, can dis
count any nine-lived cat. Emma re-
sides at 1874 Old Wheat street, a Dark
town aristocratic quarter of the city,
and she washes "de white folks cloes
fer er libbin'."
Among Emma Byron's friends was a
colored dude who owned the high
sounding title of Albert DuPree.
One evening DuPree tanked up on
spIit-skull and tanglefoot liquor and
when he presented himself at the res
idence of Emma Byron he was on a
wild jag. He got mad because Miss
Emma" wouldn't sit and converse with
him. A row started, which is best told
in Emma's own words, which she used
in relating to the recorder how hard
she was to kill:
Mister DuPree," she said, "cummed
ter mer house an he wuz ez drunk
ez a billed owl, Jedge Briles. Bekase
I nebber set down an hoP er conner
sashun wild him he jumped up and
kicked mer bucket of hot cha1 coal
offer de back porch. When / picked
hit up he kicked me off de porch and
Hinged de bucket oh charcoal after me.
Den he beat me ober de head wild de
bucket: den he broke two chairs ober
mer back; den he beat me ober de
head wild a slat tell hit broke; den he
knocked me down and beat me wild
annudder slat tell I wuz dead. Some
friends OBJ mine laid me out and rubbed
me wild camphor tell 1 cummed back
ter life"
Albert DuPree denied the whole
story. but it was corroborated by two
other witnesses. The recorder fined
him $25 and bound him over for assault
and battery
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
GAY DAIRYMAN IN COURT
When Asked Why So Much Fresh
Water Was in Milk Said Cows
Were Fresh
Snecial to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
KANSAS CITY, March 1S.-S. A..
Hagberg, a dairyman at Thirteenth
street and Brighton avenue, was ar
rested in police court this morning on
a charge of selling impure milk.
"The testimony of the city chemist
shows that the milk in your wagon
contained 25 per cent of water" said
the city attorney. Where did all of
this fresh water come FROM"
"Well | have several fresh cows"
replied Hagberg.
"You seem to be quite fresh dairy
man." remarked Judge Brady. Il Will
make your fine $1OO."
The dairyman drew a large roll of
bills from his pocket and peeled off a
number sufficient to pay his fine and
the court costs.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP
WEIGHTS ANNOUNCED
ENTRIES NUMBER 6e-SYSONBY
TOP WEIGHT
Hermis Is Next with 1926 Pounds.
Race King This Year Carries Only
SO Pounds-Guiding Star at SO
Pounds
BY Associated Press.

NEW YORK, March 1S.-Weights for
the Metropolitan handicap, to be run
the opening day of the first spring
meeting of the Westchester Racing as
sociation at Belmont park, May TO-,
We're announced tonight. The entries
number siXty-nine and include practi-
Cally all of the horses entered in the
other big spring handicaps. James r..
Keene's Sysonby is top weight with 131
pounds, and e. r. Thomas Hermis has
second place with 126. Ort Welles is
next with 125. Then follow Delhi. 1874,
Stalwart and Artful 1913 each, Hamburg
Belle 122, Roseben 121, Harry p. Whit
neys Hamburg colt Burgomaster,
heads the three-year- list with 106
pounds. The Crescent City derby win
rer of yesterday. Guiding Star, is
thrown into the Metropolitan with 90
pounds.
The Metropolitan last year resulted
in dead heat between Sysonby and O..
L. Richards Race King. Race King
is named this year and will carry only
80 pounds, as against Sysonby's 131.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
SALT LAKE TO
BUILD SHIPS
WILL OPERATE A LINE TO THE
ORIENT SOON
Colonel r.. C. kerens of st. Louis Tells
of Plans, with San Pedro as
Shipping Point-No Longer
GuessWork

I'VE will build our own Ships" said
r. C. Kerens of st. Louis, who Is large
ly interested in the Salt Lake road
and is a prominent political factor in
the Mississippi valley, at the Alex
andria last night, land will have one
of the finest lines of steamers on the
ocean for service between San Pedro
and the Orient, connecting with the
Salt Lake road.
II cannot say just when this line
will be put into operation but there
is no longer any guess work for it is
a sure proposition. Senator Clark is a
very busy man but is equally de-
termined. When he has time to attend
to it the building of these ships will
be begun. Plans are now taking shape
and before many months the ships
will be coming and going from San
Pedro.
1.-THE people certainly ought to be
complmented upon the harbor that
has been made there. I understand
that it was calm and peaceful during
the storm the other day and that two
hundred ships were sheltered there"
Praises California
"St. Louis is booming" replied Mr..
Kerens when asked about 1t. 1--WE
call it the million city for it now has
that many inhabitants. 1 think that
the Republicans will retain the ad-
vantage they have gained there. OF
course they are on probation and will
have to show what they can do. That
is my party and I think that its. prin-
ciples are the best on earth.
"St. Louis is prosperous and in fact
40
"But this country takes the cake.
Tt is the cream of the whole universe
l used to live in San Diego and
long ago formed the opinion that there
was no place Oil earth like Southern
California.
always find the same delightful cli-
mate What a relief it is after passing
through the billiards that we did on
the way out here. L am quite enthu-
siastic over the business enterprise
here" '...d
Mr.. Kerens arrived in his private car
last night and said that his trip is
merely, for a little pleasure vacation.
With him is Mrs. kerens and their
daughter, Archbishop Glennon, Maj. j.
L. Bittinger. ex-consul to Montreal,
and Miss Barney.
Archbishop Glennon is the youngest
archbishop in America and has the
largest diocese at st. Louis. He is one
of the coming young men of the Cath
olic church. In "a few weeks he will
go to New. York city to deliver lee
ture at Carnegie hall.
Major ]. l.. Bittinger is a veteran
editor and for fifty years has been
connected with newspaper work most
ly in st. Joseph, Mo. He is well known
by the older men in the newspaper
world. + s
Yhe party will remain in Los Angeles
for about ten days.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
TALK NOT CHEAP FOR HIM
Farmer Scott Thought New 'Phone
Fun Till Bill for $52
Came In
Special to TIL Herald.


WINSTED, Conn, March 1S.-Tele-
phones are not quite so popular in the
rural districts of Berkshire county
now as they were a few days ago.
When the so-called Farmers Lines
were strung up and connected with
the exchanges in the large towns and
cities all of the farmers seized on
them as the greatest boon of the age.
Farmer Jabez Scott, who dwells near
Lee, a Berkshire village, was one of
the first to get a telephone in his
house. That was three months ago and
he Immediately began calling up all
of the relatives and friends of the
family in the states of Massachusetts,
Connecticut and New York. He Wis
tied with all of them at long distance
and then called in his neighbors to let
them talk to their long-distance kin.
Farmer Scott got the bill for his
first quarter yesterday, calling for $52.
He paid it and the phone was taken
out of the house today.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
ADIEU TO STAR ROUTE
Trolley Cars Will Carry the Much
Advertised Soldiers Home
Mails

Special to The Herald
SAWTELLE, March 1S.-The almost
noted Star route" mail between Saw
telle and the Soldiers home is now q
thing of the past.
General Manager T. r. Gabel of the
Los Angeles-Pacific Electric railway
has notified Postmaster Metcalf of
Sowtele that beginning Monday,
March 49, the United States mails will
be carried by the regular cars running
between the points named.
The postoffice authorities had re-
quested this service of the railway COM
pany but the request had been re-
peatedIy turned down."
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
ANNIVERSARY OF MISSION
Riverside Celebrates at Congregational
Church-Elsinore Secures
Promise of New Hotel
Special to The Herald.


RIVERSIDE, March 1S.-The ami
versary of the establishment of the
Japanese mission in Riverside was
celebrated tonight with interesting eX-
ercises in the First Congregational
church. DR.. Pond, who has had charge
of Japanese and Chinese work on this
coast for the past thirty years, had
charge of the service.
l. Wardell of Toronto addressed a
mems meeting at the Y M. c. A. this
afternoon on "Prison Reform"
Elsinore is to have a $4,000 hotel To-
Gated near the Bundy house on the
lake.
The Los Angeles train on the Santa
Fe which leaves here at D. m. did
not leave the, station last night as the
bridge was reported unsafe over the
Santa Ana river.
The Sherman Institute Indians de-
feated the Cotton nine at Chemawa
park yesterday afternoon by the score
of II to 2.
r1l,o II, on
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19

led his gold on the river bank and
afterward perished.
The San Diego Union suggests that
the matter of chief interest to every
body except Mr.. O'Brien is the partic-
ular spot in the mountain range from
which the gold came.
Old miners believe that somewhere
i'm the mountains west of Imperial is
located a mine Of wonderful richness.
There are we'll authenticated stories
of rich finds An Indian squaw once,
near dead with thirst, came into a
railway station north of Imperial
with bag of nuggets, but she either
could not or would not tell where
they came from. She must have found
them on the northwestern rim of the
desert.
There is a story current. that an In
dian employed on the ranch of Gov
ernor Downey, which has since been
known as Warmers used to steal
away from the ranch outtitted for a
trip of considerable length, and on
his return would bring i'll plenty of
gold. 1t was known that he used to
enter the desert by way of San Felipe
canyon which is located very nearly
west of Brawley. The Indian was
killed in Anaheim, and when Cover
nor Downey questioned the squaw who
had been with the gold finder she could
tell him nothing except that the last
water was at a spring near the mouth
OF San Felipe creek.
Came to Los Angeles
Again about 1875, a prospector in
making his way from Arizona to Cali
fornia, wandered far from his way
and was lost on the desert After he
had Travelled about for two days he
saw, way off in the distance, some low
lying hills and made his way to the
foot of them. In search of water to
uuench his terrible thirst he entered
a little canyon and made his way
through it to the very top of one of the
little buttes. Here he found number
of black nuggets and believed that
they were gold. but water was more
prescious than gold at that time and
he descended to the desert again and
finally crawled to the foot of Il noun
tain where he found a little spring of
life-giVing water.
AS soon as he was able to travel,
this man came to Los Angeles 10 Or
ganize a company to go with him
back to the desert. but the hardsh1ps
he had undergone had been too much
for him and he fell i'll. When he
learned that he was going to die he
sician. the particulars of his discov-
cry and placed in his hands two
thousand dollars worth of gold mug
gets. which were those he had picked
I'D during the few minutes he stayed
on the top of the little butte.
After the death of the miner, DR..
de Courcey spent some time on the
desert attempting to locate the vast
treasure, but he did not succeed, and
finally he too died.
Probability at least is lent to all
these rumors by Mr.. O'Brien's find.
No mill has ever been in operation on
the east side of the desert range, and
the shape of the metal indicates that
it was melted in camp kettle, and if
the gold had been found near the top
of the mountains the miner would
naturally have struck for the coast
rather than for Yuma. IF the mine
was located in the Superstition range.
as seems likely, it is doubtless covered
by shifting sands.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
Strike Postponed
By Associated Press.

y
OAKLAND, Cal, March 1S.-'The diff
ferences between the Carmen's union
and the Oakland Traction company will
not lead to a strike before the next
sixty days. if at all. This was the in
formation given out today by President
William Ellison of the Garments union.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-19
His Holiness to Receive
Rv Assnciated Press.

ROME, March 1S.-The League of the
Sacred Heart will be received by Pope
Plus tomorrow and will present its
greetings to him, the occasion being for
The feast of ST. Joseph, the name day
Of his holiness. The pope is in the best
ar health and spirits.