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Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-14
LOWE SUGGESTS
NEW ORDINANCE
FAv0RS PENALIzING THE GAS
COMPANIES
Would Enforce Forfelts to Consumers
II Supply Is Below Standard
or Not In Needed
Quantity

President Lowe Of the Peoples Gas
company has addressed a letter to
Mayor McAleer suggesting that Los
Angeles should have a gas ordinance
similar to the laws i'm force in New
York, Philadelphia, Boston. Washing
ton and New Haven in tie east and
Pasadena in the west.
Four main points which Prof. Lowe
would have Incorporated in the meas
ure are:
First-Tor every day that more sui
phur or other impurities than the law
prescribes is sent out to gas consum-
ers, a fine of not less than twenty cents
a 1000 cubic feet of gas should be
forfeited to the city.
Second-For any one day that gas is
not supplied to consumers generally on
the lines of the companies gas mains,
q sum equal to one-half months gas
bill should be forfeited to the gas con-
sumer, and for two days non-supply of
gas. a full months gas bill should be
forfeited.
Third-For every month in which
the heat units in the gas do not
average 600 a cubic foot, reduction
to the gas consumer should be made
accordingly and deducted from the fol-
lowing months gas bills, and for every
day that the heat units fall below 500
a cubic foot, a fine of ten cents a
1000 cubic feet for that days output
OF gas should be forfeited to the city.
Fourth-Any gas corporation or its
employees or managers who shall will
fully obstruct or in any way interfere
with any individual, person or corpora
tion in their efforts to compete in the
supply Of gas or other light as con-
templated under the constitution of the
state, and who is willing to come un-
der the foregoing regulation, shall be
fined an amount equal to twice the
damages that may be awarded by any
competent court, one-half going to the
party damaged and the other half to
the city as damages for delaying the
operation of useful arm Of the public
service
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-14
MAKES STARTLING DEMAND
Young Man Insists That He Be Ar
rested for Forgery and Shows
Checks

I"I wish you would arrest me for
Committing forgeries." was the strange
way in which Otto Leroy, a young
man well known about Los Angeles
greeted Policeman Fisher of the Uni
Yersity station yesterday.
Fisher at first thought Leroy was
attempting to spring a joke on him
but when the young man grew insis-
tent he finally agreed to take him to
the station. When searched there he
was found to have several checks in
his pockets drawn for large amounts
and 1t is thought they are forgeries.
He claimed he has passed a number
of bogus checks in the city, and the
police are looking them UP. An Off
GER afterward accompanied him to his
room where a broken slot machine,
thought to have been stolen, was also
found.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-14
TRAPEzE PERFORMER INJURED
Acrobat at Chutes Park Falls from
Swing Before the Eyes of
Mortified Audience

Charles Leora, trapeze performer
at the Chutes, fell during his per-
formance Wednesday night an6
plunged headlong into the audience
He struck on his head and was taken
to his home seriously injured.
He was performing dangerous turr
at the time. Fastened by his heel with
a light strap to the trapeze he swung
back and forth through the air. The
strap became unfastened and he fell
with his arms outstretched, while the
audience gazed in horror.
The flesh was torn from his face
and head when he was picked UP and
he was unconscious for several hours
No bones were broken and although
he will be confined to his bed for sew
eral days he expects to soon renew his
work.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-14
WOMAN is HIS ACCUSER
Arrested for Battery, Prisoner May
Have to Stand Criminal Prose-
cution

]. A. Hupe, charged with battery,
was before Police Justice Rose yester-
day afternoon and his case was set over
until December 2S. Hupe is charged
with striking Mrs. Mary Struthers, a
woman living at 1921 San Pedro street.
He is said to have a criminal record
in Cleveland, Ohio, and to be wanted
by the Mexican authorities for crimes
committed in Mexico City. The police
at Cleveland have been communicated
with and it is thought word will be re-
ceived from them by the time the case
is called.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-14
washlnaton and Toberman

A. It. Jergins & Co. report that S.
S. Federman has sold to George H.
Rector and associates the southeast
corner of Washington and Toberman
streets for $4,000. The lot Is 142x145
feet, the consideration therefor being
at the rate of about SITS a foot for the
Washington street frontage. There are
no improvements on the property.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-14
STRUGGLE WITH INSANE MAN
Police Have Desperate Fight Before
They Capture Resisting Porto
Rlcan

For twenty minutes a policeman
and four citizens fought with an in
sane Porto Rican in a lodging house
at 1926 East First street yesterday
afternoon, and only after the hardest
work. succeeded In taking him to the
city hospital.
There he continued'to fight and bite
at his captors while his cries could
be heard through the building. He
was at last tied to the bed and later
was taken to the county hospital. His
name 10 not known at the lodging
house where he lived, as he only re-
Gently engaged room there.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-14
VALUES ON HILL
STREET GROW|NG
LOT IN THE HUBER TRACT
GOES FOR $4,000
The Hamburgers Have Disposed OF
All Their Lots on Hill North
of Pico-Predictions
as to Values

The Hamburger Realty and Trust
company have sold through the agency
of Blenkiron Bros. the east forty feet
of lots II and 12, block 81, of the Huber
tract, for $5O,O00, to a syndicate headed
by Governor Hindman of South Da-
kota, Joseph Harker and John Owen,
both of Mitchell, S. D., and H. V.
Blenkiron of Los Angeles.
This property is the east forty feet
of the northeast corner of Ninth and
Hill Streets 1t was purchased by the
Hamburger Realty and Trust company
in May, 1905, for $3.50 foot, or $4,000,
and is now sold by them nineteen
months later at a profit of 32,000 In
other words the property has almost
trebled itself in value in year and
half.
1t is reported that the property
across the street from this piece has
been sold for $500 a foot, based upon
the Ninth street frontage, so that this
sale at this price is about 25 per cent
under the market price.
Mr.. Hamburger's Predictions
The property situated between the
same streets on Eighth street is held
at $4,000 a foot today and D. A. Ham
burger, president of the Hamburger
Realty and Trust company, predicts
that when their new building at
Eighth and Broadway is completed,
and they are doing active business in
the store, this property will be worth
as much as the Eighth street property.
Mr.. Hamburger predicts that Ninth
street will be the main cross street of
the city and that the most expensive
real estate on any cross street will be
ON Ninth, and that Hill street will, in
time, be the most important street in
the city of Los Angeles.
With this sale the Hamburgers have
closed out all their lots on Hill street
north of Pico
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-14

Everything you want you will md In
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Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-14

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Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-14
Regular $14.OO

Made of solid oak, golden finish in e. de-
sign very similar to the above picture
At this price we include pair of rever-
sible velour cushions. Your choice of sew.
eral colors and designs.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-14

Wouldn't someone on your list ap-
preciate this? We have it in wea-
thered oak-the popular finish. 1t
is solid throughout. You will find
a hundred other tables to choose
from.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1906-10-10
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nis IuItts bas adlb9en bort auf Der
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Ered,.

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bier unb lefen gang semitbli9 Die 3ei>
tuug. urb Der Rleint f9reit felt einer
boIben Gtunbe tpis beieHen!1-R / n :
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sor ni9t beim 2efen; oaran bin ih
fGpn getpDbnt.4
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!. Q. ieben Sag fiinfais pfennise fpar,
ten. tpos fir eiH hibfdes Siimm9en
sic am SpIpefter baben niirbsn!A-
ga ipo5u benn. lieber 9err! @ar 70
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nal trinten! Da trints id lisber ale
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AufTanuun,

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Stunoen auf unb db eerannt. mis
sinem DerspeifeIten @ntf9lufe fam
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Ana Wrfahrut,u.

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sinem Gtrdfltng, Der gum sebnten MaIs
tlnseli.fsrt ptrb): sNber mifen sic
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TOT, NIT benz Betteln bo lit nif9t. beim
HtttelH bat sinen Die poliaei gleidll"
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Wuts aehrs.

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promenaot): nDu, paul! Sebesmal
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tett -c Deit aus Dem Dese sebitl1
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bic leiGt ourh Or. aina's 9eue Sc.
benspiaen gebeilt ruerben fanr. Sic
sntfernen bic eiftiaer Refine phne
Wsid1meroen. 25 Gts., anrantiert.
Au bnten bel s.. Rolteper & Sobu,
Geo. s. s.. Shmitt. Giaent.. unb
aoolpt Dreis.
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Nhr erIfer Nenanke,

. d (oie .tnen Nbbans binune
tsrgeItirat, aber acknowledgements
unDerlest unten angetommen ift):
xGott. biefes Slid, pie lei9t bate Id
MIR ba mein elesantes @sifetofiim asrs
reiben {1nneni@
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1906-10-10
And1 %rd1lintnter.

sd Iage S4nen, meine 5rau bin
ieoe neue Wtooe mitmaden. n0a8 III
nod gar nidtS, Die meire bitoet iid)
iebe neus Rranfbeit Elm.
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1906-10-10
&1unItd1e Aunn1t.

nSbrem friiberen 8rofberrn 3iinSes
Ten Sie bds 5aus iiber Dem appfe an,
bas baden Sic nobl aus gfude 9es
tbdua4-2 I: r9efpabr' f. aus
Odnfbarfeitll"
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-10
This Year,s EleotIons.

Twenty-nine governors and other State
officers are TO be chosen in the elections
this year, besides a new House Of Repre-
sontativcs. Oregon will be the first State
TO vote, electing, on June 4th, a successor
10 Governor Chamberlain Democrat,
who squeezed in" by a plurality of 2i6,
two years ago, although all the rest of
the Republican State ticket was elected,
and Roosevelt had a plurality Of nearly
$1,000 The Democrats likewise elected
the governor in 1902, by a plurality Of
276, and the fusionists carried the State
by sll in 1902, the Cleveland year; but
otherwise Oregon has been Republican
since 1872. Both the Republican Con-
gressmen were elected two years ago by
large maioritios
Arkansas will vote next, on September
lst, Vermont on September 4th, Maine on
September 10th, Georgia on October Sth
and Kentucky on November 5th. None
of these will afford fair test of any
change in public sentiment, except the
two in New England. A very consider
able falling of in the Republican ma
iorities in Vermont and Maine, in their
September elections, has usually been fol-
lowed by Democratic gains and some
times by a Sweep" in the doubtful
States. The Congressional elections are
to be hotly contested by both parties
this year in every district where there is
hope of a reversal of the verdict of two
years ago Other Northern States elect
ing governors are California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Mas
sachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Ne
baska, Nevada, New Hampshire New
York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Dakota, Wisconsin
and Wyoming. OF these, California, Min
nesota and Nevada alone have Demo-
cratic governors.
In Delaware, this year, the election will
be for a member of Congress, two State
officers auditor and treasurer-county
officials, part of the State Senate and a
complete House Of Representatives. Great
Importance attaches 20 the election how
ever, by reason of the fact that the
Legislature to be chosen viii have two
United States Senators 10 elect, except
in the remote event that the present
legislature at a special session, shall
shall fiji the existing vacancy, which
would leave only the succession to Senator
Alice to be provided for.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-10
INTERESTING ooRREspoNpENcE.

Dover State News
Since writing another article on this
page on the subject, we have concluded
To be more frank with Horace Greeley
Knowles than we have previously felt
inclined. We have concluded to say to
him squarely, that we have read the
correspondence between Senator Alice
and himself during the month of March
last, and therefore know what We have
been talking about We have no dis
position to publish this correspondence,
although recognizing its intense news
paper value IL. however. Mr. Knowles
authorizes us TO publish the letters. we
will send him a magnificent basket of
peaches in August, II they can be OBJ
tanned, for his permission.
In our overwhelming judgment. in
view of this rare and interesting CORE
spondence referred TO, the recent bitter
reflections of the Journal on Senator
Alice we're ungrateiul and unchristian.
and not creditable 10 their author. That
they we're in positive violation Of the
ordinary proprieties Of life that other
people feel bound TO observe
Now, we readily believe and admit
that Mr. Knowles eventually discovered
that he had bitten off more than he could
chew. Ills game undoubtedly was to
get his Office and get away with il before
the du Points frightened upon him, and he
was making desperate efforts to do it,
Had he succeeded he might or might
not have snapped his fingers to the
general The foreign appointments,
however, could not be hurried, and mean
time the Alice Speech brought matters
io head But oven at that pass. the
journal could have discussed the speech
mildly and conservatively There was
no necessity for the extreme denuncia-
tion OF course the reader imagines that
Senator Alice was meantime demand.
ing some support from the Journal in
consideration of the appointment. That
was very lightly touched on in the core.
spondenco. 10 was mentioned. how.
ever. and Mr. Knowles talked very
satisfactorily on the point. Nothing
in the correspondence throws any light
on the explosion which must eventually
have occurred.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-10
LAWMAKERS SALARIES.
Other Nations Legislators Receive Less
Compensation Than Ours.

Other Nations Leg islators Receive Less
Compensation Than Ours.
Harpers Weekly.
French Senators and Deputies get 9 900
francs, or about 81 74O annually The
members of the Austrian lower house re-
ceive about "a a day. while the Hungarian
table of deputies allots a salary OF 81 900
a year and S325 for house rent for every
member In Belgium members of the
Chamber Of Deputies are entitled to $3.50
annually and to free travel over the rail-
way; in Holland to $500 and travelling
expenses Switzerland is economical the
members of the Swiss National Council
obtain only 1885 a day, together with the
cost of travelling Prussia buys her legis-
lators more cheaply yet, giving the mem-
bers OF her Chamber of Deputies only
SO 80 per day. The members of the Nor
wegian Storthing have TO content them
selves with $500 per diem and mileage
ln Saxony the members of both the upper
and lower house of the Legislature re-
ceive only S2S5 a day with mileage. Dem
mark cuts underneath these figures, pay
ing It's legislators only 81 q day during
their presence in the Landsthing Japan.
on the other hand pays both her peers
and her representatives 1000 yen an
nually in addition to mileage.
Compared with these statistics. the
treatment of members in the Congress of
the United States is munihcent The bill
passed 20 or more years ago which gave
Senators and Representatives 81 500 a
year was repealed principally because il
was not made applicable solely 10 sue
ceeding Congresses II is well known that
at present every member Of Congress gets
not only $1,000 year and 20 cents a mile
for travelling expenses, but also a number
of porquisites OF which the allowance for
stationery alone has been valued az from
$500 TO $3.50, which is about the amount
awarded by way Of salary to the mem
hers Of the Greek Chamber Of Deputies
and to the members of the second branch
of the Swedish Diet
Yet a great many members of our Con-
gress assert that they are unable to live
in Washington on their pay On the other
hand, one Of the new members from Mis-
souri has proclaimed his intention of
saving the whole of his annual stipend
and living on his mileage and perquisites.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-10
Russln I'D 80 pnrIIament.

Today Russia cntor upon the expert
ment of a government in which Parlia-
ment elected hy the people is TO have
part How great % part remains to be
developed by the proceedings OF the body
that assembled in st. Petersburg today
The experiment Of the Domma as the
legislative body is called will be awaited
with interest. u has been apparent ever
since the elections that its assembling
would inaugurato % struggle between the
Crown and the Parliament as TO which
should be superior IN sovereignty. That
the prerogatives Of centuries viii be
abandoned by the Car and the ruling
nobility Of Russia without a desperate
resistance is not 10 be considered, and
the progress of the contest inaugurated
at 81. Petersburg tod'y will be watched
with deep interest throughout the rest
of the world
The history of nations shows that
royalty reluctantly gives way 10 the voice
of the people in the matter of government.
Russia has been such an autocracy for
centuries that the mere idea OF the people
being given q voice In the making of laws
must seem inoongruous TO the reigning
powers and is bound to prove distasteful.
Nor has the course Of the Gar since con-
sent for the election of the Douma WIS
reluctantly conceded by him been such
as to encourage the belief that he will
gracefully yield any of his monarchial
privileges to the representatives Of the
people.
Time will tell the result, but mean
while the lessons of history are ominous.
The fight between King and Parliament
is nothing new. England had it on her
hands more than two and a half centuries
ago, and the "divine right Of Kings was
made a shadowy legend by Cromwell's g
victorious hosts. Win the "divine right
of the Car" soon be thing of the past
in distracted Russia
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-10
IMPROBABLE HEIGHTS.

With reference to the question, GLOW
high can a man 60 20 an eminent scient-
ist in the service of the Federal govern
ment at Washington tells of some in
teresting experiments once made, by
Prof Mosso OF Turin, Italy.
Climbers of lofty mountains are aware
OF the fact that, at great heights such
as the summit Of Mont Blanc. respira-
ton becomes more or less troublesome.
the heart beats rapidly and sometimes
irregularly, and feeling Of exhaustion.
often accompanied by nausea. is ex-
pericnced. These ELECTS arise largely
from the rarity of the air, and since the
atmosphere becomes less dense the
higher one goes, it is evident that a limit
must soon be reached above which man
cannot ascend.
Prof Mosso made his first experi-
ments on Monte Rosa. next to Mont
Blanc, the highest peak of the Alps.
where he ascended TO an elevation ex
ceeding $4,000 feet. without serious in
convenience. Returning to Turin. he
made his next ascent, so to speak, with
out ascending at all. In other words he
produced an imitation of the rare at
mosphere Of a very lofty mountain-top
by partially exhausting the air from a
large pneumatic chamber in which he
had shut himself When the air in tbe
chamber corresponded in density with
that which would be found at a beirbf
OF 24,272 feet above sea-level he suffered
such III effects that he could not carry
the experiment further The beipbt
TO which Prof Mosso thus simulated an
ascent is almost "a mile less than THAI M
Mont Everest, so that it seems improbable
that man will ever be able to set MS loot
on the loftiest peak of the earth.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-10
COOKING BY COLD.

That meat may be cooked" by intense
cold has BEEN demonstrated by expert
ments with liq uid air. That a less de-
gree Of cold may produce the same effect
on vegetables, and that freezing potatoes
or fruit may make them more edible than
before is asserted by DR.. Ephraim Cut
ter, in the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette
Dr. Cutter says Of a "frost-bitten" po
tato that he tested:
"It was shrunken, soft, limp and elastic
to the feel. It looked dark, as If rotten,
and yet there was no dead and decaying
odor. Under the microscope the starch
grains were shrunken, cracked and hs-
sured in the long and short diameters,
wrinkled and polarized light beautifully:
The form of polarization was not that Of
normal potato starch, difficult to be told
in words. Besides, there we're broken
shreds of connective fibrous tissue that
looked as if rotten. The writer tasted
OF the said so-called rotten potato, and
It was sweet in his mouth. He thinks
they might be eaten without harm.
Similar results were obtained with cram
berries, onions and squashes. The frozen
vegetables reacted with copper sulphatee'
which is cne of the tests for cooked iood'
but the fact that their starch grams
polarized light showed that there was
difference, as cooking by heat destroys
the polarization.