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Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
WILL INVOKE HABEAS CORPUS
chicasoan, Arrested on Old Charge,
Claims II Is Purely a Civil
Trapsaotton

j. Schumacher Of Schumacher e.
Washington, dealers in stucco and
staff at 1906 East Seventh street, was
arrested yesterday upon q charge Of
obtaining money under false pretenses.
Earl Rogers will endeavor to secure
the release OF his client on a writ of
habeas corpus.
Mr.. Rogers stated that Mr.. Schu-
mach was arrested on an old charge
that has been pending several years I'm
Chicago and that the local courts were
being used as n collection agency to
force the payment of an old debt.
1t Is said that Schumacher became in
volved in certain business dealings and
that an Indictment was found against
him In Cook county, Ill., nearly three
years ago.
1t Is also claimed that creditors of
Schumacher approached his wife and
intimated that If she would make over
the deeds to some of her property GRIM
inal proceedings would be suspended.
Mr.. Rogers will probably appear in
the superior court today and secure the
writ of habeas corpus and he says he
Is confident that nothing can be found
against Mr.. Schumacher that would
lead to his being taken back east.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
SELL IMPERIAL
To DEL MONTE
POLICE COMMISSIONERS GIVE
THEIR CONSENT
New Owners Promise to Conduct the
Establishment in a Law-AbidIng
Manner and Make I'M
provements

The police commission was in another
of its jovial moods yesterday morning
and transferred the restaurant liquor
license of the Imperial cafe, which 1t
has been threatening to revoke for the
last few months, to John Roster and j
j. Longerman, proprietors of the De
Monte tavern.
The joke comes in the fact that mem
bers Of the police commission have at
times said some hard things about the
Del Monte and the way 1t is conducted
1t was evident that Commissioners
Mason and Johnson did not see the
funny side of the proposition, for Com
missioner Johnson voted an emphatic
mo" on the transfer, and Commissioner
Mason refused to vote either way.
The price paid by the Del Monte for
the Imperial is said to be $29, 800, which
is nearly $4,000 less than Milling &
Nickel, proprietors of the Imperial
asked for the business when the police
commission first advised them to sell
out last November.
The new owners of the Imperial de-
clare they will make extensive i'm
provements and will conduct the place
in a law-abiding manner.
Two weeks ago the commission made
an effort to revoke the Imperial license,
but on the plea of the mayor, who is a
personal friend of Max Nickel, the
case was postponed for one week to
allow the proprietors a chance to sell
out. When it came up for discussion
last week Mrs. Nickel appeared before
the commission in one of its executive
sessions and asked for a further con-
tinuance. as her husband had been con-
fined to his bed through Illness and had
had no opportunity to sell the business.
ct tod ,1H ft.of1
fer to the Del Monte yesterday re-
suited
The question of transferring the
license to the Del Monte had been
threshed out by the commission In ex-
executive session and there was no COM
ment on it when it came up for open
action.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
WILL PUNISH
HUNTINGTON
MAYOR HAS HIS OFFICIAL AK
READY
Magnate Asks Franchise TO Build Into
New Manufacturing District
Near the Santa FEES
Spur, But

Mayor McAleer Is grinding his ok
for swing at franchise which Henry
e. Huntington will ask the council for
within few weeks. The mayor
announced publicly few months ago
that Huntington had kept him from
earning an honest living and that he
would fight him.
The franchise for which the railway
magnate will ask is line into
the new manufacturing district be-
tween Santa Fe avenue and the river.
He proposes to build extensive freight
depots in this district and the total
outlay is expected to amount to hun
dreds of thousands of dollars.
These depots will be built in the
vicinity of Santa Fe avenue and
Washington street.
An elevated road from the Hunting
ton building at Seventh and Main to
the new depots is one of the pro-
posed features.
The line which it is proposed to build
will be cutoff from the Whittier
line near Vernon avenue and this will
run on Santa Fe avenue to Seventh
street where it will connect with an
other line.
This track is in the neighborhood of
the spur asked for several weeks ago
by the Santa Fe and which the council
refused to grant, declaring they were
holding the privilege for the purpose
Of giving the Salt Lake chance to
build into this territory and add it's
competition.
1t is freely predicted that If the
council orders the franchise sold the
mayor will veto the measure, but 1t is
as confidently predicted that Mr..
Huntington will get his franchise in
spite of the mayor.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
FRIENDLESS BOYS NEED
MORE ROOMY QUARTERS
MCKINLEY HOME is 20 BE
ENLARGED
Industrial Plant and Hospital Will Be
Installed as Soon as Funds Can
Be Raised-Lamented Presidents
Sister There

Twenty-three apparently frendless
boys applied for admission to the Nc
Kinley home last week, according to
the report of the superintendent, at a
meeting of the board of directors held
yesterday afternoon at the Y. M. c. A.
building.
Mrs Robinson, the matron, declared
there are at present eighty boys in
the institution and twice that number
who want to enter: Every day she has
to decline applications and the board
determined that something must be
done to enlarge the home.
An effort will be made during the year
to secure $4,000 to be used for this
purpose and also for installing an in
dustrial plant.
Valentine Peyton presided and Rev
G. j. Hall served as secretary at the
meeting. Mr.. Peyton was reelected
president and other officers and MEM
bers of the board are Gall Borden Sec
rotary, Lyman Stewart, Richard Green
and Arthur Let's. The German Amer
lean bank was elected treasurer.
The ladies' auxiliary reported $50 in
the treasury toward the building of a
hospital. During the year the South
ern California Badger club has turned
over to the home all the furniture OF
the Working Girls home.
The report of the treasurer showed
all bills paid and surplus in the
treasury.
The board has sent a petition to the
county superintendent OF schools ask
ing that the Gardena district be
given a school.
President McI<inley's sister, Mrs. Nc
Kinley-Duncan, visited the home last
week.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
"SOLID THREE" SPRINGS UP
Commissioner Hasan Votes With
confreres on Police Board on
Questions

DIR. Ralph Hagan, the newly appoint
ed police commissioner, took his seat
yesterday morning and with his adj
vent 1t is evident that the "Solld
Three" combination has again sprung
into life.
In all questions yesterday Mr.. Hagan
voted with Mayor McAleer and Com
missioner James and thus the alb
sence of Commissioner Gates is not
felt.
For a short time after Gates resiened
from the board II appeared that Com
issioners Mason and Johnson would
have their innings. These two were
responsible for an attempt to limit
The number of billiard halls in this ;ity
and for many applicants for restaurant
and wholesale liquor licenses losing
out when they appeared before the
board.
Now Mason and Johnson must retire
to the minority side.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
Gypsy BELLIES
DO BUNCOING
SUBSTITUTE BRASS FILINGS FOR
GOOD GOLD
Police, by Using Marked Coins, Break
Up Harvest of Main Street Sooth-
sayers, Who Did Rush
ing Business

Maria and Millina Geache, two
swarthy Gypsy beauties, were arrested
yesterday for working a bunco game
upon unsuspecting seekers after &C.
cult knowledge.
The two women had stand on Main
street near the Abbott house, and I'M
til their fortune-telling was rudely
broken into by Officer Rico they were
reaping harvest of golden sheckels.
Their plan was quite simple-after
one knew how.
When the victim had engaged in
earnest conversation with the black
eyed beauties one of them would soft
ly say:
(Which would you prefer, long life,
health and prosperity or $5?"
After the subject would admit that
he preferred the health. happiness and
long life he would be requested to
place SIS gold piece in the soft palm
of Millina.
A few magic lamentations, a puff of
the breath and To- the coin was gone
The subject usually made a howl
for his money and then he would be
given tiny roll of cloth which con-
tanned brass filings.
This is your gold, changed accord
Ing to your WISH" the seductive witch
fine health. such long life and happi-
ness. Why, you will live in a heaven
of earthly delight!
You said that you would barter
that little gold coin for such price
less treasures and your wish was
granted"
With a few parting words of advice
the victim would be dismissed, and
the next man woulG take his place
within the magic circle
officer Rico had a friend petition the
Geache sisters for his fortune and
when he gave up his coin it was
marked in a peculiar way.
After 1t had disappeared officer Rico
stepped in and arrested the pair.
Both wept loudly and tried to buy
off the officer with honeyed words. but
despite their fearful pleadings the
Gipsies were taken to the police sta
ton and a charge of petit larceny
will be fined against them.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
THUGS ASK VICTIM FOR DIME
Refusing, Pasadenan Is Badly Beaten
at Market and Los Angeles
Streets

Bert Lydecker of South Pasadena
was held up yesterday morning by
three thugs near Los Angeles and
Market streets and after having been
beaten into insensibility was robbed
of about Sc.
The holdup occurred about 4 o'clock
One of the men approached young
Lydecker and asked him for dime.
Upon his refusal to give up the
coin two other men came up, and after
a desperate struggle Lydecker was
knocked to the ground and his pockets
rifled
He managed to reach a neighborine
saloon where he was found by Office,
Mcintosh. Lydecker refused to go to
the emergency hospital and after his
wounds were dressed he went home.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
CHANGE OF BILL
BRINGS FAvOR|TE
SAN FRANCISCO ACTRESS WILL
APPEAR HERE
Miss Efhe Bond Imported to Los An
geIes From Northern City to
Take Leading Role In Mrs.
Burnett's Drama

A hurried change in the Belasco
theaters schedule of plays, decided
upon at late hour last night, will
bring "The Little Princess to the
stage of that playhouse next Monday
night instead Of j. NJ. Barrie's delight
full fantasy, THE Admirable Crichton,"
the advertised attraction.
"The Admirable Crichton" is such an
immense production that the Belasco
until a most complete production can
be made ready, and it is an utter i'm
possibility to get up such a pretentous
set of stage pictures as 1.-THE Admir-
able Crichton" will reveal in the limit
ed space of single week at the dis
posal of stock organization.
1.-THE Little Princess" which will
take "Crichton's" place on the Bel
asco stage, is the newest play Of that
fascinating writer, Mrs. Frances
Hodgson Burnett, whose Little Lord
Fauntleroy' achieved such vogue
when 1t first reached the stage. in
1.-The Little Princess" the Belasco
management AYERS, the threatergoers
eminently superior to "Fauntleroy, "
and one that will prove an absolute
dramatic sensation.
"IdyI Of Childhood"
"The Little Princess is unconven-
tional in that it requires, besides the
adult members of the Beasco COM
pany-indeed, the piece has been
called an idyl of childhood" 1t was
played a year ago at the Criterion
theater, New York, with Miss Millie
James, a daughter of Louis James, the
tragedian, in the title role, and
achieved a profound success. Miss
James was married and retired from
the stage before the syndicate sent her
west, so that the play has never been
seen in Los Angeles.
In the production next Monday night
at the Beasco theater, the part created
by Miss James will be played by Miss
Effie Bond of the Alcazar theater
stock company of San Francisco. who
will come to Los Angeles especially
for this performance of 1.-THE Little
Princess" Miss Bond Is a charming
ingenue, fascinating, magnetic and
possessed of remarkable histrionic tall
ents. She is a native of California and
in San Francisco where her work has
always been with the Alcazar organ
ization, her abilities are recognized as
of altogether uncommon merit.
The Belasco management announces
that the purchasers Of tickets for 1.-The
Admirable Crichton" performance next
week may either have their money re-
funded or the seats exchanged for the
presentation of 1.-The Little Princess"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
FISH PEDDLER WINS POINT
offers to Round Up Hucksters Who
Have Louder Horns Than

William Garbel, a fish peddler whose
loud footing of his horn led to his
arrest, pleaded yesterday before Police
Judge Rose that his lungs were weak
and that he was unable to let people
know that he was purveying the fishy
denizens of the deep without a fog
horn attached to his cart.
He minated that he was the object
OF persecution and volunteered to go
cut with the officers and round up a
bunch of peddlers who have horns of
greater carrying capacity than his own.
His offer was refused, but his case
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
.UNEARTH NEW
TAX SW|NOLE
CITY AUDITOR ON TRAIL OF
REBATE SCHEME
Sehemers Represent Themselves as
Public Employees and viii
Probably Be Prosecuted
II Caught

City Auditor Schwaebe unearthed
what he believes may prove a swindle
yesterday when his attention was called
to the alleged methods of three men in
handling tax rebates.
The auditor spent good part of
yesterday in an effort to get into
communication with City Attorney
Mathews, but the city attorney was
busy IN the courts.
Yesterday morning a large baking
concern called up the auditor over the
telephone and asked If any one repre-
eenting his office was authorized to pay
tax rebates on personal property and
secure Il release. Mr.. Schwaebe an
swered that no person had this priv
ilege and then began quiet investiga-
ton Of his own.
81 found a most amazing state of
affairs" said the auditor in speaking
of the case. II called on several firms
and found that they had received tax
rebates on personal property from one
of three men, and in nearly every in
stance the amounts they had received
were less than those they were en-
titled to.
1T seems that r. A. Thorne, a civil
service employee who has worked in the
tax collectors office, with ]. A. Odds
and another man who signs himself
John Jones, jr., have gone to various
citizens who are entitled to tax re-
bates, and representing themselves as
being from the city auditors office have
paid tax rebates and secured releases.
1.-THE amounts they have paid have
in every instance, 1 believe, been far
below those to which the taxpayers
were entitled.
"These men then return to the audi
tors office, present the release properly
signed and receive the full amount due.
II believe that if this proves to be
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
FORCES PASADENAN'S NAME
Former San Quentin Convict Is Bound
over to the Superior
Court

leased from San Quentin. where he
served one year for passing fictitious
checks, was examined yesterday in the
police court, charged with forgery, and
was bound over to the superior court
In $1,000 bail.
Smelling is alleged TO have forged
the name of George w. Duggan Of
Pasadena to check for So, which he
succeeding i'm passing ON M. f. Van
Horne.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
HOTEL CLERK is TRIED
LandIady Alleges That a Hoffman
House EmpIoye Skipped
With Cash

James Moulton, former night clerk at
the Hoffman house on North Main
street, had his preliminary examina-
ton yesterday before Police Judge
Chambers and was held to answer in
the superior court on charge of EN-
bezzlement.
The landlady of the hotel, Mrs. Selma
f. Ives, claimed that while on duty as
night clerk Moulton appropriated about
SOS. He left the hotel January q and
the loss OF the money was soon after
discovered.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
LEVY GETS HIS LICENSE
Costly New Third Street Restaurant
Will Be Opened Thurs
dav Eveninu

AL Levy was granted restaurant
liquor license by the police commission
yesterday morning which will be used
in his magnificent new restaurant on
Third street to be formally opened
Thursday evening.
This establishment cost $250,0OO and
is declared to be one of the best on
the coast
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
CAR 0vERTURNS GLASSWARE
TruckIoad Is Topped Over and the
Driver Has a Remarkable
Eecapa

A truck belonging to the Illinois and
Pacific Glass company was run into
yesterday afternoon by northbound
car near the corner of Bellevue avenue
and Bueuna Vista street. The driver,
George Shorey. was thrown headlong
from his seat, but sustained no serious
injury.
The truck was loaded with glass bot
ties, which were broken into bits as
the load careened over
The car, in charge OF j. N. Brooks,
motorman, was not injured.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07
HOstIer Accidentally Drowned

STOCKTON, Feb. 6.-The body of
Jack Hall, hostler and carriage wash
er, was found in an erect position in
Stockton channel this morning. The
man had been nearly blind for some
time and 1t is supposed that he walked
off the bulkhead accidentally. The de-
ceased, who was about IS years of age,
left son. married daughter, a widow,
from whom he mad been legally sep
arated. and mother.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-07

the case we can prosecute them for OBJ
tanning money under false pretenses."
The auditor says it Is impossible to
estimate the amount Of money handled
by these men, but there are several
hundred releases that he believes can
be traced directly to them.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19

An English traveller through Kash-
mir found in practice there novel
method Of putting fodder UP for win
ter use The country lies in a valley
among the Himalayas. The chief in
dustry Of the people consists in raising
fine wool and in making this into fab
RIGS which have carried the name of
the country all over the world. A GU
rious custom in some places Is that of
hanging quantities Of hay up among
the branches Of trees. Why it was
done was more than could guess. till
my guide informed me that in winter
the snow lies five and six yards in
depth and that the supplies of hay,
which now look only as if they were
meant for camelopards, are then easily
reached by the flocks of sheep which
abound there.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19

On one of Che visits Of the American
feet to Engli b waters Admiral Erben
was in command, with Captain Alfred
T. Mahan, the writer on naval affairs,
as his dag captain One morning Cap
tain Mahan came to his admiral with
an invitation to dine with duke which
he had received.
Il can't accept" said Captain Ma
han, "as they forgot to invite you"
Il should say you couldn't" growled
the admiral. 'I'll answer for you
Whereupon the admiral wrote:
admiral Erben, United States navy,
regrets that Captain Mahan, his flag
captain, cannot accept the invitation Of
the Duke of Blank. Captain Mahan is
on the sick list"
An hour or so later messenger from
the duke returned with invitations for
the admiral and the captain, where
upon the admiral wrote again:
admiral Erben accepts with pleas
ure the invitation for Captain Mahan
and himself He wishes also to adj
wise the Duke Of Blank that he has
taken Captain Mahan off the sick list
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
GARDEN SNAPSHOTS

Get the po,sous reauy Cor the early
insects
Beginning with the advent Of spring
there are few places SO Interesting as
the hardy flower garden. The ANNALS
have 10 be soWu anu Jhe half hardy
plants have to be planted before they
can be enjoyed.
Ii a gardener has not experimental
with his soil so as TO know to what
fertilizing elements 1t really needs he
must use a formula, and one carrying
about 5 to 31a per cent nitrogen, $ 10 q
per cent available phospAoric acid ana
A to 5 per cent potash VIII usually be
found as profitable as any
Sow Prizetaker onions indoors 70 be
trausplauted to the garden in May
If seeds are planted IN dry soil or IN
soil that is less moist than the seeds the
drier soil will extract the moisture
from the seed and ratarl development
The radish is one of the Ga suite ear
" spring vegetables, and IL Is one Of
easy cultivation. We naturally look
forward to this as the one very carly.
IL not the first that we are to grow 70
maturity. either in the frame or outside
ground
For success with parsnips use fresh
seed. plant very early and quite thick
and thin out the seedlings to six 10
seven inches apart
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
A New York EDITORS Creed.

DO not keep the alabaster of
your love and tenderness sealed up
until your friends are dead. Fill
their lives with sweetness. Speak
approving, cheering words while
their ears can hear them, and while
their hearts can be thrilled and
made happier by them; the kind
things you mean to say when they
are gone, say before they 90. The
flowers you mean 10 send for their
collins, send to brighten and sweeten
their homes before they leave them.
II my friends have alabaster boxes
laid away, full Of fragrant perfumes
OF sympathy and affection, which
they intend to break over my dead
body, / would rather they would
bring them out in my weary and
troubled hours, and open them, that
i may be refreshed and cheered by
them while need them, would
rather have a plain coffin without a
flower a funeral without an sulogy,
than a life without the sweetness Of
love and sympathy Let US learn to
anoint our friends beforehand for
their burial or cremation Post
norton kindness does not cheer the
troubled spirit. Flowers on the
colin cast no fragrance backward
over LIES weary way
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19
The Ragged Brigade.

The nickname of the Ragged brigade
bestowed on the Thirteenth hussars
is complimentary rather, than detri-
mental to them, being reminder of
the gallant services rendered and the
severe hardships endured by them
when serving in the peninsular war
under the Duke of Wellington. They
took part In no fewer than thirty-two
engagements and skirmishes. in addl-
ton to their share in general actions.
In the course Of the campaign the hard
service they had seen had reduced
their uniforms to tatters; hence their
nickname. Telegraph.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19

The Layman-why DO you tie that
bandage so tight about the patients
limb before you operate? The Sur
geon-To compress the arteries so that
he won't bleed to death. The Layman
All, now know why the barber near
ly strangles me with towel before he
begins to shave me.-Cleveland Leader.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-04-19

A little lad was asked the other day
what he intended to be when he grew
up. He pondered over It for awhile.
II won't be sailor" he said. because
I might be drowned, and won't be a
soldier. because / might be shot,
think I win be skeleton in mu-
scum"