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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21
SHOOTS WIFE
AND HIMSELF
MICHAEL POWER TRIES TO
END TWO LIVES
Bullet Sent Into His Own Head Causes
Fatal Wound but the Woman's
Chances for Recovery
Are Good

In a At of rage Michael e. Power
shot his wife in the head yesterday
afternoon at their home, POS Hewitt
street, and as the woman fell to the
floor he fired bullet into his own
head with fatal effect. Both were
taken to the receiving hospital and
after giving the man temporary treat
ment he was placed on a cot to die.
The bullet which struck Mrs. Power
entered through the right cheek and
lodged behind the left ear. 1t was ex-
tracted and the victim sent to the
county hospital. Although the wound
was a serious one, the police surgeons
stated that the woman probably would
recover.
Power formerly was a hack driver in
this city, but for three years has been
living in Portland. He sent his wife
TO Los Angeles to visit her relatives
and joined her Monday.
Wife's Conduct Causes Quarrel
According to his brother, w. H.
Power, deputy pound master, the
young man was driven to desperation
by the conduct of his wife and upon
arriving in the city he learned things
about her that resulted in a violent
quarrel. 1t Is said by neighbors that
the couple quarreed yesterday morn
ing and that Power struck his wife
when she threatened to attack him
with knife.
In the afternoon there was another
family quarrel in which W. H. Power
took part, and he admitted at the re-
ceiving hospital that he had struck his
brothers wife, and his own daughter
as well, on account of their alleged
acts.
He told the police that Mrs. Power
wifi tn 10
characters and was trying to influence
his daughter to join her.
This was Michael's reason for try
ing to kill the woman" he said. Il
am sorry that his life had to pay the
penalty. He should have made sure
that he had finished the job before
killing himself. Michael always was
good boy and the baby of the family.
He used to drive a hack in this city,
and having been taken UP by old man
Kipp, was known as 'Kipp's kid
Driven to Desperation
He went north about three years
ago with his wife. She was married
before and has a child by her former
marriage. She came back last week
and when Michael came down the
other day he learned things about his
wife that drove him nearly crazy"
Friends of Mrs. Power refused to
be interviewed at the station and said
there was nothing to be said about the
shooting.
The couple were married about six
years ago. They had one child, Myrtle
Ellen. years old.
1t is said that the couple engaged
in frequent quarrels and that the hus-
band left his wife some time ago but
took her back upon her promise to re-
form
Mrs. Power is native of Germany
and is about IS years old. Her hus-
band was about the same age.
So far as is known, Power never
had been in any trouble before and
was regarded as a steady young man.
kind and generous in his disposition.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21
DUMB SORROW
OF THEIR CHILD
BRINGS TEARS
BY a Woman Reporter

a murder makes n disgusting muss
for the people that come after.
All the pathos. all the horror and
all the fearsomeness that come in the
train of such a horrible deed are quite
swamped in the thought of the utter
ugliness of it all.
If Edward Powers, hackdriver, had
thought of these things yesterday be-
fore he shot his wife and then him
self it might have had a deterring eff
feet. Or perhaps if he could, by some
miracle of prescience, have seen his
5-year-Old daughter Myrtle an hour
after the deed he might have post
poned the miserable denoument.
OF all the weeping relatives that hud-
died in the little parlor at POS South
Hewitt street, little Myrtle was the
strangest in her grief.
In he bedroom adjoining her sobbing
aunt and a neighbor We're sopping up
the blood from the carpet with rags
her 16-year-od cousin Viola was on
the sofa crying Historically and her
little cousin, Ralph, had fed wailing
10 his teacher.
All was confusion. with policemen
and reporters and morbidly curious in
trudeTS coming in and out: but little
Myrtle in her red Jacket sat pallid
and cold and not a sound escaped her
lips.
Al every attempt to comfort her, she
only raised her frightened eyes pit
eously in dumb grief more terrible
than all the crying out of the others
Her father had shot her mother. She
had heard the pistol ring out and she
too had seen the PROSTATE forms as
they lay weltering in their own blood.
She had seen the big helmeted officers
carry out those silent forms to the
waiting wagon.
Left fatherless and perhaps mother
less. for the recovery of the latter is
not yet certain, she realized it all but
Five-year-old Myrtle was silent.
What her thoughts were about those
who have cast a shadow over her life
that no future can lift, the child blight
ed by terrible crime--no one could
guess.
Father shot mother and killed him
self" This is the death song that
will ring in the ears of this golden
haired girl as long as she lives.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21
EARLY CHANGE OF LOCATION
Valuable Lot Leased for New Building.
Warehouse Purchase-Varis
Gus improvements

Orr & Hines, the undertakers on
South Broadway, who recently sold
their lease on the building they have
occupied for a number of years to
John Crosse for $4,000 to make way
for FL Emporio department store
that will ornament the northwest cor
ner of Broadway and Seventh street,
soon will have a fine establishment of
their own. The firm has leased the lot
on the northeast corner of Tenth and
Flower streets, 50x155 feet, from Mrs.
M. r. Freeman for A term of fifty
years and today Orr & Hines will
commence the erection of modern
two-story undertaking establishment
to cost about $250 The building will
front on Tenth street. the entrance to
the chapel being from Flower street.
Some months ago John W. Edwards,
who has been with the firm for a num-
Der of years, purchased the interest of
Mr.. Hines in the business, and i'm a
short time the name of the firm will
be changed to Orr e. Edwards.
The Central warehouse at Pol San
Pedro street has been purchased from
f. H. Manager by George w. King,
consideration $4,000.
c. H. McGonegal of the Nadeau res
taurant has let the contract to Henry
Parlee for the erection of a two-story
residence of nine rooms at 2152 West
Twenty-first street; COST $4,000.
S. c. Hubbell will erect three
story, siXty-room apartment building
at 311-321 Pavilion Place at cost of
$4,000.
Mrs. Elizabeth C. Jones has let the
I contract to F. u, Phillips for the cree
ton of $4,000 dwelling at 1O2 Occi-
dental boulevard.
A three-story thirty-room apartment
house to cost $4,000 will be erected by
A.. r. Pearse at SAT Gladys avenue;
H. A. Gogswell, contractor.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21
PUBLIC ADVERTISING
Notice of PuhIic Work

Public notice is hereby given that at
it's meeting held on Wednesday, the 2Sth
Of the City of Los. Angeles adopted an
Ordinance, designated AS Ordinance No.
1856 New .Series),. declaring it's in
tention to order the following improve
Section 1. That it is the intention Of
the City Council of the city of Los An
geles to close up, vacate and abandon,
~ 81 EIGHF TEEN FL sR RFsEiE OF
public street of the city of Los An
geles, extending from Arlington street
Beginning at the southwesterly cor
ner of lot Is of the Angelus Tract, as
per mai, recorded in Book s of Maps, at
page 125, Records of Los Angeles
County; thence easterly in a direct line
to the southeasterly corner of lot 12A
said tract; thence southerly in direct
Y, said tract; thence westerly in a
direct line to the northwesterly corner
OF lot 10, said tract; thence northerly
in direct line to the point of begin
ming.
Sec. 2. That the exterior boundaries
of the district of land to be affected by
specified and declared to be as follows,
to wit:
Beginning at the northwesterly cor
ner of lot Is of the Angelus Tract as
hereinbefore mentioned; thence easterly
in direct line to the,northeasterly cor
ner Of lot ia said tract; thence south
corner of lot -, said tract; thence west
erly in a direct line to the Southwestern
~ eGrner of lot 10, said tract; thence
hhorinefiIy IN airect line to the point OF
Reference is hereby made to said
Ordinance on file in the office of the
City, Clerk of said city, for further par
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
JAMES A. ANDERSON,
S-1S-2S lot President.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21
WILL OPEN NEW
PACKING PLANT
SENT0US COMPANY TO CELE-
BRATE NEXT SUNDAY
Large Crowd to Be Entertained at a
Barbecue to Be Given in the
Building Just Erected at
sentous Station

Next Sunday will be a gala day in
the history of the Sentous Packing
company. when the new packing plant
at Sentous station, on the Los An
geles-Pacific railway, will be opened.
Preparations for the event have oc-
cupied the attention of the manage
ment during the last week and the
indications are that a big crowd will
take advantage of the invitations
which have been extended, and partici-
pate in the Spanish barbecue with the
attendant features which are to mark
the branching out of an institution
that has been foremost in keeping pace
with the remarkable strides of Los
Angeles industry.
Special cars will leave the Los An
geles plant at $40 San Fernando street
at II o'clock a. m, and the festivities
will begin an hour later at the
suburban scene of the company's new
addition. Forty bulls heads will be
served jointly with other refreshments.
Steady Expansion of Business
At cost of more than $4,000 the
Sentous company has erected the new
packing plant because of the growing
demands of this Southern California
| industry, which according to present
indications will at no far distant date
rival the great beehives of commerce
which throb and grind among the busy
trend of things i'm the middle west
| Chicago, Kansas City and Omaha long
| have ruled supreme so far as the pack
| ing house has been concerned, but with
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21
Ran After Thief
AID FROM CITY is ASKED
Appeal From American Asiatic Asso=
citation in Behalf of Starv=
ing Japanese

Theodore Summerland, mayor pro
tenn, yesterday received a communica-
ton from the American Asiatic asso-
citation asking help from the city of
Los Angeles for the starving people in
the northern provinces of Japan.
The letter sets forth that the rice
crop has failed in these provinces, and
as result nearly 100000 Japanese are
on the verge OF starvation. Mayor
Summerland probably will send the
communication to the council with a
recommendation that it advise with the
chamber of commerce and other civic
bodies regarding relief measures.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21
THIEF GRABS
GROCER'S CASH
J. R. TUCKER THE VICTIM OF
DARING ROBBERY
Young Man Enters His Store in Day.
light and Succeeds in Getting
Away With Sack Con-
tanning $500

Grabbing a sack containing $500, a
bold daylight robber succeeded in get
ting away from the owner, J. r.
Tucker, 694 West Sixth street, yester-
day morning, and after eluding a
crowd of pursuers, finally disappeared
on South Grand avenue. The police
have a good description of the man
and hope to land him in Jail in short
time.
About $50 O'Clock a young man en-
tered the grocery store of Mr.. Tucker
and asked for a loaf of bread and Il
package of salt. He offered IS bill
in payment but the proprietor said he
had little change and would prefer
something smaller. The man then pro-
duced some small change and walked
out of the store.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21
BURBANK ENGINEER DIES
Reynard Was Pinned Beneath South
ern Pacific Express and
Suffered Lonq

Edward Reynard, engineer on a
Southern Pacific passenger train.
which was wrecked near Burbank last
week, died yesterday at the Sisters
hospital.
Reynard was pinned beneath his en-
CINE and was terribly scalded about the
limbs. The physicians, however,
thought the man would recover, until
towards the last.
The deceased lived at ITO West Ann
street and bore a fine reputation as a
railroad man.
The body was taken to Bresee Bros.
undertaking parlors to await the in
quest.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21

sanitary conditions, and all those in
terested in the processes which must
ensue before the beeves and porkers
appear on the tables in the form of
delicacies will be given an insight into
the interesting stages of development
at the formal opening of the house next
Sunday.
The address of the day will be made
by General H. II. Pierce, who with a
number of city officials is to be a guest
Of the company,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21
A Question That Every Man Should De-
eide for Himself

There is one subject in which many
of us are interested-and that is, what
is the quickest way of getting rid of a
troublesome cold? Is it best to take
some new remedy put out with eXag-
gerated claims, or to pin your faith to
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, prep
aration that has won a world wide
reputation and immense sale by it's
cures of this disease? This remedy is
for sale by All Druggists.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21
TWO BODIES WASHED ASHORE
Wreckaee of Schooner Lady Antrim
Reaches Beach at Marblehead
Neck, Massachusetts

By Associated Press.
MARBLEHEAD, Mass, March 90
Wreckage of the Booth bay, Maine,
schooner Lady Antrim was washed up
at Marblehead Neck today. Later two
bodies of seamen came ashore.
The Lady Antrim carried a crew of
five men and as she was literally
smashed to pieces it is regarded that
all We're lost
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21

II You want 90 go east, q. HaydocE.
Agent Illinois Central R. r.. 2aS s. Spring,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21
Fake Telephone Call

A little later the telephone bell rang
and somebody, representing himself to
be a clerk at the postoffice, asked for
Miss Ruby Tucker. Her father an
swered the call and was informed that
a registered package for Miss Tucker
was at the postoffice. She was her
fathers only assistant and after she
started for the office Mr.. Tucker re-
NAMED to secure someone to
watch the store during her absence, so
that he could follow her.
AS he was standing in front of the
store the same young man came back
and asked for some lemons. While
fucker was busy putting the lemons in
bag the stranger went to the desk
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21

Headaches and Neuralgia From Colds
Laxative Bromo Quinine, the world wide
Cold and Grip remedy. removes the cause.
Call for the full name and look for sigma
ture Of e. W. Grove. Csc.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21

the far-reaching strides of recent years,
Southern California has gained it's
share of this business and the pros
poets are bright for a pronounced con-
tinuation of the industry, which by the
most modern of business methods has
become we'll founded in the south.
Among the houses which at present
are catering to the Southern California
trade, the SentOus company holds a
prominent position as the oldest meat
concern in the city, having been es-
tablished twenty-siX years ago by the
late Louis Sentous, who, by reason of
his business acumen. retired shortly
before his death rated as a millionaire.
The company which bought out the
Sentous interest is composed of Jepp
Ryan, president with A. c. Harper and
Charles T. Hellman as associates.
Present Quarters Inadequate
Although commodious the present
quarters on San Fernando street are
inadequate to the growing business,
and in the future the city branch will
be used as salesrooms, to which the
prepared product from the outlying
house will be shipped.
a feature of the arrangement in con-
nection with the shipping of the meat
to Los Angeles from the packing house
lies in the fact that from the time of
killing, the beef, pork or mutton will
not come in contact with the floor of
any building before reaching the retail
houses.
A system of trolleying, whereby the
product will enter electric cars for
transportation to the city and thence
along a trolley continuation to the
storage rooms after reaching the city,
provides an absolute prevention of con-
tamination of the meat.
The refrigerating room of the new
concern has a capacity for 300 head of
dressed beer, with 800 head of dressed
mutton or pork.
The freezing rooms will carry 200
head of beef and 500 head of mutton or
pork Electric power will be provided
from a plant on the premises owned
by the company. A fertilizing house
is situated 300 feet from the main build
ings.
Immediately after deciding upon the
new plant, the greatest packing houses
of the country were inspected thor
oughly by experts, with a view to sup
plying the Southern California institu-
ton with every modern appliance for
the safest and most effective methods
of handling the meat industry in con-
nection with the Sentous plant.
The main object in the building of
the new concern has centered around
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21
Ar wedding Time

many questions arise as to the proper
style of engraving. Come and ask for
cur booklet wedding Stationery" free,
it will tell you all about it; and let us
do the engraving. We get up the
'I<now how kind. Sanborn, Vail & Co.,
S57 South Broadway.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-21

where he had seen the merchant leave
his sack. and placing it under his hat
started out of the store on the run,
knocking the proprietor aside as he
passed.
Ran After Thief
Tucker recovered himself in an in
slant, and realizing that the thief had
his sack containing $500, ran after him
as fast as he could, calling out: stop
thief! Police, police!"
Little by little pedestrians took up
the chase. The robber ran through a
piano store and out the back way to
Grand avenue. 1t is said the crowd
had the man. cornered in a vacant lot
on Grand avenue but he made a dash
through them and escaped.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-28
says He Was shnnghnled.

The harbor police received a note
yesterday written by Edward Riley, a
sailor on the British ship Wanderer,
to friend in the city asking that steps
be taken TO get him off the ship. He
had been shanghaied. he said. and IL
compelled to make the voyage to Liver
pool was sure he would never survive
the ordeal. Another letter written by
Riley to a member of the cruiser Chi
cagos crew to the same effect was
turned over to the United States Ship
ping Commissioner by Captain Badger,
the Chicago's commander.
Corporal Egan was detailed to make
an investigation and reported yester-
day afternoon that Riley had shipped
of his own free will, had repented of
his bargain and had raised the cry of
shanghai to help shim out. Riley is a
former man of-warsman and his let
ter to the Chicago was to a former
shipmate. At the British consulate
Egan learned that Riley was perfectly
sober when he signed the Wanderers
articles, and in Egan's opinion Riley's
signature bears out the Consuls state
ment. Unless Riley can show that his
name was signed to the articles by
some sober imposter hired for the pur-
pose by the man who shipped the crew,
he will probably have to make the voy-
age to Liverpool
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-28
PortLandPZayers Find Paddy Welch,
One OF Wilson'S New Recruits,
Very Clever Twirler.

with a bstted ball but no such luck at
tended him IS befell Wheeler the in
ming before. Lister followed with a
great three-base hit into deep center
that made tying the score easy for Don
ahue Gum drew base, but Sweeney
forced the pitcher at second, making
the third out
In the tenth welch issued pass to
Sweeney which proved his undoinS.
Though McIIale went out, Mitchell
swatted ii to Walthours I'm right, who
made so poor a return that the short
stop hied him over the plate without
molestation. Score 10 l.
The Seals did their best in their half
to at least tie it up again, but the effort
was fruitiess. Williams led off with a
single, Hildebrand, batting for Wal
thours, went out, Kane to Lister and
p Wilson got himself hit while at bat.
Spies tried it in place of Welch, but
only hoisted a pop-up to Sweeney and
Lister, unassisted. put out Spencer and
ended the game. The score:
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-28
ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL GAME
Is SCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY
Practice VIII Commence on the Ala
media Field Among Members of
All the Clubs

The association football season will
be unofficislly opened next Sunday on
the field at Webster street. Alameda.
il viii not be a regular match game,
but those interested in the pastime
viii journey across the bay to again
take up practice. Two Of the clubs
have already organized. These are
the Vampires and the Independents.
The general outlook for successful
season is most promising. as the col
leges have taken up the Rugby game.
which is akin to the association game.
Undoubtedly many Of the association
players viii be seen in the Rugby
game during the winter although all
their interest viii be centered in the
association game.
The first match viii take place on
October II. between the Vampires and
the Hornets 1t Will be an exhibit
tion game and will be played on the
Alameda field. From the reports re-
fceived there viii be eight clubs in the
league this season.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-28
OBJECT TO ORDER
CLOSING RESTAURANT

The employees of the general offices
of the Southern Pacific are getting up
a petition asking General Manager e.
E. Calvin to abandon his intention to
do away with the employees restaurant
on October l and to maintain 1t until
the offices are moved into the James
Flood building. They say that the
eating facilities about the ferry are
not adequate, the meals served are not
palatable and that the maintenance of
the restaurant by the company will be
of great benefit to them
The Southern Pacific started the res
taurant for the use of its employees
shortly after the fire. 1t has been
maintained ever since. the employees
receiving meals practically at cost.
Last week Calvin announced that the
restaurant would be discontinued after
October /. This announcement has
caused dismay among the clerks of the
offices and the petition for the rcstau-
rants continuance is the means they
are taking to show the Southern Pa
cific how necessary 1t is to their health.