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Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

Assessor Lewis thinks too many
owners of property are taking ad-
vantage of the delinquent tax law by
allowing their property to pass into
the city's hands for ten years and then
coming in to redeem it without paying
any more than five years of accrued
taxes and without an increase in the
valuation. There should be some law
to prevent this sort of thing. The
statute permitting it was designed to
help people who for any reason We're
not able to meet the taxes each year.
and give them ample time to redeem
their property, but it seems there was
an opening left for persons to crawl
through who desired to beat the state
and county governments out of lawful
revenues.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
RAILWAY WORLD
WILL BE STRONG COMPETITOR
OF SANTA FE
Steamship Company Is Building Ships
for Use Between San Pedro and
San Diego-New Road
for Salt Lake City

The Santa Fe railroad company is
not entirely pleased with the outlook
for strong competition from San Pedro
to San Diego. The competitor will be
the Nelson, Napier Navigation COM
pany, which is now building ships for
service between these two points.
The two steamers will be 145 feet
in length and will be licensed to carry
600 people each. They are being con-
structed in the Fulton ship yards and
will be modernly equipped.
The company proposes to make a
daylight trip in each direction, the
steamers leaving their ports at
o'clock in the morning and arriving at
their separate destinations at o'clock
i'll the afternoon.
The steamship company will make a
strong bid for business and will re-
duce the round trip to So or 50 for the
single trip. The tickets will be un-
limited This is far below any special
rates that have ever been given over
the Santa Fe and the tickets have all
ways been limited to a certain number
of days. 1t is proposed to have the
line i'll operation by June 1.
People at both ends of the line have
taken kindly to the proposition. Resi-
dents of San Diego subscribed $50,000
worth of stock in less than two hours.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
WILL MAKE INQUIRY
INTO BRAINS SANITY
ATTORNEY WIDEMAN'S EFFORTS
IN PYRoMANIAc'S BEHALF
Will Ask That Prisoner Be Taken Be-
fore Lunaoy Commission Prior to
Date Set for His Examination in
the Police Court

The examination of James Brain, the
pyromaniac, is set for March "a in the
police court, but Attorney Wallace w.
Wideman will have the prisoner taken
before the lunacy commission if pos
sible, and failing in that will have sew
eral prominent alienists examine the
boy. AS soon as the commitment
papers from an asylum for the insane
at Elgin, ILL.,. arrive Attorney Wideman
will take decisive action.
Since his alleged harsh treatment by
the detectives, Brain has been suffer-
ing considerably and Chief Auble made
one concession yesterday-that the boy
could have nourishing food brought to
him fit was paid for by his friends.
The chief, while admitting that pris-
oners usually are allowed anything in
the way of delicacies that they can
pay for, said in Brains case he feared
that morphine or some other drug
would be introduced secretly in the
food.
Brain is expected to improve under
rational treatment and Mr. Wideman
has much confidence in the Judgment
Of the physicians who will examine the
youth and probably recommend his re-
moVal to a hospital.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
Thurston Made General Aaent

1t was officially announced yester-
day that c. A. Thurston, now travelling
agent for the Northwestern railroad
with headquarters in San Francisco,
has been appointed general agent in
Los Angeles to succeed w. d. Campbell
who has resigned and has been made
president of the Dixie Land company.
The appointment will be effective in
April.
Mr. Campbell has been in the service
Of the Northwestern for 26 years. His
first position was that of station agent
in 1880 at Maquoketa, Ia. He came to
Los Angeles from Spokane, where he
was general agent. The company were
loath to part with his services which
had become valuable to it but Mr..
Campbell desired to engage in business
for himself.
Mr.. Thurston has been with the COM
pany for a number of years and is not
entirely unknown in Los Angeles. He
comes highly recommended.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

Everybody in Los Angeles yesterday
made a demand of down with the
DUST" but the dust only went down
their throats. Street superintendent
Hanley says the council has compelled
a reduction in the number of street
sprinklers to seventy-seven instead of
125 last year, but he is working these
overtime and doing his best. The
finance committee of the council has
been busy buying voting machines that
nobody but Republican politicians
wanted, and so when necessities are re-
quired 1.-The funds are exhausted"
Paying out many thousands of dollars
for worse than useless voting machines
when there is no money for street
sprinkling or fire protection is the sort
of business that taxpayers are in re-
volt against.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

of the court and the contempt pro-
ceedings will probably be dropped.
In the meantime the court postponed
the case for month in order to give
both husband and wife a chance to ar
range matters between themselves so
that the husband may see his babies
once a week according to the orders of
the court.
Plotts recently complained that his
wife refused to allow him to see his
children. The order to show cause in
the contempt proceedings was issued
on the strength of his statement, but
when Mrs. Plotts explained that when
he visited to see the children he was
always accompanied by one or more
persons and for that reason he was
denied admittance, a new light was
thrown on the case
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
Adopts New Mile Posts

Special to The Herald.
Topeka, March, 9.-The Santa Fe
has adopted a new plan of marking
mile posts and stations along its
system. Formerly the main line began
at Atchison which was numbered O, and
from there on the several stations were
numbered according to the number of
miles they were distant. For example.
Topeka was 81, being 81 miles from
Atchison, and so on. Kansas City was
40, Lawrence A40, Tecumseh AGO, and
so on to Topeka. By the new order,
Chicago is 0, Kansas City 45S, and so
on by the way of Holiday, Ottawa,
Emporia, Hutchinson, st. John and
Kinsley in Kansas and on to San Fran
cisco. That is to say. the main line
takes all the short cuts to the coast.
Atchison is now numbered 2521, and
that part of the system between EN-
poria and Atchison is the "Atchison
branch" Topeka is on the Atchison
branch.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

consolidate with Orange county, in the
event that Los Angeles carried to a
successful issue it's present plans. In
cidentally the proposition to join with
Pomona was not well received, after
the Orange county delegation had
obtained the last say.
Now all this is emnently unfair, both
to Whittier and Los Angeles. The
newspapers in Whittier appear to have
sot the town panic-stricken, lest Los
Angeles should come in the night and
carry Whittier off by force. In eX-
PLANTATION the newspapers say that "the
Whittier people realize the enormous
indebtedness soon to be assumed by
Los Angeles, and as they have
abundance of domestic and irrigation
water they can see no reason for them
to take upon themselves a debt for
something that will not benefit them"
and that "they had been used as a tail
to the Los Angeles kite long enough
This sort of argument is not up to
the usual Whittier standard. In fact
it is no argument at all. 1t is the
merest assumption, without any facts
to support it. that Los Angeles is soon
to assume an enormous Indebtedness,
or a debt that it cannot manage with
out any increase in the existing rate OF
taxation. 1t has been demonstrated
time and again that the water bond
proposition will pay for itself as it goes
along. The income from the water de-
partment will pay the interest and the
bonds will take care of themselves from
the construction OF the owens river
enterprise. There is no enormous in
debtedness' that Los Angeles cannot
amply handle without any assistance
from outside towns. The Whittier
have simply conjured up
bugaboo, bogie man, and are trying to
frighten the Whittier people.
The fact only serves to call the at
tention of neighboring towns and cities
to the absurdity of flying off at a
tangent. Los Angeles is not out hunting
for tails to its kite. 1t doesn't need
any. Los Angeles is going to present a
plain business proposition that is de-
signed to be of mutual assistance to alb
of its neighbors. When the proposition
shall pe matured the neighboring cities
and towns will be asked to consider and
vote upon it. If they don't care to CO.
operate, that is their business, for no
power exists that can compel them to
go into the plan.
In the meantime, why abuse Los An
geles before anything definite has been
Why run off to Orange or
Pomona and seek shelter from some
danger that has no existence?
the facts.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
Warped Wisdom

He who hesitates may live to be glad
of it.
What you put off today you may forget
tomorrow.
Real home ties are mothers apron
strings.
1.-THE woman who thinks only of looks
looks it.
It's a poor rule that can't be worked
some way.
It's never too late to spend
Proof Of the political pudding lies in the
plums one pulls out.
Every cloud has a silver lining, except
those on real estate titles
There's often slip 'twiXt the miss and
the lips,
You can't judge of a mans anguish by
the size of the yell he puts up.
w. II. C.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

The statement in todays Herald by
the Chinese chamber of commerce eX-
planatory of the recent flag shooting
episode is deserving of a fair. impair
tial reading. 1t abundantly shows that
the Chinese in question did not shoot
at the flags, but that the flags had
been innocently attached to the target
discs as decorations, and when the
discs were missed the flags were struck
mot by design but by accident and
more Americans than Chinese did the
shooting. The people of Los Angeles
win be fair to the foreigners within
her gates. And as for the Hearst yell
low paper that went into Mysteries
over the episode, it deserves only pub
lie contempt.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
LOS ANGELES AND WHIT TIER

The antipathy of the Whittier news
papers to Los Angeles is hardly under
standable and their conduct has placed
the fine little foothill city in the posi-
tion of wandering orphan, knocking
at everybody's door for refuge. They
have even succeeded in getting the
Whittier chamber of commerce to ap-
point an itinerant embassy to treat
with anybody who would like to annex
Whittier-eXcept Los Angeles.
This committed, without waiting to
acquire the smallest information about
the program that Los Angeles has in
course of preparation, recently received
delegations from Anaheim and Fuller
ton and took kindly to a proposition to
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
ARIZONA SAVED


The adoption by the senate of Sena-
tor Foraker's amendment providing
| for elections in Arizona and New
Mexico to ascertain the will of the
people of those territories as to single
or joint statehood, is a triumph for
Democracy--a triumph fairly wrung
from the dominant party in spite of all
! it could do to prevent such a con-
summation.
The bill will now be referred back to
amendment. 1t is probable the house
will not concur, and it is also prob
able, in that event, that the statehood
bill may fall to the ground, thus post
poning the whole question for another
two years.
Joint statehood for Arizona and New
Mexico is dead-dead as door nail. 1t
has passed the crisis and sunk into u
state of defunctness from which it may
never be resurrected. OF course this
will postpone for the time being the ad-
mission of Arizona into the Union, but
the people of that territory will not
be averse to the postponement. In their
present frame of mind they would much
prefer to remain a territory than be
brought into statehood conformity with
New Mexico. All they have ever asked
is the ascertainment of their desire in
the matter The Republican leaders,
with President Roosevelt in the van,
have proceeded on the assumption that
the will of the territories was subsidiary
in Importance to the interests of the
Republican party and the interests of
eastern financiers who resist the grow
ing power of the western states. 1t was
allowed single statehood because it has
manifested Il disposition to go Demo-
cratic and that there were possibilities
of it's electing two Democratic senators.
In order to prevent such a consumma-
tion the eastern Republicans determined
to add on New Mexico's overwhelming
Republican majority, and by bringing
the two territories in as one state insure
the election of two Republican senators.
The house thoroughly understood this
and carried out it's part of
the program without the slightest hesi-
tation. And the measure would have
passed the senate in that shape, with
even more promptness, had not the
senate become involved in a war with
the president over the freight rate
regulation bill. Senator Foraker is lead
ing the fight against that measure and
he has deemed it fair politics to strike
back at the president by killing off the
joint statehood bill, which the president
has done all he could to have enacted.
1t seems impossible, therefore, to give
Republican senators credit for desiring
justice to Arizona and New Mexico.
A few of them helped make the fight
for Arizona apparently because they
thought such a course might weaken
the president with his own party, and
thus perhaps lessen the weight of the
presidents influence in favor of the
Hepburn bill.
1t is not believed the house will con-
cur in the amendment, as it is solidly
with the president on the railroad bill
and would prefer to kill the statehood
measure by disagreement rather than
see Arizona admitted as a single state.
The upshot of the matter is that joint
statehood has been prevented for the
time being and perhaps for all time.
The next congress will be prepared to
deal fairly and justly with the terri
tories of the southwest.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
NOTED EDUCATORS TO MEET
Bishop Conaty Will Attend Conference
of American Universities
in San Francisco

Bishop Conaty has been appointed to
represent the Catholic university at
Washington at the conference of Amer
lean universities, which will be held
in San Francisco March ID to II. The
bishop formerly was at the head of
this university, preceding his appoint
ment as head of this diocese. He is
well known throughout the country as
a leading educator.
The bishop will return in time for
the st. Patrick's day celebration.
Among the universities to be repre-
sented at the conference are Harvard,
Yale. Clark, Princeton, Michigan, Wis
consin, Chicago, Pennsylvania, Stan
ford. Berkeley and the Catholic uni
versity at Washington.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
Better Service for San Pedro

Passenger traffic on the two diff
ferent lines of San Pedro electric roads
has become so great lately that many
extra cars are needed The Interurban
line put nine more cars on the run be-
tween Los Angeles and San Pedro yes
terday and the Pacific Electric has
announced that it will place six new
cars on it's line tomorrow. This will
give San Pedro the benefit of forty-six
cars each way per day and much use
of them will be made.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
MRS. PLoTTs EXPLAINS CASE
Reason Woman Failed to Appear Was
Because Of a Misun-
derstanding

A continuance of four weeks was
Granted Yesterday by Judge Monroe
in department six of the superior court
in the hearing of the order to show
cause why she should not be fined for
contempt recently issued against Mrs.
Ina Plotts. 80,
the napers and through a misunder-
standing as to a postponement failed
to make an appearance at the time
stated by the court.
Yesterday she appeared in depart
ment six and told the circumstances
of her alleged disregard for the orders
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
FIFTY-FoURTH BODY FOUND
Remains of Another Victim of the
Valencia Wreck Reported to
Have Been RecoXered

VICTORIA B. c., March 9.-Another
body has been found near the scene of
the Valencia wreck, this being the fifty
fourth body recovered.
identification was impossible. OF the
fifty-four bodies found only twenty
three were identified
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
Yosemite Valley Issues Bonds
By Associated Press,

SAN FRANCISCO, March 9.-Addi-
tional bonds to the value of $150,000 are
to be sold by the Yosemite Valley Rail
road company. This is the company
which is building a steam road eighty
miles in length from Merced to the edge
of the Yosemite valley. About thirteen
miles of track have been laid and forty
miles of roadbed graded. The COM
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
ALL TRACE OF MACK LOST
Police Theory Is Man Wanted for
Stealing Diamond Ring Has
Left the Country

Morton H. Mack of this city, son Of
a New York millionaire and now a
fugitive from justice owing to his lar
ceny of a diamond ring belonging to
Clara Del Moore, is supposed to be
on a steamer bound for Honolulu.
Although his father has telegraphed
that he will take up the many checks
that were floated by young Mack, Miss
Del Moore swore out a warrant for
the mans arrest on a charge of lar
ceny.
Mack was associated with the Glen
Miller company, having real estate
offices in the Bryson block.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
WILL BUILD TO SALT LAKE CITY
Construction of New Road Out of Den-
yer Will Commence Soon
BY Associated Press.

by Associated Press.
DENVER, Colo, March 9.-All ar
rangements have been made to go for
ward with the construction and COM
pletion of the Denver, Northwestern &
Pacific railroad (the Moffatt short line)
to its destination at Salt Lake City,
with the utmost dispatch. A telegram
received from David H. Moffatt. now in
New York, contained the following:
"Have concluded financial arrange
ments for pushing construction of road
through to Utah. The work of build
ing will be crowded ahead at once"
At the headquarters of the road here
preparations have been under way for
several days for building on very
much larger scale than has yet been
attempted. Work on the road will be
undertaken from the two ends of the
line.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

DIR. Douglas Hyde, the Irish scholar
and patriot, is in love with Los An
geles. Why, of course; everybody who
sees it falls head over heels in affec-
ton for it. DR.. Hyde has been all
over the world but promptly declared
he had never seen anything as beauti-
full as Los Angeles.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

H. H. Rogers and John D. Archbold
of the Standard Oil company have
been in consultation with the president.
Can it be that the Standard is afraid,
or is Teddy becomlng contaminated?
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

Inasmuch as one insurance company
lost $S0,OO0OO0 in new business last
year, maybe the McCurdy outfit
thought the whole affair "small pota-
toes, too trihing to bother with any
longer, and went to France for bigger
game
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

The board of public works will be
Informed Saturday that the outfall
sewer is all right. No one had any
idea that it wasn't save "Dock"
Houghton and a few walking delegates,
and they didn't believe in their own
knocks.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

The work of benevolent assimila-
ton goes merrily on in the Philippine
islands. Graves for many brave Amer
ican soldiers and hundreds of mis-
guided Moros. We bit off large slice
ON that fateful day when we paid mil
lions of money for a country we
couldn't use.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

Chairman Shonts of the Isthmian
canal commission has changed his
mind again. He now says he will
neither resign from the Glover Leaf
railroad nor from the canal commits
sion. Mr., Shonts knows a good thing
when he sees 1.-two good things, in
fact.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
excursion Is well Attended

The excursion given by the ladies OF
the Long Beach Methodist church yes
terday over the Salt Lake Toa9 10 pan
Rernsrdino. Redlands and Riverside
was attended by about $50 people.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
shonts Denies Resignation

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 9.-Theodore P.
Shonts chairman of the lsthmian
Canal commission, who arrived here
today, said that he had no intention of
resigning his position as the president
of the clover Leaf railroad nor his
chairmanship of the canal commission.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

General Cotbln, the Beau Brummel
of the army, sees no signs of war
cloud in China. General Corbin doesn't
want war; it might tarnish his super
abundance of gold braid.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
Aqrees to Turn Mail Cars
L. rI,ln IL ora Id

SpeCIdI 10
Ell. RENO, o. r., March 9.-ln con-
sequence of a threatened boycott by the
railway mail clerks. the Rock Island
has acceded to their demands, and VIII
hereafter turn all full length mail cars
at Caldwell so as to have the end CON
tanning the storage compartment at the
this as a protection in case of wrecks.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
Pi-LimeS and Pick-UpS
You RetI

Hide away your silks and di'monds,
Put your jewels all in hook;
Let your silverware grow rusty,
While you keep it under lock.
Sell your real estate off promptly;
Keep no valuables about
For tn assessor man II git you,
Eff
You
Don't
Watch
Out.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
DECIDE ON GRAIN RATES
Higher Charge Will Be Made for
Local Than for Export Business

7I9ner Charge VIII be Made TOR
Local Than for Export Business
8v Associated Press
NEW YORK, March AT a meet
ing of Trunk line traffic managers yes
terday new lake and rail rates" to
take effect on the opening of naviga-
tion were decided on. Comparing rates
a year ago they are one-half cent per
bushel lower on wheat and flax, un-
changed on barley and oats, and are
one-half cent per bushel higher on rye
and corn.
The new rates are: Wheat, Az
cents, flax Az cents; rye, Az cents;
corn, 4 cents; barley cents oats, 8
cents
The new rates refer to export bust
ness only and for the first time in
some years higher lake and rail- rates
will be charged for local than for ex-
port grain business.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

San Francisco is roaring loudly
about reform" just now. But the
Fog city needn't think anyone is fooled
by it. The dummy who is working the
reform racket was elected on the
Schmitz-Ruef ticket, and all thereon
were tarred with the same stick.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

Southern California lay in the blessed
sunshine yesterday like a land o.
dreams. This must have been the
original home of the ancient lotus. eat
arc
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10
Arrived Hungry


a fine boy arrived at the home OF
William Sloker the other morning and
applied for board. William was ter
ribly excited but has recovered all
right.-Powersvill (Mo) Record.
That Idaho judge that "stood pat
now, what was he playing?
A poolroom has been established in
Indiana for Chicago men. Can't Chi
cago men get rid of their coin fast
enough by the prevailing 'holdup''
method?
Palm-How's the cradlemaking busi-
ness now?
Pepper-Rocky, as usual,
Jacob Riis has heart disease. He
must have heard what Teddy said
about the third term prediction.
Can't our jackies find any other
pastime than Staying one another? If
not, why not get up u war for EN-?
Dawson City's annual blaze comes
just in time to permit the usual joke
about it being a hot town.
The man in the small Indiana town
VINO shot at an actress when she sang
uncomplimentary things about the
place was probably an impatient dra-
matte critic who couldn't wait to eX-
press his views in print.
The day Gen. Corbin returns from
Manila comes news of a fierce battle
in the Philippines. Can it be that all
this time the Moros have merely been
dazed by the Corbin pulchritude and
the gorgeosity of the Corbin clothes?
New York burglar conducted his
own case in court so well that he will
study to become a lawyer. Even a
burglar may go from bad to worse.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

The Iowa legislature has enacted an
anti-pass bill. Why not try the French
way of compelling the railroads to give
passes to certain government officials?
Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-10

Professor E. C. Moore, the newly
elected superintendent of the Los An
geles schools, will arrive today. He
will be welcome, but he should un-
derstand at the start that filling the