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Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
ORDERS FUNERAL
FOR HIMSELF
POLICE PROMPTLY CALLED BY
UNDERTAKEN
Despondent Man Wanders Into Bresee
Brothers Establishment PLAN
ming Suicide and Is Hustled
Off to Jail

"Give me the best funeral you can
for $780," said wild-eyed man, rush.
ing into the undertaking parlors OF
Bresee Bros. early last evening.
The undertaken looked at him
sharply and questioned him further.
my name is George Miller" contin-
ued the prospective customer. looking
about at the array Of caskets.
"You see that 1 expect to be dead
before morning, and 1 don't want any
delay about my funeral arrangements
The undertaken was convinced that
Miller was insane, and excusing him
self for a moment, telephoned to the
police station.
While Miller was admiring the coffin
in which he planned to be buried, two
officers entered and placed him under
arrest.
An investigation by the police con-
vinced them that Miller had planned
to commit suicide. while laboring under
an insane impulse, and he was locked
up in the city jail.
He will probably be taken before an
insanity commission this week.
The man has been living at the
Adams house. S52 Stevenson avenue,
for nearly three years.
At one time he was foreman on the
Cudahy ranch, but he has been out of
work for five months.
1t is thought that dependency made
him temporarily insane and that he
would have killed himself last night
but for the prompt action on the part
of the salesman at Bresee Bros
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
BOND ELECTION
WILL De HELD
GOVERNORS PROCLAMATION
HAS NO EFFECT
Advertisement for Event Will Be
Issued Friday and Legal Holiday
Will Have No Effect
on Action

The governors proclamation of legal
holidays will have no effect on the bond
election scheduled for May II. City At
torney Mathews so decided yesterday
The advertisement for the election
will be made next Friday, legal holiday
or not, and the election will be held ac-
cording to the plans now In possession
of the city attorney.
For time yesterday the assistant
city attorneys were divided in their
opinions as to whether or not publica-
ton of the intention to hold the cleo
ton could be madeduring the legal hol-
idays and it was feared the proceed
ings would have TO begin all over again,
as publication must be made at least
ten consecutive days In advance of the
election. AS the city has already gone
TO considerable expense in preparing for
the bond issue this division of opinion
brought deep lines to the brows of the
finance committee.
But the issue was finally decided by
City Attorney Mathews late yesterday
afternoon.
The bond issue provides for 81, $50 900
worth of much needed improvements
and is divided as follows:
Bridges, $2S7500; sewers; $287,5
storm drains, $225,OOO; fire department,
5000, 900; park department, 100000; po-
lice department. $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
HOLIDAYS INTERFERE
WITH COURT DOCKET
GREAT CONGESTION AT THE CITY
JAIL
Large Number of Gases Continued
Until Governors ordinations
Shall Cease and Judges Can Go on
With Work

The long succession of legal holidays
has seriously interfered with police
court trials.
Cases have been piling up until the
judges prosecuting attorneys and
bailiffs look aghast at the number of
criminal actions that are waiting dis
position.
This holiday business has worked
much inconvenience with our court S, {"
said City Prosecutor Beehe yesterday.
"A number of cases were called on
the docket today and continued until
next Monday. 1t Is of course impos-
sible to tell when they can be tried.'
Notwithstanding the legal holidays
all cases of intoxication and petty
crimes have been disposed of, when the
defendant pleaded guilty, If Illegal 1t
is not to be expected that a man in Jail
would raise the question of the con-
stitutonality of the measures which
free him from confinement.
One unlucky individual who pleaded
not guilty to charge of disturbing the
peace on the day Of the earthquake is
still in jail waiting for his trial.
The city jail is crowded with pris-
oners awaiting examinations.
There are probably fifty Of such cases
and few of the defendants are able to
raise enough cash to be bailed out
In the woman's department Mrs. Gill
bert the police matron, has her hands
full with more girls and women in her
care than has ever been known in the
history Of the city.
Several girls, refugees from San
Francisco, detained ON charges of
vagrancy, were released yesterday and
a number OF suspects" were allowed
their freedom.
IL the holidays ordered by the gov
ernor continue much longer larger
quarters must be secured for the un-
willing guests Of the city, say police
officiRls.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
BAPT|STS HOLD
MISSION MEET
REV. DR.. BURDETTE EXTENDS
WARM WELCOME
Representatives of the Home Mission
Society Are Given the Floor.
AI-Day Session Is
Held

The Southern Baptist Conference of
Evangelism met in session at the First
Baptist church yesterday morning. Rev.
r. A. Henck, the president the con-
ference, presided. Following a short
business session Rev. Mr.. Henck well
coined in behalf of the conference Rev.
Cornelius Woelfkin and Rev. e. e.
Chivers, representing the Baptist Home
Missionary society, and introduced
them.
Rev. Mr.. Woelfkin spoke briefly but
forcefully on the subject "The Spirit of
Christ" after which q recess was taken
The conference convened at 2:30
o'clock in the afternoon. A "Burdette
Welcome" was extended by the popular
pastor of the Temple church, which
caused much amusement. He said:
"You are welcome to q good place.
The old mother church reaches her arms
out to you, and all her children of the
city of Our Lady of the Angels cluster
around hey,. clinging to her skirts and
adding the treble of their young voices
to their mothers gracious welcome.
We promise to be good children while
you are here. We will sit quietly and
listen attentively and try to remember
all the things you say, whereby we
may remember some. And If we only
remember one-quarter of what you say,
you must bear in mind that Twenty-Five
per cent Is a good New Testament yield
per acreage. And If you reap hun
dredfold from that you have full
harvest.
"come to Feed Us"
with all the greater heartiness do
we welcome you because among all our
visitors for the past week, you are the
only ones who have come to feed u.s.
The others have greatly blessed us by
coming to be fed and housed. Their
coming has taught us how blessed, twice
blessed 1t Is to give. BY their poverty
they have enlarged our hearts, so they
hold much more than they could have
taken in had you come with your store
of blessing ten days ago"
Following Dr. Burdette's welcome,
addresses were made by Rev. s. A.
Northrop, pastor of the church; Rev.
Albert Hatcher Smith of Pasadena;
Rev. c. A. Woody, Rev. E. Il. Chivers
and Rev Cornelius Woelfkin.
Rev. Messrs. Woody, Chivers and
Woelfkin made addresses at the evening
session. which was largely attended.
A committee was appointed consist
ing OF Revs. S. A. Northrop, II. j..
Burdette, A, S. Phelps, w. ii. Walker.
jr, c. j. Hall and n. A. Henck to work
I'm conjuMtion with the Baptist Home
Mission society in securing funds for
the rebuilding OF the Baptist churches
that were destroyed by the earthquake
and fire IN San Francisco and Vicinity.
There VIII be sessions today and to-
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
EDUCATORS POSTPONE TRIP
National Educators Association De.
cldes Not to Hold Conven-
ton This Year

Los Angeles people in general, and
more especially those connected with
the educational institutions, were dis
appointed yesterday to learn that Los
Angeles will not secure the National
Educational association convention that
was to have been held in San Fran
cisco and that 1t has been postponed
for a year.
The following Associated Press dis
patch from Chicago tells of the action
of the executive committee OF the Ma
tional Educational association:
'',rhe executive committee of the Ma
tional Educational association met here
Saturday and decided to abandon the
meeting Of the association scheduled
for San Francisco this summer. No
convention will be held until next year.
The place and date will be decided
upon later"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
HARTFORD COMPANIES PAY
Dun's Agency Announces That Insur-
ance Corporations VIII Meet
Just Claims

Word has been received at the local
office of r. G. Dun q Co. that all OF
the Hartford insurance companies will
be able to pay the losses incurred at
San Francisco.
Experts are now on their way west
to determine what damage resulted
from the earthquake and how much
from fire. All OF the records that were
kept in San Francisco were destroyed,
and this makes the work more than
twice as difficult as it otherwise would
have been. Prohting by this experience
Il is likely that duplicate records will
be kept in a city distant from the one
where the records are made.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
SEPTUAGENARIAN IS MANGLED
Deaf Resident Run Down by Plco
Heights Car on Fedora
Sfreaf

Samuel A. King, 70 years old. living
at 1906 Hobson street, was run down
by Pico Heights car No. 1863 yesterday
morning at West Pico and Fedora
injuries.
The aged man is very deaf and failed
to hear the warning gong of the motor
man was struck just as he attempt
ed to cross the track. He was thrown
in such a position that a car wheel
crushed his left hand. He also sus-
tained a concussion of the brain. The
left hand was amputated at the re-
ceiving hospital.
Owing to his advanced age the shock
may end his life.
Mrs. King was summoned and re-
manned by the bedside of her uncon-
scious husband last night.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
DEDICATE THEIR TEMPLE
Their Concrete Structure - Past
Grand Master Foshay Presides

The dedication exercises of the new
temple of Southgate Masonic lodge,
Thirty-third and Main streets, were
celebrated yesterday afternoon accord
ing to the rules of the Masonic order.
and with Past Grand Master Foshay
conducting the ceremonies.
The building is of reinforced con-
crete and three stories in height. The
first story contains a social hall and
three stores. The second is divided
into lodge room, banquet hall and par
lors. The third has a smoking room
and music room.
Crowded to the utmost the new tenn
pie was given it's initial warming"
last night. The entertainment of the
evening opened with a speech of well
come by F. c. Wolf, which was fol-
lowed by an address on Masonry" by
J. w. Kemp.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
STRUCK BY UNIVERSITY CAR
Date Street Woman MlsJudges Speed
and Sustains concussion Of
Brain

Mrs. Helen Kuela, 834 Date street.
was struck and seriously injured about
6:15 O'Clock last evening by University
car 431 at Buena Vista and Alpine
streets. The woman was endeavoring
to gain the crossing i'm front of the
car but misjudged its speed.
Patrolman Banks sent the woman to
the receiving hospital. Police Sur
geon Bonynge found that she had sus-
tanned slight concussion of the brain
and other bruises. The woman was re-
moved to her home later.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
Greedy Reports All is Well

WASHINGTON April 30.-Gen. Gree
ly, reporting to the war department
on conditions in San Francisco, states
that order Is being well maintained,
drunkenness Is entirely absent, owing
to restrictions on liquor selling; water
conditions are improving, the general
public health Is excellent and electric
railways are gradually renewing a lin
tied service.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
TO ADVERTISE Los ANGELES
Secretary Wgsins Announces That
. All Plans VIII Be car-'
rled Out

Frank Virgins, secretary of the Los
Angeles chamber of commerce, said
yesterday that all plans for advertis-
ing Los Angeles win be carried out
just the same as If no earthquake had
occurred at San Francisco
q. l.. Wilson has been sent north to
look after the exhibits that We're dis
turbed by the earthquake but were not
touched by IRE.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
Seven-Story Block

The A. p. Johnson building in course
Of erection at 318-322 South Broadway
will be a seven-story, fireproof struc-
ture and will be occupied by the N. 3.
Blackstone Dry Goods company on a
fifteen-year lease
The building will have a frontage of
60 feet on broadway and a depth of
1877 feet, to be built Of brick, steel and
cement with fireproof floors. The build
ing will be absolutely freproof. The
window frames and sash VIII be of
metal. Glass in the rear Of the building
will be wire glass. Glass in front of the
building will be prism and plate. The
building will be the most modern dry
goods house erected in this city. The
work will be started June 1 and COM
pleted in the early part of 1907. The
building will have three elevators, be
steam heated and lighted with elec-
trio arc bursts
Big Industrial Proposition
The Simons Brick company, with
offices in the Stimson building, has
purchased through the f. H. Brooks
company 100 acres, being the southwest
corner of the FL Carmel tract, for
s35, 900. This purchase was made for
the purpose of moving the various
plants of the Simons company to Ell
~
trial town. The company will erect a
warehouse and manufacturing struc-
lures and will give employment to 400
men.
Bought for Investment
Service Bros. have sold for Frank
Hoffman and A. L. Swarthout to l..
F. Lewis of Los Angeles, thirty acres
set to walnut trees and alfalfa. This
property is located one mile north
of Ell Monte. Mr.. Dewis purchased this
property as an investment; considera-
tion, $11. 900.
]. B. Pierce has sold to L. M
Young, through Black Bros, a lot
30x125 feet on the west side of Figueroa
street, between Second and Third,
ninety feet north of the corner of Third
street. for $4,000. Purchased as an in
vestment.
Sale on West Seventh.
DIR. d. Del Amo has sold to Philip
Pohlman, through Colson, Bryon &
Donnell, the southeast corner of West
Seventh and Beacon streets. The prop
erty is $50 feet on Seventh by 140 feet
on Beacon stret and is vacant. Con-
sideration, $32, 500. Mr.. Pohlman closed
UP this deal through the above agents
after hearing from San Francisco,
thereby showing his great faith in the
future of Los Angeles. He is one who
believes that Los Angeles will increase
100 900 in population within year.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
FOR EXCHANGE
Real Estate
MCDONALD SS STOTT,
809-10 Lankershfm Building.
To RTIX

Owners and dealers in real estate
who have properties FOR sale or ex-
advantage to come in and have talk
with us.
We can handle property located in
any part of the United States. East
ern property a speciality.
4 We have the best trader in thu
United States; 1t means dollars to
you to make his acquaintance.
! | We will give you quick action and
buyer or seller. Come in and see us.
MCDONALD & STOTT.
S09-10 nlSarshAya Bldg.
Nome Phone 4746
Sunset Maip 456b
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
April a Record Month

The total building permits for the
full month of April were S3S, authoriz-
Ing improvements valued at $1,000, 1851,
thus placing April among the high rec
ord months in the building history of
Los Angeles. The year 1906 promises
to go on record as the banner year.
Bxqevations now are being made for
colossal structures that will swell the
May total to big figures Watch us
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
FOR SALE
Suburban Property

ONE HUNDRED ACRES OF CHOICE
celery. potato, beet and alfalfa land
partly improved, with two artesian
wells on the place. About six miles
southwest OF Santa Ana. Owner must
sell. If you are interested address
BOX 436. or call at 22O e. 1stst., Long
Beach, California.
FOR SALE-FINE LITTLE CHICKEN
ranch out Hollywood way; u acre;
SC fare and good service; nice shrub
berry, flowers and shade; good
chicken equipment: splendid water
right. Price with personal property
$1,000; without stock $1,000. $1,000
cash, balance easy.
THE RTS-GELDREICH CO.,
Sole Agents,
3O4 Thorpe Bldg, 132 n. Broadway.
Home 213s. Main 1862.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
BUILDING BOOM
DOWN BROADWAY
APRIL IMPROVEMENT OVER
TWO MILLION
Industrial Enterprise at Ell Carmel
viii Employ Four Hundred Men.
Large Sums In investment
Propositions

Following are the permits issued
from the building superintendent,s
office Monday, classified according to
wards:
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
Acres 5000
Between Vermont and
Western Avenue

n Right across from the city of
,sAthens on the Redondo and San
Pedro car lines. just a little outside
the city limits In the southwest;
finest soil, level land; great abun-
dance of water; this will more than
treble in value inside of one year;
for free ride and full particulars see
fHE GREATER LOS ANGELES
4 asna REALTY CO..
legii 433 Huntington Bldg.
DR. ACREAGE AT ALTADENA SEE
H. NJ. PRATT, COS Laughlin Bldg.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
That Made milwaukee, famous.

morrow. The pastors and lay delegates
from the various Baptist churches Will
be in attendance.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01

l6R SALE-MALTHOID ROOFING.
\ and only $3.50 per square. 1t is the
cheapest and best roofing on the market.
sJs NATIONAL Io.I LUMBER CO..
fBRANCII OFFICE,
f915 East 9th st.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01
Miscellaneous

lpA SALE-LUMBER WE CARRY
1.-THE largest stock in the city. Also a
pgeo planning mill to work it up with
fT1 ddition to our regular stock we
thslv from 100000 to 300, 900 feet of No. 2
Dahd B; also sx-foot lengths and under,
lat only $500 per NJ. This is material
.wfe wish to close out. Come this week
|tfi you want snap.
II NATIONAL LUMBER CO.,
2Oth and Alameda ST.
BRANCH OFFICE,
41b East 9th ST
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01

lHDR SALE-BUILDERS' HARDWARE
1--WE are furnishing some of the best jobs
Film Los Angeles. Special mission pat
4 terms at the lowest possible market
u lptices. Come and see.
NATIONAL LUMBER CO.,
III 10th and Alameda St.
\ BRANCH OFFICE.
N 415 East 9th st
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01

ROR SALE-SASH AND DOOORS. WE
sbhslve large stock os the best goods on
klie market Also a lot of cheap stul1
vplr farm houses and cottages. Get our
&ures on anything you are building
hey will convince you that our prices
\d goods are right.
NATIONAL LUMBER CO.,
Goth and Alameda
IA !ANCH OFFICE,
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01

lOR SALE-NEW NAND SECOND
/ hand billiard and pool tables; bar fix
I lures of all kinds; easy payments
Send for catalogue. THE BRUINS
II WICK KE-COIlLENDER CO.. $50
South Los Angeles ST.. Los Angeles.
y5q BUYS ONE-A HOME FOR YOU
for the above amount and better to live
i1t for your health than a $4,000 man
Sion. See one rear of 420 WEST 9TH ST.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-01

fisk for tile Breuery Bott1Etzg.
Common beer is sometimes substituted fer .SchhL
To Ooid being lboed Mbon see title cork or cy0N is
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-18

regions Of the interior Of the continent
and the west which are devoid OF for.
ests. coal and mineral oils. or are now
at the mercy Of monopolizing trusts and
eStortionate railroads. can in large part
supply their needs for fuel light and
power from their own resources and
former wastes. besides supplying a new
material OF incalculable value to the
whole industrial world.
II is to be feared, however. that this
measure will not have as smooth sail
ing i'm the senate as II has had In the
house. 1t must there run the gauntlet
Of hostile interests i'm more advantage
GUS position for obstruction. But though
II is an old subject in Europe, and
though Germany especially owes in no
small degree its remarkable industrial
advance TO free alcohol, the subject has
only recently been brought home TO pub
lie attention in our country, and as soon
as the facts are fully known public SEN
timent will enforce action.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-18
DIVORCE RULE REVERSED.

The decision OF the supreme court of
the United States holding that state
court has no right to grant a divorce
to one party II the other party to the
marriage is not a resident of the same
state, is of far reaching effect and will
excite profound interest Nothing could
be more homogeneous than the divorce
statutes of the several states and the
practice of the state courts under them.
and the result has been after many
years of complaint of the moral conse-
quences, an earnest movement for state
uniformity of divorce legislation or the
taking over of the subject by the ma
tional authority.
But heretofore 1t has been generally
held by the courts and assumed in legis.
lation that a decree of divorce on the
application of a resident party was valid
II the court proceedings were regular,
without regard TO the residence of the
other party to the dissolved marriage.
Out of this rule have grown many of
the most fragrant judicial and legislative
abuses. Some states are notorious for
having fixed such trivial conditions OF
residence and such easy grounds for
divorce as virtually to invite divorce
seeking people from other states and
even from foreign countries in which
they properly reside and where they
could have no standing in court. and to
make farce of the whole proceeding
The fact that any one state by loose
legislation could thus nullify the stricter
divorce laws Of other states has been
at the bottom of very much Of the
agitation for Matchmaking the subject
Of divorce legislation.
The decision of the supreme court
goes far to sweep away at one stroke
the manifold abuses which have grown
up around the rule heretofore followed.
It's retroactive effect will be TO alter
property rights and the status of chill
dren involved in thousands of adiudi-
Gated divorce cases. Prospectively It
will destroy divorce colonization and
the associated frauds and evils which
at once offend moral sensibility and are
the means OF much gross injustice.
| So revolutionary decision OF the
/ highest court OF the land cannot fail
immensely TO stimulate sentiment for
divorce reform by concentrating uni.
versal attention upon the subject, and
the legislatures of the several states will
inevitably be put under pressure to re.
view their divorce codes.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-04-18
STATE PRESS COMMENT.

Hastings Tribune: The direct primary
method of nominating is no longer an ex-
pertinent, It has been tried, tested and
proven success, and It is only a matter
of a short time until Nebraska will have
to adopt the direct primary system.
Columbus Journal VIII Nebraska demo-
Gratis maintain that the republican party
in Nebraska is a railroad party? Then We
can ask these same men who are promising
reforms today in event OF democratic sue
cess why, under similar promises in the
days Of fusion success. they gave Nebras ska
railroads the lowest assessment they have
ever had while they themselves used as
many free passes as were ever used by a
Nebraska Legislature. And we can point to
the fact that II was republicans who
doubled the assessment of railroads under
the new revenue law and It was republican
state officials who first threw away their
passes.
York Times: The Omaha Bee asks What
Of the populists?" and is still waiting for
an answer. Such conundrums are right in
line. A few Of the popuists have Joined
the democratic party and are the loudest.
most violent and most unpatriotic of them
all. Others have climbed into the repub-
lican band wagon, and are trying &c wrest
the reins from the old and practiced drivers.
They are making the fight on the repuh-
lican party from the inside now instead of
from the outside: There was no such racket
in the republican party when they were
out of 1t as there is now. The prodigals
have returned from the husks and are de-
handing the fatted calf.
Kearney Democrat: The Benson nomna-
ton in Omaha is a forerunner of what the
republicans are going to do at their state
convention. What the democrats have done
is an indication of what will follow at their
state convention. The republicans will not
nominate Benson for governor. but a man
like him. The democrats will nominate
Dahlman, because he will be not only the
logical candidate. but the candidate of all
those interests which are now behind his
candidacy for mayor, and which will defeat
Benson and elect Dahlman. And these
same interests will elect Dahlman governor
not alone for the purpose of having a liberal
minded governor, but to accomplish another
purpose Of vast more concern to, especially.
the railroads. That purpose is 10 throw
the political complexion OF the next legis-
lature in jeopardy. With a strong and
winning candidate like Dahlman. and with
the legislative members who will be natu-
rally or commercially controlled by them.