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Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
THEFT is HER PENCHANT
Aged Woman Caught in the Act
of Abstractng
Skates

Late yesterday evening an old woman
sneaked around from the rear at the
residence of Mrs. j. w. Broad, 1916
Manhattan street, and took, so it is al
legged, a pair of roller skates from the
front porch, and was taken into custody
by Detective Zeigler an hour later on
South Spring street, and then attempted
to blame the theft on her son.
When taken to the home of Mrs.
Broad by the detective the skates and
the woman were identified, but Mrs.
Broad would not prosecute the woman,
who is said to be very old
When the woman was apprehended
she told the officers she did not know
that her son had taken the skates ard
when they were taken from the boys
hands the woman expressed surprise.
1t is said the woman and her child
have been guilty of petty crimes before,
and generally work upon the sympathy
of the people from whom they take
things and thus escape prosecution.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
GARDEN FETES
ATTRACT MANY
WOMEN PRESIDE IN RIOT OF
BLOSSOMS
GalIy Decorated Booths and Hundreds
Of Japanese Lanterns Form Set
ting for Outdoor Enter
talnment

The women Of the Epiphany church
have certainly learned the art of enter
tanning. They gave lawn fete yester-
day IN the grounds Of the home of Mrs.
w. M. Hendrick and Mrs. G.. johnson,
2653 Pasadena avenue. The decorations
had been arranged with lavish hands,
and scores of Japanese lanterns shone
from the foliage Of trees and bushes.
Pink roses and ferns shed their fra
GRANGE around the booths, and Japanese
umbrellas were suspended in various
places. Mrs. Sheldon Borden, who had
charge of the fortune telling booth,
had a ring of merry listeners around
her the whole evening, while the ice
cream booth, with Mrs. ]. r. Neale in
charge, and with her assistants, Mines
J. B. Liversidge, L. G. Kerr, Albert K.
Smith, John Greer w. T. Curl, the
Misses Laura Horseman, Bessie Allen,
Laura Allen, Amy McEwen, Helen Nc
Even, Minnette Worley, Bernice Whit
taker, Fannie Hendricks, Harriet Nc
Laury, Mary Nee, Sara Peck, Carrie
Garrison, Dora Garrison, Beatrice
Marcher, Helen Hussey Hattie Crum-
my, Grace Stanley, Katherine Stanley
and members of the Glover Leaf club,
proved almost as popular. A vaudeville
performance wos given by Mrs. Jack
Sanders, Fred and Ethel Hodgson, with
George Wiley as stage manager. The
pupils from the Dobinson school also
gave performance, and those who
served as ushers in the improvised the
ater were Misses Anita Brown, Leona
Hutchinson, Hazel M Bly,, Royal Har-
Gus, Lillian Murdoch, Hazel La Touche,
Bessie Hellyar and Ethelwyn Walker.
The general ushering was done by
Corey Dunkelberger, Gregory Perkins,
IT, q tino i-
M Heffelfinger and Harry Borden.
Miss Fannie Dodge, j. M Dupuy and
members of the Orpheus quartet, in
cluding Messrs Justice, Fallman,
Charles Wesley Hatch, H. G. Cronkhte
and Stillman ingalls,. furnished the
music during the afternoon and even
ing, and the punch table was made
doubly attractive by the presence of
Mines. w. H. Mohr, T. r. Owen, Frank
Simmonds, the Misses Mary Hough,
Helen Wood, Agnes Barnwell, Anabel
Owen, Italia Bower. Nell Mohr. .Vir
ginia Scott. Maude Merryweather,
Mary Widney. Geraldine Parry, Grace
Pirtle and Ethel Shrader, in becoming
summer gowns The Japanese booth,
which was filled with interesting SOU
venirs, was presided over by Mrs. Wal
ton Hall Doggett, assisted by Mrs.
Frank Prescott, Mrs. Paul D. Robinson.
and the Misses Anna Fleming, Minerva
Bussenius, Anna Cooke, Carrie Stafford
and Ruth McF;wen. At the candy booth
delicious sweets and 'bonbons of every
description were sold by Mines. George
Brown. Wing Fillmore, J. H. Cooke,
the Misses Ruth Black. Grace Williams,
Nita Fleming. Jessie Neale, Helen
Curl. Robina Dobson, Galleta Mushet,
Katherine Potter, Minnie Capp, lima
Dobbs, Bessie Stone. Esther Downing
and Nellie Mulholland.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
NEW DATA FOR
LAND SEEKERS
REGISTRAR PRESCOTT GIVES OUT
LATEST INFORMATION
Pats Showing Vacant Land Are Fur
nlshed at a Nominal Sum-Los
Angeles Land District ls 200
by 300 Miles In Area

Information which is very valuable to
the intending settler in this section of
the state was issued in circular letter
yesterday afternoon by Frank G. Pres
colt, registrar of the United States land
office. Following is the letter:
"The Los Angeles land district is 200
miles north and south by 300 east and
west. embracing all of Los Angeles,
Orange, San Diego and Riverside and
portions of San Bernardino, Ventura,
Kern and Santa Barbara counties.
Vacant government land remote from
cities but generally near postoffices, in
vites homesteaders in each county,
comprising some 1O,0OO,0OO acres, either
mountainous, hilly and rolling or the
level railroad traversed Mojave and
Colorado deserts and Imperial valley.
Mountain land is suitable, as in the
Santa Monica mountains, for stock or
bees; when irrigated products apples,
cherries barley and the like.
The Possibilities
Foothills and rolling land with water
produce olives, oranges, lemons, lines,
berries and alfalfa.
"In seasons of abundant rainfall grain
is a profitable crop on mesa lands and
thousands of acres Of profitable wine
grapes now grow thereon without irri-
cation.
Desert land requires irrigation; with
water is productive of melons, eSpe-
cially cantaloupes, grapes, alfalfa and
similar crops, and near Indio has been
reclaimed with artesian wells.
"All homesteads may be ornamented
with date and fan palms, loquat, pine
magnolia, banana, rose, geranium and
many tropic and all semi-tropic flower
ing and ornamental trees, shrubs and
flowers
Deer are found and trout are plenti-
full in the mountains; duck dove. quail
and hare in the lowlands. Sea fishing
is especially good.
River ReclaIms Much
"In southeastern San Diego county
Colorado river water has reclaimed
thousands of acres.
townships along the Colorado have
been reserved for reclamation by fed
eral canals, portion being open under
the strictest application of the home
stead law the remainder temporarily
withdrawn. Little timber land remains
vacant, being confined to mountain
forest reserves.
reserved for government purposes
under the treasury department.
maps and tract books showing pub
lie lands are on file in this Office and
open to public inspection, and plats
showing vacant land are furnished at
a cost of 81 for each township desired.
Land laws are had free on application
to the general land office, Washington" p"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
ANNUAL PROTESTS
ARE PILING UP
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION SITS
AS COURT
Unique Are Some Of the Objections
Filed by Property Owners
at Assessment
Ratings

Only the minor complaints of the
small property owners of the county
have been filed with the county board
OF supervisors now sitting as a board
of equalization, but the clerks are max
ing arrangements for the handling of
the mass of complaints which are in
variably filed by tie big corporations
before the seasons work Is over.
Last year practically every railroad
in Los Angeles registered big kick
or the assessment of its property. Ac-
cording to their statements their rolling
stock was in poor condition and hardly
fit for old junk. while the actual value
of their property was shockingly low.
The same condition was report ed
from nearly all the prosperous corpor-
ations of the city, and a tourist had he
heard the complaints of poverty, would
have had but a poor idea of Los An
geles.
This year the same state of affairs
is expected, and accordingly the clerks
are preparing for the rush of COM
plants which are filed late in the
season so that the supervisors will
have but scant chance to make exam
nations into the real state of affairs.
County Assessor Ben Ward is also
preparing statements for the board of
supervisors. He will file the entire as
sessment list of county property by
Thursday along with the total assess
ment of both county and city property.
Los Angeles Share
Los Angeles in the past has furnished
40 per cent of the state taxes each year,
and this year it is expected the per-
oentage may be even higher because
OF the San Francisco disaster, by which
probably the greatest source of revenue
outside of Los Angeles has been cut off.
Yesterday the complaints before the
beard were for amounts scarcely aggre-
eating S..
A woman petitioned that a poll tax
which had been levied upon her be re-
moved because her estate was separate
from that of her husband. The request
was granted.
Other petitions We're for amounts not
exceeding so or so cents, with the ex-
ception of Joseph Burkhard of East
Santa Monica. Burkhard protested
that his cottage has been assessed at
$500 value, when really it was not
worth that.
Assessor Ward was on hand to defend
the assessment but was considerably
put out when he learned that the cot
tage had been assessed from last
years books and that in the meantime
the dwelling had burned to the ground
The supervisors will continue their
examinations into the assessments for
the next two weeks and will them ad-
journ.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
Celebrate Golden Wedding

A reception was given yesterday
which was of more than ordinary in
terest to the older set. Rev. and Mrs.
Calvin r. Pattee of 449 North Grand
avenue received in the afternoon at
their home and in the evening at the
Epworth M. E. church, Sunset boule-
ward ana Centennial street, in celebrat-
ing their golden wedding anniversary
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A. Pattee and MISS
Harriet Banks assisted the host and
hostess, and DIR. George F. Bovard and
Rev. A. w. Atkinson spoke. The occa-
sion was patterned as far as possible
after that on OF many years ago. Miss
Priscilla Blu erfield played the popu-
lar wedding Marches and Mrs. Caldwell
sang. Japanese umbrella plants and
ivy made a cool, fresh background for
the masses of yellow flowers which
frightened the church.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
DERAILMENT DELAYS TRAFFIC
Los AngelessPaclfc coIeerove Car
Leaves Track on Sunset
BouIevard

Inbound car No. 1877 of the Colegrove
line, Los Angeles Pacific, jumped the
track yesterday morning at Sunset
boulevard and Beaudry avenue and for
more than an hour traffic was at a
standstill over that line.
According to the statement Of wit
nesses the car was going at moderate
rate of speed when the front truck un-
accountably swerved and the front sec
tion of the car bumped and ratified
over the ground for a distance Of
twenty feet, while the passengers be-
came panic-stricken.
BY reversing the controller and apply
ing the air brakes the motorman man
aged to bring the car to standstill,
and then the frightened passengers
made their escape. A wrecking car was
sent to the assistance of the disabled
coach.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
INDICTMENT LACKS
A SPECIFIC CHARGE
BASIS OF CONTENTION IN THE
LAND FRAUD CASES
Chances Favorable for Long Drawn
Out scrap-Mr Goudse Represents
One Defendant-Hearng Contin-
ued Till Tuesday

Alleged lace of specific charge made
in the Indictment is the basis for the
contention of Attorney Herbert Goudge,
who represented one of the defendants
in the land fraud case which is being
threshed out in the United States dis
trict court.
Defects in the indictment which was
made in Oregon against Lee H. Myers,
George l.. Stearns, Richard Hynes,
Warren Gillelen. A. H. Hedderly, r.
w. Keeney VIII ID. Gould and David
Goodwin, all of Los Angeles, is the de-
fense made by the attorneys for the
defendants In answer to the demand
of United States District Attorney Os-
car Lawler that they be sent to Oregon,
there to stand trial for the crime they
are alleged to have committed.
Up to yesterday the trial was before
Commissioner Van Dyke, and the trial
was resumed before Judge Olin Well
born yesterday afternoon
No decision was rendered and the
chances seem to be in favor of a long
drawn out trial.
The case will be resumed Tuesday at
ternoon at 2:15 O'Clock.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
Unity Church Women Entertain

The lawn fete given last evening by
the women of Unity church in the spa
cious grounds around Miss Mira
Hirshey's home proved to be a charm
ing entertainment Mrs. M. e. Johnson
delighted everybody with fortune tell
ing, which promised every one a, long
and happy life, while under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Addie A. Lewis the fifteen
young women, in their dainty colonial
costumes, Misses Jean Long. Mildred
and Nellie Cortelyou, Hazel and Mar
guerite Anderson, Annie Campbell,
Katharine Edison, Edith Englehart,
Elsie and Gussie Osborn, Alice Cross
man, Florence Stetson, May Dickinson,
Ada Bendel and Mildred Stockwell,
who served the supper between the
afternoon and evening performances,
proved to be very much in demand.
Mrs. F. E. Fay, with her daughters,
Cynthia and Zella Fay, the Misses
Dillon, Dorner and Edna Dickinson.
had charge of the ice cream tables, and
Mrs. Frank B. Long and Mrs. S. B. Nc
Lenegan, who were at the head of the
general arrangement committee, are to
he congratulated for their excellent
management. A vaudeville performance
was also given, and a program of vocal
and instrumental music was given by
Mrs. Calvert Wilson and Mrs. Charles
Edison.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
POSTAL CLERKS TAKE RIDE
VIII Celebrate the Fourth With Troll
ley Ride and With Picnic
and Ranouek

The delegates to the convention Of
postofice clerks which opened In Los
Angeles yesterday will celebrate the
Fourth In body.
The entire number will enjoy a bas-
ket picnic at Playa del Rey In the
evening they will be the guests at a
banquet at the Westminster hotel.
Local employees in the postoffice sta
tions will have a holiday and many OF
them will accompany the delegates
during the days sports.
After the banquet at the Westminster
a business meeting will take place.
A delegate to the national convention
will be elected and a bill will be drawn
up for presentation to congress. The
bill will, II IL Is passed by congress,
raise the salaries of the postal clerks
500 year.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
BAND CONCERTS
Eastlake Park

Owing to a large number Of requests
which have been sent to the management,
1t has been decided to give a band con-
cert at Eastlake park this afternoon.
MoOre's fidelia band has been engaged
to play. The first number will be rend-
cred promptly at ! 80 y. m.
The program VIII consist Of a number
Of patriotic airs.
The first selection will be america :"
followed by Morets "A Deed of the Pen"
Among the other selections will be the
Jubel overture by Bachl; grand Amer
ican fantasia, America Forever" by
Tobonci; Calvins 1853" and other pa
triotc airs.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
THINKS SON IS IN DANGER
Virginia Woman Writes to Police and
Asks Them to Find
Bow

Reservoir avenue, Norfolk, Va, has
written to the local police asking them
to find her son Edward w. The woman
says that it has been revealed to her
that the boy will meet with misfortune
If she does not warn him.
She says that she has telegraphed ard
written several letters to him here but
has received no answer. She is afraid
that she is too late to save him from
harm but is anxious to know what has
befallen him if he has been wrongfully
dealt with.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
Cards and Supper

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry c. Coate enter
tanned with a jolly little card party
last evening at Hotel Welland, in honor
of Mrs. Coates birthday. Afterward
the guests who included Mrs. w. f.
Huddell, Miss Olive Harrison, Miss
Evelyn Kinne, Frank Frazier, Robert
Marmount and Joseph Moozer, were
served with supper i'm the Indian room
of Hotel Alexandria
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
SKovERsKI GROWS HOSTILE
Street Car Conductor Says He Asked
Man to Move Up and Re.
ceived Stinuer

John Skoverski, and ]. b. McLain, a
conductor on the Los Angeles railway,
engaged in an alteration yesterday
which resulted in the latter getting a
bloody nose. A complaint was sworn
out against Skoversh for disturbing
the peace.
McLaln said yesterday that the man
was standing in the aisle and that he
asked him to move He claimed that
Skoverski Immediately turned round
and struck him singing Hlow on the
nose.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
Gives Dinner at Hotel

Miss Name Bingham of Jackson,
Mich, gave beautifully appointed dim
ner at Hotel Hollywood Monday even
ing. Sweet peas decorated the table.
and those who sat down were Mr. and
Mrs. T. M. Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Sy-
mons, Miss Adelaide Powell, Cyrus
King, L. M. Powell of Pasadena, DR..
and Mrs. Mosher, Mr.. and Mrs. Alex.
Edwards, Miss Helen Mosher, Mines.
Mettler. Haight HEAVIER and w. Nor
rison and C. w. Pendleton.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
METHoDISTS PLAN HOSPITAL
Missionary Society Has $15o,ooo and
Lots on Grand Avenue
Available

A hospital to cost about $15O,00O may
be erected by the Southern California
Conference District Missionary socie-
ty of the Methodist church if the plans
which are now being discussed go
through.
At the quarterly meeting of the So
ciety, which was he'll yesterday, it was
announced that if the plan was carried
out there were two lots on Grand ave-
nue., between Tenth and Eleventh
streets, that are available for the erec-
ton of such an institution.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
Leave for Hot SprInos

Denver and Wheeler Hot Springs are
to be the destination this year of DIR.
and Mrs. Ralph Hagan, 1853 Lake street.
Upon their return in three weeks Mrs.
Hagan, IN company with Mrs. Margaret
oman and Mrs. C. III. Stoner of this
city, will leave for a three months tour
of China and Japan.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04

gone viii be added Saturday Mr. and
Mrs. George A. Ralphs of Eleventh and
Arapahoe streets, and their son and
daughter, Albert and Anabel They
will be Joined there by Mrs. Charles
G. Loon1is of this city, who is at present
in the Yosemite.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04

A. c. Sullivan of San Diego filed a
petition in bankruptcy yesterday. His
assets were declared to be $1,619.70, with
$2,2S7.24 debts.
Delivers an Grafton
DR. Stephen Bowers of Los Angeles
will deliver the Fourth of July Grafton
atRlversde today. The gathering will
bein Fairmount park, and an attractive
program has been prepared.
Bishop Goes South
Bishop John Hamilton of the Metho-
dist church left Los Angeles for San
Diego yesterday. Next Sunday he will
preach in that city, after which he will
return to this city. after spending a
few days in Long Beach.
Younger Members Lead
At the Volunteers Of America hall
last evening the younger members of
the New Testament church had charge
of the service. Miss Esther Hargrave
spoke with much feeling. Several mu-
sical numbers were rendered.
Bitten by Pup
Roy Whitley, a 9-year-old schoolboy,
was bit in the left thigh while playing
with a pup yesterday morning in
front of 121 North Hill street. The boy
was treated by Police Surgeon c. w.
Cook at the receiving hospital.
Beats His Horse
George w. Telford was arrested yes
terday afternoon by Humane Officer
thinner for beating his horse. He was
taken to the central police sta ton and
booked on a charge of cruelty to ami
mails.
Wants William LottermiIch
Il. ..-c
letter from Harry Lottermilch, Kirk
wood. Mo-, asking for aid in finding
his brother William, who is thought to
be a painter working in Los Angeles.
The father is dying with pneumonia.
Sent to Jail
N. Burch, arrested in a raid on an
East First street gambling resort, was
ariRigned yesterday before Justice
Young of the township court. He failed
to secure the necessary bail and he
was sent to the county Jail to await
until his examination.
Charged With Theft
Herbert Spicer was arrested in
Pasadena yesterday by Detectives
Davis and Roberts on a charge of grand
larceny. 1t is claimed by the officers
that Spicer stole a bicycle in Los An
geles and rode it to Pasadena, where
he endeavored to sell it.
Strikes Landlady
Charles H. Brown was fined $25 or
twenty-five days in Jail by Police Judge
Chambers yesterday for disturbing the
peace. Brown struck his former land
lady. Mrs. Flora Smith, in the face last
Friday night when she answered the
doorbell which he had rung.
Seeks Dolly Blanchard
DIR. George Andrew Moffet of Chi
cago yesterday requested the local po-
lice 10 aid him in finding Mrs. Dolly
Blanchard, who is supposed to be in
Los Angeles. DR.. Moffet is executor of
an estate and desires to locate Mrs
Blanchard in order that she may secure
her share.
Charged With Larceny
George Siebel was arrested by Pa
trolman Roberts on a complaint of
petty larceny issued by Charles Myers
q miner en- route for Death valley, who
alleges that Siebel stole from him in
the Two Johns saloon a bundle of
blankets yesterday evening. 1t is
said that when the blankets were
found they were in the possession of
a second hand dealer, who claimed they
had been sold to him for go cents by a
man whom he identified as Siebel. Sic
bel will be arraigned On the charge of
petty larceny tomorrow.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
RANCH IS INCORPORATED
LefflneweIIs File Papers for Company.
Continue Trade With East
ern Markets

With half a million dollars capital,
Charles w. Leffingwell and Charles w.
Leffingwell, jr,, yesterday filed articles
of incorporation for the Leffngwell
Rancho company.
The ranch property consists of 500
acres of fine land south of Whittier.
The entire acreage is covered with
lemon and orange orchards. and extern
sive packing plants have been estab-
Ashed
The new companys trade will be with
the eastern markets almost exclusively.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
THE1 C1TY

Stranger are invited to visit the s1-
nibit o. California products at the
Chafaber Of Commerce building, on
Broadway, between First and Second
given on all subjects pertaining to this
section.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04

The Herald will pay $40 In cash %
anyone furnishing evidence that VIII
lead to the arrest and conviction OF any
person caught stealing copies of The
Herald from the premises Of our pa
trons. THE HERALD.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
Social Notes

DR.. II. Gordon Bayless Of the Angelus
lotel has gone east for a. two months
'isit
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
outlna Party

Lake Tahoe seems to have attracted
many Of Los Angeles society people
this year. 10 those. who have already
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
CITY NEWS IN sRIEF

Phone yeur orders for the Glen Rock
Mountain Springs water to Sun Drug
Co, No. 3 (Dean's). Both phones $50.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04

Talk-o- Phone free. See the proposition
In today's Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
Files esnkruptcy Petition

A. c. Sullivan of San Diego filed a
petition in bankruptcy yesterday. His
assets were declared to be $1,619.70, with
49, 2S7 "a debts.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
Bishop Goes South

: Bishop John Hamilton of the Metho
dist church left Los Angeles for Sal
Diego yesterday. Next Sunday he will
preach in that city, after which he will
return to this city, after spending
few days in Long Beach.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
Younger Members Lead

At the Volunteers Of America hal
last evening the younger members OF
the New Testament church had charge
of the service. Miss Esther Hargrave
spoke with much feeling. Several mu.
steal numbers Were rendered.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
Delivers an Grafton

DR. Stephen Bowers of Los Angelo,
will deliver the Fourth of July orator
at atRlverside today. The gathering will
be in Fairmount park, and an attractive
program has been prepared.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-04
Bitten by Pup

Roy Whitley, a 9-year-old schoolboy
was bit in the left thigh while playing
with pup yesterday morning In
front of 121 North Hill street. The boy
was treated by Police Surgeon c. w
Cook at the receiving hospital.