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Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
INSPECTs SOLDIERS HOME
General EIweIl Spends Busy Week in
Making Semi.Annual
Visit
Special to The Herald.

SOLDIERS HOME, Cal, March TO-
Inspector General Elwell has been busy
today with the quartermaster's depart
ment and will make a full week of his
semi-annual inspection of the Pacific
branch, while his wife is enjoying the
hospitality of Mrs. o. II. La Grange.
Four deaths are recorded for this
week: Levi B. Burton. company b,
Second Indiana infantry; John A. Ne
Coy, company c, Eighteenth Iowa In
fantry; James C. Cooper, company b,
Fourth Pennsylvania cavalry; William
Quinn, company G., Eighteenth U. S.
colored infantry.
Adjutant Wayman reports the total
membership of 1924, with 1911 out on
furlough.
Chief Engineer Dobbings reports the
rainfall for the season here at IS inches.
Treasurer Cochrane had a busy time
paying off the 1000 pensioners in camp
and is now at work sending out checks
to the HOO on furlough, nearly 100000
being needed to cover both claims.
Postmaster Dllls has also been quite
rushed sending out money orders for
the veterans relatives.
The first carload of material for the
new $4,000 assembly hall has arrived,
and soon the old red building that has
served as a library and place of amuse-
ment for the G.. A. RS Il. V. LIS, naval
veterans and auxiliary societies for
nearly eighteen years will be a thing
of the past.
No holdups Of pensioners has been re-
ported as yet by Chief of Police Nc
Dowell, but the vets are all on the
uui vive for st. Patrick's day celebra-
tion at Venice tomorrow.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18

Frederick Clarence Howard" is that
Mr.. Howard Is being made the cats
paw of William M. Harris. west
ern inspector of agencies for the
New York Life Insurance company.
Sixteen leading agents of the New
York Life in Colorado and five in this
city," continued Mr.. Seely, "have
trekked from the New York Life and
entered the employ of our company, in
spite of special inducements offered
them to remain. -On account of the
revelations made at the recent inves-
LEGATION of the New York Life, its bust
ness is at a standstill. and Mr. Harris
is making violent efforts to turn the
tide.
'Frederick Clarence Howard was an
agent for our company" said Mr.. Seely,
land I advanced to him $273.51, which
he seemed unwilling to pay. Mr.. How
ard was dropped from our force and
entered the service of the New York
Life under William NJ. Harris. / am
sorry for Howard, because he has been
used as tool by the inspector of this
rival company"
Mr.. Seely asserts that an insolvent in
surance company is an impossibility
under the laws Of California.
POLICY holders are better safe
guarded here than in any other state
in the United States" said he, "for
every policy must be secured by the
deposit of its cash value in approved
securities with the state treasurer.
Moreover the law provides for the I'M
limited liability of every stakeholder
in an insurance company. Every pol
icy we issue bears a certificate signed
by the state commissioner of insurance
to the effect that the policy is regis
tered with the department of insurance
and that the reserve thereon is secured
by the approved securities on deposit
with the treasurer of the state Of CAL
ifornia as provided by section 634 of
the political code of the state.
THE realty owned by our companies
has increased in value since our last
report" remarked Mr.. Seely. For in
stance the Conservative Life has re-
ceived an offer of more than $1,000
above the valuation given in our state
ment for the home office building at
Los Angeles"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
DEFECTIVE WIRING
CAUSES TWO FIRES
MIDWAY AT VENICE SUSTAlNS
HEAVY LOSS
Mumn1Ies and Anticipated statuary In
cluded In the Articles Consumed.
Second Blaze Quickly Extinguished'
Department Does Good Work
Special to the Herald.

VENICE, March 16.-Defective cleo
trio light wiring is said to be account
able for two damaging fires that &C.
Cured on the Venice midway during
the early morning hours today.
A blaze at the Egyptian temple was
discovered shortly after o'clock and
the volunteers performed valiantly, ex-
tinguishing the flames and flooding the
exhibit in less than ten minutes after
the alarm was sounded.
A loss of several thousand dollars Is
claimed by the midway management
to have been sustained. AS most of the
property damaged consisted of mum
mics and antiquated statuary, the loss
is said to be of especial moment, as
the articles cannot be repaired or re-
placed. A fire in the Egyptian amuse-
ment building adjoining the temple
caused the volunteers to respond sec
ond time and again they arrived
promptly. Fire number two. was put
out with a damage Of several hundred
dollars.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18

the announcement this afternoon tnat
the projected interscholastic meet ior
Southern California which was 10 pc
held on the Pomona college GROUNDS
at Claremont tomorrow afternoon mas
been postponed until March 81.
Kenneth Rhodes, son of Ticket Agent
c. c. Rhodes of the Santa re, was
run into and knocked down yesterday
on East Colorado street by an automo-
bile belonging to Hampton l.. Story.
The young man was riding his bicycle
at the time and was badly cut ana
bruised I'm the collision.
Clara, the 5-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs Ward II. Houck of 4S7 Ham
mond street, was seriously scalded last
evening by falling into tub of hot
water. The child was attended by DR..
A. b. Royal, and although she is pain
fully injured it is not believed that
there will be fatal results.
Members of the st. Andrews society
will give the Irish play. Kathleen
Mavourneen," tomorrow evening at st.
Andrews Catholic hall. Among the
young people who make up the cast of
characters are Lafayette Wires, Frank
ellis, James Mcguire, Frank T. But
Ter. Arthur Nalliancourt, Sidney j,
Walker, Frank T. La Spada, Charles
DAILY, Henry O'Neil. Dan Hayes and
Misses Mae f. Leddy, Mary HARDWOOD
Jennie La Spada and Mary Magill.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
COUNCIL HOLDS BUSY SESSION
Santa Barbara Trustees Pass Impor-
tant Ordinances and Discuss
Various Measures
Special to The Herald,


SANTA BARBARA, March 16.-The
Santa Barbara city council held a
very busy session last night Among
other things the ordinance transfer
ring the control of the Ocean boule-
ward to the city council from the park
commissioners was passed The ordi-
nance has caused a great deal of dis
cussion, and the council was divided
on the question.
An effort was made to have the or
dinance providing for n fagman at
the State street railroad crossing
brought up for action at last nights
meeting of the city council, but the
policy of delay which has been fol-
lowed with this ordinance ever since
its introduction won the day. and the
matter was laid over until the next
meeting.
present volunteer fire department and
providing for a small but efficient paid
fire department was favorably report
ed on by the ordinance committee and
went through with flying colors, the
only change in the original ordinance
being that it is to take effect on May
1, instead of Immediately.
An ordinance amending the present
building regulations so that the coun-
ell will not have power to grant per-
mits to violate the fire ordinance I'M
less approved by the fire commission
ers was passed last night, as was also
an ordinance making it unlawful to
drive over fire hose or to obstruct
a fire hydrant.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
LONG BEACH REAL ESTATE
MAN HAS NARROW ESCAPE
RUNAWAY CAUSED Ely ELECTRIC
CAR
Pier Repair Bonds Sold to American
National Bank for $17,oo4.54.
Episcopal Church to Have New
Pipe Organ
Special to The Herald.


LONG BEACH, March 16. - G. L.
Junod, prominent real estate man.
narrowly escaped serious injury in
mixup with a Pacific Electric car this
morning.
Mr.. Junod was driving near the cor
ner of Pine and Ocean Park avenues
when his horse became frightened by
an Alamitos Bay car and overturned
the rig. The driver was thrown out
but escaped with severe bruises
Fustis SummerVille, a 13-year-old
school boy, who resides with his par
ents at Fourteenth and Dakota streets,
was arrested by Constable Lynn this
morning and arraigned before Justice
Brayton on a charge of disturbing the
peace. The lad pleaded guilty to having
thrown dirt down neighbors' chimneys
and hurting tin cans at weaker play
mates. The lad was severely lectured
by the judge and placed on probation
for three months.
The sum of $17,00454 was placed in
the city treasury today, the proceeds
of the sale of the $4,000 pier repair
bonds. The purchaser was the Amer
lean National bank of Los Angeles,
through its cashier, ]. w. Phelps.
St. Luke's Episcopal church Of this
city Is to have a pipe organ. The rec
tor, Rev. C. IT. Murphy, was last even
arrangements for the purchase. The
Eastern Offering of the congregation
will be devoted to this end.
Monday evening, March 10, the Kaffir
boy choir, under the leadership of
James H. Balmer, will appear at the
auditorium in a band benefit concert.
A meeting of the Long Beach boule-
ward association was held this after
noon. The map of the boulevard as
sessment district, between here and Los
Angeles, prepared by Engineer Steele,
was accepted and will next be referred
to the county surveyor and District At
torney Fredericks and then to the
county supervisors. The boulevard
district is from one-half to three-quar-
tiers of a mile wide.
1t has practically been decided to
agree on May Is as opening day for
the new hospital. The building Is now
completed and needs but the addition
of furnishings to make 1t ready for
occupancy.
Stephen Easterbrook, a prominent
real estate man of Long Beach, was
married last evening to Miss Grace
Marchant at the brides home, 553 Cedar
of the First Baptisn church, officia ted.
Long Beach will entertain the Pacific
Coast congress of Congregationalists,
Monday, May 81. The congress con-
venes at Los Angeles May 16 to %.
A society of former Pennsylvanians
was organized in this city last evening
Mrs. Lucy A. Self, wife of Rev. I. B.
Self, pastor of the Cumberland Presby-
| terrain church at Clearwater died in this
city this morning. The remains will
be taken to Princeton, Ky.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
PLAN PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN
Enthusiastic Meeting of Santa Monica,
Ocean Park and Venice
Business Men
sneclal to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
SANTA MONICA, March ia cold,
penetrating rain and a driving wind
did not prevent an exceptionally large
attendance and unbounded enthusiasm
at last nights session of the local
board of trade, when arrangements for
extensively advertising and in other
ways promoting the bays welfare
were consummated. Representatives
of the Ocean Park and Venice bust
ness mems associations addressed the
meeting and promised heartily to sup
port and cooperate with the organiza-
ton in any form of publicity cam
paign that may be instituted. The
meeting adjourned to next Thursday
night at the Pier avenue casino, Ocean
Park, when a committee of sixteen
will be appointed to advance the work
in hand.
The Misses Ruby and De Sacia
Saville were pleasantly surprised last
night on the eve of their departure
for Mexico by a party of young peo-
pie who made the occasion a most
enjoyable one. Games, dancing and
refreshments were important adjuncts
to the evenings festivities. Among
those present We're: The Misses
Blanche Irwin, Jessie Stephenson,
Wanda Winton and McGibbon, Mes
danes Kellam and Saville and Messrs.
Moore Gradmason. McGough, Nc
Corbell, Winton Saville and Hurley.
d. A. Hamburger of Los Angeles
has awarded a contract to Conner &
Mccain calling for the erection of a
two-story residence in the Palisades
tract, to cost $13, 1865. Mr.. Hamburger
expects to occupy the house as beach
residence.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
JUNIORS TO GIVE A PLAY
Students at Pomona College Preparing
for the Presentation of
Four=Act Farce
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
CLAREMONT March 16.-The Junior
class is making great preparations for
the staging of the annual junior farce,
which will be presented tomorrow night
in the college chapel. The play to be
given is the four-act comedy, "Esmer-
aida" The proceeds will go toward the
expense of publishing the college an
nual, which is issued by the junior
class at commencement. The caste for
the play is as follows:
Mr.. Rogers, B. A. Baker; Mrs.
Rogers, Jane Gore; Esmeralda, Bessie
Thomas; Dave Hardy, Frank Dolley;
Nora Desmond, Valeria Browne; Kate
Desmond, Bertha Lathrop; Esterbrook,
M. f. Wittler; Drew, Harry Hawkin-
son. The stage manager is A. C. Jud-
son, who has painted all of the scenery.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
PROPOSED BOND ISSUE
ENDORSED BY MERCHANTS
SAN BERNARDlNo PLANS ExTEN-
sIVE IMPROVEMENTS
Wooden Bridges to Give Way to &C.
ment Arches and Several Of the
Streets TO Be. Oiled and Macad-
amized

SAN BERNARDINO, March 16.-The
Merchants association has given the
street improvement campaign a big
boost by unequivocally indorsing the
bond issue, which is for the building
of new cement arches in several places
in the city where expensive wooden
bridges now are maintained and for
the macadamizing and oiling of one
main roadway each way from the bust
ness district to the city limits.
The merchants also have taken up
the project of securing the asphalting
of Third street from D street to the
Santa Fe station, a distance Of about
one mile.
The street Improvement idea is taxi
ing a firm hold on the people in this
city and it is probable that consider
able amount of money may be ex-
pended here during the coming year
for this class of improvements, as the
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
GOV. CARTER AT RIVERSIDE
Hawaiian Executive Comes to South
ern California on the Advice
Of His Physician
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
RIVERSIDE, March 16.-Governor
and Mrs. Carter are here from Hawaii
and will be at the Glenwood for sew
eral days. The governor Is recuperat-
ing from an attack of fever and was
advised by his physician to come to
Southern California.
1t has leaked out that Mrs. w. 2.
Corey, wife of the steel magnate, has
been an incognito guest of the Glen
wood hotel for several days. She Is
accompanied by her husbands mother
and sister. They will leave tomorrow,
but their destination is unknown.
Frank Patton Is preparing to erect
a two-story business block on the
corner of Main and Tenth street, direct
ly opposite the courthouse. 1t will
have frontage of fifty feet on Main
street.
w. j. Strange, a Corona tailor who
drove a team nearly to death on Mag
nolia avenue, was today fined $50. He
pleaded hard to have the fine reduced,
but the justice was obdurate.
1t is announced that practically all
the money needed for the purchase of
right of way OH Cotton avenue for
the San Bernardino traction line has
been secured, and the line now seems
assured. 1'he right of way will cost
$4,000.
The Sherman institute Indian base
ball nine will play the Cotton team to-
morrow afternoon. Joe Scholder, the
football fan, is managing and coaching
the Indians.
The race meeting of the Riverside
Driving club will be held Thursday,
March %, instead of tomorrow, The
wet track made the postponement nee
essary. Cups will be given the winners
Of tho SeVeral events
Before adjournment the Riverside
County Sunday Schol union elected Of
ficers as follows: President, Rev. ]. G..
Goodrich, United Brethren church,
Riverside; vice president, Ira S. Ken
nedy, First Baptist church, Riverside;
secretary and treasurer, w. p. Shep-
herd, First Congregational church
Riverside; executive committee, Mrs
Stella B. Irvine, H. o. Reed A. w.
Gerard, Mr.. Hungate, Arthur Taber
of Corona, Harry c. Hanson, Colonel
Strang; district presidents, DIR. STAFF
ford, Corona; Lee Emerson, San ia
cinto: James w. Morris, Banning; II.
NJ. May, Riverside; Rev. H. H. Hunt,
Elsinore.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
RAILROAD LABOR IN DEMAND
Western Roads Embarrassed for Want
of HeIp-Twenty-five Thousand
Men Urgently Needed

CHICAGO, March 16.-Western rail-
roads are facing a labor famine:
Twenty-Five thousand men are needed
in the northern and southwestern
states to build the roads that are
already under way, and it is estimated
that before the first of June more than
twice that number will be required.
There never has been such great activ-
ity in railroad building in the west as
at present, and the visible supply of
labor in that part Of the country has
been exhausted.
Ten thousand men are needed by the
Western Pacific, the new Gould line to
Southern California, and they are Of
fering from So to $3.50 a day for UNI
skilled labor, with the chance of steady
work until the cold weather sets in
again next fall.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
GEARY ROAD MAY BE BUILT
Judue Murasky Gives Decision Ir
Favor Of the City of
San Francisco
nu Associated Press.

BY Associated fTess'
SAN FRANCISCO, March 16.-Judge
Murasky handed down a decision to-
day In the suit of /. Strassburger to
prevent the city from building the
Geary street railroad. Strassburger
brought suit as a taxpayer to pre-
vent the board of supervisors from
expanding the money appropriated for
the acquiring of the municipal rail-
road. He is a bondholder of the rail-
road company.
The opinion rendered today is vic
tory for the city,
Judge Murasky, in concluding his
opinion, says:
AZ am of the opinion that the in
tention of the charter was to enable
the city to acquire public utilities out
of the ordinary annual income, and
that the practicability of so doing is
a matter resting in the sound discre-
ton of the board of supervisors"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
CAT KILLS A FREAK KITTEN
Becomes Enraeed Upon Finding That
One of Her Offspring is a
Monstrosity

0lGCIdI
SAN BERNARDINO, March 16.-The
survival of the fittest was remarkably
exemplified in an incident that occurred
at Marlborough hospital this week,
when a mother cat carefully looked
over a litter of newborn kittens and
deliberately killed one which she found
to be a monstrosity, 1t having two per-
fectly formed heads. The incident was
witnessed by a nurse and the dead kit
ten now Is in the possession of DR.. H.
w. Mills.
The mother cat fondled the kittens
until she came to the deformed one,
when she suddenly became enraged and
taking the kitten between her jaws she
shook it until life was extinct. The
kitten is perfectly formed in every re-
spect except the head, which is double.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
DECKHAND KILLED IN HARB0R
Gus Garsie Falls From Dredser at
San Pedro and Dies From
Injuries Received

Speclal to The Herald
SAN PEDRO, March ia fatal ac-
cident occurred on board the big clam
shell dredger San Francisco, at work
in the outer harbor, at o'clock this
afternoon.
The small dredge Salt Lake, was
living alongside and Gus Garsie, deck
hand of the first named boat, suddenly
fell from the deck of the San Fran
cisco to that of the smaller boat break
ing his neck.
He did not die instantly, but passed
away soon after being removed TO a
physician's office. He was but little
known here, having been at work on
the dredge about thirty days.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
PRAISES HOLLYWOOD SCHOOL
DR.. Noble Says He Will Recommend
That Union High Be Accredited
m University
Special to The Herald.

Speclal 10 Inc f1eIdlu.
HOLLYWOOD, March 16-Dr
Noble, examiner for the University of
California, visited the Union high
school today. This evening, after
compllmenting the school highly, he
announced that he would recommend
that the school as a whole be accredit-
ed to the university. He added that
graduates would be excused from en-
trance examinations in any subject in
which they were recommended by the
principal.
Edward L. Hearne, supreme knight
of the Knights of Columbus, is visiting
his family on Selma avenue.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
Hard-Headed BaIIoonlsts


BERLIN, March 16.-An airship
company having as its definite object
to conduct an experiment with war
craft has been formed here. The di-
rectors are hard-headed persons. who
take up the matter from patriotic inn
pulses and with the patronage Of the
emperor.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18
PLAINTIFF is BEING USED
Animus of the Attack on Insurance
Merger Explained

Special to The Herald
SAN FRANCISCO. March 16.-"The
whole animus of this attack on the
Pacific Mutual and Conservative Life
Insurance company" asserted Walter
Hoff Seely San Francisco manager of
the combined companies, referring to
a suit filed against them yesterday by
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18

The Merchants ASSOCIATION is pre-
pairing to organize protective bureau
for the protection of credit merchants'
The plan is in operation in many other
cities with success and will be tried
here.
New Cemetery Project
The fight against the establishment
of cemetery inside the city limits by
the Masonic Cemetery association has
resulted in the abandonment of the en-
terprise. The project has been taken
IN by the National Cemetery assocla-
ton, a representative of which now is
In the city, and an effort will be made
to establish a cemetery just outside the
city limits to the north. A tract OF
forty acres has been secured, one
fourth of which will be plated at once
the remainder being laid out as 1t may
be needed.
The county division committee has
taken I'D the fight against the division
of the county and will at once take
active steps to forestall the move made
by the Pomona people to get slice or
territory off the west end OF TINS
county. A committee composed or ).
f. Kelley, A. C. Denman, jr., A. T.
Harwood, r. D. Roberts and F. T.
Morrison will go to Los Angeles to IN
teryiew persons who have been fur-
thering the project there, ana as theS
represent powerful political and com
mercial interests it is believed they
will have some influence. r. A. Wood
ward of the Southern California Fruit
exchange is opposed to the division IDEA
and will aid the committee.
Next Monday the Protestant churches
of the CITY will open union evangelistic
services. A large tent will be pitched
in the business center of the city on
vacant lot and meetings will be held
twice q day.
Coroner Pittman has returned from
Victorville, where he was called by the
accidental killing Of Willie Bruce,
10-year-old Indian boy. The boy was
running along beside his fathers
wagon. which was loaded with iron
pipe, when he stumbled and fell under
the wheels, which crushed out MS HE
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1906-03-18

Owing to the rush of business the
alk-o-Phone department of the South
ern California Music company will be
open Wednesday and Saturday evenings
for the accommodation of Herald sub
scriberS,