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Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
MISS ROOSEVELT IN A
NEW DANCING CLASS
ENTHUSIASTIC OVER FANCY
STEPS THAT ARE TAUGHT
Fair Alice ExeeIs as a Skirt Dancer.
Vice President and Mrs. Fairbanks
and Mile. Rosen Are Among the
Hosts and Hostesses

Special to The Herald.
WASHINGTON Jan Miss Alice
Roosevelt has Joined the Monday morn
ing dancing class which Mrs. John e.
Rayburn has introduced and Is super
intending. The class, instructed by
Mr. Carl Marwig of New York. meets
Monday mornings at Rauscher's.
There is no age limit to this class,
but men are debarred, and fancy
dances of all sorts are indulged in.
Mile. Elizabeth Rosen, daughter of the
Russian ambassador, Is the youngest
member. Several Of the older matrons
of Washington's fashionable set are
also members.
Miss Roosevelt. who is supple as can
be, Is, to quote one of the members,
enthusiastic over it," and intends
going to all the meetings. Miss Roose-
welt excels as a skirt dancer.
The classes are enjoyed especially by
the little tots of the capitals fashion
able world also, and the afternoon
classes devoted to children are attended
by the little sons and daughters of the
representative people Among them
are Aurora Quesada, daughter of tn ;
Cuban minister; Clarey and Olga Will
enkin, children of the financial agent
of the Russian embassy Matilda
Bussche, little daughter of the coun-
sellor of the German embassy; Eleanor
Rayburn, and the small sons and
daughters of Colonel Clarence Edwards
and General Kearny.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
WOMAN is ROBBED or WAGES
Waitress in SaWtelle Held Up and
Relieved of Profits From
Weeks Work
Special to The Herald.

SAWTELLE, Jan. Mrs. Davis, a
waitress at the Tavern hotel, was held
up while on her way home last even
ing between 10 and IL o'clock.
Mrs. Davis, with her small children,
resides OH Third street and works at
the hotel. After receiving her week s
wages last night she stepped into one
or two stores to make some small pur-
chases, and then started home. Near
Oregon and Third, she says, young
man stopped her and said, II want
your money She replied, II have none
with me-" He said II saw you in the
store when you paid for something,
then tied the rest OF the money in your
handkerchief" She gave him all she
had, $3.50 in change.
H. X. Laird has associated with him
self in the local water works j. Pruden,
NJ F. Marsh and Corwin Phelps. The
company has incorporated as the
Crystal Springs Water company, with a
capital stock of $4,000, divided into
shares of SO each. Saturday the GER
tiflcate of Incorporation was received
from the secretary Of state by Mr..
Laird, who is president of the company.
Twelve thousand dollars of the stock Is
paid, and soon as the certificate of stock
can be printed the balance of shares
will be sold, mostly in Sawtelle, when
opera tions looking to the further de-
velopment, additional machinery and
extension OF the supply line will begin
and be carried on with the utmost eX-
pedition.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
TO BE RICHEST MOToRMAN
Oklahoma Farmer Who Raised an
$4,000 Crop Last Year Seeks
City Work
Special to the Herald.


KANSAS CITY, Jan. 7-George S.
Edmundson, owner of a 160-acre farm
near Iris, in Woodward county, Okla
homa, yesterday afternoon applied for
position as motorman with the Met
ropolitan Street Railway company.
When the clerk asked him his occupa-
tion he said:
Farmer
Whom did you work for?"
Il own my farm" he said
Did you make any money!"
Yes, sir. 1 raised last summer
about 5000 bushels of wheat running
6S bushels to the acre, and 1000 bushels
of barley at so bushels to the acre. The
wheat is worth anywhere from eighty
to ninety cents a bushel and barley
is good for forty cents"
Later Edmundson said to a reporter:
MY land is all irrigated. Some
farmers are only getting five to twen-
ty-five bushels of wheat to the acre
or the same kind of land because they
dc not irrigate. I have had my claim
for nine years and would not take
$4,000 for it right now. A company
composed of farmers in our district
formed an irrigation company for our
own purposes. have a ditch through
my place that runs sixty cubic feet of
water per second. The soil becomes
very black and rich when treated this
way. It's fully as good as Missouri
land. have leased my farm for five
years and get a good percentage of the
yield. Under those conditions I can
have city advantages and have a fine
farm at the end of that time
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
HIS PUMPKINS EXPLODE
Attempt to Introduce Tasmania Vege-
tables Results DsastrousIy- A
Big Surprise for All Present
Special to The Herald.

special TO Inc Herald.
LIE SLEUR, Mimi, Jan. 1.-THE at
tempts made the past season by Tyler
Semiramum of Mentorme to introduce
the vegetable productions of Tasmania
into this sections OF the country We're
not complete success, nor OH the
other hand a perfect failure.
His best success, probably, was with
the famous Tasmania potato" plant,
which Is a union of the potato and to-
mato on bush, or shrub. and u vege-
table evolution for which the world is
indebted to Prof. w. w. Thewn of the
Royal College of Agriculture of Tas-
mania. This is perennial plant pro-
pagated by slips, or cuttings, and in
no other way. and bearing an abundant
crop of large. mealy potatoes on the
roots and an equally large crop of fine,
meaty. seedless tomatoes in the
branches. 1t grows about three feet
high, on one strong stalk and is pulled
up in the fall when through bearing
and is laid away in cool cellar till the
next spring. when it is set out again
like tree.
The giant watermelons will not do
here for our cut worms, the like of
which are not found in Tasmania, are
deadly enemy to them and prevent
their successful culture by boring holes
in their sides when nearly ripe. where
upon all the rlch juice runs into the
ground and the melons collapse like
Debated balloons. The beets and rad
ishes in our soil, which is much richer
than they have been accustomed to-,
grow to an enormous size. sometimes
three feet long, and foot through, but
hollow like gourds and entirely use
less for any purpose unless it might be
for pals and buckets and even for this
their round bottoms render them worth
but little.
The pumpkins We're the most notable
failure for they We're not only useless,
but also were distinctly dangerous. In
their native home they are of large size
and rich and succulent but here. they
grew to be of stupendous dimensions
and their rather dark color made them
absorb the burning heat of August un
til they were fairly turned into steam
boilers and exploded one after an
other, with thunderous reports as fast
as they became sufficiently filled wi
steam. Mr.. Semiramus was out in the
field one hot day when the first one
blew up, and as he happened to be
near it. he was blown several rods
across the vines and was severely in
jured.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
PRAYED FOR wIFe's DEATH
Pastors Wife, Asking Divorce, 5lsmes
organlst for Unhapplness Of
Her Welded Life
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
ELYRIA, o., Jan. Mrs wana-
maker, wife Of the Rev. II. S. Wana-
maker, former pastor Of the Second
Congregational church, in her testi-
mony before Judge Washburn in con-
nection with her application for di-
vorce, said that she and her husband
had prayed together for months that
she might die.
She testified that it was at Mr..
Wanamaker's suggestion that they to-
gether prayed for her death as q
means of ending her misery when she
discovered her husband was the lover
of Mrs. Fulton, organist in his church.
She testified that she finally became
weary of seeking her own death
through prayer and decided to ask a
divorce as a means of separation.
Mrs Wanamaker declared that her
husband, on Bonded knees, had con-
fessed to her his love for Mrs. Fulton,
and that Mrs. Fulton had admitted to
her that she loved the minister. Mrs.
Wanamaker asserted that her husband
had been cruel to her as well as un-
true, and that she desired a divorce as
greatly as her husband wished sep
aration from her.
Clara Wanamaker, one of the chill
dren, testified that she carried love
notes from her father to Mrs. Fulton,
who was her music teacher, and that
she brought notes from Mrs, Fulton to
her father
A daughter of Mrs. Fulton was n
witness against her mother. The
youngest child, Cleona, too young to
read, had found q note in her mothers
room, all torn to pieces. The older
daughter pieced it together and it was
introduced in court with her evidence,
1t began MY own darling Harry"
and concluded: "Your own loving
Mamie" The note was identified as
being written since the separation OF
Wanamaker and his wife by Mrs
Fulton.
Judge Washburn reserved his de-
cision i'll the case until Saturday morn-
ing
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
KNOCKED OUT EX-HUSBAND
Mrs. Naale, Once the Wife Of a Multi
millionaire, "Got Even" by
Using Her Fair Fists
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. Mrs. Agnes
D. Nagle, who is seeking to compel
Theodore M. Nagle of Erie, multi-mil-
lionaire and president of the Nagle iron
works to support her daughter supple
mented the court proceedings today by
knocking her eX-husband out by Il
punch on the jaw. The episode oc-
CURED just outside the doorway of the
desertion court. Mrs, Nagle had been
after her husband, who some years ago
secured a divorce from her When the
Nagle case was called today she was
prepared for disappointment. AS usual,
her trial was postponed. Mrs. Nagle
waited in the corridor until her hus-
band came out. Her gloved fist shot
out and landed squarely on his jaw.
Nagle went down and took the full
count. Mrs. Nagle waited, smiling.
Get up and let me hit you again."
she urged.
The millionaire would not. He lay
with eyes closed breathing heavily.
Then the watchman and lawyers closed
in and hustled the woman away.
I'm glad L landed" she said. 81
practiced that punch for days"
Nagle is under 5000 bail here and
must appear again next Wednesday.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
OBJECT TO THE SLOUGH HAT
Mcclellan Statue Faulty Is Claim.
Little Mac" Always Wore the
Regulation Fatigue Cap
Special 70 The Herald.

DISSi'i ~ AHo Ahtldiu.
NEW YORK, Jan. 7.--State Historian
Hugh Hastings called on Mayor Nc
Clellan yesterday to talk over with him
the alleged blunder in the design of
the statue of the mayors father,
Little Mac" which is to be erected in
Washington. Gen. Mcclellan in the
model made by Frederick MacMonnies
wears a slouch hat. Members of the
Loyal Legion assert that he never wore
any such headgear while in the Federal
army. They want the model changed
so that the general shall wear a fatigue
cap
MIR. Hastings suggested to the mayor
that the matter be called to the atten-
ton of the committee of congress
which has charge of the erection of the
statue. The mayor promised to LOOK
into the subject.
In reference to the MacMonnies
model, William Elmdorf, adjutant of
General Slocum Post, G. A. r., declared
that he has a picture of General Nc
Clellan taken during the civil war in
which he is shown wearing slouch
hat. In the group with the general are
Allen Pinkerton and President Lin
coin. The picture, he says, was taken
in front of General McClellan's head
quarters.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
CORSET STEEL SAVED LIFE
Knife Aimed at Heart Was DETECTED.
Husband Made Savage Att
tempt at Murder
Special to The Herald.

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 1.-The
steel in her corset probably saved the
life of Margaret Buce, whose husband,
Walter, made a savage attempt to Inur-
der her at their home on Ashland
heights, West Manayunk. Crazed by
drink and provoked over a, remark the
woman made regarding his condition,
the man jumped from his seat at the
supper table. seized sharp carving
knife and plunged it into the left side
of his wife.
AS she dropped to the floor Bruce
grabbed his hat and overcoat, rushed
from the house and succeeded in es
Gaping arrest, though he almost ran
into Mounted Policeman Broadhead
who had heard the Bruce children
screaming for help. The policeman
had a short tussle with the man, who
succeeded, however, in breaking away
Then he ran into nearby woods and
was lost sight of.
Broadhead was not aware of the
crime that had been committed, but on
going to the house found Mrs. Bruce
on the floor and bleeding profusely.
He rode with breakneck speed to Ma
nayunk for the patrol and had the sup
posed dying woman taken to st. Tim
othy's hospital. The wound in Mrs
Bruce's breast is one and a half inches
in length and two inches in depth, but
the knife had been detected by the
corset steel and the physicians have
some hope that she may recover al
though her condition Is serious.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
CHICkG0'S WILD REVELRY
AT A MASKED BALL ORGY
WIVES AND SLUM
DENlzENs TOGETHER
Riot Of Champagne and Loud Doines
at the First Ward Ball In the COL
iseum, Led by bath House John"
and "Hinky Dink"
Special to The Herald.

Special TO The Herald.
CHICAGO, Jan. There are head
aches galore in the city hall today and
the citys business is being transacted
with brains wearied from u night of
sleepless carousal.
The city employees were out in nearly
full force last night to attend the first
ward ball at the Coliseum, and never
before was there n ball like that.
Thirty thousand people Of heterogene-
GUS types, ranging from millionaire's
wives en- ma sque to habitues of the first
ward resorts We're present The pop
ping of champagne bottles at times
drowned the music of the great double
orchestra which played continually
throughout the night
The champagne corks bombarded the
ceiling and fell in showers over cos
tunes of every conceivable design that
the dreSsmaker'S art could conceive.
Costumes of the ballet dancer with the
short para chute skirts, white at first
but stained with wine before the night
was over, costumes of wonderful decol-
lete gowns, the upper parts of which
seemed little more than cloth-lille sus-
penders revealing snowy throats and
shoulders and backs to the waist. Some
ance of costumes, some by the super
scarcity. The scarcity was especially
noticeable as the morning grew larger.
Not until the gray dawn of the morn
ing peeped in through the windows on
a scene of dishevelled hair and stained
costumes and a floor bestrewn with
corks and broken bottles and glasses
and fragments of laces and silks and
trampled neckttes, did the last thousand
rcvelers repair to their widely sepa-
rated homes.
The leading spirits OF this great first
ward elebration We're Alderman John
Coughlin, familiarly known as the
"Bath House." and Michael Kenna,
commonly called "Hinky-Din THE
Bath House" was resplendent in even
ing dress with a yellow waistcoat and
IA galaxy of diamonds. He led the grand
march. Hinky, dressed equally lux
urious, looked on the scene of bril-
liancy from d box seat, resembling a
bed of roses and chrysanthemums.
Many women who wore the most SEN
sational of the costumes did not remove
their masks and Chicago is still guess
ing who they were.
Forty-five thousand dollars was spent
for booze during the night.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
THE TRAMP AND THE TURKEY
A Berks County, Fa., Pastoral, Whose
Moral Won't Apply Generally Nor
Truth Be Guaranteed
Special to The Herald.

EAGLE POINT, Pa, Jan. This
morning while Mrs. Jonathan De Long
who lives some distance from here was
busy attending to her baking and at
the same time keeping an eye on "a
rapidly browning turkey in the kitchen
oven, she heard a knock at the door.
Opening it she found a hobo, who
asked her for something TO eat.
At the same time he espied the tur-
key, and no Cassius ever cast more en-
Vious eyes at Caesar than did the
tramp at the browning bird. He got
his food, and then left-apparently.
A short time later Mrs. De Long had
occasion to go to the barn, and she re-
turned just in time to see the tramp
sneaking out of the gate with the tur-
key wrapped up in n tablecloth.
Mrs De Long is muscular woman,
and she made for the tramp. Dis
cretion was the better part of even
hobo valor, and he turned and bowed,
saving:
ACCEPT de burd with me compli-
ments, lady"
Mrs. De Long was so surprised and
amused at the tramp's forced polite
ness that she invited him back again
and gave him a big mince pie. The
tramp in return chopped her a lot of
frewood, just to show "he was a
gent"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
HIS LONG ARM IS HANDY
BY Its Means a New York Motorman
in Crisis Saves 6sby's

Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Jan. 7.--Motorlnan No.
976 Of the one Hundred and Sixteenth
street crosstown line, otherwise Philip
Wclch. Is SO long and lank that small
boys sometimes cry to him as they
gaze upward:
Say, mister. is it cool up there?"
Motorman Welsh was taking his car
OH the eastbound trip at o'clock yes
terday afternoon, when a small boy
walked out in front of him, opposite
No. 40 West one Hundred and Six
teenth street. The boy, aged three,
was sucking at stick of candy, and
not thinking of such things as street
cars.
In two strokes the power was off and
the brakes We're on, but the car rolled
forward.
The boy was not five feet away.
There was no hope, so it seemed to
Thomas Mccormick, janitor of No. 40,
standing at the basement steps. The
small boy was his son, William.
Welch, thanks to his 1.-the lankiness
and cool head saw some hope, as he
swallowed down his heart that had
jumped at the sight of the little fellow.
Welch folded himself over the front
board, like a two-foot rule at right
angles. Out shot his long arm. The
fingers closed on the flaxen hair of
little William. as the fender touched
the boys ankle. Up shot the arm, and
little William was hanging suspended
in the air, in front of the car Peopla
in the street, alarmed by the fathers
cry, and the passengers in the car,
AIRED by the crunching brakes. looked
on aghast.
The car rolled fifteen feet further on.
The child's faxen hair slipped through
Welch's fingers The child fell. Welch
vaulted over the dashboard. His feet
struck the ground for just an instant.
In that instant he had snatched up the
baby. sprung clear of the fender that
was touching his heels, and then, as
the car slowly came to stop within
ten feet, trotted ahead of it. The crowd
cheered. Welch handed the unhurt
boy to the father, said he didn't have
time to shake hands with anybody,
jumped to the platform and turned on
the power.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
NO LAW FOR woMAws TONGUE
Vice Chancellor Declines to Attempt
Feat Never Vet Accomplished.
Says lt Is Hopeless
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald.
NEW YORK, Jan. 7.-"From time i'm
memorial men have tried to restrain
woman's tongue and have failed"
Nodding assent to this observation Of
counsel representing Mrs. Catherine a.
Abbott Of No. 1t35 Bloomfield street.
Hoboken, Vice Chancellor Stevenson Of
Jersey city yesterday declined to grant
to her husband, William NJ Abbott, an
order restraining her from visiting his
office and the steamship piers and, in
loud voice, demanding money.
Abbott Is employed as ticket agent
by the Pennsylvania railroad. He al
legged that. because OF his wfe's con-
Duct he had been warned by the rail-
road officials that he would be dis
missed If he did not keep her away.
In announcing his refusal to restrain
Mrs. Abbott the vice chancellor caid:
1t may be that a woman may inter-
fere with her husbands business, and
that such conduct may be prohibited,
but request for an order restraining
woman's tongue Is a novel PROPOSE
ton. | will carefully refrain from
holding that a court of equity is pow
erless to protect a man in earning his
living. / do not think that case is
made out to entitle this woman's
tongue to be enjoined. The prayer of
the bill Is dismissed"
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
TO BEAT CABBY, THEY
ESCAPE BY THE SUBWAY
NIeHTHAwKs COMPLAIN OF PRI-
VATE ENTRANCES
Easy for New York Sports, Short Of
Cash, to Drive to Cafes, Leave
Driver to Wait and Then slip Out
to the Tube" Trains
sneolnl @ The tiern1d.

Special 20 The Herald
NEW YORK. Jan. 7.-Half a dozen
cabmen were discussing mixed ale I'm
side street resort while waiting for
the theater crowd, when the pilot OF
an open faced, seagoing hanson told
his woes, speaking thus:
II had a new trick worked on me
yesterday. Just as the lights ON
Broadway was coming out, was
hailed at Forty-ffth street by man
and a woman. They wore swell togs
an / though 1 had a fine fare.
"They made bunch of calls uptown
and about 10 o'clock started on a
roundup Of the big restaurants. At II
o'clock they was just lit bit, but not
yellin' for help.
"At midnight we'd got down to Four
teenth street an ! was beginnin' to
think 1t was time for me to mention
the price.
"They told me to drive to a saloon
and restaurant on Fourteenth street.
an said for me to wait agin. The
man said / must be cold. so he sent
me out drink of whisky. That pres
ent conned me along an I waited.
well, after me an the hoss had
been thumpin' the asphalt half an hour
TO keep warm, me with an eye glued
to each door, the lights begin to go
out In the place. Mine to git busy.
u got inside in a minute, but there
wasn't nobody there but the cashier
countin' up an the walters. I asked
about my pair of riders, an they told
me they'd gone down below to the
ratskiller.
me for the ratskiller. No fares
neither. The doorboy told me they'd
gone out of the ratskiller subway en-
trance into the Fourteenth street ex-
press station half an hour sooner.
mo, they wasn't loafin' in the sub
way station. I guess they'd gone
away uptown or to Brooklyn while I
was gluen' my peppers onto them
doors upstairs, an ] didn't get to spend
any Of them ten dollars / was countin'
on fer mixed ale an nag feed"
was the man a tall bloke with a
big black mustache an big nose p
asked another cabby.
Same feller."
"An' the woman plump blond
couldn't hardly tell whether she was
peroxide or real wheat straw"
Same girl"
"They worked that game on me last
week, only they done the ridin in day
time an got into the subway at rats
Killer down on Center street"
Same pair worked that same game
on me the other day." put in number
three, an wound UP at the Times build
ing. They said they was goin UP into
the tower. an nebby they did, but
they Went on down to the subway on
the elevator when they come back"
III bet that's the pair that Tom
Burke told me about" said a fourth.
He took 'em to an insurance office
or bank or something at Twenty
third street, an they escaped into the
sub with six dollars worth of ride
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
SAILOR GIVES $4,000 FOR 25C
Mill Worker Learns That Apparently
Worthless Portuguese Bank Note
Is the Real Thing
Special % dc Herald.

LEWISTON, Me-. Jan. 7.-Miss
Anna Saucier, a pretty mill girl of this
city, found herself suddenly wealthy
today when experts pronounced sup
posedly worthless bank note which she
owns worth $4,000,
While waiting for a train in New
port. Il. L., four years ago Miss Saucier
was accosted by man in the uniform
of petty officer Of the United States
navy. The sailor was slightly under
the influence of liquor, and apparently
as a joke he was asking every one
he met for the loan of a quarter. He
made the same request of Miss Sau-
cier, who, believing him in need, gave
him the coin; in return he gave her a
piece of script money which he told
her to keep as a pocketpiece.
Today she took 1t out with some
other old things to show a fried who
Is a bank clerk. He recognized 1t as
a Portuguese bank note worth at least
$4,000, moreover the note bears interest
at per cent until the end of 1906 COM
pounded annually which, by the time
the note natures, would make II worth
$4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1906-01-08
GIRL DRESSED AS A MAN
Oregon in Company With Another
Woman's Husband
Special to The Herald.


PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. Lilly
Howard, a pretty 16-year-old girl, was
arrested yesterday at Salem dressed as
a man, in company with John w. Far
mer well-to-do farmer of Benton
county, with whom she eloped last
W eek. She is the daughter of Orin
Howard, a well-to-do rancher of Linn
county.
Farmer is a married man with a wife
and five children, and has resided on
farm about six miles north of Junction
City. The Howards live across the
river from him. The couple left home
surrepttiously one night last week and
came all the way down to Salem in a
small boat. They arrived Sunday
evening, ate supper at a restaurant
and engaged a room for the night.
The actions and features OF the girl
aroused suspicion and caused their ar
rest. They gave their names and home
address, but nothing more. The man
had sack containing S140O in cash.