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LOCAL BRIEFS

Frank Never went to Blackburn.
Thursday morulng for a few days
visit
Mrs. c. E Gees went to Mexico,
No., Thursday morning to visit rela.
tives
Prot j, c, Shelton went to Iede.
pendence Thursday horuing on bust
ness.
Rev. A. f. Rogers returned Wed
nesday morning from a business Trip
10 Nevada.
Mrs. J o. Lesueur went to hide
pendence Tuesday evening for a fo
d " visit,
Miss Louise Chandler returned
Tuesday evening from a short visit in
Kansas City.
Misses Sallte and Cornella Craig
returned from H~igginsville Wednes.
day evening.
Miss Elma ZoIlinger Of Ottervl lie
arrived Wednesday for a visit with
Miss Clarice Weyand,
Mrs. S. j. Houston went to KAT
sas City Friday morning to spend %
few days With relatives,
James Peak and SOD, DR.. J L,
returned Thursday evening from a
short stay in Kansas City.
Miss Mary Schneider left Thursday
morning for Pueblo, Colo, for an
extended visitwith relatives.
Miss Anna Wood Bggleston went
to slater Friday morning fer q p!2!l
with her cousin, Miss Franoes Eggles-
toa.
Mrs, II. RinehaTt returned to her
home in Sedalia Thursday evening
arer a weeks visit With her mother
Mrs. Elmira VIM.
Miss Ella Carter and Mrs. +. J
Bandon went to Sedalia Friday
morning to attend the Christian
Church Convention.
Miss Minnie Ryan returned to hri
homein Galena, Kan. Friday morning,
after a short visit with The fam lily Of
W. A. Easterbrook.
Mr.. and Mrs. P, R. Adams and two
sons, Herbert and Elmer, returned
from Otterville, Thursday evening
where they have been spending a week
ou heir ( run
Mrs R. r. Pitner and Miss Leila
Gordon Of Kansas City, and Miss Kate
Gordon Of Springfield, Ill, arrived
Thursday evening for a short visit
with relatives.
Mrs. Reed McGregOr with her
nfant son, Robert,eof Seattle Wash
arrived Wednesday, evening for a
visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
NJ. G McFaddin
Patrick s. Mcconnell aud Miss
Elizabeth Glish we're married Wed
nesday morning at half past seven at
the Catholic church, Father Curry
officiating. The ceremony was fol-
lowed by a wedding breakfast.
Miss Jennie Brlghtwell left We'd
nesday for an extended tour
through the east. Among tht
cities which she will visit are Nor
folk, Washington City, Baltimore
PHILADELPHIA and New YORK City
Miss Brightwell Will be Joined in Kan
sas City by Miss Ethel Hoar, who I,
accompany her on her trip
Henry Chiles returned Tuesday
night from Liberty, WIN ne he usS
been attending William Jewell
College. He received his degree "
A. B.. at the recent commencement
exercises. At college he made an
exceptionally good record and was
prominent 10 almost every branch
Of student activity from his freshman
year. He stood very high In class
room work, was editor-in.chie Of the
Tatler In his Junior year was bushes,
manager of the Student and was the
star a OF the college in forensic
ability, He expects to spend the
summer here aud to enter the law
school at Harvard next fall
VIII Robson, colored, of McGrew's
mining camp, was struck and badly
injured by train Thursday while
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Business men not having time tog
home for dinner can lind a daint
lunch at MRS. Marks at 9th ana
MAIN streets.
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ThuIsdat. Nm sO. cor.

- NAHRACA SShoNNN VVNbN ,
l lot in Lexington,
Jno ] Gladish to f NJ Gladdish
consideration 81; land in l, AS. 20.
Jos Herndon toMF Swiney cor
~sideration $1,000; ITO Acres.
Jno Ehein 20 G Dempol considera.
ton $500; so Acres.
Monday, June A, 1907.
Bessie X Adams ct al to H q
Dickmeier consideration 81; 12C
Acres.
Sarah K Ardinger to Bette NJ
Blackwe consideration $1,000; 100
Acres.
Mary X Blackwell ct al to H Fl
Dickmeier consideration 81; land in
Is, 80, 27.
VIM f Barnett to e N Brown con-
s~ideration $500; land in l, 4s, %,
S T Brown to VIM Barnett consid
Grafton $1,000; land ia /, AS, %.
Susan A Cole ct al Anna Patton
consideration 81; 40 acres,
J H Echelmeier to Nancy E Ridge
consideration 1920; 8 lots Higgins
vile.
L o Green TO 7 R Cobb c~onsidera.
tion s1O5O; / lot Odessa.
"A Gardner to Issac VauMeter
consideration $1,000; 5 Acres.
Louis Petering to Daniel Hoefer
ct al consideration 1925; 2 lots 10
Higginsville.
Louis PeUering to W G Sharp con-
slderation $1,000; lot Higginsville.
Jno G Rabsahl to ] H Echelmeier
consideration sl765; 10 Acres.
N f Ridge to j G Rabsahl consid-
Grafton sl5; L lot Higginsvills.
CO Slusher to Florence Slusher
consideration $1,000; l lot Corder.
VauMeter toAD Gardner con
~sideration $1,000; l, 48, 20.
Tuesday, June A, 1907.
Oliver B. Prince to Jno. W. Prince
3 lots Odessa and other land consid-
Grafton $4,000.
Wednesday June s, 1907.
Herman Bremen to J E Kcppen.
brink 3 lots Alma consideration sl4OO
H. Fl, Horstman to Herman Br, mer
2 lots Alma consideration 500.
Thursday, June 6, 1907.
VIM f Edwards to Olarice Barnett
consideration Sl425; / lot Lexington.
WIN B Palmore to Central College
for Women consideration $1,000; 8
lots Lexington & other.
Friday, June I, 1907.
Matte B Oo.e ct al to Anna Shot
maker consideration $40; l block
Dover Cemetery.
L D Hopper 10 Benz Elliott Jr con-
sideration 1920; | lot Odessa.
A C&LC johnson by Cur to G s.
A r r Guar & Cur D considl ration
s737,5O; laud IN 6, 40, 20.
e j Mcdowell to e M McDow DWELL
win.
Saturday, Junt s. 1907.
Diamond Coal Co 10 Jno Lloyd
consideration $500; land in 20, 50, 25.
Diamond Coal Go to Geo. Klees.
chulte consideration $500; land in
20, so, %.
Chas Il Meyer to Farmers Coal Co
Lease consideration 81; land In IL, 40,
JAS Mckinney to E e Ryland COZ
sideration $500; so Acres.
J w McBurney ct al to Jas Kirk
patrick consideration $1,000; S. Acres.
H f Rotenberg to Luthera Cross
Congregation consideration s25; land
in l, 4S, "a.
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A Grand Nohee Ion Dr. LONG

A'ShNN ~ Df GCA6
Harper's Weekly:
Not since Pastor Wagner has any
writer got so valuable a notice from
the President as Mr.. Long, the sac
NAL writer 1t is delightful to
the pleasure he is getting out Of
We are not expert in the knoTled
of natural history, 5ut Mr.. Lone
handling Of Mr.. Roosevelt looked t.
US very like the dealings OF a pro-.
fessional with an amateur. Mr.. Boost
welt is the greatest amateur on cart
an amateur Off spelling, n tmal hi
tory, sagas, railroad, science, al.hr,-
pology, mendacitys history, farming,
ethics, sports, constitutional law-ir-
deed, of all knowledge. The range
of his information is extraordinary.
SO is his readiness in the use of it,
and his ability to assimilate a new
branch while you wait" As the
greatest living master of halt know
ledge he is a brilliant and wonderful
figure. Half-knowledge is all the
most Of lis have about anything, and
it is by no means to be despised. The
bulk of the fruit of current education
is half-knowledge. All that is nee
essary to make it vastly useful and
entertaining is that its possessoE
should recognize it for what it is.
But there or Whereabouts lies a snare,
and n in which, it seem to US, Mr..
Roswell is apt to get himself entang-
led. Every now and then, in the
confidence begotten OF a quick mind
and f%ervent energy. he falls in to the
mistake of thinking for a moment
that he knows all about something,
and on that subject, lays down the law.
On n subject, politices, we credit
him with knowing about all there is to
know, but we do not recall any other
branch in which his rating would be
higher thad than of an able amateur.
THE COTTON RABBIT GOES FOR THE
TEDDY BEAR.
Undoubtedly mir, Roosevelt knows a
good deal about animals. but it was a
mistake for him to tackle DR.. Long,
because animals are Dr.. Longs spe-
cialty, and while neither he nor
any one else knows all about them. it
is easily for him to make it appear
that he knows more about them than
Mr.. Roosevelt does, He has time for
the work, he is good writer, his cause
is just, and the newspapers seem ready
to give him all the space he wants.
If he has not already succeeded in
making Mr. Roosevelt roget that he
attacked him, it must be because Mr..
Roosevelt so delights in a fight that
he can enjoy seeing another fighter
get his exercise al his expense. 1t is
very funny and very interesting-a
sort Of battle to a finish between the
cotton rabbit and the teddy bear-and
there is every prospect that it will
result in making DR.. Long a Presi-
Dental candidate on the Mollycoddle
ticket.
THE MOLLYCODDLE TICKET
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-15
PAIN

You eat the heart of life like some great
You biaeken the sweet sky-that God
Yor are are the deaths head set amid the
The I desert breath that drinks up every
dew.
And no man lives but quails before you
And no man lives that learns to love
your rod,
The white lip smiles-but ever and again
Gods image cries your horror unto God.
And veto, TerribleEmen grant you
You Work a mystery, When you are
LoI Common living turns to heavenly
Lol the mere light is as the MONDAY
Margaret s. Anderson in Century.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-15
UNDERESTIMATED

All history teaches that the common
error of defeated nations was the un-
derestimating of the strength of oppo-
administration at Washington will not
repeat history in wrong estimate of
probabilities in case of war with Japan.
Great Britain in the Boer war is the
most recent example of this foolhardy
policy; and thousands of lives, mill
lions of money and no appreciable bene-
fits to show for them are her reward
Had the British forces been as effective
as official reports held them to be, and
had the Beers been as weak as the
English people believed them to be, the
results must have been different. The
current sweeping, remedial measures
now in process of installation, and at
fabulous cost, tell the story of Brit
ish criminal negligence, and should be
a caution to our war college.
Japan would have decided advantage
in a defensive war, and in her oppor-
tunities for predatory cruises against
our commerce, and the immense losses
sure to follow the cutting off of Asiatic
trade would be as serious as defeat in
battle. Mutual financial interests in
our institutions would cause European
nations to hesitate to war upon us, but
not so with Japan. Her financial inde
pendence of this country is her
strength Her navy is we'll manned and
admirably officered, and, ship for ship,
compares favorably with any navy.
Her base of operations is unassailable,
while any possible base of our ships
would be difficult to defend. Aside from
defeat, the inevitable loss of foreign
markets to us would be calamity so
far reaching that years must elapse
before we could regain them, saddling
us with a load of debt and paralyzing
our foreign trade.
Doubtless our navy would sink jap
anese ships and capture some Japanese
cities, but would the game be worth
the candle? 1t would be well, there
fore, to discourage jingoism and pre-
pare for war as the only effective meas
use to preserve peace.
Congressman and senators cannot fail
to see the need of a greatly enlarged
navy and coast defenses, and common
sense must show to them that the most
asinine act of their official lives would
be to underestimate the possibilities of
a Japanese war.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-15
HERALD STARTS OFF
WITH DECKS CLEARED
[From the Los Angeles Times.l


The narrative of facts, stated by MI.
Finlayson, so far as they relate to or
affect the Times-the Times-Mrror COM
pany, or any member of it's correct and
covers the case completely. Messrs. Fin
layson, Yost and Laverty have trod the
deck of the ship for three years, or dur
ing the war" and may fairly be called
veterans.
The active persons in the new manage
ment will be: T. E. Gibbon, president
of the company and director of the
editorial policy of The Herald; Mrs.
NJ G. Lobdell, vice president and
general manager; Mr.. ]. Karl Lobdell,
secretary and treasurer. These, with four
others, will constitute the new board of
directors Among the other directors are
the following we'll known citizens and
rock-riven Democrats: d. K. Trask, late
superior judge, now practicing attorney;
Max Loewenthal, the widely known law
yer and long time citizen, worthy rep
resentative of his race; William R. Burke,
early settler, seasoned Democrat, promi-
nent real estate man, and politician (on
the side)
T. e. Gibbon, Esq, is widely known as
an attorney and citizen. He has lived in
Los Angeles nearly twenty years and has
established for himself an enviable name
as a man and lawyer He has shown abil-
ity in the attorneys office, on his feet at
the bar, and likewise with the pen in his
own red right hand. He acquired promi-
nence as former counsel for railway COM
panies, but is now engaged in strictly
private practice. He is capable of presid-
ing over the reconstructed Herald COM
pany and of directing the editorial policy
of the paper.
Mrs. NJ. @. Lobdell is a newspaper bust
ness woman of experience and proved
ability which she has fully demonstrated
in Los Angeles and elsewhere during
many years past. She was eptionally
successful in securing advertising business
for the Times, which she served to the
satisfaction of the publishers. For long
time past, however, she has been
engaged in other lines of business and has
amassed for herself, in an honorable way,
a comfortable competence. In her new
relation as head of the business depart
ment of The Herald she will again invade
the mercantile community and show to
merchants and other advertisers that she
has not forgotten her calling.
]. Karl Lobdell, her reliant son, was
for ten years connected with one of ouI
foremost mercantile houses, latterly in 6
very responsible capacity. He possesses
steady and manly qualities, has gooc
personal address, and Is devoted to hi:
duties, whatever they may he. He has
the capacity and experience to fit him fol
handling the finances of 1ne Herald, ano
| of making himself valuable member o
| its business staff.
The Herald starts off with decks cleared
| and ready for action, determined to reach
| the goal of success.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-15
QUESTIONABLE LAW

The daily grind of the local courts
holds dramatic truths. The good eiti-
zen, fresh from we'll appointed home
where all his current needs are cheer
fully supplied, is apt to view with
impatience the chronicled shortcomings
OF those who are less favorably placed,
and void upon them unlimited con-
demnation.
Last Saturday a young husband and
father was tried for nonsupport and it
was shown he did what he could, and
failed. The battle had been fought
with lying labor agencies upon an
empty stomach, and with no friend to
help. Mediocrity in available worth as
an employe. cursed him to begin with.
and an unkempt appearance completed
discontinue. These things he could
not help, and so he suffered. His case
is common.
1t is the old and Haunting tale of our
national charter over again. All men
are not born equal. Hereditary and
parental drags lead otherwise good men
to a slavish level, and prevalent inhu-
manity fixes them there. Nothing
fails like failure" is devilish, but it is
true. The warm heart, the open hand,
the helpful word, all the virtues of a
true manhood should be given the
handicapped man who courageously
fought and fell.
The altruistic quality is, unfortun-
ately, lacking in much of our blatant
social philosophy, and worthy men die
a thousand deaths daily because their
fortunate fellows, not knowing the bit
terness of struggle, cannot grasp the
cruelty of their trials. We are apt to
laud the glib and clever confidence
man, and load the struggling but un-
successful honest man with sophisms
which we call philosophy, and think we
have done our duty. The crying needs
of the body and tortures of the mental
processes are unknown to us, but prim
egotism evolves the ready condemna-
tion, and so we act our selfish parts and
take great credit for good judgment.
We have not helped the man, nor helped
him to help himself, yet we demand
from him a clearly impossible success
where failure is certain.
Who can tell of the million heart
aches and mental tortures suffered by
the army of suicides and those who
have gone to a worse death in drink?
This man proved he had worked for
what he could get, whenever he got
chance, and had been unable to earn
bread for his children. He could do no
more; and so the dramatic came into
his unhappy life when an elastic law
imprisoned him for what he could not
help.
Errant and vagabond humanity calls
for disciplinary law, but there should
be line-if not in the law, then in the
heart of the judge-for the man who
tried to do his duty and failed
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-15
VERlNONITES
MAY GA THEIR
THREATEN TO APPEAR AT
MEETING
TRUSTEES SAY THEY WILL NOT
BE BLUFFED
Declare Gas Concern Wants Franchise
for Center of VilIage-Explain
Failure to Call Elec=
tion

When the Peoples Gas company comes
before the Vernon board of trustees TO-
night to receive that body's final answer
on whether or not the company car, :
establish a gas plant at Santa re anu
Pacific boulevard warm times are proiH
ised. . 1yo-,,o,,
According to several prominent vernon
citizens there will be goodly pody Oh
the residents present to urge the to"n
officials to grant the permit.
According to the trustees it Will take
more than an indignation meeting TO
prevent them from doing what they pe-
lieve to be their duty III reIusllS 'ii0
franchise at that site.
Some of the prominent residents OF that
district declare that the trustees have
been holding their decision much longer
than the case demanded. They claim
that the concern will be for the good
of the community and that permission
should be granted without further par
ley. ....a
Moreover, they assert that the trustees
now in office should have retired from
office in April 1906, and that they are
now holding their office because they
failed to call an election as the law
requires. Talk of ousting the trustees
from office is rife.
Trustees Side
Members of the board of trustees nave
their side to tell; and. 1t SOUNDS eooa.
said one of the board last night, I'VE
don't object to having the gas concern
in Vernon. Neither have we anything
against that particular corporationi but
there are several things that we would
like to be sure of before we grant val
liable privileges.
"In the first place the site of the pro-
posed plant is in the very center of our
town. Now suppose some one had es-
tablished a gas plant at Second and
Spring streets twenty years ago. What
effect do you suppose it would have had
on property values in Los Angeles?
Our town is growing, and if we put
a concern like that in the center of 1t
the plan is bound to hurt values. Then
too, it is near the school house and
would. think, hurt the school.
Besides, if the company puts up its
plant in the center of the town it will
be unwilling to lay mains out in the
east side, where there are fewer people.
and those residents will suffer.
"If they go to East Vernon they will
furnish gas to that section which other
wise we fear they would not. We want
them to lay mains in Vernon first and
then expand to the other districts. They
want to get a site in Vernon and then
go at once to Huntington Park and let
Vernon take care of itself.
Wants Some Concessions
1.-THE company should, I think, agree
to light whatever public buildings there
are. The town treasury is not very full,
and, for a privilege which means so much
to them I think they should pay a fair
sum for local improvements. about $4,000.
"This would be for the city, however,
and not for the trustees, as some of our
people have insinuated. The company
has made a mistake in coming before
this board in a bulldozing way. We
heard that they would certainly get the
permit, and such talk made 1t look bad
for US"
William M. Stevens, another trustee
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-15
PASSING OF THE "LULL"


been what in Los Angeles we call a
lull in building expansion. Under like
conditions elsewhere the word would
not be applicable. Such a compara-
tive lull in building activity as we note
now would be rated as a boom in any
other city of the Los Angeles class.
Our lull is based on monthly record
of about seven hundred building per-
mits, representing an average monthly
value we'll above the million dollar
mark.
But we recognize the comparative
drop in building development in recent
months and now call attention to facts
indicating that the tide of such devel-
opment shows evidence of flowing
again at high water mark.
1t is no secret among capitalists and
contractors that building activity has
been retarded by factor quite as
important as the one we'll known to
the public. The extraordinary prices
of lumber that prevailed until very
recent date are publicly known as a
cause of restricted building, but the
less familiar cause is the shortage of
available money, resulting from pol
icy of precaution adopted by the local
banks at the beginning of the present
year.
The local financial situation is so
satisfactory now, however that the
banks consider it advisable to relax
the extreme conservatism that has
guided them in making loans for build
ing purposes. 1t is understood that
with the beginning of next month loans
for such purposes will be made freely
on satisfactory building propositions.
This Ioosening of the financial tension
will develop many building projects
that have been held in abeyahce for
lack of available funds
The comparative stringency prevail
ing in the local money market for
months has caused thousands of eager
home makers to wait for the turn of
the financial tide which now is prom
ised. A very large percentage of homes
erected in this city are built and paid
for on the installment plan, the funds
for financing the improvements coming
primarily from the banks. AS con-
sequence of the loosening of bank
purse strings this class of building
projects soon will be resumed with
extraordinary activity, resulting from
the increasing demand for homes dur
ing the lull.
full normal building activity is felt
already in the real estate market
Dealers report more lively inquiry fol
building lots since the beginning of the
present month and contractors are pre-
pairing to go ahead with many build
ing projects that have been awaiting
more favorable conditions.
| 1t is conceded now by lumber deal
ers and contractors that "hard pam
has been reached in the cost of build
ing and that prices of material are
more likely to advance than to decline
in the near future. This situation, II
connection with the relaxing of loar
conditions by the banks assures al
early return of building activity to the
high water mark at which it stood priol
to the depression caused by soaring
cost prices and difficulty in financing
enterprises requiring loans.
Los Angeles soon will be going aheat
again under full pressure in building
expansion, widening the gap still fur
ther in its lead of the race of cities fo
first place in growth and prosperity
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-15
RELEASED THROUGH
LACK OF PROSECUTION

Mrs. NJ. P. Parr. the pretty young
woman who was arrested Friday night by
Patrolman Dorsey at the request Of j. c.
Londers of San Francisco, who accused
her of having robbed him of 1920 in San
Francisco, was yesterday released from
custody by the police.
The man on whose complaint she was
arrested refused to prosecute her because
of the notoriety which would attend the
case, and as there was no evidence on
which to hold her on any other charge she
was released.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-15
MUSICAL TRIBUTE PAID
TO SINGERS MEMORY

AS a tribute to Mrs. Louthian, one of his
former singers, Prof Bruce Gordon Kings
lev. organist and musical director of the
Temple Baptist church, has composed a
beautiful setting to the words Come Ye
Disconsolate." The composition was
sung by the Temple tenor. Mr.. Gregg, who
is also member of the Los Angeles
Shrine quartet, at the service yesterday.
Mrs. Louthian was active member of the
Temple choir until a week before her sud
den death.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-15

The plan to make park Of the old
burial ground on the high school hill
is an enterprise in which the whole city
should take an interest. A public
breathing spot on that hill would be a
delight, and would afford recreation
space to a thickly settled region not
now so favored.