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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15
BOARD FROWNS ON
LICENSE BROKERS
REPRESENTATIVE OF BREWERY
ASKS FOR FAVoRS AGAIN
Weisbart Sells Liquor License at a
Profit-NoW His Brother-in-Law
Asks Permit Outside of
Saloon Zone

Sentiment is crystalizing rapidly at the
city hall regarding the. permit for a
family liquor store applied for Tuesday
before the police board by Harry Schoon-
er at 5O2 1-2 West Temple street.
, Schooner is brother-in-law of
Charles Weisbart, who Is regarded as a
representative at the city hall for the
Los Angeles Brewing company.
Weisbart attends all sessions of the
police commissioners and makes it a
point to get a first look at all new ap-
plications of prospective brewery custom
ers
When Mayor Harper first took hold of
the city's rens he told Weisbart that he
would grant him license if he made
proper application and succeeded in suit
ing the property owners. He remarked
that one of the conditions would be that
Weisbart would remain away from the
hall.
He had acquired the habit, however,
and his face has hardly been missed a
day from the mayors outer office.
Weisbart filed an application for a
permit in the Washington street district
for a wholesale house, but because of
recurrent opposition he was turned
down.
Some time ago, after months of wait
ing he finally procured a permit in the
downtown district A few days after
ward the commission was asked to grant
transfer of ownership and the board
consented.
Then the commissioners smiled know.
ingly,
Weisbart had told some one it was
said. that he had sold the license permit
for $1,000. His bit of brokerage paid him
well for his years attendance at the
city hall.
WpiShQTt'G hr0fher-in-llW
made application for a license bets are
being made that the board will say no
hereafter to Weisbart or his kindred.
In the meantime property owners in
that district. which is outside of the
zone, are active in circulating petitions
protesting against granting of the license
on West Temple street.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15
The Knockout Blow.

The blow which knocked out Corbett
was a revelation to the prize fighters.
From the earliest days of the ring the
Knockout blow was aimed for the jaw,
the temple or the jugular vein. Stomach
punches were thrown in to worry and
weary the fighter, but If scientific man
had told one of the old fighters that the
most vulnerable spot was the region Of
the stomach, he'd have laughed at him
for an ignoramus. DR.. Pierce is bringing
hope to the public parallel fact; that
thd SeQmacA Is the most vulnerable organ
out OF \he prize ring as we'll as in 1t. We
protectPur .hSaNS, throats, feet and lungs,
but the<NSmsN6<%e are utterly indiffer-
ent to, until diseAsAfnds the solar plexus
and knocks US out. Make your stomach
sound and strong BY the use of Doctor
Pierce,s Golden Medical Discovery, and
You protect Yo1rself IN Your most ynTnere:
able SPOT. "Golden Medical Discovery !"
cures weak stomach" indigestion, or
dyspepsia torpid liver, bad, thin and i'm
pure blood and other diseases of the or
gans of digestion and nutrition.
The "Golden Medical Discovery" has a
specific curative effect upon all mucous
surfaces and hence cures catarrh, no
matter where located or what stage it
may have reached. In Nasal Catarrh it
is well to cleanse the passages with DR..
Sage's Catarrh Remedy fluid while using
the vDiscovery as a constitutional rem
edy. Why the "Golden Medical Discoy-
cry" cures catarrhal diseases, as of the
stomach, bowels, bladder and other pelvic
organs will be plain to you If you will
read booklet of extracts from the writ
ings Of eminent medical authorities, en-
dorsing It's ingredients and explaining
their curative properties. It is mailed
free on request. Address DR.. R.V. Pierce,
Buffalo, N. Y. This booklet gives all the
ingredients entering into DR.. Pierce's
medicines from which it will be seen that
they contain not drop of alcohol, pure,
triple-reined glycerine being used instead.
DR. Pierce's great thousand-page illus
trated Common Sense MEDICAL ADVISER
will be sent free. paper-bound, for q one
cent stamps, or cloth bound for 81 stamps.
Address DIR. Pierce as above.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15
ATTORNEYS CLASH
ON POINTS OF LAW
FENDER CASE HOTLY CONTEST
ED IN COURTS
Railway Company Contends Ordinance
Is Calculated to Give One Con-
Germ Virtual Monopoly
on Equipment

| The hearing of evidence was continued
| yesterday in the case against the Los
| Angeles Interurban railway for alleged
all cars to be equipped with specified
| type of fender.
| AS on Tuesday the defense continued to
introduce evidence showing that the use
of the fender on interurban cars Is dan
gerous and impracticable, and that the
city ordinance requiring tenders Is there
fore unreasonable.
Attorney Eddy continued to protest
against the introduction of such evil
dence claiming that 1t was an admission
on the part of the defense that the ordi-
nance had been violated.
He insisted that the defense answer the
charge of violating the ordinance in the
specific case in hand
He argued that the validity of the
fender ordinance had nothing to do with
the question at issue, viz, did the Los
Angeles Interurban violate the ordinance
AS in yesterdays hearing the court adj
mitted the evidence over Attorney Eddy s
protest.
During the morning the defense at
tempted to introduce evidence to show
that the Eclipse fender, which they claim
Is the only fender on the market that
meets the requirements of the ordinance.
Is protected by patents so as to be con-
trolled as a practical monopoly Attor-
ney Eddy objected so strongly to this
evidence that it's reading was finally
discontinued.
Prosecution Scores Victory
1.-THE Defense said Attorney Eddy, "is
trying to show that because the purchase
of fender is opposed to their own sell
fish interests that that constitutes suffi-
cient reason for them to violate the or
dinance. 1t is the public safety that is
paramount and it was in the interest of
the public, not the railway companies,
that the ordinance as passed"
Attorney Walter Trask demanded that
Attorney Eddy cite his authority for such
a doctrine of law. Attorney Eddy re-
sponded that ample authority could be
cited and requested that Judge Fred
erickson withhold his decision on the
point until such evidence could be pro-
duced. 1t was so ordered.
The prosecution scored Sught vic
tory over the defense in the testimony of
Patent Attorney Frederick S. Lyons, who
presented blue prints intended to show
that there were patented tenders that
could be used on street cars and which
would comply with the city ordinance.
This is in contradiction of the testimony
of tle defense to the effect that only
the Eclipse fender could be used under
the ordinance.
The hearing In the case was suspended
in order that the law might be con-
suited. The defense will probably ask
to have the case postponed for several
weeks in order that they may secure ad-
ditional evidence from Washington re-
garding the Eclipse" fender.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15

Santa Fe company was given a spur
privilege through an alley east of Santa
Fe avenue after the Salt Lake officials
tried In vain to get the privilege.
The syndicate at the time was gener-
ally understood to include Chief of Police
Ed Kern, then councilman; Councilman
E. L. Blanchard, Councilman Sidney Hill
Ter, Councilman Bernard Healy, Prize
Fight Promoter Tom McCarey, John
Vaughn. and Willard Goodwin.
Fire Commissioner Anthony Schwamm
told friends that he feared Willard Good
win would get an injunction against the
commissioners IL they granted a permit
to the City Gas company. This was be-
fore news of the option became known.
The pure food committee of the County
Medical association sent protest against
the establishment of gas works there
to the board yesterday.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15
ALLEGED TO BE INSANE
is HIS OWN ATTORNEY
Man Has Four Times Been Before
Lunacy Commission, but Each
Time Has Promised
to Be Good

M. H. Sharp. well-known character
about Los Angeles, was taken before the
lunacy commission for the fourth time
in his career yesterday and nearly Gre
ated sensation with his mad attempt to
defend himself. acting as his own at
torney
When his name was called by the
Judge he rushed to the desk where the
commission was examining patients and
hammered the desk time and again, as
serting most emphatically that he was
more than in his right mind.
His strenuous attitude caused the eX-
amining physicians to move their chairs
backward a little.
The Judge and bailiff tried to quiet
the man but failed.
Each witness who was examined by the
physicians was in turn forced to under
go a cross-examination by Sharp, until
the situation was nearly intolerable
When asked by the judge about his
occupation and relatives he attempted
humor and his remarks caused some
snickering among the element which usu-
ally infests the room where the exam
ination of the insane is carrieu on and
gloats upon the miseries of demented
humanity.
Alleged Conspiracy
Sharp seemed perfectly sane and
claimed that he was the victim of con-
spiracy which intended his business and
family ruin.
Dr. Booth, a prominent physician OF
the city, was called in to tell what he
knew about Sharp. The doctor stated
that he had known Sharp for the past
seventeen years.
1t was stated that in Needles Sharp
had carried on a successful business and
prospered in spite of Incorporate habits.
The physician said that whenever Sharp
had money he went through it in short
time.
According to the physicians who have
diagnosed his case Sharp is the victim
of his inebriety rather than of any con-
spiracy.
Yesterday was the fourth time he has
made his appearance before a lunacy
commission.
Each time previously he was set at
liberty promising that he would lead a
better life and contract more sanitary
habits. Recently he was the principal
in a fray on Main street which resulted
in his arrest and a charge of insanity
was lodged against him owing to his
raving manner.
His case was continued till next Mon
day so that opportunity would be given
for the rest of the witnesses. including
his wife who has so far refused to testify
in his behalf, to make their appearance.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15
WANTS PARK RoADWAYs
sPRINKLED WITH HOT OIL

Samuel Fox, who has devoted his life
to mechanics, has asked the park COM
missioners to detail him to try his new
process of oiling roadways, paths ana
parks with heated crude oil.
He proposes to convert a watering tank
now used as a portable sprinkler in South
park into a suitable apparatus.
The changes will not injure the tank
for water sprinkling, as the changes in
yolve the use of Sits instead OF round
holes in the nozzle, the addition OF re-
ducer pipe to the tank, and little gaso-
line heater under the tank.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15
STRIKING BOILERMAKERS
RESUME THEIR WORK
Loss to Workers In Industrial Battle
Is Estimated at About
,ooo-TraffIc Is
Resumed

All of the 400 men who went out in the
boilermakers' strike returned to work
yesterday at the Southern Pacific shops
at the same rate of wages and in their
old positions. Even the three men dis
charged by foreman w. H. Carter will be
allowed to apply for work with promise
of consideration.
The engines, which have been neglected
for weeks are rapidly being put in
shape and traffic will soon be moving in
perfect order.
District President Edward Payne and
secretary F. e. Owen, who have been in
this city during the strike, have now
returned to San Francisco.
The strikers estimate their loss at about
$4,000.
1t is not known to what extent the
railway suffered from the strike.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15
CITY WILL DISPOSE OF
DELINQUENT LOT PARCELS
Hundreds of Pieces of Realty on
Which Taxes Are Delinquent Will
Be Offered for Sale On
City Hall Steps

The biggest realty sale in years is
scheduled shortly when the city will dis
pose of parcels of land on which taxes
are delinquent.
AS long as this realty remains in the
city's name no taxes can be collected on
it, hence the desire to put it into the
hands of private owners.
Sixty-three lots will be disposed of at
the first sale and the others will follow
in rapid succession.
The sale will be from the court house
steps and as many bargains will be Of
fered the bidding will doubtless be lively.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15
CHINESE is RELEASED
UNDER BAIL OF $4,000

Leong Him, charged with having par
ticipated in the murder of Chin Mon, a
Chinese merchant, was released yester-
day under $4,000 bail and the trial of the
case postponed for ten days.
The case was to have come up before
Judge Frederickson yesterday, but owing
to pressure of business in the police
courts the date had to be postponed.
Many Chinese gathered in the halls of
the police court during the day, thinking
that the case would be called and desir-
ing to hear the trial.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15
ORDERS STAGE STANDPIPE
FOR MASON OPERA HOUSE

Chief Building Inspector Backus has
sent instructions to the Mason opera
house management that a separate
sprinkler system and standpipe must be
installed for the stage within ten days.
Manager Wyatt at first objected to put
ting a separate system into the stage,
but the board of public works was in
siStent
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15
TO EXTEND SEVENTH STREET
LINE TO THE CEMETERIES

The Pacific electrics Seventh street
line will be ready, it is thought, within
sixty to ninety days.
Rails are already laid as far as Ala
media street and the cars will run through
Boyle Heights.
1t is probable the line will be extended
as far as the Jewish, Catholic and Ma
sonic cemeteries within year, and pos
siblv to Montebello.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15

dining tent, a store. book repository
and other camp accessories that go
toward making the gathering pleasant
and profitable. Laid out in geometrical
design the ~encampment is a model of
convenience and sanitation. The daily
program includes Spanish and German
meetings. Dalton avenue and green Uni
versity cars will take visitors to the
grounds
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15

The Doctor-You understand, don't you. that
this is only to be used externally?
The Patients Wife-Sure, sir. allus makes
weekly. -
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-15
Allow Japanese to Settle

BY Associated Press.
RIO JA ;EIRO, August 14-The gov
ernment of Brazil has sanctioned the es-
tablishment of three Japanese settle
ments in the state of Rio Janeiro.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07


We have eet then in our schoolhousei
and we have play eet in our school
effery day
We'll, we'll, WE'LL" cried Addison.
But now" our visitor continued,
"Benoit he com back, and he say this
seraphine, eet ees not for us. Eea ees
stole by some bad peoples. So we
bring eet back.
! am the school-teacher at Garth
by" she explained again. my name
ees Marie Ladoucier. And these boys
are my pupeels. This one ees Marc
Cassandierre and this Cyrile Joig-
neaux. We have EN- to bring the may
lodayon back to you.'
There was no mistaking the honesty
and good intentions of this young
French schoolmistress and her two
pupils. We made them welcome, and
entertained them for the night. In
fact, they remained three days.
We found Mademoiselle Ladoucier a
very amiable, well-educated young
woman, high-minded, and worthy to
be teacher. The two French boys
could not speak English, but had a
good time, nevertheless. All the
scholars in the district came to call on
them
We set up the melodeon, and held a
musical julibee over it's return. De-
spite it's peregrinations, it seemed to
be uninjufed. Mademoiselle Ladoucier
played very we'll; and she sang several
French school songs.
She informed us that the young lum-
bermen who carried the melodeon to
Canada had been afraid, when they
learned that it was stolen, that we
might have them put under arrest if
they came to Maine with it. They all
desired her to take it back to us, be-
cause she could speak English, and
make us understand the circumstances.
During the three days of their visit,
MademOiselle Ladoucier came to know
all the young people of the place-and
thereby hangs little romance, which,
however, need not be entered on here.
So, after all the dreadful suspicious
which had filled our minds, the melo-
deon came back, safe and sound. In
truth, the world is never half so bad
as some persons think it. Despite our
dark suspicious, the young people in
Number 9-all but one-were quite in
nocent Of any wrong-doing; and these
youthful Canadians had taken great
pains to restore our property as soon
as they learned Of our loss.-Youth's
Companion.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07
A Franklin Relic.

People of all "persuasions," says
the London Chronicle, will regret to
hear that the old Sandman Chapel,
off Lincoln s-inn-fields, is after all to
be demolished. 1t had remained Stand
ing when so many surrounding build
ings had been swept away in the
making of Kingsway that one had
hoped it would be spared the general
fate. Little remains of the original
chapel of 1913, for, in the mo Popery
riots of 1880, the fury of the rabble
selected it for especial injury, so as
to necessitate an almost entire re-
building. Just opposite, in 1725, when
he was journeyman printer, lodged
Benjamin Franklin, with Roman
Catholic widow lady and her daught-
err; very uncommon sort of printer,
as his fellow workmen in Great Wild
street thought, for among the fifty
or so employed in Mr.. Watts Office.
beer drinkers all. Franklin stood out
as the only water drinker-teetotale
was word not known till nearly a
century later.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07

Steamship ticket agents offer cheap
rates and present alluring and mis-
leading pictures of ease. Friends
and relatives send them the money.
Employment agents lure them on and
are their only friends and advisers
when they arrive. Two ignorant Inn
migrant girls came over here because
they had been told gold could be
found in the streets. They were
found in an agency, without food, re-
fusing work, because they daily ex-
pected to find gold. This is the Inn
migrant girl who becomes the prey
OF idlers and procurers in cities, for
they promise easy work and high
wages. Other promises equally pre-
posterous are the cause OF their leav-
ing home When they come under
such inducements they are easily dis
contented and fall into the casual
labor class, working short time here
and there and not content anywhere.
Domestic service Is well at the head
Of the list Of casual labor industries.
Frances A. KeHor, in the Atlantic.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07
How to Escape.

A now well-known author once drift
cd down into Arkansas in search OF
local color. AS he was "roughing it."
his appearance was not calculated TO
inspire the local landlords with con-
fidence. In one town he was shown
to room on the thifd floor, reached
through many narrow and winding
passages. From the one window it
was a straight drop to the ground
Say, how would get cut of this
place in case of fire?" he asked the
landlord, who had Brought up his grip.
The other eyed him coldly WAL"
he drawled. AL yo' would have to 10
would be to show the night watchman
the one with Their shotgun "a re-
ceipted bill fob yo' board an lQdgin'
an get him to tie up ther bulldog -
Bellman
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07
The LandIady's Mistake.

On her first night at the seaside
lodgings the visitor found it. "Incredi-
BILE it seemed. for the landlady had
appeared neat, Clearly, cautious
body But as the lady visitor knew
little of her landlady and nothing Of
her predecessor in the apartment, she
decided to mention the matter at
breakfast. Il found something in my
bedroom" she began, and the landlady
interrupted, Then You must have
brought it with you!" Il am quite
sure didn't" said the visitor, for
counted all mine before left home.
But II you insist that this sovereign
is mine, Of course. London Daily
Chronicle.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07

Mrs. E. M. Tinney, story writer,
325 E. Nueva St., San Antonio, Tex, {
writes:
During 1901 I suffered from nasal
catarrh, which various other remedies
failed to relieve
six bottles of Peruna, which took,
entirely cured me, the catarrh disap-
pearing and never returning.
Il therefore cheerfully recommend
Peruna to all similarly afflicted"
Mrs. Ellen Nagle, Ala 4th street, Green
Bay, Wis, writes:
i have often heard Peruna praised and
it is more widely known here than any
other medicine, but | never knew what a
splendid medicine it really was until few
weeks ago, when | caught bad cold
which settled all over me.
"The doctor wanted to prescribe, but
told him | was going to try Peruna and
sent for bottle and tried it.
l felt much better the next morning
and within five days | had not trace Of
any lameness or any cough.
~ consider 1T the finest cough rem
edy."
PERUNA TABLETs:-Some people prefer
TO take tablets, rather than to take med
icine in fluid form. Such people caneob-
tain Peruna tablets, which represent the
solid medicinal ingredients of Peruna
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07

The most varied diocese In the world
will be that Of the neWlyScreated Epis-
conal see at Fiji which will include
ine whole 81 Polynesia
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07

Observation in the New York sa-
looms shows that drivers of trucks,
vans and ice wagons are the largest
consumers of spirituous liquors of all
classes of persons in the city.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07

A summer attraction in Colebrook,
N. H., is the ''ice cave" in Dixville
notch. This cave is formed by ifs
sure in the ledge Of the mountain
that fills with snow in winter, and is
protected from the suns rays at all
seasons.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07

cat - the songs of frailest birds:
Out OF the winds that veer,
NY soui has winnoNed deathless
q faith and hope and cheer!
Out or the passing stars of night,
Ana waning suns of day,
NY. soul has woven robes of light
mat shall not fade away!
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Italians to the number of 10000
emigrated last year to South American
ports, as against $4,000 who came to
the United States.
It is estimated that people in Chi
cago spend 100000 a year in keeping
their shoes polished Of this amount
profits are said to be 100000.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07
ALCHEMY.

Out of the lowering clouds above,
nd out of storm and stress,
words Ny soul has gathered dews of love,
And golden happiness!
Out of its travail like the sea.
Out of the breath of dust,
My soul has shaped Infinity,
And made itself august
-E. w. Mason, in The Atlantic Monthly.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07

A curious bit Of real estate is owned
by Mrs. Margaret T.. Graham of Mid
dletown, R. I. 1t consists of small
rock located just off her estate in the
ocean, and a special act of legislature
was necessary to give her the rights
of ownership.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07

An electrical generator in "a smeN-
ing plant at West Jordan, Utah, is
said to have been in constant opera
ton, "a hours a day, for nearly four
years and a half, with single inter-
ruption, which was due to a broken
pulley, for which the generator was in
no way responsible.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07

During the restoration of West
Thurrock church, in Essex, England,
it was found that the walls had once
been repaired with stone collins which
had been broken up for the purpose,
and complete coffin more than one
thousand years old was beneath the
floor.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07

Two nine-pound shot were dug up
by workmen in Waterville, Me-. re-
Gently. It is though that they were
fired from British warships, or from
the American batteries across the har-
Dor during the occupancy Of the town
by the English forces.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1907-11-07

A monster kite is waiting in Maya
saki, Japan, for the next hurricane. It
is of the following dimensions: Fifty
seven feet from top to bottom and 1870
feet in circumference, with 81 guide
lines. It took 1000 sheets of tough pa
per to cover it and its frames are all
unsplit bamboo.