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Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03
FIRE COMMISSIONERS WILL
ASK FOR BOND ISSUE

AS soon as the Owens river special
bond election is out of the way the city
will take steps toward increasing the
fire protection as recommended by the
inspectors of the national underwriters
Some discussion of this subject was had
again yesterdya at the meeting of the
board of fire commissioners.
The secretary was instructed to for
ward a copy of the resolutions adopted
at the special meeting of February II
relative to the isue of 100000 in bonds
for improving the fire department to the
city council with recommendation that
the election be called as soon as possible
and prior to July /, 1907.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03
copper Mining District

The Avawatz mountains Cracker
Jack district) is reached from Silver
Lake on the Tonopah & Tidewater rail-
road in connection with the Rowan
Courtright Stage company. Stages
leaving Silver Lake every Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday, returning from
Avawatz every Wednesday. Friday and
Sunday.
Avawatz is a new townsite in the
Crackerjack district, half mile from
Crackerjack, one and a half miles
from Copper City, four miles from Cave
Springs and eight miles from Denning
Springs. Suitable hotel accommoda-
ticns at Silver Lake and Avawatz.
Freight service from Silver Lake semi
weekly. H. e. Needham, general agent,
247 Pacific Electric building, Los An
geles. CAL
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03


Collector Johnson's deputies said yester-
day that they had rounded up most of the
mediums in the district between the
county court house and the main postof-
flee and from Main to Hill street. This is
where most of the fortune tellers have
rooms. Only one outright refusal to pay
the tax was met with-Mrs. Parker of
South Spring street, who said she could
not afford to pay so high a sum.
When the cash returns are in today the
authorities will be prepared to take their
next step.
Mazzini, the fortune teller who is under
sentence of ninety days in Jail or $3.50
fine for practicing mediumship without
a license, has not appeared to get
license.
This faker is closely watched by de-
tectives. report was made yesterday
that dupes and fellow takers have con-
tributed $140 toward payment Of his fine.
The bondsmen are said to have possess
sion of the money.
Mazzini is said to contemplate a trip
north In search of pastures green where
he is not so well known.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03
10c FOR IMPORTED BELTS
OIC WORTH 75c

Beautiful belts made of white kid
leather and lined with satin;
crushed effects; have handsome
leather covered gilt trimmed
buckles; latest styles and positively
regular 75c belts.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03
DON'T PAY AIimony

to be divorced from your appendix.
There will be no occasion for it If you
keep your bowels regular with DR..
Kings New Life Pills. Their action is
so gentle that the appendix never has
cause to make the least complaint.
Guaranteed by Dean Drug company.
25c. Try them.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03

Hicks-Isn't the cost of living getting
to be just frightful nowadays?
Wicks-It is pretty bad, that's a
fact. But it's a good deal lower than
the cost of dying.-Somerville Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03
SPOOKSTERS MUST
PAY FOR LICENSE
Mayor and Chief of Police Say Me-
dIums and Fortune TelIers VIII
Be Prosecuted for
NEGLECT

License Collector Johnsons deputies
yes.-.uay began to serve notice on me-
diums and fortune tellers that they must
appear at the city hall today to renew
their licenses on basis of $50 a month.
The old law assessed each one S15 a
month.
On the books of the collector the av-
erage number of mediums and fortune
tellers who paid licenses recently was
thirty. These thirty will be served first.
There are at least ninety persons prac-
ticing the scheme of fortune telling in
Los Angeles and all of them must come
forward and pay for the privilege. If
Collector Johnsons men do not find them
This is the order of Mayor Harper and
was made plain when the new law was
passed.
as possible, to drive out the takers and
to put those who remained in the busi-
ness under the eyes of the. police and
city authorities.
Fakers' Victims SqueaI
So many complaints have reached po-
lice headquarters concerning the prac-
the chief wants to keep a register of all
of the professionals at his office. The
license office will be a check, 1t is thought.
The old esta6lished mediums are appar-
followed closely the exposes in The Her
aid from time to time of the methods of
the spooksters who preyed on the un-
wary and separated them from their
money. This social highway robbery has
in a measure been stopped by the cru
sade
Members of the council, in devising a
high license measure, at first were in
clined to put the fee at a prohibitive
figure. Some of the law makers did not
hesitate to say that they wanted to put
all of the mediums and fortune tellers out
of business.
Mayor Harper preferred to take the
neutral stand, to assess fair tax and
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03

Will Enforce Law

to insist on payment of this monthly fee
and strict compliance with all city laws
on the part of the professionals.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03
Notion Surprises

e. For cabinet hair pins. all sizes,
~ straight or crimped; regular
price 1Oc.
1c For regular SC package sew
~ ing machine needles; all stan
dard makes.
l0c For stockinette, nainsook or
IVN silk dress shields; all sizes;
worth 25c.
In For bolt Angora skirt braid; all
~ colors; regular price 10c.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03

Inr For Y pound box Kirby &
lVN Beard best make English
dressmakers' pins; worth zoe.
IOc For roll Prussian seam bind
lVN ing; black and white; worth
zoe roll.
e. For dozen cards good quality
~ hooks and eyes; black and
white; all sizes; worth 15c.
e. For four spools good 6-cord
~ basting thread; black an d
white; worth 10c.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03

Everything you want you will find in
che classified page. One cent e. word.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03
@1 00 FOR FLANNELETTE
QlsVU NIGHT ROBES

Worth $1.5O. Novelty patterns, made
of an excellent quality French fan
nelette, handsome broad figures and
floral patterns in dark and pale blue;
cut full and broad and are floor length !;
rundown or military collars; some
with silk braid fronts, finished with
large pearl buttons sizes to 10.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03

ca AZ FOR REGULAR $500
D4.4O MANTEL CLOCKS X
Handsome parlor clocks, 1o inches long and &
II inches; come in various marbelized col &
ors with real onyx pillars; have French I;
or gold gilt trimming; eight-day cathedral !!
gong. These clocks are guaranteed to keep ! z
perfect time. .
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03

An excellent opportunity for room
ing houses; good wool mixed car
pet that will give exceptional serv-
ice; best and most durable colors
and suitable for hall runners or
across rooms to save the other car
pets; on sale Friday only at this
price.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03


90 dozen in the lot; some of them slightly soiled;
choice of either golf sem-gof or coat shirt styles
made of an extra quality linen; have plain or
plated bosoms and attached or detached cuffs;
neck bands are full cushioned; these shirts come
in sizes II to 18.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-03

OUC WORTH 75c
The spring styles and include the very latest and best
patterns in checks stripes and DOTS black and white
fancy color combinations the materials cheviots per-
Gales and Madras attached and detached cuffs continuous
gussets finished with pearl buttons cushion neck bands
sizes IA to 18.
The National tribune., 1907-04-25
Death of Gen. Disbroyv.

Gen. William E. Disbrow died at his
home in Bridgeport, Conn.,, March 2. OF
pneumonia. He was at his accustomed
place in the Custom House a few days
before his death. and tho i'll was not
thought to be dangerously SO. His flu
neral was conducted by Elias Howe, Jr.,
Post, of which he was an active and
valuable member. Gen. Disbrow was
born in BrookfieId, Conn, in 1874. and
enlisted in the I'd Conn H. A, IN which
he served thru the war. He was wound
ed before Petersburg. After the war he
was engaged in business in Bridgeport.
and finally in 1897 became Deputy Col
leetor and Inspector of customs, which
office he held at his death. His death
deprives Bridgeport of an active. public
spirited citizen. who was always fore
most in everything that pertained to the
benefit of the town. He was Secretary
and President of the I'd Conn. Fl. A..
and was appointed by Gov. Coffin Quar-
termaster-General OF the National
Guard. He was an active member OF
the First Baptist Church of Bridgeport
The National tribune., 1907-04-25
Death Of q Veteran Editor.

George Grenville Benedict, for "a
years connected with the Burlington
Daily Free Press and for 40 years its
editor-in-chief, died at Camden, s. c.,
April s. Comrade BENEDICT was born
in Burlington in 1925, coming from an
ancestry which had distinguished itself
in the Colonial wars and the Revolution.
He graduated from the University OF
Vermont in 1S47; taught school for
while, and then became Superintendent
and President of the Vermont Il Boston
Telegraph Co. He enlisted in Co. G.,
18th VT, in 1852, and the January fol-
lowing was promoted to a Lleutenancy.
Subsequently he served on the staff OF
Gen. George ]. Stannard. He received
Medal of Honor for distinguished gall
lantry at Gettysburg, and after the mus
ter-out of his regiment became Inspec-
tor-General of the State Militia He
wrote much, very gracefully and accu-
rately, and gained reputation both as an
editor and a historian. He prepared
the history of Vermont in the Civil
War" and also a volume on Vermont
at Gettysburg" He served in the YER
mont Senate. and afterward was POST
master of Burlington and Collector OF
Customs. He was also President OF sew
era1 Vermont associations, member OF
the Grand Army of the Republic and
the Loyal Legion, to both Of which he
gave much earnest, effective service. He
also served for many years as clerk Of
the Congregational Church. He began
his connection with the Free Press in
1853 as an assistant to his father, and
in 1866 became the etlitor-in-ctief,
which position he held until his death.
The National tribune., 1907-04-25
James ). Hill, the Man.

Writing in the April Everybody's
Paul Latzke gives the following esti-
mate of the character and work of Jas
J. Hill:
Mr.. Hill has many faults. He Is un-
doubleday arbitrary, bitter where his
prcjudices are concerned, utterly lack.
ing i'll sympathy or understanding feI
those weaker than himself. He has de-
veloped to degree abnormal even in
men of his class the conviction that
rights of property overshadow entirely
the rights of the Individual AID of So
ciety.
Tut with all these f;c is clean in his
methods, as such things go these days
He Goes not buy or corrupt courts and
Legislatures and city and State Gov
ernments, as SO many of his fellows
have done. He is also personally clean
and has always been. He is simple in
his habits. democratic in his manner
accessible at all times to all who have
The National tribune., 1907-04-25

business with him. He has always kept
himself free from the faint of specula-
ZION, whether IN Wall Street or else
where. tho he has had opportunities
beyond most men. He is loyal to the
point of fanaticism to the people who
have invested in his properties. For 20
years he has served them without SAL
airy as President of the Great Northern,
without commissions of any kind. or
even repayment of personal expenses
incurred while travelling on company
business. If he has made a great for
tune for himself, he has made an in
finitely greater for those associated with
him, and in proportion to the wealth he
has created for the Nation and the
State his own wealth is infinitesimal."
The National tribune., 1907-04-25
The 18th Company, ". Y. s.arps.o..er..

Editor National Tribune: I wish you
would give a short history OF my COM
pany and battalion OF sharpshooters, nth
N. Y.-Isaac A. Sherman, jamestown.
N. Y.
Maj. W. S. Rowland received author
ity Oct. %, 1862, to recruit battalion
of sharpsho oters. ana organized four
companies, the sth, 7ti, Sth and 9Th.
These left the State Feb. 8. 1868, and
served for Il time in the First Corps
and later III the Fifth Corps. Capt.
Joseph S. Arnold succeeded Moj. Row
land in command. It lost altogether Is
men killed. IA died from wounds and
81 of disease or missing.-Editor Ma
tional Tribune.
The National tribune., 1907-04-25
No Pensions For Them.

P. D. Hall, Corporal, Co. B. LIST Ala
Cav, has been reading The National
Tribune for about 20 Years. and could
not do without ii. He does not think
that the widows of the rebel Generals
who served in the Mexican War should
have pensions. All the Generals of the
Mexican War who were loyal to the
Union mt the time of the civil war
should, of course. have pensions. but he
does not think that the others should.
The National tribune., 1907-04-25
Surviving Confederate coasre..men.

The death OF James l.. Pugh, who
died of pneumonia recently, N this city,
where he had resided since he repre-
sented Alabama in the United States
Senate, 10 years ago, removes one of
the few survivors of the Confederate
Congress.
The living members of that Congress
are only five. Three are Tennesseans-
John V. Wright, now of this city, ard a
law clerk in the General Land Office;
John D. c. Atkins, of Paris, Tenn, for
mer Commissioner of Indian Affairs IN
der the first Cleveland Administration
Arthur S. Colyar, of Nashville, Tenn
Two are Virginians-Roger A. Pryor
now a lawyer in New York, and John
Good. who praetises law in this city
Two of these Were members with Mr..
Pugh in the Goth Congress, and all
three withdrew when their States Sc
coded. Mr.. Pugh, when he died, was in
his 81th year-seven months the senior
of his successor. Edmund W. Pettus
Mr.. Atkins is 81, Mr.. Colyar IS, MIR
Wright rs, Mr.. Goode 10 and Mr.. Pryor
II.
When Mr.. Pugh Withdrew from the
House in January, 1861, he went to
Alabama and enlisted as a private in
the 1st Ala, c. S. A. The regiment was
sent to Pensacola as soon as organized
One of its drill masters was Lieut.. Jo-
seph Wheeler, then but recently grad
uated from West Point, and destined to
become famous as a Confederate cav
airy leader and to make brilliantly good
in the blue uniform he wore as Lieu
tenant his renewed pledges of loyalty
to the Union as commander of sons OF
veterans who wore the blue and who
wore the gray when he led them in
the War with Spain and In the Filipino
instruction.
Private Pugh, Of the 1st Ala, was al
Santa Rosa Island, with pick in hand
digging Notifications when he first met
little Joe Wheeler. The ez,-Cohgress-
man was much imprest with the Won
derfui energy of the little soldier, and
when Mr.. Pugh was elected out of the
ranks as Representative from Ala
balna in the Confederate Congress he
went to Richmond and lauded Wheeler
to the Confederate authorities in sue,
measure as led to his rapid promotion
Doubtless Little joe would have won
fame and high rank in any event OF
personal friendship, but it is neverthe-
less interesting that one of the first to
push him along and obtain recognition
for him was James L. Push, afterward
Is years a Senator of the United States
from Alabama and serving while Gen.
of Representatives from the Sth Ala
bama District. from which he resigned
to accept President wcEinley's appoint
ment as a Major-General of Volunteers
in the War with Spain.
The National tribune., 1907-04-25

Plant breeding, altho an old and WELL
known scheme among botanists, has de-
veloped in the past few years where 1t
closely approaches the breeding of ami
mails in variety of methods and GER
tai"'-- - ---'-'N- -I~ nanartment of
The National tribune., 1907-04-25

While desertion of enlisted men in
the Army is common, 1t is somewhat
unusual for q commissioned officer to
desert the service. A case Of this kind
has recently been before the War De-
partment, however, and First Lieut..
Louis F. Buck. of the Artillery Corps,
has been dropt from the Army rolls as
a deserter. This officer was stationed
at Fortress Monroe. and disappeared
from there without leave about two
months ago. Army officials have not
heard from him since. It is reported
that he is badly involved in debt. and
that there are other charges against
him under which he will be tried If ap-
pretended.
The National tribune., 1907-04-25

The Supreme Court docket is some
what famous for the odd names of liti-
giants. but in case filed on Monday
the name of the respondent is the worst
jaw breaker that has appeared for some
time, and would in itself be almost JUS
LITIGATION for denying the petition for
certlOrari which Is asked.
The name is Dampskibsselskabet
Kjoebenhvn, which is that of a Danish
steamship company, owner of the
steamer Euxinia, running between Phil
adelphia and Central American ports.
The case itself has nothing to do with
the story. but the name is certainly the
limit
The National tribune., 1907-04-25

Samuel H. Cowan, of Fort Worth,
Tex, who has been In Washington pre-
senting important questions before the
Interstate Commerce Commission 70,
the National Live Stock Association. OF
which he Is attorney, is said to be the
actual author of the Dolliver-Hepburn
railroad-rate bill as that measure pas;
the House. Attic Democrat and for
merIy a railroad lawyer in Texas. Mr.
Cowan was one OF the Presidents chief
advisers on railroad legislation from the
inception OF that policy Of the Admin
1stratton. He knows more about the
inside history OF the origin and trou-
blous vicissitudes OF tho rate bill past
by the first session Of the last Congress
than anybody else. Derhaps. except the
The National tribune., 1907-04-25

The Commission consists Of nine
members. appointed under the immi-
grafton act passed by Congress last
Winter. Three of them, Senator's Dill
bingham, Of Vermont, Chairman OF the
Immigration Committee; Lodge, of Mas
sachusetts, and Latimer, OF South Caro-
lima. were named by Vice President
Fairbanks; three. Representatives How
ell, OF New Jersey, Chairman of the
House Committee on Immigration and
The National tribune., 1907-04-25
Under the Flag and the Flowers
S1lD:Eas, ATTENTION!

10000 1Ioaasstcsssts 10 be gwen 10 settlers in
Trpp county =. H. ibssS.- hsn.s are very Valuable
For full Information write GREtipfY COUNTY
ABSTRACT CO, Bones.ee. - d. inciosing stamp
for rc2.y.
The National tribune., 1907-04-25
FREE CURE
/, Gis,ss;iss;

Grs=f labor Caa Il s.1aiirS upright Sells
sight. Fssy and cheap to make. Patent right for
sale COOL side line to SoGr presens business
IL. ". 49, 81 "a Az, s.e,e,2ld, Ukss.
The National tribune., 1907-04-25

Mr.. Stevens, II will be remembered,
said that he had left everything in ex-
cellent shape down there. Representa-
tives who went on the junketing COM
mittee said things were In fine shape
also. Speaker Cannon said that the
canal would be dug right away now. In
10 or Is years, anyhow, and said this in
spite of the fact that 1t is said that the
party of Representatives was most aw-
fully snubbed while at the canal. Some
way, we have sneaking sort of notion
the Army engineer is telling the truth.
The National tribune., 1907-04-25

The complete American delegation 10
the International Red Cross Conference,
which will open in London on June 10,
named by the State Department. is as
follows: Surg.-Gen. Robert NJ. o'Reilly,
representing the Army; Medical Direc-
tor John C. Wise. the Navy; Col. Will
liam Cary Sanger, the American Red
Cross Board; Ernest Bicknell. Of Chi
cago. and Miss Mabel 7. Boardman, of
Washington.
Mr.. Bicknell was in charge OF relief
work at San Francisco following the
earthquake and fire, and will make an
exhaustive report on the subject of Red
Cross work in connection with great
calanities.
The National tribune., 1907-04-25

Congressman John DaIzell. OF Pitts
burg, made a pessimistic speech on the
Canal Zone at the annual banquet OF the
Homewood Board of Trade one night
last week. After pointing out condi-
lions existing when the United States
took charge Of the work OF canal build
Ing Daizell declared the country to be
"a pesthole, country where the flowers
ire without perfume, the birds without
song, the men without honor an the
women without virtue"
He said. however, that despite unpro-
pitious conditions, the canal would be
built, and Improvement. moral and
physical. would result from the success
Of this national undertaking.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-02
NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

Honey Melody, Of Boston. was
knocked out in the fifteenth round of a
twenty-round fight by Frank Mantell,
of Providence, near Dayton, o.
The records of the Pennsylvania
railroad for October show that 1872
6O5 carloads of freight were moved
during the month over the Philade!-
phia division.
Huntington Smith, wealthy resi-
dent Of st. Louis, and a member of va
rious clubs in that city. is dead at his
summer home in Castleton, VT He
was so years old.
Advices from Rome TO the Paris
Fclair say that Pope Plus is suffering
from an attack of heart trouble
The legislative council of India has
adopted a bill designed to prevent Sc
ditious gatherings.
The grand jury at New York has
concluded its investigations of election
fraud cases and handed down thirty
two indictments.
1t is believed that a famine is inevi-
table in the Delhi division in India
and throughout a wide area of the
united provinces of Agra and Oudh.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-02

Mr.. and Mrs. William Deegan and
children returned home from Canada
where they have been visiting friends
for the past three months.
Mrs. Kahn of Windsor Park. spent
Thursday at the home Of her mother,
Mrs. Meyers
There was quite an exciting time in
the Nickel Plate yards Friday when
a steer broke out of a car A number
OF men attempted TO recapture it and
one man was injured by coming in
contact with the steers horns
Mr.. and Mrs. West made a business
trip down town Friday.
Mrs. Glover called on Mrs. Reed
Thursday evening.
Miss K. Newcome spent Friday af-
ternoon at the home of Mrs. P. Dorsey.
Mrs. Reed was shopping in South
Chicago Thursday.
Mrs. P. Kelly of Burnside visited
Mrs. Dorsey Thursday afternoon.
Mrs. LaBelle of Burnside visited her
sister, Mrs. Farrell, Friday afternoon.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-02
WEST PULLMAN

Fides Chapter No. SAP A f. A. NJ.
right royalty entertained Thursday
evening in honor Of the master Masons
Three hundred were present and a sum
ptuous repast was served in the way
of Halloween banquet. The work of
the order was handled in a mastery
way, which speaks well for the present
officers. The third degree was given
one candidate.
Rev. T. X. Gale of the north side
gave an Interesting talk before the
Mems club of the Methodist church
Tuesday evening. He left a token Of
remembrance to the baseball team in
the way of a beautiful silver cup for
which the boys rendered him a vote
OF thanks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Davis of Har-
ward avenue are enjoying a visit from
W. J. Davis OF Iowa.
Mrs. D. II. Holmes of Yale avenue,
who lately returned from Europe, is
entertaining her friend, Mrs. Winger,
of Lincoln avenue.
A number of young folks surprised
Julia Boand Thursday evening. Games
and fine refreshments completed a good
time for all.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-02
KENSINGTON NEWS

Mrs Morrow Of California. is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. Perry. of Riverside
Mrs. Jenkinson and Eliza Murphy
were Chicago visitors yesterday.
Mr.. Galley of the Peoples Dry Goods
store. was Chicago visitor Saturday.
Mrs. Douglas Of 1873 Lafayette ave
nue.. visited her sister, Mrs. Miller, of
One Hundred and Eighteenth and
State streets.
Mrs. Herbinson Of One Hundred and
Seventeenth street and Lafayette aves
nue., and sister, OF One Hundred and
Seventeenth and State streets, were
Chicago visitors yesterday.
Emily Bethig of 1880 Lafayette
avenue, who has been sick for the
past two weeks, is able to be around
to the great JOY Of his many friends
Mr.. Fleet of one Hundred and Eigh-
teenth street and Lafayette avenue. is
improving his home with a new coat
Of paint.