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The San Francisco call., 1907-03-09
STAGE ooNNEorross.

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STAGE CONNECTIONS.
Stages connect at GREENBRAE for San Quen-
tin; at SANTA ROSA for White sulphur Springs
Sanatorium. at LTTToN for Lyteon Springs: at
GEYSERvILLE for Skaggs Springs; at CLOVER
DALE for the Geyse<E. Boonytle, Philo Elk
and Greenwood; at HoPLAND for Duncan
Springs, Highland Springs. Keiseyville. New
Carlsbad sPrings Soda Bay, Lsheport. Bartlett
Springs Blue Lakes Laurel Dell Lake Witter
Springs, Upper Lake, P0mo, Potter Valley Iohn
Days Lisrley'k Hullville, 0rr's Hot Springs
Handiey Halfway House. Hopkins. Com pfehe
Mendocino City. Fort Bragg. Westport and Usal: :
at WILLIS for Hearst and Sawyers; at SEER
WOOD for Fort Bragg, LaytonviIle, Westport
Coyelo. Cummings, Bells Springs. Harriz Hub
bard. Fruitland, DyerviIle. Garbervfne Pepper
wood, Camp 8, Scotia and Eureka
GENERAL OFFICE.
JAMES FLOOD BUILDING. SAN FRANCISCO.
JAS AGLER. General Msnager
4. K. RYAN. Gen. -PassepxeEs AaAy EPsiEhf AZ.
The San Francisco call., 1907-03-09

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800 Do. b so. 2 .35
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1000 Kendall, 8 10 81.
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Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14
THE REAL AUTHORITY

Ut is a matter of common knowledge
that many of the men who are at
n present in control of the great rail-
way systems of America likewise are
heavily interested in manufacturing
and other industries. AS such they are
extensive shippers of freight. 1t is
hardly within the bounds of reason to
presume that they will voluntarily sur
render the great advantage they now
possess. an advantage which has been
rapidly approaching exclusive control
of practically all of the great industries
of the country. On the other hand, we
may hardly anticipate that if they be
deprived of this advantage by acts of
the people and be still permitted to re-
will surrender to the will of the people
without first having made desperate
fight.
So long as railroads are owned and
controlled as now there will be endless
and sometimes futile warfare between
the owners of the roads and the people.
History proves that the people are sell
dom sufficiently aroused to correct a
great evil until. through it, their suffer-
ings have been brought to an acute
stage. When existing transportation
abuses are corrected, under such laws
as we have, those in control of the rail-
roads will ultimately endeavor to re-
establish those abuses, and, history
once more repeating itself, the people
probably will make very little effort to
prevent a recurrence of menacing con-
ditions until they have again been made
to suffer through excessive or discrim-
NATIVE rates.
Under present conditions many rail-
roads, notably the Southern Pacific,
maintain political bureaus which dis
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14
SINISTER SOL
kkTT IOLENT magnetic disturbances
" resulting in storms. foods, vol
canic eruptionS and earth
regime.

kkTT IOLENT magnetic disturbances
" resulting in storms, foods, vol
canic eruptions and earth
quakes" are predicted by Florentine
astronomer as the result of the in
fiuence of the great spots upon the sun,
which he calculates to be about twelve
times the size of the earth. These ter
restrial disturbances are due, according
to his prophecy, about the middle of the
present month.
If a warning of this nature should
come from a source other than one
which has proven reliable In the past
the world would not give it second
thought; but Signor Albanian, director
Of the observatory at Florence, who
makes this prediction, has record for
persuading nature to make good" at
his command.
We shall await the passing of the
critical period with proper trepidation,
therefore, though hoping that for once
Albanian has slipped a cog. We have
enough troubles of our own. We wish
that old Sol would attend to his own
business and not inflict his spottishness
upon his inoffensive neighhors.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14

burse enormous sums of money for the
purpose of influencing, even controlling.
legislation and the administration of
the law. In attempting to justify their
actions they declare that on account of
the hostility of the public they must
see that men who are not unfriendly to
their interests are chosen to Office. The
logical conclusion is that these rail-
roads believe they must be and con-
tinue to be in political control, espe-
cially in those states and cities where
their interests are greatest.
If the contentious of the railroads are
correct and If they are justified in their
course, there is nothing left to conclude
but that the American nation has adj
vanced as far industrially on the lines
we have been following as it can pro-
ceed without abandoning a republican
form of government. 1t is very evil
oent that if the railroads are in control
politically the people are not, and if the
people are not in control our vaunted
republican form of government is
nothing but a farce.
Therefore, if to preserve the value of
their property the owners of railroads
find that they must remain the para
mount influence in politics, has not the
time arrived when the ownership of
these roads shall undergo enough of a
change to enable the people once more
to control the politics Of the country,
thus re-establishing republican form
of government in fact as well as in
name?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
SEE STATES PAGE FOR ALL THE NEWS
FROM YOUR OLD HOME
OBSTINATE HARTMAN

MFR. HARTMAN still maintains
lVH that the Interstate commerce
49, commission was offensive and
1mpertinent when it undertook to ascer-
tain through inquiry of him whether
he had taken advantage of his fore
knowledge regarding prospective Union
Pacific or Southern Pacific dividends
to beat the vulgar public in the race for
the stocks of either of those companies.
The interstate commerce commission
raises the point that it had the right to
inquire of Mr.. Hartman whether he
had been dealing, in the manner indi-
Gated, in stocks of his own company
and whether such stocks were pur-
chased by a pool for the purpose of SELL
ing them to the Union Pacific, in order
that it might arrive at such a degree
of understanding in the matter as to
enable it to recommend to congress the
enactment of legislation prohibiting the
acquisition of stocks of one railroad
company by another railroad company.
Upon the decision of the courts as to
whether railroad officials must disclose
such of their acts as have a bearing
upon stock transactions in which so
serious matter is involved hangs a
most important issue, vitality affecting
the principles underlying federal regu-
lation Of commerce. The important
question appears to be whether Mr..
Hartman and his friends, as individ-
uals, desired to take advantage of a
prospective-even certain-rise in the
price of specified stocks, and whether
railroad officials may conspire to secure
the chief advantage incident to great
fluctuations in the market prices of
securities of this class. But the great
issue appears to be whether, through
Vaccinations of this sort, the director
ate of one railroad may be allowed, as
combination of individuals, to control
the stock of another especially
when that other railroad may be COM
petitor.
We think Mr.. Hartman will answer
those questions.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14

to final determination before the courts
In order that his duty in this particular
may be the more quickly and thorough
ly discharged without withdrawing toe
much of his attention from the graft
prosecutions, Mr.. Langdon should Sc
lect a deputy, who should be clothed
with full power in the premises, under
general direction of the district at
torney.
Furthermore, the prosecution should
not begin and end at San Francisco
Right here in Los Angeles the prose-
cutting officers and long-suffering ship
pers should get together and produce
evidence sufficient to constitute cause
of action. With the initiatory awaken
ing of the state railroad commissioners
should come an arousing throughout
the state, to the end that the discovery
of the legal remedies against rebating
--as discovered by Mr.. Thomas E. Glib
bon of the Los Angeles Herald-shal
be promptly and strictly enforced
against the offending railway company
in all sections of this commonwealth.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14
IS 1T NECESSARY?

THERE is room for grave question
as to whether Governor Gillett will
II be following out judicious policy
ii he issue a call for an extraordinary
session of the state legislature If the
leading bankers and the treasurers Of
the counties of California should get
together Immediately they doubtless
could devise a plan that would solve
the exigency that has arisen as the
time.
Nobody will raise any question as to
the presence in this state of enough
money to enable the inhabitants to pay
their taxes. Not only this but there ls
available an ample supply of bonds
which. under the law, may be deposited
with the state treasurer or with county
treasurers as security for cash. If such
cash as Is found to be available be
turned over to the tax collectors in
liquidation of the claims of the various
counties against taxable property and
at once deposited with the banks or
RENTED to the states treasury and
thence turned into the vaults of the
banks, all this with as little delay as
possible, will not the actual cash on
hand be found ample for present needs?
A special session of any legislature,
and particularly of the legislature OF
California as at present constituted,
should be the last resort of helpless
people, the fruit of an emergency pos
sible of relief in no other way. If the
people of this state had an Astounding
faith in the integrity and sagacity of
their law-making body they might be
willing to strain a point in order that
the apprehensions of timid persons
might be allayed, regardless of the ex-
pense incident to the adoption of
measures for allaying nervousness. But
the fact is that the less opportunity for
mischief making the present Legislature
has the safer the great majority of peo-
pie will feel.
If Governor Gillett persist in his ap-
apparent determination to issue that
summons. let him so phrase his call,
under any circumstances, that the leg
islature will have no authority to act
upon any matter excepting that of ad-
justing the problem of the payment of
taxes. Now that the railroad commits
sioners have indicated a disposition to
initiate measures for the prosecution of
the Southern Pacific for the crime of
rebating there seems to be no other
reason, excepting possibly the main
motive actuating the governor, why
the assembly should be convoked. At
any rate the governor will do well to
deliberate carefully over the necessities
Of the occasion before he publish a call.
He should be sure he is right before he
goes ahead.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14
COST OF GOOD ROADS

nESPONDING to an inquiry regard
IL ing the actual cost of good roads
- in Indiana and their quality,
Municipal Engineering publishes sta
tistics showing that gravel roads in
Indiana cost from $1,000 to $4,000 a mile
and average 1895 in twenty-one coun
ties, and that macadam roads cost $500
to $4,000 and average $24O2 mile. In
1904 Indiana spent $2,5095s7 for building
1895 miles Of new roads; o. $244S mile.
State Geologist Blatchley has collected
and published statistics on 6S.2S5 miles
of roads in the state, of which 2S, ,937
miles have been improved, 2O,5S2 with
gravel and 1855 with stone. He gives
the average cost of all gravel roads as
s14Os and Of stone roads $2221 a mile,
the average of all being $1507.
Municipal Engineering, one of the
most eminent authorities on this ques-
tion in America, commends the Indiana
system, which 1t says produces reason
ably good roads in large number at low
unit cost. Indiana spends as much
money on road building as any other
state, with perhaps two or three excep-
tions. but it has much more reasonably
good roadway to show for it than most
states have.
Los Angeles county will spend prob
ably four times as much per mile for
the new roads in prospect here, If the
voters decide upon a bond issue and
the plans of the highway commission
be worked out, but when the task is
completed we shall be able to show 800
miles of the finest permanent rural
highways in the world.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14
TwENTY-E1oHT YEARS

NOR twenty-eight years the people
OF California have had within
their reach a weapon with which,
at any time during that period, they
might have compelled the Southern
Pacific or any other railroad transact-
ing business within the borders of the
state to treat all it's patrons, whether
In the freight or passenger depart
ment, on an equal basis.
For twenty-eight years the supreme
and immutable law Of the state has
contained provisions prohibiting the
giving of discriminatory rates, impos-
ing upon the state railroad commission
the duty of arranging and publishing
schedules Of freight and passenger
tariffs for the guidance Of all railroads
and of proceeding through the courts
for the enforcement Of it's regulations
and the punishment of railroads., their
officials, agents or employees who might
be adjudged guilty of rebating.
For twenty-eight years no attention
whatever has been paid to the man
datory provisions Of this law-not the
creation of a legislature, and therefore
liable to changes of all sorts; not an
ordinance susceptible of being beaten
and hammered and twisted out Of
shape, even annihilated, at the behest
of the very institution for whose con-
troll it was adopted by long-suffering
people, long-suffering even so far back
as 1879, but part Of the constitution
created In that year.
For twenty-eight years every rail-
road has been cognizant of these pro-
visions, has comprehended their unal-
terable character; but, oddly enough,
few lawyers engaged in general practice
have been aware of their existence, and
the members of the various railroad
commissions therefore should not be too
roughly criticised for being unfamiliar
with the tremendous power conferred
upon them.
The discovery by The Herald of
musty sections 21 and 22 of article 12
of the constitution and the efforts of
this paper to impress upon the men,
bers of the state railroad commission
a sense of their duty to themselves
and to the state have borne fruit. These
officials have announced that they will
secure from Washington a transcript
of the evidence of the Southern Pacific's
submitted to the interstate
commerce commission not long since,
and initiate proceedings in the courts
for the punishment of those railroads
whose guilt may be established In the
regular way.
Twenty-eight years! 1t has been
long time; the burden has become al
most intolerable. But If the railroad
commission now keep faith with the
people and bring to stern accounting
the self-confessed criminal the South
ern Pacific, and any other guilty COM
mon carrier, it will have been we'll
worth waiting for. And incidentally,
the commission will blot out many
pages of the old score which the people
have held against it. This one great
act will oounterbalanee the long years
full of minor shortcomings, provided
it marks but the first step in a new
regime.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14

The chief engineer of the United
States army has recommended an ap-
preparation of 100000 for work upon
the proposed deep water harbor at San
Pedro, an equal amount for San Luis
Obispo harbor and round quarter of
a million for Oakland harbor. Let us
be duly thankful for even the smallest
fayors
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14

"The shortest life is the purest and
best" sings one of the editorial writers
of the Baltimore American. There is
no middle ground underneath this SEN
timent. The man who penned it, de-
pend upon 1t, is under 20 or over 80.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14

DR.. Wiley, the expert on the nutritive
value of foods (and drinks) may not be
partisan prohibitionist, but he is a
mighty valuable fungoid growth upon
the policies of that party. He furnishes
the why's and wherefores.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14

The hoboes and crooks who have
honored Los Angeles with their pres
ence are getting the reception to which
their activities in other fields entitle
them. To the stone pile with themi
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14

Switzerland is going to increase her
army. The republic in the Alps has
about as much use for an army as for
a navy. Her splendid Fairbankian iso-
lation and her cheese factories afford
her all the protection she needs.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14
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Los Angeles herald., 1907-11-14
THE HERALD's VICTORY

A IL over California the press
~ is awakening to the impor-
tance of the achievement
of The Los Angeles Herald in
bringing about the impending
prosecution of the railways ope-
rating in this state. The Evening
Express last night printed the fol-
lowing editorial:
SOUTHERN PACIFIC REBATES
The action of the state railroad COM
missioners of California in announcing
their determination to take cognizance
of the violations of law by the Southern
Pacific Railroad company in the grant,
the enthusiastic approval of all good
citizens, who will give to the commits
sioners not only their commendation,
but likewise their material assistance
When the Southern Pacific confessed
to granting rebates at the inquiry held
in San Francisco by Franklin X. Lane
| it acted upon the belief that the inter
state commerce commission had nc
power to punish for offenses committed
by that company in connection with
state business, and it presumed that
the state railroad commission of Cali
fornia would hardly dare to take official
notice of the confession.
But the commissioners have at last
taken up the challenge and have sent
to Washington for a transcript of the
record in the inquiry referred to,
whereby they may place the matter in
shape for prosecution.
At the outset of this important move-
ment the state commissioners are ad-
vised that the cases should be prose-
cuted in the county or counties where
the crimes were committed. The con-
fession recorded at Mr.. Lanes inves-
tigation involves offenses committed in
the city of San Francisco. Such being
the fact, the duty of prosecuting will
undoubtedly fall upon District Attorney
Langdon, whom the people trust and
who they believe will press the causes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-24

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-24
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT. .
Real Estate Dealer Accused Of Striking
Madame Perreard

Charged with making an assault on
Madame Alice Perreard, wife CT the pro-
prietor Of a French restaurant on E street
northwest. Benjamin Minor, a real estate
dealer. 621 18th street northwest, was ar
rested yesterday by Policeman Garrison
of the first precinct and put up $50 COL
lateral for his appearance in the Police
Court this morning to answer the assault
charge. AS Madame Perreard, according
to her physician, is still suffering from the
shock and unable to appear in court to-
day the trial was continued by Prosecuting
Attorney Ralph Given until next Tuesday.
Madame Perreard stated to Prosecuting
Attorney Given that she had leen struck
violently in the face by Minor Wednesday
last. According to her explanation she was
In the yestibule of her husbands place of
business on E street Wednesday, when
Minor met her and began accusing her of
interfering In his family affairs. Madame
Perreard denied the accusation, and, she
says. Minor became excited and finally
struck her In the face.
After she had recovered somewhat from
the blow she went to the Police Court and
procured warrant for her alleged assail-
ant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-24
OFFER FOR REALTY.
Possible Sale of the Halls Of the An
cionfa Droror%x1

Mr.. Charles P. Stone, of the Stone & Fair
fax Real Estate Company is authority for
the statement that an offer has been made
to buy the property formerly known as the
Hall of the Ancients. and situated on the
south side Of New York avenue about where
II street joins that thoroughfare. The
frontage is about eighty feet. and the area
about 1850 square feet. The consideration
mentioned is about $4,000. or nearly so
per square foot
Mr.. Stone. in connection with Mr. Fair
fax and Mr.. Wardman. are the owners of
the property. He says he does not know
who the proposed purchasers of the prop
erty are or what their purpose is, but he
thinks they are merely buying for a specu-
lation. As the sum mentioned is about the
price asked for the property, it is inferred
the Offer will be accepted although Mr.
Stone said today that no definite conclusion
had been thus far reached.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-24
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-24
Celebration Of anniversary.

The members of Union Tent OF Rechabites
are preparing TO celebrate the twenty-eighth
anniversary of the formation of the tent
Mr.. J. H. Loyeless. a veteran Rechabite, Is
taking an active part in arranging the pro-
gram for the complimentary affair." which is
announced to take place the evening of
June II. at the hall. 623 Louisiana avenue.
He says there viii be literary and musical
entertainment and refreshments. Speakers
will tell of the early days OF Rechabism
and the good the order has accomplished
along moral suasiOn lines
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-24
WILLIAM REINBURG DEAD.
Employee Of Government Printing Office
Suddenly Expires,

Mr.. William Reinburg, an employee of the
government printing Office. as announced
in The Star, died very suddenly of acute
indigestion while at his desk yesterday. Mr.
Reinburg has been a lifelong resident Of
Washington, was known as a man Of un
Improbable character and held in the
highest esteem by a host OF friends, t.
whom his death yesterday came as a great
shock. The deceased was brother Of
John Reinburg and Of the late Louis Rein.
burg, both of this city. and brother-in-
law of ex-Gov. Arthur L. Thomas of Utah
His wife and six children survive him.
The funeral win occur tomorrow at 3:3
pm Interment will be in Congressional
cemetery.