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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25
MORBID sENTIMENTALITY

ON Monday last, in the United States
district court In San Francisco, j.
~ A. Benson and DR.. E. B. Perrin
were found guilty by a jury of the
crime Of conspiracy to defraud the
United States government, in securing
$4,000 acres of public land in Tehama
county. So clear and unmistakable was
the proof OF guilt that the jury reached
a verdict In one hour, and yet morbid
sentimentality showered condolences on
these land sharks as soon as 1t was
read; even the Associated Press re-
porter recording the fact
Dr. Perrin took the verdict very hard
and was comforted by his two sons.
Benson appeared to be dumfounded at
the result. The punishment provided
by the statute is fine of not less than
$1,000 nor more than $4,000, the impris-
onment for not less than two years.
Testimony was introduced to prove
these men deliberately gained title UNI
lawfully to this great holding and, in
cidentally, to other great holdings not
included in the case at bar, conspiring
to rob the government and enrich them
selves by the trickery of experts In such
nefarious work.
Any normally constituted man, for
the instant realizing the magnitude of
the punishment and the indellible dis
grace attendant on such conviction,
will feel prompting of pity for any
man fallen so low, but second thought
will present to him the enormity of the
crime and it's added perfidy through
the wealth and education of the con-
victed men. They had no tenable ex-
cuse in morals or law and were over
mastered by a greed as sordid and I'M
scrupulous as is that of the man who,
with a gun, robs the wayfarer, but
lacking the physical courage of the
latter.
The great northwest country is
spotted with thousands of such fraudu-
lent claims, and in numerous instances
poor men have been bereft of homes
and business and left helpless for re-
dress. The late Senator Mitchell of
Oregon was guilty of cognate mall
feasance, and would have ended his life
in a prison but for the fact of his un-
timely decease. Scores of wealthy and
educated men all over the country are
on the books of the government for
for kindred crimes, and
but for such convictions and resulting
the only limit to their
would be the greed and
ra ma citv of si1ch as thew
The poor and friendless squatter or
unlawful intruder on government do
main for crime similar in kind though
infinitely less in degree is Jailed and no
or pity is felt or ex-
pressed, all of which is right; then why
should these wealthy and educated ras-
,als, lawfully convicted of crime, re-
,eive a morbid pity not given the poorer
nan? 1t should be the boast of Ameri-
,ans that 1.-The way of the transgressor
S hard" to rich or poor alike.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25
TAKING A. FLYER

The secretary of an eastern company
that some time ago was anxious to pur-
chase a silver-lead mine in the northwest
tells of an amusing incident in the nego-
tiationse for its purchase.
AS the ore assayed well and everything
looked propitious, a mining expert was
sent to examine the mine His report was
Favorable too favorable in fact, and
aroused the suspicious of the would-be
purchasers; SO it was determined to M
yestigate more closely
AT this point we'll known mining man
of Butte recommended that certain
ough-and-ready genius should be sent TO
look at the mine. you can depend upon
his judgment" the mining man SAID.
you can trust to his report, which, In All
probability, will be brief and very mucn
to the point" ,,z
The advice was followed. AS predicted,
the report was short and pithy. 1t read
substantially as follows:
"Gents-I have made an examination OF
the x mine and report that the ore is
there as represented; that 1t assays hlgh;
that 1t is there in plenty; but to get your
supplies in and your ore out you Will
need a pack train of bald eagles. liar
per's Weekly
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25
MEXICAN CRIMINALS

HE arrest of Magon, Revira, VIII
Trial and Diaz. Mexican criminals,
= In Los Angeles, resulting from in
formation of their presence and work
given In The Herald recently, is a
matter of international Importance.
Prompt to follow the clew given by
The Herald. the Mexican authorities
compassed the arrest of the conspira-
tors and Mexican law, by virtue of the
extradition laws existing, will deal with
them.
Latin-American republics have been
cursed with just such Adventures as
these men are known to be for hun
dred years or more, and all their
troubled history, so black with murder,
sacking, pillage and reigns of terror,
may be traced to the individual jeal-
ousy of such malcontents. The men
in question. right or wrong in their
undertakings, deliberately plotted
reasonable acts against their govern
ment on United States soil, using their
right of asylum here to attempt the
overthrow of sister republic with
which we are not only at peace, but
with which we have, and seek to con-
tinue, the most amicable relations,
commercially and socially. For these
outrageous abuses of the right of asy-
lum, and for the crimes with which
they stand charged, it is matter for
public gratitude that these criminals
have been detected and arrested.
TV, he 10 hxr
people in the past fifty years the
always questionable harboring of mall
contents, as a sop to our worship of
freedom, has been dropped, and a just
and due regard for the rights of sister
republics has come to be the bright
policy of our government officially and
of our people individually. This is as
it should be, and If the day should
ever come that malcontents from our
side of the line sought Mexican ter
ritory, there to plot reasonable acts
against us, it is certain President Diaz
and the Mexican people would COM
pass their arrest and return them here
for legal disposition.
The Herald knows nothing but by
hearsay of the guilt or innocence of
these men, but the fact that they have
been outlawed with a price set upon
their heads is good evidence they have
been guilty of crime against the Mex
lean government, and that they have
been stopped from further conspiracy
against that government on United
States territory is cause for congrat-
ulation, and should be a warning to
all men of all nations that United
States territory may not be used to
nurse treason against any people.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25
THE REPUBLICAN JONAH

II EMOCRATS throughout the entire
state are indignant over the at
IL tempt of Republicans to foist
discredited boss on the party which
has steadily opposed the Vaccinations
of that arch conspirator against public
welfare William F. Herrin. Was Her
rim a Democrat a brief week ago when
he voted for the Republican delegates
TT the San Francisco primaries?
Where has he dared attempt to control
Democratic caucuses or conventions?
Where is there a Republican gathering
that his fiduciaries are not in evidence?
For years Herrin and his cohorts
have hung like vultures over Repub-
lican caucuses and primaries and their
baleful influence has been felt every
where men gathered in California to
select legislative or executive officials.
To label Herrin a Democrat is to offer
a gratuitous insult to every member
of party which has unswervingly
advocated honest government of, for
and by the people instead of. by and
for the Southern Pacific railway. Let
the Lincoln Roosevelt league orators
spout their rodomontade; let them
drive the corrupt bosses from their
ranks; but the Democratic party re-
serves the right to say with whom 1t
shall consort For years the Repub-
lican party of California has either
been in open collision with the cor
poration which has bled producers and
consumers alike or has been a supine
spectator to the spoliation of the peo-
pie. Now that the revolt is inevitable
the Republican party seeks cover, and
like the Galileans of old they desire
to cast their Jonah overheard. 1t is
not likely the modern son of Amittai,
who has long prophesied victories for
Jeroboams will seek refuge
where he knows his welcome would
be like unto that of an Assyrian at
a feast of Israel. Be that as 1t may,
the Democratic leviathan has no ap-
petite for, nor hope of, assimilation
Of such an unsavory morsel.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

said conventions list of charges, long
as the years they cover and black as
the mercenary purposes they have
been made to serve, will be hurled at
the big stick brigade by an out
ragged people under the aegis of united
Democracy, resulting in national
overthrow of the whole fabric of dis
credited Republicanism, and bringing
the people and government back to the
grand old constitution and laws of our
fathers, piIoted thereto and served
therein by the Democratic party.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25
FOOTPRINTS

oh, pretty little footsteps laid,
So neatly the smooth-swept shore,
Now, was 1t widow. wife maid.
Who firmly paced these levels DER?
pause, and muse. and wish l knew
Just who, hereon, had printed you!
Hers was no fitful careless pace,
She kept the tenor OF her way
Onward, with sure and steadfast grace
AS one, who could not err, nor stray.
Nor deviate to left or right
From the fair goal she had In sight.
Oh lovely one, from these slim feet,
i've planned and, built you tall and 1.-THE,
OF charming stature-youthfu sweet.
Modest and kind, bright haired and blithe,
And yet-perchance, 1t might befall
You're not that sort Of girl at ALI
So, what's the use? You're gone your way,
And had we met. and loved, and wed,
Not one word, dear. of this I'd say
Nor notice where your boot might tread;
These rhymes I'm writing, just you see,
Because you are not known to me7
Puck
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

Enemies of the initiative, referen-
dunn and recall provisions of the city
charter could ask nothing better than
the employment of the referendum
section to compel vote on the Sunday
closing of theaters. Such proposed
freak legislation should have no place
In a city like Los Angeles, and the
compulsory submission Of this blue law
exaction to the votes of the people,
with all the attendant expenses of a
special election, is calculated, among
the unthinking, to bring into disrepute
the governmental machinery that
makes such contingency possible.
Even the wisest laws may be misused
and should the referendum be invoked
in this matter Los Angeles will witness
remarkably pat" instance of that
fact.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25
HISTORY WRITTEN IN REGISTER

Aside from its prominence as hosiery,
at one time the most famous and fash
ionable in the metropolis and bearing on
its register of guests the names of most
of the distinguished men and women.
native and foreign, who ever visited the
city or lived in 1t, the Fifth Avenue
hotel-now doomed to demolition-will
hold a place of it's own in the annals
of the times as a birthplace of history
"a trustworthy statistician," says
writer in Harper's Weekly, has calcu-
lated that no other single hotel in the
world has ever entertained so many
eminent. persons as have been received
at the Fifth Avenue, and asserts that.
beginning with the Prince of Wales
(now King Edwar6 in 1860, year after
the hotel was opened, a never-ending pro-
cession of the great men OF this ana
OTTER countries has marched through Its
Corridors
Every president of the United States
since the hotel opened beginning with
Lincoln and including johnson, Grant,
Hayes, Garfield. Arthur, Cleveland Har-
rison and Mckinley, but excepting
Roosevelt, has been a guest of the Firth
Avenue during his term of office.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25
SCHOOL DAYS

A FEW DAYS and the school bells
N of Los Angeles will summon into
IA activity the younger life of the
city, and parents will again face the
responsibility of seeing their children
fitted for the battle of life, too soon,
in many cases, to come to them. A
little self examination on this deeply
interesting head may be beneficial.
What, If any, steps, father, have
you taken to help your boys and girls
to obtain the best results from the
coming school year? Have you gone
over the questions Of clothing, books,
home studies and methods of sanely
dividing the time between study and
recreation? Have you knowledge of
the fact whether your child's teacher
is man or woman; whether the school
building is one, two or six stories high;
whether the boys or girls outfit is
complete; whether either or both are
fitted to begin the year in clearly
dress and comfortable fashion?
OF course these are, mainly, things
that fall to a mothers supervision,
cannot attend to them. you think; but
1t is mean in you even to think so.
Some day when age saddles your use
fulness and want stares you In the
face, and the boy who might have
helped you is "braking" on railroad
in some other state, living from hand
to mouth, from year to year, because
of his inability to rise above the level
of unskilled labor, your great need
may drive you to retrospective
glance at his youth, and to see your
criminal folly in neutrality-suspicious.
him TO waste the precious years of
school life, because you took no in
terest in his work,
Courts have sentenced and prisons
hold today hundreds of what could and
should have been helpful lives but for
parental neglect in the school period.
Los Angeles offers freely all that the
great American nation gives to public
scholars; the finest of buildings, ablest
of teachers, the fullest equipment and
all the money to continue these helps
throughout the year. You are asked
only to fit your children to take adj
vantage of these great blessings, and
the vital question is, have you done
this?
The present year, like all before 1t
and all to come, will graduate classes
in the several grades and some schol-
airs will fail to pass. Maybe your
children will be of that number and
YOU will rise in wrath and condemn
all who have to do with our schools
because of it. 1t will never occur to
your obtuse mind that you were direct
Ily the cause OF 1t; that you aided and
abetted their failure by neglecting
them and their school work altogether;
yet it will be the truth.
Yes, the nation needs tariff revision
and trust busting and the defeat of
the men and measures that made these
great wrongs possible-the nation sadly
needs these things; and your earnest
advocacy of them among the boys
does great credit to your patriotism,
but the nation needs far more keenly
men who will rise to the task of fitting
their children to meet the demands OF
future years, and to see that so far
as they can do 1t. their children are
educated to meet that end, The school
bells will ring in a few days to call
you to that duty; are you prepared?
In the coming days, as in the past
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25
MY SOUL

MY soul stood barred to the sight of men,
My soul stood Arm; 1t knew no fear,
For the blame of man could not be just,
The mind Of man could not understand.
NV soul stood bare in the sight Of child,
4 stood condemned; for II stool perceived,
For the blame of child is the blame of
Truth,
Tho the heart OF a child may not understand.
My soul stood bare in the sight OF God,
And my soul rejoiced in its helplessness,
Tor the blame OF God was forgiveness;
The mercy of God could understand.
-E p. Gilchrist in Harper's Weekly
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

the ignorant man, except in rare in
stances, must forego all the grand
opportunities to advance, so common
in business and professional life, and
the time to insure your children
against this calamitous condition is
now; so awaken to the opportunity of
school days for them, nor leave them
the unholy legacy of a forced bondage
to hard and ill-paid labor
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

Residents OF this glorious climate of
California who have so far sought an
increase in avoirdupois UNNECESSARILY
may cheer up. The American Press
Humorists hold their ''1okefest" here
next month, with "Eli Perkins," Ed
mund Vance Cook, Charles BatteIl
Loomis and other famous punsters in
attendance. Remember the Laugh
and grow fat" prescription. and attend
the doings.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

Hon. Marcus A. Smith says he will
make another try for statehood for
Arizona. He fears only the big stick
Mark hasn't learned that it's only a
nOica
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

In the superior court yesterday Judge
Bordwell affirmed the decision of DR..
Stork and gave Donald Lloyd Ryerson
Mcdonald, nine-weeks-old baby, into
the legal custody of his mother.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

Timothy Woodruff's friends are pre-
pairing boom for him as running
mate for Taft. The addition of the
prince of fancy vests to the ticket will
do much to add to the gayety of
nations.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

Humane Officer R. w. Reynolds
thought peter Pan" all right, but
objects to 1.-THE Prince Chap" AS a
dramatic censor Reynolds often re-
minds one of Umpire Kelley on an off
day.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

If the sporting editors knew their
business they would dig up some wo-
man tennis champion, not a member
of the Sutton family, and exploit her
as q freak.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

The spectacle of Wall street banker
appearing as apologist for the president
would seem to prove that the silly sea-
son is still on in New York.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

Here's a Jerseyite who will get his
right away from Washington: "Uncle
Billy" Waring of the skeeter state
says he can forecast the weather by
the curl or lack of it in the tails Of
his hogs.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

Lest we forget. it will soon be in
order for beach wits with long MEM
cries to repeat that old joke about
society going to the dogs.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

The Japanese and Russian govern
ments have decided to raise their re-
spective legations at st. Petersburg
and Toxic to the rank of embassies.
The dove cotes on the roofs, however,
will not be disturbed.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

At last one of the higher up bribe-
givers has been sentenced to a term in
prison. This proves that the mills Of
the gods do grind
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

Congressman Mccall Of Massachu-
sets says we are liable some day to
have a president who is "egotistic,
impulsive, of immature judgment and
a limelight glutton for momentary
applause" Does he mean some day
in August, 1907?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

Government has at last decided to
haul down the flag in the Philippines;
the Katipunan flag, not the stars and
stripes.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

San Francisco's new chief of police
looks like a college professor. There
is nothing Of the long hair about
him, however. In fact he is almost
bald.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25
Life Savers Lead Active Lives

Members of Crews in Governments Heroic Serv-
ice Forced to DEill Daily and Keep in First Class
Physical Training, Prepared for Most Ardous and
Hazardous Duties
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

The grand jury is in session again
at San Francisco. Why the members
ever adjourned is a question.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25
Ocean Swells Do the Work
Our Stockholders Make the Money

,.o. ouast,or of MOTOR TRANSMurrs
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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-25

The curious thing about this Mo-
rocco situation is that Kaiser Wilhelm
has shown no disposition to butt in.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-12-23
NORTH SGITUkTE

This afternoon at o'clock In the pres
ence OF parents and invited guests under
direction OF the teacher Miss B. e. Dus-
ton the following program was rendered
at Glenford school:
Singing. invitation. school, welcome,
Leslie Lowell: exercise, four boys or
Fourth grade: "Elsies Xmas Dream.
Bessie Steere: organ solo, Addie stone:
''If I Were SANTA" Allen Campbell: ex-
ercise. Louise Potter and Leslie Lowell;
recitation. Beatrice Lowell; lullaby song.
girls in First grade; BRIDES Breakfast.
Everett Spencer: exercise. what the
Mother Goose Children Want for Xmas.
II children; singing. Jack Frost school; /;
"Johnnys Letter" Evelyn Bowen; exer-
else. Charles Grattage and Russell Perry;
singing, "In the Land OF Somewhere.
school, "Santas Fright Raymond
Peck: Holly and Mistletoe." Addie stone
and Bessie Moore; ''The Evergreen Tree.
Gladys Bardcn song. girls In Third
grade: "Christmas Bells" Burton Tap
ner: exercise, Emily Spencer Irene Tap
ner Louise Potter. Martha Page; Why
Santa Laughed" Lottie Kettell: The
Kittens Xmas" Everett Hopkins au-
tumn feat song: santa Claus" William
Parker: "If Were Santa Claus" Leila
Bowen: singing, Merry Christmas
Bells" school: Getting Ready for
Santa" Evelyn Bowen; exercise. Fourth
grade: singing, christmas Bells.
| school.
Following this tree bearing SONS
gft for each Of tho - little people was
unlcaded.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-12-23
State NATIONAL,
NEW ORLEANS,
IS SOLVENT

New Orleans, Dec. 23.-At a late hour
last night the New Orleans Clearing
House association issued an announce
ment that the committee from that ora
ganization which had made a thorough
examination of the resources and llabil-
ties OF the states National bank of this
city, had found the bank absolutely sol
vent and that the New Orleans Clearing
House association would render the bank
any assistance II might need.
The examination was made at the re-
quest OF the officers OF the state National
bank who said that they wished the con-
dition OF their institution officially passed
on.
The state National bank has capital
stock paid in OF 100000; a surplus fund OF
100000, and undivided profits amounting
to SG4. .O92 49, Its last statement was issued
at the close of business on Dec. g. when
il was stated that outside OF the amounts
subject TO check OF other national and
state banks. there were liabilities TO for
eign banks amounting to S17,S6 The
bank is one OF the oldest institutions of
its kind in the city. being successor to
the Louisiana state bank founded I'm 1915
In a statement given out last night,
President f. II. Thornton OF tho Neal
bank. said the bank had been forced to
suspend because OF rumors which had
been put i'm circulation regarding the In
stitution's solvcncy.
These rumors' he said, while not
true. resulted in run which made II nee
essary 10 close the doors OF the bank
until an investigation could he had.
III believe that every deposition VIII get
dollar for dollar.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-12-23
A. \. JACKsON's
BODY RECOVERED
At PAWTUXET

The body of Albert II. Jackson, the un-
fortunate young man. who was drowned
I'm the water at the base Of Pawtuxet
Falls Saturday. was recovered yesterday
morning at about 10 o'clock.
The rescuers were the police authori-
ties OF Cranston and Warwick, together
with large number OF volunteers. in
cluding Capt Alonzo Crandall, Charles
III. Johnson. Edward Williams. John G.
Nevill. Charles Gorton, FRED Brownell
and James Miller.
Early Sunday morning Chief OF Police
John Bigbee OF Cranston and Chief An
drews OF Warwick. met near the scene Of
the fatality and arranged plan for the
releasing OF the young mans body. which
was caught In ths- rocks near the falls ,
A large oyster skiff. manned by several
OF the rescuers. was slowly guided To the
point where the body was supposed TO be
lying. When near the spot the occu-
pants of the skin, by means OF a grap-
pling hook located the position of the
body and attempted TO pull II from the
rocks by means of a line that had been
thrown around the body.
The efforts were in vain the body be-
ing held as in a wise. Finally, while the
body was lifted with the me an oar was
used. and the foot which was held be-
tween the rocks was prled out with an
oar. The body was then released and
taken To the shore, where IL was given
over TO Undertaken j. VIII Carpenter
Albert III. Jackson, the unfortunate VIC
tim OF Saturdays fatality was but
young man. being scarcely % years OF
age. He was we'll known and a member
OF the Y. NJ G.. A. and the Red Cross
society OF the Church OF the Messiah. He
was employed as bookeeper in one Of the
Olneyviile mills. Last summer he spent
considerable time in canoeing on the
Pawtuxet and was considered an adept
at rowing. The upsetting OF the canoe
i'm which Mr.. Jackson was padding with
two friends, was caused by the unusually
swift current of water, which was the re-
suit of the melting OF the recent snow.