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Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24
MAGGIE SPRlNTS WELL
TO EVADE BRUINS HUGS
BULLDOG AND BEAR HAVE HARD
FIGHT
Canine Saves the Girls Life and Bear
May Die as Result of His
UngentIemanly
Conduct

NEW YORK, Aug. 23.-This is story
of a bear, a girl and dog. 1t all hap
pened in the rear yard of the home OF
James j. Claire at II Ely avenue, Long
Island City. The bear MAJ die; the dog
will recover, while the girl is still suffer-
ing from fright.
The bear is a black one 1t was given to
Mr.. Claire about six months ago by some
sailors. Mr.. Claire is the proprietor of a
saloon on Monitor square, Long Island
City, and he found a home for the bear in
the back yard of his house. A cage was
built and there bruin has thrived until he
managed to escape yesterday afternoon.
The girl, whose name is Maggie, went
out to feed the bear, and the animal took
advantage of hte opportunity and got out
of the cage. Once free from confinement
the bear got gay and, rising on its hind
legs began TO waltz toward Maggie in
way all too familiar. Maggie made haste
to reach the other side of the yard,
and got there first, but the bear was not
far away. Maggie sped around the yard
shouting for help, while the bear also
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24

What field is here opened for the
men and women who give time, service
and money for the conversion of the
heather, to cry out against this un-
Christian and sordid position of the
Christian population of China-the
same conditions obtain in all treaty
ports-and bring the foreign element
in that country to see that if they are
not white DEVILS" as Chinese see them,
they are most emphatically wolves in
sleeps clothing, an offense to the
Christian world at large and menace
to the people who harbor them. Chris
tianity with an opium tax attachment
is an abomination, even to a Chinese.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24
Population of Los Angeles. 100000
DIscREDITED OFFICIAL

ERRY OMAN, discredited every
where and dismissed by public
- condemnation from the office of
chief of police of San Francisco. de-
servedly, as all men believe, took coun-
sci of discretion and saved the city
from much trouble and humiliation
thereby, peacefully handing over his
power and following the Dinan string
that led him back to his old pastures in
the detective bureau.
The Herald would be content with
this incomplete measure of retribution
for all the wrongs this man has caused
but for the final yelp, to wit: 81 leave
the Office of chief without, believe, a
single enemy in the department.
have been absolutely just and fair to
all of its members, and under the con-
ditions 1 do not think any other person
could have done better by the city of
San Francisco as chief of police than
l have"
This is so rank and absolutely false
that only the qualifying 'I think per-
mits it's repetition. OF all the men of
all political Affiliations that have helped
to blacken the good name of California
in the past two years this man Dinan
easily bears the palm for excellence of
output. Churlish, despotic, cunning.
conscious of the power behind him and
committed, body and soul, to the cause
of the criminal mayor and his allies, he
rode over every vestige of right and
connived at the wholesale defiance of
popular will, just now, by virtue of a
supreme court opinion, brought to
an end.
1t is well the 'I think was in his
declaration, for it is safe to claim that
outside of the interested few who used
his willing service to defend themselves
against outraged law no man in all the
land will agree that Jerry Dinan,
under the conditions" did his duty by
San Francisco.
Dinan's resignation takes a great
stumbling block from Mayor Taylor's
path and permits the reorganization of
the most vital need of the city-a dis
ciplined and reliable police force.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24

There should be nothing astonishing
about the statement that thousands of
dollars were lost to the city because no
effort was made to collect license fees
Scores of spookists who should pay the
regular assessment of SIS month into
the city treasury are brazenly practic-
ing their nefarious acts safe in the
knowledge that no effort will be made
to apprehend them. Aside from the
work done by the newspapers no move
has been made to bring these ghouls to
book.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24
PAYS FIFTY CENTS EACH
FOR IMPORTED FLEAS
"Doc" Buys Them from Steamship
Stewards to Train for Circus
Side Shows on the
Road Q

NEW YORK, Aug. 2S.-"Doc, the
flea trainer" as he is known to the
stewards of the North German Lloyd
steamship line, was elected from the
piers of the company in Hoboken yes
terday for retarding the work of the
men by his efforts to spur them on to
capture fleas for him
DOC" visits the piers every time a
vessel comes in with steerage passen-
gers and he pays the stewards fifty
cents each for good healthy fieas. Most
of the insects come from the steerage,
but DOC" willingly accepts those cap
tured in the first or second cabins.
The trainer teaches the insects to
perform in his flea circus and sends
troupes of them out on the road with
the side shows of circuses, etc. The
nimble little creatures have been a
source of revenue to DOC" for several
years. AS yet the government has not
imposed a tariff on fleas.
It is a well known fact TO entomolo-
gists that the American flea is not as
intelligent or lively as the imported
insect
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24
EXTINCT TELEGRAPHERS

WY HAT has become of all those
wv marvellous machines which have
w been invented from time to time
to relegate the telegraph operator to
the dim limbo of things that once were?
From year to year we have read of the
wondrous things that were to be
achieved right away by some appliance
which would transmit hundreds of
words a minute without sender or re-
ceiyer, at an infinitesimal cost to the
public. All that was required was some
one to take in the kilograms and the
dollars over the counter, turn them into
hopper and, presto! they are gone,
These stories have frequently been ac-
companied by portraits of fiercely POM
padoured inventors and line diagrams
of machines with wheels and cogs,
ratchets and pinions until the readers
head was in whirl. In the advertising
columns of the contemporaneous issue
one would find the royal road to fortune
through a modest purchase of stock in
the company which had set out to ex-
tinguish many blameless and estimable
teIegraphers. Then the public, like the
good thing it is, would buy and buy,
and the men who had heralded the
wondrous fabric would melt from view
and the easy public would forget about
it until some other great genius like
Marconi would fash across the horizon
of the semi-scientihc world and the
hotation of some more nicely engraved
stock certificates again engineered.
Now comes a group of these telegraph
persons, whom so many scintillating
intellects have sought to abolish with
their modicum of discomfort because,
forsooth, their average wage is less
than $50 a month, and tie up the whole
spiderweb system of wires until the
tickers from the Yukon to the ever
glades are as silent as the tomb
Where are all the telethings that have
been evolved from the brains of men
and foated by sharks who know there
really is "one born every minute?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24
POLITICAL RIDDLE
NoNGREssMAN MCCALL of Massa

~ NONGRESSMAN MCCALL of Massa-
chusetts, standing on the ground
~ made holy to the nation by Daniel
Webster's occupancy-Marshfiel Mass.
where Webster lived, and moved, and
wrote, and raised turnips (and Cain,
politically, as occasion required, pro-
posed the following conundrum for ma
tional edification yesterday:
'Why are not the old laws on cor
porations carried .out rather than new
ones demanded? When congress was
asked to confer upon a department of
the government power to fix railroad
rates there was then upon the statute
books and capable of effective enforce
ment the very law against rebates and
determinations under which the Stand
ard Oil concern was fined $29,0 ,000."
In the public excitement over the
good news of the punishment of Stand
ard Oil the average business man and
voter either forgot that fact or likely
did not know it, and in either case will
be disagreeably surprised to learn it
now. Why rate bill in care of the
federal government if laws now of
force can yield such returns?
Mr.. Mccall answers that the effect of
such rate bill would be to augment
executive power beyond all rational
limits and tend to centralize dangerous
power In the executives hands.
This answer meets public indorse-
ment, for evidences of such centraliza-
tion are scattered all over the acts OF
the Republican party. The nation is
facing grave questions in several south
ern states, based solely on the conflict
Of state and national rights, and while
they are in the ultimate to be decided
by the courts their effect is to retard
peace and good will and reopen past
grievances without any compensatine
good, Furthermore, national rate legis-
lation which would eliminate state lines
and state authority would contain q
more dangerous possibility than did the
famous "Dred Scott" case, and aside
from the question of national policy il
raised it would array sectional peoples
against each other and undo the worl
and results of history.
If we now have laws that can take 6
s29,OOo.OO0 fine from the Rockefeller
pocket for fixing rates to kill competi
tion why are not other offenders-th,
Alton. for instance-brought to bool
and made to answer? Is. it because o
the cry of a falling stock market? Il
it because of a concerted move to cen
tralize power In the federal govern
ment? Is 1t to create political capita
for the coming campaign? Is it to fl
the grip OF Republican rule on the peo
ple7 1t is surely one Of these; the vote
pays his money and takes his choice.
Congressman Mccall is hereby an,
hereon raised to the level of a publ
benefactor for this timely reminder t
the people, who in the meantime vii
begin to guess the riddle.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24
POOR CHRISTIANITY

-- -ISSIONARIES of all religious
Ia sects in China constantly deplore
N the natives hatred of white
devils" as all foreigners are classed
and called, and missionaries have
sought to overcome this racial trait by
inoculating the mass of Chinese with
the idea of returning good for evil,
hoping thus to win them from "wood
and stone'' idols. There have been
serious clashings between various
Christian bodies in the missionary
field, which have not strengthened the
respect of the heather for those con-
cerned in them; but the recent action
Of the foreign element in the city of
Shanghai, in the matter of the current
opium crusade, must do more to weak
en- missionary effort than all the quar-
rels of denominations combined could
do.
In response to a national movement
to do away with the sale of opium,
for the good of the race, all the shops
for it's sale in the native sections of
the city were shut and dismantled, but
those in the foreign sections are still
doing business because the Christians
cannot afford to lose the public utilities
which have been. kept up by the tax
received from the sale of the drug.
The intelligent Chinese who hears a
missionary discourse on Wherefore, il
meat make my brother to offend,
will eat no flesh while the world stand
eth, lest I make my brother to offend, y
and knows the people over in the for
eigh quarter are living from money
got. for opium which, more than al
else, ruins men and women, he will
be slow to believe the preacher because
of the acts of those who are nominally
his sort of people.
There is need to keep the river chan
mel open that leads to the city, ane
money for that purpose always came
from the tax on opium; now the ta1
must come from some other source
hence the grossly un-Christian acts o
the Christian people.
In the heyday of temperance zealotr!
the question of income from licenses
was always treated as; Streets, ga
lights and bridges built with blooC
money" the victims Of which murder
lous law cried unto the unfortunat'
] councilmen from premature graves
etc., and thousands of good men ant
women. who knew the pain of tn
lcurse of drunkenness. cried "Amen!'
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24
WAITED FOR HARTMAN
TO MAKE A HIGH DIVE
Crowd Waits to See Money King Take
Bath, but When Splash Comes
Finds 1t Is the
Steward

NEWPORT, Aug. 23.-All of New
port or at least the curious part of It,
sat UP until o'clock the other morn
ing on the strength of statement that
Edward II. Hartman was going to do
a. high dive for his nerves from the
main truck of his yacht, the Sultasar
which arrived last week.
At o'clock rowboats, launches with
muffled engines, and all kinds of spy
glasses were out
Suddenly there was a splash and the
boats began circling about a figure in
the water.
Where is Mr.. Hartmann shouted a
man with a megaphone.
He's not aboard, SIR" came back in
a gurgling answer.
"And who are you?" insisted the
megaphone man.
I'm the steward, SIR" the answer
came straight and true; "but I'm a
goner if you people don't get back and
give me a chance to get on deck
again"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24


sped around the yard, intent on hugging
the girl.
Around they went, and as the neighbors
gathered at rear windows large punches
of advice were thrown at the girl. From
their points OF vantage and safety the
neighbors suggested that she climb the
fence or stop and coax the bear back
into its cage
Don't frighten the poor thing, what
ever you do, Maggie" shouted one wo-
man.
Look out. he's got youl" shouted a
man, and Maggie put on burst of speed
that astonished the observers.
Mrs. Claire was at home when 1t all
happened, and she was at loss to know
what to do until she thought of the tele-
phone She hurried to the instrument,
and 1t is said, notified the fire depart
ment, the police department and her hus-
band
Then she thought of Mr.. Carle's thor
oughbred bulldog, She would let him out
in the yard to save Maggie The dog
barl<ed with delight as the door was
opened and then made rush for the
bear There was a short round for points
and the dog grabbed the bear by the nose.
Bruin forgot Maggie at once and tried to
use his claws with effect upon his adver-
sary. Then they rolled over and over,
but the dog he'd on ana Wnen MT. Claife
reached the House the bear had got
much the worst of the encounter. Mr.
Claire hurried into the yard, while the
neighbors warned him in high keys that
he would be torn into pieces and scattered
about the yard
But Mr.. Claire knew better. He forced
the dog to release the bear and drove the
animal into its cage Both the bear and
the dog were suffering severely but the
bears nose was so badly lacerated that
it may have to be killed.
The dog will recover from the effects
of contact with bruins claws, while the
girl is no worse for her part in the
comedy.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24
INITIATIVE AND RECALL

MI HEN the town meeting form OF
wv government was popular in the
Atlantic states a measure OF
freedom from peculatlons and oppres-
sive ordinances was assured to the peo-
pie, for, at most, no law could endure
but for year till the people met again
and corrected any mistake of the pre-
vious year. In the years that have
elapsed the towns have grown to enor-
nous proportions and the greed of men
for place, power and emolument has
measured UP to all possible oppor-
tunities till the great systems of NUM-
cipal government have come to be
almost f-perpetuating; gathering OPP
pressive powers from year to year, and
no man can tell what the end may be.
The whole world is startled year after
year with horrifying stories of defalca-
tions and other crime in city govern
ment officials, and American cities are
cited by the world at large as veritable
sinks of iniquity, rather than as models
of republican municipalities. The cause
of these things lies in the fact that
after the trickery of politicians, through
the money of thieving corporations, has
gained certificate of election, good for
two, three or four years, there is no
possible means of reaching the holder
till his term expires and he is free to
cater to the interests that made him,
and suffering people are helpless
made so by their own neglect and
stupidity.
In the course of long years, filled with
all sorts of wrongs and financial bur-
dens, necessity drove men to seek a
solution of the difficulty, and it came in
the form of what is known as the pro-
vision in city charters for the initiative
and referendum and power of recall
All men hailed the methods as a great
relief and as being just what was so
sorely needed to force public servants
to do the public will, or leave vacant
their official positions for those who
would do so.
The lack of such a rein on public
officials made possible all the deviltry
and suffering saddled on San Francisco
for years and permitted the looting of
Philadelphia and other great cities of
the east till their conditions attracted
the notice and sympathy of the world.
No other known corrective can possibly
reach the great need, and no substitute
has ever been mentioned.
In view of these simple facts it is the
bounden duty of Los Angeles voters
to jealously guard these features in the
present and pending charters and to see
for themselves that no specious plea or
reasoning shall be successful in taking
away these things-the only receipts
they can show for power delivered to
public officials.
Los Angeles is expanding and will ex-
pand to the magnitude of a mighty
metropolis, and all her varied interests
will continue to multiply and become
more and more intricate and difficult to
manage. affording to the weak or crafty
politician opportunity to wrong and de-
ceive the people. The only absolute
guard against such lies in the pro-
visions of the charter which enable the
people to review, check, alter or amend,
or to veto vicious or hurtful legislation,
to recall and oust the offenders.
The check is within the grasp of the
people now, and is mighty for their pro-
lection. To lose it willingly would be
suicidal.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24

A United States district attorney at
Buffalo, N. Y, has ruled that it is not
illegal to send kilograms" by mail,
thus placing the seal of official approval
upon the practice so common Of late
that it might almost be called habit.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24

James shumaker of Pennsylvania
threatens to tell all he knows about the
capitol building scandal. If he was
really on the inside it will take him a
long time.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24

The % per cent reduction by old line
insurance companies has nothing to do
with the fact that the Merchants
Mutual Fire Insurance company is in
the field. OF course not. It's simply
one of those remarkable coincidents." :"
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24

Good luck to the life savers of Venice
who launch their boat today. Here's
hoping their services won't be needed
often, but may success attend their
Iendeavors.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-08-24

Colonist rates from the east will go
into effect September 1, and then it win
be up to the city to "glad-hand" sev-
eral hundred homeseekers daily.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-12-13
wnrld,, oldent Renuhllo,.

So FAR as practical considerations 30
Switzerland Is the oldest Of surviving
republics. Two puny republics, how
ever. long 0ntcdatc tho Helyetic con-
federation and In strict accuracy ono
OF these two must be the oldest re-
public Of AN now In existence one OF
Thorn is tho republic Of san Marine In
Italy. on Mount Tltano, the oldest
state IN Europe and one OF the small
est In the world Tho other ia the re-
public OF Andorra IN the Pyrenocs.
made independent by Charlemagne.
No fixed date can be assigned TO either
Of these, both are medieval relics,
and san Marine may be Identified
even before the middle ages began.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-12-13
MADE Hi5 BoMU a FORTRESS.
Tenant Had Neat Way Of Shutting
Out Undesirable Visitors.

Alterations TO- suit tcuauy was a
part OF tHo aian 600 Philadelphia
hui.dins u''us that "a loff over tho
STORE was To- lpt one day lately a
prospective tenant applied and ok.
pressed himself aa pleased with tho
location and quarters as well as tho
terms A. TO- alterations Dec had only
one tlirg t0 uaaD.t namely. that tho
stair steps bc fixed to the top floor
with pair % stout hinges and cords
Dee attached go that they might DO
raised and lowered in way best u.
lustrated perhaps by the attachments
OF fire escape Anxious tu set
tenant and seeing no particular olicc-
t.uu Co this uruugHmout the land.
lord compiled UlH tenant % quiet
man. was wont tu 800 tu h.s quarters
early iu the forenoon and ut onco
draw the stops up FOB tho coiliug 4
few only OF hIs many visitors. those.
iu fact who gave peculiar whistle.
were accommodated by the lowering
Of the steps The others were lg
uorcl. The landlord. fearful lost some
unlawful transactions micht be going
on In his building. called upon tho
tenant Tor uu explanation, oh" was
the reply my friends have tho
whistle The other fellows are cred.
TORS The hinges are 5till working.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-12-13

A Chicago man tells OF a resident OF
that city who had been unsuccessful
In one venture after another. AZ last,
however. he made largo sum OF
money by means Of an invention In
car wheels: and very soon thereafter
his family. consisting Of his wife and
two Young daughters, were to be seen
taking their daily outing In a motor
car. ono day tho three wore being
driven rapidly through the park while
a look OF painful circumstances
oversproad the features Of tho in
ventors wife. a. she sat bolt upright,
looking straight before her Now,
ma" came Ia clear tones from one OF
tho daughters. whose keen face was
alive with enjoyment NOW, ma, can't
you Toll back and not look as II tho
water was boiling oycry-Youth's
Companion.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-12-13
lcELANoeRs ARE LONG LIVED.
Average Age There Double Mean pura.
ton Of Human Life.

10 would br interesting TO know II
any part Of the world beats Iceland
10 the average length OF ITO Of ita
inhabitants. Il ls shown In tho census
uf 1906 that on an average tho people
Of that island live tn the age OF els
years which * very nearly double tho
mean duration Of human life as Il
was computed a generation ago. Swe-
den and Norway are regarded as very
hcalthful countries, but Iceland takes
the palm in longevity. the moan dura.
ton ~ lifo In Sweden being 50.0a
years and In Norway 1884 years
Some OF lcoland's earthquakes arc
norye.rlcking. but on the whole tho
lives Of most Of It's simple and indus
trious inhabitants slip along with few
incidents that unduly stimulate or do
press the pulse. Summer and winter
the same old mail boat from Lolth
steams into the harbor OF RoyiSiayik
every three weeks. but very rarely
= .hl;;.lllrgs -nUWs- tt1ut t0uchur-troiand 10
closely aa TO make excitement In
fact the little island enjoys many OF
tho advantages OF civilization and
avoids most OF It's drawbacks.-Chria.
tina Advocate.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-12-13

Why not keep mp writIngdesk sup
plies Just as consgientlously AS those
for the pantry? asks "a writer Few
households would get along a week
without sugar salt or soap, yet how
many letters are unanswered for tho
lack OF O good pen, a stamp or an en-
velope? It is not the expense, but
lack OF thought, that keeps an Insult
cient or meager supply OF the neces'
snrY artIcles ON hand.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-12-13

Prisoner" said the Judge. taking .
part 10 the examination himself the
Imprint let by the thief on the stolen
jewel case corresponds exactly with
The markings OF your thumb. Now. no
a natter Of fact. isn't It yours7 Didn't
you make that imprlnt?"
Why your honor" stammered the
prisoner IL thlnk-that a.. DO
lieye-wcll-er-thats my impress
sion"-ChIcago Tribune.
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1907-12-13

croat Editors Wife, regret 20
e,y air that my husband 10 sick. and
cannot see anyone.
caller tsympnthctically - what
looms TO be the mattcr2
Il don't know; he has not uttered Z"
word since he came In he mas re-
..lvcd some terrible shock
IAN see. lie probably ran across
mn man who never heard VI his pa
.,r"-N. Y. Weekly.