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Richmond planet., 1907-05-04
TOLD MANY STORIES.

To the reporters Pettus said that
ne was a son of G. r. Pettus. a TEL
egraph operator. of Olive Hill. XIV.
He declares he was born at No. 5i1
East Grace Street, and that he has
sister living on Chestnut Hill. He
continued to mention the names OF
number of prominent people whom
he had been commissioned to kill. f"
Continuing, Pettus said that he
Richmond planet., 1907-05-04
WANTED A WHITE MAN. TOO.

While Police Sergeant Craft was
securing the neighborhood for some
trail of Pettus. another tragedy,came
near being enacted by the whiskev-
crazed man, who made his way m
town to the place of his former en-
ployment, in the new building of
Miller q Rhoads He found the
steam-htters at work on the fourth
hoor, which is not yet occupied for
store purposes.
Foreman Smith says that Pettus
chatted pleasantly and entirely ra-
tlonaily Tor some minutes, and then
WlIhouC warning, came up behind
MN and gave him an awful cash in
the tnroat. Smith seized the razor
receiving an ugly wound in his hand
out probably saving his life. bv the
act. believing that ne had killed
ohlth, Pettus went from the Store
AS ne left the elevator, however ha
walked into the arms of Detectiva
captain Tomlinson and PoIicaraeo =
Hulcher and Talley who had traced
him TO the building.
Bicycle Policemen B. II. Werner
ana Lou Kellam were also in t6e
building, and after seeing Peffns in
safe custody, carried the wonndad
man smith TO Wagner's drug store
where DR.. Paul LaRoque of No. SOC
East Grace was summoned. Smiths
wounds were dressed and he was abIe
10 walk nome. When not on dutv as
foreman in the plumbing gang
smith Is a captain and preacher in
the salvation Army. With his head
wen Dandaged ne was able to get to
the Army headquarters last night
out IL VIII be some time before ne
can take part in the services again
Richmond planet., 1907-05-04
HAD BOTTLE OF wHIsKEY.

IL would be hard TO say whether
Pettus's condition Is due TO whiskey
or 70 some drug, or whether nis mind
has given away in some part as a
result OF continued drinking. He is
said TO have thrown a bottle of whis
key out of his window yesterday
morning an unusual act for a drink
ing man. Two bottles of LIQUOR
were found on his person. one being
full and the other partially so. The
mans condition, however, does not
appear to border on delirium tre-
mems, but rather monomania, his
bent yesterday being throat-cutting.
Sarah Robinson, a colored woman
who was the first one to enter the
room where the murder of Lizzie
Allen was committed, saws that she
saw the prisoner leave her room with
blood upon his hands No one else
had been in the room. The police
are certain that he is the man. Then
too, he followed il up by attempting
to kill another.
Lizzie Allen, the colored woman.
had been servant in the employ of
Mrs r. b. Kidd's mother. of III
North Nineteenth Street, about so
years. She was about ~ years old
and had no enemies so far as could
be ascertained.
Blood was spattered over two beds
the walls OF the room, several tray-
elling bags and all the wearing an
parel left in the room. The floor was
also covered with blood and the room
was In a gruesome condition.
Richmond planet., 1907-05-04
INNOCENT COLORED
MEN IN DANGER.
r1r. Bakers Graphic Recital
FOLLOWING THE COLOR-LINE.

LADIES FRANTICAN INNOCENT
PROVEN BE NOT GUILTY FROM
PENING- EMBARRASSING CONDITION IN THE SOUTHLAND.
Richmond planet., 1907-05-04

O. WI kilgon
wv. A MilIner, d. D. G. @.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18
YESTERDAY

NO EVERY pioneer of California,
and to many of the first genera
a ton born fh this state the name of
Holiday is reminder of the days
when the railroads of the west. existed
in the Imagination only.
Ben" Holiday, who operated a pony
express overland for many years, had
In his employ at various times men
who afterward became the bone and
sinew, the very life blood of several
western states. Jesse Holiday, his
brother, who recently has died in Chi
cago at the age of SO, was associated
with him in the express business for
years. The latter lived to see the once
dangerous wilds of the west and the
southwest transformed into rich and
populous regions.
The old guard of the mountain and
plain has become naught but roman
tic memory
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18
CONCERNING LIBEL

NT ATURALLY keen local interest
~ attaches to the legal proceedings
~ involving Fremont Older, man.
aging editor of the San Francisco Bull
letin, and R. A. Crothers, proprietor
of that paper, on the one hand, and
Luther Brown, special counsel for the
United Railroads, and several of his
associates on the other hand.
In probably nine cases out of ten
libel proceedings against a newspaper,
whether brought. under the civil or the
criminal law, are most improbable to
all parties to the issue. In all cases
they are fraught with greater or less
degree of peril to the exchequer of one
of the parties. So peculiarly phrased
are the statutes affecting libel and so
difficult is it found, in most instances,
to show to the satisfaction of court
and jury that malice lay back of the
alleged libelous utterances, and further
that real financial or other damage has
been inflicted upon the party or parties
bringing the suit, that it is a brash
man indeed who will institute proceed
ings against a publication or its edi-
tors or owners unless he is assured by
competent counsel that he has just
grounds for complaint.
1t is hardly probable that any repu-
table newspaper of importance in the
United States ever goes to press with
out having inadvertently given place
in its columns to some news item or
editorial comment that is not perfectly
free from that which might be con-
strued as libelous matter, minus that
antecedent malicious intent on the part
Of the publisher or editor which is
necessary to establish a reasonable
claim for damages. The newspaper
publisher or editor, with reputation
and financial standing at stake. who
will wantonly assail the character Of
man or deliberately set about
through malice, to injure in any way
any person, is rara avis But wher
such men are discovered and punished
for their offenses, every decent, self.
respecting and courageous editor and
publisher rejoices. He is glad to see
the craft rid of men of this stripe.
On the other hand, when those action:
on the part of public official or az
Individual occupying quasi-publi'
position are found to be Influenced Of
dominated by spirit directly or indi
rectly antagonistic to the welfare of {
community, and newspaper judi
ciously criticises such acts, solely foi
the purpose of preventing the consum
nation OF what it believes to be evi
designs, being actuated by none bu
high motives, the institution of libe
proceedings against the men responsi
BILE for the publication Of such com
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18
MENACE OF oBsTINAcY

TF the railway telegraph operators
become involved in the war now
Il being waged against the telegraph
companies by the commercial opera
tors, California may be among the
earliest and the worst sufferers. Be
fore long the immense crop of citrus
fruits for which this state is famous
will begin to mature and to be shipped
to the markets of the world. BY the
latter part Of the present month the
shippers will begin to receive tele-
graphic inquiries regarding the amount
of fruit available, when it will be ready
for packing, what. the prices will be,
etc.--if operators can be found to trans
NIT and receive messages.
The citrus fruit market usually
"opens just about the time the greater
portion of the territory in and east of
the Rocky mountains becomes FROST
bound. If for any reason a trainload
of oranges shipped from California to
eastern points should be sidetracked
for any length of time in frozen
country, awaiting telegraphic orders
that did not arrive, every box OF fruit
so held up would first freeze, then rot.
1t is estimated that California's crop
for the season of 19O7-S will be more
than $4,000 cars, valued at over $21, 1,OOO,-
900. That any material proportion OF
this output of one of California's great
est industries shall be utterly ruined as
the result of an industrial struggle that
quickly and easily may be settled by
arbitration is unthinkable.
If the telegraph companies and the
striking operators will sleep overnight
on this proposition it is not impossible
that they may see their way clear to an
amicable adjustment of the really un-
important difference between them.
Will either side allow it's obstinacy to
bring about financial losses mounting
possibly into the millions?
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18
MAYOR TO NAME
BIG CLEANUP. DAY
ALL ANeELENos WILL BE ASKED
TO HELP
Business Men and Householders Have
Already Started Work on Their
Premises In Advance OF
Thursdays Onslaught

Mayor Harper will on his return
issue q proclamation to the residents
of Los Angeles asking them to CO.
operate in cleaning up the city.
Los Angeles will be the cleanest city
in North America a month or so hence
when the present sanitary campaign is
ended and the. mayor is anxious 10 en-
list the help of every one here.
Several special days will be set for
united work-probably Saturdays when
school children will be at home.
The city's executive so wired from
Nevada where he is on weeks VISIT
of the mining camps, to his secretary,
Herbert d. Kennedy.
All day yesterday the board OF health'
the city councilmen and the committees
of the Los Angeles County Medical as
sociation were busy planning the big
cleanup. Many applications for posi-
tions on the brigade were filed with
them.
Well known young physicians were
in consultation with the committee
which will pick out the nine best medi-
cal men to take charge of the work,
one to each ward
Most of those appointed will be sta
toned as far away from their nome
ward as possible to insure impartlal
inspection of all houses.
The health office yesterday was IN
receipt of information early that pri-
vate hous seholders had already taken
the hint and had started cleaning up
their premises on their own account.
Hundreds of merchants have already
set rat traps, the determination OF rats
and their places of abode being the pri-
mary object of the present campaign.
Members of the board of health and
the committee of the medical associa-
ton held long conference last night
to arrange for prosecuting the work
next Thursday.
Acting Mayor Niles Pease was pres
ent, though the newly passed ordinance
has not yet come to him for his sigma
ture. This provides for putting nearly
900 men and teams at work.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18

ment or criticism almost invariably
does the newspaper involved as much
good as 1t does the offended individual
harm.
People expect a newspaper to pub
lish at least as much of the truth in
regard to the doings of public or quasi
public men as vitally affects the popu-
lar welfare; and the history Of libel
cases proves that when the publica-
ton of such truth is not actuated by
malicious or vindictive spirit, but
solely through desire to protect the
masses of the people, it will be a queer
court and queer jury which will find
against the printed defender of public
rights.
The splendid service rendered by the
San Francisco Bulletin in bringing to
book the criminals who have been cor
rupting the government of that city
naturally inclines all decent people to
sympathize with that paper Inc any
matter growing out of its attitude con-
corning the San Francisco grafters.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18
A BACK-ACTION PETARD

UyIME has told. The cat is out of
the bag.
Il 1t has developed during the
inquiry into the street railway tangle
in New York that the expenses of the
National Civic federation committee's
trip to Europe for the alleged purpose
of studying the problem Of municipal
ownership were paid in part by the
Metropolitan Securities company, which
practically controls the finances of the
Metropolitan railway lines.
With Melville E. ingalls,, chairman
of the board of directors of the big
Four system, as head of the public
ownership committee, and $4,000 of the
security company's money offered to
and accepted with alacrity by the So
called investigating committee, how
impartial does the average citizen
believe the reports of that committee
to have been?
But that $4,000 was practically
wasted so far as any benefit to the
cause of the enemies of public owner
ship is concerned. In spite of the
efforts of the railroad men to insure
reports showing a handy balance
against the folly of public owner
ship, it will be recalled that so con-
trary to their desires was the essence
of these reports that many of the most
cocksure among the enemies of what
is becoming an overwhelmingly popular
policy in political economy have since
taken to the tall timber.
The disclosures of recent date are edl-
flying. More illuminating facts may be
on the wing. The stronghold of the
enemy is proving to be the great
breeding ground of truths inimical to
the policies they so ardently advocate.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18
HEARD AROUND
HOTEL CORRIDORS

GLEEN w. HACK of Tampico, Mexico, ac-
companied by his wife and son and Mr.. and
Mrs. W. w. Trigg, are at the Westminster
Messrs. Hack and Trigg are mine owners and
capitalists holding large mining interests in
the southern republic. Mr.. Trigg is the own
er of the largest rubber plantation in South
America They expect to remain in the city
several months.
e. S. BABCOCK of Coronado Beach is in
Los Angeles for a few days and is at the
Alexandria hotel.
the Southern Pacific telegraph system, with
headquarters at San Francisco. is at the
Westminster for few days.
MISS Ros1L1A RODRIGUEZ of San Jose,
niece of the governor of the state of Sinaloa.
Mexico, registered at the Westminster Yes
terday. She is expecting her uncle to arrive
tonight.
MR.. AND MRS F. D. wETHERBY of Bos-
ton are at the Hayward for few days
MRS. A. KUEN and son of Sioux Falls. s
D., have secured apartments at the Hayward
MIR. AND MRS. NJ. B. SHERMAN ant
George H. Sherman of Cincinnati. Ohio, are
at the Lankershim.
MRS H. H. NASH and maid of Chicago
are registered at the Lankershim.
GEORGE N. LOOMS, advance gaent fol
Sousa's band, is registered at the Van Nuys
| s. l.. CRAWFORD of Portland, Ore, one o.
the most prominent lumber in the north
west is at the Lankershim
w. G. cowEN, prominent mining maj
of Jerome, Ariz., is in the city on a busines
| trip. He is at the Lankershim.
j. B. WATSON OF Ell Paso. Texas, with hi
wife and child, has secured apartments at tn
Hollenbeck.
| c. w. CRoTY of Spokane. Wash. is regis
tered at the Lankershim.
JAUN A. CREEL of Mexico and family re
turned from Santa Barbara today and ar
registered at the Van Nuys.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
REDUCED PRICE

nWO cents daily, 8 cents Sun
day, 40 cents month. This
Il is the new price of the Los
Angeles Herald. To all subscti-
bers who have paid in advance
expiration dates will be extended
to cover the new rates. The rate
to those who wish to continue
magazine premium contracts will
be SO cents month.
The Herald will continue to
print all the news of the city,
state and world.
Among the best features OF
The Herald news columns will
be the states page, carrying all
the news of your old home state
Especial attention will be given
to smaller towns of eastern
southern and middle states.
The Herald will continue tc
pay especial attention to society
musical and dramatic depart
ments.
The pages devoted to sports
and pastimes are in the charge oi
experts and specially is made oi
amateur sports.
The policy of The Herald re.
garding political affairs will be If
no wise changed and will con.
tinue along the same fearless, in.
dependent lines as in the past.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18
A WEST BACK EAST"

"HE east, the glorious east, the
progressive, enterprising, wide
awake east, the east from which
our fathers came and in which most
of us first beheld the rising sun three
hours earlier each day than we may
ever hope to behold it here-the east,
the land of wealth, of agricultural
resources bounded by vague lines. a
broad sweep of the arm, with an call
this Is ours" as the early Spanish
dons used to say In Nueva Mejico-this
east awoke one brilliant morning not
long ago and made the alarming dis
covery that it was shy on arabic land
LAND it desired to leave as a legacy
to those of its provincial heirs who,
when they board a train for their first
trip to Oswego or Ashtabula, proudly
announce that they are headed for a
journey "out vest
While the east was yet a lusty infant
in the great family of nations the
wild, harum-scarum adventurers who
had sought and found that Eldorado
which, in childhood, they had been
taught to believe was to be found only
where the rainbow bumps the ground,
were digging bitches miles and miles
and miles in length-digging bitches
that would bring to the valley and the
plain the melted SHOWS so essential to
the fructification of the land they
occupied. WillfuI deserters from the
land of convention, needless prodigals
; who dared to believe they knew more
than their parents, rich in experience
ever could know, but Yankees yet, and
therefore ingenious, in trice they
solved the problem of land reclamation
Now, years after the first Of these
fertilizing waterways were built-buili
because Of the necessity Of converting
sterile into productive 1ahd-the son.
OF the sons who remained at home ara
learning the alphabet Of land reclama.
ton.
The problem confronting them is dif,
ferent, It's solution involving greater
expense. probably, but it is no NOR,
complicated than the problem solved 81
quickly years ago by the grown boy,
who fell victim to the westward ho'
fever.
The harum-scarum fellows - ou
fathers and grandfathers - brough
water to their dry lands The sedate
conventional sons of the equally sedate
conventional fathers who were broth
ers OF our own fathers will remov
water from wet lands. And when the,
have finished the job they Will hav
found a new, but very small, vest
a west IN everything but the spiri
which moves every Chip of the oil
block" in the real west.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18
CHICAGO VALUES GO UP
s269,o84,9o0 IN YEAR
City Is Worth s2,s75, 5,o7s,4s5, Accord
ing to Tax officlaIs-Real Estate
Now Assessed by Front
Foot
BY Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Oct. 17.-Complete totals of
taxable property in Cook county, both
real and personal, for 1907 show the
enormous increase of s269, ,0S4,9 900 over 1906
volues. The total taxable property placed
upon the reviewers books, at one-fifth
value, amounts to $475, 1861, or in actual
value $2,375, ,07S, ,435.
These totals are the greatest in every
respect in the history OF Cook county,
and were arrived at by the clerical force
in the office of the board of review last
evening.
More than two-thirds of this increase
is on real estate and to great extent
is due to the new system Of revaluing
that was put into use by the reviewers
experts for the first time this year
Heretofore real estate has been valued
for purposes of taxation, not by the foot
frontage, but in a lump sum.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18

ground floor, however, showed that the
movement of messages to San Francisco
was slow and that business for all
points was still being accepted subject
to indefinite delay.
on duty in the Western Union operat-
ing room there were at work last night
eleven men and two women. Operators
working in the office before the strike
was declared say the normal force on
dntv at night was about forty-five.
At the Postal office T. II. Merrill said
there was no truth in the statement
that the Postal wires were tied up. be-
tween Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Some trouble was experienced Wednes-
day night because of weather conditions,
but this had been cleared and all wires
were working.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18

That was a ripping qualm old Mother
Earth suffered Wednesday. r Albany,
N. Y, reports that the convulsion took
place, according to the record of the
government seismograph there, about
three thousand miles southwest Of that
town. But nothing was doing in Cali
fornia
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18
RAINS CAUSE DELAY
IN STREET PAVING

The rains OF the past few days have
put street Improvement work behind
temporarily according to reports to the
board of public works.
Paving contractors are doing rush
work to get ahead of any further
freshets.
The records in many branches Of
street work have been broken this
year.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18
scHMITz' APPoINTEE TO
COMMISSION RESIGNS
Bv AssocIated press.

BY Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 17-Park Com
missioner w. ]. Dingee yesterday ten
dered his resignation to the office to
which he was appointed by former Mayor
Schmitz The commissioner assigned as
the withdrawal from his office his inabil-
ity to attend to the duties because of
pressing private-business.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18

The board of education needs the
new quarters it is soon to occupy. The
rooms in which it has been located are
not in keeping with the dignity of that
body nor with the work 1t performs.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18

Press dispatches from the east declare
Earl Granard is coming to this coun-
try in search of a rich wife. Too bad
these sprigs of nobility can't behave
themselves and leave married women
alone.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18

Paradoxical as it, may appear, the
worries of some of the men who were
parties to the kidnapping of Editor
Older are rapidly making them older.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18

There are some things difficult to
believe. For instance, press dispatch
recently announced 1.-THE president
passed a quiet day."
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18

If you have more lima beans in your
larder than you need, take them over
to your grocer. He will probably offer
you more than you paid for them.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18

o MIR. Business Man--Are you in n
o ruts Are you seeking business
o publicityf Let ms create for you
9 n demand of the consumers of Los
O Angeles. The Herald goes into
9 thousands of homes where the
@ purchasing power lies. Our ad-
o vertising columns will carry the
@ news of your bargains to those
@ who do the buying. Try 1T and
@ begin to enjoy increased mercan-
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Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18

Hartman says there will be no f1nan-
cial panic. That settles it and saves
us all lot of worry.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18

Slowly but with awful certainty the
boom of one cocktail convivialist has
petered out.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-18

1t seems to be a case of first catch
your rat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-07-21
DEFYING THE SPLITTING SIGNS.
Warnings in Cars Have No Effect and Lead
to No Arrests. Says a Reader.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor OF The Tribune,
Sir: Can you tell me- whether copies OF the Board
Of Heath's warning against splitting on the toors'
OF streetCars are tackled the walls OF said cars
simply addition 20 the ornamental scheme o,
the breakfast food freSCO2 7 have observed thsss
warnings with interest, noting the "S50 fns'
with some awe. But I have also noticed ths
floors Surely a lot Of persons have laid them
selves liable TO the imposition Of that fine
II is a nice subject about which 70 write.
bur u IS much less nice IN practice. and think
that any reader Of The Tribune who travels by
surface, elevated subway lines VIII recOllsct
that time and again he has seen men splitting
there. The guards or conductors have far away
look In their eyes At such times. Is II because
they afraid 20 invoke the aid OF policeman
a the next station arrest the offender
Nobody has ever questioned the wisdom OF this
sanitary regulation, but already We have too many
laws that are diSregarGsd. II the streetcar COM
panies and the police VIII not enforce the regula-
ton I think 70 is about time the warnings wers
taken from the cars that. az least. may nor
see SO open and fragrant Uisdemeanor IN thu
very shadow OF a copy of the law t-rbijdtng H.
New York July +. 1907 SALCS.