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Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-26

and secured the adoption OF the
voucher system of payments.
The entire construction will be d.
vided into a great number of indi-
vidual jobs, each being covered by a
specific order. In addition to the
classifying of accounts the total ex-
penditure will be applied to each
work order, so that as the jobs are
completed the total cost Of each will
be readily ascertained.
In the purchase of provisions and
materials the disbursing officer sends
to six or more firms handling the par
ticular articles, the list of the things
needed, and those firms are asked for
competitive bids. The best prices OBJ
tanned are accepted whether it be on
half a dozen shovels or carload of
provisions. In the purchase of articles
involving an expenditure of $500 or
over, in addition, advertisement is
made for bid. as the, charter requires.
viii Be No Irregularities
The payments for labor and ma
terials outside of the city will be made
through a disbursing agent, the checks
and vouchers being made up in the ac-
counting department, Los Angeles, and
forwarded to the disbursing agent for
payment.
Inc tHnekeepers VINO VIII De In
charge of the keeping and distribution
of all labor will be placed under bond
in order to protect the city against any
irregularities in the way of overpay-
ments to men and other mistakes.
General watchfulness and super
vision will be exercised on the part of
the accounting department at all
times to see that all payments are le-
gitimate and that the distribution of
materials is made according to actual
consumption.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-26
TWO men HAVE
NARROW ESCAPES
ICE WAGON IS STRUCK BY
STREET CAR
Driver Seriously Injured, One Horse
Is Killed and Passengers Are
Thrown Into Panic by
Collision

r. S. Holland. a driver for the Union
Ice company, was seriously injured
and Edwin Shaw, his helper. had a
narrow escape from death or injury
in street car accident at San Pedro
and Agatha streets last night. One
of the horses attached to the wagon
which Holland was driving was killed
and the car was damaged so that it
will have to be sent to the repair
shops.
Holland was on his way to the sta
bles of the company at Seventh and
Alameda streets from a late delivery
and was driving north at a fairly rap
i'd gait
Car No. 226 of the San Pedro street
line was south bound and travelling
at the ordinary rate of speed. Hol-
land attempted to cross the tracks i'm
nediately in front of the car. Wheth-
er the headlight blinded him so that
he was unable to Judge the distance
he was from the car and the speed at
which 1t was travelling is not known.
but he turned his team directly in
front of the car and the next moment
the heavy electric, which was crowd
ed with passengers, plunged into the
ice wagon
One horse was knocked down and
thrown beneath the car fender. the
heavy iron guard being snapped off
short. The wagon was turned on its
side and Holland was thrown heavily
to the street. Shaw was hurled di-
rectly forward from the seat of the
wagon by the force Of the impact and
was thrown headlong through the
glass inclosed front of the car. knock
ing the motorman off his feet and
landing in the center aisle on top of
number Of passengers crowded there.
To this fact he probably owes his life
and escape from serious injury.
There was great deal of excite
ment and confusion at the moment of
the collision and Immediately after.
Women screamed and men struggled
to get from the car. and for a time a
panic reigned. AS soon as order could
be restored DR.. R. w. Clark, assistant
police surgeon, who was a passenger
on the car, made his way through the
crowd to give aid to the injured.
Holland was found lying on the
street alongside of the injured and dy-
ing horse in an insensible condition.
He was sent to the receiving hospital,
where it was found that he had sus-
tanned slight concussion and Sc
we're laceration of the scalp at the
base of the brain.
His condition is serious, but his in
juries are not regarded as fatal. Shaw,
it was found, had escaped with few
lacerated wounds caused by being
thrown through the glass front of the
car and number of minor bruises.
Dr. Clark also attended him and he
went to his room at the Hotel Toms.
where he and Holland reside
A patrolman at the scene of the ac-
cident shot the injured horse to put
1t out Of it's misery and as soon as
its body could be moved from the track
the car continued on it's journey.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-26
MANY ADVANTAGES TO
BE HAD IF PEOPLE
VOTE RIGHT AT POLLS

@ The Importance of every good {
@ citizen lending his aid to the sue {
@ cess of the bonds which are to be {
@. is so great that feel that should {
@ state my views on the subject. {
@ The sentiment is unanimous In {
@ our house in favor of the bonds. {
O. The manifold advantages to Los {
@ Angeles cannot help but appeal to (
@ every Intelligent citizen and the {
@ great benefits which will accrue (
@ from the almost inexhaustibIe {
@ power which will be secured, in {
@ addition to the never failing sup (
@ ply of water, is worth almost any {
@ price one could name. (
@ While the sum of money to be {
@ expended is vast, it is mere pit {
@ tEnce as compared to the advan- (
@ fages to be derived, Those of us
@ who are In business well under {
@ stand that If we get a supply of (
@ water which will be ample for all
O. time (and those who have investi- (
@ gated the matter seriously believe
@ this to be true of the Owens river (
@ prOpOsitiOn) it will be the means (
@ of making our beautiful city one
% of the largest, If not the largest
O. city, ON the Pacific coast, as well
@ ms the most favored spot on earth.
@ There is no question that the
g majority of those who have in
@ vestig1ted the matter are In favor
g of the bonds, but the interested
@ opposition which has manifested
g itself, together with any apathy ,
@ on the part of the people from
8 OvercOnfidence in their strength,
@ might possibly result in disaster.
@ Let ms, therefore, be alert and
@ see that not only our votes, but
9 those of our friends who feel as
g we do, are cast at the coming eIec-
9 tiOn, thus assuring us an unIlmit-
@ ed supply of water for all time.
@ j. II. SAYLER,
9 President Bartlett Music Co.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-26
DEEMS IT DUTY OF
EVERY VOTER TO HELP
OWENS RIVER PROJECT

Is L deem it the duty of every 9
@ voter not only to vote for these s:
o. bonds but to use every effort and {:
O. exert himself to the very utmost g
O. to assist us In getting this much g
o. needed water supply. There g
@ should be no opposition to a mat g
O. ter of such vital Importance, In g
O. yoIving, as 1t does, the material (:
% growth and prosperity of our city e
O. and surrounding country. e
@ To n great extent this advance e
8 ment hinges on the outcome OF the 9
o water question. On election day -"
O. the votes cast should show In no (:
8 uncertain terms that the great 3
@ majority of Los Angeles people (:
o are ready to undertake and nc g
o compIish such task us will plant e
o them in the front ranks OF the 9
@ great American cities.
O. LOUIS IsAACS, 9
o. of Isaacs Bros. Co. g
Is a a "a a A Is Is DS % o @ o o o @ g % g
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-26

Problem: A certain man thinks that
the automobile is an invention of the
devil.
Does he own an automobile himself,
or doesn't he?-Somerville Journal.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-26
DIsBuRsING OFFICER MAKES
FINANCIAL REPORT, SHOWING
EXPENDITURES ON AQUEDUcT

A statement of the full condition of
the finances of the Los Angeles aque-
duct was issued yesterday by Disburs-
ing Officer w. M. Nelson, showing the
expenditure from the inception of the
Owens river project to April 1, 1907.
The report goes into the fullest de-
tails and shows that of the 81, ,512, ,246. SO
realized from the sale of the $1.500,000
bond issue of 1905, approved by the
people by a vote of fourteen to one,
81, ,294, ,251.02 has been expended, and that
on April 1 there was left in the treas
ury s242,S53.79 for the furtherance of
the work.
For the expenditure made aqueduct
officials have to show as result: The
purchase of 76,5S1 acres of land, the
opening of and grading of the main
canal in Owens valley for a distance
of five miles, the building of six miles
of wagon road, the making of more
than 700 miles of survey and the study
of route conditions, the purchase of a
partial right of way, machinery, equip
ment and tools, and 100 other things
leading up to active work on the con-
struction of the aqueduct as soon as
voters make their decision on the bond
issue Wednesday, June II.
For real estate and water rights
there has been expended $1,O35, ,O73.77.
This includes total of $13,014.9O paid
in commissions. These commissions
went to Fred Eaton and B. A. Vollmer,
the former receiving a tota; of $40, ,666 Ii
and the latter $234S.75 for acting as the
agents of the city in land purchases.
The general expenses, including the
salaries of general officers, clerks, legal
expenses, insurance, taxes and the Los
Angeles offices are shown to have
amounted to S34.195.95.
The total cost os aqueduct construc-
ton, including all engineering, has
cost $159, ,6S0.19, while the equipment ex-
penses have been $15,093.65
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-26
DUNKARDS PLAN COLONY
SOUTH OF LOS ANGELES

A new colony of Dunkards is being
planned at Lomita, between Redonoo
and San Pedro, on tract of 100 acres
owned by Los Angeles syndicate,
A party of 100 Dunkards were taken
to the new location yesterday morn
ing by w. ]. Hollingsworth on eiecerlo
cars. ,,o,,;,,sn,ortl,
In the afternoon Mr.. HolllnssW9ei. oe an -,
gave the brethren a treat py , way uarts ud .t,s
Of Of the city, including the parks: There mere
w were rae seventeen automobiles in line, to
f,IeS with Dunkards who appeared ~
enjoy the time of their lives.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-26

mately $2.66 a year, or % cents a
month.
Will there be good business man-
agement?
Yes. The chief engineer has been in
the employ of the water department
since 1878, and has built up one of the
most prosperous water systems in the
United States. Other officers have been
long and successfully tried in public
life. There are 120 employees now in the
aqueduct bureau, and not one has been
appointed by political influence, The
organization is under the civil service.
Business methods of high order have
been adopted and the civic organiza-
tions of Los Angeles have pledged
themselves to use their influence to
maintain these standards.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-26
GOVERNMENT ASKS FOR
PRESERVATION OF TIMBER

Special to The Herald.
WASHINGTON, May 25.-Uncle Sam
is making careful and elaborate inves-
legations of methods of preserving
wood which are expected to result In
the saving of millions Of dollars an
nually by the prevention of decay. 1t
has been determined that coal tar ere
osote is a most effective preservative
of timber and number of experiments
are being made along this line.
Those most directly and materially
interested in the experiments in the
methods of creosote treatment are the
railroad companies, the mining inter-
ests Of the country and the telephone
companies All of these industries ex-
pend millions of dollars every year in
renewing timber which is made USE
less through rapid decay.
The growing scarcity of the more
durable woods has made 1t necessary
for the lumber industry to turn to
the less durable timbers. The economi-
cal utilization of many woods which
are very susceptible to decay would be
out of the question but for the possi
bility of preserving them through
treatment. 1t has been shown In the
experiments which have been made
that the life of some kinds of timber
can be doubled or trebled by impreg-
nation with creosote oil.
A representative OF the foreSt service
is now visiting a number of the large
eastern cities in the study of creosote
oil production and the coal tars which
furnish the raw material for 1t. The
commercial use of preservatives will
check the work of the insects and fungi
which destroy the timber.
Problem: A certain, man thinks that
the automobile is an invention of the
devil.
Does he own an automobile himself,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-26
DIsBURSING AGENT is
MAN OF MANY YEARS
EXPERIENCE IN WORK

Thirteen hundred dollars was the
amount saved by the Los Angeles
aqueduct in three months through the
systematic and close buying Of its
disbursing agent, w, NJ. Nelson.
This would tend to show that the
finances of the Owens river project are
being watched with closeness and with
the same minuteness that is found in
the dealings of great corporations.
In fact, Mr.. Nelson, the aqueduct's
disbursing officer, before his employ
ment with the city was travelling au-
ditor for the Southern Pacific, and in
accepting his. position with the city
at once inaugurated the system of
financial management and accounting
that has long been in service by that
railroad The system is that which
has been made mandatory by the gov
ernment for all railroads coming under
the Jurisdiction of the interstate COM
merce commission and is now used in
the work on the PanamaScanal.
In the construction Of the aqueduct
there will be an ultimate expenditure
of $4,000, 600. In the distributionN of
this amount the auditing and disburs-
ing department will play a most i'm
portant part.
Will Watch Individual Jobs
Mr.. Nelson has worked out compre-
hensive yet simple plan of disburse-
ment and with his large experience in
the payment of men and the purchase
of materials and supplies has advised
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-26
Workmen Lose Lives
BY Associated Press.

by ASSOCIdlGU I655.
BOSTON, May 25.-Three workmen
lost their lives in fire which broke
out along the water front in East Bos-
ton this afternoon in the box factory
of S. T. Lebaron on Border street. The
loss is $4,000.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-26
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EXCURSIONISTS ALL FAVOR BONDS


well strong interest in the subject
Chairman W.
. Wetdner committee last night
BERNARDINO. May 25 1907, m--Perry w Weidner
Chamber Commerce.
resulted olows Members of
Of Angeles
(Signed GILBERT s. WRIGHT, Chairman
ballot
Angelo bushes to the mining
Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-26
Necessary

why does scrimpley talk in such quick,
jerky sentences?"
That's the only way he gets a chance
to say anything when his wife Is about :"
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-12-19
PHYSICIANS HIS BACKERS
ally Criminal Classes j. Hamilton
Lewis Candidate for Democratic
Nomination for Governor of Illinois.

Chicago, Dec. 19.-The Chicago Tri
bune says that there is an under
ground movement which has for its
object, the election of Attorney Gen
eral Chas. ]. Bonaparte to the presi
dency, and that it is making progress
but that there is no evidence to in
dicate that Bonaparte is himself a.
ware of the proceedings. His campaign
managers are physicians. The issue
is the Imprisonment of the criminal
classes. The physicians propose to
confine habitual criminals in asylums
and prisons for life Bonaparte, as
he has made known in speeches.
would hang them. The physicians ad-
hit that they should be hanged, but
are afraid the country is not ready
for this. The movement is being con
Quoted through confidential CORE
spondence.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-12-19

system of public schools can be thor
ough when one-third or one-fourth Oh
the time is spent in getting up enter
tainme1ts for the public. The super
intendent and teachers are not going
to stand for this kind of policy. They
are going to do their part, and if the
parents will do their duty at the other
end of the line, by the end of the
school year the school children oil
Roswell will have accomplished schoo
work that any parents or any city
would be proud Of
The first section of the High Schoo
Society rendered a very creditable
program last Friday afternoon at the
Central building. School will close fol
the holidays on the goth, and will re
open on the 3Oth.
The teachers had their regular
grade meetings this week At their
next meeting they will do more work
along the line of methods. Four OF
the teachers will present methods foI
teaching arithmetic in the grades
especially those methods dealing with
fractions and percentage.
Miss Van Epps, primary teacher at
North Hill school, will spend the mol
idays with home folks in Dayton. Miss
Moody, of this school will spend Xmas
with friends in the country. Mr.. Cot
tingham will spend Xmas with friends
in Elida.
The Basket Ball Team AID Supt
Brasher were delighted with the
treatment given them by the good
people of Artesia The old time hospi-
tality was shown us ALL While our
girls were not victorious, We are
proud of their record in every way.
Both the girls and boys team of
Artesia will play our teams in Ros-
well, the third Saturday in January.
Mr.. Rogers algebra class will finish
the subject this week and will begin
the study of geometry after Xmas.
Mr.. A Pruit, of Joyce, .Pruit & Co.,
brought four of his friends, Mr.. and
Mrs. H. S. Boice of Fort Worth, Tex,
and j. D. Shurford and wife of Chan
ming, Texas, to visit the schools last
These people are think
ing about locating in Roswell, but
they wanted first to investigate the
public schools. They were well pleas
ed with our schools.
The second division of the High
School will have their Xmas program
at the Central Building Friday after
noon at 4:30.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-12-19

And why is the estimable brewer
in earnest? 1t is not that he has ex-
perienced a change of heart; it is not
that he is anxious to lead the old
soaks back to the straight and narrow
path of rectitude and peace; not that
he is anxious some pilgrim to cheer
or direction afford" He is not inspir-
ed moral sense; but he is wise and
cute old chap, and he has sized up
the situation correctly.
He realizes that the saloon is an
institution that is doomed, and his
ambition is to delay the performance
of the last sad rites as much as pos
sible. He recognizes the force of the
public sentiment that is laying waste
the whisky traffic in so many states;
AID he knows that the sentiment will
receive fresh strength and impetus
every time saloon man is arrested
for violating the law; every time
there is brawl or murder in a grog
gerry; every time the Sunday closing
ordinances are defied; and so, as
measure of self protection, he wants
the saloons in his control to be made
as decent as such places may be.
1t is a significant action, this of
the wise old brewer. 1t is far more
significant than would be an express
ed determination to spend millions
fighting prohibition. But the action,
shrewd as it is, comes too late to
avail much. You can't make a desira-
BILE residence of pest house by
whitewashiag it; the old thing must
be destroyed
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-12-19
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The teachers will be very busy the
latter part of the week giving the
monthly examinations. Most of the
pupils have worked hard the past
month, and should do well with their
examinations.
The Sixth. Seventh and Eighth
grades will have a joint Xmas pro-
gram Friday afternoon. ALI patrons
and friends are invited to be present
The other grades win also have short
Xmas programs.
None of the programs viii be elab-
crate because Of the fact that the
teachers felt like the pupils needed
all the time they could possibly get
for their regular school work. We are
not going to neglect our school work
% prepare elaborate programs. No
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-12-19

All plans have been completed to
pass an amendment to the city saloon
ordinance by which the license for
the year 1908 will be cut from $4,000
to $1,000. 1t is said that five council
men have promised their vote on this
proposition, and this is enough to in
sure its passage, in case the Mayor
should break the tie by voting the
same way. The amendment will come
up at the meeting torRght. The coun-
ment at a meeting last night, but
there was no quorum.
The move started first in the form
of a new ordinance which would
make the cut in license permanent.
But it was found that lot enough
votes could be secured for its pass
age. The amendment will carry no
clause. as now planned, to increase
the number of saloons; neither will
it provide for the reduction of license
ON any other business. The Record
considers it not unlikely that City
Attorney Scott who was largely in
strumental in getting the high license
pledge through the Democratic city
convention two years ago. will have
some legal. if not moral, advice to
offer the council.
The water proposition. a report
from the sanitary investigation and
other matters of Importance are ex-
pected to come up.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-12-19
Mrs. FuIIen's Picture.

Discerning friends have noticed
that the beautiful cover on the Christ
mas number of the Cosmopolitan is
a copy of a water color painting OF
the face of Mrs. Louis o. Fullen, wife
of District Attorney L. o. Fullen-
When asked about the picture this
morning Mr. Fullen confirmed the re
port that the picture was that of mis-
wife, and said that he had the orig
inal water color from which the pic
ture is taken. 1t is high compliment
to the beauty of the lady Mrs. Full
len is now in New York, where she
is engaged in literary work.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-12-19

Mrs. Joe w. Hall, of Brownwood
ago working in the interest of secur
ing a pardon for her brother, Kinch
Mullins, who is serving a life sentence
in the penitentiary at Santa Fe for
killing Tony Staufinger in Roswell
five years ago, returned last night
from Santa Fe, where she presented
her petition to the Governor. 1t
contained the names of many promi-
nent people of Roswell, Carlsbad and
FL Paso, in which places Mullins has
been employed. Mrs. Hall will take
up the case with the governor and at
torney general upon their arrival from
Santa Fe tonight
Mrs Hall gives an entirely differ
ger from the one published in tle
Record a few days ago, upon reports
gathered about town, and says she
has the proof to back up her state
ments. Her account of the killing
was that her brother was not broke"
but had money, plenty of clothes and
a job; and that ne went into the sa-
loon and asked Staufinger for drinks,
he offered the price to pay for him
self and his friend. Stauf1ger, she
says, refused to give him the whisky
because he thought Mullins had TAX
en- enough, and while angry and tenn
porarily insane, Mullins came back
and shot Stauinger.
AS proof that Mullins mind was
Mrs. Hall recounts his
actions of a year before the
time of the shooting; also quotes the
statement of Deputy Sheriff Lucas,
of Carlsbad, who, she says, can find
at least a dozen good men in Carls-
bad who would swear that he showed
signs of insanity for
some time before the shooting. The
fact that Mayor J. w. Stocaard, Mrs.
Jodie Zumwalt, formerly wife of
Staufinger's employer, aad others
that would naturally be interested in
seeing Mullins punished, nave signed
the petition for his pardon, she pre-
sents as evidence that Mullins was
insane at the time he did the shoot
ing.
Mrs. Hall saw her brother in Santa
Fe few days ago. and says that ex
cept for the place of his confinement,
he is looking we'll and doing well,
and, she believes, has entirely lost
his desire for drink, which was his
worst enemy. She says that he knows
that he must have killed Mullins, for
the preponderance of evidence is
against him, but that he remembers
nothing about the deed and that he
still thinks of Tony Staufinger as the
old friend and partner that all know
him to have been. Mullins mind is
now perfectly balanced. He comes OF
a highly respected family in Brown
wood, known to several Roswell peo
pie.